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The Carlisle independent., 1918-12-26
BABYLON vS. ARCADIA
Marley Says Two Types of Govern
 ment Contended in Recent Election

Please permit me to express a few thoughts relative to the re. suit of the recent constitutional election,
 The overshadowing question involved in this contest, indisput- ably. was that of progress. How ever, l do not admit that the op- posers of the proposed new con stitutiOn are nonprogressive. The kind and character of prog ress was involved. The question. Whether we may exceed the speed limit in the matter of prog ress, was vitally concerned and considered. This question, in my humble judgment, is the pro- fOundest within the realm of statesmanship, and surely wor- thy the most careful considera. tion.
 Not with superficial thought. nor with intention to indict the integrity of anyone, nevertheless 1 assert that the same spirit that controlled the promoters and de. lenders of the late lamented pro
 posed cOnstitutio for Arkans sas is akin to the spirit that was re lsponsible for the fall of Babylon of old. and that this self-same spirit has been the primary cause of this fall of governments In every age of the world. Sim ply a matter of exceeding the speed limit. 1 challenge the ex- pert political historians of the
 world to refute sir gle thought depressed in this assertion Then the whole question is. Is it more expedient to proceed as
 Babel tower builders. or be con.
 tent to plod along in the even tenor of our ways, building and
 progressing slowly. but surely and safely along conservative lines, and upon fundamentals laid out for us from the founda- tion of the world?
 I abhor the idea of attempting
 to array one class of the citizen
 ship against another in the dis
 cussiop of matters of govern
 ment. The interests of al
 should be heard and impartially
 conslderef. indisputably, the individual duty of all classes of citizenship in unselhsh devotion to the public welfare.
 From my best judgment, after careful consideration, 1 am led to believe that, for the most part the men who opposed the adop
 Jion of the proposed constitution
 were imbued with and embodied the following spirit and princi- ples: They possess homes and land. or are sturdily striving to obtain them, where they may dwell in the enjoy ment of peace and comfort, humbly serving God in their own way. and under their own vine and fig tree, with none to mOlest or make them afraid; and with the further pur. pose of bequeathing or transmit ting these same blessings to their posterity. They are none the less imhued with the spirit of safe and substantial progress in it's every phase. They com plain not at burdens. when bur dens must be borne. in peace or
 war. In government they ask only safe and sane admlnistra, tion. Are they not the salt of | the earth?
 While on the the other hand, 1 cheerfully concede to the new constitution advocates the same honesty of purpose; equal intelli gence; none the less unselfish. ness. But in contradiction to the conservative Arcadian spirit ot simplicity, they have the danger ous spirit of the Babylonians Frop, o prac ctical .Stapdn0iDt
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
EACH PERSON TO
USE ONLY POUND
AND HALF WHEAT

The United States food admins
tration has made wheatless days
and wheatless meals optional In
private homes. But that does not
mean the lid has been taken off.
1t only means that the question of
which day or meal shall be wheat
less is left to the individual house
hold.
In other words, the food admin
istration has made the reduction
of wheat consumption a test Of
good citizenship. Each citizen in
the land is asked, as a good Amer
lean, to cut his individual wheat
consumption to pound and a half
week. That means to cut the
ordinary, peace-time consumption
in two. 1t doesn't matter on, what
day or what meals that is done,
just so it is done. In that regard
the food administration says:
I'm making optional the observ-
ance of wheatless days in private
homes the food administration lift
ed no restrictions upon the con
sumption of wheat products. 1t is
merely asking the American people
to reduce their per capita con-
sumption to not more than IL
pounds per week.
This is an absolute, military ne
cessity. The method of saving is
being left entirely to the individ-
ual. If it can be done without
foregoing the use Of wheat at any
specified meal or on any day, the
food administrations urgent plea
for further conservation will be
carried out to the letter."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
WAGE INCREASE
PETITIONED FOR
Fifty-Nine Employees of City Ask
Moline Commission to Give
Their Salaries Boost.

