The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-01-17

congress Will give President RooSe-
welt a lump sum, a considerable lump
or four thousand million dollars, to let
him change from the system of doles
and Imitation Jobs, picking up leaves
and pieces Of paper to real Jobs and
useful work.
In his new White House Offices,
! President Roosevelt is at work on q
social security program" which will
include unemployment insurance and
old age pensions. The Idea Is to let
pay rolls contribute to the cost OF In
surance and pensions. This might
work we'll with normal pay rolls.
You hope that the President, in hts
wisdom, will include In any security"
| program security for the nation, in adj
| dition to security for individuals, old
or out of Job
Unemployment insurance and old age
| pensions would do little good IL few
| thousand planes came flying from Eu-
rope or Asia to bomb our cities and
spray them with poison gas. II they
came now, they could do exactly as
they pleased. We have no way of in
terferiHg with them.
Bruno Hauptmanns musings on
fates yagaries were interrupted the
other day by strange offer from Mr..
Standlsh Hartman. who owns the old
Pennington stone works, manufacture
ing tombstones, just opposite the
Hauptmann Jail.
Hauptmann was told, IF you are
sent to the electric chair / will let you
pick out your own tombstone, free,
and help you write the epitaph. / will
make 1t work of art that people will
60 a long way to see. one that any man
would be proud to have"
1t should take genius to devise
tombstone that "any man would be
proud to have" II he got 1t after being
executed for murder.
A day is coming when no man will
do any work harder than pressing n
button, and science, incidentally, will
make crime obsolete.
For instance, the Joliet (nl.) TALLER
sent fat .trusty" outdoors for a
cigar. and the automatic electric eye"
at the gate saw him. flashed a light
and the innocent fat "trusty" was
searched small metal shoehorn was
found In his big loose shoe.
The electric eye flashes when any
body passing the gate has any sort OF
metal In his possession. No prisoners
friend hereafter can take In a pistol,
file or steel saw.
II you buy alcoholic drinks buy from
dealers In whom You have confidence.
The federal government has seized one
million one hundred thousand empty
whisky, wine and liquor bottles to pre-
vent bootleggers refilling them with
bootleg supplies.
An empty whisky bottle, bought for
two cents, filled with eight cents worth
Of bootleg whisky, may mean profit for
The bootlegger and mean poison for the
consumer. Buy from retailer whom
you trust, who buys from those who
manufacture legally. and buy brands
That you know
To comfort those appropriatlng and
spending large sums of public money
fighting the depression 1t can be said,
quite reasonably, that there would be
no danger in spending 100000, 100000
more, considering that the normal In
come Of the United States, In really
good times, Is close to 100000. 900, 900.
II man spent one or even two years
income to settle all his troubles you'd
think the price reasonable
1t would be a silly mistake, OF
course, to Issue the 800 000,0O0.O00
In bonds and pay out another $780,
OOOOO0,000 for interest, unnecessarily.
That needs to be said and will be said
quite often.
: TO read that Harry MacCracken,
seventy-fve-year-old retired cattle
puncher, jumped up when bandit
told him to sit still. and drilled" the
bandit through the shoulder, is mildly
interesting. II Is more interesting to
read that 1t happened In "subur-
ban liquor store" Of Colorado, where
MaeCracken spends his time sitting by
the stove, whiting To sit whit
Ting by liquor store stove seems q
strange occupation for one seventy
five years old. who knows that time Is
whiting away his few remaining
days.
The AAA asks congress for com.
plete authority over all crops, all farm
activities, and for s40'O00,000 to $780,
UO.WO to move farmers from poor
farms to better farms.
1t Is all beneYolently planned, but
many a farmer would prefer to stamp
his foot and clap his hands In the old