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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-28
SIX
DURINe MeAT
DEAD REPORT


Two parties were broken mp and
and q woman arrested on the
street by = squad composed Of De-
tective Dennis Bennett and OFF,
GERS Harry Fitzsimmons and
Charles Hastings. last night, the
work being directed by Acting Po-
lice Chief William H. Fitzsimmona
and Mayor Harry NJ. Schriver.
The chief and the mayor made an
Investigation Of conditions through
out the downtown district OF the
city last night on their own &C.
count, they stated this morning.
I'VE were out last night looking
conditions over and trying to find
any vice or law violations" said
Chief Fitzsimmons this morning
I'VE found the town pretty dead in
that respect, with nothing doing
that is, nothing that l know about
The mayor repeated this statement
The arrests made were as fol-
| lows:
William Ward, George Wilson
and Fred Mordhurst, alleged to be
gambling in rooms over the Checker
i Taxi company's stand. Ward was
released under SIS bond and the
! other two under $40 bond, for ap'
pearance in police coQkt at 7:3l
o'clock tonight.
Charles Melrose and May John
son, arrested at 2171z Seventeenth
street at 10 o'clock, charged witt
! disorderly conduct and released
the woman under SIS bond and tn.
man under $40 bond, to appear a
1880 tonight.
i Helen Wells, arrested on dowI
town streets and released undel
SIS bond to appear at 1880 tonight
At the same session of cour
James Bell and Oscar Miller, VIII,
were arrested early in the evening
at the corner of Twenty first stree
and Fourth avenue for fighting, will
appear. They are out under 81
bonds.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-28
LINDSEY SUIT FOR
MALPRACTICE TO z
BE DECIDED SOON

Joseph Lindsey, Rock Island.
whose suit for $4,000 against Drs.
L. ]. Portman and Frederick Lam
bach for malpractice is being
heard before a jury in Judge A. P.
Barker's court, Davenport, will
probably go to the jury Saturday.
The defense is endeavoring to
offset charges Of the plaintiff that
the physicians were guilty of neg
ligence and lack. of skill in. the
treatment Of a fractured limb in
1919.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-28
;
IS
TING PRICE

81 ). c. BOYLE.

cpyright, 1877, BY The August
1goW York, Sept. zS.--Biack gold
II = discount. Crude 0il-black
p1d IN the language Of the oil
Nd continues to gush and bub-
~ 10 the surface IN scarcely d.
4 6lnished streams. Consumption
~ increased to . remarkable de-
0pee a result of the coal strike
IA greater use Of oil for fuel In
/ 4 dustrial plants. Kerosene, and
j lesser degree, gasoline. are in
strong positions but over-produc-
6On OF the nations wells still Is
6ooding the markets and the stor-
age facilities with crude. As re-
aalt prices of crude oil are down
60day and there il every evidence
that they will remain down for
months to come.
The immediate future Of crude
oil prices II plainly to be read In
Geographic reports received with
n the last ~ hours from the main
dN-producing centers Of the coun-
b try. Continued and remarkable
/, production Of crude oil in the new
southern California fields has re.
suited in the shattering Of all
California records for output. The
state produced an average Of 1885,
600 barrels day during August
+ and has maintained about that rate
the greater part Of September
This record-breaking flood of OF
b due primarily to the new dis
coveries at Santa Fe Springs ant
Signal Hill as production in thu
northern fields has been curtailet
a. far as possible. ~
Oil Floods California.
California production exceeded
consumption by 100000 barrel
last month and September will
show similar piling up of surplus
stocks. Prices have reached Low
figure, but additional cuts are no
expected as export of fuel oil ha
greatly broadened the market, bu
the Santa Fe Springs and sigma
Hill fields are now producing $50,
600 barrels day as against 500
barrels early this year.
Four million barrel tankage ha
been erected by oilmen in the Mid
Continent field in the last tire
months and there is a distinct tend
ency Of operators toward Storm
oil for better prices. Facilities ar
limited for this purpose, however
although the present quotation
SIPS a barrel, is too low to en-
courage sales. The price trend i
the Mid Continent field still
downward, according to wor
from Oklahoma City today. De
spite the cutting off of drilling or
erations, the Continent fiel
now is turning out 100000 barrel
Of crude daily. Oil. experts in III
!. southwest look for revision {
sales methods rather than a turtle
cut in prices SO that sales will b
based on a gravity basis unde
which higher grades would not b
reduced but the lower grades woul
fall sharply.
Colorado Output Large.
In the Colorado and Wyomin
fields production Of crude is in e,
cess OF refinery capacity. Abol
100000 barrels are in storag
The price trend in that section, al
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-28
ORGANIZING HEAD
AIDSFARM BUREAU
IN MEMBER DRIVE

