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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-06
|BDER WON'T
50 MUCH
THIS WINTER
II Z G. 1oYLR.

|l6gyTight lSzz, Dy Tne ArguA)
Nev York, n r., Oct. 6.-The
80 undes roar car. the heels un-1
~ yonr shoe1, the rubber boots
~ cyer6hoes you wear and the
1890 q the fappers you watch
m vinAer will not cost any more
~ they do now, so far as the
80 nv material is concerned.
- rice Of crude rubber ID not
! Il e1treme low point, but it is
~ apd viii remain 30. A tremen-
~ surplus exists here. In Eng
pm and in the Orient In spite OF
f1oasands Of new ways OF using
trbber. consumption cannot reduce
IN surplus for q year. Word was
fousived by cable today from ex-
o1fts in London that plans for
1lastic curtailment Of production.
N OF without the regulation or
saopsfation Of the Dutch and Brit
r. governments is doomed to fail
~. There seems no hope Of re-
aevipg the voluntary agreement
- curtailment which existed
anong the British planters Of Cey-
e and the Malay peninsula, and
~ Dutch Of the Dutch East In
~. This agreement expired last
j1suary.
SECT Rear by Tail"
Many planters are in the position
4 he frontiersman who caught the
~ BY the tail. They cannot let
n Their workmen are under
ooatnct to them for terms Of
yoars and they cannot afford to
lbcharge them and disrupt a train
q working force. The trees >are
Ike dairy cattle, that continue to
i've milk and neither dairymen
nor rubber-growers will throw that
product away. They will sell it
! for what they can get.
Many can produce at present
prices and show o reasonable prof
il. In fact, it would be possible to
raise production at once from its
present rate Of $4,000 tons to $780,
90 TINS year. The world Is con-
sumihg about 100000 tons annually
but in London and Liverpool is a
surplus Of $4,000 tons and about
5000 tons is on hand in this coun-
Try. Consequently, tire and rubber
manufacturers here can buy when
they choose without fear of steeply
iising prices Their products fol-
the next year therefore will be sub
Jet to only increase in factory and
transportation costs. Tire factories
have not let down in their sched-
ples Of production which are run
ming close to 5000, 900 castings q
month, according to word from Ak
ron today. Prices are at record
low levels, but automobile com
psnies still are pressing for ship
1nents and the present pace will be
we'll maintained throughout the
winter. Manufacturers stocks
sand close to 100000 castings, but
record automobile production will
rsquire 4 tremendous tire output
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-06

improving, according to reports
from the midwest, but not SO fast
- the call for machine tools. The
Atlantic Coast Line railroad short
" will be in the market for $5,0OO,-
600 worth Of rolling stock and 900
new freight cars have been ordered
by the Chicago Z Northwestern
road.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-06

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ments have been made to place the
Chicago Herald and Examiner on
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urdays. Buy it early and get the
eight-page comic section. all in full
colors.-(Advertisement.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-06

All the news all the time-The
Argus.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28
AUSTRALIA INVITES
OFFICERS IMMIGRANTS
Viii Extend Hearty Welcome to
Men Retiring From Brit
ish Army.
BY Associated Press to Every Evening.

BY Associated Press to Every Evening.
Sydney, n. S. W, Aug. 5.-(By Mail.)
The Commonwealth government is en-
deavoring TO induce large N,mber of
young military officers who have seen
service in India and are being retired
from the army to emigrate to Australia
The subject was opened by letter re-
ceived by the Premier hom General Lord
Rawlinson, commander in chief in India,
who pointed out that about 1000 young
officers will be retired soon. They will
receive compensation ranging from one
thousand to fifteen hundred pounds each
and many desire 10 leave India. The
Premier assured Lord Rawlinson the
Commonwealth would extend hearty
WELCOME to any officers who might come.
He offered to send representative to
India to give information to those who
are contemplating settling in the Do
minion, or to pay the expenses of two
representatives of the officers who would
visit the Commonwealth.
Lord Rawlinson cabled, asking that
the matter be brought before the State
preIniers in order that more particulars
might be obtained. This is being done.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28
Little Benny's
Notebook.
By Lee PaDs

Me and Puds Simkips was standing
in frunt of the froot stand wishing we
lived somewares ware all we had to do
to get the diffrent froot off of the
diffrcnt trees was pick it off, and some
lady stopped pushing n baby carridge
past, saying, o shaw, I've come out
without my pockitbook agen, / wonder
if you boys would be so kind as TO
mind this baby vile l run and get my
pockitbook, Ill ony be a minnit.
Sure, all rite, yes nam, me and Puds
sed. And she quick wawked away,
being a short lady but fast wawker,
and after vile Puds sed, Hay, this is
the longest minnit l ever waited.
Good mite, sippose she don't come
back agen, maybe she's one OF those
ladies you reed about that ask people
to mind their baby and then don't come
back eny more, and then the people
half to adopt the baby Jest as if it was
theirs, good mite, l sed.
Holcy smokes, I'm not going to adopt
it, look at it, its heck OF looking
kid, Puds sed. Wich it was, being a
bald hedded baby with a tern up nose
and no teeth and its mouth wide open
as if it was proud of it, me saying, O
l don't know, I've saw verse, maybe
wen you take it home your mother
will be glad to have it.
O, is that so, well maybe your mother
will wen you take it home, Puds sed
and l sed, You've got portch to keeI
it on, if we had portch Id be glaC
to take it home, and Puds sed, Nuthinj
doing, you've got as mutch rite to
as / have, so il enybody takes it youl
take it, look at it, looking at you, yo1
can see it likes you the best enyway.
You're crazy, its looking at you,
sed. Wich Jest then it started to loo
cross eyed and l wouldent of adopte
it for a million dollers, and me an
Puds started to have fearse argew
ment about wich one told the lady W
would mind it ferst, and Jest as W
was starting to call each other name
the lady came back and gave us a dim
between us and took the baby ava
looking as if she was jest as sattishe
to have the baby as wat us was t
|. have the dime.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28

