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The Washington times., 1938-09-28

ing for little people like us and tell when it is
time to go to war:
The financial giants are often blamed for
wars, but they are not half as responsible as
the mental big people, who may not have any
great worldly means, but who have fluency Of
thought and expression and can think too fast
for us little people-who can make resounding
speeches and turn glowing phrases and arouse us
little people to strange heights of what is no
doubt patriotic fervor.
We Just Fight Wars
We little people just fight the wars. 1t is our
kind that goes, young and undeveloped physt
cally as well as mentally to the wars. It is our
kind that goes stumbling across the broken fields
bewildered and scared and not knowing just why
we are there, except that the mental big people
decided on the Righteousness Of some cause and
ribbed US up into going out to fight for it.
THESE mental big people can always so paint
l. a proposition that might ordinarily strike
us little people Of no vital concern Of ours in
such a way as to convince us that our lives, our
fortunes and our sacred honors depend on us
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

Right here is where the West ended for America;
only the young came out here-and were old at
20. It started out fast-and still is.
Streets Haze Temperament
G0THE town crowds peninsula. so that the
flavor Of the sea is with the people all the
time: west is the Pacific; east, the bay: north
the Golden Gate and that sweetoutof-the-world
bridge; and south-well, Los Angeles, we'll say
The peninsula is one Of hills; some say seven
some eleven, some seventeen. I've never counted
them East is also the Bay Bridge which is what
I call q poem needing no words. The streets of
the town have temperament on account of the
hills; up and down and around. The architec-
ture is at first depressing; every house crowds
the street for space and light. After a while the
architecture grows comic. No American should
die without living here for while"
DUT THE GROUP Of young men Of the Fed
~ eral Writer'S Project think no American
should die without living in New York while
and now they have turned out book entitled
"New York Panorama"-rather the first Of a
Ewo-volumne guidebook to the wonders Of this
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
RelatiUe Strength?

IMAGE HOUR Administrator
w Andrews is giving AFL a
fair break with CIO, which is
more than some other Govern.
ment departments have done.
CIO garment worker leaders
went to him first, gave him fig
ures indicating they were in con-
troll Of the entire industry; so
he promised them all nine places
on the administration board.
AFL came along proving they
had a substantial proportion Of
the industry, whereupon An
drews revoked his promise. gave
two places to AFL, which may
or may not represent relative
union strength in the industry,
but u something.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

Francisco refreshingly real;
uglier, harder, colder in eli
mate, but in every other par
ticular, warmer; as good q
place as any to be for a day
or q lifetime. The people are
all great, although unknown
which Is the only kind Of
greatness worth q nickel.
What does it, is hard to say
unless you're bright. If you're
bright, you know location.
topography, tradition, and
above all things, climate do it.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

the standard foreign policy OF
successive postwar British gov
ernments-support of France
In event of attack or menace
to her frontiers, but no help
for any Central European state?
How many Americans know
the French air force is weak
from military and political mis-
management; that strikes have
80 weakened the French indus
trial machinery that France
could not replace effectively
Nny early losses in war: that
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

We are inclined to think we
would stand for just about
everything except downright
menace to our liberty and our
home.
The trouble is, however, it
Is not our kind that has the
Say-so about going to war.
We are Of the little people Of
the earth, and it is not the
little people who decide about
wars. It is the big people.
and specifically the mental
big people who do the think
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
Voice of New York By Loui5 SObOl

