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


Rock Islands extempofaneous
speaking squad lost the dual con-
test to Davenport last night. 101 to
s.. This il the first time that the
local high school has ever been in
such a contest.
The meet last night was a pre-
liminary contest before the Big
Eight annual extemporaneous meet
to be held in the Moline assembly
Friday.
Nell Elwell who took third in the
contest last night, was chosen to
represent Rock Island in the Big
Eight meet Friday. Otis Weise and
Eugene Carlquist, both Of Daven-
port, placed first and second.
The intra-city contest will prob.
ably be made an annual event.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
|ISTICE ASKS
That SUPPORT
Be ON MERITS
SA~,esp Dselarss for Campaign
lnthely Free frsn Political
Personalities.

soaking strictly from a nom
artisan point Of view. Justice
y,ovd Z. Thompson. candidate for
,..lection to the supreme court OF
Illinois. addressed a meeting Of his
supporters in the Rock Island
,ouse last night. The meeting was
allied by Chairman T. F. Sinnett
n the Rock Island county Demo-
ratio central committee.
,eclaring for a campaign free
INN, marty issues and above all
n,estioncble tactics. Justic Thomp-
son said in part:
avon have BEEN called together
a committee Of my friends VINO
arc interested in seeing me reflect
sd You are not here as the repre-
ser,at,yes Of partisan political
machine. laying plans to mlsle~i
,hs voters with false issues. II You
hsIieye in me and feel that my SER
virs of two years on the bench
instifies your making an active
iieht TO keep me there, then |
snail appreciate your earnest,
rholehearted support. ! want you
10 make the fight for me because
Won believe that can be OF ser
yice TO my state during the next
nine wears. If am elected | shall
be responsible TO no one but the
people.
whatever you do in my behalf
he certain that you contine your
activities to recommending me TO
your friends because OF my merits
and not because of the dement's OF
nv opponent. | don't want to hear
f A frieLd OF mine saying anything
derogatcry of the character of Mr..
Chiper,ie|d. | do not believe in that
STYLE of campaign and l will not
permit il in my behalf if | can
help it.
ION the other hand, the same
group that has always opposed me
in this county is manufacturing and
spreading falsehoods among the
people here for the sole purpose Of
deceiving them and driving them
to support a candidate they do moi
know. shall never believe thai
the people of this county who have
supported me three times in tho
past will respond to this vicious
drive anu desert me after nint
years Of public service among
them.
Il shall spend most of my timt
during this campaign making nea
acquaintances in other parts O
the district. I shall depend on m.
friends here at home to look afte
my interests in this county,"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
THEATRE COMPANY
GIVES UP CHARTER

The Rock Island Theatre COM
pany, proprietors Of the Majestic
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
Y MEN HEAR TALK
BY W. B. M'NTYRE

youth" was the subject OF a
talk by W. B. Mcintyre to the mem
bers of the Dormitory club last
evening at the Y. M. c. A. he
said, youth and the ownership Of
good, healthful bodies cannot re
exceeded by worldly riches and IL
we will stop and think we can
realize that we are all millionaires
and have an immense budget OF the
worlds goods that We can draw
from"
No regular meeting Of the Dorm
club will be held next Monday eve
ming as the annual meeting OF all
"Y" members will be held on that
night.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03

Herman Zude has purchases .
Paige touring car.
Floyd Kirchman visited IN tne
tri-cities Sunday.
Miss Amy Boden OF Rock Island
spent the last Of the week with her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Boden:
Mrs. Paul Bloom and family OF
Chicago returned home Monday
after brief visit at the A. r. Stein
home.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03

]. L. Marshall. 1908 Twelfth
street, for the last three and halt
years assistant advertising man
ager Of the Rock Island Pillow COM
pany has joined staff of the ]. A.
Snyder Advertising company OF
Chicago and will take up his new
work Monday. Mr.. Marshall has
been in the tri-city advertising field
eight years, beginning his work
with the Daily Union, later devot-
ing his time to special editions and
for a time was Young e. McCOmbs
advertising manager. Before join
ing the plow company he was ad-
vertising manager for kewanee
department store a year.
All the news all the time-The
Argus.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
ruEsDAY-THs ROCK ISLAND ARGUS s. 1921

