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Spelling Bees and Cross Word Puzzles Inspire Research

What English words are derived
from the Anglo-Saxon?
How can one increase ones vo-
cabulary most easily?
How ds La Jolla pronounced?
Where can one find a list Of
three-syllable words rhyming with
misery?
Is botheration a slang word or
good English?
Much interest is shown by such
questions as these on word study
and vocabulary building, which
come both to the central library,
Eighth and K streets NV, and to
its branches. Spelling bees, cross
word puzzles, anagrams and other
games add incentive to natural
curiosity many have as to why Ger
tain words are spelled and pro-
nounced as they are and how they
came to have their present meaning.
Among the numerous books sup
plementing and explaining the ma
terial in dictionaries is c. o. S.
Mawson's THE Dictionary Com
panion," which makes derivation an
exciting pursuit. w. w. Skeat's
Concise Etymologica1\ Dictionary"
and j. B. Greenough and G. L.
Kittredge's words and Their Ways
in English Speech" are scholarly
aids in the study of philology.
Ernest Weekly's THE Romance Of
Words" and other titles are most
readable. Much curious information
regarding American English has
been brought together by H. l..
Mencken in his THE American
Language" ....
For those who appreciate the
value of an accurate and fluent vo-
cabulary as a factor in success "The
Century Vocabulary Builder" by
Garland Greever, is q useful hand
book. More recent aids are j. M.
Steadman's vocabulary Building"
Llewellyn Buells vocabulary I'm,
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tive work, but THE Roget Diction-
ary Of Synonyms and Antonymns, F"
edited by c. o. S. Mawson, contains
fewer words and is more easily used.
English Synonyms" by George
George Crabb, and English Syno-
nyms and Antonyms," by j. c. Fern
aid, will also be found helpful In
making distinctions In meaning.
For first aid in pronunciation turn
to F. H. Vizetelly's "a Desk book
of twenty-five Thousand Words
Frequently Mispronounced." For
proper names alone consult M. S.
and M. G. Mackey's "The Pronun-
citation of 10000 Proper Names"
What's the Name, Please?" by c.
E. Funk, is guide to the pronun-
citation of some difficult names
found in the news.
Many language books are useful
to the writer. OF particular inter-
est to the verse writer is Burgess
Johnson's New Rhyming Diction-
ary and Poets Handbook" The
writer who has trouble with SPELL
ing may profit by using F. H. Viz
etelly's Words We Mispell in Busi-
ness" For questions of grammar
and good usage, E. c. Woolley's COL
lege classic, New Handbook of
Composition" or Crowell's "Dic-
tionary Of English Grammar" by
M. H. Weseen, may be used to ad-
vantage.
"Word-study should belong to the
gayer arts, not to the dismal SCI
ences." An examination of F. H.
.Vizetelly's "A Desk-book of Idioms
and Idiomatic Phrases" or OF M.
H. Weseen's "A Dictionary of Amer
ican Slang" will confirm this state
ment. These books will also help
one discriminate between unauthor-
lied jargon and new and express
aiva ErU1iah
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Down East Duchess

By Ruth Blodgett. Ne1D York:
Harcourt Brace e. Co.
What is there to say about this
novel, except that 1t is typical of
the kind known as summer
fiction? 1t makes amusing reading,
1t has sufficiently interesting plot,
the characters have some individ-
uality. they are not just wooden
pegs upon which to hang action,
the style is Of that easy moving,
smooth variety that seems to come
automatically to many of our
popular writer's, but Down East
Duchess" has nothing more to
recommend it. Neither its cast nor
its plot grip the imagination, it
presents neither problem nor new
vision, 1t is just another novel.
r. r. T.
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The Day Of the Locust
By Nathaniel West.
York.: Random House.

Even Hollywood, it seems, has Its
lunatic fringe, and this is a novel
about it. The main character, a set
designer, Is normal person in the
beginning. But that is before he
meets gnome-like little bookie, a
rampant gal who played a bit in
a comedy once; a retired Middle
Westerner, and two depraved cock
fight promoters. From this point
it's all down-hill shedding. Virtually
all the vices appear somewhere along
the line and Mr. West is particularly
adroit in making cock-fighting re-
pulsive. It's swift-paced, violent
and night-marish, but since it
comes out of Hollywood, it's not be-
yond belief,-E. T.
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PiccoIino

