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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
CONGRESS- WILL HEED AN ADVIS-
DRY VOTE.
By Senator Moses f. CIapp

(From a speech in the United States
senate for a popular ballot on the
question of declaring war. Bills pro-
viding for such a vote before a decla-
ration of war have been introduced in
the senate by Senator LaFollette and
in the house by Representative Taven-
ner of IIIinOis).
OF all the lessons taught by this ter
rible maelstrOm Of war today there is
none, to my mind, so important as the
thought that there must come a time
when no II men can say whether or
not we shall have war or peace upon
any continent Of this earth We have
today peace societies, and their mo-
tives are grand and worthy, but we
shall have permanent peace on this
earth only when that time comes that
the great, broad equation of humanity,
composing the nations of the earth
shall declare whether there shall be
peace or war, and when that broad
equation includes not only those who
must bear their breasts to the battle
storms OH the battlefield, but shall ia
CIude the wOmanhoOd of the nations
who must bear their share of the bur
den and the sacrifice of war.
Mr.. President, this proposed meas
ure takes from congress no power
whatever If this nation should be
threatened by war. if as a matter of
defense, it was unWise to await the
action Of a submission to the people of
the question, no one would doubt out
that congress would promptly ard eff
hCiently respond to the demand fer
defense and to repel invasion; 0U. il
does contemplate that in this matter Of
declaring war, when time shall per
nit of the submission of the question.
that the great rank and file Of this re-
public shall be heard in some effective
manner, so far as affecting the pre-
sentdtlon of their sentiments upon that
question. 1t is only advisory, after
ALL and yet, Mr.. President. if today
there was an occasion where we were
called upon to say whether as a bz,:v
we would vote for war, there L. NOT
member of this body but would take
into accr unit the thought Of the sacri-
ice THAI the people must bear and the
thought Of the attitude Of the Ameri-
can people toward the proposed decIa-
ration of war.
Instead OF leaving that to the uncer-
tain medium that today might be en-
pIoyed to communicate to congress the
sentiment and the purposes of the
people, this bill, in an orderly way.
seeks to provide that the people of this
country may be heard, if congress in
it's wisdom, in view of the exigencies
Of probable war, felt that it was wise
to await that decision; taking nothing.
then, from the power of congress for
providing an orderly way of getting
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
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eating the room she occupied. Is cry
thema very contagious? What causes
it? She had high fever and delirium,
a purplish hued rash and much swell
ing of the skin, sore eyes and mouth.
She had been exposed 10 measles.
Answer-"Erythem is not always
erythema. The description rather sug-
gests a severe attack of measles. Fry
thema is redness and irritation OF the
skin, with or without Jumps or spots
similar to the hives, with much itching
or burning. but no feverishness or Sc
rious disturbances of health 1t is
caused by contact with certain chemi-
Gals, drugs or plants poison ivy may
cause erythema), by eating certain
things, like sausage. shell-hsh. straw
berries, etc. AS for fumigating, no
matter If the friend had erysipelas or
leprosy, fumigating the apartment att
er the patients removal offers no Sc
curity to subsequent occupants. Ordi-
nary soap and water scrubbing and
ventilation of the room is sufficient
sanitary precaution. Only personal
articles, clothing and toilet accessories
require disinfecting. Erythema Is not
catching.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
The Daily Story
That Saratoga Trunk-By Barbara Phipps.

