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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-22
GRADING FUND is
AB0UTEXHkUSTED
CLAIMS REYNOLDS
Commissioner of Streets Tells
Council Financial Aid Is
Necessary.
$1,000 IS NOW REQUIRED
H.soiutlon TO Take Sum From Local
Improvement Work Opposed by
Mayor n. NJ. Sehrlver.

Unless get some immediate relief
there will be no more grading done in
Rock Island this year" declared Com
missioner r r Reynolds yesterday
afternoon at the weekly meeting OF the
CITY commission. The grading fund
has been exhausted. and offer a reso-
luton providing that $1,000 from the
local Improvement fund be transferred
10 nv department for this specific
work"
Commissioner Reynolds went on to
explain that the $4,000 which had been
appropriated for grading had pTaeti-
rally been disposed OF by the time the
big Job on Thirty-eighth street, caused
tv the slide OF earth into the street
and q block on Thirty-second street.
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth ave
rues. had been taken care OF.
In some instances the city has
forced in sidewalks. yet they cannot
be laid until grading has been done, -
he continued. Il have used so much
o. the general street appropriation for
the purpose. there is only left enough
20 carry the street work through the
winter. There are continual calls for
grading. work that ought 10 be done
Now IS the time 10 do it. believe that
{. some OF the local Improvement fund
Is turned over for this work, the prob
lem viii be solved"
Mayer Opposes.
q certainly am opposed TO robbing
one fund TO benefit another. unless a
real emergency exists" announced
Mayor Schriver. The board Of local
Improvements has some projects in
view. 7 don't know how much they
Kill cost. but I do not think it wise TO
turn over any OF this fund until later
II the year. The street department
hzs been given the largest appropria-
ton IN the history OF the city. Last
year the board OF local improvements
vas embsrra ssed in It's work because
G. g lack OF money. This year larger
SIN was granted. and ! would not IA
vor is transfer to any other depart
-ent Until 4 IS seen there is a sur
p-Us. IN that case I would want it 10
20 where Il would do the most good"
Understand this IS not for the gen !
erL work Of my department" replied !
Commissioner Reynolds. 1T Is for The 4
definite and specific purpose OF grad !
Ing. which must be done now. II It IS I
70 be done e. all this year. Some OF I
theze petitions for grading have been !
Il Tor six months or a year, but they .
must be disreEarded unless this sum I.
rom the local improvements work IS /
available"
I would be fl favor OF the plan. II
THE dirt removed is placed ~ the tail .
pax Tor the clty's use" said Commits
IiCner RudErel
Commissioner Reynolds motion was
L=conded- but the matter was finally
withdrawn tJT a week. IN order that the
contemplated work can be Inspected /.
= tie commission.
Hold Up License.
After the commission BY I vote OF
3 20 =. Commissioners Bear and Rud-
Eren voting no. had decided 10 grant
q Il L
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-09-22

All the news all the time-The Argus.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30

Let the little Want Ads DO your
work.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30
SEES GREAT ERA
Of COMMERCIAL
OPPORTUNITY
TO UNITED STATES IN SITUA.
TION GROWING OUT OF WAR -
SOUTH SHOULD ADD TO COT.
TON MILL FACILITIES.

Atlanta, Ga, Aug. 29.-Edwin 'P
Ansley, back from a trip TO London
Paris, Liverpool, Berlin and Edin
burgh, while the war excitement was
at its height, Monday declared that
the greatest commercial opportunity
of century is offered the United
States in the situation growing out
Of the war.
The great European war will
cause a temporary depression all over
the world" asserted Mr.. Ansley, but
when the smoke has cleared away
America will be in the most com
manding position OF her history. The
conflict has brought home to Ameri-
cans as nothing else could have done
the Importance of turning out finish.
ed products from the raw materials
which the country produces, instead
Of sending so much to Europe to be
finished and returned to US at high
prices.
"The other big things called forci-
bly, to the attention of Americans is
the crying need of a merchant mar
inc sufficiently large to market our
products in all parts of the world and
compete with the shipping of other
nations.
"To accomplish this double result
it will be necessary first TO add great
ly to our factory facilities. Take our
southern section, for instance, which
depends so largely on it's cotton. The
south now grows approximately a.,
100000 bales of cotton yearly and
sends 100000 to 100000 bales in
the raw state to Europe. For illus.
tration, let US suppose that we get
10 cents a pound for this cotton
The finished product is returned to
us at 81 pound, the producers here
paying the difference. Now, let us
make this profit ourselves by selling
the finished product to Europe
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30

