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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
Easy Way to Keep
Your Hair IL, Curl

II YOU have trouble keen,rR your hair
70 curl. you'll do we'll to try plain liquid
s,inerine. Apply little at night with
siean tooth brush. drawing this down the
1nll length OF the hair from root TO tip.
ny nair VIII dry In the prettiest waves
~ ourts mat you can arrange, and the
ensct will appear altogether natural In
stteaa OF mat duh. dried-out look which
sns heated iron gives, the hair will be
oiisnt. nstrous and beautiful.
malIil!ehs to hair and scalp. and IL neither
sreasy nor gunmy. II you will get few
ounces from Your druggist you win find II
quite inexpensive 10 Use
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
EMBROIDERY CLUB ENTERTAINED

West End Embroidery club members
enjoyed the afternoon yesterday as the
guests of Mrs. Otto Hedling, 616 Four
teenth avenue. The hostess entertained
with victrola music and the ladies spent
the time with their sewing and fancy
work and lunch was served in the
dining room where roses were used as
decorations. The club will be enter
tanned in two weeks by Mrs. s. A. Tor
rey, Go Twelfth avenue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
Customs Revenues Show Decrease.

Washington, Jan. 20.-Customs rev.
enue dropped from $3.50, 100000 in
1914, to s205, 900 in 1915, or approx
imately 2712 per cent, according to a
statement today by the bureau of for
eign and domestic commerce.
The decrease is attributed to the
war, which, it is declared, operated to
cut off imports generally and especial
ly merchandise from Europe, the lead
ing source Of dutiable goods.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
GUILD PLANS COFFEE.

Plans were made for a coffee to be
held next Wednesday by Trinity guild
at the home of Mrs G. H. Sherwood,
1918 Sixth avenue, at the weekly meet
ing held yesterday in the home of
Mrs. c. E. Mckinley, S39 Twenty
fourth street. The afternoon was spent
with sewing, visiting. ETC., and the hos
tess served a nice lunch.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20

train a bit and then produced the
sparklers that were to send him on his
way to fame. But the receptacle was
just a stocking without any adjust
ments.
Now. however, comes a stocking
bearing a pocket, with a flap and a
clasp. Small change, powder puffs,
chewing gum and shopping lists may
be accommodated therein.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
Shippers Association Formed.

Berlin. Jan. 20, by wireless to Say
vile, n. Y.-An association has been
formed in Hamburg under the name OF
IIbero-American society to promote
cultural relations with South and Cen
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
HOUSEHOLDER
| HINTC ~

Spread on very thinly sliced bread
graham or white). A lettuce lea,
may be used with white bread sand.
witches.
Chocolate Sandwiches-Me three
squares of chocolate with little but
ter and sugar. Stir into it finely
chopped walnuts and spread between
thin slices of wheat bread. This makes
a delicious sandwich.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
Registrar-Mrs. J. Q. Paddock.
Doorkeeper-Miss Helen krell.
Directors-Mrs. Z. B. Kreis, Mrs. C.
+. Searie, Mrs. J. r. Tuckis.
JOLLY 800 WITH MRS. LANGBEHN.

Mrs. Peter Langbehn at her home,
1912 Sixteenth street, Moline, enter
tanned members of the Jolly 500 club
yesterday, the game of 500 being play
ed at three tables with the prizes go
ing to Mrs. Boyce, Mrs. WEIGH, Mrs.
Efflandt and Mrs. Bennett. A lunch
was served at the small tables at the
conclusion Of the games. The ladies
were invited to meet in two weeks
with Mrs. c. A. Lage in Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20

Mrs. Frances Ellen Hare, 104, who
died the other day at Astoria, Ore,
was the Oldest white woman in the
northwest. Imperfect records among
the Indians make 1t impossible to
learn who actually are the oldest in
habitants of those parts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
IVY CARD CLUB ENTERTAINED.

