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Evening journal., 1922-02-17
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WFTCONE DEFEATS WINONA

Welcome Council defeated Win
ona three straight In a Jr. o. u. A.
VI. Quot League match Wednesday
night by the following scores;
Welcome ...........2l 2l 2l-3
WlnOna ............l6 Is 10
Players: Welcome-Sharp. Pier
son. Randolph, Tuft. Winona-
johnson, McCarns. Turner, Smith.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17
HIGH-DARBY IN
NTERSCHO0L GAME

The Wilmington High School
passers will lineup against the Up
per Darby quintet in the second an
nual lnterscholastic basketball tourn-
ament OF the University OF Pennsyl-
vania at Weightman Hall gymna-
sium at 1 o'clock tomorrow after
uoon.
Captain Weiner and his mates,
forced TO cancel games on account
OF the fever edict, have been doing
some lard pracucing for the big
event. The Highlets expect TO stay
in the tourney for several rounds.
Beating Upper Darby would give
them a start In the tourney for
which Coach Harry Ashton has been
tutoring. Yesterday afternoon at
the "Y" gym the coach put on the
finishing touches prior for the game.
The Cherry and White will be ac-
companied by a large number OF
rooters. The team composed Of
Captain Welner. jacobson. slonsky,
Parks. Lchenstein. Jones and Le-
carpenter will leave French street
station on the l1.55 '-'~ok train.
II you are planning p change
watch the Want Ads carefully.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17


There IS little doubt in the
minds OF the local fans that De
fiance has a great basketball
aggregation when they get them
all together. Look how the
Bulldog talent Is scattered all
over the city. There's the five
men with Seventh Ward-Lovell. .
Walsh, Magill, Gillespie and .
Quinn; the two veterans with .
Mt. Vernon-Shields and Lacey .
and Lutz and Mcconnell with .
st. Mary.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17
STANDING

TONrGHT's SCHEDULE
7nn-Souder vs.. Ewing.
7t5-Good VS.. Everett.
g30-Carson VS.. iarkins.
Q15-Herpel vs.. Howett.
10 OO-Booker vs.. DOelze.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17

Even the big leagues have learned
something about players tampcring
and mcddling. The National own
Crs have pledged themselves not 10
talk TO each others men.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17

rather uncertain proposition. There
is little wonder that the series has
been called OF.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17
AXE'IOM:-
Sure things arc those al
ready i'm.

Many a good man stays that way
until he finds It out.
-t-t-t-
81 think I'll learn fight prizlng,"
Said Willie the Mauler.
lie jumped ahead by leaps and
bounds
Because he was a staller.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17

The chess game was n thriller and
IL reached Its highest peak.
They made the first move yesterday,
The next viii be next week.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17

II you are planning p change
watch the Want Ads carefully.-Adv.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17
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Referee-Gus Reissman.
Evening journal., 1922-02-17
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KEYSTONE DANCE.

10 minutes
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
Cluttering the Highways.

The experience on the Lincoln highway, the
first of the cross state paved roads to be COM
pleted, is met in the first year of its full facil-
tiles. The traffic has reached such proportions,
however. that on the big days of the week the
capacity OF the road is taxed. So many cars
runs 1t is dangerous to resort to it. Motor car
drivers along the route avoid the road at the
times of densest movement The embarrass-
ment due to trucks is one of the serious phases
of the jam. Their pace holds up traffic. The
width of the pavement does not make it safe
to drive around them, excepting where there is
let up in the counter current of vehicles. This
hindrance extends long distances at times The
question is pressing whether it will not be nee
essary to have alternate roads which the motor
trucks may use and keep other routes clear
OF them. This experience has become per-
emptory in California, the state in which the
use Of the roads has made most advance The
needs which route like the Lincoln highway
serves are so great the question of a secondary
route will soon be pressing. That will permit
the remedy of some of the mistakes in laying
out the roads of the first system. That discus
sion has not yet been taken up but it will per-
init equalizing oversights of the system first
laid down, much of which was based on reas-
ons political rather than growing out of the
service of the community as made clear by
later experience.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
President and the Coal Strike.

