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Douglas Island news., 1912-01-10

In the District Court for the District of
 Alaska, Division No.1. Oscar James, Plaintiff.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

ter, and being In shape for use far
earlier than when used.
The Newman road is built on a foun-
dalton of concrete with a top layer Of
sand, and the interstices between the
paving blocks are filled with slush con-
crete. or concrete binder, making the
roadway a solid mass. Concrete curbs
at the side act as retaining walls TO
prevent wearing away at the edge Of
the pavement. A half mile of the
pavement was built without this curb,
as an experiment, and It was found
to be in excellent condition. there be
ing no appreciate wear owing to its
absence.
This sort Of q road costs about S.
900 a mile. and is practically indie.
structible from the traf1c over ordi.
nary country roads. The Newman road,
which was built by means of a special
tax levy, will be paid for this year,
Farmers who we're at first doubtful II
the expense was justified, are now en-
thusiastic advocates of the brick road
and there is little, II any, opposition
to II among the taxpayers.
At Milford, in Vermilion county, two
miles Of brick country road will be
built this year. while Newell township
in the same county, will build si1
miles.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
DEMOCRATS SHOULD BEWARE.

The results Of yesterdays township
election in Rock Island. indicate that
a considerable number OF democrats
strayed into strange pastures While
they elected the head of the ticket,
they could just as well have done bet.
ter. They could have carried the day
from top TO bottom had they stuck 70
their colors and worked.
The primaries next Tuesday should
tell a different story, so far as demo
cratic party allegiance is concerned.
This is not a year for democratic shirk.
ing. This is a democratic year, when
every man should show his allegiance
to his party and his party faith and
candidates.
Democrats therefore, should not per.
init themselves 20 be enticed into vot.
ing the republican primary ticket for
the mere purpose OF helping some
ambitious politician out on the other
side, for IL is well TO remember and
bear in mind that the democrat who
votes a republican primary ballot next
Tuesday DISTINGUISHES himself for the
remainder Of the year.
Stick 10 your colors next Tuesday
and throughout the year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
THE REAL ROCK ISLAND spirit,

hhAs-hA AhpNh AE'AAN " 0I I'M .
The real Rock Island spirit was not
manifest a week ago last night. It
found expression last night when the
task of week Of raising s125,OOO by
popular subscription for a new Y. NJ.
c. A building was brought TO a glor-
icus consummation. The achievement
was not only in the success OF the pro-
ject but in the manner in which it was
accomplished in the face OF riotous
conditions and by the class of men
who, forsaking all else, enlisted in the
ranks that put it across.
II was not a UNCONVENTIONAL meas
ure, religiously. II was too broad and
too far-reaching in its aims TO be SO
classed. Protestant and Catholic, Jew
and Gentle worked side by side and
hand in hand, cheering each other on
for the success Of the undertaking.
And so it was a triumph. II could
not have been otherwise. And yet the
results of this eomingling OF men from
every walk, every profession, every vo-
cation and every creed, did more good
than the attainment OF the end which
brought them together. 1t promoted a
bond of happy fellowship and of sound
brotherhood.
What world Of real good could be &C.
complished for Rock Island II that
same body OF men that has taken care
OF the task Of providing for the young
men Of tomorrow would seize upon the
present day conditions in the city and
adopt such q course. standing firmly
together as will insure the permanent
establishment Of a better city for
themselves as well as a better future
for their sons.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
TALKS tuitl~.
WOMEN PEADERS
b0
Edna K.WOo1Q1