Over the head it wore black hood
drawn over the face, so that until the
hood was thrown off no one could say
il the late guest was IA man or a woman.
Into the Palace garden the tan COL
ored horse trotted and up to the door
of the Palace and then the hood was
thrown back and the face of an old
and hideous looking woman was seen
and all who looked knew at once that
it was q witch who had come so late.
Not word was spoken at first, but
every on there felt that some strange
spell-and not for good-was about
to be used by this unpleasant looking
creature.
Under her arm she hugged to her
side a big black cat with very bright
eyes of yellow, and this creature when
at last her mistress spoke, began to
hiss and show her claws.
$50 / was not hidden to the feast?'
said the witch, looking all around as
she spoke in q harsh high tone OF
voice. II, the greatest of all the witches
was forgotten at time like this. The
Witch OF the Winds cannot be sighted,
tell your Royal Master and Mistress,
she said to the trembling servants who
stood in the doorway of the Palace.
Tell them, too, that as I was not
hidden I did not come bringing e gift
| for the Princess, but instead l came
| to take one away with me"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28
EFFICIENT HOUSEKEEPING.
by Laura A. Kirkman.
THE WE'LL PLANNED KITCHEN.

Many people today arc building
little houses receive letter after let
ter from my column readers asking
my advice IN regard 10 planning them.
In reply tor such letters / can do no
better than suggest that they send me
stamped and seIf-addressed envelope
in which / will send them the name
Of q publisher who sells by mail an in
expensive little book on the building Of
small homes, which contains sugge.-
tons and drawn plans for almost all
types Of house.
IL seems good, doesn't it, that 80
many folk are planning and dreaming
OF owning their own honest But
there is Just one thing that / want TO
say to these horne-builders before the
masons and carpenters actually begin
work: Have you planned your kitchen
70 that the person who cooks the meals
may do her work with the least energy
and fcwest steps? The following sug--
gestions are worth considering from
| this point Of view
Have all working surfaces high
enough so that the kchen worker Will
not have TO bend her back constantly.
| For instance, il you have built-in set
OF drawers with fat, finished top
| upon which the house wife will mix
her cake, roll her pie crust, etcetera),
have this working surface almost up TO
the housekeeper's elbows so that she
will not have TO stoop when at work.
The sink should be the same height.
Be sure, also that your sink has a
drain-board on both sides. /, have
seen sinks which have a drain board
only on the right side, with this ar
rangement, the dish washer Held the
plate in the dish-pan with her left hand
while she rnopped it with her right
hand--then she had TO drop the mop,
take the plate in her right hand, place
il on the right-hand drain board and
pick up the mop again. This constant
dropping Of the mop would have been
unnecessary il she had had a left-hand
!. drain board on which her left-hand
could have placed the plate
1t pays to finish the kitchen walls
!. in materials that can be washed, such
as oil pant or tile. The kitchen should
be the eleanest room in the house
and receive frequent wsll-washinqs.
The walls should be light-colored, not
only for the sake of cheerfulness, but
TO enable the housewife to see the dirt.
II A built-in Zee chest which can be iced
from the outside Of the house, is another
great convenience.
I A dumb waiter to the cellar will save
many steps; it can not only be used to
bring stored vegetables up from tho
| cellar, but also as a coal carrier
II An ash-chute, leading from kitchen
= TO cellar and terminating IN a closed
! barrel, saves much trouble.
Az az rfff iaor rf All
Y kitchen so that stove, china and tin
J. closet, and food supplies are not SO
: far separated that dozens Of steps mus,
r be taken between them.
$ Tomorrow-Answered Letters
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28
CENTIPEDE A FRIEND NOT FOE.

