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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-24

q. c. CLEAvELAND CAMP. no. 40.
Sons Of Veterans.-Meets on second
and fourth Tuesday evening Of each
mouth at 8 O'Clock In 1enosial ball d
the court house. L. L. Karns. com
mander,: Eugene johnson. secretary.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-24

BUFORD POST 243. G. 4. +
Meets regularly on second
and fourth Friday after
moons OF each month at z
o'clock in Memorial hall In
the court houee. G.. H
AChurch, commandes; II. c,
First, adjutaRk
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-24

Knee Worth sa000-Five thou
sand dollars is the price set by John
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TO EXCHANGE.

TO EXCHANGE.
THREE HYDRAULIC BARBER CHAIRS,
pedestal base. exchange for second
hand car. 2604 Fifth avenue.
SO ACRES OF UNIMPROVED LAND.
Price $3.50. A first payment modern
4 TO 9 room house. E. r. Forrest, 1925
Seventeenth street.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-24

7. o. i,
ROCK ISLAND AERlE NO. o56. FRATERr
nal Order Of Eagles.--Reguaf meetings
first and third Tuesday OF exch month
at Eagles homs. Fourth avenue and
Twenty first street. Frank Wien. W. H.;
Joseph GTotegut. secretary.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-24

A T T Z N~1ON MKS |
Rock Island Lo6go,
No. $50, b. p. O. z
Meetings first and third
Mondays Of each monSh.
DAN z. BRENNAN.
Exalted Ruler.
c. N. Isaacson, secretary.
Club J oms: lis 18th 81,
Visiting brothers always
welcome.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-24
FOR SALE.

$40 Robinson building.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-08-24

I NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
BY HOUSEKEEPER. MIDDLE AGED
lady with l0-yea<old con; references.
Address r" care Argus.
~ CLERK AFTER SCHOOL AND SAT-
wdays BY young man attending Angus
lama. Address Clerk" care Argus.
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

participants dispensing to their homes. Is a
part of it. Fifth Avenue may be bleak and
deserted; and still the glory of football rests
over II for feeting hour. A girl in furs
alighting from that roadster blooms in the
frosty air and vanishes. Manhattan wins.
LIFE IN A GREAT CITY.
Mrs. Williams said to Mr. Williams:
"Let as 90 to the grand opera tonight
Aud Mr.. Williams rent Nth Mrs. Williams
Although he toould rather haze pent to a
prise fight.
They met several friends OF Mrs Witidmss
after the performance
Who said they toere simply cTdsy about the
music;
But tChen IL come time to pay the supper check
They sidestopped Ia iody that ioouId haze
made you STICK;
Mr.. Williams he paid IL and they rode homo
IN silence,
And there Mrs. Williams stepped OF a ba-
nana's toreok:
And Mr.. Williams spoke up for the first time,
saying:
BE careful, dearest. or you moy not break
pour neck"
AZ have heard that story before" said Mrs.
Williams
What II you haUeP her faithful husband re-
piled,
"Jfr. Voistead Is the savior Of his country.
But nobody l0iH believe u thl after he has
died"
r TAVING had your circenses, will you
II order your turkey? Probably not
In a city in which $4,000 new apart
ment houses, with rooms for 200 900 families
have been built in the last ten years, while
only 250 private residences were built i'm
the same length of time, there is not much
The New York herald., 1920-11-21
We Die Fast, Though Mortality Tables Are Low
Increased Deaths Among Those Beyond Age of More Than
Offset by Number Infants Saved Native Stock Stronger
Than the Foreign Born

tistics that toward midchannel our popula-
ton are going down into the maelstrom Of
degenerative disease.
The resumption of immigration on the
scale which obtained in the days before the
war is causing the economists to sound a
new note OF alarm, for 1t is expected that the
mortality beyond twoscore will take another
upward slant.
This takes into the consideration, too, the
fact that the year which is so near its close
is considered by experts as being the best
from health point of view of any in the
history Of the United States The immi-
grants from the other side have been coming
in scant numbers for the last two or three
years, and the economic condition of the
working classes is better than it has been
for many decade. High wages have made
il possible for them TO buy more and richer
food, and thus to decrease the mortality
among children and to add somewhat to the
longevity Of men ana women nearing middle
age.
!, significant example of the downward
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

