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

He gave his life for his nations sacred glory. .
Oh, hero dead honored of earth you rest
/ In peace, in immortal glory blessed!
What noble majesty within thy beauty Hest
Given of God, returned to His Paradise.
| Oh lovely trees, Kings of the Earth you stand,
In the glorious fullness of Gods lavish hand,
All, what more meet than that your majesty be
lent
In honor of our dead. a living sacrament?
And sound, as music with its measured tread,
AGown the years, pecan TO our dead!
CACTUS.
THREE years ago! We shall not soon for
get the date. Not that we welcomed the news
Of the armistice from the scant cover of some
shallow trench in France We used TO wish
passionately that were in france with the
| rest of the boys. NoW-Wel, knowing our
! frailties and weaknesses we fear we should
not enjoy being an honored hero. odd, isn't
it, that one should prefer being 1--we medl-
ocrity? Well three years ago We sat at
| the receiving end of a press wire and copied
| the flash that told the world the war was
! ended. 1t the end of an almost constant
vigil of As hours. During that vigil We busted
a fairly well kept resolutOn-not TO smoke
| any more-and we've been smoking ever since.
What did YOU do when you heard the news?
! Probably you were among the crowds who
paraded the streets, Historically joyful and
hilarious. Us? Well. you see. were a bit
tagged. We sat in the office and talked to a
man who had passed the age of becoming ex-
cited about anything Gf. indeed, he had ever
reached it, and then-we went home and TO
bed.
Three years agot And today they tell
ing US wars must not come again, ever.
Human nature is profound study, nest ce pas?
The Idea! George Was an Ardent
Pr0hibiiOnfSt-
From The Argus W. l. Page,
The tablet is a beautiful piece of work
and bears this inscription:
George Helgesin Fitch-1877-19l5.
Erected to the memory of George II.
Fitch. Galva's great lit-citizen.
MR. HARDING has been accused of split
ting infnitives and other crimes against the
W. k kings English and charged with
having written bad poetry in his youth. He
has corrected the infinitive habit somewhat but
the bad poetry still sticks with him. Witness
this couplet culed from the middle of his
Armstce Day address:
There have been q thousand defenses justly
and periodically made
A thousand OffenSeS which reason and right
eousness ought to have stayed"
The meter is about ten degrees beyond the
hendecasyIlabic but the rime is beyond
criticism.
WELL, EDITH. YOU SEE MARY WAS A BIT
RAMPANT, TOO.
Dear CDyum: Such expressions as these
were rampant in the account lin The Argus
OF the Mary Garden concert:
Having had been chosen" "a suspicion
of trace" seldom does noted an OPP
cratic singer chose" 'intersperse between"
"clinking of the jade bracelets which en-
circled the singers arm at opportune mo-
ment" more dramatic gestures were used
than ever have been used before (sWeeping
statement, Ell, what0 the audience want
ed more of it after Comm Thro' the Rye
What did they do? Drag the audience
through a wine cellar something? Not SO
good not good Then the matter of the
jade bracelets gives one to think They pos
sessed tender solcitude and sense of the
fitness or Things seldom TO be found in mani
mate objects EDITH A.
IF the editor of the GaIesburg Republican
Register is assaSsinated we shall not be sur
prised. Read the following and you'll agree
with us that homicide is justifable:
Funeral Services
FOR GODS SAKE
For Elias Clark
Funeral services for the late Elias
Spencer Clark, who died on Sunday
noon
THE Moline Dspatch epologized tothsr
day for making the statement in a story that
permission to distribute beer on hand for
medicinal purposes has been asked by the
Rock Island Pillow Co" Had the original story
attracted our attention suitable comment MIGHT
have been forthcoming; something, frinstance
about pillow shares -.
And Ten to One They'll Get a Little Wilder.
From the Peoria Ull.) Journal
Love and one little letter-.r''-sure /
made a lou or dlnerence in the name and
life OF one Peoria girl
She is, or was. Miss Hazel K Wilde
aged &c, of 322 Illinois avenue Today
marriage license was issued to her and
Charles L. Wilder, aged 26, 10Y FRYE
avenue
So from being single and Wilde she |
becomes bride and Wilder
LICENSED to wed: August Bartsch, Hills
dale; Freda Zeler, Hilsdale
1t Is evident" thinks A Iochinyar shat
commencing
Zs,- Vi A d
DON'T TRY TO KID THE COLONEL HE
KIDS HIMSELF BETTER THAN
ANYONE ELSE COULD DO IT
Sir: The leaves have mostly fallen fro,,, +bo
trees; the birds have migrated to a nfaassnt
climate The woods too, have the s6ber as
pect which marks the departure of Snm,ar
we lament and say. '"The melancholy DAYS
nave come But just in the midst of 60
gloomy forebodings Colonel Harvey taIks 60
nlore-and We laugh. 1t is nice to think there
Is one bright spot in the midst of gloon, ''eie
SOLOMON PIFFT,E.
HERE'S to those who had a "rendoz,o,,-
with DEATH and kept it gloriouslv,