G. E. Metzger, Chicago. head of
the organization department of the
Illinois Agricultural association
will arrive in Rock Island tomor-
row to cooperate with the farm bu-
reau in its triennial membership
drive which is drawing to a close.
His presence will presage the
arrival of three representatives of
the state association who are COM
ing Monday to act as cleanup
squad in the drive.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-28
DECATUR MASONS TO
BUILD NEW TEMPLE

Decatur, Ill.-The Masons Of De-
catur are to erect. 100000 tenn
pie here. 1t is to have lodge rooms
for all the Masonic. lodges in the
city and dining room which will
seat $500 persons.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-28
RIVER BOARD ASKS
STATISTICS ABOUT
DAMAGE BY FLOOD

Officials of the Rock Island
Chamber of Commerce have been
requested to furnish the Mississip-
ri river commission with figures as
to loss of life and property result
ing from floods in this vicinity
from 1912 to the present time.
The request is preferred by Capt
Edward N. Chisholm, st. Louis
head of the U. s. engineers office
in that city and secretary of the
commission.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-28

Trt-City Towel supply company,
Davenport 934.
R l. Clean Towel Service. Phone
r. |. 2439
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-28
DAVENPORT JAuS
YOUTHS FOR THEFT
OF REQ ROADSTER

Alfred Cardell, II years old, Ply
mouth, Mass, and Harry Vinton, 20
years old, formerly of Cherokee.
Iowa, were arrested yesterday by
Davenport police half an hour after
The New York herald., 1922-06-03
A Woman's Privilege.

A woman's right to change her
mind rests upon foundations imme-
mortal and unquestioned. Mans in
telligence dates from the day when he
first recognized the futility Of oppos-
ing it, and shook his head sadly,
instead of reaching for his stone
hatchet.
Now comes Justice HITz of the
Supreme Court of the District ~of
Columbia to sustain in court woman's
privilege not to tell her age.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE MCDONALD, widow
of JAMES MCDONALD Of the Standard
Oil Company, whose engagement to
Lord HUNTLEY, "a years old, was re-
Gently announced, appeared before
Justice HITz in suit against her
stepson. In reply to a customary
question Mrs. MCDONALD, when sworn
as a witness, answered II am more
than 49," The court held her answer
to be sufficient.
And it was. A woman's answer to
that question always is sufficient, for
the adage "a man is as old as he
feels, woman as old as she looks"
stands the test completely for the
better half of it's application. The
first half should be made to read "a
man is as old as he acts" So far as
feeling goes, he may be 80 one day
and Is the next.
The New York herald., 1922-06-03
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Amalgamatcd Metal Workers, conference
or delegates from New England New York
New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Food WORK.
ers Hall. 1873 West Ffty-first street, all day.
senior class, tea dance. Whittier Hall. 3 30;
BARNARD College senior class, class play,
Brinkerhoff Theatcr, S:15 p. M. fo
New York University. alumni tIav, Senior
Engineering Honor Society, meeting, Stcven-
son House. II A. NJ: Phi Beta Kappa ami
Alumni Associa tion, Gymnasium building;
lacrosse game between New York JInver-
sity and the New York Lacross Club Ohio
Field. noon: New York University letter
Veterinary College Alumni Association. an
nual meeting. 33l East Twenty-sixth street.
r. M; Veterinary College Alumni ,Associa-
ton, annual dinner. Cavanaughs. 25s West
dinners, p M.
womens National Democratic Club. lunch-
con and cards, Kew Gardens Inn. Kew Gar
dens. Queens. p. M.
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, protest parade against
lynchings, Seventh avenue and 13Sth 10 10th
street, Fifth avenue to Fifty-ninth street. 3
P. M.
st. Gabriels Academy Alumnae, meeting,
Waldorf-Astoria. . p. NJ.
Greensboro League of Mothers Clubs. meet
ing. Hotel Pennsylvania, p. M.
Dr. w. A. Murriu. lecture. Walks and
Talks in the New York Botanical Gardens"
botanical Garden Bronx Park, p. NJ. =
Phi lambda Phi Fraternity. dinner
Hotel Commodore, Z 80 p. NJ -
Manhattan Auxiliary, Sons of Zion, dance,
Hotel Astor, Z. M.
Screen Ball. Hotel Astor. s p. NJ.
Association Against the Prohibition Amends
ment, open air meeting, 13Sth street and
Willis avenue, The Bronx. p. NJ.
The New York herald., 1922-06-03
Surviving Veterans.
Thirty More Years of Life for Some
Members of the G.. A. r.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: While
1t is customary to descant upon the rap
idly diminishing numbers of civil wal
veterans as each Memorial Day rolls
around. 1t Is perhaps just as well to
vary the sad tinge of such considera-
tions with the more joyous thought that
very many years must still elapse be-
fore the last of that gallant band shall
have answered the final call.
The last survivor Of the Revolu-
tion. Daniel f. Bakeman. died at Free
dom - appropriate name - Cattaraugus
county, N. ". April s, 1869, aged 1O9
years. This was eighty-six years after
the close of the war and would make
him 20 years old at that time. Hiram
Cronk. last survivor of the war of 1912.
passed away at Avas N. Y, May 13
1905. aged 105 years. This was ninety
years after the end of that war, and
would make him Is years old when
rostilities ceased These statistics are
taken from the pension rolls. but as
only about 15 per cent. of the total
enlisted men in any war are unrepre-
sented on the pension lists they are
fairly accurate base for calculation.
AS no enlistments below IS years
Of age were made In the world war
n Is probable that despite the much
greater number of veterans, there will
be none living at as long a period
after the end of the war as that at
tained by the last 1912 survivor. Also
1. would be unlikely. even among 4.000.-
fIof
extreme age Of the Revolutionary sur
v!vor. 100 years This would also ap-
ply as regards the 100000 or so orig
inal veterans of the civil war. II il be
admitted that many in the civil war
fought at not over Is years old and
were therefore born not before 1850
fifteen years before the end In 1866
1t is evident that in all probability
the last G. A. r. hero will be with
and more still to come before the END
OF the roll. so often gloomily forecast
az near, shall have actually arrived.
Therefore, let's cheer up. Almost al
those writer's who harp upon this theme
will themselves have kicked in before
the finish OF theii own chapter. So why
worry about the vets?
And as for the world war vets, II
will be long after the year 1000 before
the last one crosses the final trench
Don't forget that over 100 Mexican war
soldiers are still living, seventy-five
years after the end Of that struggle
and that the last Of them will not likely
be gone for at least fifteen years more,
CHARLES WILLING.
PHILADELPHIA. June 2.
The New York herald., 1922-06-03
GOV. SPROUL DEFENDS
PINCHOT EXPENDITURES
Outlay Necessary to Present
Issues to Many Voters.

