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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
DANGEROUS TO SOCIETY

in which such a thing can happen is
not a society which protects the ele-
mentary rights of its members.
A certain tendency toward 1awless-
ness is manifest on both sides of
present-day labor difficulties. This is
to be expected; it will never be other
wise until society wakes up to its du-
ties. A man whose unquestionable
rights are not taken care of by law
will try to take care of them him
self by force. So long as our institu-
tions and laws make it possible for
employers to turn out well-doing en-
ployes by wholesale to go hungry, if
need be, we shall have violence in
connection with labor troubles. So
long as they permit labor unions to
ruin employers whose employees have
no complaint against them, we shall
have violence in connection with Ia
Dor troubles.
Now, how can we insure ourselves
against the danger to society which
arises from the desperation of work
ers on the one hand and the despera-
ton of employers on the other? How
shall we secure to them that elemen-
tary right of getting on we'll while
they do well, which society owes to
all?
The real governing power in this
nation is public opinion. All ques-
lions of control are questions of the
operation of the force of public opin-
ion. The nature of our task with re-
spect to labor questions is clear. We
must create machinery which will
bring the power of an intelligent pub
lie opinion to bear on every dispute
between employers and employees and
forbid strikes and lockouts while in
vestigation is going forward and rec
concentrations are being formulated.
Society created modern industry;
society furnishes its market The
idea that the strife between workers
and owners is too mighty a thing for
the society on which both depend to
control, is against reason and com
mon sense. The dangerous factors in
the industrial situation arise out of
the desperation of two groups of men
whose rights at the hands of society
have been ignored and who have
therefore ignored societys rights "
turn. II the general public will look
for its duty and do it, labor troubles
will never again threaten US as they
do today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
TO TEST RIVER USE.

The federal government proposes in
the river and harbor bill which has
been signed by President Wilson TO
take a step forward in the matter of
water transportation which will be
most gratifying to the people of the
country, and especially. in the test to
be made, to the people of the Missis-
sippi valley. The bill provides an ap-
preparation for the continuation of the
important worHbeing done in tmprov-
ing the channel of the Mississippi
river. and also provides that $50, 900
may be used in testing, by the actual
entrance-of boats and barges into the
freight hauling business, -the.adequacy
of network done ON the river and its
adaptation to practical river com
merce.
The river wifi therefore see, before
many years, not only a test OF the pos
sibilities of water-borne traffic by pri-
vate lines Of boats and barges, but a
try-out of the business under the di-
rection of the government engineers.
They viii not only provide the pro-
posed six-foot channel from St Paul
TO ST Louis, but demonstrate its
adaptability for use by freight car
riers.
The test if successful, as il is sure
to be, will make the Illinois river and
the canal proposed by Governor
Dunno. connecting the Chicago drain
age canal with that river, serve as an
adjunct Of the Mississippi river water
transportation that will largely ben
eft the agricultural. industrial and
commercial interests of Illinois. The
eight-foot canal proposed by Governor
Dunno, IT VIII be noticed. is ample in
its depth to make the route an impor-
tant adjunct To the Mississippi water
route proposed by the federal govern
ment IN the test which the bill lust
signed by President Wilson authorizes
TO be made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
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under the arms and about the feet
and hands? Is there any injury TO the
health from using such things?
Answer-It is all right, but half as
much salicylic acid Is sufficient for
tender skins There is no harm IN
stopping perspiration locally, provided
the application itself does not irritatel
the skin too much.
Infantile Paralysis.
Questions there danger OF appar-t
emily healthy people carrying the germ
of infantile paralysis from the sick
room to healthy child in another
street?
Answer-Perhaps. We do not know
positively, because no one has yet
seen the germs. Secretions from the
nasal cavity OF apparently healthy per
sons in contact with the patient have
produced the paralysis when inocniat-l
ed into monkeys. Better be safe and
keep such persons away from your
children. Report the offenders 10
your health department-they have
no right visiting the patient.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
GET UP AND SEE VENUS

