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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-06

sell. chairman; the seekers group
Mrs. c, A. Bowen. leader. and
Mrs.. r. L. Baird. chairman; Who
sOsvee group-Nrs,i Alice Vance.
leader. and J. D. Banta, chairman:
Search the Scriptures group Mrs.
Charles Custer. leader, and Mrs.
Ed Rosenthal. chairman: Truth
Seekers group-Lou J. Philip,
leader, and Miss Bella Cooke.
chairman: Excel group-Nrs. Jes-
Gle johnson, leader, and Mrs. Nil
Ter. chairman; Welcome group
Mrs. A. n. Stocking, leader, and
Mrs. James Williams, chairman:
We Media Neighbor group-MFs.
Manley Morton, leader. and Mrs.
Frank White. chairman; Mrs. 8. E.
Mattison. Jr., leader. and Mrs.. C.
A. Schoessel. chairman: the TWEEN
tieth Century group-Mrs. q. N.
Light, leader. and Mrs. Ed Lewis,
chairman; Grace SAKE group-Mrs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-06
Today's Events
Festival of st. Leonard, the es-
Decjal patron Of nrisoners.

Festival Of st. Leonard. the es-
pecial patron Of prisoners.
Observance Of international apple
day throughout the United States
and Canada.
Birthday greetings to IgnAce Jan
Paderewski. the patriot premier of
Poland. who today enters upon his
soth year.
Conservative leaders In Manitoba
are to hold . provincial conven-
ton at Winnipeg today to organize
IN preparation for the next cam
paign.
A state housewives chamber of
commerce, the first organization
Of it, kind In the United States,
IL to be formed by Texas women
1t q meeting in Dallas today.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-06
Bible CLASSES
ARE Permanent
IN ROCK ISLAND


Al outgrowths Of the Billy Sua-
LAY prayer meetings permanent BIZ
bic classes have been, organized in
the city. with permanent leaders
and meeting places. Long before
Billy Sunday arrived in Rock Is
land there were cottage prayer SER
vices held as forerunners Of his
work. and during his seven weeks
stay In the city the women held
morning prayer services each
Tuesday and Friday.
The city had been districted 80
that there were meetings held
every few blocks, and these dis
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
COMEDY FOR BASEBALL FANS
President of San Francisco Would
Hire Nick AItrock and Others
to Amuse Spectators.

After-war fashions will give US lot
of new things il many endcavors and
it viii bring new things into profess
sional baseball, too. Take the idea OF
DR.. Charles II. Strub, president Of the
San Francisco club of the Pacific coast
league, as an example. The doctor
wants comedy and "a little jazz in the
game. Here's what he suggests:
IF I have my way we will instill a
little jazz into baseball out this way
next season. / want men like Nick
Altrock, Germany Schaefer and young
Sawyer, real baseball comedians, in
the league to put little life into the
sport. If l can | will get one and pos
sibly two Of these men for the local
club to do utility roles and furnish
some fun for the fans. The games
here last year were too dead / want
a fighting ball club and a noisy one"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
Returning Army to Civil Life
Brings Problems Unlike
Those in U. S.
WORKSHOPS ARE Wiped OUT
Labor REIMBURSEMENT Is Subject of
Greater Importance in France
Than in Any Other Bel
ligerent Country.

Paris.-Readjustment of labor after
rehabilitation looms as the biggest
after-the-war question in France
A committee of members of the
French chamber of deputies has Off
cialiy asked the government what
steps toward labor reconstruction are
to be taken.
Appointment of a commission to
study the question has just been an
nounced.
Labor REIMBURSEMENT is a subject of
greater Importance in France than in
any other belligerent country-outside
Of Belgium, perhaps-because so many
factories and commercial enterprises
have been destroyed by the war.
When the soldiers are demobilized
a great number will not be able to
return to the work in which they were
engaged before the war Their work
shops have been wiped out.
Many others who have been en-
ployed on war work in munitions
plants will be thrown out of employ
shut down while they adapt them
selves, many of them slowly, to a
peace-time line of manufacture.
Another class of men, who have
been away at the front four years,
will find no places open because they
have been replaced by other labor
women, in numerous cases.
The government faces the problems
of having more men on its hands than
it has jobs. a quick solution is i'm
peratiye, according to the view of
prominent labor leaders.
Every other country except France
has thought about this matter" said
pole.
Emmanuel Brousse, a French deputy
and member of the newly appointed
labor adjustment commission.
Britain has been working on the
labor question for long time. Tween
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
EDDIE NEARING HAD
TO DEFEAT BORRElL
His Captain and Crew Bet on
Him So He Lands Money.
Story Goes to Show Natural Rivalry
Between Various Branches of
American Military Service
Followed Orders.

