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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08
The Westward March.

When the homesteaders in the earlier gen.
Grafton struck out for the west to overcome
a wild land peopled by savages and separated
by weary miles of inhospitable country from
the homes they left to put their fortunes to
the test in virgin acres they cut themselves
off from all of civilization except the frag-
ments of its comforts and conveniences they
could carry with them in their prairie schoon-
ers. The men carried rifles for human en-
emies as well as for game. The wagon train
formed into hollow square at night an
armed camp against lurking enemies. The
trail was marked by the whitening bones of
domestic animals which fell by the wayside.
Often rude cross marked the sepulchre of
some pioneer man or woman who had gone a
longer journey while making the trip.
Most of the dangers and many of the hard
ships which those pioneers struggled with will
not affect the % families which recently start
ed in automobile caravan from Brooklyn,
N Y, to Bull, in Idaho, some 1900 miles
away. The adventures of today travel in
their motor cars, perhaps the only rifle in the
party is a souvenir given to its leader by an
arms company. The Indians of the plains are
a subdued lot There are no herds of buffalo
to block the trail and incidentally to furnish
meat. Probably in the most desolate spot the
party finds more than one school boy in the
party will rig up a wireless receiving set when
camp is made and tell everybody the same
afternoon who won the days baseball games
The postofice will function on all rails. the
express messengers will travel in cars, not
ponies. The supply of gasoline and oil, not
forage for horses. will worry the commissary.
Like their predecessors, these journeyers
to new country are not poor. The men who
made the long overland trips in the SOS and
rNp rrl~~
were not given away any more than are auto
mobile trailers convertible in 10 minutes into
comfortable bungalow sleepers, for five per-
sons. Sophisticated as the age is, this excur-
sion back to the land stirs the interest Of
all Of it
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08
The Daily Short Story

two shoats running toward the or
chard
| They'll spoil the apples," de
SPARED Amelia
I'll call George" encouraged
Constance. going to the telephone
Amelia hurried out to the shef
and stirred up a pai1fuI OF mush
but porridge did not appeal to the
palates of the rooters-they had had
a Whit Of the wild.
When George arrived he and Con-
stance took to chasing one shoat
AT the heels of the pig they zig
tagged and spiralled, making mum
berless trips around the house and
barn, into the orchard. and at last
through the henyard wire In the
yard the three people succeeded in
corner1ng him, but to their eXasper-
ateG surprise he made a sudden dart
between Georges legs, making good
his escape, and starting with speed
Tor Darrytown. II miles away.
! When he might have reached that
township is still a matter of coniec-
ture, for pedestrian CHANGED along
and headed the runaway toward
home. When the man reached Lit
| tie Orchard farm he observed three
people sitting on the well curb, one
looking as though she had lost her
best friend; one laughing gleefulIy,
and young man pretending TO fill
himself with oxygen with his bicy-
! Gle pump
George went to assist the man,
who was flourishipg a long stick
at the shoat's nose
"A fine idea" acknowledged
George.
Git the point?" asked the man.
A pig must be drove in an oppo-
site direction-north for south. and
vice versa You got string?"
George happened to have a trout
line.
You hold the dumb thing" com
manded the man, I'll adjust the
string to his tail"
George succeeded in gripping the
dumb" things head. As the string
would not coalesce with the tail. it
was affixed to a hind leg.
where is your pig pen ?" demand
the wayi"
Inc man drew the string taut.
When 1t was slackened the pig
started on a home run" that would
nave done Babe Ruth credit.
Sausf1ed at last, the pig grunted
at MS porridge, and pig-like. the
other shoat came to feast with its
brother
Amelia came forward. extending
her hand. She was greeting Simeon
Rush.
II was constance who invited
simeon Rush into the house.
Ameila made herself hospitabIe,
cnaltlns and preparing a lunch.
inquired.
Yell, as fur as I know" frowned
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

TOTHER day Gf you wonder why we use
"t'other" instead of 1.-The other, cease your
wondering; use it because prefer it,
but to proceed: tother day Friend Rig, who
deity jumps from Pillar to Post in the Chicago
Post, captioned his colyum POETS DAY..
The colyum contained verse, both free and
abandoned, from six contribs; which caused us
to wonder at the singular possessive. Did the
sly Rig mean to insinuate that only one Of his
contribs was poet? But no matter. We
shall-at the dire risk OF being called a
(sic, sic-sic em, RiqD "copy-cat"-lift his
caption for todays colyum. 1t will At this
Mound of Mediocre Measures because the only
contributing poet is egoistic self eve
admit, of course, the well founded doubt that
we ARE poet)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08
In Memory of Heroes.

