Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-02-16
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we're no important events" It appears
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eating
BILLY Sunday promises to begin
F.. 1ls campaign next fall ia Chicago TO
make that town as white as snow.
/ About the same time if is announced,
+ 10000 southern negroes are to move
/ 10 Chicago Tor residence.
! THE kahkiRooi gown is to be the
proper thing for our next summer
girl. You might first try It on yOnr
ukeleie.
WE are told now that the peace note
I leak story VIII never be known until
the dummies are called to the stand
Land sakes, who have we been listen
ing TO all these weeks?
COLONEL Bryan does not propose
10 he crowded out of the limeIight by
the high cost Of print paper He is
buying advertising space. "A pretty
good bunch to the merchant who will
tell you that he does not have to adj
Fertlse-that everybody knows him
and knows where he does business. /
Which may be true. So does every /
body know Colonel Bryan and where
he lives. but everybody doesn't know +
what he is doing or trying to do. /
Hence his resort to the advertising /
columns. And there is none that will .
say that Bryan does not understand (
the value OF publicity.
Foe
program Tor spring. say the style men
tors Nobody ever did love a fat man.
anyway.
a PERFECTLY normal citizen Of
our acquaintance sat through a
Charley Chaplin picture twice In the
same evening this week. I'm expIann-
ton he said that he had been distract
ed during the first showing OF the film
aud had lost the count OF the pies
hurled by the comedian at his c0rpu.
lent foil. 1t was in order to make sure
OF he number that ne fingered for the
repeater. Another man, sensible about
things generally, says he goes to the
GhapIn performances 10 hear the chill
dren laugh. This would be q reason
able excuse were il not for the TACT
that the man in question has a couple
0I tin ears.
THE whole question of the junior
promenade. the greatest function of
the social year al the University of {
Wisconsin. may be made the subject of
q legislative inquiry. The resolution
introduced in the state assembly char
8cterizes the prom as 2 scene OF spIen-
der. in which the charms of the Gre z
7toT most perfect creation-woman s
we're shown in their natural state
without being diminished to any
marked extent by any useless wearing
apparel" And il was perfectly nat /
IraI that the resolution should have /
been presented bv member named /
3ieper- |
TIE goose certainly hangs high in
Germany these days 4 returned -
American is quoted as stating that the
birds bring as much as $50 each in the 7
market places III Berlin. But the real
goose En- this case would be the one 6
paying the quoted price.
NOW and then you will hear per 4
sons complain of rude actions on the
part of our local street car c0nduc-
ors- There NAV be such instances. d
'uJ it is the opinion of one who has "
observed their demeanOr towards pa u
fons for years that they are few and :
ar between III YOU who have such 4
grievances TO air would take a day u
nj and witness some of the exhibit "a
ions on the street cars of Chicago or u
ome other large city you would re-
Use your estimate OF the men who han
Ne the street cars In your home town c
n Chicago. a few weeks ago. the writ b.
p saw conductor literally push a a
saman off a ear because she did not p
move rapidly enough TO suit him One GO
assenger protested uut for his pains to
e was reminded that he was getting b
Idle. just what he paid for. and that CO
g ltae CONDUCTOR was running the ca
ar and did not need any instructions Il
rom outsiders However people in s
rowing cities like we have in this tr
1caiity must realize that a conductor n,
ASH Z time to stop while they say fare IT
'eiis 90 friends or to delay his ear til
lille they return TO their homes for to
1elr forgotten rUbbers. We're getting b,
p he big places and must adopt city
avs OF doing things. We've got to be
p and stirring II,
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