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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-13

manager of the Rock Isiaad Plow
company. left today for Peoria
where the 12ud annual Convention
Of the Illinois Implement Dealers'I
association Is being held. The con-
ference opened today and VIM last
through Thursday.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-13
TUEsDAY-THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUs-DEcEMBER H. 1921

An address on how the Ameyl-
can farmer can operate at . profit
was given this afternoon by x. c.
StpnA secretary OF the American
Hampshire Swine Record associa-
don The subjects for discussion
this afternoon include questions on
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-13

freight rates, canvassing and de-
liyering. wrapping and Insurance.
charges. definitely defined territory,
and binder twine trade.
Tomorrow morning Floyd r.
Todd. vice president of Deere q
Co.. Moline. will speak on the I'M
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-13

rious discussions. There win be q
reception for the women guests
Wednesday evening and q banquet
Thursday evening.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-13
POSTPONE MEETING
OF CITY PLANNING

The Rock Island city planning
meeting scheduled for
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-13

All the News-Ail the Time
The Argus.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-13

Children's tennis gowns in stripe
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-12-13

Hundreds of pretty and useful articles have just
been added to the collection Merchandise Cou-
pons will be given with purchases all this month tn
gifts Remember articles you select may be held
TIL you have sufficient coupons to secure them.
Make your selection now.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
A Novel Of the Blast F urnaces
In Men and Steel Mary Heaton worse Drama
tizes the Pittsburgh Strike

trivia which gives such color and va
riety to major causes. There was the
man who was paying himself back the
twenty Christmases he had worked for
the company. And the woman who re-
garded the strike as fortunately timed
because it left her husband FREQ TO
tend her through her confinement.
But the story which throws . cleav-
ing light on the spirit of the strike,
on the essential assertions that under
lie not only this one but all that have
gone before and all that will come
after, is contained in the story about
Fraycar.
"Fraycar when he was drunk
would come down before the mill gates
and would curse the mills; he would
curse Stag and slack; ne would curse
the pouring steel and fires, and the
smoke that poured out of the mills
and blackened the eky. His friends
would follow him and watch him fear
fully as he stood, huge, before the mill
gates, cursing. He would cry out to
the silent wall: 4 am stronger than
you When he was drunk he
thought the machines were alive. he
thought they owned him and that he
was their slave"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
For Zane Grey Fans
lie Mysterious Rider Is
Full of Thrills

THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER. By Zane
Grey Published by Harper & Bros.
MERE is only an occasional page
of Zane Grey novel that is not
freely sown with ordinations,
points, dots, dashes and other gym
nastic feats of punctuation. But at
that they seldom do full justice to
the story.
The Mysterious Rider is no excep-
ton. 1t tells an exciting yarn of life
on the Western plains, with all the
regulation moving picture thrills-cow-
punchers, round-ups, rustling, red blood,
red liquor and quick triggers. The
smoke of battle lifts now and then for
view of a romance between the boy
who doesn't belong and the girl whose
parents neglected to give her name.
He'll Bent" Wade, the man of mys-
terry, a gun fighter of the old school,
rides into the story early and takes
command of all doubtful situations. In
the end he makes the great sacrifice,
easily recognized by any film fan as
the moment when the cowpunchers
stand about with barred and bowed
heads.
Zane Grey knows his West and he
knows his public. Under these ideal
conditions he cannot readily go wrong.
1t hardly seems necessary to record
that The Mysterious Rider will not
disappoint many of his readers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
MISS ANZIA YEZIERSKA author of Hungry Hearts,
IVA series Of stories aOhic NeaV Yorks East Side is
Vividly portrayed

But now, this year 1921, are we pion-
GERS, are we seeking men with torches
of leadership who shall guide US, not
to fields Of cannon and bayonet, but to
fields of struggle for civic betterment,
or, what is nobler, to the going to the
doors OF the newcomers among us and
knocking, asking entrance for
friendly bite of bread and hand
shake? Let US refuse to be America
middle-aged" and determine to be
America forever young. Love of fell
low men must be tho talisman of our
cherishing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
The Author Attacks Japanese
sd Of the Sun Is Both Novel and Propa
ganda

- rHr SUN. BY wallace irwin
,BEp PA by George H. Doran Company.
share are such things as literary
sbosts. Hashimura Togo Japa-
~. schoolboy of all time, must
!. casting strenuous shadows on
IN II Wallace Irwin. In q strictly
:, ,.,.., sense, Mr.. Irwin has violated
- contract with his favorite fic-
.,.,.cter. He has--as almost any
. Seed of the Sun will testify
,,rsi on the Jap.
- wears the nation laughed with
~r..s Irwin over the good-natured
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

in terms not her own. Her wish to
write became will to write, "a de-
sire, ache and hunger to give" She
who "never had chance to be young"
would strive to stir our america too
middle-aged" to Il recognition of the
need Of national seeking for foun-
tain of youth, for there is perfect con-
cord in the realm that enshrines but
does not cloister the child-ideal.
As one reads Hungry Hearts he does
not sec the lonely figure of the woman
behind and beyond it, the author for
whom literary production is and has
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
South America
Its States Concisely and
Ably Described

