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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
Completes Course in Aircraft
Mechanics

lie Roy Carlson left last week for
Walla Walla, Wash, after visiting
here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
F. J. Carlson, and friends lie Roy
had just finished a two and a half
months course in aircraft mechan-
les at the air base at Eugene, Ore.
He enlisted in the mechanics air
corps division of the army with
several other boys from the same
school
He left October 20 from Spokane
for Fort Lewis and later he goes to
Stockton, Calf, for his basic
training in ground work.
Mrs. F. j. Carlson and Miss Mar
garet Kemp of Kalispell accompan-
led LIE Roy to Walla Walla and to
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
NOTICE

Due to my Assistant having been
indicted into the Army, and de-
cided increase in my office prac-
tice. I find it necessary to discon-
tinue my regular monthly trips to
Libby.
| wish to thank my patients and
friends for the fine support | have
enjoyed in the past, and, for the
duration, I will be glad to render
service to you at my Kalispell of
flee, which through necessity, must
be by appointment.
F. II. KELLER,
2l-24 Doctor Of Optometry
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
81 Year Old
Resident Answers
Last Call
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was admitted to the bar at Rapid
City, S. d., in May 1892. The fol
lowing year he located at Cascade
Locks, Ore, where he practiced law
for five years.
He decided to cast his lot with
Montana in 1898 and in 1899 he
came to the little village of Libby
Here he practiced his profession UNI
til 1912, when he was elected clerk
of the district court. He held this
office until 1921, when he declined
denomination and decided to retire.
However, the retirement lasted only
until 1925 when he was Sent to the
state legislature, being elected on
the democratic ticket. He was re-
elected to that office for a num-
Der Of years but finally refused to
serve longer. During the gold rush
excitement to Alaska Mr.. Miller
spent few months in the northern
country but did not stay there
long.
Mr.. Miller was married to Phoe-
be Gorton at Blair, Neb., in 1885.
She died at Libby in 1922. He was
married to Mrs. Grace Dexter
Springer in January, 1929, who now
survives him.
He is survived by his wife, two
halfbrothers, Elmer Miller Of Sill
yer Lake, Mimi, and James M. MI
Ter of Dearly, Ida; a niece, Mrs
John Zajicek, Sandstone, Mimi, ano
five step-sons: Bert McCrory o.
Libby, Dell of Sanger. Calf, Charles
of Yakima, Wash, Claude of Yak
ina, and Fred Of Kellogg, Ida.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

The average time required to
move strapped jalopy from an au-
to graveyard to steel furnace has
been reduced from go days to
national average of As days, in some
parts of the country, to "a days.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05
PAGE FIVE

Spokane. While in Walla Walla they
visited with Miss Melba Joice at
Whitman College. Mrs. Carlson
and Miss Kemp returned home by
way of Occur d'Alene, Ida, stop
ping there to visit Mrs. II. Lam
phen, Mrs. ]. Mercer and Ed Roy,
brother and sister of Mrs. Carlson.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-11-05

w. P. Zimmerman was transact
ing business in the city Monday. He
is one of the workers who have
moved with the ]. Neils logging
crews from Troy to Warland.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Action Is Needed

TIHE frequency Of disorders in camps
i where Negro soldiers are stationed gives
immediate cause for a thorough investigation
by the War department as to the causes and
solution to such disturbances
1t appears that the majority Of the disor-
ders have some connection with the white
military police 1t should not be difficult
matter to cure disorders growing from that
source.
Some Of the disturbances have had their
roots in the age-old prejudices of the South
occasioned by southern whites exercising their
resentment to colored soldiers. The War de-
partnent ought to have an answer for this.
If it is unable to protect its soldiers from
attacks by the citizens, this nation Of ours is
in a terrible state Of affairs.
- Ii it can do so but fails, then it must be
because il either condones such acts or doesn't
give a rap.
Oar Negro soldiers must have protection
from the white South. They also should have
protection from white military police who
apparently take pleasure in visiting upon
them from time to time cruel and inhuman
treatment. 49,
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Saboteurs Among Us

