Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-02
|DefendSmininq
Industry From
Unjust Attacks
Speaker Says Other Enter
prises Have Greater
Losses.
HUGE WASTE IN
WOMEN'S COSMETICS

In an address recently delivered be-
fore the Eaton Club, Toronto. Sidney
Norman, editor of Mining Truth az
Spokane, spoke at some length on tho
mistaken notion some people have
that money spent in mining develop
ment is "lost." He compared it to
some other industries, mentioning thu
tons OF cosmetics used by women in
the United States every year. He said.
in part:
Development Money Never Lost
After every market decline such N
we have just experienced, you win
hear the usual ill-considered remarks
about the great loss the mining indus
try has brought to the public. take
the position that there can be no &C.
tual loss, that is so, far as public funds
used in actual development of mining
properties are concerned Every dol
lar so used adds to the prosperity of
all of US. Canada's northern frontier
Is ever being pushed pole-wards and
here let me say that there can be ab-
solutely no hope of opening that great
waste to civilization except through
encouragement of the spirit of adven-
ture and initiative that has made this
continent the envy of the world.
1t is the thrill of adventure, plus
the hope of big reward, that sends men
forward. into the great silence,-re-
ward that will bring them personal
competence, and, in far greater degree,
national prosperity. Nothing else will
drive them there; no salary would
tempt them, because salaries, like the
dole, rob men of their individual ini-
tiative, especially where adverse con-
ditions such as these must be encoun-
tered
Even in the case Of unsuccessful
mining ventures, development money
is not lost. 1t is merely transferred
from the pockets of the many, in
small amounts, to the pockets OF the
prospector and the miner; the rail-
roads, in payment for freight and pas
senger rates; to the merchants, for
supplies, and to that most important
account in the national ledger-ex-
panson, peaceful conquest.
Where success meets mining efforts
financed by the many, new towns are
built, many men are employed for dec
AIDES and generations at good wages,
railroads prosper from added income
and merchants find new outlets for
their activities 1t was very largely
due to the mineral discoveries in Brit
ish Columbia that the sinews of war
were provided for the completion of
the great Canadian Pacific main line
in 1885. 1t was wholly due to mining
developments in Manitoba that the
500-mile connection between Winnipeg
and the Pas was completed less than
ten years ago, while the extension Of
that line to Hudson's Bay, completed
this year, was in the hope that new
mineral empires would be opened up,
while at the same time freight rates
upon the wheat output of the prairie
provinces would be largely reduced by
an all-ocean transfer from the termi-
nus.
How About Loss on Tobacco?
And while on the subject of loss,
let us examine expenditure in some
other directions. take that gather
ing such as this might be inclined
TO look upon the burning of tobacco
as loss, even though it does support
very important phase of agricultural
industry. If that position be taken,
what do you think Of this bill Of the
United States for the year 1928? Dur
ing that period, this is what went up
in smoke, from the 49th parallel to the
Gulf and from Sunny California to
New England Cigarettes-102, 1885,
100000. Counting each cigarette 2A
inches long, that would be 28,603, $780,
900 inches Of tightly rolled tobacco,
%, 550,213,5OO feet, and over 4,46O, 286
miles, equal to nine times the esti-
mated distance to the moon, and
enough left over~to girdle the world
seven times 1t is figured by the same
statistioian that the per capita con-
sumption in the United States was 857
for q population of 125 100000. So far
as Tan. advised, babies are not yet
smoking as general habit, no matter
what the ladies may be doing, so that,
the distribution among actual smokers
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