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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
|EINSTEIN VIEW
EVEN BATTLES
u. S. SENATORS
Theory of Relatiuity
Beyond Con,pre-
hension.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.
Especial to The Argus.)

Washington, April 20.-The ma
tional capital has been treated to
a surprise. 1t always assumed
that no matter what the subject
or what the occurrence either in
the realm Of politics or science
surely there was no limit to the
c0mprehensions of United States
senators. But none other then
John Sharp Williams, Democratic
senator from Mississippi, and Boies
Penrose, Republican senator from
Pennsylvania. have publicly con-
fessed that they DO not understand
the theory OF RELATIVELY PROFOUND
ed by Professor Einstein. And
what is even more shocking, they
have gone 80 far as to suggest that
they didn't believe anybody else
either inside or outside Of the sen-
ate understood the thing either.
This is how 1t happened:
Senator Williams is talking about
the steam roller" which the Re-
publicans admit they are about to
apply over the heads of their Demo-
cratic brethren in the matter of
appointing committees in the SEN
ate. Says Mr.. Williams with his
far-famed eloquence:
II understand how q great intel
lect can roll over common plebian
minds. / understand how q great
scientist like Isaac Newton could
bring into the world a new prin-
ciple that would control mankind
forever. But l do not understand
how a political steam roller can
control a Democratic country OF
tolerably intelligent people. Mark
you, did not say intelligent
people, said tolerably intelligent
people. I recognize that IS out OF
100 men are not very intelligent
at all, but I do not understand how
partisan steam roller without any
spiritual attributes, without any
scientific attributes, without any
Intellectual attributes, without any
moral excellency, merely the ex-
cellency in membership in some So
called party, could manage to con-
troll a country which imagines IT,
self Intellectual l say 'imagines
itself because judging by the past
election, it has got q long way to
60 to know 1t is intelligent"
Asks for Views.
Mr.. Penrose replies thus:
"The senator referred very elo.
quently to Newton and others who
have contributed to science.
know the senate would patiently
listen to him II he would explai.
his views ON Einstein's theory O
|. relativity."
Mr.. Williams answers:
Il have long contended that tn
wittiest, the vaguest and the mos
indefinite man in this body is thu
senator from Pennsylvania but
did not know until this mornin.
that he could discover anything
more vague or indefinite than him
! self. I frankly confess that I d.
not understand Einstein. l frank
ly confess that l do not believe tn
senator from Pennsylvania under
stands Einstein. I frankly confess
that I do not believe the senate
from Connecticut (Mr. Brandegee
would even contend that he under
| (Confiuuad m ps~n Hourl
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
bATTLEF0R
MAYOR WON
BY VETERAN
Col. Greene Wins Contest
in AWora-Women
Lose in Tullula.

Aurora, ILL.,, April 20.-Colonel
Charles Greene, World war vet
eran, running as an independent,
was elected mayor Of Aurora yes
terday by $50 votes over Mayor
Charles Townsend Uabor) in the
largest vote ever cast in Aurora.
The women vote put Colonel
Greene over the top. The fair folks
gave him a majority Of 1,102. He
lost the men by $50. The total vote
was 16,140.
Colonel Greene has been with the
Illinois National Guard for q years
and is former commander of the
I29th Illinois. He served overseas
He enlisted in the old 3rd Illinois
over a quarter Of a century ago a.
a private.
During the campaign, the hot.
test ever contested in Aurora, Co.
lionel Greene declared the mora
issue was predominant, while May
or Townsend insisted that the fighI
against public utilities was pre-
dominant. Colonel Greene pledged
in his campaign that "a black ant
tan district" would be wiped ou
! if he were elected.
Carries ROckdale.
Joliet, ILL.,, April 20.-Frank Gas
perdoric, % years OF age, believet
to be Illinois youngest candidate
for mayor, was elected mayor o
Rockdale, q suburb of Joliet, yes
| terday by a heavy majority owe
Peter Cramer, a former mayor.
Salary Involved.
| Danville, ILL.,, April 20.-John A
Heaton was reelected mayor
Hoopeston, this county, yesterday
by q majority Of 203 over his op
ponent, Gilbert Trego. Both can
didates opposed raising the salar
OF the mayor from so cents a yeal
and the aldermen from rs cents an
nually.
A proposal to increase the salar
Of the mayor to s. and alderme
to 81 a session raised q storm G
protest. The old salaries had bee
an advertising asset for the cit
for more than quarter Of a cen
tury.
Women Lose.
Springfield, ILL.,, April 20.-Th
women lost, in what is believed th
first waman-against-man electio
in Illinois, yesterday. The polls q
Tallula, IS miles north OF here. i
Menard county, witnessed an ou1
pouring of almost the entire vot
but the count showed the wome
lacking AZ votes. Mrs. s. Sha'
headed the Woman's ticket, whic
was dubbed Citizens Numbe
two"
+! sCans" Commission.
! Lincoln, ILL.,. April 20.-Afte
eight years under the commissio
form of government, this city ye:
terday elected a mayor and boar
of aldermen. Matthias Stolt wa
named mayor.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
Plan new FORM
FOR BANK CALL
Comptroller Of Currency Working
Out Scheme for More Stand.
ardized System.

