Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-05-21
This Week
b ARTHUR BRr,sAnE
High Wages, High Dividends
Disarmament, Sweet Word
The Dole DOGGY
King Georges 2lst Year

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The Dole DOGGY
King Georges 2lst Year
Gerard Swope. president of the Gen
eral Electric company. tells the Inter
national Chamber of Commerce il is
the business Of each industry TO regu-
larize employment and avoid seasonal,
or eyclical. periods OF idleness Mr.
Swope gaze his associates, the other
industrial kings, sound advice Their
prosperity depends absolutely on the
prosperity of their own and others
employees.
Il il the S6D,W0NM Uu.OW earned
and spent every year by American
workers. in normal times, that make
prosperity.
The few that live on unearned In
coane cannut absorb the nations auto
Mobile, radio. washing machine or
vacnuu.. cleaner output.
: Disarmament is vital to the re-
vlval of business" said President
Hoover to the International Chamber
OF Commerce, adding: "0f all propos-
ais for the economic rehabilitation OF
the world know OF none which COM
pares In necessity or Importance with
the successful results OF general dis
armament
General disarmament. II feasible,
md ii those agreeing to 1t would act
loyalty. would save many billions
year.
hut who will disarm first? Why
moi let those begin disarmament who
have started all the important inter
national wars of hundred years past.
This country has never started one.
When II was suggested that the
death penalty be abolished. witty
t'renchman replied: Que messieurs
Les assassins commencent" the
assassins commence
In disarmament. the war-makers
might commence.
treat britain Is worried, stag
gered." by the cost OF the dole. 1t
runs up now to SJOO,O00,OOO OF our
money year. That Is too much II
spent unnecessarily. Hut 1t is small
sum if the spending preyentsNserions
revolution.
England preferred sending money to
the continent. financing the fights OF
others In NapoIeons time. to going
over and fighting nh her own account.
When the peace was ripe for picking,
she went over and picked 1t at Water
loo.
With The question OF unemployment
dangerous in Great Britain. that rich
country prefers to spend half bill
lion feeding the people rather than
pay the cost of revolution.
As Ii is. having the Labor party
I'm power is revolution enough for the
Tories And IL country can afford
$4,000. 100000 or an external war. it
can afford some money to prevent
dangerous dissatisfaction at home
King George Of England Is celebras-
Ing the end OF his twenly-tirst year as
king. Only seventeen English kings
and queens have remained longer than
twenty-one years Oh the throne. King
George has now egualed the term Of
William the Conqueror. His has been
a different term. The Conqueror ruled.
He suppressed many small kingdoms
to make big one, wiped out villages
and farms to create vast deer parks.
Long after his death, as late as the
time Of Henry II, an English workman
moving from one parish to another in
search of job. without permission,
was branded on his flesh with redhot
iron.
King George has lived to see work
man. formerly In the coal mines, prime
minister OF England. and writing the
speeches that the king delivers, the
address from the throne
BRYAN Untiedt, Colorado boy, who
saved several lives In the March bliz-
Yard. Is out of the White House, back
In his overalls at home, helping his
mother with the weekly washing and
his father feeding the pigs. Asked about
Washingtons wonders, he said he
hadn't seen anything as fine as his
baby sister. He held her in his arms
for a while. before he put away his
store clothes and put on his overalls.
Young Untiedt doesn't know H. but
he probably is happier than the
ident. whom he left behind In Nitll
ington.
Calvin Coolidge says we have too
many lawyers and too many not of
the right kind. We need only 1850
new lawyers each year, and about TO-
600 are admitted TO the bar. That
helps explain several things.
AS to the necessary number Of law
yers. Calvin Coolidge does not agree
with Peter the Great of Russia. When