The Carbon County news., 1931-07-30
This Week
y ARTHUR BRIsBANR
Kindness, Not Cash
The Wide, Wide World
Such Is Civilization
Cats Can Be Too Big

expressing gratitude to us, but un-
happy, and Londons bank rate
raised violently, according to Brit
ish ideas, to save further draining
OF London's gold by France. Ger
mans go back to Berlin disap-
pointed, taking no ready money
with them, with nothing remotely
adequate" done to relieve Ger
many's situation.
You will not be surprised to learn
that the London Times eriticizes
the United States for 'evading the
real issues"
We voluntarily allowed Germany,
France and Britain to discontinue
their payments to us for one year,
new kind of evasion.
What we call. democracy
namely, the rule and control of the
many by selected prosperous
few-seems to be giving way to
dictatorship, which means a return
to absolutism, not dependent as
with kings on the accident Of birth.
Germany, according to dispatches
from Berlin, may follow the ex-
ample of Italy, Turkey and Rus
STA, operating under one-man die
tatorship, with Bruening for die
tator, backed by the military pow
er of the reichswehr.
However, events may not move
so rapidly. The Germans have been
educated in politics and govern
ment for years by the Social DEM
0cratic party. They will not too
hastily abandon their republic or
Won Hindenburg, the loyal old man
who has so ably steadied Germany
thus far.
If you come back to earth 10000
years hence, and find philosophers
of that day Jumping this 1881 pc
riod of what we call "civilization"
under the general heading of "uni-
versal barbarism," you need not be
surprised.
Cannibals kill a Belgian official
In the Congo. Then the Belgian Of
ficials kill 81 natives with machine
guns. Nobody invited the whites
in, but that doesn't help the ma
tives
In Seville, Spain, recently, two
workmen were killed by police and
80 others shot in strikes called
revolutionary" The strikers were
demanding food.
A reliable committee discovers
in Brooklyn, biggest of the five
boroughs that make up Greater
New York, such corruption and
vice, thoroughly organized, as
seems beyond belief.
And across the East river, in
Manhattan, official, political and
judicial dishonesty is organized on
a scale of profit running to gigan-
tic totals.
Shooting. stealing, bootlegging,
hijacking, racketeering, among in-
dividuals here, in sthe land of the
free and the home of the brave"
such is our civilization.
The heads of big corporations
might visit the lion house in New
York's Central park ZOO and sympa-
thize with the lions.
The house is plagued with rats,
and the gigantic 'cats' in the cage
are so big the rats are too quick for
them.
An ordinary cat as big as a lions
paw could kill the rats quickly.
Lions cannot.
Regular cats will not stay in
the cages, because they dislike the
smell of lions and fear their size.
Some of our biggest corporations
are unable to attend to small mat
tiers in their business, and suffer
heavy loss in consequence. Lions,
in spite of the fact that they are
big cats, are unable to look after |
their own rats. 1t is possible to |
be too big for efficiency.
Austin J. Roche, police chief OF
Buffalo, N. T., says America is "the
most lawless country in the world"
and adds: God only knows where
we are drifting. Stop this parade
to the prisons by our boys and girls.
Once boy or girl goes to prison,
he is never again the same. He is
forever branded, like they used to
brand cattle in the West" Perhaps
our philanthropists, judges and law
makers could invent some better
prison for young people than one
in which they play baseball for ex-
ercise, go to moving pictures for
amusement, and take lessons in
crime from older criminals for their
education.
An able American back from Rus
sia says the Stain plan will sue
coed, and won't bother us, because
there will be no dumping of goods.
Russia will need for themselves
all they can produce. They are SELL
ing now at any price they can get,
because they must have money for
Some concerns are making money.
For instance, you may congratulate
Gerard Swope, head of the General
Electric company. He announces
$21 ,523, 722.88 profit for the first six
Of this year. It is not as
good as last year, but comes within
8 cents Of earning the regular divi-
dend.
When our eight new 10,0OO-ton