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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06

Rock Island will do the part assigned to it
in the Victory loan drive, but many other com
munities will not and the prospect, with but
four days more to go, is that the campaign will
be a failure.
- The bonds must be sold, of course, but far
too many of them, from the present outlook,
will have to be taken by the banks, locking up
working capital urgently needed for the coun-
try's business and to set the wheels of indus
try turning again, else making it necessary
to further initiate the currency, cheapening
money yet further and pushing prices yet
higher
From an economic standpoint the failure of
the loan will be little short of a calamity. In
political sense it will be one in fact. 1t will
be interpreted as an evidence that the people
of this country already have forgotten the Sc
rious purpose for which they so unitedly and SO
unselfshly prosecuted the war. 1t will weaken
the national self-confdence and compromise
our position at the peace table. 1t cannot help
but seriously impair the prestige we have won
before the world.
Communities which have done their parts
will feel the>tlI effects equally with those which
have failed to meet their obligations. LOCAL.
ties which have taken their quotas owe it to
themselves to over-subscribe to the full extent
of their ability to pay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
Where Our Interests Lie.

The whole Mississippi valley has common
interests which justify united effort to secure
them. The Mississippi Valley association,
which was organized at New Orleans last jan
uary, appears to be taking hold of the bust
ness in hand with vigor and understanding
Rock Island, it is understood, has not been
represented in the movement thus far. It's in
terests, however. are great deal more impor-
tant than those of many of the cities which
officially enrolled in the undertaking. We
have much freight that might be handled to
advantage by all water route, to South
America to Pacific points through the Pan
canal. We have advantageous location
a transfer point from rail to river and vice
versa. We have the headquarters of the United
States engineers who direct improvement of
the river between st. Louis and St Paul The
city's early traditions closely identified
with the river
Surely if there is to be permanent organ
ization concerned with the interests of the Mis-
sissippi valley Rock Island should be member
of and a booster for it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
Getting Back to Normal.

Instead Of brooding over wrongs and in
CAPABILITIES, real or fancied, Americans ought to
be congratulating themselves upon their good
fortune
For many years before the war they have
had more of the things that make life worth
living than people of any other nation. That
conflict. by its relatively heavier toll of life.
suffering and indebtedness exacted of other
peoples accentuated our advantages.
comparison of commodity prices in the
United States and certain foreign countries
shows that while prices have risen very con-
siderably in this country through the war pc
Rod, the rise in other countries has been
greater. According to the figures of the bu-
reau of labor statistics, the Wholesale prices
of all commodities in September, 1918, were
107 per cent over the average for the year
1913. This the highest figure reached in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
HQart @oHOm0
73,!tDTODIOn1cC
by TEMPLE
" II MRC. ELIZABETH THOMPSON

Dear Mrs. Thompson: l became
engaged to young man before he
went to France. | didn't want to
become engaged when he asked me
to marry him, but he begged me to
and said he would be able to leave
with a much better feeling. We
had been friends for a long time
and in all our acquaintance l had
never thought l could love him.
When l became engaged l
thought that l was doing my bit. 1t
seemed such a shame TO let a dear
friend go across. feeling that he
had no one, back home who loved
him.
We corresponded for a while and
then he stopped writing. / wor-
ried terribly and wrote to Wash
ington to see if he had been killed,
but there was no report of it. The
strange thing is that after be went
away l found loved him more and
more than l had ever known.
Now he has returned. He did
not tell me~that he was coming and
he has not been to see me since he
got back. have heard from
friends that he fell in love with a
Y. w. girl when he was over there.
He talks about her all the time
When we meet On the street he
speaks to me, but does not act as
if we were engaged.
l am heartbroken and want to
win back his love. Shall l write
him a letter? Please advise me
how / can make him explain his
actions. HEART BROKEN.
You have made yourself think
that you are in love with the young
man, when in reality you are not.
During his absence you built an
ideal around him and you are in
love with that ideal.
He is acting in a most ungentle-
manly way. If l were you l would
let him go and appear to be indif-
ferent to an explanation. Prob
ably the rumor about the Y. w.
girl is true and he is afraid to tell
you No matter what his reason for
changing his mind in regard TO
you, he should talk the matter over
with you. The fact that he does
not proves that he is a coward.
Forget him and look for more sat
friend.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: In using
the electric needle on the face to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
Today's Anniversaries

