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The sun., 1919-01-05
By HARRY ESTY DOUNCE.
NAPT. RADCLYFFE DUGMORE,

|APT. RADCLfFFE DUGMOhE,
~ who has written a new tale for
BOYS, is no mean zoologist; he Is right up
with the best photographers of wild life;
he is handy man with either pen or
brush: and outside the Indian villages and
the real backwoods in the Big Bush of
the North, they don't make better woods
men than he is. He is +. X. g. S, +. X.
p. S. and so on. He is also a veteran
of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and
was gassed for life-near Ypres, believe.
That last is a thing Of private knOwl-
edge and mention of it may be very bad
manners, but whatever any one thinks of
the manners, no one will think the worse
of the Captain.
His dedication reveals the fact that he
has three kiddies II his own, who bossed
the writing Of Adrentures IN Bearer
Stream Camp, which is all about Jack and
Charlie, and how they get shipwrecked on
the wild coast of Newfoundland with
nothing but their knives and a few trout
flies; and they build huts, kill big game,
make Crusoe clothes and srowshoes and
things, and triumphuntly subsist through
a glorious year by virtue Of their wood
craft
Naturally, with such supervision, the
book is dead sure bulls eye on the target
at which it was aimed. 1t will fetch the
kids all right; they'll eat il up. Some of
their captious elders (none of whose bust
ness it Isl will probably pick flaws in it
for the reason that although Capt. Dug
morc's beasts and birds and fishes and
plants are introduced with unimpcachable
fidelity to nature, his boy heroes are GER
tainly tallish pair of marvel manipula
tors For which the youngsters will like
EN- all the better, and the stuffy old
Daddies and Unclcs can read the hunting
experiences of Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
Poor, hobbled, ovcrconscientious grown
up YOU can't go The .SuisS Family Rob
insOn any more. Don't you wish you couldF
But hand it to Junior, etat. Q, and don't
expect him on time for meals till the end
of his third reading. The principle goes
double for Adventures ia Bearer Stream
Camp-not TO mention Harry Castlcmon
works, Henty's, Kirk Munroe's and the
works of every other worker whose boys
books boys can be counted on to like.
With one superb exception in The Jungle
Books.
Just for the fun Of II the writer will
bet his hat chats are So this fall) that
wien those Dugmore klddies come of the
Jack and Charlie age, no matter how
many Boy Scout tests they may have
passed by then, their father will not
maroon them ON the Newfoundland coas,
with such implements as Charlie and Jack
originally had along and leave EN- 10 put
in a year!
Take the matter Of bows and arrows.
~.a-4 ~ d. s.....- So. -; --. go.
The sun., 1919-01-05

Men m Var, by Andreas Latzko, which
was withdrawn from circulation by Bonn
G. Liveright, the publishers, last June, Is
again being distributed The book was
suppressed in the Central Empires wien
il first appeared in 1917 and IL author
compelled 10 fee for safety 10 Switzer-
land The publishers announce that Men
~ War has already gone into lis eighth
printing in this country and INTO lis third
printing IN England
The sun., 1919-01-05

would use the slang of the Archangels
and the coppers would pinch him for lese
Mayiluwor
The pagan" to-day secs life from an
Il" train. He peeps behind curtains while
the train rumbles on and he makes i'm
personal notes about life On the pave
mcnt beneath. the secrets Of the apart
ment above and the rain clouds and stars
overhead. He assemblies all sorts of peO-
pie in his train, does George Moore, and
he revitalizes each one, romances about
them. flies OF into magic teSserate, Of
fancy apropos Of priest, politician or
a human being. The subway is stonily
puritan in its immaculate opaqueness.
Your pagan" Ia Moore rides on the top
of a bus or on the IL
Not for the Matinee Girl.
In this fiorid and difTuse A Story Tell
er's Holiday there is much riding m rail-
way carriages, adventures by night in the
ruins of the Dublin of the late unpleas-
antness, and a great deal of Journalistic
tictac and efiorescent mental flub. The
book is not for the Young Thing-she who
sits wonder eyed and caramel jawed at
the Wednesday matinee, her soul CON-
posing sonnets TO the heroic legs and
Hamletic eyes of the hero Of thousand
and one boudoirs
In his Le0re- Taking, which does for
preface TO A Story Teller's Holiday land
Georges leave-takinGs are his camoufase
for his eternal returns), he says:
George Moore was never welcome in
Grubb street, for he wished to write for
men and women of letters, and this class
The sun., 1919-01-05

