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The Kusko times., 1922-01-28

 WAR CLOUD
Guatemala Is Massing Troops for Purpose of
 Invading Mexico.

Nogales, Sonora, Mex, Jan. 26.-War IS threatening between Mexico and Guatemala. Ad- vices received here today from Mexico City declare that Mexico has instructed her minister at Guatemala to resign, to with draw from that state, and return home immediately.
 Guatemala is massing troops at Peten, near the Suchiate river boundary of the two republics, preparatory to an invasion of Mexican territory.
 Washington. = Republican leaders are much concerned about the public attitude of ex-President Wilson with respect to the ratification of treaties born during the arms conference.
 George Mutchler returned here yes terday, after stay of several days at Nixon, and is scheduled to leave very soon for Iditarod.
 John Vogtor, of Tacotna, arrived yesterday for short visit.
 Joe Wills returned Thursday from&2 trip to the hills.
The Kusko times., 1922-01-28
Mexico Losing in Population.

Mexico City.-The ompleton of the census indicates Mexico's population to be about B, 900. .000. This is 8 loss of ?. 500, GOO, over half of whom moved to the United States, during the past ten yeare:
The Kusko times., 1922-01-28
FISHERIES
 OF ALASKA
New Bill Would Give Much Control to In-
 terior Secretary.

Washington, Jan. 27.-A sub committee of the House commit tee on merchant marine aud fish, cries has completed the draft of an entirely new bill regulating commercial fishing in Alaska, which the committee will submit to- Secretary of Interior Fall on Tuesday The bill has the gen eral effect of leaving to the In ,terior Secretary the. regulations now prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce much of the con- trol now found in existing law; for example, the establishment of fish traps or the entire elim- ination of them is left to the head of the Interior Depart ment.
The Kusko times., 1922-01-28
Mentioned for Pope.

Rome.-Thc choice of successor to. Benedict apparently lies, among. three car dinals, as follows, Cardinal Mafi, of Pisa; Cardinal Lafontaine, of Ven- ice, and Cardinal Ratti, of Milans
 Efforts are also under way to choose a Pope from outside the ranks of Italian cardinals, the Popolo Romano stated today.
 Jack Mutchler left Sunday morning for Nixon.
The Kusko times., 1922-01-28
Republican Committee
 Carries $70O,OOO Debt

Chicago.-A statement from Treas urer Upman, of the Republican Ma tional Committee, given out today. dis closes that the committee still owes $700,000. This money was part of that advanced by New York and Boston bankers during the last presidential campaign.
 Charles R. Horner, until recently in charge of mining operations at the Alaska Treadwell mine. accompanied by Mrs. Horner, left Nixon on the 25th, on their way to Anchorage. being con voyed thither by Owen Gray
 Revai.- Russian soviet authorities have ended abruptly the career of a monk who. claiming to be second Messioh. attempted to emulate prac- tices of the notorious Rasputin.
The Kusko times., 1922-01-28

here yesterday. having come from the head of the Salatna., where they are engaged in prospecting. Mir. Tittel declares there is positively nothing new to report.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25
Appreciatihg a Novel.

