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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-13
The Day i'm Davenport

Find Suicide Pact-Police scent
ed a suicide pact in the finding of
Deb Augustine, teamster. and
Gertrude Duncan, recently divorced,
in q room at Fourth and Iowa
streets late Thursday afternoon in
which the gas jet had been torn
from the pipes. The woman, already
unconscious from the effects of the
fumes, was lying on a bedI Angus
tine, who appeared to be unaffected
by the gas, was in another bed on
the other side of the room. Both
were placed under arrest. The wo-
mans condition was serious and
she was takenfto Mercy hospital in
the city ambulance. She probably
will recover.
Police Catch While peep
ing in windows at Eighth and Rock
Island streets Thursday night, Will
liam McCracken was arrested by
the police. He is believed to be
the man who has disturbed resi-
dents of the Y. W. G. A. and other
institutions in the city recently A
charge of disorderly conduct has
been lodged against him.
Found Not Guilty. - George NJ.
Otto, president of the Universal
ChirOpractic college, was found not
guilty of a charge of obtaining mon
ey under false pretenses by JUS
tice of the Peace W. r Names yes
terdav. An information charging
the college head with fraud was
sworn to by A. w. Holmberg of
Wisconsin, a chiropractic student,
VINO enrolled in the Universal
school under the belief that he was
enrolling at the Palmer school.
Can't Use Jail.-County jails are
prisons for the detention of persons
charged with committing crimes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-13

We wonder if Won Hurting can
get away with an explanation like
that with his wife when he's been
out too late at night.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-13
This VIII Never Be Answered

(St. Joseph News-Press).
Wanted-A good, plain woman for
general house work. Phone Main
6676.
A. j. FAWCETT manages the
soda fountain in a Cleveland, Ohio,
department store.
A. Sinshack runs a saloon in
Kulpmont, Pa.
S. Dauber is a dealer in color
prints in New York.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-13
Twas Ever Thus!

ptIIEU-T
The Nauyoo, Ill. saloons are hav-
ing a hard time keeping supplied
with beer, as the demand almost
exceeds the supply.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-13

A DOUGLAS Malloch said: AN
Optimist is a man who builds an
addition to a brewery
BY the same token an optimist in
Rock Island is the former saloon
keeper who renews the lease on his
building in order 10 be able TO op-
crate his old stand.
TWO years hence.
a n u
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-13

NOW that the Belgian king and
queen have made the return flight
from England we can rest easy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-13

Can't Use Jafl.-County jails are
prisons for the detention of persons
charged with committing crimes
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-13

WHO is the young soldiers wife
who gets eight letters each week,
and what day in the week is it that
he writes two? GLIB.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
The South Turns

The problem of lynching is most
complex one, and no one in the North
with the remotest sense of fact will wish
to underestimate the difficulties which
it involves. There have been too manv
outbreaks of race prejudice north of
Mason and Dixon's line to permit any
section Of the country to be self-right
eous.
But its terrible evil can be met and
must be met the country over. What
was an urgent demand before the war
has become an urgent necessity through
the facts of the great conflict. The negro
is fighting splendidly for civilization. He
is surely entitled to the protection of
civilization. The country will see that he
gets it.
That is why the announcement of The
San Antonio Express, which we print in
another column on this page, is so i'm
portant and gratifying 1t shows that
the South is in accord with the general
opinion of the country, and that sound,
able efforts are upspringing naturally
from the soil of the South to meet the
problem. The measures proposed are
clear and practical. They are bound 10
have results. We congratulate The So,
Antonio Express on it's courage and good
sense.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19

The Ways and Means Committee has
much intuitive knowledge of human nat
ure. 1t proposes to write into the new
revenue bill silent income tax collector
whom none can escape and few can
cheat. 1t is very simple thing. The
names of those who pay income taxes.
with the amount opposite each name, will
be posted conspicuously in every district
We leave it to the trained PSYCHOLOGIST
to guess the extent to which Uncle Sans
income is likely by this means to be in
creased. Particularly, we are interested
in the suggestion that the committee cx-
poets this publicity to work it's greatest
effects in the country and rural dis
tricts--that is to say, among the farmers
The collection Of an income tax from
farmers is, in general, high farce. No.
body knows what a farmers income is
not even the farmer. A city dweler who
makes $4,000 year and spends it every
bit for the living Of himself and family
nevertheless has to report it and pay an
income tax. The farmer and his family
treat their living as if it did not count
At the end of the year the farmer feels
IN his pocket, and if it is empty he saws:
Il have made nothing this year: there
tore there is no income to report"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
Lynchers OF
Negroes Especially

