The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-12-25
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

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Prohibition Illegal!
Sewed in a Bear Skin
Strange Motions
Let those that torment them
selves with foolish fears, and per-
NIT their fears to interfere with
business and the return of pros
perity, ask themselves these ques-
tons:
Have we not had depressions be-
fore? Did we not then think that
the end Of the world was coming?
Did not men go about shaking
their heads, saying:
Eyes, but this is a different kind
of depression; we never had any
thing like this"
Those that have been in business
a reasonable length of time recall
the head-shaking, moaning and
groaning Of 1907.
Haven't there been good times
up" to put it mildly, after 1907?
Haven't we since then added hun
dreds of billions to the countrys
wealth?
And haven't we got everything
now that we ever had?
Could anything be a more stupid
than talk and action Of a kind
harmful to business, to banks and
other institutions upon which the
prosperity of us all and every mans
employment depend absolutely?
The country discusses the de-
cision Of Federal Judge William T.
Clark, who says that prohibition
isn't legal because the people didn
pass on it.
Judge Clark is interesting to
millions of men and women, al
though they may not know it, for
he is one of the famous 0. N. L.
Clark thread family.
Judge Clark's decision that pro-
hibition isn't legal will be reversed
by the Supreme court, probably.
Everything is comparative, even
sorrow. The head of a great bank
in New York tells of a client with
the saddest face l have ever seen
in my life"
One year ago this client was
worth at least sixty millions of
dollars. And today his fortune is
reduced to not more than twenty
million dollars. "And you can't
imagine" said the banker, show
that man suffers"
Ivan the Terrible, car of Russia,
to subdue those that opposed him,
invented queer punishments.
On one occasion he had a bishop
sewed up in a bear skin, and the
bishop, In his bear skin, thrown to
pack of half-starved dogs.
The bishop suffered horribly, of
course, but only for few minutes.
His total suffering amounted to
far less than the sufferings of some
that have seen their fortunes and
the results of their life work grad
ually taken from them, bit by bit,
during the past year.
Harvard sends reassuring news
II nd nj
which men have lived, according to
Professor osborne, for forty mil
lion years, and on which biologists,
physicists, astronomers, tell us we
shall continue to live for at least
million million years more.
Our strange rolling domicile is
one with many motions. We all
know that it turns around on its
axis, rolls around the sun in 800
DAYS. and is travelling through
space accompanying the sun on it's
Journey. But most of US forget
about the many other motions OF
the earth.
We are glad to learn from Har-
ward that recent mysterious
shaking of the earth's crust was a
movement back and forth, rhyth-
mical and regular, six seconds to
each swing"
And while the earth's crust does
move, it moves only two ten-thou-
sandths of an inch in either direc-
ton, the motion continuing for
many days.
We should be very grateful that
little human microbes can be safe
on this whirling globe, twenty-five
thousand miles around, as heavy
as though it were made of solid
steel, with hot fire under our
feet, and absolute zero, more than
400 degrees below freezing, all
around us.
Mr.. Cutter president Of the Unit
ed Fruit company, says that we did
business last year with Latin
America of more than two thou
sand million dollars, whereas we
ought to be doing business of ten
thousand million dollars.
In the Caribbean countries, says
Mr.. Cutter, we reach fewer than 20
per cent of the possible customers.
American business men, with the
Department of Commerce leading,
should look into that ten billion
dollar possibility. We need the
business.
Czechoslovakia and Hungary are
fighting a trade war, building up
tariff walls against each other, a