The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-04-01

BUT SCORE IS EVEN
Ways Of Europeans Better
in Time of Peace,
Says STREET.

american engineers are opening the
eyes Of the French to new possibilities
in the way OF speed and efficiency but
at the same time the French are teach
ing the Americans that the Yankee way
OF living is not the best. according to
Clarence STREET.. State Uniyersity
student and formerly member OF The
MissOulian staff, who is now in France
with the Eighteenth engineers, railway.
American ways will take precedence
during the war. says STREET.. by virture
Of superiority in speed. But for peace
times the French ways are best. STREET
gives an interesting insight into aft
fairs back of the battle line in re-
cent letter to a friend here. in which
ne says;
Americans Common Sight Now.
Time flies quickly for us here. i
can hardly realize that have been in
the service for eight months and In
France for half a year But still,
looking back only to the time whensI
last wrote you'll can see plenty of
evidence. that considerable time has
passed since then. For one thing. the.
number of Americans now in France.
Il give out no more military infor-
nation than Secretary Baker has al
ready done when 1 say that les Amer
clans are common sights here now.
And when we came, believe me. they
were not common. We were objects
of curiosity. more than that. recipients
of especial courtesies which we're
bound to wear down to a more normal
stage in time even without the coming
of more and more OF us to France. Fl
have it on pretty good authority that
we were among the first 10000 Amer.
lean troops to come to France. Ger
tainly we were the first in these parts
Oh, them were the good old days The
harvest season, sunshiny weather, the
belle OF the nations at her prettiest. her
people proud to be OF the slightest
service to the representatives of the
most powerful republic Of the west,
come to their aid when they We're
needed the most.
Victory Rests With United States.
lyon know. when the United States
entered the war; men spoke as il our
part in it would be confined to build-
ing ships and furnishing foods and mu-
nitions. How that program has ex-
tended since then. The more sae 81
this war the surer I am thst-the defeat
of the German dream now rests largely
on the United States. And the surer
] am that she will acquit herself we'll
zone reads that modern warfare Is
Just an immense business, but be
does not realize 1t fully until he is in
it. And Americans are there when 1t
comes to operations on big scale
War requires speed--another American
quality. When one sees how business
is conducted in Europe-at least In
those parts which I have seen-be-
comes acquainted with their street cars
and telephones, for instance, il he Is
an American he can't help becoming
confident of the ability of the United
States to play leading part In this
war. CT don't know why they have
telephones here. II one is In hurry
It Is quicker to forget about them and
see personally whoever is wanted.)
Speed Amaxss French.
Last fall We stuck up a railway
bridge so quickly that the French train
men wouldn't run over it. So we took
over the locomotive and showed them
a few things in the way of knocking
cars around n freight yard. Aid we
never had an accident on the bridge.
The boys who are train men would
give almost anything to hare an
American ALTAR controlled train (only
the passenger trains here have full air
control, the freight cars have dinkly
little perches at one end of the car
where the brakeman sits and puts on
the brakes when necessary here for a
day just to show the French how an
honest to- God switch engine operates
Railroad Methods Slow.
take another instance: The
French crew. ties up the yard by de-
railing car. After considerable
.parle' they bank the fire in the engine
and call it a night. though they are
supposed to get out train each morn.
ing and go to bed. Along comes ont