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irresistibIe Appeal Of Orphans.

Describing the orphanage work OF
the Near East Relief in the Armenian
Republic, Mr.. Vickrey said:
1--WE have at Alexandropol in the
Caucasus, one orphanage where there
are approximately 10000 homeless
children, fatherless or motherless,
many of them having no known living
relative. Some of them do not even
know their own names, or the place OF
their birth. They have shown wonder
full recuperative powers, and to see
them play their kindergarten or other
games under the direction Of our Amer
lean relief workers, one could never be-
lieve that they had passed through
the years of suffering that most OF
them have experienced since they, or
their parents, were driven from their
homes in Central Turkey five years
ago.
"For the accommodation of these or
phans there are sixty splendid stone
buildings, erected as barracks for the
Russian army. These buildings are
now given to us by the Armenian gov
eminent for period of ten years and
lend themselves admirably to relief
purposes.
"This orphaIage at Alexandropol Is
but one of the 229 orphanages that the
Near East Relief is now operating in
various parts of the Caucasus, Anato-
liza, Cecilia, Syria and the Constants
nople-Straits area.
Thirty miles from Alexandropol, at
Kars, there is another group of Rus
sian army barracks, which were given
us by the Armenian government for
relief purposes. / was going through
the dormitories of this orphanage at
Kars when the young American col
lege girl in charge turned to me and
said Mr.. Vickrey, 1t sometimes makes
me feel just little older than Me-
thuselah to be called Mother" by 5000
of those Armenian children And that
is exactly what she was-the only
mother that these 5000 Armenian chill.
dren have, except as she avails herself
of the organized assistance of native
Armenian women, in caring for this
large family.
"In the hospital at Kars found 1,15O
beds, which, the day was there, were
occupied by 1903 patients, it frequent
ly being necessary to put two or more
children in a single bed. At Alexan-
dropol we have in one hospital, or
group of hospital buildings, 1850 ira
choma patients. At Karaklis, forty
miles east of Alexandropol, we have
an orphanage devoted exclusively to
the care and training of the blind chill
,dren. At Delijan we have another
orphanage, located on mountain side,
for the care of tubercular children, this
segregation being az much for the vel
fare of the healthy children in the or.
iphanages as for the care of the un-
fortunate consumptives. At Erivan we
formerly had twenty-six distinct or
phanages, though they have now been
reduced and consolidated to seven in
number. There are something more
than 5000 orphans in the region OF
HarDOut."
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disputed principle and policy of
ACKNOWLEDGMENT in the political
affairs of the Old World. Upon that
point, now paramount above all
others as the very gist and spirit of
the great and solemn referendum
which made him President, he spoke
with defniteness of speech, a
clarity of thought, a scope of vision,
and a spiritual elevation which have
not been surpassed by any orator OF
our day:
Confident of our ability to work
out our own destiny and jealousy
guarding our right to do so, we seek
no part in directing the destinies of
the old world. We do not mean to
be entangled. We will accept no
responsibility except as our own
conscience and judgment in each In
stance may determine.
Our eyes never will be blind to a
developing menace, our ears never
deaf to The call of civilization. We
recognize the new order in the world,
with the closer contacts which pro-
gress has wrought. We sense the
call of the human heart for fellow
ship, fraternity and cooperation. We
crave friendship and harbor no hate.
But America, our America, the
America builded on the foundation
laid by the inspired fathers, can be
party to no permanent military
alliance. 1t can enter into no poll
teal commitments, nor assume any
economic obligations or subject our
decisions to any other than our own
authority.
Thus stated, it should be impos-
sible for either our own people or
our neighbors of other nations to
misunderstood our attitude or to
fail to appreciate and to approve it..
Certainly not even the most fervent
and altruistic advocate of peace and
universal brotherhood should mis-
construe the Presidents meaning,
which is so unmistakbly the meaning
o fthe American people. There is
no thought of impeding the way to
closer relationships among the ma
tions; the relationships which the in
exorable progress of civilization made
inevitable as fate itself. On the
contrary, we wish to promote under
standing. And as to the direct is
sues of peace and war, this country
wishes with passionate desire to do
its part. a full-sized nations part,
sin making offensive warfare so hate
full that Governments and peoples who
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AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT.

