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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
MAKING OF AN AMERICAN

In these hyphenated times one is
momentarily tempted to disbeiieye in
the possibility of transmitting all the
metals into Americanism. even in a
miracle-working melting pot Let us
go slow from now on in this matter of
welcoming to our shores all sorts and
all nations Of men" is what a good
many people are saying, and are justi-
fed In saying. And yet trausmutation
is possible, says Golfers Weekly.
Americans are the product Of the min
Cling of many stocks. In the new Life
and Letters Of John Hay" as COM
posed and compiled by William Roscoe
Thayer. we have Just re-read a frag-
ment Of one of Hays addresses
spoken at a dinner Of the Ohio So
oiety of New York 12 years ago When
/ look back on the shifting scenes Of
my life" said our great secretary Of
state, If ! am not that altogether de-
plorable creature, man without
country, I am, when it comes to pull
and prestige almost equally bereft, as
aiAt q thaA NititAA Il StatGs 1 vac
horn in Indiana, grew up in Illinois,
| was educated in Rhode Island-and
it is no blame to that scholarly COM
munity that know so little. learned
my law in Springfield and my politics
in Washington, my diplomacy in Eur
ope, Asia and Africa / have farm
in New Hampshire and desk room in
the District of Columbia" And Mr.
Hay has this to say about his honest
ferhears
when look 10 the springs from
which my blood descends, the first
ancestors I ever heard of were a
Seotchman, who was half English. and
German woman, who was half
French OF my immediate progenitors,
my mother was from New England and
my father was from the south, In this
bewiiderment of origin and experience
can only put on an aspect Of deep
humility IN any gathering Of favorite
sons, and confess that l am nothing
but an American"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
FIGHT FOR SUFFRAGE.

The New York World which favor
ed woman suffrage in that state, says
it would he folly for the suffragists
to change their tactics and center their
efforts on a campaign for an amend
ment to the constitution Of the United
States. If they failed to convince the
voters in four of the leading indus
trial states OF the east. 10 say nothing
Of the middle west and especially the
south. which is line stronghold Of the
anti-sunrage sentiment, the World de-
clares 1t absurd to think they can con-
vince congress. This seems to be a
very reasonable view of the matter
It would require the vote Of the legis-
latur2s OF three-fourths of the states
to ratify the amendment if it were
submitted With the south solidly 0p-
posed and the states Of the north that
have Just spoken. defeat would be the
sure fate of the amendment II is not
10 he supposed that either New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Massa-
chusetts would choose a legislature
favorable to the amendment after the
voters of those states have gone on
record SO clearly in opposition, The
place 10 resume the fight is In the
states where suffrage has already
gained some ground The people who
choose legislatures must favor the
plan before it ever succeeds by ma
tional amendment, and when they do
favor it three-fourths OF the states
will be ready TO adopt it without such
amendment, And as for the states
not faroring suffrage it would be little
gain 70 force 1t en- them by constitu-
tional amendment against their will.
The process of getting the suffrage by
states may be slow. but 1t is the only
plan that now promises success.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
A HEALTH ACCOUNT

If the average man were TO pay as
much attention to his health as he does
to his bank account, success in life
would be to him q certainty
But the average man takes his
health as a matter of course-except
when he loses it-and then he regards
the loss as a visitation of Providence.
The bank account he understands be
cause he knows exactly how it is
created and maintained; but health is
something he regards as being outside
of his providence and therefore be
yond his comprehension, declares j,
B. Harrington in the Kansas state
board Of health bulletin
1t is true in the most literal sense
that health actually is wealth The
overwhelming majority Of earth's in
habitants know no other form al
wealth As q rule, the wage Garner s
daily vital force is his sole source OF
income. his sole capital in his reserve
of health.
The reserve force which constitutes
sound health is the capital Of physical
existence. Without this a man is alb
solutely dependent from hour to hour
on the temporary force derived from
the food he takes OF the stimulant
without which ne would utterly col
lapse.
A sudden overstraln or an attack Of
disease would bankrupt him, so far as
physical force is concerned, just as
surely as a sudden panic or an unex-
pected pressure of creditors would
bankrupt a business man whose re
serve funds were insufficient to meet
emergencies,
In the same way, the heat and
energy gained each day from the food
we eat and the air we breathe is phys
zeal income-an income SO enormous
that when 1t is reduced to figures it is
almost beyond comprehension.
Scientists estimate that the average
amount of food consumed by the aver
age man at average work generates
in the body about 3.4O0 foot tons Of
force every day. AS foot ton means
force sufficient to lift a ton one foot
of the ground, this comparison gives
some idea Of the amount Of heat and
energy that is required to keep the
body going
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
Acute Coryza Common Cold.
William Bra dy,m.D.

