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The Washington times., 1917-02-24
MEN PLENTIFUL FOR
ARMY MOTOR CORPS
Society of Automobile Engi-
neers Will Probably Serve
in Emergency.

In listing suitable persons to be
commissioned in army corps in con-
nection with motor transportation.
the members of the Society of Auto
mobile Engineers will naturally be
drawn upon very largely. Men from
this remarkable organization will
have to be depended upon as tech
nical advisers of the officer grade
to supervise the operation on a large
scale OF motor truck companies and
the requisite repair shops.
In general, the s. a. Z. members
will serve as authorities in the de-
sign of engines. in metallurgy, cleo
tricai engineering, development OF
starting and lighting systems for
aeronautic work, searchlight signal
ing, adaptation OF wireless equip
ment to airplane use, mounting en-
gines in airplanes, and conducting
supply depots and parts service. sta
tions. Prompt movement of truck
trains, without delay caused by n
single breakdown, is essential In
military transport.
AeronautIc Service.
AS broad a field as any for auto
mobile engineers in the army is the
aeronautic service. In addition TO
the activities mentioned above, in
spectors are needed for airplanes and
engines under order, as well as stock
purchasers in general. Observation
balloons, gas generating plants,
equipment for balloon operation such
as winches, are to be thoroughly de-
veloped and produced. Men are
needed to work on the question OF
stresses in rigid dIrIgible airships,
specialists in light, strong alloyed
metals.
There are over 100 Government air
planes in hight service today, as
compared with twelve a year ago.
Five hundred will be in service, :t
Is understood, at a relatively early
date.
There are fifty rated military avi-
ator today, in addition to fifty Of
ficer students at San Diego. There
are fifty reserve corps aviators in
various stages OF advancement.
600 Licenses Issued.
About $50 elementary licenses have
been issued to aviators In this coun-
try since the beginning OF the art.
A goodIy number of the men to
whom these licenses were issued
are not now available for service.
About seventy expert licenses have
been issued.
The essential temperamental char
acteristics of an aviator are mental
alertness, decisiveness and good
Judgment Mechanical knowledge,
particularly of combustion engines,
Is invaluable.
The Washington times., 1917-02-24
Frank Discussion of Motor
Matters by The Times Auto
mobile Editor
AN UNPREJUDIcED OPINION
A Column of Judgment on Is
sues Vital to Motor Car
Owners.
By MONTE w. SOHN.

We are at the portals of spring.
The grounding is still grounded, to
be sure, and the Potomac is still more
OF birds is still pretty much to the
sparrow.
Nevertheless, we are at the portals.
And before the gates are flung wide,
inviting us to tour in the seuIi-solid
surfaces, it behooves us to slip a little
advice to impetuous and less initiated
youth.
Don't, for the love of Pete; don't
insult the delightful package of love-
illness who rides with you this spring
by splitting your affection fifty-fifty.
Don't ask her to be satisfied with
one arm.
And don't suppose the purring Her
cules you drive will be satisfied with
one arm.
You can't split them.
In the first place, it's little consid-
GRAFTON of the lady IL you do not give
her your undivided attention.
And however tractable its forty
horses may be, you can't expect any
self-respecting, spirited motor car to
keep on the straight and narrow when
only one of your strong young hands
is guiding the way.
When you drive the modern motor
car you have your hands full.
And If you are wise you'll not at
tempt to manage the lady single
handed.
Try to handle 'em both at once, and
the chances are the lady will throw
you over and the car will throw you
into a ditch.
There are other things to be con-
sidered.
When your indignant motor car is
within six inches of its appointed job
OF wrapping itself around the tele-
graph pole you will have been too
late with either.
Too late to save the young lady's
wounded dignity, torn to shreds in the
thicket by the road, and too late to
save your car from destroying itself.
The result cannot be happy.
The young lady will have with her
always the thought that you did not
love her enough to protect her.
Take 1t from us!
Be a chauffeur.
Be ardent.
But isolate the motives.
The Washington times., 1917-02-24

Next Saturday our big spring motor
number and automobile show section
will be published
Order your copy early, as II will
contain all the details of The Times
psthfnding schedule. Tho psthfinding
routes OF this best motor department
in the South will indicate all the
dozens OF details about your trip you
had to ask Mr.. Foster about before
now.-AdVt.
The Washington times., 1917-02-24

