The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-29

| When you know that at night you re pirate
An sweet little angel by day?
TaoTHER day, amer the Small town mr..
Levin was pfnched, the AssociaLed rIess car
ried a statement from him on its wires, then
killed it because his remarks were not priv
ileged', thereby preventing us from quoting
the finest assortment OF split inhninVes we
have seen in the prpverbial coons age
WE FEAR THE IDEA WOULDN'T WORK.
BECAUSE NO ONE EVER LOOKS
| AT THEIR FEET
Sir: Have you noticed the graceful man
ner in which certain Movie Fayorites (male)
hold an Aromatic cigaret? II not. pipe the
paddle and the pill.
| This seems to be directed to lady smokers
THE combination of name and sex attraction
AS the male of the species would no
more for Charlie Chaplin's other guys meth
DDS of holding cigaret than he would for
teething ring. -. However, the ad goes.
Now Why does not some resourceful ad
man depict Film Beauties feet decorated with
some reliable corn plaster? 1t seems they
are overlooking very patent way to give such
articles prominence.
SOLOMON PHFLE
THIS seems to be sort of tri-city affair:
G. w Moline of Davenport was arrested in
Rock Island for speeding. The story said
Moline was said to have been uaveilng TO-
wards Davenport at 30 miles an hour what
in your opinion, would have resulted had Mo-
line succeeded in reaching Davenport?
Now Listen. Crihcus; This'H Do No Good,
l. You Know. You're Outa Order, Sect
| La letter to the New York Tribune
| Sir: There three seeming tribes
that insidiously creep into our talk and
mar what would otherwise be good con-
| versatioE. They are see, listen" and
Why not leave out the see, and
thereby presume that the hearer COM
prehends what is being said? 1t is dis
| tincty uncompIimentary to his intelli-
| gence to ask a listener whether he un-
| derstands you
Why ask one to whom you are speak
ing to listen" to you? Give him al
least half the time for talking, then as
| sumo that he will hear you. Why say
listen" when talking over telephone?
Do you not know that the nearer at the
other end is there for that very purpose?
When relating circumstances or CIV
ing information, why say you know?
If the nearer knows, why tell him? If
you know he does not know, why say
| You know? These expressions imply
discourtesy and should be banished.
| The art of informing, entertaining
| and elevating discourse seems in some
measure to be lost Can we not help
to find it by correcting these faults If
| We have them? CRITlCUS-
| REMEMBER" says Miss Eve Unsen to
aspiring screen writers, that the more knock
ers you have the nearer you are to real
achievement Petty, prejudiced and ignorant
| criticisms are often only straws that show
the wind is blowing toward success. Envy,
while unpleasant sometimes, is always fiat
tering."
Now does that d'you suppose, apply to
colyum conductors? Should we regard our
forbidD envions? For if we should may
as we'll say right now that there is an alarm
ing number of ignorant, prejRdiced and en-
vious persons in this world
| The DeIirious Press Agent
TFrom the Monmouth CIl.) Atkas1
North Henderson, Especially = The
| heads OF the Fair Assn. wants every
body to know that provisions have been
| amply made for feeding the crowds fair
| day. Mrs. Annie Coffey will
| chicken-pie dinner and the Fire Assn
| has made arrangements to serve cafe
terra dinner the restaurant and numerous
| stands will assure everybody plenty to
| eat Mrs. A. p. Shaver has a fine as
sortment of Carnival hats belonging to
| the fair and all those who wish to boost
| it win buy and wear a hat All the de-
| partments have the promise of a large
| exhibit and now If the weather man Just
| faEors us it means a big day. Our
| County Red Cross Nurse Miss Noami Set
| terdahI viii be here that day in the in
| terest of her work and VIII be found in
| the W. c. T. u. Rest Room. Lets make
| this a Home coming day as well, and
meet our old friends and enjoy one more
day together. Welcome everybody.
post script about the fair arrangements
| were made Wednesday where by a dinner
VIII be served by the Fair Assn. in the
Shaver and White Garage. Also Wednes-
day night the famous Whangdoodle Band
was organized and will add much to the
run or the DAY
AT 5:15 p m yesterday The Gentleman
Who Cares for Country Circulation marked in
our office and violated the 3o-minute ranking
rule. He eFinced an unwholesome curiosity
concerning certain book mentioned in this
colyum some weeks ago, We with due re-
gard for his tender years. spent a valuable
IS minutes eniightening him thereon. For that
reason las Compositor Bill will note) the bal
ence of this colyum is written appropriately
enough, perhaps) by the media of passionate
purple ribbon and our blind, but faithful, Fox
at home.
WILL Mr- Fred Haskin, who is alleged to
answer more questions than any one man in
the United States, tell us why he credits the
famous London busman story to a New YorJx
newspaper man and New York busman?
AND while We are asking questions perhaps
Freddy can tell us the name of a kind-hearted
song publisher who will buy our Peggy Prue
OF Punxsutawney' song-music by w Noske
words by Mrs. R L T and US. generous
publisher must be recommended because the
royalties must be split three ways
DON MARQUIS is 10 conduct a colvum
for the New York Tribune. r. P A saws he
hasn't signed a contract with, the world-yet