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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
NAVY LEAGUE OUT
WITHATHREAT TO
CRUSH TAvENNER
rourteenth District Congressman Says
Promised suit Is Not Worry
ing Him.
INTIMIDATION Is THE PURPOSE
netire Of Rock Island Representative IN
Washington One OF Busiest Places
In Capital.
nrIaIDATI0S Is THE PURPOSE
Especial to The Argus

Washington, D. C., Nov. PA con-
siaut stream Of newspaper reporters
and messenger boys has been pouring
into the Office of Congressman Clyde II.
Tsyeuner ever since he issued his
statement saying he would introduce
resolution ia investigation of the Navy
league because Of the latter's unfriend-
pnsss 10 government manufacturing of
ammunition. The Navy league has
threatened 70 sue Tavenner Just as il
did ". J. Bryan and Congressman Bal
lev of Pennsylvania. Naturally the
newspaper men want to know what
Tayenner intends to do. Both BRYAN
and Bailey got cold feet and backed
down Tavenner charges that ]. P.
Morgan is d director OF the Navy
league and that he is interested in war
traficking firms. The Navy league gave
out a statement yesterday saying J. p.
Morgan was an unselfish American
patriot and that all that the league had
received from him was S125. Tavern
per called the attention of the news
paper men 10 the fact that the Nor
gan estate. which is being handled BY
]. 2. Morgan. had given the Navy league
$4,000 on june 10. a newspaper man
put this UP TO the Navy league and the
leagues secretary admitted having re-
CeiYed it,
THE Navy league has 81 directors. ."
said Tayenner today The personal
followers of these II men aggregate at
the very least 100000 goo. making an
average of 100000 each. stated in
4 speech az Cooper Union. Nov. 10 1
would introduce a resolution to inves-
tgate the Navy league and require ].
?. Morgan to testify under oath wheth,
er be owns stock in war trading firms.
On the next day the Navy league. Of
which M0rgan's brother-in-la law is gen.
eral consul threatened TO sue. con
slider this threat nothing more or less
than an attempt to iutimidate me as a
member Of congress. When know I'm
right refuse to be intimidated by the
Navy league or any other league"
Has star of Investigators.
Tavenner has not stated yet whether
he will accept the challenge of the
Navy league to make additional
charges before congress convenes. His
Office however, is a beehive of indus
try All day yesterday messengers
we're carrying newspaper files aud
books by the armfuls to his office. He
has a small we'll organized staff Of in
yestigators at work. including a cou-
pie Of young college students who
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
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var zone: bottom, Teuton army in Serbia

see its own deceits in their most hid
eous forms. Before the politician
whose platform is honesty" she
holds mirror which forces him to
see himself taking graft money from
gamblers. from women on the street
a.d crooks Truth holds the mirror
before a family and shows them that
indulgence and pervers.on of sex are
responsible fer the death of a little
child. Society and its utter useless
ness and thin veneer Of sincere pur-
pose sbrivels and cringes before
Truths mirror The picture shows
the mental anguish, the soul torture
Of the young minister who tries 10
make his people see the folly Of their
own hypocrisy. That capable English
actor, Courtenay Foote, appears Is the
minister and Miss Margaret Edwards
is Truth. The film viii be shown Fri
day also,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
At THE ILLINOIS.

The feature for today at the Illinois
is one of Paul Armstrong; greatest
plays, THE Escape" with D. W. Crit
fifth as producer. 1t deals with the
escape of woman from poverty and
degradation, through sin. suffering and
sorrow to a better life. The players
are also the original New York cast
and the patrons Of this theatre are
assured a strong bill.
"Hypocrites," one of the most re-
markahIe photoplays of the decade,
will be the Thanksgiving feature at
the Illinois theatre. Throughout
"Hypocrites" runs the allegorical fig
ure OF Truth. Truth holds before So
cietv a mirror and forces society to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
Top. Teutons waiting on shores of

