The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1930-08-21
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

Hard on Stock Gamblers
A New Great Flyer
546,095,925 in 2030
Gas Merchants, Attention
Stock gambling in dull, uncer
tain times is most annoying to gam.
blers. They never can be quite sure.
Wall Street heard of the drought,
and wise bulls said: THAT will kill
grain crops, and with less wheat
and corn, prices will go up. The
low price of wheat has held stocks
down. Let us buy stocks and they
will go up with wheat"
They bought stocks and they did
not go up when wheat and corD
went up.
The bears said: This is our op.
portunity. We sympathize with the
suffering public, especially the farm
err. When drought kills crops, that
will injure all the people, and stocks
will go down. This is the time to
sell Them
They sold them and stocks did
not go down enough to make ii
worth while.
Stock gambling is very wearing,
except for bulls in good times. and
for bears in panics. Then it il
like taking candy from d sicK
child"
Captain Hawks, who stands out
now as the greatest American flyer,
left New York ut six O'clock in the
morning, eastern daylight time,
landed in Les Angeles at 50 min
utes past :00 p. n., Pacific stand
ard time, keeping an appointment
TO play golf. at the edge of the
Pacific, after leaving that morning
the edge of the Atlantic.
His flying time, all in broad day.
light, was less than fifteen hours
and he made five stops for gasoline
That will not he necessary in future
days, with better machines and
better fuel
In CONTINENTAL United States"
the population is 22,I29,4T2. Uncle
Sam says ST. This does not i'll
clude Porto Rico the Philippines
or Hawaii.
In ten years population has in.
creased l6.1 per cent. # that in.
crease continues, our population
100 years hence, in 2030, will be
516,095,925.
Labor union experts reading that
will say, There could never be
jobs for so many" Workers said
that 40 years ago, when our popu-
lation was 100000.
Farmers would greet the idea of
546,095,925 population with joy, ex-
claiming. ''That would give us peo-
pie enough to eat all our wheat and
pay a good price for it,
However, big figures need not
frighten us. The worlds popula-
ton, apart from famine, plague
and war, will not outgrow the
earth's fertility.
Germany made a great fight |
while the war lasted, and has
shown amazing powers of recuper-
alton following the war, in spite
of the Versailles treaty and the
allies gold demands.
You understand that when you
read "Illiteracy in Berlin is only
4 per cent, least of all European
capitals"
OF 2S,00o,0O0 books on the
shelves of European libraries, the
city of Berlin has 100000, and
all are serious books for students
and research workers.
The highest rate of illiteracy is
at Teheran, capital of Persia, 81
per cent unable to read or write
News from India causes Mother
Britain TO feel safe. Mohammedans
continue fighting and killing Hindus
-12 killed, 100 injured, in the
latest clash, based on revenge.
For a wonder the. worm had
turned, and a Hindu, son of a race
ordinarily mild, shot and killed
eleven Mohammedans and wounded
four. That's like a sheep biting a
wolf.
Such incidents take the Hindu
mind off its grievances against
Great Britain.
Unpleasant news from China.
Marking dispatches tell of a Brit
ish woman, wife of a British Off
cial, attacked while asleep by a Chi
nese soldier and expected to die of
bayonet wounds.
Shanghai sends stories of torture
and other outrages inflicted on
women missionaries.
In Fukien province bandits kid
mapped a woman missionary, cut off
one of her fingers and sent it to /
the authorities, demanding $50,00O,
to send other fingers
If the money was not paid. !
David Belasco obliges Mr.. Curtis .
by picking the fifty greatest actors
Of all time," and many of them are {
now living-George M. Cohan, fifty t
two; Mary Anderson, seventy-one; |
Minnie Madden Fiske, sixty-fve; i
Maude Adams, fifty-eight; Julia I
Marlowe, sixty-four. The ages are 7
by Mr.. Belasco but those r
hat have seen Cohan and the ladies