The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-08-02


give them: cannot again trust or as
sociate with them.
| | have adopted this policy as the
easiest and best way. If had oppor-
tunlty to punish them, | should not
do so. | do not talk about them, or
think of them when | can help It.
| believe In all decency. but this is
the best | can do with my enemies.
Any suggestion that | love them Is
| plainly silly to me cannot so much
as forgive them. The best | can do is
TO let them alone.
| In 1916 a Frenchman made an esti-
mate rs to happiness of husbands and
wives in England Out of every hun
dred thousand population, he conclud
ed, only thirteen of the married were
fairly happy. or those passing for
happy. he estimated the number at
1926 per 100000. or those living In
open hostility. he found 1895; 1920
of the secretly disconnected and 5S406
Of the materially Indifferent. Nearly
| SHi0 ran away or were divorced dur
Ing the year Conditions are
better In 1892 than In 1916. In my sec
tion there Is city OF 100000. | do not
believe only 65 married persons In 1t
are only fairly happy. In my own
town there are $1,000 souls Accord
Ing to this estimate, we have some
thing like one and half married per-
sons who are fairly happy. am GER
tain we Gun do better than that.
Here Is more criticism OF marriage far
beyond reason or fact.
| | know man who married second
| time. Within day or two his wife
began regulating him. Now looky
here, Alice he said. I'VE might as we'll
| understand each other have recent
| ly secured, at great expense, trouble
and humiliation, divorce from wom-
an who nagged me. specially dislike
| naggng. | regard 1t MS an insult and
1t specially humiliates and angers me-
II you cannot resist the temptation, let
| us part now. that may avoid the life
OF shame from which | lately fed"
Every criminal Is under suspicion In
| his community before he engages In
| crime. Every man who will be arrest
| ed next week Is labeled as proba-
| bilty for arrest this week. People
1
wonder how he makes living; his
habits are not the normal habits OF
the steady men of the community.
We must tighten mp ON suspicious
| characters who have no visible means
Of support. OF my acquaintance I
| can make an accurate list of those H.
| able to be arrested; SO can you. The
| cost OF crime to the worthy majority
| Is enormous and burdensome. / see
men on the streets every day who
should be promptly arrested as va
| grants, as precautionary measure:
they violate the law as loafers, dead
beats and adventures.
Occasionally written sentence is
| so wise and true as to be worthy OF a
| place In the permanent philosophy of
| ~yery fairly intelligent and honest man.
| know of no American who may be-
| credited with greater number of
such rare exhibitions than Abraham
Lincoln. And the sentences I admire
were cast In almost perfect form;
nothing can be taken from them
nothing added without harm. Yet
Lincoln was not professional writer
He almost never went to school; OF
young men Of today not one IN hun
dred had as poor start as Lincoln.
OF all Americans Of large equipment
| regard Ralph Waldo Emerson as per-
haps the ablest writer. Lacking EN-
ersons enormous technical education,
Lincoln was tlmid and wrote sparing-
ly. | can point out many specimens
OF folly In Emerson's writing; none In
Llncoln's he Intended for the public.
Some OF his private love letters were
foolish, but these were intended for
the fire.
And no one should be criticized for
folly In love.
Before the gates of excellence"
wrote Hesoid 1.-THE high gods have
placed Sweat. Long Is the road there
to, and rough and steep at the first:
but when the height Is achieved, then
there Is ease, though grievously hard
In the earning"
Probably seven out Of ten people
have grumbed about the moving pic
lures and thought they could write
better plays, but they have not done
so. The mechanics OF the pic
ture theaters have been improved until
they are little short OF marvellous. but
authors and producers show less i'm
provement. (Science always does bet
ter than the philosophers or intellec-
tuals who claim to know more than
mechanics
Great men are largely those who
nave managed to do good deal OF
work at odd times while greatly both
cred with love affairs.
Ibsen had q bad start. at eighteen