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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
BRANCH BANKS

Systematic saving requires the es-
Establishment of habit Of putting away
a predetermined sum at regularly re-
curing intervals which will, in 81
case OF wage-earners. generally be
+ weekly or monthly. Such a system
will often require a special trip to the
bank or other institution where The
money is to be placed, and in that case
the street car fare will eat up about
five months interest, At savings bank
rates. on a deposit of SO These are
small figures, but they bulk large in
the nations economy, and they are one
Of the things that stand in the way of
the more saving habit which the peo-
pie OF this country ought to have.
There is a remedy for this trouble,
and for others embodied in a bill in
troduced by Carter Glass in congress.
Il provides for the establishment of
branch banking Offices by any national
bank within the limits of any city OF
100000 or more inhabitants and for
smaller cities at any place within the
county. There are other restrictions,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
WE USE MANY BUTTONS

superior. The 7OO,OOO,oOO trouser but
tons are all his.
Woman has, taken his hat, coat,
boots and socks, but she has not got
his button, his badge of civilization,
his right to vote and rule. Not yet 1t
is the badge of the fighting man, of
preparedness and efficiency. An Amer
lean correspondent at the beginning
of the war looked at the extra set of
buttons on the trousers of the German
soldiers and prophesied they would
overun Belgium and reach Paris. More
buttons and they might have done it.
A blow to the button as severe as
when the Mennonites, Ammanites and
Dunkards. no fighting men among
them. took to hooks and when modern
men took to belts. Sectional strife and
prejudice lurked in the question. In
ante-convention days of 1912, when
the agricultural picture of the great
Nebraskan appeared, some fasteners
jeered at the suspenders. Nebraska
stood as man for suspenders; like
wise Kansas, pointing to old John
Brown and cheered on by William
Allen White; also a few of the south
ern states. Belt wearers were dudes"
denizens OF the "effete east" laggards
in civilization, traitors to the sex, fit
to rank with the willow withed saw
age or the miserable, hooked up Ii
betan.
We are in favor of buttons. They
are necessary, often important And
If the census man would tell the world
which political button will be favored
by the majority of voters next Novem-
Der, he might save the country money,
sweat and voice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
THE WISDOM OF GOVERNMENT
MANUFACTCRE OF NUM-
T!ONS OF WAR,
(From speech of Congressman Will
liam z. Cox of Indiana}

(From speech of Congressman Will
liam E. Cox of Indiana)
Mr.. Cox. Mr.. Chairman. intend to
support the bill as reported by the
majority members of the committee on
naval affairs. 1t contains strong ele-
ments of preparedness, and in my
judgment, will be approved by the
country. 1t will not meet the views
of the extremists of either side. 1t is
far below what the navy league de-
sires and far above what the pacifcists
want. 1t is conservative measure-a
middle-of-the-road course, if you
please. One of the most important fea-
lures in the bill is the amendment ap-
propriating 81 100000 for the govern
ment to build an armor-plate factory.
Many arguments have been made for
and against this amendment. Many
gentlemen contend that the govern
ment should not go into the manufac-
turing business; that to do so would
put the government in competition
with private enterprise.
Where the constitution gives to con-
gress power to create a department of
government, L dill hot dlIdIu W give
that department all the power it may
require to carry forward the work of
the department To the gentlemen who
so largely acclaim against the govern
ment erecting its own armor factories,
why do they not criticise the postof-
flee department, which has monopoly
of the mail? No objection is made by
any of them that the postoffice depart
ment, though monopolized by the gov
ernment has been d failure. | assert
that wherever the government has en-
tered a business strictly as a govern
ment function it has never been fail
ure, but has resulted to the good of the
taxpayers of the country. | would not
I be in favor of the government enter
! ing upon the manufacturing business
| as a private individual | would op-
pose i forever, but | am in favor OF
! the Goyernment entering upon such
! lines Of business as it sees fit solely as
t government function. The constitu-
| ton gives to congress the power to
| provide and maintain a navy. A navy
without ships exists only on paper; a
navy must have ships, from the super
dreadnought to air craft. The power
! to create and maintain a navy is found
| in the constitution. We can not have
ships without armor plate. We can not
have armor plate without having fac
| tories to make it, and they must be
run and operated either by private
manufacture or by the government.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28

