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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28

Soldiers of the American expedi-
tionary forces in France set an ex-
ample in moral idealism to Amer
lean civilian life.
Dr. Daniel A. Polling, associate
president of the United Society or
Christian Endeavor, made this state
ment at the First Methodist church
Saturday night in an address to a
+. large audience He was among the
very first to go to- France in war
work and showed in his talk that he
/ had intimate knowledge of scenes
at the front.
Our leaders in France did not
conquer the vices that society has
/ battled against from the first organ
] lied beginnings of civilization" he
said, "but, if the American expedi-
tiCIfary forces did not set an exam
pie in moral idealism to American
civilian life, then walked through
France with my eyes closed and my
ears stopped.
THE program of the military lead
crs has been effectively supplement-
ed by the Y. NJ. c. A, the Red Cross,
and the Salvation army. The Y. VI.
! C.. A. was responsible for a ministry
| that cannot be over-valued. With its
huts, which ranged from the cCn
modious double building in the
great CITIES and in the large train
ing camps to the foul-smelling, dark
dugouts at the front, with its can
teens and hotels for officers and
privates, with its music and its lee
lures, it's classes in French and its
bible classes, with its athletic lead
ership and it's REGISTRATIONS high
among quiet mountains, with It's
religious services and its personal
interviews, it met sqUarely the
moral challenge of stupendous oc-
casion 1t was the most potent hope
/ of the church, and Gods most fruit
I full agency for such time as this. )"
A captain of a company of colored
stevedores told me that the Y. NJ.
C. A. had increased the morale OF
his men one hundred per cent
Il have wildly before me group
of American soldiers. 1t is o'clock
in the morning, and they have just
marched four miles through the
trenches, shell-obliterated or filed
with mud and snow; they have been
relieved from the first line They are
men from four companies of bat
TALON of division occupying a
prominent position of the western
front. They have had the distinction
/ of experiencing the first extensive
gassing directed against American
troops and of repelling the first
general raid over an American
front. Of one of the companies every
commissioned officer had been kill
ed or wounded in the fighting of
twenty hours before; its captain, a
gallant southern lad, died on the
parapet leading the successful coun-
ter attack. They are covered with
mud, dead for sleep, chilled to the
bone, but accomplishing. Some of
them fall repeatedly on the way out,
and their faces are as black as their
boots. They lean against the coun-
tiers and the tables of the Y. NJ. c.
A. hut, and silently drink the red
hot tea and eat the cookies and
crackers. These are the men VINO
have given the first clear demon
stration of the fighting superiority
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28
THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS APRIL 2s 1919

| in the mud of the trenches and ex-
perienced their horrors. All. yes, the
/ women too were in tue tarthest
: places of the line. The long vigils of
/ the soldier in nights that promised
only terror and in days that brought
only hardships were not kept alone.
| The mothers Of men, their wives,
| their sisters ,sand their sWeethearts,
! stood there too. And not only these,
| but the fathers and the brothers de-
MED the privilege of bearing arms,
but entering into the supreme or
deals of those who do bear them, by
| day and by night. in tense silence
suffered in spirit the agonies which
the bodies of their sons and broth
ers experienced at every station of
the flaming trail that Led from the
base to the far rim of No Mans
Land.
THE United States is forever in
the debt of those who for unspeak-
able months held the lines against
the day of her arrival"
DIR. Polling stated that reports of
the general disapproval of the pass
ing OF the prohibition amendment,
on the part Of the soldier overseas,
and of his keen resentment, were
untrue. He said:
1.-The American in France. as to
his ideals and his present convic-
tons. is very much as the Amer
lean in the United States. 1t was my
privilege to announce national pro-
hibition, in the Palais de Glace, to
several thousand enlisted men and
scores of officers; later to similar
groups throughout France and the
occupied portions ofsGermany. The
simple statement, with the reasons
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28
MAKE ARSENAL
CENTRAL PLANT
FOR MUNITIONS
War Department ContempIates De-
FelOping Facilities at Local
Government Island.
DEPENDS MUCH ON CONGRESS
Acting Secretary CroweII Says Mo-
torizatfon of Artillery Makes
Change Necessary.

