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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

writing on this subject in the July
number OF the American, says:
The problem now confronting the
nations industries is to find way
to use this splendid manufacturing
equipment for all il is worth without
oyerproduction and If possible with
out 'scrapping' the plant and machin-
cry acquired for temporary use, but
fully paid for and available, If some
new use can be found for it. 1t
is a problem of super-abundance OF
productive facilities and necessity of
broadening our markets to the full
measure OF a great opportunity. We
must look forward to a time when
it will be necessary to substitute per
manent business for the war orders
or we will not be producing at the
par OF our increased industrial ca
pability.
In other words, we must find a
market for more than we have ever
before manufactured in normal times
or else our manufacturers and in
vestors will be merely pocketing the
special profits of the extraordinary
period OF prosperity when they might
make steady, permanent increase
in income"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

London.-The report on prisons in
Scotland for 1915, just issued, reveals
a remarkable decrease in the number
of criminals dealt with. the lowest
since 1863, notwithstanding the fact
that the population of the country has
increased since then by 10 per cent
The decrease is attributed chiefly to
the growth of the temperance move
ment, increased facility for finding en-
ployment, and the recent mobilization
The number of criminals tabulated
in 1915 was 27,340, a decrease of
1916 as compared with the total of
the preceding year.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
MR.. HUGHES "VISION"

have proper respect for the vested
rights of great corporations.
Mr.. Hughes would deal drastically
and sternly with Mexico, because Mex
leo is weak and disorganiZed and Am
erican capital would profit by inter
ventton. He does not know what he
would do with Germany, because the
great financial and industrial interests
which control the republican party
have never been united on a German
policy. If they were agreed, their pol
icy would be Mr. Hughes's policy, be-
cause Mr.. Hughes has the respect for
their political judgment which is in
herent in every successful Wall street
lawyer.
When Mr.. Hughes was governor he
was ferocious in his determination to
stamp out race-track gambling, but
The World could never persuade him
to take any real interest in stock ex-
change gambling. He signed a bill
making adultery a misdemeanor, but
he was not concerned at all about the
immortality of child labor. Nor did he
ever perceive that there was moral
question in workmen's compensation
legislation
Race-track gambling was not re-
spectacle, therefore it had to be
stamped out. Wall street gambling
was respectable, therefore it had to be
conserved and protected. Child-labor
and workingmen's compensation laws
involved property rights, and therefore
were to be viewed with suspicion.
Mr.. Hughes, if he were president.
would be an honest president He
would work faithfully and conscienti-
ously at his task. He would try to do
his duty as he saw it. He would stick
to the letter of the law, whatever the
spirit might be- He would administer
the government to the best of his abil-
ity and seek to guide it along strict
business lines. He would be strong for
all the conventional moralities and
distrustful of all innovation.
When he had finished, the American
people would be ready for an economic
revolution against a government of
property, by property and for prop
erty, regardless of all that Mr.. Hughes
had done to purify their souls.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE

Mr. Hughes, formerly q judge and
now a candidate, charges that the
president Of the United States has de
based the diplomatic service by his
appointments. We should like TO have
him make the Indictment a little more
definite and certain.
Let us begin at the beginning. Is
Walter II. Page, ambassador to Great
Britain, inferior to Whitelaw Reid? Is
Henry Van Dyke, minister to the Meth
erlands, a poorer choice than Lloyd
Bryce, his predecessor? Is Thomas
Nelson Page, ambassador to Italy. a
less worthy representative than was
Thomas J. O'Brien? Has the United
States ever had a more capable re-
preventative in the far east than Paul
s. Reinsch, our minister to China? Do
the Chinese regret William j. Cal
hOun, whom he succeeded?
Brand Whitlock is minister to Bel
GUM; he succeeded Theodore Mar
burg; did the service lose anything
By replacing a scholar with a practical
administrator? Is Frederick c. Penfeld,
the accomplished diplomat, writer and
scholar, less fit to represent us at the
court beside the Danube than Richard
Kerens? Henry Lane Wilson, political
protege of Richard Achilles BalIing-
er, was Taft's ambassador to Mexico;
he frittered away opportunities of in
calcuable value. His successor has
been taken from Chilean appointee
OF President Taft's. What sort of spirit
does this show? Does Mr.. Hughes be
lieve that Wilson, partisan Of Huerta,
should have been retained?
He instances South America The
first ambassador to Argentina is Fred
eric j. Stimson, professor of compar-
alive legislation at Harvard and an
eminent authority on constitutional
law He succeeded John W. Garrett,
the last minister. an experienced di-
plomat who was sent to Paris on a
special mission Edwin Y. Morgan, ap-
pointed by Taft, is still at Rio jan
Giro. Fletcher, ambassador to Chile,
has, as we have noted, been promoted
TO Mexico.
This brief review of facts accessible
10 any inquiring citizen viii help the
reader TO Judge for himself how far
Mr.. Hughes's heated charge that
President Wilson has debased the di-
plomatic service is warranted by the
facts. tt renders comment wholly I'M
necessary. Has there ever been a time
when the United States was represent
ed more capably throughout the
length and breadth of the diplomatic
field than nov?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
GeneraI Brussiloff Little known.

