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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
$4,000 IN THE DISTANCE.

William Jennings Bryan has been
nominated for the Nobel peace prize
for 1916 by DR.. Alois Heilinger, mem
Der Of the Austrian parliament Mr..
Bryan doubtless would be kratifed by
the honor. nor would he be con-
spicuously Indifferent, we venture to
say TO the $4,000 cash that goes with
1t. That sum would represent quite q
bundle Of chautauqua lectures IN the
matter Of net receipts. Nor is 1t to be
denied that Mr.. Bryan has been In
defatigable in his peace efforts. II war
could be talked to death. Mars would
have given up the ghost long ago.
1t is therefore matter for most
profound regret that, in booming Mr..
Bryan for the Nobel honor and the
$4,000, Dr. Heilinger has predicted
the Bryan qualifications wrongly. DR..
Heilinger. we regret to say. has made
serious mistake We might. in
deed, go so far as to declare that he
had committed faux pas. were II
not unneutral 10 hang such abhorrent
language on an Austrian statesman.
For DR.. Heilinger. be 1t known. has
overlooked Mr.. Bryan's many heroic
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
"CHILD POVERTY"

Senator Kenyon of Iowa has intro
'duced in the senate, resolution iden--
teal with that of Congressman Keat-
ing Of Colorado, introduced in the
house on Feb. 5, and empowering the
president to appoint commission to
inquire the causes of child poverty and
suggest remedies therefore. The res
olutions, after referring to reports of
recruiting officers that 30 per cent of
applicants for enlistment are defective,
and that other federal officials report
widespread child poverty, give the fol-
lowing additional reasons for appoint
ment Of the commission:
Child poverty. which may be dein-
ed as insufficient food and clothing and
habitations detrimental to human life,
Is certain to produce weak, defective,
and delinquent adults; and
This Is the richest country in the
world, blessed with abundant natural
resources and a power of production
unequaled in the history of the human
race; and
"Child poverty and the consequent
increase of unfit adults in the United
States are due to conditions within the
scope Of legislation and present a
problem which should engage the at
tention Of the congress of the United
States"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
RELIEF FOR DESERVING.

In these days of pensions provided
at public expense it is gratifying to
note the efforts made by private sub
scription to create funds for the relief
Of the deserving. The Episcopal
church of America has undertaken the
most extensive scheme of this kind
ever proposed in this country. The
plan is to raise reserve fund OF
100000 to establish pension fund
for the clergy of the church. The
money is to be raised by the first OF
March, 1917. Never before has a
church undertaken to collect so large
a sum within a specified time. OF the
necessary sum S1,0o0,000 already has
been pledged and as a committee of
more than one hundred. many of them
wealthy members, Of New York, has
started an active campaign there is
little doubt the full amount will be
raised during the year. The pension
system to be instituted by the church
will provide that when a minister re-
tires at the age of 6S a pension equal
to one-half his average salary during
his actual service will be paid to him
from the fund. In addition to the
parish he has served will pay to him
an annual pension equal to per cent
Of the salary he has received If a.
minister is disabled by disease he will
receive a pension and at his death his
widow and minor children will re-
ceive annual pensions The plan
wisely provides that the entire fund
shall be raised before pensions are
paid in order that its permanency may
be secured. Among the many notable
charities of this day and time this
work of great religious denomination
will stand conspicuous.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Curious Old English Law,

1t is interesting to recall in connec-
ton with railway accidents that only
few years back any instrument which
by accident was the immediate cause
Of loss Of human life became in Eng
fish law "deodand'-that is, became
forfeit to the crown, to be devoted to
pious purposes. This law applies to
locomotives, but in course of time cor
oners' iuries, instead Of claiming the
forfeit, inflicted a fine. In the year
1888 locomotive on the Liverpool and
Manchester line which by exploding
caused the death Of It's engineer and
fireman was fined $50, while the fol-
lowing year another engine on the same
line was fined Ell, 400-London Mail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
NATIONAL GOOD ROADS.