pecuniary loss. The moral damage
cannot be estimated.
Owing to our advantage by reason
of our natural resources and our sep
aration from other powerful nations
by the broad eXpanse of two oceans,
except certain possessions We should
not hold, if guided, as We should be,
by righteous purposes, We should have
no fears of war. For many years the
people of the United States and Can.
ada have lived in peace with each
other, although no threatening imple'
ments of war can be seen along the
nearly three thousand mile boundary
that separates them.
With an enlightened public con-
science will come a clearer vision OF
mans destiny. When we can observe
with clearness Gods map of this roll
ing sphere, we will know that he has
drawn no imaginary boundaries be-
tween his children, made "in his i'm
age" and that all war in his sight is
a fratricidal war.
In every war in which mankind
kills their fellow man, one of the com.
batants is wrong, and often all are
wrong, as individuals in bitter con.
flict cannot all be right. In every
war there are at least two opposing
forces and as Franklin said: "There
never was a good war or bad peace. y
Since every war where the children
of men are deployed against each 9th
er in death-dealing madness is wrong,
| am constrained to file the following
indictments Against War.
War is a many-headed monster; the
antithesis of peace.
War is the crime of civilizations
hell turned loose on earth.
War is a relapse into barbarism: a
call for the attribute of beases; the
unchaining of fierce, consuming pas
sions.
War writes its code with brute
force. The sword and powder laws
repeal the principles of virtue and IL
cense all of the vices.
War turns productive forces that are
conducive of happiness into wasteful
activities of wrong and ruin, and, cal
culating in misery and blood, defies
the law Thou shalt not kill"
War is the play of fools, deformer
of character, profaner of the Sabbath,
impious panderer of lust, nursery of
vice, cesspool of injustice, squanderer
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30
Mothers Friend
Before Baby Arrives

During several weeks Of expectancy
there is q splendid external embrocation
in our Mothers Friend in which
thousands Of women have the most
uUbounded confidence. They have used
1t and know. They tell Of its wonderful
influence to case the abdominal muscles
l.i how thcy avoided those dreaded
stretching pains that are so much talked
about. This safe external application Is
gently used over the skin to render 1t
amenable to the natural stretching which
II undergoes. The myriad Of nerve
threads just beneath the skin Is thus
relieved Of unnecessary pain-producing
causes and great physical relief is the
result as expressed hy a host Of happy
mothers who write from personal
experience.
It is a subject that all women should
he familiar with as Mothers Friend"
has been in use many years, has been
given the most severe tests under most
all trying conditions and is recommended
ty women who to-day are grandmothers
and who in their earlier years learned
to rely upon this splendid aid to women.
Mothers Friend Is declared by
multitude Of women to be just what ex-
pectant motherhood requires.
You can obtain Mothers Friend" at
almost any drug store. Get a bottle
today and then write for our little book.
Address Bradfe!d Regulator Co., 4l2
Lamar BID, Atlanta. Ca
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30
BELL|GERENTS
At MERCY Of
UNITED STATES
ASSERTED THAT BY PLACING AN
EMBARGO ON FOOD PRODUCTS
NORMAL MARKETS WOULD Ex
lST AT HOME.