1t would seem that there are few in this
country who read literature as literature, with
appreciation for it as creative art apart from
any real or fancied connection with an actual
place. person or institution. The criticisms di-
rected at every new novel having to do with
American life would indicate that as nation
we are peculiarly devoid of this higher appre-
citation. Dos Passos Three Soldiers" is a case
in point No novel Of the last quarter of cen
fury has been more fervently condemned The
reason is TO be found in the fact that the critics
OF the book have unanimously assumed that it
is intended to depict cross-section of the A e
F. Columns of space have been devoted by
newspapers and periodicals in efforts to prove
that the three soldiers whose careers are de-
scribed are not typical Of the 100000 boys who
fought for us in France. "Of course" most of
the reviewers conclude, there were few men,
among such vast number, as degraded and as
unified for their posts as those described in
this book, but it is outrage upon American
honor to set them up an example of our
American army" 1t is an outrage, in fact, but
the reviewers who speak in this fashion are sim
gulariy oblivious to the fact that it is they who
are committing the outrage.
Dos Passos does not set up his three soldiers
as typical of the membership of the A. E. F.
Only the critics are doing that He was writing
fiction, and not history. The test of his novel
is not whether or not it is a realistic picture
of the American army in France, but whether
or not he has created characters that live for
the reader, and whether, having created them. he
makes them react as such characters inevitably
would do to the situation in which they are
placed. This is the test of all novels The
function of the author is not to photogra phi
life, but to contrast for US people and incidents
that more real while we follow them than
life itself. We shall never find an appropriate
measure Of satisfaction in American novel
until we cease trying to make of it everything
it is not, journalism. Let read Main Street"
for enjoyment of the imaginative Gopher
Prairie, not for study of real middle western
life. Let us leave of critcising Felix Fay for
not being typical of young manhood in America
and appreciate him because he COMFORTS him
self just would a real young man of the sort
the author has conceived. Authors themselves
have contributed to our misleading by oc-
casionally adapting the novel to the inappro-
pirate purpose of propaganda The problem
novel is disappearing, it inevitably must
Now is the time for the public to lay aside the
standard of Judgment suitable only to this
vanishing hybrid of literature.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25

cushions at the theatre and drink In grand
opera music when he yearned TO swallow few
mouthfuls OF prairie air. He was expected to
eat his meals in grand hotel dining rooms in
stead of resting on his heels while toasting
frankfurters over an open campgre in the foot
hills OF the Rockies. 1t was his unusual lot to
be the husband Of Nine. Matzenauer, famous
concert star, when his heart cried out for q
little wife all to himself in a cabin somewhere
on the fringe OF civilization.
Floyd GIotzbach has quit all the things
which were distasteful to hinn-including being
supported by his rich prima donna bride-and
has gone back to chaufeuring for a living But
such livingl Floyd can wear overalls every
morning clean his own car, chum with the boys
I'm the repair shop Of the garage, drive himself
out into the open country and back, eat hot
dogs at quick lunch counter and snore in his
sleep without being punched in the ribs BY the
elbow of an artisctfcaIly temperamentaI better
half. It looks like a good exchange for Floyd
He will have no more Lohengrin, but think Of
the yarns the other fellows can tell him OF the
wonderful driving they did while he was in the
east being the mate of a music lover. He has
got out Of the finger bowl belt, but is right in
the heart Of the region where pie can be eaten
with a knife Grand opera life is all wen
enough for some purposes, but Floyd GIotzbach
will never again accept it as a steady diet
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25
How About Condiments?

Among the comestibles / hold
sugar is nice, though I'm sorry !
can't say the same thing of spice.
That much is implied in the orig
/ inal Mother Goose, for if sugar and
spice had both been nice, Mother
Goose would have said and every
thing else nice; would she not?
Pepper, mustard, vinegar, horse
| radish, nutmeg, cinnamon, pepper
mint, and the various hot sauces
are irritants. For example, take a
young infant that squalls because
his back itches or the light hurts
his eyes or women are jouncing
him and juggling him about so
much for his digestion. With each
squall goes one spasmodic drawing
up Of the legs for better purchase
on the noise apparatus. Enough!
Colici the poor women cry in cho-
rus. Somebody pours some pepper
mint down the baby's throat. Gosh,
how it must bite his tender young
tummy! Enough to put any baby's
digestion out of order for hours
enough, too, to make the collie real.
The younger the individual the
more harmful are the condiments.
Young children should not be al
lowed to dose their food with these
irritant stimulants. Not only the
stomach, but the kidneys and blad-
der are irritated, and that is I'M
wise policy.
The condiments harm adults by
stimulating the artificial appetite
which prompts the excuses of eat
ing which are the cause of so much
i'll health. For one who is already
over-fed, that is, one whose weight
is above the normal for his age
and height, the addition of condi-
ments to the food should be strict
ly omitted.
A natural craving for sour may
be gratified by the use of the food
acids. Such natural fruit acid as
that of lemons, oranges, grape
fruit or lines may be used. This
citric acid is really food because
it is oxidiZed in the body and util-
lied to produce certain amount
of energy; moreover, one can
scarcely take enough lemon juice
or any of the other citrus fruit
juices to injure health
The better the food and the more
skillfully it is prepared the less
need there is for condiments A
glutton abuses the condiments be-
cause his sensualism has blunted
or dulled his normal appetite. A
normal individual has recourse to
condiments to disguise or conceal
the insipid taste of poorly cooked
food. The more abandoned the
eating house the more liberal the
equipment in hot sauce.
There is no objection to the Gus
tomary use of natural fiavors or
condiments in food, such as onion,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25
The Butler and the Heiress.

