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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07
Crops and Hoppers.

Editor Missoulian:
Articles too numerous to read are
printed and speeches too foolish for
consideration are made to urge the
farmer to plow and to plant more
land for 1913. How much more con
sistent, would it be if our federal gov
eminent would give financial assist
ance to Fiathead farmers to save the
acreage now planted and endangered
by the grasshoppers. The bitches and
the roadsides produced the first hatch
ings of this pest as crops began to
grow. AS grasshoppers were Of a size
to travel they have spread over the
crops, and all may yet be n total loss
in this locality.
MRS. RANDEI4S.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

If the police had not interfered at
the end of the first round we would
know how 10 award the championship
in the contest between Colonel Roose-
last evening. We advise both to con-
serv" their Jung power lest the at
tentiun OF the public be distracted
from the big .inaIe with Germany.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

Get in The MiSSOulEan'S contest for
the best war slogan. 1t will cost moth
ing more than a mental effort and
may provide :, real inspiration for the
community in war time 1t may help
to send Il doubling eligible to the
front.
a slogan is a war cry or gathering
word and comes to MS from the ,lays
when the Highland clans were sum-
moned from their mountain lairs to
battle.
In this contest iii" slogan may lie Il
war cry or the title to "A patriotic
song. hut it should be short and with
Il swinging punch.
Two correspondents have sent
these: KNOCK the tar out Of mill
1arism." and KNOCK the germ out OF
Germany. Another writes. "Serve o
suffer, take your choice" Still anoth
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07
A HOE OR A BOUQUET.

As it is estimated that the local gar
dens will have produced millions of
dollars worth Of vegetables by the end
OF the season. the back yard gardener
Is beginning to WELD his hoe like a
bayOnet and to strut around and
dream about a war service medal on
account Of his prize radish.-Chicago
Daily News
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

to meet them. Some one observed in
congress the 'other day that it would
be far better for the government to
control the prices of foodstuffs than
the spectators, and all sensible people
will agree that the point Is well taken.
for IL the government does not control
the prices the spectators will, and we
shall be robbed right and left.-Salt
Lake Tribune.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

We may well feel Sleptical over the
report that Mexico VIII take n WALTON
at Germany, just to show that she is
our good neighbor. Somehow, we re-
bulldog.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

Having tried the South American
brand of republic, China prefers n
monarchy. After the war is off his
hands Uncle Sam will send over a few
of the senat oral bankers to talk China
into trying the real thing.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

England has found it advisable
resort to the gathering of garden |
and weeds for medicinal purposes.
old-fashioned industry had fallen
disuse until the drug supply from
many was cut off.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

Charlie Chaplin may soon regard
himself as the prize martyr of the war.
His salary Of 81 900 900 will be marked
down to $40 If he is cunscripted as a
private in the army.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

Since Germany still refuses to be-
lieve that American troops have
landed in France General Pershing
may have to shell a message annornc-
ing his arrival.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

Mr.. Joseph Hergesheimer has en-
says IN the Saturday Evening Post
that he is a serious writer. We thought
he was a joke.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

in Miss Rankin's office and two hours
later counted II new names. So you
see how many callers she has.
i All the honor. showered upon her has
not turned her head. She Is so con-
genial and willing to listen to every
body who comes to her. l have Miss
Jeanette Rankin to thank for a very
enjoyable day in the capital of the
Emitted States.
r. ANnERCn%
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

Won Hindenburg and the kaiser had
a family scowl party when they heard
that Russia refused to take the count.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

It is satisfactory to note that the
exchanging bullets instead of cigaretts.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

"A shelf loaded with filled cans Will
defense council.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

We would like to see it rain and
then some as evidence that Colt is
nicht nit Deutschland aber nit uns.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

Japan viii not get actively into the
big show until the box office receipts
are counted.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

er writes: Don't be Stacker. be =
pbacker.s
The good slogans will be printed a.
they are received.
For the best slogan The Muscular
Ii the winner is already a subscriber,
The Missonlian will be continued for
year after the subscription expires.
Slogans should be sent to the editor
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

Governments that need mending
should send for Or. E.lihE Root.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07

The United States Marines.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-07-07
Marry Men-Not "Siacksrs."

