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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-06-15
RUB-MY.TISM

Will cure your Rheumatism
Neuralgia. Headaches, Cramps,
Collie, Sprains. Bruises, Cuts and
Burns. Old Sores, Stings of Insects
Etc Antiseptic AnodyAe, used in.
ternally and externally. Price 2sc
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1918-06-15

DR.. Junius White left on last Satur
day morning for his summer outing
which he is spending at Last Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17
Growth of Extension Service.

It has been amply demonstrated Secretary Of
Agriculture Houston says in his annual report that
the most effective of getting information to
farmers and their families and of securing applca-
ton of the best scientific practical processes t
through the direct touch of weu-trained men and
women
The wartime growth of the agricultural extern
sion service made possible by emergency ap-
propriatons, and was brought about through active
steps by the department in cooperation with the
state leagues. In April 1917 when this nation en-
tered the war, 2149 and women were employed
in county home demonstration, and boys and girls
club work. distributed as follows: County agent
work, 1,461; home demonstration work 545: BOYS
and girls club work, 14} In November of this year
the number had increased to 521S, of which 513
belong to the regular staff and 3,705 to the emerg
ency force. There were 1882 in the county agent
service 1724 in the home demonstration work and
762 in the boys and girls club activities This does
include the large number specialists assigned
by the department and the colleges to aid the extern
sion workers in the field and to supplement their
efforts
1T would be almost easier to tell what these men
and women did not do than to indicate the variety
and extent of their operations says the secretary
They have not only actively abored to further the
plans for increased economical production along all
lines and carried the rural population the latest
and best Information bearing agriculture. also
to secure the conservation Of foods on the
farm; and, in addition. Of them have aided in
the task Of promoting the better utilization of food
products in the cities They constitute the only fed
eral machinery in intimate touch With the millions
of people in the farming districts. They have there
fore. been able to render great service to other
branches Of the government such as the treasury in
It's Liberty loan campaigns the Red Cross the Young
Mems Christian association. and other organizations
in their activities and the food administration
10 its SPECIAL tasks"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17
Federal Ownership of Wires

Whatever is done with the railroads it is highly
probable that the federal government will
render the telephone and telegraph systems of this
country back into the hands of private The
advantages of federal ownership too obvious.
Handling the business of the wires clearly falls
within the proper functions OF the postofce depart
ment. Besides. the necessity for permanent control
supervision of wireless transmission, gener
ally recognized, is likely to put the government in
the field as a competitor with the telephone and
telegraph systems and the machinery which looks
after the one may easily be made for the
others.
As to the objection which advocates of private
ownership make the ground that it is dangerous
lodge control of the transmission of in the
hands of the government that is the veriest tommy
rot mighty poor substitute for argument, The
example Of the postofffce department is sufficiently
reassuring to set at any which is free from
reason Of its own for being FESTIVE.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

! horn and stuck my head out OF the
| blankets. 1t was Angus with his
head and one arm outside snorin.
! Can you beat that. ! bet he swims
in the ice all winter home and has
his pictur in the Sunday paper. !
| froZe my ear before l could get my
head back That's the kind of Eel
10 he is.
It's awful cold in the mornin
They blow three calls. The first Is
just for the slow guys. | can make
it nice from the march if 1 don't
take too many close off That's no
temtashun One guy jumps up
just before assembly and makes q
lot of fuss like hes gettin dressed.
He don't fool nobody. The only
thing he takes off at mite is his
hat. Some says that falls off when
he gets into bed.
Angus gets up every mornin in
his BVDs. l think his sFin is fur
lined You can hear him smashin
the ice in the pale with a hair
brush outside. Then you can tell
hes washin by the noise he makes
/ like a, busted steam pipe Then ne
GOlICS SllIdS1Lll INTO the IGiL itS1f III
the door open and wipes the ice
often his face with somebody elses
towel an says gosh that's great. I
hate that kind of a fello.
Bill higgins cleaned the stove
with his towel last week SOS every
thing would be meet for inspecshun.
Angus got hold of it in the dark
next mornin. Gee, you'd haft Taft,
Nsble
l got the little tin mirror you
sent, Mable. Its unbreakable ALI
right Bill Higgins got so mad at
it he tried to break it and couldn't.
The first time L looked II it l got
an awful start. l thought I was
starvin. l looked like-one of them
,, picturs of hungry Indiens that the
Missionaries show you justt before
, they pass the plate. Bill Higgins
swiped it later and says why didn't
somebody tell him he was getting
so fat cause he couldn't 90 home or
furlo like that He didn't eat
nothin for three meals and then he
looked at hisself with the mirror
turned the other way. It's like one
of those Coney Island places where
a fello can go IN and laff at hisself
for dime. Next time send me one
| that will break
got to quit now and buy a cou-
pie Of pies before / go to bed. l
don't sleep good less l have little
somethin on my stummick. Don't
say nothin about what l told YOU
in-the beginnin
Until the 18th Feb. then
Yours faithfully,
BILL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

