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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03

Wool serge for MILDLY skirts, Sc
inches wide, navy blue, attractively
priced, yard Csc
Worsted plaids for MILDLY skirts in
colors of red, blue and brown, 40
inches wide, yard LIS
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
TUESDAY THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS NAY !. 1871

I. II avards vill b maAe . sooa
afts9 TIT dafe - possible. lnf0F-
nation On TIE ceotoot viii - given
out through The local order.
Fort Armstrong lodge this week
it, headquarters above
the Illinois theatre, and will hare
after mast It the Odd Fellows hall.
Meetin4s VIM b held each Friday
evening in the nsv location. Frf
day OVsaing of tbs week . class Of
. dos0 ssQ1irsg vii b conferred
70 he rank Of Knights.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
CHILDREN WILL
ENTER CONTEST
KnigAh = PytAlas u seeGs Urge
eeAeel RsD0s = Wr1te -
AnaESsan C1llBonsAip.

Doek le1nnd school cAtldran IN
Or IL go Il Is years viii take
part n he stafs essay contest ON
"Ameeiean Cltissnship" conducted
By tie Knights Of Pythias Of nli-
nois. Through the Fort Armstrong
lodge IN this city. IL school chill
drea Of Rock Island are urged to
enter the contest thres prises to b
AWARDED the v1n1srA . gold, silver
and brun1e medal.
Tho eoeays are 70 b written and
in the once Of Al Douglaa, grand
keeper Of records and seals.
Knights o( Pythias, 1t Chicago, July
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
Boy Scout News

Troop No. 2 at Oak Grove chapel
IL planning a "jitney" show Friday
evening and the committee in
charge plans to make 1t a big affair
In that 1t is hoping that parents of
every scout member of the troop
will attend. The show will start
promptly at 1880 and will be held in
the basement The charge will be
one "jitney" at each booth visited
And some startling performances
are promised for that small charge.
Scouts Kenneth Hartman, Adelbert
Keeley and Leslie Schearer are the
committee In charge.
Troop No. I will meet in the
Broadway church this evening with
Scoutmaster George Schneider and
Douglas Seaver, assistant. This
troop hiked to the country last week,
Tho scout band held one Of the
best rehearsals Of the year last
evening in Legion hall. Several
members Of the boys work COM
mittee Of the Rotary club we're pres
emit. At the next meeting Of the
band q manager will be elected and
IT. ahairs will be handled by the
manager. the director and the scout
executive.
Troop "a 10 after one Of the
places In the inter-troop efficien:y
contest and every scout OF this
troop ID urged to be out at troop
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03

d. Hi Bradford, coz Eighteenth
street, Mrs. D. E. Scholl, Negus
fats; Miss Julia Barnes, zoos Sew
enteanth street, al Of Rock Island:
ll0 Nellie Barker, Syracuse, N. T.,
and Mis- Mabel Colbert will be
members Of q party organized BY
Mis- Fannie Divers. 1134 Twelfth
skrest for tour Of Europe beginning
July 1.
Tho tourists VIII 90 to Montreal
where they will sail on the steamer
'lelita."
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
Dorothy Dalton's
Beauty Chat

Mis- Dorothy Dalton. shs scssess
famous the world over for her beautiful
complexion. sAys: ANY girl or woman
can have . beautiful. rosy-whise complex
Ion and smooth unwrinkled akin Ike mine
u they will follow my advtcs and Ne
Dervtlio. . simple toilet preparssioo
uss II because II tmcarts instant besuty, 10
easy 70 apply. absolutely harmless and has
. marvellous effect upon the akin One
application proves It." Be sure 70 read
Nise Dalton's interesting seory Of how 10
quickly acquire . beautiful complexion.
econ to appear in this paper. In the
meantime get Derwillo at any toilet coun-
fully ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03

Scoutmaster Jack Wil1laD0 aAd
his two assistant sooutmasteeD.
Gustav Peterson and Charles
Boehme, Jr., are planning some big
surprises for their troop and - r.
suit members Of this troop ore
keenly interested in coming ont 70
every meeting. This troop msses
every Tuesday evening" q 7:3o.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
PULL DOWN THE BLINDS
By DR.. Frank Crane

