The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1932-07-07
THE WORLD TODAY
BY Arthur Brisbane
IF ALL DEBTS VANISHED.
THE TURTLES HEAD.
AS COSMIC BEINGS SEE US.
WISE SIAMESE KING.

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who believe in "forgving and forgetting" gen.
eral store and have cancelled $4,000 worth of bills
and refuse to take money from those that come to
pay.
What would be the effect on prosperity, ETC., if
all debts in the United States suddenly n
| celed, the nation waking up one morning to find
nobody owing dollar?
Should be worse off or better off. A friend
informs the writer that in ancient times the Jewish
people once every fifty years wiped out all debts,
| everybody starting afresh It might not be such a
bad idea, like taking the barnacles off ship But
owners of mortgages would not like it.
Boys of Fanwood, N. J., used to believe that the
head of swapping turtle cut off did not die until
shutdown. Superstition never dies, matter how
often you cut off its head.
Port of SPAIN Trinidad, tells of "a fra, bearded
Spanish mystic" suddenly coming from the noun
tains to the village of St. Helena to announce that
within six months the world will be burned up
Chicago would say, coldly Ego back to the
mountains and get details" The credulous
villagers have given up work to devote all their
time to meditation and prayer.
The prophet has gone back to the mountains He
will be annoyed six months hence, but have good
| excuse.
find easy access to the human mind, the gates of
superstition greed, hatred, religious hatred.
hundred times the end of the world has been
| announced and believed At the beginning of the
year 1000 many sold their lands goods for next
to nothing put white robes and went up into the
mountains to be heaven possible when
the end came. It did not come and won't come in
one hundred million years.
The late Andrew D. White, president of Cornell
university, tells of Jewish prophet who long after
Christ announced himself "the Messbiah" gathered
great following and announced that he could walk
the water and that those that believed in him
could do the He walked down steep bank
into deep water, followed by big crowd. All were
drowned. Leaders in superstition often believe what
they say. That makes them dangerous.
We know how the world around us looks. How
beings
sumably surround us in space?
He sun, small star million times
ious journed toward the great star Vega above our
heads Around he little planets, fol-
lowing the newly Matched chickens follow
their mother. travelling in spiral round and round
the
If he had a very powerful telescope, with micro
scopc attachment, he might and little
works bridges, houses canals railways, banks pris
ons and libraries.
Looking even more closely, to read newspaper
headings about things that interest us, he would say
Queer little creatures!"
Interesting information from Bangkok about
Slams revolution-King Prajadhipok himself
aged it.
. He worried about the drop in rice exports
caused by Slams foolish gold standard Rice to Siam
is what coffee is to Brazil. And gold not to
agree with eastern lands.
Also, like wise Louis XII, of France, the King
of Siam decided that his great mobiles were becom-
ing too powerful and decided that it would be wise
to depend on the people, that revere MIN.
Louis XII encouraged the mobiles to kill off each
other, saying. "The less they amount to the more
amount to-"
You remember how he disposed of the foolhardy
duke of Burgundy
A sad story comes from the thirty-second story
of Chicago hotel. young bride wept when her
husband said he did not think she could make him
happy, after they had been married only one day.
She replied, II only give you all I have"
took off her wedding ring and engagement ring,
handed them to him, and jumped through the win
dow to death.
She suffered but moment. He will suffer while
he lives.
Mountain climbers attacking Mont Blanc every
fine day. scaling the Jungfrau, occasionally attempt
ing Mount Everest and failing, admirable.
But you have in your home a little mountain
climber called the dollar, with climbings that will
surprise you. Starting from 1929 with the buying
power at 100 it has climbed almost perpendicularly
past 49, and is on its way to 16O. The dollar will
now buy go per cent more than in 1929 and that is
maddening for those that lack dollars and cannot
take advantage of bargains.