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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
VACANT
LEFT AT
PEACE TABLE
England Undertaking to
Be Big Brother Since
u. s. Quit.

London, Dec. IL. = Premiers
Lloyd George and Clemenceau re-
sumed their conferences on war
problem this forenoon. Earl Cur
zon of Kedleston, secretary of
state for foreign affairs; Sir Maui
rice Hankey, secretary Of the war
cabinet, and the French ambassa-
dor were present.
International finance was dis
cussed this morning. ]. Austen
Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex-
chequer, was called into the meet
ing after conceiling speaking en-
gagement.
Sees Connection.
IN. Clemenceau's arrival in Eng.
land and the departure of the
American delegates from Paris
were significant and not discon-
Inected. Premier Clemenceau doubt
less comes to do what he can to
fill the breach caused by the with
drawal of America. AS the pros
'pect of support from America be-
comes less the need of support
from this country grows, and may
enter, not only the military and
diplomatic spheres, but also those
Of finance and economics"
American There.
John W. Davis, the American am.
bassador and the REPRESENTATIVES Of
Italy now h London, Joined in the
conference later. They remained
until the conferees adjourned for
luncheon.
The Italian representatives were
Vittero Scialioia, the Italian for
eign minister, and the ambassador
at London, the Marquis Imperiali.
Louis Douicheur, the French min
lister OF reconstruction, Joined Pre-
mier Clemenceau in the confer
ence.
Want An Alliance.
Paris, Dec. 12.-Many French
newspapers express the desire that
the conference between Lloyd
George and Clemenceau should end
| in the conclusion if not of an alli-
ance, at least of an entente or
agreement equivalent to q real alli-
ance from England, Italy, France
and Belgium.
Louis Louicheur, minister Of re-
! construction, has been called to
/ London by Premier Clemenceau.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
AIRPLAM MAKER
SAYS FLYERS KEEP
CLEAR OF ALCOHOL

Philadelphia, Dec. IL. - Com
mander C. G. Westervelt, builder Of
the NC-4, and in charge Of the naval
aircraft factory here, yesterday an
swered the charge of Lieutenant B.
W. Maynard, the flying parson," !"
that there is too much booze in the
flying service" Lieutenant May
nard is indulging in ecclesiastical
license" said Commander Wester-
welt. my experience, which has
been an extensive one, is that fly
ers leave liquor absolutely alone"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12

ploying places be kept running, or
else there would be little need of
retailers keeping their establish
ments poem. for the working man
would be cut down to bare neces-
stiles.
Want Longer Hours
Retail merchants composing the
delegation principally wished to
petition the committee for ten
porary grant Of longer hours, to
apply TOMORROW. Since this action
had nearly been completed when
they entered the meeting, the
further consideration of allowing
an extension of hours daily during
the next two weeks was urged. The
basis for this plea, as the spokes.
men for the merchants stated. was
the fact that big preparations In the
way of additional stocks and other
features have been made by all
storekeepers Cor the holidays. This,
they said, will occasion a consider
able loss unless shopping time SUI
ficient to allow the public full ac-
cess to these opportunities is
given. They were promised full
consideration by the committee
along this line in tomorrow Moons
meeting, when the subcommittee
thrashing out details, will report.
Those present in behalf of the
retail trade circles Of thestri-cities,
several Of whom presented argu-
ments and stated the facts in their
case, were as follows: Bob Kramer
and M. E. Parker Of Davenport, E.
I. Mosenfelder. Louis Mosenfelder.
w. 8. McCombs and H. E.. Sudlow
Of Rock Island; WillSm c. Cars
tens, Walter Yeager. J. H. Nessley
and H. E. Lundt of Moline. George
H. Kingsbury, secretary of the bus
mess mems association, also at
tended with the delegation.
Churches ~ Usual Sunday.
A particular point was made to-
day Of the fact that churches will
be allowed their usual services
Sunday, with no restrictions out
side Of calling attention to sugges-
tions as to conservation already
made.
Wholesale dealers are not in the
category named Is affected by the
9 q. m. to . p. m. order for tomor-
row. Only the institutions named
in sections including retail busi-
|nesses, dance halls and other
amusements, pool and billiard par
lors and the like are affected.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
BRITISH WILL NOT
SUPPORT EXCHANGE

London. Dec. 1.-The British
government does not purpose to
take any special steps in connection
with the fall in American exchange
beyond continuing Withholding arti-
fetal support by borrowing abroad
and stimulating export trade. ac-
cording to Andrew Bonar Law.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
SENATE CONFIRMS
CABINET MEMBER

Washington, Dec. II. Nomina-
ton of Representative Alexander.
Democrat, Of Missouri, to be Sec
retary Of commerce to succeed VIII
liam C. RedfeId was confirmed by
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
POTASSIUM SxLTS FOUND.