Warrington, April 20. "A Nv
and simplified form of bank call is
being worked out by the comptrol-
Ter of the currency, treasury Off
cials said today. The old form on
which the national banks were re-
Quired to make the statutory re-
turns as to condition, officials ex-
planned, was found 70 be too involv-
ed and lengthy, and it is expected
that the new form will be more
standardized and but half as long
as the present one.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
WALKS MILESTo
WE'D HIS BRIDE

Chicago. April 20.-The wedding
Of Miss Catherine Wernie of Green
Vile, ILL.,, was delayed last night at
Freeport because her bridegroom,
William A. Schneu. was on q train
blockaded by snow in Wisconsin.
Schneu got OF the train and walk
ed % miles through the snow to
claim his hE3dA
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
may REJECT
DEMAND FOR
SUNNI BANK
No Reply to Allies Filed
as Yet by Cabinet, but
Refusal Likely.

Berlin, April 20.-(By the As
sociated Press.)-While the German
cabinet has not yet indicated the
nature of its reply to the repara-
ton commissions demand that the
German gold reserve be transferred
to some point in the occupied zone,
President Havenstein Of the Reichs-
bank and the financial writers SUM-
marily reject the proposition.
They take the ground that the
gold is not only the property OF a
private bank, but that its removal
from Berlin under the conditions
named would result in the collapse
Of German currency at home and
abroad.
The experts assert that such a
program would work havoc with
German economic interests and
promptly result in an advance OF
all commodities to fabulous prices.
President Havenstein declares
that serious consideration of the
proposition by the cabinet would
be a mere waste of time, and doubts
whether any government could be
found in Germany which would ac
cede to the entente's demand.
THE impossible is impossible
that is all there is to it." said Herr
Havenstein.
Want German Labor.
Paris, April 19.-Discussing the
budget for the devastated regions
in the chamber of deputies, today
Louis Loucheur, minister for the
Liberated Regions. said II Germany
furnished labor for the reconstruc.
ton of devastated regions he saw
no reason why the aid Of the Ger.
mans should not be employed in
the mines in northern France In
producing coal
M. -Loucheur said that out Of ths
hundred and forty mines shafts q
great number had been destroyed
and also $500 kdlometers Of tun'
neling and galleries in the mines
had been ruined, but that the out
put of the mines, which was IS.
! 100000 tons annually before thu
war, would reach 100000 tons il
1921.
The minister said the complet;
restoration of the mines would oc
cupy ten years.
Issue License.
! New York, April 20.-A licens'
to do business in German ports q!
q basis of equality with German
controlled companies, has been l.
sued by Germany to the America,
Line Of steamships, it was announ
ced by the International Mercan
tile Marine company. Previous u
this license. an official Of the com
pany said certain restrictions ha<
been imposed on the American lin
because Of the existence Of a tech
nical state of war.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
french PROUD
OF EFFECT|vES
Hillary Class Of 1921, Called to
Colors, Register High Per
Cent for Service.

Paris, April 20.-Reports show
mat the military class of 1921, call
@ to the colors during April, has
Yielded 100000 men, which is more
nan Is per cent Of youths 20 years
Of ase who are subject to military
sefvtce. This is the first time that
sueh q high percentage Of effec-
yves have been secured, and news
papers attribute it to a decrease in
lae use OF alcohol, the spread OF
,pots in France, and improved
uslng conditions on French farms,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
PRICE OF ALFALFA.

