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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-08
DOCTOR SAYS
YINOL Is THF
BEST TONIC
Honest Opinion Doctor Gave
Ills Patient

Bedford, 0hio.-'I was N a pitifuI
condition. weak. nervous and run
down 50 I could net do my EcuseworE.
I had doctored fer years and tired
everything under the sun. a friend
told me about Vinol 7 asked my
doctor about il. and he replied, Tt
certainly 10 the best medicine that can
be had today. / couldn't give you
any better I took it. and today Z
am as well and strong as any woman
could wish to be. and 1t was V5nol
that saved me. Mrs. Frank A. Eor-
KEY. Ash St, Bedford, Ohio.
We guarantee this famous cod liver
and iron tonic for al such conditions.
Red Gross Pharmacy, Charles +
Strate. Bengston's Drug store. Rock
Island. and Al the best drug store in
every town and city IN the country.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-08

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-08
THE ARGUS.
- - 0EEICE.

ROSS Bldg. Room No 3, Seventh street
Phone East Moline IL
pr~ Sears -..-..-.---... City Editor
q T. Temple $3.50 Circulation Manager
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

, s9 at E ]. 7 worshipped the sun. It is the rock of our confidence. We deify it with . confident faith which is complete.
 And 0wapparentlyw we even ssx- pect 1t to fight our battles!
 In g burst of patriotic zeal the house of representatives at Washing ton has appropriated $25O,0o0, 900 Tor the army.
 In. the same connection the house refused to sanction change in the general staff of the army earnestly Z recommended as an emergency f1Sas- ure. by the war department-asa brap- ticl lstep in making the use Gf the $250. 100000 efficient and effective.
 Money? Yes-barrels of 1t
 But anything more than fIoney1 Nothing doing. 4
 This is a typical exhibit in tho phll- osophy which is our sordid habit and our malignant menace.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
Waiting Our Specially.
Detroit Joarnal).

After rapping the army General Staff for suggesting as an expert body that citizen soldiers should be given a year of training. instead of six months. as proposed in the Cham berlain bill, one of our professional friends winds up with:
 Better wait, anyhow, to see how the World Peace League Is going to come out with its international con- gross, It's arbitration and disarma- ment."
 If the national tradition in military affairs is to be held sacred, then by all means the country should wait It waited until actual war to do any thing in 1872. and was almost whipped out of it's boots by a hand full of invaders. It waited until Sum- ter was fired on, and had to suppress rebellion at the cost of thousands of lives and billions of treasure. It wait again in 1898, and had fever camps for it's reward, huge debt and pen sion bill which grows constantly ever longer. For two years and half America has been most busily wait ing. Talk we have had for bigger army, bigger navy. and the talk goes on. Plans without number have been launched and the ship of state Is In the same defenseiess condition it was before the blue prints. were made.
 When 1t comes to waiting for the horse to be stolen before investing in lock for the door the United States government has developed mar vellous skill. Our contemporary needn't worry. His advice Is super f1uous The chances are a hundred to one that when old Mars comes up to the church he'll be waiting for the promised soldiers.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
Engineers and the Classics. and Chemical Engi-
neering.)

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 Complaints are heard on every hand of good and competent engineers who are lacking in the ability to make clear reports or-to state conditions so that intelligent laymen can under stand them. They can work, but they can neither talk nor write. Some- times the development of great un- dertaking depends wholly upon their ability to talk or to write, and here Is where they fall down. So the demand has become general for larger meas ure of cultural studies and conse- quently for more time to be devoted to engineering courses. More or less radical changes have been proposed in the courses, but it is question whether the solution can be found at all in that way. Far b. 1t from us to decry the beauties of classic lore, the
 marvellous treasuresso of Greek liter at,1re or tic fa1cinafion of Gothic days and the Renaissance. But some boys must hurry, really hurry, and the opportunity is not given them to take an arts course. Nevertheless, for every one who has taken his engineer ing degree and who lacks adequAte general culture to speak or write without shaming himselg we can point
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
Average Tax, State
15.41

