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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05

n.vSnnorf Il nm has ! chance to
~ fer The onaA-citv championship.
II ~ iooais can win their return
ssrnaa frnm Moline and East No.
n.v.s,c.t ~ their home COR on
IN A n TIA Iaianders win this
.sma : nost-seaaon hattie viii
nrohahiv s. scheduled to decide
he championship.
Ths erowa last nlght was the
lsrrsst tat ever attsnAed . tn
IT, s. AUhrese.D avenpeEt game
last week. Every nook and corner
Of II J. B. XeuAg gyu was m!ed
and & was necessary to lock the
deors log befere The main aana6
ten stArte4 The crowd was esu'
mated u about 7OA
Before the main game the Sec
ond team Of both schools had their
scrubs had . very close eye for
tho basket and, the game turned
out to b football. The local scrubs
won hast night. SO. or something
like that.
Referee Hannick, who WAS 1e
Official Of the gaMe Last night n
ono q The best referees ever seen
making decisions and speeds up
| the game ut oil times. Above oil,
beth teams he'd confidence IN him
and Rome d his rulings was argued.
Rock Islands got the speed but
lacks somebody to shoot baskets,
last night. None Of the Crimson
and Gold warriors seemed to be
able to sink goals with any degree
Of accuracy. Now and then the
forwards would make basket, but
usually the bali would hit the rim
and roll out.
|
The Islanders played tho clean
est game Of the season. Az . rule
the locals are not too careful in
the matter Of personals, but last
| night only four Of them were call
ed Davenport played . roueher
Three Of these were On the giant,
Kfasuski.
Schick, Davenport right forward
is one Of the fastest floor men. He
was all over the floor and easily
the star of the game. The locals
seemed unable to keep ep track track OF Of
Davenport.
Henke Was unable to play last
night because Of . ruling Of the
Illinois Athletic association. To
be sure abort Ids eligibility. the IS.
ISOLATION was consulted and the
reply came late yesterday morn.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05
TAXING ms MEDICINE.


Charles Comiskey 10 taking the
bitterest medicine that any club
owner was ever called upon to
swallow.
But. true to his title, the. Old
Roam is sticking by the ship, which
10 his Yiddled ball club and the
black sheep organization of the
major leagues.
Omit! Not on your life! Commy
says he'll stand by until he has
given Chicago fans another cham
pionship team.
Sister clubs Of the American
league. who promised to aid
Commy. have 10 far turned him the
deaf ear. They have left him to
work out his own baseball saliva
ton.
His enemies are seeking to drive
the Old Roman out Of the game by
circulating fake propaganda. They
have him selling his team. They
have him taking back the dishonest
ball players who wrecked his team.
But It Is ali untrue. Commy fights
on.
He'll rebuild his team with the
best young players whom he can
ind. His stars are not for sale.
Neither will be trade them. They
stood by him in his hght and he'll
stand by than now.
Just what kind Of . club he'll
have assembled BY the time the Sox
tsks the field this spring Ii hard to
conjecture. But whatever It is, il
will represent 4 man who didn't
cry when he was hurt and Z man
who Is taking his medicine.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05
LEWIS DOESN'T MIND.

New York. Feb. B.-"Stranglers
Lewis isn't letting the wall against
his deadlock worry him. He thinks
1t Just as reasonable to bar Babe
Ruth from hitting homers and Wal
ter Johnson from shooting fast
hops.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05
YANKs WANT sBABY DOLL


Not 20 many yeafs 40, sBig Bill"
Jacobson was oayeFting in the
Three-Eye league in , Rook H.
land uniform.
Some tina later. altar h lad
hssn niake1 nm hv the New YORK
Cihnts Janobson Was lahela6 SRaby
DolI1 Nv the PeIs Gro1nds bleaoh.
erifes and The rIcknane Ia st1ek
TO lin.
Nov .ttkr IN. or thru. Years
with the St. Loris Browns, sRaby
DOlln Is SOUGHT by the New York
Yankees. R1ppert and Huston, the
nillionsire cotonels, are reported
to i've oiierel Branch Riokey . blg
nskroll fer - foF1er Islasier.
RiIl va one a the nett verra.
the lids Who ever oene oat a the
bushas. ne first attracted ~ eye
Of ths vetsrsn developer, Dan
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05
ALL-STAR CASTS FLIvvER-


