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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Our Kind of Baby.

We are great fresh air advocates in
our house. We have large sleeping
porch facing south, and baby sleeps
out there days and nights too. He has
never had anything like a cold"
looks fat and rosy. But the neigh
bors call us crazy.
Answer--Our kind of baby--but not
our kind of neighbors. Who will ex-
plain why this fortunate baby hasn't
taken his death O. cold long ago?
Does this not prove the cold" theory
absurd
Mineral Water Versus Water.
What kind of mineral water is best
Tor one with gallstones? Is mineral
water good for hardened arteries?
Answer-Aqua Fonts is excellent :
you take it from the tap. Mineral wa
ter is as good as aqua Fonts, but no
better, we warrant.
tDr Brady will answer all signed
letters pertaining to health If your
question is of general interest it will
De answered through these columns
II not, it will be answered personally
II stamped. addressed envelope is en-
closed DR.. Brady will not prescribe
Tor individual cases or make dag
| noses. Address DR., William Brady
care Of this newspaper.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
MINERS WISE COURSE.

The adoption of the nOn-suspensiOn
policy by the United Mine Workers OF
America, in session at Indianapolis,
reflects great credit upon that organ
ization. Under this new policy adopted
the miners will remain at work at the
expiration of existing contracts be-
tween the miners and the operators, so
long as there is hope of drawing up
agreements. The leaders expressed the
opinion that the action taken by the
Organization will result in as little in
reference as possible with the present
industrial conditions. Strikes are an
Industrial disturber They result in
strained and bitter feelings between
capital and labor. They are often &C
scompanied by riot and bloodshed.
The labor leaders during the past
few years have generally exerted ev-
cry efforts to avoid the strike method
of carrying on their campaign for bet
ter working conditions and higher
wages. Reason has, to large degree,
suppIanted hotheadedness and antag-
onism. It is good that this is the grow
ing tendency of the times. IL is good
for labor, 1t is good for capital, IL is
good for the people. Disturbance of in
dustrial conditions makes hard times,
hard times makes suffering. The coal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
REPUBLICAN WARNING.

The New York Globe republican,,
Jacob H, Schiff to the grand old
party" that the people will have no re-
newal Of the old tariff of privilege as
1916 campaign issue, has this to say:
MIR. Schiff does his party a distinct
service by thus openly speaking out.
party cannot hope to regain the public
confidence it lost by persisting in a
policy that destroyed confidence in it.
1t must appear to the satisfaction of
the country that the republican party
exists to advance public ends-that the
purposes of the organization are not
the advancement of class or private
ends. The once all-powerful party
carried but two small states at the
last presidential election The falling
away was fundamentally because of
the general conviction that it had fall
len under the control of group of
men who had put class interests and
private interests above public inter-
ests.
THE republican party to restore it.
self must roget its good repute 1t
cannot hope to do so if it permits its
managing heads to be men Of the quail
ity of Penrose. Barnes. Smoot, etc. 1t
cannot hope to do so if it returns to
the Hanna practice Of allowing the
benefciaries of protection to write the
tariff schedules
The Globes warning, like that of the
speaker who supplied its text, is time
ly, but there is no indication that the
self constituted leaders of standpatism
Will heed IT, The attempt TO flaunt the
tariff before the people as an issue
comes from two sources: the interests
which would write the tariff schedules
for their own advantage, and the poll
tiCians who hope 10 ride into office on
Cassandra platform of calamity. AS
these are the very elements which
seem TO be in control of the republi-
can party machinery, and as they are
already manifesting determination to
rule at any cost. there is small likeli-
hood that such sane advice as that Of
fered by Mr. Schiff and the Globe will
prevail
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
The Hickeyviiie Clarion.

