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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26
No Words Necessary

Henpecked Hubby What have
done now? You've been talking for
half an hour, and | haven't said a
word"
The Henpecker. mo, you haven't
said anything, but you've been lis
tening in most aggravating man
ner, and I'm not going to stand for
it,
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26
Meet the 9Th Grade
President

AS leader of the 81 class, Bob
Rrinton engages in manv school ac-
tivities being a very active member
of his class. He states that he favors
physical education as his school
subject and for out-of-school pas
time likes to bicycle. AS for sports
Bob enjoys telling Of his riding
trips, as the English class knows. He
has hobby Of collecting match
cartons. He selects as his favorite
movie, Lost Horizon with Gary
Cooper the choice as actor.
Bob has a great ambition to
make a lot Of money So in 20
years Bob expects to be a second
Carnegie operating his many bust
ness concerns from his mountain
lodge where he likes to 60 riding
every day
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Thursday, March 26, 1912

of April, 1912, to the 9th day of
May. 1912, at the same time and
place.
GLACIER SILVER LEAD MINING
COMPANY.
BY F. w. Kiesling, Secretary,
Spokane, Washington.
March 0, 1912. mr19-ap9-4t
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26
Grin and Bear 1t!

Bud Vinion: I'm always tired on
April 1st.'
Donnelda: "Why2n
Bud: You'd be- too, after March
of 81 days"
Miss .O'Connell. ooh, dear! So
you've broken your tooth, Bernice.
How did you do it?n
Bernice: Il was shifting gears on
a lollypop."
Newton: Well, I'm playing hook
ely from correspondence school.
MIR. Rounds: How can you do that?
Newton: | mail them empty en-
velopesl
Miss Helleren: Did you mail my
letter for me, John?
John Reading: Yes, and here's
your three cents.
Miss Hellefen. How could you
mail It, then?
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26
Too Long to Read

Bookworm: Have you a copy Of
Fifteen Decisive Battles'2N
Saleslady: No; but I've get ==ssERsee-
objections of a Married Man
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26

John: That was easy. I just slip
ped it down the slit when no one
was looking.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26
THE LARIAT

LARIAT STAFF
Editor In Chief Margery Hunter
Assistant Editor Dolores Oertel
Sports Editor . George Earle
Feature Editor Audrey Bitterman
Reporters Joy Role, Marjorie
Talsma, Phyllis Ritzman, Mary
Ellen Erhard
Faculty Advisor .. MIR. Bergen
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26

can Legion Hall, Libby. Peter ia
borski, president and Harold Rorke,
secretary
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26

Our secret weapon: u. S. Defense
Bonds and Stamps. Buy theml
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26

Little Theatre Club meets 1st and
3rd Mondays of each month. Mrs.
Ray Rice, president; Joyce Daggett,
secretary.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1942-03-26

|. O. O. F. Cabinet chapter No. IS
meets every Wednesday evening
Forrest DeRosia, N. G., and Ernest
Davidson, recording secretary.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

word in the dark lexicon of our time"
Yearning after security he holds, is
rejection of life, for life is an adventure
and the only security is the grave" He
adds: This is not a soft world. Most of
us have cruel hardships Protection
from hardship is denial of experience.
He was born on Independence Day,
1889, at Laramie, Wyo., where his father,
a Methodist preacher, CHANGED to have
pulpit. The elder Wriston, West
Virginian, travelled as boy to Texas
and then Colorado. He was member
of the first graduating class at the Uni
versity of Denver. DR.. Wriston's mother
was the daughter of New York ship
carpenter, who pioneered to Denver in
prairie schooner.
Moved East as Child.
When the child was years old, the
family moved to Boston. His schooling
was at Wesleyan University, Middletown,
Conn, with post graduate work at Har-
ward. He lived in New England until, at
the age of 35 he became president of
Lawrence College at Appleton, Wis. He
was appointed president of Brown in
1887.
A specialist in the history of the
Middle Ages, DR.. Wriston is certain that
any new thing under the sun is ex-
tremely rare. The word most frequently
in his mouth is perspective" He was
unmoved by talk of 'the wave of the
future" because he was able to identify
the totalitarian ideal as wave of the
sixteenth century" Likewise, planned
economy" left him cold He had con-
vinced himself that social management
was characteristic trait of the ancient
regime in France; and that poverty and
Wretchedness grew till the unbearable
system was overthrown by the French
Revolution
Even Hitler's New Order" he de-
clared, might have been plagiarized
from the Great Seal of the United
States, authorized by the Continental
Congress in 1882, The designs reverse
bore Latin motto, adapted from a
line in Virgil's "Aeneid," which may be
translated: He tGod) has smiled on
our undertakings new order of the
ages"
Evening star., 1942-09-13
ubbom Defense Stond Dromotzes One Of Periods Of War

