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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-04
FRIDAY, AUGCST \ lses-

iAnnounosmsnt Of the resmption Of opera
tons by three Of the large Moline industrial
plants after protracted suspension is gladstone
tidings to the tri-city community, 1t indicates
that normally has at last arrived and can only
DO disturbed by continuance OF the railroad and
coal mine strikes.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-04
When Mr.. Blaine Smashed His Hat.


In the summsr OF 1890 James G. Blaine ap-
ainance committee. The Mckinley tariff bill
.had passed the house and was being reshaped
In the senate. Mr.. Blaine, in accordance with
the tradition of that period, wore statesman's
silk hat. This he recklessly smashed on the
table In the senate finance committees Yoom
while be earnestly demonstrated that tn. house
bill would not make new market for 4 single
american bushel Of wheat or barrel of -four
THE secretary's picturesque demonstration bore
fruit. Mr.. Aldrch introduced a series of reci-
procity amendments. which we're afterward at
taehed to the Mckinley bill. Mr.. Mckinley cor
liially accepted them, for he and Mr. Blaine
were enlightened protectionists, who don't lose
blight Of the importance Of creating markets
for exports a. well rs for guarding the home
markets.
The Fordney and McCumber bills repeat
The error Of the original Mckinley bill. Our
Export trade has multiplied many times since
1890. Our economic relations have been world
wide. We have undertaken to build up an
American merchant marine of the first rank,
Intended to handle our exports overseas We
pave become = creditor nation instead of a
Asbtor nation. But what statesman is there
h Wasihngtoa today who has Blaine's vision
and courage and his ability to recognize that
protection is not a mere doctrine OF repression!
lGr. Fordney and Mr. McCumber are victims
u narrow views It is not enough to say that
livery American producer must have the field
% himself. regardless Of the effect Of such mon
bpolixation on the country. 1t is high time
Dor someone to smash hat in the presence OF
Chairman McCumber and his associates.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-04

WHENEVER We feel (as we did today) m
attack of brain fag coming on; whom NO con
tribution gives US grin and things We write
give us pain-then we pick up the Galeshurg
Repuhlican-Resfster and Immediately our hrain
flag disappears. Can you smile With % at this
headline spread columns across the Reg
ister's first page, In big black types
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-04

St00&, VI COu &C.
THE GAMECOCK.
Gorgeously arrayed the fire-backed
jungle fowl
skulked like crimson shadows
through the tangled thickets Of India.
where lurked venomous cohras.
and ravenous pythons,
together with rapacious hawks,
bloodthirsty cheetahs.
greedy foxes
and sly jackals
Fire-backed jungle fowl
had need of great courage,
sharp eyes,
speed,
strong pinions,
pugnacty,
and gameness.
These valiant feathered beauties
were your forhears strutting gamecock
these feathered denizens Of tho jungle
gave you your great beauty;
together with your bravery,
and will do battle to death. 49,.
1t is far cry
from the wilderness of Siam
to this hufy wire bound prison;
reminding me
that only yesterday,
/ saw a stalwart copper-hued Sioux
bedecked with feathers and war-paint
seated ON platform staring stupidity,
acting as an advertisement.
while a wordy faker
vended bottled nostrums
(But all this is part of evolution;
the world and its creatures
are improving)
AS to you, gamecock:
With your. rich mantle of flaming velvet,
have mingled in a mob
amid blue tobacco smoke Clouds
while one of your kind struggled and bled
In pit,
FINALLY to die gasping.
impaled on q sharp steel ga6
that brutes
might have a thrill!
He thought he must fight
as did his ancestors
to defend themselves
against enemies!
Tigers and leopards are Gagged to please man
MAN sometimes imprisons his brother
for little else but his own amusement
sables and seals are slaughtered to
bedeck his mate,
egrets are shot on their nests that
vanity may be appeassd,
You. gamecock, fight to the death
to amuse man!
Yet we ultra cultured ones
give much Of ouf time and money
to send missionaries
to the South Sea Islands
that the poor savage
may learn our ways
and become civilized! -,
JAY as slGMuND.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-04
Argus Information Bureau


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pa:dt to nous
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-08-04