A. G. ANDERSON
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
The Sophomore Decade

Supposing YOU to have reached that
ridgepole of the world, the age of thirty
five. what comes after? The sophomore
decade we are moved to assert, basng our
ANALYSIS upon some experience and mucn
observation. Surprising you to be IN that
decade, have you, by chance. attended a
college dinner of your contemporaries!
Your Fifteenth Reunion. let us say. II you
have. we will risk much on the guess that
il was a rather solemn and redoubtab!e
affair. Your great men were there III all
their new found greatness, duly serious, as
must be all great men, and never quite
daring to unbend and revert to real human
nature as do the much experienced great
for whom dignity has become a bore and
q nuisance.
And who are these rough, cheering
Youngsters FOSTERING in like parcel OF
upstarts? Freshmen surely, by their be-
havior. But no; they are aged alumni
like yourselves. celebrating their Tenth Re
union in an adjoining room. Can I'VE years
make such difference? We know 1t does.
II there is TO be freshman decade 1t can
be fixed from twenty-five to thirty-hve'
Those rough yodelers, ten years out OF col
lege. who invaded your solemn reunion,
are almost as impudent and cocksure and
hopeful in their attitude toward life as any
beginning undergraduate. Little they know
of how the gay thing is going to play them
false and suddenly trip them up at thirty
five with a realization of the enormous So
lemnty of existence and your colossal duty
to the universe.
Somewhere beyond this solemn period
lies. of course, relief. Nobody could exist
to old age, otherwise. Something happens
at the halfway post comparable to the
deflation after sophomore year IN college.
Your relation to the universe reverts to
normal, you cease strutting and jog along
Ike everybody else. And by the time you
are ripe for your fortieth reunion The
cycle is complete, and you are far more like
those larking freshmen, ten years out
of college. than sophomore demi-gods
astride the world in the late and SOL
emn thirties.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
A Rule-or-Ruin Policy

The rule-or-ruin policy behind the threat
of general railroad strike was revealed
perhaps Inadvertently w. G. Lee, one
of the brotherhood leaders, when he said:
"The coustry is in danger of war. We
may go TO war next week, next month, any
time soon. Therefore we are going to get
the eight-hour day before we go TO war"
This was confession that the brother
hoods we're trying to wiring a personal adj
vantage out of great national crisis
They we're putting their own welfare above
the safety of the country. to which they
profess loyalty only in 50 far as that 10y
atty will not interfere with their own in
tcrests. They are engaged in a public ser
regulated by the state governments
and by the Federal government. Yet they
have refused to acknowledge any obliga-
ton to the public, which is now more than
ever before dependent on uninterrupted
railroad transportation for food supplies
necessary to sustain life.
The programme of the brotherhoods has
been unpatriotic. 1t has also been arbi-
trary and mistaken. 1t is an altogether
groundless assumption that if war comes
the brotherhoods will have to wait until it
is ended before they get the eight-hour
day (the eght-hour day meaning to them
ten hours pay for eight hours work. q.
Congress passed law giving them the
wage increase which they asked and Great
ing a commission to consider whether that
increase should not be made permanent
The Supreme Court is about to decide
whether that law is constitutional. If the
decision is favorable 10 them, Congress is
pretty certain 20 continue the increase
indefinitely.
Even if the court finds the law uncon-
stitutional. the railroad men still have
remedy in sight. When the country goes
TO war the railroads will be put under
much strictcr governmental control. The
President will be authorized to operate
them il he thinks it necessary to do so.
His representatives can introduce the
eight-hour day and can raise wages either
directly or indirectly. Freight charges are
now regulated by the government 1t is
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
Martial Law for Labor Leader

To the Editor of Tho Tribune.
Sir: 1t would seem almost unbelievable
that at time like this there could be men
so unpatriotic and unprincipled as TO de-
liberately threaten, unless their selfish de-
mands are complied with, to tic up the rail
transportation of the entire country. Out
side of the nations open enemies, it is safe
TO say that no other such men could be found
except these pOwer-drunken and wholly un-
principled labor leaders. In my judgment
they arc trying their highwaymen game once
too often, and they will try it at their peril!
Is it not perfectly evident that these
vicious and constituencies trouble-makers arc
the enemies of the country, deliberately con-
spring against the country's safety? I'm
less they desist they should be promptly ar
rested and punished. even if TO do this the
declaration of martial law be necessary
New York. March IL, 1917. W. c. c.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
Lysutey

The resignation Of General Lyaut"y
French Minister Of War. is one of the
most disturbing and disappointing things
that have happened in France during the
wal II is a clear success Of the small
politicians who have sacrificed national
interest to petty personal ambition.
General Lyautey is the greatest among
French colonial governors. To him is
due the great success Of Morocco, and in
that empire he disclosed qualities which
should have made him one Of the greatest
resources Of France at the present time.
Unhappily he lacked the small graccs
which would have enabled him to satisfy
the vanity Of legislators as well as to de-
fend his country.
General Lyautey has resigned on many
previous occasions. He was out for some
hours on February 3. and, long before
that. Paris and France had recognized
that his tenure of Office would be but short.
Friends of France in this country will
view the fall of General Lyautey with re-
gret, both as it deprives France of the
services of a necessary man and as it dis
closes a condition which cannot be re-
assuring.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
Why Farmers Keep Autos