They tell story about Eddie Near
ing, a middleweight boxer, now aboard
an American warship, which goes to
show the intense natural rivalry be-
tween the various branches of the
American military service.
1t seems that Meanings ship was
being held up at a French port some
time ago and that the members of the
crew, including Nearing, were allowed
to take a jaunt to Paris. There, in
their meanderings, they met up with
members of the crew of another Amer
lean vessel which boosted of Joe Bor-
rell, a former Philadelphia middle
weight.
The argument regarding the respec-
tive merits of Borrell and Nearing
waged heavy between the crews, until
finally it was arranged that the two
boxers would meet to settle the dis
pute. Nearing was not on hand when
the discussion arose but that did not
matter to the gobs. He was signed
up by proxy to battle Borrell.
On returning to the vessel Nearing
was notified by the captain that
match had been arranged for him.
who's the guy I'm to meet?" asked
Nearing.
whats the difference who ne is?"
answered the captain. Il don't remem-
Der his name, but l do know that l
have 500 posted on you and you've
got to come through and win"
Orders is orders in the navy and so
Nearing just had to beat up Borrell.
incidentally he saved the captains
hundred and won a pile of change for
the other members of the crew, all OF
whom put their months salaries on
hearings chances. What could fel
low do but win under such circum.
stances?
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
SEE GREAT BOOM IN SPORTS
Many Returning Canadian Soldiers
Have Picked Up New Games
While Fighting in France.

Canada is looking forward to a
great boom in all branches of sport
with the completion of peace. The
devotees of football, lacrosse, SOC
Ger, cricket, track and field athletics,
lawn bowlers, baseball, the turf and
kindred recreations, are already
pricking up their ears. canadian
Sportsman" is quoted in the Hamil-
ton Herald as saying:
Gan important factor will be the re-
turn of Canada's 100000 soldiers from
France. These men have learned how
TO become participants in sport, and
they have learned many new forms
of sport. They have been living in
the open and they will want consid-
cradle outdoor life when they get
back. Outdoor sport will appeal 10
them as it has never done before"
The fact that many of these return
ing athletes are crpples will not bar
them from participating in many
forms of sport Some of the appar-
emily hopelessly handicapped ones
have already proved their surprising
ability.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
PATRIOTS CUT PASTORS HAIR
Mennonite Is Roughly Handled for
Failure to Aid War Work
Drive.

Urbana, Ind.-Unted war work So
llcitors in Salem township this coun-
ty, took Rev. S. f. Allgyer, Mennonite
preacher. from his home, where a cot
tage prayer meeting was in progress,
and after his refusal to subscribe to
the fund, clipped his hair with horse
clippers. Other Mennonite homes
were visited, but subscriptions were
forthcoming
The minister was called to the dc
and asked for his subscription. n
stated that he didn't know to whom
he was talking His porch light was
turned on, and every member of the
committee and his neighbors stood out
clearly. After parleylng while be
fatty refused to donate and somA
cried: Bring him out"
After another refusal he was taken
into the road In front of his home, and
while his wife embraced him. holding
an American flag over him, the ancient
pulling horse-clippers We're applied.
The men then went On their way.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06

RENAISSANCE OF ALL SPORT
Baseball, Boxing, Tennis and Other
Forms of Athletic Activity to
Gain in Popularity.

