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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-01-15

had charge of the posi-, told me it
was all government pNperty for
the present. don't know What they
intend to do next as | have heard
they plan to discontinue selliI.q beer
at the Post. There isn't any beer
sold on the Island at present.
Had quite a surprise the other
day-Karl Klehm came to see me-
He left Guam about three days be-
fore the Japs attacked the Island.
Il think it is a good idea to send
all mail as airmail. Yours is the
only mail ! have received for two
weeks.
Living cost, is going up, eggs
are 85c a dozen. butter is 48c, milk
is l8c, rib steak is Coo, chickens are
Coo per pound. Peggy got three ten
derloin steaks at S1.90. Grocery
prices are not raised as much as
meat prices.
I'VE are on a gas ration now. Car
owners with no business are al
lowed 10 gallons per month-that
certainly keeps the cars off the
streets.
Il don't think things will be as
bad as they first appeared here.
figure my next weeks collections
will be about one third of what they
We're. Of course, then there is
something bothering me and thai
is supplies. I suppose you reae
about the boat that ran on reef al
the mouth of the Columbia river
Everything on board was lost | hao
a 100000 order on it. | don't know
when the next shipment will ar
rive-it's the same with mail, gov
eminent orders =. =.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-01-15

Witt: Why have you been sitting
in your car there at the curb all
afternoon?'
Nit: I'm waiting for two gentle
men,"
Witt: Who are they?"
Nit. The man who owns the car
in front of me and the man who
owns the car in back
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-01-15
Observation-Disclosures,
Just StroIIing
Round the 7 own
BY THE OBSERVER
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You can catch more flies with
sugar than with vinegar"
We've all heard that old saying
and Tom Brindley, for one, believes
there is a great deal of truth in it.
He is going. to try 1t out in his job
Of clearing up radio interference in
Libby
Mr.. Brindley is in charge Of the
communications department in local
defense work He has already start
ed in asking the public to cooper
ate in getting better radio recep-
ton. He is using sugar instead of
vinegar and he says he is
having good results. Said one man
after talking it over with Brindley,
I'm going right nome and clean
up my appliances, and then I'm go
ing after my neighDor" That one
would mix little vinegar with the
sugar
But whatever mixture is used,
Mr.. Brindley believes he can ac-,
complish more by asking coopera-
ton than by compulsion. He is at
least going to give it trial. And
then, of course, if there Nare some
who will just NOT cooperate, there
is always the law and the police
court.
Westbrook Pegier, noted col
columnist, proposes the death
penalty for anyone caught steal.
ing auto tires. That was how
horse thieves were treated i'm
the old days in the West. And
today ones automobile has real
ly taken the place of the horse.
So why not the death penalty
for tire thieves?
Il believe the gathering Of waste
paper is not boys Job said a
good citizen this week, Judging
from the Importance the Govern
ment is placing on it. | notice the
gathering up of old papers is 60
ing on everywhere and in most
places adults are IN charge of the
work | believe that should be done
here. Recently the Boy Scouts UNI
dertook the work in Libby and col
lected a lot of paper, | understand.
But | also know many instances
where people had saved big bun
dies of paper that were never called
for. Apparently the city was not
very well covered in the canvass. /
| SHOULD like to see some adult or
ganization take this matter in hand
and de good job Ct it.
In this manner did one good Lib
BY citizen express himself We pass
along his suggestion. The waste !
paper collected will be used for
various purposes but one of the
uses will be in the manu-
facture Of corrugated boxes and
similar containers for shells, cloth /
ing, etc, all of which is needed in 1
the present war emergency.
Television will be wonderful
thing, but it will never replace the
old-fashioned keyhole Tipping
Tips.
Apparently some men are very
ignorant (?) as to when the open
game season closes. Ignorant or
natural law violators.
Deputy Game Warden Wiley says
he has been spending a good deal
Of time in the north end Of the
county recently. Snow has driven
the deer down and they are con-
gregated along the highways. With
the result that some of the White
fish and Kalispell men are having
another hunting season in that dis
trict!
The game warden recently came
onto dead doe in the timber. 1t
has been shot, its throat cut and
was partly dressed out. Coyotes
f sesea, been feeding on It It. Evidently
IL. l.lata a e.. c...--.l.4
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-01-15

