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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
GLIDING
Tie
LILY
b. OoROTD DALE

working together, you often find that
the man in authority-the man draw
ing the biggest salary-never even has
time to visit university as a show
place, while some OF his s35-a-week
helpers have the sheepskin mark all
over them
That's not belittling university train
ing. No one denies it's wonderful
opportunity. II opens far-reachtng ave
nues Of delight. It puts the key to
the treasures OF life In the hands Of
its possessors. But It does not draw
its devotees UP into some fourth d.
mension exempt from the laws gov
erning the other three.
Dean Talbot, just as other deans in
our Institutions Of learning, has the
making or breaking of lives in her
hands. She can be an Unreasonable
power for helping foolish girls to see
their foolishness and turn from 1t, or
! she can embitter them.
| You are an immoral woman" Miss
Mercy testified Dean Talbot told her.
after asking how a comparatively poor
girl could wear as pretty clothes as
she did. Contrast this use Of posi-.
ton and power with the use Jenny
Lind made Of the position won for her
by her training When she sang for
charity in the streets of this country
the rabble stamped and beat sticks
instead Of always politely clapping
| But did this wonderful Sincar ubOse
gift was greater than logic or philoso
ply, call them or their manners hard
names? No; she saw their tears and
their smiles, and said reverent1y
isn't It nice can sing so?"
Education and training are powers
all right. But all power is not seated
in the heavy end of a club.
Knocking people down is one kind
Helping them up is another. And NJ
one is going to mistake strength be
cause it is mixed with gentleness.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
THE FOUR PAGE PAPER.

The strike Of the pressmen and
stereotypers in Chicago has compelled
some OF the newspaper publishers in
that city 10 reduce the editions to four
pages.
This serves TO recall that the model
newspaper Of 25 years ago, the New
York Sun, was a four page AFFAIR.
IL contained in succinctness. all the
news OF the day. In matter. make
up and news o. led the field. and has
never since been excelled. The edi-
tor was Charles A. Dana, the great
est OF American newspaper men. He
did not need reams Of paper as he
could put more ideas clothed in pure,
vigorous English on a postal card than
his successors can on many pages.
The big newspaper has no doubt
come to stay as the demand is for fea-
lures, comics" and syndicate stun.
In Dana's day the reading public
wanted the news only and that greatly
condensed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
SENATE PASSES WORKERS
COMPENSATION MEASURE

Washington, May THE work.
mems compensation bill was passed
in the senate yesterday afternoon,
81 to 10, substantially as framed by
the employers liability commission,
and amended only to increase the
benefits. The measure now goes to
the house.
The principal changes made dur
ing the three hours of roll calls, pro-
vide that compensation for acct.
dental injury and death OF railroad
employees shall continue to children
until they are 1e years old, and
would extend payment in case OF
daughters until they are 20, unless
sooner married.
In general, the bill would provide
an exclusive remedy and compensa-
ton for accidental disability OF
death to employees of railroads in in
terstate commerce on the theory OF
insuring each employee against results
OF injury in employment without
reference TO contributory negligence
or any of the rules OF common law
limiting employers liability. II
would provide medical service for the
injured and means for money recov-
/ cry propOrtioned to the pay Of the
/ victim. It is the outcome Of a lone
investigation by the commission and
was strongly urged by President
Taft. In the long debate which pre-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Cooke Deserves Reelection

ing Judge Cooke His political asso-
Citations, from a factional point of
view, have been criticised, but we
know of nothing in JUICE Cookies
record which would lessen his ac-
ceptability for reelection TO the Judi
cial office which he has filled so we'll.
The voters of the Fourth supreme
judicial district must see it is only
right and fair that Judge Cooke
should be reelected. Incidentally, a
Dig saving TO the taxpayers of the
circuit district will be made by re-
tanning upon the circuit bench Judge
Grier. The records of both of these
judges in their present positions have
been so commendable that 1t would
be very unwise to retire either of
them. They should both be retain
ca In their present positions as a re-
| ward for able judicial service.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
CAPITAL COMMENT

