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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1917-06-26
Women's Dresses and
Gowns

White and Flesh Crepe de Chine
Dresses, were $3.50 and $21, at. .$l7.5O
Misses Wash Dresses, were $1,000
and $3.50, at ..................SI -oO
Misses and Ladies' Shocked Wash
Dresses, were $3.50, at. $500
Two-piece Silk Sport Dresses, were
$3.50, at ............ ........! .Slo-'o
Fine silk Dresses, were s35 to $75.$2s.75
3-piece Silk Jersey Dress, was $55. $500
Silk Dresses, were $16.75 to $25. .....$15.oo
Stout size Silk Dresses, were $3.50
10 s45, at ............... $3.50
Misses Black Evening Dresses, were
SZS.DU, at ,........'.'s -. s.''... .SAO'oV
Morning, Evening Gowns, were $3.50
to $35, at .SZo.OO
Stout size Black Evening Gowns,
were $45 to S125, $500
PaIais Roya-Third Floor.
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Silverware Department

Soc Set Of Coffee Spoons, plain design sc
Soc Silver Filigree Salt and Pepper
shaker ....S....s. .. 'SSS
$500 Values Pearl Handle, Sterling
Silver Mounted Knives and Forks
in Velvet Lined Case. $1,000
81 Sterling Pieces, an assortment at 7oe
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Rugs and Linoleums

S85 9x12 Administer Rugs, reduced. .$2S.75
S22.75 Brussels Rugs, size 9x12, at. .S16.75
SO to S12 Rag Rugs, 9x12 sizes, now $S.45
$1.49 Rag Rugs, sizes 27x54 in, now at 9se
l9c to Soc So yd. Linoleum, now, SO. yd. $50
$1.25 Inlaid Linoleum, now, So. yd.. 80. .s5c
55c Holland Window Shades, 36x72 in. .39c
PaIais ROyaI-Seeond Floor.
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Children's Dept.-Hats,
Etc.

Children's Kimonos, sizes 6 to IA yrs. .$1.00
Children's Dresses, 2 to 6, colored. 80. 44c
Babies Bonnets, values to S1.75. 800. .$1.00
Babies Coats, white, various styles. 1888
Babies Dresses, various styles. SOC
Children's Drawers, Drawer Bodies,
Petticoats, odds and ends. .... Csc
Children's Dresses, values to $3.50,
various lots. white, to years. . .S1.75
Children's Coats, spring weight, new
models, 6 to IA yrs. $500
Children's Coats, all wool, 2 to yrs. $500
Children's Hats, values $3.50 to IS. $500
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Seconds of Values to $40, Congoleum
Rugs, S2.35
Sizes 7.6x9 to 9x12 one and two-piece
rugs seconds of values to SO, in beau
tiful patterned Congoleum Rugs. Pre-
Inventory Sale Price, $2.35.
Bargain Basement.
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$500 10-piece Rogers Al Triple
plate Tableware, with mahog-
any chest .SZo-OO
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25c Unbreakable Dolls, now only. lse
S1.25 Alarm Clocks, now only. ........ sSe
$3.50 Piece Carving Set, now only. Sl.5o
$3.50 H. H. Dinner Knives, now only ssc
$1.00 Oyster Forks, now only. Csc
s1.O0 Ice Tea Spoons, now only. Soc
$500 Salad Forks, now only. sec
26c Cold Meat Forks, now only. ...... Toe
25c Butter Knives, now only. ........ SC
26c Sugar Shells, very fine. SC
S1.oO Silver Plated Serving Trays, at sec
81 Set Of Tablespoons, at. ......... Sic
S1.00 Set Of Fruit Knives, at...... 7ec
800 Soup Ladies, now only......... Soc
$l.0o Dessert Spoons. now....... SEC
Soc Cake Servers, now only. 25e
SLo0 Bread b. H. Knives. now only. SOC
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Women's Isle Gloves, Worth
60c Pair, at 39e

A special lot OF wonderfully me quail
ity Isle Gloves in white, black. tan. gray,
and brown, ordinarily COO. Preliminary
Sale Price, soc pair.
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75c Silk Gloves, 2-elasp, shades. .sse
Long Silk Gloves, shades, at.......7se
81 Silk Gloves, 2-elasp, new shades. :. .s5e
16-button silk Gloves, white and black 6se
2-clasp Silk Gloves, white, tan, blk, br'n SOC
16-button Long Kid Gloves sass
Silk, black and white, strap wrist. $l.25
2-clasp Silk and Chamoisette. 1900. .S1.oo
Silk and Isle, many shades. .....-.. 75e
FaIaIa Royal-Street FlOOF.
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Millinery

