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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-09-21
GRANGE IS ACTIVE

Tobacco Valley Grange met Sep
tember IL with all officers present
except Ceres, Lois Robbie; business
agent, Howard Helms, and commit
teemen Hubert Helms and George
Shea, Sr.
Applications for membership Of
Monica and Eleanor Leroux were
presented. Walter Mouriston was
given the obligation in the first and
second degrees.
The Home Economics chairman
asked for further Gaming reports
and for more remodeled garments
to be entered in the State Grange
Sewing contest.
1t was announced that a home
demonstration agent would be glad
to come to Eureka to give work on
cheese making and meat preserva-
lion, If enough women are inter-
ested
Brother Mackey reported on pro-
gress Of work done at the cemetery
He also urged all members to regis
ter to vote this fall.
A car load of molasses cake has
arrived and is being distributed to
buyers directly from the car.
Plans were made for Booster
Night which is to be held in the
c. Y. 0. hall, Friday night, Sect
%. All members are urged to at
tend and to bring a friend. Cary
ing and canning entries will be
judged at this time. The Home Eco
Monies committee is to arrange for
refreshments. Members Of the
Grange are asked to contribute ar
ticles fora bazaar to be held Boost
er Night, the money to be used to
buy kitchen equipment.
Arrangements were also made for
the harvest supper and dance to be
given September 80. The supper IS
to be served by the Grange men
in the G. Y. 0. hall with Brothers
Klinke, Robbie and Mackey on the
committee. The dance will be held
in the Community hall with Broth
ers Howard Helms, Lynn Purdy and
Fred Anderson on that committee
The following program was pre-
sented by Lecturer Elsie Helms:
Anchors Aweigh' The Grange.
Roll Call-'What We Can Do to
Improve Our Grange"
Reading, lyon Alden Ban Fine
Teller" by Fred Knots and 'Maizv
Doats-Fell En- Too" by Lynn
Purdy.
Action stunts by Is members.
Articles on the subject, Post War
Highway Plans" were read by Win
ton Weydemeyer, Fred Knott, Hen
ry Lenarz, Helen Shelly and Maye
Roose.
Marine Hymn by the Grange.
A button sewing contest between
Brothers Quirk, Anderson, Lenarz
and Weydemeyer with Weydemeyer
carrying home the prize.
A reading, "Goings on at the
Grange Picnic" by Ray Frost.
THE Montana Granger by the
Grange.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-09-21
EUREKA NUGGETS

Mrs. Cora Waller and Miss Ger
trude Dumbolton left Monday son a
vacation. Mrs. Waller will 60 to
Long Prairie, Mimi, to visit her
son, Bob, and family while Miss
Dumbolton will visit her niece. Mrs.
Fred Wheeler and family at Froid.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. H. Stein Of Hunt
ington Park, Calf, spent last week
with their daughter, Mrs. Ivan Ing
ram.
Mrs. c. N. Voorhees, and chill
dren, accompanied by Mrs. Torrey
and Barbara and Mrs. Barrie, WEI Q
Kalispell shoppers Saturday.
Lewis Gordon and son, Lewis, Jr.,
were Sunday dinner guests at the
DR.. G. A. Clark home and accom-
panied them to Glen Lake for the
afternoon.
Mrs, Jessie Knight and grand
children left Monday for few days
in Spokane.
F. P. Carey went to Seattle Mon
day to visit an old friend.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-09-21
AMERICAN LEGION SPONSORS
CIVIC ACTIVITIES

The American Legion sponsored
the planting of 10000 fish fry in
Wolverin Basin and Frank Combs
and Walter Carpenter took them in
by pack train the fore part of Sep
TENDER.
The Waste Paper drive is on again
and people are requested to tie the
paper in bundles and leave at the
waste paper depot one door north
of the Soil Conservation office.
The Eureka Post has been spon-
soring a series Of dances during the
summer with E. l.. Benson as chair
man to finance heating facilities at
the Community Hall. They now an
nounce that they obligated them
selves to heat the hall, put in base
ment lights and fix the basement
floor SO that it may be open three
nights a week for roller skating.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-09-21
GRADE SCHOOL NOTES