The anti-lynching fund of "The San An
tonic Express" will be employed in this
manner:
reward of $500 will be paid to each
person who shall be directly responsible
for the arrest with subsequent conviction
and punishment of any person or persons
who instrumental in arousing mob
to commit lynching or in putting through
the lynching itself, whom the individual
lynchcd was not negro.
A reward of s. 900 Will be paid to each
person who shall be directly responsible
for the arrest, with subsequent conviction
and punishmnt, of any person or persons
who were instrumental in arousing a mob
to commit lynching in putting through
the lynchng ITSELF when the individual was
a negro.
This fund Of 100000 and the offer of
reward hereunder will be maintained and
-in effect for Il period Of five years from Au
gust 3, 1918.
The system Of rewards will apply to anv
and every crime Of lynching committed
within the bounds Of Continental United
States that is, exclusive of the American
possessions of Porto Rico, Hawaii. tho
Philippine Islands, the Panama Canal
Zone etc.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
A Fight for
Setf-Respect

The creation Of this fund was voted hv
the stockholders on the recommendation Of
George ". Breckenridge. Of San Antonio.
MIR. Breckenridge has been cnercetically
and practically interested for years in the
various efforts Of both legal authority and
social organizations throughout the Union
to do away with mob violence, especially
when it takes the form, Of lynchng.
THE San Antonio Express" like most
other elf-respeeting newspapers or either
side OF Mason and DiXon's Line has for
years made its vigorous fight cditorially
against condition Of lawlcssness and
brutality that blackens the name and be-
smirches the citizenship of any community.
South or North, that witnesses and allows
single lynchng.
Public sentiment against this crime is
steadily gaining in strength, in the num-
Der of adherents pledged to law and order.
and in stern expressions by assemblies Of
good citizens everywhere in the United
States"
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
Hail Columbia!
CFrom London Aeronnrtus,

7FFUN" 7oTHON AefOr0NftrSN
Presumably In no other country in the
world would the remarkable scenes wit
messed in England on The Fourth of Julv
this year have been possible Can one. for
instance, conceive of our trusty and re-
spected allies, the French, celebrating with
us their defeat at Waterloo or the Germans
paying homage to the memory of Napoleon
on the anniversary of Jena? Yet the dav
of the Declaration of Indcpcndcnce was .
DAY OF numil'at'on for the British Empire
without parallel in all its chequercd his
tory; and, 10 and behold! century elapses
and finds us celebrating as a national festi
val tine anniversary of our loss forever of
the better part of a continent
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
A Price on Lynchers
Extraordinary Announcement by "The San
Antonio Express''
Extraordinary

THE publishers of "The San Antonio Ex-
press" have established and set aside
a fund of 100000 to be used in
combating the crime Of lynchng in this
country, thereby to aid III stamping out the
1awlessne5s and violence Of the mob.
AT the latest meeting of the stockholders
Of The Express Publishing Company, Au-
gust 1, it was determined to devote this
sum of money to the purpose of rcwardins
persons who shall be directly responsible
for the arrest and conviction Of those who
incite riots and mob outbreaks that result
i'll lynchings, and Of these who perpetrate
the lynching crime itself.
1t was the earnest, expressed opinion of
every member of the stockh holding body at
the meeting that the irremediablc injus-
tces, the debasement and degradation
worked by a crime that invariably exhibits
a contempt for law and order, and an
enn1ity to the decent systems Of courts and
law enforcement, must be brought to an
ond throughout the United States.
Lynchng must no longer 60 unpunshed
or lightly punished, in any state or dis
tricts Of this nation.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19

question Of simple justice as this is, that
our educational system has ever fallen
behind business houses and professions
in opening the gates as freely to mar
ried women as to spinsters. The distinc-
tion was always absurd; no woman loses
her efficiency, if she ever had any, on
her wedding day. AS for teaching, it is
not inconceivable that wife and mother
might understand children just as we'll
as the unmarried woman.
But since married women are to be
allowed to teach because there is no lon
ger any getting on without them, we
cannot plume ourselves, as would be
pleasant to do, on our generosity toward
women teachers who have chosen to be
wives as we'll as teachers. We can only
be grateful that the war does throw off
some useful by-products that peace, with
all its beauties, had never achieved.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
Kaiser Karl Gets the Gold Brick