We are through joking about the
common cold" 1t is no Joking mat
ter-no we haven't caught one for
years and years. because we have no
fear Of air-but the more ridicuie we
heap upon the catching cold delusion
the more mean things people say about
us. So in this talk about ordinary
coryza We are in dead earnest
First, what is coryza?
1t is an acute CONTAGIOUS infam-
nation of the mucous lining OF the
nose, characterized by slight feyerish-
ness, chilliness. sneezing, running at
the nose, STIFFNESS Of the nostrils, per-
haps mean, dull headache, and loss of
smell and taste. No less than half a
dozen different types of bacteria are
known TO cause attacks OF coryza And
nothing but germs can cause it. These
so-calied colds" in the head that
come and go all in day or few hours
are not coryza; they are merely tenn
porary congestion of the nose and
throat in an Individual subject to
chronic rhinitis or catarrh. Coryza is
a real. serious, often fatal disease
lasting at least three or four days, US
ually week
We say coryza is often fatal. In
children the various complications
acute middle ear Inflammation gath
ering in the earl, mastoiditis. bron-
cho-pneumonia, are what render the
disease serious. In adults the acute
frontal, maxiilary or ethmoidal sinu-
sits so often developing as a compli-
cation of coryza makes the disease
anything but joke. Many a serious
operation grows out Of 'sjust common
cold.
Why Is coryza more frequent in fall,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
HENRY FORD VISITS A PRISON,
(san Francisco Bulletin.l


Henry Ford spent a day visiting the
state penitentiary at San Quentin
Are you interested in prisoners"
somebody asked him before he started.
Interested ?" Ford replied. I've got
between 500 and 500 Of them working
for me in Detroit And there's no
body will do better for you, or look
you squarer in the eye, than an ex-
prisoner if you treat him right"
AS the launch left the exposition,
Ford had to take Off his hat 10 ack-
u0wledge the cheers Of the crowd,
Ford hates to make a speech, but he is
always happy to take off his hat. only
it puzzles him that he has to do it so
often.
Ford was greatly interested in the
furniture factory.
In an upper room was sitting a
prisoner making ruled lines on a
drawing board
"Drafting?" asked Ford.
Yes, sir. Making a new sort Of
map, for use in the state institutions -
Ford's eyes sparkled. Here was
something after his own heart He was
completely won when the man said;
Here's an old-style map. Ii has a
fiat plate on the clasp instead of a
wire. Wire IS cheaper I'm working
on a machine to bend the wire just
right, all in one stroke. It's possible"
"Everything's possible said Ford.
Ford took the mans name and ad-
dress, and told him to report in De
troit when he is released, early next
year. After that date there will be
another eX-prisoner working at the
Ford proft-sharing plant and blessing
The day that he thought OF inyentiug a
new map,
Ford liked the new prison dining
room so much that he had some of the
bread and cinnamon-roll wrapped up
10 take back TO his hotel Two thou
sand prisoners were at dinner and
they all began to applaud Warden
Johnson, after what looked almost like
an argument with the distinguished
guest. mounted table and introduced
Ford as a man Of action Ford then
made a speech. 1t was;
q wish you all luck every one Of
you-I wish you luck
And the way the speech went was
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
The Daily Story
An Important Witness-By John Y. Larned.

