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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
The Narrow View.

Twenty-six Democratic members of the
Massachusetts legislature are reported to have
cabled the president demand that he return
home to help reduce the high cost of living
declaring they consider that far more impor-
tant than the league of nations
1t ought to be apparent to anyone, espe-
eiaIly to men qualified to sit in the legislature
If state that war caused the high cost of
living. Advancing argument to prove it would
insult the intelligence of newspaper readers
The league of nations is the best device that
the best brains of the world have Been able to
get into working form TO reduce the risk of
future resorts to arms among leading coun-
tries. 1t may not yet be in perfected FORM
but leading thinkers agree that it is start
in the right direction In doing what he can
to bring the great powers into accord on this
question the president obviously is taking the
most effective possible steps to guard against
a repetition of the very conditions under which
we are now living.
1t is true, of course. that the league of ma
tions will have direct bearing upon the
present. 1t may be years before another men
ace involving this country arises for it to cope
with. The president and those associated with
him are building for the future. That is the
way of progress. People who demand that the
work be laid aside before it is finished are
short sighted and selfish. If they were run
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24

ming things the world would be going back
ward, instead of forward.
Only imminence of dire calamity would
justify abandoning efforts to perfect leagrd
of nations. Things in this country have not
reached such stage is there any imme
date danger. Americans infinitely better
off than the people OF any other leading country
on earth and better able to take of them
selves, to boot. If we had forty presidents ali
at home and putting in 16 hours day they could
not prevent the working out Of economic laws
which make the cost of living nigh. We might
have more for ourselves II we refused to share
what we have with others who are really in
great physical and economic extremity, but
with Christian peoples within reach of our help
eating human flesh taken from corpses dug
out of their graves-well, Americans are not
built that way.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24

Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am a girl
just sixteen. When | was samller
lived in the country. l never had
any one except my brother to play
with. When we moved to town
there were so many children 10
play with that ii made me feel out
of place. Being used to my brothers
company only, always have liked
boy companions better than that OF
girls.
The girls seem to like me all
right, but l cannot have a good
time with them. If girl is seen IN
just one boys company all the time
other boys and girls say she has
quite case. II she is seen in the
company OF lot of different boys
they say she is eyerybody's girl.
WHAT should a girl do? ike them
only as friends.
TWO girl friends of mine Thought
perhaps we could have good time
if we had some boy friends over
some Friday night. They came ana
We danced and played games. The
boys and girls wanted to play Gap
in and Clap Dat" and some other
kissing games. l didn't, because 1
had always been told never to let a
boy kiss me. l do not myself see
anything wrong with it, for one
might just as well touch their
hands as their lips. We only touch
ed our lips together.
They played the games and went
home. We asked them TO come again
some time. and they said they
would. What would you suggest for
us TO play next time? VENA.
A girl SHOULD be very careful to
do the right thing. When she is sure
that her conduct cannot be crit
icized justly, she does not need to
worry about what people think. Go
with more than one boy, but choose
all your friends slowly and wisely.
A girl who goes with any and every
boy who will pay her attention does
cheaper her reputation.
Do not play kissing games. Poo
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
Get Ready for the Boys.

- Rock Island has nearly two weeks to pre-
pare to welcome Battery and other returned
soldiers. If the city does not do justice to the
occasion it will not be because of lack of time.
The general arrangements are in the hands
of competent men and women who work
ing faithfully to make the affair success.
They may be depended upon to do all that
limited number can accomplish in any under
taking of public nature. They can do a great
deal, but not all, by any means, that needs to
be done.
This is to be a public demonstration and
everybody must show interest and lend hand
wherever possible. 1t will not be much of a
welcome unless it is spontaneous and the ap-
pearance of spontanety in this case calls for
a good deal of preparation.
Money must be raised, for there street
decorations and entertainment to be provided
and possibly some special train service. not to
mention the hundred and one items roughly
elassed as 'incideutals." People should not
give money to this fund with the ide| of get
ting it back directly in a business way. No
sordid question of profits should enter into it.
1t is for Rock Islands heroes and nothing IS
too good for them. We should be ashamed to
admit viewing the matter in any other light.
Everybody in town ought to be asked to give
for this occasion and to consider it a privi-
iege to do so.
Street decorations, to make a creditable
showing, must be supplemented by private en-
terprise. Every business house and every resi-
dence should be decked out in bunting. Get
your supplies now, or you may wish later that
you had done Prepare to show your ser
vice flags.
Other towns have big things afoot for their
returning heroes. Moline is going to try to
Guido us on this occasion, but she will not
succeed. Rock Island made the big noise in
the armistice demonstration and it will do it
again.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
Today's Events

