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Evening journal., 1922-07-26

with Schmidt behind the bat,
there Is no doubt that the Pirates
would be going better. IL they were
not today fighting for the lead, and
with Kerr leading the White SoX
boxmen. Comiskey would have an
excellent chance for the American
League pennant.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31
The Ending of Secrecy.

private telephone apparently longer
protects you from having people listen in
your conversation. The Society for Electrical
Development announces that Albert E Proffitt
employed by the telephone company at Provi-
dence, r. l., has perfected radiophone device
that enables him TO eavesdrop on talk passing
over telephone wires. Profit, experimenting
with his radiophone, wired his ampIi6er in some
peculiar that is being kept secret Imme-
diately he began to hear local telephone CONVEX
sation-which he related to the takers, amaz-
ing them. While ProHitt's device still is in en-
bryonic stage of development it opens up a vast
new field for the wireless-the possible ending
of secrecy, duplicity, intrigue and talking be-
hind ones back. You cannot sit in your home
and eavesdrop on conversation in a house a
mile away without mechanical help. The caves
dropping for some years has been possible by
means of the simple photograph employed by de-
tectives The listening-in process is carried a
step further by Proffitt's radio discovery 1t is
not impossible that we soon may have wire
less device able to pick up private converse
lions in distant homes, Offices or rendezvous of
criminals The idea seems uncanny now So
did the wireless telegraph when Marconi first
announced its invention
Civilization will advance with leaps and
possible. Without secrecy there could be no
criminal organizations, war plots illegal trade
combines conspiracies against individual life
honor or fortune. End secrecy and you end
dishonesty born of intrigue Suppose a me-
chanical device were suddenly discovered en-
abling people to eavesdrop on face-to-face con-
versation, the same az tapping the wires of
telephone system. That would end most hy-
pocrlsy and deception, also malicious gossip.
The things said in secrecy would usually re-
main unsaid if the talker knew he were being
overheard by the one gossiped about and
would be called personally to account Enor-
nous are the possibilities Of ending secrecy the
cancer Of civilization. Profitt may have opened
the way. Maybe not. But this is worth think
ing about-that the wireless, as it exists now, is
crude compared with what it will be developed
into Just as the fint-rock musket of colonial
days was crude alongside the modern machine
gun The Wireless and other inventions to fol-
low will link all human brains in a vast system
OF mechanical mental teIepathy
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31
The Community Welfare Fund.

| Arrangements have been perfected for
| gathering funds to carry on community welfare
work in Rock Island for another year. The
| single drive for funds was first undertaken here
year ago. and it has proved successful both
in satisfying the public and in equitable amor
tionment among the various institutions that
had followed the custom of annually appealing
to the people for contributions to aid in carry
ing on their work. The community fund is the
best solution that has been found for the diff
culties that have previously attended efforts to
judiciousy dispense charity in a city
Under the community fund plan Won arc
called upon only once during the year for A
charity contribution, whereas under the old
plan you were being constantly solicited Some
of the appeals were meritorious and others
were not Now every dollar that you contribute
you know will be applied to some worthy cause
Aside from alIotments to various institutions
the money collected in the drive is used in.
financing the Rock Island Welfare association
which maintains quarters the year around in
charge of competent persons Here those in
need of help may apply and receive assistance
that Will tide them over their difficulties The
welfare association proved its effectiveness and
usefulness in Rock Island during the past win
ter when there was more poverty in the CITY
perhaps than in any former year owing to so
much unemployment due to the industrial de-
preston. The association dispensed clothing.
food and fuel and in some instances took care
OF rental problems for families that were facing
eviction because of defaulted payments to their
landlords
The Welfare association is also an insurance
against the charity imposter, and this is pro-
lection to the public that ought to receive its
need OF appreciation. None of us is so heart
less as to want to any human being suffer
for want of the necessities of life but most of
us have learned from experience that there are
persons who will not work so long as they
think they can live without doing So The Wei
fare association, through its secretary, investi-
gates every case brought 70 its notice No one
is permitted to suffer.
Representative citizens are in charge of the
community fund drive. They are devoting their
time and giving their money with their only re-
ward the assurance that the charity problem
will be solved in Rock Island for another year.
Your duty as citizen is TO cheerfully con-
tribute your portion when you are called upon
turing the drive for funds
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31