EPILOGUE and Prologue together
were given in President Harding's
first words to the Nation as its chosen
head: the most momentous Inaugural
Address since that of exactly sixty
years before, Without processing
to be such, involuntarily yet of neces-
sity, it was a most impressive and
conclusive epilogue upon the epoch
which had just closed, with all its
conflict and madness, with all its
vanities and vagaries, with all that
the world would have wished to shun,
with all that the world now wishes
to forget. Still more was it
purposed prologue to the new epoch
which was opening, with its peace
and progress, with its reassertion OF
sane and sturdy Americanism, and
with it's unreasonable lnotentiality
of service to the wrold.
Americanism was its keynote, in
discussion alike of national and in
ternational affairs. That was made
cler nd distinct in the very first
sentence. The American President
spoke as an American, to Americans.
He spoke as an American who believ-
ed in America, in American institu-
tions, in American traditions, IN
American principles; even as one who
believed in the divine inspiration and
guidance of those who founded this
Republic. He spoke, too, as one
whose belief in America found album
dant and convincing confirmation in
the recorded and recognized expert
ence of nearly a century and half
of national life; during which the
outsideworld's first attitude Of scorn
and doubt was transformed, by the
irresistible logic of things done,
into confident faith and yearning hope
that this country would show itself
its brothers keeper and in some man.
ner extend its own advantages and
blessings to all mankind.
This experience, this recorded
progress of the Republic, both ma
terial and spiritual, exceeding any
other known nthe long annals of the
race, proved 10 the speakers mind
the wisdom of the principles upon
which the American nation was
founded and of the p olicy which it
had pursued; even the lately much
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resort to it must prove the righte-
BUSINESS of their cause or stand as
outlaws before the bar of civiliza-
tion."
To that end, and with that wise
President says:
We are ready to associate our
selves with the nations of the world,
great and small, for conference, for
counsel, to seek the expressed views
of world opinion, to recommend a
,, way to approximate disarmament and
relieve the crushing burdens of mill
tary and naval establishments.
We elect to participate in suggest
ing plans for mediation, Cancellation
and arbitration, and would gladly join
in that expressed conscience of pro-
gress which seeks to clarity and write
the laws of international relationship,
and establish world court for the
disposition of such justiciable ques-
tions as nations are agreed to sub
nit thereto.
In expressing aspirations, in seek
ing practical plans, in translating'
humanity's' new concept of righte-
Duh, justice and it's hatred of war in
to recommended action we are ready
most heartily to unite, but every COM
mitment must be made in the exercise
of our national sovereignty.
There is the true, the essential,
American doctrine; that every COM
mitment must be made in the ex-
ercise Of our national sovereignty.
This nation must forever be a unit,
an integer, among other equal inte-
gers, and not a mere fraction of an
inchoate and heterogeneous whole.
That was the principle upon which
has made founded; that is the policy
which has made America great, and
great not only for herself but with
potent;ality and readiness of service
for others:
Since freedom impellsd and inde-
pendence inspired and nationality ex-
allied, world supergovernment is
contrary to everything we cherish
and can have no sanction by our re-
public. This is not selfishness; it
is sanctity. 1t is not aloofness; it
| is security. 1t is not suspicion Of
others; it is patriotic adherence to
the things which made us what we
are.
1t was in this spirit that the Presi-
dent addressed himself to the foreign
relationships of the nation, and it
was in corresponding spirit that he
considered its domestic interests.
We must seek further extension and
Strengthening of those ties Of trade
which bind nations in the closest in
timacy, and must realize that trade
is necessarily reciprocal, so that none,
can receive except as he gives; 1--WE
cannot sell where we do not buy and
we cannot sell successfully where we
do not carry; yet at the same time
our own American standards of liv-
ing and opportunity must be main
tanned. Is that impossible? No
more so than that we must maintain
our national integrity and independ-
ence and at the same time play our
full part as member of the worlds
community of nations. Nor is it
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than billions of dollars spent later in
suppressing international warfare and
strife"
Mr.. Vickrey considers the need in
the Near East and especially in Ar
menia greater than anywhere else in
the world, because, as he says, "In the
countries of Central Europe there are
going governments which have merely
been temporarily impoverished by war.
In the Near East, on the other hand,
there is no such thing as stable gov
eminent. The whole fabric of the state
has to be created from the beginning,
and the innocent and helpless chill
dren have to be trained to the re-
sponsibilities of future citizenship:
Peace in the Near East and, in great
measure, throughout the world, will
depend very largely on the character
of the citizenship of the peoples of the
Near East"
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necessary in explaining it to say
Behold / SHOW you a mystery"
There is indeed, as the President said,
no short cut to the making Of these
ideals into glad realities; but the
way, though perhaps arduous, is
straight and plain.
The President showed keen per-
ception of the nations present plight
and needs. while, the worlds en-
FILTERED travail. did not leave us de-
vastated lands nor desolated cities, it
did involve us in the delirium of ex-
pend.ture, in expanded currency and
credits, in unbalanced industry, in
unspeakable waste and disturbed re-
!ationships." To the correction of
these conditions the nation must adj
dress itself. To that effect the
President spoke with directness and
a resolution that made his words seem
like vertiable trumpet call to duty.
There must be national unity, and
there must be no wild thought of re-
volution. Just as truly as when
world war threatened civilization we
pledged our resources and our lives
to it's preservation, so if revolution
should threaten we should renew our
conservation to the cause of law and
order. And so in controversies far
short of any thought of revolution;
1--WE mean to cure. our ills, but never
to destroy or to permit destruction by
force. l had rather" said the Presi-
dent, submit our industrial contro-
yersies to the conference table in
advance than to settlement table
after conflict and suffering"
He perceived the magnitude of the
problems and tasks before him; but
trusting in the cooperation and sup
port of hundred millions with COM
mon concern and shared responsible
ity, and in Divine avor and guild
ance, he faced them confident and un-
afraid. 1t was a noble message to-
the nation before which he was
standing for the first time as its
Chief Magistrate; calculated to move
every true American to join with him
IN plighting to God and country
solemn oath, not merely of office but
Of citizenship, upon the eternal prin-
ciple "to do justly and to love mercy
and to walk humbly with God.'::-
Harvey's Weekly.
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souuht n Dorado In Vain.

