Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-07-16
This Week
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Ths World Question
His Heart Cut Out
Paying for the War
To Live 100 Years

uo WOTlu question Is nat 10
Germany's condition."
The second question: What would
happen TO the world II German in
dustry and finance should collapse?'
That probably will not happen. al
though German effort to borrow $780,
100000 to bolster the Reichsbank
shows how difficult the situation Is,
even after President Hooyers ener-
getic action temporarily stopping pay
ments under the Young plan.
Another racketeer killing in New
York city emphasizes, horribly. the
brutality and bitter hatred that In
spire these killings. Carmello Liconti.
raeketeer connected with the Brook
Ign BARRIERS and Longshoremens un-
ion. was the victim. His throat had
been slashed. the head almost severed
from the body. and his heart actually
had been cut out.
Human nature develops hideously
when contempt for law becomes uni
yersal, as 1t has done recently in the
United States, when officials supposed
to enforce the law share the profits
OF lawbreakers. and fear OF punish
ment Is removed.
This column has occasionally re-
marked during the recent "sky-the-
limit boom Sooner or later the
world will begin to pay for the big
war, and will not enjoy the process"
The world, including this part OF
North America, Is paying now. and not
enJoying1t
The moratorium simply recognizes
the fact that you can't get blood ont
OF stone, even German stone. and
that 1t would not pay to drive into
bankruptcy one OF the worlds great
Industrial and financial national units.
John p. Rockefeller says he hopes
to live 100 years. and his fellow citi-
zens hope that he will. He has rem
dpred one great service. proving the
foolishness OF unrestricted COMPETE
tion. the most wasteful thing in the
world. ~
And, having accumulated hundreds
OF millions. he spends them usefnlly
for science and education. The peo-
pie would like to see him live to one
thousand. years, except that 1t would
not amuse him.
Japanese scientists at the Ky0to
Astronomical observatory have added
another to our family Of planets cir
cling around the sun and going with
1t through space, heaven knows where.
The new planet Is no dwarf. for Its
diameter Is 5000 miles greater than
to the south OF the SNAKE Charmer
Consultations, about one hundred
million miles from the earth.
This planet Is another monument
to the great Newton. 1t files around
the sun in its orbit. held in space by
mysterious gravtation, in accordance
with Newton's formula.
And there is something, call 1t
.'imp0nderable ether" or what you
like, between the sun and the planets.
No force could act through vacuum.
Miss Camilla Kelly of Memphis,
Tenn. officially known as Judge Ca
mllla." In a sound speech says that
In women misbehavior Is lust lit
tie worse than in men,
Judge Camilla says God holds wom-
en- to higher degree OF responsibility,
because they are mothers OF the race.
Men. she thinks, .'have been little de-
ceiyed by their superiority complex"
Misbehayior In women Is as shock
Ing as the sight Of rose floating In
sewer. II 1t were turnlp or po-
tato 1t would not be 80 bad.
Women are the roses. men the tur-
nlps, and women ought to remember 1t,
But they don't when they drink cock.
tails, dress indecently, cultivate the
use of profanity, drag jewels that fool
i,h husbands give them through speak.
castles, where gangsters are quietly
taking notes.
A new kind OF war fiourishe1 among
our friends In Asia. On japanese soil.
Koreans have taken to killing Chinese,