The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-05-07
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRIsnANB
A Real Airship
Gambling Promoted
Laws Hampering Business
MIR. Rockefeller's Plan

Laws Hampering Business
! Mr.. Rockefeller's Plan
Gen. William Mitchell, head of
our flying forces In the war, tells
you that the United States shows
signs of striking out on its own
account In aviation. He writes,
after a visit to Akron:
Il have looked over the airship
being built for the Navy depart
ment at Akron. This ship is the
greatest attempt of man to con-
quer the air. 1t will be able to
cross the Atlantic four times with
out refueling. At reduced speed.
1T will be able to circle the globe,
at the latitude of New York.
In its front part there is q han
gar which will accommodate from
Tour to seven airplanes, which can
take Off or land on the ship at
will, and all of its works are In
side 1t.
Compare a ship OF this size,
costing five and half million dol
lars. with surface airplane car
rier that costs from fifty to eighty
millions. The airship. alone or
with its airplanes, can destroy a
whole fleet of sea vessels, and q
group OF them can defend them
selves very well against air at
tack, with the assistance of their
own airplanes, their power of con-
cealment and their maneuverabil-
ity."
The French government. to pro-
mote its pari-mutuel system of
race track betting. arranges to
take bets not only at the race
course, but anywhere in France.
Bets can be sent by telegraph or
mail. You deposit money in adj
vance, not less than 5000 francs
t$20O) and the smallest bet by
wire or mail is so francs ($2).
All profit goes to the government
except purses actually won by the
owners of racing horses.
In this country we bet on the
races at least $40 for every one bet
In France, and all the profit goes
to bo0kmakers, race track touts,
etc.
Business men plan to fight to
change, in common-senSe way,
some of the laws that hamper
business, and it is none too soon.
Under the obsolete Sherman act,
made in the days Of hanson cabs,
nearly half a century ago. any
group of men that should now
'conspire" to stop criminal waste |
in the oil industry. or to regulate
any industrial production to pre-
vent slumps or depressions, could |
be put in Jail.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., serves
his city by rebuilding and trans
forming an undeveloped section in
the heart of New York at an ex-
pense of about $250.000,000.
This undertaking guarantees,
over a long period, very large and
permanent income for Columbia
college.
1t shows what can be done, with
energy and money, to
improve great city in a short
time.
Most important, Mr.. Rockefel-
lers enterprise will give employ
ment to thousands of men now out
Of work in the highly paid building
trades.
Mary Pickford, in New York on
Ter way to London, says her will
will compel the burning of all films
# moving pictures in which she has
Mary Pickford is still very young;
Ter will, probably, will not be read
or 60 or 20 years at the earliest,
nd everybody hopes it will be much
carer 100 years. Perhaps, in that
ltarval, she will realize that to de-
troy pictures, which are most i'm
ortant part of great American
1dustry, and Illustrate a forward
tep in civilization, would be a
rhine. She made her pictures, she
avs, to give happiness in her life
me. She should leave them to 7
i've inspiration and information.
G. ]. Starkey, lawyer, of Holly =
GOD, and accustomed to big fig !
res, says Queen Isabella got a :
DOR return when she invested l
5000 worth Of Jewelry In Colum-
Is trip to America. F.
If she then had invested $4,000 4
B per cent, compounded twice a T
Ear, it would amount now to 81 =
W,00O,000,000, and that, says Mr.. L
tarkey, is "eleven and one-half g
mes the value of the United c
.ates and all its possessions" The C,
cures are impressive but anyone r,
ho would sell the United States
wv for four and one-half trillions n
ould make a bad margin. -
Cyrus FL. K. Curtis thinks, and says
an editorial: "A man who ran p
r office in America today with a a
raight anti-crime record and a :"
nvincing threat against 1t would
me nearer to getting votes than m
my another candidate" re
That is sound, but to fight crime
u would have to fight the bootleg :,
1g that finances it, and to fight " "
otegging you would have to op- "
Sc nrnhihitiOn and that rn,inht | D1