Petitions for higher wages were
today presented to the Moline city
commission by SO employees of Mo-
line. Eleven of the men are en-
ployes of the water works, the
others are appointees of Commits
sioner Stouffer of the department
of public health and safety.
The council referred the petit
lions to the committee of the whole.
1t is not likely that definite action
will be taken before next week.
Several members of the commits
sion intimated = that the petitions
will be given more money. The
amount of increase was not dis
cussed. -
Firemen, policemen and water
works employees ask an increase of
20 per cent. c. ]. Mattson, build
ing inspector, asks a Is per cent
increase. The petitioners maintain
that wages of city employees have
not kept pace with increased cost
of living.
The commission passed a resolu-
ton increasing pay of all labor
ers employed by the city from 90
to 80 cents an hour Pay of team
sters was increased from 60 to 20
cents an hour. Use of team is in
cluded.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
DID YOU KNOW

The nomination of officers of the
Moline After-Dinner club has been
deferred until Friday evening
when the nominating committee
will hold another meeting at the
Moline Commercial club. The at
tendance at the session Saturday
afternoon was so small that it was
decided to postpone the naming OF
officers until later date.
Traffic at Fifteenth street and
Sixteenth avenue, Moline, was de-
layed for a time yesterday after
noon when two automobiles driven
by George Christison of Moline and
Wesley Moss, Coal Valley, collided
Nobody was hurt.
Moline friends have been inform
ed that S. W. Odell, former Plow
City attorney, Is a candidate for the
Republican nomination for con-
gress from the ninth California
congressional district. He lives at
Pasadena. He left Moline Is years
ago.
At a special election held today
among members of the Moline fire
department, John Mauthe, Adolph
F. HallQuist and F. Oscar Young
rem were elected members of the
board of trustees which will han
die the firemen's pension fund
serving with Chief J. Q. Hawk and
Commissioner G. Y. Johnson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
BURGLARS WORK
OUT IN MOLINE
Three Residences Are Entered BY
Providers and Photograph,
Records and Cash Taken.

Burglars worked overtime Satur-
day and Sunday nights in Moline.
At an early hour this morning Ed.
Granquist, 1921 Fourteenth street,
was awakened by a slamming door.
He investigated and found that his
trousers were gone, together with a
gold watch, some keys and less
than a dollar in change Entrance
had been gained through a window
in the dining room, but the culprit
had beaten it before Mr.. Granquist
got on his trail.
Last evening the home of Mrs
Huldah Herberg, 1928 Seventh
street, which is just back of the
Moline police station, was broken
into and photograph and a large
number of records stolen. Mrs.
Herberg was recently bound over
to the federal grand jury on a
charge of being a keeper of a dis
orderly house within the five mile
zone established by the government
Seven dollars in cash were taken
from the residence of A. D. Tooley,
1914 Fifteenth streetA, by a prowl-
er Saturday evening.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
BOY SCOTS ON JOB.

Jaywalking at Moline's busiest
corner, Fifth avenue and Fifteenth
street, will soon be a forgotten
practice II the energetic boy Scouts
stationed there last Saturday even
ing keep up their good work.
Hundreds of Moliners, who had
forgotten, or were unfamiliar with
the fact, that walking diagonally
across the intersection is against
city traffic ordinances, suffered
chagrin and annoyance when the
khaki clad boys told then that tho
longest way over is the safest way
on"Saturday night.
They're a great help all right,
said Pleasant Negley, who, from
the center of the intersection
guides vehicle traffic. The people
who tried to cut corners Saturday
night won't try it again"
~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
SILvIS TO name
BOARD MEMBERS
Clerk and Three Trustees Are To
Be Selected at Election in the
Village Tomorrow.

Considerable interest has been
aroused in Cilvis over tomorrow's
election at which time three trus-
tees and village clerk are to be
named. On the election board are
Howard Hough, Mrs. George Nc
Kinley and John Korb, judges; and
John Richards, Miss Mary Shep-
pard and Mrs. W. D. Chapman,
clerks.
There are two tickets in the field
the candidates being:
CITIZENS.
Clerk-Robert NJ. Ransom.
Trustees - Conrad H. Sehadt.,
Matt Gillespie and Fred Leeper.
SOCIALIST.
Clerk-George Guenther.
Trustees-Robert Harvey, James
I. Holiday and William Breeze.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
a Liberty Bond
TAKES EARLY PLUNGE.