TN certain church in the Englewood neigh
III borhood so-called Improvement associa-
ton met for the ostensible purpose Of MAX
and to make plans for further action calcu-
lated to make the neighborhood a better
place for, people to live
= Among other things the members Of the
association, and the pensioners of the
church who were among those included in
the membership, gave much concern to the
further spreading Of restrictive covenants in
that area in an effort to keep colored citizens
of this city from residing among them.
These people, for the most part, were
members of the Christian faith. They had
protested, in some manner or the other, a
belief in the principle of the Fatherhood OF
God and the Brotherhood of man. They had
given lip service to the principles of chris
tianity as expressed in the Old and the New
Testaments They were persons whom il
asked, would say that as citizens of the
United States they are believers in the prin-
ciples of democracy and in the equality OF
all people.
But these same so-called "Christians' deny
to the colored people the right to live where
they desire to. These same so-called ''lov-
ers Of democracy would feel perfectly sat
isfed if through their action the colored peo-
pie OF, the city Of Chicago are forced to live
in overcrowded houses and in a manner that
is inimical to health and happiness.
We call these people saboteurs. They are
saboteurs Of American democracy, Of Chris
tianity, of decency.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
THE GREATNESS OF AMERICA
BY RUTH TAYLOR

run them. America was a great
land when Columbus discovered
it; Americans have made Of it a
great nation.
A country is not greater than
its citizens. We are a United
States of America because the
men Of this country decided to
put aside sectional and religious
differences to work together for
the good Of the country as while.
If we want to change our nation,
we have the power to do so, by
changing the minds Of the men
and women who comprise the
country If we want to be pros
porous, we can, for new wealth
can be built only by men. If we
want security, we can build it.
If we want to eradicate all evil
systems and handicaps, We can
for we created them.
America was made great by the
men who built it. If it remains
great it will be the doing of you
and me and Of all our fellow
Americans working together as
free men. We are in a war for
the preservation of America. 1t
is the fight of all of us-and
working together we will win!
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
CURRENT OPINION

it terminates favorably to him,
will be boon to Negroes in Tex
as as well as in other southern
states.
Incidentally, it will end a dis
elimination against the S. P.
That road spent much money to
comply with the law by giving
Negroes the same accommodations
as the whites even on the "Sun-
BEAM" To let the Rocket get by
with a baggage car is to pen
alize the S. P.
1t will be matter Of embar-
rassment to Texas Negroes that
a Missourian had to file the suit.
Negroes in Texas have been COM
planning about the accommoda-
tons furnished on the Zephyr
to Negroes for years, but none
did anything about it. AS is so
often the case with needed re-
forms, there were many to COM
plain but none to take action in
the state For us in the state
Hamlet's query become peril
nent again.
whether It's nobler in the mind
to suffer the sings and arrows of
outrageous fortune or to take
arms against a sea of troubles
and by opposing end them"
Houston Informer.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
BETWEEN THE LINES
By DEAN GORDON HANCOCK

