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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
Weather and Crop Conditions in Wis.

A hot dry week, but the drought was
broken in many places by scattered
rains. Good growing weather for corn
and tobacco, but too hot and dry for
small grains Corn is in excellent con
ditlon, growing fast and beginning to
tasSel' Wheat is fair, ripening fast.
Winter wheat is being cut in the south
west. Barley is ripening fast but filing
poor Rye is fine and being cut. Tim
othy is being cut earlier than usual and
is light crop. The weather has been
unfayorable for pastures which are
burned out in many places. Fruit is
fair to poor Berries are ripening early
and cherries ripening too fast. Tobac-
co has been reset where killed by the
hot dry weather. 1t is doing exception
ally well, is well rooted and shows a
very even stand Truck is doing well in
north and fair in the south. Peas are
light and the second crop is being har-
vested. Cranberries are blooming in
the north and beginning to set in CEN
tral counties. All crops need rain.
W. P. STEWART, Meteorologist
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
Notes From 81. Nazianz.

JOS. Sadkow,kie died June 10Th, at
his home after lingering illness with
Bright's disease. He was born at
Pueblo, Colo, Feb. T. 1899 He leaves
to mourn him his parents, three sisters
ane one brother The funeral took
place Friday with services at st. Gre
gory's church at $50 A. NJ. Rev.
Deibele otficiated. The bereaved fam.
lily have our sympathy.
Hugo Lullotf and family are visiting
with the formers mother, Mrs. Tina
Lullotf.
DR., Bast and family of Manitowoc
spent Wednesday with his brother,
DR.. +. j Bast and family.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1921-07-07
SUI IS:
COATS
Dresses
ADNTTO DDTOT
atBOTTOM PRICES

Tor the vacation trips and little
4 weekend jaunts, as we'll as for
general wear, now land later,
nothing is more trinity attractive
than a painstakingly tailored Suit
and Coat. Either one, or both, for
that matter, may now be chosen at
a price which barely covers the
cost of the material employed.
Early choice is bound to prove.
most advantageous.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
New York's Prize Family.

The father of a family of 16 children in New
York is employed in department store at szo
per week. President Harding wrote a letter
congratulating the parents of the family
whereupon the wife requested the president to
intervene in behalf of her husband and see II
he couldn't induce his employer to pay him
larger wage. The president wrote the letter
requested and in reply was informed that the
father of the prize family was receiving the
same pay as others engaged at the same WORK
for the firm that was employing him. The en-
ployer should not be expected to pay pre-
MUM to the parents of large families, but
the case offers a suggestion that might be
used TO formulate some sort of federal legis-
lation that would intervene in such instances
and help carry the burden of those parents
who are so successfully fighting race suicide
practices in this country. The father of 10
children whose weekly pay envelope contains
only $40 certainly is not receiving enough to
provide for his family and he deserves assist
ance from some quarter, and we know OF no
agency more concerned in the healthy increase
of the national population than the federal
government.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
Sad Plight of Russia.

The attention of the world is drawn to the
present state of what was once Russia through
the letters of Senator France, the feeding OF
Russian children by the American relief adj
minstration and the announcement of Dr.
hansen that he will endeavor to negotiate a
loan of $40000000 for the soviet government
Senator France declares that one by one the
tenets of communism have been given up by
the Lenne government. He declares that this
reversion to property rights is necessarily per
manent, though admitting that the Russian ex-
tremists declare it is but temporary measure
of necessity. He suggests the opening of trade
with Russia and the sending of an American
commission with a view to recommending
means for Russian rehabilitation-merely an
indirect suggestion of big loan to Russia
1t has required three years and a vast ex-
penditure of blood and treasure to teach the
rest of the world that the only way to handle
the Lenine outfit is to leave it alone to work
out its own salvation destruction as the
case may be. OF course the appeal of starry
ing children could not be resisted but the food
Is going into the country under such pledges
and restrictions that even if the soviet authorf-
ties break faith mighty little of it can get to
them or to their army of mercenaries Now
that Lenine admits failure, the policy of iso-
lation is not likely to be changed until he and
his associates are driven from power.
With their hands still red with the murders
of thousands of prominent Russians, from the
royal family down, with their record of prop
erty destruction, Of debt reputation and of
dishonesty in such foreign trade as they have
attempted; with the memory of their active
efforts to overthrow the existing governments
OF the world still fresh, it is not likely that
they will be trusted or aided in any way to
retain their strange hold on the Russian peo-
pie. Both hansen and France declare that
the soviets are ready to make all sorts of
pledges and mortgages to secure a loan But
who would care to send an army into Russia
to enforce these pledges.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
The Old-Fashioned Play.

