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Came Closer

Came Closer
Jones-Did you say you have no
distant relatives?
Smith-Not any more. They're all
living with us now!
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
! 1T SEEMS TO ME !;
by I
Myra Wells Brewer I

The other day | got a letter from
a man named Wallace. There was
something about that name. it
seemed that | ought to know him,
but | couldn't be sure He had writ
ten, "Your son was in our church
service yesterday and we were nap
by to meet him" This is a big
world and there are several men
in it named Wallace. Then all at
once I knew We had been students
in small UNCONVENTIONAL college,
the kind, you know, where those
who want an education badly
enough to work for it can do SO
and still have social life that is
satisfying and not snobbish He
had no idea that the name written
as mine indicated anyone he had
ever seen. Neither that minister nor
my son had known Of the others ex-
istence yet, when they shook hands,
there was. Invisible. Each wrote
me about their acquaintance. To
prosiac me here in my Writing
Room, that interview was an inter-
esting event. This is not such big
world awter ALL and that is one
good reason for making it the right
kind of world
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05

Flesher has spent % months over
seas, eight of them on the mine
sweeper. In this time he has seen
service in the Hawaiian Islands,
Marshall Islands, Mariannas, Adj
miralty Islands, and the Carolina
Islands, as we'll as serving in the re-
cent invasion of Two Jima. Follow
ing are the excerpts.
Talk about ships-never real
lied how many ships there are. Ev-
cry place we go, hundreds of them
and all different kinds from huge
battle wagons to landing craft, to
whaleboats, flat tops, destroyers,
cruisers, sweepers, repairs, cargo
transports and floating dry docks
No wonder the people must buy
bonds. Besides that all the material
to supply these ships and the food
to feed the personnel; it is really
beyond the imagination.
I've seen of of our largest bat
tleships and it certainly is large.
The same with one of our largest
carriers. ! believe if we could get
them altogether and let the Japs
see them, they would either throw
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05

partment reports 1853 strikes in
1912; 1852 in '43, and 5005 in A
A steady increase of strikes from
year to year.
Since Pearl Harbor, man-days
lost in strikes equal full years pro-
duction from $4,000 workers, says
Nations Business.
Food shortages approach crisis
proportions in several cities; only
intensive Victory Gardens will see
the country through this years nu-
triton pinch.
Total U. S. lumber stocks, re-
duced by 20 per cent last year, are
now down to about a months
supply
A returned government official
reports: "Of some 10000 churches
in Moscow before the revolution,
understand that only 80 or 40 are
now used for religious services the
others nave been converted to vari-
GUS civic uses including shooting
galleries. riding nails, markets"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
to re-educate all Germans.

to re-educate all Germans.
Mondays dailies gave excerpts
from the diary of a captured Ger
man officer. Apparently he is fed
up with war.
Never again war;" was one en-
try. He philosophers much on war
and its meaning and questions Bit
terly what he had been taught Here
is one Illuminating paragraph from
his diary.
February 27-Today l once again
just barely escaped deaths cold
grip. The Yankees must have seen
us as we sprinted across the moon
lit yard. A rain of fire followed.
Rugged the earth and crawled to
the building, A terrible explosion
and fire all around me. A human
being cried for help. This war is
terrible. Whoever has not gone
through it as front line infantry
man can not possibly picture it,
What human beings can do to one
another Damned humanity, what
insanity are you committing"
Submitted without comment (no
need for ito
Strikes continue a major prob
lem in war production. Labor de
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05

