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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12

The supply has been diminished al
so by the fact that the foot-loose ana
adventurous, who were willing TO take
this kind of work, have, in many cas-
es, enlisted in the regular or volun-
teeg army, or Joined the foreign leg
ions in Europe. Some have even en-
listed in the revolutionary forces OF
Villa and Carranza in Mexico.
This difficulty in getting gunner
has resulted in the prompt settlement
of several strikes recently begun, such
as the street car strikes in New York
and Philadelphia. 1t is playing an i'm
portant, though unofficial, part in the
deliberations of the railroad manag-
ers in making their plans to deal with
the threatened strike of 100000 rail-
road employees.
If times were harder and labor and
gunner easier to get, the operators
feel they would be better able to re
sist the demands of their men.
When George P. West, of the COM
mittee on industrial relations, spoke
to Sheriff Meining about the obviously
depraved character of his gunner, re-
marking that they looked like thugs,
the sheriff replied cheerily that there
might be" thugs among them, and ex-
planned that he had been obliged to
take what he could get without any
nice inquiries into the mems past his
tories.
These particular gunner are now
the state government in the steel
trusts iron mining part of Minnesota
"a tract embracing 100 square miles
and rs, 900 population.
The local officials, county prosecut-
or Greene of Duluth, Sheriff Meining
and the chief of police of Duluth, and
Governor Burnquist, acting for the
powerful steel trust, have not hesitat-
ed to use the gunner army and the
states machinery of government to
break the strike.
"Agitators" means anybody
friendly to the workers-have been
arrested by the wholesale. They are
taken 20 miles from the scene of ar
rest and lodged in Jail at Duluth.
Among those in Jail at Duluth are
Carlo Tresca, Lawrence strike leader,
Frank Little, Sam Scarlet, Joe
Schmidt, Joseph Gilday, Leo Stark and
others.
These men are hold on a far-fetched
charge of murder, on the silly theory
that something they may have said
may have melted to the killing of a
company guard who had invaded a
miners home.
The department of labor sent two
representatives, Davies and Farley,
to offer mediation, but the steel trust
is unwilling to mediate anything look
ing to an eight-hOur day and a mini
mum wage of So a day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
POSTAL SAVINGS GROW.

The results of Postmaster General
BurIeson's administration of the pos
tai savings system have been Dhenom-
email. Under his guidance the number
of deDositors has increased from 310,-
600 at the beginning of March, 1913.
to COS 900 at the end of June, 1916,
while the amount deposited has in
creased during the same period from
$50 900 600 to $4,000. 600. The gain OF
nearly fifty per cent in the per capita
deposit is convincing evidence OF the
prosperity of the working people OF
this country. who are the principal
patrons of the postal savings banks
Notwithstanding the large increase
in deposits the clerical force for hand
ling the affairs of the system at the
central Office in Washington, through
the installation of better business
methods, has been reduced by one
third Moreover, the system as whole
has been brought to a self-sustaininE
basis and for the past three years has
yielded a substantial profit.
Postmaster General BurlesOn also
urged upon congress the necessity Of
removing the hindering restrictions
imposed by the original postal saw
ings act of June %, 1901, on the
amount that may be accepted from
postal savings depositOr. In response
to his recommendation an act was
passed and received the approval of
President Wilson on May IS, 1916,
which enables any person to deposit
any number OF dollars, and at any
time. until the balance to his or her
credit amounts to $1,000, exclusive OF
accumulated interest. By the terms of
the original postal savings act no one
could deposit more than 500 in any
one calendar month, nor have bal
ance TO his credit in excess Of $500, eN-
elusive of accumulated interest. AS a
result of these restrictions it has been
estimated that as much money was re
fused at the postOffices as was &C
/ cepted. The removal Of the hinderlnS
restrictions has been followed by an
! immediate and pronounced increase
/ in postal savings deposits, which will
ultimate in restoring a large part OF
/ the hidden money of the country to the
active channels of industry and COM
( MERGE.
The confidence of the foreign-born
. residents of the Uni%ad States in
/ American institutions is well exempt
fed by a recent poll Of postal savings
depositors. Those born outside Of the
United States were found to constitute
. 50 per cent of the total number of de
/ positors and to own y per cent of the
total postal savings deposits. Many
of these people formerly were pat
rons of the postal savings systems
maintained by the countries from
/ whence they came The transfer OF
their place of deposit to the postal
/ savings banks Of this country express
es in no uncertain manner their con
fdence in the system and in its man
/ aCement-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Puerneral EcIamnsia-