After playing it three years IN New York.
Frank Bacon has brought his play, "Lghtnin'
to Chicago. The play doubtless would duplt-
cate its New York run in Chicago if the pro-
7ducers were willing to have it remain that long
in the latter city. The popularity of Light
min" may be accepted as an expression of the
American people in favor of the more sub
stantiai things of the theatre. ''Lghtnin'" is
plain old fashioned comedy-drama of the kind
we used to have served US by Joseph Jefferson
and James A. Hearne and others of their
school. There are outraged women and
there are no murders suicides in the play,
but there is a tear and frequently smile. It's
built of solid stuff that goes right to the heart
without any artificial embellishments. The
American stage has been surfeited by the
tawdry and silly and the people are ready, as
the record of "Lghtnin' " is proving, for re-
turn of the good old melodrama where the
lover saves the farm by paying off the mort
gage and rescues the girl from the clutches of
the villain from the city. 1t may have the old
repertoire ring, but, after all, it's honest to
goodness stuff and it reaches the heart, and
that's what folks like for steady diet
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
The Perfect Congressman.

= That congressional Sir GaIahad, Represen-
tative Manuel Herrick of Oklahoma who ad-
mits that he is one of the "15 men on earth
who can say against my body, against my soul,
there is no moral STAIN" appears to have be-
come trif1e unpopular. One irate husband
whose wife was mentioned as having written
letter of apology TO Mr.. Herrick for turning
over to the postal authorities his circular let
ter to 40 beauteous young women entered in a
beauty contest would, it is reported greatly
like TO find Mr.. Herrick And an irate father
Is preparing to bring legal action for $50, 600
against the congressman because, it is claimed
his daughter is also mentioned as having writ
ten letter of apology to Mr.. Herrick for the
same reason that actuated the young wife.
The storm clouds hover threateningly over Mr..
Herrick, forecasting a spell of weather that
may not be propitious for him.
We do not know if Manuel is any relation
to Robert of the same patronymic who -four
ished in the early 18th century, and who, by
his poetic illusions, seemed to TO femi-
nine charms, but Robert may have had Manuel
In mind when he penned in his sorrows Sue
ceed' the verse, Thus woe succeeds a woe as
wave a wave" Perhaps Manuel can find a
grain of comfort in another line written by
his namesake, But neer the rose without the
thorn" He who has been dubbed "Sir Gala
had has not won any votes for his bill to
prohibit beauty contests in newspapers. His
novel method to gain support for the measure
has proved unkind boomerang
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
Young Old Men.

John A. Stewart is the grand old man OF
Wall street because he can attend to business
on his Goth birthday. For the very same rea-
son he should be classed among the grand old
men of the world. The age limit is gradually
gaming. Medical research has helped very
much. but not near SO much as living nor
mally; that is, not digging graves with teeth
or imprisoning lungs in sitting rooms or per
mltung laz1hess to rob the body of exercise in
uie Open MI. Stewart cannot understand why
SO much fuss is made over his doing some
thing he has done methodicaIy and unceas-
lngiy during his long business life. He has
few infrmities to make his years uncomfort-
able for the simple reason that he has not
weakened his body equipment by strainipg or
indulgence or misuse 1t is wonderful what
the human body will do when intellirentIv
cared for, and Stewart and CIemenceau and
Eliot and hundreds of other young old ,ron
are living proofs that age is a matter of know
ing how to live
The span of life entities all men of healthy
bodies to live 100 years. To die before that
aiiotted time is personal punishment i
man should be at his best not at so years hut
at 10 years of age, and should find life worth
living at his Tooth birthday as it was at his
ooth- There used to be a lot of talk placing
AZ years as the limit Of usefulness, but the bosh
IN TINS prediction is shown by the fact that the
big stunts, military, business and civic, have
nearly all oeen worked out by men nearer so
than 40 When a man should retire from ~
tive life IS not easy of decision. With Soma
it should undoubtedly be sooner than With
others. There may be some policy in retirir,
at the height of power, when at the neal ~
accomplishments but this should he attrih-
utdoie 10 poiicy rather than lack of usefulness.
There are many old young men and nanv
young old men, and these latter ara h., g..
the more useful
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03

