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New-York tribune., 1922-02-05

"T HE old expectation vas that : bog
While IN college would almost con-
~ tinuousIy bury his nos. il books. g.
newer ooncosson ad,Yietec that he
might occasionally sink tl,st organ in The mud
Of The football field. Another acquired cAal-
s:teristio is beirg noted more and nee where
orce only the dust Of snusty tones end the
prime Of the gridiron rested; to uit, each
graduating class cnefres V.th d cc..rin per
centage Of its members the proud ossesaogs
of moses for news
The u. 4ese aduates Of I've uty-u.:,e Of our
colleges qay..s.. daily newspapers, In. he'd, ny
t,-theminute affairs. ira. ili al Important
place in college life. Some of ,ae0a nave A.
s,cis cd Press franchises aa4 circui. e heav-
H. among the population # the coil. .o town
Others, entirtly collea ate in their SIS, car
boast OF an alni i,4o - per cent G. culaGon
among jae stuG,At bo ". o. coul =. -h1se
t'HeMty-n.ne ps 'ers 60 not begin to count Tie
noses fer news. You T1est sccre a - t.'e
credit of college journalism the hua reds Of
others published loss frequently, the voraou'
c,iiege papers The technical and ar. cultural
papers, AID, skipping down ren. "a could
enumeraye list OF AisA school a,.u aseaara-
tory schoo. papers wherein those f9res fer
news get their iiist su.Ts, list W lh RUS
cose to {. Thousand. And ~ this IS xclpzive
Of large field in the r'zgaz.re clas.
Student papers can beast = a read r pAAlie
OF millions, ss3ci.od ~ admline nate .ts wac
boom the circula1io' Of such Issues es n.ske
mention Of their offspring Winning 3lacn Oh
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05

ou in'a wfisa Hsrs. ,oss .st q, 4.- ..'. .-e'n
oc,osk il IT, a,s.ao. l..
~ RACE@-oAi i':s 50 ..a5 >os'.e sa-ae.
T n.nr>-.s..s.-.: vo -sr:
C,vacc-leNv
TIcr-y-pab,' u..-t ~si~t r.e ase.
sosrair~ Crase -e4,s ;-a IL, ....
q which ie nns ..,, se- ea'. s- 1..a.-s.. an,
+. strains hl,a.)
Graee--Not now. H Is e'esp'sg.
l'enry--W at is it? vi.sa A.s fsppsne'
l. him?
Grace H.nrg, We mas. be brave. We
promised GU ctr * would he Il l,.'.ne
Henry-Wnat IS it? INSIST taas soa tell
what il IS. Right away
Grace-Baby is----
Henry-Has Ae got Z tenpsse :oc2
Grace Not yet
Henry-What is il thsn. gaM me
Grace--Wel, dear, when tool In to pr
Turley's this afternoon he vas hal4 an ounce
Under weight.
Henry-Half an ounce Ny G-o.sl
G~ace b 5rav>. 4ear It 4l4y 49, lie aay-
thing. II may not. rely The doctor said
not u worry.
-arrv-The doctor Doctors never eorr-.
They are machines, not men - oll-blooded
mechanical machines
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05

ing about it. But you see he weighed baby
himself and he knew he was undcrweght.
Henry know, but he didn't Go anything
about it, did he?
Grace-He just said not to worry
Henry-Not to worry. It does beat the
dickens what brutes men get to be in those
medical colleges. Did baby go to bed at the
usual time?
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05
>VS AS GATHERED BY COLLEGE DAILY PAPERS1

r. HE old expectation was that : boy
while in college woola ala-oas corr
q tinuously bury his nos: il books. g.
New-York tribune., 1922-02-05

rhc Ao.'on IS .rt'reiv - 80 i'-~e = 'r o7t
Grace, the cetrt l.
:t'1l into which Iicrr. Aas tus, t-ffs
daN Ncr't
.stsp &C az. ana g..
oc,o,N - Il. a''.4n4.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
Billboard Becoming Nuisance.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has just passed an or
dinance governing the billboard, finding re-
estrictive measures necessary in order to pre-
vent the conversion of the city into one giant
sign system. The billboard concerns had en-
gagged in fight for choice locations, with the
result that every vacant spot in the city was
Haunting some sort of sign. Even the residence
sections had been invaded
The billboard has come TO be recognized as
legitimate form Of advertising for certain
products and enterprises, but in order to make
its appeal to the space buyer it must be SO
located that it will be seen by the passing
public. Thus the board that brings the largest
return to the owner is the one that is built
on a spot where the traffic is the greatest
Rock Island is pretty will decorated with bill
boards. and to many of them there can be no
objection, but there some that are erected
in neighborhoods where they are a positive
blot. and should never have been permitted
Property owners ought to have more pride in
their own homes and more thoughtfulness of
their netghbcrs than to allow the erection of
signs where they despon the harmony of the
vicinity,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
Spoiles for Women Voters.