With the end of the world war, the
renaissance of sport should begin at
once. In the next few years baseball,
football, boxing, tennis, racing, golf
and other forms of athletic activity
should attain popularity never be-
fore known.
The wonderful work of the United
States army in France attests to the
value of athletics in the training of
men as nothing else could, writes
John p. Sinnott in New York Eve
ming Mail. Our boys were not bred
soldiers. They were bred athletes.
But it did not take them long to ac-
quire such military training as fitted
them to more than hold their own on
the battlefield with the picked troops
of the German empire.
There will be plenty of baseball the
coming year. The game has spread
to France, England and Italy. Wheth-
er or not the big league stars in the
army and navy are mustered out in
time to play in 1919, there seems to
be little doubt that the National and
American leagues will resume play
ing.
The nation will demand its national
game. 1t will need it as never before.
1t will need and desire all other forms
of competitive sport. 4 renaissance
is at hand.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06

as the United States has. except In it's
northern African colonies All of
France is cultivated intensiveIy, leav-
ing none for reclamation by demohil-
lied soldiers. And it Is calculated
that few will want TO leave their own
country for the purpose of colOniza-
ton.
G. II. Roberts. British minister of
labor, recently discussed this subject
before an audience of British soldiers
at the British Army and Navy Leave
club in Paris.
The British minister said temporary
lily unemployment difficulties of demo-
biliZed soldiers would be met by
free 0ut-Of-wOrk donation covering a
period of u months after discharge.
This will be additional to the months
furlOugh given each man on his dis
charge, during which time pay and al
lOwances are to be continued.
The skilled workman among British
soldiers, Roberts said, is safeguarded
by the munitions of war act, giving
him the assurance of reinstatement in
employment. Committees, he said,
would establish employment agencies
in all cities and everything possible
would be done to make labor resettle-
ment as speedy and smooth rs possi-
BILE.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
USES HISTORIC RUINS
Darky Chef Finds Good Place for
Kitchen.
Marie Antoinette and Louis
XVI History.

With the American Army in the Ar
gonne-A darky cook from Alabama
is turning out hot bully beef and fried
onions In Varennes in the ruins of the
inn where Marie Antoinette and Louis
XVI were captured by French peas
ants in their flight from the revOfu-
tionists.
The old stone building itself had
fallen into decay long before this war.
But the Germans had burrowed dug
outs into its cellars and some sort of
q German headquarters was estab-
lished there until the terrific lombard
ment that preceded our greatest of
fensive completely leveled the ruins.
Varennes itself fell to the Yankees a
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
FRANCE HAS MORE
WORKERS THAN JOBS

ty-flve commissions composed of spe-
cialists in various lines have prepared
a solution.
Germany had its after-war program
definitely mapped out. First the men
who in civil life were engaged in such
occupations as technical, commercial.
Industrial, financial and transport
were to be freed from army service.
Other kinds of workmen were to be
demobilized successfully.
France must not lose a moment in
mapping out its labor reimbursement
plan. Otherwise there will be social
catastrophe"
Labor leaders in France point also
to the preparations in America for
distributing farming land to demoblI-
lied soldiers. But they remark that
this method of finding something for
the ex-sOldier to do is closed to the
French.
France has no vast unOccupied lands
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
IRISH DON'T LIKE BASEBALL
First international Contest Did Not
Take With Natives-Game Played
on Muddy Field.

Irishmen in Ireland must differ from
those in the United States, or the real
sports have all gone to war. A Dub
lin dispatch says that the first inter-
national game staged there several
days ago between team composed of
American troops and a squad made up
of Canadian soldiers did not seem to
take very well with the Irish popula-
ton.
The weather, it is believed, is the
main reason for Dublin turning down
the game. 1t was played in puddles
and the men taking part in the game
were mud from head to foot, which
evidently did not agree with the Irish
sport idea.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
Most Fatal Epidemic in History
of Country.
Shortage of Necessary Drugs One Of
Reasons for Heavy Death
Rate.

Laredo, TeX-AccOrding to reliable
information brought here by arrivals
from various portions of Mexico, the
present epidemic Of Spanish influenza
in that country has been the most IA
tai epidemic in the history of Mexico,
the death rate exceeding that caused
by any previous epidemic Of typhus,
yellow fever or smallpox. The under
takers of Mexico were caught in the
influenza epidemic without practically
any supply of collins or baskets on
hand, and even the old custom of rent
ing baskets for burial purposes only,
after which the body is removed at
the grave and placed in a pine box,
had to be abandoned, as some of the
Weather class were buried in CaSketS
that were formerly used for rental pur-
poses only.
In Mexico City it is estimated that
at least 10000 cases of influenza were
in that city the middle of October,
many cases developing into pneumonia
and causing several thousand deaths,
these latter being mostly among the
poor people who contracted the disease
and were compelled to lie down on
the dirt floors of their jackals and
there contracted pneumonia and died
A big death rate also occurred among
the better class. despite the care Civ
en- them. In Guadulajara, Guanajuato,
Torreon, Tampico, Saltillo and Mon
terey the number of cases of influenza
were heavy, while the death rate was
likewise heavy. In Vera Cruz over
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06