(frcm The Portland Orepohiu''
II is natural. when one studies the situa-
ton. that the farmers of the country should
now be buying half the automobiles That
are on the market Aside from the fact that
the farmer has had year Of exceptional
prosperity and hat the distances l." travels
make some vehicle an economic necessity
ne is in a better position to keep an auto
mobile at a minimum expense than IS the
city man. In the first place, he Is likely 20
be something of machinist and viii do a
good deal Of bis own repair work, being
forced by his distance from town to rely
on his own resources. Then he IS likely 70
have barn or shea already built, and VIII
be put to no expense for the building or
rent OF garage. Almost every time he
qoes anywhere nc saves time that Is an
asset TO his business. II he is wise, posses
sion Of the automobile enables him to re-
ducc the number Of his horses sufficiently
to pay for the gasolene he consumes. The
city man has 70 such offsets, and unless he
uses the automobile in his business nc
must figure on a clear added expense
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
China and the Huns

1t is less than twenty years ago that
the German Emperor bade German troops
departing for China to remember the eX-
ample of Attila and his Huns. There is
certain measure of irony in the fact that
China has now joined the civilized nations
of the West in a crusade against the mod
crn Hun.
China will do Germany little harm on
the battlefield, but the entrance OF emma
into the great war will mean the uprootlng
and destruction of all German commercial
establishments in the Far East. II Will
mean one more step in the steady elimina-
ton of all that commercial and business
empire which German industry, patience
and genius created over many years.
This is the real and enduring material
loss of the German in the present war, and,
since moral considerations are nothing to
The contemporary German, it must be the
greatest loss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
The Tariff Board

Republicans in Congress have undoubt-
eddy a right to grumble at President Will
sons nominations for members of the
Tariff Board. Congress intended to have
both parties represented on the board But
the President has violated the spirit OF
the law by naming no Republicans, just
as he did in the case of the Federal Trade
Commission a couple of years ago.
We do not think, however, that the per
sonnet of the new board is just now of any
great importance For the four years of
Mr.. Wilson'S second term it is likely to
pursue a merely negative, watchful wait
ing policy. It's members have little SYM
patty with the purposes for which tariff
commission should exist. They are evil
IDENTIFY expected simply to mark time, while
the great economic readjustments in Eu-
rope which will follow peace are being ac-
complished. The war has wiped away
many old economic notions. 1t has up
rooted the doctrines of the John Stuart
Mill school. of which the chairman of the
new Tariff Board has been so distinguished
a prophet in this country. It will lead to
a vast reorganization of economic rela-
tions, in which the United States must
eventually share, but at which the Demo
cratic party here will look askance so long
as it remains in control of the government
To our way of thinking, it is of minor
consequence what men now fill the places
on the Tariff Commission. But it is OF
great advantage to the United States "a
have an administrative body established
which will some day do the constructive
work which tariff board ought to do. Our
American tariff policy has been sound, but
it has not always been intelligently ap-
Piled In the years after the war there
will be greater need than ever for its m
teligent application, since other nations
will be using their tariffs more energetical-
~ than ever before for purposes of ma
tional recuperation and Development AS
one of the first advocates of the commits
sion plan of adapting tariffs to national
needs, The Tribune welcomes the creation
of the new board and expects it eventually
to rise to the full measure Of its usefulness
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
a Requiem for Victims and Assassin.

To tho Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: read in the newspapers a notice to
the effect that the Berlioz Requiem" il to
be given on April at the llippodrome as a
memorial TO the dead Of all nations engaged
in the European war.
|, for my part, as the representative Of our
society. and in the name Of all Alsatians.
want to lodge my most emphatic protest
against seeing the assassins and their vic
tins comprised in the same memorial. and,
what is worse. with a requiem by our Ber-
lioz, who would certainly turn in his grave il
he should know about this outrage
CLEMENT RUEFF.
President Of Les Amis dc lAlsacc- Lorraine
New York, March IL, 1911
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
A Foolish Complaint Reiterated

