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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13
Spring Hats Give Way to Sum
mer in These Beautiful Hats

What shall the Summer Hat be? Feather
fower-laden, pert with tailored
bows or an artistic simple and refined Black
Hat? These and other eager whisperings
answered here this week in our Summer dis
play of White and Black Hats.
Some high, others almost piaque-like;
small, medium, large. Aglow with prettily-
colored flowers, fluffy with curling feathers,
tipped with airy aigrettes or mounted with
spiral fances Black and white effects are
also favored black artistically frightened
by white and white subdued by black to
quiet elegance S. to SIS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13

For a special In buttons we offer:
Small glass brilliants, all colors, reg
ular 25c. ice dozen
Regular zoe kind, 15e dozen
Lace wringerproof buttons. regular
15c, &c dozen.
Vanta "Twistless" Tape, will not
curl. twist or kink, 1O-yard bolt for Toe.
Mrs. Newcomb's Ever Ready But
ton-holer, q great labor saver. two
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13
Combinations

s1.1s. Petticoat and Drawers. One
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-05-13
SALE FANCY GOODS

Stamped Pillow Tubing
Good quality. worth COO, to sell all
this week, for only gee.
Stamped Towels, guest
and large size, best linen. The
kind that usually sell for Csc, soc
and Csc. All must go for all this
week at only half price.
A new line of Royal So
ciety package goods has just ar
rived; % per cent discount for all
this week.
White Stamped Center
pieces-Made Of pure linen, show
ing several different patterns, in
sizes 6, 10, II, 22, "a, SO and As.
We will sell them all this week at
half price.
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
STAY HOME, WARNS
NEW YORK GIRL
By ALICE ROHE.

NEW YORK. Dec 6-"The of New York beckons a girl to
un and the lights of the Great White Way only dzze blind
her. My advice the thousands of girls the country are
anxious New York and shape Stay
Seated in the Tomb Prison today Miss Grace Legende good
looking intelligent educated accepting her fate stocal
ed warning the young girls Of the country who dream of
business professional in New York Miss Legendre
awaiting the action of the grand jury the charge Of robbng
Hotel Gregoian, where she cashier, Of $1,000
The danger of city life does lie solely the socaed pit
falls which have given modern plays and novels their plots
sad calmly anazed mstep Columns been
written about white slavery but there nsdious
temptations awaiting girls the big cities and they marked
with the danger signal like white slavery would not have been
in prison had not been for dk-had been afraid Of
taunts OF my friends not sought to be good fellow.
Il blame one but myself however-myself this spell
which New York casts all pleasure-seekng girls
Girls may chafe the lack of entertainment
but they only knew the for the pleasures of New
York life they would cling to home child its mother
Miss Legendre, who to New York from small New Eng
land village offers unusual of the wweakened drink
moral responsibility evidenced her desire
ina aspect in her life.
81 have been in New York several years." said "and
know that New York rapidly becoming enslaved
Why in Washington and Boston, Western cities have
visited have drink they do Instead of
afternoon teaa socaled prvinca hab- afternoon cocktails
and hghbas for Broadway and Fifth Just
New York cafe afternoon night
all drinking 1t the result of strain
mad struggle for sensations and thrills The life
girl knk her moral that does get Strengthened
time to save her from disaster.
Of all the spots the world New York the onelest for
girl who tries 60 straight 1t that loneliness
point rising with the bubbles wneglass then do their
know I'm going to have do not that much,
would least feel partially could be
ing to other girls. But doubt if it will"
The Washington times., 1913-12-06

bank of the nation has Sl4OOOOOO capital, and tine
larger part of this is loaned to farmers plan by
which it is paid back in annual nstalments extending
over period of fifteen years. This bank, on behalf
of the government furnishes free seeds and helps
farmers to buy Implements fence wire, etc.
When immigrant comes in and declares pur-
pose to become citizen he is given about thirty acres
of land, and as he makes certain improve
ments required by law, he has much more con-
veyed to him. The bank will advance him cash up to
SIS an acre to make Improvements and produce the
first crop.
These measures, of course, are vastly more radical
than anybody dreams of taking in behalf of American
agriculture But they teach one lesson that should
guide in formulating system of rural finance here.
They prove that the combination of the soil and the
owning it makes about the finest security in the
world. In Uruguay and Paraguay in Ireland and
III the north of Europe under the Landschaften sys
tenn, experience has demonstrated that this kind of
banking is exceptionally safe. The farmer is helped,
and the banker at the same time profits by helping
him.
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
THE PLAZA CONDEMNATION CA sEs.