more important than ever before, they
do not relish the prospect of fresh
disturbances
They remember also how Mr.. Cleve-
land forced Great Britain to arbltrate
the Venezuela boundary; how in 1903
Roosevelt set a day beyond which
German warships must not menace
Venezuela. and how generation ear
lier Mexico herself was relieved of
a French army and an Austrian en-
peror by pressure from Washington.
Nor is Brazil, which has felt appre-
tensions from the power and AFRO
gance Of foreign colony" alone in
looking upon the capital ships pro-
posed in our new naval bill as
Strengthening her protection under
the Monroe doctrine.
Latin America gives full credence
to American disavowals of any pur-
pose in Mexico other than that of aid
ing her paciication and the setting
up of orderly government. But it
would prefer not to see the question
raised 1t is not well--in the Latin
point Of view-to give demasogy the
excuse of bloodshed or trail tempta-
ton before the seekers of ranch and
mineral and industrial concessions.
Latin America wishes to serve peace.
The way to serve it most effective
~ is to convince Carranza that frank
ness and fairness accomplish more
than bluff with friendly neighbor
whose patience is exhausted. Secre-
tary Lansing's vigorous warning fur
nishes the proof.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
SHAME ON THEM.

Critics of Lincoln during Civil war
days were called copperheads, yet they
acted no differently in their day than
are the Chicago Tribune, Theodore
Roosevelt, ct al, behaving now. Nc
kinley, too, had his griefs during the
Spanlsh-Amerlcan war. but politics
was not played by the party out of
power TO embarrass him. The demo
Gratis, be it said to their credit, stood
by the president in that period. But
today we have the sorry spectacle of
alleged patriots high in the councils
OF the republican party barking at the
heels of President Wilson, taking ad-
vantage Of every possible excuse to
make his task the more difficult. And
the nation bushes with shame for
them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
WOMEN MAY VOTE.

The state law which gives Illinois
women the right of franchise in Ger
tain cases expressly provides that they
shall have the right to vote for presi-
Dental electors. This fact has been
published by newspapers Of the state,
but seems to be forgotten, if ever made
clear TO many citizens of the state of
both sexes.
AS the presidential election is only
few months in the future, The Argus
again reminds its readers that, under
our state law, the women of Illinois
have the right to vote for president
The law which confers this right up
on women voters was enacted in 1913.
Section l of that law is as follows:
Section l. Be it enacted by the peo-
pie of the state of Illinois, represented
in the general assembly, that all wom-
en-, citizens of the United States, above
the age of q years, having resided in
the state one year, in the county 80
days, and in the election district 80
days next preceding any election there
| in, shall be allowed to vote at such
election for presidential electors
members Of the state board OF
| equalization. clerk of the appellate
court, county collector, county sur
veyor, members of board of assessors
members of board of review, sanitary
district trustees, and for all officers OF
cities, villages and towns Except pc.
! lice magistrates) and upon all ques-
tons or propositions submitted to &
vote of the electors of such municipal
tiles or other political divisions of this
state.
| The presidential electors chosen a.
the November election this year are
state officers, not constitutional, bu
statutory. The presidential electors
represent the legal voters of Illinois il
the electoral college and their votes il
conjunction with the votes of the cleo
tors of other states are counted for thu
candidate of the party by whose vote
they are elected and woman's vot'
counts for as many as mans in de
Gliding who are elected for ''presiden
:, tial electors"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28

