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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

The Carnegie Steel company also
had representation in the list of 10
founders of the Navy league in the per-
son of the late J. P. Morgan, who was
the organizer and director of United
States Steel which controls the Carne-
gle company.
Concerns with which Mr.. Morgan
was affiliated follow:
Director General Electric company.
Director United States Steel corpo
ration.
Director Etna Insurance company.
Director Carthage & Adirondack
railway.
Director Central New England Rail-
way company.
Director Clearwater e. Raquette
Lake railroad.
Director Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chi
cago & ST. Louis Railway company
Director Columbus. Hope & Green's
burg railroad.
Director First National bank of City
of New York.
Director Fulton Chain Railway COM
pany.
Director Fulton Navigation company.
Director Harlem River & Portchester
railroad
Director Hartford & Connecticut
Western Railroad company.
Director Jersey City & Bayonne
company.
Director Lake Erie & Western Rail-
road company.
Director Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railroad company.
Director Madison Square Garden
company.
Director Metropolitan Opera & Real
Estate company,
! Director Mexican Telegraph COM
pany.
Director Michigan Central Railroad
company.
Director Mohawk & Malone Railroad
company
Director National Bank of Com
merce
Director Naugatuck Railroad COM
pany
Director New England Railroad COM
pany
Director New Haven G Derby Rail
road company.
Director New Jersey Junction Rail-
road company.
Director New Jersey Shore Line
Railroad company.
! Director New York & Harlem Rail
road company.
Director New York & Ottawa Rail-
road company.
Director New York & Putnam Rail-
road company.
Director New York Central & Hud-
son River Railroad company
Director New York, Chicago & ST
Louis Railroad company
, Director New York, New Haven &
Hartford railroad
| Director New York, Ontario & West
ern railroad.
+! Director New York State Realty &
Terminal company.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
Brady.n.D.
InterCCStaI NEURALGIA.

Running around the chest from the
spine, and sending sensory branches
to the skin of the back. sides and front
OF the torso are II pairs of nerves,
nerves called intercostal nerves (inter.
between; costal. RIBS because they are
between the ribs. These intercostal
nerves are dishonest, or at least much
misunderstood
For instance, the sixth and seventh
supply the skin over the pit of the
stomach and when they hurt you are
positive you have stomach ache" In
such spinal diseases as Potts disease
tuberculosis of the vertebrae) the
child is likely to suffer with stomach
ache. when in reality the stomach is
innocent. In simple neuralgia Of the
same pairs the patient, usually wom-
an. declares she has stomach trouble
and generally takes treatment for the
stomach.
A more frequent situation of inter-
costal neuralgia is in the fourth or
fifth intercostal nerve, and for some
reason we have never fathomed, it is
usually the left nerve, so that the vic
tim is positive she has neuralgia of
the heart or heart disease"
The 18th pair join with lumbar
nerves to supply the skin over the
lowest region of the abdomen, and
many deluded victim of neuralgia or
pressure upon these nerves considers
himself subject to intestinal indiges-
ton" or mayhap appendicitis. 1t is
probably along the right 18th inter
costal nerve that the pain of pleurisy
or pneumonia is referred in those oc-
casional cases where the doctor hovers
threateningly between immediate in
reference and discretionary delay
and blesses his stars next day when
the symptoms OF appendicitis" prove
10 be due to pneumonia or pleurisy.
Our osteopathic friends have some
thing literally at their fingertips here.
We have never tried it. but we suspect
osteopathic maniuplatons would &C
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
Sidelights on the European War

NJ Gheusi was SO struck by the dig
nifty and mastery technique OF the
score that he suspected the anony-
nous author Of being possibly one Of
the luminaries Of his profession who
by this subterfuge wished to test the
merit of his work on its face value
and to compete on equal terms with
his less known rivals. Accordingly
an assembly of musical Olympians was
convened to hear recital of the work
but none of them could recognize the
style of any of their contemporaries
All agreed that a new masterpiece had
been created for the glory of French
music
None of the works submitted al
present will be definitely judged be-
fore peace is declared.
Berlin.-( Correspondence OF The
Associated Press )-Questions OF the
validity of soldiers walls, generally
made in the field and often in the form
of letters home, have given the civil
courts some hard nuts to crack. Id
more than one case the perfectly pat
ent intention of the devisor has had
to be ignored because he did not know
how to draw up binding document.
Two such cases have just been pass
ed upon, and the verdicts have been
opposed to each other through sheer
accident. The first is that OF SOL
der who wrote from the trenches OF
France TO his fiancee telling her tha1
if he should fall he wanted ner 10
have one-half of his property. He sent
second letter to her parents whlca
he signed Your son Fritz" The nrs
was signed Your true Fritz"
BY accident rather than by desigs
he wrote In one of the letters his 1un
name and address to indicate how iet'
tiers to him should be made out. ING
court held that this accidental lnsef-
ton of the full name legally esta0-
lished the identity of the testator' as
his signature did not, and therefore
upheld the validity of the letter-WiH'
|. A similar case went the other way
because the letter was signed by
Christian name. A mother sued IN pc
half of her daughter for half OF iai'-
en- soldiers estate. on the basis OF
letter signed only Heinrich and mo-
dated from any definite place. Though
there seemed to be no moral doubt .,
Heinrich's intentions, the court ruieu
against his fiancee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
Listen to En- Fabricate.

