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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
Be a Capitalist On $4.13.

When you buy one of the United
States governments war savings
stamps you make the kind of invest
ment capitalists are anxious to get.
There's not doubt but that mon
eyed men would soon take all the is
sue of war savings stamps if they
could. With the payment of the in
terest and principal guaranteed by the
honor and resources OF this nation.
and an interest rate Of per cent com
pounded four times year, no other
investment offer is quite SO attractive
as this.
But tho government wants its war
savings certificates to be owned by
the millions of Americans. That's why
1t says that NO person can hold more
than $1,000 worth maturity value) OF
these little baby bonds" That's why
the stamps are In small denomina-
tons
You can buy a war savings stamp
in February for $l.13. In March for
$4.14. and SO on until December of
this year when the price WILL be 34.23.
You can buy government thrift stamps
for 90 cents each. They will help
people save many quarter and may
be used IN the purchase OF the interest
bearing war savings stamps. Both
denominations are tax free.
Start today to be an investor, Q cap
italist. We Americans need the saw
ing habit. Uncle Sam Is giving W.
right now the best chance In the world
to get 1t. The money We lend Will
help win the war.
The stamps are on sale at hanks,
postoffices and your store. Buy soma
today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
The Day In Davenport

Ship Much Grain.-Mild weather
and the preference given the trans
portation Of grain and grain products
have resulted in the shipment from
Davenport in the last few days of ap-
proximately 500 tons Of grain and
grain products and $4,000 barrels of
flour, the greatest portion of the con-
signments being export to the allies.
The 500 tons OF grain is equal to 20
cars, while 1t takes about 80 cars to
load $1,000 barrels of -four.
o
Walking Across Country@charies
Is. Leland, q. passed through Da1en-
port yesterday on the last lap" Of a
walk from coast to coast Leland Sc
cured the signature of Postmaster
Fred B. Sharon. In every city he has
passed through the young man called
upon the postmaster there and pro-
cured his signature The funds which
he will receive from New York men
for his endeavor will be turned over
to the orphan children of New York
City. Leland's home is in New York,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
Gold On Creeks in Copper
River.

Alaska continues to be a good paying
investment for Uncle Sam, its mineral
output in 1917 having been more than
SAL 900, 000 and although the produc-
ton of gold was somewhat reduced
the interest in the gold placers is still
keen. Among the rich placer depos-
it's are those of Valdez creek, which
have yielded gold valued at $375,00O.
Gold has been found in its bedrock
source in the slate area south of VAL
DEE creek and is present in some of the
stream gravel deposits within that
area. Most of the placer gold from
this district, however. has come from
an old gravel filled channel or canyon
once occupied by Valdez creek and
from the stream gravels of that part
Of the present channel of the creek
which lies below the point where the
old and new channels intersect me
gold in the new channel Is in large
part RECOMMENDATION from the rich
auriferous filling of the old canyon.
The old channel and the three or four
creek claims below it on the present
stream constitute an excellent example
of the Importance of RECOMMENDATION
in the production Of rich gold placers.
Slate creek Is IS miles east of VAL
DEE creek. 1t is the site OF AN older
camp than Valdez creek and with its
tributary, Miller Gulch, has been the
greatest producer Of placer gold with
IN the Copper River basin, having
yielded more than one and three-quar-
tr million dollars. Diorite instrusive
rocks are present, and in this respect
the deposits resemble those of Valdez
creek. 1t is believed, however, that
the slate. of Valdez creek, is younger,
although the d}6rite intrusives are
probably Of the same or nearly the
same age.
The United States geological survey,
department of the interior, has on
| hand few copies Of bulletin 1913,
| Headwater Regions of Gulkana and
Susitna Rivers, Alaska" by Fred H,
Moffit, a report which deals primarily
| with the district including the Valdez
| creek gold placers but also gives an
account of mining developments in the
| Slate creek district, at the head OF
Chistochina river.
Since the publication of bulletin 49S
copper deposits have been found in the
valdez creek country within the area
or basic lavas shown on the geologic
map given in that report. Platinum
has also been found in the Slate creek
| gravels.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
Safeguarding the Patriots
Fund.