Get out of bed before o. clock some
clear morning this week and look off to
the eastern sky, and there you will see
a star shining with great brilliancy,
just above the rosy band that dawn has
painted. If you wish to see more of
it get up an hour earlier and see that
star rise from out the morning mists
upon the eastern rim of the earth, like
a huge arc light pushed up. If you've
never seen this, don't mind your
beauty sleep, let it go for one morning
while you watch the mystery of the
dawn, and Venus, the herald of the
sun, riding forth to clear the sky of all
other stars.
This is the best time of the year to
see Venus in all her glory, for only
at certain periods does she rise in the
east All other seasons she is the bril-
liant evening star that follows the
suns setting in the west, and the an
clients thought they were two different
stars; the morning one they called
phosphorus" and the evening one
-Hesperus," but it was the same star.
Venus, that Wessee now.
or all the stars, we of this earth
ought to have an especial regard for
Venus. In the first place IT is home
folks being one of the planets of our
solar system that dutifully reyoive
around their common mother, the sun
Venus is our next door neighbor, too
being nearer to us than any of the
other planets. II sometimes gets as
near to the earth as $4,000. 900 miles,
just around the corner, when com
pared with the billions of miles of
void between this earth and many 9th
er heavenly bodies. There is another
bond OF sympathy between this earth
and Venus. She has-n moon, and il
there are living creatures upon that
sister planet they depend mostly upon
this earth for their light at night. The
side of the earth upon which the sun
is shining in full glare is nearly al
ways presented toward Venus when it
is night upon that planet, and astron-
omers say this reflected light is so
great that a person upon that planet
walking at night in the ~earthIight"
would sec his shadow. upon the-ground
But astronomers generally agree
thatathere-b being no beings like us up-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
HOWTHE REPUBLICAN PARTY
LOOKS TOTHE AVERAGE PROGRESSIVE

ogntze the simple courage, the rugged
fortitude, and the quiet strength which
have enabled him to guide his coun-
trymen in peace and honor through the
dangers of the last two years. They
admire him. They are grateful to him.
And, as Americans. they are impatient
to manifest their loyalty to him.
In MIR. Colby's letter Colonel Roose-
welt is mentioned by name, but the ref
erence is clear when he says:
Opposition to the presidents re-
election proceeds from an unregener-
ate republication that has weathered
the danger of reform, reabsorbed It's
most vociferous critic and abandoned
itself again to rancid reaction"
Mr.. Colby is one of a committee OF
seven progreSsiveS who hace been ap-
pointed by Vance Mccormick to help
manage the Wilson campaign. Other
members are Matthew Hale of Boston,
Albert d. Norton of Missouri, Francis
J. Heney of California, ]. A H Hop
kins of New Jersey, Ole Hansen OF
Washington, and William Wallace OF
Michigan.
The little group of progressives who
refused to be delivered by George Per-
kins to the old guard republican ma
chine is made up of earnest men who
are willing to make real sacrifices for
their political convictions. Matthew
Hale is typical Hale borrowed the
money to attend the Indianapolis con-
ference. Four years ago he had a COM
Portable fortune. His interest in the
progressive movement led him to in
vest it on a Boston newspaper which
he made the vehicle of progressive
news. 1t was a good vehicle but not 3
profit-maker. Hale was first interest
ed in politics by Colonel Roosevelt. Be
fore he finished his law studies he
lived in the Roosevelt family and tu-
tored the boys who were preparing for
college.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