| Pom de mon ole:
You say that like ole yoy N Yid-
dish. It means apple of my eye. l
never saw an apple in nobOdy's eye,
Mable, but I guess that's some
/ French custom.
| Great news, MabIe A fello what's
got a friend in the audience depart
ment in Washington just told me
the wars gOin to end about the 18th
Of Feb. Don't say nothin to nobody
about it. 1t might look as if I was
/ gettin mixed up in pOlitiks. I put
in for a furlo on the 5th tho. Then
wont have to come back. ell Ma
BILE? III bet your glad. It's great
/ to think Of gettin into q place where
you cant see through the walls and
there amt three inches Of mud on
the floor And think of not havin
10 tie the doors together when you
come in or crawl underneath EN-
on your hans and nees and not hay~
in to put everything you own in the
world under the bed. But l guess
you don't care as much about these
things as 1 viii.
This would be a good trainin
camp for artik explorers. l bet the
fellO that picks out the camps ether
owns a cold storage plant in civil
life or else they do it by mail order
It got so cold the other night the
silver in the thermometer disap-
peared. 1t amt been seen since.
We got a cOmical guy in the tent.
Bill Higgins. Me and hims a pair.
Keep everybody latin all the time
Bill likes things hot about as well
as me. Every mite he fills the Sibly
stove so full of wood that he has
TO hammer the last piece in. II
gets so hot that it jumps up and
down like a mad monkey That's
the way Siblys do when they get
awful hot Were not bothered by
that much though.
We got another guy that's fresh
air feend. His name is Angus Mac
kenzie Hes Scotch. Hes so close
himself that he has to have lots of
air or he'd smother Every mite he
pulls up the side of the tent by his
| bed. No one likes fresh air in its
place better than me, Mable, but
when its as fresh as this air is its
place is outside
! wake up in the mite rolled into
a ball like a pOrkypine. Theys
things in the middle of my back like
his stickers. If I don't move I get
cramps. If I do. / freeze. All
around the place where I'm lying is
as warm rs a park bench in win
ter. Sometimes I forget and push
my feet down. That's awful.
One night | thought l heard the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

les highly recommended by his
friend, the corner druggist. If Of
the still more credulous sex. the
victim consults the fishwives and
concludes that it is just the change
OF life. 1t is in this stage that the
disease begins to manifest itself
more definitely as hardening of the
arteries, Bright's disease. slow
heart failure, or perhaps even a
stroke OF paralysis (apoplexy).
The third stage is the W. k
breakdown, preferably called
nervous breakdown at the aver
age age of % years. By this time
the victim begins to suspect that
there is something really the mat
ter, and like as not he even con
suits physician. Nay. he consults
whole string Of physicians. and
travels hither and yon seeking the
advice OF popular all-arouno spe-
clalists. The third stage OF cardio-
vascular degeneration dams on the
deluded victim with a suddenness
wholly unlike the insidious and
gradual Development of the disease
and as soon as the patient DOES re-
aiize what is wrong he cant be
happy unless he is seeking counsel
elsewhere than from the family doe
tor.
Cardiovascular disease Is like
gray hair and wrinkled skin and
scars, uncuralrle. Prevention is the
best treatment; but, alas, in the
stage when prevention is effective
the victim imagines himself a pref
" healthy specimen-his friends
say he Is the picture OF health. II
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17
Finish the Houses.