In the opinion of Dr. Dublin, the cause of
the deaths of many of the foreign born in
this country at middle age is due to defective
personal hygiene and to their inability to
Withstand the conditions which are forced
upon them by our civilization. He thus makes
a distinction between the real mortality,
which he considers that of the native stock
and that which is due to the influx Of aliens,
who are not injured to our method of living.
In view of the differences of opinion
among the statsticans, they are waiting
Gently completed census. which may be COM
pared with those deduced from the census
of decade ago.
Enough facts are in evidence, though"
says DR.. Dublin, ito warrant the conclusion
that the changing constitution of the race
stock is responsible for the slight increase
in mortality which has occurred. 1t is per-
fectly true that the marked decreases in
mortality which are characteristic of the
earlier ages of life do not continue after
forty-fve Nor would they be expected to
be in the circumstances.
Immortality is not one of our character
istics. Persons who do not die from the
infectious diseases and accidents at the
earlier ages will necessarily come to death
at the advanced ages"
DIR. Dublin also calls attention to certain
technical changes in statistical practice. He
maintains that there is no evidence to show
at present that the conditions of life in
America are increasing the mortality rate
at the productive ages.
1t is noted that the death rates among the
foreign born represent many variations
Very low rates, for instance are found
among the Russians. due largely to the fact
that many Jews are found among them.
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Happened while we were there" can keep
her audience only until the woman who was
there in March arrives.
"Ah, my dear. but they weren't doing that
when 1 there They were doing this! 4"
And she proceeds to electrify the audience
anew.
TT is only when you begin to compare
the "reminiscences of one generation of
Manhattanites with those of another
that you begin to see that these changes
are truly of the surface. The good old fell
lows of forty years ago remember only
their jolly dinners at Martins, off Madison
Square; their spiritual descendants of to-
day pass the site and see only an office
building; but their talk of parties uptown
is strangely in the same key. The bohe-
mans OF forty years ago, painters and poets
and sculptors had their hilarious nights i'm
Greenwich Village before single door had
been painted purple or green; they snort
in digust at the Imitation" artists who in
fest their beloved haunts to-day; and yet
there are lads of genius there to-day, in
spite of the odsters, who will tell you of
honest revels of their own in tones that
sound astonishingly like their forerunners'.
THE delectable mystery, the perennial
youthfuness of New York is due
above all else to the daily arrival
Of the Boy from the Small Town. The town
was created for him. and for him alone.
Just as London was created for Dick Whit
tington. Those who have been i'm Manhattan
longer than one day may delude themselves
with the belief that the reason for their
existence is in their own enjoyment of the
city's feast but they are mistaken. They
exist merely to provide background for the
Boy from the Small Town.
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

The Italians follow next with exceptionally
low rates of mortality.
"The remaining races" TO quote from the
study made of the New York State popula-
ton, may be arranged roughly in the fol-
lowing increasing order of mortality: Aus
tro-Hungarans British, Germans and Irish
The very high rate of mortality among the
Germans, and especially among the Irish, is
surprising. Apparently it is the very high
incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis that Is
largely responsible for this condition, al
though the degene atve diseases also pre-
sent rates much in excess of those for the
native born of native jarentage or for the
same nationalities abroad
Unnecessary Deaths Indicate
Need of Special Health Work
These facts very clearly indicative Of
the unfavorable conditions of life and work
among the peoples in question. and point
definitely to the need of special health work
by the State and various city departments of
health for these groups of the population
The large number of Unnecessary deaths
would readily be prevented by a concerted
effort carried over a period of years"
For the average man and woman, no mat
Ter of what race or of what station in life
the lesson to be drawn from the present
agitation concerning the fate of the human
barks in midchannel is that watch an
guard should be kept closely on slight dis
orders ano that regular examinations of
ones physical condition will result in pro-
longing our stay on earth before degenera-
tive disease gets hold upon the system
1t is confidently believed that saner and
better methods of living and the reduction of
pressure will eventually result in strengthen
ing the weak places in the armor of Amer
ican life.
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

