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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
New Sugarless Syrun.

NCW ASSS hFs
No sugar is required to make a
delicious syrup from apple Juice
for use on hot cakes this winter.
or for beverages next summer, or
to sweeten cookies or desserts.
Add five ounces OF powdered cal
cium carbonate to seven gallons Of
apple Juice or sweet cider. Calcium
carbonate is the chemical name OF
powdered chalk and can be obtain
ed at drug stores. Boil the mix
ture in a kettle or vat vigorously
for I'VE minutes. Put the liquid
into vessels, preferably Jar pitch
ers. Allow IT to stand six or eight
hours, or until perfectly clear.
Pour the clear liquid into a clean
preserving kettle. Add to this liquid
one teaspoon of calcium carbon
ate; stir thoroughly. Boil rapidly
(22O degrees Fahrenhelt) until the
bulk is reduced one-seventh OF the
original volume, or about one gal
Ion to each seven or the quantity
first used. The syrup should then
have, wheA tested In cold water,
the consistency OF maple syrup.
Pour into jars or pitchers and cool
IT very slowly.
Pour the syrup into fruit jars,
cans. jugs or kettles. Boil in wa
Ger bath 10 minutes in steam
pressure cooker with FIVE pounds,
eight minutes.
Remove containers and tighten
covers or corks. Invert TO cool and
test joints. Store for winter use
United States Department OF Agri-
culture.
Requested Recipes.
Nut and Egg Salad-Three hard =
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
Brad's O. Verse
October.

OCtODSFs
October happens in the fall
along about the middle, so I've OBJ
served; and makes his call dressed
finer than a fiddle. His robe is
bright with many hues and golden
braid Respondent, and from his
head piece to his shoes are frosted
diamonds pendant. like the
grand October days, as sparkling as
q fountain, the scarlet leaves, the
purple haze, the mist upon the
mountains; / like to hear the tune
full frogs in chorus blithe and
merry; I like to wonder in the
boys and pick the huckleberry. Oc-
tober happens when the year is at
its best and brightest; he has no
use for faAcies drear, for waiting
not the slightest: for he is busy
tinting skies. and gorgeous land
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

The lower house Of congress really did
something yesterday. It passed an act recon-
mended by the president limiting the time OF
holding food In cold storage to IL months and
requiring such foods when released to be
plainly marked with the date when placed in
storage. Unfortunately, the measure must be
approved by the senate before it becomes
law and the senate is not IN the habit OF ap-
proving much of anything that has the presi-
dents endorsement
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

No use trying to hurry the senate by hold
Ing up resembling the wartime prohibition ediet
TIL the treaty Is ratified. Those senators who
might be moved to haste by considerations of a
personal nature are owners OF cellars. or IL
not, they all have friends So far they are
concerned there isn't any emergency-yet
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
About Profit Sharing.
Worlds Work.

That profit sharing does not offer a solu-
ton for proper wage payment is proved by
its operation in practice. Arising out of de-
fusion as to what profits are, it falls down
when the workers discover that the great sums
they thought they would get do not amount
to much after all, when divided up. If the
most profitable corporations agreed to share
the entirety Of their profts-not a portion. but
alI-and the share were added to wages, the
increase of the wage would seldom amount to
per cent and wage increase Of 5 per cent
h srnrned
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

Senator Cummlns' assertion that this coun-
try came away from the peace conference
without friends should be qualified. 1t lost
friends exactly to the extent that it declined
to sanction schemes for territorial grabs and
infringements upon the rights Of the weak and
helpless. Neither people nor nations are per-
manently alienated by insisting upon right and
it woul7n't make much difference if they WERE
for that kind Of friendship doesn't buy much
in this world.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

scapes painting, and wastes no time
on groans and signs or weary
voices planting. cannot froIic
and caVort. from Winnipeg to
Yuma, nor wear such rags as this
old sport-'twould take too much
mazuma; but l can be a cheerful
fan, respectable and sober, and
look as nifty as can, like jolly
old October.
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
The War a Year Ago

United States troops forced bat
tie with Germans IN Argonne re-
gion.
British under General Allenmy
captured Damascus and 1000
Turks.
French cavalry entered St Quen-
tin on heels Of retreating Germans.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