Whatever may be the reason, the unconsconable
delay in paying Washington property owners for the
condemned lands in the extended Plaza space be-
tween the Union Station and the Capitol grounds, is
working a great hardship on the individuals con-
cerned, and on the business of the city as whole
To be informed that there are technical uncer-
ainties about the legal authority for condemnation,
or conflict between laws under which appropriations
have been made to pay for these lands does not at
all help the people whose property has been taken
away from them, whose buildings have been ripped
away, whose revenues have been destroyed-and yet
who are kept month after month out of the payments
that the Government owes to them.
1t is peculiarly onerous case. The property was
almost all highly improved, we'll located, and earning
good revenues. Much of it. of course, was mort
gagged The plight of who has the productive
improvements swept off his property, so that it
not earn him cent, while the mortgage sticks right
there working day and night and Sundays, may be
imagined. 1t spells ruin to a good many 1eope, and
is situation in which the utmost effort must be
made by the responsible officials to insure that in
justice shall be avoided.
The matter is now in the hands of the Govern
ments law officers, for report as to specific legal
poets. That is we'll enough, except that there has
already been too much delay. A few things are very
certain about this property. The Government IS
going to take it, has passed the legislation and has
made the necessary appropriation at least in part
if not in whole. Congress is in session. If there are
defects in the Legislation it stands it should
be possible and i. is-to get an emergency bill
drawn reported, and passed very soon. That meas
ure would be about the most satisfactory Christmas
present Congress could give to Washington. Some
three millions of dollars is involved; a sum that
is urgently needed by people who, on the faith of
getting it, have in many cases committed themselves
in ways that make it positively ruinous to withhold
their money from them.
The good faith of the Government absolutely de-
mands immediate attention to this business Uncle
Sam has more right to impose such rank injustice
than any business institution inivdua would have
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
LITTLE FIGHTo With FATE
Copyright. 1915. by The Press Publishing CO..
The Way | Live.

coming home 20 kick about the money
| wasted.
sometimes I wonder if perhaps other
men look at me and think I'm having
one delirious round of pleasure in this
life. Maybe they do: Some of them do.
me on the back and tell me the other
day that the reason 1 wore SO wei was
because l was so blamed happy-ge-
lucky?
Well, if do look like that on the out
side when I've got a tombstone for q
heart on the inside. I guess there are
others in the world who get away with
the same stuff. Maybe they weren't all
rs joyous as they look. Or maybe II 5
easier to BE It when you put on bold
|, front and pretend to the other fellow
that you ARE il.
Once I saw Il play in which one of
the women characters kept saving that
If YOU have happiness within yourself
You can make all about you happy.
Her part was that OF an early Victorian
peace fanatic, and every TIME she Gci
off that line We all guffawed. as at
some slHpstick comedy. But that
strikes the nail head all right Happl-
ness within yourselfl Don't absorb all
the radiance and give OFF all the gloom.
Shed some brightness yourself. l guess
that's the answer. Shed some bright
nesSi
Just for experience LIN going to be-
gin my days differently I'm going TO
see whether l can change their topog-
raphy b. putting omethins OF NY
SELF In them. Instead of waiting for
things to happen to relieve the mo-
notony I'll MAKE them happen. I'm
going to fight the Fate hookworm and
turn it into live wGs!
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
REFORMING PARTY MACHINERY.

