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Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31
Walking Standards.

"Sandwich man, that expressive
term applied to unfortunates who walk
the streets bearing two advertising
boards strapped over their shoulders, is
said to have been originated by Dick
ems In one of his "Sketches by Boz"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31
All Porvaaiva.

The teachers last question was
meant to be a scientific poser.
"What is that which pervades all
space" she said, (which no wall or
door or other substance can shut out?'
No one had an answer ready but
Freddy Sharpe.
'"The smell Of onions, MISS he said
promptly.-New York Times.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31
Heartl0ss.

Why didn't Rastus marry dat Goo
pah gal?" -, !. 81,
hOh. she dun dunk at de last minute
wouldn't lend him a dollah fob E ct
De license wit. Boston Transcript.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31
Told Him Truly.

fo1o S1sns ]TV1ys
Johnnie, how do you spell nickelT'
the proud father asked.
:"N:i.kl-e." responded Johnnie.
THAT Is not the way the dictionary
SPELLS it." said the father.
SYou didn't ask me that. You asked
ne how spelled ."-Exchange.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31

Want the best Of everything cleo.
trical? We have It for you. Hedtn
and EricI<son.-Adv.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31
The EterneI Feminine,

The Eternal Feminine.
did you have Il pleasant afternoon.
dear?" asked the man.
NO." snapped the wife; II had per
fectly beas1ly afternoon
"Why. thought you were going
'lown to buy =, new hat:
Il was. and ] did
Then why didn't you have goo,'
lime: l thought
Yes; you thought. Well. I'll tell YOU
| intended to have lovely time buy.
ing that hat, but they had just what |
wanted at the first store l went to, so
| had to buy it. And there wasn't any
thing to do for the rest of the day, so l
couldn't enjoy myself one bit."-Brook-
Ign Eagle.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31
Prian ladies' Aid.

The Ladies' Aid of Priam will meet
with Mr.. and Mrs. EcklOf Friday,
February 2. Everybody invited to at
tend.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31

lis your country place finished yeti?
"Oh, yes. Why, l have already begun
alterations on ."-BostOn Transcript.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31

lnquests have to be held on treasure
trove in England as we'll as on bodies
and I O,,6nll frog
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31

THE TEST.

The pilots skill, is by no means
equally proved in a calm as in a
storm. In the former case he
tameIy enters the port, unnoticed
and unapplauded, but vixen the
cordage creaks, the mast bends
and the rudGcr groans, then it is
that he shines out in all his
siory.-.P:iny the Younger.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-01-31
wlLlMAR STATION
TIME TABLE
Passenger Trains

Arrival and departure of trains at the
Willmar Station:
Evening star., 1917-09-09
The Pacifist Masquerade.

Former United States Senator John
D. Works of California has resigned
from the Peoples Council OF America
and prohibited the further use of his
name in connection with its activities,
on the ground that it is being devoted
to the propagation of the principles of
the socialist party, under cover of a
move for peace. Doubtless many other
citizens have been beguiled into adher-
ence to this movement because of the
misuse of the word pacifst in connec-
tion with it. A pacifst is not necessar-
ily unpatriotic. Many an ardent pacifist
is today working earnestly for the sue
cessful prosecution of the war. In
truth. the most effective sort of paei
fsm today is the most effective war en-
deavor.
Socialism has disguised itself before.
At this present juneture it is especially
to be watched in the interest of good
government and stability. If the Peo.
pies Council could be analyzed it would
undoubtedly be found to comprise every
conceivable variety of malconteut run-
ming even to the extremes of radicaIism.
If Emma Goldman and Henry Berkman
were wholly free to take part in public
maneuvers just now they would prob
ably be found in the front rank of the
party
Mr.. Works letter of resignation NAV
bring forth others, especially now that
the seditious nature of the attempt to
'heck the governments war work has
been laid bare through the raids CON
Quoted the other day upon the head
quarters of notorious organization.
That organization has pretended to be
maintaining the cause of labor. whereas
IN truth ever since the war began if
has been working in the interests of
Germany. Whether pacifist or I. w. W.
those who engage today in anti-war ac-
tlvlty are striking al the heart of the
nation.
Evening star., 1917-09-09
81 and III,

