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Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
Aerop1ane the Eyes of the Army

slower machines with rapid-fire guns
sweep the speed scouts from the
sky.
Somewhere you have seen II sug.
gested that it is a simple matter to
conceal troops from air scouts, hut
so long as troops are concealed they
are doing no harm.
Another queer fallacy is the idea
that a bomb will not do much dam
agei Recently an aerizl bomb carry
ing only six pounds of explosives was
fired at rest-on the ground. 1 am told
it tore hole 40 feet deep and broke
ground for 200 feet in all directions.
Bomb-dropping may not be INDUCED
in, but its possibilities are greatly
underestimated.
while 1t doesn't need war to prove
the value of the aeroplane, The war
will show what types are most useful
and how they may be employed to
best advantage.
With the dirigible balloons the
case is similar, but it is difficult to
see how they are to protect them
selves. for they offer easy targets to
gunners, either on the ground or in the
air.
Naval operations probably will
show what actual service is to demand
of the hydroaeroplane and the flying
boat. There will be little opportunity,
however, unless the war is long con-
tinued, to try many of the things plan
ned for the future, such as launching
the machine from battleships either
by catapu1t, from platforms or from
cables. Each of these methods are
proved successful in experiments by
the United States navy, but whether
any of them will be practical in war
fare remains to be seen.
There is practically no end to the
aeronautical questions that may be an
swered by the war. except the one
to which we already know the
answer-that flying machines are
practically invaluable for scouting pur-
poses.~
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

Glenn II. Curtiss, the aviator. talk
cd at the Aero club OF America of the
part aviation may take in the war,
says the New York Times.
"Ane one who has an idea that war
was needed to prove the value of aero
planes in warfare" said Mr.. Curtiss,
''is very wrong. We read the fire.
quently reported assertion that now
we shall see II the aeroplane is worth
while We already know that the
aeroplane is worth while to the ex-
tent of something like S100.o00.0OO
which is approximately the amount
appropriated by European govern
ments for military aviation.
1T scarcely seems necessary to tell
any one that eyes are worth while.
II you were asked which of two box
ers, otherwise evenly matched, would
win, II one entered the ring blindfold-
ed, it wouldn't take you long to de-
eide.
But in the present conflict both
sides have these new aerial eyes.
Just how many nobody knows. Long
ago the Germans ceased to publish
figures regarding their aviation equip
ment; Russia never has been commu-
nicative; only England and France
have told the world of their aerial
forces.
"a new series of problems will be
worked out, but just how best to uti-
lie the flying machines l think viii
be the great problem.
Suppose. for example. a German
army to be advancing upon a French
position. The German commander
sends his aerial scouts to find the lie
OF the land, the number and disposi-
ton of the defending forces. But the
French too. have air scouts at work.
What comes next? Shall we see fleets
OF aeroplanes in aerial battles? VIII
there be single-handed aerial duels?
"Will the small, very - fast ma
chimes elude the armored air cruis-
ers, get information desired and slip
back to their own lines. Or will the
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
THE SUGAR PROBLEM.

The farmers of the United States
can solve the sugar problem II they
will. Two million acres planted TO
beets would free us from dependence
upon foreign-grown sugar. This Is
from figures advanced by the United
States department OF agriculture.
There are 19 states adapted to the
growing of sugar beets. These states
are California, Colorado, Illinois, Ida
no, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan,
Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Ne
braska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio,
South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin and
Wyoming. In these states there are
2.OO0. 900 farms and over 27S,00O,O0O
acres of improved land.
The bulletin issued by the depart
ment of agriculture has the following
interesting information:
eff one farmer in four in these states
were to plant a three-acre patch and
give IL the care that could readily be
bestowed upon so small plat it would
be unnecessary for us to buy foreign
sugar Two-third of one per cent of
the improved land in this area is all
that would be required to accomplish
this result. More than that acreage
lies idle, absolutely unused. every
year. ANY one of the states of Illinois,
Iowa, Kansas. Missouri, Minnesota,
Nebraska or Ohio could produce all
this sugar and then have the beets oc-
cur only once in a ten-year rotation;
several of the others could do It alone
on a five-yeaT rotation.
From this table It can be seen that
devoting the proposed 100000 acres
to sugar-beet production would have
an utterly Insignificant effect in reduc-
ing the acreage Of other crops. II they
were grown In properly considered ro-
tation with any OF these crops, except
cotton and rice, the effect of the beets
in increasing the yield of the others
would much more than counterbalance
the acreage taken from the latter All
that is necessary. so far as acreage is
concerned, in order TO make us indie
pendent sugar producers, is to bring
the crop to a parity with fax or rye"
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
A COUNTY FAIR.

