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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18
IN DOUBT over
PHYSICAL TEST
Exemption Board Has No Word
Countermanding Order for
Holding Examination.

Whether or not 1856 Sept. IL Sc
lectives between the ages OF 10 and
81 and sc are to be physically ex-
amined by the local medical ad-
visory board Wednesday of this
week depends on further orders
from Springfield.
Men who have received notices
to appear have been calling the
exemption board headquarters ask
ing information on the matter, say
ing that as the war is over it is
not necessary for them to take the
physical test.
Exemption board officials today
state that they have received no
orders to discontinue physical tests
and that the examination will take
place Wednesday unless orders to
the contrary are received from Ad-
jutant General F. S. Dickson.
The board officials announce that
if such orders are received the reg
istrants affected will be notified
through the newspapers that they
need not appear for examination.
but If no such orders are received
the men will be notified of such
fact, likewise, through the newspa-
pers, and in accordance with such
will appear at board
headquarters Wednesday morning
according to their official notices.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18

troubles caused by that weakness are
a thing of the past All women who
suffer as I did should try Lydia f.
IInkham's Vegetable Compound. -
MFs James RohT berg, go Knapp St,
y. s, Pittsburgh, Pa
Women who suffer from any form
OF weakness. as indicated by dis
placements, Inflammation, ulcera ton
nervousness or the blues shoujCi
accept Mrs Rohrberg's suggestion
and give Lydia f Pinkham's VeRe-
table Compound a thorough trial
FoF over forty years ii has been
correcting such ailments If Won
have mysterious complications write
fer advice to Lydia E. Pinkham Med
iclne Co, Lynn. Mass
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18

There's @as. 0Gs Thing 10 DO.
y your skin sosLns ablAxs xfth
Tie 4Ia-y burning and itching Of
Eezama- real and lasting relief
can only 0smS-fn0m treatment that
goes hairy Esaa surface - that
reaches dCT1fp tne very source OF
The troa6zs. Ro~GaAled Ekia dfs-
eases cN3s 3nuz1 = d1sondexed con-
dH4an Ell ths n1scd, and the proper
treatment 1g 6hE0ugh the hood,
Search Tar Saza SzeAx. ana xox CAM.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18
Y. w. e. A. NOTES

The Dramatic club will meet with
Miss Ruth Blakemore, 1873 Twenty
third street, tonight. Many new
members have signed for depart
ment and will meet with the old
members to plan the years work.
The Camp Fire girls will hold n
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18

meeting at the Y. W. c. A. residence
tomorrow afternoon after school.
The girls are working on bead head
bands.
The swimming classes Of the Y.
w G. A. will meet at Augustaua
college tomorrow afternoon at
O'Clock and in the evening from Z
to 8. There are only two more les
sons in this term. uSements
for the next terms classes have not
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18

10 a weakness
which c a US Q d
backachs a n d
n e a d a c n g 6. A
friend called nv
attention to one
or your newspa-
p g r adv ertise-
ments a n d i'm -
medlateIy m Y
husband bought
three bottles Of
Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable
Compound for
me. After taking
I W o bottles I
fEIF en-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18

Special week fn wguar,.
and cHiIdren's ready-to-g.,..-..a si E
McCabe's this week. st
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18

been completed. They VT,
uouncsd later. " % an
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18
Allow for Curing Pork.
EAGLES. ATTRNTIny

Regular meeting Tuesday even
ing, Nov. - Nomination of officers
Kindly attend.
PETER MEJERLE, Pres.
Joseph GrOtegut, Sec.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18

special week IN women's. misses
ana cnildren'S ready-to-wear at
NcCabe's this week.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18
ATTENTION. K nP e


Members of AllOuez council No.
65S are requested to attend the reg
ular monthly meeting on Tuesday,
Nov. 10. JOSEPH p. KELLY,
Secretary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18
HUSBAND
SAVES WIFE
From Suffering by Get
ting Her Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Com
pound.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-'For many months
was not able to do my work owing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-11-18

Sweeping Compound. Beartsley's
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06
Copyright, 1918. Al rights reserved.


