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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
10000 Women Making Munitions.

-tCOrreSpOndence OF The AS
ISOLATED Press. THE whole number
of women employed in munition max
ing IN France, according to the secre-
tary for munitions is 1897 OF these
1928 are in state factories. very
large proportion have had to learn
their business from the beginning.
In other directions the secretary
says, the branches to which French
women have mostly taken are food in
dustries, textile and the metal trades,
but many also are working in rubber
and at saCk-making.
FrenchWomen, the secretary says,
learn very quickly particularly the
use of the smaller machines which in
some cases they master in a day; and
If as a class they are not very strong
they are, IN compensation, very handy
Speaking of the successful way in
which the wives of modified whole
sale and retail merchants, shopkeep-
ers and other traders have carried on
their husbands businesses, the seCre-
.tary explains it by the fact not very
generally known abroad.
The mobilization of husbands and
AA1eAAN iSi"tl'CS, he sdS >. iICItdSSu LNt
responsibility of the wife without pro-
ducing any disorder or crisis. One
should know, in fact, that the family
IN France is based on a close cooper
alton between husand and wife in in
Adustrlal enterprises. AS a rule the
husband keeps the wife fully Informed
about his undertakings and looks on
her generally as his best adviser. This
state OF things is one of the great
forces of resistance TO national dis
organization and has not seldom saved
the nation at critical periods of its
home and foreign history during past
centuries"
After noting that figures show a
progressive return TO the normal con-
dition OF things in agriculture. cattle
raising. and milk products before the
war, the secretary concludes:
Neither the wealth nor the resist
ing power OF France, nor its future
position in the world, has beer al
fected by the unjust aggression which
was meant for their destruction. On
| the contrary, the French feel more
solidarity than ever, and the female
part OF the population is showing as
much energy in the peaceful tasks I'M
posed on them from day 10 day as the
male population is showing in the op-
erauons of war"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31

about it. But anyway, know that
meat is a fine food to do without.
The Doctor Passes 100 Per Cent.
l. My sister had an attack OF mast
oiditis and the doctor kept hot water
bottles applied to her head-was that
right? 2. She was operated on, and it
healed up. Then he said she should
go out-was that right? 3. Later she
had neuritis in the right arm, and the
doctor insisted upon her staying in
bed-was that right? 4. He ordered
every kind of food for hers that
right? 5. He says the neuritis is
never fatal, and he allows her to have
visitors when she wants them-is that
right?
Answer-It is all right. and g. is the
doctor, and Undoubtedly your sister
soon will be-
Here is a Hard Nut to Crack.
Why do so many children have de-
fective eyesight after they are vacci-
mated and no trouble before?
Answer-Perhaps for the same rea-
son that so many grow up and marry
after they are vaccinated,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31

1t stands to reason that the writer
Of this dailyNepartment of disillusion-
ment is not the busiest practitioner in
town. 1t takes some time to run the
department. But at that, the worst
thing that can happen to a mediocre
doctor is to acquire very large prac
tice, for when he gets to the point
where he is going night and day the
doctor is sure to go mostly backward,
so far as his professional equipment
and education is concerned. A doctor
who has to see" thirty patients in
two hours, is not likely to give each
patient the same attention he would
give ten patients in the same time, be-
ing human, so to speak, being.
A good many things that are set
| forth in this department are, say ten
years ahead of the profession as an
average. No. Not boasting. But it
takes about ten years for the newer
methods and the latest discoveries of
medical science to get into general
| use by the average or mediocre doc
tor. A doctor who is mediocre is a
perfectly reliable adviser, provided he
! is also broad enough to accept a good
! thought regardless Of its source. Pos
sibly the unknown young tyro right
around the corner knows more medi-
cal science and has more actual ability
/ than any of the great men you know
/ as successful physicians But that
| young fellows skill is not for you.
You are afraid of him-he is too
young, and he has no reputation His
skill is for the people who will be
| glad to get him ten or fifteen years
hence-it takes about fifteen years for
| the people to recognize medical skill
! that way.
Well, this isn't saying what we set
/ out to say. Queer how typewriter
sidetracks ones thoughts. Machine,
we mean, not the stenographer.
/ Business of blushing.
Here is general conclusion we
have developed out OF several miles of
reading. 1t comes as d sort of COM
pOsite suggestion from the best medi-
cal authorities of the day. 1t is the
inevitable trend of all recent progress
| in medical science. 1t will be COM
mon property ten years hence. when
the profession as body will be ad-
vocating it, If you want to be we'll,
and live long, and have lots of pep
and ambition and optimism and
endurance, and avoid many Of the
minor and major ills of civilized hu-
mainly and amount to something in
the world-be a vegetarian. You
needn't break your neck being yege-
| tartan; you don't have to make an
enemy of the butcher, you can break
of by degrees, over period of two
or three months, say, taking less and
less meat and more and more varie-
ties of vegetables, fruits, cereals, UNI
til finally You find yourself living the
| happy life without any OF the old
savage craving for flesh.
Ii you feel that you can't be vege-
tartan, then be as much vegetarian
as you can We fully realize that
ones wife. husband. cook, hired man
or landlady has something 10 sd,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
THE WAY TO LASTING PEACE

