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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-20
MOVING,
MOTORCYCLES AND BICYCLES

TIRES TALL makesJ. accessories.
lamps, etc; cut prices; So Flying
Merl<le bicycles at wholesale price,
S27.5O call Colors. enameD. Five
stores, 115-119 East Third street,
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RATES

Six cents Fer line first inser-
ton. Three cents per line each
additional insertion. No ad less
than Is cents
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ROCK ISLAND LODGE NO. 65s. -
n r. * A M.-Stated meet
~ ings nrst FrldAy OF each
R & month. al. H. holdOrf. VI.
F~N M; IA. 5. BoIiAan, seerc-
tary.
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AMoo GRoTTo no. 81. NJ. o. V. p.
q ~ h. R--Stated meet
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(I inga held on tho nrsg
4 AEEA v Wednesday OF each
4 E<RSR month. Visiting pro-
L AAA4A pAets welcome. Otto
&x% 49, Frlester. N IN arc h.
krauk l.. Patterson,
secretary. The secretary has a
new supply OF Iczzas. Gr0tto pic
ME. JuIy 80, Black HaW X Watch
Tower. ala M4LSons and LaG4r Lam -
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A REAL bargain: -Four rooms, mod
errI, except neat; me loCaUoni lot
buX3Uvi S4,VUu. Five room mouse.
sewer, water. bath, electric Ignt,
large pOrcnes, paved street, garage,
chlcKen YARD and good Baruen
Spot; ON hun and easy walking dis
tance OF Arsenal; $1,000. Tne
James a. Moran Agency, 3l5 SaLe-
y building, Rock Island, Ill ri
Z99.
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PAGE CLOSES
LODGE DIRECTORY.

MAsONIC.
MasoalIc Tempe. eighteenth street
AID rim avenue
THE STAT ell AEEII&G or TRIO
- Lodge No. -, - h. & a.
- M, VII! be held on the nfai
~ thursday OF each fHput "a. at
NN 1870 p. IA. Il. .. KOderick,
INV IN ". M, g. L. Hubbard. see-
rotary. Special for work on 4. -
degree, July 20. At 1890 y. IA.
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ROOMS: two; modern; furnished for
nght Housekeeping; near car line
l5i6 Twelfth street. Call r. /.
352S-N
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n. A. ~.
THE STATED CONv OCAT1OV OF
,,,ess = rloCh istaaG Chapter No.
80 REM / ., X. a. M, Will ne held
M%A Xa On the hrsL TUESDAY pt
X&f% w each mOaIn at 1870 y IN.
WAt&2h l.. y. swanson, H.. IL. IL
&S& T.. Ia Ash, secretary.
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WANTED-MALE HELP.

MEN: age II to As; experience un-
necessary; travel, MAKE secret ~
designations, reports, salaries, eA
penseS. American Foreign DetcS-
tive Agency, 761, st Loulsa
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ROOM; modern; furnished for gen
tieman; Z0IG = Third avenue lnat
IL Telephone II. /. 235S.
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ROOMS: modern; newly furnished
on Arsenal car line; 27l4 Fifth av-
Gnue.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

BOARDEKS; good home cooking
ZIZ2 F'ittn-and-a half avenue.
YOUR Ford 10 overhaul $I5; you
furnish parts Rear Sandbo start
err Co, Sixteenth street and Fourth
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ROOMS two; furnished: light house
keeplng; 31lO15 EifLh aVrnue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-20

ROOMS; two; partly furnished or
unturnished; modern; light house
keepInE, l0.6 SlNteenth street.
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BUNGALOW. live rooms; modern: in
nne Residence district OF ROCK Is
land. attractIye prIce, part cash,
balance easy terms. Call Il. l. l49o.
House, five rooms; partly MODERN
luPATiDn n 'IhirT "A n
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TO buy, oIc clothes, SHOES. etc,
phone us, we call for castaway
garments and give you good prices
for them. CheaI Johns Clothing
Store, 2123 Fourth avenue Phone
Il. l. 2996.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1918-07-20

GIRLS; GOOD WAGES; STEADY
WAGES APPLY IN PERSON
JAMISON'S LAUNDRY, 7 w IN l L =
kNUE, MOLINE, ILL
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THE stated COuC4dV es OF Rock Island
Commandery ~. Is, knights Tenn
plar, Will be held the second Mon
day OF each month. j.. a. Adams,
commander. SPECIAL concIaVe Mon-
day, July -, at $50 y. IL.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
NOT YOUR BIT BUT YOUR BEST
How Harry Lauder Enthused the
ROtarianS Of PHILADELPHIA.