. tain its headquarters 1t 711 Third
avenue, this city. holding services
each Sunday and meetings on
Thursday evening. Next Thursday
the topic will be -Beefsteak and
Liver"
/, Omcers Of the mission elected
since Its Reorganization are Rev.
Henry Baker. pastor; r. W. DON
away, treasurer and superintend-
ent and Harry McRae, secretary,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
fischer LEADS
SAXOPHONE BAND

Albert Hoelscher, former band d.
rector. member Of a Davenport the
atre orchestra, has been made di.
rector Of the Rock Island Elks' sax
ophone band. He has severed his
Davenport relations and after May
May II will devote his time to the
band. He plans to open a music
studio here.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
COLLEGE HONORED.

Jacksonville, III. May a-The
Illinois Woman's college here 10 to-
day one of the four Illinois colleges,
outside Of the three large univer-
sites, that has the honor of being
placed on the accredited list Of the
Association Of Collegiate Alumnae,
according to President Joseph r.
Harker.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
HOPSON TO BUILD.

Ohio L. Hopson will build a COL
onial home on Twentieth avenue and
Twenty-fourth street, to be known
as Seven Oaks lodge. Work will
begin at once and the residence fin
ished Sept. /. General contract has
been Jet to McInnis brothers. Deal
was handled through the B. F.
Mitchem agency.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
MATHERVILLE
(Special Correspondence

VSpeCIdI CUIIebpOuueuCe'J
Matherville, ILL.,. May 81. B.
Blain has sold his restaurant to
William Kennedy, having retired
from the business. Mr.. Kennedy
has already taken possession Of the
place
Fay Stanforth and Dave Pritch-
ard left here Monday for Peoria.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
GOSPEL WORKERS
REORGANIZE INTO
MISSION SOCIETY

Tho Army Gospel Workers. OF
America has given up its afnlia-
tons with the national organiza-
ton and has formed the Light
House Mission under the auspices
Of the First Baptist church of this
city. The mission will still main
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03

theatre. today certified to dlssolu-
ton Of the company which has been
absorbed by the Rosenneld, Hopp
4 Co., owners Of the Fort Arm
strong theatre.
Joseph Hopp was president Of the
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03
LIVESTOCK CONTEST.

Urbana. ILL.,. May "A state
amateur livestock judging contest,
open both to students OF the state
college OF agriculture and outsiders,
in which all the main classes Of
farm animals will be judged, will
be held here by the colleges hooi
and horn club, May Is and II.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-05-03

printers generally are
disposed to feel kindly to-
ward their high standard
of intelligence; that they
know more than the ordi-
nary trade unionist, but
lately they are growing
suspicious that this COM
forting feeling is not any
too we'll grounded" was
the statement made today
by H. S. Ransom, pres
ident of the Tri-City Man.
ufacturing Printers asso-
citation.
"They freely admit that
they are suspicious that the
radicals have chucked a
monkey wrench into the
works, and that they are
being separated into sheep
and goat sections. The
union printer who was or
dered to strike for a "A
hour week at S1.0O an hour
is not at all satisfied with
the present situation. And
the union printer who is
now permitted to work AZ
hours a week for 80 cents
an hour-while his brother
member is on strike for a
"A hour week and S1.00 an
hour-has a most ener-
getic kick coming. And
he insists and persists in
making a roar. And he
wonders if the suave bus
mess agent is taking pot
luck with the strikers, or
whether this is his harvest
time. AT the same time, -
said Mr.. Ransom in con-
clusion, lit must be ad-
mitted that the competing
commercial printers have
not displayed much evi-
dence of gumption in the
past. In fact, they have
been acting like a lot OF
boobs. They have not been
hitting on all six. Other
wise they would have been
shrewd enough to have
their offices classed as
private plants or 'one
man shops Then the
crafty business agent, and
the five cent socialistic
membership, would have
permitted him to operate
his plant, at this time, on q
48 hour basis at a wage
scale of 80 cents an hour
Some system-but it won't
work this time"
AAOA~kis~~nAA
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
Use Of Peat as Fuel.

