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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29
MAGAZINE WRITING

MAX Eastman, Journalism Versus Art.")
sWhat magazine writing needs today is a standard
of amateruism. That is what all art needs We
cherish that standard in sport, where it does very
little good and quite amount OF harm. We de-
prive an Indian youth Of the Olympian medal for
all round athletics because somebody digs up a
stale memory that he once played baseball in. n
bush league for money, he had to- That is
idealism of kind. 1t is misplaced idcalism It
ought to be placed in the world Of art, where it
would just save art from that professional stand
ardization which continually kills it. =.
Barring the hope of some profound revolution
which may give us all chancet to earn quiet USE
full living in reasonable number of hours without
frenzy. no glories ahead for magazine litera-
turc. 1t will continue to be it is. The big cir
culation- getters with gift for keeping everything
interesting though ordinary, will continue to buy up
and dilute the best talents of the country: few
amateur magazines. which not afford to pay for
anything will continue to exhibit a lower average
of talent, but more poignant variety of art every
once in while native popular genius will ride
over all these tendencies of the times; and so on
until some deeper change than any of us can
imagine.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29
OLDEST MISSIONARY
I'm CHINA is DEAD

Peking.- Correspondence Of the As
ISOLATED Press. 1.-The Rev. W.. A. p.
Martin, the oldest missionary in China,
recently died at the age of 80, after a
residence of sixty-six years in China.
DR.. Martin served the American le-
CATION for many years as Chinese Sec
rotary and interpreter, and enjoyed the
confidence of the late Viceroys Ii
Hung Chang and Chang Chih-Tung
and scores of other Chinese officials.
He prepared several books on internal
tional law and politics for the late VI
ceroy Ii Hung Chang, and wrote vol
uminously upon Chinese subjects for
European and American publications.
DR.. Martin was born at Iivornia, In
diana, and came to China under the
American Presbyterian mission. For.
twenty-five years he served as presi-
dent of the Picking Imperial college,
and was also professor of international
law in the same institution. Since 1906
he has lived in Picking, devoting him.
self mostly to literary work.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29
events in Bucharest, and had permitted

events in Bucharest, and had permitted
themselves to be lulled into a false
sense of security, the Rumanian army
invading Pennsylvania as the result of
this. Debates of this question were
cut short as much by military events
in Pennsylvania as by the defense
Count Tizsa put up. The food situa-
ton also occupied the Hungarian diet
for many days, result of which was
that the Hungarian government pro-
hibited nearly all food exports to Aus
tria and Germany. This policy has
been called selfish. In extenuation it
must be said that crop returns in Hun
gary in 1916 were far from good. a
For the last three months the ques-
ton of converting the Austrian reich
srat has been before the public. When
this parliament will go into session is
not known today. The impression pre-
walls that it will meet this month.
More probable it is that March will be
the month. The Austrian parliament
has not been assembled since the out
break of the war, the government con-
Quoting it's affairs by virtue of laws
passed before that time, and regula-
tons empowered by sundry war acts,
some Of. them of ancient date.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29
MOT To-KEER!:s,

They sent him back to her. The letter came
Saying she could have him. And before
She could be sure there was NO hidden i'll
Under the formal writing he was in her sight
Living.-They gave him back to her alive
How else? They are not known to send the dead
And not disfigured visibly. His face?-
His hands? She had to look-to ask
What was 1t, dear?" And she had given all
And still she had all-they had-they the lucky!
Wasn't she glad now? Everything seemed won
And all the rest of them permissible ease.
She had to ask what was 1t, dear?"
Enough.
Yet not enough. A bullet through and through
High in the breast. Nothing but what good care
And medicine and rest-and you a week,
Can cure me OF to 60 again." The same
Grim giving to do over for them both
She dared no more than ask him with her eyes
How was it with him for a second trial.
And with his eyes he asked her not to ask.
They had given him back to her. but not to keep.
Robert Frost in the Yale Review
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29
THE MISSING BLIZZARD

