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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25
CHINESE GOVERNMENT OBJECTS
TO U. S. SILVER PURCHASES.

The Chinese government IS protest
ing against the silver buying policy OF
the United States. The protest IS based
on the grounds, as stated by spokes-
man for the Chinese finance ministry,
that every increase In the price OF
silver hits the Chinese government
directly in the pocketbook.'
1t has long been maintained that a
better market for silver would increase
the buying power of the Chinese and
therefore would help world business.
But this is how it apparently works
out.
China levies a duty upon imports
calculated in gold but payable in silver.
Assume that given volume of i'm
ports would pay in silver an aggregate
duty equal to one million ounces OF
gold. If one ounce of gold is equal TO
rs ounces of silver. this yields rev.
enue Of rs million ounces of silver to
China.
But now the American government
steps in and raises the price of silver,
SO that the ratio of gold to silver is |
to 60 instead of | to rs as heretofore.
1t therefore follows that the revenue
of the Chinese government has been
reduced from rs million ounces to 60
million ounces of silver, from the same
volume of imports.
Here is further example of how
it works to the detriment OF China,
according to explanations reaching this
office from eastern economists. II the
value of an ounce of silver is raised
through U. S. purchases where it will
exchange for 80 pounds of rice instead
of Is, it means that the value of rice
in. terms of silver. e., in terms ol
Chinese money-has gone down. Hence
the Chinese farmer who raises rice OF
any other product faces decreasing
price for his produce measured If
Chinese money The same condition i
likewise true for the Chinese indus
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25
Fisher River News

The Thompson Fisher River Club met
at, the ranch home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Palm Sunday, October 81, Mrs.
Mary Stollfuss being assisting hostess.
After sumptuous dinner of which 40
were present to partake, the two clubs
held their separate meetings. After the
meetings were adjourned the members
departed for their homes, feeling duly
repaid for coming out in the pouring
rain.
Ernest Davis and Regina Brown .sper.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25

trialist or anyone producing products
to be paid for in Chinese money
Evidently the Chinese in effect are
protesting against their use as guinea
pigs in the current silver experiment
in the United States.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY.

| hereby announce myself as candi-
date for the office of County Attorney
ON the Democratic ticket, at the cleo
ton to be held November 6, 1884.
| pledge myself. if elected, to give
my best efforts to the duties OF the
office and the interests of the County
Your support will be appreciated.
Respectfully.
B. F. MAIDEN.
political Adv, paid for by B. F
Maiden)
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-10-25

REPUBLICAN
TICKET
STATE
For Senator in Congress
(Six year tern)
GEO. VI. BOURQUIN
For Senator in Congress
1.-TWO year serm)
SCOTT LEAVITT
For Representative in Congress
d. d. (Bob) EVANS
For Chief Justice Supreme Court
LLEWELLYN L. GALLOWAY
For Associate Justice Supreme Court
ALBERT II. ANGSTMAN
For Railroad and Public Service
Commissioner
CHARLES A. RASMUSSEN
For Clerk of the Supreme Court
]. WARD CROSBY
COUNTY
For State Senator
NJ D. ROWLAND
For State Representative
r. ". kIINKE
For County Commissioner
F. r. CAREY
For Sheriff
WALTER E. F1NCHER
For County Clerk and Recorder
SAMUEL CARPENTER
For County Attorney
MARSHALL MURRAY
For County Superintendent of Schools
o. H. NORDSTROM
For Justice OF the Peace, Libby
Township
J. Fl. HAIGLER
JOHN H. SKIDMORE
political Adv. paid for by Lincoln
County Republican Central Committed
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Nash

Nash Coupe-A real pretty COOK
dark blue. This is fine car OASO
and only $225; terms.
NORTHEAST MOTOR CO..
92O Rladensburp Rd. n. E. All. O2OO
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
10 BARGAINS

