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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
Junkinq Our Air Fleet.

Someone started report that the air equip
ment of this country was to be sold for junk,
and Immediately a great protest was made in
the public press. without waiting to find out
whether there was any ground for the report
the anti-administrstion newspapers cut loose
with caustic line of comment
Now Acting Secretary of War Crowell states
that the department intends to keep 16 flying
fields and three balloon fields as part of the
permanent military establishment and to
store such material as there is no immediate
use for till we adopt some definite line of
policy
1t ought to be evident to all by this time
that those in authority have no intention of
doing anything that will cripple this country's
military naval strength till after interna-
tional problems are threshed out and it is de-
cided whether there is to be any general dis
arming done. Even then the matter is not one
that is likely to be dealt with in hasty manner.
Airplanes will require lots of storage room
and they will deteriorate rapidly. Besides, me-
chanical improvements in aviation will render
them obsolete in an Incredibly short period.
However, it would be folly to scrap our planes
and motors before settled policy in aviation
is decided upon and the fact is appreciated as
thoroughly in official circles as anywhere else
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

April % the Chicago Daily Journal will
round out rs years of usefulness celebrating
with diamond jubilee edition. Its career has
been unique in newspaper annals, for it is the
sole survivor of all it's contemporaries in IA
and of a great many others started since. 1t
ante-dates all present publications of its class,
not only in Chicago, but in Illinois and the
entire northwest.
When the Daily Journal came into exist
ence there not railroad in Chicago. Rock
Island struggling river village-a from
tier settlement-and the buffalo still grazed
the Iowa prairies not many miles away.
Four wars in which the United States was
involved have been fought since then There
nave been panics, floods and fire. Chicago has
become the greatest railroad center. The
human hand, with implements then undreamed
Of has remade the world.
Only by keeping true to its city, its state and
its country-by a record of consistent service
in the face of constantly changing demands
can a daily newspaper live long. More
power to the Daily Journal
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
A PAIR OF SHOES.
By RALHPH HAMILTON

Copyright, 1919, by Western News
paper Union.)
you're q good fellow" mumbled
Robert Ford, shoe merchant, but he
hiccoughed as he said it. Then he
profusely shook the hand of his
rescuer, for such Wylie Grier had
proved himself to be.
The latter, humbly appareled
wearing sadly broken shoes and a
battered hat, was a strong strange
contrast to the nattily attired Ford
The latter did not seem to mind that
one bit. Truly democratic gratitude
glowed upon the florid face of the
convivial shoe merchant. His al
coholic expansiveness had led to a
careless, swinging motion. Grier
had pulled him out of the way of a
bounding automobile. He had re-
cognized the rescue act in it's true
proportions.
You're a good fellow" he repeat
ed, land you just come with me,
and he linked his arm in that OF
Grier and led the way to his neat
up-to-date store. He gently urged
Grier to a seat, removed his hat and
although somewhat unsteady on his
pins, at once assumed the bearing
# a man engaged in real business.
Let me see," he unused audibly
about number nine will fill the bill"
But say" demonstrated Grier
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
GOOD T1D1NGs FOR SPRING BRIDES

keenly. Now-there's hope for
spring brides.
The powers that be have ordained
substantial slump in the price of
cotton. Muslirs of all sorts should
approach the normal shortly.
Woolens are to be lower, too, and
in time there may be relief for the
linen situation. Sheets and sim
liar household necessities soon
will be cheaper than they have
been. So the little bride prospec-
tive may feel encouraged in the
hope of preparing for the new life
on a not too bitterly stringent
basis, which is well if she be suffi-
GENTLY wise and far seeing to make
the material preparation most nee
essary of all.
New clothing and household lin
ems and pretty things" galore are
necessary for the brides traditional
entrance into her new kingdom, but
many a thoughtful bride of today
purchases only those articles
actually needed and with the
money thus saved buys war saw
ings stamps as a nice little nest
egg for the future. This modest
reserve cannot fail to mean more, in
the long run, than the additional
''pretties" so often scarcely worn.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
THE DAILY SHORT STORY