the principles on which the ultimate
settlement must be made, unless civil
liZation is to go back about 1000 years
to the might makes right" conception
OF international conduct These are:
/. The right of every people to
choose the sovereignty under which
they shall live.
?. That small states have the same
right to respect for their sovereignty
and territorial integrity as great ma
lions.
3. That the world has a right to be
free from disturbance of its peace orig
mating in aggression on the rights of
peoples and nations.
To these principles, which the presi-
| dent rightly says Americans regard as
| fundamental various nations have
| given so far lip service rather than
| heart service. Their complete appli-
cation would considerably modify the
map of Europe. II would restore
! Belgium and Poland to their native
races and bring to an end such merely
dynastic unions as the Hapsburg EN-
pire, unless its several elements
| should freely agree to continue it.
! To preserve the peace which would
result from a readjustment along
natural lines of race and speech there
would have to be some such league of
nations as the president tacitly ap-
proved by speaking where he did. For
small nations as well as great may
| cherish dreams of conquest.
The way to lasting peace plainly
lies in complete recognition Of that
Equality in international relations of
the small people with the large, of the
weak nation with the strong, which all
civilized nations endeavor to secure
between rich and poor under their
laws and before their courts.
/ That is the international justice for
which Woodrow Wilson pleads, and the
American people with him, and which
! in some way must be established if hui
mainly is 10 be preserved from the re-
currence of such devastating calami-
ties as it now endures in the European
war
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
The Daily Story
Breaking the Ice-By Alan Hinsdale.

down, now began tn dread that fha
next man who was attentive 10 her she
would accept. Then 1t occurred to ma
that she might have felt an inciuient
love for me which had nIpped IN the
bud. A bud destroyed will never bud
again. The thought was maddening
wanted to go to Polly and undo
what / had done,
But supposing she had simply been
tempted to try her fascinations upon
me? II went to her with a serioDs
and sorrowful face she would laugh At
me. At any rate, what | had said IN
her about breaking up our cousinly
status was true. When next we met
there would be something that had
never existed before between us-cen-
straint. She would be shut up Ike an
oyster, I like a clam.
And so we were. There was no mora
Hello, Pol" Morning. Bobr' then an
interchange Of chat, in which usually
got worsted. Polly seemed distrustful
Of looking at me. And was glad Of
it, for If I caught her eye I wouldn't
know what to express In mine. I re-
marked that 1t was a very disagreeble,
damp morning, and she replied, "verv,"
in tone that indicated the conditions
between US were more disagreeable
than the morning. Then she took I'D
a book and pretended to read. look
ed out through window. Presently
tired of the situation and nerved N.Y.
self to break It
you seem very much interested In
your book" I remarked.
cts quite interesting" without tax.
ing her eyes off it.
Silence for awhile, at the end of
which said, "I presume owe you an
apology"
She looked away from the book. but
not at me- She was evidently ready to
| listen.
Il should not have accused you" I
went on. "of drawing fellows in to
throw them over"
"Oh, that's nothing. The fellow
must look out for himself"
What marvellous consistency Quite
worthy Of woman. Nevertheless
there was telltale look in her eye
that belied her words. I drew my
chair nearer. She did not move away.
"Pol,' 1 said, 81 believe would like
to feel those stray hairs Craze my
cheek"
No reply. drew my chair close be-
side hers and looked at the book she
was reading. 1t was upside down. In
order to see the better I placed my
cheek so near hers that they touched.
The ice was broken-that is, if q
kiss can be spoken Of as ice. Then I
! talked a lot Of what now call balder-
dash, though Pol pronounced it very
sweet" If she had referred to the
kiss the words would have been some
thing approaching a description of
| what it was.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
LABOR AND THE CIRCUS.

