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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
Anything to Beat League.

Henry Wise Wood, one of the most active
lates story of a purported interview with
of the British government who
admitted he was mere to further the cause of
iaternationalizing the war debt and that he
had been assured by Wall street fnancers that
they were backing the plan. Common sense
Ought to assure anybody that the idea of get
ting the United States to help pay the war
debt Of other powers is too preposterous to be
seriously considered. However, there are no
doubt some who can be Influenced on such
grounds and it is anything earth to beat
the league, with Mr.. Wood and his associates
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

would be glad, no doubt, to handle the situation
without assistance. If it could do that it is
pretty certain that before it had finished it
would have inserted another entering wedge
for the economic and perhaps for the political
penetration of the rich Siberian domain.
The United States and its allies have no
present intention of giving Japan free hand
In northeastern Asia and so they are insisting
that whatever armed Intervention there is shall
be jointly undertaken, so that there may be
no excuse for the claim later by Japan that
other powers had delegated to it their respOu-
sibilities and their authority in the premises.
It is Of the utmost Importance, in view of
future controversies in the far east that are
bound to arise, that the military expedition in
Siberia be kept Of an international character
and that means that there must be some
Americans in it.
withdrawal Of American and allied troops
from Siberia and permitting Japan to handle
the military situation alone would be laying
the foundation for future controversy great
deal more menacing than that over Shantung.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
Today's Anniversaries

1825-Mordecaf NJ Noah selected
Grand Island, in the Niagara
river, as the site for New
Jerusalem.
1S67-State temperance party of
Massachusetts was organic
ed at Worcester.
1Ss2-The Khedive dissolved the
Egyptian army.
1894=Senator John P. Jones OF
Nevada, having Joined the
Populists, was asked by the
Republicans to resign his
seat.
1897-Severe fighting occurred on
the border, of Afghanistan be-
tween the British and tribes
men.
19o9-The British house of com
mons passed the Irish land
bill.
1914-Theu Serbian forces with
drew from Semlin.
1915-Serbians prevented the Aus
TRANS from crossing the rfv-
ers Save and Drina into
Serbia.
1916-British. and French captured
four miles of German posi-
tons north and south of the
Somme
1917-Five German aeroplanes
brought down on French
front
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
Argus Information Bureau

(Any reader can get the answer to q
ton bureau, Frederic ]. Haskin. Director
address and enclose two-cent stamp for re
confidential the replies beng sent direcl
paid to anonymous lettersl-
@. Will you please give me some
information about Frederic Doug
lass, the negro orator? NJ. D.
ssaAss. Frederic Douglas was a ia
nous anti-slavery orator. He was
born and reared as a slave in
MARYLAND. His father was a white
man and his mother a negro slave.
He married a negro woman. In
addition to being a famous orator
and writer, he held many impor-
tant political positions. He died in
1895.
Q. What was the actual fighting
time of the Dempsey and Fulton
prize fight? C. E. w.
A. The actual fighting time of
this bout was only 1SA seconds.
O. Can you tell me the maiden
name of the mother of Jefferson
Davis?
A. Before her marriage Mrs.
Davis was Miss Jane Cook.
@. Is there any likelihood of the
moved away from Washington?
c. y. c.
A. There has been some discus
sion in regard to moving the cap
ital away from the District of Co
lumbia, but it is not likely that
such a thing will ever be done.
Aside from the enormous expense
such movement would entail,
Washington has been especially
built and beautified with the view
of making it the most beautiful
city in the United States, and we'll
worthy of being the capital of the
nation.
@. What is the average life of
rabbit? J. W. K.
A. Rabbits live to be five or six
years old.
Q. Is it unlawful to change an
undesirable given name without
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