Then there is the dame who speaks
of "the machine" when she refers to
an automobile. Like few of the other
angora chasers OF motordom, this lady
taxes our sense of reason.
The Washington times., 1917-02-24

While one is wondering what be-
comes of all the secondhand cars after
they reach the ultimate buyers and
after they go to the junk man, there
is pause for wonderment~as to who
buys all the contrivances yclept acces-
Sories.
After a glance for about an hour at
the advertisements in the back of the
Automobile Trade Journal one can
only feel that there must be some
thing in this stuff about q national
banks reserve.
II a guy fitted up his fiivver with
all the stuff enterprising geniuses in
vent, his chariot of cheer would look
like cross between a Christmas tree
and the wrath OF the gods.
The Washington times., 1917-02-24

Speaking of accessories:
When, IL We may dip into the ulti-
mate for a moment, we buy us our
selfpropelled nuisance, we have only
q couple of accessories planned.
The first OF these is gas, OF course.
OIL follows closely in the order of
need
And greese-
And water
But, after these vital essentials
Pyrene.
Only the other day Bob Joyce's bus
went down TO Pluto. 1t started, like
all ruins and realizations, in a small
way. In five minutes It was a sizzling
semblance of something that II used
to be. II this pertinent plant of our
plinth of progress be construed to be
a boost for Pyrene, so be it. As the
vital fifth essential to our car. when
wet get it, Pyrene leads by several
lengths.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
In Townley's Defense.
.lifnr MiSSnlllian.

Editor Missoulian:
There is considerable difference be-
tween your estimate of A. G. Townley
and that of newspapers in the east
where he has lately been making
speeches. l recently read an article
from the New York Mail in which
there is the following paragraph:
"There is something Lncolnesque
about A. c. Townley, the North Da-
kota farmer who spoke at the meet
ing of the Labor and Food conference,
in Custer Union on Monday night;
his homely. simple illustrations went
direct to the heart and those who
heard him will not soon forget his
way of telling things"
l have also read an interview in the
New York American which said: "Out
of the west there came to New York
yesterday, a big, brawny farmer who
aims to lop a few dollars off the war
cost of living. He is A. c. Townley,
president of the Nom Partisan league"
| Mr.. Townley has also appeared on the
! same platform with President Wilson
| at a recent convention of the Amer
| lean Federation of Labor and later he
was received by President Wilson and
Food Administrator Hoover at Wash
ington where his visit was reported in
n conspicuous manner by the news
papers. SO l don't think that Mr..
Townley is as bad as you make him
! out to be. ! have read that he was
not permitted to speak in a number
of towns in Minnesota by citizens who
brag about their loyalty. l don't
know whether that is true or not, but
suppose that it is. l have often seen
an occurance where small number
of citizens can get together and call
themselves the people and if they are
well organized and armed can get away
with most anything. Some of these
so-called loyal people who have been
horse whipping, and compelling people
to kiss the flag and tar and feathering
others, are not much different from
the old white caps" They are not
the people just because they call them
| selves the people.
! hope you will print this In your
Letters from the Missoulian family"
for while do not agree with you on
a good many things I am glad to see
that you are fair enough to publish
the other fellows side. That is a
pleasant change in the policy of the
big daily newspapers of Montana.
| A NON PARTISAN Lacquer.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
Sayings of Mrs. Solomon
By Helen Rowland

man
letters; how thy
For damsels first
1o when first
astonished
of
He yeth ostenious his
as as a small boy with
but hegnneh
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He readeh them
He oucheth them his
The s as incense in
o
in
eagerly He sniffeh through of
He fingeth
from his bankers the bill from
He gazeth dreamiy out of the
"Now wonder what
land
he S hardh
Yet,
eth habit and privilege snketh a
brushing of his hair
He glanceth had finished reading
his IMPORTANT
cheweth his pen handle
mpaientl He can think of NOTHING o
threese nencesa
to mail,
rocking chair She seeheth her
and the
shall be known within the
peradvenue of
snail
Now who the duece IS Tioneyg could
call woman ~
to
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
HE'D LEARNED STRATEGY.

