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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31

That Uncle Sam has decided upon
a definite housing program for en-
ployes at Rock Island arsenal is
made clearly evident through the
appropriation of $2,775.O00 by the
government for the erection of
homes, conditioned on the raising
of 1925, 900 by the quad-cities, the
whole proposition involving an eA-
penditure of s3,7O0,00O.
In Moline, the government has de-
cided to loan $375,O0O if the Plow
city will raise $125.00O. Inasmuch
as this is the lowest sum specified
for any of the quad-cities, the plan
is not being an enthusiastically re-
ceived there as in the other COM
munities interested. This feeling
was intensified when it became
known that East Moline's allotment
is s45O.0 if $15O,0OO is pledged.
Want to See Contract.
When asked relative to the matter
L. R. CIaussen, member of the Mo-
lIue VI SdulLdLlOH ndllullH5 INC pAOP
osftion, made it clear that be-
fore the proposal was finally ac-
copied and the $125,000 asked from
Moline is available, PlOw city CAPT
talists would inspect the form of
government contract to see if it
was entirely satisfactory
I'VE will want to know if the dis
tribution in the quad-cities is eQui-
table and if the plan contemplates
private concerns manufacturing
war munitions, as well as arsenal
employees" he said.
1t is understood that the general
sentiment, especially in Moline and
East Moline, is that if the housing
plan is applicable only to hen at
the arsenal and excludes those
working in the r. & V. and other
private factories engaged in turn
ing out war material, that the
proposition may not be approved.
Out in East Moline, where the r.
& V. plant is engaged in manufac-
turing munitions on a big scale, it
is felt that this industry is just as
important to the government in the
present crisis as the work being
done at Rock Island arsenal and
that employees at this and similar
institutions should receive the same
consideration relative to the erec-
ton of suitable homes as do those
working at the arsenal.
Ig,,,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
GENERAL
STAFF mot ABLE"
TO TELL LOSSES

New York, May 31.-On April
q. the German general staff was
not in position TO give detailed in
formation regarding the German
losses in the offensive operations
begun on March II. This announ-
cement was made in the Reichstag
by General Won Wrisberg, accord
ing 10 the Berlin Voerwarts. a
copy of which has been received
here.
The number OF men taken pris-
oner and missing in the German
armies up to March 81. General
Won Wriberg said. was 664 .1O4
Most OF these were prisoners.
there being 236, 600 prisoners in
France, 119. 600 in England and
I57 600 in Russia and Rumania
The remainder. about $4,000,
should be considered as dead.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
Police News

Herman Schumacher and F. =.
Hall appeared in Moline police
court this morning to answer to
the summons issued against the
Rock Island road on a charge of
blocking traffic in the city of Mo-
line by allowing its trains to re-
main on street crossings longer
than is permitted by state law.
Mr.. Schumacher was in charge Of
the train which last Saturday is
alleged to have blocked a down
town crossing for thirty-one min
utes. Mr.. Hall is Moline agent for
the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific railway. The road officials
asked for a continuance to consult
with the Chicago Offices. Magis-
trate Gustafson granted the re-
quest and set the hearing for
June s.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
WILL ADVISE SOCIALISTS

c. c. Brooks of Dixon will appear
before Rock Island county Social
lists Sunday afternoon to advise
them how TO proceed in view of the
fact that they have been barred
from holding street meetings and
demonstrations in Moline. The
meeting will be held at Sunday
afternoon in the party headquar-
tiers, 1924 Third avenue, Moline.
Brooks was in Moline and Rock
Island a year ago, advising social
lists of their rights with reference
to registration for the draft.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
BRITISH LOSSES
DURING MAY ARE
GIVEN AS 166,8O2

London, May 31-CasuaIties in
the British ranks reported during
the month of May reached a total
of 166,802. The losses were divid-
ed as follows:
Killed or died Of wounds: Off
GERS 1886, men 20,51S.
Wounded or missing: Officers g.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31

