The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-09-04
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
SO Run 120,0O0,000
Ryan, All Copper Men
Wanted King, Got One
Lenin's Great Revenge

Lenin's Great Revenge
james w. Gerard. formerly am
bassador to Germany, says FIFTY
nine men rule the United States. :"
The remaining 100000 00-odd will
be interested to know that no pub
lie official, not even the President
of the United States or any MEM
Der of his cabinet, except Secretary
Mellon, appears in the list of fifty
nine that rule the nation"
1t seems impossible, but perhaps
1t isn't. Sometimes men seem to
rule that really do not rule.
Mr.. Gerard says "All these men
are too busy to run for political
office" The really important man,
of course, doesn't run when he can
send a boy to run for him.
However, the marvellous fifty
nine don't seem to be doing very
much running of the nation just
at present. They are letting the
good old U. S. A. machine coast
down hill, while each asks the
other fifty-eight, what do you
think of the prospects,"
A short time ago copper fell to
its lowest price in 20 years. This
suggestion is offered to copper pro-
ducers: Offer copper, in thin sheets
n nrin iDt- tnh
flashing and other building and re-
pairing purposes. Sell it to farm
ers, householders and others at
the lowest profitable price and I'M
load your surplus.
Get cooperation from mail order
houses and hardware stores, and
advertise Il definite price-l5 cents
pound, If possible. Tell how many
sheets there are in pound of thin
copper sheeting and why it is bet
ter than tn or galvanized iron.
The copper surplus could he dis
posed of if copper men would unite
in really intelligent. persistent
advertising campaign, using extern
sively the country weeklies, read
by farmers. among other mediums.
This column would buy few
thousand pounds of copper sheet
ing, properly priced. to start the
sale, and make money on it.
Dispatches from Bucharest say
the new King Carol. who decided
to come back and put his little boy
out of the royal job. plans to get
brand-new wife. He was divorced
from his first wife, Queen Helen.
after he had depaf.ed with a
charming lady, making no secret of
1t.
When he returned from Paris,
looking royal" it was said the di-
vorce would be cancelled. Now it
is planned to let the divorce stand
and get another queen.
He may marry the lady with
whom he departed, but, if 50. it
must be 'mofganatic. marriage.
A king cannot marry, in the regular
way, any one that is not royalty"
Rumanians thought they needed
a king and they have got one.
In the regular course of business,
before the war, one unimp0rtant
Russian was put to death, under
the knout, by the Cars govern
ment, for political offenses. That
Russians younger brother looked
on, and his name was Lenin. The
czars are gone, great st. Peters
burg, built by Gar Peter the Great,
is now called Leningrad and the
Romanoff ewels belong to Com
munists that will gradually trade
them off for agricultural machinery
"a wise trade, although Congo
savages and many charming Amer
lean ladies would not think so.
Whatever your opinion of Bolshe-
yism, you must admire the com
plete way Lenin avenged his
brother.
Some read with surprise the |
statement that organized crime in |
the United States, including boot
Logging, takes in each year an |
amount running into thousands of |
millions, far in excess Of the total |
revenues of the United States gov |
eminent.
1t is no exaggeration. The get
rascals, racketeers, gang
sters, bootleggers. collect, squander
and distribute in brides a revenue
greater than that of Uncle Sam.
One little item in the organized
racketeering shows that in New
York, the milk gang" levy on milk
dealers amounts to $1,155,000
week, and that is only one of a
thousand ''rackets."
When Gutenberg ran his little
press by hand, using the type set
ting ideal that was to fight the
darkness of superstitution with
light, he printed a simple Bible.
One of his Bibles now becomes
the property of the Congressional
library. One million five hundred
thousand dollars bought Doctor
Volbehr's book collection, in which
the Gutenberg Bible is included.
Doctor Volbehr bought the Bible
from the monks Of st. Blaisus
in Austria for S275. 600