on Venus, because that planet is much
younger than this earth, and is pass
ing through a period equivalent to
what is known as the secondary geo
logical age on this earth. There was
a time, you know, when the earth was
cooling, when it was steaming hot; its
land surface miry swamp in which
grew giant ferns and palms and for
ests OF huge trees where gigantic crea-
lures. the ichthyosaurus, twice as big
as an elephant; the pterodactyIs,
toothed birds with wings ten yards
across, the monster lizards and rep
tiles lived. The world was a night
mare planet then. and over all hung
a canopy of clouds SO thick the sun
could scarcely pierce it. All those
monsters are extinct, but we find their
bones in the rocks and chalk beds OF
Kansas and other places.
Some astronomers believe Venus is
one reason why she shines so bril-
liantly is that we see only the suns
light CHANGING from her dense cloud
covering, which reflects three-fourths
of all the light that falls upon it, A
celebrated French astronomer, draw
ihSa worn picture OF venus, 6diu IWl-
light on Venus is blood red. The an
CRY sun, as big as a milestone, de-
sends to the horizon in the smoke of
volcanoes and storm clouds. And
black night comes, lighted by no moon
and full OF clamors and horrors. But
when the ichthyosaurus rises on the
crests of waves to rear in the darkness
he rfiects in his eyes, pupiIless and
hard as glass, a beautiful star, accom-
panied by a little luminous point,
which is the queen of the heaven OF
Venus. 1t is our earth and the moon ;"
But that is only speculation, and
you can indulge in ii, too, as you gaze
in the stiffness of the morning, out
across space at the planet which is
closer to us than any other. and only
200 miles less in diameter than the pin
point in the heavens upon which we
dwell
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
HYGIENE FOR .CATARRH-

Several times we have emphasized
the meaninglessness of "catarrh" and
catarrhal trouble. Catarrhal deaf
ness" for example. A fine term for
the quack the nostrum manufacturer
and the doctor too busy to study the
patient-thats what "catarrh" is. 1t
is never the same thing twice in the
same place. No one understands
what any one means when he says
catarrhal" though everyone mag
ines it is a disease, or a symptom. or
a humor in the blood, or something
like that.
Granting, for the sake of despatch,
that large number of people have
too many colds" coryzas, sore
throats, too much hoarseness, bron-
chitis, rhinitis, pneumonia, and too
weak resistance against the germs of
the indoor plaques, what is the rea-
son? The answer is as simple as sim
pie can be. People coddle. Every
body coddles more or less. Very rare
indeed is the individual who, in his
right mind, never fears cold, moving
or damp air.
The predisposing causes of "catar-
rhal" trouble are % overeating, ~
overheating in the winter months,
90 wearing too much clothing, espe-
ing cold" when the clothing is not
instinctively required for physical
comfort, "a the moderate use of al
cohol as a beverage, 90 insufficient
open air life.
To speak of "catarrh germs" or
driving the catarrh out of the sys-
tenn" is all very well for those who
have the light touch, but if you
would escape the so-called "catar-
rhal' troubles of the nose, throat,
ear, bronchial tubes, sinuses, the first
thing TO drive out of your system is
the catching cold DOGGY" AS long
as you believe you can take cold"
that is, be made i'll, by exposure to
cold or damp weather, you will keep
your catarrh." You never would
have developed it in the first place
had you been brought up with an ut
ter disregard for exposure" in the
common sense of the word. Now,
don't conjure up a mental picture of
the Jonses or the Killbrides, whose
kinder fear no exposure yet suffer
eternally with running noses, Group,
coughs and colds" The Jonses and
the Kilbrides have TO go home at
night, you know, and open windows
and all that sort of thing would be
considered foolish at their houses.
victim to learn, and he can only
learn it in early life, before the ways
and opinions become hard and fast,
is that the old-time scheme of keep
ing good and warm" has failed dis
mally and the modern idea is KEEP
ING COOL AND WELL.
Open air life unconcern about
"exposure," the lightest clothing
compatible with comfort in all sea-
sons or the year. and an indoor tenn
perature never allowed To rise above
6S. preferably between Ga and 81 de-
grees Fahrenheit throughout the
winter. That is the way 10 keep
cool and we'll
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Stopping Precipitation.
Question-Wiil a solution OF salicy-
lie acid, teaspoonful (heaping) in a
half pint of extract OF witch hazel, stop
or diminish excessive persptration
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

Among the 10000 persons invited to
attend the international recreation
congress TO be held in Grand Rapids,
Mich, are more than 1000 profession
al play-leaders employed in 3 ,294 play
grounds in 432 American cities" The
figures give a graphic idea of the de-
velopInent OF play under official au-
spices as a feature of school and city
park extension, and likewise of its de-
veIopInent as a gainfuI occupation
That thousands of men and women
were 10 make their living teaching
children how to play would a genera
ton ago have seemed 4a~fanciful theory.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
Scales On the Hair.