In the city of Cleveland the popu-
lace is required to drink Lake Erie
water, enriched with sewage, the
flavor Of which is carefully disguised
by disinfectant called chlorine.
Not that the people like the favor.
Dear no! But the city administra-
ton has hold of the public nose and,
as the public opens its mouth to get
its breath, down goes the dose-just
as in your and my youthful days our
maternal parent persuaded US to take
undesired medicines.
The city Of Milwaukee also tried
the chlorine dosage. But the people
of Milwaukee made such a fuss that
the city fathers have abandoned the
use of the disinfectant, deciding that
it didn't do much good, anyway, so
far as keeping down the typhoid
cases (the original excuse for saving
the expense of a filtration plant.
By the way-in a medical circular
recently issued, chlorine water Is
listed as a poison. The antidotes
given are: Albumen, white of egg,
milk and flour.
This would be well for the resi-
dents OF a chlorined city to remem-
Der next time there is an overdose in
the water; also a piece of informa'
ton which should be tucked away in
the memory of those who are visitors
in a town of chlorinated H2O.
However, this isn't what I started
out to talk about. The real purpose
Of this chlorinated story is to repeat
the conversation of a Cleveland man
who didn't know he was advancing an
argument for equal suffrage when he
was making his remarks.
IT blame the men," he said, "fol
allowing this water business. Most
men are Indifferent to the drinking
water because they don't drink it
| (This was in Cleveland, not Mtlwau
kee, remember). The rich men, OF
course, can buy pure water, both IL
their homes and offices. They have
it in their restaurants or hotels.
1.-THE poorer classes of. men, o
course, don't buy pure water for thei
homes. They can't afford it. The!
drink very little water, anyway, sat
isfying their thirst in the saloons
Waters a pretty tame drink after ;
glass of beer, you know.
1T all sums up that the real suf
ferers from bad drinking water ar
the women and children, who mus
stay at home and take what come
ont of the hydrant
We'll never get pure water a
long as men can get something els
to drink and consequently are indif
ferent to what the rest of creatio
has to put up with"
And yet there are certain anti-sut
fragists going about the country cor
tending that masculinity is ampl
able to represent both sexes!
A DIRECTORY SCANDAL.
1.-THE city directory plays som
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
Encouragement of the National Guard

In the Chicago Record-Herald of
Saturday appeared the following COM
ment:
Chicago, March 29.-To the Editor:
note in the morning papers, with
reference to the departure of Company
D, 9th infantry, from Oak Park, under
orders for riot duty at Rock Island,
that several employers were very much
put out and objected TO men in their
employ being suddenly called away.
That same mental attitude is fire.
quently found wherever men of the
National Guard are turned out for
service or TO go to annual encampment,
and it would be doing a public service
if you would call the attention of en-
ployers to the propriety of an attitude
of patriotism that would not only will
lingly allow their employees to go on
such duty, but would not cut their pay
while they are away for a reasonable
time in such service.
/ Many Of the larger business houses
in Chicago have adopted that plan and
/ believe in that principle, through fear
that next time 1t may be their prop
erty that is menaced by mob violence.
These calls for duty are in many cases
a direct expense to the men who have
to go, because their employer cuts their
time; the men give all their time for
absolutely nothing for their drills dur
ing the whole year. except that while
on mob duty they draw 50 per day and
1 for camp duty 81 per day.
LEWIS d. GREENE,
Colonel, A. G., Chief of Staff
And this communication brought
forth the following editorial express
sion from the Record-Herald:
Certain misguided labor leaders
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
PEACE AND THE WAY TO KEEP

1T. q
Peace and tranquility again prevail
in Rock Island. Woe to the man who
by word or act disturbs that happy
situation for the purpose Of gain.
Throughout all that Rock Island has
passed men Of reason have en-
deavored TO hold their heads. This
has been true Of the legitimate local
press. The Argus, for its own
part. has striven, in all the
trying ordeal which imposed upon
it, in common with all good newspa-
pers, a solemn responsibility to its
readers and to the public, not to fan
the passions of wrath or add to the
fury of discomfort. 1t has labored to
be fair in its news phases of the stu
alton and in the expression of It's own
convictions as TO cause and effect.
The Argus believes in law and in
the enforcement Of order. 1t knows
that in the moment of anger and i'll
advised action, people are apt to say
and to do things that they would not
do upon calmer reflection. To act
hastily and to err is the common her.
itage 1t is not the sin of one man to
do wrong, but It is the common failing,
for no man here below is perfect.
1t is the repeated transgressor who
disturbs society, and by society is
meant mankind in general. 1t is
the mischief maker who should be
punished. The people in their entirety
are all right, but they need to be guild
ed and guided right.
! Taking Rock Island as a whole into
consideration, its i'll may be traced to
the sin OF omission rather than the sin
Of commission. 1t has left undone the
things that it ought to have done, and
neglect is a failure that sooner or later
demands its penalty in one way or an
other
/ In the contributions appearing in
The Argus recently from visiting Chi
cago newspaper men, one said there
exists a situation here which the PEG.
pie have It in them to cure, and anoth,
er said that If the people would devote
themselves with half the zeal that
they have put into the Y. NJ. c. A. cam
paign, to cleaning up the situation
Rock Island would be q better town.
Well said, in both instances.
The task before the people, there
fore, is to take upon themselves the
duty Of securing and insuring to them
selves lasting peace-a permanent
l.orderly condition.
To attain this end. which speaks fol
the comfort and happiness OF ever.
home owner they must so act. delib
erately but determinedly, in such ;
manner that the elements OF discort
shall be eliminated and the people re
stored TO that state OF happiness am
comfort that they deserve and SHOULD
insist upon having
II is the peoples right
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

