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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-08-18
Libby Schools
Viii Open On
September {.
Teaching Staff Ready to
Take Up New Years
Work.
FULL COURSE OF
STUDY GIVEN


public schools announce the opening Of
school on Tuesday, September s. ALI
eligible young people of the community
and surrounding territory are urged to
take advantage of the opportunities of
fered Pupils who have dropped out or
who have graduated from the high
school can find place here to add to
their preparation SO that they will be
better equipped to take their station
when business conditions recover and
demand is made for persons with a
working knowledge of business prac-
tees. Successful men and women add
to their education" as long as they
live; school is place where the funda-
mentals of such an education are &C.
quired in the shortest time and most
efficient manner. While the school bud
get has been materially reduced for
the coming year, it is planned to main
tain the same courses and the same
standards that have characterized the
school in the past
Officers and Board Of Trustees.
W. E. Dexter, president; M D. Row
land, clerk; Mrs. W. F. Kienitz, I. G.
Spery. E. E. Jaqueth, Joe Kujawa.
FACULTY
High School:
Principal and Social Sciences, Mary
t. Barnes.
Mathematics and Physical Education,
George Vogt, Jr,
English, Hilda Witt.
Commercial, J. G. Hughes.
| Home Economics, Lalla Sonner.
Science, George Hayes
Latin and History, Norman PaAI.
Junior High:
Principal and History, Q. r. Nord-
Mathematics, Irene Stevens,
Reading, Waive Knsrr.
Grammar, Magdalene Aasen.
Physiology and Geography, Clara
Smith.
! Central:
Principal and Third Grade Isabel
McGrade, 4
Sixth Grade, Arthur Desonia
Filth Grade, Hester Stevenson
Fifth Grade, Cecilia Liebe
Fourth Grade, Jessie Staudacher.
1 Fourth Grade, Clare Haubrick. -
Third Grade, Ruth Hostetter.
| Second Grade, Ruth Madden
Second Grade, Leone COPYRIGHT.
First Grade, Esther Shave.
i First Grade, Verdelle Fuller.
4 Music-Blanche Fousek
Rural-McGinnis Meadows, Gladys
Bergen
i Librarian-Joseph Fennessy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05

living conditions, despite the bars
against such action that Ken
lucky authorities have erected
against visiting newspaper men.
Word of my visit to mine
camp got to Police Chief Osborne
of Pineville, in some mysterious
way, and shortly after my return
to town was arrested by him
and taken before County Prose-
cutor Walter B. Smith. Both de-
manded my notes. They failed to
get them-hence this story.
Around Pineville, I was told by
miners that if they tried to draw
out too much money in cash, in
stead of spending it at the COM
pany store, they would be fired.
However, this isn't always an
issue. A mine worker employed
by a coal company near Pineville
told me that he hadn't drawn any
real money since last fall-"not
even enough to buy a postage
stamp"
His neighbor just across the
creek told me he has not drawn
any real money in two years.
II n q
THE first man is mine laborer
Il at 1925 a day now, and is
worried over rumor that this is
soon to be cut to 81. Last year
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05

this time he was making $3.50; a
few years back he was getting
$500 day.
He has wife, two small daugh-
tiers and son. Another baby is
due. The family lives in a rickety,
two-room frame shack. His two
small daughters-5 and years old
are among the numbers of mine
children now being allotted four
cans of condensed milk each week
by the state of Kentucky.
The miners call this milk
Cream" It is mixed half and half
with water and into this corn
bread is crumbled. On this diet,
they fight off starvation.
Across the rushing mountain
creek his neighbor lives in sim
liar house with his wife and their
eight children.
The house is a rickety frame
shack, erected years ago. Chinks
in its board walls are stuffed with
paper and rags, cardboard replaces
several missing window panes.
The roof is tar paper, like that
used on chicken houses. The fur
niture consists of:
Room l, two cheap iron beds,
two cane chairs with burst bot
toms, a box on the floor that
serves as a trunk.
Room 2, another bed, a kitchen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05