Mrs. Henry Geis,er acted as the hos
tess to the Ivy Card club yesterday.
entertaining at her home at the fort
nightly session. The game of 500 was
played with favors for the winners and
Q lunch to follow the games.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20

That's an old joke about the cabi-
net maker who treated the man with
wooden leg. but now comes tale of
a plumber called in to attend a baby,
the child having stuck his precious
head into tin oyster pail with obst-
nate results.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
SOCIAL EVENTS

ifs said that fully $4,000 Serbians have
already reached refuge in Corfu. The
Stefani agency announces that the
king of Italy, ON his recent visit to
Brindisi held a conference with the
Serbian ministers, who had arrived
| there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
Italians to Aid Serb ARMY.

Rome, Jan. >2O-The Italian govern
ment has decided to extend generous
aid toward the reorganization of the
remnants of the Serbian army. It is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20

A new case for the next term of cir
cult court was filed yesterday after
noon in circuit court by People of the
State of Illinois, for the use of G. L.
Rowe and T. L. Rowe, doing business
under the firm name of Rowe Hard
ware company. VS.. James Fox, Zach
Einfeldt and Rene Van Speybroeck,
debt $4,000. MIR. Fox is constable for
South Moline township and the other
defendants are on his bond for $4,000,
which 1t is sought to forfeit, on the
ground that Mr.. Fox did not and will
not serve a writ of attachment, issued
out of the court Of H. J. Best in favor
Of the company for $3.50 against
Burt Bussard. A. B. Johnson is coun-
sci for the plaintiffs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20
COURT HOUSE NEWS

Hearing of the dependency case of
Searle ]. Rankin, 12-year-old son of
Mrs. Emma D. Rankin, East Moline,
was started in county court this morn
ing. Attempt is being made to have
the lad committed to a state institu-
ton. 1t is charged that the mother is
not fit person to care for the boy.
The matter is being tried before jury
of six, composed of Ed Parks, Burt
Galino, Ray Hasson, Henry Arp, Mo-
line; c. B. Young and Henry Harris,
Rock Island. States Attorney F. E.
Thompson is prosecuting and R. R.
Reynolds and c. S. Roberts defending.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20

Two petitions for paving in Rock Is
land were filed in county court this
morning. One was for Eighth avenue,
Ninth and Nineteenth street, estimated
cost $22,55SS0. Robert Kuschmann
was named commissioner by Judge N.
A. Larson. The other was for Forty
fourth street, Fourteenth to Eigh-
teenth avenue, estimated cost SIS
07S.20. ]. W. Crandall was named
commissioner.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-20

Verdict finding the defendant not
guilty was returned in circuit court
yesterday afternoon by the jury in the
case of August Johnson VS.. G. w Has
son, Moline police officer, who sued
for $1,000 damages for false arrest.
The matter went to the jury at 8
o'clock and verdict was returned at
3:45. J. B. and ]. l.. Oakleaf appeared
for the plaintiff and William Whiteside
for the defendant
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peated!y CHARGED Tammany Hall with
q friendship for the keepers OF dis
orderly rosur;~. No facts have ever
been brought forward 10 justify that
charge and il is Immediately forgotten
after it has served its purpose. because
the same men who make it will tell
YOU when election is ovcr hat New.
York is morally the cleanest city in
our state.
The whole history OF Tammany in
the Legislature constitutes a rebuke
to those who would charge her with
being in league with vice. In the SEES
sion Of 1913 senator Wagner amended
tho Code Of CiVll Procedure to make
s.mp." dlspoSscss proceedings where
tenement property Vas used for illegal
purposes and in 1914 senator Herrick
of Tammany Hall introduced. and 1t
became Il law, n bin known as the in
junction and abatement act, which IN
To-day tho most successful weapon
against di>ordcrly resorts Of all kinds.
This bih was urged by the COMMITTEES
If Fourteen and duo and full credit In
given to senator lIcrrick in the an
rral report Of that organization. All
;hcse measures received the united
AND enthusiastic s,,nrnr, Of the memys
tcrS OF Tainmany Hal.
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By Alfred E. Smith,
Sheriff Of New York County and Former Assemblyman

