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£t)f JButte Sailp |3ost. Published every evening ex cept Sunday by the Butte Daily Post company, 29 West Granite street. Butte, Montana. _ Entered as second-class mat ter Jan. 29, 1913, at the post office at Butte, Montana, under the act of March 3. 1879. _ Subscription Rates Daily, one month........$ -50 Daily, one year, in advance 5.00 Sem i-weekly, 12 months. ■ 2.00 Branch Offices Anaconda.....203 Main Street Dillon.....13 So. Idaho Street Deer Lodge. .Deer Lodge Hotel J. P. McKinney, Special Agency Sole Eastern Âdvt. Agent, 334 Fifth Avenue........New York 122 S. Michigan Ave.. Chicago Telephones Business Office ...........423 Editorial Rooms .........1015 Anaconda Business Offic e ............05 Change of Address la ord<r:nf paper changed to nr* »«l dr«*«, Trent too old eddrei* al*o to ia#or* mon prompt delivery. P*mm* wDl oblif* the company by reporting faulty dcllvrry of th* piper. Make check* *od money crderi payable t* th« Boil* Daily P oet Company. _ . Official Paper at the City of Butte The Poet ta • Member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation». f ' I I ' I ! i FRIDAY, MARCH 1917 THE CONGRESS It will all come out right. Congress is to meet in extraordinary session and. under the president's call, the members will assembly Monday, April 16. The filibuster business is disposed of; the coast is clear. The run of public sentiment evi dently is that congress ought to be in session. If the country is not actually in a war status it is dangerously close to war's realities. That means a con dition which must be dealt with by congress itself; no good reason has been given why its powers should be delegated to the president or to any body else. To be sure, Mr Wilson let it be known that he preferred to go it alone and get along without congress. His prejudice or his whim in the matter is not final; in .'act, the very large share of the most recent newspaper com* ment, however severe in its denuncia tion of the filibuster, is in broad asser tion of the view that the situation rails for the presence of congress, in »^sslon at the capital. The arming of merchantmen is not t preventive; if v.c .ant to keep out of war they can be detained in port. Neither is the arming of these vessels & protection to th*- United .Staten. If the government is going into this busi ness it will need an army and it cannot :reate one without authority from tongress. After & study of a doubtful proposition the se retar;, of state and he attorney general have der ided that he president has power to arm ships. That is the opinion of two lawyers. Is to the merit* the attorneys of the •ountry would disagrr < . In any event he issue is settled. Congress will) neet, and the country will approv he calk J ! j j j j ! j 1 ONE OF THE CHANGES Gossip about the general settlement hat Is to take place when the war mds includes the statement that France will transfer to Great Britain wo tiny islands that lie Just off the louthern coast of Newfoundland. They ire all that remains to France of her former magnificent possession in North America, except her islands in the West Indies. Of greater interest is the report that aîter the war the British government will insist that Newfoundland shall become a prov ince of the Dominion of Canada. That will certainly not be very satisfactory to the people immediately concerne 1. Newfoundland's commercial ties, in volving fisheries, are chiefly with New England; according to all a-counts the duellers on the big island at the mouth of the Hl Lawrence are not now and never have been of the opinion that they care to be attached to an ad ministration that has headquarters at Ottawa. ____________ THE WAR RISKS In his recent message to congress President Wilson spoke of the need of insuring American shipping against war risks. Money for this purpose was one of his requests. The gov ernment is now doing a war-risk in surance business and has been engaged In it for nearly two years. The crea tion of this government bureau was forced by the high premiums charged f by private Insurance companies at the ' outbreak of the war—premiums which I became actually prohibitive. The gov ernment's bureau, starting with a lit I tie appropriation, has done business ' very successfully and satisfactorily; I It has a reserve, after paying all losses, of ten million dollars. This, however, is too small to face the risks ! entailed by Germany's unrestricted i U-boat warfare. Such operations might destroy fifty million dollars worth of shipping and the owners of this ship ping'will not take the chances unless the government puts Uncle Sam's credit behind the boats to the tune of some such figure. As a matter of fact, there are not many boats carrying the American flag now avaftable for com mercial purposes. The