The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-05-02

Leaving out accidents and attacks
by disease germs. there is a sort Of.
pre-destination' In the length of
life.
Two brothers. fifteen and ten years
of age, with IL young friend, were go
ing to an entertainment last Christ.
mas night. George Bond and Carl
MeMurty Of Poplar Bluff. Mo-.
thought 1t would be amusing to
frlghten the children by running
after them, telling them, You will
never live to get there"
The two older boys got there"
The little ten-year-od boy, James
Ainley, dropped dead of fright as the
men pursued him. A sensible jury
decides that the two men shall spend
six months in Jail and pay 500 fine
for their Joke The jury might
well have made II ten years, for II
was stupid manslaughter. There Is
nothing more brutal. cruel or more
completely worthy Of genuine va
hoo" than frightening children.
Secretary OF Interior Ickes. who
also possesses the gift of forcible
speech, calls Senator Long "a rant
Ing demagogue. describes, more
gently. one other we'll known broad.
| caster, and rebnkes, without men.
| tioning his name, Doctor Townsend,
whom he accuses Of arousing false
hopes in the ''underprivileged."
Senator Huey Long. his language
never falling him, able to speak his
| mind freely In the senate. addressing
/ that august body, describes The secre-
tary of interior us Lord High Cham
berlaln Ickes, the chlnch-bug Of Chi.
cago." ~
Secretary OF Agriculture Wallace
he called the Lord Destroyer, the
ignoramus OF Iowa.
We complain Of our depression
with good cause. We might find
queer consolation In reading about
miserable inhabitants Of Formusa,
property of japan, Inhabited chiefly
by Chinese. who made UP 80 per cent
Of the sufferers and victims In the
recent earthquake.
| In Formosa, men, women and chill
dren have been stripping the bark
/ from elm trees and eatlng 1t and they
may be seen on barren fields pulling
| up Wild grass by the roots, washing
| and eating the roots as well as tire
/ grass itself Many have died from
eating bran mixed with earth and
! water, the earth causing death by In
testinal stoppage. j
Those poor creatures have ~. real
| depression. with no rich govern.
ment to pour Nput billions for Jobs
relief, dole. etc.
The American Philosophical society
| gathered IN Philadelphia. learns from
Doctor Slipher. director Of the Lowell
observatory at Flagstaff, Anz.. that to
people on the planet Mnrs, IL any are
there, our earth Is blue planet.
II those Martans will continue
watching us. until some European or
AsIatic country sends few Thousand
planes in our direction. they will see
this corner Of the earth deeper anc
I darker blue ttIan ever. WhHt Il lesson
we shall learn some day If we continue
with our eyes SHUT
4 Newspaper editorss that ought t.
know something about prosperity. gath
cred In New York from all over the
country, tell you they see business
pickup" better times are coming That
is d cheerful prediction.
Some boys In high schools, and big
ger hoys in colleges, recently organ
lied strike to express their horror
Of war.
eventually Will be, unnecessary. Blu
there Ii some good In all evil. ant
young students and others should re
fleet on past wars and what modern
civilization owes To them.
Germany wants colonies, and Is EN-
barrassed by the fact that this woul'
mean taking In great many, blacl
Indies and gentlemen that By no stretcl
OF the imagination could be calle'
"Aryans." The German gosernmen