We are glad the Weather Bureau man has again
guessed wrong. Saturday evening all western
Montana fairly shivered when they read the story,
direct from Washington, that the mercury would fall
about SO degrees within the next few hours.
Saturday night and all day Sunday we listened
intently for the first sounds Of the oncoming blizzard
and frightened storm windows and sized up our coal
bins. in making mental calculations as to how long
we could stand off Jack Frost with our present SUD-
ply Of SO coal. 49,,
1t may be that our friends over across the range
in eastern Montana have felt his icy breath and are
shivering under 80 below zero weather. but the
Weather Bureau man didn't add anything to his
prophetic score with the people living on the west
side Of the big mountain range
If anybody in western Montana has seen ANYTHING
OF the promised blizzard, he has not made it known
to the rest OF u.s.
AS matter of fact over here in these west.sde
valleys we wouldn't hardly know that winter was in
existence if it wasn't for reading the eastern Mon
tana newspapers and the stories Of the St. Paul Ice
Carnival and the forecasts Of oncoming billiards bv
the Weather Bureau man. that don't seem to ma.
teriaize.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29
MONDAY MORNING. JAN 70. 1917.
THE CAPTURE OF VILLA.

1t is sorry chapter in the annals Of the Wilson
administration. the fiasco in Mexico. This morn
ing 10000 American soldiers are tramping north.
ward. toward the International boundary line. re-
turning from the chase after Villa
Ten months ago. Pershings punitive expedition y
was sent into Mexico on its wild goose chase after
the Mexican bandit. We went in with flying col
ors to capture Villa dead or alive. We have
spent $5O,O0O.0OO for nothing. Mexico is not
pacliled in any of the word. Villa is laugh
ing at impotency and his rabble is occupying the
late American camps as fast as our troops are with
drawn.
1t was hundred to one shot that our army had
no more chance Of catching Villa than dry land
terrapn would have in overtaking Montana jack
rabbit. In fact Villa was away and gone into the
hidden recesses to the south full week before the
troops were set in motion against him.
The punitive expedition has accomplished moth
ing. except the expenditure Of millions of dollars and
bringing the authority Of the United States into con-
tempt with all the Mexican factions
While Wilson is delivering his preachments on
peace to the warning nations Of Europe. and by in
ference offering to make available the army and navy
OF the United States to enforce the DEGREES Of Eu-
ropean peace court, own little army is being
laughed at by the Mexican cut threats who view our
sorry performances in Mexico with natural contempt
and denson.
While protesting to keep hands off of Mexican
affairs. our government first recognizes one pre-
tender and then the other. One month we put an
embargo on the shipment Of arms and ammunition
into Mexico and the next month we supply both fac
tons with all they can buy. We send the navy to
Vera Cruz to shell and capture the town and then
sail away again, leaving American men and women
10 be rescued by German and English ships. We
give one-act opera bouhe performance in calling
cut the entire national guard at an expense Of nearly
$lOO.OOO.OOO more. to reinforce the regular army
in its chase after Villa. and then Withdraw them
II anyone figure out what has been or is our
Mexican policy he is wise. indeed.
MIR. Wilson's recent dramatic speech to the SEN
ate. in which he outlined some kind of nebuIous
theory about peace terms in Europe and world
court, and the abolition of the Monroe doctrine was
probably great oraorica effort. at least some of
Democratic friends profess to have believed that
it was "a stupendous hour in world history" but
some way other. when we contrast the high
sounding phrases used on that occasion with our
actual performances in Mexico, some of US don t
seem able to work up to that same degree of en-
thusasm.
1t may be that we are lacking in appreciation Of
words when set over against actual deeds.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29
MUSIC AND THE SYMPHONY.

