Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1930-01-02
Pithy Paragraphs

A woman prefers husband taller
than herself so that she can pretend |
to look up to him.-Chicago News.
home. Why, isn't that what's on the
lot with the garages dallas News.
Wall Street is no place for a thin
skinned man. He is skinned too fire.
quently-Atlanta Constitution.
The annual catch of fish in Ameri-
can waters is 1900 100000 pounds,
and these figures don't include the big
ones caught in Wall Street.-Dayton
(Ohio) News.
The umbrella, we read, is ITO years
eral people have left older umbrellas
than that at our house Springfield
(Ohio) Sun.
We shall withhold judgment until we
get all the facts. Just possibly Russia
signed the Kellogg treaty thinking it
was the expressman's receipt for a
parcel or something Detroit News.
1t takes a big country to increase
expenditures and lower taxes at the
same time, but the good old u. S. can
do it.-Boston Transcript.
The farmer with cellar full of
pork, potatoes, cabbage, canned fruit
and barreled fruit juices and no rent
to pay is never very sensitive to what
happens in Wall Street.-Akron
(Ohio) Beacon Journal.
A Canadian who has been around
the world eight times has just been
married. He will soon be convinced
that he didn't know anything till now,
in spite Of his travels.
Well If Santa didn't come as
promptly as usual this year remember
that it takes lot more time to get
around with these modern traffic
lights.
With Senator Helm barred from
the official Democratic family and
threatening to run independently it
becomes evident that they are going
to raise something more than cotton
down in Atlanta next fall.
Every day or so we hear of another
important bank merger but for some
reason or other this doesn't seem to
q ka fr nnf
The French war debt question has
been settled but it will take at least
sixty-two years to settle the debt it
self.
A painting less than two feet wide
by Fra Lippe Lippe was sold the other
day in Paris for nearly $87, 900. Which
proves, girls, that it does pay to
paint, if you can put it over.
You can tell the rich man in a small
town. He wears ordinary clothes and
| buys an automobile that he's able to
pay for.--Little Rock Arkansas Demo-
| crat.
| They call places where bootleg hooch
is sold "speakeasies," but it's hard
to do it after visiting one Of 'em.
One New Years resolution which
was made by more people this time
than ever before was not to buy
| stocks on a margin.
The New York Times suggests that
a special place be set aside for as
semblages Of communists who wish tc
publicly advocate the overthrow by
violence of the government of the
United States. That place ought te
be somewhere within the confines Of
Soviet Russia, the land of free speech
for communists.
The French newspapers are denounc-
ing Uncle Sam as an imperialist be-
cause our marines are trying to keeI
few rioters from destroying the
civilization which has been built uI
in Haiti during the past few years. Oh
course when the French go into Africs
to conquer Morocco that isn't imperi
alism-it is merely assuming the
white mans burden.
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Judging from results in Haiti the
best peace organization in the worle
/ is the United States marines.
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We do not favor the thirteen month
year which has been adopted by one
Chicago concern. 1t would only NEAR
one more payment per year on tht
family auto and the new radio.
Remain Dismissed"
The Navy department says that the
officers who resigned from the United
States navy to join the Confederate