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The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-03-25

Everybody speaks well of you-afte1 you are dead
The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-03-25

Yards get Uttered with junk, and minds with bunk.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
Friendship for Japan.

The secretary OF the Japanese embassy in
Washington is certainly correct in his state
ment that There is every reason to believe
that the American president and his staff are
all in favor of the maintenance of friendly rela-
lions between America and Japan"
The desire of every president of the United
States has been to maintain friendly relations
not only with Japan, but with every other
nation. 1t was the United States that brought
Japan out of her isolation and thus started the
movement which made her a world power. Jap
anese have been extended a cordial welcome to
our schools and colleges. In our commercial
relations we have dealt with Japan on terms
extended to the most favored nation.
In one particular have regretfully found
it necessary, in some of the states, to place
limitations upon the right of orientals to own
land or hold long-term leases. This has been
necessary because experience has shown that
American producers living according to stand
ards established by their ancestors cannot sue
cessfully compete with Japanese who live
cording to the standards to which they have
become accustomed.
We shall always rejoice over the prosperity
and happiness of the Japanese people and the
stability and success of the Japanese govern
ment, but in our solictude for the welfare OF
our reighbors across the Pacific we cannot
neglect the welfare of our own people. Japan
should not ask it
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
Marriage and the Stage.

Frederick Warde once American actor
among the stars of first magnitude, has just
celebrated his golden wedding anniversary.
When Booth Barrett, Mccullough and Mod
jeska were in their prime as tragedians Fred
erick Warde was their equal and co-star. By
some he is considered the best reader the stage
has produced.
In recent years Warde has done work in
the movies. He is an old man, but the
woman he married SO years ago has been
spared to enjoy that old age with him The
American stage has not been brilliant with the
domestic felicity Of its people. We have rather
condoned its laxities and attributed them to
temperament. What would be scandal in other
society has been overlooked as routine among
people of the mimic world.
1t is therefore refreshing from it's novelty
to read of the golden wedding of one who gave
such grace to tragedy and was such an intel
lectual ornament to the American stage.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
Admiral Sims Scores,

A report has been issued by the senate sub
committee on naval affairs thoroughly approx
ting the course of Admiral William s. Sims
during the war and rebuking the admtnistra-
ton for hardness in carrying out his recon-
mendations. 1t will be recalled that tempest
was stirred up when the admiral took former
Secretary Daniels to task for his alleged bunS-
ling in naval matters during days when effi-
cheney and cooperation between the department
and high executives was most essential.
The senate committee suggests that as
result of the Sims charges two commissions
be appointed one to study all questions devel-
oped before the committee having to do with
naval lessons of the war and make conhden-
tiaI report to the navy department, and the
other to consider reorganization of the navy
department and recommend to congress such
changes as seem advisable.
Thus does Admiral Sims, shortly after his
rebuke at the hands of the new secretary of
the navy for his London speech, come into
his own as navy officer whose record and
ability gain official approval after exhaustive
investigation.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
Will Benefit Baseball.

Baseball as a sport will be benefited by the
trial of the former members of the White Sox
team trial in Chicago on charges of con-
spiracy in connection with the throwing of the
world series to Cincinnati in 1919.
The evidence shows that the players were
tempted by gamblers who had made up stake
OF 100000 to be apportioned among those TAX
ing part in the plot to cause the defeat of the
White Sox team in the series. The world will
get all of the facts, and the moral effect will
be so impressive that it is doubtful if ever in
the future history of the game players will
dare to enter into any similar conspiracy.
Thus the game is assured of freedom from the
damaging influence of the gambler.
The accused players probably will not SUI
fer beyond the penalty they have already re-
ceived, for it is unlikely that the state will be
able to convict them of any crime. They are
forever banshed from professional baseball,
and stand in disgrace before the sporting
world That of itself is a more severe penalty
than a prison term for when criminal serves
his sentence he is given another chance to
become respected member OF society.
With the accused players it is different.
They had risen to the front rank in the base
ball profession, were earning excellent salaries,
and had a number of useful years before them
as baseball players. Their days on the dia-
rnond are at an end. No club would dare to
employ one of them. They would be hooted
from any field which they appeared. unless
they were able to obtain employment in some
locality where they were unknown and were
signed under assumed names.
Baseball has always been regarded as a
sport free of faint That is what has made it
Americas most popular pastime. There have
been instances in other years when there have
been limitations of crookedness, but the White
Sox case was the first wherein proof was OBJ
tanned to substantiate the charges. Thus the
lover Of baseball has reason to feel that the
White Sox deal was the first and will be the
last bit of crookedness in connection with base
ball playing.
Thus the game will be the gamer from the
Chicago trial The fate of the offenders will
always be before the eyes OF the young man
with ambitions to rise in the national sport,
and thus he will be impressed with the virtue
OF being honest with himself. with his employer
and with the public that pays to witness his
performances.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
INTERIOR DECORATION
BY BRRTON BRALEY.

