Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-02-15
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRIsBANE
No Ten Per Cent
48 Opinions, No Opinion
To Change a Good Name
This Little Plant Thrives

Ahfe LitiiC idnt iuTiNct
Washington Is waiting for Eng
lands proposition concerning the
war debts. MIR. Rainey of Illinois
says n billion. or 10 cents on the
dollar. the most probable PROPOSE
ton, is sheer nonsense" Mr..
Rainey must prepare for another
shock, for the proposition may In
clude payment In deprecated Brit.
ish or other currency, and possibly
part payment In silver. at a price
about double the present value.
Would II not be simpler TO say TO
our European friends. "go ahead
and default. II win be worth ten
billions, plus interest. to know that
your promise to pay Is worth moth.
Ing" One thing is certain. any po-
litical party accepting a 10 per cent
debt settlement would not stay In
power long.
Without losing his temper, Uncle
Sam might say: "You owe US the
money. II you don't intend to pay,
don't" We could then proceed to
collect indirectly.
Two days after his Inauguration,
President Roosevelt will have a
meeting of governors of the states.
in the White House. to discuss
what to do"
To let the governors come In, ex-
press their opinions, get acquainted
With the President and each other.
Is a good idea. But 48 opinions
would mean no opinion. II anything
Is to be done. 1t must be done by
one man with the right idea and the
power to make others accept 1t.
Lavergne. French Canadian cab
met member of parliament, suggests
that Canada's name be changed from
Dominion of Canada to Kingdom of
Canada. He says 1t would have been
called Kingdom" originally, but
'fear of offending United States
sentiment prevented"
Canadians fear nothing, as the old
Gauls told Alexander the Great, lex.
cept that the sky may fall on u.s."
And they certainly need not fear
United States sentiment. II would
seem rather silly, however. for a
free people. with a king more or
less of a figurehead. three thousand
miles away. to call themselves q
kingdom.
All we ask of Canada liz to In.
GREASE In prosperity ana power and
act as a good pacemaker for US.
Crisp county, Georgia, built Its
own hydro electric power plant and
issued bonds to pay for 1t. Now the
county calls In bonds. paying them
principal and interest, before they
are due.
OF course, anything In the way of
public ownership" is a fearsome
thing In the opinion of our best
minds"
But perhaps some that invested In
private power plants, insult plants.
for instance. wish they had bought
bonds OF the little Georgia hydro
electric institution instead.
A bill In the Massachusetts legis.
lature makes 1t necessary for non
residents to buy a permit "before
they may dig Massachusetts worms
for fishing"
Calvin Coolidge. who fished with
worms, would. If present, have
something to say about that. Non.
residents will be puzzled by the
worm-digging rule, wondering wheth
err II Is intended to protect Massa
chusetts citizens that dig worms
as q profession and sell them to
strangers. or to protect the worms
from determination.
1t Is a new idea In taxation.
In New York. 5000 march sol.
EMMY. In protest against Japan's
wal In China. How does this con.
cern anybody among the 3,WW7 How
many of them know that those killed
by the japanese are largely Chinese
brigands that the Chinese govern
ment has been unsuccessfully trying
to kill?
What would the 1900 solemn
marchers have said If the same
number Of Japanese had marched
around Tokyo in 1917 protesting
against our foolish interference In
the European war?
The difference between a man AND
a bird Ia ehoypn In fbn nlan m raaph