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The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-14

It's demolition was complete. That
was an example of the condition of the
whole country over which our forces
had blasted their way for ten miles
since the previous July. There were
not even landmarks left.
The Cooks Tour"
On the night that we went in to
inspect the positions we were to hold,
our scouts, leading us through the fiat
desert of destruction, got completely
turned round and took us back through
a trench composed of shell holes con-
nected up until we ran into a battalion
of another brigade. The place was
dreadful beyond words. The stencil
of the dead was sickening. In many
places arms and legs of dead men
stuck out of the trench walls.
We made a fresh start after our
blunder, moving in single file and
keeping in touch each with the man
ahead of him. We stumbled along in
the darkness through this awful laby-
rinth until we ran into some of our
own scouts at a. m. and found that
we were halfway across No Mans
Land, several hundred yards beyond
our front line and likely to be utterly
wiped out in twenty seconds should
the Germans sight us. Fine guides we
had on this Cooks tour" At last we
reached our proper position, and ff-
teen minutes after we got there a
whiz-bang, low explosive murderer,
buried me completely. They had to
dig me out. A few minutes later a
high explosive shell fell in a trench
section where three of our men were
stationed. All we could find after it
exploded were one arm and one leg,
which we buried. The trenches were
without trench mats, and the mud was
from six inches to three feet deep all
through them. There were no dug
outs, only merely miserable funk
holes," dug where it was possible to
dig them without uncovering dead
men. We remained in this position
four days, from the 18th to the 21st
of October, 1916.
There were reasons, of course, for
the difference between conditions in
Belgium and on the Somme. On the
Somme we were constantly preparing
for new advance, and we were only
temporarily established on ground
which we had but recently taken after
long drumming with big guns. The
trenches were merely shell holes con-
nected by bitches. Our old and ubiqui-
tOuS and variously useful friend, the
sandbag, was not present in any capac-
ity, and therefore we had no parapets
or dugouts. The communication
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-14
His Voice Rose Amid the Noise of
Bursting Shells.

removed his trench helmet, barring his
gray head to a drizzle of rain that was
falling. Then while we stood by silent
ly his voice rose amid the noise of
bursting shells, repeating the burial
service of the Church of England. l
have never been so impressed by any
thing in my life as by that scene.
The dead man was a young captain.
He had been married to lady of Bal
timOre just before the outbreak of the
war.
The philosophy of the British Tom
mics and the Canadians and the Aus
tralians on the Somme was a remark
able reflection of their fine courage
through all that hell. They went about
their work paying no attention to the
flying death about them.
"If Fritz has q shell with your name
and number on it" said British Tom
my to Inc one day, you're going to
get it, whether you're in the front line
or seven miles back; if he hasn't,
you're all right"
Fine fighters all. And the Scotch
kilties, lovingly called by the Germans
''the women from hell" have the re-
Spect Of all armies. We saw little of
the poilus, except a few on leave. All
the men are self sacrificing to one
another in that big melting pot from
which so few ever emerge whole. The
only things it is legitimate to steal in
the code of the trenches are rum and
''fags" (cigarettes). Every other pos
session is as safe as If it wore a pat
ent lock.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-14

A FEW days after the bombing
II raid, which ended so disastrously
n for us, our battalion was relieved
from duty on the front line, and the
tip we got was that we were to go
down to the big show then taking
place on the Somme. Our relief was
a division of Australians. You see,
the sector which we had held in Bel
gium was a sort of preparatory school
for the regular fighting over in France.
1t wasn't long before we got into
what you might call the big league
contest, but in the meanwhile we had
a little rest from battling Fritz and
the opportunity to observe some things
which seem to me to be worth telling
about. Those of you who are exclu-
sively fond of the stirring detail of
war, such as shooting and being shot
at and bombing and bayOneting, need
only skip a little of this. We had an
entirely satisfactory amount of smoke
and excitement later.
AS soon as our relief battalion had
got in we moved back to POperinghe
for couple of days rest. We were a
pretty contented and jovial lot, our
platoon especially. We were all glad to
get away from the strain of holding a
front trench, and there were other ad-
vantages. For instance, the altera-
tiOns of our muster due to casualties
had not come through battalion head
quarters, and therefore we had in our
platoon sixty-three rum rations night
and morning and ONLY sixteen men.
The Snowflake herald., 1917-12-14