In three years of war British claim to
have destroyed 10000 Axis planes with
a loss of $500 of their own.
There we're fewer than 100 planes IN
Great Britain after the first expedition
arv force was sent to France with 10
souadrons of light bombers and two
souadrons of Hurricane fighters In Sep
tember, 1889
But over 5000 aircraft sorties we're sent
out from England In the Dieppe raid
and there has been at least one lO0O-
plane raid over the continent.
From the start of the war the overall
superiority of American over Japanese
aviation was apparent. Losses were ap-
proximately one to two Now, as they
become more familiar with the foes
fighting tactics, American flyers have
widened this score sensationally, declared
1t. Gen. George H. Brett, late in COM
mand of the Air Corps operations in the
Southwest Pacific. Early in August it
was three to one. BY the end of the
month 1t was five to one.
For the first time In this generation
the first Monday in September was not
an almost universal holiday.
President Roosevelt made it the occa-
sion for one of his most important
pronomcements of the war. Factory
wheels did not stop turning. In ship
yards all over the country TIA ships were
launched-many naval craft of all sorts
and lot of 10,000-ton cargo ships At
the same time work was started on 40
others.
The war is beginning to come home to
the American people. The Navy an
nounced that it already had lost nearly
$4,000 sailors and marines-killed.
wounded and missing After three years
the British war Office announced that
77,l90 are prisoners of War-not count
ing those captured at Tobruk and Singa-
pore.
The United States extended its many
fronts by occupying the strange Gala
pagos Islands, desolate possessions Of
Ecuador in the Pacific. They might have
formed fine japanese bases. The South
American republic had no objections to
American occupancy
The United States will invade the
colleges for manpower. Students were
warned that they face almost certain
calls to active duty at 20. To most of
them the news was welcome. Latin,
calculus, biology Ia, pale in interest be-
fore the great adventure.
Up to the present probably the greatest
discomfort caused by the war to the
American people has been due to the
shortage of rubber 1t will continue to
| be the single greatest discomfort until
next years tax bills are received. The
reasons for this shortage have been OBJ
scured in clouds of yerbiage.
This week special committee named
| by President Roosevelt-Bernard Baruch,
President Conant of Harvard and Presi-
dent Compton of Massachusetts Institute
of echnology-reported on the actual
status of the rubber situation and warned
that unless something was done about it
! the result might be loss of the war.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
War in the Air

Throughout the week there we're con-
slant attrition raids over Germany and
German occupied Europe.
For the 49th time, late in the week.
British showered the industrial city of
Dusseldorf with explosives-this time
delivered by fight of 400 planes.
These raids were launched Sunday
when a heavy force of Flying Fortresses
and Bostons, with
Roids PIoy an escort of 400
Hovoc in Fronce fighter planes,
carried out wide
spread destruction over Northern France
in broad daylight That night there
was an attack on the Channel port of
Boulogne, accompanied by a thunderous
cross-Channel artillery duel after dark.
They continued over Labor Day when
1ghter-accompanied Flying Fortresses
carried out wrecking attack on the
shipyards at Rotterdam and the railroad
yards at Utrecht. At the same time RAF
flyers bombed Emden Bremerhaven and
other strategic points in Western Ger
MANY.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
The South Pacific

Japan's amphibious troops and cat
footed jungle warriors suddenly resumed
the offensive in both New Guinea and
the Solomons-and with some initial
success. BY an infiltrating operation, of
the type which proved highly successful
in their first Malayan moves, they sue
ceeded in fanking Australian positions
north of the lofty Owen Stanley Noun
tains in Southern New Guinea.
These mountains tower above Port
Moresby, SO miles to the South. Through
them there is only one pass by which
military supplies can be transported.
The battle is for possession of this pass.
At the week end it was not clear from
news dispatches whether the foe actual
ly had captured it, but most reports we're
peSsimistic
Evening star., 1942-09-13
OBSTACLES BLOCK PATH TO LABOR PEACE
Many Combine to Make Unity improbable
By Joseph A. LOTUS.

