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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18
Obituary
Mrs. Mary 4. Sporting.

Mrs. Mary A. Sporting, about so
veaEs old, widow OF James Sporting
of Reynolds, died yesterday morning
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
6. E. Dawson of Macon, Mo.
Mrs. Sporting was born near
Bushnell, ILL.,, nearly eighty years
ago andais a pioneer settler of this
county. About forty years ago she
was united in marriage to James
Sperling, at that time a prominent
farmer Of Edgington township
Later he became postmaster at Rey-
nolds.
Deceased was a faithful member
of the Reynolds Methodist church.
Surviving her are three sons:
Frank of Guthrie, Okla. Burt L. of
Pamela, Kan, and Charles, also of
Kansas. and one daughter, Mrs.. G.
Z. Dawson, of Macon, Mo. 1
The remains will be shipped to
Reynolds where funeral services
will be held at the Methodist church
Monday afternoon. Interment will
be in the Reynolds cemetery.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18
MAYOR DID NOT TALK
TO MUSCATINE FOLK

Dispatches from Muscatine yes
terday were to the effect that
Mayor William McConochie of this
city and City Attorney Floyd E.
Thompson, also said to be of Rock
Island, were to speak last night
in Muscatine on the state utilities
commission act, law which is
now being agitated in Iowa
Neither offic5d had received any
invitation to appear at Muscatine
to speak on the utilities commits
sion act. City Attorney ]. K.
Scott had been communicated with
several times by interested parties
in Muscatine, but was not noti-
fed of last nights meeting.
1t is said that a wide spread
movement is on in Iowa to have
the state legislature adopt a state
utilities commission act similar to
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18
CANVASS EVERY
HOME IN DRIVE
Each Rock Islander to Be Re-
quested to Enroll as Member
of the Red Cross.
EX-SOLDIERS OFFER HELP.
VIII Assist Workers in Reaching
Every Citizen Who Has Failed
etO Join Chapter.

Every house in the city will be
visited Sunday afternoon in Rock
Islands final drive to meet her
membership quota.
Other Illinois cities the size of
Rock Island have gone over the
top with 80 per cent of the popula-
ton enrolled as Red Cross mem
bers. In the chapters rural dis
tricts the membership promises to
go beyond last years record; the
Junior Red Cross will again enroll
every boy and girl of school age.
Last year Rock Island had a so per
cent enrolment. But this year the
city's membership has dropped to
.25 per cent.
Men in uniform will be among
Sundays canVaSSerS for Red Cross
memberships. At the welcome
home banquet Thursday night the
men were told that if any of them
desired to do service for Red
Cross by giving a few hours time
on Sunday afternoon, they might
register their names at Red Cross
headquarters.
Promptly the next day several
men volunteered their efforts. ALI
of them voiced their appreciation of
what Red Cross had done for them
and of what it would do for their
comrades still under arms.
Present Argument.
These men will present the chap
ter's strongest argument for the
continuance of membership. They
represent the hundreds of Rock Is
land men who have not yet re-
turned and who are expecting the
folks back home to stand behind
them until they do return.
There is more Red Cross canteen
and recreation hut work to be done
now than ever before. In addition
hospital and relief work present a
tremendous task for many months
to come. Men who have been IN
der arms know all this. Tomorrow
when they ASK you for memberships
they will be challenging Rock Is
land to do its duty by those who
have more than performed their
duty.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18
PERSONAL POINTS

Mr.. and Mrs. Ashley w. Elliott
have removed from their farm in
Buffalo Prairie and taken up their
abode at 1124 Eighteenth avenue,
this city. Mr.. Elliott has been one
of the leading breeders of Hereford
cattle in this part of the state.
Walter B. Dauber, who has been
with the American eXpeditionary
forces in France, has wired his
mother, Mrs. Mary Dauber, 1717
I wenty-fourth street, of his safe
arrival in this country. He Will
proceed to Yakima, Wash, where he
will be mustered out of service and
will then return to his home in this
city.
Corporal Leroy Drescher has re-
ceived his honorable discharge and
returned from service at Camp
Pike, Arkansas.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18
JORDAN BEGINS
DUTIES MONDAY
Newly Appointed Rock Island Ar.
senaI Commandment Expected
to Arrive Tomorrow.
Colonel Harry B. Jordan, newly

