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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-20
DAVENPORT

Louis Denger, Sr. 2901 Brady st.
Guerink Moth 1402 Harrison st
Louis Hanssen's Sons 211 w. Second St.
Ehlers Bros (High St Grocery 1141 E. High st.
West Davenport Wagon & Implement Co.
2109 Rockingham Road
White Yard 901 E. River st.
Bettendorf Lumber & Supply Co. Bettendor, La.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
Forests for Cities

A TER inspecting the Cook county. I'LL
N nois, forest preserve which is essenri-
ally an institution of the c,ty Of Chica-
80, Professor Chapman, of Yale, nationally
famed authority on such matters, declared:
This is not a luxury. 1t is a necessity If
1t were not fer the rapid extension of the
forest reserve movement, I would look FOR
race of city jewellers in America at constant
land it may well be added dangerously high
tension from seriousness"
Forest conservation in Georgia, at once
one of the most urgent and most neglected in
terests Of the commonwealth, is regarded as
being of prime Importance to industry and
agriculture; and certainly it is of immeasur-
able moment to them. But cities Also in
their human, not merely economic needs, are
vitality CONCERNED in the maintenance Of
woodland resources and recreations. Who
can estimate the worth of Georgias won
drous mountain forests as green Ravens of re-
freshment and renewal and of salvation itself
for the multiplying millions who Will crowd
our towns and cities in years to come? In
Europe there are communal forests which
for ages@have been diligently conserved and
which now, besides yielding goodly profits
from me sale of timber, provide priceless
recreation for the people.
Happy for Georgians unborn if we of this
generation prove wise enough to profit by
such examplesi
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
THE PEACOCK'S TAIL

PITTSBURG, Sept. 5.-An expert can dis
tinguish the iridescent tail feathers of the
peacock in the dark simply by the feel, DR..
Wilder d. Bancroft, of Cornell university,
told the American Chemical society here this
afternoon. The feather fringes are only
flattened plates colored brown. The colors
he said, are not due to pigments but to the
flatness of the feather parts which produces
an interference of Ii hit from the two sides.
The same colors are seen in film of auto
oil spilled on the street.
AS the colors produced on the practically
colorless oil depend on the thickness of the
film, which averages about one fifty-thou-
sandth of an inch, so the patterns on a pea
cocks tail and the apparently self-luminoue
reds in the throat feathers of the humming
bird are due to variations in thickness.
When you look through a peacock's
feather you see only brown due to the So
called melanin pigment which is equivalent
to the asphalt pavement on which oil is
spilled. In all the iridescent feathers the
barbules are flattened plates of brown which
therefore give the coiors of thin films.
''It is possible to duplicate the color eff
fects of the peacock and the humming bird,
claimed DR.. Bancroft, 'by putting very thin
coat of varnish over the dark feathers but we
cannot regulate the thickness with such &C.
curacy as to produce the patterns of the pea
cock. When one considers that variations in
thickness of hundred thousandth of an inch
may change the color completely, it seems
marvellous that all the tail feathers of all the
peacocks can be so near alike"
"The neck feathers of the white pigeon
show practically no iridescence because the
dark background is lacking. If they are dyed
brown. the iridescence appears in full force
On the other hand the white peacock is not
an albino in the sense of merely having no
dark pigment. The whole structure of the
feathers has changed The barbules are not
flat plates and consequently no brilliant
COlOrS can be deVelOued by dyeing the feather
brown or painting the back with India ink. -
Science Service
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
ANGINA PECTORIs
By DR.. Frank Crane

In the accounts Of the death of Sir Ernest
Chackleton there occur two words which cali
up the image of disease which is terror
not only to laymen but to doctors.
The two words are Angina Pectoris.
Away off there in the South Seas this mys-
ferrous death reached out and struck man
who had successfully braved almost every
other kind of peril.
Angina Pectoris is really a sort of neural
gia of the heart.
According to the descriptions given in the
medical books we learn that the patient is
suddenly seized with an attack, which may
come on without any apparent cause. In the
region of his heart he feels stabbing pain
which radiates upward to his neck and along
down the left arm to the hand and the last
two fingers. When the attack is violent
this pain is accompanied by an appalling
sensation of construction, the breathing be-
comes difficult and the patient, who is bathed
in cold sweat, feels as though gripped in a
vice or squeezed by an enormous weight
He can neither speak nor move. He remains
quite conscious and experiences the horrible
feeling of impending death.
The attack lasts some seconds or minutes
and then disappears.
All attacks are not like this, but vary in
different ways, many physicians distinguish
ing between a true and false Angina Pee
tori (.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
DOROTHY DIX TALKS