government has taken over the big ships of the International Mercantile Marine which have government subsidy contracts for mail carrying, and these are already equipped as auxiliary cruisers and scouts. MORE TO THE POINT J The British people may find it worth ! while to linger o\er the story of disaster in the Dardanelles campaign. One "ou Id think that they can more profit ubly center their thought and their energies, just now, on subje*. ts that are more timely and incomparably .vital. Kitchener is gone; Asquith is out, Fisher was put in the discard; Winston Churchill is not in high au thority in the admiralty. Enough for present purposes to know that the ex pedition w as a terrible failure. It mas be that cabinet methods and adminis trative habits were responsible there for. In those respects radical changes have occurred—just now the govern ment at London is running under what has with much aptness been recently characterized as Lloyd George's coup d'etat. Today the British have the Irish situation and Germany's sub marine destruction to deal with, and these two are enough to keep London busy for some time to come. The Germans certainly are sending a vast tonnage to the bottom of the sea. Just now operations in home waters are of greater account than the particulars about former disaster in the region of the Bosphorus or the discussion of the workings of a war board that has been changed. A TEMPTING OFFER It was Herr Zimmermann who wrote that Mexico's reward, as the product of his fantastic Deutsch -Mexican* Japanese combine, would be "the res toration of the lost territory in Texas. New Mexico and Arizona." Probably Berlin was reserving California for Japan. Leaving Tokio'.- reward out of ac count the truth is that we Americans ourselves do not realize—at least not all of us—what it would mean to re store the lost territory to Mexico so generousl; promised by Herr Zimmer mann. About the time when Martin Van Buren was elected president cf the United States Mexico included the* area no known as Texas, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona. Nevada, Cali fornia, part of Colorado and a section of Wyoming. It is a territory, four times larger than the German empire-, occupied by about 9.500,000 American citizens would comprise a domain which should prove to be attractive to Carranza. He has not been heard from in re pudiation of offers which Berlin made was preparing to make. more I OUR MEMBER The 'irst woman in congress Montana contribution—received < siderable notice in the metropolitan press last week. Of Miss Rankin ti New York Times said that she would show the metropolis "that she can dance as well as she can cook and play politics," and It mentioned her as scheduled for attendance at a ball given under the auspices of a local suffrage organization. It was announced that all the bl-ç suffrage women were to be present. The appearance of the member-elect at this function was to follow her ad CURRENT ATTRACTIONS AT BUTTE THEATERS ORPHEUM Moving picture*—Today and to morrow, E. H. SotHarn in "A Man of Myitery." PEOPLE'S Moving picture*—Today and to morrow, "Tha American Consul." LIBERTY Moving picturoa—Today and to morrow, Mary McLaren in "Th* Mysterious Mr*. M." BROADWAY Tonight, "The Bird of Paradiae;" tomorrow, Pantagea vaudeville. EMPRESS Hippodrome vaudeville — Today and tomorrow, The Royal Court Quintette and five other acte. ANSONIA Vaudeville and moving picture*— Today and tomorrow, Gail Kana in "The Red Woman." AMERICAN Moving picturae—Today and to morrow, Robert Harron in "The Bad Boy." dress before a suffrage audience at 1 Carnegie hall. Of course, Miss Rankin "nothing, not ev j party, can Btop it will be in all the newspapers. The World's report of her speech in Car negie hall dealt, among other things, with the suffrage cause. She pre dicted its triumph, remarking that the democrat'c The address in cluded references to Montana's splen did resouroes; the World's story took occasion to remark that the "new con gresswoman was dressed in a fur trimmed chiffon gown, showing that fashions and office-holding are not in compatible." For the Montana constituency the principal thing, just now, is that Miss Rankin will be expected to count ono with the republicans, in connection with the organizing of the house of representatives—unless it turns out that in that work the usual party lines are ignored and a bi-partlsan arrange ment devised. There is serious talk of that. v THE ANNIVERSARY IN THE EUROPEAN WAR j j I MARCH 9. 