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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
SYRIA:
NOu British

The victory of the British and
Free French in Syria, being some
what dwarfed by the news from
Russia and the war developments
in this country seemed to receive
only minor mention in the American
press. though the British were get
ting more solid satisfaction out of
it than had appeared on the eve Of
the armistice.
Some of the terms began to come
overseas, and it was significant that
they called for the turning over to
the British of all arms except those
belonging to individuals, including
ships and planes.
Paris "a quick to report that all
planes and ships had escaped cap
ture, though this dispatch, coming
from German-controlled territory,
was somewhat discounted.
Churchill summed up the advan-
tages Of the Syrian victory briefly
as removing to a greater distance
the threat to Suez, also the fact that
some of the disaster of Crete had
been overcome, in that the air base
on the island of Cyprus now could
be protected. The Germans, heav-
lily engaged with Russia. however,
seemed in no hurry to try another
air conquest from Crete to Cyprus.
That the Germans air position in
the eastern Mediterranean was suf-
ficiently strong was indicated in the
sinking of a British small naval
vessel OF 1900 tons by air fire, the
survivors reporting that they were
attacked by 80 dive bombers at one
time. Their convoy escaped with
supplies destined for Tobruk's be-
leaguered garrison.
Most important Of the Syrian ar
mistice terms was the choice to be
offered to French residents, civilian
and military. as to whether they
would be deported to French terri
tory, or whether they would join the
Free French government under
British mandate.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
BONES
Good Listening

Being a good listener is essen
tial to conversation. Some people
turn conversation into a debate.
While the other person is talking,
the debater is not listening, but
thinking up something in support
of his own opinion. When such a
conversation is over, he is more
thoroughly convinced that he him
self is right.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24

Joseph P. Kennedy T., son
of the former ambassador to
Great Britain and Harvard
graduate, has joined Uncle
Sans navy, enlisting for the
duration in the air force. He
made his entry along with
many other college men and
,cas quickly indicted. He is
cho,rn in a training plane,
ready for Lesson Number One.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
R. A
Business as Usual

The Royal Air force, stepping up
its bombing scale steadily, reported
as one day Of business as usual
the dropping Of 1880 tons of bombs
on cities in Germany and occupied
countries.
The British were claiming that
these attacks were at least as severe
as any Britain had had to Withstand
during the hey-day Of the German
onslaught from the air and that they
would get stronger as time wor on.
One contrast between the Nazis'
blitz of London and other British
detectives and the British attack or
Germany and occupied countries
was in the Photographic evidence.
Outside of one or two pictures
sent out from Germany showing fire
fighters atop buildings in Berlin. the
country might as well be entirely
unscathed. as far as picture evil
dence would 60.
Whereas the American news
papers had carried literally thou
sands Of photographs Of AFRAID eff
fects in England, from the digging
out Of the dead and wounded to the
damage that was done to West
minister Abbey and the tower from
which Big Ben chimes out the hours.
The reason was that the British
took the pictures of their own dam
age. and the censors permitted them
to be sent out. So the United States
got a view Of what modern war
was like.
The Germans permitted two or
three such pictures to get to this
country, but for more than a year
nothing Of the kind was shown, and
as the air attacker can't get low
enough to photograph his own dam
age-it didn't look as though any
would get out.
Among the targets were Bremen,
Cologne and other big centers of rail
and steamship traffic.
And the British assumed that 800
tons Of their bombs would wreak
about the same havoc on Bremen
as the same weight of German
bombs had on London.
Churchill summed it up when he
said that he believed if the British
people were permitted to vote on
whether bombings of cities woulo
continue or be stopped by both sides,
they would vote NO! And his audi.
ence cheered to the echo.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24

To London

Harry Hopkins, President Roose-
velt's trouble shooter" and conf
dant, was being sent to London
again.
While there was little definite in
formation readily available as to the
reason for Hopkins second trip to
England, it was recalled that only
the other day in the house of COM
mons there had been some bitter
statement yer the handling Of
American plane purchases.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24

q. ~ N1IEmwWhen opinions ~ expressed in these columns. they
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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
ROOSEVELT:
Nazi Names