Berlin, Thursday. Dec. 11.-De-
posits Of potassium salts. describ-
ed as inexhauetible, have been
found by prospectors in northern
Germany. according to . -eport
printed In the Tagehlatt.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
WOULD
keep SUGAR IN
HAND FOR Year

Washington. Dec. 1.-THE NC
Nary bill under which government
control Of sugar would be contin-
ued another year. was passed to-
day by the senate and sent to the
house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
ILLINOIS ONLY
STATE where
MINERS BALk
Order to Return to Work Gener.
ally Responded to and Pro.
ductiOn SWells.

Springfield, I'LL, Dee. H.
Orders TO re.urn to work were
sent out today from the Office
of Frank Harrington, president
Of the Illinois miners, to var.
iOus locals which had Informed
him they would not abide by
the Indianapolis agreement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
SToRESoPEN
FROM 8 TO 9
Relief Granted Merchants
Of Quad Cities by
Committee.

Chicago, Dec. 12-All regu.
lstjons Of the Illinois public
utilities commission ON the use
Of coal were Withdrawn, effec.
tive at 1901, midnight, Mon.
day morning, by the commits.
sion today. +. W. Proctor, re.
gi0nal fuel chairman, and G. w.
Reed, fuel director Of the north.
western region, gave their con.
sent to the step.
Federal regulations Laid down
by DR.. Garfield are mot affect
ed.
Proctor and Reed also N.
thorised the withdrawal Of reg.
ulations on hest, light and
power in the district supplied
by the Commonweslth Edison
company and Public Service
company, which have An inde-
pendent supply Of coal on
hand.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
The Weather

e.
Snow and much colder tonight
with . cold wave. Temperature be-
low zero Saturday morning or
Saturday night. ! Saturday gener-
ally fair and colder. Fresh north
west winds tonight.
Highest yesterday, %; lowest
last night, q.
Wind velocity miles per hour.
u m. I'm I'm.
yester. yester. today
Dry bulb ......25 1T rs
Wet bulb ......22 "a Is
Rel. humid. ..57 66 50
River stage 5.3. no change in last
"a hours.
J.. \. sHER1ER llstsorolosist.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
BROKE Conixact.

Amplifying the resolution tAq
OPERATOR statement said th3
"miners' strike vas In direct viola1
ton Of . wage contract" and that
the present settlement lefk thom
'free to violate any other odnkf6c3,
they nay mako e ta1e z. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12

London, Thursday, Dec. 11.-Bol-
shevik attacks continue along the
front south Of the Gulf
of Finland and east Of Narva, ac-
cording to an Official Esthonian
dispatch Wednesday night. Bitter
fighting has been, going on but all
attacks have been repulsed by the
Esthonians, 1t is said.
Another Reverse.
London, Dec. IAN official
statement issued by the war Office
today says volunteers Of General
Denikine's army so miles east of
Kieve, have been driven out of
Piryatin nin the government Of
P0ltava.
The statement says the Denikine
forces have fallen back to q defen-
sive line along the Poltava-Kiev
railway but are defending them
selves successfully In position en-
circling Kiev on a 20 mile radius.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
HEAVY LOSSES.
AGAIN MET BY ].
GEN. DENEKINE

London, Dec. 12.-TAe cap.
ture Of Kharkov, In southern
Russia, which has been ono Of
the bases Of General Denikine,
was announced I'm . Moscow
Official dispatch received by
wireless today.
The occupation Of Walk, about
20 miles southwest Of Khark0v,
also Is claimed By t. bolshe-
Wiki.
London dispatches on the
Russian situation today, report
ed the soviet troops within 80
miles Of Kharkov, which the Dol.
sheviki were approaching in
their general offensive along
several hundred miles Of the
southwestern front.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12

