Washington County News | 1939-07-27 | Page 8 | The Spinning World Slows

The Spinning World Slows A British astronomer, Harold Spencer Jones, makes the headlines with the finding that "somewhere an unknown gigantic brake has been clamped down on the spinning world, slowing it down". Quite so, Mr. Jones, but the discovery is not new. We see it almost every day as politicians in nations throughout the world gather more and more power over the people in a powerful central government. There, Mr. Jones, is your "gigantic brake" that has slowed down the spinning world. One hundred and fifty years ago American patriots fought a great war to make men the master of government instead of its servants. But in the last two decades since the war the procedure has been reversed, and nation after nation has reverted to the autocratic theory under which government becomes the master again.