Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-29
This Week
" ARTHUR BRIsBANE
Still Cold to Be Found
Lady Shoots Lady
Wickersham Report
To Detect Falsehood

There is still gold to be found, IL
you know where to look
At Alamos. In the state OF Sonora.
where Governor Films rules, an Amer
lean, l.. $. Patterson. bought an old
mine from Filpe De LA. After six
months, discouraged. he sold the mine
back to De LA. The latter went to
see what work Patterson had done.
tapped rock with a small hammer.
uncoverng vein of gold now yield
ing $1,000 Il ton But don't let that
persuade you TO buy stock in a gold
mine When it runs. $1,000 ton they
don't sell 1t.
A lady who lives in Oklahoma fired
two shots into Miss Charles Cardell,
aged twenty eight. and Miss Cnrdel
may die.
Jealousy sent the bullets on their
way. Such incidents have been fire.
quent since the day Of 100000 years
ago. when Mrs. Big Tooth split the
head Of a younger cave lady trying
to steal away her husband.
A Jealous woman usually kills the
other woman to save her husband,
And that. although she doesn't know
1t. Is done In obedience to atavistfc
impulse, to protect the children, who
need a father
The Jealous husband often kills his
wife. That Is done to protect his I'm
portant self-respect.
1t Is easier than killing the man,
and he can get another wife without
trouble.
Every newspaper, congressman,
clergyman and at least 100000
others have discussed the WIckersham
prohibition report The discussion will
continue, with minority members tell
Ing what they think. The fact Is that
the commission recommends by ma
jority vote. to do nothing except to
spend more money on enforcement,
which. according to the commissions
unanimous opinion, does not enforce.
Chicago's police have ''lie meter"
that, attached to the arm Of q suspect
under Dissemination, tells when he
Is lying. II works. because the human
heart, not taught to lie, changes Its
beat when the anxious process OF lying
begins In India barefooted natives
giving testimony lie with straight
faces. But they twitch their big toes,
and lawyers watch their feet. A we'll
known capitalist twitched his thumb
when bluffing 1t poker and lost large
sums until he began holding his cards
with four fingers, the thumb kept
hidden.
Douglas Fairbanks has gone to India,
taking letters from the Duke OF Suth-
erland to the Maharajah OF Mysore,
and letters from other dukes to other
maharajahs, princes and potentates,
plus letter OF credit, which Is i'm
portant. Fairbanks viii shoot real
tigers from the back Of a real elephant
in the Mysore territory. His camera
man goes along and his director, to
tell the tigers what Is expected OF
them.
Distance lends enclantment, per-
haps. 1t surely creates Indifference
Under the heading, Millions Dead OF
Famine you read six lines OF Asso-
ciated Press copy to the effect that In
China's Shensi province alone 100000
have died Of hunger and 100000 have
been sold into slavery within a short
time. Are we our brothers keepers?
Not II the brothers 1--we 1000 miles
away.
Bishops Of the English Episcopal
church decide that prayer by radio Is
good, because it brings family prayer
back into the British home.
Nevertheless, prayer broadcast, in
stead of being addressed directly to
the Almighty by the individual, seems
q little too scientific.
DR.. Hornell Hart OF Bryn Mawr col
lege, where many young women accu-
mulate knowledge back of their high
brows. tells parents that early mar
rlages are usually failures.
Those married before twenty are ten
times more apt to land in the divorce
court than others. Trial marriages
fail because they are experimental and
secret.
They fall also, although Doctor
Hart doesn't mention it, because the
man In such marriage lacks respect
and affection for the woman.
The great philosopher Plato would
have women marry well past thirty
and men past fifty. But that depends
on the breed and the individual.
The mother supplies her childs men,
tai and physical strength. She should
have children when her strength of
mind and body is at the maximum
The father supplies part OF tho
child's mental ability. He should mar
ry later, giving such brain az he has
a chance to mature fully.
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