New York, Aug, 29.-The United
States government could stop the Ell
ropean war by placing an embargo
on food products, it was asserted
Wednesday at District Attorney
Whitman's John Doe investigation
into the increased cost of living since
the conflict began. James Ward War
ner, president OF the New York Pro
duce exchange, and George Zabrinski
resident manager Of the Minneapolis
flour manufacturers, each said the
end OF warfare abroad must result
If America ceased exporting 10 the
belligerent nations.
There is big demand for flour
in foreign countries, according to
these witnesses, with a heavy demand
too, in the domestic markets. Mr.
ZabrinsH said there is shortage of
400, 100000 bushels in the Russian
wheat crop. He declared the United
States could dispose of its entire
flour output to France, England,
Greece and Turkey at any reasonable
prices and receive payment in gold
before the staple was put aboard
steamships.
Not only would war in Europe end
If an embargo was placed on Ameri-
can products, Mr., ZabrinsN and Mr.
Warner agreed, but normal markets
would be established at home and
the prices here 20 down.
Mr.. Warner said the Grain Export
ers Association of North America did
not attempt to fix prices. Ralph II.
Carl, assistant New York manager
for a Minneapolis milling company,
declared there was no combine to
fix prices. He believed there is a
possibility Of wheat going higher.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30
GOVERNOR COLE elEASE
is BEATEN FOR SENATE

Columbia, S. c., August 29.-Ellison
Durant Smith was renominated for the
United States Senate from South
Carolina over Governor Cole l.. Blease
in Tuesdays democratic primary by
a majority Of between $1,000 and 20
900. according TO partially complete
returns received here Wednesday
with a total vote Of more than 123,-
900 reported, Senator Smith received
1854. against j2,3S7 for Governor
Blease. l.. d. Jennings polled 2,2S2
and W. p. Pollock 1862.
With from 5000 to 10000 votes
10 be heard from, it Is not expected
that Senator Smiths lead can be re-
duced to that point where a second
primary will be necessary.
Richard l.. Manning, Robert A.
Cooper and John G. Richards are lead
ing the contest for the gubernatorial
nomination.
Late returns Wednesday indicate
that all the representatives in cong
ress from this state were renomi
mated
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30
WAR! HORRID WAR!
:. !. = :. :. !. :. :. :. = = !. :. = :.

With armored Europe staggering
under a load of militarism and now
in flames of battle and bleeding at
every pore, and other nations being
drawn into the conflict, we should be
able to see the true meaning of war,
and coolly calculate what it has meant
to our own country and how we should
build for true grandeur and perma-
nency.
From the period since the natal day
of this republic, our expenditures for
war and preparations for war aggre-
gates several billions of dollars. This
money spent in the arts of peace
would have made war between this
and other nations improbable. With
half this money we could have belted
this nation with good emblems
OF higher civilization, transformed
arid lands into many thousands OF hap
by homes, made the uttermost parts
of the earth feel the uplifting influ-
ence of a government founded upon
justice and beneficence, causing a bet
ter understanding TO prevail between
the families of mankind and making
Heaven and earth more akin.
Let us halt in the mad international
race for supremacy in martial prov
ess and see what we have accom-
plished under the rule of profit and
loss. Notwithstanding our natural
advantages, and mindful of the fact
that only about ten millions Of dollars
were spent for war during Washing
toms two terms as president and only
eight millions of dollars were spent
Tor war during Jefferson's two term:
as president, during five preceding
years our appropriations for this pur
pose have been more than eight hun
dred millions of dollars, and now W,
are constructing a single battleshiI
that will cost fifteen millions OF dol
lars About seventy-five per cent o.
our national revenues are going tC
support this anti-civilization spirit
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30
Kaiserin May Try Science

Berlin. Aug, 29-That the Kaiserin
is seriously i'll OF a malady which
has failed Of diagnosis by specialists
is the current belief It is said that
the Emperor has indicated that he
would try Christian Science, since
medical skill failed. but that her mat
erialistic trend of thought has pre-
vented his plan.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30

