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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-07-25
A WORTHY UNDERTAKING.

Libby, July ", l94U
Editor Western News
AT the last regular meeting of
the PIT A, suggestion was
Brought forward that dances be
sponsored by this organization for
the younger people of this commun-
ity As there is very little for the
younger folks in the way of enter
tainment during the summer
months. il was with the hopes and
intention of the PIT. A. to carry
on these dances with the main pur-
pose of keeping the young people
right here IN town for their fun. If
the parents, with the officers of
the P.-T. A, will cooperate. there
IS no reason why this project can
not be made success.
A dance was held Saturday, July
20, at the Legion Hall. and to add to
the fact that there was very little
advertising of it, about so boys and
girls turned out and all enjoyed
themselves thoroughly, and are de-
handing that they have more of
them A small admission charge
of 10 cents was made and a rented
Wurlitzer provided the music for
the evening.
II is now our aim TO obtain rent
free dance floor and some other
form of music. as the treasury of
the PIT A. is very low at the
present time
Mrs. Harold Thomson, president
of the PIT. A, wishes to thank those
who took part in helping to get
started with the first dance.
A notice will appear in this paper
as to the place and time of the next
dance sponsored by the PIT. A
CONTRIBUTED.
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LODGES

/. O. o. F. Cabinet chapter No. &c.
meets every Wednesday evening
Clayton Youngs, Noble Grand and
Ernest Davidson, recording secre-
tary.
A. F. & A. M. Libby Lodge No. IS
meets End and 4th Thursdays at
Masonic Temple. Marshall Murray,
W. M, Vim Anderson, secretary.
Royal Arch Masons, Libby lodge
No. 33 meets lst and 3rd Wednes-
days at Masonic Temple. Fred Bur-
lingham, High Priest, ]. F. McCully,
secretary.
Order of the Eastern Star. Libby
Chapter No. SO meets LIST and 3rd
Tuesdays at Masonic Temple. Alma
Mount, W. M, Marie Jaqueth, sec
rotary.
Libby Moose Lodge No. 1899 meets
End and 4th Mondays at Moose hall.
Hans Westman, Governor, Glea-
son Pitcher, secretary.
Royal Neighbors, Mountain View
Camp No. 1883 meets End and 4th
Wednesdays at the Moose hall.
Mrs. Minnie Napier, oracle; Mrs. Ag-
mes Larsen, recorder.
Medora Rebekah Lodge No. So
meets LIST and 3rd Mondays at /. o.
o. F. hail. Eva l.. Maize, Noble
Grand and Minnie Lamey, secretary.
A. 0. u. w. meets the End Friday
of each month at the Legion hall.
Olive Cutler, w. M. and Eunice
Stoeffler, secretary.
Libby Chapter De Molay meets
LIST and 3rd Mondays, Masonic Tenn
pie. Ernest Staley, M. c.; Bud
Oylear, Scribe.
Rainbow Girls meet second and
fourth Mondays at Masonic Temple.
Celia Ann Nolop, w. A.; Pauline
kienitz, secretary, Mrs. Harold Hall,
mother advisor.
Women OF the Moose, Libby
Chapter No 695 meets on the first
and third Tuesdays at the Moose
hall Muriel Oylear, Senior Regent
and Agnes Brennan, recorder.
Theta Rho Club No. n meets LIST
and 3rd Tuesdays in |. O. O. F. hall
at Ills p. m. Mary Lenore Martin,
president; Phyllis DeRosia, vice
president; Helen Rasmussen, record
ing secretary. Eva L. Maize, ad-
visor officer.
Libby Townsend club No. / meets
on, the first and third Fridays of
each, month in the community hall,
at 800 p. m. VIM. Kammeyer, pres
ident; Mrs. Geo. Stout secretary.
American Legion Drum and Rugle
Corp practice the first Friday and
third Thursday of each month at
$50, Legion hall
Kootenai Valley Grange meets LIST
and Ord Fridays Of month at Amer1-
can Legion Hall J. r. Bowen, mas
ter; Mrs. E. A. Rice, secretary.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-07-25

the Court House at Libby, Montana
on the 10th day of August 1910, at
the hour of $3.50 p. m, Mountain
Time of such date to pay delinquent
assessment thereon, together with
costs of advertising and expenses of
sale.
Signed. F. w. KIESLING,
Secretary, Glacier Silver Lead Min
ing Company, GOT Washington
Trust Building. Spokane, Wash
ington. jy18-25-2t.
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stock will be sold at the Executive
Office of the company in the Myers
& Strom Building. Room No. 10 in
the Village of Boomers Ferry, State
of Idaho, on the 9th day of July.
1910. at 4 o'clock in the afternoon of
such day, to pay the delinquent as
sessments thereon, together with the
cost of advertising and expense of
sale
H. J. ASKEVOLD. Secretary,
jyl8z25-2t Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
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The FORUM

