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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-05
RUNAWAY YOUTH
TAKEN TO HOME
Lad Who Last Week Escaped From
Moline Police Captured in
Coal Valley.

Henry Hanley, aged IS years, of
Wilton Junction, Iowa, was cap
tured at Coal Valley yesterday aft
ernoon in a box car. The car had
been sealed and was ready for ship
ment when the youth was discov-
cred. He was sent to Rock Island,
the police here discovering that
the boy was the one who escaped
from the Moline authorities last
week
He had been taken into custody
in Moline and was being held pend
ing the arrival of his father from
Wilton Junction. He was a run
away. Before the father arrived
the lad escaped when walking with
his guard. The boys father arrived
in this city this morning and de
parted for home with the lad.
Buy War Savings stamps
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-05
SCHOOL JOB To
MAHONEY AGAIN
Board of Education Reflects SUI
permit ndent Who Has Advanced
System To High Standard.

BY reason of the progress which
Moline schools have made under
his wise direction, l.. A. Mahoney
was reelected superintendent of the
Pillow city schools last evening by
the board of education.
Mr.. Mahoney has served in Mo
line three years and last evening
his salary was increased to $500,
while janitors were given advances
Of from IS to SO a month, accord
ing to the size of the building
where they are employed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-05
JUDGE HUMPHREY
SUFFERS STROKE

Springfield, Ill, June 5.-United
States Judge J. Otis Humphrey OF
The southern federal district OF Il
5inois suffered a paralytic stroke at
3 hospital here last night after an
operation two weeks ago. His con
aition is said TO be critical.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-05
INVESTIGATING YACHTS.

AS means OF providing fuel con-
servation, the United States fuel
administration has under advise
ment the Issuance of an order pro-
hibiting the use of coal or fuel oil
on private yachts.
Incomplete figures gathered by
the conservation division show an
average in commission for the last
three years of 2S2 private yachts
driven by steam and 900 driven by
gasoline Should 1t appear that the
saving accomplished would be of
consequence in the conservation
campaign, an order will be forth
coming prohibiting the use of
fuel by private yachts during the
war.
In addition to the fuel saving a
number of men would be released
for work IN the war industries
The statistics gathered show that
hundreds of vessels formerly op-
Grated as private yachts in this
country have been turned over to
the government for use in the war.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-05
News of the Day i'm Moline and East Moline
The Argus.
MOLINE OFFICE.

MOLINE OFFICE,
I507I2 Third Avenue A
Phone Moline so.
z. c. Xander. City Editor
Res PhoTfe r. l. 2T12.
EAST MOLINE OFFICE,
Telephone East Moline 16S-R-
A. Martens =. Circulation Manager
1040 Fifteenth avenue
For social and personal I+ems call
East Moline l04W.
Delivered by carrier at IAN cents
per week In Moline, East Moline,
Silvis and Waterto~
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-06-05
GERMAN KINDNESS.

Persons over so years old nav
keep their mattresses" A notif-
cation from the occupying authori-
ties orders the communal author
flies OF Greater Brussels 10 an
nounce TO the people: Persons
Of so years Of age and over as well
as those who though younger are
I'll and obliged to keep their beds
may be excused from the obliga-
ton to give up their mattresses"
A written request accompanied by
a medical certificate must be ad-
dressed 10 the special bureau fO-
wool. The occupying authorities
will decide IL this dispensation is
TO be temporary or permanent.
Buy War Savings Stamps
4 GUIDE TO BAKING.
A guide TO baking with helpful
facts briefly told has been issued
by the Office of home economies in
the form OF card TO be hung in a
convenient place in the kitchen. 1t
carries the message Of saving wheat
by the use OF substitutes and gives
amounts OF substitutes equal to one (
cup of -four. Good com binations Of I
substitutes, with cautions 10 be (
considered in their use in baking, Z
are also given. An old recipe for /
making bread is compared with .
new one in which ! s cups of bar /
ley and | cup Of corn -four take the 4
place OF 2 cups OF wheat -four.
Buy War Sa Wings Sta m ps
The sun., 1918-08-18
Photo ny Il
Sun photographer.