1880 Packard Standard 8 Sedan
Finished in brewster green' looks
and runs just like new; has
wheels and trunk; this Is q Q1OR
real 5000 value; our price. O66O
1880 Buick Sport Coupe, Model dos
Finished in th0rne brown; mas
wire wheels and looks like @O7S
1929 ChrysIer Is Sport Coupe-Tires,
paint and upholstery like new; this
is a great bargain and one of
the most popular Chryslers; &OOS
P9ss9 Pgss chrysier 6, second Series Con
vertibIe Congratulated in black;
has six wire wheels, fender wells
and trunk rack. chromium covers;
and looks exactly like new; @I7S
1882 Plymouth Sport Rdst.-Finished
in slate blue. without doubt this
is the greatest bargain in COOK
the city; price ........... OASO
1899 Ford VS. Congratulated in
dark green; has General low pressure
tires, and looks and runs just QQOR
like a new car: price .... OCHO
1898 Plymouth Second Series 2-Door
Shdan-Finished in slate blue; the
original paint and tires look @1QS
like new: will sacrifice for OfOO
1881 De Soto sedan-Finished in
slate blue, trimmed in black. This
car is really underpriced COOK
$75: will sacrifice for .... OAAO
1928 Packard 6. 5-Pass. Sedan
Tires, paint and upholstery is per-
feet. The motor runs Just as quiet
as the day 1t was deliv- 017E
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black. trimmed in red: also has
chromium hood and radiator; 07E
viii sacrifice for .. 90
Fere are ten used ears all in first
class condition and all ready to go
Call Mr.. COOksey. Dis. 431O-and we
will make you hapDy.
Skinker Motor Co.
1915 goth St. N. w.
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
Automobiles For Sale

LAFAYETTE Sedan, 1884, demonstrator'
Philco radio. $695.
Nash 1884 twin ignition 6. demon
Nash Nash 1882 1882 Sedan. ss29.
Nash 1881 Ambassador Victoria, $3I3'
Plymouth 1888 De Luxe Coupe, $4Zo $oH:
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04
MILITARY CENSORSHIP

IT is a strange new policy which that ma
i tional guard officer has tried to promulgate
in regard to freedom of the press in Mime
apolis.
After the national guard had been called
out by Governor Floyd B. Olson to preserve
the peace during paralyzng strike, the adju-
tant-general of the guard undertook to tell the
city's editors how they should behave while
under martial law Among his instructions
was the amazing order that to print anything
"defaming the state of Minnesota or any mem
Der of the Minnesota national guard in the
field" would be construed as violation of his
order, subjecting the offender to punishment
1t is hard to imagine a clearer perversion
of the constitutional guaranty of free press
1t is bad enough to have military censorship
restricting press freedom in time Of actual
war; but to have a tin-hatted militiaman I'M
dertake to strait-jacket the press when moth
ing more than a strike is going on is intoler-
ably insolent and unwarranted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04

constitutional rights Of free speech
and we're bounced upon by Chief
Morrissey's police.
Then the fireworks began. An
officer waddled to the platform yell
ing, That's enuf outa you; you
can't talk about the police like that
come offa there; you're under ar
rest"
The crowd became incensed. 1t
was only the calmness of the young
communist that prevented violence.
1 was dumbfounded. Certainly,
thought, the men would be released
Immediately. My aroused interest
took me down to the police station
later. The speakers were slated for
vagrancy under $4,000 bond each.
Later l learned the bond was re-
duced to $1,000 and given 1 was
present when the men we're released.
One of the men claimed he had
been beaten while in the Bertillon
room. There was blood on his
shirt and trousers; he limped, was
ashen and had to be supported.
OF a more unprovoked ruthless
curtailrnent of the right of free
speech I never have heard. An
aroused public opinion must stamp
out this police terror, or our Con-
stitution is in real danger Of be-
ing overthrown-not by Reds and
Communists, but by the police force,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04

1t is just as reasonable for high
schools to charge fees and tuition
Purdue was established in 1870
as an agricultural college. But like
other octopi she is ambitious to
spread out; teach everything under
the sun, from setting hen to build
ing boiler.
The taxpayers are bled illegally to
keep up these wasteful institutions.
1t is not the duty Of government
to educate lawyers, doctors, dentists,
nurses, plumbers and scientists.
Its duty ends when all the chill
dren of the state have a good COM
mon school education. Why all
these expensive state schools when
there are enough nonstate schools
to do all the higher special training
without costing the taxpayers a dol
lar?
1t is about like city or township
building a high school when some
philanthropist already had erected
the building and supplied the teach
ers.
Again, why should the national
government, through the federal
emergency relief administration
provide money to help students at
Purdue and l. U. and not those in
nonstate colleges? Spells and graft
control our educational system as
well as other units Of government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04
FASCIST IDEA OF PEACE