We have arrived at a stage in
our social and economic devel-
opment, when the Negro himself
needs teaching. 1t is true that
the white man needs to know how
we feel about some matters; and
what is more interesting many
Of them want to know. Why not
then let him know through the
press he certainly reads rather
than through the press that he
reads only uncertainty? When
ever | have a protest to make 70
the white man, send it to the
white press. But what we need
most today is a Negro press to
educate the Negroes themselves.
We need leadership now as new
er before. We are somehow af-
flicted with the notion that when
we make protest to the white
man through Negro press, that
we have struck the point. We
have not. We are further af-
flicted with a kindred notion that
proving the white man a devil
proves that Negroes are angels.
We are not. We are still further
afflicted with the notion that
when our protest has been regis
tered our work is done. 1t is not.
The white man needs to be set
right on matters pertaining TO
the Negroes; but Negroes need to
know that protest without pro-
gram comes to naught; that pro-
test is but a small fraction of
what it takes to advance the race;
that Negroes have a responsible
ity in the situations as well as
the whites; that intelligent use
Of opportunities is just as essen
tial as the opportunities them
selves; that in the world Of to-
morrow it is the efficient man
rather than the logical man who
is going to live; that the group
without vocational training is 60
ing to. perish in spite of their
protests.
One Of the things that doomed
Pearl Harbor was the utter COM
placency Of the officers in charge
They had a good time while the
defenses were unnamed. They
assumed that their own heroic
opinion Of America was shared
by the Japanese. Being an Am
erican was fine; but being pre-
pared would have been finer. 1t
does not matter how fine Negroes
are and how equal to the white
man they prove themselves, I'M
less they have a program for
their own advancement they are
going to perish. There is no flu
ture for race that majors in
protest and minors in a program.
At Pearl Harbor they majored
in good times and jealousy and
minored in preparedness. Our
present program is based upon
hope and not upon reality. WE
NEED A PROGRAM.
Continued next week.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

What make America great?
1t is not the vastness Of the
country, nor the fruitfulness Of
it's acres. 1t is not the hidden
wealth of its natural resources,
nor the size and variety Of it
manufacturing plants. 1t is not
its deep harbors, nor its naviga-
BILE rivers, nor the great arteries
Of its highways.
What makes America great is
its latent power to turn all of
those into production for the good
Of all the people from coast to
coast.
The greatness Of America de-
ponds upon you and me; upon
each and every one of us, wheth-
er we live on lonely farm or
in the crowded city, whether we
live on a tree shaded street in a
quiet town, or under the shadow
Of the great sky scrapers Of a
bustling metropolis.
AS Lyman Abbott once wrote:
A nation is made great, not by
its fruitful acres, but by the
men who cultivate them; not by
its mines, but by the men who
work them; not by its railways
but by the men who build and
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
By LESTER e. BROWN

saults Of the Nipponese fleet, and
fail to aid the Chinese adequate
ly along the Burma road. the
danger of a separate peace may
Turk. On the other hand, if we
aid the Chinese to the negligence
Of the Australians, they will be
doomed because their troops are
greatly thinned out as well as
their supplies. Ere long block
ade would make outside air vir-
tually negligible.
From our perspective, it seems,
the wiser Of two hard choices is
to concentrate our aid to China.
Her numbers and her accessi-
bility to Japanese vulnerable
points would consummate this
choice. If the Burma road is
blocked and China is stymied from
contact with Russia she might be
coerced into making a separate
peace. Many elements Of their
population are not aVerse to this
now, although the majority are
The Buddish religious ties Of many
racial elements in China and
throughout the far East is an i'm
portant favoring circumstance for
the japanese. Therefore to make
this possibility negligible we
must make concentrated effort
to keep the Chinese in the fight
ing. This will constitute a de-
laying action that will better en-
able the consolidation Of the Au-
stralian and New Zealand defen-
ses, even with preliminary air
action by the Japanese.
Our home defenseS must be-
come impregnable. It will avail
little contractive action to criti-
ciZe past errors. We are all in
danger and our collective minds
must be devoted to the best and
most precise methods Of defense
and offense. The President has
told us that New York and De-
troit can be successfully bombed.
This being so, all the more i'm
pels unity Of thought and action.
We must prevent the further
spread Of racialism. The Japa-
nese are making a plea to the en-
tire Pacific theatre of war on
that basis. If this effort succeeds
separate peace pacts among our
allies all over the world will
make our position acutely pre-
carious. All Of our actions as a
nation and with our chief ally
Britain should be to improve in
ternal and allied morale, to in
sure against the ruinous posi-
bilities Of separate peace pacts
with our enemies-the Axis ma
tons.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
DR.. MacL can, The New
FEPC Head

