Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-28
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HEAT-Mad Carp Fights Man Be
meath Waves. "-Headline in Chicago
Tribune. Yet they still persist in The
effort to boom the Windy city as a sum
mer resort. claiming that folks remain
normal there through the heated
period.
I'm through with automobiles for a
WHILE a Chicago girl is quoted as
having remarked after she had been
rescued unhurt from a wreck. Yes,
she is through until she receives an
other invitation.
JOHN J. Thomas, who has Just been
divorced in Cook county, praises his
former wife as IAN admirable woman"
But You will observe that he spared
his kind words until he was iudicially
separated from her.
NEW York expert announces that
personal contact of child with child is
cause of spread OF infantile paralysis.
Marvellous! We had supposed that it
was contracted through the telephone.
| SAM Mcclure, the American pub
| Usher, was denied permission to land
on British soil because of his activi-
| ties while in Germany" The most Sc
riOus of which, perhaps, was in whisp-
ering to a friend in a hotel lobby in
the presence of an English spy. Or
maybe Sam bought stein of grog
| for German in Berlin. The latter act
| is regarded with suspicion even in
peace times, in German cities, so we
are informed by an old friend who was
over the route few years ago.
| PAPERS in those cities which have
militiamen on the Mexican border
print letters from the boys carrying
complaints of the grade of food fur
| nished and accommodations generally.
| There is no condemnation of anybody
/ in particular in the communications
the lads only seem disappointed. Which
merely goes to show that the average
American youngster does not take war
or the possibility of war as seriously
as did his ancestors who fought in the
earlier struggles that beset the ma
ton. In the eos the fighters bore
| their hardships in silence. They
marched for miles over undeveIoped
country with heavy loads across their
| shoulders. They were lily sheltered in
| winter and had no protection from the
! heat of summer. The only time they
| had bath is when they encountered a
river or creek. The troops on the Dor
| der have their showers, their modern
| sleeping quarters, and the food, ac-
| cording to their own admissions is all
| that they can expect under the circum-
| stances. Yet they are disappointed,
simply because the trip did not turn
out to be a holiday, a ride through a
country new to them, frolic among a
different people. They have found that
| there is real work to be done, even
| though they have not yet been sent into
| action. 1t is all wholesome lesson to
| those young Americans. They will
| be better patriots and soldiers for
! their experience. When they return
| home they will be in position to testify
that even preparation for war is Sc
rious business, and they will not long
er regard the famous assertion of Gen
| eral Sherman as a historical joke.
AMERICAN and British flags are fly
| ing from special trains carrying dele
gates to the Pythian convention Mt Port
| land. The British flags belong to the IA
madam delegates. Germans aboard the
trains, and who will also sit in the con-
YentiOn, objected, but were Oyerruled.
Ii the bonds of Pythianism are strong
enough to preserve peace until the
trains reach their destination there
will he lot of people on the outside
who will make haste TO embrace ifs
obligations.
AS might have been expected, it
didn't take William-Ellis of Gray's
Lake, Ill, editor of the Searchlight,
| long to tnd a wife. He was divorced a
year ago He was married the second
time at Waukegan Wednesday.
SENATOR Fall of New Mexico has
been comforting in New York with
Candidate Hughes. If the nominee
falls for the senator's line of dope on
the Mexican sttuation-weH, let US all
hope that he doesn't.
THE European conflict has been in
| progress two years, and each side
| continues delivering telling blows.
! The telling, however, is confined TO
! the official reports. If every crush
and repulse recorded for home con
| sumption had actually been delivered
| there wouldn't now be enough of the
| armies left 10 give a respectable Deco
ration day parade. OF course there is
/ tlghtlng every day; thousands are be-
| ing slaughtered, but the ADVANTAGE is
not with either side At the outset
/ the Germans swept all before them.
| They were ready. Their enemies were
not. In the meantime, as little Jimmie
! says, the entente allies have been
| training men and manufacturing
/ guns, and naturally they are making
! it more interesting for the Teutons.
But it is idle ITO assert that the allies
will drive the Germans back home in
! a few weeks. The Germans are prob
able Just as strong in the field as they
ever were. True, the allies are strong
er than they were at the beginning.
/ But they had a long way TO go before
they We're in the shape that the enemy
has been all along. SO that today the
| struggle is more equal than it has ever
/ been Which leads to the belief that
the greatest fighting of the war is yet
! to be witnessed.
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