Even if it is true that Attorney General
Daugherty has informed President Harding that
there are steps that be taken at this
time to force settlement of the differences be-
tween the coal miners and operators and the
resumption of coal production, there is no ques-
ton that strong moral influence can be brought
to bear upon the situation through executive in
PREVENTION. The position taken by the attorney
general is that the government can only inter
fere when the situation becomes such that the
necessary fuel supply of the nation is imperiled.
AS strictly legal proposition this may be true,
but the parties to the controversy can hardly
refuse to accede to a request of the head of the
government to consent to some sort of a con-
ference that may lead to solution of the diff
Guilty Such a thing has been done before It
can be done again. While the suspension of
coal mining would not bring an immediate
paralysis of business throughout the nation
that will be the ultimate effect of it, and the
very threat of such thing would be detri-
ment to business as long it lasted, even if a
final adjustment should come before the supply
Of mined coal is exhausted. No effort should be
spared by anyone having the interests of the
public as well as those of the parties concerned
in the controversy at heart to prevent a gem
eral coal mining strike at this time. Both
sides to the dispute should realize their mutual
responsibility and the effect of refusal to
brng peaceful adjustment
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
Sanitary Swimming Places.

Last year the American Public Health as
sociation sent a QUESTIONABLE to many ply
scians throughout the country asking their
opinion as to the possibility of disease trans
mission at bathing beaches and pools. Three
fourths of the doctors who replied believed that
diffusion of infections does take place to some
extent at public bathing places. Some held that
infections were received through the water it
self. Others suggested that the suits and towels
were the most important factor, while still
others felt that suits and towels and water were
about equally responsible. number of ply
sicians had treated cases which they believed
might have become infected at swimming places.
Forty of them considered their evidence conclu-
sive that infection had actually occurred in that
way. Swimming is of the most healthful
of all recreations, and the results of the med
ical QUESTIONABLE are not published for the
purpose of frightening the millions of happy
people who annually disport themselves in
waters fresh or briny. 1t should serve, how
eyre, warning to them to know beforehand
the sanitary condition of their favorite swim
ming place. 1t should arouse public officials in
the larger communities and at vacation resorts
to see to it that every rule of cleanliness is
observed at beaches and il bath houses.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
Mans Ignorance. of Politics.

Miss Alice NJ Robertson, the second woman
to be elected to the congress of the United
States, declares that mot one man in 100
knows anything about politics" Miss Robert
son, in her own proper person, furnishes proof
tending to establish the correctness of her
statement. thoroughly estimable woman, Miss
Robertson still owes her position in congress
not to her qualifications legislator, but to
mans ignorance of and indifference to politics.
Nothing in her experience as a teacher in an
Indian school, postmistress OF small
Oklahoma town, or as the owner of cafeteria
where during the war sailor soldier in
uniform was permitted to pay for the food he
ate, can be regarded offering just the right
sort of training to qualify her to sit in the ma
tons legislative halls. Yet, because of the
popularity she had won with her cookery and
the excellence of the food in her restaurant, she
was elected to congress.
Even so her qualifications are probably as
good those of majority of her male col
leagues. who have managed to get elected for
one reason or another entirely removed from
capacity to make laws for the nation And
after getting themselves elected they devote
themselves to getting reelected voting for
measures that they think will make them pop
ular with their constituents and letting the real
interests of the nation go hang. Miss Robert
sons statement that a great majority of men
know nothing of politics is further supported
by the fact that the voters keep on selecting
unworthy public servants, not only national but
state and municipal we'll. This kind of pop
ular self-government is the lazy and Indifferent
sovereign voters own particular brand. 1t is
encouraging that many women have
gagged Systematically and earnestly in the study
of politics and government.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
The News From Maine.

The Third congressional district of Maine
at an election held last week, cut the Repub-
lican majority of $4,000 in 1920 to 6294 Repub-
lican politicians and newspapers, while
acknowledging that this result marks a consd-
cradle slump from the high tide of 1920, are
strenuous in their assertions that it holds out
no hope for a Democratic landslide next fall.
No one expected the Republicans to do as well
as in 1920. The majority last week was the
largest for years, with the exception of two
years ago. In 1914 1916 and 1918 the majorities
were respectively ISIS, 1854 and 1858. while
last week the majority was 1924. The election
does however indicate that the conditions that
prevailed in 1920 have passed On the basis of
the result in Maine there would, if national
election were held tomorrow. be nothing ap-
preaching a landslide
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
Reducing Unemployment.

