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The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
Find God!
More Than Soldiers in the
Trenches, Says One.

Private Peat, the famous soldier, who
after two years of the worst part of
the war has come back to this coun-
Magazine:
IF You had taken the biggest oppor-
tunity life ever held out to a man,
wouldn't you smile? If you had gone
down into hell for the sake of people
who were there already, wouldn't you
come back-if you were lucky enough
to get back-with a smile?. If you had
learned more in the past two years
about life and all that makes it worth
living than you had found out in the
previous twenty, wouldn't you be glad
as you had never before dreamed of
being glad?
i've got a right arm that may never
be good even for a handshake-thougt
l hope it will. Instead Of a pair of
lungs, I've got one and fraction But
what of'that! l notice that people care
lotmore about gripping my left hand
now than they ever used to care about
getting hold of my right. l get all the
air with one lung that l seem to need
and 1t isn't hot air, either.
and suppose I hadn't come back al
all? l know I'd be smiling now-and
wouldn't be doing it In hell, either
That's what you don't realize, you who
are here at home. You don't know
how things get clear and plain to us in
the trenches. Talk about finding YOUR
self We find more than ourselves
We find God"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
IS Years Ago
What Missoula Was Doing
on This Date in 1898.

A. j. King, ex-cashier of the Hen
messy Mercantile company and for
mer well known resident of this city,
is here on a visit from Butte.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rowland entertained a
few friends at cards last evening. The
evening was passed most delightfully."-.
Amos Buck, George Buck, Frank
Borough and Charley Buck have pur-
chased the 40 acres of Indian land ad-
joining town on the south. We I'M
derstand it will be plated and added
to the new townsite.-Stevensvi
News.
Mrs. G. F. Davis and Mrs. George
Brooks gave an elaborate card party
at their pleasant rooms in the Ham
mond building last evening.
Hon. William Thompson. the WELL
known Montanan. who has several
times served in the territorial legis-
lature, Is in the city on business.
c. HI Mcleod, Henry Hammond,
William Settle and c. A. Barnes leave
this morning for New York. Mr.. Nc
Leod goes on business and pleasure
combined. the trip affording him an
opportunity for vacation and brief
rest from his arduous duties as gen.
eral manager of the NJ. NJ. company.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
DEUTSCHLAND UBER ALLIES

Last week in New York harbor,
as a steamer was passing the
Statue of Liberty, considerable
number of people gathered at the
rail and sang ''Deutschland Ubcr
Allies
No, this was not German war
ship headed for New York, as one
might infer offhand. II was an
outgoing steamer, bound for the
balmy cline of the southern
states. Who We're the singers?
They were German aliens bound
Tor the intcrnment camps where,
under the most favorable coudi-
tions, they will idle away their
time in playing games and other
forms of enjoyment, With prob
ably some work to their taste
while the rest of us shiNcr under
the winter winds and continue the
work of winning the war
Certainly that was an cnlight-
ening spectacle. These men haG
come to America from their OWL
country, because they sought a
land where there was a p0ssibll-
ity for them TO succeed. and live
outside Of a military autocracN
that ruled the lives and fortunes
Of the people. Here they met with
success. Some of them even be,
came prominent in business anC
the professions. No form Of tor,
ture could have induced them tt
return to Germany.
What form of gratitude do the,
show to the country that har
bored them, and offered oppor
tunities which they could hay,
found nowhere else? Treason
sedition, every effort that the,
could summon to aid German,
and defeat the United States, i
the. answer. The thought of thi
sight should start the hot bloc
coursing through the veins Q
every real American.
deutschland Uber Allies" a
the boat swept by the statue @
Liberty. We have a new law 70
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
Slavery
Belgian Woman Forced to
Labor for Huns.