few hours later as the Germans re-
treated to the ridge of hills, beyond.
For a few days American tanks had
their headquarters in the yard sur
rounding the ruins. Then the tanks
moved up and colored laboring detach-
ments established headquarters in
Varennes while they smoothed over
shell holes in the roads What was
left of one Of the walls of the old inn
struck colored cook as good lean
TO against which he could protect his
fire from the wind and in a jiffy he
had his kitchen going,
Not Il single building in Varennes
has a roof. During the first four years
Of the war the town escaped heavy
shellfire, though it was within easy
range of French artillery. But the
battering fire of our guns on the open
ing morning of the Argonne attack
and the response from German artil-
lery after we had captured the town
laid the old church In ruins, flattened
out the modern dwellings along the
river and sent strong buildings in the
center of the town sprawling.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
PLAYERS COME FROM SOUTH
Georgia Tech Is Most Representative
Southern Eleven That Football
Ever Produced.

The Georgia Tech eleven is the most
representative Southern eleven that
football ever produced. Eight of the
regulars are natiye-born Georgians,
the ninth comes from Florida, the
tenth from South Carolina, while the
other-Joe Guyon, the Indan-hails
from Magdalena, N. M. OF the "a
men in the squad, 20 are Georgians,
while the other four are from Flor
ida, South Carolina, New Mexico and
Texas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
SHOOT THE UMPIRE!

During a lull in one of the
quiet sectors" Of France
spots where the opposing troops
only go through the motions of
warfare and give each other due
notice when they are going to
drop any shells, a ball game was
started by American soldiers,
and was watched with much in
terest by the Germans in the
hostile trenches.
In the seventh inning a Ger
man megaphOned across the
open space, Better go under
cover nova general is coming,
and we must shoot something :"
And the dOughbOys, as though
trained in a regular chorus,
shouted back: "All right-shOot
the umpire!"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
BOB SUMMERVILLE is HURT
California Heavyweight Boxer Loses
Leg While Fighting the Ger
mans in France.

Bob Summerville. the Los Angeles
heavyweight, has just written friends
in Los Angeles that he lost a leg while
fighting the Germans. He was a men,
Der of the early draft contingent, be-
ing sent to American Lake, and was
among the first of the drafted men
to set foot in France.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06

rial school, conducted by the navy
department at Harvard university,
and was studying to obtain a commits.
sion as an ensign. The injury is said
to be of such grave nature that it is
likely to keep Barry from ever again
being able to hold place in major
league baseball, should he desire to
return to the national pastime when
Uncle Sans forces are demObilized.
Barry did little playing during the
past season, and the fact that he is
gate against his ever playing again
under the big top.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
RUTH HAS PECULIAR RECORD
Boston Red Sox Versatile PLAYER
Drew 81 Bases on Balls and
Struck Out So Times.

Babe Ruth, the Red Sox pitcher
infielder-outflelqer, had peculiar rec
ord. In 80 games he drew 81 bases
on balls and famed So times. He had
26 doubles, IL triples and was high
with IL home runs. He scored 80
runs and made 95 safeties.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
BUYS LICENSE FOR DEAD PET
Court Rules That Dogs Demise Does
Not Relieve Man OF Re.
sponsibiIity.

Kansas City, Mo-"Youre charged
with failure to buy 4 license for your
dog. Guilty or not guilty?" asked the
assistant city counselor of A. NJ.
Brown, in the South side court.
Guilty" answered Brown. But"
he continued. Luther died Yesterday"
mo excuse" replied Mossman. You
obtained no license for the dog in the
past ten months. You must pay one
now"
The judge concurred with the coun.
selor.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
MEXICO HIT BY FLU"

one-third Of those stricken with the in
fluenza are said to have succumbed
subsequent pneumonia. In many
places the heavy death rate in Mexico
was due to the shortage of aspirin.
quinine and other necessary drugs used
in the cure of influenza.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
BEST OF FOOTBALL PLAYERS
Paddy DriscoII, Former Northwestern
Star, Plays Sensational Game
Against Rutgers.

