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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17
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it's predecessors since the days or sec
rotary of State Blaine, is assiduously
cultivating the friendship of the Latin
American republics, our bankers are
endeavoring to extend the hand or cap
ital. which Is the mother of commerce,
to them; our business men are eagerly
seeking South American markets. eV-
erybody, from statesmen and college,
professors to manufacturers, is pulling
strong for Pan-Americanism, FOR
firmer sense Of American solidarity.
Now, nothing stands in the way or
friendly feeling between nations so
much as trade restrictions. Every Gus
tomshouse is an apple of discord.
Whatever tends 20 untrammelled IN
terchange of goods tends to take the
asping edge from racial differences.
A move like this, touching as 1t does
the pocketbook, would give more force
| to our protestations of good will than
! can be given by talk-fests, conferences,
and banquets.
The proposition ought to come from
the largest and richest American ma
tions. the United States.
Whatever may be the reasons for
maintaining commerce walls against
European countries, where rivalry with
| our manufacturers is well developed
and vigorous, no such reasons as yet
exist in our relations with South and
| Central America. Manufacturers are
| feeble there, and to strengthen and
multiply them would make for us
better and more profitable neighbors.
| Most important of all. free trade on
the western hemisphere would help
| break down the trOuble-breeding no
. ton that nations are close business
| corporations hostile one to another.
4 l. =
| in precipitating the present calamity in
Europe Why not now, in time. elimi-
nate this seed of discord from the west
| ern world?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17
AGAINST THE RESERVE SYS.
TEMP

The Guaranty Trust company Of
New York is CanyaSsing the $4,000
banks of the country for their views
on the federal reserve system. So
far it has replies from only about a
fifth of them, and of these, 1911 are
non-conmittaI. The rest are about
equally divided for and against.
What may be the purpose Of this
inquiry is of more interest than the
exceedingly fragmentary volume of re
sponses coming in. If the replies were
all unfavorable, that would signify
nothing as to the general business and
financial value of the new system. This
system was created less in the inter
est Of the banks than for the protec-
ton of the whole country against the
panic-breeding activities of the banks
under the old system.
But why at this particular time
should there come from a great bank
ing institution outside the system.
closely allied with the most powerful
private banking interests of Wall
street, so noteworthy an effort to worm
out anonymous financial sentiment re-
speeding the federal reserve system?
The republican party in its platform
has openly declared its purpose to en-
act a certain amount of ripper legis-
latlOn II voted back into power next
fall But it is silent about the federal
reserve system This silence may
mean a grudging acceptance. But it
may also conceal a purpose to rip up
or "reorganize" this greatest construc-
tive piece of financial legislation en-
acted since the Civil war, at the de
mand Of the old privileged banking
interests, as the tariff is to be ripped
up for the old privileged protection
interests.
Is this the fact? Are the woods now
being shelled with questions to bring
out the hidden strength Of such a
proposition? The country will want
to be told before this campaign is over.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17