so did a lot Of the other boys.
Times was good then"
WET. according to the com
Il plant of numerous miners.
the mine owners have not reduced
their "cuts" for rent, coal. etc.
since the days of high wages.
They also say that the commits
saries charge higher prices than
ordinary stores, which some of the
mine operators admit with the
explanation that they can not buy
as cheaply as the chain stores.
That the companies require
their employees to trade at the
commissaries was admitted by a
coal operator, who just had fin
ished explaining to me that, at
present market prices, he was los
ing 20 cents on every ton he pro-
duced.
I'VE are losing money on coal
and we try to cover that with
profits from the store" he said.
The two miners whose plight 1
have described are in a middle"
class, all too frequently found.
Below them are hundreds of
miners unable to find any work
at all and several hundred "black-
listed" men-"Red agitators," the
business men of Pineville call
them-who have no jobs and no
hope of getting any
They are living in abandoned
railroad stations and anywhere
else they can find a roof since
they were evicted from company
houses and their furniture set
out in the middle Of the road.
A BOVE them ale miners en-
L N ployed by companies who
provide better houses, some with
electric lights and water: at the
top, the miners employed by the
big corporations like the United
States Steel mines at Lynch, KY,
who live on paved streets, get bet
ter pay and more hours.
These big corporation mines can
do this because they have a steady
outlet for their coal in their mills.
But these two men I have de-
scribed are typical of the miners
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05

stove, few cooking utensils and
a home made table.
Il n
TITO both houses-aS we'll as the
Il others in this camp-water
must be 'toted" from the camp
we'll. Coal for cooking and heat
ing must '''toted" from the mine.
There also are the old-faShioned
outhouseS.
His wife was nursing g.
monthS-Old baby when I called.
Another small child was playing
on the bare, splintery floor with
a tin can. It's shoes were as
ragged as its clothes, and not even
mates.
Soon the husband, who was not
working that day, came in. He
was a. pale, wan man, looking
much past so.
I'm ~ years old and I've been
in these mines thirty-four years
Started as trap boy at But
I've never seen times as hard as
these" he said when I asked him
how he was getting along.
I'm getting 50 a day now for
a job on the tipple. My lungs
went bad and I had to give up
digging coal.
During the boom days I made
$40 or $12 a day digging coal, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05

who responded when the so-called
Communist party" workers came
here last year to bring their brand
of relief to the misery of the Ken
lucky mine fields.
The short lived and abortive
strike in January literally was
starved out-brought about by the
adamant and rigidly enforced re-
fusal of Harlan and Bell county
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05
0RATORICAL CONTEST
TO BE HELD IN CITY
Butler Sponsors Divisional COMPETE
ton in Interstate Affair.

Speech department of Butler uni
versity will sponsor a central divi-
sional competition in the interstate
oratorical contest Friday night at
Central Christian church, Walnut
and Delaware streets.
Speakers competing, announced
Professor w. Norwood Brigance of
Wabash college, central divisional
manager, are:
Paul Duncan, Butler university:
Don Moore, McKendree college, Leb-
anon, Ill. Lowell Ditzen, William
Jewell college, Liberty, Mo, and H.
Clyde Reeves, University of Licking
ton, Lexington, KY.
Judges will be Profs. Lionel Crock
or, Denison university; Carol P.
Lehman Western State Teachers
college; Harold T. Ross, De Pauw
university; Fred S. SorrenSon, Illi..
nois Normal university, and Myron
G. Phillips, Wabash college.
Professor Brigance will preside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05
VETERANS HEAR SCHAUB
New Organization Is Outlined at
Tomlinson Hall Meeting.

