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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-21

Westinghouse brakes These trains
are easily handled. Bur 81 the freight
trains you have got to have the brake
alan on the lob as some engines are
equipped with air on drivers only
and the hreh0y mas got to watch the
brake on the tank and the three. four
or sometimes i've according to the
length Of the train brakeuea have got
10 use tins hand brake These brakes
DO not work Ike ours with the chain
They are d screw affair and il they
are set too hard they viii slide the
wheels, which might cause the car to
slip of So you have 80: TO watch this
point ve~y close.
Fer the engines that have not got
air brakes they have brake known
as g water brake. This works down
] through the cylinders The water
ruahes into the cylinders, instead Of
steam, and makes q cushion, which
naturally keeps the piston from work
Ing and finally you come 10 stop.
But along with had air brakes and
hand coupiers ana etc., we are the
I talk OF France. due 10 the tonnage.
( We have been handling more tonnage
with less power than the French ever
! dld. No I am not responsible for this
as they do not use any chief dispatch
ers over here. AS / said before, / do
not know who is responsible for tho
tonnage, but from the way our men
beat an engine aud the way the
French DO. I feel that it is due to The
engineer hooking them back and ther
beating the stack off You can hear
them bark for a mile
THE ears have capacity Of 10 anC
sCue II so you can see It takes goot
. many cars 20 made eight hundred o.
q thousand tons. Where the French
p handled siN or seven thousand ton:
with i've engines we are handling
eight or nine thousand with three en-
gines. Not so bad. Ell?
They handle them great deal DIFF
farent than we do and the signals arr
different Our bighball is their stol
2 and vice versa. Our whistle Off sigma
ia their calling f0r brakes and on
short engine blast whistle is thei
whistliBg of signal To start a trail
al q station the chef de care, Gsta
ton master in Americal, blows a littl
: horn when he is ready for them to &C
y The conductor blows a whistle an
u tAe engineer blows the engine whistl
once After that performance til
train is ready To start
q In an we have a very fine road
y much better than ] expected Tn
ID weather over here has been prett
bum for the last month. We have
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-21
LOCAL MEN HELP
RUN FRENCH ROAD
Trainmasier Of Rock Island Lines
Gets Letter From Former En-
pl0ye OF System.
TELLS OF DIFFICULTY IN WORK
Old style Engines Handicap But
Americans Handle % Large Ton
mage With Few Motors.

A letter was received this morning
BY N. f. Lucas. tralnmaster Of the
Rock island lines az Thirty-arst
strget, from Sergeant William II.
burke with Company b Thirteenth
railway engineers, Of the American
expeditlonary forces. He and others
from this city are I'm the same com
pany.
Sergeant Burke was formerly with
the Rock Island road iu this cl.y and
was very well known here. In DIS
letter he mentions that all of the
members Of his company are well and
he gives "a good description OF The
French railway systems.
His letter in part is as follows
Everyone in fha company s. in fine
shape With 'be exception ol possibly
one or two suffering with "a cold AS
Tor myself. I am fine and dandy and
hope this letter win find you the same
You no doubt have seen by the papers
that we took uye- "a worry important
piece Of track and glad to say That wt
are handling 81 very successfully. ron
siderng The material that we have tl
do IT with
"The engines, while iu pretty 900,
shape were built lib 1865 while 1n,
old fellow ! see was built in 1861. s.
you see they are old timers Som'
have O Monitor injector while 0the-
have another make There are NJ
two engines alike The lubricator
won't work IN half OF them, and ynl
have got go break the ConneCtOrs am
OH them tha way So you see VIC an
in some difficulty in that way As fo
steam some are pretty good Will
others are punk All have a cope
hye box and the lighter you fire then
the better the results as the crate
are immoyable, You have To- hook tn
fire and pull the clinkers out with
shovel
For fuel they use a brick about
by 4 by 4. compressed. This brick i
made Of slack held together by the as
of tar or creosote SO you see frOl
that you can get fine hot fire. Alon
with this brick they use slack. a
coal is q thing that must be use
spariugly over here One OF on
greatest troubles is that the men fiji
too heavy which results in the steal
going back on them, due 10 a dead fl
underneath You can not crowd II
furnaces too much as You have not st
with shaker bar to shake the graft
with
Then the next disadvantage, whiC
is a large one, IS tine braking powe
On a hospital train they use con
pound like our 1000 and about u
same size The trains are equipD,
with air and steam bent through
The. hospital cars are about as lar,
as our 400 class coaches and ha
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-21
GERMANY WILL HAVE
BUREAU FOR PEACE

