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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
WORLD AUTO CENSUS.

A recent issue of Horseless Age
contains what purports to be a motor
census of the world a tabulation, by
countries, of all the automobiles in
use throughout the civilized and semi
civilized world. How exactly accu-
rate the census may be there is, Of
course, no means of telling, except in
such countries as the United States,
where a license law ta27es toll of every
such vehicle, b1t the figures present
ed may be taken as approximately
correct.
The most remarkable feature of the
census is the showing made by the
United States, which has more than
three times as many automobiles as
all the rest of the world. The grand
total amounts to 3,108,49S, and of this
the autos of the United States num-
Der 100000, leaving but ,4S9 out
side.
No other nation In the world ap-
breaches the United States in the
number of automobiles. The nearest
IS Great Britain, which has 276,690,
approximately one-tenth as many,
while France, which is third, has but
9s,400, and Germany but 7l,455. Can
ada, our neighbor to the north, ranks
fifth with $500, and then comes Aus
tralia, with 20,350; Russia, with 49,
800; Austria, with 1850; Italy, with
1900; Argentine, with 1850, and
New Zealand, with 10000 None of the
other nations possesses more than
10000 automobiles and only six-Bel-
GUM, Spain, South Africa, Denmark
Dutch East Indies and India-possess
more than 1000 autos, with little Bel
GUM leading the list with 9,400.
Autos are to be found, according to
the census, in the most out of the
way places, where one would hardly
imagine they could have penetrated
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07

Fraulein Bertha Hauck left Germa.
ny just before the breaking out of the
pan-European war to come to America.
She was to be followed by lover,
Gustav Schultz, young musician.
They were both Of the more refined
class of Germans, but not noble. Their
finances were cramped, and 1t was i'm
possible for them TO marry and live
among the people with whom they had
been used to associate. In America they
could earn living as they would not
like to earn It where they were known.
Bertha had enough money saved to
enable her to cross the ocean, and 1t
was decided that she should come over
in advance of her lover, who was serv-
ing his time Of military service, which
would not expire for several months.
Bertha was to look into the new coun-
try and. IL possible, make an engage
ment for him with An orchestra. In
this way they might be self support
ing at once on Gustav's arrival.
Bertha arrived in New York, found
friends who had come over years be-
fore and as soon as she had settled
herself went out to look for an engage
ment for Gustav. She met the leader
of an orchestra, who promised her that
as soon as her lover arrived he would
give him a trial. All was arranged,
and the girl was expecting her lover to
sail for New York when news came
that Germany had declared war upon
Russia, and the rush Of German troops
into Belgium commenced.
From that day forward the fraulein
heard nothing Of her lover. She knew
that, since war had been declared, he
would not be permitted to come away
even If he had chosen to come Then
came news of the fighting in Belgium,
followed by more than a year of war
fare. Bertha heard nothing from Gus
tay nor from any Of her relatives. She
had no great expectation of hearing
from her lover, but thought she should
hear from her mother and sisters.
That she did not was probably because
the censorship had caused the destruc-
ton of letters that might have been
mailed to her.
At last, after waiting a year, letter
came stating that Gustav had been
reported among the missing several
months before, and since nothing later
had been heard from him he was un.
doubtedly dead.
Bertha mourned for him as lost.
True, if he were dead his identified
ton badge should have been found.
But If man is buried under tons of
earth caused by explosion or blown
into numerous fragments what good
is an identification badge? Neverthe-
less the poor girl had ray Of hope
that Gustav lived and that they would
one day be reunited.
Bertha was very handy with her
brush and had the faculty of designing
cards and other things needed at So
cial functions. In this way she made
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
OF ILLINOIS,

