Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-11-29
This Week
By ARTHUR BRsBANE

The Restless Dollar
Visiting the Upper Air
10000 Against the Tick
Crime Does Not Pay
Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale knows
about political economy and says
the plans and policies OF President
Roosevelt 'are substantially right"
which is a good thing for a profess
o TO say. The professor is pleased
because President Roosevelt is seek.
Ing sterilization" of the dollar. and
quotes the Presidents message to
the London conference last July:
'SThe United States OF America
seeks the kind of dollar which, a
generation hence. win have the
same purchasing power and debt
paying power as the dollar we hope
to attain In the near future"
OF course, President Roosevelt
did not literally mean that any dol
lar could have, a generation hence.
the same purchasing power as 1t
has now. Values and purchasing
power depend on the price of hui
man labor.
The first United States attempt
to explore the upper atmosphere
ended when Lieut.. T. G. W. Settle
and Maj. Chester L. Fordney came
down In a New Jersey swamp after
sailing with a gas bag 61,237 feet
into more than the air.
Eleven miles up Into the air
above our heads Is a good first at
tempt II Is as though some deep
sea fish should swim up a tenth of
a mile from the bottom of water
five miles deep.
When the two ~stratosphere flyers
reached a point II miles above the
earth they still had 400 miles to go
to reach the thin outside edge of
u air ocean.
Some day, perhaps, men will leave
u atmosphere entirely and go on
to the o or possibly some ear
planet. But that will not happen
soon.
Going about 1000 miles an hour,
1t would take five years to reach
our neighbor Mars when 1t comes
NEAR" us-within 40,000 900 miles.
The Department of Agriculture
will put 1900 men to work on stick
eradication" The stick" improper
ly called sometimes the Texas tick,
attaches Itself to cattle In the field,
hangs on for life, drinking the ami
mails blood. "Ticky" cattle are
thin, miserable. scrawny and almost
worthless. The remedy is to dip af-
fiicted animals In a liquid that de-
stroys ticks and then keep them
away from infected animals. The
poor tick will not put up much of a
fight against Uncle Sam, for when
1t falls off q COW 1t can walk only
a few inches and must wait until
another animal stands still while 1t
climbs up.
Crime does not pay. Two young
men In California kidnapped a youth,
twenty-five years old, and confess
that they murdered him. After the
murder. seeking to extort $4,000,
they telephoned the parents. "The
easiest thing would be to kill yonr
son. with little danger to u.s." They
did kill him, but not with little
danger" Both are In Jail, soon to
learn from California justice how
dangerous their kidnapping was.
Thanks to the Department Of Jus
tice and secret service, which can
not be too highly praised. kidnap-
ing has become a dangerous Indus
try.
One mans meat Is another's pol
on. Cigar manufacturers tell NRA
that raising wages In the cigar in
dustry will make the ~iye-cent cigar
impossible. The code would pay 28
cents an hour to makers Of cigars
by hand, 80 cents for operators of
machines that make cigars. That
does not seem excessive. Some one
win continue the ~1ve-cent cigar.
The number of deaths In child
birth Is greater In this country than
In any other civilized country on
earth, a record that dlsgraces "the
richest nation"
1t is customary to attribute such
deaths to lack of medical care. The
New York Academy of Medicine re-
ports that the incompetency Of doc
tors is responsible for 81 per cent
of '%avoidable" deaths Of mothers
during childbirth during the last
three years In New York state.
Italian newspapers, including
Mussolini's Popolo DItalIa, suggest
that Italy may withdraw from the
League of Nations, considering the