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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
PREJUDICING PUBLIC AGAINST
THE DAILY NEWSPAPERS

barns to aid in the formation of lofty
ideals of everyday life.
Evidently the circulation of the agri-
cultural papers is falling of alarming
" or the editor of Wallace's Farmer
would not feel so badly over the mat
ter: but Is he so foolish as TO believe
that the boys and girls of the farming
sections are today so deficient in edu-
cation or in a knowledge of what is
going on outside of their own COM
munity that they should not be per-
mitted 10 read anything more exciting
II than an agricultural weekly or
monthly for fear their morals will be
corrupted or their ideals shattered?
In the opinion of most people the
country boys and girls are as fully
capable of taking care of themselves
as the city bred youngsters. They
lave school advantages such as their
parents never had. The telephone and
the daily newspaper have enlarged
their mental vision, and put them in
touch with the great outside world
They are as keen and bright and
capable as the city youths who are
blase at 20 and are world weary at so.
In fact. if it were not for the country
boys who come to the cities and fill
positions of trust and responsibility
a lot OF prominent business concerns
would have to shut up shop.
No. the farmers boys and girls will
go right on reading the city dailies,
and improving their minds and learn
ing of opportunities to use their brains
to advantage, in spite of all the worry
ing that NAV he done nv short -yisiOned !
agricult lral editors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

will find a substitute for every needed
article that enters into daily life
and which we formerly secured from
Europe
We will continue to buy from Eng
land. France and Germany all the
things that we need which they can
send TO us.
We viii sell to the world all the
things that We grow and make which
the rest OF the world can buy from us.
There are some men whose middle
name Accommodation"
They have run to cover after 'phOn-
Ing. wiring and writing tie people they
deal with TO stop everything
The gutter who stops his business
campaign recklessly IS the man who
trades recklessly. lie lacks poise and
balance. and he will be the first 10 20
under when pressure comes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
Brady.M.D.
More Scandal About the TonSiIs.

Last summer at the annual session
Of the American Medical association
/ there was a spirited symposium upon
/ The Tonsils as a Gateway to General
Infections" Many experienced physi-
clans expressed themselves pro and
con. but there was more pro than
con evident in the discussion.
DR.. y. l.. Wilson of New Jersey pre-
scented the paper and gave clinical and
experimental evidence TO support the
view that infections do enter through
the tonsils.
DR.. r. Levy of Colorado called at
tention TO cases in which the original
tonsilitis was in early childhood, but
the systemic trouble followed years
later. And in childhood attacks of
acute tonsilitis are easily overlooked
unless the throat is examined as q
matter of routine.
DR.. G. L. Richards of Massachusetts
stated that in many school children
who are reported by the medical in
spector as having "tonsils and aden-
ODDS" there is no need of treatment at
all. Yet in some cases these tonsils
and adenoids are removed.
DIR. o. T. FEeer OF Illinois took
different view of the situation. He be-
lieved that altogether too much specu-
lation is INDUCED in regarding the
tonsils as foci of systemic infection.
The idea that such a state of affairs is
common does not accord with the
throat specialists experience Many
disappointments must be expected in
the hands of the physician who alvo-
Gates removal of tonsils merely on the
basis that they may be foci of infec-
ton underlying chronic joint and other
troubles
DR.. w. W. Carter of New York said
the dangerous tonsil is the submerg-
ed one which has been repeatedly in
famed. He concluded that the tonsil
is the real source of infection in most /
focal infections, and that therefore it {
must be removed. Seldom does sys-
temic infection follow the first attack |
of tonsilitis.
There was more pro, and a lot more !
con. Wen continue the tattling to-
morrow.
Questions and Answers.
SIENNA Leaves - VIII the habitual 4
use OF SIENNA leaves as a laxative be I
harmful for a 2-year-old child? She
eats the leaves willingly and they seem
effective. / try 10 regulate the bow
ELS through the diet and by the use OF
olive oil. but she often needs some
hing more.
Reply-Yes. SIENNA is preferable TO
'astor oil and some other abused rem
dies. but the baby should not require
81. a.
here any other fault in the child's de
-clopment? What was the diet from
'irth? Do you give her cereal gruels
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
editor and PubIishcrD


