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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-26
Liue Stock
Chicago Livestock.

Chicago. Sept. 26.-Cattle: Re-
cepits. $4,000; strictly choice and
prime corn fed beef sters scarce;
steady to strong; other grades
slow; steady to weak; early top
matured beef steers. 1900; some
held higher: light yearling steers.
11.50; bulk native beef steers, $50
@10.75; she-stock, slow; steady to
weak; bulls, stockers and feeders,
about steady; veal valves, slow;
early trading about steady; quail
ity considered, supply Of western
grassers, fairly liberal; bulk beef
cows and heifers, E5o07.50: bulk
bologna bulls, 4.00@4.25; bulk
vealers, early around 1900.
Hog receipts, 10000; light and
better grades butchers, weak to 10
cents lower: others dull around Is
to rs cents lower; bulk ITO to 210
pound averages, 10.50@10.60; top,
1865; bulk 26O to 80 pound butch
ers, 990@10.25: bulk packing sows.
7.60@8.25; pigs. dull, around rs
cents lower; desirable kinds, 800
@s.5o; heavy. s.o001o.3o; medium,
9.80010.60; light 10.20010.65;
light lights, 9.60@10.30; packing
sows, smooth, 7.90@S.60; packing
sows. rough, 100000; killing
pigs, S.75@9.50.
Sheep receipts. 10000; fat lambs,
opened steady to strong; later
sn0fs 10 IN TX cents higher than
packer buying Monday; early top
natives, 1850 to city butchers
1880 to packers; first sales fat
western lambs 14.50@14.60; some
held higher; feeders, strong; best
around, 14.40; sheep around
steady; 108 pound Montana feeding
wethers late Monday, 700.
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Weather Forecast

Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and
Iowa: Fair and somewhat warm
er tonight and Wednesday,.
Missouri-Partly cloudy tonight
and Wednesday,; probably becom-
ing unsettled in northwestern por-
ton; slowly rising temperature.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-26
Peoria Cash Grain.

Peoria, Ill, Sept. 26.-Corn: re-
ceipts 43 cars; Nc lower; No. 2
yellow, 62k; No. 3 yellow, 81; No.
4 yellow, 81; No. 5 yellow, 60; No.
6 yellow, 59A.
Oats: receipts 6 cars; nominal ;
No. 2 white, 80; No. 3 white, 80.
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Chicago Produce.

Chicago, Sept. 26.-Butter: I'm
changed.
Eggs: Higher: receipts 9,125
cases; firsts, 1905; ordinary
firsts, 25@27; miscellaneous, 27@
28; refrigerator firsts, 25@26.
Poultry: Alive, lower; fowls, IA
@22; springs, 20; ROSTERS, IL.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-26
Peoria Livestock.

Peoria, ILL.,, Sept. 26.-Hogs: re-
ceipts 1900; 10 cents lower; top,
1910 on lights and mediums
lights, 10.00@10.40; mediums, 1000
10.40; heavies, 9.00@1025; packers
7.25@9.25.
Cattle: receipts 300; tone weak
and slow; top, 1850.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-26
BOOST KEROSENE PRICE.

New York, Sept. 26.-The Stan
dard Oil company Of New York ad-
vanced the price of kerosene in
New York and New England one
cent a gallon. The new price is
IA cents.
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Chicago Potatoes.

Chicago. Sept. 26. - Potatoes
Steady; receipts LOG cars; total
United States shipments, 1,152
ears; Wisconsin, bulk, Round
Whites, 1.00@1.15 cwt; ditto
sacked, 1.00@1.10 cwt; Minnesota
sacked, and bulk, Sandland, Early
Ohios, 1.00@1.15 cwt; Minnesota
sacked, and bulk Red Rivers, No
l, 1.05@1.15 cwt.
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Grain

