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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

their extincti0u- That would end one of the
most daring racial movements of history. for
scientists believe that the Arctic ocean natives
are descended from Russian Tartars who fed
in skin canoes from fierce Chinese armies.
Your ancient ancestral tribes used 10 go
north in summer and toward the equator In
winter, following the seasons That's why you
yearn for the north now-why you envy Cap
tain Bernard and his crew of scientist-explor-
ers. 1t seems that the more develop trans
portation the more inclined are stay in
one locality and send out roots. Will the fly
ing machine end that? A few hundred years
from now will the Rock Island worker COM
mute through the air to summer home in
northern Canada and a winter home near the
equator?
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05
Sunken Treasure.

A scheme for raising and relocating the
Lusitania has been concocted by some promo
tiers. They are selling stock in their extremely
ambitious venture. BY the sea-law of salvage,
II you could raise the Lusitania from It's ocean
grave, it and all its cargo would belong to you.
In the next few years. and for centuries,
thereiI be many such schemes for raising ships
torpedoed during the war. A lot OF the cargoes
be recovered by divers working out OF
submarines, according to Simon Lake. marine
inventor Possibly some OF the sunken treas-
ure will be fished up.
Buried treasure-esp ec1&ify pirates gold
has a romantic glamor that has made it enc
of the leading lures for centuries The clock
never strikes but there treasure-seeking
ships cruising around Jamaica, Florida in
South American waters. While these expedi-
lions are successful about often a CEN
fury plant blooms, there are authenticated
cases of adventurous recovering treasure-trove.
And of the most notable was Captain Phips,
who in 1896 sailed from England to Port de la
Plata and, using native divers, brought up 80
tons of silver from sunken Spanish galleon.
Buried in the deep harbor of Vigo is
treasure fleet sunk in 1902 by Sir George Rook
one of the English sea captains who wrecked
Spain as the worlds leading power. This treas
ure fleet carried s14O,O 900 900 tribute from Peru
greatest treasure-trove on the globe Many
have tried to fish it up. All have failed.
History has played strange tricks on the
pirates. Captain Kidd undoubtedly buried
many chests OF plumber, and at some time or
other every one of US has dreamed of finding
them. Yet Captain Kidd was not a cut-throat
who made his victims walk the plank. He
a rather tame, third-rate pirate, finally
hanged for smashing the skull of his head gun
ner with a wooden bucket. Like many great
characters in history, he became famous by
having good press agents after his death.
Where can you find buried treasure? AS
| Tom Sawyer said to Huckleberry Finn: Its
| hid in mighty particular places, Huck, some
! times on islands, sometimes in rotten chests
under the limb of an old dead tree, just where
| the shadow falls at midnight; but mostly IN
| der the floors in ha'nted houses"
We don't know whether small-town boys
| still dig for buried gold, but if they don't
! they're missing lot of fun. Certainly it vas
! the supreme boyhood thrill of nearly every
American man now nearing middle age.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05
Where You'd Be Cool.

Lucky compared with you who are swell
Iering in the summer heat, is Captain Joseph
r. Bernard, explorer scientist Ice-trapped
three years on the white fringe Of the North
Polar world, he found life there so attractive
that he has sailed again from Seattle for a
cruise on the ocean north of Siberia. How
would you like to mako the trip with him ?
Wouldn't it beat staying in Rock Island the
next few months swatting flies and trying to
keep cool?
Captain Bernard started his previous voy-
age into the far north in August, 1916. A year
later his ship was north of Hudson Bay, cruis-
ing cautiously eastward, cropping TO find an
open channel through the Arctic islands out
into the Atlantic ocean. The wall OF ice on
each side closed in. The open was close
at hand. If Bernard had started his voyage
two hours sooner he would have made the
open But he was two hours behind. and the
ice caught his ship and held it fast
1T wasn't pleasant to be cut OF from all
contact with the outside world" says Bernard
when we left Nome in 1916 the last war news
we heard was zzb0ut a naval battle between the
British and Germans in the North sea When
We finally got out of the ice we heard that the I
war was over. 1t was especially amazing to
KNOW that the United States had entered the
conflict"
Pr Inc ArCLlc ocean peoples are pelnS Wlpe'
out by disease and contact with civilization
Captain Bernard says. Far North islands
which early explorers found hhickLy populated,
are now sparseIy settled. The natives are
crazy about the rifles brought in by traders
and are shooting themselves out Of game and
food for clothing II such reckless practices
keep up, says Captain Bernard. the Canadian
government within 10 years may have to feed
and clothe the northern natives to prevent
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05
ONE REMEDY
BY BRRTON BRALRY.

