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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-11
Mrs. X. p. Roth.

Mrs R. p Roth, for years a resi-
dent of Andalusia, passed away yes
terday afternoon at 2:30 at her home
from lung trouble. Although she had
been i'll for some time, she was much
improved last week and on Saturday
she was able to be up and around,
feeling better than in months.
Mrs. Roth, whose maiden name was
Miss Lydia Margaret Vanderveer, was
born in Darke county, Ohio, April 5,
1855, and came to Rock Island coun-
ty in 1856. She was united in mar
riage Sept. 90. 1880, and spent most
of her life near Andalusa, except for
several years when she and her hus-
band lived in Nebraska and Iowa.
Beside the husband there survive
the following children: Ira and Ruel,
Andalusia; Edgar, Oregon City, Ore;
Arthur, Watrous. Saskatchewan, Can
ada; Mrs. Otto Glazier, Huron, \. D.
Following are the brothers and sisters
living: DR.. Ira E. Vanderveer, Blue
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-05-11
Obituary
Daniel {. White.

Daniel c. White, "A years of age,
veteran employe of the Rock Island
Stove works, and a resident of this
city IS years, died at SIS last evening
at his home, l1l6 First avenue, Mr.
White had been ailing all winter with
bronchial trouble.
He was born in Salem, n. Y, Marcf,
IS. 1912. He came west, settling d
Geneseo, so years ago. He was unite I
in marriage there to Miss Inez Stiles
in 1871. Shortly afterward the couple
moved to Rock Island and he had made
his home here since The same year
he secured employment at the Stove
works as pattern maker and had work
ed there continuously since.
Besides his wife he is survived by
two daughters, Elsie, at home, and
Mrs. Maud Alt, Rock Falls, Wis. He
also leaves three brothers, William,
Salem, n Y, Henry, Cambridge, H.,
and Robert, Sand Ridge, H., and sis
ter in West Falls, Vt.
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row afternoon at > o clock at the home,
Rev. j. l.. Vance, pastor of the United
Presbyterian church. officiating. Bur-
ial will be in Chippiannock cemetery.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
RAPID TRANSIT A MIsNoMER

To the Editor Of Evening Ledger:
Sir-Whle you are hammering away In
behalf of the construction Of the new tram
sit lines permit me to have say about the
manner the present lines are operated.
Rapid transit Is certainly misnomer for
our present trolley system. Any one can
be convinced of this If he will take a Fifth
street car at Chestnut street few minutes
before 5 p. m.
Everything will go all right until he
reaches Montgomery avenue, He will ar
rive there little before the employees of
the Stetson hat factory are dismissed. The
street inspector of the trolley company will
hold the car up until the Stetson people are
actually dismissed and until they make their
way from Fourth and Montgomery avenue
to the car. All this while other cars are
arriving and before the first car is per-
mitted to leave there are from five to seven
cars in the tie-up. Finally they all get
started, and If you are going to take a Glen
side car on Lehgh avenue you will arrive
there in time to see one going. out the ave-
nue., and you will be compelled to wait
seven minutes for the next one. With the
five minutes lost at Montgomery avenue
and the seven at Lehigh avenue you have
nearly one-quarter of an nour wasted BY
this method everybody is harmed and no
one is benefited.
The Stetson People would lose no time
in getting home If they were to take the
cars as they arrive at Montgomery avenue
instead of cars held up by the inspector.
The people getting on the cars south of
Montgomery avenue would get to their des-
tination earlier. The company would be in
the amount of the wages paid the man they
have stationed there. He is not only use-
less but an actual detrment to transit.
The rule in other parts of the city is that
an intending passenger must wait for a car.
At Montgomery avenue the rule is reversed.
The car waits for the passengers to the dis
comfort and inconvenience of those who
have already paid their fares. ~
l don't believe there is another transit
company in the universe that pays salary
to man to delay traffic and why the p. r.
I. does is mystery to all who patronize
the Fifth street line. B.
Phadelphia, August 2S
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01