There Is one motor car to every ~
families In the United States, and one
motor to every mile of road. This
fact may not convert the habitual
pedestrian to any large interest in the
national good roads campaign. But
put the betterment Of highways up
to any man as military necessity and
he will soon be backing up your ar
guments with figures of his own.
France, he will probably tell you, was
saved from the invader in September,
1914, by her great northern high
ways, which were perfectly fitted for
the rapid transportation of her de-
Tending army; and Russia met dis
aster on her western frontier partly
because there were no passable roads
in that part of the empire.
The recent increasing interest in
roads has many phases. Most minds
are quickly impressed with the Won
derful scheme for outlining the entire
length of the United States boundary
with a great national road, to be built
and maintained by the government for
purposes Of defense.
This novel idea attracts both by it's
practical and its picturesque aspects.
At present the matter most i'm
portant to the country at large is the
Shackleford bill, which provides for
the expenditure Of large sums of fed
eral money upon roads, and for the
creation of state highway commits
sion.
The building Of the Lincoln high
way Is also creating a tremendous
amount Of interest. This great span
of 1898 miles will connect the eastern
and the western oceans, and will pass
through 725 cities, towns and villages.
In his annual report, Secretary Lane
pointed out the greater accessibility
TO the beauty spots Of the United
States made possible through the de-
velopment of good roads.
The enhancement of farm values
and the cheapening Of foods as the re-
suit Of the easy access of the farmer to
markets indicates the great import
ance OF good roads as a factor Of COO
nomics.
Not even the habitual pedestrian
can escape vital interest in the de-
yelopment Of the highways OF the
country, when he considers them from
every point of view.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Selected by Tavenner

to bewail what they are pleased to
term the decline of patriotism in this
country. We believe however, that IL
controlling motives could in every
case be laid bare, 1t would be discov-
cred that some Of those who advertise
their loyalty and patriotism the loud
est and furthest, would be discovered
to be wholly lacking in the essentials
of real patriotism and controlled by
the most sordid motives, while those
who are being accused of a lack of
patriotism because they oppose the
idea Of this nation spending billions
to become the greatest military power
in the world, would be found to be in
spired by motives of the highest type
and by sincere desire for the highest
welfare of all the people"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
DOLLAR PATRIOTISM.
Warsaw Bulletin. J


We have heard not little about
dollar diplomacy" to the humiliation
of those who would have their country
stand for a higher ideal, and now We
are having 1t supplemented by dollar
patriotism. shielding itself behind the
cry of preparedness. But it cannot
completely hide itself, although it has
succeeded in deluding a great many
people. In its attempt to delude more
it fs seeking to use the country press,
and to that end offers to furnish page
of plate matter at brief intervals II the
publisher will publish it; which
causes one to speculate on how much
of the similar stuff that appears In the
metropolitan press is genuine news or
the expression of opinion of the news
paper publishing it and how much of
it is paid matter. The Stronghurst
Graphic has the following sensible and
dignifed editorial on this attempt to
utilize the provincial press to create a
public sentiment favorable to extens-
i've armament:
"An organization calling itself the
National Society for the Advancement
of Patriotic Education with headquar-
ters at Forty-second street and Madi-
son avenue, New York City. has kindly
offered to supply US free of charge
with plate matter containing specially
written articles upon the subject of
our military unperparedness. We have
felt constrained to pass up the offer.
first, because we do not believe that
our readers as a class are lacking in
true patriotism, which we understand
to mean devotion to the welfare of
ones country and second, because
we cannot help suspecting that the So
ciety mentioned is, so far as its real
purpose is concerned, society to fur
Their a clique Of capitalists interested
in the manufacture and sale to the
government of war material, and the
building and sale of battleships. It is
getting to be a common thing nova
days for those who want to see this ma
ton coverted into an armed camp after
the manner of the nations of Europe,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

local antidote for internal inflamma-
ton in the whole materia medica.
If you young school-teachers and
housekeepers and merchants and
workers would listen to grandma, and
not run off to the drugstore for some
nicely favored dope every time you
have anything wrong, we doctors
wouldn't have SO much practice to
swell our heads.
When we speak Of the grand
mothers we generally refer to those
who are grandmothers in conduct
only-most of 'em wear trousers.
We need more militant grandmas,
and less audacious observation-disclosures.
A household blessed with a real live
grandma who won't be ignored is very
fortunate indeed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