Whom II is considered that In the
city Of Kenosha, Wis, whose plan of
assembling and consolidating sub
script1ons for local and patriotic pur-
poses, has been adopted by the Rock
Island Chamber of Commerce, Is the
size OF Rock Island In population and
whose total is 100000 for the year,
the economy employed In the promo
ton of the Rock Island proposition
at once becomes manifest.
Here the same total could have
been placed upon the requirements
and obligations that will fall upon
the people OF Pocx Island, but 1t was
deemed proper aud fair by the Cham
Der of Commerce that not cent be
asked for beyond the actual necessi..
ties. Thus every fund sas carefully
figured out and each whitfield down to
the minimum. the aggregate being
sls5.000 instead OF 100000 for which
Kenosha, city of our own class, has
made successful drive.
There IL one item in the list that
has occasioned some inquiry and con-
corning which there has been soma
unjust misapprehension. This. Is tie
s34.550 for emergency. AS al know.
no great. practical undertaking OF
this kind could be success without
su allowance for shrinkase, due to
accident, death or default among SUBJ
scribers, Some OF these things are
inevitable. Kenosha set apart ard
subscribed $4,000 fer such conting-
ency. The original plan In Rock Is,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

care Of The Argus.
The Competent Heart.
An American flier who shot down
a German fiier in France had been
rejected, according to the press re-
port, by the examiners in America
because Of defect Of one ear. Not
qualified, in other words, but very
effective. Not normal, but thoroughly
competent as an air fighter.
A normal heart has total capacity
Of, say, "A to P, alphabetically, and
an ordinary working load Of A to G..
leaving reserve capacity or reserve
power for emergencies of H to P. The
ordinary working load is the work
tie heart does in maintaining good
circulation through your ordinary
days activities.
A vayular distortion (valvular heart
disease) permits more or less back
flow Of blood with each heart beat.
OF. course that is a handicap to the
heart, an extra load So the ordinary
working load becomes A to ], and the
reserve power correspondingly less.
X to P. In other words, although
your leaky heart maintains perfectly
competent or good circulation while
you are not exercising yourself, you
can make only moderate effort, such
as running, climbing stairs, ETC.. be-
fore you get done" or "winded."
Your reserve power is narrow and
quickly exhausted.
But the reserve power can be de-
veloped by intelligent management.
1t can be stretched to X to T, for
instance. by proper treatment. And
right here is where the doctor must
use his bean, so to speak, and the pa
tient must give him an opportunity.
Nothing 30 foolish or 30 dangerous.
In fact. as monkeying with digitalls
or ether alleged heart tonic on your
own hook. The first essential in the
proper treatment OF an. incompetent
heart. . heart that In not there for
the ordinary emergency efforts, is
rest. Not stimulation, but absolute
rsst-in bed or in chair, according to
the individual requirements. Then.
perhaps, Intelligent medication, .ac-
cOrding to the individual require
ments. Digitalis does much harm in
some cases; it is fatal poison in a
few cases. Strychnine is eyen worse
In unskilled hands. Finally comes
carefully graduated exercises. ar
ranged to meet the individual require
ments, and altered as improvement oc-
ours. from the most gentle passive
movements In bed, very slow, walks
on the level, to advanced hill climb
ing and other strsnu00s efforts, All
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27


constantly supervised by the doctor.
Can't get away from the doctor and
make success of this vital business.
When the reserve power is fairly
well developed, when the handicap is
sufficiently compensated by increased
heart muscle development, when the
heart RECEIVERS its competency, then
the patient finds his wind holding out
under ordinary effort, and he finds he
can now hold his breath IS seconds
or more by the watch Until he can
do that, his circulation is not good, his
heart is not competent, and he must
go slow if he expects to come back.
QUESTIONS sAND ANSWERS.
1t Would Be Grand and Glorious Life.
l read an article on.indigestion in a
New York paper, in which the doctor
stated that Indigestion is preventable
if the brain and hands are allowed to
be idle while the stomach and intes-
tines are busy digesting the meal. Do
you uphold that view? GA. NJ. G.
Answer-Well, l am naturally lazy,
and it would be grand and glorious
fife. You see, the stomach and intes-
tines ordinarily take from three to six
hours to digest each meal, which would
keep a fellow pretty busy remaining
idle and not thinking any, wouldn't Il?
Can't endorse that view
Distinction Without Difference.
In letter on the subject of rheuma-
tism you advised that rheumatoid
arthritis is not different from ordinary
arthitis. Another physician tells me
that chronic arthritis is any form of
inflammation of the Joint. whereas
rheumatoid arthitis Is chronic joint
disease with wasting, deformity and
loss Of power. Up. j.
Answer-Arthritis Is medicalese for
Inflammation Of a Joint. Chronic means
simply long duration. Rheumatoid
means like rheumatism" "Rheuma-
tism" means nothing at all. Any Joint
trouble may be called rheumatism
pending definite diagnosis. Any
chronic or long continued joint infam-
nation Is likely to be accompanied or
followed by wasting of muscles in the
neighborhoOd, deformity of the Joint,
and loss of power SO that you see you
have distinction without differ
ence, Applying names is OF no prac-
tical value to the patient. The prob
lem in every such case is to find the
septic focus. somewhere in the body,
whence the trouble arises, and to
eradicate the source OF the Infection
when il IL found, and to do II before
the process has damaged tho i0int hN-
yond the hope OF repair.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
Thompson Given a Jolt.