Colonel Harry B. Jordan, newly
appointed commandant at Rock Is
land arsenal, is expected to arrive
in Rock Island tomorrow night to
take up his duties on the island
Monday. Illness prevented his ear
lier appearance here.
He will be accompanied from
Washington by Captain F. c. Blunt
and Colonel Gibson. The mission
of the latter two officers here is
unknown by authorities at the ar
senal. Colonel Jordan succeeds the
late Colonel Leroy T. Hillman. Col
onel L. G. McCrum has been acting
commander since Colonel Hillman' S
passing.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18
TWO LADS RETURN,
AFTER DUTY WITH
A. E. E. IN FRANCE

Carl P. Seeburger, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Bernard Seeburger, 1901
enth-and-a-half street, and
Charles Oberstaller, son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. K. Heitahrend, 1916
Twelfth street, arrived home last
night after spending several
months in France.
Both boys made their trip to
France on the Cedric, which YES
sci was torpedoed by German sub
marines on the high seas and its
rudder shot away. They arrived in
this country on Dec. % and have
been issued honorable discharges.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18
YIELDING TRAINS
TO ALLIES STOPS
FOES uTTERURBAN

Berlin, Friday, Jan. 17.-CBy the
Associated Press).-Berlin's inter-
urban railway has been compelled
to suspend operations as a result
g the delivery of its best Dcomo-
~nves to the entente powers. accord
ing to statements of officials. 1t is
said that the Berlin railway divi-
sion has turned over 103 locomo-
tives and that total of 500 now in
its possession, only 494 are in run
ming condition. This number, it is
declared, is hardly adequate to car
ry provisions and coal to Berlin.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18
TRANSPORTATION
EXPERT rs COMING
FOR RATE HEARING
Especial to The Argus. }

Springfield, ILL.,, Jan. 1S.-H. NJ
Slater, transportation expert of the
Illinois public utilities commission,
will hold a hearing in Moline We'd
nesday morning on the application
Of the Tri-City Railway company
to increase its street car rates in
Rock Island, Moline, East Moline
and Milan and the Moline, Rock Is
land & Eastern Traction company
to increase its street car rates in
Moline, East Moline and SilVis.
HOME FOR NAVAL MEN.
Naval men in Naples have just
been provided Y. NJ. C. A center.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-18

the one IN effect in Illinois and
that those opposed to this pro-
cedure are holding meetings
throughout the state and are offer
ing arguments of Illinois directors
against the commission in this
state as a means to have the cit
liens of Iowa become acquainted
with the situation with the point
in view of defeating the plan of
having a law passed in Iowa pro-
viding for a state utilities commits
sion.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03
TEXAS BUILDER
PRAISES TANLAC
San Antonio Business Man Suffered
for Years-Takcs Troubles
Disappear and He Gains Ten
Pounds.

Robert Schultze, of s1S West Pop
lar street, San Antonio, Tex, a res
ident Of that city for more than 80
years and a contractor and builder
there for 25 years, made an interest
ing statement regarding his expe-
rience with Tanlac.
about two years ago." said Mr..
Schultze, rheumatism got hold of
me, / lost weight and all my energy
seemed to leave me. / suffered so
terribly that | couldn't work an hour
without my shoulders giving out COM
pletely. ] was all unstrung and moth
ing seemed to do me any good, and
] had gotten to the point where !
didn't know which way to turn for
relief.
after seeing the fine results of
using Tanlac in the case of some of
my relatives, ] began using it my
self and am now entirely free from
all aches and rheumatic pains. /
have gained all of ten pounds and
have as much energy and vim as /
ever had and can work hard all day.
! am simply feeling fine and wouldn't
hesitate to recommend Tanlac to any
body"
Tanlac is sold by leading druggists
everywhere. adv
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03