grants It became epidemic IN 1909 and
1910, and then was quiescent until this
summer. It is more virulent this year
than ever before. The books say that In
previous years the mortality was not
high. This year the fatalities vary from
twenty 70 thirty per cent, The disease has
increased the August death rate Of this
city. The death rate for the last week OF
the month last year was 1883. For the
week ending last Friday It had risen to
1895. The number of children who died
in the four weeks of August 1915, was
seven hundred and twelve. In the same
period this year the number has been
nine hundred and seventy-twd And the
health authorities, to use Doctor Dlxon's
words, are sleeping with their boots on"
that they may neglect no precaution to
prevent the spread of the disease.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
HOW BRAND BROKE A FRENCH STRIK
When Stopped Work Railway Employees He Forced
Them to Run the Trains Soldiers-Justifed His
Course Essential to National Defense

employees of the Northern Railway and
commanding them to join the colors for
three weeks service. They were liable to
military duty. and when this order was
issued they had to choose between obedi-
ence to the military orders and obedience
to the union leaders. Disobedience of mill
tary orders would be punished by court.
martial. The men preferred to obey the
Government, and soon after trains began
to be run. But the disarrangement of traf.
fic produced a shortage of food in Paris.
Premier BRAND was bitterly attacked
by the Socialists for his revolutionary
methods of settling the strike. He de.
Tended himself, as already noted, by ex-
planning that he had to deal not with
strike in the ordinary sense of the word
but with a criminal outbreak and an act
of rebellion. He charged the men with
breaking faith in quitting work when he
had received their representatives only a
few days before the strike was ordered
and had promised in the name of the
Government to examine their claims. He
said further, that in a majority of in
stances the demand for the minimum
wage had been granted and that at the
very moment the strike was called the
question of hours of wages was under
consideration by the union leaders and
the Ministry of Public Works. And he
declared that in spite of the negotiations
the strike had been declared without
warning and that 1t had been marked
by acts Of criminal violence. The deter.
mined stand of the Government broke the
back of the movement and on October Is.
a week after the men first walked out, the
strike committee declared that the strike
was at an end.
RiOtOus Scenes in Parliament
This manner of settling strike did not
please the political opponents of BRAND.
When Parliament met they began to
attack him. On October 20, In his de.
Tense, M. BRAND declared that il the
Government had not found law which
enabled 1t to control the situation, It would
have made public safety the supreme law
and forced the men to run the trains any,
way.
This declaration provoked an outbreak
OF fury which lasted for an hour, the So.
cialists making It impossible for the
Premier to be heard two feet away from
the rostrum. He explained the next day
that the Government had had no inten-
ton of violating the law and on this dec
laration he was sustained by a vote of
500 TO 1873.
The program Of legislation to which
the Government committed itsslf in order
to make similar crises i'm sssiblel In.
eluded the creation of a permanent con.
eliiation board, the prohibition OF a strike
II arbitration is not accepted or while
the negotiations were In progress and tho
prohibition OF Government employees from
striking under any circumstances.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
A PLAN OF SETTLEMENT

To the Editor OF the EueninO Ledger.
Sir--If the railroad managers allow
strike then they become insolvent auto-
matically and recelvershlp must be an
pointed and the employees deputized Ia
guard and operate the roads. Or if Il is
necessary to have Government ownership
then Congress must at once enact n law
of compulsory arbitration and wage ad.
justment board the members to be an.
pointed by the President for life at a fair
salary Inasmuch as there will not be any
private concern to try to bribe the board
and inasmuch as It's members being ap-
pointed for life, will of course free them
from all political interference. believs
that the employers will be better off than
now, and I am sure the public will be
better protected. OF course the civil sery-
ice regulation will become operative at
once, as each and every employe would
Immediately become member of this de-
partment Within 10 years the Brother
hoods would, of course. become defunct be-
cause of no new members No new employe
would be allowed to join labor organza-
tion because he could not serve the Gov
ernment and an outside party without
being dishonest to one or the other. The
Government must never be hampered in
its departments by strikes, etc.
ROBERT B. NIXON, JR.
Philadelphia, August 20.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
THE AUsTRIANs' RETREAT