The newspapers for the past weeks, since
the war; the bolsheviks and the strikers have
had their turn and quit, or paused for breath,
have been saturated with scandal in high
life.
Far be It from us to pass as arbiter morum
upon the guilt or rectitude of any of these
parties. That we shall leave 70 their God.
their conscience and their female friends.
The public has nothing to do with our
morals, and e. everything to do with our de-
cency.
Wrong may be most foul and ruinous to
the soul but it remains a matter for the jul
6ication of Il higher court than any on earth,
until it is found out.
Hence, against the cu1pability of these va
rious contestants public opinion has nothing
to say, but against their airing all manner
of indiscretions it has something to say.
Responsibility is not a bad sort of thing.
1t has it's uses. 1t enables people to get
along. 1t is not necessarily hypocrisy.
1t may cover a multitude of sins, but as
most of us that have reached the age of
temptation have more or less things we do
not care to discuss in loud voice in the
street car, responsibility comes quite handy
as a mOdus vivendt.
Il. means. indeed, the rules of the game.
And unless you keep the rules there can be
no game.
knight diagonally as he should move the
bishop, you simply ca1not play chess with
him.
Rules are necessary were group of peo-
pie are expected to live close together and
carry on complicated activities. Without the
responsibilities W. coulo have no city.
There are WI -ng a man better bear II 81
Ience than redress in public.
Particularly is this the case when one is
high in society. For social rank has it's re-
sponsibilities and anon" them is a duty not
to offend by doing the family wash in the
front yard.
Society is not moral. 1t is not immoral
1t is respectable 1t is fabric of decencies,
not of righteousness. And one who kicks
that fabric to pieces automatically kicks him
self out.
You may beat your wife, and it may be
none of the 0ublic's business, but it becomes
the public's business when you don't pull
down the blinds.
Copyright. 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
THE PROBLEM OF EVIL
By H. Addington Bruce

NUMEROUS people needlessly torment
" themselves with the question, "Why is
evil in the world?" They feel it is
question which simply must be answered sat
iSfactorly in order to vindicate the right
eouSneSS of God.
Some essay an answer that evil exists
to enable us to win good. Others insist that
evil is necessity, if only to enable us to rec
ognize good We could not know good they
hold if we were not aware of evil.
But not few unfortunateS obviously dc
not win good through evil. And some though
patiently aware of evil, seem never to attain
any clear conception of good. The presence
of such human types is itself an evil challeng-
ing explanation.
All of which has led certain deSpairing ones
or 1ooSe-thinking onsS-to deny that evil
really exists at all. Nothing is evil except
you think it So" Yet is not the very ability
to think evil and by thinking to create evil
is not this an evil that really exists?
AS matter of fact the more earnestly we
endeavor to solve the problem of evil, the
more we are driven to feel with George
Santayana, not merely that it is an insolube
problem, but one that we have no business to
attempt to solve.
Listen to Santayana as he has recently ex-
pressed himself in a book, "Character and
Opinion in the United States" that deserves
occasional abstruseness that makes it uncom-
monty hard reading in spots:
"The question why it is right that there
should be any evil is perverSe and raised by
false preSumptionS. To an unSophiStcated NOR
tai the existence of evil presents a task, never
problem.
evil like error, is inevitable in
crowded and unsettled world, where one. Spon-
taneous movement is likely to thwart another
and all run up against material impoSsibilitieS
''While life lasts this task is recurrent, and
every creature, in proportion to the vitality
and integrity of his nature, strives to remove
or abate those evils of which he is sensible.
"When the case is urgent and he is helpless
he will cry out for divine aid; and Gf he does
not perish frst) he will soon see this aid COM
ing to him through some shift in the circunn-
stances that renders his situation endurable."
And to state precisely what Santayans
terms the task of morals:
"To subdue nature as far as possible to the
uses of the soul, by whatever agencies, mate
rial or spiritual, may be at hand; and when a
limit is reached in this direction, to harden
and cauterize the heart in the face of inevita-
BILE evils, opening it wide at the same time to
every sweet influence that may descend from
heaven"
Not to philoSophize about evil, but to COM
bat it to the utmost of ones power-that is
the dictate alike of true piety and of common
sense. Happy are those who can unquestion-
ingly accept evil or part of the divine purpose,
and human struggle against evil as part OF
divine purpose, too.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
But Remember the Man.

