Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-20

JUST as we had been assured by the
state health department that the foot
and mouth disease had been wiped out
it breaks in an unexpected quarter,
several members of the Rock Island b.
b. team having become affected
Herewith.
AMONG the conspicuous heroes in
the current passing show Will Orpet
should not be overlooked. Will is on
trial at Waukegan charged with the
murder of his sweetheart. The Chi,
cago papers are devoting several col
umns daily to the trial This being
leap year. it is fortunate for Will that
he is restrained by the strong arm of
the law. For there are scores of girls
dying to win the place in his affections
that were once held by poor little Mar
lam Lambert
"BRITISH Victory in Egypt: Many
Camels Captured.'-Meaning animals
or Cigarets!
UNDER the head of preparedness it
might be noted that 5000 powder puffs
| were ordered to be delivered today at
the New York Seventh regiment ar
mory, where the federation of woman's
clubs is to hold a convention.
81 AM confident that a suffrage
plank will be adopted at the republi-
can convention this year, and | am
| hopeful that the same action will be
| taken by the democratic convention"
says Mrs. Baker, wife of the secretary
of war. Observe the discreet distinc
| ton. Showing that MIR. Baker still
is the democratic majority in his
| household.
IN Chicago yesterday youth was
fined $500 for shaping IA girl in the face
| He should live in Rock Island. He
would have saved 1927. A taxi driver
was let off with So fine in LEGAL pO-
lice court this week. He not only
struck woman. but insuited her also.
Chicago isn't such bad place for de-
cent people after all.
THE Fairbanks presidential boom
ought to help ChiCago's summer resort
advertising campaign.
HAVE you piped the lid the SUITS are
! to wear in the Chicago parade and the
angle at which it is to sit? The hat
is white sailor, with band of yell
| low But don't miSinterpret. 1t is to
rest on the head slightly to the right
side; not altogether suggestive of
hilarity, but rather of daring: a sort
of notice to those on the side lines not
| to get gay lest they receive a jolt in
| the jib The girls are going to look
right pert and smart. There are to be
no pussyfooters in the line, that's sure,
if we are to believe all we hear.
THE morning dispatches said that
Hen Ford survived the guachara inva-
sion and was able to take his egg and
rolled oats and whirr to the old mill
in one of his fliyyerS.
THE Chicago Tribune reprints an
|
quirer attacking Congressman Taven-
ner and other members of the house
| for using the Thanking privilege to dis
| seminate information that they felt
their constituents were entitled to
/ have. The Tribune runs a line at the
| foot of the editorial requesting Rock
Island papers to copy the same. The
Inquirer prints nothing that the voters
| in Tavenner's district do not know, so
/ it would be waste of space to carry
out the Trib's request. The childish
note in the Tribune'S TRADE against
! Tavenner for using the congressional
! frank is in the apparent assumption
that the public doesn't know that Tav-
enner is doing no more than any other
congressman has done since the ma
tional legislature was formed The
| Tribune isn't fooling anybody but it
self. Chicago Tribune please copy.
NEWSPAPER critics on the Chicago
newspapers say the female flank eX-
posture in THE World of Pleasure, -
which has just opened at the Palace
for summer engagement, exceeds all
the limits heretofore established by
producers. Well, something must be
done to get an even break with the dis
play on Michigan boulevard, where
the exhibition is free gratis for moth
ing At the Palace it costs a buck or
two.
| l.. X. PYLE of 1T. Paul has been
elected vice president of the Interna-
tiOnal Railway Fuel association. Won
der ii he is anything to Coal Pile.
1T has been proposed in England
that her 100000 unmarried women be
| colonized after the war. And we had
| supposed that Great Britain was hop
ing for peace, eventually.
/ THEDA Bara is writing a series of
/ articles for a syndicate of newspapers
/ telling how she is pursued by men who
are impressed by her acting of vam-
pire roles. There is no warrant for
, doubling that Miss Bara is dealing in
facts, but it's our confidential notion
| that any man who would lose his knob
| over the screen cayorting of Theda
would dive off ship to embrace mer-
maid.
| GO to church tomorrow. You'll be
surprised how prosperous our people
are looking.
| NEW York society has been shocked,
so the papers say, by the admission
of Mrs. Mary Winthrop Turner of Long
| Island that she was founding and
chorus girl, the facts coming out in a
suit brought by her dead husbands rel