THE mind of a devotee Of dictatorship must
work in an odd way.
Sir Oswald Mosley, the Englishman who adj
mires Mussolini so passionately that he wants
to set up a black-shirt regime in England,
found himself moved the other day to praise
Fascism as a force making for peace. Dis
cussing the recent turmoil in Germany and
Austria, he asserted.
"Fascism is the only thing which prevented
Europe from being plunged into war like the
one of twenty years ago"
This, to be sure is one way Of looking at It,
Most of us however, had supposed that it was
Just the other way around-that the danger
of war in the last fortnight has been due
largely to the high-handed and brutal things
which the philosophy of Fascism makes
men do.
It will take better evidence than anything
the Atlantic cables have carried in the
last month to persuade us that Fascism is
potent force for peace
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04
STATE CONSTITUTION
DECLARED VIOLATED
By Will H. Craig.

BY VIII II. Oralg.
We hear a lot about the "denting"
of the Constitution by the New
Deal administration, and while I do
not approve of much of the New
Deal, yet those who live in glass
houses should not throw stones.
Since 1868 the legislature Of In
diana has been violating the state
Constitution by appropriating state
money for the higher state schools.
The Constitution of 1915 did provide
for a state university at Bloom
ington, and county academies, but
the Constitution of 1851, on a reso-
luton offered by Thomas A. Hend-
ricks and adopted unanimously,
abolished the university and the
county academies and the Constitu-
ton provides for a uniform system
of common schools. wherein tuition
shall be for and equally open to
all"
If 7. U. was authorized by the
Constitution, why did it wait seven
teen years before asking aid? In
1868 it was given s496 900 year, and
was sponsored by the state board of
education, a grandchild Of the Con-
stitution. What right has the legis-
lature or state board Of education
to violate the Constitution and i'm
pose on the taxpayers?
And if the state schools are legal
how can they charge tuition and
fees contrary to the Constitution?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04
PEOPLE WON'T WAIT

L ONG after recovery from the depression
IL has been completed. we probably shall
be arguing earnestly about what caused the
recovery.
Was it due to this, that or the other spe-
cihc measure adopted at Washington? Or
did it come of itself, in spite of what Wash
mgton did?
This argument has begun already.
on one side you have the theory that our
cyclical swing. from prosperity to depression
and back again. has been increasing steadily
in velocity for half a century, and that this
last time it carried our economy down so far
that our whole social organization would have
collapsed if a remedy had not been applied.
On the other. there is the belief that this
depression differed little from its predeces-
sors. and that recovery would have proceeded
just as fast-if not, in fact, little faster-if
Washington had kept its hands off entirely.
This latter viewpoint is expressed ably by
Neil Carothers. director of the College of
Business Administration at Lehigh university.
Economists. says Professor Carothers, real
ize that the causes of a depression spring
from our system OF capitalistic production, in
which goods are made far in advance of the
market by means Of borrowed credit and in
vested funds. It seems to be established that
depression comes when this credit-securities-
investment system Of production becomes over
stimulated"
Now this. says Professor Carothers, is a
system which inevitably rights itself. 1t never
quite capsizes. Economists. he adds, know
that the only cure is that one remedy for all
human ills-time."
The chief trouble with this theory seems
to be its belief that human affairs are carried
or in a vacuum.
When an economist talks Of producers, con-
sumers. investors, and so on he is not speak
ing OF units in an academic chess game; he
is speaking of human beings who have naive
way of getting angry when they lose their
money and their jobs, and who will stand pri-
Walton only about so long before they 60 out
10 burst something.
a depression like the last one might right
itself. # given plenty of time; but the people
who are living through it are apt TO tear the
house down while they are waiting.
Depending on time to effect a cure is like
depending on time to relieve an attack of
acute appendicitis; it may work-and, on the
other hand. the patient may die.
In highly organized country like ours.
which happens also to be a democracy. it is
impossible to let nature take its course in an
acute depression. The strain on the social
fabric IS too great.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04
Charges Schools Waste Tao Money!

