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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22
PREVENTION DAY
TOBE OBSERVED
IN ROCK ISLAND
Oct 8 is Set By Governor Lowder
for Thorough Inspection Of
Buildings.
Rock Island will observe Fire
Prevention day IN Oct Q

Rock Island will observe Fire
Prevention day on Oct. 9.
There is an annual loss in the
United States annually, due 70
fires, of 100000, 900 and IS per
cent of these fires are preventable
declares Governor Lowden in a
proclamation issued proclaiming
Thursday, Oct. 9, as fire and &C
cident prevention day and asking
for its observance in the state.
Preventable accidents, says the
governor, are resulting in an an
nual loss of earning power esti-
mated at $2,0O0,0O0,0 900.
The following is the governor S
proclamation:
During the war it was vitality
necessary to make every effort TO
conserve our resources. 1t is no
less vital and patriotic to do so
now. Our people are oppressed by
the nigh cost of living which has
created much unrest. 1t is i'm
portant on the one hand that there
be no unnecessary waste of food
stuffs or manufactured resources i;
on the other hand that the produc-
ton and earning capacity Of the
country be maintained Fires, IS
per cent of which are preyentable,
are destroying approximately $780,
900 900 dollars of our resources an
nuaIly in the United States, and
preventable accidents are causing
an annual loss in earning power
estimated at S2,000,00O, 900.
Therefore. l, Frank o. Lowden,
governor of Illinois, do hereby pro-
claim Thursday, the ninth day of
October, 1919, as fire and accident
prevention day, urging that on that
day attention be directed to this
great unnecessary waste of life
and property and to the need of
patriotic cooperation by all in the
effort to prevent both fires and &C
cidents. On this day it is desirable
that our people be cautioned to
exercise care at all times and par
ticuIarly to avoid unnecessary
risks which might cause injury or
death;
That there be general clean
up and disposal of waste and rub
bish in public and private places
to reduce the danger Of fire and to
promote health;
That a thorough inspection be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22

Continued from Page Four.)
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22
DOUBLE
LOCKS HIS CATE
Continued from Page Four.)
buttered by the feller who'll
boost for Eou."

Can't is the religious rogue's
right hand bower. THE people had
a mind to work. If you can't be
a genius, you can at least be a
hustler and do something to make
the world better that you live III.
Many people wear out 10 pairs OF
hoId-backs to one pair of tugs.
You are lige an old horse l used 10
drive-he was always riding in the
breeChing.
Then a working Christian will lay
up treasures in heaven. You can
lay them up by faith alone; it takes
works. too. No matter how much
faith the farmer may have in the
ground and in the seed, it will
never fill his granary or put a loaf
of bread on your table If some
body doesn't get a move on him. If
people have a mind to work-to
work.
God says. 81 will make the gold !;
will make the silver; l will hide
the diamonds at Kimberly; l will
hide the gold at Cripple Greek; and
hide the coal in Pennsylvania and
out through Illinois and Iowa and
Indiana and Colorado; I will put
the oil beneath the soil of Okla
homa but if you want it, dig
Dig!
God says, 81 will provide saliva
ton; l will give Jesus TO die, but if
you want it, get down on your
knees and ask for it; if you dom.
go to hell"
God won't cram it down your
throat. take it from me.
And then, forget your denomina-
ton. I don't mean leave it; mean
just leave it behind and pledge
yourself to win souls for Christ
When a soldier enlists he forgets
that he is a Democrat or a Repub-
lican and he remembers that he is
a soldier pledged to defend the
flag, and the colors, and the con-
stitution of the United States
against foreign or internal enemies
with his life blood if need be.
So forget and go forth and when
Cod cause is at stake, Jesus
Christ has raised the blood-stained
banner and he asks for every man
and woman worth living or killing
to get under it and show their col
ors. If a Presbyterian is a bigot,
he will bring his Westminster cate
chism and say, "If you want to get
in, you've got to pass through
that"
And if a Reformed church man
is bigot, he will bring his Heidel-
berg confession and say, "If you
want to get in you've got to go
through that"
If a Methodist is a bigot, he will
plant two posts, sanctifcation and
falling from grace. and say, eff you
want to get in, you've got to go
through that"
If an EpiscopaIian is a bigot, he
will say, Here is our literature
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22

