Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1933-11-01
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRlsBANE
Gold and Rabbits Feet
Never Give Up Hope
MIR. Farley's Flush
Swimming Under Water

Ii you saw white or colored gen.
tlemen bidding against each other
for the feet of graveyard rabbits,
running the price up TO many dol
lars a foot, you would smile.
You may smile as condescendlng-
ly when the British empire and the
United States of America bid
against each other for gold, run
ming the price up two dollars an
ounce in n day.
Pleasant for those that sell the
gold. but what about taxpayers
that have to supply money for all
this biddingf
Uncle Sam Is bidding S31.36 an
ounce for gold, to be paid for by
the Reconstruction Finance cor
poration In 90-day debentures. The
United States of America bids %
cents an ounce above the price bid
by London. This makes our dollar
worth not quite GO cents In gold.
1t must amuse the British, for they
have the gold, our own supply
amounting to little. Britain can
stand the bidding If we can. espe
cially as important new gold dis.
coveries have recently been made
In South Africa as well as In Aus.
tralia, and the possibilities In
northwestern Canada III unlim-
tied.
If Uncle Sam intends to keep on
with his bidding. he might well go
out and dig some gold.
A prisoner In the death cell hopes
until the last minute. Even as
he goes through the little door,
with the back of his head shaved
for the electrode. he still hopes.
Frightened, weak discouraged men
thinking of suicide should also
keep hope to the very last and.
therefore, never commit suicide.
Unfortunate Harry Brown of
Freeport, Long Island, gave up
hope just one hour too soon. He
had turned on the gas in his little
fiat and killed himself just as Mrs.
Caroline Lockwood knocked at his
door. eagerly. to give him good
news that she had a Job for him.
Never give up whether you have
lost $50.OO0,OO0 or an $1S-a-week
Job. There are always better days
ahead and unlimited possibilities
In every hour.
Playing poker In a flying ma
chine 1920 feet up In the air, Post
master General Farley drew one
card and completed a liking high
straight flush" II you know what
that Is, you know it is a good omen
for the administration. Mr.. Far
ley. who doesn't drink. smoke, talk
or get excited, laid the hand down
calmly and drew In the pot. saying,
II couldn't conscientlously raise on
q hand like that with friends"
Burma is proud of her champion
swimmer, Prafulla Kumar Chose,
who swan 70 hours "a minutes
without stopping, In the royal lake
at Rangoon.
Hawaii claims the record with
Charles Jimmy, 'legless" swim
mer, who swan 100 hours In a
Honolulu pool.
Wall Street says:
"That is making a fuss about
nothing. Thousands of us down
here have been under water for
the last four years without coming
up" They have, and so have their
bankers.
The government will lend farm
ers 80 cents a bushel on corn, and
for corn grown on good land 80
cents Is not a bad price, although
1t ought to be 81.
Some call the governments lend
ing Socialism" The majority will
agree that 1t Is better than old
conditions, under which corn sold
for 10 cents a bushel and many
farmers used 1t for fuel because II
was cheaper than coal
Secretary Ickes of the Interior de-
partment renders public service
warning foolish investors against
being swIndled in connection with
the power project at the Bonneville
(Ore.) dam. He reminds citizens
of large sums lost In connection
with Muscle Shoals real estate
swindles. Many, unfortunately, will
not be warned. Erecting a power
plant does not create land values
and, by the way, Muscle Shoals rea
estate sharks are still buying II
that neighborhood. Secretary Icke'
warns against them also.
Washington reports that Middle
West farmers, planning all sorts o
protests against the government
are to be soothed with ''promp
cash aid" The secretary Of agricul
ture is expected to urge more com
modify loans" to calm the farmers
1t might become necessary. by ant
by, to calm the taxpayers, who. o
course, must supply all this money
But. like the geese that lay COLDER