The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-07-17
This Week
by ARTHUR BRISBANE
You Have a Rich Uncle
Tired of Iraq
Mellon and Lord Chatham
Whiskers the Fashion

| Whiskers the Fashion
Secretary Mellon, keeper of the
public purse, announces Il safisfac-
tory financial year, and surplus
of S1S4,000,00O in Uncle Sans
pocket.
Mr.. Mellon reduced by S746,000,-
600 the public debt, which now to-
tails SIG, 1S5, 100000. Not much for
such rich country. Business
might be better if bonds were not
paid off SO rapidly.
But Mr.. Mellon probably knows
best.
Several years ago, you remem-
Der, all the world was excited about
mandates. France took one, Eng
land, absent-mindedly swallowing
German colonies, took others, in
Guiding Iraq. An effort was made
to wish" Turkey as mandate on
this long-suffering nation.
Thanks to providence, we es-
capped that. To be kemals tutor
would be u job.
Now England tells Iraq, in sub
stance: Go in peace, join the
League of Nations, run yourself. "
That blessed word, "Mesopo-
tamia,' ancient name for Iraq, has
cost the British many millions of
pounds.
All that Britain wants now is to
keep, without expense, the right to
British imperial communications
and air routes through the terri
tory of the Tigris and Euphrates.
Washington says Secretary Mel
Ion will devote his vacation to
teaching banking and corporation
management to his son, Paul, back
from d postgraduate course at
Cambridge.
An attentive son can learn more
from his father than from Il thou
sand professors put together, If his
father knows. And Mr.. Mellon does
know.
In a grave in Westminster abbey
a father and son lie side by side
Pitt, who kept Napoleon out of
England, and his father, the earl of
Chatham.
Pitt, a. delicate boy, was taught
in youth by his father, ana later
studied craftsmanship at his ia
theirs dinner table, listening to
Chatham and other older men. He
entered the house of commons, and
was chancellor of the exchequer at
twenty-five and prime minister at
tWenty-three.
If you plan a trip to London and
want to look fashionable, let your
beard grow in cave man fashion.
Young Oxford men and the young
set" generally are doing that.
Britain decides that whiskers
are necessary to celebrity; a man
cannot look convineingly eminent
clean shaven.
They overlook at least three
Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon.
They We're clean shaver and quite
convincing
Some, disturbed by depressed
business, may find comfort in news
that our best" people are happy
and gay as ever.
More of them are in Europe this
year than last, more of them at de-
sirable United States resorts, espe-
cially Bar Harbor and Newport.
All this you learn from the Social
Register of New York, the real one,
not the imitation registers that or
ganized ito supply exclusiveness to
the masses"
Williams, Boyd and Conner plan
new deeds, having flown from New
York to Bermuda and back, non
stop, in II hours and l minute, and
Dorothy Hester, nineteen-year-old
girl in Portland, Ore, does an "out-
side loop" after one years flying.
Three times, with two failures in
five tries, the young western girl
did what few men have ever done
and no woman ever attempted.
DR.. Harvey w. Wiley is dead in
his eighty-sixth year. He rendered
public service and proved the sound
ness of his theories on diet. He
did not, however, equal the record
of the famous Italian Cornaro. The
latter specialized long ago in light
eating. He lived to one hundred
and four, in good health, and his
wife, upon whom he urged his
theories, lived past one hundred.
Mussolini adds S26,000,000, a
large sum in Italy, to his annual
military expenses. The people pa
tMotically accept more taxation
when Mussoini tells them he is
injecting the increasing military ex.
penditures of neighbours" referring
to the heavy French border guard.
A woman complained that Jugo
slavian officials beat her brutally
and frequently to get political con
LESSONS from her.
Poland eXhausts her resources
keeping in futile readiness for what
Russia may do. Only a match is
needed in that situation. !,
The Russian newspaper Pravda
urges Communists in America to
intensity their activities among
negroes and workers Of foreign ma