~ CARCITY of jobs in cities has at least
the compensation of tending to relieve
the scarcity of workers on farms. En-
ployment bureaus report q plentitude of
agricultural labor in the grain regions of
the West, where few seasons ago the short
age of hands came near proving ruinous to
many growers and also in most parts of the
East. kansas farmers" runs a dispatch,
ARE demanding experienced men, after wor-
rying along for several years with any sort
of labor that presented ITSELF"
striking contrast is this to the time when
slip-shod adventures could dictate wages
and hours of work, confident of finding a
hard-pressed city industry that would meet
their terms if the planter would not. The
slackers and profiigates of that period are
now, many of them, reaping as they have
sown, and, let us hope, gathering wisdom
from the experience.
1t would g highly unfortunate, however,
if the present abundance should stife inter
est in plans for a general Improvement In
the working and living conditions of farm Ia
Dor. In the midst of the wartime shortage
such improvements became necessary as a
means of attracting and holding the efficient
worker They are not a witt less worth
while simply because the pressure has been
removed 1t always pays and 1t is always
right for employers of farm labor, as well
as others, to see to it so far as is practicable
that the worker fares we'll.
The humanitarian side of such matters
is too obvious for comment, and he economic
side alone would be argument enough. None
but fool would fail to look diligently after
the needs of machine that was half so
complex and valuable a pair of human
hands, governed by nerves and brain. Those
who fail to consider the human equation In
labor will be let behind, far behind, by their
wiser competitors.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
PRESS TALK IN GEORGIA
BY JACK PATTERSON
Sh ';nkage of Fortunes

Fortune is tickle dame and ill-gotten
gains do not always profit the beneficiary
for any great length of time. During the
world war and the ''period of reimbursement
profiteering flourished like green bay tree,
but, according to the Valdosta Times, the
tide seems to be changing Editor Brantley
makes the following truthful observation:
MANY who made immense fortunes dur
ing the war have suffered shrinkage of
their capital since decline in industry has
changed prosperity to the verge of calam-
ity Some lay their losses to the govern
ments method of taxation on incomes; but
it is safe to assume that money made easily
is not as closely guarded as thai which comes
slower and by hard work. Others more
thoughtful have sailed their profits and have
them laid away or invested where they will
return a good income; but to the masses the
war has been lesson in finance as we'll as
in frugality."
The Times is absolutely correct. Extrava-
gance and unnecessary expenditures are
largely responsible for the present shortage
of money. There is an old adage to the eff
feet that ga fool and his money soon part. "
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
Our Enemv, the FIJI
1HE fly, carrier of disease and deaf

THE fly, carrier of disease and death,
shortly will appear in our midst again,
and the annual battle against him
will begin. Screens swatters, syrupized pa
per and various other weapons will be en-
ployed against him, with varying degrees of
success. But the greatest weapon of all may
be directed right now-cleanliness.
Flies thrive on dirt. Trash piles are man.
sions to them; garbage cans Elysian fields;
stagnant water the finest of summer resorts.
Eliminate them and you have struck the fly
solar plexus blow before he has gotten well
started on his season of buzzing and breed
ing and germ dissemination.
French scientist declares that flies hate
the color blue. He advocates plenty of blue
paint and plenty of blue furnishings in the
household, on the theory, no doubt, that the
fly will become so Respondent he will wing
himself hence or perish in his tracks in sheer
melanchola 1t is probably true as we'll that
the fly hates the color red, provided it is
freshly applied, or the color green, if it be
the top of an ash can instead of the bottom
or the color purple if it be flowers where
filth used to flourish. Painting up and
cleaning up of any kind are calculated to
annoy the fly
giles weakly forth. Swat him later with swat
tiers and screens and paper but, if you want
to injure him in his weakest spot. swat him
in the environment that makes him-dirty
and insanitary conditions.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
Good Manners By Law
, in keeping with French tradition tt