Westbrook Pegier, noted col
columnist, proposes the death
penalty for anyone caught steal
ing auto tires. That was how
horse thieves were treated i'm
the old days in the West. And
today ones automobile has real
ly taken the place of the horse.
So why not the death penalty
for tire thieves?
Detroit evening times., 1942-07-16
Americans Ignore Facts.
Thus Get Slabs in Back
By BENJAMIN DE CASSERES

time. II was not until seven
years later-173S-that Jenkins
got a chance to tell his story to
the House of Commons and to
show the breathless members
the ear, which he had treasured
all this time i'm a little box.
"He said the Spanish coast
guard, after amputating the ear,
had told him to take Ii home
and show II to the king of Eng
land.
"'What did you do them he
was asked.
"I recommended my soul to
my God said Jenkins, and my
cause to my country
This line made great hit
with the pugnacious British pub
lie of the time. Various poll
ticians thought war with
Spain would be a good thing, so
they kept Jenkins battle cry
ringing in the peoples ears. In
1889, England declared war on
Spain and the War of Jenkins
Ear dragged on for n couple OF
years"
THE Jenkins ear war led to
l. the war of the Austrian
Succession and eight-years OF
carnage that ravaged nearly all
of Europe.
jenkins ear should be put in
a glass case in the museum OF
human stupidities with the pistol
|. of Gavrio Princeps. who took
pot-shot one day in 1914 at an
archduke and an archduchess in
Sarajevo, Bosnia. That shot
touched off World War No. l
and caused the death of 10 mil
lion men, the mutilation of 25,-
100000 more and revolutionized
the life of the world.
And this war-should it be
called the painters war? If
Hitler could have had his paint
ings hung by a Munich jury in
1919 and had received a gold
medal as a great artist" it is
very likely that he would not
have gone sour on the world and
thought out his wacky "Mein
Kampf."
Helen, Jenkins ear, a sour
bellied painter-on such micro
scopic pivots turn the destinies
of mankind!
Thou little thinkest what
little foolery governs the world"
exclaimed old John Selden nearly
400 years ago.
John, you said a dictionary
full!
Friendship is Love without his
wings. Byron.
Detroit evening times., 1942-07-16

Friendship is Love without his
wings. Byron.
Detroit evening times., 1942-07-16

CEN. HOMER LEA (whose
~ "Valor of Ignorance" was
reviewed here) more than 30
years ago warned us about the
plots and plans of Japan.
The Hearst papers at the same
time warned the country about
the imminence of the yellow
peril"
Gen. William c"Billy") Mitch
ell score of years ago began to
tell Congress, the army and the
country that the bomber would
rule the world and that battle
ships were outmoded. He was
forced out of the army by the
brasshats.
When Hitler took over Ger
many in 1888 there was his
'Mein Kampf," which plainly
told the world-including the
United States. which he loathed
what he was going to do.
But in spite of all these warn
ings we Americans went on our
way as if we were living on the
moon.
Its because we Americans do
not look things in the face that
we get stabs in the back.
/ hope we have conquered this
weakness since Pearl Harbor.
\ TRIVIAL incident can some
"A times cause a great war,
which holds a mirror up to the
face of human stupidity.
A gal by the name of Helen,
who was heads up with the
glamour boys of Athens, Sparta
and Troy (for Helen played the
whole circuiD, started the Tro-
jan war in which thousands of
Greeks and Trojans bit the dust
yelling 20 Hel-eni"
But the most curious war that
l ever heard of was the War of
Jenkins Ear" back in the 1905.
A New York newspaper recently
dug up this absurd curiosity of
history, and here it is as the
paper tells it:
"Tn 1881 a sea captain named
Robert Jenkins was bringing
home the British brig Rebecca
from a, West Indies trip. He was
boarded by Spanish coast
guards. Their CO I'm m a n d r
searched Jenkins ship for con-
traband and cut off one Jenkins
ears rs token of the way the
Spaniards felt about the British.
Jenkins carefully kept the
ear. On reaching London he told
his story around saloons and
waterfront dives, but Il didn't
make much of stir at that
Detroit evening times., 1942-07-16
OEfR6|k MES

Subscription rates Gin advance) by mail
TO any place In the United States, Canada
or Mexico. ION Canadian subscriptions add
100 to cover war import taxi
Detroit evening times., 1942-07-16
Murphy S
Army Post
Under Fire
By GEO. ROTHWELL BROWN
Special TO THE DETROIT TIMES