Our house is full of pictures that the critics
wouldn't care for,
Our furniture is hodge-podge in design,
Our books we have collected with but little
why and wherefore,
And our rugs are pretty awful, I opine.
Still our stuff is stuff we're USED TO, we have
gathered it about US,
And We always somewhat miss it when we
roam;
What if artists sadly shudder and the deco
rators fout US,
Though our place is not artistic-it IS
Home.
We're indubitably lacking in a proper sense of
AS regards the kind of paper on the wall;
For the bedrooms should be brighter, and the
dining room much duller,
And that figured stuff looks funny In the
hall.
Yet it's old and it's familiar, and although we
know it's fearful.
It's a kind of joke that happily we share;
While admitting that it's awful-in a manner
very cheerful
We are really kind of glad to have it there!
So though decorators, seeing with a vision
unforgving
Think our domicile is bourgeois" at the
best,
There's Atmosphere about, there's an air
Of pleasant living
And Of comfort and OF happiness and rest
So when people say it's ugly. we confess and
say, What OF 1t?
It's the dearest place that stands upon the
loan.
1t is beautiful In SPIRIT. it's our own and 50
we love it;
For although it's inartistie-it is HOME!"
Copyright, 1921. by Newspaper Enterprise.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
old Todv TFsirf 0po

I am woman 81 years old. 1
am expecting to get married. Can
have children at my age and
would they be healthy? E. o. A.
Answer age so to age 40
woman is at her best physically.
The Candy Medicine
Please tell me the name of the
rhubarb medicine which you have
advised to take the place of castor
oil. MISS B. B.
Answer-Aromatic syrup of rhu-
barb. 1t was formerly called spic-
ed syrup of rhubarb. 1t is given
in the same doses and for the same
purposes as the irritating. nauseat-
ing and wholly unnecessary castor
oil. Children call this the candy
medicine. Some doctors still in
sist on castor oil, for the same rea-
son, fancy. that some young per
sons wear horn specs.
SlOughing a Porous Plaster.
Approaching your sound and en-
pertaining department, l want to
ask what is the best method of re-
moving a porous plaster from the
back after it has fulfilled its func-
ton. For many more years than
you are old I have resorted to the
oId-time scheme of holding my
breath, gritting my teeth and TAX
ing a firm hold upon something
substantial while a muscular friend
subjects the plaster to quick.
sharp pull. But this process is
more or less conducive to Scriptur-
al quotation unbecoming a gentle
man. 1 would like to know if there
is not a better way. H. P. A.
Soaking the plaster first
by hopping on oil of wintergreen
will diminish the agony. Or start
one corner loose. then keep wiping
the skin away from the plaster with
pledgets of absorbent cotton mois-
tened with gasoline. The only real
effect of such plaster is support,
a splint effect. The same effect is
produced by the application of or
binary zinc oxide adhesive plaster.
with less skin irritation. The por-
Gus plaster is a relic OF the grand
old days before the first bathtub
(Which was introduced into this
country in 1922 when belly bands.
chest protectors, kidney pads AMI
red flannel shirts were all the rage,
and cautious folks had their under
clothes sewed on for the winter.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
Making Others Happy.

