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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
THREE MEN CALLED
FOR PHYSICAL TEST

A list OF seven names of men who
have registered since June has been
issued by the Rock Island exemption
baord. They have all been duly regis
tered, given serial and order num-
bers. Three of the seven men drew
order numbers below 1850, which is
the highest number called before the
exemption board for examination.
These three men, whose order num-
bers are 1904. 1884, and ISLE. are
therefore called by the exemption
board for examination Nov Is. The
names of the three men called to ap-
pear and the other four who have reg
istered since June 5, but who drew
higher order numbers. follows:
Order No.
2611k George Addison Isaace, gen
eral delivery.
1631k-Robert Joseph McConochie
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
JINx NUMBER HAS
EFFECT ON ARMY
MEN or ILLINOIS
Figure ~13" Work On Superstitioas OF
Members Of Three Hundred
FOrty-nmth.
snuDDER WHEN WHISTLE BLOWS
Even II 1t Is Only a Passing Train,
Sclcciiyes Of This State Get
On Edge.

Camp Dodge, Iowa, Nov. 9.-The
mporsliiious IN Number 10 Of the IiIi-
uols national army soldiers regiments
al Camp Dodge are worried so they
cannot sleep well at night, and when
they leave their barracks in the day
time. they try 10 take all their possess
sious with them in the pockets of their
uniforms
The regiments barracks are in fire
zone No. IL. Not only that but Camp
Dodge Is the cantonment for the 18Th
district. Every time a locomotive
whistle shrills a long blast, the reg
imeut thinks it is going to be fol-
lowed 10 seconds later by three short
blasts 90 sound the alarm of fire in
zone No. 49,
The division bulletin has this to say
about national army soldiers allot-
meats 10 dependents:
Allotment Of pay is compulsory as
10 wife, former wife, divorced and not
remarked, to whom alimony has been
docreed and 10 en- unmarried child
under IS years (or Of any age II thC
child Is permanently helpless, men.
tally or physically and the amount Of
the allotment will be deducted monthly
from the soldiers pay and added t
their allowance.
unless waived after satisfactory
evidence as TO the wife's ability to sup
port herself and children is presented
40 the bureau OF war risk insurance
The allotment must be paid.
"Allotmeuts are not compulsory to
ward support Of parents, brothers ant
sisters
Weekly Boxing Instructions.
Boxing instructions for the Thre,
Hundrey Forty-uinth infantry is to b.
held Tuesday night each week unde
tie direction OF Mike Gibbons, divis
ion boxing instructor. Each compau
80 the regiment has been ordered {
send one man from each platoon to til
SCHOOL
officers OF the Illinois national arm
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
fsneeial To TIE Argus. ]


Camp Dodge, Iowa, Nov. 9.--ProIno-
ton of officers and enlisted men Will
be awarded through sheer merit only,
and not through political camoufiage.
Communications from politicians
have been flooding the office OF ]. T.
Tracey, adjutant general, and Secre-
tary Of War Newton Baker, ard an or
der frenl~the Office OF The former states
that they must cease
Disciplinary measures will be taken
by war department officials If the
practice continues. and it Is intlmated
tnat merit will bring much better and
quicker results.
The order continues that this
should not prevent candidates from
submitting applications to division
commanders or to the war department,
through official channels, fos consider
alton
Indications are that a number Of
junior officers at Camp Dodge viii
he promoted at least one grade
higher at Camp Dodge. This has
been known for several weeks.
Whether local officers and enlisted
men have been depending on political
wires is not known. but the publish
ing Of the order in yesterdays bulletin
is regarded in the affirmative.
Promotion is likely to come to off
GERS of the division who are able tC
speak and read French. A list of al
lieutenants OF the reserve corps who
are attached to organizations at the
cantonments and who have q knowl-
edge of French, is being complied al
the present time.
Uncle Sam isn't going to have his
cantonment at Camp Dodge disfguret
I nv nosfars This was mazda known
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
SHEER MERIT WINS PROMOTION AT CAMP
DODGE AND NOT POLITICAL CAMOUFLAGE