Mayor Bill Thompson yesterday
discovered that Chicago was not such
a large German city as he had been
Boosting that it was. Aldermanic pri-
maries were held there yesterday.
Wherever Thompsonism was an issue.
direct or implied, the city hall candi-
dates were defeated. 1t may be taken
as promise of what. Bill will get
when he personally comes before the
people in quest of political honors.
He has had a notion in his head that
he would make good member Of the
United States senate. He might at
that, but the difficulty will be in ar
irving at his destination. There are
too many loyal Americans in Illinois
lying in wait for Bill to trip him the
first chance that he gives them to pun
ish him for his disloyal words and
actions.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

from where he started on the hike
some time ago. He has been to the
western coast and is now headed east.
Youth Attacks Sister.vClaude Har-
mon, aged about 26, residing in Bet
tendorf, was placed under arrest yes
terday by Sheriff Henry A. Kuehl and
lodged in the Scott county Jail on q
charge of rape. Harmon is accused
OF assaVlting his sister, aged 49,. The
case is being Investigated by County
Attorney Henry H. Jebens.
Monger Gets Help.-Deputy Income
Tax Collector Walker Of the Omaha
Office is in the city as assistant to
General Income Tax Collector S. A.
Monger, who has charge of income tax
work in this city. Deputy Walker will
remain here for several days.
Soldiers Tax Exempt.-Scott coun-
tvs Golfers are not to be enriched with
taxes from men serving in the~army
and navy if County Auditor Joseph
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

Island would naturally be expected
to do iU part ~ It always has, Il
was deemed wise to set apart $14,650
for such purposes and 80 the entire
emergency fund was estimated at
$Sfb50. This amount will be put by
itself and no part of it will be drawn
or expended. except to make up for
deficiencies in pledges and subscrip-
tons or for unforeseen occurrences.
All the funds Will be safeguarded
and audited by a committee OF repre-
sentative men and women whose
names have been published, and who
will give of their time in the dis
charge of their responsibility to the
people of Rock Island, whose public
spirit and charitable and patriotic
impulses will be represented in the
realization of this fund.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

hereafter instead Of those Of ChScas
where it was used before being -
eled.
To Stop BoOtlegging.--Steps %
vent the sale or keeping for ~
booze in q dive operated BY 49,
Brown, Negress, on Harrison
near Sixth, were taken yeetesoI
the state with the fling ID
court Of an application for . - ~.
airy injunction. The applicaticn
filed by Assistant County
Realff Ottesen. Hearing on ~
porary order was set for Aa!cn ~
Judge r. d. Let's. The plecs -
been raided on several oecasaoe
the police.
Many Dogs Poisoned The dos =
oner is now at large and resiasnu
the neighborhood north Of 49,
Veer park are losing their 49,
CANNES by reason thereof. y 81
ed that within the last form.s9Il
less than Is dogs have died o. s.,rS
in that part OF the city. SRye
placed on bits Of meat and sc, 4. 4
throughout the neighboshooa
method used.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
STREET CAR COMEDY.