THE STATES OF SOUTH AMERICA ~
CHARLES DomvilleFife. Published by the
macmillan Company.
4 THE present time the COM
1 A mercial Importance of the South
American countries is enhanced
by the political turmoil and economic
bankruptcy of large part of Europe.
Before the war England possessed the
lions share of the South American
trade, with Germany as her nearest
rival. Now Germany is temporarily
eliminated from serious competition,
but England is confronted with the
problem of winning back some Of the
trade which was lost to, the United
States during the war.
Mr.. Domville-Fife's work Is adni-
rably adapted to the needs of the Brit
ish or American merchant and investor.
He gives an able, concise analysis of
the commercial situation in the various
South American states, their principal
imports and exports, their business
methods, the extent and effectiveness
Of their railroads and other means of
transportation. He also imparts some
incidental information about the more
significant characteristics Of the peo-
pies who live in the Southern Con
tinent.
The author represents South Amer
lea as a storehouse of undeveloped az
ricultural, mineral and industrial re-
sources. He describes the steps which
some Of the states, notably Chile, have
taken to encourage desirable immi-
grants to come and cultivate the vast
vacant stretches of land. Discussing
the mines which are to be found in
most Of the states, he usually observes
that they suffer from lack of energetic
and efficient exploitation. He draws m
enticing picture of South America as g
land of almost unlimited opportunity
for the hustling. wideawake capitalist,
engineer and salesman. The industrial
development of the various countries
is indicated by Mr.. Domville-Fife's sta
tistics, which are drawn from census
reports and similar authoritative
sources.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
HE absorption of the immi-
grant In our national entity is
l. a work that goes on silently,

A work that goes on silently
without heralds and trumpets
To most Of us Of the old American
stock it is feature of growth SO for
eign to our mode of life and to ou,
habit Of mind that it exists as a proc,
ess remote. How easy it Is to ignore
an important, even dramatic event il
our street, enacted within the little
colony Of our neighbors, if it does not
include or interest us. And how much
more easily do our currents of thought
refuse to merge in the great tide of
national continent motives. Yet the
sweeping into and carrying on with
the river of American progress of the
individual and collective forces of Eu-
ropean ideas and traditions is ar
everyday fact that we should consider
each man for himself and the nation
for its own good.
Finding a Voice
AT times, too rare in their comings,
there appear fragments of the national
creative mood incarnate in single
human beings from overseas. A cru
SADIE that has lived only in "a chamber
of imagery" or an expression of glow
ing patriotism that has been but a
writing on the wall of a mind, be-
comes articulatc. 1t gets voiced in the
press or in book and we, reading it,
stir in our chairs, responding because
our tuning-forks have vibrated in
stinctively to a lovely alien music. And
who, after "a terrible struggle to gain
dumb articulation" has moved even
Americans with traditions and legends
of the soil to sense Of kinship with
and duty to those who walk through
the gates Of the nation with a prayer
that they may be accepted as brothers
and sisters.
few weeks ago a little book was
given to us for our criticism. 1t was
Anzia Yezierska's Hungry Hearts. We
read it and knew at once, decisively,
that the immigrant had found one
more interpreter in his ranks. And the
strength, the beauty of the interpreted
ton is in its duality Of burning Amer
icanism and love of the jewellers en-
East Sides who are the mass-back-
ground for the figure of the speaking
protagonist, Miss Yezierska. No more
perfect type of the alien made one with
US can be imagined than this woman
who left Poland when nine years old
came to New York, toiled in a sweat
shop, began to grasp the vast signif,-
canoe of America, yearned to be able
to voice herself and her message. In
her little room, on mantel, is por-
trait Of Abraham Lincoln, and for hes
America is symbolized in the life Of
Lincoln" What he did, what he became
"is not dream. 1t can be done again, "
for there is fluid opportunity at every
immigrants door,
A Will to Write
We have quoted quite freely from a
little chat with Miss Yezierska, for no
one can hear her speak, with her STAG
cato, thrilling sentences edged with
meaning, without realizing the futility
Of trying to picture her and her though.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
/ANE GREY aUhose latest novel, The MYSTERIOUS Rider
- IS filled with thrills from to cover
National Education
Trend Toward Nationalism
Shown in Schools