Ecuador keeps a holiday today
in celebration Of the anniversary of
the separation from Columbia.
Centennial anniversary of the
birth of Victoria, queen of England,
the greatest of English SOW
ereigns, whose name would in his
tory mark an age"
Today is the one hundredth an
niversary of the birth of Henry
Disston, the Philadelphia who
first made American saws that
could be exported to England
Under the auspices of the league
to enforce peace a Connecticut
state convention is held at New
Haven today to indOrse the league
of nations covenant
The association opposed to ma
tional prohibition plans to get its
countrywide speaking campaign
against the prohibition amendment
under way at a mass meeting to
be held tonight in Madison Square
Garden, New York City.
At special election to be held in
Texas today the voters of the state
will express themselves on three
proposed constitutional amend
ments: prohibition, equal suffrage
and Governor Hobby's plan of
state aid to provide land for the
landlesS
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
The Poor Fish.

Once In a while, If you ever 60
fishing, you land one that carries
either a portion of some other fish
erman's tackle or the scars pro-
i duced by a former encounter. And
you feel sorry for the poor fish.
A gentleman writes to me that
he has just finished smoking and
] inhaling the smoke of a cigRret,
for the first time in two months,
And he is a bit alarmed because
the cigaret causes a sudden con-
striction of the throat or chest and
a throbbing headache.
/ suppose the wary old trout
feels considerably worried when
he finds himself hooked for the
| second>time.
The cause of the gentleman s
symptoms is probably something
akin to the state of sensitiZation
which the doctors call anaphylax-
is. For instance, If you inject by
podermically into a guinea pig or
| other animal a few drops of some
foreign" protein such as the clear
/ blood serum of horse or COW or
| dog, nothing in particular hap
pens. If you keep on injecting
more of the foreign protein every
! day or two nothing happens. But
iif you wait for a month or two
after the first injection, then at
tempt to repeat the experiment,
you are pretty sure to kill the an
imal, which has by that time be-
come "sensitiZed" TO the foreign
protein; death supervenes- upon
asthmatic symptoms. No doubt the
smokers alarming reaction to to-
bacco is of similar character.
But the mystery here is, why
did the man return to tobacco
after two months of seif-deniaI ?
Does the cigaret really weaken a
mans will and character like that ?
Why does a fairly healthy young
man crave a cigaret anyway? I'll
give you my own theory of it.
Youth Graves activity, something
doing, anything but quiet, peace
and repose. O., P. and r. belong to
sedate old age. Well, youth has
gone wrong in our day. Too blam-
ed much imitation dignity about
modern youth. Look at the caIlow
dude going to high school and you
will sense what l mean. Look at
/ the near-gentleman makeup he
wears. Look at the high school
girls chorus-lady style.
When youth Graves activity,
muscular action. excitement, youth
/ is too dignified to seek the needed
activity afraid to spoil the tooth
pick shoes or get bags in the pref
ty panties. So youth falls back on
cheap substitute, one which all
our noble movie heroes resort to
invariably in a tense moment.
Youth lights a cigaret-that is
something to do, really, and it
gives one such an air of, we'll. you
know, that grand air the movie
hero swaggers in. And then, in a
few puffs-no matter whether the
smoke is inhaled or not, for that is
immaterial--youth absorbs enough
OF the narcotic to still that incip-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
Those Inpatient Senators.

