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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10

ton was deliberately started. and that was
where the trouble began. You can't debate
everyone at the same time. and as a result
those classes which were debated first bitterly
denounced the other classes which were feel
ing the deiation only slightly. The large bank
ers, especially in Chicago. seem to be deter
mined to keep on with the deHation program.
believing that this is the only way to thaw out
frozen credit. Apparently they are ignorant
the fact that the bulk of frozen credits are not
thawed out during the panic itself. but await
the sunshine OF a returning prosperity"
The big bankers have been blamed for many
things during the past generation, and doubt
less their actions have not always been free
from criticism But 1t should be borne in mind
that it Is always easy TO make sweeping gen.
eral charges, but not so easy to prove them.
The Farmer charges in effect that The big
bankers are responsible for the present low
prices OF grain and other raw materials, and
that they deliberately brought this situation
about because they felt that the nation needed
a lesson in morality. This we do not believe.
The imitation that prevailed prior to December.
1919, could not have continued much longer
without disaster to the nation, and it is only
fair to assume that whatever influence the big
bankers exerted on the dehation was exerted
best possible way. The bankers are as much
interested in the prosperity of the nation as
any other element of the population.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10
Modern Rip Van Wrinkle.

Dan Murphy, serving life sentence in the
South Carolina penitentiary, has just taken his
first auto ride and seen his first moving pic
ture show! 1t was the first time he had been
outside the prison in more than twenty years.
The world has changed lot in those two de-
cades. Dan had read about the changes But
MS sensations and amazement he gaped
about him demonstrated that actually seeing a
thing is 400 times as effective as merely read
ing about it. Dams outing, in custody of prison
officials, lasted only a few hours A brief
glimpse at startling changes Back to his cell.
The iron doors changed shut on a world as
strange to him it would be to you if when
you go to bed tonight, you were to keep on
sleeping 20 years and wake in 1941..
Murphy on his trip was like a boy at his
first circus. The moving picture phenomenon
amazed him most. The modern movie fan has
been educated to follow the progress of the
film story, but Dan Murphy never had The
latest vision pictures had to be explained to
him. The quick jumps from one scene to the
other beWlldered him. Those who watched him
as his mind OF a generation back forced itself
into tracks made by the modern scientist
learned a lot about the psychology of cinema
Biography. The movies have battered mau's
Dran-intensifed its power to grasp and asso-
ciate. and whipped up its speed.
Murphy, probably has had the last great
thrill of his life, for he's white haired Is wears
old. Thirty years ago he was sentenced to die
for murder. The governor committed him to
life imprisonment. But Dan got away. lie
sawed the bars and fed to the Philippines
where he joined the United States cavalry.
Later. in Georgia, he got in trouble and landed
on the chain gang. Recognized, he was re-
turned to the South Carolina penitentiary 1t
was hard to go back. But consider how diff
cult and heart-rendng it must have been to
return to prison this time after brief glimpse
at such wonders as autos and movies. In the
years that lie ahead Dan Murphy will have one
great memory. But after all, would he have
been happier if he had not seen the wonders
OF the free outside world thai is no more a mart
OF his life than our world is to the man on
Mars?
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10
The World Needs It.

1t is claimed that the greatest need OF Janar
today is Christianity. This may be true hut
Is It any truer of Japan than of anv other
country or government? Before the great war
1t was generally supposed that the allies were
all christian and they all did to some extent
profess it. but did they apply the PRINCIPLES
and the ethics of Christianity! At the begin
ming OF that war how largely Christian was the
German government? To what extent did the
actual principles Of Christianity dominate the
other nations? Could that war have been IL
all the governments involved had been truly
and sincerely Christian?
The forthcoming disarmament conference.
VIII be another great test of whether the ma
IONS are really ready to adopt Christian meth
DDS OF adjusting their difficulties and Tins nj,
the blessing that is presumed to attach 10
peacemakers. But there is no denving the
truth of the statement that Japan and ALI the
oIner nations need to become inbued to
larger degree with that spirit of forbearance
mercy and justice that characterized the great
FOUNDER of Christianity. No government vet
mas too much of that spirit The world needs
20 turn It's back on the demoniac spirit OF war
nate and selhshness and face and welcome the
tove OF mankind that dominated the life of
Christ "a
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10