METROPOLIS. II is a compresensive job well worth
the laborious research, and though mainly
factual in content, the whole conveys the
glamor, and glory of Manhattan, Of East Side
and West Side, the Battery and the Bronx, the
rivers and the parks-and the people, especially
the people.
Profuseiy illustrated, one picture gives me
something Of q pang. 1t reveals the row Of
houses with the wroughtiron balconies which
stood on lower Seventh Avenue near the Sheri-
dan Theater. They were picturesque old homes
but now they are gone, having been torn down
not so many months ago. The reason for the
pang is that many years ago, for one month
found shelter there-at IS a week. And first
became acquainted with the exciting section
known as Greenwich Village. Now dwell in the
village again but the rents are no longer reason
able-nor is the section as exciting.
What's in Initials?
DACK IN CONNECTICUT there used to be a
~ popular belief that If the initials Of your
name spelled a word, you'd amount to something
and then later, and not necessarily in Connecti-
cut, we got around to thinking that you had a
brighter chance in life If your initials were
slliterative AS If in confirmation gentlemen
came along like Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge
and Herbert Hoover The theory blew UP in
smoke when F. D. R. licked H. H. in that first
election. But there is still something Of glory
attached to fellows who are referred to by
initials.
TN HOLLYWOOD it is L. B.-not Louis B.
l. Mayer and here we have N. T. q. christened
Nils T. Granlund F. p. A. for Franklin P. Adams,
z. 3, w. for Elwyn Brooks white, essayist of the
New Yorker. The world over, we refer to G. B. s.
in mentioning George Bernard Shaw. nlustri-
GUS T. A, Dorgan signed himself TAD and the
late columnist Bert Lesion Taylor, Of Chicago.
was known as B. L. T.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
Saws BOake Carter

Thomas Aquinas. Dante called for enforcement
Of peace by an emperor in the fourteenth CEN
tury Is collective security a new idea? In 1906
Pierre Dubois, so Lieut.. Col. Richard Stockton
tells us in Inevitable War;" issued pamphlet
on Recovery Of the Holy Land" which pro-
vided for federation Of Christian states and
a PERMANENT court Of arbitration!
DOLAND is clamoring for autonomy rights for
the Poles in Czechoslovakia in 1885,
Statistics published in Poland in February,
1882, and covering S.421 years of world history,
revealed 5000 peace treaties were concluded. in
which time there were 26S years Of peace against
1888 years of war.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
Have We Progressed?

HaUe We PrOgreSSed?
Total army strength for nine European ma
tions from 1901 to 1925 was 60425, 900 men. Total
casualties for the same quarter Of a century.
22,O35,15e men.
Tables show that casualty rates increase
faster than the strength of the army. Thus in
the twelfth century casualties Of the armies Of
four major countries represented 25 per cent
In the twentieth century the casualties increased
to the shocking figure Of $50 per cent. Figure
for yourself what the percentage is likely to
be in q future holocaust.
Taking casualty indicators, the bloodiest war
century is the twentieth-the present period
The seventeenth is next, then the eighteenth
and the nineteenth century the least bloody Of
the last 400 years.
Copyright Ledger SyndicatS)
CBoGke CGrter'S opinions are his otDn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TinpeSJ
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

IF WE had the say-so, it would probably take a
sight Of aggression from another country be-
fore we would send this nation into war again.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
Eicher Will Strike

HONGRESSMEN may as well
" stop cheering about Repre-
sentative Eicher leaving the
Anti-Monopoly Committee when
his congressional term expires
in January. Mr.. Corcoran is
too good a fixer to permit any
thing like that.
Here is the play:
Eicher will go off the commit
tee as a Congressman, be ap-
pointed to the SEC, then SECS
Jerome Frank will be appointed
to a D. c. judgeship, whereupon
Eicher will be named back to
the Anti-Monopoly Committee
in Franks place as an alternate
for SEC Chairman Douglas.
This will not prevent down
town economists from losing
control Of the committee, how
ever, If Eicher's vacated con-
greSsional seat on the committee
is filled by a congressional
leaner.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

WILLIAM SAROYAN scolds me for not visit
w ing San Francisco. II think" he writes
"after Hollywood, you would have found San
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
"GuGrantee of Peace"

S'Gudrantee of Peace"
SGMUCH will be forgiven the western democrar
AVA cies if their policy achieves lasting guar
antee of peace"-a line from an editorial.
How can anyone guarantee" peace?
The Romans established league to enforce
peace. The Pax Romano persisted as long as
the Roman legions were strong enough to en-
force peace-as the Romans wanted it!
In 1895 the Council of Clermont decreed private
warfare was forbidden on specified days of the
week!
The power of the Pope was sought in the
thirteenth century to guarantee" peace by St.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
News Behind
The News
BY Paul MGLLOn-
(WOrld Copyright, 1888. by King
Features Syndicate, All Rights
Reserved. Reproduction in
Full or In Part Strictly