The other day man said with humorous
boastfulness:
when die am not going to cause my
executor any trouble. / make good money
but I indulge my family and myself in ev-
erything we want and we live up to my in
come as we go along, SO it is not going to
take any bunch OF lawyers to interpret my
will, and administer my estate"
And you call yourself an honest MANI
asked quiet little fellow who was listening.
Certainly do" replied the spender.
Hasn't a man right to blow in his own
money il he wants to-"
Sup to a certain point only" replied the
quiet man, every man knows that somewhere
in life he is going to need contingency fund.
No man is immune from sickness, or acct
dents, or old age. No business is safe from
disasters. No man holds job that he may
not lose. There are rainy days that are
sure to come to every human being, and if
we could provide a shelter against them our
selves and don't do it, but force somebody
else to- take US in and protect us, we have not
played the game honestly and square1y.
ut isn't honest to hold other people up
and take their money away from them. And
it is just as dishonorable thing to do when
we wear the cloak of a poor and needy re1a-
tive, or friend, as it is when we are dis
guised with the black mask of highway
man don't know but what i think that
the sponging relative is the more contempt
ible Of the two because you can't fight, back
at them as you can at the robber.
They've got US bound and gagged with
pity and affection SO we can't even call for
help. 1t is SO sad to see those who have had
so much, and who have lived in the lap of
luxury so long, reduced to committing petty
larceny for living that we almost overlook
| the fact that they ought to be wearing stripes
instead of ou~ second best clothes.
ttNot long ago., continued the quiet man,
Fa man who worked for the same firm that
I do, died suddenly. For Is years he had
been getting salary of $40, 900 a year. He
was prince of good fellows, always ready
to buy for the crowd, always with his hand
in his pocket. He lived in an expensive
apartment. He kept fine car. He and his
wife dressed smartly. They were regular
first-nighters at the theaters, and he called
half the head walters in town by their first
names, which costs money as we all know.
"Well, the man died, as said, and when
his funeral expenses were paid his wife had
the furniture in the apartment, used auto
mobile, and 5000 in cash. That was ALL And
she was a middle-aged, frail little woman
used to luxury, and as absolutely incapable
Of earning dollar as she was of perform
ing a miracle.
"There was nothing for the woman to do
but to go and live upon her brother, who was
a poor hard working man, earning small
salary in a little town. and with a big fam
lily of his own to support. That woman is
committing the most dastardly of all crimes
She is literally taking the bread out of the
mouths of babes. She is stunning the lives of
innocent children for, because her brother
has to support her, he will be obliged to deny
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
Thriftiness and Honesty