Sptttdt 10
THE Presidents directive, un-
Il der which members of the
Congress who also hold reserve
army and navy commissions
must return TO their legislative
duties, or else resign if they
elect TO remain in the military
service, has raised at the Capitol
much speculation as to the case
of Associate Justice Frank Muir
ply Of the Supreme Court.
Some of the more conservative
members of the House are
known TO feel that Justice
Murphy is technically violating
the Constitution by accepting
active duty as lieutenant colo
mel in the army, while retaining
his place on the Supreme Court.
There is a provision in section
6 of article l of the Constitution
which reads as follows:
And no persons holding any
office under the United States
shall be a member of either
House during his continuance in
office"
An army officer, II would GER
tainly seem, is holding an office
under the United States.
Congress permitted some of
its members 10 serve as officers
in the old war, and after the
close Of the war Congress passed
an act paying TO each of these
a sum equal to the difference
between what he had received
while serving in the armed
forces and what he would have
received if he had remained in
Congress.
THE chief objection TO a JUS
Il tice Of the Supreme Court
serving as an officer of the army
or navy is one rather of pro-
priety than constitutional tech
nicality.
There have been two interest
ing rumors with respect of JUS
tice Murphy.
According 10 the first story,
Justice Murphy submitted the
question of his entering upon
active military service, while re-
tanning his place on the supreme
bench, TO his colleagues on that
tribunal before he applied for
active duty. This story is denied
in Michigan circles known TO be
close to the justice.
According TO the other story,
one of Justice Murphy's col
leagues of the Supreme Court
was of the opinion he should re-
sign from the court in the event
he was ordered 10 duty as an
officer in the active service of
the army.
He has long held commission
as a reserve officer. Presum-
ably this objection was based
upon the broad theory that no.
body under our government
should hold two positions at the
same time.
DUT ii is said that the actual
- reason why this member of
the court took the position that
Justice Murphy should resign
when he expressed his intention
of going into active army serv-
ice, was that this justice for
some time past had been rather
peeved over some of Justice
Murphy's dissenting opinions. of
which there have been quite a
number!
On the whole il is much better
for members of Congress TO OBJ
serve the strict letter of the Con-
stitution and refrain from enter
ing the army or navy as officers
In time Of war.
Detroit evening times., 1942-07-16
BAERlNG DOWN ON THE NEWS:
Get III All I'm
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER
In spite of the aluminium drive there still couple Of
old pots left in the palace guard.
The boys Hopping like the dying mule but
they covering up like strip tease dancer in raid
The main trouble is centralzation of incompetency.
The palace guard should brush up Grover Cleveands
advice the starryeyed visonaries ut is condition that
faces and not theory"
We're in up necks and afford to let
the palace guard make
BY
The Ely miner., 1942-12-17
TwO-Piece Frock.

IWO-flece FLOCK.
IT LOOKS like a frock for the
L new season and it can have the
warmth you'll want for the new
season-this jaunty two-piece mod
ell with it's fattering white collar!
The basque top is of flattering
length and does it whittle the
waistline!
Pattern No. 1863 is in sizes 10, u, IA.
16, 18 and 20. Size IL with short sleeves
takes $50 yards 39-inch material, II yard
contrast for collar.
Send your order to:
The Ely miner., 1942-12-17
ASK ME- q
!, ANOTHER I
The Questions
A General Quiz

1. A patent protects an inventor
for how many years?
2. How many men signed the
Declaration of Independence?
3. What is the keyboard of an
organ called?
4. Who was the discoverer of the
laws of the pendulum?
S. A treeless plain in South
America is usually called what?
6. Which of the British rulers
had the longest reign?
Z. How many parallel lines are
there in parallelogram?
8. What is an old Oxonian?
9. What is the northernmost
state of the Union?
10. What was the loudest sound
ever heard by man?
The Ely miner., 1942-12-17
Fool or Wise

There is no greater fool than the
man who thinks himself wise; no
one is wiser than he who suspects
he is a fool.-Marguerite de Valois.
The Ely miner., 1942-12-17
The AnsWers

l. Seventeen years.
2. Fifty-six.
3. A manual.
4. Calico.
S. A pampa.
6. Victoria (63 years).
z. Four.
8. A graduate of Oxford univer-
sity.
9. Minnesota.
10. That of the explosion of the
volcano Krakatoa, in the Straits of
Sunda, in 1888, the noise of which
was reported to have been heard
several thousand miles away.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
State Institutions
Issue Call For Help
Acute Shortage of Men, Women Reported; Profess
siOnaI, NOn-SkiIIed Aides Needed at Once