"YOu know. dear, wouldn't tell
another person in the world because
promised upon my word of honor
| would forever keep it a secret
"This is the first morning in
month l have taken the car. like the
fresh air, but when one is behind time
of course the car is convenient
"YOu are the first young man mama
has permitted to call on me two times
in the same week. You know mother
is so particular. Then, too, so many
of the boys are uninteresting.'
"Of course no good citizen could
refuse the office ii it were rendered
him, but I'll never ask any man to vote
for me. I'm firm believer in the
theory that the office should seek the
man."
a take cold bath every morning in
the year."
sour baby never causes us bit of
trouble. He sleeps soundly through the
whole night. He's the most wonderful
baby ever heard Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS

WILLIAM Orpet, the university stu
dent, locked up in connection with the
death of Marian Frances Lambert
girl he had wronged, smay or may not
relish the newspaper notoriety he is
gaining. But the public likes it and
wants it, or the big dailies wouldn't
be giving so much space to the affair
We may next expect to hear of foolish
women showering the hero with flow
ers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
4 Ambassador Resigns Post.

Petrogrsd, Feb. II. - George T.
Marye, the American ambassa-
dor, has resigned, giving i'll
health as his reason He has not
been advised of the acceptance of his
resignation by the state department.
Mr.. Marve expressed a desire to be re-
lieved as early as possible.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

We can easily believe that Germany
has planned TO secure foothold in
the republics of the Western hemi-
sphere Her enterprising trade drum
mers have been everywhere, but as
long as they do not NEEDLE in politics
the United States can have no objec-
tons
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

Elihu Roots keynote speech appears
tc have been a disappointment even to
the New York convention leaders, for
they refused to indorse him as presi-
Dental candidate. That looks like the
finish Of Elihu politically. He was a
grand old wagon, but he done broke
down
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

Katherine Stinson is another of those
girls who seemingly do not care what
happens TO them. She executed a dou-
BILE reverse dip in flying machine at
a height of $500 feet in Chicago last
night. Still, Katherine, being a good
girl, may have felt that she was safer
in the clouds than in the loop at night,
unattended,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

Boise (Idaho) New Freedom.
When our private armor trust was
in position TO dictate the government
its price on armor plate, it charged
$685. per ton, while it has furnished the
Russian government the same class of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
Sounds Like Goitre.

Could nervousness, a rapid heart
and excessive flow in girl of IA years
be caused by goitre? If the goitre
cannot be cured by medical treatment
how long should one wait before hay-
ing 1t operated on?
Answer. Yes. .. Complete rest
Tin bed should be tried. and medical
treatment for at least three months be-
fore even considering surgery, unless
the patient fails.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Dieting and Gas

Z | omitted sugars and starches from
my diet for three months. but it did
not stop gas formation. Why?
Answer-How did you know It was
starches? Gas may be due to MANY
ailments outside Of the digestive sys-
tenn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

Milan, seat OF the worlds most beau
tiful cathedral. has been stormed by
air bombs. Would it not be possible
for the belligerent aeroplanists to make
a gentlemen's agreement to let Euro
pean churches alone?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

PASTOR OF a Washington church
publicly charges President Wilson
with aiding and abetting the liquor
traffic in the capital. The president
likely was detected holding a CONVEX
sation with saloonkeeper. This is
terrible, if true.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

New York woman has had so opera
tions. And the glory of it is she lives
10 tell about them. How she must be
envied by those who have had only a
few incisions of the scalpel.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
Daily History CIaSS-Teb. H.

1901 Election as president Of the nil
ed States decided in the house VI
representatives. Thomas JensrsVn
ana Aaron Burr had received 20
electoral votes each. Jefferson Wa
chosen president
1913 Cincinnatas Heine Miller S1oa'
quln Miller. the poet of the Sle''
raS." died born 1871.
l9l5-Great Britain seized the AMER
can ship Wilhelmina, cagrylhs
wheat to Germany.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

A bill to tax cemeteries has been
introduced in the New York legisla-
ture. And the World exclaims rs
there to be no escape even after
death? ~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
Where Was the Movie Man!

