The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-12-27
BRISBANE
THIS WEEK

los Billions. Be Calm
103 Eyes for an Eye
Tho Unexpected Pleases
! Fourth Place for Us -
Secretary Ickes has a real plan, and
possesses what might be called vision
In spending. He has confidence in this
country and its wealth. As chairman
OF the resources board, Mr.. lckes Ia
vors spending $1O5, OOO. 100000 In The
next 20 or 30 years on public works.
Do not stand and gaze" or fall back
ward: that Isn't SO much money for
Uncle Sam. Mr.. r. Fl. Ecker, whose
Metropolitan Life Insurance company
biggest In the world, has assets OF ~
OOO,OO0,OOO, will tell you that In really
good times the United States income
WAS SOC, OOO, 900, 900 year. SEQ 600 OOO.-
600 for wages, $4,000. 100000 of other
income.
IAN eye for an eye and q tooth for
a tooth" may suit old-fashioned cap
itallstlc" countries. 1t does not appeal
to Russia. There to avenge the killing
of one man, kirov, Stains friend, %
more have been shot, making a total
of 103.
"A hundred and three eyes for one
eye, hundred and three teeth for one
TOOTH" Is high price. and the number
killed may be increased.
The unexpected Is interesting ana
Is the essence Of humor Two old gen.
tlemen, failing In their attempt 10
strike OIL retired to the poorhouse-
In the poorhouse backyard they found,
first, good coal deposit, then struck
oil.
Louis Mosenza OF New Jersey went
hunting deer, walked 20 miles, found
nothing. At night he found large
deer hanging In his kitchen. 1t walked
f1nto the front yard, Mrs. Mosenza
| shot It.
Charles Dana Gibson, able artist,
with friends went moose hunting, trav-
eled far, by blackboard In the Maine
forest, found nothing, packed guns,
drove back to the station. A nne bull
/ moose and two cows walked across the
track. They could not get out their
guns In time.
An MIRA report says the United
States comes fourth among nations In
the march toward recovery and II graft
fed. There was a time when fourth
place did not particularly gratify
Americans, but "small mercies thank
fully received
Interesting In the report is the state
ment that countries still on the gold
basis-France, Italy, Belgium. Holland.
swltzesland-show the least progress.
Catholics and Protestants In Ger
many unite In = pro-Deo ("For Godp
movement to counterfeit the @godless
Bolshevik propaganda" :
At the same time various religious
authorities In Germany quarrel among
themselves and the head government
seeks to "Germanlze' the Christian
religion, annoyed perhaps by the Idea
! that the lone God" should have been
; given to the world by the Jews.
, Rumania's parliament discussed 4
young lady with red hair named Magda
: Lupescu, for whom the Rumhnian king,
, Carol. has shown some partIality. IT
: was suggested In defense OF King
: Carol that ahis critics are too weak to
be immoral"
! That new view OF immortality would
! surprise several wel-known charac-
, ters. including the good ST. Anthony.
! II was not understood that the man
! who said he could "resist anything ex-
\ cept temptation" was person OF un'
! usual strength.
! Mr.. Joseph ]. Fiske observes that
O among the lone hundred and eighty
n one who had incomes Of million dol
lars-a year during the war. the jew
i may be counted on the fingers OF ons
. hand" He thinks this interferes witt
HItler's theory that members OF thu
) Jewish race control the worlds money
4 and own most OF It.
. That theory, of course, is' nonsense
There is no Jew among the richest mel
in the United States, who are, or wer'
Z until recently. John D. Rockefeller. An
Il drew w. Mellon, Henry Ford an
o. George #. Baker.
v Wise King George Of England know
sr which way the straws are blowing
Friends wanted to give him. BY sui
70 scrIption. new yacht costing $3.50
IN 600. He thanked them, said he coul
% ret along well with his old sailin
80 boat. and advised that the $4,000 "b
m applied to people out OF work" Ths
~ kind of king stays on his throne.
10 The marques of Donegal tells tn
d. London Sunday Despatch that Chance
10 lor Hitler, flying over east Prussia, wa
IL attacked with guntire from another all
nlane that fled at high speed ate