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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
KEEP POSTED.

Let us not overlook our big inter-
nal problems, in all the talk of pre-
paredness" and the stress of interna-
tional affairs. Many interests are now
employing troubles abroad to obscure
measures OF public interest here at
home. Good bills now before congress
are being strangled and bad bills
pushed forward. Pressure of public
opinion alone will reverse this situa-
ton. For the convenience of our in
terested readers, we name a few OF
these important measures, together
with the source from which detailed
/ information may be obtained upon re-
quest.
Water power. BY vote of "A to IS
the senate passed the ubiquitous
will shortly be acted upon by the
house. Reliable information concern
ing it may be obtained by writing to
the National Conservation association
$40 Munsey building, Washington
/ D. c.
Parcel Post An amendment to tho
postoffice appropriation bill has beer
adopted by the house placing a so
pound limit on the packages to be car.
ried by the government. The accept
ance of this amendment by the senate
will mean the virtual hamstringing o.
the parcel post. Information may BIZ
obtained from Representative D. ]
Lewis, house of representatives, Wash
| ington, D. c.
! Rural Credits A bill is before boti
| houses with strong backing which il
effect strengthens the influence of thu
private banking system over the far
mer and land owner. Information ma,
! be obtained from Representative C. A
Lindberg, house OF representatives
| Washington, D. c.
! Government Manufacture of Wa
Munitions. Congressman Clyde H
/ Tavenner of Illinois is making a figh
to have private profit and privat
graft taken out of war and prepare
ton for war by having battleships
| submarines, aircraft and munitions o
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03

Cleveland vetoed bill which applied
the literacy test and similar meas
was vetoed by President Taft in 1913
and by President Wilson in 1915. Now
the labor leaders are again attempting
to force the issue. The New York
journal of Commerce has the follow
ing pertinent comment on the ques-
ton:
The test will not down because the
labor union leaders have made the
issue their own. and, particularly in
presidential year, the spokesman OF
organized labor exercise an influence
on congress out of all proportion to
the voting power of the men who are
behind them. That there should be
assumed to be an urgent need for
such legislation at the present mo-
ment is the best possible PROOF that
those making the demand reckon on
the cowardice of the party politicians.
When the European war broke ,)ut
there was an immediate stoppage of
immigration and the tide began to
set the other way. In 1915. some 1884,
! 900 went out, leaving the net immi-
grafton of the year at $4,000. 1t seems
not at all improbable that during the
present year there will be a balance
against immigration and in favor of
emigration. Meanwhile, the lack of
labor is retarding the development of
many American industries, and the
question becomes doubly pertinent:
What is the occasion for such legis-
| lation now?''
The literacy test is altogether vi
cious and it is surprising that the la
| Dor leaders cannot understand that
they are injuring their cause by in
sisting upon its enactment into law
Many of those who are crying most
vehement1y for the literacy test at the
present time would not now be citi-
zens of the United States had that
test been applied to their parents or
even, in many cases, to themselves
They apparently do not stop to con-
slider the fact that the percentage OF
literacy among the children of illit-
crate immigrants in this country far
exceeds the percentage of literacy OF
the children of native born American
citizens. Furthermore. there has
hardly been a time when restriction
OF immigration was less needed than
the present. And if conditions were
such as to require restriction the lit
eracy test would be the last method
to be adopted in bringing it about.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
SLANDERING THE AMERI
.-. CAN WORKINGMAN.

