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at ateoI~a, ;ý ý nd llu~rF adn master. si t oe ................. L#.7 7.00 r a rga ooiltries. fl D It i IL 466-4I riv is _ e* Connsotin MISSQULA 4PPICE 1 a 131 We.t Main Street Hamilton Offcee 1 Uda Street, Hamilton. Mont. R PAPER8 the oulta V anxious to give tthldig therptore, sub. are relweeted to report faulty at on1e. In ordering paper to ner addtea, please give bid also. Money orders and should be m4a46 payable .to diou º publiahing Company. I ile The thiesoutinh takee every b S pr6sbAtion to. guard against #}i ra4h re i ore 1 iits advertising whne pripters ae but human and .we ill; net be responsible for errors may inedverteeitl* occur. Misstoaian Publishing Company. SATURDAY, PEBCEiB8R 26, 1914. what are fifty, what a thousand slaves, - Mstohid to the sinew of a single arm That strikes *or liberty? -Brooke. CRUELTY TOPARENTe. A writer in the curTpnt issue of The American Magazine hints that cruelty to pareqts ie 1lramnpeit: 'There laeone thing that I have felt for years, of . which I am a little ashadised. That is the fact that our children always seemed to consider it our 4uty to sacrifice ouraelves 'pr theum Not that they weretmore selfish than others, or that we wgre unwilling to make the sacrifices, but their care less, thoughtless presumption always irritates me. They accepted without thanks, or with careless ones. Lately, I have wondered if we did not owe it to them and if, after all, their attitude is not the more logical, since they were brought into this world without op tion." It :would be most unfortunate were the Civilised parent to come' to con sider that he is not obliged to sacrifice himself for his children. For If he does not, who will? Despite all the flubdub printing to the contrary, we maintain, calmly, that the American attitude toward the child is, the ideal-generous self-sacrifice. A PABLE. There was once a coterie of boys who played together in friendly spirit. But one of them learned something about boxing, and was soon able to thrash any two of the rest. When the boys grew up, the boxing expert became a prize-fighter, and any of his old pals who looked cross-eyed at him got "theirs." He kept bullying the young men who had not become prize-fighters until they got together one day and jumped on him and beat him until he cried "enough." Moral: If you do not want prize fighting to become the ideal of your set, you have got to combine on the bullying boxer. You get to be, in this world, just about what you deserve to be. OLD ERROR REPEATED One. grows very weary of the state ment, repeated here, there, every where, day after day, by people who ought to know better, that modern war is bloodier than of yore. The facts point the other way, ar everyone who stops to think must know When men fouaht foot to foot, the cen.uered usually perished. Arm ies have fallen to a man. Despite the terror created by latter day enginee of destruction, the per cent of esablaltles in France today uotbih11' -1 far lighter than during the i8Ns9Pic-wars, t. 'st uggle is horrible enough; e geate it. L" ep ato Div1", if leie ;*~q. 9WMuch pWtt4ldV<4tb AS TO !NThWtMT MAID A few mornings 'since, in ac ord ae the icy of this newspaper to give all sides otal bsk fair hearC risg, we published a communication from the City Treas urer, by way of criticism of the proposal of the Chamber. of Commerce for a meeting between the city and county officials, looking to -a plan for curtailing the cost of our local governments. In the course of Mr. Hall's .animadversion he said, "We s are now paying between $40,000 and 50,000 a year in in $ terest on borrowed money. This is approximate y one-half 2 of the general taxes collected. It can be'plainly seen that if we were not under this drain we &ouid cut the tax levy in half. The communication 'in question has given rise to pany comments, questioning the accuracy of the