WE don't know who Is authority for the
statement (Which we found in the Dubuque
mes-JournaD that chewing gum requires
much energy and is of benefit to those desiring
to be thin, but we suspect one Of Wrisley's
press agents.
II You Ask Us, It's Dam Lie.
Iron the Marshalltown Ua.) Times
Republican,
A man down in southern Iowa
dropped dead when he looked his hand
over and found he had . straight hush".
whatever that is.
HILAIRE GUDRIN. mayor of La Prairie.
Quebec. says the recipe for making hero is
whisky blanc pea soup and lots Of real hard
work" That reminds US of the old Kentucky
breakfast" story. Ever hear it? Well, when
the colonel put in his breakfast order he called
for pint of whisky. pound Of steak and a
setter dog Asked what the dog was for he
replied: ITO eat the steak. sub; to eat the
steak, of cou'se."
The Republican., 1922-04-20
Ticks and Flashes Which BuI-
'atin in Condensed Style the
News of the World.
TIMELY HISTORY PARAGRAPHS
Events at Washington Which Loom
Large as Crucial Happenings.
Industrial Activities at
Home and Abroad.
WASHINGTON

Harding abandops hope Of Genoa
conference solving Europe's problems
Governor Morrow, Of the Panama
Canal Zone, reported to Secretary
Weeks that the Panama Canal showed
falling of in business curing Febru-
airy, as compared with movements
through the canal during the same
II nth Of last ear.
Assurance that attempts to defer
final enactment of tariff legislation be-
yond the present session of Congress
will not prove successful, was given
by Senator McCUmber of North Dako-
Ia, chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee.
The public is to be represented on
the coal investigating commission, to
be appointed by the President, as pro-
posed in the Bland bill, redrafted fol-
lowing hearings by the House Labor
Committee.
Borah Qdaho) charged the admins
tration violated its pledges against for
ei@n entanglemeuts.
TO maintain the United States Navy
at a strength below that authorized
by the naval limitation treaty of the
Washington Conference would be lin
furious to the interests Of the coun-
try Secretary Of State Hughes de-
Clared in Il letter to Congressman
Rogers, Republican, Massachusetts.
The Republican., 1922-04-20
WORLDS NEWS IN
CONDENSED FORM

RoME.-Radium deposits have been
discovered in NaIleluris, says a dis
patch to II Monde from MOndOyi, N
Piedmont. Specimens of uranium
taken from the district are said 20
have shown sufficient quantity of
radium to warrant further inyestigd-
tion.
PARIS.-America engineers, before
leaving the Rhine, dynamited Fort
Alexander and dismantled other forts,
according to a Mayeuce dispatch.
French detachments have been instalt-
ed at Neuwied, Engers and Asterstein,
replacing the American Army of Occu-
patton.
TOKlo.-While guns ashore thun.
dered a welcome, and whistles Of
countless craft crowding Yokohama
harbor added their shrill clamor, the
British warship RenoWn nosed her
way into the royal dock, bringing the
Prince of Wales on an official visit to
Japan
INDIANAPOLIS. - Federal indict-
ments against mine union officials and
mine owners, charging violation Of the
Sherman Antitrust law, Will not be
dismissed Harry NJ. Daugherty, United
States attorney general, intimated in
a statement issued just before he left
indianapolis.
GENoA.-lt is reported the Russians
will reject the formula, drafted by the
allied experts as the basis of discus
sion of European reconstruction. The
Russian representatives, it is in
timated, are prepared to submit an
alternative plan.
DU5LIN.--Michael Collins, head of
the Irish Free State. and former Presi-
dent Eamon De Valera have agreed
on peace.
SAN JUAN.-Differences between {.
Mont Reilly, governor Of Porto Rico,
and Antonia Barcelo, president Of the
Porto Rican senate, have been set
tied,
The Republican., 1922-04-20
NATIONS BUSINESS

United States foreign trade gained
in March.
February railroad eam4ngs indicate
4.JI per cent annual return.
Merchants and marine men attack
st. Lawrence canal project as useless.
Advance in he price of wooden
cloth Of from 10 to 40 cents a yard
We're put into effect by the American
Wooden Company, ii was announced IN
Boston.
Representative Beck of Wisconsin
requested that the profits of coal op-
orators and dealers be made known.
Legislation vesting authority in a
government agency to advise bust
uess in advance as to the legality of
d proposed course of conduct was ali
vocated by Nelson B. Gaskill, chair
llan Of the Federal Trade Commission,
in an address at Washington before
u conference of trade association rep
resentatiyes convened by Secretary Of
Commerce Hoover
Several squads Of police were called
to The River Rouge plant Of the Ford
Motor Company to disperse a crowd Of
1000 unemployed men who besieged
the gates in search Of jobs.
Republican promises to revise the
tariff upward on protective basis
progressed toward fuldllment when the
Senate Finance Committee reported a
revision Of ForLuoy's tariff bill, which
was passed by the House nine months
ago.
Secretary DENLY closes navy wire
less stations to political speech max
eTs.
The Republican., 1922-04-20
FAMISHED RUSSIANS
KILLING u. S, DRIVERS
PopulaCe Crazed by Hunger Seize
American Relief Wagon Horses
for Food-ChOiera Raging.