$3.50 new Trimmed White Hats. .S3.sS
$2.9S untr'med Panamas, ex. fine quail. S1.9S
$2.49 tr'd white China Milan SPIT. Hats. S1.s9
Flowers of all kinds, now priced at. 1Oc
49c Ornaments and Novelties, all styles 19c
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Lace Department
Silks and Dress Goods
At "a to IA OF Regular Price

So to $3.50 Sport Silks, at, yard. .$l.s9
Including the balance Of our Sports
Silks, Khaki Kool and Fables. SO
to q inches wide.
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Leather Goods Dept.

IS Leather Handbags, purse & mirror. $3.50
So Real Morocco Handbags, warranted. $3.50
SO & $3.50 Beaded Bags, inside pocket. $500
$1.75 Mems Shaving Sets, in nickel ease.$1.ss
SIPS Military Brushes in leather cases. csc
PaIals RoyaI-Street Floor.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
DO YOU KNOW?
Information on Timely Topics
Compiled By The Forum.

Do you know that the United States
Marines have a famous fighting song
1t is officially called THE Marines
Hymn" The marines are the only
branch of the service to have an Of
fetal song. Here it is:
From the halls of Montezuma,
To the shores of Tripoli,
We fight our country's battles
On land as on the sea.
First to fight for right and freedom
And to keep our honor clean,
We are, proud to claim the title
OF United States Marine.
From the Pest Hole of Cavite
To the ditch at Panama,
You will find them very needy
OF Marines-that's what we are;
We're the watchdogs of pile of coal
Or we dig a magazine,
Though he lends hand at every job
Who would not be a Marine?
Our flags unfurled to every breeze
From dawn to setting sun,
We have fought in every CLINE or place
Where we could take gun;
In the snow of far off northern lands
And in sunny tropic scenes,
You will find us always on the job
The United States Marines.
Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve,
In many strife we have fought for
life
And never lost our nerve;
If the Army and the Navy
Ever looks on Heavens scenes,
They will find the streets are guarded
by
The United States Marines.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
IN THE OPEN FORUM.
Column

The April issue of The jamestown
Collegian published at jamestown col
lege contains an interesting article on
the James River valley. 1t is a very
vivid and well written description of
the beauties of this valley cut through
a seemingly limftless prairie.
"The developments in Russia afford
striking illustration Of the impera-
tive necessity of combining progress
with order in affairs Of government
says The Grand Forks Herald. THAT
lesson is one which there has been a
marked disposition to overlook in
North Dakota"
The Bismarck Tribune editor dis
cusses thusly the suggestion that the
long cared burro Of Arizona be used
for sausage: as s a-~
With real pork sausage at 40 cents
the pound, our artistic admiration of
the burro's physical beauties turns
to hot desire for him as a table del
icacy, if the stuff for sausage is actu-
ally in him. Faith, of the sort that
questions not and wavers not, as in
the case of the mysterious hash, may
enable us to indulge in 'eiselwurst." :"
We wot not how this new sausage
tastes, but, if its texture is anything
like the burro, one can chew on it
long, long time"
Calling attention to the fact that the
sailing of the American fiotilla of
destroyers was known to the news
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
APPORTIONNENT
OF LIBERTY LOAN
North Dakota's Share
Would be $10,OOO,O00 I'm
der Treasury Plan

Washington, May 23.-What every
section of the country is expected to
do in unloosening its purse strings for
the Liberty loan, was officially an
Dounced last night by the treasury de-
partment. The figures made public are
the minimum; the maximum it Is
hoped, will be such an over-subscrip-
tion as has never before been recorded
in the history Of any nation.
In framing the schedule, treasury
experts have built a structure of fg-
ures with the entire banking resources
Of the country as its foundation. They
have based their calculations upon the
number Of dollars to be found in the
banks of each section. The program
probably will be reshaped entirely by
the response of the people, but as a
guide it will show each district just
what the nation expects OF 1T.
Two Bases of Estimating.
In making public its tentative allot-
ments of bonds, the treasury depart
ment has adopted two bases of esti-
mating, a $2,000,000,000 issue and one
of $4,000, ,000, 900, the latter designed to
meet the possibility of any one section
failing to take the amount estimated
The tentative allotments, maximum
and minimum, by reserve districts, fol-
lows:
New York-$60O,000 600 to $750,000,-
600.
Philadelphia- s14O,ooo,oOO to s175,-
100000.
600.
Richmond sso.oOo.ooO to 100000.
Atlanta-s6o 100000 to $75,00o,OoO.
Chicago-$260 100000 to $325,Oo0,-
600
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23