plain provisions OF its contract with
the soldiers of the Civil war. The gov
eminent promised to pay the soldiers
SIG a month, In dollars They were
actually paid in currency so deprecia.
ted IN value as to be worth less than
so cents on the dollar. In a recent
campaign we heard much about So
cent dollars, and the infamy of a gov
eminent that would discharge a con-
tract obligation calling for the pay
ment Of dollars with money worth only
so cents on the dollar. Yet today the
same financiers who so earnestly and
vigorously shouted for national honor
in 1896, are denouncing as a raid on
the treasury proposal to pay the old
soldiers who saved their country for
them the pittance of a dollar a day,
in their old age, and that some meas
ure of justice be done them because
in those dreadful days of civil war they
were paid dollars that were. less in
value than so cents for their heroic
work
THE WAR BOND ISSUE.
During the Civil war the govern
ment issued s2,O49,975,7 700 worth of
bonds, which were bought by men who
remained at home during the conflict
ffor less than their face value, or ST..
81 ,424,23S. After the war was over,
these bonds were redeemed, not with
50-cent dollars of the kind that were
( paid the brave men who gave up the
best part Of their lives in the trenches
and on the battlefields, but with gold
The Sherwood bill proposes to give
justice TO the soldiers who, through
their terrible sacrifice, made 300-cent
dollars possible for the bondholders,
and who were paid for that service in
| 5O-cent dollars. This bill proposes
justice, and justice only. These old
soldiers are not asking bounty. They
are not asking charity. All they want
and all we propose to give them, is
simple justice. The Sherwood bill pro
poses to make good the one great act
OF debt reputation by this nation"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

OF gratitude, but as a mark of justice"
STRONG PENSION SPEECH.
Thus did United States Senator Kern
OF Indiana, in what was admitted to be
one Of the strongest pension speeches
Of the present congress, endorse the
action of the house in passing the
Sherwood dollar-a-day pension bill, and
urge the senate TO pass the same bill.
Senator Kern emphasized especially
the fact that the democratic party had
promised this legislation before cleo
ton, and he contended that the demo
Gratis, who already had amply proven
that they believed in the policy of do
ing after election what they promised
10 do before election, should be quick
TO pass the Sherwood bill into law, so
that the veterans could have immediate
advantage of 1t.
Measured by its dealings with 9th.
er creditors" said Senator Kern, this
government has failed to carry out the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

The bombast Of education! Was
there ever a more striking example
OF It than toward the end of Miss
Esther Mercys Islander suit against
Dean Talbot of the University OF Chi
cago. when things were not going
Dean TaIbot's way?
The great University of Chicago
is scandalized! detained the wom-
an deans attorney in a plea for the
quick ending Of the unpleasant testi-
mony.
No doubt the great institution Of
learning was scandalized. 1t ought to
have been. So were all the people,
who followed the proceedings, scandal
lied. But not because some one had
dared to bring suit against one of the
erudite faculty OF a great university,
but because a woman Of such power
and standing as Dean Talbot had not
the fneness and conscience TO help
an unwise student, instead Of hurting
her.
OF all the pedestals that mortals
mount, is there any more contemplate
than the pedestal Of educational SUI
premacy? Money extravaganza is
nothing beside it, for money doesn't
always go hand in hand with mind.
What If Rockefeller millions have
given this university every advantage
that money can procure? What If
in turn, it can offer wonderful advan
tages 10 students? What If Dean Tai
bot is a travelled, splendidly educated
woman? Are any Of these illuminat
ing facts reasons why a little human
insight and cultured conscience could
not be mixed with the mental train
ing offered to students?
Education is not a passport to heav
en-. Neither is it a passport to ter
restial advancement and honor, unless
the germ Of delivering is IN the pos
| SCISSOR. Haven't you noticed again anc
again that where several men are
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
THE DUEL IN GERMAN ARMY.

THE DUEL IN GERMAN ARMY.
The Minneapolis Journal says that
Catholic and socialist in the German
reichstag unite in condemnation of
the duel as practised in the army with
the condonement of the emperor. The
war minister, whose own nephew was
recently slain in a duel, declared that
no officer who refused a challenge
was worthy his commission. He got
no further. for the reichstag howled
him down.
The pope, at Rome, a few nights
ago, in commenting on a case in which
one Of his own officers was involved,
remarked that, while the duel was IN
excusable, its survival was explained
by the deficiency Of modern law 10
supply remedy for hurts to personal
honor.
THE deficiency may be admitted
but the duel is no remedy. Its abuses
are many and the check II imposes
upon clandestine or open SANDER is
small.
1T was stated in the reichstag that
a good catholic was forbidden by his
conscience from accepting a challenge
But a catholic officer in the German
army refusing a challenge, would be
compelled to resign his commission
AS for the German socialists, they
have not forgotten how their most
gifted leader, Ferdinand Lascelles
was killed in a duel.
The antagonism voiced by the
reichstag exhibits again that separa
ton OF German commerce. thought
science, public opinion from the
medievalism of scepter and sword
represented by the kaiser and exem
plified in the army"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
THE LIABILITY LAW.

May / the new industrial liabil-
ity and compensation act became eff
fective
The great majority OF manufacturers
OF Illinois are bound by its provisions.
Manufacturers are given an opportun-
ity TO reject II, and failure TO reject
means acceptance. The toilers OF the
state are similarly bound by the new
law unless they submit written re-
jections
There seems 70 be considerable
doubt as TO just what results will OBJ.
tain from this legislation. We are OF
the opinion that the act should be
given fair trial and IL II is found
faulty II should be promptly amended
The purpose OF liability and compen
sation legislation is TO establish safe
guards against accidents, promote
good will between capital and labor
and aid in obtaining justice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
THE RIGHT WAY, ALL RIGHT.