Tonight neighbor, you'll crank up the bus
and take the wife and children out for cool
ing spin along the country roads. The chances
are you won't think about the tired-face little
neighbor woman whose husband isn't fortunate
enough to own an automobile and who sits on
her front porch close to your home night after
night, rocking her baby and trying to keep it
cool. Have you any idea how much she would
appreciate trip into the cool country with her
baby of these blistering nights? Just
drop over there tonight and invite her to ride
along with you. Get taste of the joy of
giving.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
The DAILY Short Story

seemed suddenly to attain the di-
mansions of a huge boulder
| Miss Miller" she found herself
saying, and experienced a throb of
happiness that almost took her
breath away, suppose someone
should offer you-enough money-to
take you there and back, and fur
nish you with the necessary friIls,
and even beautiful present for
| DeIIie-'
"Oh, my gracious" Miss Miller
| Topped into a chair with nervous
little laugh. II suppose it does
seem like joke, but Dellie you see
was a baby, and and" she was
crying quietly into a thin little lace
handkerchief.
"Joke--your grandmother" Avis
said roughly, but her voice held a
stified sob. She laid a tender hand
across the Quiyering shoulder. And
something in her heart sang.
"See," she pointed to the array of
dainty things upon the bed Some
of those 1 intended to give away
she f1bbed deliberately, and if you
won't accept the money for your
fare" tactfully, iii lend it to you,
until you're able to pay it back.
Here's this gray frock; now, gray
should be becoming to you, and
those gray suede pumps and stock
lngs; that darling hat and those
wells and gloves" she waved her
hand at the miscellaneous colIec-
ton. There's train at midnight"
Miss Miller was speechless.
You've two hours to pack and
get to the terminal" Avis reminded.
Miss Miller found herself being
escorted across the hall, the gray
suede pumps blutched in one thin
hand, the gray frock flung across a
shaky arm.
Miss Miller never could tell you
what really took place in the next
hour or SO. To be sure, she recol-
lected a feeling of exultation, but
detachedly; the i4npulsive kiss Miss
Avis planted on her trembling lips;
Miss Avis actually lifting her into
the taxi that was to start her to-
ward Dellie; the farewell wave,
with Miss Avis standing like some
kind Of fairy on the curb.
W A1c1lN DIG HtNSI hASh, nO"GNSt,
was that as soon as she was out of
sight, Avis few up the stairs to her
room and threw herself into chair
with a hysterical moan. She felt
trightfully old and alone.
"A home, sister-and a June
wedding-all for Miss Miller
fancy!" said Avis, to nobody in par
tlcular. and then her eyes fell on
the letter Miss Miller had brought
IN along with BELLIES. Deity she
broke the seal.
AVIS my love-" the letter ran.
we are leaving for Riverway Court
on FRIDAY. Uncle Mart and me.
Would you care to accompany us.
as you did four years ago? Well
come to the city after you Wednes-
day. And. oh, Avis, 1 almost forgot
70 tell you that that good-Iooking
Dee kennedy, whom YOU nIaved
those wonderful tennis matches
with that summer-rememh
has returned from service and is
going with us. 1t NAV Meas. va,
10 know (Avis drew long breath
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
Bronchitis from sinusitis.

Old Doctor Bunkem's almanacs
and that widely road biographical
work Letters of a Simp" have ia
uation of the. bronchial tubes and
the very profitable delusion that
these tubes are somehow suscepti-
BILE to all varieties OF season, eli
mate and weather But very few
people know what a sinus is. In
the first place it requires fair in
telligence to comprehend that there
is such a thing as a sinus in the
human body-and so DR.. Bunkem
never mentioned it In his almanacs.
Say what you will of the business
OF separating the sfmp from his
change by the facile process of sug-
costing a bunch of symptoms for
him and then giving him a fake
guarantees" to cure, there's no de-
nying that the Bunkem's know
their clientele.
In every case Of chronic or long
there is considerable expectoration
mornings, the first thing to do is
find out whether the trouble is tu-
berculosis-which can be determin-
ed only by careful, perhaps many
repeated examinations of the chest
with all clothing removed to the
waist. To await the finding of tu-
bercle bacilli in the sputum is to
procrastinate unwisely, for lung
tuberculosis should be diagnosed
long before the germs can be found
in a great many cases.
The next thing to do. If tubercu-
losis is positively excluded, is find
out the state Of the accessory sin
uses Of the nose. I am speaking
now of chronic bronchitis, long en-
during cough. There are four pairs
of sinuses or air-spaces in the skull
communicating with the nasal cav
ity and lined with mucous mem
brane like the lining of the nasal
cavity and subject to similar in
Examinations and infections of that
membrane. Any so-called head
cold which fails to clear I'D com
pletely within two weeks is prob
ably prolonged by a complicating
infection of one of these sinuses;
particularly when the attack is &C
companied by pronounced head
aches or neuralgia, or when there
is a periodic excessive nasal dis
charge in the course of the trouble.
Many French soldiers who were
supposed to have tuberculosis were
found, on careful examination, to
have cough and bronchitis from a
sinus infection. Most of them got
well soon after the sinus infection
was rem edied.
Children with trouble in the nose,
sinuses or adenoid region are pref
ty sure to have more or less cough
and are often unsuccessfully treat
ed for bronchitis without regard
for the real origin of the trouble
Every child with a persistent cough
should be given a careful nose and
throat examination and proper
treatment for abnormal conditions
found therein.
In some cases of chronic bron-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20

