Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1935-02-06
BRISBANE J ]
THIS WEEK
Old Age Pensions
Does Lashing Do CoOd3.
Those Cosmic Rays
6,OOO- Year-Old Graves

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Financial conservatism is agi-
tated because old-age pensions as
planned, moderately, by the Presi-
dent, would cost one billion dollars
a year. Conservatism might better
worry about Doctor Townsend's
plan to give two hundred dollars a
month to everybody past sixty years
of age, and cost at least twenty
four thousand millions a year.
Conservatism might also worry
about billions spent uselessIy in
state, national or local government
costs. and taxes that run above
thirteen thousand million dollars a
year.
At Wilmington, Del, three young
men, eighteen, twenty and twenty
three years old, were lashed in pub
lie, a crowd Of one hundred look
ing ON.
After the lashing, on the bare
back, the youths began ten-year
prison sentences for burglary. The
lash frightens criminals more than
Imprisonment, as was proved in
London, where an epidemic Of gar
rotting" ended as soon as the lash
was used. But what will be the
mental state Of those young men
when they leave prison after long
association with experienced GRIM
inals, and constant brooding on the
humiliation and pain Of the lash
ing?
Can it be hoped that they win
be reformed, or be anything except
confirmed criminals, and enemies
of society?
A learned German says he has
discovered the source Of "cosmic
rays" that lombard all space, con-
stantly passing through your body,
although you don't know it, driven
by the terrific energy of billions
Of volts. The professor suggests
that the bombardment may occa-
sionally break down a few Of the
atoms in the human body, thus
slowly changing heredity.
That sounds like a great deal
of trouble, to change heredity,
which depends, really, on the right
girl choosing the right kind Of
father for her children.
Doctor Sukenik, professor Of
archaeology in the Hebrew Univer-
sity Of Jerusalem, has discovered
graves six thousand years old, that
go far back. Of Moses and Job and
others well known.
These graves were dug, and filled,
long before the Jewish nation had
made Jerusalem their principal city,
when other, earlier races inhabited
the site Of "old jerusalem" =
Talking into a telephone in the
White House, with amplifiers at the
other end, the President greeted
six hundred members of the Hol-
land society, at dinner in New
York. He felt pride in contribu-
tions made to this country by the
men of Holland through>three hum
dred years. The Roosevelts are Of
Dutch origin, but unlike his dis
tant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt,
the President did not recite any
Dutch poems about cows
in "the kOpjes." To know what the
old Hollanders really were, as fight
ers and "stayers," read Motley.
Names that sound strange to
Western ears figure in the case Of
Tony Fon Lew, "Chinese doll
bride" She and her alleged IA
ther, Mr.. Gin Lem, are accused Of
arranging marriages, taking money,
and then not marrying.
Mr.. Kack Lew Gee, angry Chi
1ese merchant, says he paid $1,S00
70 marry the toy bride. but got no
bride. Other interesting names fig-
ire in discussion that almost
saused war between the Los An
seles Hop Sing Tong and the Four
Families Association.
Chinese names sound strange to
'ur ears, but Jones or Robinson
would sound ridiculous to the Chi
lese. FOn Lew and her pretended
ather ran away to China, but will
'e brought back and Gin Lem will
pe tried for violating the Mann act.
The Saar plebiscfte, as was GER
ain in advance, proves to be SUI
'erficially a victory for Hitler. In
eality, it proves the devotion Of
Hermans to Germany under any
With the population Of the Saar
nore than 95 per cent German,
oters were asked whether they
Wished once more to resume Ger
nan citizenship, throw In their lot
nth France, or remain suspended
D the air as wards Of the League
( Nations: It was certain that
Iermans would vote for Germany.
Our national defense authorities
re delighted because a great Amer
.an> navy plane labeled XP2H-1
ew nonstop to the Canal Zone from