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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Heroes
Canadian Lieutenant Pays
Tribute to Wounded.

| Telling Of his experience in French
hospital, coningsby Dawson, lieuten-
ant in the Canadian Field Artillery.
pays high tribute to the courage and
srlf-forgetfnlness of the wounded men.
He writes inyGoo1 Housekeeping.
Men forget their own infirmities in
their endeayor to help each other Be-
fore the war we had phrase which
has taken on. a new meaning now:
we Used to talk about lending "A hand.
To-day we lend not only. hands, but
arms and eyes and legs. The wonder
full cnmradcship learned in the trenches
has taught men To lend their bodies to
each other-out Of two manned bodies
to make up one that IL whole, and
sound, and shared. You saw thfs all
the, time In hospital. a man whS had
only one leg would pal up with man
who had only one arm. The one armed
man would wheel the one-legged man
about the garden In a chair. at meal
times the one legged man would cut up
the one EARNED mans food for him
They had both lost something. but by
pooling what was left they managed
to own q complete body.
There Is a point | want to make
! clear before l forget it. All these men,
! whether they are. capturing Hun dug
outs at the front or taking prisoner
their own despair IN English hospitals
are perfectly ordinary and normal. Be-
fore the war they were shop assistants,
cab drivers. plumbers. lawyers. vaadc-
vile artists. They were men of no he
roic training. But something has hap
pened to them since they marched
away in KHAKI something that has
changed them They arc as complete
| ly remade as st. Paul was after he
had his vision on the road to Damas
Gus. They have brought their vision
back with them to civilian life. despite
| the lost arms and legs which they
scarcely seem TO regret: their souls still
triumph over the bodily and the tenn
poral.
"Often at the front | have thought Of
+, Christ's own explanation Of His own
unassailable peace--tn explanation
\ given to Ills disciples at the Last Sup
per, Immediately before the walk to
Gethsemanc, BE of good cheer | have
overcome the world Overcoming the
world. as I understand it. is ovcrcom-
Ing self. Fear. in its final analysis. is
nothing but selfishness. A man who is
afraid In an attack isn't thinking of
| his pals and how quickly terror
spreads: he isn't thinking Of the glory
/, that will accrue to his regiment or di-
vision IL the attack is n success; he
isn't thinking Of what he can do to
contribute 10 that success; he isn't
thinking OF the splendor OF forcing his
spirit to triumph over WEAKNESS and
nerves and the denominations that the
Huns are chucking at him. He's think
ing merely of how he can save his
worthless skin and conduct his entirely
|unimportant body to place where
there are no shells.
"In London ash saw the workaday
I, unconscious nobility of the manned
land wounded, the words. y have over.
come the world took an added depth
All these men have an I-have-ovcr-
come the. world look In their faces. 1
Is comparatively easy for soldier Will
traditions and ideals at his back Il
face death calmly: to be calm in the
face of life. as these chaps are take!
n grayer courage
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] xAH<yApks. iMlAscst 2, 1918.
A SprsEyDIU STORY.


.-sRhc news from France sends q
'Il1rill to the heart. II starts the
blood couissiilg. as We stretch ON
Vision to the foreign field wher,
scores Of American lads gave
THEIR lives yesterday IN most
: 31erUiU and successful srcsistanr.
to the Huns Who went over the
top, but We're stepped hard i'll u"
American trenches. When II wa~
an over. there Mere few lrf' of
the two hundred Huns who went
forward and the line was held.
All honor to the young West
Point captain who went with his
men into No-Man's land and at
ished the Huns who had been
driven from The first line
trenches. He lay dead on the
field. but his work was we'll done
The Huns know nov whether
Americans are too proud to fight
and We know that The spirit Of
Lexington and Gettysburg burns
as OF yorc.
Salute the first flag You see
this morning. co,intrymen. It's
Stars and Stripes have brighter
hue, and more meaning.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
The Breakdown Of German
Moral Standard.

