The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-05-24
Talk of the TOlv,1

BE sure to wear pair of smoked
glasses when you travel down Higgins
avenue bright and early this morning.
For il you don't, YOU may be struck
blind by a dazzling apparition of star
Ting colors which will roll down the
main thoroughfare disguised as an
lautomobile.
For the automobile which will steam
down the avenue this morning. is the
Iloudest thing in the way Of vehicle
that has ever been propelled by man.
horse or engine in the city. The multi
lcolored neckties, which seemed the
Hast thing in the way of dazzlers, Will
be benched for good when the
"Joseph's coat car appears.
Patriotism is the main feature In the
makeup, but in no way IRE the laws OF
the commonwealth regarding the use
Of the national cOlors broken. the
body of the car, which is IA Studebaker
land is the property of +. +. Zeising, Is
painted bright cardinal red, modestly
striped with small gold stripes the en-
tire length Of the body. The wheels are
painted red white and blue, and pre-
sent a whirl of national colors When
passing down the street. The gear
alone remains somber black. The car
will receive it's baptism this morning.
Not only has poor Lo. the Indian.
adopted all the white mans taste FOR
whiskey, but he has also learned TO
use fire. water to assuage his grief.
And he has found it just as effective.
too.
Monday night, Marion Deschamps,
full blooded Indian, while driving MS
new Studebaker car. drove off Mar
shall grade, causing damage to his car
and to his squaw. who accompanied
!: him. The Indian lady sustained a
broken leg, while the Studebaker
limped into town painfully.
I Marion wasn't hurt, but he was
overcome with grief at the damage to
his car and squaw So he obtained a.
couple of bottles of pain killer" and
set about to deaden the grief.
About midnight Patrolman Lease
, found Marion sitting in u badly bat
tered car just outside of the Stude-
baker garage, fondling one bottle OF
red eye" and very, very drunk. At the
police station it was found that he had
TWO nlacktllti tStS, quo
tanned in the accident. and also that
he imped bit But ne had forgot all
about his eyes. his leg, his squaw and
t his car, but he had found the white
/ mans pain killer.
Two young men of the university
who are cultivating 20 acres of 20
tatoes for their own commerce and at
| -. tnl, ina ca IF nlat n
Is acres for widow with four chill
ldren, were approached the other day
by a self-appointed overseer. The
General Boss" remarked: you boys
won't get so cents Il hundred pounds
I for those potatoes, since the whole
e country is planting potatoes this sum
mer. 1t won't pay you to do all this
:, work. You'd better quit 1t and go tc
something that will make you some
I money
d The reply made by one of the young
c planters, was worthy of record in the
way of fine patriotism. He said: III
G we raise enough potatoes to keep the
e price down to so cents hundred. W.
: shall DO our country Il service. THAI
Z Is what we have set ourselves to dt
u not to make money"
= Harry Smith, right eminent gran,
commander for the knights Templar
~ in Montana. spent yesterday in Mis-
!. Soula, returning east after an Officia
;. visit up the Bitter Root valley. Tall
;, about walking the chalk line" sale
Commander Smith yesterday. "W'
have horse trails and COW paths il
plenty, about home at Miles City. w
| Col in, l,. t,
the narrow path without falling off
l. but it remained for me to come to Mis-
r soula to learn to walk the chalk line
'e Your white streaks are most tanta
|: lizing to n visitor from the COW coun
II try. ! am going to tell the folks bacl
Is home about your scheme for keepint
&c us straight
nc Maybe the war song which is I,
"a make some composer famous has no
Is yet been written" said one of tn
'' young sheet music dispensers of tn
~ city yesterday, but that Is no sigI
- that there are not a whole lot of then
;, trying to be the one who wins fam
e. and fortune by writing the balla,
=. which will set the feet Of the Ameri
=. can people to marking time and vii
IN ease the weary marches of our boys II
ee blue. | can't recall just how man.
o. have visited our store during the pas
t. few weeks with the unpublished gen
A. either in hand or mind. use the wor,
re gem adVisedly. Some of them arr
A. just about the worst ever and other
are considerably worse than that
Some bring in original tunes, Will
others set new words to some of tn
melodies originated since this wa
* such as 'Tipperary.' AHssoula il Il
4: splendid city and l am sure has man
ut talented men and women among 1t
If. Gt,H'nse bW up 20 1.-The present tim
ye none OF tie maHy who have show
a. here with wartime ballads has tn
earmarks of a composer"