Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-04-23
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE

King Alfonso Is Out
An Admirable Will
Ford's 20,OO0.O O0th Car
An Eel. Our Relative
Europe's big news is the abdieation
of King Alfonso. He goes. and re-
public rules Spain. 1t is one thing to
vote for republic another to make
it 90. Having a king. or no king.
makes little difference.
England has long been. In reality,
an actual republic. With Il king draw
ing his salary and avoiding frequent
elections. Some republics. on the 9TH
er hand. have not been very repub.
licun. although they have had no
king. with the possible exception of
money.
The will of the late Colonel Fried
sam sets fine example of good cit
izenshlp He provides generously for
those dependent on him and related
to him and gives to the public his
magnificent and skillfully collected
works OF art that cost Sl0.0O0N0. and
are worth double that amount.
He leaves the hulk of his large for
tune to the public. to be spent by his
executors for the young and "com-
fort OF the old" words that express
hoo ,,tffs,I Thought nIau~lxr
He leaves to j. s. Burke. vice presi-
dent OF his organization. who for years
has helped carry the heavy load OF
business. large interest in that bust
ness and the controlling influence in
carrying out his philanthropic plans.
All his life Michael Frledsam
worked hard. He lived without ostenta-
ton or extravaganza. and now leaves
the result OF his life's work to the
people among whom he lived.
Not long ago Henry Ford had moth
ing. But he was thinking and work
ing. Recently he drove from his fac
tory to his own residence In his Ford
ear number twenty million. He made
the first in 1893 and the twenty mil
lionth will stand in the Ford museum
beside the first. Ford has made auto
mobiles enough to carry 100000,0OO
human beings, in fact our entire pop
ulaton OF 1o3,O00.OO0. without pack
ing them too tightly. the babies sitting
on their parents knees. 1t pays TO
think and work. Neither by itself will
carry you far.
You perhaps never heard Of rare
sea eel which lives in the ocean mud
and has for scientific title name
as long as the eel Nevertheless. sci
ence says you are closely related to
him.
You do know that you got your five
fingers from the foot of a salamander
that lived in the carboniferous era,
millions of years ago. II that sala-
mander had had six toes, you would
have six fingers including the thumb !;
also the duodecimai instead of the
decimal system, much better for
mathematics. And the violin would
have six strings
You owe even more to the little
mud eel than YOU do to the salaman-
der. The brain or that little eel was
the beginning OF yours 1t has FIVE
lobes like yours. and little cortex
like the thick cortex on top OF your
brain. The five divisions of an eel
brain are found only in the fully de-
veloped human brain, and they func-
ton as In man.
Doctor Conel at Boston university
is studying brains in 100 OF these cells.
To be related to the five-lobe brain
mud eel is interesting.
Russia has no death penalty for
murder, but many death penalties for
dishonesty and treachery. A week ago
six were sentenced to death in con-
neetion with grain transactions, now
ten more must die for the same Of
Tense, and fifty-eight go to prison as
'inveterate class enemies"
At the same time Russia invites
skilled workers from other countries
to come and earn good wages
Workers will wonder that there
isn't In Russia anybody out Of job.
American hotel keepers will learn
from Ray Long, editor of Cosmopolitan
Magazine, that 1t is almost impossible
to rent a hotel room in Russia. He
was delighted to get a small room
by special favor, with no carpet on
the floor, paying eighteen American
dollars day.
Some of our best financial minds,
that once had only contempt fo1 Rus
sla, may soon be going over to find
out how they do it.
The automobile industry Is inter-
ested in news that the New Haven
railroad. during the last year, saved
$4,000, using trucks instead Of freight
cars.
In time railroads will use trucks
IN ninl- I'm frpiuht at tha 70 ofory