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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
BUILDING PROSPERITY
The First Step Necessary Is to
Settle Book Accounts.
County Ought to Make Good Show
ing During Pay-Up Week--No
Bill Should Remain Unpaid
After This Period.

Seven state associations of retail
dealers in different lines of trade, rep
resenting about one-half of the total
number of responsible merchants, are
advising their members to prepare to
follow the definite recommendations of
the federal trade commission for sue
cessful and economical merchandising,
and then to concentrate their efforts
on endeavoring to increase the pros
pesity of those who trade with them.
AS the public Is interested in having
tributers, the public is invited to help
start the movement.
The bankers were the lirst consulted
and have offered to do their part. The
womens clubs, civic organizations and
farmers associations are going to help,
too.
AS first step the local dealers set
tie up their outstanding local accounts
with each other and at the same time
with everyone else in town and the ad-
joining country, including what they
owe to farmers, the lawyer, the doctor,
the newspaper, contractors, mechanics,
etc.
In other words, If the merchants
are to begin with clean balance sheet
at n given date they will have to start
passing the money along to reach
everyone they owe on open accounts
and at the same time request others to
pay them, so that all book accounts
can be wiped out-everything settled
up as far out as local trade reaches,
either with cash or with notes.
The fact that all the neighboring
towns and trading places in the coun-
ty and surrounding counties will be
doing the same thing simplifies the
matter. as book accounts which reach
back and forth for some distance into
the country can be settled by the ex-
change of checks or notes which are
good at the bank.
Everyone gains by starting fresh,
ready for the next step, which prom
ises to be even more interesting, for
in addition to making the towns bet
ter trading centers, it will lead up to
subjects for general improvement
which should interest everyone In this
county.
1t is understood that an effort will
be made TO find how completely all the
communities in the state will succeed
In cleaning up their open accounts.
There is no apparent reason why the
people in this county cannot make us
good a showing as any county in the
State.
Modern business methods and secur-
Ing wholesale cash discounts make 1t
possible to keep good stocks of mer-
chandise and sell at lower prices. This
benefits everyone and the local patron
age should go to the business houses
which display the campaign slogan.
'I'll pay my bills so you can pay yours"
and cooperate with enthusiasm.
So hurrah for Pay-Up week.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
BUSINESS OBLIGATIONS

II don't work. any more over bust
ness. 1 used to. I've walked the floor
many night wondering how on earth
1 was going to get the money to pay
bills which were almost due, and not
cent in sight.
"One morning, when I came to the
store after sleepless job of worry
ing, I backed myself up against the
counter and talked some plain sense to
myself. 1 said, Henry, what are you
making such a fool of yourself for
You don't owe that money. 1t is not
debt. The business owes it, not you.
If there's any worrying to do, let the
business do it. If the business can't
pay its debts it's bankrupt, and IL it's
bankrupt you don't want 1T and you
ought to let it go and get another one
that can pay its debts. If the business
doesn't pull itself together and pay
its bills as they fall due. if you've Civ
en- the business fair chance to make
good for itself, you're not to blame.
You've no cause to worry. And any
how what sort of n chance are you Civ
ing it with your bloodshot eyes and
brain all tired and mussed up. Henry,
don't be darned fool
From the time had that little con-
versation with myself, talking as a
man to the merchantman, I've not had
any trouble with my business. I've
given it better chance. 1t pays its
bills. Its debts are not debts till
they're due when they are covered by
notes or acceptances. I've gone home
ut night knowing that the business
owed six or seven thousand dollars,
and to save my life 1 didn't know
where the business was going to get
the money to meet the accounts when
they became debts due and payable.
But the business keeps right along pay
ing its bills, paying me and my family
n good living and II chance to help
boost the town, and best of all, there's
not II merchant in the state who has
n better time, feels better, gets more
fun out of his work, and stands better
with the creditors of the business than
does little old Henry W."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
SHlPBUILDERS TO RUSH
WORK ON U. S. WARSHlPS
Big Firms Double Their Forces and
Put Contracts for Navy Ahead
Of All Others.