THE NATION AND THE SCHOOLS. BY
John A. H. Keith and William C. Bagley
published by the Macmillan Company,
New York
PRESENT DAY TENDENCIES IN ED1T-
CATION. BY w B. Blzzell and NJ II.
duncan. Published by the Rand Nc
Nally Company. Chicago and New York.
EDUCATION FOR DEMOCRACY. By
Eugene c. Brooks Published by the
Rand, Mentally Company. Chicago and
New York.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16


MI Heaton Worse, is a stirring
a book by reason Of a great
conviction underlying it. It
is that the spirit Of man is greater
than any machine which he has devised
to enslave it. This is the history of
the Pittsburgh steel strike of 1873
an episode which ended in confusion
and rout, but which by some energy
OF imagination Mrs. Worse has seized
upon and lifted into its ordered place
in the century-old struggle for suprem-
acy beween man and the machine.
A book of this sort could only be
written IN an overwhelming self
getfulness. In it is the stuff of.
dozen novels, of innumerable poems
and dramas, of observation thrown in
with reckless prodigality, with none
Of the authors thrift to conserve, her
material against day meager of in
splration. 1t is explicit not in the. in
cidents of the strike, but in the values
OF life which motivated it from either
poreal organization Of the strike as its
spiritual essence. 1t is the record of
a high impressionability to beauty and
to courage
For Mary Heaton worse is impress
slonable not only to the human gesture
of defiance, but to the majesty Of the
force which opposes it.
IF people tell you Pittsburgh is not
beautiful do not believe them. II ;s
beautiful in a new way. Its river at
night runs greasy-like molten metal in
whlrlpools of fire-whorls and spirals
OF fire. - and 'there is no glory
comparable to poured iron or poured
steel. The gushing out of fiery metal
from great wheel-like container seems
like the beginning of Creation.
would rather see steel poured than
near great orchestra. The furious
halielujah OF the blast furnace gives
you the impression of sound"
She has seen the beauty of live wire
spinning, of men going rejoicing from
work, even the beauty Of the frieze of
men going sullenly to work in the
dawn, OF great machinery doing super
human things, of the solemn ritualistic
precision with which men tend these
huge watts and fires, of the quiet under
the cathedral apse of these Enclosures
And she communicates her excitement
over this, and her establishment at the
1alth that this order depends on social
chaos. She has seen the humanistic
values of our civilization EXPRESSED
eloquenty in the ragged towns flung on
SCARED hillsides, in the slums of the
steel towns, in the denials to these
aliens of the promise with which we
drew them here.
She has dramatized the emotions OF
the strike marvelously in q fund of
amazingly poignant stories. 1t is not
easy to forget the old. steel worker
the pioneer union man, who had to
scab in this strike because his pension
was six months away. Or the man who
envied his neighbours fortunate loss of
four children by diphtheria, which had
enabled him to rise out Of the slum
tenement to four-room house. His
own eleven children all lived. Or the
man who had never had time to become
a citizen because he had worked at
night seven days q week for twenty
years. Or the woman who dated the
events of her existence in this country
by the strikes she had been through.
Nor does Mary Heaton Worse leave
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

THE STATES OF SOUTH AMERICA. H.
Macmillan Company. 49,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
A Voice From the East Side
Former Worker in Sweatshop Becomes Writer
With Message to America

been hard work, giving life to a sen
tence, like tearing flesh and blood"
NOT for Miss Yezierska is the mental
recession from life of Gray or
Iennyson, surrendering years to an
Elegy or an In Memoriam Hers is the
tense fixity of thought and mental
vision on scene or succession of
mind with no treasury of academic
scenes, the heroic endurance of q
knowledge at hand, to recreate in
words and sentences what is strurpl;no
In the electric cells Of the brain for
escape and utterance. Her pages, per-
sonal in the individuality of their fer
vor, are so altruistic in their vital
spirit of expressed comradeship with
fellow human beings, that they assume
at times the depth and significance of
the injunctons and reflections of
kindly spirit brooding over America.
The author becomes for the moment
the voice of Humanity.
If we were asked to select a passage
in Hungry Hearts that for US seems
to be thoroughly typical Of the books
controlling motif, we should turn to
the short story, The Miracle, and copy
the words of the wise teacher to the
young immigrant girl: IL don't want
you. to get down on earth like the
Americans. That is just the beauty
and the wonder Of you. We Ameri-
cans are too much on earth; we need
more of your power to fly. If you
would only know how much you can
teach US Americans. You are the
promise of the centuries to come. You
are the heart, the creative pulse of
America to be-" Therein abides the
essential self Of Hungry Hearts, the
inspiring conviction of its author that
tho contribution of the immigrant with
the vision is something too fine to be
received and forgotten. The danger
for US is in our SNUG assurance that
we are the givers, that the alien comes
to us with empty hands and a blank
mind.
Calls America Middle-Aged
The writer was strask by Miss Ye-
zierska's statement that america is
too middle-aged" for the phrase
seemed a contradiction in terms. Where
other and old authors, as we'll as oc-
casional visitors from Europe. have
spoken Of US as crudely Juvenile, this
woman, watching and studying US In
tently, has concluded that we have
gone beyond the borders Of the king
dom of national youth. No longer are
we the children Of the world. We can
not claim to be the heirs of the ages.
for maturity implies the full posses
sion of wealth accrued by toll and
gained through inheritance. And vet,
as we ponder this matter of lost
youth, we begin to wonder if we
haven't lost something, and where it
has gone.
We used to sit on our fathers lap
when little boy and listen to great
tales Of ancestors fighting the stub
porn soil of New England, rails
ing white sails aloft for voyages
into distant seas, marching to Vir-
ginia to cope with the men Of Lee and
Stonewall Jackson. Through all the
story ran the tide Of intrepid youth,
a song of men building homes or far
ing forth bright-eyed to meet old god
Danger. Yes, those were halcyon daysl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

