The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-04

LEST Rock Island should lift up her head
too high and become too cocky we're going 10
print extract from Floyd Dells Moon Calf :.
submitted by Sirius. Though Floyd has camou-
tagged Moline Rock Island and Davenport I'M
der the names of Garth, Stevenson and Port
Royal you should have no difficulty in recog-
nizing them. Attended,:
IRON Moon Calf", by Floyd DELL
Port Royal was one Of three river towns
which lay close together-Garth and Steven
son side by side the eastern shore, opposite
Port Royal with Stone Island and its govern
ment arsenal nosing in between. The three
towns, so closely united, were almost one city,
but yet they were as unlike each other as pos
sible. Stevenson was commonplace and unin-
teresting. Garth was a nightmare-the incon-
ceivably hideous product of unrestricted COM
mercal enterprises. It's center was occupied
by the vast, bare smoke-begrimed structures
of the greatest plough-factory on earth a
little fringe of desultory shops, insulted and
apparently pushed aside by necessarily switch
ing trains of freight cars gave way to drab,
monotonous area of cheap and hastily con-
structed workingmen's dwellings each house
exactly like the next, street after street and
mile after mile-while afar. set almost fnacces-
sibly upon the hills like the castles OF robber
barons. could be discerned the houses where
the plough-magnates lived. The town of Port
Royal was like neither OF these towns.
1t had kindlier aspect. It's long tree
shaded streets. its great parks, its public build
ings, even its shops and homes-even, after
his first 1aunddced Impressions had been for
gotten the very street on which Felix lived
in this town it was understood that life was
meant to be enjoyed.
THIS little Moon Calf, alias Felix, alias
Floyd himself, seems to have found no milk of
human kindness in Rock Island or Moline; and
we doubt II he found any in Port Royal"
Probably he mistook beer for milk We were
in Port Royal great deal during the time
Dell was there. Perhaps, as he says, lit was
understood that life was meant to be enjoyed;
but our experiences there left US with the i'm
preston that it was understood life was meant
to be wrecked
THESE ARE NOTHING COMPARED WITH
THE ATROCITY IN YESTERDAYS
COLYUM
Mac: Doc Brady says: eff this fails to bring
away the hardened mass, do not tamper with
the ear further, but go to the doctor and let
him remove it."
Memory Tests: There are now four girls
members of the CORPS"
What is corps flor indeed it is no other)
and why?
Heart and Home Problems: "The big, raw
boned foreman was plaring at him above his
large hook nose"
What to do, to do, If plared at!
somewhat dazed, but Loyalty willing to give
The Argus another chance. turned coupla
pages and read:
Had the car followed the road instead of
going cve- the embankment, it would probably
have gone over a bridge but few feet farther
on, and had this occurred Mr.. McCaw might
possibly have drowned in the stream before
help came"
Oui, celia fait fremir rien que DIV nenser
LIE MOQUEUR
P. g.: Mac, Iookity illustrated expression:
Her eyes softened and fell before his gaze"
LIE MOO.
LSorry, LIE Moq', that we couldn't reproduce
your illustration It's bearJ
THANKS to- Julius Rosenwald selecting the
lngersoll statement, 81 would rather be a beg
gar, etc. as his motto, writes Arthur Brisbane
sit has been reprinted in several millions of
newspapers"
Why SO conservative all at once, Arthur?
YESTERDAY someone in the press room
allowed his chisel to slip. thereby deriving Won
Of our usual scintillating (sic) last line Wen
try 1t again today.
THE railroads were in better physical con-
dition at the end of the period OF federal con-
troll than when taken over, says McAdoo
oo-dle-dooooooooooooi R. E MIG.
(Chisel guard rail.)