Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-02-20
'UlisWy
BY Arthur Brisbane
No Bolshevism Needed
"A Real Stigma
The World Loves Titles
I0wdon I. Mill Fivurea

II
Ogden l. Mills Figures
In one column you read about a
'mob" OF 100 idle men, fighting po-
lice In Cleveland. twenty In the mob
injured. officers hurt.
In another column you find comfort.
perhaps. In news from Washington
that our national banks have resources
sof over twenty-nine billions of dollars.
Seven thousand four hundred and
Aiyht institutions have on deposit more
Than twenty-five billions.
A country so rich ought not to
have SO many men willing to work
and idle.
You are told that the mob of riot
Ing unemployed In Cleveland had
been Influenced by "Bolshevik prop
Uganda"
1t Is very easy to say "Bolshevism."
But when a man is out of work. wor-
ried and perhaps hungry, he needs no
help from Lenin to make him danger
ously dissatisfied.
Men adrift on raft In midocenn
that had never heard of Lenin or
Bolsheylsm have killed and eaten each
other.
Five states OF the South. highest In
illiteracy, are conducting educational
campaigns to reduce the stigma"
Census takers list iliiterates.
Iowa has only IL percentage OF IL
literates, lowest In the nation Nebras-
ka came first until 1920. and Is striving
to regain the championship.
However, persuHding or forcing
Woodworking people to study at night
when they are tired out. and learn
enough about their A B Cs to remove
the illiteracy stigma Is not doing
much.
To be able to read and write when
you lack leisure to do either. and have
no access to books worth while, Is no
help
As well teach man 5000 miles
from Egypt to read hierogiyphlcs on
Egyptian monuments.
work are Stigma" worse than IL
literacy.
The world still loves titles. In a
Los Angeles lawsuit about money col
lected for a newly invented religious
"cnlt' you meet u mlld-lookIng gentle
man called '"Ihe -Four Winds Of the
Whirlwinds He wrote down with
his typewriter 10000 pages dictated
by angels To the nrieslesses- of the
Great Eleven Cult"
I
"Concords OF stars led the priest
esses to various locations, and there
the angels did their debating"
: Men and women gave tens OF thou
sands Of dollars Ia return for non
sense Of this kind. which proves that
the human race Is largely foolish.
Ogden r.. Mills. assistant secretary
of the United States treasury, In a
few words convinces you that this
country has genuine prosperity IL
prosperity consists In getting more OF
life's good things than anybody else
gets.
The United States has only Z per
cent OF the worlds population and
vet, says Mr.. Mills, that per cent
consumes approximately 48 per cent
of the worlds coffee, So per cent Of
the tin, SO per cent Of the crude rub
Der, 81 per cent of the sugar, ~ per
cent Of the raw silk. SO per cent OF
the coal, AZ per cent of the pig iron,
At per cent of the copper and 80 per
cent Of the crude petroleum.
''Out OF nearly 100000 automo-
biles in the world on January l, 1920.
more than 24.O00.0O0 were owned In
the United States"
We certainly get our share Per-
haps the World court will tell US we
ret too much.
Moderns smile. reading Of the great
Alexander travelling over desert wastes
to consult soothsayer and never sus-
pecting that the lady had been told in
advance what the conquerer wanted
her to say. But desire to consult the
future, through any kind of witch,
from Endor to Los Angeles. a craving
for the impossible, still exists among
us.
Mrs Stewart, who lives in Los An-
geles, says she gave Mrs. Blackburn
$4,000 to help her carry on the work
OF 1.-THE Divine Order Of the Royal
Arms of the Great Eleven"