Columbus, Ohio. Dec. H.
'Bituminous coal mining in Ohio,
partly resumed yesterday. was ex-
pected to be increased considerably
today. and by Monday It was ex-
pected by operators and miners
leaders that normal production
would prevail.
So far a. has been learned here
not one local Of the United Mine
Workers In Ohio has voted to re-
main idle regardless Of the Indian
apolis settlement.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-12-12
CONTINUED on Page Thirteen)

ploying places be kept running, or
else there would be little need of
retailers keeping their establish
ments poem. for the working man
would be cut down to bare neces-
stiles.
The menace., 1919-04-19

competent statesmen strive to separate church and
state
And education, which was formerly an asylum
of virtues when suppressed by the agents of popery
has become "a receptacle Of vices" because sup
ported by the people. This is strange doctrine to
Americans, save to those Americans who know the
true nature Of the papal system and how it has al
ways opposed every educational program it could
not control
So far as the fear of God is concerned, it differs
radically from the fear of priests and purgatory
which papal ineubators Of superstition inculcate
And, if the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom
its being so does not nvaidae the related fact that
the loUe Of God and goodness is the perfection Of
wisdom.
What is lost if fear disappears from the school
ROOM and righteous affection takes its placeY And
wherein is it profitable to retain fear Of purgatory
in the schoolroom to the exclusion Of respect for
truth and reality9
This Benedictine bumcombe would be disgusting
even If it were decent enough to refrain from re-
Ggious verbiage; but, when such TRADE against
genuine education is masked behind religious pre-
tense it is about as near blasphemy as such char
acter can get.
Secular education, "a receptacle Of vices!'' The
public school, "a receptacle of vices!" All liberal
institutions for the enlightenment of youth, ere.
ceptacles of vicesl"
A receptacle is a receiver or container There.
fore receptacle of vices is receiver or contaner
Of vices What vices do the public schools receive
and contain? Are the thousands of teachers and
The millions Of students in the public school the
vices it contains2
Pope Benedict's lucubration, cast in the compl
Gated lingo Of fine Italian indirectness, may be q
very gentle medium Of bitter denunciation. It may
be very polite way Of calling American teachers
and American pupils vicious But the accusation
is none the less insulting to the millions who have
taught and learned the practical lessons of youth
in the schools Of their choice as well as of their
country.
How many more such eruptions Of peeved pope.
and blatant archbishops will be needed to dispe
popular illusions concerning poperyY How many
more attacks on the public school by the monarch
and minister's of ecclesiastical Rome will be needed
TO teach citizens Of the republic the true nature anc
purpose of the papal system and its pretended re
hgionf
The menace., 1919-04-19
K. Of c. For Booze and Cigarettes

f SUCH PROOF WERE NEEDED the knights OF
Columbus are proving themselves worthy sons of the
Church Of Rome. In addition to their boastfu report
showing that than half Of the money they spent for
the soldiers went for cigarettes they trying to oudo
the cardinals and archbshops Of Rome in their espousal
of the holy saloon
William j. Mulligan who is chairman of their COM
mittee activities recently gave interview which
appeared in the daily press Of April wherein he could
not refrain from expressing the Roman Catholic hatred
of temperance Referring to the soldiers that are yet
overseas, he beed them with this typical KnghtofCo-
lumbus falsehood:
Quite few Of these boys will probably stay the other side
they used to the idea that they home arid
country after the first of July They that the government did
them trick when prohibition put through and to get
they will stay where bacchus reigns supreme.
The public will be at liberty to decide whether Multi
gan actually heard unfortunate Roman Catholic so
der trained In parochia Schools speak against temper
ance whether he made his vicious libel out of whole
cloth But in this interview he has rendered valuable
service Christian and moral fathers and mothers
more clearly the spirit and ideals of the blatant papa Sec
tartan gang to whom they required to give about
$35, 10000 in the joint war drive last fall.
1t is also hoped that the great but creduous proh-
bton organizations and forces will be able in
lure to correct their belief that the Knights Of Columbus
and the Roman hierarchy good citizens and friends Of
politicians and enhroned princes of Rome in midst
to feed the boys hundreds of millions of cigarettes
and thousands of hogsheads of holy booze.
When will the public fully realize that popery is
remote from Christianity midnight is from noon? The
papa system in the endless assortment of its militant
cret raerntes makes blatant pretense OF beneYoence
in order to obtain funds wherewth to degrade and demo
aze every community and every element it is permitted
Ito enter and contaminate
The menace., 1919-04-19