from Chicago to ROCK Island, fell
expects to return to Rock Island in
short time. bringing the ruins OF
the plans with him.
The Argus received the following
letter from him from Chicago
which explains the inability to To-
cate DR.. G. L. Malcolm in Chicago,
who notified The Argus by wire of
the accident which befell the local
man:
81 beg to advise you that Miss
Madeline Neeley did not come to
Chicago with the purpose of return
ing in the plane as a passenger and
therefore was not in the machine
at the time of the accident.
Or. Malcolm is not a resident of
Chicago, but lives about 10 miles
this side of Sandwich, ILL.,, near
where the plane fell, hence your in
ability to locate him in Chicago.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22

One of the newest uses Of alumni
mum is its employment in making
the soles of shoes to be used by
wOrkmen employed in damp and
wet places. The aluminium soled
shoe lasts much longer than an or
binary shoe and is said to be i'm
pervious to moisture.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22
CRAWFORD GETS
BETTER And IS
To COME BACK
Former Manager of Illinois, Injured
In Fall of Plane, to Bring
Machine Here.

r. Clay Crawford, former manag-
err of the Illinois theatre, who a
week ago was seriously injured
when his French monopIane bound
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22

It is quite a mistake to suppose
that all centipedes have a hundred
legs. The name is misleading. This
most common variety usually have
"a, but there are other species with
as many as 100 or 200 legs.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22

II it we're possible to put all the
land on the globe above water lev
ell in the Pacific ocean, only one
seventh of the latter would be COW
cred.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22

Matured champagne goes through
about two hundred different opera
tons. extending over two and a
half years.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22

expect to be back in Rock Island
very shortly with what is left OF
the plane and myself"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-09-22

Forty years ago Japan had only
one newspaper; now it has several
thousand.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

even violence have been used in this
union proselytizing.
zone of the significant things
about the labor group was the out
standing character of the brother
hood leaders. would not suggest
that they were ADLER than the Ameri-
can Federation leaders, but there
are two kinds of minds: the purely
intellectual mind and the character
mind if may use the term. And the
brotherhood leaders had the latter in
a marked degree and had polse not
possessed by the organization leaders
Of the American Federation Of
Labor. And attribute this poise and
frankness to the fact that for twenty
years or more the railroad employers
have recognized the brothcrhoods in
exactly the way the American Fed
GRAFTON units are now attempting to
get recognition from their employ
ers. The brotherhoods have had col
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

Even more difficult to estimate ana
commute is the economic burden re-
sulting from the peculiar maladies
contracted by thousands and nun
dreds of thousands Of men IN the
armies during the course Of the war
Trench fever, gassing, tuberculosis
and other diseases have made COM
plete human wrecks Of vast num-
Der of men, many of whom are not
necessarily included in Casualty"
lists. 1t probably will be years, pos
sibly generations. before the full
cost of the war in suffering and
race deterioration can be measured
properly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30
A Capitalist Who Champions Labor

thing. And this fear is based. at
least in part, upon the fact that the
craft method. which is the makeup
Of the American Federation organ
izations. has become Increasingly
awkward because Of its overlapping
tendencies and because of jealousles
and strife occurring between the
craft organizations themselves IN "A
given business instead Of between
the employer and some one organlza-
ton.
What we need" continued Mr..
Chabourne. ARE honest shop coun-
ellis. less suspicion and les; cause for
suspicion in unionized or partially
unonized shops between the unions
and employers; less of the union
standing by an employee who is dis
charged when at fault just becausehe
is a member Of the union and not be-
cause he is right, and no discharges
of laborers because they join or con-
template joining unions--a continu-
Gus touch in every industry between
representatives of employer and en-
ployee.
"America's great need to-day he
continued, sis for a higher type of
man in public life. American poll
( tics should not be carried or by men
who are struggling to get on their
feet financially. 1t is too hard a
game for a second eleven TO play.
The men who have competence
should get into public life. In this
England is immeasurably ahead Of
America. Her men in politics have
at least been thinking about such
things for centuries. Here we are
TOO busy to think"
Mr.. Chadbourne calls the spirit
behind the labor unrest Of to-day
universal. 1t is the same urge that
drives the generals Of finance IN the
stock market-the desire for more.
Good Lord" he exclaimed. what
am | down here in Wall Street for?
Heaven knows, Il have enough. But
| want more"
In other words, the only difference
between a man in the street and a
capitalist is that while one wants a
Ford, the other wants a yacht. As
for solution of the labor problem.
although he admits there is room for
Improvement, Mr.. Chadbourne de-
clares emphatirally that to the hest
of his belief there amt no SIGH
animue."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