Hartford, Conn, May IS - An
acute shortage Of help at all state
institutions now exists and jobs are
available in practically every cate
CORY, Leonard j. Maloney, director
of the U. s. Employment Service
for Connecticut said today, in urg-
ing qualified persons to make APP
plication for these jobs.
Mr.. Maloney pointed out that
while formerly 1t was necessary
for employees to live on the premises
of the institution arrangements
have now been made whereby prac-
tically all employees, If they wish,
may continue to live at home and
work at the institutions. "This new
arrangement should make it posi-
BILE for residents in the vicinity of
state institutions to find profitable
work without worrying about
transportation" Mr.. Maloney said.
The current needs are for: ply
Sicians, dentists, nurses, physical
therapists, occupational therapists,
industrial arts teachers, physical
instructors, male and female at
tendants, orderlies, clerks, stenog-
raphers, cooks, assistant cooks,
chanics, farrnhands, dairyhands
porters, walters, mattresses, me-
electricians, truck drivers, painters,
BARRIERS. tailors, groundsmen and
many others.
In an effort to fill these job
openings applications are being ac-
cepted for all existing openings by
all officers of the U. S. Employment
Service for Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
YOUNG PRIEST
IN FIRST MASS
Father COOney to Be Cele-
brant Sunday Morning at
st. PatriCk's Church

Rev. Andrew ]. Cooney Of this
city, who was ordained to the Cath
oils priesthood at Hartford yester-
day, will sing his first solemn Mass
at II a. m. Sunday at his home
church, st. Patrick's
Rev. DR.. Eugene p. Cryne, pastor,
will be assistant priest. Other off,
GERS Of the Mass will be: Rev.
Francis ]. Barrett, assistant pastor
of the Church Of the Blessed Sac
rament, deacon; Rev. Gerard F..
Yates, S. j., of Yale university, sub
deacon.
The sermon will be delivered b.
Rev. j. Joseph Bluett, s. j., pro-
fessor of dogmatic theology at
Woodstock College, Woodstock, Md.
Among those seated in the sane
tuary will be Rev. John J. Keougn,
S. j., director of the alumni asso-
citation of Georgetown university,
where Father Cooney was graduated.
Father Cooney is the son OF An
drew Cooney Of Chapman street and
the late Helen Duffy Cooney.
A class of 26 young men, equal
TO the largest in the history of
the diocese, was ordained yesterday
at st. Joseph's cathedral, with Most
Reverend Henry J. O'Brien, Auxil-
larry Bishop, presiding.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
By THOMAS M. JOHNSON
(NEA Service Military Writer)


washington, May 15-"To win
the war this summer, Hitler will
throw everything at Russia but the
kitchen stove"
That is an expert estimate Of the
import Of the great Nazi offensive
just beginning. That tremendous
effort promises to be the dominat-
ing news-story of the summer; its
end, in victory or defeat, one Of
the decisive events Of world history
and in very real sense, Of
American history.
The struggle on the Russian
front, more than the dramatic and
important events in the Pacific,
will determine just what this war
is to mean to us in treasure, blood
and anguish. For If Hitler brushes
Russia, either we must send enor-
nous expeditionary forces to Eu-
rope or we must give up hope of
beating Hitler there and keeping
the war from our shores.
LONG WAR is
ANTICIPATED
Either way we must face not a
relatively short war, but an in
finity Of affliction; rising taxes,
lower standards of living, economic
dislocation. That is a sober con-
sensus Of opinion here of the mean
ing tosAmerica of the battle now
beginning.
That the first Nazi blow should
fall on South Russia is none the
less ominous because expected. Not
merely because Hitler, by reaching
Baku, would gain oil, but because
Stain would lose 1t. One good au-
thority estimates South Russian oil
is less important to Germany, with
her synthetic industry, than to
Russia, which gets seventy-flve to
ninety per cent Of the fuel for her
planes, tanks and tractors from the
southern fields. And the road to oil
Is also the road to SueZ and juno
ton, or at least closer cooperation,
with Japan.
GERMANS STILL HOLD
MOST OF THEIR GAINS
To that fixed objective the road
has now dried, although spring
mud still entrenches other key
points farther north, such as the
great industrial and railroad CEN
tiers like Moscow and Leningrad,
great shipping centers like MUIR
mansk and Archangel that are fun
nels for British and American sup
plies.
All those are nearer the Nazi
grasp than Americans realize. The
Germans are still three fourths the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
Germans Seen Throwing Everything"
At Russians In Desperate Crimean Drive