7 LITERATURE about the Flowery Land, COM
Il monty known as the Chinese Empire, seems to
be fashionable and is certainly fascinating Messrs.
Constable recently published charming collection
of Chinese lyrics, exeellently translated by Mr..
Arthur Valley; and in China lyric verse seems to
be the most typical verse. @ ...'
Perhaps there is the same suggestion in the
poetry as in the pottery; and there is derivation
as well as pun connecting China with china. Any
how the pots can look more permanent than the
temples, which often look like toys. z.r
Similarly the lyric is more notable than the epic;
it needs more dogmatic spirit to build something
like the Diuine Comedy; and Mr.. Valley says that
Chinese philosophy knows no mean between the
tradtionalism of Confucius and the nihilism Of
Chuang Tzu."
Pencil Speakings From Peking'
But Mr. A. E. Grantham, author of Pencil Speak
ings From Picking George Allen Unwin) would
certainly challenge this; for his whole book is
highly inspiriting challenge. He does not touch
the Chinese Tyre, but rather blows the Chinese
trumpet His book is most valuable and interest
ing; and all the better FOR its enthusiasm; and its
openly poetical treatment of tale in which the
very names poems; the Dragon Throne, the
Lake of Liquid Jasper" and particularly pleas
ing to my fancy the Hall of the White Tiger.
There is something childlike, in the imag NATIVE
sense i'll his vivid vision of the very jewelled scab
bards and velvet saddles Of forgotten kings. But
though is artistic it cannot be treated artstically
it must be criticised and even controverted. The
White Tiger is an attractive animal; but l think
he is here made too white and not enough of a
tiger.
He Out-Chineses the Chinese.
In the middle of an argument on the war or some
immediate modern matter / have heard humorous
old lady remark in dreamy manner: 1.-The CHI
nese Dynasties. So restful. And so impartial."
Mr.. Grantham, as l have said, really rivets the
reader interest, and communicates his sympathy
for the Chinese dynasties. But it can hardly be
said. that Mr.. Grantham himself is restful and it
cannot possibly be said that he is impartial.
What have called his Chinese enthusiasm often
becomes Chinese fanaticism; and what have de-
scribed as childlike occasionally deserves to be
called childish. He is not content with arguing,
like many moderns, that Confuciansm and Chris
tianity are very much alike, especially Confucan-
ism. He has an itch to imply that the Christian IS
bad Confucian; and it is in this connection that
the tone may be said to become childish, even in the
sense of being shrill.
The pencil speakings sometimes turn into pencil
speakings Of the slate pencil variety. 1t is mere
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06

The Apology of the Dragon

Chinaman who gives up his traditional regard for
ceremoniousness loses far than the outer show
of superficial politeness the manstay of his self
discipline is shaken" r.
And he proceeds to say, not without shrewdness
that the same is sometimes true of the English
gentleman.
Gentlemen, East and West.
l neither complain of the comparison nor shrink
from the implied criticism 1t is not only quality,
but defect of the English gentry that their morals
are only mechanically connected with manners, in
stead Of being reasonably connected as with re-
lgion. In so far as this is true of the public
school" type it is provincial; a thing on the edge
Of Europe, and suffering from its isolation like
China. 1t will probably be profoundly disturbed
by its present more democratic surroundings and
experiences in the great war.
Christendom lives from within; the crlsades and
prosecutions, which horrify men like Mr.. Grantham,
are the agonies of its continuous effort to live by
creed and not by code. 1t sits the thoughts
because it believes in the effect of thought on ac
ton while the cult of custom believes rather in the
effect of action ON thought. None will deny that
the latter also has its fine sanity and serenity both
in the Chinese and in the English gentleman.
The Truth About the Prussians.
But Mr. Grantham gives us strange gllmpSes or
a sympathy with it when it takes form far less
respectable than either; in place he is con-
sistent Anti Christian to appear to be almost
a Pro-Prussian. At least there is one astonishing
passage in which he seems to praise Prussans even
at the expense of Cinnamon; or to be partieu-
lar, of Boxers. To which know not what to reply
except: "Give me the Boxers IS
In thus championing the Chinese against Mr.
Grantham should explain that he refers to the old
Prussians of Blucher's period; Yho he assures Us,
retired into their souls after Jena, apparently
pardoned their enemies, and emerged pure and
noble
What the Prussians really did was to grovel to
Napoleon when he was successful, to turn on him
when he failed to help with startling brutalities to
force France back under her old tyrants and then
try and rob the very tyrant they were pretending
to restore. ...z
am sorry so polemie point should mar an in
teresting study; but it is Mr. Grantham fault and
not mine I may even have misunderstood his
meaning; and 1 sincerely hope have. But if he
is at all tempted to transfer from Chinese EN-
perors to Teutonic Emperors the trick of taking
autocrats at their own valuation, / ask him, as q
lover of China, to remember which modern monarch
it was who told his subjects in so many words, to
carry the fire and sword of Atta through the Flow
cry Land. G. z. CHEsrERroN
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06
Lend the Way They Fight!
b K. II. Bill.