,'Do your best is the only rule TO-
day; the day for doing your bit is
over"
This is the way Harry Lauder
summed up the duty of American
citizenship in an address at the
weekly luncheon of the Rotary Club
of Philadelphia. He said:
Men of the English-speaking
world are brothers today in one
great, gigantic struggle. We are UNI
tied against anything that may i'm
pede our victory in this war. The
United States stands behind the men
at the front. OF course there will be
always rebels and traitors. They are
hanging them now. The spy knows
the penalty is death when he is
caught, and wouldn't for the
world disappoink any of those fell
lows.
I'VE are not fighting for glory or
land or riches. We are fighting for
liberty alone. Don't let the statue of
liberty crumble down into the sea.
On the other hand, you are fostering
Prussianism in this country today.
Why, a gang Of men in this city yes
terday in charge Of your schools fav-
ored a resolution that would contin-
lie the teaching of the German Ian
guage in the public schools.
eve have been taught to love one
another, but God does not expect us
to love our enemies. The Prussian
regime is an enemy against God and
man. Today the mighty horde OF
Italians. Belgians. all these nations
that cherish ideals of liberty and
justice-than to live ON in a world
where there is no faith between ma
lions and where honor is dead. Z
THAT co~ndescending attitude
which was unfortunately much in ev-
idence when we entered the wal has
given way on sober thought to rec
ognition that France and England,
Italy and Belgium, owe little to US,
while we owe to them our safety
from all the dangers and horrors
that they endure. There is no enemy
at our doors, no guns or airplanes
b~ombarding our cities, no subma-
rines at our harbors, only because
our devoted allies stand like a wall
between us and the enemy. No help
that we can bring to them now can
compensate for the help they
brought to us when, for all our vast
resources, we we're, almost defense
less. But we can hasten the final
victory and lift this intolerable bur
den of "a from the world II w will
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
WHO OF US is o
Rich in Liberty, All Can Buy a Bon

Rich in, Liberty, All Can Buy a Bond
or Two, Says Rabbi.
II fully believe. that only the rich
shall subscribe for liberty bonds;
that the poor shall be exempted from
subscribing even-as much az a pen
ny to the loan of $4,000, 900, 900,
which the country is raising at the
present time" said Rabbi Joseph
Krauskopf, pastor of Keneseth Is.
rael Synagogue, Philadelphia, to his
people. The rabbi. however, gave a
unique. definition of rich" and
poor" He continued:
ITO me that man is poor who is
on public charity, or who,
broken in health and spirit and bow
ed down by the weight of years,
barely succeeds in eking out even a
%precarious existence from the little
that is LETT Of his former-day earn
ings. That man is poor who knows
not where his next meal is to come
from, or who, Notwithstanding hard
work, does. not earn enough to sat
isft his family with the necessaries
of life. Any man belonging to n or
the other of these classes is poor,
and exempted, for the very best rea-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
Liverpool Leads
In Solving Food
Shortage Problem