More than a thousand ex-Service
men met Monday night in Tomlin-
son hall to hear discussion of the
purposes of the newly organized Ma
tional United American Veterans.
Inc.
Justice for the veteran through
nonpartisan participation in poll
tics is our aim" declared Edward
G. Schaub, national commander.
Schaub stated that the organiza-
ton vii try to elect men to office
who will work for legislation favor
ing eX-service men.
Other speakers were Ralph E.
Green, national ce-commander,
and Herman H. Hiles, national adj
jutant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05
BY ROBERT TALLEY
NEA Service Writer

NEA EtFtlCe hEiheE
fCopyright. 1882. NEA Service. Inc.)
DINEVILLE, KY, April 5.-This
l. is a closeup story of life as
it is today among Kentucky coal
miners, written from notes that
local authorities sought to con-
fiscate when I was arrested by
Police Chief Osborne of Pineville,
after I had returned from visiting
the homes Of miners in nearby
camp.
Fortunately, I did not have
them with me at the time, so the
Kentucky censorship" was
thwarted.
II you we're a miner hereabouts
and were lucky enough to have a
job, you would earn about $3.50
a day, assuming that you could
produce about ten tons of coal,
which is a good days work.
1t is impossible to give an exact
figure, since miners are paid so
much a ton and some, miners
produce more, or less, than others.
You would get about three, or
possibly four, days work a week.
OF your $3.50 day, you would
have to spend cents day for
carbide for your miners lamp and
about 40 cents each day for ex-
plosives you used in blasting coal.
If you were not actually a coal
digger, but a mine laborer-en-
gagged in laying track or some
thing like that-your daily wage
would be around 1925.
In either case, you probably
would have a wife and three
children to support, since five is
the average family,
n
DEFORE you could draw any
ID part of your earnings you
would have to accumulate enough
for the mining company you
worked for to make the following
cuts"
Approximately SIS a month rent
for company house.
Two dollars a months (s1 if UNI
married for the companys
doctor which you pay whether
you are sick or well.
One dollar and fifty cents
month for coal to heat your home
and cook your food, the rate be-
ing the same winter and summer.
Fifty cents a month for black
smithing your tools Of a miner.
After these cuts" (and, in
some cases, others such as insur-
ance, burial fund, etc. you would
then be permitted to draw scrip
company money! for making
purchases at the commissary
company store) which carries in
stock groceries, clothing, hard
ware, tobacco, shoes canned goods,
pots, pans and about everything
else that miners family needs
to buy.
VOU would be issued your scrip
l. by the mine pay roll clerk
after he had checked your earn
ings to see how much you had
coming.
You would pay this scrip over
the counter of the company store
Just as though it were real money.
Then, when pay day rolled
around every two weeks, you
could draw the remainder of your
earnings in cash-provided any,
thing remained.
I talked with miners in their
homes, to learn the truth of their
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officials to permit union relief food
to be brought in here. on the
ground that such food came from
Communists or their adherents.
Next: The strange manner in
which coal operators and business
men in the mining area are trying
to solve a tangled economic prob
lem by the suppression of all civil
liberties and human rights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05
PUBLIC PROVES
ABILITY TO RUN
UTILITIES WELL
Depression Has Been Spur
to Municipal Ownership,
SAYS LEAGUE Head.

Following is the second Of Two articles
m Carl d. Thompson's belief that the
depression has proved public ownership
~ utilities more desirable than private
ownership
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-04-05
BY HAROLD r. RAINVILLE
United Press Stah Correspondent