is not recognized by the libraries as read
50, but it j. 50; for while there are books
for astronomer, for scientists, for doctors,
for lawyers. for golfers, for crickCterS, for
chess PLAYERS. for yachtsmcn, and as for
Young girls IN their teens voiuninous lit
erature awaits them every year. there are
no books written Tor men and women Of
letters exclusively. Ey private printing
our author has cut himself off from many
readers. but the alternative was for him
10 cease writing.
All Of which i partly true and reminds
us of what Huge, Rebel. French writer,
said regarding the museums, art galleries
and libraries of Paris. that they should
be closed to the people. There is some
thing in this when one looks dolefully at
the late struggle 10 make America safe
for prohibition
Alec the Smart.
In the pages following the preface
Moore wanders all over ireland, literally
and historically. In the course of his
foraging he runs across a half wittcd fern
gatherer, one Alec Trussclhy, who, like all
half -wiited creatures who live i'll the open,
has more 10 reveal than was ever found in
our city mans philosophy. o Jim!
Alec has private la'chkey to a private
mansion in the Irlsh skies and he lets
George in on tiptoe. where. shoes in hand
so as not TO disturb Mrs. Grundy, doing
in the porter's lodge, they emerge into the
Tower of Forbidden Legends. Alec has
all of ancient ireland at his tongues end;
he knows all abont those ancient TristanS
The sun., 1919-01-05

ADVENTURES IN BEAVER STREAM
CAMP. By CAPT. A. RiDCLYFFE DUG-
MORE. Doubleday, Page & Co. $l.35.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10

second for a number of years will be under
coercive regulation. There are no strings,
however, upon bolshevism. Nobody knows
what it may do Or how far it may spread 1t
may keep fighting indefinitely. III Germany,
with hands tied, is attacked, those who did the
tying will have to also do the ighting>~
This is one of the contingencies which the
peace treaty does not, and in the nature of
things cannot adequately provide for No
doubt there many similar imperfections,
which have defed the best efforts of the franz
of the compact The senate, with its limi-
tations of knowledge and time, will do well to
take the European end of the deal largely on
faith, confne its attention to the sections which
directly affect this country. and be not too
blamed particular undertake too much hair
splitting over those matters
The period which has been devoted to a
settlement already is too long. Some observers
profess to believe Germany even now is--on
the verge of complete bolsheyism. That may
be propaganda put out to secure easier terms,
but it is worth considering. at any rate II
the country reaches such a condition before
the reconstruction is well started the al
lies will be put in an embarrassing situation,
for the only way peace terms then be en-
forced will be through complete and long con-
t1nued military occupation That will be
slow and expensive process and the results
will be anything but certain.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
In the Days News

Sir Thomas ]. Upton, the famous
merchant and sportsman who has
been in America to discuss prelim-
inaries for an international yachting
contest, enters upon his 10th year
today. The man whose two chief de-
sires have been to feed the world
and to lift the America cup, began
life as an errand boy in = store IN
Glasgow, the city of his birth. The
life did not suit him, so he ran away
from home and came to America as
a stowaway. First he went to South
Carolina and worked on a planta-
ton. Then he located in New YORK.
He could find little to do in the
metropolis, so he went home, traV-
cling again as a stowaway. His faith
er had saved a little money and
with it the boy was enabled to set
up a little grocery business. 1t pros
pered, for while in America Upton
had studied the American way OF
displaying and selling goods, and ne
used his knowledge to such advan-
tage that he was soon able to open
other stores until he had a line of
them all over the United Kingdom,
and had built up the greatest sys-
TEN of food supply in the world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
What You May Do to Help.