Rock Island needs the houses the United States
borlsjng corporation is building here and the same
statement holds good in Moline, East Moline Dav-
ernort and Bettendorf The quad-city community is
justified in asking an exception in its favor in the
bin before congress providing for disseminating OF
work OF this kind that is rs per cent complete
During the war much of the room for shetering
additional workmen and their families made by
e-owding houses already built Therefore the sus-
pension Of much of the war work and the departure
Of numbers Of people who have resided here tempo
rarIy viii not leave many empty domiciles. The
stress Of var with its sudden influx and its almost
equally sudden exodus certainly has not Iessened nor
NAL growth. There was just much need during
this last year for new houses there was en-
treIy aside from the extraordinary demands OF war
workers The dwellings now being built under gov
eminent supervision will just about meet that de-
mand certainly they will not more than satisfy it
High prices Of materials, scarcity of labor, and
finally arbitrary restrictions private
prise in construction lines quite materially good
many who otherwise would have built, in the
face Of the handicaps enumerated, gave up their
plans when they learned Of the government project
because they did not know how extensive the fed
eraI enterprise might turn be and what effect
It might have on the market for real and the
demands Of renters
Experienced and unprecedented builders say that
the houses being constructed here for the government
are equal to- or better than the average put up By
private contract housing corporation finishes
them it should have trouble dsposing of them.
Il is true that they costing than privately
built homes Of the same class due largely to emerg
eacy conditions under which is being done
but there is reason for believing that the deficit will
be greater if they are abandoned in unfinished
state than if they are put through to completion.
No doubt there are of means who will be
willing to take the project off the hands Of Uncle
Sam at any stage for something more than a mere
song. but there will be only limited number of bid
ders in this sort Of a deal The purchaser might be
them. If the houses are finished by the government
there VIII be plenty of buyers with corresponding
Improvement Of prospects for coming out some
where near even.
Undoubtedly there many places where the
United States is building houses for war workers
who already are gone and where every added dollar
spent is just much wasted. Petty local poll
tics, of course. will its weight with about the
same force for completion Of all the projects no mat
how little use there will be for the new houses in
certain localities.
Representatives Of the quad-cities are going TO
Washington in a good cause. We actually need the
houses, matter what the situation is elsewhere
II the government had noe taken hand in the build
ing game locally We would have had them or most of
them through private enterprise
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17
E ElLs AZ UT III TALKS
BY WgI Ill .E9,1. -, GRADY F1D.

The Three St-ges Of C. Y. Degen-
Grafton.
Cardiovascular degeneration is
the most common serious disease
in North America. Most fools who
have it attribute the earlier signs
Nsr symptoms to good health. That
is positive fact. Indeed. only q
small minority of men and women
have enough health sense to know
whether they are well.
The first stage of heart-artery
degeneration is the state of self
suff- cheney, developing in the neigh
bOrhood OF the 3Sth year of life.
The victim in this stage is the pic
ture of health" in the estimation of
lay friends. That is, the face is
full Of color, the body is a bit too
stout and steadily growing more
so, the appetite is such as a hired
man might envy, and the fool
laughs at doctors. Nevertheless if
by accident doctor does get a
chance at the specimen in this
stage, he probably notes that the
complexion gets its rudy tint from
minute dilated or paralyzed arter-
iOles about the cheeks and else
where, and that the blood pressure
is a wee trifle high for so young
and healthy a creature And the
picture" gets short OF breath on
moderate exertion
The second stage is the foolish
stage. occurring in the average case
around the 45th year II OF the
male sex, the victim is fond Of
"overwork." dyspepsia" "autoin-
toxication" and alleged nerve ton
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

are merely preliminary to the business In hand The
most significant thing about the presidents recep-
ton is the unanimty with which the European
masses are turning to him their champion in the
coming diplomatic struggle. 1t means that he will
have the most powerful moral backing that ever was
centered upon one man for the accomplishment OF
given purpose SO supported, with publicity as his
weapon and with political unrest seething in every
nation be it friend, foe neutral, the president
holds high cards in the he is about to play
Members Of any combination formed to run coun-
ter the true interests OF democracy and perman-
ent peace may well the situation with concern.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

Predicting what the voters have done before the
ballots counted is an extra hazardous occupa-
ton, but Premier LIoyd-George is generally conced-
ed to have won the British election of Saturday In
other words the forecast is based rather upon faith
that the people are still in possession of their facu-
ties and able to govern themselves, than upon &C
tuaI statistics
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

Another former slave who remembered President
Washington is dead, aged 129. Contact with the
father of his country seems to have had wonder
full effect in proongng the lives of the colored peo-
pie OF Revolutionary days. .-.4t.t.s
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

The ordnance expert who stole secrets connected
with the manufacture Of our big guns must be
kleptomaniac If he were in the game for profit
surely he would have taken something for which the
market less bearish. H.. ...
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17
Exercise and Nisinn.