his children the education that he might
have given them.
''She will shorten her brothers days by
adding weight to his already overburdened
shoulders, and she will be blight upon the
home because she is an interloper who has
forced herself unwanted upon it.
Nov say that this man and this woman
who selfishly INDUCED themselves in every
thing they wanted instead of laying up a
competency on which ito provide for their
needs, were the meanest of sneak thieves.
They took their pleasure while others shaved
and denied themselves, and they depended
on grating living on the frugal when their
evil day came.
cit does not make any difference how you
get money that does not belong to you. The
dishonesty consists in purloning other peo-
pies property. Our friends and relatives who
pick our pickets by means of hard luck stories
are morally no better than the thief who lifts
our wallets without even putting up any bluff
about it.
"Of course there are people who always
live on the ragged edge of want, and who
by no possibility can save up enough money
to protect themselves against the disasters of
life. These have a right to our help and they
may ask of us with clean hands.
But the men and women who are good
money makers, and who are so selfish and
self-indulgent that they spend everything
bers at heart. For when their own is gone,
they are depending on taking what they need
from others. They know that family affec-
ton will not let them suffer, that family
pride will not permit them to go to the poor
house. So why should they deny themselves
while John and Mary are sacrificing them
selves to lay up little money? What are
friends and relatives for, except to be easy
marks for high rollers?
tYou even see parents take this attitude
toward their children. A man in moderate
circumstances instead of providing a nest egg
for his old age, insuring his life for enough
to make his wife Independent il he should
die, will spend all he makes as he goes along
and depend upon his children to support him
and their mother in their declining years.
"Robbing your own child is like taking
candy money from blind baby.
'Yet how often do we see it done. How
many old bachelors do you know who had to
put away all thought of love and home Of
leir own in their youth, because father
been such a good spender he had left them
with the family to support? How many old
maids do you know who had to say mo"
to the man who loved them, and whom they
loved because mothers extravaganza had
worked father to death and they had TO feed
and clothe and educate house full of lit
tie sisters and brothers? How many chill
dren are robbed of their childhood, and are
forced to go to work before their timey and
are denied education and opportunity by
their parents shiftlessness!
when we eat our cake we have not right
to the other fellows slice, and that's why I
say that thrift is the mother of honesty"
said the quiet man.
Copyright, 1929
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
lid Atla,,ta S Battalion

S-1-7 He petition of the Sacond battalion,
One Hundred and Twenty-Second in
fantry, of the Georgia National Guard,
asking for certain rights in the Auditorium
Armory building and also for modest meas
ure of financial aid, is one to which Council
should give cordial consideration.
The Second battalion is worthy descend
ant Of Atlantas never to-be-forgotten regi-
ment, the gallant Fifth" and, il duly sup
ported, will recreate the prestige and even
tually, no doubt, expand to the proportions
OF that historic organization. 1t is today
the one bulwark Of it's kind to which the
community could look for instant service in
an hour Of stress and peril. It's officers and
men stand dedicated to the public veal, ready
upon moments notice to answer duty'S
summons, how grave so ever the crisis or
arduous the toll. To this end they give much
or the leisure OF their evenings to study and
drill and other forms OF preparation. This
they must do if they are to acquire that spe-
cial knowledge and that COOL resourceful eff
ficiency which insures a single company of
soldiers more OF decisive power than great
multitude OF the undisciplined could COM
mand. The Albanian who knows anything
of his city's past need not be reminded Of
the priceless value of such service when
emergencies come, as come they will.
Surely, then, this battalion which gener-
ously gives it's time and stands prepared to
want for C, cooperation on the part Of Council
or Of the public. That it should have defi-
nitely assigned nights for use of the large
and small auditoriums, free from interior
ence, is an altogether reasonable request. AS
for financial aid the petition presented by
Major Cox aptly points out that prior to the
late war the city contributed to the mainte-
nance of the national guard by monthly or
quarterly payments and that now the coun-
ty is contributing one hundred dollars
month. That sum alone being obviously in
sufficient, the city can well afford to supple
ment it for the public interest so materially
concerned.
But cooperation should not end at the
granting OF these simple requests. The COM
munity, as well as Council, should bear the
battalion constantly in mind, should en-
courage it's officers and men in their striving
for proficiency, should do liberal part to-
ward the units upbuilding and expansion,
and should let it be known by deed as well
as word that tn spirit of service is honored
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
PRIDE AND POISE
By H. Addington Bruce
Dy n. AuuIIIglUH BIuCE
N NE OF the indispensables to poise-that
quality which counts for SO much in
- the winning of success-is pride.