Correspondence Associated Press)
Liverpool, March 23.-Liverpool,
the second, largest city in England, is
leading the whole country in SOW
ing the food shortage problem. 1t
has municipal kitchens Which are
model. and work more efficiently
than those in any other part Of the
kingdom. It sets every other city
in the country an example by main
tail ing a municipal potato peellng
plant and cooking the potatoes for
the bakers to mix with their flour.
It's latest enterprise is supplying
h)v seholders with boiling water for
cooking and washing purposes and
thereby causing a great saving in
fuel.
Liverpool's city fathers are very
proud of their efforts to make their
people the most comfortable in the
country in these days of enforced
economy. With a display of pride
they gladly show visitors these new
ways of meeting the food shortage.
They take them along the streets
where butchers shops are Shut for
walt VI ulcdl. "A SA6h OA II HS"S
market reads, "Why buy mea from
the butcher when you a get it
ready cooked at the food depot?"
The argument is unanswerable par
ticularly when there is no meat to
buy at the butchers.
There are eleven municipal cook
shops where a family of four might
buy and take away a satisfying din
ner for 25 cents. Stewed steaks, po-
tatoes and buildings are the princi-
pal articles.
An enterprising city engineer has
set up an engine which runs a ma
chine that peels tons Of potatoes in
a few minutes and also supplies
steam to great c%auldrons in which
the potatoes are cooked. This enter
prise supplies a clean and whole
some flour to the bakers which is
mixed with wheat flour and helps to
produce a delicious bread.
At the food depots a person can
buy for a cent a great bucket of boil
ing water, and the population is be-
ing encouraged to come for this boil
ing water in order to save coal. In
stead of buying coal to boil a kettle
for cocoa or tea people car get as
much water as they want fora cent.
Those responsible for Liverpool's
enterprise declare that results have
already shown that a workman's
family can live much better and
more economically by buying it's
meals at the food depots than by do
ing it's own cooking.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
Food Situation In
Germany Is Serious
Officials Admit

Correspondence Associated <Press)
Amsterdam, March 25.-A gloomy
view of the food situation in Ger
many was ~outlined'by DR.. Won Bret
terich, the Bavarian minister OF the
interior, in a forecast which has ap-
peared in the Berlin newspapers.
The public was told hat mot only
is there no chance Of the potato ra-
ton being increased, but we must
thing ourselves lucky if it is main
tanned at its present level" The Ba-
varian minister said he hoped the
bread ration might not have to be
reduced and that the meat ration
may be kept at it's present height.
but there was little confidence in the
tone of this assertion. .
Special preparations Of cereals, on
which many hopes were based a few
weeks ago., were not, yet on the mar
ket in any considerable quantities,
and the public must wait for a daily
ration of half a teacupful.
Wholesale complaints of the quail
ity. of food being supplied at the pub
lie kitchens throughout Germany ap-
pear in the newspapers. The direct
or of public kitchens, in reply to
these attacks, issued the following
statement:
with the continuance of the war,
the quality Of the materials we re-
ceive becomes eve poorer and the
choice more limited. We are COM
PEELED to take what is offered us or
go without. Complaints of defective
quality are simply ignored and if we
insist upon receiving a regular sup
ply we run the risk Of being entire
ly cut off. The fat quota allotted to
us grows rel smaller, spices are
scarcely o%btainable, and the substi-
tute spices. have a bad flavor. The
vegetable supply is now limited to,
kohlrabi and turnips.'
A pessimistic article on the pota-
to situation by a member of the
Prussian house Of deputies say that
the acreage under potatoes has de-
creased by one-fifth as compared
with the peacetime figure. mot on
ly is the acreage less" he says, "but
the demand is greater, and a crop
double that of peacetime would not
fully SUFFICE"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16

WI force, for its own aggrandize-
ment, for the extension Of its own
power. 1t is representative Of. the
people of the United States, and its
vast and complex operations cannot
60 on effectively without having be-
hind them the driving power Of the
people OF the United States.
''For that there can be no divided
people, but a deep of duty
throughout the land and a willing
ness to sacrifice to the uttermost.
We will not be satisfied with giving
our money, but we must create or
seize hold of the most effective ma
chinery to make every man and wo-
man in the country feel as we feel
about their duty and the peril of this
hour.
II have talked to you in the hope
that you will have renewed your de-
termination to cash in your feel
ings, to turn your patriotic feelings
into concrete action, so that there
will be no corner In the United
States so dark that the light of pat
riotism, courage and fervor shall
not enter in and make a new birth
W lHc pcOplS. IL lS OHly ny 80 edTlSsl
a desire, SO patriotic a feeling and
so stern a, purpose that no politician
will dare stand up against it and no
coward dare reveal himself against
it that this war a be won.
Don't be pessimistic. I hate to go
back to Washington, where SO many
tell me that this thing has been post
poned and that thing wrongly done.
1t is doubtless true. That was newt
able. But there r many things
which the government has done and
is now doing. Please God, the one
thing necessary for the winning of
the war for freedom will be done by
this great people. All men will start
for the goal when they are aroused.
and the mighty power of the Ameri-
"a people will demand that their
work shall be done to push the le-
gions in Washington to give victory
to, the legions in Flanders
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
HOMES FOR BRITISH SOLDIERS
Movement Launched to Provide
Places for Discharged TOmmies.

