The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-03-26
This Week
l,650,000 Miles a Minute
John DIS $l0,000,000
If He Returned
Too Many Killings
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

LOO MANY kIlllngs
Maud S. trotted a mile in lit
tie over two minutes, and William
II. Vanderbilt, who drove, was
proud. An Englishman recently
drove his automobile at the rate
of 245 miles an hour, and flying
machines have gone above 300
miles an hour.
All that is amazing. But think
of Mount Wilson astronomers,
timing" stars that go 1,650,000
miles in minute, stars distant
from us 120000,000 light years,
which means the distance that light
could travel in 120,0O0,000 years,
going 10000 miles a second.
Those swiftly moving stars and
nebulae are far bigger than our
sun, which is million times big
ger than our earth.
Whoever believes that a universe
of that size and speed has been
managed by chance, without direc-
ton, for thousands of millions of
years, could believe anything.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is build
ing in the heart of Manhattan is
land, which is the heart of Greater
New York, group of magnifi-
cent buildings to house a great ra-
dio theater, broadcasting station,
offices, shops, perhaps new Met
ropolltan Grand Opera house.
Mr.. Rockefellers agents have
just ordered $100O0,000 worth of
steel for his buildings, 125,000 tons
of 1t. big Steel" will supply it.
The Rockefeller enterprise, to be
finished in three years, will employ
5000 to 10000 men at good wages.
It's good thing to have many
dollars, even billion or more, as
sembled in one collection. That
makes big things possible, just as
a collection of many drops of wa
ter at Niagara creates power.
Miss Christabel Pankhurst,
daughter of courageous British
sutfragette, Emmeline Pankhurst,
says she will live to see the second
coming Of Christ. 1t will not mean
the worlds end, but there will be
no doubt about it. He will not come
sin poverty, weakness and humil-
ity, but in all his majesty, with
demonstrations of divine power
more miraculous than any of the
miracles of modern science"
First, 1t occurs to you that any
thing more miraculous than mod
ern science would be very miracu-
lous.
Second, you feel quite sure that
If Christ came to earth now, preach
ing as he preached 1000 years ago,
immigration authorities of the
United States would keep him out
and advise him to go to Russia. He
told the rich man to divide his
wealth among those that had moth
ing.
There is too much crime in this
nation. Consider the case of New
York city, for instance. In 1890, po-
lice records show 499 murders, in
Guiding 81 killed by police dis
charging their duty.
Sixteen husbands killed their
wives; 6 wives killed their hus-
bands-great self-control compare
lively on the part of wives. OF
those killed, 316 were shot, rs were
stabbed, So were blackjacked or
otherwise hammered to death, 10
strangled, 2 burned to death, 3
thrown from windows, 13 killed by
gas, 2 drowned, 1 killed by acid
throwing, 16 cases of infanticide.
Criticism is easy, the art is diff
cult" as the French say. Russia
working on five-year plan begins
to realize it.
Bolshevism thought all the evil
was with the employers, all high
virtue with the workers.
But the present Russia, an en-
ployer on gigantic scale, faces
employers difficulties, and realizes
that the genial proletarian is not
always 100 per cent perfect or de-
voted
Russia has been obliged to pay
higher wages for better work, CIV
ing up the theory that all men are
equal, which they are not.
By the end of the five-year pro-
gram, which may be success, al
though Wall Street has been "hold-
ing its thumbs" hoping it wouldn't,
Russia's rulers will know many en-
ployers' problems.
If the government succeeds in
making an industrial nation of a
collection of 100000 Russian viii
lagos and 100,000,000 Russian farm
ers, Russia will grow gis~ntically
rich. Then the leaders will change
their views, as they do every
where else, where money flows in
and radlcalism GIBBS.
Pay rolls are up throughout the
United States AZ per cent, with
employment increasing. That should
cheer you. Reports come from
1888 industrial and other estab-
lishments.
The misfortune Of the individual.
thanks to human nature, which is
fundamentally good, often brings a
blessing to others.
Edgar G. Fuller of Connecticut
endured the agony of seeing his
wife die Of cancer. He is dead
now, and in the Anna Fuller fund,