The New York Sun is greatly con-
cerned lest Representative Clyde H.
Tavenner's bill aiming at the odious
features Of the Taylor system, work
some dreadful hardship TO the govern
ment. "Tavenner's First Aid for
Strikers" is what the New York Sun
headlines calls the TayenIer bill, by
the terms of which it is made mis-
demeanor punishable by fine or i'm
prisonment for amy officer, manager,
superintendent, foreman, or other per-
son having charge of the work of any
employe of the United States govern
ment to make or cause TO be made
with a stop watch or other time meas
uring device time study of any job
of any such employee between the start
ing and completion thereof, or of the
movements of any such employe while
engaged upon such work" The bill
would also prohibit bonuses and cash
rewards except for suggestions re-
sulting in improvement or economy in
the operation of any government
plant"
The Tavenner bill, like the Deitrick
amendment, concludes the Sun, ''is a
measure TO protect shirkers and safe
guard laziness. 1t is designed to make
something less than mediocrity, in
stead of diligence and skill, the stand
ard in government factories, and it
would have no chance of an instant's
consideration if the political power of
organized labor was not behind it."
The entire trend Of the Suns article
is {. SANDER upon American labor, a
reflection upon its standard and an
imputatiOn of its motives in seeking
enlightenment and betterment of its
conditions. To assert that the Amer
ican workingman is a shirk and seek
ing opportunities 10 neglect his duty
is an insult and is not deserved. The
Tavenner bill does not make shirk
of the American working man in the
government employ. It lifts him up
and recognizes him as human being
instead of a machine Instead of be-
ing d first aid for shirkers' Taven-
ner's bill will prove an all powerful
aid and an incentive TO honest self-re-
specting labor looking to a condition
that places the government in a posi-
ton to fix a proper standard of en-
ploy which private manufacturers
must follow, instead of permitting the
private manufacturer TO determine the
system by which the government en-
ploye is dealt with.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
Girls Offer 10 Enlist.

Hankow, April 26-Fifteen girl stu
dents Of the Girls Agricultural school
in Yunnan, under leadership of Miss
Mou Chi-cheng offered their services
to the revolutionary government as
soldiers in the ranks. Tang Chi-yao
the revolutionary leader who Is d.
recting recruiting at Yunnanfu. prais-
cd the patriotism Of the young wo-
men, but refused to enlist them as sol
diers. He placed them on the reserve
list OF the nurse corps for service
when occasion rennireA
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
NEED OF TRAINING,

Three times Great Britain has faced
domestic crisis within the past year,
each time threatened with a disrup-
ton of its coalition cabinet at a mo-
ment particularly vital in the Eu-
ropean campaign, and each time the
crisis has been averted by postpon-
ing and evading the issue. Conscrip-
ton still hangs like a sword of Da-
mocoles over the nation and when
necessity compe1s four considera-
ton of its adoption Britain will again
be shaken with doubts and torn with
dissensions and the disruption of its
. cabinet may come in spite Of previous
evasions.
When this nation was fighting for
new birth in '61-'65, stretched on the
wheel OF revolution, it became neces-
sary, to continue the struggle for
union, to resort to CONSUMPTION. The
agonies, the determinations, the riots
and rebellions that preceded the adop-
ton of final measures were repeated
again and again following the presi-
dents order and for years after the
great conflict had been peacefully con-
cluded the bitterness of consumption
still ranked and stirred animosities
in the bosoms of its proponents and
its opponents.
What Great Britain is going through
with now and what it must endure
when CONSUMPTION finally comes, as it
inevitably will, and what we have our
selves once endured are but repeti-
tions of what this nation must expect
again to suffer if ever we come into
conflict with a power of equal poten-
tial strength. 1t is what we must not
blindly deny to be possibl, by rea-
son of what experience we found in
the few skirmishes in which we have
engaged since the Civil war, but what
we must prepare ourselves to expect
in such situation.
Great Britain is fighting its fight
with conscription today because it
misconceiyed the principles of democ-
racy involved in universal military
training and universal military sery-
ice. 1t decried 'Prussianism," fail
ing to see in the system the height OF
democratic ideals, the equal sharing
of the burden of national defense by
| those to whom the nation offered equal
protection, and seeing in it only the
evils wright by autocracy.
We, too, in the United States. have
viewed compulsory military service
from the same angle, making the
same error that has brought Great
Britain TO its present situation and
preparing ourselves for similar fate
| With America it is not yet too late
to change, but it soon will be. Today
the people are expanded to military
mood in the reflected heat of the Eu-
rOpean conflict. Compulsory military
training, if provided today, would
find some opposition. But delayed IN
til the fires in Europe have cooled nd
we have contracted to our old false
sense Of security, any attempt to leg
islate compulsory military training
will be generally opposed by the peo-
pie.
| We still have time to choose wheth
er we will content ourselves with a
( volunteer military service that has
/ proved unable to bear the weight OF
war whenever it has been put to the
test, or will rise to the full height of
those democratic principles to which
we pretend by compelling every man,
regardless Of wealth or station. to bear
an equal share of the burden of de-
! Tense.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
graphs