with an order preventing the posting
of signs advertising certain dance
halls In Des Moines. The order says
that those wishing to piacard the camp
will do so only after receiving per-
mission from division headquarters.
A. 0. Leach, supervising engineer at
the cantonmeRt, has q big super six.
And he doesn't object To speed, espe-
cialIy when doing his own. driving
With his hat pulled down over his
ewes. Mr.. Leach was hitting a lively
pace recently down the road back Of
ina cantonmenf. Jesse Reimer, dep
uty sheriff and former wrestler. spied
Mr.. Leach. He held up his hand but
Mr.. Leach didn't stop. Instead he
waved back a greeting.
Hello Jess, and on he went.
But the deputy didn't recognize his
friend.
Next day Colonel ]. P. Harheson.
commanding the military police, sum
moned the engineer.
"Who was driving your car at 6 p.
/ N. last night?" he asked.
Il was
well. that's funny The deputy sher-
iiff thought you were an officer refus-
| ing to stop on sigma"
"Gol1y, I didn't even know he want
| ed me to stop. just thought he was
saying heilo!"
DR.. John Ridlon of Chicago, recently
appointed supervising orthopedfe sur
geon for the central division which in
cludes Camp Dodge, is in Des Moines
and will instruct the medical men Of
the camp in approved methods Of pre-
venting permanent deformities in men
wounded in battle. The eminent surg
con will direct this work in clever
! other army camps.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
RAILWAY COMPANY
MEETS CAR DEMAND

In compliance with the request of
tie Rock Island city commission that
more cars be added on the Third avas
nue. street car line in order that the
shopmen during the evening and
morning rush hours may be more adj
equately taken care Of, has been grant
ed by the Tri-Cfty Railway company.
J. g. Huntoon, general manager of the
street car company. has informed the
city commission that he has issued
order that one car be Immediately
added to the Third avenue service,
and If that does not prove sufficient
to handle the workmen, another car
or TWO NAV be added.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
LONDON WAR PARADE
GREETS LORD MAYOR

London, Nov. 9.-The new lord
mayor of London, Charles A. Hanson.
was inaugurated today with the usual
ceremonies which, like all those since
the outbreak of the war, were purely
military.
The procession through the streets
was made up Of naval and military
detachments, including representa-
tiyes from the dominions.
Scattered throughout the parade
weret modern war machines, such as
tanks and trophies captured from the
Germans.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09

soldiers regiment are encouraging the
men IN the regiment to become inter-
ested In boxing because of the great
nelp they think 1t is for the men IN
their bayonet instruction.
Boxing and bayonet combat require
agility and an ability to judge what
ones opponent is most likely 10 Go. In
boxing "A mistake may mean. a severe
jolt, but In bayonet combat it, means
death for the man who has made it.
instruction In bayonet practice for
tae ouicers OF the Illinois national
army soldiers regiment has com
menced this week. The officers had
instruction in bayonet practice during
tAeir training course, but are being
given this work SO that the instruction
OF the national army soldiers through
out the division may be uniform.
The officers are being given the FRI
struction in the small trench system
Which the Illinois national army sol
diers helped to dig. The officers next
.orning give the national army sol
dlers the instruction tho officers had
| the afternoon before.
The instruction Of the men In bay
onet practice has been merely prelim-
mary so far. a great amount of time
Is to be spent upon bayonet practice
because it is the mode of attack upon
which the national army soldiers viii
have to depend upon to save their OWL
4 trenches from being occupied and tC
drive the Germans out Of theil
trenches
Safety Depends On BayoRet.
: The safety of the national army sol
diers will depend upon how skillfu
they are at bayonet combat. 0fEcer!
no longer carry swords because o
their ineffectuajness against a bay
onet at the END Of a rife. officers ii
the trenches in Europe carry rifles, a.
do the men. so that In a bayonet attacl
they may be at no disadvantage il
Dayonet combat
1t is intended that each regimen
at Camp Dodge shall he represente'
! by five-man bowling team in tn
annual tournament of the Middle IVES
Bowling association which opens il
Des Moines Nov l6 and continues I'm
til Nov. 81 The night of Nov. q ha
been set aside as soldiers night. A
many of the soldiers who wish to en-
ter the tournament in singles an
doubles, are being urged to compete
Entrance fees for regimental team
| are to be paid by Des Moines firms.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
GIVES LECTURE ON
CHRISTIAN SCIEN CE