Special Dispatch to THE New YORK HERALD
PHILADELPHIA, June 2.--Gov. Sproul
can find no just cause for criticism OF
Clifford Pinchot's expenditures in the
Gubernatorial primary campaign.
Mr.. Pinchot made a return OF $4,000
as his personal contribution. OF that
amount 100000 was expended in a post
card campaign. more than 100000
cards having been sent to voters.
1T should be remembered Pennsyl-
vania is a State of wide area and great
population" said Gov. Sproul. Its
people number approximately 9.c00,ooe,
with 100000 of that number qualified
voters. To send a personal message to
each resident on the basis of Mr..
Pinchots expenditure would cost one
and three-quarters cents per capita on
the population, or about five cents per
capita for each qualified voter.
"Of course it Is to be regretted 1t was
necessary to do these things, but In an
original campaign, with such conditions,
the expenditure of large sums OF money
is necessary IL all are to be acquainted
with the issues"
The New York herald., 1922-06-03
Sell or Scrap Muscle Shoals.

If HENRY FoRD's declarations are
right that selfish private capital is
trying to prevent him from getting the
Governments Muscle Shoals project
the country may we'll thank this pri-
vate capital if it saved the Govern
ment from throwing hundred mil
lions of dollars more into that vast
war loss.
There is just one thing for the
Government to do with Muscle
Shoals-scrap it or sell 1T for what
it can get. 1t should never put an
other dollar into it. The New York
HERALD would like to see HENRY
FORD get Muscle Shoals II he will pay
more for it than any one else, and
buy it without asking the Govern
ment to bury $10O,000,000 more
money in it.
The New York herald., 1922-06-03

