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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
The Daily Short Story

scream, then deadly, horrible 81
lence.
White-lipped and stern. Phil
| drove his car with trembling hands
around the bend to view a sight
that brought horror into his heart.
A large touring car had skidded on
q wet patch of road and smashed
into Jacks car with enough force
to totally wreck it and throw out
both occupants. The touring car
| had taken the brunt- of the blow
on its bumper, and the solitary
driver seemed unhurt as he bent
over Jack and Erdine. Jacks head
was bleeding profusely from a deep
scalp wound, and Erdine, badly
shaken up and bruised herself. had
nevertheless dragged herself into
sitting position and was trying
vainly to staunch the flow of blood
from his head with her thin dress.
Beryl had uttered no sound, but
straight as a homing pigeon had
hurried to Jacks side. Kneeling
beside him she ATTEMPTED to take
his head in her lap, but drew back
startled at the fierce look Erdine
flung at her.
Leave him to me, Beryl," she
cried. IF he is TO die | want him
to be in my arms where he belongs.
Oh, you can look as Mortified as
you please, but your poor, shriv-
eled-up little heart could never ap-
preciate a love like mine. He is
my man, and it has been my tor
ture for years to see the love he
I
my very soul for. I could have
made him happy. You never have
with your cheap flirtations and
angling for admiration"
Jack stirred and opened his eyes.
"Beryl," he murmured, family,
Berry,, / want you"
Erdine gently laid his head on
the grass, stood up, and with a cry
Of intense bitterness dropped faint
ing into her brothers. arms.
He carried her to his machine,
where sympathetic women from a
passing machine that had stopped
out of curiosity set about the task
OF reviving her Then he hurried
PACK to Beryl who was trying, amid
the most scalding, binding tears
she had ever shed, to bind up Jacks
mead with strip from her gown.
The stranger from the YuckIess
touring car, who had been a sur
prlsed listener to the impassioned
little speech Erdine had given.
came forward and assisted Phil in
carrying Jack to the car. BeryI
stepped in and gathered her hus-
bands head close to her breast and
the look she turned on Phil was
full OF the rapt anguish of a new
born soul
please God, if he lives, Phil, I'll
be true woman and give him the
love ne deserves. Tell Erdine I'm {
going to make him happy"
Then the touring car sped awav
through the night, while Beryl for
got false gods and built a little
shrine in her heart to hold the
image, secretly alone, of the help
less man lying in her arms.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

Mexico intent on establishing himself in bust
ness must be prepared TO endure possible dis
appointments and discomforts- But he can
now go there with feeling Of security thar
was absent in the days before the Obregon
regime
The Obregon government has made plain
IT'S desire to maintain friendly relations with
the United States government and its people.
and II invites our investors and business men
to go there TO help in the Development OF that
vast country and 70 share in its riches.
II Oregon has finally convinced the native
Mexicans that the surest means Of enlighten-
ing and advancing their country, and bringing
the people there to state OF civilization COM
parable with other nations. and there salvation
and prosperity lies in work and not in war. 1t
will not be long before the republic at the
south will be taking recognized place in the
world councils. Nature has been kind to the
Mexicans but they have been standing in their
own light
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
Treatment of InfantiIe Paralysis.