GRADATIM

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Heaven is not reached at single
bound;
But we build the ladder BY which
we rise
From the lowly earth to the vault
ed skies
And we mount to its summit round
by round.
I count this thing to be grand and
true;
That noble deed is a stem toward
God,
Lifting the soul from the common
clod
To a purer air and broader view.
We rise by the things that are under
feet;
By what we have mastered of good
or 0ain;
By the pride deposed and the pas
sions slain
And the vanquished ills that we hour
- ~ meet.
We hope, we aspire, we resolve, we
trust,
When the morning calls us to life
and light.
But our hearts grow weary, and
ere the night,
Our lives are trailing the sordid dust.
We hope, we resolve, we aspire, we
pray,
And we think that we mount the
air on wings
Beyond the recall Of sensual things,
While our feet still cling to the
heavy clay.
Wings for the angels, but feet for
men!
We may borrow the wings to find
the way
We may hope, and resolve, and as
L pire, and pray;
But our feet must rise, or we fall
again.
only IN dreams is ladder thrown
From the weary earth to the sap
phire walls;
But the dreams depart, and the
vision falls,
And the sleeper wakes on his pillow
of stone.
Heaven is not reached at single
bound;
But we build the ladder by which
we rise
From the lowly earth to the vault
ed skies,
And we mount to its summit, round
by round
Josiah Gilbert Holland
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03
THE rEsr THAT TELLS

There is only one real test for a
cough remedy, and that is use S. NJ.
Oliver, Box 1872. RID. 5, Green's
boro. S. G., writes: sFoley's Honey
and Tar is just fine. keep it all
the time in my family and do not
expect to be without it as long as /
can get III" II relieves hay fever,
asthma, coughs, colds, Group and
bronchial affections by covering the
inflamed, irritated surfaces with a
soothing, healing combination Of
time-tried, reliable, pure, harmless
medicines. Contains no opiates.
Children ike it. Sold by Union
Drug Co.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03
BIBLE CLASS ELECTS

On Sunday, June 20, the Business
Mems Bible Class Of the First Meth
odist Church's Sunday school, elected
the following officers for the next SIX
months:
President, G. N. volz; vice-presi-
dent, w. A. Primer; executive com
mtitee, j. R. Proctor, G. N. Volz
r. A. Clark, G. A. Girdner, Dr. H
W. Sale, w. G. Rea; reception com
mittee, Jas. L. Garner, Will Shelton
treasurer, Ed Lowenhaupt; secretary
D. Fyfe, Sr.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03
THE GIRL BACK HOME