Rock Island will officially take notice of
health promotion week, which begins tomor-
row, but not much success is to be expected
paless there is individual cooperation. In or
der to cooperate the individual must under
stand Just what is expected of kim
9sk7 The first thing iss to clean the home prem
fses and get the rubbish out in the alley where
the city wagons can haul it away. By pitch
ing in together this dreaded spring task can be
finished inside of a week.
- Another thing the householder should do
+ Is to see that there is a suitable garbage re
.eeptacle, with a tight lid, and place to keep
it, preferably of the reach of foraging dogs.
asfl If the screens are not up get them out, re-
pair and paint them and put them in place.
Be sure that there are screens for the cellar
and also for the attic windows.
If there is a baby in the family have it
weighed, measured and scored.
no If there are school children, show your in
gterest III the exercises in the schools.
ah If you have not had a physical examination
recently arrange for your physician to look
you over
as~rIt isn't much that is asked of any one per-
son, but if there is general compliance the
aggregate result will be of incalculable benefit
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10

having had his ways made smooth,
and he cannot stand the rough
road of life. In childhood Ihe is
more difficult to get along with
than are children blessed with
brothers or sisters; he wants to
dominate everybody, and when he
finds he can't do so he whines and
bowls and seeks support from his
parents who unreasonably assume
that he is being unfairly treated.
A boy came whimpering to his
father, complaining that a play
mate had chased him out of the
yard and knocked him down. The
boys mother favored measures of
reprisaL But the father went out
and called the playmate. who ex-
planned that the boy had three
times kicked over a sand fort his
young sister had constructed, SO
the only thing to do was to drive
the bully away. The father compli-
mented the playmate for insisting
on fair play and sent the whimp-
ering bully off to bed for the rest
of the day. He asked my opinion
of the treatment. / thought it was
all right, but a prophylactic would
have been better. The youngster
needed a brother or sister to share
things with him,
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
How to Keep a Stomach In.
1 am fourteen years of age and
l have a rather full stomach My
mother insists that l should wear
q corset, but / don't want to, be-
cause you have said that corsets
do girls more harm than good.
Can you suggest anything else l
can do to keep my stomach in?
"a. F. L.
ANSWER-Mother and l do not
agree very well, it seems. Physi-
cal training will enable you to
keep your stomach in. If your
school gives no physical education
write me again, inclosing the es-
sential S. A. E., and repeating your
question. l will tell you how to
prove to mother that a girls ap-
pearance, as we'll as her health, is
to be improved without the use of
abdominal splints or braces.
Wetting the Bed.
Our two children, aged three and
four, are both healthy, but they
wet the bed every night. Can you
the cause, and a remedy?
MRS. +. c.
ANSWER-The cause is usually
fatigue due to
faulty training and discipline.
You should read our monograph on
bed-wetting for suggestions as to
the successful management
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
The Senate and the Peace Treaty.

3 Hints being dropped of opposition to
=the ratification of the treaty with Germany
when the compact before the United
Estates senate. 1t may be- merely the vague
--surm.ses of newspaper correspondents who
have space to fill and salaries to earn It is
hardly conceivable that the senate, however
strongly it may be animated by hostility to-
ward the president, will interpose any obiec
@tions which will seriously delay resumption
@of normal intercourse between nations
=ate sch.sm tending to reduce the pressure
upon Germany to comply with the imposed
terms without further trouble.
Undoubtedly there flaws in the treaty
which will become more apparent discus
sion progresses. For instance, it is evident
that the limiting of German ornaments in
@yn4yes obligation, in certain contingencies
for the allies to protect German territory from
outside aggression.
Roughly classified. there are three groups
in Europe to be dealt with. On the one hand
the allies and the neutraIs, which, it is expect
led, will be aligned with them; the other
5hand the central powers and, independent of
-both and so far refusing to work in harmony
with either, the Russian soviet government.
THE machinery of the league of nations is
expected to bind the first named, while the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
Today'S Events