There are hundreds of thousands of
Young women in Germany. capable of
bearing children, who are at present
unattached because of the absence of
! their husbands at the front. To Ger
man efficiency this Is n waste of hui
man material. God would not have
I endowed woman with such an impor-
tant function ii it had not been in
tended that she should use It. And to
what better use than for the father
landss Therefore, Germany proposes "A
| 'latemr marriage. A man. married,
or unmArried--it Is immaterial. only. II
married he must get his wife's pern,is-
sion--~is encouraged by the government
to form "A temporary union with one
, OF the neglected women twho must also
obtain her husbands consenn whose
consort is at war. This alliance Is To
last until a child is born. when 1t au-
Dramatically is to cease. the child being
either retained by the mother or sent
to an institution To be reared that he
may form unit in the future national
defense. II is an admirable German
scheme, quite typical OF the German
mind which suffers agony at the sight
Of anything idle that Is susceptible of
| use.
The next development concerned the
women who have been widowed
Through the war and the men who have
been SO crippled as TO be Of no further
use in the war area. The burSomas-
tiers Of the various German towns have
been instructed to obtain n list of all
war widows in the districts controlled
by them, and also a list OF all cripples.
Advertisements are N,en to be placed
| in papers known to be read by women
generally for wives for the deserving
cripples. Thus, playing the role OF
Cupid, the beneficent government will
bring together Venus and Adonis and,
as is stated in official instructions, SOW
the seed OF new generation. which
WILL in the fulness of its manhood. take
upon its shoulders the national defense.
1t. is somewhat difficult for us TO
conceive how, In this enlightened age.
a supposedly civilized nation can 50
foul the beauty of motherhood so
depreciate the great moral value Of it's
womanhood. as to turn the whole COM
munity into an official human stock
farm by making simply brood animals
out of it's women. Ii is an indication
Of the moral slough into which Ger
many has descended. so that we need
no longer wonder either at the crimes
committed by the German soldiery
GUM. or OF the complete breakdown Of
German morality.--J. b. W. Gardiner
in The Worlds Work.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
PLAN THE GARDENS.

1t Is quite time to plan for the
gardens, for ii is most important
that every available inch of land
should be utilized ihtcnsively for
gardening this year. There
should be far more work done
this season than last. We are
warned by the food department
that only by extraordinary efforts
will the United States be able to
find enough food ior its allies and
our troops abroad during the
coming eight months. The sup
ply Of wheat fell far short Of ex-
pectatioH. because not enough OF
it has been conserved by our
people.
tits within the power oil every
owner OF a piece Of ground in this
city to do a strong bit for the war
With a surprising production OF
garden truck enough exporiabic
food may be saved.
Our school board is already ac-
tive III This matter. The boy
scouts will do their share. amc
thu vkfions organizations Of tn,
clty, we feel sure. will be alive
q Tho IMPORTANCE Of the subject
r. ouiains for individual home.
H. pta ana housewives 10 get Il
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BY GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER
and Lillian Chester.

