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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23
A WORD OF APPRECIATION.

A well-known publisher has re.
marked that a first class writer in
a community can do more to ma
ticnally advertise his part of the
country than all the thousands of
dollars spent by civic and CONNER
cial clubs of the section can pos
sibly accomplish.
Libby has such writer in the
person of John l.. Blackboard, who
in Nature magazine has been tell
ing the nation, month after month,
quietly and effectively, about the
wonders and attractions of this part
of northwestern Montana. His ar
ticle, "The Spirit of the Wild" in
the January issue is both interest
ing and instructive. 1t tells of the
matchless endurance and superb
courage with which the creatures
of the wild meet the hardships of
their struggle for existence.
Everyone in this community
should read all of MIR. Blackboard
articles. His matchless phrases, al
most as perfect as the symmetry
and plumage of his gallant subjects,
lead us to a fine understanding and
admiration Of the deathless spirit
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23
Little Theatre To
Present Three Plays

EUREKA.-The next public pro-
duction of the Little Theatre club
is to be a group of three one-act
plays, to be presented probably
early in April Under the direction
of Miss Maurine Thomas. work has
already been started on Strange
Road" well-written unusual play
which will be included in the group.
The other two plays are to be Sc
lected this Thursday evening at a
joint meeting of the clubs executive
board and program committee.
The next meeting of the club will
be at The home of Miss Maurine
Thomas on Thursday evening,
March 2. An interesting program
will be presented, featured by a
"previeW' rehearsal Of Strange
Road starring four club members.
It is expected that the excellent at
tendance at the last monthly meet
ing will be repeated
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23
Requests for More
State Units Denied

HELENA. = Numerous requests
for new state departments and
boards have been denied by the leg
lature. First of the requests turned
down were those for various labor
boards and divisions.
A bill the senate killed last week
would have provided for a business
manager for the six units of the
greater university of Montana sys-
tenn. Other measures called for Gre
alton of pneumonia control board
and appointment of a commission to
make study of occupattonal dis
eases.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23
Woman Juror Bill
Given Clear Track

The bill permitting women to
serve on juries was given a clear
track when the house killed the
measure providing that all persons
serving on juries be required to pay
road and poll taxes The woman
juror bill passed the house, and
then the road and poll tax bill was
introduced in the house.
If both bills finally passed the
legislature, the women serving on
juries would be required to pay Sd
a year in road and poll taxes. Back
ers of the woman juror bill defeated
the tax bill so their own measure
would have clear sailing.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Reported by the Lincoln County
Abstract Company.
Mary Peterson to Frank Wood
w. d. lots II, Is, IA, Block S. Lux
ems Addition, Libby.
James L. Stacey to Cora NJ. Mitch
ell, w. D. lots |, 2, Block 30, Libby.
Gwynn Garvin to |. E. Porter and
Title E. Porter, w. D. lot 2, Block
%. Second Addition, Eureka.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23

Of the wild things that live all
around US.
The editors of Nature magazine
are proud to publish Mr.. Black
ford's articles. How much more
proud are the people of this com
munity to claim this well-known
ornithologist, knowing as we do the
infinite patience and "incompara-
BILE fortltude' that he has himself
exhibited in his triumph over the
almost unsurmountable obstacles in
his path to success.
M 8 q
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23
"A Fair Field for ALI
Special Favors for Nom"

Boiled down, that is all the rail-
roads ask
And this they ask-not only for them
selves-but for farmers and others who
haze to depend mainly on railroad trans
portation. They, too, are being injured
by the subsidies and special privileges
enjoyed by the railroads competitors.
Existing inequalities result in an arti-
fetal diversion of large volumes of
traffic away from the railroads. This re-
duces the income needed to maintain
and operate them. 1t increases the cost
of handling the business that must con.
tinue to move by railroad.
Besides, subsidies cost you money as
taxpayer.
Your fnterests-the railroads in
ferests and the principle of fair
dealing all call for new public
transportation policy that will pro-
vide for fair and impartial treatment
of all forms of transportation.
To this end, a special committee ap.
pointed by President Roosevelt from
railroad management and railroad labor
has made certain recommendations
Among them are:
equal regulation should be applied to
all forms of transportation and admins.
tered by the same public authorities.
. Commercial transportation by high
way should be required to pay its own
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23

