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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-07
Herbert Kaufman.

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combined fortunes. said Thomas W.
Lawson. Herbert Kaufman has a full
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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-07
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Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-01-07
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
PATRIOTISM OF PRESS.

Great Britain advertises In the
newspapers for recruits and pays the
newspapers for transmitting its mes
sages to the public.
Canada pays the newspapers for ed
vertising her apple crop, for patriot
ism and production, a campaign to Sc
cure increase in agricultural produc-
ton and a town plot cultivation cam
paign to increase the number Of gack
yard gardens under cultivation, and
also a campaign to increase the con-
sumption Of peaches and plums.
The United States government, and
some others, seem to view the news
paper as an omnibus, designed for free
transportation. The government, how
ever, pays its way in all other lines,
including billboards for securing re-
cruits
Are the newspapers Of Great Britain
and Canada lacking In patriotism?
Henry Ford pays for his peace ad-
vertising. The American Defense So
ciety seeks the news columns to push
its propaganda.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
THE BEEF COMBINE.

The Topeka Capital, commenting on
the demands of western'cattle men for
investigation of the methods of the
packers, says:
Last year by manipulating the
market, driving prices of live stock
down until they had accumulated huge
storage supplies, and letting the prices
up to induce farmers to continue in the
business of breeding and feeding, it is
charged that the packers enriched
themselves but impoverished millions.
There are Kansas stockmen whose
losses in the last year by reason Of
the manipulations Of monopoly are
said to have run into the tens of thou
sands of dollars, and thousands of
stockmen lost hundreds or thousands
of dollars.
THE stock industry is in the hands
of intelligent and conservative men
who know their business. They are
practically unanimous from Illinois to
Texas and Montana, in the conviction
that the packers of Kansas City and
Chicago are in a combine to squeeze
out for themselves the stockman's
profit as we'll as the packers"
We believe the Capital tells the
truth and that every farmer who reads
The Argus endorses its statements.
But with the beef combine, as with
Standard Oil, we bump into the impru-
dent inquiry, What are you going to
do about IT."
There is general complaint from the
headquarters Of Big Business that gov
eminent regulation is OVERRIDING itself.
Yet huge corporations go blithely
ahead in the pursuit Of tactics which
not only make stricter regulation i'm
perative, but SOW the seeds Of social
ism broadcast in the popular mind.
The Sherman law is broken reed
which the people Of the United States
leaned upon to their disaster. We shall
not make any serious Roadway toward
curbing combinations which rob the
seller and the buyer alike until we
get laws which will land criminal
monopolists behind prison bars.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
Time to Take on Sense,

Decatur Review, (RepD: There is
a little story from Chicago which tells
us that the cost of receiving
and reporting votes at the pres
idential preference primary of a
week ago In this state was $3.50 a
vote. The reported bill of expense is
somewhat in excess of 100000. We
are not sure whether this is for the
state at large or for Cook county only.
At any rate it is an extremely ex-
pensive primary; and you will have to
hunt long way before you find an
other little game in which the public
gets less for its money. One would
almost as soon build deep water
ways" with 100000 as to throw the
money away on a primary of this
kind.
And let us try to keep in mind that
this primary is a piece of reform -
The thing was forced on Illinois
four years ago, just because a COVER
nor and a legislature didn't have
enough sand to withstand the assaults
made by Chicago newspaper.
1t was poor service done the state
in that turn. Mr.. Deneen was COVER
nor at that time, but he had so many
undigested ambitions in him that he
didn't know whether he was coming or
going. They stampeded him and then
ran him off the reservation they had
lot of fun with him. and now the
state Is called on to pay the bill
1t occurs to many that the time
should be near at hand when we can
have sensible actions in the important
matter Of Illinois primaries. Because
we once allowed ourselves to be'made
fools is no reason why we should stay
foolish all the time.
Let us try to get some primaries in
this state. primaries that mean some
thing. We can make use OF a better
article
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21

and the struggling commission bust
ness which had been his leaped to
one of the largest in Chicago.
Phillips, who entered the deal with
scant thousands, quit II $4,000 richer
and his commission business was net
ting as handsome an income as any
on the board of trade.
Then he made his great mistake.
Attempting to hold up the price while
he marketed the cash corn delivered
to him in the course Of the corner, he
found himself under the necessity OF
taking most Of the corn offered. The
load was too great, and almost as
quickly as he had risen, Phillips fell.
With his fall the great string Of Gus
toners attracted by his success left
him. In few months he was again
a small trader. He retained the bum
galow and the ring to the end, but lit
tie more
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
Should Condemn Sachs Suicide.