figures given. The Missoulian is in receipt of, another communic a ton from a source thoroughly friendly to the present city ad ministration, from.which we quote: "In a recent issue of your valuable paper there appeared a signed statement by a City Official which is not only misleading and untrue but ft is also calculated to injure the credit 'of the City -of Missoula both at home and abroad. ' The state ment was made without any qualification, that 'We are now paying between $40,000 and $50,00) a year in interest on borrowed ioney.' How zany sane person could mtake .such a statemnent- is be yond comprehension. The fact is that the city is paying annually 41/2 per cent on a bonded debt of $93,000. (IBridge and sewer bonds). This amo nts to"$4,185. On April 30, 1914, the total floating in debtedness of the city was $213,313.57. This bear ing interest at 6 per cent per annum amounts to $12,798.79. This brings the total amolint of in terest payable annually by the city to $1 ,983.79, which is considerably less than '$40,000 or $50, 000,' as stated by City Treasurer F. C. Hall. "Since April 30, 1914, I am informed 'that -the road warrants have all been paid, and tlihat.there has been no great increase, if any, if; the general warrants outstanding, and that when the revenues just recently collected' are applied to the paymient of outstanding warrants,, the general indebtedness of the city will be substantially decreased from what it was on the 30th of April, 1914. "It would seem to an outsider that a city .offi cial should be more careful in his public or pri vate statements regarding the business affairs of the city and not magnify or .listo 'finaneial fig ures for the purpose of bolstering up seme petirev enue raising theory. The treasurer' article, does not do justice to the city- nor to the present city administration, which has undoubtedly been a very economical one, rash statements of the unin formed to the contrary notwithstanding." Our correspondent. seems to be exact in' his statement as to the actual yearly interest payment by the city and from anothet source we are informed that,-the amounts given by him are correct. We believe that the proposal of the chamber of cormmerce has much of merit in it and hope that the proposed con ference. may materialize, and that it will lead to some measure of relief. Local taxation has reached the point where, in some cases, it is almost confiscatory. One thing is certain. Government. in -Montana is cost ing the taxpayers more than it should cost them for -effi cient government. The final remedy may lie with the leg islature, along the lines of abolishing unnecessary-offices and deputyships, but it is, a step in the- right direction for the local authorities to get together and seem what, if any thing, can first be done locally, to help relieve the situa tion. COMMUNICATED THE REAL CAUSE. Editor Missoulian-In your editorial. The Real Cause," in the issue of the 23rd instant, you made this statement: "If the truth could be known, the fast joy riders, with dissipation, extrava gance and improvidence, as our chauf feurs would account for just about 90 per cent of the individual cases of poverty and want with adult men and women, not the children." Our old in dividualistic philosophy used to say that "every man is the architect of his own fortune." We now know that it is not true. Bishcp Spauiding said that environment counted for more than 90 per cent. Victor Hugo said that society stands in the dock with every criminal. Our industrial com petitive system is. the real cause. Here is the proof: Dr. Scott Near ing of the University of Pennsylvania has written an interesting little book entitled "Financing the Wage-earners' Family." He says that the available figures indicate that the adult male wage-earners in the manufacturing and transportation. industries east of the Rockies and north of the Mason and Dixon line receive