A perspiring Tommy, burdened with
about five tons of equipment. climbed
YEARLY into a bus outside a London
railway terminus. There were no va
cant seats. and no one offered the
weary man a seat. He was dead tired
and SO resolved to get seat by
strategy. He dshed from his haver-
sack small bomb. This is one of the
things We use out there, you know"
he remarked to the interested passen-
gers. "See this pin here? When I
pull it out like this it should explode
fifteen seconds later. They're pretty
deadly, too! If put it back again the
things harmless" Then, beginning to
search frantically. "Gosh! where on
earth did l put that pin?" The pas
sengers rose in a body and scrambled
for the door. tumbling over one anoth-
err to get off. Tommy watched them
go. Then, putting the bomb back in
his haversack. he stretched himself
full length ON the cushioned seat.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
Patriotism and Wild Men

How the Liberty loan campaign
knocked at the door of wild men" in
remote mountain regions of the Phil
ippine Islands and found patriotism
there is one of the most interesting
and significant stories told in connec-
ton with the recent drive. 1t only
needs a little imagination to picture
the three Benguet Igorotes, heroes of
the story, toiling with pickaXe and
shovel to remove from the earth, their
only trusted banking house, sacks of
old Spanish and Mexican coins ac-
CURED by hook or crook in the old
days of Spanish rule, when mystery
and romance were a little more plenti-
full in the islands. And then the pic
turesque procession, making it's way
over mountain trails, finally confiding
their treasure to the hands of Cover
nor Hilario Logan with the request
that it be sent for 1.-The use of the
great Apo across the seas!"
This was surely a most significant
contribution, coming as it did from an
aboriginal people that not SO long ago
rebelled against government of any
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31

millions of pamphlets on bird life
and its preservation every year,
but it employs wardens to guard
bird colonies for the prevention
of methods by ruthless hunters
who would soon exterminate
them. In this latter work it has
the cooperation of the federal
government and is recognized for
its excellent work everywhere.
The necessity for this organiza-
ton to continue is unquestioned.
There is nothing more necessary
to the preservation Of the forests
and of vegetation generally than
to preserve the birds who cNter-
inmate the insects which attack
the trees. And its work will con-
tinue, to the good of those who
no doubt in many cases, have not
heard of its existence.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
THE BIRD LOVERS.

Out in this western country of
ours, where nature is, perhaps.
the most rugged of any place i'll
our whole land, it is to be eX-
pected that folks are much in
tercsted in wild life. Therefore,
it follows that they would be IN
terested in the affairs of an or
ganiZation built solely for the
purpose OF preserving wild life to
future generations.
We refer to the Audubon So
cicty. A report Of this OrganiZa-
ton has recently come to hand.
showing what the members have
done, not only in increasing the
size Of their organization, but i'll
caring for The birds Of North
America as well. For the or
ganization does not limit itself to
activities within the United
States. The whole continent is
its field and it is we'll covered,
too.
While other organizations of
similar character have suffered
because of war demands upon
its members and supporters, the
Audubon society has had a most
prosperous twelve-month. Dur
ing the year the association en-
rolled one patron, iii life men,
hers, and about 1000 sustaining
members, which increase, togeth,
er with gifts to carry on its work
has Melted nearly $4,000 from
new membership sources alone
and the total income of the or.
ganization for the year was clos,
to $i5O,OO0. OF the second issu,
Of Liberty Loan bonds, the societ,
purchased $4,000 worth.
The work of the society is va
fiQus. Not only does it publish
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
slack the Husger"
| Was Only Curious.

Recalling narrowing accounts OF
"huggers" and "sluggers," the girl
looked apprehensively at the man who
seemed to be following her down tho
street. 1t was dark and the street was
lonely, although a whistle was even
then announcing o'clock.
The girl quickened her pace and
moved ahead block without glancing
behind. When she did, her heart al
most stopped beating. The man had
hurried. too.
Home was still block distant, and
the frightened girl broke into run.
A patter OF steps behind her indicated
that the man was running too. Tho
girl began to sprint as fast a. she
could.
Then, to her great relief. she saw
her father standing on the porch or
their home. She decided to teach the
"hugger" a lesson. Turning sharply
in her tracks she confronted the stran-
ger.
"what do you want?" she asked
boldly.
Puff! puff!"
The stranger was quite out OF
breath. He gasped, unable to speak.
Finally:
where's the fire. anyhow" he
said at last. II heard the whistle, but
didn't know it was down this way
until you began to rum"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
ESPRIT De CORPS.

