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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-05
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given by the Board
of County Commissioners of Lincoln
County. Montana, that public hear
ing will be heard on Saturday, Jan
uary IA, 1888, at Ten o'clock A. M, of
said day at the Court House in Libby,
Lincoln County, Montana when and
where tax payers may appear and be
heard for or against the expenditure
Of money for the emergency specified
in the foregoing Resolution, published
herein and for one against the adop-
ton Of the said Emergency Resolution
providing for. increasing the Budget
Bridge Fund. dated January 4, 1888.
Board Of County Commissioners of
Lincoln County, Montana.
BY r. f. BRINK,
= Chairman.
BY LESLIE c. KENSLER,
Member.
BY J. w. MILLEGAN,
Member
Attest. WALTER L. WOLF,
7stSeaD Clerk.
Let the advertisements help You
make your shopping plans
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missioners and that an emergency now
exists for taking care of the bridges of
said County by reason OF their impaired
condition The facts constituting such
emergency are to the effect that the
money in the Bridge Budget Fund has
been expended in repairing and up
keep of the bridges Of said County to
make them safe for public travel, and
that many Of the bridges are now in
need of repair and will be in need Of
repair by reason Of the coming high
water, caused by melting snow and that
there are now no funds with which to
make repairs on the bridges Of said
County, the Bridge Budget Fund being
now depleted; that In order to serve
the public in the use Of its highways
and bridges, there exists mandatory
necessity of constructing and repair
ing the bridges of the County, keeping
them in proper condition for public
safety.
And Whereas, by reason of the fore
going facts, an emergency exists re-
quiring the issuance of emergency war
rants to take care Of the bridges Of said
County until the end of the present year,
that the Board of County Commission
ers estimate the amount of money re-
quired to meet such emergency at the
sum of $4,000.
Now Therefore, it is hereby resolved
that this Resolution and a notice there
Of be published in the Western News,
the official newspaper Of Lincoln Coun-
ty, Montana, and that January IA, 1888
at ten o'clock Of said day is hereby
fixed as the time and the Court Room
in said Court House in Libby, Mon
tana as the place when and where any
| interested ta.. payer may appear and
protest the adoption of said emergency
expenditure in whole or in part.
Passed and adopted by the unani-
nous vote of all the members Of the
Board of County Commissioners Of said
County, this 4th day of January, 1888,
at its regular meeting.
Board of County Commissioners of
Lincoln County, Montana
| (SeaD
BY Fl # E E. BRINK,
1
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-05
ST. Johns Lutheran Church.

The Friendly Church"
Sunday, Jan. 9th, II a. m.
Divine service, English language.
Sunday school will be resumed.
Sunday school begins at Gas a. m.
If you have no church affiliations
you are invited to worship with us
H l. PFOTENHAUER, Pastor.
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The Presbyterian Church.
r. w. Orr, Pastor.

This do in remembrance of me" said
Jesus. So for these centuries since His
death, the Christians meet about the
Lords table to commemorate his death.
Only Christians place proper value
on the privilege. At II o'clock next
Sunday morning we observe this sacra-
ment. The Bible School has be-
gun the study OF the Gospel of Mark.
It is the most vigorous account of the
life of Jesus
The Lamplighters meet on Tuesday
evening. Miss Beatrice Larson is hos
tess.
Circle B. will be entertained by Mrs.
E. E. Jaqueth ON Tuesday evening.
A prayer service preparatory to the
Lords Supper will be held in the
church on Friday evening at 730.
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The Churches


The subject for the Lesson-Sermon
Sunday, Jan. s, will be Sacrament"
Wednesday evening meeting at 800
O'Clock
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
The public is cordially invited to all
If these services.
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BOZEMAN.-Don't chase, scare or
tussle with fat hog before butcher
ing as a very small amount of this
causes overheating and the carcass of
an overheated animl is likely to be
red, fiery and unattractive and in some
cases will be unfit for curing.
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ST. Luke's Episcopal Church.