Every So often the country is thrilled with
tales of the escapades, often harmless enough,
Of society buds who have been tri1ing with the
affections of men beneath them in the social
scale, and there is always a great buzzng of
tongues in consequence. Just now two cases
are occupying the attention of the country one
of whom, the granddaughter of the richest
man in the world, is about to wed a Swiss rid
ing teacher, and two Pittsburgh young women,
who played golf and went horseback riding with
the Swiss butler of fashionable country club
one Of whom is the niece of the secretary of
the treasury of the United States 1t does not
appear that there was anything particularly
wrong in the conduct of the two young buds
and the discreet butler, but when the
McCormick-Oser case began to fill the columns
of the press and the fond mother OF one of the
Pittsburgh buds found out what was going on
she asked the butler which girl he loved and
the poor boob told her. Thereupon he was
arrested, charged with insanity, and ordered
deported to Switzerland.
But the butler was not such poor fish as he
seemed. He employed lawyer and sued out
writ of habeas corpus. He refused to mention
the names of the young women involved, but
some OF the relatives did, and then his lawyer
told the whole story. The youth had done moth
ing for which he should be deported He did
not make the first advances toward these two
Lady Clara We're de Veres. but when they, sur
feited with the company of the social drones
with whom they were compelled to associate
every day, turned to this good looking, enter
prising and attractive young chap, they really
began to get some enjoyment out of life and his
company. And who can blame them If they
did? The mistake was made by the fond parents
who. alarmed at the turn in affairs, proceeded
to attempt to railroad the young man into an
asylum If the parents of e-girls in question
had called the young man in and explained the
situation to him undoubtedly he would have
accepted any counseling that he received. But
because OF their ill-advised action they have
given the incident nationwide publicity and
brought about the very condition they were
seeking to ssuEd- Common sense is a great
4fnEsi1ue1sc4rMc1eantra
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25
Ghosts Don't Excite Reporters.

Ghosts like those operating about Antagonist
are fairly plentiful in all parts of the country.
They can be depended on to furnish neighbor-
hood conversation. But they ought to present
no difficulty to any seasoned newspaper re-
porter, however they may absorb the scientific
investigator. The newspaper man knows from
his own experience The miraculous stories
simply aren't SO. That may be bit broad.
There is often a slender foundation that
amounts to nothing. Imagination does the rest.
That is the sort of thing that is presented to
the reporter in his routine daily. 1t is beyond
human nature to describe occurrences accu-
rately. The reporter is used to getting the con-
Trajectory accounts OF several witnesses, max
ing allowances here and there, and averaging
up the stories. How many persons have puzzled
their heads over the reports of the traveller
from India He with his own eyes out in
the open, in broad daylight the fakir make a
tree grow from seed and develop in full leaf.
He watched in amazement while the fakir
threw ball of string into the air; ball that
did not come down until the Hindu pulled it
down by the loose end of the string. The trav-
eler admits he might have been hypnotized But
he swears that he believed he saw the incidents
as recorded.
Well. he didn't. He doesn't think he did He
has heard some wierd tales. He thinks it
would sound more interesting if he told it as if
he had seen it himself That's all He didn't
see It Nobody else ever saw it The news
paper reporter has run into that sort of thing
too often in his business OF gathering and sift-
ing the news. He knows that the ghosts and
their doings-except in the case of obvious
human pranks such as knotting the cows tails
at Antigonish-are the products of exuberant
tmaginations. So they oughtn't to excite him
particularly. Usually they don't
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25

