Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-09-11
This Week
D, ARTHUR BRIssAnB
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Only $50 Miles an Hour
Return Trip, Nonstop
Miss Hurst's Marmoset
To Help Business, Spend

Ing, has destroyed Santo domingo,
chief city OF the Dominican republic.
The houses of the prosperous class
we're leveled and the lighter dwellings
of the poor were picked up and car
rled away by the terrific wind.
In Santo Domingo 10000 are men,
aced by, hunger, thieves are at work
In the ruins, and as this is written,
the wind speeds on. headed, II In
feared, for the coast OF the United
States
1t is believed that the speed of
this latest destructive hurricane WAS
at times the greatest on record Yet
the modern high speed airplane could
easily fly away from 1t, and around 1t.
A mail or passenger plane OF 200
or $50 miles an hour speed, could, with
perfect safety. fly ahead and away
from the path Of such a tornado.
Fourteen times In the history OF the
world human beings have flown west
ward across the North Atlantic ocean.
Eric Nelson and Lowell Smith were
the first, and now come the brave
French airmen, Dieudonne GOOD
Given'D Coste and Maurice Bellonte.
Theirs is the first nonstop west
ward trip ever made.
Lindbergh's eastward flight alone
| with little announcement in advance,
and the simple statement: Il am
| Charles Lindbergh,' on arrival, will
remain the most magnificent flight of
| all time.
Next perhaps will come the round
trip.
The literary and intelligent Fannie
Hurst returns from Europe with q
| pet marmoset, so small it sits in 4
large pocketbook. She should write
about husbands of the future. who
will probably dwindle to about that
size, In the course OF evolution.
The giant sea crab, when you catch
one, is always a female, of great Size
She carries the male crab about as
big as ten-cent piece. under one Of
her flippers, except on rare occasions.
Human husbands may dwindle down
to that, when men have no harder
work to do than pushing button.
Size and muscle will no longer count.
But woman will remain of full size,
because of her maternal duties, and
for other reasons. The female spider
and eats him after marriage. Human
husbands should not complain.
T. F. Wallace, head of the National
Association of Savings Banks, sees
the end Of the slump, because savings
deposits increased S2o5,0O0,000. Saw
ing shows strength of mind, but the
end OF tire stump might be still ngur-
er II those that put the S2o5, 100000
extra into savings banks had put 1t
into circulation, buying merchandise.
What people spend makes prosper
ity. What they save makes them safe.
After great war important changes
occur In government and social
systems"
One hundred and sixteen British
bankers and manufacturers implore
Great Britain to stick to and maintain
, trade and not be stampeded into pro-
, lection and retaliation.
Another group Of bankers had urged
free trade within the empire, protec-
ton against outside competition"
German statisticians apply grim and
! correct figures about the great war.
, 1t has taken years to prepare them.
Ten million soldiers were killed, 80
; GOO unknown French soldiers lie in one
grave.
The horses killed numbered 9,586,0
they certainly didn't start the war.
Eighteen million human beings were
wounded, and two hundred and forty
seven billions of dollars were spent,
, wasted.
And that Is what the world Is paying
| for now In its slump, undoubtedly.
| Australians and others are impressed
by old Solomon, an OLD aboriginal
: Australian witch doctor, who predicted
: "Drenching rains to end the drought
!. In the first quarter OF the MOON"
= The drenshing rains came, crops
were saved. Solomoni is hero, and
the weather bureau which saw no rain
J. coming Is made ridiculous.
: The public, eager to be deceived
] hears and cares nothing about the ten
thousand witch doctors and other
Y prophets that in the same week pre-
dicted things that did not and will not
happen.
Gold and treasure, the words that
excite nearly all men.
Italian divers clad In iron, going
dnup d01 feet IN tho hotfnm 0f the