services in the cause of peace and
pointed to an accomplishment that
the Commoner cannot claim. DR..
Heilinger has grounded Mr.. Bryan's
title to the Nobel peace prize on his
endeavors to stop American exports
of munitions"
But. alas, this is the one thing Mr..
Bryan has not attempted. On the
contrary, while he was secretary OF
state, he wrote letter to Senator
Stone in which he ably argued that
this country could not prevent such
exports, under international law. af-
ter war had started, unless its own
military necessities required such &C
ton But perhaps 1t is not yet too
late Possibly DR.. Heilinger's enron
eous statement is not mistake but a
tip. Perchance the great Commoner
may even yet qualify. Or it may be
that he expressed other views in pri-
vate to DR.. Dumba We would hate
to see that $4,000 slip out of the
grasp Of our peace champion If there
is any way to save it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
YOUNG VS.. OLD SOLDIERS

"That old men make better soldiers
than young men," is the declaration of
an Austrian colonel. This declaration
followed the call to the colors Of men
between the ages of SO and So.
According to a Vienna news letter
the view had been generally held that
the man Of so had passed into old age,
so far as military value is concerned.
But the war is said to have proved
that this position is untenable.
It is admitted that in trades and oc-
equations requiring physical dexter
ity, the man over so is apt to be a
failure, though the well-preserved
worker of that age Is generally still
capable of great endurance
The experience in the army is that
men up to 80 are generally less hardy
than men up to So In addition to be-
ing as yet far from physically set
that is entirely beyond the growing
stage, the younger men often reduce
their endurance and physical vigor,
generally by incorrect eating. Older
men are not in the habit of doing this,
it is asserted.
But the young men sin also in other
respects. Often they are Indifferent to
hardships when they should not be;
while the older men see to it that their
feet are always dry and warm, the
younger soldiers overlook this habit
ually.
With the officers the older soldier is
the favorite. Not only does he give
less trouble to the sanitary depart
ment, but his ripper mind understands
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

more readily the purposes and neces-
sity of military discipline.
An Austrian colonel with whom this
subject was discussed said older
troops needed little application Of dis
cipline, because their natural conduct
as grown men was discipline itself. He
had seen no difference In the fighting
qualities of young men and older
troops, he said, but he himself would
always prefer to lead men over the
age of 25
OF very young troops, the colonel
had a poor opinion. In trench war
fare their value was not high. Con-
slant reiteration Of commands and
orders was the lot of the officers who
commanded young bloods," while the
| officer in charge of older troops could
count on having orders carried out as
soon as they were given. The old
men, too, fought with more sense"
said the colonel. They did not shout
so much, but dealt out heavier blows.
Excepting bone fractures and very
serious internal wounds, the old SOL
der gives no more trouble than the
young one to the medical service. Au-
thorities are of the opinion that the
smaller percentage of sick among the
older troops counterbalances wholly
what little surgical difficulty they
give.
In short, the idea seems to be that
what the old soldier may lack in vigor
he makes up in common sense In
long range warfare, he might easily
be the better soldier of the two.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15

