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Evening star., 1917-02-27

the Senate be performing the functions
for which it was createdf Would it not
be operating merely as the instrument
and at the dictation of the Presidentf
The overlooking of Congress at this
session was against the warning Of some
of the ablest and most experienced men,
bers of the majority. They were better
judges than the President Of what could
be done and should be attempted within
the time limit Their fault was in yield
ing to outside pressure to lengthen the
card.
Every consideration Of the public well
fare demands that the Senate hold to
its old and useful practice. As body
it was intended to be "the refuge of the
minority" AS such it has accomplished
great deal of good. 1t has defeated
outright. or changed for the better,
many measures hastily knocked to-
gether and rushed at top speed through
the House When full freedom of de-
bate disappears from the Senate, that
body will lose half of its usefulness and
Importance in the. legislative equation,
and the country will lose immeasurably.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
The House Promotion Scale Wins.

Senator La Follette's championship in
the Senate of the principle of liberal
increase in the pay of government clerks
has resulted directly in the acceptance
of the more generous House provision
instead of that heretofore insisted upon
by the Senate, and will probably cause
a following of this standard in all the
pending appropriation bills. Tho gov
ernment is to be congratulated upon
this course, and Senator La Toilette and
Representative Mann, who prevented the
House from surrendering on this issue,
are to be thanked in the name Of all the
employees Of the United States for their
vigorous and effective work for its
adoption.
Plain truths were uttered by the Wis
consin senator in his statement yester-
day in the upper House, truths that were
timely to present for consideration.
During recent years the legislators have
voted liberal advances in pay for most
of the higher officers in the government,
including themselves, in recognition of
the fact that it costs more to live in
these times than in the days when the
salary scale Of the government was
fixed. Yet until the present session no
Evening star., 1917-02-27
War Prices and Peace Extortion.

The peaceloying American people note
with righteous Indignation the discrep-
aney in food prices reported in Ger
many and those that prevail here With
potatoes selling in the former country
at 72 cents bushe1, and that price guar
anteed for the entire year, and the pre-
vailing rate for the same food article
in the United States $3.50 a bushel, or
exactly five times as much, it would
seem that peace undeniably has its hand
leaps. Whatever else Germany may
have done, the fact is plain that in re-
spect to the regulation of the cost of
living the government at Berlin has
given the world during the last two and
half years a most valuable lesson
Truly, democracy has its disadvantages
when under it food speculation can pro-
ceed with impunity, to the end of
close approach to the starvation of
thousands of helpless people. No
conceivable economic reason can exist
for the maintenance of price of $3.50
for bushel Of potatoes. There is no
such shortage in the supply. Even with
temporary disarrangement of the
transport facilities due to the tie-up of
ears incidental to enormous freight
movements and the congestion at the
seaboard caused by the submarine
blockade, there is no potato shortage
anywhere to justify price so criminal
ly extortionate. Somewhere along the
line some one is taking advantage of
these purely passing conditions to foist
an arbitrary price upon the helpless
public, while the prosecuting authori-
ties of the country stand by in apparent
impotence and the government talks of
appropriating immense sums for inves-
tigation. In conditions like these law
lessness is bred.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
The Refuge of the Minority"

1t is suggested that the principal OBJ
ject for calling the Senate in extra ses-
sion is to secure form of cloture for
that body-as drastic a form as posi-
bic. If that is attempted it ought to be
defeated. No greater injury could be
inflicted on the Senate, or, indirectly, on
the country.
We are asked TO believe that the pres
ent situation in the Senate emphasizes
the necessity fog cloture. On the con
trary, it is the strongest possible justi-
ication for full freedom of debate, and
for the filibuster, if you please, to Sc
cure it.
The jam in the Senate is composed of
most important measures. There is not
a little log in it. Whether those meas
ures have been piled up for a purpose
is beside the. question. There they are /;
and it is Il very dangerous proposition
that they should be forced through by
a revolutionary process masked and in
troduced as reform. All are entitled
to examination on their merits.
Let us suppose clOture now in being
in the Senate, and the majority disposed
to employ it through gag committee
and sympathetic presiding officer.
Would the country benefit from the put
ting through i'll their present shapes of
all the belated measures awaiting ac-
ton. Would legislating while you
waited serve any good purposei Would
Evening star., 1917-02-27

