The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-08-14
This Week
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
The Unimaginable
A Really Big City
What's Wrong With Us
Meden Agan, and Ederle

What's Wrong With Us
Meden Agan, and Ederle
Britain's airship, RICO, greatest
that ever rose into the air, has
safely crossed the Atlantic and ar
rived at Montreal, with thirty-seven
crew and seven passengers. The
RICO, faster than the Graf Zeppe-
Hn, represents Britain's determine
llon to rule the ocean of air, as for
centuries she has ruled the ocean
OF water, regardless of expense.
A few years ago the average man
could not have imagined that. Now
that it has happened, not one in
hundred realizes what it means.
Long after steam railroads were
operating successfully in England,
wise men, in and. out of parliament,
said the locomotive could not pos
sibly be success.
Many equally wise" still think
that flying never can be practical"
New York city's population is
fixed at 6,959,195. 1t will pass
100000 in a few months.
Manhattan Island, which until re-
Gently was all of New York. has
lost 1876 per cent in ten years. This
is made up by gains in the outlying
boroughs, 1901 per cent in Queens,
2S.6 per cent in Brooklyn, 70 per
cent in the Bronx.
Queens is probably the fastest
growing big place in the world.
Manhattan still holds the pocket
book.
Hundreds of thousands work
there and sleep elsewhere. Ameri-
cans from all over the nation come
to spend their money, between
Fourteenth and Forty-ninth streets,
TO say nothing of what they spend
downtown in Wall street.
When you are travelling serenely
III an express train and it stops
suddenly you put your head out of
the window to look, or you ask the
conductor, what is the matter?'
We We're all travelling in the pros.
perity express train, it stopped with
jolt last October and everybody
is still asking, What is the
matter?'
Adolph Zukor, an intelligent
American business man, who retains
his capacity to keep cool and think
clearly even when business is not
so good, says.
For one thing, we had lost our
heads. We began to think about a
dollar as we ought to think about
25-cent piece.
after a while we shall learn
what money is, what thrift and
common sense mean. Then we shall
be better off than we ever were.
Nothing better than this So
called slump could have happened
to us.
For my part, l was never more
optimistic in my life
Mr.. ZulIor, Of course, speaks sin
cerely and his optimism is justified.
This country needed a lesson and
is having it.
How long it will last nobody
knows.
Every little while something re-
minds you of two words that the
wise Greeks wrote above their
temple doors, 'Meden Agan," mean
ing "Shun Excess"
Aristotle put it almost as briefly,
"Not too much, not too little"
This time the "Meden Agan" re
minder comes from Gertrude Ederle,
who swan the English channel,
amazing the world, four years ago.
She has become almost entirely
deaf as the result of the fourteen
hours spent in the cold English
channel.
She had wonderful triumph
The President and Governor Smith
congratulated her. New York gave
her wonderful receptions. But she
says: ut wasn't worth it."
The "outboard motor" idea, used
for years on little boats, is success
fully applied to the air.
Myrten johnson, from Oakland's
field, in a glider with thirty horse
power engine attached, went up
$4,000 feet. Boys and young men
will want to experiment with that
John Macdonald years ago swore
that Tom Mooney and Billings
were responsible for a bomb that
destroyed many lives. Now he
swears his original testimony was
perjury. IF he is telling the truth
this time" Mooney and Billings
will, of course, be set free.
How are the seven justices Of
Cal1f0rnla'S supreme court to KNOW
whether Macdonald was lying
then, or is lying now? knowledge
of human nature may help. One
thing Is certain, Macdonald com.
mitted perjury, then or now. The
governor and the judges might well
hesitate to keep men in Jail on his
testimony.
Canada's. election surprised many
Of our friends in the north.
Mackenzie King, who has been
prime minister for twelve years,