The Carbon County news., 1931-08-13


explosives for killing of other men,
Grasshoppers are not as foolish
as men.
With martial law and state
troops, Governor Murray In Okla
homa City shuts down 3,016 oil
wells to put up the price of oil and
prevent waste of national resources.
But Texas and other fields will
pour out more oil. You cannot deal
with the oil problem on any but a
national SCALE and our fetish and
bugaboo, the silly, antiquated Sher-
man act, prevents any real action.
The oil industry needs help.
Standard Oil of California reports
for the first six months Of 1881
prove it.
The profit was only 43 cents, as
against $1.53 for the first six
months of 1880.
Federal Judge r. ]. Hopkins, all
the way from Kansas, tells New
York lawyers that they SHOULD not
defend criminals they know to be
guilty."
Several New York lawyers. in
their own language, will get a
laugh out of that"
A man accused of crime and gull
ty usually has money. The man
accused but innocent usually has
nothing.
Does the judge from Kansas
want the New York criminal law
yers to starve to death? Let him
remember the young corporation
lawyer who said, "The only favor
a common man can do me is to get
run over by the cars. Then I can
make something defending the cor
p0ration against his damage suit"
The government, having proved
that running ships is one of several
things that it does not know how to
do, is about to dispose of some
shipping. 1t is understood that
Kermit Roosevelt and Vincent AS
tor in the East, and a western
group, the Dollar Line interests,
Herbert Fleishhacker of San Fran
cisco and others, will make bids.
The government, of course, will
make no sale that would, now or
later, involve foreign control of
these American ships or a foreign
flag over them.
What the government doesn't
know about ships has cost the peo-
pie about one thousand million
dollars.
But we know, at least, that we
ought to have some ships.
So many flyers are over the diff
ferent oceans and continents that
1t is difficult to keep track of them.
Sufficient to say that they are all
doing very nicely" You wonder
what the old sultans of Turkey
would have said had you told them
that in their great city of Istanbul
men that had flown the Atlantic
ocean and the European continent
would land to drink to the health of
"Kemel Pasha, president of Tur-
key" That would be too much for
any sultan.
When the Empire State building
was dedicated in New York, Mr..
Frederick Ecker, head of the Metro
politan Life Insurance company, an
able man, acquainted with American
conditions, said the country was to
be congratulated on having gone
through two years of depression
without violence"
Let us hope that condition will
continue.
The New York Jewish Board Of
Guardians tell this story: Private
detectives, hired to protect slot ma
chimes from thieves, compelled
boys, once convicted, to persuade
other boys to rob the machines, let
ting the detectives know when the
robberies would occur. The detec-
tiyes arrested the boys thus tempt
ed, sent them to Jail, improving the
detectives records for vigilance.
Britain Is worried by a serious
drop in the value Of the pound ster-
ling.
The Bank of England and the
BanQue de France are said to be
at odds, the French bank going so |
far as to demand the removal of
Montagu Norman, governor of the
Bank Of England.
Can you imagine that-a French !
bank debating to the "Old Lady In
Threadneedle street.? An English
man couldn't be more surprised if |
he saw French frog legs threatening
the roast beef of old England.
But France has the gold England |
lacks.
20, 1881, by King Features Syndicate. Inc.)