The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-17
,nlEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
A REAL. AMERICAN.

served.
A REAL AMERICAN.
There is something typically American
i'll the letter of Lieutenant Otto Still
niger to his parents Mr.. and Mrs. Still
niger of Moscow. He had been on the
fighting front for weeks in the midst
of the fiercest fighting during the clos
mig days of the war. He had seen his
companions shot down at his side. He
had seen sights that made his heart
sick, but he continued at his work and
fired the last shot at the Huns just as
the clock struck II on the 11th day Of
the 18th month of the year. when the
Huns laid down their arms and quit.
During all of this fighting. when eve
~ minute might be his last he did not
write to his parents and friends where
he was If he was to die he would die
as an American, doing his duty, and
would save his parents and friends the
worry he knew they would endure had
they known of his peril. When he came
through alive and unwounded and the
danger was all over. he wrote his par
eents and told them where he had been
and what he had seen.
1--WE may go to Germany as part of
the army of occupation he wrote, but
| don't care to 60 We are through
and am ready to go home. | have
seen enough"
Isn't that typically American? The
Huns could not win against a spirit
ike that-a spirit that thought of Others
first, but did its duty quietly and we'll
and when that duty was done, wished to
return to the peaceful pursuits and the
quiet life of peace times 1t is that spir-
it manifested by 100000 of the very
flower of young American manhood |
that brought the war to an end one
year before the English and French be-
lieved it could be ended.
It is the true American spirit
PLAY FAIR.
1t has repeatedly come to our atten
iioii tlidt SOfllc OISdlllLdllOllS are COLI
Quoted on rather peculiar plan SO far as
their attitude toward the press is CON
cerned
Before meeting the notices are num-
the quantity of free advertising that
seems desirable. $
When the more or less important :
meeting or other event is over, however, Z
nobody goes an inch ont of his way |
to notify the press of what was done. b
The free advertising notices are not fol- i
lowed by compensating notices of what $
was doing and this system is very I'M Y
FAIR
The press. which gives freely of its
space to boost organization is surely t
entitled to consideration after the t
boosting period is deemed past and the +
Jews period commences. - Kootenai tt
Jalley Times v
-UT COST OF WHEAT TRANS g
PORTING. F
10y utiilZliS ii lOSSHiS DIN Oetd "
wheat the county agent of !.
Vallowa county, Oregon, brought about -.
saving of between $4,000 and $4,000 -
, the farmers i'll one section of the =
'''.'y' -'''N.'''o' - '"0 go p''''> ic
,rvice commission was called to the !:
lct that the logging railroad, by han -
ing the wheat could save farmers a
part of the trouble and ex
,nse of a 40-mile haul to a railroad of
alton. Upon the recommendation of the he
mmission the logging railway hauled no
1000 bushels of wheat, which was NOV as
at about one-ha1f the cost of hauling III,
the usual way-Orofino Tribune bo
- 1or
The people of Moscow and al of La
country certainly have a kick conf
3" on the new time card rof the Dire
ashington, Idaho & Montana railroad. VIII
,e train now leaves Palouse short DO,
ne before the arrival of .he first me
in from the south, and then stops at gar
tlatch two hours IF one wants to knc
ch Potfatch or Bovi1l from Moscow
nesee, Kendrick, Troy or Jnliaetta Y
must drive from Palouse to Pot nev
h or remain in Palouse over night, VIII
nding about % hours there if one star
yes here on the AS train AS Mo
1T no one from south of Palouse han
IS any town on the W., |. & M. rail Gro