The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-05-14
This Week
BY ARTHUR BMsBANe
High Wages, High
Dividends
Disarmament, Sweet
Word
King Georges 2lst Year

Ming georges list Year
Gerard Swope, president of the
General Electric company, tells the
international Chamber of Com
MERGE 1t is the business of each in
dustry to regularize employment
ana avoid seasonal, or cyelical, pc
RODS of idleness. Mr.. Swope gave
his associates. the other Industrial
Kings, sound advice. Their pros
perity depends absolutely on the
prosperity of their own and others
employees.
1t is the 100000 00,0O0,OOO earned
and spent every year by American
workers, in normal times, that make
prosperity.
line few that live on unearned in
come cannot absorb the nations au-
toInobile, radio, washing machine
or vacuum cleaner output.
disarmament is vital to the re-
Ylval of business" said President
Hoover to the International Cham
Der of Commerce, adding: "Of all
proposals for the economic rehabili-
tation of the world | know of none
which compares in necessity or i'm
portance with the successful results
or general disarmament"
General disarmament, if feasible,
and If those agreeing to it would
act Loyalty, would save many bill
lions a year.
But who will disarm first? Why
not let those begin disarmament
who have started all the impor-
fant international wars of a hun
dred years past.
When it was suggested that the
death penalty be abolished, a witty
Frenehman replied: Que mes
sieurs les assassins commencent"-
Let the assassins commence"
In disarmament, the war-makers
might commence.
Great Britain is worried, "stag-
gered,' by the cost of the dole. 1t
runs up now to $500,0O0000 of our
money year. That is too much If
spent unnecessarily. But it is
small sum II the spending prevents
serious revolution.
England preferred sending money
TO the continent, financing the fights
of others in Napoleon's time, to GO
ing over and fighting on her own
account. When the peace was ripe
for picking, she went over and
picked it at Waterloo.
With the question of unemploy-
ment dangerous in Great Britain.
that rich country prefers to spend
half a billion feeding the people
rather than pay the cost of a revo-
tuition.
As it is, having the Labor party
in power is revolution enough for
the Tories. And if country can
afford $20,000,000,000 or an exter-
nal war, it can afford some money
TO prevent dangerous dissatisfac-
ton at home. tv
King George of England is cele-
5rating the end of his twenty-first
year as king. Only seventeen Eng
Dish kings and queens have re-
longer than twenty-one
years on the throne. King George
mas now equaled the term of Will
liam the Conqueror. His has been
a different term. The Conqueror
ruled. He suppressed many small
to make big one, wiped
out villages and farms to create
vast deer parks.
Long after his death, as late as
the time of Henry III, an English
workman moving from one parish
to another in search of a job, with
out permission, was branded on his
flesh with a redhot iron.
King George has lived to see a
formerly in the coal
mines, prime minister of England,
and writing the speech that the
king delivers, "the address from
The throne"
We may see changes as great
here; we may even see the citizens
themselves running the country.
something we haven't seen yet.
Bryan Untiedt, Colorado boy, who
saved several lives in the March
blizzard, is out of the White
House, back in his overalls at
lone, helping his mother with the
weekly washing and his father
eedlng the pigs. Asked about
Nashington's wonders, he said he
hadn't seen anything as fine as his
,aby sister. He held her in his
rms for while, before he put
way his store clothes and put on /
lis overalls. V
Young Untiedt doesn't know it,
tut he probably is happier than the l
President, whom he left behind In !
Washington. !
Calvin Coolidge says we have too /
nany lawyers and too many not of !.
he right kind. We need only $500 :
ew lawyers each year, and about
5000 are admitted to the bar. ?
hat helps explain several things. S