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published by Requestl
I've lived in muddy trenches
Where screaming shot and shell
And gas and dirt and coolies
Made life a merry hell;
And now mid all the glamour
Of Gay Paree" roam,
But something makes me watch my
step
It's the girl back home.
wander on the boulevards
And painted demoiselles
Give flat'ring invitations
They're right there with the bells),
But none of them look good to me,
For far acress the foam,
j know a real ones waiting
She's the Girl Back Home.
I've got a bunch of buddies
Who like to hit the booze:
They 60 zig-zag on cognac
Or tank up on vim rouge;
But any guy who falls for that
Has got an ivory dome,
Or else ne doesn't think a lot
Of the Girl Back Home.
Some day wen get the order
That home, the regiment goes;
Across the pOnd we'll sail "tOut SUITE
Put on civilian clothes;
And then, oh boy, comes my reward;
No more abroad III roam,
Bat settle down to real home life
With the Girl Back Home.
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= HOW WAS IT in FRANCE2 :
~~~~~~%%~~%~~~~~%@@
Hello there, old man; you got back
all right.
I'm glad to see you again. Were you
in the fight?
Come on; tell me all about it.
Don't leave anything out of it.
How was it in France?"
Gee, it was rotten over there-you
never dreamed the like.
1t was guard and detail all the time,
and then to drill and hike.
We ate bareback and Corn Bill,
And went through all the mill
Over in Sunny France.
But were you at the front? Did you
kill any Huns?
How did you like to hear those aw-
full big guns?
Please tell me before you go,
For that is what / want to know
How was it in France?"
"Yep, we fought all the time, and
lived in the dirts.
The Huns were so bad they took to
our shirts.
Then they took to biting
And we took to fighting.
There were lots Of coolies in
France"
Guess you had tough time, and
don't want to fight any more 2"
Nope, not as long as live-it makes
a fellow sore.
And for the time we had,
1t didn't exactly make us glad
Over in muddy France.
Yep, I'm glad 30 be home. No, don't
want to go back again.
No, | never killed any Germans, but
did beaucoup French Vim.
Now, that is all / know,
And I'm glad / had to go,
But Pm through with France.
GROVER ESTES.
P. S.--Le vim francais il est mou-
yais,
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03

Find it with a classified.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03

Professor H. Strauss, M. D., Of the
Royal Charity Hospital, says, THE
cause for an attack Of govt, rheumatism,
lumbago, is supplied by the increase Of
uric acid in the blood serum, the result
of various causes, the most frequent Of
which is renal. Before an attack, one
suffers sometimes from headache, neural
gia, twinges Of pain here and there"
When your kidneys feel like humps Of
lead, when the back hurts or the urine
Is cloudy, full Of sediment, or you, are
Obliged to seek relief two or three times
during the night; when you suffer with
sick headache, or dizzy, nervous spells
acid stomach; or you have rheumatic
pains or lumbago, govt, sciatica when
Inc weather is bad, do not neglect the
warning, but try simple means. Take
Xix or eight glasses Of water during the
dav, then obtain at your nearest drug
store 'An-uric' (anti-uric acld).
This is the discovery Of DR.. Pierce OF
the Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. \. AN
uric" is an antidote for this uric acid
poisoning and dissolves uric acid in the
body much as hot coffee dissolves sugar.
"Anuric" will penetrate into the joints
and muscles, and dissolve the poisonous
accumulations. It will stamp out toxins
Send 10 cents to DR., Pierce's lnvallds'
Hotel, Buffalo, NY, for trial package.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03
Plnckxi

WELL" said Uncle 81, after solo
by a fashionable church-choir tenor,
eff that amt the rudest thing / ever
saw. Just as soon as that young
man began to sing, every other mem
Der of the choirstopped Buthewent
Der of the choir stopped. But he
went through with it. By Jove, |
must say | admire his spunk."
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03
HE wAs ALMosr PAsr CONC

4 suffered with kidney trouble fer
three years, writes D. Bell. st. James
City. Fla, "and for the past six
months I have been almost past going.
I couldn't stoop down and when
would lie down / could hardly get up.
! began taking Foley Kidney Pills,
and before used two bottles my
pains were all gone" They are
prompt in action and quick to relieve
backache, rheumatic pains, stiff, swol-
len joints and sore muscles.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03

By decree of the government
general, the Korean mining ordinance
has been amended SO as to eliminate
the royalty on gold, silver, lead and
iron ores or alluvial gold and allu-
vial iron.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03

Electrical heating of rivets now
facilitates structural iron work oper-
atoms.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03

A hawk can spy a lark upon earth
almost exactly the same color ut 20
times the distance at which it is per-
ceptible to a man or dog.
The Covington leader. (Covington, Tenn.) 18??-current, 1919-07-03
COVIngtOR Manufacturing
& Auto Company

See us for auto tire ser
vice. We have recently in
stalled a $4,000 vulcaniz-
ing plant, secured the SER
vices of two No. / vulcan
izing men, and are prepar-
ed to fix your tires in the
most satisfactory manner.
We sell the famous Good
Year and Firestone Tires.
Our prices are right. See
US.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-10-10

The cost of living isn't going to go down, and the rate of taxation
is not going to be materially lessened.
Those who have been hugging a contrary theory are doomed to dis
appointment-hat is, if they expect these things to happen within the
next five or ten years, at least.
The United States will be busy for that length of time in catching
up in production with the time lost in the war, and at the same time
IN supplying the demands of Europe and the rest of the world that be-
fore the war depended upon Europe for commodities.
We are short handed for labor on account OF the total cessation
of immigration and because of the hundreds of thousands of foreign
workers who have returned and still are returning to their native coun-
tries. And besides, the tremendous development of industries. since the