Omaha evidently has had it's spasm and the
federal troops might as well go back to their
camps. The more violent the paroxysm the
sooner II is over. Omaha Is not normally bad
and it probably will pat IN it's time for the
next few weeks mostly IN feeling ashamed Of
itself
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

Steel strikers say they are winning and
the companies .Bsisi nat their plants are grad
uaIly approaching aormaI conditions AS for
the general public. it doesn't care enough one
way or the other. at the present stage Of the
controversy, to md out the truth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

Americans are said to have secretly bought
control OF . number Of German industries.
Investing their money, perhaps, where they
feel they have the best assurance OF settled
conditions
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
HQdrt. 10HOm0
44,!IDrObI0TnC ',
BY TEMPLE

man who took me out a great de
while l was there. When / LETT w
corresponded for about one year,
and then we stopped. Two years
ago l again visited my sister and
this fellow and l became very
friendly. When he went TO France
he wrote to me every week and
sent me many souvenirs.
Over a month ago no came down
to see me. Since then l have only
received one letter from him, which
l answered.
| really love him. Do you think
he no longer cares for me? Would
you advise me to write TO him
again? ANXIOUS.
l would not write again il l were
you. The young man knows your
address and will write again II he
loves you. II may be that he built
an ideal about you when he was in
France, and, upon returning, found
that you were not the girl Of his
dreams. This should not diBcour-
age you, because some one else
will like you for what you are and
not for something he imagines you
1 to be. At Christmas time send the
young man a greeting which vii
show your good will but Will nG
indicate love.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: There is
boy in my neighborhood who d
not like girls and says they
not fit to live. l made a
with another fellow that !
make him care for girls witt
month.
This was two weeks ago. AS yet
l have made no Roadway and I
would not like TO lose my bet Can
you advise me? ANXIOUS.
It looks as il you would have to
lose your bet. IL was foolish 20
make such a wager in the first
place, because a boy who has
strong opinions is not easily infiu-
enced against his own views. Be
sides, Won cannot be a little lady
and deliberately "vamp" him.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBKR /, 1913.

A murder mystery on the front page is no
an unmitigated evil in these days OF distraction
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

Mrs. Alice Polk Hill. q prominent
nsure n Denver club and social
clIcies, has been appointed poe'
te,a,ureate Of Colorado BY Coz
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST.
Cantaloupe
Squash Fritters Sliced Tomatoes
Rolls Coffee
LUNCHEON.
Bacon and Potato Salad
Brown Bread and Butter
Iced Tea
DINNER.
Tomato Canape
Baked Bluefsh Tartar Sauce
Potato Croquettes
Corn on Cob Lettuce
Plum Tarts Coffee
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
CONVENTIONS
Cleveland
National

Cleveland National Safety
council.
Observation-Disclosures OF st. An
drew.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
Argus Information Bureau

a4na.
J. nam and
confidential individual No
eral
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01
HEALTH TAl
BY WILLIAM 4 BRADY F4D.