often go hungry because instead
of patronizing the school cafes
the children drop the money into
vending machines. The children
pay 5 cents for one half pint of
milk, which is at the rate of 80
cents a gallon. The milk producer
receives 6 to 8 cents q gallon.
Permit me to suggest that we
discontinue the services Of doctors,
dentists, nurses. special writing
teachers and all instructors in
nonessential courses.
While taxpayers are paying
county agents and assistants in
seventy-eig of the ninety-two
state counties to instruct us in
production Of better crops and live
stock the government is asking us
to produce less.
These activities may receive a
high academic rating, but from a
practical standpoint the rating is
minus. In the educational affairs
of our state, county and city
brains and Drawn should be
equally represented.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04
HINDENBURG CLASSED
WITH TRULY GREAT
By Ex-German Veteran.

BY Ex-German Veteran.
The high tributes paid to his ex-
cellency, Paul Ludwig Hans Anton
Won Beneckendorff und Won linden
burg, field marshal of the imperial
German armies and, later, president
Of the ilI-starred German republic,
have not been too high.
A common soldier in that greatest
of all war machines, the Prussian-
lied German army of the early por-
ton Of the World war, I must pay
tribute to him, though I have
learned to hate the imperial system
to which he was so loyal.
The field marshal was a great
soldier and a great man. May his
soul rest with the souls Of the other
great German soldiers who have
gone before him.
And, may some one like him rise
again in Germany to lift it from the
rule Of an outsider and a maniac.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04

THE report o. Wayne Coy. the Governors
secretary. on conditions at Michigan City
prison is all right as FAR as il goes. The only
trouble with it is that it fails to 20 far enough.
HIS remark that the administration Of the
Institution might be more effective" is a mas
terplece OF understatement. Beyond doubt his
recommendation that a cherry tree in front Of
the cast wall should be removed IS sound.
But IN view OF the record Of escapes at the
prison during the last year. Mr.. Coys report
is strongly reminiscent Of the famous occasion
when the mountain labored nightly and
brought forth a mouse.
We doubt that the public viii be satisfied
Ia view Of the latest walk-away OF FIVE prison.
ers. with the discharge OF a few understrap-
pers from the prison service That would be
TOO much like painting a cancer with iodine
and pretending it was cured. What is needed
at Michigan City is major operation.
Mr.. Coy's report dwells at some length on
structural changes necessary at the prison.
The taxpayers must make up their minds to
spend some money in this direction.
But they should not be asked 70 do so until
they have every assurance that the admins
tration Of the institution is sound.
a whisky still was found operating IN one
o. the dormitory elevator shafts. It is diff
ncult for the public to understand how such
thing could have occurred without gross neg
ligence or downright corruption. Structural
faults we're not responsible for that.
After all the officials Of the prison may
have had some hard luck in dealing with the
inmates, but hard luck docs not deprive a man
Of some sense Of smell. And any bootlegger
can vouch for the fact that a still has an
extremely strong and characteristic odor.
President Roosevelt has set a splendid ex-
ample to other public servants by frankly adj
hitting his mistakes. He realizes that at
tempts TO gloss over errors simply magnify
their Importance in the public mind.
Prison administration has been one of the
mistakes Of Governor McNutt's administra-
ton. The thing to do is to admit it and ap-
ply strong remedies.
Indiana's penal problem Is a nettle which
the Governor must grasp firmly. If he toys
with 1t he Is going to get badly stung.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04
DESCRIBES POLICE ACTION
AT PARK MEETING