currencies too far below their normal values
In comparison with the American dollar. Take
Germany for example. There more than one
billion marks, at their gold valuation, have
been issued since the first Of the year The
mark has dropped to one-twentieth OF its nor
NAL dollar value in the international markets.
The federal reserve board had nothing to do
with the issue of German marks. The gold
OF which complaint is made has come here IN
payment OF export bills because the deprecia-
ton of foreign currencies has made 1t cheaper
for those countries to pay in gold than TO bay
dollars. The remedy is not to cheaper the
dollar here, which imitation of our currency by
act of the controlling bank board would do
1t lies in currency defiation in practically
every country and the restoration OF the
parity of their exchanges in the interna-
tionaI markets. The United States has
less than one billion dollars OF gold in ex-
cess of her normal proportion of the world
supply. That civilization is crippled just now
is not because the world has sent its gold here.
but because it owes the United States some
thing like seventeen billions of dollars, which
cannot be settled in gold, in exchange or in
goods in the anywhere near future.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
Archbishop and Blacksmith.

1t wouldn't ordinarily be much of a news
item that Dennis Curley, blacksmith in Jer-
sey City, is brother of the Right Rev. Michael
]. Curley, bishop of St. Augustine, who is 10
be ordained archbishop of Baltimore in success
sion to Cardinal Gibbons. For this is in
America. But the story of the two boys of
Athlone is worth emphasizing for the benefit
of those who so unappreciatiVe of the OPP
portunities America had for them that they
would change conditions which put black
smith shop and cathedral in the same family.
We're brothers and good brothers." said
Dennis. OF course they are. For in America
a man is a man be he archbishop or black
smith, and brothers be good brothers,
though one is clad in purple and the other in
blue jeans. That is the result of American
institutions, against which socialists, commun-
lists and their ilk rail. They don't know Amer
lea. The reason they don't get anywhere is
because there are too many Michael and Dennis
Curleys in America.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
MGsAAlGEA TAI ks
BY WILLIAM !l i BRADY RAD r1D:

I the horse a healthy animal? And
all he gets is dry rub after a
| race.
Is a bath, hot or cold or medium,
safe after active sweating! That
depends on the Individual. II you
are young and vigorous and sure of
your reaction. then cool shower
is safe enough after vigorous exer-
else. If in doubt, tepld or even a
warm bath is preferable. Person
ally, I prefer a cool air bath, of
can get it, and rub with a dry
towel
Should one drink little or much
water when sweating, and cold or
warm? All the naturally cold wa
ter you want, but never ice cold or
iced drinks.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
Ridiculous Charge.

Many of the ACCUSATIONS laid against the
federal reserve board for its control of the
banking system OF the country have been
laughable. Many of them have been silly and
sroundless. None has been more supremacy
ridiculous than that of the president of the
American Cotton association before the joint
agricultural committee of congress. The
boards methods. he said are heaping up
gold in the United States at the expense of all
civilization"
The generally accepted explanation OF the
gold tide by International bankers is that it
has come in payment for goods imported. This
movement is not because of any deiation here
whether by order OF the federal reserve board
or not. It is IN part due to the reckless infia-
tom in other countries, which has brought their
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
Active and Passive Sweating.