Paris.-A number of American driv-
ers of relief wagons in Russia have
been killed in the streets by the fam
ished populace, who seized the horses
for food, according to reports received
by the American relief organizations
in Paris from the Ufa, Bashkeer and
pchyliabuisk famine districts.
Two drivers for the American Re
lief Administration were killed this
week, the reports said.
Several other employees Of the relief
administration, fearing for their lives,
have quit their posts, the reports add
ed. The danger has become SO great
that it is no longer safe to venture
into the streets. People are being
killed every daAit was said, and they
natives, madfefetts-ezu1n staFrsttiezAs-. I.
strip the clothes from the bodies Of
their victims.
The reports said the Americans were
feeding $4,000 sufferers in the Ufa
district, but that the death rate was
continuing unabated. Cholera, small
pox, typhus and dysentery are raging,
and the hospitals are destitute Of sup
plies, and extremely short of helpers.
Bitter cold and the complete absence
of fuel are adding to the sutferings.
The Republican., 1922-04-20
This Smoker Never Sick.

All pipe smokers know the desir-
ability of tobacco mixture the smoke
of which will not bite the tongue or
be too hot in the mouth. Mixtures Of
this kind are what manufacturers are
always seeking
In London (Eng) an apparatus has
been put into use for the testing Of
smoking tobacco for these qualities
obviating the usual method of per-
sonal trial by an expert. 1t looks like
= telephone box, fastened on a wall
including the wiring. A pipe is loaded
with tobacco and the stem inserted in
a rubber-encircled hole in the box. A
switch is turned, the tobacco is lit,
and the electric machine in the box
smokes the pipeful at any rate Of
speed required, making a record Of
the temperature and nicotine content
of the smoke.
The Republican., 1922-04-20
Artist Vision

1t is as though a man were shown
9 crystal, a perfect thing, cleaning
telOw depths of water, far down be-
yond reach. He would dive and dive
again, driven by his great desire to
secure it, until finally, all dripping,
he brought 1t up. But that in the end
he could bring it, perfect thing, to
us, was possible solely because he
had first seen 1t cleaning there.
Others might dive and dive, might
work and labor with endless patience
and endless pains, but unless they had
first seen the crystal-unlesS they
had been given this divine gift of
seeing-this vision-they would come
up empty-handed.
The occasional so-called genius does
not MAKE the crystal but he alone sees
It where it lies cleaning below depths
Of water, and by his effort brings it to
us.-Abb0tt Henderson Thayer.
The Republican., 1922-04-20
SPORTING

The Senators apparently have n
team which is likely to figure In the
big money at the end Of the season un-
less something happens.
University Of California, Berkeley,
has accepted an invitation from Cor.
nell University for a dual track meet
at Ithaca, n. Y, May 20.
Three New York Giant rockies were
dispatched to the bushes. Pitcher
Malone and Catcher Samide were sent
to Billy Gilbert's club at Waterbury,
while Pitcher Proctor was handed back
to Columbia, S. c., whence he came.
New York State Athletic Commits
sion announces the suspension Of Lew
Tender, lightweight boxer.
Before sailing for Europe on Tues
day Jack Kearns said that Jack Demp-
sey would box Harry Greb eight
rounds in Philadelphia when he re-
turned to America.
Jack McAuliffe, the former light
weight champion, announces that he
is going bring Joey Beckett from
EnglandSa may match him to box
Bill Brennan
The manageshs1t OF Ybbets Field, in
brooklyn, was informed hv tho pox.
ing C0InmIssivA.- ta-at a McSf1se 70 nofo
fights in that Enclosure during the sum
mer months 'Adald be- granted If the
proper 9SaIication was submitted. It
is planh 10 hold daylight bouts on
the field turing the absence Of the
Brooklyn ball club.
The Australian Davis Cup team,
consisting of Gerald L. Patterson. J.
o. Anderson, O'Hara Wood and ]. B.
Hawkes., was selected.
Whitley Witt, hard-hitting outhelder,
was placed on the market by Connie
Mack, manager Of the Philadelphia
Athletics. I'm through with him."
was all Mack would say.
Miss Martha Bayard's defeat Of Miss
Helen Gilleaudeau and Miss Lillian
Scharman's victory over Miss Edith
Sigourney are surprises Of Pinehurst
tennis.
The State Boxing Commission has
given its permission for heavyweight
bout between Bill Brennan and Billy
Miske at the Boston Arena on May L
Harry Greb has signed articles with
a Buffalo promoter to box on Memorial
Day in that city against any white man
who can be secured.
The Republican., 1922-04-20
LATEST EVENTS
AT WASHINGTON

