The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1936-02-13

not break them when all were tied to-
gether.
Louis XI's motto, Divide ct impera
(''Divide and rule'), In dealing with
powerful mobiles, Is not unknown to the
enemies OF union labor. or Goethe's
Divide and rule Powerful word
| Unite and leadl Better word
A lonely English soldier living on
an island In the Indian ocean wrote
that he wanted wife, saying, Il have
hazel eyes," nothing else about himself.
Already $50 English girls have offered
to marry him. The 249 disappointed
may ind comfort In a better marriage,
picking out somebody with blue eyeA
1t annoys many. but 1t must be said
that practically Ill the great men In
history had blue or gray eyes, even
men from dark-eyed races, like Ma
poleon from Corsica, Caesar from
Rome.
To save answering questions, herr
Is short list: Washington, Jefferson,
Lincoln. Roosevelt, Edison. Henry
Ford. Look up the others.
Near Tampa, Fla, schooner loaded
with men, women, children, on tho
way to establish q nudlst colony In
the Virgin Islands, ran aground. Nav
igators were unwilling to sign for I
nudist enterprise, afraid. perhaps, OF
catching cold, 30 the ship ran ashore.
Nudism "a a queer atavistic craving.
The human race began that way In
the Garden OF Eden. and each of III
starts out as nudIst at birth. The
struggle Is to keep clothed thereafter.
1t Is strange decentralization that
makes some long to run about un-
dressed; the more strange because
they look 10 hideously ugly
Discouraged by Incompetence that
wrecked two dlriglbles. this country
decided that lighter than air machines
are not necessary. 1t was necessary
to borrow small privately owned
blimp to take food to 5000 Tangier
Islanders, cut of from relief by Ice
No heavier than air plane could land
there before the blimp, which landed
easily.
Mussolini threatens to leave the
league II 1t Includes a ban on oil In
Its sanctions. In modern war, no oil,
no war. Mussolini may buy old Amer
lean ships to use as floating gasoline
storage tanks. Had he come q little
sooner he could have had plenty OF
them at a bargain. about one thou
sand million dollars worth OF expen-
slve steel floating Junk" built when
this country's foolish entrance into the
World war found 1t unprepared.
England and Russia were getting
along nicely, and now the Russian en-
voy, Litvlnofre attending the late Kings
funeral, commits the British unpar-
donable sin.
After talking with the new king, Lit
vinofr, instead OF expressing admira-
tion for the overwhelming royal In
tellect, remarked that the new king,
Edward VIII, was lust mediocre
young Englishman" and repeated what
the young king had said to him, some
thing mot DONE"
Mr.. Norman Thomas OF the Social.
lat left wing rms for President rome
times and says the "New Deal" II
leading to Fascism dictator.
In Italy Socialism, and doctrines even
more radical, led to the rise OF Mus
solini, aided by castor oil and other
methods. II our dictatorship comes
some radicals will look back sadly to
the good old days when You could
speak your mind without being shot
or put to work.
One mans frostbite Is another mans
good news. New Jersey fruit grower
say the extreme cold, freezing the
ground two feet deep. will destroy
OTcHuTu pests, IuStuuiuk Lie kypoy ant
coddlng moths. The cold. which ha,
not injured trees, Ii expected to dis
courage larvae Of the Japanese beetle
, Some day scientists will show frui
farmers, including this writer. how t
/ penetrate the earth by radioactivity
, or otherwise, to the necessary deptl
and kill the alternating pests. A rem
!. edy for borers would be welcome. RI
: do power should solve the insect prob
a lem.
Col Charles A. Lindbergh spent hi
! thirty-fourth birthday In Wales, hi
wife and one son with him. He mus
4 have felt AZ though he had alread
! lived 100 years. and have wished, 4
most, that he had been content to n
main In the sirmail service. apart fros
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