Senator Hiram Johnson evidently won't be
happy till he gets every one of the $4,000 words
of the treaty of peace with Germany. What
does mere matter of tying the cables up for
a week or so amount to to a man with presi-
Dental boom at stalker
The senate has quite enough business to
keep it engrossed for the few weeks that will
intervene before the treaty will come to it in
the regular course of events and the fewer di-
versions it INDUCES in the sooner it will be
able to legislate for the relief of the domestic
situation about which its members individually
have expressed so much concern lately.
The document, moreover, is not yet in shape
for the formal consideration of the senate, nor
will it be till negotiations with Germany are
completed 1t may even be necessary, in case
the copy is demanded prematurely. for the
president to decline to furnish it on the ground
that to do so would be incompatible with the
public interest.
Probably there is not a member of the SEN
ate, on the Republican side. at any rate, who
does not feel in his bones that he could have
settled all the business at Versailles more
quickly and with greater satisfaction to all
concerned than the president has done Nat
urally our modest statesmen all anxious
to give the world the benefit of their abilities
as international ixers at the earliest possible
moment.
Senator Johnsons motives doubt are of
the best However, he should curb his impa-
thence to get his spoon in. Too many cooks
have spoiled many kettle of broth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
THE DAILY SHORT STORY

engaged to Harold Drake for over
year, and they planned a wedding
for late fall Mrs. Greene had ex-
pressed herself as of the opinion
that the devoted pair should wait
another year, when some debts out
of the way, they could afford to
give Verda the trousseau she de-
served, but the daughter and her
lover were anxious to start out to-
gether in life before a new year be-
gan. One pleasant evening Verda
started out for a ride along the
river shore. AS she came to the
cross roads she was about to turn
homewards when a great pIaeafd
posted there announced zone per-
Torrance only" and that evening,
of the great megatherian Varnum
show. circus and menagerie COM
bined." The within came to Verda
to go two miles further to Hope
ton to view the crowds, and the
spirit of adventure was enhanced
as, pursuing the turnpike, she came
upon a steady concouFse on its
way to the entertainment of the
evening.
Verda and her steed had come
within a few squares of the cir
Gus when. suddenly, old Calico
pricked up his ears. gave q wild
and ringing snort and nearly IN
horsed Verda as he made a for
ward plunge. Then, rivaling every
animal on the roal, Old Calico set
up a pace that fairly took away
n
urgent haste to get out of the way.
Straight forward the excited steed
sped. A band Of music was hts
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24

duty with a zest that showed there
wasn't a lazy bone in his body.
There was a spice of the unique in
the animal that at once attracted
the interest of the pretty daughter
of the family, Verda Greene. Old
Calico carried the milk pail to the
pasture in his jaws. He would come
around to the front porch and seize
the bell knob with his teeth, and
amazed and delighted Verda, and
capered about in token of his glad
ness at having her company. All
kinds of good-humored chatting
greeted Ethan when he drove to
town.
Verda became so attached to her
favorite that she leased her father
for a sidesaddle, and the bright
faced girl and her odd-colored
charger became familiar pair
along the country roads. Ethan
took on a new lease of an 80-acre
field, and this necessitated the pur-
chase of a team. Old Calico was
retired to light work and for horse
back service, pleasure and business
combined.
Eighteen years old-your birth
day, eh?" Verda's father hailed her
one bright summer morning We'll,
daughter. I'm going to give you Old
Calico all for your own. 1 sup
pose you've been expecting some
gewgaws. but taking on that extra
eight-acre tract has sort of pinched
me. Besides, there's your we'd
ding outfit coming along and ma is
scrapfng and saving for that"
Verda expressed the sincerest
delight at. the gift She had been
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24