have often been severely criticised by
employers and civic bodies for hos
tility toward the National Guard. Yet
Colonel Greene, chief of staff of the
Illinois National Guard, found that
several employers resented the order
issued to a company at Oak Park to
proceed to Rock Island for the purpose
of suppressing rioting there and re-
establishing peace and order
Colonel Greene notes with regret and
apprehension that the same mental at
titude has been revealed by some en-
ployers at other times. They object to
summer encampments or even to active
service in emergencies because of the
inconvenience entailed by the depletion
of their Offices, and they cut the pay of
employees who are members of the Ma
tional Guard whenever they stay away
under orders.
1T ought not TO be necessary to plead
with such employers, or argue elabo-
rately that their feelings are neither
patriotic nor enlightened from a bust
ness point of view. No life, property
or business is secure where the Ma
tional Guard is not encouraged to do its
duty. The first condition of prosperity
is order, and order is not always a
matter Of moral suasion. To make
service in the National Guard unpop-
ular and too burdensome is to jeop-
ardize the essential interests of the
state, moral and economic
Employers should not only cheer
fully speed guardsmen summoned for
service, but, as Colonel Greene sug-
gests, should refrain from docking
their pay at such times. The employ
ers who have already adopted this pol
l icy are wise and public spirited"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
PAVING COUNTRY ROADS.

over in Edgar county. Illinois, the
county. by special taxation, has just
built brick country road. The road
runs into Newman and extends north
ward from that town for four miles.
The other day supervisors and other
county officials of Vermilion county
inspected this road and when they got
back home they were so enthusiastic
that they are going TO work hard TO
have the country roads in their town
paved. The great need of good roads
in Illinois is generally realized, and
after spending thousands OF dollars
on their roads without any permanent
good results, the Edgar county authori-
ties built this four mile stretch OF
paved street as an experiment Now
they and the farmers using IL are so
enthusiastic that they will build four
miles more this year, that being the
limit TO the annual expenditure for
this purpose permitted by the state
laws.
The Newman road is nine feet wide,
leaving the remainder of the road q
dirt road, which also has many ad.
vantages. During the summer months
when the dirt roads are dry and hard
they are easier on the horses and the
bricked road is not used at all, except
perhaps by automobiles. After rains
and in the spring when the frost
comes out OF the ground, the paved
street is worth every cent II cost, for
the farmer is no longer obliged to sit
idle at home when prices are soaring,
because he cannot haul a load over
the mud roads. BY not using the dirt
roads. when they are soft. the road is
lot cut up and ruined, drying on fas-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
Hurnor and
Philosophy
VANISHING OPPORTUNITY.
~ DUNCAN ~. .SNsrR

