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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26

q former pastor. and attended by q
host Of friends. many Of whom were
residents of the old home town.
Mrs. Grace Widney Mabee sang two
beautiful solos. The display Of
flowers and the presence Of so
many friends attested to the es-
TEEN in which Mrs. Peterson was
held. Her burial was at Inglewood
cemetery. The pallbearers we're:
8. P. Samuelson, S. L. Dudston, G.
w. Christy. Clinton Shaw. N. w.
Nichols and M. B. Rullen.
Miss Lillian Enstrom spent Tues
day with friends at North Hender-
son.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. Curry Of Camp
Point came Monday evening to
spend a few days with their son.
Lloyd Curry and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Nelson and
daughter Ruby Of Galesburg spent
Sunday with relatives.
Miss Ruth KAHN was an Alpha
visitor Tuesday.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26

Cd. Az q token Of esteem to show
the high respect in which they are
held by their friends a purse Of
money was presented them. Mr..
and Mrs. McWhinney will remove
from their farm in the near future
to their new home which they re-
Gently purchased in Orion.
A number Of. friends surprised
Mrs. Matte Hamor Wednesday eve
ming 1t her home in the north part
Of town, the occasion being her
birthday anniversary. The time
passed pleasantly in social chat
while the young people of the COM
pany enjoyed themselves with play
ing pit. Mrs. Mary Durham and
Mrs. Maud Carlson pleased the
guests by each giving a reading.
Victrola numbers were also enjoy
ed. Tho honoree received a purse
Of money a. . memento Of the occa-
sion. Refreshments we're also
served.
The McCraney Coal company has
closed down their mine east Of
town for an indefinite period, caus-
ing forty men to be out Of employ
ment.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26
UNKNOWN ASSET
IN WILL POWER


~Within each and every one of
us there lies untapned reservoirs
or power, and when these reser-.
voirs are thoroughly aroused each
individual becomes conscious Of .
power little dreamed Of before.
The arousing may take long time,
and In some they are never waken-
ed, but when We once get hold Of
these unknown capabilities, the
future holds in store great things"
Such was the basic theme Of Will
liam Rainey Bennett in his lecture,
THE Man Who Can" at Angus
tana college last evening.
Mr.. Bennett gave an impressive
talk. emphasizing the fact that
every man, woman and child has
power to do things, to become .
leader Of men and the community
in which he lives il he only thinks
he can and applies him or herself.
He took as an example the life Of
Theodore Roosevelt. Born with
defective sight, asthma, and con-
sumptive symptoms. three draw
backs enough to dishearten any
average person, he said: This man
discovered his capabilities, took
hold Of himself, built himself up.
and became. one of the greatest
men the country has ever pfoduc-
ed"
Mr.. Bennett stated that 1T only
takes one man with his brain afire
to put the village, town, state, and
even country in which he lives, on
the map. Henry Ford made De-
troit, Mayo brothers made Roches-
ter. and SO on down the line"
Sometimes, he stated, it takes .
startling event, tragedy perhaps,
to awaken US to this fact, but once
conscious OF strength and power,
the world holds no limitations.
Mr.. Bennett was heard by = large
audience, and it was one Of the
best numbers on the lyceum course.
"A man is never licked until he
admits it."
1T is no sin to fall down. but it
is a sin to stay down, and it's q
crime to lie down."
Nothing can stop you but your
self and no one is to blame but
yourself"
1T doesn't matter where a man
springs from, but 1t is where he
springs to-"
"A person is old when he thinks
backward"
"Once an idea starts into motion
it never stops"
mo man has ever become great
until he is inspired by a greater
woman"
These epigrams were salient
points of his talk and basis for the
theme he developed.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26

to many more, in all, there being
Is young men scattered, over the
country whom he has put on their
feet financially and otherwise.
Daugherty believes in keeping
everlastingly at it when you have
q good hunch," never allowing
yourself to be turned back or brow
beaten.
His "hunch" about making Hard
ing president is his best example
even better than when he had a
similar "hunch" about Harding be-
coming . senator and almost had
to drag the president-elect into the
race in order to keep his "hunch"
working.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26
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back In his home town. washing
ton. c. H.. as young AWE: grad-
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men his friends saw.
The other day Daueherty. the
LAWYER. had an important legal
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26
CITED FOR BRAVERY.