Tommy Wynn, Moline, went out
to Campbell's Island Saturday and
took his annual spring plunge in
the Mississippi river. He remain
ed in the icy cold water half an
hour and enjoyed every minute of
the time, he says. Then he came
out. shook himself, played in the
sand 20 minutes and got under the
shower which is supplied with a
90-foot we'll.
It has been Tommy's custom
for years to take plunge
in the Mississippi river about the
middle of April, regardless Of how
cold the weather may be and he
thoroughly enjoys that first plunge.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
VISCOUNT ISHII,
NEW JAPAN ENVOY
ARRIVES SAFELY

A Pacific Port, April 15.-Vis-
count Ishii, Japanese ambassador,
succeeding Ambassador Satto, ar
rived here today enroute to Wash
ington. Discussing suggested Jap
anese activities in Siberia, Ambas-
sador Ishii said that if the imper-
ial Japanese government would I'M
dertake the sending of a military
expedition into Siberia, such inten-
ton would be for the benefit of the
allies and not Japan.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15

Estate or Thomas Edgar Hughes,
dec ca sed,
pointed administrative of the estate
of Thomas Edgar Hughes, late of the
county of Rock Island. state OF Ilii-
nois. deceased, hereby gives notice
that she will appear before the Hon.
Benjamin Bell, judge of the probate
court OF Rock Island county, at the
probate court room, in the city OF
the first Monday in June, 1918. next.
at which time all persons having
claims against said estate are noti-
fed and requested to attend for the
purpose of having the same adjust
ed, ALI persons Indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immedi
ate payment to the undersigned
Dated 30th day of March, A. d.
1918. MAGGIE HUGHES,
Admfnistratrix
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
ROLLS ARE FILED.

Special assessment rolls for
sewer and water improvements in
Eleventh avenue c, Fifty-third
street and Marquette addition were
filed in Moline city court today.
The assessment rolls fix the cost
of the improvements to be paid by
individual property owners.
The rolls are on file and may be
inspected by interested property
owners. A hearing to consider OBJ
1ections Will be held on April 80
by Judge Dietz.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
Mary kacheVas.

Mary Machevas, infant daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Kachevas, died
at 1890 last evening in the home,
1909 Third avenue, Moline, after
an eight day illness of pneumonia.
The child was born in Moline and
was Is months old. Her parents
survive. Funeral services will be
held alto tomorrow morning in St.
Georges Greek church with Father
Bartholomious KarahaliQus in
charge. Buria Twill be in Riverside
cemetery
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
Buy a Liberty Bond
BURY COLORED MAN.

William Kirkpatrick, colored,
aged SO. who died in East Moline
on April l and whose body had
been held awaiting word from rel
atives will be buried tomorrow.
Funeral services are TO DO held al
Angevine's undertaking parlors at
3 o'clock, burial being made in
Riverside cemetery at Watertown.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
Obituary
Bert Erickson,

Mr.. and Mrs. Erick Erickson,
iii Fourteenth avenue, Moline,
are mourning the loss of their lit
tie son, Bert, who passed at 5
o'clock Saturday evening at his
home after a brief illness of scar
let fever.
Bert was an only child and WAS
born Feb. s, 1916, in Moline. Rev.
A. F. Bergstrom had charge of the
services which were held at 2
O'Clock yesterday afternoon at Riv-
erside cemetery. where internment
took place. Beautiful solos were
sung by the Misses Wiihelmina
Weistrand and Martha Serene.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
GARBAGE BIDS WANTED.


The Moline city commission to
day instructed Commissioner c. v.
Johnson TO advertise for bids for
the work Of collecting garbage in
the city.
The proposition of having garb-
age collected by private individuals
or companies instead of by the de-
partment Of public health and
safety has been under considera-
ton for several weeks.
At present wagons of the health
department collect all ashes, rub
bish, garbage, etc, deposited in al
leys by residents of the city. The
wagons start on the spring season
today.
The specifications adopted by the
commission today and with which
bids must agree, provide for a To-
year contract. The bidder must
agree to remove all pure garbage.
ashes and rubbish and to keep all
alleys and all streets where there
are no alleys, free of garbage.
The specifications further pro-
vide that the contractor shall be
subject to all city ordinances and
that the city have the right to in
spect the garbage plant. The con-
tractor shall be responsible for
damages resulting from his work
for the city.
Disputes arising under the con
tract shall be settled by a board OF
arbitration. One garbage collect
ing company has already presented
preliminary proposition to the
city. No final decision to make a
contract for garbage collecting has
been made.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
VICTIM OF TWO THUGS.