PaDaI-Bo|Sheyiki Alliance
N HER WILDERNESS OF MENDACII

III N HER WILDERNESS OF MENDACITY, there is
probably no political falsehood that Rome utters
more persisenty than that papists are more patri-
otc and especially that they have respect for law
full authority, than other people The ceaseess intrigue
OF the PapaIrish with the enemy during the war is
stunning answer to this typical Roman Catholic falsehood
But Associated Press reports from central Europe
are now giving still more effective answer Those reports
show two important facts The first is that every papa
stronghold in the wreck of the late Teutonc empires
seeking alliance with the boshevih of Russia and the
second fact is that soviet terrorsts in Russia torurg
to bishops and priests of the Orthodox church.
while the Jesuit priests of Rome enjoy complete safety in
Bavaria Austria Hungary and other boshevlk lands.
These conditions do not indicate that Rome has any
real interest either favorable unfavorable in the boil
Bheyi movement They simply show that the papa sys-
TEN is ready to join hands with any combination Of vio
ence and murder to accomplish the overthrow of its po
itcal adversaries Remembering that Bavaria and Hun
gary are the Roman Catholic Gibraltars in central E-
rope the public will the force and significance Of the
following Associated Press news:
Berlin April 3The Bavarian government has begun negoa-
tons for the conclusion OF alliance with Russia according to ad
The Bavaan Vos Zetung PEOPLES News) explains that the
governments action due to the fact that the food supply from the
entente insufficient and adquay assured whereas grain is OBJ
! tainabe from Russia
The Tdges zeg daily News reports that the Hungarian die
tator Bella Ku arrived in Munich Wednesday, accompanied by
large suite This report has not been confirmed.
The following Associated Press dispatch from Lon
don OF the date indicates something of the atrocOs
being meed out to the clergy Of the Orthodox
church in Russia while Roman bishops and priests seem
to frateze with the terrorss in Bavaria and Hungary
London via Montreal April 9The Siberian minister Of justice
in report dealing with the atrocities committed by the boshev
prior the evacuation Of PERM Russia lays special stress the
tortures inflicted on the clergy.
Archbishop Andronique it asserted buried alive while
Archbishop Of Therngov who ouneyed from Perm Moscow OBJ
tain information concerning Archbishop Andronque said to have
been killed.
Bishop Theophanu after having suffered great torture finally
drowned by successive mmerons through hole made in the
ice, says the reports.
The official list of casualties contains the of fifty priests
who were butchered at Perm
The Inquisition and the frghtful massacre of st.
Bartholomew Day perpetrated against Protestants by
popery in the sixteenth century, rivaled in endish
brutality by the wholesale murders here reported But
then, Roman bishops and priests seem to be per-
fecty safe They probably intriguing secretly with
world in medieval or modern times without the secret col
fusion and support of popery.
The menace., 1919-04-19
The "HoIy" Roman Circus

A Ii GAELIC GOTHAM is AGOG with excitement
. ~ over the coming 'holy' Roman show when the
= - pope's archbishop of that papa province will
be elevated to the throne of his sarapy and receive the
homage Of his clergy.
The New York Tribune Magazine, of March %, says
that it will be celebration the like of whose pagan spen-
dor has seldom been in the eete East The bar
barrie pagaentry of the orient is to be outdone and no
prince of India installed with pomp than
will attend this Inauguration Of Pope Benedicts chief
agent in his New York office.
The "hoy" man first blesses the ''holy'' oil on
hoy Thursday; marches in procession with priests and
acoyes to the portals of hoy ST. Patricks Cathedral
kisses the crcx salted with smoke from the censer-
pots of attending priests then the tworng performance
begins with two choirs in antphonal singing of the royal
paen "Sacerdos ct P0nfeG" and "Ecce Sacerdos Mag-
mus" (behold the great priest)
Then, led by cross bearer (not Cyrenian) the
procession will proceed to the high altar and thence to
his throne with mitre on his head that marks his minis
teral authority derived from the trpecrowned monarch
of ST. Peters and the vatican.
Seated on his throne he will receive the formal hon-
age OF the clergy who will henceforh assist him admin
stering the law Of popery. Wears and members
Of the late archbishops council will kneel and kiss his
hands or feet according to instructions.
Having thereby brought all the lesser clergy of the
province under his sway he will then lay aside gloves and
mtre to knee hmby before the popes personal repre-
sentative from Rome and renew his oath to support his
sovereign the pope in all his claims and pretense to the
papal pontcae including his claim to the very pace of
Almighty God on earth"
Instead of an oath renouncing allegiance to foreign
thrones princes potentates and powers such as is rea
sonaby required from other aliens seeking citizenship he
will renew his allegiance to the autocrat who claims to
rule the earth by divine right from his throne in Rome
And this in country where democratic simplicity is
the mark Of honest leadership among people whose re-
gous Hope was born in manger and lived simple life
Of service in behalf Of humanity.
The "holy" Roman circus is indeed show in more
than ones for it not only affords the opportunity
for the ppes arstocracy to parade themselves before the
gaping mob but shows the ruenatre Of this thing which
calls itself tous but the regaa adopts the
mones asses the privileges and conducts itself in ev-
cry particular like the aristocratc court Of heather
potentate.
The menace., 1919-04-19
r1T7AsT WEEK WE CALLED ATTENTION
passions?

