The Missoulian from Missoula, Montana • 4

THE DAILY MISSOULIAN, FR I A 0 I MAY. 3, 1918, WHICH WOULD OUR BOYS APPRECIATE MOST? Talk of the Town duly of planting as many acres' of sugar beets as conditions will' permit. An acre of beets will pro-1 diice approximately a ton and a CatUp Comedies By Alma Woodward. THE DAI1Y MISSOULIAN ESTABLISHED 1873 OUR BOASTING THAT EVERY AMERICAN SOLDIER IS GOOD FOR TWO GERMANS, OR OUR BOOSTING FOR WOMEN IN WAR By Albert Payson Terhune Aiina Ella Carroll, Whose Campaign Plans Helped Win the Interviewing Ireland on Contcription. "Give the hotels tho oncc-over, and bring back something alive." When a city editor snaps out something like this to a cub reporter it's time to act and act lively.

There are days when hotels are overrun with news, but these days come often. Thefirst hotel tried was not the exception. A doctor from St. Paul and a traveling man from Chicago had registered during tho day. One of them wouldn't talk and the other couldn't.

The second hotel on tho round was no more profitable. Here was a farmer from a neighboring valley who knew that the winter wheat In his fields and those of his neigh bors, had been up for several weeks; that there was lots of water in the ground for the dry farmer, and that tho whole country about his place was un conditionally dedicated to tho service of war demand. But the third register held more of promise. On It was written 5 B. Donovan, wife and child, Ireland." Here was the cub's opportunity.

The Irish question is first-page surely," the cub thought, "Mr. Donovan must know something new about the war." Mr. Donovan was in and was will ing to talk. "Yes, 111 be right down. Ill be In the lobby in just a moment." There was no mistaking it, Mr.

Dono van was from Ireland, his brogue was evidence enough of that. Nor was he hard to interview. He was so illing to talk that there was no need of ques tioning. He liked to tell Irish stones and he told them well. "Hut, Mr.

Donovan, when did you "Yes, I am known as the king of Ireland by those who are acquainted with me. Look at my face, can you see why they call me that." "Yes, sir, but can you tell me when you "Oh, yes, my wife is as Irish as I am and the best of it is that we are both proud of it. There is not a brogue or dialect of the island which we can not and do not talk. Here, have this cigar and listen to this one." "Thank you but first let mc ask when did you come to "Yes. my wife and I have one of the best acts which has ever been put Pantages.

We sing and dance. She is a. wonderful dancer to be a singer, or a wonderful singer to be a dancer and we like the work, too." "But when did you come from ire-land. What of the war there? And about the Irish situation? "When did I come from Ireland? Man! I was never, there! I was born in this country. But I'm Irish Just the same.

As one fellow whom I knew used to say, you may not have been born in Ireland, but Campus in Best Clothes for Annual Meet. Mount Sentinel and the university campus are making ready for the track meet to be held Viere next week. Tho warm sun and wind of the last few days hac worked well on the mountaln'and hhe green Val below it; esterday morning the whUo ot blossoming shrubs began- to show on Sentinel and before the sun had set, the whole mountainside was a mass of color. The green of trees and grasses was interspersed with patches of white, purple and yellow blossoms. The response to the warmth has been equally marked on the campus of the university.

The lawn is at its prime. A professor of the institution said yesterday: "Next eek is going to bring the track meet, but not tho track meet alone. It will bring tho glorious days of the dandelion on the campus here. I know that there are many who don look at the coming of the flowers as i do, but really that doesn't make any difference with me. It is my honest opinion that the campus is never more beautiful than when the yellow flow ers have their "it Is a sight worth waiting a year to sec.

I know that they will be cut away as fast as the machines can cut them, but thank heaven. that is too slow to keep pace, with tho dandelions. As long as they are here why not let them blossom?" "Jimmy" Conlon Likes Lifs at Aero School. James Conlon, now a student, in the government school at aeronautics Jn, Berkeley, CaU In his letters home expresses enjoyment of life at the university there. The work he says is hard, but not too hard.