By Marian King Illustrated by Nell Solp Snock Chtcago
Albert Whitman e.
This pleasant Juvenile Washington author
Miss Marian King whose books for children already well known
popular "Pccono"
another The book tells charming little
colorfully illustrated
of little donkey
master went with and then that
pull
winning little
than superficial For Ferdinand only fantasy
colno hearted and engaging little
for his beloved pasture there emotion than
telling
individuals do not like
considerably
However the reviewer does not
profound tale those works for adults
Among this years crop it deserves high place. too
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Late Books on Birds, Ants
And Plants Delightful
Plants That Live on Fish They
Catch Themselves Are One
Curiosity Explained
By Mary.Carter Roberts.
Gathering of Birds
Edited by Donald Culros Peauie Dodd Mead c.
Of Ants and Men
By CarW P. Hasktns. Ne,o York: Prenhce-HaN
Wonder Plants and Plant Wonders
By A. Hyatt Verrill. Ne1D York: D

With sales years
seee have done something soften her original But
private sloe worms
aside and looks smy around
FOR hsp on whom to vent the long accumulated bitterness
Well LIT then with that attitude start this
and she is going give each ae
Donald cuo Peats anthology chapters
@ h ssn Of with IL s s the ~ n
es of n MI sne and ah @ e Is un: o s7 I'M % ng
Inspiration. NA'A' "'A
ss:s,.;;,,, ssss On ysss';s,s; &c p. .,,,,r.
Plants and Plant Wondss us popuss written
simplicity its plant characters with living
of the three careful
study has already been made selection Of the Scientific Book Club
that however is work of amusing philosophical implications
and the the n @
cuons there more satire on mans institutions than is to be found
of ns seea @ s % flor 5 G9 @ n til the
for group.
That While You Ws ana pfsn
pua 5 bs n Ad under these heads I'D one finds odd enough
human beings and open their leaves them but shrink
pieces and sending these pieces crawling the
and dsyoE action der
entertaining in them
the heartily
@ ss
habual crimnal society understood
maruana he notes for example had itself
is n ana y e'ssh ssd m
Verris book only what he
nj
Society Compared
frankly that does
know whether
She has shamuy idea that
OF most of the phases of life which the dussehe
consequently
this carefully
has himself with the resembnc
social instead
to and how have developed which
reactions of
said
anywhere of its simple
factual considerable
Take the
the
faeres
deteriorated There would be admirable moral this
for copybook
spending their complete existence comparative security,
Mr. Haskn amid abundant constant easily
which
be constant emistarvaion
underd
is already beginning to be lost by the gradual transition OF its
members quenlke organisms ~ other
there
Is different which
parasites ought forth politicians
The value of Paies said chiefly historical
decorative The the lives Of outstanding
bird and gives writings 1t pleasure
would certainly make excellent for
natural book addict.
PiccoIno
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quiring synonyms and detecting
malapropisms in ones speech.
Roget's "Thesaurus of English
Words and Phrases" is an exhaus-
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What Shall We Do About the Railroads?

By Casstus M. Clay. Washington: RansdeH Inc.
From the vantage
he has watched the shifting head of tho
legal section railroads. conclusions
- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - F"e0
In good part his recommendations follow what
accepted
court consolidation coordination
Federal
poraton companies
holding companies similar of carriage to supple
ment the 'o ~ Nff-~
Following this proposal to logical then could
to that thereby putting principle OF negated
in its report '~N
Declaring that good changes in the law
to make this possible Mr. Clay
on accordance with the inevitable situation
forms OF transportation
problem of effective regulation" ~ r|' ~
While the writer believes that the railroads
from the depths to which they have plunged he
1T clear that forces at work the
the effect the financial as whole
1or tner rehaoltaton OF necessity should
government ownership Mr. Clay solution
we are prepared likewise for the eventual
OF competing forms of transportation"
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provement" and Archibald Hart's
Twelve Ways to Build Vacab-
ulary." The latter suggests ways Of
relieving overworked words, ac-
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Introduction to Aroentino