and tobacco are held to be responsible for
the falling off of the American population in
middle life.
The theory of DR.. Dublin, which has been
attracting much attention lately. especially
in view of the returning of the tide of mmi-
grafton, is far removed from the views of
the institute. He finds that as matter of
fact the men and women of this country who
spring from the original stock are living as
long as did their ancestors, or even longer,
and that the deaths at middle age are those
of the men and women of the foreign strain.
For all that, the old native stock is not
reproducing itself. The families of eight or
ten or twelve children which obtained when
the land Of the free was young are no longer
seen. American families have one or two
children more likely. and many of them are
running out on the male line
The shorter lived foreign stock is crowding
them out, for although its stamina is less,
apparently, its offspring are far more numer-
Gus.
The New York herald., 1920-11-21
By JOHN WALKER HARRINGTON.

w rIDER and darker grows the black
A barrier on which so many who
dwell in these United States fall at
the age Of forty-fve years. 1t would be to
bid us dwell in a FOOLS Paradise to take
heart of grace of the encouraging statistics
which show that the span of life is ever
engthening. The longevity tables of the
insurance companies are reassuring enough,
Tor if we go back TO the days before the civil
war We shall find thirty or thrty-five years
spoken of as an average life, while in this
year. 1920, fortyfive is considered nearer TO
the appointed age which mankind may
reach
The increase of American longevity, more
apparent than actual. is due to the valiant
war which has been made for the last twenty
years upon the diseases Of children. Millions
of young lives have been saved at the lower
end of the register, and the figures of the
total have risen apace. The casual observer
of our manner of living finds, despite sta
The New York herald., 1920-11-21
By SAMUEL Mccoy.
HER NAME AND ADDRESS.


- EORGE came into our club in Forty
fourth street last night in state of
- evident elation. His eyes were shin
ing and he did a little dance step while the
hallboy was checking his hat and coat. "a
woman, of course we said. "Or have you
got something out OF storage7"
Right the first time!" said George, airily
and with smirk. George is usually in need
of considerable urging before he will loosen
up about his amours, and, finding him in
this expansive mood. we asked him with
directness:
who is she?"
Woman have been mad over for years" ="
said George. Young; so wealthy that you
wouldn't believe it If told you just how
wealthy. And fascinating? oh, boy!'
George blew kisses into the air and made
other asinine gestures signifying. we were
meant to believe, his complete infatuation
and subsection.
"of course. Of course!" we said But
what's her name?"
George looked at us soberly.
New York" said he.
while we stared at him. Man
haitian. Borough bounded by the
East North and Harlem rivers only town
in America that instead Of one Main street
has two; the real city OF the Ephesians; the
only city ruled exclusively by testers the
only village that maintains another village
a mile square. within its borders TO be
taken before retiring; babies cry for it"
We checked him or he might have run on
indefinitely. Yes" we said, I'VE know YOU
commute from Connecticut. but why this
sudden rush cf brains TO tho head?"
THE FIRST YEAR"
(At The Little Theatre
There ~ man IN our torn
And he u tcondrous tctse;
ne noes 10 see "Thc First Year"
Ana laughs unW ~ cries
Ind rhen ne finds his toifc Is zone.
Wih al his might ard main
ne jumps back 70 "7ho FIRST Year
And finds her there again
"HEARTBREAK HOUSE"
(At the GarrickJ
Break break break
Al our miEed-up lUe, oh Shato!
ind oh, the thoughts vou BiOht utter
n they Werent against the iowi
ENTER MADAME"
rat the FuitonJ
said Tony to Casey,
"Dees GildG VdreS,
She gotta da poonoh,
she beatd dd boonohw
Said Casey 10 Tony,
"shc's the Thoroughbred porf
she's oinucr that's oisy,
This Giidd Vorcsi"
1T UNCHED with Ny Publisher =.
day." said George. George pre-
- tends h T. an suthor) Wants
me 20 explain Vuy p,cilc viii marry Man
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He arrived this morning just as he arrived
yesterday morning. He will walk down
Broadway tonight and stare at the blaze of
lights and contrast the illumination with the
darkness in his own home town. "And on
Sunday night tool" he reflects in awe.
THUS he arrives on one Main street.
If he sees it first by daylight, he will
perceive that it is filled with many
indisputably tawdry. unhealthy. or even
vicious looking human beings, cheaply
dressed in mind and body, who are milling
restlessly about beneath buildings not much
bigger and certainly seldom more beautiful
than those of his native Main street Indeed
except for its greater length and greater
population there is little to distinguish this
street superfcialy from any other pro
vincial Main street.
ON THE FIFTH AVENUE BUS.
One couple:
"Sdy. les 90 to thu movies to-nightr
"You said sump'a then, yuh big dedri"
"They's a reel Of this Carpenter fight
Say, les 90 to the moUios to-HiOhtP
"Meecha at 8. huhP Albright,
Here's thu Plasa, I'm OottiR of here"
Another couple:
"Sdy, les 90 10 TIM n,ouios to-niohtP"
You said Sump'R then. Duh big dedri"
Precisely this claim is made in the new
novel. "Man Street" by Sinclair Lewis "Iis
contention is that in this age of standardiza-
ton-of Fords, movies. syndlcated newspaper
features national brands of rcadymade
clothes and readymade ideas-all our Main
streets are becoming amazingly and peril
ously alike"
But the Boy from the Small Town knows
instinctvcy that New York has q Main
street that is unlike all other others. and
that II is neither Broadway nor Fifth avenue.
AT COLUMBUS CIRCLE.
" We're mp IN WdshMton Heights
Cdnchor drop mp there. Boneyr"
My husband STAYS home, nights"
SAY, amt them actors Jriohtsr"
"I7i say hcy sure look funny"
We're up in WoshHtoH Heights"
lvotchcr pay for Icctric H0hfsf
rs aWJW hoio IN money!
my husband stays home, nights"
AIM she q scream ft tights''
"ruh like Fdtty's much as Bunnyp
we're up IN Wdshmton Heights"
"A icile aint not no ri0htsi"
"DoHchd get fresh Hot0 sonnUP
"Hy husband stays home, nights"
Him m me nevor fOhts"
"Shc gets her dHDunHUf"
We're up IN Wdshn'ton Heights
MY husband STAYS home, nights"
The probabilities are that after one brict
glance of curiosity he will dismiss Broadway
altogether. except upon evenings when he
visits that brief and brightly lighted section
of It to sec new play The Main street
that he looks for in New York-and which
he will most surely find IL he works hard
enough. or. i'm other words. II he wants n
badly enough--is the one street that doesn't
exist in any other American city. II CON
sists in wholly feminine provocativeness.
alluremcnt and changeableness.
The New York herald., 1920-11-21
What Race Stock Inquiry
Shows in Two Great States