n
IILl to another denunciation of the public schools
V,6sl made by one Of the popes exalted agents,
ASAA1 Archbishop Glennon of st. Louis. It was in
the month of March that Glennon sermonized in his
fve-mill dollar untaxed cathedral to the effect
that public education is German" is a monopoly,
and is pagan. 1t now transpires where he got the
inspiration to renew the Roman attack on American
schools.
On January q Pope Benedict dated and dis
patched the letter which is published on page two
Of the Brooklyn IN. " Tablet Of April 5, 1919.
InaSmuch as it appears in English on the pages Of
an official Roman Catholic organ, we assume it to be
authentic and correctly translated.
The letter, as whole, is sort of greeting, en-
couragement and exhortation to the socalled Chris
tian Brothers who are organized and equipped to
teach the tenets of popery in the popes schools
which operate in this country in competition with
the liberal schools maintained by the states
1t opens with the customary pow WOW and ends
with the usual apostolic benediction which seems SO
essential to such communications Of his imperial will
to his emsSares in this country but its essence and
its sole of interest to Americans is to be seen
in the two paragraphs which are reproduced above
just as they appeared in the Brooklyn paper.
To understand those paragraphs Alright, and to
get the force as well as the meaning of what they
contain, it is necessary to remember that when a
pope or any OF his ecclesiastical agents speak or
write of "the church" they mean their own So
called church They recognize the existence of no
other, and deny the existence Of Christian religion
other than the one they pretend to monopolize.
With those facts in mind, the reader realizes that
his papal majesty is grieved because many men in
high places strive with all their power to dssever
the school from the maternal (or paternal) vigil
ance (or ownership and controD Of the (Roman
Catholic) church"
We dare say that men in low places, as we'll as
high are also intent on keeping Rome's clutches of
the schools Of America but his popeshp is no more
concerned with the wishes of meek and lowly Amer
leans than with the precepts of the meek and lowly
Nazarene.
These men in high places college presidents and
other educational oficials) are called "lamentably
deficient" in christian spirit because they strive
powerfully to separate church and school Just as
The menace., 1919-04-19
EXTRACT FROM POPE'S letter

To Superior General Of His Soced Christian Brothers in the
U S. Dated at Rome Jan. 27, 1919.
wTIS SCARCELY CREDIBLE how Iamentaby deficient through
out the world the Christian spirit In the education of
youth The fact Is that many In high places strive
with all their power to dsseVer the school maternal
vigilance of the church, in order thereby Introduce purely
secular teaching and thus gradually suppress everything that
pertains to religion.
HENCE, WHAT OUGHT TO BE AND FORMERLY WAS AN
ASYLUM OF VIRTUES, Is IN A GREAT MEASURE CONVERTED
INTO RECEPTACLE OF VICES let the fear of God
which IS the beginning of Wisdom disappear from the school,
what is to prevent the young in their rashness
petuosy from being carried away by the violence of their
passions?
The menace., 1919-04-19

Have you ordered your supply
of The Woman's s Edition No. 418,
which will be dated May 81 Time
is passing, and May Third will
soon be here. Order now and give
us time to handle your order to
best advantage. A bundle Of one
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for rs cents, or single copies to
separate addresses for one cent
each. .,....,.
The menace., 1919-04-19
What Does This Mean2

New York, March 29.-In rec.
ognition Of the Var work Of the
Knights Of Colurabus, James A.
Flaherty Of Philadelphia, Supreme
Knight Of the order, has been
notified by the secretary Of state
of the vatican at Rome Of his cleo
ton to the Arcadia, q literary or
ganization founded by Queen
Christina Of Sweden in the sew
enteenth century, it was an
nounced here tonight. A diploma
and medal Of membership are now
on their way from Rome to
Philadelphia.
Among the few American mem.
bers Of the Arcadia are President
Wilson, elected on his recent visit
to Rome; Cardinal Gibbons and
Archbishop Mundelein of Chicago.