Neutrality-suspicious. of navy
craft by the Newport News Shipbuild-
ing and Drydock company, the Fore
River Shipbuilding company and the
Electric Boat company will be speed
ed up to the limit of the plants. Work
on two battleships at the plant of the
Newport News company, at Secretary
Daniels suggestion, already is proceed
ing under doubled crews, and the of
fers of the other two companies to
take similar steps met with the secre-
tary's hearty approval.
At the Newport News plant 1t is
estimated that the battleship Mlssis-
pleted by midsummer instead of jan
uary /, 1913, as called for in the con-
tract. The keel of one of the four
new battleships recently contracted
for will be laid on the slip vacatei by
the Mississippi instead of merchant
vessel, as had been intended.
Representatives of the Fore River
and Electric Boat companies called on
Mr.. Daniels, Offering to rush work on
destroyers and submarines for which
they have contracts, setting aside 9TH
er private work to that end. They
The plan is to get the vessels launched
as soon as possible, freeing stocks for
the new set of destroyers and subma-
rines to be authorized in the pending
navy bill
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
TOO MUCH CHARGE
This Handy Way of Buying Often
Cause for Those SIeepIess
Nights of Worry.
WHAT ONE DOLLAR WILL Do
Every Person Realizes Part Credit
Plays in Commerce and Bad Re-
suit Of Unpaid Bills-So Pay
UP Yours Now.

The Practice of having "Pay Up
week" each .'ear has taken well all
over the country-and it has now be-
come n national habit to consider the
Importance, in business sense, of a
Pay Up week.
Too many of us get in the habit of
having things Charged" 1t is SO
handy, so convenient--seems like get
ting things without pay. We are all
inclined to feel that we are going to
have much more money some other
day than we find in our pockets today
The reason that Pay Up week takes
so well is because it has been found
of inestimable help to the world of
credit. One of the principal slogans
used for the occasion has come to be !:
I'll Pay My Bills, So You Can Pay
Yours" A moments reflection will
show what splendid things this is.
Think of how many times n single dol
lar may turn over in single day,
with a practice like this.
You may owe the jeweler dollar
for repairing a clock; and the jeweler
may owe the shoemaker dollar for
requiring Ills SHOES, anu lne SHOE
maker may owe the butcher dollar
for the last bacon he got; and the
butcher may owe the timer dollar
for the last garbage can he bought ;
and the timer may owe the clothier
for shirt; and the clothier may owe
the druggist for bottle of medicine ;
and the druggist may owe you dollar
so, don't you see, you get back your
dollar-and what Il wonderful lot of
debts it has paid in the meantime, and
you still have 1t.
And you can go on for yourself in
this line, showing the illimitable good
that "Merry Dollar" can do in Il
day, by paying neglected bills. Every
thinking person realizes the part that
credit plays in modern commercialism
and the baneful result of unpaid bills.
Credit has been so abominably abused
that every business man and citizen
feels the drag Of the heavy credit load
he Is forced to carry.
Hurrah for PAY Up Week"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
GIRLS! GIRLS! TRY IT,
BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR
Make II Thick, Glossy, Wavy, luxur-
liant and Remove Dandruf-Real
Surprise for You.

Your hair becomes light, wavy, duf.
fy, abundant and appears as soft, lus-
trous and beautiful as young girls
after 'Danderine hair cleanse" Just
try this-moisten a cloth with a little
Danderine and carefully draw 1t
through your hair taking one small
strand at time. This will cleanse
the hair of dust, dirt and excessive oil
and in Just few moments you have
doubled the beauty of your hair.
Besides beautIfying the hair at once,
Danderine dissolves every particle of
dandruff; cleanses. purifies and invig-
crates the scalp. forever stopping itch.
ing and falling hair.
But what will please you most will
be after a few weeks use when you
will actually see new hair-fine and
downy at f1rst-yes-but really new
hair-growing all over the scalp. II
you care for pretty. soft hair and lots
of it, surely get 25 cent bottle of
Knowlton's Danderine from any store
and Just try 1t. Adv.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
AN ANCIENT SYSTEM

