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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-25

vessel showed herseaf to b the smhattled noat-
ing city that she r. All that has besa learned
in the war in regard to the hitting up of dread
paughts has been put IN this latest addition
TO the American navy.
The CALIFORNIA; keel was laid Oct 1s, 1916.
but during the war the msu who fabricated
her turned their tools to the knocking together
q othss and smaller warcraft designed TO light
the submarine For two pears mot . rivet was
driven but upon the signing Of the afmistics
Tie grses-huli asain swsrmed, changed and
rang with life and II was heated, beaten and
turned into the mighty craft that was Just
launched.
In commission, the California will have q
crew Of 1.o25 mon and IS officers, full coma
plsmsut She has length over all Of 90
feet, breadth Of % fest and depth Of 472
test Her displacement ct her mean drausht
Of sos feet would b $4,000 tons. She has an
estimated speed Of II knots an hour and .
normal fuel capacity Of 1900 tons.
1t is estimated that she II fully 30 per cent
better protected than any other vessel In the
United states navy. not excluding the New
Mexico.
+ Her great turbines Of $4,000 Horsepower
are the principal unit Of the Californis's cleo
trio system. The guns will be fred BY cleo
tricity. Hsr ventilation. steering. supplying Of
power % the drive SHAFT, laundering, printing,
leo cream freezing. alternating and dishwash-
ing all viii be electrically operated. Although
this has brought her total cost to something
in. excess Of $15.ooo,00o saving in fuel is
expected quickly to Offset this. Her hull alone
cost $7,soo.0oo.
In armament the California will rank high.
Besides her twelve 14-inch guns. she will carry
four submerged torpedo tubes. Is Pinch rapid
IRE guns. four 6-pounders. two 1-pounders;
four 3-inch anti-aircraft guns, one 3-inch land
ing gun and two 3o-caliber machine guns.
She. will be fitting example Of the "last word
in battleship- designing and fitting. and will be
the first ship of her class to be turned out in
Pacific coast shipyard.
It costs Q great deal to build modern battle:
ships and It IL expensive to operate them ev9n
in peace. The cost Of being without them.
however. is still prohibitive 30 far q the
United States is concerned. We must continue
to keep enough for the protection Of our shores
League Of Nations or no league.
Let US hope that the California may serve
it, purpose without ever being called upon to
demonstrate its destructive power.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-25

: Aside from the fact that they do not want
v So national prohibition revoked and insist
upon keeping their land when everything else
3 "nationalized" the farmers seem to be get
tlng on famously with the new labor party.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-25

= Kentucky went dry in the recent election
" more than ten thousand. whatsoever the
people Of the state may really think they do
not intend to be compromised in the matter
u appearances.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-25
Household Hints

the back Of the head. The throat
should be cut Immediately, and the
rabbit thoroughly bled. Hang up
by the gamble joints % you woald
sheep or hog.
To Skin . Rabhit-Cut on the
head and feet. Make q cut through
the skin across the middle Of the
back. Put both hands into the cut
and draw the ska back until It
comes to the legs.
Grasp the body in the left hand
and draw the skin OF over the legs
with the right hand.
To Clean . Rabbit-Make IN IN
cision down the abdomen to neck,
being careful not to cut entrails:
remove same, wash carcass and
soak.
Cooking-Much Of the excellence
Of the rabbit a. food depends on
the manner Of cooking it.
Rabbit meat should be soaked IN
sailed water; this improves the
flesh aid draws the blood. For
frying use young rabbits from 10
to II weeks old. II an old one -
to be used parboil 1t first for I'VE
Or 10 minutes, draining on the
water. A little soda added to the
water helps to remove the Wild
favor. =
1t must be remembered that the
meat Is free from fat, therefore fAt
should be used freely with 1t. For
frying and roasting bacon II best;
for boiling, salt pork Is used. But
ter and oil are excellent in many
ways Of cooking it.
A special requirement In cook
ing rabbits 10 that none OF lis ....s
Is lost in the process. When cook
ing more than one rabbit, see that
they are the same ages.
| To tell young rabbit press the
lower Jaw between the fore6ngsr
and thumb-if young the Jaw will
break easily.
Condensed Milk Saves CFeam-It
Il real economy to substitute con-
densed milk for fresh cream In
cooking vegetables and making
soups. A half-pint bottle Of cream
, costs about the same - . one
pound can Of condensed milk
which will 90 three times % fsl
II and make IN equally rich diah.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-25
n Prepare Rabbits.

