The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-11-07
illustrating the Cost OF Government
by the PeODle.

illustrating the Cost OF Government
by the People.
Clipping supplied by E. w LII
couch in the Office of a u S. dis
trict attorney in Middle West city was
damaged. The attorney notified the Gus
todian of the building, who was collec-
tor OF internal revenue He notified the
Treasury who notified the supervising
architect in Washington who ordered the
custodian to advertise for bids.
The advertising cost $3.50. The bids
were forwarded to Washington, an award
made. the contract signed, and the work
was done. The cost OF repairing the
couch was 1894
An inspector was sent to inspect the
job He didn't like it. He got into a
row with the contractor. The chief in =
spector had to come out, He approved
the job. Nine months later the contrac-
tor received Uncle Sans check for 1924
1t took the government nearly year
and cost at least $500 to spend 1924 and
repair the U. S. district attorneys couch.
OFTEN we speak of the inspired compostor
but not often do we find one so uncommonIy
inspired as the gentleman who set this four
column italic headline on the Hearstyammerer
las Solomon has christened it,: Careers OF
Beauty'S Hampered Darlings End in Wretch
edness"-
Speaking of Inspired Compositions
GFrom The August
Farmers once regarded dollar a bush
ell wheat ideal. Patton said. TT
was their bottle cry. but il doesn't
THEN. let us quote from this Sflo of Sin
the concluding sentence of a paragraph in
spired by Mrs. AloySius: "She bases this be-
lief on the fact that nephew threw aside his
milk battle at the age of two weeks and yelled
for brandy Aloysius phoned us to inquire
II he had missed something in the history of
the World recorded in the daily press
He wanted to know the name of the port where
American soldiers debarked. We told him.
Then he wanted to be assured that the Ger
man army had not reached this port in their
advance ct thought said he that there
might been battle of =" At this point
he intended saying.
SHOULD WE HEAD THIS PERFECTLY
SIMPLE?
Sir: The musical transposition of the
names, Meyer Morris and Maurice Meier arbi-
tiers in game Of head-crack and bone break
is as sweet as the tinkling OF a cowbell at
o'clock in the morning near a sleeping room
1t caused ranking and jangling in the cob
webs of my garrett and seemed to associate
itself with another transmission enualJv
attractive.
After a diIigent ruminatfon COUPLED with
the reading of an advertisement for a wash
ing machine in an Iowa town which read .~Tte
construction is perfectly simple and results
Simply perfect. l remembered reading of a
young lady who in the good old DAYS could
express her opinion of any event or subject bv
saying it was either simply perfect or per
fecty simple. Current expressions of those
days and my nerves relaxed.
SOLOMON PIFFLE
IF there is one thing more than another that
we are curious to hear it is ga ranking and
jangling among cobwebs". Probably nothing
save the crash of a feather dropped from the
Washington monument to the ground could
tickle our tympana
LIKE Martha Solomon hast troubled him.
self about many things. From the illinois state
Register he picks this: Marriage Licenses:
Michael Haberle, 1912 Bengle street 36: |
Michael Haberle, 1912 Bengel street. 36" He
wishes Mike happiness but warns that he
should watch his step in this strange cere-
monT lest he find himself in the same fix as |
tho man who, through complex marriage cere- !
monies, became his own grandfather
Give Us Clothes Pin and Wen Try This Case.
lScented by +. +. in the Los Angeles Produce
News.l
Municipal Judge Jacobs has found
Something more powerful than the law
John Benauty was brought before him
last weekfor larceny.
Bring in the evidence" said the
Judge. !
Two officers staggered into the court
room, bearing a heavy burden and hold
ing their noses.
"Phew! What's thatT' queried the |
Judge
The evidence, your honor
rake It away. l can't stand that
The prisoner is discharged"
The officers left, Juggling huge Linn
berger cheese.
Benauty said he had found the cheese
. BY the way, we note in the date line of
the Produce News that it is spelled Los On
geies". The News appears to lean, not to saw
Ioppie toward phonetic spelling.
). ONLY the week previous" writes the gen.
tleman who Hughes to the sport mas .tba
Chicago Cardinals had a difficult time nosinp
the Panhandles out, 10 to z" And that. init.
mates Aloys1us, is considerable nose.
MILE. PALLAY ANNA, Hungarian dancer
and opera star, is coming to the United STATES
he
ermed the greatest interpretatiye dx1ca- IN
Europe She is coming from England on the
same ship with Lloyd George"-The Hearst
picture page
Well. what about it, what about it what
about it? srC a'