To lend the way they fight for me,
What splendid lending that would be!
Such radiant strength Of heart and hand
Lights up the waste Of No Mans Landl
Such seorn Of danger as they go
With smile and song to meet the foe;
Such zeal to know the Victory won,
To know a soldiers duty done;
To lend the way they fight for me,
What selfless lending that would bel
To lend the way they fight for me,
What selfless lending that would bel
For ever through the battles haze,
The bullets hail, the field guns blaze,
They dream of home and love and life,
Of child and mother, sweetheart, wife;
For these they fight and laugh at pain,
And blind with blood fight on again;
To lend the way they fight for me,
What splendid lending that would bel
To lend the way they fight for me,
What glorious lending that would be!
For ever with them as they fight
Flames out the great white sword of Right
And up above the bursting shell,
The pail of smoke, the wars red hell,
1t writes some message in the sky,
That makes it even sweet to die;
To lend the way they fight for me,
What glorious lending that would be!
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06

So it's out with a swing
And it's up with a spring
And over the top
With a brimming Jack Pot
The Kaiser is groggy,
His downfall is nigh,
And militarism,
Thank God, it shall die!
And this is our bunch,
So we're off in a bunch,
To put the Loan over
And build it up high.
It's to dine on the Rhine
On next Thanksgiving Day,
So look out! Berlin,
For our boys on the way.
So it's down in your jeans
And dig out your greens,
And over the top
With the Loan getaway.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06
My Fifty Dollar Bond
By r. B. Clifford.


Ny little fifty dollar bond
Will help to win this war,
Will make me learn a little more
Of what we're fighting for.
Ny little fifty dollar bond
Will teach me how to save,
Will also keep some hero from
Another soldier grave.
Ny little fifty dollar bond,
With many million more,
From all this Nations workers
VIII WIN this vaFi -.,-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06

Impotence, for instance, to call it characteristic
OF Jesuit missionary to have given some Chinese
potentate an ornamental gun. Chinese potentates,
even by Mr.. Grantham's own account of them, did
not need to learn for the first time from bold
bad Jesuit of the use or existence of weapons OF
war to say nothing Of instruments Of torture
Indeed the claim is in curious contrast with the
other claim sometimes made for the Chinese that
they were really the first to discover gunpowder.
The Chinaman cannot have both the credit of in
venting it and the credit of being shocked by it.
Do Maxmsk Make the World Go Round?
Mr.. Grantham quotes certain lofty maxims from
the Chinese sages; and then bitterly asks what
would be thought Of them by European stock
brokers, even European statesmen. As if there
were no such maxims in European books; not to
mention European copy books As a fact, of course,
the Europeans are simply falling short Of their
own noble ideals as much as the Cinnamon and, by
the testimony of Mr.. Grantham's own tale, the
Cinnamon fall short of them as much as the Euro
peans.
But he seems to have curious faith in beautiful
words so long the words are in Chinese. He
appears to associate all that he admires in China
with the mere fact that the word Picking means
"obedient to heaven He admits that "Peking's
moral record is not much better, perhaps it is
worse, than that of capitals endowed with humber
names"
Indeed, if names meant so much as that perhaps
the hottest and happiest spot earth would be the
city of San Francisco. do not believe, however,
that every individual citizen of the great Cali
tornian city passes his life in practising holy pow
erty and preaching to the birds. Nor will be-
leve similar things about other human beings even
when they have the recognized superiority of being
heathens
Manners Enclosing Morals
The book deals, however, with deeper and far
more fascinating problem than this; and though 1
think Mr. Grantham's solution incorrect, he is to
be thanked for raising it in so clear and pic
turesque style. 1t is true, has been suggested,
that much of the good recorded of Eastern despots
is after all chiefly recorded by themselves. 1t is
also true that much of it is mere owery formality.
1t would have been as reasonable to prove that
George III. must have been gracious in manner and
majestic in appearance because he was called His
Most Gracious Majesty.
Nevertheless this superficial polish is related to
very profound realities. We might even say that
the Confucian tradition was profound through
being superficial 1t made manners sort of shin
ing shell for morals.
The truth is contained in single sentence Of
Mr. Grantham's book: ''The twentieth century
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-06
The Liberty Loan
BY John M. Bishop.