The agitation by an element of the delegates
Voters for more offices and less welfare work
is symptom of considerable interest to mere
male observers Is feminism going the way
of less idealistic movements? Miss Mary
Garrett Hay, in an address at Baltimore urg-
ing the greater efficiency of women in govern
ment, said; I'VE want them to hold more Of
fices. There should be many more women
legislators and women in congress. Women
should have equal part with men on party
committees" No doubt it was bound to some
But are these aspirations, in the last analysis
materially different from the aspirations of
Tammany or of some other political party ma
chine? They, too, want more of their represen-
tatives in office in order TO give the organiza-
ton greater efficiency in government They.
too, regard the number of representatives serv-
ing them in legislatures and in congress and
on party committees as the measure of their
political efficiency.
Ideals may differ, but practical politics is
practical politics, whether in women's leagues
OF in party organizations. Will it be wise
policy for the League of Women Voters to de-
scend to the level of spoils hunting? If it is to
obtain more Offices for women it must resort
to the methods by, which organizations of male
voters obtain offices. 1t must strain, if it does
sacrifice its ideals of public service. Are the
offices worth the cost?
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
Rushing and Delays.

Next to waiting in a doctors office there
is nothing monotonous and irritating as
waiting for a delayed train or standing in line
to buy ticket No matter whether a persons
time is worth 81 a minute nothing at ALL
there's something psychological about com
pulsory delay that gets under the hide. Per-
haps it's because having made our plans in
advance, we want to do everything exactly as
scheduled in our brains. You rush to make
train. It's an hour late. You have to wait
The suspense and monotony seem like ages.
Or you agree to meet some one at a certain
corner or the door of store at noon sharp.
The contracting party is Is minutes late By
the time he or she arrives you're SO irritated
that your digestion even is suffering, causing
a dry tasteiess feeling in the mouth and
jumpy tendency of the nerves.
If thoughts were bullets the party who
holds up a theatre line while he haggles what
ticket to buy would be full of holes as a sieve.
We Americans the fastest moving, most
hurried people in the world. Yet nearly all the
time we save by our rush is used up in delay
waiting because some one some thing is not
punctual, and which generally could be avoided.
For one thing there never are enough ticket
sellers The combined cost of this delay runs
into staggering figures. If you want a short
cut to success be punctual That in itself may
want. But it helps nightly. The punctual
man gains great asset-the good will of his
fellows. He appeals to human nature at one
of the roots of psychology-dread of delay
Delays always saws against the grain.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
Aged Optimism.

81 see more hope for the future Of the
world on my ssth birthday said Chauncey De-
per. than on any birthday in the last seven
years. am entering my S9th year jubilant
I am pretty well satisfied with this world, and
mean to stay in it as long as 1 can. 1 have
feeling that it is filled with mighty good
people"
Here, indeed, is a contrast to the usual
lamentations Of old age. There is no futile
regret for the past, no complaint for personal
miseries, bereavements or other misfortunes,
for the generation, bitter
establishment, warning of the past at the
expense of the future, no forebodings for the
fate of the 1t is an inspiring outlook
on life that the octogenerian represents.
Yes, the world has been pretty good to
Chauncey Depew. Buy why? Perhaps be-
cause he has been pretty good to the world.
People have liked him because he has liked
people. His body has not failed him because
he has taken of his body. The times
have not swept past him, leaving him stranded,
because he has kept up with the times and
made every succeeding decade his own. So
he finds life still good when most find it
had
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
impossible Highways.