"HAT the nation has awakened to
sense Of the need of unfit
cation Of its educational forces
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

and on the whole does very we'll. In
the long run. Seed Of the Sun should
fare better as piece Of entertainment
than as a lesson in international poll
cies. And we think those were Mr..
Twins intentions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16
logo Loses Favor With the Hon. Wallace Irwin

the sun is setting in Japan it ia just
getting ready to rise on America. But
we may bc wrong
The romance Of the story is not
buried beneath all this talk of the
Japanese. 1t appears again and again,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-16

New Novel by C. A. Dawson-Scott
c. A. Dawson-Scott, whose first book,
The Rolling Stone, was published a
year ago, is the author of new novel,
called The Headland, which is just
being brought out by Alfred A. Knopf.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-03-29
FARMER OWES MUCH TO MULE
Animal 10 Hard and Rugged Worker
and Almost Indispensable In
Many Localities.

The mule. like everybody else, has
his place. He is considered bad
actor. Fathers caution their sons
about going near any animal with long
ears and ropy tail. The sons know
what the animal will do because they
have been looking over the funny
paper" each Sunday and were de.
lighted in seeing the mule fold up and
let loose with kick that sent man
through the side Of barn or over
the fence. But In spite Of this I'm.
desirable advertising the mule Is with
us today on more farms than ever
before. He is a hard and rugged
worker and Is especially adapted to
the more billy farms Of our agricul-
tural sections. Even through the
Middle West there are some counties
that have more mules than horses. In
1867, the mules of the United States
numbered $4,000, with an average
value of $66.94. In 1890 the number
was 1921, 900. valued at S7S.25. By
1914 the number had increased to
4.123,0OO, with a value of $119S4 per
head. On January 1, 1920, the num-
her was 4,995,000 and the value per
head was STAT.
The mule has gained rapidly in
popularity, in many localities taking
the place Of the horse, and has also
prevented the introduction Of the trac-
tor In many places. There are not
few mule ranches over the United
States, the owners finding 1t pay.
ing kind Of stock to raise. The de-
mand is increasing and those having
them for sale cannot supply the mar
ket.-Thrift Magazine.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1921-03-29
ASSESSOR Notice.

The Assessors of the South Paris Village Cor.
poration hereby give notice to all persons liable
70 taxation In said Corporation, that they viii
be In session at the Fire Station, In said village
on the first day Of April, from ten O'Clock. A. H.
until four p. n. for the purpose Of receiving
lists Of their polls and estates taxable In said Cor
poration.
All such persons are hereby notified to make
and bring to said Assessors true and perfect
lists of tho polls and all their estates, real and
personal, not by law exempt from taxation
which they were possessed Of. or which they
held % guardian, executor, administrator, trus-
tee or otherwise, on the first day Of April, 102l
and be prepared to mako oath 70 the truth Of the
same.
When estates of persons deceased have been
divided during the past year. or have changed
hands from any cause, the executor, administra.
tor or other persons interested are hereby warned
70 give notice Of such change. and In default OF
such notice viii be held under the law to pay
the tax assessed although such estate has been
wholly distributed and paid over.
Any person who neglects to comply with this
notice win be DOOMED to tax according TO
the laws Of the State and be barred Of the right
to make application to the Assessors or County
Commissioners for any abatement Of his taxes,
unless be offers such List with his application
al the time hereby appointed.
]. 8. BROWN,
Carroll WILSON, Assessors.
OK CLIFFORD,
Dated March 10, 1871.