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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
They Want a Slice of Canada.

Our always interesting neighbors of the
United States are at present engaged among
themselves in a discussion which they seem
to be enjoying very much.
They attracted by the suggestion put
forward some time ago by a member of con-
gress and renewed recently from a similar
quarter that Great Britain, in payment of her
war debt should cede to the United States that
part of Canada lying in the province of Que
bee south of the St Lawrence river
Britain does not pay her debts by putting
provinces and populations the market Can
ada is mistress in her own house and none of
her territory or people are at the disposal of
the British chancellor of the excheouer in
adjusting his accounts with the treasury at
Washington.
If We might venture to offer advice in the
language of that open diplomacy now in use to
Congressman King, who proposed to annex a
part of Quebec, to the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat and other newspapers which think well
of the proposal, our advice would be that they
ought to wake up and roll over.-Toronto
Daily Star.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
The Fall Campaign.

The congressional campaign is already on
fits way, judging by the speeches of the party
leaders in the national house. When Congress
man Tess launches fulsome eulogy Of the Re-
publican party and paints in glowing colors
the achievements of the present congress and
Congressman Hull comes back at him with
categorical denial that the Republican party
has done anything like Mr.. Fess says it has,
we can smell the fireworks in anticipation.
There is one thing that the orators on both
sides will do we'll to ponder before they take the
platform next fall and begin to stage the old
time campaign stunts, and that is that the pub
lie, part of it some of the time and part Of it
all the time, has been fooled to the extent that
it has become wise. 1t knows just exactly what
this congress has done and what the congress
before it did and failed to do
There is no doubt that the Democrats who
go into the campaign next fall will go amply
supplied with campaign ammunition their OPP
ponents have furnished them, but if they are
wise they will use it with moderation There
are too many Independent voters in this coun-
try in these days for any party to count on sup
port for mere partisan purposes. The country
of course, is not satisfied with the record of
congress. more adequate and courageous tar
= reduction act could and should have been
passed. So many months should not have been
wasted on the so-called permanent tariff bill
which the country does not want. The voter
recognizes the shortcomings of the Republican
congress- and he is going to insist changes
for the better. A mere campaign of mud sling
ing will not benefit him, is mere party
name going to be sufficient rallying cry for
him. The people will follow the leadership that
is headed toward the things that they demand.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
With Other Editors
Rum in the Upper Glasses.

Margot is engagingly illogical upon the ubiq-
uitous question of rum. To be intellectually
discontinuous upon that dreary topic is, of
course, in itself distinction. Who has at
tended a public dinner since the eighteenth
amendment became a law without being talked
to dumbness by fat tongues which bleated about
their liquor? Mrs. Asquith, however. is even
here different She says she was ready to ap-
prove prohibition for the sake of the souls of
the poor. Now she wants to combat it be-
cause intemperance seems to be in vogue among
the rich young people she met. She appears to
have forgotten the souls of the poor 1t does
not matter. The drinking customs of the rich
and the poor are being determined by influence
of which Margot was utterly aware
Social changes are not ordinarily labeled
until they remote from life as museum
places. The student of customs who contrasted
the conditions OF 1880. 1900 and 1922 would GER
tainly arrive at conclusions quite unlike those
of the hurried traveller. More than few weeks
of lecturing and of being entertained by the
fashionable are required before any country
can be understood. Then, too, the America of
the middle classes the America which socially
has ever been dominant even when it attempted
to root out institutions as firmly entrenched as
slavery liquor, has seldom been upon speak
ing terms with gay visitors Margot doesn't
know such folks.
Yet these are the people who must be known
before the future of prohibition can be guessed.
The village dressmaker in small Illinois ham
lish prime minister more of the reality of pro-
hibition than the most expert scrutiny could
ever have learned in bibulous country clubs
and bacchanalian town parties. Not in such
places are the rulers of America to be found
New York Globe
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
Harvey Talks Too Much.

