The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-12-31
Only Way
To End War Is Unite div to
Prosecute 1t.

Most peorle say they wish the war
was over. Well, then. why not end it?
Why not end it by making war eff
GENTLY, unitedly, whole heartedly?
People have got it into their heads
that war is made only by Wls,lin s.on.
They listen to the never ceasing stream
OF gossip that flows from the capital
and wisely talk of how well or how i'll
war is being made there. Everybody is
eaber to help-if he can only get a
government job teven at one dollar n
year, or def mite commission with
the Red Cross or the Y. NJ. c. A., or a
uniform of any kind. If he can't, if he
is tied to business or private life and
no khaki, he seems inclined to let
George at Washington do the war
making.
But we will never beat Germany UNI
til we fight as hard as Germany, save
as much and eat as little as she does.
/ And we must not wait for the command
to come from someone in Washington.
The nation, the whole efnbattled ma
ton will be in the fight when, for ex-
ample We hear of a petition from mil
lion motor car owners going to Wash
ington begging that they be given gaso-
line cards and be put on reasonable
allowance of the fluid that is so prec-
| ious on our battle line in France. Every
motor owner knows today that he is
using too much gasoline. Why not stop
it? france has stopped it. So has
England. A few luxurious and in
genious people in London drive their
! cars by Illuminating gas, and the huge
gas bags on the top of the limousine
bodies look like a giants family wash
being taken to the laundry. But most
Londoners manage with the public
| conveyances, and they get along. They
so to their business and they even go
| to the theaters--be it said in greater
numbers than at this moment of the
atrical depression go here in America.
Life, it may safely be claimed, is pos
sible without gasoline. There are
people alive who can remember when
| there We're no motor cars.
Has there been any voluntary con-
troll of the automobile waste here yet?
While you wait impatiently for the
| stream of motors to pass so you can
cross the street it might be well to
mediate upon the poster in the Win
dow behind you on which the L. $.
government, auartsrmaster's depart
ment announces that it wants (and ev-
identity finds it hard to geD q thousand
chauffeurs. If you will inger half
hour or SO, more than that needed num-
Der will pass, driving ladies whose fig
ures would be improved by walking.
Why wait for Mr.. Hoover to put us
| on bread cards? We might ask for
them-unless indeed we are so sure of
our powers of self-restraint as to know
we don't need them. When your club
| steward or your boarding house keeper
| or your restaurant proprietor continues
| to give you wheat bread, why not ask
for corn? Why try to put the enforce
| ing of economical food measures upon
somebody else? 1t isn't Georges war;
it is your war. 1t will not be someone
else's peace when 1t comes, it will be
Your peace.
Never until the great war came have
the individual and the individuals per-
Torrance Of his patriotic duty seemed
so important. This is what is meant
when we say America is at war. There
is no humble and obscure sacrifice of
any American citizen which does not
count, which does not go to make up
the sum total of American effort. If
it Is the day of brave and gallant deeds.
of supreme devotions. it Is the day too
Of the small virtue. And it is the small
virtue as much as the great which will
win the war for us. In Germany there
Is nothing too small to be worth do
ing. We fight a vigilant and deter
mined enemy. ARE we ytgtlant and de-