T ZAP year down the way Is gliding
A. q racer double eeared
Are you nearer that proposal
Than you were when Il appearedf
Has the postman left q letter
Asking you to keep a date
For q young and winsome charmsrf
Own up now and tell It straight.
When you saw the year approaching
Did your heart go pftapat
In the hope Of q proposal
Or some message such as that?
DID you think that you might shortly
OF your oachelorhood be rid
And be won by brains and beauty?
Tell the truth. You know you did.
Never mind, the year has several
Months to 50 Ger It expires.
You may hear some pleasant morning
From the girl OF your desires.
II may be that she is timid,
Hesitating and In fear
And may work up nerve to tell you
Fer the closing Of the year.
sim. II you would make it certain,
Unmistakable and clear
You should do your own proposing
This or any other year.
Work your courage up a trifieL
Really that Is all you need.
You will be pulled UP about Il
All your life II you succeed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
$3.50 Teachers In Illinois.

Springfield, April illinois school
teachers in 1911 received sls,1s5,s17.72
In wages, according to an announce
ment by State Superintendent F. G.
Blair. The number OF teachers was
29,s60. The number of teachers in the
state has increased from 26,52s 20 49,
$50 in 10 years The amount paid out
in salaries has risen from s11,s54,-
772.41.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

BY the way. score another triumph
for the Rock Island club. 1t was that
progressive institution that raised
$4,000 a few years ago to encourage
new Industries. II was within it's
walls, and by its president largely, that
the Y. NJ. G. A. campaign was launched
and carried through the early stages.
And It was its president that stood by
the proposition TO the end.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

queer tricks once in a WHILE" muir
INJURED a young and pretty matron the
other day.
Il was Just looking up ar address
in the directory and, Just for fun, /
thought I'd see how our name looks
in the big book.
well, would you believe It? There
was a regular scandal about my hus-
band and me, right there In that d.
rectory, set down In black and white.
There was his name set down
with our old address and just below
was my name with our present ad-
dress. 1t looked just exactly as II
we had separated and were going to
get a divorce or something. I'm go
ing to write to that old directory
company and tell them what I think
of them"
HARDSHIPs FOR THE MANY.
II seems too bad that way can
not be found to tax the selfish rich
without overburdening the conscien-
tious citizen who is struggling to do
his duty, rear a family and save a
little ahead for old age, or the rainy
day" that manages to get around to
all Of US, sooner or later.
Congress Is considering taxing in
comes over $4,000 year. This
would not be hard upon a bachelor.
1t would only curtail little of his
luxury. But how about the man with
wife and four or five children
whose income is no larger than the
bachelors, but whose outgo is SC
much greater and his expenditures sc
! highly commendable? Could you cal
this encouraging a man to marry an6
raise citizens that will be credit tc
his country?
! The new bank deposit tax of 1.3e
| per cent in Ohio, will also work G
hardship on the poor man, who has
denied himself comforts and otter
necessaries in order that he nigh
have nest-egg in the savings banl
for the inevitable days of sickness o.
period of being "out of work. OF
that old age, which comes all tot
soon in these days of demand fol
young men in our industrial world
Under the Smith act inspection of tn,
banks records is permitted and non,
, can expect to escape the tax, begin
ming with this year, not even though
a man be sick or voorhees, and relying
J upon his savings account to tide hin
and his family over the time o
J stress.
. II would have been kinder-cer
: tainly more just-if' our lawmaker
had established a limit, protecting
the small depositor in savings bank
= the little rainy day" fund that tn
= workman and his wife have struggles
? SO hard to put there.
The stocking bank and the old tes
pot with the broken snout will 500
be popular again and just that niue
2 gcod money kept out of circulation
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

ments OF Central Illinois and which
was also founded more than 80 years
ago. also suspended, and it's stock of
goods was sold at auction. 1t was
ence rated as a $4,000 concern and
was a money-maker for many years.
It's death knell was sounded when the
coal mines at Braceville closed with
the strike of 1910. and were not reopen
ed when the strike was settled. The
miners were compelled TO move away,
leaving their homes behind. Many
were partially paid for, but had TO be
abandoned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
April 8 IN American
History.

Washington Irving. author, born;
died 1859
1S22-Edward Everett Hale, clergy
man and author. born; died 1909
1S65-Fall of Petersburg. Va, end OF
Grants campaign against Rich
moDd. which was also aba ndoned
this date by jefferson Davis and
his cabinet.
10OS-James Jeffrey Roche, noted Irish
American poet, died; born 1S47.
All the news all the time-The
Argus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
Mine CLOSING Wrecks Trade.

