The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-16
Melting Pot

left $500 to the pastor of Il chufch VINO
had done an act OF kindest for him
fifty four years ago:
Sacramental wines are barred under
the prohibition laws of oklahoma. ac-
coriing to q decision handed down by
a district court judge.
The equivalent Of the labor of 10000
men for month has been lost to the
Governments shipbuilding program
Through strikes and lockouts.
An aged Minnesota Indian. injured
in All accident. refused to sleep on u
hospital bed but rolled himself up in
blanket and slept on the floor for
two weeks.
The percentage of men rejected for
physical reasons from our national
amy is from 30 to 10 per cent Of the
men called, higher than that Of any
other country.
The Episcopal synod of New York
and New Jersey is resolved to oppose
the Introduction of further Sunday
work. Sunday baseball or moving pic
'urc exhibitions for pay.
The proprietor of II hotel at Coney
Island, who sold coal TO the poor dur
| 'uE .s'N IoIN TSttIli aiOdl
has been convicted of obstructing the
sidewalk In so doing.
4 New York high school girl. who
established a record for obtaining sub
scriptions to the Liberty Loan. worked
g" hard in her patriotic zeal that she
died shortly after the campaign closed.
One hundred prisoners in the West
chester couny (N. VI peniteutiary
elected 10 spend another week in Jail.
and have the time credited to them
! pnd given to the Red Cross thus rails.
ms. $50.
The open shop represents more than
30 per cent of the working people of
he United States. a decision OF the
supreme court guarantees to the en-
oloye the right to work where he will
| and TO the employer the right to run
| his own affairs
The largest service flag in the co,ln-
| Try. bearing 1875 stars. was swung
rs a canopy in II hall at Indianap polls
where the United Mine Workers re-
Gently met, each star representing a
| coal miner who has enlisted
! The Methodist Woman's War coun-
| eli thus far appointed. has issued a call
| asking women to pray without ceas-
inc" for the men at the front and the
mothers and wives at home.
During the first nine months after
We entered the world war enemy in
cendaries destroyed $50, 000, 900 worth
Of property in the United States. EN-
! President Taft says: 1--WE should hang
| traitors who set fire to our property"
Soldiers wives In England received
| from the government 1884 a week,
Sl.75 for the first child, $I.4S for the
second. $10S for the third and 70 cents
FOR all other children. Privates in the
| British army receive SO cents n day.
Two Masonic lodges in Troy. n. Y.
recently voted unanimously to accep,
IN invitation of the Holy Name societ,
OF st. Augustine's Roman Catholic
church to attend a service in honor OF
the members OF the church who hay,
enlisted
| Russian officers driven out of tn,
army by the Bolshevki and who of.
fered their services to fight under tn,
American flag We're refused permission
because our law does not permit otbc
than American citizens to become of
ficcrs in our army.
Professor William G. Wells, Of tn
Pan American union, says that Ger
: manys claim to superiority in the sci
ontific field are unfonnded and tina
more than two thirds of German me
chanical industry was bui:t on Ameri
can Inventions, research and skill
Tho war department has annulle
"ourtmartial proceedings against te
enlisted mon of the regular army VIII
were convicted of mutinous conduc
TIL" department held that the proceed
ings were due entirely to the capri
cious conduct of an inexperienced OF
+ ficcr"
Twin brothers who enlisted in tn
same company of a Scottish regimen
, ! were sent to France together Bot
We're wounded In the same engage
mcnt, in the left ankle. the bullets |
both cases lodging in the right foo
= Both were brought back to Englan
- and occupied adjoining cots in III
, same hospital.
The privately owned railroads of tt
l'nii"d States have the lowest freici
; rates. the lowest capitalization ps
= mile, the greatest operating efficienc
and pay the highest wages of any raj
p roads in the world. \ British railroa
expert says that a ton is carried
mile in the United States for 81 of
pence, in Germany for e. of n penc
- in Franc" for so, while he cstimat,
the British rate to be fully a pence
ton mile.
ON the body OF an Austrian soldi,
killed IN battle these lines were foum
: Ne who have faith to look with fear
: less eyes.
i leyond the tragedy of a world
strife.
: .\nd know that out of death and nigl
shall rise
The dawn of amplcr life.
EC joic", whatever anguish rcni Il
heart,
That cod has given YOU a priccle
dover
70 live in these great times and ha,
y, Your part
!, In Freedoms GROWING hour:
= That We may tell your sons who ST