months or years. If il is bat fancy it vanishes
with change OF environment and circumstance.
Real love may carry with it differences of tenn
permanent OF age and varieties of nature and
experience. But it is not too much to say that
true love is in part made mp of community of
interests and ideals. 1t should mean pleasant
companionship and challenge to the best in
each other. The young man or young woman
may well ask himself whether he would seek
the company Of the other, IL there were no con-
sideration of marriage. Love is simply friend
ship carried to its highest power. If in a good
friend one is conscious of having sort of bap-
tism and conservation, it cannot be far wrong
to require something of the same test for love.
1t Is too often assumed, in this matter of-fact
world, that love is a complete thing at the time
Of marriage. The state gives it's sanction, while
the church adds its blessing, to the union
Hence ii is inferred that love is fulfilled when
the marriage vows said This is far from
the truth. Love in marriage is not completed
at any one hour. 1t is a continuing process.
With each passing year it should ripen into
closer and more abiding friendship. The glad
81 wilr OF the moment finds daily and hourly
answers in the years to come. The words and
works and trusts OF friendship all go to the
making and keeping Of happy homes and perfect
love
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31
Another Change for Russia.

Communism is failure in Russia for the
same reason that it would be failure in any
other naton-the people have no faith in it.
The MARKHAM doctrines may sound pleasing to
some folk, and Lenine's speeches may carry
weight with some people-but bolshevism has
mo excuse for existence when people have had
time to learn what ii is. Russia needs a revo-
luton. This is admitted universally. The des-
potism OF the car impossible Yet Russian
folk know now that even the despotsm OF car
dom was never as despotic the despotsm of
sovietism.
Another change is coming in Russia. That
is indicated on all sides. Lenine is losing his
power. The people are learning. 1t may be i'm
possible, even if the right leaders could be de-
veloped to take charge, to convert Russia into
self governing nation with representative
form of goyernment-for the Russ have had
only few years of freedom in many centuries
and it takes experience TO run a government
But this much is certain-communism is to be
ousted and some other form of government
surely no worse, will take the place of this mis-
government which Lenine and Trotzky have
been engineering for three years.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31
HEALTH TALKS
By William Brady, NJ.
Noted Physician ard Aurnor.

+, diabetes, syphilis, septic infection
or severe whitlow. In rare instances
tendency to repeated shedding oil
the nails runs in family, with nc
known cause.
Besides careful manicuring and
the treatment of underlying causes
there is little than can be done for
troubles of the nails.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Digitaiis.
am %, do office work. Five years
ago 1 hau toLsillitIs, compliCa Led by
inflammatory rheumatism and bad
attack of valvular heart trouble. /
finally pulled through, but it left a
! yalvular leakage. My doctor recently
prescribed tincture OF digitalis, but
l note that you do not approve of
digitalis in cases of valvular leak
age. is exefcIse of any kind dan
gerous for me?-(R. F. Co.
Answer-You misunderstood what
we said about digitalis. We merely
warned readers that it is a risky
medicine to tinker with and tried to
explain that it is no emergency
stimulant and that it is not helpful
in every case of heart disease re-
CARELESS. The drug is great bles-
sing when prescribed under suit
able conditions by the patients own
physician, and discontinued when
the physician so directs. No one can
safely advise you whether exercise
would be good for you, or how much
you may take with advantage, only
your own doctor. Carefully graded
n no hnl N
conditions, is often as helpful and
essential as absolute rest would be
under other conditions, for one
with valvular disease.
Dandruff and Dry Scalp.
Please publish a good remedy for
dandruff in scalp that is too dry.
O.. A.
Answer-Part hair here and there
and rub in very small quantity OF
this:
Sulphur ........ 60 grains
Petroleum .....1 ounce
Shampoo with plain soap twice
week. After hair is dry apply this:
Alcohol ..........4 ounces
Castor oil :. l tablespoonful
Yeast Versus Baking Powder.
Is graham bread, raised with bak-
ing powder, as healthful as when
raised with yeast? Is citric acid
(made from lemons) as healthful
as lemon juice in salads, etc? If
SO, what proportion of acid and
water should be used?
AnsWer-Yes. 2. Perhaps, but we
have a preference for the original
juice. 8. A tablespoonful of pow
dered or granular citric acid in a
cup of water should be about right.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31
The Nails.