According to wallace's Farmer of
Des Moines. Iowa. the boys and girls
in the agricultural sections have
taken to reading the daily newspapers.
The editor, in a recent article, meta
phorically speaking. sheds large wads
OF tears over the untimely fate that
will overtake them because of the
fact
He argues that Il is all right for city
youths to read the daily newspapers,
for they are in close touch with hun
dreds of men and women. They know
that the daily paper does not mirror
human life, but the foibles and follies
and sins of the few, and that IL usually
preserves a dense silence about the
virtues and good deeds OF the many.
They know that much that they read
in the daily papers is to be under
stood in a Pickwickian sense"
With the unsophisticated country
boys and girls the case is different, he
argues. for they are apt to take the
statements of the daily press at par
value. as they take the word of father
or mother or neighbor. and to believe
that IL really mirrors human life"
Instead of reading the daily news
papers with their reports of news hap
penings all over the world, and espe-
cially of the big cities which they hope
TO visit some time. these youngsters.
according to the Des Moines editor,
should confine their reading to the
agricultural press like Wallace's
Farmer. which prints pictures of green
fields bearing full crops. of well bred
livestock, of nicely painted houses and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
New Use for GASOLINE.

(Marinette, Ohio, Eagle-Star)
Ellis Magee's eyes bothered him
last week, and when he crawled under
the big auto to ascertain If the gaso-
line tank was empty, he had difficulty
in locating the position of the gaso-
line cock. However, while lying on
his back and rubberlng and squirting
lots. he got sight of the little lever,
and turned it a little at first, then
more and more, and finally he got
brave and swung it wide open, when
biz, came a deluge of gasoline which
filled his sore eyes. his mouth shirt,
collar and everything else that was
handy. He came out splitting, sputter-
ing, and talking Russian, but after
butting into nearly everything on the
premises, including wire fences, he
made his way to the house and trim
med his lamps. His eyes feel better
now than they have felt for weeks,
and although his experience was I'M
pleasant for time, he does not regret
that it happened as otherwise he
might not have discovered the virtues
OF gasoline for sore eyes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
A MESSAGE TO MEN.

"a Message TO Men" appearing first
IN the Dry Goods Economist, has
struck a responsive chord. It is being
widely reprinted. And e is we'll worth
passing along. This is the message:
These are days when men are men.
The real men Of America are going
about their affairs.
They are not lying down, but they
are standing up. and they viii main
tain and improve our place in the sum
of commerce and industry.
The way to locate the real men OF
business these days is 10 listen 10 their
talk and to see how they act.
The real men of business have not
pulled down the flag; they have not
quit advertising; they have not called
IN their statesmen; they have not
locked the factory door.
Yes. they have in many instances
pulled their belt straps a little tight
er." They have perhaps curtailed a
bit here and there as they modified
their working forces and rescrves-and
gained greater efficiency thereby.
But haul down the flag and lie
DOWN.
Never,
a nation OF a hundred million peo-
pie with an untrammeIed working or
ganizatiOn and the smallest per capita
burden OF military expenses IN the
civilized world
The nation with the greatest inter
nal trade and self-contained I'm having
practically every essential OF life with f.
IN its domain.
The nation that has length. breadth
and thickness In it. resources Win .
own coal. its own iron. its own .
grain. is own forests. rs own cotton 4
and with absolute freeoor, ~ {pre-.
nal commerce.
= ne ingenuity OF the American. ali
Fays best displayed IN tn ,-,' 80 80 80
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
THE CAPE COD CANAL.