o"N @Vs0u SsoSAeS.
Paris, March ITO us at home, a
baby doesn't amount to very much, ex-
cept AS IA matter of sentiment and fam
lily curiosity. The uncles and aunts
and neighbors come around to give 1t
the "once over" and say that 1t looks
like John or Mary as the case may be,
and go away and think what they
think about its claims to beauty. ana
make IA record of it's date In the birth
day book.
OF course were not meaning to init
mate that each particular baby isn't a
wonderful baby, and that it isn't SUR
rounded with i, wealth OF love. or that
II isn't {; happily assumed responsible
| ity, because ii is; all these things and
more: but after all. II isn't looked upon
as of very much Importance to the
community at large. because there is
plenty of community anyhow. and one
unit more or less doesn't seem to mat :
ter much,
| 1t was that way in France. Il while
Iago; that Is, allowing for the slight
difference in local customs. traditions,
and habits of thought. The papa of IA
first born was Just as foolishls proud
Of his new dignity here as at home.
and the acquisition OF the first tooth
|on the part of the wonderful infant
was the same heaven topping family
sensation here as anywhere
But the existences OF that very lAfby
never rocked the foundations of, the
state as 1t does now, for AT LAST
THE DAY OF THE BABY HAS AR
RIVED IN FRANCE. 81. {
The baby is King. the only absolute
monarch which will probably be left
after we get through removing kaiser.
ism. aud all which that implies, from
the face Of an otherwise comnendable
world.
Among our entirely satisfactory
studies of the marvellous war spirit of
the population OF France. perhaps the
most inspiring have been our inter-
views with the babies, and we may say,
right at the outset, and in order to
have done with that phase of the sub
ject. tina, we found their war spirit
lusty. exuberant and undaunted.
Before we opened the door of one OF
the baby dispcnsaries, which are main-
tanned now throughout France for not
only the saving but the betterment of
Frances future population. We knew
that we were at the right place from
the voices of the kings and queens.
A long. low room, benches down
the middle. the benches laden with
mothers and the mothers laden with
babies.
Such experimentation of babies.
Mostly poilus' babies babies in every
tint from very white TO very red. chub-
by babies and thin babies. blonde ba-
bies and brunettes. sleepy babies and
wideawakes,s Growing babies and howl.
ing ones; but in all that gathering only
three who were not in perfectly
healthy condition. thanks TO the ounce
Of prevention which Is proving SO
much better than the pound Of cure.
The women were as much diver
sified as tine babies for, not ALI the
mothers could be in attendance. so
grandmothers came. proud grandmoth-
ers. too. the proudest the one with the
twins; and little sisters came. the
proudest one being the little mother
of ftve small steps in the stairway Of
future France.
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while an ear was applied to her spine.
Un-hunh! a trace of bronchitis.
Now why was Jeanette not provided
with stockings?
Prompt defiance on the part of the
She has 10 children. 10! and she works
every day: she keeps flower stand
naturally, one could tell that from
looking at hcr--the other children can
stay home. but the baby she must take
with her; she sets Jeanette among the
FLOWERS, but there is a shawl wrapped
around Jeanette's legs, always. and II
isn't that which gives her the bron-
chitis. It's the bad weather we've been
having. and She's no match for
the doctor.
To begin with, the doctor has too
strong hold on the affections Of the
woman from the Bordelaise country,
which is taking an unfair advantage:
so they compromise on the doctors
terms she to provide the stockings and
the mother to see that they are kept
on Jeanette; and an especially bald
baby enters.
So II iproceeds all day long. with now
and then "A mother who. like the Dor.
delaise, ciinSs to the ld-fashioned idea
that it's her baby, to do with as she
pleases: not everybody's baby; but for
the most part the mothers are in thor
ough sympathy with the work, and
grateful for it. Results count. even.
with mothers.
The mortality rate has been lowered
among these wee dispensary patients.
IN snifc ~ th0 war average weight for
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

leads straight and surely to the
guiilotine or to death by shooting
at dawn. In this country, 1t leads
only TO internment or to IA short
term IN prison. The difference Is
one which the constituted authori-
ties would do well to ponder Nor
folk Pilot.
You bet YOU!
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
SPEED OF 0UllET.

rifle bullet covers about two miles
tp five seconds. while sound travels
the same distance in u shade more
, than nina and one-half seconds 80 1t
Is eesy to understand why tbs bullet
strikes before the report of the rifle is
heard.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

Massachusetts has the greatest per-
centage, AIS Of her roads surfaced
Then come indiana with ,A2.5 per cent.
New Jersey with so.5., Ohio with SD
Rhode Island with 34.5, Kentucky. with
2S.2. New York with 22.7. Connection,
with 22.s. and California with ao.2,
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

We1will have most joyful time
at community singing tomorrow,
if The management of the opera
house will fire up 50 us to keep
the specter of pneumonia from
the scene.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

John ID. Rockefeller, Jr.. has the
humps. We are sorry for John,
but he will seem more like one OF
the plain people when he gets out
among us again.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

The Spaniards, We are. told,
have become actually irritatcd
over the sinking Of five of their
ships by German submarines. Aft
er a time the Germans may have
q submarine that will sink all OF
Spain and then the Spamards
will get mad.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

General Pershing has issued a
hurry up call for more chaplains,
perhaps in anticipation of large
gathering of Hun prisoners later,
who will need spiritual advice.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Red Cross to Benefit
in Guessing Contest.

