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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06
PRODUCE STORAGE INCREASES
Reports for This Year Show Gain Of
100000 Pounds IN Butter,
$4,000 Cases in Eggs.

Washington.-Large increases in the
amounts of butter and eggs in cold
storage this year, over totals year
ago, were reported by the agricultural
department.
There were 3O2 storages which re.
ported in 1918 holding stocks Of 6S,-
100000 pounds of butter, while the
same storages on July Is this year
held los, 49,, 900 pounds. The 372 stor'
ages reporting eggs on July Is this
year, held 100000 cases, against g.
$4,000 cases year ago.
Stocks Of frozen and cured fish in
storage showed decrease on July Is
of per cent, as compared with year
ago, present holdings including 49,.
$4,000 pounds Of frozen fish, 29,147,'
600 pounds Of cured herring and 6,
$4,000 pounds of mild cured salmon.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06
HOTELS As HOMES.

The apparently unlimited willingness
Of capitalists to invest millions upon
millions Of dollars in the erection OF
magnificent hotels makes natural the
speculation as to whether we are on
the way to becoming country Of hotel
dwellers. AS fast as each new hotel.
with it's thousands Of rooms and in
genious refinements of comfort and
service, is completed it is instantly
filled. starts a waiting list. and only
regrets that it has not few hundred
more rooms to be let at minimum
Of IS a day. Americans who can af-
ford such luxuries-and there are more
in this class than ever before-are
tlocking into hotels because living con-
ditions. particularly in the greater
cities. are abnormal, says Spokane
Spokesman-Review. If the abnormal
conditions become permanent and
therefore normal, the hotel dwellers
will increase and the American home
will become a new sort of thing en-
tirely. The multiplicity of lew for
tunes has intensified the search for
luxurious living conditions and made
consideration of expense negligible.
Then there is great shortage of suit
able houses. created by the suspeD-
sion Of building during the war years
Finally we have the servant problems.
It is this last more than any other
factor that is Fastening the trend to-
ward hotels
Judging by recent reports. about the
only difference between aviation on q
war basis and on a peace basis is that
the daring young airmen who now
come to grief are listed as fatalities
instead of casualties.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06
DRY" LAW CLOSES OLD INNS
HosteIries Where Washington and
Lafayette Were Enter.
tanned Are Hit.

Philadelphia, Pa.,-Inns in existence
since colonial days are among those
closed by the wartime prohibition law.
One of the most noted is the Gen.
Wayne inn, on the Montgomery pike
outside Of Philadelphia, which was
opened in 1904 by Quaker settlers as
the Wayside inn. Mad" Anthony
Wayne used the inn as his headquar-
tiers during the Revolutionary war and
it has been a polling place for more
than 200 years.
Turks Head inn at West Chester has
closed its doors. In Revolutionary times
1t was visited by General Washington,
Lafayette, MAD" Anthony Wayne, Col
orel Taylor and many other officers Of
Washington's army.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06
Mouse in a Pie.

Topeka, KAMA full-grOwn mouse
in q pie he sold brought fine of $50
and $3.50 costs to Carl Singer, 4
Wichita baker. The pie was bought
by boy for lunch for members OF
the office force of a produce company.
The report from 0. H. Graves, deputy
pure food officer, didn't state whether
it was mince pie or not. Anyway. the
pie purchasers made complaint. Singer
had two counts charged against him
selling poisonous substances in food
and for keeping uncovered cooked
food.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06
CHRISTIANS IN EAST SUFFER
Doctor Barton, Back From Asia Minor,
Relates Hardshlps Of Deported
People.

Saloniki.-Rev. James Levi Barton,
president of the American commission
for relief in the near East and secre-
tary general of the American board OF
commissioners for foreign missions,
has just arrived in Saloniki to visit
the missionary schools after journey
of more than 5000 miles in Turkey,
Asia Minor, Armenia and Mesopo-
tamia.
On his arrival Doctor Barton said
81 found the Christian populations
in an extremely deplorable condition.
Hundreds of thousands Of persons,
who had been deported from their
homes found themselves at various
points in Turkey forced to live on
charity.
'The American commission for re-
lief, in entire collaboration with the
Greek and Armenian committees is do
ing everything possible to maintain the
lives of the unfOrtunates."
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06