One of the heightened social events
of the season at Hickeyville was the
reception by the Barkin Soap club to
their husbands. Tea and waters were
served. Mrs. Anse Frisby, who enter
tanned the club, expected to have some
of that pink tea she had heard so
much about, but couldn't get any, 50
had to serve the ordinary kind.
Uncle Ezra Harkins says he hopes
spring will hustle up, as he has only
one parlor sofy and three rods Of rail
fence left for fuel.
Anse Frisby, our banker and CAPT
talist here at Hickeyville, is looking
for a first-class chauffeur, one who
can take a car apart and put it to-
gether and one who has fine tech
meal education. All the chauffeur will
have to do besides taking care of the
car is to NOW the lawn, tend the fur
mace, wait on table, press the boss
clothes, run errands, wash dishes and
pound rugs. Salary, s12 per week.
Miss Hepsibah futile, our school
teacher, has had several proposals OF
marriage since she has been in our
midst, but she says on account Of the
modest income allowed to school
teachers nowadays it is about all she
can do to support herself
Miss Pansy Jones new skirt is so
! tight that she can't lean over fur
enough to turn a wringer or chase a
red flannel shirt up and down wash
board ROY X. MOULTON.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
A FOOL THERE WAS.

(Halving the Hole With Rudyard)
A fool there was and he spent his roll
Even as you and y
For mess they dug from a rocky
hole;
(You see the chap was trustful
souD
The fool he thought that the stuff was
coal
Even as you and y.
Oh, the slate they give and the weight
they give,
And the prices they make us pay,
For the hard-earned wage Of week
or two
Is consumed in one winters day.
A fool there was and the days he
spent
Even as you and II
Feeding the fire till his back was bent.
But his house was cold as canvas
tent.
Though the fool indeed was a husky
gent
Gwen as you and y.
Oh, the means we waste and the groans
we waste,
And the curvature of our back,
In the vain attempt to entice some
heat
From a mixture of slate and slack.
The fool fished clinkers from sun to
Even as you and ID
1t would only sputter and melt and
He took out ashes ton after ton,
But thermal units he gained not one
Gwen as you and u.
Oh, the CRATES we shake and the
crates we break
And the grief OF our hand and
soul
Are the price We pay for the ruthless
weigh
or the geeZers that sell US coal"
W. KEE MAXWELL.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
Brady,n.D.
Exploding Grippe Bombs.

While we are arreSting the culprits
who spit in public places we are like
ly to overlook that worse offender, the
fellow who travels about bombing in
nocent bystanders with grippe mi
crobes
Now grippe" is just a newer term
for the obsolete cold" Grippe" is
by no means the specific and fatal dis
ease, influenza 1t is true that. per-
haps once in thousand cases, the in
fiuenza bacillus is found in the sputum
or nasal discharge of a grippe" pa
tient, but as rule the grippe" proves,
on culture, to be nothing but our old
friend, the pneumococcus, ably and
tirelessly assisted by micrococcus ca
tarrhalis, streptococcus and others of
prodigious title, but not very fatal eff
feet.
When an ignoramus enters a street
car, or a moving picture theatre, or
church, or even his own domicile, and
bucolically sneezes all over those so
unfortunate to be in contact with him,
the plain, everyday citizen ought to
have the right to arrest the offender
On the charge of endangering public
health He should be hailed to court
and stiffly fined for maintaining him
self as public nuisance within the
meaning of the statute.
The open-face sneeze produces cas-
ualties just as certainly as would a
bomb dropped from a hostile aero
plane. But the unmuzzled sneeze is
not so spectacular as an ordinary
bomb. 1t does not produce instanta-
neous effects; the victims, if any, feel
no symptoms until, perhaps, the fol-
lowing day-and then they blame some
innocent change OF weather.
Just why we should feel indignant
at the person who expectorates in a
! public place, and ignore the rascal
who explodes grippe. diphtheria. pueu-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31