! AfIlFe anu TaSSIte SWGGtLHEs
! Popular misinterpretation OF med
ical procedures accounts for the
fallacy that one can sweat poison
or accumulated waste matters out
Of the body.
The amount of poison or waste
matter sexcreted in the amount of
sweating you or l would care to do
{ in day is scarcely worth consid-
ering, as compared to the amounts
excreted by way of the kidneys, in
testines and lungs. Anyway, it is
not SO much question of how
much of such poisons or waste
matters we excrete through the
emunctories; 1t is a question of
how completely We can oxidize or
burn up such poisons within the
body
Sweating is good thing, how
ever. Few Of us do enough sweat
ing for the good of our health.
Somehow there is a silly notion
that sweating is vulgar or unrefin-
ed, that is, active sweating. The
same sad specimen that harbors
that notion generally imagines that
passive sweating, as in a Turkish
bath, is not, only fashionable but
also a beneficial indulgence. The
benefit, if any, is psychological. not
physical. Passive sweating elimin
ates even less poison from the
body than active sweating does.
Active sweating is the kind you at
tain through your own effort.
Active sweating is good because
it is a pretty sure indicator of in
creased metabolism, which means
more complete oxidation or more
thorough combustion. more life.
Every one who is not physically
disabled or restricted to use by the
order of his physician should man
age to do some active sweating. in
one way or another, every day, but
more particularly in the winter
time, as a sort of health insurance.
Sudden chilling of the surface
following active sweating is likely
to cause soreness and stiffness of
the muscles one has Just been ex-
erting. Some people like to term
this Catching cold" Well. I have
no objection to such description, if
only they would limit the term 20
such a state Sudden chilling fol-
lowing passive sweating is abso-
lutely harmless and unobjection-
able; indeed, it may be that a cold
shower. or a cold air bath, it mat
tiers little which, is the one really
good thing about a Turkish bath
for the average overfed, under-ex-
ercised mollycoddle Such sud
den chilling has, or should have, a
stimulating effect, which is shown
by the pleasant warm reaction aft
erward.
Is q bath necessary after active
sweating? OF course not. Isn't
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
HammertOe,

Please tell me some of the causes
of hammertoe. Can toes thus de-
formed be Strengthened, or IS II bet
ter to have them amputated?
S. F.
Answer-The only cause l know
fer hammertoe is the wearing OF
shoes that are too short or too mar
row fpointed), or both. Usually
hammertoe may be Strengthened by
dividing the shortened tendon I'M
der the skin and retaining the toe
in an extension splint for period
of 10 DAYS or two weeks. Any good
doctor can do this, with local anes-
thesia.
Fathers Hiking Companion.
am a girl, aged 13, and rather
understood. l am very fond of TAX
ing long walks with my father, but
my mother is afraid of overtaXing
my system. Will you please tell me
whether this is so. \. T.
Answer-It is probably good for
your system in every way, proVid-
ed you are not exhausted a. the end
of a walk, and feel refreshed after
a short rest.
Weight, Weight!
Kindly print the correct weights
for a woman aged 80. 65 inches
tall. and a woman aged 81, 621a
inches tall. MRS. A. c. B.
swer-One hundred fOrty-four
pounds and 122 pounds, sans
clothes.
Bran Gems.
Once you gave a recipe for bran
gems for persons of costive ten
dency, and they were simply great,
both in palatability and in effect.
have lost the recipe and would be
thankful to have it again.
MRS. NJ. P. z.
Answer-One egg well beaten;
pinch of salt; butter size of wal
nut. melted; cupfuI each of sweet
milk, wheat flour, wheat bran; ia
blespoonful baking powder. Bake
in gem tins.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03