In view of the ascending price Of
food, if the army, doesn't sell the sur
plus fOodstuffs that were stored up
for this summers campaign pretty
soon, the government may have to de-
clare q dividend.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06

Youth with too much precocity and
age burdened with adolescence are not
calculated to win much favor among
people who are basking in the sun
shine of the middle-age spread.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06

The penny taxes on luxuries are so
numerous and persistent that many
people are finding it difficult to have
money to put in the church collection
plates.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06

Trains and interurbans still lead in
the contest with the automobile as to
the right of way ut crossings.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06
Mems Heads Bigger?
Bosh! Say Scientists

Philadelphia.-"Pish! Tush!"
said psychologists and anato-
mists of the University Of
Pennsylvania, commenting on
the statement Of hat manufac-
turers to the effect that mems
heads were growing larger.
TITS all rot :" said DR.. r. TAFT
Mckenzie, in charge Of the phys
ical work of the university. "The
theory could not possibly be sus-
tanned by facts unless" he add
ed, with a twinkle in his eye,
"unless it is a reflection from
Germany. They seem to be suf-
fering from swelled heads just
now"
"The fact is interesting if
true" said DR.. Lightner Wilmer.
head of the department of psy-
chOlogy Of the university. Il
can't think Of a reason in the
world for the fact, if fact it is.
I'm very much inclined to doubt
the truth Of the statement"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1919-09-06

A famous convict. recaptured after
various sensational escapes, complains
that nearly all the big hauls he made
by his robberies was spent in black
mail exacted by fellOw-criminal, who
betrayed him when the money was
gone. The convict seemed to feel
great wrong was done him by the
blackmaier in taking the money he
himself had taken from its rightful
owners, which emphasizes one Of the
curious traits in human nature.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03
THURsDAY-THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUs-APR1I g. 1919

and 9.2-inch field howitzers, heavy
railway guns, including 12-inch,
14-inch and 16-inch mortars, ho-
witzers and rifles; trench mortar
units and anti-aircraft batteries,
including motorized machine gun
units for the purpose of protecting
troops on the march from attack
from the air.
Personnel for the heavy bat
teries, the eight-inch and 92-inch
guns will come from the coast ar
til1ery which will also man four
regiments of railway artillery.
The railway guns will constitute
mobile coast defenses but are to be
available for use in the field if cir
cumstances require.
One departure from war time or
ganization is the abandonment of
trench mortar batteries with the
divisions. Instead, a single trench
mortar regiment will be organized
as part of the army artillery to be
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03
JUSTICE-ELECT
Gets MESSAGES
States Attorney Floyd z. ThOmp-
son Receives Congratulations
From Over State.
WHO WILL BE sUCCEssOR9
Names Of Assistant E. L. Eagle and
Captain B. S. Bell Prominent
of Those Heard.

Messages of congratulation from
all parts of the state poured into the
office Of States Attorney Floyd E.
Thompson, supreme court Justice
elect, since his election to the high
est state tribunal became known.
Interest in the contest was state
wide. kilograms from Springfield
began arriving at the office of the
new justice of the supreme court
yesterday afternoon.
MIR. Thompson will enter upon
his duties as soon as canvasses of
returns are made officially and the
certificate of election is issued. This
being an election to fill the vacancy
caused by the resignation of Justice
George A. Cooke of Aledo, no time
is fixed for assuming the judicial
robe.
The term of service is two years
The statutary provision is that he
shall serve until the next regular
judicial election, which will be in
May, 1921.
Contest for Shoes.
Mr.. Thompson viii continue IN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03