To Dress . Rabbit-In killing
grasp the rabbit firmly by the hind
legs. head hanging downward, and
strike the animal . sharp blow on
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-25

One guesses that the candidacy Of servant
girl whose strongest Recommendation il an
crop Of black hair and an unimpaired
nerve for member Of the house Of commons is
putting pretty severe strain upon the British
sense Of humor, especially the humor that
dwells in those who already write an N. p.
sitter their names.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-25

GLIDING oxygen or crowding oxy-
gen out Of the air We breathe.
However, It iSelways harmful to
health 10 use . gas stove or oil
stove without pipe connections to
carry OF the products Of combus-
ton.
The prevention OF carbon moAox-
ide poisoning Is perfect ventilation.
and In many industries this means
the installation Of elncient fan or
exhaust systems.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. !
Lemon Before BreakfAst
VIII you kindly inform me
whether It II harmful in any way
to drink the Juice Of half . lemon
In . glass OF water every morning
before breakfast It seems to b
quite . help in preventing consti-
patton. ]. B. g.
Answer-.It il perfectly harm
less. Possibly the water alone
would accomplish the same pur-
pose.
Brick Dust Sediment
Please inform me what q brick
dust or brownish red sediment
forming in the kidney secretion
after standing signifies, and what
can be done to prevent It. B.A.
Answer-It signifies nothing in
particular. Perhaps more fruit and
vegetables and water should DO
taken, and .. little less meat, fish.
egg and cereal. The sediment ap-
pears more quickly in Q urine
which u unusually acid and con-
centrated-due to . diet too rich
In protein and an insufficient
amount Of water and fruit juices.
For Benefit Of Friend NeIghbor.
Please print the answer to my
questions for the benefit Of my
neighbor. Why can't whooping
cough b. cured? II It injurious to
try TO check It? Some doctors say
to check It causes tuberculosis
MRS. F. B. C.
Whooping cough is IN
infectious disease caused by BAG.
Illus pertussis which IL present IN
the spray and sputum coughed out
No cure has been discovered
though Of course fevsry charlatau
has his sure cure. Probably the
most effective remedy we have Il
whooping cough bacterin (vaccine)
three doses of which given hypo
dermically at intervals Of severa
days seem to moderate and shorter
the illness in most cases. Surely
no educated physician says tina
the checking OF .whooping cougl
causes tuberculosis, because that Il
nonsense. OF course the use o
cough remedies containing opiatea
to check any cough. is harmful q
q rule and will not cure whoopinl
cough. It Is true that whoopinl
cough often leaves the child in lba,
condition, and II the child 10 ex
posed or has been exposed to tn
berculosis that disease would no
be unlikely to develop. In any cas-
Of whooping cough. the NOR
hours, night and day, the chill
passes il the open air. the bette
the child will get along.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-25
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-11-25

GLEN BRADSHAW
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
And the Courts Are Simply
Swamped

well, possibly the fifth on his "fve-
a-day" schedule.
He found there a negro chauf-
feur, who, he said, failed to put out
his hand when making the turn onto
the bridge. But the negro came to
court with a young lawyer wearing a
pointed collar. among other neces-
sites Of attire, and this student Of
Blackstone proceeded to tie the roam
ing traffic officer into conversational
knots. 1t seemed that the traffic
divided to go over the bridge; that
the machines on the left always fol
lowed the runway, and that to stick
out the hand was a matter of motive
supererogation.
Really, the six-foot traffic officer
didn't have a chance with the boy
in the pointed collar.
Whatever the result of the present
'fve-a-day" drive upon motorists, it
is q fact that the Mulberry Street
traffic court is being clogged with
cases that bear only indirectly upon
the safeguarding of the public.
1t might almost be claimed that in
his escritoire in Mulberry Street
Justice House has letters from
gentlemen Of an inventive turn of
mind that, were their suggestions
acted upon, might solve the matter
Of safety with greater facility than
an inspired campaign executed by
precinct patrolmen.
One there is who has q contri-
vance which, attached to the front
Of the car, telescopes when the ma
chine hits anything, and thus the
pedestrian instead of being run over
finds himself sitting in comfort
able chair, uninjured, after he has
been hit. The inventor does not add
that there should be a magazine and
a reading lamp handy so the sub
ject Of the accident could wholly
enjoy himself. Another has sug-
gested a periscope affair by which
traffic officer standing at Broad
way and Seventy-second Street can
detect speed offender at Amster-
dam Avenue and 10th Street, cal
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

