Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1929-02-14
COIll I|lGnt
WORTHWHILE AND
OTHERWISE, ON MAT
TIERS IMPORTANT and
UNIMPORTANT

Occasionally this paper takes pleas
ure in commencing an effort and ac-
complishment of an individual or or
ganization. One of those occasions has
arrived again, and the object of our
commendation at the present time
is the basketball team of the Libby
high school.
1t was our pleasure Friday evening
to witness the fastest, hardest fought
and most interesting game of the sea-
SON played by high school teams
when the Libby team battled with
the clever five from the Whitefish
high school. While the local boys lost
Whitefish won with their 23-18 score
only after game full of thrills and
the hardest kind of battling The
visitors found it necessary to exert
every ounce Of energy and skill to
win the game, and during most of the
contest Libby was only a point or
two behind them and at one time led
in the scoring.
The Libby bunch proved themselves
to be fighting bearcats," highly clev-
er in their team work and passing,
but IN their basket shooting the
sfbreaks" of the game went some
what against them. In this regard
basket shooting-the visitors were un-
usually accurate
A Libby business man expressed
the sentiment of everyone who saw
the game when he remarked to the
writer, There is one thing particu-
larly noticeable IN regard to the
Whitefish-Libby game and that is
that no one remarks It's too bad the
boys didn't win,' an expression so Of
ten heard. Everyone is perfectly sat
isfied with the game and it's outcome.
OF course it would have been more
pleasant to win, but there never is
any disgrace in losing q game after
putting up such clever and never
say-die fight as the local boys did
Friday night" In giving expression
to that sentiment, this man in fact
spoke for the entire town. Libby has
winning high school basketball
team in the making and the commu-
nifty is heartily back Of it.
Another pleasing factor noticeable
at the Friday game was the roofing
under the direction of Yell Leader
Cormier. Cormier Is "star" in that
regard and led the assembled students
in lot of snappy yells that always
lend interest to game and encour-
agement to hard fighting team.
It's an old and pat saying that
differences of opinion lend interest
and excitement to life. The Western
News Is in receipt Of a letter from
oneNwho signs himself "A Would-Be
Dairyman," in which he seems to poke
more OF. less fun at the efforts of To-
cal organizations to assist in the de-
velopment of the dairy industry in this
section and in the county. The plant Of
Mr.. Would-Be Dairyman is expressed
in these sentences: 1T should be
shouted over and over into the ears
of such ambitious theorists, Pull
stumpsl pull stumpsl Plant feed for
winter consumption Give us pro-
ducing land and the dairy develop
ment will naturally follow"
This man is like many others who
can see only one side Of problem
land that the side that appeals to him.
He has placed his finger on a very
important and necessary factor in the
developing of the dairy industry here
and that is the removal of stumps and
the consequent production of winter
feed But he ought also to realize that
the gradual development Of the dairy
industry in a county such as this needs
eternal agitation to keep the develop
ment moving forward and not at
standstill. There is always a ligiti-
mate work for publicity agencies to
do, and the dinners, the talks and the
agitating are efforts we'll expended.
If we mistake not the tenor Of the
letter, the writer belittles the efforts
of the county agent, while he himself
urges the pulling Of stumps. And yet
one of the really important accom-
plishments Of the county agent and
the commercial clubs was the shipping
in of carloads Of cheap powder which
resulted in the removal of more
stumps than any other agency could
claim to it's credit during the past
several years. 1t was because of agi-
tation and work by the county agent
and the commercial clubs of the coun-
ty that the powder was secured and
the stumps removed, the very thing
the writer is yelling about.
The WOuld-Be Dairvman is correct
in his statement that the stumps must
be removed. If he has any worth
while plan whereby this can be. done
over any appreciable acreage. he
ought to step forward and enliphten
the community as to the methods to
be pursued.