Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-07-26
This Week
b. ARTHUR BRIsBANE
Our Armor Plate Conc
More Pay for 100000
The Lash in England
A Deadly Rat Army


A Deadly Rat Army
The chief italian flyer. General
Balbo, with his most important pi-
lots, lunched with President Roose-
welt at the White House and won
dered, perhaps, that such a big
country should have such a little
White House. They have bigger
public buildings than that In Rome.
and MussolInI is building more of
them.
The polite Italians expressed de-
light at everything and added a
wreath to the grave of the Unknown
Soldier.
General Balbo makes light of his
c~ountrymen's marvellous achieve
ment, saying he was tired of flying
over the Mediterranean and decided
to stroll over to Chicago. Neverthe-
less, his is the most remarkable
flight ever made. and one most Inn
portant to the future of aviation
and of war.
1t Is as important to this country
as the Invention of gunpowder was
to the mobiles that wore armor plate
and found that bullets would go
through It, Our "armor plate" has
been the Atlantic and Pacific
oceans, and VIZ know now that fleets
of airships can fly over them.
Approximately 1000 900 workers
In this country have had their sal
aries increased, and, to a great ex-
tent, restored to the 1929 pay level
The pay Increases applied to 100000
textile workers.
This army of 100000 with the
old buying powers restored. and
with the other millions to follow,
accompanied by q more plentiful
distribution of dollars, will, under
wise management. settle the depres-
sion problem. Trading the gold
standard for good times is q good
trade.
Wien the British dislike any
thing, they try to get rid of 1t. Two
young Britishers, first of the kind
In that country. confessed recently
to robbery with sawed-0fr shotguns.
Importation of the American Idea
displeased the British judges.
They sentenced the young men to-
long terms In prison. but first each
young gentleman was dashed with
the cat-o'-nine-tails. When the LASH
ings were over. both were under
stood TO remark that they would
do no more robbing with 8 wed-ofr
shotguns. The cat-o-nlne-tails de-
stroyed the glamour of crime.
In this country. when we don't
like anything. we talk about 1t.
Every possible misfortune appears.
to attack the unfortunate Chinese.
Now a frightful plague of rats
sweeps the southern part OF the
province of Anhwei, In East Gen.
trail China.
The rats have polluted the water
and threaten famine, while
natives appeal for outside help. I'M
able to fight the swarms of vermin.
Even this government might be-
interested, for a rat plague means
other plaques. such as Asiatic choI-
era, and such things sometimes
travel far and rapidly.
Gen. Hugh s. Johnson, appointed
by President Roosevelt to help reg
ulate wages, hours and other work.
Ing conditions. appears to be a rug
ged sort of person. using rugged
English. When certain 'best minds'r
to his plans for restoring
general prosperity, he doesn't say
they represent "a doubtless
conscientious element de-
voted to constitutional niceties."
He calls them the "~chisellIng
and warns them to stop
chiselling."
The British reaching out for busI-
are p~erfecting an agreement
With Russia, under which Russian
purchases will be increased In Eng
and, especially purchases of heavy
machinery. Russia Is c~anceIlng her
BUSINESS with Germany. Stain does
lot like MI. Hitler's d%enunciation Of
Communism.
Spain, 1t Is said, will recognize
russia and endeavor to do business
With that country.
Five Americans, arrested In Spain