Every time George Harvey, ambassador to
the court of st. James. gets on his feet to speak
he makes some kind of an alliance with the
British. Great Britain, it will be remembered,
has no Volstead act. Mr.. Harvey has told the
British that no idealistic motives impelled US In
the war; that we went into it because we were
afraid not to fight. He tells them how much
George Washington thought of them and other
absolute rot. And more recently he has ex-
pressed himself as seeing binding Anglo
American tie born in the arms conference The
Proverbs speak of one who is servant when
he reigneth and fool when he is filled with
meat 1t may be recalled that Mr.. Harvey
offenses usually have been committed after
dinners of the Pilgrims society. Mr.. Harvey
is indiscreet He should be officially warned or
recalled
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11

Q. Where are earthquakes most
frequent? F. F. P
A. Japan probably has the most
earthquakes. Within period of
eight years, 1881 shocks were re
corded, this being an average of
three a day.
Q. What is meant by keel haul
ing? D. R.
A Keel hauling was a form of
punishment inflicted in the nayies
of the British empire and the Meth
erlands By means of tackles, US
ually on the foreyard arms, the Of
fender was hauled from one side
of the ship to the other underneath
the keel. Weights attached to the
feet insured the sinking of the cuI-
prit.
q. What is the difference he
tween a casket and coffin? n. D.
casket is applied to the home ex-
A In this country the term
pensive, cloth-covered receptacle,
while coffin is the term used for an
inexpensive, wooden one.
@. Where is Zion City, how
many people live there, and what
are the industries? c. B. S.
A Zion City is a city in Lake
County. Illinois, AZ miles north of
Chicago, on the Chicago and North
western railroad. There are many
manufactures of lace goods, cleo
trical supplies, office supplies,
candy, milling and baking supplies
and bricks. According to the 1920
census, the population of Zion City
is $3.50 :
@. What is the highest noun
tain in the Adirondacks? NJ. C. r.
A. Mt. Marcy, rising 5,344 feet
above the sea, is the highest peak
in the Adirondacks.
@. What is the inscription on
the statue Christ of the Andes?"
5. ]. H.
A. The English translation of
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
Harding for Sales Tax.

President Harding strongly favors the sales
tax as a source of revenue to finance the sol
der compensation adjustment The reasons
which influence him to support the sales tax
have the approval of very large number of
people. The objections to a sales tax are largely
theoretical. They are not based upon expert
mental knowledge in this country, and are in
conflict with the experience of Canada. The OBJ
jectionable results the theorists now predict
are not in evidence where the system has been
tried. That fact ought to give pause to hasty
conclusions. The incident is a reminder of
the heated opposition to the Mckinley tariff on
tin plate in 1899 which was to raise the price
of tin cups, milk pans, tin roofing etc, and be
an onerous burden upon the American buyer.
But it did not turn out that way. Fact is a
stubborn fellow and he can knock out conjec-
ture any day. The plate mills sprang up in this
country quickly and with large productive ca
pacity under the Mckinley protective tariff.
OId-time readers of The Argus remember well
how the new tin plate mills, by increasing the
total of the worlds production, introduced
competition, with the ultimate result of lower
prices. The British manufacturer, in order to
have a market in the United States for his tin
plate. had TO cut his prices. Meanwhile Amer
lean invention was stimulated, new and i'm
proved processes in the manufacture of the tin
plate were adopted and American workingmen
learned the new trade and became experts, as
is characteristic of our countrymen. 1t is now
established industry, giving extensive en-
ployment to American labor and capital, and
has added hundreds of millions of dollars to
the accumulated national wealth.
Another benefcent result was that our
people got the products of lower cost and of
better quality. That something worth
while. But the argument against the tariff on
the tin plates was just strong and fully as
plausible as the argument against the sales tax
And the opposition was to be credited with
honesty of opinion. 1t was mistake of judg-
ment, and nobody now wants to go back to the
conditions in this country prior to 1890 and
again become dependent upon British manufac-
turerS OF TN pfatea- In like manner it will be
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
Prices of Farm Products.

