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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-03
WIRELESS CLUB IN
ENTHUSIASTIC MEET

The third meeting of the Wireless
club was held in the older boys rooms
of the Rock Island Y. M. c. A. last
night. A banner attendance Of IA and
one visitor promises some lively work
ing discussion on 1.-The connections of
president of the club, led an interest
ing discussion on 1.-THE Connections Of
receiving instruments" The discus
cussion was instructive and the black
board sketches helped 10 clear up
many points.
The club voted and chose as its
name THE Rock Island Radio club"
A committee was chosen 10 formulate
q constitution and another to fix dues.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-03
LOCAL AUTO MAN IN
ACCIDENT IN MOLINE

J. l., Schmidt. automobile painter,
residing at 527 Twentieth street, Rock
Island, had narrow escape from
death at 8 O'Clock last night at the
corner of Sixth street and Fifth ave-
nue., Moline, when his auto skidded
and crashed into the curb. practically
demolishing it. Mr.. Schmidt escaped
with severe shaking up He had been
to the Moline city hospital during the
evening on business and was return
ing down the Sixth street hill. In max
ing the turn west on Fifth avenue the
machine started skidding on the snow
covered pavement, and crashed into
the curb opposite. Both axles on the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-03
Explains Overtime.

Overtime in road service is due al
most wholly to the practice of rail-
roads overlooking trains so that they
cannot make their mileage within their
time limits. The railroads are doing
this for profit They do not deny ii,
and if they propose to demand extra
service at the sacrifice Of health and
future earning ability Of the men, they
should pay extra for it.
The payment of overtime applies
with particular force to yards where
the companies can regulate their work
SO that no overtime need be made. If
they exact extra service, it is to their
own interest and the men have a per
feet right to demand time and one
half for that service"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-03
Pimples in an
Evening Gown
Step Embarras >ment from Pimples :
Beauty Your Skin Quickly With
Stuart'S Calcium Waters. Trial
Package Mailed Free,

Skin-tissue is made from the blood.
and as it is a tendency of nature to
throw off a good share of impurities
through the skin, naturally impuri-
ties gather on the surface in the form
Of pimples, hio;ches, biackheads and
other eTuptions. Naturally, if there are
no impurities in the blood, none will
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-03

oS 'he association will go directly t.
.ne TWO parties that threaten indus
'fiat peace. Indirectly 1t starts ,
movement that it is hoped will gatbe,
lorce IN all sections of the countrv
compelling both or any one of tn,
sues that refuses arbitration to take
ehe warning against antagonizing pub
lie opinion.
Other developments in the situatio,
Yesterday included an announcement,
rom Cleveland by the brotherhood
eh'eis, postponing making public the
result OF the membership vote am ,ne
me iour brotherhoods until March s
me announcement will be made in
chicago, it was said.
Would Present Demand,
AS outlined by a railroad official
Yesterday, in case of a favorable vot.
pV the men the labor leaders would
Immediately present the demand for
shorter hours and increased wages to
the railroad managers. The railroad
managers in turn will submit certain
changes in the present rules, with a
compromise offer. In case of re-
iusai 10 accept, which would be likely
10 follow, Judging by the interviews
gwen out by the meps leaders, a
sIrlke vote would be taken.
so far neither side has been willing
10 commit itself to arbitration, the
railroads. it being thought, withhold
ing formal action because of the STRAIT
eglcal advantages it might give them
IN getting arbitration without anv
saving clauses protecting the present
rate of pay or hours. On the other
hand, W. S. Stone and W. S. Carter,
heads of the engineers and fremen. in
stating their side of the case have
denied that any official action has been
taken looking toward a strike and tina,
any interviews given asserting that a
decision had been reached excluding
arbitration did not state the situation.
Both sides apparently are playing the
game, explaining fully what each has
in mind and refusing to reassure the
country that there will be no resort
10 4 strike
Men State Position.
The men have stated their position
as follows in a statement signed by
the four leaders of the brotherhoods: :
The demand for an eight-ho day
s fair. All of the leading industries,
trades, railroads excepted, have recog-
Elzed the economic justice of the eight
hour day. We believe it can be adop-
TED with no greater Inconvenience by
the railroads than accompanied its
Introduction in other employments
The eight-hour day movement is
based wholly upon the justice of a
work day of reasonable hours that will
permit the men further to separate
the dead line between work and wages.
The railroads say in effect that men
who have put in few years OF rail-
road service have worked themselves
out and will not be accepted if they
lose their positions. If men are work
ed out in q few years under presen,
service conditions, as the railroads i'll
effect declare, the demand to extend
their wage earning years is fully jus
titled.
III.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-03
For Township Collector.

