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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
The Ethical Physician.

A Greene county, Indiana jury has awarded
DR.. George F. Smith verdict for SOS 900 dam
ages against four physicians who had con-
Quoted war of two years to destroy his prac-
tice and drive him out of town.
DR. Smith Immediately became popular and
successful on settling in the town of BicknelI
for the practice of his profession. His prac-
tce grew rapidly and he became wealthy. On
the grounds that he was not qualified by edu-
cation to practice medicine and on the basis
of charges that he was unethicaI Bicknell
rival physicians succeeded in having the state
license of Dr. Smith revoked.
1t was then that he brought suit The trial
lasted 10 days and attracted widespread at
tention. DR.. Smith sought to recover 500 Ooo
The four physicians who were made defendants
in the court action stand at the head of the
profession in their community Evidence
brought out at the trial showed that various
schemes were resorted TO by Dr. Smiths pro-
fesslonal rivals to destroy his standing in the
community. The war was persisted in until his
state license to practice was taken from him
Inc Smltn case Is not unusual among profess
slonal men. In professions other than medi-
cine we occasionally find instances where one
individual gains such Roadway in a community
that his contemporaries grow enyious of his
success and will stoop to unprofessional meth
Jus " ulSCieult HILL FOr instance, the DhVSi-
clan or dentist who employs newspaper adj
Vertlsing to get his name before the public is
considered unethical and if he resorts to this
method of building a business is considered
outside the pale of the legitimate practitioner.
This should not be so. The physician and
dentist just as well as the lawyer. or anv
other professional practitioner has the right
IN a free country to follow any respectable
course in building a place for himself /,
community where he decides TO locate Won
will notice that the lawyer who frowns on
the idea OF advertising his business in the
newspaper doesn't run away from the reporter
when he is asked for copy of speech that
he delivered on Decoration day The printing
of the speech doesn't cost him anything. Nor
does the average physician or dentist object
when the newspaper prints an item telling
about his attendance at a meeting OF his pro-
fessional brethren in some other state Ger
tainly not That is news. and it doesn't cost
him anything.
DR.. Smith probably did not live up strictly
to the ethics OF his profession, but he appears
to have convinced lot of folks that he knew
his business as medical practitioner Other
wise he would not have gained and held ma
tients. The best proof of a mans worth is
the good or harm he does. DR.. Smith appears
to have been a good doctor. his sin having
been in letting too many Of the old patients Of
his rivals learn the truth about him
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
The Cost of Strikes.

Within the space of very few words Cap
per's Weekly congresses powerful argument
against strikes. 1t says:
Every year since 1916 government records
show there have been an average Of 5000
strikes and 100 lockouts in the United States.
In three years Lass strikes have been won by
employers, 1857 by employees. 1885 have been
compromised, and in 353 the men have returned
to work pending arbitration. Strikes in 1919,
It is estimated, cost the workers more than
100000 900 and the employers more than ST.
5o0,oo0,o00. The railroad shopmens strike that
year alone cost the railroads more than $780,
100000 in earnings. That makes a strike loss
for the year of more than $4,000 900, 900, and
nobody knows what it cost the public. Like
war, strikes getting too expensive way
will have to be found to avoid them" What
Senator Cappers paper failed TO mention, to
make the case against strikes complete is that
they don't settle anything. The greater the
number of strikes the farther apart are en-
pIoyes and employers and the more difficult
The rational settlement of their differences
direct loss of more than 81 900 0O0, 900 in
n single years from strikes represents a loss
TO the nation of $40 per capita And, in the
end the public pays it all, Just as the public
and not the rulers and their cabinets and ad-
vfsors, pays the costs OF war The answer to
the question whether our existing civilization
is to stand fall will be found in the answer
10 the other question, whether we are to find a
way to settle our class and racial and nation
sIstic differences according to law and right
or whether We to continue to fight them
out Fighting them out will never settle them
But 1t will result in the moral and economic
bankruptcy of the fighters
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12