The rabid pro-interventionin-Mex-
leo newspapers are vislbly dlsap-
pointed over the decision of President
Wilson not to withdraw the United
States troops at once. 1t deprives
them of a chance to say, 81 told you
So" They will have to cook up some
thing else to gloat over.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03

Mr.. Perkins declares that the broad
spirit of Americanism will rule at the
Chicago republican convention, and
Messrs. Barns, and Penrose, if asked,
would no doubt say the same thing
The question arises as to what con-
stitutes the broad spirit of American
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03

Chicago boasts of being far ahead
of New York and San Francisco as
a recruiting center. which is possibly
because the boys have not had SO
close a view of the difference between
the real thing and the enticing litho,
graphs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
Paoer Costs sI,o0,OOO YEARLY.

Washington. - More than 10000, 900
pounds Of paper embracing almost
every kind in present day use and
costing approximately sl,250.000 a
year, is used In the government print
ing office, making the United States
one Of the largest buyers Of paper in
the world
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Grandma's Old Favorite.

What effect has the tea made from
chamomile flowers upon the system?
Answer-Grandma had great faith
in chamomile tea as an appetizer, a
stimulant to mobility of the alimentary
tube, and, given in warm enema, as
tirst-rate remedy for collie in babies.
We think grandma was right.
Hard Water Good for GallstOnes.
Do you thilk that drinking hard wa
ter is favorable to the formation of
gallstones?
Answer-Categorically, no, it is not.
Drink it, however hard, if you would
ward off gallstones.
Calcium Salts i'm the Body.
Please explain the cause of insuffc-
lent calcium salts in the body and
state whether chocolate candy causes
the same.
Answer-To our knowledge there IS
no such condition recognized. 1t is
theory some one invented to create
demand for his particular line Of dope.
In ricketts, there is defective meta
bolsm of lime salts. but no particular
food or medicine can alter the pro-
portion of calcium in the body. Quo
tations to the contrary will not stand
verification, you will find. Chocolate
candy is O. h.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03

The report that Hetty Green, the
richest woman in the country was
going to die, proved an eXaggeration.
Hetty had only bad cold. And while
she had it she felt just as badly as the
woman who hadn't cent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03

The department OF agriculture re-
minds US that the prices of meat ami
mails" are soaring. 1t neglects to say
that meat vegetables are also up in the
air and going.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
Daily History CIass-May 3.

lSl4-"First restoration" Louis XVIII,
brother OF Louis XVI. made SOL
emn entry into Paris.
lSi6-rhe Mexlcans opened hostilities
by an attack on Fort Brown at
Matamoras, Tex.
lsl4-General Daniel E. Sickles. L. s
A. retired, noted Federal corps
commander In the civil war, died
In New York, born 1921.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
Wednesday, May 8, 1916.
Rock Island-From River to
River.

The funeral of the late lamented
Mr.. Villa has been indefinitely post
poned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
Ireland and Martial Law.

st. Louis Republic: Ireland has just
been placed under martial law This
will bring home to thousands Of
Americans that Ireland has not been
under martial law up to this time.
The proclamation Of the military code
was one of the earliest developments
Of the war in Germany and the dual
monarchy in 1914.
The Republic protested against il
then; we renew that protest now
In the present war England has had
no drawer or more loyal soldiers in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03

Flanders than the men OF Munster,
Leinster and Connaught, the three
provinces in Ireland in which the Sim
Fem society pronunciation, Shin
Fayne; meaning, Ourselves for Our
seives") has its strength.
The present troubles are the result,
of wrongs and errors Of many years
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03

Member Audit Bureau of Calculations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-03
THE ARGUS.
BY THE ]. W. POTTER co.

