Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-02-22
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To WIN THE WAR.

TO WIN THE WAR.
Bill Jones an me we fused for years,
l plead with Bill. yes. plead with
tears;
didn't want to fuss and fight,
But Bill he logged me day and night,
Declarin' he would make me wall,
So, day an night he tagged my trail.
| / tried ter be a neighbor true,
Yes, treated Bill with kindness, too.
This fightin' game claimed was rash.
So, / lodged Bill-even loaned him
| cash.
Bill cornered me, the other night,
And nothing else would do but fight:
Well, fight then damn ye, il We must,
So l beat old Bill till he bit the dust.
| 1t seems some things in life won't do
By gosh! 1t takes some fghtin' too!
They tell us coal will win the war,
Yes, win it quick, without scar;
And then they say that food will win,
Then, later on. they change agin'
And say that cash is the only thlng-
Next day they claim it's wheat
jing!
Then, sugar, flour-it's this and that;
Then savings stamps will win the
spat.
One day it's wheat, or bran, or flour.
And then it's gold will give us power
\ Then, save your bones, an bacon-fat,
Your paper bags and things like that.
So comes the cry, from near an far,
It's this an that will win the war!
But friend, say, betwixt me an you-
BY gosh. it takes some fghtin', too!
Saw, now. how does it seem to you!
WILLIAM HENRY DIXON.
Merchants hotel, Little Rock, Ark
January, 1918.
81 SUPPOSE that you noticed" tel
ephoued Pansy today, that Charles
Quick has been elected vice president
, of the Cordova Farm Improvement
, league. He ought toinject speed when
!, it is needed in the business of the or
; ganization.
BETHLEHEM. Pa, is raiding the
, Greater Davenport committee OF its
stars. First it took l. C. Norwood, the
, committees secretary, and now it has
shaken loose E. B. Leaf, the assist
ant secretary. Both go to the Bethle-
hem Chamber of Commerce.
L. K c. reports that fishing is get
ting better in Illinois for the robber.
! AS proof he states that the pOst0ffice
at Herrin has just been relieved Of
, $4,000 in receipts.
CORNED beef hash made 124 men
+ i'll at the Norfolk training station.
; Perhaps there was too much beef in
the mixture.
. BELLEVILLE.- Ill.,, boasts that it
: has girl milk wagon drivers. We've
, had them in Rock Island for years.
THE Germans are -trifie slow in
starting that promised spring drive.
Giddap!
! ONLY seven per cent of the food
, sent abroad last year was sunk by
. %U-boats. Pretty bum Hun efficiency,
say We.
!, THE best thing about Hills lee
tui GO 10 Shol AO odiC GO W lluhO tAN
!, charges that he does because he saw
= with his own eyes the atrocities that
he describes. He didn't read of them
in newspaper or a magazine. See
ing is believing
DANIEL kleg, rs years old, ma.
tive of Germany, refused to register
+ as an enemy alien at Topeka, Kan
: THE alternative was enforced depar-
ture from the city for the period OF
3 the war. He moved. He mus
o live in a town where there are
e no barred zones. The old man tough.
s in the Civil war and has been a good
: citizen, but made the mistake of neg
Y lecting to become natufalized. HI
l. refused to register because he said h.
: was getting too ancient to be taking
e orders from anybody. even the United
+ States government. You've got to ad
: mire the old fellows nerve, but con.
8 denim his wisdom.
It WE ought to learn presently who
g got the pork in the Hog Island graf
O scandal.