Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-01

CHOIRDg ANp
ID I S G o R ID S

IT makes no difference what YOU
were before your country went to war,
It's what you are today--a loyallst or
z traitor II the latter. and you don't
intend TO get in harmony with ma
ffonaI sentiment the safest move for
sou viii be Ia the direction OF
rhe land across the sea that
we have decided to help clean
up. that is il you can so manage 70
mat you can reach that spot under
prevailing travelling conditions.
SENATOR La Toilette has nothing
TO sag in answer to the introduction
Of memorials in the national congress
demanding his dismissal from that
body For. once he has exercised good
Judgment He has said too much al
ready.
YOU have met some men who speak
as enthusiastically of the early morn
ing ozone IS those who have actually
experienced contact with the open at
that hour Of the day But the only
ones that they are fooiing are them
selves
MAYOR Thompson OF Chicago still
is refusing 10 see newspaper report
ers. II he persists in that frosty atti-
5ude eventually he will be OF such
small consequence that the newspap
men viii decline to see him.
TWO mem hers Of the New York
stock exchange have been expelled for
unprofessional conduct The gentle
men appear to have made the error
Of not having put the finishing touches
on their work with the result that their
footprints we're discovered by some
brother who didn't like the way they
oombed their hair, or something
Az agitation has been started Tor
appointment OF national 5unAmau
The idea is TO have a salvage depart
menr for the reclamation of materials
wasted incident 10 the war. Every
scrap Of disable material would be
worked over and over again until IL
was no longer workable The plan
might with profit be carried into ev-
cry household in the land For in
stance, what has become of that pair
Of rubbers that YOU discarded last
spring Rubber is an exceedingly
precious commodity right now.
Chances are your old rubbarz are
resting in . corneE in the basement.
along with lot of other Egru
out articles all of which have some
value And when you hear of the
next city alley cleaning campaign It
would be just like you 10 take these
articles for which you 20 longer have
use and throw them into the ash heap
% he carted away and buried where
they would be oil ua further service.
We are not advertising the 5uuEmau'
business. but It is just as well that
you QcCas tonal}v listen for eae-oau of
the little man I'D the wagon who pc
ri0dicaIly passes through your alley
and shouts Our asking if SOU have
any old thing that be can buy When
your rub8ers and such reach The hands
of the 5uHkmau the intrinsic mate
rails that they contain are kept fu
commission. And i'm the bargain. son
receive real money for them. Keep
~iUuEmaH n mind when Won see
some of the articles spoken Of pHiug
up around your home The little man
in the wagon who travels through
your alley is first cousin TO the big
junkman we are TO have one of these
DAYS
EDWARD F. Garry has been named
10 have charge of the operation OF
the governments merchant feet. And
they say he may be trusted to pur the
carry in the ocean carrying business.
Banners to the Light
Armies Of the green fields
Ready for The fight.
Don't YOU see them waving
Banners 10 the light2
All the hosts of harvest
Answer to the call.
And heavens henedicti0u
Orr the hearts 0# all