Omaha. Neb.. Feb. 26.-Jack
knight, who made the first night
air mail flight from North Platte.
Neb., to Chicago, today was cited
for bravery by Third Assistant
Postmaster-General o. M. Praeger.
He was highly commended for his
daring in flying over a course new
to him in order that the honor of
the air service could be upheld.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26

make a number sf flying trips to
his home here to spend some time
with the sweetest woman in the
world"
The sweetest woman" is Mrs.
Daugherty. She hasn't walked for
Is years a. q result Of rheuma-
tiSm.
Daugherty's greatest ambition
above cabinet jobs and political
accomplishments to see the
sweetest woman" restored to per-
feet health.
HDaddy" to Young Men.
He is the father Of two children
"a son and daughter, both mar
ried. But he has been the daddy"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26
On County Records

Pstes Mathsis and wife to David
AAtheis, northwest northwest Y
section 31-1S-zE, 81.
Eva Haroney to Edmond De-
Decker, lot 1878. Bruchman's Id
dition, Rock Island, 81.
Exe and Relic MorofRkin to John
x. Scott, lot es-se7o. AcInnii
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26
COAL VALLEY

NOpeCidI CUTTeSpOuOeuCe.)
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas McWhin-
ney were very pleasantly surprised
by a large number Of relatives and
friends Tuesday evening at their
home five miles east Of town a. a
farewell courtesy. Tho evening was
spent socially and during the eve
ming sumptuous repast was serv-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-02-26
NEW WINDSOR
Especial Correspondence.
NrA T.. l. PesorROn.

Mary Eta Flehearty, who was
killed Feb. II, 1921 in a street car
accident near her home in Los An
geles, CAL, was born May %, 1857,
in Henry county, Illinois. and was
reared at New Windsor. She was
the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. S.
Flehearty and the wife of C. L. Pc
terson, who for many years was in
business in New Windsor.
The funeral service held here
was conducted by Rev. w. w. Hart,
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Passports for Long Island?

Long Island has always been
peculiarly close to New York City in
popular imagination - and unques-
tionably part Of the United States
Of America. The jests which rep
resented New Jersey as an alien
strand never touched the land of
Jamaica, Hampstead, Ronkonkoma,
Sag Harbor and Montauk Point.
But if the Long Island Railroad
n.akes good its threat the traveller to
Long Island will experience much of
the hunted sensation felt by an
American citizen in pursuit of a
passport to preserve him on a genu-
inely foreign shore. Each commuter
will have to furnish his photograph
upon buying his monthly ticket-in
duplicate, we wonder, as in the case
o. applying for passport? One
picture will be pasted in the ticket
book, at any rate, and the conductor
by comparing the flesh before him
with the copy, will be able at a
glance to utter the usual GOOD
morning" or make an arrest.
There should be plenty of sym.
pathy for the Long Island road for
its troubles with tricky commuters
The doubt will be as to the common
sense of such extraordinary meas.
ures, bothering all the righteous tc
catch the few crooks. After all, it is
only by building up good will that
any business can succeed. Get the
nerves of a public on edge and it
will take finger prints and a regi-
nent of detectives to collect what is
due - or even as much as is col.
lected now.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22

hard fight in which the Merchants
Association took the initiative. The
acquisition of this tract of land was
prudent, necessary measure of
protection to insure pure water for
New York City. The site is cer-
tainly not less essential for such
purpose now than it was In 1918.
Governor Whitman vetoed a bill
which would have permitted pollu-
tion Of the Croton watershed in the
Mohansic territory.
Governor Miller, it is to be ex-
pected, will veto the present bill, the
effect of which is to renew the same
old menace. Lest he should think
New York indifferent on the subject
it will not be amiss for commercial
and civic organizations and private
citizens to let the Governor know
how they feel about any attempt
to remove one Of the city's outlying
barriers against pestilence.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Stitches in Time

American Red Cross agents over
seas report on the difficulties Of re-
storing to health the children Of
Central Europe until they are pro-
vided with clean, whole clothes in
place of the vermin-infested rags
they are now wearing. Typhus and
other diseases cannot be checked
while there is steady reinfection.
New York has been asked to sup
ply $4,000 of the 100000 garments
needed at once, and the New York
County Chapter of the Red Cross
has taken up the work. Volunteers
arc busy at tailoring reconstruction.
From old, discarded clothes, mill
ends, mems shirts, tennis trousers
and what not they are turning out
clothing for children up to four
teen years old.
But they cannot finish the work
III time without the help of more
volunteers. Those who are willing
t. aid in this struggle against dis
ease and misery are asked to COM
munlcate with the head of the pro-
ductlon department of the New
York County Chapter, Mrs. Charles
Z. Mlckle, 119 West Fortieth Street.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Helping Ireland

