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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09

O. In using the word venisOn,
does it mean meat of the deer or
does il mean the meat of other wild
animals? F. A.
4. While custom restricts the
meaning of venison to the flesh OF
deer, one definition of venisOn is
the flesh of any beast OF the chase
or game bird.
Q. The year 1921 had 53 pay
days in it How soon will this
happen again? T. T. A.
4. The next year that will be-
gin and end on Saturday will be
1927.
+ Q. What are the 10 largest cities
in the United States? F. A. c.
A. The 10 largest cities in the
United States ranked according to
size are New York City, Chicago,
Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, St.
Louis, Boston, Baltimore, Pitts
burgh and Los Angeles.
Q. Is there any way of killing
out water hyacinths that make
creeks in Florida unnaVigable? S.
NJ. w.
A. The best way of exteFminat
ing the nuisance is to spread
among the water hyacinths their
natural enemies, the water weeds,
water pests (Elodea Canadeneisl;
further, to disseminate among
them some virulent disease cap
able of destroying them; and fin
ally to reconstruct the Bridges, so
that the mass of obstructing plants
may be freely carried out into the
ocean.
Q. Have the Jews a flag? E. E.
S.
A. The Jewish nation has a flag
which consists of blue field with
the Star of David, six-pointed star
of white, in the center.
@. What is pat hand in
straight poker, and is four of A
kind considered pat hand? G. If.
II.
A. Pat hands are those which
are played without discarding or
exchanging any of the cards origin
ally dealt. Four of a kind might
be a pat hand or its holder might
draw enc card to mislead other
players
Q. When did the Siamese twins
live? s. D. B.
A Eng and Chang, the original
Siamese twins, were born in 1911
and lived until 1874.
@. How many acres OF land
could be brought under irrigation
along the Colorado River? c. T. NJ
A. In 1920 about 2464 900 acres
OF Land in the United Sites and
10000 acres in Mexico were under
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09

limit to the reward the world has in store for
those who make themselves indispensable to
those interests that need their services The
school boy OF today who aims high in certain
line Of endeavor may be the future chief OF
one of the nations great industries. There is
no easy road TO such prizes, but they are worth
striving for.
We all can't be bank presidents, heads OF
big mills, or moving czars. but there are
worthwhile rewards ahead of all OF us who
play the game to win, assuming that we are
left our health.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09
THE SCAR.
BY Miss Grace o. Weathersby.
Copyright, 1921. by Wheeler
Syndicate. Incl

SynQIcate, INC
1t all started that beautiful sum
mer night III 1916. when the little
clubhouse was filled to overlooking
with merry, laughing young people
whose minds had not yet. adjusted
themselves to the dark shadow OF
the war that was looming over
them. The music was thEobbing
plaintively, and it strangely affect
ed the tall youth leaning against
the porch rail, putting a cigaret.
Something within him made him
long for vague something that he
could not define. He was lonely,
very lonely, and still he had no
need to be, for with his money,
position and good looks he had a
host Of friends. But tonight he kept
away from them, strangely dis
turbed. Gary figures fitted past the
open door of the clubhouse, sway
ing gracefully to the music.
Suddenly the slouching figure of
the boy stiffened as a girl whisked
by the door on the arm of a tall
he had never seen her before. He
hurried inside the dance hall, and
looked in vain for her. She was
gone. For over an hour he search
ed, until at last he found her, stand
ing by the porch rail in the very
spot he had occupied a little while
before. Her gown was of some
soft, sheer white stuff-the skirt
full and duffy, her white shoulders
and arms were bare, her shining
brown hair piled high. Never had
he seen such loneliness. His long
ing was no longer vague
Later he managed to dance with
her, and his heart thumped madiy
as the brown eyes smiled up into
his. That same week he learned
she was an artist, and to his I'M
speakable delight she wished to
make a sketch of his head. The
afternoon was one mere to be for
gotten. He was an admirable model.
and under her slender, clever fin
gers the sketch took form-his
clean-cut features, his dark. way
ing hair-almost unreal in its per-
lection
you have a wonderful face" she
said dreamily, when it was finished.
Don't let anything ever mar it,
Keep those eyes as clear as they are
now, that chin as frm-that mouth
as sweet"
All the rest of that year-through
the winter-till the spring, they
were inseparable. He loved her
with all his young heart, and still
he never told her SO. How could
he? He didn't dream she cared for
him. There were so many, and
while she was always kind to him,
still she was always kind to every
body, Then, il the midst of their
happiness came the war, The
boys young blood was hot with
anger, and he was one of the first
to go. In his trim uniform he was
handsome, and the slim
girl in white trembled as she saw
him go. There had been no word
no lromise-only that they would
Vrite She had kissed his cheek
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09