The Nails.
1t requires from three 10 hve
months to grow a finger nail and
nine to II months to grow a toe
/ nail.
! Nervous shock, illness or an acct
dent sometimes causes a transverse
furrow in the finger nails, which
furrow grows out toward the end of
the nail slowly, and often the ap-
proximate date of such illness or
accident may be determined by OBJ
serving the position of this line or
furrow in the nail. Even seasick-
ness may cause such lines IN the
nails, and they are commonly seen
after fractures. These lines are
popularity called "beau's lines"
White spots or streaks in the
nails, called gift spots" appear
first near the the lunula or white
crescent and gradually grow out
with the growth of the nail toward
the free border. They are most fire.
quently noticed in young persons,
and are caused by tritiing injuries of
the nails as by blows or in mani
curing.
"Reedy nails" are thinned and
split lengthwise, usually in elderly
persons or per sons whose general
health is impaired.
The toe nails are sometimes
greatly thickened and perhaps also
distorted from the pressure of too
light or poorly fitted shoes and neg
lect of manicuring.
Inflammation and pus formation
about the roots of the nails may &C
cur from injury and infection,
from parasites like ringworm, from
tuberculosis. Or from syphilis.
Whitlow is an infection of the skin
fold at the boder of the nail by the
ordinary pus producing organisms,
especially the streptococcus and the
staphylococcus. 1t is usually very
painful and demands constant wet
dressings sucn as boric acid solu-
ton, alcohol, etc, under some i'm
pervious covering. The patient gem
orally needs vaccine treatment or
constitutional trea tment as we'll
Hemorrhage under the nail oc-
ours from injury, in scurvy. in
hemophilia c'bleeders"O, sometimes
in cases of epilepsy and other dis
eases of the nervous system. If the
nail is widely separated from its
bed by the hemorrhage it will be
shed
The nails are sometimes affected
by skin disease, such as ringworm,
pephigus, favus, eczema, psoriasis
and syphilis.
After severe illness in children
the nails may be totally shed, after
scarlet fever in nartio1tIor nthar
causes of shedding the nails are
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31

@. When and where will the Pan
American conference of women be
held? A. e. K.
A This conference will be held
in Baltimore, April 1929, 1922.
Q. What is the wealth of the
Philippine islands? ]. M.
A. The estimated total wealth of
the islands is $5,500,000,000.
Q. How many schools are there
in the United States? E. F. S.
A. 1t has been estimated that
there are about $4,000 schools in
the United States.
@. In what denominations were
the airplane stamps issued?
P. o. NJ.
A. The post office department
says that the airplane stamps were
issued in the denominations of 6,
16 and "a cent stamps.
Q. How many rose leaves does it
take to make an ounce of altar of
roses? A. H. d.
A. 1t is said that it takes two
tons of rose leaves to make an
ounce of this highly concentrated
perfume.
Q. How is artificial snow made
B. ]. C.
A. Artificial snow is made from
steel wool or mica. In either case,
the material is simply broken into
fine bits.
Q. Did Robert and Elizabeth
Browning have a son? S. NJ.
A Robert and Elizabeth Brown-
ing were the parents of one son,
whose name was Barrett and who
died approximately five years ago.
Since his death, Mrs. Barrett
Browning has occasionally made
her home in Washington, D. c.
@. When lion and a full grown
gorilla meet in their native wilds,
which one flees? H. H.
A. The superintendent of the ma
tional geological park says in their
natural habitat the lion and gorilla
never come within range of each
other. 1t is impossible, therefore,
to state definitely, which is the
stronger.
@. How much does it cost to
keep a hen one year? c. NJ B.
A. The poultry division says the
cost of feed per year for one leg
horn hen is s1.35. This type of hen
requires so pounds of feed at 2A
cents per pound per year. 1t costs
$3.50 to feed a Plymouth Rock; it
requires so pounds of feed per year.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31
Love and Marriage.