Couragement, did Wylie Grier. He
had been ION the water wagon" for
two months, and gradually, as his
poor, befogged brain had come out
from under the cloud of years of
to remorse, and that to memory,
and that to hope. He tried to re-
member the wife and two children
he had so cruelty abandoned,
whereas in the old, reckless days
he had sought only to forget them.
and there grew up within him a
longing, yearning, love restored
for all he had on earth to cling to.
Outside the shoe shop Grier MOTTO
ed what he had not seen before. Just
at the edge of the sidewalk was a
red, white and blue barrel. Upon it
was printed card: Give your old
shoes for the barefooted men and
women of Belgium" He made an
Involuntary movement to place his
discarded footwear in the barrel.
Then spasm of true emotion was
manifested in his face. In a flash
all that was generous and tender in
his nature came to the surface. He
walked over to a step, removed the
gift just awarded, put on the old,
broken shoes, deposited the new
ones in the barrel and left the
spot, head erect, pulses beating
fast, glad and proud that fate had
put it in his way to bring out the
best that was in him.
From beyond the store window
Ford had noted, first with curiosity.
then interest and finally with
mantling blush of shame, the act
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

feebly, 1--WE got no money
Who said you had? No need of
it," retorted Ford keenly.
And I'm not looking for pay for
common, friendly act
81 fancy 1 know how near that
machine grazed me. You're going to
get a pair of shoes free gratis.
Goodness knows, you need them"
and Ford selected a pair that his
clever eye discerned was suited to
heavy wear, fitted them, laced them
and bowed to this moneyless GUS
toner, but appreciated rescuer, as
courteously as though he were a
millionaire.
81 don't know how much to thank
you" spoke Wylie Grier. and there
was a little grateful catch in his
voice. Don't take me for a tramp
who would pawn or sell that COM
Portable footwear for a drink But
will you kindly do up the old ones
You see, I'm trying to get back to
responsibility and take all the odd
Jobs that come along. Sometimes
It's digging ashes and the old shoes
will do for that
Sure" assented Ford graciously,
"and say, when 1 think of that auto
mobile l sort of shudder. A drop
too much, a step too slow-and
bling but it was a narrow escape. ("
Then he slapped Grier cheerfully on
the shoulder. as if he was his friend
and hero and Grier left the store,
the bundle containing his old shoes
under his arm, proud, pleased and
encouraged.
For he felt that he deserved en-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

so clearly outlined that its noble
motive could not be misunderstood.
He ran to the door.
Hill You came back here" he
shouted after Grier, and grabbed
his arm and pulled him into the
store as Grier wonderingly ap-
preached him You" to a staring
clerk, pick out one pair of every
size in the establishment Oh, say,
I'm mean, selfish-a cad. You gave
up your best, and l the Dragging
patriot, the liberal Mr.. Ford,
donated twelve pairs of tooth pick,
out-of-style bumpers that would
make the Belgiums below if they
tried to wear them. o. Some one
kick me! And you-down and out?
Well, feel the lesson you've taught
me. I'll make you a man again"
Which he did. within a week. In
neat attire, shaven, engaging and
hopeful, Wylie Grier was a sort of
general utility man about the store,
earning respectable living.
One night the store was burglar
lied and the safe blown open. At
the cost Of a bullet in his arm,
Wylie Grier saved his employers
cash and goods. Ford hunted up the
deserted family. He prepared a
glad surprise for Grier by installing
them in a nearly furnished flat. He
led Grier thither one day, pushed
him through an open doorway. and
went on his way chuckling, gloat-
ing, running over with rare de-
light, while Wylie Grier laughed
and cried in turn for sheer 10y,
surrounded by wife and little ones.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
Household Hints