An important event is scheduled
for April r.
Its the school electionl
d
Three trustees are to be elected.
One for a three-year- term, an
other for a two-year term, and a
third for one year term.
d
School board trustees are inn
portant persons.
d
In their hands is placed the flu
ture of our schools and of our
children.
The service they render is in
valuable.
Many hours of their time are de-
voted to school matters.
d
They serve without pay except
for the knowledge that they are
contributing to community life, and
to the progress of Libby youngsters.
d
They devote their energies to-
wards making Libby, Montana, and
America better place in which to
live.
Often they are criticized for their
efforts.
Often folks criticize without
knowing all of the facts.
d
But it is fact that our present
School Trustees as we'll as many
others in the past, have served I'm
selfishly and with the best interests
Of the community at heart
d
The present trustees are altrustic
Libby citizens and we'll deserve the
communication Of the folks through
out the district.
We salute
A. j Agather, chairman Of the
board
d
DR.. Roy Sherman, school trustee.
Mrs. Leslie Leigh, school trustee.
d
Mrs. Ed Kemp school trustee.
d
Mrs. Walter collars, school trus-
tee.
81
And Mr.. Lloyd Burpee, clerk OF
the school district who also Loyalty
serves his community.
b
We express the gratitude of the
people of District No. 4 to the
above school trustees for their I'M
firing efforts to give Libby and the
district the fine school system now
operating
We hope that the election in no
way changes the fine personnel Of
the present Board Of Trustees.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
Views on the
Passing Parade
Comments on Matters
Important and UnimpOrtant,
Wise and UnWise
BY Chas. d. Rowe

It's amusing, the celebrity with
which some of the brethren of the
democratic press rush to the de-
Tense of protective tariff for Mon
tana products when it is suggested
that such tariffs be lowered.
Of course everyone knows that a
long held democratic doctrine is
that a protective tariff for Ameri-
can products is pernicious thing
imposed on the nation by the per-
fidious republicans. But for some
strange reason those tariff schedules
are not SO iniquitous when they pro-
tect ones own industries.
So now the democratic brethren
are objecting to any further lower
ing of the tariffs on wheat, sugar,
wool, some metals and lumber
all Montana products
All of which has been injected
into public discussion by the Pres
ident's request that he be given
power to reduce tariff schedules
another so per cent. Some time ago
he was given permission to cut
Smoot- Hawley rates SO per cent.
If he is granted this further cut, it
would mean rs per cent reduction
and practically free trade.
In asking for that the President
has fired the first gun in what will
probably turn out to be a good old
fashioned tariff fight. There's much
opposition to it in the congress.
Organized labor objects to further
tariff cuts. All fear-with good
reason-competition Of products
from the 'pauper labor" of Europe
and Asia
However, the United States has
become a great creditor nation. The
President and his supporters con-
tend that other nations cannot pay
what they owe us unless we buy
from them. The opposition replies
with why continue to pour addi
tional billions into foreign nations
and help develop their industries
and increase their debt to US if
thereby we must buy from them to
the harming of our own industries
and the lowering of our own stand
ard Of living2 That's the S65 ques-
ton. Can you answer it2
No actual hunger faces the Unit
ed States despite present food
shortages There will be inconven-
iences-yes. We will not have so
many thick, juicy steaks and savory
roasts. But we still will be the best
fed people on earth
We must divide our supply with
Europe or lose the peace. Mass hun
ger faces that continent. Mass hun
ger leads to turmoil, revolution,
chaos, the destruction of democracy
and the ultimate triumph of totali-
tarianism, Of dictatorship. One Of
this wars objectives is to bring
democracy to more Of the world. If
we fail in that, we shall lose the
peace. So lets face the present food
shortage like good Americans con-
fronted by a crisis.
However, this shortage isn't neces-
sary. 1t is merely another instance
of New Deal Encouragement. There
are today in the U. S. 80 million
head Of cattle-an alltime high. Yet
there is little beef for u. S. tables.
Time Magazine says, in discussing
the food shortage.
'All this seemed to boil down to
one main fact there was no top
control of the U. S. food supply or
its ALLEGATION
Time further says:
All down the line, from steel to
soft drinks, the u. S. was being
pinched tighter than at any time
during the war Washington turned
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
CIGARETTE STATISTICS

Devotees of the soothing Weed Z
in pill form will be Interested in
the following statistics regarding
the manufacture and consumption
of American cigarettes, of which
there are no equal.
In 1943 the civilian consumption
totalled 258 billion while military
and allied use was 80 billions. 1914
saw civilians using 239 billion, and
servicemen and allied consumption
amounting to IS billion. 1t is esti-
mated that in AS civilians will
smoke 229 billion while our serv-
icemen and allies are using 95 bill
lion.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05