Surprise has been expressed at the offer of
salary of $l50,000 year to Will NJ Hays
by the National Moving Picture Producers as
ISOLATION. Mr. Hays is postmaster gen
eral of the United States. OF course his in
come from the government is only a small
part of the sum that he would receive from the
moving picture job
The offer to Mr.. HAYS has prompted in
quiry as to how business concerns can afford
to pay the princely salaries their executives are
reported to receive. We are told that Eugene
Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel COM
pany, has been paid as high as s., 100000 in
one year, this huge sum representing salary
and bonuses. There are numerous banks in
thu large cities OF the country that give their
presidents more than one hundred thousand
dollars year. One of the leading automobile
companies is reported to pay its production
manager something over half million dollars
year. These are staggering figures in con-
sidering the question of salary. To be sure
there are any number of other men in the
country who have princely yearly incomes, but
these are earned on investments
We are discussing the man holding Job,
who has nothing to sell except his ability as
a planner and worker. The moving picture
people are convinced that Mr.. Hayes is worth
the wage they have offered him or they
wouldn't be seeking his services. Mr.. Hays is
known as man of excellent business judg-
ment, aside from possessing a national stand
ing among the people that would instantly
make him valuable asset in elevating the
moral dignity of the moving picture industry.
Moviedom is in urgent need of a master mind
Producers know what the trouble is, but there
is none among them who feels equal to the task
of administering the treatment Mr. Hays has
been agreed upon the great physician, so to
speak. Movie producers are confident that the
public will Immediately respond to the inno-
vations which would be introduced by Mr.
Mays
If Mr.. Hays succeeded in pulling the NOV
ing picture industry through it's present sick
spell his salary of $150.O0o year would be
paitry. Millions have been lost in the movie
business through unwise or unpopular ven
lures. With man of the keen understanding
or the public taste Mr.. Hays, it is believed
such disastrous blunders could be averted.
Thus we can understand why the movie pro-
drcers are willing to pay Mr.. Hays a salary
that IS twice as large as that received by the
president OF the United States
thus we-can see that there Is practically no
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09
The Source OF Infantile Paralysis.

Monkeys are susceptible to acute
poliomyelitis Gnfantile paralysis)
Other animals are not. Monkeys
may be given the disease by innoc-
ulation with virus or material tax
en- from a case of the disease, and
the virus has been transmitted from
one monkey to another by the bite
of the stable fly.
Now, I'd rather have a son or a
daughter than a monkey. There are
people in the world who think
otherwise And these good folks
wax pretty eloquent and tear on
impassioned emotional speeches
and articles for the papers On the
horrible cruelties inflicted on mon
keys by the brutal doctors who are
experimenting on monkeys and 9TH
er animals in order to find how to
help your son and my daughter re-
cover from such trifies as infan-
tile paraiysis-or how to escape the
disease altogether. We certainly
ought/to punish these heartless
doctors who Go things like that
What's a noisy, troublesome child
compared with g cunning pomeran-
ian or a dear little guinea pig,
pray?
There would be no way of even
knowing that poliomyelitis is
communicable from person to per-
son, were it not for experiments
upon monkeys. To be sure it is a
little tough on the monkeys, espe
cially when they are left with con-
siderable residual paralysis, but at
the same time few of US would
care to have our most uninterestius
ments.
The virus Of infantile paralysis
may be carried for months in dis
eased toGsilS. This is no argument
against the removal of infected ton
sis from infants or very young
children. There is no argument
against the removal of tonsils that
are infected or diseased, no matter
how young tho child. Imagine what
a menace a child or adult would be
in the community If he harbored
in the throat the virus of sucn a
disease! And carrier" may har-
Dor the virus OF the disease without
himself having had the disease,
just as in diphtheria; contact with
the patient may alone suffica to
produce the Carrier" state.
Although it has been imagined
that the virus of infantile para!y-
sis invaded the body by way of the
digestive tract, that is unlikely and
unimportant. The usual portal of
entry is the nose and throat Polio
myelitis is a respiratory infection.
just as in diputheria. measles or
smallpox. 1t cannot be contracted
by ordinary contact with the Pa
tient. For infection to occur it is
necessary for some secretion or dis
charge from nose or throat of the
patient to enter the nose or threat
of the next victim. Spray infec-
ton, precisely as in diphther.a.
tuberculosis. measles, the fu and
ordinary coryZa. Keep outside the
five-foot barrage and you won't
catch any OF these diseases unless
the patient sneaZes or coughs upon
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09

