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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07

President Harding Is out with statement
pluming the administration on the economies
It has put into effect II makes interesting
reading, but somehow the average citizen can
see where he has been noticeably benented.
While the administration has it in its power 10
enforce reforms that eventually will result In
benefits to the people generally, what the aver
age citizen is mostly concerned with just now
in in having a regular job and seeing a re-
cuction in the cost of the necessities Of life.
And the administration is helpless to change
that situation It must be done through a
willingness of everybody to do his part The
consumer is not going to spend more than Is
necessary for his bare wants until prices have
been reduced The truth of the matter is that
profiteering is still prscticed in this country
on scandalous scale
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07

Alaska's diminishing population is an un-
timely phenomenon to which the United States
government is already giving earnest atten-
ton. One traveller just returned from the ter
ritory reports among many OF the natives with
whom he worked a state of mind that would
seem to make even further shrinkage prob
able. The permanent population consists
largely of sour doughs' and they seem to
be bad boosters. Some of the old timers JUS
t:fy their pessimism by pointing to the native
interest in federal appointments, which this
year was intense. Nowadays political appoint
ments and salaries, which in bonanza days
Alaskans were too busy to look at, are much
coveted.
Others have more specific reasons for pes
simism. They scout the possibility Of impor-
prospected. They deny that coal exists in
profitable quantities. Even the much-touted
reindeer industry does not encourage the sour
coughs. Pronouncing the reindeer more -four
ishing than nourishing they emphatically re-
fuse to be content with a paradise of reindeer
and Christmas trees.
No doubt there is a sufficient answer to
the pessimism of the sours not only in the
existing copper mines and fisheries, but in
the oil, the forests and agriculture which re-
main yet largely unexpected. But it is appar-
ent that new capital and new blood must be
attracted to Alaska. The prerequisite to this
would seem to be careful and scientific en-
ventory of the possibilities for Newcomers. fo,-
lowed by earnest advertisement of the facts
established.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07
Another Newsboy's Record

Boys who see no hope OF obtaining a col
lege education should not be discouraged.
While college training is desirable. it is not
necessary to success in this land of opportu-
nifty, as is proved every day as we hear of the
strides that have been made by men who had
humble beginnings. The Chicago papers Of
this morning contain story about W. H. LET
ingwel- Some years ago he carried papers in
Grand Rapids, Mich Today he is president
OF the Lefingweu- Ream company. management
engineers, with Offices in New York and Chi
cago, and known from coast to coast. Although
denied college education Lefhngwell is the
author of a textbook scientific office man
agement which is used by Harvard university.
Lefhngwell is also much IN demand as a
lecturer.
While carrying newspapers young Lefhng-
we'll studied stenography, and in time reached
Chicago and job pounding typewriter. He
became interested in Office management while
working as a stenographer and soon began
to>conceive ideas that were helpful to the con-
duct of various lines of business. His oppoF-
tunity was as a specialist in management
engineering and he saw it and grasped it. To-
day possibly his income is almost as great
that OF the president of the United States Yet
ne had nothing to begin on except his own de-
termination to win in the game of life, and he
had to do it without the advantages that the
majority of our American boys have. The boy
who sits in the corner waiting for something
to turn up is never going to get anywhere
This is age that rewards the fighter. II you
can't do thing little better than the other
fellow you must expect not to rise any higher
than the other fellow. But If you know that
you can do a thing better than the other fellow
let the world know that you can. Then your
battle is won The world is looking for men
who know how and willing to do things.
It's not matter of salary. Salary is the small
est consideration The problem Of the average
business man is to get the right kind of men
to fill the important jobs.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07
A Belt for Navel Rupture.


Umbilical hernia navel breech or
rupture) is common condition in
| infants and in many cases is amen
able to simple treatment provided
the treatment is efficient or course
there is small chance for spontan-
eous cure in any hernia after the
first six months of life.
There are two methods of support
in common use in the treatment of
umbilical hernia in infants, but
neither il satisfactory The first
method consists in the application
of a button, penny OF other round
nat hard object padded with cotton
or wool and covered with cloth to
the bullying or protrusion at the
navel and retaining this support by
means of a belt or by criss-cross
strips of adhesive plaster attached
to the skin. The objection to this
method is that the button or pad
spread apart at the navel and to op-
pose a natural tendency toward
closure of the defect
The second method consists SIM
ply of the application of adhesive
plaster strips across the abdomen
at the level of the navel in such
manner as to cover the defect and
draw the skin and muscles closely
together about it. This would be
better support, but the drawback is
that the skin under the adhesive
plaster becomes eXcoriated and so
the plaster must be reapplied at
frequent intervals by the nurse or
mother, who may not do such an
effective job as the doctor did in the
first place.
There are various ready made
umbilical belts or "trusses" for
these cases, but none is more salts
factory than the two methods of
homemade" origin Just described
DR.. Frank e. Brundage of Buffalo
has devised new umbilicaI hernia
belt which any handy mother can
make and which is probably prefer
able to either OF the older methods
OF treatment for naval rupture. The
Brundage belt laces at front and
back with lace and eye1ets, with
flap under the lacing at the back
and the two edges slightly over
tapping at the front. The belt is
made of sheeting or muslin, with
its front edges doubled and stitched
around, to hold row of five eye
lets; attached to these edges are
insertions of woven elastic the
width of the belt a to Az inches)
and about four inches long; stitched
to the outer edges of the woven elias
tic insertions are strips of sheeting
or muslin about the same width and
long enough to reach around to the
spine, where they are double
stitched and fitted with five eyelets,
with a flap under one end. Upon
what is to be the inside surface of
the elastic part of the belt three
pieces of ordinary soft rubber tub
ing a little shorter than the width
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07
THE HAVEN
By BERTON BRALEY.

