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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
Early Holiday Shopping.

The stores Of Rock Island will be
open three evenings next week, be
ginning Wednesday. TO take care Of
holiday shoppers who are unable to
mako their purchases during the day.
il is hoped that all citizens will make
81 a point 10 get through their buy
ing as early as possible, thereby fav-
orine themselves in the larger stocks
10 make selections from and easing
the burden Of the sales people in the
closing hours OF the buying rush.
For several years merchants and
newspapers have been preaching in
the Interest OF early holiday shop
ping. and that the campaign has
brought results Is apparent In the
lessening Of the pressure at the store
counters the day before Christmas
Each year there is noticeable thin
ming Of the crowds.
Time was when n was almost phy'
sically impossible to pass through the
aisles qf department store the night
before Christmas. The crowds are
SIN there 10 the last hours, but the,
are not nearly so large, which is proc
that the public is gradually becoming
educated TO the wisdom and the rea
sonableuess OF the early shopping
idea.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
The Day i'm Davenport

ed sizes cost s6.25 ton if the dealer
has to pay a jobber's fee, or $50 otn-
erwise On account of the increased
miners wages in Pennsylvania the
government price on hard coal has
been advanced 35 cents long ton at
the mine. amounting to 80 cents for
ton of 1000 pounds.
Spends Christmas in ,Jaii.-0ne year
ago Robert Holman, aged II, faced
Judge f. d. Let's in the Scott county
district court on charge of larceny.
The sight of the old gray-haired man.
bent with the weight Of his three
score and Il years, touched the
heart OF the court and Holman was
extended clemency in order that he
might spend the Yuletide with his
family. Yesterday the same Robert
Holman. trifle older and bit more
bent with age, stood before Judge
Let's and pleaded guilty to a charge
Of larceny. The event of a year ago
was recalled, but instead of extending
leniency the court reversed the tables
! and sent the aged defendant to jail
Wv Ci LlE bOltAdF ONcSDh. jiOiAfAaA Nith
spend six months in the county jail.
He pleaded guilty to larceny of SO
from the Johnson automobile garage.
/ This charge was substituted for EN-
| bezzlement in order to save the old
man from penitentiary sentence.
o.
Jain the Army.-The following Dav-
export men enlisted in the army
Thursday and were sent to Jefferson
barracks: National army ordnance
corps, Charlie Adamson. AT West Sew
ientsenth street, as private auto me
chanic; regular army signal corps,
! William S. Allen; regular army medi-
cal corps, Clarence r. LaFrenz; reg
tular army aviation section signal
corps, Robert T. Lindsay; regular
larmy engineers, Maurice W. Thomp-
son. The last named, Maurice w
Thompson, who was recently indicted
by the federal grand jury at the 0cto-
Der term of the federal court and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

That the mothers OF the country
Will stand together and be a source of
strength to each other is the statement
made by Or. Kate Waller Barrett of
the Mothers congress She insists
that the American mother must help
the foreign-born American mother to
understand the reasons for the war.
The foreign mother cannot support
her boy at the front unless she under
stands what he is lighting for says
1)r. Barrett. chairman of the immi-
grafton committee of the national
council of women. THE foreign moth
er In America, unable TO understand
English, has come TO this country TO
be at peace. and she Is left In a cha
atic state when her sons are drafted to
nsht for their new country She can
not read the usv spapers or talk 70
American women, except through her
children as Interpreters. As she can
not understand the reasons for this
var she becomes rebellous and her
ceiling is communicated e her son in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
Soldiers Getting Some
Change.

Representative Miller of Washing
ton, just back from France, told the
house yesterday that he had learned
that American privates were in the
habit Of backing officers shoes. But
when another member suggested that
the soldiers got paid for their work.
and Mr.. Miller admitted that they did,
the question was dropped. Members
of the house rightfully saw no rea-
son why they should interpoSe an oh
lection to an American soldier pick
ing up some spare change in the man
ner indicated. If he we're ordered
to black his superiors shoes at the
point of gun-as he might be in Ger
many-there would be occasion for
protest, but Americans will see nc
reason for getting excited or indig-
nant over the. news tnat Representa-
tive Miller brings back from the war
zone
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
Let the Light In.

