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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
TO HAVE CHRISTMAS TREE

Carrying out its policy established
last year of bringing some Of the real
Christmas spirit into the hearts of the
busy people of the city, the civic de
partment OF the Rock Island Woman's
club IL to be congratulated upon its
action taken yesterday in again de-
Gliding TO have community Christmas
tree.
The tree will be placed in the center
of Market square and the Elks have
asked the privilege of providing the
biggest tree obtainahle or as many
trees US the department may desire,
The city commission voted $50 towards
the placing of the tree and the re-
mainder OF the money TO finance the
project must come from the people.
The great expense is in the labor
connected with the placing. lighting
and decorating OF the tree and here is
opportunity for some one or several
to give in labor where they cannot give
in other ways.
With years experience the commit
tee from the civic department Of the
club Is able to assure the public that
the community Christmas tree will be
even greater success than It was last
year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
TAVENEER' s FIGHT

The fight which Congressman Clyde
II. TaYenner is making in Washington
to take the profit out of war and his
disclosure Of the activities Of certain
selfish interests through insidious lob
bies and otherwise In behalf Of pri-
yate manufacture Of munitions of war
is attracting the attention OF the lead
ing members OF congress as is shown
by q recent interview with Represen-
tative Edward Heating Of Colorado In
which he said:
Congressman Clyde Tavenner. the
brilliant young representative from IL
liuois has announced his Intentions TO
introduce q resolution calling an in
puiry and suggested that ]. Pierpont
Morgan, Jr., should be the first wit
ness.
Morgan and members of his Wall
street firm are conspicuous in the d.
rectorates Of these patriotic" socie-
+ ties. At the same time they are known
to be reaping q golden harvest from
/ the sale Of munitions OF war.
{ "Tavenner is convinced that there is
I a world wide trust In munitions OF war
/ and that the men who control it are
/ largely responsible for the cataclysn
which has overwhelmed Europe, They
are now repeating in this country, he
declares, the propaganda which has
proven so successful across the water
Congress should turn on the light
and permit the people to have the
truth"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
The Daily Story
A Doctors Story by William Chandler.

and he learned that the medicine he wa,
giving had a taste that 1t should not
have. He gave Miss Young vial
which she concealed under the bed.
clothes, and when about TO take dose
she sent the nurse TO the bathroom for
glass of water. While she was gone
the patient emptied the medicine into
the vial, and when the doctor called
again he took 1t away with him.
That evening Vernon and in nv
laboratory investigated the contents Of
the vial and found traces of slow
robson. The secret was out-the
guardian was killing his ward. In.
vestigations made by Vernon. who was
by this time much interested In the
| case. as well as his patient. revealed
| the fact that with Miss Young cut OF
| the way Van Orden would be sole heir.
at-law to her estate.
| The question now arose, What should
be our next stepf Should we inform
the victim of this conspiracy Of her
danger or have the suspected parties
arrested without her knowledge Yer.
non told me that his patient was In
nervous condition, bordering on col.
lapse, and recommended that we act
without consulting her. To this as
scented.
/ That same morning Van Orden was
| arrested, and Miss Hazard was called
out OF the sickroom and also taken
! into custody. A new nurse whom
| had selected was ready to take her
| place and at once entered upon her
duties. Vernon and | were In ths
| house at the time Of the arrests and
| entered the sickroom with the new
nurse. The patient saw at once that
| she had been delivered from the tyran-
nv under which she had been slowly
dying and greeted us with smile Of
supreme relief. Had not been mar.
ried man should have been disgrun-
| tied at seeing the look she gave Yer
non. for it was plain that she had CIV
en- him her heart.
"Oh, doctor" she said TO him when
she knew all that we thought best to
/ tell her, "how much | owe you
Where do come in" I asked
"And you, too Of course"
Our patient was not told that an at
tempt had been made to poison her
and that her uncle and nurse had been
arrested charged with the crime until
she had recovered her health. Her re-
covery was fastened by the especial
attentions, or, rather, the devotion OF
DR.. Vernon, and before she was in
| formed as to what had occurred they
were engaged.
Van Orden jumped his bail and dis
appeared. Miss Hazards counsel sue
ceeded in having her acquitted be-
cause the prosecution failed to prove
that she had any motive for the crime
! Nevertheless it was known that her
! motive was large share OF the for
tune her employer was trying to Sc
cure, or at least a promise Of 1t.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
THE TALE OF TWO RIVERS

