Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-09-27
This Week
By ARTHUR BRISBANE
Regulating Religion
What Makes Fat Ladies
Mrs. Bcsant Ii Dead
NRA and Unions

MA ana Unions
Schleswig, In Germany, thinks
the Bible story of Abraham taking
his son Isaac up the hill to cut his
throat as a sacrifice to the Lord,
and changing the plan when a ram
was m~lraculously provided to take
the place of the son, shows a con-
ception of God that lis 'un-Ger-
man."
II Isn't In the least un-German IL
you go far enough back. There
was a day when all gods were sup
posed to like sacrifices, especially
human sacrifices. and to cut the
throat of your own son to please
God and forward your own interest
was not unusual.
Didn't the German pagan god
Wotan, who Is almost Hitler's
grandfather. put his own daughter
Brunnhilde to sleep surrounded by
fames7 She might have caught
fire at any minute.
Needless to say the Christian
God, who Is also Jehovah of the
Hebrews, would not for a moment
permit human sacrifice.
Our feeble brains are permitted
to assume he wanted to find out
whether Abraham would obey, and
apparently Abraham would have
done so-and much to bis credit.
for who has a right to neglect 4
Divine commando
Gobind Behari Lal, science ed
itor. says women can be reduced in
size by eliminating excess water
from the billions OF cells that make
up their bodies.
Authority no less than the Mayo
Brothers clinic is back of this state
ment In favor of "dehydration." AS
individuals we eat. drink. breathe.
go through the process of dIges-
tion. Not all know that every one
of the billions of cells In our bodies
must do the same-eat, drink.
breathe. eliminate waste.
Some cells absorb too much wa
ter, because the water-controlIing
hormone from the posterior pitu-
itary glands Is too active. This too
active hormone, In many cases,
produces the fat women. The
d~ehydratIng or drying process re-
duces size and weight greatly. But
don't try 1t on yourself, 1t takes
skill.
DR.. Annie Besant, a leader In
theosophy. liz dead at eighty-six.
Some years ago she introduced as
THE new Messiah a g%ood-lookjng
young Hindu, Jeddu Krishnamurti.
who was to save the world. He
took to white flannel trousers and
tennis and decided TO let the world
Itself.
Disappointed but not discouraged
In young Krishnamurti, who re-
fused to be the reincarnation of
Christ" Mrs. Besant was about to
present another Messiah when she
died.
She was an able woman, did ex-
cellent work for the working people
London when she was young.
Theosophy was the relaxation of
her old age as spiritualism has
been that Of various elderly per.
sons seeking to penetrate the
veil" that is never penetrated.
In Britain, the Labor party is
1windling. Its membership now is
100000 below the 1920 figure.
who went In as Labor
prime minister and stayed as a
compromise between Labor and
roryism, still rules. and Labor
On the other hand, with the MIRA
ooked upon by labor In this coun-
.ry as Its ally. Mr.. Green, head of
he American Federation of Labor,
announces that Its ranks have been
increased by 100000 men.
Washington's union weekly, Ia
prints a cartoon of a little
Employer, much frightened, struck
~ lightning labeled MIRA. Labor"
MIRA as a branch of union
abor activities.
Some still believe that If any
lnion lis TO govern the United
1t will continue TO be q
Inion of the forty-eight states, and
lot any privately managed organi-
Poor old Uncle Sam seems to have
cen born a victim of misplaced
onldence.
People were starving In China,
nd people there were naked. Uncle
am had millions Of bushels of
7heat, unlimited bales of cotton.
nd he didn't know what to do with
ither. So he let China have $780,
worth of wheat and cotton,
aging, "Pay me later"
Now he discovers that China is
elllng the cotton to Japan at
larked-down prices, without first
aving paid for 1t. /,
VIII Uncle Sam get paid for that