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Evening star., 1918-02-28
ROTARY DELEGATES NAMED.
,. c. Members to Attend Conference
at Lancaster, Pa, March s.

Delegates from Washington to at
tend the conference of rotary clubs
to be held at Lancaster. Pa. March s,
were appointed by the president of the
Washington Rotary Club, i. c. Gra-
ham. at the quarterly meeting of the
club last night at the Lafayette Hotel.
Delegates named were John Poole.
Fred w. Mackenzie. George H. Harris
and E. c. Graham. Letters from Presi-
dent Wilson and Secretary of War
Baker praising the war activities of
rotarians were read at the executive
Evening star., 1918-02-28
but that squeaky locomotive whistl,
kept their spirits up.
Shunted to British Train.

FINALLY we arrived at our destina-
tion, a town somewhere in France
There was a parade and we marched
past the Hotel de Vile with flags fy-
ing and bands playing. I tell you, the
people were glad to see us. A lot Of the
boys got kissed going through those
narrow streets.
After that they shipped our rifles back
home-there weren't enough rifles to go
AROUND in those days-and we settled
down to construction work. For seven
months or SO I've been laying ties,
driving spikes and building roadbeds
for democracy. It's not what you'd call
a life Of ease, but Pm not complaining.
I've put on weight and. don't have to
worry about lying awake nights.
'The other day there was call for
men to go up Flanders way and build
railroads for the British SO they won't
have to walk to Berlin. I volunteered.
thought might see some action and
maybe get lick at the boche. It's a
great life, amt it?
Got a mateh?"
Evening star., 1918-02-28
EHLARaMa PHOTO FORCES.
Facilities for Picturing German
Trenches From Air Being Increased.

Plans have been completed for en-
fargement Of facilities for training and
equipping the aerial Photographic force
for photographing the German trenches
from the skies and keeping up to the last
minute the large composite picture of
the whole German front. The Signal
Corps announces that future facilities
will be three times those at present ex-
Evening star., 1918-02-28

listing and will be In full operation in
three weeks
The three schools now operating at
Langley Field, Fort Sill and Cornell.
N. Y, will be consolidated into one
large school for aerial photography at
Rochester. n. Y, where all the primary
training win be done.
Evening star., 1918-02-28

Women have been made eligible to po-
sitions as federal deputy shipping COM
missioners. Appointees will have the
right to board ships in their capacity
as federal officers and will be called
upon to deal with questions arising be-
tween the master of vessels and sea-
Evening star., 1918-02-28
MAI. GEN. EBEN SWIFT.
Who with an American military mission
has reached Italy, to study conditions
ON that front.

session Of the club. A table d'hote
dinner was served.
Announcement was made that the
national convention Of rotarians will
be held in June at Kansas City.
Evening star., 1918-02-28
A Large Order.

From the Boston Transcript.
'Rounder says he's turned over q
new leaf"
Huh. Rounder could turn over a
whole Carnegie library and not be half
reformed"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

lengthy front north of the LaBasse canal and in the
Ypres sector in Flanders On the French front the
Germans have carried minor attacks northeast of
Verdun and in Lorraine French troops repulsed both
attempts with loss.
British monitors and naval aircraft have made a
combined attack Ostend. Belgium. German aerial
and submarine base, and British seaplanes have at
tackled enemy mine sweepers Helgoland with
machine gun fire In the attack Ostend British
airmen brought down FIVE German machines, while
the monitors bombarded the town heavily.
Germany according unofficial reports from The
Hague, considers that the attitude of Holland to-
ward the Anglo American shipping demand has
changed the relations between the German and Dutch
governments. The same report says that Germany
would take it a of war if Holland had aban-
doned her remaining demands regarding the of
seized Dutch ships by the United States and Great
Britain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22
May Decide the War.