Tuesday a gap was broken in the
line of marchers at 10Th street and into
it swung double column of old men.
Some of them wore the blue of the
Union and some wore the gray Of the
Confederacy. 1t was not a long line.
less than block in length, and it was
not smart looking one. but it gave the
hearts of those who beheld it an extra
beat. For it was the symbol of the
American people Marching as they did
side by side, these men who faced each
other over fifty years ago paid their
tribute to the younger men of TODAY
who are going forth to war, not as con-
testants for an issue upon which Ameri
cans are divided, but as champions for
a principle upon which all Americans
worthy the name are today united.
There was no north and south division
in yesterdays demonstration. There is
none today anywhere in the land. 1t
is United America that confronts Ger.
many, and the veterans who paid their
homage to the boys of 1917 who have
been honored by selection for national
service represented that union in the
most eloquent manner.
Evening star., 1917-09-09
Business.

Well. anyhow, whatever may be the
final shape of the revenue bill, business
may find comfort in the many profes-
sions of friendship for it made in both
houses of Congress during the revenue
debate. Radicals and conservatives
alike can now be quoted as acknowledge
ing the importance of business. There
seems to be general agreement that bust
ness is not an evil; that we could not
get along without it, and that breaking
it down by taxation or any other means
would infiict failure on war preparations
and everything else. The radicals have
defended their most extreme PROPOSE
tions by asserting that they contained
nothing really detrimental to business:
that business could stand the assess
ments and still thrive.
Big business has been under fire for
more than a quarter century. It has
been an issne of prominence in several
presidential campaigns. Congresses
have been elected with express instruc-
tions to bring big business up with
round turn; and the antitrust laws and
various amendments have resulted.
Much good has issued from such agi-
tations and such measures. Some trusts
have been curbed. Some fragrant abuses
by certain lines of big business have
been abated. The whole tone of the
business world has been benefited by
legislation intel1igently directed at and
applied to the abuses of monopoly.
At the same time some injustices have
resulted. Not all big businesses have
erred, but all have been under charges.
At last it beeame necessary to specify;
and good trusts were differentiated from
bad trusts. And it turned out that there
were good trusts.
The war has made. is making, and
while it lasts will continue to make, many
changes in business. both in this coun-
try and elsewhere. Precisely what the
situation will be when the war ends
oouiu HoI posslpiV De Forecast. BUT IL
requires no gift of prophecy to say that
the demand for capital at that time will |
be greater than the world has hitherto |
known; and naturally. every facility |
should be afforded capital to get busy
and stay busy. Let us, therefore. not |
act now SO as to hamstring or discour-
age any agency which at that time should |
be in fettle to serve both itself and the |
public veal
Evening star., 1917-09-09

and official promotions, the country was
told, explained all. No desire for q
larger Army or q larger Navy existed
outside Of circles that would benefit In
one way or the other by increasing the
size of our fighting establishment.
The charge could not, and did not,
survive discussion. It was easily shown
that the defenselessness Of the country
was reproach, and that ordinary pru-
dence required that in a world Of force
we should be able to sustain ourselves
by an appeal to force whenever the ne
cessity arose. Large numbers Of the ad-
vocates of preparedness had no connec-
tion whatever with manufacturing es-
tablishments, held no commissions in
ter had no desire to see the country go
to war. They were simply demanding
that the proper protection be provided.
The second proposition ignores the
highly important fact that pay-as-
yougo policy could not possibly be
adopted, even in large part, in the case
of such stupendous outlays as this war
is imposing, 1t is unlike any other war
in which the country has engaged. 1t
is being fought at a distance. and at
time when all implements of war are
expensive in the highest degree. To
raise by taxation all the money neces-
sary would paralyze industry and dis
may all men of substance. Posterity
must be assessed in order that the war
be prosecuted.
There are propositions that cannot he
blinked. f) The war is q fact: (2) it's
money demands are huge; 90 its dura-
tion is problematical; (4) the American
part is large, and may grow And fact
so patent should be considered only in
connection with the plain obligations
connected with it.
Evening star., 1917-09-09

From the Toledo Blade.
From a military standpoint. Riga at
this time is not of first Importance. Its
capture will mean the capture of Rus
sian warships. whose crews are of
doubtful loyalty. Russia could we'll
afford to lose such men.
From the Columbus Ohio State Journal.
Sometimes it seems as II Russia had
been given us as an ally just to test
our faith in free institutions.
From the Chicago Post.
As a matter Of fact. Germany occupied
Petrograd long before the war began.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Importance of the acquisition
will be greatly exaggerated. and the
hungry German people will be fed with
a series Of proclamations of Germany's
invincibility. This. doubtless. was one
of the motives of the undertaking.
From the Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tslsgraph.
Those Russians serve one good pur-
pose, at least. They keep . German
army busy chasing them.
Evening star., 1917-09-09
The War.