Music" writes Thomas Whitney Surette "is like
crystal ball, in whose mystic depths the whole of
life moves in shadow fantasy
He is speaking of pure music lat it's highest" and
of the symphony in particular. Although Mr.
Surette admits at the outset of an article in the
current Atlantic that music eudes the pen of the
analyst and goes far beyond the limitations of the
philosophic mind, unassisted by feeling" he man.
ages to clarity the subject
pure music" he says, "is the will of man made
manifest, and one may doubt if that will becomes
fully manifest in any other of his creations It
compasses all his actions. all his thoughts all his
feelings: it translates his dreams; 1t satisfies his
Unsuitable curiosites it justfies his pride las he
himself never does) it makes him the god he would
be-
Mr. Surette agrees with Roman ROLAND, author
of Jean Chrstophe." that you cannot understand
symphony by trying to find out what the COM
poser meant He declares. or hints, that the com >
poser puts his ideas into music because they cam
not be expressed in words
Mr. surette is of those who do not believe that
because an idea is too elusive for words it is there
fore not an idea. G
AS to what one hears while listening to SYM
phony Mr. surette's description is as universal as
1t is vivid: Each of the orchestral Instruments
has its own individual association the oboe reminds
you of shepherds pipe, the flute of a birds song
the French horn Of hunting, and so forth; but each
one OF the instruments in the orchestra, as you
listen to it, is forming lines. it were, in n great
design And this design, always complete at any
one point, goes on INCREASINGLY forming itself ever
and ever anew. 1t is always complete and always
incomplete, always moving onward, always deli
cately poised for inevitable flight. AS you listen,
YOU have lived thousand lives: dream after dream
mas dissolved itself in consciousness each mo-
ment has been perfect and complete existence in
itself When it is finished you awake to what
You call happiness or unhappness peace or strug-
S'" satisfaction chagrin: the unreal spectacle of
the world imposes itself upon you again; you arc
once more human being
why ask that glorious world in which your M
''re has been freed and your soul has been Olsen
numbered of your body, to all the imperfec-
hons OF this one' The gods of necessity, dwell
III the heavens No, you cannot understand music
by transalting it into other terms by preserving
your associations with the world in which you live
Mind and feeling, submated by the magic Of these
sounds, must dctach themselves and rise to a world
OF pure Imagination where there is no locality"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29

captain Richmond Hobson leaves Alabama and
goes to Illinois to exercise his leadership. Rev.
Brooks Lawrence leaves Ohio and comes to Ala
bama to exercise his leadership. The hills are green
far off-and perhaps the peopie-AIontgomery (Ala.)
Advertiser.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29

ine tact that man denounces the food specula.
tors as robbers does not that he wouldn't feel
flattered at being invited to automobile ride with
one of them-oswego IN. " Times. A., =
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29

another reason why some men are eating big SIR
IONS every day is that they regard it unnecessary to
d'e' for the purpose OF living to be 100 years old
"hen the chances that an automobile will snuff
en- out before they reach 5O.--Houston (Tcx) Post
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-01-29

harvard students smoked fewer cigarettes during
'he past year and played pool and billiards less than
IN 'he year previous. If college students go i'm
proving their habits, there may be nothing
lc't for "vangelists to reform.-New York World.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10
10000 ]. s. TROOPS
 FOR FRENCH FRONT
First Division Ready June 10,
 Army Men Say.

War department officials freely pre- 5icted that an American military force, probably only 10000 strong, would be ready for service in France by June 10 The general staff is now, it was Eail. considering the work to be done En raising and dispatching such force.
 Great impetus was added to the grad ually growing demand for Americans 10 get into the fighting at once by the approval of Secretary Balfour of Great Britain of the plan in his conferences Aere with the American officials of the state and war departments.
 The first step toward organization of such a force are being delayed by the failure of congress to complete the final action upon the administration seIective draft legislation.
 The bill, now before a joint confer eDce of house and senate members, will probably be agreed upon by the end of the week. It would be signed immediately by President Wilson, who would at the same time issue a procla- mation calling upon all men within the ages specified to register at local of- fees within ten days
 War department officials estimate that only four days will be required to complete the registration, and a call for 500, ,000 men will then be issued.
 The first concentration of the new army is expected to begin by May 30, and it is believed that within ten days from then a force of 10000 partially erained men and officers could be gath RTed for service in France.
 The probability of this government being able to raise a force of 10000 eoDscripts by June 10 has caused doubt as to whether the first troops to be gent would be taken from the regular army or the national guard, as for ner9y planned.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10
CANAAN VALLEY

The tooth anniversary of the Sunday School Union was observed Sunday hy the Valley Sunday School, Sunday p. m. H. G. Wellington of Boston an official of $. $. U. was present and gave an interesting talk, assisted by Rev. M. B. Fuller of East Canaan. Special music was rendered by Misses Mable and Jessie Donalds, songs and recitations by the school. The Hall was pleasingly decorated with large and small flags, by Miss Jennie Roger.
 Mir. and Mrs. Tupper formerly of Winsted have come to spend the sum. mer with their daughter Mrs. Howard Rockwell.
 Walter Tupper of Bristol spent Sun day with his family at Howard Rock wells.
 The mountains and hills surrounding the Valley were. white with SHOW Saturday and Sunday.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10
TO PRAY FOR PRESIDENT.
6oethern Methodists Set Aside May 27
 For Purpose.