Jimmie Connolly while fishing in a
small lake BY the railroad. hearing
train coming. looked up as 1t passed
and saw the engineer. instead OF hav-
in ghis hand on the throttle and his
eyes on the track ahead, dancing
hornpipe on the floor OF the cab. jim
ME was only Is years old. He was
wise enough to understand that such
conduct was irregular. but Ii did not
freeze him with horror as it would an
older person. AT the moment there was
a tug on his line. and he pulled out a
fat pickerel For the time being he
forgot the dancing engine.
Mrs. Mccoy. the wife of the engineer
of the train on which this scene oc-
CURED, lived near a station at which
her husband was accustomed to stop
for water The train time at the sta
tion was Il %, and she was accus-
toned to take her husbands dinner to
him at that hour On the day Jimmie
Connolly saw him dancing -lornpipe
Mrs. Mccoy started earlier than usual
from her house on hill sioping down
to the track with the dinner
Before she had made half the dis
lance she was astonished TO hear the
train coming. A few seconds later, go
ing at a speed far greater than usual,
/ it passed her, ignoring the station COM
pletely As it went by she saw sight
that caused her to drop the dinner
pail. then topple over in dead faint.
Her husband was struggling with the
stoker. who hit him on the top Of the
head with some iron instrument and
dropped him on the cab floor.
Jake Rogers, the stoker, stopped tAe
train at the next station. five miles dis
tant from the water tank. Mccoy was
found in the cab dying with frac-
| tured skull. Rogers reported that Nc
Coy, in whom he had recently noticed
signs OF insanity, had suddenly gone
crazy and had dashed onward at d ter
rife gait. Rogers, whose back was to-
ward the engineer, turning suddenly,
saw him dancing On the cab floor while
the train was tearing along under no
guiding hand. Rogers attempted to get
( by Mccoy who tackled him and, being
I the stronger man, was about to throw
! n.m from the cab. The fireman's life
as well as the lives Of hundreds OF
passengers was at stake. Rogers had
a wrench in his hand and stguck his
adversary on the head with it, Intend
I ing to stun him Instead he fractured
] his skull killing him
/ Mrs Mccoy was sent for and as soon
/ as she saw Rogers Historically accused
Ihjm Of numbering her husband. The
I fireman was put under arrest and in
/ tiEc indicted for the murder Of the en-
( gjneer There Was no confederation Of
/ his story further than certain passen-
gers bore witness that they thought
the tram was t73veIng rather fast,
/ Ru7 this counted for very little Mrs.
( NCf oy. who was very hitter against
Hagers. found s. eyal sympathetic
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
Au0t hers Opinions.

A light diet is the best board of
health,
The woman who hesitates at an
auction saves money.
There's nothing like being ready
when opportunity knocks
The use OF the mosquito is to show
us that troubles are not always in
proportion to their size.
The value OF a mans advice de-
ponds upon the success he achieves
by following it,
A dentist finds work for his own
teeth by depriving other people of
theirs.
No woman really cares for the kind
of love that the hero in a novel
makes.
The amateur pickpocket is always
waiting for an opportunity to get his
hand in.
Some men are so skeptical that
they refuse even TO believe the re-
port Of a gun
1t isn't always the clock with the
loudest tick that keeps the best time.
Some merchants need longer quar-
ters and some need more quarters.
If one man tell woman she is
beautiful all the rest Of the world
can't convince her that she is homely.
Chicago News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

destined for these ports. Great Britain
has enjoyed tremendous increase IN
her own commerce with these nations.
Secretary Lansing calls attention to
this selfish Interpretation Of the
blockade" thus.
Thus Great Britain concededly
shares In creating condition which
Is relied upon as sufficient ground to
Justify the interrogation Of American
goods destined 10 neutral European
ports1If British exports TO those ports
should be still further increased, it IS
obvious that, under the rule Of eyi.
dence contended for by the British
government, The presumption OF enemy
destination could be applied to a great.
er number Of American cargOes, and
American trade would suffer to the
extent that British trade benefited by
the increase. Great Britain cannot ex-
pect the United States to submit to
such manifest injustice or to permit
the rights Of it's citizens to be so SER
iously impaired -
Consul General Skinner called down
upon himself British disfayor by re-
porting 10 the American government
the peculiar fact that British trade
with Scandinavian and Dutch ports had
increased to an amount practically
equivalent to the value of the Ameri-
/ can cargoes held up by Great Britain.
/ THE inference seems to be that Great
Britain ia taking advantage Of her il
+ legal blockade to grab off trade
which otherwise would come to the
! United States shippers. In view of the
/ fact that Great Britain herself insists
that shipments to these neutral ports
are really destined for Germany, we
/ face the startling conclusion that Great
| Britain Is permitting her own ship
pers to supplysher enemy with neces-
saries while barring neutrals from
such commerce
II British greed cannot subordinate
itself to British patriotism, that is
Great Britain's own business. But it
ia intolerable that legitimate American
/ commerce should be hinderad in order
to provide an exclusive field for British
exporters.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
Selected by Tavenner
To the Readers OF The Argus:

To the Readers Of The Argus
The Argus generously agreed to permit me TO MAKE
regular contribution under this head to use the space
as if it were my own am left make ny selection
from where will whether IT is timely or untmely: to
search the highways aud the byways for what may IN
press me as of interest and value TO the people
assure nay readers shall try to make the most o.
the opportunity To forget that party hnes
exist, and will, just wish it might be pEacuca i
them not exist the principal issue on eiec
ton day might whether candidate belongs TO TINS
that political party but whether he is willing to serve
the masses of the people the few who exploit them
In other words my idea is 10 submit information or
8 thought that would give to the world II myseiL
edited newspaper, the only mission OF which was 10
serve mankind; to do this and nothing more
When personally write the contribution, I will sign
It, and when present the thought and work Of others
will so indicate. CLYDE II. TAFENNEfr
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH

Stage folk are among the few, When
death and sorrow came, they still
go on TO play their little parts, When
news reached Kansas City that Froh-
man had gone down to death-his
great adventure Upon the Lusi-
tania, Maude Adams. VINO loved him,
still went upon the stage at the
Grand, leaving her breaking heart
and her tears in the wings.
And Blanche Walsh, knowing per
haps, that death awaited her return,
went forth with smiling face-"to
keep an engagement" High valor
here,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

f. ends who were VI rFg e. testify
that hosers had been AT etcity with
her husband aud hac heeu heard 10
lake threats, There was s. me foun~
HatI0n fnf this. TOR Rogers wished 10
te made an engjaeer ard Mccoy for
somr reason unEncwn c1s,t to him
self declined H. helt him secure the
coveted promotion.
Rogers was tried. and the evidence
was strong against him. Only one per-
son was found to testify that he had
noticed strange actions on the part of
Mccoy. while dozen swore that he
was as sane as any man The story
told the jury by the bereaved wife
through tears had a telling effect Roe-
ers was an orphan and had no one 20
influence the jury in his behalf Nv
weeping for him. The trial was near.
ing an end, and the consensus Of opjn-
ion was that he would be convicted
though there was sympathy for him hv
some of the passengers who had been
on the train when the tragedy occurred
and who considered that in any event
they had had narrow escape.
The trial did not take place near
where the murder had been commit
ted and Jimmie Connolly heard nothing
about it, One evening his father came
in to supper and remarked.
Rogers has been convicted"
Who's Rogers?" asked Jimmie
The stoker who killed the engineer
last August
What engineer"
Mr.. Connolly told his son the story Of
the murder It brought back the re-
membrane of the sight he had seen
while fishing on the lake
Il seen an engineer last summer. s."
he said, dancing in his cab while the
engine was runnin' wild"
That was all Jimmie had seen, but it
impressed his father as of possible I'M
portance in the Mccoy case. The next
morning he called up by phone Rogers
legal defender, who interviewed Jim
ME, and by comparing dates and clock
time discovered that Jimmie had seen
Mccoy on the day of the murder.
Rogers had not been sentenced. and
/ the case was reopened. Jimmie was
called to the stand. and after counsel
for the defense had established the
essential facts the boy told how he
had seen the engineer dancing on the
cab floor and the train running wild.
Since the train passed the lake on
which the boy fshed several minutes
before it reached the tank station.
Jimmie's testimony corroborated that
Of the stoker.
Rogers was acquitted and his first
act after being freed was to take the
witness who had saved him in his
arms and hug him.
Rogers was promoted to be engineer
and received a handsome purse made
up by the passengers whose lives he
had saved. Jimmie in time became his
fireman and is now a division superin-
Itendent on the road.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