Schadt, step-grandsons. ~
Macbeth. st. Mary's Ont b Dui.a.i
and Mrs. Anna Mossop Fya 1i'isi
Ind, sister. Mrs. benjamin. w w
Beth. the mother, died al N. -'4e
OF 81 years last January. -
In March. 1886. Mr. Macpo.t
came a naturalized citizen ~ II
United States, taking out hls ~, Y.
at Rock Island. He was proTn5s.--..
in a fraternal way, being rn 49,.
Of Doric lodge No. 319 A 49,
NJ, and Manufacturers Io5o. = NJ
4S5, /. O. o. F. He was an Odd r ~
lows for nearly half a centurr
Sunday afternoon az ~.
funeral services viii be AZ the 49,
with Manufacturers lodge i'm cb..-.
while interment will be al Piva.'
side. ''' =
Buy Thrift stamps-
LIMO ENLISTS,
Frank Limo. instructor IN w..
tai arts school, left for Great a..
Naval Training station where 4.
viii train for the aviation service y
the navy. Limo started for Grssl
Lakes several weeks ago .,
reached Chicago, when he was csgI
ed back by telegram from s7na,
intendent Mahoney, announces
that he had been given an sTisr.
ion until the end Of the press,
school semester.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
ARE N QUARANTINE.

Moline men who were sent to
Camp Shelby. Hattiesburg. Miss.
are In recruit division No. Z. They
ire now in quarantine for Is days
md at the expiration OF that time
hey Will be assigned TO different
branches OF the service in which
hey are best fitted, according to
heir Questionnairea.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
BRASS THIEF SENTENCED.

Albert Smith, who was arrested
with a quantity OF brass in his pos
session, was sent to the county jail
for six months as vagrant When
Smith gets out the wintry winds
will be blowing. Sentence was i'm
posed by A A. Niles. East Moline
MaR1strafA.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
EAST MOLINE PAIR
WE'D AT CAPITAL

Springfield, Ill, May 31.-Joseph
Mardine. aged "a years. and Miss
Maude E. Brown, aged SO years.
both Of East Moline, were married
last night by Rev. Abraham Ber-
gen. pastor of the Fifth Presbyter-
ian church in this city, at his res
idepce. This is Mr. Mardine's sec
ond marriage. They will reside in
East Moline.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
TEN CASES OF SMALLPOX.

Ten cases of smallpox have de
Feloped among children attending
the Campbell school in East Mo
line. The school was closed today
and it is believed that the further
spread Of the disease may be pre-
vented.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
MTXTER Is ADVANCED.

Word Is received from Washing
ton, D. c.. that George W. Mixter.
vice president OF Deere & Co. has
been promoted from major TO lieu
tenant colonel. II is understood
that new and more important duties
devolve on Lieutenant Colonel Mix
ter and the scope OF his authority
has been greatly broadened. He ia
one OF the important figures In d.
recting aircraft production of the
signal corps at Washington.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
START on LIBERTY TRUCKS.


A. r. Garwood was this morn
ing arrested in Moline on a charge
of speeding. He was Immediately
afterwards brought before Magis-
trate Gustafson where he pleaded
guilty and was fined S. and costs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
MUST FIGHT OR
Give IS CLAIM
Rev. C. C. Carpenter in Address at
Rock Island Arsenal Cemetery
Pleads for Unity.

eff you can't fight, give, and II
you refuse to do either, you're q
Stacker" was the plain, straightfor-
ward statement which Rev. G. Q.
Carpenter, Princeton, made in his
Memorial address at the national
cemetery at Rock Island arsenal
yesterday afternoon. You don't
want to feel, look and smell like
skunk, do your" was his forceful
expression.
In discussing the war, the speak
er said: Every mandate Of CIV
ilzation is being torn asunder. Ger
many challenged us when she out
ragged every decency Of humanity.
She challenged us when she said we
shall not travel on the high seas.
America has answered that chal-
ienge with the definite aim of win
ming.
America shall bend back that
line on the western front and in
time march down the streets of
Berlin. There is not a man with a
bit of cnivalry in his heart who will
not say to Germany, you stop your
attacks on women or you'll die
"The challenge comes to US to-
day back Of the army to produce
over there the valor shown by the
soldiers of the G. A. R. so years ago.
Not for one single moment do
We consider the possibility of de-
feat. America is out to win. We
can with the help of the men of
Britain, France and Italy, whip the
world We're going to do the thing
we set out to do because we are
under solemn obligation to defeat
Germany.
There is not here today one sin =
gle soul who in any way justifies
the acts of Germany. Even the
children of today are wide awake
on questions of the war. They IN
derstand as we understand the
ideals for which our forefathers
have always fought.
you are either wholeheartedlv
supporting the ideals for which the
statute of liberty stands or else you
are for the ideals represented by
the statue of Germania."
Buy War Savings stamps
START ON LIBERTY TRUCKS.
OF an order for $4,000 motor
trucks placed by the government,
the Velie Motors corporation will
construct a large part The order
has just been given for that num-
Der of Model B Liberty motor
trucks of a capacity from 3 to 8
tons. The corporation will begin
upon the work at once.
Buy Thrift Stamps
A R. Garwood was this morn
ing arrested in Moline on a charge
of speeding. He was Immediately
afterwards brought before Magis-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
The Argus.