Following announcement that there
Is to be an Investigation of the navy
as we'll as inc army President Viii
son told interEicwers that he well
coined the fullest publicity Of any
and all activities furthered by the adj
miuistration through it's several de
par ments since entering the Eu-
rupeau struggle eight months ago. The
president said that he knew Of moth
ing that should be withheld, If err
furs had been made he wanted to
hear about item himself just as we'll
as any other citizen OF the republic
Ic believed that both the army and
navy establishments had done pretty
well In the circumstances but II they
could have made better records he saw
ne reason why the cause of their de-
lays should not be revealed and re-
sponsibility placed where it belongs.
u the Inquiries prove that the gov
eminent has not been speeding prep
arations as it might have. and as the
crisis demanded they VIII have ac-
compiished regul.s that viii be uni
f0rmly gratifying To- the people as a
whole, regardless of their triendlluesS
10 the administration, for, after all
Americans are of one mind these
days They want the war pushed tC
the limit and they insist that any oh
stsuctions that are discovered be i'm
mediately dislodged and the work o
equippiug aud getting across our army
be not further impeded by so-canet
red tape The average citizen is of tn,
conviction that the military and nava
establishments OF the nation hay,
given good account OF themselves
since the war declaration was mad,
by congress, but ii is not unlikel,
that there have been blunders made
and some serious ones, perhaps.
Was inevitable that they should hav
occurred where there was need o
such rushing on the part Of the gov
crnmcnt The United States has beei
attempting in . year to duplicate
machine that II required Germany Al
most half century 10 perfect It vii
be O wonder II there haven't been
great many mistakes made by tn
Washington departments But Ugh
will help II Il is ascertained Their
IS lack of harmony that there is all
sence Of coordination. these ba
s,ots will be ironed out and In futur
the war program will move alon
more smoothly and effectively.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
For League of Nations.

The first number OF a periodical
with the title of "a League Of Ma
tons has just been issued by the
World Peace Foundation Of Boston.
The announcement states that 1T will
deal chiefly with plans and projects
for the kind of international oFganiza-
ton outlined by the advocates Of a
League to Enforce Peace, and will
support the efforts of the United States
government and the allies to win the
war and set up an international or
ganization which will guarantee per-
manent peace with justice, and so
make the world safe for democracy
and civilization"
In the avalanche Of war publica-
tons this one makes special claim
upon the attention of the thoughtful
reader, because it answers at least
three very important questions in q
very definite and helpful manner.
First. the question What Are We
Fighting For?" is answered by three
distinguished Americans, President
Wilson. Ex-President Taft and Presi-
| dent Lowell Of Harvard university.
| Second. the question as to how fal
our present foreign policy is a nat
ura and necessary outgrowth Of thu
craftsmanship of the past SO wears Il
answered by an interesting historical
summary, entitled 'Milestones Of Hal
Century showing what president
and congress have done to bring abou
a league of nations.
Third, in the form of carefully Sc
lected list of books. with brief char
acterizations of each volume. it tell
the reader where to turn for the hes
literature on different aspects of tn
present war and on the methods of sc
curing a better world order by th
establishment of "a League Of Ma
tons"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
The Untlerfed Baby.

The Underied Baby.
When a baby fails to gain four
ounces in weight each week, or sp-
proximately pound month after
the first week, whether breast fed or
bottle fed, the baby is underfed.
In the case of a nursing baby this
may be due to insufficient milk or TO
milk OF poor quality
In baby that is underfed there are
naturally no evidences OF indigestion,
yet a failure 10 increase a few ounces
in weight each week, or. what IS
worse, an actual loss of weight.
suggestive symptom of under
feeding is marked constipation. In a
breast fed baby constant constipation
usually signifies underfeeding, pro
vided that the babyshas not been habit
uated to castor or OF rectal injections
or suppositories.
An underfed baby is general.
good" perhaps "too good some
times to the degree of listnessness Oh
apathy. After a time the baby be.
comes pale, weak, cool to the touch
emaciated. with soft, sunken aldo
men, depressed fontanelle (soft spo
in skull)
/ Excessive crying. despite the pop
ular belief, is seldom a symptom o
undertaking, but rather of oVerfeed
ing.
In an underfed baby the stools ar
likely TO be greenish-brown and slim.
excessive amount of mucus present.
1 Babies cheated out of their birth
right and raised on such inadequate
/ and unnatural things as various form
Of milk that come in powdered form
may be excessively fat towing to tn
| great excess of sugars in such foods
yet badly nourished towing TO the alb
sence of reasonable proportion o
live fatl. Live milk fat THAT is, til
cream in milk which has not bee
sterilized or pasteurized) contains al
indispensable constituent of a nor
nal diet. namely, yitamine Nitamin
IS a crystalline substance, soluble i
fat or in water, which thu animal bod
must have in order to perform it
i functions normally. Food which doe
not supply this vital principle can
not properly nourish the body 70
any considerable time-scurvy, rick
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
Looks Like Sure Remedy,