No all-star combination succeeds.
Such Z combination never hits on
all cylinders. The punch isn't
there.
Football titles aren't settled BY
Ali-AmeficAn elevens.
Stage stars, when put On the
same platform, fall to thrill their
audiences.
There IL an unwritten law that
makes 1t necessary for each star
to be surrounded by lesser lights
In order to twinkle.
without contrast there 10 no
color.
Ever notice IN Art gallery whore
tho worlds best paintings hang
You'll notice bare spaces on the
walls between each of them. II
those same masterpieces were
jammed together they wouldn't at
tYact the critics eye. It's the bare
spaces that make each stand out ~
a unit of perfection.
In athletics, teams without any
supers often come in under the
wire ahead. The Brooklyn club ID
one example. New York, with the
greatest prima donna the game had
Babe Ruth-fnished q IN also
ran.
Prima donnas ara all more or
less temperamental. They don't
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05
RARE Il REATEN.

New York, Feb. 5.-Wilbert Rob-
inson has proved to Babe Ruth he
can eat more quail and still stay
ON his feet They're pallins to-
gether ON q Dixie hunting trip.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05
ACCUSED SOX GO
TO TRIAL FEB. 9

Chicago, Feb. 4.-(united Press.)
Trial of eight White Sox ball
players charged with throwing the
1913 world series will begin Feb. 8,
according to the states attorneys
once hare today.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05
GARRY HAD A HEART.

Cincinnati, Feb. s.-Showers Of
praise are being handed Garry
Hermann for pensioninE Fanny"
Bancroft. The beloved Banny,'
who's retiring. had been secretary
for the Cincinnati club for 80 yeaxa.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05

As - - ~ y G3Di6
DeWntewn h . smelly cafe.
wished. how I wished l were
able
TO bring bsck . single lest
dry.
The selp was Ike soaDssds; 4
clicked No;
The outlet like leather was
ffied;
The coffee they served ne
Completely HR1efveA NJ
Tho way it caysrted inside.
Before l eould exit, heart.siek.
eaed,
NY memory started to roau;
II > moment or two my heart
quickened
To sce . sweet visjSn Of
home.
It seemed Just the way I had
left IT.
The dining rssm cosy and
neat
With father and brother
And sister and mother
All with me Whenever / eat,
The table cloth seemed 10 be
whittier
Than any that Eve ever seen;
The faces around me seemed
brighter,
The silver was shining and
clean.
In the kitchen our old colorea
nanny,
With witehery quite unsur.
passed,
Connected such dishes
To suit . kings wishes,
Each meal was . royal repsst
Eve eaten ON big ocean liners;
Eve lunched at the Waldorf
and Ritz;
Eve put on the nosebe gin din.
orS,
But honest they al give me
fits.
To Just get . smell Of homo
cooking
Week In and week out l could
wait;
Pm all out Of luck
On this restaurant truck
l cannot 90 home. IFS
toe late.
Once upon q time there was
popular actress who was photo
graphed on returning from Europe
but all you could see in the pictur
was her face.
Say, girruls, do you rememba
way back when you didn't have
feel mortified to death II you
stocking began to run!
A prelim boxer Is Ike . Mexiea
general. He'll fight oil night Il
10 bucks just to set his name
tho papers.
In the country the chickens q
up early and begin to scratch.
the city they get up late and hsv
their nails nlanicure6
Gambling is SO uncertain it woul
seem logical to drop q quarter int
the gas meter and get some ligl
returns.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05
JAZ7
~ y ,.5s. s,,.1.,, II
~ BRUCE COPELAND


THE POOR PRELu.
Although he's crude
And doesn't know
How t. elule
A sinDle blsWs
Although ~ paws
The yaeaat ar.
An4 pokes his laws
In slunbsF's lair;
Although he stands
Al u IN gine,
And helds hlS hands
Like statnes dot
Although he naskes
/ poor aftsmps,
For which he taxes
Your led centemptg
Although they hit
And SPIN his gore,
And nake HIN sit
Cpea tbe 1Oefs
Although h Aeps
Int hls chairs
Although be cops
Tho Fassy blafe;
rhnuvA 49, n fnll
Yo1 shed yeur mirth.
He giyes yon ali
Your moneys worth.
A girls first kiss is always limo
cent II she il destined for q bril-
liant career. her second kiss will
seem 90.
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". WI I.o ~ .V.c ~ ~
. Msns :" t''e In, ~ - V. -. 01 1.~1ia.,
= -.s~~ IS. .".S
" lsA'e sne rent
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"a = az atsn AZ tsa. hn nr;% III.
~ ;ne osavl "s ss.s s''1.s w ~vuI 'Ns
:" s.i 49, '1 ~. LON ns1;o sn on,,a M.
pu ~ s III " ~'" 'e
'n"n'e ~ 'oDei W.
I'M mur wp0vc DEW
Maud a. Mailer ON . summers
stood In the meadow raking
corn.
Though such . role was some
what rough,
She stopped to use her powder
pull
As the naughty sum beat herce.
~ down
Ana shone r1gnt urough nor
2uered gown
The Judge was riding ~ the
river
His steed . seeohd'handed NV.
yer.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05