Il noticed a lot of staggering men
on Second avenue west of Seventeenth
street the other night"
What is so unusual about that?"
We'll, you see they must stay be-
low Seventeenth If they want to get
drinks"
"Oh, perhaps they worked east few
blocks to get air and see if theirslegs
were still in a navigabIe state"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

Bryan and Gompers debated pro-
hibition yesterday in Albany, N. Y.
Bryan maintained that drink was q
menace to our manhood. Mr.. Comp
ers did not discuss it from that stand
point, but held that the United States
was engaged in a great fight--that
against Germany-and that it should
not be affected by any question over
which the people should be divided in
their attention or efforts. 1t was high
time to take up the liquor question,
he argued, after the war had ended.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

Mrs. Francis Y. Bushman has now
filed suit for absolute divorce, but she
still fails to name the woman who Is
said to have been responsible for
breaking up the movie stars home.
But you can learn the identity of said
woman by asking anybody who pat
ronizes the picture theatres.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

John d. Rockefeller, Jr., is down
with the mumps. Now il there should
happen to be a slight advance in the
price Of oil there will be people mean
enough to say that it was made to get
money to pay Johns doctor bill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

Because of a shortage Of other
feed, southern Illinois farmers are
said to be feeding wheat to their hogs.
Pork made that way should be
banned on both meatless and wheat
less DAYS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

The Germans are massing . great
many big guns against the American
sector, which they have been officially
informed contains only 10000 troops.
Why waste SO much ammunition on
mere handful?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
cMo RDs @
Dlsc0RDs
OFFICE PARLEYING.

Il have Q story here telling OF the
death of q White infant whose par
ents are coloreds"
"Well?
What will do with IT."
Turn 1t in?"
But it can't go white. can it~
why not"
Because it is colored."
Then change it."
II can't do that very we'll"
"You can refer to 1t Is . White
colored child"
That wouldn't sound right"
mo, 1t wouldn't"
Then had better refer to 1t as a
White child that was colored."
That would be better"
THE federal trade commission has
revealed SO manufacturing concerns
that have been dealing unfairly, most
ly with the government. And prob
ably each has a huge American flag
floating from the top of its main build
ing.
EVERY time you paste q thrift
stamp you paste the kaiser where 1T
hurts.
1T is said that the kaiser had not
smiled for weeks until the day he
heard of the sinking Of Red Cross
steamer north of Cape Race.
"DJ1pINC the severe wind storm
last night our Office towel was blown
from the door and broken in two
Wilkie (Sask.) Press.
TESTIMONY has been produced by
Mr.. Heney that one of the patriots who
has been serving as a food admins
tration aid has been on the payroll OF
Swift & Co., the Chicago packers, at
S275 per month. Fine chance for the
public at the hands Of such an Official.
! WALTER Better is a late arrival at
Camp Dodge If he gets to France he
may be depended upon to take wal
| lop at the enemy.
THE Turner Skat club held tour
nament in Davenport the other night
but. strange as it may seem, Henry
Wunder finished in sixth place.
FEDERAL agents are also working
in Davenport. In one faid they seized
six women. But we didn't notice any
editorial moralizing on the incident
! liz the columns of the home papers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
THE GIRL AT THE CIGAR
COUNTER.

