Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-10-23
This Week
b. ARTHUR BRIssANR
Mr.. Rockefeller Builds
The Bull Is Honest
Are We Turning Chinese?
A Troubled World

! A Troubled World
On January l John D. Rockefeller,
Jr., will begin construction OF his
great civic center In the heart OF New
York.
A. good business man, he probably
wants some income from the prop
erty, for which he has been paying
ground rent to Columbia college at
the rate of S3000.000 a year.
The younger Mr.. Rockefeller de-
voting time and energy to building.
to admirably useful restoration OF an
Client, priceless buildings. and to con-
struction of great center In New
York, reminds you of the Medlci fami-
ly, Of whom the founder strongly re-
sembled John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
The older Medlci made money. or
ganized commerce.
The younger generation spent
the money employing Michael Angelo,
Raphael and others.
Mr.. Sidney Franklin, born In
Brooklyn, and perhaps possessing an-
cestors that lived three thousand
years ago on the Island of Crete,
went to Spain, became a bull fighter.
Now he goes into vaudeville. safer
than the bull ring, and says bull
fighting is absolutely fair, honest,
pure" sport, because mo way has
been found to bribe the bull In that
respect, bull fighting is unlike prize
fighting.
The extremely able Manchester
Guardian, Great Britain's most
solemn and substantial newspaper.
worries about us. The editor thinks
our gangsters are Of the same breed
as Chinese bandits. and 'our ciyiliza-
tion is falling
Let US hope that the Manchester
Guardian Is too gloomy. Our
gangsters shoot each other. Chinese
DaUulIS uUIl ito that.
Chinese bandits kidnap women, cut
off finger. or an ear, and send it
back with request for cash. Our
gangstcrs have not adopted that
method.
Troubles all over the world. In
Spain, students burn picture OF the
king, and Berenguer, prime minister,
closes the University OF Barcelona.
Before burning the picture, the stu
dents cut out the head, mounted 1t on
a pole and paraded with 1t.
That Is a mild but unpleasantly
close imitation of French revolution
lists. They cut off the head Of pub
lie official that advised peasants to
eat grass If they had no bread. The
mob stuffed the dead mouth with
grass, put the head on the end OF
pole, and paraded with It.
A strike In the Edison factory at
Orange. N. j., was necessary per-
haps, If Ii be fact that wages were
reduced.
But any workman knowing what
Edison has done for workers must
find it hard to call strike against
him.
Thanks to Edison, millions are at
All No ~, Oh
wages, and millions live In comfort
unknown before Edisons work began.
Mussolini greets and thanks Amerl-
cans honoring the name Of Virgil.
which emphasizes the difference In
age between this youthful country and
Mussolln's-
The direct descendants OF yirgil's
race In Rome. Mantua and elsewhere.
are celebrating the two thousandth
anniversary Of his birth.
A powerful race Is that Of Italy and
Mussolini Is as strong In will and exc
cution as any of the Caesars.
If anybody asks "How long will the
depression lasty reply GLOW long
does a cold In the head last2" 1t de.
ponds on who has the cold, how much
OF cold 1t is. and what you do after
you get 1t.
This country Is rich and powerful
enough to throw Off this chill Of de-
preston and anyhow 1t Is comforting
to know that even heavy cold does
disappear.
Kingsford-Smith sets a new flying
record, flying from London to Alfalfa
bad, India, In five and half days.
Airplanes may crash and diigibles
break In two, but fllers are not dis
couraged. The history Of man has
been one Of uncoDquerable effort
That's Why he rules the earth, and all
earths inhabitants except the microbes
Bears "That destroy public conn.