The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-08-09
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK
Many Are Saving
Some Cheerful News
Short Love Song
Marie Dres.Ier dead


doldrums Of human activity.
Tho President IL on his way home
from Hawaii and may have something
cheerful and exciting to tell VI.
He will learn that mutual savings
bank accounts have reached 4 new
high peak throughout the nation, de-
positors having increased In the past
six months by 2T3.s0s. The total num-
Der OF Individual depositors Is now
13.686,947, and total deposits are near
ly ten thousand million dollars. good
deal Of money.
That Is good news for those that
have something and know enough to
save part Of 1t. 1t means. however,
that many open or increase savings
accounts because they do not know
any other sufe way to invest money,
and that Is not so cheerful. Good
times depend on new ventures, bring
ing more employment
Steel production, q sort OF indus
trial and prosperity Indicator, Is down,
OF ST per cent In week. Total pro-
duction Is only about oneQuarter of
what the Industry could do. Dull steel
production means 4 dull labor market.
Steel makers look for Improvement
this month and next from automobile
makers.
The automobile news Is more cheer
ful-peasant proof that citizens are
lifting up their hearts" and beginning
to spend again.
The shortest great love song In his
and Mussolini. with heads thrown
back, sang recently In Venice.
It's 4 complete divorce OF dictators
now. and because OF that little rift
within the lutte France and Italy are
said to be drawing closer together.
They were far apart before Dollfuss
was killed Political and other assas-
sInattons are never profitable. One.
twenty years ago. started the great
war.
This Dollfuss murder breaks up 4
beautiful budding friendship between
dictators. and threatens Germany with
complete national isolation.
Marie Dressler II dead, after brave
light against death. The world learns
from her that success depends on
brains and courage She lost the good
looks Of youth shortly after forty, 70
Mr.. Ziegfeld decided that he could not
give her work. AZ he hoped to do. She
struggled. unsuccessfully, for fourteen
years. lost NIL her savings, never lost
her courage. And when she died. ut
sixty-two. she WIS one OF the greatest
successes In moving pictures, most
highly paid. respected and admired,
with no help from any beauty parlor.
Moving picture men should notice
that Miss Dressler was able to earn
great profits for ner producers, In
plays not immoral, clean plays deal
Ing with the normal interests of nor
NAL human beings.
The Bible says that to him that
hath shall be given" and many New
York landlords perhaps remembered
that when they read the gigantic
Rockefeller building enterprise In New
York called Rockefeller Center" II
@out OF the red," self-supporting with
so per cent OF space rented. Good
news for an undertaking that cynics
called "a great white elephant"
Optlmists look upon Rockefeller
Center success AZ proof Of improve
ment In business. Wise men know
that 1t IL another proof OF Rockefeller
efficiency
Not bidding for tenants from other
buildings at cut rates. Mr.. Rockefeller
has brought tenants from afar, includ-
Ing extremely important tenants from
Europe, and has built up business
nefghborhood OF his own.
The government Is willing. and
would like to spend about 5000 900 900
on Its PWA public works program In
New York, but strikes may prevent.
Labor leaders complain that men get
ting so. to 90 cents an hour should be
replaced by more highly skilled men
getting 81. to $1.85 per hour. There
are internal labor troubles also. based
on quarrels as to jurisdiction among
different unions, two or more claiming
control Of the same job.
Soviet Russia finds herself In posses
sion OF q great treasure, thanks to
the Greek church which she has treat
ed 80 harshly. The churches and
cathedrals, now government property,
are said to contain hundreds OF mil
lions worth OF precious objects, sacred
images, '4Ikons," framed In solid gold,
and huge doors OF massive silver. One
image OF the Virgin Is said to have
been ornamented with more than 1000
diamonds, OF which many had been
stolen.
The British government Is learning
more and more about airplanes and
their Importance In the next war. A
recent experimental "alr attack on
Tondonn shows that enemy bombing