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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-09

The statement by Representative Clay
ION to-day that the Sherman law has been
eft intact I'm the measures drafted by the
tiouse committee establishes that the COM
inittee has adopted the only specific recon-
nl.hdatiun In regard to antitrust legisla-
non which was made 10y the President in
his recent annual message to Congress In
this message the President said:
II think II will he easily agreed that
we should let the Sherman antitrust law
stand unaltered as IL is with its debatable
ground around 1t. but that we should. as
much as possible. reduce the area of that
debatable ground by further and more ex-
pllcit legislation. and should also supple
ment that great act by legislation which
will not only clarity Ii, but also facilitate
it, administration and make IL fair to all
concerned"
II is known that this recommendation
by the President is IN accordance with
the wishes Of Acknowledgement Nc
Reynolds. Mr.. McReynolds regards the
sherman law as practically an adequate
instrument with which to proceed against
combinations in restraint OF trade.
In addition it is In keeping with the
Administrators desire not To disturb busi-
ness more than is absolutely necessary.
Full Committee 10 Act.
Mr.. Clayton authorized the announce
msnt that in cooperation with Representa-
committee. the preliminary work OF the
committee on the subject OF trust legisla-
ton had been finished; that bills touching
every phase of the subject had been pre-
pared, and that upon the return OF the
full committee to the city the bills would
be taken up for consideration by the full
committee.
Mr.. Clayton said ne believed the views
OF the President and the Democratic party
as expressed in the platform had been fol-
lowed. Mr.. clayton declined to give the
details of the bills. but was willing to say
that the Sherman law had been left In
tact and that the proposed LEGISLATION Ia
entirely supplemental.
II is believed the two chief recon-
mendations in the Presidents coming
message, which are reflected in the bills
approved by Chairman Clayton, are those
to extend the provisions Of the Sherman
Jaw to fix on individuals the respons
blli,y for the creation OF monopolies and
to define more clearly a monopoly than is
dore by the present law
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-09
Poll of Every Owner of Automobile Chicago both Pleasure
Car and Truck Indicates That Daily News

showing the particular newspaper they read,
are frequently taken by both publishers and
manufacturers. Hitherto, however, all such
tests in Chicago have been only partly i'm
formative, and not entirely conclusive. be-
cause they have not included all the automo-
bile owners of the city. To secure complete
and authoritative poll of the newspaper
habit of the city's automobile owners The
Daily News addressed the following COM
munication and return form card to the
owner of every licensed automobile in the
city of Chicago, 1880 in all:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-09

d 1t is generally conceded that people who
can buy automobiles are usually able to buy
any other high priced thing they desire. The
newspaper, theret"re that can demonstrate
that Its circulation 1l.iudes a large r"cci,t.
age of the automobile owners of its cny ras
proved the high purchasing power" OF III
circulation. 1.-The Automobile Test" is so
generally recognized, by both publishers and
automobile manufacturers, as conclusive evil
dence of the advertising value of newspaper
circulation for articles of high cost that
"straw votes" among automobile owners,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

Girl,-and She staring up at him with an as
toundmcnt in her widcopcn gray eyes that matched
his own.
Explanations came quickly when he went to sit
beside her
But, Waly YOU didn't get my letter."
"No and suppose you didn't get mine. When
did YOU wrc?"
The day before ycstcriay-or maybe it was The
dav before that I've been in such whirl that I've
positively lost AL count Of time. wrote You not to
come up for the play that obliged to run away
And | wrote YOU that couldn't come But why
the runaway"
"You'vc heard me speak Of Cassie lIcmmng, my
college chum and room mate al Lakcw"pd?"
"Whv, sure | have" Harding rclonc1 now know
ing why the Hcnming name had been 50 clu,ivcly
familiar.
WELL Cassie sent me a perfectly hcarbrpkcn letter,
begging me to come to her, if only for cw days You
know she has mother sisters She Is in deep trout
bic Of some kind; though She didn't tell me what 1t was
SoIm hcrcI came in by way Of Nashville this morning.
But what brings YOU here, Wally;'
~ thing that I've been CuS,ing out ever since LETT
Chicago Three days ago ! was getting ready 4" ask
Mr. Norhrup for the little vacation. II" headed me
off and sho, me down here into h, bowling wilderness
on business for the paper What I've been saying about
i was bad enough but it i,n', marker on what |
should have said il had kicked out If the assignment
and then got your letter.
"Don't he foolish Boy" she protested, freeing the
hand he had imprisoned
"I'vc 60, 20 be-: I'm bull tina, way. The angel, nave
been good to u.s. Girl handing u hl' Of celestial luck
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06