Rest in bed is the first essential
i in the first OF or feverisn stage OF IL
fantile paralysis and rest is equal
ly important in the first 10 Gays
following the disappearance OF
fever, whether any marked paraly-
sis remains or not OF course this
is a question which only the family
physician can determine. But re-
fer to it here in order to impress
upon parents the importance Of
rest in bed when child develops
any feyerish illness which resem-
bles "tonsiilitis" grip" or just a
cold. Even though it be only
| tonsillitis or coryza, rest in bed 4,
as q measure of first aid or home
| treatment, is always wise. Rest in
/ bed would save many a sore throat
or tonsillitis victim from the de-
Velopment of valvular heart dis
ease, a complication which. often
enough, the victim scarcely notices
at the time of the sore throat, but
which, sadly enough, handicaps
! his remaining years. A large share
of all cases of chronic heart dis
ease of the valvular type (distor-
ton of the heart valves from the
contraction of scar tissue left by
insidious Inflammation of the heart
liningl are attributable to nothing
else than the infection from an at
tack or several attacks of tonsil-
litis or acute sore throat Rest in
bed for such illness, even though
the victim in his ignorance mag
ines it better to stay up and fight
it,, is simple, common sense-and
when / say common sense l mean
scientific sense.
Exercise is a fine thing for pre-
serving health. Invalids or semi
invalids had better have care
how they indulge in exercise, for
it does an untold amount of harm
when used blindly and indiscrim-
inately, as the trained overnight
healer uses it.
If there is any faint possibility
of poliomyelitis, when the child sis
i'll see that he is kept in bed.
The skilled physician carries rest
even further. Often his sole pur-
pose in administering drug is to
give an excited, overworking Or
gan rest, physiological rest, and his
drug accomplishes this beneficial
purpose as definitely as your old
slippers rest your tired feet after |
a hard day in hard shoes. Physio- |
logical rest may be given an or
gan or member by other aids than
drugs. Splints, bandages and ad- /
hesive plaster strapping or plaster |
Or Paris casts, serve a good pur- |
pose chiefly in giving physiological |
rest Some such aid is of great |
value in the developing or begin
ming stage of paralysis, in polio
myelitis. Any one who has suf-
fered fracture, sprain, dislocation,
or Inflammation in or about a Joint |
knows something OF the value of
such devices for insuring physio-
logical rest. What many do not
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
Americans in Mexico.

1t Is announced that several thousand Amer
leans have settled in Mexico in the past few
months the majority of them having gone there
to invest capital and engage in business.
Mexico is rich in resources and opportuni-
ties. but more conservative Americans have
remained out of the country because OF the
unsettled governmental conditions The OBJ
RECON administration appears to have offered
brighter day for Mexico and her people and
guarantees of security to those who go Nere
for settlement from other countries
This should not be taken to indicate that
Mexico has been made entirely safe for democ-
racy, so to speak. There are obstacles to be
overcome there that are not encountered in
more highly developed countries Mexico is
still in crude state, and the ways of her peo-
pie are not American ways.
! So that the American citizen who goes into
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
The Night Before Christmas.
This is Christmas eve.


The very mention of it sends tingle into
the hearts of men. What flood of memories
sweeps Ger, with happy thought undimmed by
the passing years. All that is sweetest and
purest and hottest in life is associated with this
night 1t seems difficult to believe that the
thrill of it has not been felt by some one at
some time. And yet perhaps there are those
whose lot has been SO unfortunate so dismal
so lonely indeed, that this anniversary seems
TO mean little. 1t ought not to be so, for far
outshining all that the occasion brings in Joy
BUSINESS, and in message of peace and good will
to sin-rdden earth, is the blessed realization
of what spoken by the angels to the shep-
herds two thousand years ago, unto YOU ia
born in the City of David a Savior" And so
this place of brief abode has been soothed and
cheered since
The night before Christmas
1t was the first awakening in chiIdhood's
heart of the dreams of Santa CIaus-and the
eager anHclpation OF the morrow when all was
to be merry. There can be no soul that is not
stirred to the gentler impulses of gratitude and
generosity by the invisible as well as the out
ward influence of Christmas.
Want and woe o'erspread the land the nen-
altes that fall alike upon the innocent and the
guilty for human lust passion and wrath but
shining through the gloom is the prospect this
Christmas, that the world may have seen the
last clash of arms. Sitting in Washington is an
international conference called by the presiden,
OF the United States, with purpose TO put aside
the implements of cruel strife, and peace he
made more secure. 1t may well be among the
Christmas prayers that this may be-
The midnight chimes fall upon the ears of
the lowly, the most distressed and the most
abandoned, as well upon the more favored. |
for since the star of Bethlehem guided the way ,
to the humble crib in the little town, happiness |
which comes only with the peace and good will |
which sounded from on high that winters night, /
has ruled the world
And SO the greeting in which all Join, and
which The Argus extends to its readers-"A
Merry Christmas"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
Fight for Better Morals.