Twenty years ago, when highway engineer
fng was almost unknown in the United States,
there seemed to be an excuse for an occasional
impossible earth road. Then the road drag
was new and its possibilities were not appre-
eiated road scrapers were to be seen occas-
ionally, but most of them made soft road sur
faces instead of hard, steadily sloping sur
faces. If April road was impossible 20
years ago the people blamed it on the weather.
But there has been great progress made in the
intervening time in earth road working equip
ment and machinery. The split-log drag
came into vogue and proved to the people that
even the simplest road device could work
wonders. Then came progress in highway
engineering with the establishment of grades
and slopes and the perfecting of practical Gull
verts. Road oil became practical thing after
several years of experiment. Highway COM
missoners learned that the main thing in earth
road construction was to provide adequate
drainage and establish and maintain proper
slope Road working became less important
as road maintaining came into popularity At
the present time, after a score of years of
steady improvement in road making equipment
and good roads programs there are enough
highway engineers, road maintainers, tractors,
graders, ditchers, oil and gravel to make every
earth road in Illinois passable except, posi-
bly,, those roads which may actually be mum
dated during flood seasons.
The Rock Island county roads are in abon-
Unable condition. Automobiles are unable to
get through several highways which had good
road surfaces in other years. Soil which
makes possible bumper crops of corn and
oats also makes miserable roads unless proper
attention is given it. But road maintainer
operated by man who knows the practical
side of road maintaining, will keep many miles
of earth roads in condition so that at no sea-
son will the road be impossible.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
Headline Reading.

To find someone willing to defend the daily
newspapers from the charge that they do not
offer the reading public solid information is
indeed unusual. Too often it is the case that
such criticism is made by people who merely
glance at the headlines and read the lines I'M
der the illustrations, and then they say there
is nothing in the paper Recently number
of distinguished visitors arrived at New York
from Europe. One was famous English nov
elist, while still another on board the same
ship was an actress. against whom a suit for
divorce was pending. In reporting this bit
of information one newspaper merely an
nounced the arrival of the novelist and then
went into details and occupied part Of page
one and an inside page in telling about the ar
rival of the actress and her views on the di-
vorce proceedings. Such case is an excep-
tion as great majority Of American newspa-
pers try faithfully to mirror world events and
present them in proper proportion.
Glenn Frank editor of the Century Maya
zine, in an article says the press of the country
no doubt has its faults, but he adds that the
American newspapers might make of their
readers richly informed people If they would
only turn themselves from a nation Of head
line skimmers into nation of honest readers
OF the dispatches and various articles that are
printed daily. He says that few OF US have
any appreciation of the enormous amount of
information that our daily newspaper has Of
Tered US on the basic interests of international
AFFAIRS. business, labor, education, science art.
music, literature and the like. Few of us
carry over from day to day a sense Of accumu-
iaung information that our newspapers have
given US in amy field Of interest
Mr, Frank was moved TO make his state
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02

ment after subscribing to a clipping agency.
Such agencies clip from the important news
papers of the country articles on any subject
or subjects the subscriber may designate, and
among the fat folders sent to him by his
agency was one on education. II he had been
asked, he wrote in his article, what the news
papers had printed on education during the
past six months he would have been led to say
that there was nothing of particular interest
After redaing the clippings he was forced to
admit that he was guilty Of headline reading
and unjust criticisms of the newspapers.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
THE DOUBLE WEDDIN'
By Dorothy DOnahue.
Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler
Syndicate, Inc.)

I Dy DVfOtAg DVAdhucs
Copyright, 1922, by the Wheele.
Syndicate, Inc.)
The sun forced its way somewhat
through the dust-clouded little
window of Peleg's toyshop. Sun
shine always followed Peleg, and
now was content to sift through
the dirty thick glass and keep the
quaint little toymaker company
But Peleg and the sunshine were
not alone. Christopher stuck his
head through a glassless window
in the back of the shop. Chriso-
pher and Peleg were pals. An ex-
ceedingly wise horse was Christie
pher Columbus.
christopher" Peleg stated, a lit
tie severely, looking into the pa
tient brown eyes. christopher CO.
lumbus, there's another weighty
topic for you'n me to discuss. i
kinda hate to bother you this purity
day, Columbus, but there's got to
be a double weddin'."
Christopher tried to look inter-
ested.
Now, you listen t. me careful
like fer few minutes, Chris, and
I'll explain it to yer as best l can.
Y'see, Old pal, Davy and Virginia
are nice young people, right nice
couple, 1 calls 'em, and they were
goin' to git married. Now, bein'
Eighty and girl, China Just got
her heart sot on one of them dou-
BILE weddin's, Columbus, but now
it can't be done. They he'd it all
a cd mi
the blamed fool young ones broke
up and the double weddin' is DOOM
ed. 'Ginia refuses everythin' but
this here double weddin' and Davy
goes round lookin' like old Caleb
the day he tried his new home
brew recipe
Christopher winked and Peleg
chuckled. Then Davy came in,
with shoulders Sagging.
"Mornin' Davy," Peleg studied
the lads face intently. Davy nod
ded. Peleg peered over his glasses
half fearfully for moment.
Reckon mebbe l can help you
settle this double weddin' nonsense,
boy" Davy smiled.
You're brick, Peleg. always
playin' the Good Samaritan. But
I'm afraid that noble gentleman
knew mighty little about love"
And Dave was gone.
Caleb walked over to Christopher
c.. a slight flush deepening the
rudy glow of his cheeks.
Thinks we don't know nothing
about love, eh. Chris?" Christie
piers brown eyes grew softer than
ever. Peleg's voice might have
been steadier. y
Know Widow Brown-Mary
Brown, Columbus?" Peleg spoke
very softly. He was thinking-and
it hurt, little. OF course Christie
pher Columbus knew her. Didn't
he know that his master had loved
her and lost her once-that he was
going to lose her again because of
Judge Green's money and Peleg'-
nothing? 1t was because of this
lack Of riches that Peleg could
never speak. Then Peleg left his
dreams and returned to the toy
shoD, the ache still in his heart.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
Kidney Trouble Versus Brighfs
Disease