lament at Pekin. The Parliament
has been attempting to hold meetings
in the past year at Tientsin, but as
it has been in no wise representative
of the country it has accomplished
nothing. With the security now af-
forded, delegates from southern and
southwestern provinces, among them
those from Szechwan. Yunnan, Kwei-
chow and Honan, have signified their
intention Of going to Pekin to take
part in national deliberations.
HsU SHIH-cHANG, who has been
President since General LII YUAN
HUNG was forced out of Office in July,
1917, has resigned, according to off,
cial Pekin dispatches. HsU SHIH-
CHANG was looked upon with dis
favor by General WI, principally be-
cause of his lack of accomplishments
and his inability to control the pro-
vincial military leaders. He was
also bitterly opposed by DR.. Sun
YAT-sEN of south China, who con-
sidered him merely a usurper of
power and ruler without authority.
His resignation and the restoration
of General Ii YUAN-HUNG to the Pres
idency thus removes the most for
midable obstacle which DR.. SUN
YATsEN saw to a union between
north and south China. He can now
have union on the very terms which
he has been demanding. With the
restoration of the Parliament upon
it's original basis and HsU SHIH-
CHANG out OF the way, long step
in advance has been made to the
much sought unification.
These conditions have, no doubt,
largely influenced the hopeful view Of
the situation which is taken at Wash.
ington. mot in the last ten years."
it is said there, "have the prospects
been so bright for a reunion of the
country" If General WI has sue
ceeded in bringing order out of the
previous almost chaotic condition of
China he has done great work not
only for his country but for the
world.
The New York herald., 1922-06-03
The Palestine Mandate.
Nature Of Privileges Granted by
.EngIand to This Country.

To THE New York HERALD: The Lon
don Spectator in reviewing the achieve
ments of the American Ambassador at
the Court of st. James's says: THE
mandate question has been solved as
America desired it should be solved.
In fact, we have negotiated with
her what might be called a most IA
Nored nation agreement"
The Versailles treaty authorized in
German overseas colonies and in large
hrcas OF Turkey the coniiscation of pri-
Wate property of German and Turkish
nationals. The Sevres treaty referred
particularly to the vast despoiling in
the Near East of d nation with which
the United States has never been actu-
ally at war. In accepting the rights
so happily conferred upon 1t by the
mandatory, the British Crown, upon
principles of equity and not OF rigid
law" as the Spectator puts 1t, it may
with propriety be suggested that the
United States--if the facts be as stated
has committed with respect to the
Turkish nation an act Of a grave char
acter.
This great achievement of American
diplomacy deserves very careful analy-
sis BY the modern law OF nations and
by treaties Of the United States the
security of private, noncombatant enemy
property is a principle constraining upon
all branches of government under the
Constitution. Whatever inchoate equi-
table interest the United States may
have under the armistice terms, and
wherever that interest may be asserted,
1t is subject to the paramount obliga-
tion of this principle of international
law ''to be as sacredly observed as the
most acknowledged rules of the laws
OF nature and of nations"
1t IS a national and not private
interest. 1t derives its obligation solely
from the armistice terms. 1t Is the
gratuitous act of the British Govern
ment or OF the League of Nations; nor
can American public rights. in conform
ity to the obligation of the Constitution
and the law of nations, be merged in
privilege extended by foreign ma
ton. by no means coextensive with IL
and implying jurisdictional power in
derogation of international law.
JOSEPH WHrrLA STINsoN
New York, June 2.
The New York herald., 1922-06-03
Garden Truck by Airplane.

In less than twenty-four hours az
ter Boston became an air port
through Governor Cox's signature OF
the bill authorizing the establish.
ment of a landing field within the
municipality word was telephoned
from New York that 700 pounds OF
New Jersey asparagus would soon be
on the way to the Hub by the air
route. Negotiations were imme
diately started in Boston for re-
turn cargo Of some sort.
| Thus was aerial transportation of
freight started between Boston and
the garden truck districts Of New
Jersey. It is more or less Of an ex-
pertinent, to be sure, but there seems
to be no reason why this method of
transportation, within radius of
400 or 500 miles at least, should not
reach a permanent basis. Where
speed is an important factor, as in
the case of perishable foodstuffs, the
advantages are obvious.
BY airplane, garden truck could be
landed in from three to FIVE hours at
points which it would require from
one to two days to reach by present
methods Of land transportation. The
expansion of marketing areas for
truck raisers would in itself be a
result worth having. 1t may easily
be that in the near future profitable
air lines for light freight transporta-
tion will be as much matter OF
course in America as passenger air
lines have now become between Paris
and London.
With landing fields established un-
der Federal control through the War
and Navy departments as bases for
the national defense, all that is
necessary to building up an air route
commerce is cooperation between the
State and Federal Governments.
Massachusetts has grasped this fact
and acted upon it promptly. The
Boston landing field promises to af-
ford busy and spectacularly interest
ing scenes. 1t will be one more
added to the many sights which visi-
tors to Boston find attractive. Fur
thermore, it should be an inspiring
object lesson in the development OF
air navigation.
The New York herald., 1922-06-03
The Gypsy Spring.