6outnern Methodists Set Aside May 27
 For Purpose.
 Fla a pastoral letter the College of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, has set aside May 27 as a day of special prayer for the presi- dent of the United States.
 The letter was adopted at a called meeting of the college. It urges mem bers of the church and their pastors to exert every effort to combat influences which, it is declared, cause morality A11d religion to decline more rapidly during war ''than at any other time.'
 After declaring Americans had vain. iy hoped wars had ceased in the earth She letter says:
 -'Now that we are forced into a war with a foreign nation we feel certain that they will follow the heroic exam pie of our fathers
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10

No man ever received satisfactory wear froma garment that did not contain these essentials: an all-wool fabric thoroughly shrunk by the London cold water process-and not by the first rain in which the wearer is caught. genuine linen canvas and not cheap cotton or burlap substitute.
 sewing at all points of strain done painstak- ingly by hand with silk thread-and otweak, ansghtly cotton.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10
Persians Want Republic.

Diplomatic dispatches received at Washington say that as a result of the Russian revolution the democrats of Persia have started an agitation for the establishment of a republic in that country. The centerS of the movement Appear to be at Tabriz and Teheran, md the pro-republican movement is winning support ill northern Persia.
 During the reigns of Yao and Chun in 220O B. c. virtue pervaded China and crime was unknown, while pros- perity abounded.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10
CORNWALL HOLLOW

Mrs. Margaret Palmer who spent the winter in Bridgeport has returned to her cottage here.
 Cullen Holcomb of South Canaan was in town Sunday.
 Mrs. Ham is on the sick list.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10
BRING PRISONERS HERE.
ptsn to Relieve Allies of Burden of
 Feedinq Them.

A resolution before the United States senate would appropriate $1,OOOOOO to bring German prisoners held by the French and British to this country and keep them here until the end of the war Senator Hale of Maine, author of che measure, argues that the care of slsese prisoners here would relieve much of the food shortage in France and England.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10
Britain to Buy Out Taverns,

The London Times asserts it has au- thority for stating that the govern naent has adopted in principle the pol Ey of state purchase of the liquor trade
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10
STYLE-mdWhafIsB BENEATH

For the man who wants to be sure that there Is not detail in the whole suit where cheat ing makeshift IS tolerated-whether he pays S15.00-S16.5 50-S20. 0.00-s25. .00 or as high as S50.0O there Is one absolute safeguard.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10
It Is fhe Kirschbaum label.
Hints on the Choice of CiotheJ

point two for you young men to keep in mind in selecting spring suit
 The should ftcloSey enough that in buttonng
 the middle Cor top) button it is necessary force the garment just trAe, thus accentuatng the waist line. The correct coat collar this year sits rather Aaty about the neck
 The old hgh-standng effect in the collar is passc. The length of the trousers should be just enough to hang clear of the shoes without breakng-with the bottoms absolutely straight, and not hoowed above the inStep in front. By Ihs Spectator.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10

Underlying the surface look of garment are staunchneSS-its serUiceablenen.
Connecticut western news., 1917-05-10