New York Republicans, in State conference, re-
jeced the counsels of Chairman William Barnes and
declared for program that looks to getting the party
in step with the liberal political thought of the times
The declaration in favor of Statewide primary to
make all nominations is especially telling. Ever since
the regime of Governor Hughes this fight for effec-
tive primary Legislation has been waged in the En-
pie State, which, indeed, has been looked upon as
the storm center of this agitation in the entire East
If New York once gets real, modern popular pri-
mary it will be safe say that the old system of con-
venton manipulation by bosses is dead in this coun-
try.
1t is by no means safe to assume that such a
declaration that made by the conference guar
antee of legislation however. 1t has not even the
binding force of regularly adopted party PLATFORM
and party Platforms especially on primary legislation
have notorouSly been of very small avail in New
York when if came to guiding legislative effort. The
Republicans captured the lower branch of the iegis-
lature in the elections last month"; and the recon-
mendationS of the conference are presumed to be of
considerable force determining the legislative pro-
gram of the coming session.
twin reform, not much less important than real
primaries, and by some people regarded as equally
necessary, is also recommended by the conference
This is the short ballot; cutting down to very small
group the number or elective ohces, and making the
rest appointive. This measure will simplify the bal
lot and make it possible to concentrate the judgment
of the voter on individual candidates. Its tendency
is always to increase the tendency toward splitting
the ticket; but that again, is largely overcome by the
fact that better men will get nominated when there
is such excellent opportunity for scrutiny of the per-
sonnel of political tickets.
The short ballot plan, working together with the
primary in State like New York, and all this sup
pIemented by national Presidential primary, woua
effect revolution in the modus operand of practical
politics. For one thing, it would bring new type of
leadership to the top. The men who have become
pert in the old methods, and who largely are welded
to them, would be neither adaptable enough to &C
commodate themselves to the conditions nor
strong enough in the pubc's confidence to get effec-
tive results under such a system.
The Washington times., 1913-12-06

. DON'T know why it is that everyone
else seems to get so much more out
of life than I do Men blow in from
the West Just sparkling with the
iov of living. Men, allagedly from the
South, tell with enthusiasm OF their
sports. their ceasts, their social ac-
rivi.ies. Even the men who live on the
same block with me walk out III the
morning and disappear down the sub
WAY steps as though the day held some
thing vital for them, something OF
triumph to be Won, a victory to come.
And | go along in my dull. dub way
and watch the other fellow. MY HE
a monotone.
Every morning, when first l open my
eyes, / search my memory Tor some
thing that may be going TO make the
day unique. | try to force myself TO
remember something l have forgotten
something that holds out great possi-
bilities of excitement, joy or even con-
Gict Rut. with the clearing up of sleep
cobwebs. comes the realization that to-
days going to be just like yesterday,
lust as a wilderness OF tomorrow Will
be-
| rise against my will q never get
enough sleep). The waters never hot
enough for shaving and the razor S
always dull. There are more collars
with battered edges than intact ones in
the drawer. The dining room is close,
sodden with steam heat and uninspiring.
NV amusenents consist in going to
uninteresting plays, when I'm dressed
up in agonizinS clothes. and then ir
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
A WHOLESALE EXPERIMENT.

1t is not beyond the bounds of probability that
Philadelphia with its million and half of popu-
lation and more, will have the opportunity OF voting
on the question of whether it wishes to attempt a
cure of its political evils by adopting the commits
sion form of government Nearly all the third
class cities of Pennsylvania, varying in number of
inhabitants from 5000 to nearly 100000, passed
under that form at the beginning of this week. and
ment succeeds, a powerful impetus will be given
to the movement to adopt the same method of gov
eminent for the first city of the State.
The sweeping change that has been inaugurated
cannot fail to be regarded by the supporters of
Mayor Blankenburg as presaging potential oppor-
tunity to get rid of of the obstacles which they
nave been forced 10 encounter at almost every turn
Just now a row is on between the mayor, who is
opposed to continuing the policy of adding to the
citys obligations in the form of long-term bonds
unless there is great necessity for it, and the councils
dominated by the organization which are against
raising the tax rate to provide for public improve
l-ients.
There is, of course, something TO be said on each
side of general question of this nature. But, how
ever that may be- the differences between the mayor
and the councils serve the purpose of calling atten-
ton in forcible way to the contrast between what
they have and wh&. they might perhaps have under
the more concentrated system of management which
tie third-cass cite, of Pennsylvania are tryin out
$he experiment will be watched with interest
by the people of other States who have not made
UP their mind whether there ought to be a general
change in the fundamentals of city management in
America or whether the betterment that is sought
can be gotten by other means.
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
LITTLE ROMANCES OF
ARTISTS MODELS
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The Washington times., 1913-12-06