papers, and was not published, The
Mandan Pioneer says of censorship:
Although no censorship bill rela-
tive to newspapers has passed con-
gress still the press of the nation is
responding with the greatest loyalty
and is clamping down a elf-imposed
censorship that so far has worked
admirably. The press as a unit is
earnestly endeavoring to print Moth
ing that would be of value to the
enemy"
The Turtle Mountain Star, in copy
which James A. Brown of the state
board of control has just furnished
the state historical library, probably
has scored a world scoop in printing
the first known cut of a monument
presented by the German government
to Norway and erected on the border
of the latter country, and which only
recently has been found to conceal
a powerful wireless telegraph plant.
The Norwegian government became
interested because of the unique in
terest displayed in the monument by
German tourists who visited the
shrine in great numbers every day.
An investigation proved the tourists
to be secret agents of the German
government, whose reports were trans
mitted by wireless from the statue. A
Rolla citizen while in the north coun-
try year or two ago was sufficiently
interested to take a photograph of the
monument, from which The Turtle
Mountain Star last week reproduced a
cut.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
"sLAvERY" OR PATRIOTISM.

Neither slavery nor involuntary
serNitude except as a punishment
for crime whereof the party shall
have been duly convicted, shall
exist within the United States,
nor any place subject to their jur-
isdiction"-the thirteenth amend
ment to the constitution of the
United States.
"a slave-A person who is held
in bondage to another; one who
is wholly subject to the will of
another; one who is held as a
chattel: one who has no freedom
of action, but whose person and
services are wholly under the con-
troll of another. r."-Webste die
tionary.
Is a conscripted man a slave?
The question has been raised in
the supreme court of California, evil
IDENTIFY by a pacifist who would test
the right of congress to enact a con-
scription act, claiming it is a violation
of the thirteenth amendment to the
constitution.
Even under a literal reading of the
definition, it is difficult to construe
control of another" as meaning con
troll of the state"
The conscripted man is fighting for
the very constitution that is invoked
Some may call it slavery. Others call
it patriotism.
Up to the night of April ., pacifism
was a tenable doctrine. Since that
night it can evoke only impatient con-
tempt.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
ROADS MATTERS BEFORE BOARD
State System Embracing 1,721 Miles to
Occupy Attention OF Highway
Commission.

Bismarck, NJ D., May 23.-Final
consideration of state highway sys-
tenn embracing 1921 miles OF primary
roads consisting principally of trans
continental trails and 2037 miles OF
secondary roads will occupy the at
tention of the state highway commits
sion, headed by Governor Frazier, at
it's meeting here Friday and Saturday.
The commission will make formal re-
quest for the federal aid to which this
state is entitled, approximately $751;
600 for the fiscal year Just ending and
$175,000 for the fiscal year beginning
July 1. Practically all of the state and
federal aid funds this year will be
spent in the improvement of such ma
tional highways as the Red Trail,
Wonderland trail and Yellow trail, all
Of which extend from coast to coast,
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
ASK ABOUT 1T, ANYWAY.

Just because you haven't $50 in cash
or 800 in cash. don't think that you
can't buy a Liberty bond.
Perhaps you can arrange 1t il you
have but SIS or $40. Go to any bank,
tell the banker exactly the sum you
have available. and ask him what can
be done. You will not only get the
bond. but you will get your first lesson
in banking, If you have not already
learned 1t, you may get a start on the
road to thrift that will be worth far
more to you than the bond.
Just go in and talk it over with
''your'' banker. If you haven't bank
er yet, get one. and don't be afraid to
taxa his advice
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
& sOTHER MEMS VIEWS.
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
OniniOns