Five dollars,"> said the magis-
trate.
Tony paid.
This may be one of the reasons
why 1t was deemed advisable to
paint the side walls in the pen -
where offenders who choose to do a
jail sentence rather than pay fine
wait until the patrol wagon calls
for them, in dark colors. Originally
the walls were alabaster, or as
alabaster as anything is around
Mulberry Street. But one day Jus
tice House happened to visit the
pen" and upon the walls he per
ceived multitudinous expressions of
personal regards that had been writ
ten by offenders who had decided to
stay rather than pay. The walls
were then painted a dark brown.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Bv Louis Lee Arms

~ AME laws in this country
" aim TO establish a maxi
~ mum which the hunter
may not safely exceed.
Thus in Michigan and Wisconsin a
man may bag two deer, n the ex-
nansive Northwest a limited num-
ber Of the moose and caribou
families, and so on.
It has remained for New York
city to reverse this universal for
mula of the maximum. A Fifth
Avenue traffic officer on special de-
tachment, or regular precinct
parrolman, is instructed, let US as
sumo, to net not less than five
metropolitan motorists to eight
working hours. Thereby the mini
mum is substituted for a maximum
and the local automobile driver has
feeling that he is accorded some
what less protection than a brook
trout.
Since that mysterious order came
out of, let US assume, the labyrinth
of police sanctums, instructing
patrolmen to serve at least five
motorists to the day and on as
many different scores as possible,
the traffic courts at 800 Mulberry
Street have been swamped with
business Magistrate Fred B. House
said to the writer the other day:
This thing is travesty. The laws
which safeguard life are those ap-
pertaining to speeding, turning
corners, reckless driving and fail
ing to pass surface cars correctly.
! have had no such cases to-day.
Those I have had have nothing to
DO with safeguarding life. They
are for the most minor offences. If
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Those Choufeurs

The professional chauffeur gets
scant sympathy in Mulberry Street
these days. "Crashing in" or
freezing out" on public hack stands
are regrettable incidents which cost
the "crasher' and the freezer"
enything from 81 up.
Tony is an Italian who owns and
operates one taxicab. According to
Tony he was innocently waiting for
a Pittsburgh steel magnate to come
out Of a hotel hard by when the
officer told him that he constituted
the sixth automobile on fve-car
hackstand. This was news to Tony,
indeed. He swore by Garibaldi and
as far back as Marcus Aurelius that
he was the fifth machine on the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
4 Little Dialect

Officer (spiritedly)-Yes sor,
yeronner.
McAdoo--Now I suppose there
isn't day passes that you don't
see many smoking automobiles?
Oficer-Yes sor, yeronner.
McAdoo-I could stand on any
corner on Fifth Avenue any dav
and arrest fifty drivers for SINH
lar offence, couldn't l?
Officer-Yes sor, yeronner.
McAdoo-Now these are the
first cases of this kind you have
had in-well, how long?
Officer (hesitatingly and not
certain there isn't a catch in it
some place I'm two years, yer
onner.
McAdoo Jseverely-well, why
haven't you brought in more?
Oficer-I hadn't thought
never-it was only last week,
NcAdoo-That's enough. The
matter of oil smoke exhaust
jeopardizes the health of persons
in the most congested city in the
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
heir O,cn Behalf

The motor cops are usually ex-
pert prosecuting attorneys in their
own behalf. These jaunty human
rockets in khaki have a way of ex-
planning that their speedometers
were tested on the morning of the
arrest in a manner that is thorough
ly discouraging to the offender. They
are motor and street wise, and
always can tell whether the traffic
was light, medium or heavy" on
any stated occasion.
Not so the precinct patrolman.
Yet since this secret order, let us
assume, has gone out they are ex-
pected to be versed in the vernac-
ular of cylinders and traffic.
How was the condition of
traffic?" Magistrate House asked
one.
"Good,' replied the patrolman.
Il mean was it light, medium or
heavy?" continued the justice.
about intermedium, replied
the patrolman with gestures.
In cruising afield for "fve-a day.
some of the traffic officers have been
forced to operate upon unfamiliar
territory, and with a consequent
falling off in efficiency.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

