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The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03
1917 MODEL

The modern girl
Alas, how sweet
She wears hip boots
On tiny feet.
jackson Iowa) Sentinel.
A nobby waist
That shows much throat
The kind that grabs
A fellows goat.
Morrison Qll.) Times.
A ''chic" young hat,
On it a plume;
The type of skirt
That's picked too soon.
-[Hawarden Qowa) Chronicle.
She carts some line;
We fall for it.
She is some girl
You must admit.
1.-THE Is. d. volante.
High boots, short skirts,
Thin waists-some dish!
To meet such girls
My life ambish.
1.-THE Student (U. of N. d.
III your ambish
You'd like to see,
Just spend a day
At o. A. C.
10. A. C. Barometer.
When your ambish
Is satisfied,
Just come down here
And get united"
III. of N. Sagebrush tRenol.
Skirts" covered DER
With founce and tuck
Are found galore
In Winnemucki
-[Adyt.ment.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03
BUM TIME OF YEAR TO SAY
BAD THINGS ABOUT FLAG

1t is reported that an American
born and raised in the United States
took occasion to make reasonable
remarks to a recruiting officer OF the
United States army who was In Gard
nerville a few days ago. and came
near being taken to the Federal
prison. His pitiable ignorance. II u
said. IN all that saved him from con
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

finement in a Federal prison. This is
no time to make reasonable attacks
upon the government and upon the
flag of the United States. Great AMI
lasting harm may result to ones self
and family. and in a time such as this
we must all be loyal citizens.-[Garl-
nerville Courier.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03
MAY WHEAT AGAIN BEATS
ITS OWN HIGHEST RECORD

(By International News Service)
CHICAGO, May 3.-May wheat ex-
ultingly climbed to a new high record
when $3.50 a bushel was bid on change
today. The price of -four in Chicago
has increased to SIS a barrel.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

While eggs are plentiful preserve a
quantity for winter use. Coopers
Egg Preserver will do the work. For
sale only at Stephenson Drug Co.
THE Corner Drug Store GAdver-
tisement. l2zu
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

FOR SALE At a reasonable price.
i~ron-gray stallion. four years old.
weight 1900 pounds. Address G.
Gallo, Coyote ranch. INLAY, New. II
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

FOR SALE OR LEASE-Five acres
level rich sand loan land, suitable
for vegetables. Inquire of s. J. An
derson, or address Box 20. Winnie
mucca, Nevada. lett
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

FOR SALE - Comfortable four-roonl
house on corner lot, 50x125 feet;
part cash. balance same as rent.
Inquire of S. J.. Anderson. or adj
dress Box 20, Winnemucca. Nevada.
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

FOR SALE-Fine Percheron stallion,
which may be seer at III ranch be-
low town. E. Reinhart Company. II
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

FOR SALE-Ten sacks seed potatoes.
Inquire Hotel Lafayette. 126t3
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

FOR SALE-Two fine stations. Ad-
dress Pc. Box 8. Paradise Valley,
Nevada. II
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

ROUGH TURQUOISE WANTED -
Parties having rough turquoise for
sale are requested to communicate
with J. 8. Candelario. Santa Fe.
New Mexico.-Advt APPS
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

Do you ever consider what a novelty
TO eastern people a typically Western
ncwspaper~liks The Silver State t.Y
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

Summer is here. and so is Mrs.
ID. ]. Reid's delicatessen; Bridge. hear
Fourth.1Adyertisement-
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03
WANTS, FOR SALE, ETC.

FOR SALE-The lot upon which the
Episcopal church now stands. 50x
100 feet, at the corner of Fifth and
Lay streets. Inquire p. o. Box 255.
Winnemucca, New. 1878
The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1917-05-03

Paint for all purposes at Stephen
son Drug Co..-[Advertisement. 122tf
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07
We Need Our Best Men

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Now that the President has finally
acted and 1nds the people of the United
States are lined up, as was 70 be expected
squarely behind him, it is very incumbent
upon him that he should act as the President
Of the whole people and not OF a party.
The country demands that the Presiden,
choose as his Cabinet leaders men OF expert.
ence, OF the highest ability and training, men
who will inspire confidence not only among
ourselves, but those who By their signal abil-
tiles stand forth "a the big men of this
country, and who will carry weight among the
Allies so as to insure that the United States
will be fittingly represented at this time, and
who will carry on worthly our part in the
great war
The President can do no less. The people
are willing TO make sacrifices, but they will
not stand for known inefiiciency and short
comngs We need our best men and must
have them. CLARENCE b. WOOD.
Boston, Mass, Feb. 3, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07
A Discouraged of Patisanship