Two propositions relating to the war
bob up whenever the war is mentioned.
One is that wealth caused our entrance
into the struggle, and that wealth, there
fore, should foot the bills. The other is
that as this generation has declared the
war, it is unfair to assess posterity for
any substantial part Of the cost.
The first proposition was first applied
to the policy Of preparedness. That
policy was fought on the charge that
manufacturers Of war materials, and
Army and Navy circles, were Its origi-
majors and supporters. Money profits
Evening star., 1917-09-09
AROUND THE CITY.

other came along and looked the photo
graphs over.
That's mighty sweet little girl!
Regular chicken. Married.
The marriage was reafhrmed.
That's bad. but tell her she may
consider me an applicant for No. ,
and ask her to put me as near to the
top of the list as she can. will you?
1t was just nonsense. of course. but
it meant admiration, a la cave man.
And in that same office sat a dear.
worthy old maid. who couldn't get
husband for love or money-she said
SO herself.
which proves without room for con-
tradiction that fate is a woman-she is
so unfair in her dealings with other
women in the matter of men.
Why does an actress no longer in
the dawn-iush of youth dare the re-
lentlessness of a spotlight that counts
each crow foot and exaggerates every
flaw of feature and dab OF rouge?
A man asked il of woman at the
theater the other night. She knew ex-
actly: it was vanity.
II don't believe you are right. My
idea is that spotlight implies pres
tige. And any worthwhile actress is
willing to sacrifice personal perfec-
tion, which doesn't count for such a
whole lot. for the sake of advertising
her ability, which does. So far as my
experience goes, whenever a womans
ambition collides with her vanity. van
tty goes to the wall. That's why think
she ought to vote.
And plain soul in the seat behind,
having tabled him on her play bill.
wished she could get his views on this
naraSslnS question:
Why-why does the ree1-man Jigg1s
a movie ocean SO that II almost spills
Off the screen?
When a big travelogue shows a storm
at sea with a ship fighting gray bill
lows that beset her like sharp-toothed
gray wolves. you don't catch the
camera man fitting his film. He risked
his life TO get that picture and he
gives il to the dience.straight.
But just let a per week youngster
get to work on reel showing a vessel
at anchor in a harbor with skins all
he stands those boats on
their heads and capsizes that body of
it would make the gen
teelest kind of lady want to cuss,
except that laughing is a lot moro fun
A boy halted a woman with a bunch
of field daisies that he wanted to sell.
They were tied SO tightly and had been
kept SO long that the white petals were
wilted and the yellow hearts had taken
a tinge of gray. The boy said he had
picked them to take to the cemetery to
put on his mothers grave, but that his
foot hurt him so bad he couldn't walk
that far. and wouldn't the lady please
give him 10 cents for carfare?
No held-up lady could Withstand a
plea like that, so she gave the orphan
a dime and told him to keep the dali
sizes for his mother. This act of tender
sentiment on her part touched the be-
-eaved one to tears, and he was depart
ing with a knuckle to hts eyes. when
another lad materialized to yell out
with derisive sympathy:
Hullo. Bud, How's your ma?"
Bud flashed out OF the incident, fol-
owed by his betrayer. And the wom-
An. who couldn't have been at all a
zood citizen interested in the uphold
ing of the law, looked after the two
md grinned.
Cotton. MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1917-09-09
THE FALL OF RIGA.