of time, plunderer of nations, leprosy
of the world, discord in the universe,
and the greatest curse that visits
mankind.
War increases the burdens of gov
ernment and concentrates power
the means OF bringing the many under
the control of the few who find pc
cuniary profit in horrid war and its
natural result-special privileges, Civ
ing emphasis to the truth OF history
that no people in a continual warfare
long maintain their freedom.
War can find no support in reason
or justice Our code of ethics for the
conduct of individuals and the annal-
ings OF history belle that false dogma
OF barbarism that holds that in order
to maintain peace we should carry
a sword or bludgeon. Militarism, as
we now see signal evidence in the old
world where the nations that are pre-
pared for war are in deadly conflict,
exposes to temptations, becomes an
incentive for giving fortunes and hu-
man beings as fuel for powder, and is
the cause and effect of much of the
evil against which it proposes to
guard.
War demands the blood of many to
enrich a few who are never near the
battery's smoking guns, in the charg
ing squadrons, or among the dead un-
coffined left to decay in the heat of
the sun or in rivers of blood. Among
the few are the devils chaplains; vul-
lures that feast upon wasted lives.
Not those with horn-hard hands, en-
gagged in honest toll, but the arma-
ment syndicates and those trained in
killing and destruction, want man
kind war-scared and dreadnaught
mad, making of men beasts of prey
and nations poorer and more profli-
gate.
War is fed on shallow sentiments
of heathenism, sometimes expressed
in the catchy phrases vital interests"
and national honor" its fruit is
pangs OF savage cruelty, ruin, waste
and death; scars that cannot be heal
ed by the soothing ointment of time;
the rending of social and business in
tercourse; an Interference with the
Heaven-directed purpose of the age
the establishment of society and
government based on the wise econo-
my of the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man; and it tends to
make of earth one vast GOlgotha;
opens wider the borders of satanic
domain; dehumanizes the children of
men; laughs at the teachings of the
Prince of Peace, and cOnsigns the
fruitage of the toll of arduous centu-
ries and the hopes of the ages to one
sickening funeral pyre.
War is hated by the mothers of
men-mothers, who, at each birth, Of
fers life for life, and their prayers
against this monster which despoils
her children, having consumed more
than a score times the present pOpu-
lation of the globe, for which they
offered such sacrifice, rises to the lis
tening heavens for help to turn the
waste of war into public utility, the
martial strains into songs Of peace,
and the visions of smoke-clouded bat
tie fields into the foregleam of Heav-
en- in that glorious day when "the ma
tions learn war no more"
To attain its end, war appropriates
the waters, earth and air. We may
epitomize by saying that war is hell
and emphasize by expressing the tru.
ism that war and preparations for
war beget war.
WILLIAM VI. FRANKLIN.
Madill Okla
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-30
The Want Ads Pay.
Invigorating to the Pale and Sickly

The Old Standard general strengthening tonic.
GROVES TASTELESS chill TONIC, drives out
Malaria .enrches the blood and builds up the sys-
ten. A true tonic. For adults and children. SOC
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

SO as to make II secure against at.
tacks. The purpose Of thia movement
is obvious and need not be mentioned
In direct terms. 1t is sufficient to in.
spire the whole body of people with q
renewed and sterner purpose of resist
ance. 1 therefore call on such of the
citizens as can possibly leave their
homes to arm and organize themselves
into companies without delay and re-
port to me-"
Gen. r. Saxton (U. S. A. in a re-
port to the War Department dated
March IA, 1868, says: The object of
this expedition was to occupy Jack
sonvil!e and make it the base of opera.
.cns fo-- the arnling of negroes and
occurring in this way possession of the
rtlre State of Florida
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07
The wrestIer's Pride.

In Oldpu times Il wrestler who had
won !'elt used to go to his village
church on the following Sunday wear
Ing the belt. On the Sunday following
shat lie went to some neighboring
church I'm his belt and cluimed preced-
enre over the other young fellows.
Nearly all the champions were men
great In girth and weight. Old Stead
man. accounted by many the most
powerful wrestler ever known. was
twenty stone whit. - Manchester
Guardian.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

should OH In for the picture. Whit.
ing gIanced at Miss Atwood and saw
there sign which he seemed to un-
derstlnd and said. pardon me for a
moment: will make out BILL" and.
goirg to desk. he sat down. wrote
something on bit Of paper. held 1t
before Miss Atwood's eyes: she glanced
an approval. and he handed It to her
frther. 1t read:
Mr.. John Atwood
To Clarence Whiting. Dr..
To painting portrait. one girl. Ethel At
wood
MIR. Atwood was some time getting
the drift OF the matter through his
head. When he did he looked at his
daughter sternly and said:
ETHEL. did you work this scheme?"
II did. papa" replied the girl. draw
ing short brenthS
"And brought me over here on pur.
lOse to turn you over to some one
pSe?"
THAT was one object. papa"
"Rut by no mennS the only one" the
lover put I'm. ''BefOrp your daughter
had ever seen me. looking upon one of
my portraits. she remarked that was
Just the person you needed for the work
] have done"
There was long silence after which
Mr.. Atwood said:
well. I'll make 1t n dowry instcnd
of pay for the picture"
And he transferred securities to his
n1nDhfnr fhnf In1 hnr b.,
an artist.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