For months there has been sounded an in
sistent demand that the government do away
with idleness by putting all corners TO work
upon public construction. That is just what
the state OF Texas has done. Thousands of
tramps overran its borders, attracted no doubt
by the mild and salubrious winter climate The
authorities have felt it incumbent upon them to
give each such visitor job at breaking rocks
on the road, with free or at least gratuitous
lodging and board by way of remuneration Far
from shouting their gratitude, the hoboes hurl
maledictions and fee Texas as though fabulous
riches lay just over the Louisiana border None
are so idle as those that will not work. If such
unemployed refuse TO stick on. the job with
the strong attraction of ball and chain, what
chance of success has scheme in which the
work is to be entirely voluntary?
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27

reluctantly. it Is true, the reports Of the mar
ket behind him, and until the novelty began to
pail on the third or fourth day out he welcomed
the new freedom with an inward thankfulness
for the peace and quiet that 1t brought
Then came the Marconi system. Although
undeniably useful. it was an inroad upon the
ships isolation It made II possible to keep in
touch with home affairs and even brought the
newspapers to midocean. The sense of COM
plete peace was disturbed, but fortunately the
original inhibition against the true possibilities
Of the wireless made the traveller use 1t only
In emergencies But now the last signs OF free
dom are disappearing. The ocean, Mr..
Lasker says, is ruled. The Leviathan will have
a wireless telephone in every stateroom, and
those who cross the ocean may keep in constant
touch with their friends and business asso-
ciates. There will be more peace for the
weary traveller. His office will tell the caller
to try Leviathan $685., and he will have to spend
greater portion Of the time hanging onto the
receiver, when he isn't hanging over the rail.
It is not inconceivable that seasickness may be-
come blessing m disguise.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
HEALTH TALKS
BY William Brady. NJ. [
Noted Physician ard Aurnor.

gen into your system by simply
practicing what is known as deer
breathing. You've got to work foi
lit; you've got to take active general
exercise That alone increases the
vital capacity. Deep breathing
which is involuntary or automatic
with hard exercise is the only deer
i breathing worth thinking about
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Raw Oatmeal.
Is the eating of raw oatmeal
harmful? / am informed that 1t Is
a symptom of anemia when one
Graves raw oatmeal. MRS. N. M
Answer-No, it is wholesome to
eat and is a symptom of nothing
else than good health.
Two Handedness.
Some time ago in one of your
articles you referred to an artist
who could draw two pictures stimuli
taneousIy, one with either hand.
In a way / feel that this vindicates
me, for when l told my brother /
knew a man, who could write two
articles, each on a different sub
iect, at the same time, he said l
was a d liar. Nevertheless
worked with that man. W. l.. L.
Answer-Well, / didn't see this
artist draw the two pictures, nor do
1 know anybody who has seen him
perform the feat, bat the artist
name was Landseer and he design
ed the lions on the Nelson monu-
ment in London. You don't ex-
actly assert that you have seen your
friend writing two distinct articles
at one and the same time, but if
you did say SO I'd second your
brothers motion. I have known a
few highly cultured persons who
could write equally we'll with either
hand and a great many who could
play the piano and sing at one and
the same time, and even a few who
could play a violin and carry a
running conversation with by
stander, but ia my judgment your
brother exercised great moderation
in his reaction to your story. Be
that as it probably isn't, it would
be great boon If all children were
educated to use their hands ambi
dexterously, which implies the de-
Velopment of the brain centers in
both cerebral hemispheres instead
of developing only those centers on
the left side (for right handed in
dividualsl. Having a two cylinder
brain, so to speak, and using only
one cylinder, isn't good human
economy.
Off to Bermuda.
I expect shortly to take trip to
Bermuda Please give me your ad-
vice about the prevention of sea-
sickness. Also tell me whether you
would resort to powdered or dried
milk for the feeding of an IL
months old baby on such a trip or
depend on the milk obtainable on
board. MRS. J. e. I.
Answer-Use the dried milk pow
der. l dare not print the dosage of
the medicine 1 suggest to prevent
seasickness, lest some Topographic
cal error spoil my sleep, but l will
gladly send you by mail description
of the method, on receipt of your
request together with a stamped
self addressed envelope.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
IF YOU NEED A FRIEND.
By Mrs. Margaret AIDE Sweeney.