By Alexander Wabourne WeddeA New The Greystons
Press.
AMBASSADOR Weddel
IN buenos Aires has written friendly Argentina
Deslgned primarily for
picture OF the country but detailed
OF travel hotelS restaurants, clubs and sports
more interesting to the armchair descriptions Of
Argentine people, the cultural country
life " ~ ~ A"'
writing as ne does for the tourist
student Mr. Wedde
ano ne mas much more to about
mcuoe one sketchy historical chapter
Despite shortcomings
prove invaluable to North Americans planning to South
America. q p ~
Seven Lean Years
BY r. j. Wooer Jr and Ellen Winston The University Of
North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill, ~ C.
When and America finally the misery
the confusion OF this tragic will probably greater
than monetary losses of the period character
reduction In the really important wealth of the
toll collected
provocative and somber Of
research executives for the
Progress Administrations since 1884
Without emotion but with graphic and
effort has made salvage
cenng themselves particularly with the
striving with only the Nations
nearly third of her children
Neither preaching propagandizng
contributed substantially
historians OF the future presumably will be better able than
J.C.H
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The New Deal in Old Rome
BIZ H. J. Haskell

BY H. J. HASKELL NeD York: Alfred A Knopf.
This immensely interesting book reteng of the history Of
Rome with emphasis the likeness
country makes capital disconcne reading
AS long modern politicians have Grated they have
used Rome the mgnhnt example of decay
ordinarily they have invoked the
rast between Romes situation and they would saw
fell because OF her folly and corruption the coroay was that
America would wisdom
indulge points out instead that
situation like that of
deterioration and continues that the basis of which we
applying inherent wisdom
the Romans For they too had New Deal as he tells they
found that printing them nowhere
the mud. The the od-tme
Fourth Of July comparison entertaining Mr. style
clear and easily readable ' -
NJ Administration of Roman
Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Roman Owners
Corp and OF Roman Works Progress Administration also
the deastic nated
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the distribution Of free grain (direct
relief. This was done honestly in
an effort to aid the unemployed.
But what happened was that the
poor In rural districts left their
farms, where hard work was neces-
sity, and came in throngs to the
city, where, in addition to bread,
there were also circuseS, and all for
nothing. And he also allows us to
think that there were politicians in
Rome so corrupt that they blenched
not from using the relief administra-
ton for vote-getting purposes. In
deed, he seems to say, the Romans in
their time thought Of everything.
The end of the story, of course, is
not so amusing. With republican in
stitutions corrupted the drift was
plainly into dictatorship In the be-
ginning Rome was fortunate; her
early emperors were in the main
good rulers and public spirited. But
no country which is under absolute
rule can assure itself Of good rulers,
and so the beneficent days did not
last. Bad rulers came in numbers,
and even the dubious fruits of die
tatorship were destroyed. The new
deal in Rome ended with Rome's
destruction. With so much of les
son formulated, Mr.. Haskell leaves
the rest of the story to the imagina-
ton of his more intelligent readers.
Ne
By Brenda 0eland. NeU York:
G. P. Putndn's Sons.
For once the reviewer will con-
cede that a publishers blurb is ac-
curate. That is so in the case Of
the present book. G. P. Putnam's
Sons describes the work as a
different" autobiography and so it
is. 1t is not like any other life
history which the reviewer has
read in long time. The difference,
to be sure, may not commend
the work to every one; indeed, there
is reason to expect that Miss
Ueland's book will antagonize
good many minds. But it's worst
enemies will certainly not be able
to call 1t ordinary OF that much
one can be sure anyway.
Miss Ueland is Minnesota wom-
an who left the West for New York
back in the old pre-war Greenwich
Village days. She was of the i'm
preston then that she was destined
to be writer and so she associ-
ated herself with the literary crowd.
For some time she played the part
of rather bumptious but glaringly
innocent Bohemian girl in the
purlieus of Macdougal alley and
Bank street; then she married.
Her husband was such q man as
loves to study time tables, it seems,
and so, after while she got di-
vorce. She went on after that,
writing. studying, thinking and
bringing up her child-all with the
same bumptious optimism as had
distinguished her salad days, by her
account of 1t. Now, in middle life,
she writes it all down. 1t is evi-
dent that she is still innocent,
still energetic and still-though one
hates to say it-bumptious. Her
work is touching and amusing. 1t
makes one like its author, to be
sure. But at the same time it
makes one feel that she would have
been a rather exhausting friend or
neighbor.
The different" thing about the
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-11-16

