Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-08-07
This Week
), ARTHUR BRISBANE

The Unimaginsble
A Really Big City
What's Wrong With Us!
Meden Agan, and Euerlo
Rritain's alrshIp RICO. greatest that
ever rose into the air, has saleiY
the Atlantic and arrived al
Montreal. with thirty-seyen crew anu
seven passengers. The RICO, raster
than the Graf Zeppelin. represents
prltain's determination to rule the
ocean OF air, as for centuries she mas
ruled the ocean Of water, regardless
OF expense.
few years ago the average man
could not have imagined that. no"
that 1t has happened, not one In d
hundred realizes what 1t means.
Long after steam railroads were
GENERATING successfully in England
wise men. In and out OF parliament,
said the locomotive could not possibly
be success.
Many equally wise still think ehat
shyfng never can be practical.
New York city's population Is nred
at $3.50. 1876. 1t will pass 1Wo,UV III
a few months.
Manhattan Island, which until re-
Gently was all of New York, mas iosl
1876 per cent ia ten years. LUIS -
made up by gains in the outlying Dor
oughs. 1901 per cent In Queens, zs'o
per cent In Brooklyn, Taper cent III
the Bronx.
Queens is probably the fastest grow
ing big place in the world. Mammalian
still holds the pocketbook.
Hundreds of thousands work there
and sleep elsewhere. Americans iroui
all over the nation come to spend their
money, between Fourteenth and FIFTY
ninth streets, to say nothing OK what
they snend downtown In Wall street.
When you are travelling sereneiy III
an express train and 1t stops suddenly
Won mt your head out OF the windo"
70 look. or you ask the conductor
"What Is the matterl'
We were all travelling In the pros
perlty express train, 1T stopped VIII
1oIt last October and everybody II
sttll asking "What is the natter
1dolnh Zukor. an intelligent Amerl
can business man, who retains MS Gu
nacitv to keep cool and think clearl
even when business Is not 80 gooe
says:
For one thing, we had lost gu
heads. We began to think ABOUT
dollar AZ we ought to think about
25-cent piece.
"After while we shall learn VIVA
noonav ia what thrift and commo
sense mean. Then we shall Do Del't
-eY tAan-Wp- eyer-Wttes
.'Nothing better than TINS so-cai'e
slump could have happened to us.
For my part. | was never more y
tImIstlc in my life.'
Mr.. Zukor, of course. speaks sihcei
lv and his optimism Is JUSTIFIED.
This country needed lesson AZ
Is having 1t.
How long it will last noDouy KNOW
Every little while something remin
Won of two words that the wise Gree
wrote above their temple doo
"Meden Again." meaning "Shun
cess
Aristotle put 1t almost as brle
"Not too much, not too little.
This time the "Meden Agan'
mlnder comes from Gertrude Eide
who swan the English channel, am
Ing the world, four years ago.
has become almost entirely dear
the result OF the fourteen hours sp
IN the cold English channel.
The 'outboard motor Idea, Y
for wears on little boats, Is succ
fully applied to the air.
Myrten Johnson, from Oakla
neld, In glider with thirty ho
power engine attached. went up
600 feet. Boys and young men
want to experiment with that.
John Macdonald years ago s.
that Tom Mooney and Billings
resnonsible for bomb that destr
MANY lives. Now he sw0Ars his
inal testimony was perjury. Il
Il telling the truth this time no
and Billings will, OF course, Be set
How are the seven justices Oh
fornia's Supreme court to
whether Macdonald was lying
or Is lying nows knowledge 9
man nature may help. One thl
certain. Macdonald committed
Jury, then or now. The gov
and the judges might we'll hesitf
keen men in Jail on his testimoI