On front of more than fifty miles the armed
hosts of democracy are at grips with the forces of
Prussianism and what may be the decisive struggle
in the great is raging in northern France Brit
ish soldiers have and wtthstood the most
pendous attack Germany has hurled against the
western front in one-half years of warfare
In their first onslaught the enemy after a gigantic
bombardment from great masses Of guns. passed the
British outposts points and attained the bat
tie line, but nowhere did the Germans gain the OBJ
5ectives planned Regiment after regiment hurl
ed against the denses Of the British front and Field
Marshal Haig reports the German losses excep-
tonay heavy.
Desperate fighting continues all along the lines
from the sensee to the Disc and especially on the
Cambria sector. Enemy efforts before Cambria were
aimed principally to the north and south of the
left after the fighting ceased there last November
with the evident purpose Of cutting off the salient
and driving through opening toward the old
tlefeld 81 the Somme
,iermany's latest offensive finds both sides pre-
pared for the shock Of prolonged and sanguinary
combat. For months the Germans have been train
ing troops and moving up guns and supplies behind
their lines between Arras ana St Quentin. The Brit
fish also have been active and prepared for any
blow the enemy might deliver and had anticipated
that the offensive movement would where did
Behind the British lines is The devastated
over which the Germans retreated last March Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg declared at the time that
the devastation carried out, not only TO hamper
the allied armies but provide battlefield for the
future. The German attack may be only feint, but
large breach in the British lines might involve the
safety Of Paris and the French channel ports from
the mouth Of the Seine 70 Belgium,
German artillery fire also has been intense on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22
Wheat at So. SO.
nothing.

The senate yesterday passed the agricultural ap
preparation bill with the Gore amendment increasing
the 1918 government guaranteed wheat price $3.50
1t now goes to conference between the two houses,
where there will be another fight over the wheat price
is held that $3.50 wheat will the price of
flour beyond S13 or $3.50 per barrel. The prevail
ing price is around $11 per barrel But must raise
wheat in this country in order to meet the
arged demands due to the calls from the nations with
which allied in the war. At $3.50 per bushel
the results sought ought be had When you recall
that a few years ago the farmer glad to get 81
for his wheat you appreciate how willing you
would be- you in his shoes, to speed up produc-
tion planting every available in that grain. To
be the farm is expensive to operate than
it before the beginning of the war but the diff
ference does take the $3.50 that farmer
has been offered in the new agricultural appropria-
ton bill just enacted by the senate
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22
Someone and Somebody
---I8y Porter Emerson 8r@vme=--
by The Iruo

Wild-eyed, their erstwhile- happy
souls stricken of a great and sud
den despair, they toppled, and hung
a moment in mid-air. But the laws
of gravitation may not long be de-
fed. Drawn irresistibly, at length,
they fell. And the "Oofi" that
came from the lips of the partner,
now more fallen on than falling,
made that that had emanated from
the equally PROSTATE debutante as
the vastly silence of the empty sea.
We would love there to END the
awful scene But truth is as we
have said. remorseless. 1t is not to
be. For there is more.
In the center of the pergola was
fountain; a beauteous thing of
gold, marble and colored glass,
wherein played glistening streams
OF water. Also goldfish and, things.
Thus it was that even as col
lapsed upon the PROSTATE partner
the dOWager with the faithful nus
band and the rotten luck, came yet
a third couple to mingle in the
strife. Gaily they came, mingling
their feet happily in the tangled in
triCacies Of the latest invention of
st. Vitus. Happily they came, and
swiftly. For even as st. Vitus had
taught them, so had Cupid come
to thrill their hearts of his emo
tions. Hence, as danced sprightly
feet. so gazed eye into eye In
the coma of their mutual devotion
all else was lost; the whole world
had sunk into oblivion beside
passion so flaming as to make
Romeo and Juliet seem like pOliti-
cal enemies. Knee to knee and
eye to eye they came slithering
along like a drunkard to a clam
bake. They hit the fallen partner.
That gave them a good start. Then
they hit the fallen dowager with
the rotten luck. That gave them a
better Thirdly they struck the
faithful husband.
He was rising to his feet at the
moment. Which caused the loving
couple to bounce. Whereat they
rose gracefully. into the air. per-
formed a neat >parabola. and de-
scended on their adored and adOr-
ing heads into three feet of water
filled of the strange fora and fauna
of the tropics. Little goldfish
and things fed frightenedly. =
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22
What Have We Sacrificed?