Jurisdiction of the CLOS United Elect
rical. Radio g. Machine Workers and
the AFLs International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers. They have been in
many organizing fights. Can they find
a demarcation line? Can the left-wing
leadership of the CIO elections and the
conservative leadership of the AFL
Building Trades Unions find a basis of
mutual trust? Would it be wise or feasi-
BILE to consolidate and, if so, whose jobs
and friends jobs would be sacrificed?
Take the CIO United Auto Workers
Union and the AFL International Asso-
citation of Machinists. The UAW has the
auto plants pretty much to itself, but it
has major conflict in aircraft plants
with the lam. The UAW is young,
dynamic, apprehensive of being gobbled
or chopped up by its older rival
There are many similar examples on a
smaller scale. But there are factors on
the other side of the jurisdictional
picture.
David Dubinsky of the AFL fnterna-
tional Ladies' Garment Workers and
Sidney Hillman Of the CIO Amalgamated
Clothing Workers have been clamoring
for labor unity. There is practically no
jurisdictional trouble between them.
Both could function in united labor
movement. They are concerned over the
cynical approach to the peace negotia-
tons and may be able to pressure the
conferees into working long and hard on
the project once it gets started.
Personalities Involved.
3. Personalities, policies and politics
At the conference table will be, for the
CIO:
Philip Murray, cautious Scotsman,
mild-mannered or table -thumper, as cir
cumstances dictate. His personal vested
interest less involved than anybody's.
The CIO presidency pays him nothing.
The United SteelWorkers of America pay
his salary. 1t is firmly entrenched in the
steel mills
Julius Emspak, left-wing officer of the
United Electrical Workers, though not its
president. He was isolationist until June,
1941.
R. J. Thomas, bulky, speaking
president of the United Auto Workers,
one of the lowest paid union presidents,
although the UAW claims more than
100000 members. Jealous of his unions
hard-Won gains.
For the AFL:
Daniel j. Tobin, president of the
Teamsters. One of the highest paid labor
leaders ($3000 A tWo-hsted fighter
who zealously guards his unions juris-
dictional lines
William L. Hutcheson, president of the
carpenters and, with Mr.. Tooin domi-
nant influence in AFL council He is a
| reputed ally of JohnsL. Lewis although
| the same person Mr., Lewis socked at an
Atlantic City convention few years ago.
Harry C. Bates, president of the brick
| layers
The face of John L. Lewis will not be
present. but his shadow will as will the
shadows of many other labor leaders in
the background. With peace negotia-
tions possibly in progress, Mr.. Lewis
half million mine workers may be
thrown out of the CIO In November for
non payment of per capita tax, II the
Evening star., 1942-09-13

dence that there was q good deal Of
undercover cooperation with the Axis,
that japanese submarines probably had
been refueled in the west coast ports of
Majunga, Ambanja and Morondoa. Jap
anese planes were reported flying over
the island of Nossi Be between NADIA
gascar and the African mainland-a
name familiar to philatelsts.
So this week the British with the full
approval of the United States. had to
take up the job where
Only Token they left off. They
Resistance seized the ports and the
islands. They sent
column southwark toward the inland
capital of Tananarive, seat of the old
Malagasy kings. Again there was only
token resistance. Vichy protested, of
course, that the Axis never had made
use of any Madagascar base. Germany
and Japan would have been too honor
able for any such base subterfuge even
if ultra-pure Vichy had been willing to
cooperate, Laval seems to think.
Vichy had its troubles at home due to
the fact that some OF the noblest French
men of this generation-the first citi-
zens of nation which long was the
light of the world-raised brave voices
in protest against the deportation of
10000 Jews in the unoccupied territory
to Eastern Europe to work and die under
Nazi whips.
Leader among the professors was
former Premier Herriot Joined with the
Socialist leader were the Catholic
cardina of Lyon, the leader of the French
Protestant Federation. They protested
in the name of humanity. They pro-
tested in the name of Christ. The United
States Charge d'Affaires protested un-
officially. M. Laval, as might be ex-
pected, gave him nasty answer-let
the United States take these helpless,
prosecuted people. And all the time he
knew that they already were on their
way into Nazi slavery. About 10000
must go.
Evening star., 1942-09-13
ONE-MAN BRAIN TRUST FOR COP
Dr.. Henry N. Wriston Has Built Unusual Prestige
By Richard L. Stokes.
printed