Physical examinations are being
given this week at the school BY
the school doctor, DR.. G. A. Clark. A
cumulative record will be kept Of
each child.
Enrolment has reached 173 this
week, making a slightly higher num-
Der than last year at this time.
About Is mothers of children
from the fifth grade up met with
Lewis Gordon, high school music
director, on Monday evening to talk
over the possibilities of forming a
grade school band. An interesting
talk on instruments was given by
Gordon and the pupils will begin
work as soon as possible. On Tues
day they visited the high school
music class. Anyone having used in
struments they wish to sell should
get word to Mr.. Culver or Mr.. Cor
don at once.
All seventh and eighth grade boys
are taking shop work this year.
All pupils in the school are re-
ceiving instruction in music and
art. In grades from the third grade
up, Mrs. Jack Pachico is teaching
music and the third, fourth and fifth
grade teachers are teaching art in
the three upper grades in exchange.
A social club has been organized
in the assembly with Mrs. Ethel
Long as sponsor for the purpose
Of developing social attitudes. Dom
ME Leonard is president; Maxine
Elliott, vice-president; Marie XVI
chenski, secretary and Lois Johnson
is treasurer. Beulah DeLapp has
been appointed chairman Of games
and Darlene Cole, chairman of eats
for the September meeting.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-09-21
VARIETY SHOP CHANGES
HANDS

Mrs. ]. P. Filiatreau has pur-
chased the Variety Shop and taken
possession. She will add baked
goods in the near future, upon or
der, to her line and on show nights
will serve ice cream as soon as she
is able to move into the living
quarters in the rear.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-09-21
AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY

The Legion Auxiliary met on Fri
day evening with Mrs. w. S. Glib
bons presiding as president. 1t was
reported that anyone having rags
to donate to the scrap drive is re-
quested to leave them with Paul
Morrison at the Service Station All
kinds of rags are acceptable includ-
ing felt.
Mrs. P. ". Morrison, who served
SO efficiently as president during
the past year, dismissed her COM
mittees and the following were ap-
pointed. Music, Mrs. Anil Swing,
unit activities, Mrs. P. v. Morrison,
membership, Mrs. Oak Knapp and
Mrs. John Morgan; rehabilitation,
Mrs. Marie Mosby; legislation, Mrs.
Thos. Sicily; Americanism, Mrs.
Anne Ambrose; community service
including Community Hall, Mrs. Al
fred Peltier, Pan-American and
child welfare, Mrs. Lulo Olson, T.
B. seals, Mrs. Jas. Broderick; and
historian, Mrs. j. R. Buhmiller.
Since there are SO few members
able to serve on the dance supper
committees, it was decided that each
member be expected to either serve
or pay 81 toward fund to hire
someone to work at these dances.
1t was also decided to continue the
general committee plan of eats for
meetings and serve a lighter lunch
with suggestions sent members by
the secretary for each meeting. Mrs.
Morrison reported having canned 30
quarts of dill pickles for dance
lunches.
The date for the annual mulligan
will be decided later.
Following the meeting a program
was given consisting of several very
enjoyable numbers by Mrs. Swing
on her accordion and a talk on
Danger of Losing Civil Liberties in
Time of Crisis by Mrs. Gibbons in
observance Of Constitution Day.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-09-21
EUREKA
PIONEER COUPLE OBSERVE
FIFTIETH WEDDING
ANNIVERSARY

Gradually the fact that Aunt
Mary and Uncle Enos (Mr. and
Mrs. Enos CampbelD arrived at
their fiftieth wedding anniversary
on September Is has come out. II
was in Minneapolis, Kans., that this
estimable Eureka couple took their
vows after Aunt Mary had been in
this country for two and half
years out of Scotland Aunt Mary
and a sister joined their five other
brothers and sisters in Kansas IN
1891.
Just two months and two weeks
after their marriage this couple
moved west and worked in Kalispell
the first year The next two sum-
mers were spent in work at Fit
Steele, B. c., and the next three
years at Elko. They then took up a
homestead south of town on what
is known as the brickyards. In the
early days of Eureka they ran a
hotel until it burned at the time
that the whole of the present drug
store block burned to the ground
on DOLN SlQeS OIL Tie street. uQG u
lack of a water system. Aunt Mary
and Uncle Enos then moved back 10
the homestead but returned to town
later and since then Uncle Enos
has been constant employee of
the town until the years forced him
to give up most work. Even today,
our present employees 60 to Uncle
Enos to find out where certain wa
ter pipes are. For many years Uncle
Enos served as our policeman and
before that, a helper to Monte
Smith. He also helped lay the pres
ent and previous water systems and
other town Improvements.
While The town has remained
Uncle Enos' first love-, Aunt Mary
has remained faithful and devoted
member of the Baptist Church and
that bell never rings for prayer
meeting or service that Aunt Mary
doesn't respond with her presence,
Perhaps no couple in Eureka or the
surrounding community is as well
known or as affectionately held in
the hearts of the people as Aunt
Mary and Uncle Enos--long may
they be spared to us.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1944-09-21
DINNER PARTY