<ASCHd6O Acs<At soS$SeN
 and Federal ..$1,556,s11 15.41
 It will be seen from the. foregoing that while residence in certain states gives decided advantage over other states, the lowest levy in any state is 1-3 million dollars. and from this the amount runs up to $2,71o,650 In the case of California. In other words. out of fortune of $1O,O00,o0O, the sum to be paid over to the com bined governments, in the case of the different states, runs from $1.336,000 to $2,710.000. Government expendi- lures are on such 8 reckless and ex- travagant scale that death taxes, like ordinary taxes, are mounting very fast There is accordingly less and less incentive to save, since large share will pass away from the owner with his death In any event. This problem of rising taxation Is becom- ing the most serious one in our eco- homie structure. The municipality. the state and the Federal government. each and all, by reason of the prod- igal way in which they incur expen- ditures, are all the time in need of more money and are casting about for new sources of revenue or new meth- ods for increasing the productivity of the old sources. Where it all will end only he who possesses the gift of prophecy can tell.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

to one or mpre bachelors of art who are no better of. Slipping through Greek and Latin will not turn the the trick. On the other hand, we venture to say that any boy who comes to college with an established taste for that which is we'll and com petently said in literature will. not be at a loss for the means to express himself when the time comes, no mat ter how much he may have had to skip and ssimp by force of .circum- stances.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
What Congress Reads.

(New York Evening Post)
 The false and scaMdalous notion that our congressman open their mouths without first having put some thing into their heads is exploded by the Chicago Tribune, which finds that zeal for preparedness in debate is eating up the library of congress. A sample order from Senator Lewis consists of Ruskin's Sesame and Lillies' and Unto This Last" Ar-t holds Studies of Roman Imperial- ism" a military encyclopaedia, and three volumes by various writers on the Monroe Doctrine. Senator Stone is even more comprehensive, his list calling for Faust's "German Element in America" Lowell's S"FIessians in the Revolution" Atlxinson's History of Germany Huibert's Passing of Corea,'' Wilson's History of the American People" Shows Manual of International Law" Van Dykes ''Blue Flower. and Anna Katharine Greens detective story. s'The Golden Slipper Representative Gardner concentrates upon Cartons Pxclflst Illusions" Webster's Reply to Hayne," Washburn's Theodore Roosevelt, Jansen's History of the, German People," Woods Notebook: of an Attache'' and Wilson's The State.'' The practical-minded Mann is content with ..List of Herbaceous Perennials," ."rhe American Rose An- nual," Grants Seaside Planting of Trees and Shrubs" Bailey's "Pran-s ing'' (trees. not of speeches.l Chii-. toms Studies in Gardening" and Sii- berrad's Dutch Bulbs and Gar den,' It is not a congressman. but Secretary of War Baker. who achieves the triumph Of covering the entire range of his activities in just two books: Longs Memories of F. Lee" and vardons Complete Golf er''
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
The Waiting of Nora.

'Tis my heart in its sorrow ia sohh,r.
 and calling
 Sure your soul. lad. must hear #
 wherever you be, Though the wall of the waves and the
 gulls' wicked screaming Are both trying to drown out the
 weak voice of me. Oh, 'tis long since stood on the brow
 of the headland As your boat rose and fell in the
 red and the gold Where the sun sank to sleep on the
 tides swelling bosom ' Till the breath of the night wind
 blew bitter and cold My aching, eyes strained to the edge of the ocean Where the sky and the sea and the
 shadows were met, And the sail and my Danny passed
 out of my vision So long. long. long ago, and Pm
 waiting him yet. ~ For my boy gave his promise that
 evening together, The first night we kissed by the
 
 And he swore by the Saints and his
 love for his Nora. He'd keep faith to the end with the
 troth that we made. And the years that went by or the
 blacks powers of evil Could never bring i'll to the passion
 we knew, Twas so that you told me, oh, Danny.
 boy, Danny.
 Come back how to the breast that
 is longing oD- you! She was lost with all hands!' was
 the news that they carried But if they spoke true, then your.
 spirit is free To fly to mine over. the great waste
 of waters,
 Stealing out of the gray; shrouding
 nists of the sea. They say that I'm mad. and there's
 those who will watch me. creep from the cabin so- softly, asthore,. To cry out my heart to you here by the ocean, At the spot where you sailed from our wild Connaught shore. If you only would hark to the sound asF of my weeping! But the mating times past with it's wonder and joy, And 'tis wishful am that Deaths
 angel may take me For I'm weary, so weary, oh,
 Danny. my boy!
 GEORGE T. PARDY. in New York Evening Sun.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
Untold Wealth in. South Amcrica's
World ousiooky.

