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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-18
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when the train from Sew York rolled
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hlnachers ana gradstaud Manager
Rowland. first 10 set foot on tho plat
form was caught q q yelling surg
ing mob of superenthusIasti fans
FaiscH. Gandf Jackson. 5ehatN and
McMulHu tried To fight their way
through and gave lt up From track
to track and for almost the entire
length Ut the train shed it was one
JOYOUS. handgrabhing mob. bent en-
making the homecoming one when
would make New York jealous
Thousands failed 90 get inside.
These helped 10 block tic streets OUT
side When the Naval Reserve band
opened up as the engine showed around
the bend those I'm the distance knew
that big happenings were about TO
transpiro. and all the peut-up cnthus-
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-18
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pain or danger. No cutting,
nioroform or injection. No
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reatments at our Office and
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you up or make you sore.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-18
EIARQUARD FINED FOR
HURLING EXHIBITIONS

%e& ors oat l>A cr#mu aE $500
was pat p Euhe Aarquara bank roll
yesterday when President EbDets of
Brooklyn notified him he had been
fined for pitching for the All-Starz
against the Lincoln Giants last Sun
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-18
Ton Ehcy Bamser.

A couple Of years ago when
,Ioughey Ramser. the Loraln tO4
lightweight. was new In the fight
game he was popular as a ssfreakv
tighter. and one able to take all sorts
O. punishment. Ramser has learned
10 box since and his easy victories
over some Of the best lghta.aighrs
haze brought him to the attention az
promoters who are planning 70
match him with Johnny Dundee.
IRISH Patsy Cline or Benny Leonard.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30

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= WHEN THE FLAG GOES BY. =
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(Thus speaks Private Thompkins, vet
eran of foreign service.)
Love of the flag? Well, what do you
know of it?
What do the men of your kind ever
show of it,
But stand on your legs when the colors
go by
And yelp with the others, and never
know why?
What do you know who dodge air the
wars
And don't know the colors, except at
bazaars
Love of the flag? Well, what do you
know of it?
Men of your kind who never saw the
glow of it
Against a black sky at the end of the
day
With crimson and daylight we're ebbing
away?
What do you know, who never sur
mise
How easy a soldier can smile when he
dies?
Love of the flag? Well, what can you
tell of it
Never saw a battle and don't know
the smell of it?
And yet you will boast of your love
for the flag,
And don't know the cost of the starry
old rag.
Don't know the cost in death and in
And don't stop to think of the debt
that you owe it.
Love of the flag? Well, if you would
know of it.
Cut on the skirmish line men make a
show OF it;
It's not the bright colors you see at
bazaars,
Put tattered and frazzled by heath
enish wars!
Hark while the sergeant is checking
the Lost
That's love of the flag and the price
that it cost.
John D. Wells.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30

Just at present the whole school is
interested in our May Day Festival,
which will take place on Tuesday.
May LIST.
The May queen contest closed last
Monday and Hulet Humber was elected
queen. Forty-seven hundred votes
were cast. This means forty-seven dol
lars for our library Of course, it is a
great help to us.
1t surely has been hot lately, and
the basket ball games have about
stopped. The girls didn't play game
Friday. because it was so hot. Most OF
them were eating ice cream cones and
getting cooled off, instead of playing a
hot basket ball game.
In our May festival next Tuesday,
Mary Bowers will be the Spirit OF
America" She will have five maids
and so will the May Queen (Hulet
Humber. The May queens maids are
Lolita Physioc, Elizabeth Sheffield,
Kathrine Sanborn, Lucille Tomlinson
and Anna Belle Capien. Mary Bow
er's maids are Halle Walker, Frances
Sparks, Elizabeth Jacobs, Mary Griffin
and Marie Bell.
Miss Mexican says she is going to
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30