BY a Bystander.
I was attracted wednesday night
by a small crowd that was gathering
near the pavilion in Military park.
I learned that it was a public meet
ing against war and FaScism called
under the auspices Of the Commu-
mist party. The crowd was small
about $50 persons-men and wom-
en-, Negroes and whites, and nearly
all in working clothes.
Little interest for me here, 1
thought, and was about to go on
when an officer approached the first
speaker on the platform and asked
for permit.
A young chap, self-evidently an
American, replied to the officer to
the effect that the Communist party
was not an illegal organization, that
its members had the right to free
speech and assembly, that never be-
fore had a permit been necessary,
and that as American citizens they
were going to exercise their rights.
The officer left and the meeting
proceeded. The first speaker was a
Negro. He spoke for about fifteen
minutes. He had been in the war.
So had I. He was thoroughly dis
illusioned and called upon his audi
ence to fight against the next war
which he said was impending.
The next speaker was the same
young man who had replied to the
officer. He said he represented the
Young Communist League, an or
ganization of young people who were
unalterably opposed to war. The
young, he said, were most easily
duped by war propaganda, by uni
forms, and martial music.
A young Negro with an excellent
command Of English took the plat
form. He represented the Inter
national Labor Defense he said, an
organization composed Of members
of all races and nationalities.
This organization, he said, would
take up the legal fight in behalf Of
eight arrested Indianapolis workers
who merely had made use OF their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04
By a Qualified Reader.

By a Qualified Reader.
After considerable research I
wish to report on the school sys-
TENS of indianapolis and Marion
county as a qualified taxpayer and
school patron.
I am now paying $2140 an acre
a year taxes on twenty-seven and
one-third acres in Washington
township. more than 100 per cent
of my earnings.
I find that the educational sys-
tenn is of lower efficiency and
value than in the last thirty
years; that 80 per cent of the
taxpayers money spent on the
schools is wasted; that only eight
practical subjects are taught in
the grade schools, reading, writ
ing, arithmetic, spelling, physi-
ology, geography, grammar and
history, and that education is I'M
dermined by coaches, gyms, en-
tertainments and athletics.
There is a continual drain of
money from the parents for lunch
and refreshments. The children
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-04
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

NFF1CIAL Washington is getting an enor
~ nous chuckle from the bombastic and ap-
parently serious postoff1ce department COM
munique which the other day described Post
MASTER General Farley "one of the greatest
fishermen who ever visited Yellowstone national
park"
"Attired in oilskins the postmaster general in
short order caught ten black spotted native trout
in Yellowstone lake, and would have been fish
ing yet but he had caught his limit under gov
eminent park regulations
ripple of laughter ran through official
circles as this startling information was released
Expert fishermen who have sought the elusive
poisson" from Hudson Bay to Miami Beach
snickered derisively.
well. if Jim Farley only caught ten trout in
Yellowstone. he ought to be ashamed OF himself,
declared one Izaak Walton. The trout are so
thick in that lake a child could pull them out
with an Undated hook"
The trout in Yellowstone lake are packed
more tightly than herring in a herring bottle, :"
added another enthusiast.
Tales we're related of tourists who gather
beside small boiling geyser at the edge of yell
iowstone lake and broil their fish while they still
wriggle at the end Of the line.
Did Jim Farley do that?" inquired high
government official.
The Bureau of Fisheries. discreetly refraining
from any opinion in the debate, revealed that
Yellowstone lake. largest lake in the United
States at an altitude OF 1,fOU 1eet, is prOIuSely
stocked with native trout.
THE Chaco war between Bolivia and Para
L quay goes on persistently despite proposed
peace moves resolutions and yelled threats of
intervention from outside sources.
In Washington, Bolivian Minister Finot and
Paraguayan Minister Bordenave continue to play
the chess game of diplomacy with absurd little
skirmishes that serve only to emphasize the heat
of a summer in the capital
A meeting of the governing board Of the Pan
American Union earlier this week found the
Bolivian and Paraguayan ENJOYS wondering
whether to attend or not. Each minister realized
that the meeting was called primarily to discuss
a resolution requesting Latin American govern
ments to decide on a peace movement in the
Chaco.
Minister Bordenave Of Paraguay-for some
reason-did not attend
Minister Finot Of Bolivia was present.
The Bolivian expressed to the Pan American
gathering the sympathetic approval" of his
country at the resolution.
Somehow the Paraguayar learned of this
Before the meeting adjourned, he managed to
send a message expressing the approval of Para
quay. also
Minister Finot claims a diplomatic victory.
Minister Bordenave claims diplomatic victory
Meanwhile, the Chaco war goes on and Bolivians
and Paraguayans continue to be slaughtered.