Bloomington Paragraph: The cor
oner of Cook county says suicides have
increased in an alarming extent dur
ing the two weeks following the sui
eide of DR.. Sachs. He declares there
is no doubt that the manner in which
DR.. Sachs act was agitated Influenced
weak minded persons Of morbid tenn
permanent who otherwise might not
have committed this crime. A great
mistake was made in the manner in
which the Sachs case was treated.
While there was great respect for his
memory and praise for the work he
had accomplished there was no occas-
ion to glorify his suicidal act On the
contrary it should have been con-
denmned, If spoken of at all. But it
was publicly praised at mass meetings.
The coroner is confident this had bad
effect on persons Of defective mental
ity and would like to find remedy. 1t
is really sad state of affairs, as the
coroner suggests, and a subject about
which it may be difficult to offer ad-
vice. But it is certain that the case
of DR.. Sachs was handled the wrong
way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21

Captain Robert Edgerton Of the stat
Of a general commanding the right
wing Of the British troops In France
was directed to take an important COM
munication to the general commanding
the left wing OF the same army. 1t
was contained in a fat envelope and
must be carried In the captains side
coat pocket.
Edgerton took with him an orderly,
an Irishman named Michael Farriday,
recommended by his company comman-
der for possessing a cool head. Mike,
like good soldier who knew his place,
rode forty PAGES TO the rear whenever
there was no especial danger.
The two zigzagged along, sometimes
in advance Of the British line, some
times In the rear. At one moment they
would be riding through shot and shell.
at another would be where there was
all the quiet Of rural cemetery. The
captain had been told that there was
no need for hurry; all that was ex-
pected Of him was to get the mes
sage through during the day. At noon
he stopped at a house and asked for
some dinner. The occupant claimed to
be a Frenchman, but Edgerton could
not make out exactly what was his
native nationality. At any rate, he
spoke a kind Of French to which tho
captain was not used. The day was
warm, the roads dusty, and the o1lcer,
who was an English gentleman and
could not brook dirt, asked to be
shown a place where he could wash
his face and hands.
His host showed him to a room on
the second floor, where the captain
took of his uniform coat and plunged
his face into a basin Of water. When
he had finished his host stood with his
coat In his hands ready to help him
put it on. The man had already brush
ed of the dust, doing the work while
the captains face and eyes were COW
cred either with water or a towel.
And this was no brief time, for If
there Is one thing about which an
Englishman lis particular 1t is his ablu-
tons.
As soon as Edgerton had buttoned
bis coat he put his hand to his breast
to feel II the message was still there
and. feeling Its bulk. complacently de-
scended to the dinner table. A woman
had cooked the meal, but she said
nothing to the captain, who ate while
the others served him. The man talk
ed good deal about the war, was very
bitter against the Germans and hoped
they would soon be driven from French
territory. He was continually going
out to the kitchen for dishes, and on
one Of these exits Edgerton heard him
| speak a few words to the woman.
Now, Edgerton was a Cambridge pro-
lessor Of languages. The words spo.
ken were Persian. They were said in
q tone so low that he could hear only
a few of them. These were BE ready
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
FOOD FOR POLAND.

Word comes from Petrograd that
the Russian government has finally
consented to the admission Of Amer
lean foodstuffs into Poland for the
sustenance of Administration Poles
and no doubt the work of the Amer
lean relief commission will now go
rapidly forward. The relief plan to
which Russian has consented will
take the following shape:
The Rockefeller foundation will un-
dertake the task of supplying food to
the inhabitants of six Polish city CEN
tiers.
The Germans, on their part, will
make provision for the remainder Of
the occupied country, at the same time
insuring entire freedom of the Amer
lean enterprise, guaranteeing that
foodstuffs shall not be exported from
Poland, and forbidding their troops
from using local foodstuffs.
Three months or more ago, when
word first came to America of the des-
perate need of Poland. Chairman
Hoover of the Belgian relief commits
sion, put forward such plan as has
now been accepted but it was fatty
rejected by the entente allies, who
took the position that Germany, hav-
ing possession of the country, must
be looked to to feed 1t. holding that
to permit the shipment of foodstuffs
into Poland would be tantamount to
supplying Germany with the same
quantity of foodstuffs that otherwise
would be needed to feed Poland. The
Injustice and the fallacy OF such an
argument was pointed out by Amer
lean relief commissioners, who cited
the example of Belgium but in vain.
Having waited through three months
of severe Russian winter, when the
need was greatest, to yield to Amer
lean opportunities now is hardly tt
be commended for its mercy. nor car
Americans appreciate the Russian
condescension that permits us to feeC
a people which the car still considers
his subjects, although behind German
lines. Coming at this late hour 1t II
impossible not to connect Russia'i
yielding with certain political events
such as the agreement Of Rumania tt
sell Germany 1O0,000,000 bushels O.
wheat, and, considered in this light
makes the affair contemplate instead
| of magnanimOus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
Don't Want War With Mexico.