examination was lbsolutely al
aFoidable. Drafts Iere errluded.
In short, the manassment became
what Sairey would consider safe.
Now for the figures;
In the period when the open air
maltreatment was in vogue sss
patients were cared for and Of
these 1876 died-mortalty rate 13.a
per cent. In the period aSter the
maitreatment was Discontinued 4S5
pneumonia patients were cared for.
and of these IA died-mortaIity
rate 80 per cent
Aside from the fact that mortal
itv is always higher in the earlier
stage of an epidemic, the fKures
seem TO be pretty severe indjct-
ment OF incompetent medical ser
vice.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Chewing Tobacco versus Smoking,
which is the most harmful.
chewing or smoking tobacco? Is
chewing tobacco a good protection
for a man working around acid?
M.F.
Answer - Chewing is the more
harmful, ounce for ounce, because
a chewer absorbs whatever is in
the tobacco constantly while he
chews, whereas a smoker absorbs
whatever is in the smoke intermit-
tentiy. Chewing tobacco is no pro-
lection against anything, unless
perchance a nagging wife.
Omitting COrsets.
Are corsets necessary to proper
" form the body so as TO make
later events easier and better, as
one is more or less advised? Since
last spring l have gone without
corsets, and being slim ! really
need one, for looks, but l am won
dering If may later regret it. 1
am 81. D. A. D.
Answer congratulate you on
your good fortune in getting free
of the corset. The corset is a big
factor in the difficulties and need
less sufferings to which you refer
Difference Between Drafts.
In our Office there is a con-
slant crossing of purposes. Some
of US like to keep the Office we'll
ventilated. others object to the
draft. Speaking Of drafts, what is
the difference between q "deathly
draft" and a refreshing breeze
for the benefit of the ladies-I
don't worry about it myself.
B. l. R.
Answer-A current Of fresh air
is q refreshing breeze to young
persons and a deadly draft to old
folks. Some ladies', and not few
gentlemen, get 10 be old women
pretty young. Some grandmothers
stay young forever-and hale and
hearty graRdmothers you find
them, too. Now. the old folks
which l am sorry to say includes
some of the finest young doctors
and q terrible lot OF trained nurs-
es, prefer their fresh air standing
still; whereas the young people
don't mind if it happens to move.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

Requested Recipes.
Nut and Exc Salad-Three hard
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-01

Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am %
years old. While visiting my sis
ter four years ago | met a young
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13
HUGE TAXES FOR MANY YEARS,
TO COME

Washington, D. c., Sept. 8. Special. |
- When congress takes up the task of re-
vising the revenue laws it will find itself
unable to repeal any of the present taxes
without finding other means of raising
money. This is the belief of Represent
atlve Fordney of Michigan, chairman of the
house ways and means committee, who said
today he could see no hope of any reduction
in taxation for many years.
Mr.. Fordney said the ways and means
committee probably would not take up
revenue revision until late in the winter.
the present tentative program being to give
precedence to hearings for the general re-
VISION of the tariff at the beginning of the
new session in December.
During the present fiscal year the es-
t1mated revenue from taxation is about
So,OOO,OOO,O0O, while expenditures will be
more than $7,0OOOOQOOO," Mr.. Fordnev
said That means that additional revenue
totaling from $2,0OO,0O0,00 to $2,225, OOO,-
600 will have to be raised by other means
The treasury department plans to get this
money by selling bonds and certificates of
various kinds
There isn't much hope for material re-
auctions in expenditures during the next
fiscal year, starting July l, 1920. That
means we shall have to raise as much
through taxes and keep on selling bonds.
But we must settle for the bonds some day.
and that means even if the expenditures for
other purposes are gradually reduced the
amount to be raised by taxation cannot be
cut to the same extent
I'VE are spending this year nearly one
half more than we will raise by taxation.
len years ago the annual revenues totaled
$oOOOOO,O 900, half of which came from Gus
toms duties. The interest on the public debt
now is more than ST OOO,OCO,OOO a year.
In estimating our needs we do not know
how much tomfoolery in taking over the
railroads and in trying to establish mer
chant marine will increase our deficit. These
two items will cost us six or seven billions
altogether"
Mr.. Fordney has had compiled figures
showing receipts and expenditures from
April 8, 1917, to June 80, 1919, showing
that the net increase in the public debt was
$23O43, 1oO,346.
The receipts totaled $9384, 278, 7O8, and
the disbursements $32,427, 469,O54. The
disbursements included ordinary expendi
lures totaling 23,127,353,73O, foreign loans
amounting to SO, 1O2, 285O15, and other spe-
cial expenditures amounting to $1o7, $50 3O8
The excess OF disbursements over receipts
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13
"Men Who Would Have to Part With
Lives to Decide on League

"a returned soldier of the A.E.F., plain
private, writes
:" Why don't they ask us who were in the
trenches if we want to be sent across again
to do strong-arm work for league OF ma
tons? The fellows who would do the fight
ing ought to have the say
They are going to have the say; never
fear.
"They will have it now or they will have
it later.
$50 will the men who were conscripted
and trained but didn't get across.
"In all, 100000 soldiers, sailors and ma
rines, their fathers, mothers, wives, sisters,
sweethearts-quite body of citizens, when
you add them all up.
These plain Americans, plus others like
them whose younger sons would be caught
in the next draft, will decide finally whether
the United States is to stand committed to
the future quarrels of the tricky politicians
the covetous and-grabbers, the grasping
proflteers of Europe, Asia, Africa and the
islands of the seas, or whether our motto
shall henceforth be: America Firstp T"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13
UNITED MINE WORKERS OF
AMERICA ANNOUNCE THEY
'WELL STAND NO FURTHER
INTERFERENCE"