culate the extent of his offence,
register his number and do every
thing except actually hand the cul-
prit q summons.
Another has said that there
should be automatic bell attach
ments upon all cars. Thus the bell
would ring when the driver stepped
on his throttle too enthusiastically,
But these are nut" suggestions
made in the spirit of facetiousness
and the policeman could do the rest.
The "five-a-day" drive is on tha
level.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
wv the Five a Day. Works in the Traffic Court

world. 1t is important. The de-
PENDANTS will pay IS apiece or go
to jail for two days.
Chief Magistrate McAdoois going
about this business in quite a seri-
Gus way.
Failure to display a chauffeur's
badge, improper number plates, i'm
proper rear lights, swinging num-
Der plates, violation of the hack
ordinance are all dangerous, are
potentially so, or are thought to be
potentially so, and should be dealt
with accordingly. 1t was the Chief
Magistrate who said something
some time back about the matter
Of "vehicular illusiveness" and the
Importance of both pedestrians and
drivers keeping alert. About two
weeks after the Chief Justices dis
covery of the theory of "vehicular
lIlusiveness" an automobile on
Staten Island came along and ran
over the chief magisterial left
foot.
This incident is sufficient to
prove that even excessive care and
the best developed of theories are
not able to prevent the occasional
accident in which there is so much
of the human equation that it is
difficult to see how the matter of a
swinging number plate affects the
situation. Still, man can be, nav.
is, pinched for that.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Why He Didn't Rise

| He grumbled.
4. ?. He watched the clock. a
5. He was stung by bad look I'D
4. He was always behindhand. a
s. He had no iron in his blood. 4
s. He was willing, but united. z1
7. He didn't believe in himself. y
8. He asked too many questions.
8. His stock excuse was Il forgot"
10. He wasn't ready for the next
step.
Il. He did not put his heart in his
work.
u. He learned nothing from his mis-
takes
IS. He felt that he was above his
position.
IA. He was content to be a second
rate man.
Is. He ruined his ability by half
doing things.
16. He chose his friends from among
his Interiors
II. He never dared to act on his own
Judgment
18 He did not think it worth while
to learn how.
19. Familiarity with slipshod methods
paralyzed his ideal.
20 He tried to make bluff take ths
place of hard work
21. He thought it was clever to use
coarse and profane language.
%. He thought more of amusements
than of getting on in the world
%. He didn't learn that the best Of
his salary was not in his pay.-Chesa-
peoke G Ohio Employees Magazine
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Autoists Hailed In on ALI Sorts
Of Charges

this thing is to keep up there should
be supplementary court to hear
these petty cases, which have naught
to do with safety"
Chief Magistrate McAdoo oper-
ates upon more extensive scale
than Justice House In laying down
the law to four drivers-he was
trying them all at one crack-for
violation of the sanitary code, which
covers undue oil smoke exhaust,
McAdoo said:
Officer Flannery, you arrested
these men on Williamsburg
Bridge?"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
Out i7, the WiIds

The traffic officer who declared
that his regular place was at Fifth
Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street"
found himself scouting about the
Williamsburg Bridge in quest Of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08
ST. Forms
TRAFFIC COURT
DAILY REPORT Datelune 71c,o ro..
42-22itls-B. Form ssc

Violation Corporation Ordnance
Speeding, 1st ofense. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
IND " ................-<....
Overtaking Street Car observation-disclosures. 8
L" q. 2nd offense
Reckless Driving g...-..........: .:............ )
Failing to Keep to Right ht........r........48 48
Failing to Stop on Signal. ..........-....:2 ~
NO Lights .....,.....
Turning Without Signal l............23
Horse Unattended 3
Obstructing Traffic .... %
1Dsgnng 38eAdgAos1- One .vay Street. :
xspAedme II 1otAns7QotAats. lmproper Turn d
Hack Ordinance ................1s
All Others ohstru 81 cposswa1k.
Violation SANITARY CODE. Observation-Disclosures 10
Violation Of the Highuoy Lou-
Felony Qeaving scene of accident. .-<.......s
Intoxicated Operator (mis) s).,..
Unlicensed Chauffeur Observation-Disclosures. :
operator ................
Badge Not Displayed Observation-Disclosures.
Improper Number Plate ........''
Rear Light Observation-Disclosures.
Swinging Number Plate e............
Defective Brakes Observation-Disclosures.
horn ..........-............
Operating Under Age. Observation-Disclosures.
miscellaneous ......................... :
-. Observation-Disclosures.
-T:a- Observation-Disclosures.
a. ','-'=s.-,'. ......'...--~ ..--~..-~~.~........
lOtal. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
c;r,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-08

six there a11doroa
was because had Tony, sixth on
crashed in of But the line
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-09-05
DIRECTOR HINES WARNS
THE STRIKING RAIL MEN
Tells Them to Run the Trains or
the United States Gov
eminent Will.

