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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13

ible force meeting the immovable
body. says the Bloomington Bulletin.
The clash between the Illinois Equal
Suffrage association and the Congress
sional Union for Woman Suffrage
reached the final stage Saturday.
Plans for the suffrage parade and dem
onstration at the time of the repuhli-
can national convention June Z, caused
the rupture.
The state body some time ago let it
be known that its members would
wear 10 cent hats in the big suffrage
parade. Now the Congressional I'm
will wear special IS hats in the dem
onstration.
The new hat Is all white. created
from a combination of silk and braid
with a small rosette Of purple, white
and gold, the unions colors. The Off
cial announcement stated that the
hats would retail at S. each. The hats
are stamped THE Woman's Party
Hat"
Husbands need not be undu1y elated
with the thought that as silent part
ners In the state association, they are
going to get by with 10 cents per hat.
We look to see the Illinois association
scornfully spurn the cheap five dollar
official hat of the Congressional Union
and put in the parade an artist model
to cost not a penny less than $40.
Compromise is not to be thought of.
AS the late Mr.. Pullman said when
precipitating a great industrial war,
there is nothing to arbitrate."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
RELIEF FOR BLIND.

America has given freely, even
prodigally, to alleviate the sufferings
of the unfortunate non-combatants
upon whom the war in Europe has
placed an undeserved and heavy bur-
den. We have fed the Belgians and
the Poles and have nursed the Ser
bians sick with typhus and typhoid
and wherever else there has been
opportunity for our charity we have
not hesitated to extend it.
Toward the unfortunate whose pa
triotism, or whom compulsion, has
forced to take active part in the war
we have indicated no desire to light
en- the burdens placed upon them by
the war. We have looked to their
governments to provide for the Grip
pied and the manned and have seemed
content to confine our part to those
who have not been belligerents. In
this our spirit of charity has been
incomplete, but has been guilty of a
Partially which should never touch
hands with it.
There has been founded in New
York, by a survivor of the Lusitania,
a Permanent Blind Relief War
Fund" which may save us from the
stigma of Partially and give COM
pleteness to our efforts to relieve suf-
fering. 1t is charity designed es-
pecially for the soldiers who have lost
their sight in the fighting, to the bat
tie blinded men of all nations, who
are said now to number at least
twelve thousand.
There can be no more worthy char
ity than this one, because there can
come to no man greater misfortune
| than to lose his sight. The loss OF
an arm, or leg, or even all the
| limbs, the loss of speech and the loss
of hearing all are compensated If the
sight is retained. But when the eyes
are blind the whole world is wiped
out as by a cataclysm and the sufferer
| lives as lonesomely by himself as
/ though at the bottom of well.
| The Permanent Blind Relief Wal
Fund should appeal to every citizen
| The association having administration
of the fund has Offices at $50 Fifth
avenue, New York City. and contribu-
lions to the fund will be received
there until the association can estab-
| lish local bureaus.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13