Any question about ]. L. Driscoll,
the former Northwestern university
star football player, being one of the
best that ever played the game must
have been removed when be scored
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06
JACK BARRY is BADLY HURT
jury to Knee and May Never
Play Ball Again.

Jack Barry, former star Of the
Mackmen and later manager of the
Boston Red Sox, is confined to the
Stillman infrmary at Cambridge,
Mass, suffering from water on the
knee.
The injury was the result of a fall
which Barry sustained some time ago.
He is student at the officers Mate
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06

Champion Threecushion eiliardis Kieckhefer.
defended his title
challenger.
The victory made his sixth successive win title match worlds
Kekhefer also holds the record
McCour Cleveland $50 n of innings
The championship
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1919-03-06

Synthetic milk Is being produced
from peanuts by European chemists.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-05-30
Famous GeOgrapher Holds FRS
Protestant Service. i'm
Wisconsin

Jesuit missionaries were among the
first white visitors to Wisconsin, and
Catholic church services were held
here from the first coming of the white
man to the state The first protestant
church service on record, however
was held at Green Bay less than one
hundred years ago. Here had been for
generations French settlement and
since 1916 United States garrison
and fort To Green Bay in the sum
mer Of 1920 came Rev. Jebediah Morse,
sent by President Monroe on a mission
of investigation to the red men of the
frontier. Morse was a prominent New
England preacher, who by dint of work
as a compiler of geography texts has
come to be known as the father OF
American geography" He was also
the father of the inventor of the cleo
tric telegraph, which perhaps affords
his best title to fame. While he was
at Green Bay the garrison storehOuse
was emptied and seated for a service
villagers and soldiers Streamed in, and
Rev. Morse preached to the asSemblagC
the first Protestant sermon ever heard
in Wisconsin.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1919-05-30
YANKEE SEAPLANE
CROSSES ATLANTIC
NC-4 MAKES LAST LEG OF JOUR-
NEY FROM THE AZORES
TO LISBON.
800 MILES INSIDE 10 HOURS
United States Naval Aviators Pilot
the First Airchip of Any Kind to
Cross Great Ocean Under
Its Own Power.

Washington, May 28.-Blazing the
way of the first air trail from the West
ern to the Eastern hemisphere, the
United States Navy seaplane NC-4, I'M
der Lieut.. Com. Albert Cushing Read,
swept into the harbOr at Lisbon, Portu-
gal. It was the first airship of any
kind to cross the Atlantic ocean under
it's own power.
Taking the air at Ponta Delgada,
Azores, at 6:18 a. M, Washington
time, On the last leg of the trans
oceanic portion Of the voyage from
Rockaway Beach, Long Island, to
Plymouth, England, the NC-4 covered
the 800 miles in 8 hours and 43 min
utes, maintaining an average speed of
better than 80 knots an hour. The to-
tai elapsed flying time from Newfound-
land to Lisbon was 26 hours and Al
minutes.
At the first opportunity, the big
plane will continue to Plymouth, IT'S
nautical miles to the north.
The great object of all effort lavished
on the undertaking-nav of a
seaplane across the Atlantic through
the air-has been accomplished. Twen-
tieth Century transportation has
reached a new pinnacle and the Unit
ed States navy has led the way.
Plans Work Out Like Machine.
Naval officials emphasized that the
long delay at the Azores was due to
the weather and to no weakness of
the machine or it's daring crew, nor
to any failure of the carefully laid
plans of the department to guide the
fiiers to their destination. The IA de-
stroyers strung from Ponta Delgada to
Lisbon reported with machine-like pre-
cision today as the flight progressed.
The plane never was off it's course and
there was no moment when officials in
Washington did not know to within a
few miles where it was in the air
To maintain adequate communica-
| ton for this stage of the journey the
destroyers stuck to their posts after
the flying boat had passed, relaying
back to Ponta Delgada reports from
ships further eastward. The chain
was not broken until after the plane
was moored for the night near the
cruiser Rochester at Lisbon.
Destroyers Ready With Flares.
| The destroyers that will guide them
across the bay already are in posi-
ton, provided with the flares and
bombs that have made the trip safe
thus far-except for the fog that
forced the other two machines of the
seaplane division, the NC-1 and NC-3,
out of the flight after they had safely
negotiated virtually the entire distance
from Newfoundland to the Azores.