Chicago Cash Gram.
Chicago, Sept Is.
WHEAT.
No. 2 red. 1.0S1z.
No. 2 hard, 1.07A@1.07h.
No. 3 hard, Lofty.
No. 2 hard yellow, 1.06h.
No. 1 northern dark. 1.24.1k1.27.
CORN.
No. 2 mixed, 631s@64.
No. 3 mixed, s..
No. 4 mixed. 62h.
No. S mixed, 611z.
No. 2 yellow, 63X@64h.
No. 3 yellow, 63A@63h.
No. 4 yellow, 62A@63.
No. 5 yellow, GIN @62.
No. 6 yellow, 601k@611s.
No. 2 white, 63A @64.
No. 5 white, 63A @63h.
No. 4 white, 62%.
No. 6 white, 61A@61h.
Sample grade. 60@601k.
OATS.
No. 2 white. 41h@41A.
No. 3 white, 40@40%.
No. 3 white, 40@40A.
Sample grade, S9x.
No. 4 white, 5000.
OTHER GRAINS.
Rye: No. 2, 70.
Barley: 57@61.
Timothy seed: 5.00@5.60.
Clover seed: 12.00@16.50.
PROVISIONS.
Pork: nominal.
Lard: 11.40.
Ribs: 10.50@11.50.
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Silver.

New York, Sept. rs. - Foreign
bar silver .69As; Mexican dollars,
SO,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-09-26

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Argus.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

ing service of the adult church than
ever before. 1t is found, too. that they
are getting more out of 1t and are
more interested than before because
they appreciate and understand the
different parts of the service mas
much as they have had experience OF
these things in their own service. The
most enthusiastic workers of our
whole church are the Junior Church
children.
One who is interested in boys and
girls-and who should not be, for
they are the foundation of the world
of to-morrow-cannot but be i'm
pressed by the extent and variety OF
Junior movements which are being
organized all over our land. But to
mention a few. like the Junior Cham
bers of Commerce, the Junior Adver-
tising Clubs, the De Molay organiza-
ton of the Masonic Order, the Boy
and Girl Scout movements, the news
boy bands. the Junior Leagues in the
sports of the hour. &C., one may well
ask IL the church is as alert and for
ward looking as she might be in pre-
pairing the boys and girls for leader
skip in the organized movements Of
religious thought and practice.
Many an adult person has the ex-
perience of being elected to some office
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cation in 1920 of the Secret Journals
of the Proceedings Of the Continental
Congress of 1875.
1t remained, however, for Jefferson
to insist that the signing occurred on
the 4th. In letter to a friend wb
was puzzled on the matter he WV =.
his convictions. This letter was writ
ten before the Secret Journal was pub
lished, but postscript after its pub
lication, reasserts his belief.
1T was not till the I'd of July that
the Declaration itself was taken up
nor till the 4th that it was decided;
and it was signed by every member
present except Mr.. Dickinson. The
subsequent signatures of men who
were not then present that easily ex-
planned if we observe who they were.
to wit: that they are Of New York
and Pennsylvania Why the
signature of Thornton was permitted
so late as the 4th Of November l can
rot now say"
This letter Is dated May II, 1873,
Monticello.
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is administered by the boys and girls
through their board elected for that
purpose.
At this gathering a formal organi-
zation of the Junior Church was
made and officers were elected by the
children out of their own midst. This
organization is also an exact dupli-
cate of the adult church. A board Of
elders. a board of deacons. and a
church building; a room blessed with
an abundance of light and an atmos-
phere of cheerfulness.
The membership of the Junior
Church consists of two kinds, active
and associate membership. The ac-
tive membership is made up of those
who have made full profession Of their
faith in Jesus Christ as their Lord
and Saviour. The associate member
ship includes all the rest of the chill
dren that share in the worship and
program of the church.
The Junior Church meets every
Sunday morning at 10:45 o'clock.
which is fifteen minutes after the
close of the Bible School, and continues
for thirty minutes. The pastor con-
ducts the service and is the only adult
permitted in the room. His sermon
is preceded by short talk by one of
the children appointed each Sunday a
week in advance for that purpose.
This gives a rare opportunity for the
development of the power of public
speaking for which nearly every walk
in life presents an unmet demand.
The writer has never had the priv
ilege of organizing any group Of which
the members have shown such instant
and continued interest as have our
boys and girls in the Junior Church.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
By Rev. N. S. SICHTERMAN
OF Grace Presbyterian Church
indianapolis, Ind.

