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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16
DRURY

Mr. and Mrs wilbur Brooks OF Rock
Island spent Sunday at the home OF Mrs.
Winifred Gillette.
Miss Bessie Jackson who has been visit
ing Miss Rogeua Diehl. returned to her
home in New Boston Sunday.
Miss Nola Gillette spent several days
last week with Mrs. Arch Poster
Rev Mr. Rogers of the Muscatine Bap-
list church will preach Sunday afternoon
at - 30 at the Providence Baptist church.
The ice cream social held in the base
rneut of the Baptist church Wednesday
evening was well attended and a neat
sum realized.
NoIa Gillette. Sadie Kliest and Roy Rec
tor spent Sunday with Mr.. and MIS-.
Arch Foster.
Robert Beaham OF Muscatine spent Mon
day and Tuesday at the Dan hliest home
Miss Kathryn KlIest spent sunday IN
Rock Island.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16
MOLINE WATER IN
GOOD CONDITION

Water that spouts from faucets
in Moline homes these days is not
so clear as usual and many house
certain that the water is safe for
drinking purposes. But to relieve
their fears City Chemist Anderson
today makes the following state
ment.
The water is pure and it is safe
for drinking purposes. We are
now engaged in flushing all by
drants in the city. This tends 10
stir up the water. and the result is
q murky color to it."
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16
MOLINE SHIPPERS
GET INVITATION

An Invitation to attend a state
meeting of shippers in the Insur-
ance Exchange building, Chicago,
at 10 O'Clock the morning of June
% in preparation of hearings be
fore the Interstate Commerce com
mission, July 81 at the Federal
building, Chicago. was given to the
Moline shippers this morning.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16

Miss G. A. Bacon of -Worchester,
Mass, first vice president Of the
General Federation of Women's
Clubs, has been appointed to direct
the participation of the club wom-
en- of the United States in the Ma
tional Thrift campaign.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16
The Day In Davenport

Dedicate New CIfurch-F4rst
Church of Christ, Scientist, yester-
day dedicated the beautiful struc-
ture in which its services are held
at Grand avenue and Kirkwood
boulevard. There were two ser
vices, lie in the morning at IL
O'Clock and one in the evening at
O'Clock. Large delegations from
nearby cities were there to attend
both services. The edifice was COM
.pleted in 1913 at a cost of $685.
but Christian Science churches are
not dedicated until fully paid for
It is the second dedication of the
kind in Davenport, the first event
following the purchase of the prop
erty at Sixth and Perry streets in
June 1908. There was no pomp or
ceremony. The only pomp to the
Christian Scientist is the glory,
majesty and might of God which he
recognizes as the infinite, immortal
and eternal divine Mind. To the
Scientist, God is manifested in the
healing of human discOrd through
the destruction of sin and sickness
and the destruction, in fact, of the
entire gamut of human distresses
whether appearing as a sick body,
a hateful temperament, sinful ca
reer, a malevolent character, a tot
terfng business or any other ele-
ment antagonistic to the health.
happiness and spiritual welfare Of
= mankind.
Files Big Damage Suit-Fi1ing
-
damage action brought by Timothy
PAIL, against the TriCity Railway
company, the company declares
that it settled with PAIL in full and
cleaned it's slate of liability by pay
ing him $1,000 in cash something
like a year ago. PAIL declares that
he fell from a crowded car one aft
ernoon while returning from work.
He alleges that he is a cripple as
the result of the accident PAIL,
who is so years of age, was a pas
senger on a Brady street car on
Dec. s, 1917. At Brady and Elev-
enth streets he attempted to alight
He alleges that the door was not
opened wide enough to let the steps
down to-a horizontal position. The
car was packed and he was pushed.
Young Major HOme.-Major Ar
mold W. Jacobsen, with the Sixth
regiment, Second division of ma
rines in several of the big battles
of the late war, is in Davenport
visiting his uncle, Peter N. Jacob
sen. His home is at Wilton. AL
though but q years old, Major ia
cobsen has seen seven years of
military service, including four
years at the naval academy at An
napo1is. where he graduated in
1916. Major Jacobsen saw service
in the Champagne sector in Octo-
Der and the Meuse-Argonne in No
vember. He was on the Mouse riv-
-er the day the armistice was sign
ed. He was on the left flank Of the
army of occupation in Germany,
crossing Belgium. through Luxem
burg and then crossing the Rhine
at Andermach on Dec. Is.
Cops to Have Straw Hats.-Dav-
export business men are backing
proposal to have the members of
the police traffic squad dof their
uniform caps for light hats of
straw. They realize that the uni
form caps, made of heavy felt and
leather, are not conducive for COM
fort IN the extremely hot weather.
A petition may be presented to the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16

