Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-09-12

THIS WEEK
Feed Everybody? Big Job
Roads Ask Sl7O, 100000
Can't Shoot Santa Claus
Steel Coffin for Wong

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Can't Shoot Santa Claus
Steel Coffin for Wong j
1t is announced that the govern
ment will feed. at public expense,
men that go on strike while the
strike lasts. The American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor representative in
the South says the 100000 textile
workers about to 20 on strike will
took to the government TO take care
of them while the strike lasts.
According to the Associated Press,
Harry l.. Hopkins. government re
lief administrator. says: 1T is a
surprising thing TO me we haven't
had a id sight more strikes than
we have"
We shall probably have strikes In
sufficient number If the government
supports all strikers. and, If 1t
should decide TO pay them out of
public moneys the wages they are
asking while the strike lasts, there
might be a great many strikes.
Railroads ask for an Increase of
S170,0OO.000 In freight rates to off
set increased expenses which re
fleet economic policies Of the gov
eminent" Railroads must run, and
IL the people are not paying enough
they must pay more. 1t Is to be
hoped that increased payment will
provide good pay for railroad work
ers. conductors, engineers. train
men, track walkers. all others.
The american Liberty league"
organized to protect the beautiful
old American dollar and vested In
terests" from the New Deal" ex-
poets former governor Al Smith TO
help.
Mr.. John w. Davis, who also ran
for President on the Democratic
ticket, Is said TO be with the league
heart and SOUL"
Former Governor Smiths friends
think be may be too busy"
The probability of beating Presi-
dent R%oosevelt's party this fall was
expressed well by a former Demo
cratic cabinet member who Is not
a Roosevelt man:
"You can't shoot Santa Claus, you
know. especially around Christ
mas"
Edmund Wong On Wah, Chinese
air pilot. dreamed that he crashed
after a collision, and told his Amer
lean wife that when he did die he
wanted an iron coffin.
Wong On Wah was selected with
another Chinese flyer, Fong Shek,
to maneuver above the steamship
Bremen, bringing in Gen. Chang
Pathway. The planes collided. Wong
was killed and his desire to fly and
fight for the Chinese army thwart-
ed. He will be buried here In a
$3.50 steel coffin. General Chang,
whom Wong never saw. gave the
order.
Why do you suppose Wong want
ed an iron coffin? 1t could not keep
the soul In or keep the worms out,
presumably. Many prosperous Amer
leans are buried in collins of bronze.
Not long ago Mussolini and Hitler
met with all signs Of amity eternal
at Venice. Hands were clasped,
VOWS of friendship and cooperation
exchanged. M~ussolinl was to visit
Hitler at his country estate as soon
as possible, and the world said,
"How lovely to see dictator breth.
rem dwelling together in amity!
And now the Mussolinl visit to
Hitler Is postponed indefinitely
Mussolini did not like the Dollfuss
assassination, and seems to hold
Hltler's Nail friends responsible.
Europe discusses the expulsion of
Mrs. Sinclair Lewis from Germany
as a %forerunner of rigid press con
troll. All copies Of the London
Times In German were recently
seized and 1t Is expected that for
eign correspondents will be asked
to leave II they write anything dis
pleasing to Hitler. Engines would
not last long without a safety valve,
and liberty does not last long with.
out free expression Of opinion.
Modern dictators need to encr0ach
several hairs breadth on established
liberties, and all agree with Ma.
poleon, who said his power would
last but a few weeks II he permit
ted freedom of the press.
Germany, preparing for a hard
winter and with scarcity, is endeav
oring, through Propaganda Minister
Goebbels. ito establish hunger as a
virtue" and arouse the peoples en-
thuslasm concerning the duty of
"doing without"
In this country also we expect a
hard winter, but instead Of a glori
flying of hunger and the mobile pa
triotism of going without" our gov
eminent says: Nobody shall be
hungry" The American plan will
be the more popular.