What is little thing like kingdom,
race or a people between rulers as
blase about the disposition of such mat
ters as are the two All Highests Of Pots
dam and Vienna? Between such august
chatferers nations, capitals and subjects
arc only the small change of negotia-
ton.
Kaisers Wilhelm and Karl have met at
German Grand Headquarters and set
tied the fate of Poland on bargain
counter basis. The German General
Staff needs men on the Western front.
So the big Teuton War Lord offered to
renounce his interest in the Polish
crown to the little Teuton War Lord,
if the latter would turn over to Luden-
dorff "tcn or fifteen Austrian divisions"
Austria-Hungary cannot spare that
many men without relaxing her hold on
Northern Italy. But so Unborn Is the
Hapsburg greed for territory that
Emperor Karl was willing to trade Italian
conquests, which he probably feels he
can never realize on, for a shadowy
claim on the Polish spoils torn by Ger
many and Austria Hungary from the
clutch of the Romanoffs. So far as
these two ancient partitioncrs of Poland
can determine it, the inheritance of the
third partitioner is to go to a Hapsburg
archduke The new "independent"
Kingdom of Poland is to become an
Austro-Hungarian dependency.
At Brest-Litovsk Czernin and Won
Kiihlmann swore adherence to the prin-
ciple of "self-determination" by the peo-
pies detached from the former Russian
Empire This is the "self-determina-
tion" offered Poland-to be traded to
the Austrian crown in exchange for
"ten or fifteen divisions" The old
Grand Duke of Hessc used to sell his
soldiers for gold. The heir of Francis
Joseph sells his not for cash, but for
defective and unclearable real estate
title.
Poland will never be Austrian She
will never be German. The unconquer-
able race instinct Of the Polish people
has defied all attempts at assimilation,
whether by Austrian, German or Rus
sian conquerors. The garment Of the
Polish nation cannot be gambled away
at German Grand Headquarters. Poland
will arise out of this war reunited
and regenerated state, cured Of the fol-
lies of her glorious past by long dis
cipline Of servitude.
Wilhelm has sold Karl nothing for
something, just as he sold nothing for
something to Ferdinand the Bulgar and
the Caliph Of the Faithful Let Karl
carry home the Polish crown and give
it to q kinsman. When the war ends it
will be only one more crown for one
more king in exile.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
The
Past Of Things
TLADITOSTOk
Meaning "The EULER of the East
.HIS chief Russian seaport and nays

~Hls chief Russian seaport and naval
station on The Pacific, situated
near the Manchuran-C Corean from
tiers, seems to be destined to impsrt new
strength to the temporarily enfeebled
Western Empire Of the deceased dynasty
of Mikhail Romanoff.
The Russians. ever dreaming of their
1sarigrad on the Rosporus, nicknamed
Golden Horn one Of the expansions Of the
Peter the Great Gulf, on which the city
stands. The hills surrounding the latter
are covered with forests of oak, lime,
birch, cedar and dozen of other kinds
of beautiful and useful trees, furnishing
excellent timber.
Although standing in the same parallel
as Marsei]les, Nladivostok has an aver
age annual temperature of only DO de-
grees r., and. although the gulf itself
never freezes, a thin ice crust forms
along the shores in December, remaining
until April.
The town, which was founded in 1860,
is an island Of Western culture in the
Oriental sea of the Far East. It had
9l,454 inhabitants in 1912 and possesses,
besides a cathedral museum and an
observatory and several important office
and private buildings. Seen from afar
the city offers an imposing aspect, mainly
on account Of its numerous churches with
their brilliant cupoas.
Is 1876 the city became fortress. In
1905, at the occasion Of the insurrection
against the central government, part Of
the city was laid in ashes
Before the breaking out Of the present
war the German clement played pre-
ponderant part in the commercial and
social life Of The town. The German Ian
guagc disputed the hegemony to Chinese
and English.
In 1912 tenth Of the total tonnage
of the harbor was of German orgla
The Importation exceeds by far the eS-
portation. The main imported articles
are IRON, all sorts Of machinery, PANT
stufis. beer. glass. porcelain, furniture
coal and spices. Expectation includes
principally, timber, potatoes, salted hs'
and skins.
In 1908 1922 passengers left Vlsd.'
vostok; the arrivals amounted to 49SA''
The number Of incoming ships in tf'
year was 5113, with a total tonnage o.
76l. .1SS. DIDEROT, JR
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
Retoords Open
To Eucrbody