Though there are but few thousand lepers
In the United States. there are about a million
in the entire world. and the hope of cure for
a disease that has defed the science of the
ages is OF universal human concern. The wife
OF an army colonel, a victim of the dread
rnaIady. has gone to the national hospital in
Louisiana not with utter despair in her heart.
but in reasonable expectation of cure within
ave years. The active principle OF chaul-
moogra oil has yielded remarkable results in
cares at the deper colony in Hawaii. There
Is every reason to suppose that it will prove a
saIvatory remedy in the present instance.
Oh from the seeds of the East Indian tree
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20

before she continued greedily) that
he has asked for you any number of
times. He seems awfully interest
ed in your whereabouts, and acts
as if he were walking on pins and
needles until We hear from you.
suspicious. If / thought there
was any hope I'd encourage him.
Oh, do you know, dear he was real
peeved concerning that story about
his paying close attention to that
little French girl over there. Said
gruffly, he saw any amount of
pretty girls but-Isn't that like
Dee? Lovingly,
COUSIN LOLITA.
"P. S.-Uncle Mart saws I'm +o
forward the enclosed check. You
might need to purchase a few friIls
for the trip. Presume the city has
furnished plenty of thrills"
Avis smiled. Shed had one. any,
way. Miss Miller's pinched face
stared at her from the shadow re-
cess of the hall. Thrills an drills
some combination! And Avis
grinned like a girl in her teens.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
THRILLS AND FRILLS.
By Mary Power.
Copyright. 1921, by The Wheeler
Grrdinnfn Inn

! BY Mary Power.
| Copyright. 1921, by The Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
| Avis turned the leaves of the bril-
liantly illustrated booklets listless-
ly. The scenic glory of the noun
tains lured her, so did the sanded
beaches. But the prices-exorbi-
tapt- One must needs be a million
aire to put up at either place.
Anyway she would need a stunning
new wardrobe-she would go shop
ping Immediately Picking up a
smart little red straw turban, she
damned it down on her dusky hair.
She bowed coldly to the little
woman ledger she had passed on
the stairs. Miss Miller, with shy
timid smile, wished she was a
young and pretty as the other, as
she turned to watch Avis tripping
lightly over the dingy stairs. Miss
Miller couldn't have been day over
IS, although she looked so. Avis
herself was just turning so.
Dusk had settled when Avis re-
turned, her arms full of bundles,
the sides of her satchel bullying
alarmingly. She felt hot and irri-
table and she inelegantly kicked
the drab front door back into place.
Upstairs she dumped her bundles
onto the bed. Unlike most women,
her shopping expedition had held
for her no thrills.
There came a timid knock at the
door, the handle turned, and Miss
Miller entered shyly.
"Oh, Miss Burroughs. / want you
should read this letter from my sis
ter Dellie. Here's a letter for you,
too, came in my mail by mistake.
BELLIES goin to be a June bride"
she gasped. I'm all a-thrill. I sup
pose it sounds silly that l should
feel so queerly, only BELLIES the
only sister 1 ever had and the baby
of the family" She looked up sud-
denly, her face aglow, her tired eyes
sparkling.
Avis listened politely. Miss Mil
Ter was such bore. What did she
care about-June brides
IL haven't seen Dellie since she
was a baby. My mother died and
we were separated. I've kept track
of her, though. She wants l should
come and see her married" Miss
Miller's voice. shook a trifie. "Oh,
Miss Avis"
Avis looked her surprise. Senti-
ment in that drab little soul--of all
things! We'll, and why not?" she
said.
"Oh, my dear, it's out of the ques-
tion," Miss MilleE said in a shocked
voice. It'd cost heaps-she lives
out Kansas City way, and l couldn't
ever get enough money. I'd have to
sprig up a bit. even an old maid'd
want to frill up when she goes back
home for the first time in 20 years.
That awful sickness l had last fall
threw me out of work and-there's
the present, too; 'twould mean a
heap of money. i could write and
ask Dellie to send me the account
in the newspapers. her voice broke
Suddenly.
Avis felt funny little tug inside
of her. Something IN her throat
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20
OLD ROADS.

