The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-06-16
THE WORLD TO-DAY
BY Arthur Brisbane
BY Arthur BRISBANE
MONEY IRRIGATION.
JOHN D., JR., OR REPEAL.
CHILE BOILS UP.
ROUTINE CRIMES.


kind heaven forbid, gentlemen whose motto is "b-
lions for high finance but not dollor for soldiers"
may do some mournful regretting.
Since it is not possible to supply the men with
jobs with the national intelligence temporarily
paralyzed how can anybody deny that the next best
thing would be to give the soldiers their bonus which
will have to be paid to them anyhow. What the
country needs is not money in hundreds of millions
put away in bank vaults, but money scattered all
the country water is scattered in rrigating
a ranch The country needs money that will be spent
not accumulated.
Anyway, is it necessary for the government first
to sell bonds to bankers, pay interest the bonds
then take the money and give it to the soldiers?
Why not print the money and give it to them direct?
The only value that the money has is the name of
the government the bills
Only fool would talk about imitation, since this
money would be spent in corner of every state
in the Union, absorbed like water applied to the roots
of trees, grass and bushes spent in retail stores
everywhere.
The big prohibition in letter writ
ten by John D. Rockefeller. Jr, to DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, expressing earnest hope that
both Republicans and Democrats will incorporate a
prohibition repeal plank in their platforms
This to dispose of the theory widely cir
culated, that the younger Mr.. Rockefeller has been
financing prohibition recently.
Carlos Davila provisional president of Chile rep.
resenting the latest successful
uprising, says Chile probably will recognize Soviet
Russia but will not establish South American i'm
itation of that government.
You remember that in Midsummer Nights
Dream" the gentleman who was to play the part Of
the lion said that if desired he could as gen.
Perhaps this South American bolshevism will de-
velop the mild quality President Davila guar
antees that bank accounts and cash belonging to
foreigners will not De appropriated!
This is small part of routine crime news in
city, New York; Benjamin Rosenbum, owner of a
fur company, locked in his fur vault by bandits
and, not quite dead when taken out, was resuscated
Agent H. ]. Simons and Deputy Bernstein with
thirty helpers from the Department of Jusice, raid
ed 30000Ogaon whiskey still in South street. few
doors north of the building in which this is writ
ten. 1t was well arranged, with tunnel leading to
a garage, getaway" and in the garage
10000 gallon molsses brrel.
Federal Judge Coleman sentenced three rack
to prison for failing to pay income tax ST.
10000 Of net profits. They confessed. Crime has
become business.
Geolando Terrana. restaurant owner, was called
to the door by young man, unknown, the
other morning The man fired two shots into Ter
ranan's heart. His wife is widow and his three
children have father. The killer walked away.
Those are routine" incidents in our crime wave.
The University of London gave dinner in hon
or of Jeremy Bentham, who worked for humanity,
and strange wish of the great Bentham, car
ried out, namely, that "ny shelton be put together
in such manner that the whole figure may be seat
ed in the chair usually occupied by when living,
| in the attitude in which was sitting when en-
gagged in thought"
At the dinner in his honor, Benthams skeleton,
dressed in clothes that he hundred years
ago. with artificial head. representing his fea-
lures in real iife to avoid the gruesome effect of
the skull sat with the guests at dinner.
To some Of us that seems strange idea But
others. that share mans intense hatred of being
wiped out and forgotten, can understand how old
Bentham felt
In Germany, runnor says old President Won Hind
enburg, past eighty, will retire and Grown Prince"
Friedrich Wilhelm son of the former kaiser will take
his place and later become monarch, passing from