The special Investigations Of race stocks
in New York and in Pennsylvania recently
made by DIR. Dublin and his associate, Glad
den w. Baker, show that the newcomers in
those States are lacking in the stamina
which is peculiar to the native born.
Thus it develops that the foreign born, as
a class, show the higher mortality that the
children of natives and of aliens show
greater vitality, while the old stock still
maintains the high level for stamina The
curve of the lives of men and women and
children can be plotted with nicely according
to the returns obtained by a study of the
two States undertaken by the experts.
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

trend OF mortality of all ages is shown by
recent reports of the industrial department
of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Com
pariy. which has on it's books so many of the
new rich working classes. The claims paid
during specified months of 1918, 1919 and
1920, as shown by the charts prepared undei
the supervision of Dr. Louis I. Dublin,
statistician of the company, show that in
this year of 1920 there was a steady drop
in mortality as evidenced by the number of
death claims paid to each thousand of the
policies in force. This desirable decline in
mortality has been due to a large extent to
the decrease in deaths from tuberculosis,
influenza and pneumonia
Reduct ion of Tubercular Deaths
Shown in Hospital Vacancies
One of the most important developments
in the health history of the American people
has been the cutting down Of tuberculosis
cases, for even now there is q distinct effort
made to fill up hospitals for the treatment
of the white plague, instead of their being
overcrowded, as was the case in previous
years. The high rates in tuberculosis which
have prevailed in the industries have shown
a decline which Is attributed to better diet
and to less strain from the burdens of life.
The many deaths beyond the age of forty
five, however, whatever may be said of gen.
eral conditions, are still factors which must
be reckoned with in considering the real
status of the people dwelling in the United
States. AS to the exact causes and the
Interpretation of these unfavorable condi-
tions there are two distinct schools of
thought.
On the one hand DR.. Eugene Lyman Fisk
medical director of the Life Extension In
stitute, ascribes the deaths within five years
Of the meridian of life as due to the great
strain and pressure of civilization.
THE fact that in the United States" he
writes in his book How to Live" "the death
rate has steadily fallen for several decades
a phenomenon common to all civilized coun-
tries, is accepted by many as a steady gain
in the national vitality. That there has been
a gain in vitality in the younger age groups
is unquestionably true. but this gain has
served to mask loss in vitality at the older
age periods
This rising mortality in elderly life is
something almost peculiar to the United
States. Whether or not there Is one prin-
cipal cause which determines the unfavor-
able trend of mortality in this country as
compared with other civilized countries has
not been conclusively shown"
The proponents OF the first theory believe
that the high mortality In middle age is due
to the prevalence of those progressive dis
eases of heart, blood vessels and kidneys,
which chiefly affect those in middle life and
In old age Thus heart maladies hardening
of the arteries, nervous disorders Bright's
disease and all such Ills which are ascribed
to overwork, undue Indulgence in alcohol
The New York herald., 1920-11-21
The Most Beautiful Woman In the World and Most Fascinating