The railroad managers loudly yeip
For larger business and cheaper help;
They've cut the wages, reduced the trains,
But trade is slack and it so remains.
And the railroad managers grow intent
On getting a boost from the government
Though it seems to me, with my feeble wit,
They might try cutting the rates bit!
! Oh, I'd like to travel about the land.
BUt my purse is slim and it cannot stand
The rates one pays when he wants to roam,
And so. Of course, remain at home;
And there are millions of folks like me.
Who like TO wander the scenery,
But CANNOT enora 10, and WIZ not VT
! Until the tickets come down a bit
! The railroad managers yell for aid
And al tho while they are choking trade
With rates that shippers can hardly pay
No wonder revenues melt awayi
But instead Of seeking for public aims
To pad their profits and soothe their quatrns
The railroads might-should they mink it fit
l Perhaps try cutting the rates bit!
Copyright, s21, by Newspaper Enterprise
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Smoke.

1 work in an office, past which
run a number OF railroad tracks,
and trains go by almost continu-
ously all day, pouring OF smoke
which often comes in the open win
harm done the lungs by this
smoke? CA L.
Answer-Yes. The irritation pre-
disposeS to various respiratory dis
eases, particularly tuberculosis
Besides the large amount of car
bon in smoke, there is sometimes
considerable carbon monoxide gas
enough to induce serious poisoning
if much smoke enters room a
score or more of clothing makers
were gassed in a New York factory
by carbon monoXide which entered
from a neighboring chimney. 1t is
a curious thing that, although the
people of a city believe in and
spend much money for cleanliness
and health, yet they endure the
smoke horror from railroads and
other Industrial sources-permit
these industries for profit to main
tain the worst nuisance imaginable.
New Nose Wanted.
Is there any remedy for an ill
shaped nose, not exactly badly
shaped, but a curved nose? (F. L.
M
Answer-The only way to have
the shape or size of the nose al
tered is by operation, which calls
for the skill of a competent sur
geOn.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

While the people of the United States have
very little interest in the political status of the
Philippines, yet the fact remains that when
we took them over from Spain and subsequent
ly subdued them by force Of arms, we did as
sumo a certain responsibility for their future.
The sooner they become organized into a
homogeneous people, speaking one language,
having a low ratio of illiteracy and generally
fitted for self government the better the Amer
lean people will be pleased. Until they do
that we cannot escape from a certain moral
responsibility for their future, which we as
sumo by our successful campaign against the
forces of Aguinaldo.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05
Women and Baptist Church.

For many years the Baptist church has rec
ognized the theoretical equality of men and
women, far as the administration of the
church's business is concerned. While several
other churches have been arguing the question,
the Baptists decided long ago that official rep
resentation of women was vital to complete
success Of the church. For the first time
woman now holds the highest Office in the
Northern Baptist conference. Mrs. Helen Bar
rett Montgomery of Rochester, n. Y, was elect
ed president last week. The vote was practi-
ca1ly unanimous. Thus the women of the Bap-
fist church, in the Des Mofnes convention,
came to the place of actual equality with men.
It is also noteworthy that the men greatly out
numbered the women in the convention. Mrs.
Barrett was elected by an assembly composed
chiefly of men.
Des Mones holds a unique place among the
Baptist convention cities. Sunday Mrs M
Grant Edmands of Pasadena, Cal, one of the
vice presidents, presided over a convention
session when President Ernest L. Tustin of
Philadelphia became i'll. This was the first
time a woman had ever presided over the
Northern Baptist convention
Mrs. Montgomery has been president of
the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mis-
sionary society for seven years. She is one
of the most influential women in the church
Among all men and women, no one is better
qualified for leadership in this great church
organization. What the Baptists think of the
qualifications OF women for public service is a
matter of considerable consequence. This cleo
ton has both social and political significance.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05
How Old Is Johnny2
NOTED PHYSICIAN
"I.r-.n.nrrrfrrrerrrfr.sra
A mother makes TINS inquiry:

A mother makes LQlS inquiry.
cat what age would you recon-
mend telling boys the story of life?
My son is just nine and l have al
ready told him the story of how he
came as a little baby to me, but it
still runs in his mind that storks
bring babies, and / want to tell him
the truth instead of leaving him to
pick up distorted information from
older boys who would perhaps tell
him in an undesirable way. Older
women tell me it is nonsense to put
such ideas i'll a boys head, but he is
going to learn some time, and | want
him to understand in way that
will always make him think of moth
erhocd as sacred and the power OF
huEaaG reproduction s a gift from
Cad"
The older women have the wrong
notion. 1t is their faIlacious reason
ing that maintains the myth of the
stork, myth employed in a cruel
way by thoughtlesS or Guty-shfrking
parents. II it isn't the duty of par
ents to teach their own children the
truth about human reproduction,
then all this grand talk about the
VA ouSh 10 AZ
sincere The stork is an alibi that
no good parent can afford to use.
According to careful investigation
made by responsible public health
service authorities, the average age
at which boys pick up their first sex
ual information-usua tainted in
rmation-outside of the home is
nine years, whereas the average age
which they receive competent in
struction on the subject from or by
direction of their parents is Is
years. Far from being nonsense to
tell children the truth, to teach
them Gods way, it is an injustice
to tell them the stork myth or any
other about such sacred matter.
Don't wait until the children are
9, or IL, or IS to teach them truth.
Begin the moment they ask Ques-
tions or show curiosity. That is the
| only good and fair way. That is
the way that has proved best.
1t is difficult. OF course it is diff
ficult, especially for parents who
have used the sorry alibi SO long
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05
EsAIIH TAl AS
BY WILLIAM f: u R '!Az..I rtD.

or for those who have discouraged
children by limiting that such
Questions are in any way improper
or indicate for parents to hear.
But there are many good books
that help parents, and others that
may be given to boys or girls to
read. l wish l had room to tell
more about such BOOKS here Write
to the Public Health Service, Wash
ington, d. c., and ash for a list OF
such books, and ASK Tor free pam
phIets on sex hygiene for boys, or
girls, or young men or young wom-
en-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