The conversion of the Rock Is
land arsenal into huge factory for
the production of tanks and trac-
tors for war purposes is under con-
temptation by the war department,
according to an announcement
made in Washington by Acting Sec
rotary of War Crowell
Details of the arsenal program
for the army will not be made pub
lie until sometime this week, the
acting secretary said. He is quoted
In special dispatches to the effect
that while the expansion of the
Rock Island arsenal will depend
largely upon the generosity of con-
gress in appropriating funds for
ordnance equipment, the war de-
partment plans call for an ambi-
tious development of the arsenal
"a cilities.
1.-THE motorization of artillery
Equipment developed by the past
war has made necessary radical
changes in the production Of war
Supplies and the utilization of the
ROCK Island arsenal In the future
will be for the production of mo-
tor driven equipment rather than
horse drawn ordnance" Acting
Secre airy Crowel1 said
Plans Net New.
As indicated by the acting secre-
tary's statement the future devel-
cDment of the arsenal will depend
largely upon congress. The plans
for the manufacture OF tanks and
tractors is rot new to arsenal au-
thorities. When the first order was
Received several months ago for
tanks it was generally understood
that 1t would be but question Of
s.tort time before the arsenal would
Ilecorne the chief point of manufac-
tire in the United States for tanks
and tractors.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28

are few and far between. There
are little time and strength Tor
them, of course, and there are few
opportunities; but, when they 60
happen. they are differences OF
words that do not have two mean
ings and OF fists that come through
the open.
Il have seen q man carry, in aG-
dition to his own kit, the entire
equipment of another man who was
suffering from gas. Three miles and
a half, under the severest conGi-
lions of opening spring, through
mud filled trenches, he walked with
his double load, helping a man ne
had never seen before.
"A runner came in one morning
after thirty-six hours of continuous
duty. He was chilled to the bone,
and one foot was in bad shape He
had neither overcoat nor blankets !:
his entire equipment had been
buried by the Smelling incident to a
raid. We leaned him against the
great tea-boiler, and while he stood
there warming his body we poured
hot drinks into his stomach. Turn
ing away for a moment, | was
startled by a clatter behind me-
There he was, his cup on the floor
he was dead asleep on his feet.
81 have seen lads fall asleep on
the rough boards of a Y. M. C. A
hut, with only the nondescript ma
terials for covers that we could
hastily throw over them. Not even
the noises of great batteries, and of
hundreds of soldiers passing in and
out, diturbed them in the least
"And the spirit Of the trenches
was not confined to those who stood
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28
REVIVAL HELD AT
RESCUE MISSION

Revival meetings will be held
throughout the week at the Rescue
Mission. Meetings were held each
evening last week. and proved very
successful. This week they are to
again be conducted, with a different
leader each night.
Frank Ward, superintendent of a
mission at Cedar Rapids, is to be
the speaker tonight, and tomorrow
night Rev. p Grace. Of Davenport
will conduct the service. Wednesday
evening John Heating will speak,
and Thursday evening the superin-
tendent G. o. Rogers.
Friday evening Harry Hanson. a
convert of the local mission is to
give his farewell talk, as he leaves
the city the next day to go 10
Wheating college.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28
Today's Anniversaries

175S-President James Monroe,
author of the famous doc
trine that bears his name,
born in Westmoreland coun-
ty, Va. Died in New York
city. July 4, 1881.
1S91-First steamer of the Pacific
mail service arrived at Van
couver, from Yokohama.
Hays Hammond and
other Johannesburg reform
ers were convicted of high
treason in the TransvalI re-
public and sentenced to
death.
1909-The body of Major l'Enfant,
who planned the city OF
Washington, was reburied
with distinguished honors in
Arlington National cemetery.
1915-Allies occupied several forti-
fed positions on GallipOIi
peninsula.
1916-The British besieged in
Kut-el-Amara forced by star
walton to surrender.
btu. S. congress passed the
bill to raise army by selec-
tive draft.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28
BOYS TAKEN AS
CAMP BURGLARS
Arrest Five Youths as Ones Who
Broke Into and Looted Sum-
mer Cottages Recently.
CASES GO TO COUNTY COURT
Fishing Tackle Removed From One
Place is Found in Possession
of the Accused.