Fifteen million ounces of silver is one of South Americas annual con- tributions to the worlds pocketbook. This would make more than 17,0OO.- 900 silver dollars.
 Silver to the amount of over two billions of dollars has been mined in the last 300 years from Potosi. the famous peak of silver in Bolivia.
 The hills of South America are scanned with gold. It is found in every state.
 All this gold and silver could be studded with precious stones from Colombia. Seven hundred thousand carats of them are dug out of her hills annually. Almost all the emcralds in the world come from there.
 Our famous copper mines in Micht- gun, Montana and Arizona are sur passed in richness by those on the west coast of South America. s
 Enough silver is mined with the copper of one Peruvian mine to pay all the expenses of the mining, of shipping the ore over the mountains and up to North American smelters. It also pays the cost of smelling. K
 The Bethlehem Steel Works in Pennsylvania could be kept busy for seventy-five years with the iron ore of one of Chile's provinces. Coquimbo.
 More tin is mined in Bolivia than anywhere else in the world except the Federated Malay States. and only a few of the mines have yet been opened.
 Although South America imports most of her coal. there is enough tucked away in her mountains to sup ply the needs of both Americas for ages to come. But there are no rail- ways to bring 1t out.
 Chile's nitrates fertilfze the f1elds of the world and bring her an annual revenue in export duties of over $15,- 0eO, 900. The value of the deposits must be reckoned in ten figures.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

of the railrosds. Therefore. the people of the nation cannot sanction any strike of the railroad trainmen It this time. If it comes to a showdown the advice of Governor Cox of Ohio will be the deciding impulse of the people in all states in tue Union. They will be placed under martial law and the states themselves will run the roads.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
The Golden Calf. (Grand Rapids Herald).

Some day the American people will be rudely awakened from the false philosophy that salvation-in any hour of judgment-can be coined out of. cash.
 We have lived so long under the reign of the almighty dollar-sover- eign over our hopes. our aspirations, and our aims-that we have almost come to worship the dollars power IT hlandly - tho ancients
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
Cost Of Inl1eGiting.

(New York Financial Chronicle).
 T:,e Annalist of this city has an art icle entitled What It Costs to Inherit 10000, ,00O," which contains. some in structive figures on the subject. The table Is very interesting. and we re- produce 1t herewith:
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
WHAT WILL BE DoNB7

It Is rumored, and the rumOrs are probably true, that there are men in the four great railway brotherhoods who look upon any strike at this time as totally out of the question. The chiefs of the brotherhoods and the railroad magnates have deliberAted all the day, and the probability Is that the strike will not be called tomor-s row. although no one knows just what will happen. The mon in tho ranks may call upon their spokesmen to lay oif 1t this time. Pressure from this source would undoubtedly fore- stall q paralysis of the nations .rail- road facilities. The railroad officials and the brotherhood heads are parrying for time. with each side telling the people that there will be no strike fit can be averted.
 There is a third party that may play an important factor in the nego-: tiations attending the railroad strike cast. public opinion. There are no people in this land foolish enough to believe that the railroad trainmen have not . right to strike. Under this form of government men are entitled to get all they can from their employers. and employers are supposed to look out for their own interests. If strike is the only way to bring about better conditions In any walk of life. then the people, when the principles enumerated are adjudged fair. are even willing to help
 So it is in the case of the railroad ! trainmen. The people, for the most part. have been with the men ever
 since the agitation first arose. The
 only time popular opinion did not
 support the brotherhoods was when they held up Congress at the point #
 a gun and demanded immediate
 action. After the Adamson Eight
 Hour law was ..railroaded" through the House and the Senate 1t was
 brought to the attention of the United
 States Supreme Court. That august
 tribunal is supposed to pass upon the
 constitutionality of the law. Because
 the wheels of justice have not moved
 fast enough for men used to driving
 high powered steam engines the
 strike is now ordered.
 l Coupled with the fact that the su- preme Court hass not yet handed down it's decision there is the solemn position which the 1snlted 8tatss occupies now In wsrIu AAkis xs.see
 may be war at se1sv ncine AlsaIf
 thers isswar t1ees will - ssat asd11
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