Washington, Aug. 29.-Director Cen
eral Hines served notice on public
officers, railroad officers, and employees
and citizens generally in California,
Arizona and Nevada" that the rail-
road administration would undertake
to restore full railroad service in those
states on and after seven o'clock next
Saturday morning.
All striking employees who do not
return to work by that time will find
their places filled.
Any one who interferes with or i'm
pedes the use of railroad property, Mr..
Hines said, would be dealt with for
having committed an offense against
the United States.
This action, coming after the an
nOuncement by the four brotherhood
chiefs that they would assist the rail-
road administration in operating the
lines, If the illegal strike was not ter
minated, is the most drastic ever
taken by the government in a labor
controversy.
Mr.. Hines, in addition, sent tele-
grams to the governors of California.
Nevada and Arizona and to the mayors
of principal cities in those states ask
ing cooperation in maintaining traf-
fic and in preventing interference with
the movement Of trains
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-09-05
Why Strike Collapsed.

Two telegraph operators worked In
the office of the Milwaukee Free Press.
Both were employed by the press as
ISOLATION and not by the paper. They
came soused one Sunday night, de-
cided to strike, making demands for
more pay and shorter hours from the
managing editor of the newspaper.
They were told to make their petition
to their employers. The telegraphers
retired for a council of war, put the
strike into effect and decided to picket
the office. The Office had but one en-
trance, but there must be strategy !;
so one Of the strikers posted himself
directly in front of the Office and the
other around the corner, the two be-
ing out of sight of each other.
Then each had the same bunch of
getting another drink. They left their
posts and that was the end of the
strike. Other operators were called in
and the wires buzzed merrily on
Pep.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-09-05
Novelist's Wife Puts In.

"She regretted the bath. She missed
it, and so must we all. In modern his
tory, as in modern fiction, it is not
nice in the least for the heroine-even
such a dubious heroine as Mamise-
to have bathless day. AS for heroes,
in the polite chronicles, they get at
least two baths day-one heroic cold
shower In the morning and one hot
tub in the late afternoon before get
ting into faultless evening attire. This
does not apply to heroes of Russian
masterpieces, of course, for they never
battle. ('Why should they, my wife
puts in, since they're going to commit
suicide anyway T)''-'aThe Cup of
Fury" by Rupert Hughes.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-09-05
URGE CHANGE IN WAR RISK
American Legion to Make Fight fer
New Arrangement in Payment
of Insurance.

New York, Sept. IA fight for
changes in the war risk insurance act
will be made by the $500 posts of the
American legion, it was announced
here. Henry D. Lindsey, chairman Of
the national executive committee Of
the legion, has called on members to
urge congress to pass the Sweet bill,
which provides for the payment Of in
surance in lump sum, an increase in
the class of benefciaries and increases
in disability compensation.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-09-05
GERMANS RESUME PIECEWORK
Workers at Jena Vote 1850 to 1890
to Go Back to Old
System.

Jena, Germany, Sept. by a vote
of 1850 to 1890, the local workers in
Jena have agreed to resume the piece
work scale of pay, the latest govern
ment suggestion to solve the problem
Of idleness and inefficiency Coal
miners and workers of other important
industries, however, refuse to adopt
the piecework plan because it will re-
suit in a decrease of wages unless they
speed up their work.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1919-09-05
TRAIN KILLS 2 NEAR CHICAGO
Man and Wife Instantly Killed by
Northwestern Train at Hub
bard Woods.

Chicago, Sept 2-Mr. and Mrs. Will
liam Tanner Of Hubbard Woods were
run over and instantly killed by a
southbOund Chicago & Northwestern
train at Gabe street, Hubbard Woods.
and John Miller, the gateman, who
tried to save them, suffered the loss
of both arms The Tanners, hurrying
to catch a train for Chicago, rushed
behind a northbound train and did not
see the city-bound train on the adj
joining track.