Petrograd.- General Alexis Brussi-
loft, commander of the Russian army
which swept through Bukowina, was
little known outside of Russia before
the present war. In fact, it was not
until 1914 that he was given command
of an army corps. His work in the
war won him promotions. He is almost
the only one of the many prominent
social figures in the army who has
made good
General BrussilOn is GO years old
but looks more like As. He is alert and
modern. He has dark, steady. search
ing eyes and nose with high, COM
handing curved bridge, and square
jaw. His hair is close cropped; ne
wears a long thin gray mustache..
1t was General Brussllun who com-
manded an army in the first Carpsth-
ian campaign when the Russians were
ready to pour down into Hungary DuI
were forced to retreat for lack of am
munition. Unlike many Russian gen.
erals, Brussiloff had the advantages o.
an excellent education and began arm!
life in a fashionable cavalry regiment
Ability and influence combined 70
make his advancement rapid. he heW
many positions. was recognized tas.
orite at court. distinguished himseu
as daring rider, encouraged cavalry
officers TO go in for polo aud cross
country steeplechases and was pop
ular in Petrograd society. Then came
the war TO try out the capacity anu
characters of men. Brussllon was one
OF the studious. professional type -
officer who came TO the front anu
made good
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
A BIG PROBLEM.

When war contracts first began to
stimulate American industry, traders
in the stock market hit upon a plan
TO determine the reasonable market
value Of the war order stocks. They
figured out as best they could the
probable profit per share which NUM-
tons com panies might be expected to
earn from their military contracts,
and added il bodily to what was con-
sidered d reasonable price for the
stock in normal times before the
war.
This method OF estimating stock
values has since undergone d change
Such a hard and fast rule could not
be uniformly applied TO different
companies in the war supply business.
It soon became apparent that the
large earnings from war orders were
not being distributed TO stockholders
in any large proportion, but were be
ing used by the various companies for
extension Of their properties, for pay
ing off debts, retiring bonds and
strengthening their cash position. 1t
became question whether a dollar
SO invested was worth dollar more
in the price Of the stock
In the case Of companies earning
large returns on their investments in
normal times, d dollar Of profit so in
vested might be worth more than a
dollar distributed in dividends, be
cause Of what it would earn if retain
ed in the business. In the case OF
less prosperous concerns war profits
put into the business might simply
be throwing good money after bad
In the steel industry no small part
Of the huge wartime profits is being
invested ia additional manufacturing
facilities. Whether this is 10 prove
as profitable 70 stockholders AS act
uaI distribution Of the cash in the
form Of dividends remains to be seen.
The result may depend largely on
whether a satisfactory tariff on steel
and iron prOduc is enacted
William 5. Kies, vice president of
the National City bank Of New York,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
The Daily Story
'16 and 61-By Esther vandeveer.