In 1870 the traffic on the Rhine at
the frontier between Holland and Ger
many amounted TO $4,000 tons. Ten
years later the traffic on the Miss
issippi at St. Louis amounted TO al
most exactly the same figure
In 1867 the Rhine traffic at the bor-
der had grown TO nore than 2s.00O,-
900 tons. dozen times greater than
in 1870. And by 1914 the traffic on
the Mississippi AZ st. Louis had fallen
to 15s,000-odd tons, or one-twelfth
what it was In 1880.
Why did the Rhine traffic increase
in ST years 10 times over, while the
Mississippi traffic fell in 81 years to
one-twelfth its original volume? The
lack OF sufficient terminals on the in
land waterways OF this continent the
St. Louis Republic cites as the cause
and says; There are thousands of
miles Of navigabie river channels trib-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
SOME COLDS.

This is the season of year when colds
get their first real strange hold on the
human family. Even those who feel
that they are favored with immunity
by some divine waiver take the count
and seek shelter between the blankets
and order red liquor by the ounce in
stead Of by the quart to escape the self
accusation of helping to keep the night
shifts busy at Peoria and Louisville.
| Colds cover d wide range of variety.
! There is the one that gives one red
nose. and when woman is thus afflicted
a constant source Of worriment is that
the latest application OF powder has
been blown and that the blossom is
radiating like a locomotive headlight
/ on dark night in the country
| Then there is the sneezer-the kind
that keeps the victim in stew lest he
explode while talking with his dearest
friend. An estimable citizen going
home on a street car the other evening
curbed an accumulation so successfully
while talking with a couple OF ladies
that when they alighted he decided to
let loose with the result that he blew
two false teeth against window on
the opposite side of the car from where
he was sitting.
Another brand is that which makes
it almost impossible for one to be uu-
Iderstood in ordinary conversation. Mo
tioning with the hands aids somewhat,
but this is not satisfactory, and
frequently is embarrassing. For in
stance, we heard two men, one of
whom had a cold in the head. talking.
The one with the cold seemed to begin
each word he used with B. Finally a
nervous chap nearby suggested that he
might contribute to his own comfort
and that of others If he would wait I'M
til he got home and write his friend a
letter
Another cold is one that is accom-
panied by pains in the bones. This is
Idignifed by the title of grip. 1t us
ually, and advisedly so, brings the
family physician. He loosens up the
( bones. those in your body and those in
your purse. But you don't mind the
latter operation if he is successful in
the first instance.
Also we have with US the cold that
brings a running from the proboscis,
This never fails to prove the value Of
the handkerchief as q necessary ad-
junct of individual equipment. 1t is
also the only time of the year when
tight people blow themselves. So this
sort of cold is not the worst thing that
! might happen to some people at the
Christmas season.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09

As we all know, the waters sur
rounding the belligerent nations are
filed with floating mines. and no one
can know when ship travefsing
European waters will run onto one or
these agents of destruction. l go ex-
pecting to return. OF course; but d
man who is going into the English
channel, the North sea, the Baltic sea
and the Mediterranean sea, takes MS
life in his hand when he starts out on
such Journey. And ii, by any chance,
I shall never return to America, TO
Illinois and to Quincy. / wish to put
this into the record: / leave Quincy
with no feeling of ill-wiii in my heart
for any human being. / have done
wrong and I have suffered wrong; but
the battle of life has left no hatred In
my heart, nor the slightest feeling OF
luminosity for anyone on earth. The
world has been good to me, and es-
peciaIly so during the last years OF
my life. The best wish that | can
make for any man is that he may live
to be old enough to know how sweet
and kind and gracious young men can
be to an old man. My friends have
made my life indeed pleasant one,
and if this should prove to be my last
word to them, want them to know
that | go at peace with all the world
that I go feeling that | have received
better than / have deserved.
At this time and on this occasion, it
| is fair for me to say that if my coun-
try again needed my services in war
it would surely get them II my coun-
try again needed me on the battlefield
l should not hesitate to go there.
! 1 do not believe in preparedness for
war. believe that preparedness brings
on war. I believe that selfish, mercen-
airy interests in this country are re
sponsible for the agitation that is now
going on In behalf of preparedness fol
war The man who goes around with
a gun in his pocket is looking for trou
/ Bile. so, the nation that is prepared
| Continued on Page Tenl.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09