teach the girls to knit instead of make
embroidery, because they might have
to be knitting clothes for the soldiers
and themselves, too. Most of them
have finished their gowns and they
Will be put on exhibit on the day Of
the May festival. Part of the art ex-
I.ibit has already been tackled up in the
han, but we will have some more left
Tuesday
Last Thursday, as you remember,
was Memorial Day. We marched up
town and gathered around the monu-
rlent and sang, Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp" and THE Bonnie Blue Flag
Pins and rosebuds were distributed to
the girls of the Seventh grades and
they pinned the roses ON the Confed-
crate veterans, while the boys took
the other flowers and laid them on the
monument. Some of these flowers were
,afterWard taken to the cemetery, and
lu1u OIl Tic 5idfGo VI L1C NSau' LIS
year the High school cadet corps fired
the salute over the graves. instead Of
the A. L. I. boys.
IN the last few weeks the sixth and
seventh grade girls have been selling
ice cream cones to make money to
frame our pictures. Each grade would
sell it a week. They sold it from
Miss McKean's little dining room. 1t
was nice to go to the door and give a
nickel and get a cone heaped with ice
cream. Sometimes, we had strawber-
ry and sometimes vanilla and choco-
late. We also sold weiner sandwiches
some time ago. but now we want some
thing cooler. We've made good deal
OF money selling ice cream cones and
sandwiches. It is a pretty good sum
for just four weeks.
Lately the boys have been hitting
the basket ball with their fists and
Miss Lizzie took it away from them.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30
NAVY TELLS Of TIE /
WAYS PEOPLE MAY
SERVE THE NATION |

The most valuable service that those
unable to enlist themselves can per-
form for their country at the present
time is to get men enlisted in the navy.
While it is important to get men for
other branches of the service, the need
OF the navy for enlisted men is imme-
date. Owing to the shortage of Off
| GERS and men of the regular navy, it
is physical impossibility for the navy
to recruit men needed with the re-
quisite speed. 1t is impossible for the
navy department to furnish recruiting
literature, posters, pamphlets, etc, fast
enough 1t is, therefore, necessary
that thousands of patriotic people,
both men and women who wish to help
their country at the present time, take
steps to obtain men for the navy.
Doctors can render valuable SER
vice by volunteering to conduct pre-
liminary examinations at the home of
the applicant.
The following plan is suggested for
any given locality.
Form committee having represent
atives from all the towns and villages
in the district selected.
This committee collect funds.
Obtain samples of recruiting posters,
literature, etc., from the nearest re-
cruiting office and have these printed.
Obtain automobiles and enough per-
sons to form recruiting parties, includ-
ing women, the automobiles to be US
ed to hunt recruits and transport them
to the doctors to be examined. Doc
tors will be furnished pamphlets show
ing physical requirements for recruits
Of the navy.
Send applicants passing the physical
examination to the nearest recruiting
station. Provision should be made for
return of applicant to his home in
case he does not pass examination at
recruiting station.
1t is suggested that committee in
Guide postmaster principals and teach
ers of high schools, Y. NJ. c. A. repre-
sentatives and doctors.
An applicant between II and 1SI
should procure an affidavit from his
parents, or guardian, consenting to his
enlisting in the navy to serve until
81, and stating the date and place OF
birth. An applicant over eighteen
should present evidence of the place
and date of his birth.
Georgia and Florida are asked to
furnish 600 men at once to fill the
quota asked for by the president. Ev-
eryone should begin recruiting for the
navy, for the need of men is urgent.
a recruiting station is located in
Americas at the postoffice building.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30
ENGLAND CALLS FOR
MORE VOLUNTEERS

LONDON, April 3O.-"I want at least
100000 volunteers"
Neville Chamberlain, England's di-
rector of national service, has begun
his spring drive"
Great Britain's army will require
large drafts of men during the coming
ummer, to replace those killed, wound
ed and tired out in the coming big
push" on the western front.
Chamberlain believes that these re-
cruits can only be found in industries
which are essential to the war. Prac~
ticalIy every Briton of military age and
fit, not engaged in an indispensable
occupation" has put on, or been forced
into khaki. The coming levy to replen-
ish the fighting forces of the empire
will call up men employed in indus
tries of primary Importance.
Substitutes for these men, therefore,
must be found.
Not only must their places be filled,
but the tireless director is planning to
extend the national service in many
directions. Lloyd-George has said, and
all England knows, that such service,
together with rigid food economy and
reciprocal methods on the high seas,
Is vital factor in the war against the
submarine blockade. If national SER
vice slackens through failure of the
nations manhood to respond to the
call, the output of food, clothing and
all essentials will be seriously dimin-
ished.
THE labor of the country must be
organized" Chamberlain said, in max
ing his new appeal for half million
recruits for the land army" Men
must be transferred from the less es-
sential industries to those of first i'm
portance.
"One of the principles of national
service is that every man should be put
to do the work that he is best able
to do
THE nation today needs 1000 ship
builders, 1850 miners, 5000 aeroplane
builders, 5000 iron and steel workers,
and 1000 quarrymen. Large numbers
of men are also wanted for operations
connected with shell and projectile
factories.
The work of national importance
cannot be allowed to languish while
there are over 100000 men engaged
i'll on-essential trades. Take birds
eye-view of the situation. Picture so
many people engaged in their own af-
fairs and so many soldiers, sailors and
industrial workers striving for victory
against a well-disciplined and terrible
enemy-striving and calling for help"
Just as surely as England enforced
CONSUMPTION to replenish the ranks of
her army, when voluntary enlistment
failed, so surely will she conscript ex-
empted men from private business to-
serve the nations needs, if sufficient
volunteers are not forthcoming in an
swer to the directors call.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30
should be decided.