move had been made for fifty years to
raise the pay Of the men and women in
the ranks of the service. Every sug
gestion of pay increase has been re-
ceived coldly. Senator La Toilette
stated the case with refreshing frank
ness, in terms that admitted Of but one
answer, and that answer was given by q
vote Of three to two.
The contest between the two houses
in this matter has been merely one of
degrees. Strangely enough, the Senate
has been standing for the less liberal
and the House for the more liberal pro-
vision. Usually the positions are re-
versed. The House enactment was by
no means as generous as conditions
warrant, but compared with the Senate's
proposition it was decidedly liberal. The
Senate promotion scale would have
brought relief to a very small body of
che government employees, leaving un-
affected practically the entire classified
service, those who do the actual clerical
work of the government. Those whom
the Senate provision omitted, and whom
the House provision reaches are, in fact,
the most seriously in need of promo
tion. They are the men with families,
or women with others dependent upon
them, upon whom the present cost of
living bears with crushing burden.
There should be no doubt now as to
the uniform adoption of the House scale
of promotion to all branches of the pub
lie service. The government cannot
with decency stop to count the dollars
in an account like this when conditions
are compelling the governments work
ers to count their pennies with painful
care.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
The Presidents Address.

While the Importance of the Presi-
dents address to Congress is somewhat
obscured by the coincidence of the La
coma sinking, the news of which came
even as he was entering the Capitol yes
terday. the gravity of the statements he
made before the joint session must be
plain to the American people. He asked
Congress for authority to arm our mer-
chant ships defensively and to supply the
means of using such arms land to en-
ploy any other instrumentality or meth
DDS that may be necessary and adequate
to protect our ships and our people in
their legitimate and peaceful pursuits on
the seas" He also asks a sufficient
credit to provide adequate means of pro-
lection.
The problem of arming our merchant
ships has been a puzzling one owing to
the fact that only from the naval sup
plies could guns be secured of caliber
sufficient to protect vessel from sub
marine. And furthermore only from the
federal forces could gunners be had to
man those weapons. Under the laws
such guns could not be sold or given
and such gunners could not be assigned
legislation that might in itself appear
an aggressively defensive act, perhaps
precipitating the very crisis it was de-
signed to avert, the President has waited
for nearly four weeks since the proela-
nation of the German submarine cam
paign before going to Congress on this
subject. Meanwhile, our shipping has
been virtually choked in harbor. Our
interests have suffered, our people have
oeen forced to travel on ships of foreign
registry and to all intents and purposes
the German submarine blockade has
been fully effective against American
commerce.
The President hopes to end this in
tolerable condition by measures of ship
protection which, while not fully dis
closed, are vet sufficiently indicated.
Already a bill has been introduced
granting the authority and the credit
for which he has asked. Approval by
Congress of the concrete requests of
the President should be prompt Ir-
respective of the peace imperiling
case Of unwarned sinking just reported,
there should be no division in the leg
islature on the score of giving the Presi-
dent the fullest power to act for the
safeguarding and upholding of Ameri
can interests and rights. Those legis-
lators who believe that Congress, the
war declaring power, should be in ses-
sion during the twilight period preced-
ing the night of war should force the
extra session, which they believe to be
vitally necessary, in some other way
than by opposition to the proposition
that the President be given at once full
and clearly defined powers to arm de-
fensively and man with gunners our
merchant ships.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
The JOYOUS Cackle,

Though the wintry blast may Gnger
And the blizzard ,lie in wait,
Where a tree shakes, like the finger
OF uncompromising fate,
Now and then some information
Will make glad the sullen day.
It's a joyous indication
When the hens begin to lay.
Though the wild flower may be hiding
Deep beneath the drifting snow,
Where you listen to the chiding
OF the melancholy crow.
There's a message that will calm US
In our moments of dismay.
For the world is full of promise
When the hens begin to lay.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
4 Remarkable Sale Of
Gold Filled and Sterling Silver
JeWelry at &c

This lot consists of New York Jobbers sample
lines of inexpensive jewelry and collection OF mis-
ceaneous purchases OF desirable pieces in surplus
stocks. -
These pieces would retail ordinarily at Zoc 5oc
and SOC each nothing in the lot worth less than 25c;
all are made by reputable manufacturers.
Included Mems Coat Chains with emblem
buttons Mems Safety Belt Chains and Cuff Links.
Ribbon Soutors with gold filled slides. Sterling
Pendants on chains Gold Filled Lavalliers Mems
Ribbon Fobs with gold filled charm, Sterling ,.i Hat
Gold Filled Watch Pins, Bar Pins with cameo set
ting. Bluebird Pins, Earrings, Bead Necklaces. and,
Very unusual values in servlceable articles.
Don't forget the values-25c, 55c and SOC lC
qualities ....'.-.-.'
Evening star., 1917-02-27
The Laconia Sinking.