Mass meetings to be held throughout
the state for the purpose of arousing the
people, especially parents, TO the vicious and
destructive tendency of present social condi-
tons. The campaign is to be carried on under
the auspices of the Illinois Vigilance associa-
ton. The movement will be chiefly aimed at
the modern dances, said to be welding such
destructive influence among the young people
The vigilance ASSOCIATION is engaged in a
commendable undertaking and doubtless will
accomplish great good. if it does no more than
bring forcibly to the attention of parents the
degrading drift OF the social amusements in
which their children indulge. However 1t is a
mistake to assume that the masses are the only
ones that have been infected by the present
wild wave in dancing. You'll see in the exclu-
siye club the same sensuous dance floor evolu-
lions that You will observe in the public halls
Dancing always has been harmful to those who
permitted 1t to harm them, but it has only been
In the past few years that such degrading evo-
iutions as are now witnessed have been pub
hcly approved. 1t is this public approval that
has passed the fame to those who were harmed
before they realized that they were doing
wrong.
The Illinois Vigilance association should
have the support of all elean-minded citizens
1t may be undertaking a thankless task. but it
at least will have the satisfaction of bringing
TO the attention of those who should be inter
ested condition that is spelling ruin for many
young people who have innocently INDUCED in
pleasures that are breaking them down morally
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
FALSE GODS,
By Marion Z. Jones.
OVIlVGa
Copyright, 1921, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Incl

by Marion l.. jones'
Copyright, 1921, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc)
Lovely, with the beauty that at
tracts two glances, one of casual
the other of serious, interest, su
preDe in the power of swayins
tmen and with a glorious egotism
Beryl was in very truth modern
siren.
Somewhere in her impulsive
younger days she had, without
much thought. selected a husband
from the eager train of would-bes
and subsequent life with him had
satisfied her fondest desires. Alb
| soFbed in the medical profession
he allowed his adored wife to GO
about much as she pleased, and
only occasionally was aroused to
remonstFance against the few
scraps of time which she devoted
to him.
Loving and trusting her implicit
ly, he considered it unworthy of
that love to feel jealous of the
homage paid to her by other men,
and if a tiny heartache came some
times when he saw charming wives
who devoted every thought to their
husbands, Beryl, at least, was none
the wiser.
For her part she basked compla-
Gently in the light of adulatiGn that
warmed her life, and drifted slow
ly on to join the purgatory of that
vast company who have forgotten
the existence of their souls and
live only for the joy of the mo-
ment.
One night in June, a night per-
vaded with a gentle, murmurous
breeze and faint rose fragrance, as
Beryl and her husband were pre-
pairing to leave the cool comforts
of their veranda for the warm in
terror of the house they heard the
soft purring of motor car coming
up the drive. All aglow at the
prospect of congenial company,
Beryl ran lightly down the steps to
greet her guests She made an en-
trancing picture in her filmy white
gown and breeze-ruffled hair, so
Phil Armistead thought as he
sprang from the low, gray roadster
and helped his sister Erdine to
alight
What do you say to a spin,
folks pc he queried, a heartfelt
pleasure in the beauty of the night
in every note of his voice
Too peachy a night to stay home.
Get out that classy racer of yours,
Jack. and show us some cool
speed"
Say, the idea does appeal pretty
strongly, at that, Phil. Slip on a
coat, Beryl, and Ill go wake up
the garage" laughed Jack and
strobe away.
In a moment or two the machines
were ready to start, and Beryl,
obedient to Pills eager
look, settled herself snugly beside
him. Jack, with a rather wistfuI
smile, helped Erdine into his racer
and, with a sudden burst of speed
shot far ahead of the other slower !
car.
Left behind, Beryl and Phil |
found ample pleasure in each 9TH
sr's company and 10 miles slipped |
,y before they realized that the |
,theF car was entirely out of sight.
Then just ahead, around q conceal [
ng bend in the road. came a sick
ming. grinding crash, q terrified |
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
HEALTH TALKS
By William Brady, M. |