Governor Len Small yesterday did what he
should have done weeks ago when indictments
were returned against him by the Sangamon
county grand jury alleging that he had embez-
.zied funds belonging to the state while he filled
the Office of treasurer. He submitted to arrest
Thy the sheriff at Springfield and gave bonds
Ito insure his appearance for trial at the Sep
TENDER term of the circuit court. Thus the
governor submits to legal Formally after
weeks of hippodroming, during which he at
tempted to place himself beyond the reach Of
the courts mandates, even allowing threats to
be made in his behalf that there might be a
isummoning of the state militia in the event
that the sheriff sought to perform his duty in
serving the warrant of the court.
The case has brought the great state of
Illinois a lot of unpleasant notoriety 1t was
bad enough when grand jury returned in
dictments against the head of the state gov
eminent, but when that parsonage assumed
that he was above the laws ruling the state
that had honored him with election he made
ssarce of his own oath The most charitable
view of the whole proceeding is that the gov
ernor was badly advised.
! AS The Argus has said previously it is
unlikely that there will be any conviction in
either the case of Governor Small or Lieuten-
ant Governor Fred E. Sterling both of whom
are under indictment for alleged misappropria-
tion of funds while serving as state treasurer
II both profted beyond the amount of their
salary allowances in doing so they simply fol-
lowed a custom that had been in force for many
years in the Office OF the state treasurer
Governor Small is paying the penalty for
having made political enemies The present
light against him unQuestionably will ruin him
politically Those who responsible for the
court proceedings naturally are delighted at
the ridiculous exhibition Small has been max
ing Of himself. They will get him to trial and
they will produce evidence to show that he
profted through manipulation of the state
funds while he was treasurer, but they will
not fix any crime upon him But the harm
will have been done to SmalI-he WILDE killed
politically
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10
On Getting q Goat.

Dear Dr. Brady.
1. Is goats milk generally laxa-
tive?
2. Would the use of one pint of
goats milk daily by a consumptive
be apt to cause a slight tempera-
ture, where there was usually no
! fever?
Nervous prostration, followed by
an operation for appendicitis, left
me . lasted four years, in spite
of the efforts of digestive specialists
in New York, Boston and other
places. Last November, in Califor-
mia, discovered the goat. Since
then, by the use of one quart of
goats milk per day, I have kept the
bowels acting naturally, after a
strike of four years.
Last summer pulmonary tubercu-
losis was discovered. BY the use
of goats milk l have increased my
weight from 104 to 141 pounds.
During a brief absence from the
goat, while motoring through the
Mojave desert, l lost weight, proves
pretty fairly that the. gain was due
to the goat.
h
cannonize the goat?
Am / justified in recommending
goats milk to friends who have tu-
berculosis or chronic constipation,
or is it only by chance that the goat
did such wonders for me?
MRS. c. F.
Many morals may be drawn from
the text of today's discourse. Let
US consider them in order.
First, it is human nature to
ascribe any change for the worse or
better to the last remedy or treat
ment employed although the rem
edy or treatment blamed or extolled
may have nothing TO do with the
changed condition.
Goats milk is richer in fat than
any other kind Of milk and it is the
fat in milk that produces any laxa-
tive effect, but goats milk is scarce
ly to be considered a laxative food
for one with chronic constipation.
Most sufferers would probably no&
no different effect from goats milk
than they do from cows milk. Cows
milk is neither laxative nor bind
ing.
Secondly, many other factors are
more reasonably responsible for the
gain in weight than the use of
goats milk. The discovery of the
lung tuberculosis probably led to
some sort of treatment by rest, etc,
which would favor gain in weight.
1t is not reasonable to imagine that
any adult can gain 81 pounds in
six months by merely taking a pint
or quart of even goats milk daily.
Notwithstanding the fact that goats
milk is probably the most whole
some and nutritious milk one can
drink. The goat is more nearly i'm
mune to tuberculosis than any 9th
er domestic animal; some physi-
clans have suggested that goats
milk may convey to the tubercu-
losis patient something that tends
to increase resistance to the tuber-
cle-toxin, but this is conjecture
merely.
1t may be that the open air life
made possible or rather more at
tractive to the notwithstanding
she had the usual popular catching
cold obsession-by the move to Cal
ifornia from New York-contributed
toward the gain in
weight
Thirdly, it is human nature with
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The Daily Short Story