II
the solons at Paris have enacted law
under which offenders against good
manners may be arrested, tried and upon
conviction sentenced, in the discretion of
the court, to fine or Imprisonment.
Applying to places of public entertainment
the new statute is probably designed, amongst
other purposes, to purge opera and concert
audiences of Doors who persist in talking
during a performance 1t provides a severe
penalty for such cases, we trust, and also
for the strewing of waste paper and trash in
parks.
Difficult or impossible as it may be to
1egislate good manners into folk-far more
difficult than to impart good morals by
law-the French procedure will at least
suppress number of nuisances Politeness
has been called "benevolence in the little
things Of life and truly there can be no
good manners save those which spring from
good willing; better honest churlishness than
hypocrtical Sinking. Still the business of
life demands certain amenities, and those too
uncouth to practice them voluntarily should
somehow be brought to both.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
what Do We Mean To Do?"
greatest public question Of

THE greatest public question Of the
time is phraseL by Woodrow Wilson
- with a succinctness and clarity not to
study and merely as an .merican citizen he
writes to the National emocratic Club, upon
the occasion of the Jefferson Day dinner:
Jefferson conceived it to be the mis-
sion and destiny of the Unitel States to
make it easier for men everywhere to at
tain liberty and the blessings Of genu-
inc self-govern-1ent and to render JUS
tice imperative in the dealings Of ma
lions and peoples with one another as
we'll as in the dealings of governments
with their wn subjects.
Do we? If We do, what do we mean to
do about it?
There have cen Presidential messages
thousand times long, but not thousandth
part as deep or pertinent as these few nome
striking lines. What do we me- to do
about it?" That is the question which every
merchant, every farmer, every manufacturer,
every taxpayer and citizen who observes and
thinks is asking today as he lool-J out upon
the tang1e and trouble and uncertainty of in
ternational affairs. Not until it is answered
and answered Alright will there be gertrude
and un. 4ammelled pros Gritty IN either this or
any other region of the world Makeshift
measures and half-handed adjustments may
help to degree, but they will not satisfy
the basal needs of business, because they can
not satisfy the deeper human sense Of JUS
tice and duty and honor.
'What do we mean to do about it?" The
country awaits, not in a critical but in an al
together weil-wishing spirit. the present Adj
ministratons's answer. But as yet there can
be only conjectures as to what its course
will be.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
OUIPS AND OUIDDITIES.

They were talking about love and poets
in truly platonic way and the converse
ton fingered on the poor pay of the poeti-
cal profession.
She was a pretty girl and she smiled
very bewitchingly as she remarked:
Il went to see a fortune teller yester-
day.
What did she tell you?' asked the
young man.
''The foolish woman must have thought
heiress,' she added
Why" said he.
Because" said the pretty girl, "she
prophesed that I'd marry poet and live
happily ever after!"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
A Be1ated Ab6ea1 to Neutra1s
THOUGH Secretary Hughes recent

= THOUGH Secretary Hughes recent
~ memorandum to Germany leaves no
loophole of doubt as to whom the
United States considers responsible for the
World War, publicsts and political leaders
at Perrin are still seeking answers that might
hold a modicum of comfort. Thus the Welt
Am Montag while insisting that Germany
establish a better basis for understanding
with the Allies "by carrying out promptly
and completely the disarmament and judg-
ing war criminals" urges hat the question
of original responsibility for the disaster OF
1914 be submitted to commission of neu-
trails. That paper points out i'll this connec-
ton that the League of Nations has formed
such commission, composed of Swiss.
Dutch and Scandinavian lawyers, which has
the right to demand all official documents,
whether thos O, the Central nations or of
the Entente, that throw light c. the genesis
of the conflict A decision from neutral ex-
perts with The complete evidence before
them, twill constitute really a legal judg-
ment from which there will be no appeal"
But the trouble is that the Leutral opin-
ion which a sobered and de-Prussianized
Germany now would make arbiter waG ruth
lessly over-ridden and flouted by the Ger
many of 1914 and the terrible years ensu-
ing England reluctant to enter the brew
ing struggle, sought to bring about amcable
negotiations, but CURLY pushed back.
America, the one great neutral left IL the
third year of the var, was repeatedly al
fronted and wronged until neutrality became
incompatible with honor and right. The fact
is neutral Judgment upon respons: bility for
the war was passed long ago. HohenZolern
Germany ate sour grapes and the teeth of
Republican Germany euge. The best
thing for all concerned. however, is to cease
worrying over responsibility for the past and
strive to plav a worthy part in the vital
present. The great problems of TODAY are
common to all countries and require liberal
co-workng if they are to be brought to a
happy issue.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
Green-Eyed Monster

