The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-10-26
Howe About:
Straight Men
Sound Judgment
Huey Long
By ED HOWE
BY ED HOWE

man who did not say:
" have the finest neighbors In the
world"
There is gentler atmosphere where
there are women and children: l read
the other day that hawks and song
birds often nest In the same trees.
With mothers and young about, the
hawk behaves himself, and does his
killing elsewhere.
When the Yankees went south In
1865, how they acted, no women or
children being along. My son has
been In Texas for years, with his fam
lily, and writes me: ut seems to me
| have the best nelghbors In the
world
Men are always rougher when the
women and children are not along.
Note what the men say on returning
home after day spent downtown
with men: ut seems to me have the
meanest opposition in the world"
often hear people say they intend
to take up special course In music,
French. literature, whist, ETC., but have
never heard of anyone taking up
special course in taste, of judgment
In handling what education or sense
one has. | oftener have need
Of taste or judgment. than nearly any
thing else. One does not play whist
often. or often encounter a French
word, but the exercise Of sound judg-
ment. taste, will greatly oblige Hun
every hour OF the day.
Huey Long, Holy Roller In the
radical religion, says his father was
poor and ignorant, and kept In that
condition by the INSCRIPTIONS rich.
Huey has two brothers, mature
men, and respectable and successful
lawyers. They both say their father
was q large farmer. a better edu-
Gated and more intelligent man than
their brother Huey, and able to make
better speech than any of his sons.
The Long brothers also say that when
they were children. they had intelli-
gent and helpful neIghbors, and were
never ground down by anybody.
1t is easy for anyone to win In poll
tics, II the candidate Is able to tell the
demagogue story gracefully. The dem
agogue story Is thousands of years
old. and always the same; all dIshon-
est voters ask Of new man telling
1t Is that he be eloquent, dramatic, q
good liar, and a rogue like themselves
A new book on sociology by col
| lege professor Is like new memorial
to Abe Lincoln: 1t Is not actually
needed Prof. L. r. Jacks, of Oxford.
has lust erected another monument of
40S pages to the ideal society which
expresses itself In providing comfort
able homes for the poor. drunkards,
fallen women, orphans, criminals ETC.,
with hope OF retaining the subjects
OF our charity.
If our race ever attains an ideal so.
cial arrangement, there will be no
poor. drunkards, fallen women. or
phans, or criminals. A mans great.
est Injustice is that he Is hampered In
his efforts to successfully care for him
self by being taxed to care for those
less Industrious. Only Of the man an
imal is 1t demanded that he carry q
part of another's load
Say that In the natural march OF
man, the natural load OF each one II
forty pounds; to carry forty pounds
all day turns out considerable tasl
hy evening. But we have Increased
the load OF every reasonably hearty
man to certainly fifty pounds Some
others are carrying only thirty, twenty
or ten pounds, or no load at all. In
deed, many worthless persons are be
ing carried In filters from camp t.
camp by the stronger.
The French woman called Georg,
Sand was a perfect type of the radl
cal. Her morals were atrocious, but
like others of her type, she had enor
nous visions of saving the world.
II would be cut to pieces for ideal
| know will never be realized" sh
wrote. II grope In darkness and m
tired arms grasp nothing save delu
sive shadows, yet II followed my PEI
sonal incllnations ! should not pul
nv neighbours child out Of the water.
Radicals everywhere have Away
been like that. know they cannot az
complish what they so disturb tn
world by attempting, and neglect tn
little good hourly at hand.
(This indictment of radicals Is brie
and simply written that 1t may b
easily understood. | so intend 1t;
purposely avoid making book OF th
ldea.)
A man informs me that he Marie
woman who had lived all her life
! hotels and boarding houses, and thu
she was so little civilized that whe
, he took her to house he provides
r she struck matches on the walls (
D the rooms.
e During the present depression fin
!, that In my household we occasional
$ recover something OF value from tt