It has been suggested once more
that a central county fair should be n
winner here. The shape Of Rock Is
land county, however. is a sufficient
answer. Unless we have a great dear
better highways or a comprehensive
system of interurbans radiating from
the cities TO both east and west ends,
II will remain an impossibility for the
farming population TO get together sat
isfactorily at any one point within the
county's borders. and with relatively
small country population the active
cooperation OF everybody is necessary
to success.
Any general fair we might hold
would be bound to suffer by compari-
son with those held in neigaboring
counties, and that would spell certain
failure
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION

While people outside the gas belt
are generally under the impression
that the days of natural Scs are prac-
tically over, so far as the American
fields are concerned, the fact is that
the output OF this product in 1913 was
the greatest in the history OF the in
dustry. The output of all previous
years was surpassed both in quantity
and value.
The total gas production in 1913 IS
estimated by b. Hill, of the United
/ States geological survey at 5S1 $685.
$4,000 cubic feet. valued at sS7,S46,-
677. an average price of 1910 cents
per thousand cubic feet, as compared
with a production of 562, 2,2O3, ,452. 900
cubic feet, valued at SS4,563, ,957, an av-
erage price of 1904 cents in 1912, the
[ increase being 1874 4,7S7.O0O cubic
/ feet in quantity and S3.2S2. 72O in val
ue. OF this total product. about 80 per
! cent was utilized for domestic pur-
poses. or 1s4.s55. .662. 900 cubic feet,
valued at $50, AIS. an average price
I Of 27.33 cents per thousand cubic feet,
and 6S per cent was utilized for in
dustrial purposes, or 397,012. .577, 900
cubic feet, valued at $37, 7,324,262, an nv
tA dEc P4 Atc VI J-f GUILE Hc
trial consumption includes gas used
for both manufacturing and producing
power
West Virginia led in 1913 in guam
tity Of natural gas produced. 254, 49,
9S5.0OO cubic feet, valued at S34. 1884,
$50. Pennsylvania was second in guam
tity produced with 1850, 269. 900 Gu
bic feet. valued at S21. .694,S45. On the
other hand, Pennsylvania was the
leading state in 1913 in quantity of
natural gas consumed. with 1T, ,463,-
10000 cubic feet, valued at s2S. 709,-
sos, and Ohio second with 2S,204. .722,-
900 cubic feet, valued at S27,055.s24.
The extraction OF gasoline from
natural gas, or casing-head gas, from
oil wells in the United States has be-
come an industry OF some importance
IN the last three years. Returns re-
ceived from producers OF gasoline OF
this character indicate that the pro-
duction In 1913 amounted TO 24.O60.-
SIT gallons. valued at S2,45S.443, an
average price OF 1922 cents per gal
Ion. as compared with "a production of
l2,0Sl.l7S gallons. valued at $l,l57,-
476. in 1912. and 7,425.s39 gallons, val
ued at S531. .7O4, in 1911.
In 1913 West Virginia produced
7.s62.zS3 gallons OF natural gas gaso-
line. valued at $S07. 7.4O6; Oklahoma,
6,462.96S gallons, valued at S577.944:
Pennsylvania, 3,6s0.O .O9s gallons valued
al $4O5. 1856; California, 3,46O.747 gal
Ions. valued at S376.227: Ohio. 2,O72.-
6s7 gallons. valued at $212.404. The
balance OF the 1913 output was pro-
duced by Illinois. Colorado. New York.
and Kansas.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
TIME TO BOOST.

The Moline and East Moline boOs-
ter organizations are losing no oppor'
tunity to say q good word for the two
Rock river bridges and the new county
jail. for which the people Will be asked
al the November election to vote
bonds.
1t is time for Rock Island to be up
and doing TO aid the same cause. The
defeat OF either project in view OF the
well known need for all OF them,
would be a sad commentary upon the
attitude OF this county toward pro-
gressive measures IN general.
Let Il not be truthfully said that the
city OF Rock Island has been asleep
on the Job.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
Brady,M.D.
Food Economy.