"HOMAS l.. CHADBOURNE, |
lawyer. capitalist and labor
champion, predicts that the
likelihood of the findings
of any industrial conference being
accepted by employers and en-
ployecs is remote, because these two
classes in American life are at the
present time, on essentials, as far
apart as the poles.
"No matter how we'll planned
program may be promulgated 1t Is
unlikely that labor and capital will
both be reconciled to it. This, how
ever. does not mean that the new
conference called by President Will
son is not advisable; on the con-
trary. every genuine effort to edu-
cate both groups is highly desirable,
and this education can only be ac-
complished by continuous hammer
ing"
Mr.. Chadbournc was chairman of
the general committee which was
the big pivotal point at last month S
unsuccessful parley, when, he de-
clares, he learned the lesson OF a
lifetime.
81 went to the first conference
filled with the idea that 80 per
cent of the obduracy was on the en-
ployers' side of the situation. ]
came back with quite different
viewpoint. found that the
employers, as represented by a ma
jority of their group in the confer
ence. are inelastic and without the
same vision in respect to labor
that they have had to have to sue
coed in respect to everything else
in commercial life. This inelasticity
and faulty vision are the result of
mighty hard education they have
had TO endure from the organiza-
tons making up the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor. 1t is really
fifty-ffty proposition. These or
CARNATIONS have had to fight tooth
and nail for existence; have had to
use every combat method conceivable
to keep their ranks intact and to
augment them from year to year.
when the fact that man has
Joined union is the real though
not alleged cause for a discharge
from employment, other methods
than mere persuasion are sometimes
expedient to get him to join the
union, and threats, coercion and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

lective bargaining and have met
their employers without suspicion,
and have driven the hardest bargain
they could with them, but after the
trade was driven they have lived up
to their bargains. The same cannot
always bc said Of the organizations
Of the American Federation. But
you cannot stop there; you must
search for the reason. And the
reason is that they have never been
dignificd by the employer with the
full recognition and confidence which
the brotherhoods enjoy.
"Thc employer presents strange
spectacle to one far enough from the
picture to see it clearly. He admits
that the shop council is the greatest
menace to the organizations making
up the American Federation Of La
Dor. and he knows that the organlza-
tons fear the spread of the shop
councils more than any other one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30
Loss OF Merchant Shipping

Shipping losses during the war
have been carefully reported and
official statements have from time to
time been given out. The British
Admiralty Office has published ac-
curate statistics on the losses OF
British and Allied and neutral ton
mage, but that of the Central Powers
is less exact, as official announce
ments are either lacking or else
confuse seized and interned with
sunk tonnage. AS seized and IN,
termed vessels do not represent &
loss, but merely a transfer Of pos
session, these should not be counted
IN estimating the property losses re-
sulting from the war.
The direct costs were estimated az
SlS6,O00 900 900. The indirect costs
are now seen to have amounted to al
most as much more.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30
Loss of Human Life