1915— Terrible battle at Neuve-Cha pelle between the British and Ger mans, the British finally advancing 1 at a great cost of life. j 1916— Germans at Verdun concen- 1 träte furious attack on Fort de Vaux. I one of the outlying fortifications. ! Norwegian bark Silius, with seven Americans in the crew, torpedoed without warning and sunk while lying at anchor in Havre Roads. JUDGE WINSTON OCCUPIES BENCH FOR JUDGE LYNCH Judge George B. Winston of Ana conda is occupying Judge Lynch's de partment of the district court today | hearing the application of William Fagan for an injunction restraining J R Silver and others from operating a j rock crusher and carrying on blasting operations in the locality of which the plaintiff lives, on the ground that the work being done is a nui-ance to the neighborhood. The hearing was com menced before Judge Winston last I Friday and was continued until today QUINTETTE ARRESTED IN ANOTHER'S AUTO Fred Orr. John C. Hawes. Ford Asknan. Charles Boone and Charles llullng were arrested by city detec tives last night when the young men stopped their automobile to let some friends get In. The car is the prop erty of H B Underling, who had not missed It as he was entertaining friends at his home and was not aware that the lock on his garage door had been broken and tfce machine taken out. The case was referred to the opunty attorney. Sloaji's Liniment for Rheumatism. : • I i j j The torture of rheumatism, the pains and aches that make life unbearable are relieved by Sloan's Liniment, a clean clear liquid that is easy to apply and more effective than rr.ussy plas ters or ointment because it penetrates quickly without rubbing. For the many pains and aches following ex posure, strains, sprains and muscle soreness, Sloan's Liniment is promtly effective. Always ha\e a bottle handy for gout, lumbago, toothache, backache, stiff neck and all external I pains. At druggists, 26c.—Adv. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. This is to notify all concerned that Paul Hirsch is no longer connected in any capacity with the Hirsch Mercan company. BUTTE ASSOCIATION OF CREDIT MEN. RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Mason. THE W A R SPIRIT If I must take my sword and shield, and go forth to the crimson field, to slay my country's foes, I'll slay with fierce, titanic seal; I'll carve the foemen with my steel and pile the dead in rows. I wish that bloody war might cease; I stand up strong for balmy peace, abhorring martial fuss; but when my stricken country calls, I don my bomb-proof overalls, and load my blunderbus. The trusty sword of Bunker Hill I take down from the window sill, where it has rusted red, and where the enemies are thick I travel on the double-quick, and stack up cords of dead. In times of peace it's well to roast the captain and his gory host, and say that war's a frost; but when our country calls "to arms!'' we face the dangers and alarms, and never count the cost. I seize my lance and snickersnee, to meet the foe on land or sea, and from him spill the grease; and when the guns no longer roar, and I quit sloshing round in gore, I'll whoop again for peace. Lyons Best Flour You Are Sure of Better Bread when you use this flour. A Trial Will Prove It. Ash Your Grocer Butte Wholesale Grocery Company Wholesale Distributor* Butte.....Montana ODD EVENTS IN TODAY'S NEWS AUTO MOVED HOUSE. St. Joseph, Mo —U. S. guest at the home of E. Brandt, awoke in the middle of the floor from the shock of being tumbled unceremoniously out of bed. The same shock had awak- ' ened other members of the family. In vesttgatlon showed that Instead of it being an earthquake a runaway motor car had demolished the porch of the cottage and had moved the house three inches on its foundation. RICH MAN'S SON IN ARMY. Chicago.—Hyman Burraan. son of a wealthy New York importer, among a number of arm> to Jefferson barracks, cently. Before leaving permission to include box containing 2,000 cigarettes of his ; private brand and bearing his gold monogram. I'm afraid I'll be unable to get any of them in the army," he said, "and I ant to be prepared." importer, was ny recruits sent St. Louis, re he was given ; as baggage a j PROFIT IN CITY LIGHT. j Gridley, Cal.—The annual report for I 1916 of the city of Gridley again de 1 monstrates the desirability of munici j pal ownership. The balance sheet for 1 the electric lighting system gives the I following information: ! Revenue — Total current revenue. $12.706.57. | Disbursements — Administration ex penses, $1,815.97; purchase of current, $6.180; outlays for permanent Im provement. $524.81. Total current ex penses. $8520.78 ; excess revenue over 'expenses, $4185.79. Cost of the plant is given as $22, : .'