The German press, in its previous
references to this country. had been
relatively mild. On the contrary,
the papers were now vieing with
each other to use strong language
about President Roosevelt.
The President, said one paper. lis
circling like a vulture over the
Azores and the Cape Verde islands"
Another said:
Roosevelt has raised gangster.
ism to be a symbol in politics."
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
i. ). Is Now a Reservoir
For European Livestock
Fine Breeds of Cattle and Horses Are
Shipped Here to Protect Them
From Results of War.
BY BAUKHAGE
National Farm md Home Hour Commentator

tr~easurehouse of the worlds blooded
stock.
AS a matter of fact. the 700, 600
cows and bulls which have long
made up Americas card-catalogued
nobility need bow before no foreign
bovine. These 700, 600 whose record
Is kept. with the cooperation OF
their owners, by the department Of
agriculture, now produces 1926
pounds of butter fat per COW per
year. against a figure of 1859 pounds,
which is the average for the rest Of
coWdom.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
Memories of an
Old Opera House,

Washington's Opera House" is
going. 1t is a long time since ac-
tors trod its boards, since its Am
bassador's tier glittered with the
jeweled ladies of the diplomatic set.
For years it was known as the BE
lasco theater," one of the most at
tractive playhouses in the country.
Of late it has been a movie house.
On my way back across Lafay.
cite park the other day l glanced
up at its sad facade-doors closed.
windows blank. And it was then.
for the first time in all the q years
that l have passed it or entered its
portals that I noticed the words ..Op-
era House" engraven above them. l
walked over and looked at the plaque
on the wall, which I had never read
before. 1t said:
On this site Commander John
Rogers built an elegant house in
1881. In it on April II, 1866, an
attempt was made to assassi-
nate w. H. Seward. secretary of
state. by n of the conspirators
who murdered Abraham Lincoln
on the same night.
The opera house, will be soon
torn down along with it's two neigh.
bors on the east side Of the park.
One is the beautiful Tayloe man.
sion with its graceful doorway and
wistaria-clad grill work. 1t was built
in 1928. Later, in the Mckinley re.
gime, it was called the little White
House" because Sen. Mark Hanna,
the power behind the throne in those
days, lived there.
The Tayloe house, with the Dolly
Madison home next door, for years
have formed the Cosmos club, re.
Gently sold to the government anc
awaiting demolition.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24


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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS

Russian Army Plan for Slowing Blitz
Follows China's Retreating Technique;
Churchill Halls Soviet as Real Ally;
Extension of Draftee Service Sought
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
BEAR:
On Defense

