The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-01-22

OLD VOx Vox Populi; old Vox is
POPull always ready and he
has a lot of ink; the
way he spreads it for us makes every
body think; Subscriber helps him out
a bit and writes a little screed; and
Observer tells the people the things
they badly need; College Man is handy
with his facile fountain pen, and he
chips in an earnest word every now
and then; Good Roads writes us a let
ter, presenting modern views; and Cit
izen gets busy, as he comments on
the news; Alumnus, too, is versatile
and sounds a warning note; and Stu
dent writes the hottest stuff that ever
mortal wrote; no danger e'er will
threaten that will not be turned back,
when all these correspondents are
camped on dangers track; but when
we count the workers and check them,
for and by, we nave to give due credit
to old Vox Populi.
Knock on wood. Now were safe.
Missoula has been treading the
straight and narrow
WE HAVE path, with scarcely a
BEHAVED divergence to pleasant,
forbidden byways. for
almost q month. The policeman,
making his weary rounds through the
deep snow, has had no more thrilling
duty to perform than the rebuking Of
youngsters who catch hobs. True,
there have been occasional over-jubi-
liant citizens who have sat SO long
over their cups that blue-coated es-
cort to the city's House Of Hang
overs has been necessary-but such
things will happen in the. best OF
cities. Aside from a scattering list
Of these harmless John Does" the
police court blotter is spOtless.
Whether the snow has driven the law
less to cover and the vagrant to work,
or whether it has merely served to
conceal family braWls and other high
crimes. is a question. Anyway, al
though the police force has been as
vigilant as ever and the eye of the
law has been as keen in it's search for
legitimate prey, the city Jail has re-
manned drearily empty and the de-
spairing police reporter has been
forced to write society news in order
to hold his job. Verify, we have been
good. And again we rap heartily on
the edge of the desk.
oh, say, Mr.. Weather Man, there can
be too much of a good thing. Enough
snow is enough and
CURSES yesterdays arrival
ON IT gave us about all we
can take care of for a
while. The Man About Town is a
real sufferer from the snow. Weather
is one of the three. original topics OF
conversation and is Of these three the
most important. When the weather
is varied. conversation and, incident
ally gossip in this column, change
gracefully and e%njoyably. You, Cen
tie Reader, cannot be a whit more
tired of this daily discourse on the
snow than is the poor scribbler who
is forced to grind it out. But what
can a fellow do? We have had snow
for two weeks and we have talked Of
the beauty of the snow, of the pleas
ure the youngsters get out of the
snow, of the trouble the snow brings
to the railroads. We have told how
snow is made, we nave. written OF
great snOWstorms Of the past, we
have presented the opinions of Promi-
nent Citizens on snow as an article
Of commerce. We have written ev-
erything that is to be written about
snow. Our faithful typewriter will
spell snow whenever we hit the initial
letter. What is more, we have writ
ten all we will write about the ac-
cursed stuff. If the weather man
doesn't kick in with another brand of
weather Well imagine a change and
write about it. We're through with
snow. There is no such thing.
our situation is more precarious by
the fact that another stock subject
for babble is about to
A WEEK be taken from us and
LONGER we are to be thrown
upon our own uncer-
tain resources. Collections for the
free speech fund will cease at mid
night on Saturday, January 20. The
Free Speech Fund has been a true
friend. The weather, Phil Kenny,
Uncle Bick-all might go back on us,
but the good old penny fund stood
always at our side, good every day
for a paragraph. Missoula has con-
trihuted more than 1000 pennies,
though, and naturally almost all who
are interested in the affairs of the
Boise editors have sent in their con
tr%ibutions. Collections could not and
der to place some definite stopping
place The Muscular has decided ia
ask all who wish to contribute to send
their pennies to this office before next
Sunday. Yesterdays nail brought