A hundred years ago money was
scarce. Banks We're scarce. Wealthy
neighbors, there We're none. There
was no parcel post. There We're no
magazines, few books, no catalogues,
no national advertising campaigns.
Storekeepers had to be bankers, ac-
commodate customers who had no
money till crops matured, extent credit
and add the cost to the price of goods.
Times have changed. Conditions of
merchandising have changed even
more than conditions of farming, and
not one thing is now done on the we'll
managed farm rs it was done 20 years
ago. Even bossy eats silage or chop
while compressed air does the milking.
Merchants have no source of profit
except quick turns of their stock of
goods. If the stock Is stopped by eli
ther friendship or enmity and quick
turns are prevented profits become
losses and tradesmen find it increas-
ingly hard to make decent living out
of their service to their Friends and
neighbors.
Square up every outstanding ac-
count. Money lending institutions can
sell the use of money far cheaper than
merchants can sell the use of their
stocks. Cut every string that holds
back the stream of prosperity. Get
away from the ancient system that has
hurt more than ninety out of every
hundred men who have started in COM
mercial enterprises.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
NAVY MARKSMEN ACCURATE
American Gunners Never Showed as
Great Proficiency as They Have
= In Recent Trials.

Data made public recently by the
navy department show that Mt no 9TH
er time in Its history has the marks
manship of the United States navy
been so good as 1t Is at present The
new superintendent Nevada gave an
example of the general shooting efii
cheney of the Atlantic fleet. In recent
target practice this ship fired sc shots
from her 14-inch guns, and the target,
Mt varying ranges, was smashed 43
times, n record that is believed to
equal, if not surpass, any record with
similar guns in any other navy.
The following table shows at
glance what the gunners of the Attain
tic fleet did with the big guns in the
recent target practice:
l4-INCH-45-CAL1BER.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
New York to Train Bio Army.

Albany, n. Y.-When New York
states plan of universal military train
Ing, with the changes now projected,
is in effect, 100000 boys from sixteen
TO nineteen years of age will be under
instruction. This is larger force
than the regular army.
Only In the third year of the course
will the boys use regular rifles and
ammunition. Great pains will be TAX
en- to get instructors who are gentle
manly in manners and conduct and
whose influence on their charges will
Se good in every way.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Industrial Canvass Complete.

mittee on national defense, headed by
Herbert Coffin, which made thorough
canvass of the industrial facilities of
the country with view to their utiliza-
ton and mobilization in time of war.
1t became known only recently that the
government was making n careful in
ventory of munition-making machinery
In the hands of manufacturers through
out the country. Whether this report
has been completed at this time cannot
be said.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
"CASCARETS" ACT
ON LIVER; BOWELS.
No sick headache, biliousness,
bad taste or constipation
by morning.
Get a 10-cent box.

Are you keeping your bowels, liver,
and stomach clean, pure and fresh
with Cascarets, or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with
Salts, Cathartic Pills, Castor Oil or
Purgative Waters?
Stop having bowel wash-day. Let
Cascarets thoroughly cleanse and reg
ulate the stomach, remove the sour
and fermenting food and foul gases,
take the excess bile from the liver
and carry out of the system all the
constipated waste matter and poisons
in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will make you
feel great by morning. They work
while you sleep-never grippe, sicken
or cause any inconvenience, and cost
only 10 cents a box from your store.
Millions of men and women take q
Cascaret now and then and never
have Headache, Biliousness, Coated
Tongue, Indigestion, Sour Stomach or
Constipation. Adv.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Motor Boat Data Ready.

The navy department has made
complete inventory for military use of
American merchant and sailing vessels,
including pleasure craft down to the
smallest motor boat. 1t is said that so
thorough has been this preparation
that the records show every boat, its
speed and capacity, Its owner and pos
sible method of use. The motor boat
inventory was begun some months ago
nnder navy department directions,
With n view to the utilization of these
craft for the formation Of a motor boat
patrol
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Fixing the lime.

Bill Coming to after shell has hit
ais dugouD Have l ben long uncon-
scious, William?
William-Oh, goodish bit, Bill.
Bill-What do you call "Poodish
oit," william?
William-Well, longish time, Bill.
Bill-Well, what's that white on the
hill? Is 1t snow or daisies?
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
GOOD FOR HUNGRY CHILDREN

Children love SINNERS MacaronI
and Spaghetti because of its delicious
taste. 1t is good for them and you
can give them all they want. 1t is a
great builder of bone and muscle, and
does not make them nervous and irri-
table like meat. The most economical
and nutritious food known. Made from
the finest Durum wheat. Write Skin
ner Mfg. Co., Omaha, Nebr., for beau
tiful cook book. 1t is sent free to
motherS.-Adv.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22

cramps in my mus
cles, pressure or
sharp pain on the
top of my head,
and nervous dizzy
spells. l had 9TH
er symptoms show
ing my kidneys
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22

were at fault, so / took DOdd's Kidney
Pills. They were the means of saving
my life. 1 write to say that your
medicine restored me to perfect
health.' Be sure and get "DoDD'S,"
the name with the three DIS for dis
eased, disordered, deranged kidneys;
Just as Rev. Warner did, no similarly
named article will do.-Adv.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Equal to the Demand.