While the negroes of Louisville, KY,
and other cities are contesting for th1
right to occupy houses side by side
with white people, Atlanta negroes i'll
the main have been content to stay to
and build up their own Sec
lions, making them as attractive as
possible.
Near the heart of Atlanta is large
section occupied almost exclusively by
negroes, and known as "Darktown" in
police court parlance. The negroes
have their regular business concerns
and live to themselves almost as much
as if their community were entirely
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30
separate from any other.

separate from any other.
Atantas segration ordinance has
been held unconstitutional by the SUI
preme court of Georgia. While this
particular ordinance has not been TAX
en- to the United States supreme court
the others now pending there involve
the same points of law.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30
ATLANTA NEGROES CONTENT
TO STAY IN OWN SECTIONS

Atlanta. Ga, April 3O.-The case
now pending in the United States SUI
preme court over the validity of negro
segration ordinances in numerous
southern cities, including Atlanta and
several others, will probably have no
marked effeeta here, whichever way 1t
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30
MUSIC STUDY CLUB
TO MEET WEDNESDAY.

Miss Emmae Borum will entertain
the Music Study club at it's regular
meeting Wednesday morning. Much
interest is attached to the meeting, be-
cause a number of the members at
tended Grand Opera during last week
in Atlanta.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30
KRUWN-BALCH.

Mr.. and Mrs. Mack Ross Brown, of
Parrot, Ca, announce the engagement
of their daughter, Ollie Belle, and Mr..
George Roscoe Balch, of Ensley, Ala,
the wedding to take place in late June.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-04-30
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.

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EDIlOR-N-CHIEF-
Elizabeth Sheffield.
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Halle Walker.
Frances Sparks.
Susie Johnston.
Courtney Iyey.
Marvin Giddings.
Norman Mcleod.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-07
FOOD BOARD IS help
TO WORKERS here
Expert Declare. that Living Cost,
Can Be Reduced.

It's an III war that does no one good.
Despite ats horrors and sacrifices, the
present war with Germany promises
% make living conditions for the
,workng ,g classes far more tolerable
tnan they are at present.
The first big beneft will come from
the Food Administration Board when
living costs viii be lowered.
There Is no doubt whatsoever among
tne members of the food administra-
uon' from Herbert c. Hoover down,
but that food costs can be lowered
from 10 to 20 per cent in this country.
First action to lower the food costs
Tor the working classes will be the
/ elimthatton Of the middlenen's profits,
oy the absorption by. the government
Is unnecessary and Is exacting a profit
out Of proportion to his services.
In the second place the mere fact
that there Is a food administration
set up by the Federal government, will
So, 40 much to prevent speculation and
which is normal under existing cir
cumstances.
Speculation, which all food econo-
mists are ready to admit is the cause
for many Of the pres ent high prices,
viii be wiped out ty The Food ad-
IL England, hard pressed as she
Is by the submarine warfare, can sell
foodstu1s imported from America at
prices lower than We can buy them in
our own country, there is no doubt
Dut that the prices in this country are
unjust and abnormal" one food expert
said today. But It Is a fact that II
Is possible to buy food in London res
taurants at prices far below that
for which you could buy the same
foods here, despite the fact that much
OF 1t is imported into England from
the United States"
The Washington herald., 1917-06-07
inquiry ON STRIKE
Will CLOSE TODAY
Senators, Weary with Affair, Ready
for Arguments.