This is department for the dis
cussion of pertinent topics by anyone
who SO desires. 1t is open to every
one and any suitable subject may be
considered. However, what appears
in this department does not neces-
sarily reflect the views of this pa
per-The Editor
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-07-25
Italian Technical Studies

Premier Benito Mussolini has ap-
proved the establishment of courses
OF technical studies in Italian
schools, designed to produce re-
serve supply OF technicians for Ital-
ian industry, business and COM
merce.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF
DELINQUENT STOCK.
GRANITE CREEK MINING
COMPANY

Principal Office. Libby, Montana
Executive Office: Boomers Ferry,
Idaho.
There is delinquent upon the fol-
lowing described stock on account OF
an assessment levied on the 25th
day OF May, 1910, the following
amounts set opposite the names OF
the respective stockholders, as fol-
lows.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-07-25

And in accordance with law and
by order Of the Board of Directors
made on April %, 1910, SO many
shares of each parcel of stock as
may be necessary, will be sold at
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-07-25

WASHINGTON One of the worst
bottleneeks in the World war of 1914
Is, and one which contributed in no
small measure TO the eventual TAX
ing over of the railroads by the gov
eminent. was due simply to the fact
that shippers and receivers of
freight alike used railroad cars for
storage purposes.
The railroad executives are very
much worried abouta the possibilities
now, and are determined to do ev-
erything they can to prevent critl-
cal situation The last thing they
want is another spell of government
operation.
In the last war the worst spot was
at the ports At Jersey City and
Hoboken. Baltimore. Philadelphia
and Newport News. the entire rail-
road yards we're packed with cars
loaded with freight for export,
freight which could not be loaded,
and freight which so clogged the
yards that they virtually put the
railroads out of business. There was
no use hauling trains to any port.
There would be no place to park the
cars after they got there.
A natural sequence was that there
developed shortage of cars. Nat
urally if cars are held in yards,
loaded, but with no place to put their
contents, they cannot also be out on
the road hauling the freight. So
there were not enough cars.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-07-25
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD

Railroads are trying to pre-
rent a car shortage as a result
of ,ear export bottleneck .
Rushing the iedr tar bill good
politics but bad economics.
,Ben -wNu sersieei
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GLACIER SILVER LEAD MINING
COMPANY
COZ Washington Trust Building
Spokane, Washington

There is delinquent upon the fol-
lowing subscribed stock on account
of Assessment No. 10 levied on the
22nd day Of April 1910, the several
amounts set opposite the names of
respective Stockholders as follows.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-07-25
CHURCHES

CHURCHES
First Lutheran Church
Raymond Olson, Student Pastor
st. Johns Lutheran
Fl. L. Pfotenhauer, Pastor
Methodist
H. E. Baber, Pastor
st. Lukc's Episcopal
Arthur B. Ward, Priest
Christian Science
First Presbyterian Church
Rev. Albert M. Hart. Pastor
Calvary Rentecostal
F. A. Dalton, Pastor
st. Joseph's Catholic
Edmond Taylor, Priest
Church Of God
Rev. A. J. Stuart
INTER MOUNTAIN BUS
SCHEDULE
Leave
West 40 v. ia.
Arrive
West p. H.
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and in accordance with law and an
order Of the Board Of Directors,
made on the. 18th day Of May. 1910,
SO many shares Of each parcel Of
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1940-07-25

GREAT NORTHERN HALFWAY
SCHEDULE
East Bound
No. 2 Arrives. .1:03 p. m.
No. % Arrives. D. m.
West Bound
No. ! Arrives.....-...-.-.....-... 6.19 p. m.
No. n Arrives..-..--.-........-..-.-.2.45 p. m.
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SHORTAGE THREATENS

