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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27

year work. In this way a town can learn how
completely its births registered. Incom-
plete registration may mean that a new law
enforced.
1t is the inalienable right of every child TO
have his birth registered. says the pamphlet
A birth certificate proves his age and citizen
ship, his right to go to school, to go to work.
to marry, to hold Office, to secure passports for
foreign travel, and, finally, it may prove his
mothers right to widows pension With
Americas entry into the war thousands of boys
and young men who wished to enter the mill
tary service found it necessary to furnish proc:
of their age and citizenship and were unable
to do so.
Birth registration is important for society
as whole, as well as for the individual. The
infant mortality rate is the most sensitive ana
satisfactory index to the well-being Of the
whole community, but without complete ana
accurate record Of births and deaths this rate
cannot be computed 1t indicates what meas
ures are necessary for the protection of life
and health and the kind and extent of welfare
work to be undertaken.
Birth registration is particularly valuable as
a guide to welfare work among mothers and
babies Nearly half of the babies who die be-
fore reaching their first birthday do so in the
first four weeks of life. The prompt recording
of the birth enables the public health nurse,
who uses the record as guide, to call upon
the mother and give advice and aid in the first
few critical days OF the baby's existence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27

and stayed till nine. I didn't ask
him TO stay to lunch but he didn't
go home when lunch time came. He
stayed in the living-room while we
ate. He always makes me feel I'M
comfortable but 1 do not want to
hurt his feelings and tell him not
to call.
He wanted me TO become engaged
to him and even bought a ring but
or course 1 wouldn't. For a while
after that 1 didn't speak to him
when saw him. Then he began to
smoke and gamble which he had
never done before. I hated to see
him do this SO l spoke to the boy
the next time l saw him. The fol-
lowing Sunday, which happened to
be last Sunday he came 20 see me.
| want him to stop smoking because
l hate to see him wasting his life.
And at the same time l do not care
to have him call as know l am too
young. What shall I do?
DISTRESSED.
1t is very kind of you to try to
help the boy. Perhaps you can do
SO without permitting him-to be-
come regular caller and nuisance.
Tell him the kind of man you
want him to be and say that later,
if he is not a disappointment to you,
you can be friends, but now you are
too young to have callers and for a
year or two do not want him TO
drop in to see you.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: ~ When
a young man asks to call on a girl,
what should she say if she really
wishes him to call?
(2) When a man calls on a girl
is it proper for the girl to go out
to the car with him when leaving?
3),|When a couple is in d drug
store for a soda, what should the
girl say when ready to leave, and
should the girl or boy first rise to
start? How long may they remain
sitting there when through?
THANKS VERY MUCH.
"a Eyes, 1 would be glad to
have you come"
(2) She should say goodnight to
him at the door.
go If the girl wants to leave,
she should be sure that the boy is
through eating, and, if he is, she
should put on her gloves and sit
alert, ready to rise and go. He will
start, too.
Usually when the ice cream is
eaten the boy asks the girl if she is
ready to leave. 1t is not necessary
to hurry after eating; as much
time can be taken as desired I'M
less there are people waiting for
the table.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
FIH[1E DAILY SHORT STORY

an organ in the one meeting house
of the place, and Myrtle had told
about her sisters musical accomp-
lishments. By the time Elsa was
placed safely in the arms of Myrtle
by the new conner she felt that she
had come across a man she could
like very much. Wardell was the
sheriff of the district, everybody's
friend, and became a regular. Wis
itor at the little home where Elsa
had settled down into the groove of
her new life.
It was arranged that Elsa should
take charge of a little township
school with the coming of autumn.
In the meantime Boyd Wardell was
her devoted chevalier. There were
long rides on horseback, even to the
top of Old Eagle, lofty knoll full
Of ice caves and snowy peaked
nearly all the year. Awaiting her
school duties, Elsa set about max
ing friends among the neighbors. At
the edge of the settlement was an
Indian family. Its head, who was
known as Some Day Chief" was
in disgrace with his tribe, 200 miles
to the west, worked little silver
claim and lived on the hope of final
restoration to his old kingly posi-
ton His little daughter, whom he
idolized, fell ill, his wife was dead,
and, appraised of the situation. Elsa
undertook to nurse the fevered, all
ing little one.
A queer incident grew out of this.
The little sufferer faded away day
by day, longing for delicacies the
rough mountain isolation could MOI
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
EEEAETEI TNL K&
BY WILLIAM BRADY ND:

cavities, where perhaps one-third
of the blood of the body may ac-
cumuIate in persons with too much
dignity and a melancholic or senile
disposition, is quite broken up by
somersaults. And finally, somer-
saults empty and drain various
pockets and loops of alimentary
tube, and straighten out various
kinks in the tube, thus producing
a distinctly beneficial effect upon
Standardization from such famil-
lar sources.
These facts will explain how
somersaults, regularly done, OPP
pose constipation, stasis and auto
toXemia; how they oppose melan-
cholic or nervous depression; how
they oppose cold hands and cold
feet; how they bring back the long
lost youthful complexion, and
smiles, and agility and cheerful
ness, and / don't know what all.
Somersaults, l say, preserve
elastic tissue.
And 1 always mean precisely
what / say.
Try them for a month, young
folks of forty or over, and you'll
get the habit. Get the habit and
you'll never grow old.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
T Brad's Bit O. Verse
THE HAS.BEEN.


He passes daily by my door, the
man who once was great, and much
marvel at the strange fantastic
tricks of fate; for that same man
who ambles now and goes unheed-
ed by once went along with head
erect and conquest in his eye. He
held the center of the stage a brief
and fleeing while; men cheered
his every action then; but now they
only smile and shake their heads
and slyly wink whenever he ap-
pears; the new-great gets their
glad applause, the has-been gets
their jeers. I know when daily
headlines printed large his honored
name. when raptured crowds hung
on his words and scattered wide
his fame: but now the world has
passed him by, and weary is his
gait; he could not keep the dizzy
pace, the man who once was great.
The has-been hears no loud ac-
claim, no grateful plaudits now:
the tickle crowd no tribute brings.
no laurels for his brow; some other
hero has his place; and yet there
was day when, praised and cheer
ed on every hand, he led the up
ward way. I marvel at the tricks
Of fate. Yet ope would better fall
and be a has-been in the game than
rot to climb at all.
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
SEES RUIN FOR STATE CONCERNS
IN PROPOSED FREIGHT INCREASE

Illinois district traffic league was
organized, representatives being
present from practically every big
industry in the state, the follow
ing officers being elected:
'President-R. NJ. Field, mana
ger traffic department, Peoria As
ISOLATION of Commerce, Peoria.
Vice Presidents-C. 7. Brad
ford, assistant manager traffic de-
partment, International Harvester
company, Chicago; T. l.. Wolf.
traffic manager A. e. Staley Man
ufacturing company, Decatur.
"Secretary-Treasurer - w. z.
Long, traffic manager Manufactur-
ers' association, Sterling, Ill.
"This case will prove to be OF
unusual interest and a large at
tendance at the hearing is antici-
pated. Inasmuch as the Illinois
district traffic league, representing
the shippers of the state of Illinois,
have asked for 30 days in which to
make their reply to the complaint
of the Indiana Public Service COM
mission, it is important that not
only each community in the state
be represented at this hearing, but
that each and every shipper be
present in order to determine just
what effect the proposed cancelIa-
ton OF the present commodity
rates, groupings, etc, will have
upon the traffic in which he is in
terested, so that he may be in po-
sition to give facts to the oflicsSS
of the league to guide them m
framing their reply - otherwise
some important features may be
overlooked"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
Birth Registration.

The United States is behind in very impor-
tant feature of its national accounting. accord
ing to pamphlet just issued by the children's
bureau, United States department of labor.
Only 20 states register the 80 per cent of their
births necessary for them to be admitted to
the birth-registration area of the United States.
These states include little more than half OF
the population of@he country. Most modern
European countries have very complete sys-
TENS OF births registration, and have had them
for years.
The pamphlet gives outline for birth
registration test which can be undertaken by
any community. Many places have already
made such test as part of their children-s
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27