With the arrest of five boys Sat
urday night, police expect to clear
up numerous burglaries that have
occurred in the summer camps 10
Gated just west of Watch Tower
Park. The boys are:
Gerald Steele.
AIDA Steele.
Marion Meade.
Edward Ludwig.
Elster Banks.
All are under Is years of age and
are residents of the west end of
the city. Their cases will be settled
in the county court. They are
charged with burglary and larceny.
Charge is made against the boys
by Albert Meyer. whose camp was
broken into twice during the winter
and articles of value stolen. Fishing
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28

tackle worth 500 was taken on the
last occasion and, 1t is charged, has
been found in the possession OF the
boys arrested.
Loot Cther PAGES.
Police believe the bows to be re-
sponsible tor other deedSS OF van
dalism in and about the summer
cottages During the winter numer-
Gus other camps have been broken
into and the contents destroyed or
placed in a state of disorder The
majority of the owners report no
thefts, Charging only that destruc-
ton of property occurred.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28

for the action. ELECTED practically
unan nous expression of approval.
The one man who voices ' his dis
approval of national prohibition, or
the groups of men that do so, from
the decks or returning transports
make more noise than the thou
sands that remain silent"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-28
The War a Year Ago

British liner Orissa torpedoed in
English waters.
In Mesopotamia the British
forced the passage of the Aqsu.
British in Ypres region forced to
retire by loss of KENNEL hill.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
HAS C0tLECT|OVOF
OLD NEWSPAPERS
Former Mt. Vernon Man T ellis
Of His Souvenirs At G.
A. R. Encampment

In note on the national G. A. X.
encampment now being held in CO.
lumbus, The Columbus Dispatch Mon
day evening had the following to say
concerning a former Mt. Vernon man:
o. II. Oldroyd, assistant adjutant
general of the Department of the Po-
tomac, which includes the District of
Columbia, has the distinction of hav-
ing lived for 2G years in the house in
Washington in which Abraham Lin
coin died. He says that he has col
lection of $500 newspaper articles re-
lating to Lincoln in various phases
of his life, which collection was start
ed in 1860 when Mr.. Oldroyd was
youth of Is years in newsstand at
Mt. Vernon. Ohio.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
.PR0M91ERS OF GLASS.
WILL START
A|VOTHERCA|VVAss0ON
II Mt. Vernon Citizens Do Not
Respond The Plant May
Be Located, Elsewhere

1t was reported Tuesday that the
promoters of the Mt. Vernon Window
Glass company have given up the job
of trying to get subscriptions for the
stock Of the proposed new company
which was to have been located in
this city. However, conversation with
the men themselves reveals the real
state of affairs.
They have not given up the hope of
getting the subscriptions necessary
to start the factory in Mt. Vernon.
They are working on the proposition
every day. But they do not think
that 1t will be possible to do anything
more on big scale until about De-
cember, when it is their intention to
make another canvass of the city and
this vicinity and attempt to interest
the people in their proposition.
If the people do not support the
proposition, the promoters say, they
will take it to one of the cities now
asking for the plant. They have han
good offers from cities like Zanes.
vile, Danville, H., another from a
city in Wyoming and one in New
York state.
These cities are Offering fine prop
Ositions. but the officers here say that
they prefer to remain in Mt. Vernon
IL it is at all possible. The men CON
nected with the glass business here
do not like the idea of moving their
families and they like this city
One of these cities offers to take
over all their stock above $4,000 and
give them an industrial site They
will all provide site for the con
struction of their plant. With all
this assurance from other places, the
promoters cannot understand why
the people of Mt. Vernon will not
support their enterprise.
The stock Of the glass industry is
making big money for those who own
It. One stockholder in this city has
made over 1$140O on $1OO share in
the last few years. He has recently
been offered 500 for this share but
declares thatshe will not sell it, for it
is the best money he can make.
The promoters desire to have the
people think carefully over this prop.
ostion and to decide to come across
with the subscriptions next time they
arc around.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
NEW MEMBERS FOR.
THE COUNTRY CLUB
Secretary Also Presents Re-
port AT Meeting OF
The Directors

