Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-09-02
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RUTH Lowell Koven OF Chicago was
the wife of three men at the same
time. it has just developed in suit
for divorce filed by one OF the hus-
bands Yet many of our women are
complaining that they haven't equal
rights with men in this country.
HTHE state is guilty-more than
Max SiIyer-fOr allowing a young man
TO become a banker without capital"
said the attorney who Is defending
the head of the financial institutions
which have just gone to the wall I'm
Chicago. Hero is an instance where
a lawyer does not have to go outside
the facts to establish extenuating cir
cumstances. Pity is that the law
can't punish the state. Still, Silver
is none the less guilty and should
be penaIized for criminally taking adj
vantage of those of his cOuntrymen
not as well informed of the laws OF
the land as he.
MISS Elizabeth F. Corbett. author
of "CeciIy and the Wide World" says
her favorite season is winter, her ia
vorite color green, her favorite ami
NAL dog she is neither married nor
engaged, has hay fever, and, though
only %, is turning out several stories
that sell each year. Here is a young
lady, despite her confessed handicaps,
who is not to be sneezed at as a matri-
monial prospect.
MABEL Normand Is to play with
goat in a coming screen comedy
butt we haven't heard the name of
the play. However, we may expect
it to be one of the strongest in which
Mabel has yet been seen.
NINE men have been indicted for
gambling at the Hawthorne race
track. And there wasn't to be any
gambling there during the meeting,
we were assured in advance by off,
Gals of Cook county and of the rae
ing association. The book makers
must have crawled under the fence
and operated while the police had
their backs turned. If you attended
the Hawthorne events you probably
observed that the book makers acted
as if they were half scared to death
and expected any minute to be ar
rested. Yes, they did-not gambler
never opened up his layout anywhere,
at horse race or in a room above a
saloon or elsewhere, without first re-
ceiving permission to do so from some
person n authority. Don't blame the
gambler when you hear he is doing
business. Place the responsibility
where it belongs-upon the shoulders
of those who let him do business.
OUT in Wyoming George W, Argue,
a conductor, petitioned the court for
an injunction to enjoin the men on
his division from striking. 1t is pre-
sumed the gentleman expected to act
as his own attorney in the event the
case came before the court for a
hearing.
OFFICIALLY the straw kelly was
retired yesterday. OF course there is
no law that cOmpeis you to lay aside
your summer headpiece, but by COM
mon assent among our best people
one who persists i'm violating the
conventions should not affect sur
prise should he be beaned from the
rear. You may have one or more aC-
quaintances who have long craved an
opportunity to take walIOp at you.
Your continued weSring of the straw
pile may afford them the coveted OPEN
ing, and you couldn't very well re-
sent an attack thereon, knowing the
customs as you do. One could de-
liver you wallOp that would hurt,
yet plead it was a love tap. So in
order to avoid such an unpleasantry.
in the suffering of which you must
appear as a good sport, chuck the
straw and get into a kelly more i'm
keeping with the season.
POSSIBLY you have observed in
the dispatches that there has been
some warm fighting at Chilly, in
France.
FAYETTE S. Munro, republican
candidate for attorney general, as
serts that in the past few years more
than 100000 has been raised to pro-
mote dry legislation at Springfield,
and he wonders what has been done
with the money. One thing certain
it has not been expended in leading
thirsty legislators to the mahogany
al least we wouldn't think it would
have been squandered in such fash
ion, unless, perhaps, the campaigners
might have gained support through
pumping so much juice into assembly
members that they thought one way
and voted the other way. You never
can tell, you know, to what ends lob
byists will resort in their desperation
to obtain results. While the dry
chieftain may pose to be the lily white
in these proceedings and paint his wet
adversary as black, when you shake
them up together. during the heat of
battle, they'll both come out the same
color, little mixed.
Won Jagow, foreign secretary for
Germany, is reported to have been
canned. Somehow, he always sounded
like a half piped sailor to us.
Country Town Sayings.
If you let another man do your
thinking, he will take advantage of
you.
Eating too much is the pace that
kills; and everyone has a chance at IL
three time a day.
Hope and ambition will not make