house where love is. be it great or small,
Has something of spell about it all,
tender charm of comfort and delight
1t is a haven, welcoming and bright,
And there's content within its sheltering wall:
A city hat-a vast baronial hall,
cottage where the ivy tendrilIs crawl
Each one may prove-if but its soul 1s
right
A house where love is.
The dearest spot upon this earthly ban.
Whose warm eHchantment holds the heart IN
thrall
Is such home; Dear Master In Thy
might,
Give me the place -shaSe-taarssssau=1 Thy
sight,
And let me have-tfiI final darkness AL
A house where love Is.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07
Frederic Haskin's Letter
Light on the Mighty.

Washington. D. c., Sept. 6.-The
time seems to be close at hand
when no politician will bea hero
to his constituent-when in TACT, no
public figure dead or alive. VIII De
a hero to any one who reads.
Instead of considering pfesi-
dents, senators, diplomats and gem
erals great men. remote and diff
ferent from ourselves, we Will
know more about their weaknesses
and falling than about any one
! else. A certain public man, fer
example. has impressed the whole
world with his dominating man
ner. He seems to regard himself
almost as good as a god. A GER
tain writer who has studied psy-
chonalysis, among other things,
writes a piece about him and shows
that he is really tinid fellow with
an inferiority complex, and that
all his lordly manner is a desper-
ate effort to pump UP his own cour-
age and make himself believe that
he is of some account
The writer may not be wholly
correct, but at least he has offered
plausible theory. Heretofore our
public men have been sold to US by
campaign oratory and journalism.
a voter might easily have read five
years ago in the magazines and
heard in speeches a million words
about leading public men, and have
known less about them than he did
before he started. The reason was
he
heard had political bias. He
could read an article on the presi-
Dental candidate. praising him to
the skies, comparing him to Lin
coin and Roosevelt and all the 9TH
err party gods, showing a picture
of him with his nine children and
explaining what a model family
man he was, setting. him up as
nothing less than unmitigated per-
lection.
With equal ease this man could
find articles in which the same
presidential candidate was shown
up as an incompetent and a tool of
the trusts 1t would be proved by
documents that his great-great
grandmother wan an Indian horse
thief and that he himself once went
to Atlantic City for a weekend
with his cook.
A Misinformed Public
What should the voter believe.
If a stupid and partisan man he
would agree with what supported
his party, and if an intelligent and
open-minded fellow he would be-
lieve nothing. He would admit that
it was impossible for him to get
any real estimate of the men for
whom he had to vote. that 9S per
cent of everything written and said
about public men has been just so
much sand in the voters eyes.
There have ben a few exceptions,
of course. The brilliant journalist,
Samuel G. Blythe. wrote long
series of skethces of public men
which were distinguished by a sa-
tirical and comparatively unbiased
point of view. He destroyed more
than one meretricious reputation,
and politicians feared him as a
darkey fears the devil. But he was
a lone and exceptional figure, and
furthermore he was a caricaturist
in words rather than a competent
analyst of men and events.
The honest and scientific anal
ysis of public men is an art which
has come into being within the last
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07