The Associated Press dispatches
one day this week told Of the Sim
Fein murder Of an Irish woman in
County Monaghan as a warning to
spies and reformers. The bald mar
rative described the assassinated
woman's struggles and pitiful plead
ings and the failure Of neighbors
to remove and decently care for her
body because of their fear Of Sim
Fein vengeance. Such was the way
the "Irish Republic" translated it.
self to one Ulster woman.
On the same day was published
an item saying one thousand Irish
emigrants to the United States had
embarked at Queenstown. Still an
other item mentioned the meeting at
Chicago of the American Associa-
tion for the Recognition Of the
Irish Republic.
The steady immigration from Ire
land and the continuance Of efforts
to embroil this country in Irish
troubles suggest several things. One
is that many in Sim Fein counties
have not sufficient sympathy with
present Sim Feinism to wish to
stay and help it. Another is that
Sim Fem still relies on America to
finance it's campaign of terror and
that the voyagers from Ireland will
be asked to revive in safe America
an aggressive enthusiasm for an an
archism that they have fed from.
Let us look to ourselves. With
out American dollars Sim F&inssm
probably long ago would have
ceased, many men and women now
dead would be walking the earth,
millions of damage would not have
occurred, and Ireland might now be
adjusting herself to the self-govern-
ment that Canada enjoys or be in a
peaceful state of evolution toward
that observation-disclosures.
Those who encourage Sim Fein
or Ulster extremists to continue the
tragedy of a hopeless guerrilla re-
volt assume serious responsibility.
Not only do they disregard the
American principle Of non-inter-
ference with the domestic affairs of
another country, but they may ask
themselves whether or not they are
aiding and abetting murder. Ap-
peals to help Ireland are alluring to
many, but the helping carries seri-
Gus consequences.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Selective immigration

The immigration bill passed both
houses at the last session and failed
to become law only because President
Wilson was able to give it a pocket
veto. 1t would have been passed owe,
an ordinary veto, because there was
much more than two-thirds ma
jority for it in both House and
Senate.
To clear up current misconceptions
it may again be remarked that the
bill is an emergency one and cX-
pires by limitation after a short
period, and that it IS not an exclu-
sion measure, as was the Johnson
bill, passed by the House last De-
cember. Immigrants are to be ad-
mitted from the countries of Europe,
including what was formerly Turkey
In Asia, to the extent Of 8 per cent
Of the number Of residents here of
the same origin, whether still aliens
or naturalized citizens. Using the
1910 census figures, the countries OF
northwestern Europe are entitled to
202,212 admissions annually. The
rest of Europe and what was for
merly Turkey in Asia are entitled to
153,249 admissions annually. With
the 1920 census population figures
available, these two quotas would in
crease. There is no bar on immi-
grafton from countries in this hem
isphere.
For an emergency measure these
provisions are liberal. They will
allow an annual inflow of perhaps
half a million aliens. In the dis
turbed conditions of to-day that is
certainly as large an annual incre-
ment as the United States can hope
to assimilate.
The present bill tries to strike a
new balance in immigration and to
make the task of Americanization
easier. 1t approaches the problem
from the political as we'll as the eco
nomical angle. 1t is better than ex.
clusion and better than a simple per-
centage limitation. In so far as it is
selective it marks desirable change
in national policy. We still need i'm
migrants. But quality immigration
is preferable to quantity immigra.
ton.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
General Pershing's New Job

The War Department has found
way to utilize the services of General
Pershing, who since the armistice
has been exercising largely ornamen-
tai functions. No general of our
army has ever had much to do in
time Of peace. Grant served as Sec
retary Of War for time, and so did
Sherman. But these periods of
active employment were brief. Sher-
man found so little to occupy him in
Washington that he went to St.
Louis to live. General Pershing has
recently been living on Long Island.
1t is held that an officer of lower
grade than full general ought to
occupy the position of chief of staff,
chiefly concerned with routine regu-
lar army administration. Work of a
broader character is to be given to
the ex-commander of the A. e. f.
AS head Of the grand headquarters
Of the army he is to organize the
military forces of the United States
so that they can be put at once on a
war footing. This work involves a
coordination of the regular army
with the National Guard and the or
ganized reserve and the preparation
of mobilization and strategic plans.
The general will have a staff of his
own, apparently taking over many Of
the duties which have heretofore
fallen on the War College. He will
be solely responsible for linking up
our peace organization with our war
organization.
One of the costly failures of Amer
lean military policy in the past has
been the lack of any preparation for
Shift from a peace basis to war
basis. In 1898, and again in 1917,
we had to grope our way in the dark
A problem requiring top-speed con-
slderation was thrown on Congress,
which is necessarily slows going. Con-
scription had to be fought for. The
new national army had to be created
and machinery to administer, eouip
and supply it had to be improvised.
No scheme of strategy had been out
lined in q oflvopco
1t is safer to put this task in the
hands of special body with entire
responsibility and nothing else to do.
Our new military policy is in the ex
perimental stage. But we know, at
least, that we cannot afford to 90
again through the unhappy expert
ence of 1917 and 1918. For more
than hundred years we neglected
Washington's advice to Congress in
1890: "To be prepared for war is
one of the most effectual means of
preserving peace" We paid dearly
for onx, folly, as every critical study
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
In the Name of Bacon