These rewards will be paid to privato
citizens persons OF either Sex or TO neace
officers of whatever class; sheriffs. thair
deputies and possemcn constables and
their deputies; United States marshals
their deputies and possemcn; city or state
police, rangers, etc; officers and men of
the organized military forces or Nat;ona,
Guard Of the several states, and to any and
all other persons who may not be debarrad
legally from the acceptance of a reward
for this character of law enforcement
Five hundred dollars is fixed as tho 70.
ward for directly bringing about the mr.
rcst, conviction and punishment of nor.
son or persons guilty of lynchinr an IN.
dividual other than negro, and 81 ono =;
flN"d ns tho reward in the case Of tbo
lynchlng OF negro for this reason;
A heavy majority of tho pcrimcs ,r
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
$500 for a Suit of Clothes in Russia

The Amcrican-Russian Chamber of
Commerce has supplied some interest
ing details as to the prices for stand
ard articles of trade in Russia at the
present time. If we take the normal cx-
change rate of the rube at 81 cents,
black bread is now costing about $6 a
pound, sugar $40 pound and an ordi-
nary suit Of clothes $500. This reads
astonishingly like the prices current in
the Confederate States toward the close
of the Civil War, when pair Of boots
or shoes might cost 81 900, and so on.
There have been no recent figures avail
able as to the amount Of paper, or
"kerensky money" as it is contemptu-
ously called, that has so far been printed
in Russia. At last accounts it amounted
to something like eighteen or twenty
billions, or more paper money probably
than exists in all the rest of the world
put together. Its value is in accordance
with these facts. Yet at the beginning of
the war and for some time thereafter a
Russian paper rub1e was literally as
good as gold.
We hope these facts will not escape the
eyes of the visionaries in this country
whose latest proposal is to make Liberty
bonds legal tender. If the ten billions so
Tar issued were to be converted into
paper money overnight by such an cdict
as this, the fate of prices in the United
States would be very much the same as
that of those in Russia. IF there are
those to complain of the H. C. L. now.
what would be the situation if present
prices were to be doubled or tripled, as
inevitably they would be?
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
To an .Airn1a1,

Orer Point o Wood$-Grcnt South Fair
w saw .,' z'"' .s.. gray wings in the sun
We heard your motor singing aa
it whirred
Mounting the dunes Of cloud with maiestv
And grace Close in the leave, q
drowsy bird
St'rs softly and the wild rose bends it,
stem;
The painted slender grasses throw din,
Or shadow, yet the heart leaps up from
them
TO climb with you the perilous. hr;ch+
Far IN the beauty OF the wind Won ride.
The stars swing out like lanterns up the
air.
Then like dreaming gull you drop and
glide
over the tranquil Bay; tonight is there
Upon your wings the grandeur Of tho sea
Tho mystery Of the stars-and victor,,
FLORENCE RIPLEY MASTIM
Point O Woods, Long Island, NJ Y.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
Aspersing al, Ally

