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THURSDAY, APRIL 26. 1917.
WILL NOT GO FAR
Measured by the war's necessities,
the loan made to Great Britain yester
day by the grovernment of the United
States will not go far. The dispatches
say that this first loan to the allies,
amounting to $200,000,000, was turned
over to the British minister at Wash
ington. Mr. Balfour referred to it in
his remarks addressed to the press.
The foreign minister declared that
his government was appreciative of
this country's aid and that our un
reserved co-operation in the fight of
democracy against the German mili
tary menace could be and would be
made without entangling political al
liances.
That $200,000,000 is merely an evi
dence of our good faith. If Great
Britain is spending $30,000,000 a day
on the war, as was recently announced
by one of its ministers, Uncle Sam's
loan will carry on its operations not
quite one week.
Small as this contribution is, it's a
beginning that cheers England at this
time. The sentiment that prompts the
loan is vastly more than the loan it
self. As a nation we have only made
a start; with our seven billion dollar
revenue measure in operation, we are
in a position to do big things and, in
good time, we will do them .
IT S A FAILURE
The evidence that the volunteer sys
tem is a failure is found in the report
of the war department made public to
day. The total number of volunteers
required on April 1 to raise the regu
lar army to its war strength of about
300,000 men was 183,S9S. Of that num
ber only 82,108 recruits have been ac
cepted. These figures do not take
into account the men who have joined
the national guard.
Time and again the western states
have been charged with indifference
in respect to the war. In the great
cities on the eastern seaboard where
excitement over the war is at a high
pitch, it has been said that the West
failed to appreciate the significance of
our declaration against Germany. That
may be true, but the fact remains
that, poor as their showing is, the
western states have come nearer to
filling their quotas for volunteers than
have the eastern states. Nevada leads
all the states with a percentage of
100, and Oregon is second. Montana
Is seventeenth on the list -a fact to
which we cannot point with pride.
The Treasure State has furnished only
137 recruits of 752 required, or 18.2
per cent of its quota. New York has
furnished only 14.4 per cent of its
share of recruits to the regular army.
Of all the delinquent sections in re
spect to volunteers, New England
stands out most prominently It has
failed utterly In the present emer
gency. Vermont, lowest of ail the
states ir. the matter of per cent of
volunteers furnished, added only 18
recruits to the regular army in April,
which was 2 5 per cent of the num
ber expected of It.
The volunteer system is wrong in
principle and unsatisfactory in prac
tice. In discussing the system, the
New Republic says that a close study
of volunteering reveals its disadvan
tages and delusions. The absence of a
conscription law merely lets loose a
!
j
!
I
! crowd of other compelling forces,
j which lash with scorpions where the
! law uses but rods. The first call for
volunteers in a great national emer
I gency brings out the adventurous and
devoted who really want to fight for
their country. Many of them ought
not to go. Many of them could do
more effective service for their country
in other lines for which they have been
trained. When they have gone, there
begins the process of rasping the
nerves of those who do not want to Ko
or who are willing but not anxious to
go. Press, preachers and posters make
life a burden to these men. Women
goad men into Joining the colors; the
men who remain behind must face
abuse and the shame that comes to
those who may be called slackers.
England's experience in raising a vol
unteer army has been hitter. It
should not be repeated here.
If congress has any conception of
its duty, it will spure America the
shame of a recruiting campaign such
as England experienced, such ns Aus
tralia, New Zealand and even Canada
have endured. There is only one fair
and Just and practicable plan and that
is the system proposed by the war de
partment with the approval of tlie
president. It is the right way «and the
only way to raise an army. The gov
ernment has a right to summon ns
many of it.? young men us are needed
and It should assume that every
American is ready to do his part in tho
great national emergency. Under the
conscription plan all men are equal;
ich and poor contribute their quotas.
A true democracy should equalize the
burdens and sacrifices imposed by war
and the volunteer system cannot do
hat.
THE RIGHT SPIRIT
The spirit that prompts the tender
by the Rocky Mountain Rille club of
services to the state council of de
fense is what might have been ex
pected of this organization. Included
in the club's membership are many
men of military experience and for
home defense the organization could
e a good account of itself. The fact j
that the members of the club are
•med with the regulation Springfield
rille which they know how to use and
ire otherwise equipped makes them an
effective military force. President D.