Last Sunday night the British steamer
Laeonia, carrying cargo and passengers
from New York to Liverpool, was sunk
hy German submarine off the coast of
ireland. According to all available in
formation, officially communicated to
the Department of State, the ship
was not warned. but was torpedoed
suddenly in the night while not
resisting or attempting to escape.
All of the company on board, to
the number of approximately 800, were
put off in boats, save five who were
drowned. While the boats were still
near the vessel the submarine returned
and fred second torpedo to hasten her
sinking. This action further endan-
gered the lives of the survivors. OF
those who put off in boats eight died
of exposure, including two American
women. mother and daughter.
In some vital respects this appears to
be the covert act" by Germany. for the
avoidance of which the American ad-
ministration and people have been hop
ing ever since the breach of diplomatic
relations. A ship sunk without warning
and American passengers dead in con
sequence!
The fact that the Laconia was a Brit
ish vessel does not alter the nature
of the offense. The Lusitania was Brit
ish, and her sinking without warning
occasioned the first statement of the
American principle that submarine war
fare must not be conducted without
warning to victims. The Sussex was
British ship and her sinking without
warming, with the resultant death of
Americans, led to the final note of last
May in which this government plainly
stated to Germany its resolution to
break relations in case of repetition.
The news of the sinking of the La
coma came dramatically, just as the
President was about to address Con-
gress to ask for power to put the United
States in a position of armed neutrality
by providing means for the safeguard
ing of American interests at sea by
arming our merchantmen against sub
marine attack The two matters are not
directly related. The President was
yesterday seeking authority to protect
our shipping. Yet in way the loss of
American lives through the sinking of
the LacoDia without warming is related
to the blockade of American shipping
through fear of German submarines.
Had it been possible doubtless Mrs
Hoy and her daughter and the other
Americans on the Laconia would have
sailed under the American flag. As a
result of the German submarine menace
they had no other course, in order to
reach Europe. but to sGIl as they did on
a British vessel.
This case, developing steadily as dis
patches come from England, may prove
to be the final issue. In, the light of
the long exchange of communications
further note writing would be superfu-
Gus, if in the judgment of the President
and his advisers the destruction of this
ship without warning, involving the loss
of American lives. constitutes cause
of war or is in itself an act of war.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
Not Precisely a Pacifist.

"Do you want war9"
"No," replied Senator Sorghum. "But
we can't always consult our preferences
If any war insists on coming our way. I
want to be in shape to make it as brief
as possible"
Evening star., 1917-02-27
Away Behind the Times

whats your boy studying nows"
"Something about the Trojan war"
replied Farmer Corntossel. "I'm not
sure Josh isn't wasting his time study
ing about war where they didn't use
submarines or aeroplanes."
Evening star., 1917-02-27

Visitors for the Inauguration are al
ready beginning to arrive. Washington
affords entertainment and instruction
sufficient to occupy all the leisure that
may be at command
Evening star., 1917-02-27

One of the earliest food investiga-
tions was conducted by old Mother Hub
bard. The dear lady's discovery that
the cupboard was bare represented
about as much information as may be
expected from the average formal in
quiry on these lines.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

Carranza has bought cartridge making
machinery from Japan. This is the first
recent step Mexico has taken toward be-
coming an industrious manufacturing
country.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
nks[sosfs' Mems sRr'"g $16.75

OF all-wool fabrics. including fine tweeds,
imported and domestic cheviots, knitted TAD
RIGS. silk and satin; quarter and half lined;
newest models mostly slip-on styles, but number
OF full silk-lined dress and oxfords or Conservative
and Chesterfield styles; including sizes 81 to 40
Some stout sizes in this lot.
PaIafs RoyaI-Street Floor
Evening star., 1917-02-27
Dimiuution.