, guide, and its first notes had acted
as the stimulus for his extraor.
binary acting.
Old Calico half rounded the cir.
Gus tent. As il instipctively Iocat-
ing the dressing tent, past its flap
ping canopy he bounded. Into the
ring he darted. traversed it twice
and only halted when half a dozen
OF the performers faced him,
grasped his bride and led him
from the view of the puzzled and
startled audience. Then, in the
dressing room, the ringmaster and
his assistants crowded close about
Old Calico and his distracted
driver.
Hes come back" shouted the
clown. "It's poor Dick Barton's
trick horse"
And soon Verda knew who Dick
Barton was-the former dissolute
master of Old Calico, who had van
ished one day with his pet animal,
had sold him so he could get drink
and had died amid his reckless dis
sipation, And now the proprietor
Of the circus was eager to bargain
with Verda for repossession of
their old favorite.
1t would have been harder for
Verda to part with Old Calico only
that he seemed glad to be among
the friends of his earlier years.
Besides that, the offer of a thou
sand dollars suggested a fitting
trousseau for the supreme moment
UhaY1 VAR6a 80
and 80 the prize swap" of Ethan
Greene's career solved the we'd
ding question grsndiy.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
Today's Anniversaries

William Chauvenet, who gave
to the U. S. Naval academy
its first great education
character and reputation
born in Milford, Pa Died al
st. Paul, Mimi, Dec Is, 1870
1S70-A fire in Quebec destroyed
500 houses.
1S79-The art institute of Chicago
was organized.
1S94-Goyernor Flower of New
York vetoed a bill prevent
ing the display of foreign
flags on public buildings.
1S95-Hugh McCulloch, the only
/. secretary of the treasury TO
hold office under three presi-
dents, died near Washington,
ID. c. Born at Kennebunk,
Me. Dec. Z. 1903.
beginning of active HOSTILE
ties between Austria and
Italy.
1916-Ital ans retreated in Sugano
valley before fierce Austrian
attacks.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
GOLD CALICO"
By George Elmer Cobb

by george Elmer CoDD
8 For lawsy's sake! What you got
how?"
: It was the wife of Ethan Greene
: who propounded the inquiry. star
Ing hard at a horse that her hus-
band was leading through the road
gateway.
Its a new swap, Nancy" replied
Sher husband, land the best bar
gain l ever struck"
what you been trading of
show?"
sMy old watch. the load of po-
Siatoes and the old mare and wag-
@bn. The whole lot wasn't worth a
Hundred dollars, and was offered
@aouble for Old Galico-tffat's what
Give named the horse"
: "The name fits" observed Mrs.
@Ereene with some asperity, mot
He'd, striped and homely!"
"That's all right" nodded Ethan.
zsOld Calico" is sound as a dollar,
and he's got strength and steady
Stride"
But his color why, he's the
picture of some freak circus
horse"
"That's probably what he was,
-but he's smart-smart as ginger,
sNancy. Happened to pass an Or
gan grinder over in Hopeton. Bless
me, if that animal didn't start
BANGING in perfect step to the
June.
] The claim that Ethan had made
j good bargain was fully substan-
slated. Old Calico went at draught
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
Brad's O. Verse
THE SIMPLE LIFE.

Far from the busy haunts of
trade, happy and snug. in their
quiet glade, old Dad Bings and his
loving wife live their simple and
lowly life. Never a wish for the
noisy town, never a sigh at for
tunes frown, hearing no call from
the trump of fame, asking no boon
of rank or name, passing their
lives in that peaceful spot, happy
and free in their humble cot. rich
with the gold of gladness great,
old Dad Bings and his loving mate.
The years have sped like a silvery
tide since the stalwart youth and
his blushing bride first built their
nests in the valley fair. afar from
the town with its noise and glare.
The great world beckons and calls
in vain; it has no charm for the
loving twain: theirs the fash of
the morning dew, glory of moon
and twilight hue, theirs the glow
of the smiling sun. theirs the rest
when the day is lone. SweetIy the
seasons come and go. gently the
bright years outward f1ow-far
from the noise and din and strife,
old Dad Bings and his loving
wife! GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
TndaH's Rest Recines