=
Long enduring or chronic in
fiamma ton of the kidneys is known
as Bright's disease. Most persons
who have Bright's disease ascribe
their impaired health, at least for
the first few years, to almost any
thing else but functional deficiency
| of the kidneys. And thanks to the
industry Of the pill and potion
trade, most persons who imagine
they have kidney trouble really
have nothing of that kidney. Try
ing on symptoms which you find
scattered so profusely through the
skiIfuIly written testimonials is in
deed great life if you don't wax
en-. Backache, weak back or pain
in the back, for instance, is one of
the most popular symptoms OF
lima ginary kidney trouble but this
com plant is conspieuously absent
from the history of the patient who
has actual kidney disease. actual
functional impairment of the kid
neys, commonly known as Bright's
disease. OF course backache is like
a susceptible person
with a lively Imagination can read
lily worry himself into one Thus,
the headache which some individu-
evacuation is delayed, is an anxiety
or worry headache, not toxic or
poison headache. The backache
which the unenlightened woman
suffers when she gets hold of one
of those quack doctor books telling
all that isn't so about alleged ''fe-
male complaint" is a worry head
ache rather than symptom of any
pelvic arrangement l defy the
coolest and least credulous layman
TO read some of the morbid quack
pamphlets without experiencing a
certain degree of vertigo, ringing
in the ears, palpitation, specks be-
fore the eyes, inward commissions,
nausea and general run down con-
dition. That's what good quack lit
erature is for
please send me list of foods
and how to prepare them for a pa
tent with Bright's disease" asks
one correspondent And please
send me a list of foods a man
whose urine shows albumin may
and may not eat,'' asks another,
3" ~ c4oo LII q POSSllpL, just
been rejected for life insurance.
The company found Bright's dis
ease" These samples from an I'M
ending series sufficiently indicate
the vague impression people in
general have regarding kidney dis
ease. A generation ago, I believe,
it was permissible for the old doc
tors, some of them still famous as
great physicians, to hand out to
victims of Bright's disease "diet
lists" which told the patients pre-
cisely what they might and might
not eat. That was good enough
practice for the day and genera
ton, but it has long since been dis
carded. We no longer imagine that
one with actual kidney disease may
not eat meat or eggs or any other
food, for medical sci
ence is not stationary and we know
more about dietetics and nutrition
and metabolism than the great doc
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
The Daily Short Story