=. Champaign, ILL.,. April 20.-When
milk is selling for 50 . hundred
POUNDS, alfalfa hay is worth $25 a
1a more than timothy as feed for
aaify cows. announces W. ]. Fra
Nr. professor Of dairy farming at
.0e University Of Illinois, as q re-
pleted.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
THE WEATHER

us showers and probably thunder
'rms this afternoon and tonight.
warmer tonight; Thursday, fair
>1u w. cooler; strong, shifting winds.
-. .ngnest temperature yesterday,
Y, lowest last night, So.
pr hour.
Precipitation. none.
l2m. 7p.m. Tam.
yes.er. yester. today
~ oulb temp. .65 66 IS
n ns. Dulb temp. 81 "a ~
As,auve humid. SO 46 62
y ~ver stage, Ga; a rise Of 2 last
River Forecast
h .ae Mississippi river from be-
y" DUBUQUE to Muscatine will
Aose but little for several days,
II. c. FRANKENFIELD,
Meteorologist
RIVER STAGES.
.,s sD.s.enport. J. Iowa, April 2o.-Lev.
c'clocs VI tne M Mississippi river at {
iosk k this morning, were as fol.
rraul, ~. (fall Of 0.1).
.pIIosse. SIS. (fall Of 0.1).
en fie du Chen, rs. (rise ol
.Iss@Duque, S.4. (no change).
n..sire, So, (rise Of 0.2).
E..snport, 81. (rise of 0.2).
Auk, 70. (rise Of 0.2).
~. River Forecast.
fbvT T r. mississippi river from be
n.,p punuque to Muscatine vii
out little for several days
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
TWO METHODIST
PASTORS taken

Des Moines, Iowa, April 20.-Rev.
DR.. J. F. st. Clair. one Of the most
widely known Methodist ministers
in the state, died late last night At
q hospital. He had been i'll about
five weeks.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20
MAGEE PASSES,

Sioux City. Iowa. April 2o.-Rey.
J. C. Magee. many years promin-
ent in northwest lows Methodist
Episcopal church circles, died at
Long Beach. Calif., Monday, 90
cording to word received here.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-04-20

Continued ON Page Four).
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14

FIVE-room basement apartment
sos F.. 18th ST., $40.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14
FOR SALE-LrESToCK

FOR SALE-or exchange for wcan.
cr- or yrarlinEr. II had young rilch
cows. frcsh and coming frcah. SIS rcr
head. favorable terms to tho right
party =. II. Prathcr. Howard. Colo.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14

NEWLY furnished rooms for lieh
housekeeping. modern. Walking dis
tance of town. Adults only. III r.. sth
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14

TWO rooms nicely furnished. mod
arm apartment. Raymond Apartment
3OIt. n. Santa Fe,
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14

WAETFD-A Ford ton truck. will
pay $50 cash and $50 monthly. 62C
t. bth.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14

FOR RENT-FURN'ED APTs. g
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14
THE PUEBLO CHIEFTAIN
TON RENT 10
MISCELLANEOUS

FOR RENT-Warehouse
With trackage. Zang Co.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14

TWO ROOMS furnished; phone
245T NJ.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14
FOUND

FOUND-Saturday on Rye Road.
Coat. First National check book in
pocket. lapel pin epameled, bearing
Cross ensiEna. Call at Raglo & Co. ]
and pay for this add.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14
fI,,stlers

Exclusive Agents
rhor, ftai-v Res rtore -s,i
go = santa Fe
FOR SALE strictly modern houses
e rcniu- each and inrsr basement. ~
.it-S sittn Berkeley Avenue see own
sr al ii,0 Berkeley Avenue.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14
EAST SIDE HOME

FOR SALE-Account of death: :
modern 12-room brick residence. good
condition, barn. garage. terms. 215
Block /.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14
WANTED-AUToMoBILEs

WE will buy your old auto for cash
We stand behind our offers. Big 1
Auto wrecking house. l1o N. Santa Fe
Phone +97.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14