@. What is the speed of the ele-
vator in the Washington monument?
How fast does the fastest elevator
run? s. c. W.
A The office of public buildings
and grounds says that the elevator
in the Washington monument
makes 100 feet a minute. AS the
elevator shaft in the monument is
500 feet high. it makes this distance
in minutes. The two elevators
in the Woolworth building, which
operate from the ground to the saith
floor, rise 700 feet in one minute
and these are the highest rising and
fastest travelling elevators in the
world. Although elevator service
is provided in the Eiffel Tower,
Paris, to a height of nearly 1000
feet, three lifts must be used to
reach the top, the highest rise of a
single lift being about $50 feet
Q. Is it true that a man who has
a congressional medal of honor
gets a pension of 81 a month.
w. NJ. NIB.
A The period for which an ad-
ditional 81 month is given to a
soldier who has a congressional
medal of honor dates only from the
time that the act was committed
for which the medal was granted to
the date of discharge from mill
tary service.
@. What became of Raisuli?
S. l.. D.
A Raisuli, the bandit who held
Perdicaris, a naturalized American,
for ransom in 1904, has been report
ed dead twice, but each time the
statement has been withdrawn
Through several such kidnapings,
Raisuli. who was Moroccan
shereef, accumulated much money
and land.
@. How many counties are there
in the United States collectively?
j. H. P.
A. The bureau of census says &C.
cording to the 1920 census, there
were S,069 counties in the United
States.
Q. What did the early Egyptians
shape with? A. L. G.
a. According to Herodotus, the
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25
Patrons of the Bootlegger.

~ Bootlegging thrives because there are cit
liens who encourage it. The people who are
patroniZing the bootleggers today are not the
poor and ignorant. They cannot afford to buy
whisky which is smuggied into the country by
desperate rum runners in defiance of law
They do not have the means to pay $50 a
quart for booze Occasionally there may be
man who is poor and who will pay this price,
but the bootleggers are not growing rich and
arrogant because of the encouragement OF the
poorer classes OF citisens II the men OF means
who do pay this price for liquor should refuse
10 buy it boouegging would cease. And if boot
Logging stopped we should have what would
amount TO actual prohibition. 1t will never
cease, however. while the rich men and women
continue to encourage Bookkeeping, rum run
ming, smuggling and the violation OF law.
Is. Do these patrons of the bootlegger ever stop
to consider what they doing when they pay
500 case for whisky? They are making
themselves the confederates OF the lowest class
OF criminals The individual they may do bus
mess with may not be a desperate criminal
himself, but he is allied with men of this class
Rum runners will shoot officers OF the law and
even take human life IL it becomes necessary
to accomplish their purpose They will resort
to any means to get through with their cargo
Of liquor and they belong to the element which
is always to be found violating every law.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25
MRS. WORRLATS MISSION.
By Mrs. Ada May Borden Stevens
Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler
Syndicate, Incl

| Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)
Mrs. Worriat calls on Mrs. Bride:
May l come in, Ruth? There,
don't mind me, you go right on get
tin supper; looks more like dinner
to me. Nobody needs so much va
riety. l don't care how young they
are. Well balanced diet? There's
. nothing like a well balanced peck
etbook to my mind. In these hard
times folks ought to save, and
green things cost too much; l never
could afford them. And meat-my
goodnessl A bit of pork with my
| beans does me.
Sick? Who said l was sick? OF
course l need a lot of dOctoring,
it's only natural, wore out as l be;
but them that wastes has nothing
for the doctor, you may depend on
/ that.
III sit here out of the way. Yes,
keeping out of the way is all I've
done through a long life O. trouble
and care. You young folks don't
know a thing about it. If you don t
scrimp and save now, you'll be on
the town in your old age. After
| the gatherers come the scatterers'
| they used to say when / was young
Just because Jim's father can start
you out sort of decent, don't for a
minute think it'll last, if you buy
| beefs and celery and such. Public
market sales? No, / never go to
them; too much of a crowd, and
I'm suspicious of those cheap
things, anyway. Give me, dough-
nuts and gingerbread and plain
bread and butter, then 1 know
what 1 am putting in my stomach.
Been on vacation, haven't you?
1t costs a pile to travel now-a-
days. Money don't grow on my
bushes to spend that way. Some
people have it to spend, and I'm
glad for them. l just had the paper
in the parlor changed, and it cost
lot Going to sit in it? Ger
tainly not, but it was all widowed,
shut up SO, and there has to be
decent place in the house.
Therei that coal man is coming
here. No wonder you burn so
much coal, never sitting your ashes,
and letting that careless Rufus trun
them out. You may say that Jim
doesn't have time, but if I had an
able bodied man sittin' around the
house two hours every evening, I'd
have a few things for him to do.
Studying law, is he? Well, what
is the use of that l declare the
more you give a man in these days
the more he wants. Didn't Jim go
to college. land knows how long,
without needin' to put his head in
book every hour of the day and
night, now he's married? What are
we coming to, l wonder? But 1
was talking about that coal. If
you'd use coke in the furnace you'd
save a pile of money. Who'd tend
to it? That is for you TO find out,
but if you'd stay at home instead
OF traipsing all over the city teach
ing school, and you with a home
and ahusband, you'd soon see. 1;
am not saying a word against Jim;
he's a natural born worker, but
you give a man an inch and he'll
take an ell. I've had two, and Il
know. Ambition? Don't say am
bition' to me. Ambition won't rear
woodpile unlessen it pushes a
saw
Got piano since l was here.
| see. should think you were
both too busy to fuss with music.
Music doesn't rest me any; that's
the evil ones own argument for a
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-25

Egyptians shaved continually and
only let the hair and beard grow
when they were in mourning The
barber of the ancient Egyptians
was known as the haq- He EN-
ployed various instruments i
razor sometimes in the shape OF
short Ratchet with a REQUIRED
handle and other instruments snap
ed like knife, were most generally
used
Q. What is the name of the foun-
tain in front of the Congressional
library and who designated it?
G. A.
A. Roland Hinton Perry was the
sculptor of the Fountain Of Nep-
tune" This was one of his earlier
works, and while vigorous and af-
fective, is not considered TO be as
finished and artistic as some Of his
later efforts.
Q. Is Central University, Ken
lucky, a state school? o. T. S
A Central University of Ken
lucky is sectarian institution, IN
der the auspices of the Presbyter-
ian church.
Q. Where was the first Chamber
of Commerce organized in this
country? G. L 7.
A. The New York City Chamber
of Commerce, organized in l16s,
and incorporated under a royal
charter from King George III IN
1910, was the first institution OF rs
kind in the United States?
@. We're the republics of Central
America ever united in one gov
eminent? F. Q.
A In 1923 the five Central Amer
lean states were united into ma
tional federation which subsequent
ly a dopted a constitution modelled
after that of the United States. the
federation was partially ended by
1888. practically dissolved in 1883
and completely dissolved in 1847.
Q. What was the largest catfish
ever caught? T. H. r.
A. There is no authoritative
record of the largest catfish ever
caught, but the largest of The
Americaa species is the great fork
tailed Mississippi cat which attalns
a weight of 150 pounds or more.