and armor manufacturers OF the world
in my remarks published in the Con-
gressional Record on Feb. 10, 1915
and see II we can make head or tail
out Of it. One would think that il the
Navy league of the United States was
wholly sincere in its fear that this
country, because of its alleged made
quate navy, is in real danger OF de-
struction at the hands of Germany or
some other foreign power that the last
thing that Navy league officers would
want to see would be propaganda In
Germany to greatly increase the naval
forces of that country.
Yet the Navy league Of the United
States. through its official organ, the
Navy League Journal, has enthusiastic
cally Landed the work and the spirit
and the results of the propaganda car
ried on by the British Navy league, the
Deutscher Flooten-Verin (the German
Navy league), Ligue Maritime Fran
caise 1.-THE French Navy league), Lega
Navale Italiana (the Italian Navy
league), Ligue Maritime Beige (the
Belgian Navy league), Liga Naval Por-
tugueza (the Portuguese Navy league),
and Liga Martina Espanola (the
Spanish My league) And l have no
doubt there are japanese and Chinese
navy leagues, too, if l could but find
some one to interpret the contents OF
their newspapers and navy journals.
AS between themselves the navy
leagues are mostly brotherly and
Christianlike.
! Upon the death of General Henry H.
Boyce, secretary of the Navy league
of the United tSates in 1913, the league
ireceived the following condolences
from the German Navy league:
Business Headquarters of the Ger
man Navy League, Berlin, Oct. 20,
1913.-To the Navy League of the Unit
ed States, 80 Broadway, New York
City: We have seen in the newspaper,
with sincere sympathy, that your bust
ness chairman, Herr General Henry H.
DOyCS, has lOSt liiS illC ILL ouSii OK az
cident We regret that this energetic
gentleman, who labored for your cause
with such zeal and ability, has been
taken away from you. Requiescat in
pace.
I'VE trust that the successor of
Herr Boyce may be equally as kindly
disposed toward our German Navy
league, and that he will also observe
! the motto, May peace ever be main
tanned between the United States and
Germany
/ With the greatest respect,
"MENGES,
Major General in active service and
Business Chairman OF the German
! Navy League"
! You will notice from this misssive
that navy leagues have business head
quarters" and that the business chair
man" of the German Navy league hopes
that the new business secretary of the
Navy league of the United States will
be as Kindly disposed toward the Ger
man Navy league" as General Boyce
had been.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
The Daily Story
The First Violin-By Louise B. Cummings.

quite snug sum Of money ana :,
frugal. had held on to nearly an s -.
She met a countryman OF bsrs
artist much older than herself :, %
paid her a great deal Of attent,o, "ho
ended by proposing marriage r p.i
Bertha's heart was with her jo,.. Da'
he alive or dead. and she Womb :. "
listen to any other man. H0
Bertha's friends endeavored =.
her by trying to induce her to "a aSss.
with them to amusements. shs Nh,
ed so far as music and picturae ~. E
concerned, but would not 90 anywhe.
else. Finally by holding up to her ~
fact that many scenes of moyin, ~
ture plays were beautiful they erci,..
some interest In them. When tb..
told her that pictures of scenes IN ~.
great European war were given *.
was only too ready to see them.
She had been number Of Tina :,
see pictures embodying military ,ery
ice when one night the msrch,no :,
the French rear Of a number OF O.,
man prisoners was given. What was
her establishment TO see. pale and ha,.
gard, a bandage on his forehead. var
Ing on crutch while he held nm ON,
foot, Gustav Schultz. She at onca \.
came hysterical and was taken on, 4,
the building.
When she became sufficiently calm IN
tell what had moved her, inouir,e,
were made In her behalf as to the tims
the picture which included her love,
had been taken. An approximate dat
was given and was found to be nea,Iv
coincident with that at which Gustav
was reported missing.
Thinking it possible that her love,
was alive and in a French hospisl
Bertha determined to 60 and seek him
She crossed the ocean to England and
from there went to Paris. At Par,
she learned at what camp the prison.
ers taken In the fight after which GA
tav was reported missing were intern.
ed, and there she went. Upon examIn.
ing the rolls she found her lover,
name as an inmate of hospital.
One morning while Sergeant Schulz
was lying on his cot reading a news
paper, an autumn sun shining at near
window, he heard a cry, and, looking
up, there was Bertha staggering to
ward him with open arms. In another
moment she had clasped him and be
her in an embrace.
Schultz was expecting that Il he was
ever returned to Germany he would BE-
discharged from the service, for Bis
foot had been so shattered that be
would never be able to walk upon |,
again except with difficulty. he had
exchanged a good foot for the Iron
cross, which he considered a fair e1
change. Bertha's story excited good
deal Of interest and sympathy among
the French officers, who finally obtain
ed permission for Gustav to embars
for America.
He is now in New York, first violin
list in an orchestra.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07

