Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-04-10
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BY Arthur Brisbane
Behold, One Oil King
Our Flying Army
Name 1t Newton
No Mother Love, No Nation
Los Angeles.-The gasoline threat
that worried the big oil men few
days ago is becoming reality. Here
the price has been cut as low as 10
cents, and deeper cuts are expected.
This is due to dIsorganized production
and dlsorganized distribution.
Any buyer who exults in the low
price of today exuts prematurely.
He will more than make up for 1t
later on.
Old royalty, kings. .emperors. etc.
are going out In the realm OF finance
kings are coming In. The American
government, interested in United
States prosperity, might make care
ful study OF Sir Henri Deterding, head
OF the Shell OH company.
An able Dutchman, born in Holland,
knighted by the British, with his office
In London, Deterding surveys the
world from the oil mans point of
view. literally. as an imperial con-
Queror.
The other day as lowest bidder he
for year at "a cents a barrel. the
lowest price ever quoted, and prob
ably bought 1t from Independent Cali
fornia producers for 40 or As cents
barrel.
California produces the oil, Japan
gets the oil. Deterdng gets the profit,
the United States sees Its oil supply
diminished.
On Mather field Sacramento, Brig.
Gen. William H. Gilmore directs the
maneuvers of army alrplanes greatest
gathering In the history OF the army
air corps.
One hundred and flfty-nlne army
planes. from small swift pursuit planes
to heavy bombing machines, are TAX
ing part In maneuvers such as would
be necessary In actual war.
Men thdt have inspected tie equip
ment Of European armies. including
France and Britain. say the pro
vislonal wing" commanded by Gen
eral Gilmore, Is as efficient unit as
would be found anywhere on earth.
The small new planet whose exist
ence was asserted by the late Pro-
lessor Lowell continues TO agitate
scientists.
Guided by Newlon's law, Professor
Lowell knew that disturbances in the
orhlt of Uranus must be accounted for
By tie existence or another planet.
Officials OF Lowell observatory fol-
lowing the new wanderer on the out,
skirts OF our solar system, say 1t be-
HAYES exactly as Professor Lowell
would have expected
distinguished French astronomer
says Ii IL too small to amount to any
thing, but would change his mind II
1t shifted It's course and struck this
earth in the neighborhood or the
Place de La Concolde
The Geographical Society OF Mexico
very sensbly suggests the name New.
tom for the new planet.
Had it not been for Newton and hIa
law OF grayltation, directly as the
mass, inyersey as the square of the
distance" scientists could not have
known Of the planets existence
Russia, forgetting Sparta's history,
plans human society made to order
Children, taken from their mothers in
bupJnOOut VIII Ut IuiSbu Ni1UipSnlp by
the state. Mothers will enter fac
tories, and otherwise work the same
as men door. rather. as mares do
on the farm.
Russia should remember that when
mare Is valuable. and fine horse
Is wanted, the mare Is not put to work
before the colt Is born. or afterward
Sparta educated Its youth; trained
young men to surprise and murder the
miserable Helot slaves on their way
to work at sunrise. that the young
men might be fierce In war Sparta's
law used iron for money, that no mar
might care to have much OF 1t.
Fine theories were worked out Their,
as In Russia. but Sparta amounted tt
little. Athens, where human nature
was allowed to develop according Il
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