few years. and which is just now
getting a foothold in this country.
Beyond a doubt ii derives i,s
strength and its method from the
science of phychoanalysis. how
ever much some of its practition-
ers may try to deny the fact
Its most conspicuous example 50
far is the anonymous book, Mir
rors of Washington" which has
made a sensation in the capital
city. 1t is modelled after a similar
book, Mirrors of Downing Street"
which has treated the British ad-
ministration in the same way and
achieved a wide popularity in Eng
land. 1t is a series of sketches OF
American politicians presidents,
ex-presidents, senators and diplo-
mats. The most striking thing
about it is that 1t evidently in quite
without political bias. The un-
known author of this book sees his
subject from the viewpoint of an
artist His only object is to por-
tray and interpret his man-to
make you see and understand him,
His book has received much ad-
verse criticism as we'll as much
praise. 1t has been said that In
some cases his facts are wrong.
and that in others he has revealed
personal dislike. He also has
been blamed for not signing his
name to a book which is sure to be
resented by a great many people.
An Attempt at the Truth.
But even his detractors admit
that he has written a brilliant and
interesting book. No mere human
can ever get at the complete truth
about anyone The best he can do
is to offer a plausible theory, logi-
cal and supported by evidence.
This the author of Mirrors" most
effectively does. Out of many such
attempts comes the nearest ap-
Proclamation to the truth that we
can hope for II our public men
were constantly subjected to this
sort of cool, scientific analysis, ev-
cry voter who reads would finally
come to have a clear idea of them.
That is the one thing above all
others that the voter needs and in
the past has lacked. 1t has been
said a thousand times that in
American political life attracts
only second-rate men, that the real
brains of the country seldom get
into its government. Surely one
reason for this has been that the
real stature and capacity of our
political figures has always been
hidden. Our political journalism
and oratory has been a smoke
screen behind which frauds and
Founders of all sorts have advanced
to high positions and have done in
calculable harm. A book like
Mirrors" whatever its faults, is a
brave attempt to throw q beam Of
light through this cloud of obscur-
ity, to reveal the true size and ma
ture of some of the strange things
that dwell behind it.
And the same spirit and view
point that animates Mirrors" may
be found cropping out in other
places. Some of the magazines
display far more critical and de-
tached view of public men than
they used to. There is strong rea-
son to believe that a new kind OF
political Journalism is coming into
being, and that the old partisan
buncombe is going to die of its
own absurdity and weakness.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07

@. What is meant by gallery in
card game? n. C. S.
A. This is a term applied to the
spectators who are betting on the
game.
@. What is the most important
in playing golf, correct stance
proper club, or proper swing?
NJ. q. G.
e A. Jim Barnes, United States
open champion, says that all three
are part or a good game of golf,
but that no one of them is the most
important thing in golf. He en-
phasizes the very great Importance
OF mental control. Deciae upon
the club to use, decide upon the
stance. decide upon the SWING, and
then decide to nit the ball. After
the stroke is started think of moth
ing else but hitting the ball.
@. What is the basis of the claim
that the government should pay the
money due Bethlehem workers I'M
der a wage award of the national
labor board? W. Z. S.
A. Bethlehem's contract with the
war department contained what
was known as the increased cost"
provision, as did many wartime
contracts, which stipulated that the
government should pay increased
costs incurred for which the COR
tractor was not responsible. A
wage award by the government
agency is claimed to be an increase
in production costs for which the
contracting company should not be
held liable.
@. Kindly inform me how / can
put celluloid in liquid form
J. C. :
A. Celluloid can be dissolved in
denatured alcohol.
@. Which of the three races
German, Italian and Irish-is most
numerous in the United States?
R. C. K.
A. According to the 1920 census
in the list of foreign-born white
population, there are 1858, 28S Ger
mans; 1,607,45S Italians, and l.
OBS, $50 Irishmen in the United
States. There are more Russians
and more Poles in the United States
than Irish, Russia being represent
ed by 1888 and Poland by l.
139,5 7s people.
@. Please tell me how to make a
pair of skis. H. P.
A. Take spruce wood eight or
nine feet long. four and a half
inches wide and one inch thick at
the thickest point, which should be
under the foot. taper
ing to oue-half this thickness at
either end, and pointing upward at
he toes. The wood must be spllf
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07
Matrimonial Lotteries.

In Italy matrimonial lotteries have been or
xsnized in an effort TO solve problems arising
out Of the situation following the war-that Of
an enormous excess OF manageable women
over manageable men, a condition which ex-
lists in all OF the European countries which
took part in the conflict The female entrants
compete in a beauty contest, the winners OF
which are the prizes in the lottery The men
who are winners of the prizes are permitted to
take their pick from the girl winners with the
option of marrying them dividing the prize
money with them In this way a certain num-
Der Of young women are provided with hus-
bands and dowrtes. but what becomes of the
left-overs is not explained. This sounds friv-
oious, but the situation is that has often
been faced heretofore in war-devastated coun-
tries where the necessity of restoring lost pou-
uiation has arisen. In many cases the situa-
ton has been met by the frank practice Of
polygamy. at which the governments have
winked.
In some OF the newer countries where the
male population in pioneer days was largely
IN excess the problem has been solved nv the
importation OF women, was done by the
colontsts at jamestown In ancient history we
read OF wars that were undertaken for the
purpose OF securing wives for the invaders OF
some country that was better supplied than
others.
Leaving out moral and sentimental con-
sideratfons, monogamy has been found the
most satisfactory solution of the sex question
where the numbers OF the two sexes are nearly
balanced. and under modern conditions an ex-
cuse that may have existed for the practice Q.
polygamy in the old nomadic days is no longer
valid. 1t may be said that the future OF unaS-
tached women is best provided for by absorb
Ing them in industry, but that is merely an
question and leaves the greater one
Of the realization of the highest destiny that
= found through the home and the freside still
Asettled- 1t is significant If not a curious
that the countries in which women have
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Crooked Nose.

