Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-12-12

THIS WEEK
The Swiss Answer Back
Wise Mrs. Roosevelt
Our Trade Balance
This Is Good News

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Our Trade Balance
This Is Good News
Switzerland Is small, but takes
nothing laying down" Every Swiss
Of fighting age is a reserve mem.
Der OF the Swiss army. with a rifle
and ammunition that he can use.
That encourages independence. Eu-
rope knows that Ii would cost more
TO conquer Switzerland than Swift
zerland would be worth. In add.
ton. nobody would know how to
run Swiss hotels. except the Swiss.
Recently Or. Carl Barth, Swiss
professor Of theology at Bonn uni.
versity, to which the former Ger.
mar kaiser was SEN as a boy, was
dismissed by Prussia's minister of
culture, because Doctor Barth would
not take the oath of personal 10y
atty to Hitler.
The Swiss government takes that
up promptly, saying to Germany:
IF you dismiss a Swiss teacher for
political reasons. the Swiss gov.
eminent will Immediately send
home all German professors In
Swiss universities"
No hemming and having there.
Mrs. Franklin ID. Roosevelt, wise
and energetic lady, advises giving
small children as young as six or
seven a weekly allowance, because
1t teaches them to be independent
They learn how to spend, when to
save, what to pay, and grow up In.
dependent, self-reliant individuals.
That is a good thought that some
wise professors high up In govern
ment might adopt.
If 1t is wise to teach individual
independence to young children.
why not encourage 1t In grown-up
Americans. instead of training them
to spend the rest of their lives in
any NRA baby carriage?
Again there is cheerfulness. United
States exports since October were
highest In three years. Uncle Sam
sold SOC, $4,000 worth of goods to
other countries. $76,723,O00 less
than he took in.
That is called a Favorable trade
balance" and is supposed to be a
good thing.
Absit omen, but the French rev.
olution started at a time when
France, for the first time In a long
while, found herself exporting more
than she bought.
Ensel Ford, son of Henry, and a
great help to his father as presl-
dent OF the Ford company. dined
with President Roosevelt In Warm
Springs, Ca, and told him the ma.
ton is "out OF the trough"
The two Fords are good judges
Of returning prosperity. They ex-
pect to sell at least 100000 other
"Fords" this coming year.
Winthrop w. Aldrich, head of the
New York Chase National bank,
biggest private bank In the world,
tells reporters In Seattle: 'Busi.
ness men and bankers In all the
cities we have visited believe that
there has been a real improve
ment since September"
Prosperity is climbing up, accord.
ing to Mr.. Aldrich, and he ought
to know. He has on hand more
than a billion dollars that he will
gladly lend you, If you can prove
your ability to pay 1t back.
Samuel insult and sixteen code.
PENDANTS are acquitted Of using the
mails to defraud. A majority of the
jury, which took two hours TO de.
eide, voted for acquittal from the
start.
Apparently Mr.. insult might have
avoided that firing trip to Greece
and all the expense.
There Is war talk with a meaning
In Europe. Hungary Is filled with
rage because Jugoslavia accuses
Hungarians Of plotting the murder
Of King Alexander. The Hunga.
rians r fighters, but not murder
ers.
England and France are agitated
by alleged news that Germany ia
arming with all possible speed, re-
CARELESS of the Versailles treaty.
There are a dozen causes for war
floating around Europe. and no par.
ticular cause for peace, except that
no nation could we'll afford another
war-Uncle Sans pockets being
tightly %buttoned, at present.