1708-Laval, the first Roman Cath
Ole bishop in Canada, died
at Quebec. Born in France,
April 80. 1928
1S44-Fearful riots in Philadelphia
between the native American
party and the Irish residents
of the city.
1S56-Forty-three persons killed in
a wreck on the Panama rail-
road.
1SS2-Epping Forest was declared
open TO the people forever by
Queen Victoria.
1S94-Hoke SmifhA secretary of the
interior, delivered the com
mencement address at the
+ University of North Caro-
lima.
1S02-Rear Admiral William T..
Sampson, whose name was
linked with the great Amer
lean naval victory at Santi-
ago, died in Washington. d.
c. Born at Palmyra, n. Y,
Feb. 9, 1910.
I315-Paris declared heavy Ger
man offensive of past fort
night had been checked
l9I6-German bid for peace in note
to America brought out re-
fusal from England.i
l917-Allies urged United States to
send troops to France with
out delay.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
THE WHITE YEAR,
BY Otilla Frances Pfeiffer.
downright, 1919, by Western News

copyright, 1919, by western News
paper Union.)
At the age of twenty-five acting
under an impetuous impulse ne
could not restrain, Walter Merrill
wrote a letter to the girl he loved,
confessing his affection and asking
that she award him happiness or
heartbreak according as she reci-
procated his fervent devotion or did
not, as the case might be. There
came no reply. AS if utterly diSdaln-
full of his plea, he learned that Myr-
tie Farr had started away on a
visit to a relative at some distance.
Merrill was a being Of deep sensi-
tiveness. He vanished completely
from Bayville and his motive and
whereabouts became a mystery 10
his former friends
His gloomy face made no new
friends, his half-hearted interest in
seeking employment discouraged at
tention. Very soon his surplus
money was gone. Idleness led to
dissipation. He sank lower and low
err, and at the end OF a few months
was a street wanderer and his COM
panions men of reckless mold.
His eyes, were bleared, his cloth
ing in tatters, his gait unsteady, as
enc day crossing q street the sharp
loot of an automobile horn caused
him to look up. Two ladies in the
machine were agonizedly screaming
to their chauffeur Directly in the
path OF the auto a little child was
rolling her doll carriage. Merrill
uade leap. Not s<secnnd=too soon
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
EAEsk INFI III KS
BY W.Ilh-!ll !!. e BRADY RAD r1D.

Building Up a Rundown System.
Today we select a title for our
talk which might easily pass for
the title of a patent medicine an
nouncement, but it is otherwise. :,
Beer, wine, eggs and milk, eggs
without milk, milk without eggs,
cod liver oil, olive oil, tonies, iron
nails, cocoa butter rubs, will any
of these help to build up Va run
down system?
Comparatively few.
The first thing to do for a run
down system is to determine what
ran the system down. The trouble
is that people marketing for some
thing TO build system up forget
to consider what ran it down. Very
often the trick is accomplished by
simply arranging to discontinue
running a system down; with that
attended to, nature soon Completes
all necessary building Operations
without any help at all.
1t is like trying to carry water
in a sieve, taking stuff that pur-
ports to build up or increase the
weight or strengthen the blood or
overcome weakness without giving
a thought to the condition which
is accountable for the weakness.
That is what physicians are for
TO determine whether the run
down condition is produced by
smouldering tuberculosis, by I'M
suspected diabetes, by Bright's dis
ease, by concealed hemorrhages.
by some kind of unsuspected pois-
oning connected with the occupa-
ton or habits, by irregular habits,
or whatnot.
The primary condition having
been discovered and remedied, it
is easy to build the system up. for
as | say, nature really does ii
while the doctor looks on.
Eggs, agreeably cooked, are good
food if one likes them. Raw eggs
are only partly digestible and in
general MOTTO be taken unless the
patient is too i'll to eat cooked
food. Fresh raw milk is one of
the greatest builders we have, not
only for it's digestibility and food
value but for the fat-soluble and
water-soluble vitamin it contains
in liberal quantities This does
not apply to pasteurized or cooked
milk. Fresh cod liver oil, the pure
article, is rich in fat soluble Vita
min and in available iodine, and
is therefore an excellent builder,
for young persons with
a tendency to goitre. Olive oil is
a less valuable fattener than cod
liver oil. and contains no vitamin;
it is inferior to fresh cream or
butter as a food, and of no value
whatever. so far as nutrition or
body building is concerned, when
rubbed ON the surface.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
General Woods Boom.