BY John M. Bishop.
If the Kaiser we'd smite
With a staggering blow,
Let us strike with the might
Of a Loan overflow.
So it's out with a swing
And it's up with a spring,
And over the top
With a bag full Of dough.
If we'd swat all the Huns
With a merciless smash,
And bring down Berlin
With a thunderous crash.
Let's be off with a swing
And be up with a spring,
And over the top
With a big roll Of cash.
Must the boys over there
Make the fight all alone,
While we stay-at-homes rest
In an ease all our ownf
No, it's out with a sweep,
And it's up with a leap,
And over the top
With the Liberty Loan.
Now the Hindenburg line
Is al tied In o knot,
And the whole Hun morale
Is filed full Of shot.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-05-04
KNIT IN WORKHOUSE
Many Men Sent There Are Forced to
Labor.

Many Men Sent There Are Forced to
Labor.
FourscOre men are sitting in a long
white-plastered room, working as
many of them never expected to work.
On their broad striped black-and-white
knees each man holds some unaccus-
toned instruments. They are in the
Stark county workhouse at Canton, o.
Among the men in stripes are chick
en- thieves, wife deserters, habitual
drunks, carriers of concealed weapons,
assaulters and batterers of their fell
low men (and women), and many other
sorts of petty criminals. ALL of them
are busy.
"Say, bo," inquiries Shifty Sam
Smith, as he handles one of his bone
needles as though he were harpooning
a fish, sow in the ell do y'u purl?"
''Arsk me sumptin' easy, like crack
in crib, or friskin' a rube or some
other light work." replies Alabama
Gus. 'Wot I want to know is, does
the Constitution of these here United
States say man can be sentenced to
embroidery work if he only puts man
to sleep and cops his roll?"
'Their time might just as well be
spent in knitting for the government
as in any other way" Superintendent
Boyer said. 'They cannot fight for
their country, but they can knit"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-05-04
TRICKSTERS DUPE
ENGLISH RAILROADS
ShoW-Your-TiCket System Fails
to BaIk Crafty Brighton
Travellers.

British railroad officials have had so
many cases of passengers beating their
way since the railroads were taken
over by the government that the rail-
road executive instituted a rule that
every passenger, whether commuter or
otherwise, should produce his ticket on
all occasions when passing the barriIc.
This action presented a great deal of
legal business and stopped practically
all fare jumping. Persons failing to
produce their tickets had to pay wheth-
er they were the owners of ticket or
not, and the courts have maintained
the action of the railroads even when
the ticket had been produced in court.
This system has up to the last few
weeks worked satisfactorily, but the
exodus of the foreign element from
London to Brighton TO avoid afraid
dangers has uncovered a system by
which 1t could be beaten.
The London and Brighton railroad
has a system by which it issues plat
form tickets to passengers wishing to
see their friends off by train at a
charge of two cents, and these charges
being applicable to both the London
and Brighton stations, the refugees
from London have been working a
scheme Of buying a platform ticket,
getting into the train and having a
friend meet them on the platform of
the station of their destination with a
platform ticket bought at that end of
the line.
In this way they have been travelling
so miles by train for a total expendi-
ture of four cents for platform tick
cts, while the single fare works out at
$1.50.
To cope with this evasion of fare the
railroad company has now instituted a
ticket collection at a station en- route
and the local court funds have been
increased by an enormous sum in fines,
penalties averaging SO being inflicted
in all cases coming before the court.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-05-04
SUBSTITUTE FOR COTTON
Denver Man Finds Use for Common
Wild Flower.

