Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-06
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Jap EflDaSSN. - f1Eaullue- X ia -
suggests that its fee time in China
while it's ny time in the United
States. but congratulates Ii Yuan On
making the trip without suffering a
swat.
ONE Of the local physicians is TAX
ing his first vacation in 20 years.
When he gets back on the job it Is
likely he will have d lot Of explaining
to do among patients he has been ad-
vising to break away from business
a few weeks every year, If he has
solved the secret Of uninterrupted ac-
tiyity without end8ngering the bodily
uDkeep why shouldn't he let his cash
customers in on It? Or is the annual
vacation merely q state OF mind? 1T
may be with some. but with the ma
5ority we imagine that it is state OF
the personal excheQuer.
1T might prove a gold mine stroke
If some American vaudeville promoter
could bring the depOsed car Of Rus
STA over here for a season in a skating
act He performed on thin ice at
home for long while, you will re-
call. before he broke through.
TN OE 1A4 EEatALAAE " @sA4A@++ A-ttS 49,
covered. after close inquiry into the
subject, that several millions of doll
lars can be saved each year IN the
United States If the members Of her
sex would wear their hosiery shorter
II is not to be denied that they have
been wearing en- pretty high in this
one can't see where the
saving would be had when, if the hos
fery is lowered from the top, there
must be an almost propOrtionate
frightening Of the skirt, unless-well,
figure 1t out yourselves, girls.
THE youngest. son Of former Presi-
dent Taft is engaged TO marry. He
is II. Her name is Chase. NellE
RESENTATIVE Rainey OF IIlI-
nois complained in congress the other
dav. while the revenue measure was
under consideration, that "tne bill is
q rich mans bill. It puts the burden
on the poor man and the home Ger
tainIy. That simplifies matters. Now
Just think of the trouble that would
be made for the revenue collectors il
thew had to 20 around and check up
the different homes of a muItlmillIon-
aire. With q poor man it is different
His home is where his hat and dinner
pail are found lie has no other
Looks Like a Joke or the Doctor,
Doe Rogers. as he was Familiarity
called, Of Cauadensis, committed sui
eide on Wednesday morning aft the
home Of George BIitz at that place.
DR.. Minor DeKay was attending Mrs.
Blitz. where Rogers lived, and he had
prescribed some medicine for his pa
tent which the unfortunate man found
and drank, ending his 'life.-Str0uds-
burg pa Times
1T Petrograd is so be credited, says
the Illinois Substituting. which is
doing its bit for the kaiser, War Min
lister Kerensky personally led the at
tack of the Russians in Gaiicia. Since
he led them by the nose at the behest
Of the allies. continues the Ieitung,
this is merely a ful6Iiment Of his debt
and duty We accept the whole re-
cital except that reference appertain-
ing to the manner in which Kerensky
led his men Doesn't the Zeituug edi-
tor believe that II would have been
much more convenient for him to have
led the boys by the whiskers than by
the nose and that that is what he did,
IN London the girls are huggtng the
ground 10 defeat the Germans air
plans and in France they are hugging
American soldiers
II. ROOSEVELT has got his name in
the papers again by urging an inquiry
that will determine cure for race
riots. Is it possible that he hasn't
cure of his own If he hasn't he is
surely slipping. II viii be the first
time since the colonel broke into pub
lie life that ne didn't have an antidote
for any national or sectional ILL., IT
may be. however. that ne merely
needs new publicity manager
NUMEROUS citizens have been ia
vored with a copy OF Congressman
Billy Mason address on "C0nsCien-
tf0us Directors After scanning
few paragraphs one readily agrees
with the congressman testimony as
10 the benefits he derived from taking
iron Il certainly gave him new
nerve-but the wrong kind. Tt must
have been made in Germany As one
reads the vaporings of the Chicagoan.
one is inclined TO the suspicion that
he lis in q trance. the while imagining
that he is travelling through a tunnel
with a submarine beneath him and
Zeppelin over ann IN SNGH 4 piEtft-
ament one could we'll understand the
unwisdom of his uttering any sound
that might be interpreted as in con
PREVENTION of the wishes OF the kaiser,
of whom Herr Billy is one of the most
valuable of his American supporters.
WHEN the battIeship Idaho was re
Gently launched one girl broke a bot
tie Of champagne on one side Of the
bow while another girl cracked a bot
tie Of water over the other side This
is neat neutrality. to be sure. still
there might be grounds for objection
from the uncompromising pr0hib 10
the fact that the water was taken from
the Snake river. There might have
been a bite in IL. you see.
1T has never seemed just right to
me" writes L. o. E. that man
named Coffin should be acting as
chairman of the aircraft production
board OF the council Of national de
Tense This is no fnEp either