The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-06-10
F|lANc|A MARKET
At PRESIDE Low
Promised Pay Not Forthcom-
inc and Would-Be Officers
Forced to Roll Their
Own Cigarettes.

San Francisco, June 9.-The princi-
pal topic Of discussion at the moment
among the embryonic officers at the
Preside military reservation here
who are taking an intensive course
preparing them for commissions in the
new United States army is the acute
stringency in the money market. May
81 was payday and all the forms at
tending the distribution of the payroll
strictly were adhered to. including the
muster and roll call. The only Incl
dental lacking to complete the cere
nlony was the money AS yet, con-
gress has made no provision to dis
tribute the sl00 monthly to each man
which it was understood would be paid
during the training
The situation has been accepted phil
osophically and even the diatribes of
the few chronic grumblers have been
turned into subjects of humor
Here I've just gotten over being
bent by aching bones and now I'm
broke remarked one of the men. but
it's a long casualty list The entire
outfit is wiped out financially"
Ocular evidence Of the condition Of
affairs is apparent by the almost entire
Egyptian and Turkish cigarettes which
We're the rule when the camp opened.
and the substitution of the little book
Of brown tissue papers and tho small
bag of tobacco Some OF the men who
never before have attempted to roll
their own cigarettes are having Sc
rious time Of it.
II haven't had a comfortable smoke
in a week" complained tall thin man
either l get too much tobacco in tn.
thing and the resultant cigarette is
constructed along the general lines Of
q sofa cushion, OF else | get in too lit
tie and il falls out and when the match
is applied the paper flares up to III,
imminent peril of the end of my nose.
Men who have long rolled their Gig
arettes and are expert in the handling
of the markings are in brisk demand
as instructors in the art among the
buffers at the business.
Neighboring tobacco shops confirmed
these conditions by stating that the
sale of expensive cigarettes had fallen
off, while the demand for the max
ings' showed a heavy gain.
One of the specialties taken up of
late has been instruction in the use OF
the bayonet. Some years ago it was
believed that this weapon had seen its
last days in view of the long range
guns which have come into vogue The
European war is said to have entirely
disposed Of this as a fallacy. Scarcely
n day passes but what mention is made
in the official headquarters reports o.
the European bellgerent armies OF
some action in which the enemy was
put to rout or forced to surrender al
the point OF the bayonet.
Major William S. Valentine during
the course of a lecture to the men of
the Seventh company on the uses OF
the bayonet and the manner Of han
ding it impressed on his hearers the
fact that an enemy neck or stomach
presented the most admra bic targets
for the bayonet for the reason that
there We're no bones to interfere with
the successful passage of the blade into
the anatomy. There are too many
and it would be difficult matter to
withdraw bayonet once it became i'm
bedded between q couple of ribs.
However" continued the major. "if
your bayonet happens to get stuck,
and you can't twist it out, fire n charge
from your rifle after it. This will al
ways loosen the bayonet."
A mild hammered young man sitting
in the rear of the room rose to in
quire if the Germans were being in
structed in the same tricks