A wild flower, grown in practically
all sections Of the country, viii be the
means Of supplying munitions manu-
facturers with sufficient "guncotton"
to keep Uncle Sam and his allies well
equipped with fighting materials, ac-
cording to Charles Goard, a Denver in
ventor, and Beau Brummels need have
no fear Of a shortage in raw material
for the making of mems clothing.
Goard says he has discovered that
the wild flower known to youths all
over the land as "cat-tails" has a bulb
containing nearly a pint of silklike
floss that can be substituted for gun
cotton in the manufacture of ammu-
milton, thus allowing the entire cotton
crop to be used in the manufacture
of clothing.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-05-04
GIRL STEALS LONG RIDE
Travels All the Way From Birming-
ham, Ala, to Chicago.

Ethelyn McCord, nineteen years Of
age, Countess of the Road" has ar
rived in Chicago from Birmingham,
Ala, in an express car. She said she
had worked as a newspaper reporter
on Gadsden and Birmingham, Ala, pa
pers and was looking for newspaper
work in Chicago.
Miss McCOrd managed to keep her
presence unknown until 42 miles out,
when she simply ''had to laugh" at a
funny story one Of the messengers re-
lated. When she told them how far
she had ''gOt away with it" they took
her to the dining car for refreshments.
She said she had been very thirsty,
but not especially hungry and had
slept little because the floor was too
hard.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-05-04

Secretary Of Interior Lane has au-
the construction Of plant TO
utilize an invention Of Frederick A.
Kormann, a San Francisco chemist,
whereby it is claimed the output Of
gasoline by the United States can be
increased tWelYefold.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-05-04
She Has 1sz pescendants.

Mrs. M. A West, eighty-six years
old, of Salt Lake City, became
to her 0ne-hundred
and eighty-seventh descendant, when
her grandson. 4. Denny, Jr, became
the father OF a bouncing baby DO The
baby and mother are reported t,o5eG
well.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-05-04
PETAIN SHOWS mODESTY
Autobiography Records Merely Date Of
Birth and Death -

Modesty is one Of the characteris-
tics of General Petain, commander I'm
chief Of the French armies operating
in France. 1t is reported that after
one Of his brilliant successes on the
western front, which led to his ap-
pointment TO supreme active COM
mand, he was asked by a military
writer to furnish him with few au-
Photographic notes. The general cour-
teousIy replied with this laconic mes
sage:
"Petain, General of Division. Born
April "A, 1856. Died -"
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1918-05-04
JOYOUS LIFE Led
ON BRITISH fleet
More Smiles There Than Among
Any Similar Group.
NO PLACE FOR PESSIMIST

Healthy, Happy, Wholesome Men Have
Homes on Big Battle Fighters
Theater Ship Goes From Vessel TO
Vessel and Home Talent Of Visited
Ship Is Given Opportunity TO Enter
tain Their Fellows.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-03-11
FRENCH GIRLS ARE
PUT IN The FIELDS

FRENCH FRNT, March El.-That
compulsory labor for the German
conquerors is imposed on French
women and girls as well as on the
male inhabitants, of the invaded dis
tricts of France, is shown in the or
der issued by General Volhers OF the
9th German army corps, recently
stationed in the vicinity of Cambria
The texa of the order is as follows:
This group of troops will shortly
have need of 1000 men for various
works, An increase OF production
must be eXacted from thes workers,
ard groups of women must be en-
ployed whenever possible, especially
for work in the fields. Those in
charge of these workers must bear
in mind that at the present moment
our German women are taking the
places of male workers and they
should not lose sight of the princi-
pie that no French woman or girl
ought to be allowed to do less work
than our countrywomen in the in-
terror"