The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-01-08
This Week
b. ARTHUR BRIsBANR
$4,000, 900 Years Ago
Reading and Thought
We Should Dance
NoRussian Home Cookins

Reading and Thought
We Should Dance
NoRussian Home Cooking
In northern Alberta engineers of
the Canadian government have dis
covered the Oldest preserved trees
in the world. Their branches
were waving over strange animals.
including uncouth, half-developed
men, fifteen million years ago,
when our continent was connected
with Asia.
That makes our giant redwood
trees, $1,000 years old when Christ
was born," seem very young.
Theoretically sealed in bitumen
sands, safe from the destroying
air, the wood was perfectly pre-.
served, with some of its leaves,
and the insects that were attack
Ing both, when all were buried to-
gether.
Doctor Bailey of Harvard proves
that one of the trees is a japanese
variety.
Those old trees, growing on
huge continent that included North
America and Japan 100000 years
ago, make our few days and little
troubles seem less important.
According to Bacon, reading
maketh a full man. British sta
tistics prove that hard times ere.
ate more reading. Books of all
kinds, including worthwhile books
on science, biology, astronomy,
technology. etc., have increased in
number of publications and in total
sales.
When life is easy the average
man does little thinking. In trou.
bic, he thinks hard, and for think
ing he wants printed information
on which sound thought is based
Twenty billion dollars In gold
might help the world considerably.
Twenty million earnest thoughts
would help it more than any gold
One single accomplishment, based
on thought, the production of steam
power, paid all the debts that Ma
poleon saddled on the nations and
gave industry such impetus as
never had been dreamed of.
Mary Wigman, young woman
with earnest face, and a plan, ar.
rives to tell us what America
needs. Her prescription may sur
prise you.
We need to dance. We are re
pressed" if you know enough
about Freud to understand what
that means. We need to Ounce,
hop, jump, learn to relax, and
stop being puritanical." If Miss
Wigman would go to some of our
cabarets and dances she might be
surprised.
A report that Russia's govern
ment intends to take over all food
supplies and lend home cooking"
feeding and cooking for the people
In central kitchens, is modified by
a later statement. Russia will not
carry out that plan right away, but
that is the principle and plan"
1t would be rather difficult to
feed by government officials the
100000 villages that make up the
bulk of Russia's population.
Such suggestion horrifies us in
the United States, almost az much
as the suggestion that children be
taken from parents and brought
up by the state.
But there was time when the
suggestion of public schools, sup
ported by the property owners,
Mortified this country. And the
suggestion that Americans would
live in apartment houses also hor-
rified us.
We were told then that no self
respecting American would ever
give up his individual home.
Talking by radio to 100000 en-
ployees, 267, 900 stockholders, and
10000 dealers of General Motors,
President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., pre-
diets boom in prosperity to fol-
low this slump. Without fixing flu
ture dates, Mr.. Sloan agrees with
other men of Importance, who
know the history OF past depres-
sions, that "Out of it all is sure
to come better order of things,
and, eventually, greater heights of |
prosperits than any We have yet
General Hines, veterans admin
istrator, has prepared figures to |
interest veterans Of the big war.
Some of them will live IS years
longer. Mortality statistics show
that the last will 90 probably In
the year 1885. Some of their wild
ows will last until 2059, which will
be 1928 years from now.
Those last widows, as young
women, will marry very old pen
stoned veterans, and continue
drawing their pensions for many
years.
The government has already
spent five thousand million dollars
on veterans relief. By the end of
1910 1t will have spent thirteen
three thousand millions
more than it lent Europe in the
war.