An East Moline Mexican. known
only as Mike, was found at Thir-
tenth street and Thirteenth ave-
nue., East Moline. last night suffer
ing from wounds alleged to have
beer inflicted by two men. He told
after one in front had assaulted him
altar one in front had assaulted him
with q knife and one behind him
had struck him with a weapon.
Mike said they took SIS from him.
He IS now in the Moline city hospi-
tal. where his injuries were treated.
He recognized the man who slashed
him with the knife but did not
see the other one. The assafiants
have not been found.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
HOLMGRAIN LEAVING Y.

Winfield Holmgrain, boys secre-
tary OF the Moline Young Men,
Christian association. has resigned,
after five years OF service with the
organization. Saturday night he
was the guest of honor at a banquet
and upon that occasion he was
given a watch as a token OF esteem
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15

NOTICE. Oh fuOiCatfOn.
|. State of Illinois, Rock Island
County-ss:
In the Circuit Court, May term,
1918. In Chancery.
Lille Miller VS.. John Miller.
AFFIDAVIT of nOn-reSidence of the
above named, John Miller, defend
ant, having been filed in the clerk $
office of the circuit court of said
county, notice is therefore hereby
given to the said nonresident de-
PENDANT that the complainant filed
her bill Of complaint in said court.
on the chancery side thereof. on the
third day of April, 1918, and that
thereupon a summons issued out of
said court, wherein said suit is now
pending, returnable on the first Mon
day in the month of May next, as is
by law required.
Now, unless you, the said non-res-
ident defendant above named, John
Miller, shall personally be and ap-
pear before said circuit court, on the
first day Of the next term thereof, to
be holden at Rock Island, in and for
the said county, on the first Monday
in May next, and plead, answer or
denur TO the said complainanr's bill
OF complaint, the same and the mat
tiers and things therein charged and
stated will be taken as confessed,
and decree entered against you
according to the prayer Of said bill.
GEORGE w. GAMBLE, Clerk.
Rock Island, ILL.,, April I. 1918.
Thompson & Eagle, complainant s
aRIicttorH
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
Successfully Used fer Fifty Years

successfully Used fer Fifty Years
kezema and similar skin troubles
come from a disoFdeFed. impure
condition Of the blood. and they
can only be cured by giving the
blood thorough cleansing. snd
assnoFsng from 1t all traces of i'm
Purity.
94is is why g. ., =, has been
ased 60 successfully IA hundreds
W Gases of Eczema and other skin
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
SCHOOL DIRECTORS CHOSEN.

c. E. Mitchell was chosen presi-
dent and George Mason and Courtl
land Fisk were named trustees d
the East Moline township high
school board IN the annual election
held Saturday. William Filbert,
who had been named as a candi-
date, withdrew at the last moment
and the names OF Mr.. Fisk and
George Stang were written in, the
former receiving a majority II
votes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
CONVICTION OF
RAILROAD is SET
ASIDE BY COURT

Peoria, ILL.,, April 15.-When
Judge Robert Grier resumed the
session of the principal circuit
court at 2 o'clock this afternoon,
the task of securing a jury to try
Edgar A. Strause, banker, for the
murder of Berne NJ. Mead. cashier
of the State Savings and Trust
bank, was again taken up. Three
men have been tentatively accepted
and all this week Is expected to
be occupied IN SELECTION of jury.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
Fiery Eczema and Skin Eruptions
Readily Yield to This Old Remedy

eruptions, This wonderful remedy
is without an equal as a blood pur-
ifier, being probably the Oldest
blood medicine on the market. II
has been sold by druggists for 80
years.
You are invited to write today
for complete and full advice as TO
the treatment of your own case.
Address, Chief Medical Adviser,
Swift Specific CO.. Dept. H, Atlanta,
Ga.-(AdV,).
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
Executors Notice.