way-that part of the cost of building
and maintaining the highways which is
fairly attributable to the use they make
of them, as well as proper share of those
general taxes which 60 to support schools
and other functions of government.
eCommercial transportation on i'm
proved inland waterways should pay tolls
sufficient to meet the cost to the tax
payers of constructing, maintaining and
operating them.
@The long land -short-haul restriction,
which applies only to the railroads,
should be repealed.
Gland grant rates, under which rail-
roads haul government traffic at greatly
reduced rates, should be repealed. In
theory, these rates apply only to about 7
per cent of the nations railroad mileage,
which was built with the aid of land
grants. In practice, these reduced rates
apply to all railroad mileage that is in
competition with land grant mileage.
estate laws, whenever they impose I'M
just burdens upon railroads as compared
with other taxpayers, should be amended.
A brief and simple explanation of
these and other recommendations
made by the Presidents Committee,
is contained in a little book entitled
"For Better Times-A Square Deal
I'm Transportation. Any Great
Northern agent or traffic representa-
tive Oiil be glad to giUe you copy.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23
10 Keep Hands SunnIr

10 Keep her hands supple and flew.
iDie, the Chinese maiden holds .
walnut IN each hand and continu-
ousiy rolls IT with her fingers. II
IS custom practiced by the high
porn OF China for many generations
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-02-23

Gen. Alphonse Georges. above, is
expected to succeed to the post of
chief of the French general staff
when Gen. Marie Gustave Gamelin,
who has passed tire legal retirement
age of 65, retires. Georges has been
second in command to Gamelin and
has Icing been an influential factor
in French governmental circles.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16

Senator Ebert D. Thomas, chairman of
the Senate Committee o Education and
Labor, has announced p%ostponement of the
hearings on amendments to the Wagner
Labor Relations Act, which were first set
for March 10.
Decision to postpone the hearings, he said,
was made on account of the forthcoming
negotiations between CLIO and AFL, called
for by Pres. Roosevelt and agreed to by both
labor organizations.
A postponement is no more than a post
ponement. It does not mean that the dangers
to the Wagner Act from the various pro-
posed amendments are any less threatening.
It is still fully as necessary as it has ever
been to keep up the fight against any and all
amendments to the charter of labor's union
rights-and to let Congress know how you
stand.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16

poration against the stockholders developed
from 800, 900, 900 in loans made by the R. F. C.
to save the bank from collapsing during the
days preceding the 1888 bank moratorium.
Charles G.. Dawes, a former vice president
of the United States, was one of the high
lights in the Central Republic Bank & Trust
Company. When the financial condition of
the bank became acute in June, 1882, Mr..
Dawes resigned as chairman of the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation and returned
to Chicago to save the t~ottering bank.
A short time later the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation agreed to lend the Central
Republic 500, 900, 900, with an immediate adj
vance of $50, 000, 900 on the commitment. De-
spite this large loan from the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation the affairs of the bank
grew worse, and in October, 1882, Mr.. Dawes
and his associates established a new bank,
the City National Bank & Trust Company,
with Mr.. Dawes as it's chairman, to take over
the deposits of the Central Republic Bank &
Trust Company. This metamorphosis was
accomplished through a R. F. C. loan of $780,
100000 under the original commitment.
The banking officials responsible for this
involved situation, evidently designed to re-
lieve the stockholders of responsibility for
the government loans, set up the Central Re-
public Trust Company as a liquidating shell
for the old Central Republic Bank & Trust
Company.
The suit Of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation to collect $14, 900, 900 of this loan
from the stockholders of the Central Republic
Bank & Trust Company was filed November
10, 1884, under the Illinois Bank Stockholders
Liability Act which provides double liability.
In November, 1886, Federal Judge James H.
Wilkerson awarded that amount to the Re-
construction Finance Corporation. Presiding
Judge Evan E. Evans, who wrote the opinion
Of the Circuit Court of Appeals upholding
the Wilkerson decision, concluded the opin-
ion with this significant declaration regard
ing the responsibility of stockholders for the
debt incurred by the bank:
Concluding as we do that this s~tockhold-
ers' liability was a right which attached when
Central gave its note to the plaintiff and is
enforceable in a direct suit against the stock
holders, it follows that the decree should be,
and it is hereby affirmed"
The distressing note in the case is that the
wealthy stockholders involved in this NAL
odOrous transaction should be so lacking in
business morality as to attempt to defraud
the government and violate the law pre-
scribing their legal obligation.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16
LYONS AGAIN IN RACE
FOR ALDERMAN

