The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-11-28

incendiary and explosive bombs.
England really has free speech. On
your soap box In Hyde Park you may
say what yon please, II you do not
advocate crime.
But England does not like free
speech from another country, through
the ether. The British Broadcasting
company will not let Marconi talk
from Rome to Englishmen over the
radio. He might convince them that
1t Is preposterous to try to starve out
Italy for doing In Ethiopia what Eng
land has done In many places. The
ruling seems hard on Marconi, consid-
ering that he invented radio. With
out him there would be no British
Broadcasting company"
Those that make betting a business
are often sound In their political judy
ments. They are at least cold, calcu-
latlng; sentiment does not cloud their
vision.
On the Republican Presidential nom
nation the betting now stands:
Senator William Il. Borah, 8 to l.
Governor Landon OF Kansas, 10 to l.
Senator Yandenberg OF Michigan, Is
to /. Col. Frank Knox OF Illinois,
IS to !. Governor Hoffman OF New
Jersey Ogden /. Mills. Senator David
A. Reed, all 20 to i.
Professional bettors agree that Gov
ernor 4andon Is gaining, and will
probably lead the procession at to |
In few days Band wagon climbers
nre more and more polite to Governor
Landon.
The Sanctions wall thrown by Eng
land and France around Italy, smaller
nations cooperating. to "suffocate and
starve ITALY," as Mussolnl puts 1t, is
now complete. Two million young or
ganized Italians protest against the
effort to punish Italy for doing to
Ethiopia what England and France
have done to other, more nearly civil
lzed countries.
Fl. G. Wells, aged sixty nine, young
err and more brilliant than when he
wrote Doctor Moreau's Island and
1.-THE War Of the Worlds" now In
America on his, way to see Hollywood,
says, 1.-THE film is finer art than
the novel. stage or the opera"
Mr.. Wells open mind proves his
youth. The moving picture Is greater
In Its possibilities than book. stage or
opera. because 1t contains nil three,
plus the marvellous power of photog-
raphy.
Rrltain's ambassador fs comforting
with our State department concerning
Japans plan to seize Chinese provinces,
containing 05,OO0,OOO Chinese, $4,000
0o0 more than the total population OF
Japan.
II the Japanese could control, arm
and use 1OO,OO0,OOO Chinese In the air
and on the ground, that would be inter-
estIng But 1t would not be our busi-
ness, and 1t Is to be hoped that the
British will not persuade our State
department that this country ought to
attend to It,
Spiritually. politically and otherwise
important is the proposed merger"
approved by bishops of the three
branches OF the Methodist Episcopal
church. Together. the Methodist Epis-
eopaI church, Methodist Episcopal
church, South and Methodist Protestant
church would number 100000 men,
hers. the largest Protestant group.
Young men are coming back into
fashion. Dr. Alan Valentine, only
thlrty-four, former master of Plerson
college ut Yale. Is made president OF
Rochester university and starts we'll
by denouncing the "ballyhoo" OF col
lege athletics. football especially. He
speaks with authority, not as a weak
ling bookworm, for he was a college
athlete at Swarthmore, member or the
Olympic team at Paris In 1923.
The American Bankers association
reveals the interesting fact that our
banks hold fifteen thousand million
dollars worth OF government bonds-ln
figures, $4,000, 100000.
Well might most important OFFICIAL
OF the government say: 'Infiatlon7
We have 1t now. biggest ever seen.
frozen In the banks. Walt until 1t
breaks ioose.'
After the Tory election In England
prices went soaring on London's stock
exchange. Companies tf1at make war
weapons and materials were most
buoyant. The masses had voted for
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