! know is that this same physiolog'
! ical rest is favorable to the heallns
| of ordinary wounds.
| Now, think what a mischieVous
thing it would be to stir up the
spinal region of a patient with po-
| liomyelitis! The very opposite OF
physiological rest for the very or
/ gan that is inflamed!
Massage is quite the equal oil
drugs, intelligentiy used. But IN
telligent physicians do not mas
sage an eye with a cinder in it nor
a suppurating appendix nor acute
inflammation in any part OF the
body.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Canned Ounces!
Is it right to force child to
eat certain articles of food the
child dislikes? The child is a
hearty eater, and there are only
one or two, vegetables he dislikes.
If the stomach rebels, should a
child be forced? r. G. A.
|. Answer-Certainly not. Tempt
ed. perhaps, but never forced. The
question brings up a hideous mem
DRY of canned ounces; also mashed
quotato right in the middle of a
plate of turkey, stuffin's and gravy.
It's a physiological blunder.
For Girls and Young Women.
am a nurse in an industrial
plant employing about two hundred
girls. Please suggest pamphlets or
anything that will help me to ad-
wise girls, have most of your ar
ticles filed in a scrapbook. c. H. E.
Answer am mailing you copy
of a letter on sex hygiene and one
dealing with menstruation. The
public health service, Washington,
D. c., has free pamphlets on sex
hygiene, Set E being for girls and
young women, Set F for educators.
Set d for parents, Set C for boys,
Set A for young men. Many state
health departments have these
pamphlets for free distribution.
Preventing Hernia.
My physician finds that l have a
slight rupture in the lower abdo-
men and advises an operation as
the only thing likely to cure. Not
long ago you recommended some
exercises to overcome this condi-
ton. viii you please describe the
exercises again? ]. H. X.
Answer said the exercises
would prevent, but could not be
a cure for hernia. They |
develop the muscles in the abdom- |
inal wall. Lie on the back, shout |
ders a few inches lower than hips, !
rest one hand in a supporting way
over the weak place, and slowly |
raise one leg to vertical and slowly :
lower, several times; repeat with |
the other leg. From three to 40 |
times, according to your expert
ence and condition. Then both |
legs together. Then practice draw
ing the body from supine to sitting
posture without lifting heels from
ioor. Do these morning and night,
naked.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

@. Is it more complicated to
burn oil than coal in ships Which
is cheaper? ]. A S.
A. The navy department says
that while oil burning vessels re-
quire different type of machinery
and installation from coal burning
vessels, they are not complicated
in management. The cost is also
about the same, as one pound of oil
equals about one and One-half
pounds of coal. Coal for such pur-
poses can be purchased at about Sc
a ton and oil such as is used for
fuel about $500 a ton.
Q. What occupation do most Of
the Indians follow now? L. B.
A The commissioner of Indian
affairs says that while many In
dians engage in other industries,
themselves by farming Last year
1882 Indians cultivated s90,700
acres of land, producing crops
worth s11.927 1866.
@. Will mail carriers deliver
mail ON Monday? P. B.
A The postofice department
says that as a general rule if a
holiday comes on Sunday the mail
carriers have the privilege of OBJ
serving the festival on the follow
ing day, but one exception to this
rule is Christmas.
Q. Where did quinine come
from? C. II. s.
A. Quinine comes from the bark
OF the cinchona tree. The virtues
of this bark were discovered by
Jesuite priests in Peru about the
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

Many Chicago families in comfortable cir
cumstances are reported to be adopting babies,
a considerable increase each succeeding week
being noticeable. home without child is
barren place, and the wonder is that more
families without children do not take some
sweet little babe to raise and love. Every
state has its thousands of little ones peering
from the windows of institutions with out
stretched arms looking for mothers and ia
TIERS
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
DAUGHERTY CRITICIZED.