Kansas limits the working hours
of women employed in hotels, res
taurants, dining halls and lunch
rooms. The women are allowed to
work only nine hours a day and 81
hours a week For night workers
seven hours work in twelve con-
stitute a days work and As hours
a week is the limit.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16

Miss Mary Macarthur, secretary
Of the British Women's Trade
Union league, will represent the
organized working women of Great
Britain at the Mems Trade Union
league of America to be held in
PHILADELPHIA during June.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16

Women school teachers in the
United States are rapidly organic
ing unions to demand more pay
and will ask for broader recogni-
ton in the conduct of schools by
representation on local boards.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16

The total number Of people that
the world can maintain is esti-
mated at six billions, or about four
times the present population. At
the present rate of increase, this
figure will be reached in some two
hundred years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16

Women workers in mercantile
and manufacturing establishments
in Oregon have had their minimum
wage raised from % TO so per cent
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16

Women clerks employed by the
various insurance companies in
Great Britain now number about
SO, 900.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-06-16

city council soon asking that straw
mats be made regulation for the
members ofthe squad, who are ex-
posed to the direct rays of the sun
all day. I'VE swelter with palm
/ beach suits and panama hats on,
one business man said Saturday.
These officers must stand all day
in the middle of the street, wearing
heavy caps. There is such a thing
as carrying discipline too far, and
this is one instance of it"
ShriRers Return HOme.-Daven-
port Shriners, members of Kaaba
temple. returned home Friday night
from Indianapolis where they at
tended the national concIave in ses-
sion June II to u. inclusive. The
special train carrying 135 members
of the temple. reached Davenport
from the east shortly after 8
o'clock. The delegates left Daven-
port week ago today for Indian
apolis. Shriners Saturday declared
the indianapolis concIave one of the
4, most successful ever held by the
shrine
Structure Soon Ready.-Within
/ 80 days, it is hoped that the oil re-
timing plant of Wilson & Co., at Bet
tendorf. will have been rebuilt and
put into running order. The plant
was destroyed by fire Friday after
noon. A ]. Russell, general man
ager of the Bettendorf Oxygen-Hy-
drogen company and Bettendorf
r-tn
surance adiusters are now at work.
and that work of rebuilding would
start Mondaoy if possible. The
ground is owned by the Oxygen
Hydrogen company, the building by
the Process company, and both are
leased to Wilson G. Co.. who oper-
ate the plant G. W. Lund. Office
manager for the latter firm, said
that the destroyed stock. amount
ing to $4,000 pounds of vegetable
oil valued at $4,000, was being ap-
praised by insurance adjusters, and
that the company would start OPP
erations as soon as the new build
ing is finished.
Heads Roads BOoSterS.-Head of
the hard roads boosters who back
ed the $2,000,0 900 bond issue to pull
Scott county out of the mud was
Joe Deutsch, Davenport merchant.
Mr. Deutsch was county chairman
of the good Goads organization. Be
side being in charge of the entire
campaign he took part personally
in the tour through the country
districts and was responsible for
ending much of the opposition
which developed early in the cam
paign, but which later was won over
to the side of constructive road
building.
Marriage Licenses-Harry wulr
and Amanda Schroeder, both of
Davenport.
vernet T. Senthouse and Grace
Ruth Benson. both Of LeClaire.
Earl c. Jameson of Moline and
Marion Lafferty of Davenport.
Harry Fulscher of Hampton, Ill,
and Julia Leona Benell Of Chi
cago.
Edward R. Martens and Mary
Mackin. both Of Davenport.
H. Thornton Reeves of Chicago
and Florence Won Ach of Daven-
port.
E. r. Slick OF Davenport and
Mary Myrtle Rooney of Denver.
Emery Craig OF Davenport and
Alice Comstock OF Hannibal Mo.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13