1t is probable that few persons realize the
extent to which values of leading farm products
at the primary markets have risen since the low
point was reached late last year and since the
new imitation began-the pendulum on the up
ward swing. Since the latter part of 1921 the
price of wheat, as quoted at the Chicago pit has
advanced from minimum of about SO cents
to the present figures. advance of 46 per
cent Within approximately the same time quo
tations on corn have advanced from a low
mark of "A to 67 cents a bushel. an advance of
{; 81 per cent. Moving up even faster than has
corn, the price of the live hog-corn in its most
approved form-has advanced fro 6.76 cents
pound in November. 1921. to IL cents a pound
during the past week This is an increase of
IS per cent AS to live cattle, the increase in
price value is not marked. There are elements
entering into the situation which do not apply
to hogs, for there many range cattle to be
rehkoned with and times the ranges have
been exceptionally bad. Also there has been
diminution of herds because of lower prices of
milk and butter. The advance on heavyweight,
medium and choice steers has been from
average of cents a pound late in December to
9:45 cents last week 1t is generally regarded
that the rise in cattle values lately has begun
The custom of statisticians affiliated with
the radical wing OF the farm organizations, and
even with some who train with the agricultural
bloc, has been to give out wierd figures which
they say represent the loss in values to farmers
of the United States through the Gefation that
ended some time ago Their method was to
apply the percentage of decline in wheat values,
from high point to low, to the entire wheat crop
of the year, not to the amount of wheat in sight
at any one time. Similarly they applied the per-
centage OF decline in value OF live hogs and
live CATTLE during the defiation period, to the
entire corn crop of the year and to all existing
live farm animals of the Two classes. The re-
suit has been to make a pseudo showing OF
fantastic farm losses running into the tens OF
billions OF dollars. On the same line of reason
ing. to apply the percentage of rise in value of
wheat, OF corn, of hogs, Of cattle. since the new
imitation In farm product values began. in the
total grain and livestock ookDuk. stxxfsicians
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
The Daily Short Story

in search of fortune. as ducklings
startle a mother hen.
Fred's room, for instance. Fred
was in China. A revolutionary idea
occurred to her; why keep these
things as they had always been
There was pioneer spirit in Mother
Bateman, but she had been too busy
to give it a hearing.
When pa came home to dinner
Mother Bateman seemed eager and
excited.
What's happened, ma? Some
body left you a fortune?"
She laughed. mo, pa, I just had
sudden idea"
Goodness gracious, Sally, il
must be some idea to make your
eyes shine like that"
1T isn't; we'd ought to have
thought of it long ago. How long
are those children going to be
gone? Two weeks more? Well.
Jim, l was looking the house over
and it seems to me it would take
mighty little fixing to make up
stairs into first rate little apart
ment, all by itself Jim, let's do it,
and have it ready when they come
home. If 1 didn't have so much
house to take care of, I could join
the Municipal club. I just long to
get into that baby clinic work"
Jim looked at his wife with new
interest. Sally" he said, you're
a wonderi I'll speak to Brown and
Rogers on my way down town"
There was plenty to talk about
during the next 10 days and two
animated old folks" met Tom and
his wife at the station. 1t was the
young folks who seemed spiritless
Well" said pa, II suppose you
children will go house hunting
first thing"
"Oh, 1 don't know" Tom spoke
with resignation. Dot and I were
reading ads all the way down, and
there isn't a thing where we want
to live. I guess Wen settle down
with you; hey, mother?"
Well, said Mother Bateman,
doubtfully. Wen see: there's an
apartment on our street, separate
front door and electricity, for a
pretty reasonable sum. I'd have
more time if you children were out
Of the way"
Tom looked at her in astonish-
ment. He had never heard her
talk like that before. But they
were stopping at the door, and
nothing could be said or done until
they were safely in the house.
Why, WHY'S this where the
apartment iS?'' For where there
had been one front door. two stood
in friendly rivalry, waiting for the
touch of the proper key.
Mr.. Bateman deliberately drew
two keys from his pocket.
Which will you have. son?
Seems like you might try them
both this first night, for we'd plan
ned to have you to tea"
Dad" cried Tom, 81 wished-I-
the old housed Come on, Dot, we
can explore later; let's carry moth
er in to supper"
With quick understanding they
made a chair and picked up the
flushed little lady. whose hair was
silver under her hat.
Queen bee" they said. "let US
wait on you this once. and tomor-
row we shall invite you to our own
little home. Be sure and ring the
bell! Now, then. hurrah, for the
best narents two people ever had"
Skilled in school cheering, the ir-
repressible young peoale gave it
with q Win.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
Be Boss In This Case.