NHPTP WIS tHt WUFIF WdH.
At Joplin, Mo, a man and his VIE
quarreled over choice of picture they
should see. Both drew guns, resulting
in a dual fatality. While the fact was
not divulged at the inquest, dollars
to doughnuts she was for Mary Pick
ford and he for Theda Bara.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

Charles NJ. Schwab says that brains
are a bigger asset than money. He
admits, however, that cash is not
serious handicap.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

LONDON Mistakes Jupiter and
Venus for Zeppelins. Headline My
word, cockey. ave you been putting
the poker in your tea again?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

CHICAGOAN has been arrested for
attempting to steal 20 pairs OF wo-
mems hose in five and ten cent store.
Probably he was bent on forming a
Christmas stocking club, and was
moved by the shop early propaganda
to get his supply before the holiday
rush.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
Thursday. February II, 1916.
Rock Island-F1cm River to
River.

Well. we all ought to be glad that
somebody finally has taken Erzerum.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

YOU may have noticed that the man
that brags that he does not take any
orders from his wife doesn't amount to
much.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

THE cable dispatches announce
London is planning great air defense.
1t has been hot air mostly thus far.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

ROCK Island physician is authority
for the assertion that the local birth
average this winter has been four boys
to one girl. Ii this continues there will
be lively competition i'm counting in
these parts some years hence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
DO You Know Mark!

The singer and pianist at the con-
cert Friday night wore her dress \cut
very low in the back, in the same style
that Mark Atherly wears his hair
Gridley Uowa) Light.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

MAYOR Bill Thompson of Chicago is
becoming tighter. The latest rumor is
that he is wearing a corset.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

THE Fatherland carries an article
written by George W. Perkins on The
Marvel of Modern Germany" Patch
work for Teddy?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
Gone TO GLORY.

Poor Jim Brown hung his earthly
garments on limb and swan the
river yesterday. He didn't stand back
because the water was cold, but plung-
ed right in; rose smiling, struck out
for the other shore, where the angels
were waiting for him with finer suit
than he had ever worn in his life Jim
was a poor man, but he had his sub
scription to his home paper paid up
and he has gone TO glory.-Georgia
Exchange
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

IN Burlington, Iowa. folks must be
careful as to the day on which they
choose to die. Ministers there have
formed an agreement not to officiate
at funerals held on Sunday hereafter.
]. NJ. G.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

WILLIAM J. Monkey is one of 100
special veniremen picked for the trial
of former Senator William Lorimer.
One imagines Mr., Monkey can be de-
pended upon to give Mr.. Lorimer the
benefit of the doubt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
Proof OF IT..

Jack is spoons on Gladys"
Yes, and she sees to it that he forks
out. Baltimore American.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

MIR. Carlson, who resides on West
Putnam street. has lived in Princeton
for more than fifty years and during
nearly all that time he has been tax
payer and loyal citizen.-Princeton
Qll.) Republican.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

CARTER H. Harrison also has been
suggested for secretary of war. Well,
it can't be said of him that he is in
experienced as land scrapper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

IGNATZ calls attention to the fact
Otto Juhl has just established a Jew
elry business in Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

NOW the Central Council of Civic
Leagues is to investigate the fox trot-
ting clubs of Chicago. The leaguers
will have to step lively.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

Member Audit Bureau Of Calculations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17

Rock Island Member Associated Press.
Full Leased Wire Report.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-17
THE ARGUS.

BY THE ]. Il. POTTER co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05
The First Three Days