MOLINE OFFICE,
15o71R Third Avenue A
Phone Moline so.
=. c. Xander .......C City Editor
Res. Phone r l. 2112.
EAST MOLINE OFFICE,
Telephone East Moline 16S-R
A. Martens Circulation Manager
lO40 Fifteenth avenue.
For social and personal items call
East Moline 104-W.
Delivered by carrier at l2h cents
per week IN Moline. East Molina,
Slvts and WATERFOWL
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
HOUSING PLANS
/. OF UNCLE SAM
ON A BIG SCALE
Government Proposes to Spend 81
$4,000 in Quad Cities if $780,
900 Pledged by Communities.
MOLINE is NOT SATISFIED

Unless Plan COntemplates Benefit
to Private Concerns as Well as
Arsenal 1t May Be Opposed
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31
BUILDING FUNDS.
Grand total $4,000

Totals .......s2,775,OOO S9s5,OOO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31

Marquisette curtains with fine
lace edge on side and bottom.
Full az yards long, In both
white and ivory.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31

Extra high grade marquisette
curtains in styles with wide
cluny lace insertion and edge.
Beautiful patterns, easily lnun.
dered.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-05-31

Automobile, No. 934.
D. F. Water.
PlOw City No. 200.
A. L. Grear.
Moline Canton No. 60.
Erick J. Anderson, ]. A. Swanson,
Peter Johnson, Carl F. Peterson.
Myrtle Rebekah No. 256.
Kate Altz, Eta Ogeman. Carrie
Cole. Esther Miller, Ella ellison, G.
Jenkins. Margaret Thornton, TT.
Grear, Tillie Jones, R. Rosenquist,
Augusta Stoltenberg, Herman
Tarmes. Mary Stuhr, ]. Perry, Anna
Runge, Mrs. J. w. Young, r. F.
Leonard, w. w. Anderson, Cora
Hester, Job Tuffley, John Young,
c. Virgin. Mary Sadler. F. Hirshey.
E. Haggerty, Fred Weigers, Matte
Noyes, A. L. Grear, Emma Runge,
Chdris Klineman, Minnie Cole,
Anna Evans, Gertie Daebelliehn,
Charlotte Rosine, Elizabeth Edgar.
Leon Hague. Alice Tunaman, Eliza
beth Rosencrantz. Anna Christoffer,
Caroline Schillinger. P. Bradford.
Swedish Olive Rebekah No. 543,
Frank Uhrus. Caroline VAIL
strand, Emma Johnson. Peter John
son. Rose Nelson, J. A. Swanson,
andrew Peterson, Aleda Pierce,
Hugo Lindquist, Hannah Williams,
Esther Nelson, Jennie Anderson.
Charlotte Larsonf1 Mary McLeay,
Bertha Evers.
TQTrx- Co. a.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