For if a suit is cankered with weak spots inside they will eat their way outside at the first sign of rigorous wear. A suit that is 90 percent genuine and 10 percent limitation soon looks 90 percent imitation and 10 percent genuine.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-13
CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE =

tom Perry and Jeff" said Paula,
were awfully nice to Alma and me at
this time and OF course when anything
was printed in either of the papers
that Alma or Tom was on. Earnest
Lawton almost frothed at the mouth
Tom, who had quite a vogue in
Philadelphia at the time, took partIcu-
lar pleasure in saving something about
me almost every day, for ! had told
him what quite expected and lie said
IL such a thing was perpetrated he
would tell the whole story.
Alma was very happy for l could
zee she was much interested in Tom
Perry. There Is one thing no one
can say of him. she said to me one
day, and that is he writes what he
dies not believe
Well. you can say he will stretch
3 point for friend answered smil.
Ing. Look what he does for me-
"'You deserve It, she stoutly insist.
ed. I think he would have done all
this had he never met YOU.
Now, Alma, have little common
Hense,' / expostulated. Surely you
don't ever remember Tom Perry hav.
Tor weeks about the same actress, 10
SOu?'
ono answered Alma grudgtngly,
hut you see yours IS unique case.
You are young and pretty and you
sltow you play that part to perfection.
81 am glad you think so. Some.
times / think ] can never make a
successful actress, but when someone
like you encourage me take heart
again. Isn't It queer jeff has not said
one word about my acting or my part
since he has been here?'
Hasn't hep she asked.
No, and have fished good and
plenty answered
Paula, said Alma, Il think Icr1
is In love with YOU
We'll you must see things ! don't,
answered, He told me once he
loved me. but lately we have been
just good friends and pals. Why,
Alma, have sometimes thought he
was beginning to care for you
"'Care for your grandmother eN.
claimed Alma with laugh.
You see. Alma, was horrtd to
him when we were children. had
q snobbish idea that was better than
he and even after my father died and
] was thrown out on the world
could not quite realize what splen.
did chap he was. think hurt him
then so much he will never have the
same respect for me again. He likes
me, but any love he had for me Is
COOLED
Alma and l had been breaktastiug
in my room where we ate together al.
most every day at about IL. Alma
being on morning paper, kept about
the same hours that did AS It was
o matinee day l hurried off and left
Alma in my room writing.
Goodbye, dear. and good luck she
called gayly. ] did not have very good
luck Lean assure you, Margle, and It
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-03-13
Women OF Nation Are Being Cataloqued
And Listed For Service In Case OF War
BY r. M. KERRY.

NEW YORK. March ~. - Behind
every man at the front must be wo.
man worker: national preparedness is
a failure unless It includes an intelli.
gent organization OF THE WOMAN
POWER OF THE NATIoN:"
Miss Grace Parker, national com.
mandant Of the League for Womens
Service. selected because OF organizing
ability. laid down this principle today
when asked just what women can do
to help In case OF war.
Miss Parker was sent to England by
the league last November.
II went over" said Miss Parker, ito
find out g.. America what the women
Of England succeeded In doing, what
mistakes they had made. and to bring
back q definite plaa for trained, eff
Gent citizenship among the younger
women.
'Wher : returned In December, orr
organization outlined plan OF perma-
mont organization which we expected
to take kt least six months to work ont
But foHr days after We had presented
the plan 90 tho congressional commit
tee in Washington. the German barred
zone note was delivered and diplomat.
ic relations wore broken. As result
We have or6ariZGd on an cmergcn y
bnsis.
THE Cub 81 the whole problem is
finding the right woman for the right
job.
we don't want the country to 10
faced with problem OF trying to make
nurses out of stenographers, cjoks out
of actresses, farm labOrers OIL. )f So.
cial workers chauffeurs out OF dress
makers, or viators out Of housemald5.
That is what happens when the nation
is caught unprepared and unorganiZed.
For the first year Of the war in
England, all was confusion so lar as
the tremendous woman.power was con.
cerned.
Our emergency work consists Of
two branches: First, to list and cetalog
the women who are already organized,
and, second. to organize women not al
ready organized, find out what such
women can do. assign them to def
mite place in the scheme Of national
organization, and train those who need
1t to do something useful in war.
ut is important for the farm woman
to realize that her most efficient work
is to keep up the food supply. 1t is
important for the stenographer to use
her business Acknowledgement to become
Red Cross nurse. 1t is important for
the woman who knows how to cook to
be registered for that kind Of work.
Chairman have been selected in
81 states; in many states the larger,
and in some cases the smaller cities,
are organized and at work. Our regis
tration bureau is in Washington, where