Several authorities have recently been writ
ing of successful and unsuccessful marriage
and home making. The causes OF marriage fail
ure have been pointed out and the menace of
wrecked homes from hasty wedlock. The inn
plication from these studies should not be, how
ever, that most marriages commonplace
and unideaL 1t would probably be too much
that every marriage should result happily and
be ideal This hardly be- until men and
women homemakers are altogether ideal them
selves. II there are failures in marriage there
are also failures in many other lines, because
weak and fragmentary people are struggling,
failing and seeking In this country we believe
that most people who marry think they in
love. Far too many people think they are in
love when they marry bat find out their mis-
take and deiuson when it is too late. They
simply misjudge feeting emotion for the great
est thing In the world. If someone from dis
tant planet could confer on humanity a sure
test OF love he would bring a boon indeed. Who
can tell just what real love is? Or who can
teii<how TO develop 1t. or whether it exists or
-notf It is invisible, intangible and indefnable
And still some consideration may well be given
TO It's testing For 1t is not altogether capricious
or irrational
II 1osets=zuvsitrwiIl keep over period Of
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31
Frederick Haskin's Letter
A RiUal of the Peanut.
Especial Correspondents OF The Argus.)

4 Washington, d. c., March 30
The pinon nut, the tasty seed >of The
pine trees which the southwest In
dams have been using for food ioI
centuries, mas at last come into Its
own as popular delicacy. A peri
odic bumper crop OF the little brown
nuts in the mountains of New Mex
leo this season has resulted in the
concentrating in the east of the
pinon as an exclusive product OF
the southwest highlands
/ The pinon is a volunteer. Nature
does the farming, the Indians do
the harvesting and the traders do
the marketing. The nuts are pro-
duced each fall at an expense to no
one, the pine cones dropping their
| ripe seeds lavishly on the ground.
They are gathered by the Indians,
/ who bring them to the trading
posts for shipping to eastern mar
kets. The gatnerer is, paid for his
labor in harvesting the nhts.
! The species of two-lea1ed scrub
pine which produces the edible
seed known as the pinon is found
/ scattered through the four south
western states OF New Mexico, Ari-
iona, Utah and Colorado. 1t occurs,
associated with cedar and juniper
trees, in dry rocky soils at alti-
tudes between five and nine thou
sand feet. The tree has a shriy-
eled crooked trunk, spherical
crown and reaches height of 10
feet. 1t grows slowly and some
times attains an age of over three
hundred years. Its scientific name
is pinus edulis.
1t is commonly believed that the
pinon bears only once every five
years. 1t is true that exceptionally
large crops occur only at intervals
of from three to seven years, but
there is a crop each year. The nuts
require two years to ripen and
while last seasons crop lies on the
ground beneath the pine tree the
next crop is maturing in smaller
cones on the tree. The 1921 crop
was one of the largest in recent
years, about 100000 pounds being
gathered in New Mexico alone.
Gathering the Pinon.
In October, the big harvest sea
son, bands of Indians, flock TO the
mountain where the pinon trees are
to be found. There they camp, NOV
ing along as they exhaust the crop
of each area The Indians, after
their own indolent fashion, pick up
the tiny nuts by hand from the
ground. Their white brothers, how
ever, spread a big tarpaulin over
the ground beneath the tree and
shake the limbs until every cone is
emptied. The nuts are carried in
sacks and baskets to the nearest
Indian trading post, where they are
sold to the dealer, who ships them
to market
The nuts are shipped in 10000
pound carload lots to the east.
where they are purchased by candy
makers, clubs, hotels and by COM
panies which vend the nut in vari-
Gus ways. The man who gathers
the pinons is paid from 5 to 10
cents a pound, the wholesale dealt
ers average about Is cents a pound,
and the retailers sell the nuts at
about % cents a pound in the west :
The 1921 crop in New Mexico, the
only state to market the nuts on a
large scale, is valued at about $780,
900.
Strangers to the exotic little
brown nut in the east are making
its acquaintance through the agency |
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31