have volunteered to help him gratuit-
ously. They are live wires and intel
ligent and their hearts are in the work.
They are also getting some good ex-
perience Ben Reidy of Rock Island,
student a Georgetown university, is
on Tavenners investigating force. So
is Mrs. Tavenner and Miss Mildred
Martin. Mrs. Tavenners sister. All
realize there is to he a fight to the fin
ish, and they are determined to be fort
lied with plenty Of facts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24

ed as the best act of its kind in the
show business
Harry and Eva Puck, who come
from Omaha for this Thanksgiving bill,
will bring an act that has material,
that is brand new, as Mr. Puck is the
author of several big song hits and
keeps their material always new
Van and Bell the boomerang ma
nipulators, will appear tomorrow in a
novel act.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24

Some people have no philosophy Of
life and then there's the Baltimore
street sweeper who saves enough ont
of his meager earnings to take an an
nuai trip to his boyhood home in Eng
land. whence he recently returned
from his tenth annual voyage.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
At THE MAJESTIC.

Geraldine Farrar, the celebrated OPP
cratic prima donna. will appear in a
film version of her famous opera,
Carmen. produced by the Jesse l..
Lasky company al the Majestic tonior-
row and Friday. In securing the APP
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
tNLNNEiI4.

Wednesday "Fatty's Tintype Ro-
nance" and The Warning"
Thursday Charles Chaplin in The
Night OF the Show" and The Long Arm
of the Secret Service"
Fridar-"Crest of Van Endheim."
Saturday, Woman" featuring
Charles Chaplin and Stanley Of Star
vation Camp
Sunday-'Deyil's Darling"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
CELL IRIA.

Vaudeville Davenport - Perform
ances daily at 2:45 and sis; three
shows on SUNDAY.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
SPEXrER N0l4RE.

Nov. - and 26-Theda Bara in Car
men"
Nov, p and 2S-"The Miracle Of
Life"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
MAJESTIC.

Wednesday Hazel Dawn and James
kirkT-ood in The Heart Of Jennifer.
Thursday and Friday Paramount
company presents Geraldine Farrar in
Carmen"
Sunday Nine. Petrova in My Ma
donna
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
ILLINOIS.

Wednesday blanche Sweet in 1.-THE
Escape"
Thursday and Friday-'The Hypo-
critics.
Saturday THE Seventh Moon.
Sunday -"The Turn in the Road"
Sunday-'The Crimson Wing"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
Manager Blanchard announces the

Manager bIaHehard ahhOuEceS the
annual visit of the tri-cities' favorite
comedian, Max Bloom, in The Sunny
Side of Broadway" Max still has his
horse, but the rest of the show Is big
ger, brighter and more pretentious
than ever Max claims there Is a
thousand in the show this year.
All the news all the tine-The
Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
EMPIRE.

Vaudeville Performance daily at
2;45 and SIS; three shows on Sunday
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24

SIT together three times, thc
-four, baking powder and salt,
into this work the shortening
and use cream or milk to
make a dough less stiff than for
biscuits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-11-24
OPENING or SPENCER SQUARE.

Sunday-"Devil's Darling.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03
Ten Billion Dollars
Have Been Expended