Jacksonville, Fla.-The State of
Florida pays out more money per
capita for the support of dependent
ex-Confederate soldiers than any 9TH
er Southern State. This fact should
be sufficient to convince ex-Confeder-
ates everywhere that when they and
their descendants visit Jacksonville
on the occasion of the oath annual
reunion of the United Confederate
veterans Association that they will
be In the hands of their friends. The
reunion will be held May 6, Z, 8.
The handsome total of 100000 per
annum is being paid by the state for
support of ex-Confederate pensioners.
, The average yearly amount paid to
1ach person on the pension list, ac-
Sord1ng to the latest report of the
tState Board of Pensions, is $12125,
while the average paid to old soldiers
Is $122.3O. Widows of Confederate
soldiers draw an average of s12O per
annum. Since the report from which
these figures are taken was made. the
legislature has passed a still more lib
eral pension law, which will authorize
additional payments of approximately
$l50,O0O year, making the total $780,
900 per annum paid to Confederate
pensioners by the state.
There are 1858 soldier pensioners
on the rolls of the state and 2,227
widows of Confederates, making a to-
tai of 1850. The fund to support this
pension roll is raised by a tax of four
mills on the assessed property of the
taxpayer.
Florida is not only caring for the
living but the memory of the dead is
also kept green. Throughout the state
handsome Confederate. monuments
have been erected by both public and
private means. All told there are
twenty, or possibly more, handsome
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

Beef is high because we eat so much
veal. Veal is high for the same rea-
son. If we'd eat more beef. veal would
be higher. and beef would go up ne-
cortlingly. Do you get the logic2
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07
No Mounner Loft.

ate wOrm." said the little tot in
the kindergarten.
Tho teacher. thinking that perhaps
the child had really done such thing.
protested warmly over the undesira-
bility Nof the proceeding. why. just
think. " she said as finaI argument.
how badly the mamma worm felt to
have heH little baby eaten up"
II ate \she's mamma. too" was the
triumphant rejoiner that proved too
much for Ahe teacher.-Harper's Maga.
zine.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

a Louisiana expert figures that by
becoming suffragist woman Ie-
duces her chances of marriage 50 per
cent. This is the most subtle knock
the cause has yet received
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

Hoop skirts are said to be coming
back and man may nS well prepare
to give up his right to the one hook in
the clothes closet that has been grant.
ed To him.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

There was a, school in Babylonia
3.2h years r. c.. hut some people
think that all the wisdom In the schools
was developed during the last two or
three des'ldes. a \
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

There's less I'm the garment than in
the way 1t Is worn. There was never
time when the modest woman did
not look modest. no matter what the
fashions.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

Popcorn may he all right and cheap
and diGestible enough for breakfast.
us the agricultural department authori-
ties insist. But suppose fellow hap
pens to lie hungry?
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

ssttse=nSt mas brcome Of ArHe oIf rfashfoff..-
ed mao. who washed his face mt the
pump every morning and made so
much noise that he could be heard in
the next county?
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

Some fine morning you will read In
the papers Il short item to the effect
that the Panama canal was opened
yesterday and Is dong fine business" !"
Thit IL the GOethals style.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07
The Sian.

Husband Ah. my love. i see you've
been making cake again.
Wife-Why. John. how can you tell
that?
\ Husband-From your battered con.
dition.-Judge.
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

The University of Pennsylvania has
imported Il twelve ton sphinx from
Egypt instead Of pntronizing home in
duStries and buying Il statue OF Connie
Mack
Cheraw chronicle. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, 1914-05-07

The Paris scientist WHO promises a
great Improvement i'm domestic refrig-
Grafton had better pnt that off until
next summer and look nfrer the heater