The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-05-03

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"pre-destination" in the length Of
life. : =
Two brothers, fifteen and ten years
of age, with u young friend, were 60.
Ing to an entertainment last Christ.
mas night. George Bond and Carl
McMurty Of Poplar Bluff, Mo-,
thought 1t would be amusing to
frighten the children by running
after them. telling them, "You will
never live to get there"
The two older boys got there"
The little t~en-year-old 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 800 fine
for their "joke." The jury might
well have made it ten years, for It
was stupid manslaughter. There IL
nothing more brutal, cruel or mora
completely worthy Of a 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. well known broad.
caster, and rebukes, without men.
tioning his name, Doctor Townsend.
whom he accuses Of arousing false
hopes in the "underprlyileged."
Senator. Huey Long. his language
never failing him, able to speak his
mind freely In the senate. addressing
that august body, describes the secre-
tary Of interior as "Lord High Cham
berlain Ickes. the c%hinch-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 Formosa,
property of Japan. inhabited chiefly
by Chinese, who made up 50 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 eating 1t and they
may be e on barren fields. pulling
| up wild grass by the roots, washing
and eating the roots, as well as the
grass itself. Many have died from
eating bran mixed with earth and
water, the earth causing death by In
testinal stoppage.
Those poor creatures have a real
depression. with no rich govern.
ment to pour out billions for Jobs.
relief. dole. etc. =,
The American Philosophical society.
gathered In Philadelphia. learns from
Doctor Slipher, director Of the Lowell
observatory at Flagstaff. Ariz., that to
people on the planet Mars, II any are
there, our earth is a blue planet.
If those Martians will continue
watching us: until some European or.
Asiatic country sends a few thousand
planes In U direction, they will see
this corner OF the earth a deeper and
darker blue than ever. What q lesson
we shall learn some day II we continue
with our eyes shut
Newspaper editors. that ought to
know something about prosperity, gath;
cred In New York from all over the
country, tell you they see a business
pickup" better times are coming. That
is q cheerful prediction.
Some boys In high schools, and big.
ger hoys in colleges. recently organ.
lied a strike" to express their horror
OF war.
War Is horrible; It should be, and
eventually will be. unnecessary. But
there is some good In all evil. and
young students and others should re
hect on past ara and, what modern
civilization owe to them.
Germany wants colonies, and Is EN-
barrassed by the fact that this would
mean taking In a great many black
ladies' and gentlemen that BY no stretch
Of the Imagination could be called
.Aryans." The German government
announces that. while It could not ad.
init negroes to German citizenship, as
Britain does In her colonies, black CO.
lonial negroes would be "Schutzbefoh,
lene." with every right except the right
10 adopt Aryan strut.
d king Featurea 8yndicatA Inc.