Holy Communion and sermon next
Sunday evening at o'clock. You are
cordially invited to attend. Sunday
school every Sunday at 10 a. m.
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CARD OF THANKS.

We desire to thank our dear friends
who 50 kindly rendered their assistance
in our recent bereavement IN the loss
Of our beloved wife, mother ana Sis
ter, Mrs Mrs. A armstrong :, -,
Special thanks are due to all the
floral offerings were beautiful, as were
the kind acts OF assistance In our nome
MAY the good God bless all OF you
is our earnest prayer.
PERRY .. ARMSTRONG AND
LITTLE GIRLS. 49,
MR. AND MRS. r. +. WINTERS
AND FAMILY.
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Church of God.

Sunday school 10 a. m. Preaching
Il p. m Young Peoples meeting I
p m Preaching p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday p. m.
Everybody welcome.
REV. FRED DECKER, Pastor.
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J
Farm News Items.

BOZEMAN.-Twenty mustard grow
ers in Pondera County produced 947,-
1896 pounds of yellow and brown mus
tard on 2,484 acres gaining a return
per acre over wheat of approximately
SIS, based on a three-year prior aver
age, according to A. c. Peterson, coun-
ty extension agent
BOZEMAN.--A caT that costs SIS
and that will grow into COW that gives
10000 pounds Of 3.5 percent milk .
year, will pay SIS to $50 more profit
a year than a calf that costs nothing
but that when matured gives 1000
pounds of 3.5 percent milk year.
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Hy IF. e. BRINK.

BY II. T.. bfttIVfA,
Chairman
BY LESLIE c. KENSLER,
Member
By j. W. MILLEGAN,
Member
Attest: WALTER L. WOLF,
Clerk.
Evening star., 1933-04-23

tiers into doom instead Of fitting away from it.
But who ever ran over . waddling goose?
Mortality statistics compiled by the United
States Government conclusively prove that in
proportion to relative numbers, for every goose
destroyed in traffic, two Harvard professors are
killed outright and one is badly injured. The
moral is plain: We shouldn't say person Is
as silly as goose; we should say as silly as
a member of a college faculty.
Because of perfectly legendary superstition
handed down from pagan days We aScribe vast
wisdom to the owl. Now, man and boy, I've been
giving scientific attention to a study Of this
subject in all its branches for going on upward
of 40 years, and now rise, as an old owlologist,
to state that here Is tradition which should
have been outlawed four or five thousand
years ago.
An owl has terribly close call from being
plain half wit Nature taught the owl-or tried
to-that his eyes were adapted only for night
time use. So, for no reason at all, he goes
gawking around in broad daylight, humping
into things and goggling about, and pretty soon
the crows and hawks and the jays, all sworn
enemies Of his, come in swarms and peck out
his plumage until the poor purblind, helpless
thing looks like the wreckage Of q vintage
feather duster.
Still, there is reason, although not very
good one, for this misconception touching on
the owls supposedly higher mentality. Any
politician or any public man who keeps still
in public, as the owl does, and just looks in
scrutable and important, as the owl will,
eventually gets the reputation of being sapient
We say to ourselves, If eyer that thoughtful
party does open up we'll certainly hear some
thing worth WHILE" when probably the facts
are that this individual never had anything
to say and hasn't anything to say now and
never will have anything to say, but has got
the gumption not to try.
We speak Of rational and balanced man as
having horse sense but by reverse shifting Of
the gears we make the jackass synonym for
blatant ignorance and bald unreasonableness
BY rights, we should turn the thing exactly
around.
Evening star., 1933-04-23