| hereby announce my candidacy
for the office of township collector
for Rock Island township, subject to
the republican township convention,
March IT. and solicit the support of
my friends.
(Adv.) W. H. CARPENTER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-03

Robert Karlowa will talk to the
club next Thursday evening. A live
discussion is assured. This club is
open to nonmembers as well as to
members of the association and a cor
dial invitation is extended to all in
terested visitors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-03
Managers Reply.

In replying 10 the statement, the
railroad managers Of the western lines
have insisted that the men do not wan,
an eight-hour day, but an increase OF
approximately % per cent over pres
ent wages fixed by arbitration for the
same amount of work The railroads
have also stated that with the ter
minals arranged 10 hours apart il
would be impossible to give the eight
hour day. To begin counting over
time at the point suggested by the
men would mean an increase of $780,,
100000 annually, they assert.
In addition, the managers charge
that the railroad service men are al
ready the aristocrats of the labor
world, the average annual wage of the
engineers being s1,071-S0. the firemen
S1,O3749. the conductors s1,533.62, and
the trainmen s1023. Any increase
such as proposed would not only call
for an increase in freight rates, but
wbuId grind the unorganized railroad
further into the ground.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-08

ficient. in view of the responsibilities
and dangers they incur in the line OF
duty. They know that, unless they
stand together for what is fair and
Just and humane in wages, hours and
general working conditions they VIII
accomplish nothing
Papers of the Tribune type voice the
wishes of the railroads when they raw
or referring the issues at stake IN the
present controversy to the interstate
commerce commission for arbitration
Strong pressure has been brought 10
bear upon congress to so dispose or
the matter The railroad men knew
what they were about when they re-
jected this proposal.
The Argus believes way may yet
be found to adjust the differences OF
the railroads and their employees with
out a last resort, and thus avoid the
tremendous consequences that strike
would necessarily involve, but 1t does
not feel, if the worst comes, that the
blame should be laid entirely upon the
men who face the physical dangers
and bear the other burdens OF rail-
reading It feels that what they are
now asking is only a fair return Tor
themselves and that ultimately the
general public will be the gamer
through their efforts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-08
The Daily Story
Breaking the Law-By Edward 7. Stewart
By Edward T. Stewart.