Feminine jealousies have disrupted the
womens squad of the Kalamazoo police de-
partment Chief Taffe declared in announcing
he had requested the resignation of two po-
licewomen
Something had to be DONE" the Chief
wrote City Marager Harry Freeman. 1.-THE
women are supposed to work together, ire
spective of personalities, bit there has been
more or less friction for weeks, and co-opera-
ton has become impossible. Dismissal was
the only solution"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
REMARKABLE REMARKS

6E"HE more we understand of each
other, the less cause will there be
for friction" Baron Tanetaro
Megata, Japanese diplomat.
when anyone speaks i'll of me, that is all
right. 1t is only when one speaks good OF
me that 1 begin to worry" -Ex-Premier
Clemenceau of France.
Americans read fiction with complicated
plots and call it good. They read simple,
good books and reject them as 'high-brow. ."
Sinclair Lee. u.s., author of Main Street.
women have made good as jurors. -
Wilson Senseman, jury commissioner Of At
lantic county, n. ].
Socialism is fighting to destroy every
thing that the great prophets and leaders of
both parties have labored for generations to
upbuild. David Lloyd George.
blue Laws aust surely fall. Only the
gospel of Jesus Christ make the world
better. THE Rev. F. A. HertWig, Detroit
pastor.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
Handwriting by Wire

Herwood Peterson, chief engineer in the
government telegraph service, at Norway, has
invented wire and cable system by which it
is possible to transfer picture or message
in original handwriting over practically I'M
limited distance. The device publicly
tested at Christiana recently between two 900
mile points, and vas reported successful.
Contrary to the present telegraph system,
Mr.. Peterson uses an alternating electric cur
rent, allowing a strictly synchronous work
of the sending and the receiving apparatus,
a. higher speed and an enormous wing of OPP
Grating costs. T. system, it is claimed, also
makes it possible to transmit double the num-
Der of words compared with ar other tele-
graphic system now used, and it operates
automatically from the moment the telegram,
picture or drawing is received by the operator
until it is received at the place OF delivery.
No new wires or cables are necessary.
1.-The manuscript to be transferred is placed
on a metallic cylinder-somewhrt resembling
an original wax phonograph cylinder-cov-
cred with a Photographic Aim and exposed to
a strong arc light.
The manuscript is copied en- the cylinder
film, developed and chronographically etched
into the metal. The cylinder is then placed
on the sending apparatus, to which is trans
mtted an electric current going to the re-
ceiving apparatus. When the cylinder rotates
a needle moves on it, touching every point
on the cylinder. Whenever it touches the
copied letters of the manuscript it causes a
short circuit which is transmitted to the re-
ceiving apparatus with it's Photographic paper
on which the copy is reproduced.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
Well. We Won't

Never pose as a saint before your wife. No
woman likes to feel that she is hooked up
for life to a church STANDARDIZATION
Times.
1t might be a wise idea to not pose as
saint at any time unless one has the goods
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16
Find Lost $4,000

The $4,000 which disappeared from
safe at Hog Island on March 20, was found
hidden in a receptacle for waste paper, in a
hallway of an office building at the plant. 1t
was said thai only 25 ceits was missing.
Shipping Board Secret Service men declar-
ed the money must have been placed there
during the night The rum was to have been
used to pay off the few remaining Shipping
Board employees at Hog Island.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-04-16

Asked Tom-Jones is a great man to
worry over nothing. isn't he?
Answered Biil--Yes, if he took an ocean
voyage he would worry for fear the sea
would dry up and leave him stranded in
the mud.