Granted that, mechanically and auto
maticaIly-and that's only because his memory
Is excellent-a horse exhibits certain laboriously-
acquired traits which make him useful to man,
the fact remains that, with or without provoca-
tion, he flies all to pieces at the most un-
fortunate moment. well trained horse will
pass some harmless wayside object a thousand
times without taking any notice Of it what
soever; and then, the thousandth and first time,
he gets a sudden attack Of pollen in the pod
and SHES from that article as though it were
a churn full of rattlesnakes and runs way and
keeps on running away until he smashes up
something or somebody and breaks his legs and
dasheS out his own poor clabbered brains
But did any one ever automatically report an
instance wherein a jackass lost its poise or
surrendered its pose of studied Indifference to
mundane trivialties or failed to look after its
own safety in hours Of crisis or emergency?
And while q mule-which is but han-breed
jackass born out Of wedlock-may succumb to
the horse strain in it and on occasion run away,
the potent jackass blend 50 guides its actions
that never by any chance does the said mule
suffer any personal hurt as the outcome Of its
temporary hallucinations. It may knock down
some unwary pedestrian, it may demolish the
wagon to which it is hitched, but it never
damages itsen. It knows too much for that
That seeming panic IS merely for passing
effect, whereas its aunt on its mothers side. old
Maggie May, the family nag, the mare that
walks like a sheep, picks out q peaceful Sunday
afternoon as a suitable time to go insane and
spreads devastation right on up to the suicidal
climax when she knocks her maniacal head of
right against the side of a brick smokehouse.
If the barn catches afire the mule comes right
on out Of there. If necessary, he'll kick his
way out through the side Of the stable. But
the horse goes mad and won't quit his stall
unless you mufle his head, and then, If not
securely hitched, he'll dash right back into the
flames and for no imaginable reason whatsoever,
remain until well done. Put too heavy load
on a horse or behind him, and he carries it, or
tries TO, until he drops. mule will make one
effort to start the wheels Of the overburdened
Evening star., 1933-04-23

OR some time have felt this craving
stirring within me and now I propose
L to give way to it in a large public way.
want to start crusade-organize
cause, if you wilton behalf Of certain
of our dumb beast friends, creatures
which daily are the victims either of an un-
thinking and parroted calumny or what Is al
most as bad, have in the popular imagination
been fabulously endowed with virtues they never
possessed and never will possess.
We have Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals-and a remarkably good
thing it is, and deserving of general support.
Mine is going to be Society for the Prevention
of Slander to Animals, also Fowls and Insects.
A few illustrations chosen at random from
vast collection of such fallacies and falsehoods
herewith is offered in support Of my thesis and
my plan to launch movement as we say in
the best women's club circles.
We are forever asserting that somebody Is IS
silly as a goose. That is more than stupid
simile, more than unfair one. In the first
place, it's cruel, and in the second place 1t Is
untruth. If the person who says such hbelous
thing means q wild goose, then he never tried
to hunt any wild geese If he had he would
know that to stalk q wild goose afoot IS one of
the most difficult jobs a hunter ever tackled
and that to deceive wild goose by camouflage
or artificial devices is almost as hard, because
never yet was there Matched a feeble minded
wild gosling, nor ever did there grow up wild
goose that wasn't smart and wary, and that
didn't have eyes all over its body, so to speak
The unwilling scandalmonger can't be mean
ing the domestic goose, either. For of all the
barnyard menagerie the tame goose is the
Ehrewdest and the calmeSt and the most capable.
: It is the young turkey which goes padding
about in the fatal dew or the flooded wood lot
in order that it may get its feet wet and die
unpleasantly. In times of drought a young
turkey has been known to jump down an
artesian well 200 feet deep just to get its feet
wet. And it is the chicken scratching in the
road which loses its presence Of mind at the
approach of an automobile and goes into a
frenzy of senseless fear and tries to sc1ttle OF
in two or three directions at once and so fiut-
Evening star., 1933-04-23