81 never use any but pasteurized
milk in the city," said the new board
er; "can you furnish it?"
"Yes, indeed!" was the confident re-
ply "our cows re kept in the pasture
all summer."-The Christian Herald.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
LAXATIVE
FOR SICK CHILD
"CaIifornia Syrup of Figs" can't
harm tender stomach,
liver and bowels.

Every mother realizes, after giving
her children California Syrup OF
Figs" that this is their ideal laxative,
because they love its pleasant taste
and it thoroughly cleanses the tender
little stomach, liver and bowels with
out gripping.
When cross, irritable, feverish, or
breath is bad, stomach sour, look at
the tongue. mother! II coated, give .
teaspoonful of this harmless fruit
laxative" and in a few hours all the
foul. constipated waste, sour bile and
undigested food passes out of the bow
els. and you have a well. playful child
again. When its little system is full
Of cold. throat sore. has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea. indigestion, colic-~remem-
ber, good inside cleaning should
always be the first treatment given.
Millions of mothers keep California
Syrup OF Figs" handy; they know a
teaspoonful today saves sick child
tomorrow. Ask at the store for 30
cent bottle OF California Syrup OF
Figs" which has directions for babies,
children of all ages and grown-ups
printed on the bottle. Adv.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
A MINISTER'S CONFESSION

Rev. w. H. Warner, Myersville, Nd,
writes: my trouble was sciatica. My
back was affected and took the form
of lumbago. / also had neuralgia,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Color Of IL.

Hes in brown study"
II wonder II it's over a blue funk
or a black thought?"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22

Husbands Qualities.
Agnes-The ostrich doesn't see much
and digests everything.
Grace-What an ideal husband.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22
Logical Conclusion.

HE is not out of the woods yet"
THAT is why they think they can
tree him."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1917-02-22

The Masculine Way.
He-Men never gossip.
She-Of course not. They merely
investigate rumors.
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-10-22
MONTANA TROOPS
To BE GIVEN A
GREAT SENDOFF
Reception and Parade at Hell
ena Wednesday a
State Event.

Special to the Post.
Helena, oct. % The departure OF
the remaining companies of the Second
Montana regiment, now in the federal
service, will be made the occasion for
great reception in this city on
Wednesday. There will be a parade
in which the nine companies of the
regiment now here will participate. The
troops and societies in the parade will
be reviewed by Governor Stewart. who,
with Judge Sidney Sanner, will de-
| liver an address. Mai. Jesse Il. Roote,
| in command of the troops, will reply.
| 1t is understood that the nine com
panies will leave Montana the last of
the week. Their destination is not
given out. The headquarters OF the
regiment and other companies went to
| Camp Greene. in North Carolina, some
| time ago. but rumor has il that the
| regiment will embark soon for France
| The celebration planned in honor OF
the Montana soldiers is intended to be
a state event Everyone in the state Is
invited TO attend and it is expected
that hundreds of the kinsmen OF the
soldiers will be on hand to bid them
lGodspeed. To that end the railroads
have offered to give round trip rare
of one and a third the regular tariffs
land it is expected that thousands ol
people will take advantage Of the OPP
portunity to pay honor to this mrs.
contingent of Montana soldiers WI"
will be engaged in the campaigns IL
France.
Already a fund of $4,000 has beei
raised with which to purchase tobacco
lunches and fruit for the soldiers ei
route east and perhaps an additioha
amount will be available before tn
men board their train.
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-10-22
Drive in a Support for Wedge
That Has Pierced Ger
man Line.
SUCCESSES REPORTED BY
FRENCH AND BRITISH
Germans 0utWltted by Russian
Naval Commanders in
Moon Sound.
THE WAR SUMMARY.