by Hastings We were both 70 bo
armed and play burglar. going through
the house as II looking for plumber. but
really looking for the girl As coon IA
Hastings saw her he was to make him.
self known and take her down and on,
TO the auto, I joining him there.
We wished TO do the Job before tho
prisoner went TO bed. We had learned
which was her room and after davk
watched for a light to appear in f.
This occurred about o o'clock. Run.
ming the car up To the house we began
operations. The butler came 10 tbe
door. / showed n revolver against hfq
breast, while Hastings dashed past ma
both and upstairs, throwing open Miss
Schenck's door Her duenna was with
her, but Hastings frightened her BIZ
shaking q revolver In her face and
catching hold Of his astonished sweet.
hearts arm, ran her down 10 the auto.
Meanwhile / had taken the key out
of the front door and put It on the out.
side. followed the couple. locking the
door behind me, so that the butler
would be kept within, but gained moth
ing by this, for the woman upstalrs
threw up a sash and shouted for helm
While she was doing 50 the three OF uS
were getting into the auto. Hastings
started it, and we wheeled away. the
cries of the duenna dying In the dis.
lance.
As bad luck would have st. Shepard
was just going into the house I'm which
he lived when the woman began her
shouts. Seeing US get into the auto,
he took in the situation, and as we
dashed Off he ran TO US and jumped
on to the footboard. I gave him
shove that tumbled him in heap, but
saw him get up and follow us on a
run. He kept it up till he came to an
auto standing by the sidewalk, got
into it and followed us.
/ waited TIL we came TO a narrow
street and a house that was being
built on one side Of 1T; then Hastings
slowed up just enough to enable me to
jump out without being killed. selz-
a plank of a board pile and, resting
one end on the pile, blocked the way
for the coming auto. When Shepard
got ont to remove the plank / seized
him, downed him and, putting a re-
voiver against his nose, held him TIL
heard others coming, then jumped up
and ran for It
The delay l effected enabled Hast
ings to reach the state limits before
any telephone message could be sent
out to arrest him. But none was sent
Shepard knew he had lost and fearing
criminal prosecution vanished.
Hastings took Miss Schenck to her
home. She recovered the bulk OF her
property, and I attended the wedding
between her and Hastings. l have
since always been a favorite OF theirs
and they have done a great deal for
me and my family.
All of which l naturally attribute IA
gratitude.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-08
BY LUIS BOSSERO.

Americans can gain a hint of the
meaning of the revolution to the Mexi-
can workingman, when I cite the cot
ton mill strike at Orizaba, which took
place in the closing days of the Diaz
regime. The daily hours of work in
these mills were IA and the employees
were paid a very meager wage, partly
in cash and partly in checks good at
the company store.
The mere act of striking was illegal
under Diaz, but the climax of the affair
was not reached until the strike had
been i'll progress week. Men who
asked for credit at the company store
were rebuffed and retaliated by hand
ling the store keeper roughly. Diaz
then dispatched an army and shot
down the strikers without mercy. Men,
women and children were hunted like
rabbits through the hills and the
deaths are estimated at 500.
One of CarranZR's first acts was to
legallze labor unions and to remove
penalties against strikes. So remarka-
bic has been the response that there
are now $4,000 union men enrolled
in the various declarations. These men
eagerly enlisted to fight against Villa
and, when the latter's power was brok-
en-. returned to their peaceful pur-
suits.
Hours Of labor have been reduced
from II to eight or nine and minimum
wages have been established often four
times Us high as those prevailing in
the same trades before. We have a
federal department of labor which,
among other things, undertakes to set
tie labor disputes and there have been
no serious differences between en-
ployers and employees.
Sanitary regulations have been es-
tabiished for factories and for COM
pany-owned houses in connection with
factories. Each factory must provide
a school for the instruction of it's en-
ployes in the common branches.
Working of children under IL in fac
tories has been prohibited and the
foundation laid for a system OF free
and non~sectartan schools. in keeDinR
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-08
WHAT DO YOU DRINK?

