The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-10-20
THE WORLD TODAY
BY Arthur Brisbane
EARTH GETTING FLAT.
SAFETY FIRST.
MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY.
b. FRANKLINS SUN BATH.
BY Arthur Brisbane
b. FRANKLIN'S SUN BATH.

The top Of Pixies peak, until recently 14,109 feet
above the ocean, is inches lower Melting of
the ice cap and erosion make the difference
Slowly all mountain peaks coming down
through the action the rock of FROST rain snow,
and wind In time the earth will become absolutely
round and it may be necessary here it is suppos-
ed to be now the planet Mars, to dig canals big
enough to hold the waters of our oceans. If the
earth were perfectly round the water would be one
mile deep everywhere
But don't worry about your real estate. that fat
ness is millions of years off.
The National Safety council supplies information
accidents and the Metropolitan Life Insurance
company wisely scatters the facts.
South Carolina is the safest state in the Union
regards accidents. Automobile accidents, of which
majority could have been prevented by thought
and common sense, rank first in causing death.
For every victim of airplane tragedy there
fifty victims of automobiles
However, it should be remembered that there are
thirty million automobiles running around, with the
risk of humping into each other, and comparatively
few airplanes flying
If the depression has not made you entirely dir
zy, you may complete the process by studying the
mathematical side of biology" latest thing in
science. The science of mathematical biology
evolutionary mechanics" is fascinating if you
understand it.
Genes, which are units of heredity in the
chromosomes and determine life's evolution" march
forward along mathematical lines You will be sur
prised to learn that scientists at WILL breeding
flies Of all Sorts including fly that is female one
side and male on the other.
More than hVe hundred years before Christ,
Pythagoras, Greek philosopher of Samos, made
mathematics the principle of all existing things"
Turn for relief to Pythagoras if you find modern
mathematical biology too deep.
A letter written by Benjamin Franklin in 1853
reveals the interesting fact that the wsest of the
early Americans believed in taking air baths. The
"sun bath" had not yet arrived. 81 find it agreeable
to my constitution to bath in cold air. rise EARLY
and sit in my chamber without any clothes whatever
for half hour"
Franklins remedy for insomnia to have a
second bed always ready and move to the second bed
to change the mental attitude.
Canada and Britain have finally arranged Cana
das tariff will favor trade with England, the moth
country. The United States offer objec-
tion the forty-eight states that make up this
country favor each other with absolute free trade
The Canadian prime minister, Mr. Bennett, ex
plains that the United States tariff wall closes Unit
ed States markets to Canadian agricultural pro-
ducers
Those producers will remember with more or
less gratitude that they still have the of the
Panama canal letting them reach Europe quickly
States money, charges British and other foreign
ships more than it does United States ships, an
extremely foolish arrangement.
Studying birth statistics, A. F. Dutton shows that
the child Of father seventy years old has so times
better mental chance than whose father is under
forty1ve. A father of sixty gives his child ten
times better chance than if the father under forty
The father of Pitt, who chancellor of the
exchequer at twenty-one and prime minister at
twenty-five, fftyone. and Samuel Johnson's faith
er ifty-three.
From this depression win come many things