The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-21
Howe About:
Love and Poverty
World Garden Spots
Disrobiffg the Great
By ED HOWE


and every library is full OF such re-
cltals hundreds of years old. So
I'm as tired of the love story as l am
Of the poverty story. We are all poor,
and all of us have been shamefuily In
love, but should we not be quieter
about such misfortunes, Instead OF
making moving pictures OF themf
The unfortunate, In their love ana
financial affairs, have not only broken
my heart, but are boring me TO death.
In motoring, | note that when we
stop for gasoline. the attendant tells
us his town Is In the Garden Spot OF
the World. A little rougher country
beyond, he will admit, but his section
Is perfect. | have long lived In
q section of the West we call the
Garden Spot of the World; I'd like
to take you over 1t. 1t Is really very
beautiful. very fertile; the residents
very worthy people. Everybody In
the United States lives In the Garden
Spot of the World. VIII we let such
a country go to the bow vows unnec-
essarily7 We are not making the eff
fort we should to save 1t from the
present effort Of the politicians to
ruin It..
s.s 4h
A thing | have noticed all my life
is that great men do not amount to
very much more than the rest OF US.
| have lived In many communities
with noted persons, and, after their
washington robes have been replaced
with the usual rags, we have said OF
them: "You wouldn't think that man
had been In congress. would your
Judging from what see In the pa
pers, It Is quite Job to leave wife.
/ wonder so many men risk 1t (al-
though lately | note judges and juries
are treating men rather more lenient-
| ". One man was treated almost just
~ In a recent alimony suit, although
| It must be admitted the defendant
himself was a United States Judge;
that makes difference.
It occasionally happens that the
men can out talk the women In these
dreadful affairs, but, In recent case,
| the wife Of a pastor Is easily the
peer OF her husband. presumably a
trained orator. Her statements In
print are like magazine articles. She
charges her husband with habitunf
drunkenness, with cursing their
| young lady daughter and her friends
/ fall very tough; with visiting the
home OF his bishop, and being reprl-
manded by the bishops wife for act
Ing In a vulgar manner In presence
/ OF her children.
The pastor, In court, when his wife
testified that she bought his wedding
suit, and fed him, before marriage,
called out: "It's a lie" His conduct
has been weak all through his quar-
rel with his terribly capable wife
easily the heroine of the past two
weeks.
The men say that quarrels between
husband and wife become SO bitter
that the most truthful wives tell
shocking falsehoods, and believe them.
Women are more truthful than men,
as rule, but In quarrels with hus-
bands, the men say land say) WON
en- throw truth and discretion to the
winds. When woman talks to me
about the men Especially her hus-
band) / believe her no more than
believe a man when he talks OF the
fish he catches. the ducks he shoots
or OF his outrages.
Men do not reach the stars through
difficulties, or In any other way. Al
a certain point ON the way to ths
stars, they encounter strong attrac
ton from the earth and human ma
ture they have left, and are buffetet
around until they conclude to fly bach
ways, to try operating again In al
element they are fitted for.
A smart woman know is greatly
burdened by the care Of very old ant
very foolish relative. Il have beef
studying the faults of the DID, sh'
said, "and have already DISCOVERIES
forty, with no compensating features
No one above seventy-tlve Ia at al
agreeable, or knows anything"
| am only an average man, Ii | d
that we'll; and the average Is so lov
my retrospects are frequently humll
iating.
There are 80 many dangers In lif
that only coward lives to achiev
bravery.
I have heard 1t said women neve
impose ON each other as they impos
on men. know woman VIII
went to visit girl friend twent
years ago, and Is there yet; no Wifi
! mother-in-law, sister, daughter, aun
or other lady kin, ever displayed a
equally impudent case OF impositio
, on man.
, | have long been interested In
!, statement made about Thomas A. tx