This situation is approaching
again. This time the first bad effect
is not so noticeable in the ports as
in the sources of supply-around the
coal mine heads, and at the plants
producing goods for export.
Yet one would think, because of
the necessities of the convoy sys
tenn, that the situation in the ports
would be worse. But the conveys do
not start from American ports. The
ships sail up to a certain port in
Canada, and the conveys are or
ganized from there This slightly
improves the situations at the Amer
lean ports, though this also might
easily become serious.
But more than Al 900 cars loaded
with coal and unconsigned are now
being held around United States coal
mines, according to the car service
division of the Association of Ameri-
can Railroads.
Although coal loading is now
more than 20 per cent above that of
the corresponding period OF 1899, :
the association said, there is no
shortage of cars and none is antici-
pated.
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SOME OBJECTIONS

The objections to framing the law
now OF course are that in the de-
sire to take every possible dollar Of
war profit, congress may easily do
things which impair. tremendously
the efficiency Of our national de-
Tense. The law can easily be such
that it will deter individuals and
corporations from switching from
their normal line to things that the
government needs.
1t is not case of patriotism. Very
little evidence Is before the national
defense commission now, nor did ii
develop in the first World war, that
manufacturers declined to do things
necessary to the national defense
because Of any tax situation. That
Is not the type OF thing that is feared
froxa m unscientifc war profits tax.
Whzt can happen now and what did
happen h tire last war is that there
is = certHdn Encouragement OF Sup
plyNsourccs. For instance, A might
have very smart idea which would
be valuable to the production OF war
supplies. A might be a man never
thought Of by the war or navy de-
partments, or by the national de-
Tense commission experts He might
study the idea, and decide that it
was too risky He would be almost
certain 10 lose money even If the
idea worked II would be d total
loss IL 1t did not work.
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BAD ECONOMICS

Rushing the war profits tax bill
through congress now is excellent
politics, better psychology, but bad
economics. Actually it would have
been much better TO follow the origi-
nal plan, which was to make
careful study of the whole situation
in the months that intervene before
the new congress convenes in jan
uary. Then bill would have been
all prepared, and it would have been
considered by congress in which
the individual legislators would not
have to face an election for 10
months. All the bugs and jokers
which can possibly be seen in ad-
vance in any piece Of legislation
would have been caught and recti-
fed. In short, the bill would be as
good as can be expected from any
such unwieldy groups as compose
the house and senate.
The tax OH heavy profits could
have been applied to 1910 earnings
and hence have produced as much
revenue as bill enacted now. True,
it is a little advantage to business
men to know just what the tax will
be, when they still have before them
something like five months of the
year the earnings of which will be
taxed 1t gives them a chance to
trim their sails a little.
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18
=: SOCIETY =:
Senior Class
Elects Officers

Senior Class of the Key West
High School held its first meet
ing of the new school semester
Monday of this week.
Main purpose of the session
was the election of officers for
the term just started.
Ray Pierce, president of the
Junior Class last year, was re-
elected to the same office. Wal
ter McCook was selected vice
president.
ElOise Sawyer was elected sec
retary and Elizabeth Roberts will
be her assistant. Treasurer is
Betty Levin
Announcement of sponsors for
the Glass of Al was made at the
meeting. Miss Clara B. Lankford
and Mrs. Hildegard OFT Russell
will be the SponSorial teachers.
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18
COMMON COURTESY
On Dressing In Public
BY AP FEATURE SERVICE

If there were enough old
meanie college professors to give
new students proper calI-downs
on dressing in public. freshman
girls might be spared a lot Of
trouble later.
My dear young ladies'" the
professor should say, Il intend to
talk to you this morning about
dressing in public, because some
day you may have a husband or
a boss who feels the same way
feel about it.
MY talk concerns that young
beauty who has her compact
propped against the books on the
second desk of Row Five.
But it concerns all of you,
too.
Good grooming is as essential
to modern American women as
good health.
you have to look your best in
any competition.
But you know as we'll as I do
that you ought to prepare your
beauty before you leave the
house.
Il don't know a man who con-
dones powder puffs in classroom,
in restaurant, or on the street.
Most men don't like to watch
you apply your lipstick. They
like to think your lips are nat
urally that red even if they know
better.
Il need not say anything about
those women who do the whole
makeup job in public-from
cleansing to the last dab of
powder.
But many of you sneak a
comb from your pocketbooks to
run through your hair any time
you think of it.
You lose some of your poiSe
when you admit you're not sure
you're loking your best by re-
sorting to such repairs.
And even in a girls school,
there's no real necessity for ap-
pearing outside of your room
with pin curlS.
1T suggests that you realize
the Importance of good grooming
but forget that good breeding
must accompany good grooming.
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18
HERE'S A CANDID TALK WITH-A
Marry Young And Raise Children, kOlie Fife AdDises
CHAMPION AMERICAN GRAND-DADDY
tAssociated Press Featu