Fight for ChiId-Carmela Agnes
Fines, aged "A, girlishly beautiful
and heiress to a small fortune in
her own name, is today the storm
center of one Of the most remark
able legal battles that has been
launched in the district court for
the possession OF child. 1t VIII
be fought out on April IA. Three
parents are engaged in the unusual
action and all are seeking to have
themselves legally appointed
guardian Of the little girl. The
parents are James Edmund Fines
of Des Moines, her father; Charles
W. Odell of Chicago, her step
father, and Charles c. Hipwell of
Davenport, grandfather on her
mothers side.
Got His Man.-To find a man in
such a hurry that he did not want
a SO note was the unusual expert
ence of Charles Stelk yesterday.
Mr.. Stelk came out of his shop in
the Hotel Davenport and walked
down Main street. On the seat of
an automobile parked outside his
shop was a $40 bill. Mr.. Stelk
took the bill and pinned a note on
the seat notifying the owner he
had taken the money for safekeep-
ing and to call at his store and get
it. The man, a wholesale grocer
of Clinton, who refused to give his
name, got in his car, read the note,
tore it up and had his hand on the
throttle ready to leave, when Mr..
Stelk, noticing the procedure, ran
outside and handed him the money.
Much obliged. In a big hurry. So
long" said the grocer as he drove
off at high speed
Have Victory Parade-with a
monster parade, led by the Great
Lakes naval training station band,
and one of Uncle Sans battle
SCARED tanks in the lineup, the
Davenport and Scott county bust
ness men who compose the Liberty
loan machine, will open the cam
paign for the Victory loan next
Monday afternoon at $50 o'clock
Following the parade through the
downtown streets will be a big
banquet at the Hotel Blackhawk
gold room at $50 O'Clock with
Hon Nathan E Kendall OF Abba
as the chief speaker.
Eye is Werth s1Oyeoo.-Anna
Oaks, seamstress, considered it
worth $4,000 to have her vision
impaired Sight in one eye she al
leges was shattered by splintered
glass IN street car collision and
the right eye Ia now affected, she
declares In q petition for damages
fled in the district court Origin
ally she brought suit for 5000 in
juries and suffering alleged to have
grown out Of an accident to the
left eye. When the right eye, by
sympathetic process, began to suf-
fer she filed a second petition ask
ing for damages in the sum of $10,-
600.
Arrest Was Spite work. eatur-
ed by the work of Assistant County
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03
DEVELOP CHINA
WITH AID OF u. s.
AND JAPAN MONEY

San Francisco, Cal, April s.
The development of China and ST.
IBERIA will be accomplished by the
formation of an organization OF
leading financiers and bankers in
Japan and the United States, &C
cording to T. Mochizuki and Y.
Ozah, members Of the Japanese
parliament, who are visiting this
country to study political condi-
tons before proceeding to Paris in
an unofficial capacity. The two Wis
itors said today they would take &C
ton in connection with the final de-
tails of the organization before
their departure for Europe.
Mochizuh expressed the opinion
that 'the United States and Japan
should control the Pacific for all
time"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03

the office of states attorney until
the certificate of election as justice
of the supreme court has been is
sued to him. 1t is probable that the
scramble for his shoes will not wait
on formalities of the issuance of the
certificate and the calling of the
special election for the selection of
a states attorney.
Anyhow, discussions have begun
in political circles as to probable
candidates and the names of As
sistant States Attorney E. L. Eagle
and Capt B. S. Bell, former judge Of
the probate court, are among the
first heard.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03
WAR ARTILLERY
UNITS TO STAY
Number of Army's Special Organ
fZatiOns To Be Made Perman-
emit Under New Plan.

Washington, April 3.-The Amer
lean army will retain permanently
some of the artillery organizations
which are an outgrowth of the
war. Among these, according to
the reorganization plans, which
have been approved are 155-mm.
rifles, the weapons relied upon
largely in the closing days of the
war for barrage work; eight-inch
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03

The PATHB gives an actual
duplication of the living
voice of the artist-every
tone-shade of voice or in
strument - every detail of
the rendltiOns OF the great
bands and Orchestras.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03

assigned for duty by the army COM
mander
Another new element is the as
signment of two anti-aircraft sec
tors to the army artillery. These
units, personnel also to come from
the coast artillery, will include the
larger guns for fire against air.
craft and will be provided with
searchlights to spot night raiders
and sound and flash ranging equip
ment to locate either air raiders or
concealed guns.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03
The Day in Davenport