Gambling is SO uncertain it would
seem logical to drop q quarter into
the gas meter and get some light
returns.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05

A girls first kiss 10 always limo
cent. II she Is destined for . bril-
liant career, her second kiss will
seem 90.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05

In the country the chickens eet
up early and begin to scratch. In
the city they get up late and have
their nails manicufed.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05
/ Ole
Sportscope
BY Bruce Copeland.

get results when hitched to the
same wagon. Jealousy may be one
cause. Lack Of teamwork II an
other. >.s%
Just - too much salt spells the
broth too many stars don't make
q winner.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05

A certain acquaintance remark
cd the other day that he would like
to have the 18th amendment re-
pealed SO the nation could have 4
chance to sober up.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05

Prima donnas ara al more or
less temperamental. They don't
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-05

You dont have to move II you
want to live In . more expensive
apartment Just ask the landlord
to raise the rent.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-02
Music on Midsummer Air


IF music truly hath charms TO soothe the
| / savage breast, the summer season is the
time when men musL be mildest and most
serene. For it is then that Ministries wander,
when windows are flung wide and doors
| opened, and he who walks the city streets
may have his choice of song.
One can, by judicious pick of territory,
| be a veritabl pauper in the month of July
! or August and still have his music, whether
| he prefers jazz, ballads, opera, instrumental
| or whatnot. He has only to familiarize him
self with certain sections and certain homes
| therein, play the loafer and listen.
On this street is the family addicted to
| the compositions of Mr.. AL Joson. His en-
tire repertoire is included in their phono-
graph library-and nothing else. Or, should
one not care for Jolson evening, he may
wait Indefinitely for street outside the
windows Of the family with a penchant for
Hawaiian melodies. He may even nod him
self to sleep to the wistful notes of the
ukelele and the Hawaiian guitar. Again,
rambling block or two farther on, he will
be stopped nv the golden tenor of the great
est tenor, and enjoy for hours on stretch
concert such as recalls to him the audito-
rum in It's II ost sublime moments. Now that
the mood of fond memory is on him, he may
seek the street noted for the home of the old
timer who still swearS by Sweet Rosie
O'Grady" and 1.-TWO Little Girls in Blue
These he will hear and many others that will
bring back to him the days OF bicycles and
balloon sleeves and buggy rides on soft moon
lit evenings through fragrant country lanes.
Nor is the photograph the only recourse
for the music-lover. After some period OF
investigation, he will learn which house is
the home of the young lady who plays Chopin
and DeBussey so beautifully, which shelters
the other young lady whose favorite compost
ton is "A Broken Heart for Every Light on
Broadway" which has back-alley where the
scrap-iron quartet harmonizes on various and
sundry "blues,'' and 1hich-though this he
may avoids the abiding place of the young
gentleman who recently purchased on the
installment plan trombone and a book of
six lessons which will teach him it's mystic
ries thoroughly and, incidentally, make life
hideous for his neighbors.
Last but not least, there is the darkey
minstrel, the shuffle-looted, mellow-voiced
characterization who finds surcease from the
days shoeshines and welcome shower of
coins as well when he drifts out of the star1it
night to the front yard of the white folks"
there to set their blood atingling and their
feet to patting with his songs of long ago
and his own distinctive version of modern
ragtime
No, they may tax opera till it is no more
though heaven forfend such ction!-but not
until they put a ban on open windows and a
curfew law on monographs and strolling dar-
kies will they rob of his music the citizen
who cannot lake music of his own
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-02
Justice for Ee-Serv;ce Men

