Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-01
The Best NE Can OfTer Is a Reprieve.

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English bride-UrichsTille (Ohio) Chronicle.
The Best We Can OIer Is a Reprieve.
Sir: You will pardon me, trust, Tor my
hardness in inquiring if Alfred Coccnl Is as
sumed to have had any particular motive in
going to Bologna after he cut up Ruth Cruger's
bodv. E. H. S.
Yes, These Highway improvement Projects Are
So Technical
Sir: I was deeply interested in this from
an Aledo item in your veracious newspaper:
"The Millersburg road will be oiled as far
as the town of MilIersburg. The others will
be oiled OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES UtaoETA
about five miles out X l.
Thrift made Germany the powerful country
that it was when the kaiser suffered the deiu-
sion that he had a command from God TO crust
the rest of the world Germany preached thrift
to its people, and they gave heed 1t was the
German powers that fatally erred. It was not
the people. They were simply wrongly direct
ed. Your American government is admonish-
ing you to be thrifty, but not with the con-
cealed ambition that actuated Potsdam. The
American appeal is meant to strengthen the
individual and the home. the unit that makes
for strong and healthy and self-sustain1ng
and happy and contented nation. The Ameri-
can government isn't mad at anybody or any
nation that is, it does not want to be- 1t has
extended a warm, friendly hand for all peoples,
no matter where they be. But the American
government and people will fight If they have
to do so to defend their own. That's the an
swer. Therefore when your government asks
you to not waste your nickels it does not do
so because il wants to take them away from
you. 1t does so that you may be good and help
full to yourself Your nickeIs are not being
saved to buy guns and ammunition. They are
being saved to take care of you in the future
We all should be willing to take sound ad-
vice. When you go to the lawyer or the doctor
for counsel you pay a fee for what you are
told. Uncle Sam, the greatest. lawyer and
doctor Of them all, is not charging you a penny
for the most valuable tip that you have ever
received in your whole life. So fall in line
and hold tight to those little pieces of money
that you have been Tipping around foolishly,
not knowing or caring where they went or
whether they bought you anything that you
n needed not You don't have to be a tightwad
to save. You merely have to be sane and
sensible When you spend money do so only
after you have decided that the thing on which
you are to make an outlay is something that
happiness. a help to some other fellow or
institution that needs it. Neither is charity
profigacy. It is the wisest expenditure of all.
You can give freely of your money and
your service to the common good and still be
saver. Remember that. But, by all means,
heed the tip from your uncle. He talks to you
like as if he were your own daddy. And you
know you never went wrong when you fol-
lowed the advice of father or of mother.
The allies have named commission of ex-
perts to investigate the scuttling of the Ger
man feet in Scapa Flow. 1t is freely prophe-
sled that the boys will find that the ships were
actually sent to the bottom Of the
o.
Phil O'Brien, who, after retiring as a>Bur-
lington passenger conductor, operated the
cigar stand in the Harper house lobby, has been
moving among old friends the past few days.
He is now a resident Of st. Paul. He is con-
ductor on the Great Northern. But what
started to relate: Remember that freckled
faced kid that Phil used to sit upon the cigar
case in the Harper lobby to show to his friends?
Well, he's back from the war zone He saw
almost two years of fighting, and didn't get
a scratch Phil asked the boy if he got very
close to trouble. He said he didn't investigate,
that he was too busy with his work, but finally
he recalled one day, while a bunch of the boys
were seated on a hillside spinning yarns, an
enemy shell dropped from the sky. One Of the
boys was blown to atoms by the shell. The
victim was seated about ten feet from O'Brien.
The latter was stunned, only. When the boy
told that to father the latter grabbed him and
Rugged him until he was almost unconscious.
first Davenport battery He is a bookkeeper
in Bettendorf He went back to his old job
the third day after he returned from his war
duty On his way home he wrote his dad a
letter He said: IF you want to see how your
son looks as a soldier you'll have to hurry
home, because l have worn these as long as /
intend to-" Phil hurried home The boy had
switched, but he put on his uniform to show
dad how he looked. And Phil grabbed him
once more Phil says he never before real
lied what an honor it is to be-a daddy.
'I notice" reports Oswald. there is a bill
before congress to make refrigerator cars
brewing common in this country
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