OH DcJ cICSS
The Russian Bear, no matter what
the communicates might say, was
obviously putting up a hard fight
before the advancing German mech
anized forces, and the British, who
had taken. the quick defeat of Rus
STA as a foregone conclusion were
beginning to cheer.
Churchill, who had been through
three previous milder stages Of hail
ing Russia as a companion in arms,
finally and very bluntly told the
house of commons "of course Rus
STA is an ally Of Britain"
One of the signs that the Reds de-
tense of their homeland was vigor-
GUS and not without military merit
came from an official admission on
the part of Germany's high COM
mand that the Nazi armies had
hurled back a considerable counter
attack.
Communicate ''solvers'' naturally
saw in this admission proof that the
Russian armies were actually fight
ing, and battling to some purpose in
their gradual withdrawal to the
Stain line and perhaps further to
the interior.
Washington observers cautioned
against too much faith in an eventu-
al Russian victory, however, unless
the defenders would be able to with
draw their armies with much of
their equipment intact, into that
hinterland broadly described as
1.-The Urals."
AS in the Battle of France, it was
conceded that the French would
have had a chance of immobilizing
the war only if they were willing
to give up Paris and other cher
ished cities, and move backward
with the assault, harassing the ad-
vancing Nazis and softening their
blows, riding with the punches"
as the boxing phrase has it.
This was the technique which en-
abled to make a four-year-old war
of position out of the Japanese blitz
of 1887 in China. 1t vas the same
technique which observers in this
country were recommending for
Russia.
There was nothing in dispatches
to show that the Reds not do
ing just that, save that no city of
vital importance like Leningrad,
Moscow or Kiev had yet fallen.
though Germans claimed they had
passed the latter.
1t vas impossible, in view of con-
ficting claims. to determine with
even probable accuracy and allow
ing for a wide margin of error to
figure the price being paid by either
side in the Russo-G erman war.
If German claims were to be be-
lieved, Russia had left only a frag-
mentary part Of her motorized
equipment and her air force. II
Russia were to be believed Germany
was reduced to using canvas" tanks
and mere boys to operate them.
But even the German communi-
ques admitted Russia still had hun
dreds Of tanks in action, and hun
dreds Of planes, and the Reds
bombing activities were reported
from neutral points to be hitting tar
gets far within Rumania and far
within Finland.
The actual facts Of the war. how
ever. remained continually clouded
in mystery. despite the fact that cor.
respondents finally were admitted to
Moscow, which also installed a
short-wave radio to give out war
news to the United States and other
countries.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1941-07-24
Call for Men?

From now on you may expect
TO hear-until or unless it is 81
fenced by a White House tip to
Prime Minister Churchill-many
British voices calling on America
for men. Why will our higher-ups
try to silence these voices?
l. 1t reminds the non-interven-
tionists too much of the last war.
2. The United States army
needs the men itself.
3. A lot Of high army officers
believe charity begins at home.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
One Towns Story

There England place
esnd on that basis worth of thought and
small cities of the
getay and periodically
assist in the defense That
Emsar sent Washington Washington
pressed with the urgent need for placing large
dictated that the shpbuidng the small will eventually
be work But meanwhile peeded production
IN other enters has struck this small
work has begun And the place of rather discouraged
by the have
But whether not they realize the fact the
lies ahead for small like program
that to say where the making Of the parts that the
featuring of of military
to number of small plants smaller
The situation carefully surveyed
by the National Industrial Council groups
sored by the National Association of Manufacturers
sored by the National Association
and equally important small being asked
tools and other that they which
defense England
OF others like will profit eventually from this
When lot OF people big job
be mhaps working
things out pretty logical fashion,
the little town should soon be part Of that picture
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
If Nigerian Hubby
Gets Balky, Wife
Cuts Food Supply
Men Wear Crowns and Pass
Laws, but the Women
Control Larder.

COLUMBUS. - Womans age-old
responsibility for feeding her family
has been turned into a weapon : of
authority in one of Africa's largest
tribes, according to DR.. Jack Har-
ris, sociology instructor at Ohio
State university.
DR.. Harris recently returned from
a l4-month study of the Ibo tribe in
Nigeria, West Africa, with its popu-
lation of 100000.
He found that the men wear the
crowns and pass laws but the wom-
en-by their control of the food sup
ply-exercise supreme veto power.
When husband proves recalcitrant
his food supply is cut in half. Mr..
lbo usually surrenders when the
first hunger pangs begin; other
wise he arranges to buy his food
from some other woman in the tribe.
Experts At Ridicule.
The tribal women have other ways
OF gaining their ends-including ridi-
cule, strikes, boycotts and curses.
One incident reported by DR.. Har-
ris happened when the women found
a rule adopted by the men not to
their liking. The entire feminine
population left the village, taking all
the children, with the exception OF
babies in the nursing stage.
For day and a half the men fed
the crying infants, cooked. carried
water, brought in fireWood and per-
formed the other tasks usually al
located to Women, before being
brought to their knees.
To the victors they gave goats as
peace offerings and formal and in
formal apologies.
DIR. Harris witnessed a quaint Gus
tom known as sitting upon a man.
II man offends group of women
they march in a body to his COM
pound and remain to sing songs of
ridicule until he apologies.
Must Pay for Wives.
The Iboes. reported DR.. Harris,
use a variation of the modern in
stallment plan in their matchmak-
ing. Girls are promised in mar
rlage while still infants and the con-
tract is fulfilled when the final in
stallment is paid.
The men contract to pay any
where from $40 to $50 for a wife.
Because husband is unwilling to
lose his investment, he tries hard
to please his wife or wives (some
men have as many as 14). Wives
who are displeased with their hus-
bands leave and refuse to return,
charging mistreatment.
Only If the wife marries again
does the husband receive full repay
ment on his investment.
DR.. Harris, the only American
ever to study the tribe, made a re-
port of his studies entitled THE Po-
sition OF Women in Nigerian Soci-
ety. to the New York Academy OF
Science.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
Congrcssmen Agree
On Principle of Aid

