Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-01-30

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Baker.
THIS is the time of year when your
friends write you from winter resorts
and tell you what splendid time they
are having and how you ought to plan
to knock off and Join them for q few
months; that the ride is not tedius
and that there is plenty to occupy
ones time. We know ever so many
folks who would winter in the south
were it not that they can't afford to
entrust their furnaces to other men,
bers of their families.
THE kaiser has been praying that
the union might stand until victory
is secured. The only union that Ig-
natz reports he ever heard Of in Ger
many is the Bartenders' union.
A BILL has been introduced in con-
gress that government control of the
railroads stand until year following
the close of the war. Rather indef-
mite, say we.
THE chief objection to Mr.. Baker
appears to be his youth. If he wore
flowing whiskers and had to be led
to his Office by nurse possibly the
nation would hold its mouth open and
drink in his every word and assume
that one of his years and judgment
could make no mistakes. Baker is
young, looks it, acts 1t, and can with
stand the knocks much better than
an old fossil. Americans are rapid
workers. AS such they blunder now
and then. That is what Baker has
done, but he is not whit ashamed of
having done so. II he stays ON the
job he'll commit more errors. but he'll
go through with his work Just the
same. He's inoculated with the
American spirit of getting there.
That's why Americans like him
THE local chapter Of the Red Cross
has been honored by the acceptance
by the conductor of this column OF
membership on its publicity commit
tee. Now watch the money roll in.
THE police commissioner of New
York, calling his men about him, an
nounced that all croOkedness must be
eliminated in the city. 1t is said that
even the wobbly streets are to be
Strengthened out.
IF, as seems, there is no hope of a
January Thaw. why not induce Pitts
burgh Harry to stage his annual es-
capade?
THE latest report is that Germany
is starving. We have heard that so
often We are beginning to suspect that
such stories are purposely started to
create an impression among her en-
emies that the fatherland is near a
collapse. Don't be deceived, gentle
reader.
| THE federal trade commission is
/ revealing a pile of testimony that is
! putting the packing combine in an I'M
favorable public light. Who knows
but what the pig squealed?
LEON TrOtzky, the Bolsheviki lead
er, once appeared in moving pictures
! in New York. Since he has been in
Russia he has been in the Thinning
! game.
ROCK Island will be on its knees
all winter for COAL" says the county
fuel board. Has it come that we must
not only pay three prices for our fuel,
but must in the bargain offer up a
prayer to the dealer to protect US
from the wintry blasts?
| WE have been told of a Rock Is
| land woman who saw a ton of coal
being delivered to home where there
were no children, while the best a
household where there were a couple
OF little ones to keep warm was able
to get was few bushels. She imme-
diately reported the case to the local
fuel administration. II every citizen
would make 1t his or her business TO
see that there Is fairer distribution
there wouldn't be so much suffering.
Your argument may be that the fam
lily that got the few bushels hadn't
the money to pay for more. Well,
there is an abundance of cash in Hock
Island, and It should not be dif,cult
to protect such cases, where there
is the danger Of children freezing to
death because somebody wasn't asked
to furnish enough money to provide
a ton OF coal.
FOUR American aviators have
dropped bombs behind the G4fman
lines. Wonder what sort OF a bluff
the kaiser would call that?
MRS. Dorothy Winnie has enlisted
as third class yeowoman at Mi,Wau.
kee- You may or you may not have
comment to offer.
rs it proper for girl to dsnrs
with boy whom she has never SEEM
in an inquiry that is addressed to thi,
column. Impossible.