Senate Committee seeks to learn il
foreign power backs Semenoff.
Senator Calder of New York intro
duced a bill in the senate, giving
the Niagara Bridge Company tns
right to build a bridge across the
Niagara River.
Agitation growing over summary dis
missal of Bureau of Engraving and
Printing director and superntend-
ents may become campaign issue;
administration insists action was due
to ineffciency which imperiIled safe
ty of government security issu-s.
Democrats charge spoIs politics ac-
tuated it.
General Semenoff was denounced as
responsible for an orgy of murder,
pillage and rapine in testimony at
hearing before the Committee on
Education and Labor called by Sen
ator Borah, chairman, who advo-
Gated deportation of the cossack
leader.
Great Britain, France and Japan ex-
pected to exchange views on the SEN
dIe TCSGTNdtlOI DClOlC idbllJlHS bn0
four power treaty.
House leaders predicted the "Iittie
navy" forces will be defeated when
the vote is taken on the Naval Ap-
preparation bill.
Efforts to bring the United States into
the Genoa conference failed to
change the attitude of the admins
tration, which is that the only par
ticipaton in European affairs desra-
BILE at this time is American member
ship in the Preparations Commission
for the protection of American in
tcTosts.
The loyalty Of Porto Rico to the United
States was defended by Representa-
tive Humphreys of Mississippi in
speech in support of his resolution
calling for an Investigation Of the
complaints made against Governor
Reillu.
The Republican., 1922-04-20
FOREIGN

Sir Ross Smith, Australia flyer,
killed in England, while testing plane
for rOund-the-World fight.
Russians demand radical changes In
Allied reconstruction program; submit
counter proposals; France adopts open
diplomacy.
A number Of American drivers Of
relief wagons in Russia have been
killed in the streets by the famished
pOpulace, who seized the horses for
food, according to reports received by
American relief organizations in Paris
from the Ufa, Bashkeer and TchylIa-
buSll famine districts.
The German government notified the
Preparations Commission that 1t will
make a payment Of 18,051,075 gold
marks under the provisional morato-
rum agreed upon.
Major Herbert Rowtha Armstrong,
prominent Welsh lawyer, was SEN
teEced to death for the murder Of his
wife, Mrs. katherine Armstrong.
France plans a sensational move at
the economic parley, Louis Barthou,
its chief delegate, indicated. Russia
protested against allied terms as plac-
ing her on a par with Turkey.
Bank of England cuts discount rate
to per cent.
Sir Arthur ]. Balfour is made Earl
Balfour Of Whittinhame.
The Prince of Wales landed at Yoko-
hama for his visit to japan.
Irish rebels attacked and captured
their former headquarters at Athlone.
Germans and Russians at Genoa
balk at Allied financial plans. Lloyd
George may suggest world peace
scheme.
The Moroccan village of Caserlo was
set afire by Spanish bOmbers in a raid
in which both seaplanes and airplanes
took part. The surrender Of several
Moroccan chiefs was confirmed,
v---~--rss-Ss-@ss - A-s----s-ss~
The Republican., 1922-04-20
GENERAL

Mrs. Thomas vii! get only $4,000
from The dore Shonts estate.
J. Z. Morgan, New York, On COM
miltee Investigating crime conditions.
Union leaders to contest West Vir-
gluiJ injunction prohibiting unioniza-
lion activities.
\ challenge to the popularity of
the Eolstead act was issued by Repre-
sentative Hill, of Maryland, when he
introduced a bill in the House seeking
10 create local option district of
each Congressional district in the
country for the purpose of obtaining i
yoic upon ID per cent beer in the
coming election.
Girls oustcd from Michigan Normal
School for smoking.
Governor Miller of New York signs
bill curbmg theater ticket speculation.
Cox in Louisville political speech
puts burden of campaign issues ON
Republicans.
Roy Marshall, soldier, must serve a
ten year prison sentence at the Nc
Neirs Island Federal penitentiury for
robberies committed at NladNostok,
Siberia, while a member of the Amer
lean eXpeditionary force in 1920. The
United States Supreme Court affirmed
the decision of the Northern Califor,
MIA Federal District Court.
Human butcheries in Siberia blamed
on Semenof by American army Off.
GERS.
Weeks replies to attacks on War De,
partment for laAity in closing up wal
contracts.
Hoover asks trade associations tc
cooperate with the government in
registering pulse Of commerce.
Charles Klein, the New York land
lord who received a thirty days work
house sentence for failing to supply
heat in an apartment, began serving
his sentence on BlackWells Island
Keepers set Klein sitting ashes in the
sgpkehouso adioiaing the peHjteptlRry
The Republican., 1922-04-20
DEATH HALTS PROPOSED
FLIGHT AROUND WORLD
Australian Aviator and Engineer
Killed When Plane Falls in
Trial Test.