we in America accustomed to be boastful Of our
wealth. our industrial power and our patriotism
have not as yet fully realized the extent of the sac
rihces we must make to win this war. We are in
cIned to believe carelessy, that things will come out
all right that our soldiers will acquit themselves
gloriousy, and that the kaiser will be humbled with
out any special individual effort on part.
Let us look at the facts Let see what the
nations OF Europe are sacrificing, and compare what
we have done. In England, France, Italy the whole
populations are ratoned. all non-essenal industries
are suppressed. single pleasure automobile is
in commission careful regulations made for the
use of fuel and light and all articles of absolute
necessity Practically the whole bodied male pop
ulation is the battle front.
What have we sacrificed? Practically nothing-in
fact less than nothing. American labor is making
more money than it did before the war, American
farmers are rolling in unwonted wealth. As result
America is spending for Injuries than it ever
did before. and it has left after making its
trbutions the Red Cross, the Y. NJ. c. : and num-
erous other war activities and its investments In
Liberty bonds and saying stamps than it used
to have without these burdens.
Suppose wave of German invasion had swept
over Illinois and the American forces had been
driven across the Mississippi. Suppose be-
hind the German lines like Belgium is. Suppose all
our factories had been dismantled cattle killed,
and our able bodied and women deported to
Germany to for the conquerers. Suppose those
of US who were left being given bowl of thin
soup day to keep life in miserable bodies. Sup
pose every now and then. leading citizens Of this
town and that lined up and shot. Then we
would begin know what sacrifice means.
is to avoid all this that the United States is
asking you do without of your accustomed
luxuries. and invest in savings stamps. Can't
you see the seriousness of it? Can't you that if
you don't do it voluntarily will have to in the end
do it through compulsion-either the compulson Of
your own government or the tyranny of conquerer?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

Pope Benedict, in Easter message addressed
to America, pleads for the ending of the war and
the conclusion of lasting peace among the nations
fighting each other. The pope may feel assured
that there is nation anxious for the
termination of the than is the United States Its
terms have been frequently stated, They are known
to the world. Benedict knows them Peace will come
only when Germany condescends to abandon her
dreams of world domination and her contention that
might makes right. The United States is ready for
and is just DESTROYS that comes soon as
is Pope Benedict.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

There will be unnecessary expenditures for
railroad development while the federal government
is in control of the properties according the terms
of a bill which has just been signed by President
Wilson Inasmuch as the government has now under
taken largely the financing of improvements and
purchase of new equipment the order will serve as
a safeguard to the big working fund The railroad
administration is expected encourage railroads to
float security issues for capital expenditures without
government aid whenever possible but in many cases
large part of the securities will be purchased by the
government
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22
Came loving hands to aid.


Somebody helped the debutante
| to her feet. Most of her skirt was
gone But that didn't matter; il
was transparent anyway. She said
| she was all in and couldn't some
body bring her a drink.
Somebody went to the assistance
of the PROSTATE partner. His Golf
! fure was ruined; but they carried
him from the field still game. He
! said he was going in for the next
| period no matter what anybody
said, and demanded a fresh pony
and a new mallet.
| They raised to a sitting posture
{ the dOwaSer with the rotten luck.
/ Far be it from us to accuse lady
| of granting We shall merely say
| that she eXhaled f1atulentIy and
! looked at her husband with murder
| in her eyes. Like all women with
husbands, she thought it was his
fault and, furthermore, that he did
it deliberately.
AS they bore the husband from
the scene, he was heard to murmur
that he only got what he deserved
for being such a BANKED old fool
! in the first place. AnG If anybody
ever caught him trying to dance
again, he hoped somebody'd have
sense enough to see that he had a
BANKED guardian appointed.
The loving couple were dragged
forth from the fountain like Diana
from the bath She had her head
tastefully decorated with a sea
anemOne that hung over one eye
while he carried a goldfish in one
hand and a conch shell in the other
1t was an -unalloyed blessing that
his mouth was full of seaN-eed. One
could see that he was ready to say
things. For the sweet spirit of love
was quite gone from his eyes, as
indeed, was it from the one of the
lady that the anemone didn't cover.
Whereby at length came again
sweet peace.
Bur from the dour cloud of the
debacle was torn silver lining of
inspiration. II gave Van Tassel
Thorne Great Idea. They'd>all go
moonlight bathing with their
clothes ont
AT which our hero, who had stood
with shaking soul surveying the
cataclysm that he had wrought.
once again found himself enshrin-
ed in the good graees. For through
him had come an Idea
And if you were familiar to any
extent with the mental processes
of the Useless Rich. where ideas
come as often as a fifth Thursday
in March, you'd appreciate all that
it meant.
Anon, therefore. our hero found
himself standing beneath the great
round moon that marched majestic
ally across the sky. with the soft
waters of the Atlantic curling just
above his three-hundred dollar
watch that you could tell time by in
the dark merely by pushing on
thingumbob and listening TO il ring.
About him splashed the carbon
copy youths, blonde and brunettes
but otherwise so hard to distin-
guish. About him, with little obs ,
and abs and alluring shivers
splashed maidens, bare of neck and
arms, whose silks and satins and
laces chung lovingly 10 their now
frankly-revealed charms.
Our hero dove in the cool and
grateful water. For his head
was hot and it ached little.
II was all quite for the best after
all. For il saved him from the |
beautiful eyes that looked so long. [
so meaningly. into his Eyes I
tina had meant TO him only harm /
and nf harm. much. OF that. /
for the moment, is he saved
And our heroine'is coming.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