Miss Patricia Badgley was guest
of honor on Wednesday evening at
surprise birthday dinner party at
her home north of town. Guests
were Mrs. Ivan Ingram, Jean Pur-
dy, Grovac and Miss Esther Cos
itch. Following dinner the evening
was spent at cards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27
Facts vs. Fiction

It has long been popular, politically, to talk about public utilities as monopolieS As an example of how easily the public can be fooled because of lack of informa- ton, consider the telephone business. Most people believe that the Bell System controls telephone communication. As matter of fact, fully two-thirds of the communities of the United States are de- pendent for service upon $500 independ- ent telephone companies and 60,000 rural lines. These independents operate one- tenth of all the telephones in the world and serve more subscribers than the total for Canada, Mexico, Central Amer ica, South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania combined.
 Approximately one out of every five of the 25,OO0,000 telephones in the United States is owned by an independent tele- phone company, as distinguished from the Bell System. The towns and cities of under 50,000 population are their prin- cipal field of operation. Through the full exchange of long distance telephone fa- cilities between the large and small com- panies, the United States telephone busi- ness is interconnected, thus serving 19,- GOO communities, 12,OOO of which are served by independents, and 1000 by the Bell System.
 Thus, the largest telephone company in the world is dependent on the small in- dependent companies to carry messages to rural communities, and the small com panies are dependent on the large com pany to carry their messages to the big ger cities. And this same situation exists in the electric utility field-hun- dreds of small companies and large com panies have interconnection of facilities so that service to the public is continu- ous and uninterrupted each is depend ent on the other This is not monopoly. It is private enterprise conducted in the true American way of giving the great est service to the greatest number in the mose efficient and inexpensive manner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

rumor might be challenged does not make the picture any prettier. For what choice then does Pravda give the reader? Either to believe England guilty of an appalling double-croSS, or to believe Pravda guilty of a deliberate and damaging falsehood.
 Either choice offers an example of vio- lent nationalism, and an invitation to Americans to adopt similar attitude in self-defenSe. In 10 unfortunate lines, Pravda has presented American ultra nationaliSm with a much more urgent and persuasive argument than the invo- cation of the quotation about "entang- ling alliances" It is incredible that this was RuSSia'S intention. It becomes less credible when one weighs the declarations of Moscow and Teheran, and the hero ism of the Red Army, and the sum of Nazi brutality in Russia, against this incident, or RuSsia's boundary dispute with Poland, or Pravda'S scolding of MT. Willkie. Prob ably the faireSt explanation of the Pravda story is that it was an egregiously stupid diplomatic blunder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27
An Egregious Blunder

K American disciples of extreme
 @4ionalism were looking for new talk
 ug point, they certainly got it in the
 nuch-discussed publication by the
 Communist newspaper Pravda of that
 inglo-NaI separate peace" rumor.
 Whatever the Soviet governments pur-
 pose may have been in allowing this
 .umor to be printed - and subsequent speculation has not produced sensible
 explanation = the fact remains that
 Moscow played smack into the lands of hose Americans who like Russia least. They are the the people who have preached diStrust of England since the Beginning of the war in Europe They are he people who, when Hitler failed to overrun Russia, inflated the Bolshevik 5ogey-nan to twice his normal size. And ,ince Pearl Harbor, their violent appre- hensiveness has hampered this govern ment's efforts toward unity with its allies In the current fighting and in the peace ko follow. The SaddeSt thing, perhaps, is that this r1mor is bound to SOW seeds of dolibt in the minds of many Americans outside the isolationist camp, whose feel no toward both England and Russia has ,een one of confidence and trust To be ulre. there is abundant evidence of cir .lIunstance and logic to indicate that the 'separate peace" rumor is a phony And { IS reasonable to suppose that the Rus ian authorities who sanctioned its pubh- ation knew that such evidence would be resented.
 But tne fact that Russia knew ne
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27
Pay Day at Last