The demand for labor in the east
ern mills has had the somewhat I'M
usual effect of injuring the circus bus
mess. When Barnum and Baileys cir
Gus reached the large manufacturing
center of Trenton, n. J. last week
shop fOremen and superintendent
were on the spot early in the morning
and succeeded in getting $50 men to
go into the shops as ordinary labor
ers and car leaders at wages almost
twice what they had been receiving.
At Piainfeld about half the tent and
loading men abandoned tent life for
the shipping and loading rooms of the
big plant The parades in both cit
les had to be abandoned an the after
noon performances omitted. sThis be-
gins TO look serious, If it should hap
pen that the labor demand in other
quarters should call away to new
fields the ancient circus clown and the
artists who are wont to take part in
the magnificent concert" just at the
close of the performance, then the
country would be up against it, so to
speak, in earnest If the east is COM
planning, how will the west ever be
able to stand it?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
Wen Bet He's Not Married,

Only women who are dissolute and
degenerate vote in states where equal
suffrage exists and they do more harm
than the dissolute men did before. Wo-
men understand very little about pol
itics and care very little for them.
They are no better off than the negroes
were at the close Of the Civil war. The
percentage of degenerate women is
just as high as that of the men and
the vote cannot be bettered The cost
of voting will be doubled. No man
would want to see his wife in a jury
box with IL men and no self-respect-
ing woman would want to be in such
a position. Women are physically in
ferior to men and cannot endure the
hardships that will be imposed upon
them by equal suffrage. In states
where equal suffrage exists the best
women, those who have the most in
fuence, do not go near the polls
Van Horne Qowa) Record.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
Tavenner's Capital Letter

| contend that we are not IN laF
greater danger from invasion by EURO
pean armies than we we're in l90o or
1904, but that we are in far less dan
ger from such invasion than we were
in 1900 or 1904 or at any time IN the
last quarter OF a century.
| will attempt to prove 1t by the
philosophy Of the war lords them
selves: The policy of all the world
powers is to determine the size OF their
building programs by those OF their
respective rivals for world power or
probable or possible enemies.
The rich, powerful audacious Euro
pean nations that entered the present
war nearly two years ago are today
virtually bleeding to death. BY the
time the war ends their credit Will be
wrecked, their debts will be mountain
high. Five million men, young men,
the very flower of the manhood OF
Europe, will be in their graves. There
will be millions of cripples and millions
of widows and orphans to be taken
care OF. Crepe will hang from every
door knob, and anguish and despair
Will exist in every home The vast and
costly ordinances and munitions of war
with which the nations were supplied
at the outbreak of the conflict, together
with those manufactured during its
run, will be ready for the scrap heap.
THE proud Europe that began this war
will in nowise resemble the Europe
that energies from it any more than a
cripple who has been bled within an
inch Of his life resembles an athlete
| in perfect health"
| Regardless of when this war is
brought to a close and regardless OF
which side comes out victorious. mill
| tary Europe will be dead beyond resur-
rection for at least quarter of cen
| fury
Query: Conceding for the sake OF
argument that it is necessary for a
nation to increase its armament in the
| same proportion as rival power, by
what logic can it be considered neces-
sary for peace-loving nation whose
armament is wholly intact to vastly
| and suddenly increase it at a time
when its rivals are reducing the arma-
ment of one another to heaps Of smol-
dering ruins?
| One answer is that the munitior
makers need the money.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
Voters Of Two States Only Have Had
Opportunity of Expressing Them
selves on MilitariSm.
By Congressman CIyde III, Tayenner.
(Reprinted from Congressional Rec

(Reprinted from Congressional Rec
ord of May 8, 1916.
So far only the republican voters Of
Michigan and Nebraska have had an
opportunity to express their views.
And. considering the fact that demo-
cratic platforms in times past have de-
nounced militarism and favored the re-
duction of the army, there would ap-
pear to be justification for the belief
that there is even a stronger sentiment
against militarism within the rank and
file of the democratic party than with
in the republican party.
One of the principal planks in the
democratic platform of 1900 was as
follows:
I'VE oppose militarism. 1t means
conquest abroad and intimidation and
oppression at home 1t means the
strong arm which has ever been fatal
to free institutions. 1t is what rail-
| lions of our citizens have fled from in
Europe. 1t will impose upon our
peace-loving people a large standing
! army and unnecessary burden of taxa
ton, and will be a constant menace to
| their liberties. A small standing army
and well disciplined state militia are
amply sufficient in time of peace. This
republic has no place for vast mill
tary service and conscription.
| The democratic platform of four
years later, 1904, contained the fol-
lowing:
! I'VE favor the reduction of the army
and of army expenditures to the point
historically demonstrated to be safe
and sufficient"
But, argue the militarists, we are in
far greater danger from invasion by
European armies than we were either
in 1900 or 1904. The central powers
they would have US believe, could anG
| would capture New York before break.
fast, take luncheon in Philadelphia
eat dinner in Baltimore, and spend the
first night on American soil in Wash.
lngton, the capital of the nation.
| This may be good press agent copy
for the armor and munitions manufac
turers, with whom it originated. but i
has vital weakness. 1t is fiction.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
THE FIRES OF sEDIToN.