II is a curious fact that the cheap
est foods are generally the most nu
tritious and digestible. Luxury is
costly in money as well as IN health
The waste OF food in the average
American home is appalling. We
squander money on fancy articles OF
low nutritive value. and we use little
judgment in preparing what we eat
with a view to obtaining all the energy
there is in IT,.
For instance, potatoes are most di-
gestible and most palatable when
cooked with their Jackets on, either
boiled or baked. Yet this is rarely
done except with new potatoes. Bread
is more digestible when stale than
when fresh. Yet many housekeepers
throw away crusts and loaf ends be-
cause they are stale, instead OF incor-
porating them into a pudding or 9th
erwise utilizing the food value.
In meats the cheaper cuts are just
as nourishing and just as palatable
in every way as loin or porterhouse
cuts. Yet hundreds OF families never
think OF buying anything cheaper
than a sirloin or a rib roast or chops
or some other extravagant cut. Fish
IS every whit as nourishing as meat,
and often more digestible. But a lot
of people for some foolish reason i'm
agine fish won't sustain working
strength.
Save Money and Keep Well.
We eat too much meat anyway.
Meat may possibly be necessary for
u person doing hard muscular labor,
but even then a single meal of meat
a day is ample. no matter how hard
the work. For indoor workers, clerks.
office people. those who do not put
forth great physical exertion in their
daily work meat three times week
is all the body can assimilate without
being oyerburdened with nitrogenous
wastes.
Cheese is cheap and quite as digest
ible as meat II taken in moderation. II
is highly concentrated nutriment, and
should therefore not be crowded in
with pie after full dinner. Oleomar-
garine is fully as healthfuI and nour-
ishing as the best dairy butter, and a
lot cheaper. Coiored yellow It fools
many a boasting epicuTe.
Beans. rice. oatmeal that is cooked
at home. macaroni. bananas. peanuts,
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
burlington aaEottc.) }

The good work that has been por-
formed by Congressman Clyde II. Tav-
enner of the Fourteenth Illinois dis
trict 10 the occasion for general COM
mendation on the part of his constitu-
ents. The old Fourteenth has never
had a congressman who worked moro
earnestly for the good and welfare of
the country than Mr.. Tavenner. His
fight for the bill to make 1t possible for
the government to manufacture its
own war munitions is bearing fr''lt and
will eventually pass. thus effecting an
enormous saving each year. At the
democratic congressional convention
held in Monmouth a few days ago
Congressman Tavenner was enthusi-
astically endorsed. He cannot fail of
election, because he has proven his
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

tion and power. and innocent amuse-
ments instruct and brighten their
lives.
To hold the young people on the
farm farm life must be made the more
attractive. as we'll as the business OF
farming moro remunerative. The
school house should be the social
unit. properly equipped for nourish-
ing and building character. so that the
lives OF the people can properly func-
tion around # and become supplied
with the necessary elements OF human
thought and activity.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

Spell out the name iowa" when ad-
dressing letters or parcels, is the ad-
vice OF the postoffice department, and
II should be followed by Rock Island
ers. who send a great deal of mail
into the state across the river. There
is no official abbreviation for Iowa,
and the attempt TO shorten the name
often, in the case OF poor writer's.
causes the postal employees TO mistake
The Ia" for La" especially where
there are cities in both states OF the
same name.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

peas, both green and canned, and the
! brownest of brown sugar are all fit
for anybody's pantry and exceedingly
cheap articles OF food. Corn meal
| cabbage eaten raw or in salad, onions
/ and potatoes are cheap and healthful
foods.
! EXtravagant articles of diet are
oysters. porterhouse steaks, ready to
serve breakfast fodder-"boxed wind"
strawberries, peaches, condensed milk,
musk-melons, gelatin and canned
soups. These articles are all of little
| food value.
Any householder interested in the
question of food economy should write
the U. s. department of agriculture
and ask for copies of farmers buIle-
tin Nos. 142, 121, SO and 332.
Questions and Answers.
Old Chronic queries: Frankly, are
more proprietary medicines not used
by doctors than by the Iaity?
Reply: You embarrass me. It is
about nip and tuck to see who shall
discard them first.
w. II. w. writes: l am a paragon
of good health at forty. But the past
Sear OF SO L nave been developing
corporation OF which II am none too
proud. How shall l proceed to train
IL down?
Reply: Join a gmy class. Second
best, make your bedroom or back attic
over into gymnasium. Lie on your
back and kick your feet in the air, not
in a ludicrous fashion. at all, but
rythmically and slowly, both feet rails
ed gradually 10 the vertical. then grad
ually lowered to the floor, and repeat
for ten to thirty times at a sitting
Then keep your heels on the floor and
raise your trunk slowly TO the up
right, and slowly down again-ten or
more times at a sitting Continue at
this exercise ten minutes a day and
you'll soon gain control of the corpor-
alton.
c. inquiries: What is your opinion
or chiropractic treatment?
Reply: Until Il is recognized bv
law and its practitioners legally en-
titled TO practice in my state, am not
expressing an opinion. II you ask
about the treatment of some definite
disease. that is another question.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