say "Nitchevo," and let 1t vent its
first fury on second hest troops.
The task Of these troops is to
sacrifice themselves to slow 1t down,
so that real flrst-line troops, held
back for the purpose, and aided by
guerrilas, can counter-attack and
prevent the armored spearl1eads
from breaking through and encir-
cling them.
PLAN MAY
UPSET NAILS
On this refinement of the tactics
that proved successful last summer,
the Russians pin their hopes Of up
setting the Nazis If they use the
same tactics as last year. Some
authorities believe they will not
that they will spring startling new
methods and weapons, including
gas. In any case their real objec-
tive will be no fixed geographical
point-not even oil wells. Capture
Of these will be secondary to de-
struction of the Red army: And the
best way to destroy 1t Is to encircle
1t.
The Russians have the man
power to stand the losses Of Sec
ond-line troops, and the interior
lines, especially in the south, to
move the man-power about. Can
they endure the shock of the first
blow, the dread pounding of the
second, third, fourth--of a whole
summer OF blows? Can they ,"hold
the fort while we are coming?"
I have asked that question OF
numerous observers, unofficial ano
official. The unofficial ones, lately
returned from Russia, say Eyes
Those who are most certain some
times seem so mainly because the
Russians were SO certain, yet thai
speaks volumes for Russian morale
Off1cial observers are more eau.
tious, but more optimistic thar
they have been hitherto. None
expects to see the Russians escape
without heavy losses Of men, ma.
| aterial and ground. Some expect
4 to see them driven back to thu
volga, but holding there, heads un-
bowed.
RUSSIA'S SUCCESS
VITALITY IMPORTANT
However, bloody those head!
might be, with the winter to re-
cuperate, next year there woule
still be a Red army. This army
supported by the industries bull
up in the Urals or moved there
might at most be capable of az
offensive in cooperation with Brit
ish and Americans, or, at least b
able to pin down strong German
forces.
And by that time we would havt
ships and supplies and in some
thing approaching plenty; wee
have men, too, If need be. AND
though the war might go on fol
another year or two, 1t would have
been won-won in the battles tina
are beginning today.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-05-15
.DRIGGS SCHOOL
TO GRADUATE 50
List Of Prospective Mem.
bers of Class of 1912
Announced

Ninety-five students comprise thu
list Of prospective graduates nexl
month at briggs grammar school.
The list, announced this morning
by Principal John Brophy, follows:
Bernard Bert Adler, Edward Jo-
seph Ahearn, Jean Barbara Ander-
son, Marian Louie Andrews, Har-
Ian Raymond Armour, Richard Paul
Aston, Nicholas James Barone,
Henry Paul Beaulac, Camille Lee
Bouley, Eleanor Mae Briggs, Ann
Theresa Castonguay, Carmen Jo-
seph Cesare, Liberto Richard Ce-
sare, Wanda Mary Chase, Carol
Vaughn CheSson, Doris June Clark,
Albert Charles Confrancesco, Hettie
M. Craig, Leonard Rocco Daddonna
Alvin Raymond Daniels, Margaret
Lima De Vico, Theresa Madeline Ds
Vico, Ruth Alice Dodson, Rita
Muriel Fagen, Julia Alice Fernandez,
Lawrence Feuerman, Esther Re-
becca Calling, Joseph Peter Geno-
vese, William Irving Goldstein,
Frank Greco, Ruth Irene Gruzas,
Anna Carmella Guerrero, Rose Elsie
Guerrero, Marie Gugliotti, Robert
Haddad, Lillian Horenbein, Janice
Lucy Horrigan, Gertrude Johnson,
Helga Joles.
David Kaplan, Madeline Marie
Kelly, Francis William King, Ben
nett David Klamkin, Morton Sher-
wood Kramer, Martha Krinsky,
Robert M. Jarmett, Samuel La
Rosa, Jr., Albert June Leach, Ger
aldine Betty Lewis, Francis August
Lieber, Charles Albert Lusher, Ell
vira Marano, Albert Joseph Mar
celia, Doris Theresa McCooey,
Clayton Mccormick, Jr., Marjorie
Claire Menzies, Richard Lee Mon
test, Francis Edward Michigan, Jean
Theodore Nelson, Beverly Newman,
Lois Betty Noble, Shirley Mavis
Northway, Barbara Ann O'Brien.
Winfred James Petteway, Bernard
Matte Petteway, Marie H. Pisani,
Elizabeth L. Prince, Catherine Mary
Raggo, Virginia Sally Raymond
Helen Olee Richardson, Lorraine
Betrha Richter, Helen B. Rodgers
Jennie Mary Rollo, Doris Romanuk
John D. Rosa, Lillian Margaret
Rose. Florence Rubin, Hermar
Rubin, Mark Leon Sacharoff.
Hadassah Saffian, Michael a
Santopietro, Anna Marie Solomito
Roslyn e. Solomon, Joseph CALLED
Spinella, Gloria Mae StaWeckI
Francis Carl Tommasino, MILFORD
LAFAYETTE Trotman, Anthony AngelN
Venditti, William Wallace Vosburgl
III, James Grant Walker, Earl WI
liams, Rose Wolk and Norma
+! Yanofsky.