, Sarah all sing his praises and all
think that l ought to marry him
Mr.. Wallace thinks SC, too, but ]
told him last night that l wanted q
few days to think it OVER"
"There-Crofter ought to know
that I'm not altogether to blame, >
she soliloquized. as she glanced
over the postscript. He knows
that /"
"A letter for you. Miss Cynthia. y
The letter that the maid brought
was postmarked Pasadena, and
Cynthia opened it and read:
Mountain Road, Pasadena,
April 26, 1920.
Dearest: Since writing to you
few days ago l have been OBJ
sessed by the thought that it is
selfish and unfair for me, a partial
invalid. to hold you to your prom
Use to become my wife
In some way, Cynthia, l have
become aware Tor l think I have)
that you want to be released. The
tone of your letters is different. l
feel change in you.
And, of course, l know that I
am not the man, physically or f1nan-
cially, that l was on that day of
days in June, 1917, when you made
me the happiest man in the world.
l want to play fair with you. Gym
tnia. and so l shall not think of
holding you to your promise to me.
wish, Cynthia, that you were
here with me this morning. If l
could look into your dear eyes and
tell you just what is in my heart
1t would make this easier.
Il am alone On the veranda, and
my chair faces toward that mighty
range OF mountains that rises be-
lore me like vast fortress
and retlcent these mountains stand,
and they take no part in our lot or
oeing. Beyond them lies the great
Mohave desert; beyond that lie
endless mountains and plains. and
away on there On the New England
coast-you-you.
EVERY day, dear heart, I sit here
at the foot of the misty mountains
ana close my eyes for a little while
SO that I may see you the better.
ana sometimes in the evening I
walk and talk with you under the
orange trees-it is a way lonely
folks have.
But the chances are, little girl,
mat L may never see you again. for
! nave found that l must make INV
nome out here. and 1 know how
attached you are to Boston. l have
oougnt this little four-room bunea-
low-it is almost completely COW
efed oy bush of rambling roses
want to thank you for the won
aerIul letters you have written me
Piease let me keep them. Some of
lnem gave me courage at the Marine
ana nave another battle still to
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10
Bankers and the Farmers.

In the current issue OF Wallace's Farmer
the big city bankers are called upon for a mild
rein1aton. The Farmer until he became sec
Rotary of agriculture, was edited by Henry
Wallace The Farmer holds that the bankers
BY their defation program halted our pros
perity rgh>->t time when We had vast stores
Of raw mateSial and of labor to work with on
myriads of needed projects. There were many
good arguments for starting the dedation, but
there are even more arguments now for begin
ming mild reinfation which will put laborers
to work and which will give business men the
confidence to utilize at home the vast store of
surplus raw materials. Mild reinhation and
renewed confidence will speedily thaw out
frozen credits. The situation is direct ehaI-
lenge to the city bankers. will they prove
equal to it?'
The Farmers argument is this: For the
past year there has been q great surplus of
corn, oats, cotton, pig iron, copper and other
raw materials necessary to the welfare of the
country. There has been also a great surplus
Of labor and at the same time great need for
new buildings, additional railroad freight cars.
bridges and many other things. Raw mate
rial is available in abundance and there are
millions of unemployed labor, and yet we sit
around sinking deeper into the slough Of de-
spond. failing to do the necessary work which
has been so long postponed on account of the
war. And the reason for 1t all is that the
big bankers decided that we needed to be
taught a lesson in morality. They came to
the conclusion late in 1919 that too many farm
ers were riding around in automobiles and
we're buying too many silk shirts, and that
there was too much selling OF blue-sky stock.
And SO interest rates were advanced and defa-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10
Questions and Answers.