Viewed solely from the American standpoint the re;voIution in Russia is in direct keeping with the wishes of our people. Since this nstion Was founded Americana have longed for the day when other people in other lands would enjoy some part of the freedom known on these shores
 Viewed in its relation to the inter- national situation, the Russian revo- lution will prove great blow to Ger many and an added help to the En- tente Allies. The abdicated Czar was pro-German. His every act was to make the Government of Russia sub -serviant to the dictates of his first cousin. Emperor Wilhelm H.. of Ger many. That these things were so was known to the great Russian General,
 Brussiloff. who, every time he save
 his military plans to the royal gov ernment, was met on the-held of battle by . German army previously warned. No offensive movements were made by Brussiloff unless the German
 military comanders were made aware of. them. Firing of this sort of thing, Brissilon not only kept his campaign plans to himself, but he joined in the forces of the revolution. He Is one of the contributing agencies that brought about complete accord between the army and the people. Another must have been the Grand Duke Nicholas who was relieved of the supreme command of the army in order that the .Czar might keep this oreanizatfon as a tool with which to. fight tlfe people should a revolution come about. But the army got away from him.
 Thus has democracy made . great advance In Russia. It is the first time it. has gone so far. There is no telling where it will end. Perhaps in the complete overthrow of the Ro- manor dynasty. Once the Romanof line is done away with the fever might spread. It will work on out through the Houses of the Hapsburgs and Hohenxollerns And the world will be that much better off for hav- ing gotten rid of~a lot of parasites who live on the people. Democracy can have no use for wearers of the purple. Democracy can have. no sym pathy with Czars or Emperors or Kings or Princes or Potentates of my kind. Let the people rule. If :his war results In the complete over- hrow of ali absolute monarchies 1t will not have been fought'in vain. By sontact with the French soldiers the yes of the Russian warriors were ,rened. Light shed upon those great aunt bodies who plunged themselves nto the abyss at the call of tho Csar. More light will penetrate the minds # those who have taken part in this evolution Eventually the people will ,eme into their own. And. that Is he sincere desire of every true Amer can no matter of what racial descent.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

It remained for Cardinal Gibbons to drag q discarded phrase out Of . dead campaign. polish it, and give it new life, when he addressed meet ing .of youngsters. saying, 'I want every boy here to be 100 per cent. patriotic 7
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

Hit your glasses and drink the Commanders In Chief of United States Army 1and Navy, President. Here's strength to arm and power to his punch
 w. N. DYKAAN.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
Seven old Men in . Boat.
 T.ondon Chronicle).

The Lowestoft fishing-boat SucceN has war crew. a skipper of sixty- eight. ..boy" of sixty-two, while sIhs- ages of the other men are stxty-follk sixty eight, sixty nine, seventy-ssa s.. and seventy-five. \
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

The revolutionists have apparently succeeded in taking a Nick out of their homeland.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
It Goes Her,s Too.

Count that day lost whose low de- scending sun sees no new job of murdering coldly done: and also count as lost that passing day that tdo6en't see the murderer get away
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