Sedition cannot be successfully gagged.
1t is too resourceful, subtle and sinuous
For example, one cannot any longer
say with impunity, as Hearst said on
December 8, 1917, that the offensive and
defensive alliance between Japan and
England "was aimed at the United
States"
1t is unsafe to say as Hearst said on
June 18, 1917, that Japan will come out
Of the war more of menace to the
United States than she ever was BEFORE"
1t would now be thought disloyal to
say, as Hearst said only five and half
months ago: "If Great Britain cannot
restrain her special ally from acts of
aggression inimical to our interests we
can remove our ships and troops from
Europe and transfer them to ASIA
1t would be positively dangerous now
to propagate the official German sueges-
ton that Japan and not Germany is
Americas real enemy, or to say, as
Hearst said seven and half months ago: (:
Every day that the present Euro
pean war lasts the white races are
becoming weaker and poorer aud less
numerically, and less able to dispute
with the yellow races the domination
of the world. The only battles
which count are the battles which
saved the white race from the subiu-
cation of the yellow races. Russia
was the great buffer between Europe
and Asia. Germany and Austria
the second line of defence, we are
cndeavoring TO dcpopulatc and de-
stroy. Is it not time that the
white nations settled their quarrcls
among themselves and made prepara-
tions to meet their one real dangcr?"
Since this attack upon our Japanese
ally appeared in The Wew York Ancri-
can people have become kecner to recor-
nize sedition, the government has be-
come much less tolerant, and, besides,
Americans and japanese are now fight
ing shoulder to shoulder on the other
side Of the world. A paper that should
repeat that insult TO Japan, even a
Hearst paper, would be shut up by the
government.
Nevertheless, one skilled in that iron
ical opposite manner Of writing, wherein
you say one thing and arc understood to
mean another, may still insut Japan in
tie act Of pretending TO SPEAK we'll Of a
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
Justice as a By-Product

1t took war to do it, but it begins to
look az though the old married teacher
bugaboo was about to be cast into the
discard along with q lot Of other impedi-
nenta that have been fastened upon
women too long. United States Com
missioner Of Education Claxton has Just
appealed 10 local school boardg TO repeal
sl) regulations prohibiting married worn-
en- from holding public school positions,
becauss of the war shortage Of teachers
throughout the United States.
II is too bad mt oar hand bad to
bc forced by ahccrTcceeSity on buch
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19
Lynching of :
Whites Is Rare

AS compared with the number of in
stances of such outrages against negroes
and against the law, the decency and the
morality of the people instances of the
lynching Of whites are rare.
1t must be noted that payment Of these
rewards is strictly conditioned upon not
only the arrest but the conviction and
punishment court or jury, according
to the system that may obtain in the juris-
dlcton wherein the crime was committed
of the lynchcrs. Only by stringent pun
ishment may this destructive crime be kept
down and finally cradicated
Those intrusted with the use Of "The
Express" anti-lynching fund will have
nothing to do with cases in which convic-
ton is followed by suspended sentence, or
by any punishment that does not fit the
crime; that is, there must be the dcs tn
penalty or term Of years in states prison.
according to the circumstances Of the crime
in evidence.
Whenever claim shall be made for the
payment Of reward out of this fund the
management of "The Express" will investi-
gate fully as to the claimants connection
with the arrest and trial of the lyncber.
whether the lynchcr's conviction and pun
ishment were effected through the genuine
interest of the claimant. by information
to the authorities and by honest testimony
in court
Further details as to the operation of
this system of rewards may be announced
at some future date
New-York tribune., 1918-08-19

brave ally, as Arthur Brisbane does in
the following case, taken from TIE Ncw
YORK; American Of last Friday:
'It is easy to guess with what en-
thusiasm the japanese will fight, with
all their white brothers looking on and
admiring.
"The glory of being first into Berlin
would appeal strongly to the Mikado,
no doubt, especially as the Kaiser sent
him insulting messages about what he
would do to Japan-after finishing
with the Allies. Finishing with the
Allies has turned out to be somewhat
tedious process.
"Plenty Of glory for Japan, if she
goes ahead with her usual energy and
success. And many things more sub
stantial than glory. For Siberia would
give her rich lands in which to expand
and give her crowded population a
chance. And who could say fairly
if the Japanese were first to reach
Inter den Linden-that she must go
all the way back and keep nothing?
Plenty of interesting possibilities in
that great forward movement of
Japan--for this generation and for the
future"
Does it mean nothing that Japan has
pledged her word to withdraw from
Russia cleanly when the job Of beating
Germany is finished? Does it mean
nothing that the United States has
pledged her word upon Japan's?