An Argus reader suggests that
where a citizen insists on neglecting
his sidewalks after a snowfall ne be
called over the telephone by everybody
who passes his home. # he hasn't d
telephone mail him a postcard or a
letter Then in the bargain complain
TO the police authorities In time he
ought to be converted to looking after
his property with the same care as
his neignbors. The Argus endorses
the method Of treatment DESPITE that
IL seems somewhat heroic.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
Where You Must Stand.

The Red Cross stands behind your
boy in the trench. Therefore it is up
To you TO stand behind the Red Cross.
The way to do il is in becoming a
member You should be one of the
100000 who will join between now
and Christmas eve. You don't have
to stop with a single membership.
You may hny as many memberships
as you desire. Each costs 81.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

the training camp" She must be edu-
Gated In the causes of the war.
DR.. Barrett urges American mothers
TO feel solidarity with the American
lied mother OF other nations. The
soldier is dependent upon the feeling
In his home for his own attitude OF
mind" She says: "The Mothers con-
gress Is doing a great work by hold
ing meetings in many cities, to explain
war measures. and dcvelop~the patri-
otism of the hewildered foreign wom-
en-. We mothers must stand together
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
k:sneYs Again.

ktsneyS Again.
| am troubled with what suppose
is eatarfh OF the kidneys and bladder.
My symptoms are as follows: The Sc
erection is cloudy amber in color and
deposits a noticeable whitish or some
times reddish sediment on standing.
The color is normal when | drink
much water. that is, it is then clear
amber or clear white. There is no
unpleasant sensation or frequency but
often the oder is noticeable. gIiram).
Answer-Hiram, your symptoms are
universal among the civilized race, we
fancy. and they indicate that you eat
heartily and enjoy pretty good health.
Perhaps you eat little more than Won
really need, or drink little less water
than is good for you.
High Game and the Life In Cheese.
Should venison and wild fowl be ner-
, mitted 10 become discoiored and often
slye in odor before it is cooked? Can
modern science uphold the idea of let
| ting game grow high" before eating
it, Isn't this idea on par with The
old one or maggots in cheese? Nv
husband and son, both deceased. were
| physicians OF the modern school. sc
you may imagine how greatly / enjoy
your articles.
! AnsweF--Ne, science cannot Uphold
! the eating OF putreseent flesh. The lifs
IN cheese IS microscopic bacteria
yeasts and moulds. They give it ii.
/ good flavor. Just as Tactic producins
bacteria give buttermiik or fermentef
milk its flavor. A man who partool
OF duck years dead teold storage
fell Ill right afterward and sue
eumoed to suppuration of the reeep
| taeulum chylae, We don't think an
Gent game is safe to eat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

whose case was continued until April.
was charged with failing TO register.
At the time of his arrest Thompson
claimed he believed he was over 81
years OF age Later, however, he reg
istered He was employed at one OF
the Martin cigar stores as cigar clerk.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

General Pershing is not to De called
to Washington and made chief OF staff,
as reported He is doing very well
where he is. at the head of the Amer
lean forces in France. and ii is likely
that he will remain there until the
end of the war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

Two hundred Of Hollands gin dis
tilleries have been closed to conserve
the grain supply Thousands Of men
will be thrown out Of employment
This paralyzes one OF the industries
for which Holland is best known
abroad
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