Mrs. Scott Durand made a brave
fight to save her prize Gueruseys, but
state officers finally found it neces-
sary to take the bull by the horns and
wipe out the herd, being forced, in or
der to carry out their work, to tenn
porarily lock up the owner OF Crab
tree farm Mrs. Durand is probably
by this time convinced that there are
laws in Illinois that may be enforced
In the face Of pretty strong resistance
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

most gratifying; for the speaker had
meant precisely every word he said
Ford was SO interested in the unique
and effective education system being
developed within the prison-a system
of correspondence courses which the
men take to their cells at night and
return in the morning that he asked
the warden to send a complete set OF
the lesson leaflets to John Lee, head OF
the education bureau in the big De-
troit automobile factory.
On the launch returning, in the
middle of the bay, somebody said,
Why, where's Mr. Ford?"
He was discovered down in the tiny
engine room, wedged into two feet OF
dark space between a ribbed wall and
a whirling and spluttering gasoline
engine, with which he seemed on
extraordinarily intimate terms. 1T s
a real nice engine he remarked Once
more back on the exposition wharf,
Ford suddenly jumped back TO the
boat over a widening gap Of bay, in
order to shake hands with the pilot,
Then he returned TO his hotel. where
it took him 40 minutes to get from the
front door to his room because he had
to shake hands 768 times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

President Wilson proposes a special
ax on munitions manufactured for
port TO support the administration
an for preparedness, This strikes
average citizen as a move in the
5ht direction, and there should be no
,tection from those called TO pay the
eight, as they are the chief henefic-
ries OF the European war
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
tKansas City STAR

Blanche Walsh, actress. is dead, She
had been i'll, had gone to hospital to be
operated upon, and then had quilted
her sick bed before recovery in order
10 keep an engagement. Her refusal
to disappoint an audience caused a re-
lapse from which she died,
Here is an honesty of endeavor
that is as a shining lamp. How
many, when i'll or merely pulling, will
still give of their best to fulhll oh
legations? Few How many viii
rather coddle themselves? Many?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
BRITAIN S BLOCKADE.

One of the irritating features OF the
so-called British blockade" Of neutral
ports In order 10 shut of commerce
with Germany has been the fact that
British exporters have gone ahead in
the face Of the blockade" and carried
on an enormous commerce with these
very ports. While denying neutral
nations access 10 the ports of Scandi-
navia aud Holland by Selling cargoes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

AS matter Of fact, the need Of a big
village-like designating sign on the
city hall is not half as essential as the
proper lettering Of street intersections.
People who are in search Of the muni-
cipal building will find it all right, and
TO those not looking for it, It is not Of
such imposing design that the city
should care to piacard it, so that no
stranger will lose sight of it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

The proposition to widen Fort Arm
strong avenue is one that meets with
general public approval, not only be-
cause it would improve the attractive
ness Of the island drives, but as q
matter Of absolute public safety. The
present avenue is 40 feet too narrow.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
still We Wonder Why Folks Prefer
the Movies.

Advertisement of an Illinois vaude-
vile theatre "A sextette of radiantlv
ravishing sea goddesses, daily defying
death. in the most hazardous and
thrilling sensation ever conceived by
the brain or beheld by the ewes OF
mortals" Which means. in sane Ian
guage, that six poor girls few nun
bred miles from home, are obliged, in
order to eat, TO paddle shiyeringlv
about in tank of water three times
a day
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

Davenport is moving TO motorize Its
entire fire department, Since Moline
has already done the same thing, 1t is
up 70 the Rock Island municipal COM
mission TO think over completing the
same task here during the next fiscal
wear
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

An Appleton Wis, kid Of seven
years thought up a brilliant para
phrase of tin-canning a dog-he set
fire TO a cat TO see how IT would look
burning. The action took place In a
carpenter shop, the floor of which was
Uttered with shayings There is no
carpenter shop there now The cat,
having eight more lives left Is still
among those present
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10
Rock Island-From River to
River

With Christmas gift purchase wor-
ries crowding us, We are suffered TO
bear further discomfort in the an
nouncement that the Nizam OF HYPER
abad has been deposed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-10

One of the most recent examples OF
German thrift is the use Of sunfower
oil as substitute for the olive extract,
many people deyoting large tracts OF
land TO the kansan emblem for the
sake of its food content in the liquid
form.