M1eMSNiVON the lew VINO succeed because inc sign
E }. !. !. J. !. !. !. !.
ESNlA is right, the many who win out by dog
NRR gcd plugging, and the odd dozen so
G6SSyNN who play favoritcs and gather grapes
4NSAT from thornS and figs from thiStcs by the
VTNSH grace of pull there is a hundrcdth prize
SNSSSS winner in whom ambition is obScsson,
who SlashcS his way to the front by
sheer calculating ruthlcSsncSs This the story OF the
hundrCdth man
Al twenty four Waller Harding, fresh from college,
frcc-hcartcd generous and cvcrybody's friend buttcd
into the Express Recorder staff cub reporter At
,wcnty-ScvCn he had smashed his way the star"
mans desk as enthusiast to whom "bcat"
heaUtudc and for whom the human tragedy struck
no note higher than that which may be sounded upon
the scale of news valucS,-"A mighty good all round
newspaper man, in the growing comment OF Northrup,
the managing editor; and this estimate rather
heightened than cSScncd IN NorthrupS view 10y the city
EDITORS qualifying, YES and he is as coldboodcd as
fish The office is always saying OF him that he'd make
copy OK, Of his own grandmother.
"Of course he would: its his business to make copy"
Northrup crun,cd. And then pi,ilcss Lachcsis spun
her fatal thread for one Waller Harding "lf you
spare h,m for a few days, Garvin, I'm going to send
him south 10 get tobaccowar story. He's the fellow
to pu; the punch into it. What DO YOU Say?"
WHAT the city editor said is negligible to us; but
w the direct result was that two mornings later
Harding turned out Of a through-cXprcSS Pullman at
a country function in Western Tennessee and made
his way across The platform in drilling rain TO the
dingv branch train that to forward him to the
sea, of war Al Jacksonville.
From his secure position at the summit OF the re-
ar.oria ladder he had protested much he dared
when the managing editor had called him in to give
HIM the distant assignment There a girl in
college town within easy reach Of Chicago and he had
meant - ask for short leave covering club dinner
and a college play with the girl. But Northrup had
beaten him to it, hence the actual day Of the pre-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
Drawings by Harvey Enrich

" the few who succeed because the sign
is right, the many who win out by dog
gcd plugging, and the odd dozen or so
who play iavoritcs and gather grapes
from thornS and figs from thiStlcs by the
grace of pull, there is hundrcdth prize
winner III whom ambition is an obScssion,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-06
By FRANCIS LYNDE

NV ''N'
Tolcrably high strung, as
say; but that's all.
Instantly Harding fou'
confronting a familiarit
Where had he known any
that the name should obt
like a forgotten face dcmanC
milton?
when you say high S
mean disSipatcd, don't you:
out as a icclcr.
"Oh, no. Drinks a Ii
guards a little, and fights
inScS a little: none of e
to hurt"
Just here young llcmmi
seat and went forward To {
of the knucklc Knob farmc
ing handed the Sheriff a cis
81 get YOU on the first tv
he returned. "But what d,
by fighting ihc RaWlin-
Scs?"
Its an old sore. Car
tcr's grandpap and old
Colonel Rawlins'S daddy
fit over their boundaries
on lnjun Creek. The
Colonel and the Judge
say howiy when they
meet up with one mother;
but the two boys, the
Coloncl's son Bud and
= dr''I' inc! III d''u' II
fore they was ont o knee
DrGrch'''
b'y"hi '''iS 'ia'"'''E
found himself bored.
IN.I L..
fa'rIy started ON MS
IaI . II . l%i,'' l I rem, .n
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-09-18