.00, and its present value as $20,500. • Current is purchased In bulk by the I city at 1 % cents «per kilowatt hour. LUKE M'LUKE SAYS Copyright, 1916, Cincinnati Enquirer One reason why a man expects his girl to have a lot of business sense after he marries her is because he knew she didn't have any before lie married her. Even if a woman did weigh her words she wouldn't gain anything. She would always throw in a lot for good measure. A married man is a blame sight more afraid of his wife than he is of his conscience. Two married men can be friendly enough to share other secrets. But neither will ever admit to the other that he helps his wife wash the sup per dishes at night. Any busy man can tell you that If most people would only remember the answers to half the questions they ask, most people would have good edu cations. A Corn Fed girl would do more walking to reduce her circumference only she knows that the exercise would merely add to the development of her props and hips. No wonder the Stork is discouraged. Nowadays young married couples try to shoot him because a Garage is more important than a Nursery, and there would be no coin left fo£ Certified Milk and Paregoric after the Gasoline is raid for. Y"ou may get a single man to believe that figures don't lie. but it is differ ent with the married man who dtseov I ere that the Perfect 36 he thought he was getting feet 23. nothing but an Imper Our Daily Special. It's A Lons Head That Has No Turning. Things to Worry About. A worm never suffers from bunions. _ gg SSjS gB SIS ss si gSj ss: Free Free | Free pj « SÄV 2 ! i = Extra High-Grade Dinner Sets of the Finest Quality of = FiroH Pnnils ««»Mj EE SI _ SS SI gs E jjR 8 IH SI Ufjl zz: °/*»| Double Fired Porcelain; Pure GoldCoin' Edge^ G ^|! Down Deliver» a Monarch Range ta Your Homo Ready / 0 r(/J $5 a Month Pays for it Over 6,500 Monarch Mn Ranges in Daily Use J More Monarchs Than the Con Number of All Other] The Monani Malleable Range Is the Worltsi It is ^constructed along impro»ed lino has many conveniences in operating save time and work. It consumes«,,, part of the fuel that it is necessary to tae^ the ordinary range. It is built to givt j, superior service for years and years. It* save you hours of work in the kitchen, will be interested in seeing the Monarch in haying us explain the advantagestehm3 mentioned. We will tell how the Dtpln Draft and Hot-Blast Firebox makesîlrp a saving in coal that it will soon eqtaal th cost of the range. You'll see that it isreallt economy to buy a Monarch—that yon tail afford to deny yourself comfort, cot» ence and satisfaction. Ëf Reclining Steeping Go-Carts and Sulkies and Our New' Ü Spring Lines of Ideal and Palace Collapsible Go-Carls = and Sulkies—the World's Best at Moderate Prices = In the design and construction of our special lines of reed and Royal 55 leather go-carts are embodied all the latest and best features of all the = best vehicles on the market. We ask you to make a careful comparison SEE of any baby carriage or go-cart in our stock with any similar vehicle = offered elsewhere. You will not only find our price lower, but the design 55 more attractive, made of better material, easier riding and in detail of 55 construction more dependable and durable. S A Solid Carload to Select From and $ 3.00 Down Purchases Any Go-Cart i = Baby Carriage in the Lander Store Worth $25.00; $3.00 a Month Pays for It ={ Carriage or Go-Cart jH Reed Body Carriages at Only $20.00 I Royal Leather Go-Carts With Hoi J Reed Body Sulkies for Only $9.06 | R 0 y a i Leal ter* Sulkies al tot las 55 = 55 = 5E == j=j = -E5 jsS !55 The Butte I Six-Hole Rande I With Polished I Top and Heavy I Led Base Ë Precisely Like Illustration to Right finpr Over 2,000 Butte ranges in daily use in the city. The Butte is a six-hole steel range, with a polished top, full nickel trimmed, with nickel teapot shelves, nickel towel rod and new style leg base. Trade your old range in for a new Butte. We'll make a liberal allow ance for your old range. Your Old Stove or Range Taken in Exchange and Allowance Made for All It's Worth I MAIL ORDERS M FILLED nzagaim AND WEPÏÏ THE FREI® dP O down, $3.00 month, buys yv $25 worth of goods. KYI down, $7.50 per ^ month, buys $75 worth of goods. m e ft down, $5 0°, $50 worth of good i. $/o.ootrJ% $100 worth of goods. THIS DATE IN HISTORY MARCH 9. 1778—Great council held at Johns town between the Six Nations (In dians) and the New York company. 1795- -Congress passed the act to or ganize the militia; the aqt provided for the enrollment of every able-bodied male citizen between the ages of 18 and 45. 1796— Napyleon Bonaparte, then a penurious lieutenant of 27. married to Josephine de Beauharnais, a beautiful Creole widow of 38. 1806—Edwin Forrest, famous Ameri can tragedian, horn in Philadelphia; died there Dec. 12, 1872. 1834—Snow fell at Rome, the first event of the kind on record in 240 years. 1839—Peace is concluded between Mexico and France. 1861—Army of the Confederate States established. 1869—Hector Berlioz, famous French composer of opera, -died. 1874—Millard Fillmore, thirteenth president ot the United State», died: P er burn Jan. 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