OLD ROAUS.
from The Coming Tower.1
IL YOU turn west from the sunken river,
And toll through the trees up the noun
tainside,
You will come upon traces Of old roads,
fashioned
By folk that long ago lived and died
Here are the stones of their leaf-choked sluice-
ways,
And here are the tracks that their wheels
have worn,
And the broken spans of their rotted bridges
Amid a tangle of weed and thorn
They wind on, these roads, past roof-trees
fallen;
90 Past cairnlike chimneys. forsaken and cold:
Past unpruned orchards where yet in August
The harvest apples hang out their gold
Where by these roads now the tireless fowler.
Seeking for grouse, through the thlcKees
may stray,
Men once went trudging with cumbrous
fintlocks,
Bound for a muster or training day.
Along these roads to the springtime sowing
With a whistle men strobe in days gone by;
Now the only music amid the stiffness
Is a hidden woodbird's griev1ng cry.
some one,
Cling lilacs in riot and matted grass;
There where the haymakers passed at
shutdown,
The shy, wild shapes of the forest pass.
G. S B.
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has been employed as specific by the natives
OF the orient before now. but DR.. j. T.
McDonald's discovery of q way OF using the es-
sential element has made the application OF me
extract possible INCA in which the oil itseii
gave excruciating pain to the patient FOR
merly. therefore, cure was an exception
Henceforth we may expect 1t to be the rule IL
is not too soon to chronicle an important step
toward another OF the memorable conouesls
OF modern medical science
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ill., ,1lIH TAI A8
BY WILLIAM l!=I !. Il BRADY f1D.

chitis and cough found to be de-
pendent on nasal sinus infections,
the patients declare they have had
no nasal discharge. no head pain
and no other symptom pointing to-
ward nasal trouble Yet discov-
cry of the sinus infection and it's
treatment brings relief.
Victims OF chronic bronchitis
need waste no time looking in bot
ties or boxes for a possible cure
Nor need they chase the will-o-the-
wisp climate, so far as any question
Of cure is concerned. But they do
need careful medical examination
and study to seek the origin of
their trouble
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20

are often enclosed by business
houses. Can these be redeemed tor
their stamp value? r. c. Il.
A. The post office department
says that postcards and envelopes
cannot be redeemed.
Q. Please tell me what is good
Tor Jigger bites? o. G. }.
a. Dissolve l ounce boracic acla
powder in 1 pint of boiling water
and bottle when cool. Use oBo
ounce of the mixture to one ounce
of tepid water in bathing the cars
eyes two or three times daily.
Q. What relation do the chanhsi
catfish and the blue catfish bear +"
each other? H. J. u
A. The bureau of fisheries says
that the channel catfish. the blue ca.
fish and the white catfish are all .1o
same. The names probably dlhe'
in the various sections OF the cou-
try.
Q. 1 have a blue spruce tree anu
wish to start several little
When should the slips be planter
J. v
A. The bureau of forestry 81!
that it Is not possible to grow Nv o.
spruce trees from slips. 1t IS -, ~
essary to buy young trees In IN
nurseries and plant them cary
the spring. ,
Q. Did the government IA
make three ard four dollar s
pieces? W. I. y,
A. The government made M N
dollar gold pieces for nuInog o.ss
years. No four-dollar gold plst
were ever made by the gOTernn'
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-20

Q. Can a man who has served a
prison term be naturalized?
". C.
A The naturalization bureau
states that aliens who have served
a term in prison must prove five
years good moral character after
their release before they can be-
come naturaliZed.
Q. l have an accumulation of
postcards and envelopes such as