81 on, - s, s - Is
Novenber and nothing has been done
is ct industry upon It's feet since that
time. The President thought ID that
Nas necessary was 70 take the war
harness Of industry He vas wrong.
His industrial policy Of loisssz fdiss has
resulted only ii the protfact:on d the
picnic Of the proiteers To be sure
there were advances IN pay il the govern
mentally conducted railroads. but they
were not sufficient to keep up with the
leaps and bounds Of the cost Of living,
and as for unoreanized labor the mys-
terry IS how it continues to live at all.
Atop Of this comes the exasperation
due to the infection upon the people Of
the abomination Of prohibition. That
was an example Of Prussianism not
calculated to soothe the minds Of people
who had wrought and fought, saved
and shaved for freedom, for personal
liberty And then taxes, taxes, taxes,
no end taxes that all come out d The
poor man eventually And now re:
uval Of the movement to protect our
infant industries against exhausted Ger
many! The protection viii be suff-
Gent to keep out the foreign goods, but
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13

Having watched his hurried bounc-
ing from Perm to Ekaterinburg to Onsk
to Irkutsk, may we not be apprehensive
lest his next strategic withdrawal land
him on the very doorstep of his twin
soul, Governor Burnquist, at st. Paul?''
asks The Public in its issue of August
9th, referring to that redo btable Russian
military leader, Admiral Kolchak, whose
purely autocratic government has been
recognized by the allied and associated
government. Minnesota people who
have lived through Burnquist's reign
eof bulldozing and violence viii be graft
fled by seeing the Great War Governor"
classified under the same label with
Admiral Kolchak. AS We see from this
Characterization by TIE Pablo, pub
lished in New Y ork, Burnquist's fame
has reached as far as the Atlantic coast.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13

you hAye smother boost fof price Then
again there y TIE fore;i,en denand for
our goods. che supply q which i limited.
thing necessary 70 decent e1iis-
tence Is soaring Or has SCARED ID price
beyond the reach Of the common man.
Who IS not the more resigned 70 that
condition when he reads that the war has
produced in this country 80, 600 new.
mill Soldiers and sailors RS
turned from the war cannot find work
And meanwhile there IS rumor Of another
war 70 bring about order IN Mexico.
Millions Of dollars IN airplane and other
equipment and IN military stores were
burned up to save the cost Of bringing
them home Foodstuffs ordered by the
Government before the armistice were
sold abroad when they were needed at
home, with the result Of keeping up
prices to the American consumer. The
packers combine is discovered to have
made itself master Of the peoples bread
and neat and poultry and vegetables
and leather and God only knows what
.ese. Meanwhile we are fa1niliarized
with the horrible details Of atrocities
con mitted upon American military pri-
soners at the farms" in France. We
search vainly for heroes" Of the war
and we have to contem plate the character
of sHard-Boiled Smith. We fought
the war to do away with militarism, and
now we are confronted with q proposal
for . standing army Of 510.0 900 men and
the CONSUMPTION act of 1917 to be kept
on the statute books sdecula saeculoruns.
With the Government in charge Of the
wire services we found it dealing in stern
repressive measures with organized labor
and denying the right Of collective
bargaining We heard much talk Of
doing something for our fighters beyond
sea, but nothing is done for them. They
are not being put on the land. They
are going .on the town. We meet
them Of an evening begging in the
streets. We read Of them taking to
banditry in lieu of honest occupation.
We heard much talk Of postwar re-
construction. It was all talk. Nothing
has cone Of It. The bure4Ecracy has
not evolved any program to get indus
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13
Bonds versus Bolshewkl