Easter is past and the "once-a-
year. club members can now settle
down for IL months more of I'M
interrupted Sunday morning COM
fort.
Libby churches did enjoy a good
turnout last Sunday; and believe
it or not, winter coats were much
in evidence in all the city's con-
gregations. Saturday evening with
its snow did not give much promise
of lovely Easter Sunday, but when
Libbyites arose Sunday morning,
the admonition of the old Bible
writer who wrote, Lift thine eyes
to the hills from whence cometh
thy strength" was doubtless fol-
lowed by hundreds. A more beauti-
full sight than the pine-cfad hills
with their light coating of snow
would be hard to imagine Be he
Jew or gentle. saint or sinner, his
spirit would indeed be sleeping,
who could not draw inspiration
from such sight.
Blaming the war for our own
failure to accomplish work and give
service seems to have become quite
a racket during the past several
years. This is not nearly as much in
evidence in the small towns as in
large cities, where much of the
service the public has been taught
to expect is now lacking. No matter
what service is curtailed in the
cities, the war gets the blame Care
lessness in filling orders; shortages
and no effort to help the customer
fill his requirements. Indifferent
service andM discrimination are all
common-and the present conflict
gets the credit. 1t is to blame for
much, but not for all
The country town businessman in
spite of difficulty in getting goods,
the lack of man-poWer and all the
hundred and one discouraging con-
ditions under which he has to work,
goes right on trying to give service
as usual to each and every one Of
his customers-and in spite of his
difficulties. he does pretty good
job of it. More power to the little
businessman!
We stole this one: Many a lady
who fails to use good horse sense
in her home, finally becomes an old
nag!
We have heard the rumor that
when Germany is entirely defeated,
Japan will also be ready to quit
Maybe this is so. We hope so; but
we have also heard it stated that we
should not let Japan quit but keep
right on fighting her till the dirty
so-and-sos are all exterrninated. We
cannot agree with this sentiment.
Our own feelings may not be die
tated as much as we might wish
by that spirit of brotherly love for
our enemies which is considered so
praiseworthy in peace time, but by
a desire to see the lives of thousands
of American boys saved from death.
No, nothing short Of uncondition-
al surrender Of Japan should be ac-
copied to Americans, but as Libby
boy recently wrote home: Every
American boy is worth three thou
sand Jap lives" So when and if UNI
conditional surrender is offered, let
US have peace, and then arrest and
punish the japanese criminals who
have been so brutal to American
priconprc and orr allies
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up their hands and holler, $50 SOL
ly," or would grab their family
butcher knife and commit Hari-
Kari. OF course the latter would
be best"
Continued on page a
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away criticism with the pat phrase.
It's the war; To a large extent
this was true; there was just not
enough Of everything to go around.
But it was equally true that there
were enough red tape and squab-
bles between competing agencies,
and enough plain, old-fashioned
bungling to keep the u S. from
getting the best use out Of what it
had.
- -
Perhaps it will not be necessary
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
duff i. !.


which, like the forest floor
concealS many hidden
things and covers much
ground. ~
By Tam O'Rack
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1945-04-05
News Telling Of
Lincoln Co.
.Servi(ennen
Bits of News from Here
and There About the Boys
from Home.
COLLECTED FROM ALL
CORNERS OF THE WORLD

Bremerton, Wash.-Dave P. Pluid,
motor machinist's mate, first class
USNR, of Troy, Mont, is now sta
toned with the Ship Repair Unit
which is in training at the Puget
Sound Navy Yard in Bremerton
Wash. His wife, Caroline, resides in
Troy.
Pluid, who was born in Bonners
Ferry, Ida, was employed by the
E. E. Drury Company of Troy as a
foreman mechanic prior to his en-
listment in the Nays Ship Repair
Unit in Missoula, Mont, in Febru-
airy, 1914. He was given his basic
training at Farragut, Ida, and re-
ported to the Puget Sound Navy
Yard in September, 1914 for ad-
vanced training.
From the South Pacific War Thea
tire comes these excerpts from let
ter received by Mrs. Irwin Flesher
The letter was written by her hus-
band, Irwin b.. Flesher, C. E. M,
who is serving on a mine sweeper
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Easter is past and the "once-a-
year. club members can now settle
down for IL months more of I'M
interrupted Sunday morning COM
fort.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
Things | Can Give My Child
BY CONSTANCE j. FOSTER