and in the senate a still more limited
measure is pending Out of the two
congress ought to be able to make a
safe branch banking law, and the fact
that Representative Glass is sponsor
for the idea is a guarantee that the
plan will be intelligently and liber-
ally considered.
This fund has been somewhat afraid
OF branch banks. The monopoly bogy
has oppressed us TO such an extent
that we have carefully made banking
unhandy and have gone to the alb
surdity of forbidding our banks to
have branches while allowing them to
do business by mail. But this is not
true in all Of the states. In some of
them state banks are permitted to es-
tabliSh branch Offices wherever they
please within the limits of their own
city, and the result has been the estab-
lishment Of many branch banks near
factories, among workingmen's homes
and in outlying business districts, so
that banks which count their resources
in many millions do business next door
to the workingman' cottage.
1t is about time for this country to
see how sensible, how thrifty and how
practical this plan is and to adopt it
everywhere.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
Soldiers Do Gardening

Parls.-The proposition of NJ. Me-
line, minister of agriculture. 10 effect
cultivation of abandoned land by the
CIVILIAN population has been extended
TO the army. Wherever there is uncul-
uvated land in the proximity of garri-
sons or camps of troops, the auxiliar-
les and territOrials not continually on
other service are detailed for several
hours work each day in market gar
denlng. The products are either to be
sold for the combined profit OF the
soldiers working the land and the
owners or consumed by the troops,
Civilians will not be allowed 10 draw
and profit whatever from this exploita-
ton.
Among the civilian groups will be
organized similar TO the workingmens
gardening societies that existed before
the war, TO work all lands abandoned
by their proprietors in the neighbor-
mood of towns. These will be coopera-
tive and the produce as well as the
expense divided equally among the
participants.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28

One morning when Manager Hinton
was sitting at his desk in his private
room at the opera house young man
entered and said: II am Arturio Sta
nelli. / have made some success In
Naples as a tenor and concluded to
spend a season in America before pre-
senting myself in Berlin"
"Ah. indeedr' replied the manager,
"Signor Stanelli! have heard of your
initial success In Naples. Do you
come to US under contract or are you
freeT
II am free. | have not yet become
sufficiently known to be sought after"
stanelli. as yet scarcely twenty years
old, sang for the manager. His voice
was tenor, but none Of his notes were
high, and some Of his lower ones were
almost down to baritone range. Hin
ton seemed not quite satisfied about
something. Presently he said:
"All my contracts for the seasons
tenors are signed. II your voice was
a baritone could use you very readi-
~ AS it is fear we cannot be Of use
to each other"
"Try me as q baritone" said the
other.
The manager smiled. Give me your
lldress." he said. Sometimes singers
Become irrita BILE, and brain irritation
usually results in throat irritation. l
may have occasion to suddenly put In
a substitute"
A week later Signor Stanelli received
a telephone message to call at the
opera house at once When he was
announced he was admitted readily,
and Hinton told him that his baritone
had quarreled with his contralto and
refused to sing with her. THE part
runs low" he added, 'only In one or
two places, and we can cut them out
The new singer created a sensation
His voice, instead of being high pitch
ed for baritone, was very low. Those
parts which the manager had suggest
ed cutting out were sung with vigor.
Hinton was astonished.
"How in the world did you ever gel
such flexibility into your voice." he
asked Stanelli after the opera.
Stanelli looked confused and said he
didn't know.
1t was not long after this that Hin
ton was again in trouble; this time fol
a tenor. His principal man in pre-
tended stabbing scene had really stuck
knife into a rival for the favor of
not a woman, but the public. He sent
for Stanelli and asked him If he could
get his voice"tlp to a pitch that would
enable him to take the part Stanelli
said that he had sung the part with.
out experiencing any trouble. He was
told to be on hand for it the same
evening.
He made as pronounced a success as
g tenor as he had as baritone. Only
a portion Of the audience had heard
him in his other role. These were
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
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out physic. Turn some somersaults
every night before you retire-you are
young yet, and it will keep you 1.-THE.
as we'll as Strengthening out the kinks
in your inner tube
Hot Foot and How to Stop 1t.
The trouble begins with little pim-
pies on the soles, which break, then
itch and burn intensely. l suffer every
summer. | have to be on my feet all
day. l have tried all the alleged foot
remedies without avail
Answer-Hot foot-the real thing,
Try our remedy: Cork insoles. fresh
pair of WOODEN stockings each day,
battle feet with boric acid solution each
day. then paint with solution of SAIL
cylic acid, one ounce, in alcohol, one
pint, and let this dry on Then pow
der with zinc stearate powder, and go
your way rejoicing
Thanks From Reader.
l wish to thank you for your letter
about my nosebleeds. With your sug-
gestlon my doctor located the ulcer on
the septum, cauterized it as you ad-
vlSed, aad stopped the noSebleeds.
Answer-lt pays to read our favor
lite newspaper
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
THE WOMAN'S PART.

