The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-03-10


With lust for pow'r an gold
An filled tn earth with more o. pain
Than hell can ever hold!
They're whinin' that tn bills too much;
They wall they're bein stung:
Well, MY boys walkin' on . crutch
An breathin' through one lung.
Jest twenty! But he's old and bent,
His face is drawn an gray.
No! l DON'T think it's Gods intent
Tn Germans shall not pay!
THAT, the allies are absolutely" right
is not our claim. But they WERE absolutely
right when the war was being fought and they
are nearer right now than the Germany Of to-
day. for il there is any spirit of repentance in
the Fatherland it is not apparent in the utter
ances of those who assume to be representa-
tive of present day German thought. Besides,
il there is anything on the face of the earth
that fills us with utter contempt It Is the poor
loser.
Anything to Amuse the Younger
Generation Sh!
Hrom Argus Illinois City Correspondence.
James Duenberry and sons OF Garden
City. Iowa, drove over some cattle Sat
urday for his son Lester and wife.
THE person who ioyfully yields the blue
pencil over the manuscripts OF too ambitious
correspondents supplies the Illinois City item
caption and all. Furnishing captions for con-
tributory wheezes saves us brain Tag, OF
course but perhaps we should say that this
instance must not be taken as precedent by
other contribs. When contributions are plenti-
full the only chance we have to say anything
is in the captions
The Blood.Sweating Behemoth.
From Your Health Peoria JournaD.
Blue Eyes Q-Whenever l am at
dance my face gets red, and the per-
SEPARATION drips down my face, gets red.
and the perspiration drips down my face.
Kindly advise me?
CONSIDER the case Of Mr.. Herbst Of St.
Louis who met violent death. At the time
O, his taking off he was wearing, according to
the unusual United Press, "a widely adver-
tised womans corset
DELIGHTED. GILBERT THE GAZELLE IS
OUR FAVORITE LECTURER.
Dear Tombstone: You win Bring this card
" It'll you Saturday evening. March 10, and you
will be allowed to hear G. X. C. lecture on
1.-THE Liveliness of the Dead Ones" free of
charge. L. G.
| JUDGE TOM CHAMPION, who is to pre-
side at the divine Clara's acquittal in Ard
more. has twin brother. ]. d. who is law
yer for the defense. A dispatch from that vii
lage states that both are six feet one inch
ard weigh 210 pounds" These pygmies alone
should be worth the price Of admission
.. We Don't Blame Him.
| From the Rock Island School Gazetteer.
| One day boy missed two words in
spelling. The words were hair and
| swear.N The teacher told him to 90 to
| the board and write hair five times, and
swear five times. He did.
HAIR always makes us swear, too: espe-
cially when it appears in our SOUP And we
shall never forget a dance We attended some
years ago. We were skipping in great aban-
don and chewing gum IA habit We have since
| forsworn) In greater abandon when a tendril
from the head of our fair partner was waited
into our mouth AND our gum. :. No, we
didn't say word; but we apologized for
thinking
IN WHICH WILLIE SPRINGS TO THE
| DEFENSE OF SPRING.
Sir: Two weeks ago your editorial column
contained a long article on Spring Is Now
Herewith elaboration. Monday you had the
nerve to print an ode to Spring entitled
-! Now beg to inform you and also
your editorial writer that spring does not, has
not, and will not arrive until March 21-22, and
NEITHER OF YOU can change it. You may
! change your mind, you may change your
"feayies" for your beeveedees. and you may
change your woods for your lace hose-but
YOU CAN'T CHANGE the date of the arrival
of spring, SO don't try it. And then, too, II
you print all your spring PONIES NOW what
are you going to do when she does arrive
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
| WILLIE GREEN.
THAT'S a good last line Willie picked fol
his contribution you think so? Willie
reed not be alarmed, however, at our deplet.
ing our stock Of spring PONIES. Writing spring
PONIES is the easiest thing We do-next to get
ting out colyum containing his contributions
| SPEAKING Of contributions is it going to
be necessary to page the negligent contribs
again? -. All right; front! Page A. Capric-
clio, Peter, Wern, E. F., E. X. E. Especially
E. Il. E., because he has visited MS so infre.
quently). Odeekay and-and-here! take thia
list and page 'em all. And II you see A. NJ s
you might tell him he COULD work a little
harder. II Kipling had been a colyum con.
ductor he likely would have written it thus
"a colyum is only colyum but good con-
trib is jewell"
TO RENT-LADY OR MARRIED COUPLE;
private family. Columbus 2130.-The Chi.
tribune.
For ways that are dark and tricks thai
| are vain tho Tribune wantad il peculiar"
| TRACTION BILL TO GET HEARING
NEXT TUESDAY; Mayor Thompson to Appear
Before Committee. Argus headline
A new monickes> for Bill the Big.
B. r NG.