ed egg chopped fine to white
sauce.
Salad-Sprinkle pimento cheese
over lettuce. Serve with French
dressing to which two drops OTTO
mato catsup and two drops of Wor-
cestershire sauce have been added
Kentucky Potatoes - Slice raw
potatoes thin. Put in baking dish.
seasoning with salt and pepper On
top sprinkle bits Of butter substt-
tute Pour in milk until eyenswith
the top of the potatoes. Bake one
hour in slow oven.
This is a good way to cook pota-
toes when old and needing to be
cut away.
Plum Pudding Jelly - One-half
ounce gelatine soaked in one-half
cup cold water, one ounce chOco-
late, one-half cup sugar, one cup
milk, raisins, currants. nuts.
Dissolve sugar in milk and scald.
Melt chocolate. Rub smooth with
little cold milk. Add to hot milk
Take from fire and add gelattne.
Stir until dissolved and strain into
bowl. When firm enough stir in
raisins, currants and chopped
nuts, any or all of these can be
used as convenient. Serve with
cream.
JelIied Apples With Tapioca-
Four medium sized red apples, two
tablespoons granulated tapiocR.
four tablespoons brown sugar, one
half teaspoon salt. Wash, pare and
core apples; put the skins on to
boil with two cups OF water; boil
until very tender, then rub through
strainer. Return to fire and add
the tapioca, sugar and salt; boil
until clear. While the tapioca is
boiling, the apples are put into
pudding pan with two tablespoons
of water; cover pan and steam the
apples until tender. Place in divtd-
ual dishes or shallow glass dish
and cover with tapioca. A table
spoon of chopped nut meats sprink-
led over top adds very much to
this dish.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
Good Soil and Poor Roads.

The monthly report of the federal reserve
bank of Chicago notes with satisfaction that
with the arrival of spring soil conditions are
regarded as splendid So great has been the
precipitation in the last few weeks that the
roads have been practically impossible in most
parts of the district"
Soil in good condition to grow crops is in
poor condition to haul loads and drive auto
mobiles over. And that isn't all. The richer
the soil, the greater the content of humus and
the more it is capable OF producing, the deeper
will be the mud and the longer it will take to
dry out
The most fertile agricultural districts
stand in greatest need of hard roads-and they
are the best able to pay for them
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
|HQart, 1HOn1o
44,;tlDHODCCl11cC -
%1s MRS. ELIZABETH THOr1PSON
by TEMPLE

Dear Mrs. Thompson: ~ Isn't
it all right for boy to get into an
automobile first if he is driving and
the other door cannot be opened?
CD Is it proper for girl to cas-
ually invite boy friends to call
again if she doesn't set any time?
90 When two couples are at an
ice cream parlor, should one couple
give their order and then the other,
or should the girls order first and
then the boys, or should the boys
consult the girls and then do all
the orderinge
1 THANK YOU.
% 1t is all right for him to get
in first.
% Yes, after a boy has called,
the girl should invite him to come
again without settin gthe time.
81 The boys should consult
the girls in regard to what they
want and then give the order. Very
often, however, each one orders for
him or herself. The waiter usually
disregards sex and takes one after
the other in the order they are sit
ting.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: / am
girl IS and am very fond of a boy
friend. He is in my room at school
and is getting so he. doesn't care
much about me any more. What
can 1 do to make him like me
again? ANXIOUS.
Pretend that you no longer care
for the boy. When he observes that
you are no longer interested in him
he will wonder why he has dropped
from your favor and probably will
show interest in you again.
1 would suggest that you forget
about boys for a few years and en-
joy your studies and your ,girl
friends.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: When a
girl is invited to a party, upon
leaving should she thank the
mother of the girl who is giving 1t
or the girl herself? H. H.
She should thank both the moth
er and the girl.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a dis
charged soldier. I was discharged
before the war ended on account of
disability. 1 would like to know if
d disabled soldier will get six
months pay also. SOLDIER
Every one who entered the ser
vice and was discharged after April
5, 1917, will get $50. For further
information consult the Red Cross.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: 7 am f1f-
teen years old. A boy sixteen whom
l do not like very much comes to
my house to see me-not by ap-
pointment, but he just drops in.
Last Sunday he came about three
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27