The son of the we'll do family had
recently joined up as q private and
was spending his Christmas leave at
home.
Returning from O walk. his mother
espied a figure In the kitchen with the
housemaid.
Clarence" she called to her son.
"Mary's got some one In the kitchen.
She knows perfectly well that don't
allow followers. ! wish you'd SO ana
tell the man to leave the house at
once"
Clarence duly departed to the kit"
chen, but returned in about half Q
minute.
"Sorry. mother, but I can't turn
him out"
Cant turn him out? Why on earth
not?"
Hes my sergeant"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
What Is This Worth to You,

Editor, Missoulian:
Two scout officials and about a.
dozen eager. happy boys all logged
out with bullying knapsacks, blanket
rolls and other hiking accoutrements,
We're seen to swing across North ,Hig-
gins avenue one day last week. They
were headed for the hills and neither
the clouded sky nor the mud under
root served to dampen their ardor for
day OF wholesome tramping
The two scout officials were beam
ing with smiles and they, as well as
these happy boys with whom they had
worked for the past month, antici-
pated the pleasure of long hike, a
good supper over CHEEKY camp fire
and the prospects of camping out over
night in Gods out of doors.
business man met this strange
procession, hailed the officials and
commented upon this unusual employ
ment of time by q pastor and a school
principel. The business man was a
little non-plussed, his financial train
ing could not grasp the relation be-
tween the group of NOISY kids" and
these two serious minded gentlemen
splashing through mud on winters
day, headed for the hills. Finally he
said
What's all this about"
The pastor explained the object OF
the boy scout movement, the training
for citizenship given the boys and in
| cidentally spoke of the amount of time
and patience required in the work
! The business man looked somewha,
bewildered. glanced at the boys Their
at the pastor and Remarked:
And what do you get out of it,"
If humanity accepts this view as ar
ideal and aim in life then we can offer
this man little in rebuke; but. some,
how, 1 feel that there are at least {
few right-minded people yet who car
sense and appreciate the sacrifice II
time, energy and even in money mad,
by such scout officials all over tn,
country in the unrcwarded routine O.
their work without bringing to theil
| lips at the first opportunity the money.
| tainted question, What do YOU ge
| out of it," Surely there is more ir
| iilS tii''li iHoIleS VI "lldt IL purchases
| 1t certainly would be deplorable If al
| good deeds had to be rewarded Will
| coin and all activities aiming to make
| life more worth while were subsidized
| with salaries.
The 100000 or moro boys of thi
| country enrolled in the scout move
ment, need and appreciate the sacri
fees in time and energy freely giver
| by the hundreds Of scout officials
And there are thousands of boys VIII,
are eager to enjoy the benefits Of sucl
an organization, but are barred becaus,
SO few men are willing to give servic,
without recompense.
What is there in it for me? That Il
the big question that confronts thos
who are asked to push the scout worl
along and is the same question tina
handicaps other patriotic endeavors
such as service in the home guard
and all other branches of the nation
protective force.
A great many grown ups" coul
profit greatly by following one of tn
boy scouts principal laws:
DO n good turn daily and accep
no tips"
A SCOUTMASTER.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
Talk oftyle ToiO,t
Grass .0ro,sino
in Sitter Rect.

Tyler worden was In 1fissouia the
other day. With him he brought 10.
ports 1t the weather in the Bitter
Root.
Warm winters in western Montana
are not exceptional" he said. ''but
even the Oldest old timers are hegin-
ming to take notice Of the manner in
which the weather man il acting hero
this year. The weather up around my
country 10 perhaps warmer, even. than
1t is here. It IL exactly like spring.
The grass on the hillsides up there II
all Of two inches high and il furnish-
ing feed for the cattle. I can't keen
them off Of It. It seems that In. some
respects the weather II trying to make
up for the shortage which It caused
last summer. But don't trust It al
all. II the winter wheat gets much
of a start it will go hard with some
Of the farmers who have put In bid
| crops for next summer"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
Somewhere in France