Few have realized that peat might
replace coal and break to large ex-
tent the dependence of some of the
northern states upon distant coal
mines.
For several months a Minneapolis
company has been engaged in the prep
aration of peat for fuel, said to be the
only enterprise of it's kind in the coun-
try. machine has, been perfected that
digs, macerates and spreads out to dry
700 tons of wet peat in a day, or a
quantity sufficient to produce 100 tons
of dry fuel. That's how much peat
contracts in the drying process. One
man operates the machine.
During the summer the machine was
operated on bog near Minneapolis,
and peat, processed at the University
Of Minnesota, was burned with salts
factory results in Minneapolis Office
building.
A crusher plant, with a capacity of
800 tons of peat day, has been built
In Minneapolis during the winter to
produce powdered peat, and in the
spring ten peat digging machines are
to be started on the Minnesota boys.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
Delivering the Goods.

Edouard Belin, the inventor OF
photography by wire said at a din.
ner in New York:
"of course the transmission of
photographs by wire was thought out
before my time. But my predecessors,
though their theory was all right,
could not put it into practice. So
nothing much came of their work. for
an inventors hackers insist on the
prompt delivery of the goods.
"An inventor can't treat his back
ers as Whistler, the painter, treated
his sitters. One of Whistler's sitters.
you know, was in hurry to have her
portrait. Finally she said:
Now, Mr.. Whistler, you've been
at work on this portrait of mine a
very long time. When will 1t be fin
ished and delivered?"
Perhaps never, ma'am,' said
Whistler calmly"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
ECONOMY OF GOOD ROADS

The dollars=and-cents economy Of
good roads was Illustrated in figure,
compiled blythe state engineer o.
Nebraska. To pull ton over differ
ent types of roads took the following
pounds of pulling power:
Earth road, 2l8 lbs., II per cent ef-
ficiency; GraveIed road, 80 lbs, "a
per cent efficiency; Paved road, II
lbs, 100 per cent efficiency.
AS result of these figures - this
was before the farmers were driven
bankrupt by the 1920 Big Business
drive on prices of farm products =
the farmers went down into their own
pockets for $500 to 1000 apiece to
help build the good roads.
1t is an economy for the state or the
county to condemn and purchase land
for the relocation of roads along lines
affording easier grades and less dis
lance. If road travel costs the low
average of ten cents a mile, the re-
location of arteries of traffic, saving
for example only a mile of distance,
permits an aggregate yearly saving
for the community of from $3.50
where the vehicles number 100 day,
up to 10000 vehicles. The saving in
time and operating cost of wagons,
trucks, and automobiles amounts to a
huge sum per year.
The people are becoming educated
to the fact that it costs less to build
and maintain good roads than to pay
tor the invisible, but none the less real
expense of the annual mud embargo
throughout the country.
Danger to the nation lies in the
darkness of the rural communities
where modern highways are unknown.
If the people are to be free they must
be educated. With the remote inter
lors shut off by bad roads, the people
there will not get into touch with 9TH
er people. Open up the interior with
good roads; and these districts will be
visited by people from everywhere, and
education and enlightenment will fol-
low from the contact with the big out
side world. Then the native people
will begin to buy cars and get out Of
he darkness themselves.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
our VIRGIN TIMBER
Is FAST DISAPPEARING

New Orleans La.-Our Louisiana
virgin timber is being rapidly depleted.
Each year sees more lumber and wood
using industries cutting out and aban
doning their operations, causing a
slack in business and the drifting of
labor and population, thus leaving the
few that remain to pay the price that
desolation creates. 1t is Of vital i'm
portance that we utilize every stick
Of timber if the state Of Louisiana
wants to retain its prestige as the sec.
ond largest numbering state.
Protective steps must also be given
to the young timber. The greatest
enemy of reforestation is fire. Care
with fire is little thing which every
man can help. Louisianians must
realize that fire will ruin the indus.
trial prosperity Of their state by des.
troying the timber and also the range
for stock. How many stop to think
Of the damage little match, ciga,
rette stub, or camp fire may do?
Mr.. Hunter, Mr.. Smoker, Mr.. Farm.
or and Mr.. Camper, please remember
that your carelessness may dig at the
Industrial heart of our State. Each
year of fire brings it's toll of black
charred ruins and barren lands. Make
this year an exception. Be careful
with fire.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
TO PREVENT WASTE
IN LOGGING
uranla Experiments May Revolution
lza Methods