men and women existed. Myrtle
had sent her some money, and had
instructed Elsa to select what she
thought would be most useful
from some old household traps
which had been stored in the home
of her uncle since the death of their
mother. Myrtle wrote that she
lacked considerable in the way of
household utilities. Elsa consumed
a week sorting out what could be
furniture, cooking utensils and
general knicknacks, and when she
finally set forth on the one long
journey of her life, had the ship
mentsreduced to her little trunk and
four large packing cases.
They were directed to Deep
Gulch, from what Myrtle wrote the
nearest railroad town, 10 miles over
the mountain from Wycherly, near
which the little farm was located.
Myrtle wrote that she would have
some one meet her sister at the sta
ton and in Imagination Elsa built
up a pleasing vision of a stalwart.
handsome young frontiersman
mounted on a superb steed, leading
a second one, and conveying her
over the hills, a real practical
Lochnivar.
This dream came true. When
Just such a border hero met her and
introduced himself as Boyd War
dell, Elsa liked him from the start,
His welcome, he expressed it, was
that of all the gu1eh, friendly,
heartsome people who cherished a
new neighbor. Besides there was.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
One Good Turn Deserves Another.

One Good Turn Deserves Another.
When the boy came yelling for
copy the other day we were COM
PEELED to leave our readers turn
ing somersaultS to determine
whether they still had any consid-
cradle amount of elastic tissue,
i. e., youth, left to build on. These
being a series of talks about the
prevention of modification, it be-
hooves us now to explain that we
were no joking but meant what we
said seriously.
What is a dignified old person of
40 or 80 or 60 years to do? Surely
we would not recommend six SOM
ersaults night and morning for
such venerable ladies and gentle
men?
Old folks will please keep out
of our way. This is a series of
talks about the prevention of what
ais them Old age is preventable,
if taken in time, but we have new
er maintained that it is durable.
People have no business growing
old. II they do so in spite of ad-
vice to the contrary, well and good,
let them have their own way If
they had adopted the somersaults
in the heydey of youth, way back
when they were 40 or so and fol-
lowed the prescription faithfully
all these years, they wouldn't be
old folks now-they couldn't be
old.
Somersaults are exceedingly
poor exercise, for anybody desir-
ing exercise. Their purpose is
rather to preserve elasticity, which
is youth. We cannot go into all
the scientific details here, but suf-
fee to say that intestinal stasis,
which Metchnikoff considered the
primary cause of old age, and
which certainly makes millions
feel and look old, is vigorously op-
posed by inversion of the body in
somersaults. Furthermore, the
stagnation of large quantities of
blood in the great splanchnic pool
in the abdomen and lower chest
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27

We note with pleasure that number OF
United States senators have been doing some
flying in the vicinity of the national capital
lately course in aviation ought to be made
compulsory after man has been in the upper
house of congress a certain number of years
to broaden his viewpoint. Going aloft occa-
sionally would serve to remind him that there
is considerable territory in this country out
side the limits of Washington. fact that ap-
parently is soon forgotten by the man with
toga.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27