The correspondent of The Times at
Amsterdam writes:
AT Blankenberghe, the Germans
forced great number of servants to
leave their situations and tried to com
pei them to lake up the work of UNI
loading, docking and transportation for
the army. The young girls refused and
were shut up in the uotel Belvedere.
which serves as IA prison. Most of
them persisted in their refusal and
were liberated. they were requsitioned
again and sent to different places,
even to the wall of the port of Zee
brugge, in order to work there for the
Germans. Daughters of farmers and
the bourgeoisie from the SURROUNDING
country have also been requisitioned.
THE military authority does not
spare even the disabled and ill., The
TELEGRAPH correspondent on the from
tier reports that a disabled man who
happened to remark that he had only
one leg was told that there was work
that he could do with his hands. a
one EARNED man was told We will
give you a one armed comrade and the
two of you can do one mans work
1.-The communal school at Dud2eelo
has been transformed into a penal coli
ony. The building is surrounded with
barbed Wire, like prisoners camp
The chateau near Brugee is also en-
ployea as a penal colony"
The Rheinische Westfalischc XoitunE
recently contained a communications
emanating from the Labor Exchange oi
Cologne. which said in part:
Industry meets with more and more
difficulty III procuring artisans, diff
culties that can be remedied only in 81
far as the supply of labor permits. The
| central Intelligence office for manua
! labor asked at once that foreign arti-
| sans should be called on for aid. These
artisans VIII not be able to replace en-
tircly the Sherman workmeu, to say
nothing of their demands i'm respect It
wages, which are very often in inverse
ratio to their capacities. Experience
moreover has still to teach us whether
the employment of women from th'
occupied territories will be of advan,
tase for the munition industries. Thu
demand for women workers in thu
metallurgic industry, as well rs II
chemical and explosive industries, il
very great. and the supply, according
to the figures is still diminished"
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
BY LILLIAN CHESTER.
Copyright, 1918, by the Newspaper En-
terprise Association.

Paris, Feb 2b.-One can never quite
decide whether these smart little
snappy children of France have been
copied from the fashion magazines. or
whether the fashion magazines have
copied from the children.
TO begin with, as soon as they're
able to walk, they know how to wear
their clothes.
The Freuchwoman's Unborn knack of
putting on bonnet jauntily is in the
tiniest girl fodder; the boy has the
same jauntiness, and if he is the proud
possessor of a military cape. be sure
| that one corner of it flaunts dashing-
ly over his small shoulder, to reveal
the gay lining.
On IA day when there Is a lifting of
the mists which onvelop Paris in the
winter and the sun comes out, and the
very air glows as if it were full of the
fine spun gold, it is n joy to walk on
| the Champs Elysees. for the children
are laughing there.
| That walk is like turning over the
pages of a brightly colored picture
| book.
The luminous laCework of the trees
! on that beautiful broad avenue, the
quantity mingled traffic, the throngs
of quoerly assorted people on bench
land pave, the vendors, the park swings
and merry go-rounds, form the border
embellishments: but the pictures
! those bright splashes of vivid colol
! here and there and everywhere, arr
! the children.
There's a youngster with a wooder
gun, for even the Riddles are doins
, without things on behalf of the bis
war; but they're not being deprived
! they're making sacrifices, and know
that they're doing it, and are proud o.
lit!
Gums are especially popular these
past few years with small boys. Thi:
one has on the velvet tam" of a poilu
and he walks with quite an air OF re
| sponsiblity for a person who is only
five. He's one of the future men o.
| France and seems to know it, Some
| how or other.
| 1t gives rise to rather sober reflec
ton to note that his mother is in deeI
mourning. One might think that tn,
cause of that mourning would MAX,
her object to Il gun as a toy for he
baby, and that there might be pain Ii
her in the martial stride with which h
carries il, but nothing of the sort /:
apparent, for as he says some
thing To her he looks up with 1
laugh, and she answers with ;
! smile,
| Here are couple of -gamins, NJ
change in them anywhere in the world
Battered shoes, and tattered knitted
caps like Ounce caps jammed down
over their ears, the tassle half off OF
one cap and entirely off. the other. ant
the invariable knitted mHffler wrapper
,arennd the neck, and streaming oyel
ia shoulder or beneath an arm or some.
where, but Haunting with French
jaunrlness wherever the ends may be
Fire-ed cheeks, they have, AM
awide grins, and dancing devil II
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
HOW MOSES WON.