Apple, Date and Celery Salad
Pare one large choice apple, quar-
ter, core and cut into small pieces
and squeeze over these the
juice of half a lemon. Cut FIVE
choice stalks of celery in small
pieces. Pour boiling water over
water through them, skim to an
earthen dish and dry in the oven.
When cold cut each into four or
five lengthwise pieobs. Mix the
apple, celery and dates together,
then add a generous half cup OF
mayonnaise dressing and mix
again. Serve on heart lettuce
leaves.
Bean Soup Two cups leftover
beans, one-half can tomatoes, one
onion cut fine, two bay leaves, six
cloves. Cook slowly two hours.
Strain, add small piece of butter,
salt and pepper.
Potatoes and Peas en- Casserole
Slice or dice cold boiled pota-
toes, put in casserole. Open can
of peas. TAKE one-half can peas
and liquor, pour over potatoes.
Beat one egg and use a generous
one and one-half pints of milk Stir
egg into milk. Add salt and pep
per to taste and stir through pota-
toes. Add bits of butter on ths
top and bake.
Crystallized Pickles - At this
time OF the year when canned
pickles are getting low, buy one
dozen medium-sized plain pickles
Unjust not be favored), cut in
raund slices. one-fourth inch thick,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

| QDESIAUNS AND AAbWERSs
Is Amy Family Immune 70 Cancer?
While cancer occurs in some
families, don't you think you are
overstating the facts when you de-
| clare that cancer occurs in every
family? Is it fair to brighten
thousands of laymen by telling
them that cancer exists III all fam
lilies? F. H. NJ.
| Answer-A layman whose fam
| lily enjoys good health is not going
| to worry much when / state the
! truth about cancer. Should any
member of his family be i'll, it may
prove an incentive to prompt con-
sultAtion of the family doctor if
the possibility OF cancer is realiz-
ed. So many tragedies have their
inception in the senseless notion
that there is no cancer in our
family" that feel justified in pub
! fishing what you consider a scare.
Cancer is such a common disease
that, at one time or another, every
family is likely to have a case, not
necessarily in this generation, but
some time 1t is fair to worry a
thousand people a little bit for the
sake of saving one individual per-
haps.
BOiIs i'm Machine Shops.
Quite a number of machinists in
our shops have boils on the hands
and arms or face. l have heard
that some government commits
sion investigated this trouble in
shops and found that it is due to
pollution of the cutting mixture or
oil, which could be overcome by
using some harmless dislnfectant.
Physicians and a city bacteriolo-
gist whom l have consulted about
it have no information. Can you
tell me anything about 1t,
F. B. S.
Answer know of no govern
ment investigation. NJ. ID. SHE.
student of medicine, made an ex-
haustive study of the problem in
large plant in 1916 and reported
his observation in the Journal of
the American Medical association
Dec. s, 1917. By the use of chem
ical disinfection OF the Gu ting mix
ture the prevalence of wound in
lection was reduced from per
cent to less than 0.5 per cent, and
boils practically disappeared. A
cresol. disinfectant was used. A
very cheap and very efficient dis
infectant for the purpose is the
Hygienic Laboratory Pine Oil Dis
infectant. which can be prepared
according to directions obtainable
free in the descriptive pamphlet
REPORT 304, U. s. Public Health
Service, Washington, d. CO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
FROM SILKS TO BRIG.

From silk pajamas fringed with
lace to concrete floors of a guard
house typifies the transition of q
number of United States army cas-
ula who Communicated the belong
ings of a French count while the
latter had left his chateau for the
front.
The wholesale appropriation of
the counts belongings by the
casuals was made known to the
military police by the count VINO
had returned for short furlougn.
The army restored all the ap-
propriated articles while the men
who enjoyed the Injuries of them
are lodged in the guard house.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-24
SIGNIFICANT JOKE.

A German humorous sheet pub
fishes the following grimly signif-
cant joke:
81 recently visited a swimming
pool in a German capital. The
bathing master whispered into my
ear:
"Our minister-presidelt is here
today
80? Which one Is hep
THAT man over there, with the
woman's head tattooed on his
chest and the anchor on his right
unner arm.'"