/ While the attention Of the world
has limped along behind the stupen
dOus events occurring in Europe dur
I ing the last few months, a great Am
erican accomplishment has been sue
I cessfully concluded without causing
more than a casual furry of interest
among the people OF the country
the Cape Cod canal, conceived about
I 29O years ago, and proposed innumer-
able times as a public undertaking,
has been opened to traffic by a pri-
vate company. a description of the
Importance of the new canal. military
and commercial. and a brief survey
OF the steps leading to its construc-
ton, prepared for the National Geo
graphic society by Commodore J. w.
Miller. was issued today.
The Cape Cod canal has not only
more shipping in sight than Suez. but
II is also. next to the Panama canal,
as regards the defense of the coun-
try. one OF the most important water
way improvements ever undertaken.
\ study of the chronology and history
OF the Cape Cod problem shows that
since the days of the Revolution con-
tinued stress has been laid upon its
military aspect. Its importance as an
interior line Of defense is greater to-
day than ever before.
Besides enhancing the security of
this country's eastern seaboard, the
canal eliminates for commercial ship
ping the highly dangerous passage
around Cape Cod between Boston and
New York. The way around the Cape,
with its fogs and wlndstorms, its
shoals and sunken reefs is one of the
most treacherOus sea lanes in the
world frequented by heavy traffic II
is estimated that at least 1000 vessels
have been wrecked in Vineyard sound,
the cape, and in the Nan
tucket shoals region between 1S43
and 1913, sos OF which were a total
loss About 700 fishermen have lost
their lives here owing to the fact that
the long arm of the cape prevented
them from reaching a haven in sud
den storms. Cope Cod has been called
The Graveyard OF Ships
THE canal is wider and deeper
than de Lessep's original canal at
Suez. 1t has a modern, up-to-date chan I
mel, comparable in dimensions to the .
ones at Kiel and Manchester. 1t cross
rs near the shoulder of the cape
where the Pilgrim fathers of more .
than ten generations ago decided that
such a canal should be constructed.
George Washington recommended the
OF a sea level waterway here.
and It has been put forward at fire.
luent intervals. II Massachusetts had
lcted during the era of canal build
re. when New York built the Erie.
md Virginia the Chesapeake canal.
he might have wrested the marine
supremacy from the Hudson at a cost
rival compared 70 the money spent
lpon the two former canals.
"The Cape Cod canal shortens the
distance between Boston and New
FORK. and other southern ports by &
evenly miles. This Will mean large
aving on a very large coastal traf-
ic II viii, further save q deal Il
eedless loss OF Nv ~ and in property
humanity demanded a canal a Cape
cd; commerce nee-ec II; persever- I
nee. pluck and financial ability have Z
nished it-ready for a tributary and Z
zisting tonnage greater than that OF {
.uez and over twice that estimated I
-- Panama"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

/ freely each day? BY all means break
! her of the habit of constipation before
! she is months older-and you can do
/ it il you will
! Cures and Prevents-Please suggest
what you would consider the most eff
/ fective remedy and the most certain
preventive of colds.
Reply-The continuous cold air lung
bath, which doesn't cost a cent and
never can do any harm. All you need
do is breathe all the cold air you can
fad around the house. both night and
day. and keep comfortably clothed.
II the air is kept moving in a cold
draft it is better. but anyway breathe
it as cold as the weather will allow
We sincerely believe that no other
known remedy possesses the prophy-
Tactic AID healing power of outdoor
cold air in all acute infections of the
respiratory tract.
Rate of Respiration-Will you please
give the normal number of respirations
per minute in persons of different
ages?
Reply-Under l year. 40 per minute;
at years of age, 20 per minute: at
Is to 30 years, 30 per minute: at 30
TO % years, 10 per minute; at 80 or
more, Is per minute
MyXoedema-I. VI. NJ. writes that she
has all the symptoms of myxoedema |
II that is the case she is a fortunate
woman. for her physician can do a
miracle. MyXoedema, which we fear |
we described too much in detail in a |
recent talk entitled why Be Fat and |
Forty" is the most durable chronic !
disease in the medical lexicon.
Cascara Tablets-Are Cascara Tab.
lets good for constipation, and will
they eventually cure it? Is there any
thing injurious in them?
Reply - Cascara sagrada (rhamnus
purshiana) alone is one of the least
injurious laxatives. 1t is often mixed
with more harmful laxatives in tab
lets, and also with distinctly poisonous
drugs-as. for instance. "cascara-bro-
mo-quinine" for colds" dangerous be-
cause of the acetanilide in the tablets.
We have never observed anything re
sembling cure OF constipation from
any drug whatever. However. il would
be hard TO select a less injurious Taxa
i've than plain cascara
j. +. b. inquiries: Is pyorrhea and
Dose teeth durable? Has the .
'ure advertised?
Reply-Chronic gineivitis or infiam-
nation OF the gums Is durable. but in ,
'nly one way: BY persevering dental ,
nd medical treatment combined. 7
There is no local or internal remedy I,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