Dear Mrs. Thompson: % I am
d girl 16 years old. All of the girls
in our high school or most of them,
are q great deal younger than
am, / am not popular with them
except as a classmate. | have been
called a good sport but am not lik-
ed by some of them. Could you tell
me why?
~ l am large for my age, but
mot tall My worst encouragement
is my large unattractive legs and
thick ankles. 1 feel ashamed to
wear short dresses, although l do.
fGan you tell me how to make them
smaller? l live on a farm and have
a great deal of exercise.
TROUBLED.
ID It is impossible for me to
tell you why you are not more pop
ular since l Go not know you.
would suggest that you talk the
matter over with your teacher and
ask her to be very frank and try
to help you in this matter. Doubt
less you are over sensitive and do
not go half way in making friends.
20 To lie down on the floor and
roll is one of the best things you
can do to reduce your hips anG
limbs The ankle can be made
more shapely by pointing the toe
and twisting the foot in a circular
motion.
Do not worry about your limbs.
because as you mature they will
grow more shapely and less awk-
ward.
Dear Mrs. Thompson; I am a
girl 16 and in love with a boy 81
who is very bashful and does not
come to see me but seems to care
a great deal when in a crowd.
Everybody says he is crazy over
me, but / cannot invite him to see
me unless he asks to come. Meth
er father nor mother care to have
me keep company with boys. 1
do not care to go with anybody
else. There is another young man
who asked me to marry him. He
SAYS he can never care for any one
else, but I do not live him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
77TIHHITE5 DAILY SHORT STORY

contents quite interested and en-
cited him.
Your uncle always liked you,'
wrote the lady, land it was his will
that you should be remembered be-
fore he died, but the latter years
of his life he had some serious
business troubles and did not at
tend to it Just before he died,
however, he asked me to see to it
that you were given some mining
property he had traded for in Arfz-
ona. 1t is my duty to tell you that
after looking up the property he
was very much disappointed. StiIl.
he said that you were young, ac-
tive, ambitious, and that you might
make something cut of the propu-
sition he had grown too old to
handle"
When Wade told his friend, Neil
Wolfson of his acquisition. the lat
ter was fired with enthusiasm.
why" declared the latter, I'D
give all had for a chance Ike
that Gold, silver, adventureI The
VeIy uncertainty of the timing is
fascinating" and he offered to sup
ply the capital to finance the Arizo-
ma exploitation.
1t was on the morning OF g
gloomy, threatening day that the
two adventures halted their tired
steeds at struggling, dismal look
ing settlement fifty designated as
Last Hope. They had traversed a
barren alkali stretch of over a hun
bred miles without passing a single
habitation. Then had come the
mountains. Here at the apex was
Last Hope, which was a. halfway
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
The Durability of Syphilis.

Although syphilis is more wide
spread and has more serious Sc
quels than smallpox, diphtheria,
scarlet fever or typhoid fever, there
is still no public health measure
enforced to protect the public
against this communicable dis
ease. Such protective measures as
our public health guardians have
been able to attempt here and
there have been attempted surrep-
titiously, so reluctant are the PEG
pie in most communities to give
moral support to the control of
the plague.
In recent article on the Con
troll of Syphilis" DIR. r. C. jamie
son states that elm speaking of the
cure of syphilis we should qualify
by the adjectives clinical, serolog-
zeal and pathological cure"
Clinical cure means the arrest of
the disease. AS DR.. Jameson puts
It: From a clinical point of view
all cases of syphilis, excepting the
cerebrospinal. are durable and the
patients should be able to live their
lives without further manifesto
tons. provided they take sufficient
treatment and the spirochete (syph-
Ills germ has not produced irrep-
arabic damage" The latter excep-
ton rather emasculates the asser-
ton; it means that the case of
syphilis is durable if it is not in
durable.
Sociological cure means merely
that the Wassermann blood test
becomes negative and remains neg
alive This would be of academic
interest as compared with the
opinion of the patients physician
whether clinical cure has been
attained.
Pathological cure means that the
spirochete germ of syphilis has
been entirely eradicated. There is
much doubt that this ever occurs.
AS DR.. Jameson observes: After
the spirochete has become gener-
ally circulated by the blood it is
practically impossible to destroy
every organism germ, as many
become incorporated in the body
and live in a harmless state of
symbiosis ION agreeable terms with
the host as TO the organisms of
typhoid fever. pneumonia and tu-
berculosis." It is accurate to speak
of arrested tuberculosis, but not
of cured tuberculosis.
. DIR. JAMESON deplores the bias
of public opinion which ignores the
fact that a considerable proportion
of all cases OF syphilis are Of in
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
Holding Japan in Check.