One-man brain trust" of the admin
lstration's loyal opposition-that is role
which is now draping itself in war, as
it did in peace, about the stalwart shoul-
ders of DR.. Henry Merritt Wriston, presi-
dent of Brown University.
There is something curious about the
prestige enjoyed by this retiring savant.
His infrequent utterances command
widespread and f1attering attention. Yet
cnly twice in his SO years can he be said
to have crashed the newspaper head
lines and radio signals Both instances
occurred within the last nine months.
On last August he delivered an in
formal talk to students of Pembroke
College. It's celebrity ran from mouth
to mouth, until he was persuaded to
reproduce the speech from memory One
epigram swept the country. THE United
Nations" he pronounced, "is lyric
phrase, but so far an empty one"
During banquet of the Academy Of
Political Science in New York, on the
evening of November IL, 1941, it was his
fortune partly by accident, to steal the
show from no less dignitary than Vice
President Henry A. Wallace. The latter
intoned fervent plea for equality of
sacrifice" to Mr. and Mrs. Average
American Family" DR.. Wriston en-
chanted the learned gathering by i'm
provising this retort: Il should like to
address the same plea to Mr.. Average
Bureaucrat"
1t is less than year since the Brown
president began to emerge in the public
eye and radio ear. On the rare occa-
sions when he mounts the popular ros-
trum, DR.. Wriston brings formidable
and imposing weapons from his pro-
fessional armory. They include prac-
t:ced trenchancy of phrase, intellectual
force and a background of scholarship
in history, economics and constitutional
law.
Inveterate Telephone User.
His favorite implement is not elo-
quence but the telephone. He is among
it's inveterate long distance customers.
champion of enlightened capitalism,
Dr. Wriston sometimes chuckles on re-
flecting that the two Roosevelts, apostles
of the masses, sprang from the affiuent
gentry, while he himself was born in
a cabin with dirt floor, from walking
on which his mothers feet were frozen.
II have counted up II ways" he told
the writer. "in which r earned money to
put myself through high school. I was
bellhop, bootblack, delivery boy, book
peddler, handprinter, pressman and
part-time reporter. My brother was a
streetcar conductor. My father was
never out of debt till I was in college.
But it never occurred to us that we
were underprivileged. When you come
to think Of it, lot of American Presi-
dents were underprivileged-Jack
William Henry Harrison, johnson and
Grant, for example. They used to rate
students at Harvard by social caste.
John Adams was 14th in class of g.
Lincoln had the wrong parents, home,
surroundings and diet. He studied the
wrong books. According to specifica-
tions of the National Youth Administra-
ton, he simply could not have existed"
One of the fundamental causes of the
present war, in his view, was running
away from trouble in quest Of security"
which he regards as "the most corrosive
Evening star., 1942-09-13
Plants Aid War
Canadian Botanists Help
Fight Axis
Bv B. T. Richardson.