New York, Dec. 24-The Anal
gamated Association of Meat Cut
tiers made public a letter to Attor-
ney-General DaugheFty, asserting
his Investigation of retail prices
looks like a smoke screen to coy
er up the sins of the beef trust"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

The telegraphone is a newly invented instru-
ment that it is claimed will inform a man
whether his sweetheart really loves him or not;
in other words, whether she is honest in her
protestations or merely is splitting him. And it
won't be long until the girls will be able to buy
something at the drug store to dope the
!. telegranhnnA
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
Thr Unn1hatuttp
HERE LIES MANS ANCTESTxSElY.
DILL CARE.
| VINO prsrsrERs THE uNL6vED cUss
4 nEWAREa
QUESTION.

QUESTION.
Two thousand years ago
Three Wise Men
Beheld in the East
A brilliant Star
And followed 1t until
They came upon a Babe
Lying in q manger.
Tomorrow is the Birthday
OF that Babe.
And the Star still shines. -.
Are there
Three Wise Men
In the world today? -.
l wonder -.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

etuFn postage. he brief. All inquiries r.
70 each Individual. SO = ,tei,a LOO Eul d
year 1900 In 1888 the countess Of
ChincOn, whose husband was vice
roy OF Peru, was cured Of fever 0y
the use of this drug, administered
by her physician. Upon her return
to Spain in 1910, the countess car
ried supply OF the bark with hel
and through her it became know
to the world. The actual discovery
and isolation of quinine is TO be as
cTibed to the French chemist Pelle
tier and CaVentOn in 1920, although
Gomez, a Portuguese, succeeding II
isolating the febrifuge principle
which was practically qulRine II
1876.
@. Is June 81 always the long
est day of the year and Dec. p 81
ways the shortest? D. A. L
A. The naval observatory says
June q is not always the Longest
day in northern lacitudes, nor Is
Dec. % always the shortest. *
pressing the data in accordance
with the civil day OF the eastern
standard time zone, the longesL
dav of 1922 and 1928 is June o.
while the shortest day Of 1920 was
Dec. 81
O. How much did the consump-
ton OF grain for liquor taH "
after prohibition came in? /, W. 20
A In 1912 there were 2l,3l5,bss
bushels of corn, 5,341, 1871 busnels y
rye, and 2,072 bushels OF bafley
used for alcoholic beverages
1879. the figures were 3,Sso'S1.
bushels OF corn, 25,304 bushels u
rye, and 1926 bushels Of barley
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

The American Legion is demanding the de-
portation of the editorial writer on the Illinois
Stats -Zeitung who penned the recent vicious
J attack on the legion. Certainly there is no
place in America for such haters of American
institutions as this writer has proved himself
to be-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

Prohibition finally has made a bootlegger
out OF dear old Santa Claus Bottles of liquor
were found nesting in the branches of Christ
mas trees arriving in New York from the
Canadian border
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

Now, if the Tri-City Railway company will
be az good Santa Claus to its patrons as the
Illinois Utilities commission has been to it, and
reduce the fares, we will all feel like good
fellows.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

Sam McVey. who died yesterday. was
credit alike to the American fight game and TO
the negro race Sam went straight and Clean
and he died respected by all lovers of high
class snort
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

New York grand jury dismissed COM
plants made against one of the current plays
there The jurors heard the play read. But
it isn't what is said in these salacious plays
that does the harm.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
SATURDAY, DECEMBER "a, 1ssL

'1s there Prohibition the Peoria Journal
asks The Journal might interview Congress-
man Ireland.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-24

NOW is the time to thank our eontribs for
that S14.50 donated to The Argus Santa Claus
fund and TO wish them the conventional Merry
Christmas not to mention the equally eonven-
tionaI New Year. Some day, when we are
more afiuent than at present Tor when We
think mebbe the boss will sponsor it,, we're
going to give Contribs' Dinner along about
say the day preceding Christmas eve.
Those eligible to attend will be, first, con-
tributors to the Santa Claus fund and second.
contributors to the colyum. All this, of
course. depending upon our ability TO finance
this scheme Lovely idea, don't you think?
SOME years ago one Solifdian addressed us
ering in Chicago. His idea was Dutch treat
banquet We were overcome by mental in
ertia, or something, and made no response to
him, thereby laying the foundation for much
vain regret