irrigation along the Colorado river
and its tributaries. 1t is estimated
that this could be increased TO
about 6,123,000 acres in this c0ua-
try and 100000 acres in Nezico
@. Is mistletce the flower Of
any statc2 ". F. p.
a. MistletOe Is the state flower
of Oklahoma 1t was adopted by
the legislature. Oklahoma was ta5
first state TO take legislative az
ton in the adoption Of state
flower.
O. are white people allowed TO
vote in Liberia? c. r. s.
A. Men must be OF negro blood
and own real estate III order u
qualify for the ballot in Liberia
O. Is the peanut q nut OF
vegetable? =. \
A. The peanut is vegetable
and belongs to the same family as
the common pea or bean
@. What is the probable life OF
cottonwood log used TO make log
cabin? z. L, H.
A. The forest service says that
the probable life Of a cottonwood
log is from two to three years.
They say that this wood Is not ad-
visabla for use for the purpose
mentioned. They suggest that you
use either oak. pine or aspen,
@. What can be put in paste .
keep mice from gRaWing wallpaper
". T. j.
A. a few drops Of car5oltc acid
in the paste Will make it less al
tractive TO mice.
@. Who vas the first Englisam=H
to go round the world? a II.
A. Sir Francis Drake was me
Englishman who circumHaFigate-
the globe.
Q. Are oysters more digesi0.'
cooked or raw? 1888
A. A well known authority claims
that oysters are more easily digest
ed when eaten raw than WAeA
cooked.
Q. What is the meaning OF X
wants? d. ).
derived from a Cherokee phrase
meaning we trade.
@. What will revive dead Tp0-
herq A. R H.
4. After being vUlcan!zed rubber
cannot he melted. Rubber cohce- -
have various processes. all kept -
cret. by which they work over o.l
vulcanized rubber into new goOusl
but for most purposes it is yer!
much inferior to new rubber. IA"
rubber can be dissolved in c2'oti1I
disulDhide. benzire, chloroloTm an
certain other solvents
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09
Frederick Haskin's Letter
Should Vices Be Trained?