@. How many islands are there
in the Barbados? Z. H. c.
A. Barbados or Barbados, is a
single island, the most easterly of
the West Indies. Its name is Por-
tuguese and means the bearded, .
so called on account of the bearded
fig tree, which is found there IN
abundance.
Q. What plant was known as
the white mans foot? F. H.
y. A large variety of dock which
was not known to the Indians be-
fore the advent of the white man,
and which followed his progress
westward, was given the name
white mans foot"
history.
@. What kind of sheep produced
the most wool? n. L.
\. The department of agTicul-
ture says that in this years test
shearfng the Rambouillets scored
highest. They averaged lila
pounds of wool per sheep, Colum-
bias standing second with 1885
pounds per sheep.
Q. When were uniforms first
worn IN the navy d N
A. An order was promul gated in
the British navy in 174S. requiring
all his majesty's sea officers from
the admiral down to the midship-
men to wear a uniformity of cloth
ing.
q Could you tell me what the
large dial on the top of the fore
mast of our large battleships is
for? j. NJ.
A. The navy department says
that this dial is used for target fir
ing. 1t is a comparatively new de-
vice.
Q. Please give the full name and
age of the King of Siam?
H. w. L.
A TlS present king of Siam is
40 years of age. having been born
on January l. 1881. His full name
Q. How long has the motto In
God We Trust" appeared on our
coins? L. Z. H.
A. United States coins prior TO
the year 1864 are without In God
We Trust" The 2-cent piece was
@. Kindly give me formula for
sulphur baths? L. T.
A Sulphur bath: To prepare.
dissolve potassa sulphrrata (sul-
phurated potash). known also as
liver OF sulphur. in a small guam
tity of hot water, and add this to
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-03
ALWAYS-IT MIGHT BE WORSE
BY. Belle Harrington Hall.

! ALNAES-IT MIGHT BE WORSE
BY. Belle Harrington Hall.
= Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler
| Syndicate, Inc.)
The cook was "peeved." The
mayonnaise had separated and il
took the whole white of the egg
added drop by drop, to bring il
back to its correct creamy thick
ness.
The chocolate souffle had fallen
! somewhere enroute from the oven
through the buffers pantry to the
! dining room table
The kitchen registered 80 de-
greeS at the carving table, its cool
est corner. and cook surveyed her
pulled and aching ankles with eyes
/ that blurred.
Getting absolutely flat-footed in
this confounded place" she raved
inwardly,as she gave the luncheon
card a vicious thrust back on its
nail and took down the dinner
menu.
Fathers and mothers 25th an
niversary," the daughter of the
house, bride of d month, had
written faceuously over the line !:
Dinner for II at $50"
twenty-five years - isn't it
thrilling" she had smiled at cook,
tapping her tiny teeth with her
pencil as she calculated just how
many oddly delicious things she
could manage to crowd onto one
slip of paper, for daughter was
practicing the menu part of house
keeping Just now in mothers house
before she went into her own home
on her return from abroad.
twenty-five years! Thrillingl
Humph!'' AS she chilled and glazed
and meringued the dinner for u,
back along the years the cook S
mind Travelled to another seething
summer day-another home not so
very much more simple after all,
but yet her own, where she had
waited with mother and laughing
bridesmaids by her side, fearful
but happy, for the one man TO lead
her down to the waiting minister,
the relatives and friends.
Over them all, her thoughts
raced back-the struggling years,
the full years, the lean years, the
lonely years, the well-worn years
her self pity growing stronger
and stronger, and through it all
the thermometer mounted and the
dinner for II progressed until at
$50 cook dropped into the chair
with a final growl at the little kitch-
en- maid: Now let them rave on,
kid; we'll be ready"
"Fine!" ventured little Maggie.
visibly at the first
pleasant word that had
from her top boss that
day.
Listen, cook, let's joy ride over
with John when he takes Bridget
home-will yer?"
Joy ride-do I look like a joy
ride?" snarled the cook. And
what are those pans?"
Them are the clean pans for the
milk. My dishes are all done,"i
proudly, AN it'll only take Is min
utes, will yer? 1t cools yer off and
makes yer forgit the old kitchen n
everything; come on, will yer?'"
"Oh, don't know whether you'll
drive me crazy or keep me from
growing crazy. Yes, I'll 60"
We'll make him drive us home
By the crazy folks house. the longs