CHICAGO, April 5.-Graft in
politics is the greatest obstacle to
overcome in successful operation Of
public owned utilities, believes Carl
ID. Thompson, secretary Of the
Public Ownership League Of Amer
lea.
And the present depression has
done more than any other one thing
to eliminate such grating" Thomp-
son told the United Press in ex-
planning why he thinks there is
silver lining inside the clouds that
oyerhang the world Of finance.
This depression" he continued,
"has made Americans civic con-
scious. With one city after another
tottering on the brink of bank
ruptcy, people have been made 20
realize their position.
Movement Gains Impetus
They are beginning 10 learn that
they must abandon the theory of
every man for himself. They are
finding out they must have hon
esty in Office
This arousing of social interest
and civic consciousness" Thompson
characterized as the greatest step
ever made toward clearing the way
for successful operation of public
utilities
It is one Of the two ways the de-
preston has helped the cause Of this
organization, Thompson said. The
other was by proving that even in a
time of general depression public
utilities could operate at a profit.
While many privately owned util-
ity companies suffered severely,
public owned utilities everywhere
have operated very much as usual,
he said
Public Capable Manager
In many cases, he said, the utili-
ties not only have kept even," but
have earned enough to shoulder the
extra burdens Of unemployment and
increased taxes. Sixty-five towns
have eliminated taxes by making
power plants or water works pay city
expenses.
At the same time, he said, the
publicly owned utilities have been
able to charge lower rates that those
privately owned
Flood control, domestic water
supply irrigation, electric power,
transportation, gas-all can be had
with municipality owned utilities at
much cheaper rate than from pri-
vate companies he said.
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WORKING FOR BRASS CHECKS
neame famnrs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-06
Finland Modihes

Finland. sister prohibition country. holds a liquor referendum and goes wet. The verdict is to be written into new liquor law. There will not be return to the old system. but compromise between the old and new. It is natural to draw parallel. Finland has been legally dry just as long as the United States. Prohibition has been, the critics there say. impossible to enforce, productive of crime and corruption and responsible for more and worse drinking in some quarters.
 The American people seem to be work ing around slowly to similar referendum, though it will be necessarily less direct in ef- feet than Finland's, because prohibition is locked up in the Constitution, and Finlands was mere act of legislation. Apparently majority of Americans still feel that the benefits of prohibition, on the whole, are greater than its evils The attitude of Con- gress reflects this feeling. But opposition to the present set-up is growing. It IS inn possible to believe that prohibition will con- tinue indefinitely in its present form Some degree of modification will proably come within few years,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-06
Anti-War Sentiment

of one thing am quite certain" says Nicholas Murray Butler. president of Co., lumbia University. Namely. that if any European or American government really tries to start serious war in these times. it will be met with something closely re- sembling general strike. One who moves about among what are called the plain people of Europe and this country will hear again and again the statement that they do not propose to take part in killing their fel- low-men.'
 This is probably true. Since the hostili- ties broke out between Japan and China, threatening to drag America into new war. it has been common thing to hear veteran of the World war saying: Well. one thing you can bet on is that they won't get me this time! I've had enough of war, and know what bunk it is. If statesmen and bankers and exporters and intuition makers want another war. let 'em fight it them- selves!" Whatever may happen in the Far East, it is going to be very hard for anyone, no matter what the patriotic argument, to drum up war there among Americans who know what war is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-06
World Debt

Dr Max Winkler of Germany estimates that the total debt of the nations is $l50,- 100000, 900, and that this amounts to about $75 for every man, woman and child in the world To Americans. this average may not seem very large. To most of the nations. representing as it does an average of $500 to S4O0 per family. it would look like huge burden. Fortunately. perhaps, most of the people on this debtors globe are never conscious of it.
 How much of that Sl50000,000, 900 will be paid? It is anybody's guess. We might say, at venture, half of it. Some will doubtless be cancelled more may go by default And whatever happens, the United States will be the chief loser
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-06
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1882
Wind Still Shifting