passenger on the Erie to order a quick
lunch and then have to run ahead OF
the train in order to satisfy his appe-
tite.
The only solution to the problem
would be to serve speedometer with
each meal. Adjust the speed of the
meal to the velocity of the train. In
agine the feelings of the engineer il a
flock of quail on toast were to outdis-
tance him on his favorite stretch of
track. The tourists could make a pool
after the manner of ocean voyagers on
the probabilities of the train or the
food arriving at San Francisco first.
The rivalry betwiXt the chef and the
engineer would be intense
Another point-it would take some
keen reckoning by the Interstate Com
merce Commission to fix the equitable
price of a quick lunch on the rafting
|, rails.
The 2-cents-a-mile rate would be all
very well when applied to macaroni or
sphagetti, because no one could object
10 reasonable price of a thin dime
for five miles of macaroni And > cents
for $50 feet of Spaghetti would be
economy itself. But how to adjust the
price of soup? How. indeed?
Soup is like love. 1t can't be meas
lred in dollars and cents. Nor in yards
and furlongs, Tor that matter.
+ The Interstate Commerce Commission
will have to get their old skulls to-
gether and dope out a new Hat rate for
soup.
The road which Takes Water at the
rate of sixty miles an hour. and also
serves milk to It's patrons, will be open
TO suspicion.
Anybody riding on the New York, New
Haven & Hartford will do we'll to order
hash. Even wreck cannot spoil that.
EGGS have always been the piece de
resistance Of the quick-lumch industry,
and it will be interesting to watch the
efforts of the railroad chefs in this
direction. With the modern road beds,
the only way the eggs will reach the
hungry diner will be in a scrambled
condition.
They may start out as deviIed, poach-
ed, or fried eggs. but when they get to
the table they will be good and scram-
bled.
Travellers, however. should not be
afraid of the high price of meat, as the
railroads kill their own cows.
The Boston and Maine will not install
a Quick-lunch OUTFIT. Anything quick is
against their policy
The quick or tho dead,
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
COST.OF-LIVING HARD-PAN .

A Philadelphia bank has taken the lead in a
practical study of costofiving problems by getting
together conference of authorities the subject
The conference is looking into the cost of getting
necessares of life from the producer to the consumer
and the evidence supports the widely be-
lief that it is here the shoe pinches hardest.
Senator Gore told the gathering that from S25,-
600, 900 to S75,OOO,OOO is wasted annually in the
marketing of cotton The Department of Agriculture
would probably place the loss nearer the latter than
the former figure. Another student of different
phase declared that wasteful methods in the buying,
handling, and marketing of eggs cost S45000OO0 a
year. That is money that he producer doesn't get,
that the has to make good that really rep
resents nothing but waste.
All through the long ganut of buying, selling,
marketing, and delivery methods the same story.
Waseful processes useless links in the chain
less friction in the processes To cut out these and
get business done the lowest operating cost is the
very concrete problem that now is visuazed as the
one to be solved To have the problem stated and
understood is long step toward the beginnings Of
solution
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
PLANS OF HELPING THE FARMER.

The two little South American republics of Uru-
quay and Paraguay so unimportant on the maps that
most people few years out of school have about
forgotten their existence have been developing some
experiences that could we'll be studied by this coun.
try Each is an agricultural country each has been
busy devising methods to attract immigration and
development. Each, regarding agriculture as the in
dusty which all others must rest has gone in for
plans of helping the farmer that are radical and yet
that have thus far produced excellent results,
Uruguay's government found farmers paying out
rageous rates of interest on money A big national
bank organized. Money was secured, through
this bank, from European centers and loaned to the
farmers at rates rather less than half those that had
previously prevailed. e. ...
Ia Paraguay the Banco Agricola or agricultural
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
THE DEATH OF COLONEL GAILLARD.