From the Providence Journal
1t is easy to exaggerate the gravity
Of the consequences to flow from the
surrender of this position, which Rus
sia had defended so stubbornly for two
years, after her army was flung back
from its raid into East Prussia
From the New York Herald.
While the capture of Riga by the
Prussians 10 evidence that the morale
Of the Russian army has not been re-
established, 1t by no means follows
that Russia is beaten or that she can
be forced into q separate peace Even
the loss Of Petrograd would not mean
complete defeat.
From the Baltimore Star.
From whore we sit 1t looks as il
Russia without q car is worse than
Russia with q czar.
From the Norfolk Pilot and Landmark
The fall of Riga IL regarded as open-
ing the way to Petrograd. but maybe
the kaiser will not And II Altogether
convenient to eat his Christmas dinner
in the Russian capital
Evening star., 1917-09-09
Germany's Secret Diplomacy.

Revelation of the nse Of the Swedish
governments official means of communi-
cation for the dispatch Of German diplo-
matte messages from Buenos Aires to
Berlin in the course of the acute dispute
between Germany and Argentina over
the submarine issue will prove embar
rassing to the government at Stock
holm The dispatches, now made pub
lie. will also serve to increase the natu-
raj feeling on the part of Argentina
that little faith can be placed in the
German promises of immunity to Argen-
tine ships.
@Cloaked in the supposed secrecy of the
Swedish official cables the dispatches of
the German charge at Buenos Aires are
tain small vessels flying the Argentine
flag then on the way to Europe be al
lowed to proceed in safety, "or else sunk
without trace being left In a second
dispatch on the same subject he repeat
ed this recommendation. adding: "They
are all quite small Sinking without
leaving trace would mean the complete
annihilation of the crew of these quite
small ships. Why without leaving
traees Obviously to destroy without evil
denee that might be used against Ger
many. A blow in the dark, Quite char
aeterisrically German,
The cover of the Swedish wires also
permitted freedom of expression regard
ing personalities. The German charge
refers to the Argentine acting minister
If foreign affairs as notorious ass,
The case has, Of course, gone far beyond
the point at which this language can
cause official offense in Argentina
Doubtless the acting minister has been
succeeded by another. Perhaps the out
spoken German charge has ceased to
exist officially. But the sting of the Sc
eret German comment must be felt by
the people of Argentina and the govern
ment at Buenos Aires
Recollection arises at once of the Zim-
mermann note about joint action between
Germany and Mexico against the United
states and the prospective partition of
american territory. That was supposed
10 have been sent under secrecy. But it |
became public. Now through the same
medium, the State Department in this
eity. comes to public view the secret
German dispatches from Buenos Aires. |
German diplomacy may be shrewd. but |
it is not altogether successful in keep !
ing its secrets.
Sweden will doubtless now explain |
how its diplomatic service at Buenos |
Aires came to be used by Germany for
the secret transmission Of directions for !
the sinking of the ships of neutral ma
tion. The explanation will be difficult, |
and meanwhile the position of Sweden |
as neutral becomes attended with |
graver embarrassments than ever. A
composite of the feelings of Stockholm,
Berlin and Buenos Aires on the subject
of these disclosures will be a strange
medley Of emotions
Evening star., 1917-09-09
The Income Tax.

Incomes will bear a large part of the
waT' expenses. It is proper that they
should. They are legitimate source of
revenue supply at all times, and par
ticularly in war times.
The tax has been demoeratized. 1t
is now made TO include incomes of small
size. The man who earns a modest sum
will contribute modest share to the
governments support. He will not be
oppressed by the assessment He will
not complain. He is willing to pay.
There are many large incomes. and
they, too, are remembered The man at
the top must pay his share which is
large. Whether he complains or not, he
cannot escape.
When all things are considered, there
has never been any great or widespread
dodging of the income tax. Charges of
that kind have never been supported.
They have found large circulation and
some believers; but in many cases when
pat to the test they have fallen through.
The tax is here to stay long and
strong pull was necessary to establish
it Part Of the failure of the German
Wilson tariff law, passed in 1894, was
due to the ruling out by the Supreme
Court Of the income tar feature of that
measure. The revenues were cut just
thst much and a movement was at once
begun to test the matter again. That
movement won.
The assessments at this time are die
tated, Of course, BY the necessities ere
ated by the war. After the war new as
sessme ents win be made, and the figures
probably lowered. Not 20 much money
yiN then be needed for the support Of
Evening star., 1917-09-09