Be Boss In This Case.
Once in a while a man is right
in an argument with his general
manager Here is such a case:
My Dear Doctor:
! Will you please help me settle al
argument in our family. l have a
grandson just past two years OF
age, and at bedtime there is invaria-
bly, storm The moment he is put
to bed he rebels I say put. him in
bed and let him cry till he fails
asleep. But the mothers heart
says no, that would be cruel
can't bear TO hear the boy cry. 9th
ers say rock him to sleep. Still
others say make him understand
he must do as he is told to do when
putting him to bed.
Please tell me whether crying for
half an hour would be likely TO
hurt the child l recall quite clear
ly an experience of the same kind
80 years ago when | led my wife
from the room, firmly but gently,
and left the child TO cry it out. This
painful performance was staged
for three successive nights. After
that we had no more trouble. But
now that friend wife is a grand
mother-wel1, she agrees with the
child's mother and declares it
would be cruel What would you
advise in the best interest of all
concerned?
Very truly yours,
an. D. G."
1 should advise that you take
friend wife on one arm, firmly but
gently. and the baby's mother on
the other arm, gently but firmly,
and lead them from the room, once
the tyrant has been duly and SOL
EMMY escorted to his couch, and
let him whop it up to his hearts
content
The first night there will be wall
ing and crashing of teeth, but as
sert yourself.
The second night repeat the per-
Torrance. abating no jot or little.
No harm can come to the baby
from crying to beat the band for
an hour.
The third night, if necessary,
waltz the ladies again out of the
bawl room until peace and quiet
descend upon your unhappy dOmi-
Gle. 1t will descend. all right.
Then when all is serene and the
general manager begins to relax 4
bit in her frigid attitude avail your
self Of the rare pleasure of saying
Il told you SOL
The best way to avoid all this
fuss and trouble about getting a
youngster to sleep at night, what
ever the child's age, is by not train
ing the child into such a bad habit
in the first place. At the proper
bedtime a baby should be I'M
dressed. bathed, powdered, put in
his mighty, fed and tucked into bed.
Then mother, grandmother and
everybody should fade right away
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
NEW HOMES FOR OLD.
By Mrs. Ada Borden Stevens.

Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc.)
Father and Mother Bateman look
ed at each other across the dining
table set for two. Just so they haC
looked for three weeks, ever since
Tom and Dorothy had left on &
long trip. Even with the other
children gone, it had not been sc
lonesome while Tom and his wife
were in the house. There was
young life and laughter, and foul
to exchange experiences at every
meal. Dinner never had been dull
then. Even Mother Bateman's bro,
ken teacup seemed important with
Dot to sympathize.
Since their departure echoes rang
through the large, old-fashioneC
rooms Father and mother took tc
sitting in the dining room evenings
because it was coy and homelikt
there Neither had spoken to the
other of this strange quiet left be-
hind when the children went. To,
day each knew that climax was
at hand.
Say, mother" 1t was father who
began it. Cant you think of any
thing besides that kitchen? Seems
to me, after all these years, you
might have something else to talk
about"
you aren't particularly inter
esting yourself, pa, going to and
fro the way you do all day.
should think you might"
Now, Sally, don't turn down
Pine street instead of Chestnut ev-
cry other day to make variety {?
He brought a sudden fist to the
table. The trouble with us is,
we've got into rutI We've thought
of nothing but those children, and
now they want their own homes
They don't want to sit every day al
our table, listening to our pressing,
or helping with your dishes; no,
Dot wants dishes of her own. We
thought Tom would always live
with us in this big house, but they
went off this way to sort of break
cerned, it's broken. When Tom and
Dorothy come back. they are going
to their own home"
They separated at that, and
Mother Bateman went about her
duties, trying to spin them out to
fill the morning busting all over
again, she touched the piano keys,
and hummed at the sound they
made. ST wonder" she thought. Il
haven't tried it since the last child
left off lessons. 1 wonder if 1 could
play now"
She sat down. after hasty
glance over her shoulder, then rose
to shut the hall door. glad no one
could see how foolish she was.
Then she sat on the old stool. and
her fingers found the notes of
Robins Return" She stopped, a
little scandalized at these old mem
cries, and took up a modern piece
OF music left there by Dorothy.
She tried a few bars; it wasn't SO
impossible.
81 believe I'll take it up again"
she thought, and went about her
work with new courage.
The staircase was long: it must
be the emptiness that made it seem
so. So many rooms to dust, After
all, for three weeks she and pa had
practically lived in two. A daring
thought struck her. Tom was the
only son within miles. Those chill
dren of hers had startled her al
most as much by their wide flights
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11