ANACONDA-Dan S. Lyons of
Anaconda, Democratic candidate for
alderman from the Fourth Ward, is
a member of the Plumbers and
Steamfitters Union, Local No. 673.
He is the financial secretary for his
union the past five years. MI. Lyons
is very familiar with labor organiza-
tons, being a delegate to the Cen
trail Labor Council for his union the
past seven years, and is acting in
the capacity of treasurer for this
organization for six years.
Of particular interest to the people
in his ward are the many improve
ments that have been made since he
was elected two years ago. MI.
Lyons wishes to call attention to the
fact that he was the first alderman
in the city council to present his
petition of taxpayers names in his
ward to the council 95 per cent
complete for the street oiling. Mr..
Lyons plays an important part in
the city council. He created the fine
city plumbing ordinance which was
passed unanimously by the council.
At present he is chairman of the
street and alley committee and is
also on the police, fire, and the i'm
portant labor committee.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16
The Issue Is Not CLIO VS.. AFL

Defense of the Wagner Labor Relations
Act against amendment is not really such a
controversial issue as between CLIO and AFL,
as the acts enemies would have it appear.
A great part of the rank and file of the
AFL has given fully as much evidence Of
being opposed to all amendments of the act,
including the Walsh amendments, as is the
CLIO.
The Walsh amendments have been spon-
sored by President William Green and other
top officials of the AFL. But even in the
higher officialdom Of the Federation there
are many who see the dangers to all labor in
the proposed amendments.
Opposition to the Walsh amendments is by
no means confined to such AFL elements as
may be considered as friendly or least hostile
to the CLIO. On the contrary, some of the
most anti-CIO officials of the AFL are among
the strongest opponents of the amendments.
Letters written by President George Q.
Lynch of the Pattern Makers League and by
Vice President F. D. Laudemann of the Inter
national Association of Machinists, for in
stance, have recently found their way into
the daily press.
Both of these AFL leaders make no attempt
to conceal their hostility to the CLIO. But at
the same time they object vigorously to most
of the Walsh amendments.
They point out that these amendments
would strengthen company unions, give en-
ployers many weapons against genuine
unions, bring in the courts to the disadvan-
tage of labor, result in endless delays and
conflicts, and generally weaken the whole
Wagner Act.
The real issue in regard to the Wagner Act
is not ALL versus CLIO. It is between labor
and all other defenders of the act, on the one
side, and the enemies Of genuine collective
bargaining on the other side. .
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16