Seventeen states have about matured their
plans for memorial buildings to perpetuate the
memory of the American soldiers who died in
the World war. Unlike memorials erected
after previous wars those now contemplated
VIII serve some useful purpose. They will
combine beauty and reverence with useful
ness This same trend is evidenced in memo
Flais mat nave been proposed in England and
france The strictly monument type of memo
rlal appears to have nearly run its course Its
place is taken by memorial libraries hospi-
tals, audltoriums, stadiums and amphitheatres.
Two years from now, the University of Ilii-
nois expects to open 100000 athletic sta
dunn and recreational field. 1t will seat 750
the largest athletic plan of its kind in the
country. While this stadium is being financed
by the universtys students and alumni with
out state aid, it will be a memorial to every
Illinois soldier that died in the war. The
University of Kansas is erecting a similar
memorial stadium. Its first section is expect
od to be completed in time for the Kansas
Missouri football game in November The
University of Nebraska, with state and public
aid. is erecting a memorial gymnasium
Connecticut, for her state war memorial
is considering placing milestones ON her hign-
ways each stone engraved in honor of an in
dividual Connecticut man who made the SUI
preme sacrifice. Pennsylvania plans a giant
memorial bridge connecting the two parts of
the city of Harrisburg Indianapolis, which
already has one of the worlds five greatest
war monuments, will be the site Of 50 600
600 state memorial. Probably a Coliseum.
with memorial halls, auditoriums trophy
rooms and American Legion headquarters
Massachusetts, will build a similar structure
In Boston, in addition to monuments on the
battlefelds of France and arrangements for
permanently taking care of graves there Colo
RADIO has appropriated large sums for erection
of memorial armories. Virginia will build
100000 memorial library Utah contemplates
the same.
Some cities have planted shade tree for
each Of their soldier dead. This idea is spread
irg. One plan, now gathering much support,
proposes lining the Lincoln Highway from New
York harbor to the Golden Gate, and the Dixie
from Chicago to Florida, with memo
rial trees.
When Attila the Hun died he was buried
N an unknown river in a triple tomb with
alternate walls of gold, silver and iron. Slaves
who buried him were executed to keep the
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08
Autoboyogranhy.

wen, IOE q lillte DOy nave FEARS
father had a great deal to say
Here l am in the 18th chapter OF
my life thus far. and quite a hero
l have made of myself, too, / des-
say. But you know how that is,
fellows. A pretty ordinary person
is sure to swell to enormous pro-
portions when he happens to play
a role in history of his own or IAN
others writing. You will get the
idea / mean to convey when you
read Boswell's Life OF johnson.
Father has inflicted many chapters
of that on me at perverse times,
and I'll tell the world that Dr. Wat
son expatiating on the exploits of
the mighty Holmes had nothing on
that worm of a Boswell clacking
about his master. But now that l
have reached the end of my rope
and am about to go into a long,
well merited silence, by fathers de-
cision, don't mind confessing that
am really entitled to be CLASH
fed in the category of bilious
ness" nervous breakdown, blood
purifiers" rheumatism" 'tonics, F"
and colds; that is to say, there
| is no such thing. l have never
existed at all. l am just a char
acter in the book.
Now, fellows, get this clear and
straight. There is nothing fcti-
tious or unreal about father, as a
few brigands of the healing world
would have folks think. Father is
quite genuine and substantial, a
little too substantial, in fact, espe-
1lxy 70
verely with Stacker flesh and over
eating. And l am the child of my
father, but only his brain child.
However. be that neither here nor
there. l have been true to my
character. 1 fondly believe. for ia
Their has carefully edited every
chapter Of my biography this time,
and not a single protest has been
lodged with us by child specialist
"a boast we could not make when
we published our Autobiography
In making my final bow, prepara-
tory to departing into the where
fore whence l whithered, l venture
to express the hope that / may be
succeeded by a sort of child prod
igy-you remember, maybe, that
boy is a boy and a girl is just a
child in fathers lexicon-and that
this child may emulate my example
by writing her Autobiography as
a kind of Offset to my opus mag. In
a visionary way 1 foresee a com
plete series grazing the family
bookshelf one of these days, all
bearing the Brady imprint First
the Autobiography, then the
Autobiography, next an Autogirl-
ography, and maybe even a COM
Elementary volume on social hy-
giene for the older boys and girls.
Should that child prodigy under
take the sequel to my. work, her
life ought to possess the charm
of verisimilitude (oh, fellers. there's
a dandy word to roll off your
tongueD, for by some within of Ole
Lady Destiny father has been bless
ed, in actually, with nothing but
one child after another and nary
boy to warrum the cookies of his
heart Alas, the only boy dad ever
had was just Pigment of the imag-
nation, and now even the migrate
full Pigment fades from the picture,
happy in the assurances received
from so many little readers that his
preceptS have made not a few good
fathers and. mothers so much easier
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