When Sir Walter Raleigh starteli out
to find his Ell Dorado he was seeking a
tabled city whose houses were covered
with sheets Of pure gold, and which
was surrounded by hundreds of square
miles of rock SO filed with surface
gold that when the sun shone 1t was as
IL great yellow mirror was blazing as
far as the dazzled eyes could reach.
Raleigh, Of course, found nothing that
even came near to such a wonder. and
many brave gentleman of England
lost his life or bis fortune In seeking
the same tabled Ell Dorado.
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NOTICE OF CAUCUS.

The town caucus for the town of
Washburn, Bayfield, County, Wis
consin, for the purpose of nominating
candidates for the spring election,
will be held at the Grange Hall on
Saturday afternoon, March 10Th, at
two o'clock.
Dated March 8, 1921.
A. P. STONE,
SAM MEYERS, =
JACOB FROSETH,
Town Board.
BY CLARENCE THOMAS,
Town Clerk.
Money to Loan on Farm Lands
and City Property. Reasonable rates.
GEO.G. MacDONALD,
BristolBlock,
TT. Ashland, Wisconsin.
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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-10
STARS WITHOUT
OPPOSITION IN
NET TITLE PLAY
Predict Easy Sailing
for All the Fo-
UorifeS.
BY HENRY L. FARRELL.
United Press staff CorrpspOpdept !

