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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
Boosting the League of Nations.

one thing about Senator Sherman's speeches,
they never reveal how he arrives at his con-
illusions You know he's there. and that is ALL
and you could have guessed that before he
opened his mouth. II informed whore Pregt-
dent Wilson stands on any given proposition,
you know to dead certainty where the senior
member of the upper house from Illinois VIII
be. Dependability that's Sherman, all over.
as Bill wrote to Mabfe
The string of invectives that Sherman re-
IieTed himself OF in the senate today is per-
haos the best boost that the league Of nations
could have received Selection of the speaker
to fire the opening gun against it was con-
fession at the start of the weakness OF the
opposition He was not the man TO lay the
Foundation for an intelligent discussion Of the
faults of the compact, as other senator's who
hold similar opinions well knew. Besides TAX
ing up valuable time, the only effect Of his ad-
dress will be to make adherentS for the other
side Of the question.
Outside of LaFoI1ette there is no one in
the senate whose opposition could do the cause
of the league Of nations more good than
Shermans
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
An Honest Bootlegger.

That there are honest bootIeggers. as well
as conscientious DIRECTORS, evidently is the
opinion Of the jury which tried Earl Kish of
East Moline Earl was charged with burglary.
but he proved to the satisfaction OF those whose
business it was to judge, that he was altogether
too decent chap to do anything of that sort
1t was mainly on his own simple straightfor-
ward story detailing his efforts to make a de-
cent living peddling whisky that he was
acquitted.
In the Judgment of the jury breaking into
someone else's basement at midnight to pro-
cure wet goods for distribution among thirsty
East MoIiners, no matter how strongly the
owner protests, is altogether a different mat
ter from breaking in and taking, say bushe1
of potatoes a ham. Since the fact that for
chile entry to the premises was established it is
presumed the distinction was made on the char
acter OF the commodity carried away.
So Kish goes free, but burglars had better
continue to beware.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23

instance, board candidates are nominated I'M
der the latter. which specifies nominating petit
lions Of 10 per cent Of the vote cast at the last
election, but that they need not exceed so
names in any case.
The increased tax which will be submitted
to the people June "a is provided for in the
general law, which makes it possible for cities
to vote a maximum of per cent for educa-
ton and per cent for building purposes. The
proposition will call for an addition of L per
cent to the present school tax. which will give
$4,000 more revenue annually. A number OF
cities voted on the same question in April and
it carried in every known instance. Approval
by large majority is expected in Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
No Idealistic Plan.

Sometimes the adherents Of a movement do
it as much harm as its opponents.
There are those who regard the league of
nations merely as an idealistic plan to amelio-
rate the condition of mankind These people
have cast fuel on the fire of antagonistic COM
ment, when it has been within their power to
check the confagratton-
Impossible idealism," visionary scheme"
are some Of the titles applied to the league by
the provincially minded.
The league, of course, is not ideal
scheme. 1t was never intended to be. 1t was
intended to be, and is, a scheme based solely
upon the dictates of common sense
No one hopes to wipe out the evils Of secret
treaties and diplomatic double dealing over
night No one for a moment imagines that
secret treaties will automatically be done away
with by the covenant There are good many
laws against burglary in the various countries
OF the world, but the first one that was
passed did not entirely wipe out crime at the
instant it went into effect In fact, there are
yet few burglars left in the world.
But what the league of nations will do it
seems fair to suppose, is eventually so to emas-
culate the secret treaty by publicity that diplo-
matte dickering will lose much Of its power to
harm. If party to a secret treaty desires
no longer to abide by its terms, it will of neces
sity inform the league of the terms to which
it objects, and the treaty then becomes sub
Jet for the consideration of court composed
of members of other nations, with the courts
decision thereafter becoming public property.
The league of nations is idealism founded
on common sense. 1t is time common sense
be ascribed to the idea by its partisans. For
a common sense proposition it surely is.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
Today's Events