Virgil o. stricklef, C. S. B., member
Of the board Of lectureship Of the
mother church, the First Church of
Christ. Scientist, Boston. gave a lee
ture on Christian Science at the First
Church Of Christ Scientist in Rock
Island last night The lecture will be
repeated by Mr.. Stricken tonight.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
BURLINGTON ROAD Is
PLANNING ExT ZEs.y SION

Word from Springfield today Is that
the Burlington railroad has taken the
first step towards meeting the re-
quirements of the belt line ordinance
recently passed by the city council.
The railroad has asked the state pub
lie utilities commission to grant it the
right to construct single track on
First avenue from point west Of Eff
teenth street to Seventh street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09

Ladies' tennis flannel petit
ceats, best quality. regular
and extra sizes, ST value,
one to a customer. each. soc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09

Potatoes. flour, eggs and but
ter prices subject to change
withort notice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
Forty-second street and Thir-

Forty-second street and Thir-
ty-fourth avenue.
2Q131szGeorge Adam KIugger, $50
Eleventh street.
2391k-Warren Spencer Bengston,
705 Thirty-eighth street.
20371a-John A. Giles, 2130 Seven
teenth street
3706h-John E. Becker. Reynolds.
130Ha-Carl Bengston, 1892 Thirty
ninth street.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09

The Neustadt policy Of ex-
IRENE value giving is more clearly
demonstrated than ever before in this monster
showing of more than 300 garments of absolutely all
wool Scotch Mixtures-plaid Boucles - plain color
Vicunas in the lew brown, green and blue shades
For Saturdays selling
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09

Fleecy crib blankets, ali
colors. zee and ..... 4ac
GOOD warm comforters, for single
Ned, $3.50 value.
Double ffeeced blankets, gray.
tan and white, special -. SIS
Large double blankets. heavy
Heece, up from SHE
Large size all wool blankets.
gray. with pink and blue bor-
GERS; exceptional value.
Mems ribbed union suits, all
sIzes, Sl.5e value, at . sI.2y
Mems heavy fieeced shirts and
drawers, special per
saTment -.s..- .--.-.s-...-... Csc
Children's fieeced vests and
pants, UP from ........~... 25c
>Chi1dren's pure white feeeed and
hsaYy feeeed union suits
Ladies white flne iieeeed vests sgs
and drawers, regular and extra
sizes, per garment .... 45c
Ladies white union suits, Dutch
neck, elbow sleeves, regular
and extra sizes. choice .. S5c
Ladies' extra fine quality white
union suits. low neck and Sleeve
less, S2.o0 value, special
at --s.-s-. Si.Zsf
Mems wool hose, Csc value,
pair Igc
Mems fine wool cashmere
hose, a pair ............... 39c
Ladies ali wool hose, SOC
value, a pair ...-s....... soc
Mems white foot hose, zoe
value, q pair .,..s........, 1Gc
Boys and girls black fine ribbed
hose, Sac values.
pair 2gc
Children's combination sets,
blanket, bathrpbe and slippers,
something useful, the
set .......... SOS
Chiidren's tennis flannel night
gowns and sleepers, all sizes,
while they last, each ....... 29c
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
Do Your Christmas Shopping Early
WONDERFUL BARGAINS IN OUR
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT

Infants pink or blue bath
robes. sl.00 values, one to a
customer,
each sl}e
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19
VERY FEW UNEMPLOYED
NOW IN ENGLAND

LONDON, Jan. 19.-Unemployment,
which like the suffrage and the Irish
questions, was formerly one of the
most difficult subjects the government
had to deal with is shown. by an offc-
ial chart just issued by the government
Board Of Trade to have now fallen on
to the vanishing point. In 1908 it was
between and per cent. These were
the years of labor agitation which led
tc the law for government insurance of
the unemployed. Up to the time the
var began, the unemployed average
from 4 to 5 per cent. of the population,
from 1909 to 1915.
Since the opening of the war the per-
centage of unemployed has run stead
ly down. The official chart shows it
was down to per cent four months
lfter the war started. By June, 1915, 1t
was to l per cent, and at the end of
.915 had fallen to one half Of one per
.ent. Now it has fallen almost to zero.
This is having the effect of greatly
,educing the governments unemploy-
,rent insurance, which was one Of the
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19