] Rusty Notions You maintain
that no harm comes from a wound
made by a rusty nail, insofar as
the rust is concerned, but that any
poisonous effect is to be ascribed tc
germs that happen to be on the
nail, be 1t rusty or new. l suppose
professors and doctors can see
these germs in the air which are in
visible to ordinary mortal eyes.
! BALTIMORE.
Answer-You nearly understand
1 do not insist that the germs re-
sponsible for blood poisoning after
a wound by nail, bright or rusty
are necessarily present on the nail;
they may be present in the dirt or
on the skin about the wounded sur
face, and the nail may simply push
them into the wound. The germs
are Just as visible to ordinary eyes
as to the eyes of professors or doc
tors-through a microscope. There
are none so blind in this matter as
those who never have had the OPP
portunity of looking through a mic
roscope AZ disease germs.
Going to Have a Party-I have
several brown spots on my face
which 1 contemplate having re-
moved. 1 would thank you to print
the names of half a dozen special
lists who do such work
MRS. W. A. T.
Answer will be glad to suggest
a competent skin specialist by mail.
cannot print the names of physi-
clans here.
More Adhesions-I had an oper-
alton for appendicitis five years ago
and every year I have peritonitis.
My physician claims l have adhe-
sions which cause the constant pain
in my left side. Will you please ex-
plain adhesions and tell me whether
there is any cure besides another
operation. MISS NJ. a. NJ.
Answer-Infection, causing in
f1ammation, in the chest cavity, in
the abdominal cavity, in the pelvic
cavity, may cause a sticking to-
gether of the opposing surfaces of
organs or structures which are nor
mally freely movable, by bands or
cords of fibrous tissue which forms
from the exudate or matter extrud-
ed by the inf1amed surfaces. If you
have peritonitis every year there
must be source of infection which
should be eradicated. AS a rule ad-
hesions cause no trouble, and it is
more likely that such pain as you
describe is due to Inflammation
than to adhesions Admissions are
not nearly SO bad as they are
painted.
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fight.
You shall always live in my
heart, dearest, for l love you-you
you only.
Always yours,
"CROF'TER HARRISON.
'P. S.-If I have made a mis-
take, Cynthia. about your supposed
wish to be free. beg you to let me
know at once and I'll go and fetch
you home. Remember that Home
is where the heart is Please wire
Immediately"
Fifteen minutes later this rush
message sped over the wires:
Boston, May 8, 1920.
"Crofter Harrison, Mountain Road,
Pasadena, Calf:
Leaving Boston today for home.
Meet train at Los Angeles-due
there the Sth. CYNTHIA"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10

Apollo at Delphi and were know
myself" by Simon Of Athens;
Consider the end" Chic of Spar
ia; "Suretyship is the precursor Of
ruin" ThaIes of Miletos; Most
men are bad" Bias of Priene;
Avoid excess" Cleobulus OF LIN
dus; Know thine opportunity, BY
Pittycus of Milene; Nothing
impossible to industry" by PeTian-
der of Corinth.
@. What is meant by the bal
ance of trade? G. B. D.
A. The balance of trade IS the
difference between the value Of tae
total imports and the total exPoF'S
o. a country.
Q. How long would it take 10
count a billion? W. d. |,
A Counting continuously al .I5
rate of 200 a minute, 1900 couiI
be counted in an hour, 266'0V9 III
a day. los, 1885, 900 in year ana d
billion in a fraction over nine anu
one half years.
@. What is the best way 10 tLSa'
linoleum to make it last? T.
A Waxing is regarded as NE
best treatment TO make HnolelH
last long time. Wash with sleaiH-
ing hot water and apply wax VIZ
the linoleum is warm. Apply ai'e'
each washing.
@. Is the electric light tne -
ible form of electricity? Z. h
A. The Bureau of Standards says
the electric light, OF, more coFress-
ly, the light from an incandescs-.
lamp, is caused by the heat gen
Grated in the filament Of the laLP
by the passage of the electric cur
rent, and, accordingly. is an enc
and not a visible form of eleclrie''.y :,
No one has ever seen electricity ~
any form; it is known by the e.
fects it produces. 3,
@. Were the stones USED -
building the pyramids the large
stones Quarried in those days! :
K B.
A Herodotus mentions a stoIo,
OF 5000 tons out of which a teIlpio
to Latona was carved and placed -
the city Of Buto near one o. 'n0
of the Nile
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10
POSTSCRIPTS.
By Margaret AIDE Sweeney.
Copyright, 1921, by Wheeler Syn