Today is the national fete day of
Rumania.
/. Today is the centennial anniver-
sary of the birth of Robert L. Mon
tague, distinguished Virginia jur-
list, and president of the secession
convention in 1851.
The annual convention of the
Mizrachi Zionists' National associ-
alton assembled at Cincinnati to-
day to continue in session over
Sunday.
A Maine state convention to ex-
press popular ratification of the
league of nations covenant was
called to meet today at Portland.
Bids for the construction of the
new super-dreadnaughts Massa-
chusetts and Iowa, opened today at
the navy department in Washing
ton.
Postwar financial problems
were dealt with in addresses by
prominent speakers at the annual
convention of the New Jersey
Bankers association, meeting to-
day at Atlantic City.
Cardinal Gibbons and other emf
nent prelates of the Roman Cath
Ollie church in America assembled
today at Wheeling, W. Va, to at
tend the silver jubilee celebration
of Bishop Patrick ]. Donahue.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
Brad's O. Verse
RECONSTRUCTION.

When Neighbor Smith and Neigh
Dor Jones come round and ask for
slndry loans to tide them DER a
tine of loss, 1 always gladly come
across. When vermints eat a
neighbor's grain or vandals tram
pie down his cane and burn his
buildings to the ground and kill
his kind and steal his hound, I'd
be a Stacker and a clod if 1 held
back and pinched my wad. So
when the allied nations come and
say they need a tidy sum to re-
construct their fields and roads
and patch the roofs of their abodes
and heal the wounds of wanton
war I'd be a boob to make a roar.
When I'm knocked from my props
by failure of the early crops,
sigi a note to Neighbor Brown,
AMI he with needful plunks comes
doEn till l can sell my old hay
rack, then go round and pay him
back; SO when our neighbors over
there are upfagainst 1t good and
fair. and need. to see them through
ths5 stress a few odd, billions more
orr less till they can struggle
through the drift, I'm strong for
giving them the lift. They've been
thro Ugh season hard and tough !:
and he's a tight and fiinty duH
who'd go about and utter groans
hccaule they come TO ask for loanA.
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
The Health Oficer TororroM.


Problem in simple arithmetic:
II it requires 10000 medical OFF,
GERS to give reasonably good care
to the health OF 100000 troops,
how many civilians, including
men. women and children, can one
health officer properly serve?
The answer is one hundred.
But the average American or
Canadian city of 10000 to $4,000
population cannot see it that way,
for the health officer in cities of
that size generally conducts his
private practice as a vocation and,
If he has any time between pa
tents, dabbles with the admins
tration of the public health in his
idle moments. We are not yet
quite civilized, you see. Mostly we
still rely on the almanac and the
neighbors to advise us aoout mat
tiers Of health Oh, surely, we will
go down in out jeans for the nee
essary price of protection against
fire, for police protection. for pros
ecuting criminals, for maintaining
jails and such appurtenances, but
amt it awful, Mabel, when we are
asked to contribute a few cents
annually toward the protection of
our health? What's the use O.
squandering real money on public
health protection, we ask our
selves, when any good neighbor or
almanac will tell us all about it in
case we do get sick or something?
The great war, observers on the
inside assure US, is going to bring
about all kinds of revolutions.
When the troops get back home
the old order has got to change
and numerous desirable reforms
are going to be started. This FORE
cast has been made freely in the
last few ySars. But the great war
is about over, the soldiers are
trickling back home, and the same
old conditions obtain.
However, as a Gargantuan COL
league used to say, there is hope
More and more people are begin
ming to suspect that, after all,
there may be a grain of truth in
the proposition that public health
is purchasable;" at any rate more
and more communities are invest
ing in it nowadays, timidly at first,
but investing.
1t is just as hard, requires just
as much knowledge and skill and
work TO maintain the health of 100
persons at home as it does to
maintain the health of 100 persons
in an army camp. And the health
and life of the individual at home
is Just as valuable as the health
and life of the soldier.
To expect one officer to look
after the health of 10000 persons
is absurd and picayunish
The principle is wrong; the prac-
tice is wasteful.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
HQa1't. 9eH!On1o|
11,t1DTODTO111cC n
%41 MRC. ELIZABETH THOMPSON
BY TEMPLE

