The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-08-28
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRIsBANE
Mr.. Coolidge Sees Hope
Hawks, Champion Flyer
Surprising Barbarians
Mr.. Hoover VIII Work

Mr.. Hoover Will Work
Mr.. Coolidge, writing for q news
paper syndicate, observes the edu-
cational effects of modern inven-
lions. "Now all kinds of cars with
people from all sections are circu-
lating all over the country. An
other important influence is the
radio. A third is the motion pic
ture. These influences have sup
plemented the schoolhouse in BAN
ishing ignorance"
On the other hand, these new
inventions do not appear to have
increased mental concentration. 1t
is what the individual thinks in
solitude, not what he gazes at in
a crowd, that makes him worth
while.
Milton, Roger Bacon in his blind
ness in prison, Bunyan in Jail. Vol
taire and Miraheau in the prison
of the Bastille, developed excellent
ideas.
Life should not be spent with
the radio turned on or the auto
mobile engine 'purring' always.
According to the police, Chinese
tong men in New York are learn
ing racketeer methods from the
West. Gentlemen of one tong some
times kill gentlemen of another
tong, and hitherto each tong had
done its own killing.
1t isn't so among modern gang
sters and racketeers.
They hire somebody. usually
youthful cocaine victim. to do the
killing, and put the doomed man
ION the spot" The killer shoots,
not knowing the name of his vic
tim or why he is killed.
Following this excellent idea,
New Y0rk's On Leon Tong hired
two young white men to murder
seven enemies Of rival tong. The
white youths told the police. Three
Chinese and one Filipino arrested,
six guns. several hundred rounds
of ammunition seized.
Robert Kronfeld. Austrian glider
flyer, betters his own world record.
gliding "a miles in Il storm. Others
feared TO glide in such weather. but
Kronfeld went up. shooked on TO a
little cloud as he put it. and. car,
ried by the wind that carried the
cloud, he went sweeping 81 miles
over the mountains.
No wonder gliding attracts ro-
mantle youth! Who would have
dreamed a few years ago. looking
at the clouds. that man would 60
up on a frail board. "hook on to
one of the clouds and sail with it?
Captain Hawks is now the
worlds champion flyer, and has
beaten all records across the con
tinent westward and back again.
Flying from Los Angeles to New
York in 1913 hours. he beat Colonel
Lindbergh's record by 21s hours,
and his engine was never wide
open" on the trip.
Describing how he Hoped along
at $50 miles an hour" between AL
buquerque and Wichita before tail
wind. he said he hoped to make
the crossing in shorter time later
this fall when conditions are better.
Three thousand miles in twelve and
q half hours is not bad. At that
rate of speed you could fly around
the world in less than five days.
Jules Verne never thought of that.
Having given the Afridis twenty
four hours notice. the British air
men bomb their defense towers and
many houses. knocking them down
as children would overturn house
of sand.
The barbarians were surprised to
see how one small bomb could de-
stroy what they considered IAN i'm
pregnable fortress"
What will happen to western
civilization if the barbarians decide
TO build planes for their own use!
What would happen if our highly
civilized friends of Asia decide TO
stop fighting each other and attack
through the air somebody in the
West?
President Hoover gives up his
western vacation trip, much needed,
to remain in Washington for the
rest of the hot season, directing the
drought relief campaign.
The trip to the Glacier and Vel