IueTpFTdl Etlhhupslh-
What chance have / 10
get through a coming confinement
without commissions, / having had two
in my first confinement six years ago!
The doctor advises me that l require
no treatment now.
Answer-If the urinalysis. made
regularly every two weeks, shows no
functional incaDacity of the kidneys,
you need have no fear of trouble this
time. II might be well to reduce the
total food consumed the last two or
three weeks, and TO insure an active
skin by taking daily warm baths.
SuperfluOuS Hair.
Question Regarding the removal OF
superfiuous hair by the N-ray, as men
toned in your columns, is there any
danger of the face being marked by
the treatment Is the electric needle
the same kind of treatment as A-ray
Answer No danger from A-ray
treatment in skilled hands. 2. No.
the electric needle is a steel or plau-
mum needle which conveys very milo
galvanic current 10 the hair follicle
1t is efficient, but tedious when many
hairs must be destroyed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
+. s. Gets Holland Shin work.

Rotterdam, Netherlands r. lNorre-
spondence of The Associated Pressl-'
would have been placed In Holland
|any foreign shipbuildiug orders thas
have gone TO America, in consequences
of the uncertainty created by the snip
export law recently passed by lhe
Dutch parliament, according 10 COM
plant just presented 10 the minister
of agriculture, industry and commeFC7
by a shipbroker. A. Schippers, VINO re-
presents large shipbuilding interests.
1T is, he says. remarkable thal
America has never been able 20 com
pete with Dutch shipbuilders, neither
before nor during the war, but lhat 50
soon as Holland was closed 20 tue eA-
port of ships the United states has
booked big orders for the building %
vessels for European firms, az prices
that are fabulously high-muCh hlgh'
er than the prices which our snip
builders would ask If there were
free export OF ships built in this couh-
try"
The Dutch shipbuilding Industry
cannot exist without foreign orders
and the livelihood of 10000 workmen y
at stake according 20 the peutlonel.
He points out that while on DeceIupeI
81, 1914, less than ten per cent OK ln0
tonnage building here was being con
structed TO foreign orders. TINS pfV
portion had risen on June i, l9I0' ="
about "a per cent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12

The broker reported that his buying
OF 1900 shares had put the STOCK m
IN points. The president looked Rrsvs
The road was n small one, and ia ont.
standing stock was not more thar
500, 600 shares, most OF it in hands thar
had held IL for years. II the seller
could not buy the stock he had ,old
for delivery he would lose a fortune
He put or taking any action TIL the
next day, when there was a furry n
the stock on the market, and the
shares jumped twenty points.
Then came a report that the stock Of
the g.. Y. and W. Railroad company
was "cornered." That meant that aorna
person or persons had bought I'd the
stock and there was none for sale
One three. four. six hundred Der cent
was offered for IL, but no stock WIS
brought out Few persons had been
selling the stock except the president
but he was ruined. In cases where q
stock is "cornered" IT IS customary for
the seller and the buyer to get together
and settle, agreeing on a certain fixed
price. The president sought his IN.
known enemy for this purpose He
found him to be an enormously rich
operator. The president went to his
Office I'm fear and trembling and asked
to what figure he was To be bled.
First let us settle a little account
held against, your company" said the
operator, ''by a former employee OF
mine My stenographer has been 70
seriously injured that che has been de-
prived Of making her living"
The president asked for further IN
formation, which the operator gave
him.
How much damage do you think
our company should pay the lsdyT
asked the president
what will give her an income Of
$500 a year. ] think fifty OF your
first mortgage bonds would be accept
ed"
The president telephoned for the
bonds, and while they were waiting for
them he and the operator settled for
the stock the former had sold the lat
ter. But the operator said that he
would not exact u fictitious value for
the shares he had bought and made a
settlement 10y which the president lost
nothing.
THANK you very much" he said,
''for letting me or so cheapiy. When
another woman makes a claim against
our road VIII inquire where she has
been employed"
in this case you got hold Of the
wrong stenographer."
Most decidedly"
"Good morning."
GOOD morning"
It may be expected that there Is a
sequel TO this story; that the operator
would not have taken such pains on
behalf of his stenographer had he not
been otherwise interested In her. But
he was an old married man.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
A NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENT

No achievement Of the Wilson ad-
ministratiou has brought more nearly
unanimous congratulations to the
president than the successful negotia-
ton OF the treaty with the kingdom
OF Denmark, whereby the United
States is 70 come into possession OF the
Danish West Indies. The need for
the acquisition OF these islands has
been fully appreciated by American
statesmen for many decades. 1t was
well understood as far back as 1902,
that President Roosevelt then caused
Secretary Of State Hay to enter into
negotiations looking toward the trans
fer Of the islands TO the sovereignty OF
the United States.
At that time the chief consideration
fin tire minds of the officials of the
American government was the pos
sible relation OF the sovereignty Of the
islands to the Monroe doctrine. II
was fully realized that Denmark had
little interest in her possessions and
that the possibility always existed that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
FRUIT FANTASIES.

Fruit and rheumatism" are no
more nearly related than mince pie
and politics, yet hundreds of victims
of joint trouble deny themselves the
acid fruits because they have read
/ somewhere-probably in the almanac
or some quack's booklet-that uric
acid" is the cause of rheumatism. The
organic acids of fruits, such as Citric,
tartaric, malic, exist mostly as aka
line salts, and anyway, when fruit
acids reach the blood they circulate
as alkaline salts and hence tend to
diminish aCidity, or rather increase
alkalinity of the blood, for the blood
/ is never acid in life. In practice we
/ have no more efficient way of dimin-
| ishing the acidity of urine. for in
stance than by giving fresh fruits or
fruit juices, such as lemonade or or
anges. So if you think there is too
much acid in your system, try some
nice fresh frui for it. Lemons, cur
rants, lines and oranges are among
the most acid fruits-citric acid !;
grapes are less acid-tartaric acid;
and peaches, apples, pears, apricots
goose-berries and pineapples are the
least acid-malic acid
Another popular idea is that fruits
are hard to digest In some fruits
there is a large proportion of cellu-
lose or wood fibre, and this is indi-
gestible for man. But cellulose is a
natural stimulant to the peristalsis
or movement of the bowel, and hence
is a good thing for one with constipa-
ton Persons who have intestinal
stasis or ptosis of the bowel (sagging)
may experience some discomfort from
the large amount of residue from fresh
( fruits. But for most individuals
fruits rather aid in digestion. Pine
apple, especially, aids in the digestion
of meat or albumin. Many dyspep-
tics thrive upon raw apples. Prune
juice is a famous laxative for babies
and young children. Peach juice is
an anti-scorbutic, and stewed peaches
are digestible, even by babies. Or
ange juice should be given to every
baby from the fourth month of age,
as a preventive of scurvy and
ricketts, A few teaspoonfuls q day,
between other feelings
Fruits containing seeds tend to
prevent appendicitis by keeping the
bowels active. The fact that seeds are
rarely found in the appendix at opera
tion has led to false conclusions
The seeds are in the appendix as a
result of disease, not as a cause
There is no ground whatever for the
notion that seeds cause appendicitis.
They prevent IL.
Bananas, as sold I'm this country,
are picked green and hence not so
ldigestible AS naturally ripened fruit
They should be eaten only when turn
ing black The outer tibrous layer
may be pared off, and the soft inner
part fed to children--it is an excel
lent food. as well as natural Taxa
tive. Baked or boiled bananas are
somewhat more digestible than the
raw fruit We have never observed
any particular trouble from the eat
ing of bananas by children over two
years Of age.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
The Daily Story
He Got Wrong Geographically Edward Stewart