Reserved. Reproduction in
Full or in Part Strictly
PrOhIbited.)
MIR. ROOSEVELT'S dip
N lomatic advisers have
been working within on the
assumption that the Euro
pean crisis turned from a
military situation to a politi-
cal problem after the first
Hitler Chamberlain conversa-
tionS.
Up to then, troops were mov-
ing. Military reasoning pre-
vailed. Advisers were confident
for that assuring reason there
would be no general outbreak.
After negotiations started, the
situation turned purely political.
Hitler and BeneS both were try
ing to get as much Of q settle
ment as they could. While this
seemed to diminish the war
chance even more it created q
diplomatic situation where
statesmen could not call the
turn on what to expect next.
In fact, their confidence that
peace would certainly prevail
was so visibly shaken they would
not guarantee to maintain it
until 1t could get into print.
BetWeen the Lines
THE PRESIDENTS appeal to
l. Hitler and Benes was his
own idea, one he has been nurS-
ing along through the long Sc
ries Of recent crises for an op-
portunity. The right moment
was chosen by State Secretary
Hull. Crafty wording is cred
tied. in part, on the inside, to
Hull and his assistants, Berle
and Welles and J. Pierpont Moi
fatt.
The administration crowd
calls it q ten-strike in diplom-
acy, not for what the message
meant to you when you read it,
but what 1t meant to Hitler and
Benes, and the rest Of the world
diplomats able to read between
the lines.
The interlinear text contained
the inference that the U. S.
would be opposed to whichever
party declined Cancellation for
war.
Administration insiders claim
It had a profound effect in
Prague, where the hope of
American sympathy for any
course the Czechs would choose
to follow had been running
high in official quarters.
Possibility Terrifies
MOST terrorizing feature Of
AVA the European war prospect,
uppermoSt in many an official
mind here, was the possibility
offered by the airplane for
swift, wholesale murder.
For example, the day Of the
Hitler speech, someone in the
State Department received the
dispatch from London indicat-
ing pedestrians in the streets
there were passing word to each
other to get their gas masks
ready.
The German and Italian air
fleets combined might be able
to do everything that the gas
masking campaigns in Britain
and France have indicated was
feared. They are far superior.
While no military staff would
order wholesale bombings Of
cities, there was just enough un-
certainty about what men like
Hitler and Mussolini would do
to make mass murder q picture
easy to conceive.
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
Is

NOTES of the European mess:
AN How many Americans realize that Neville
Chamberlain has not departed one inch from
The Washington times., 1938-09-28

the British army is still woefully small and VIII
remain so until compulsory military service is
established for all Englshmen and that these
were some of the reasons that forced Chamber
lain to accept Hitler's proposals-for the time
being?
The Washington times., 1938-09-28
Agrarian ProgressiOe

DERSONAL NOTE-Eicher ap-
L gears to be coming man in
the executive branch Of the
Government now that he has
sacrificed his congressional chair
for Roosevelt in the Iowa pri-
maries. He describes himself
as "Agrarian Progressive" is go,
is a Chicago University graduate,
was two years registrar there,
attorney for the c. B. & @. rail-
way before entering Congress in
the first Roosevelt landslide.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

"Yeah, know. You work under cover" O'Reilly looked at him with undisguised admiration. From New York, eh? Must be excitin'-" He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. You know, that's the sort O job I'd like special investigator .. Well, let me know if there's any thing else"
 This is fine, thanks"
 Quickly he scanned the first ls- sues covering the case. There was no doubt of it; everything was here. Thomas Barrett, accused. Photo graphs of his wife, Sheila Barrett, and daughter, Joan, 13 years old. That would be Joan, all right. Make her g now.
 A later issue carried photo graphs. She hadn't changed much in 10 years. What a baby face, though! You'd never think |. Her father wasn't such a bad-look- ing sort, at that. Not the type you'd suspect right off. And Joan was the image of him. She looked more like him today than she did at 13.
 As he went through the papers, he made notes of certain important details. Sybil would want to know everything. He'd have photostats made of the photographs, too, and mail them to her. O'Reilly could arrange that for him.
 His face was flushed with a strange nervous excitement. Per haps there was something to this special Investigating work. It sure gave one a thrill to dig up a cleW like this! It was as much fun as seeing your own horse win by 8 nose.
 He was jubilant as he left the offices of the Times. And he whistled all the way back to the hotel, though the rain was coming down just as steadily, and the fog he had seen earlier now envelopeo the taxi in thick, cold haze.
 Inside the lobby, he rushed to- ward the telephone desk. Say sister," he called cheerfully to the operator. Put in a call to New York for me, will you? Rush it through, and I'll take you out as soon as you're off duty!" Gro Be Continued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
Cn Amals1M CRACKERS $