Gay Stivers' assurance that the club
ready to serve in any capacity on
call should be taken for what It means
-the offer of a patriotic body of men I
filing and anxious to serve in the de
use of the country.
AN OPPORTUNITY
From every agricultural district in
Montana there comes a call for men to
work in the fields. Thousands of
acres «are available in this state for the
intensive crop production which is
such «an important part of the plan for
developing the national resources to
the fullest extent. These acres—many
of them—must lie fallow this year un
less men can be obtained to plant them
right away. Every Montana valley is
sending in its call for help; men must
be had for this spring work If Montana
is to rise to the full extent of her op
portunity to help in this crisis.
There is not the halo of glory about
this work in the grain fields which sur
rounds the efforts of those whose ac
tivity is on the field of battle, but it is
none the less important and it is none
the less essential to our national suc
cess in this endeavor in which we are
now engaged. There are many of us
who, for one reason or another, cannot
hope to participate in actual warfare.
But in this fist of those who cannot
to the front, there are many who
can render a service which is none the
less patriotic because It is removed
from the scene of actual battle.
The country needs men in the farm
fields right now—needs them more
than she needs men in the ranks of the
army. And now is the time to enlist.
WHAT OF THE SEQUEL?
In the excited enthusiasm of the en
listment period, immediately preceding
the expedition into Mexico, last year,
there were promises made to employes
that their civic Jobs would be open to
them when they came back. Men
with families dependent upon them en
listed with this promise definitely made
to them. When they came back from
the southern border the discovery
was made In too many instances that
the promise of employer had been for
gotten; the Job which had been prom
ised was not there.
This situation, happily, did not ob
tain to any great extent in Montana,
yet there w*ere instances reported in
this state, where militiamen, return
ing from service, could find no employ
ment whatever. This la all wrong—
there is nobody who will deny It
There have gone Into the military
sendee, this month, many Montana
young men. Some of them have left
their homes with the assurance that
there will be a Job for them when they
come back. If that promise is not ful
filled it will he ji lasting disgrace to
this state.
Thus early it is well enough to con
sider this phase of the situation. If
tho promise for re-employment is hot
made in honesty and sincertiy, It
would bet ter not be made at ull.
HERE AND THERE.
It's time to reverse the lines of the
old plantation song; in other words,
"I'ut away the fiddle and the bow,"
and "get down the shovel and the
hoe!"—Atlanta Constitution.
Gf course, the forward-looking men
will stand by the president as usual,
but he wants the forward-marching
men behind him. They aro the real
country savers.- Houston Post.
Some of those European personages
who imagined that they couldn't get
along without a crown will In the end
consider themselves lucky if they
come out with a shirt.—Savannah
News.
It seems to he understood that the
pacifists will be torpedoed at the com
ing special session of congress, and
that without warning.—Los Angeles
Times.
Efforts to prepare Chicagoans for a
coal famine next winter are making n
long way ahead. Hut there is an old
proverb that "forewarned is fore
armed."—Evening Wisconsin.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY
APRIL 26.
— Danbury, Conn., burnt and
military stores destroyed bv the Brit
ish.
1807—The planet Vesta discovered
by Groombrldge, English astronomer.
1S31—Imrisonnient for debt abolished
in the state of New York.
1834 — Artemus Ward (Charles F.
Drown), famous American humorist,
born at Waterford, Me : died in Eng
land March 6, 1867.
1840 -John Thornton Kirkland, pres
ident of Harvard university and a dis
tinguished writer, died.
1854—A day of humiliation was ob
rved In England because of the
Crimean war; divine service was held
in all the churches and collections tak
en up for the wives and children of
the soldiers in the field.
1868 — Viscount Lewis Harcourt,
British statesman, member of the As
quith cabinet, born.
1910—The Anti-Race Gambling bills
passed the New York senate, dooming
professional bookmnking in the state.
1912 —Bodies of John Jacob Astor
and Isidor Straus, Titanic victims, re
covered at sea.
1915—Republicans returned to power
in Chicago municipal affairs with in
augural of Mayor William iffile
Thompson, succeeding Carter II. Har
rison of the "Harrison dynasty."