rig to turning, and then finding the task be-
yond him, he has the shrewdness to balk In
his tracks and stay baked until the tonnage
has been reduced. Given unlimited food, q
horse will founder himself; but mule quits
when he has had just enough. It is compl-
ment that is meant and not a criticism, when
our Negro folks down South very wisely remark
of some other person, Dat ones got haid On
him ez long ez a mule"
Take the ant, which for centuries, since
Biblical times, we've been telling the sluggard
he ought to 60 to. Not that there's any record
that the sluggard ever went, but nobody could
say We didn't keep on telling him. The Scrip
lures first gave the ant an undeserved boost.
And Aesop. who was pretty cagey in his
zoology and should have known better, also
came along with a fable in which he handed
the ant all the best Of it compared with
the carefree grasshopper.
So the ant became the symbol for industry
and application and has remained enshrined
in that niche ever since, occupying place in
public estimation right next to the busy bee.
Not even 50 great q man as Mark Twain was,
with all his wealth Of satire and irony, could
upset the ancient fetish He tried to show
in fact did show-that much of the ants en-
ergy was wasted, misplaced energy; that the
ant would work itself into lather trying to
salvage some piece Of junk for which it could
have no earthly use, just as some other OBJ
servant philosopher had proven that the mis-
guided, blundering bee devotes its existence
and finally breaks down its nervous system,
hiving up moro honey than it and the rest of
its swarm can ever possibly need.
think I know why, locally at least, Mark
Twain's justified attack against that sweaty-
browed, horny-handed son of toll, the ant,
didn't get anywhere. It was contrary to all
our traditions. The ant appealed to nation
dedicated to business because, well wasn't he
the typical business man of the insect world?
Look at him. Never taking day Of, always
Continued on Fifteenth Page.
Evening star., 1933-04-23

in all. It Is universe of enormously
heightened interest and iml Ortance.
Even if man has only shall part in
the cosmic drama, it is part in mag
nificent and harmonious whole, and man
is dignif1ed by his participation in it. We
are citizens of no mean city. Our spirits
are fortified by this ordered vision of the
world-the assurance that law reigns Is
an indispensable spiritual resource in
times like these. There is no contribu-
ton of modern knowledge that exceeds
in significance the opportunity for
spiritual growth made possible by science
in freeing us from superstition. We see
a world more wonderful and more beau
tiful than it could be without this init
macy of understanding"
THIS vision Of order which astronomy
supremely reveals runs through all
nature as science sees it in the rocks of
the earth and in the atoms of the rocks,
in the living cells of the thinking brain
and in the infinitesimal genes within the
cells-and man, the one creature con-
scious of this intricate complexity and
its inner unity, becomes more-rather
than less-signifcant as the vastness
unfolds its deeper mystery.
"Man no longer lives in an isolated
present." DR.. Merriam went on to say.
1--WE recognize the past as not just a
static ruin. And we see the future not
as a mere vista between castles in the
air, but as representing something that
is coming to something that may be
changed, bettered or marred by that
which passes through past and present
to futuge. The stream of this movement
is in part through us, therefore partly
under our influence, and man becomes a
molder of the future"
Thus there is promise that man can
better his world-and this promise ap-
plies not only to the material things of
our industrial civilization, but to the
even more important intangible things
Of life and society of lives. I have
previously quoted the estimate of J. B.
S. Haldane that there is perhaps no
limit at all to mans intellectual and
spiritual progress" through the applica-
tion Of science; j. e., in the rather i'm
probable event of man taking his own
evolution in hand.
DR.. Merriam believes that such i'm
provement in both the intellectual and
the spiritual stock of the race will come
through the broadening influence of
science.
As yet we have worked mainly with
physical nature-the triumphs Of re-
search have been greatest in such inani-
mate realms as physics and chemistry,
land the problems of the physicist and
the chemist are child's play" added the
president of the Carnegie Institution,
Evening star., 1933-04-23