her crude way for mo to constituts -
self chaperon, and / could MT :.
sist her appeal. / said I womb !.
one Of q bivouac party. and va u
stopped where there was water, ana !.
each one Of US had something ea.sss'
for a luncheon we ate our supper ~
soon after dark found soft snot. ~
which TO sleep. had blanket wb,es
| offered the girl, but she declinsd .
wrapping shawl about her sbon,s.s'
instead.
Puzzled as TO the reason for IN. A.
sire Of the girl to stick to her fsllo.
traveller, I lay awake thinking sbors
It. Presently heard the man hr..+s
ing as If asleep. ! thought / heard ,
sound come from where the girl ~.
sleeping, some fifty feet distant
looked in that direction and saw h..
silhouette against the sky line. VIII
out the slightest sound she disapna.,
ed to the eastward, which was tow,ra
the mountain.
What did 1t all mean? The man hss
all day been trying to get rid Of .ba
girl, and now she had evidently SHAKEN
him. debated In my mind whetbs,
l should notify him OF her disanpear.
ance, but 1 had come to believe ths,
there was more between them than
appeared on the surface, and nv srr.
pathies were rather with her th.,
with him. SO lay still and said moth.
ing. After awhile I slumbered.
I am a light sleeper and presently
was awakened by movement Of thu
man who was close beside me. IA
was getting up stealthily, and I saw
In the dim light that be had bis hand
on a rife.
what are you going to dor asted
He clapped a hand on my mouth
and whispered: Don't wake that cir,
I'm a revenue officer and am going IA
capture a still a short distance from
here up in the mountain. She has
suspected me from the night STONED
at her fathers house and has stuck 10
me ever since. I fancy she thinks I'm
going to trap some one in whom sbs
has an interest Keep still while
steal away"
You're too late, my friend" I said.
1.-THE girl lit out some time ago."
AS soon as he came 10 believe what
had told him he went over to where
the girl had been lying and confirmed
what I had said.
"She's beaten me-" he said ruefully.
"These country girls are not SO stupid
as they appear"
mot where lover Is concerned. Ten
to one you were after her best fellow"
81 reckon that's so. When stopped
at her home / was fool enough to ask
If any Of them knew the man I was
after"
went on to Chattanooga and On nv
return saw the girl again. She was
very grateful to me for the part had
taken In her affair. She had just been
married to the man she warned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
kerosene for ChiIhlains.

The self-same teacher who started
the above harangue asks us to publish
remedy which she states she has
used with unfailing benefit for chill
blains, frostbite. She says it is better
than rubbing on snow. The remedy is
kerosene. We pass 1t on without any
personal knowledge about it.
Naevus on Face.
Our baby, nine months old, has a
raised, purplish mark on one cheek,
as big as dime, with what looks like
little veins running out into the
skin around it. 1t appeared right al
ter birth, and seems to be getting a
little larger. What is it, and is there
any remedy?
Answer--Naevus. After the second
year electrolysis or surgical removal
is necessary.
The Tobacco Habit.
A correspondent, S. d. f. G., asks
for some advice for the cure of the
tobacco habit. | hold a monograph
upon the subject which ! shall be
glad TO send him upon receipt of a
stamped, addressed envelope.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
EALTHTAI
4W
William Brady.n.D.
Hot Mustard Paste.

Sometimes, writes schoolma-am of
parts, think you are little too hard
on the grandmothers and oldfashioned
people. You are certainly an icono-
clast, and your ridicule OF these old
ideas borders on the discourteous. A
good doctor was called to attend a
case OF la grippe. and the first thing
he did was to order mustard paste
applied. And an old grandmother ap-
piled 1t, with the happiest effect.
All Of which is good and true.
Haven't we openly apologized to
grandma right here in cold type for
our slurs? Haven't we admitted that
her good old flaxseed meal poultice
beats any canned mud ever invented?
Hasn't scientific investigation shown
that one Of grandma's fiaxseed meal
poultices retains the heat longer,
gives greater relief, and is a whole
lot cleaner than the modern medi-
Gated clay imitations9 Haven't we
harped right along on the some old
tune-how grandma's old-time cough
"seerup," boneset, catnip, chamomile
and other ''yarb" teas are the only
kind OF home remedies we want to
take when we are sick?
No, teacher, you can't stir I'D a
quarrel between this department and
grandma. We just wish you could
read some Of the letters we receive
-trom grandmas eighty and more wears
young, and see how old-fashioned
they are. Few people attain common
sense until they reach the grandma
era of life.
Now a mustard paste properlv
made, and watched to see that II
doesn't raise blister-one mart of
mustard -four to four of wheat four
cold water and just a wee bit of white
OF egg, our own grandma insists on
this, to prevent blistering, she saws,
the paste to be removed as soon as
the skin reddens up-there isn't a
better pain-kller or q more effective
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
Side1ights on the European War