Even IL Germany does formally
take over the government of Belgium
it does not necessarily follow that the
representative Of other governments
TO the little kingdom will have moth
ing left 10 do. Brand Whitlock, the
American minister. at least can be re-
lied upon TO continue 10 make him
self useful.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS

In Chicago choice New Years eve
theatre seats are to be had of brokers
at fancy prices, while at the regular
box offices patrons are Informed there
isn't a thing left OF course, as usual,
the managers deny they are in league
with the scalpers. The very idea!
They never have been. If the public
would refuse to buy of the scalper
that wculd end the imposition. But
the manager and the broker know the
public.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
Dec. 20 in 4Americn
History.

l1TS-A Hilu~h force ivu DN Co'on'
Campbell captured SaVannah' va
overcoming stubhurn defense "
Coluuials under General Hepe''
Howe.
lSOS-Andrew Johnson. seveiilfs"'"
president of the United stA.'~
born. Died 1879
lSl2-The United States fri@ate w
stituiion defeated and captnreo ~
British friSate Java oE san y"
vador The Java lost 60 killed "'''
Iol wounded ouCof 400 men
All the news all the time-The Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

President Wilson, has found 300
men who are willing TO give the coun-
try the benefit of their services as
members of the federal trade commits
sion. Out Of the lot he doubtless will
be able to pick five with the required
qualifications.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

\ reader submits TO The Argus a
newspaper clipping which states that
salt was accepted in the south in
ante-bellum days as a specific for the
hoOf and mouth disease. The recipe
is passed on TO the puzzled experts in
the department Of animal industry for
what 10 is worth
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

Because he is a smaller target. eats
less, requires less cover TO hide be
hind and moves more quickly the lit
tie man has come 10 his own in the
present war. Now if we can find some
niche where the Fat man will fit In
two Of the worlds great problems will
have been solved
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

OF course it is necessary for Can
adam troops 10 have rifle practice
and probably no international crisis
will result from their making targets
OF Americans hunting fowl out OF sea
son in Canadian waters.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
Turkey Not GarruIous

Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
turkey has not yet replied to Italy
relative to the latter's charge of neu-
tral1ty violations. nor is it likely that
conversation on the part of the sultan
Will become very animated. We know
from our own Smyrna Bay incident
that in the matter of international
gossip Turkey can hardly be consid-
cred as garrulous.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

Statistics on the output Of automo-
biles in America during the last year
contain figures which will not tend
10 relieve the acute distress of sundry
lean Wall street gentlemen If only
they could get at that half billion
spent for motor carsi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
Showing Up City Papers.
(Delmar. Iowa. Journal.I

1t is quite the thing in the funny
column of the big city newspaper to
make fun of the personals" and $50
ciety news" in the country press, but
we want to say that nothing that we
nave ever seen in country newspaper
eXcels in insipid slosh wash the drool
and slobber~ of that same city sheet.
in its society department, telling of
Mrs. Hlghbred's return from Europe,
the engagement of Mrs. Uppercrust to
MI. Moneybags, or some foreign pup
pet and the elaborate spendings of
the four hundred The dope in both
newspapers, is practically the same.
except that the country editor holds
in more regard the sanctity of the fire.
side and domestic affairs of human
ity.
HIS political well wishers have got
Secretary Bryan ready for his next
resignation from the cabinet. but il
appears the colonel has not been con-
suited in reference to the change.
HERES unique move to meet COM
petition of the bright lights on New
Years eve: st. Chrystostom's Episco-
pal church, Chicago, announces a cab.
aret at the parish house You may
tango if you like" says the pastor.
There will be girls and girls and
more girls. Once in a while the or
chestra will stop and some one will
sing. The glasses with the frappe in
them will clink together" Everything
about the dance will be proper and
the young people will be carefully
chaperoned. All of the people Of the
parish, young and old, are invited
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

begin feeling sorry for themselves if
It is true, as some fear, that we are
TO have another deadlock in the state
legislature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