war has brought about a shortage of labor that is fet. in every section
of the country and by every class Of our population. The result is that
the supply of almost every kind of production is away behind the de-
mand.
No small part of this demand comes from the higher plane of hv-
ing for working classes generally, which is one of the phenomena aris-
ing out of the war. People who a few years ago would have deemed
a telephone OF al automobile an impossible luxury, now consider them
necessaries of life; with result that the agencies supplying these things
are handicapped to meet the demand. A class of people are travelling
over the country who never travelled before; and are swampmg the
facilities of travel-holels, sleeping and dining cars, etc.
These are but examples of an almost universal condition brought
about by a higher standard of living for the masses of the population.
1t does not seem probable that this new standardswil ever be abandoned,
except that part which is extravaganza, pure and simple.
fact that the ordinary cost of government is, in commonw with other lines
Of business, fully double what it was before the war, or about 2 billion
dollars a year against billion in ante-bellum days for the federal gov
eminent. Also from the fact that interest and sinking fund on the
several liberty loan issues will require another 2 billion; and that plans
for the new navy call for about a billion dollars more than on the old
basis. This is a total of 5 billion dollars, which is about what the gov
eminent used last year.
1t was 10 years or more, following the Civil War, before price got
back to something approaching NORMAL and then the United States only
was involved. That it can happen in less time, with the whole world
torn to pieces as it has been, is not according to sound reason.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-10-10
CHARITY VERSUS PUBLIC DUTY

Honolulu is about to inaugurate a drive to raise Sl5OOW tor
charity. 1t is good deal of money for a city the size of Honolulu to
spend in a wear in relieving distress. That it will be wisely administer
ed is scarcely open to doubt. Nor is it likely that the amount is a cent
more than will be needed. =,
The point for reflection however, is that such an amount should
be needed. Much of the distress in Honolulu, as in other places, IS
due to conditions that should not be permitted to exist. Tenement dis
tricts; inadequate and Inefficient education; poor sanitary and health
administration and insufficient public hospitals, sanitariums' and re
formatory institutions, are some of the reasons why charity must come
to the rescue.
In England, before the war, a very large percentage of the entire
population was either wholly or in part dependent tor its very existence
upon charity. This was due primarily and perhaps largely, to the
monopoly in land by a comparatively small class. The war has very
materially changed this condition by furnishing employment at living
wage to all who can work. The point in this is simply that poverty for
the most part is due to causes that can and should be removed.
Moreover, much relief work is at present left to the charitable inn
pulses of the community that should be as much a legal charge on the
county or territory as are the public schools.
Our own Kula Sanitarium is a striking example. Only a few
weeks ago more than $4,000 was raised through the generosity of the
people of Maui, of high and low degree, for vitality needed enlargement
of that most necessary institution.
Now, there is no question whatever that this money was needed
In fact several times the amount raised should be available right here
on Maui to combat and stamp out tuberculosis. In the light OF our
present knowledge it is little short OF a crime that we continue witt
halfway measures in dealing with the greatest scourge in the Islands
today. =,
But it should not be a matter of private charity. Instead 1t should
be one of the first matters of public duty. -
And sc with a large number Of our other so-caued charities. l.
the people who are giving sc generously of their time and thought and
money to these various charitable activities would as enthusiastically
combine to secure constructive legislation along these same lines, there
isn't a doubt that the need of their present efforts would soon be great
w reduced. Charity is good, but the removing the need tor charity Is
far better.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-10-10
POT-HUNTERS, NOT SPORTSMEN

They have queer ideas of sport on Kauai if the following, taken
from the Star-Bunein5s special correspondence from that island is a
criterion. Listen:
Doves there fly in flocks by the scores and in the case of Mana,
on the rice fields of Pax On Leong, the birds light on the fields by the
hundreds. A poor shot need not waste his shells on wing shooting if
he wants to be sure of a good bag for his meal. All he needs is to
select a cool place under a bush and wait for them to light on the open
field. During July and the first part of August hunters were seen at
Kappa and Mana who never did any wing shooting. BY shooting the
birds on the ground they had a better chance OF getting from one to six
doves with one shot, whereas if they tried wing shooting the best shot
cannot get two birds with one shell unless in rare cases the shot captured
more"
This isn't craftsmanship. 1t is just plain slaughter. In most
places the man who is found guilty OF shooting a game bird on the
ground is ostraczed by self-respectng sporSmen.
The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1919-10-10

1t is gratifying to note that at least a part of the Japanese com
munity in the Islands is far-ighted enough to see the need for ra
effort toward the real Americanizing of the japanese population here
Unless this can be accomplished it is almost a foregone conclusion tina
the territory will lose its autonomy and be governed by either a civil
or military commission appointed by Washington.
1t is estimated that within another Ia or IS years the Island borr
japanese will hold the balance of power politically. If they are t.
benefit from this they must measure up 100 percent American. On
of the first steps towards this end must be the abandonment of the Jap
anese language schools. 1t is unfair to any child to handicap it at the
start with a foreign culture which is radically opposed to the one
must live under.