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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
Al STUDY CLUBS MEETS
WITH MRS. BOB RIDDLE

The Al Study club met last even
ing at the home of Mrs. Bob Riddle
with Mrs. Dick Griffith and Mrs.
Carl KnudSon assisting hostesses.
Mrs. Lee Harmon read the devo-
tionals. The book, Green Noun
tain Farm" by Merric Macmillan
was reviewed by Mrs. Kenneth
Card Marie Donnay directed the
making of Easter Dummies to be
given to the hospital to decorate
the trays Easter Sunday.
A tasty lunch was served by the
hostesses. The next meeting will
be pot luck at the home of Mrs. Bob
Stanley.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
ISSUES PROGRESS REPORT

Morning Glory Mines, Inc, Troy,
Montana, has issued a progress re-
port stating the frozen water sup
ply and four feet of snow prevented
operation of its new mil this win
ter and the report indicated the
desirability of providing about $780,
600 for further development on No.
6 level and completing the crosscut
from No. 4 north drift to the main
raise to permit extraction of known
ore available for mining above that
level.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
G &HTO GET NEW PONTIAC

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Cloutier left
Wednesday for Missoula where Mr..
Cloutier win attend Pontiac deal
ers' meeting. Mr.. and Mrs. Jim
Harris will accompany Mr. and Mrs.
Cloutier as far as Kalispell where
Mr.. and Mrs. Harris will get a
new Pontiac to drive back.
Mr.. Cloutier and Mr. Harris are
the local dealers for the Pontiac
car and co-owners of the c & H
Service Station.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
Mrs. Peterson,s Troop

On March 90 in Mrs. Robert Pet
ersons troop we discussed further
the cooking badge. jeanne Currie
and Sue Welton served samples for
the cooking badge.
The scribe, Nancy Foster, is sick
and Joy Beccari and Louise Down
ing took her place.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
GIRL
SCOUT
NEWS
CaIendar OF Events


April Budget meeting for all
leaders. Time: 200 p. m. Place:
Community Room.
April 6-First Aid Class for Girl
Scouts. Time; ZOO p, m. to 800
D. m. Place: Community Room. In
structors: Mr.. RAYMOND Belangie,
and Mr.. George Stephens.
April 8-Community Association
meeting Time ZOO p. m, Place:
Community Room.
April 13-First Aid Glass. Time:
200 D. m. to 800 p. m, Place: Com
munity Room.
April 14-BroWnie Monthly meet
ing. Time: $3.50 p. M. to 4:3O p. m.
Place: Moose Hall
April 20-InterInediate Leaders
Meeting. Time 2:30 p. m. Place:
Community Room.
April 20-First Aid Class. Time;
700 to 800 p. m. Place: Commun-
ity Room.
April 2-InteEmediate Monthly
Meeting. Time 400 p. m. to 500
o. m. Place: Moose Hall.
April 27-First Aid Class. Time:
ZOO p. m. Place: Community
Room
April 2e-Browhie Leaders Meet
ing. Time 2:S0 p. m. Place: Com
munity Room.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
PHONE NUMBER MATCHED

KALAMAZOO, Mich. W.D BY
chance, Douglas c. Turnbull was
isued an automobile license plate
with the number 1926, the same
as his telephone number.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
HOSPITAL NOTES

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Ramlo,
a girl, March o.
Admitted:-Charlie Walker, Troy
March 81, medical; Mrs. Richard
Larsen, March 80, medical; Allen
Stevenson, March %, surgical; Tux
Bolles, Troy, March %, surgical.
Released:-Lief Tjelde, March %,
Mrs. Richard ]. Krog, Troy, March
%
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
COUNTY TREASURER
RECEIVES CHECK

The County Treasurer's Office re-
ceived check from Forest Reserve
money for $50,3f6.42. OF this $685.
1851 viii go TO the road fund and
SIG, 77l.8l win 60 to the school fund.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31

Most root hairs of a tree are fine
as gossamer. Some of them are
I250th of an inch in diameter.
says the Bartlett Research Labo-
ratories.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
RECEIVES SI6,77LSI FOR
COUNTY SCHOOLS

According to County Superinten-
dent w. J. Anderson $16,77L8l has
been allotted to Lincoln County
Schools from the Forest Reserve
Fund. It has been divided among
the School Districts as follows:
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31