With ex-senator John Godfrey Saxe's
protest to the Legislature against the re-
peal or emasculation of the Massachusetts
ballot law The Tribune is in hearty accord
That law was placed on the statute books
to do the very thing its antagonists now
find fault with it for doing-to wipe out
straight ticket" voting. The state adopted
that policy because for years steadily
growing body of citizens had argued that
straight" voting was not the best and
most desirable method of choosing officials
and that form of ballot which compelled
voters to exercise a reasonable amount OF
care in indicating their choice Of candi-
dates would induce reasonable amount
Of thought about qualifications for holding
office In making the selections.
Much stress is laid by those who desire
the laws repeal or the addition of party
circle" to the ballot on the hardship which
the necessity for placing voting mark
opposite the name of each candidate i'm
poses on those who still vote straight
That hardship seems greatly overrated,
Judging by the experience with the present
ballot in this city. A straight" ballot
that is, a vote registered for every nominee
of a given party-can be cast in this city
by any voter of average intelligence on the
present form of ballot in minute. Some
voters can do it in less time; others, of
course, may require more. But it would
be just as pertinent to talk about the hard
ship which reversion to the old party
column ballot would impose on those who
dc not desire to vote straight" And the
Massachusetts ballot has one advantage
there is only one way to vote it, so there
does not exist with it the danger Of spoil.
ing ballots through ignorance or misun-
Outstanding of the proper method OF
scratching" which was always present
with the party column ballot.
How great degree Of care in choosing
candidates the present ballot has produced
is, of course, bound to be a matter Of opin-
ion. One thing is certain-it discourages
rather than encourages the blind partisan
ship, the swallowing Of the party ticket
from head to tail, which the old ballot fos-
tered. For that alone it deserves reten-
ton in a state where political parties ap-
peal for support according to the merits
of candidates rather than according to
unreasoning party loyalty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07
Art Vicarious and Otherwise

1t is Mr.. Granville Barker's view that a
national theatre or rather dozens OF ma
tiona theatres form the one hope of the
American stage. So he is naturally in
clined to poke fun at such unnationalized
art as we to-day possess. The nearest to
= national expression of art which he can
discover among us is the dancing Of pa
irons in cafes and restaurants during the
serving of meals.
Now, national art in the sense Of art
which a whole nation shares is not an
American habit A national habit of song
such as hourishes in Italy we have not
learned to cherish. Dancing between
courses and between drinks is probably, az
Mr.. Barker would have it, our best achieve
ment. But why limit national expression
of art to expression by the mob of us?
What of the forms of art which require
few performers and large sized audience
like that particular art which Mr.. Bar
ker adorns? What of the American short
story? What of 1.-The Saturday Evening
Post? What of our newspapers, with
their strips and columns and pervadlng
style? Poor things, no doubt, by Mr.. Bar
ker's standards, but surely national eX-
preston and surely our very own.
Proceeding even further into those
noisome depths which Mr.. Barker evident
w has not had the courage to plumb, we
reach the American movie and in particu
lar one Charlie Chaplin, one of the few
great comedians on any stage, according to
certain absurd critics. At any rate, If
there is anything more expressive Of
America just what would it be? Perhaps
we do express ourselves in art VIGOROUSLY.
But to represent us as dumb, volceless
breed seems rather careless when almost
every good American projects himself and
his foibles into Mr.. Chaplin's epic exterior
at least once week.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07

tastes-not for European countries. Inc
head of one dressmaking firm accounted
for the misunderstanding in this way
The Bankruptcies in some Of the Amer
lean papers are no criterion Of what Eng
lsh women will wear. Let them look IN
their own fashion-papers OF the better
class, and they will see that economy IS
the sole reason of the so-called peg-top
which so far has only been seen over here
on dressmaker who is her own favorite
mannequin, and wore gown of the Ameri-
can style recently in public
In short, the dressmakers are all agreed
that the protests are instructed, having
been provoked by clothes intended pri-
marty not for belligerents, but for neu-
trails So it may not be necessary after all
to burden the already overgrown Ministry
with a Dress Controller.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07
Qualifications
tor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The United States is the leading
neutral nation; as such it is the recognized
champion of international law. Our govern
ment has protested in that capacity against
the repeated Teutonic violations of that
law, in order that that safeguard TO civili-
zation may not be thrown overheard by the
civilized world. II has just made its supreme
protest by breaking of relations with Ger
many because of the announced plan of that
nation to do that very thing. The follow
ing cameo-like paragraph from Chancellor
Kents Commentaries on American Law" JUS
titles the Presidents action as effectively as
could be done by quoting all the international
lore ever written:
Nations are at liberty to use their own
resources in such manner and TO apply them
70 such purposes as they may deem best
provided they do not violate the perfect
rights of other nations, nor endanger their
safety, nor infringe the indispensable duties
of humanity" Vol. |, page 25)
HAIRY W. VAN DYKE.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 4, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07
Husbands and Galleries