Syndicate, lnc.)
"If You Need a Friend, Come in
and Buy a Dog"
1t was only an advertisement up
on a placard swaying in a shop
window, but it halted my hurryi1g
homebound steps, it sent my
thoughts scurrying, and swiftly it
brought before me vision of a
tawny-haired terrier, a 'one-mGn
dog" that had been my friend.
1 wedged my way through the
surging crowd of late Christmas
shoppers until I stood before the
window where the placard swayed
above four sleek and happy-looking
pups, but the vision of my lost ter
rier lowered above them
He was a fearless dog-a good
fighter, and 1 had named him
"Pady." My threshold had become
his to guard, and for four years he
had bravely disputed the right of
any stranger to cross it.
My homecoming every evening
had become, for "Pady" and me, a
time of great rejoicing, and my de-
parture every morning had become
a dreary affair, at which "Pady'''
carried his tail at half-mast.
One October evening there was no
"Pady' to greet me. l whistled and
l called, and | searched the neigh
borhood, but no ."Pady" could l
find.
The next morning 1 asked the
help of the police; l advertised and
offered a reward, but "Pady" did
not return, and now it was late De-
cember and I had lost all hope of
ever finding him.
In the dreary. dogless DAYS that
followed his departure I thought
of him very often. Of one thing |
was certain: "Pady," dead or aliye,
had been carried awaY. Thara vas
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27

miners have voted to cease work
or go on strike, on April 1, unless
their demands are acceded to. The
| anthracite miners are demanding a
wage increase of approximately 20
per cent, while the bituminous min
ers are demanding the continuation
| Of the present wage scale Oper-
ators in both fields are insistent
upon wage reductions
@. Who is our ambassador to
Germany? W. W.K.
A. Alanson B. Houghton, the
newly appointed ambassador to
Germany, will sail for that country
on April 1.
@. Are the children of a NOR
ganatic marriage illegitimate?
w. E. P
A. The children of a morganatic
marriage are legitimate, but do not
inherit the rank of the father: in
some countries they do not inherit
either entailed estates or personal
property,
Q: How tall is General Perish
ing? r. &C.
A. General Pershig is exactly
six feet tall.
Q. Who was the husband of
Clara Morris, the actress? j.. M.
A. Clara Morris was married 10
F. c. Harriott in 1874.
O. What man who voted against
the Declaration of independence
signed it? E.E.C.
A Robert Morris voted against
the Declaration of Independence on
July 2, 1875, and on July 4 he alb
scented himself from the session of
the continental congress, but on
August 2 he became one of the
signers of the historic document.
@. Where do we get the express
sion midnight judges? G.I.S.
A. During the last night of the
administration Of President John
Adams the congress passed a bill
authorizing the appointment of IS
new federal judges, and Adams i'm
mediately named for these positions
appo1ntees who became known as
Adams midnight judges.
q. Are there any salt lakes in
the northwest section of this coun-
try? N n
AAASA 10 a S1OuP salt lakes
in North Dakota of which Mime
waukon or Devils lake is the larg-
est. 1t is about As miles long and
form 2 to 13 miles in width.
Q. What is a misdemeanor?
s. G.
A. In law, a misdemaanor is any
offense below felony, but in this
country the various states vary
widely in defining misdemeanor. SO
that what is a misdemeanor in one
state may be an indictable felony
in another.
Q. What is the City of Five
Flags? K
A. Mobile. Ala, has been called
the City of Five Flags. because
at various times since it was found
ed the flags of Spain, France. Eng
land, the Confederacy and the Unit
ed States have waved over the city
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
The Daily Short Story