One Of our readers down the
Bitter Root who, like some 9th
ers, is beginning to wonder and
worry over the single-handed
and single-track conduct of The
war at Washington, recalls an in
teresting story to give point to an
argument.
Things had been going fairly
well with the children of Israel
on their long journey from Egypt
until they met up with Amalek
and his army Amalek was the
kaiser Of his time and believed in
o thorough one-man government
and militaristic rule. Joshua and
his army Of Israelites were sent
out by Moses TO fight. Moses fol-
lowed, and surrounded by his
counsellofs, military and other
wise, sat on Il hill and watched
the battle. Joshua succeeded as
long as Moses held up his hands,
but when his hands dropped
from fatigue Amalck began to
win. Then Moses called for
Aaron and lIur who were along
with them, and told them to stand
on either side and hold up his
hands. The result is well known.
Joshua's army went ahead, the
whole fighting strength of the
lsraclitcs was united, The Journey
was continued and the Promised
Land was reached.
The plain inference to our cor
respondent is that the president
and his cabinet ought to welcome
all aid that may be offered. If a
war council Of three Of the ablcst
men of America to be appointed
by the president and dismissed by
him at his pleasure, can help win
the war, then, by all means, let
us have q war council.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

For the information of those
people who are vague in the
minds as to the meaning of sabo-
tage, we publish in another col
umn the text Of the new Montana
law. We advise a careful study
of it. 1t is loaded with trouble
for such people as would expert
ment with sabotage on their
neighbOrs.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2e, 1918.
coon, CLEAN WORK.

The people OF Montana nave
been we'll served by the legisla-
ture in extraordinary session
Under the guidance and inspira-
ton Of the governor who had
framed a brief, but careful pro-
gram of laws most needed, our
lawmakers went to their work
with a fine spirit of unity, pa
triotism and a complete disregard
for anything like partisan poll
ties.
The two new laws relating to
seditious speech and sabotage
were especially needed, and as
passed, will, we feel assured, pro-
vide for every contingency that
may arise. II will be only neces-
sary to enforce these laws to
clear Montana of any outspoken
evidence of pro-Germanism and
of the cowardly, shocking revo-
lntionists who attempt to practice
sabotage in any form.
This is essentially self-protec-
ton, but very necessary to the
nation, and since we have found
that the federal authorities have
been unable to provide such pro-
lection as we needed and antici.
pated, there is nothing left for lis
To do, but to adjust this matter
ourselves. 1t was either that or
opening the way for mob out
rage. 1t is certain that the loyal
people of Montana will never
again stand for the things that
have happened and have been
spoken in this state within the
past eight months.
We regret that the home guard
bill was defeated, yet OF the three
war measures, that was the least
necessary. Whenever the officers
need help, deputies may be APP
pointed and sworn in for duty.
Probably there will be troops
available, too, if needed. At any
rate the big thing is to secure
the laws, and the people, we have
no doubt, will see that the Off
GERS enforce them.
The appropriation of 100000
for the Council of Defense and the
legalization of that body also
meet with our approval. We
think that the council may be
safely trusted to get the best re-
suits from this money, and GER
tainly there should be no delay
III solving The serious problem OF
seed grain for the farmers.
Other Ti1Gasures adopted by the
legislation are of less Importance,
but necessary. Especially are we
pleased by the action of the dele
gated authority of the people OF
this state, in calling attention to
the breakdown of the federal
prosecutors office and public
eognizance of the Interpretation
of federal law by the federal
court of this jurisdiction.
What we like best of all in
these proceedings is the high
spirit of loyalty to our govern
ment and the determination thai
Montana shall spare 10 effort
either at home or abroad TO dc
her part in winning the war.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT.

"Now, don't feel downCast," said the
lawyer. whose client had just been
convicted of emhezzlement. Five
Years in the penitentiary won't seem
long, and you will get time off for good
behavior"
Say on, my friend" replied the for
mer bank official sarCastiCally, but l
know better. l intended to spend the
next five years MS retired capitalist
touring South America. birmingham
Age Herald
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
Talk Of the To,Dn
Americans Grateful
for Louis XVI.

l
Americans living in Paris placed q
! splendid wreath Of flowers ON the tomb
of Louis XVI on the anniversary OF the
unhappy monarch's birth. says pro.
lessor Henry Haxo, teacher Of moaern
languages at the State University.
Professor Haxo's sister, Madame
F1amermont, is in charge Of the Ex-
piatory chapel Of Louis XVI In Paris.
The wreath. Madame FlamermOnt
writes. was inscribed as follows: ITO
the King Louis XVI, the Liberator Of
America: Americans and. Frenchmen
have become again companions in
arms"
Apparently the act was a friendly
continuation Of the spirit manifested
by General Pershing in his recent
tribute to Lafayette and General
Joffre in his famous praise Of WASH
ington.
The chapel in which the wreath was
placed is in the very center OF Paris,
near the Church of the Madeleine and
the Grand Opera. In 1t for many years
reposed the bodies Of Louis XVI, Marie
Antoinette and the Swiss Guards who
fell at the Tuileries during the revolu-
ton. Though Louis XVI hardly repre-
scented the democratic spirit which
now actuates the French and American
republics, his aid did make possible
American independence, so that the
placing of the wreath was not inap.
propriate.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
RETRle BUTTON.

What are you working on. there?"
"A hymn Of hate" replied the poet
sternly.
Dear me! Don't you know tho
American government discourages any
thing of that kind"
oh, ses. But this is none Of the
governments business. It Is addressed
TO neishbor of mine who has played
Over There on his photograph every
night for the past seven weeks" -
Birmingham Age Herald.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

Some of our radical friends
think the governor and the lcgis-
Iaturc sought to find a substitute
for free speech. Nothing of the
kind. Their only effort was to
make free speech safe for every
body, including the |. w. w.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

We publicly withdraw our for
mer suggestion that Senator
Walsh find another place for
Wheeler. We have no desire to
another community in that
way and we rely upon Senator
Walsh to rid Montana of the in
Fiction without further loss OF
time.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

the handling Of these people in
Montana and if any one makes
so much as a peep out loud, we
hope that the honest citizen who
hears will escort that person to
the police station.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
EVIDENCE OF IMPROVEMENT.

Professor. how is my little daughte,
doing with her music lessons?"
Fine, Mr.. Sprechelnitz; she can play
the scale without sticking out her
tongue" Times Dispatch.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
UNSAAkEN ADMIRATION.

Anyhow" said the patient woman,
my husband is wonderfully law abid-
ing"
He isn't satisfied with one voorhees,
day week. He wants five or Six
Washington Evening Star.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

Won Hindenburg may be in
Paris by April 1 as prisoner of
war. He did not mean that, of
course, but let us hope it turns
out that way.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

We will watch Doc Lanstrum's
war garden to see whether the
Record-Herald's love for the Nom
Partisan league sticks through a
senatorial campaign.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

II. r. is getting we'll fast and
will soon be swinging the big
stick over the incompetcnts that
are tumbhng over themselves at
Washington.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

One of these days the kaiser
may stick his hands above his
head and yell "kamerad." Then
the world will be safe for dcmoc-
ratN
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
A Kiss for the Children of
Gallant France b.
All the Nation Sees That Wars Horrors Are Kept From
Them as Much as Possible and They Show Stuff That
Made Boches Unable to Take Verdun