thickened with cream and a little
flour. When it is a fat chicken fry
out the pieces of fat, put in jelly
tumblers and use it to flavor
noodles. Put two teaspConfuls in
when the noodles are cooking;
makes them taste as if cooked in
chicken soup.
Spiced Prunes - Three pounds
medium sized prunes, one pound
1.-TWO cups) brown sugar. three
quarter cup vinegar, one-quarter
cup mixed whole spice cinnamon,
allspice, cloves, mace, one table
spoonful finely cut lemon rind. two
cups water, in which the prunes
were soaked. Put the sugar, wa
ter and spices on to boil slowly 20
minutes; the prunes nave been
washed and soaked over night,
then brought to the boiling point.
Drain the water off, and use two
cupfuls with the sugar After
spices and sugar have been boiled
pour it over the prunes and let
simmer 10 minutes. Much depends
on the prunes how long they must
simmer Some are much harder
than others; they must not break.
The spices can be tied in cheese
cloth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

something Of that sort, IN spite of our efforts
to remain In splendid isolation. AS a matter
of fact fear that still involved in
them. What is more, we see no immediate
prospects of getting out.
Certainly the natural barriers between US
and other nations are not going to become more
difficult to negotiate the years pass. Better
and faster ships, development CT flying, wire
less telegraphy and telephony are going to
draw all the peoples of the earth ever closer
and closer together. 1t will be infinitely harder
to keep out of the next war, should there be
one. than it was to keep out CT the last one.
Even Mr. Beveridge ought to know that Prob
ably he does, only he realizes that 1t is harder
to warm up audience with reason, however
sound, than to get them going by pumping the
old line of bunk into them, and the former
senator dearly loves applause.
In the last half century the country has
been dominated most of the time by politicians
who have held their jobs as a reward for tell
ing the people just such things as Mr.. Bever-
idge and most of the other vociferous oppo-
nents of league of nations are telling them
now. Why substitute new ammunition for the
kind that always heretofore has brought down
the meat?
The only way to keep aIoof from the affairs
of the world would be to shut ourselves up as
China once did, and it is a fair question
whether under modern conditions we should
be as successful as China in bringing
about complete isolation. In any event, the
only way to protect ourselves, if we do not
enter into a binding arrangement with other
nations for the elimination of war, is to make
ourselves so strong on land and sea and in the
air that other nation, nor any group of
nations will dare to defy US.
If Mr.. Beverage or the other gentlemen who
are trying to make capital out of opposition to
the league Of nations think that the people
of this country will consent to taxation, not
only to pay for the but to arm the country
against the whole world, then they surely have
read the signs wrong.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

spent the afternoon, drawing pic
lures for the wounded lads and
making sketches in their diaries.
He didn't say anything about this
to us, but we learned afterward
that the boys regarded the occa-
sion as a red-letter day for them.
1t gave them something pleasant
to talk about, and helped to break
the monotony of life.
Mr.. Goldberg visited Verdun.
and the American battlefields of
Belleau Wood, Vaux, st. Mihiel,
and the Argonne forest region.
He spent a night in a chateau on
big French farm, and was there
presented with a German rifle and
other trophies. The chateau was
built in fifteen hundred and some
thing, and is very picturesque.
The A. E. F. maintains it as a
night stopping place for visitors
from home who chance to come
that way in military automobiles.
While in France Mr.. Goldberg
met his friend, Joseph Cummings
Chase, official portrait painter of
the A. E. F., who had gone over to
paint generals for the war col
lege, and to make portraits of
doughboys decorated for valor.
He painted Mr.. Goldberg's picture,
too, with results shown above.
The galloping horse, seen arising
from the cigar smoke with his
anxious rider, was put in the pic
ture by Mr.. Goldberg himself at
the painters suggestion. The
painter believed that cartoonists
get their ideas out of smoke, just
like that. The reader may take
this for what it is worth. The
trip to England and France has
proved so interesting and valua-
BILE, and so productive of new ma
terial, that Mr.. Goldberg probably
will follow it up with other jaunts.
Such enterprises, are decidedly
worth while.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