If you look at a human hair under
the microscope you will find thar iLS
surface is formed OF successive over
tapping scales. The bristles OF the hog
bear much resemblance 10 the human
hair, though their diameter is greater
and the tilelike scales are much hner'
Sleeps hair has much coarser scales
IT is owing TO the existence or thess
scales that one is able by a pecuiiAs
process TO tell which is the up ana
which the other end Of a hair rolling
it between his finger and thumb. linus
manipulated the hair always travels
in the direction of the base because
the edges of the scales prevent II from
going the other way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
cE0 RDS 40.
D'I S CO r. DIS

| DISPATCH from Lake Geneva, Wis,
where there is a military training
camp for members of the gentler per-
suasion, says "bugIe blasts get women
out of bed" But when they are at
home it requires almost dynamite
blasts to obtain the same result.
WE were discussing the wet and dry
issue with Commodore Henderson of
the good ship that swings between
| Davenport and Rock Island. You
never can reckon on what may happen
when folks go to the polls on election
day." said the Cap. but / feel reason
ably safe in my business, for it's a
certainty they can't vote the old Mis-
sissippi dry. She's been wet as long
as have known her, and that is some
years now"
1T is announced that the federal
government is keeping an eye on the
wheat list in search of Influences sus-
pected of having something to do with
recent sensational price advances.
Uncle Samuel better use both his eyes,
as he is liable to have one Of 'em pOked
ont when the bulls get angry. Fur
thermOre, il would be inadVisable for
him to sport a red craVat during his
Investigations.
| 1T is suspected that agents of one
of the warning European nations have
been poisoning horses bought in this
/ country and consigned to the entente
allies. Why not blame the automobile
| trust?
ROBERT w. Stevens, director of
music at the University of Chicago,
now declares that music can be tasted
as we'll as heard, smelled and felt.
For instance, did you ever taste one
of the chops in Chopin?
ACCORDING to Petrograd the Rus
SLAMS have captured 35S,000 of the
enemy in the past two months. Now
if they will run down the kaiser they
will have the whole German army, for
| there can be left not more than a mere
| scattered handful of the fighting Teu-
tons, if we are to believe the reports
emanating from the czar's capital.
Nick must have recently annexed an
American circus press agent
YOU possibly have observed that the
steamer in which Explorer StefanssOn
| is padding around Prince Patrick is
land is commanded by Captain Sween-
!
comfortable. When things go wrong,
as it were, just tell it to Sweeney.
VINCENT AstOr has been fying-in
the air-with a motion picture actress.
| He'll not only be filmed, we imagine.
/ but he had better look little bit out
or he may be filmed in the bargain.
| 1t would be just like a youngster of
| his type to lose his head while in the
! clouds and ask the young lady fool
| ish question which she would instantly
i answer affirmatively, as actorines have
habit of doing when they see a large
bank account in the dim distance.
| WILLIAM Lorimer is conducting his
| congressional nomination campaign in
! Chicago from a tent, but it is reported
many of his former supporters, includ-
/ ing Mayor Bill Thompson, refuse to
carry water to the elephant.
| GERMANY is said to have started
| two more submarine freighters for
| America. Every American citizen will
wish them Godspeed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

The square as a residential quarter
is essentially British. being analogous
neither TO the French place nor tnv
Italian piazzo nor TO the German pial1Ss
Nowhere on the continent do we INV
any assemblage OF private houses Inv
inhabitants OF which have prescflp
tive right TO the ground on when men
residences abut. The London squaIes'
according 10 their historian, T. p;
Chancellor, number about zoo: Ans
their characteristics are curtousy "
verse Hardly any Of them are IN 90 90
square at all. There are some @hles
are triangles. some with only three ~
many with unequal sides and ~
mere wedges and excrescences iao~
adjoining streets. London T1l-blIS'
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