The most important highway that
is being travelled by mankind is the
highway that leads to religious char
acter and experience. The sending
forth of our boys ana girls on this
Journey is the greatest business Of
our generation. 1t is at this point
that nations rise or fall. But to face
this supreme task of the ages is to
be aroused to the fact that the ma
sority of our boys and girls are being
sent forth, where indeed they are sent
forth at all, in OK carts, and that in
an age of the automobile and the
airplane.
I find within myself a ready SYM
rathy with bitter complaint of Mr..
H G. Wells against a wrong concept
of God which was lodged in his mind
as a child These are his words as
he has put them down in God the
Invisible King" He and his hell
were the nightmare of my childhood
thought of him as a fantastic
monster perpetually waiting TO con-
denim and to strike me dead
He was over me and about my silli-
ness and forgetfulness as the sky and
sea would be about a child drowning
in mid-Atlaptic' 1t required a long
and hard struggle for Wells TO out
grow this false conception of God and
to develop a right attitude toward
him.
My parents were born and raised on
a portion of the North Sea bottom
which was won from the ocean waves
by their sturdy Holland ancestors. In
early manhood and womanhood they
came to make their home in a new
Holland community of western Michi-
gan. Here their boys and girls grew
,ro, and although 1t was America
much OF the environment was that Of
old Holland. and especially was this
true of the language and worship.
I shall never forget the first day OF
my school life, which was begun at
7 in the village school about two
miles distant, TO which / was intro
duced without the knowledge OF a
single English word. At that days
end I raced home thrilled as /
scarcely have been since by the ac-
ouisition Of the word bird
All Of our religious services were in
the Holland language and OF two or
more hours in length. AS I look back
to those hours I can recall r.othing in
the Songs. prayers or sermons that
AppsaIed 10 me except the conclusion
II cor
/ wish that I might erase from my
mind the memory Of cold winter
afternoon experience when group
of US boys and girls were gathered
by an old white haired elder of the
church. we'll meaning. but so mistak-
enly directed. as he gathered us about
a red hot stove to instruct us in the
fundamentals of religious truth. God
that afternoon was pictured to us as
a stern, hesrtless being. ready to cast
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

US into a fire a thousand times hotter
nisdeed in our lives!
1t was such experiences as these that
made Sunday and training in religion
the most dreaded and irksome events
of our young lives. The truth that re-
ligion is life and not for Sunday or one
compartment of life only never oc-
Cured to US. The experience of joy,
good will, service. loyalty, courage,
vision and God-consciousness, the
fruits of real religion, were for us un-
discovered and undreamed of territory.
Thus were we robbed of life's best and
noblest gifts.
Out of these experiences was born
the attempt to organize the boys and
girls Of our congregation into church
organization of their own; and the
story is here told with the hope that
the telling may encourage those who
may be similarly engaged and inspire
many others to make like ventures in
the life of their children's' preparation
for the leadership Of tomorrow.
Announcement was made in the
Bible School and regular services Of
the church that on a given Sunday
morning at 10:45 o'clock thirty min
ute service would be conducted by the
pastor for children between the ages
OF 6 and 16. When the time arrived
happy and eager group of boys and
girls, twice as large as was anticipated.
took their places for church service
sll their own. The service was an ex-
act duplicate of the adui service ex-
cept that the prayers, hymns. scrip
ture and sermon were arranged with
he view to appeal to the child mind
and therefore instruct and build up
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service because of the preparatory
training which the Junior Church af-
fords?
Lift Me UP So I Can See Is
One Lesson of Junior Church

Much is made of the graded course
plan in educational circles these days
Who would think of putting a ten
year-old boy in a graduate class at
the university and expect him there
by to become an enthusiastic and
helpful builder of the university life?
1t seems to me we have been very
near doing this by compelling our
children to sit through services of
worship which were planned for the
adult life of the community. Let us
remember that it is a very long jour-
ney from the religious background of
the average boy and girl TO that Of
the white crowned Christian with a
long life of worship and service back
of him, and give to the children the
right to be properly built into the
church of tomorrow by setting before
them the opportunity to be built into
each other by fellowship in worship
and service which they can appreciate
and enthusiastically share with one
another.
Some one somewhere tells the story
of a little girl who wanted to see the
circus parade but could not because
the crowd was dense and she was
small. So she stopped a policeman
and moved him to action by the plea
please lift me up so I can see." This
little story expresses we'll the oppor-
tunity of the Junior Church to lift our
boys and girls to the level where a
vision of the beauty and holiness Of
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