upon this subject.
The government has been paying out
$240. 100000 a year for the upbuilding
and maintenance OF our army and navy.
A large proportion of that amount has
gone into the Golfers of makers of
armor plate and gun powder, builders
of warships and supplies of other mill
tary and naval necessities. These
classes are now loudest shouters for an
exaggerated and uncalled for measure
of future expenditure, To believe them,
we have practically nothing to show
for the millions of which they have al
ready mulcted the government. They
should not be given further opportun-
ity for the robbery of Uncle Sam The
government should manufacture its
own war supplies, save the enormous
profits that have enriched the war mu-
nitions makers and remove all incent-
i've that may exist for the stirring up
of war feeling.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09

one of my patients was a Miss
Young, an orphan, whose uncle had
called on ME to visit her.
l attended Miss Young for some time.
during which not only made no head
way in improving her condition, but
lost ground | noticed that whenever
l called the nurse was in the sick
room and never left it during my visit.
One day while was with the patient,
having asked the nurse to get me
something from the bathroom adjoin-
ing and she was absent few seconds
Miss Young's face suddenly assumed
panied expression, and she wnispered
in my ear, She's killing me-" She
had barely time to say this and resume
her usual expression when the nurse
returned.
OF course | gave no sign 10 Miss
Hazard, the nurse, Of what had been
communicated to me. but | saw at
once that something must be done to
free my patient from her ministration.
[ called up Mr.. Vsn Orden, the uncle,
and told him over the phone that was
not satisfied with his niece's nurse and
would not be responsible for my pa
tent Unless she were replaced by an
other of my own choosing. [ received
no definite reply, but before my next
visit was informed that since the pa
tent had lost ground under my treat
ment he had decided to call In anoth-
er physician. My services would no
longer be required.
Putting together what my patient
had told me and my dismissal at at
tempting to get rid Of the nurse. |
made up my mind at once that some
thing was wrong. But dared not act
without more information and resolv-
ed TO proceed cautiously. I soon came
TO the conclusion that | had better act
with my successor in the case and sent
my office assistant to watch the house
and discover who had succeeded me.
She reported that a recent graduate,
a DIR. Vernon, had called at the house.
and l at once made an appointment to
meet him and put him in possession
Of all that knew about the strange
condition of affairs
Vernon, possessing this knowledge,
had a great advantage. since it was
not known that he had it, and he could
thus the better take steps to make
more discoveries. We arranged that /
should make inquiries rs to who the
parties were and secure such other in
formation as Was possible. Vernon
was TO do what he could by way of
investigation In the siekroom. | learn
ed that Miss Young was an heiress and
that her uncle was her guardian till
she came to be twenty-one years old,
when the estate would pass into her
own keeping.
Vernon found means to communicate
with the patient by insisting that the
nurse get something for him that
would require her going TO the kitchen,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09

