The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-04-28
THE WORLD TODAY
BY Arthur Brisbane
Platitudes Won't Do.
What Ais Us.
Heard Around the World.
To Discourage Airmen.

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enough to direct and protect his great body.
Has this dnosaur nation the trouble? Do
we lack national intelligence wide the coun-
try, governing intellect capable of managing it
from Alaska to Florida? Is our trouble a lack of
intelligent interest among voters? Do we need
dictator to govern those that will not govern them
selves?
The nation has more of everything than it's peo-
pie can use-more COAL oil, cotton, wheat, food and
wealth of all kinds, land machinery skilled workers.
And millions of the people have nothing but wor-
ry and fear for the future. What is the matter
with us?
Chamberlain, England's chancellor of the exche-
quer, tells the British that they can solve all eco
nomic problems with work, economy, courage and
patience"
Many pleasant platitudes have been uttered con-
corning work, economy courage, patience"
But courage and patience will not fill the stom-
achs of hungry children. Recommending work to
millions that would gladly work, but can find no
work to do, is CHASTITY joke.
Advising economy does not help those that have
nothing to save And if the advice were taken
1ousy by those that have money buying and business
conditions would be
You cannot cure anything with platitudes
Millions of schoolboys have heard, thousands of
patriots have talked, about the shot heard around
the world" at the Battle of Concord
That shot wasn't heard around the world, even
fguratively speaking. Three.quarters of the worlds
people never heard of it and don't know anything
about it yet.
When the shot was fired, 157 years ago, it would
nave seemed insanity to suggest that shot would
some day really be heard all around the world But
that thing happened the other day in the General
Electric laboratories at Schenectady.
Governor Ely, of Massachusetts fred a shot from
musket dating back to the Revolutionary war;
The sound travelled "over a short wave hookup to
Kootwijk, Holland, then to Landoeng, Java, to Sgd
ney Australia, and back to Schenectady"
bill introduced in the house of representatives
to reduce drastically the pay of officers that fly
both branches of air service reflects little credit
on the judgment or patriotism of the man introduce
ing the bill.
A congressman sitting at his ease in the safety
OF comfortable chair. enjoying his $10,0O0-a-year
salary, cuts poor figure when he seeks to reduce
the pay of fight officers, called up every day to risk
life in the most important branch of the national
defense.
The 1888 exposition, planned to celebrate zone
Hundred Years of Science from 1888 to 1885, pro-
crossing well. 1t has fine background with big
Lake Michigan side stretching toward the
east, huge Chicago and its skyscrapers to the west
and round it monuments to Chicago's energy and
good citizenship The great Marshall Field museum
is one of the finest buildings in America and one
of the worlds great museums. Beyond it stands the
aquarium, given by John G.. Shedd, and at the wat
er's edge the planetarium, given by Max Adler in
which all the movements. sizes and distances of
earth, moon, sun, neighbor planets, stars, comets
and nebulae are made plain. There is in America,
no more important educational institution than that
planetarium, except the public school.
Travelling across this country from west to east
1t is difficult to believe that anything serious the
matter with it. except the foolishness of inhab
itants
few hundred millions of acres of land cult
waited, billion acres waiting to be developed; mines
from which billions have been taken in gold, silver
copper, and other mines with billions waiting
to be developed; millions of cattle sheep swine; mil
lions of able and patient farmers; millions of skilled
mechanics the ablest engineers greatest most per-
fectly equipped factories in the world-such are
few OF our national possessions, to which should be
added waterfalls oil and coal deposits apparently
exhaustble to produce the power that industry de-
mands.
President Hoover finds the outlook for business
improving, and lists many signs of financial and
other improvements. Eugene Meyer Jr, head of the
federal reserve is also optimistic and he dream
The solid fact that this nation, even now, with
its highprced dollar leads the world in exports should
comfort you. And, anyhow, under normal condit ons
we consume 80 per cent of all we produce.