CAAeOV s5sessSS 4asssAA4 esAsN 4SUsst President. Heres strength to ;, arm and power to his. punch z
 w. N. DYKMAN. - RUSSIAN REvoLUTIoN. nlne to many as 3 bolt out of Ilae whereas it was 2 storm of Intherins. the democratic revo- Russia has been immediate l1ated to German intrigue
 behind the Cxar's throne.
 vent German intrigue proved 1i16fang. Worked for the pur-
 furtheein1 tho advantages of
 a lt has started tho downfall F lry thing 1t would perpstuate. N no doubt in tho minds Of
 dents that eventually Ger ksif Will De. visited by the , TIT - of revolution which has 
 r Ely coming to head in
 nnany months past. or since fiE eDsn, and which finally
 ss week aso today. For i've
 censorship has bsen 70 risid
 one word or hint has pasaed
 Russian lines. The world did
 what WAS going on instds
 I1v ries of the Cerss land. if II comparatively few lives
 elme has been overtliroysn. |S has sabdicated. ana taes||
 eked by tho army. T. n
 q tlls Geys5,1meQt. fs the facts tn the eaDe. tches srom FetFosrad carry snfng tales of ths various of the rsvolntlon. and they m lEanssr f1ets are at
 essIrst ceusls q the present TIT III n over patient people. ? Y wheat etep. nnishandled ! iiIi fpotsat government, was illi | to tho people because of
 fli9 ts1nspoftation evils. due
 ane source. Feeling the
 anes T hunger and ordered
 jthout brstA the populace ac- fzlAt na0unaat as an opportunity
 ont destens which had been the tfannine. That the & had been ven worked out is nv the fact that when the sol- were ordered to shoot on the S1thered on the great Nevsky slkt they shst down their officers | and joined the people in the lfion. The rcd nag of the revo- fbecame the lighting badge of
 oons of Russia. With them. z Down With Autocracy. Up 'Elemocracy,-a cry that may TIT around the world.
 Isble which had long been brew nHssia came to . further point 2Ukopment when an imperial Ordered the dissolution of the
 The Liberalists refused to ~
 Instead. they continued their sx1, appointed an executive com 1sheaded by the president of the 2 md announced themselves as Iovisional Government. All this Accomplished after the Cars |Gr1 had been arrested and Ii into jail. The army stood to [ in hack of. the Duma. making lle the radical change. For f the. history of Russia its jhave been given 2 chance to eheir own sentiments.
 iloias IT. physically and men iie6alk. is 1orced to give way to rsthes. Grand Duke Michael, a d& the people. No matter what ncies Michael may develop as ,f of Russia, and there is some if that office will be left, he jSyer hope to reach the pinnacle si6lutism occupied by the ab- V Car. MichaeI's expulsion TIT own country by his own @ becnuse of . morganatic mar 6 6rousint tho younger member < rsnoyaI family in popular favor. - event the young Cxarevitch, n years of age, should die, 1e1 will assume complete con- Istl1e throne. That is, unless
 piut1on destroys the dynasty
 TT Even with T1Giciaef as
 nu1zs should the revolution
 cu!d exert an in-
 Or . CT ,. $ ssttsgs < 2 treat
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

started the war; the main topic now adays runs into who's going to finish it.-Bridgeport Telegram.
 A man in California caught his foot in . street railway track and was in- jured. When he could not get redress he shot the manager. sssome chaps ara so direct.-Meriden Journal.
 s The high cost of eexs makes 1t al- most safe for any of those recalcitrant senators to so anywhere.--Meriden Record.
 Most of the '..forward looking mon of politics are looking forward to ofhces.-New York Herald.
 Thanks to the Almighty. we. shah obtain the finaJ victory-Enver Pasha. Allah too?.--New York World.
 Now. when the people cry for free seeds, the government says it has none; that congressman have exhaust- ed the supply. So tho homo gardener gets his disappointment now instead of at the time when he would expect the seeds to sprout.-New York Sun.
 Spring silks very active," says . textile note. Usually do begin moving . bit around Easter ume.-st, Paul Pioneer Press.
 There Is such a shortage of sheep- skin that not enough can be obtained for college diplomas.-C1evelan Plain Dealer.
 The war news. .is on the first page, nut Y does not take up so much n the automobile advertisements.-Con- cord Monitor.
 We can think of no better reading Tor some of the city authorities just now than their oath of once Pitts burgh Post.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
Britain Herald.
IRALD fuDrlsHINo coMPANT Yropr4etora.

1AID fUDn11f1IN0 CoMPANr Hropr1etoro. x
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 Ipnly prontabie advertising medium :n 1Sa city: Circulation books ana rseO ban always oren to advs-sssesa 5eeeMld win be found on sale q Aoes- 3D9e Newa Stand. l2nd 0t. and Afoeo' t6D. New tNrk City; Board wax. As. kn13e Cltx. and Hartford Depos.
 THxNPH0NB cALL.A ..
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New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

The Sick Man of Europe may never recover.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16
FACTs AND FANCIEs.

Few people now argue as to who started the war; the main topic now adays runs into who's going to finish it.-Bridgeport Telegram.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

@ The. high cost of eegs makes 1t al- most safe for any of those recalcitrant senators to so anywhere.- Record.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

Spring silks very active,'s says . textile note. Usually do begin moyina bit around Easter tame.-st. Paul Pioneer Press.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

Most of the Forward looking'' men of politics are looking forward to ofhces.-New York Herald.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-16

Thanks to the Almighty. we. shall obtain the fnaJ victory-Enver Pasha. Allah t0o?.--New York World.