Copyright. 1921, by Wheeler Syn.
dictate, Inc.)
Cynthia Stewart, in the silker
ease of her orchid dressing gown
sat scowling at letter that lay
upon the table before her.
For more than an hour she had
been striving to marshal her words
across the pages of that letter
striving with all her might to make
her words march valiantly and car
ry their unpleasant message pleas
antly, but she had found her vocab-
ulary inadequate.
| For between the lines of this
missive an ugly thing slipped out
"a twisted thing that squinted at
her and brought a play of color
into her pale cheeks and sent her
swift young hands out to close the
letter and tear it into shreds.
I'll tell him the truth" she
declared as she drew a sheet of pa
per towards her and began to write:
Boston, May 8, 1920.
MY Dear Crofter: l am afraid
that what 1 am about to say may
hurt you. but think it the wiser
/ way " tell you the LIuln.
Il know that good sport never
hits a man when he is down, so
you see / am a rather cheap sport
| am going to swat you-I am
breaking my word-my truth to
you.
1T is now six months since your
doctor sent you to Pasadena, and
you tell me that your Specialist
there says that it will require an
other six months in that climate
before you are well, and that in
order to keep well he advised Won
to make permanent home in Cal
ifornia.
Well, Crofter. needless to saw
that l would not-could not leave
Boston; and, besides, it may take
years, judging from what 1 know.
before you are financially able to
assume the responsibility of a home
such a home as we would like
Il am no longer so very young
Crofter; I shall be "a next month:
and so, in justice to myself and NV
family, think it better to break
our engagement.
To-day / am returning the ring
and the string of pearls. Please do
not judge me too harshly, and
please. for old times sake, let us
still be friends.
With all good wishes for your
health and happiness. Yours sim
cerely, CYNTHIA.
"P. S.-The real truth is. Croft
ter, that fathers new partner, Mr..
Wallace, has piles and piles of
made it while you were
overseas being gassed to death
aAA father and mother and Aunt
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HEALTH TAl KS
BY W.II!h=!l! al Il R RAD nd. )

a vengeance to- tell the world TO
use the remedy or treatment I'M
agine has helped, may help or Is
helping me. Our correspondent asks
whether she is justified in recon-
mendins goats milk to friends who
have tuberculosis. She is not. Have
not her friends physicians to con-
suit? 1t is cruelty to take that sort
of vengeance. If friends ask her
opinion, advice or experience with
goats milk, she should tell
them what they wish to know, but
one swallow does not make sum-
mer and just because one goat has
made a friend Of this fair lady is no
reason why all her invalid friends
should get a goat
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-08-10

ZION Bureau freueFlc j. hdSkln, Director
address and enclose tvo-cent stamp for
confidential, the replies being sent direct
paid to anonymous letters.)
Q. Did Jim" Barnes establish a
record for - holes in winning the
recent National Open Golf Tourna-
ment at the Columbia Country club
A Barnes required 2S9 strokes
for the 70 holes in the National
Golf Tournamennt,~Ju 1922; the
record for he Open is 2S6 strokes
made by Chick" Evans at Mime
apolts il 1916.
Q. What was the date of the dis
coyery of Brazil, South America?
A Pedro Alvares Cabral, a
Portuguese navigator, is credited
with having discovered Brazil On
April %, 1900. With the revision
of the calendar the date became
May 8, 1900. and this has been ac-
cepted as the official date OF dis
covery.
@. What percentage of a family
income is supposed to be spent for
food? R. E W.
A. Economists estimate that the
average American family spends
from 50 to 40 per cent of its income
for food
@. What are the Sayings of the
Seven Wise Men? W. A. IL
A The Sayings of the Seven
Wise Men" are the notices which
were inscribed in the Temple of