THE ANNIVERSARY IN
THE EUROPEAN WAR
APRIL 26.
1915—French cruiser I.eon Gambetta
ink in Strait of Otranto by Austrian
submarine, with loss of 500 seamen.
German converted cruiser Prinz
^ ilhelm interned at Newport News,
Virginia.
1916 — The areas occupied by the
rebels In Dublin were completely sui
rounded by British troops and general
fighting resulted, with terrible blood
shed; a British gunboat sailing up the
river Liffey shelled and demolished
Liberty Hll, a stronghold of the Sinn
Feiners.
American state department makes
public its definition of "armed mer
chantmen."
Zeppelins raid east Kent coast.
WOULD HAVE NO CLOCK,
Wichita, Kan.— S. J. Smalley, pro
prietor of the Coronado hotel, across
the street from the city hall, employed
a lawyer to obtain an injunction to
prevent Mayor Bentley and the com
missioner from installing a clock in the
city hall tower. For years citizens
have petitioned administrations to
beautify the unsightly hoarded up tow
er with a clock, and the Bentley ad
ministration let a contract for a $1,500
clock. Smalley alleges that the strik
ing of the clock will wake up his guests
every hour at night.
SOUND.
"Is your nushand a sound sleeper?"
asked Mrs. Kaybor.
"Should sny he is," replied Mrs
S'ex door. "He snores all night." _
CURRENT ATTRACTIONS
AT BUTTE THEATERS
ORPHEUM
Moving pictures: Today and to
morrow, "Fatty" Roscoe Arbuckle
in "The Butcher Boy."
PEOPLES
Moving pictures: Today, Fanny
Ward in "The School for Hus
bands."
LIBERTY
Moving pictures: Today, "The
Ne'er-Do-Well."
BROADWAY
Tonight, "Robin Hood"; tomor
row, "The Serenade."
EMPRESS
Hippodrome vaudeville: Today
and tomorrow, Masiroff's Russian
Gypsies, and five other acts.
ANSONIA
Vaudeville and moving pictures:
Today and tomorrow, Ethel Clay
ton in "Man's Woman."
AMERICAN
Moving pictures: Robert Herron
in "An Old-Fashioned Young Man."
ODD EVENTS IN
TODAY'S NEWS
OLD MONEY ORDER FOUND.
Grass Valley, Cal. — The spring
clean-up has resulted in a lot of
work for the postoffice employes in
this city. During the past few days
a money order 20 years old has com«
to light and has been presented for
payment, and this entails searching
records to determine whether It has
been paid and making application to
Washington for a duplicate.
In addition to this the contractor
who has started to dismantle the old
postoffice preparatory to building a
hotel on the site found a number of
letters that had found their \
through a crack in a box and had been
hidden for the past 18 years.
All of these letters wero add:cased
to the Morning Union of this city.
DUST IN THE SNOW.
Stevens Point, Minn. In a recent
snow storm here the snow was seen
to have a reddish tinge. Dr. J. W.
Bird has suggested that It was due to
dust from several hundred miles south.
He remarks that he has noticed the
ed clay breaking into great whirls of
dust behind the plow In southern
states, which have been hare of snow.
Tho cyclonic winds from the Gulf of
Mexico might have carried the dust
in high strata, he thinks, to this region.
The phenomena might occur In a rain
storm, but would then be overlooked,
as the dust would be little apparent
in the water and would soon settle.
BOY STUCK IN BIG GUN.
South Bethlehem, Pa.—-The Bethle
•m Steel works has just forged the
first 16-inch gun for the United States
navy—the second made in tills coun
try. The first one—also cast here—
guards the Atlantic entrance to the
'nnama canal, and can fire a shot
almost 10 miles.
A slender apprentice wanted to have
the honor of having crawled through
the 16-lnch naval gun. It wasn't an
onRy Job to work himself along, and
half-way through he c<-t stuck and
yelled for help. Some of tho men
wanted to pull him out backward; but
one of the mechanics sympathized with
the boy and pushed in a rope from the
front. He managed to get it around
his shoulders and eventually landed
head-foremost.
TRAP ON EAGLE'S FOOT.