This is certainly variable weather. So much so that it produced as great change of heart in two important democratic fig ures. We refer to the recent announcement of Newton D. Baker of Ohio and Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York that they had abandoned their support of the League of Nations. It isn't permanent in either case, We don't believe. Governor Roosevelt put it in this way. He declared that the League of Nations which he cam paigned for in 1920 and the League of Nations of 1932 were not one and the same thing. In other words the brain child of Woodrow Wilson did not grow to the magnificent proportions he visloned. Per haps the fact that the United States with held its support caused this deformity.
 But we are not going to discuss again the dedication of either Mir Baker or Governor Roosevelt. Changes of heart are not con- fined to any particular party. We now have Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, often referred to as ''Puddlin' Jim'' and known for his activities as Secretary of Labor under three presidents. withdrawing his support from prohibition and declaring nIIlSelI III ldNOI Ol otdte SOltIol ol h4uoi traffic and modification of the Volstead Act to permit legaized use of light wines and beers. Such a statement upon Mir Davis part definitely assures him of the senatorial renominaton by the republican party of Pennsylvania this fall.
 It is not for us to say that Senator Davis was actuated by base motives in so declaring onpocoJ to y,rohibifinp t1p will be accused of the same no matter what ex- planation of his course of action he may offer or even if he should remain silent on the same. But at least he has made known his sentiments in ample time to give oppo- nents an opportunity to marshall forces to beat him at the polls this fall Two years ago he was elected on platform of general acceptance of republican principles of law enforcement He was committed as was President Hoover to a policy of following whatever course the Wickersham commission might suggest. Evidently ''Puddlin' Jim does not believe that the president is follow ing the suggested course.
 Some of his remarks on present condi- ? tions are worth reading. Ltsen to this: The evils of the excessive use of hard liquor were deeply impressed on me in my youth by the oldtime temperance lecturer. regret his passing.
 Tn the frugal homes of temperate and happy people where l spent the days of my youth in Pennsylvania there was on the family table loaf of bread, piece of cheese and glass of beer.
 Tt IS my belief that the regulated use of beer and light wines not intoxicating in fact, would eliminate many of the present evils brought on by the unlawful liquor traf- fife and would also be source of revenue sorely needed at this time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-06
A Chance For Argument

Albert C. Bates, librarian of the Connec ticut Historical Society, has provided the state with information of such contro- versial nature that we feel sure that he will have the entire state. at least that section of it historically minded, divided into two camps in short order. Presenting a paper before the society at Hartford this week MT Bates stated that the famous charter of the colony of Connecticut. the same one that was hidden in the famous Charter Oak, IS in the library of the Connecticut Historical Society and not in the State Library where it is commonly believed to be. By this Mir Bates meant that the State Library charter was not the original one which had such a ryecarous existence in our midst.
 That wasn't all Mir Bates had to say in his startling talk He further declared that the charter was stolen not from the old Sanford Inn on Main street which today IS marked by tablet in the Travellers Insur- ance Company building. but from the old Town House which stood on the south side of Shelton street, between Governor and South Prospect streets. People familiar with Hartford will recognize the names and To- calities. The third point that Mir Bates disputed with the generally recognized ver sions is that Sir Edmond Andros did not take control of the government of Connec ticut on October 3l, 1887, as recorded, but the following day. November l.
 The first of the disputed points is the more interesting and the more apt to excite controversy. Any visit to the State Library is not complete without sight of the orig inal charter of the colony. the same that history tells us Captain Joseph Wadsworth seized and seereted in the Charter Oak. MT Bates believes that the charter in Memorial Hall at the State Library is a copy which did not reach this country until more than 25 years after the Charter Oak incident. If this is true and Mir Bates says he has spent 30 years of research work on it, there should be some interesting facts come to light rela- tive to acceptance of the charter now ex- hibited as the original one
 At least the historical controversy pro- vdes delightful interlude to sweep aside accounts of war and depression We don't doubt but what there will be some comeback from those who refuse to accept any charter but tSe one in the State Library as the oAe figuring in the Charter Oak episode. And what of Sanford Inn and the Town House.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-02-06

Resolutions introduced in both houses of Congress would ban cruises to nowhere" which many foreign steamship lines have found profitable of recent months. Week. end cruises on big ocean liners with no destination advertised have proved extremely popular with those who have money to squander on such trips They aren't for the type of people who want to secure rest over the weekend Judging by all re- ports there is no rest for anybody on such a cruise, unless it be between the hours of 8 and l2 a. m. The main purpose of them is to make whoopee. Liquor flows freely once the ship passes the twelve mile mark. The vessel then cruises gently up and down a designated course until it is time to put back into port However. we don't see how you can expect passenger lines to exist if they can't fall back on just some such expedient as this. If American boats can't compete. blame it on prohibition. Every thing else is blamed on that.