Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-09-10
This Week
By Arthur BnsAASs
Real Life Dime Novel
$4,000 a Week Girl
Brave, Patient China
A Smart Young Girl
Dime novels. no longer printed, oc-

Dime novels, ITO longer printed, &C.
cur in, lifes reality.
Charles NJ. liosenthal, young
broker. was kidnapped. 100000 de-
nanded. He won 100000 from his
kidnapers at poker, got their |. q. Us,
reducing the ransom To SO,UV. when
his mother paid. The kidnapping
bait" WAS d pretty young woman, oil
light complexion. found living with
biz, very big, black negro She was of
negro blood.
When the kidnapped young man won
Sl0.0tN at poker. Two kidnapers voted
to shoot him. Numbers on the ransom
bills caught the kidnapers. the light
colured young lady, and recovered slo,
$40 OF the ransom.
Is not that a super dime noyels
Motion picture exhibitors say "Hol'
lywuod should be detlated.' whatever
that means. aud object. especially, to
the salary of one young picture lady.
supposed to get $4,000 a week. Per-
haps she doesn't get so much. but II
she does get 1t she earns IT,
The laborer Is worthy OF her hire.
even under klies lights.
Exhibitors want pictures that Will
| fill theaters. II any actor can be worth
$4,000 q week, everybody should be
grateful.
Nothing Is cheaper. no matter what
II earns, than the exceptional person
ality.
An American from China admires
"the Chinese logged patience and
courage even in terrific floods that
have made thirty millions homeless,
| fifteen millions destitute
II seems strange that after o'oOO
years uf civilization China has moi
learned TO control the lang-tse and
other great rivers.
Then we remember humbly that
with all our machinery and money
we haven't learned TO control the
Mississippi.
Machinery will do It eventually
however, and as the late William
Boyce Thompson predicted, Will store
I'D surplus Hood waters In some Ill
land sea. saving them for use u
drought.
Drink d toast, II only In soda pop
to Miss Charlotte Hodgkinson, niue
teen years old, who took flying les
sons for rs minutes, then flew by her
self and did 1t we'll.
1t would almost cure your "depres
sion blues TO see that young Amer
lean girl waving her arms from th
! cockpit
Even birds do not learn to fly q
quickly as TINT, although they begI
much younger.
Cheerful news from Rome. Por
Plus ri and Mussolini. the powerful
agree on settlement Of the "Cathol
J Action" difficulty.
Fifteen thousand church clubs wi
now reopen. forbidden, however,
J engage in political activities, or eye
to have classes for sports. All that
reserved for Mussoiini's young peopl
However. each side feels II has Wo
: which indicates that the settlement
!, probably fair
: The American Chemical societ
Z gathered at Buffalo. n. Y is told
Professors Smyth OF Princeton, a
drews Of Johns Hopkins and Drury
c Columbia university that with the
~ aio men can hear the dance OF I
fnite"-in other words. the noise ma
nv molecules and atoms as they mo
mysteriously.
Each atom sings Its own melo
and dances its own individual dane
THE ancients talked OF the music
the spheres" meaning music prouue
by the rolling stars.
Man may become complex ann
: one ear listening to atoms. and the Q
or to suns a million million times
% hig as the earth; one eye studying
fnity through the telescope the otl
the finite "infra-world' through
microscope