Cleveland Leader: Before the test
of war began Russia looked like the
mighty member of the old dual alli-
ance and France the weak little nation
sheltered by its giant friend. The
Russian empire was immense on the
maps, France relatively very small.
Russia had 175,00O,000 inhabitants or
more, France not quite 40,000,000. II
was all one sided, in figures.
Now the whole world sees that the
old alliance between France and Rus
sia was indeed extremely unequal,
with France, not Russia, the giant in
strength. France is the pride Of half
the world, the heroine of the war. Rus
sia is headless, houndering, half
paralyzed mass of ignorance and fol-
liz. France is efficient Russia inef-
fectuaL France is one of the nations
which must save Russia ii Russia is
to be saved.
II is an impressive object lesson on
the infinitely greater Importance OF
Quality than bulk in nations. II shows
IN the most impressive manner how
much more brains count than Drawn
in the most strenuous work of the
world, Just as the same rule holds in
the affairs of individuals, In every land
advanced beyond the bestial crudities
OF saya8ery.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23

into the training camps. The govern
ment cannot afford to draft them into
an immoral environment, any more than
it can afford to draft them into an
insanitary one. The men will all be
young, vigorous, healthy Americans
with red blood in their veins. They
will demand healthy, red blooded
sports and pastimes.
The Y. M. C. A. has been officially
recognized by President Wilson as do
ing a work of great value along these
lines, and it's efforts are entitled to
hearty, generous support.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
A LIKELY SOLUTION.

Minimum prices to protect the pro-
ducer, and government distribution, If
needed, to protect the consumer, should
together go a long way toward solving
the food problem.
Fargo is today entertaining Ameri-
can and Canadian representatives of
the Equity Cooperative exchange
who will decide upon minimum price
which should be paid for grain. Their
report, it is reported, is being awaited
with much interest by Herbert c..
Hoover. the new supervisor of foods
of congress in fixing minimum price
may depend largely on the action
taken in Fargo today.
It has been the history Of all efforts
at food control. that the fixing of
maximum prices is ineffective. 1t is
believed that a minimum price estab-
lished by congress, will so stimulate
production during the coming two
years that the maximum prices will
not be necessary. The effect of min
linun pTlCS "Oulu DS " SuoA dhISS
that the farmer who raises wheat
shall receive for it-say $3.50 a bushel.
The man who puts in potatoes. culti-
Yates them and cares for them, knows
that those potatoes will unquestion-
ably be worth the government mini
mum price, whatever it may be, IS
cents or 81 a bushel.
The danger of over production this
year and next is negligible. The en-
tire world is facing a food shortage,
and the government would never have
to make it's guarantee good. 1t could,
moreover, we'll afford to do so if the
occasion arose. But the guarantee
would stimulate production in a way
that all the campaigning, all the ap-
pealing to patriotism, and all the re-
iteration of fight or farm" never
could.
The danger of confscation Of sup
plies, possibly at the minimum price,
would deter food spectators. If COM
prices beyond the reach of the aver
age consumer, the government through
it's new food supervisor, could step
in and regulate distribution.
On the one hand the minimum price
would definitely dispose of the silly
statement, unfortunately given some
credence, that all the agitation for
greater production is merely scheme
to smash the prices that the farmer
will get. On the other hand the pos
sibility of confscation and govern
ment distribution would tend to keep
prices stable.
1t looks like the solution to the prob
lem, and the men who are meeting in
Fargo today should see to 1t that the
minimum price they recommend is
fair alike to the farmer and the con-
sumner.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
A STARTLING NOVELTY.

In electing a congressman the voters
of the First district might apply a
startlingly new standard of efficiency.
Suppose the voters of this district,
instead of asking their congressional
candidate How much pork can you
grab from the barrel for the First
district" should ask him How far
will you go toward eliminating every
possible item of expense from the ma
tional budget?"
Suppose the First district congress-
man should say: I'VE don't need a
$4,000 postoffice at the crossroads. We
can get along until after the war with
the one we have, provided other dis
tricts will show a similar spirit of
economy" After the speaker and
reading clerk had been revived from
the shock, the congressman might find
himself famous.
1t will require about $7O,O00,00O to
pay the annual interest charge on the
new Liberty loan. That sum could be
picked out of the pork barrel every
year and its loss not felt. But glitter
ing generalities about economy will
not do it. Economy in the concrete
must be practiced. Perhaps the day
will come when the voters will demand
the defeat of the man who helped loot
the treasury, even if their own dis
trict profited by the loot. Perhaps the
congressman will be labelled a. traitor
instead of patriot.
If the congressional candidates from
the First district want a star to which
they can hitch their wagons. let them
aim to save the interest on the Liberty
loan from the huge and growing cost
of government. 1t is worthy ambi-
tion and a big enough job to keep the
Atppast of statesmeY, husv
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
THE SOLDIERS, PLAY HOUR.