uranla Experiments May Revolution
lie Methods.
Urania, Lain an effort to discover
whether waste wood left in the tops
and limbs of felled trees can be used
for fuel on logging operations at a
reasonable cost, and, if not how such
tops can be disposed Of to prevent seri-
GUS fires, Eenry e. Hardtner, presi-
dent of the Urania Lumber Company,
announces that he has undertaken a
series of experiments on his company's
lands. In this work he has the COOP
Grafton of Commissioner M. L. Alex
ander of the State Department of Con-
servation, and Director r. ID. Forbes Of
the Southern Forest Experiment Sta
ton, United States Forest Service,
New Orleans.
We find it increasingly difficult to
get good wood for our skidder, loader,
and dummy engines" said Mr.. Hardt.
ner recently, "and | have in late years
thought 1t. might be possible 10 get this
wood out of the tops and slash of our
logging operations? We are now try.
ing this out at front on a sample area.
Men are being set to work right after
the skidder and are cording UP the
tops, down to three or four inches in
diameter. If material that would 9TH
erwise be left to rot in the woods can
be turned into fuel and used at any.
thing like reasonable cost, 1t will be
one OF the greatest forest conservation
developments in years Moreover, we
feel confident that this process will
largely solve another great problem,
namely, how to reduce the fearful dan.
ger of fires in the slash left by log,
ging. In Minnesota and some other
states the forestry laws compel lum-
bermen to pile and burn their slash so
as to preserve trees left for seed and
prevent destructive fires among young
seedlings and saplings. In addition
to the area being worked for fuel at
Urania, the State and Federal forest.
ers have painstakingly laid out some
thirty-five acres on which other ways
Of handling the tops to prevent fires
will be tried out. Careful cost records
will be kept Of the work. This is the
first time such experiments have ever
been made in the South. Our woods
superintendent, Francis Smith, and all
the woods employees of the Urania
Lumber Company, are helping the
foresters to make the project a sue
cess"
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
RESIST NOT EVIL

he cause of non-resistance is max
ing steady progress, especially among
women. Thus, at the meeting of the
Third Congress of the Women's Inter
national League for Peace and Free
dom, resolution offered by Mrs.
Henry Willard was adopted by a ma
jority vote as follows: Whereas we
believe that wars will never cease until
human life is held sacred and inviola-
bic, it is hereby resolved that we adopt
the principle of non-resistance under
all circumstances" More impressive
because more specific, because adopt
ed by unanimous vote, and because
made the basis of organization and
condition of membership, is the fol-
lowing affirmation accepted at the
Conference held at Niagara Falls, On
tario, on August 10, 1921, under the
auspices of the Women's Peace Soci-
ETY.: i affirm it is my intention never
to aid in or sanction war, offensive or
defensive, International or civil, in any
way, whether by making or handling
munitions, subscribing to war loans,
using my labor for the purpose of set
ting others free for war service, help
ing by money or work any relief or
ganization which supports or condones
war. - Unity" Chicago.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13

turning civilization, grabbing his Ford
and his photograph, burning down his
house, and ravishing his wife. The
spectacle is really stupendous.
How any sane man can remain a
so-called liberal in the face of it is
more than ! can make out. AS for
me, | enjoy the show to the full. In
asmuch as all of my private interests
are on the side Of capitalism, | am
honestly in favor Of capitalism. What
delights me is the sight of imbeciIes
whooping for it, whose interests are
all on the other side. Il is as if rats
should form bodyguards TO protect
cats.
H. L. Mencken. in Smart Set. .
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13

Mont Rely. formerly postmaster Of
Kansas City, Mo-, has been inflicted
by President Harding as governor up
on the people Of Porto Rico. To show
how much he believes in self-determin-
alton of small nations, he has inform
ed his newwards that they must en-
tirely give up the idea of independ-
ence and self-government, as we'll as
the Spanish language spoken for over
three centuries by the islanders. That's
what they call making the world safe
for democracy.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13

