The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1931-07-09
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRIsBANB
Around the World
Rockefeller Center
Spain Goes Republican
Mr.. Tunney in Russia

IL you Hdu Dttl dl1Ne Oh llle udy
after Christopher Columbus dis
covered America, you would have
talked about nothing less impor-
tant, for at least twenty-four hours.
Post and Gatty landed from a
flight around the world in eight
days fifteen hours and fifty-0ne
minutes.
1t is hard to realize what 1t
means to fly across the Atlantic
ocean and the European continent,
over Siberia, on from Asia to Alas
ka, and back across the American
continent to New York, all In less
than nine days. The impossible
has been made real.
The $250,00O,000 improved city"
that John D. Rockefeller, IT., Is
constructing in the heart Of New
York will include an improvement
on the Hanging Gardens of Baby
Ion. Three city blocks will have
their roofs covered with gardens,
In which tenants may take the air
and contemplate the power of mon-
ey usefully employed.
Mr.. Rockefeller's center is now
called radio City," which is not
the right name, although magni-
ticent radio building will be con-
spicuous part of 1t.
Tho nam h,1iiJinuc will contain
many fine shops, and tenants, un-
'doubtedly, to help their business
will call their location "Rockefel-
Ter Center" and that is what the
new and magnificent development
should be called, officially.
Mr.. Rockefeller has rendered an
important public service by in
structing his architects and build
ers not merely to erect magnificent
buildings, but to show that improv-
ing great city can be made to
pay. He is setting an example,
not building palaces to amuse him
self, like King Ludwig.
His enterprise will encourage
others, that need profits more than
Mr.. Rockefeller needs them, to do
something new.
Spain votes republican, with sew
enteen killed in riots. The chauf-
feur of the duke Of Alba is elect
ed to parliament, the duke ia
nous grandee of Spain, is out, and
so is the king.
One disgraeeful incident was the
severe beating, in Madrid, of a
priest accused of buying votes to
be cast in favor of the monarchy.
Voters in Catalonia and in the
Basque districts voted on strictly
racial and local lines, which shows
that the Spanish republic is not to
be completely homogeneous.
Mr.. Gene Tunney. who has re-
turned to America after a trip to
Jerusalem and extensive travelling
in Russia, brings interesting OBJ
Servations on the Soviet republic,
including this:
"There are in Russia 30000,000
young people under twenty-seven
years of age that know nothing bur
communism.
"They have been brought up
breathing the atmosphere of COM
munism as their ideal, their re-
ligion. They would die for it, as
any Mohammedan would die for
his faith. They do not know what
you talk about if you discuss any
thing opposed to the modern the
cries of Russia"
That is something to be taken
into consideration by those that
ask themselves, after bolshevism,
what?"
After bolshevism it will probably
be more bolsheyism.
Boys just out of West Point are
busy with antiaircraft defense, |
staying on the ground, shooting at
sirplanes that obligingly come by |
Sowing targets. That means moth |
ting.
Moscow says Russians are MAX |
ing their own airplane engines, con-
centrating on 300 and 450-horse
power motors, and constantly in
creasing their air strength.
West Point and Annapolis boys
should fly up in the air and learn |
to fight there. Shooting on the
ground won't do much good.
Trader Horn, now dead and bur-
led, walked and traded through
many miles in Africa, the world
not knowing him. An intelligent
woman discovered him, wrote of
his life, and all the world knows
him.
Alfred Aloysius Smith, his real
name, used to say that he wanted
to die on the African veldt, his
face toward the setting sun.
He died on a comfortable bed in
England, and lies in the Catholic
section of Whitetable cemetery.
mat IS as near as we usually come
to realizing our aspirations.
The little old schoolhouse sees
its last days. Consolation will
make one larger school take the
place of many small schools. That
is necessary in these days of eff
cheney, economy and motor busses
for school children. But it is a
pity.