Just as the peace conference
was about to begin, Cartoonist R.
l.. Goldberg concluded to follow
the precedent set by President
Wilson, and attend Without fur
Their ado he applied for a passport,
bought a ticket, and sailed.
Mr.. Goldberg did not really care
to attend the meetings with the
peace delegates. He was not par
ticularly concerned over interna-
tional settlements, believing the
president and Colonel House quite
competent to look after such mat
tiers for us, but he did want to see
how the peace-making machinery
operated. He also wished to make
further investigation of the night
life of Paris, and report, for the
benefit of bachelors and tired bus
mess men at home. Further, he
wanted to learn how the dough-
boys were enjoying themselves,
and to find out about trench mud.
and barbed wire, and coolies. If
there were any German souvenirs
to be picked up, he thought he
would get some of them, too.
All of these aims he has accom-
plished, and more. For several
weeks now his funny pictures, the
funniest he has ever made, have
been coming across to US, and
have been amusing thousands
daily. There are more of these
pictures to follow, although the
series will not continue much
longer.
Besides drawing pictures of
peace delegates, and trenches, and
dugoutS and pretty Partisan maid
ems, Mr.. Goldberg has had time
while in France to do a few other
things, too. He went one day to
the American hospital at Neuilly
with Red Cross nurse to see how
our wounded were cared for, and
instead of staying a half hour, he
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

Brides of the past year or so have
had a hard time getting their bridal
clothes together on anything like
a moderate allowance. Lingerie, to
begin with. has been so GEAR that
quality or quantity, as rule, must
be sacrificed. Table and household
linens have been practically pro-
hibitive in price, with gloves, shoes,
dress materials, buttons, almost
everything of which the little maid
fiuttering from one home nest to
another registers urgent need fol-
lowing close suit.
Il feel positively stingy. letting
the child go with such pitiful out
fit" many loving mother has
made recent, troubled plant.
Father, however, has felt the
bridal supplies not stingy but gem
erous when it came to paying the
bills. In some cases he has been
absolutely unable to meet his own
eager desires in such direction.
Even in the country, where clever
mothers and daughters, sewing to-
gether through quiet afternoons,
doing fancy work together in long,
happy evenings, turn out fairy
furnishings at infinitesimal cost,
the little bride prospective has felt
the pinch of war time prices
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
Reason VS.. Bunk.

God forbid" fervently proclaims former
Senator Beverage, that the American people
ever allow themselves to be chained to that
body of death, a permanent foreign political
alliance, involving them forever in historic au-
alien animosities, in racial and alien hatreds!"
If the situation calls for any well-turned
periods the ex-senator from Indiana will turn
them. Leave that to him.
The foregoing quotation is a fair sample
of the kind that some of our best orators are
pouring forth all over the length and breadth
of the land. The theme is one that readily
lends itself to the purpose of oral discussion,
being chock full Of the stuff that flights of
rhetoric are made of.
For instance the idea of a foreign political
alliance is one that never has taken we'll with
Americans. The general opinion has been that
we were so far away from menacing foreign
powers that we were out of range of invasion
and were sufficiently se1f-sustaining that
in case the dogs of war got loose in Europe
all we needed to do was to retire across our
own moat. pull up the drawbridge and whistle
till the scrap over. So kept out of
alliances and told Europe and the rest of the
world that we would run our own affairs and
do the umpiring in neighbors scraps on
this side of the Atlantic, too.
The plan worked perfectly till it was put
to the test. Then we discovered that it was
impractical. We found that modern methods
of transportation and communication, not to
mention modern fighting equipment, have made
the world so small that if serious trouble oc-
ours anywhere and lasts long enough it is
bound to draw every first class power, the
United States included. into it We tried our
best to keep out of the European cataclysm
and succeeded for nearly three years. Then
we discovered that even if we kept out Ger
many already had laid definite plans to attend
to our case as soon as she finished with Eng
land and France.
The ex-senator fears that we shall become
involved in "alien animosities. in racial and
alien hatreds." Most of US have been under the
impression that we have just gone through
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
Brad's Bit O. Verse
GET THE HABIT.