CLEVELAND, Sept. o. Demand for
wage increases and shorter hours, strong
lnslstence that these claims which had been
deferred during the war could no longer be
delayed, but must be forced through to a
successful issue, dominated the deliberations
of the opening session of the convention of
the United Mine Workers of America here
today.
Over 1000 delegates app1auded the de-
clarations of Acting President John l..
Lewis that with the war practically over
the miners could no longer be bound by war
wage agreement.
His declaration that no interference could
be tolerated from any agency seeking to pre-
vent the accomplishment of the miners pro
gram was received with enthusiasm.
Enthusiasm was evoked by denunciations
by various speakers of the principle of COM
pulsory arbitration as embodied in the Cum
mings bill
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13
HOW $5O,OOO,OOO WENT

The following information is gathered
from an article in The Chicago Tribune,
What was the character of the expenses
of the American delegation to the Paris
peace conference?
This question is answered in President
Wilson's report of the expenditures under
the $5O,OOO,OO0 fund granted him by Con-
gress. Following are some of the items
of expense:
Bernard M. Baruchs trip to Paris in
February last cost the government $15O ,OOO
There were five other allowances for
peace conference work ranging from
$4,000 to $5OOOOO
A total of 81 $4,000 was spent for ne
gotiating the present peace treaty.
For the expenses of General Churchill
and party at the peace conference, $4,000.
General Churchill is the chief of the military
intelligence bureau.
Four million dollars was given the Trans
Siberian and Chinese eastern railways.
On October 5, 1918, $5,OOO,OOO was
donated for Improvement of economic con-
ditions in Russia. All told, $14,OOO,OOO has
been sunk in Russia, and the administration
has received no return except the protests
and complaints of the relatives of soldiers
sent to Siberia and strong criticism from
members of Congress for participation in
the Russian expedition at the request of the
allies and without any sanction from Con-
gress
There were two (confdentiaD al1otments
of 100000 to the state department and
$4,000 to the labor department; and to the
navy department, for the entertainment of
Prince Axel of Denmark and party, $4,000,
and for the entertainment of Sir Eric
Geddes, First Lord of the British Admiral
ty, and party $4,000.
Fifty thousand dollars was given General
Haller for distribution among his Polish
troops
Frederick c. Howes' mission to Syria cost
$1,000, and Captain Gerardi's mission to
Germany in December, 1918, cost $4,000.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13
ALLIES TO ACCEPT SENATE
RESERVATIONS

The following news dispatch comes from
Washington:
WASHINGTON, Sept. o. The Senate
foreign relations committee, in urging the
adoption of the four committee amendments
tect the rights and independence of the
Gnlted States, is proceeding upon assur-
ances deemed dependable that its reserva-
lions will not meet with serious objection
from the other powers
This explains why the committee is pro-
ceeding SO confidently, despite the almost
daily assertion of President Wilson that
amendment of the treaty will mean its re-
lection
1t explains also why the amendments are
gaining Democratic support.
Senate Republicans are confident Presi-
dent Wilson is mistaken regarding the at
tltude of Great Britain, France and Italy
toward the concessions the Senate is asking
in the matter of the Monroe Doctrine, the
right of withdrawal, complete control over
internal policy, and keeping in Congress the
power to say when American troops shall
be sent to Europe
Their information is that the allied powers
will make these concessions if the Senate
demands them. President Wilson, it is
said, could easily have secured them had
he insisted.
The reason they were not granted, certain
senators have been informed, is that they
were not asked
The European powers, it is said, left it
to President Wilson to write in what he
wanted for America. If he did not get
what would satisfy the Senate, the fault
lies either in his modesty or misjudgment,
it is said
The Republican leaders believe that the
European powers will understand, once the
reservations to the treaty are made, that re-
fusal to grant them will mean inevitably
American rejection of the treaty.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13