The end Of the long-drawn-out in.
yesugation OF the strike on the Wash.
ington Railway and Electric COMPANY
has been fixed by the Senate fnVesti.
eating committee to close today. ne.
ginning at $50 the committee viii
give counsel an opportunity OF closins
their arguments. which are expected
TO be finished by 6:s0 o'clock al the
latest. Chairman Pittman OF the
committee indicated strongly that the
patience Of the committee was nearly
exhausted.
The committee will decide TODAY
whether II will permit ATTORNEY
Hoover for the railway company, to
present evidence tending 70 show that
the union wanted TO plunge the city
into darkness 70 aid the strike. This
evidence is regarded as necessary IN
order TO prove that union men had st-
tempted TO coerce and intimidate men
employed on the lines
The testimony Of the strikers was to
the enect that the union was not con-
nected in any way with reports OF
violence committed during the strike
period.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-07
MOSBY'S MEN RECALL
DARING RAIDS OF '6l
Partisan Rangers Plunged Through
Union Lines Time and Again.

Mosby's men held a little reunion
yesterday at the Confederate Me-
mortal Home at 1922 Vermont ave-
nue..
Among the famous fighters were
John Russell, OF Clarke County,
who was one of the most daring
scouts in the Confederate army and
Mosby's right-hand man; Frank
Raum, Of Richmond; Capt. Charles
P. Huntington, Of this city; Bart
lett Boiling. of Charlottesville, va. :;
Frank Angelo, of this city; Robert
Harrover, of this city; T. B. Rec
tor, j. p. Simpson. and many others
who had followed Mosby's plume
in the smoke of battle.
The veterans related to visitors
how, under an act of the .Confed-
crate congress, power was given
Mosby to recruit a body to be
known as the Partisan Rangers"
the Forty-third Battalion. of Vir-
ginia Cavalry, and how he was or
dered by Gen. Lee to occupy that
portion of Northern virginia later
known as 'Mosbys Confederacy"
That section was really in the
hands Of the Union, but young Mos
by gathered 400 daring Spirits and
ratded through the Union lines time
and again.
When Sheridan. in the Valley of
Virginia, wanted to go to Rich
mond with $4,000 men, Mosby's men
tore up the railroad. which ran
from the valley east, ana Sheridan
had to give UP the trip.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-07
VISITORS "PLAY HOB"
At NATIONAL MUSEUM
Real Old-Fashioned Southern Party
Grows Out of Reception.

About Loo veterans and their friends
played hob" with the National Mu-
scum last night. They were supposed
70 70 pe attending a reception given by
the ne DDIstrict or Colsmhia Daughters OF
the Confcderacy, but who cares about
receptions when there's a chance to
party?
The reception began along conven-
tlonal lines at about $50 O'Clock. The
! museum th guards. who, incidentally. are
the most scandalously proper persons
south Of the Arctic circle. shooed near.
ly loo people down one aisle toward
receiving line and the other zoo went
OF their own accord.
uL1,d In the reSeiying, line were Mrs.
maude Howell Smith. Mrs. J. E: Null
0denheiner. Mrs. Z. C. r. Humphries,
Miss Helen Griffith and a dozen or so
ether ladies. who shook hands with
the LOO, but around 1880 o'clock the
veterans began looking for excitement.
rine Band, or a good;sIzed piece of 1t.
was footing out Dixie" 'In the
Cleaning" DAY OF Jubilee" ana all
the rest Of the real songs that never
Will die. when all of a sudden It swung
into something with a one-step zip to
It, and the crowd was OF.
In a twinkling, there were a dozen
couples spinning about the big floral
centerpiece in the center Of the ro-
tunda, as II they were having the time
OF their lives. The faces of the very
proper uniformed guards Indicated
their shocked belief that anything
can happen in wartime, but the boys
and girls who knew the meaning of
romance back in the COS were living
over a little bit of their youth.
A dignified man named Maj. F. NJ.
Burrows. with medals all over his
chest, actually got up q Virginia reel.
Claude N. Bennett Mai. e. w. r.
Ewing and some other folks, who
should have known how to behave, ac-
tually encouraged the young folks to
dance and they'd be at 1t. yet if the
Marine Band leader, who was prob
ably expected home early, hadn't
broken up the party by playing
Home. Sweet Home"
The Washington herald., 1917-06-07
UDINE RECOVERED;
MISSION To GO ON
Will Consider Drafting Of Italian
Reseryi,ts in America.

