Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-10-17

THIS WEEK
What You Read You Are
She Is Lonely
Yes, Money Does Count
The Presidents Broadcast


The whole country follows the
"Hauptmann case" dealing with the
Lindbergh kidnapping. Newspapers
have increased circulation since
Hauptmann's arrest. This proves
that citizens, able to get along with
out ordinary news of national and
international affairs, cannot do with
out the Lindbergh kidnap news.
The East reads about the Bobby"
Edwards case, that of a young man
accused of killing a girl, Freda Nc
Misunderstanding her on the head
and drowning her when he tired of
her.
Others are much interested In the
cas- of q woman with a we'll known
name and a quarrel about control
and possession of a child, heiress to
several millions. Foreign princes,
plain American drunkenness, many
unpleasant details, are dragged into
the story. A considerable crowd
finds that interesting. That judges
decision will be interesting.
Future historians will know what
we were by reading the news
stories" that interested us.
Mrs. Eva Coo, whom reporters
choose to call Little Eva" Coo. now
In the women's wing of the death
house of Sing Sing prison, convicted
Of numbering a mar whose life she
had insured, and waiting to be cleo
trocuted, makes q statement.
II has nothing to do with the
hereafter, deaths uncertainty OF It's
meaning, the horror of the electric
chair. The statement says:
II like company. / am so lone
some I don't know what to do"
Only a few weeks to live, the cleo
trio chair and all that Is on the
other side of that chair just ahead
of her, and Mrs. Coos strongest I'M
preston is that she likes company.
We are a gregarious race, and alb
sence of imagination is a great help
IL you must be electrocuted.
Does money make a difference In
the United States? 1t made some
difference when, In Foley Square,
opposite New York's Supreme court
building, six rather old men were ar
rested charged with "vagrancy." One
of them. ~slxty-four years old, who
gave a name not his own, was found
with bank books showing that he
owned $4,000, safe In the bank.
The magistrate suspended SEN
tence" en- the $4,000 vagrant. He
was not even fined. Five others
that had no money were fined $40
each and sent to Jail for ten days
when they did not pay.
There Is a text for some budding
Communist orator.
Some call President Roosevelt's
broadcast crumbs of comfort"
thrown to "the right" where dwell
big industriallsts, disgruntled finan-
ciers and other sad conservatives.
1t Is taken as hitherto shalt thou
go and no farther, and here shall thy
proud waves be stayed" addressed
to %on-rushing "radicalism."
The Presidents broadcast proves
that gentlemen we're mistaken who
said the President intends to do
away with profits" making enter
prise an obedient snir in the new
system of society. The address
means to optimistic conservatives
that the New Deal desires only to be
helpful" to private enterprise, not
choke 1t. But private enterprise
must be good. and. with the New
Deal, keep Its eye on the ultimate
happiness of the many.
IL you buy whisky 1t is wise to
buy a brand that you know. In New
York, this year, government agents
seized 100000 cases of queer
whisky. including $4,000 cases of
Scotch" whisky made in America,
with one-elghth Scotch to make 1t
taste smoky" the rest being sher-
~, glucose, and homemade alcohol.
The old game for children was
Button, button. who's got the but
toni" The new game for grownups
Is. dollar, dollar. who's got the
dollar, and how shall we tax 1T"
New York city. seeking S17,000,-
600 a month now, more later, for
welfare relief. has already put q
tax on income taxes.
Secretary Wallace suspects, and
farmers will be glad to hear 1t. that
ian ignorant, INSCRIPTIONS" polit'
ical attempt will be made this fall
to make the government lend 75
cents a bushel on corn and 81 add
tional on wheat. If Mr.. Wallace:
fears are realized the new from
tiers" as regards United States
finance, will be as wide as the
Milky Way and as high as the blue
star Vega.
II. ii. Kung, intelligent Chinese
statesman, finance minister. tells
Secretary Morgenthau that hi
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