Madison Square is given mainly to the
click of needles. There rises from the
midst of Onion Square bedizened craft
with purple guns and sky blue masts, the
good ship Recruit, which was erected there
to promote enlistments in the navy. Its
building was a long and cluttering job
and when the use for it has gone it will
take many hard days work to get it out
of the way and to restore the square to its
wonted beauty.
Washington Square is not active in war
work just now, but it onght to be in order
TO keep up with its old traditions, for
here for many years the militia had
drill ground.
City Hall Park. about which cluster
many memories of war from Colonial DAYS
to the present, keeps open house for war
charities, and its fountain is now occupied
by towering Liberty Bell, the quarters
OF band of the canteen committee ap-
pointed by he Mayor 1t is a rallyine
point for patriotic meetings at which the
public learns more about how to invest
its money so as to help win the war.
The parks of the city of New York in
one way or another have been doing their
duty in helping the cause Of the Allies,
and if more is required of them, even to
the extent of giving up all their areas to
army and navy Office buildings, they might
look just as well to most of us until the
Hun is hunted beyond the Rhine.
The sun., 1918-08-18

ing presses, lathes and all the appliances
which belong to thoroughgoing estab-
lishment In these days heavy machinery
like this is hard to get even with the aid
of Government priority orders. The di-
rector Of the plant, J. C. Stewart, was
able TO bring some of the machinery from
Canada, where it had been used in bridge
building jobs, and other machinery came
from the West.
Down the centre of the yard are two
overhead runways, which leave the ground
clear of distractions and at the same time
permit the handling of heavy timbers and
steel beams. The domain is fenced in and
a Waterman is on guard to keep the too
inquisitive from meddling with the bust
ness of Uncle Sam.
Three hundred men are employed about
the works. Their presence is appreciated
by the restaurant keepers up on the
Broadway slope, for the mechanics are
highly paid and are generous spenders.
The authorities of the city have been
glad to give the use Of the parks to regi-
ments which are drilling or even as en-
campment. In the earlier days Of the
war Van Cortlandt Park was veritable
muster ground for cavalry regiments and
for light artillery.
Central Park has been doing its part in
this war, and the city was willing to let it
do more, even to the extent Of permitting
trenches to be dug there in the interest of
the Liberty Loan. 1t has received the re-
mains Of sunken and recovered German
U-boats, and has opened its sheltered
hooks of greenery to knitting bees for old
and young.
Whenever a sign is desired to promote
the sale Of Liberty bonds or Thrift
Stamps the sward is cut and room is made
for the stakes and braces. Here and there
are canteens dedicated to the uses Of the
soldiers and the sailors Of this and the al
lied nations Those who have hitherto
aimed TO keep intruders of all kinds from
building anything in the park have been
glad to entertain the Y huts.
The commodious quarters Of the Y. NJ.
c. A. in Bryant Park, on the veranda OF
which in the afternoon one can see men
in khaki taking their ease, furnish good
example of the enlisted pleasure grounds
of the city.
Back of the huge Y hut is demonstra-
ton war garden with tiny lodge for the
demonstration The public walks up and
down the prim rows Of onions and pota-
toes and cabbages and satisfy and parsley,
all Oblivious of the nature loving function
which this enclosure was designed to pro-
mote. The use of the city's breathing
places in the interest Of food conservation
has been readily granted by all classes of
the community.
The sun., 1918-08-18
Change Pleases Lucinda
SW ITH the coming of women into
various employments for

~/ LII the coming OF women INTO
w various employments for.
merly monopohzed by men," said Lu-
cinda, 'comes to all women one little
privilege that for myself prize.
Formerly from the time I stepped
out of my own home door until returned
l must in all public places keep mum, for
there was nobody to whom it was per-
mitted a woman to speak.
"a man could speak to any stranger he
met; he could joke with the street car
conductor or pass the time of day with
ticket seller in the subway; he was free
to speak to anybody if he wanted to.
But woman could speak to no one; she
was in public as YOU might say, shut out
of everything, with no part in anything.
but it's somewhat different now.
With women elevator runners and women
ear conductors and women ticket chop
2crs, with women employed in various
public or semi-public capacities there is
now somebody to whom l can speak if
| want to. L am no longer completely
shut out of things in public. now have
an interest in and am part of things
and really l like this change exceedingly"
The sun., 1918-08-18