=, of slot machines which are placed
in the subway stations Of New
| York. A nickel in the Slot brings
I handful OF pinons. The sudden fad
Tor the nuts sold in this fashion in.
creased the price over 100 per cent
last season.
/ Pinons bring about a dollar
pound in slot machine sales.
: But the unshelled pinon is diff.
cult to eat. The birds and SOUR
reIs who live on them and the In
dams who consider them a staple
article of winter diet, have time
apleaty to crack the thin brittle
shells to obtain the rich meat in
side. Few others, except practiced
"pinon busters" WIFI have the habit.
will take the time or risk their teeth
in cracking the nuts. The pinon
shelled and ready to eat, however.
is a great delicacy.
1t remained for 4 woman of Wis
ion and infinite patience TO solve
the problem of preparing the pinon
for immediate use Mrs. Fannie S.
Spitz of Albuquerque, n. NJ, is the
inventor of the first machine made
for the Smelling of the little nuts,
Believing that it was possible 10
shell the pinons in large quantities,
Mrs. SpitZ experimental until she
evolved a machine that would do
the work. 1t was necessary for her
to spend over three months ap-
premiership in a machine shop in
order to perfect her invention.
Shelled by Machinery.
The novel machine, on which this
woman inventor holds the patent,
is power driven with a capacity Of
about so pounds of shelled nuts
day. The efficiency and simplicity
of the machine are remarkable, the
cleaned and sorted nuts pouring
into a hopper and flowing out in
stream of white whole meats. In
the basement factory at her home
Mrs. Spite alone shelled and mar
keted 10000 pounds of pinOns last
year. She markets the nuts in card
board cartons and glass jars,
The food value of the pinOn is
3,142 Galleries per pound This is
twice the value of an equal weight
of dried beans, over four times that
of boiled eggs and half again as
much as a pound of peanuts. The
shelled nut is composed of 2.59 per
cent water, 1898 per cent protein.
1888 per cent fat, 1920 per cent
carbohydrates, Sugars, starches,
etc. and 2.68 per cent ash.
The use of the nut seems TO be
The pinon adds a de-
licious and harmonizing flavor to
most food. 1t is often served by
faStidious chefs in vegetable soups
and in the dressing of baked fowl
In salads it combines with all
fruits and vegetables and is used in
all sorts of CONNECTIONS and pastry.
The pinon praline is one of the most
popular nut novelties. AS diet for
persons afflicted with certain kid
ney ailments the pinon is said TO
be excellent.
AS an industry the pinon har-
vesting and marketing is destined
to become one of New Mexico's
greatest commercial enterprises
Little known throughout the east
ern part of the country until last
year, the nut has created a demand
for itself that the state has found
difficult to supply Other states in
which the pine tree bears edible
seeds will soon turn their forests 10
supply the sweet tooth of a nut
eating nation
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-31

This does not include the cost CT
labor.
@. What does E. T. S. per S. o.
% mean on a mans discharge from
the army? ". G.
A. This abbreviation means "Ex-
piration of term of service per spe-
ciai order %"
@. What was the play in which
Charlie Chaplin appeared when he
came to the United States? L. B.
A. Charles Chaplin came to the
United States from Great Britain in
a comedy on the American vaude-
vile stage known as "A Night in an
English Music Hall"
Q. Who invented celluloid?
l. NJ. G.
A. The modern celIuloid was in
vented by two brothers named
Hyatt. of Newark, n. j., in 1859.
Celluloid is obtained by mixing gum
camphor with pyroxylin in the pro
portion of about two parts of pyr~
oxylin to one of camphor.
@. In what countries do we own
the buildings occupied by our dip
lomatic representatives
W. I. J,
A. The United States government
has built legations in China and
Salvador; and has bought legations
in Cuba and Panama and embassies
in Japan and Turkey In Morocco
and Siam. the buildings occupied By
our legations were gifts from these
governments TO ours. In Eng
land ]. p. Morgan has offered his
London residence to the United
States for an embassy, but the gift
has not yet been accepted.
Q. Is there nicotine in the to-
bacco smoke? P. L.
A. Nicotine, the alkaloid con-
tanned in tobacco does not appear in
tobacco smoke. 1t is split into
prydine and collodine
Q. When and by whom was the
thread used on bolts and screws
invented? J. S. W.
A. William Sellers suggested the
first formula ever offered for bolt
and screw threads in 1864.
Q. When was the attempt made
to assassinate j. Pierpont Morgan
NJ. r. X.
A. On July l. 1915, at Glen Cove.
Long Island. ]. Pierpont Morgan
was shot at by fanatic, but escap-
ed with minor injuries.
q. What was the "buckshot war
A. An election controversy IN
1888 in Pennsylvania, between the
Wings and Democrats, was carried
to such legths that one side threat
ened the other with ball and buck
shot" hence II became known IS
the "buckshot war" Federal inter
vention was demanded, but was re-
fused.