Simeon.
DO you ever play checkers now
adays?" he asked at last
Not often; but 1 have our board
Lets play checkers, Amelia"
81 don't want to play unless you
play better than you used TO-" she
dcmurred.
iii do my best"
But she won the first game.
I'VE play too one-sided," she re-
VOTED. thinking about Lovey.
Give me one chance more, Amel-
ia" he entreated, smiling into her
eyes.
She won two games out of three
then she arose.
You don't play any better" she
reminded.
He grasped her hands, holding
them fast. She flinched, the word
coming involuntarily:
Lovely"
"Lovey left me three years ago
don't you know"
Il didn't know" she replied a lit
tie wistfully.
Amelia" he faItered. 81 wonder
if you will consider marrying me
now?"
She flashed him a smile, and in
it he saw a light he had never seen
in Loyey's eyes.
That night Amelia's beautiful face
beamed brightly in her new happi-
ness. There was a commingling of
humor in Ameiia's mental compost
ton. AS she gaZed at the sparkling
creature in the glass before her, she
said to it:
Amelia Babcock, today you
learned a valuable lesson at the
checkerboard; you know just how
to drive a pig"
The next day. however. Amelia
heard Simeon say to Constance:
IF I ken help it, ye amt goin' to
have no regrets, pretty little match
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08
THE ART OF DRIVING A PIG
By Clara c. Holmes.


Copyright, 1921. by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc.)
Not many folks in WILDLY know
it, but l did have one gentleman
friend, once" confided Miss Amelia
glancing up from her sewing.
With mischief cleaning in he,
roguish eyes, Constance asked:
"One experience was quite enough
for you, was it, Miss Amelia? 81
| We'll, l must say l was disap
pointed. 'Tisn't likely l shall b.
mistaken again"
Constance cast a fleeing glance
at the white face of the dressmaker
| With her great violet-blue eyes
Amelia might have been pretty haC
she possessed more spirit. AS it was
| she was so serious she seemed
taid.
Il wouldn't let my life be sad
dened by the loss of one mere man.
calculated Constance.
With a half smile Amelia fixed
her eyes on the girls face.
Some day, Constance, maybe you
will understand" she said gently
Constance's gay laugh rang out.
81 wonder if 1 remind you of how
you used to laugh with him ?" she
leased
Il was quiet; perhaps that was the
reason he took to lively Lovey ALL
ston."
"Lovey Allston!" repeated Con-
stance in surprise eff he got her
I'm glad."
Then Constance fell into abstrac-
ton, while Amelia continued remiu-
iscently:
When lived on Rock road a
young man from Darrytown used to
visit me. WILDLY folks never knew
what good friends Simeon Rush
and 1 got to be. I liked Simeon
awfully well, but 1 was too shy to
let him know. He and l used to
play checkers together
And when you won the game he
punished you by threatening to kiss
you. l suppose" persisted Cons
lance.
NO." responded Amelia. ct used
to be sorry to win so often. He was
sorry because / was sorry, / guess.
SO we stopped playing. He took to
counting Loyey. who never had any.
pity for him"
Constance changed the subject by
asking how she should finish the
collar of a blouse upon which she
was sewing During the following
week the older woman occasionally
revived the topic of her one ro-
nance. each time Constance flash
ing her an artfui, mischevious smile.
simeon married Lovey and they
began housekeeping in Darrytown"
this time she was inte--nted by
an unwelcome sound outside.
IF my pesky pigs aren't both
QUIT" exclaimed Amelia
Constance, at the window, saw
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

