The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-09-14
Libby Lions Club
Meets Again After
Summer Recess
Will Support High School Football
Team As Usual Interesting Talks
Given BY Several.

That the Libby Lions club will again
give the football team Of the Libby
high school whole-hearted support was
brought out at the meeting of the club
held Tuesday night at Turner Tavern
This was the first meeting Of the club
since the summer recess and Lion
WEIGH presided as president for the
first time following the annual election
last fall, and performed all the duties
of the office In his usual able manner
Following the serving Of dinner,
Carlton Joughin proposed that the club
again get back Of the football team as
it had done in the past. This sopened
the question to discussion and Lion
Turner suggested that the club moi
only support the regular team but that
it take on as project the equipping
of the younger boys in the grades with
football material and see that they be
given coaching SO that they could learn
the fundamentals of football before en-
tering the high school
A number Of guests were present.
one of whom was Joe Hazen, the new
high school coach, who was called on
for remarks Mr.. Hazen expressed his
appreciation OF the hearty support
promised the team and said it was not
only very fine but necessary thing
if the best work Is to be gotten out
of the team In closing he said he had
been in football II years, that he had
had training under some OF the out
standing coaches and in that experience
had come in contact with high school
teams in several Of the western states.
I'm all that time," said MIR. Hazen, 4
have never met finer bunch Of young
fellows than we have here in Libby.
They are unusually courteous, are will
ing workers and are fine young people.
Another guest, Arthur DeSonia, of
the cshool faculty, was also called on.
He stressed the need of early training
if a high class football team is to be
developed and promised to help in any
way that he could Paul Church ex-
pressed appreciation at being guest
of the club and concurred in the need
of early training and Of support of the
team by the men of the community.
County Treasurer Bessey, who pro-
vided ccrnet accompaniment for club
singing(2), said that when he was
playing basketball in high school no
thing was appreciated quite so much as
hearty support by the town. He thought
it fine thing for the Lions to lend
their support to the football squad. E.
j. Driear, another guest, said he had
travelled around with Libby teams for
the past ten years, had greatly enjoyed
it, had always found them fine bunch
Of boys, and bespoke hearty support
tor the present. team. Captain DeMer-
rift was another guest speaker In the
army we do not devote all our time to
fighting" said Captain DeMerritt. I'VE
have found it is time very we'll spent
to keep men interested in athletics.
Therefore we devote lot of thought
and planning not only to football but
To nearly all forms of athletic campeti-
ton. We have found that the men are
much less apt to get into troublesome
scrapes if they are interested either III
football, basketball, baseball boxing or
some. similar sport" The same thing
will prove true in the cities and the
smaller towns, said the captain. Keep
the young men occupied in athletics
and there will be fewer Of them gath
ering in street corner gangs to cause
trouble, he said.
FL A. Hough spoke briefly but in an
interesting way Of his visit to the old
home in Illinois and few days at the
Chicago fair. The program was closed
by short but able address bv Will
liam Herbert on the MIRA. MIR. Herbert
said that a peaceful revolution is in
progress In the United States, that our
form of government has been drasti-
cally changed for the present at least
by consent Of the people, and that
wholly new methods IN the industrial
life of the nation are being tried out
by President Roosevelt. Mr. Herbert
bespoke hearty support of the Pres
ident. 1--WE been lifelong republic
an" said Mr. Herbert, "but he has al
most made democrat Of me. All Of
LIS wish him the greatest success In his