Birmingham.-tCo Correspondence OF
The Associated Press. BY the cour-
tesy of the Minister Of Munitions, Rt
Hon. David Lloyd George. represen-
tative of The Associated Press has Wis
tied some the largest munitions es-
adjustments in this area, one of the
II into which the country is divided.
Here. for example, is a factory where
cartridges were made in peace times.
1t is not remarkable that in war times
it is doubled in size In operation
night and Sundays, with 1000 employ
es. That seems the natural result of
war,
But to see an enormous plant, COW
ering 20 acres, that year ago were
bare fields, with one building having
floor space of four acres, with 5000
employees, turning out the most deli
cate time fuses with regiments of men
and women at work as if they had been
at it for years-this is to grasp an
idea of what England is doing and to
realize why cabinet post was created
for the supervision of such undertake
ings, of which this gigantic establish
ment with its acres of delicate ma
chinery is but one of thousands.
The cartridge factory is turning out
! 100000 cartridges week. we
should be doing more" said the man
ager, IF we could but get the machin-
cry and the skilled labor that we know
is coming"
| The fuse output in the gigantic
plant of mushroom growth was not
stated but the manager told the same
story, of the coming machines and the
coming skilled labor. The machinery
partly made in England. also has
names of makers in New Briton, Coma,
! Providence R. l.. Windsor, Conn, Bra
| zil, Ind, Waynesboro. Penn. Cleve-
land, Ohio, and other American cit
| les.
I'VE have skilled labor here from
Denmark, Holland, Canada, even South
America and more are on the way" ex-
| planned the manager-another happy
effect of controlling the seas.
| Are many of these women wives oil
soldiers?"
Hundreds, perhaps thousands. One
advance of the British on the western
front produced IA widows In one de-
partment. You see they work with q
will"
The acres of roofs are dotted witt
British flags. with here and there q
French or Belgian one. The refugees
from the territory across the chan
mel that Germany has invaded need mo-
be idle.
Indeed. nobody need be Idle in Biz.
mingham. perhaps in all England. i
he or she is able to work. The Biz
mfngham papers are full of advertise
ments calling for men, women ant
children to work In munition Yactorie.
and even the jeweler adyertises: "Nov
that work and money are plenty, bu,
ETC."
1t is as II England were planning t.
carry on war for years and years
Some of all this output is for Russi;
land other allies.
| What will these new plants b
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
HEALTH TAI
49, 2y
William Brady, ND.
Teaching Teachers to Teach.

Our friends the teachers have taken
us to task for writing. as we do about
the school room. They agree with our
principles, of course-who wouldn't?
but they insist that they are bound
down by rules and regulations from
above
Well, when it comes to first aid in
the matter Of fresh air a teacher
should be right there with her hands.
She should open a window when she
feels like it. and if anybody offers any
objections she can faint or threaten
to faint. Surely, not even the board
member would deny teacher the
right to open a window If she were
about to faint for want of breath OF
air.
| 1t is very easy to tell teachers how
to run the school room. we admit that.
But a doctors purpose is to tell folks
| how TO live, eat, work, play and keep
| we'll, The teachers are our first lieu
tenants in the advanced trenches.
They get the first shot at the oncom-
ing race, Il is UP to the teachers 10
instil in the minds of the children a
wholesome regard for fresh air, clean
teeth. straight shoulders and the
golden rule
One young teacher stood the so de-
grees and the deadly atmosphere OF
the school room until her lungs pain
ed and her heart ached at the drcws-
mess OF the children Then she up
with her rule and smashed out win
dow-oh, but she was a teacher and
the board didn't fire her either. She
broke the boards rule with one of her
own, so to speak, and the board didn't
| dare to punish her.
We are strong for married teachers
mot that We have any particular
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS,
Change Is as Coed as n Rest.

/ do bard mental work all day-fig-
ures and accounts. / suffer with in
somnia. One Of your articles, TOO
Tired TO Sleep" suggested brisk mus
cular exercise as hypnotic for the
mind-weary and mental exercise for
the muscle-weary. I want to read ev-
enings to keep pace with the times.
Is it wrong?
Answer-Certainiy not. It is relaxa-
ton. 1t exercises a part of the brain
which gets little work all day. Read
but take some physical culture, too.
G. ". T. writes: I am a man aged
43. My father died four years ago
from cancer of the stomach. | am
afraid Of it. am thinking Of marry
ing. The young lady states that her
mother died OF breast cancer several
years ago. What do you think of the
advisability of marrying under these
conditions?
Answer-Get married II YOU are both
we'll.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09