Electric utility homogeneous have warned for years that the expanding drive for government ownership of the electric light and power industry is but an entering wedge for socialism. In the light of events, their warnings should be- gin to sink home.
 One of the characteristic evils of gov ernment ownership is it's immunity from taxation. When the government builds power dam and enters into competition with private electric companies, the pri- Vate companies are faced with a nearly hopeless situation. Government mer- canaries on the public payroll unbluSh- ingly take advantage of tax exemption privileges under government ownership to squeeze the heavily taxed private con- panieS out of existence. The fact that private electric companies contribute substantially to the maintenance of gov- ernment, has long gone unheeded just as has the warning that the issue of so- cialiSm is inherent in the controversy over private versus public ownership of electric utilities
 At last these fundamental questions are coming to the surface with a rush. A large part of the productive capacity of the country is now owned outright by the Federal government. State and local governments are complaining of lost taxes as result of the substitution of tax-exempt government enterprise for taxpaying private enterprise The dan ger is growing that states will have to depend on handouts from the central government for their existence, which will automatically destroy states rights, state sovereignty, and eventually repre- sentative government as we have known it in this country.
 In Multnomah County, Oregon, the Maritime Commission pays no local taxes on a $46, 100000 investment in shipbuild- ing improvements and facilities. If the Commissions plants were privately owned, the personal property tax would be at least $1,OO0,O00. In San Francisco, it is estimated that the city's annual tax loss, through Federal appropriation of formerly taxable real estate, and inability of the city to collect personal-property tax on materials and equipment in de- fense plants, is at least $1 ,625, ,000. Los Angeles officials put the amount of tax able real estate and personal property $aken off the books at $700,000,000 Up n King County, Washintgon, A per cent
 If the county's property is tax exempt, lue in great part to government owner hip of war plants. Similar situations in rerying degrees exist throughout the ountry.
 The private electric industry, as the
 lrst victim in the move toward Federal
 ocialization, saw the handwriting on the vail. Utility spokesmen are still saying what they have always said - the issue s bigger than any single industry. The ssue is whether the people want to change
 heir form of government At present, knowingly or unknowingly they are well pn the way toward state socialism.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27
WISE WORDS OF WARNING
Hartford Tines)


 The Hartford Times holds no con- mission as the adviser to the Demo- cratic or any other political party.
 Nevertheless we believe that the Democrats would do well to heed the words uttered this week by Mrs. Chase Going Woodhouse, former Secretary of State.
 Mrs. Woodhouse warned that 1t would not. be safe for the party to depend on riding into power in Con- necticut in 1914 on the coat-tai1s of President Roosevelt. Those coat-tails have been helpful in that respect in the last three presidential years and at some of the intervening elec- tions.
 It is apparent enough, however. that while President Roosevelt is undoubtedly the strongest figure in the Democratic party and very like ly in the nation, his political strength will be challenged this year as it has not been before. The gains made by the Republican party in the elections of 1942 cast a long shadow ahead. They are interpreted to mean that while MT. Roosevelt may be re- elected the race for the control of Congress is likely to be close, with chances not to greatly against the Republicans.
 The Roosevelt name was not suf- ficient to enable the Democrats to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