Close of the United States Victory
loan campaign.
Observance of Confederate Mem
orial day in North Carolina. South
Carolina and Tennessee.
Today is the SEVENTEEN ami
versary of the historic Aston Place
opera house riots in New York
City.
The name Abraham L'ncocn"
will be bestowed upon 12,500-ton
cargo steamer to be launched today
at Gloucester, n. ].
Flyers from ten American unl-
versities and colleges are to take
part in a balloon contest scheduled
to start today from-Arkon, o.
Seven thousand members of the
uniformed force and about 5000 re-
serves are expected to march today
in the annual police parade in New
York City.
Ogden, Utah, is to be the scene of
an interesting celebration today,
commemorating the joining and
completion of the Union and Central
Pacific railroads on this date so
years ago.
AS a preliminary to the worlds
cotton conference. to be held in New
Orleans next October, a commission
composed of northern and southern
cotton-mill owners, experts and
financiers will sail from New York
today for Europe to make an inves-
tigation of textile conditions abroad.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
Buy Bonds for Mothers.

e,s-ls- Tomorrow is Mothers day The woman S
Liberty loan committee of Illinois has wired
the following appeal to newspapers and heads
Of local campaign organizations throughout
the state:
arc As final effort toward making the
Victory loan a real credit to Illinois let
57s4 us finish this great drive Saturday with
a magnificent climax by campaign to
- buy bonds for mother instead of flowers
49, May TO- Bonds will be a much
- practical gift.
The proceeds of Victory bonds will pay for
the things necessary to the conduct of a war
ssfeught for purposes that our mothers sacrificed
that which was nearest and dearest to them
the lives of their loved ones We should buy
now as unselfshly as these mothers gave.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
E4Qart @pHOn10I
11,!1DTOD1On1cC j
" 4 MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON \
BY TEMPLE

Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am a girl
sixteen and chum with girl SIX
teen. Lately she goes with other
girls and only goes with me when
there isn't anyone else. This hurts
my feelings terribly, as l think lot
of her-more than l do of anybody
besides my father and brother. She
has better clothes than l and when
ever see anything she has new it
hurts me so l cant help but cry.
But l never let her see me cry ex-
cept the other night She begged me
to tell her what the matter was, put
| told her it was nothing.
l don't see why she doesn't want
to go with me as she used to. Sne
always tells me her troubles. DO
you think she likes me or just goes
with-me to film when there are no
other girls to go with?
DAISY WON'T TELL.
A girl of about your age passes
through a period of change She
ceases to be a child and begins TO
enjoy the pleasures of young wom-
anhood. Perhaps you are more o;
little girl than your friend and now
SAiC A1nNo EESAEAA III OAdEA 81 10.
This mJst not discourage you, pe
cause at the right time you will
change too and when you see things
from the same point of view you
will be close friends again.
Let your love for the girl be too
great to permit jealously or envy.
The fact that she has pretty clothes
should make you happy rather than
sad. 1t is well to remember, too, that
clothes are attractive,
everything depends upon the charm
of the person Who wears them. You
can be just as well liked if your
clothes are not as pretty as the
clothes of your friend
Do not regard yourself as second
choice. Welcome your friend Waen
she wants You and sympathize with
her when she tells you her secrets
and troubles. Some day she will ap-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
3 A Tri-City Auditorium.

Amoo grotto should be encouraged in it's
efforts to give Rock Island an auditorium.
With suitable building, conveniently placed
and properly managed. Rock Island could be
made the center for tri-city social, educational
and entertainment enterprises. In the past
this locality has missed great many of the
good things to which population and wealth
entitled it for the simple reason that there
was no suitable place, centrally located IN
which the people of,the three cites could pat
ronize them. In selecting a site for an audi
forum convenience of access or the people
of Moline and Davenport should be taken into
consideration If possible there should also
be ample parking space for automobiles near
by The success or failure of the venture
in the end may hinge upon this, for the motor
is a most important factor nowadays in as
semhling a tri-cty audience
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10

In the judgment of the grand jury Henry
Denhardt was justified in killing Louis He'll
wagon. The fact that indictment was voted
however, does not definitely close the incident.
Failure to vote as true bill at a given sitting
does not bar such action at subsequent ses-
sions. Such cases are never outlawed. The
only way to vindicate Denhardt is to indict him
and place him on trial Then. if he is acquitted
the constitution guarantees him immunity from
further prosecution. Whatever the facts may
be the real interests of the defendant would
seem to demand going through with the forms
prescribed by law for the safeguarding of HUI
man life
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
Brad's O. Verse
OLD DOC TIME.

