Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1935-04-17

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.-.,. those troops
Arthur Brisbane could do, If Ger
many declared war it would be with
planes dropping explosives and
poison gas on Paris. No nation at
war will sit in trenches for four
or five years, now that flying is real.
Britain, going long way around,
wisely, sends Suave statesman,
Captain Eden, to Moscow to see
Stain of Russia. The talk, not pub
lished, may have been like this:
If England agrees to help you
fight Japan, will you help against
Germany, in case of need?
A British naval officer cut the
throat of shipmate. In England
they hang you for that. When
hanging time came, Mrs. Violet VAN
dereist, prosperous widow, opposed
to the death penalty, hired two
planes to fly back and forth above
the gallOws, trailing banners read
ing, "Stop the death sentence"
While airplanes flew overhead,
trucks drove back and forth before
the jail, with loud speakers below
ing "Abide With Me-"
The man that KILLED his comrade
sleeping" or however he did it, did
not "abide." He went through the
trap.
Graft and dishonesty are old, as
old as human need and cunning. A
papyrus written 1900 years before
Christ tells Of three men tried for
rObbing a royal tomb. Egyptian
kings were descended from the
gods; to rob their tombs was sac
rilege, the punishment death.
A dishonest jeweler, putting base
metal In a supposedly pure gold'
crown for King Hero, was exposed
by the great Archimedes, who
thought out method in his bath,
and started the word eureka" down
through the ages.
Michael Angelo, building st. Pc
ter's at Rome, complained to the
pope Of the materials furnished by
contractors, reminding his holiness
that he, Michael Angelo, would
make no profit from st. Peters ex-
cept benefit to my soul," and urged
the pope to punish the grafters.
There is even graft now in this mod
ern, enlightened republic.
What is life? What is death?
What are we?
An English gentleman "dies";
doctors pronounce him dead. He
returns to life, says he has been in
heaven, tells what he saw-a dull
account, clothing the same as we
wear here. How far, how fast, did
his spirit travel while he was
"dead"?
What does the soul do while the
body is supposedly dead? Does it
go away and come back, or just wait
around inside the body? What is
death? Some say it is only a ''be-
lief" and there is no such thing.
In New YOrk'S American Museum
Of Natural History is shown a draw
ing of the largest land mammal that
ever lived, named Baluchiterium.
This huge animal, which vanished
from earth 25,OOO,O0O years ago,
stood II feet 9 inches high at the
shoulder, was as big as two big ele-
plants, weighing 10000 pounds or
more. 1t was not as big as a dino
saur, but the dinosaur laid eggs
and was no mammal. A food prob
lem might be solved if the "big-
gest mammal could be brought
back and raised by cattlemen. 1t
ate 500 pounds of food a day; that
must be considered.
Sir John Simon, returning from
an unsatisfactory talk with Hitler,
reports certain Emergencies" Of
opinion. That is going pretty far
for a British statesman. There is
bigger fly than that in the oint-
ment: Sir John learns from Hitler
that Germany "already has larger
air force than that of Great Brit
ain." Britain thought Germany had
only half as many planes. A wise
statesman gets his fighting air.
planes ready before he starts to
fight.
In France three persons "steri-
lized" at their own request by "a
mysterious Austrian doctor" because
they did not want to have children
have been arrested.
France, striving for more popula-
tion, believes that "sterilization''
can be overdone.
The mysterious Austrian per-
formed Is operations on men and
women before disappearing.
g. King Features Syndicate. Inc.
WNU Service. III