Man wants but little here below
His daily lot to bless
But the statistics clearly show
He keeps on getting less.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

Washable White DoeSkif
2-clasp P. X, in white
with black embroidery;
black with white en-
broidery; also self-stitch
with Paris point. l-clasp
P. X. and Cape, in wash
able white, pearl, sand,
putty. gray; also 2-but-
ton Washable Doeskin,
S1.75..
2-clasp Overseam, in
tan, white, black, gray,
champagne and pearl.
with Paris point and self
and contr astlng en-
broidery; $500.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

Science will do all that is possible to
safeguard the old topper who, deprived
of whisky, goes cropping around for
something equally as good"
Evening star., 1917-02-27
The Evening Star Newspaper Company
11th st. and Pennsylvania Avenue.

New York Ofice: Tribune Bldg.
Chicago Office: First Nat. Bank Bldg.
European ONCE: , Regent ST.. London.
South American Office: La Valle 34l.
Buenos Aires. Argentina
Evening star., 1917-02-27

Tn spite of peace and war rumors the
fighting along the Somme continues. re-
gardless of expense.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

China is beginning to wake up and
wonder how far philosophic forbearanee
may be relied on for protection.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

"De only man | ever caught dealin'
off de bottom of de deck" said Uncle
Eben, "was terrible busy policin' de
game to keep everybody else honest"
Evening star., 1917-02-27

No agreement 'to fix prices has had
the effect of fixing them to one level
for any length of time.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

1t may be assumed that words fail to
express the extent to which Col. Bryan
is disappointed in Henry Ford.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

Everybody hopes for a dry capital
during the outdoor ceremonies on in
auguration day.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

The protests that Americans habitual-
ly overeat are constantly growing
fainter.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

The Evening Star. with the Sunday
morning edition. is delivered by carriers
within the city at 45 cents per month:
daily only. 25 cents per month; Sunday
only, 20 cents per month. Orders may be
sent by mail. or telephone Main 244O.
Collection is made by carrier at the end
of each month.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.
Expensive Modern Sport.

"Do you remember when you were a
youngster and played bean bag?"
eyes. Weren't beans cheap in those
days"
Evening star., 1917-02-27

The willingness of congressman to
stay on and work overtime is not always
appreciated.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

2-pearl Clasp, in P. K.
and Overseam Wash
able, in white; S2.25.
2-clasp ?. K. and
Overseam; white with
black; black with white;
three rows of embroid-
cry: S2.z5.
Full line of Long Kid
Gloves. in white and
black-S1.75, $3-25,
S355, $3.50 and S4.75.
Full line of Misses
Kid Gloves, in white and
tan. with self and con-
trasting e m b r o idery;
SI.35.
'aInis Royal-Street Floor.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

The lame duck goes his way while
many lame argument survives.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
Leather Goods
Section

Leather Handbags. $5-Ornamented pin seal,
fitted with purse and mirror: colored silk Innings.
Leather Handbags, S3-Warranted real moroc-
co. with colored silk Innings; fitted with purse and
mirror.
Real Leather Handbags SAWith covered and
nickel frames lined with pretty colored silks fitted
with purse and mirror.
Draw-string Bags of CoIored Silks, ss-Fitted
with purse and mirror, in plain colored silks-all
the new seasons shades; some with floral decora-
tons: very handsome lot
Colored Silk Bags, Sz.75-In rose, peach, white,
black and turquoise; fitted with purse and mirror.
Real Leather Strap Polish Leather Strap
back Purse, with inside back Purse, with color
frame; assorted colors; ed silk Innings and inside
$500. frame 81.
Polish Leather Strap Leather Handbags
back Purse, with inside with covered frames;
frame; colored silk lin also with colored silk
inps SI5O. Innings. ST.
9
Evening star., 1917-02-27
4 Splendid Sho7cing Of
Kid Gloves

In All New Spring Styles and Colors.
l-clasp P. X. and Cape. in tan, white, putty,
brown and pearl, with Paris-point stitching and
one-row stitching 2-clasp Overseam; white, black,
tan, gray and champagne, l-clssp &1 E0
Evening star., 1917-02-27

Subscription by mail-PayabIe In ad e.
Daily, SUN day nc u d c d, Soc per mouth.
Daily. Sund a ed Zoe per month.
Saturday Star. 81 year; Sunday Star. - 40 year.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
Bed Comforts
and Linens