the Of " e ss
up campaign" by the government,
the American Red Cross and the American
Legion to bring the benefits of the War Risk
Insurance Act and the Rehabilitation Act to
every claimant entitled to them.
The campaign will be launched in the
South in Tennessee August 1 and in South
Carolina August Is. A squad composed of
experts in filing claims, medical examiners,
representatives of the Red Cross and repre-
sentatives of the Legion will tour epery part
Of the State, stopping at announced periods
in different cities and towns. There they
will meet veterans face to face, file
claims for them, speed up claims already
filed, consult with them as to the justice of
possible claims, and help in every way to
straighten out their difficulties, whether of
compensation, health whatnot.
For 'long time ex-service men have had
difficulty in getting claims against the gov
eminent swiftly or smoothly settled. FIRE.
quently this has been due to ignorance on
their part or lack of guidance in presenting
their claims Likewise the government has
been unable to reach many veterans, who
though entitled to certain rights, have failed
to make application for them.
Apparently happy solution has been hit
upon-to seek the veteran on his own ground
and there to attend to matters which other
wise might take weary weeks of correspond
ence to settle. Not only will many veterans
secure decisions which will help both them
and the communities in which they live, but
numbers of them hitherto entirely unin-
formed about their cases may discover that
they entitled to compensation or medical
treatment of which they were in complete
ignorance.
When the cleanup squad comes to
Georgia, as it will eventually, her people
could perform no better service than to as
sfst it's work in every way. Much effort is
needed to get word in advance to veterans
of the dates the cleanup squad will be in
/ their vicinity. In fact, the success of the
entire plan hinges on the wide dssemina-
| ton of this information. Red Cross workers,
American Legion posts and individuals gen
| orally who hold the interests of the ex-service
man at heart have the opportunity to show
| their appreciation by guiding him to the rep
| resentatives who may do so much to make
| life better for him.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-02
Dorothy Dix Ta1kS-What's the Matter With Women

BY DORO THY DIX

ter, and winds up with diatribe on a
creature with an immortal soul wasting her
time in spending hours having a permanent
wave put into locks nature made straight
and painting artificial beauty on coun-
tenance the good fairy skipped when she
was handing out beauty.
All very fine, and true as gospel Yet
who taught woman the case value of good
looks? Man. Who impressed it on woman
that peachiness would get woman farther
than brains, or education, or all of the
standard virtues? Man. Did any girl baby
ever look around in her cradle and see
frumpy Miss Highbrow, who could write
MA, B.A., Ph.D. after her name, but
couldn't comb her hair or powder her shiny
nose, making the big match of the season?
Did little Lulu ever observe the man chas-
ing after the frumpy but estimable ladies
who run the missionary society and wore
flat-heeled shoes and chokers, and thought
lip sticks an invention of the devil?
I trow not What little Lula saw was
that men swarmed around the good-lookers
like bees around a honey pot, and that they
liked to be seen out with woman whose
clothes made everybody turn around and
rubber. Therefore it was impressed upon
little Lulu's infant mind that beauty was a
Woman's one best bet, and that good clothes
run it a close second, and that drug store
complexion was better than no complexion
at all, and so she grew up with the idea
cultivate her good looks and learn how to
dress.
And as long as men put this absurd
value on womans appearance, they have
their nerve to criticize women's extrava-
gance and mode of dress When "a man
prefers to be seen out with plainly-gowned
woman attired economically and hygienical-
ly, to one who is walking fashion plate,
he is entitled to speak upon the subject of
womens clothes. Not before.
Men also criticize women for not being
frank and outspoken, and for telling white
lies. They even go SO far as to say that
women have only a rudimentary sense of
humor.
Perhaps. But if it is true, the sin lies
at mans door instead of his sisters. Don't
forget that up to this generation, women
have been practically serfs to men-so far
as individual freedom went, and double
dealing and lies are ever the characteristics
of the slave. AS long as you must wheddle
everything you have out of some one above
you, you must steep your tongue in flat
teries and falsehoods.
And what man, even yet, will stand
for the naked truth from his wife, or who
doesn't want her to cajole the things out
right?
And if women, as a rule, have small
minds interested in little things, if they
like to gossip and deal in personalities, it
is because men have forced them to live in
narrow way, so that they have had no
chance to broaden out.
These are some of the things that are
the matter with women, brother. Women
are as men have made them, and when
men want different women, bigger, wiser,
women, they will get them. For women
are the most adaptable creatures on earth,
and the most anxious to please.
Copyright, 1921, by the Wheeler Syndi-
cate, Inc.)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-02
THE MEDDLER
By DR.. Frank Crane