81 Those who are making the greatest outcry
over the Shantung decision are also loudest
in their demand that the few American troops
now in Serbia be brought back to this country
at once. The inconsistency of their position
does not seem to occur to them.
Official Washington knows why there are
American and allied soldiers in Siberia. Mem
bers Of the senate foreign relations committee
can hardly plead ignorance, and yet the dis
position is to create an air of mystery about
it and to try to trick the administration into
some statement which may make the situation
even more difficult.
Japanese soldiers are in Siberia in greater
numbers than those of the other powers. Japan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
TWIN CRATERS.
BY Otillia F. Pfeiffer.
copyright. 1919 by the Western

ftCOpyTlg0L, 1918 by the WeSteIH
Newspaper Union)
1t would have made no difference
sif he had been poor as a church
mouse TO Alice Leigh, but Wade
Porter did not know that. Besides,
me resented the idea of asking a
girl brought up amid wealth and
Hluxury to risk uniting herself to a
llan without means, and one, TOO,
sWho had not even demonstrated his
business abilities.
She likes you, Wade" his best
Friend, Nell Wolfson. told him, and
when a woman like Alice Leigh
likes her affections they are likely
Ito prove lasting"
s'Then / will not take advantage
Of aer confidence" answered Wade
'resolutely. 81 believe there is
something in me worth bringing
out. and when have proven that, 1
am going TO her like a man and
hell her So"
In a careless moment Neil i'm
lparted this information to his sis
her and she in turn passed it along
no Alice. The latter was made very
q Apply by the intelligence When
sAYade, all unconscious of this, made
Ia call upon her his hope was in
creased and his ambitions stmu-
hated by the gracious way in which
EAIice treated him. He made his
preparations to qualify for posi-
ticn in another city, when he re-
sceived a letter from an aunt whose
h.lshcnd had recently died and its
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
With Other Editors
McCumber Plays a Lone Hand.
Davenport Democrat)

Selfish, immoral and dishonorable" is Sen
ator McCumbers classification Of the report
of the senate foreign relations committee on
the League of Nations covenant. The alleged
leaders of the Republican party must have
wondered what had come over this former
member of the old guard who prefers to line
up with President Wilson than with Senators
Lodge, Borah and their crowd. None of the
gang who are seeking to scuttle the admin
istrstion have used any stronger language in
attacking the league than the senator from
North Dakota uses in defending it.
Can it be that he senses the wish of the
people of the great middle west and that he
prefers to be the spokesman of their wishes
and sentiment than to line up with those over
whom Lodge would crack the party whip?
However that may be, there is no doubt
that McCumber feels strongly on the subjece
and that, a Washington correspondent of
the New York World put it. "he will vote with
the Democrats though Lodge perishes in any
ecstacy of abstract polysyllabic depreciation
and Johnson dissolves in tears"
From which it may be deduced that Porter
James McCumber is a stubborn person. He is
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

ny question By writing The Argus Inf rrna-
Washington. D. G. Give fun name and
u each individual. No attentioa win Be
going to court? ON.
A. A given name is only a
means of Identification and is Oft
en- changed without process OF
law. A surname. however, re-
mains the same unless it is chang
ed by law.
@. Can you inform me how to
figure the baseball percentage of a
given team? A. ]. r.
A. In order to figure The base
ball percentage of any team, divide
the total number of games played
into the number of games won.
O. What is a tarantula killer?
SR. N. S.
A. The tarantulazkiI1er is a spe-
cies OF wasp whose female is the
most effectivA foe of the tarantulas
1t aligl1ts onWhe spiders back and
penetrates its body with a sting
In a few seconds the tarantuIa is
dead. The wasp then deposits an
SSB III tic UOuy anu buFl1S IL III Tic
ground. The egg changes into a
grub which nourfshes itself upon
the carcass of the tarantuIa.
Q. Where do we get the word
"bosh?" n. B..
A This is Turkish word mean
ing empty. It was first applied to
anything that was nonsensieal or
trashy.
@. Have scholars ever taken Sc
riously the story of Atlantis as ar
gueds by Ignatius Donnelly, in his
book of that title? G. H C.
A The opinion OF scholars va
ries greatly in regard TO the story
Atlantis The authority for the
belief in the existence of the island
is found in Plato. Some regard it
merely as the authors imagination.
while others maintain that it is
based on fact.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
ETEATSTH TAGKS
-eY WILLIAM .I!=I !4s!s1l j Brady RAD ND.