Perhaps no man in America has
contributed so much to our knowledge
of metabolism-the oxidation process
of combustion which constitutes life
and growth-as the distinguished edi-
tor of the New York Medical Journal,
Dr. c. E. de M. Sajous. His great
work upon the internal secretions and
the principles of medical practice is
one of the classics of our time, rank
ing with the textbook of Osler in the
practitioners library.
A recent contribution of DR.. Sajous
offers some suggestive ideas upon the
subject of defective development. He
points out the relation between the
thymus gland function and the condi-
lions of idiocy and demential praecox.
If the thymus secretions tone of the
internal secretions, the thymus being
ductless gland is deficient, there is
defective brain development or prema-
ture mental failure. The gland was
absent in rs idiotic children examined
post-mOrtem, though normal in 81
normal children who had died of vari-
Gus diseases. Sajous believes the thy
mus secretion is inadequate in demen-
tia praecox, form of insanity of early
life. Notable evidences of thymus
gland deficiency are:
l. Deficient development of the
bones, with deformities suggesting
ricketts,, due to defective assimilation
of the calcium Qimel of the food, ow-
ing to the lack of thymus secretion.
Understood stature. DELAYED mental
development. A low relative lympho-
cyte count determined by making a
blood COUNT
Long before the brilliant discoveries
of Grille relating to the prevention of
shock and exhaustion in surgery by
protecting the ductless glands, Sajous
taught that the thyroid gland took an
active part in protecting the body
against intoXications. He now points
out the relation between insufficient
thyroid gland secretion and melan-
cholia and mania. The results of in
sufficient thyroid secretion are so
characteristic and so common, even
among people who do not consider
, themselves really unhealthy, that we
may mention them here:
l. Subnormal temperature, cold ex-
tremities sensitiveness TO cold wealth
er, diminished or absent Precipitation,
tendency 10 obesity.
| 2. Doughty. dry skin, often with pads
Of fat on the collar bones or neck.
thick lips, puffy eyes. scaly skin. dry.
brittle. poorly growing hair, brittle
nails, poor teeth.
3. Mental torpor. deep but unre-
freshing sleep. loss OF former ambi-
ton to work or play. drowsiness day
times.
4. II woman scanty or absent per-
iodic function. Inability TO nurse a
baby.
Be the individual defective" or
not, the recognition of signs of defic-
iency of internal secretions points the
way toward relief, Treatment directed
toward the correction OF ductless
gland deficiencies is accomplishing
miracles eKarY dax
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
BARGE TRANSPORTATION.

A few days ago the st. Louis Re
public pointed out the fact that the
tide Of popular interest in river navi-
cation was approaching food and
asked what the St. Louis shippers were
prepared 10 do about it. Before the
day was over st. Louis business men
had said that they would subscribe
for ten thousand dollars worth of
barge stock that should be placed in
the hands Of responsible steamboat
man and substitute for weekly, semi
weekly, if not daily sailings from St
Louis TO New Orleans. The Bernard
barge "Inco J." is now running be-
tween these cities and promising q
trip every three weeks. John H. Ber-
nard, president of the inland naviga-
ton company, in a letter to the Re-
public, states that the "Inco 2" and
the "lnco 3" are already launched and
soon Will be in the trade, insuring
barge every week by April, 1917. This
company, he says, will have enough
barges for semi-weekly trips along
the lower river and by the end of
1917 will be prepared to install a dailv
service
SO, if st. Louis business men helm.
by the organization of a second COM
pany, there will be some lively barg
ing on the Mississippi river, and. if
the Dunno canal, and in that way
alone, can Illinois share in the big in
be, also on the canal via the Illinois
river between Chicago, St Louis and
New Orleans. By the construction of
the Dunno canal, and in that way
alone. can Illinois share in the big in
crease Of water-borne commerce.
Nothing should stand in the way of
the construction Of the Dunno canal,
the only link lacking in the lakes-to-
the-gulf waterway II is vital to the
increased prosperity Of the industrial,
commercial and agricultural inter
ests of Illinois that the Dunno canal
shall be built
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
MOTHERS DAY.

The second Sunday in May is Moth
er's day. This year it falls on May
IA. Tomorrow is the date. The beau
tiful thought of setting aside one day
in the year to be particularly devoted
to ones mother was first suggested by
Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia,
who founded the Mothers Day Inter-
national association to provide the
necessary organized support for the
fostering of the movement. Thanks
largely to her efforts. Mothers day
has become a recognized institution
as the day on which each of us should
pause to acknowledge our debt OF
affection and gratitude to 1.-The best
mother who ever lived" on which we
should be with her if we can, and, If
we unfortunately cannot, should make
a point of sending her a message OF
affection and cheer.
The emblem of the day is the white
carnation, and it is the hope of the
Mothers Day association that it will
be worn by every one as tribute OF
respect, not only for his own mother
but also for all the gentle and noble
motherhood of the land.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
The Daily Story
A Romance of Old Me xico-By r. A. Mitchell.