Walter O'Day. defeated by Joe Can
non for the republican nomination for
congress from his district two years
ago, and who later sued Cannon and
his managers for $4,000. alleging
persecution and financial ruin, is dying
IN a hospital. Little, however, cares
Uncle Joe
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

1t may be. as the department Of
agriculture asserts. that the apple crop
this year is going to be large, but this
part OF the country IS not overwhelmed
with evidences Of the fact. Hard
cider will be as scarce as altar of
roses in Rock Island county farm
cellars this winter.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
SOCIAL CENTERS.

The crying need OF rural Illinois is
social centers where the young peo-
pie can be entertained. amused and
Instructed under the direction OF cul-
tured. clean and competent leadership.
where aesthetic surroundings stir the
love for the beautiful; where art
charges the atmosphere with inspira-
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

The British government seizes wheat
IL finds in the hands OF Spectators
who are holding for high prices. II
similsr practices were followed in
this country many OF the more con-
spicuous examples of our idle opulent
would have to 90 TO work
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

In reply to frequent statements that
the big conflict in Europe is a kings
war" defenders of the crowned heads
are protesting that none of the rulers
involved in the present struggle want
&c war, and that they exerted their
influence in vain for peace.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

The Burlington road is about 10 re-
tire on pension a conductor OF %
years service who is worth a quarter
of a million dollars. II there is any
real basis for the poor mouth the rail-
roads are making it would be mora
appropriate for this conductor TO pen
sion the company.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

The shipping Of 100000 shorse-
shoes from Pittsburgh for use in the
French and Russian cavalry means
that the allies are determined that
history shall not repeat itself and the
kingdom be lost for want OF a horse
shoe
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
WHY is A KING?

Very well. But we fail to see any
particular use for a monarch in either
case.
If king can incite war, he is a menace.
If he is powerless to prevent war,
he is a figurehead.
Why is a king?
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

General Grant wrote that he pro-
posed to fight it out on this line II it
takes all summer, The crown prince,
in sending for his heavy underwear,
indicates a similar disposition, the
only difference being as TO seasons
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

The term pumpkin show" as ap-
piled to county fairs in this part OF
the upper Mississippi valley this fall,
IS q misnomer. Pumpkins OF respect
able size raised this season are few
and far between, threatening a dire
shortage in the justly famous autumn
ME
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

The allies are perfectly willing 10
admit that the Germans fire is deadly
when the latter happen TO make
mistake and get in front of their own
gina
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

The south pole will have hard
time getting away from Lieutenant
Ernest Shackleton this time. He is
preparing to stalk it from opposite
sides simultaneously.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

Lord Kitchener doubtless was COM
pelled 20 be very stern in refusing the
prince OF Wales permission TO go to
the front.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

Ex-senator w. E. Mason ought to be
a good loser. for he hasn't won any
thing to speak of for a long time
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
Sept. 2I in American
History.
History.

i.So-rirs. S4es.l IKE ia ->ew AuiN tl,s
800 buildings burned along 'ne
Hudson in the west side district
1S2O-Joseph Rodman Drake, the poet
died; born 1T95.
I91l-Canada rejected reciprocity WIZ
the United States by popular Nole-
Youthful Paradox.
Dorothy and her papa had ON! =
short distance TO go, and the ia''e'
said:
Dorothy, shall we walk or take tiie
bus?"
"Well, papa" replied the little suS
''I'll walk II you'll carry me-"-AohuoA
Standard.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
THE ARGUS.

eY THE J. w. POTTER CO.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

Monday, September II, 1914.
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

