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Soldier Newspapers Are Important Factors In Keeping Up Morale of Our Fighting Men ill S j G 1 HEAVY TANK 1 VT PRODUCTION i XSS I I XrWr V wwCf 7 V W V7 Ms A _ II By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union THERES an old saying that if two men meet anywhere in the world and one of them is an Englishman the chances are hell suggest they start a club If thats true then its equally true that when any unit of the American army larger than a squad arrives at a new post be it on home or foreign soil one of the first things the soldiers do is to start their own newspaper This seems to apply to the fighting fronts as well for soon after the American forces in Sicily had captured the town of Vittoria a onepage sheet called the Dough boy News made its appearance As a matter of fact the News is a transplanted soldier newspaper It is published by and for the men of the 45th di vision of the United States Sev enth army and it was started while the 45th was in training at Pine
uktte Gives Way to Pool at AixLeBains tiling casino at Aix which is leased by the Y M C A the me of skill has replaced the French game of chance They the Yankee soldier to come to Aix but one taste of Y and he had to be hired to stay away THE T SOUGHT SERVICE NOT FAME SAYS GEORGE W PERKINS War Work Finance Committee returns home and fully on monumental and efficient organization d by Y M C A for service to A E F fPkins or iNew York finance committee of Iouncil of the Y M turned from Europe over four months in ugh investigation of by the Y M C A ins report is an im of tlte prodigious 1 by the great organi nions in the war land ami friends of the As well feel that its big i nr Jn his summary I ribute could be paid to Y M C A than that iig paid by the Army either taking over or iing in the work of ularging the activities e Y M C A at the work in Europe a ice was signed it was nor practical to rs at military
TITLED IRISHMAN WAS FIRST REAL GAME HOG OF MONTANA KILLED 104 BEARS AND 2000 HEAD OF OTHER WILD ANIMALS TRAVEL LICHT IS WORD TO SOLDIER MONTANA BOYS GOING TO AMER ICAN LAKE NEED VERY LITTLE BAGGAGE Two Changes of Clothing and Toilet Articles in a Bundle No Bags or Suitcases Should be Taken Gov ernment Will Furnish Other Things on Arrival When the men of the new Nation al army leave their homes in Mon tana for American Lake Washing ton about September sth they will be permitted to take with them on troop trains only hand baggage pre ferably bundles The war depart ments order to travel light is for the purpose of conserving space on the troop trains The great military writer Richard Harding Davis once said that trav eling light meant carrying only a toothbrush He said any man could travel light in a military campaign if he had plenty of good friends and was an expert at the game of bor rowing But at Amerian Lake the men will have little time to chase all over the camp to borrow a safety razor and all the wise soldiers will place in their travel kits all the
BPW Holds Find Spring Meeting Final meeting of the Columbia Falls Business and Professional Womens club was held Wednesday evening at Frenchys Chinese Gar dens near Whitefish Mrs Cecil Hudson vice presi dent presided at the brief business meeting in the absence of Mrs Ben Hyndman the clubs presi dent Members present were Virginia Choate Connie Darling Alice Da vall Betty Hetzer Mrs Hudson Rosanne Keim Ruth Lundblade Amy J Maher Alyce Merz Hilde gard Mitton Suze Nadeau Mar tha Opalka Lucille Smith Mar garet Smith Leota Walton and Margaret Walker Guests were Marjorie Dakin Vella Galbraith Eva Jordan Cleo Reynolds and Susan Sanders Mrs ONeil Visiting In Glacier Park WEST GLACIER Mrs Ella t Will with e mo ONeil of Coldwater Mi arrive Friday for a Yij Frank Neubauer She is ther of a soldier who was killed in the South Pacific while serving in Mr Neubauers battery the Americal division This was the only unnumbered division to serve in World War II Andrew Jantz visited at the Don Robinson home this weekend turning to his home in Ritzville Wash Sunday Mrs Robinson with her children accompanied her fa ther back to Ritzville and will spend the remainder of
PAGE SIX The POPLAR STANDARD Aad Coat insat ion Of Hl BROCKTON BULUTIN Offistal artnyspsr of Bomsvek OsuAy Dtnh Dslgsr Psbttabsr Edgar Erickson Editor Th Bert la Newspaper And Job Printing Berries Subscription 200 Per Year Entered aa a cond claa matter on Muy IS Ilo at the post office at Poplar Montana unJr the Act of March 3 I7 REALISTIC DEMOBILIZATION PROGRAM In mr peace luv me latil civilian tin not become effective soldier overnight the nrimd force earefttllv train them into the world best Thi requir month of conditionin ontcrMly mc cannot exiHri our fighter to begin function ing u civilian the mom lit the war i over A any mother who ha hail a on home on furlough know a cll i needed for re ad jutmcnl Kaliic undcrtanding of thi i the core of the demobili zation plan brine advocated to interested Senate committee anti the American Legion by the National Aociation of Manufac turer It would provide Clothing allowance of SIOO uMn discharge three week furlough anti transportation to ami from home for those not to be demobilized immediately full bac ay up to SIOO a month and full family allowance for the first three
A Mothers Appeal to the President Mr President those of us who are giving sons and husbands or other loved ones are giving all that we have in life Bravely we are trying to bear the sor rows which have been placed upon us Bravely we are trying to look forward with some hope of their return We would ndt hold them back for we know that they are going for our honor and to save us and all womanhood from the fearful fate which has befallen Bel gium and much of France But Mr President we know that their lives are being menaced because of pro German activities We know that many a soldiers life will be lost which might otherwise have been saved had these proGerman activities been suppressed with a ruthless hand The men who in this country are fight ing the United States by working for Germany are infinitely more our ene mies and the enemies of these loved ones that we are sending to battle than are the men in Germany even than the Kaiser and his associates These men at home are seeking to stab our loved ones in the back and you Mr