Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-07-03

bully attack defenseless woman or
child in the middle OF public thor
oughfare Shame on their kind. You
can we'll imagine how long 3 nation
composed of such weaklings would be
able to retain its Independent entity
It would fall upon its knees in fervent
supplication at one growI from the
/ kaiser. He wouldn't have 10 waste q
torpedo or a bomb@on such a wobbly
| kneed bunch.
ONE OF the Davenport newspapers,
| commenting on the rush Of customers
from bone dry territory TO gobble Up
the liquor supply in Rock Island,
spoke of the "hoggishness' of the
I scenes Well where did the hogs come
from? Rock Island may have had the
troughs, but it didn't furnish the
swine.
/ EAST ST. Louis is too close TO Mis-
souri, to attempt to mix the whites and
| blacks in places Of employment The
| EMPLOYERS are entirely 70 blame for
| the racial clashes in the Illinois town.
/ Importation Of southern Negro labor
| is Objectionable only insofar as en-
K pIoyers seek to place the black along
side his white brother, with the idea,
doubtless, of ultimately dispensing
with the white worker, using the lat
+ ter only until he has perfected the i'm
portations in the tasks at which those
Of his color had been exclusively en-
gagged up until the scarcity OF labor
due to increased factory production &C
casioued by the war compelled manu-
+ facturers. so they assert, TO turn 10
I the south to replenish their working
ranks. Segregation of the Negroes
may solve the difficulty temporarily
but white labor sees dangerous prec-
edent in the move 10 fill their places
/ with the labor from the plantations Of
{ the south. II involves also a problem
for southern farmers because OF the
attractiveuess northern work has for
the Negro. the younger generation OF
whom haven't been able to content
+ themselves with the conditions Of seFF-
itude the southern planter imposes
upon them with virtually the same EN-
Dhasis that he employed in handling
their fathers The southern Negro
+ looks toward the north in dreams ot
independence. but it is not strange
/ that in most instances he is ready to
return to his old home after ne has
been above the Mason and Dixon line
{ for any length of time. He misses the
! heIpfuIness that had always been mis-
at the hands OF his old boss, The lat
fer. though stern in enforcing his
commands, nevertheless rarely fails
THE Negro in his hour of trouble On
the other hand, the Negro from tie
south. when he reaches the north,
finds he has TO go it alone. and that IS
something that it is not easy for him
to learn to do.
THE average man, according 10 a
physician, has in reserve rarely, and
in some eases. never used, half OF his
lung power This ought to serve as
warning 10 food iugglers. For that
latent noise is sure to be released as
chorus of human protest the coming
winter if living conditions aren
made more tolerahie And when the
lungs OF millions Of mortals are opened
ear muffs won't be of very much use.
THE war has done another thing for
which we all can be duly thankful
Ii has compelled the Fourth of july
shouter TO put aside the canned ora
ton that he has been spriugiug with
irritating regularity these many years.
He will have to bring his speech up 10
date this summer They're cant be
any stealing this time, either. All Wal
get away with the same handicap
Now we will see who are the original
ones and who are not. II wouldn't be
surprising 10 hear of many Of those
booked to crate on the Fourth sud
denly seized with severe colds between
now and Wednesday morning
GOVERNOR Lowden is said 30 have
as his CHIEF worry the problem OF
what TO do with Dick Yates who mas
served as a member OF the public uIl~
tiles commission the past few years,
He must, it seems, either put him back
on the commission or find him some
soft berth elsewhere in the state gov
eminent Mr.. Yates once was go*-
ernor of the state. Ever since then
he has been a political liability of state
administrations, or perhaps If would
De more proper TO classify him as al
asset. Be that as it may. Richard has
been provided for when the plum tree
was shaken. 1t must be that he car
ries an extra key TO the governors
private Office or 10 the state strong
box or possesses some other charm OF
magical wand that causes his pTede-
cessors TO want to have him close BIS
and satisfied Others who have held
appointments under the state admins
trations would give q whole lot they
could afford to-to learn Dicks sys-
TEN
THE excuse of an Iowan picked up
~ an officer on Second avenue fer
driving mis- auto by . street car talk
ing on passengers was that there were
no street cars in his home town He
might have come closer to explaining
ms actions il he had said that there
was not 10 be had in his town the
brand of gasoline that caused him 70
refuse TO recognize the street car or 4
few pedestrians as objects big or inn
oortant eneagh to interrupt his prog
ress.