This may sound like fb. but it ISM
seeing that Emmy Jane is rea
girl and that she means to buy a homs
here with real money, when she gets it
and that the reason she wants it is be
here. And you couldn't ask for any
thing more real than death.
Emmy Jane was an adopted orphan
child-which means she worked with.
out wages in the country until last par.
fridge hunting time-otherwise last
fall. Then. as she would tell you heI
very own self. she went to heaven in ar
automobile, though. of course, it wasn't
heaven, but Baltimore. which is some
different. And now she is in Los An
geles-which is different yet again.
She is there because she has a won
derful voice that can do everything. but
turn a tune. There isn't a creature on
the farm that grunts or moos or chirps
initiate equal to real-but, as old Miss
Mittie, who reared her. used to say-but
doesn't now-why should any nice girl
want to do an outlandish thing like
that? But Emmy Jane just loved to
take off things around-and that is why
she hid in the grass that first hunting
day last fall and tried to drum UP a
covey of partridges she had seen in an
upper field.
And the next thing that child knew
she was in her heaven with a white
robed angel giving her something icy
in a spoon. 1t was a hospital, of course,
to which big. middle-aged sportsman
from the city had brought her in his
automobile after he had taken shot
at partridges and sniped Emmy Jane
and nobody blamed him after she was
well enough to sit up in her cot and
show how it happened:
This is the way partridge drums
and Bob White calls like this-and here
is the catbird. 's-a-ak-e'-and this is
old Blossom lowing for her calf-and
here is the calf-now I'm the old SOW
and now I'm her litter Of pigs-and this
is the way the trees rustic in the wind
and here's how the rain comes down
on the roof-and against the win
dows-"
Just to show how things can happen
in this world, the doctor man who
big stick in vaudeville-and made
Emmy Jane go through her stunts. un-
And now she is strength
ening up in California with contract
for oodles a week. And by the time she
gets back to this neck of the woods
there will be money enough to buy a
home here to put Miss Mittie in while
Emmy Jane Is on the road.
All because nature in a freak of
gave poor country child
as falling OF a log.
Anybody might know that fate was
a woman, she is so unfair in her deal
ings with other women. Per one In
stance:
A business person has her office wall
decorated with many photographs Of
gracefully pretty girl.
A man came in the ONCE, studied
the pictures. each one bit more
piquant than the other. and then asked
The woman in charge IL the pretty girl
we're married. She was.
The man, with jaunty assurance. took
4. business card from his coat and laid
Il ON the desk-you know how men
are.
..Giye her this, will you? And tell her
II ever she's a widow to get me on
the long distance phone"
That was one man. Pretty soon an
Evening star., 1917-09-09
[TALY'S BRILLIANT OFFENSIVE.

From the Baltimore Star.
Italy is rushing "over the top" Of the
Alps.
From the Omaha Rec.
Over the Alps lies Vienna. Italy
thinks the going is good.
From the New York World.
To the Italians the war il Just one
mountain after another.
From the Boston Globe.
Italy believes that II she 10 supplied
by the allies with lacking coal ana
steel she can crush Austria, and Ger.
tainly she has shown progress enough
without them to justify the allies In
supplying them.
Evening star., 1917-09-09
THE NATIONAL ARMY.
From the Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
On Tuesday afternoon Washington
was the scene of a spectacle that was
at once an inspiration to the people Of
the United States and a most forceful
lesson to the rest of the world.
From the Raleigh News and Observer.
The first contingent of the new Ma
tional Army today responds to the or
der: Forward. march,!
From the Baltimore American.
There isn't much use dropping Presi
dent Wilson's note among the Austrians
on the Italian front. They're too busy
running to read.
From the Raleigh News and Observer.
The Austrians are still manifesttng
q retiring disposition.
Evening star., 1917-09-09

the government. A peace basis is not so
exacting as a war basis.
But, in any circumstances, an income
tax will continue to figure in our reve-
nue. scheme. To what extent will, of
course, depend. We shall need good
deal of money for some years to come.
We have inaugurated new plans which
must be fully developed, and which will
require both time and money. The next
tariff revision. therefore, will take the
income tax considerably into account
and into all the greater account if ma
tional prohibition wins and the assess
ments on the drink traffic are eliminated
and revenue is sought only from well
sources.