At the monthly meeting OF the di-
rectors OF the Country club. held Mon
day evening, DR. John II. Claypool, II.
b. Miller, II. S. Downes. Miss Cora B.
Gallaher and Earl Cranmer were
elected to membership.
Secretary +. w. Kahrl presented
to the directors n highly satisfactory
report on tho clubs membership
showing that only four of the stock
memberships remain to be sold, and
that one OF these is, already spoken
for. 1t Is expected that the rest will
be disposed of before the annual
meeting In November and that there
after the stock will command sub
stantial premium.
The directors instructed the secre-
tary to enforce strictly the regulation
providing that members in arrears to
the club on Sept. l5 shall be suspend'
ed:
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
BURGLARS ENTER
O0WDS' Store
Sum Of $8, Taken From Cash
Registers Some Time
Monday Night

Sometime Monday night the Dowds
Dry Goods store, South Main street,
was entered by burglars and the sun,
Of SO was stolen from the cash regis
ters In various parts Of the store.
Three dollars in cash was taken
from the register in the basement
and $5 in cash from the register on
the first floor. The burglars did not
touch the stamps and other papers in
the cash registers and went away
without taking the pennies.
An entrance was effected to the
building through a basement window.
The burglars departed by the base
ment door, leaving it standing open.
The burglary was discovered when
the clerks arrived at the store Tues
day morning.
Officials of the Dowds Dry Goods
CO. stated Tuesday they were sure
the burglary was the work of boys. A
careful inspection of the store was
made, but none of the stock was dis
turbed.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
THE REAL AMERiCANISM

The New York Times carries Il very
tors who are endeavoring to stir up
prejudice against President Wilson
and against the league of nations by
the cry of internationalism. They i'm
pugn the patriotism of the president
and have used every trick of the dem
agogue. 1t is n healthy sign for
America to note that they have failed
TO shake the faith of the American
people in his sterling Americanism,
his untiring energy for the common
good and In his belief In the arrival
of new days in the affairs of the
world for the common man.
The Times says:
"Mr. Wilson may well decline to be
called an internationalist for In seek.
ing the application Of the peace
treaty and the establishment of the
league OF nations he is doing more
for America. for Americans first. than
all the Republican senators opposing
the league viii be able to do for their
country, even should they live to
Biblical ages. We are profoundly In
terested In the welfare of our sister
nations-none but the narrowest and
most grabbed OF the foes would deny
that-but the league of nations vii
be the great bulwark of our Owr
peace and security. In proportion tC
our greatness as nation, to the i'm
mensity of our interests, which woult
be imperiled by war, we are NOR,
deeply concerned than any other ma
tion for the erection of this grea
safeguard OF the worlds peace"
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
DEMOCRATIC ROYALTY

The democracy idea really seems to
be spreading. Suggestions of it are
found nowadays even among royalty
We have head often OF "democrotic
kings" in these latter years, and there
has been some notable progress made
along this line by the royal families
of Belgium, England and Italy, but on
the whole. the term has been a mis-
nomer Royal democracy has consist
ed chiefly i'm condescending to mingle
with "commoners" occasionally -- a
mere yielding of substantial power
and privilege.
Now, however King Victor Eman-
uel of Italy gives a more convincing
sign of falling in with the spirit OF
the times. He is said to have handed
over six of his finest palaces, villas
and parks for the permanent use of
disabled soldiers, sailors and orphans
of those killed I'm battle. and has an
nounced that he will relnquish "all
his vast domains" for the benefit of
"the peasantry and those who fought
for Italian unity"
More convincing still, he will Sub
ject his private patrimony to taxa
tion equally with the tax of every
commoner." and at the same time
continue his usual public gifts of
100000 year.
With all this liberalty Emanuel
will hardly suffer for the necessaries
OF life. He still has few palaces
left, and from all Indications, pret-
ty respectably-sized fortune. How he
or his ancestors obtained them It
probably would be impolite to inquire.
Some questions about royalty are
simply not asked.
Why anybody should ever need as
many as half a dozen palaces will
pass the comprehension of an Ameri-
can, just as 1t passes comprehension
why ruler 8 wealth should ever have
been exempt from taxation when the
property of his hunblest subject is
taxed. However that may be. Eman.
uel is to be congratulated for having
seen the light and done the decent
thing beyond the wont of kings. They
may all come to 1t, in time II they
don't. pretty soon there won't be any
kings.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
MRS. L. B. BRIDCEMAN
DIES In CLEVELAND