Paris.-An instance of the censor's
pitiless treatment of letters from the
soldiers at the front to their wives
and sweethearts in Paris, is the case
OF a wife who received the following
note from the censor as substitute
for the long letter her husband had
written:
Madam" he said, your husband Is
well but is far too loQuacious."
Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21

London.-The Blue Cros society
which has been established at the sug
gestion of Sylvia Lathrop. the 14-year
old daughter of Ben Lathrop OF Cali
fornia, and which is composed entire
ly OF children, has the collection ot
tobacco for oonvalescent soldiers as
its particular mission. Already the
children have obtained enough smok
ing material to supply 200 soldiers in
one London hospital and the work is
constantly expanding.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-06-12
FIGHT |: IS MADE
BY LUCY OUGAS
OPPOSES LETTING HER CHILL
DREN co TO THEIR
GRANDPARENTS
NO DECISION YET
Senator and Mrs. 1'ilIman Asked
To Have Little Ones For a
Month or Two
Special Correspondence.

ODcCIdt t>OTTcSpOnOcnCo.
Columbia. June 10.-Mrs. Lucy
Dugas, the divorced wife Of B. r.. Till
man. Jr.. appeared before the South
Carolina supreme court this afternoon
and opposed the petition of United
States Senator and Mrs. D Il. Tillman
that they be allowed the custody of
Douschka Pickens Tillman and Sarah
Starke Tillman during the months of
July and August. Young Ben Till
man will then be absent from the state
The mother said that Senator and
Mrs. Tillman had no right whatever
to claim the little girls.
No decision was announced by the
court, which took the petition under
advisement.
Henry c. Tillman OF Greenwood, a
son Of Senator Tillman and brother OF
young Ben Tillman, the father OF the
two children. appeared and made the
request that the senator and Mrs. TILL
mar be allowed to have tho children
for July and August, as young Ben
would then be absent from the state,
having obtained q position. as .secre-
tary of the board of epgiR9Nrs. which
would lay out the route for The gov
ernment railrond In Alaska}
Under the decision of the court over
year ago, the children were to be-
with thir father during. the SUMMER
months. The senator and his wife
asked to- be allowed to have the cIilSS
tdreni and Mr. Henry TilImnns said
tHey we're Estiin pi "a ssafit forS5fssi i6a
children and they made tho request
out Of Justice and humanity +
My request Is more to your human
side than to the strict law" said Mr..
Tillman. S5fe ~
Counsel for the young mother in op-
posing the request said the father
Ssrc UP his right ~he:: i;c Left the
state. She wanted to make q point
of the allegation that she alone had
contributed to the support of the chill
dren since the separation from her
husband four years ago, and she said
he ought to be made to contribute to
their support by the court.
The question OF support the court
ruled out and held the parties down to
the one question whether the senator
and Mrs. Tillman. should be allowed
TO have the children during July and
August. Mrs. Dugas' attorney would
not even admit tho jurisdiction OF the
court, but reserved the right tc raise
this as an objection.
Mrs. Dugas. dressed entirely in
white, followed tho proceedings with
closest attention. She was accom-
panied to the court room by her cou-
sin. DR.. F. p. W. Butler, and her attor-
neys. Graydon & DePass., The two
little girls were not In court.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1917, 1914-06-12
Fair Play Plea
rs. rs For Injunction

/ Cincinnatti. o., juno -"There Is
hardly q boy or man In this whole
COUNTRY who does not follow the great
national game OF baseball with as
much eagdrnoss as he awits his
The Influence it,,WIelds is
tremendous. For, this reason fair
play should characterize the methods
used In conducting the game. II we
permit one team to seize upon players
of,another without regard to moral or
legal obligation ,wo will undermine its
whole structure and !. the game will
lose Its hold on the public" q
This was the sentiment expressed
BY Attorney George w. Pepper OF
Philadelphia representing william M.
killifer, Jr.,c catcher with the Phti-
adelphia Nationals. when he stood .ber
tfr the. United States circuit court
: appeals and opposed the plea for
an Injunction TO prevent Killifer from
playing with the. philadelphia; club.
Attorney e. b. Gates; representing
the Chicago Nationals, made the first
argument. He said sKillifer told f0ifs:
ccrs Of the Federal league that he was
tres to make q contract and was not
IN .ary manner bound to- Philadei-
phia. I. } 1; /;