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Steinmetz
were Sunday night guests at
the Pete Rob home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin LoomiS
and Albert LoomiS motored to
Billings Monday.
Mrs. E. C. Simpson and chill
dren were Hardin callers Mon
day.
Jay Lee has been threshing
corn for Pete Wedel.
The response to the Red Cross
roll call, though not complete,
has been very satisfactory up
to date. A list of donors will
be published soon.
Mrs. c. R. Faw was a Har-
din visitor Tuesday morning.
T. w. Humphrey of ReXford
is here visiting old friends.
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William MaSterson and James
Kirby made a business trip to
Billings Thursday.
Mrs. j. P. Kane was a caller
in Edgar Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Phelps
and daughter, Verba, of East
Pryor, were shoppers in Bill
HngS Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Edwards of
East Pryor were guests in the
Pearl CoSgrove home Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Lance and
Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell Lipsey
motored to Billings Friday.
Mrs. Rose Shane of Grow
Agency was a guest in the
Maude Ledo and Pearl Co.'S
grove homes Sunday.
The Indian girls All serving
club and the boys Craft club of
the Pryor public school held a
Joint party Friday evening. Rev.
and Mrs. Willis and Mr.. Ma
tross were in charge of the
games. Mrs. Hathaway, Mrs.
Johnson and Mrs. Bowman
served refreshments of cocoa
and doughnuts at the close of
the evening.
Oscar Vanght of Edgar was a
business caller in PRYOR Sunday
and again Friday. Mr.. Vaught
was hunting pinto pony,
which had strayed last Satur-
day.
Al Marsh motored to Billings
Friday afternoon to meet his
sister, who was on her way 20
Sidney. They visited Saturday
and Mr.. Marsh returned late
Saturday night. Roy Marsh was
in charge of the cafe during Al
Marsh's absence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bedrock
motored to Billings Friday on
business.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lande
and son, Donnie, visited rela-
tives and friends in Grow Agen-
cy Friday. George, Jr., returned
with them to spend the week.
end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Green
attended the dance in Fromberg
Saturday evening.
Many from here attended flu
neral services for Henry Nc
Clurg in Billings Sunday. Mr..
McClurg was a carpenter and
had worked on several of the
newer buildings in Pryor, in
Guiding the schoolhouse.
Rev. and Mrs. Willis were din
ner guests in the Adams home
Thursday.
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CARLOADINGS GAIN

There we're 1855 freight cars
loaded at Montana stations in
September, as compared with
1883 in the same month a
year ago, according to a report
ny The state railroad and nub-
lie service commission. Similar
increases have been reported
for most of the months this
year, the commission said. Prin-
cipal increases were in ore, cat
til, sheep, crude petroleum,
commercial coal, flour, logs,
lumber, copper, concentrates,
limerick, sand and gravel, and
sugar. Main decreases were in
stone. wheat, sugar beets, peas
and beans.
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ASK ADVERTISING FUND

Montanans, Inc, statewide
chamber of commerce, will ask
the 1941 legislature for an ap-
preparation to be spent adver-
Using the states recreational
advantages to tourists, accord
inc to action of the groups ad-
vertising committee last week
in Butte. The committee adopt
ed a 1910 advertising campaign,
including Newspaper and maya
zine space and radio time, and
decided upon a budget to be
raised from members through
out the state.
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the Butte engineering college.
It is considered significant that
So per cent of the students en-
rolled indicated membership in,
or preference for. some religious
body.
The number Of students list
ing affilaton with various chur-
ches is as follows: Baptist 8,
Christian 7, Christian Science /,
Congregational 6, Episcopal q,
Lutheran 10, Methodist %, Nor
mon 4, Presbyterian 81, Roman
Catholic II and Servian OrthO-
dox 2. Membership in the Jew
ish faith was also listed by 2
students. "a
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HdlfwuY News