BY lie Roy c. Henderson in Cartoons
Magazine.
She stands alone beside the gate,
Where oft with him she stood before.
And seems to hear his voice relate
Life's sweetest story DER and DER;
A hand she feels upon her own,
Cnconsciously a tender glance
She gives, then starts and stands alone,
The lover sleeps-Somcwhere in
France.
She could have kept him If she
His heart and soul were all her
But true love knew and understood
That Honor is its own true throne,
She heard the bugle's blaring sound
And whispered,-"Go and take your
chance"
There mid the scenes of war he found
Eternal peace - Somewhere in
France.
She knows not where that spot may
On barren plain. in hidden dell,
| On wooded hill, beside the sea
The lips that would will never tell;
She knows not what his last words
! We're,
The thoughts that come with Death.
| advance.
And yet, she feels they were of her,
Those
| where in France.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31

sort. that despised the uses of modern
civilization. and looked askance at the
motives of foreigners. True. in COM
parison with the amount contributed
by Baguio, and the total amount from
the Philippines. the fifteen thousand
pesos contributed by the. three "wild
men" was not especially noteworthy;
but as an indication Of their loyalty to
1.-THE great chief across the seas 1t
speaks well for the success Of Amer
lean rule in the Philippines.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
| War Will Quiet
New Years Eve.

Less hectic than ever before since
Hell's Gate valley first could muster
residents enough to toast the new year
will be Missoula's celebration Of the
jump from December 81 to January
/ tonight. Though the city bravely
refused to let the war dampen the
Christmas spirit. SOLDERING thoughts Of
"over there" will dry the New Year
spirits. If the preliminaries offer any
ground for prediction. there will be
more good resolutions and fewer car
| rousals tonight than on any New
Years eve Missoula has ever spent.
Ordinarily many celebrants begin
their New Year jags several days be-
fore January 1, but yesterday was
| noticeably calm. And the absence of
preparations for extensive hilarity is
| surprising.
One bold man wanted yesterday to
enlist few friends in plan to well
come the New Year by making BAN
6ages for the Red Cross until after
midnight, but his acquaintances were
all too nervous. Celebrations actuated
by that spirit will, however, be the
rule tonight.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31

We commend the following adj
vice of the Chicago Daily News to
/ considerable element Of citizens
in western Montana.
Watch the man who takes every
opportunity to manifest bitter
and vindictive spirit toward Ameri-
can profiteers, British imperialists
and Belgian capitalists-the man
who devotes his energies day by
day to denouncing everything and
everybody except German militar-
ism and the kaiser.
He needs watching because he is
doing and saying exactly the
things that would be done and said
by a hired agent Of the German .
government.
Intelligent people in France and
Britain discovered long ago that
the German system operates by
arousing all possible internal dis
sensions in every nation at war
with Germany.
The American citizen or the alien
who devotes much of his time to de-
while carefully protecting Prus-
sianism and kaiserism from his
venom should be kept under close
scrutiny.
Whether he is actually in the pay
of the kaiser is not especially i'm
portant. He is doing and saying
what the kaiser is willing to- pay
to have done and said that is the
important fact.
Perhaps the view of the news
paper is too inclusive, but GER
tainly the conclusion is clear tina
all discomfort in the allied coun.
tries is especially welcome to the
kaiser at this time when he is re.
lying upon his propaganda in thu
outside nations to bring hin
peace, rather than upon the
strength of his military forces.
We, too, have observed in this
community, some people who, j
they hear a criticism of German.
and its methods, beg the question
by Immediately referring to ;
black spot in the history of Grea
Britain. We find others NOR
concerned with profitecring ant
the criticism of it than with thu
successful prosecution of the wal
You do not find people Of thes'
two classes deyoting much tim
to dcnouncing the kaiser.
people who, if they hear a crit
cism of Germany and its methods
beg the question by immediatel,
referring to a black spot in tn,
history of Great Britain. We fin,
others more concerned with prof
iteering and the criticism Of i
than with the successful prosecu
ton of the war. You do not fin,
people of these two classes de
voting much time to dcnounc
the kaiser.
All honest criticism of tn
methods of our government il
conducting this war that ar
based on facts should be WELDON
and must not be repressed. Sue,
criticism may help us to win tn
war sooner. We must not kee
our eyes blinded. At the sam
,timc there is sound basis in tn
argument Of the Chicago Dali
News, and it is just as well 70
loyal citizens to keep their eve
open for people who indulge i
that sort of talk.