The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-08-18
THE WORLD TODAY
BY Arthur BrisbaIl
LEAGUE BREAKING UP.
WHY GEN. WOOD TRAVELS.
WILL ROGERS RANCH.
LITTLE FARMING PROFIT.

The important world news, yet TO have official
confirmation, announces the retirement of Germany,
Italy and Japan from the League of Nations. That
would leave in the league only two great nations of
Europe; England and France.
This is not our affair, for we are blessedly out
and shall never be pushed into the league.
But with the three nations out of the big Five"
the league will feel like centipede minus seventy
two legs.
Europe will find itself preparing for war, as in
1914 with central gathering place, for talk
ing about peace
Japan feels that the league interferes in exclu-
sively Asatic matters. Germany feels that she has
been badly treated
Italy resents too much advice, and being classed
child, mentally, by the two big nations that
really the league. If Japan, Italy and Germany
get out, that will begin a new European chapter.
Add to the list of important and intelligent peo-
pie now in California Gen. Robert E. Wood,
travelling through this western country by airplane.
General Wood, West Pointer for several years
in charge of government work on the Panama canal.
Now he is president of Sears-Roebuck and has been
visiting his distributing departments and retail
stores throughout the West His answer to the
question "Are you studying and correcting mistaken
methods in your branch offces?" should interest bus
mess NO. said he, st not looking for
weakness in our branches finding out by visit
ing these branches what is the matter with us at
headquarters If any part of mans body doesn't
work well, you know something is wrong in his head
If branches in big organization don't work WELL that
shows something wrong, not with the branches, but
with headquarters. BY visiting branches I
find what is the matter with my methods and
with headquarters generally"
Will Rogers career reminds you that we waste
sympathy the poor red men, supposed to have
been deprived of his lands his horses and his po-
siton in America. Two Americans well known,
descended from Poor Lo." One Mr.. Curtis, is Vice
President of the United States. The other Will Rog-
ers, has avenged his Indian ancestors by getting to-
gether fifty of the finest horses hunters and polo
ponies-in this country, also untold of the
most valuable real estate in America. He would not
care to have you say how many millions that real
estate is worth.
Mr.. Rogers always has some one thing that in
terests him violently Just it is the fact that
two Irishmen in the Olympics. DR.. Pat OCallaghan
and Robert Tisdale have, by their prowess more
honor and glory in the than all the rest of the
British empire put together
This writing follows swift return trip to the
writer's alfalfa ranch at Hodge the Mojave des-
ert 124 miles to the east and 1000 feet in the air.
Farmers may be comforted by that the finest
quality of baed alfalfa hay with blue flowers still in
the hay and not a weed in carload sells +. o. b.
Hodge for So per ton. Under irrigation 100000
pounds of water required to ton of alfalfa
and much electricity to pump the water, SO that al
falfa growing just is profitable for everybody but
the grower.
General conditions and the fact that Los Angeles
dairymen have been having milk war" cutting the
price to three cents quart have not improved the
farmers lot.
lou can puy SOOu nay q little CodrSc, IL 1lS
Imperial valley for SIS a ton. Trucks and trailers
that haul the hay day and night, two men on
each truck; sleeps while the other drives. Both
work, loading and unloading. One man remarked
cheerfully that he had not had his shoes on in ten
days. Men work for living in these times; many
would be glad to work for their board here as In
many other states.
Coming west, passing the biggest pea-canning
factory in the world, just east of Ogden in Utah. you
learn that ordinary workers, formerly paid go and
20 cents hour. get 18 cents hour, $1SO for
ten-hour day. Skilled mechanics get ~ cents an
hour.
Wild animals that depend on nobody to hire them
are fortunate. On the fine concrete road east OF
vctorville you disturb buzzard, peacefully eating
the remains of rabbit crushed by an automobile
The birds flies up you pass then drops and re-
surnes his repast The automobile to him is bless
ing Its lights fascnate the rabbits they do not move
and the automobile kills them. Lights of big cities
have something of the effect on young men. but
operate more slowly.