Hearing mems voices under her win
dow, she got out of bed and saw
Benarez and another Of her men guests
leaving the house. The man with
Benarez carried rapiers under bis arm
1t was evident that something was
about to happen, the cause Of which
she did not understand. Hurriedlv
putting on her clothes, she went on.
into q corridor, where she met Dona
Conchia Poillado, TO whom she told
what she had seen.
IL can explain that" said Dons
Conchia, "but will do so later. Hurrv
after these men If you wish to prevent
bioodshed-"
The two women ran downstairs and
meeting one Of the Indian servants
asked him which way the gentlemen
had gone. He told them, and they fol.
lowed as fast as they could TO an open
space inclosed by surrounding trees
where a number Of duels had been
fought. There they found Benarez and
Coral in their shirt sleeves, each hold.
ing a rapier, about to fight On the
ground were their seconds and several
other of the men guests.
Gentlemen" said the widow, ~what
right have you to mar my party IN this
way? What you are doing is an In
suit to me and all my other guests"
The two principals paused, but nell
Their replied.
II think" said Dona Conchia, shat
I can explain it, and since the one 9TH
er who should explain it seems not in.
clined to do SO, I will tell what I
know. Ysabel. when you took hold Of
a vine yesterday afternoon you drop
ped your fan. 1t fell into tall grass.
Don Antonio presently picked It up and
put it In his pocket. Walking home
with Senior Benarez, l told him what
had seen"
The statement occasioned a marked
surprise in all present 1t seemed I'm
possible that grandee Of Spain could
have descended to so dishonorable an
act. Coral turned pale and red BY
turns. Sonora Cardona said TO him:
what have you to say, Don Antonio,
to the charger
81 cannot dispute the word Of a
lady" was the reply. uttered In a
voice scarcely audible and with bow
so low that his face was invisible.
Put up your swords, gentlemen.
Senior Benarez, VIII you accompany
me back to the houseT'
Benarez tossed his rapier toward bis
second and, with the hostess, followed
by the others. except Coral. left the
ground. Coral took the fact that he
was not invited to return as dismissal
and went his sway.
The widow married Benarez, and It
was learned afterward that Coral was
not known in Madrid, but was a gam
bier from Cordova. which place he had
been obliged to fee, having killed 3
man under criminal circumstances.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
|EALTHT TALK
Defective Development.
William Brady,M.D

Hernia or Rupture and Surgery.
Please tell me what is the best treat
ment for case of hernia or rupture
in man of 26.
Answer-Surgical cure-that is the
cheapest, safest and only cure.
Diet of Nursing Mother.
What articles of food must nlrs-
ing mother avoid?
Answer-Nothing in particular. She
should eat everything she ordinarily
eats. If it agrees with mother it will
be good for the baby-the 'old wom-
an" to the C. n. W. At least that is the
way dietitians tell US to do.
Iron Never Hurts the Teeth.
What kind of iron is least injurious
to the teeth?
~Answer-Medical iron cannot inIure
the teeth. That is just a hold-over
prejudice from the old times when the
acid tincture was used.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
JUSTICE OF EIGHT HOUR DAY FOR
TRANMEN.