Berlin.-(Correspondence of The AS
ISOLATED Press. )-Everythin indicates
that the great home gardening cam
paign of 1915 is to be duplicated this
year, but on an even more extensive
scale. Seedmen report that people be-
gan to buy garden seeds with rush
in January, and the buying is now
proceeding at a rate never before
known. The great dealers at Erfurt,
where the seed industry has its cen
ter, are answering mail orders with
printed postcards begging customers
to be patient till they can fill the
orders.
The strictest care is being taken that
seeds be bought only for bona tide
purposes. An American in Berlin, the
owner of small garden, ordered seed
potatoes from Erfurt, and was sur
prised a week later to receive from a
dealer blank form on which the po-
lcie were to certify to the fact that he
owned a garden and was therefore en-
titled to buy seed potatoes. Otherwise
he might have eaten seed potatoes that
cost threefold more than ordinary
ones.
The imperial government, which
has taken no action last year for the
encouragement of vegetable growing,
has now established special bureau
at Berlin for that purpose. 1t has ap-
pointed horticultural expert to take
charge of it and to inaugurate and
conduct a country wide campaign for
the increase of vegetable production.
His plan OF operations embraces prac-
tical measures of help, besides mere
propaganda. All available lands
about cities. factory sites, and else
where will be put into vegetables and
properly cultivated. The superintend-
ent of gardening is communicating
With the various economic war organi-
cations to induce them to look after
supplies of manure for the armies of
volunteer gardeners thus to be called
into the field; the waste from slaught-
er houses and coldstorage plants, and
the sweepings from the streets are to
be turned over to them at very low
cost
Not only will vegetables be grown
in greater quantities than ever before :;
but the preserving of them will be on
a larger scale than ever known. The
% canning and preserving factories at
Brunswick 1.-THE center of the indus
try put up about 200,000,000 cans o!
vegetables from last years crop, as
compared with 100000 cans for
1914.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
The Daily Story
A Girl of Tennessee-By Dwight Norwood.

After the close OF the war Derwov.
the states certain young men Of the
north-a number of them had served
in the Union army-thought that fine
opportunity offered to go south. buy
some OF the plantations that were to be
had for song and grow up with the
country under the new system OF free
labor.
was one OF these deIuded beings.
! say deluded, for the south needed
fully a decade to right itself after the
scourge Of war and the change from
slave to free labor. However, this has
nothing to do with my story. / had
been soldier during the war and had
campaigned in the region OF Tennessee
which takes in the Cumberland pla-
teau. An admirer Of mountain seen
cry, I had fallen in love with this
country and aimed when peace came
to settle there.
One day was riding along the base
of the mountain, armed with drafts on
Louisville with which to buy a small
farm, when l overhauled a couple in a
buggy, man about thirty and a girl
perhaps twenty. I made some In
quiries of the. man and judged at once
from his want Of the dialect OF the re-
gion that he didn't belong there. The
girl was evidently indigenous to the
country, not only from her looks. but
her manner Of speech.
The man told me that he was bent
on the same errand as HE was look
ing for a farm. I was some time get
ting on to the relationship between
him and the girl, but at last learned
that the night before he had stopped
at her fathers house. In the morning
when he continued his journey she
said she wished to visit a friend in
Chattanooga and insisted on going
with him. Since there was a vacant
seat in his buggy, he could not well
refuse to take her.
For the sake Of company / rode d.
rectly behind the couple and had am
pie opportunity to observe them. 1t
soon became evident to me that the
girl was not welcome travelling COM
panion to the man. An unlettered
poor white" country girl, she could
not talk on any subject that would
interest him. Besides, something-I
know not what-indicated that her
presence troubled him. He was con-
stantly making excuses for parting
company with her, but they all failed
TO enable him to get rid Of her.
Finally when evening came he told
her that he was intending to bivouac
for the night and she must find a
house in which to sleep. She looked
at me appealingly and said:
stranger, whar 70 goin' to sleepT
II don't know. Why do you ask2"
IF you uns and he uns are goin' to
sleep in the open reckon I mought
sleep near by"
l saw that this was an invitation in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-15
|e6 McLemore leaving U. 8. capitol
building.

JEFF McLemore, texas cow puncher
and printer, who introduced the
warning resolution In the lower
house Of congress, has not made a
great hit with some Of his colleagues.
Had 1t not been for McLemore's reso-
luton. lot Of congressman feel they
would not have been compelled to take
stand on the delicate question Of
whether Americans should be warned
off armed merchantmen.