I thoroughly disapprove Of paint,
but l can see a need for powder
used in a moderate degree. Pow
der cools the skin and keeps dirt
ard SCOT from filling the pores
Your letter is very interesting,
and / know most men Will agree
with you.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: have
been married 10 years. We have
TO children. 1 love my husband
ard he has always seemed to love
me until recently.
Another woman who claimed to
be my best friend came between
us and has tried in every way TO
win my husbands affection. l am
sure she loves him, although she is
married, too.
She called my husband over the
phone one day and asked him to
meet her at a town close by. My
husband had to go to town on bust
ness and l also went. The woman
was there, but my husband did
not speak to her then. He might
have met her later; do not know.
My husband was out of work and
SO went to this town where she is.
because he could get work there.
Do you think he could love this
other woman? He sends me mon
ey and tells me he wants me badly,
and he tells me how he misses me,
and so on. Do you believe he loves
ma or the other woman? was
told my husband meets this other
woman different places.
Should ! go there when he wants
me so badly? LIZZIE.
1 believe that your husband loves
you. If he has anything to do with
the other woman it is because he
is lonely and wants the companion
ship of a woman.
Go 10 him as soon as you can {
and make a home for him. There 3
is less danger of his having an IN
terest in the other woman If you /
are there to fill his leisure hours.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
In the Days News

Prince Aage of Denmark, who il
shortly to pay visit to America, is
the eldest son of Prince Waldemar
and the late Princess Marie OF
Orleans, and a first cousin Of the
Danish king. The prince has been
described as a fine fellow, with
charming unostentatious manners.
He is an ardent sportsman, clever
boxer, and one of the best skaters
in Europe. He inherits his good
looks from his mother, an extreme
ly beautiful princess, whom the
Duke of Clarence, eldest son of the
late King Edward VII was so de-
ago Prince Aage married the daugh-
ago Prince Aage mrried the daugh-
ter of a plain Italian nobleman, in
consequence of which he had to re-
nounce his rights to the Danish
throne, and the titles of Count and
Countess of Rosenberg were con-
ferred upon him and his wife.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
IHI1Es DAILY SHORT STORY

ness. 1 am going to see how she is
going to treat me in the matrimon-
ial line"
You don't mean it, Marshall! l
didn't suppose you was much inter-
ested in that way"
Pm interested in any way where
an advantage means money or my
own we'll being. For some time I've
been having my eye on Miss Eva
Burton"
Jim uttered a low whistle. "I
sayI" he remarked, you aim high.
Why, her father is the richest man
in Wharton and she's the most re-
fined, cultured and beautiful girl in
the district"
Eben did not like this, for, per
contra, as he was fully aware, ne
was boorish, ignorant and decidedly
unhandsome. All the same he perk-
ed up, ratified some coins in hls
pocket and flecked a speck of dust
from his newly made coat as If he
would brush away any obstacle that
might come in his path
'sI've heard that Ross Adams had
sort Of fondness for Eva" went
on Jim specalatingly.
"Humphi" snorted Eben, con-
temptuously. THAT peuper! Writ
ing books and painting pictures.
Fine prospects, Ell? I've got money
and / amount to something in this
community. Watch me prove it to
pretty Eva when opportunity hits
my trail"
Reckon Eben has begun his
courting," soliloquized Jim about a
month later, as he saw the oppor-
tunist IN his shiny. brand-new an
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23

Rock Island, as is generally known, oper-
ates under q special school charter. The ad-
vantages enjoyed thereby, though quite OBJ
vious to those familiar with school law, are
not so widely understood
School boards in cities specially chartered
have a certain amount of latitude in electing
whether to follow that code or the general law
lin specific instances. Thus they are able to
get better results, other things being equal,
than where the general law alone applies.
Under Rock Islands charter one handicap is
Imposed that no way has been found to avoid.
Bonds can be issued for no longer than nve
years. Naturally borrowing cannot be done
on the most favorable terms for so short
period.
The Rock Island board, however. can buy
and sell building sites erect buildings and is
sue bonds without submitting the question to
the people, a step that il necessary under the
general law This confers considerable power
upon the members, but in Rock Islands case
lie never has been abused On the contrary. it
has worked to the advantage of the schools,
,for it has been possible to anticipate the needs
LOT the city by purchasing sites years before
buildings were needed. Since property held
flor school purposes is not taxable the only ex-
tpense is the interest on the investment, which
the increase in the value of the ground always
has more than compensated for. Sites that
were not needed have been sold at a good
proht, without exception thus far.
Rock Islands school board has only five
members, where, under the. general law, it
Eould have three times that number. Expert
ence shows that smaller board can do bust
mess more expeditiously and a number OF the
states have amended their laws to limit boards
Ito seven and in some cases to but three.
The special charter fixes the election on the
last Tuesday in June, which helps in divorc-
ling school affairs from politics. Under the
general law the election is held on the third
Tuesday in April, which is the date Of city
elections, and naturally more or less political
Influence is brought to bear upon the choice Of
members Of the board.
Where the special charter makes no definite
provisions the general law is followed. For
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23

Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am a
young man 20 years of age. 1 have
been going with girl Of my own
age. She is very beautiful. 1 love
her so much that I would like to
make her my wife. / would Like to
have your advice about how to win
her. W. G. P.
Start now to prepare yourself for
marriage. You will have to work
hard and establish yourself in bust
ness before you will be in a posi-
ton TO ask her to marry you.
In the meantime be loyal to her.
Go with her, but do not spend so
much time in her company that she
will tire of you. Let me caution
you not to stay late at night. 1t is
far better to leave when a girl is
enjoying your company very much
than to stay until she and her whole
family are tired out. Also do not
force her to stand at the front door
a long time while you muster up
courage to meet her.
If you are careful not to make
yourself too commonplace for her.
she probably will learn to love you.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a
hoy of II and am writing to know
the reason why some girls waste
their good money for powders and
paints.
/ admire pretty girls, but it is
disgusting to see them substitute
for their natural looks a coat of
powder and paint To me it seems
that they have lost confidence in
their looks.
1 know that the men and boys
agree with me.
SHORT WINDED.
Powder and paint attract a GER
tain class OF men. The girls are
willing to substitute the attentions
of this class for the love and re-
spect of a better class, just as they
are willing TO substitute powder and
paint for natural beauty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23

Eben had been headed, but now. be-
cause he knew he would find Eva
there, he started forthwith to seek
her out, to apprise her of his good
news and to tell her furthermore
that he was at last in a position to
think of settling down for life.
Now Eben had devoted this par
ticular day to the goddess, Oppor-
tunity. He had spread himself in
the purchase of the new automobile
and essayed to overwhelm Eva into
a sense of his importance and lib
crafty. He had left Eva with some
friends while he went to negotiate
for a cruise with the most snowy
electric launch on the river, regard
less of expense. 1t was during ms
absence that Ross came upon the
scene. He readily lured Eva to a
walk Jim Ready, keeping track of
him, watched him reach a seques-
tered spot with his lady love.
He saw Ross show the letter. He
saw him half kneel at the feet of
his inamorata, pouring forth ais
love story. He saw them kiss, and
he knew that it was all over with
Eben.
Marshall may be an opportun-
ist," chuckled Jim, but Ross has
beat him two to one as an impor-
tunisti" Which was true@as all
Wharton soon learned.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-23
THE OPPORTUNIST.
Ru RAIPH HAMu TON

n tC;Opyr1gnt, 1919, by western News
paper Union.)
Eyes, you've done we'll, Marshall.
we all admit that. You seemed to
NBtart in business at just the right
monent- Opportunity knocks only
once at every door, and you was
Aready to welcome her, chr
Nonsense" uttered Eben Mar
shall Opportunity is hanging
.around most OF the tine. I've got
her trained, see? I've made a
science Of it In fact, 1 call myself
IN expert as an opportunist
jim Ready nodded approvingly
and with profound admiration Of his
fortunate acquaintance. Certainly
IEben had done we'll He had struck
wharton Just As the boom of that
thriving little town was beginning.
HE had speculated in a new sno-
|divfsion and had doubled his invest
'ment He was the first man to com
|prehend Ghe practicabflIty OF start
ing movie show, and money Tow
ed in
~You see, JIM" he observed,
Fsthere's no heitef SHELTER in grab
hing opportunity. You have 70 get
30 that you recognize her when
Iycnz meet her. Then you have 70
know how to utilize her. You've got
10 act Just in time, and exactly
kfzht. You've got to be shrewd, dill
eent sure oe your ground and con-
Ifdent and irresistible in your
power. Considerably, I am now
c0urtang the shy damgel sao0g new
hines. I'VE trAed cppcrtuuaty~4M DuE-