sting the Conservation Commission.
lie introduced it in the Senate and !
introduced il in the Assembly Of 1911.
II passed and became "A law. While
| our opponents gave much Of their time
to talk about it. Tammany members
did the actual work of c~oordinating the
| duties spread over different depart
ments of the State Government that
| had to do with the conservation of the
natural resources If the State.
The bill creating the State Factory
investigating commission was intro
duccd in the Senate by senator Wag-
ner and in the Assembly by myself.
The senator was afterward made
! chairman Of the commission and was
selected as Nice-Chairman. Abram !.
| Elkus acting as counsel without a
1t has been conceded 10y students of
the subject and by the press gene
rally To he one of the most thorough
Investigations on the subject of manu-
featuring In this state that have yer
been made, and from its labors there
resulted practically a new labor code
for the State and put this common
wealth in the very foreground of ad-
Vanceu labor legislation.
The home rule bill. attempting "a
give to the city ~ New York "A greater
control over its purely local affairs
drawn by Lawrence Tanner of the Cit
iZcns Union, and urged by that or
ganiZation and tho city Club, passed
both houses in the Democratic Legis-
laturc in 1918. having been introduced
in the Assembly by .tssemhlyman Levy
and in the Senate by Senator Cullcn.
For years in Albany | was interested
in and passed many bills which became
laws regulating the sale of cocaine and
other habit forming drugs. My efforts
were finally crowned by the passage
in 1913 Of senator Boylan's bill, drawn
after the experience gained in attempt
ing to enforce the law against these
drugs. 40 that what in 1907 was re-
garded as u menac to the health and
lives of many cn%fortunates has been
reduced TO nothing.
In 1913 the Tammany members
stood solidly for the reorganization OF
the State Health Department and
made Of it Il live businesslike agency
OF the government in the preserva-
ton OF the health Of the people,
There are those who would have
us believe that the representatives OF
Tammany Hall have little or no In.
terest in the great public questions
that are statewide In their nature
Let me tell the story Of the rcpeaI
of the Long Sautc Development Com
pany's charter:
Between the years 1895 and 1907
the Legislature Of the State Of New
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OF the soldiers on Governors Island
become interested in politics and vote.
Very little time is spent on the voters
OF these outlying districts. a. they are
called. although Assemblyman John j.
Ryan made a anvas of them last
year
, In discussing his territory Mr.. Finn
said he regretted that he could no
longer boast OF its being n residential
! section. hut he added that he believed
the time was not far of when living
quarters would he built there.
81 can only think Of one or two up
! to date apartment ouse III the whole
district" said he. THAT condition is
due 10 the fact that there are few IN
diyidual plot owners in the district.
The Trinity corporation is a lars"
, holder of realty here. and 20 date it
! has not seen fl to improve its prop
, erty. We have hundreds Of empty
stores and lofts here that cannot he
carried much longer without income.
and | am looking forward to the day
when we will have up To date ap.rt-
ments thai, will attract to us roOpl.
who would Ice only too glad To- I've in a
section which is close to the affairs of
lower New York. We have such "A
section
Mr.. Finn pointed out that the new
transit facilities would shortly permit
his section 10 compete with any other
part of the city as regards ease in get
ting about town.
| In discussing his duties as q leader.
Mr.. Finn said:
II feel that my path "a made for
me 10y my father. lie WIS known to
every one hereabouts as "a human man
with q heart. That fact was often
demonstrated when ne WAS a mays
trate on the police court bench.
He was often criticised for his len
iency. but 1t was unjust criticism. for
he knew the people with whom lie was
dealing. He lived here for more thar
sixty Years and he saw the old go and
' the new come. He studied the life and
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habits Of the newcomers and he
learned the way TO reach their hearts.
He had a kind wore for every one and
our door was always open.
What better lesson could havs
had than this? ] hope I have fulfilled
1t to tho letter. for | do not believe
! could improve on Il.
W have made II a practice never
10 ask n man who comes to us for as
sIstance what party he afiliates with.
] do not conceive II to lie n Of Dur
business when We are doing an act Of
,harity. | have always done az I was
taught t" do and kept my charities
unadverilsod. | was the second Of 4
family of eight children and I there
fore had to learn the lesson early. I
hope | learned it we'll
MIR. Firms district contains many
longshoremen and the like. There are
still a few lr!shmen of this we, but
trcy are fast going.
II is Mr.. Finu's job not only to xet
worH for Il man VINO needs it but also
- see tina he holds 1t. To do this
means constant attendance at the club.
house Of the district. for it IS thither
that men turn when thrown Out OF
work. And when they are ou of work
s'me ~" must keep the family from
want. and that duty usually devolves
upon the leader.
AS these men pass away and for.
"igucrs take their place" said Finn.
II feel all rse more tho need " build
ing up the district. which is so thinly
populated"
~ the last election the registration
IN the district Was about 5000 voters,
nearly all Of whom We're got out to vote.
We keep on the J u all h time
summer and winter" sad Finn in con-
,iuSiun. 'dId | have the satisfaction
of attending the meetings OF the
executive committee and reporting
that the district is st.ll kept in the
Democratic column and that the peo-
pie II the district always turn to Tam.
many Hail for ilclp.'
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shown their confidence in him by CIV
ing him the leadership.
The First Assembly district Hes east
Of broadway from Third street TO the
BATTERY. II Is irregular in shape and
takes in "A great number Of nationG! .
ties. At the lower end. in Washington
street. are Il great number OF Syrians
aud Atmon,ans. They rarely become
citizens, Yet they are constantly call
ing upon the leader Of the district or
some ~ his ~lieutenantS to adjust their
troubles. For just such a purpose the
district organization maintains n club
house at 22l Hudson street, winch Is
luSt off tn" corner of Canal street.
Two floors are occupied and although
the house is too small on stated meet
lug nights. IL is a cosey hoIne II IL
cal,ed the Huron club, a name given
10y the present leaders father.
Battery Dan Finn lived for more
han sixty years IN the district. where
ne was known 10y all Of the oldest in
habitants. Dan the younger was
born and raised there. but he sadly
i.counted the other night how he had
seen the good old First ward change
from an old fashioned American neigh
torhood to a section populated largely
ny foreigners. Even the negroes who
formerly crowded the upper part of
the district have been forced ont by
the Italians \ public school at Al
hany and Washington streets has I'M
der is roo thirty eight nationai!ties,
: and the same school maintains nigh;
c.asses at which 500 met have sought
to learn the English language.
TIE Frs; Assembly district IS not
confined to Manhattan Island. II also
includes Governors. Eedlow's. Ellis and
oyster islands. All the voters on these
islands come tn town to vote. \ few
residents of Governors Island vote reg
ularly and a few others come from
licdloN's Island. where the Statue Of
Liberty rises. oyster Island. which is
further out, has not produced a voter
thus far. In Presidential years some
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THE average citizen, were he to
have in mind the constant de-

III Nis'
have in mind the constant de-
nunciation OF Tammany Hall.
would he led 20 the belief that
it existed solely for the benefit OF It's
leaders and for the purpose OF Sc
curing for its immediate followers the
patronage thai goes with political VIC
tory. submit as a common n
proposition that no organization could
last az Tammany has through all
these years with no greater or higher
object than hat which helps but a
very few Of its followers.
In the election just passed Tam
many Hall elected its Sheriff ard Dis
,rict Attorney without any share of
the city, state or Federal patronage.
In my own district out Of 5000 en-
rolled Democrats who have by their
votes year after year given expression
of their allegiance to Tammany Hall
probably less than 100 have received
political office In twelve years, l think
that can be safely said Of all Of the
district organizations, SO that there
must be something else tina attracts
to it's banner the great majority not
so favored.
Tammany Hall has consistently, in
power and out OF power. adhered to
certain fundamental principles of gov
eminent that had for their object the
greatest good to the greatest num-
Der and has regarded law in a de-
mocracy not as the expression OF a
divine or an eternal right but that
which best meets the present day
needs Of society.
The hrst legislative proposal look
ing to the regulation by commission
Of public utility corporations was in
PRODUCED in the Senate in 1906 by
Senator Grady.
The first public move in this State
to bring about the direct election OF
United States Senators. thereby con-
ferring upon the people the power to
choose directly their representatives
in the upper house In Washington,
was made at a meeting OF the Demo-
cratic State committee held in Al
bany in the spring Of 1904. when
Charles r. Murphy, the leader If
Tammany Hall. offered "a resolution,
which was adopted. %pledging the de-
mocracy OF the State to that great re-
form.
The resolution ~ratlfying the amend
ment to the Constitution OF the United
States providing for the income tax
was introduced in the Senate by Sena-
tor Wagner and In the Assembly by
myself In the year 1911.
Senator Wagner drew the bill ere.
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AHEARN AND SCULLY THE
LEADERS IN THE FOURTH

f~usLion1blc seCii,rs Of tho city. Henry
str. ct was a k!-,d of Fifth avenue
then. Before that Ouakers made their
homes there. Thcn more and more
foreigners came in. with the result
that to-day but a handful Of residents
of The old type can be found. There
are some left, however. az is evidenced
by the fact that the Rev. DIR. Dunnell.
SIN active at ~. attends services at
All Saints Episcopal Church, at Henry
and SCANNED streets. He was long
rector o TINS church, az wnlch f'oss
Tweed was once a commitment.
Scanned street. n Of the
in New York. has the distinction OF
having been the birthplace OF Henry
Bergh, founder # the Society for Pre-
vent.on Of Cruelty to Animals. Ned
TIarriPan. the actor OF Harrigan and
Hart fame, also came from this dis
trict.
Hut pret,y much everything has
Noon changed There il scarcely n
on,iIiar name left ON the old build
in"s yct The politica, character OF
Tho lisiric, remains ,naltered. II is
| sim onc Of the banner districts OF the
, Democra,ic party. although the lead
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John F. F. AhsanA Association cyc Clerk J. seMny !. Gated on extreme left At centre Of table

timates hat he IL sorry he left The
Legislature. 1t was while a Senator
that he introduced a bill which was
in essence what is to-day known az
the mothers pension law. This was
In 1895. The bill was passed. b,it owing
to its non-acceptance by Mayor Will
lam Strong ii did not become "A law. II
vas too late in the session 20 pass II
over the Mayors veto. Mr.. Ahearn
sadly explained when talking about
II the other day. and K took twenty
years TO get 1t on the books.
While Senator Ahearn was dis
cussing this bill with the reporter a
poorly clad woman entered tde club
house. Her husband had died a few
months before and no one aoout the
clubhouse would deny hat he had
had a decent burial. Who paid for It?
Well. who cares: II was done accord.
ing to the rites OF the church To which
he belonged. As the woman stood
talking she cried with Joy when the
Senator tod her tina; only tina. day he
had received word that her applica-
ton for "A pension had met with sue
cess. She would be eligible to the
benefits Of the law.
As she walked away with her two
children the Senator said: "ls hat a
charity tina; sHould have been on our
law books twenty years ago: ! think
So"
A few doors away from the Club is
the house in which Mayor Westervelt
lived. Years ago many residents Of
the district got employment in the
.\llaire Iron Works. which later went
To Allaire. y. j.. now known as The
Deserted Village"
Mr.. Ahea-n spoke Of the require
ments OF district leadership.
You ask me what makes for sue
cess In politics." he sax Head and
heart. | say. \ political leader needs
a goodly supply Of both. but the
greater need Is heart.
II have grown up among politicians
and have seer organizations come and
go. l have participated in many cam
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THE Youngest leader in Tammony

THE Youngest leader in Tammany
Hall IL Daniel r. Finn. who sue
ceedei his father. Battery Oar
Finn. In the leadership ~ the FIRST
Assembly district. Battery Dan, as
his intimates called him. die nearly
six years ago. He had been in charge
Of the district since 1902, when ne
took the place from former Police
Commissioner Michael c. Murphy. His
followers DECIDED then that young Dan
should be their representative on the
executive committee Of Tammany Han.
Finn is but 80 years old now, He
is married and has a family. Unlike
his father, he has never smoked to-