Addressing a great mass meeting of
the railroad brotherhoods in the
Lyceum theatre in Pittsburgh, Frank
P. Walsh, chairman of the committee
on industrial relations. said:
Il hold that the eight hour day is
so incontestably right that the demand
for it is not a subject for arbitration.
1t should be taken as a matter of in
alienable right through the economic
power of the workers. Not only
should no man be compelled to work
more than eight hours day; but no
man should be permitted to work more
than eight hours day except with the
consent of his fellow workers and I'M
der conditions which they impose, by
their collective bargaining power, to
see that the one man does not invade
and imperil the rights of his fellows. "
Il hold further" continued Mr..
Walsh, that the right of workers to
collective bargaining and the right of
every worker to be protected by his
fellow workers from arbitrary dis
charge are also the inalienable rights
of modern industry and they also are
not subjects for arbitration"
What the railroad brotherhoods are
demanding" said Mr. Walsh sis that
instead of a 10-hour day they be given
an eight hour day, or if the railroads
won't grant that, then that they be
given time and one-half for time over
eight-hour limit.
The railroads say that this is mere
ly demand for wages to be increased.
Suppose that the brotherhoods de-
manded without any alternative that
they be given the eight-hour day
which every principle of humanity ana
human efficiency says is long enough
for exacting risky and vigilant labor
and that the railway employees be re-
turned to their homes at the end of
each days work without expense to
them as most other employees are.
What a howl would then go up from
the railroads as to the exorbitant cost
that would mean to them. If these
righteous demands of the railway en-
ployes have become only demands for
increased wages it is because the rail-
roads themselves have made that the
alternative.
Bear in mind that the great ma
jority of railroad employees are a great
part Of their time away from their
home cities. They have to pay their
own expenses for lodging, food, etc.,
and that comes out of their wages.
What are these wages? They will av-
erage, it is claimed $1,242 year. That
is perhaps 800 or more too high, in
asmuch as it takes into account the
higher average of the $4,000 passen-
ger conductors, engineers and others
who are not involved in this contro-
versy But suppose it is s1,242 year.
The daily average wage for trainmen
is $2.73 for a 10-hour day, or 81 cents
an hour. To make 81 PAP a year at 81
cents an hour means that a man must
work 1900 hours in the year, and that
means the equivalent Of AGO ten-hour
days, or 365 days OF more than 13 hours
labor each. The way it actually works
itself out is that for many, MANY DAYS
OF the year the men who run vour
trains, and who keep the tracks safe
and into whose hands the lives of all
the rest are placed. and safely placed
where the greed or cheapness of the
financial arrangements does not inter
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
AT A SOLDIERS GRAVE.

A church of England chaplain was
summoned by an able and Belgian
officer to conduct the funeral services
of a Belgian artilleryman who had
been killed in battle. He had been a
member of the English church, and his
comrades wished to show this def
erence to his death.
When the chaplain reached the clos
ing words of the beautiful service for
the dead, the commander of the bat
terry stepped forward and in simple
French addressed the slain soldier.
His words are worth recording as evil
dence of the spirit in which the Bel
gians fight for their freedom and their
conquered soil. He said:
My comrade, rest in confidence and
quiet courage. Let the qualities you
have shown so we'll in life still sus-
tain your soul. Take heart, dear COM
rade; the cause to which you have
given your life shall be thrust back
whence it came; never fear concern
ing that Perhaps the thought OF her
you love, of the two little ones and
Of their future is troubling you. Have
no fear, dear comrade; so long as one
of US is left, they shall be cared for
And you, for your part, who have
passed deaths gate, would bid us be
of good cheer and go back to the guns
you served so we'll, knowing that, come
life or death, there lies beyond a glor-
ious future for our country and for all
who suffer in the one great cause"
That is eloquence without rhetoric,
springing spontaneously from a SOL
dier's heart. 1t is the voice of Bel
GUM. 1t is more than a prayer-it is
prophecy
The dead artillervman had been by
birth a nobleman. In his boyhood he
went to England and thence to Canada.
When the war began he heard the call
of his native land and, bringing his
wife and children back to London.
crossed the channel and enlisted in
the ranks Of his fellow countrymen.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
THE COLONIES IDEA OF THE
RIGHT MAN.

Lest there be the least misunder-
standing as to whom he was thinking
about, and what he was thinking
about, when he spoke of the kind of a
candidate that would receive his sup
port for president, and what he meant
by a heroic figure, Colonel Theodore
Roos evelt states that he approves
of what the league is doing"
The Roosevelt letter places an en-
trely new complexion upon the po-
iitical situation and has put aside the
reports that the colonel was ready
to work for the nomination of this or
that candidate.
He is ready to work only for the
candidacy of Roosevelt, without COM
promise or condition other than the
fact.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13

The state food commissioner of
Michigan in a recent bulletin says that
while good butter is made in Michigan
it is sent to New York and Philadel-
phia and only poor stuff is sold at
home. He says that much butter now
on sale in Michigan is creamery but
ter placed in cold storage in Chicago
last summer and is now sold in Chi
cago at 27 cents and retailed in Mich
igan at 81 cents. He further asserts
that cold storage butter six months
old is not long for this world after
being taken out and develops alarm
ing odors and f1avors. 1t appears that
cold storage butter, like cold storage
eggs, is still on its good behavior.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13