Peoria Journal: "a woman tainted"
and the band played on, and the men
in khaki marched away.
The woman was carried into the
nearest drug store. Presently she
without any glory.
Our soldiers wives have always
had to fight it out that way Neverthe-
less their struggle was imposed up
on them by the government, just as
surely as their husbands Joined the
colors at the cOuntry's call.
But the state has never recognized
woman's share in mobilization. The
state makes no provision for rations
for the wives and children of the SOL
diers who are left behind, without
means OF support. And the soldiers
pay is altogether insufficient for an
average family's needs.
Fortunately, so far in the nations
history, state support of those depend
ent upon soldiers has been unneces-
sary. The elders of families have al
ways managed somehow ito take care
of their own" In the civil war this
was accepted as a patriotic duty. and
the same tradition was maintained in
the Spanish war
But the tremendous economical
pressure of today, which often makes
the work of two or three persons nee
essary for the support Of one large
family, has completely revolutionized
former conditions.
European countries do some things
better than we do. In war times, an
allowance is made for mothers in pro-
portion to the numL2g of their chill
dren, by most nations.
1t is not much-but it is not charity
which is substantially what our
own government compels thousands of
American wives to accept That is
what hurts. The fight of the girl who
is left behind is always in proportion
to the degree of her pride.
However the present Mexican
trouble shapes itself, it is bound to be-
comes laboratory for the study of
greater preparedness.
However congress may act, in
framing our military plans for the
future, it must make some provision
for wives and children of the men at
the front-or We will never have any
such thing as adequate preparedness,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28

Outside of China, where they indi-
cate rank, buttons are just buttons
But men who have studied the subject
say that they represent modern civil
lization that since their appearance
in Europe in the 18th century they
have been employed by the most en-
lightened people as the proper way of
holding clothes together. Savages use
strings or sticks and the Orient uses
hooks.
In its effort to keep up with civiliza-
ton the United States has produced
more than $20,O00,0O0 worth of but
tons in the last year that the census
man has accounting Of. Buttons are
not carried over from one year to an
other; they either go out Of style, or,
like pins, are lost. This means that
buttons to the comprehensive num-
Der of 6,000,000000 were made for our
use in year. Here is greater guam
tity than was made in the memorable
era of the industry when Birmingham
button millionaires were as common
as Pittsburgh steel magnates are to-
day, when men and women covered
their clothes with fortunes in the bau-
bles and plunged in buttons as they
did in tulip bulbs or Mississippi bub-
bles.
Women are now the greatest users
Of buttons and they have the greatest
choice in material; agate, bone, cellu-
loid, glass, horn ivory, pearl and shell.
Man, however, takes bone or horn fo.'
his coat and vest and pearl or she'll
for his white waistcoats. He uses few
er white buttons than formerly. But
in one division of the industry he is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
Selected by Tavenner

