The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-06-04

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miliar with the ocean of water, in
venting legends about it, diving
into it for pearls, sailing over it
for commerce and recently men
have explored it in diving bells.
Now Professor Picard, coura-
geous scientist, takes his diving
bell" in the other direction up
ward. In an alright round ball,
supplied with oxygen for artificial
breathing, attached to d balloon,
Professor Picard went up to in
yestigate the shakespeare, near the
top of our air-ocean.
He broke the record for height
by 1900 feet, going up $500 feet,
and risking his life. If the balloon
had not come down, he and his as
sistant, Charles Kipfer, must have
suffocated. They had narrow es-
cape as it was.
For the first two miles the sci
entific climbing bell" went up
through the layer of clouds, storms
and changing temperatures that
lies close to the earth, at the bot
tom" of our air-ocean.
Higher up the temperature fell
to 1876 degrees below zero, still
warm" as compared to absolute
zero outside of our atmosphere,
more than 400 degrees below zero.
In the upper air wind blows
steadily from the east, caused by
the earth's movement. No storms
or clouds up there.
And far UP the sun and stars
shine in sky jet black, due to the
fact that there is no dust in that
high atmosphere. Without dust, so
plentiful on the bottom" of the
air, the sky would be always black,
there would be no rainfall, and we
probably would not be here.
Professor Picard will have in
teresting things to tell his fellow
scientists, who look upon his es-
cape from death as miracle.
No monument will be built to
him, of course, because he only
went up in the interest of science.
If he had gone up to kill somebody
or destroy a whole city he would
have large monument.
News from Rome continues bad.
The fact that for three months the
pope has refused to receive an am
bassador from the Fascist govern
ment, while Mussolini has refused
TO receive the nuncio sent by the
pope, indicates strained relations
between the government of Italy
and the Vatican City.
Outbreaks against the pope and
che Catholic religion continue. A
picture of Pope Plus was publicly
trampled on by Fascist students
The pope is publicly called a trail
tor by the mob and Catholic books
are burned.
Captain Hawks, champion Amer
ican flyer, had his breakfast in
London, luncheon in Berlin, and
dinner in Paris.
The crowd welcoming him at LIE
Bourget, the Paris flying field,
called him Americas meteor
man." He flew from London to Ber-
lin in 8 hours and Is minutes spent
an hour and twenty-seven minutes
in Berlin, plenty of time for lunch
con, and flew from Berlin to Paris
for his dinner in hours and D
minutes.
Good times or bad, men will find
money for three things-Racing,
gambling, smoking. And the worst
of the three is gambling.
The Irish sweepstakes, to help
to build Irish hospitals, total
amount $12,500O0O. Hospitals will
get more than $3,000,000, gambling
about 100000; expenses will eat
the rest. There will be many prizes
of $1500O0, also $4,000 and $780,
900, and smaller prizes, totaling
1000 prizes In all.
Five millions have bought tick
cts, and whether they win or lose
they are a little nearer to the GER
tainty that they will never make
any permanent success. Gambling
prevents that. And the chances
are more than 1000 to one against
winning any prize.
The queen of England recently
celebrated her sixty-fourth birth
day, and the British Empire re-
joices at her good health. Well it
may. Queen Mary attends to her
business and sets a good example,
from her old-fashioned hats to her
old-fashioned shoes, from her kind
ly, but always dignified expression
to the long skirts that come down
to the ankles.
Others may be. foolish; she new
er will be, and she will make no
concessions to foolishness.
An English lady who had devoted
her life to horse racing orders her
relatives to cremate her body and
scatter the ashes on the racetrack.
She liked to think of the thunder
ing hoofs" coming down the stretch
to victory over her dust. She might
no longer see or hear them, but
perhaps she could feel them.
Ward Randall, twelve years old,
OF Whitehall, ILL.,, wins the Amer
lean spelling championship. The