appropriations for the army and navy
is that it will add burdens upon the
taxpayers of this country in the form
of increased cost of living.
Already on the average, for every
year since 1897, the cost of living has
been going up much faster than the
increase in wages. If it continues TO
do that, and if we increase greatly the
appropriations for the army and the
navy, there is going to come time
year after year faster than wages, the
average working man in this country
will be unable to support his family
1t is an arithmetical proposition; you
can figure it out with pencil and pa
per. | consider that such condition
as have described would be greater
danger to this republic than any dan
ger from abroad.
| believe that if this republic is in
danger, it is in danger not from the
peoples beyond the seas, but from a
clique of men within this country who
would tax the people until their backs
break, simply that they might make
profit supplying battleships, armor
and guns.
| Mr.. Miller of Delaware. Mr.. Speak
er, will the gentleman yield for q
question?
Mr.. Tavenner | have so much ma
terial here that it is going to take al
of my time to present it, and l prefer
not to yield.
Mr.. Miller of Delaware. Will the
gentleman yield for a moment for q
question?
Mr.. Tavenner. Very we'll.
Mr.. Miller of Delaware. The gentle
man is speaking of additional taxation
to be placed on the people on accoun
of expenditure for army and navy. HI
has introduced into this congress five
bills, which, if enacted into law, would
add an additional expenditure O
81, 165, 600, with respect to the Rock Is
land arsenal in his own district.
Mr.. Tavenner. Yes.
Mr.. Miller of Delaware. May | ash
him in that connection if the war de
partment or the general staff has ask
ed for any of this or whether it ha,
been recommended in any report?
Mr.. Tavenner. No. l will answer
that by saying that the war depart
ment would rather give contracts t,
) the j. P. Morgan controlled war trus
although at the Rock Island arsena
we have manufactured certain mater
ials "a per cent cheaper than thu
prices we were paying the privat
manufacturers. Ii you were going t,
buy s2O,OO0,OOO worth of an article
would you pay 81 per cent more 70
that article than you could manufac
ture it for yourself
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
Pointed Paragraphs.

The longer the dogs day the shorter
the cats night.
The longer man does nothing the
more he seems to like it.
If love makes the world go round
it's no wonder lovers act dizzy.
Men who have lean and hungry
look are nearly always the biggest
eaters.
Shortly after the wedding march
many a man discovers that he's an
April fool.
The traveller wants full fare at ho-
tells, but he doesn't object to half
fare on railroads
The average man would rather lose
So on a horse race than nickel
through a hole in his pocket
Expunge the accounts OF mans in
humanity to man from the world 4
history and small volume would
contain the rest.-Chicago News,
j. NJ. G.,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
Sidelights on the European War

issue of battle. He is quoted as hsE-
ing said: IF the American navy III
vades Japan we have only to eneoun-
ter it with the best tactics and art Of
warfare, to the last vessel and 1851
man, meanwhile relying on the dig
nifty of the august emperor and the
strong support of sixty millions ns'
ton. This is the decision of our navy
in such an eventuality."
simultaneously with the opening Of
the diet has come sweeping change
in the personnel Of the navy. Espee.
tally noteworthy is the appointment O
Vice Admiral Takarabe from CON-
mander-sh of the third squadron %
the command of the secondary na'a
station at Port Arthur.
Since resigning as minister Of ma
rine, Vice Admiral Yashiro, who wei
the applause of the public as leader o.
the navy cleansing in connection VILE
the royal scandal of last year nas
been leading a secluded life in SUE
urb OF Kioto devoting himself TO tne
study of Buddhistic philosophy Nh
appointment to the new post toge1ne'
with his restoration to active service
has attracted much approval.
The changes are generally regaiu'
ed in Toxic as indicating commence.
ment of waning of the influence
men of Satsuma extraction. The g'eai
leaders in the navy have always eouf
from Satsuma province, hence w
navy power had come to be KNOWS
Satsuma.
London-A victory for liberty
thought was achieved when the Sailui'
council by three TO one nla)o'n
refused to countenance an attack u'us
on teacher in the technical sea@4
named Hudson. 1t was held tns' y
teachers private views did not III =
least interfere with the efficient V
charge of his duties even II his Wv
as an extreme pacifeist, were uDp0p'
lar.
IF he were 1at-earther, 0
ments the Manchester GUARDIAN
could understand people wantlhs
get him out of a secondary schoV' ~
that heresy might infect the sas.
of his scientific teaching; we eal
see, however, why his views w ~,
scription should. or for tha' m'
how they could" a.,
1t was not charged that MI f"I ~,
preached against conscriptioh ~,
his pupils. Hudson also dehleu !,
he had conducted any Proposes
against recruiting. His own opl
were based on religious aud cVis
tious grounds.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
THE OPPOSITION TO BRAN
DEIS.