Tho weather, is fine, and the company especially since the arrival of "Elll" Ferguson. "I'm enjoying- good health and the life we have to lead here," he writes. "The meals are good, the study interesting, the climate great, and the company the besC in the world. There is but cne thing that I don't like about it. I have to sleep In the woman's dormitory here.

The building has been turned over to the aviation stuaenis for lodging. The building Is a sood one, but I can't feel comfortable. I'm always embarrassed." Ben Chaffin le Now "Crew Chief at Kelly Field. Sergeant Ben W. Chaffin writes to Attorney Leon.

Bulea telling of hl3 service with the 115th aero squadron at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas. Sergeant Chaffin says that he Is a "crew chief, In charge of a crew that keeps an aeroplane In shape, so that it will run every day for 12 hours; that it is hard work and he would rre-f. to fly, but is past 25 years of age, the limit for "flyers." He sends greetings to his many friends In Missoula, "The Commuriitym Boosts University's Track Meet "Y'our track meet," la the keynote of an ad in the last edition of "Tho Community, the monthly paper put out by the Missoula Chamber of Commerce. The ad boosts a luncheon to be held at the Florence this noon and extends an Invitation to both men and women to attend. "The Community" is campaigning for the State In-terscholastic Track Meet In an attempt to.

aid, the committers i season tickets to the luu half of sugar. Jn accordance with a request from the government, the beet sugar companies have fixed a price for beets that is certain to net (he farmer excellent returns, unless the crop fails entirely, which is of course, beyond the bounds of probability. 11, be that the farmers could make a little more money by raising substitutes for wheat. That would be an uncertainty, until after the harvesting season and might prove wholly disappoint ing. The financial return from an acre of sugar beets is about as certain as anything can be in farming.

As matters stand, western Montana is a long way from doing its duty in this respect. The sugar beet company can care for vastly more beets than are now in sight. It will not do to "let George do it." Each farmer must lake this duty directly to himself, and plant as many acres "as possible. The Great' Western Sugar company will help in every way, and to gether it ought to be possible to establish a record of patriotic production that will be in keeping with Montana's record in oth er war work. There is some mystery in the cabled report that the lord-mayor of Dublin has applied to Foreign Secretary Balfour for passports for himself and his secretaries in order that might proceed to Washington.

If their purpose is to protest against Lloyd George's bill for conscription of the Irish, we hope their mission will be in vain. The Irish must fight with the allies to free Ireland from the alternative of becoming a nice little summer resort for the kaiser, if he wins the war. At his annual birthday dinner at the Montana club in Brooklyn last Chaunecy, M. Depow, aged 8iJ told of having met a man 100 years old who attributed his great age to his abstinence from alcohol and tobacco. A little later he met a man 1013 years old who said he had lived that lonjr because he had been drunk every day since the battle of Waterloo.

Now then, will our university pro- lessors kindly rell us the answer? As an experiment, we would" like to see the entire country placed under military authority lor one week. The pro-Germans and the radicals might not like it, but it would make life a lot safer for the patriots and would, we think, bring peace more than one week nearer to us. General Von Falkenhayn was but partly right when he said it was hard to slop a victorious army. 11 can be done, as witness at Ypres, where the British have not only stopped the Huns, but compelled them to look and listen. Will Senator Walsh kindly advance the case of La Follelte on the docket? Public opinion has created atice, little desert island for La Follelle's habitation and we are anxious to see him moved during the spring house cleaning.

We can think of a lot of things more important winning the war than Ihe agitation in the east over Sunday baseball. Why not kill two birds with one stone by senuuig me nan players "over there?" Whiskey at Eldorado, sells for $12 a quart. Mighty in dependent and self-satisfied peo pic must be the Eldoradans. to uiopt tins mouiou ot Keeping newcomers lrom their city. The high cost of tar and feath ers is not prohibitive over Washington, where patriotic citi zens are offering spring styles to organizers of the Non-Partisan cogue.

Of what possible use will be the new sedition bill of Senator Walsh to Montana, if he succeeds in landing a United States district attorney who will not enforce it? Come along, Doe, and dress' up your senatorial boom for public inspection. Some of us would like lo see what it looks like. Even the worm will turn, if you uo not get alter it in the war gar den. ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER. iuuw v.uouinsT-"! be very sorry to ofck 'ee for help again, zur, so soon 111 .1 r-, i uuer me poor 'usband's death but another pig died this momin'.

Cas Ij'I's Saturday Journal. The discovery in the Philippines ot a species of silkworm that feeds on the leaves of the caul or oil plant, which grows wild in the Islands, has given ris- to a belief that the silk Industry caa l't ystablishvl commcrlaU. Little Brother. Scene: Camp Lewis. Time: Sunday afternoon, (Adoring relatives 1 ulen with bumpy packages are pouring Into the camp from trains, touring cars, jitneys, etc.) Mrs, A (yanking an eight-year-old) Willie, you should carry the package for mamma while mamma looks for Brother George.

And don't squeeze It, darling. Willie (rebellious!) It's heavy! mustn't I squeeze it? Mrs. A (anxiously) Because It's got got chocolate cake and lemon jelly In It. As soon as mamma finds Brother George he'll carry the package. Willie (awake to the situation) Will he eat It too, mamma? Mrs.

A (beaming) Of course he will, darling. Mama brought it down to poor Brother George because he gets beans and stew and Willie (suddenly) I'm hungry, mama! Mrs. A (scanning the horizon) You can't bo hungry, Willie; you had four bananas and two cheese sandwiches on tho train. Willie (confidently) rm hungry, anyhow! Mrs. a (encouragingly) Well, wait till we find Urother George and mny-b.

he'll give you a piece of his cake and some lemon Jelly. (They press through the crowds, the mother's eyes alert for big brother.) Willie' (shrilly) Oo-oo-oh! Mama! I'm squeezing It! Mrs. A (stouninir hnrn1v niln, mama tell you-not to squeeze it? You'll ime it an ruined for Brother George. Wllllo (on speculation) Maybe I'd better eat it to keen it from ar.ttin ruined, mama. Mrs.

A (firmly) This Is tho last time I'll ever brine von down in oamn to see Brother George. Aren't you as amed having a big, brave brother In me army, and then you want to his poodles? eat Willie (after a moment's thought) a got a gun. I ain't got a gun. Mrs. A (soothlnc-lvt veil mi buy you a gun when we get home.

wmie (with definite persistence) i you Iwy It hero where thev e-nt Mrs. A (patiently) No, darling, esc ure real guns mama'U buy you play gun, Wllllo (nasally) I don't wanta play i wanta real gun. I'm HUNGRY Mrs. A (Nervously) Will you keep ilot? Wlllio (fortissimo) I'm so hungry gotta pain! Mrs. A (In desperation) Oh, all ight, open tho package and cat a iece of cake it that will keep you quiet.

Willie needs no second bidding. Uc rops to th0 ground on the spot and at-iuks the eats, while mama busies iself looking for Brother George.) Willie (culling, after a minuti-l a to, a piece ot it, mama, I ate such a 1 or it i guess It's all gone an' reu on the lemon Jell v. mamn. it "HI It's almost ruined slmuM that too, mama? Mrs. A (runninir back, Mill This Is the last time I'll ever bring ou down to camp and I havnn't cvm.

found Brother George and he won't io glad to sco tiH a bit without the Lhocolate cakrv and hist wit mi get you home, etc. N. No Sundav at Camn nn i complete without' a little tnureit fit this sort.) 25 Years Ago What Missoula Was Doing on This Date in Several new residences are in Course ot construction, thut of M. Mcllaffle on the south side and one for J. W.

Greenough on the Rattlesnake being particularly noticeable. Many side walks and street crossings are also being Miss Lucy Hart man, a former Mis- soulian, and well known in this city, was married lust week at Olympia, to Walter S. Scamroell ot Ta-comu- I'armers In tho Bitter Hoot arc be coming uneasy over tho state of the weather. They nay the soil is so wet and soft that they ran neither plow or sow, and unless sunshine soon appears crops will bo seriously retarded. The Stevcnsvllte Tribune, J.

II. Faulds, publisher, has been awarded the contract for doing the legal printing of Itavalli county at a rate that will require two bookkeepers to keep track of his profits. Frank Locke, the popular proprietor if the Central meat market, says "It's a girl." He is setting Vm up today to his friends in celebration of the Joyous event. Tho Northern I'acific has Just com pleted an immense breukwater In the river which is to protect the Bitter Hoot railroad bridge from high water. James Burke returned today from Stevensvtlle, where he secured from the commissioners of Itavalli county a contract to transcribe the records of Missoula which now apply to the new county in the Bitter Boot valley.

The job is a stupendous one and tho ag gregate will amount to HER WORK. Congrcsswoman Jeannette r.ankin said In a Y. W. C. A.

address: "Charles Schwab married on $7 a week and Chauncey Pepew on J3. I have no sympathy with the girl who makes a devoted young man wait till he can support her as luxuriously as her old father does. "My sympathy all goes out to Vie young man who paid joyously, as soon as he was accepted: "Then, darling, we'll get married at once. Of course, at first we sha'n't be able to keep a 'Oh, Jack, badn't we better wait. then? she protested.

'What would the say If they mv me doing my own work?" "Jack looked puzzled. wny, he said, 'whose iwnrlt do you want to Washln-. lvn Star, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1918. WHERE TO PAUSE. Wrt wnnrW how many of our i.on,w nro.

familiar with these noble lines: The last result of wisdom stamps It true, lie only earnB his freedom and existence Who dally conquers them anew. Thus here, by dangers girt, shall glide, away, Of childhood, manhood, age, the vigorous day; And such a throng I fain would see Stand on free soil, among a people free. InUhat verse, Goethe wrote a whole creed for "He only earns his freedom and existence who daily conquers them anew." Was there ever told in a few words a belter method of right living? How foolish, indeed, the agitation in Chicago to remove the statue of Goethe from Lincoln park, and how sensible the refusal of the park commissioners to vield that clamor. Goethe, like Shakespeare, belongs to the world. Be quite sure, if he were living, there would be no brutal autocracy of junkers, headed by the kaiser, on a mission to conquer the world.

"And such a throng I fain would stand on free soil, among a people free." The German people would be "standing on a free soil among a people free" if they had listened to this divine voice. We do not advise the owner of Goethe's poems. to make a bon-firc of them and dance about in high glee. That is not the way to win the war. If the Germans, with all their hatred of Knglaud, can afford to attend Shakespearian plays enacted by great German artists during this war, then surely we can afford to keep Goethe's poems intact until after it is over.

Mil. TOWNLEY'S AY. Mr. Townley, of the Non-Partisan league, in a statement replying to charges of disloyalty recently made before tlie senate military committee, tells us that the league's income is $1,000,000 annually. Think of that wad to a political party, and all that might be done with it.

Indeed, the news should bring the shades of Mark llanna, Gorman, and Ouay back to earth, with mad reproaches for the kindergarten methods they employed. The Democratic National Committee had in its lust campaign, about $1,100,000 lor a fund and the Republicans had several hundred thou sand dollars more, according to their statement. Yet here is the Non-Partisan league with, an annual fund larger than either. Certainly, in financing a campaign, we must give it to Town-ley for startling advances in money conscription. Old timers would say that if Townley could not win with that trurlo-load of money, lie should be sent to a home for the feeble minded.

Quite as interesting is Town-ley's statement that from this vast political fund there was but $5,000 to the third Liberty loan, and nothing at all to the first and second loans. Truly these fads arc enlightening as to thCsTielhods of the Nonpartisan league and as to the quality of it's patriotism. PLANT KELTS AM) MOKE BEETS. A Carbon county correspondent, writing to the Billings Gazette, says that the farmer who raises an acre of sugar beets is quite on a plane with one who purchases a Liberty bond. We put that farmer several notches higher.

The purchase of a Liberty bond requires no sacrifice. The purchaser takes no chances; he holds a mortgage on the Liiited States and needs only to draw a check, to get his interest and sit back in content ment. Too many purchasers of Liberty bonds delude themselves into thinking that they have per formed a great patriotic deed by tli is excellent investment. The farmer who plants an acre of sugar beets is a reul patriot He is actually producing a vital necessity for this war. Sugar is one of the essentials of life, and an absolute requisite to our sol diers, our allies and ourselves The farmer, too, must get out into the open and work with hi hands.

He is gambling with the weauier, trie possibility ol a labor stiortage and a hundred other conditions, such as farmers have endured since agriculture was known in the Biblical days. ltrTnTvrrfr 1he comparison, we iiii iri'VuiMm yuj; farmers the tivil This is the story ot a woman who oiacKcsi nours and who went to her Carroll, daughter of a famed old Maryland family. The Civil war was In its first high tide. The Confederates held the southwest and could not be dislodged. Tho key to their strength there was the Mississippi river, which bristled with their forts and afforded them a clear waterway from the Gulf of Mexico north.

Lincoln's advisers planned to descend the Mississippi from Union territory, forcing their, way southward. But presently they found it could not bo done. Then it was that 'Miss Carroll Jilt on her, plan for subduing a great part of the southwest without trying- to hammer this 'Mississippi obstaclo away. Wie made Inquiries of pilots and found the Tennessee river would be navigable for Union gunboats. Also that tho Tennessee was by no means strongly defended by the Confederates as was tho Mississippi.

Sho mapped out a plan of campaign with this end In view and got it placed before President Lincoln. It was not the illogical project of a girl, but tho carefully built-up scheme of a woman of 46 a woman of strong and unusual mentality, Lincoln was delighted with the plan. General McClellan opposed it. LINCOLN ACTS But the president overruled the opposition and had the IN CRISIS. venture put Into effect at once.

Tho kernel of the Idea lay in Miss Carroll's written statement to the war de. rartment: "The true key of the war Is not tho Mississippi but tho Tennessee river!" She pointed out the weakness of the Tennessee forts, the soundings of the river, the advantages of fighting, not In the heart of a hostile country (as EVERY GERMAN How Destroyers Got Their Names i i tie Brien, When you read oLan Irish name like O'Brien on one of our biggest and new est destroyers, you may well ask how it got there and why an Irishman should have been the first hero of the American navy. At the outbreak of the revolution we had no regular navy. resplto the fact that Knglond possessed the most powerful navy of the time she could use It to small advantage on 2,000 miles of coast line almost 3,000 miles from her home base. Consequently tho non descript collection of odds and ends forming the American navy acted like a swarm of hornets against their formidable adversary.

O'Brien was a lumberjack up In the Maine woods just back of Machlas. News ot the battle of Lexington had spread through the colonies firing the hearts of countless other young patriots. An armed British schooner lay off the Maine coast at Machlas. O'Brien and a party of his friends, Maine wocdsmen like himself, formed the resolve of taking1 her where she lay. A lumber sloop was seized, and O'Brien armed his crew for the most part with pitchforks and axes.

Approaching the unsuspecting Britisher they were quickly on board and captured the enemy with hardly a struggle, so complete was the surprise. O'Brien hen armed his schooner with the cannon and ammunition taken from the captured Britisher and put to sea in quest of further prizes. With ne commission and no legal authority of any sort, he made several prizes in a short time and sent them back to Ma-cbbis. There was considerable booty in each prUe and the crew shared in the proceeds. O'Brien's example was followed by others, and soon the whole New Kngtund coast was alive with Yankee privateers, who created no end of troublu'for the enemy.

So great was O'Brien success and so irritating wert his captures that Admiral Graves, the British commander cf the fleet In that neighborhood, in a spirit wof reprisal, reduced the town of Falmouth (now Portland) to ashes, thus leaving tho Inhabitants shelterless at the beginning; of a bleak New Enirland This was unfortunate for the British. Spurred by indignation, the building of ships proceeded with, great rapidity, and in a short while a small but extremely effective American navy-was the result To O'Brien, however, must be awarded the palm of creating and commanding the first American ship of war; he was first to attack and conquer a British snip of the line. In honor of this gallant young officer, the navy department keeps alive his memory and his valiant exploits by naming after him one of our newest and largest torpedo boat destroyers O'Brien. ITS SPECIES. "A little bird told his wife of the good time her husband was having." "I'll bet it was the lark he was on." Baltimore American.

Belting used on machinery in Russian oil fields is made of camels' hair, which resists better than rub ber, cottou or leather! AN ARMY OF TWO AMERICANS FOR War. helped to save the Union in one ot its grave unrewarded. She was Anna EltaH SAFETY ZONE. A spider one day was crawling down the aisle of an old church, looking very disconsolate and with a decided limp, and on his way met another spi der, who accosted him as follows: "Well, old chap, what's the matter? Lost a couple of fat flies or is your liver out of order?" "Neither, dear friend. The fact is I sleep under the pulpit cushion and the vicar will persist in banging on the cushion to emphasize his points, and I mn suffering from three broken legs." "Oh, I am sorry for you, but It you don't mind sharing my bunk you are quite welcome." "And where may that be?" In the poor box.

Nobody ever dis--Uirbs me there." Chicago" New. along the Mississippi) but in touch with, the Union buse of supplies. She also showed that tho conquest of the Tennessee would cut the Confederacy In two. All of these important facts had been overlooked by our war department in its blindly absorbed study of conditions on the Mississippi. It remained for Lincoln's wise brain to grasp the full value of Miss Carroll's suggestions.

The Tennessee campaign began. It wag carried on in nearly every move According to Miss Carroll's plan. Tennessee and tho wavering state of Kentucky were restored to the Union. The victories to the south of her kept Missouri from open revolt against the government. A pathway to the Gulf Mates was cleared for the Union armies, Miss Carroll had helped to reconquer the southwest and.

Incidentally, to win the war and save the Union. That was her reward. And that was her only reward. For the president and his cabinet dreaded AFRAID TO CREDIT the effect on the army and on the public at large If it WOMAN'S WIT. should became known that the mighty Tennessee campaign was the work of a mere woman's brain that a woman had had tho cleverness to sec at a time when the army chiefs were blind.

So the matter was kept secret. At least It was "officially" a secret, though hundreds of people knew all about it. Miss Ci rroll herself was patriotic enough to be willing to wait until the proper time before claiming public recognition ot her great services. But the "proper time" never avrived. The Civil war ended, and Abraham Lincoln's glorious life ended "with it.

And even then credit was withheld from Miss Carroll. At last, years afterward, sho petitioned congress for the money and honor that were due to her. Senators Lodge and Hoar and Wise and others fought gallantly to establish her rights. But congress refused to act in the matter. In lS3t Miss Carroll died.

Our nation's debt to her is still unpaid. She was described In her old age as "bedridden, paralyzed and dependent on her sister for surPort." The Seal Which Is Used on Our Paper Money A relic of the Bevolutionary days when we were not yet ration still remains on our paper money, ssy. Popular Science Monthly. The seal which appears on every bill issued by the government contains the abbreviated words "Thesaur. Septent.

The full phrase Is "Thesaul Americana Septentrlomalis Sigillum," which itimply means, "Seal of the Treasury of North America," Our distinguished ancestors felt that If a thing were to be said with dignity, it had to be said In Latin. When young man begins to spout hot air It's up to the wise girl to turn on a ttfid wave, ff.