Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-02-27
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By Arthur Brisbane
Big Corporation Useful
On Crimes Highway
Worrying tho Burglar
Education and Money
! The General Electric company has
perfected q device to transport cleo
Itric power over longer distances Al
Hess expense The invention, called .
F'thyratro, "1S described az d modified
vacuum tube. adapted to power trans
mission uses.
Some day science will "hoOk up
THE worlds great power stations OF
North America, Niagara, those In the
Rocky mountains. on the ColumbIa
river. Brazil. with other great sta.
lions In Africa and all over the world,
as radio stations are now hooked up.
Then will come wireless transmIs.
sion of power. so that airplanes will
be able to 'pick up power" at various
points In their journey. instead OF
carrying tons OF fuel.
The research work done by such
institutions as General Electric, Unit
ed States Steel, Westinghouse, Stand
ard Oil. etc, will give back to the
public In Increased prosperity hun
dred dollars for every one that those
big corporations have ever received.
This country is travelling rapidly on
the road that leads to thoroughly or
ganized crime and complete contempt
for law.
A United States grand jury reports
that officials supposed to suppress the
sale OF drugs are organized on a
racket" basis, incorporating their
activities to get more money from the
government.
Some Of them are alleged to be
narcotic addictx. The charge "a made
that the big men In the business can
buy their way out" Ii they get In
trouble.
In the seven months past criminals
and others have purchased three
times as many pistols a were sold al
together In the twelve months OF 1923.
A big demand for killing machinery.
MIR. Louis Pierson OF New York's
Irving Trust company delights In an
noying burglars. He built, far under
ground, below. his new tifty-story
building, safety vault lined with
toughest steel, thick as the ancient
walls Of Jerusalem. 1t Is the biggest
vault In the world except those OF our
Reserve Bank and the Bank of Eng
land.
Now he surrounds his steel walls
will a thick layer of wafer so that
the poor bank burglar, even IL he did
break through the heavy steel, would
have to do his work In a diving suit,
most awkward for handling dynamite
and drills.
Henry Ford planning to spend one
hundred millions educating young peo-
pie on his own lines, making them fit
into life" teaching every one trade,
wants no advice.
He Is right No one knows better
than he how to prepare boys for use
full work. But Mr.. Ford spoke hastily
when he said ne wanted no advice on
education from those that never
earned or saved dollar.
The worlds greatest educators have
not been money makers or savers
Aristotle. who taught Philips son
Alexander, made no fortune for him
self. Alexander, conuueror Of the
world, spent collecting specimens foi
Aristotle, greatest naturalist and phi
losopher Of the world, more than the
total fortune left him by King Philip
Conrad Hubert, who changed hi
name from Horowitz, made many mil
lions, left $1,000, 600 to useful charities
left $1,OOO0O0 to his brother.
The brother, who sticks TO his old
fashioned name, Horowitz, has been ;
humble court interpreter and he say
he will now devote his time to Germai
opera and charity.
Why did the rich brother walt unit
he was dead to give million dollar
to his mothers other son?
Many of us forget the proverb oftel
quoted by Nathan Straus.
"What you give In health Is gold
what you give In sickness Is silver
what you give after death Is lead
Automobile makers will spend SD
100000 scrapping old cars to clear tn
way for new ears and moderate til
secondhand car nuisance.
X. III. Grant, vice president OF Ger
eral Motors, one Of the best salesme
in America, Is chairman OF the scraI
ping committee.