the inscription on the pedestal OF
this statue is: Sooner shall these
mountains crumble into dust tnah
shall Argentines and Chileans break
the covenant, which, at the Ieet Oh
Christ, the Redeemer, they have
sworn to maintain"
Q. What two former presidents
of the United States died on the
same day? K. F. D.
A. John Adams and Thomas Jel-
ferson both died on July 4, 1879
the 18th anniversary of the Decla-
ration of Independence.
Q. Why is a mans Adams apple
given that name? NJ. c. G.
A. The name Adams apple" IS
supposed to have originated in the
absurd popular notion that a por--
ton of the forbidden fruit, assumed
to have been an apple, stuck II
Adams throat when he attempted
to swallow it.
Q. Who was Gas" Addicks? Fl.
R. E.
A. John z. Addicks, who amsss-
ed fortune as a gas manufactures
and came into national prominence
through a persistent but unsuc-
cessful struggle to be elected Unit
ed States senator from Delaware,
fight which he waged for II years.
was sometimes known as "Ga5
Addicks.
@. Are coal mines warmer IN
winter and cooler in summer?
E. J.
A. The bureau of mines says
that coal mines are not warmer u
winter and cooler in summer. Inc
heat of the earth increases one de-
gree for every 100 feet of depth.
Coal mines are not usually very
deep and therefore not affected 70
any great extent by the heat OF the
earth. The temperature OF the
mine depends upon the location ana
the depth.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11

well to base our judgment, as to the merits of
the sales tax, upon actual knowledge rather
than theory. Why do the Canadians retain it
If it is so objectionable? 1t is we'll to stop and
reflect President Harding is not visionary
He is very practical man.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-03-11
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MOVE OBETI
HO KOUPANf.
l2-lety hoch utopil Sc v jezere
a l6-lety tuIni v lOmech.

Diva mlade zivoty byly opet
ne zmafeny nasledkem MEDIA.
nj staleho nabadani k opatrno.
sti pri koupani. ODE vterejsi
obeti neumely plovati.
l2-lety Atwood Neff z Brad
ley koupal Sc vcera spolu S
13-letym Janem Fiskem V jeze
lie Erie V Cahoon Memoir. par
ku, Y dob6, kdy bylo cel6 cd
poledne pobrezi nasledkem bli
zici sc boure liduprazdno.
Hoch uehvacen byl zradnym
spodnim proudem a strzen pod
hladinu. Ustraseny Fisk dob6hl
bez dechu k babicce neSt'astne
no hocha, u ktere tento I'll a
oznamoval hroznou zpravu. Pc
nest'astnikovi bylo pobreznl
Straai lined patrano, ale "a
chranne prace byly nemalo Zti
zeny mezi tim Sc rozpoutavSi
bouri. Patrani pc utonulem SUI
Gastnil Sc i jeho d6d, 63-lety
Euphus Young, jenz byval "a
JohnSonOvy administered po-
bleznim strazcem. Mrtvola ne
byla ySak jeSt6 vGerejSi noel
nalezena. Podivnou hrou osudu
jest zahynuly liz tretim sirot-
ken IA letosni sezony.
V south Euclid lomech ma
"modry kamen" Jest hluboka
tun, jez Sc stala v minulych
letech hrobem jiz n6kolika lidi.
Povest tato vSak nikoho neza-
straSoVala, ably poznovu neby-
~ riskoyany lidske zivoty. Is
lety Jiri Ostermeyer, 480 Gle
Veland road, East Cleveland ba
vii Sc 5 n6kolika hochy ma tuni
NJ zhotovenem voru, ktery sc
pe iednou pfevratil a Ostermey
er zmizel We vod6. T6lo iehc
nalezeno bylo Henrym Vitkov-
skym, pobIeznim strazcem "a
dive hodiny pc neblah6 udalo.
sti. Mrtvola byla zaklin6na me
ri dvema ltesy V hlubin6 as
10 stop.