Book" He read aloud to us, sonorous begats
and all. chapter by chapter. When Z am
hard-pressed by trouble or pain, the right
verse always pops miraculously out of the
past. LET not your heart be troubled,
neither let it be afraid -. " Faith. hope,
and love, but the greatest of these is
love. " "A new law give unto we, that
We love one another. -"
can still give my child the graciousness
of grace at table before meals, with head
bowed in recognition of the goodness and
abundance of the universe. Giving thanks
instead of gripping is largely an emotional
habit The child who learns early to count
his blessings is seldom found later in the
grumble seats of this world
CAN still give my child the great hymns
of the past. grew up loving and singing
"A Mighty Fortress Is Our God" abide
With Me" and Rock of Ages" In black
hours the old tunes come back and hum
themselves to my heart, or l hear one of
them over the radio and am lifted out of
UcpIcSSlOll WY Cllllu lbs lSHI " Ills SdliiC
dear nostalgia when he is grown older.
can still give my child the treasure of
remembered poetry. A Lost Generation
takes sleeping pills or develops insomnia
with its chronic resultant fatigue and neuro-
Sis My generation can lull itself mentally
by murmuring:
"Ocer his keys the mustng o7ganist,
Beginning donbtfnlly and far array,
First lets his fingers wander as they list,
And builds bridge from dreamland for
his lay. -.
can still give my child the knowledge
that he is loved. Nothing else ever quite
takes the place of it. If you learn it young,
you 60 on taking it for granted all through
life and somehow, in this particular in
stance, you seem to get what you expect.
You aren't always looking for people to let
you down. And so they don't Any parent
can give this priceless heritage to any child.
provided it's true. I'm quite sure that no
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16

sincerely, deeply loved child ever goes very
far wrong. He can never belong to Lost
Generation.
can still give my child the discipline of
hard work True, there are no longer rails to
split or woodboxes to keep full. But the reg
ular responsibility for watering the flowers,
wedding the garden, moving the lawn. feed
ing the pup or shining the family shoes is
fair substitute. Shoveling path through
tall snowdrift can teach modern young
fry all the virtues of pioneering which
strengthened our forefathers and
helped mold their firm character.
can tougher my child against the ext
gencies of an admittedly hard world by not
picking him up in the car every time it
showers Occasional wet feet are wiser than
molly-coddling.
can still give my child a tough but ten
der heart There are certain advantages
about being brought up as was on the doc
trine of original sin. Today we have diff
ferent name for it - completes, phobias,
neuroses - but switching names hasn't
changed the fact that people aren't angels
yet. To know that he is bound to meet up
with lot of plain cussedness from others as
he goes through life, saves child the shock
of establishment later 1t makes him toler-
ant toward the evil-doer, but adamant
against the evil-doing 1t gives him stout
but gentle heart.
DURING days of troubled sorrow and world
strife, cannot hope to give my child the.
ordered peace and quiet serenity of the I'M
eventful 1905 into which l was born.
But the things that shaped me and my gen.
Grafton and have armed us against harm -
these things can still give him today. For
they are the everlasting values that are the
same yesterday and tomorrow. Airplanes
cannot fly above them or submarines dive
beneath them. Neither can the bombs de-
stroy them. They are for keeps And who
keeps them is KEPT - kept from ever being
too badly hurt or lost
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
DZMENM;Hr

