Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-03-05
This Week
b ARTHUR BaIsDAnE
A Dangerous Embargo
Four Things You Need
A Big Copper Mine
Real Divining Rod

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! Real Divining Rod
| Los Angeles.-A gasoline price war
holds public interest for the moment
| here. Standard Oil OF CALIFORNIA; cut
| OF , cents. made to meet erratlc price
cutting. will be followed by deeper
cuts by other companies. The oil
situation is bud. aud an elimination
process will gradually weed out weak
or sisters Then consumers that have
been buying gas too cheap will even
up matters by paying too much.
The antiquated Sherman act pre-
venting common sense business ar
rangements makes conditions worse.
Some American companies demand an
embargo on OIL from foreign coun-
tries. Powerful companies that own
inexhaustible subterranean lakes Of
OIL In Venezuela and elsewhere op
pose the embargo
They want to bring In their cheap
foreign oil. They are protecting this
country's interests, perhaps without
knowing or caring. An embargo would
hasten the exhaustion Of American
wells, putting consumers and the moth
* industry ut the mercy OF foreign
VAL owners. What that would mean
tho country learned when Britain COL
trollsd rubber and regulated the price.
II you have four things. intelligence,
energy. money and interest In ths
welfare Of others. you can do good
work.
Mrs. Greenway OF Tucson. Ariz., hes
the four. She started furniture fac
tory, for ex-service men not sick
enough for hospital but needing re-
cuperatlon In perfect climate. That
did much good. Then she built and
il running Tucson hotel, made up Of
separate bungalows, all furniture made
by the service men. and all for sale to
guests. Just ct present the plac1 II
packed. but try to go there anyhow.
IL you 90 to Tucson. Ii you do not
70 you make big mistake.
Such q woman as Mrs. Greea-
way finding 4 way to help men IL
jured 10 their country's service, work
lng hard With no profit, and little
thanks for herself. should be at least
praised. Mr. Pepper" Tucson's king
hat ArM
Greenway in An Incompatible lady"
putting the accent on Incompatible
On the ante penutfmate syllable,
par"
.She gave me- says he. Two tickets
Tor the opera that cost ut least p
apiece. 1t was called The Walker and
ray, you never heard that kind Of mu-
sic In your life"
This Endorsement OF his Wakeurs
would crafty Wagner.
Ii you own copper stocks you Ar0
engaged by proxy in All interesting,
changing business and might learn
about 1t by visiting the Cananea Cop
per mine, little south OF the Mexican
border, near Douglas, Ariz- That
mine had stock selling at 81 share.
Copper running as high as 40 per cent
was found and the stock jumped to
500 q share. Now the Anaconda Cop
per company owns it,.
Cananpa in normal times pays the
Southern Pacific railroad a freight blu
Of $1,0O0,DO0 q year Atr Weed, man
ager OF the mine. hlIe-eyrd young
American from the Michigan School
OF Mines, with his forehead leaning
out above his eyes learned the real
business working In mine after grad
uating. He continues learning the bust
ness by running one OF the greatest
mines on earth.
Aimless speculation and fruitle5s ef-
fort often lead TO scientific accomplish
ment. Chemistry Is the successor to
ancient alchemy, seeking to change
inferior metals to gold. And now the
old divining rod with credulity as its
only asset, may re replaced by rod
that really locates what you seek.
A needle. called the Hotchkill super
dip, described before the American
Institute OF Mining and Metallurgical
Engineers, takes advantage OF the fact
that certain deposits disturb the
earth's normal magnetic lines. In the
hands Of prospector, knowing geolo-
Nv, that new divlning rod Is expected
to reveal deposits of gold and other
precious substances. You are not ad
vised to invest In any such contriv-
ance just yet, but you might speculate
on this. What would be the effect on
the worlds gold standard nations Ii 1t
became suddenly possible to multiply
the gold supply by ten or thousand,
at little cost:
Scientists say typhus fever Is spread
BY fleas that bite rats, then humans
Recalling that Rocky Mountain fever,
spread by ticks, was conquered By
"tick- Juice incubation" the scientists
suggest that Q similar remedy for ty-
phus may be made Of the rat-biting
flea. Ground-up fieas al medicine
would not be pleasing.