The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-11-17
THE WORLD TODAY
BY Arthur Brisbane
CEDARS OF LEBANON.
AVIATION DEPARTMENT.
UNCLE SANS NEW AK.
AN EXCEI LENT EXAMPLE,.

The Frenchman who bosses the Lebanese repub-
lic where cedars of Lebanon grew beauti-
fully finds Lebanese unfit for parliamentary gov
eminent. Their politicians acquire big fortunes to
create offices and impose heavy taxes.
That to America is amusing news. More serious
news, and sad tells about the cedars of Lebanon.
There only few left, in a small inclosure pro-
tected from vandals and cattle. Once Lebanon's
forests supplied treeless Egypt
King Solomon, if he gets news from the earth
where he is now will be sorry to hear about that
He liked cedars of Lebanon.
The aviation departments of the army and navy
eager rivals to which shall supply Governor
Roosevelt with his official flying machine and pilot
He flies good deal, and doubtless will fly more than
after he enters the White House.
This is excellent news, for the President looking
down. will how much chance the
bombs, poison gas and machine gun fire from the air
about as much chance as rabbit aginst an eagle
Perhaps Governor Roosevelt will decide that the
flying machine deserves department of it's own,
instead of being subordinate branch of the army
and navy.
Now that Governor Roosevelt has been elected,
you may say Uncle Sam is like a farmer who has
bought himself
Every new x is bright, shiny full of promise
But getting and cutting down the trees
There are big and tough trees in national
forest of problems depression, unemployment boot
Logging, organized crime.
Mrs E. H Hartman, widow of great American
railroad builder, is dead. Her husband left will
that in few words everything he had, more than
hundred million to his wife, and thus proved his
sound judgment.
Mrs. Hartman has given large sums, generously
and inteligenty for public purposes in addition to
promoting enterprises in which her husband was
interested. And what is more important, she has
set excellent example as owner of great fortune
New York's unemployment relief committee finds
marked increase in serious illness in families of
the unemployed; shocking increase in cases OF I'M
REIMBURSEMENT among children and S6e per cent IN
crease in the number OF nights lodgings provided
by the municipal lodging houses. The number OF
women and children seeking shelter increased by
I'll per cent.
Such conditions represent too big a job of pri-
vate relief It is the business of the government to
see that citizens do not go hungry, or women and
children beg for place to sleep.
Few realize what the human race owes to med
cal science. Doctor Canon, addressing the New York
Acadamy of Medicine reminds you that in the
Fourteenth century bubonc plague alone caused sixty
million deaths in Europe, with the population
quarter of what it is now. Some cities and many
villages were wiped out.
without vaccination, the blessing brought by
Jenner, such city Chicago or New York would
be fortunate if it had few one hundred thous-
and smallpox deaths each year.
In the Menorh maternity wing of Bethel hos
pital, Brooklyn, ten babies were born on election
night. Three were boys, and all three were named
for the new President follows: Franklin Delano
Mayburn, Franklin Delano Finkelstein and Franklin
Delano Ragn.
May the three infants prosper and never have
cause to wonder why they named Franklin
Delano
Beer is coming back" undoubtedly. What about
things more important than beer-prosperty, resump-
ton of industrial activity work in factories mills
mines, and the old pay rolls with high wages?
What about the foundation of the nation-the
farming population and it's welfare?
c. M. Schwab, who has known what it was to
oI,o froo he
average man hands out cigarettes, returns from E.
rope saying "The worst is over, but don't be too
timistic" Excellent advice.
The best way to be not too optimistic" is to
work hard, and this time part of what you get
When steel production amounted to 20,0O0,O00
tons Mr.. Schwab told the late ]. Pierpont Morgan
that production would go much higher.
1t did go up to 100000 tons. Schwab says now
that it will go higher than that and Of course
it will. Men have only begun to build More steel
than has been used will be needed for high
airnlane landings alone.