third could not understand how 80 re-.
6ned a woman could smoke Indeed
Mime Herman was surrounded with in.
constituencies, and these Inconsistencies
very much troubled her fellow passen.
gers.
Nevertheless Mime. Herman kept her
room. except on very rare occasions
when she went on deck for fresh air
and then she always locked her door
1t was observed. too. that she never
went into the cabin or on deck except
after the stewardess had made I'D tho
berth and put the room to rights.
One night in fog the ship came into
collision with another vessel All the
messengers turned out Of their berths.
most OF them with very few clothes on.
But the officers assured them that not
a break had been made in the vessels
side, and the engine. which had been
stopped. proceeded with monotonous
regularity. This satisfied the passen.
gers. and they returned to their rooms.
The lady occupying the room opposite
Nine. Herman's reported the next day.
when the incident was being talked
over. that when she left her room and
when she returned to IL Nine. Her
mans door was shut tight. On com.
paring notes none Of the women could
remember having seen the widow on
deck.
When the ship was coming into port
Nine Herman was forgotten in the
excitement of preparation for landing.
After the docking and the passengers
had nearly all gone ashore Mime. Her.
man sent n steward for a couple Of
porters and when they arrived they re.
ceived the same instructions with re.
gard to carrying out her trunk that
those had received who had brought II
aboard. 1t was placed on an auto
with baggage room and taken with its
owner to her hotel. where it was de-
posted carefully by tipped porters in
her room. The next day the lady, still
feeling porters to carry her trunk care
fully, took train for Dover and cross
ed the channel to Calais. From there
she went to a small town In Holland,
where she took room in Il hOstelry on
the second floor. window opening a
few feet from a shed.
In the morning before daylight
man stood at the window.
"Goodby, dear" he said. This has
been a long and a hard pull and with
out your GOODNESS and resource would
have been unsuccessful. have no
fear but that I shall make my way to
our troops in Belgium. You will easily
reach Berlin. and when the war is
over, if I am alive, ] will join you
there"
Captain Carl Becker kissed his wife,
carefully lifted the window sash. step
ped out on to the shed below and dis
appeared. The next day he appeared
among his comrades in the German
army.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

Nine. Herman, In sable robes and
widows cap, drove up to a pier In
New York from which a ship was
about TO sail for London. She arrived
in q taxIcab on which there was room
for baggage as well as passengers.
and as soon as it stopped she alighted
and, calling for couple of porters,
she pointed to a large saratoga trunk
on the auto and said to them:
II wish you to carry my trunk to
my stateroom. Here's II dollar for
each Of you. / don't like my trunks
banged about and broken. Take IT or
the car carefully. carry it aboard in
the same way and when you set 1t
down don't do it with a thump."
The men pocketed the tip. took the
trunk and obeyed the lady's order to
the letter, the lady herself accompany
ing them.
Mime. Herman kept her room during
most of the voyage. She was usually
in her wrapper, and when steward
answered her bell she would give her
orders through a narrow opening of
the door, receiving what was handed
in In the same way. She said that her
trunk which she preferred to have
with her took up so much room that
there was none left for any one ex-
cept herself.\ The trunk being a very
large one, this was quite true.
A lady occupying a room opposite
Nine Herman's said that the widows
meals, all of which were eaten In her
room, were sumptuous. Three times
each day a tray was carried to her
door Each dish was removed from
the tray through the narrow opening.
and a piece Of silver was slipped into
the hand of the steward who brought
the meal.
Another thing was noticeable in the
little passageway when Nine Her
mans room was unlocked. This was
a strong odor Of cigarettes that quite
frequently emanated from her room.
This caused some surprise, because the
lady appeared to be not the kind OF
woman who would smoke. Fashiona-
BILE women of rather a sporty type are
the ones who smoke at least in Ameri-
ca, but Nine. Herman was not in the
least loud" Indeed, she was quite
the reverse, being very refined and sub
dued
Persons travelling have nothing to do
but observe their fellow travellers, and
these things tended to direct attention
to Nine. Herman. Several ladies who
roomed near her met one day in the
cabin. and the widow became the topic
Of conversation One wondered why
she should take up SO much space in
her room with a trunk that another
woman would have had put into the
hold. Another was surprised that so
spiritual a woman could eat so much.
avowing that she had seen the dishes
carried away and not a remnant of
food was ever left on any of them. A
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
THE PROHIBITION PARTY.