Russia IS said to have traded a part
of an island to Japan for guns to use
in the war. II il comes 10 a swapping
game IL is easy to guess who Will
come out on top.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

In having married a man whose
Christian name is the same as her
surname the bride Of Marshall Field
III will need only a hy9hen 10 become
a grass widow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
Prosperity Note.

COLONY, Kan, Free Press.)
Owing to the fact that we raised
about 400 fine squashes in our own
garden this year we will discontinue
the practice of taking them on sub
scription and reverse the order, CIV
ing every person who subscribes to
our paper a squash with a years sub
scription
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
AS to War Sorcs.

columbia, S. c., State).
War songs are now 50 generally
banned in this country that there are
hopes the boil weevil will give I'D
Marching Through Georgia"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

So far as tangible results go. fight
ing in the European conflict has been
about as effective as fighting with
air usually is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

Horses imported into Argentina
are taught 10 avoid a poisonous weed
that the native animals shun nafur-
ally by forcing them 10 inhale smoke
from burning piles OF the weed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

WESTERN bridegroom tainted dur
ing the wedding ceremony. Sugges-
ton has been made that collapse was
caused by the falling off of his brides
veil.
CAN you imagin bargain counter
rush after the hoop skirt has come
into fashion!
WHEN we read of members of roy
atty falling in battle we begin to real
ize that bullets are no respecters of
persons.
ADMIRAL DEWEY now mentions
buttermilk as one OF the reasons for
his long and happy life.
THINGS are getting so jumbled ii
looks as though the Swiss navy will
be the only outsider TO join Uncle
Sam in the Panama canal procession.
WHILE you are complaining of the
high cost of living in these United
just remember that in Italy the
prices of foodstufrs have increased
30 per cent.
JAPAN'S wealth is 30O0O.0OO, 900
yen. Figuring out how much this
would be in American dollars would
make good parlor sport these win
ter evenings.
~ 4
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

But one more day 70 frame up your
New Years resolutions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

TERAfs--rcn cents Per week. by car
rier. IN Rock Island. So per year by mail
In advance
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made 70 the circulation department..
which should also be notiacd in every
Instance where 81 30 desired 20 have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority IN the p~cmlses-
All communication % arEum@utative
character. political or religious. must
have real name attached Tor pubiica-
ton No such articles VIII be printed
over fictitious signatures
Telephones in ali departments. Cen
tral Union. Rock Island -45. ilf5 and
2I45.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

The greatest tulip exhibit ever pos
sible anywhere outside Holland will
be a part of the national exhibit of
the Netherlands at the Panama-Pa-
cific international exposition at San
Francisco in 1915. Two acres will
be devoted to beds of these flowers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

and without immediate effect on the
reader.
But when one learns from some
wide-awake merchants advertising
that he has acquired a lot of potatoes
or oranges or flour or overcoats at a
special bargain, and is prepared to
close them out at a low price, the
thing hits us where we live.
Every one that wants to reduce his
cost of living, and that includes near
ly the whole community, is affected by
such an advertisement. 1t is read more
eagerly by the housewives than the
news of the distant battle. The men
also are interested, and ask their wives
why they don't go there and buy.
Advertising is often the best news
in the paper. Merchants who use it
may be sure that every line is read.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
German Cure Too Ins!stent.
minneapolis JournaD.

King George has conferred the Or
der of the Bath on General Joffre. He
hadn't had time to take one before.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29
THE ARGUS.

Published daily at 1924 Second ave-
rue. Rock Island. III. entered at the
postcnicc a. second-class Tnatter)
/. Rock Island Member OF the Associated
Press.
BY TIE J. W. POTTER co.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-12-29

All the news all the time-The ArE1-