which many women have ALREADY
awaited themselves. In jOurnalis1,
literature and the other arts ST.
already enjoys almost as much src1
cess and influence as men. Bnsi
ness opportunities are open to he
on every hand. She had almost =.
much social freedom as a man Sbo
can and does travel and go aho-,,
alone, and choose her own assoc;
atoms. The chaperon and The
escort play Just about as large
part in her life as she wishes them
to play, and no larger.
This creates an ideal situation fo-
the woman of brains and energv
who wants to enter a profession ~
business. who has a definite Graz
ing for independence and seIf-de-
velopment. There are many tbop-
sands of women in America who
have awaited themselves of their
unusual opportunities to the FINN
and who present to the world
heartening spectacle of feminine
achievement and independence nor
have they any considerable capacitv
for it. They probably do not differ
in this respect from the great ma
iority of men. But the man is sub
ject to a different tradition. Even
though he has no strong orYEinal
bent, custom ordains that he must
train himself for some kind of
work, and that he must get a lob
and make a living. Custom de-
mands no such thing of the woman
If she does not feel any interest in
learning and working, she can stay
at home and be a lady. She can
''go into society" And ultimately,
of course, she can marry.
Only Wives Unframed.
Now the strange part of II is
that this marriage is a business
which is supposed to require no
training whatever. The woman
who wants to be a doctor must
study hard for years. She who
succeeds in writing often serves a
hard apprenticeship for longer
than that. Business. science. nurs-
ing, welfare work-all of the lines
into which women go-require hard
and definite training. But she to
whose mercies the destinies of one
man and three or four children are
to be trusted. requires no training
whatever, according to the Ameri-
can custom. Most of the training
her mother gives her is designed to
teach her how to catch the man.
not how to take care of him or
rear his offspring. The high school
teaches her French and algebra and
the finishing school adds music,
classic dancing and tea-pouTing.
It is true that she may ind in
either of these places a course Of
instruction known vaguely as do
nestle science" and it usually con-
sists of a little instruction in cook
cry. But of the realities and diff
culties of married life, OF the sci
ence Of rearing and educating chill
dren, not one American girl in d
thousand is ever taught anything
No doubt the bright ones learn from
experience. NO doubt many Of
them are brilliantly successful
wives and mothers in spite of eT-
erything. But America leads the
world in divorce. it has 4 very high
infant death rate, and it also, We
are told, has the worst home cook
ing in the world Would a four
year high school course in the bust
ness of being a wife remedy these
Students of the subject
seem to think it would help.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09

Washington, D. c., Jan. 9.-That
the task of being wife and moth
er should be numbered among the
learned professions and taught in
the high schools and colleges is an
! idea that seems to be steadily gain
ing ground
| 1t got another recommendation
the other day when DR.. Simon Kat
zoff, a well known psycho-analyst,
told the Bridgeport board of edu-
cation that it should Immediately
establish high school classes for
the purpose of training girls IN the
| difficult business of being wives.
He said that American girls get no
training at home in this line, and
that therefore the schools must
give it. He placed all the blame
for divorce and the general failure
of marriage on the ignorance of
American girls.
Apparently DR.. Katzoff was con-
cerned chiefly with the girls posi-
ton as wife rather than as mother,
and his criticism of the American
wife contained nothing new. He
simply limited that every interna
tional observer has stated, that the
American woman is a tyrant in her
home, and the American man the
most petticoat-dominate man on
earth. In the typical American
household, the husband is deprived
of large part of his personal lib
erty in the matter of his associa-
tons, engagements and habits. His
wife'S wishes are presented to him,
not in the form of requests, but of
demands Yet the average Ameri-
can male accepts this situation
philosophically. For one thing, he
ination from early childhood, for
the American youth is ruled by his
mother far more than by his father,
and he is commonly enslaved by his
elder sisters as well. 1t seems
quite natural to him to have his
wife take a similar attitude of own
ership.
In some cases doubtless he would
feel lost without it. Certain it is
that he is generally shocked by the
way a German or Frenchman
treats his wife, while the oriental
attitude of regarding her frankly
as an inferior seems horrible to
him.
W0nan's Opportunity.
Doubtless the American attitude
is in many ways admirable. 1t gives
the woman an unusual opportunity
to realize herself as an individual
and develop any abilities she may
have For a woman of good char
acter and intelligence it is an ex-
cellent system. But the flaw in it
IS that the American tradition does
not demand enough of the woman
to justify the large amount of free
dom she is given.
The American girl today. STEP
ping out of high school or college,
faces a wealth of opportunity, such
as women have never enjoyed be-
fore in any age or country. 1t is
true that she has certain legal dis
abilities. and that she is apt to be
paid less for the same work than q
man. But her sisters are organ
ICED to remove those legal diSabili-!
ties and her situation in all sorts
of work is steadily improving, while
there are few things in life from
which she is barred by her sex
She can get as much education as
any man. Science and medicine
both offer her opportunities Of
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09
Chr TnnhHtnrr
| HERE LIES MANS ANCIENT ENEMY.
| DILL CARE
WHO DisrsrExs rHu UnI,ovED cusA
1 BEWARE.
UNMARRIED MOTHER.