himself. And he was highly amused,
1t was this lack of sympathy on his
part that first turned me against him.
He Protested He
Was Not on Diet
But was also furious with the hos
pltal waitress. | said to her:
'Mademoiselle! Mademoiselle, You
are mistaken! l am not on a diet'
"She answered me:
Yes, this evening you are. have
orders. The surgeon major with two
stripes has just given them to me-
Great heavens! Had this surgeon
major with two stripes gone crazy? I
lifted my eyes by chance and saw my
companion, who had just finished two
legs of lamb. | understood l under
stood all at once. They make those
fast at night who are to have opera
tons the next day--on account of the
chloroform. .Chloroform is dangerous
to take if one doesn't have a perfectly
empty stomach. | shouted to him:
Pass me your plate! Pass me your
| plate at once It's the only way to
save your life. They have made a mis-
take
ut was certain that some one had
made mistake. And I could see whv
The hospital waitress had thought:
The operation must be on that little
fellow there, who is already manifestly
half dead She could not believe that
it was to be OH that big, chubby face
fellow, with an aspect so complacent
and comfortable. said to her:
,, She Became
A Little Embarrassed
'Mademoiselle, you are committing
a crime. There is death in the air
That man across from me, if YOU let
him eat like that, and take my portion
besides, will certainly die tomorrow.
She became somewhat cmbarrass ssed
! She hesitated. But the other, cool as
/ ice, reassured her:
mot at all, Mademoiselle. You have
only TO look at him. And then looh
q. '''S' tey alc SOlHS 70 operate on
{ him. not on me-.
THAT big pig finished the whole
dish of potatoes fried in lard while
sat there rubbing my stomach. re-
! pcated:
"'You are eating yourself into the
! grave. AS truly as there is an electric
( lamp there over our table, you are
going to die, because of what you have
eaten.
"But he answered.:
"I don't believe in those things
they are all rubbish. A good meal
never harmed any one. Anyway, don't
care. At least shall have died after
good dinner
Tomorrow morning. I said to
him, Il am going to denounce you to
the doctors. I'll tell them what you
have eaten
"He looked at me sternly and re-
torted:
"'If you do that III smash your
gizzard before | go into the operating
room
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
Music Notes

The Columbia University Chorus,
Professor Walter Henry Hall, con-
ductor, is to give a patriotic concert
for the benefit of the Polish recon-
struction committee, proceeds 70 be ap-
piled to the erection of hospital for
the Allies III France, in Carnegia Hall
on the evening of May 3. The chorus
will be assisted by Claudio Muzio, So
prano; Mary Jordan, contraIto; Dan
Beddoe, tenor; Herbert Witherspoon,
bass, and also by an orchestra of sixty
pieces from the Philharmonic Society
of New York. The chief interest mu-
sically will be found in the first per-
formance in America of Edward Elgar's
"Sprit of England" new work voic-
ing the spirit of the nation, whose
"contemptible little army" first Joined
hands with France to defend Belgium,
and then arrayed itself against the
menace which threatens the world Se-
lections from Rossini's "Stabat Mater"
will also be sung, and between the
parts brief address will be given by
Nine Laura de Gozdawa Turczyno-
wicz, the author of "When the Prus-
slams Came to Poland" The date of
May 3 has been chosen because il COM
memorates the anniversary of the
granting of the constitution to Poland,
in 1893, and the Poles throughout the
country are planning to celebrate that
date.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
He Couldn' t Bear
The Sight Of Him

The intrepid trencherman who had
eaten ravenously tidgeted for some sec
onds, hi, fork in the air. He ended by
saying to me, conidentially:
''Monsieur, if it will not put you to
any inconvenience, will you not change
seats with me? cannot bear the sight
of that person there. That revolts my
stomach [ could no longer swallow
anything. He makes me choke"
An animadversion of that sort. as
between two brothers-in-arm i. and
made with so much rancor, struck me
as very singular. I invited my table
companion to go with me and take his
coffee in another establishment, calcu-
lating that he would feel less restraint
there in enlarging upon the causes OF
his animosity. And was not deceived
"You see, monsieur, three weeks ago
| was with that scoundrel there in
Auxiliary Hospital No. 725-a fine
hotel, transformed into hospital. 1t
was not an ordinary hotel, for the run
of travellers. but only for An exclusive
clientele. The table had remained ex-
cellent and we were served in the big
dining room. g.,
wound in the knee--a painful wound.
Tht doctor took away my knee pam but
he did it so cleverly, leaving the sur
rounding bone, that l scarcely limp
now, as you may have noticed. With
the comrade who spoke to me the case
was graver His wound was some
where in the region of the liver, and
il, was necessary, so it seemed to un-
dertakc serious--a very serious
operation, something involving big
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
the Secret
of Perfect Singing
w. Henri Zay Almost Convinces the
Reader Singing Can Be Learned by Cor
respondence Further Moral PreceDt