THE Austrian plan TO abandon all south
l. eastern Transylvanla to the invader
to shorten the battlsline betrays short
age of men in the Central Powers that
would not have appeared had Rumania
entered the war year ago. With the
genius OF Won Hindenburg at work this
shortage may not result at once in dis
aster for imperiled Austria Hungary.
Germany Is reported TO be ip transports
of joy and restored confidence over the
elevation TO supreme command OF the vic
tor OF Tannenbergs But genius is not
confined to Berlin headquarters. Joffre
showed the grasp OF the master mind in
the way he played" the various success
sive blows at his enemy. for undoubtedly
the Allied stratagem follows his leader
ship. The Russian. Anglo-FFeneh and
Italian drives followed each other about
= month apart. so as successfully 10 tie up
the Teutonie forces and give them ne
chance FOR . careful distribution such as
would have been possible II ali the drives
started at once. The fourth msVs. the
launching OF Rumania's attack. Is timed
Just to the moment when ali available
units are placed AZ points from which
they cannot be removed. and the SUCCESS
Of this strategy Is seen in the Hungarian
withdrawal tram what would have been
+ year aao an easily defended mountain
FAaza.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
If the pemocracy had dacI

II the Democracy had decided to
punish the Republican States for being
Republican, it could not have devised a
more successful plan than is now in op,
sration in the new revenue law. The
income tax on individuals and corpora.
tons and the emergency revenue taxes,
which have produced about s2lo, 600 900,
bear much more heavily on the wealth of
the North than OF the South or West.
One dollar OF these new taxes Is paid by
every s5a6 of the wealth OF New York.
BY every s525 OF the wealth Of Massachu.
setta, s745 of the wealth OF Pennsylvania.
$3.50 OF the wealth OF Illinois, 1880 Of the
wealth Of Georgia. sz7so OF the wealth Of
South Carolina. $500 OF the wealth OF
Oklahoma. ssT00 OF the wealth of Alabama
and $500 OF the wealth OF Mississippi.
The Democracy has defended its course
y announcing that It Is It's purpose 10
Tax wealth. These figures indicate that
7 has taxed not all wealth. but only those
kinas Of wealth that are concentrated In
|Ehe States or the North. This may be
sood politics. but it Is not very good eco
nomIea
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
SUMMER SUN

Great is the sun. and wide he goes
through empty heaven without repose;
AND In the blue and glowing days
more thick than rain he showers his rays
though closer still the blinds We pun
TO keep the shady parlor COOL
let VIII he md a ehink or two
10 slip his golden fingers through.
Ihe dusty attic spider clad
re, through the keyhols. maksth glad
ana through the broken edge OF tiles.
into the ladder hayIoft smiles,
Meantime his golden face around
ne bares 70 al the garden ground,
and sheds q warm and gllttsrins lack
Among the ixys inmest nook.
ApoYe the hills. along the blue.
lsoand kae bright air With footing true.
e plsaze tbs ehlld q paint lie Tess
@ss zezezzles = = - ueala he gees.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
We are livInr In an ape ~ wba,

We are living In an age of what
call factionalism. an age In which
classes are disposed to think that the
happiness of each class is more i'm
portant than the general sum of
happiness of the entire community
and that the members of each class,
denied what they wish, may properly
violate the law, destroy property and
even lives to secure 1t. Such a spirit is
dangerous II Is evidence of lack of
self-restraint without which the bonds
OF society will necessarily be loosed
William III. Taft before the Ameri-
can Bar Association, October 20. 1914.
These remarks. in the course o.
an analysis of the Clayton amendment.
TO the antitrust law, are especially per
tinent just now when one class is plan
ming to hold up the business of tn,
entire country unless it can get what Il
wants
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
Educated Rulers

Editor OF "What Do You Rnoto r"-win
you tell me who is the most educated ruler
of Europe? Us.
One would be inclined to say offhand
''The Kaiser" seeing that your question
seems TO refer to quantity of education
rather than to quality. He is a linguist.
being able to speak English and French as
fiuently as German. He has had thorough
training not only in the principles but in
the practice of military affairs, diplomacy.
legislation, administration, certainly supe-
rlor in quantity to that of other rulers for
the simple reason that he has had more
power and more responsibility than any
other ruler except the Gear. who is not
credited with much intellectual activity
In the course of his long reign he has
kept pace with Germany's great strides in
industry and the arts. and even essays TO
correct the work of artists engaged on pub
lie works. AS for quality of education,
pro-Ally would say the Kaiser was the
worst educated ruler. because he would say
the Kaiser has acted on wrong principles.
and an education In wrong principles is
worse than none. A pro-German would
probably say the opposite.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
Mr.. Garretson admits he has an