Vice and intemperance have ever
followed in the wake of armies.
During the present war the ravages
of disease and drunkenness have been
so widespread that they have seriously
threatened the efficiency of the armies.
The most stringent regulations have
been adopted to check the powers of
evil that have sought to prey ON the
soldier. nerve wracked and craving
amusement after his session in the
trenches.
America has wisely chosen to attack
this problem from its proper angle
that Of prevention rather than cure
BY strict rules and punishment
Around the training camps will be
zones from which alcoholic liquors viii
be barred. but in addition to this pre-
xentive measure, the constructive
work OF providing recreation on a big
scale will BE undertaken. Compete
tive games between different units Of
the camps will be staged.
America Is drafting her young men
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
SENATOR SANDSTROM
CHALLENGES STAIR
Legislator From 5ottineau County
Would Meet League Whip in De-
bate at Bismarck, June 2.

Bottineau, N. D., May Ex-senator
L. p. Sandstrom of Bottineau, has
challenged Representative l.. L. Stair.
league whip in the last house Of
representatives, to meet him in the
Grand theatre here June 2 in joint
debate of the resolution that the sem
ate majority and the house minority
of the last session confirmed the
issues involved in the 1916 campaign
and redeemed the pledges enunciated
by and embodied in the League Re-
publican platform.
The house minority and the senate
majority have been repeatedly accused
by league organizations of failure to
live up to party pledges in blocking
the league program for wholesale re-
vision of the constitution and an un-
limited indulgence in state ownership
of elevators, flour mills and other util-
tiles.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
INCIDENT Is CLOSED.

preparedness in America approves the
refusal of President Wilson to permit
the chief vocal organ of the movement
to lead his volunteers to France, the
rest of the country can devote its at
tention to other matters of greater
moment, and consider the incident
closed.
The Chicago Tribune says: "Presi-
dent Wilson in finding it impossible
to accept Col. Roosevelt's offer to raise
two volunteer divisions and take the
American colors directly to France,
has decided wisely we think"
What more is needed? The war can
now proceed
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
NEW STATE CORPORATIONS.
Large Number of State Concerns In.
corporated Under State Law.

Bismarck. N. D., May 23.-The days
new corporations are the Running
Bakery company, Grand Forks, Chris
and Minnie Running and Henry Bren-
ma; the Rainy Butte Cemetery asso-
and Martin Kamstra; the McCanna
Farmers Elevator company, Ben Win
ston, Andrew Jorgenson and j. G. Will
liams; the Wolf Greek Telephone COM
pany, Rollette, Fred e. Rose, A. O..
Smith, w. s. Armentrout, Peter p.
Nelson and A. G. Myhre, planning to
build ten-mile line costing $1,000:
and the Ashley Oil company, John
Geiszler, T. S. Johnstone, G. A. John
son of the Marshal Oil company, Bis
r1arck
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
CANADIAN ENTERPRISE
BROUGHT TO THE STATE
North Dakota's Most Unique Industry,
Silver Black Fox Farm, Now un-
der Way at ST. John, NJ. ..

ST. John, n. D., May 2S.-North Da-
kota's most unique industry, a silver
black fox farm, is now under way.
Capitalized at $65,000 the North Da-
kota Silver black Fox & Investment
Co. has procured a large tract of land
near this place. and it is proceeding to
provide buildings, fox-yards and ami
mails for breeding purposes. The latter
are valued as high as $4,000 pair.
The silver-black fox farming in
dustry was originated in the far distant
kota man who is bringing the enter
prise to his home state. Many promin-
ent men, including Hon. j. F. Cowan of
Devils Lake, former attorney general
and district judge, are associated with
the concern.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
Live Under One
Roof But Sleep
On Own Claim

Poplar, Mont, May 23.-Living
under one roof, Miss Saloma Wish
elk, and her niece, Miss Esther
Wishek, sister and daughter re-
spectively of Senator John Wishek,
wealthy banker of Ashley, N. D.,
are proving up on homesteads on
which they recently filed. Their
home is built on the dividing line
and each Miss Wishek sleeps on
her own claim.
The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1917-05-23
School For The
Deaf Finds Route
To Conservation

Bathgate. N. D., May 23.-With
the cost of living mounting daily
and with the state at it's wits end
to accommodate from meagre APP
propriations the needs of growing
institutions, Bathgate school for
the deaf has shed a ray of light
on the gloom surrounding board of
control officers with the announce
ment that 1t has saved enough
groceries and cured meats from its
last six months acquisitions to
carry 1t over the next quarter with
the aid of its own gardens and
dairies and that no requisition will
be made July for these supplies.