Agents of the federal secret serv- ice had been on the track of a gang of counterfeiters for months.
 During the course of their lnves- tigation they learned the names and aliases of all members of the band; that one member of the gang was designated each week to act as dis tributor" of the spurious currency, and that the weekly appointment" to the distributing post was issued in coded notes. Each member of the gang received his note every Mon- day.
 The secret service men knew, of course, that their next step was to intercept and read one of these notes before it reached the man for whom it was intended.
 Weeks later one of the agents managed to intercept one of these notices. The member of the gang who was named in the code mes sage as distributor for the week was trailed and arrested as he contacted buyer of the counterfeit currency. The note read:
 Find crime in clergymen."
 WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE COUNTERFE TIE R THE AGENTS ARRESTED?
 Solution on Back Page
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

\ IF T. III t1OlldIlQ III the l lfLn cen"
 tury was no drab affair fol Trans Hals, first of the great Dutch masters He lived it zest- fully and he put his spirit into the brush. He was laughing artist who recorded human laughter in almost all its forms.
 From his Laughing Cavalier" to his Laughing Boy" Trans Hals painted long gay line of people A shrewd fellow, he caught the character of his subjects and their laughs were wholly genuine. Hals seemed to dab about carelessly but ever faultlessly.
 But portraits were not. his only work. From time to time he ex- ecuted large pictures of his native Haarlem Town Hall of which his masterpiece is the Reunion of the Officers of the Archers of St. An drew" He made his last two group paintings when he was past 80.
 As he grew older the color left Hals' portraits and a succession of beautiful grays set of his black
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

and whites. He never lost his old ire d m, however. Born in 1880, HalS died in 1866. His Laughing Boy" is shown on a current Neither. lands stamp is. ctn @f Gua a.,o1,,a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01
CAST OF CHARACTERS


 JOAN BARRETT, heroine, sec- retary to John Hendry. JOHN HENDRY, mining invest ment head.
 BOB ANDREWS, Hendry's ju- niOr partner and Joan's fiance. SYBIL HENDRY, socialite, John Hendry's niece and JOan's rival in love. PHILIP HENDRY, SybiPs bro ther.
 DOROTHY STARKE, Joan's girlh0od frieI;d.
 CHARLES NORTON, California mining promoter.
 Yesterday: Joan pays a mid- night call to the John Hendry home and is mortified to find her employer has been murdered stabbed in the back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

century and half ago. the mountains of NoAh carolina John Morris kndled fire hearth and since free were hard to start with flint and finder kept burning Sen
 n gre" around He blaze and each succeeding generation too over the task of keeping l alive Bill" in whom inc s, now reposes, IS bachelor and last of Morris line w
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

Copyright. 193S. NEA Service Inc.)
 NEXT: What are the Swiss do.
 ng currently to prevent ava. ancheS? 2
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

Later - an hour or so later - having discovered all he wanted to know on the sports page he turned back to the front of the paper to scan the general news. Local gossip, for the most part, but he read it, for want of something better to do.
 The senator from California was making himself heard in Washing ton - page one. Details of the war
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-01

Solution on Back Page
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-01-20
]. K. Dwinelle Moved
To Livingston Forest

Missoula, Montana, January 13
1888: According to an announcement
made today by Regional Forester
Evan w. Kelley, the position of as
lslstant forest supervisor on the Alb
saroka national forest will be filled
by j. K. DWinelle, who is to be
transferred from the regional office
division of Wildlife management at
Missoula to Livingston, effective
January II.
Mr.. Dwinelle has held his present
position of associate forester in wild
life management since the fall
of l9a4sewhen he was transferred to
Missoula from the Kootenai national
forest at Libby. Entering the forest
service as forest guard in 1910.
DWinelle served in a diversity of
capacities ON the .Beartooth, Black
foot, Cabinet and Kootenai forests
until 1924, when he became assistant
forest supervisor on the last-named
unit. He held this position on the
Kootenai until his transfer to the
regional office
The regional forester states that
no immediate replacement in the
division of wildlife management
will be made.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-01-20