In the Paris edition of the New York Herald
find this item:
"VIENNA, Wedneday.-The. new railway sta.
ton on the Brenner Pass, which is Italian ter
ritory, was burned down the day before yeSter-
day. The Austrian fire brigade from Cries
hurried up to help, but an official prevented
the fremen from crossing the frontier, as their
passports had no wise. So the station was sac
rificed to red tape"
1t takes some groteSque incident like this
to make us see the abSurdity of customs and
laws we accept as a matter of course.
The world has certain crazy obSeSSionS.
Government is one of them. Of course, a
certain amount Of government is necessary, but
not anything like the quantity with which bust
ness is loaded and people are haraSSed..
At least nine-tenthS of government is worse
than useless, for it is positively obstructive
1t fouls the ways of progress. 1t is strait
jacket upon a growing people.
1t is organized graft, SelfiShneSS and crooked
ness, utilizing the vast mass of common ignor-
ance and fear, and riding upon the Juggernaut
of tradition, whose tremendous inertia is almost
irresistible, and demanding of the populace
loyal support for annoying them.
Can any one outside of Bedlam tell us why
people passing from one country to another
i. e., from pgeonhole A to pigeonhole ir
the human caSe-nuSt have passport?
He cannot. | have heard ambassadors try
and produce only witticiSm.
The explanation which came the nearest
have heard to being respectfully intelligent was
that of Belgian customs official. He shrugged
his shoulders
Struggling the shoulders is the only way to
explain most governmental performances.
The fact is that humanity is one. Whether
we get any League of Nations or not, human
ity has entered into oneness. For all the
things it does, that amount to anything, are
one: Commerce, art, education, transportation
finance are no more national than noses are
national. They are human.
And all government does to the great con
Germs of men is to NEEDLE.
1t is because Of the meddling of governments
that today business is paralyzed, ships are idle
workers unemployed, and the devil to pay gen.
orally.
SeliateS and councils are busy building bat
tleShipS preparing for wars that nobody wants
passing tariff laws to protect some class al
the expense of the nation, taxing industry tc
keep up folly, and nobody can stop them.
Government ought to be merely police
man, to look after criminals, which is an I'M
portant business, but, compared to the life
commerce and production Of the people, trivial
. half dozen capable business men and &
good chief of police could run the United
States much better than the mass of second
rate politicians doing it.
copyright, 1921, by Frank Crane)
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-02

world will get we'll only if we are per-
mitted to deliver goods in proportion to
our production, in such way that they
will not upset world economy when they
are marketed"
When two such intensely and traditionally
opposed forces as France and Germany make
even fair start toward getting together on
broad sound economic agreement, the be-
clouded prospect of things international grows
decidedly more hopeful. If the buslnesslke
Wiesbaden conversations do lead to an under
taking out of which will come, in time, per-
manent cooperation between France and
Germany, then indeed has a great and useful
thing been done for those peoples and for the
world. For more and more do thinking men
and thinking nations perceive that it is not in
conflict but in co-working that they will pros
per and go forward.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-08-02
Past EnIghtens Present

q o apt and timely ring the following
y words, they might have been spoken by
some keen observer of today; as a fact,
they we're spoken by keen observer eighty
three years ago-by Daniel Webster, on the
floor of the national senate, March -, 1888:
There are persons who constantly clamor
They complain of oppression, speculation and
pernicious influence Of accumulated wealth.
They cry out loudly against all banks and
corporations, and all means by which small
capitalists become united in order to produce
important and beneficial results. They carry
on mad hostility against all established in
stitutions. They would choke the fountain Of
industry and dry all streams. In a country
of unbounded liberty, they clamor against
oppression. In a country of perfect equality,
they would move heaven and earth against
privilege and monopoly. In country where
property is more evenly divided than any
where else, they rend the air shouting agra
rian doctrines In a country where wages
of labor are high beyond parallel, they would
teach the laborer he is but oppressed
slave. Sir, what can such men want? What
do they mean? They can want nothing, Sir,
but to enjoy the fruits of other mems labor
They can mean nothing but disturbance and
disorder. The diffusion of corrupt princi-
pies and the destruction of the moral senti-
ments and moral habits of society.