cadets will come into contact with the lives OF
enlisted men. General Macarthur does nothing
more than assert that a start has been made
but he believes that as the process Is carried
on the worst evils will be corrected
Bringing cadets into contact with enlisted
men will appeal to a civilian as one OF the
most important, reforms. West Point has It's
virtues. 1t is the only institution in the coun-
try of which it could be said that friends even
roommates. have remained throughout the four
years ignorant Of indeed uninterested in each
others social and financial status in the out
side world" West Point has q democracy OF
its own that is admirable. but it is democracy,
nevertheless which tends to hx in the mind OF
the graduate the idea that he is in place
above the man that is not West Pointer II
has made him unsympathetic with the enlisted
mans point OF view, a fact well attested in the
last war Education at West Point has whit
tied men to point instead of broadening them
II is now to be humanzed-and liberalized.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
The Farmers Viewpoint.

The farmers problem is the problem of
every man who suffers from lack OF business.
The man who sells his corn at net price of
some rs cents on land which cost him $500
per acre is all out of luck. Corn in Illinois
averages about fifty bushels an acre. 1t is in
many instances of inferior Equality. One case
has been cited in which a farmer who raises
bIooded hogs fed some corn to a valuable ami
NAL with the result that it died. An autopsy
developed that the death of the hog resulted
from poison it had absorbed from this corn.
What could the average business man
much as he may have suffered from the pre-
yailing depression-say if he had sustained an
experience like that? We do not wish TO in
any way contribute to the feeling of depres-
sion. In short. we feel that the worst is over
and that whatever changes take place from
now on will be for the better, but it might
be worth while for the rest of us to get the
farmers viewpoint and imagine what we would
do in his place Reduced freight rates will
help the farmer because it should add to the
price of his product. Let them come soon.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
Showing Up West Point.

The recent war focused upon the United
States military academy at West Point criti-
cisms that had long been made of 1t. Now
things are going to be different there 1t has
been charged that the institution has been
turning out young Prussian snobs West Point
graduates that have gone out into civil life
have recognized. if not the justice of the criti-
cism. the facts on which it is based They real
lied that there something about West
Point education that dehumanized men.
Civilians who served under West Pointers
in the war recognized 1t also Thew were
startled at the gulf that existed between off,
GERS and enlisted men and were equally amazed
at the West Point weakness for doing things
by rote Business men in emergencies often
proved themselves better officers than the high
ly trained West Point technicians The gov
erDment simply had to take note that some
thing was wrong with West Point education
The latest report OF General Douglas Mac
Arthur, superintendent OF the academy. indi-
Gates the lines along which reform lies
The academic board. which has been com
pairing the West Point curriculum with that of
other institutions, has recommended that teach
ing officers spend the first year OF their West
Point detail in civilian colleges specializing in
their subjects; that professors visit not less
than three other institutions annually for OBJ
servation and study, and that prominent men
be brought to West Point for lectures on gen.
eral subjects not related to military matters
Technical officers have been assigned to
the cadets barracks in order TO be in closer
Touch with the men. Heretofore corrections
have been made by correspondence. Summer
instructions Will be transferred from West
Foint 70 large army csrtpument where the
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
Cats and Beds.

II has just been discovered that the folding
bed is not an American invention. but was
known in ancient Egypt The Egyptians, how
ever, instead of being only too glad to forget
the dreadful objects soon as they could
move from the fat or boarding house into q
real home, loved their dear little folding beds
much that they had models of them put in
their tombs. presumably, in order that they
might be used by the happy departed. 1t wasn't
the poor girl in rented which had to
be a study by day, the family in the tiny
oyer-crowded apartment who used these beds
in Egypt either 1t the wealthy man,
the prince.
It's funny old world Some people say
that modern Americans are really the Egyp-
tians in later incarnation. But that wouldn't
explain why point of view has SO altered
in regard to the folding bed. or why now
throw bootiacks shoe-trees at cats. Or
did We perhaps long to throw things when
cats were sacred, and dared not, and to take
double Joy in showing our independence of
them now? Even drowning them, occasionally,
with few conscientious scrupIes, and those OF
different kind And the lady who left the
large legacy to care for cats sort of throw
back to her previous incarnation? And did
she like folding beds too? Or what?
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
Thr Unnthatnttp
/ HERE LIES MANS ANCIENT ENEMY.
| DILL Gaze.
WHO plsxNrEns TIE UNLovED cUsa
| BEWAREf
THE DAY AFTER.