Mrs. l.. b. Bridgeman, formerly
Miss Adelaide Whitesides. daughter
Of Mrs. Ellen Whitesides OF Mt. Yer
non, died Tuesday morning at her
home in Cleveland, according to word
received here Tuesday noon.
Mrs. Bridgeman was AZ years of
age and was the oldest daughter Of
Mrs. Whitesides. She was born In
Mt. Vernon and spent her girlhOod
days here.
Mrs. Whitesides left this afternoon
for Cleveland to attend the funeral
The remains may be brought to Mt.
Vernon for burial.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
BICYCLE IS FOUND
BY CHIEF PARKER

Chief of Police p. j. Parker brought
a bicycle to police headquarters Tues.
day morning which had been left in
front of the ]. C. Stokes property on
Spearman Hill sometime Monday
night or early Tuesday morning. The
wheel is an old one and the coaster
brake is out of order. The person
who left It in front of this residence
can get the wheel any time at police
headquarters in the city hall.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
SPECIAL PULLMAN TO
\ CARRY LOCAL BOYS
Sixteen Young Men From
This City To Attend Kem-
per Military School

car to transport all the Mt Vernon
boys who are going to the Kemper
Military school, Boonville, Mo-, this
fall.
Sixteen young men from Mt. Yer.
non will attend the military school
this year and will leave here Sept
10. by special arrangements a Pull
man car has been obtained for the
Accommodation OF the young men, sc
that they win have special car al
TO themselves the entire distance tt
Boonville.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
CORN tO1 PER CENT
|NKNOX COUNTY
Potatoes Down As,Low As AZ
Per Cent on Sept. ]; Fig
ures On Crops

Statistics on the Ohio crops for
Sept. /, 1919, issued by the Ohio de-
partment of agriculture. f6ow some
very interesting figures IN Knox
county.
Condition of corn Sept. l shows 101
percent, while on Aug. 1t was 80 per
cent.
Condition of oats at harvest time,
"a per cent.
Average yield of hay per acre, tons,
LAB; quality IS per cent; acreage
1497.
Condition of potatoes Sept 1, 43
per cent; Aug. |, 63 per cent.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
AVOID PIKE ON
COsH0CTON ROAD
Warning Issued To Autoists
As Work OF Resurfacing
Road Has Started

Work was started Tuesday morn.
ing re-surfacing the Coshocton road
pike from. the Childrens Home to a
point two miles east ON the road.
County Surveyor VanVoorhis Tues
day morning advised autom0bilists to
avoid the pike for several days as the
tar Is exceedingly slippery these
warm days and there is danger of a
machine skidding into the ditch. The
surveyor also said that the fresh tar
would ruin the paint ON an automo'
bile Ne"N
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1919-09-12
PIKE To GAMBLER
COMPLETED TODAY
Machinery Will Be Moved
Soon To Another Location
In The County

County Surveyor VanVoorhis an
nounced Tuesday that the new
gravel pike from the Coshocton road
to Gambler would be completed Tues
day afternoon, The pike is consider.
ed one of the best in the county.
The machinery used in building the
pike will be moved to another loca-
tion In the county, but Surveyor Van
Voorhis was unable to state, Tuesday,
just where that will be.