Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-06-28

men, yet it is doing better under this
head as time goes. George Washing
ton paid his boys $50 per year. Today
the fTst-ciass private receives S33 per
month. with an automatic increase Of
20 per cent when ordered into for
eig8 service. Then you may argue
that $50 q year in Washington's day
was more than s33 per month in
these times. The answer to that is
that the government furnishes your
meal ticket while you are in service
and You are not required 10 let loose
81 any Of your pay unless you wish
to. You are battling now for the
same principles that your ancestors
fought for over q century ago. only your
interest viii be greater than was
theirs providing you put the money
you get from the government in the
bank and leave it there until you are
discharged
Fl SAW the saddest man I have ever
encountered in my whole existence yes
tarday," postcards EIoise from New
York he was gazing In q window
at a mince pie. one Of those like mother
used 90 make. and a ham sandwich,
possibly reverting to the happy days
when he had an appetite that would be
whetted by such an inviting sight and
when he could have purchased both
delicacies for the small sum Of 10
cents The price tickets carried by
the portions that stood before his eyes
yesterday read respectively 10 ana ~
cents. don't know what gloomed
him, whether loss of appetite or lack Of
funds At any rate he interested me
r-r n F+s4 -aE
accepted with a sepulchraI greeting.
ST the same time handing me paste.
board that identified him as one Of
the assistant freasurers Of the Ameri-
can Press Humorists' association,
which is holding its annual cOnFen-
tion IN this city-you can imagine how
close an assistant treasurer could get
to the exehequer Of a press humorlsts'
organization. if indeed there is an eX-
cheQuer 10 get close t0-but, come to
think OF it, what / had on my mind,
and what / have been trying 10 recall
ever since I started penning this mes
sage IS the name Of the manager OF
the Beechuut Chewing Gum company
here. Oh. yes, now I remember, It is
A. Z. Chew They say he is frequently
embarrassed during the hay fever sea
son when a victim sneeEes aChew. His
friends have recommended that he
wear earmuhs during the pollen Pc
riod.
KAISER May Use Force to Obtain
Funds is Claim. Headline. Wonder
II he ever tried Malta Vita or Grape
NaJs2
4 YOUNG man down at Petersburg.
Ind. Red Cross fan. has set q fash
ion iu bair-Curting that may become
popular He has had his head shaved
with the exception Of the rear where
the hair is left in the form of q cross.
IT viii be all right for those who pos
sess she requisite hair of the proper
hue 10 grow enthusiastic over the idea.
but how about our bald-heads and
those who wear wigs SO artistjcaUy
that even their Intimate friends don't
know they are being fooled?
IF by approving prohibition the
president could dry Up the wiud-jam-
mers who are delaying needy Iegisla-
ton at Washington it is believed even
those engaged in the manufacture of
red eye would affirm his course. The
cloture rule may afford relief when
the nation is at peace, but IN a dis
turbed period such as we are now
passing through q section of lead pipe
ought 10 be substituted for said cl0ture
rule
GOVERNOR LOWDEN Of late has
been doing so many things in the I'M
terest OF the taxpayers that he is Ike-I
~ to estrange himself from the good
graCes of the men who put him where
ia is p11F#fr1 REv- 4E r. W. fear- he ves44eF
look for future favors as a seeker for
public place. His most recent slap at
the Office fee system is in signing
bill placing the feeding Of county pris-
Ouers on o business basis. the expense
to be confined TO the actual cost Of
the meals, bills for provisions to be
contracted only by authorized agents
OF the county and no velvet allowed
the sheriff, as has been so long the
custom in the state. where many sher-
ifs have grown affiueut from fees
gained in this manner. The practice
has been to get the county board 10
permit 50 much per meal per pris-
0Der TO the sheriff. Then the latter
would proceed to squeeze the ratIous
OF his charges, the difference between
what it actually cost TO feed them and
the sum voted by the board to 90
into his pockets. Hereafter the sheriff
viii receive only salary. In Rock Is
land county however. for several
years the dieting of prisoners has been
under direct charge Of the county
board, which buys the supplies and
pays the bills. relieving the sheriff Of
all the details Incidental thereto
SHALL # be a bone dry nation OF. Al
bonehead nation pc asks r. o. E.
A CHICAGO black nanny will be
100 years old Sunday. She viii prob
ably attribute her longevity TO her
daily pipe and her half dozen children +
and score Of grandchildren.
CHINA is beginning to export pig
iron. And we haven't heard a squeal
yet from Japan
ONE Of the late inventions Is a hal
ter to be placed over the mouth Of a /
sleeper 10 prevent snoring. Here is .