i grope Dlndly,
Submerged in murky darkness;
Awaiting hopelessly
TIE grey dawn
OF understanding
Which comes not
Was my sin so great! -.
Am l so vile
Tha. l pollute
Whom 1 touch? -.
Watch closely
And you see me Stunned
AS a leper!
Has a circle OF gold
On the finger
Such potent power
To bring happiness?
MY love brought sorrow
(Yet i was a deep love)
For my finger is unadorned.
! would suffer less
Were I stoned to death
Stones have more mercy than stares.
Why does none cast a stone? ..-
JAY G. SIGMUND.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Page Professor RedfieId.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Page Professor Redfield.
Do you think it likely that heal
thy, normal children would be born
man aged 45?-(F M
Answer-Certainl A remark
able book by Professor Redfeld
Human Heredity,~ published by
Heredity Publishing company, $50
South Dearborn street, Chicago, ILL.,,
presents striking arguments and
considerable actual evidence to
strengthen thu belief that children
of parents over 40 are rather more
likely to be talented or above the
average than are children born OF
younger parents. Probably the book
may be secured from your public
library.
Committable.
A nerve specialist pronounced
my mothers condition "a commit
table type of psychosis." What did
he mean pm. W.
Answer-PsYchosis is some men
tai arrangement. Patients with
mental disturbance or disease are
best treated in hospitals especially
equipped for such cases, and IN
many cases it is necessary to have
an order from a court of record
committing the patient to the ill.,
stitution.
GangIion.
/ have lump on the back of my
wrist which is commonly called a
slipped sinew' and have been
wearing a leathe wrist strap and
using bandages without effect 1t
is only occasionally little painful :;
but does not. look nice.-(P. w. CO
.Answer-Ganglion or weeping
sinew is an accumulation of thick
gelatine fluid, in a dilated portion
Of tendon sheath, usually the re-
suit of an injury or sprain. When
On the back OF the wrist it may be
dissipated. to Use gentle word for
it, by fiexipg tEe wrist to tense the
region and striking the swelling a
sharp blow with book having tie
weight and general dimensions of
Personal Health" by the author
who isn't paying for this ad. Just
how hard a blow TO strike is a mica
question which l have been weigh :
ing il my mind for the last three
years or more. in reference to a
ganglion on MY wrist. My gang
lion is an heirloom from a multsh
motor I tried to crank for an un-
appreciative fellow. It is about
gone now. so l shall leave to 9TH
ers the determination of the amount
of force or PEP to apply in break
ing a ganglio1. Bandages and
straps are of 80 use at all Often
incision and removal of the dilateI
part of the sac is necessary
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09

Seven church elders were poisoned when
they drank varnsh in place of sacramento
wine at communion service in Grand Rapids,
Mich. They were made seriously i'll. If they
had got moonshine whisky it's likely all would
have been killed by the shock Varnish is said
to be soothing syrup compared to moonshine.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09
CROWDS GREET DE VALERA.

Oupiln, ireland, Jan. 9.-Large
crowds assembled outside Mansion
mouse to witness the arrival of Ea-
monn de Valera and his support
eTs IN the Dali Eireann, who mat
for a consultation with regard TO
the future.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09

After thyroid gland treatment Londoner
eof rs is said to act like man of 40. In Amer
lea gland treatments are not necessary to get
the same results. Observe some of the old
girls .Prancing along the streets IN their shor:
skirts and gaIoshes
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09

! Mrs. Fiji Stillman may be innocent of the
charges that have been made against her, but
if you were her husband it's likely you would
not be very proud her continued hobnob-
bling with movie acting half breed Indian.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-01-09

New York killed his wife because he
was jealous of her earning capacity. Trouble
with that man was that he married woman
who got sadly cheated in the game Of matri
flony.