Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-10-30
This Week.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE
What Made Thought?
Use for Surplus Wheat
Ten Nuns in Danger
The Moon and> Radio

Use for Surplus Wheat
Ten Nuns in Danger
The Moon and> Radio
DR.. Irving S. Gutter. dean of the
Northwestern University Medical
school, develops this theory. Eons of
years back, ultra violet rays were
much more powerful than they are
now, and they 'activated protopiasm
into life"
That's how life came
The doctor does not tell us what
activated the living protopasm into
thought, emotion, art. imagination.
Chairman Legge of the farm board
finds a sensible way of unloading some
of the wheat that the government
bought to stabilize the price that
wouldn't stay stabilized, and his I'M
loading will help. not hurt farmers.
He will stabilize it by feeding 1t TO
the hungry. An excellent idea, and
the wheat will be worth all that the
government paid for it, no matter
what the price per bushel
Chinese brgands who recently MUIR
dered two female Protestant mission
aries, when ransom was refused, now
hold for ransom ten nuns aud demand
S10,000,000, Mexican for their release.
10 pay the gigantic ransom would
put in danger every missionary and
other foreigners.
To refuse means, probably, the death
of the devoted and unfortunate Cath
Ollie sisters.
Unless the nations have lost capacity
to get excited about anything, they
will do something about that.
On the south Pacific island OF Niau-
fou, where scientists were successful
in photographing the eclipse, this
strange thing happened. AS the moon
passed between earth and sun, shut
ting out light, 1t also shut out what
ever it Is that enables us to send radio
messages While the eclipse lasted
the radio would not work over the
Pacific. Scientists could send no
radio messages.
That would interest Zoroaster who
taught men to worship the sun.
4. Kingsford- Smith flew the Atlantic,
the Pacific and now, having flown
from London TO Australia. announces
in the city of Brisbane that he makes
long distance flights no more.
de obeys the orders OF young
woman soon to be his wife.
Zionists, intent on rebuilding the
Jewish homeland in Palestine. attack
savasey recent utterances and de-
cisions OF the British government,
which has the Palestine mandate.
Britain proposes to stop, or greatly
decrease, Jewish immigration into
Palestine.
Jewish organizations accuse the
British of putting the welfare Of
Arabs, who have been in Palestine
for 100 years, ahead of Zionist vel
fare.
they have more than l0O000,0O0 Mo-
hammedans in tile empire, and, at
most three or four million Jews. They
do not want to annoy the Moham-
medans by irritating Arabs. who are
also Alohanmedans.
The brother of the japanese en-
neror took his wife to the opera In
western civilization.
The opera, about colored people,
was called THE l;ise and Fall OF the
City Of Mahogany
Members of Fascist mob yelled:
"Hail Hitler" and Germany,
awakew TO make sure that Ger
many would awake they threw
bombs, unpleasantly described in the
Associated Press dispatch as stink
bombs"
They deserved the name, and drove
the Japanese prince and his wife
from the opera.
1t is proposed to spend two hun
dred millions. or so. of public money
to help the unemployed. Corporations
are urged to tax themselves and con
tribute.
But you are told there must be
no dole" none OF the English sys-
tenn under which government gives
the minimum necessary to live. In
cash. directly to those out of work.
Everybody hopes II Will not be
necessary to start the dole here. On
The other hand. 'if money were given
direct TO those that need IL to be
spent by themselves, that might be
better than spending by committees,
and avoid the unpleasant feeling Of
charity.