TOXIC. Jan. 19.-The peace move
or the Central Powers was followed
an Japan by a sudden and general
business depression, which showed
so what extent the industrial boom
in this country is the result of the
gar Enterprises devoted to furn-
7shing supplies to the Entente Al
lies and shipping shares were so al
fected that the whole market dropped
and the directors closed the exchange
for several days. Buyers on a marg-
in were forced to abandon the market
altogether and there was consider
able unloading regardless of values.
It is felt that many stocks under the
war influence had reached a stage OF
n,aation and investors believe that
after the atmosphere is cleared prices
sill return to a normal stage.
Addressing the metropolitan bank
ers Premier Count Terauchi, referring
70 the German peace proposal, and to
fbe temporary panic caused in econ
ru,ic circles, expressed the opinion
fbaf the present time is by no means
r,portune for the Entente Powers to
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19
TOO MANY DEAD FOR
LONDON IS A WORRY

LONDON. Jan. ia new public
danger theratens the country in the
difficulties of burying the dead. It Ia
caused by the scarcity of undertakers,
coffin-makers and graye-diggers and
has resulted in delaying funerals for
days, g condition which If aggravated
by an epidemic would become very
serious. To forstall that danger and
also to remedy the present situation
compulsory cremation is being advo-
Gated.
The tribunals which sit in all parts
of the country and hear appeals for
exemption from military service, have
pressed into military service every man
whose work Is not indispensable to the
existence of the nation. The result Is
that they have "combed out" the un-
dertaking trade and takn most Of the
skilled grave-diggers for another sort
Of digging.
1t seems also that the shortage of
cofflns is countrywide. The head Of
the largest undertaking firm in London
which used to turn out between 600
and 700 coffins week says that to add
to the difficulties the railrooal author
tiles have made new regulation that
nothing over 112 pounds is to be sent
by passenger train. This means that
collins with few exceptions will have
to be shipped on freight trains. BOD
ies," he said, "are waiting at every
London station for hours for lack of
labor to fetch them away"
The Daily Mail has taken the lead in
the campaign for cremation. 1t also
sees a danger in too many cemeteries.
This reform of funeral procedure is
long overdue" says the paper. 1T will
have to extend at once to compulsory
cremation. and eventually to the wider
and even more important consideration
of the eVer-growing encroachment of
cemetaries upon land needed for build
ing or agriculture"
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19
PRISONERS PLACED
IN ORGANIZATION
FOR WAR IN INDIA

SIMIAA, India, Jan. 19.-The expert
Ment of granting well-behaved short
term prisoners in Indian jails condi-
fional remission of sentences and en-
ploying them as laborers in Mesopo-
tamia is now being conducted by the
government and is attracting wide at
fention. Some time ago few hundred
such prisoners were sent to Mesopo-
tamia and, the trial having proved a
success, several thousand more will
be started on their way to this war
theatre shortly. These labor corps are
uade up entirely of volunteers and II
Is declared none Of them will be en-
Djloyed near the fighting line.
An official of the home department
fold The Associated Press that the
next lot of prisoner-laborers to be sent
out would number between six and ten
thousand.
1.-The terms offered have attracted q
large number of volunteers from the
better class of prisoners" said this Of
fetal. "In fact. several times as many
men as we are sending have asked TO
ioin the labor corps. The men per-
mitted to go must have good records
as prisoners and must be physically
at.
" "They are paid wages better than the
average given in India and after they
have worked for a stated time they
are paid a bonus of about months
wages and are given complete pard-
on. provided their conduct has been
satisfactory.
$50 far as possible the prisoner-laD-
urer will be treated as though they
never had been inside jail. The corps
are organized on much the same lines
as those followed in the case OF the free
labor corps now employed in Meso-
potamia, the chief difference being that
they are partly oficered in the Indian
ranks by warders, to whom they are
accustomed, who have also volunteered
for the purpose. All ranks are dressed
and equipped in exactly the same way
as members of the free porter and
labor corps, but for obvious reasons
Tie control and discipline exercised
Eiil be little closer than in the case
fcf the free labor corps.
'The corps will be employed In
loading and unloading sea and river
craft, stacking stores, road and hut
making, and the like. There is. OF
course, no intention of taking them
near the fighting line. An experienced
Inspector general of prisons will be in
administrative charge of the corps"
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19
HAS DISCOVERED NEW
METHOD FOR GROWING FINGERS