by II. AdQlngtOn Bruce
N NE OF the Indispensable to poise-that
J quality which counts for so much in
the winning of SUGGESTS pride.
But the pride must not be that so often
seen, the pride OF boastfulness and conceit.
Pride of this sort contributes nothing to t ae
gaining of poise. On the contrary, it helps
to make poise impossible OF attainment.
For the conceited as observation shows,
are peculiarly prone both to worry and to
irritability defects not found in the really
poised. They are thus prone because at heart
they know they are acting part, and they
live in dread of exposure.
AT heart, indeed, they usually know that
they actually have little to be concefted
about. Hence they try to compensate by
buster and brag. procedure incompatible
with poise
Or IL, approaching this. they determine
to appear dignifiedly composed, their ap-
pearance Of composure Is pretty sure to be so
,aggerated as to excite derision. For it is
evident that they still are clustering. though
now in their bearing instead Of their speech
Always, in word, the pride OF conceit is
an enemy of poise, not It's ally. Pride which
truly aids to poise is pride Of very different
kind.
It is pride rooted not in an overestimate
ones worth, but in self-respect and in con-
seriousness of ones ability to live up to the
responsibilities Of life.
1t is the kind of pride which enables one
to meet vicissitudes undismaved, to see all
things in true perspective, to refuse to stoop
to, or be satisfied with, the petty and tbs dis
honorableA
Pride like this is most certainly, as Starke
has called it, q constructive and propulsive
force. 1t is:
"a virtue which must of necessity be a
primal condition Of success in the achieve
ment of poise.'
Those who lack It can not too earnestly
strive to make it theirs And they can make
it theirs only insofar as they too. through
reading, reflection and association with the
morally vigorous, gain Insight into life's
deeper meanings and keenec discrimination
of the differing values of human objectives
and activities.
Above all, they must educate themselves
to a divine dislike of everything that may
make them less self-respecting. Where self
rspect is absent or deficient there can be
neither worthy pride nor an enduring poise.
That is Of all verities one of the most sure
ly esta blished.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
ANDREW AND IMOGENE
BY ROE FuLKERsON.


".say," said Andrew, coming into the living
room dragging a shirt behind him. What
does a highboy cost?i
"Why do you ask me-" said Imogent indig-
nantIy. 81 never drank one in my life"
81 didn't say highball," said Andrew. Il
said highboy. A highboy is an old-fashioned
dresser or bureau or whatever you want to
call it, but it has nine drawers in it. / want
to buy one and put pad lock on every one Of
the drawers.
'0They are antiques" said Imogene "and OF
course expensive"
81 am an antique. too" fumed Andrew,
'.and am just old-fashioned enough to want
some place to, put my things that will be my
very own and can see that my only chance
IS 10 buy place to put my shirts and things
and then clock 'em up
'I am going to do it, too, you hear? am
going to have place to PUT my clothes and
am going to have it all to myself II nave
To take them all down town and hire safe
deposit box for every separate shirt"
.eWhy, what is the matter, dearie?" asked
Imogene. as
: ..Don,t YOU .dearie' me-" said Andrew. "You
think YOU can fill the piano, the music roll
cabinet. the ice box, the umbrella stand and
the fireiess cooker with your pettlcoats and
shirt waists and then square it with one
'dearie'
ga year ago made solemn compact with
YOU that was to have one of the small top
drawers for my collars, handkerchiefs and
things like that, and the bottom drawer for
my socks, union suits and pajamas and you
were to have the other little drawer and two
big ones for your fluffy foolishness,
az go in there now for some ,clean clothes,
and what do find? In the little drawer my
collars are pushed into the black corner and
mashed all out shape like was college
boy who had been out driving with girl on
a hot night.
"on top Of them are 10 PAIRS OF gloves, two
automobile wells and six different colors OF
powder rags $50
al 60 down into the lower drawer for
shirt and the first thing I pull out is com
bination suit of yours with pink ribbon
strung in the top.
'sI take that out and the next thing find
is the Jacket to one of my pairs Of pajamas,
and it is used simply as cover for blouse
that was so slazy l took 1t for dust cloth
and wiped my face with 1t.
Then found a union suit and under it
some sort of thing that has laces in it, and
looked like cross between an emergency
shoe to repair a blowout and swimming
jacket
II hung that on the bed post and then
drew pale pink petticoat with bushel and
a half Of ruffles on it.
"Then l quit takin' 'em out and began to
dig like fox terrier digging out a. rat, and
by the time l got to this shirt was sanding
on my head in a wilderness of ruffles and lace
like man taking header into big break
er. am. :"
YES interrupted Tmogene, "and you could
have called me and I could have given you
shirt in minute, and now you have wrinl1led
up every stitch of clean clothes have in the
house and think you are just as mean as
you can be and. :"
Halt" commanded Andrew, (which one OF
us is 1t that has grievance. thought it
was me-"
Then they both laughed and Andrew went
out with his shirt.
Copyright, 1922, by 21st Century Press, Inc.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
The Home Fires
/ T BECOMES increasingly evident