London. - Sir Ross Macpherson
Smith, on the eve of his projected
flight around the world, was killed in
the presence of his brother, Sir Keith
Smith, at Brooklands, while testing
the Nickers-Niking machine in which lie
had planned TO make a world circuit.
Sergeant Bennett, the mechanic who
accompanied him on his famous flight
to Australia in 1919, was also killed
in the tragic crash.
For half an hour before taking up
the machine himself, Sir Ross had been
in the machine, while Captain Cocker
el, of the Vickers Company put her
through her PAGES, during which the
Viking behaved be2utifpIllIE. On de-.
Captain-Asus4,el;;srt 49,
over the machine to Sir Ross, who,
amid the applauding shouts of a con-
siderable number of spectators, made
a fine take-off. His brother, Sir Keith,
was delayed in reaching Brooklands
and so was unable to accompany the
intrepid flyer.
For fifteen minutes SIR Ross put
the machine through the ordinary fly
ing test, then he prepared to descend.
When about 1.200 feet above the
ground he shut off the engine. Almost
Immediately She began a nOse-diye and,
efforts of her pilot to right her falling,
she made spinning nose-dive. Gath
cring terrific speed as she neared the
ground, she smashed into pieces on the
fence surrounding the BrCoklands auto
race-tracE. Sir Ross was lifeless when
lifted from his seat and his mechanic,
Sergeant Bennett, sitting behind him,
died few minutes after being eXtri-
Gated from the wreckage.
The Viking, it is said, was the finest
machine yet turned out by Vickers.
It's wing span was 80 feet; wing area,
G35 square feet; net weight, $3.50
pounds; it had 4J0-horsepower.
The Republican., 1922-04-20
OAKLAND, MARYLAND April, 30 1922
MAGPiE A 'FEATHERED FiEND'
Writer in New York Evening Post
Draws Up Strong Indictment
Against the Bird.

Although a great lover of birds, I
never grieve when anyone kills a
maSpie, Mrs. Frank J. Hazen writes
from Acushnet, Mont, to the New
York Evening Post. From a child,
knew they We're thieves, but l had to
live on western stock ranch before
realizing they were little demons.
During Il drought in the Northwest
many animals were horribly tortured
and finally killed by these feathered
tiendS.
y beast weakened by insufficient
food, lack of water, old age or any
other cause is pounced upon by the
magpie, which perches on its back in
place out of reach of the victims
tail, and then begins to literally eat
the poor brute alive.
Two incidents came under nv own
observation. We had an old horse out
at pasture that we valued for the
work she had done. After a time we
discovered that the magpies were
working on her and had already
made a terrible sore on the poor crea-
ture just above her shoulder. We put
her in the corral to give her extra feed
and wash and treat the sore. To our
astonishment the magpies still kept
after her. They seemed to know we
would not dare shoot at them when
they were on the back of the horse for
fear of killing her Time after time
we tried to get them when flying to
and from their dreadful feast, but
their instinct told them, apparently,
when we were armed and when the
gun was out of reach, so they always
managed to escape. At last we were
obliged to keep the horse in the barn
until the sore healed. 1t was the only
way she could get rid Of her tormen-
tors.
The Republican., 1922-04-20
Expensive SPANKING.

A Bloomfield, Iowa, woman while
talking to her husband over the long
distance from booth in that city
was repeatedly interrupted by her lit
tie son. He made so much noise and
became so unruly that she left the
receiver off the hook, grabbed the
youthful offender by the arm and took
him to the hall where she gave him a
regular Old-fashioned spanking. She
then returned to the booth and com.
pleted the conversation without the
least interruption. At the finish she
became very angry because of the
charge for overtime, and insisted that
the time she spent spanking be de-
Quoted from the charge.-The North
western Bell,