THE Fair Employment Practice committee
L has had change Of leadership following
the recent resignation Of Mark Ethridge, It
S. MacLean, president of Hampton Institute,
was not appointed to compromise the rights
Of colored workers for he is one who is four
square on the race question.
DR.. MacLeans appearance at the Urban
League dinner in Chicago last week gave the
colored people the assurance that they had
in the new chairman of the FEP committee
a champion of Negro rights whose convictions
are strong, and who is outspoken in his SEN
timents regarding the wrongs which are suf-
fered by a tenth Of the population Of these
United States. II:
DR.. MacLean said the United States must
recognize the potential power it has. in the
2lpred people of this country. He mention
gy- ne Army Air Corps and said that the Me-
gro must be permitted to participate in that
branch Of the; military program Of the ma
ton lkeSany other citizen. # ri
81 IN the. matter Of, private industries turning
out equipment to whip til Axis power, DR.,
.MacLeans view is that ali ;ses4nef its of this
nations, population must be permitted It'd
participate in. this necessary produc ton and
especially the Negro people. I =. ~ 55@$+ I r
#, We are. happy that President Roosevelt
saw ft TO- appoint Dr. MaeIean to- head the
FEP. committee We are happy because Dr..
MatLean represents. the highest convictions
necessary for the attainment of the denoz
cratic. process conceived BY those who de-
sired to give more than lip serVfee TO- the per-
fiction Of the ideals of%equality liberty and
freedom VI. srv .: HI. - z-.s
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01

Negro church leaders from all
over the nation, bishops, general
officers, moderators and great
preachers, met at John Wesley
A. M. E. Zion church in Wash
ington on Feb. IL and expressed
the ambition and the courage,
and the sanity and good sense, OF
their race in this world emer-
gency and in American history.
If we called the roll Of this
meeting, we would call some of
the greatest names in present
day Negro history and affairs.
We shall not call the names,-
except to thank Bishop c. l..
Russell, Of the @. M. E. church,
for inviting me to be present and
to participate in the procedures.
A message was prepared and
presented to the White House, adj
! dressed to President Roosevelt.
That message does not say ev-
erything Ono message could say
everything that ought to be said),
but what the message says
will stand, and the brethren
will never have to back down
from the position which they have
taken. Believe it or not, this
was no ill-considered and hasti-
ly drawn document; it took a
large committee two long sessions
between l p. m. and z p. nj. to
get it to the final draft.
Loyalty to America and the de-
termination to continue the fight
for equal and democratic rights
in America share equal honors
in this paper. In a large group
of men and women from all over
our country, there were only two
or three who, after our debates
were all over, failed to see that
their race, their church and their
country are in the "same boat"
in this world war; all Of us will
go down or stay on top together.
There is no perfection in this ma
ton, but they at least want 10
hold what good we have as
civilization and culture, and push
forward as much as possible,
even in times like these.
These church leaders proved
themselves to be more realistic
than many Of the other leaders;
there was very little talk in this
meeting about this war being a
"White mans war" This is
weird war, with all colors on both
sides,-because it is war be-
tween freedom (such freedom as
we have in this world now and
tyranny tyranny that would GUST
the common people from place
at or even near the helm of their
own ships Of destiny). There
are yellow Chinese on one side
and yellow Japanese on the 9TH
er. There is Germany on one
side and Great Britain on the
| other. And we need not forget
that most Of the human content OF
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
NEGRO CHURCH LEADERS
MAKE HISTORY
Rv WILLIAM PICKENS