neutrality-suspicious. of The AS
ISOLATED Press "A more aggressive
campaign against tuberculosis IN
Japan is being urged by Doctor Shl-
basaburo Kitazato, one of the leading
bacterioligists of the Empire. Through
his magazine, the Anti-TubercLiosls
Quarterly, DR.. Kitzato calls attention
to the fact that a singular condition
| in Japan is the large number OF tu-
berculosis cases among the school
teachers of the country. Among the
grammar school teachers the death rate
from tuberculosis is "a per 10000 an
nually. The death rate from tuber-
culosis for the whole country is II per
| 10000.
! The scientist thinks that the high
death rate among the teachers is one
of the cause of disease among young
men of CONSUMPTION age which causes
so much apprehension among the army
authorities Systematic efforts are be-
ing made in the schools to strengthen
the physique of the young men by
physical exercise and by affording am
pie light and air. The doctor says that
in other countries when the disease
of the teacher is diagnosed as tubercu-
losis he is not longer permitted to teach
and children showing a predisposi-
ton to the disease are taught in sep
arate classrooms.
AS for appearance of consumption
in districts hitherto spared, such, for
example, as mountainous regions, DR.
Kitazato blames the conditions in fac
tories in the cities. The factory girl
he declares, who has contracted the
malady in the factory returns to her
native village and infects others. He
says that there are 100000 factory girls
in Japan and that the yearly death
rate is about 5000, of whom $500 sue
cumb to tuberculosis.
He adds: Most of the factory girls
live in dormitories. Space is at prem
ium in these dormitories, usually abou
six feet square for three girls. Ii
many instances two girls are required
to sleep in one bed. Then again tht
girls are usually divided into TIVE
shifts. The girls of the night shift
sleep in the day time and work a
night The girls of the day shift re
turn and enter the very beds just va
Gated. No opportunity to air the bed
ding is given"
DR.. kitazato expects to start a spe
cial hospital to treat consumption
cases and he believes sanatoriums will
be gradually increased throughout thu
empire as financial conditions permit
If better methods of preservation ant
cure are adopted the scientist de-
clares he Is confident that within few
decades tuberculosis will PRACTICAL,
disappear from Japan.
SO far as observation by foreigner,
is concerned the spread of tuberculo
sis is in part due to the frequent con
struction Of Japanese houses in low
areas where the sun rarely enters anl
to the habit of tightly closing window,
and doors during the hours of sleep.
en-Tsn.-t Correspondence of Tn,
Associated Press More than 1905
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
Nora Bayes in Vaudeville.

81 feel o so lonesome. I've put my
little car up for the winter. l had to
put it away in a big garage, and I
know it will be homesick. There were
tears in it's eyes as put on its little
muffler. There were tears in its
lamps, too.
Nov, don't have anything to do
with those wicked foreign cars l said.
"Boo-hoo, you've always been a good
little car-on the level. And you
were such good tree climber.
We've had such jolly times togeth-
err, me and you, little car. Even the
tires had their blow-outs, too.
This is a horrid garage. I don't
want you to have anything to do with
that bunch of nuts in the corner. And
don't speak to that REQ car. 1t was
named after Rio in Brazil, where the
walnuts come from.
you may play with the Saxon as
long as it stays neutral. And the
Flivver is rafting good little car.
1t rushes in where Packards fear to
tread.
80, look OF that stuck-up car. That
painted thing. Don't have anything
to do with it. I just know it's a
French model. There's something
wrong with its chassis. And it's wear
ing diamond tiresi
eff it tries to get too differential
with you, just use your shock alb
sorber And maybe you'd better put
up your mud guards, too.
20 dear, what will you do without
my hand to guide you?
"Now, don't go upstairs where all
those delivery wagons are. 1 don't
want you to have anything to do with
such truck Don't worry about the
garage bill, little car. After all, it's
the woman that pays, it's the woman
that pays.
80, the dear little thing! It's wagon
it's tail lamp at mel"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07

