The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-04-12

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though it is hard to
guess what those
troops could do. If
Germany declared
e - war it would be
with planes drop
ping 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 a long way around,
wisely, sends a statesman, Cap
tain Eden, to Moscow to see Stain of
Russia. The talk, not published, 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 a shipmate. In England they hang
you for that. When hanging time came,
Mrs. Violet Vandereist, prosperous
widow, opposed to the death penalty,
hired two planes to fly back and forth
above the gallows. trailing banners
reading, "Stop the death sentence"
While airplanes flew overhead,
trucks drove back and forth before
the Jail, with loud speakers believing
"Abide With Me-"
The man that KILLED his comrade
sleeping" or however he did it, did
not "abide." He went through the
trap.
The British believe IN d%iscouraging
murder, and prompt punishment seems
to do it.
Graft and dishonesty are old, az old
as human need and cunning. A papy-
rus written 1900 years before Christ
tells Of three men tried for robbing q
royal tomb. Egyptian kings were de-
scended from the gods; to rob their
tombs was sacrilege, 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 a method in his bath, and started
the word eureka" down through the
ages.
Michael Angelo, building st. Peters
at Rome, complained to the pope Of
the materials furnished by contrac-
tors, reminding his holiness that he,
Michael Angelo, would make no profit
from st. Peters except benefit to my
SOUL" and urged the pope to punish
the grafters. There is even graft now
In this modern, enlightened republic.
What is life? What is death? What
are we?
An English gentleman "dies"; doc
tors pronounce him dead. He returns
to life, says he has been in heaven,
tells what he saw-a dull account,
clothing the same as W. 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 1t 60
away and come back, or just wait
around inside the body? What is
death? Some say it is only a belief"
and there is no such thing.
In New York's American Museum Of
Natural History is shown a drawing
of the largest land mammal that ever
lived, named Baluchiterium. This
huge animal, which vanished from
earth 25,00O,OO0 years ago, stood II
feet 8 inches high at the shoulder, was
as big as two big elephants, weighed
10000 pounds or more. It was not as
big as a .dinosaur, but the dinosaur
laid eggs and was no mammal. A food
problem might be solved If the "big-
gest mammal could be brought back
and raised by cattlemen. It ate 500
pounds Of food a day; that must be
considered. In America it might be
necessary to drown the mammal Balu-
chiterium, with her unborn babies.
Sir John Simon, returning from an
unsatisfactory talk with Hitler, reports
certain Emergencies" Of opinion. That
is going pretty far for a British states
man. There is a bigger fly than that
in the ointment: Sir John learns from
Hitler that Germany ALREADY has a
larger air force than that Of Great
Britain" Britain thought Germany
had only half as many planes. A wise
statesman gets hfs fighting airplanes
ready before he starts to fight.
In France three persons "sterilized"
at their W request by "a mysterious
Austrian doctor" because they did not
want to have children have been ar
rested. IL #&4%'
France, striving for more population,
believes that sterilization" can be
overdone.