The Illinois District Traffic asso-
citation, with headquarters at Ster-
ling, is rallying the manufacturing
and jobbing interests of the state
to oppose an increase in freight
rates which the railroad admins
ration is said to contemplate. W.
E. Long, the organizations secre-
tary, issues the following appeal
for publication:
Proposed increase in freight
rates means that many manufac-
turers and jobbers will be forced
GU of business. An increase in
freight rates of from so to 200 per
cent-an increase which practical
ly means ruin to the manufactur-
ing and jobbing interests of the
state-faces the shippers of ILL
nois, and immediate and concerted
action is necessary.
Several months ago the Indi-
ana shippers through the public
service commission of Indiana, fill
ed a complaint with the United
States railroad administration, as
sorting that the intra-state rates
within the state of Illinois were
much lower than rates on every
class and commodity moving who'll
ly within the state of Indiana, or
between points in Indiana and
points in Illinois, and asked for
an increase in the Illinois rates of
from so to 200 per cent This is
by far the most serious problem
that has confronted the Illinois
shippers in years. The hearing has
been set for Thursday, April 5, at
10 a. m, sixth floor, Federal post
Office building, Chicago, before the
Chicago eastern district freight
traffic committee and the Chicago
western district freight traffic COM
mittee representing the United
States railroad administration.
"The shippers of Illinois, feeling
that the industry of this state has
been built up on the present rate
adjustment, and that any such rad
ical change as demanded would
mean ruin to the Illinois manufac-
turing and jobbing interests, held
a conference in the city of Chicago
oman. IA, 1919, at which time the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
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provide. One day in going over the
domestic utensils she had brought
from the east, Elsa came across an
ice cream freezer. There were
those about her who had never seen
such a device. Boyd Wardell offered
to ride up to the summit of Old
Eagle and bring back ice. An ad-
miring crowd of neighbors stood
around watching the operation of
converting cream and eggs into a
royal luxury. Elsa took a bowl of
the same to little Wachita. She
seemed to have happened upon the
one thing that assuaged the burn
ing thirst of the little one. Wachita
frightened up marvelously. in a
week was better, in a month fully
convalescent, and when Some Day
Chief was called back to his tribe
he gratefully made over to Elsa
the little mine he had worked.
Who could Elsa consult as to her
landed acquisition but young War
dell, and who could have been glad
der to serve the dainty, cheersome
newcomer at Deep Gulch? And he
became Boyd" instead of Mr..
Wardell," and she became ELSA"
instead of Miss Werner" so that it
was not strange that one evening
a few months later the, proud,
happy, young frontiersman OBJ
served:
And at the wedding, Elsa, don't
forget to arrange for some of that
famous ice cream of yours"
The average life of locomotive
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
sSOME DAY CHIEF"
By Ralph Hamilton.

copyright 1919 by Western News
paper Union).
Elsa Vernon was going into n
brand new life and was curious and
excited. She and her sister were
orphans, and for five years Elsa had
been living with her uncle and
aunt, the Mowbrays. This home life
was pleasant enough, but exceed
iugIy dull When the word came
from Myrtle, who had been married
and gone west with her husband
i've years previous, and Myrtle
thought she needed Elsa, the latter
hailed the prospect as a deliverance
from a sort OF social and intellec-
tua1 bondage
Myrtle Weston held out no glow
ing picture to her sister. Very
plainly she indicated that she and
her neighbors were pioneer So
jourRers in a species of wilderness.
'.A1I I have" she wrote, lis a small
house and so acres, just at the edge
of an Indian reservation. and few
town lots in a sediment that has
exactly % residents to date. Since
my husband died it has been hard
work"
Elsa had written at once to her
sfister, expressing the intensest de-
light at the prospect ahead. Her
dreams were all of grand noun
tain ranges and beautiful valleys,
swheFe people lived on horseback,
C-ad lovely flowers and heartsome
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
DISCUSS FOREIGN TRADE.

Forign trade, railroad ownership
and trust legislationo will be out
standing problems to be dealt with
at the big reconstruction confer
ence of the HDnited States chamber
of commerce which will open here
April 2S. according to convention
plans announced. Three thousand
delegates representing more than
thousand commercial and trade or
CARNATIONS with an aggregate
membership of half a million viii
take part in the deliberations. Il
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27

Rock Island county needs the services OF
such men John W. Day. Marx Harder, T. B.
Reidy and Carl Clough as members Of the
county board. They are candidates for assist
ant supervisor at the township election next
Tuesday. Go to the polls and vote for them.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27

correspondent describes how a squad of
40 American doughboys marched down Inter
den Linden in Berlin the other day, fully
armed, though no allied troops are supposed
to bear arms outside of that German territory
designated for occupation. Maybe there was
mistake and maybe there wasn't At any rate
another of the things that Americans said they
would do when they got into the war has been
done
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-27
Onestinns and AnEWUra.

Why Mothers and Fathers Hide
Their Heads-.... Why do so
many mothers seem to consider It
a crime to instruct their daughters
about the truths Of life? Would 1
have taken the step I took, had my
mother taught me things / have
only now learned, when is too
late?. $50.
Answer-Parents who do not
feel equal TO the task Of instruct
ing their children should send
their daughters to a competent
woman physician and their sons to
a man physician, when the chill
dren have attained the age of II
years, for instruction. This is the
safe and sensible solution OF the
problem.