The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-12-18
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Fifty Miles, 10 Gents
Welcome to Einstein
Japan's Mighty Growth
That Strange Death

Japans Mighty Growth
That Strange Death
Some very important news about
4 new engine comes from London.
Operated by gas generated from
coke, this engine drove a truck
weighing one ton, with $50 pounds
Of passengers, fifty miles at more
than twenty miles an hour, for a
total cost of 10 cents.
This is not pleasant news for
railroads, already meeting competi-
ton from automobile trucks that
can't run fifty miles for 10 cents.
Professor Einstein, arriving in
America, got noisy reception and
didn't like it. His friends are
mathematics, astronomy, abstract
thought. They don't yell or push.
Reporters found it difficult to
question Einstein, knowing well
that only six men in the world
could understand his answers to i'm
portant questions, and probably no
newspaper man is included in the
six.
The learned professor, supposed
to supplant Newton, says the law
of gravitation doesn't act every
where. Also, straight lines do
meet, and, 'the infinite universe" is
not infinite. 1t is all made Of
curves, and so comes back to the
place whence it started. At least,
that is how it sounds to ignorance,
which asks Professor Einstein: IF
the universe isn't infinite, what is
located outside of its boundaries?
And if, as you say, there was
point in past history when time ac-
tually began, how do you explain
that?"
Professor Einstein says: II ex-
plain it perfectly, but you can't I'M
derstand the explanation" What
can you reply to that?
A mouse can't understand tel
ephone. although it hears the bell
ringing every day.
In any case, Einstein is gigan-
tic mathematical genius. No doubt
about that, ard he is most welcome.
In spite of earthquake, tidal
waves and restricted territory, cen
sus returns show that Japan's pop
ulation is 64,557000, more than
100000 increase in five years.
Greater Tokyo, with a population
of 4,96s,000, is the worlds third
city. Including colonies, Japan's
population is 90,000,000.
A great, powerful people, the
Japanese. What would be their
number had they been able to
spread unrestricted on our Pacific
cOast2
Mysterious death, carried by the
fog and killing scores in Belgium,
worries the British. Reassuring
words, to the effect that it only In
jured those that were already i'll or
very old, are not convincing.
In Yorkshire, near Grosmount,
ten cattle are found mysteriously
dead in the fog, with symptoms
that look much like those of the
Belgian death fog, which also killed
cattle.
Could it be-one guess is as
coed as anOther-that the recent
shower of meteorites brought with
it from distant space some poison
GUS substance that, reduced TO
powder by contact with the atmos-
phere, floats about in the fog and
is carried into the lungs? Mete-
orites bring us iron, copper, gold.
Why not arsenic or worse I'M
known poison from some vicious
interstellar neighbor?
Russians are now accused of
sending us 'gas generator" an
thracite coal for 81 ton less than
it costs to produce. That probably
Is guess work. We don't know
what 1t costs Russia to produce
coal.
You will be told by the ignorant
and those that reject real science
in favor of some substitute that
"germs and microbes" are all non
sense, everything being ''in the
mind"
The authorities of hospital had
no such theory, fortunately. Five
patients died, strangely, immedi-
ately after operations. Investiga-
ton showed that a sterilizing ma
chine, employed in the operating
room, had insufficient steam heat,
and streptococci and staphylococci
on operating room linen passed
through it unframed and killed the
patients with whom they came in
contact.
Mr.. Hyde, secretary of agricul-
ture, says that government lending
money to buy human food is per
ilously near" the dole.
On the other hand, allowing
many people to be hungry might
bring you "perilously near" to dan
gerous rioting or something worse.
The dole is humiliating to those
that receive, expensive to taxpay-
ers that provide.
The British, grown wise by watch