@. What has become of the Ger
man liner '-Imperator?' A W. w.
a. The Imperator is now the
Cunarder "Berengavia."
Q. Who introduced modern i'm
provements such as electric lights
into Korea? I. X IL
A. The first railroad, the first
electric light plant, and the first
waterworks in Korea were con-
structed by Americans.
Q. What are the principal farm
products Of Cuba? E. d.
A. The chief agricultural sta
plies of the Island are sugar and to-
bacco, but fruits and vegetables are
raised in great quantities. TIE
country is also adapted to cotton
and coffee raising.
Q. In using the French word
nee" is it permissible to use the
woman's first name? S. C. T.
A. Nee mans born and one
says Mrs. John Smith nee Jones'
not Mary Jones, since she was born
Jones, the name Mary being given
to her.
Q. What is the average time
that American children attend
school? T. w. n.
A. The bureau of education says
that the average length of tim
spent by American children IN
school is six school years.
Q What animal sleeps the deep
est while alternating? c. a.
4 The jumping mouse, or kanga-
roo mouse, is a common wild rodent
which lays up no store for winter.
but constructs a warm nest, in
which it spends the winter in a state
of dormancy more profound than
that of any other American animal.
Q. Why is a king of England
given the title defender OF the
faith?" A. 3. c.
A This title has been borne by
reigning sovereigns of England
since the time Of Henry VIII. This
title was conferred upon him by the
pope because of a book against
Luther called "ASsertiO Septem Sac
rementorum" which Henry VIII
wrote in 1921.
Q. What IS meant by saying that
a reserve officer in the navy has re-
entered the service to confirm his
rank? C. L. B.
A The navy department says
that many officers having temporary
or provisional rank in the reserves
reonter the regular service and
serve length of time necessary to
entitle them to permanent rank.
This carries with it a much higher
rate of pay when retired to the re-
serve, since otherwise the pay is
only $12 year.
@. How many Boy Scouts are
there in America? WI Nj.
A. There are 4Os.274 boys and
119.5S5 officials enrolled in the or
ganization, making a total of
SIS. $50.
Q. Is the American flag buried
with the body of soldier returned
from, abroad? w. E. G.
A. The war department says that
before the casket is lowered into
the grave. the flag is removed, and
! can he claimed by the nearest Of
kin. If No such claim is made, tn,
flag is retained by the department
O. Do babies ever die OF tuber-
cUI0siS? c. "
I
bat 2143 infants (under 1 year, (
lied in 1918 from tuberculosis, ac-
TO their statistics, These
AyNres ave- taken oDlY for the death
\TSNisNSt&oN area,
! q. Were is the largest huN rim
, in the world? M. S.
A TIE bill ring az Inns, Peru
is SAID 10 be the largest in the
world
Q. WY viii su arrsIE70f some
tines SHRINK from the sides OF the |
pan aud sometimes fall out, when
inverted for cooling? III
A. This seems TO depend upon
the amount Of cream Of tartar
used If the cake has this tendency
increase the amount OF cream o.
tartar. On the other hand, an ex-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

Dear Mrs. Thompson: l am 4
girl af fifteen years of age and have
a lot of boy friends. l only con-
slider them as friends and they in
diVidualiy consider me more than a
friend. Each thinks that l love
him. Do you think there is any
wrong in kissing and what shall
do to let them know that l don't
love them? JANE.
You don't allow them to kiss you,
Jane, do you? You must not Just
treat the boys as friends, nothing
more, and don't listen to their
declarations of love, because they
are just "spoofing" you, and if you
take them seriously they will laugh
at you behind your back
Dear Mrs Thompson: I am a girl
Is years of age and am considered
rather good looking for my age. I
am in love with a boy 10 years Of
age My parents object to my going
with him because of our religion
for we both go to a different
I church. He has asked me TO marry
hin. DO .YOH think I OHght to ac-y
cept? His parents are wealthy and I
10 not object to our marrying.
LOVE-SICK.
You ought not TO marry because
\SNN axe 100 Young 70 SM0W Y0NH
mind.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: have
! girl friend who lives near NE and
hare been with her a very few
times. She once safd she loved me.
] left town and was gone for about
three months She always said in |
her letters that she was true to me.
, But when \ came home \ found she
! had been going with other boys. Dc
you think she was true to me wheI
she had been going with other boys
We were engaged. Neither of us
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

July up at g. Went to bed last night
or rather this morning-at l o'clock. Had
gone TO the Capitol last night. Had a gay
time with our friends. The Lady Who Hates
to Darn my Socks treated my friend a bit
rough, / should say. When he offered to treat
the crowd she selected the most expensive
concoction the bill of fare. :. Office at
Z 80 this morning. After l O'Clock hectic" is
the only word to describe my life until the
first edition went to press. I am grateful that
so-called championship battles do not occur
every day. Went, with my friend and fell
low slave, to the ball game-it was scheduled
as baH game, at least-at Douglas park The
home team lost-as they always do when 1
am present haven't seen them win a game
this season Don't expect to. Home early
and to bed at 10.
July Sup at 1880. I am in favor of be-
slowing D. S. M. upon the man VINO invented
bathtubs and the system of running cold wa
ter. The morning plunge these days gives me
what Briggs calls grand and glorious feel
ing. Had the time l might have written
another "soililoquy. To the Office at $50 to
write the neglected colyum. Home about ?
The Young Rufhan developed a temperature
today. Too many friends and too much CANDY
perhaps. Our friends, the Spuds, came
rolling up in front of the house in a beautifu
| touring car at 4:30 Everybody in and nm tbe
Ii river road to LIE Claire, Iowa At one fj1,a \
crash with an O1co1DzS PASSENGER train i'm
pended because the three male members of the
party, including the driver. had their ewes
glued T1uan-haired lady seated haeias -
parked car near the rosAside, OF course ~xEs,0A
\ seen MANY SNeeses hut NsSev q paAr Mo NexeNS,
An accident was, so TO speak, barely ayertes
l. Back to our home at Sis Food coffe
land cigars Conversation music. sIeenv c5ii
jdren BUt good time was had bV All" TTba
fS,pUds left a6o1t 10 The resi- of ne ya,kf,a
Intelligence, SAT up and talked until / O'Clock.
"STNLMAN Willing to Have Wife sDe--l
Bloomington Pantagraph.
! Now, who is this wife Sue, 1s .b;.
other scandal in the baldheaded banIe-'s life
r e MIG
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