The Italian mission. cheered by the
rapid recovery OF the Prince Of Cdine,
II was announced yesterday, will re-
sumo its conferences with representa-
uyes of the United States government
today.
The health Of the Prince OF Udine,
according to an official bulletin issued
Yesterday. has shown a marked i'm
proyement over Tuesday. The en-
largement of the tonsils has almost
entirely disappeared.
The mission will leave on its tour Of
the South And West early next week,
but IL has not yet been determined
whether the Prince will accompany
The mission, II was stated yester-
DAY, has reached q conclusion con-
cerninG the status Of Italian reserv-
ISIS in this country who failed to an
sWer the call to the colors and who
under military law would be liable to
be classed as deserters. The mission.
u was stated. will not disagree with
the views of this government, which
maintains that these men, who are
now engaged in industry in this coun-
try In the interest OF our allies, should
not be clRssed as deserters.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-07
SCALPERS MUST PAY
PROFITS WAR TAX
Senate Committee Adopts Sweeping
Clause in Revenue Bill.

Look out, ticket scalpers! The Sen,
ate Finance Committee is after you.
The committee yesterday placed II
the war revenue bill an amendment
taxing scalpers half OF the profits they
make above the regular price. Senator
Thomas Is the author of the amend.
ment It reads that there shall be:
Upon tickets OF admission TO thea.
ters, opera houses and other places
OF amusement, sold at newstandS, ho-
tells and places other than the box Of
fees Of said theaters, opera houses OF
other places OF amusement, a tax OF
80 per cent Of the amount for which
the said tickets are sold in excess OF
the price charged for such tickets at
the ticket Office"
II this section is kept in the bill by
congress, the scalper will lose Is cents
OF the 50 cents premium he collects on
a regular s. seat.
Several changes were made in the bill
today, but the committee is winding
up its work. Practically little else is
left to deal with except the stamp
taxes and the postal rates.
Senator Simmons, chairman Of the
committee, said last night that he
hoped to have the 8, 500, 10000 bill COM
pleted by Saturday night. II will then
be handed over to experts who will
tighten up the legal phraseology. BY
next Wednesday. it will be reported to
the Senate.
The committee altered the bill yes
terday to make sure that neither agri-
cultural fairs, nor ShautauQuas nor
lyceums would be forced 10 charge a
tax on admission. Such enterprises
must be managed by local organiza-
uons" in order 90 obtain this ex-
emption. But this Is the usual prac-
tice.
The committee is still considering the
tax OF per cent of the retail cost Of
automobiles. Senator La Toilette has
offered this as a substitute for the
committees scale of from $50 TO so
according to cost price.
Yesterday a number OF sugar refiners
appeared to protest against the ac-
ton OF the committee in striking out
the drawbacks" on refined and ex-
ported sugar.
The Washington herald., 1917-06-07
HOSPITAL ship MEN
CLEARED OF CHARGES
Navy Commission Finds No Basis
for Solace Sailors Round Robin. /"

Naval surgeons In command OF the
hospital ship Solace were completely
exonersted Of charges Of gross neglect
and carelessness IN treating sick SAIL
ors, by a special investigating commit
tee yesterday.
The committee, composed OF DR.. Will
liam H. Welch. OF Johns Hopkins Hos
pital; DR.. Abraham Flexner, OF New
York, and Nathan Straus, famous
philanthropist, made q visit 70 the
fleet at the request OF Secretary OF
the Navy Daniels to inspect condi-
tons.
Their report deals with the charges
contained in a round robin" signed
by thirty sailors who had been on the
Solace. lit completely refutes the
charges which. it declares. were work
ed up by one person, who wove into
the round robin complaints from vari-
Gus sources" and most of which were
mere gossip and hearsay"
The findings declare that while the
Solace was overcrowded at the time
Of the complaints, there was no lack
Of care or medical attendance, that the
patients suffering with infectious dis
eases were carefully segregated and
that all regulations relating to santa
ton were rigidly observed.