PREDICTIONS of a former doughboy)
The tumult an the shoutiD' dies
Who was it writ that line?
No matter who.-but surmise
His views was bout like mine.
amt no cynic sort O. cuss
But, less miss my guess.
I'm sort of-oh-su- per-du-ous
Around these here U. S.
They've laid away that pal of ours
Old Glory was his shroud:
They banked him round with tons o. fow'rs
They cert'nly done him proud.
They talked nice bout tn boys who fell,
An many eyes growed dim:
That's as it should of been, but-well-
1t didn't waken HIM.
wouldn't crab nobodys game,
But why does folks forget
That lots of us,-some sick, some lame,
Some blind-are livin' yet?
amt no cynic sort o. cuss
But, less miss MY guess,
I'm sort of-oh--su- per- fu-ous
Around these here U. S.!
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12

to the townspeople. Somehow her
intended outIays seemed suddenly
puerile and paltry. She would go
home and finish the Job of setting
Andrews papers in order. Pos
sibIy this occupation would make
her uneasiness Dsubside and her
dreams of riotous living reappear
in all their original glitter and
glow She hoped so, at any rate.
Late that evening the little
dressmaker received a note that
made her eyes dance with delight.
1t was brief, but right to the point.
do not get the goods l ordered.
I think, after all, l will wear black
for awhile"
she found out" thought the lit
tie woman smilingly. She found
out that Andrew, like most of US,
had good points as we'll as bad
ones, though l have to admit that
he could be pretty aggravating
sometimes. l was pretty sure If
Helen ever found out all the good
he did. and in secret, too, never
once letting his left hand know
what the other was handing out.
shed change her mind and her
opinion.
IT rather think" she concluded.
that Aunt Betsy won't go to the
poorhouse yet, and that Adam will
have his chance"
In which conclusion time showed
she was correct
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
The Daily Short Story

comments. She asked if Helen was
going to stay in Maysville, and re
| ceIVed triumphant affirmative.
Yes, answered the widow, -
am; and, what is more to the ques,
/ ton, I'm going TO have the time Of
my life. I've many long years t
make up for"
! Here she detailed her intentions
! described the proposed change il
I her establishment, which betoken-
! ed large and luxurious entertain
ing, predicted garage and auto
mobile, this entalIing a chauffeur
and mentioned the wardrobe which
she intended TO accompany all
|, these luxuries. Her friend listened
gravely.
Then innOcently and (as far as
Helen ever knew without guile,
she asked if Helen had "hearu the
news lately
Not word" was the reply;
I've been in retirement. mourning
for Andrew, you know
Then, l don't s'pose," replied
the dressmGker, that you know
that. old Aunt Betsy is going to
the poorhouse Monday? They do
say" she proceeded, that someone,
no one seems 10 know just who,
that used to make her an allow
ance, has stopped il and she has no
other friend.
And you remember young Adam?
wen, mes a cripple, OF course, but
Just as bright as they make them.
ana mes been attending school in
hopes of getting N education anu
Eelplng his mother (she's a widow
maintain his big brood of younger
brothers and sisters; and thew do
say though how they know l can't
say mat the same one who helped
Old Aunt Betsy has been aiding
MIN, and can't any more. SO he has
10 quit and his mother is broken
hearted over it.
And the teacher at the high
school IS going to leave, and who
they'll get to fill his place is more
than l can tell or anyone else for
some good soul has been chinnin,
in to pay his salary, and that is
stopped, too.
The folks around here can't nav
any more taxes than thew are doine
now, and that means the school wiz
close down, and the youngsters will
have to put up with just grammar
school education.
There's lots of more things that
this unknown benafactor has been
doing, and they do say it means
lot OF harm to the village as well
as to some particular folks in it
But it can't be helped. as 1 can
see she concluded. with a depre-
eating smile
Helen walked home with an un-
easy mind. She began to wonder
who it was that had done SO much
mysterious good in the town and
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
The Safety of Raw Food.