On the White Plains road near Tarrytown.
A jewel in the woodlands heart II
brightly bubbles up
Ice cold and crystalline within its gran
ite bordered cup.
The pungent mint and beaded fern
around It greenly grow.
And in 1t still the gypsy fires at sunset
seem to glow.
Here stopped the feathered Indian with
followed hand to drink,
Here came the furtive fox at dusk to
lap II from the brink,
And here the early settlers wife dipped
up a brimming pail
Till many footsteps to the spring had
worn beaten trail.
Year after year when birchen boughs
were budding overhead
1t mirrored gypsy faces dark. and
cloaks and kerchiefs red.
And black eyed sbyls by II knelt and
read the strangers palm,
Or as a sylvan lookingglass employed
its surface calm.
The Indian and the settlers wife have
vanished in the past,
The fox and gypsy caravan are disap-
pearing fast,
But still the living spring by which
the rovers loved to camp
Presents It's sheet of silver framed in
ferns and mosses damp.
Behold the regal limousine and hum
BILE fiivver now
Succeed the ambling gypsy van when
buds are on the bough.
True vagrants Of the open road, these
gypsies of the car
Go seeking pleasure and romance In
places near and far.
They find the narrow path that leads
into the emerald glade
Where still the water slphons up be-
meath the pleasant shade.
And cooling dusty throats they hear the
mated thrushes sing.
And bless the gift that never fails--thc
famous gypsy spring.
MrNNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1922-06-03

100000. They want to put the Cuban
rate up to two cents pound and the
total tax on, American sugar con-
sumers up to 200,00o,O0o a year by
forcing through an amendment on
the floor of the Senate. with the aid
of some of McCUMBER's Democratic
shock troops.
When the sugar schedule comes up
in the course of the Senates voting
ON the 1000 McCumber amendments
to the Fordney tariff bill the Amer
lean people will get that $4O,O00.000
a year more on the sugar tax and
5000, 100000 a year in all il the hard
boiled tariff makers have their way
about 1t.
The New York herald., 1922-06-03
A 5000, 900, 900 Sugar Tax?

The American people are asked by
the tariff makers of the Senate
Finance Committee to pay tariff bill
of more than s16O,0OO,OO0 a year
on the sugar they consume. That is
what the committee rate Of $1.60
hundred pounds on Cuban sugar will
work out when applied to the coun-
try's normal consumption of approx
mately 10000, 100000 pounds year.
But the American people will be
interested to know that the tariff ex
tremists on the committee really
wanted to do worse than that to
the sugar consumers of the country.
They thought they might as well pile
an even 100000 900 of extra sugar
cost upon the American consumers
back.
The original Finance Committee
proposal was a duty of two cents a
pound on Cuban sugar, which not only
is virtually all the sugar imported
into this market but is the bulk OF
the sugar consumed by this country.
In strenuous objection to such treat
ment of the public an amendment
was offered in the committee to make
the duty $1.30 hundred pounds. This
would have saved the American con-
sumers $70,000,000 from the $780,
100000 sugar tariff cost at the pro-
posed rate of two cents.
But the hard boiled tariff makers
would not listen to such benefit for
the public as cutting their sugar bills
$70,000,000 a year; and they voted
that amendment down, six to three.
Then they voted down an amend
ment to make the duty s1.40 a hun
dred pounds and save American sugar
consumers S60,000,000 a year out OF
the proposed tax of s2oo,OOo,00O. And
then they voted down an amendment
to make il cent and half a pound
and save the American sugar con-
sumers $50,OO0,O0O.
At last. after very bitter opposi-
tion by some members of the commit
tee to ruthless pillage of the Ameri-
can sugar consumer, dirty of $1.60
n hundred pounds was voted, five TO
four. Even then the hare boiled
tariff makers could not reconcile
themselves to letting the American
sugar consumers off $40,000,000 of
the proposed s20O,00O,0O0 sugar tax.
On the very day before the McCum-
Der tariff bill was reported to the
Senate still another effort was made
to drive the rate on Cuban sugar up
to two cents a pound, but this was
defeated, although only by the mar
row vote of five to four.
The hard boiled tariff makers are
not yet willing to let the American
public escape with sugar tax Of
s160, 900, 900 a year instead OF $780,