Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-07-24
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
Taboos Still Live
Hard Kurdish Fighters
Sarnof Sees Ahead
No Bets Against Jones


you have touched horse, and forbid
the eating of certain animals, etc.
But the taboo Is not dead, even in
civilization. Horror seized the British
house Of commons when q Laborite
member, Beckett, laid hands on the
heavy mace that lies on the table Ill
front OF the speaker and ran toward
the door with it.
The mace symbolizes the power or
the house OF commons. Beckett was
suspended, 324 to 4.
Kurds from Persia, convinced that
Renal pasha, Turkish dictator, fiouts
the will of Mohammed, undertake TO
correct him. Fifteen thousand OF them
pouring In from Persia, made their
headquarters on Mount Ararat, burn
Ing, robbinE and stealing, as proof OF
their fondness for Allah and the
prophet
Renal killed about $1,000. nearly all
Of them. But the Kurds, desperately
courageous as is usual with Moham-
medans, say he will have to kill all OF
them to make them leave.
Their treatment OF one Turkish avl-
ator whom they shot down. lmmedi-
ately gouging out his eyes, proves
their earnestness.
Kemals bombing planes are search
ing the Mount Ararat creyIces where
Kurds hide. A change from the day
when the ark landed peacefully
Armenians are doing what they can
to help the Kurds kill the Turks. In
the light OF history you can hardly
blame them, but they may regret 1t.
Renal promises to wipe out their
villages.
David Sarnofr, president of the Ra-
do Corporation of America, like all
successful men, has imagination as
well as executive capacity. He says
that televlsion, providing "a theater
Tor every home, although the stage
may be only q cabinet, and curtain
the screen, is. believe, the distinct
promise OF the new era OF electrical
entertainment" ,4aa,l~ go.
Mr. Sarnoff sees in the latest gift
Of science to the human race the
promise of "a new culture" Ten mil
lion homes In the United States now
draw nightly upon the programs OF
the air for the family entertainment.
Mr.. Sarnoff, young and remarkably
able, believes that this generation
will see the greatest actors, orators,
ctergymen and singers moving and
hear their voices in their homes. That
Is modern magic.
Bobby Jones taught an anti-gam-
bling lesson to Lloyds, the great Brit
ish insurance company. AT the begin
ming of this golf season, Lloyds, which
takes all kinds OF wagers, bet so to /
that Bobby Jones would not win the
four great golf championships In sue
cession. Now he has won three OF
them, and those that bet against him,
seeking to insure themselves against
loss, request Lloyds to bet that Jones
Will not win his fourth match.
Lloyds says. mo. 1t will cost you
one thousand pounds to get thou
sand pounds insurance against Jones
victory" which means that the victory
Is considered certain.
New York, that recently became the
money center of the world, now, to
Its disgust, seems destined to be the
crime center Of the United States
Racketeers, gunner and other ex-
perts,- driven out OF Chicago by police
energy, are alleged to be gathering
In the bigger, richer city. Robberie,
OF various kinds. from banks to delica
lessen stores: bomb explosion In
the Fifth avenue district, business and
trade union rackets OF all kinds testi
~ to the energy with which the al
legged Chicago invaders do their work
Police say their difficulties ara In
creased by the unwillingness OF ciu
zens to tell what they know. Business
men submit to racketeering to avoid
bombing.
Hailstones six inches In diameter
fell recently In Bulgaria, killing Ave
including two children on their way
to school. Boats are missing In the
Black sea.
Imagine millions OF small sized old
fashioned cannon balls falling from
the sky, and you can imagine such I
hallstorm.