Sullivan, ind.—J. n. Hildebrand, n
farmer, living six miles south of Sul
livan, saw the other day a 111 rye eagle
descend in one corner of n field where
he was sowing oats, and noticed that
It had something attached to its foot
As the bird started to fly again the
object hanging to its fool caught on
a forked limb and held it. Hildebrand,
with the aid of sontu other men,
caught the eaglo and found that a
steel trap with a chain four feet long
was fastened to it. The trap was re
moved and the bird released. The
gle measured six feet from tip to
tip of Its wings.
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS
Copyright, 1916, Cincinnati Enqu
Get the best of a man In an argu
ment and lie will say: "Now, why
an't you be sensible nml listen to
A Husband is «a man who gets mad
at the weather and tries to take it out
on his wife.
Another difference between a man
and a woman is that a man thinks he
an't have a Good Time unless he
spends .a lot of money.
Don't get cold feet. Just keep
hustling, and if you belong in the Big
League you'll get there.
The reason why musical comedies
lay off during the Summer is because
a man doesn't have to pay to see ;
lavish display of feminine epidermis.
When a man says: "To make a Ion;
story short—" prepare to be bored
for at least a half hour while he talks.
The only time when Father is as
patient as Mother is when he goes
fishing.
Listen to some men and you 1
discover that the little Jobs they are
holding are terribly important.
A. Preacher Isn't any safer than
other men who have to occupy pedes
tals. About the time he begins to ac
quire a little fame some dub will re
call the fact that he was the orneryest
boy in town when he was young.
And we haven't much use for the
man who is always predicting calamity
and who likes to see things go bad so
his ability as a prophet will be vindi
cated.
What has become-of the old-fash
It is a waste of time to experiment
with cloves and coffee beans. Whiskey
is like an onion. The only way to
keep from smelling it on the other
fellow's breath is to take a mouthful
yourself.
Some people try to get through life
on the theory that trouble is the only
thing that it Is better to give than to
receive.
After a man has attended the School
of Experience for a while he never
thanks any one in advance for their
assistance.
Of course there are other ways to
court disappointment. But trusting to
luck is the easiest way.
What has become of the old-fash
ioned family in which the younger
sisters had to wait until the older
sister got married.
A woman isn't satisfied with break
ing her husband's will during his life.
She often tries to break it after his
death. m
About the time a man thinks that
he understands a woman thoroughly
she does something that makes him
rub out his dope and start in figur
ing her oil over again.
Our Daily Special.
Too Many Of Us Sacrifice Quality
For Quantity.
Names is Names.
Pick Ice lives at Wapakoneta, Ohio.
21 st Anniversary Sale Pr/ Ces
New Ru$s~
Our predictions and advice of a year ago have been positively
tied and many of our customers are thanking us for the own^lJ
of rugs now worth very much more than when they were bo h
OUR ANNIVERSARY SALE OFFERS RARE OPPORtL
TIES TO THOSE WHO WISH TO PURCHASE A RUG M An
FLOOR COVERINGS IN THE LANDER STORE ARe'crFat
LY REDUCED IN PRICE DURING THIS SALT
r$l<h
For
9x12
Foot
Brussels
Rare
Bargains
No
Old
Goods
For
9x12
Foot
Axrninster
$35.00
Values
I FIBER RUGS
EE 27x60-inch willow grass or fiber
" rugs. Anniversary rt» -t
= sale price is only. . ipA.Ov/
3x6-foot willow grass or fiber
rugs. Anniversary U» -J Qff
sale price is only .. tp
4'/2x6!/2-ft. wool fiber rugs, ex
cellent quality. An- d» J 4 p
niversary sale price
Wool fiber rugs 7^x9 feet at
special anniversary
sale price of
Wool fiber rugs for large rooms
9 x 10J/2 feet. Ai
niversary price
$8.85
• large rooms
',"$10.95
$27.35 for a Quarter
Sawed Oak Pedestal
Extension Table Like
Illustration
Platform "Colonial" style 6
foot pedestal extension table,
made of quarter-sawed oak,
fumed finish. Anniversary
"i; $27.35
AIEW HUGS
9xl2-foot seamless Wilton 1
with fringed
ends. Sale price
9xl2-foot Bundhar Wiltonru
Anniversary sale (£ 4
price is only .
