The Carbon County news., 1930-10-30
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRIsBANE
Talking $4,000 Miles
What Idleness Means
What Made Thought?
The Moon and Radio

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What Made Thought?
The Moon and Radio
You may now talk to your friend
in Australia, price $45 for three
minutes.
The telephone company an
nounces approaching reductions in
long-distance rates generally. which
should increase gross and net re-
ceipts and profits. stimulating use
and encouraging business by bring
ing all Americans closer together.
This writer talks from an office
in New York to a ranch on the
edge Of the Pacific ocean with alb
solute ease and elearness, whereas
it is necessary to walk into the
next room to speak to the assist
ant transcribing this from the pho
nograph.
You realize what the earnings
of Workmen amount to in industry,
business and prosperity, when
you consider efforts to relieve un-
employment.
There are undoubtedly four mil
lion men idle, and many more.
-Four millions, allowing for each
man earning only 81 a day, three
hundred days year, would amount
~ ca Q10 Aln 400 n ronp
Even on the dole" basis of So a.
week, the annual bill would come
to $1,040,000,000.
No wonder our "best financial
minds" want to avoid the dole,
which would have to be added to
taxation
Charles M. Schwab says rec
ord BOOM is approaching.
An ordinary boom. such as we
had year ago, would satisfy the
average man. Many predictions of
returning prosperity have turned
out to be descriptions of mirages.
The people are tired of the Doctor
Coue prosperity, with its "every
day, in every way, we are getting
better and better"
DR.. Irving S. Cutter, dean of the
Northwestern University Medical
school, develops this theory. Eons
of years back, ultra violet rays
were much more powerful than
they are now, and they 'acti-
waited protoplasm into life."
That's now life came.
The doctor does not tell us what
activated the living protoplasm
into thought, emotion, art, imagi-
nation.
On the south Pacific island of
Niaufou, where scientists were
successful in photographing the
eclipse, this strange thing hap
pened. AS the moon passed be-
tween earth and sun, shutting out
light, it also shut out whatever it
is that enables us to send radio
messages. While the eclipse lasted
the radio would not work over the
Pacific. Scientists could send no
radio messages.
That would interest Zoroaster,
who taught men of his time to
worship the sun.
Kingsford- Smith flew the Atlan-
tic, the Pacific and now, having
flown from London to Australia,
announces in the city Of Brisbane
that he makes long distance flights
no more.
He obeys the orders of young
woman soon to be his wife.
Zionists, intent on rebuilding the
Jewish homeland in Palestine, at
tack savagely recent utterances
and decisions of the British gov
ernment, which has the Palestine
mandate.
Britain proposes to stop, or
greatly decrease, Jewish immigra-
tion into Palestine.
Jewish organizations accuse the
British of putting the welfare of
Arabs, who have been in Pales-
tine for 700 years, ahead of Zionist
welfare.
The British do not mention 1t,
but they have more than 100000
600 Mohammedans in the empire,
and, at most, three or four million
Jews. They do not want to annoy
the Mohammedans by irritating
Arabs, who are also Mohamme-
dams.
The brother of the Japanese en-
peror took his wife to the opera in
Germany and obtained closeup"
of western civilization.
The opera, about colored people,
was called 1.-THE Rise and Fall of
the City of Mahogany"
Members of Fascist mob
yelled: ''Hail Hitlerl" and Ger
many, awake!" To make sure that
Germany would awake they threw
bombs, unpleasantly described in
the Associated Press dispatch as
'stink bombs"
1t is proposed to spend two hun
dred millions, or so, of public
money to help the unemployed.
Corporations are urged to tax
themselves and contribute.
But you are told there must be
no "dole," none of the English sys-
TEN under which government gives
the minimum necessary to live, in
cash, directly to those who are out
of work.
Everybody hopes it will not be