The armor, munition, steel, copper
and nickel iterests in this country are
proceeding to make new business in
the same manner that these interests
have operated in other countries. The
idea of navy league" aid not orig
mate in this country, but was copied
from Germany and Great Britain. In
both countries the moving spirits be-
hind such organizations have been
shown to be the individuals who would
profit from the increased appropria-
| tions for navalism.
There also are navy leagues in
France, Italy, Belgium, Portugal, and
Spain. Those who manufacture guns,
armor, and battleships realize that
there is no better way to agitate for in
creased ornaments than by making
use of the patriotism of the masses.
And the munitions patriots find that
the most practical way to turn patri-
otism into private profits is to create
the impression that certain power is
a menace. The more definite and i'm
mediate the menace" can be pictured
the larger and quicker the response
and the greater the profits.
Strange to say, the various navy
leagues have been on the most friendly
terms with one another and have coop
Grated, eulogized and encouraged each
other in the most rrotherly fashion.
This is decidedly armoresque.
The navy leagues of the various
powers cooperate with one another
just as the armament interests do, and
there is a reason. They are the arm
ament interests, with large member
| ships of sincere, patriotic men and
women and many Of the most promin-
ent citizens roped in through false pre-
! tense.
! 1t may be asked how it is to the in
| terest of the armament concerns of
| one country to see another nation en-
larging its naval building program. II
| should be remembered that the leading
nations of the world fix their building
programs in proportion to the size OF
/ the programs of the other powers. II
one power increases the size of its
| fleet by two or three dreadnoughts the
other powers feel that they must dc
the same Thus it works as an endless
chain, and there is no limit save the
ultimate physical inability of the peo-
Piles of the earth to bear the burdens
of taxation, which in this country are
felt in the form of increase in the cost
of living.
Admiral Dewey. for instance, says
that the fleet of the United States
should be larger than that of Great
Britain by 1925. But by 1925 the feet
of Great Britain may be twice its pres.
ent size. If it is a good policy for the
United States to have larger feet
than that of Great Britain it is a good
thing for Great Britain to have larg-
er feet than that of the United States
And so on.
The armament interests of one ma
ton, therefore, like nothing better
than to see rival nation greatly in
crease its navy. And the navy leagues
being in reality the armament inter
ests, do not look with disapproval up
On the efforts of foreign navy leagues
Let us analyze this fraternal spiri
which exists among navy leagues
and which / endeavored to show ex
listed so extensively between powder
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07

During the eclipse of the sun an
astronomer at st. Louis discovered
several spots on that orb, the largest
of which is $4,000 miles long. He as
sures US, however, that these spots
have no special significance and while
they will continue throughout this
year they will not reappear until 1927
We should be most concerned with the
troubles of the earth-the heavenly
bodies are taking care of themselves.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
Pointed Paragraphs.

If you stand UP for yourself others
can't sit down on you.
Brotherly love as \practiced by most
men isn't even platonic.
Why is it that so few married wo-
men have the gum habit?
Job was a patient man, who never
had occasion to telephone when the
line was busy.
AS a money-getter the self-made
man may not class with the machine
made politician.
Tact is what woman uses who can
propose to man in such a way that
he did it himself.
A woman may be lucky to have no
sense of humor if she is compelled by
fate to associate with cyclists of the
male species.-Chicago News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
CHORDS AND
DLSCORDS
"NEWSPAPER RHYMES.