Years ago when Mexico was stil q
Spanish province there was a house
party in one Of the haciendas not far
from the capital The hostess was
young widow, and several OF the
young men guests were suitors for
her hand. The lady, Sonora ISABEL
Cardona, had given her heart to one OF
them. Don Miguel Benarez, but he did
not know It, and another, Antonio Co
raj, recent arrival from Madrid, who
claimed TO be a grandee. was his rival.
One afternoon when the hostess and
a number Of her guests had been stroll
ing over the hacienda, that Sonora Ysa-
bel might show them her fruits, upon
passing up ON to the veranda she miss
ed a fan she had been carrying. 1t
was a valuable article, being studded
with jewels. A small party had ar
rived at the house, the others being
strung along in the path they had
come. Among those who were with
the hostess was Antonio Coral
What will you give the finder Of the
FAM" he asked her.
Anything l possess"
YOURSELF"
Sonora Ysabel looked at BenareZ,
who was also present, and with a
spark in her eye and color in her
cheeks replied:
yes"
Away went all the men present to
look for the fan except Benarez, who
remained standing beside Dona Con-
CHA Poillado, with whom he had been
walking. Sonora Ysabel looked at him,
surprised that he did not enter the
lists for her hand and, frowning, went
into the house. After awhile those
who had gone to search returned. Co
raj possessed the fan and had won the
widow.
Evidently his being the finder in
stead of Benarez was a matter OF
great displesure to Senora Ysabel Car
dona- She gave no sign of not accept,
ing the situation, but no one was sure
whether she would engage herself to
Coral or not. Coral certainly had rea-
son to suppose that she would, for she
at once began to treat him as fiance,
especially when Benarez was present.
During the evening party Of the
men guests, including both Coral and
Benarez, were in the billiard room.
Coral asked Benarez If he would play
a zane with him.
Il play only with honorable men"
was the reply.
| For a few moments there was the
stiffness of death in the room. Every
one present knew that the insult re-
quired resentment, and it was gen.
orally supposed that something under
lay the affair. Then Coral left the
| room.
! The next morning Sonora Ysabel,
who was troubled that one man should
| have won her hand when she wanted
another, awoke very early and lay
| thinking what to do in the matter.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
Daily History CIasS-May 10.

l6l9-Johann Van Olden Barneveidt
eminent and liberal Dutch states
man. died; born l549.
lII6-"The Guard OF the Commander
In Chief" George Washington. or
ganized in New York. The corps
was composed of native born
Americans.
ls46-Eresident Polk declared that
war existed by the act Of Mext
CO.. The act consisted Of armed al
tacks upon United States troops
i9fo-The United. States sent a note
TO the German government pro-
testing against submarine warfare
citing the LHsitania case. British
battleship Goliath sunk in the PAR
danclles by a Turkish destroyer
800 lives lost
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13

Citizens who conspire to overthrow
the government and who give aid to
its enemies may be punished with
death. But foreigners, who use the
opportunities Of this government to
plot and destroy its shipping and dyn-
amite its factories, imperiling life, in
the interest Of a foreign power, fare
better Two Of this kind have just
been sent to the federal penitentiary
from New York. Great is American
lenienCv.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13
IT HAS COME.

Worst fears have been realized. The
suffragists of Illinois have split on the
subject of millinery. This is no ordi-
nary breach such as comes to men in
party management and is SAWED by jul
dicious promises of distribution of
Offices, This is the case Of the irresist-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13

Now that President Wilson has de-
clared in favor of non-partisan tar
if commission and congress is likely
to create such a commission, the re-
publican spellbinders will be deprived
Of an issue and have no opportunity
to weep for the infant industries"
that are wearing gray whiskers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-13

Premier Asquith has at last taken
the Irish crisis into his own hands.
Even if the premier is on the 'level," y
it is simply another case Of locking
the stable door after the horse is
stolen.