Mr.. Garretson admits he has au.
thority TO call off the strike after several
days of trainmen dogmatics to the effect
that no power in heaven or earth or the
waters under the earth could rescind
strike orders once they were given The
strike will be of" according TO the
brotherhood chiefs, with the passage of
an eight-hour day by Congress They
give little more than two days for the
drawing up. consideration. printing and
passage Of this law three times In each
House of Congress. to say nothing of
possible reprinting for typographical mis-,
takes and amendment. and the presiden.
tial signature, which doubtless Mr.. VII.
son will be glad 10 provide between
mouthfuls at dinner. Yet this is an i'm.
mortal piece OF legislation, more lasting
than brass. more stable and imposing
than the pyramidsl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
Tom Days Column

Whenever IT'S Saturday
And rain is strongly raining
I often hear mn mother SAP
Though seldom she's complaining
oh dear oh dear these summer shotc'rs
TheD bring such jro,cning phizzes
And Just behold this house Of ours
IT'S cro,0ded toith gee-tohizzers.
Just iohdt these queer Gee-tChisEers arr
WIN keep you guessing maybe
But siD of them our small house mar
That's all ercept the bdbD.
she does not care hoto much 10 rains
II she can get the scissors
But all the rest our house contains
Are terrible gce.tUhizsers.
Tt's gee tChiz this aud gee tcbis that
From all my many brothers
who cannot use their BAH or bat
Nor eUen dny Others.
oh dear oh dear these summer ShoD'rS
They bring such trocning pmSscs
And Just behold this house Of ours
IT'S crotCdcd tcith gee-Whissers.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01

YES, Briton Uhis in reply to a chirpy
uuery), we read Alfred Noyes's defense of
the realm and found it much like his
verse, Noyesy, but not convincing. If
Easements diary contained confessions
"flthy beyond all description and touch
the lowest depths that human degrade.
ton has ever touched" it would seem to
prove Easement almost as crazy as Conan
Doyle and his brother authors believed
and certainly no more responsible than
the "emotonally insane army officer who
summarily executed Sheehy Skeffington.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
GET A SCIENTIFIC RAILROAD
WAGE SCALE

TNHE local transit company sets aside {
certain proportion of its receipts fol
wages. The men thus share in the pros
perity of the company. Good times for II
are good times for them. The wisdom
of this plan was amply vindcated re
Gently, when an effort to take the men
out on strike met with absolute failure.
Conditions on the steam railroads are
different There are many different
classes of employes--station agents
switchmen and telegraph operators be.
sides the men who run the trains. 1t is
estimated as a matter of fact that the
Pennsylvania Railroad actually pays
forty-five per cent of its receipts to its
employees of all kinds, which is almost
double the proportion the local transit
company is able to pay. The proportion
runs high on all steam roads.
1t is just possible that the Interstate
Commerce Commission could arrive at a
definite percentage of the revenues of a
railroad which the trainmen ought to
get, segregatng the four brotherhoods,
owing to the peculiar nature of their EN-.
same wage for the same work through
out the country although the differences
4. l. "a IL,
whole question of wages on scientific
basis, removing many of the causes for
discomfort which now exist. 1t would
tend to increase efficiency throughout the
service, not only because 1t would be to
keep to minimum the number of men
sharing in the distribution of the proper
tion assigned for wages but also because
better service would mean directly higher
returns for the men.
The present situation is potentially
tragic. 1t leaves the nation at the mercy
of factors over which it has small control.
NO sooner Is one StFlfNe seltleu tHdn dH-
other may be on the way. Each settle.
ment Is a compromise and every compro-
mise is but a postponement. Scientific
management means peace. If 1t means
anything at all. 1t seems, therefore, that
it is the duty of railroad management to
devise some scientific basis for wage
fixing, as has been done locally. a basis
so obviously founded in justice to the en-
ployes that they would find it acceptable.
It is a matter of fact we judge. that
among the rank and file of the tralnmen
themselves there is objection to present
loose methods and to these periodical
strike situations.
Engineers in particular are men on
whom great responsibility rests. They
are special class of workers and entitled
to correspondingly special wages. They
must be men of more than ordinary intel
believe. to accept any system of wage
fixing that was fluid and fair. It took
the country years to find anything like an
adequate system of finance. the system
In vogue being utterly untitled to stand
the tear and stress of panic or other ex-
traordinary conditions. What the coun-
try needs now is scientific method of
wage-fxing for the railroads, with suf-
fcient elasticity to meet varying demands.
1t is unlikely that Congress can devise
such a system. nor is 1t the business OF
Congress to do so. It is the railroad man.
ayers themselves who will eventually
have to take the bull by the horns.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01