Mexican, said: Mexican is mis-
taken. The final vote of in
dependence, after the last debate, was
passed on the I'd or Sd of July and
the Declaration prepared and signed
on the 4th."
But Adams, as Chamberlain points
out. was depending upon his memory.
In the Works" of John Adams is
IA letter written to Samuel Chase,
which contradicts his positive state
ment above. The letter is dated July
8. 1875, from Philadelphia. The fol-
lowing paragraph is taken from it, in
reply to Chase's question asking when
the Declaration is to be signed.
"As soon as an American seal is
prepared" wrote Adams. II conjec-
ture the Declaration will be sub
scribed by all the members. which will
give you the opportunity you wish for
cf transmitting your name among the
votaries of independence"
This letter seems to be more in
consonance, Chamberlain says, with
the facts later revealed by the publi-
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
The Signing of the Declaration of Independence

With the Secret Journal before them
the more exact of the later historians,
including Chamberlain. seem to have
Gle ed up the question. Unless, as
= ,rson seems TO insinuate. there Is
was copy of the Declaration of
Independence which no one except
Jefferson seems to have seen.
In the Secret Journal under date
of July 4. with respect to the Decla-
ration, appears the following:
Ordered that the Declaration be
authenticated and printed. That the
committee appointed to prepare the
Declaration superintend and correct
the press"
The Declaration is printed in this
Journal as it was read. but without
ary names attached as signers.
The next mention of the Declara-
tion's signing occurs In the Secret
Journal under date Of July 10. ITS.
1t follows:
Resolved that the Declaration
passed on the 4th be fairly engrossed
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

on parchment, with the title and style
ot The Unanimous Declaration of the
Thirteen United States of America
and that the same when engrossed be
signed by every member Of the Con-
gress."
Under date of August 2, 1776, the
Secret Journal reads:
1.-The Declaration being engrossed
ard compared at the table was signed
by the members"
In the Secret Journal nothing ap-
pears about signing under date Of the
4th of July. Logically. then, with
Chamberlain, Bancroft and the other
precise historians. despite the faulty
memory of John Adams and the per-
sistent conviction of Thomas Jeffer-
son, which was drawn from his jour-
nal, corrected from time to time. the
verdict in the controversy over the
exact date of signing the Declaration
of independence is against July 4,
1776. The more correct date. founded
on the facts of history point to Au-
gust 9.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

in the church life to find himself en-
barrassed because of a lack Of knowl-
edge OF the nature and purpose of the
duties to which he is elected. with the
added result that the work of the
church is thereby made ineffective or
wholly neglected. Those who have
searched for leadership in forwarding
the program OF the kingdom of God
realize full we'll that this is one of the
greatest crises that faces them at this
time What may 1t not mean for the
church of tomorrow to have a group
OF boys and girls ready for efficient
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

A S the 150th anniversary of the
~ adoption of the Declaration of
Independence approaches, with
it's international celebration already
announced to be held in Philadelphia
in 1926, the academic warfare concern
ing the exact date when the celebrated
y S~poent was signed still merrily con-
unues.
Undoubtedly July 4, 1926, will be
specially observed as the anniversary
of the signing and adoption of the
American Magma Charta. This myth
OF July 4, as the dissenting faction of
historians calls it. is for them too SOL
idly ingrown in the body of American
beliefs to be dislodged during the next
Few years before the approaching fes-
tivities. What these same historians
term the myth" is tie almost unani-
inous belief of the hundred million of
Americans that the Declaration Of In
dependence was signed on July 4. 1776.
This war of the history books, as
II might be called, had it's inception
more than a hundred years ago. when
one of the signers Of the Declaration
himself wrote to another Congress
man Of '76 that the document was not
signed on July 4. Since that time the
more careful and scrupulous of the
historians have been shy of openly
asserting July 4, 1776. as the date of
its subscribing, although with posi-
tiveness all are agreed that it was
formally adopted then.
Controversy Over Dates
Was Started Early
Since Thomas Mexican. one of the
signers. first called John Adams's at
teEtion to the popular belief that the
Declaration was both adopted and
signed on the same day, and since
Adams drew Thomas Jefferson it's au-
thor, in on the controversy, this IN
teresting question has been the topic
of numerous discussions in newspapers
and magazines, the subject OF large
number of college doctorate theses
and the raison d'etre for at least five
voluminous books.
The one monograph now taken to be
the authority on the question has long
been out of print and is extremely
QlI1lCult 10 OBTAIN. IL was l'S WSiN
of Judge Mellen Chamberlain, a noted
historical student of forty years ago.
His contribution was first printed as
a leading article in the Mdssd-
chusettes Historical ReDieU. In 1883
it was reprinted into small volume
called the Authorization Of the Dec
laration of independence Since
Chamberlain book at least two other
books have appeared, dealing with the
same questions and coming to the
same conclusion.
On the one side of this history book
tattle are aligned the shades OF Jonn
Adams and Thomas Jefferson, both OF
whom left their written word that
July 4 was the date Of the Declara-
tion's adoption and Signing. Their
writings have convinced small group
of historians, the most noted OF whom
is Losing, the author Of large num-
ber of Revolutionary works.
On the other side. on the side OF
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
JUNIOR CHURCH CHOIR