The 81 Louis Republic is engaged
in collecting by popular subscription
a fund for Champ Clark's campaign.
It will be remembered that this idea
was developed in connection with w.
j. Bryan's campaign four years ago.
While this sort Of plan cannot hope
TO cope with the gigantic funds given
by corporations to land their men, it
is the cleanest and most honorable
way OF getting together money for legi-
innate and absolutely essential ex-
penses. and handicaps the candidate
with no secret dishonorable bargains
in the event of success.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
The Argus Daily Story
Case of Identity-By Sugene Whiting.
Copyrighted 1911 by Associated Literary Bureau

The Spanish-American war was emo
ed, and the troops had been removed
from Santiago ON transports A few
invaads remained who were TOO Ill to
travel, under the care OF Surgeon Ed
ward Fergeson. who stayed behind for
the purpose OF caring for them and
settling up the affairs Of the medical
department OF the army. A gunboat
under command OF Ensign White of
the navy had been ordered to remain
for the purpose of bringing away those
who needed transportation when every
thing had been cleaned up, when those
who were to die had died and those
who were to get well were able to b.
carried aboard ship.
Now. the Santiago campaign was
something TO be heartily sick OF, and
after it was over to be left in the ours
ed place to clean up was worse yet
Ensign White was bad selection for
the purpose. for his fiancee was waiting
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Hurnor and
Philosophy
TAKING ACCOUNT.

DAUSE. pilgrim,
= On your pleasant way;
See where you are
This belmy day.
Take stock,
Although perhaps q shock
Results may bring
When everything
Has been by cts brought down to par
And you disc er where you ara.
How are you coming.
Swift or slow9
And are you really
On the go?
For measurement, it may be. viii
Disclose that you
Are standing still.
Are baubles you pursue In haste
Worth all the time on them you wastef
How are the habits?
Do they pay
Or keep you mud6led
Night and day?
And do you from the daily fight
Get the enjoyment
That you might?
Does on your steps
Contentment sit,
Or does 1t every morning fit?
In looking candidly are you
AS honest, earnest, kind and true
And ready wrong TO overthrow
As any person
That you know?
Just climb q tree
And see
In calm survey
How you stack up today.
II there is not q single groove
That you CT nd possibly improve
AS you observe yourself awhile
Then climb down from your perch
And smile.
Tho chances are twill make you dizzy
To see the places 20 get busy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Springfield Register

springfield Register
There are a great many reasons
why the fourth Illinois supreme ju-
dicial district should reflect Judge
George A. Cooke to the supreme
bench.
The court should not become par
tisan. At present there are five re-
publicans and only two democrats.
Judge Cooke is one of those select
ed as a democrat. Should he be re-
tired, and should Judge Grier, a re-
publican, be elected, 1t would make
the court solidly republican with the
exception OF Judge Farmer Should
Judge Grier be elected il would cause
vacancy in his home circuit dis
trict, and necessitate a special cleo
ton, which would cost over $50, 900.
There is no good reason for retir-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

ceded passage OF the bill many sena-
tors took part
Senator Root favoring the bill said
its great advantage would be the re-
lief OF laboTing men from the
class Of lawyers who are fattening on
their misfortunes."
Senator Reed, who led the long
fight against the measure, declared
that heads OF organized labor had not
fairly represented their orders in Civ
ing endorsement TO the hill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

The trouble with the country seems
to be that there are so many more
people willing to tell what is the mat
ter with it Ian there are willing to
raise wheat.
/ II it were not for politics and base
ball the average man would be driven
to the suffragettes for excitement.
( Common sense isn't always visible
to the naked eye. There is where it
fools some folks
Whitewash will take a drop as soon
as the legislative assemblies go on va
cation.
Many q woman is getting ready to
WELD the ballot by seeing that her
husband votes right.
The suffragettes are taking a lessen
from the mistakes of their enemies
and are keeping up continuous cam
paign.
This is the season when you cant
tell whether 1t is a political rally oil
a circus parade.
A woman who would rather be dead
than out of style is drawn more by
the milliner's shop than she Is to thu
drug dispenser.
Good humor is handy thing to hav,
around the house, but it is hard Il
keep It in jar.
Some men make nuisance of them
selves and then want to charge u
for IT.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Chicago Girl Made President.

