The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-12-22

a famous scientist What practical good is all your
thousands Of pounds boring for coal through certain
strata below which coal does not exist.
Other mine owners, worried by gas explosions
that destroyed innumerabe miners, got from Sir
Humphrey Davy the miners lamp that ended the
explosions
Wherever you go science is at work. visible or
invisible. John P. Bickel of the Mcintyre Porcupine
mine in northern Ontario tells what science
gold miners that work far under the ground during
Leaving their work they take off their digging
clothes and walk through series of showers grad
uated in temperature, and get rid of the dust Of the
mine. Then they sit naked a moving platform
with brilliant artificial sunlight shining on them
stimulating their blood through the power of actinc
rays. Their ride of few minutes through artificial
sunshine lasts long enough to give them exactly
much Of the rays as doctors want them to have.
equivalent to six hours in natural sunlight.
They change to their surface clothes, refreshed
by the showers Of water and actinic ray baths.
That is an Improvement mining methods of
old days, when women their hands and knees in
low tunnels of British coal mines, dragged cars
loaded with coal, attached to chains around their
necks, running under their bodies.
The senate of the United States refused, A to 81
LaFolette and Blaine of Wisconsin voting with the
Democrats to confirm any further nominations by
President Hoover.
The senate has right to exercise it's constitu-
tional power it chooses Whether it has the right
to deprive the President of the United States during
several months of power to exercise functions that
belong to his office, is question.
Confirmation by the senate is supposed to de-
pend the fitness of the appointee It is in the ma
ture of conspiracy not to confirm under any cir
cumstances, regardless of fitness and that might
possibly be made to interest the Supreme court.
In Newark, N. J., grand jury indicts 113 for
election frauds-the usual things, including stealing
ballots. The indictment says that both parties
"countenanced gangsters" and their in the cleo
tions.
Green the British historian, planned history
of the United States, but stopped, believing that
Americans had acquired the right of selfgovernment
before they were ready for it.
He may have been right
Ireland proposes to issue money of her own, an
Irish dollar taking the place of British sterling
used in Ireland.
Thirty million dollars in gold would be drawn
from the Bank of England and that, plus the land
of Ireland would form the currency basis.
British fnanciers predict Imitation and disas-
trous chaos as a matter of course.
Secretary Mills wisely warns congress that the
dream about hundreds of millions from beer tax
will never be real. It is a fact Mr.. Mills says,
button and drinking of beer will be limited, yielding
not more than $15o.ooo.oO0 in taxes.
Dr. Arthur Kraus, teacher of philosophy in New
Yorks city college, refusing food says he will starve
to DEATH ito protest against the apathy of intellect
uals toward anti-Semitic excuses in Polish unver
Stiles"
Mr.. Krans shows high moral courage, but might
better look up the history of the Jewish priest Mat
tathias, who fought against religious persecution
more than two thousand years ago and established
the famous family of Macabees.
The Maccabees had the right idea. Leave starv-
ing to Mahatma Gandhi. There better methods.
Chicago, where the dollar grows bigger prices
grow smaller offers for breakfast two eggs, toast
coffee, fried potatoes jam the toast, all for
II cents.
In California you the old-fashoned sign,
Board and Lodging $50 Month" ---
That may seem impossible to pampered 1882, but
S. S. Carvalho the well known editor and publisher,
knows that it is possible
He and his writer a young reporter for
Charles a. Dana lived at Simmons restaurant in
Murray street, just across Broadway from the Sun
office each paying So week for good room and
"all he could eat' in the excellent restaurant.
Crime in the gutter borrows poison gas from the
crime of Bandits raiding a New York bank
threw a tear gas bomb as they left making it i'm
possible for the bank clerks to pursue them.