Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-01-11

Try OF any people OulSlue the
boundaries of the United States.
air. Coolidge's sudden death has
deprived the American people of
what might and should have been
long years of useful work. For.
tunately. his death of heart trouble,
aggravated undoubtedly by the
tragic loss of his son. cannot wipe
out the memory of his past serv
ices. They are part of the good rec
ord of United States government
Japanese statesmen know what
they want and ask for it. Napoleon
did the same.
Having bombed China's city of
S~hanhaikwan for several days. kill
Ing about three thousand from the
air, Japan demands that the Chi
nese marshal apologize for resist
ing Japan and asks control of the
railway station at Shanhaikwan,
where a hole in the great wall let's
the railway run through 1t.
Our secretary of state. MIR. Slim
son, who takes an interest In Ash
attic matters, although they are none
of Il business, is told politely that
"Chinese aggressiveness" made II
necessary for Japan TO act.
The man arrested for killing
sheep exclaimed: II will kill any
sheen that bites me-"
At lie Mars, Iowa, Lawyer Herb
ert S. Martin. about TO foreclose a
mortgage against Farmer John A.
Johnson. was dragged down the
courthouse steps by other farmers.
He vas bidding in the farm for
less than the mortgage, leaving
Farmer Johnson still in debt.
A lawyers life in the mortgaged
farm belt is not gay.
NJ. II. Aylesworth, head Of Ma
tional Broadcasting and many 9TH
er things, as a young lawyer, work.
ing for nothing, al protecting a
western farmer with two mortgages
on his farm and one on his sheep.
When bankers told the farmer
he must get out, he burst into tears.
One kind-hearted banker patted him
on the shoulder, saying: Don't
cry everything will come out all
right" The farmer said: 81 am not
crying for myself; | am crying
when | think of you bankers in the
farming business"
Unless things improve suddenly,
bankers r going to be In many
kinds of business, in which gentle
men are now holding on by their
eyelids."
The stock market started busi-
ness for 1888, and, like the gen
tleman in Midsummer Nights
Dream" 1t proved that 1t could
roar as gently rs any sucking dove.
The old Iion-like tive-mlllion shares
a day roaring seems to he over, for
the present.
Nothing UGH happened. prices
wriggled lifelessly this way and
that, principally this way, toward
the bottom.
But better times are coming, even
In Wall Street.
News from China indicates great
er efficiency among japanese bomb
ing planes than was at first report
ed. Three thousand civilians at
Shanhaikwan are reported dead
100000 natives driven out of the
city.
War from the air is no joke, ana
this country may realize that to its
sorrow some day, If 1t does not pre-
pare thoroughly.
John Masefield, poet laureate of
England, is here with Mrs. Mase.
field, a pleasant, serious couple.
Mr.. Masefeld tells you not to ex
pect "cheery music" from poets "in
these blue days"
A poet can only bring news OF
paradise and give us a bit of magic
and beauty" That's a good deal.
Scientists are trying to find out
where the wheat plant started. Bot
anists know that wheat grew In
China 2.700 years before Christ
The ancient French historian Herve
undertakes to show that all of
the grains were developed from
weeds by the women of the Stone
age, who ruled the earth 10000
years ago. This is the greatest
wheat country In the world. Too
bad our farmers can't get a decent
price for 1t, with all the intelli
gence of best minds" trying to
help them.
G, 1898, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.
WNU Service