We have it on the authority of one
Of the great financial institutions of
the United States that the war loans
Of the b%elligerent European nations
TO date aggregate a sum approaching
SlG.Vhn. C10, 900. a figure far beyond
any heretofore known in credit Oper-
atoms, These funds, it IS assumed,
have been drawn from three sources:
current savings. sales of securities
in foreign markets and the pyramid
ing Of credit, a system of financing
under which private or corporate
credit becomes the basis of public
crrdit. If this aggregate obligation
were transferred to the United States
and distributed over the entire pop
ulariCn it would mean that each man.
woman and child within the borders
Of The country would have TO assume
the burden of paying back to the
money lenders 500 with interest.
This sum, of course, great as it is,
does not cover the cost of the Eu-
roucan war 10 date. 1t represents
only a part of one form of the loss
rntailcd by the involved nations and
their peoples. 1t is only that part of
the cost Of the war thai is taken over
directly by the treasures of the diff
ferent nations; it constitutes but a
fraction of the loss to commerce, to
trade, to industry, in wages. in private
cu;.i'ni: the loss incident to the Sus-
pension of the natural functions of
the state, the community, the family
and the individual.
Every dollar Of this loss mus, be
provided for in some way. When the
sources that are now furnishing fund.
for war loans are exhausted, human
energy must reimburse them. 1t may
take decades, it may take generations
TO make amends for the drain, but
ii the nations would continue to eX.
list they must preserve their credit
at I'LL sacrifices. II is not improbable
that through the length of the pres
'"' "'d far into the next century,
peaceful labor will be compelled to
bend to the task Of paying for the
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03
LEADS The WORLD.
South Dakota Has Biggest Proportion
of Rich Farmers.

SO0lIl oaNSko It olSSSol l0ROi kioll
of Rich Farmers.
With 5000 farmers who own on the
average 800 acres and have property
amounting to more than $4,000 each
South Dakota is the wealthiest of the
states, per capita. Other industries
are keeping pace with agriculture
and the state in the last u years has
produced mor permanent wealth for
each inhabitant than any otner part
of the world.
South Dakota's progress is due to
various causes The state is favor
ably situated as regards climate and
relation to the great markets of the
middle west.
1t contains 10000 square miles and
has little waste territory. The vast
area of prairie land produces fine
crops Of corn, wheat, alfalfa, etc,
while the hills and mountains are
rich with gold, silver, marble, coal
and timber. AS a grazing country it
is unsurpassed, having an unlimited
amount Of luXuriant native grasses
and being abundantly watered.
South Dakota neve really began
to prosper until the people took up
the principle of crop diversity. Corn
and live stock have been brought to
the front until they exceed wheat, al
though this is in the famous wheat
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03
MIXUP AT LEAD.
Is Majority on Plurality Necessary
for Municipal Judge?

Is Majority or Plurality Necessary
for Municipal Judge?
Lead, S. Dan interesting contest
for the Office of municipal judge is
expected here owe the legal entangle.
ment that has arisen. On April 20,
in a three-cornered race, the former
Judge. John H. Rogers, led with a
plurality.
1t was then believed that the law
required another election, and in a
lw~O-cornered race Rogers was beaten
by 1903 votes by Judge Walsh. Walsh
a few days later qualified and took
Office. Now Rogers attorneys claim
that the law does not require a sec
ond election, but only a plurality, and
that Rogers was duly elected April
20. Rogers has about decided to in
stitute proceedings to regain his Of
fee, as able attorneys declare that
he was really elected by his first lead.
The municipal court law decla~,s
that judges shall be elected by laws
governing other city elections. In
these a plurality is all that is neces,
SnrV.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03
NO TAXES, NO BEER.
Council of Saxon Village Hard on
Those Who Fail I'd Pay.

Berlin.-Residents Of the little Sax
or village of Bernsgrun who do not
pay their taxes will hereafter be able
to get 10 beer. This is the decree
issued by the city fathers whose pa
thence has been exhausted in endeav-
oring to make delinquents settle the
bills against them for state, munic-
ipal, school and church taxes.
They observed that men who could
not Or did not pay taxes nevertheless
appeared to have money to spend in
the saloons. This is now to be end
ed. The names of the delinquents
will be posted in every saloon Or 9TH
er place where liquor is sold openly,
and no beer or other drinks may be
sold to them as long as their back
taxes remain unpaid.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03
belt.
The principal items of production
in tina state for 1912 We're:

The astonishing record is estab-
lished by official reports, but these
figures do no give the production of
coal, timber and vegetables, or the
manufactures of machinery and var
ious other articles of merchandise.
1t rarely happens that a state can
show such rapid industrial advance
ment as is manifest in South Dakota
covering all lines of activity that per-
tain to a western district. Nor can
any section of the country present
enings.
The growth of bank deposits in the
state as given in the annexed table
indicates a condition of general pros
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03
destruction now being wrought.