The president of the q. Y. and w.
railroad was sitting in his office at his
rosewood desk when an official entered
In reply to n tap on his silver bell
Handing the subordinate a letter, he
said:
Take that into the office of the com
pany's attorney and tell him to treat 1t
in the usual way
The letter was from a young woman
who made her living by stenography
and typewriting. She had Travelled on
one of the company's trains, and az IL
was nearing the station stood at the
door, bracing herself against the car
end. The engineer stopped the train
suddenly, and the car door slammed
against the girls hand and crushed her
fingers. The injury ended her ability
to make her living as she had been do
ing it She asked the president Of the
road II he would indemnify her. The
usual way referred to by him was
to get an offer TO settle, then pigeon
hole it. This was done, and, the girl
having refused to settle for a song.
heard nothing more from the com
pany's attorneys.
A few months after the pigeonhoing
of the girls offer the president sent for
his stockbroker and said to him:
Mr.. Barker, 1 have noticed very
slow rise for n month past of the shares
Of our road. / know of nothing to put
them up. Our monthly statement shows
some falling off in the earnings, and
there is some doubt about our main
tanning the regular dividend. Can you
explain the rise in view of the factsT
Mr.. Barker could not explain the
rise. He thought that some person was
manipulating the stock, putting 1t NJ
for the purpose of making money on II
when 1t went down again.
please sell a thousand shares for
my account" continued the president
land every point the price of the stock
rises, sell another thousand shares.
The result of this order within cou-
pie Of weeks was that the stock went
up FIVE points, and the president was
short of it 5000 shares. That means
that he had sold shares which he did
not own st less than the market price
When the stock declined to a figure be
low what he had paid for it he would
buy It and make the difference. AS
its president, he knew that the stock
was not worth what he sold it for and
did not doubt that he would make a
good thing of the transaction.
But the stock did not go down. In
stead it continued to rise. The presi-
dent, who had good nerve, kept on
selling stock that he did not own, and
one day having called upon his bro
ker for statement of his account was
informed that he was short" 10000
shares. This was somewhat unsteady
ing, and the president directed the bro
ker to hedge by buying 10000 shares in
lots Of one and two thousand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
TAVENNER
Demand for @Gunmen.'
(By Gibson Gardner in Cleveland
PresS)


PresS)
A scarcity of gunner is becoming
an important factor in the national
strike situation With more strikes in
progress than ever before in the his
tory of the country, employers are
finding it increasingly difficult to get
recruits for their special police" and
deputy sheriff private armies.
OF late years such forces are used
supposedly ito protect property" but
in reality to guard strike-breakers
and to arrest, shoot up and generally
terr0rize the striking wOrkmen. 1t
was this gunman army, hired by the
Rockefeller interests and enlisted as
militiamen that committed the Ludlow
massacre in Colorado, and 1t was such
a force, hired by the Standard Oil COM
pany at BayOnne, New Jersey, that
killed 2 unarmed workers at Roose-
Welt, n. J. Likewise it was the gunner
Of the coal operators who, in West
Virginia, committed the outrages
which were exposed in the hearing
conducted by the senate committee. In
that state miners and their wives were
shot in their beds, the civil courts
were suppressed and scores of inno-
cent workmen were railroaded to the
penitentiary by military tribunals
calling themselves courts martial"
The largest army of this sort now
under arms, is that recently enlisted
by the Z. S. steel trust to fight its men
in the Hibbing irOn-mining district, 70
miles north of Duluth, MINI. Sheriff
John r. Meining of Duluth, on orders
from Governor Burnquist of Mime
sofa, has sworn in over thousand
men-an irresponsible semi-criminal
lot, picked up among the preferably
unemployed of the big cities-and has
turned them loose to carry out the
purpose for which they are hired.
They are armed with carbines, reVol-
vers and riot-sticks.
The governments department of Ia
Dor, whose agents have just completed
an investigation of the Hibbing stu
alton, find that the character of the
gunner is depreciating as the in
creasing demand presses on the de-
creasing supply. The more reliable
gunmen-the experienced and refer
enced men-have found permanent
occupation guarding the munitions
plants The demand for this purpose
has been immense, resulting in an in
{ crease of gunmen's wages from SO to
s. a day. Formerly the so-called de
/ tectiye agencies" which make bust
ness of supplying gunner, paid the
men So and charged the corporation
IS. Now the man has to get So.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12