only one man that he would follow
his master
The thought Of replacing "Pady"
never entered my head. l had be
come a ''one-dog man" Better dogs
there were. no doubt, but not an
other i nall the world like "Pady."
And so, reluctantly, l went nay
homeward way, grieving for my
lost terrier, but the advice upon
the placard stayed with me: If
You Need a Friend, Come in and
Buy a Dog" The words chung.
AT the corner where l waited for
a car l bought my evening paper,
and my eyes rested upon a small
headline: Men Die of Loneliness
in Gay New York" l read on: DR..
Charles Blank describes New Tovk
as a city where men and women lie
OF loneliness among crowds, where
men
Around the corner my car came
gathering, but l FASTENED back TO
the dog shop. Perhaps" l told
myself, perhaps 1 can find a dog
that looks like 'Pady'"
Near the door, sleeping upon
clean nay behind wire netting,
lay a tawny-haired terrier He lay
upon his left side, his small, lean
body quiVering with little trelnofs
and jerky leg movements dream
ing, no doubt, of other and happier
days
'Pady!" l shouted. Instantly the
dog was On his feet, jumping joy
OuSly, tearing at the restraining
wires.
He was brought here with
broken leg by young fellow in a.
auto" the man unlocking the VIE
door explained. He said he would .
come back for him in few days
that was two months ago"
l crouched and caught "Pady @ q
he bounded into my arms, aAa
never was man and dog SO glad "
meet.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27

| The way I harp on the superla-
tive health value of exercise, the
reader might reasonably conclude
ta) that / enjoy exerting my mus
cles, and tb) that don't believe in
drugs. Both conclusions would be
far from correct I'd much rather
sit around than indulge in any kind
of muscular exertion, and when [
am sick I eagerly swallow air the
drugs my doctor prescribes for me.
I'm a doctor myself, but shouldn't
care to take a chance self doctoring.
The doctor who attempts to dag
nose or treat his own ailments has
a fool for a patient and the rules OF
syntax and propriety prevent me
from indicating what manner of be-
ing the layman who essays such
feats has under treatment.
This department deals only with
the ways of health and purports to
teach people how to keep well. In
providing such information or in
struction it is not the intention of
this newspaper to furnish readers
medical advice about the diagnosis
or treatment of>individual cases, for
that is a matter to be intrusted to
the personal medical attendant. In
preaching daily exercise as
means of conserving health l am
appealing to well people. Many in
diviGuals should not indulge in ex-
ercise at all; some should exercise
only under the advice of their ply
sician. Exercise is medicine
which is good for all well people
and therefore I freely recommend
it.
I'm great believer in the return
to nature, at least a move as far in
that direction as environment and
the law will allow. This applies i'll
the questions of clothing, housing,
food and bathing. 1t applies par
ticularly in the question of muscu-
lar exercise.
Travellers, explorers and scien-|
fists tell us that the primitive or
uncivilized or semicivilized races
seem to be free from many of the
minor and major maladies which we
enjoy. Among the reasons assign
ed for this must be included great
er use of the muscles by primitive
man.
There are numerous so-caIled
functional troubles of men and wo-
men of the sedentary class that are
clearly due to under oxygenation
and that may be overcome, if not
too long established or too far ad-
vanced, by the simple expedient of
absorbing more oxygen, and the
only practicable way to accomplish
this is by taking sufficient daily
exercise. l used to mention the
troubles l refer to, but l refrain
from doing so now, because l don't
want readers to write and tell me
1 have described their cases better
than they can describe them them
selves. However, it is a long and
fascinating list, and it would cut il
on the nostrum habit alarmingIy if
any considerable number of vic |
tins were to learn that the symp-
toms melt away when a little more
oxygen is supplied to the auto in
toXicated system. Take care now
that you do not jump at a false con- /
clusion from what l have just said. !
Don't imagine that you can get this |
desirable additional supply of oxy-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-27
The Ruined Ocean.

Time was when the tired business man well
coined an ocean voyage as rest. 1t was. in a
sense, a holiday. far from all possible Interrupt
lions by partners or associates. and free from
the jangling calls of the telephone and the
constant demands of thousand visitors Re
leased from the tyrant Time, he could break
fast or lunch at WILL without ever looking at his
watch except TO set it each noon as the ships
thermometer was changed. He left, sometimes