The Buttercup Patrol met at the
home of Mrs. Bleich Friday, March
Is. We discussed about going to
Girl Scout Camp this summer. We
elected officers. Clara Lou Boggess
was elected president: Janice Wei
ton, vice president; Wava Jean OIL
son, secretary; Gloria Preston,
treasurer, and jeanne Reedy, scribe.
Mrs. Bleich served cookies.-Scribe.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31

both himself and his customers and
he is now ready to place into prac-
tice many new ideas and theories
learned.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1949-03-31
MACDONALD PLEADS GUILTY
TO PETTY LARCENY

In a complaint filed in H. B.
Wallace's Court by Vivian Stall
on the 18th day of March, Jaque
Macdonald was charged with petty
larceny for taking a billfold with
about S45 in cash in it March 81
at the Pastime Bar in Libby.
Macdonald was arrested by Har-
ry Blair and pleaded guilty. He
returned the money and was fined
SIS and given 30 day suspended
sentence. His home is in Portland.
A new anti-submarine destroyer
will be named in honor of Vice
Admiral John Sidney Mccain,
World War II hero.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
'kcLemore
Smokes OFF Bonds
Of Common Sense
By Henry McLemore

Between now and August, Uncle
Sam is going to give away two or
three billion dollars in CT insur-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
Left by 1852
Slogan of Wall Street Wits Gives Clue
To Bolt of 49G. @. P. House Members

though 1t was their side at the time.
They're right. he argued: when it
turns out that Americans are buy
ing streamlined product in pretty
colors. no politician ought to stick
to the old designs and funeral black.
The Wall street wags were also
moved to their new slogan by Sena-
tor Taft's belligerent insistence dur
ing the insurgent revolt that he was
as liberal as anybody. The Sena-
tor, in fact, was so exercised that he
called in one offending reporter and
proved to him by the New Republic
score sheet on Congressional liberals
that Senator Taft was to the left
of Senators Lodge. Knowland and
other insurgents on many issues.
The New Republic, lest one forget,
is Henry Wallace's old paper; it is
grateful for the Taft attentions.
The 81 die-hard Southerners who
voted with the majority of the Re-
publicans against the rules change
could have been reduced to about
20 had Speaker Rayburn, a Texan,
done any personal pressuring. One
said wistfully: Il expected Sam to
call me all week END but he didn't. :"
Speaker Rayburn knew he had the
votes and he wasn't dealing. direct
ly or by implication. A few faint
hearts telephoned him to ask If
they'd be punished on the basis of
their votes; the Speaker merely re-
minded them they were Democrats
and knew what they ought to do.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05

LOlQ TO use tndL hehry McLSmole.
insurance bonus for material things.
They will be told to invest it toward
a little house for three. They will
be told to reinvest in it life insur-
ance so that when they pass on
others will benefit from their de-
parture. They will be told to buy
built-in kitchen sinks, sturdy over
coat that will last forever and never
look nice, a mixer that will take
kitchen work of the little girls
shoulders, and a hundred thousand
more things that will bring happi-
ness to everybody except the man
with the money to spend.
Buy What We Want.
advocate that all of us who get
that delightful little bunch Of money
from the Government spend it for
the things we want. 1t seems to me
that men who spent nights and days
in aforementioned fox holes, walked
millions of miles, flew into the wild
blue yonder. and generally defend
ed the country under wretched con-
ditions, should take that money and
buy things they never would buy
with their own money.
My wife has suggested that I use
my insurance bonus to buy new
spreads for our guest room. I will
quote her exactly: Handsome"
she said, "the covers in our guest
room are quite shabby Tell you
what let's do. Let's make the up
stairs of the house look so pretty
that hundreds Of people who don't
stop now on their way to Miami
will stop. See, the money you get
from the Government will be for
free. 1t won't be like spending our
own money"
Well, there will be no new guest
room coverlets in the McLemore
house.
The day I get that check I'm 60
ing to buy things that I couldn't
buy when I was in college-and
really needed those things.
I am going to buy myself rae
coon coat, even If it's a poor rae
coon coat, a sort OF under-arm coat.
I'll never forget an sac. that
took Tri-Delt away from me only
because he had a raccoon coat. l
was fullback on the college team,
and he was only corresponding Sec
rotary Of the debating team. but
that coon coat enabled him to steal
my sweetheart away.
Living Dream of Youth
Soon as I get my coat on I'm
going down and buy myself a con-
vertible automobile. When q man
is middle-aged and thrifty, he often
winds up with convertible. But
that's only living in the dream OF
youth. I can't tell you the sheer
horror I would have created in At
lanta, Georgia, in 1924, if I had had
a red convertible with the top down
But ] can mint at the horror. II
might have created. I would have |
had to hire good handlers of base
ball bats like Ted Williams and DiI
Maggie to knock them of the
tenders. Girls, I mean. And pretty
ones, too, because there is nowhere
in the world where the girls are
prettier than swishing up and down
Peachtree street of q quiet Georgia
day.
Soon as I wear out my convertible,
1 am going to buy myself a bicycle. |
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
On the Record
Settlement of Colonial Problems
Cannot Be Accomplished OVERNIGHT