nocent origin.
The clinical cure, that is, the ar
rest of syphilis, is determined by
these conditions: "a No suspic-
ious symptoms or signs in the
course of one year after treatment
is completed; ~ several negative
Wassermann (blood) tests and no
positive ones; CD negative prov
ocative Wessermann test "a test
after a short course of anti-syph-
little treatmenD at the end of the
year.
Competent physicians generally
agree that as a rule the minimum
amount of treatment required to
arrest syphilis includes 10 injec-
tons of salvarsan Unto the veinsl
and 10 mercury injections (hypo-
dermic) weekly in alteration, q
rest of five weeks. then the course
repeated until the Wassermann
test becomes negative and remains
negative.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

point between a number of isolated
mining camps. The tavern keeper
viewed the two young men with a
plying expression of face as they
divulged the motive of their coming.
Il hope you're not expecting
gold or silver" he observed. Il
don't suppose there is a foot of
Twin Craters that has not been
prospected and not so much as a
true assure vein of gold or a spe-
cimen of horn silver discovered
Some shrewd spectators sailed it
once and palmed it of on a tender
foot investor in the east.
well, we will look it ove-, any
way" suggested Neil, which they
Gid and camped on their possession
that night, a gloomy, uncopgenial
duo.
They were discussing the feasibil-
ity of a return to civilization early
the uext morning, when an auto
mobile came numbering towards
them. It held a half dozen we'll
dressed, intelligent looking men,
and was followed by a motortruck
loaded with surveying and other
scientific instruments. A brisk,
pleasant-faced young man APP
preached from the automobile first
to arrive. He spoke courteocsly in
greeting and then with a keen,
searching glance. observed:
Looking up the old craters, gen.
tlemen:"
mo" replied Wade bluntly. dis
CHASING Yhn Surasf means nf eettfnS
away from them as far as possible
was 1ured out here thinking that
there might be some value to the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
HOokw0rm Suanaff.

l believe, on account of my lack
of energy, ambition, etc, that ]
have the hookworm- VIII you
kindly advise me how should go
about getting treated. w. 2, T,
Answer-Your suspieian has In
sufficient evidence to support it.
Hookworm is diagnosed by finding
the adult worms or their eggs tTnf-
croscopic) in the stools. The doe
tor will attend to the treatment
when he has made the diagnosis.
The adult worms are graytsh or
whitish, about one-fourth inch
long, with slight bend near one
end.
Tea Habit.
Is the habituaI drinking of tea
injurious to an adult person Does
it act as a stimulant, and does one
using it form a habit same as for
liquor? ". G..
Answer-The habit of taking a
cup of tea once or twice a day
practically never injuries adult per-
sons. The excessive tea bihbling,
drinking many cups through the
day, produces nervousness, insom-
MIA, anemia, constipation dyspep-
STA, emaciation and irritabiIitg.
Tea is a stimulant to the BRAIN
kidneys and heart.
Lumpy Jaw.
Kindly inform me whether lnmpy
jaw contracted by a person from
an animal is contagious to other
persons coming in contact with
him? I. G. r.
Answer-Yes.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
Brad'sDit O. Verse
LONG FACES.

A visage solemn, long and lean
denotes not piety. but spleen. This
good old world was never made
for an abode of gloom and shade;
this bully earth was never meant
to be a home of discomfort, a haunt
for melancholy fears, a wailng
place. a vail of tears. When 1
get up to BuIah Land" says Elder
Wax, won't it seem grand? For
here my life is full of groans,
grim ills beset my aching bones,
there's evil stalking everywhere.
and woe and want and toll and
care" If he would chase the spot
ted calf and take a good old fash
toned laugh and put his whiskers
to the axe, life would pick up for
Elder Wax. If he would wipe his
Iarboard eye he wouldn't be so
keen to fly; he wouldn't groan to
pull his freight and dodge the
tasks of time and fate. If he
would hear real jazz band he
wouldn't sigh for Beulah Land till
he'd fulfilled his mission here and
brought the world some light and
cheer. To wear a long, lugubrious
face is not a sign of inward grace.
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