Wool Blankets with pink and blue borders;
$780,
Fleeced Blankets. looking and feeling like wool;
white with borders in colors. Special per pair, Sl25.
Fleeced Blankets with pink and blue borders;
size 64x76 inches Special per pair, S1.75.
Comforts; filled with hygienc. white, cotton,
covered in Persiant effects with plain color bor
ders; size 72x7s inches Special at $3.50.
Comforts with Persian covering; size 72x7S;
regular at $500 Special at SI50.
Spreads, crochet in Marseiles effect; full size
and weight. Very special at sl2S.
Evening star., 1917-02-27
WOnen'S Hosiery
and Underwear

Silk Hose, SOC pair-Usual sc quality !;
with double sole, high heel, Isle garter tops !;
well made; black, white, pink, sky, green,
blue, navy, ivory, champagne and fawn; also
the scarce shades of silver, gold, gray and
bronze. All perfect.
Pure Thread Silk Hose, 79c-Usual ST qualities,
black with white clocks; navy with white clocks
also plain black and navy
Glove Silk Underwear, s1.95-Usua1 s2.25 quail
ities-incuding envelope chemise, lace trimmed
silk vests, plain and embroidered. and camisoles
very handsomely trimmed; also silk boomers, re-
inforced in white, black and pink; all perfect
Evening star., 1917-02-27

At S1.4q-Usua1 $175 and s. qualities; partly
samples and one-of-aknd styles of vests,
bloomers, camisoles and corset covers, in good
+ assortment of sizes.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

Ironing Board on
stand; well made of
n | z h grade bass
wood; complete with
iron bracket. OSc
SIPS value. At Nv
Evening star., 1917-02-27
B BASEMENT STORE
Inauguration Necessities
At Money=Saving Prices
In the we'll stocked Basement Store De-
BrOOms; W ell

BrOOms; W ell
made p a + l or
brooms; good,
selected corn,
5 and 6 times
sewed: soc and
75c re e u ] a r
prices; n limit
e d n u m b e r
while they 45c
la ST at
Evening star., 1917-02-27

hens, 39c each.
72x9O Cast-iron, Seamed-center Sheets, we'll
made, good cotton; SOC each.
20-inch Full Beached All-linen Damask Nap
kns; excellent range of patterns. $3.50 value at
$3.50 dozen.
22-inch Extra Heavy Irish Bleached Damask
Napkins; big value; choice patterns $3.50 dozen.
70-inch Heavy Irish Bleached Table Damask
one-haf linen, will outwear all linen at the price;
$l.05 yard.
58-inch Extra Heavy Full Bleached Mercerized
Table Damask; good patterns; 43c yard
63x72 Mcrcerized Bleached Damask Cloths,
hemmed ready for use. 90c each.
PaIais Royal-Second Floor.
Evening star., 1917-02-27

Palais Royal-Street Floor.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-16
WILLIAM WARD
 Is MISSING
DIsAPPEARED WHILE IN PORT
Member of the Mariposa Crew Missed Shortly After Steamer Had Left Valdez for the West-No Trace of Missing Man.

While the steamer Mariposa was in port here last Tuesday, William Ward, a member of the stewards de- partment, was known to have been aboard the vessel, but shortly after the vessel left he could not be found aboard. On the return of the steam CT here Saturday evening inquiries were made but no trace of the man was found. and 1t is believed that he may have fallen overheard either while the steamer laid at the dock or shortly after she left. No one aboard the vessel had heard any call or other sound to indicate that a man had gone overheard, but no other explana- tion of his disappearance is forth coming.
 There is bare possibility that the man may have gone uptown while the steamer was in port and got left, and that he sailed south on the Alas ka, which came in from the westward a few hours later, but if so no one on the dock remembers seeing him.
Valdez daily prospector., 1917-04-16
.THE THRICE-A-WEEk EDITION !0F THE NEW YORK WORtB
AN 1917
Practically a Daily at the Price of a Weekly. No Other Newspa- per in the World gives so much at so low 8 price.

The value and need of newspaper in the household was never greater than at the present time. The great war in Europe is now halfway into it's third year. and whether peace be at hand or afar of the events to fol- tow will be world shaking.
 The Prospector Publishing Company cffers the Thrice a Week World, The Daily Prospector and The Weekly Miner, one year for only $500 cash in advance. You get 156 copies ot the World, 313 copies of the Prospec- ter and 52 copies of the Miner for this price. Can you afford to be without them.