London, March % (By Mail)-A
new plan to provide comfortable
homes for discharged soldiers by en-
listing country people to act as
country hosts" to the army men
has just been launched by the Mar
quis of Sligo, himself a former cap
tain in the army, and Viscount
Knutsford,. long interested in charit-
able enterprises. They have formed
the country host institution which
"hosts" are urged to join.
The scheme has a two fold object:
1t aims, not only at giving the brok-
en- soldiers a lift but also to qualify
them for farming work, thus in
~creasing the country's food supply.
Briefly the plan requires the host
to provide free lodging and board
for the man and a good-sized garden
or farm in which suitable, light out
door work can be found for him. The
men selected as guests shall be of
good cha !.acter. sober, not suffering
from any serious ailments and be
able to look after themselves.
r. An allowance of fifteen shillings
a week will, If required. be paid di-
rect to the former soldier in return
for his labor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16
COLLEGE FOR SOLDIERS.
New Department in France to In
crease Army Efficiency.

New York, April 16.-Establish=
ment Of a university in France for
the American expeditionary force
with classrooms in the 500 Young
Mems Christian Association huts
along the French front has been be-
gun with the sanction Of General
John j.. Pershing. according to an
announcement made here By the ia
tional wal work council of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
E. C. Carter. general secretary of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton in France. has charge of the or
ganization work. and DR.. Annson
iversity, has agreed to become tenn
porary director.
Professor Reginald Aldworth
DAILY, head of the geology depart
ment at Harvard, and Professor
John Erskine. head of the English
department of Columbia, will serve
on the faculty. Other instructors will
be selected from the 100 college
presidents and public school super
intendents and principals TO- serv-
ing abroad as Young Mems Chris
tian Association secretaries.
The university" a component
part of the United States army, will
be known as the department of edu-
cation and will operate in conjunc-
ton with the lecture apd library bu-
reaus. General Pershing has offered
the services Of all soldiers who are
competent instructors, wherever
they can be released from strictly
military duty.
Control of the institution will III
timately be placed in the hands of
an army commission of three mem
bers.
The purpose of the institution is
not only to increase the efficiency of
the fighting men while engaged in
war, but to prepare them for voca-
tional usefulness after the a
The curriculum will include pri-
marily an elementary course to ia
m~ililarize soldiers with the institu-
tions. customs, and ideals Of the I'm
tied States and its allies in contrast
10 those OF the Germans.
While English, French and even
the three Rs" will be taught, pro-
vision will be made for more ad-
vanced students who have dropped
their college studies because of the
war.
Certificates which may be present
ed after the war to American edu-
cational institutions will be issued to
students passing the examinations.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16

Speaking with intense feeling,
Elihu Root told the people of the
nation, through a group of promi-
nent PhiladelphianS at a luncheon
in the interests Of the National Sc
curity League, Of which Mr.. Root Is
honorary president, that he was so
tired of talking and hearing other
people talk: that time had come for
the American people to shut up n
make good; and that the victory
against the Germans must be won
on the field of battle, with the ply
steal force of the nations manhood,
backed and inspired by the moral
force of an undivided country.
1--WE in America should point to
the things done,' Mr.. Root contin-
ued, "and not talk about the things
that we are going to DO. The only
justification for talking now Is as a
means Of doing something more EFF
fectively. | felt when we first, declar-
ed war that the great thing had beer
done. I felt when the draft of Amer
lean manhood became a law that
the big thing had been accomplished.
I thought when the first liberty loan
was subscribed that the die was cast,
and when the second loan was taken
that the future was secure; but. new
e~rtheless, in the course of our ad-
vance we see the hills still rising be
fore us and the long and weary road
we shall not win<ip the end except
by continual struggle, effort and
sacrifice.
81 am much impressed by what
the people here feel has done in
Russia. 1t hasn't impressed me. She
did what l expected her to do, but 1t
has struck people all over the world
with the Germans determination to
overthrow liberty all over the world
and with a new sense of Germany's
false professions as to indemnities
and the free determination of peo-
pies. The effect Of what Germany
has done to Russia shows that a
great part of the people didn't feel
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16