There seems to be something in
the name of Bacon that sends strong
men on the widest pursuits. 1t used
to be Francis Bacon, of the sixteenth
century, that held the eyes of the
cryptogram hounds. Now it is Roger
Bacon, of the thirteenth century,
whose lightest word is being trans
formed through half dozen shifts
IN the hope that something will be
proved thereby.
This new Baconian cult has points
IN its favor and points against it as
compared with the old Bacon Shake
speare madness. The worst feature
of its case is the uncertainty attach
ing to any manuscript which has
kicked about Europe from possessor
to possessor for more than five
centuries. The Francis Bacon be-
llevers at least had known docu-
ment to work upon, the Shakespeare
texts. These delivers into Roger
Bacon's intellectuals have first to
convince the world that their manu-
script is really the handiwork Of the
British monk. =
On the other hand, once the au-
thentlclty of the document is fixed
there is at least solid ground to
tread upon. The old Baconians not
only had to wrestle impossible
e'phers from reluctant pages-they
had to argue against every probabil-
lty OF character, motive and history.
Not so with Roger Bacon Here was
at least scientist writing about
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22

science; here, too, was an advanced
thinker accused Of black magic and
imprisoned for his wisdom. Roger
Bacon had tho mental equipment for
the sort Of labor credited to him and
he had some motive for concealing
his discoveries in cipher.
But how much Of the new asser-
tions as to his wisdom are far-drawn
inference and guess? Just what pro-
portion of the manuscript has been
decoded? And how strong is the
proof that Roger Bacon had any
thing to do with this particular
document? The learned gentlemen
in charge will have to pardon GER
tain crude skepticism in the lay pub
lie. In the name of Bacon almost
every conceivable intellectual folly
has been committed. No wonder the
whole world is from Missouri touch
ing this amiable and interesting
discovery.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
Immigrant Labor Needed
Scarcity of Manual Workers an Az.
gument for Non-Rcstrichcn
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The drastic immigration bill
killed by President Wilson has been re-
vivcd in the House and has the SUP.
port of the Secretary Of State. This bill
arbitrarily restricts the immigration Of
each nationality to per cent Of the
number of persons Of that nationsllty
here according to the 1910 census.
The principal result Of such q Law
will be to cut down our supply Of I'M.
migrant labor, so much needed In this
country for digging our mines, build
ing our roads, for farming, for manu-
featuring, as well as for domestic serv-
ice. Organized labor, which means
skilled labor, will not perform the
necessary manual labor on which our
economic structure is based, and Is OBJ
stinately blind to the law observable in
almost every industry: that the greater
the ease in accomplishing the unskillsd
or basic operations the greater the op'
portunities for the employment Of
skilled labor.
Members of Congress know this
Still they persist in opposing immigra'
tion for these two reasons: 81 Dificu'
ties of assimilation. CD The Req
menace. As to the first, would say
the fault is in the cheap teaching stsns
appointed to immigrant night schools
Decent salaries will give US teachers
able not only to attract Immigrant
but also to keep them until they have
learned English and the duties o.
citizenship.
AS to the menace of foreign radical
ism, the remedy is also simple. wheis'
sale deportation of aliens who endanset
our institutions or our moral STANDARD
Let it be we'll known here and abrosa
that while this country has no p'e'
udice against aliens, granting tnem
protection and access to all opportun'.
ties, those abusing our hospitality snu
plotting against our government ~.
institutions sign their own decree ''
immediate deportation.
n. BEHAR,
Managing Director, National LIBERIA
immigration League.
New York, April 90, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
State Income Tax Injustice
To the Editor of Th

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: have followed with ln'e's''
your efforts to induce the State LeS'''
lature to repeal the presen. unjust w
vision compelling residents OF the s's''
to pay taxes upon paper prohss 's's''
ing from the sale of securities OF os"N,
property, when as a matter OF fae' ''s'
may have registered an actual ioss
compared with the original cos'
such securities. =.
There is another injustice wn'en .
seems to me should be remedieo a. y.
same time, and that is the eSc''s'
of Federal income tax from the i''' '
legitimate deductions. To class - =
come the amount SO psid to the ~
cral government seems to me ve's
fair, as this constitutes just as nv.
a lien upon ones income as the luz. .s,.
est upon mortgages or other inoss.
ness. MARSTON L. booD
New York, April 20, 1921.
New-York tribune., 1921-04-22
The Mohansic Bill

A bill harmful to New York
which managed to slip through at
Albany on gumshoes permits the
sale Of the Mohansic State Reser-
walton, in the Croton watershed.
The Mohansic Reservation was
created In 1918 expressly to guard
this city's water supply from pollu-
ton from hospitals, public institu-
tions and concentration of popula-
SION in the territory it comprises.
1t was secured in the interest of
public health after a two years.