Rock Island Member Associated Press,
Full Leased Wire Report
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-09-21
JOHNS csURc4.

The Rev Harold II. Kelley re.urae t-ow Juneau sa tts CEy q ssatc 'ss, uis1t. and Bishop and Mrs Rev Mil arrive tcasy on the JeGessea 1.. Bishop wEJ preach at S John church Sunday morning and eVaniae and in the mo-aie MI oeE@ra, 5 us.- her .of candidates
 Rev. Kelley went to Tune-a las Thursday to assist in tae cereu oay e admitting Bet Ziesler os Nasjez - the pTieSthoo5
 A reception Will be eiyea by g. Johns Guild toworrow night ar s- Johns Rector from 70 lo.Se ia lca or ot Bishop and Mrs Rowe to Nhts' 2,ers c+rs ot ths church and .ria9 as tGe Bishop are cordially .ns..a4
 On Sunday 8. the S.3a services fer the natives Rsshop Rowe Will s2 and meet the aat{Ye. eoaEresa
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NsoNAYARPEN.

The marriage took place this at-a~ noon -at three o'clock et Miss cecs Benson and Carl Warren aJ rae hone q Judge Staekpole- The Wea3.ne was performed ia she presence os ca. immediate relatives q -ae bride. n. s-oo- is connected with the North western Fisheries Co ot this city.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-09-21
kETCHIkAN CIVIC CLUE.
Meets every first and third Tue

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FRS CHURCH.

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MRS. OLSEN ARRIVES

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The daily progressive-miner., 1916-09-21

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ST. JOHNS EP.sC.3AL CHURCH.

ST. JOHNS EP.sC1PAL CHURCH.
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CAT C CHURCH.

low Mass a- l-., b Mass at 13:30 a. h.. 5.4ds 5caa at 2:30 ?. h., suuda. at -:.1 ?. m.; Week Day Mass et a. !c.--h#g. Paul P. keIns, asslt.
The daily progressive-miner., 1916-09-21

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The Penn's Grove record., 1916-11-03
A New Era
From Philadelphia Record Nov. LIST.

From Philadelphia Record Nov. LIST.
While the dHPonts are frankly in poll
ties, other large employers of labor, who
say they are not, are directing their shop
superintendent to "reQueSt' their men to
take part in pdrades and other demonstra-
tionS of a ciUic or political character IN
tHrtherdnce of the interests of the Re
publican candidate for the Presidency.
Times nave changed somewhat since
workingmen were coerced by threats of
shutdowns, and business men were terri
fed by Withdrawals of credit and stock
market jugglery, into support of the party
of special privilege. The political meth
DDS, however, which reached their zenith
under the name of MARK Hannaism"
still persist. The form has been slightly
changed, but not the substance thereof.
Indeed, there is scarcely a difference in
form between an intimation that "this
shop cannot continue open unless a Re
publican is elected and the posting of
notices Ia practice quite common until it
was made a penal o~ffense) that "this
factory will close the day after the cleo
ton of a Democrat" Neither is there n
very broad distinction in purpose between
a request and a threat addressed by a
shop superintendent to those under him.
The difference lies in the circumstances.
The decentralization of credit facilities
and the consequent emancipation of bust
ness have made efforts to artifcially re-
strict financial operations worse than
foolish. And to tell men who know that
the country is prosperous that they are
seeing a mirage excites d~erision nor can
workers who know that their labor will
be actively sought for years to come be
fooled by bowls of calamity. The stand
patters will learn within a week that we
are living in a new era, in which men can
be moved by addresses to their reason,
but neither by bullying nor cajolery.