Neil Appleton, a young American
who had been to the European
war and had been discharged as unfit
for service on account OF wounds, re-
turned to his home in Maine with a
Belgian bride. Appleton was the
grandson Of a G.. A.. X. man, and young
! '16 was swapping stories with old 81
THE only difference between you
and me, grandfather" said Neil, "is
that in my case the ! comes before the
6, while in yours the is before the ]
Come; tell us another yarn about
fighting in Virginia"
There's only one yarn haven't told
you" said the old man, and that
don't like to tell. 1t has been a sad
memory for me for more than Sc
years"
All insisted on hearing the story
and the old man continued: III not
make much OF a yarn out OF it III cut
it short. AS you know, / was or
scouting service during the peninsular
campaign. One day / was resting on
neutral ground. / was on a hillside
from where | could look down on a
road running between McClellan's and
General Lees armies. While 1 was
looking down on this road / saw a
man on horseback riding in the direc-
ton of the Confederates. 1t struck me
that he had been in our lines and was
going toward the Confederate lines
Being out for information myself,
was ready to suspect any one else OF
doing the same thing. He stopped al
house near the road, and woman
and a girl came out to greet him. By
this felt confident that he was a Con
federate, for the woman embraced him
in a way that told me he was her son
couldn't hear what they were talking
about, but l knew she was trying to
persuade the young han to go in and
get a rest or something to eat. He
demurred for some time, then yielded
to her. That yielding cost him his
life.
q reckon he had been to our lines
for information and was carrying it to
the COnfederates. Mounting my horse
rode down to lower eminence far
Their northward toward Richmond
where l could see the house he was in
much more plainly and waited for him
to come out to ride on. l didn't have
to wait long. He soon appeared, his
mother on one side of him and the girl
on the other. He kissed his mother
and then the girl, and l knew by that
second kiss that they were lovers. II
wasn't like the other at all Then he
rode on toward me, looking back and
throwing kisses with his fingers.
Il was posted beside the road behind
thick brushes. AS soon as he came
within pistol range l called out:
Halt Hands up!'
He knew he was covered by some
one he couldn't see and obeyed the or
der, though he told me afterward that
if he could have seen me afterward
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
HOW TO GET ALONG WITH HAY
FEVER.

Il
The early symptoms of hay fever
are snee1ang, STIFFNESS of the nostrils
from swelling of the mucous mem
brane, itching of the inner angle of
the eye and perhaps itching of the roof
of the mouth, thin watery discharge
from the nose, perhaps slight fever
and general peevishness, worse at
night or when lying down, and less
troublesome when the patient is &C
tive The nasal discharge remains
thin, and does not become thick and
puruIent, as in common coryZa or
cold in the head" However, many
cases are mistaken for cold" or '"ca-
tarrh." In severe cases more or less
asthmatic trouble accompanies the at
tack.
Most cases develop in August and
September, being due to different pol
lens floating in the air at this time
of year Pollen may be carried long
distances, even miles, on the wind, so
that a change of wind may bring on
an attack of hay fever. Or the at
tack may be induced by travelling past
a vacant lot or field where the partic-
ular weed grows Or the weed may
grow in your own back garden, if you
are of the lazy disposition so charaC-
teristic of this disease
Among the weeds known to cause
hay fever are the following: Rag
weed august to Noyember), Nova
Scotia to Florida and Mexico. Giant
ragweed, more common in the south
ern states. False NORWOOD (bas-
tard feverfew) all summer Marsh
elder (moist ground and waste places)
August TO November. Careless weed
4 - nnrnvrharl In hnr
June to December). Yellow dock.
OF course, rose pollen is RESPONSE
Bile for few cases, though not a tenth
of the cases called rose cold" and
various grasses are accountable for a
certain small number of cases, but the
vast majority of hay fever patients
need have no fear of hitting the hay.
Hay fever" was so named when il
was mistakenly supposed that the pol
len came from the hay at harvest time
whereas the real cause was rag
weed goldenrod or other weed in the
bayfield, Goldenrod, by the way, is
only rarely the cause.
ImmunizaGion of the susceptible in
dividual by means of gradually in
creasing doses OF the specific pollen
which causes his attacks determined
by testing him with pollens or pollen
extracts of one plant after another till
the specific one is found) offers the
best treatment available today.
Ragweed being by far the common
est cause, a ready-made pollen extract
from this plant is used. and with con-
siderable success, for the treatment of
many cases.
A Detroit physician found that
rather large doses OF calcium chlor-
ide crystals, dissolved in water, gave
great relief in many cases. Three
ounces of the crystals are dissolved
in one pint of water. and teaspoon
full OF this is taken in one-third of "A
glass OF water after each meal. This
idea was made In Germany, and hence
is all right.
Spraying in the nostrils and drop
ping in the eye a weak adrenalin So
luton gives symptomatic relief one
part of the standard adrenalin solu-
ton in ten or fifteen parts OF normal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
DEFEATED CANDIDATE.