Nazionale. Formerly Italy
ported not only musical INST
ments. musical publications, ops .a =
songs. and the Ike, but also SUE
ers, artists. choruses and sesss
scenery" he stated In 80 60
she has fallen behind in al 80
branches. and even her voice ms
be failing. They are TWO rea i3.3-S
One has been German competi' III.
We have abandoned muslcai -
ture. The government has not ~ aals
its duty in providing proper scs'S ~
and teachers. Both Mascaghi -
Puccini, our best known conpoaa;s.s.
serve purely decorative roles, Wiz
out helping."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22
An INQUIRY.

Rock Island, Ill, March 81, 1918.
Information Bureau
Rock Island Argus, Dear Sir: They
are making so many new laws and
reserecting old ones so fast it is
hard to KEEP track of them.
Please let me no if a man drinks
liker in wet territory and walks into
dry territory If he is liable to be
prosecuted under the bone dry law
for having iker in his possession.
Yours truly,
o. B. GOOD.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

Judge Lands conducted court in his stocking
feet yesterday Rockford The judge found that he
needed shine and sent his shoes out by a bailiff
There were no protests from either the lawyers or
the spectators it is presumed Judge keeps
his feet in a sanitary condition
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

If the government agents assigned to the civ of
Davenport would close attention to their bust
ness those taking of the Rock leland end of
the vice and liquor crusade it would be quickly re-
vealed that Davenport has not much to brag about
morally Rock Island, despite there are no
saloons rediight districts in that cit any more
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

Farmers calling for help. One hundred men
have been sent from Chicago TO Illinois farms the
present week. For married man, farm job paying
$35 month is equal to city job paying s99. Then,
in addition get the fresh air. the buttermilk the
yellow-egged chickens. and everything free for
nothing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22
cMO RDg ANS
d I Sc O II DS
HEARTS.

There's many a weary heart
And many a darkened life.
Finding its burdens. heavy
And longing to end the strife.
There's many a happy heart
And many a sunny life,
For these have solved the puzzle
OF hooking up friend wife.
z. c. Y.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

They began hitting the sawdust trail at the Billy
Sunday tabernacle in Chicago last night Several
hundred made the trip the first call from the evan
gelist. First % came. Then he called for more
and they came in droves Sunday has got Chicagoans
going in great shape. 1t looks If his campaign
would be even greater than he anticipated
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

Dan OLeary is good ball player and first
class patriot. He says able-bodied men should not
be devotng their time to playing national game
when their country is at and their services are
needed the front and IN the factories He saws
there Will be plenty time baseball after the war
is ended.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

The wet and dry fight in Indiana is growing
ious. The life of the governor already has been
menaced. The letter containing the threat warned
the executive not to permit William jennings Byran
to speak at indianapolis during the local option
campaign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