in annual earn ings: One-tenth under $825; one-fifth under $400; one-half under $500; threedfourths under $600; one-tenth over $800. Now remember that these figures represent the wages of grown men, not of women and children. Then he found that it re3iuired from $650 to $1,000 per year to buy a decent stand ard of living for a family of five in the indugtrial cites and towns east of the Miausisippi. Now, Mr. Editor, just compare the cost of living with the wasg received. How much do you ssspmoe the average' man has been abl to spend on joy rides? How much do you tsink he can lay by for a rainy day? HoW ,mtch sickness and unem plao inps' o you think he can stand be will be "on the rocks?" Bon estly, don't yout think it has required some financial abilty to make both ends meet? Now, Mr. Editor, I commend to your attention Scott Nearing's little book. someone has said that i. to Just the ,book for one who has got to the point where he begins to ask, the question, "What is the matter?" You may not have reached that point, but it will jar your complacency, at any rate.. Again, remember that while one, half of the men woriking in those great industries received less than would support a family in a decent living. remember, I say.,-that the corporations of this country in 1912 reported profits to the amount-of nearly $4,%00,000,000. Do you suppose that those $4,O000,00, 000 of profits have any relation to low wages and therefore have anything to do with your real cause of poverty and want? Your editorials that morning were not very consistent. After you had finished with "The Real Cause," you told us about 'pTie Waste of It." You said that, lust ygi' we wasted 8200, 000,000 in breakage and spoilage of eggs, and that .hbg cholera caused a loss of 40 pounds of meat to every family in the United States. Can you not see that our industrial system is terribly wasteful? Can you not see that there is a connection between this waste and the causes that produce want and poverty? You are aware, no doubt, that there are some millions of women and chil dren in this country of ours that have to work in mills and factories for low wages. It is plain to see how that condition makes for low wagh and unemployment for men. Mr. Editor, your individualistic phil osophy might have passed comment in the Eighteenth cenutry, but it is sadly out of date in the Twentieth. We have been slowly learning that "man is his brother's keeper," and that "rio man livetl\ to himself." Society gasqep tre. niendous tespqnsiblity for every one. We dare not complacently aa that it was his own fault, and therefore let him go. This aceumulation of poverty and unemployed 'will endanger our whole social fabric., henee the safety of us all 3. J . )8'GUFFEY. The girls are 4A*1 I tAt luncheon ad, ; They dance in every fat t, And on the iIp .a seer NIGHT AP In winter I bit up At nig, And dance till early m ight. In summer, it haI t y I like to dance the. lVel g And even in miy a)ep se* The Tango T pe at the' Teal And hear the'ibun# of ton1 test still tappin gt 40,0 - ci e And does it not seem hat{t e? I have to leave ah As Though I should like s u t ay I cannot dance boath de THE WHOLE DUTY OF OR8 A girl should wear" a pretty shoe. And smile wheal she'is a poke*htQ; < And own 'a lot of lace tsable At least ca far as she I able. A IHAPPY TROPGHT The world is so full of l number o shams, I'm sure we shdold# 1 be h D$ as clams. Every day I work it. rght I get my dinner. ea e Kiis ' And every pight that ben gld I get a cordila after f The girl who is pot fair and sweet, With lots of flowers a 4hings to eat, She is a stupid girl: I'r ur 1' Or else her beaux are I afuE poor. -Carolyn Wells. In Rarper's Maga zine. SSpur. tkbWm "y, Royr K."I Maon To t Gs Metor. They say the iibren is unsolved; Bu~t still I ha ve a Abiiohn - That when 86so r> t( fyent d you He found peretuall tdtioR You never loaf izn' t; 4o# But do