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: In your issue of the Sth inst. you
repeat in an editorial a statement made on 4
former occasion, TO wit: ct is one Of the
oldest and most foolish complaints OF ne
anti-viyisectionists that experiments on snl'
mails are done in secret
The law has created an imperum in m
perio in every medical college in the STATE
The yiyisectors arc the sole autocrats Of ms
institution. They are the sole judges Of ne
right and wrong Of every operation. On
their own testimony, they perform deeds On
animals which. if done in public. would mess
their being torn to pieces by an infursi'
mob
The talk about our complaint being 90
and foolish is mere driyel beside the million
times more important scenes Of scienih'
murder performed in those secret chamos'
Of death the medical Laboratories.
We ask that the Board Of Regents spPn
two or more medically educated, impsr',.
humanitarian inspectors TO investigate -
doings of the viyisectors Of this state.
WILLIAM R. BRADSHAW
Lecturer of the New York Anti-Yivisee'''
Society.
New York, March 10, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
Persia s Opportunity
New York, March Il, 1911.
itor Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: This war, if nothing else. is god
send 10 Persia. The war will do for Per-
sia what it would have taken couple of cen
turtles to accomplishment is, if the Allies
are victorious.
Persia. one OF the Oldest If not the Oldest
nation. is to-day considered on level with
Mexico. Some people say that the unique
religion is the cause. This may in part be
true but most assuredy Turkish suppression
has been far greater hindrsnce in Persia's
climb to civilization. Constantinople and
the Strait of Ormuz have been the effective
Turkish weapons.
The small republic of Guatemala, with a
population of two millions, has an army Of
one hundred and fifty thousand picked troops,
whereas sixty thousand poorly equipped men
represent the ten million people Of Persia.
he educational system has been as misera-
bly, neglected. Since the last ten years Per
STA has installed a constitutional government
with Sultan at its head 1t is governed by
Senate and n National Council Only one
thousand two hundred foreigners live in
Persia.
Il. az ! said before. the Entente is victori
Gus. the Strait of Bosporus will be thrown
open to the world and Persias wonderful raw
materials will act as a magnet TO the larger
nations of the world. Commerce is the foun-
daton Of civilization. and I earnestly hope
that in Persia's case il will not be contrary
to the custom.
LESTER A. GOTTSCHALK.
New York. March l3, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
The Money Element in Opera

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: ! have read with much interest the
article Of H. G. Owen. in Saturdays issue,
under the heading OF yesterdays Singers
Best"
OF course, entirely agree with your cor
respondents contention that the singers Of
the latter part Of the last century we're far
superior to those Of the present generation.
His statements in the minor parts however.
deserve criticism.
have followed grand opera very closely
for many years. having been a regular opera
goer at the Theatre National de rOpera.
Paris; Covent Garden, London, and the Met
rcpoitan Opera House, New York ! fail en-
tirely to sec why the older operas. such as
Rossins "Semiramde' Verdi's LA Fora
del Destino" or Meyerbeer's "Les Hugue-
nots"-i. G.. those whose absence from the
Metropolitan repertory is the most noticea-
bic require the services Of especially gifted
singers. Do not Lucia" "LElisir d'Amore, -
"Rigoletto" necesstate a cast of equally dis
tnguishcd and talented artists?
Does your correspondent realize the fact
that the "old-fashioned' operas are too OK
pensive to become part of the regular Met
ropolitan Opera repertory. especially when
rendered with the same standard OF excel
lonce which characteiizes the famous Broad
way institution? Take Verdi's "Ernan," for
instance. It requires about eight stars, -
whose salaries alone would be more than the
equivalent of the total receipts Of the house.
assuming that the same be filed to its ut
most capacity The same remark applies TO
all Meyerbeers operas. Resides this. the
popularity OF "old-fashioned" operas is rap.
idly decreasing, and the works Of contempt
rsry composers, such az Puccin. Gordano.
Leoncavallo and Mascagni. are daily winning
more favor. J. DEMETRE JOANIDY.
Fort Slocum y. Y March IA, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-16
Second Hand Mattresses

To tho Editor Of ne Tribune.
Sir: Thousands Of old mattresses are GU
carded every day; many Of them are ir''
sickrooms. hospitals. etc. but, instead OF y
ing destroyed, as supposed, some OF h'-
are surreptitious!y removed by Junk desi',.
While others arc eventually carted !" -
public dumps. where they arc carefully 9.
lected and sorted and the stufing so' !.
manufacturers. who even compete WIZ W
another to buy il.
This stuiins. containing, perhaps 'uO',.,
lar germs or other filthy vegetable ma.
is then used IN an appealingly sttrse''s
outer covering or ticking, and, presto.
apparently, beautiful new mattress D,
cd ard labelled as such, thus consutD'" ed
felony. and punishable by heavy nH'
Imprisonment. -ho',
These mattresses are manufactured vi s.st
sale. many OF them made in unsanl's'!
smelling factories. Easements ana "" M
houses. and 20 through retail desie', ne
ultimate consumer. the public. But o0e,
dear public ever consider that tne ri.
mattress jus, delivered at any OF ~ ma,
tial residences MAJ contain mater,ss ,,r.
composed a mattress previously usen a
sons afflicted with communicable cS.nr
other sickness? JOSEPH D.
New York, March l2 1917.