empire of the Khans, though it
foundered in Europe, created in the
Orient superb civilization Cfor its
times, and in passing did not give
way to self-rule but to other for
eign rulers after a period of intol-
cradle anarchy.
The present struggle between the
Netherlands and the Republic of
Indonesia calls this to mind and
requires more sober thought and
much more information than is
reaching us. AS far as know, the
republic" puppet government
installed by the japanese and hand
ed power when they evacuated
Netherlands Indonesia-has proved
incompetent to keep the rudiments
Of order or protect the people
against its armies" These are,
for the most part, armed bands OF
lawless youth taking orders only
from their commanders or partisan
leaders.
This government has not proved
able to honor its treaties with the
Netherlands, in the face of its in
terror opponents. And the United
Nations, instead of demanding that
it prove itself a government by
keeping its contracts, has urged the
Dutch to further compromise with
anarchy.
Hailed With Relief
Now, anarchy Is a condition where
no man Is safe in life. home or
property. Even a despotic govern
that of the Neither
lands certainly is not-is prefer
able, from human standpoint, to
and pillage. The Dutch
attempt to establish order appar-
emily is meeting little If any popular
but rather is being hail
ed with relief by all except am
bilious local politicos and the mobs
they can inflame.
At any rate, 1t is odd that we
never invoked the United Nations to
aid the resistance" movements in
Eastern Europe while they were be-
ing suppressed by trained terrorists
in behalf Of a foreign power, yet
we condemn the Dutch who are sup
pressing terrorism In behalf of a
condition of public peace in which
alone self-government can make
further progress.
What we need is patient thinking
in terms of orderly evolution. But
what we are fostering is cataclysmic
change. which, whatever 1t may
bring, certainly will not be peace
or self-government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05

strategic factors. Constantine Brown.
The consensus of those who keep
in almost hourly touch with the
dramatic developments in China is
that as soon as the Yellow Sea port
is evacuated by the remaining Ma
tionalist forces and the Commun-
lists march in, American troops and
warships will have no further reason
for remaining there and will be Or
dered by the President to return to
their original stations in Japan or
the United States.
According to reports from Ameri-
can consuls and other observers in
the Communists dominated areas of
China, the Chinese Reds are not
expected to adopt any high handed
policy against the United States.
But they will be firm in their "sug-
gestions" that we withdraw our
military establishment from that
vital port. which is known to be
earmarked by the Soviet high COM
mand as one of its most important
submarine bases in the Pacific.
Point of Strategy.
Our top strategists. of course, are
urging; that we stay in Tsingtao
urlder any possible pretext, pointing
out9that while that base is of little
or no actual use to us today, 1t would
seriously endanger our position in
Japan and the Philippines If it
should pass into the hands of the
USSR.
The State Department concurs
partly with this point of view. but
points out that the naval task force
and the Marines were sent to Using
tao by agreement with the Marking
government, not so much for the
protection of the lives and property
of Americans and other Western
nationals as for the purpose of
training Chinese naval forces.
AS soon as the Chinese forces
withdraw from TSingtao that reason
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05