The loss of human life and the
race deterioration resulting from
war are the most appalling and per-
manent costs of the war, for they al
feet not merely the present but are
traceable through future genera
tons. Reliable information as to
the death toll is difficult to secure
during the progress Of the war for
military reasons, but after the
smoke Of battle has cleared away
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

and the necessity for secrecy ceases
fairly accurate data are to be had.
Owing to the large number VINO
even yet are listed as prisoners OF
missing" a certain element OF con-
lecture will probably always De
present. even in the most carefully
complied official statistics. The best
information at hand gives a total
death roll for all belligerent coun-
tries of approximately lO,Ooo,ooo.
From purely economic stand
point the presence of large num-
Der of diseased and MANNED entails
a greater burden than the loss OF
life itself. 1t is too early as yet to
procure information sufficiently ac-
curate and detailed to permit Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

was $l9I ,VUU, OUV,UOV. lhe i"oS'
recent estimate, by Edgar Cram
mond, the we'll known English stat
istician, placed the final direct costs
of the war at s21O,175,000,000 to
which sum he added another $780,
600, 100000 as the indirect costs,
including the destruction OF prop
erty, loss Of ships at sea, etc. 1t
is impossible to say to what extent
these various estimates are COM
parable or just what is included In
the total. 1t would appear from
their magnitude that they represent
gross expenditures without any al
lowance for duplication as result
of advances by one belligerent to
another.
1t should be noted that all the fig
ures thus far given cover only the
direct money OUTLAWS of the countries
involved and do not take into ac-
count the indirect cost, such as the
destruction of property. the deprecl-
alton of capital, loss of production,
interruption to trade. and similar
items. 1t has been estimated that
these would amount to as much as
the direct cost. If this estimate,
which was made early in the war
and is undoubtedly too high, be &C
cepted, it would bring the total cost
to all the belligerents to about S3IO,-
600 100000. And in this staggering
total there are not included the eX-
penditures or losses of neutral ma
tions. which have been very real and
in some cases very serious, nor the
loss of human life, nor of subse-
ouent burdens such as pensions and
allowances.
On the other hand, certain dcduc-
tons should be made which will re-
duce somewhat the real costs. In
the first place, not all of the war ex-
penditure is pure loss. Some eN-
penditures arc simply transferred
from the family budget to that Of
the state. Soldiers are fed, clothed
and housed at the expense Of the
government, and the bill is paid out
of taxes or loans. Other expenses
are positively productive, such as the
building of railways or merchant
vessels. And in the second place. 1t
/ is quite obvious that a partial eX-
PLANTATION Of the costs Of the war lies
in the depreciation of the money
unit. Measured in dollars, the ex-
penditures were mounting steadily
and rapidly. Measured in terms of
service and commodities, the increase
was much less rapid. 1t has been
estimated by the editor of "The Stat
list" that the net cost of the war to
the belligerents is about one-half o:
it's total costs. If this generalization
be accepted as correct, and one-hal1
of the direct costs be subtracted
there is left as the real economic
cost of the war $244,O00,000,000.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30
Indirect Costs of the World
Struggle Were as Much
as the Direct

with reasonable accuracy the cost OF
Tho world war One of the important contributions to this subject
Il the Direct and Of the Great World War; by Ernest
Rogar professor the University Of Illinois ne es
the cost From his study issued by the Car
;. Endowment for Peace the following is quoted:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30
By Kat arine Wright

."HOMAS l.. CHADBOCRNE,
lawyer. capitalist and labor
champion, predicts that the
likelihood of the findings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30
of the Great War Was $685., $40, l|9,oo

Prisoners
or Missing
1912
64,9O7
453,5OO
100000
I,359,OOO
10000
100000
10000
45,OC1
2OC
3
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

A number of independen, esti-
mates have been made Of the total
cost of the war, of which two or
three may be cited. A gross total
Of $194, ZOO, 100000" for the seven
major belligerents was the esti-
mate of a widely circulated pamph-
let published by one Of the New
York City banks. AT . conference
Of governors and mayors at the
White House early in March, 1919,
Secretary Of War Baker presented
ar estimate Of the total money costs
Of the war for all the nations en-
gagged in it, apart from all costs of
damage to property and devastation.
According to this estimate, the cost
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30
The Loss of Life in the
Four Years Is Put at
100000

