The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-02-07
BRISBANE'
THIS WEEK

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| Senate's Good News
| Five Little Girls
s4,88O, 100000
Fifty-three years ago good Amer
lean mother, weak. but happy, received
In her arms small baby, with pink
face and little hair. That baby now
lives In the White House, face bronzed
by ocean air, hair thick at fifty-three
years Of age.
D. Roosevelt, President of the United
States.
One hundred and twenty-five million
Americans are grateful to his mother,
who. happily. has lived to see her son
move up. from the cradle in which she
first placed him. to earths most Inn
portant place among men.
Congratulations and thanks, first of
all, to President Roosevelt's mother;
good wishes, congratulations and a
long life to President Roosevelt.
The people Of the United States are
to be congratulated that by the de-
cision of the senate they will not be
pushed into the back door Of the
League of Nations through the World
court.
Mr. Hull, secretary of state, wanted
the United States to 60 Into the World
court and submit important matters
affecting this country to foreign Judges
appointed by nations that have swim
died this country out OF ten thousand
million dollars. Why, In heavens
name?
Those marvellous Canadian babies,
the Dlonne quIntuplets, eight months
old, are healthy. happy, each one a
separate little lady Of Intense indivld-
uality. All pretty. all intelligent, with
good foreheads, Well-shaped heads
What wonderful family It seems
almost pity that they cannot remain
babies. now. and above, through all
eternity.
The house OF representatives $50 to
IS, gives the President four thousand
eight hundred and eighty million dol
lars, to be spent In accordance with
his best judgment to fight depression
and unemployment.
In early days the little. small
change" eighty million dollars. tackled
or at the end Of the large figure. would
1 astounded sae country. for In
yt.'}ss days millions were respectable
units.n Now our government unit is the
blllion-one thousand millions. When
will the trIlllon start Its career7 The
printing press could bring 1t.
Not content with being reduced from
great empire to small backyard"
by the last Hapsburg, Austria thinks
1t wants another emperor and Prince
Starhemberg will say when little Prince
Otto shall mount the throne. That
will mean unhappiness, eventually for
j. the young prince. and good actor
spoiled for Hollywood.
Gen. William Mitchell, commander
OF all our flying force In the big war,
knows more about national defense
than anybody In this country. He
writes to friend seventy years old, az
follows:
During your lifetime have come the
electric telegraph and telephone, the
gasoline engine with Its accompani-
ment OF automotive vehicles, the air
plane and submarine. The world Is
now only one-sixth az large as when
you appeared. II this development
goes on, 1t Is difficult to say what may
take place In the next seventy years.
VIII the biological supremacy of the
yellow races dominate, or will the mill
tary supremacy. SO far. of the white
race be able to maintain our culture
and standards? The world Is growing
30 small and 80 increasingly popu-
lated that one or the other will I'M
| doubtedly become MASTER"
Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan, whose IA
Their collected pictures and other works
| OF art. has decided to sell six pic
| lures. The price asked Is said to be
100000 The older J. r. Morgan
evidently bought good pictures. Two
of the six pictures already sold to the
Metropolitan museum are a portrait
/ of Anne OF Austria" by Peter Paul
Rubens, and an altar piece by Ftiipno
Lipni. Nobody knows how much was
paid originally for either picture.
rare ten-dollar gold piece. that
sold Mt auction for $3.50, might offer a
| suggestion for government profit. AT
that rate our 5000 nOO.OOO worth Of
gold could be changed into s4o0 n00.-
0O0.000 worth. nearly all profit Who
| could contradict the government II II