base which stretches for nearly half a
mile. Great structures have been erected
there which may remain for years. A
spur of railroad has been installed and
officers of the army are as busy there
about as though they were back of the
lines in France.
The United States Shipping Board is
making good use of the broad marginal
expanse which lies under the lee of River
side Drive from Seventy-ninth street to
Eighty-second street and extends back $50
feet from the bank of the Hudson. The
whole region was intended by former Park
Commissioner Slower as a playground,
and once the idea Of a great stadium with
a ceremonial watergate on the river was
considered. There is basket ball outfit
there now and often the sailors of the
men of war play baseball or football there.
The recreation grounds have been en-
croached upon somewhat. From an as
thetic point Of view the shipyard is not
winner as seen from the wall of River
side Drive; from the patriotic STANDPOINT
it is everything.
The ship repair yard, as it is called,
has also 1877 feet Of Dock Department
holdings for which and for the pier at
Eightieth street an annual rental of
$4,000 is paid by the Government The
Dock Department is a self-supporting in
stitutiOn, and perhaps that is the reason
1t expects everybody to pay his own way.
The Government dredged the shore line
where there was only twelve feet of water
a few months ago to depth of twenty
five feet clear out to the end of the 400
foot pier at a cost of $4,000, Of which
the city will eventually get the benefit.
Into this basin large cargo carriers of all
kinds are coming to get finishing touches
and to have slight repairs made. One
can see the striped and spotted craft
wrapped in their crazy quilts of camou-
fage waiting for their chance at the sur
gical ward at Eightieth street.
The residents Of the upper West Side
are always ready TO protest against the
marring of natural beauties of the water
front. Occasionally some contractor gets
a coal pocket where it thoroughly puts the
view out Of countenance, or garbage
dumps and similar unsightly utilities
arouse the ire of the taxpayer and the
property owner.
But this is such a tidy, businesahke
shipyard, doing such an important work
so swiftly that its presence is regarded as
welcome even though it does not give the
distinction which a slnken Italian garden
might impart. Better a place like this
than sunken ships.
The ship repair yard has its own power
house and in the various sheds are punch
The sun., 1918-08-18

DARkS are doing war time duty these
i days for the Federal Government
and for So ieties which are aiding in the
cause Of world freedom. Attention has
been focused on the matter lately because
Of the discussion concerning the proposed
taking over Of part of Battery Park for
army purposes.
Assistant Secretary of War Crowen ap-
piled for the use of $4,000 square feet
Of Battery Park, which is about eight of
the twenty-one acres comprised in this his
toric park. His plan was to erect there a
series of low concrete buildings for the
use of the debarkation service of the
United States Army. The plan has prac-
tieally been given up.
In the lower part of Manhattan there
are twenty-five Office buildings in which
temporary quarters have been obtained
for bureaus Of the army and navy. About
all the available Office space has already
been secured. There are whole floors in
some of the skyscrapers In West street,
In Battery place and in Broadway which
are occupied by men in uniform. Along
Sixth avenue there are stores long vacant
which have been pressed into the service.
Hoboken is the actual port of debarka-
ton and embarkation for the United
States Army, but there is not enough Office
Co. ha lor oloriao1
force required and it has become necessary
to seek additional quarters elsewhere. 1t
was such pressure as this which started
the movement to take over some of Bat
terry Park.
On the marginal street just outside the
park in front of Pier l are large sheds
of corrugated iron used for the Ameri-
can Red Cross. The army has a tenn
porary garage in front of the Barge Of
flee and plans have been drawn for two
more. There a. already many other small
Entertainments on the breathing space Of
the park, because this area at the apex Of
the island is in the very centre of war ac-
Invites.
Aside from It's benefit to the people who
fund relief there on hot summer nights the
Battery has always been considered as
dedicated to the use which its name i'm
plies. 1t had many cannon in the War Of
the Revolution and in the War of 1872
there came into being Fort Clinton, a
frowning defence which was reached by a
bridge from the shore. Such was the
Garden and is now the Aquarium.
One does not have to go far to find the
Government busy with New Works parks
In other directions A long section Of the
Shore road over on the Brooklyn water
front is taken up with great military
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-20

