Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-08-12
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The bill to sell government food supplies to
the people via parcel post was introduced and
Eput through congress by a newspapernlan
The fellow who is trained in print shop knows
how to 90 things and to bring them about over
the shortest route. The old bugaboo that one
had 10 be a lawyer in order to be a lawmakef
beginning to appreciate that good representa-
tive timber is available outside of a lawyer
| Office. Newspapermen we're the most effective
single factor in the winning OF the war. Verify,
! the pen is mightier than the sword.
Governor Harding hit the nail on the head
when he said that the way TO meet the high
/ cost of living is to work and save. He might
| have added some advice cutting the size OF
the grocer and butcher bills.
It is said the Chicago packers are worried
over the proposed federal investigation. Their
worry consists chiefly in the likelihood that
! publicity will be temporarily shut on They
are not alarmed over their personal safety,
truth is that the packing industry is stronger
than the government At least 1t has proven
itself to be in the past.
| Another means OF keeping down the high
cost OF living would be to do your visiting in
person instead of over the telephone. Are you
/ old enough to remember when we didn't have
| telephones?
Elsie Janis lost her jewels in diving off a
! yacht in New York while making movie. They
say if her mamma had been along she wouldn't
have lost them Mamma would have dived after
them
A college deSn was horsewhipped in a
southern town for making scandalous remarks
about a neighbor. In this part of the country
he would have been applauded. In the south
one has got to hold his tongue stand the
consequences. They don't wait on the law
the reason we hear 50 much about southern
hospitality.
Mile Case receives her mail at Freeport.
Ill. Any remarks?
wealthy woman OF Aurora says: Servant
girls are Oyerpaid. frivolous. ignorant and pre-
sumptuous. in that they wish to dress well, eat
good food. and in general get all the pleasures
they can out of life" Here is a woman who
appears not to have heard that we have Just
recently won a TO make the world safe
for democracy.
well known southerner, who was asked
about the race question in his part Of the coun-
try by northerner. remarked some years ago
The south has no race question. 1t has been
transferred to the north" Subsequent occur
rences have proved the wisdom of his observa-
ton. In the south the negro does not demand
Goes. This is not the Negroes fault. It is the
fault Of the white The negro has been spoiled
by the politician.
"I dropped into former saloon the other
day" writes Oswald Il asked the barkeep if
he was operating dry joint His answer was
a food of tears
Mr.. Dempsey is to receive $225.00O for 15l
weeks in vaudeville. Jack won't join the &C
tors strike, however He struck at Toledo.
A woman whose husband left her fortune
diad napniIeSs in Chipa cO tho 0fhnr day Dis
tant relatives hint a mystery. Our guess is
that there was man involved.
Andrew Carnegie won every battle except
death. He gave away millions to relieve his
conscience-he called it disgraceful to hold
his idle millions-and he did get some peace OF !
mind from his benefactions, but when the hand
of death was raised against him he was obliged
to do just ordinary mortals, he had to lift
his eyes to his Maker and surrender. Despite
his wealth and his longevity it is probable that |
Carnegie, if he spoke his innermost sentiments, |
would have admitted that life was disappoint-
ment to him, for he really did not want to die |
until he had given away his millions
Facts developed by the actors strike tend to !
knock the wind out of the reputed fabulous |
salaries credited TO performers by press agents. |
An authority declares $500 per week to be a
rare wage. Yet we read how the girl in the |
irst-line chorus travels in her own car and has |
her private apartment, her maid and every
thing OF course she may have rich father |
or mother
Eighty-six cases of hard likker seized by the |
police is reported to have been locked in a cell /
at headquarters. What's the charge?
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Women have launched a daily newspaper in |
New York. It's to be a national institution |
With women suffrage in force, here's venture
that Mr. Politician will have to take seriously |
It is said that in Russia rubles are selling
by dry measure, two quarts for a dollar
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