Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-05-01
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b. Arthur Brisbane
Women Always Pioneers
Last Man but One
46 Years Work. Thanks
A New Planet.
Oklahoma unveils 1 fine statue TO
the pioneer woman. Women have al
ways been earth's real pioneers, in
ideas and In action.
Far back In the Stone age they had
produced ell the grains we know by
developing the seeds of wild plants.
They tanned female buffaloes to pro-
vide milk for their children, planted
gardens, changed human beings from
\ nomandlc to 4 settled life
They~are the pioneers OF the from
tiers and pioneers In ideas and In
religion.
The influence of mothers on their
sons In the last million years has
changed men from prognathous can
nibals to semi-cIvilized money-grub-
bers. II Is a great Improvement.
The Last Mans club" Of Stillwa
ter. Mimi, has buried its last but one
member. Eighty -seven years old,
Charles Lockwood accompanied to the
grave the body OF his friend. Peter
Hall, who died at ninety-one.
Now Lockwood Is the last. When he
goes the club will end
Some day the last member of the
human race club will die with no
one left to bury him. Or perhaps some
friendly catacIysm will wipe out the
earth and the last few thousands left
on 1t.
That is long way off, millions OF
millions OF years away, according to
scientists.
What will men achieve meanwhIle7
William Manck, forty-eight years a
letter carrier. absent only one week
In forty-eight years. retlres. His SUI
periors shake hands with him and
are photographed doing It. That's kind
but Uncle Sam might do more.
He might give William Manck and
other faithful servants OF the post
office generous pension on which
they could live comfortably when their
hard work is done.
And without waiting for them to
be worn out. he might give them gen.
erous pay, which he does not do.
The richest employer in the world
should be at least just.
Professor Shapley, director of the
Harvard observatory, hears from Can
ada that another planet, sailing
around our sun, hitherto unknown to
us, has been discovered.
How many are there In our celes-
tIal family? How far out to space
does the family reach?
Our ignorance proves the extreme
youth OF our thinking race" Only
a very young and ignorant baby Is
unable to tell how many brothers aud
sisters II has.
Our newly discovered planet neigh
Dor, clrclIng around the sun, far out
beyond Neptune. is the most Interest
ing thing In the news.
We are only little more than co.,
100000 miles from the sun. This new
planet. about the size OF our earth,
Ii 1885, 100000 miles from the sun.
Multiply that BY six and you will
know approximately the length OF the
far-ofr planets journey round the sun.
On that planet you must live $500
earth years In order to be one year
old.
To see the new neighbor. look now.
1t will be Visible with earth's teis-
scopes only about 4 hundred years
longer, and then be hidden for 5000
years, while 1t finishes one OF Its own
years.
Japanese customs compels each per-
son to speak with great humbleness
OF his own achievements.
The clever japanese statesman.
Wakatsuki, who got everything for
Japan that he wanted, gave nothing
that he didn't want to give, writes
his government lamentinE his ''inade-
quats ability" calling his work "ro-
srettably insufficient" and winding
up, II am ashamed"
Interesting news from Russia. Stain,
boss OF BolshsvIsm, celebrates the
new commercial treaty with Britain
by ordering nine British automobiles,
costing from thirteen to fifteen thou
sand dollars each.
When Stain and other Russians
feel that $4,000 car Is necessary
thatia a atqn hiQppr than man'a