provided to meet the economic crisis,
well, 10 and behold, when liquor
revenue began to come in spectacular
dazzling form and everybody
thought by their moral sacrifices to
degeneracy were worth the sacrifice.
The aged insolvent and needy
would now not suffer and pine away
in a poor house, forgotten; well
again, 10 and behold. The political
racketeers could not curb their
greedy impulses that persuaded a
past assembly to make a broad day
light legal steal of fifty per cent of
this liquor revenue not meeting the
federal old age assistance fifteen
dollar fund and reducing the old
people to a twelve, fourteen or
twenty dollar allowance; then those
distressed under this that could not
be certified for WPA jobs-they put
them on a nine-dollar a month slow
starvation basis. By this legal steal,
they provided a few fat jobs for
their henchmen, but the voters will
not forget. Now comes along the
1899 assembly and confirms this
legal steal and then makes another
legal steal by another cut in the
starvation allowance.
Party controversies and machine
politics may be an advantageous
game for politicians, their hench-
men, and big business, but to the
rank and file citizen of Montana, if
the legislature had brought impeach-
ment proceedings against the re-
dictionaries and of both Houses of
the assembly before the spending Of
the peoples $2O5 5000, well the citi-
zens would have been Just that
much to the good, and they would
not have had to hide their face in
shame. At the constructive and
humanitarian results Of the 1899 as
sembly, the Townsend Clubs of the
state and other peoples groups are
organizing to initiate a referendum
to put up to popular vote the return
of all liquor to direct relief and the
State Welfare Board and for a
unicameral legislative body pat
termed after the Nebraska assembly
system.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16
GREAT FALLS WRITER
CONDEMNS FAILURE
TO HELP DESTITUTE

The 1889 Montana legislative
assembly having closed its session,
the rank and file voters of the state
in summing up the results of its
constructive deliberations have
formed the majority conclusions and
opinions that the two-house system
of representative state government
as a voice of the people is the most
disgraceful exhibit of failure, and
incompetence and waste of $205,000
of public funds ever forced on a
patient people in the annals of state
affairs since the adoption of the con
federation of the United States one
hundred and fifty years ago. Of
course there were exceptions, and
many honest, conscientious members
who tried to fill their pledges and
promises to their constituents, but
on the whole the deliberations drift
ed to controversial fights between
political factions and special privi-
legged groups trying to gain control
of legislation and committee action,
or else block all deliberation on the
vital constitutive issues that CON
cerned all the people of the state to
bring about economic stability and
employment and adjust the state re-
lief setup on a humanitarian stand
ard compatible with public decency.
The liquor revenue was voted
back by the voters of the state in
1884 on the express appeal of advo-
Gates that the state and counties
were on the verge of bankruptcy
and the depression had forced one
third of our state population on the
brink of starvation, despair, and
need, and there were no funds to
match the federal contribution to old
age assistance which was a public
calamity and crisis. Staring the
authorities in the face, and only by
voting liquor back could revenue be
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16
Bank Stockholders Must Pay
Government Loan

Another victory in the broad field Of pro-
tecting funds of the Federal Government
against the questionable practices of certain
bankers is recorded by the decision of the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals for
the Seventh Judicial Circuit in awarding to
the Reconstruction Finance Corporation $14,-
OO0,0 900 from the stockholders of the Central
Republic Bank & Trust Company, Of Chicago,
Ill, the old Dawes Bank" which passed out
of existence in 1882.
The suit of the Reconstruction Finance Cor
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16
N~on-Pahisan League
Praises Candidates for
answering Loyalty.
Report of Committee of LabOr's
NOn-PartiSan League


At a meeting of Labor's Non
Partisan League of Silver Bow
county, held on the 10th day of
March, 1889, this committee was in
structed to commend Senator Null
holland and Representatives Mrs.
Minnie IN. Kerr Beadle, Robert C.
Brown, Paul Cannon, Denis Nc
earthly, Thomas Ryan, Sam Spiegel,
and Frank K. Sullivan for their I'M
swerving adherence to their pledge
to support the platform of Labor's
Non-Partisan League in the recent
legislative assembly.
The League makes a thorough in
vestigation of the record and ability
of all candidates prior to making of
endorsements. The actions of our
senator and representatives proves
that the endorses of Labor's Non
Partisan League live up to pre-
election pledges.
Labor's Non-Partisan League is
the direct representative of the rank
and file of organized labor, organ
lied farmers, professional and small
business men and women, and pro-
gressives generally throughout the
city of Butte and the county of Sill
yer Bow, and is the expression Of
their detectives and aspirations.
In these days of fragrant disregard
of prediction pledges, this is indeed
most gratifying. The endorsement
of candidates for public office by
Labor's Non-Partisan League proves
the value of investigation and as
sures US that such men and women
will live up to their prediction
promises to support progressive
measures.
Our sincere congratulations go to
Senator Mulholland and the Leagues
endorsed members of the House of
Representatives They have set an
enduring example to us of public
officials who have kept faith with
the common people.
Dated March IL, 1889.
Leslie Levengood,
Phiem O'Donnell,
Ohio Graham,
Committee.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16