NENSPAPEk XIII MES.'
Like flowers that blossom by life's
dusty ways;
Like sunshine, that lightens the dull,
heavy days;
Like music, that over earth's discord
still chimes;
SO welcome to thousands are news
paper rhymes"
Their style may be lacking rhetorical
skill;
The lofty browed critics may slight
them, yet still,
Though guilty of all the colloquial
crimes,
Mems hearts find an echo in news
paper rhymes"
A stanza of courage, a verse of good
cheer,
tear,
A 1augh-rousing tilt at some fad Of
the times
These make the enjoyment of news
paper rhymes"
Their works in fine volumes may never
be bound;
Their names as Who's Who-ists may
never be found;
But if to the zenith their fame never
climbs,
Here's luck to the writer's Of news
paper rhymes"
New York Times.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07

In German embassy quarters at
Washington the Appam incident is re-
ported to have been regarded with
considerable amusement while "a per-
son connected with the British en-
bassy" said rather a deucedly clever
trick, don't you Think" 1t was a
deucedly clever trick and, besides, it
was so refreshingly free from fright
fulness" that friend and foe alike can
applaud it as a feat Of German sea
Strategy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
Daily History ClaSs--FeD. T.

1907 Bloody and indecisiye oa'es
Eylau: French under Aap w
fought against Russians and iiss
SLAMS. =.
i904-The most destructive IRE III -
history of Baltimore laid IN ~
lao acres in the heNrt of the Wy
loss $4,000 o0o 49,.
1915 BY a swift forced march tas Va !,
mans turned the Russian hauA 4
Johannesburg. in East Prussia ~
forced the enemy into a disaseVs
retreat to Russian territory
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07

A New York man is suing his wife
for divorce. Now what do you think
she did? Beat him with her corset.
And any fellow who has looked IN
show window during the past few
years can realize what a terrible
weapon the modern corset is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07

Our Jewish friends are pretty care
full of their cash in a general way, but
they never count their money when
the question of relief for members Of
their race reaches the Crucial. The
money rings on the table before the
appeal is fairly finished.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
Rock Island-From River to
River.

A diamond ring on the third
finger of a girls left hand will do more
to excite a neighborhood than war,
pestilence and famine.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
tuto Note.

Sign in Blakesburg Iowa) garage
reads:
Its easy enough to be pleasant
when your automobile is in trim, but
the man worth while is the man who
will smile when he has to ride back
en- the rim
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07
With the greatest respect,
"MENGES,
It's Difficulty,

There is one thing contrary about
a ship"
Whats that?'
1T is when she's tied up that she
can.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07

Chicago, Feb. Anton Gunierny,
who was shot by holdup men yesterday
and robbed of s25 as he lay wounded
in the street died today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-02-07

Tien-Tsin.--tCorrespoudence of The
Associated Press. More than 1000
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-10
GERMANS ASKED
TO MAKE CHANGE
IN FORM OF NOTE
WILL SHOW THAT
AGREEMENT Is OUTCOME OF
y. s. PROTESTS.

Washington, D. c., Feb. 9.-Ger-
many's latest proposal in the Lusi-
tania case having proved, in sub
stance, satisfactory to the United
States, final settlement of the contro-
versy is expected within few days.
Some alterations, however, in the
form of the agreement, regarded as
minor ones, are to be made to meet
the wishes of the American govern
ment and involve the dispatch of the
proposal again to the Berlin foreign
Office. One Of the changes, it is stated
authoritatively, is that the commun1-
cation shall specifically include the
statement that 1t was in answer to the
last American note. ...r .
The changes were suggested to
Count Won Bernstorff, the German am
bassador, by Secretary Lansing, after
President Wilson and his cabinet had
gone over the latest proposal of Ger
many. The ambassador submitted the
whole question by cable to the Berlin
government for final approval. 1t is
said that reply will be forthcoming
in about six days.
In Teutonic diplomatic circles today
the belief was expressed that the pro-
posed changes would be accepted by
the Berlin foreign ONCE.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-10
Continued on Page 8.
TO-DAY IN CONGRESS

Thorre OF Iowa ats3s
tackled attitude OF Louis d. Bran
deis in the five per cent railr0Ad1
rate case before judiciary subcom
mittee considering Mr.. Brandeing|
nomination to the supreme court.
Foreign relations committee
recommended ratification Of HaitienS
treaty.
Secretary Daniels, before publi61
lands committee, opposed openinH|
of western oil lands to public.
HOUSE-Hearings on national de-
tense continued by military and
naval affairs committees. N &;
Witnesses in impeachment pro-
ceedings against United States Afs|
torney Marshall OF New York heAr
In executive session by judiciary
subcommittee. .sSI