Let's take our ills to old Doc
Time. and let it go at that; he has
the dope that's good and prime for
feaR ones or for fat. He's cured
so many. aches and pains; he's
heard so many signs; he's sooth-
ed so many weary brains, and
wiped so many eyes. Adown the
dusty lane of years how many
hopes lie low, how many means,
how many tears, how many griefs
we know. But old Doc Time just
plugs along, prescribing as he
goes. and by and by We sing a
song, forgetful of our woes; he
heals the hurts of, other days, he
smoothes away the cares, he irons
out the wrinkled ways-there's
virtue in his wares. Old Doctor
Time, your bitter pills full often
make us frown; yet they are good
for sundry ills though big and
hard to down: full oft we think
your hand is rough and that your
voice is grim: yet we'll we know,
it is your stuff that keeps our
hearts in trim. And as the years
go drifting down into the past sub
lime, there's not a friend in all
the town as coed as old Doc Time.
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
THE DAILY SHORT STORY

stood spellbound and shamed. The
| caricature of Bentley Wood had
been unheeded. Beside it was a two
sheet placard bearing a photogra oh
of Bentley Wood, and announcing
that he, hero of Chateau Thierry,
would tell his story of vaIor and
suffering and exhibit relics of that
world noted battle crisis.
And then a romance percolated
through persistent local gossiu.
Bentley Wood had been the close
comrade of Lieutenant EIsner
abroad. He had been with him
when he died, had brought from
him a last message, to his mourn
ing sister, and had become a well
come guest at the Elsner home.
Duke Burson and his chums
skunk out of the lecture hall lis
tening TO the cheers of a ferventIy
patriotic crowd two evenings later.
The perpetrators of the caricature
insult became known and Burson
and his accomplices were strictly
tabooed.
In fact, Duke Burson left Alton
for a week when it was reported
that, when the early sorrow caused.
by her brothers death had abated.
Wanda Elsner was to become the
bride OF the war hero whose
marks of service only seemed to
giorify him in the estimation of a
true and loving finacee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-10
THE ONE LONE CHILD.

When 1 began medical practice
it was in a small town. had two
assets, namely, faith in people and
the stimulation of honest competi-
ton, for country doctors, take them
by and large, are on plane about
eight notches higher than city doc
tors Out of these assets, after a
reasonable time which seemed
very unreasonable then, I present
ly acquired a horse and carriage,
and it was no ordinary turnout
either. My horse was a sorrel with
a face and disposition that went a
long way to neutralize the chill
ing effect of my own. l loved my
horse and she loved me. But it
used to make me tired to have the
good farmers whom we served look
US over appraisingly and remark:
do you drive only the one horse,
Doctor?" That was competition,
you see-they fancied a doctor
ought to run a small livery stable
of his own-> When l moved to the
city / brought my horse along,
but alas, the atmosphere proved
deleterious, and with a heavy
heart / had to let her go in favor
of the gasoline wagon. In the city
l soon lost my childlike faith in
people, and discovered that doctors
are only too human. In the city
people rarely ask a doctor if he
drives only the one car. Now, why
is that?
The only child undoubtedly de-
serves much sympathy from the
world that he doesn't get, and gets
much sympathy from his parents
that spoils him. He learns not
how to endure self-denial but how
to get the most out of selfishness.
All the love and petting of the fam
lily comes to him and handicaps
him in his preparation for his bat
tie with the unsympathetic world.
Mind, the only child is not neces-
sarily selfish, pampered, humored,
undisciplined and spoiled, but it is
infinitely more difficult to spoil a
child who has one or more broth
ers or sisters to divide the pleas
ures and responsibilities of child
hood with him.
There is a physical cause for
~one-child sterility" in far too
many instances, a cause of which
the mother is tragically innocent.
There is a moral cause in as many
instances, but one removed from
the souIle& institution of an in
tentionally childless union.
The only child is accustomed to