This is a copy OF the win OF Edward
SPangler. who died leaving a daughter
who was engaged to Thomas Ormsby.
young man OF whom the testator APP
proved. Mr.. Spangler was considered
very singular parsonage, and his VIII
bears out the opinion.
believing that between husband
and wife the one showing the greater
thought, resource, ingenuity - indeed,
those faculties which 90 TO make up
smartness-should rule, | bequeath my
fortune either to my beloved daugh-
ter. Imogene Spangler, or to the man
she shall marry, the inheritance TO I've
decided in the following manner:
My property, consisting Of twenty
bonds of 5000 EACH is buried In the
state Of Florida. They will be found
either on the right bank Of the st.
Johns river, at its junction with the
ocean, or at Glencove Springs, TWEEN
ty miles northeast of st. Augustine.
The finder of the bonds-either my
daughter, Imogene Spangler, or her
husband-shall be their possessor."
Surely, Tom" said Imogene after
reading the Will, father must have
been delirious when he signed his will
You'd better go to Florida and visit
the two places named in the will.
Quite likely you'll find pointer in the
one where the bonds are buried"
II thinkiyou had better go with me.
We can make it a bridal trip"
Every good. Name the day"
ImOgene and Tom were duly mar.
ried and preparations made for the
wedding journey. The evening before
their start Imogene went into her late
fathers library, where the old gentle
man had kept many atlases-for he
was much interested in geography
with a view to locating the points
where they were to hunt for the bonds.
Mr.. SpangIer had set great store by a
revolving plaster globe four feet in
diameter Imogene found st. Angus
tine on this globe, but not Glencove
Springs, so she got down an atlas con-
tanning sufficiently detailed map and
located the points exactly.
The couple left the next morning for
the Flowery State, passing gradually
from winter into summer. When they
reached St Augustine Tom proposed
that they put up at a third rate hotel
or a cheap boarding house. He did not
approve of spending money freely until
they had found the money to spend.
But Imogene said that, being on her
wedding journey, she proposed 10 live
like a bride. Tom was overruled, and
they went to the most expensive hotel
After a few days rest from their
journey Tom proposed that they should
proceed to look up their fortune. limo
| gene seemed to be in no hurry
I'm comfortable here" she said.
Suppose you go to both points"
But in case l find the bonds / shall
be the owner of them"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17
health and

taxes purchase for us health and
pleasure to degree unknown to our
grandfathers, who traversed unpaved
and unlighted streets, drank poisoned
river water, had scarcely a sewage
system, very little health regulation.
inefficient schools and unkempt parks.
In the older day it was possible to
cling to the pay-as-you-gO system, be-
cause the people did not go very far
Their cities have been but little places.
Towns were merely an aggregation OF
homes where each took care of him
self"
Waste and extravaganceGn munich
pal government are evils that are hard
to stamp out but there has been much
ground for encouragement in the past
10 years. The commission form OF
city government undoubtedly has
brought about much Improvement and.
1t is said, the city manager plan has
produced even greater changes for the
better. If the time ever comes in this
country when business shall be en-
tirely separated from politics in NUM-
clpal affairs, waste and extravaganza
will be entirely obliterated and the
people will receive all instead Of u
small part of what they pay for.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17
The Daily Story
A Wild Goose chase-By F. A. Mitchell

Suppose you are7 That won't make
any difference to me. / think the hus-
band should have the money anyway.
Papa was Ike most men. he thought
that power in the family is lodged in
the one possessing the funds. He
should have known that women don't
work that way Their power lies be.
yond dollars and cents. You 90 ahead
and find the bonds"
Tom was puzzled. For him 10 20 OF
to hunt for n fortune on such mcager
information "a he possessed seemed
ridiculous He showed a disposition 10
give up the matter.
lob, go on said his wife. You'll
get mighty tired sitting around with
me long before the honeymoon Is over.
Quite likely you'll find n clcw. Father
wasn't such fool as 10 hide a fortune
where no one could find s."
She kissed him and patted him on
the back and sent him away. lie went
first TO the Springs, where be spent
day looking for a sign. Finding none,
he proceeded to Jackson vile and
thence TO the coast. But never a sign
did he see AS for digging anywhere
without a sign, he was not so stupid
as that. So after three or four days
absence he returned 10 ST. Augustine.
He expected to find his wife dlsap-
pointed at his failure, but she met him
with a smile.
You don't seem 10 be much de-
pressed at the loss OF a fortune he
remarked.
Isn't it a wife's duty 10 cheer her
husband in times OF adversityF7 she
replied.
Il hope you'll be able to keep it up
when the bills begin 10 come IN"
Brush your hair and get that disap-
pointed look off your face. Things are
not so bad as they appear. / have
something TO tell you. The night be-
fore we left for this place / went into
fathers library to look upon his globes
and maps where these places you have
been are. Something In the words
GIencove Springs sounded suggestive.
Springs. springs I kept saying. Why
I did IT l don't know. but l pressed
my thumb on the globe. at the point
where Glencove is and broke through
the surface. Taking a knife, began
to dig and found the bonds. Here
they are"
Going to her trunk, she unlocked 1t
and took out twenty 6 per cent gilt
edge bonds.
Tom kissed her enthusiastically.
Then suddenly the smile left his face.
and he said:
This makes you governor Of the
household"
Not at all expect to defer 70
you in everything" was the comfort
ing reply.
But she never assigned the bonds to
him, and he learned in time that her
father was not so crackbrained as was
supposed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17
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HeYMLLLAM BRADY.noR
THE ILLUSION OF TONES.

