The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-31


| A PROPHET may be without honor in his
own home town but poet is not. The Cedar
Rapids Gazette deyotes a column to boosting
the lyrical labOrs Of Mr.. Sigmund, quoting, as
illustrative of his work, parts of poems which
have appeared in this Peristyle of Poetry. We
don't mind telling you that Slgmund is his
regular everyday monicker and that he is vice
president of the Cedar Rapids Life Insurance
company in the odd moments he is able to
spare from his real work of writing verse.
Neither are we reluctant further to inform you
that this colyum printed the first of his poetry
to appear in a newspaper. although Harriet
Monroe previously had decorated Poetry" with
some of his work. not to mention poems print
ed in various other magazines, including
1.-The Pagan, published in Greenwich village,
N'Yawk.
Cedar Rapids" says the Gazette, 81.
comes proudly forth with the announcement
that it harbors poet" Well, modesty is our
besetting sin, but We must tell the Gazette
that Cedar Rapids harbored poet far back
as 10000. We lived there then. However
comma We didn't write poetry at that time
Though it must have been simmering around
inside of somewhere); We pounded brass
for the Rock Island.
s. Fur IS We Kin See There's Ben a
Mistake Somewheres.
[Purloined from The National Shipper by E. F.
With the geographical position sur
rounded by all the northern, western and
southern fur-fearing states, tapping Can
ada and South America, st. louis ought
to be by its advantages one of the great
/ est fur markets in the world.
at is announced that there is to be a re-
duCtion in the price Of tombstOnes in the
spring" asserts the gentleman in the adjacent
columns; and we hasten to inform The Argus
cashier that this Granite Shaft must not be
affected by that reduction.
However We wouldn't go so far as to sane
ton Rory's suggestion. eff it's expenses
they're cuttin'," seize, "let 'em eliminate the
editorials and leave The Tombstone
One Would Send Us There.
GFrom The London Church Times via The
Living Church, relayed by F. E. 81
Following is the announcement of
Harvest Festival in country parish:
"The<Harvest Festival will take place on
Thursday next at p m. Offerings of
fruit, flowers vegetables, and fresh eggs
will be gratefully received. If every
member of the congregation lays two
eggs iii the font on Thursday they will
be sent to the Hospital"
FAMOUS Pilot to Drive Loco in Show
Parade."-Chicago Post.
Many of our motorists drive that way every
day.
WINNIE GIVES THE LowDowN ON
SCAMOZZI.
Monsieur LIE Noir Faineant
Dear Sir: In answer to your inquiry con-
corning one ScamozZ better known as
ScamoZ', / beg to state that very few data
have been furnished this department regarding
Bedigree; that we know. His ancestry goes
back to the great Vncenzio Scamozzi of the
ScamozZi capital.
1t seems this old gentleman was interested
in column too. 1t called 1.-THE Ionic"
think 1.-The Tombstone" sound more inviting
don't you? Anyway, this fellow picked I'D a
few ideas abroad, few from his neighbors.
and with few of his own he invested his
entire capital in that column and it proved
to be humdinger. OF course there were some
cruel critics who limited that it was art of
the second order, not A No. 1, in plain u s.
Probably they grew suspicious of him be-
cause, you see, in this capital he had used
four spiral projections, cork-screw affairs
called volutes, which sprang from an echinus
thing with lot of foliage. The result was
simply remarkable and his admirers multi
piled thousandfold within few centuries.
Scamoz' old grandsire also believed in adj
vertsing and his name has been trumpetei
around in every university of the land Do
you know what 1 think? 1 have a. bunch that
Scamoz' is trying to influence Mac to place a
couple of his grandpa's capitals on this here
Tombstone without consulting the rest Of US
about ii.
Excruciating, isn't it! Cordially.
WINNIE.
TO some persons nothing is sacred. The
sacrilegious Argus reporter who wrote the ac-
count of the Mikesel holdup broke into
B. L. It's cannery and dragged forth that with
cred corpse. "complected".
"HOLADAY Seeks Cannon's Seat saws an |
Argus headline.
IS no use; Uncle Joe has been sitting on IT |
too long. Only two things could remove him |
Death or dynamite. 3. E. MIG.