haitian Said he was tired of puzzling over
why New York gives him that ow-to-be-
gle-though-married feeling. Said he had
heard gossip linking my name with that of
Manhattan and thought that 1t was up to
me to make her an honest city. d. Fact
is, like all native New Workers., l was born
in the United States. Assured him that
it was purely patonic on my part and that
as far as she was concerned she didn't know
/ was living. But We signed up, anyway.
It's to take place somewhere in America,
before the 5th of July
And this is why you're going on the
witness stand?"
Yes said George, with a misty tender
ness stealing into his large brown eyes and
speaking in a voice choked with emotion and
Dreaded veal chop. "She Is the most beauti
full woman in the world and, If you ask me,
1 say, I'd like to give her anything her little
heart desires"
HOIvE us bread and games!" cried
the people of ancient Rome.
Manhattan, never more beautiful
than on the day OF great football game.
echoes the roar. on no other day does she
mass together, upon a like scale her wealth
of motor cars. fur coats. voets. orange
chrysanthemums roses and priceless de-
butantes. On such day the scene may be
laid in New Haven, Princeton or Cambridge,
but the scenery is always by Manhattan,
Inc. 1t is the years high water mark. The
horse show and the horseshoe circle at the
opera, synonyms for magnificence under
roof, are of course pygmy affairs in COM
parison with this spectacle. Although a
stadium and its 10000 massed spectators
are it's core, yet IL really extends along a
fifty mile front To-day. with its hoarse
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

chance for the old fashioned THANKSGIVING
Half of New YorlS's population observes for
eign traditions which do not include turkey;
half OF the remainder can't afford turkey;
half OF that remainder will eat dinner in
restaurants, and the slim rest will eat
Thanksgiving dinner in a fiat. Those of
them who remember the years and the towns
in which they, like every one else, had a
whole house to themselves and that house
filled from cellar to attic with the cousins
on hand to eat Thanksgiving dinner, may
think the observance of such an old fash
Toned holiday TO be merely an empty shell; ;
and it is true that such a time hallowed
festival has nothing TO do with the super
fetal side of ew York life.
THIS is why all pictures of New York
must be pictures of New York's sur
face. There is nothing TO be gained
by attempting a picture Of the towns life
beneath the surface. 1t is only disconcert-
ing to tell the young man who has fallen in
love with an actress that she is really
devoted mother who likes 20 cook He
knows plenty of girls like that in his own
home town; he came to New York to see
something different. The spectator demands
that he shall be shown those things i'm which
New York differs from other towns. not
those in which she resembles them. And
these differences are surface differences only.
The fascination of New York does not
consist in its surface, however. but i'm the
fact that its surface is constantly changing
The newcomer is naturally convinced that
the things which were presented to his gaze
have never been presented to any one else.
This is the secret Of the successful mis-
tress. The woman who returns home i'm
February to say that such and such a thing
The New York herald., 1920-11-21

He arrived this morning, just as he arrived
yesterday morning. He will walk down
Broadway tonight and stare at the blaze of
lights and contrast the illumination with the
darkness in his own home town. And on
Sunday night tool" he reflects in awe.