tho path Of the invader, the sugar
r,fneries. brewcries, machine shops,
foundries. and other industrial
pIants were stripped Of their ma
chinery and supplies. Over 1900
ooO acres of valuable forests were
laid waste.
The total destruction in France
was placed at sl3,o0O,OOO,oOo by
VI. Dubois, of the Committee on
Budget. in the Chamber Of Deputies
in December, 1918. On the other
hand. Franz Sigel, president Of the
Friends Of German Democracy, esti-
mated it at s6,219,OsS,O00. Per
haps the average Of these two oppos-
irg estimates, in round numbers
about $4,000, 100000, will give as
close an approximation to the
truth as is likely to be secured a.
the present time.
While Russia is an agricultural
country and did not suffer the same
losses as those to which Belgium
and France were subjected, the
property damage was serious and
NAV be estimated at $3.50, 100000.
The destruction in Poland, where
rich mine shafts were destroyed,
crops burned, bridges ruined, rail-
roads cut, foodstuffs taken, ma
chinery broken or confiscated, with
Kovno. Courland, Wilma and Grodno
looted if not destroyed. has been
placed at S1,5OO.OOO.OO0.
In Serbia the destruction was sys-
tematic and thorough. Public build
ings. Libraries. schools, churches,
dwellings. railroads, all went down
before the approaching vandals.
The property damage in Serbia, Al
bania and Montenegro has been est
mated at s2.OOO,OOO,OOO.
Property destruction in East Prus-
STA. Austria and the Ukraine may
be placed at 81 OOO,CO0,O00.
Italy was invaded in the north
her most vulnerable spot. In North
ern Italy lies her best agriculture
land, which in 1913 produced half Of
all her products, and which supports
"A per cent Of her total population
and st per cent Of all her industrial
workers. The 1917 invasion covered
the territory up to the Pave and
Brenta rivers. This damage has
been estimated at $2.7lO,OO0,000.
The invasion and seizure in Ru-
mania Of the vast wheat stores and
oil fields. the property destruction
and ether devastation caused losses
estimated at $1,000, 100000
The property damage throughout
the British Empire may be placed at
about Sl,750000,00O.
The property destruction in Ger
many as result mostly Of air raids
can scarcely have been less than in
Great Britain, and may be set down
at 81, $50, 100000.
SUMMARY OF PROPERTY LOSS
Belgium ....... $7,OOO,OOO,O0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

1t is now possible to bring TO-
eether the final figures so far as
they can be ascertained for all the
belligerent countries and to estl-
mate the total direct cost OF the
war. 1t will, however, probably never
be possible to state precisely how
much the world has spent IN pros
ccuting the Great World War, since
the breakup of states like Austria
Hungary. Russia and even Ger
many, and the limited particlpa-
ton of countries like Brazil and
Portugal and some of the smaller
belligerents, have made it all but
impossible to secure complete fig
ures. Even the expenditures OF the
principal belligerents are far from
exact, as the accounts have not been
closed and expenditures are still! be-
inp made which may properly be
credited to the war account. But
in such a gigantic sum as that pre-
scented by the final aggregat, cost
of this war no great difference VIII
be made il some Of the smaller items
fail of exactness. The conclusions
of this study are presented as an
approximation to the truth, which
i. is believed is probably as exact
as can be made at this time.
The total money costs of the war
for all the then belligerents have
been competently estimated by the
Copenhagen War Study Society at
sts,1S5,OOO.00O for the first year
.nd zoos, 100000 for the second
YEAR. For the third year the costs
we're estimated by another authority
At s39,247, 100000. giving a total
for the three years of S9l .O9 .9Oo,-
600. The aggregate gross costs OF
the. first three years were also gwen
bv the Liberty Loan Bureau of the
Jrited States Treasury Department
as ss9.721,5 100000. AS these totals
40 nearly agree. either may be &C
cepted as approximately correct.
According to figures compiled by
the Swiss Bank of Geneva, the
fourth year of the war cost as much
as the other three together. or about
100000, 600, 900, so that by August
/, 1918, the four years of war hac
cost the world S1S0,O00,000, 900
The average daily expenditure or
war for the first four years wa;
S123,000,00O; during the year 1914
it rose to s244,OOO,OOO. At thi'
rate the war was costing more thar
s10,00O,OOO an hour 1t mus. be
remembered, however, that thu
worldwide imitation of the currenc!
which was taking place immensel,
increased the money costs OF th'
war with each succeeding year.
Eliminates
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-30

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