your atjlt, Yo4 are forever 4 out We think aboutoot ., Down in the dismal, daiome depths, In your movt 4.umble #tlon, You cheerfully perform cour task And ask for no vaca .' A faithful servant, tri jrue, We think it- right to rt The face' :f ,tlka youp 74s# Retire you on a pezidl You click and chatter anl le 7, And seem to tire out never, For men may come and men lay go, But YOU go on forever. Sighs of tihe Times,, The latest dance is colled the "knock-about trot." It aptbably will remain the latest dance at least 20 minlutes. Every time the Simplifled Bpeling board issues a new bulletin. one's mind immediately tourns to Josjh Billings. A New, 'Yorker worth '40,000,000 never used .a telephone. Itfe had he probably would be worth. $1*0,000,OdO. There are now three kipgs gt the front, but it is not yet decided who Will rake inr the pot. Medicine Hat seems to be a. long time getting into the dispatches' this year. Those Mexican generals saun to keep everything excepting their proitges. Why speak of those Europeap war atrocities? See what they have done to the Bull. Moose right here Ia A4merica. It is said-many of the Turkish bat tleships are only scrap iron. lutt what are all battleships but scrap iron? There is nothing to indicate that the trenches .occupled by those Senegalese are fitted up with bath tubl. "Give me marriage, or glye me death," shouted a Pittsburgh girl. Pat Henry shouted it just the other 'vay. Many English women are peaking man look down on 'tue Anmiel pg flai by wearing it about their . Twenty-seven nurses in .fw York hospitals went on a strike." TVhe pa tients will save a lot of n 1 7*le3 Edison says we fleed no `leep. May be that is why he invented tbh night prowling phonograph. By Our Office Expert. The Belgian flood' which itd drown geese or ganders, Now hipders Those bounders, The British Commanders. The great War-Machine with its itLAr Alexanders All pounded to flinders Etill flounders In Flanders. Uncle Abner, A fat man kin never nte i4oy believe le', is sick. there 1s only on1 ol ' g& )epie that goslp a s much as,;# 'tip t~JpU add they are the n. ` f ney r 'et see a foreign empaa 'who dida't' look the part.; A model husband is a feller 'who k~u make 'his wife believe his e*e . Abner Jones ran away, wph, the hired girl about six months .., and now every time his wife hear #t at the 4oor she lumps. Sheo 4 the hib4 kin is bringing him 'sbtak. Anne Juldson'4'uow &i mosaelsek eially. He heaa't learned Ab e' siaps for nearly two weeks. -PI y l1 AC017N TO{ ________ The azrtu N "y~~~ r~ ri1 Thie r The e akd (Billings Tribune.) It is strange how generous some of the nations of earth are in these pip ing days of peace in America and good will to all men excep those fighting on the other side, especially in, the way of giving, away the things that thef do not possess.. Some of the crowned heads are as busily- engaged in bestowing provinces' bel6nkirg to other nations upon' someone else as a Montana legislatdtle', is in voting' money not in the treasury to some favored object. * Germany wants Scandinavia, espe cislly Sweden, to get 'into. tlb watn of course on the side of Germany, arid it promtbises to igive ,to the Norsetniet all sbrts of 'things in the way of territory but it is to be observed 'that it never offers anything that Germany has to give as a reward for co-operation upon the part of the Scandinavians. It is also to be observed that Russia is snot to be outdone by the Teuton in goner-' osity for she promises her* Scandi navian friends territory which is held by the Germans. Now what could he more generous than the offer of the kaiser to give Finland, Esthonia, Livonia and a por tion of Courland, all Russian prov inces to Eweden? Of course it is. to be noted that the kaiser does not offer to give up that portion of Courland that is in the possession'of i ermhuiy but that slight ,omission quglht not to lessen our appreciation 9o German generosity. 