l am told that it is possible 10
have a crooked nose Strengthened.
Would you advise having this done
by the concern? Do you
know of any other specialist who
straightens the features or corrects
cosmetic defects? (Miss C.~A.)
Answer happen to know OF
skilled plastic surgeons or cosmetic
surgeons here and there, but not III
your city. Your own physician
would know if there is one there. AS
a rule any cosmetic defects which
are amenable to treatment-andd de-
formed or crooked noses usually
are-call for operation, not for
paraffin injections.
Yeast a Superfiuous Food.
What do you think of the practice
of eating yeast every day? Does 1t
do any good, or is it just a popular
fad? q c. WI
Answer-Yeast is rich in one OF
the food accessories known as vita
minis. The vitamin in yeast is the
water soluble An ordinary mixed
diet contains ample amounts OF
water soluble B. Common and really
essential foods which are quite as
satisfactory sources of water SOL
uble B are fresh eggs, whole wheat,
fresh liver, peas( fresh or dried
peas), nuts.
Beauty Hint
My elbows are dry, rough and
positively dirty looking in spite of
frenzied bathing. They're not ugly
elbows otherwise and l need all my
charms just now in this dull sea-
son. IN. McA. W.
Answer-Fishskin disease, or, as
the laity call it, ichthyosis, is the
condition you describe touch of
ichthyosis" on the elbows. The skin
lacks sebum (oiD. Rub in a few
drops of this oil once a day: Two
ounces oil of Sesame, II grains
recorsin, 10 grains powdered ben
zoin, 10 drops absolute alcohol
This should be digested three hours
over water bath, then filtered Ia
task for the druggist)
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with the grain and never sawed.
One strap fastens the toes similar
to a skate and one strap goes
around the heel, securing the foot,
but giving the heel play. A spe-
cial ski boot with soft sole should
be worn
@. What is the most common
meat food with the Chinese?
". NJ. D.
A. While cattle, hogs, sheep and
Ash provide part OF the meat diet
in China, probably the most com
mon of all meat food is poultry
Many varieties of chickens, ducks
and geese are raised and eaten
Q. Does damp air weigh more
than dry air? K. P. NJ,
A. The weather bureau says that
damp air weighs less than dry air.
The danpness is due to the Vapor
of water in the air, and vapor OF
water Is lighter than most Of the
other gases OF the atmosphere.
Q. Why will hogs eat soft coal?
G. 3. A.
A. All swine require charcoal II
some form in their diet When
this is missing they will frequently
resort to eating soft coal, but this
does not have such beneficial re-
suits as the charcoal
@. Is Manuel Anaullo, the new
Chief Justice of the Philippine su-
preme court, the first Filipino 70
hold this position? F. G. X.
A. Judge Anaullo succeeds Vic
torinf Mapa as chief, justice OF the
Philippine supreme court. Judge
Mapa was the first Filipino to hold
the position.
@. Where do the martin birds
winter? They are leaving Ohio
already. E. J. c.
A The Biological Survey says
martins do migrate early. but do
not make the entire journey at one
time, going part Of the way and
forming roosts before setting OUT
to finish their trip. The birds WIZ
ter in South America.
@. Has Poland been recognized
as an independent country?
A. Poland became an independ-
ent country in November, 1918, and
has been recognized as such by all
the great powers.
@. How many states celebrate
Labor day? l. NJ. c.
A. Labor day, Sept. s, is recog-
nized as a holiday in every state
and territory with the exception Of
Wyoming and the Philippines.
@. Is one side of the halibut
fsh light, and the other dark?
A. The halibut lies on its LETT
side. which is white, the right one
which is uppermost, being dark and
bearing both the large eyes.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-07

of the belt are attached parallel
with the eyelets in the end. and
about an inch apart. This maybe
readily done by sewing three little
pockets at the upper and lower
edges of the inner surface Of the
woven elastic insertions, into
which The ends of the rubber tubes
are slipped. These rubber tubes go
next the skin, upon which they
make sufficient tension, when the
belt is applied, to pucker the skin
somewhat and draw the muscles
over the umbilical defect. Make the
belt an inch or more short of the
measurement around the abdomen
at the navel, and adjust by lacing at
the back, but apply it in such man
ner a sto reduce or press back into
the abdomen any bullying at the
navel.