sons in the world, from subscribing
to liberty bonds.
Every other person is under OBJ
legation to subscribe for. liberty
bonds, for such persons belong to
the well-to-do class. Every man or
woman is rich, who is of sound body
and sound mind, who has sufficient
means to supply the necessities of
life for self and family, and some en-
joyments besides. Every man or wo-
man is rich who has money enough
for some of the Injuries of life. such
as varieties of clothes, adornments,
theatres, operas, concerts, dances,
movies vacation trips, cigars, can
dies, -and the like. The nation has
every reason to regard such as these
able to subscribe in accordance
with their means, for one or more .of
it's liberty bonds. And if these do
their patriotic duty, the bonds will
be oversubscribed for of such as
these, probably three-fourths of our
If these refuse to DO their duty,
they may be rightly regarded dis
loyal to their country
Every man is disloyal to his
country who. earning more than is
necessary for the main
tenance of a decent livelihood refus-
es to devote a part of his surplus to
the relief. of his country, in the hour
of it's need. He is disloyal to himself
for failing to recognize that a nation
is moi a separate entity; that a ma
ton is but Il composite of all its citi-
zenship he. himself, forms q part;
that when his nation is in need he
himself is in ne cd; that when his ma
ton is in danger of defeat or over
throw. or subsection to a foreign,
power, it is he, himself,
who is in danger of being defeated,
overcome, tyrannized, and that,
he is but protecting him
self from danger when he protects
his nation.
"In .the light Of this conception of
rich and poor, were 1 to ask for a
show Of hands in this assemblage,
how many of you would dare to vote
poor? How many of you
could do otherwise but class your
with the well-to-do? How
many of you commanding comfort
able homes and abundance of food,
possessing ample means for pleas
ures and pastimes, will dare to
stand up and declare that you can
not spare twelve cents a day, aye,
many times twelve cents a day, with
which to purchase liberty bonds in
aid of the nation that has made your
and pleasures pOSsible?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16

in their hearts what the real Ger
many vas or that her dominion
meant death to liberty for the world.
This should be a lesson to us.
"The people Of the United States
have been moving slowly Inc graz
ually toward that understanding,
but only recently have they come to
a real comprehension OF a matter SO
vital to our future. There are still
great masses Of our people who have
not yet come to that understanding.
"There are two things which we
must understand. One Is that the
war is to be won or lost by the ex-
ercise Of the moral qualities OF the
people. This is a great struggle be-
tween the principles of a christian
civilization and the principles OF pa
gan cruelty and brutal force, M
that party will win which has to the
last the higher courage, the strong
er determination, the inflexible Will
and the greater capacity for sacri-
ficei and devotion.
."These moral forces are not a
mere sentiment or the spending OF
strength and words in sympathles.
They must be more concrete than
that and directed effectively toward
the creation and application of ply
steal force. The civilization which
has had for SO many centuries ele-
waited conceptions of morals, human
ity and justice is brought face to
face with a physical force. which
makes impossible it's exercise where
liberties are destroyed. That force
must be defeated by another force,
because force is essential to win on
the field of battle. Moral force must
stand behind the physical force to
make it win.
Nothing can be done by all the
tremendous forces liberated in this
country by the growing sense of ma
tional peril except by that great ma
chine which exists in Washington.
That machine is a representative
machine. 1t doesn't work, like the
German military a%utocracy, of its
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-16

send to France q constant stream of
men and munitions.
Even war has its compensations.
II has brought the allied nations to a
better knowledge OF each other. to a
friendship stronger than alliances
that will live through generations to
come, because II is based on com
mon sacrifice in a great common
cause. The memory OF the men OF
France. OF England, of America,
who have fought shoulder to shout
der, and now lie side by side under
the soil of France will be a bond be-
tween these nations stronger than
any treaty"