fnliadeIphla, Pa, Sept. 1O.-An-
other walk-through was in prosnect
Tor the second round of the Amer
lcan National Tennis CHAMPIONSHIP
at the Germantown Cricket club.
unless a master key fails To
throw back the bolt, all the favor
ties should walk through an omen
coor into the third round.
serious opposition is SO missinr
that the feature matches of the daV
could almost be classed as exhibi-
uon affairs. William T. TiIden
meets Philip Goldsboro, Baltimore:
william M. Johnston meets Edward
=; han, Merchantville, n. j.: Zenzo
Shlmldzu, the tiny Japanese. faces
MARSHAL Allen, Seattle. and Vincent
cago. . VI ohi-
Richards, the Yonkers how won
uer, may nave a contest with Havs.
VINO mas held the western chamn.
!onship and now the title-holder of
the clay courts. u
Flity-four players survived tbe
Irst round in a series of matches
that lacked a kick. The field will
De cut in half by today's match and
IL the second round
Rlchards said after the fret
round that the championships wonIJ
De the result of elimination betweau
1 lloen. Johnston, Williams Wasb
ourn, Davis, Willis and bimse,f
success enjoyed BY the An,e-i
cans IN the first round was shas
Dy the British and Australian ~ ~
stars with Norman Peach cant cup
Of the Australian team who pIdIn
VINO was
Philadelphia is all w,r,.s
over ? ono tne championship. More tbap
o;oUv were In the stands and Of
,lclals of the club today esti I at
"a mat the capacity will he taSt a
n the remaining rounds Of leu
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-10
PROPOSE TEAM
OF ALL STARS
TOPLAYP
Jack Tighe Arranging Plans for n
Series of Five POst-Season
Battles.

A series of five games between
team of Three-Eye league au-stars
under leadership of Jack Tighe and
the Moline Plowboys, likely men
nant winners, is the prospect for
the week following conclusion of
the regular schedule. Jack called
up this morning to say that pre-
liminary details for such a series
are shaping themselves, and there
is every indication that the ventura
will carry through to success.
Elmer Benson, manager of the
Islanders, is assisting Tighe Mana
ger Earle Mack of Moline. has ex-
pressed his favor.
Tfghe aims to secure his team
from among those that finish the
season in Rock Island and Moline
next week. He proposes to plav
the first game on Wednesday, Sent.
p and finish with a contest on the
following Sunday. The games would
alternate between the two cities.
1t is believed that the fans NJ
Rock Island and Moline would rel
ish such an opportunity to compare
the merits of the champions against
the cream of the league, nodded
into an all-star aggregation. That
the rivalry would be keen is taken
for granted.
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PRICE
OF FOOTBALL
T0S2FICURE
Admission Cost to IneIude War TO-
Is Increase Of IS Cents Over
Last Year.

a general admission price of 80
including war tax, for Rock Island
independent football games at Dou ~
gas park will prevail this wear
Manager Walter Flanagan announc'
ed today. This amounts to an in
crease OF 30 cents over last year.
when $3.50, plus war tax was
charged. was
The increase is necessary if
ROCK Island is to make anv k;na
Oh a showing as a member of the
american Professional Football as
soclauon," Flanagan declared 81
believe tri-city football fans comm
top-notch football worth $40 a 500
son to them. We intend to NAV nor
more than five home games ali
with high class teams. thus insnr-
ing better pastiming as a whole
than could be given for 25 cents
less and with eight or nine games
In substance, it means the fan will
not have to pay any more for the
season than he did last year.
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81 OOMERS CAPTURE PITCHERS DUE
EvAs HERE SUNDAY.