Cincinnati, May AT the 18th an
nual convention Of the Western Draw
ing and Manual Training association,
Miss Emma Church Of Chicago was
elected president. William H. Hender-
son of Springfield, H., vice president;
Miss Charlotte Ulrich of Cincinnati,
treasurer, and Matt J. Scherer, auditor.
Des Moines was chosen as the next
meeting place.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

lar q day pension
for the surviving
old soldiers of the
Civil war was not
made as a mere
empty promise to
catch votes or a
promise to be ig-
nored and violated
in the e V e mt of
party success. On
the contrary, it was
a n expression of
h e conscientious
conviction of that
great body of dem
Ocrats that such
! e gislation as
promised was just
ly due the surviv-
ors of the war,
not only as a mark
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

Senator Smith may not know a wat
ertight compartment from a section
of deck hose, but evidently Messrs.
Ismay and Franklin have not derived
any amusement from his ignorance
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
A PARTY ON TRIAL

Briefly put. here is the gist OF this
exchange Of personalities, according
20 Harper's Weekly:
Roosevelt charged Taft with being
in league with Lorimer. Taft proved
that he was himself the originator Of
the main fight against Lorimer. and
mat Roosevelt knew all about il.
Roosevelt charged Taft with being in
ieSs-e with lAe stand:Pat bosses
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

A London fashion edict is that trous-
ers are TO be shorter than ever. to
show more of the sock. AS spring
style. this ought 10 be popular in the
Mississippi valley.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
loo Much Enr Him

ALLOW me-" said the fresh young
man in the Pullman dining car as he
passed the sugar bowl to a shy young
girl; sweets TO the sweet, you know. -"
ALLOW me-" said the girl as she
handed him a plate Of crackers:
crackers to the cracked, you know
Ladies Home Journal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

After all. It seems that 1t is not
with us but the English that the Japan
eye are looking for trouble. One of
their authors refers to British women
as John Bullesses"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

The professor who won a wager by
playing q piano as hours. fell uncon-
scious upon the completion of the feat
But that never happens to the young
woman in the adjoining fat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

Chicago is preparing TO corner the
matinee idols. A theatre for women,
conducted exclusively by women, is be-
ing promoted there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

With all these Independent Standard
Oil companies doing business there
ought to be q boom in the melon trade
this summer
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Mara Ip1nnrfznf

More Important.
What cares he for the delegate,
For pitching and for catching,
For putting hot ones past the plate
The gentleman who cannot wait
Until his chicks start Matching?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Tuesday May z, 1912

81 see" said the farmer, that auto
mobile owners want better roads.
Well, who Is hindering them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

Why don't the English suffragists
line UP with the Irish for their cause?
Practically every Irishman outside Of
Ulster wants home rule.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Still He Was There

Still He Was There.
IT suppose you called on the kaiser
when you were in Germany"
Eyes, but he was not at home"
"Not at homer
mot to me-"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Sacrifice.

"She has q stunning new hat"
'Yes, but she got it by such self sac
rihcew
"How is that?"
"The poor thing hasn't bought box
Of candy In. six months"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

Clearly a Fabrication.
'I used to be tailor to the car"
go on; you are no blacksmith"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
May z in American
History.

1774-William Bainbridge. naval hero.
born; died 1888.
1894 - Frances Elizabeth Barrow.
Aunt Fanny" popular writer for
children. died; born 1912.
19I0-Thomas Byrnes, former superin-
tendent Of New York police. known
throughout the country as 'Inspec-
tor Byfnes. died; born 1882.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

Short.
II hate to bother you, butt
What is that?"
81 said l hate to bother you
ooh, never mind me. Just don't dis
tress yourself. Good afternoon"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly at 1874
Second avenue. Rock Islano. Ill zen.
tered st the postofhce a. second -cisss
matter.1
Rack Island Member Of the Associated
Pres.
BY THE ]. W. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

TERMs.-DaIly. 10 cents per week
Weekly. 81 per year IN advanee-
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made 70 tine circulation department
which should also be notified in every
instance where It 10 desired TO have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority In the premises
AL communications OF s.gumentative
character. political or religious. must
have real name attached for publica-
ton No such articles viii be printed
aver fictitious signatures.
Telephones IN all departments: Central
Union. Wet las and 1I45; Union Elee-
trio. 6IlB.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

BY CLYDE n. TAVENNER.
Especial Correspondence of The Argus.)
Washington, May 5.-'The demo
ocratic platform declaration for a dol
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

Unjust Suspicion.
"She is looking for q rich man."
"ReallyP
YES"
-She doesn't look like a husband
hunter"
"She isn't"
Then why is she looking for a rich
MANI"
} ITO collect a bill from him"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Easy.

Easy.
"He's a sure winner"
J "Who is?'
1.-THE fellow who is betting he'll lose
out"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07
Stronq Cards,

Strong Cards.
Alice-Which of his letters did you
save for your breach of promise sHtt:
Kate-The ones ne told me TO bpIlL-
Boston Transcript. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-05-07

II it were not for politics and base
ball the average man would be driven
to the suffragettes for excitement.