Who is to blame for the havoc wrought by the
the liquor business The sa1oonkeeper? Yes The
drunkard? Certainly. But they the only ones:
What accountability has the voter who votes for
the saloon, the legislator who legislates for it
the judge who favors it in his court decis-
ions, the porperty owner who rents his building for
saloon purposes, the citizen who negects to raise
his voice and his strong right against the evil:
Surely these cannot escape responsibility. This is
time to show which side you You cannot
escape condemnation unless you come out firmly
steadily and positively for the right against the
saloon There is no middle ground
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-09-18
South Carolina Redeemed

he good people OF South Carolina have come to
lie front and redeemed their state In the recent
primaries they invited Governor Cole Blease to stay
home and keep quiet. while they nominated E. D
Smith by majority of 10000 votes as the next
United States senator
Blease is the fellow who expressed himself a.
being willing to send the constitution to the place
where the wicked are said to have their eternal
abode All of his acts and policies have been along
such lines as make him undesirable as a candidate
for place in the greatest parliamentary body in the
world
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-09-18
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THE AMERICAN ISSUE

mate business when the liquor traffic is prohibited
They will not be idle but will only change their way of
making living
IA The invention of the linotype threw many hand
type settlers temporarily of employment the inven
ton of the steam shovel threw many pick and shovel
out OF employment. If material progress is forcing
men to change their way of making living ought
be surprised if moral progress also shall force many
men to change their way of making living? Shall
s1e progress for fear of forcing TO change their
way of making a living?
IS. The truth is has a right to engage III
employment that debauche character and destroys life
does the liquor traffic.
10. Thousands of men will gladly hail the day when
they get Of this disreputabe business and make
living without making and selling that which curses and
destroys their fellowmen
II. When the liquor traffic prohibited in Ohio
more homes will be built, better homes will be rented
more and better clothing will be used, and better
food will be consumed, more and wholesome
pleasures and recreations will be enjoyed factorie
Stores shops Offices churches schoohouses and banks
will be built and used this will require such largely in
creased demand for labor that instead of finding men
of employment we will be unable to supply the de
lnand for labor.
Liquor is labors enemy.
Prohibition is labor's friend
Vote Ohio dry November 3 and prove it.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-09-18
September Is, 1914.
Will Prohibition Throw Men Out of Employment?
A. c. ane.

duCe wages.
Let canddly consider this objection
I. Did you ever consider the thousands of
that the liquor traffic constantly throws and keeps
out of employment, because it makes them unfit for
work? The annual loss in wages by drinking
amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars In order
that these may have and keep steady employment
we must remove the temptation to drink.
2 Seventy per cent of the industrial accidents that
throw men out of employment are caused by drink
3. Employers of labor are today everywhere dis
terminating against men who drink and refuse to en-
loy them.
T. Seventy per cent more men are idle because OF
the open saloon than will be made idle temporarily By
closing the saloons.
5. very small per cent of the laborng
engaged in the liquor business it will be easy to find
work for these.
O. The trouble in this nation is under-consumption,
and not overproduction that under consumption
ed by the money waste for drink When they
longer their money for drink, they will
MORE this it will require labor
make and to sell this increased amount consumed
!. If the money invested in making and sell
ing liquor invested in making and selling
saries Of life it would give employment to all now
ployed by the liquor traffic and six times many
men.
s. In every dry town the merchants report thai
former drinking when they their money
uandered for drink buy goods and better grade
of goods; this employs tc make and to sell
this extra supply of goods.
9. The capital saved when nen can no longer
it for drink, will be employed in way and
this will require work for the laborers.
When West Virginia went dry July /. brew
cry in Charleston converted into packing hou>e
and Immediately employed 400 men, when a brewery
it had employed only forty
In the nine Prohibition states the per cent OF
increase in the number of wage in the past ten
years 1923, while the per of increase in the
number of wage in the ten wettes liquor license
states was but 7I.2
The liquor traffic is labors poorest supporter
Labors share in wages from the output of all the in
dustries of the nation is 54.4 per cent.
In malt liquors it is 2o2 per cent.
In distilled liquors it is 10 per cent
So, if the capital employed in the liquor business
employed in legitimate industries labors share and
benefit would be increased many fold
r. The men in the liquor business will be thrown
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