The prohibitionists have held their
convention and will proceed with their
nth effort TO give their party a polit-
ical Importance that 40 years of try
ing has never achieved.
Starting in 1876 with fewer than
10000 the party grew slowly until in
1892 there were 264, 900 votes cast for
the presidential candidate of that
year. Five national elections have
been held since then and the party
has not equaled that record, though
the population has increased by Us
900 ,000
Besides their main issue the prohi-
bttionists have adopted many side is
sues, some Of them admirable, in the
hope OF attracting votes. but the plan
always failed. They are trying the
same thing this year when they at
tempt 10 make the party take the
place Of the wrecked progressive par
~, but there is no reason to suppose
they viii succeed,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
SERIOUS PROBLEM

That the allies are determined not
only to wreck GeTmanys commerce
during the war, but to prevent it's res
direction and expansion after the war,
is indicated in the extreme measures
taken by the British government in
promulgating a blacklist" against 50
American firms doing business Cor sus-
pected of being friendly to- the cen
trail powers. The recent economic al
lance of the allied powers, formed at
Paris few weeks since, was the first
step IN the apparent plan to fOrestall
Germany's industrial and commercial
resuscitation after peace is declared;
by agreeing upon a practical boycott
of German firms Tor period of years
the allies hope to cripple the vast en-
terprises of the Germans which are so
largely dependent upon export trade
for their prosperity Extending the
boycott to American firms which have
undertaken to carry on commerce with
the TeutCnic powers. or shown them
selves in sympathy with the TeutOn
cause, is merely supplementary.
SO far as the original economic al
lance is concerned. the United States
can have no legitimate concern. But
extension of the boycott by means of
the recently promulgated blacklist
opens a serious problem for our gov
eminent AS stated by an authority
on international law, Great Britain's
pronounc cement amounts in a sense TO
a violation of neutrality because it
practically means interference with
American commerce and the fighting,
by economic methods, of Great Brit
aims battles on American soil. To
acknowledge the legitimacy OF the
blacklist would be to concede that
Great Britain might widen its scope at
Will to include blacklist of American
firms who continue to do business with
blacklisted firms in our own country.
Just what procedure we should fol-
low TO counteract the blacklist or to
secure its recantatiOn is problematical.
That some sort OF vigorous reprisals
should be forthcoming, however, there
can be no doubt. Great Britain has
shown a cool disregard Of American
rigEts-and the rights Of neutrals in
general-with regard to international
commerce. Her latest action must Ger
tainly ALLEVIATE a large share of the
sympathy previously felt in this coun-
try for the cause the OF allies and
arouse neutral DoWers to serious re-
sentiment
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
And as.he, Joined the army.

Tokio.-The army conscription eX-
aminers in session at A town in the In
terror were astounded recently when
young Japanese woman dressed fash
ionably and carrying parasol walked
into the Office and requested examina-
ton for military service. When the
applicant explained that "she" was
man and not a woman the examiners
recalled an old Japanese custom Oh
concealing sex, a custom which, as II
afterward appeared. the applicant was
following.
Old-time tradition held that physl-
cally weak boy should be brought up
as a girl from the belief that the child
would thus escape the curse Of death
The boy was attired in female costume
and his hair was allowed 10 grow long
like a girls.
Yasukichi, the son OF Klnzo Mshl-
kawa, the army applicant, was hrought
up under this tradition which is roll
lowed now only in remote districts
He learned TO sew and 10 cook lie en-
tered a cotton mill at Osaka and work
ed as female operative. No one sus-
pected his real sex.
The examiners found the young man
OF perfect physique and health and he
has entered the army in mans clothes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
BEING A REPORTER.

Answering, in the New York Sun. a
letter from woman who asked to be
told where / can go TO school to
learn to be a woman reported" Miss
Gilbert gives this sensiI Ie reply:
THE School of Journalism. Colum-
bia university and at New York uni
yersity is open to women as well as
men. But before you spend time and
money studying newspaper work in
school make sure that you have some
faculties fitted TO that field. If you have
not you can never learn to be a wom-
an reporter as you could learn dress
making or stenography because re-
porting is a type of work requiring ex-
coptional abilities.
1T requires, in the first place. ma
tive resourcefulness. You must know
how TO go about getting any piece of
information. You must possess a Ger
tain amount Of facility in writing
ability to clothe facts in good, clear
readable language. Last, but not least,
newspaper work requires Astounding
good health. for it makes great de
mands on bodily endurance. Some one
once asked Horace Greeley what were
the chief requisites for a good repor-
ter and he replied dryly, legs Even
where women are not given reporting
Jobs like those 10 which men are as
signed there is a perpetual drain on
anyone's energy in any kind of news
paper job.
Several women who have since
made good in newspaper work OBJ
tanned their start by walking into u
newspaper Office and insisting on be-
ing given q Chace. They offered TO
work for nothing, just 10 get exper-
fence. They were given some little
s,srs vfr.yr favrAs a
sometimes il was printed and they
were paid space rates for it, and some
times il was not printed at all and
they were paid nothing. But they per
sisted and as they really had some
ability they eventually were given L
real job on the paper.
IF you think you have the ability.
take thee course, try TO do actual work
for some newspaper, even If it ia on
Iy for a country weekly; but be sure
first that you have the equipment"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
Selected by Tavenner