Ok eUus
The public wholesale produce
market in a city of 100000 popula-
ton is visited daily by several
thousands of dealers and market
ers. Automobile trucks and horse
drawn vehicles loaded with vege-
tables, fruits, meats in great vari-
! ETY. stand in long lines at the curbs
while purchasers throng the mar
ket square dickering for stock.
From a purely business point of
view, it is an inspiring scene. From
a hygienic point of view it makes
one shudder. The sanitary condi-
tons are positively horrible. Flies
in swarms soar to and fro between
the accumulations about the gut
tiers and pavement and the carcas-
ses, dressed and undressed fowl,
and vegetables and fruits exposed
to the air and dust. The less clean
ly and intelligent marketers, large
ly foreign element, expectorate
Unfortunately about the market
place. l believe there is some jok-
er in the city ordinance dealing
with the exposure of food unscreen-
ed on the sidewalk before store,
but if there is such an ordinance
the health commissioner of the
town has not heard about it, so far
as the public wholesale market is
concerned. The pavements and
cutters about this wholesale mark
ct place reek with dirt and debris
of all kinds; the individual stall
keepers generally indulge in dry
sweeping. rising a choking cloud Of
dust that settles over every ex-
posed food material standing near,
and the sweepings are brushed out
into the street to blow about
which is one reason why the mar
ket place is the filthiest spot in a
city that is certainly very clean in
other spots.
Within the market are numbers
of dealers stalls grouped in a build
ing. Although there is an ample
roofage, these stalls are dim and
dark, and artificial lighting is used
all day. The filthy conditions that
prevail out in the open are not
darkness inside, but after your
eyes have grown accu stoned TO the
feeble light, you find conditions
just al NAoS uStluS LSi do III lAC
open, save that there is less dry
sweeping and a little less filth
blowing about in the form of dust.
But for a food market the sur
rCundings are frightfuk One would
scarcely enter such dirty, disrepu-
table building to look over swine
at a country fair-indeed. one
could find no such repulsive quar-
tiers provided for the animals at a
fair.
Although plate glass, white enam-
el, marble and nickle plate by no
means assure cleanliness or san
itary" conditions, one does like to
see the butcher who handles ones
meat wearing a reasonably clean
coat or apron and having reason
ably clean hands. One usually
finds the retail butcher striving to
maintain a reasonable degree of
cleanliness. Not so in this whole
sale produce market. There the
meat handlers seem to take pride
in a degree of uncleanliness which
matches the environment very
well. A branch of nationally
known meat packing firm has
quarters facing the market. and
the dirty clothes and filthy ways in
which the uncovered carcasses are
handled by the employees of that
firm would turn a squeamish stom-
ach against meat for a long time TO |
come.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
CHARITY.
By Anna COnnOrs.
Copyright, 1921, by Wheeler
syndicate Incl

Helen knew what all MaysvIlle
! was saying. She smiled saCIy and
a bit grimly as she thought OF it.
| She wondered what they would say
! If they could read her mind and
4 her Intentions
! How in the world will Helen
I get along without Andrew"
| That was the sun and substance
| of the general comment. She knew.
| She also knew what no one else
had ever suspected-that Andrew
Hanson had been to her a bene-
ficent tyrant.
Never in the long 10 years of
her married life had she had her
own way, even though it was only
the question OF a new hat or gown.
She had been too proud to confide
in anyone, so her little world had
always summed the situation I'D as
that of better judgment taking
the guidance.
He had, TO everyone's surprise,
LEFT in a 12-line will all his prop
erty TO his wife and had made her
executriX.
With more or -ess bitterness,
Helen had wondered at this tardy
act of confidence. She had never
had a dollar at d time in her we'd
ded life to cali her own, and now
all the money, all the land, was
hers to do with as she pleased.
She smiled again as she pictured
the CONSERVATION that would reign
in her neighbOrhOod when, as she
had decided and determined, the
human caterpillar should burst
forth into a gaudy and gorgeous
butterfly.
III make them open their eyes"
she thought, as she started for the
village dressmaker The will has
given them 10 days gossip, and if
| don't give them 10 times 10, then
Nmiss my guess, that's ALL"
The village dressmaker was more
than an artist in her line. She was
a big-hearted woman with a wise
and unworldly outlook-one whom
all trusted SO it was no wonder
that in few moments the over
charged emotions $50 long sup
presse6 Of her customer were ex-
pressing themselves in a burst of
confidence
Not a speck of mourning" she
began. For once in my life I'm
going to choose what l please and
wear what l like. You know, more
than anyone. because you have seen
Andrew choosing my things, that
1 never was consulted. Now I've
got to make up for a long season
Of horrid buds that I hated, and I'm /!
going TO begin right now
She specified her desires and the /!
tactful usteuerA made no adverse |
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12