Senators Borah of Idaho and McCor-
mick of Illinois, both Republicans, will speak
in Chicago the same day, and Senator Borah
will speak with Mr.. Johnson at Des M oines,
St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Senator Johnson's other speaking en-
gagements are:
September II, Indianapolis; 18th, St.
Louis at noon before the City Club and
again at night; 18th, Kansas City; 18th,
Des Moines; 10th, Sioux Falls; 18th, Sioux
City; 10Th, Duluth; 10th, Minneapolis and
ST. Paul.
Senator Johnson announced that if con-
ditions permit he would also speak at
Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San
Francisco, Los Angeles, and on the return
trip, if possible, at Salt Lake, Denver,
Topeka, Wichita and Omaha"
Opponents of the league, answering Presi-
dent Wilson's demand to put up or shut
up" offer as substitute ''the Constitution
Of the United States" "the Declaration Of
independence and Lincoln's government
by the people" Senator Poindexter, Repub-
lican, of Washington, said today in an ad-
dress:
IlC lCSluClIl OClldlOI L O1IlQoXIeI
said, "offers us government by council in
Geneva and says you must take it if you
have nothing better to offer. It is not a
question of something better to offer. The
question is whether there is anything worse
that could be offered"
In general attack on the League of Ma
tons the senator said the Monroe Doctrine
was established on the principle that Eu-
rope should not participate in American af-
fairs and America would not participate in
European affairs.
"How can the President tell the people, 4"
demanded Senator Poindexter, "that the
league, founded on the principle that Europe
shall participate in the control of American
affairs, and that America shall participate
in the control of European affairs, does not
abrogate the Monroe Doctrine?"
One utterance by the president is accepted
here as further evidence that he contem-
plates the United States accepting a league
mandate to govern Armenia He said: "It
is an open question whether the Armenian
people will not, while we sit here and de-
bate, be absolutely destroyed
Senator Borah said he is convinced that a
tacit agreement was reached at Paris to
have the United States made mandatory for
Armenia. The war department recently
estimated that an American army of
10000 men would be adequate for the
policing of Armenia
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13
the fulfllment of prophecy in the political

the fulhllment of prophecy in the political
world
Since the Balfour declaration it has been
accepted as a fact in we'll informed Zionist
circles that Great Britain would assume the
mandate over Palestine. Therefore COM
missions of experts have been continuously
at work laboring to solve the economic
problems that must of necessity arise before
the land without people can be prepared
10 receive 'the people without land"
Because of the impending realization of
the age-long dream of the Jews of the world,
a homeland-in Palestine coming Zion
ist convention here, is attracting worldwide
attention Some of the foremost members
of the race will attend, including Justice
Brandeis of the United States Supreme
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13

NEWS OF THE WORLD
W +. ~

(W. F. j.

Each of these changes is directed to the
assertion of Americanism, beginning with
Senator Johnson's amendment which gives
to America equal voting strength in the
League of Nations with that accorded to
the British. empire, and proceeding to
Senator Falls amendment which relieves us
from service on the commission to alot roll
ing stock to European railroad lines too in
significant to have accumulated equipment
for themselves"
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13

Having the votes to put through the
committees reservations and being serenely
confident that they will be accepted by the
allies, the Republican majority has no de-
sire to delay the treaty, but will endeavor
to secure speedy action.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13
OPPOSITION SPEAKERS TO FOLLOW
PRESIDENT

The following news dispatch was sent
out from Washington, on September 8:
Senator Johnson Of California, today
made public the itinerary for his forthcom-
ing speaking tour in opposition to the League
Of Nations. He announced that he would
speak Wednesday, September 10, in Chicago
at noon before the Hamilton Club and in
the evening at the Auditorium.
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-13
PRESIDENT SAYS HE is "READY TO
DIE FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS
COVENANT''

Apropos of the remark by President Will
son, the following quotation from letter
written by returned soldier is to the point.
This quotation and certain editorial com
ments are taken from the Chicago Herald
and Examiner.