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Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21
"0ver the Top
Dy An American Soldier
Who Went
ARTHUR GUY EHPEY
Machine Csnasr Serpise m Frsnes

MsshIns Cgaas, SeleIas b F,saes

tOupYrlahi III ~ Arthuf taT hmpnD
roo DianEety piank aud. I hav,
been trying 20 raise you for ffteer
minutes. What's the mntter. are you
aslcepr dust rs n anyone could
have slept In that Internal racket y
Never mind framing a nasty answer
I Just listen
"'Are you game for putting some.
thing over on the Boches and Old Pep.
I per all In oner
II answered that was game enough
when Il came TO putting II over the
Bochcs, but confessed that had a
weakening Of the spine. even at the
mention Of Old Peppers name.
"IIe came back with. It's 20 absurd.
ly easy and simple that there Is no
chnnce Of the old heather rumbllng n.
Anyway, II we're caught, I'll take the
blame
Under these condition told him 10
spit out his scheme. II was 30 daring
and simple that II took my breath
away. This Is what he proposed:
"If the Boches should use that road
again, to send by the tap system the
target and range. had previously
told him about our captain talking out
loud rs II he were sending through
orders. Well, II this happened. was
10 send the dope 90 Cassell aud he
would transmit Il 10 the battery com
mandcr as officially coming through
the observation post Then the bat.
terry would open up. Afterwards, dur
Ing the investigation. Cassell would
swear he received u direct. They
would have 10 relieve him. because Il
wns impossible from his post In the
battery dugout TO know that the road
wns being used at that time by the
Germans. And also II was impossible
for INN 90 give the target. range and
degrees. You know a battery chart Is
not passed around among the men like
newspaper from Blighty. From him /
the investigation would go 10 the OBJ |
servatlon post, and the observing OH /
Ger could truthfully swear that I had
not sent the message by phone. and
that no orders 10 FIRE had been issued
by him. The investigators would then
be up In the air, we would be safe, the
Boches would receive u good bashlng.
and we would get our own back on Old
Pepper. II was too good 20 be true.
/ gleefully fell In with the scheme,
and told Cassell was his meat.
"Then I waited with beating heart
and watched the captain like u hawk.
"IIe was beginning 10 fidget again
and was drumming on the sandbags
with his feet. Al last. turning to me,
he said:
Wilson, this army Il a blankety
blank washout What's the use OF hnv.
Ing artillery II u Is not allowed 20 fret
The government at home ought 10 be
hanged with some OF their red tape.
It's through them that we have no
shells
Il answered. Yes, SIR and started
sending this opinion over the wire 20
Iassell, but the captain interrupted
ne with: 4,
"'Keep those Internal fingers stili
What's the matter, getting the nervesi |
When I'm talking TO you, pay atten- 1
Ion A
my heart sank. Surprising he had :
umbled that tapping. then oil would r
" up with our plan. | stopped drum n
ming with my fingers and said: s
"'Beg your pardon, sir. just u habit {
With me- I
"'And a id silly one, too he an h
wcrcd. turning TO his glasses again. b
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21

LAND oWNERS:-If you want
to sell your farm list il with us inn
mediately. We are in touch with
men who are anxious TO buy land
at good prices. We are likely to
have a buyer waiting for just such
a place as yours.
BOULDIN a TATE
Phone 217. Cherokee Bldg.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21

Smithson Water delivered Tues.
days and Saturdays. Phone $751;.
advertisement.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21
COTTAGE FOR RENT

At l04 West 18th street, z rooms,
bath, gas, electric lights and city
water. Garden and fruit trees. I'm
mediate possession. 500 a year.
CHAS. M. MEACHAM.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21

Miss Esther Cleveland, daughter
Of the late Grover Cleveland. Presi-
dent Of the United States. was mar.
ried Thursday in Westminster Abbey
20 Captain W. S. Bosanquet. ID. IS. o.
Of the ColdstFesm Guards and son of
Sir Albert Bosanquet Miss Cleve.
land was born IN the White House Al
Washington, In October. 1898. during
the second administration Of her
father.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21

Germany has notified neutral Am.
bassadors that she will seize Amer
can property in Germany in retalia.
ton for our seizures " this country.
That will not be a paying game. since
there - one hundred times IA much
Lcts-en property here as there il
American property in Germany.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21

WANTED-Young man with some
experience TO learn business Of
printer-prcssman, under draft age
and II possible without military as
pirations.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21

supply now ON hand at Kontuck-
ian Office at 2 10 cents each.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21

Senator Thos. A. Combs. Of Fay
cite. has resigned 10 accept federal
bank position.
Austrian aviators are said 70 be
sparing Rome from bombs on account
of the Pope.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21
SEATS ON SALE

Seats for the Private Peat Leetur,
at The Tabernacle March 80, are nov
on sale az the Campbell Coates Drug
Companys Store. Adults 90 cents,
children 80 cents. No reservations.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21
FOR REMIT

Four room cottage-Call Miss
Croft, 273.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21

FOR SALE-Dark Cornish egg
for Matching. 50 for Is.
DIR. C. II. TANDY.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21
Preferred Locals
FOR SALE.

White Wyandotte eggs for hatch.
ing. MRS. G. Z. BREWER,
Clarksville Pike.
Daily Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1918-191?, 1918-03-21

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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-27
Men as Food Slackers

A woman writing in the March
Woman's Home Companion asks men
to stop scolding her sex and look to
their own faults. and she says:
I'D like to see a count taken of the
men who've given up eating butter and
sweets to help win this war, and the
women who have given up these two
things! 1t might check some of these
persistent scolders of the American
housewife and her patriotism. Only a
few days ago a friend of mine said to
me: 1T would all be so easy If it were
not for Arthur. He does so love heavy,
sweet desserts, and he wants to have
steak or roast beef every night for
dinner and bacon every morning for
breakfast. l can't make him see that
it does matter, even If we have the
money to buy these things. try to
tell him that it's a matter OF honor not
to eat them all the time. so that there'll
be enough to go around for everybody
But he only acts peevish and wants to
increase my house allowance
ITS incidents like this that have
brought me to the profound belief that
after the food administration has
shown the women what they can do to
save food and check waste, then,
the real work will begin. for they'll
have to make all the heavy middle
aged men with long -indulged appetites
come up to the scratch, too"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-27
rs Years Ago
What Missoula Was Doing
on This Date in 1893.

Mrs. John w. Lister returned yes
terday from a short visit with relatives
in Deer Lodge.
Joe Deschamps was setting up wine
today in honor Of 12-pound boy
who came as an addition to his family
at $50 this morning,
A fire occurred in c. A Stillinger's
at Ravalli on Friday evening, dam
aging the stock to the extent Of $1,000
The fire is supposed to have origi-
mated through the carelessness OF
some Indians smoking on the prem
ises. The loss is fully covered by in
surance.
At a meeting of the school board
held on Saturday, Miss Mamie Sloane
was chosen as teacher to the Central
school to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Miss Williams, who
ic compelled on account of i'll health
to give up the work. Miss Emily
Reeves was chosen to act as supply
teacher for the remainder of the term
The Muscular will be represented
at the Maher- Needham prize fight al
Butte tomorrow night in the person
of Clark Griffith. who will report the
event in fun for this paper.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-27
Presidential
Price Fixing
(E'rom the Helena independently

(E'rom the Helena independently
There are just two things that must
be done to save wheat for the allies.
The price of substitutes for wheat
must be fixed so the farmer will be
| encouraged to produce the substitutes
and so the housewife will not buy
wheat products because they are
cheaper.
Win the food administration never
realize this fact?
Win not the pocketbooks OF both
farmers and common people ever be
given hearing before Hoover and the
president?
Hoover says Use substitutes" and
Immediately the substitutes advance
in price until the housewife cannot af-
ford them and buys wheat products
because the price is fixed
Grow wheatS' says Hoover, and
ten thousand tongues echo his cry.
And what happens?
The grain spectators or some one
or something, Immediately boosts the
price for grains other than wheat, so
the farmers. while making good
profit on wheat, can make twice as
much producing oats
If farmer can make 81 bushcl
clear producing wheat at 50 a busheI
he is making q good profit and 1t
might be said should be satisfied.
But when oats are $685. per hundred
and the same farmer can make $2.55
per hundred and just as sure OF a
crop or even more sure than in try
ing to produce wheat. 1t is useless to
say what the farmer Is going to plant
and harvest.
So the legislature has time to do
one thing more--just one more resoh-
ton memorializing congress.
DO not ask for a higher price for
wheat but insist that the price Of
wheat substitutes he fixed so that
the farmer will produce wheat and
make the maximum of profit and so
the housewife can buy substitutes for
wheat and save money with which to
buy Liberty bonds.
You cannot rob the people and sell
them substitutes at the same time.
The people are being robbed when they
pay the present prices for the wheat
substitutes and at the same time the
farmer Is being paid a premium--of-
fered extra inducements for not grow
ing wheat. 1t is all right to theorize
back in Washington but the facts stare
the farmers and the bread winners in
the face. The governor or the council
OF defense should be given authority
by the legislature to take the matter
up direct with the president and food
administration and insist on a hearing
and expect favorable consideration.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-27

indecisive war. We have, in our
own country, a vast number OF
|credulous people who would end
this war on the terms that would
permit Germany to prepare for
another. We must fight that
spirit as well as fight the Ger
mans, and thus far we have hard
ly had taste of the war. If Ger
many will agree with the other
warning countries to full and
complete disarmament, and a
way could be found to preserve
that agreement, then we might
say that the way for peace was
open. But until that form Of
agreement can be reached and
maintained, we cannot see how it
would be worth while to enter
into an actual peace conference
with delegated commissioners, on
the vague line that Won Heriling
discloscs.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-27
Music and Movies Drive Off
Any Lurking Gloom in Paris
Noted American Writers Visit Cinema Palace and Inter-
rupt HandHoding of Poilu and His Girl

home; although, like at home, they are
not all bad.
But the music! 1t wa sa treat to
such starved souls as ours.
1t was good music, and they weren't
stingy with it, they see sawed right
along, and shifted the well known
classic and popular bits instantane-
ously to fit the varying phases of the
picture. even playing 1.-The Death of
Asa. for the final scene of the death
of the repentant young woman, when,
thank heavens. she died at last.
The movies have their place. If you
never thought it before you would if
YOU could look at the faces of those
poilus as they filed out, humming.
There We're lots of them, come to en-
joy the music and the movies; and the
darkness and the hand holding!
More music, we must have more
music.
What should it be; heavy opera,
welterweight or featherweight, which
last Is better known as musical COM
edy?.
Guess. and you'll guess rightly IL you
can pat yourself in the position of
those who have sometimes liked music
with their meals. A kind French
gentleman, who runs theater ticket
agency, told us about a revue which
had a Broadway chorus: and we shall
like him always!
The show was all right. But listen
At the close of the first act, they
introduced a regular, genuine, imported
| jazz band. known here as a "sherbo!'
We sometimes used to sniff a little
: at that music, back home; we USED
: sometimes to think 1t was low, and
/, common. and all that: but goodness
| gracious! 1t was like a sight of the
Statue of Liberty. and the tall build
| ings along the battery, and the Broad
| way trenches. and all the other dear
| delight of home. That jazz band
| played again from a balcony out In
the big promenade foyer, all through
| the long intermlsslon, played lickety;
| split, thumpety- thump, whang, bang
| slam, with the triangles and the bells
and the big bass drum. and some
saxophones for the well-known moan
and everything!
| OF course there was no dancing in
| n country where there is so much sor-
| row. but never have We seen anything
| so lift up and exhilarate concourse OF
totally mixed people as did that Won
| derful, that marvellous, that miracu-
lous jazz band! .-.
Eye sparkled into eye. and gleefu
smile answered gleeful smile, shoulders
swayed and feet irresistibly lifted in
time to the music, despite the slow
shuttle compelled by the packed crowd
But the most joyous faces we saw
were those of a group of queer looking
poilus, with the lower corners of their
overcoats pinned back. and big
wrinkled boots, and boards growing al
most any place.
They stood slouchily and had a gen.
eral air of elderly negligence. which
| was striking, to say the least, for SOL
diers: but the most striking thing was
the joyous CLEAN in their eyes!
We asked an American officer about
them, a doctor who has seen a lot of
| service. He laughed.
"oh, they don't care much about
the finer points Of drill and dress
parade. They can't do anything
but just fight. Their entire rsei-
msnt was decorated. They're get.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-27
A FINISH FIGHT OR NOT?

The time may not be far dis
tant when the American people
must decide whether this war is
to be a preliminary, or tryout, for
another great and decisive con-
flict of arms within the next dec
ade. 1t must be either that or
a gruelling, determined and cost
~ war that will rid the world of
war for all time. That may be a
long job and bring very great sac
rifice and suffering, but, as we
view it, this is the only way to
achieve the purpose of the war
which, as the president has said
is 10 make the world safe for
democracy
We do not submit this as a new
thought. We refer to it because
it was made timely by, Count Won
Hertling's suggestion Ola partial
agreement with President Viii
sons stipulations and the further,
but more important proposal, that
the warning nations, through
chosen delegates, meet around
the table and talk thingseyer.
Germany can we'll afford to end
this war on terms which would
admit of her withdrawal Of con-
qnered territory and PREPARATION
for wrongs. She would still be left
With her territory untouched, and
with such dominating influence
over the nations allied with hel
as to virtually make them por-
tions Of her empire. As matters
stand, she would not only be riC
Of one enemy, Russia, but through
the extension Of her cunnins
propaganda, would, within {
short time, if left unrestrained
establish an influence in tina
torn territory as to make it some
thing like an ally for future con
tingencies. In other words, if tn,
war would end now on the gen
eral program that Won Hertlini
proposes, the German dream of
middle European empire woul
be realized, and then would begi
preparations for another struggl
for tho mastery of the world.
The thing we fear most is q
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-27
BY GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER
AND LILLIAN CHESTER.

Copyright 1918, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association.
Paris, Feb. 26.--There was a sudden
noise overhead that startled us as
much as u bomb could have done. We
looked at each other stupidity ana
then with comprehension and delight.
Now we knew what we had been
missing all this time; now We knew
the cause of our vague unrest; now
we knew what was the matter with
the luncheon and tea, and dinner
places; with everything. MUSIC!
That Is. the lack of it!
Somebody up there had opened c.
piano, and was wildly hammering
away at little snatches of everything,
higgledy-piggledy. from Chopin to
ragtime. Work? It became suddenly
impossible, for we had made a. great
discovery: we had been as serious
about the war as the war itself. which
was the same thing as trying to be as
big as the infinite.
Of course, we all know that the war
Is no joke! A man who could find
real huinor in this international in
| of his life In a morgue: but there is a
we'll known fable of the frog which
tried to swell himself UP to be as big
asrthe OK he wished to fight, and, re-
membering his highly scattered fate.
we ceased, for the time being. to try to
attain, in receptiveness at least, the
dimensions Of the cloud which hangs
over Europe and civilization, and
| started out to find amusement. not
| placid rigid. stiff amusement. like din
ing out or n symphony concert or n
| lecture, but real live amusement. such
as regular restless Americans know.
The movies! Tho sign "or-
chestre- Cinema" with its insidi-
Gus promise, in the name, OF
auenching the fever which burned
in our veins, settled the question.
1t was much more like home than
anything. All dark in there. and an
usher with an inadequate flashlight
to guide your stumbling footsteps. and
a five piece orchestra saving away 1t
the latest musical comedy hits from
Broadway, Piccadilly. and the Boule-
| wards; the same ineffable essence of
air which has never felt sunlight, and
the same big woman with the fat
| knees. who makes no more room for
You to pass when she stands up than
| when she's sitting.
All. those movies,
| The first treat to unreel before our
| astonished eyes n Coincide Comique
Americana.
Two of our best known and justly
infamous acrobatic screen comedians
| INDUCED in a mad knock about. which
had no head nor tail as to plot or even
incident, which left the intellect stupe-
| fled and the reason insulted.
| All, but wait. The next picture was
| a French one, where We knew immedi-
ately the heroine's appalling virtue by
the fact that she was totally uninter-
esting, and that all the dramatics
would SO to the wicked young woman
in the beautiful gowns, who, in her
death-bed repentance. would be ever
SO much more sympathetic than any
body who had ever been good
We are happy to be able to report
to the anxiously waiting American
public that the movies in France are
Just as ghastly as they average at
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-27
WAKE UP.

We do not think it good bust.
ness to give something for moth
ing, but for the sake of convinc-
ling some critics Of The Nilsson
liam that it is not alone in its
criticism of the conduct Of the
war, we press-agent an article in
a current number Of Golfers by
Mark Sullivan, entitled "Wake
Up" We hope that all Of our
critics will read it and if, after
reading. they arc still uncon-
WINGED that things are going
badly at Washington, we will
have to put them down as hope
less for the understanding of facts
and arguments.
Mr.. Sullivan, it should be re-
membered, is neither an alarmist
nor a fly-bynight, hit or miss,
imagazinist. He gathers facts and
statistics and reaches conclusions
which are not often wrong. This
article relates to the govern
ment's failure to solve the ship
Iping problem.
Referring to the recent coal
crisis, Mr.. Sullivan says that it
was merely a "prcmonitory trcm-
or" compared to the crisis we are
destined to come upon sometime
during the next few months. He
adds, "Now, if in February, the
lack Of ships is an inconvenience,
in June it is going to be calami-
tv and there are not words in the
dictionary too eXtravagant to eX-
press how serious it is going to
be-"
The gist of the situation is that
the Germans are sinking ship
tonnage faster than we are get
ting it out. The people have
been misinformed as to facts.
Mr., Sullivan paints a most UNI
pheasant plctllrc Oh the results OIL
delay, incompetence and unprc-
parcdness, on the part of The
shipbuilding department of the
government, and we do not be-
lievc he should be regarded
iharshly for telling what seems to
us to be the truth, There is moth
ing to be gained in any crisis OF
! life by lulling ourselves to sleep
We have been in this war more
than ten months and conditions
are far too serious to admit for a
moment that sound criticism
should be regarded as an attack
on the government. We all want
to win the war, but we want those
in charge of affairs to understand
that if they cannot deliver the
goods, they must get help or pre-
pare for a shakeout.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-27
ting their first iay.off in two
years. They're from verdun!"

We took another look: a good. long,
hard. earnest look. Those fellows had
been strong enough to go through two
years of concentrated Hades: they had
been tenacious enough to live through
conditions which four years ago would
have been declared impossible: they
had been reckless enough to expose
themselves to fatality SO often that
the imminence Of death must have
seemed the normal condition: they
were simple hearted enough. after all
that, to reap the keenest of enjoyment
,out OF jazz band; and. as we watched
them. we knew that such men. men
with that elasticity Of spirit, which is
the secret of the ever-renewed spirit
of France, can HOLD ANOTHER
yERDUN!
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