say, Cnauncey, KICK across with
two bits more. You see, l am here
to watch the business Of the house.
Yes, l am good locker, and all that,
but that doesn't get me my salary
You wear your hair beautifully and
you have line Of soft-voiced stuff
that ought to help you peddle your
goods, but you see, l am selling, and
not buying. Perhaps you are one of
those children that doesn't have an
expense account. That is none of nv
business. But I know what I must
do in order to keep the decks clear In
this concern, and can't ring up your
pretty talk. Yes, you have fine teeth,
and have seen your dimple. You
keep 1t sticking out constantly. That
might get you somewhere In a parlor
game, but not In a place like this.
Yes, perhaps, could learn to love you
if you persisted in Wooing me, but
you see have heard so much Of that
bunk that already I have q tin ear
You don't have to worry about me
eating a cold lunch tonight, either.
Just come across with the two bits
that you have been trying to jip me
out of. And for that l will ever b.,
thankful. You may not realize it.,
but It's decorations like you that drive
the profitable business away from the
counter. Settle, kid, and blow. Get
me"
" HUSBANDS are not worth much IN
Indianapolis. A woman sued for S10.-
600 for the stolen affections of her
husband. The jury awarded her
81, 900.
HARRY A. Wheeler, state food ad-
ministrator, announces that the hens
are beginning to lay unusually well
after the hard winter" Keep this to
yourself. Be sure and don't throw
any newspapers in the coops contain
ing the Information referred to, or the
hens might swell up and stop laying.
When is the war going to end?"
What are you looking for-infor-
nation or an argument"
MR.. Hays, new head OF the RepubIi-
can national committee, has invited
all living former chairmen to a feast
In New York. Colonel Roosevelt will
be present also. No. the colonel new
er served as chairman, but he's the
party who put the present incumbent
OF the office in his Job at the St. Louis
meeting.
MY husband never tries to boss
me-"
Neither does mine"
I'VE women have been booted around
too long"
You are right"
Now that we are getting the vote
we'll have things easier"
Il would imagine So"
yet We never quarrel"
Neither do we."
There II . way Of managing q hus-
band"
II should say there is"
What is your SYSTEM"
Just letting him have his own vav
in everything?"
Il find 1t wins every time, too"
WE arc all agrsed that war In nm
popular. We hate it from ali its an
giles, But We who remain ar hom,
hsysnt - much kick coming u have
the boys who must do the fIghtius
Also We hate giving up our money
for the various calls incident TO thu
war. But thst's easier than sivins
IN our lives, isn't it!
I.A.n
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27
HEALTH TAl KS
~ W! l.! A., Il BR RAD ND.

DIR dywinan
be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

THE Turner Skat club held tour
nament in Davenport the other night,
but. strange as it may seem, Henry
Wunder finished in sixth place.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

FEDERAL agents are also working
in Davenport. In one faid they seized
six women. But we didn't notice any
editorial moralizing on the incident
liz the columns of the home papers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

WALTER Better is late arrival at
Camp Dodge If he gets to France he
may be depended upon to take a wal
lop at the enemy
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

EVERY time you paste a thrift
stamp you paste the kaiser where 1T
hurts.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

DURING the severe wind storm
last night our Office towel was blown
from the door and broken in two
Wilkie (Sask.) Press.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

1T is said that the kaiser had not
smiled for weeks until the day he
heard of the sinking of Red Cross
steamer north of Cape Race.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-27

" HUSBANDS are not worth much in
Indianapolis. A woman sued for S10,-
600 for the stolen affections of her
husband. The jury awarded her
s., 900.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-14
ANNAPOLIS TO GRADUATE
BIGGEST NAVAL CLASS
That Of 1919 Has 800 Numbers OF
More Than Twice - Many
> a. Preceding One.

Correspondents Of Ths Star.
ANNAPoLIs. Nd. December IL
The Naval Academy class which Will
complete Its work next June con-
tains about 500 members, more than
twice as many as the last graduating
class. and larger by IS per cent than
any class which has preceded 1t. The
class that will follow 1t Immediately,
however, will be much larger, and 80
will the other graduating classes for
some years to come. as long as the
present method Of appointment pre-
walls.
The member upon whom honors
have fallen in the heaviest shower Is
William A. Ingram. from Jenerson-
Vile, Ind. He is the "dve-striper. OF
midshipman commander OF the reg1-
ment, the highest rank to be heid oy
q midshipman. He Is also preslden!
Of his class, captain OF the foot ball
team and stroke Of the crew:
For. some reason, the PACING coast
figuras as the home of the three lead
ing scholars Of the class this year
Lloyd Harrison. who stood number
one at the last report, is from ore
gon Thomas H. Robbins, jr.. and
Wesley Mel. Hague. two and three
respectively, are both from California
1.-The next three are from the east
Emmett P. Forrestel, New York; VIII
liam I. Leahy. Connecticut, and Wal
ter F. Christmas, Pennsylvania.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-12-14
Mr.. Daniels Comment.

Referring to the work of the bureau
of supplies, Secretary Daniels said:
Under the direction of Rear ID
miral Samuel MCGOWAN and a force -
capable officers and civilians unsuf-
passed the Navy has won new honors
as a business institution. With a
genius for organization, Admiral Nc
Gowan and the entire force have an
ticipated every want and done SO with
promptness and efficiency.
1T is therefore most gratifying to
be able to state that. notwithstanding
the severe strain to which the Nays
supply system was suddenly and con-
tinuously subjected. it met every sit
uation with full 100 per cent of eff
cheney and effectiveness