plations," it covers most of the famil-
lar divisions of the subject 1t con-
tains much good sense, not a little
illuminating technical talk along ac-
cepted lines, and number of exer-
cises with directions for use.
But besides this, of course, it con-
talns the secret. This lies in sing
ing con the timbre" Our author as
sures us that "when one really sings
on the timbre all faults of production
disappear" and the sidea is repeated
with reference to almost every diff
Guilty the singer may encounter.
What is the timbre, besides being
an opulence of overtones, chiefly ema-
mating from the nasal cavities? 1t is
"Sthe astral body of tone, which car
ries the message from the singer to
the audience. 1t gives the divine
spark, which kindles sympathy in all
within hearing, and its presence as
sures the singer that there is complete
connection between his inner soul
forces and his outer means of express
sion" The tin1bre SHOULD have a
'cellolike phrasing and solidity--in
fact. turn your body into an instru-
ment and let the Ego play upon it;
and the Ego, having close relations
with the spiritual worlds, will bring
into the performance something of the
character of the Music of the Spheres" !"
We had supposed there was no need
to urge singers to let their Egos play.
Personally, we always prefer Schubert's
Ego to that of his interpreter. But
any mental concept that helps the
singer to sing we'll is legitimate part
of vocal pedagogy; the psychological
school, of teaching is filled with these
earnest student must never "think
stomach since that makes his tone
"sound stomach"
There is also, in the book, a certain
amount OF anatomical exegess which
verges On the theological The Deity, it
appears, placed the organs of articula-
ton close to the brain in order that
departmental intelligence may be
brought to bear to key them up to a
sense of alertness" The same Wisdom
placed our best breathing muscles in
close physical proximity to the Solar
Plexus that This might "enable them
to act and react on each other, and
thus a union of their forces is eff
fected" For those whose knowledge
of anatomy is derived from the sport
ing page, it is we'll to add that the
lutte Knowledge.' 1t "has Independent
New-York tribune., 1918-04-21

Probably the alchemists of old never
searched for the formula for trans
muting lead into gold so ardently as
modern writer's have sought for the
secret of good singing. Since the
Isryngoscope was discovered by Garcia
theorists have found the key to the
problem. in every separate portion of
the anatomy from the stomach up
ward. OF recent years the fashion in
secrets has swung toward the psyche
logical. This is by all odds a gain, at
least to the casual reader of theoretical
hooks on singing 1t should stand to
reason that since you can't physically
get at the mechanisms by which tone
is produced .hey must be controlled
By psychological means. And this
ouens the door to much common sense,
which, we have always suspected, has
more to do with the successful teach
ing of singing than most of the pseudo
scientific lore of larynx and glottis
At least, books on singing make easier
reading nowadays. Whether they make
easier teaching we leave to those who
try to follow them.
Just why theorists should suppose
that the problem of singing can be
solved by single magic formula, just
why it should be imagined that COM
plex art should have a simple solution
we can't guess. In all other arts and
sciences, itlis accepted that large
number of factors must be mastered,
and then combined according to the
needs of the individual case But in
singing, the lust for the magic stone
is unquenchable. One rarely reads
announcement about singing without
coming across such sentence as this:
The whole secret lies in the so-and-so'
We suspect that the successful teach
ers who repeat these magic formula
practise better than they preach. and
in the studio use keen ear, a friendly
sympathy and lot of common sense
in the attainment of their ends. But
"the secret" is still being revealed in
new books which appear from month
to month.
One such. practical Psychology of
Voice and of Life" by w. Henri Zay,
has recently come off the press of G.
Schirmer & Co. AS the name indicates,
the book veers toward the spiritual
values rather than toward laryngo-
scopic truths. Indeed the soul is re-
ferfed to much more frequently than
the CLOTHS Though the book does no.
pretend to be thorough treatise, be-
ing arranged as series of "contem-