At least five pints of water per day
is required by the body in moderate
weather Much more than this is re-
quired in hot weather The water in
foods is included, and green vegeta-
bles and fruits contain mostly water.
Strawberries, for instance, are about
96 per cent water.
Many people drink too little water.
It is doubtful if any one under any
conditions whatever drinks too much
water
A glass of cool water at the begin
ming of a meal is great aid to diges-
ton and a stimulant to the appetite
But neither water nor other beverages
should be used to wash down food
Slipping water, milk, tea, coffee or
cocoa throughout a meal is bad prac-
tice. The drink should be taken all
at one time. Early in the morning
and late at night are natural times
for drinking large quantities of wa
ter. Hot or cold, as you please. Yes,
put in a pinch of salt if you like
Ice water is unnatural and injur-
ious under any conditions. Cool water
is cold enough Ice should never be
put in water. Besides, the ice may
pollute the water. Ice sometimes har-
bors typhoid bacilli. Ice water drink
ing is nothing but a bad habit and
should be discountenanced. No spring
supplies ice water.
Water is the best thirst quencher
ever invented. All the alcoholic and
temperance beverages tend rather to
increase thirst. One who takes a glass
of beer to cool off would as readily
apply the same remedy to pay off the
mortgage. The coolest proposition
about a bar is the bartender, and he
is a teetota1er from principle.
The numerous soft drinks served at
fountains are great thirst producers,
many of them contain drugs and chem
icalS which disturb digestion, and
none OF them can compare in whole
someness or flavor with good home
made lemonade made from lemons,
water and real sugar. Soda water is
an abomination 10 the stomach IL taken
frequently. Why some people will
raise such a wall over a little gas in
the stomach and pay a dime To the
druggist for putting more of the same
gas there, is mystery. Ice cream is
the best article offered at any thirst
emporium. There is nothing the mat
ter with ice cream as a general rule.
Tea and coffee are good warming
drinks. The less OF them the better in
very warm weather. In cool weather,
for adults. tea and coffee in modera-
ton are wholesome and heaithful and
rarely il ever cause digestive disturb
ance or nervousness. No child under
IL should drink these beverages.
One who is very hot and very
thirsty, after profuse sweating. may
safely drink all the water he Graves,
provided the water is not very cold.
II a workingman gulps down large
quantities of ice water or chilled wa
ter when in this condition he is apt
10 suffer from cramps and intense
muscle pain for his folly. II is un-
wise TO deal the solar plexus such a
shocking blow. Drink rather warm
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-08
CURE FOR RURAL DISCON
TENT.

Farm workers should be happy that
they are not city workers this hot
weather, exclaims the Farmers Re
view. In the city there are no stops
for cooling draughts of lemonade be-
tween loads, no stops to rest on cool
grass IN the shade. It's get to work on
time and work until quitting time or
no job. Pavements get SO hot they
hurt the feet, tall buildings stop what
ever breezes there may bs and all
buildings. crowded together, sizZle like
ovens. The suffering Is intense
Babies and grown people die. All ex-
cept a few work in close buildings, in
bad air. and thousands upon thousands
find conditions little or no better when
they get home at night. Stone and
brick hold the heat until late at night
or all night. It's hot enough in the
country, but it's a wholesome hot The
city is not only hot but IT IS sinking
hot If country boys could only see
for themselves the conditions under
which thousands Of men work in large
cities on hot days they would be for
ever cured of any desire 10 leave the
country permanently
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-08
REPUBLICANS GROWING PEEVIsH

respondents who accompanied the
state troops to the border. / have
never seen or heard of anything that
approached it for sheer righteousness
and shamelessness.
While there are honorable excep-
lions, many of these correspondents
are men of no Judgment or balance, or
have SO little experience of the world
that they seem to have no sense of bal
ance or proportion. Ordinary incon-
veniences or deprivations, that to a
man with real sOldiery instincts are
merely subjects for jokes, are magnt-
fed by them into the most distressing
stories.
They persistently neglect to say
anything about the excellent and cred
table things that they see, and If they
can see nothing to find fault with man
ufacture lies out OF whole cloth. The
effect is to distress needlessly the fam
lilies and friends of members of the
state organizations and make people
of other nations think we are a de-
generated race of sissies and molly
coddles incapable Of being made into
soldiers. l have endured these pests
as long as I propose to, and shall here
after bar offenders from camps and
prohibit them from accompanying
troops on the march"
Republican papers are beginning to
print editorials demanding an answer
to the question: why is the guard on
the bOrder?
These are the same papers which
few weeks ago were ClamOring for war
with Mexico!
Every republican in congress voted
for the appropriations which paid the
expenses of sending the guard to the
border Most of them delivered pat
riotic" speeches explained that they
refused to be partisans when the honor
and safety of the nation were at stake.
Put Wilson in a Hole.
They knew then why the guard was
being sent to the Rio Grande.
Why do they profess ignorance now?
Merely to put Wilson in a hole"
But they will not succeed. The
American people know that the nation
when a conflict with Mexico seemed
inevitable and that they will be sent
home as soon as an agreement has
| been reached with the de facto govern
ment which insures permanent peace.
It would be folly to withdraw them
sooner. Their presence on the Rio
Grande is convincing evidence that
! Uncle Sam means business and is so
| interpreted by the MexiCans.
The result will be another great
| bloodless victory for the president, and
naturally such prospect makes the
opposition peevish.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-08

