Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-03-26
This Week
~ Arthur BaIssANg
l,650,000 Miles a Minute
John DIS $l0,000,00O
lie He Returned
Too Many Killings


over two minutes. and William II.
Vanderbilt, who drove, was proud.
An Englshmun recently drove his
automobile ut the rute of 245 miles an
hour, und dying machines have gone
above 300 miles an hour.
All that is amazing. But think OF
Mount Wilson astronomers, timing
stars that go l,G50.0Oo miles In a min
ute, stars distant from us 120,OOO,OOO
light years, which means the distance
that light could travel In 12O.OOO,OOO
years. going lS6.NU miles second.
Those swiftly moving stars and
nebulae are far bigger than our sun,
which Is million times bigger than
our earth.
Whoever believes that a universe
OF that size and speed has been man
aged by chance, without direction. for
thousands of millions of years, could
believe anything.
In the heart of Manhattan island.
which Is the heart of Greater Now
York, group OF magnificent buildings
to house great radio theater. broad
casting station. Offices, shops, perhaps
new Metropolitan Grand Opera
house.
Mr.. Rockefeller's agents have just
ordered $1O0OOO00 worth of steel for
his buildings $4,000 tons of 1t. Big
Steel" will supply 1t.
The Rockefeller enterprise. to b
finished In three years, will employ
5000 to 10000 men at good wages.
It's a good thing to have many dol
lars. even billion or more, assembled
In one collection. That makes big
things possible. Just as collection OF
| many drops of water at Niagara
| creates power.
Miss Chrlstabel Pankhurst, daugh-
ter Of courageous British suf1ragette,
Emmeline Pankhurst says she will
| live to see the second coming OF
| Christ. 1t will not mean the worlds
/ EMU, nut little Witt TX nv auADt 01~N-F
It. He will not come in poverty,
weakness and humility. but In all his
/ majesty, with demonstrations OF d.
vine power more miraculous than anI
of the miracles Of modern science"
First, 1t occurs to you that anything
more miraculous than modern science
would be very miraculous.
Second, you feel quite sure that II
/ Christ came To earth now. preaching
as he preached 1900 years ago. immi-
4 grafton authorities OF the United
/ States would keep him out and ad-
wise him to 20 to Russia. He told the
rich man to divide his wealth among
those that had nothing.
There Is too much crime In this ma
tion. Consider the case OF New York
city, for instance. In 1880, police
records show ADS murders. including
81 killed by police dischargng their
duty.
Sixteen husbands killed their wives I,
6 wives killed their husbands-great
self-control comparatively on the part
Of wives. or those killed. 31B were
shot. rs were stabbed, So were black
lacked or otherwise hammered to
death, 10 strangled. . burned to death,
8 thrown from windows, IL killed by
gas, 2 drowned, ] Killed by acid throw
ing. l6 cases Of infanticlde.
$ "Criticsm Is easy. the art is dim
. emit" as the French say. Russia work
s ing on a tive-year plan begins TO real
S lie 1t. 49,
4 Bolshevism thought all the evil wal
with the employers, all high virtue
:. with the workers.
But at present Russia, an employer
> on q gigantic scale, faces employers
y difficulties. and realizes that the genin
Y nroletarlan Is not always 100 per cen
perfect or devoted.
!. Russia has been obliged to pay high
or wages for better work, giving Y
the theory that all men are equal
: which they are not.
y By the end of the tiye-year pro
st gram. which may be success, al
though Wall Street has been hold
lie Ing it's thumbs" hoping It wouldn't
n Russia's rulers will know many en-
% ployers' problems.
II the government succeeds In max
Z ,nq An Industrial nation Of collectio
OF 100000 Russian villages and 1OO,OOO
900 Russian farmers, Russia will gro'
gigantIcally rich. Then the leader
III will change their views, as they q
v everywhere else, where money nov
e, In and radicalism GIBBS.
1g
DC The misfortune of the lndividua
=, thanks to human nature, which
fundamentally good, often brings
. blessing to others.
Egbert G. Fuller OF Connecticut q
let dured the agony OF seeing his VII
tes die OF cancer He Ia dead now. IN
n In the Anna Fuller fund, In her men
DRY leaves $1,5O0,000 to hight tt
worlds most dangerous disease.
iis The money will be spent to allsvia
concor sufferinQ to study its eau