BERLIN, Jan. 19.-German medical
papers report a striking innovation in
surgery that has been tried by DR..
Neuhaeuser in one of the army hospit-
als-a new method for growing new
fingers to replace amputated digits.
The earlier method was to graft toe
upon The amputated finger or thumb,
but DR. Neuhaeuser has successfully
need a piece of rib as material for
fingers and thumbs, getting at the
same time covering for the new mem
bers in a fiap of skin taken from the
herast just outside the ribs.
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19
"FAGGED.OUT" WOMEN
WIN Find Helpful Suggestion In This
Letter.


Overworked,s run down tagged out
omen who feel as though they could
hardly drag about, should profit by
Mrs. Carter's experience. She says
Il am the mother of six children and
got so weak and rundown that I
couldn't eat anything and it seemed
almost impossible for me to get around
and do my work. l tried different doc
tors remedies without benefit. / saw
Tinol advertised and decided to try 1t,
and received so much benefit from the
first bottle that / continued to take 1t,
and it has built UP my strength and
made me strong and well. l consider
Yinol he vest medicine l have ever
taken, and advise all weak, rundown
women to try it." Mrs. Bessie Carter,
State Road, N. C.
If all the tired, overworked run
down women in Americas could only
realize how our delicious Vinol, which
contains beef and cod liver peptones,
iron and manganese peptonates and
glycerophosphates, supplies the vital
elements necessary to build up blood
and strength, we wouldn't be able to
supply the demand.
Hooks Pharmacy. Also at the lead
ing drug store in all Georgia towns.
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19
Japan ThriOes On The War
AS Her Stocks We're Excited

conclude peace and that they would
not lay aside arms and stop hostil-
tiles until they have attained their
object. He continued: THE situa-
ton has favored the commerce and
industry of the Empire. This will
last till the termination of the war,
but in order to secure a permanent
guarantee of commercial and indus
trial prosperity, efforts must be made
to consider measures for post-bellum
arrangements. Efforts must be made
to enhance the credit of domestic
manufactures and to develop a perm
anent market in foreign lands"
The japanese press was practically
unanimous in the opinion that the
peace proposition of the Central
Powers was not sincere and express
ed the belief that 1t had been forced
on Germany by internal conditions.
Speaking of Japanese terms at pos
sible peace conference, the newspa-
pers declared that Japan would never
agree to the return of Kian-Chow to
Germany and to the restoration of
German naval base on the coast OF
China.
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19
INSTRUCTION FREE ON CARE
AND MANAGEMENT OF CANARIES

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-"Canaries
Their Care and Management" is one OF
the recent bulletins issued by the De-
partment of Agriculture and sent free
70 anyone applying. Instruction in
detail are given as to the proper care
food. and management of canaries and
special attention is devoted to the
control of parasites and the treatment
Of diseases.
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19

main features of Lloyd Georges social
and economic legislation. The returns
for the last month show there were
a.O27 claims weekly, amounting to
4S6 pounds, or about $1.25 for each
claim.
This is reduction of fifty per cent
s,nce last year. and much greater re-
duction since the war began.
Americus times-recorder., 1917-01-19
To Drive Out Malaria

And Build Up The System
Take the old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Ouinine aud Iron in tasteless form.
The Quiniue drives out malaria, the
1ron builds up the system. SOC. adVt
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1917-12-27

courageous than the outsider? The
truth of the matter is hal there is q
right way and a wrong way to do lear
Iy everything; there is a right way
and a wrong way to direct the atten-
tion of men to their duty and their
responsibility; there is a right way
and a wrong way of approach to the
vice problem. 1t does not appear that
loose and eXtrayagant statement, un-
supported by the exact facts, is OF
much help. 1t does not appeal to the
reason 1t Is calculated to make PEG
pie angry. Vice in Sioux City has re.
not a body blow, but publicity
to which it is not entitled. And tn,
city itself has received a lot of bad
adyertisi4g-to which it, also, is not
entitled.