The Argus Santa Claus Fund committee
soon will be laying its plans for spreading
happiness among the poor children of Rock
Island at Christmas. 1t is anticipated that the
list of poor little folks this year will be the
largest since the establishing of the Santa
Claus fund. 1t takes considerable money to
finance the poor childrens Christmas. You are
expected to help. 1t doesn't matter how much
you give, just so you give. Remember it's all
for the little folks who might miss the joys
5of Christmas but for the generosity and
thoughtfulness of you and your fellow citizens.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-12
HEALTH TALKS
BY William Brady, M. D
Noted Physician and Author.

The wonder is that we have sc
few fatalities from eating un'
cooked or rare meat and so little IN.
lection from eating raw fruits and
vegetables. We owe much to oul
natural immunity, but nothing te
sanitation in the market place.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Best Treat i'm the World.
Is warm mily fresh from the COW
good food, or is it better TO chill
it first to take off the animal heat
Does a healthy, vigorous person IN.
jure or weaken a frail person II
they sleep together? II. W.
Answep-Milk, fresh and warm
from the COW. is the most whole
some milk one can drink. A weak
er person Injuries the health and
vigor of a stronger person just as
much as a stronger one injuries the
health of q weaker one. 1t is better
for two persons to occupy separate
beds, twin beds, for instance, SO
that neither will disturb the 9th
er's rest nor divide any communl-
cable disease he may happen to
have.
Memory.
Is an irregular heart a cause OF
poor memory! 4. .. l..
Answer-No. But an impaired
heart muscle may be the cause OF a
failing memory.
The Flesh and Its Food
Is massage with flesh food use
full for developing the bust?
2. K. F.
Auswer-Massag does not de-
yelop any part of the body. There
is no such thing as a food in the
sense of an external application, of
course. Flesh can be fed only
through the natural process of di-
gestion, not by applying any sub
stance to the skin. A reader re-
Gently asked why some doctors ap-
ply olive oil or other oils in the
form of oil rubs if food is not alb
sorbed through the skin. That is
question in psychology rather
than physiology. There's no &C
counting for all the things doctors
do. 1 can only repeat that it is i'm
possible to nourish the human body
or any part of it by means of any
substance applied to the skin.
Five Eggs at 90 Cents.
Please tell me whether 1t is bad
for me to eat i've eggs every day
soft boiled. An optician who has
his desk in my fathers store says
ought not eat more than two
IN. M
Answer-For a growing, active
boy, five eggs a day are all right,
if his father is wealthy man. The
food value OF five eggs would be
about the same as that of FIVE
glasses of milk or five potatoes.
Get the Cad.
Our boy. aged Is, is underwegiht
and poorly developed. He has been
associated with a crowd of boys in
his class Seventh grade) who think
they must smoke cigarets in order
to be regular men. Our boy has
been using Cigarets for over a
year. He has been sickly all his
life. Is there not something We
can give him that will make him
sick of it? He will not give it up
willingly (Mrs. H. l.. L.
Answer-Yes, give him the CAD
That is the best remedy for this
showing OFF" Give it to him in
the knowledge of his Cigaret smok-
ing associates. The boy is either
weak or mentally defective.
If mentally defective he needs med
ical or institutional care. # NOR
ally weak, he needs firm discipline,
with a sting in it, right now.