Culebra cut is reality, probably for centuries
at least but the man who made it such is no more.
We have been making sacrifices in Panama in life
as well treasure, even if what we nave gwen III
the price of that vast undertaking is far less than
the appalling losses of the French. And tie most
conspicuous sacrifice yet yielded is Lieutenant
Colonel Galard, whose death at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore, yesterday, was the direct re-
suit of breaking down under the terrific strain i'm
posed by his supervision of the most difficult en-
gneering feat involved in the construction of the
canal.
Men marveled that Gaillard could seem to set
the laws of nature at naught in his concentration
on the task of removing the tremendous mass of
ecrth that filled the space occupied by what is now
Culebra cut. He worked harder in climate that
demanded lessening of strain than he would have
worked normally in the stimulating atmosphere of
the United States He showed mercy to his SUBJ
ordinates but none to himself And he has paid the
price.
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
Quick Lunch With the Throttle Wide
Open.

The Pennsy has instituted a quick
lunch service on it's quick trains. This
is, not unnaturally. the basis for lot
of interesting specu alton. VIII the
quick lunch be quick on the quick
trains and gradually adjust itself to
the diminishing speed of the accommo-
dation the excursion and the local, or
will the quick lunch be just as quick
on the slow trains as it is on the quick
trains?
Anyone with half an eye, or an appc-
which would arise when a quick lunch
is served on a slow train. If the lunch
Is quicker than the train a Traveller 3
dinner would arrive at his destination
three or four hours before him.
It would be horribly annoying for .
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
Knew 1t All.

RE are many people in this
Orld who make a fine dis
play, but who fall down when
it comes to practical knowl-
edge" is the verdict Of Helen Lowell,
in Kiss Me Quick
For instance" says Miss Lowell:
1.-Two commercial travellers while In
a train got into an argument over the
action of the vacuum brake.
IT'S the initiation of the tube that
stops the train" declared the first trav-
eler.
Wrong" shouted the second It's
the output of the exhaustion
Then, when the train arrived at the
station. they agreed to submit the mat
ter for settlement to the engineer. That
gentleman, leaning condescendingly
from his cab, listened with an atten-
tive frown to the two travellers state
ment of their argument. Then he smiled
shook his head, and said:
well, gents, ye're both wrong about
the workin' of the vacuum brakes. Yet
it's very simple and easy to understand
When we want to stop the train we
Just turn this valve, and then we fill
the Dipe with vacuum "-Young's Mag
aZine.
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
What's on the Program in
Washington Today

Meetings. evening:
Odd Fellows-Canton Washington, No
!. Patriarchs Militant. election of Of
fiCerS.
National Union-Government Printing
Office Council. Typographical Temple.
Socialist party-Women's Central ON
mittee, social and luncheon. 80 to 10
O'Clock, SlI f street northwest.
Amusements.
National-"The Land of Promise" 2:l5
and Sis p m.
Columbia-"The Prodigal Judge" 2:l5
PoiTs-"St. Elmo" 2:15 and Sis p. m.
Academy-"Little Lost Sister" 2:l5 and
x Keith's-VaudevilIe, 2:15 and Sis p. m
Cosmos-Vaudeville,c continuous.
Casiro-Vaudeville. afternoon and even
ing.
Gayety-Burlesque 2:15 and Sis p. m.
Arcade-Select dancing tonight.
The Washington times., 1913-12-06
GOOD STORIES
A Marked Similarity.

<<YF twelve persons were to agree to
dine together every 'day, but
never sit in exactly the same
order around the table," didac-
tically stated the professor. at would
take them 1900 900 years, at the rate
of one dinner a day, and they would
have eaten more than 74.000, 600 dinners
before they could get through al the
possible arrangements in which they
could place themselves"
"Yep!' snarled Uncle Pepys. That
would be nearly as many ways as a
small boy rearranges himself during a
long sermon."-Judge.