The fifth article Of this remarkable
personal narrative will appear soon.
It is entitled:
No. 5-Wounded in Action.
This article describes the terrible fight,
the dead and dying, the loss of pal and
the final falling of McClintock in No
Mans Land Simply told, it is one Of the
most remarkable descriptions of a battle
by a participant ever put together.
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No. 4
SHIFTED TO
THE SOMME
By Sergeant Alexander NCClintock.
D. G. NJ, 9th Overseas Bait.
Canadian GTen. Guards
Copyright, 1917, by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.

Sergeant MoCIintocE is an American
boy of Lexington, KY, 10hO has seen
SerVice in France, a0GS decorated for
brGVery, 1OOUnded, inUGIided home and
nOt0 is returning to accept commits
sion. This is the fourth article in the
series. In the first article he told of
his training up to the point 1ohere he
reached the front line trenches. In the
second he outlined the elaborate prepa-
ratiOnS for a bomb raid, and IN the
third the disastrous raid G0GS de-
Scribed.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31

ing Of the third year of the war on
down to the final victory of December
Is, are authoritatively placed at 300.-
900. The losses sustained during the
five-month battle Of the Somme ag-
gregated over 500, 900. The battles OF
the Aisne and Champagne have already
consumed over 800, O00. The total in
deed is far over 1000, 600.
France would nave been glad to
have spared humanity this cost of dem
onstrating the superiority of demo-
~cracies, but the choice was not given
her. She accepted the gage that was
forced onto her, and has given her
blood freely to sustain her ideals. But
if those ideals are established for hui
mainly once and for all time to come.
her own losses. heavy as they are, she
consider as not in vain.
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"The Eyes Of the WOrld'

INSTALLATION of some unusual char
acter types are a feature of the bis
Clune cinema drama, "The Eyes Of
the World" Harold Bell Wright's
novel, on which the photo production
is founded, is rich in types. and the
utmost are has been used in the re-
recreation of these for the screen.
1t has Deer assertd that there is
Eyes of the World" and the story is
both idyI1ic and meIodramatic, but its
meIodrama is of the finest type.
Particularly in the drawing of Sybil,
the mountain girl; Lagrange, the nov
elist; Tame, the physical wreck of a
mfsspent life, and Henry Marston, the
unusual powers of Characterization.
The burned out roue, Taine, contrasts
strongly with the ingenious young
artist, Aaron King, ambitious for
fame, but who is on the point of de-
basing his talents for the easy way to
success and becomes the shining mark
for a designing omar
Then there is Conrad Lagrange, the
cynical story writer, who confesses
that he "haunts the intellectual
slaughter pens for material for his
successful" stories, but in whose
heart still burn many of the kindly
sentiments of his earlier days. Again,
there is James Rutledge, the bull
art critic, born, bred and
in an atmosphere that does not
tolerate purity of thought" who cov-
the sweet young girl of the noun
tains, whose character typifies their
beauty, purity and strength.
Besides, there are John Willard, the
convict, who plays an important part
in the story, after his escape to the
life of the hills; Myra Will
lard, a pitiable bit of fotsam on the
sea of humanity, and Brian Oakley,
forest ranger, a hardy, rugged and
cpecimen of manhood.
A quaint touch is added in the pic
of zee Kee, the keen devoted
who adds many a light and
humorous touch OF the pictures.
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that the unspeakable, b~arbarous crimes against Bel
GUM and France shall be expiated, and that a
righteous peace shall be secured"
1t would be difficult to imagine anything more
idiotic than this proposition of the Illinois senator's.
Why not indemnity Germany for her expense and trouble
in raping Belgium and in sinking the Lusitania? Why
not indemnity the "unspeakable Turk" for his expense
and trouble in numbering the Armenians? Why not re-
pay Germany for the money spent for poisonous gases?
1t is a wonderful country where such talk as that of
Senator Lewis is permitted
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CAMPAIGN
FOR STAR=MIRROR
And RED CROSS