We detectives are supposed to get
after those who break the laws. We
are not supposed to break the laws our
selves. But I once became a law
breaker A young woman was held In
the adjoining state under duress, and
was sent there to find a way to get
possession of her
Miss Lucy Schenck, who was but
twenty years old. had no one to look
to but her stepmotber's second hus-
band, Shepard, and he availed himself
OF the opportunity of her confidence in
him to get her fortune into the hands
Of those from whom he could have 1T
transferred to himself.
Lucy, finally suspecting that matters
were not as they should be, employed
n lawyer to look into the case. Shepard,
learning of the fact, ran her off into
another state and kept her in hiding.
Her lawyer found out where she was
and I was selected to go there and
report some method of taking her away
from Shepard.
I found that he was keeping her I'M
der the pretense that she was mentally
incompetent. II her lawyer attempted
to fight him by the law he would likely
run her off to some other place, and
even If he did not he had the police
force in the town with him and a
shyster lawyer who would take any
method to evade the law. / therefore
reported that the best way was to fight
the devil with fire; that is to take an
illegal course and kidnap the young
lady.
Miss Schenck had a lover, who had
succeeded in getting into communica-
ton with her by letter-that Is, she had
written him giving him the place where
she was held captive. / asked that
this young man, Hastings, should be
sent to help me. He was naturally
very much interested, and together we
laid our plans. The automobile has
proved an excellent means OF effecting
such purposes, and We concluded to use
one
Since Miss Schenck was not permit
ted to go ont Of the house, but was kept
in 1t under the care of a middle aged
woman, we were obliged to take the
captive from her dwelling prison by
force. So far as / could learn she was
guarded only by the woman-her name
was Saunders-but there was a man on
the premises, supposed to be butler,
and fancied he, too, was In the pay OF
Shepard, whose place of abode was in
a house two or three numbers away
from the one in question.
1 dare not take any one except Has
tings into my confidence, so I must
needs rely on him alone for an assist
ant. Fortunately he was a good driver
of an auto, and this was a great help.
Our plan was a very simple one We
were to take the auto to the house.
was to ring the bell and when the door
was opened was to push in, followed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-08
TELLS OF PROGRESS IN MEXICO

with the spirit of the constitution. The
great lack is that of teachers properly
equipped, hence one of the first steps
of Carranza was to dispatch 166 young
people to the United States to study
American methods of teaching. Many
Of them are still in this country.
In the states of Yucatan and Cam
peche, where conditions under Diaz
were especially deplorab1e, some 500
new schools have been established by
the state governments. Bids have
been received by government authori-
ties for more than 5000 school build
ings-
Our educational problem IS in
creased by the thirst for knowledge on
the part of adults as well as Of chill
dren- In the mind of the common citi-
zens Of Mexico there is a close rela-
tionship between learning and liberty.
l have been inspired by the spectacle
or local officials who, as is occasional
ly the case, cannot read or write them
selves, taking the lead in the plans to
establish schools and purchase books
Tor the younger generation.
Americas history has been potent
inspiration to Mexican liberty. You
, Americans realized how impossible 1t
would be for any nation to establish
self government on a sound footing
unless every voter had the means of
informing himself as to events and
had a sound comprehension OF the
principles underlying freedom.
This feature Of the American sys-
TEN particularly appeals to US. We
regard American schools as the best
on earth, not necessarily from the
standpoint of experiences of instruc-
ton. although they stand high in that
regard, but because they employ the
spirit Of liberty. They are locally con-
trolled, yet national in extent The
dearest wish OF CarranZa and his fell
low patriots is to hasten the day when
Mexican suffrage shall rest upon the
same bases OF popular education as
does suffrage in the United States.
Without this. our efforts viii fail. With
the means OF knowledge on every hand.
our country will experience what your
immortal Lincoln called "A new birth
OF freedom"