What did America do to help the
Russians in the sterilization of their
newly won industrial democracy asks;
Upton Sinclair, the able English writer
on social problems, in recent contrib
ton to one of the radical organs of this
country. To get the answer clear We
must first ask, he says: What did France
and England do? France and England
acted in the interest of their billions of
dollars invested in Russian bonds and
Industrial securities. From first to last
the action Of these governments towards
Russia has never given hint that there
is any thing in the world except govern
ment bonds and industrial securities;
that the life of one hundred and eighty
million human beings, tortured through
centuries, corrupted and enslaved by
their goyernn emf, exhausted in des-
perate war and threatened with anarchy,
famine and pestilence, was any thing,
in any way whatever to be considered
in comparison with interest on govern
ment bonds and dividends on industrial
securities.
And now, what about America:
America began by sending commission
headed BY an elderly corporation. lawyer
lifelong friend Of special privileges
America maintained as her representative.
in Petregrad an elderly capitalist from
st. Louis, who has since come to Lendo,
and revealed his point Of view in tWt
sufficient sentences: The basic principl.
of the Soviet movement is to proven
the exploitation Of one man by another
It is obviously an insane conception
America had wise and democratic
minded men in Petrogad, who toll
her what to do; BIT America did no
take advice of men like Raymond Robin
and William Boyc Tho1np Americ;
submitted herself to the diplomats an,
military men Of France and England
and sent her TROOPS to help destroy th
revolutionary government in Russia
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13

nise1y We told the German people
Ne would take them into The amily
81 nations upon terms exactine neithe
annexations nor iindemnities L o,ly
they would overt throw their masters:
They did that. and now we are holding
them s pariahs.
This country beholds the multiplica
ton Of millionaire as result Of the war.
This country finds freedom Of speech
land press Suppressed, the right Of public
assemblage violated. 6 observes il
ljails and peniten tiaries men and women
whose sole crime IS that they dared to
express their opinions ID dissent from
! the majority on the subject Of the war.
We know that Indian patriots are in
prison here for having agitated for home
rule under, or separation from, Great
Britain. These men were only pleading
/ for the principle Of democracy This
country recognized the British nrotec-
torate over Egypt and thus lent the
support Of its rength, moral and ply
steal, to the continued subsection of that
ancient people to. alien rule. Our rep
resentatives at Paris deliberately strack
Egyptian democracy a blow il the face.
Such things went well with the things.
we did to our own democrats, like
Eugene Debs, Kate Richards O'Hare,
and conscientious directors like Roger
Baldwin In government Of discus
sion we suppressed discussion. The
old republic moreover seems to haye
been superseded by a vastly ramifying
bureaucracy whose chief functions Wers
the expenditure ofenormous Suns Of
money and unparalleled interference
with the lives OF citizens. And we spent
billions. like drunken sailor. This
money has to come out Of the sweating
faces of the multitude The debt will
hang as a burden upon the necks of
the people for century or more. It
id not, does not and will not cone from
the chief benefciaries ofeWar activities
and expenditures. The income and
excess profits taxes come oft Of the masses
of the people in the long rIn. The
taxes are shifted to the Ultimate consu1n-
.er. The result has, been an unprecedent
ed rise in the cost of living. Cur
rency and bond issues have brought
about the usual result Of imitation. The
dollar has diminished in purchasing
power faster than any increase Of wages
could be devised to keep UP with such
decline. Food, clothing and housing
have advanced enormously. Add to
the decrease in the purchas 'ng power
Of money, the performances Of the pro-
fteers; consider then that production
was checked by the diversion Of manu-
facture to the suppl ing Of war materials
and by taking Of three million men in
arms from productive employment and
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13
entered as Second Class. Matter at the Post
once at New Ulm. Minnesota
Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1919.
The Deportation Farce