Peoria Journal: No intelligent
American citizen looked upon the pur-
suit Of Villa as game. 1t had to be
undertaken with an army because so
far in the experience of man there is
no other way Of obtaining justice be-
tween nations unless demands are
backed up by showing of armed
force
No loyal American citizen wants a
war with Mexico.
Every thinking citizen is anxious to
keep this country at peace with every
nation on the face Of the earth
And every man with conscience, by
sane talk with other men, will do his
best to help the president maintain
peace in the present Mexican difficulty.
But-every man Of sense must learn
a big lesson in preparedness from
present events.
So long as nothing can Danish war
from the world, there is no choice
whatever about getting ready for it.
The only choice is In the ways of pre-
pairing for national defense.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
The Illinois Waterway.

Rockford Star: In pursuing the eff
fort for a completion of the water way
from Lockport to Utica, Governor
Dunno is acting strictly within his
duty and obligation to the voters, and
his persistency should be encouraged.
To open up commerce from the great
lakes to the gulf, or at least make the
start in that important undertaking, is
of such great importance to the peo-
pie of the middle west that it cannot
be localized or reduced to the level of a
pork barrel" measure. 1t deserves a
different kind of consideration, from an
entirely different view point. The
matter is now before Secretary of War
Baker for a rehearing and it is likely
that it will be received with favor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21

Nobody believes that any "favorite
SON candidate will be nominated at
Chicago, and the Hughes attitude is
still the peg upon which hangs the en-
tire situation. The New York Herald
prints the following: Theodore
Roosevelt and Justice Charles E.
Hughes are still leading the field in
the race for the republican president
ial nomination. Justice Hughes appar-
emily leads Roosevelt in popular SEN
tfment. Neither has the support Of
any great element in the national or
ganizatton. No one yet knows wheth-
er Justice Hughes would accept a
nomination. There is no doubt that
Roosevelt would, provided he believed
he could be elected"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
The Daily Story
Nest of spies-By Donald Chamberlin.

to- A vague feeling that sorna,,,-
was wrong about the couple ..,-.
upon Edgerton, and he involunt.-',a.
put bis hand to his breast to sea ~.
his dispatch was there. Feetn, q.
bulk he was again satisfied. ps,, ~
leaving he offered to pay for HE A.,
ner, but the man was too good , :.
triot TO take anything.
Meanwhile, the orderly rsm.,,.,
without, munching a piece Of brass
and meat the woman had given hin
As soon as the captain appeared uT-.
led his horse to him, Edgerton morn.
ed, and the two started or their ,o.,
ney. They had not gone far hs,s,.
Mike called from the rear:
"Captainn'
"Well" turning in bis saddle.
Have ye the dispatchT
Certainly have. Why do W,
askT '''
Trims not Trenches: they're Tnrs,
OF somethin' o. the like"
Edgerton unbuttoned his coat to.,,
out what he had been supposinr n ;.
his dispatch to find that it was a news.
paper folded to the shape Of the n,ck
age with which be had started on VI,
mission. He was thunderstruck rrr
ing, without a word he rode hack !.
the house he had just left. /. wa. A..
serted.
Mike. who had meanwhile c,r..,
sight Of something fitting through ,
wood, gave chase and returned with
the woman. She had carried thu d..
patch, dropped 1t, and Mike had nj.
grip on II.
Ride for the nearest troops!" cried
Edgerton. land bring them. we,s
stepped into nest Of spies!"
The captain remained where be was
guarding the woman, and in a few
minutes Mike returned with a small
troop OF cavalrymen. They beat thu
bushes and captured the man.
Edgerton narrated what had occur.
red to the officer In command. who
told him that information had been
going to the enemy from some source
and they had been unable to locate Il
The house was carefully examined
and under it was found a telephone
machine, from which a wire ran IN.
derground to hill occupied by the
enemy.
Edgerton. having given his testimo.
ny, rode'on, delivered his message, and
when he returned on passing the house
where he had dined he found 1t raled
The occupants had both been shot AZ
Edgerton rode on he unused aloud:
II wonder how they got that dis
patch without my knowing it?''
What were ye dom all the time,
captain"
Edgerton told him how he had wash.
ed and dried his face.
Faith, captain" said Mike, I'VE can't
see with your eyes full Of water OF
through a towel" -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21
DEATH OF CORN KING.