The popular medical decisions Of
today are the discarded practices and
shattered theories of the physicians of
yesterday. Fifty years ago the doc
tors actually believed that "rheuma-
tiz" was caused by exposure, sleeping
on the ground and general bad wealth
er, that malaria was due to miasms
rising from the ground of low or
marshy places, and that diph-
liberia, scarlet fever and several other
diseases affecting the throat were the
result of inhaling sewer gas" One
of the convictions Of the old-time prac-
titioner was that a rundown condi-
ton" the state of convalescence or
any indefinite illness characterized by
weakness indicated the use of tonics.
A tonic was something dispensed in
a bottle TO give the patient strength.
Is there really any drug or chem
ical or concoction of remedies capable
Of adding strength or energy to the
body?
No
Then what does tonic treatment"
mean?
It means whatever treatment the
condition of the patient demands.
Sometimes medicine, sometimes rest,
sometimes exercise. sometimes open
air, sometimes sunlight, sometimes
massage, diet, electricity, reinsurance,
suggestion or just recreation.
Iron adds no energy or strength to
the body, when given incidentally. 1t
stimulates the blood manufacturing
function in cases of anemia or weak
blood in which that function is de-
ficient. But the iron which really en-
ters into the formation of the hermo-
globin molecule, the coloring matter
of the red corpuscles, is derived from
ordinary foods, not from medicinal
iron. There is less iron in the entire
blood mass than a patient takes in a
day or two OF treatment with iron
pills,
Strychnine and other bitter drugs
tend TO increase the appetite, but IL is
an open question whether an invalid
profits by ingesting more food than
the depraved system really can assim-
ilate. Strychnine is popularity. and
we fear professionally, supposed to
add energy or ambition 10 the system
weakened by illness, but that is a
grave error II does precisely what
a whip does TO a tired or sick horse.
Strychnine excites the spinal nerves.
but neither tones nor strengthens a
weak heart At best il is an emer-
gency drug. At worst il is an illu-
sion, a castigator OF the nervous sys-
TEN. and a pernicious poison TO keep
IN the house where children may pos
sibly find it. What a load on the doc
tors conscience IL little tot does
happen 10 eat some of his unnecessary
strychnine pills for the sugar coating
on them,
Take the strychnine out of the
scores OF alleged tonics popularity used
and what have YOU LETT Sugar. alco-
hol, carmine or other coloring and a
label The label is the most wonder
full part of the tonic
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17
HETTY GREEN AND TAX.

Hetty Green left an estate reported
at 800 100000. the bulk of which goes
TO her son, already one Of the richest
men in America OF course Hetty
Green didn't earn" this 100000 900 /;
she couldn't have learned" one-tenth
Of it if she had worked industriously
from babyhood Her fortune was bas-
ed on an inheritance, just as her sons
fortune The third generation repre-
sented by Hetty's son, will hold the
arcumulatiOns- increased by geomet-
ricaI progression the two preced-
ing generations; If the accumulation
continues, with gaining speed. the
fifth or sixth generations Of Greens
will be almost fmpregnably intrenched
in a financial sense by reason of the
concentration Of wealth in their hands
All this wealth comes of the people.
L is made possible by the protection
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17