Mr.. Chairman. three concerns, the
Bethlehem, Carnegie and the MldVale
Steel companies, now, and Tor the past
number of years, have had complete
monopoly of the manufacture OF armor
plate and many other supplies Tor the
government, both army and navy, and
for the past 20 years these concerns
have furnished the United States all
the armor it has used in the construc-
ton of battleships. The gentleman
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Butlerb has
offered an amendment proposing TO
let the trades commission investigate
the profits of manufacturers OF armor
plate, practically giving the govern
ment power to fix the price OF armor.
This amendment looks to me very
much like it is the armor trust holding
out the hand of Esau, but talking In
the voice of Jacob. Time and time
again this trust has been warned that
they were overcharging the govern
ment for armor plate. exactlng extor-
tionate prices for their commodity at
the expense of the taxpayers OF the ma
ton. but feeling themselves secure
through the closed corporation these
trust magnates have not needed the
voice of the people. They have gone
to the well once too often. The day OF
Judgment has overtaken them. The
people are in no mood to trifle with
trusts controlling one of the essential
elements of safety and security of the
American people-armor plate. They
have been held up and skinned long
enough. They see no relief, no ray OF
| hope, to ever come from these trusts
They do not see the time will ever
come when the government will be
able to purchase armor plate cheaper
! than it purchases it now, unless the
government manufacturers its own
armor There is nothing binding on
| the part of this trust in its offer to let
| the trades commission investigate the
cost of making armor plate and &C
| cept the price fixed by the government
They can revoke it at any time they
see fit Ever since the armor plate
| factory amendment passed the senate
several months ago our mails have
been flooded each day with letters and
kilograms from the Bethlehem, the
Carnegie, and the Midvale Steel COM
panies, making all kinds of offers and
overtures to congress that if it would
not pass the amendment, hereafter
they would be good. These concerns
have carried entire pages of advertise
ments in the large dailies as we'll as
the little weekly papers for the past two
months telling the people of their re
pentance and how willing they are tc
serve them.
ITO be continued.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-06-28
The Daily Story
A Musical Wonder-By Walter I. Brewer.

somewhat surprised. They did not
both tenor and baritone. The rest Of
the audience supposed that staneIB
was n regular tenor.
As for Hinton, he could not believe
his own ears. He knew very well
that the human voice has not so wide
n range az appeared in this case, and
he believed that there was some i'm.
position being practiced upon him. II
not. then Stanelli was simply such
wonder as the world had never seen
before.
Hinton's company was In a constant
state Of warfare. One night when
StaneIli was staging baritone part In
al Trovatore" a quarrel occurred be-
tween the tenor and the soprano-they
we're singing lovers parts-and the
lady slapped the tenor's face. He
vowed that he would not sing another
note with her. and the manager conld
not move him. Turning to stanellt,
Hinton said:
"Can you finish the part for himr
81 think | can"
"Well, If you ran that will solve the
problem for this performance. can
easily supply your place in the role you
have been singing"
Stanelli went to his dressing room to
| change his costume sending his valet,
Luigi, for the dress now required.
Luigi took it to him, and in due time
Stanelli came forth robed for the trou-
badour's part.
| This success In singing two different
parts, requiring a tenor and baritone
voice, further puzzled Hinton. After
the performance he called Stanelli into
his office and said to him:
"Stanelli, wish your voice was on
| two different bodies. I would like to
cast you for two parts in the same
| opera"
THAT Is not impossible" replied
! Stanelli unconcernedly.
Not impossible. What do you
meanT
Name the parts and I will be on
hand in two bodies
Then the singer told bis secret to the
manager, and one evening the tenor
and baritone parts were taken by two
men who were the image of each other
! They were Arturio and Giovanni Sta
nelli, twin brothers. But Luigi did not
assist his master in his dressing room
| that evening, for he was Giovanni
Stanelli and had sung the baritone
| parts for his brother.
! Arturio and Giovanni Staneln were
the rage among music lovers for the
balance of the season and the next
year made contracts which gave each
one of them a fortune. They had
adopted the plan Of winning public "a
vor singly because they would not be
separated and believed that two trying
| for an introduction at the same time
| would be more difficult than one.