destruction now being wrought.
If the $40, 900, 900 900 in wal loans
would meet the cost Of the war, civ.
iliZation might well congratulate it.
self, but, even on a money basis
that sun is trivial compared with
what is certain TO be the total loss.
Whatever of gain may accrue must
come through bitter experience, and
the hope of humanity lies in the ex.
p]ectation that a full measure of this
experience may teach the nations to
abhOr wal in the future.-Christian
Science Monitor.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03
RID OF YOUR RHEUMATISM

Now is the time to get rid of your
rheumatism. You can do it if you
apply Chamberlain's Liniment. w. a.
I.Ockhard, Homer City, N. Y, writes,
LAS, spring | suffered from rheu-
malism with terrible pains in my
arms and shoulders. | got a bottle
If Chamberlain's Linimcnt and the
first application relieved me. BY us
ing one bottle OF it | was entirely
cured" For sale by all dealers. 51-2
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03
CHINA'S LATENT POWER.

(Aina, vitaizrd as Japan has been, could rule the world, says
It distinguished authority.
over Alaska and lIrNiro. In population it beats us better than four
to ono
coal vein is now a rarity: In 'hin"S 1880 square miles OF first
class anthracite coal land. the seams average - feet in thickness
and Unru reach 10.
Thus far. no diamonds have come from China; but nature has
unlrwrt her with everything ckr-roaI enough to heat the world
Iur ages: vast ore beds Of iron, copper. tin. lead and zine; gold. sill
}r salt and valley soils of inrclrliElr fertility.
CHM ) coal, iron and limestone he neal together. She can
>urIiy the world with steel, and. when taught scientific agriculture,
the natir" Chinaman is honest, capable, industrious. quick 10
LEARN Let him be organized for industry O war with modern meth
o> and there are enough Of him to make IL mark.
Think Of what Japan has done in 80 Years ON a group of islands
not as large as Texas and You gather Il hint of the tremendous stalk"
lr which she is playing in the enlra>"r to capture control Of
China, vtaiz~l as Japan has been. could, yes would. rule the
N"rM' concludes the sam" authority.
Graduates now pass from the life of school to the school Of life.
There is Il wee sma rumor aloat that Governor Byrnc may
>"k Il third term.
About onrhalf of a mans li" is spent in preparation to live;
IL" other half III preparation to die.
Boss Barnes is a newspaper man. He should have known bet
ter than TO have sued a subscriber for libel.
The prosperity that the European war was to bring the United
States doesn't seem t" have hit anybody very hard as yet.
Some one has figured that the European var to date has cost
about ten billions. Don't st" much financial prosperity in that.
It's been more than "a week since anybody has brought forward
the man to defeat Tom Sterling for United States senator in 1918.
Psychologists describe man as al animal. Maybe that $ why he
persists in fighting. You know. even little pigs fight before thcyr
a day old.
three hundred wooden Sccpcrs. BY next post he received a letter
from a ncghloring clergyman offering him his entire congregation
upon his own terms.
Colorado went dry last fall, but Denver: having been granted
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03
49,. 100000
1913

1915 >. So,UUU,UUU
One of the best features is the ever
distribution of wealth. 1t would be
hard to designate any particular Sec
ton as being better than the others.
&C. C. Bowsield in Chicago Herald.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

Some one has raised the point whether the fearful lombard
mcnts in Europe are not the cause of so much rain in this country
1t will be recalled that some years ago som jealous enthusiasts
entertained the theory that the use Of heavy artillery would pro
ducr rain in any locality. But if the rains of 1913 are produced
by the European war, what produced them in 1914?
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