Have YOU a little diet squad in your
home, or does your husband object to hear
ing YOU count your calories over every one
apart?
Canvassing among those who have writ
ten some of the hundreds Of letters which
have poured daily into the diet kitchen
where the rookie policemen recently were
tested, the startling fact is revealed that
husbands stand in the way Of economy
as far as the table is concerned. They are
not nearly so interested in calories, lipoids
and lodging little vitamines as they are
il, good, square meal. The verdict on the
diet experiment invariably is: "Oh, yes,
the menus are excellent, 50 nourishing
(this last with much emphass), but it
would never do for my husband
Page Diogenes and tell him to polish up
his Pickering lantern and go in search of
a new species of detitian! A dietitian who
can compose menus like this. Breakfast
Oatmeal and cream, buttered toast eggs
and coffee. interchangeable soup,
broiled lamb chop, rice croquettes with
iellv and tea. Dinner-Celery, olives,
oysters on the half shell, fried chicken,
gravy, baked sweet potatoes, baked corn,
orange sherbet and coffee. Cost, twenty
five cents a day. Every husband will be
pleased with economy on such scale.
The average American family meets
once a day-at dinner-and according to
New York wives and mothers the husbands
demand what they call good dinner. That
means steak, chops, chicken.
Beans. bread, barley and all the other
brain and Drawn builders are compare
lively cheap and rich in food values, but
American husbands are not really so in
tcrested in economical calories as their
conversation might indicate. Oh, yes, they
don't want their meals to cost too much,
but they demand expensive cuts Of meat.
A housewife must economic, but not on
her husbands meals. His attitude, accord
ing TO his wife, is Il earn the money and
ought to get something for it"
So, Diogenes, please come out of retire
ment and search for a dietitian who can
feed the hungry husbands as they would
be fed. and remember: twenty-five cents a
day is the limit.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07
Have We a Canned Congress!