of every Missoulian directed toward
three tinfoil balls, which hang in the
window OF the Miss0ula Mercantile
company store. Once directed. each
Muscular is supposed to guess the
weight OF tAe three balls, back his
Judgment with dime and hope that
the Red eros will win the prize which
goes to the best guesser. s.zf
One can guess for ten cents. which
goes to the Red Cross fund. The best
guess will win $40 prize. Guesses
and dimes may be deposited at the
Nonpareil bakery, the Shapard hotel.
the. Elk's club, Gleason's, kelley's, or
the NJ. NJ. grocery department.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

What Of the Russia OF the flu
,turc? We give it up. Just now it
looks like a Russia rcmadc in
Germany.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

The voters of Montana might
while away the remainder of the
winter i'm making gas masks for
the attacks Of the politicians next
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

An American dollar in Spain is
worth seyenty-five cents. This
is probably a form of German
propaganda to make us look
cheap.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

Colonel Bryan was talked to Il
stand,t'll at Toronto, but il look
a regiment of soldiers to do it.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

The first letter on Senator
Walsh's desk after arrival should
be Nhcelcr's resignation.
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The bright March sun makes il
hard for the melancholy Monday
to get by in Montana.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

II speech becomes too free, the
government at Helena will see
That it is rationed.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

If you have a quarter that is
not working, make ii acquainted
with thrift stamp.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Gosh! School Today;
on SATURDAY.!

Young Missoula will watch signs Of
the coming spring from behind school
windows today. Here's the first really
spring like Saturday of the year. and
school is In session. It's tough, as any
schoolboy will gladly tell you. M
In order to be able to give a whole
week to the preparation OF war gardens
later in the spring. the city schools
will hold Saturday sessions during
March. The first of these is due to-
day.
Only patriotic motives behind the
Saturday session plan have prevented
strike. To help Uncle Sam the boys
and girls are willing to go to school
on Saturday, but let one sign of ulteiior
designs appear and there will be IL
lockout.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

This is getaway day at petro-
grad
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02

We like Billy Sunday. but we
often wish that he would put the
soft pedal on some Of his stuff.
Recently he described The aver
age girl as follows:
she Is turning her home into
gambling shop and social beer and
champagne drinking joint, and her
society is made up of poker play
ers, drinkers. grass widowers, jilt-
ed jades and SANDER mongers She
Is a matinee gadder."
We have no means of knowing
Billy's source of information, but
certainly there are no girls of that
sort in MissOula. Our girls do not
drink champagne, at least in war
times. Poker playing Is prohibit
ed by law, and the grass widow
crs, we believe, are harmless. We
may be afflicted with a few scan
dial mongers, but they do not do
much harm, because they are
well indeXed. Our girls. as we
have observed them. are knit
ting sweaters, working for the
Red Cross, and earnestly prepare
ing themselves for citizenship in
the most progressive and pros
porous state in the union.
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ccssful gardening is largely a
matter Of planning and it IS
time for that now.
OVERLAPPING 4 HAND.

We are amused. rather than
disturbed over the mysterious.
'hurr>-iip conferences Of certain
>o-calIcd Republican state lead
Icr~ who assume authority to
trade This nomination for that
aud to regard everything as good
as settled. before the elections Of
1913 ar ln20. Some ar them are
living IN the past and are del,ld-
ing HE Others into the belief that
they can actually deliver some
thing. SuIar who have retired
had better stay retired, for the
good Of he purity. The others
should awake. lc>t they he fooled.
There j. always thr possibility
lhal their cunning plans may be
shattered ny Representative Ram
Kin. whose strength has growu
appreriablN Of late. whose politi-
cad plans have aroused the keel
est interest If her sisters in the
east ard who. by lifting her hand.
may have from ilah smIrcc Il
campaign fund TIA! would be
something more than thirty cents.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Tons Of Lemon Drops
for Sasnsnses.