The leading editorial in The Chi
cago Tribune the other day began
with this paragraph:
"Ail Americans OF American birth
whose reason has not been affected by
intimate association with delightful
English ard French people, whose
pocketbooks have not been touched by
the profits of war orders but who
think solely in the terms Of America
and AInericanism, realize that the ad-
ministration's foreign policy is actu-
ated by a motive to lend aid TO the al
1es against Germany
The Chicago Journal, which is a
sterling democratic newspaper and
never gives evidence Of anything even
hnctured with unpatriotic, un-Ameri-
can sentiment, replied to this para
yraph from the Tribune as follows:
NOW. the president Of the United
States has said that the motive Of his
policy is to maintain neutral rights in
general and American rights in partic-
Mar, and TO DO this, so long as pos
sible, without G. war The least the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31

My cousin Polly was a witch-at
least there was a witchery about her
that drew men to her as flowers draw
bees / called her a flirt, not doubt
Ing that she purposely exercised this
fascination upon men In some SUCH
spirit as a fisherman decoys trout
One day when we were sitting at
table looking over a book OF pictures
together Polly drew closer to me than
was necessary for her to see the pic
lures, and some loose strands OF her
hair grazed my cheek. l turned upon
her and said:
None of that, Pol. You and / are
cousins We have been brought up
together like brother and sister II
you throw a spell over me you'll spoil
it ALL"
She seemed hurt. Her only reply
was a reproachful look through those
expressive eyes of hers. / considered
it one Of her wiles, and It irritated me.
"Do you know what you're trying
| to do? You're bent On scooping me
| in as you have so many other fellows.
| You want me to be soft on you for
awhile; then, when I get beside my
| self with love for you, you'll say,
What pity that you should have so
| misunderstood me- All our cousinly
| friendship will be gone, and there will
be nothing to take its place"
| She listened to me, looking as II she
were about to cry, till l had finished,
then said in an injured tone:
"You have no right to assume that
I have ever treated any man dishon'
orably. Men have sought my society
and, since girls like the companionship
of the opposite sex, have encouraged
them to be friends. But I deny that
l have encourag ed them to be lovers.
With this she walked out Of the room
| keeping her back to me, evidently to
hide a dampness in the eyes.
I was puzzled Was this a part Of
her method Of enticing man for the
purpose Of refusing him, or was she
speaking the truth? Whether it was
her game or whether she wanted me
was at loss to decide. II she want
ed me it seemed likely that she had
made move to break through the or,
binary frtendliness of my treatment OF
her, which would be perfectly legiti
mate in any girl toward any fellow
she desires to be on lover-like terms
with.
Whichever Of these propositions was
true the effect was the same Polly
had inoculated me- With what?
don't know Was it curiosity? That
was an ingredient. Was it a realiza
ton that 1 had not before experienced
that l wanted her? Possibly What
, ever it was it had got into my blood
and had produced that fever which &C
companies love.
While before this episode it had not
,, occurred to me to trouble myself about
how many fellows Polly had turned
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
ENCOURAGING INDUSTRIAL
PROGRESS.

There is reason to believe the grant
irE 1y the municipal commission to
the Burlington road Of d switch track
on Moline avenue between FOrty-sec-
ond and Forty-f0urth streets means
considerably more 10 the city in the
way OF industrial progress than IS now
known II this proves true the posi-
ton taken by Mayor NcCOh0chie in
urging the concession viii be fully Vim
dicated
Anything within reason that lends
to encouragement of more factories is
right. More railroads, more cOmpeti-
tive lines, better switching facilities,
all these things are essential TO indus
trial progress, and industrial progress
is what makes cities.
1t is hoped the course Of events will
demonstrate that the city pursued the
right course in the Moline avenue
track concession
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-31
A South African Animal.

There is a curious looking animal in
South Africa that looks for all the
world like a piece of toast with four
legs, a head and a tail. 1t resembles
a pussy cat about the forehead and
ears, but its nose is distinctly that Of
a rat, while its tail is not very dis
similar to that of fox This strange
animal is called the aard wolf and
doubtless dwells in South Africa be-
cause, judged by his looks. he would
not be admitted into good animal So
ciety anywhere else.