"I~LII/IL
LOVE SONG. You may have read about
couple of scientists who recorded the mating
call of mosquito and shipped number OF
recordings to our troops in the Pacihc area.
The idea was that the Pacific mosquitoes
would be lured to the phdnograph, and then
DESTROYED by special death 1-sp.
But maybe you don't know that tbs laps
cantured some of the records and spent many
an hour trying to decipher the code
NEAR MISS. Early in l945. the 453rd
bombardment group of the Eighth AR Force
was sent over the Rhine on an important
mission. The 453rd was crack outflt,
famed for its accuracy. But this day the log
was 50 thick that they had to report they'd
missed the target.
The boys all felt bad about it for many
weeks - until they got the news that
changed the course of history: The Yanks
had crossed the Remagen Bridge.
1t was the Remagen Bridge they had
missed that day.
SALT, A fellow we know has a six-months'-
old puppy welsh terrier and sixty-year-
old father -in-law (Navy captain The Cap
tain is a sailorman of the old school, with
a colorful vocabulary. All floors are decks
to him, kitchen is galley" and upstairs
is "topside." He even insists on his daily
spot of grog the moment the suns over the
yard-arm" az noon).
On the other hand, Kelly" the pup,
has pretty salty disposition himself, and
he doesn't get along too well with the Cap
tain. Last time they went out walking to-
gether, Kelly broke his leash and scampered
off.
Dammit" howled the Captain. BRAN
dishing the frayed end of leather. he went
and parted his hawser"
But the Captain really reached the height
of eloquence on a recent Sunday, when the
whole family started for church in the car.
Kelly, complete with muddy paws, managed
to leap in through the half-closed door as the
car started off.
The Captain was beside himself with rage.
Cast him adrift!' he beloved. Cast him
adriftr'
This Week Magazine
FOR BET TER NJ Z X c A
WILLIAM |. NICHOLS. Ef~
HELLs KITCHEN DETECTIVE. ..:..-...
yCkorIss D. Rice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
These have everlasting values
no bombs can destroy, nor can
an enemy confiscate them -.

EDUCATORS are worrying about the effects
IL of the war on the next generation. They
remind us that it is a hard world for child
to grow up in. 1t set me to recalling my own
childhood in more stable period of history.
What did it give me that can't give my
own child today in war-torn, tortured
world? The question made me take inven-
tory of the things that have stood me and
my generation in good stead. To my de-
light discovered that every one of them
is still available for parents to pass along to
this younger generation which we are told
is in danger of being lost
The verities of life remain much the same
regardless of troubled years. They are
merely apt to get lost sight of in the tur-
moil. I'm for retrieving them, busting them
off and bequeathing them to our young ones
in the sure knowledge that no matter what
lies ahead, these heritages from quieter
past will steady and fortify them against
too easy despair.
CAN still give my child belief in God.
It's the -''be still and know of my early
training that has 50 often quoted me in
time of trouble. My child must have this
same calm, sure faith 50 that when the going
gets rough, he can turn to something bigger
than himself He will need it if he is to
escape Illustration and cynicism.
can still give my child faith in
prayer and familiarity with the Bible.
The person who can pray is not alone in
the world and without hope. And the
words of the Bible can comfort and reassure
my child in any future dark hour when they
may mean the difference between staying
steady or going to pieces.
Every evening after dinner my father
used to say to one of us, Bring me the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
This Week Magazine

OR BET T RR NJ c
WILLIAM l. NICHOLS. Editor
HELLs KITCHEN DETECTIVE.
BY CkorIss D. Rice
FIRE AT SEA. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
BY Howord Wkifmon
SUMMER LIGHTNING. ....................
by kotksSine Greer
LIBRARIES GO MODERN. II
by George Weinsfsin
MEETING YOUR hElGHBORS. .......:..:.. IS
BY Emily Post
DOUBLE SPARK. 10
by SewsH Psosfss Wright
WHITE ELEPHANTS. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20
by Eiizobsth Pope
HUMAN BOMB. 70
BY Lieut.. Colt Hsndsy IT,, USCCR
Cover by Hons Csigsr
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16

Names and descriptions In fiction
and articles In this magazine are me
imaginary. Any name which happens to Pc tnS
that Of any person. living dead. ID entirely COY
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-11-03
States and probably the western

States and probably the western
hemisphere.
DR.. Dean emphasized: (D the
vote is taken seriously; (2) there
are Negro administrators and Off
cials in government and channels
of commerce and business: (3)
leadership of the chamber of COM
merce changes racially yearly; (4)
there is a tendency of the islanders
to live down the attempted fomen-
tation of prejudice by Americans
especially in selective services pat
tern.