Since the American Y. NJ. e. A. has
taken over the United States army cam
teen in Europe, surprises have been
frequent, but, 1t was never suspected
before that Americas soldiers required
the entire output OF a lemon drop fac
tory. One OF the first orders shipped
from this country to France by the
national war work council Of the Y.
NJ. c. A. was for fifty tons Of lemon
drops. fifty tons Of chocolates and fifty
tons OF gumdrops.
One hundred and nifty tons OF candy
for the sweet tooth OF the American
soldier. In order to supply the de-
mand OF these red blo0ded men who
eat candy it was necessary for the ma
tional war work council OF the. y. NJ.
c. A. to contract for the entire output
Of lemon drop factory. fifteen tons u
month";.
Even $50 tons of candy ddes not last
long with the American troops In
France. The reason is that the gov
iernment ration leaves Che men craying
sweets. and to satisfy that craving they
attack the r. NJ. c A. canSeeps In
force eth the result that mountains
Of candy and chocolsse msltsaway ~ II
by magic. It il part OF the task Of
the Red Triangle a. the u NJ c. A.
Is known in the war Roma, TO keep mp
q supply Of confectioAs. THESE are
sold at virtually cost. as the ain il not
20 realize a profit. but simply 70 cover
EXPENSE.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
indians Won't Work
With Slaekers.

Indian prisoners in the Flathead
agency jail may not be good enough
TO run at large, but they are too good
to mix with slackers. They declare as
much. Several of them who are
working out sentences imposed by the
tribal court recently put sign on the
door. saying:
I'VE don't want no slackers in here
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-02
Steel Bars % Not
a Prison Make

Half Il dozen of the city's best craps
players We're locked up in the county
Jail the other night for gambling.
Served us right, boss" they admitted.
I'VE was playin' pokah. instead of the
real thing" The jailer had frisked
them all and put them away for a night
Of reflection-he thought.
At about 3 a. M. he became curious
concerning tiny sound which had re-
Cured mt short intervals allInight. lie
sneaked to the iron door, opened II and
looked in.
The gamblers were whispering ex-
citedly over something on the floor. A
dispute was evidently in progress. FL
nally it was settled, each man picked
something from the floor ard all
walked back to the wall. Then the
peculiar sound was repeated--Tclink.
clink!
The supposedly repentant gamblers
were tossing nickels (how they sot
them the jailer can't guess) at "a cracl;
on the Jail floor. EaAs
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led PAGE THE BREAKDOWN
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-06-21
Lands for Returning Soldiers.

A Washington dispatch Of the
18th says: In order to carry out
a recommendation made by Sec
rotary Lane of the interior de-
partment Senator Sterling has
introduced a resolution which
would appropriate 81, O00 COO for
the purpose of a survey and
study of the public lands which
may be reclaimed by irrigation,
as well as the extensive areas of
swamp and cutover lands which
are privately owned and which
may by proper methods be made
available and fit for cultivation.
The primary purpose Of the pro-
posed survey is to determine
what land can be made available
for occupation and homes for re-
turning soldiers, but it is believ-
ed that the utilization of the cul-
tivatable lands will encourage
farm ownership aud serve as q
check upon the tendency to.
wards city life.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-06-21

CONGRESSMAN SCHALL of Min
nesota in his comment on public
matters before the primary
election at q recent speech very
forcibly and truly said:
"Only one thing counts now,
and that is winning the war
Some people are going about the
country now stirring up econom-
ic questions. There are no eco
nomic questions that can be set
tied until the war is over. The
only question is that of Ameri-
canism, and the only thing to do
II to look carefully and see that
the men You place in Office will
be back Of the nation right or
wrong"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1918-06-21

class one and have them seek pro-
ductive work farming) or enter
the military. service:
(a) Persons engaged in the serv-
ing Of food and drink, or either,
in public places, including hotels
and social clubs;
(b) Passenger-elevator operators
and attendants; and door men,
footmen. carriage openers and 9th
er attendants in clubs, hotels,
stores, apartment houses, office
buildings. and bathouses:
(c) Persons. including ushers and
other attendants, engaged and &C.
cupied in and in connection with
games, sports, and amusements.
excepting actual performers in le-
gitimate concerts, operas, or theat-
rical performances;
ID Persons employed in domestic
service;
(e) Sales clerks and other clerks
employed in stores and other mer-
camille establishments.
The local board is ordered to ar.
rest all idlers or persons not engag-
ed in useful employment and give
them a hearing, and if they have
no good substantial reason for
their unemployment they are to
be indicted into the military SER
vice.