misery. and she determined TO see
what monty. Of which she had plenty,
could do 10 remedy that state of affairs.
Columbia Market and Square we're
the result. The whole Of this seat of
foulness was swept away, and on it's
site rose four large blocks or model
lodging houses, forming a square
called Columbia Buildings. and huge
Gothic hall known as Columbia Mar
ket The market is of the same style
OF architecture as the Houses of Par
lament, and from a distance 1t pre-
sents the aspect Of cathedral Clock
tower, louver. pointed arches. painted
windows elaborate ornamentation.
medallions and armorial bearings. all
go to make up one Of the most costly
buildings Of It's size in the metropolis.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

real worship may be theirs to the un-
ending enrichment OF their lives and
the upbuilding of their character.
According to the survey of the In
terchurch World Movement 69.3 per
cent. Of the children and youth of our
land receive no instruction in the re-
ligious and moral sanctions upon
which our democratic institutions
rest. When in addition to this we
remember how few are the hours Of
instruction in these things OF those
who do enroll In schools OF religion
we must agree how acute is the ques-
ton of capturing the children Of to-
day and building them into the lead
ership Of tomorrow. "A nation which
rides in automobiles should not permit
her children to walk In ignorance"
The New York herald., 1922-07-02

the life in spiritual values.
After the service had continued for
about six weeks we. were thoroughly
convinced that the children were ready
and enthusiastic for the organization
Of a church of their own. To this end
Saturday afternoon party was ar
ranged for in a large room Of the
board OF trustees were chosen. Ush-
ers were also named and selected
juvenile chorus choir organized. One
Of the girls was appointed to play the
piano for the choir and for the sing
ing Of the hymns by the junior con-
gregation. Funds for the expenses of
the organization and the worldwide
program OF the church are provided
by the children just as in the regular
congregation, and all money received
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
JUNIOR CHURCH WORKERS

Three times as many children as there
were in the regular services of the
church eagerly gather from Sunday
to Sunday in their own meeting for
worship and fellowship. A JOY they
never knew before is theirs as they
share in maki-sg baautiful and impress
sive the worship Of their Creator.
The whole service is planned with
the idea of making the worship digni-
fed ard impressive; the best hymns
of TIE church are learned. Scripture
is made attractive. prayer is filed with
meaning. and the abundant life is
brought into the daily experience.
One of the unexpected results of
this movement in our church has been
that we have a greater attendance
1 boys ana girls at the regular even
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
Strange Electric Storm.

~ February night, in south
" latitude 80 degrees west lonsI- ,1a'.
ship Vile du Havre encountered a
most remarkable storm. The rain re-
in torrents and the ship appeared to
be electrified. the mastheads flaming
like giant candles. Strange lights tray
eled over tho rigging and after every
flash Of lightning a part OF the vessel.
which had been newly painted. re-
manned for several seconds glowing
with phosphorescence.
The lightning. which was very FREE
quent instead OF displaying itself in
zirzag lines took the form OF flying
bombs. which exploded with outbursts
Of light that illuminated the whole
sky Before and after the more vio-
lent explosions Of thunder fierce gusts
OF wind swept the ship. This terrify-
ing experience lasted for Ave hours
with no respite.
The New York herald., 1922-07-02
CHILDREN'S CHURCH CREED is GOD is LOVE

In Proverbs xii, 6, we read, Train
child in the way he should go: and
even when he is old he will not de-
part from it,"
There will be no church tomorrow,
and no nation, if we do not build the.
childhood Of the present into the
church, and 1t is my firm conviction
that the organization Of the children
for fellowship in worship and service
through the Junior Church is one OF
the best means available for this high
purpose