My eyes bother me considerably.
Do you think that exercises for the
eyes will overcome detect Of Wis
ion due To astigmatism or near
sightedness? en-. RI
Answer Exercises would be as
likely 10 correct astigmausm or
near sightedness as TO correct con
genital disloeation OF the hip or a
deformity Of the nose. Astigmatism
and Lghtedneas are due to
1eformities OF the eyeball.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

cncy of his previous retreats most anyone Will
that the former crown prince had good reason for
running away when party Of women, with their
Dutch up. were looking fer him
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

From the number or mistakes that have been
made in recent casualty lists it looks as if the re-
quest made by members OF congress for expediting
Of returns is being complied at tho expense Of
accuracy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

Paper shell pecans being advertised for the
Christmas trade at IS cents per pound, or around
$50 per bushel This may be a bona fide proposition
but it looks like southern real estate propaganda
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

Recognition of the right Of self-determinaton,
which Ireland is demanding of England, might pro-
mote ultimate peace but lively doings will be
fairly certain while Emerald isle is doing the deter
mining.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

IS rather curious that really healthy
persons so rarely resemble The
picture OF health"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

The Scent postage for air mail, announced by the
postofce department. is 4uite reasonable At least
it is improbable that anybody will come along and
offer TO carry it for less.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17
CIR Rnll nf Gntur

CORPORALS.
George A. Kotes. Chicago
Wayne Simerman. Warbi,.,.
Iowa. 5Dqa'
Albert Q. Coons, Danville. III
Frank Diblik. Chicago.
Andred Wargin, Chicago.
MECHANIC.
Edward G.. Stigler, Chicago
PRIVATES.
Percy l.. Bean, Donovan til
Glen. VI. Bishop, IrYington. I'm.
Edward Debruin, Rock Vaue1
Iowa. -'h
Joseph p. Eagan, Chicago
Albert A HAIRLESS. Belleville. III
Edward kubiak, Chicago.
Carmen Lance. Chicago.
Raymond C.. Lefeyre. Sterling III
Louis W. Rider, Chicago. 80
Edgar o. Kronberg. Freeport IN
Roy Z. Spurlin, Webster CIV
Iowa. NY
Wounded Slightly.
CAPTAIN.
JULIUS 4. REDMAN, s17 Va
Sixth street Davenport, Iowa.
LIEUTENANT.
Elmer Andrew Hell, Starnton. Ill
SERGEANTS.
William b. Berg, Chicago.
John Riley Walsh. Mattoon m
Ralph Whittle, Des Moines. Iowa
Patrick w. Cunningham, Chicago
Harold a. Hudson, Estheryiils
Emmett county, Iowa.
Charles Earl Temple, Nation
Ill
CORPORALs.
Carroll Il. Johnson, Springfield. Ill
Alfred W. H. Schmidt, Chicago.
Harry z. Greeuock, Chicago.
Hugo a. Johnson, Chicago.
Ernest +. Schuchert, Chester. III
FRANK b. WARN0CK, Aledo.
Ill.
Samuel L. Miller, Chicago.
Joseph J. Raterman, Chicago.
Perry Wilker, Chicago.
Walter G.. Beck, Conant, III.
: Reynolds Greed, Newton, III.
Harold G. Ellis, Monticello, Ill
Charles A. Page, Fieldon, III.
Anton l.. Brett, Carlyle, IL
PRIVATES.
Edward c. Cleiman, Chester. I'll.
GIivis III. elmer, Elderville. III.
Leo Easki Chicago.
Merrill G. LangfOrd, Walnut III.
Jens A Larson, Lake Park, Iowa
Allen F.. Lawrence Alton, III.
Earl Felkel. HilsborO, III.
Joseph L. Mcmahon, Fort Dodge.
iowa.
Charles NcReyuoIds, Chicago.
Toney Z. Ottenschnc.dcr, Breese,
H.
Charles w. belong, Cedar Rap
ids. Iowa.
Raymand Kanady, Junction, H.
Arthur r. Eenning, Hinsdale, Ill
John A Kisela, Bidweu. Iowa
Pearl Sullivan, Alton, III.
Missing in Action.
LIEUTENANT.
Fred W. Johnson, Chicago.
PRINATES.
John ". Adamick, Glen Carbon
III.
VaseIeos Panagopulos. Chicago.
James McCourt, Chicago.
Gus Mccullough. Marysville. ILL.,
Matthias W. McGaughy Warden,
III.
Paul Sells. Pella, Iowa
John $. futile, Decatur, H.
Arthur c. Wood, Martinsburg,
Iowa.
Carl NJ. Boyer, Franklin, III.
Myron A. Brainard. Kingston, ~.
Tenus Christensen, Moorhead'
Iowa.
Johangss C. Christensen, Den
isCn, IowH.
Paul julius Goyke, West Ham
mond. Ill
SAM LANCASTER 131 Fifteenth
street, East Moline, III.
(SECTION TWO.
The following casualties are re-
ported by the commanding general
OF the American expedluonaFy
forces. Killed in action, 100; diel
of wounds, II; died Of accident ana
ether causes, .; died OF aiTplahe
accident, none; died OF disease 5-i
wounded severely, 93I; wounds
tdcgreo undetermined 44o'
wounded slightly, 1872 missing 10
action. 100 Total. 2,370.
Killed in action.
LIETTENANTS.
Charles Bowen Busey Uroana'
H.
Otto StaeheIf, Chicago.
PRINATES.
William A. Giss, nenison, Iowa 4.
Curtis Jones. NeRia, III.
George Lucy, Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-12-17