Al Bashang will lead his
Evansville crew into Rock Is
land tomorrow to begin a
three-day series with the Is
landers at Douglas park. The
Evas have slumped rapidly
within the last two weeks, and
Rock Island hopes to make 'em
like it The Sabbath contest
will start at O'Clock.
Bill Jackson and his Peoria
Tractors will be here next We'd
nesday for a quartet of games
in three days, one being the
playoff of a postponed battle.
Rock Island fans will get
chance to see Terre Haute, run
ners-up to Moline for the pen
nant, here a week from today.
The Tots help the Islanders
ring down the curtain with a
double-header on Sunday, Sept.
IS.
The Islanders are playing
heads-up baseball now. Bloom
1ngton had a tough time yester-
day in grabbing the victory, 3 to
L, behind the best twirler in the
league, Ralph Miller. The Is
landers battled every inch of the
way. Ask any one who witness
ed the. game.
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Deal was closed today whereby
Frank Murphy, Islander shortstop,
is to get his chance in faster CON-
pany at the end of the Three-Eye
league season. He is to report to
the Kansas City American assO-
citation club Sept 20 at Columbus,
and will be put into the lineup i'm
mediately. Terms of the deal are
such that Murphy must make good
by Oct /. If Kansas City retains
him after that date, they will pay
cash and give Rock Island Catcher
Charlie Connolly. Amount of the
cash consideration is not mention
ed. but it is intimated that the cum
is substantial
Murphy Is completing his second
seon with the islanders. In the
latter half of the present summer.
he has displayed exceptional all
around class at tho shOrstOp posi-
ton, and in addition has climbed
up among the leading hitters of the
league. Many critics have pro-
nOuDced him the fastest player in
the circuit He is always a source
of worry to opposing clubs. because
of his daring baserunning. He
leads the league in stolen bases
with a..
Several clubs were dickering for
his services.
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The uninitiated do not compre-
bend what expenses must be met
before the local club can count
profit at any single game. For their
benefit, I will say that $4,000 will
be the minimum figure for any con-
test played in Rock Island this
year. and for the more important
games this will jump to at least
$4,000. First of all, no club will
come for less than a $4,000 guar
antee. Then advertising, park rent.
police, officials, printing. cost of
ball, ground keeper, rental of
chairs, ticket sellers and usbers
and rain insurance approximates
81 900. After all of these absolute
ly necessary expenses are met. the
begin to figure where
they get off, not considering an out
lay of over $500 in matter of
seats. telephone and telegraph tolls
doctor bills, equipment and misceJ3
laneous.
II Douglas park had a capacitv
on 10000, we could talk in terms
OF 81. but lacking this space we
must have the 50 admission to snr~
ceed- Two dollars is the price
charged by every other member of
the association"
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On the other hand when tho y,
rates with one of their aces Coon
er' in the box, fell before tbs Up Up
a cub that has been used as p
t6e 1ast by }o all the other clubs in n
tor pittsburgh to get elated nvar
The Yanks, feasting off phil
deiphla meat, increased their lead
while the Indians were snared e Se
ram with a no-run tie score Try
lanks are getting the full effects
OF their murderers' row and tbo
pitchers are in great shane VIZ .ne
Harry Harper, the only southnaw
on the roster, who has been on the
bench all season becomes a MI, IN
ming pitcher. Higgins can almost
count the rag in his pocket Esr
per may turn out to be anotbar
Mails who hoped in the breach
last year for Cleveland and won
the pennant.
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SIX OR DOZEN
MORE WALLOPS,
RUTH'S DESIRE

Philadelphia, Pa, Sept 10
Omitted Press. six more and
maybe a Dozen" Babe Ruth, base
balls champion slugger, said here
today in talking about a home run
record
Ruth equalled his 1920 mark Of
"a when he hit one off Naylor in
yesterdays game with the Athlet-
les He knocked his 54th last year
III the same park on Sept. 81. He
has p games in which 10 make a
new mark, the majority of which
are to be played in New York,
where he has the range on the
short right field stands.
Ruth's wallop yesterday was
tremendous drive over the left field
wall. Officials of the club who
the distance after the
game said the ball went more than
500 feet
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1921-09-10
MIKE DUNDEE
BEATS MARTIN
Rock Island Bantamweight Out
points New Yorker in 10
Rounds Last Night

East Chicago, Ind, Sept 10
Midget Smith, New York bantam
weight, and Joe Burman of Chicago,
fought a 10-rOund draw here last
night in the opinion Of a majority
of newspaper experts at the ring
side. One newspaper man gave
Burman a shade. Burman weighed
1872 and Smith 120 pounds
Jack Sharkey, New York bantam
weight, defeated Roy Moore Of Min
neaPolis in 10 rounds according 10
newspapermen. The men in the
semi-windup weighed 120 pounds.
Dundee Wins.
Mike Dundee of Rock Island out
pointed Terry Martin OF New York
in 10 rounds Martin weighed liz
pounds and Dundee 12IJ2.