Organized labor does not seem very enthus-
iastic about supporting the strike of police in
Boston. The truth Of the matter is that public
sentiment, if it ever approved, has been alien
ated by the. lawlessness which broke loose
when the officers quit their beats, and no strike
can win unless the people endorse it. Police
v alkorts in England have failed for the same
7eason. Then officer who has sworn to
uphold the law fails to do so there is a dis
position to hold him accountable for what hap
pens, regardless of other considerations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
.2drt 1pHOn1o.
ttlDTODTO1mcC y
$2y 4 FfRC ELIZABETH THONTpSON
BY TEMPLE
THOMPSON

Please tell me how to get the
come to see me. PUZZLED.
1t is useless to try to make the
young man call upon you. Bash
fulness does not excuse him, be-
cause if he really wanted to come
he would find way.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: Please
tell me if it is right for me to go
out to dinner with my husband
when a gentleman friend of his has
invited US. l know the mans wife
and have been in her company sew
eral times and called on her, but
she was not at home.
She is always pleasant when we
meet, but it seems to me she should
have had something to DO with the
inviting. Should she not?
ANXIOUS.
The mans wife should have in
vited you. Some people are care
less about such matters and they
do not realize they are breaking a
rule of etiquet. The man would
not have invited you 10 dinner with
out his wife's consent. and so you
could feel free to accept his inyi-
tation.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I have
been going with a young second
lieutenant at camp for some time
and we liked each other very
much. All of a sudden he stopped
coming to my home. but we talk TO
each other every day in camp. 1
have been out with many other Of
fcers since, but none Of them seem
to come quite up to this regular
army lad Can you tell me how to
get him back? FULA
No. I cannot advise you To
get back" someone who has grown
tired is practically useless. The
sooner you realize that you have
lost the lieutenant, the better. L
am sorry that l must be so heart
less in my reply, but there is no
other way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

four hhndred acres of land which
q relative of mine left to me-"
"HelloI You're not the owner Of
the craters. are you?" propourded
the stranger eagerly.
II am that unfortunate individ-
ual," acknowledged Wade, trying to
smile.
Then you are the very person
we shall be looking for as s2or &C
we have made little calculation as
10 how much water these extinct
craters will hold. My associates
yonder are capitalists from the east
They own over two hundred thous-
ana acres of the most arid, but al
so most fertile land in Arizona.
seventy-two miles away. If science
and cement can make those great
natural reservoirs leak proof. We
can pump up water from the river
lay pipe system to our lana and
turn the desert into a garden of
beauty"
What a scheme!" exclaimed Neil
Wolfson later.
And what price they offer
two hundred thousand dollars,
Why, on a fifty-ffty basis that
makes US both richl" echoed Wade
Yes, you can now carry ont all
your ambitious business plans back
home" observed Neil.
And win Affect" rnuru1urefI
Wade raptly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

Senator Sherman was one of the FIRST to
raise his voice in the senate debsbe over the
treaty, and he spoke Enthusiastically exhib-
iting his entire vocabulary, which is exception
ally well stocked with terms for the expression
of a mind which conceives no good in the
present and no hope for the future. The sen
ator makes hit with those who are "agin'
everything, but fortunately that is not the
kind of people who decide big questions in the
United States.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

Our friends, the enemies of the League Of
Nations, while they profess to favor perma-
nent peace. have thus far failed to offer any
substitute to take the place of the league.
They do not want the League of Nations, and
IL they are sincere they do want something
to take its place. will any one of the number
please tell what they do want?' asks the
Springfield Register Nothing, except to dis
credit the president.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17

German press comment, which has upheld
the fight in the senate against ratification of
the treaty of peace, is said to be changing in
tone and gradually incIining to the other side
Of the question. Somebody must have tipped
off the fact to the German writers that the
American people look upon their knocks as
boosts and vice versa.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-17
The War a Year Ago

I czecho-shoyaks appealed for al
He'd help to hasten.
& Germans burned numerous towns
Ia Moselle region.
United States forces established
Jew line on St. MihieI front.