'It, is also .a tcansiderable mark of the esteem in 'wvlph Rusria holds.Denmark that she sa kiddli- of ters to giye to the little kingdom the province of Schleswig-Holstein which Prussia acquired from the pIanes asnme yea's ago. Of course the fact that Russia does not own or control a foot of the soil of Schelswlg-Holstein ought not to reduce the value of Rus sia's free gift or, impugn the very gen erous motives which the la id of the ctar has -evinced. Of course, Germany rather detracts frohi the effect of her very generous offe* to the Swedes by _t9liug " eden that ttnlej she gets iii and drills for the Deutschland .th kaiser tlIl analse a deal with Ruseisa eraebv as; a. sort of opnsolation trljs e,4ot the 'aa to mak him "Eel 14&sd41) tOjthe'iosa of Psn46 he; thi kaises' ýwit give hi; ilnitpel mAg ,est lf ralgh awedet to:. .vs and to hop14. O ftsoursg the esear has not yet Ipat Poland but it .is probable that ,Germany'lti chanceE .to acquire another sUe ,of, the ancient kingdom are just as good ,a it is right to make Russi aa present of Uie Scan dinavian kinglipp. It Russia Is effectually Whipped by Gerznany it .s' possible' that, -ermray, and its running nate elstrin. Wies be able to absor* the rest of Poland. gen e4Sf1slices of which they now ventrol, R.4 It is barely po sible, povidbt& the Rusia 'is 'puttileertly 0rus114, that Germaay amght be able to-hiy, some, tiisg. to say eoncernigg the dIsposltion of Fida adtkEsthonin, Livozaia and Rue .scan Coipd bit t0poingbqw tid is to be doubtb , ,: the ti;} Wnid, if the allies houln', m&nae0 to heW Germany hard enough, then .steala might be able to ':make' good."t taIlk about re storing Schiewig- Jlstein to Den 'mark, to take rbt k c ~many apld Aus tria the slices of territory that thei grabbed in P6i and, 4n& to back . up Fraine in thedleraM t.d1at Alsace end Lorraine shalLjbe restokerto the re pub li. but ieg4plgpr4 phi*t tbetier ONAtA $LICK JDIREETORY1 ONLY PFItEPAOOF, MODERN OFFICE BUILDING 1I4 ISBULA PHYSICIANS SUPERINTEND NT OF C. L. BORDEAu CON Room 905-7 .fone 632 1. M * I51 H. B. FARNSWORTH Room 312-14 Room 302 -. Phope 719 CHAS. 5. PIXLEY t1AA Room 207-9 Phone 1914, . G. F. TURMAN Rona1` 42 Room 800-1-4 Phone 173 ( TICIANS SNTIT Roo N. H. SCHWEIKER Room 205 Phjone 1047 0. 4. 5R.LI4 Room 000-208 Phone 1047 RE '. ESTATE AND C. H. M'COMU INSR! Room -31-21 bhdne 422 CHAS. FPRGUSOK R. H. NELSON Room 210 P ase 293 Room 201 Pbon@1009 J. M. PRICI CO. CHAS. L. SMITH Basement Zihon 157 Room 303-805 Phone 692 aMR. M. Rt. C. SMITH AI'QRNEYS Room, 06.8 Phoui 323 WHFELDON-ROSRI CQ} * A. ESANCQN Basemnt , ,hone 93 Room 400-3 Phone 539 Red BLACKFOOT LAND :DRY.S WALTER M. BICKPORD bIENT 09 Room. 60-5 Phone 171 Ground Floor Phune 540 R. F. GAINU J. H. TOUBSLEY, M.Wb OF A. Room all Phone 795 Re 2#m 4.. RONALD HIGGIN - Y" ; . Room 407 Phone 754 Q840.N & JOHNsQN { F. J. LOGAN Room 00$+ A .P1Jf12* 62 Room 431.4 Phone 1003 m 0. W. PJP AR t W. J. M'CORMICo Room '4064 Phone 824 Roommx 405. hone 754 CHAS. N. MADSEN ioptn 409-10 Phqone 3$ C. I.. F. KIL .. . W. L. MURPHY B ment om ses Room2 bob Phone 173 M*SSOULA COUNTY ASS!tRAQT J. H. TOLAN O , Room 309 ?bp.e 4,1 Room. 603 Phne' Z1i A. J. VIQOLTTE Room 51F. A N Phoa 40 Doomt 54l Phoe* 309 * Apoj a3#t3a JAS. L VA.LAQ IM V Deeu 411 $ebs 37: zwooy wpo. Y " a. D0~ ~ 42 LtO~on~ NATIONAl. es MI*SQSi NURSRY Roin 4tj-24 . 4 Doom 591' ~~YTAL ,AS$R Rp *$.Q~qIN# DR 4 hoeR 63*2.4 anooth st no mtntter which way the totune of wan sli1t run, any po' k il find` itself- able, t make an' otheY powelo a present of Sweden. - Taking the matter all in all, the promises to give to someone somethint that one does not possess seems to suggest* that the generous hations should observe the directions as to how to cook " a hare: '"First catchi your hare. One way to reliye. habuq ebsiti pationis `to take. rsgulael aw: il~d lax ati J4 hPq Wt t_ ýt .al recom an er h.iar ue 25c 'a bol