Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1929-11-15
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BY Arthur Brisbane


More Automobiles
Short Skirts Will Stay
Russia Tries Farming
A Killer Acquitted
lHNE foolish statement. bora q
~ Wall Streets hurricane now Sub.
siding, predicts that because some
stocks have dropped the United States
will stop buying automobiles.
This country needs at least 6.00o.-
600 new automobiles year and win
buy them.
Twenty-Five million automobiles ars
running in the United States now.
Thirty million will be running before
long.
The drop In stock values will -
ter ere temporarily with the sale Ct
expensive diamond and pearl neck
laces, and few sable coats may sell
at bargain.
But the automobile. worth It's prizes.
whether it be $1,000 or $500. will -
| in demand as much az ever.
Or. Nystrom, professor OF market
ing at the Columbia University School
| of Business, says women refuse -
follow dressmakers' orders and weas
long skirts.
The fashionable" five per cent Of
women Will wear long skirts at night,
with tail at one side dragging On
the ground. r
! The other ninety-five per cent. leSs
fashionable, but more intelligent
| will stick to the short skirts.
That is good news. II true. but u1s'
ally the majority lie led by the min
ority. in styles.
And moving pictures. showing the
latest" as soon as produced. cause
styles to change in three months. II
used to take two years to make .
change. Es
! While we talk about farm relief
in Washington and supply genuine
relief In Wall Street, Soviet Russia
makes real experiments.
Russia, developing gigantic ~
tional farms with modern machinery.
/ plans a complete revolution in farm
| ing methods.
! Twenty-Five million small farms
that feed Russia's population. ana
| cover one.sixth of the earth's surfacs.
will be changed to big scale farming
on basis that would double tAs
crops, using half the land.
Our farmers would not care for
that, too much danger Of being
wiped out. Farmers like their owR
cows, barns. fields. ploughs, agricuF
tural machinery. idle and rusting
eleven months In the year.
They would not become salaried
government agrarian officials. evsa
! if they made more. Russia at leaet
ID trying to do something. We are
! trying to walk on eggs, doing nothing,
without driving farmers from the Re.
| publican Party.
In France, Richard Corbett shot his
mother to death. She had cancer.
The young man. British, told the
French jury: Il loved my mother. !
killed her because loved her. Sci
! ence could not deliver her from her
agony. delivered her"
The Judge said: ut was for God
to consider when your mother should
have died, not you. God might have
prolonged your mothers life"
The son who admitted killing his
mother shook his head anL murmured,
so that the jury could hear him:
God Is only a religious belief"
And the jury acquitted him.
| When one or two are gathered to-
/ gether, only the stock market is dis
eussed., A Fifth avenue jeweler In
! New York lets it be known that he
/ has for sale a 100000 pearl nech-
/ lace. which can be bought for $4,000
But it must be all cash. Some lady
apparently expected prices 20 80 Up
forever.
| Secretary Seward made good
bargain when he bought Alaska Tor
! IS, 900 900.
| The Interior Department says
| alaska contains at least hundred
and fifty billion tons OF coal.
| To buy twenty tons of coal for a
cent is good business, to say moth
ing of gold mines and forests. Sec
rotary Wilbur suggests that this Alas
lla coal be developed as It should
be, all It's by-products extracted. In
stead of being burned up wastefuliy.
according to the usual custom
! Mr.. Knudsen. president Of Chevro
! iat' writes from the steamship Brem
! en-, Some tim ago you observed that
few. native born Americans learn
trade wonder if you realize what
useful service you can render Ameri
can industry by emphasizing often
| the Importance and advantage OF
teaching young people trade.
Though they may never use 1t with
their hands. 1t will develop their
brains"