Even now we do not know exactly what
happened in the next three days. The
fragments of the French troops hung on
to portions of their positions and died
about them. The German wave did not
come through with an immediate rush as
at the Dunajec. There was some SEM
blance of front during these three terri.
BILE days, but there was no organized front
and the heroism Of the regimental officers,
who died with their men, chiefly postponed
the immediate disaster.
But the postponement was brief. BY
February % the Germans had come south
more than four miles, they had come clean
through all the French lines of trenches,
and what was worse, they had actually
taken Fort Douaumont, which was the
most important of the old permanent forts
in the outer circle of the Verdun defences.
From this fort they could look straight
down into the burning city of Verdun and
were not oversanguine when they forecast
70 the world its immediate fall. At this
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time, too, they claimed to have taken Vaux,
mistaken claim, for it was four months
later that Vaux fell, although Vaux is less
than a mile from Douaumont.
In this time we have terrible anxiety IN
Paris and grave division of opinion be-
tween the French army and the French
statesmen. The army believes that the
policy of wisdom is to fall back behind the
flooded Meuse, not to attempt to restore a
line on a hillside, with the river out of its
banks and just behind, not to risk great
disaster and the loss of the whole army.
In the view of the soldier Verdun is worth
less, if the hills behind it can be held, and
the soldier guarantees this. But the states
man sees more clearly. He recognizes that
all France, all Germany, the whole world
will read in the evacuation a confession of
terrible defeat.
So at last we have the decision Of the
soldier to accept the will of the statesman,
the personal victory of BRAND over Joffre.
Castelnau and Petain go to Verdun--Cas-
telnau, who saved Nancy in August and
September, 1914, Petain who all but
pierced the German lines in Champagne
in the great battle of September, 1915.
The Iron Corps Holds
What follows Immediately is the most
brilliant of all the phases of Verdun. A
rev line must be formed, new trenches
and defences put in, and while this is done
the Germans must be checked. For this
there is, fortunately, available the best
corps in France, the Corps of Iron, the
CORPS which will live with the Old Guard
in French history, Balfourier's Twentieth
Corps. When the blow fell this corps was
resting at Camp de Mailly, nearly a hum
dred miles south, and now it arrives in au-
tomobiles and throws itself into the fur
mace. IT. the next few days its mission IS
TO hold while a new army creates new
line.
And the Twentieth does hold. IL cannot
oct back Fort Douaumont, but il dies in the
Ravire of Death, it retakes the village Of
Douaumont, it clings 10 the slopes Of Pep
per Hill, it clears the approaches to Vaux,
but for the most part it stands and dies on
the lines it takes up when it reaches the
front. All through the last days of Febru-
airy the terrible struggle goes on. The losses
on both sides are terrible, but the Ger
man losses begin to be unparalleled as
their commanders feel the great moments
slipping by. Actually this is the great
crisis of Verdun; there will be no such
critical hours again.
With the first days of March there is
pause, then on March 9 comes the second
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05
In the Last Ditch

To the world Germany announces the
new phase in different phrase. The hope
of immediate victory is over, and instead
Berlin tells the world that had read the
forecasts Of the fall of the city on Feb
ruary 20 that everything is going as the
German General Staff had planned, and
that the city will fall in due course, pre-
cisely as the German General Staff had
foreseen, on August l.
Coincident with this there grows up and
spreads the legend that French man
power is being exhausted in the bloody
shambles, and that the German batter
ing ram is no longer seeking-in fact,
never sought-to break lines, is merely
endeavoring TO destroy the manhood Of
France and is doing it with steady pre-
cison. And in addition there is the ready
explanation that as a result Of French
casualties no allied offensive in the West
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

defeat The German underestimate of the
spirit and the numbers of the French in
January, 1916. led them to a disaster only
less than Waterloo in immediate conse-
quences.
We know now that there were voices in
Germany, as there were voices in Napo-
Icons staff before Waterloo, which warned
against this new trial in the West. We
know that the grim old Hindenburg
stormed at the abandonment of the east
ern field, in which he had won so many
victories But the German General Staff,
the German people, saw an exhausted
France as they had seen a decadent
France eighteen months earlier, and stood
firm in their decision, which won the sup
port of the Kaiser because it held out the
promise that his son, commanding the vic
torious army, would establish the Hohen-
zollern fame on still surer ground.
When the struggle opened on February
81 the Germans had on narrow front
north Of Verdun not less than 5000 guns
of every calibre. They had upward of
100000 troops, many of which had been
enjoying a long period of rest and prepa-
ration. They had before them less than
$4,000 French troops, and these not of the
best Behind the French was no concen-
tration of heavy artillery. The first line
trenches were good, the second scarcely
more than a trace, for the French had re-
lied upon the old permanent forts as points
of support In every essential the Ger
man attack was a surprise, and its imme-
date effect was terrific.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05

great convulsion; but the French are
ready, the new army with Petain has ar
rived and taken its position, the work of
the Twentieth Corps is completed and the
Germans are this time unable to emerge
from the battered walls of Douaumont.
Now they try the west bank of the river,
and Dead Mans Hill and Hill BOA come
into the official reports, to linger over
many months. But here the German ad-
vance is slow and insignificant. They had
got south four miles in four days east of
the river; they never got three miles south
On the west.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-05
In the Past Tense .

Today, when the French troops have at
As' taken the offensive and in few hours
'egained all but one Of the important posi-
hcns lost by them in the defensive phase
" the Verdun campaign, 1t is possible to
peak Of Verdun in the past tense. 1t is
cnished, and all that we may now look
forward 10 is the relatively insignificant
posh over the ruins Of Fort Vaux, the last
'octhold that the Germans retain in the
outer circle Of the old defences of the
Aeuse citadel. When Vaux has been taken
nen the Verdun episode will be as COM
hetely history as the rush 20 Paris or the
sovance 70 Calais.
(Voar pas evacuated by the Ger
mars on November ~
After eight months the story of the
serman attack upon Verdun is at last
'airly well known 70 the world. 1t was a
supreme effort 10 dispose of France. 1t
vas conceived by Falkenhayn, chief OF
We German Staff, for the purpose Of COM
s'sung the work that was begun in the
'Rcnlng days Of the war, interrupted by