OTTAWA.-Canada has one of the
best scientific squads, for its size, among
the United Nations and the men and
women in it are bending every nerve to
assist in the Dominion's total war effort.
Much of their investigation is in the
field of physics and chemistry, but an
unexpectedly large amount is also in
the botanical field. Skilled eyes are peer
ing into Canadas plant world, looking
for new allies in the prolonged fight
against Axis tyranny.
Of recent interest are hemp, mustard,
wild lettuce, nilkWeed. Two of these
are already in the thick of the fight,
and the two others stand pretty good
chance of getting there.
The cultivation of hemp Is not an
entirely new thing in the Dominion. 1t
has long been known that it will grow
here without much difficulty, and that
its crops produce satisfactory ibers.
The great difficulty has not been in
ability to grow the infamous weed: it
has been due to human inclination to
dry and smoke the pistillate flowers,
practice which produces temporary in
sanity, and is not viewed with any
equanimity by the relocated members
Of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
In fact, marihuana has been distinctly
on the banned list in Canada.
However, so are sisal, jute, manila,
and Italian hemp, for far different
reasons. The supply of these important
cordages have been cut off by Axis
activities in the Pacific and other areas.
The result was Worrisome shortage for
war requirements, and Canada has had
to look in other directions for substi-
tutes
This is where Canada's hemp-groW-
ing abilities were recalled, and Canadian
agrostologists, fibre experts, and process
ers set to work, Canadian hemp is now
replacing its overseas forerunners, and
is doing a variety of war jobs. An i'm
portant one is cleaning army rife and
machine gun barrels.
Mustard seed has been used for CEN
turies for medicinal purposes, but it was
not until 1870 that an Englishwoman by
the name of Mrs. Clements discovered
how to make mustard flour. This set
mustard off on new tack, increasing its
importance enormously It's sphere of
activity took in the kitchen as we'll as
the sick room. From footbaths and poul-
tices to table condiment and roast fav-
oring, and in later years in picking and
salad dressing, mustard has become one
of the ear-indispensibles.
| This fact has made the production of
mustard seed one of the major agricul-
| tural chores of the modern world. In the
| past, much of the mustard used in Can
ada has been grown and processed in
Europe. But with the European supply
cut off, it was necessary to turn else
| where.
The irrigation areas in Alberta were
chosen, and the experiment has been
watched with interest. The seeds har-
vsted this year were cleaned in Alberta
and then sent to plants on the Pacific
Coast and in Eastern Canada for proc
essing The whole venture has been
carried off successfully, and there is
every indication that the growing Of
mustard seed will become a permanent
part Of Canada's agricultural economy.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

was not invited and blamed the AFL
in strong language for excluding it.
The CIO is vigorously opposing de-
portation of Harry Bridges, West Coast
longshoremen's leader, as an alleged
Communist. The AFL favored his de-
portation.
The CIO is committed to policy of
eliminating the color line, whereas re-
strictions exist in some AFL unions
There are some technical difficulties,
too, like the higher dues and insurance
plans of AFL unions.
These are the problems which con-
front the peacemakers.
To achieve a real and lasting labor
unity, two groups of dynamic PERSONAL
tiles will have to reconcile clashing po-
litical beliefs and prejudices, overcome
deep-seated personal antagonisms and be
prepared to make difficult personal con-
cessions and sacrifices.
Evening star., 1942-09-13

the little brown men are planning a
major stroke on some other front--per-
haps Siberia, perhaps India. Meanwhile
Japan was trying to impress her own
people by aggressive moves in the South
Seas to balance the psychological eff
fects of recent defeats.
Heavy rains of early autumn deluged
the plains of Russia and the Volga was
dark brown with flood waters behind the
backs of the defenders of Stalingrad,
fighting the most titanic battle in the
history of the world.
Week after week, it's fall expected
daily, the beleaguered city has held out,
The bitter winter is
Bitter Winter coming In Berlin there
IsConino have been first frosts
The earliest tinges of
brown and yellow in the linden leaves
have been omens of doom to Hitler as
he sees another seven months with the
flower of his army engaged on the Volga
Now, according to Russian sources, the
forces before Stalingrad outnumber
those thrown into any engagement on
record. They are well over a million
The master has ordered that the Volga
city be taken at any cost. There is not
too much hope that it will hold out.
1t is subjected to nightly air attacks.
1t is within range of German cannon.
It's defenders are ragged and hungry.
But they are f1ghting-fighting and
dying. Every day they are forced to
yield. Germans occupy most of the sub
urbs. But every mile they gain is paid
for so heavily in sweat and blood and
death that the account cannot remain
forever solvent.
The value of Stalingrad to the Ger
mans cannot be overestimated. It's cap
ture would mean that they could hold
the eastern line this winter in relative
comfort and security instead of deadly
discomfort and constant peril-mean-
while releasing troops to combat the
nightmare of an offensive from the west.
Hitler probably did not sleep well If he