Attorney Realff Ottesen, who acted
both as prosecuting attorney and
counsel for the defense, the trial
of Nora Williams, fair barberet
dragged to close in police court
yesterday and resulted in an &C
quittal for the prisoner. 1t was
the opinion both of the court, the
prosecuting attorney and several
legal lights who dropped in to hear
the trial, that the arrest was the
result of spite work" on the part
of other lady BARRIERS, who frequent
the tonsorial establishment at Ill
West Fourth street Miss Williams
was charged with embezzlement by
bailee, and the Tri-City Towel Sup
ply company was the prosecuting
witness.
No Settlement. No settlement
was reached yesterday in the strike
of rs plum bers, steam and gas fit
tiers. The union men walked out
Tuesday following the refusal of
the Master Plumbers association
to grant a wage increase of 1919
cents an hour. Aside from the in
crease of 1919 cents an hour in the
demands the strike was devoid of
new developments.
All Given Work. Without regard
for class of work or qualifications
necessary, there is a job for every
soldier and sailor who has return
ed to Davenport and Scott county
and is as yet unemployed, listed
jointly with the Scott county coun-
Gil of defense and the state employ
ment office.
Obituary Record.-Davenpo lost
one of its well known women res
ident yesterday in the death of Mrs.
Carolina Haak, widow of the late
Ferdinand Haak, former prominent
cigar manufacturer of Davenport,
who died at Mercy hospital. Mrs.
Haak was born at Stettin, Ger
many, May Is, 1886
Mrs. G. E. Pierson, 2214 Farnam
street, died Tuesday afternoon at
Mercy hospital. She had been in
poor health for four years. Her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. William
Moots of Muscatine, were on their
way to their daughters bedside,
but arrived just after she had died.
Edward D. Capesius, a son of Mr.
and Mrs Felix Capesius, 1926 Jack
son avenue, Davenport, died Tues
day at st. Cloud, Mimi, according
to word received here. Deceased
was born in Jackson county AZ
years ago, and was a farmer by vo-
cation
Mrs. Catherine Wohnrade, nee
Brandt, died Tuesday evening at
her home, SIT Howell street, after
lingering illness. She suffered a
stroke of paralysis Feb. 1, from
which she never completely recoV-
cred.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03

Marriage Licenses-Henry DECK
mann and Hermines Strade, both
of Davenport; Frank ]. Fransen
OF Davenport and Viola Mildred
Switzer Of Mt. Carroll; Albert H.
Thiering of New Liberty and Ell
frieda Wiese Of Bennett.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03

McCabe's Senri-Annual Third
Floor Sale, March 81 to April 5,
inclusive.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03

Arrest Was Spite Work Featur-
ed by the work of Assistant County
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-03

The exclusive PATHE sap
phire ball never wears ont;
therefore. never requires
changing. No injurious steel
needles.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-30
"WHITE-COLLAR JOBS"

The tendency of American youth
toward the professions and the
"white-collar jobs" was pointed out,
deplored and viewed with alarm long
before the great war broke. But the
deplorers took it out in deploring.
While it is true, of course, that many
thousands of lads stayed on the farms
or entered the skilled trades the drift
from the farms to the cities, and the
search for "white-collar" employment
continued in spite of the warnings
and appeals Of observers, who feared
that the thing was being overdone.
Many Of our biggest industries have
recruited perhaps the greater part of
their common labor and much Of
their skilled labor from overseas.
The remarkable climb Of wages
during and since the war has set
publicists here and there to Won
dering whether young America will
now change it's direction. In a re-
cent newspaper article Richard
Spillane declares that "the toiler has
taken a hop, skip and jump and
distanced the professional man. It
pays to be worker today he con-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-30

tinues. ''It doesn't pay SO we'll to
be a professional man. The profess
sions are crowded. So are the ranks
of clerks, Office workers, those help
less, almost hopeless, millions group
ed under the general head Of 'salar-
led persons The ranks of labor are
not crowded. Neither are the ranks
Of farmers (and the farm is a young
gold mine these wondrous times.)
The nation needs the skilled worker,
the common worker, the farmer, the
herder, the general producer today
more than ever in it's history"
Mr.. Spillane considers it. "prob-
ably true that the average pay Of
the skilled laborer is rs per cent
above the average income of the
physicians and lawyers of America" I"
He admits that this statement
may seem at first glance absurd, but
he insists that it is not. He writes
it down as probably true also "that
the average pay of the common la
borer is so per cent above the aver
age income Of the teachers, the bank
clerks and the clergy of America"
He suggests, therefore, that the
place for "mother's boy" nowadays
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-30