The opposition, the furious opposi-
ton, to the confirmation of Louis d.
Brandeis, the eminent Boston attor-
ney, whom President Wilson has
nominated for supreme court justice,
it develops in the final analysis, is due
TO the fact that he has been the con-
sistent champion of rights and prin-
ciples of labor, that he has stood for
improved social conditions, that he has
been a factor in driving great corpor-
atoms out of politics and been instru-
mental in exposing the rottenness OF
the New York, New Haven & Hartford
railroad: that he has sought to teach
the railroads how to profit under the
laws of government by honest man
agement, and TOR these things he is
condemned. even to the point of accu-
sation of being a socialist.
On this account the president is
likewise condemned for appointing
him. In the forefront of the fight are
the two republican senator's from
Brandeis' own state, Lodge and Weeks,
who threaten to force their opposition
to a point of declaring Brandeis as
personally obnoxious to them. So he
is, Of course, since he is obnoxious to
the interests which dread his presence
as a member Of the most exalted tri-
bunal in the United States.
Brandeis, however, is one of the
brain1est, as well as one of the ablest
lawyers in the country AS such, he is
generally acknowledged, and he has
proven honest and fearless and has
demonstrated the force of his char
acter, but he has not been on the
right side to please the interests
Hence he is dangerous. He was dis
cussed as cabinet possibility at the
time President Wilson entered upon
his administration, and the president
took kindly to it, but it is understood
was violently opposed at that time by
eastern influences. The presiden1
probably did not desire to invite oppo
s1tion in the senate by any cabinet ap
pointment at the very outset, but ht
did not forget Mr.. Brandeis.
Mr.. Brandeis is a Jew of German
origin and is the first of the Jewish
race to be named for the supreme
court of the United States. He deserves
the honor President Wilson has pait
him and it is believed that the antag
onism to his confirmation will fail O.
its purpose.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31
~ Dwight Norwood.

I'm not going to name ali tha
We committed because we had d
simply going to tell how 10 a..
made our escape. After awb,l.
agreed that we would pretend ths.
were contented with our lot. ash
our share Of the plumber and do GU "
thing else We could to put tho vo,,'
devils off their guard. One thi,s
were AFRAID Of. There was n.a =,
that We tried to capture and ,,n.9
We boarded her and were aehs;.
hand to band with her crew when ~.
saw US white men fighting with i
yellow ones. We We're about ~ -
our own color when, fred with ba,..
against us for being part Of CHM.
pirate crew, they made a desno,..
dash and drove us back On to onr ~
ship. After that we knew that n :.
escaped the pirates and were reeoy,,
ed by any Of the men on that shin :.
would dangle at a yardarm.
The next ship taken had a In, :.
liquor aboard. and every pirate %.
drunk We watched our opDortnn.,
pretending to drink and be drunk m.
the others. till they were all laid -,
| When eight Of them were either a.l..,
or stupid with liquor below and u.
rest being in the same condition !,
deck, we ciapped down the hatches =,
those below. What we did to tbosa !,
deck [ don't mention, except that tho,
didn't trouble Us any more.
! We hadn't more than fixed them Al
when looking ahead We saw a an,
coming and made out the stars al
stripes at her peak, for in those d.,,
our flag was often seen on the Gees,
Some Of US thought that if she oys,
| hauled US and we told our story v.
would be believed. Others didn't tbins
we would. Some day some Of m
might meet some Of the crew Of III.
ship we had boarded. | made up nv
mind what to do and without sarIn,
! anything got lot of tow and oakpr
together and set fire to 1t. The wind
was high. and in fifteen minutes tbp
whole ship was ablaze. We lowers;
one of the boats, got into her and pul.
ed for the Yankee ship.
When we reached her we reporei
that we had been afire for three dav
and if we hadn't met the Yankee h
time We would have been lost. And
that's how the ship Julia Sturdeyant
came to be reported burned at sea
with five of the crew saved. It was
| never made clear what became OF thu
rest of the crew. | managed that stp
ry by saying that when the fire fnalIy
| got ahead of us the Others were cut
of from the boats. Some were burned
below and some were drowned. True
enough the pirates below were burned
/ I met one of the crew of the ship We
had boarded long afterward In Hong
kong. He didn't remember me, bu.
you'd better believe | remembered him
and got ont Of his way as quickly Is
possible
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31