Passing Of George H. Phillips, the
Corn King" recalls the famous ex-
plot on the board Of trade which won
for him that sobriquet. Phillips, a
little more than decade ago, was a
smooth-faced, youthful appearing man
in his early 30's. He rented a fiat,
ran small grain commission bust
ness and "scalped" small lots In the
corn pit Of the board of trade like
many another small trader. He was
lifted above the ruck by one thing
alone-an almost uncanny instinct
with regard to corn from the moment
the seed entered the ground until IT
was graded in the big markets.
When most Of the big traders were
bears, Phillips saw. or felt, that there
mad been sold a lot OF corn for fu-
ture delivery in Chicago, and that IL
couldn't be delivered. He interested
downstate men with money In his
theories and they bought all Of the
corn offered. Almost overnight a new
corn king" was born, and his name
was George Harshaw Phillips. His
leap from obscurity to a position usu-
ally occupied by such millionaires as
Partridge, "Old Hutch" and Patten, at
tracted national attention, and the
public which knows the speculative
market only in times of excitement
focked to his standard.
Phillips, his associates, and the pub
lie, bought and the big men sold. Set
Element day came and with it Phillips
triumph To the day Of his death he
looked like a boy. and he was scarce
" more than one then. Yet the vet
Grams of the game had TO come TO
him and settle at his own price. They
had sold him something they didn't
have and couldn't get, and he merely
had to name the price at which they
could be released from their contracts.
The newspapers were full OF 1t,
Phillips gave up his apartment and
bought a bungalow In Rogers Park.
His associates In the deal presented
him with a wonderful diamond ring
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-04-21

Pure candy ought to be marketed at
cost by the W. C. T. U. 1t is great
foe to old King Alcohol Let man
keep a box of candy in his desk or
handy by his work bench, to nibble on
when he is tired, and he won't crave
a drink of beer or whisky-all he'll
want is water.
The United States authorities ship
tons Of candy to the Philippines to be
sold through the canteens to the SOL
diers. 1t satisfies the soldiers need
Of an easily digested. quickly avail
able carbohydrate food, and so makes
vino" unnecessary to his welfare.
There are some people-and they are
usually to be found in the rural COM
munities-who still insist upon the
imaginary relation between candy or
sugar and worms" And, what Is
worse, there are parents so benighted
as to believe these old f1shwife yarns
and restrict the quantity Of sweets in
the children's bill of fare. We can
not reiterate too often the fact that su-
gar is the child's most natural food
more than half of the solid matter in
milk is sugar. Sugar Is tonic to the
heart, in the sense that 1t supplies
quickly available muscular energy to
that organ. Sugar is muscle food, if
there is such a thing. 1t is therefore
essential in child's diet, particularly
an active, Manipulating child. And
certainly there Is no more digestible,
nor more appetizing, nor more bal
anced a meal in the whole category OF
dietetics than a slice Of good home
baked bread, spread with quarter
| inch Of butter or oleomargarine. and
smothered with like thickness Of the
| crudest grade of brown sugar. No
child could consume too much OF such
food for gods.
AS for feeding the children candy
there are two important rules to bear
| in mind; % It must be pure candy
| tiuI ihulltlu WIN Wy Us
yarnish. plaster of-Paris. coal-tar fla
vors and the like. Jimcracks ruin a
child's health. t2) 1t must be given
in the course of or following regular
meals. not at any and all hours. II
these rules are followed, only good
can come from feeding the youngsters
| candy.
II is very significant. II not sinister
that the free lunch counter presents
nearly every variety of food but candy
Somehow the booze emporiums, like
the odd women" have little use fol
the food that kills the laundering for
alcohol
The usual cause of any digestive
disturbance which develops after eat.
ing candy is either the adulteration Of
the candy or the fact that not enough
water is taken to dissolve the sugar.
! Sugar Is natures own specific fol-