Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-09
CM0RDS a 10
DIS o r ID S

EVERY girl with a tanned face
hasn't been at the seashore. Perhaps
she got it drying her hair on the back
porch.
ALL the men you see carrying grips
on the streets of Rock Island are not
! travelling statesmen. Many OF them are
| blind pigs on their way to dry terri
| tory.
MR.. Hughes, his managers say, IS
going to warm up on his second inva-
sion of the west beginning Sept 10.
| II he does he'll have to be equipped
with foot heater.
PROMINENT ChicagOan was arrest
ed the other day on complaint Of u
woman who charged him with annoy
ing her In moving picture theatre.
He gave fictitious name in court. 4
lawyer appeared for him and paid a
fin4 of S25 for him. The Judge did not
compel the lawyer to reveal the fden-
tity of the defendant, accepting his
plea that he was prominent socially and
that exposure would be painful to him.
All the more reason why he should
have been brought into the light 1t is
courts that breeds contempt for the law
among those whose pOcketbOOks are
not sufficiently fat to fOrtify them for
seeking favOritism such as granted the
Chicago masher. If the latter knew
that the world would learn of his ac-
tons he would not have offended in
the manner that he did.
FRED E. Sterling, chairman of the
Illinois state republican committee, is
giving out a poll covering every pre-
cinct in Illinois in which he presents
figures to show that IT is all over but
the shouting, with his party ticket,
from top to bottom, a winner. One
suspects that Brother Sterling, hereto
fore regarded as a dignified Rockford
Journalist, is rapidly falling into the
ways of the hardened conscienceless
politician.
SENATOR James Hamilton Lewis
has been selected by the democratic
national committee to trail Candidate
Hughes over the west. And leave it to
]. Ham to make the whiskers fly.
IN Chicago there Is a band of thieves
specializing in the theft of false teeth.
The police say they will soon gum their
game.
NEW York dancing professor saw
some peculiar steps as he watched |
pedestrians lodging jitney buses in |
the streets. He went home and set the |
lodging motions to music. Result is
that the American Society of Dancing |
Professors has approved the "jitney |
special" Here is a case where New I
York has nothing on Rock Island. Peo- |
pie here have been dancing the fit
ney special" for a year or more. You |
may see the dance executed any day
or night on Second avenue. You may
think you don't know the dance, but |
you'll learn with surprising quickness
when you get in front of one of the |
carelessly piloted jits.
WE saw three young men, all of .
whom had married within the past few
weeks, meet and shake hands the other
day. Then they laughed at each other.
We wondered why. The Office crab
said the laugh was because misery
loves company. The young men in
question will probably resent such an
inference at present, although they re-
tain the right Of revising their opin-
ion in later years. But let us hope
they Will have no occasion to do so.
WE are told that the prohibition
party has passed the joke stage, No
doubt of it. When the campaign fund
reached six figures it became serious
business.
IGNATZ, commenting on the acct
lent to young Mr.. Wiman of Moline at
he government aerial school in New
York, allows that if he owned the mil
ions of the aforesaid lad he would do
his flying with both feet on terra frma.
DAVENPORT barber, arrested on
complaint of the union for keeping his
shop open Sunday, has carried his case
o the supreme court, setting up the
Unique contention that a man has as
much right to be curried on the Sab
'ath as mule. There is some kick in
hat argument.
THE government has been negotiat-
ng for 90 years for the purchase Of the
Danish West Indies, which have lust l
'een taken over. More watchful wait I
ng, as it were.
THE individual who deliberately {
langs up the telephone receiver on {
'Ou before you have finished your mes {
age may wish to be known as a gentle s
aan, but he isn't. '
THE trouble with the modern news
aper IN the past has been in seeing I
ow cheap it could lay its product down |
the subscriber. When the price of
Theat goes up you pay more for -four
nd bread. When the cost Of print pa c
or ascends beyond all reasona BILE +
ounds publishers worry as TO how 9
hey are to make ends meet They :,
houidnt any more than does the mer- q
hant in any other line of business. &
hey should pass the burden on. Few r
eople who Will not agree that the a
ally newspaper is the least expensive +
ecessity that comes to their home; in a
act most folks marvel that il Is nos :,