is with the "toilers" who labor with
their hands.
The suggestion is not new, Of
course, nor has it gone unheeded.
Thousands of American youngsters
from the schools and colleges have
been spending their vacations in the
shipyards, on the farms and in other
blue-shirted and "overalled" occupa-
tions, which offered fancy pay. But
how many of these ambitious young
fellows contemplate staying on these
jobs? A canvass would reveal, in
our judgment, comparatively small
percentage of converts to the trades
gained, that is to say, from the
ranks of the boys who in the old
days sought the "white-collar jobs"
or fitted themselves for the profess
sions. The attractions of higher pay,
shorter hours, smaller worry and re-
sponsibility, have been offset in some
way. The common contention that
the boys dislike manual labor and
overalls does not wholly explain the
counter-infuences. Mr.. Spillane and
his fellow-commentators must look
deeper for the causes. Are they to
be found, by any chance, in labor's
present unhealthy state of mind, as
manifested by the continuous and
seemingly insatiable demands for
concessions Of many kinds, by the
agitation of radicals and alien anar-
chists and the discomfort they are
constantly fomenting? The matter
might prove well worth investiga-
ton by the gentlemen who write so
frequently and fihently about the
American boys tendency toward the
professions and "white-collar jobs"
New Orleans Times-Picayune.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-30
FRANCE WILL STAND WITH
WILSON ON FIUME

Paris, Sept. 26.-No matter how
many solutions Of the Fiume question
acceptable to Italy, France and Eng
land are submitted to America, the
status quo, as far as France is con-
cerned, must remain until President
Wilson's approval is won.
France will not pass over his head
Nevertheless, Frenchmen greatly re-
gret the present deadlock, for it
means continued strained relations
with friendly neighbor.
We find it difficult to appreciate
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-30
SPANISH TROOPS SEARCH
FOR BANDIT RAISULI

Tangier, Morocco, Sept. &c.;
Travellers returning from the interior
bring accounts of the beginning Of
military operations by Spanish
troops against the bandit RaisuH,
who is reported to have been wound
ed in the head in an engagement by
a grenade thrown from an airplane.
Refugees from the area Of hostili-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-30

President Wilson's attitude on the
Fiume question. We can not see why
he opposed giving another Adriatic
port to the Jugo-Slavs and letting
Italy have Fiume, thus ending the
racial difference and stopping the
present veritable anarchy in the Dal-
matian region.
"Wil.on Disinterested."
However, every thinking French
man realizes President Wilson's stand
is wholly disinterested and dictated
by the highest motives and worthy Of
respect.
The situation at Fiume today is the
logical result of dilatory policy
which proved so disastrous in Asia
Minor, the Balkans and Russia. Why
can not the statesmen realize that
what is needed now is a clean cut de-
cision firmly applied? A trifing,
flirting policy which tries to concil-
late and treat with both sides-the
kind of policy that so signally failed
in Russia-only encourages anarchy.
Why Fiume Outlet?
Hungary is another case in point.
Had President Wilson and his col
leagues reached a straight verdict
on. way or another regarding Fiume
three months ago, the D'Annunzio
coup would have been impossible and
by this time both sides to the dispute
would have accepted The inevitable
and begun the reorgaa;z:tieI with
tie assurance of defrite conditions
as a working basis,
President Wilson is perfectly right
and has our approval "a seeking an
outlet to the sea for Judo -Slavia, but
W !: must Fiume be tn, outle: VIXEN
it i. proven that the majority the
population Of that city i; ITALIA and
when the Dalmatian coast offers other
suitable ports?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-30

ties are focking into the internafion-
al zone. '
Raisuli, most noted Of Moroccan
bandits, has been in active revolt
during the greater part of the last
summer in the Spanish zone Of Mo-
rocco. He was reported late in Au-
gust to have begun organizing a
great intrenched camp in the interior
and enrolling large numbers Of re-
cruits.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-09-30
"Mrs. Keach Tells How She Got D
Know Rat-Snap."

"Have always feared rats. Lately
noticed many on my farm. A neigh
Dor said he just got rid Of droves
with RAT-SNAP. This started me
thinking. Tried RAT-SNAP myself.
It killed II and scared the rest g.
way" RAT-SNAP comes in three
sizes, 25c, SOC, s1.00. Sold and guar
anteed by The Rosenberg Mercantile
Co., P. B. Speed.-Adv.