the British empire is distinctly
colored, and that the wisest lead
ers of these colored elements
realize that their best future lies
in the forces of democracy. The
British are not 1000 democratic,
neither are the people of New
York or Mississippi. But as
compared with Germany and It
ally and Japan, Great Britain is
very democratic government
and very free society Of men.
Everything is relative in this
world. The blacks of Africa and
the blacks in the New World
have their dearest interests in
life on the side of Great Britain
in this war. There were some
pacifists present, and some of
them realize that this is not
pacifist world; and some anti
imperialists, who realize that
there are imperialisms and worse
imperialisms.
One speaker at this confer
ence complained very emphati-
cally and very justly that the
church, has too often allowed the
initiative in social programs to
pass out of the hands of church
people. But on Feb. IL the lead
ers of about six millions of the
most American of the Americans
spoke for themselves, and in so
far as leaders may, for their mem
berShip masses. In such a stu
alton a real leader does not have
to be commissioned by a written
diploma to speak for his people,
he is commissioned by the fact
Of his being the leader. The posi-
ton taken by these leaders is not
an endorsement Of war, but it is
a recognition of the existing fact
of war. One must not endorse
fire; but one cannot save himself
from fire by ignoring its exist
ence. When a leader tells his
people how to act in the face OF
a flood, he is not telling them TO
approve Of the flood.
In the name of God, we live in
a world of human beings, and
these leaders practically all OF
them) were conscious Of it. We
are also parts of the United
States Of America and must go
up or down, or forward or back
ward, as America goes. There
are many worse places in this
world at this moment than the
United States. All things conSid-
cred, the United States is about
the best place on earth for mi
nority groups in this emergency.
Nowhere else could the dissenting
and very small minority have eX-
pressed itself as freely, and as
safely, as it did at this meeting.
But there was no minority when
it came to vote on that final doc
ument which was sent to the
President. God save the Amerl-
can Negro church.
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
EQUAL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

G. S. Stamps, a citizen Of Kan
sas City, Missouri, has filed a
complaint before the Interstate
Commerce Commission, charging
the Rock Island Railroad with
furnishing Negroes inferior &C
commodations for first-class pas
senger tickets to those furnished
to whites with first-class tickets.
The suit is Of particular inter-
est to Texas Negroes, because the
charge arises out Of the accom-
modations furnished from Dallas
to Houston. It is known that on
the Zephyr" Negroes get accom-
modations little better than those
furnished for cattle or fowl.
Basically, it is the same charge
filed by Congressman Mitchell,
which ultimately terminated in
the famous decision by the
United States Supreme court,
holding that Negroes could not be
denied Pullman service in inter
state traffic, and which gave to
Congressman Mitchell the right
to receive equal accommodations
for frst-class passage as those
given to whites. Congressman
Mitchell's suit happened to be de-
cided by the Supreme Court prl-
marily on the question of inter-
state traffic, Mr.. Stamps suit will
decide the question of equal ac-
commodations interstate, and ii
Sunday Chicago bee. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1925-19??, 1942-03-01
Tie Latin Americas
And The Color
Problem

THE United States is counting the friend
Il ship Of the Pan-American nations that
there may be unanimous about effort on
the part of the Americas for the defeat Of
the Axis powers. .t.--5. -
I Some Of the countries have given favorable
response to the urge of this country in these
regards but others have been and are still
hard to handle.
There are several reasons why the nations
South of the border have not gone all-out for
the invitation of the United States and among
which we wish to mention only one reason
the color problem
The nations of the Latin-American coun-
tries have not been sold on the Hly-white
psychology of the United States and in the
nature Of things it is not reasonable to ex-
pect that they will. s>s
The fact is simple to understand. Out OF
the 12009O,000 people who live in those
countries only 25,OOO,O0O are pure white
That leaves majority Of citizens in these
countries who are persons of color and who
would be very reluctant to accept the Ameri-
can view of things purely white.
In these Latin American countries Negroes
hold high positions in the governments. In
Brazil a Negro was president Of the country
1t may be said in passing that Brazil is larg-
er in area than the continent of the United
States
Obviously, if the United States desires to
sell the Latin American countries on white
psychology as part of the war effort it is
only reasonable to suspect that 100 per cent
response will be lacking
The United States should no longer send
only its fat, sleek, selfish business men to these
countries to better relationships between the