Rear Admiral Frederick R. Harris,
chief of the bureau Of docks anu
yards Of the navy. has been named
by the president TO succeed Rear
Admiral CapPs as general manager
Of the Emergency Fleet Corporation.
Admiral Capps was relieved because
Of III haaIth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
Daily History Class
DECEMBER Ii.

l840-NaDoleon's remains removed
from St Helena to Paris
1914-Austrians evacuated Belgrade
1915-Ford's peace ship arrived al
kirkwall. Orkney Islands.
1s16-In new drive east of Verdun
the French regained two miles Oh
trenches on seven-mile front
with 1000 prisoners.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

Rev. Billy Sunday says he loves
Chicago SO much that he expects to
die there This doubtless is intended
as a compliment to that city, though
there are some residenters that would
have thought better of Billy if he had
selected the city as place to live and
not TO die in.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

Now we arc to have porkless Satur-
day. Il will be as easily observed as
nieatiess Tuesday People are coming
to realize that they can get along
With considerably less meat than they
have been accustomed to eating in the
pagt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

That resolution, typifying the kaiser
as the worlds arch murderer, offered
by Supervisor O. Z. Child and adopted
by the county board yesterday, ought
to be concurred in by every public
body in the nation and copies for
warded 10 the ruler OF Germany. II
certainly rings true.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
SOME 0PTIMIsT.

He was so if he was a day. 1t was
blowing almost a gale As he turned
the corner he lost his bearing and he
fell to the sidewalk. Onlookers feared
he had been hurt. Several rushed TO
his side. He had lacerated one of mis-
hands. No he said, there is moth
ing the matter with NE. mats the
first ! have aaken this winter. That's
doing pretty well for one of my age
You see my feet are not as sure as
they used to be But ] never felt
better in my life. It takes a bump
occasionally to make US old fellows
understand that we are still in the
land of the living If it wasn't for
this wind it would be an ideal winter
day, wouldn't it? No. / don't need
any help. | went down unaided and
| can get up the same way"
/ THE Illinois food administrator avs
he cant understand why the price of
J fish should be so high. Neither can
( the consumer. But the consumer
/ hasn't the authority to learn why. Mr..
Wheeler has. Why is it, then? Wen
! bite.
+. LOOK who's here. Pat Grove is 10
tell US tomorrow night at the Illinois
theatre how to be good and live long
and be happy and prosperous. Pat
knows every bad hole In the Journey
He ought to. He has rumbled into
most Of emf
THE average newspaper reader has
about reached the conclusion thai
there is nothing happening in tie
world these days except war. He's
wyong. There is plenty outside the
war going on. but the war is the bis
noise. and it takes up so much of ths
telegraph reports that there isn't room
Tor much else in the days grind
YES, all of the churches Of the cit,
are heated in winter.
]. ID. C.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

Tokio-The invention of a success
ful method of attaching the Ordinary
telephone to any wireless telegram
system is announced by Messrs- OF
egawa aud Torigata. wireless experts
OF the department of coumnnica tloiis-
The trial tests were conducted IN 'ff'
presence OF the vice minister OF cor.
mnnications, who has affirmed Ire
practical character of the invention
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

East Moline and Silvis yesterday
had less than eighty tons of coal be-
tween them 10 take care Of the homes
in those two communities. That's get
ting pretty close to a pinch. There
are fears of a serious fuel shortage
In this locality unless there is an
early break in the cold spell.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

Germany has massed 100000 men
for a new smash in the west. The
hope Of the kaiser is to deliver a de-
cisiye blow there before America can
get sufficient troops across toS give
Great Britain and France required
assistance. Therefore it becomes the
chief business of the United States to
shoot men across with ali possible
speed, For, after all. the war must
be won by America.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

The latest Hun lie, which has been
promptly denied by Secretary Lansing.
is that woman had been executed in
the United States as German spy.
Another Berlin dream was TO the ef-
feet that the battleship Texas had
been lost with ll,000 troops aboard.
This also was denied by the secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

The poor children Of Rock Island
that Is those who have no ldnfolk able
10 provide for them look to The
Argus Santa Claus fund to prote 4
them against a cherries Christmas.
Your heart would be moved by some
Of the letters that are received by The
Argus Santa CLAUS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
THE EYES OF THE STREET.

