Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1933-04-27
This Week
b ARTHUR BRIsBANE
Gold Basis, Au Revoir
Killers Birthday
Life Insurance News
Light Beer and Music
ARTHUR BRISBANE

Life Insurance News
Light Beer and Music
Big news. For the time, Uncle Sam
Ii OF the gold basis. Secretary
Woodin of the treasury announces
1t officially.
Much excitement In good old Wall
Street II 1t continues. George w.
Bill can find a permanent job there
for his young musicians that sing
Happy Days Are Here Again"
As stock prices went UP, the price
of our dollar went down In foreign
countries.
That need not worry us. What our
dollar can buy here. not what foreign
ers think of 1T, is important to Amer
leans.
II our money gets nearer to the
value OF other nations money, that
will help US to sell goods abroad. Our
dollar, in the language Of the day. has
been too high hat" for good business.
Many foreigners say our departure
from the gold standard will hold back
world recovery"
1t has not held back recovery OF
stock prices, or farm and other prod
uets. Wheat. cotton. hay, silver. every
thing Is going up. Americans can
stand the dollar dropping In value, Ii
everything goes up La price. A ma
1ority OF us haven't many dollars
anyhow.
Adolf Hitler, Germany's new chan
%cellor. recently celebrated his forty
fourth birthday. and practically all
Germany celebrated with him. The
national celebration, that went beyond
any honor ever paid to Bismarck, Him.
denburg or the kaiser, was close to
alteration.
The Prussian minister OF Justice.
Haus Kerri, told the Prussian diet:
Hitler is the Holy Ghost" And all
over Germany Hitler's political organi-
zations erected shrines with his pic
lures In public halls. held services be-
fore them, thanking God for his gift
to Germany of the great Hitler. Thus
Russians, In old days, before Lenin
and Stain. wOrshiped their ikoris. -
Men that take out life insurance
seriously, unselishly. not for them
selves, but to protect their widows and
children after death, will be glad that
government authority now limits reck-
less borrowing on insurance policies.
In time OF foolish hysteria men bor-
on their insurance policies to the
limit, destroying the real purpose OF
insurance, which Is to protect those
depend or the insured should
anything happen to him.
Income tax payers will rejoice to
hear that innocent little 50 beer IL
expected to pay to Uncle Sam more
than the S125,O00,O0O annually esti-
mated by the secretary Of the treasury.
And musicians will be delighted to
earn that In Milwaukee mild beer Isl
out the barbarian .hot-cha.
music that came In with
'bafhtub gin, bootleg whisky and
beer Real music Is offered
u MIiWaukee's beer and palm gar
It may spread and crowd out
,in and jazz
While some have gone back to Wall
Street forgetting all about 1929, you
fill be interested to hear that many
'thers have gone to farms, safer
In times OF depression. The bu-
can OF agricultural economics shows
since 1890 more than 100000
americans have left the cities for the
At least you can raise food
here. and rent isn't high.
Even SO, only 32.076, 960 people are
ID the farms. More than two-thirds
till In cities and towns.
President Roosevelt, still forbidding
be sun to set on any idle day, plans
0 put an end to our ancient sshit-or-
Mss systems In industry and employ
TENT He requests Miss Frances Per-
ms. able secretary of labor, and MIR.
secretary OF commerce, to ar
ange W committees, one to control
reduction. the other hours and wages.
This will not suit him who avs.
want to attend to my business In
" own way" rounding out" expand
~ indefinitely and disastrously. But
will suit the country II 1t can be
pne successfully.
Mussolini suggests that Uncle
AIMS foreign debt be paid In goods.
How this country could absorb ten
lousand million dollars worth Of
'reigD-made goods just now with 80
any OF u workers Idle is not clear
ut suggestions from the able Mus
'fn1 are always welcome.
BY the way. that powerful person
sending twenty airplanes from
pine to Chicago to celebrate he
,ening Of the big fair, a most ex-
emely friendly gesture by a nation
at has recently broken. and holds.
e worlds air speed record.