compared with those Of the biologist;
and the biologists tasks in turn are easy
compared With those of the man who
would build science of society. Hard
as they are even to visualize, these at
tainments must come-and the only
way they can come is by the scientific
method"
Walter Lippmann recently pointed out
that the political significance Of the
present lies in the fact that for the first
time in history "the ideal that a social
order can and should be planned and
managed has taken root among the peo-
pie themselves"
DR. MERRIAM sees science'as neces-
sary instrumentality both in the
planning and in the administering Of
society in the future-even as it has
been one of the greatest forces bringing
the peoples of the earth to this end of
laissez faire. He sees as "close at hand
the end of the age-long struggle with
the wilderness of nature through which
man has come up from savagery," and
he sees as an inescapable corollary that
''life in those jungles which arise by
human construction requires not less
science, but more of the kind Of method
human progress to the present stage"
Human progress to the present stage
has been attained through increasing
use of what DR.. Merriam calls "the
parallax method"
1.-The early astronomers" he explained,
wishing to determine the distances of
heavenly bodies, hit on the idea of
sighting the moon from two widely
separated points on the earth. BY
measuring the angle of its displacement,
or 'parallax,' as it is called, they were
able to construct triangle from which
to compute the lunar distance. The
method worked with the planets and
the sun, but when it was tried on the
stars the observers were unable to get
any parallax.
Finally, it occurred to one pioneering
mind that if he took an observation of a
star, and then waited six months, until
the earth was on the other side of the
sun, and sighted the star again, he'd
save baseline Of 180,000,000 miles in
stead of the earth's 5000 miles. He tried
it, and got a displacement, small but
measurable.
1.-The attainment Of this first stellar
parallax was great stroke Of the human
mind. That leap Of discovery not only
showed how remote the stars are, but it
demonstrated new method of sounding
distances-it opened a new universe Of
thought"
"The parallax method Of research
sighting mystery from opposite sides
of the orbit-has been prolific Of discov-
Evening star., 1933-04-23
represented by the straight and resolute
thinking of our anceStors2

represented by the straight and resolute
thinking Of our ancestors?
1T need not be so. Science Is simply
the truth about things, and the things
that may come within its scope are as
wide as human affairs. The Carnegie
Institution Is dedicated by its charter
to investigation, research and discovery
and the application Of knowledge to the
improvement Of mankind and that
believe comprehends the true objective
and the highest tleal of pure science.
"The improvement of mankind in
cludes the teaching of straight thinking
the development of scientific atti-
tude of mind among the people gener-
ally toward the outside world and toward
one another. The kind of government
that we are trying out in the world to-
day depends for its success on the intelli-
gence and altruism of the citizens. The
intelligence and altruism of the citizens
depend on the breadth and depth and
reality Of their knowledge.
This puts great responsibility on
research to ascertain and organize
knowledge, and on education to see that
it reaches the people. Thus it becomes
part of the function of science to give
us such well rounded understanding
of the universe, including man, as will
permit us to enjoy in constructive sense
all the resources that surround us-ma-
terial, intellectual, emotional, spiritual
to experience the Joy of living and to
make the ultimate contribution of a
life"
MALT WHITMAN sensed it when he
wrote:
The earth is rude, silent and incompre.
hensible at first;
Be not discou1aged-keep on-there are
dtpine things toeH enUeloped,
s,oear there are dipine things-n1ore
beautiful than tongue can tell.
And SO, to those who fear the unblazed
trails of the laboratory, who shrink from
its stark revelations, which the micro
scope and the telescope and the spectro-
scope daily contribute, who are terrified
by the vastness and oppressed by the
long silences and tortured by the
thought of mans nttleness in natures
overwhelming immensity, one recalls this
reinsurance Of the seer: BE not dis
couraged-keep on-there are divine
things well enveloped, more beautiful
than tongue can tell"
If had my course to choose over
again." said DR.. Merriam, Il would still
take the rocks for my study-the great
est historical document of all the ages
rude, silent and incomprehensible at
first-'T should still want the long view,
to see the world and my life and its prob
lens from the other side of the orbit"