infantile paralysis. which Is sup
posed % have been brought into this eoun-
lzs from Europe. attracted little attention
prior 70 1901 IN the ave preceding years
ealg tee hundred cases we're reported
= the whole world. IA the next i've
xaaTa eight Thousand cases we're reported.
e which lleeszerenfhs we're II the United
states Prior . 1907 It occurred here
eaIx soerzdieaily. bal sines then It has
zHzsaa ever the whole country. Il first
zzHszfaa .H keH Kork and Boston. rhen
zHz= 80 - eaI1Hzzz sa Minnesota
szs + Haa supposed e hzzs been ear.
- aa zz1za - sesaia Inlulls
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
Religious Statistics

P. T.-At the present time 1t is estl-
mated there are throughout the world about
560,000,00O Christian adherents. including
27O,00O, 900 Catholics and 170,OO0,0OO Prot
estants; nearly 400, 900, 900 Confucians and
Taolsts, 210,O00.000 followers of Hinduism.
220,000,000 Mahommedans, 100000 900
Buddhsts and 100000 members of the
Jewish faith Latest available figures and
estimates give the population of the earth
at 1,62S, $50, 600 people
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
Canadian Government

H. N. 1.-The fact that she Is part of
the British Empire assures Canada OF the
protection OF the British army and navy
should she ever need It. On the other hand.
Canada Is under no legal reciprocal obliga-
tion whatever to help England. or other
parts OF the British Empire, by furnishing
troops or money In case of war There has
not been the slightest oompulsion upon
Canada as whole to participate In the
present war and not the slightest coercion
upon any one OF the 500. 600 individual
Canadians who hays enlisted for the foreign
service, Canada and her people have done
this principally out Of loyalty for the em-
pire OF which they are part, from which
II Is reasonable to infer that they them
selves hee ample advantage not obvious
70 outsiders for remaining within It. Aside
from having no foreign relations In its own
name. the Dominion OF Canada Is a com
piete government with virtually no restric-
IONS that are, or can be. Imposed By the
British Crown or Parliament Il she likes
eahAaa can go 50 far as to impose a dis
efliaaltAllhs taFiH On goods from another
sssssssz s 40 etaef parts Of the empire
Eas 4ha has no voice i the postal safr,es
4e1tla ease4 ton militia. taxatlon. religion
g z14 g ne azhen mater ana mines 80
=sz'zz zz -
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
JoHN PHIL1P sousA had Inc hon

JOHN PHILIP sOusA had the honor
of meeting our Missus and Helen Prich-
ard, the other evening. We went in to tell
him how we'll he wears and we made it
unanimous. John Philip is no slouch at
the blarney stuff himself THE Missus
and l." we said, "are particularly inter
ested in you. You helped to launch us
upon our honeymoon when we married
in June" and before we could add 1896
This June?" said he.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
OPTIMISM

A CHICAGO business man says Mr.. Will
n son has got US out of more trouble
that he has got us into than any other
President we ever had. Ills cleverness
at epigram is only equaled by his opti-
mism.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01
QUIZ

1. What was the "lalsser faire" doctrine?
g. What Is II martinez?
3. What is n traCk-walker?
!. Explain the phrase "walking the plank"
5. How IL "Cholmondeley" pronounced?
9. What Is bnnshee:
I. What are "dnta"P
3. What is fiscal year? -,
o. Who are the WallOOns?
10. What drug Is obtained from the poppy?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-01

The tentative agreement to put
s5,oO0,ooo for transit in the new bond is
sue indicates that it pays for the friends
of improved transportation facilities to
keep everlastingly at it,