(Reprinted from Quincy Journal)
This may be the last article that /
shall ever write for the Journal. 1t Is
certainly the last one that ! shall
write for it for some time.
leave tonight for Europe, where l
go as a guest Of Henry Ford In the
interest of European peace; and a
more worthy cause than this could not
engage the interest Of true man. l
have no desire, even if / could, 10 raw
ish the feelings OF those who are good
enough to read this article, by trying
TO describe the horrors Of war. serv-
ed my country as a soldier for four
years in a hardfought war. | was in
every battle and skirmish that my reg
iment was engaged in, and / know a
little bit about what war means.
know something Of its sufferings;
something of its tragedies. ] know
what it Is to see the faces of young
men, fresh and bright and hopeful in
the morning, turned upward In death
on the field of battle before the sun
sank down to rest. | know what it is
to gee fields covered with dead and
dying and all the wreckage of war. II
is my experience in war that makes
me dread it so and that moves me to
do all that I may to bring war in Eur
ope TO a close A nobler purpose, a
holier cause cannot engage the effort
Of men
IN what I shall say here today ]
shall be as candid as I am with my
own soul. He is a foolish man that
tries to deceive himself.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09

utary TO ST. Louis where hundreds are
tributary to the port OF Emmerich. on
the Rhine. The period was 2 time Of
rapid development In both countries.
What made the difference
Look at The German river terni-
nais-and at the place where the st.
Louis river terminals ought to be and
are not. There IL the secret Of the
difference between the development OF
traffic on the two streams"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
Selected by Tavenner
TO the Readers OF The Argus:

The Argus generously agreed to permit me TO MAKE
regular contribution under this head to the space
as III It were my am left free to make my setecuoh
from where WILL whether it Is timely or unflmeiy 10
search the highways aud the byways for what may III
press me as Of interest and value to the people
assure rny readers shall try TO make the most Oh
the onportunitv To do so forget that party lines
exist and / WILL just wish it might be practical of
them not to exist and that the principal issue on eee
ton day might be- whether candidate belongs 10 is
or that political party but whether he Is willing to serve
the masses of the people the few who exploit them
In ether words my idea Is to submit information OF
a thought that would give to the world If myset
edited newspaper the only mission OF which was y
serve mankind: to do this and nothing more.
When personally write the contribution VIII sgl
IT, and when present the thought and work OF others
will so indicate. CLYDE II iAFh1>-SHi~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
THE PEACE SHIP.

l reckon many folks, like me,
Are mighty proud today
To say they saw the peace ship OF.
And started on its way.
saw old Henry go aboard.
With followers all in line,
And heard the engines throbbing,
AS the Fords all kept in time,
Some people call it q frolic trip.
But with them / disagree,
For there amt no fun in sailing
When a submarines at sea.
I'm glad that I'm not with them,
I'm not as brave, guess;
So I'll stay right here in the L. S. a,
And wish them great success.
J. P. B.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09

aversion TO the unmarried ones-and
our reason for opposing celibacy
among school teachers is this: We
find that, no matter how docile and
tractable woman may be during
maidenhood, she soon develops a mind
of her own after marriage, and if there
is one thing We hate more than we
hate travelling Quack it is a spine
less teacher.
Come, teachers, all together, let's
make the air of the school room as
nearly wholesome as possible and keep
the little ones confined in it the very
shortest hours the law will allow.
Keeping children after school hours
is a very bad sign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09

Republican leaders are feeling much
concern over the recent action Of the
progressive national committee The
committee resolved to put straight
bull moose" presidential ticket in the
field; to ask Colonel Roosevelt to
head the ticket, and to call meeting
OF the national committee Jan. II. next,
in Chicago TO provide for a national
convention to be held after the CON
ventions of the two old parties.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09
Daily History Class-Dec. g.

1s07-United States ports closed 70
ships sailing under the British
flag. This embargo was retahs.
ton for Insults TO the Unifeo
States flag by British cruisers.
i913-Genersl Huerta became proyr
sional president of Mexico.
l9l4-Servians were overcoming Aus
TRAN invaders south Of Belgrade
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-09

D. Cupid appears TO he the only
parsonage who hasn't been losing
ground through the war in Europe He
is on the job every day, and his latest
victory is contained in the announce
ment OF the approaching marriage Of
the kaisers youngest son to Princess
Marie Of Anhalt.