We know Of no better training for
a man than that required to be a
cheerful loser in an hour of political
defeat
If you get run over in today's pri-
maries it's your duty this evening to
be pleasant and brave, to shake hands
with the same fellows you've been
shaking hands with for the past sew
eraI weeks as you meet them, and if
the man who beats you is the proper
man for office in your judgment, the
thing to do is to go to him and tell
him that you are going to help him
get elected.
Most any chap can get defeated at
a primary, but It takes big man to
get defeated and take it gracefully.
It's about the only chance some fell
lows ever have 10 be big.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

When a, circus comes for an engage
ment city oficials-give warning against
traversing street pavemeuts with wag-
ons Of such excessive weight as might
damage the surface. The circus is
here but once a year. yet every day
loads heavier than used by the circus
are permitted TO pound along over the
city pavements. There ought to be a
tonnage limit enforced. If there is not,
it viii be only a question of time until
every pavement in the city is beaten
10 a pulp. Other cities protect the
property owners who pay the bills for
the paving. Dock Island should do
likewise, and without loss of time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
GM0RDg A No
ID I S C O II ID S

IN poker, among experts, 1t is held
to be an undeniable fact that the adj
vantage invariably is with the dealer.
Politics, too, is a game, and bluff
ing occasionally brings home the
bacon. But, after all, it is the hand
that shows in the middle of the table
that counts most. 1t does not happen
to be our good fortune to know
whether President Wilson and Mr.
Hughes are poker players. If they
are. the latter must be credited with
poor judgment, especially anent the
Mexican situation. He has run his
bets up to the point where it is ex-
pected he will be called at an early
date by the man in the White house.
In the present controversy the presi-
dent is dealing. If he hasn't an ace in
the hole he will be a great disappoint-
ment to those who have observed his
moves in previous political disputes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
3 Il
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* eYMLLIAN BRADY. M067
NJ II
( BYMllIAN BRAOInD(

salt solution Cteaspoonful OF salt to
pint of boiled water). This may be
used every few hours.
A sea or great lake voyage, visit
to high altitude, or a visit TO any
big city in which civic pride keeps
down weeds is about the only relief
for a severe attack.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

With the auto, the movie, the war
and home politics to occupy them, it
appears that most of the baseball fans
are Just beginning TO waken to the fact
that another peunant race is drawing
TO a close. The national game has
suffered in lack, OF. attendance pretty
generally over the country this year.
The small leagues were particularly
hard hit
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

If this brand of weather continues
It may be-1hat 1t viii be advisable Tor
members of the Fairbanks notification
committee to take along their furs
when they visit Indianapolis Aug. 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
Kuginess Maxim.

Here is a mighty good business rule
that was laid down by Ruskin: IF
you can't pay for thing don't buy it.
If you can't get paid for it don't sell
il. So you will have calm days, drow-
sy nights and all the good business
you have now and none OF the bad"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

On the Mexican question Hughes
and Fairbanks have established per
feet equilibrium. Fairbanks has ap-
proved the presidents Mexican policy
of peace and humanity as strongly as
Hughes condemns it
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