Those men in Congress, and others who have opposed the
war and have tried to intrude themselves into official proml-
nence, have been smitten by their constituents hip and thigh
from Dan to Beersheba, from Maine to California and from
b or Germany tobreakfast. The first to go down was Nc
Lemore of Texas, made notorious by the introduction of the
celebrated McLemore Resolution which enjoined Americans to
play the baby act, stick their fingers In the corners OF their
mouths and stay at home because Germany said SO. In Wis
consin, long under the domination of one Robert LaFolette'
there was perhaps the most outspoken opposition and asserver-
alton Of German sympathy. The first round there got the La
Toilette candidate for the Senate at a special election. linen
came the primaries in Wisconsin for Congressman, and the
people of that state took the scalp of Cooper, in Congress tor
20 years; they said Nelson's talk would hurt less at home and
that Cary could play in his own back yard hereafter. Not sat-
isfed with this, Wisconsin refused to renominate Go. Philips
because he was a LaFolette man and opposed the war. In
Minnesota, Congressman Lundeen who opposed the war decla-
ration and voted against the draft, was repudiated, so also was
Dillon of South Dakota who said no war and supported the Nc
Resolution and voted for the embargo on arms. Ohio
said for her two congressman, Crosser and Gordon, who cut
up various antics about the war to stay at home. Florida said
that Kehoe, who brought himself into slight notice by sundry
anti-war capers, need not worry himself over another term.
Colorado expressed herself likewise about billiard and Mis-
souri, said that the war record of Hamlin and Shackleford were
too bad for them to again be seen in official company. Missis-
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-20
ALL TO PULL TOGETHER

- The Government has very wisely directed that the 7. n.
C. A. workers, the Y. W.. C. A. workers. the Salvation Army
workers, the War Camp Community Service workers, Jewish
Relief, knights of Columbus. American Library Association
and Salvation Army, shall pull together for the Fourth Liberty
Loan, and that after that is out Of the way, October 10, then
the drive is to be continued to raise funds for these other
purposes. ......- !
It is a beautiful spirit that n1anifests itself in the co-ordi-
nation of all. these activities. It is indeed remarkable, toe,
how beautifully they all labor together in the Camps and on
of the Christ-ife to succor the wounded and the dying, to be
from home. Were we who are home to fully understand just
what it all means to the hone-sick or wounded soldier, we
would feel like taking our all and laying upon the altar for
these boys-our boys. The suffering son who has left home
to stand guard for his country is worthy of our best. We should
revolve over and over in our mind the beautiful thought that
every boy cover there is some mothers child, and that in the
silent hours of the home, somebody is praying and shedding
tears for that "chnd." These tears are the tears of the Christ
ian and of the patriot. They are patriotic prayers and patri-
otto tears; they are tears of those who are proud OF the fact
that they have a child able to bear his part in this worlds
tragedy. The Savior bore His part in a tragedy that far ex-
ceeded this one. He was alone in the Garden of Gethsemane
but our boys are not alone wherever they be. How many OF
us would this day be willing to lay everything earthly we have
upon the altar for a proper termination of this terrible blood
shed and the safe return of our boy home? :
AS we can not go to the battle line and to the Camps our
selves, we can send the Young Mems Christian Association,
we can send the Red Cross and other NEEDED things that will
take our places. The plan has been worked out and is in OPP
Grafton. What we are asked to do is to provide the means for
its continuance. Will Grenada county do her part? Our
answer is, Yes.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-20