Frank c. Thomson to Charles H.
Cornwall, part lots 8 and 10, block !,
Reads subdivision old lot A, Stew
arts 2nd addition, Moline, 81.
Charles A. Larson to Walter H.
Washburn, lot 43, c. A. Larson's lst
addition, Moline, $1,45O.
Hortskamp & Sherman to Luther
Schafer, lots 3 to s, block 3, NJ. A.
Carlson's 1st addition, Moline.
Daniel Maroney TO A. E. and Archie
McInnis, lot 4, block 4, Gen Rodman 5
addition, Rock Island. 81.
A. E. and Archie McInnis TO Daniei
H. and Catherine Maroney, lot IL, NC
Innis Bros. addition, Rock Island, si'
Robert Jr. and Samuel H. Montgom'
cry to William Rathburn and wife, iols
%. 20, 27 and 2S, block 4, and lots ~
and 20, block 3, Fruitland addition MO
line, $1,000.
Nancy A. Moorhead and husband 70
Laura NJ. Tendall, lot 1, block Z, pieh-
son c Young's addition, Milan $Z'VVV'
John D. Cady and wife to Lotue a
Johnson, lot 9. block 3, NJ. y eau!
1st addition. Moline, $3.50.
Alvin A. Jacobson and wife 10 1ohh
G. Sorenson, lot 9, part lot 10 oioeA
6, Buford & Guyers addition, hoeA 10
land, s1.O0
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
FRIEND RECKLESS;
SUES FOR INJURY
Davenport Man Asks S15, 900
After Accepting Ride in
Automobile.

Whether in accepting a ride with
friend in his automobile one forfeits
his right TO recover for injuries which
result from the drivers carelessness
is a question which will be brought
to an issue in the district court in
Scott county shortly.
Suit for $4,000 damages for per
manent injuries has been filed by Ed
Plagmann of Davenport against August
JAMS of, Clinton county for injuries he
sustained when the automobile of the
latter turned turtle on Sept. % near
Eldridge.
Plagmann claims that on the after
noon of the date mentioned he had
contemplated a trip 20 a point east Of
Eldridge. Jams. he said, invited him
to ride with him in his car. stating
that he was going in the same direc-
tion. He states that at a short dis
tance east of Eldridge Jams drove at
an excessive rate OF speed and reck-
lessly struck a new culvert. The ma
chine turned completely over and
Plagmann was thrown violently out
One eye was gOuged out, his nose was
lacerated and broken, II teeth were
knocked out and several bones in his
face broken. He also sustained a
compound fracture OF the Jaw and he
claims that he is nov unable to mas
ticate his food as a result of It.
Plagmann further claims that JAMS
was preparing to drive over his body
and leave him in the road when farm
ers came to his assistance. He states
that he IS already liable for $500 hos
pital and medical bills. Plagmann is a
carpenter. ~ years of age.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
DAY IN DA VENPORT

Tevis. who has no police record, and
was driven to theft after a fruitless
search for work, entered with bowed
magistrate. His wife who is almost a
I nervous wreck, due to the shame and
humiliation of the entire affair, was
barely able to totter to her husbands
side. Tevis had confessed to stealing
$25 from an old friend, William Nc
Caffery, and the court was compelled
to pronounce sentence. When the
words thirty days" were said, Mrs.
McCaffery, wife of the theft victim.
stepped to the prisoners side and
pleased with the court for leniency.
Previously her husband had refused
TO prosecute. Think of the mother
and the little babies in that home
cried Mrs. McCaffery. please, judge,
let him go. Don't make him spend
Christmas in Jail. Let him go home
TO his family Magistrate Roddewig
said he had no option in the matter.
He had strained point, as it was, ana
reduced the amount stolen from $25
to S19 in order that the prisoner escape
a bind-over to the grant jury. The
magistrate stated that if the prosecut-
ing attorney wished to recommend
leniency, he might do so. Whether or
not the assistant county attorney will
bring Christmas TO the Tevis home is
unknown.
Find Man Dead In Hotel Room-On
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

Slips on Ice-Mrs. P. G. Glynn slip
ped on an icy sidewalk in front of the
Sacred Heart school Friday afternoon,
severely wrenching her left hip and
limb. She was taken OF her home, 924
Harrison street, in the police ambu-
lance and given medical attention.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