Mr.. and Mrs. Pete Rob and
children were Hardin visitors
Tuesday.
Ivan Clark and Earl Gray
delivered alfalfa seed to Grow
Agency Wednesday.
Martin Mart finished thresh-
ing alfalfa seed for Ivan Clark
and Tom FaS the past week.
Thomas Clump spent Thurs
day afternoon repairing fence
on his farm here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Curry were
in Billings last Tuesday.
Jake Henkel had alfalfa seed
cleaned in Hardin Thursday.
H. W. Clark was pheasant
hunting Friday.
Mrs. Earl Gray and daughter
Marian, called on Mrs. J. Knaut
and Mrs. Fred Henkel Thurs
day afternoon.
Clyde Dygert has been haul
ing straw from Mrs. E. C
Simpsons farm.
Howard Wedel worked a few
days last week for Thomas
Clump.
H. w. Clark called at the J
L. Blackburn home Sunday
morning.
Mrs. Ivan Clark returned Mon
day from Billings, where she
had spent the previous three
days.
j. L. Blackburn met with q
painful accident Sunday morn
ing when a horse bit his finger
Lloyd Faw was herding cattle
Sunday morning from the high
way back to the pasture at the
foothill of the rangeland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kenneth Wedel
returned to Red Lodge We'd
nesday after spending most of
the summer here.
Tracy Lane of Red Lodge and
his sister visited at the Albert
LOOMS home a week ago Sun
day.
Archie Macdonald and We'll
don Clark visited with Ivan
Clark and hunted pheasants
Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Gray and
daughters called at the Albert
Loonlis and Howard Wedel fam
lilies Sunday.
MIR. and Mrs. j. L. Blackburn
were calling on their neighbors
Sunday.
Dickey Wedel spent Monday
night with his uncle and aunt,
MIR. and Mrs. Melvin Loomis.
Mrs. Bertha Wakefield and
son, Jimmy, returned to Bill
lings Monday after spending the
past five months here at the
home of her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Melvin
LOOMS.
A large tyo-year-old steer be-
longing to C. R. FaW was killed
on the highway near the LOOMS
turmoil Saturday night by a
passing motorist.
C. v. Mabe spent Tuesday
and Wednesday in Hardin
working at the soil conservation
office.
Robert Ewing assisted Ear
Gray in butchering some fat
hogs Monday.
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LODGE GRASS

Norma Thornberg spent the
weekend with her grand
mother, Mrs. Mort.
Mrs. Harold Clark returned
Sunday to her home in Missoula
after spending a week with her
sister, Mrs. R. ]. Brown.
Myrtle Wiley visited Friday
and Saturday with friends in
Grow Agency.
Mrs. Bill Thomas made a
business trip to Billings Mon
day.
Mrs. Hallberg and Mildred
were guests Sunday at the
Shaw home at the Gray Blan-
ket coal mine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Romine of
Little CYL creek were Lodge
Grass callers Saturday.
Mrs. "a. M. Stevenson and Mrs.
Clayton Clanin made a business
trip to Hardin Tuesday.
Mrs. w. A. Crosby and Adrian
spent Sunday at the ranch home
of Mr. and Mrs Maurice Smith.
The freshmen and Juniors en-
tertained the sophomores and
seniors at a party in the high
school building Friday evening
Those present were costumed
to represent beginners in school,
with prizes going to Betty Jane
Kolstad and Robert Borgess..
Rev. Self left early Tuesday
to attend the Montana Baptist
ministers meeting in Helena.
Mrs. R. j. Brown and Mrs
Harold Clark motored to Billings
Friday.
Mrs. Walter Miller and Bruce
spent Monday in Lodge Grass.
Mrs. Joe Parker and Mrs. Roy
Lohmaier were Sheridan shop
pers Saturday.
The Grandmothers' club met
with Mrs. Will Thomas Friday.
Miss Marilyn Duell, Alma
Newman. Dorothy Stark and
Sam Stevenson made a trip to
Billings Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bud Fisher were
Lodge Grass callers Monday.
The Lodge Grass WOman'S
club met at the home of Mrs.
j. w. Holley Tuesday.
Mrs. George Gibson trans
acted business in Billings Fri
day.
Mrs. w. A. Crosby and the
Young Peoples Sunday school
class held a shower for Mrs.
LeJltia Hardee IN the social
room OF the Little Brown church
tuesday evening.
MIR. ana MRS. Emery PeaSe
ana Darrell mcdaniel were IN
Billings Monday and Tuesday.
Y4aAlne onarpe neld a shower
for Mrs. Letitla Hardee at the
LATE chandler, ST., nome Sat
urday, November IL. Those at
.enulng were Mrs. CROSBY, Mrs.
Wiley, Mrs. Glow and ounce,
Mrs. frank Sharpe and Maxine,
fora Bee kesellng, Mrs. Cnand-
Ter, Mrs. Lee saunders, Betty
Sanders, Mrs. Eva Jackson, Al
dine Strong. Mrs. Ada White
man, Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Lining,
Mrs. Lydia Lining, Mrs. S. Ma
son, Mrs. StandlSn, Mrs. c. Al
len and MRS. y. w. Chandler,
ST..
Mr.. and Mrs. R. w. Hensley
made a business trip to Sherl-
dan Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Sutherland
and three daughters were viSi-
O. ,,~ l1xy
and Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. L. BoughtOn
and daughters, Marv LaNell and
MalSle or Hardin were callers in
Lodge Grass Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Saunders and
son. Raymond of Crow Agency
were guests at the j. H. Wiley
home Tuesday.