Bloomington, April 3.-The bank of
Braceville closed its doors on April l.
This institution was started more than
80 years ago by the late E. d. Scott.
The decline in Braceyille's population
and business interests of late years,
made the opration Of tn bank unprofit-
able. Recently, the W. C. Sheppard's
store. one of the largest establish
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
ILLINOIS NEWS
Two Crushed Under Locomotive.

Millstadt, April 3.-WiIliam Strauss
and Arthur Swinbermenn, engineer
and fireman of a Mobile and Ohio
switch engine, were killed here yester-
day when they were pinned under the
engine after it had been derailed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

Circumstances develop the inherent
qualities in men. For instance, the in
spring Y. NJ. c. A. MONDAY meetings
attending the Y. NJ. c. A. campaign,
made real warriors out of those mod
est appearing men Of affairs, II. s.
Cable and II. f. Casteel.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

Taking into consideration both the
result OF the republican primaries in
the state and the election in Milwau-
kee, II is difficult to see just what de-
gree of satisfaction theodore Roose-
welt gets out of what happened in Wis
consin yesterday.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

And now we are informed that there
will be a great strike Of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. We
hope, however, that this will not prove
true
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

Seeking New Fields.
"John, the hired girl is leaving"
What is she quitting for?"
'T can't find out"
"Pll bet I know. She has broken
all Of our dishes and she wants to get
a place where they have a full set Of
new ones"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

The self-constituted legislative vot-
ors' league Of Chicago is again under
taking 10 tell the people out in the
state who TO send to the legislature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

II you must make trouble make 1t
and vigorous way, not for your friends
with complacent smile.
Your judgment may not be good, but
that's no reason why you should in
sist upon shouldering it to the front.
There are people who wouldn't be
satisfied to go to heaven unless they
could be furnished with excursion
tickets.
After all, probably It wouldn't be 50
very pleasant TO know what even our
best friends say of US.
At housekeeping season some enter
prising danes feel that they must
have a new husband along with other
household findings.
There are girls who say that the
men keep them so busy getting en-
gagged that they don't find IRE time to
marry.
The person who has a great big wad
Of aggressive self conceit is as certain
to Sustain painful injury to his feel
ings as he is to parade his own per
sonality.
The girl who goes about smilingiy
dispensing her fathers hospitality and
her mothers chocolate cake Is gener-
ally doomed sooner or later TO have a
home Of her own in which to bake her
own cake
In the average mans opinion the
IDEAL wife Is the one he didn't get.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

The trimming Of the socialists in
the Milwaukee election yesterday is
one big significant phase of the cleo
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

downstairs and fracturing his skull.
One brother, Amos Dixon, of Chicago,
survives.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

Figuring on a Change.
"See that girl that has Scraggs In
towT
"Yes. Isn't she a peachT
"What Is her name"
"Don't bother about that. From the
determined look in her eye think 1t
will soon be Scraggs."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
Important Part.

Important Part.
Understand politics."
mot very we'll"
"What Is 1t you don't understand
about it2"
How to get an Office"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
Free and independent.

Free and Independent.
"You ought to be more careful about
your speech, old man. 1t is awful the
way you murder the kings English"
'That amt the kings English, let
me tell you. 1t is the presidents line
of fancy CAB, and 1 would have you
know I can do any concerned thing I
like with 1t"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
His Speciality.

'T like Mr.. Blythe so much"
Realty
yes; he pays such lovely compli-
ments."
"Ha, har'
What are you laughing atT'
John says that's all he ever pays"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

These are the days when you look
at last years straw hat to see II II
can be recalled.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03

The New York Sun has done its
worst. II called Colonel Roosevelt
an "energuman"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-04-03
pisappointed.

you say be was disappointed in
lover
He certainly was"
but thought be married the girl he
loved"
$50 be did And then Ae found that
two cannot live as chearay as ONE
Houston Post.