%>& Deterioration, sharp and widespread, has overtaken the
cotton crop, more especially in the western states. Long coll
tinued hot, dry weather in Texas and Oklahoma has wrought
disaster; while the other sections of the belt have suffered to a
somewhat less degree, from a variety Of causes. The net result
is an indicated yield per acre of only 145 pounds of lint cotton,
the lightest acreage production ever reported.
All of this shows how uncertain the cotton crop is and the
action of the market shows how important an article cotton is.
The high prices are not due to unbridled speculation, but ra;ll-
er to the trade RECOGNITION of a short supply of the Indispensable
commodity. While prices are high, they do not seem as high as
mills can we'll afford to pay, for cotton mills have been earning
the greatest profits in their history; still higher prices Cor cot
ton have been warranted by the prices at which goods were
selling.
Certainly the mills are entitled to a fair rate Of profit: but
when cotton is scarce, it does not look exactly right that there
should be an unreasonable wide margin between what the pro-
Queer gets for the cotton and what the consumer pays for the
goods. The South is making less cotton on a larger acreage
planted; it is only just that the price should be higher to COM
pensate for the reduction in quantity produced.
The above Is from a recent issue of the New York World.
1t S a fair statement of the cotton situation and of cotton prices.
But in passing it is we'll enough to remember that only a few
weeks back, and many times during the past several months,
the farmers of Mississippi had it doled out to them that the
New York World was their enemy and was but a link in the
socalled metropolitan press bent upon doing injury to them;
that the New York World was endeavoring to smite the one
set up as their friend because he was standing, as 1t were,
with sword unsheathed and with angry brow ready to smite
those who were bent upon preying upon the people of Missis-
sippi. Happily the farmers, as we'll as other interests, have
learned that tommy rot is sure enough rot. They have learned
that there are more hoodwinkers candidates for office than
there are in the newspaper business.
The Worlds position on cotton prices, without intending
to be so, is a splendid answer to the charge of these time
servers. s-
In the dark days of Reconstruction when it took back
bone and perhaps the loss of patronage to stand up for the
South, the New York World insisted on a square deal for our
people and it is right today on most of the questions that con-
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-20
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918.
front Our country.


The Kansas City Journal, in speaking of an announcement
that Mrs. Cordelia Howard Macdonald, the original Little Eva
in Uncle Toms Cabin" was to soon witness a film version of
that play, says:
LET the picture live, then, upon the panels of memory as
a relic of times that can be no more forever. Its fires OF anger
have been quenched; it's tragedy has become a jest; It's stars
the butt of stage quips. Let the first Eva look upon the latest
and the last and see her doubling as Topsy. The scene will
be fruitful of memories, no. the least grateful of which will be
the reflection that the need for an Uncle Toms Cabin passed
away when Lee handed his sword to Grant and Grant returned
it, like the soldier and gentleman both were"
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-20
THE SENTINEL

sippi put the skids under Senator Vardaman, Georgia laid Sen
ator Hardwick away as gently as possible and then came South
Carolina, which lassoed the wild Blease who had beloved
much about ian unjust war" The only fellow to get by was
the puny Congressman of Alabama. Huddleston slipped in
because there were two even lighter weights against him and
the matter of church utilization was unfortunately dragged into
the contest.
The record is good for the country. No 5O-50s wanted.
From one end of the country to the other, pure and undefled
Americanism said follow the leader and smite German takers
hip and thigh.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-20
COMES CLOSER AND CLOSER.

The casualty list from across the seas comes closer and
closer. During the past few weeks, quite a number OF Missis-
sippians have been listed among those whose blood has been
spilled for their country. Carroll county has been touched,
Calhoun county has been on the list, Tallahatchie county has
been among those who have made the supreme sacrifice. Two
have been reported as wounded from this county, Boyd McCor-
mick and John Smith, and this week official announcement
was made of the death of Tillman Ingram, a negro youth who
lived a few miles east of Grenada. The list from Mississippi
may be expected to grow, as a large per cent of our very own
boys are just being placed on the firing lines. But we must be
true and not falter.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-20
NOT THE RIGHT PEACE TALK YET.

The proposition from Austria Hungary to stop now and
talk peace would be like agreeing to arbitrate with the man
who had burned your home and killed your child and when he
saw that you were about to overtake him, to listen to his propo-
sition to arbitrate. The President did right to spurn the offer
The thing to do is to whip those devils now so that they can not
start another war soon. If the job is not done now, it will have
to be done. by our children, so let's not pass the duty to them.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-09-20

The conduct of the soldiers of the United States on the
battle lines of France is such as to make every loyal American
proud of them. They are covering themselves with glory. They
are sustaining the unparalleled record of the, American soldiers
as / ghters. We can rest assured that the job will be done and
done according to the rules and the demands of the situation.