Once in a while you should try
to look pleasant. cheering the
folks as you amble along; once in
while you should sing like a
peasant, yOdling a chorus that's
lusty and strong. Don't go around
looking sad and forsaken. voicing
your anguish and bowling your
woe; tell Mr.. Gloom he is simply
mistaken; try it, and maybe the
habit will grow. Once in a while
you should try to be happy, even
at dawn when you're called from
your couch: smile as you tackle
your sausage and "frappy"; nobody
loveth a chronic old crouch. Tx
to be friendly and helpful and
CHEEKY, striving to do something
good on the way; lifting the fallen
and boosting the weary; try it, and
maybe the habit will stay. Once
in while you should think of the
daisies, doing their best the big
world to make bright; cut out the
fears and clouds and the hazes, lift
ing your eyes to the welcoming
light. Strike up a roundelay, get
the glad habit; let your long Wis
age round out with a smile; look
for a sunbeam and joyfully grab
IL; try to look jubilant once in
while.
GLEN BRADSHAW
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

When you call on the Browns
you enjoy your visit OF an evening
but when you call on the Joneses
you don't. Yet the Joleses are
just as good friends as the Browns
Analyze the problem, and likely as
not you will discover that the
Browns use better judgment in the
matter of lighting than the Joneses
do And perhaps the Joneses
spend more for light at that.
Certain rooms are cheerful by
day but not in the evening, and
other rooms are cheerful and coy
in the evening but not inviting in
daylight. The reason is the light
ing.
Daylight enters The room
through one or more windows of
considerable area, and is widely
diffused about the room so that,
while there are high lights and
shadows, there are no intense
black shadows to contrast start
lingly with intensely illuminated
places This diffusion of light with
out wholly obliterating what pho
tographers call detail shaded
places alternating with lighter
places Eliminates the entire room
and produces an atmosphere OF
cheerfulness. Artificial lighting, if
it is to maintain that desirable at
mosphere, must initiate daylight.
The daylight comes from a COM
paratively wide area. Therefore.
avoid lamps or lights which are
brilliant and concentrated, for
these produce harsh detail, daz-
zling bright areas and unpleas-
antly black shadows. Cover the
source of light with a very large
globe or shade, either an opal or
ground glass globe of the largest
possible size or a shade of some
soft, light color-never red or
green. An electric incandenscent
bulb should never be visible in a
room, for it only strains and irri-
tates the eyes.
Nature looks her best when
shadows fall early in the forenoon
or late in the afternoon. not at
midday when there are no shad-
ows. Therefore, do not attempt to
concentrate the light in the center
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17

1t has been figured out by the statisticians
working for Wilson & Co., the big packers, that
the supply of rabbits during the hunting sea-
son in Illinois and a number of nearby states
reduces the demand for regular meat products
at least three per cent. Rabbits, killed at ir-
regular periods, actually demoralize the meat
market at times, it is claimed, and the effect is
felt in the demand 1or livestock en- the hoot.
That's giving Brer Rabbit much more impor-
tant place in the economic life of the country
than most people supposed he was entitled to.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-17
H2art, 1pHOm0
41,IDrObTOmcC II
% 4 MRC. ELIZABETH THOMPSON

fact that he asked does not indicate
that he loves you. You had your
chance to keep his love when you
were married to him, and failed.
Now give up all thought of him.
Since you have both married again
you must forget each other en-
tirely.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am p
and in love with a soldier boy. /
know he loves me because l get
a letter from him every week with
IS bill in it. How should thank
him for the money he sends me?
BLUE EYES.
A girl should not accept money
from a man. Keep track of every
dollar he sends you, and upon his
return make him a present OF his
savings. Do not keep the money
no matter how much he urges
you to.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: | am girl
fifteen with a very quick tempA
which l don't seem to be able to-
control, no matter how hard l try.
also talk too much and l am rath-
lOuu dI lluicS- lJO yOu ll4lAh VI
anything l can do to help in these
matters?
Does this have anything to do
with the making of friends? How
can one be popular among boys and
girls both? NICK.
Consciousness of your faults will
help you to overcome them. Prob
ably you are very sensitive and be
cause of this believe yourself to be
worse than you are. Keep trying to
be sweeter and more gentle and you
will succeed.
A quick temper hurts people and
would stand in the way of your
making friends. To be loud and talk
too much would also stand in the
way of your making the kind of
friends you want.
You are very young, little girl Be
your very best self and as you de
velop in character you will not
want for friends of either sex.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Is it proper
to wear a boys ring if he is a very
dear friend? THANK YOU.
A girl should not wear a boys
ring no matter how good the friend
ship.