Amsterdam. Dec 81 - 4 German
government bureau for studying ques-
tons relating 10 peace has been OPP
eued In Berlin. DIR. Kari Helfferieh,
former vice chancellor. is at the head
of the bureau with Privy Counsellor
Albert, the former commissioner to
the Panama Pacific exposition, as his
assistant
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-21
YANKEE CHRISTMAS
MAIL SAFELY OVER

A French Port-A special ship car
rying 20,00 sacks of Christmas mail
for the American troops arrived yes
terday from the United States Tile
army postotfice has so special freight
cars and an extra heavy detail Of men
here to handle the mail, which will be
rushed to 20 branch postoffices,
whence it will be distributed on or be-
fore Christmas day.
Another steamer arrived on Monday
with 4,600 sacks of army mail, com
pris.ng for the most part Christmas
presents.
-~-7--~--~-
All the news all the time-The Argus
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-21
ITeS Up TO Y0I-

Al The news all The time-The Argus.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28
POSTAGE COSTS.
IDes NtoI.1s Register.

Congressman Steen.Espn, Of Mime :
sofa. has knocked into a cooked max
the claim Of ihe postotfire department
that II carries second class mail mat
ter at a loss 81 between $50. 600. 900 and
$50 .0J0. $50 q year
The claim is based upon figures OF
postal cost made by the postmaster
general in 1909, and applied TO present
day tonnage.
Congressman STEVENSON finds that
by taking the various cIass!fications Of
mail matter. and applying the 1903
cost estimates 20 the tonnage OF today.
the total cost Of all the mail-carryins
business OF the United States figures
out $685.. 900. geo year
The total postal receipts last year
were s30s. 900. 600.
So il the gentlemen who advocate
an Increase in second class postage
rates are correct. the pcstOffice depart
menr insu year lost Sasi. 1b9.o9o. As =
matter of fact. ii didn't lose cent.
Therefore. instead Of costing 1851.
600 900 Last year. the postage cost was
actually less than 100000. 900. and the
figures upon which the cost estimates
are based are utterly worthless.
The parcel post business of the coun-
try. according 10 the postotfice depart
rnen.. .s conducted al profit The
average haul II parcels IL 40 miles,
and the average cost is "a cents a
pound.
The average haul Of newspapers is
two and one-dfteenth miles. and the
price Is cent pound.
IL the government can haul parcels
$50 miles for X cents pound, how
much does 1t cost 10 haul pound ai
newspapers two and one fifteenth
Iniics2
There are abuses In the second class
postal service. II ig an abuse TO naut
magazines and cataiogs 1000 miles foi
/ cent pound. But In 1t abuse 10 hau!
newspapers two and fraction miles
for cent a pound?
The zone rate is jlstifiabie, but X
cost were considered, the rate in tn"
firyt zone would be decreased instead u
being doubled.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28

out OF their current earnings. No ma
ton in the history OF the world has
achieved euch miracle. The men
who give their bodies can not give
money at the same time. The nation
as whole loses In productive power
to the extent that it's producers are In
the trenches. 1t does it's beet to on
set this by employing labor Of women
and children. but all the loss can not
be offset If the man-power Is fully
employed in the field
An attempt to make the nation pay
for war as 1t goes means that the pro-
ductive power when it is weakest must
be taxed heaviest. The result must be
a curtailment of production, and this
In turn means weakness in prosecut-
| ing the war Instead of stimulating
production. so that the loss of man-
power in industry may be offset, and
so that the men at the front may be
| furnished with an overwhelming sup
, ply of material. the pay as you go
policy bleeds the nation industriallv
while its men are bleeding at the front.
/ This double drain means ruin If the
| enemy handles his forces eNpertly and
makes the future pay its share of his
burden.
When this generation expends Its
blood and its share of money to wiz
the war, it has done all that posterity
should ask Of it. The ensuing thirty
years should each be charged with
proportion of the cost in money. The
cost in blood Is the contribution o!
living patriots which the neNt genera
ton will not have to pay.
An annual tax of S500.000.0oo would
take care of the interest and mortiza
tion Of billions of bonds. The people
would buy these bonds if they were
not taxed SO heavily as to be una BILE
to buy them. Why Is the Liberty loan
going 80 slowly. if II is not because OF
the fear of excessive taxation and the
roboer tax imposed by uncontrolled
food p.rs ties? Let the gov eminent reg
ulate the food situation and refrain
from orertaxing the public, and there
will be practically no limit 10 the sale
OF government bonds.
The government has an enormous
resource in its credit. II owes almost
nothing. This resource should be
utilized as war measure, thus
sprea ding the burden OF money cost
over at least thirty years and impos
ing upon the present generation no
heavier burden than any other genera
ton, except in the expenditure Of blood.
That is a tax which the present gen
Grafton will willingly pay for the sake
81 keeping the nation intact and vic
tuIivus. 4 staggering money taN in,
addition however. Will pToicng the war
and thus increase the blood tax
Washington Post
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28
one MAN GOVERNMENT.
fnes MINES Registsrl

Nobody can watch the president and
not feel that in practice. "a in theory.
he stands for the personai equation in
government altogether too much. that
he is fixing upon the country one.
man power that, however wisely exer-
cised in this tirne-of stress. Is bound 20
cause Us trouble II his successors are
OF his type.
Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.. Wilson have
carried personal leadership In the
presidential office 10 the danger line.
However irritated we may become over
the delays Of congress and the want
81 congressional leadership. IL is vel
10 remember that the only brake W.
Rave on arbitrary control IS the brake
congress can get.
The president believes III a one-man
government and if trying to set up d
one-man government. Ii is well 20
remember before We become too far
committed. that no matter how wisely
mer have used great power for time.
they have always. II trusted too far.
abused their trust in the end. One
man government has always been ar
bitrary government and bad govern
ment and there have been no excep-
tons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28

italy needs no fighting men from the
United States. but she does need
money. ships and some food. according
TO Enrico Arlotta, minister of trans
portation in the Italian cabinet. who
arrived III America with three otner
members of the Italian war commits
sion to this country. The remaining
members. including Senator Marconi
aud Ferdinand, FRINGE of idin. uTe
expected In a few days. Signor Arlotta
was y,zibly perturhed when asked as
10 the possibility Of Italy's making a
separate peace. No Italian, he said had
ever dreamed OF such thing.
S.sncr Arlo;ta said the purpose of
the mission 10 America was Ia insure
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28
DO YOUR Du1Y.-6ur A BOND

The liberty bonds are TO be sold.
They must be sold and must be taken
~ purchasers. That Is final.
Why shouldn't they be taken They
are better than farm mortgages be-
cause they are nortga ges On the United
States Of America, Every farm and
every industry ard every man and
woman in the United States IS behind
the bonds, No municipal bond is as
solid an investment There is nothing
more secure than the bond Of the [.
s. A
II is perfectly safe investment for
trust funds. II is safe for investment
OF the funds Of widows and orphans
and the aged, those who, if their feet
slipped could never regain their foot
hold. II is a good savings plan for the
boy and girl and for the worker vino
is saving and desires safety first. The
Interest is not nigh. but considering the
freedom from all taxation il amounts
to say per cent and IS not unlikely
10 rise considerably higher. If so the
present bond may be exchanged for
one bearing the higher interest.
II is a bond that the rich must take
in heavy quantities. If It disturDs their
investments to some degree. If II fore
casts lack Of private opportunity
later the wealthy must take them just
the same and charge off any fancied
or actual loss 70 patriotism Either
the wealth Of the country will loan
the country money in emergency at low
rates or it will be c0nscripted in tax
alton and in the last event by plain
cOndscation. Wealth must buy bonds
II there is any one class that can
upon whom the obligation rests 10
purchase literally it is the farmers
Within a few months all and more
than this bond issue calls for will be
brought back and paid to the farms
and at enormous profit to the produc-
ers. The farmers mus fall into line,
as they doubtless will For they are
to he exempted from the blood tax a,
the beginning, they are to profit huge
ly by war and the obligation rests
heavily upon them to do their full duty
as patriots. Also the same penalty
hangs over all Stacker profit and slack
er wealth. There will come time
when that which Is not offered in rea-
son will be taken, and with good rea-
son.
So far in Iowa we have scarcely
realized that we are entering upon 9
costly war. We shall all realize the
seriousness Of it later. The sooner we
come to the realization Of what we art
facing the better it will be for us AMI
! for our country. The swift acceptance
| Of the bond issue is a patriotic duty
| Iowa must not fail or falter or delay II
doing her share.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28

ened, you know, to keep from going too
fast.
Get in, Mr.. Moose. and well take
you home" said the kind old gentleman
rabbit And after awhile the Moose be-
came very friendly. for he saw what
nice rabbits Uncle Lucky and Billy
Bunny were, and so he invited them to
his house.
There it is, right over there" ho
said, all Of a sudden, and pretty soon
they were inside talking to Mrs. Moose.
And after that they went out into the
garden and Uncle Lucky and the Moose
played q game Of checkers under =
shady tree, while Billy Bunny and
Mrs Moose looked at the flowers And
Just then there was a loud report and
a bullet hit Mr. Moose on the tip Of
his horn and the checkers few all over
the grass.
Those dreadful hunters are after
us." cried Mrs Moose, and she. jumped
over the rose bushes into the forest
and Mr.. Moose followed, leaving the
two little rabbits to look out for them-
selves. Well, they both jumped into .
hollow stump before the hunters came
|up. And when they saw the Lucky
mobile they Jumped in and rode, on.
singing:
I'VE shot at moose, but away he did
steal. 8
So, instead, We captured an automo-
bile"
"Oh, dear mel" cried poor Uncle
Lucky. There goes my Luckymobile!.
and he and Billy Bunny hoped out Of
the stump and wondered what to do.
And In the next story You shall hear
about Katydid, who sometimes said she.
didn't and sometimes said she did.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28
WHAT DID THe OLD MAN SECT

| Nhen troop train of soldiers went
thru the city Yesterday il drew the
eyes Of all observers. People came out
OF houses and cheered the boys. who
answered from the windows.
A man who saw came into the edi-
tors office this morning to speak OF
the thing which most impressed him.
Amid all the cheering an old co!ored
man stood by himself and bowed low
again and again with uncovered hed.
He said nothing, uttered no cheers, but
bowed again and again. Patriotism
without words" was the term used by
The observer.
PerAps the old colored man mad seen
the lag and the men who bear il in
battle long ago when its stars rose
above the shadow Of slavery. If not.
Ae had heard The story told before the
hearth Of . free cabin Of winter nights.
= story q freedom and broken chains
ard th@ rescue Of an enslaved people.
Ard 50 n knew and felt the greatness
Of The flag and the men who follow il
W1ere = leads and bowed silently in
the presence Of the power and right
eousness Of the symbol OF democracy
a2d equality under the law and the
insignia OF the Zruth that all men are
born free.
Simple minds often take the Arner
grasp on great truths because simple
!.y = the essence Of truth While 9th
CTS saw the troop train and the fight
ing men. the old negro man somehow
felt and knew that the righteousness
ana power Of nation sworn and
pledged 10 democracy had paused there.
perhaps d.mly he saw the past and
the future meet al the cross-roads Of
the present-but he saw and felt ans
bowed in the presence Of something
that ne knew was great and mighty
and .m5ued with a holy purpose.
Perhaps We would all he better pa
tr-.ots and more righteousness men and
finer citizens Z we saw with simple
minds and fel, with ou- souls as did
the old coiored man VINO saw and
bowed to the spirit Of America
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28
COOLIES roR THE FARMS.
fs!ous CITY Journai.l


A little consideration Of the plan OF
the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent
Association for supplying the need OF
farm laborers by Importation Of 5oo,-
coo or 80 coolies is apt to give the aV-
erage American warmer feeling for
the sometimes unfairly judged chi
nsse. The project has been advanced
before, from unauthorized sources IN
America. And oriental laborers even
now are understood to be at work IN
some parts Of British Columbia. But
the offer Of the Six Companies. an the
association Is better
known, carries both authority and
conviction. 1t sort OF rings true when
1t speaks OF friendship, especially since
lit obviously was framed with the ex-
trenest care TO make acceptance easy
and profitable for the United States.
1t b, after all, hardly likely that the
shortage OF farm laborers this year
will become 30 acute as to make nee
fessary the importation Of aliens. But,
whether taken advantage OF or no. the
suggestion stands. And 1t ought TO
neip considerably toward putting the
yellow man IN America on better
rating.
The plan Of the Six Companies. TO
which no objection on the part OF the
Chinese republic Ii foreseen, is to bring
into this country ~ many Chinese "a
borers az may be needed. to distribute
them altogether on the farms. and to
trepatrfate them as soon a. the einer-
sency requiring their presence shall
have passed. The inspiration. Il IL ex-
planned. lies in the feeling OF Obligation
which enlightened Chinese feel toward
the United States ~ the one country
| that has been consistently q friend OF
China. There In no need to 30 farther
than that explanation. II, perchance.
the gentlemen Of the elk Companies
also feel that the introduction OF the
Cinnamon to the farmers Of America
would lead to better understanding
between the peoples Of the two repun-
lies, that motive. too. y commendaDie
and patriotic. 4. ! - -.
/ The whole affair seems to demon
strate that, besides being peculiar y
lother WAyA, the Chinese has the fac-
nlty 81 being grateful. $50
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28

In. New York on the Sabbath day, and,
take 1t from us, when that modern
Sodom stops Sunday ball it Is time to
put the klbosh on Tom Fairweather's
bunch in Des MONIES. The Des Moines
picture shows should be stopped on
Sunday because, generally speaking, in
the interests OF the rising generation
and future morality Of the human race,
the said picture shows should like
wise be stopped during the week. A
|,good deal OF the stuff they run thru
the reels Is as rotten as hell can make
it, much of their vaudeville likewise.
Miscellaneous selling OF merchandise
on Sunday should be stopped, but we
doubt very much the wisdom Of the
attorney general making his main tar
get the soda fountains, ice, cream and
cigar stands. When the supreme court
sets on the case these articles will be
exempted from the law on the theory
that they are either in the food class,
or necessities. However. for all that.
the writer would give his endorsement
to stopping them, also, We're 1t not FOR
the fact that they are being closed up
as means to make the law unpopu-
lar rather than for any real righteous
purpose. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28

Now Jet me tell you what Billy
Bunny and Uncle Luck. had for lunch
| in the SKY Blue Pink Country. as |
promised sou In the last story, and
| I'm going 10 tell you as quickly as pos
s!ble before the Rainbow Ice Cream
mei.s. so here is what they had:
a ioliypop with jam on top,
A chocolate layer cake.
some cookies, TOO, with sugared Dew,
:. twisted sandy shake.
Then lemonade and ginger pop
And that is all, so viii stop.
Of course. they ate the Rainbow Ice
Cream frst. for IL would have melted
| II they hadn't. and one doesn't get
Rainbow Ice Cream very often.
after that kind Uncle Lucky invited
the SKY Blue Rooster and the Hens TO
go for drive. And the Sky Blue
Rooster sat on the front seat to tell
UncIe Lucky where TO go and the Hens
sat on the back seat and pointed out TO
Billy Bunny where all the rich people
lived And everything went along very
nicely and the Lazy Pink Hen sang a
song about an Easter Egg that caught
the whoOpiDg cough in cold storage
warehouse and about china egg that
broke the point Of needle when
nice old lady who was daTning some
socks for soldier boy who had been
shot in tine foot. and OF course the SOCKS
had 10 90 to the hspitai---l mean, back
to the old LADY TO be darned But all
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-28
DON'T BLAME HAMMER.
Iciiddcn Gun nh L.. /


The mes. cussed man in Iowa today
is ATTORNEY General II. NJ. Harner.
He has announced that he will enforce
certain law and people who would
get most awfully angry II they were
called law breakers are cussing him
for it, People who object to the blue
laws are prone to talk as tho they
are laws of Mr.. Havner's own making
and as tho he has chosen to place
some sort Of crown Of thorns upon
our brows.
Few of us doubt that the blue laws
should be amended to meet twentieth
century conditions but few of us stop
! 70 think that il Is not the part of the
attorney general 10 make the law but
to enforce il as it stands. Let us con :
slider a few facts and then ask our
selves, What is the pospr man 10 do
The republican plaiformsupon which
he law enforcing officers of the state
we're elected provided:
I'VE stand for the Wig enforce
ment OF ali laws and unequivocably
pledge our candidates TO that policy.
Governor Harding in his inaugural
address, delivered before the members
OF lie Thirty seventh General Assem-
bly,. Jan. II, 1917, said to the members
thereof:
YOU will be respon ible for the
ex Islam ~ eEe:- statute @ht@:: s;s.s !!
be in effect when YOU adjourn and as
fully as If you had enacted ii orig
inaiy. The question Of Lew enforc1
neat r.Gts prIIHa: lily with this lesis-
iature for so far a it lies in the pow
er Of this administration. no Officer
shall usurp the power q repeal, by in
action. or resolve any doubts against
the wisdom o. virtue ar am law wh.ca
slaI have remained upon tbs statue
bccks when ygu have adjourned