X Rev. George w. Kitchen, pas- :
.i.tor Of the Christian church in this :
+ city, was called to st. Joe, I.
!. Missouri, today to take charge of I.
!. a church revival. This necessit- :
X ates his closing his subscription !
\ campaign for the Star-Mirror 4
X sooner than was anticipated. !
X The Star-Mirror agreed at the !
i. beginning of the subscription !
4 campaign to turn over to the i
!. Red Cross 10 per cent Of all mon !
X ey received on subscription while !
X campaign was under way. This !
!. offer closes tonight and just as !
!. soon as the accounts are made i
.t-up the amount will be turned :.
!. over to the officials of the Red +
X Cross chapter. X
\ In closing this incident the +
!. management of the paper wishes !.
]. to thank all patrons who assisted +
!. in n way in the subscription !.
!. campaign, and to express full !.
!. appreciation for the many kind i.
= words spoken. +
:. 4 X \ =. = :. 7 = = !.
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CORNWALL

The F1iger brothers are baling hay
on the BlajIock ranch this week.
The frost Saturday might got some
of the potatoes and beans here.
Margaret Mikleson is helping Mrs
J.. E. BIay1oek with her work this
week.
The farmers are rushing their hay
to the warehouses this week.
E.. w. Vandevanter with a crew of
men are baling hay on the White
ranch this week
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Wilson and chill
dren was visiting friends here Sun
day.
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THEN WHY WORRY?

4 No doubt many a Sammy" !
!. will get comfort from the French !
!. soldiers way OF looking at it. +
\. Here it is: \
4 You have two alternatives \
!. either you are drafted or you !.
I. are not. If not, you have nothing \
\ to worry about. If you are +
!. drafted, you have two alterna- !.
Il tives-you are in camp Dr. you !.
X are at the front. If you are in !.
!. camp you have nothing to worry :.
!. about. If you are at the front !.
+ you have two alternatives-eith- !.
II er you are held in reserve or !.
!. 0 are sent to the firing line. =.
!. If you are in reserve, you have 4
!. nothing to worry about. = If you !.
X are sent to the firing line you !.
J. have two alternatives - either !.
+ If o don't, you have nothing to !.
!. worry about. If you do, you Il
!. have two alternatives either y
! you get hurt or you don't. If you =.
]. don't you have nothing to wor- Il
]. ry about. If you do get hurt, I.
!. You have two alternatives-eith- :.
]. er you are slightly hurt or badly !.
+ hurt. If slightly hurt, you have !.
+ nothing to worry about. If Dad !.
!. ly hurt, you have two alterna- +
+ tives-either you or you !.
!. don't If you recover, you have I.
+ nothing to worry about. If you !.
: don't recover, then you are +
: dead and can't worry. + !
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Good Openings in the Air

aviation service not only is serving his
country in a most important branch
he is not only Fastening the end of
the great confict-as military experts
say the war will be decided in the air
but he is also learning a valuable
trade, aviation, which after the war
will be of great value with the in
creased use of aircraft.
This today is the argument being
used by recruiting officers to secure
prospective aviators-and it brings re-
suits.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31
FRENCH WIN
in WAR FOR
DEMOCRACY
Troops of Republic Prove
Superior to imperial
German Army
GREAT YEAR In HISTORY
Review Of the Military Operations
That Have Tested the Staying
Quality OF Nations
BY HENRY WOOD

WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES, July
31-1n three titanic forms of warfare
imposed the past year by the imperial
forces of imperial Germany on the dem
cratic armies OF democratic France,
the latter have established and main
tanned an ever increasing ~ascendancy.
The significance of this fact for hui
manity at large exceeds a thousand
times the mere military value it may
have in eventually winning the war.
The third year of the war has mark
ed the supreme test before the tribunal
of the world-before the tribunal of all
humalkind-of the superiority of DEM
ocratic oyer imperialistic forces. And
by forces is not meant mere armies.
The year was one in which every
force-intellectual, material and phys
ical-that an imperialistic empire was
capable of inspiring and producing,
was B1assed against the same supreme
forces as inspired and created by a
democracy in one great struggle for
the survival of the ~fittest. And France
ever the first champion of demo-
cracies-has justified the fitness of
democracies to survive.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31
~MEN CRY PEACE! PEACE! BUT THERE Is NJ
PEACE

The Star-Mirror rather likes the way Senator VIM
III. King of Utah paid his respects to Senator j. Hamil-
ton Lewis of Illinois the other day in an exchange of
~courtesies in the senate.
Senator Lewis had just turned loose a lot of drivel
held out in his opening speech in the German ~reichstag.
The senator insisted that it was the duty of this nation
to move for peace. Senator King retorted that this
nation is at war and that it is no time to talk peace
until her enemies sue for peace, and in good faith.
The Illinois senator suggested that all the nations
involved in the war share in an indemnity to Belgium.
This seems to have aroused the ire Of Senator King
especially. On this point he said:
THE suggestion of the learned senator that the
nations of the world, or at least the participants
in the war, contribute a fund to indemnify Bel
gium strikes ne with adherence. The allies and
our country indemnify Belgium? And for what?
For the crimes-the ruthless, wicked, and fiendish
crimes-committed by Prussian militarism. Assess
the people of America, assess the people of France,
Great Britain. Italy and Russia, who have been
battling for liberty, for territorial integrity, if not
for the existence of their nations, and for the DEM
eocracy of the world, in order to recompense poor,
sravished, and stricken Belgium for the atrocities
land crimes that lie at the door of Germany! That
Belgium shall be restored and compensated, the
civilized world demands, and Germany must make
such restoration and give compensation. We want
no indemnity, no territory; but, if 1 mistake not, the
United States will demand that our rights as a
nation and the rights of the American citizens upon
the high seas and in all the world shall be respected;
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31
CUPID BEATS DIVORCE
COURT IN LATAH COUNTY

X Adrian Nelson. clerk of the
!. district court, has just compiled
statistics for the census bureau
Il in Washington, D. c., showing
!. that in Latah county in 1916
\. there were 1877 marriages and
i only % divorces. The divorces
!. were but little more than IA per
!. cent of the marriages which is
I. considered a good showing.
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ADVERTISING
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Like Magic

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tinue to suffer those awful corns
day by day? Here's a corn cure
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CORNER DRUG STORE
"Where Quality Counts"
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The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31
PRINCIPLES OF
HOME CANNING
Fruits and Vegetables

!. Wash and cleanse the food. /.
Blanch by placing it in boil I.
X ing water. /.
Plunge Immediately and mo- i.
!. mentarily into cold water. !.
X Pack food in hot jars, add :
boiling syrup or boiling water. !
\ Place rubbers and tops in po- !
!. ition half air tight. Submerge J
= jars in boiling water and cook. !
\ Tighten tops. \
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HOME CANNING OUTFIT
Made in five minutes.
All you need

:. A wash boiler.
. A false bottom for it. Made of
: laths or sticks, or of corrugated
. tin with holes punched in it.
. A square of cheese cloth. To
: hold fruit or vegetables when =
!. dipping into hot water.
: A kettle.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31
WHY THE q LAGS