G. Hepburn Wilson, M. B., su-
preme master member of the Inner
Circle" the society of progressive
modern dance teachers organized to
promote a new and loftier interest in
the dance, has replied to the recent
action of the Roman Catholic church
on dancing. He says:
THE PRONUNCIATION of the Roman
Catholic ban on dancing is very inter
esting. 1t is not true, as some believe
that the ban is on all dancing, but only
upon dancing at entertainments in
which the local church participates
officially
still, there is in the decree an i'm
piled condemnation of all dancing,
and an assertion that the modern
dances are Of all dances particularly
immoral
las d contrast to the Catholic at
titude may be cited the action of the
New England conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church, at it's 120th SEES
sion, in deciding to remove the ban
from dancing.
There is justification for this &C
ton. While | believe that the original
opposition to the modern dances was
a mistake, still there was some reason
for it. Three years ago the modern
dance was a mistake, still there was
some reason for it. Three years ago
the modern dance was a new idea, and
like all new ideas it's character and
beauty were smirched by unworthy
elements that always flock into a new
movement. But the thing to do at the
time, as l did. was not to attack the
modern dances, but the elements I'M
worthy OF the modern dances; and do
all in ones power to develop the art
and beauty latent in the dance, max
ing the modern dances a thing OF
beauty and a joy forever.
To-day the modern dances are. not
very different, except in new varia-
tiOnS and expressions, from the dances
danced three years ago by our best
people. But the movement since then
has organized itself, purified itself, ex-
PEELED the unworthy elements and de-
stroyed their crudity.
The modern dances are, indeed
spiritual in the truest sense of the
word Instead of being a grossly ma
terial, bodily pleasure they are a pro-
test against the way of the world to-
day, which seems to have given itself
up to the pursuit of wealth and the
decay of individual expression. Mod
ern industrialism has made our pleas
ure5 material, physical, objective, pas
sive; it has tended to destroy the in
dividual capacity for expression. Art
and human beings have become me-
chanical, and the modern dances seek
TO reintroduce expression, individual
and artistic self-expression by means
of the dance, the only popular medium
for artistic self-expression.
Immoral? The modern dances
make for a healthy individuality; they
are full Of life and energy. dances in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17

Pulvay, Russian Poland October IS
TO see the reopening, with The Polish
language in vogue, 'of the agricultural
high school which, 50 far as Polish rs
concerned. has been closed since 1858.
The Austro-Hungarian occupation au-
thorities in Russian Poland have de-
cided to revive the institution, ana
have entrusted the reorganization ana
conduct of the school 20 Professor pr.
Stefan Surzicki OF the University OF
krakau.
The Pulvay high school one Of tho
biggest educational institutions -
Russian Poland. was closed in 1903
by the Russian authorities because Us
pupils had taken part I'm the revolution
IL remained closed until the year lsog'
when it was reopened as purely
Russian school. II was closed AGAIN
at the outbreak OF the war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17

The high number of casualties of
university graduates. many of them
men OF prominence in the present war
has been emphasized in the news from
Great Britain, and the same is true of
the Canadian universities. The recent
fighting on the Ypres front has caused
heavy losses among graduates of Nc
Gill University, Montreal. In this
country the men who have taken up
military training under the impetus of
the preparedness movement have been
largely graduates and Undergraduates
of the leading colleges, and many of
these would be the first TO offer them
selves if there were a call for volun-
teerS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17
"BUTTINC IN IN MEXICO.