circles assume that Gov. Deweys
actions mean he will again be q
candidate for President in 1852.
But their slogan also affords pre-
else clue to the famous 40 Republic
can Representatives who bolted their
party to vote with the Democrats
to liberalize the House rules. The
Representative have an even closer
deadline than Gov. Dewey of course;
they are all up in 1850 which gives
them only two years to pass the
President on the left.
Purpose Made Clear.
The change for which they voted
has but one purpose which was
made entirely clear. It is to open
the channels for the Truman pro-
gram expeditiously to reach the
House floor where 1t will be ex-
tremely difficult for most Congress-
men to vote against it.
In siding with the Democrats on
this plain issue, the 40 not only
voted to repudiate the Both Con-
gress, they voted against their new
leaders, who happen to be the old
ones as well. And those leaders
have not yet passed out committee
assignments nor certain minority
patronage; in short they have the
power to discipline the revolters.
Noipattern of conviction appears
among the 40. left, right or center
Geographically the list runs from
east to west. 1t includes the best
and worst Republicans, for example,
Representatives O'Konski Of Wis
consin and Wolcott of Michigan.
Representative Wolcott helped muir
der the housing bill last year and
was glad; Monday he stood at the
barbados with Representative Jaw
its who could not survive in his New
York City district without a New
Deal bias.
| Above all, the list has virtually
no pretensions to liberalism. There
are not a dozen on it that labor
would look at twice, except with
/ loathing.
"Shell- shock Sufferers"
One astute House Democrat al
lowed they were the shell-shoek SUI
ferers. There are, he suggested, q
substantial number of House Re-
publicans who are still stunned by
November and have no heart to
return to the conservative wars even
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
This Changing World
Marines Withdrawal From Tsinatao
Will Hinge on Decision by Truman

! for remaining there disappears, and
uni ess we want to adopt high
handed methods in order to re-
main, there can be no excuse for
maintenance of an American force
there. And the State Department
is most punctilious about the OBJ
servance of the letter of interna-
tional law, regardless of what other
nations do or how much our defense
may be affected.
From the practical point of view
our diplomats say that even If we
wanted to remain in Tsingtao we
could not do so for any length of
time. The Communists may be
friendly and polite for a while, but
when they realize that we are not
taking their hints they will be-
come aggressive. And since our
policy Is to avoid clash with the
Reds at any price, we may be COM
PEELED to leave under pressure
rather than on our own initiative.
These views are expected to be
presented to President Truman in
the next five days, and there seems
to be little doubt that he will order
Vice Admiral Oscar Badger to re-
move the Marines from Tsingtao
with all his ships soon after the
Communists have occupied the city
and the port.
Order by Truman Seen.
There is no question that the
President will issue this order with
a heavy heart. When the question
of getting out of Tsingtao came up
about three months ago the State
Department, always anxious to avoid
conflict. objected strongly to send
ing additional ships and other forces
to that key Chinese port.
At that time it was not yet certain
that the Communists would be effec-
lively reinforced by the Russians so
as to be able to sweep away the
still-large Nationalist forces. The
American armed forces, which al
ways regretted our withdrawal from
Chefoo, another important Chinese
port, suggested that we not repeat
that mistake in regard to Tsingtao.
Chefoo's occupation by the Com
munists in 1916 gave them a useful
base from which the Russians were
able to send military supplies to
the Communist armies fighting In
the Peiping Marking area.
Mr.. Truman, who has always been
willing to help the Nationalist gov
eminent, but was reluctant to over
rule the major policies Of Secretary
of State Marshall, decided while
the Secretary was in Europe against
the views of the State Department
and ordered Admiral Badgers task
force to Tsingtao. Now, in the face
Of the new situation, he Is expected
to reverse his decision.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
THE EVENING STAR, Washington, .. c. A-13
WEDNESDAY,

Never had one when I was growing
up. I'm probably the only man who
matriculated in high school on a
tricycle.. Not a new tricycle., either.
A hand-me-down tricycle..
Veterans, shake of the bonds OF
common sense. Join with me in up
setting everything that you are told
to do with that sweet gift from the
Government. If you can't think Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05