We hope to call a state convention
of all pension groups, labor groups,
and farm groups sometime in May
to perfect a state organization to
initiate these referendum bills and
constitutional amendment.
There was only n constructive
act, the Conservation Act. Most
voters know the Grazing Acts are as
a rule-big man eat little man. In
a few years, a new radio script will
depict Lost Empires of the small
ranchers.
A. L. SUTHERLAND,
Great Falls, Mont.
Montana labor news., 1939-03-16

He: " People are saying you mar
ried me for my money"
She: well, I had to give them
some reason"
Evening star., 1939-04-30

sumably by the first George. and
died in August, 1875, at Broadway
Farm. He was buried in the church.
yard of Northchurch in that parish.
The handling of this story of the
wild boy is both plausible and SYM
pathetic. The author imagines for
him an infancy under the tutelage
of bear. A veil is necessarily cast
over his early childhood until the
time he was found at approximately
IL years, at which time he lived like
all the other wild animals of the
Hanoverian woods. His treatment
and education after he was carried
to England, the continual battle be-
tween his woods-inspired instincts
and the demands of civilization, the
human interest woven into the tale
by the more usual yet binding story
of the tenants of Broadway Farm,
make novel that is hard to put
aside until finished and that will
doubtlessly stay long in the memory.
The style of this book, in keeping
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Historical Novels Interest
Public Library Patrons

don for IA years and not allowed to
return to his beloved Scotland until
the death of Henry w and accession
of Henry v of England.
Under the Hog" by Patrick Carl
ton, is the story of one Of the most
picturesque of English kings-Rich-
ard III, the last of the Plantagenets
He has always been represented as a
deformed monster, but steps from
the pages of this book as living
man, condemned to wrong doing by
the curse of the doomed family
from which he sprang and the god
less days in which he lived.
If you're tired of England now
there are some fine American novels
for those who enjoyed Gone With
the Wind" And Tell of Time" by
Laura Krey, begins at the close of
the Civil War and follows the for
tunes of one family through recon-
struction days in Texas. Another
story of the Civil War, "Bugles Blow
No More" by Clifford Dowdey. is a
stirring picture of Richmond during
the four years of the war.
A very recent best-seller Is Eliza
beth Pages Tree of Liberty" The
scene is laid in the Valley of Vir-
ginia and is concerned with the out
standing figures in American history
from 1854 to 1906. The story moves
through three generations Of the
Howard. family, whose struggles and
dissensions parallel the greater
struggle that eliminated in the
establishment of the American
Nation,
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Many requests for historical novels

Many requests for historical novels
come to the central library, Eighth
and K streets NV, and to the
branch libraries, as the following
questions, recently heard. indicate
Have you a novel depicting the his
tory of the settlement of Western
Pennsylvania? Are there any good
novels covering the life of Catherine
de Medici other than those OF
Dumas? Have there been any novels
written about the African slave
trade? Is there a novel which out
lines the present political situation
in India?
Several exceptionally good ones
have been written in the last year
or two-so If you like your history
tempered with romance, the follow
ing stories will afford you many en-
joyable hours.
flowers in the Mist" by Elizabeth
Goudge, is laid in oxford in the 18th
century during the early part of the
reign of Queen Elizabeth. Queen
Elizabeth herself visits oxford and
the town is thrown into a fever of
expectation and excitement in
planning her reception. The whole
book is full Of the flavor of the times
and every character is delight.
Evan John Simpson. another Eng
lish author, has written a thrilling
story of still an earlier period,
Crippled Splendour." This tells the
strange and exciting life of James ]
of Scotland, the first Stewart king
held prisoner in the Tower of Lon