FOR REST-isic Beuiah apartment.
I rooms. Si1.c.,
FOR sAI.E-ware house. down town
between ith and sth. ahou; a. feet w
IS. $500.
on CAEIISF
1850 buys ; room frame On Center
modern except heat House In excel
lent condition. The location makes
this a valuable property.
EAST EIGHTH
room strictly modern. $3.50
WEST i-TH-Gopp LOCATION
rooms. modern except heat, WIZ,
On reasonable terms
THOMAS =. DowSrS,
1,1 Thatcher Elds
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14

FfVE-rocm mod. home. or acres
wost Of City Park. terms or trade.
Phone .sss-S.J.
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14
East Side Bungalow

sroom pressed brick and slr.pirF
porch. euii,-ir rsrarss ultra modern
all drarsrlca electric lisht fixtures.
electric Kitchen rarE9 En In deal
rars~ lott. beautiful i,ou sri very
exclusive n.ishbcrhccd. nrNo down
rric, t'Nc Located i7nn block Fnst
tish,h
Pueblo chieftain., 1921-09-14

THREE E-ROOM, steam heated, fur
nished apartment. also sleeping room
21S East Third.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-20
2 arty Was Wild;
Licenses Now to
Regulate Dances

Connellsville, Pa, Jan. 20.-Re-
ports coming to Chief Of Police
Thomas Mcdonald concerning a
party held at Liederkranz Hall on
Nnw Years night have put the lid
on dancing in this city without a
police permit Reports of the New
Years dance differ in detail, but
all characterize the party as a
wild one" and it is even hinted
that some Of the doings in ancient
Babylon hadn't much on the New
Years hep. Whether the reports
are true is not clear, but the police
have received enough information
concerning this select affair, they
say, to justify them in closing down
the lid tight.
Hereafter all dances, public, so
ctal and private, will have to be
within the law Chief Mcdonald
said, and a permit for any dance
must be obtained. The Chief fur
ther declared that all hall owners
and dancing masters would have to
procure city licenses.
The City Council has just passed
an ordinance, now in effect, clos
ing all pool rooms in the city at
II O'Clock, and prohibiting gamb-
ling of any kind in these rooms.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-20
Restoring the Inauisition

The destruction Of that personal liberty and individual
freedom for which foefahers fought and which has
made America the Mecca of the oppressed of all nations
would be complete if the nquson bill introduced by Senator
Farrell of Manomah for the enforcement of the prohibition
law were enacted by the legislature.
Among other things the bills provide search without
warrant by any peace officer of any building premises
vehicle suspecon and the seizure of receptacle
vehicle, auto boat airpane used in transporting inOX
eating liquors ingredients for their manufacture
No home would be safe from intrusion by suspicious busy
bodies under these bills and alcohol be made from
plant that grows any vehicle conveying farm products
could be seized suspicion Sugar could be carried from
the grocery apples from the orchard potatoes from the gar
den without violating the letter of the law carrying
sache or package the street could be stopped and
have It opened by official Of the dispensaon
These bills would of upset the existing machinery
for prohibition enforcement and the state prohibition
missioner would dspace the district attorney prosecutor
both before grand jues and trials well replace the
sheriff and his deputies constables the police and other
peace Officers. No bond is required Of the prohibition
fOrcer and the public is without law from their
yng interference and arrests for they accountable
only to themselves
The clearly unconstitutional for the
sttution expressly provides he right of the people be
i'll their persons houses papers and effects against
warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported
by oath affirmation and particularly describing the place
10 be searched and the person things to be seized"
But what is the constitution to your jealous prohibition
t who seeks to make the world conform to his ideas
Ind regulate everybody's habits?
The presentation of these bills confession the part
)f the author that prohibition enforcement failure in
prohibition state. Otherwise such drastic proposals would
not be submitted.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-20
A Tariff for PrOfiteers