81 reckon she and the judge viii
-er- hitch up, old pal, don't you p
Christopher turned away. Sudden.
ly Peleg's eyes frightened.
I've got it. Chris, there will be
a double weddin'. Davy's wrong
after all. l can help. I-Ill show
him." And Peleg left for Mary
Browns, while Christopher pom.
dered.
1t was with a flour sitter in one
hand and cheeriness shining from
both kindly brown eyes that the
Widow Brown welcomed a nervous
Peleg.
"Peleg lands! Well, I never
Peleg slumped into a chair and
began at once
"Mornin', Mary" (He wondered
if he should be quite SO informal. }
Reckon you'll think me plum
crazy, but are you thinking of-of
gettin' married?" Peleg had a hazy
vision of Mary and the Judge gaz-
ing lovingly at each other, but he
blinked the mist from his eyes and
waited. Mary Brown blushed and
laid down the flour sitter.
well. now. Peleg Il didn't
just
Mary-I-you see-I-" Peleg
got no further. What was happen
ing?
Mary had leaned across the ia
BILE. Her hands covered his. Her
eyes were wet-like his.
"Peleg," she was saying, "You-I
of course, Peleg, of courge, but
1 didn't know. 1 always felt-this
way about it-but you-you never
let me guess-even."
Peleg never knew how it hap
pened. 1t didn't matter much. All
through the ceremony he was a
mere automaton. 1t was when the
minister paused and Peleg turned
to look into Mary's eyes that he
realized his happiness and the big :
ness OF it. He wanted so much TO
cry-or laugh. He had been so
lonely. Instead, he blew his nose
very hard. Virginia's white slip
per tapped his foot. Gingerly he
tucked his handkerchief away. NM
sic was playing-somewhere. 1t
was in his heart. He looked again
at Mary to see il she was still
there. Unconvinced he squeezed
her plump little hand. 1t was real.
He smfled-his toy-shop smile
with unadulterated happiness
added.
The sunshine that had always
followed Peleg-but never had
quite caught up with him-peered
into the room and scurried over
rug. tables. chairs-and, reaching
him. settled blissfully in the region
of his heart
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02

@. What is the oldest Latin in
scription in existence?
A. A gold brooch found at Prae-
neste in 1886 bears an inscription
in old Italics lettering which is the
oldest extant specimen OF Latin.
The inscription reads: "ManioS
and Fhefhaked Numasoioi, which
in later Latin would be written,
"Manius me fecit Numasio."
@. What are ferns good for?
J. M. C.
A. Aside from their decorative
value, ferns have little utility.
@. Has 1.-The great American
ever been written? H. r.
A. Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter"
has been ranked as the first if not
the only great American novel.
@. What is an open policy in
insurance? E. V. r.
A. An open policy is one in which
the value of the object insured has
not been fixed, but has been left to
be determined in case of loss, or
because it has been left open to
permit of the addition of othei
things whenever occasion demands.
u. WQeu was the lubeIlOI aSpdI u
ment established? E. I. L.
A. The department of the inter-
Tor was established by an act of
congress of March 8. 1849.
@. When was coke first used in
melting iron ore? S. d.
A. Coke was substituted for coal
in melting iron in 1850, in England.
by Abraham Darby.
@. know what a printers devil
is, but what is plumbers devil?
H. L. F.
A A printers devil is an errand
boy employed in a printing Office.
but plumbers devil Is fire-pot
for heating solder and lead.
@. Was the bicycle an American
o. o. p.
A. The bicycle was invented by
a Frenchman, Ernst Michaux. in
1855
@. When was the making of glass
discovered? C. E. S.
A. 1t is impossible to say when
the possibility Of making glass was
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02

discovered. The discovery has been
attributed to the ancient Phoeni-
clans, perhaps 1000 years before
Christ. 1t is said that carload OF
natron which vas being conveyed
by Phoenician sailors from Egypt
to Syria, was wrecked on sandy
beach, near Mt. Carmel, and hTe
being laid, the elements were fused
and the discovery of glass made.
1t is known that the Egyptians pos
sessed the art of glass blowing
1000 years B. c. Glass is made
from a fusion of silica and alkali
@. Why was foolscap paper given
that name? D. H.
A. The term "foolscap" paper
was derived from the Watermark, j
foolscap, which formerly appeared
upon all the papers that bore TINS
name.
@. How much water is needed
for raising crops by irrigation? L.
w. P.
A The amount of water needed
for such crops varies with the
character of the soil, but agricui-
tural Investigators have found that
from 300 to 500 or more pounds OF
water is required fer every pounu
of dry matter produced.
Q. When was the first orches-
ira established in America? T. W.
A. Bethlehem, Pa, is the most
remarkable town musically in the
United States. The settlement hau
an orchestra as early as ltov'
Their modern musical festival is
often referred to as the American
musical Oberammergau OF thS
American Beyreuth.
@. What is meant by seven
pound Lead? D. F. S.
. A. In plumbing, the term Is
used to indicate sheet lead OF sllu
thickness that one square ION
would weigh seven pounds.
@. How long have inheritance
taxes been employed to raise pup
lie funds? D. N
A. The raising of public fund7
by inheritance taxes has been sane
toned by legislation since the De-
ginning of Roman law.