/ New York World: Except as Mr.
/ Hughes and his friends put on mourn
| ing for HUerta. they have no Mexican
! issue. Not one of them ventures pub
/ licly to proclaim his sympathy with
the wOltish interests whose hopes fell
with Huerta.
| 1t is Huerta, however, who is cited
| by republican newspapers and speak
! ers as a victim of the democratic ad-
ministratiOn. 1t Is Huerta's over
throw, exile and death, with German
money in his pockets, as contrasted
with Carranza's halfway success and
recognition as a de factO executive,
that they refer to when they speak OF
/ President Wilson's "vaciIIation in
| Mexico"
/ And who was Huerta? A drunken
Indian who, having gained high mill
tary command, betrayed his trust: i'm
/ prisoned the constitutional presiden.
and vice president; took advantage of
their cowardly sassinatiOn, pro-
cured in his interest, to proclaim him
self dictator; put the congress of the
republic in Jail and dispersed the
courts, making money meantime with
! both hands.
/ Mr.. Hughes says our policy toward
/ Mexico has been "inept" because we
{
not interfered with Carranza Is his
! grief for Huerta so keen and his de-
/ sire for a wicked war so unTestrained
/ that he-fOr six years a justice of the
/ supreme Court-can see no difference
I between Huerta and Carranza?
General Carranza is not an admir-
/ able character, but he represents the
| sovereignty. the constitution and the
laws of Mexico. He stands for the
! emancipation Of his people and for
their right TO their own soil. He does
not hold his title by murder. He is
hated by every COncessionaire in the
country. He is the best. as Huerta was
the worst, that a distracted land has
recently had to offer. Why shouldn' I
decent American influence be on his
side, even though he MY not have the
enlightenment TO appreciate it?
It is not an accident that every eX-
ploiter of Mexico has become a mourn
er for Huerta. He was the hope of
every soldier Of fortune on earth.
When he murdered Madero. he though
and his followers thought that the
treasure house of the world had been
opened to them. The fTown of the
president of the United States soon
ended their dream of plumber
Mr. Wilson has used the expression
[ putting IN IN MEXICO. lie is instant
Iy accused of inconsistency by those
who grieve for Huerta because he
"butted in" against that monster and
does not butt in" against the present
feeble but lawful administration. To
butt in" now would be to raise up
another Huerta or to subject an i'm
poverished people TO the most mex
cusable and rapacious of all con
quests. Mr.. Wilson did butt in
against Huerta. and for good reason.
! His extreme patience with Carranza,
who is neither murderer nor thief. is
10 the everlasting honor of the United
States.
For 10 years most Americans have
reproached themselves for the motives
and methods OF those who conducted
the war with Mexico in 1916. That
was said 10 have been a Shareholders
war What would Americans 70 years
hence say Of a war against Mexico for
the enrichment Of filibusters in land,
oil and mines?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17

The best thing about the Orpet case
is that it is over. 1t has been years
since the press has been called upon
to deal in such a protracted gush Of
nauseaum. While the majority of those
who followed the details 90 the trial
were disappointed at the verdict of
acquittal. yet the fact remains that the
prosecution failed to prove its case
that Orpet gave TO Marian Lambert the
drug with which she ended her life.
The contention of the defense was that
the girl, depressed by Orpet casting
her aside for another girl, had suicid-
ed and had invited him to be a wit
ness Of the tragedy in the woods near
her home.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17

twenty-five thousand people attend
ed the opening of Hawthorne track,
near Chicago, last Saturday. 1t was
the first horse race that has been run
there in 10 years, the course having
been closed by legislation because of
the vicious features that were permit
ted in connection with the sport.
Horse racing truly is the sport of
kings and should and will be encour-
aged by the public just so long as it
is kept clean. The crooks will spoil
any sport with which they are al
lowed to become identified 1t remains
for the men in control of Hawthorne
to determine the success or failure of
their enterprise.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-17
CITY GOVERNMENT COST

According to the census reports
there are 204 cities in the United
States with a population OF more than
10000. The revenues of these cities
last year fell short S14o.0OO.OO of
meeting the costs of city government
and other OUTLAWS. The deficiency
amounted to $3.50 for every person
living in the 204 municipalities.
This is anything but a favorable
showing. It proves very conciusfveIy
that Americans are sadly lacking in
municipal thrift. It has long been rec
ognized abroad by observers. botn
here and abroad. that municipal gov
eminent in the United States is any,
thing but efficient, but the city Cow
ernments are not the only offenders.
Waste is feature of our whole sys-
TEN of government from our federal
establishment down.
In commenting upon extravagance
IN municipal government, the Phila-
delphia Public Ledger says that while
our cities are governed extravaxantly
it is still true that, taking them as a
whole. the people are demanding more
and more every year and also getting
it. They very properly insist upon
clean. pure water. larger parks. bet
ter paved streets. more efficient police
and fire protection, a higher class of
schools, cleaner highways and a surer
safeguard placed around the public
health These things, as the Ledger
says, cost a great deal of money but
they are worth it. The Ledger con-
tinues:
TO be sure we seldom get as much
as we pay for, but we do get some
thing Indeed. our high municipal