A dscouragng spectacle of greed is being staged at
Washington where industries of all kinds camoring
protective tariff from 100 percent to 400 percent higher
than the schedules of the Payne-Aldrch tariff bill
Among those demanding tariffs for enrichment is the
glass trust Of the worst of the profees which asks
400 percent tariff against the competition of little ruined
Belgium In fact nearly all the great American trusts have
sent obbes to build such high tariff wall about the United
States that American foreign would be wiped
and the cost of living tremendously increased
The effort for tariff is nothing less than an
attempt to pepeuae profits at the expense the
sumers 1t is indeed tariff for the benefit of proeer
for most of those seeking protection those who have
made fabulous profits during the past few years and would
continue mulcting the people
high tariff will retard if not prevent the rehabilitation
of Europe and increase the chaos prevailing there which
will react upon America 1t will deny Europe the cooper
alton which should be forthcoming to a ssist in the
establishment of stability and firmly establish this nation
as the most greedy and selfish the face of the globe
American industry is not in the infant stage and needs
no government pap to hold its 1t need not fear the
competition of bankrupt and ruined Europe In fact such
competition is the only guarantee the people possess against
the rapaciy of the profteers The workman has into
his abroad and wages there approximate those here so
the bogy of competition with pauper labor does
not apply.
Europe must be given chance to ecuperae and pay her
debts Before the American profteer is firmly fixed or his
.horne to rule in perpetuity.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-20
Youths Confess
Thefts; Chicago
Guards Disband

Chicago, Jan 20-Vigilance com
mittees in Hyde Park, the exclusive
south side residential quarter
which Includes the University OF
Chicago, disbanded today after
four youths had confessed they
committed more than 100 robber-
les.
I'VE worked regularly six nights
a week said Fred Loomis, is
years old, one of the quartet. Two
other youths are sought.
Besides robbing, the youths add
ed kidnapping to their trade. fire.
quently tearing university girls
from their campus escorts for an
Involuntary motor ride. Numerous
male victims were kidnapped and
robbed.
Although displaying weapons the
robbers We're invariable polite
They usually gave the victim car
fare and hade him a courteous
good night
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-20
Just Folks
by EDGAR A. GUEST
(Copyrighted)

Thought.
Not lay the deeds which we have
done,
The temples reared, for 'hey
shall pass
Aud newer temples be begun,
Shall we Impress life's changing
mass.
Our earthly progress must he
wrought
In the more lasting realm of
thought
The history of the world is based
On many a people overthrown,
Whose hope Of permanence was
placed
In massive piles OF brick and
stone:
Yet they went tottering Ger tho
brink
When humankind began to think.
Thought is the power which sways
us all.
And shall unto the end OF time,
Before il every wrong must fan.
And base beginnings grow sub
lime:
wan human thought and human
will
There's no such thing as standing
still.
Not 10y our skiIlful hands and
strong
Shall we escape ohlivion's night
hut as we've upward moved along
Ia thinking clear and thirLjrc
right.
We shall grow great as We have
taught
our young 10 brave the realms Of
thought.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-01-20


, pals. Yet, he was considered clev-
er and amusing where people
gathered; he interested men with
out eyoliing their personal sympa-
thy; he Interested women intensely
with his unusual good looks and
the light. elusive quality of his
intelligence.
Always amiably suave, graceful
of movement. alert and Considerate
of feminine fanCies. moods and ca
prices, he was welcomed every
where by them in the circles which
he sauntered into. But he was
merely accepted by them.
So, in spite of his resentment at
what Grismer had done. Cleland
felt slightly sorry for this friend
less man. For Grismers was a
solitary soul. and Cleland. who had
suffered from loneliness enough
to understand it. gradually became
conscious of the intense loneliness
OF this man. even amid his popu-
larity with women and their SYM
pathetic and sentimental curiousity
concerning him.
But no man seemed to care for
s'loser intimacy with Grismer than
friendly acqualntanceship offer
sd. There was something about
him that did not seem to attract
or invite mems careless comrads-
ship or confidence.
ITS those floating golden specks
in his eyes" said Better, discuss
eng him one day with Cleland
He's altogether too auriferous
and graceful to be entirely genu-
me, ClelOnd-too easy and too
tomned bland. Poor beggar. have
you noticed how shabby and shiny
he's getting? 1 guess he's down
and out for fair financially.
Cleland noticed il. The mans
linen was visihly frayed. His
clothes. too. BETRAYED his meager
circumstances, Yet he wore them
SO well, and there was such a /.
courtly indifference in the man. f.
hat the shabby effect seemed due
10 sort OF noble carelessnesS.
ClelaUd had never called on
irismcr HE had no inclination 20
TO So, no particular reason eNcept
nat GrisWer had invited him sey-
'r1i times. Yet. am uneasy curios-
iy lUrked within him concerning
iriSmer's abode and whether Ste T
'hlnie. always sercugIy uucorveu-
ioEll ever went there.