that sentiment, that today we all I'M
derStand must come in an uncertain
way, come with no certainty as con-
veying the real purpose of a people
behind the expression. 1t would seem
as though a measure of this kind
might well be incorporated into the
laws of this country not with refer
ence to existing conditions, but it
should long ago have been a part of
the law of this country.
~Secret Sessions Doomed.
Secrecy is the cloak with which the
United States senate conceals many an
infamy. The executive sessions" of
this exalted body are not open to the
public. The coTpses of countless pro-
pOsals in the public interest lie buried
behind those locked doors,
The most recent instance of this is
the action of the senate, on May Is, in
secret session, when a highly able and
devoted servant of the whole people
was sacrificed to the privileged inter
ests upon the altar of senatorial
courtesy"
George Rublee was appointed a
member OF the federal trade commits
sion some fifteen months ago by Pres
ident Wilson. 1t was an excellent ap-
pOintment
But Rublee had opposed Senator
Gallinger of New Hampshire in the
last campaign. Therefore Rublee be-
came personally obnoxious" to Gal
linger. This fact, were it not for it's
shocking consequences, might well be
regarded by the whole country as
high and worthy achievement on the
part OF Mr.. Rublee. To be personally
obnoxious" to Gallinger means US
uaily to be thoroughly acceptable to
the rest of the country
But so encrusted in senseIess GUS
toms is the United States that Gal
fingers plea of personal objection
ableness" was potent enough to pre-
vent Rublee's confirmation
These five republicans voted in favor
of Rublee's confrmation-and there
fore for the nations best interests:
Clapp, Kenyon, La Toilette, Norris,
POindeXter
These IA democrats voted against
Rublee-thus giving their votes to the
enemies Of the public interest: Bank
head Broussard, Chamberlain, Clark
(ArD, Hardwick, Martin, MARITIME,
.OGorman, Reed, Salisbury Smith
CGa), Smith $50, Underwood, Var
daman.
The fight for Rublee ended when,
by the tie vote of SO to SO on May %,
a motion to reconsider was defeated
But the fight now on against these I'M
democratic executive sessions" be-
gun by the peuriIe concession to Gal
fingers objection, will eventually sue
coed in overthrowing this institution
of secrecy-and throw wide open the
doors of the nations capitol to the
pubIic--La Follette's Magazine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

The leading candidates before the
convention this year were, discredit-
ed democrat and a republican states
man out of a job That is the best the
party can do for leadership, for it
has developed no leaders of its own,
says the st. Louis Republic. Such a
record of persistence in the face Of
unrelieved failure is without parallel
in American politics, but the cause
for which the party stood has made
steady progress through many years.
The prohibition party could not at
tract even the prohibitionists, who
preferred to stay in the old parties
and work the problem out in state
and local way.
Perhaps this campaign viii teach
the members of the prohibition party
that their organization is in state Of
irremedifble living death. That has
been its condition for a long while
and everybody outside of the party
knows it,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
BRYAN ON PREPAREDNESS