Those fellows who are failing to give Billy Bryan credit for
having anything to do with the preparation of the notes to Germany
should reflect that the secretary of state in Wilson's cabinet is an
editor. The Saturday News never prints anything particularly
brilliant in its editorial columns but that some unapprrcativc ga
loot drops in to ask who wrote it!
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

There is only one sure method to keep nations from fighting in
the futurr-that IS, cease to prepare men #" fight and quit making
things TO fight with. SO long a nations support standing armies
and build big navcs so long will nations fight. That what they
build navics and rear standing armies for.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

Some time age some wiscacrc assumed to say that if Germany
ever reached the point where it recognized coming defeat. it would
draw all the leading nations into the conflict i'll order to be able to
say that it could not be expected to whip the whole world. We
doubt whether the Germans would feel so inclined, but if such be
tlr case they re getting Uncle Sam in a rather irritable condition.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

There are indications that President Wilson may change his
policy with Mexico. About the only change that seems likely to
accomplish anything in that bcnighted country is an invasion by
lnnr Sam army. So long as there's more than II wouldbr
president left in Mexico there's bound to be fighting.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

II should be reflected that Germany sold arms and ammunition
to Spain during the Spanish American war. That does not justify
America in returning the same sort of treatment during Germany 5
trouble Of the same character, but it may sort o ease the American
conscience a little.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

merely ran against a mine. Owing to the fact that Germany has a
horde of submarines in the vicinity where the vessel was injured, the.
presumption is that Il torpedo did the business.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

The fact remains, despite all commercial club or booster cul
claims to the contrary. that conditions throughout the western coast
country are extremely dull. l.aborers are out Of employment. bust
ness stagnation prevails, and people are beginning TO wonder whcr,
it will all end.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

An exchange says that a railroad contractor advertised for
three hundred wooden Sccpcrs. by next post he received a letter
from ii ncighhoring clergyman offering him his entire congregation.
upon his own terms.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

The belief seems justified that Italy does not consider that Ger
many will triumph in the present war. 1t is not probable that Italy
would have voluntarily gone in with what It recognized as the losing
side, since its participation in the conflict was so long withheld.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

Colorado went dry last fall, but Denver, having been granted a
measure Of srlfuOvrlnmrn1. contends that it is not subject to the
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

If America wanted Germany to make its winnings sure and
certain, il cutting off of the shipments of munitions of war would
turn the trick. Germany is the only country engaged i'll the war
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

From all accounts. South Dakota and the territory surrounding
it are enjoying a greater measure Of prosperity than any other sec
ton Of Uncle Sans vast domain. With another good crop, it bids
fair to forge still further ahead by comparison. Arms and ammu-
milton and foodStuffs are about the only things that distracted Eu-
rope can buy these days.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

If the allies get full possession of the DarlanclrS within the
near future. their chances of success in the war will be materially
improved. 1t will result in furnishing an outlet for vast stores OF
foodstuftS held in Russia and which Russia does not need.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

The railroads themselves are largely responsible for the state
of the public mind concerning railroad manipulation Of politics and
finances. That certain few Of the railroads have inlnlgcI in polit-
zeal manipulation is beyond question and that certain other roads
hav" sought to dictate state and even federal politics is also u-
questioned. We fancy that some of the troubles confronting the
interests Of the brewers today are due to their assumption Of poit-
ial power in states and municipalities.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

If it costs Europe Il billion a month to fight. and if the fighting
should continue for three years, there are people who are wonder
ing whether Euror" wont have to repuliatr its financial obiga-
tionS in order merely to live after the war is over.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

Psychologists describe man a al animal. Maybe that $ why he
persists in fighting. You know. even little pigs fight before thcy'rt
a day old.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

Some one has figured that the European war to date has COS
about ten billions. Don't sec much financial prosperity in that.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

The prosperity that the European war was to bring t
States Aocsn' t seem to- have hit anybody very hard as y
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1915-06-03

About onr-half Of a mans life is spent III prcparati,
tie other half in PREPARATION to die.