The presidential boom of General Leonard
Wood, friend and confdaAte of Roosevelt, is
moving by fits and starts. Chiefly interested
in it at its present stage are number of indi-
viduals and newspapers who have chronic
laundering for a guiding political star to tie
their wagons behind.
General Wood is good soldier and an able
and fearless Everybody will concede
that He might be the making of a good presi-
dent. There is no telling one way or the other.
He has excellent fighting qualities, but the
fighting, we hope is over, for few years, at
least. He is a good d:sciplinarian, but his
craftsmanship is an unknown quantity and
this is poor time for experiments.
Besides, the general is Internationally COM
mitted to universal military training, policy
which the American people are not now and
we hope never may be willing to embrace or to
seemingly endorse through election of presi-
dent.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Yarns hoUt the TOnaiIs.

"a MS AOOuN LAAC AVnbAAos
An old nurse informs me that it
is ruinous to remove the tonsils
from a girl under 20 years of age.
Our daughter has suffered much
from her tonsils and we were
about to have them removed. She
is 49, Would you advise us to
postpone the operation?
MRS. c. r. P.
My husband has been advised by
two doctors that his tonsils are
badly infected and should be re-
moved. He is 80 years old, and
the only reason we hesitate is be-
cause we have heard several say
that after a sperson has passed 80
years he is liable to bleed to death
if the tonsils are removed. Is
there any medicine that can be
used to dry them up?
MRS. ]. r. E.
Answer-Both yarns are 100 per
cent nonsense. If your physician
advises operation, follow his ad-
vice. =
Bread and MIX to Make Boys
Grow.
1 am a boy 10 years old, in the
fifth grade at school, four feet and
five inches tall, and weigh rs
pounds. My principal diet is bread
and milk. l do not care for vege-
tables or fruit, but l eat some
meat. My mother and father say
I must eat other food. What
would be your advice? am per-
J.K.
: -Answer-The average 10-year-
old boy is only five feet and two
inches tall and weighs only sc or
81 pounds, so you are growing
well on bread and milk. If l had
a boy who ate plenty of fresh milk
and bread l should worry very lit
tie about his diet, for ID is ideal,
especially if the bread is whole
wheat or graham bread.
Another Freak "Cure" Tor Tuber-
culOsiS.
Have you heard of the sulphur
cure for tuberculosis? II consists
of inhaiing the fumes of burning
sulphur, known as sulphur diox-
ide. Please tell me how much to
burn at one time. An eminent
physician says that many have
been cured by it. MRS. G.
Answer-The physician emin-
ence is exceeded only by his ire
sponsibility if he ever really ad-
vised any such treatment. The in
halation of sulphur fumes would
be very dangerous experiment
for well person, not to mention
one with diseased lungs. Tuber-
culosis cures" are all pretty much
alike in one respectfully always
prove more efficacious in print
than in practice.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
TIHIlE. DAILY SHORT STORY

for him. Daily he was wheeled out
into the garden. Everybody seemed
glad to be of help to him. Kindness
toned down his ruggedness and
reckless difference.
At first, until his injured limbs
recovered their original strength
Merrill acted as chauffeur for his
thoughtful patronesseS. Then his
quick intelligence recommended
him to them for a trustworthy posi-
ton of looking after their property.
He attended to rents and repairs,
and nothing was pleasanter than
the frequent trips from place to
place, and very often the little child
whose life he had saved was his
welcome companion.
One day-Walter Merrill never
afterward forgot that eventfuI oc-
casion-on a business mission ne
came within a few miles of Bayville.
The temptation to[see the old town
was irresistible.H He was driving the
machine slowly down a tree-shaded
street, when a lad of about sixteen
abruptly darted from the sidewalk,
shouting his name
ooh. Mr.. Merrill!" he hailed.
"Pleased-please, just a moment"
Then he added breathlessly: obi
you must come to our house right
away. Alice wants to see you, and
at once"
Merrill we'll remembered Alice
Wayne. She had always eyinced a
prediction for his company, but
love he had never thought Of. Mer-
rill wondered at the earnestness sI
the excited lad. He drove the ma
chine to the Wayne home. His guide
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06