HE SAT ON a soap box near the curb,
HOLDING out lead pencils for sale.
HE was blind. hut there was a smile
on his face.
FOLK rushed by, an occasional one
stopping
TO drop d nickel in the tin cup he
held in his Ian
ACROSS the street was a huge auto
mobile.
IN it sat pretty girl. comfortably
wrapned
SHE was reading book and MUNICH
ing candy
coat
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

Did you collect the interest on your
Liberty bond today Nice little> Christ
mas gift. wasn't IL?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

TIE symbol OF the Red Cross should
shine M the window of every Rock Is
and home al Christmas time.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

cts, pellagra and numerous other Sc
rious conditions probably depend
upon inadequate vitamines in the diet.
This vital difference between clean
fresh, raw milk and pasteurized, ster-
ilized, condensed or boiled milk must
be borne in mind by every mother
who is so unfortunate as to be unable
10 nurse her baby. If certified milk
or other wholesome milk were three
times as expensive as at present, ii
would still be an economical factor
III The child's diet.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
EAEsAITz JIM KE,S
sY WILLIAM BRADY Pad r1D.

Brady to
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Of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
LITTLE FABRICATI0Ns.

1 4 =
ANY gifts that come to me from
those outside our family circle will
be returned this Christmas. / have
tried to reach all friends with whom
I have exchanged remembrances in the
past and / hope | have made myself
understood on the question. We wom-
en- must do our part this year in elm
mating non-essentiais, as they say in
Washington Remembering friend
with a holiday gift is a sweet GUS
tom, but this year we have all been
burdened beyond our means and one
OF the best ways of making up for
our waTexpenditures is in curtailing
our Christmas gift purchases. Of
course among the members of our
family there will be the accustomed
exchanges, but that is as far as it is
10 60 this year. II may not seem just
the proper thing 10 do to return a
present but that is what / have made
up my mind to do"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15
cHORDs ND
DIscORDs

THE Washington intelligence DE
partment announces that lack OF cloth
will delay training OF the next draft
army In pinch the government
could send the boys far enough south
so that they could do their maneuy-
ering in their bare skins.
BISHOP Paul Jones, who is ac-
cused Of disloyalty, If the charges
against him are sustained, ought TO be
made to change his name
ALDEN J. German is learning 10
flv balloon at the Fort Omaha train
ing camp. Any objections? One of
his associate students is Willard
Heller.
THE Italians are praying for snow.
II manages to come in the United
States without any prayerful induce
ments. Every man with sidewalk
to clean might unite in pulling for the
concentration of the worlds supply in
Italy.
! THE daughter of a Pittsburgh bank
! er is shining shoes in barber shop
| to earn $40 which she has pledged tt
I the Y. NJ. c. A war fund. Here's q
| girl who is willing to stoop 10 any
sort of labor so it's honest
THE Prussian state is indeed like
the wooden shirt, which irritates but
! furnishes warmth said DR.. Wilhelm
Solf in 1916 But when you begin tt
sweat beneath a wooden shirt you fee
il is about time for change. That's
the Prussian mood today. And thu
change will soon take place. Ant
when the shirt comes out of the wasi
it will be less irritating than it has
been in the past,
! DAVID Kentski has just died a
Blissville, H., at the age of 102.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

DAVID Kentski has just died al
BlissvilIe, H., at the age of 102.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

WE received postcard today from
o. H.. reporting that Frank A. Organ
operates piano store in Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

NaXimum Prices AiI0Wed.-On ae-
count of advances on the price OF coal
at the mine authorized by the federal
fuel administration in Washington,
| the local fuel committee has fixed a
new Maximum price on Fulton county
and Mercer county coal, the former
being advanced b cents and the latter
20 cents ton The new prices make
Fulton county lump and other prepar-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-12-15

Marriage Licenses. W. Paul
sen, P8mpey's Pillar, Mont, and Gladys
Mary Brown, Davenport; Harold II .
Rasche. Davenport, and Helen T
Gray, Davenport.