the evening of Dec. 9, man registered
of T. Oelkers. He was of silent taci-
turn disposition. Saturday his lifeless
body was found lying across the bed.
the bed clothing heavy with clotted
blood. He had been dead almost 20
hours. Although no external wounds
were visible on the mans body, blood
had poured in fearful quantities from
the mans mouth and nose and had sat
urated the blankets on the bed. 1t is
not known exactly what was the cause
of the mans death. Friday night
! Oelkers retired at the usual time. He
was in apparently good health.
Counterfeiters Abroad-That a gang
of clever counterfeiters has been oper-
ating in Davenport for the past few
days and scores of citizens have been
victimized was made public Saturday.
The police have refrained from any
mention of the subject and when asked
as to whether or not they were making
an effort to round up the gang, denied
any knowledge of the affair and claim
ed they had received no report of
same. Various merchants and private
citizens as we'll have been the recipi-
ents of the spurious coin. The gangs
output is said to consist entirely of
half dollars, of exceptional workman
ship and finish. The coins so closely
resemble the genuine that detection is
almost impossible, according to re-
ports of victims. 1t is rumOred that
U. S. secret service men are expected |
in Davenport the first of the week for I
the purpose of making an investiga- |
tion.
Slips on Ice-Mrs. P G. Glynn slip
ped on an icy sidewalk in front of the !
Sacred Heart school Friday afternoon,
severely wrenching her left hip and
limb. She was taken OF her home. 924
Harrison street, in the police ambu-
lance and given medical attention.
Obituary Record-Bernie Pieper. in
fant daughter of Mr. and Mrs William
Pieper. died Friday night al the home,
lO40 West Second street, after brief
Illness. The baby was two years, three
months and % days of age and is sur
3ived by the parents, a brother Oscar.
and two sisters. Olga and Jeanette
Pieper.
Mrs. Mary Louise Buskirk. 46 years
I'D, died Friday afternoon, at the fam
ly home. 624 Myrtle street, after lin
sering illness. She was born in this
,ity and has resided here the greater
'art of her life. She is survived by her
husband and the following children:
toyl, Frank. Carl and Raymond Bus I
dirk. Mrs. Maggie Sours of this city
nd Mrs. Edna Abbott of Rusholme.
II.
d
Crowley Returns s-CommissioneT OF
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

Milwaukee, Wis, Dec. 21.-Whether
Miss Florence Phillips, daughter of
Emanuel L. Philip. governor-elect Of
Wisconsin. will be the belle of the ex-
ecutive mansion at Madison, or be-
come a trained nurse, studying in Mil
waukee while her father runs the state
at Madison. is a moot question in the
Philip household
Miss Philip has already done
enough work to assure herself that
she would like to become trained
nurse. but her father, who has
magnificent home in Milwaukee.
where he was host to President Taft
during Mr.. Taft's term of office, is
not wildly enthusiastic over his
daughters aspirations.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

Crowley Returns-Commissio OF
ks J. W. Crowley, returned
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
stockhoIders, Meeting.

The annual meeting Of the stock
holders OF the Rock Island National
Bank OF Rock Island. Ill, will be held
at their banking house on Tuesday,
Jan u. 1915. at $3.50 O'Clock p. m, for
the election Of directors and the trans
action OF such other business as may
properly come before them
H E CASTEEL
President.
H. B. SIMMON,
Cashier.
yAd-l
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

Find Man Dead In Hotel Room-on
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
REALTY CHANGES

]. G. Scheuermann to Katherine
Skinner, lot l, block ., J. G. Scheuer-
mann, 9th addition, Rock Island, 81.
Tri-City Ry. Co. to Charles H. Corn
wall, lots II and II, block j and part
old lot 3, Prospect Park, Moline, $500.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
tAdv)

4 Bath (Me.) boy. aged nine. has
an almost feminine liking for kittens
as pets. and >at one time this fall he
owned IS.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21
Wanted Name BY Tiny Pickaninn,

Wanted Name BY Tiny Picka nInny
Davenport city officials, a Daven-
port physician and the members of
one Davenport family are gravely con-
cerned over the problem of finding
suitable name for month-old coIored
baby. The parents, Mr.. and Mrs. l..
Davidson, 319 East Fifth street, are
anxious to name the child, but cannot
agree upon suitable "monicker." In
asmuch as the latest arrival is child
No 13 in the family, the list of suit
able names has been practically ex-
hausted. and the perplexed parents
are at loss for IDEAS
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

Friday evening from Chicago where
he attended the convention of the
American Road Builders association,
held at the International amphitheatre.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-12-21

No Santa Claus for One Family
There will be no Christmas this year
at the home OF Hupp Tevis, 1905 West
Second street. and three little tots
who have been eagerly waiting for
Santa Claus will awaken on the morn
ing OF Dec. % 10 find their stockings
empty. Their father. who turned pick
pocket 10 obtain bread for his babies.
was sentenced to 30 days in the county
jail on a larceny charge. The scene in
police court was intensely dramatic.