William Jennings Bryan, leading
American orator, entertained an audi
ence in his wonderful way at the
Rock Island chautauqua yesterday
afternoon. No one who heard him
left the grounds in doubt as to just
where the great Nebraskan stands on
the question of preparedness. Many,
no doubt, are less sure than they were
before hearing him that they want
this country to adopt a pistol toting'
policy, even ostensibly in the interests
Of peace
Mr. Bryan declared there is a con-
spiTacy on foot in this country to
bring the people to a state of mind
where they viii tax themselves to the
limit to maintain the army and navy,
and he charged that the metropolitan
press have entered into it and are de-
liberately promoting war scares and
at the same time refusing to give a
fair deal to the other side of the Ques-
ton He makes the same allegations
in this connection that Congressman
Clyde H. Tavenner has repeatedly
made in his campaign for government
manufacture Of war munitions, name
ly, that the leading advocates of ex-
IRENE preparedness are actuated by
purely selfish mOtiVes-the desire for
a continuation of exorbitant profits
and not by patriotism. Mr.. Bryan
warmly commended the work of Con-
gresham Tayenner in exposing the
workings of the Navy league, which
he said is international in Chara cter
and lives only to fiaunt the prepared
ness" of one nation in the face Of an
other to brighten the latter into still
further taxation for war purposes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

Two hundred dollars has been
pledged towards a fund with which to
sink an artesian well in Spencer
square. There has been no soIicita-
ton, the money having been voluntar-
lily offered following a suggestion that
it would be a humane enterprise TO
provide a supply OF cool fresh water
in the square located in the center of
the business section of the city and
through which thousands of people.
many of them strangers, pass every
day. The need of drinking water is
impressed especially during a hot
spell such as we are now passing
through. The cost of an artesian well
would be between $4,000 and $4,000
The Argus would like to see one of the
civic bodies take hold of the well
project and push it TO compile
ton. Surely no more worthy under
taking could be engaged in. Temper
arily The Argus has agreed to accept
pledges or donations of money towards
the project
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

Even though you may not be a SYM
pathiZer with Germany in the war,
you can't help admire the genius and
daring responsible for the success
full voyage of the submarine Deutsch-
land All Americans will hope Captain
Koenig a safe return trip.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

A dispatch to the Portland (Ore.)
Journal from Paradise, Mont, says
that a straw vote was taken among
the passengers on two Great Northern
trains held up near that city by floods.
On one train Wilson received 40 votes
to Hughes SO votes, and on the other
train Wilson received as and Hughes
Al. The impression throughout Mon
tana is that Wilson will carry the
state
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

MRS. Oscar Walters, suing for di-
vorce in a downstate county. recites
that the chief cause of the breach be-
tween herself and husband was OBJ
lection of the latter to his mother
in-law saying grace before every meal
Simply proving that mothers-in-law
like small folks, are to be seen and
not heard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27
Daily History Classify IT.

lander JacobiteS defeated the troops
OF William Ill OF England.
lS62-Steame Golden Gate, plying DO
tween San Francisco and Panama
burned at sea; $50 lives lost; Sl''
100000 in gold sunk.
iol5-Political revolt in Haiti against
President Guillaume 10 avehse
the execution OF 100 political prs
oners, British losses to date 70.
tailed over 100000 ON land ana
1900 at sea; total killed nearly
1900.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

Argentina took a week to celebrate
the centenary of her birth as repub-
lie. She has a right to be proud. No
South American land has come so
close to co-ordinating liberty and or
der, which is the true end and aim of
sane national existence
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

The quick confirmation of the ap-
pointment of Justice John H. Clarke
is quite an improvement over the fight
on BrandeiS. The senate evidently
learned its lesson that it doesn't pay
to oppose an appointment of President
Wilson'S when that appointment is up
held by public opinion
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

II has developed that Paul Arm
strong regarded as one Of the most
successful playwrights of the pres
ent generation, was practically pen
nilesS when he died. His wife Sched-
uled his assets as S247 in cash, an au-
tomobile valued at 5000 and wearing
apparel worth $50. Like most writer's,
Armstrong was a poor manager He
made wealth for others, but couldn't
accumulate a bank account of his own.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

"ALDERMEN Battle Over Bridge
Pay."-Headline in Peoria Transcript.
The impression up this way always
has been that draw was the favOrite
diversion of the city hall crowd i'm the
DistiIlery city. Apparently they have
Joined the pink tea contingent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-07-27

New York has discovered that there
is grating in the police department
What a shock this information must be
to the good citizens who have been
selling war munitions to the entente
allies