Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-01
This Week
b ARTHUR balssANs
100000 Years Ago
Reading and Thought
We Should Dance
NJ D. H. CLs
No Russian Home Cooking

Reading and Thought
We Should Dance
No Russian Home Cooking
In northern Alberta engineers of
the Canadian government have dis
covered the oldest preserved trees In
the world. Their branches were wav-
Ing over strange animals, including
uncouth, half-developed men, fifteen
million years ago, when our continent
was connected with Asia.
That makes our giant redwood
trees. 1000 years old when Christ
was born." seem very young.
Theoretically sealed In bitumen
sands, safe from the destroying air,
the wood was perfectly preserved.
with some of Its leaves. and the In
sects that were attacking both, when
all were buried together.
Doctor Bailey OF Harvard proves
that one OF the trees Is Japanese
variety.
Those cid trees. growing on huge
continent that included North Amer
lea and Japan 15.0O0.0O0 years ago.
make our few days and little troubles
seem less important.
According to Bacon, reading max
eth ! full man. British statistics
prove that hard times create moro
reading, Books Of all kinds, inciud-
Ing worthwhile books on science, biol
ogy. astronomy. technology. etc.. have
Increased Ia number Of publications
and In total sales.
When life Is easy the average man
does little thinking. In trouble, -
thinks hard. and for thinking he wants
printed information op which sound
thought II based
Twenty billion dollars In gold might
help the world considerably. TwAn-
ty million earnest thoughts would hAlp
1t more than any gold. One single &c
cOmplishment, based on thought, the
production OF steam power. paid III
the debts that Napoleon saddled On
the nations and gave industry such
Impetus as never had been dreamed Of
Mary Wigman, young woman with
earnest face. and 4 plan, arrives =
tell US what America needs Her pro
scription may surprise you.
We need to dance. We are 70
pressed" II you know enough about
Freud to understand what that means.
We need to dance. hop, jump, learn t.
relax, and stop being puritanica-
IL Miss Wigman would 90 to sonA #
cur cabarets and dances she might
be surprised.
a report that Russia's government
intends to take over all food supplies
and .'end home cooking" feeding an
| cooking for the people In central
| Kitchens, II modified BY later stats
ment. Russia Will not carry oat that
| plan right away. bnt that IL the "prfn-
eipIe and plan"
II would BE- rather diticult to feed
By government oficiai1 the 2OO,oO
villages that make up tne bulk Of Rus
sias population.
| Such a suggestion horrifies W In tho
| United States. almost as much N the
suggestion that children be taken from
parents and brought mp By the. state.
| But there was time when the sug-
gestion OF public schools, supported
by the property owners, Mortified this
country. And the suggestion that
Americans would live in apartment
| houses also Mortified us.
We were told then that no self
respecting American would ever give
no his individual home.
/ Talking by radio to 100000 en-
ployees, o6T, 900 stockholders, and o.
600 dealers Of General Motors, Prea-
dent Alfred r. Sloan. IT., predicts
boom In prosperity to follow THU
slump. without fixing future dates.
Mr.. Sloan aErees with other men 81
Importance, who know the history Of
past depressIons. that tout OF It All
Is sure to come a better order Of
things, and, eventually. greater helght1
q prosperity than any we have yet
enjoyed
General Hines, veterans admins
traitor, has prepared figures to inter
est veterans OF the big war.
Some OF them will live 55 Year,
longer Mortality statistics show thu,
the last will 90 probably In the yeal
Il 1885. Some OF their widows will lasl
until 2O58. which will be 128 years
from now.
Those last widows, as young wom
On, will marry very old pensioned vsk
erans, and continue drawing their pen
stons for many years.
t The government has already spen
ave thousand million dollars On vst
Grams relief. BY the end Of 1910 1
!, viii have spent thirteen billions, thre'
thousand millions more than II len