1t has been the general opinion that the southern
states lag behind their sisters of the north because
of the enervating climate and because the negroes
were relied upon to do the real hustling. This is not
wholly true.
DR.. ,Lindley, in his address Sunday afternoon, told
of a thinking and observant southerner who recently
impressed upon him the fact that the south is behind
because at the opening of the Civil war all her young
men rushed off to the armies and the schools were
closed. When these young men were killed in battle
there were none to take their places as trained experts
at the close of the war. The south was left without
leadership to reconstruct and rebuild and has never yet
completely recovered from the setback.
1t will not do to accept this without qualifications,
because when the war opened, the south was far behind
the north in business, commerce, industry and all the
liberal arts. But there is enough force in the point to
set people to thinking everywhere just the same. There
is a good lesson in it for Idaho, and that lesson is that
the schools must not be permitted to slump.
If there is any change at all in the schools of this
commonwealth they should be given an added stimulus
to meet the unusual conditions the war is to bring.
John Barleycorn has been preparing also, and for
many years. but he's up against the real thing now.
Those women fighters over in Russia may fail in
some departments of actual war. but they certainly did
not fail in picking a press agent.
The worst part of that %upheaval in Russia are the
names that were hurled into an unsuspecting world.
If you've worn out your hoe handle, you can get a
new one for a nickel.
Some mighty fine looking boys have been coming
TO the office to see about their draft num-
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How Yerdun Held Out

~ lltfu Vut
For five months and a half preced-
ing the third anniversary of the war
the French at Verdun had held out
against the Germans perfected meth
DDS of siege warfare, such as they
might have employed at Paris, but for
the battle of the Marine. The first of
August, 1916, marked the passing there
of Germany's greatest effort and the
gradual retaking by the French of the
offensive. For the first four months
of the third year of the war the Ger
mans were slowly driven back from
the points where they had nearest at
tanned Verdun, and then in two as
founding assaults. n on November "a
and the other on December Is, in which
not only the genius of the democratic
military commanders of France but the
glory of her democratic armies as we'll,
reached their highest expression of the
entire war, the French completely lib
Grated their fortress. 1t was the first
liberation of it's kind in the worlds
history. The Forts of Couaoumont and
Vaux were retaken, the Germans
thrown back pretty much on the posi-
lions from which they had begun their
siege, and the 10 months effort of the
imperial crown prince reduced to the
useless sacrifice of 700, 900 men.
In the meantime on the Somme,
France had accepted another great bat
tie in another great form of warfare
the warfare of trenches, selected and
by the Germans at the mo-
nent that the French lack of munitions
rendered it impossible to comr1et the
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31
When the Test Came

The test was one that could only
come with a fair degree of equity dur
ing the third year of the war. 1t was
only then that France, inspired for a
quarter of a century previous by the
democratic ideals of peace, was able to
enter the arena with all the forces of
her national life modified and turned
into a single military aim. Germany
had begun the war two years prev
iously with this advantage already es-
.tablished by 40 years of imperialistic
ambitions and preparations.
While with the opening of the third
year of the war, Germany unquestion-
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31

tracts of agricultural and timber
lands, scattered over Jackson coun-
ty, Ore. VIII sell cheap or will
trade for property in north Idaho or
for anything that we al use. List
of property WILDE sent on zpplica-
ton to P. o. Box 402; MOSCOW, Ida.
55tf
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31

If you've worn out your hoe handle, you can get a
new one for a nickel.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31

Some mighty fine looking boys have been coming
to the Star-Mirror office to see about their draft num-
berS.
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victory Of the Marine.
Battle of the Snmme

The battle of Il G Somme had already
been in progress for a month when
the third year CT tie war began. II
vas continued for another three
months. on down till the first o. De-
cembcr, when the odvent of winter
forced a temporary suspension till
spring. In this form of warfare which
the Germans boasted with Imperial
istic arrogance to have perfected to
such q degree that their lines Of
trenches and barbcd wire were abso-
Ilutely i%nvincihle the democratic arm
les CT France not only demonstrated
that the lines were vulnerable but that
their defense could only be maintained
at a cost of life and material that in.
the end would mean defeat.
The full fruits of the victory of the
Somme were Only harvester this
spring. The necessity of suspending'
Abe operations for the winter gave
the Germans a respite at a moment
when another north of favorable
weather might well have forced a re-
tircinent.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-07-31

The worst part of that upheaval in Russia are the
names that were hurled into an unsuspecting world.