= 4 =
What became of the group Of alier
/. W. VS. whose journey in irons across
the continent a, few months ago in tbs
ssRed Special was heralded so widely
in the Tress?
OF the thirty six persons thirty.
five men and one wom three have
been deported, preferring this to tn
longer. period of confnem ent whiche
would have been necessary had their
cases been reconsidered.
For the remaining cases reconsidera-
ition by the Department of Labor was
sect red, in consequence Of which four
teen men were released Internationally.
Writs of habeas corpus were issued for
the remaining nineteen, and hearings
before Judge Hand in the Federal Els
trict Court of New York rest tied as fol-
lows. IN one instance, taken as a test
case, the writ was sustained, freeing the
man at once, and leading to the with
drawal for another reconsideration by
the Iepartn ent Of Labor Of ten psore.
of whom five have since been released.
The remaining eight, including the one
won an of the party, have been con-
sidered individually by the court and
are still, we believe, awaiting decision.
Tie 81 reg.
It seems then, that cases which ap-
peared strong enough to hold the per-
sons concerned through long months OF
confnement-sM months, a year, a year
and haf-to take them Up to and past
the Secretary Of Labor, across the
breadth Of a continent and into the
detention pen Of the immigrant station,
waiting only for ships to carry them
off.-that these cases turned o,st, after
scru tiny, to be too weak to hold sat all
in over one-haf of these re-es ARMED,
and Under considerable doubt in the
remainder.
How has such sitpa alton arisen, and
does it indicate son ething wrong in OFT
laws and proced.re that should be
changed, to avoid SO much unnecessary
expense to the government and hard
F.. ship to individuals? ErcH.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13

The argument was that the Soviets had
sold out to Germany; but the truth,
which Raymond Robins has Just told
on the witness stand, IS that before
they signed the Brest-L itoysk treaty.
the Soviet leaders had him cable 70
America the offer to refuse to sign. i
America would back them with supplies
and moral support. This offer, received
by our State Department, was hidden
from the American people, and the raids
into Siberia and Archangel were ordered.
Those raids cruel and wanton as they
were, have been the least part 81 the
wrong; for I would rather q man shot
ne with rifle than that he should
blast my reputation and destroy my
ability to make my ideals effective in
the world. And this is what has been
done to the Russian Soviet leaders by
all the forces of organized society through
the world Of capitalist civilization.
Whether rightly or wrongly, the
Russian soyiets believe and proclaim
that they are founding new order OF
society, in which there shall be no para
sites and exploiters, but in which those
who do the work of hand and brain shall
receive all that they produce. They
should be given an opportunity to prove
and show how much their theory is
worth in the actual life of con mon
wealth. But becatse our capitalists
fear the spread Of this doctrine, with
its nenace to their unjust holdings Of
the riches Of this earth they use every
means in their power to rob the Soviets
Of this opportunity.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13

Propertied people, says Matthias Err
berger, Minister Of Finance in the
German Republic, mt st achieve an
inward conviction as to the necessity
of giving up all riches and all that is
superfuors. If Our propertied classes
can be made to realize this, they will
be more interested in means to prevent
future wars.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13

uesda a ug 9Th
CHARLIE CHAPLIN AND ATTY
sARBUCKLE in sWo reel comedy.
This Chaplin Afbuckle comedy, IS
different every day this week.
and
S Submarine Pirate,
Starring SID CHAPLIN
also
EiIst Aid : f;ns ISeystons Comedy.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1919-08-13

In one Of its we'll known striking
pen-picttres Of present day conditions
William Marion Reedy, in the August
7th issue of Reedg's Mirror, throws a
sharp light on the multifarioas causes
of the present discomfort. The article
is worth reading in full and many times
over again, but limited space does not
permit US to reprint more than the
following extracts: