Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-06-26


STRIPPED Of such conciIIatorv
/ verbiage as the tensity of the situation
might ordinarily advise I'm communi-
eating the facts to the public. if the
local 5arOus OF this nation don't get
together and tx prices SO that they
VIII he within readable distance of
the ordinary folks the coming winter
they had better begin Immediately eff
fecfJug arrangements to place armed
guards on every car Of fuel that they
start away from their mines, because
the people are not going to freeze. In
some cities last winter the city au-
tnortries Communicated cars filed
with coal standing in the railroad
yards and apportionad the supply
among the people whose needs were
the most pressing. The dealer 10
whom the fuel was consigned was
paid the market price. Whether the
public viii remain as patient as it
did last winter. in the event that moth
ing is done 70 make the dollar 60
farther in purchasing heat. leaves
room for grave doubts. Call it an
archT II YOU will but people can't be
blamed for refusing 70 suffer because
they are unable to meet the prohibit
tive exacti0ns of vuIEurous elements
in our commercial life that imagine
imp0sirons by buying Liberty bonds.
donating q few hundred dollars to the
Red Cross, erecting fagp0ies in front
of their places of business-for which
they expect column Of free news
paper pubIicity-and standing uncov-
cred every time @ moving picture or
gauist strikes up The Star Spangied
Banner
THERE is a letter At the local post
Office for Mrs J0uFe- We imagine this
missive ought TO be started on its way
to France.
Squirrel Food on the Increase, Toe.
The high cost of living Is hitting
the squirrels on the Carbon park. Cit
liens who have been feeding the pref
fy little animals find that the deIica-
cjes which these animals like are at
low ebb-Chardon CO., Record.
~ ASKED dozens or people here why .
lT was that the New York harbCr was
closed on recent Saturday evening. /
postcards H. o. F, from Gotham, and
i'm every instance the one have quez- /
toned has looked at me i'm surprise. /
One man with whom Z struck up a con
FersatioH in the subway warned me
if / cherished my freedom. I ina gine !
he suspected that was a spy The
rush which he made 70 go up for air
after I had addressed him caused me {
80 shivar with a fear that he might .
have been hurrying cat to call q po-
4iceman. but Il the darued chump ex-I
paCted TO catch me he omitted what /
impressed me as an all-important de :
tail where the traffic was SO thick
He neglected 10 instruct the mOtOrman
who was plotting me TO detain his car
until he returned with a policeman
Wen. I suppose we ought lose no more /
sleep over the closing OF the harbOr.
NV first impression was that some
thing might have happened TO the
statute of Liberty, but she was in her
post and as composed as ever when I /
saw her Yesterday. While standing on
the shore giving her the once over I +
asked a short mamie touched me for
two bits to help buy a Liberty bond
for his youngest son, who was not old
enough vet to 90 20 work-abour the
larbor closing incident, and he said IL
upset him in the least as
they were closing everything in New
York, even the Germans mouths. He
that he didn't know very
much about the city generally. but
iust as I was to bid him adieu he
stepped up on a park bench. drew me
10 his side. took me by she ear and
whispered that john F. Calvin OF the
New York board Of water supply is a
dealer in galvanized iron IN that city"
THE bankers Of New York are
holding . meeting in the Adiroudaeks.
That sounds susptciousIy as IL some
hing else-gold perhaps-was going
y.
THE prince Of UdIue. so5ourning in
his country n behalf Of the Italian
government IN connection with war
has discovered that the 3,
American women are beautiful II the !
primes overlooked this great national !
asset, and had failed TO acknowledge
I, we could never have forgiven him. {
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