Can it be true that the boys and girls in
Rock Island are failing in their high school
work because of jazz music and autos? It's
the case in Cleveland according to Edward T.
Downer, the registrar of Western Reserve nm
sersity, who declares that out of 1900 grad
yates OF Cleveland high schools who applied
for admission to the college only Co., or 40
per cent, have been accepted. And he blamed
music and motors, jazz and joyridng Also he
thinks Cleveland conditions are typical of those
throughout the nation. The remedy? little
Rome discipline by father and mother.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
o. W. Stuff.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
o. w. Stuff.
! Please tell me is butter or sub.
stances that are greasy harmful tc
the stomach? lam a boy IA years
. old training for boxing. I've heard
certain people talking about the
matter and l wish to find out fol-
myself. L. T.
Answer-You can scarcely put
better food in your stomach than
! butter, my boy, for the stuff to
grow and thrive on. Also most
other greasy" things are fine food
You are making bad beginning in
your training-ask a good doctor
about diet, and don't pay any at
tention to the gossip of Tom, DICK
and Harry. Read up in good books
like How to Live. which you
should find in the public library
This book is by Professor Fisher
and DR.. Fisk, and is published by
Funk & Wagnalls, New York, n. Y.
A Disciple Suggests a Boil Remedy.
Is it permitted that an humble
layman approach your throne OF
medical knowledge? l dare, mere
with, to salaam myself into your
presence to convey to you 1nfor-
nation concerning a CURE, a SPE-
iCIFIC, that 1 have discovered.
Mankind if often afflicted with
pustulated prominences-often pus-
tulates- acquires pustules and suf-
fers therefrom. Happy were man
kind if mankind could prevent them
by correct living, correct diet, ct al.
but that is not the question.
What to do if a pustule begins
to pustulate = into a pustulated
prominence-what to do ere pus
formation ensues, while inf1amma-
ton is as yet the only manifesto
ton Me, l cure EN-.
1 had one show, lately, its incip-
lent stages on my proboscis, to
speak humorously, and l knew,
from previous experience, that if
it continued to develop and run its
accustomed course, l would be dis
figured by red-ended nose and
that l would regret it. l knew how
to cure it in it's incipiency. l had
used the plan with other incipient
pustules. l can handle them. l
cure them while they are yet young.
L Ills ID ItC L uO IL
l anoint the little infiamed, pus-
tulated area with common, ordinary
corn cure, that combination of salt
cylic % acid and a flux and holder
used to eat off the hardened. dead
cuticle over corns, etc, it having
no painful, nor injurious effects on
the live flesh. The influence imme-
diately penetrated into the pustule
and made it smart like the dickens.
1t cured it. 1 had it on only half
an hour-noon hour-and then
washed it off with alcohol so that
l could go out in public. The pus-
tule did not pustulate. 1t died.
What think you, doctor? Did it
cure me, or do l only mistakenly
think so? Yours in F. H & c.,
". A.
Answer-Several years ago so
great an authority as DR.. Buckley,
the dermatologist, suggested a sal
icylic acid ointment or paste for
treatment of boils.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

OF all the allied war fiers none was more
daring than Captain Anseleme Marchal of the
French army. Everyone expected him to be
killed In June, 1916, he flew from Nancy to
Berlin, dropped leaflets on the German capital,
proceeded onward disappeared and given
up for dead. But he had had forced landing.
was captured-and then escaped. More battle
exploits. The other day he killed while
driving an automobile at moderate speed. Food
for arguments for fatalists
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08
TID-BITS FOR
AUTO OWNERS

Never wash the hood while II Is
hot
increase in motor vehicle teeS
will bring New Jersey additional
revenue Of 81 100000 year.
California has gained 20 per cent
in automobile registration over the
first four months of last year.
The U. S. bureau OF mines esti-
mates GOO, 100000 gallons Of gaso-
line are lost annually by evapora-
ton.
Paris at last is regulating It's
traffic
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

grave secret Romans. commemorating their
war dead. gave the world memorial arches.
That the memorials we building IN honor
Of our war heroes are tending toward useful
structures. is evidence of an increasing
spirituality.
The boys who died in France need no marble
bronze
Their real memorial will be in the soul Of
America
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