Continued on PAGE TEN
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-29
SOLDIERS
TIRED OF SLAUGHTER
Terrible Conditions in Russian
City Under Bolslcvik Rule.
40 FOOD FOR PRISONERS
Hundreds of Men aud Women AR.
rested Every Day and Many of
Them Killed Niglltly-Commis-
saircs Surrounded by Guns.

conditions in Petrosrad are rraphi-
Cal!y described in the following cX-
tracts from i letter which reached
here few days ago:
The times We are living in are so
horrible that one would Scarcely be-
li.vc II is reality. Daily mass arrests
la Ike place-oid.> young, men and wo-
men or all classes. and also Socialists
on the BolshevikS are excepted.
full No food is given. because there
is scarcely any. and in some prisons
which is brought by the families OF
the prisoners is not distributed.
cromie. in the British embassy.
shot after having killed three men
with his revolver. .Afterward when
he was lying on the ground and was
stu! moving his lips, they iirst refused
the English priest, and, after that.
him and hung 1t on themselves
There is shooting here every night.
especially in the fortress. where they
are quite young fellows who are put
to do II. and are shot themselves II
they do not carry out orders.
The comnissaires sit as If they were
in fortress. with machine guns on all
;hc stcircases with gun -rrcws ready,
So ;hcy can hinder people from coming
up. The soldiers are disguised With
tho Shootings.
The American Red Cross has a
Kitchen where they make food and
rack IT up for All the thirty-eight
EnGl!shmen. together with packets for
Frenchmen. The Americans look after
Dutch have nobody who do il, but the
Americans themselves are not secure.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-29
SIXTY CANNIBALS SLAIN
FOR EATING WHITE MEN
Victims Surrounded by Hor,Ics OF say.
ages and Butchered to
Death,

SIDNEY. December 2S.-News has
reached here OF the murder of ,yyo
white traders on one of the ouiivin -.
Islands island Of The New Britain group. The
victims, acc frulng To reports by the
steamer Melusia were stirroundsd h,.
hordeS OF savages and butcherrd 10
death. the bodies being afterwards
cooked and eaten.
The natives concerned have sirca
SHOWN signs Of further hostilities, and
punitive expedition. consisting o:
natife police boys and members OF
he tropical forces. was recentIv seot
70 the scene. After n march through
NICK tropical country to Il place
called kopopo. the punitive party sur
prlSeG the natives, who were well
armed and put up desperate fight.
About sixty natives were shot down
ana Others were taken prisoners A
petition. and the ! tites concerned in
me second murder also were pun