each eye; ana they are indulging in
the perhaps unrefined but universal
~ known joy of humping each other off
the sidewalk.
+ The poor as we'll as the rich have
u right to the Champs Elysees, and
while there may he difference in the
Equality of their clothes and a difference
An the making, there is small differ
ence in the way they wear them. Small
difference, too, in the happiness of their
faces, for the parents of France are do
ing this wonderful thing for their chill
dren, rich and poor and middle class
alike; they are keeping from them as
much as possible the CHASTITY horror of
this war.
There are those who have no parents
The orphans of France form a great,
and constantly growing problem
Much has been done toward saving
these future generations which must
replenish France; much more must be
done. Those who have given. must
give, and give, and give again; fol-
these coming citizens need more than
food and shelter; if they are to grow
up useful to humanity. and as brave as
the fathers who died for humanity
as healthy.
| No gloom for the little ones!
Everyone in France makes that a
constant effort.
| 1t cannot be an easy task for a grief
| striker woman to turn always a smil-
| ing face when her child asks for its
dead father
1t is one of our great privileges to
know n certain little Madeleine, who
| is five and a half years old Made
leine, of course, cannot remember wher
there was no war: but she can remem.
Der, with vivid distinctiveness, the all
raids which occurred in the beginning
when the Germans were more con.
WINGED than now that the world wa:
their football, and that all they had I,
do was come over in leisurely fashion
three Or four nights a week. and dro,
bombs until all the little Madeleine:
and Yyonnes and Kenris and Jacuue.
lwere destroyed.
Ii has been a long time since tn,
German has felt it safe or profitabl.
to try that trick on Paris. but, Ions
as the time is, Madeleine can remem
Der the warning scream of the siren
1.-THE deafening reports of the aircraf
guns. the whizz and shrek of the fall.
ling bombs, the crash of the explosions
the fires which flared up.
L The other night, when there was 6
practice warning of the siren. to keeI
the defense system in working order
/ like "A fire drill, Madeleine's lip quiv-
cred at the first sound. but that was
| all.
/ She sat bravely in her chair. and
went on eating her dinner. and ever
managed to answer, though somewha,
wanly, a reassuring smile.
| Do you know why Madeleine did no,
/ cry, when that weird wild SOUND struck
terror to her heart? She couldn't;
they had company for dinner.
/ That is the sort of little girls who
fgrew up to be the sort of mothers
who raised the sons who held yerdun!
| (Mers Temerrowl.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

No cost Will be too great to
wipe the stain of pro-Gcrman
judge from the escutchcOn of
Rosebud county.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

This German peace talk may be
a revival of the well-known game
of the Trojan horse.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

If "Blll' Haywood can Use Rep
rcScntatlvc Davis of Teton as a
messenger boy, we will try to see
him off at the train.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

Montana money would be we'll
invested in legislative salaries, if
all sessions We're as useful as the
last.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

| now warn my country, as far
as my impOtCnt voice can reach
Senator James Hamilton Lewis.
"lnpot"nt' is right.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

Just as we guessed, the Huns
made Trotzky swallow it whole
and say that he liked it.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

Every time a small boy gets a Whit
of the odor arising from the kitchen
he proceeds to get hungry.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

The question of the hour is
whether Judge Bourquin will ac'
on the hint.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26

A man never has to so half way to
meet trouble.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-26
MissouIa Soldiers
Sleep in Trenches,

An extremely realistic Introduction
to trench life was given to several
Missoula men at Camp Lewis. accord
ing to Frank Phillips. university
boy In training there.
Several of the Missoula men. in.
Guiding Emmett Gragg. John Marble,
Babe Kron. Clarence Hawk and Pat
rick Henry Buckley. got a real taste OF
trench war recently" he writes. They
slept, or tried to sleep. in the trenches
at the north end of the parade grounds,
1t was bitter cold night and q driz-
cling rain was falling. The men spread
their shelter halfs' on the ground. laid
their blankets on these and covered
the blankets with q poncho. Then
they took off their shoes and crawled
into bed. The rain continued to driz-
zle. By midnight little pools of water
were forming in the bedrooms. Hawk
and Gragg were sleeping side by side.
Say, Hawk, quit your crowding,'
whispered Gragg, after taking as much
abuse as he could bear. You showed
my nose against the wall that time
We'll, I'm not going to warm up
this puddle of water and then let you
sleep in it. cried Hawk as he gave
Gragg another push"
The men are in fine trim and eager
for action, Phillips writes. Phillips
himself expects to be transferred soon
to New Jersey and thence to France,
having asked for the chance.