From The Philadelphia inquirer
Representative Randall, of California, VINO
is the bearer Of a name distinguished in the
annals Of national legislation, declares that
this is a canned Congress, and that 1t can
never appeal to those who like their leglsla-
ton. as well as their food, freshly served
He is on the warpath, is this California Ran
dali and he has called a meeting Of the odds
g,d-ends members OF the coming Congress
lie thinks a little group which he has desig-
mated. and which includes Socialists, suffra-
gettes. Progressives, and so on, may hold the
balance of power, and in that event control
the course Of legislation.
He says that he would rather be chairman
Of and control the Rules Committee OF the
House than be President. Maybe, like Henry
CLAY. he may never be one or the other. lie
complains that between the thought and ac-
ton there is an impossible barricade Of par
liamcntary pifle,' and that he will not follow
"an aggregation Of psalm singers"
The metaphors Of the gentleman from Cali
fornia are little difficult for the efete East
erner, but If he really does one-fourth OF the
things he threatens to do there will be moth
ing stale or fsh-likc about the next Congress
In any event, IL begins 10 look ms though
the days OF the canned Congress were at
an end.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07
The Munition Problem
di.or Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: feel that an instant and emphatic
protest should go out against the main con-
tention of Mr.. Sydney Brooks's letter in your
issue Of to-day. Mr. Brooks is prominent
English journalist and an able controversial
ist, and his words carry far. 1t is nee
essary, therefore to put on record that what
he says of private enterprise and profit in
the manufacture of war material is aston
ishingly different from what great masses Of
the English people arc thinking to-day. Mr..
Brooks writes:
1--WE in England have learned in the costliest
of all schools, at the price OF thousands Of
lives lost and months of precious time wasted,
the vital importance OF encouraging during
the years of peace as many private manufact-
urers as possible to engage in the production
Of war material"
Il is hard 70 find negative sufficiently
downright and comprehensive TO meet this
statement. And when Mr.. Brooks goes or to
say that at the mention OF private firms who
have made great profits out Of the manu-
fac;ure Of munitions, the British public re-
marks, "If they have what Of it?" he is ex-
traordinarily wide of the mark.
There is no more intense and profound
feeling in England to-day than the conviction
that the old system is no longer tolersble.
The NorthclifTe press, of which Mr.. Brooks
is himself an eminent representative. has for
long advocated the taking Of all war profits
by the government.
The plain truth, as Mr.. Brooks may easily
discover, is that British opinion rs a whole
is in agreement with Mr. II. G. Wells as to
absolute public control for the manufacture
Of munitions. although il is highly doubtful
whether Mr.. Wells can get much support for
the plan recommended in one Of his latest
articles; namely, that munition making shall
be monopoly Of the advanced industrial ma
tions. S. X. RATCLNFE.
New York, Feb. 5, 1917
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07
Newspaper "Pork"
.or of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Just now the press OF the state. espe-
cially that Of the City of New York, is in
dulging in good copy" by denouncing pork
that abuse Of legislation in the river and
harbor and public buildings bills-and an ex-
celent effort it is.
But do any of these journals realize that
they themselves are the recipients of pork
on wider scale and in more insidious way
refer to the grave evil OF public printing
wherein not thousands but millions of dol
lars are wasted annually in advertising a,
length judicial sales and processes, election
notices, proposals for new roads and other
official and municipal proceedings, when a
brief summary or digest OF their contents and
fewer insertions would better accomplish the
object in view.
A fragrant illustration of this was the pub
LEGATION throughout the state OF the posed
constitution OF 1915, at an expense 20 the tax
payers of over 100000. while a small frac.
ton OF that amount would have effected the
mailing Of copy 10 each registered clector
This was pork galore. particularly to the
press Of the villages and small citik Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-07
OUR INTELLECTUAL RATI0NS
The Perverted Viewpoint Which Comes
from Being STEPPED in the Classics

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: In connection with the experiment OF
the Modern School 70 be established al
Teachers College, the recent editorial on
"Rediscovery Of the Classics" was OF especial
interest to one who was graduated hfteen
years ago from Barnard, and had also the
privilege of instruction at Teachers College,
preparatory 10 teaching the classics IN Sec
ondary schools
In the article quoted the statement was
made that "the average college student OF
twenty years ago felt instinctively that there
was something ridiculously wrong with MS
intellectual rations." This was not only felt
but strongly protested against in my own
case, but the influence OF a college-ored
father, who sincerely believed that the only
real culture lay in being stepped IN the
classics, put 10 silence, for the time being
the yearning toward the more practical arts
and sciences. The mistake was apparent
Immediately on graduation, as | awoke to
the fact that the opportunities for teaching
Greek in high schools were daily decreasing,
and | was forced to be satisfied with very
small amount of language work, filing In
with the allied historical branches.
It is only within the last few years. after
further study and teaching along the line OF
modern history and present-day conditions,
religious, sociological and political, that
was awakened to the injustice that vas un-
consciously done in giving me for eight years
the narrowly perverted viewpoint of Greek
and Roman development alone. No sense Of
American or European progress really pene-
trated my consciousness until individual
study was begun in connection with teaching.
would not be wholly without some OF the
cultural and historical advantages of the
classics in my reading to-day; "A minimum,
however, Of such knowledge could be ac-
quired in connection with other study that
would bring far greater enthusiasm than
when overshadowed by an undue amount OF
language study or labored translations.
1t would seem, then, judging by what Is
probably typical of thousands of students of
my generation, that movement such as
Teachers College is inaugurating should re-
ceive the hearty support of progressive edu-
cational people everywhere from those, GER
tainly, who had to undergo the limitations of
earlier conservative methods, and who do
not like to see the students of to-day de-
velop entirely without the correlation Of
past and present contributions to ciyilza-
ton. By some glimpses of history and Eng
lish reading, whatever is valuable or inspira-
tional in the past can be given its proper
place, and not leave the student with dis
torted idea of certain phases Of develop
ment and no conception at all of others
equally beneficial to mankind. With such
correlation and coordination Of the various
branches Of study as proposed by the Modern
School, the citizen OF the future ought 10 be
better equipped for viewing the events of his
own time and contributing actively 20 its
progress. ELIZABETH CUTTING.
Yonkers, y. y, Feb. 3, 1917