The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-09-15
THE WORLD TO-DAY
By Arthur Brisbane
TAKING RADICAL ADVICE
SPANS SUDDEN CHANGE.
REJOICE AND BE GLAD.
GOOD IN EVIL.

In troubled times like these it is important to
give radical advice carefully. railroad president
duty to the unemployed, adding casually: I'D steal
before I'd starve"
When Wallace F. Mitchell was picked up dead
with bullet in him, a newspaper clipping of that
statement found in his pocket. He had some
hungry children, took the suggestion literally, and
was shot dead while trying to steal bottle of milk
from a grocery store in Philadelphia.
A thought, harmless in the mouth of philoso-
pher or railroad president, may be dangerous when
taken too literally by little man.
Spain has abolished the death penalty: the max.
imum term of Imprisonment twenty years. no life
Imprisonment. Also, new in Spain, unfathful hus-
bands and wives to be punished equally no IA
vors for the husbands.
This ending of the death penalty is all the more
striking because Spain through the centuries has
specialized in the infection of DEATH with thousands
burned and tortured for religious disbelief inflicted
on slight provocation.
If you speculate in stocks, rejoice and be exceed
ingly glad for in August the total value of listed
stocks increased on paper by more than thous-
and million dollars
However, that didn't put the eleven millions idle
back to work. An increase of seven thousand mil
lion dollars in stock values is pleasant Not so pleas
ant is the fact that dleness of eleven million men
costs this country more than thirty-six thousand
millions year in lost wages The rise in stocks
minds you of the pretty music that Nero is supposed
to have played while Rome burned.
There is good in all evil" and good will come
from this depression
Even the dulest exploiters of their fellow men be-
gin TO realize that human working hours and days
must diminish, as machine efficiency increases.
The shorter working week and day will be one
OF the depressions products. And many that have
crowded into hot unatural cities will escape to the
country before the depression ends and always stay
there, which will be a blessing for their children.
Money is queer. Wise finance tells you it all
depends on how much gold you have back of your
money. How do they explain the fact that in Can
ada an American changing United States twenty
dollar gold piece gets only $3.50 in United States
one-dollar bills, whereas for twenty of those one
dollar bills he get $224O in United States gold
coin? Try to figure that out.
In London, Mayor Cermak, of Chicago annoyed
by Britishers talking about Chicago Crime" re-
minds them that they have $4,000 policemen in Lon
don. And eff Chicago had that many COPS could
clear the city of every criminal" The mayor would
do it. of course, if he could, but possibly he couldn't
DR.. Benjamin Goldberg tells the American Con-
gress of Physical Therapy that depression has
improved the health of the people, but has cut down
the brthrate
Insurance companies say "the masses" are learn
ing more about birth control and practicing it.
Health is improved perhaps, by the fact that there
is less bootleg whisky drinking less of the
eating that breeds disease, when times bad.
"A person no less important than Rev. Canon J.
MacCulloch says belief in fairies has real foun-
dation. In glacial times there lived in Britain a
pigmy race now disappeared, small they could
have been called fairies
Ambassador Mellon says conditions are better,
and recovery has begun, SLOW but sure" The re-
covery will show eventually in general business.
That is good news. Mr.. Mellon knows something
about business, enough to enable him to extract
many hundred millions of dollars from his ntelli-
gence. Also, Mr.. Mellon is not among those that,
two or three years ago. said everything that all
wrong would be all right in very little while.
That this is rich country and would be happy
if it only knew what to do with its wealth, how to
manage, how to distribute it, you realize when you
read that New York city pays its public employees
one million dollars day. That is almost as much as
it cost to run the whole government of the United
States in happy old days before 1914 started our
tional squandering debauch.
New Yorks taxpayers, supplying the one million
dollars day. for jobs largely political not hap
Ply about it. 1t ought to crafty them to know that
they have so much money, with something left over
for building repairs.