Estate of Wilhelm Hinrtchsen, de-
ceased,
The undersigned having been APP
pointed executor of the last will and
testament OF Wilhelm Hinrichsep,
late of tho county OF Rock Island,
state of Illinois, deceased, hereby
gives notice that he VIII appear be-
fore the Hon, Benjamin Bell, judge
OF the probate court of Rock Island
county, at the probate court room, in
the city of Rock Island, at the June
term, en- the first Monday In June
next. at which time all persons haY-
ing claims against said estate are
notified and requested to attend for
the purpose of having the same ad-
justed, All persons indebted to said
estate are requested to make imme-
date payment to the undersigned,
Dated 2Sth day of March, A, d.
1919.
THEODORE G, HfNRICHSBN,
Executor,
Stafford, schoede & Stafford, at
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
CONTINUE TO TRY
TO GET JURY FOR
STRAUSE'S TRIAL

Washington, April 15.-Convic-
ton of the Chicago and Northwest
ern Railroad company under the
so-called "28-hour law" prohibiting
railroads from combining livestock
in cars more than 20 consecutive
hours were today set aside by the
supreme court. The company was
charged with violating the law in
connection with a shipment from
Ringsted, Iowa, to Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
URGE BOHEMIANS
TO BATTLE HUNS
Joseph Martinez ArOuses Fellow
CountrymeB in Patriotic
Demonstration.

"If you are not eligible to serve
in the American army, then you
ought to leave at once for France
TO enlist in the forces we are organ
izing to fight the Hun" declared
Joseph Martinez, Cleveland, editor
of an Americana Bohemian period
ical, in an address before mass
meeting of Bohemians of the tri-
cities last evening in East Moline.
Interesting stereopticon slides OF
the war in Europe we're shown.
Germany must be beaten II Bo-
hemia is ever to gain its independ-
ence," he continued. Il recently
returned from a trip to Russia
where thousands Of Bohemians
have managed TO escape from the
Austrians and are battlingsagainst
the Germans who are sure 10 be de-
feated in the end because they want
too much at once. ! believe that
Russia will revolt just as soon as
the peasants understand that Ger
many expects TO conhscate their
land and then that country will
again become an ally of America.
and fight with a determination IL
has not yet shown against the cen
trail powers.
1.-THE Russian does not under
stand much about patriotism as we
understand it. He is too ignorant;
he has not been educated to under
stand. But the Russian peasant
loves his land and when he sees
that Germany is trying to rob him
OF Russian soil he Will fight TO the
end. The rank and file of the BIOL.
sheviki refuse to accept a Lenine
peace. 1t is only a question OF
time until this element, united with
moderate Socialists, will organize
an army to fight against Germany.
I'VE Czechoslovafs CBohemlansl
are very much interested in Rus
sian affairs because we have our
army in Russia. At the time I
left Russia our army stood in the
Ukraine and was more than forty
thousand strong. When the Ukrain- i.
ians concluded peace with the cen
trail powers our army combined
with [ he Bolshevih forces who
were ready to fight the Germans.
THAT army is now engaged in a
death struggle with the forces Of
the Kaiser. 1t Is a battalion OF
death for the Germans or Austrians
hang or shoot every Czech cap
tured.
Our second army is in forrna-
ton in France. Thousands Of Bo-
hemians came from Russia to
France to join this army. Other
thousands came from Balkans,
fEom Italy and from America. Many
thousand CzechosloVaks from the
United States have already volun-
teered for this army and we hope
to send many thousand more. Let
all that are not liable to the draft
because of age or lack of citizen
ship join this army and fight
against German autocracy."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
a Liberty Bond
TO ATTEND HEARING.

Three members of the Moline city
commission and City Attorney
James Johnston were today author
lied to attend the public hearing to
be held at Chicago April % to con-
slider the petition of the Peoples
Power company for an increase in
gas rates to Moline consumers
Those who will appear before the
public utilities commission, in ad-
dition to the city attorney, are
Commissioners c. V. Johnson and
A. c. Stouffer and Mayor Carlson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
STERLING OUT FOR
STATE TREASURER

Rockford, ILL.,, April 15.-Fred E.
Sterling, editor of the. Rockford
Register Gazette, and chairman of
the Republican state central COM
mittee, who managed a successful
Republican campaign in Illinois in
1916, today made formal announce
ment of his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination for state treas
urer at the primary to be held Sept.
IL, next.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-04-15
SPEEDER is PlNCHED.

Frank PIesschaert, East Moline,
was arrested in Silvis yesterday
morning at 10 o'clock charged with
speeding. He was burning up the
highway on his motorcycle when
tAe marshal nabbed him. He will
have hearing this evening at Z
o'clock before Magistrate S. -.
MarChant.