Feature Serxfeeb
When / raised the Erlz
taught them 70 60 u chuch zl6
Sunday school as long As rheE
were Under my care and keeplnE-
4 taught them 10 take care ef
the house. 50 they could Eake
themselves good NIves Ererv
one Of my girls can cook q E1ad
meal Wed have better e-ls ID
day II they were raised Eke
mine.
Ny girls were not alloWec ro
90 10 dances # they wanted -
ride home fruvn church u-I-h boFs
they had L. be chaper8ned- Whe1
boys came calling on 'em- theT
sat IN the parlor with the W1n6uE
shades Up Nv father taught ule
that way and I taught then rEzr
way. IF more families were ras-
ed like that. there E0uldn1 - -
much divorce.
~One Of nv girls married Ene1
she was 0nlv Il. another one E-zs
u and another .. but they z-e
married happily That speaE
pretty well for young nlarTIaEez
doesn't IL
And another thinE-eTe-v-
body ought TO raise some chl-
dren. II brings love INTO the
home. When I first n1srr5ed-
l didn't know what love was. bzr
when the first child vas b0-n- ]
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18
WHO HE IS

Nolie Gable Fife. champion
young grandfather of Houston.
Tex. is 48; was married at 10
and a father al IL; has been
married three times. and has
nine children and Is grand
children. The first Mrs. Fite.
whom he married in Missis-
sippi when she was IL. died
when he was l9. She told him
to go marry some good girl
and keep the children togeth-
err. and a month later he full
filled her request. -Four chill
dren were born of the first
union. five of the second. His
second wife divorced him. He
then married a widow with
seven children. giving him is
young ones 10 rear. Fife. who
turned from Mississippi farm
ing 10 running a grocery store.
went to Texas in 1926. He ran
a filling station and cafe for
a time. but has retired 10 live
off income from investments
and property. and from occa-
sional work on the Houston
docks 10 keep near by boys.
most of whom are longshore-
men. AT Christmas in 1895
he fed turkey 10 l07 sons.
daughters. in-laws. grandchil-
dren and friends.
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18
NaUy Wives Club
Has New President

Mrs. Georgia Denman handed
in her resignation as president
of the Navy Wives Club at the
meeting of that organization held
last Friday at American Legion
Hall. Mrs. Ellen B. Price, vice
president, was automatically in
Quoted into the pfesiding chair.
Mrs Denman retained her mem
bership in the club on the in
active role.
The club discussed a dance to
be given on Navy Day, parti-
culars of which will be arranged
at the meeting to be held this
Friday afternoon in the Movie
Hall at the Naval Station, at 100
o'clock. All members have been
asked to note the change of meet
ing place.
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18
FLORIDA
FERRIS WHEEL
By HoRTENsE K. WELLS

