Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1931-01-15
This Week
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Work for Farmers
Italy's Achievement
Hope Deferred
We Rebuke Libcriz

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We Rebuke Libcriz
An important proposition for un-
employment relief, In which President
Hoover is said to be interested, would
use some of the money that the gov
eminent will spend on improving
country roads, connecting farms with
great highways.
On such work farmers with their
horses. plows and wagons could be
prottably employed
Highways need feeders in the shape
of country roads leading to the farms,
and farmers need access to highways.
And they also need work.
Building great highways of con-
crete, reinforced with steel, Is impor-
rant. But that work gives 20 oppor-
tunlty to the farmers. Done by spe-
eiaI machinery, heavy trucks, and !
few workmen, Ii offers no 0pportu-
nifty to the average unemployed.
The fact liz revealed that five OF
Itaiy's finest flyers were killed, and
three others injured on the marvellous
formation flight" across the Atlantic
to- Brazil. The news WIS concealed
at first. In order not to spoil the Joy
OF Italy at the great achievement
There Is sorrow now, but the glory
OF the achievement lis not diminished.
but made greater by the courage Of
the survivors. continuing their flight
and completing 1t successfully. ~
planned, In military formation. ac-
cording to orders.
Men that die In the effort to add
luster to the name OF their country
never die vainIy.
slope deferred maketh the heart
sick That's In the Bible, and 1t II
also q decision handed down by the
United States Circuit Court Of Ap-
peals, telling Judge Clark OF New Jer-
sey that he was mistaken. The prohf-
bItion amendment was adopted legal
ly. 1t stands. and Is the law of the
land
Secretary StimsOn warns the negro
republic OF Liberia that slavery must
be abandonedS Investigation proves
that high officials Of the negro re-
public, including the vice president
trt hn u and
persist In It,
This seems surprising considering
that Liberia was planned as haven
from slavery.
But many OF our best people. North
and South, approved OF slavery lit
tie while ago, and we can hardly
blame the Lberians forflagging lit
tie behind, especially as slavery H.
about their only source OF profit.
Good news for those that hear with
difficulty on the telephone. The COM
pany will supply an simplifying de-
vice making the incoming voice
louder.
Mr.. Walter s. Clifford, president OF
the big company. informs the writer
that all the Bell companies will sup
ply the apparatus for use at NOM
inal charge A friend In Ohio to whom
the writer suggested 1t tried the de-
vice. and writes For the first time
In years | have beeR~TDle to hear my
children talking to me from the Pa-
cific coast
II you are interested, write TO your
telephone exchange.
.'AIen fear death. as chillren fear
to 60 in the dark; and as that natural
fear in children liz Increased with
tales, so IL the other
SO Bacon said of our most wide
spread fear.
Marshal JofTre, who has the graft
tude or his nation following him to
the grave. quoted often the. saying.
sNul ne peut sc dire heureux avant
son dernier jour No man can call
nluSGll HdpUy uulii Ills lhot auJ.
"Death hath ten thousand doors for
men to take their exit" And they all
lead to peace, rest, freedom from the
| worlds worries, responsibilities and
| anxeties. 1t Ii fortunate for the race
| that divine wisdom makes us cling to
| life. II we were all as wise as Bacon
and as philosophical as the old Greeks.
many would be missing.
In Britain 10000 weavers have
| started the kind Of strike that, In the
long run. can never succeed. They arc
not striking against lower wages on
the contrary. better wages are offered
them. They are striking against an
/ Arrangement that would enable each
man. without overwerk, to take care
/ OF eight looms instead Of four, and
earn more. They say that II one man
takes care Of eight looms that will
put other men out OF work.
That's what stage coach drivers aAid
when the locomotives came. Typ~-
/ aetters said 1t when lfnOtyDe machlmAU