The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-23
"SOLDIER AND SAILOR, TOO


An after met i'm all over the world. a-doin all
kinds of things
Like landin' 'issclf with Catlin gun to talk to
them 'cathen kings
r sleeps in 'ammick instead of a cot an c drills
with the deck on slew;
There isn't job top of the earth the beggar
don't know do
You can leave i'm at night a bald mans cad to
paddle lis canoe;
'F.s sort of bloomin cosmopolouse-soldier
and sailor, too.
-Rudyard Kipng.
Kipne. who usually says such things better than
anyone else, wrote that and several other verses
about the English marines. He might as appro-
prately have been writing OF the American marine.
only the American marine" instead of "andin is
self with at Gatn' gun to talk to them 'eathcn
kings most often lands himself with machine
gun to hold conversation with certain black
brown Tor a combination Of colorsa gentlemen who
daily with instruction and revolution and such like
dangerous explosives under the shetering palms OF
Central America the coral strands of sunny
isles of the romantic Spanish Main. But wherever
IL is he happens to land. about all that the folks
back home ever hear of 1t is a brief cable dispatch
with the inevitable final sentence:
Marines landed and the situation is
well in hand"
And such is the bssful ignorance of the average
American in regard to matters pertaining to the
defense of his country that he remarks: well,
sailor boys have had another little fight" and
dismisses the matter from his mind. While,
matter of fact the marine is not sailor at all. He
is soldier assigned to duty shipboard. and
when American warship drops anchor in some
port where the citizens circulating about with
swords in their teeth and guns in their hands, in
| contraventon of the statutes herein made and pro-
vded it is the duty of the marines to get into nice
| open boats where they will make excellent marks
for frenzied patriots hiding behind banana trees
lamp posts and arrest said patriots and lock them
| up for safekeeping.
All Of which things important at the present
| time because the government sent out call for
four thousand more marines and has intima ted that
1t expects Kansas City to do its share. Uncle Sam
is little particular about the men he admits to his
| marine corps. They have to be just little bit
| better than the man who is taken soldier
| sailor for, as Kipng says There isn't job on top
| of the earth that the beggar don't know do"
| SO if you feel that you have just little bit
courage, trfc more native American resource
| and just bit more fit physically than the
! average young man they will be very glad to see
You at of the three marine recruiting stations
! that have been established in Kansas City
| And if YOU get into tn" marines you will have the
| distinction of being a member of tho oldest organ
| lied fighting force in the United States The
rincs organized in 1875 and have been in scrv-
ice ever since There is much pride of their
ganization among the marines. and they sing with
enthusiasm this song which written by some
unknown kiplng many years ago:
From the Halls of Montez,ma
| To the shores of Trroli,
We fight Country's battles,
| On the land and the sea:
| Admiration of the Nation
| We the finest seen.
| And glory in the title
OF United States Marine.
| Our flags unfurlcd to every breeze
| From dawn to setting sun,
| We have fought in every cline and place
| Where could take gum
| In the SHOWS of far off northern lands,
| And in sunny tropic
You will find always the job
| The United States Marines.