Maybe it's because we're from
Georgia, wnere every young 'un
is raised" with a hot biscuit in
one hand and a fried chicken
drumStick in the other, but we've
always had strong belief in the
mellowing influence of vittles-
If we were running the Demo-
cratic campaign this year (Which
we AREN'T we'd round up the re-
calcitrantS, waverers. and defec-
tive Democrats, take 'em over to
Gilchrist County and persuade
the Young Democrats to put the
feed bag on. At the district rally
held at Fannin Springs last week
enthusiasm and appetites ran
high: we left Gilchrist so filled
with Democracy, fried chicken
and chicken pillau as to be prac-
tically incapable of motion.
All the pictures we've seen of
w. Willkie indicate that he, too.
likes his fodder. If he could be
filled with Gilchrist chicken on
election day we haven't the
slightest doubt he'd find himself
voting for FDR.
Henry Fountain AShurSt, foun-
tain of oratory, Arizona's repre-
sentative in the Senate for tWen-
ty-eight years. holder of import
ant Senate committee posts, has
demonstrated that no one is in
dispensable or unbeatable. Time
was when seniority" would have
been sure-fire protection, but
these are changing times in
everything including politics, and
the ability to open ones mouth
and emit the dictionary in large
chunks. plus the importance of
committee seniority, no longer
weighs so heavily in the minds
of the folks back home.
Peerless Pinellas, always the
scene of a tug-o-war in election
years, leads Florida in campaign
activity. So far as we've seen
over the state, they boast the first
campaign headquarters, first po-
litical signboard and the most
high-powered publicity.
Considerable controversy was
aroused in '39 over the exact date
on which Americans should be
thankful. In Florida we had two
turkey days. owing to the inabil-
ity of FDR and Fred Cone to get
together on a date. This year the
governor got the drop on the
President and beat him to the
draw Florida's day will be the
traditional last Thursday If FDR
has picked his dav, he hasn't
confided it to us or the press.
Without regard to presidential
or gubernatorial proclamation
Americans have chosen their own
Thanksgiving DAYS - 365 of
them, on which to humbly give
thanks for the blessings of liber-
ty. and renew their determination
to preserve them against all COM
erS, no matter what the cost.
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.-All
other issues give way before a
determined effort to break down
the traditional limitation on the
presidential tenure of office.
Today the reasons for preserv-
ing that limitation are far more
impelling than ever before. Amer
leans must rise in November and
Justify the faith of Thomas JEFF
ferSon, who declared:
Should a President consent to
be a candidate for a third cleo
ton, l trust he would be rejected
on this demonstration of ambi-
tious views.
If this be matter SO import
ant, it may be asked why 1t was
not written into the ConStitu-
ton, or added by amendment.
There were those who saw that
it should be done. The majority
felt that the danger could be
averted by wise distribution of
powers and an indirect method
of election.
Thereafter, the example set by
Washington, followed by Jeffer-
son. Madison and Monroe, who
thought to have forever deter
mined that no President should
be more than once reelected. In
the year of Jackson's first in
auguration it was declared on the
floor of the house by a member
who later was elected President
that an explicit amendment was
unnecessary because:
This principle is now as sacred
as if it were written in the Con-
stitution''.
Although many attempts at
amendment have since been
made, they have failed because
public sentiment considered the
unwritten law sufficiently bind
ing. It remains for the electorate
this year to so thoroughly repu-
diate a candidate whe acclaimS
himself the only one fitted TO fill
that high office that never again
will any individual yield to such
deluSions of grandeur.
Those who think clearly have
long recognized that the greater
the power attached to any office.
the greater the danger of continu-
ing it long in the same hands.
Jefferson so believed. That truth
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18

flown to Rome for conferences
with the Italians. Some observ-
erS thought that the action meant
a change in plans for conduct of
the war with the possibility that
more intense and cooperative
action against the British in the
near-east will come instead of
the actual invasion of Great
Britain.
Rome dispatches today admit
ted the sinking of a large Italian
destroyer by British air forces
off an African port.
Advances into Egypt are being
made by Italian forces on foot,
but every inch of the way for
ward is being bitterly contested
by a much-strengthened British
defense force.
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18

was asserted over and over by
Andrew Jackson.
Another great Democrat, Grow
er Cleveland, said:
when we consider the patron
age of this great office, the allure
ments of power, the temptation
to retain public office once again,
and more than all the availability
a party finds in an incumbent
when a horde of officeholders,
with a zeal born of benefits re-
ceived and fostered by the hope
of favors yet to come, stand ready
to aid with money and trained
political assistance, we recognize
in the eligibility of the President
for reelection the most serious
danger to that calm, deliberate
and intelligent action which must
characterize a government by the
people.
! The vastly increased powers of
the President are the impelling
reason why we must not permit
this wise provision of our unwrit-
ten constitution to be repudiated.
Our chief executive is today an
I all powerful figure. Under his
direction, reaching out into the
smallest and most remote pre-
cinct, there moves an army of
civil servants swollen beyond the
million mark and increasing
daily.
He disburses with a free hand
each year uncounted billions. His
authority over the daily lives and
activities of our people has pass
ed beyond all established bounds.
The requirements of national de-
fense will place at his disposal as
commander-in-chief an army, a
navy and an air-force more pow
erful than any the world has
seen.
Of him it may well be said:
why, man, he doth bestride
the narrow world like a colos-
sus-". To permit such colossus
to perpetuate himself in office
would be, as both houses of Con-
gress have declared, ''unwise, un-
patriotic, and fraught with peril
to our free institutions"
Awake Americansl The spirits
of departed patriots cry out to
you-"be on your guard Let
there be no further usurpation of
power. Answer with your ballots
The Key West citizen., 1940-09-18

Here's little advice for young
men and women-from a cham
pion grand-dad:
My advice to boys and girls
is to marry young. l was very
young, of course, when first
married, but it worked out all
right.
"All 16 of our children-l0
girls and six boys-are happily