man who held the supreme power over
l5,000,0 900 people by no better title
than treason and assassination ought
TO have been recognized by the United
states government, if we thought him
able to maintain a government which
could discharge its obligations under
international lawi
The view which this utterance gives
Of Mr.. Hughes conceptions of the re-
lations of personal character to fitness
and ability TO govern ones feIIow-men
is most interesting, especially in view
OF his airy criticisms OF President Will
sons appointments and his impassion-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
Selected by Tavenner
To the Readers of The Argus

the Readers of The Argus:
Argus has generously permit me to make
regular contribution under this head to the space
as my ] am left free to make my selection
where will, whether 1t is timely unt1mey; TO
highways and the byways for what may I'M
pres IN of interest and value to people.
/ readers / shall try to make the most OF
opportunity To do forget that party lines
exist and will. just I might practical for
exist and that the principal issue on efec-
might whether candidate belongs TO this
that political party but whether he is willing to serve
he the people the few who exploit them.
other words, idea is to submit information or
thought that would give to the world if myself
edited a newspaper, the only mission of which was to
serve mankind to do this and nothing
l personally write the contribution, will sign
it, when the thought work of others
will indicate. CLYDE H TAVENNER.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12

Danish officials, it seems, are not
averse TO leaving the impression among
their home critics that they were Writ
uaIly bluffed into selling the Danish
West Indies TO the United States.
From the Danish standpoint, evidently,
the offer Of $25.0lO.000 was equivalent
10 Cnercinn-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12

~Iowa has a United Taxpayers league
which threatens dire things TO the
state highway commission, the state
colleges, candidates and newspa pers
who support any movement to build
hard roads. Newspapers which do not
print fun reports Of the leagues do
ings will be biacklisted Apparently
the Hawk-Eye state has some good
material for the founding Of a colony
in Alaska OF some other remote re
gi0n
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
III. c. of i. Note.

Any one wishing home ground
breakfast food will do well to call on
James Cook He has a new engine
and grinder and is prepared to grind
up on short notice your old straw
hats, Palm Beach suits, etc. He
thinks they will make as nice food as
those you buy in boxes.-Reynolds
Press
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12

An English professor, expert
menting on insects for food pur-
poses says ants are delicious
served with butter and sugar and
that caterpiIIars taste like al
mOnds. In few short years we
shall probably hear the following:
"Waiter, bring me small Ia
rantula steak smOthered in June
bugs, a plate of grub worms and
half a dozen Mormon flies, well
DONE"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
RepnhIican papers seeking to scare

Republican papers seeking to scare
Wilson off the track, are exclaiming
with deep concern, that if Wilson takes
the stump, he viii be the first presi-
dent to adopt such a course. Well.
what of it? Wilson is the first presi-
dent for a long time, to go personally
before congress with his messages; he
is the first president to 80 before the
people, as he did last winter, TO as
certain how they felt toward momen-
tous Questions-and he is the first
president in some years, or at least
since Lincoln's day, TO be so maligned
and abused
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12

There is really not much need for
President Wilson following the repub-
Hcan candidate on a campaign tour,
unless II is the desire OF the president
10 go before the people and give by
word of mouth an account Of his stew
ardship in view OF sIanderous misrep-
resentauon- Just keep Hughes going.
and Wilson's reelection viii be prac-
ticaIly unanimous.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12
Soldiers Play in Face of Fire

London.-Two Scotch soldiers. who
Eat critical moment steadied the men
by getting up on the parapet of a
trench and playing mouth-organs
while exposed to heavy fire." have
been given the distinguished conduct
medal. They are Company Quarter
master-Sergeant T.. S. Beech and
Lance-Corporal Vickery of the Sew
enth battalion, Seaforth Highlanders-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12

Moving pictures In future will re-
place the old family album, in the
opinion Of a prominent photographer.
If we knew we were being filmed for
posterity how much straighter most of
us would walk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-08-12

Mr. Hughes has charged the admin
istratiOn with feebleness, incompet-
ence, extravaganza and insincerity. In
other words, he has tackled his job
as a lawyer pleads a case, claiming
everything and conCeding nothing, and
the fact that he is his own client will
not help much in establishing his sin
Cerity with the public.