1altn Is LnaI, Dorothy Ahompson.
given the liquidation of foreign op-
pressors, they will emerge into Or
gained states capable of fulfilling
the functions OF states-namely, to
protect their independence, MAIN
tain internal order and security and
make honest agreements with other
states.
But the fact is that in a world of
more than two billion people only
a small fraction ever has demon
strated capacity for self-government
even when no foreign oppressors
existed. Instead, 1t has suffered either
from anarchy or from domestic ty-
rants more oppressive than many
colonial administrators. Except for
brief interludes. the history of self
government is confined to Western
Europe and North America. 1t
never has been enjoyed by Orien-
tails or by the peoples of the Russian
Empire. except for short times when
Western groups broke out of it.
Combination Is Rare.
Apparently, only certain type
of mind and culture creates capacity
for self-government. This type, &C
cording to william James, is Great
ed by the habit Of trained disci,
pline and good temper toward the
opposing party" plus "merciless re-
sentiment toward every man or set
Of men who break the public peace. ="
Only thus can be created the neces-
sary combination of freedom and
authority, and 1t is very rare.
But the absence of self-govern-
ment has not precluded the crea-
ton of great civilizations and cul-
lures satisfactory on the whole to
the people governed. The great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05

some silly way to spend 1t. give mo
a ring and I'll take care of it, be-
cause. there is one thing they nn
say Of me as columnist, and this
is it: Henry was never the thrifty
type.
Mercy, how well Jeans words ring
in my ears-"But what do you have
to show for it?"
Distributed hy McNausht Syndicate. Incl
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05

m e n I OF Colo
NAL problems by
which, overnight,
all human So
cieties must be-
come free and
self-governing.'
That the Ca
p city Of all
tribes, natio n S p,
a n d ces to
a C h | e We self
governm e n t o r
m a in t ain it
never has been
demonstrated, is
passed over. The
Ss4l 49,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05

Between now
a n d A u 6 U s t
h u n d re DIS of
newspaper col =
umnists are 60
ing t o a d vi S e
millions of men
how to spe n d
that money.
1t Is a mortal
cinch that 80 per
of the free ad-
wee offered by
t h e newspaper
men will urg e
conservatism.
CTS W i'll b e
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05

TO the lett OF
Tru m a n b y
1887"
They coined it
to describe Gov
ernor Thomas Z.
Dewey's sudden
call for tax in
creases so that
he might en-
b ark upon a
greatly expand
ed program of
h o S pi t a ! con-
struct ion a n d
OF h er socia
gains. Parenthe-
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to be Withdrawn
from that port.
His decision will
be based on a
complete survey
of the situation
by the National
Security Coun-
Gil, which will
take into con-
sideration tn e
views of tn e
S t a t e Depart
ment on the po-
litical actors
and of the arm
ed forces on the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
Bv Doris FIeeson

According to the Wall Street wits
who have been bordering some re-
cent aspects of Republican politics,
that party's new slogan is:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
By C0nfantine Brozpn

President Truman will make the
decision on when the naval task
force and its complement of Ma
rines now stationed at Tsingtao are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1949-01-05
By Dorothy THOMPSON

The present temper of our So
ciety pushes toward drastic solutions
regardless of results. One such
drastic solution" demands a settle
The Daily Alaska empire., 1949-01-13
THE PARTIES TAXES

The Anchorage Times, listed as an independent newspaper politically, published by the family of the Republican National Committeeman, is usually strong supporter of Territorial administration policies.
 In it's January 10th issue, the Anchorage Times has this to say about political parties and the tax issue sbefore the Territorial Legslature-than which there is nothing of greater interest at present to most Alaskans
 The Democrats hold majority of the votes Tn the House A Republican measure has little chance for more than casual attention there. The upper house is in position to kill all tax bills Ii It olVloes on party lines and stands pat.
 The Democrats have proposed an income tax on individuals and businesses, and general property tax They contend that these measures would yield sufficient revenue to solve the financial problems o1 the Territory.
 The Republicans will introduce through Sen Ciunnard Engebreth, a tax measure which they COIL tend would raise the required revenue without leVyie on the incomes of individuals
 The Republican bill is obviously a popular meas ure If there is way to avoid delvng into the per sonal incomes of Aaskans, every resident or the Territory is interested in it.
 The Republicans claim their measure would en- courage population and economic development oi Alaska and the Democratic measures would pc a oe- terrent.
 Certainly the Senate will be check on any pos
 ,e tendency in the Legislature to leap without look ing in the tax field .
 There is sufficient power in the Senate to nat