In co-operation WITH the French,
Field Marshal Hsig launched . new
blow along a narrow 'front.' at tne Ger
man lines northeast Of Ypres this
morning. The allied infantry moved
forward in the nei ignborhood Of the
Ypres- Staden railway and on the cut
skirts Of Houtholst wood. Or tre eE-
xene northern edge Of the active
front IN Flanders. The French sd-
vance was along width OF about
three -fifths Of q mile.
The British attack Vas probably
along somewhat wider front. extend
ing towards POelgapelis and possibly
taking in the area of that town. which
mas been the scene of some desperate
fighting within the last few weeks.
The German reactions were extremely
persistent here.
Both groups of attacking troops
scored early successes Paris an
nounced that all their oHjectlyes were
attained by the French troops, while
Field Marshal Haig reported satis-
factory progress for the British. The
operation apparently IS aimed Al
bringing the left flank Of the allied ad-
vance somewhat further forward as .
support TO the center where the sedg'
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-10-22

Judge and Mrs. John ]. Mediation
will leave this evening for California,
where they will be near their son,
John NJ Mediation, a graduate OF An
dover and Yale now in the ordnance
department Of the army. Butte Will
continue to be their home. although
they plan to remain elsewhere in
definitely. Their stay on the coast
will depend upon army orders that
will determine the station Of their son,
who may enter active war service any
time.
on the eve OF his departure from
Butte Judge Mediation announced his
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-10-22
To CONFER ON WAR
CAMP RECREATION
WiIlys Calls Conference of Ma
tional Committee on
Big, Service.

washington. Oct 2s.-On the exc of
the national conference TO question
Of war camp community recreation
service. John y WHY'S of Toledo,
Chairman of the national committee.
issued a statement today declarins
that most encouraging reports are be-
ing received from all parts ~ the
country as to the interest being shown
in the campaign He made public a
letter from Maj Gen Wood. who. with
other commanding army officers. says
proper community welcome for the
soldiers and sailors in cities and towns
adjacent to the camps is Of great i'm
portance in the preparation Of troops
for service in France.
In order to be good soldiers. Gen
eral Wood says. men must be clean
mentally. morally and physically, have
respect for themselves and for the uni
form they wear. and nothing will con-
tribute thereto as much as good sur
roundings, wholesome entertainment
and recreation In my opinion this
ranks equally with training 10 create
an efficient command"
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-10-22
100000 men ARE
BEARING ARMS IN THE
PRESENT WORLD WAR
Allies Have 27,500,000;
Teutonic Powers
100000.

Washington, Oct. p. At
least $4,000, ,0OS men are bearing
arms in the war 27 100000 for
the allies and 100000 for the
central powers, according to
latest war department compila-
tions from published reports in
various countries These fig
urcs do not include naval per
sonnel strength, which would
raise the total several millions.
Against Germany s 100000,
Austria's 100000, Turkeys
100000 and Bulgarias 100000
are arraycd the following armed
forces:
Russia, 1000 600; France, g.
900; Great Britain, 5000
900; Italy, 100000 Japan, L.
100000; United States, more
than 900 600; China Sal 900
Rumania 32O 600; Serbia 300
OCO; Belgium, 100000; Greece
100000; Portugal 200 900 Mon
tencgro, 10000; Siam $4,000
Cuba, 600. and Liberia 400.
San Marino and Panama also
have small forces under arms
The Butte daily post. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1913-1961, 1917-10-22
ENTIRE Community TO
HELP PICK APPLES
Wenatchee Stores Closed;
Everybody Helps in the
Orchards.

Wenatchee. Wash. Oct. 22'-Ihe
stores and offices in Wenatchee were
closed today and will also be closeo
wednesday and Friday of this week 20
a,,ow the business and professional
mon TO aid in harvesting the apple
cron All men. women and the oioef
oh;idren NJ Wenatchee are picking APP
pies because of a shortage OF 'aoo. u.
Ranchers. fearing severe
with but half of the apple crop picnuu
appealed to the city for help. ~, ,a,
npblic schools have been closed io'
three weeks while the teachers ana pu,
nils picked apples. 1t is est'ma,eo
that the crop in the Wenatches 'a"e'
viii run 1900 cars this season