The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-05-08
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

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| Workers Live Longer
Cheap at a Billion
Anger Flouts Death
While it lasts, a dictatorship seems
the simplest form of government. Ev-
erything is peaceful in Russia where
everybody is radical. Russia has
Dictator
Everything is peaceful in Italy,
whore nobody is allowed to be radical.
Italy has dictator.
In Russia, reversing the theories of
Karl Marx, and managed by extreme
ly able men, the people are quiet,
obedient
In Italy, where Karl Marx would
not be publicly mentioned, nation,
naturally radical, is told that there
has been too much talk about liberty,
and people are obedient.
The question u.s. how long?
A Frenehman, falling from the
twentieth story. is said to have re-
marked as he passed the tenth floor:
ITS all right as long as it lasts
How long will it last?
A report published by Mr. Frederick
H. Ecker, president of the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance company, concern
ipu DDl 900 s,.I,,ct,.ial .nIia,Y bnI dnre,
in the United States and Canada.
shows that workers are living longer
than they used to.
Thanks to science and prosperity,
the death rate among wage-earners
has diminished. Mr.. Ecker's statistl-
cal bureau shows new low death
rate of "a per 1000 during March.
More adults that live, fewer babies
that die, is good program.
1t is said that the new tariff will
cost the United States S1,00O,0O0,O0O
a year. 1t will, probably. and un-
jobs, deals and mistakes.
But if the tariff enables only 5,000,-
600 American workmen to earn S100
a day more than they would have
earned without the tariff. that would
repay the billion with a bonus of SO
per cent, to say nothing of added profit
that would encourage business men
to build up industry and national
prosperity.
Many of our emotions, according to
Francis Bacon, make us Indifferent to
death, anger among others.
Eng Flu Week, siyty-two. and Eng
10y, fifty-0ne, Chinese, and cousins,
fought with heavy meat cleavers.
When the police arrived both had frac-
tured skulls and gashes on heads and
bodies, yet the police were compelled
to separate them by force One will
die surely, the other probably, and it
was all about a blanket.
Cost of travel by air and rail be-
tween New York and the Southwest
Is reduced to less than regular rail-
road and pullman car travel.
Flying from New York to Dallas,
Texas, or Oklahoma City, you save
1924 In cash, Is hours in time.
And these cuts are made by the
Pennsylvania railroad itself.
Wise General Atterbury, head of the
Pennsylvania, decides that if he must
have air competition he will own the
competition.
Mr.. Lamont, our secretary Of COM
merce, called up on the telephone re-
Gently by Sir Henry Thornton, had
pleasant talk.
Mr.. Lamont was sitting in Washing
ton. Sir Harry was travelling at high
speed through Canada on the Can
adam National Railway system.
Sir Henry sent his regards to Presi-
dent Hoover and the American cab
met. Seventy-one telephone calls were
made from that Canadian train as it
rolled along.
England, France and Belgium have
reduced the rediscount rate, which
means that you can get money more
cheaply there.
You could get it in Paris under
4 per cent while American buyers of
stocks were paying 10 per cent. Our
federal reserve reduces it's rediscount
rate in the New York district to
per cent.
"Call money" with which stocks are
bought, will be cheap for the present
News from India reminds the Brit
ish of Bacon's warning that nations
with great possessions, far away, are
always in danger.
A second son of Gandhi is impris-
oned vigorously" for one year.
Senator Wagner Of New York starts
a fight to bring back prosperity and
solve the unemployment problem,
which he says Is serious.
He wants the country to "face the
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