The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-11-21

small airplane, as a fish hawk car
ries up fish. Two thousand feet
up the little airplane was released
by the big Zeppelin and went fly
ing OF on its own account. That's
interesting in this country which
has made no preparation to meet
the danger Of invasion through the
air.
Imagine similar machine, ten
times as big, leaving the coast of
Asia, or Europe, carrying beneath
it a dozen high powered bombing
machines. Imagine that big ship
coming out of the early morning
sky, releasing its brood of swift
d=stroyers to wreck cities - the
mother ship and the little ships sub
sequently landing on safe neutral
ground in Canada 2
@ This nation will have the worlds
greatest fighting fleet of airships
soon, or the United States of 1924
will be known in later history as
THE NATION OF IMBECILES."
In the Middle Ages not only
men but animals were tried for
murder when they killed a human
being and, if guilty" were exc
cuted. On q certain occasion a SOW,
with her litter of sucking pigs, had
killed and eaten young child. The
sow mother and her offspring were
tried in court. The SOW was con-
demned to death, the little pigs were
spared, on the ground that "be-
cause of their extreme youth they
could not be held responsible"
Some murderers have been
hanged the United States, with
intelligence not far above that of
the sucking pigs spared BY mediae.
val justice,
Among letters by George Wash
ingtOn, to be sold in London, one to
his Philadelphia dentist tells how
much trouble Washington had with
bis false teeth. They were strung
on wires and got loose. They
looked about as natural, when he
wore them, as a set of small golf
balls, being cut out of solid ivory.
Civilization does not realize what
it owes to dentists and oculists,
good false teeth and good spec
taeles.
Think Of the ancient Greeks, to
whom false teeth and eyeglasses
were unknown. The marvel is that
so many of them lived to be old.
In California decision, the State
Attorney-General forbids, in public
schools, even the Lords Prayer, In
the way of religion. There is no
doubt that the public school system
should teach the three RS and other
positive knowledge, leaving religi-
Gus teaching to the discretion of
parents.
1t is wise to keep all religious
teaching or favOritism out of pub
lie schools. On the other hand, it
is unwiss, and an outrageous inter
ference with the rights of parents,
to tell them that they cannot, at
their own expense, send their chill
dren to private or parochial schools
where religion is taught-provided
that educational requirements are
met.
Young man, do you want to be
rich and useful? Learn something
about electricity and try to invent
a light storage battery. Electricity,
which in itself weighs nothing, will
not always be carried about stored
in heavy metal, Weighing tas much
as the vehicle that the electricity
prOPels.
DOR't be discouraged by the fact
that YOU are not an electrical engi-
ne6r or a scientist. Sometimes
knowing too much about a thing
prevents seeing it's possibilities
clearly.
The man who invented the sew
ing machine couldn't sew. Hi
whole idea was putting the needle
"eye'I ct the point Of the needle In
stead e4 at the other end. An ex
pert ssamstress would have said
"Thatls nonsense"
! A Filipino laborer, working m tn
HamaAua sugar mill, is dead Of bu
bORic plague In Hawaii.
, Three rats infested with tn
plague have been caught.
How soon will our exalted civil
Eation, which gladly spends tbSI
sands of millions to kill otheE hi