Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-09-15


A thought, harmless In the mouth
IF a philosopher OF a railroad presi-
lent. may be dangerous when taken
Too literally by d little man
Spain has abolished the death pen
iity the maximum term of impris0n
nent twenty years, no life imprison-
ment. Also. new in Spain. unfaithfui
husbands and wives are TO be pun
shed equally, no favors for the nus
bands
This ending of the death penalty Is
al the more striking because Spain
throI III the centuries has specialized
in the intIietion of death, with thou
sands burned and tortured. for reIig-
lous disbelief. death inflicted on slight
prov0cation.
Ii You speculate in stocks, rejoice
and be exceedingly glad, for In Au-
gust the total value of listed stocks
increased on paper by more than seven
thousand million dollars.
However, that didn't put the eleven
millions idle back TO work. An in
crease of seven thousand million dol
lars in stock values is pleasant Not
SO pleasant Is the fact that idleness of
eleven million men costs this country
more than 1hirty-six thousand millions
a year In lost wages The rise In
stocks reminds you OF the pretty mu-
sic that Nero is supposed to have
played while Rome burned.
There Is good in all evil" and good
viii come from this depression
Even the duIlest exploiters of their
fellow men begin TO realize that hui
maj working hours and days must di-
minish, as machine efficiency increases
The shorter working week and day
will be. one OF the depression's prod
ucts- And many that have crowded
into hot, unnatural cities will escape
TO the country before the depression
ends, and always stay there. which
will be d blessing for their children
you il all depends on how much gold
you have back of your money. How
do they explain the fact that In Can
ada an American changing d United
States twenfT-doIlar gold piece gets
only SLIGO In United States ~one-dollar
bills, whereas for twenty of those one
dollar bills he can get S2o.40 In United
States gold coin? Try to figure that
out.
In London. Mayor Cermak of Chi
cago, annoyed by BritisLers talking
about Chicago crime" reminds them
that they have $1,000 policemen in
London And IF Chicago had that
many cops | could clear the city Of
every criminal" The mayor would
do it, of course, If he could, but pos,
sibly be couldn't.
DIR. Benjamin Goldberg tells the
American Congress OF Physical Their.
apy that our depression has improved
the health OF the people, but has cul
down the birthrate.
Insurance companies say -tht
masses are learning more about birth
control and praetieing it Health Ii
improved. perhaps. by the fact thai
there Is less bootleg whisky drinking
and less OF the o%vereating that breeds
disease, when times are bad
A person no less important thar
Rev. Canon J. A. MacCnlloch SAYS
belief In fairies has a real founda
ton. In glacial times there lived il
Britain a Digmy race. nov disap
peared, SO small they could have beer
called fairies.
Ambassador Mellon says condition,
r better, and recovery has begun
sslow but sure The recovery viii
show eventually In general business.
That is good news. Mr.. Mellol
knows something about business
enough to enable him to extract man,
hundred millions of dollars from bill
intelligence Also. Mr.. Mellon lis no
among those that. two or three year
ago, said everything that was al
wrong would be all right In a yer,
little while.
That this lis a rich country. an
would be happy Ii it only knew wha
to do with Its wealth. how to manage
how to distribute 1t, you realize wheI
you read that New York city pays 1t
public employees I'M million dollars
day. That Is almost as much as
cost to run the whole government O
the United States In happy old day
before 1914 started our national squar
dering debauch-
New York's taxpayers, supplyin