Remember, too, when considering
the Mexican's attitude toward the Uni
ted States, that Uncle Sam took a big
slice OF land away from its southern
neighbor once on time and not so
long ago that educated MeXcans have
forgotten it. If we go in again with an
armed force naturally they Will think
we have come back for more.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
Summer Resort GOssip,

| Mrs. Pennington Jones-You would
/ like my husband. He's a wonderful
man, but I'm afraid he is working him
/ self to death. | just can't get him To
/ join me on a vacation. He says he
would be neglecting business if he did.
! But he writes me every day, so that it
seems as if he were near. You have
met Mrs. Arlington Smith? l sup
posed you had If you hadn't you would
have had to be in hiding. She is the
/ boldest thing I wonder that her hus-
band tolerates her brazeness. OF
/ course he doesn't see much of her.
/ Yes, she is bright, but l can't agree
with you when you say she is attrac-
tive of face.
| Mrs. Addington SMITH saw you
I seemingly much interested in Mrs.
Pennington Jones. Well, the poor
| thing needs sympathy. l am not at all
given to gOssiping, but when woman
! deliberately misrepresents herself l
do not hesitate to correct her. She
pretends to care for me, but l got her
number the first week l was here. OF
course she has means, but she is so
unhappy, largely through her own
fault, so l have been told. Her chill
dren have grown so big she insists on
their either remaining at home or go
ing TO another part of the country re-
mote from where she is spending the
summer. She is trying to fight back
age, and it can't be done. Her hus-
band, they say, wishes there were II
months in every summer.
MOURNERS arrested the other day
in Chicago for speeding a hearse bear
ing body TO its resting place must
have had entertained fears that the
dead might have awakened before il
was safely tucked beneath six foot OF
terra firma-
MRS. Hughes bravely comes to bat,
in answer To an inquiry, and says she
never tires OF listening to her hus-
bands speeches. Now, if the contrary
were true, and we have no means of
knowing whether it is or isn't, you
could hardly expect her to publicly
admit it, could you? Shouldsaynot
THE First Illinois cavalry is publish
ing newspaper II the boys keep at
it long enough they will discover that
there are other businesses beside war
which are hell.
HEALTH Commissioner Robertson
of Chicago advises bathers to wear
cotton in their ears. Doubtless he has
protection for the eyes 10 suggest.
but what's the use in wasting space
telling what il isl
j. NJ. C.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
Lies Little Prevaricators.

1--WE had our trunks packed and had
all the details looked after except pur-
chasing of our railroad and steamboat
tickets when this delightful change in
the weather came on. John remarked,
and l agreed with him, that it would
be folly for US to hike away two or
three thousand miles in search of
weather that might turn out to be not
as comfortable as the brand we are
getting at home. And it's getting so
late, even if it does warm up, l don't
think we will go anywhere this
season"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
Daily History CIass-Aug. IS.

1760-Napoleon Bouaparte porh -
AJaccio. Corsica: died 1921.
ls14-Battle Of Fort Erie, Caua"'''
American garrison repuiseu
heavy attack by the British a
l914-Panama canal formally OWL
to commerce.
I915-Germans drove theS kusn11 \,
back on DivinSk. Allep alN'
bombarded ConstantinopBe
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

Remember Z YOU have your ulIH I
bent on success that two things Is
necessary. two things that you mus
do yourself, that no one can aid you ~
achieve mastery OF yourself ana :
clear road to the goal. Hew low
your distractions for yourself IL Wv
have no opportunities made them'-
American Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

Berne-Swiss expectation TO lhe
United States shows large inc. esl -S'
in several articles, particularly cuees,
condensed milk, watches, SINS a. So
embroideries Expectation from IN VI
consular districts OF Berne' Of 49,
and Zurich during May last announce -
in value from 100000 frames
against $500, 900 francs IN May I'i''
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15
Rock IsIand-From River to
River.

Now we have a $4,000 600 zaerger
of aeropIane manufacturing compan-
les. The aeroplane business also
seems to be looking up
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

A Baltimore woman willed $4,000
to her son in trust until he's so 1t
doesn't take the lawyers to. decide how
much trust she placed in her boy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

Those who assume TO know give it
out that the republican nominee VIII
try 10 enter the White house by way
of Mexico. AS well that as any other
route.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-15

MIR. Rowe is a candidate for mem.
bership in the Illinois legislature. Ii
he lands in seat he ought to be able
to start something right OFF the jump.