Ambition to get rich at the expense
of fellow human being or to lord il
over him is the sin against the holy
spirit Of human solidarity and econ
omic integralism that is unpardon-
able and unforgivable in all periods of
human existence. Aspiration to excel
in efficiency. in usefulness, helpful
ness, and amiability is the spirit that
will draw all people together into in
dissoluuble fellowship and unity. Am
bition as defined above has been
verltable devil to mankind; aspiration
will prove itself the savior that will
heal all human ills and restore this old
world to paradisical conditions.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
WILL DIE UNDER CAPITALISM

| gypsy tells me that | shall live to
be 86. | expect to die under capital
ism, and see a Jew president of the
United States before | die. Jacob H.
Schiff is too old and Otto H. Kahn
was born in Germany, but it will be
some member of the same imperial
line - not a bolshevist Jew out Of
Grand Street, but a respectable Prot
estant Episcopal Jew out of Wall St.
IF his first name is not Irving, then his
last name will be Noblestone or Rose
hill. ! shall. of course, vote for him.
| tire of voting for mountebanks; be-
fore | die want to. vote for at least
one genuinely intelligent man. For in
telligence will survive and prevail. as
It always survives and prevails.
The common man is an incurable
idiot. IF the time ever comes when
capitalism can't hold him in check BY
force. it will hold him in check by chi
cane. The boob nibbles at the pre-
destined bait. Capitalism convinees
him, so easily that it is laughabIe. that
its enemies are also his enemies-that
all of them, at bottom. are the secret
agents Of foreign demons, yesterday
he Kaiser and today Lenin. and so
'ent upon busting the republic, over
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
Baseball Superstition

The Pittsburgh Pirates had
group picture taken of the tea
Some one happened to. me
ton, as the photographer NOV
away, that for a whole team
watch the little birdie at on
was a jinx.
Whereupon the Pittsburghe
went out and lost five straig
games to the Giants. Right
the midst of a crucial penna
race.
1t doesn't prove the Jill
exists. But it does prove tn
to Undue a man, or a team
men, with the idea that tn
can't win a bail game general
means that they won't win. F
their pep and enthusiasm ha
been stolen.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13

How we'll are we discharginr our
duties toward our fellow men and the
human race2 We have each profit
ed by the labors or the thoughts of
the generations which have gone be-
fore US. and each Of us owes, by way
of recompense. disposition to coop
crate actively in promoting human
welfare and human advancement. We
are not doing our whole duty by our
fellow man merely by conducting our
selves toward him in such manner as
to keep out Of Jail. - N. o. Item.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13

The Danish people are discovering,
and it is the fundamental fact in Eu-
ropean economic life to-day, that the
people in their free cooperative soci-
cites can do things better for them
selves than the political governments
can do them. They have already dis
covered that they do things better than
capitalistic business. This thought is
slowly permeating society and it is the
thought that is going to reorganize the
world. = ]. P. Warbasse.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
Boys Study Rsforsstatlon

Reforestation clubs for boys are be-
ing formed in the public schools Of
Louisiana. Seeds and trees are sup-
piled by the state department Of con
servatiOn and prizes are offered for
the best results. The work is timely
in view of the assertion, made re-
Gently BY the forest service, that tim
Der is cut and burned in the United
States four times as fast as It is grow
ing.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
TREES AND PLANTS FOR FALL

Now is the time to order your trees.
and plants for fall planting.
The Democrat is agent for one of
the best nurseries in the South, and
is able to offer special rates because
of this.
Fruit trees. strawberries, and other
plants are best planted in the fall.
Get our prices and catalog now.
THE DEMOCRAT
Phone l79 Leesville. La.
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13
SZ
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Hank eOwdX Prem.

A catcher occupies a very in
doesn't get much credit. Hank
Braves that turned back Connie
"a catcher's job on a winnil
winning team has good pitchers
the receiver. They have control
fast, and few of them are, has
order to get credit. The most v
very kind to me on my sole apl
classic, and was told that was 9
to realize that I was very lucky
lucky, even If he had the ability
The world series reputation is a
Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1921-10-13

1t usually takes long time to dis
cover the folly and absurdity of both
credulity and incredulity; and to dis
cover the character and value of ac-
tual knowledge.