Winston Churchill's reference to
Wendell Willkie as the head of the
great Republican party" in the re-
cent presidential election in the
United States was gall and worm
wood to the Republicans in the
house and senate who took far diff
ferent attitude on the aid Britain bill.
But, just as the pro-Nazis had no
place to 80 IN the presidential cam
paign, 50 those who would leap upon
Churchill.s picture OF both great par
ties in the United States being as
one to help Britain as a gross mis-
representation are again in a very
bad strategic position.
It is rather obvious that IL the
Nazi propagandists pick and choose
among the utterances OF opponents
OF the aid-Britain bill, both in the
house and In the senate. they can
find plenty OF comfort. They can
show the German people, rather
convincingly, that America is torn
to pieces over this issue.
VOTES MORE IMPORTANT
But when it comes to the VOTES
taken in the house OF representa-
tives, that is something else again.
For instance, while strong minori-
ty voted against final passage of
the bill in the house, virtually every
one of those house members had
voted FOR an amendment which
would have authorized a loan to
Britain of $4,000, 100000 as a SUBJ
stitute!
In short, from the record of votes
rather than speeches, it would seem
that the only real issue dividing the
house of representatives, and there
fore presumably the American peo-
pie, is the METHOD of aiding Brit
ain.
Bear in mind that no one who
raised his voice in favor of loan
of dollars as against lending equip
ment ever suggested the slightest
hope that these dollars would ever
be repaid The notion Of all these
supplies being repaid in kind AFTER
peace has returned is one calculated
to bring the strongest Of protests
from any International trade expert.
Not to mention anyone worrying
about unemployment in this country
after the war.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
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WORRY

Don't worry How easy that is
to say, and how very difficult to
do. Yet, medical men assert that
worry Is cause of many human
ailments
The measure of all time is wrap
ped up IN few short words. The
past, the present, the future The
present is slender line of sep
aration between the past and for
ever. 1t is in fact so narrow. that
while you pronounce the word
present one syllable is either in
the past or in the future.
No one is able to change the past
in the slightest particular. It is gone,
and vain regrets are of no service.
On the contrary, they are an ex-
pensive load to carry along. Worry
can be cut in half If we refuse to
fret about by-gones.
And no one is sure of the future,
nor are we responsible for the flu
ture. Our problems are associated
with today. not with yesterday or
tomorrow. We are supposed 10 live
one day at a time, and when the
sun sets, the account should be set
tied. Too many of us take our wor-
ries to bed with us. A man named
Beadon, who lived to be over hun
dred, said that the secret of long
life in his own case was that he
had never thought of anything un-
pleasant after 10 o'clock at night.
1t was Dean Inge who said,
Worry is interest paid on trouble
before it is due. 1t isn't any use to
put up your umbrella until it rains.
A clear conscious is of great help,
and that is, perhaps, what Charles
Dudley Warner had in mind when
he wrote. BE sure you are right.
and then don't worry
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
More Thon Armor and Weapons