Bulgarian forces near Doran are not
the beginning of this long-expected
campaign, but II does not seem likely
that the campaign will be long delay
ed Anything that threatens Austria
will increase the effectiveness of the
allied offensive against the power
which offers the greatest chance OF
easy and important SUGGEST
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

The workers on the railroads are
naturally determined that the beauti-
full double cross put over on them
two years ago shall not be repeated,
and that is the reason that UP to the
time that President Wilson took hold
of the situation they were peculiarly
suspicious.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

Exercising the same degree OF judg-
ment used by the man who butted
his head against a stone wall, Rep
resentative ClOan of Nebraska, d re-
publican, stood in the house the other
day and declared the democratic cur
rency law, which has enabled the
country to weather successfully the
most devastating war in human his
tory, a failure. Mr.. Sloan has rushed
in where his party's presidential can
didate fears to tread.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
The Man in the Case.

l read your statement that the
watch of Chairman WILCOX of the re-
publican national committee had been
stolen from headquarters in New York
l have learned that the elevator con-
duCtor in the building where the COM
mittee has its offices is a democrat
Isn't just possible that he lifted the
watch? H. L. D.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

Hon J. Frank Hanly Of Indiana and
Rev. Ira Landbreth of Tennessee, hav-
ing been duly and formally notified Of
their nominations for president and
vice president, respectively, of their
country on the prohibition ticket, have
as duly and formally accepted the hon
ors Neither of the two gentlemen,
however, has gone so far as to begin
packing his effects for a four years
stay in Washington
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

Smith in his canvass for the republi-
can nomination for governor, calls
Lowdeh and Hull puppets of factions"
and some other things. All of which
will be good reading after the pri-
marieS-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

It fsegettfng so II is difficult TO mus
ter a paying attendance at auto speed
races. The answer apparently lies in
the fact that the tracks have become
so safe that fatalities are now the ex-
ception rather than the rule.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

ROCK Islander was hit by railroad
train in Davenport the other day, but
despite his 65 years he picked himself
up, brushed off the dirt from his cloth
ing, and went his way, declaring he
was not hurt a bit. Rock Islanders
have become so accustomed to being
kicked around by automobiles that a
little thing like a railroad train does
not even annoy them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

Candidate Hughes, in addressing the
Advertising Mems club at Portland,
said he was zone of them But there
are many who take the position that
Mr.. Hughes is not living up to the slo-
gan of the national body of the pro-
fession, Truth in Advertising"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

One would imagine that the republi-
can candidates for the nomination for
governor in Illinois would be ashamed
TO look one another in the face after
the primaries are over. But they will
not only do that, dear reader, but they
will go on the stump for the winner
and ask the people TO support him in
che face of the ugly charges they made
against him in the primary campaign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

Stefansson, it is reported, viii re-
main in the arctic another year. Like
Iy he has heard about the weather we
have been having in the states the past
few weeks
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

When we reach the final analysis it
will be found that the main thing the
railroads are striving for is to make
the dear public pay the cost, whatever
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

A progressive doesn't have to be
super-wise to understand with which
party his policies will stand the better
chance
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
Daily History Class-Aug. ~

17S6-David Crockett. soldier, nHn'rl
and pioneer. born IN Tennessee
killed In the Alamo massacre. rEvu
erick the Great, Prussian kn,s
and noted general, died: born IT,
lSSo-ole Boil. noted Norwegian Wv
linist. died born 1910
i0fo-GerHnans captured outer TO-
at KoxDo. spiths 2.f0A gyuHnSaaS1A 'a'D00
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

Too bad that Huerta didn't live II
enjoy Henry Lane Wilson's defense
of his seizure-of authority in Mexico.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

1t has come at 1ast-the Chicago
Tribune blames President Wilson for
the EaStland disaster
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

COLONEL LOwden says he is in favor
of new methods in state governmental
affairs. The old methods are prefer
able, colonel As in baseball, new
curves usually are confusing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17

Reciprocity in China ,consistsstn her
giving certain concessions to Japan
and Japan. taking EN-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-17
Rock Island-From Rfver-to
River.

Howscan aznan hold his wheat when
IT'S jumping that way?