led him into the house. Merrill was
shocked as he saw upon a couca the
girl who had been a blooming
beauty when last he had seen her.
Disease and suffering had wasted
her away, and death 80 was in her
face.
An Infinite relief was expressed in
that wan face as Alice Wayne
clasped the .hand1of Merrill fevr.d
ly. She sent her brother from the
room. Then came confession that
amazed her visitor. Alice confess
ed that she had destroyed a letter
Myrtle had given her to mail, the
non-arrival of which had started
him upon the downward path.
When fatal disease had overcome
her she had suffered from incred-
ible remorse. She had sent for Mvr-
tie and had confessed the truth.
Now, with feeble breath he insisted
on sending for her girl friend that
the great wrong she had wrought
should be mended.
All along Myrtle Farr had lowed
and mpurned for Merrill His con-
fession soon brought about a per
feet understanding. Redeemed by
his white year." Myrtle Farr had
no fear to deter her from trusting
her happiness to his loving care.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
Brad'sBit O. Verse
JUST A SMILE.

Drop a pebble in the pond.
watch the ripping line. So into
the great beyond spreads your
smile and mine. Keep on smiling
all the while; let your trouble
spin that's the way to make your
pile. that's the way to wini Don't
stay in darkened room: get out
where it's bright; don't hide in a
cave of gloom, losing all the light.
When the way seems long and
drear,>full of ruts and rocks, keep
the smile machine in gear-throw
away the rocks; life's too short to
crouch and frown all the journey
through; toss your bunch of trOu-
bles down: do not look so blue.
Isn't it the nobler plan to be
bright and gay? Look as pleasant
as you can all the toilsome day.
Keep on smiling all the time-not
a sickly grin, but a CLEAN full
grown and prime from the light
within. Smiles don't cost one lit
tie yen. singly or in chunks; yet
each ones boon to men. worth
a million plunks.
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
CONVENTIONS

Chicago.@Air Brake association
OF America.
Fort Smith, Ark.-Oklahoma and
Arkansas associations of Bakers.
Auburn, Me.-Maine State Con-
FERENCE of Congregational churches,
Rochester, MINI. Minnesota
State Conference of Congregational
Churches.
Observation-Disclosures Asso-
citation of Iron. Steel and Tin
Workers of North America.
Sioux Falls, S. D.-South Dakota
Sunday School association.
Columbus. O.-Ohio State Medi-
cal association.
Elkhart, Ind.-Grand Army of
the Republic, Department of In
diana.
Des Moines. Ia.-Iowa State
Dental association.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06

he snatched the imperiled child
from her position. swung~her spin
ming to one side, and himself
stumbled and fell.
There was a contact, dull and
deadly, and Merrill disappeared I'M
der the body of the vehicle. Then as
it backed he lay in a pool of blood,
his face closed and his body rigid.
1t was like a transition into a
new sphere to the injured man to
recover sensibility amid comfort
and cleanliness. He was alone in
bed in a half-darkened room, but
the door communicating with the
adjoining apartment was ajar and
he could discern that several per-
sons were there. A feminine voice
spoke, gentle and quite anxious.
He will live. doctor?" it intoned.
"Oh, yes, there is nothing wrong
of a serious nature outside of the
lower part of both limbs"
He can bear removal to a hos
pital"-began the doctor.
no" spoke Miss Althea Darrow,
and the negative was enforced
strongly by her sister, Marcia. I'VE
owe to this man not only money
reparation, but sympathy and care.
He is poor. perhaps homeless. Sis
ter and Will give him a home until
he has entirely recovered"
Some new emotions came to Wal
ter Merrill as he heard himself thus
commended. He learned that the
two spinsters were ladies with
means. given to deeds Of charity.
They lived well. and, as he got
about in an inYalid's chair, a room
on-the ground floor was fitted up
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
Today's Events