NJ W, Newton Gibbs Vrginan, was arrested on
charge OF bigamy it being alleged that he had five
wives. He entered denial OF that charge He said
he only had three. OF course that is only two too
many
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

Walter Robbins at Urbana, H., yesterday,
sentenced 80 years in the penitentary
ang to death a 14-months-old child He should have
been hanged
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

Rome-Italy's musical decadence
has commenced. according 10 Fausto
Torrefraca. interviewed by the Idea
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

I
and Jefferson (Ohio) Ga
zette.
COLONEL Thompson is the name
of the man at the head of the Prus-
sian air service He is the kaiser's
/ high chief baby killer If you have
/ seen his face you will understand
why he was selected for the muir
derous post which he fills. He
/ looks like a brute who could
/ squeeze child to death between
his ugly hands.
THE first fly of spring was seen
! IN The Argus sanctum yesterday.
| He was dispatched to the happy
| hunting ground.
JOHN Carse is not so anxious for
public Office as some of his friends
/ seemed to have thought when they
! nominated him as Republican can
| didate for supervisor, foisting the
I honor, so-called, upon him while he
was absent from the city. Jawn
says he wants to be consulted in
such matters. He declares he isn't
bit angry, either. Only he doesn't
like the idear; that's all.
CREAMERY butter has dropped
6 cents pound. But you will have
to pay more for your ice You'll
discover that matters will be
evened up so that you won't get
by any cheaper than you nave been
doing since the food engineers de-
ttermined to wiring the limit from
the consumer ''on account of the
war"
FORMER Emperor Nick .of Rus
STA is reported to be growing dull
and unsociabIe as a result of his
confinement, according to letters
his wife has written to friends.
All we can suggest is that he turn
to solitaire.
WHEN a man on trial begins 10
summon character witnesses he is
in pretty bad way.
EVERYBODY'S tells of a section
hand that duplicated Finnegan's ia
nous report for conciseness. His
name was Callahan. Here is his
report OF a washout: Where the
railroad was the river is"
SINCE everything else has gone
so high Poke Easley has become
so capious that he won't leave
home without a life preserver.
Poke has to cross the creek to get
TO town.-HogwalIow News.
THE Swedish diplomat who used
TO forward messages for Count
Luxborg has been fired. Just for
the sake of appearances, one i'm
AGNES. Germany probably will
see TO it that he lands a better jop
than the one ne has been pried
loose from.
IT is reported that Secretary
Baker saw 100 American aviators
in the air at once. In time. as his |
vision grows. he ought TO be able
10 pipe a thousand or more.
EPH Summers claims TO be the |
hard luck victim. Eph
got a job in a hardware store. but !
was discharged after he cut his |
finger with a safety razor he was
demonstrating.-St, Louis Republic. /
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

Lieutenant Mills Kitchin. son OF
the chairman OF the ways and
means committee of the house of
Representatives, Is special in
structOr in bayonet practice at one
OF the training camps in America.
He is "a years old.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

Federal agents are becoming so thick in Rock
Island that one is liable find himself in conversa
ton with one at almost any point in the city. And
they getting results. That's what counts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

1T is said of St. Patrick that he
drove the snakes out of Ireland. He
might still find a few reptiles to
for a spell. Having reference to
the persons who are keeping burn
ing the fires Of hatred and bigotry,
producing a condition that makes
it impossible for the elimination
of prejudices, religious and other
wise, that are preventing the adop-
ton of home rule government for
the emerald isle.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22
MY, ISN'T 1T LIKE SPRING
THESE DAYS.

Last Friday afternoon the Thurs
day club was busy in doing thefr
hit; furnizhing and making al
dainty layette for the refugee ba-
bles. Such willing corporations
help 10 brighten the burdens Of
soldiers at the fFont.-ToBica GlI.J
News.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

GERMANY. according to Helffer-
len, Is now fayoriug the open door
policy. Just like the door that
pened into Russia, one infers.
i Al q
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

ONE of our famous stage stars
has abandoned attempts to become
a finn actress. 1t is inferred that
the screen was too much of a
strain
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-03-22

THE Catchpoles are residents of
an Ohio town. Charley Leedy sug
gests that they ought to make fine
trapeze artists.