T BECOMES increasingly evident that a
far-ranging and literal problem of the
coming winter will be how to keep the
home fires burning. While no fuel panic is
apprehended, save perhaps in the worst sit
uated communities and in the event of the
most serious transport troubles, neverthe-
less economy and forehandedness will prove
to be excellent friends.
Competent advisers point to three ways of
meeting such crises as may arise the use
OF less heat, the substitution of coke and
wood for coal, and the employment of meth
DDS that secure more Of the heat value in the
fuel consumed. AS to less heat, health au-
thorities long have insisted that most Ameri-
can houses are kept at too high tempera-
ture in winter. Seventy degrees should be
the maximum, but more frequently the Their
mometer registers eighty or above. Coke,
as the United States Bureau of Mines
declares in recent bulletin, eliminates.
smoke, reduces the necessity of cleaning fur
naces and flues, requires less attention than
soft coal, and gives uniform temperature
in the house" The supply, however, is more
or less uncertain and is not available to all
communities. Users of soft coal are caution
ed to fire only small Quantities at one time,
and not to cover the entire burning surface
with fresh coal.
Concerning wood we are told: ''In some
sections, especially in rural regions, there is
plenty of wood which can be used to adj
vantage and can be burned in coal stoves and
furnaces with few minor changes which are
easily made. The simplest way to use wood
in coal furnace, however, and the most eff
fectiVe in producing heat Is to combine it
with coal. One-quarter to half Of the coal
ordinarI used can be saved by substitution
of wood in this way. Any kind or size u
wood can be used that will go into the fire
pot, and will burn with good efficiency when
surrounded with COAL With enormous sup
plies of wood widely distributed over much
OF the United States, especially the eastern
half, there is no excuse for suffering because
OF inability to get COAL. And the widespread
use of wood for fuel if only such wood as is
best fitted for this purpose be taken, will be
OF great benefit to our forests. Wood is es-
pecially goUd for the mild weather of early
fall and spring.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-09-09
The F;aht;na Turk
A S FAR almost as the memory Of man
~ extends there has been this aphorism:

S FAR almost as the memory Of man
~ extends there has been this aphorism:
'To fight like a Turk
Originally, perhaps, the sentence meant to
fight with the skill and the dash and the dar-
ing of the troops who felt themselves guided
by the hand of Allah, but in these later days
the words have come to mean to fight with
vicious hate and intolerable fiendshness
And now this Turk, this ''sick man of Eu-
rope is driving the Greeks from Asia Minor
into the sea. Once again the star and cres-
cent is upperm0St; success swings on the ban
ner of the troops of Mustapha Kemal
The nations of Europe, and America with
them, hasten to send battleships for the pro-
lection of their citizens; hasten, too, to in
sure the safety and the lives of hundreds of
thousands Of Christians who terror-stricken
face the invasion of the Kemalists.
A Turkish advance is not pleasant thing
to contemplate, and we were told, when the
treaty of Versailles was signed, that it spell
ed the doom of ''the abominable Turk who
had been allied with Teutonic Europe.
Now we are told that the British cabinet is
to meet Immediately to discuss this new men
ace in the Near East; that something must
be done to stem the tide of the forces that
daily drive the Greeks toward utter rout and
the inevitable political chaos that will follow
a complete Turkish victory.
Has Europe not yet learned the nature of
her "sick MANI" If she has not, then surely
it is to be hoped that the lesson she is now
coming will not be wasted.
Unification of Greece is impossible as mat
tiers stand, and, unless the allied nations
across the water take speedy and drastic ac-
ton the unification of Greece will become
forever impossible.