Delegates from many countries
are expected at Berne today for
the opening of a conference of the
international Committee of Women
fer Permanent Peace.
The Rt Rev. Nathaniel Seymour
Thomas today celebrates the tenth
anniversary of his conservation as
Episcopal bishop of Wyoming.
Following the close-of a spirited
campaign, Baltimore today will
hold an election for mayor and
other municipal officials
Ottawa is to be the meeting place
today of the twenty-third annual
convention of the National Fire
Protection association of the United
States and Canada.
The annual convention of the
National Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teachers association will
open in Kansas City today and
continue in session until Saturday
The church in reconstruction
work will be the general theme of
a special meeting of the Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America, to open today at Cleve-
land.
With all of the pomp and cere-
mony prescribed by the Roman
Catholic ritual the sacred pallium
today will be conferred upon Most
Rev. Denis ]. Dougherty. the new
archbishop of Philadelphia.
Experiences from the war re-
garding minimum standards for
the health, education and work of
children will be considered at d
conference of American and
European authorities. beginning in
w ashington today. under the aus
.pIces of~the children's bureau OF
the department of labor.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06

There will be no excursion rates on govern
ment directed railroads for the purpose of
helping move men to the western harvest
fields. Some complaint probably will be made
but the ruling is fair enough and should stand
1t is hardly just to expect transportation sys-
TEN which is running behind financially to
make concessions in favor of agriculture, the
prosperity of which, for this year at least, is
virtually guaranteed by the price of wheat.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
In the Days News

DIR. Abraham jacob, who enters
upon his ninetieth year today, is
known as Americas grand old
man of medicine" A native Of
Germany, he was forced to fee
from that country when charged
with high treason for participation
in the German revolutionary moyN-
men of 1S4S. Today he is believed
to be the only surviving leader of
that revolt. He arrived in Amer
lea equipped with a medical edu-
cation received at the best of the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06

German universities. Settling in
New York, he became in time one
OF the most distinguished of Amer
lean physicians. In 1873 DR.. ia
cobb married DR.. Mary Putnam,
WHO was a famous pioneer among
women physicians, being the first
woman to become a member of the
New York Academy of Medicine
and the first to be admitted
to the Ecole Medicine, the famous
Paris medical college.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06
Household Hints

nodded into bowl with enough
Cover and press down with a
weight. When thoroughly cooled,
this may be sliced down and serv-
ed as jellied meat.
Brown Soup Stock-Six pounds
shin of beef, three quarts cold wa
ter. one-half teaspoon peppercorns
(whole peppers), six cloves.1 one
half bay leaf, three spTigs thyme,
one sprig marjoram. two sprigs
parsley, one-half cup each Of car
rot, turnip, onion and celery cut
in dice, one tablespoon salt. Wipe
the beef and cut the lean meat in
inch cubes. This exposes a large
amount of the surface and the
juices are more easily drawn out.
Scar a part of the meat in the
marrow fat from the bone and put
with the rest into the soup kettle,
add cold water and let stand half
an hour. Browning the meat gives
the stock a better color. Allow
ing the meat to stand in cold wa
ter draws out the juices, which
give flavor to the soup. Heat the
whole gradually to the boiling
point, cover and cook slowly for
six hours. keeping below boiling
point during the cooking, add the
vegetables, salt and spice the last
hour OF cooking.
II the stock is desired clear for
any speRl purpose, the soup NAV
be strained, but> usually 1t is as
well 10 leave the vegetables in
With this soup stock as basis
the favor may be varied as much
as desired.
Dip YOnE Spoon in milk or water
when making drop cakes or muffins.
The batter will not stick to the
spoon and you can get your cakes
even sized.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-06

Report has it that the daughter of the king
of England is about to marry outside of royal
blood, which again emphasizes the advance
that democracy is making. Things are getting
to such a pass nowadays that material with
which to make royal marriages no longer -four
Malay peninsula.
ograph 100 miles by wireless and simplifying