Largest user is General Motors, a Du POnt associate and manu- facturer of Frigidaire refrigera- tors.
 But frivolous uses of freon have been showed aside by war uses. The gas is now being used to cool the fire-control rooms of battle ships, the instrument rooms of submarines and for Army food storage all over the world. When a Tank soldier first crawls into 8 foxhole in the South Pacific, he annihilates his insect enemy, the mosquito, by throwing hand grenade packed with insecticide. The gas in that hand grenade Is freon.
 Long ago, WIPE officials an- ticipated the shortage of freOn for civilian uses, and planned to expand the capacity of Ki- netic Chemicals. First plans were laid by WIPES Projects Di- vision in February of last year. It was found desirable to increase Kinetic's capacity from one million pounds 8 month to five million. But the project suffered the fate of many Government projects - delay. Now, instead of being ready to satisfy all needs by March 31, as planned, Kinetic will not be in full increased pro- duction until August 31 = when summer is over.
 Result will be a rationing of. freon, by the quarter pound. Won- der how many pound the solons on Capitol Hill will get to cool Congress and how much General Somervell will get to cool the War Departments gigantic Pentagon Building?
 Odds are that Somerveu will get his ahead of Congress.
 Copyright, 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27
RETIREMENT NOT LIKELY AS GENERAL REACHES AGE OF GA
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

(NeW Haven JOurnal-COur1ef)
 The welcome news comes from Secretary Stinson that General Douglas Macarthur will not be re- tired when he reaches the statutory retirement age of GA on Wednesday of this week. AS matter of fact, the General is already on the re- tired list, having been placed there at his own request in December, 1897. Subsequently he was recalled to active service and presumably he will remain on duty unless he is re- called by either of two top officials. The Secretary of War or the Presi- dent.
 There is probably no American officer who knows the military situ- ation in certain areas of the Far East as well as General Macarthur. In 1903 after his graduation from West Point, he spent a year in the Philippines; in 19O5-06 he was as- signed to duty in Japan; back in the Philippines after War I, he commanded the District of Manila for three years; again in 1928 he commanded the Philippine Depart ment; in 1895 he undertook the job of organizing national defense for the Commonwealth Government of the Philippines and year later was appointed Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. Not only his knowledge of islands but also the confidence of the Filipinos in him as an asset which should be valu- able as the reconquest gets under way.
 General MacArthur is in good health and is unusually vigorous for man of GA. Correspondent Ray mond Clapper, who visited Australia few days ago, reported in his dis patches that the latter has the ap- pearance of a man in his fiftieS. Though not the strongest reason, further point against removing MacArthur is that such action would be interpreted as Stemming from political motives. Though the General has not irrevocably re- nounced the interest in the Republi- can nomination, 1t is known that he would rather lead a victorious Al- lied army into Tokio than step into the White House. Should the pres- ent Democratic administration retire i1im even for normally sufficient reasons. there would follow storm of charges and criticisms Only | the military situation absolutely re
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

them. Think of the businessmen who are not frightened by the fact that dishonesty often appears to be a prerequisite of business success. Think of the noble army of men and women who are not afraid of the morrow, who are not afraid of next year, who are not afraid of what people will say; who fear not the ravages of disease or the pros- pect of straigF1ened circumstances.
 st. Paul says that when the peace of Cod lays hold on our hearts. it
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-27

ter, Mass, to pick up 8 "puSher" another locomotive to push from behind. Then it would sometimes take half hour, and almost shake the train to pieces to get started again.
 He wanted to install radio equipment for communication be- tween the front locomotive and the caboose, and also between the ca- boose and way stations. This would allow the engineer to ask. for a "puSher" and get 1t without stopping the train.
 But railroad officials were Skeptical. They said they didn't have the radio operators, and didn't trust radio equipment.
 Radio is all right at home when you want to listen to a little music," they said, ''but it's no good for running railroad"
 This was in 1926. Today, 18 years later, railroads are just beginning to look for radio equip ment to save them from a repeti- ton of the disaster suffered last month on the Atlantic Coast Line. LESS AIR COOLING SYSTEM
 If you depend on air condition ing for summer comfort, you may not be very comfortable next summer.
 Supplies of the vital refrigerat- ing gas, freon, are running low, and WIPE plans for stepping up production are five months be- hind schedule. This means that offices, theaters, night clubs, bars, restaurants, hotels, depart ment stores and beauty parlors normally cooled by freon will not be cooled again until the sum- mer of 1945.
 Freon was developed by re-
 frigeration engineers in their search for safer gas than am- mOnia. Largest manufacturer of the gas is Kinetic Chemi- calls, Inc. Du Pont subsidiary.