The illuminating article referred
to recited the history of the lumber
industry in the Occur d'Alene dis
trict of Idaho. 1t told of the coming
of saWmills into that district and
how production increased up to 1925,
at which time 370,000000 feet of
lumber was manufactured Produc-
ton lessened during the depression
but it is now on the increase.
The sawmills of that district have
been supplied with many million
feet of logs annually from nearby
districts, said the article. More re-
Gently these mills have been reach
ing out in an ever-increasing radius
for logs, the article says. And here is
the meat@of the story insofar as Lin
coin county is concerned. The writ
er continues.
'In 1886 logs were transported
from as far north as Boundary
county, Idaho, and Lincoln county,
Montana"
Thus it can be seen that Lincoln
county logs, on which the business
life of this entire district SO largely
depends, are finding their way into
distant fields to build up industries
there, to the detriment of the bust
ness life and prosperity of Lincoln
county.
A movement Is now under way to
stop the robbing of Lincoln county
resources. 1t is being fathered by
the forward looking business men OF
this county, men who can see into
the future and who see ruinatior
for this district and more ghost
towns unless local resources can BE
kept here for the support of locai
industries. These men are working
under a plan that has in mind {
sustained yield year by year from
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-01-20

the forests and the selling of the
logs to mills within the county.
Only by that means can a perpetual
sawInill industry be maintained here.
Only by that means can the prin-
cipal industry of the county be saved
from ultimate destruction, due to
the exhaustion of the supply of logs.
One does not have to go out of
Lincoln county to see the baneful
effect on community when a saw
mill shuts down permanently That
has already happened to three or
four communities in this district. II
should not be allowed to become a
permanent condition over the en-
tire county. A steady payroll
throughout all the years to come
will prove much better than perhaps
a larger payroll now for very few
years and then exhaustion of the
industry and loss of the payroll for
all time to come.
Distant sawmills will spend but
little money here. Most of the man.
ufacturing wages will be spent
where the distant mills are located.
Why should Lincoln county re-
sources be used to maintain a dis
tant industry to the destruction Of
local industry?
Every home owner, every prop
erty owner, every business man in
Lincoln county is vitality interested
They are urged to write at once tc
our senator's and representatives in
congress demanding that the re
sources OF Lincoln county be KEEP
here for the support of local industry
and that legislation be passed per
hitting the forest service to confins
Its log sales to sawmills within tn,
county, This need is urgent. Ac
now.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-01-20
Two Fast Games
Please Goodly Audience

A team of husky lads came out Of
the CCC camp Tuesday night and
took the second string of the Libby,
town basketball team to trimming,
with-a 27 to I'll score. The game was
the opening one on a program that
included battle royal between the
town teams of Libby and Troy.
Libby came out winner, being too
much for the Trojans, IA to AZ.
The CCC boys were fast and clev-
er, several of them showing much
at the game. They and
the town bunch gave an interesting
exhibition of the popular sport for
the goodly sized crowd in attend
ance. The Libby men playing in
the first game were Walter Katarzy,
Lee Harmon, Bob Hanson, Roy
SIGHTING, Jim Richards and Rudy
Roholt. In the main event the Lib
by town team was composed of VIM.
Erickson, Brad Phillips, Archie
Minde, Bob Holiday, Hank Katarzy,
and Leo Cloutier, with Walt Katarzy
and Rudy Roholt substitutes. Hank
Katarzy refereed the first game and
Lloyd Burpee the main event.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1938-01-20
Libby Ski Club
Has First Outing

The Libby Ski club had its first
outing last Sunday afternoon. Pres
ident E. NJ. Davidson called the
members to meet at the Don Will
Hanson home to go up and see the
new ski hill south of town. The new
hill when finished will be very fine
and the members are anxious to try
ii out.
The regular hill on the Pipe creek
road was too cut up from coasting
to be good, SO the members went
on down to the golf course and en-
loyed the remainder of the after
noon. Many of the members prac-
tised making turns and snow
ploWs.p There was very good
turn out and If the weather man
gives favorable snow and weather
conditions Libby will have more
ski enthusiasts than ever.