1t appears that and oats in these parts
are just determined to grow into big crop
they were during the time of high prices
when they were worth something to the
farmer
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

Down in Arkansas man has awakened in
hospital after having been asleep for three
years. Physicians predict that he will COM
pletely regain his health. Lucky man. Think
of all the bills he missed paying.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

The reluctance with which railway trainmen
and other employees accept reductions in their
pay is tame stuff compared with the roars from
the higherup officials when it is suggested that
they, too, get into this reduced pay pool
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

Dress reformers fear the height of wonen's
ambition has not yet been reached.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

II It is true there are 10000 poets il japan
she has troubles of her own.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

Liquor once put men in the gutter against
their wills Now men put liquor in the gutter
against their wills.
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05
Why Go to Atlantic City?


TFrom the Milan independent
Bathing has become a popular as well
as a healthy pastime, and locality
which provides no means for such recrea-
ton is virtually off the map. Coney Is
land attracts thousands for fun; Atlantic
City furnishes the outside world with its
sensations, gossip, etc; Excelsior Springs
gives you quiet and rest if you need 1t;
French Lick is where you get your
mud" battle while now right here at
home have at our pleasure real,
genuine, clean, charming resort, sec
ton of the Hennepin canal where hun
dreds from the tri-citieS and vicinity
daily enliven the neighborhOOd by taking
advantage of the privilege so kindly pro-
yided by Uncle Sam. Just below the
Milan bridge. about one-half mile near
lock 81, is the chosen place. The gov
eminent official in charge to guard
against accident has provided rowboat
which is kept in readiness for immedi-
ate use. A number of life preservers
hang convenient for emergencies also.
AT the risk of being called un-American by
some of the Dempsey adherents in this build
ing we going to express our wonder as TO
whether Dempsey and Kearns would have been
as alibi-less as Carpenter and Descamps after
the s. C. battle of the century,
WHICH leads US to wonder further if the
writer who dubbed it the battle of the cen
fury" didn't really mean the battle for the
contingencies.
WE HAVE RETAINED COUNSEL AND WE
SHALL NOT APOLOGIZE.
Mac: Dyou realize that you're liable to a
suit for libel by Moline's Greatest Newspaper?
Such a suit might take all the suits you have.
The clipping was NOT from the Dispatch but
from your own paternal sheet Its wise
child who knows his own dad" One on you.
JAY DOUBLE SEE
THE copy of an Associated Press dispatch
referred TO the Pennsylvania solon Senator
Know. Well, he does.
In Which English and Punctuation Suffers.
Compound Fracture.
[From the Aledo Times Record
Norman Hesse, youthful resident of
Joy, came to A1edo yesterday to have his
right arm broken two weeks ago by fall
ing from a horse redressed by DR..
keinsmid
The lad was trying to do a circus
act on the back of big work horse
and tumbled of.
TRIED to Beat Way on Train; Killed
Verdict'.-Peoria Journal.
An unusually alert coroner's fury
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-07-05

AL bolshevism contains that is worth while
is few American prisoners.