Four years ago Walter Lppman syndcaed column
the heading Waterman What Night"
then particularly timely today than Lppman
penned lines He wrote, n part
Until the ensaved peoples
they live
edge that order broken
the trials these things of infinite
learned things which than
lie ahead For who had inherited freedom
easily granted lightly
careless comfortable knoWWhy
them
that life without liberty would living They
what they live for
The fires of freedom
believe, Tekinded
brightly they days lighting
ginnngs'
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
Sensational Economic Development

Travel
der in the public mind these Nevertheless probably
that few people realize the tremendous strides industry
has made in the few the Wright
machine off hill Kiyhawk c.
1908 In this connection interesting
zine recently said in bit of publicity quote
American aviation the development
OF industry promising jobs million
this
1T is shortening the distance month
after the will able
in New York
1T making the Australia
will be Philadelphia
when the Constitution
And the President upon
launching of SO
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27

United States was stripping its own
defenses.
Be that as it may, the point goes
much deeper The point is that if
one accepts the position so long held
by the President. and by Wendell
L. Willkie. that every blow Britain
strikes is helping the United States
to the extent that it weakens Ger
many then obviously the sound SEN
slble thing for the United States to
do is to give Britain everything pos
sible, not because we like Britain,
but because in way the British
are fighting our battle.
A considerable proportion OF the
people of this country approve this
position, and from the results of re-
cent polls, an overwhelming MAORI
ty want to help Britain all we can.
In view of this obvious position OF
the President, it would seem that
Senator Wheeler is guilty of muddy
ing the water when he says that not
most but all the fighting planes we
produce are being sent to Britain.
CONVERTS UNLIKELY
1t seems to be a rather oblique
attack to single out an obvious part
OF policy as being cockeyed If one
hopes to win any converts from the
other side,
OF course there is no such hope.
The minds Of the great majority OF
Americans are pretty we'll set on
this whole thing. Either they be-
lieve in aiding Britain or they do
not. II they believe in aiding Brit
ain, the individual sections or pieces
of the aiding program are not i'm
portant. II we are going to help
Britain, obviously we had better
make sure that Britain is not beat
en-, SO the more we can. aid the bet
ter for us in the long run.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27

WASHINGTON The latest con-
troversy between President Roose-
welt and Sen. Burton K. Wheeler of
Montana goes to the very nub of the
whole aid-to-Britain issue. Wheeler
attacked the administration for CIV
ing virtually all the good fighting
planes and bombing planes to Brit
ain. and thus depriving the United
States national defense Of this vital
equipment.
The President took the position
that this sort OF publicity must be
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27

very good news for
Hitler, though he did
not explain whether
he meant this was
good news because
Hitler then would
know that the vol
urne OF plane deliv-
cries we were max
ing to Britain was
the best we were
able to do at this
time, or whether it
would please Hitler
IN kprxuy fbat tbo
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
Modern Pheasant Hunting

Bruno Won der Heyden, Wapato,
Wash. got the bag limit Of three
pheasants one day last season with
out firing a shot. His dog pointed
two in an alfalfa field and he caught
them with his hands. Later he saw
\ hen entangled in hedge and he
grabbed 1t.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
Powerful Anti-Tank Gun

An anti-tank gun tina; is capable
of firing 81 nm. shell which can
penetrate il1-inch armor at 5000
feet is reported developed by Army
Ordnance II is mounted on a field
carriage; total weight 900 pounds,
according to Product Engineering.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
49,
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD

" heller attack on aid to
Britain not considered
likely to make concerts
Votes in Congress
on British aid sho1u
rery feru ,uilling to shut
off military supplies.
BELL Syndicate-WNU Service
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1941-02-27
Mississippi River

The Mississippi river proper rises
In the lake and swamp region Of
northern Minnesota, l,472 feet above
sea level, in Lake fernando de
Soto, Becker county. II empties
into the Gulf Of Mexico, the gull
having a mean elevation Of 500
feet.