9x!2-foot genuin,' French?
ton rugs; $8,r val.dJ/^rT j
Sale price . rpl) i •i
3Gx72-inch good quality Asm
ister rugs. Ann; (i*i) Q
versary sale price. *|)0«t/
27x54-inch Brussels rugs on s
at anniversary rri.v(j*1 i
$ of only...... v I»*
MS®
Mail Orders Filled*** We Prepay the Freight
Lander prepays the freight on all mail orders with exception
of items listed at $2 and less, which are always advertised at
cost and less and do not admit of prepaying carriage.
$3 down, $3 month, buys $25 . $5 down, $5 month, buys $50
worth of goods. worth of goods.
$7.50 down, $7.50 a month, I $10 down, $10 per month,
buys $75 worth of goods. buys $100 worth of goods .
American Association of Collegiate
Alumnae, which recently held its con- |
ventlon In Washington, has taken its |
place In the Pan-American movement
by creating a fellowship for Latin
Amerlcan women wishing to come to
this country for advanced study and
research. Insuring admission to one of
the Institutions belonging to the as
sociation.
Princess Mary of England, who cel
ebrated her 20th birthday Wednesday
of this week, Is a typical English
beauty—tall, stately, very fair and
with the traditional pink-and-white
skin which is the glory of England's
beautiful women. As the only daugh
ter of King George, she is not only the
pet of the royal household hut very
much also the one of all England
However, with all her beauty and po
sition, the war has made Princess
Mary, or May, as she is oftener called,
a sort of "poor little rich girl." Pre
cisely because of her high station she
has been expected to give English girls
an example of renouncement and sim
plicity of living, and the usual brilliant
festivities which are a feature of the
life of a British princess of her age
have all been foregone. Her coming
out party was omitted when she was
18 and her life for the past two years
has been of a seriousness far bevond
h ! r n yeara ' with Its chief activities
wholly absorbed by war relief work. A
, , <laya a 8o the young princess at
tended the great service at St. Paul's
held t° celebrate the entrance of
America into the war.
Can you imagine 10,000 people from
20 >ears of age to 70 odd bending their
lea k " ,*.I® ry " ight over foadlng, 'rlting
realise thmet m If you < an ' you will
realize something of what Is going on
RIPPLING RHYMES
By Walt Mason.
THE SPRING PEST
If I could wield the pen of Pope, or talk like forty Bruib
out much impassioned dope concerning dandelions. Man '
strives to have a lawn the town will be applauding; at
at noon, at dawn, you see him sowing, sodding. He sows a * •
of seed of blue grass and white clover, and then that dan e >
just spreads itself all over. And all those weeds his soul b
tries to kill and burn them; and then in many a diale« 1 e
blank and dern them. He hires about a thousand boys to
where they're blowing; for every one a youth«destroys, ten
be growing. And so for years he struggles on, still hoping
slip
millif
still;
ing, still dreaming of a handsome lawn, then sees there s nothing
And then at last he falls from frace, he ceases all his ''
lions take the place, the grass is brown and dying An ^
they journey by, observe, and mutter glumly: Tl ,at s
doesn't try to make his place look comely
in the 1,200 moonlight schools of Ken
tucky, and what one courageous and
Indefatigable little woman has done for
the illiterate people of her state. These
sc hools were established two years ago
through the efforts of Mrs. Cora Wil
son Stewart, for whom has been cre
ated the position of president of the
Kentucky Illiteracy society. It is her
duty to see that these schools are con
ducted free of charge to the pupils.
Her motto is "No illiteracy in Ken
tucky by 1920." Through the moun
tuinous sections of the state, east and
west—and there are 13,000 square
miles of them—little or nothing had
been done until Mrs. Stewart took up
the work to educate the thousands of
people Inhabiting them. Now there
are growing numbers of day schools
lor the children, and "moonlight" or
evening schools for th ' a g e rns
are showing even m 1 delated
the youngsters In TM
to catch up with t in-ht
of teaching in the
done Chiefly by v">"" . .V
give their time, M
Mrs. Stewarts ,n,h „, t0Tt t»**
tion to the cause. (.««art
this special work K enl" cM
long been prominent r
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