We don't know why they are all doing it,
but we've seen it on Broadway, in New York,
and Market street, San Francisco, Second
avenue, Rock Island, and in Taylor Ridge and
Reynolds. We don't know why they're doing
it. They're all holding hands. Maybe because
the young doughboys brought the habit back
from France and the old doughboys contracted
the habit. OF course it isn't good etiquet--
but who cares for etiquet nowadays?
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08
HEALTH TAl KS
BY WILLIAM BRADY nd.

! to get along with. So long, folks.
Be good to your little boys. Re-
member they don't grow ON every
/ family tree Mind your dads, fell
lers. They don't all have little
boys. Your young friend.
| AUTO BOY OGRAPHY.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

Chicago has voted free text books for chill
dren and against 100000 Jail. With free
text books the city won't need such big Jail.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

The frantic effort of coal barons to prevent
the publication of profit statistics indicates
that they are still making expenses.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

Rockefeller attributes his success to golf.
Most men attribute their golf to success.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

Professor Einstein says American women
are lovely. How much easier it is to under
stand the professor when he cuts out theory
and gets down to fact.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

The prodigai son now stands on the corner
and watches the fattened calves.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

The modern girl thinks she's live wire.
Reformers say she is shocking.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-08

MERELY to preserve the typographical
balance of the colyum We quote Haywood
BrounS trenchant comment Mr.. Avery Hop
woods near-(but not near enough naughty
play. Getting Gertie's Carter:
"The only trouble" writes Haywood, ais
that Mr. Hopwood made his reputation as a
farce writer back in the days when the favorite
sport was skating on thin ice Since then
audiences have learned to swim"
LIMERICKS.
CWritten by Len the First. Hitherto
unpublishedD
Just at present 1 seem to be bested
And by many folks l am detested.
Still, I'm feeling serene,
For Bigbil and Lundin
Have assured me 1 can't be arrested.
As go on my great road inspection
There are times when I'm full of detection.
Yet 1t seems very clear
/ have nothing to fear,
For it's long ere another election.
. JUDY quotes a recent Trib. murder story
as follows: Sheriff Stanbush and Coroner
Kreighanse believe both were involved in the
shooting. They say the younger brother, how
ever, amuses the older one" Sounds reason
able. What, in these dreary post belum days,
could be more amusing than homicide?
WILLAMETTE.
tAs Lou Tellegen might write it)
do not like you, Geraldine:
You spoiled my little fishing trip.
AOu w oAOUA lnrS yOu are very mean.
Just yesterday all was serene,
Today feel have the pip.
l do not like you, Geraldine.
Why vent on me your nasty spleen?
Still, am glad l got the tip.
You've shown that you are very mean
To think! for you I once was keen,
And once we cuddled, lip to lip
do not like you, Geraldine!
stroked your hair of raven sheen.
held you close in loves fond grip
You've shown that you are very mean!
You who were my souls own queen.
Have wrecked our matrimonial ship
do not like you, Geraldinei
You've shown that you are very mean.
BACK in the dusty files of THE Melting
Pot" with which we used to adorn the edito-
rial page OF the old Daily Union, we find the
following lines. They suit us better than any
hing We could write today. Besides, we have
duty for pleasure and time presses
TEMPTATION.
At times obeying the decree
OF fellowship's demand
Becomes quite difficult for me-
But 1t may not be banned
So obey, though conscience fails
Tells me I'm doing wrong
And then temptation me assails;
DiminutiVe but strong.
tbs hard. but duty must be done:
Engagements one must keep.
don my coat-but It's no fun
To hear my tempter weep
That voice-a trembling birdlike note
Upraised in fearful plea:
20. daddy, p'ease take of you coat
An stay at home Wit mel"
All. little son, in future years
If life should go awry;
Your joys and griefs. your hopes and fears.
Well share them, you and l.
From you 1 shant be too remote
To hear and grant that plea
%, daddy. p'ease take off you coat
An stay at home wifi me-"
NOW we shall achieve the best line of to-
avs colyum.
THIS is the end. RE M,c