| Tokio.-Correspon of The
! Associated Press.)-One superdread-
nought, two cruisers, one destroyer,
three submarines and two special
service ships constitute the program
of naval building for Japan for the
! coming year. Admiral kato, minister
! for marine, explained the naval expan-
| sion project before the budget COM
mittee of the diet recently in response
to an Interpolation. The battleship
will be about the same type as the
Fuse and Yamashiro, which was re-
Gently launched, and will carry Il
14-inch guns and 16 5-,inch guns. The
two cruisers will have speed of ~
knots. They probably will be in the
nature of light scout ships. Their
armament has not yet been decided.
The submarines will have displace-
ment of 700 tons each, a speed OF Is
| knots on the surface and 10 knots
in the water and will carry one gun.
| Admiral Kato expressed the opinion
! that the war in Europe would not
necessitate any considerable alteration
in the naval armament fthe great
powers He fully recognized, he said,
! the effectiveness of aircraft and sub
marines as weapons of offence as DEM
onstrateG in the present war but he
/ believed that these facts hardly affect
/ ed the position of the battleship as an
engine of war. If the kaiser's war
! ships dared not venture from their
own sheltered waters it was because
| of the powerful British squadron
awaiting them outside. The absence
of any great naval engagement in
| Europe must be ascribed to the very
great difference between the British
and German navies. AS for subma-
rines, however. actively they might be
| expected to place the great battleships
hors de combat. The minister said that
| equipment was now being provided on
ships against air attacks. He was con-
( fident that the dreadnought remained
the basic unit of great navies.
The admiral further said that in de-
! Gliding the ornaments for new battle
ships the naval authorities preferred
the II 14-inch guns principle to the
eight 10 inch of the British and Ger
man navies because they deemed the
former more advantageous than the
! latter from the viewpoint of naval tao
! tics. Furthermore the authorities be-
/ lieved that there would occur nc
| change in the shape and size of war
ships and naval guns in the near fu-
/ ture. The minister's remarks brough,
out the fact that Japan's eventual pro.
gram includes the establishment OF
a first line fleet of eight battleships
and eight great battle cruisers.
Admiral kato was asked particular.
ly by X. kobayashi, member of the
/ committee, as to the comparative
strength of the Japanese navy and
those of Great Britain, Geermanv and
the United States. He asked what plar
the navy had in case the United States
attacked Japan with the nava'
strength twice that OF the japanese
navy To this Admiral kato replied
that figures do not always decide tn
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-01-31

Mr.. Tavenner. Four firms since
1887 have drawn down contracts from
the United States government aggre-
eating about s2OO.OO0,0O0, and I as
sert that on the average we paid from
20 to 60 per cent more for these ma
terials than they could have been
manufactured for in the government
arsenals and navy yards.
| want to call attention to this
fact: These $20O,0O0,000 have been
contributed not by the rich, but large
ly by the poor, and l am going to try
to make that plain if l can.
Before l can do so l must correct
the impression that exists in the mind
of the average man that some part of
the taxes that he pays his local tax
collector is used for defraying the ex-
penses Of the national government,
and that if he pays $40 to his local
tax collector two or three dollars OF
it are sent on to Washington to main
tain the expenses Of the government
and to maintain the army and navy.
Local taxes are used exclusively for
IDEAL township, city, county, and state
expenses. The truth is that not a
penny of the money that the average
citizen pays the local tax collector
comes to Washington to be used to-
ward maintaining the army and the
navy. Where, then, did this $780,
100000 come from? 1t was not picked
up out of the streets.
1t was raised through two sources
through the internal revenue offices
where a tax is levied principally up
on liquors and tObaccOs, and where
now we are levying a tax upon in
comes, which raises, however, only
per cent of the total revenues. The
other source from which we are rails
| ing the money to maintain the army
and navy is the customs tax on the
/ things that the people eat, wear, and
use. So the people are paying the
I ttot Vi tllt vi Tic Gill
and the navy in the form Of the in.
creased cost of living; that is, they
pay the tax when they do not know
/ it, and the local merchant collects the
tax without knowing that he is really
collector for the government
! Is it not obvious that since we raise
this money almost wholly by taxing
/ the things that the people eat, wear
and use that the more money We
spend for the army and the navy the
/ higher the cost Of living must be
The fact is that the cost of living has
been increasing just about in proper
| ton to the increase in the cost of the
army and navy, and it is bound tt
continue to do that unless we change
our present system of taxation. So
believe that the greatest menace il
this proposal to greatly increase the