Honolulu, T. h, Aug. 26.-The cent?
pede, summed. feared and abhorred
enemy of the residents of HAWAII, who
can cause small panic by merely appear
ing in sight, really Is q friend, according
to University of HAWAII investigations,
because he subslsts mainly cn otherpest;-
ferrous insects, mainly mosquitoes and
cockroaches, thus decreasing the hord,s
OF those bugs.
The results of the investigation, made
public in an extension letter, showed that
the centipede, whose bite is feared
because of many tales of its death
bringing qualities, is not vicious and is
retiring in disposition except when he
is attacked or thinks be us. Then he has
fairly potent means OF defense in the
feelers in bis fore-feet with which he IN
fiicts bis bite"
But his bite is no more serious usually
than that OF bee or wasp the university
letter said
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28

1t is announced that there is a move
ment on foot to introduce the teaching
Of good manners in the public schools.
Heaven grant that this is truel 1t
would mean the greatest move forward
in civilization that has taken place in
hundred years, for the only way to tame
the barbarian i,.to do it when he is
young. Also it would give the world
the greatest moral uplift it has ever
known, for, after oil, in the last analysis
good manners are merely unsclhshness
and consideration for others. They COM
pose the Golden Rule Of treating other
people as you would like to be treated.
Every school should include the teach
ing Of good manners in its curriculum
because not even knowledge of how
to read and write is more important than
knowledge of how to meet people,
Of what to do and say under certain cir
cumstances, and how to eat properly.
Indeed good manners will carry a man
or woman much farther in lie than any
amount of book learning will. and bad
manners will be a greater handicap than
ignorance. Between the courteous dull
ard and the boorish scholar, we will take
the dullard every time.
| The one thing that the old-fashioned
Female Seminaries," and Academies
and Girls" Finishing Schools" had to
recommend them was that, however
superficial their instruction in the scien-
ces and mathematics may have been
they relipously drilled their pupils ir
good manners. No girl went out of them
with her blue ribboned diploma withou,
1 Ev1n ho 20 otro
ciously, how to move about . room with
out numbering around like cow in {
china shop, without knowing how to si'
down without sprawling all over the
place, or without being as thoroughly
grounded in table etiquette as she wa!
in her catechism.
In these important respects girl
had the advantage of their brothers il
education, for nobody has seemed tc
think it worth while to include specific
instruction in the niceties of good man
ners in boys school course The gen
eral attitude towards the subject SEEM
to be either that be will not need t.
know which fork is which, and when t,
rise Mp and sit down, and whether I,
take hold of lady's hand as if he wer
afraid Of it, or to heft it as if it was
barrel of sugar, or if he does need t,
know these things, that she will b,
divinely inspired with the knowledge a
the moment he needs it.
! All of which is fatal mistake. A man
manners 60 just as far in making or MARI
ing his career AS woman's do. He ca
no more afford to be sword-swallowe,
or gargle his soup than wo man car
Not long a go big business concer
, needed new superintendent. 1t was
j ten thousand dollar job to start Will
e with infinite possibilities for the futur,
q and they wrote and asked q certai
, young man who had made exceedingl
, good in their line to come to see them
: regard to the place. He came He VIZ
a handsome young chap, clever, brigh
} energetic, thoroughly capable. The
} were about to employ him when lunc
time came, and the young man gave a
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28
IS LILLIAN FEARFUL OF THE
SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME OF
HER CAREFUL PLANS2

Lillian's scheme for getting mo out
Of Mother Graham's way until that
irascible lady had been pacihed was a
most welcome one TO me. But her refer
ence to the work in front OF us made me
utter protest.
"Of course the dny is going to be a
very short one for you, and as calm as
a."
III you dare to say summer morning
or 'millpond' I'll throttle your she
threatened mcrrily, and ] realized anew
how futile was any attempt to change
Lillian's decisions when she had once
made them.
"You stopped me just in timc," ad-
mitted laughingly. "And in revenge, !
think I'll not only go to bed, but stay
there. I allow no one TO fout my SINH
lies"
A Hilarious Ro mp.
"Oh what lovely wordp She struck
q burlcsqucd attitude Of admiration. -
flout, thou foutest, she fIouts. | am mad
with envy. Please, you wouldn't be
mean enough to choose it for your to
day. Don't stingy me. ] want TO use i
on Allen as soon as he gets up"
Mother Graham is apt to give you
concrete illustration of its meaning"
replied. "But you are welcome to th'
empty word. know lot of EN-"
said loftily. please have Katie senc
me three muf5ns-three-with my breal
fast"
mot unless she bakes enough so / car
have four" she retorted, then added
with quick change Of manner, Don
let Mother Graham see or hear yo,
getting back to your ROOM"
/ nodded in comprehension and recon
noitered carefully through crack in tn
door before hurrying noiselessly dow
the hall. Luckily reached my room il
safety, and found Marion and Junior en-
joying a hilarious romp for which Mar
| ion apologized with winsome r,lefulness
"He isn't dressed, Auntie Madge, ant
I haven't fixed my hair, I'm so sofry
but he is so cunning, | just couldn't hcl
it,"
'T think we'll forgive you this time
Marion" I smiled, considering the es
cuse, but we must hurry now. Fix you
hair, dear. I'll finish dressing Junior a
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28
My Marriage Problems
Adele Garrison's New Phase Of
Revelations of a Wife
Copyright 1921. ~ Newspaper Feature
quickly as can, and then you are TO
go very quietly TO your mother sroomS
LIlIian's Final DIrec tfons.
Copyright. 1921. " Newspaper Feature ssrvtcs Inc

Lillian Flnel DIcCttOHs.
For my little lad costuming ! selected
a suit which his grandmother bad
bought for him, and which she especially
likes. Then l washed him and brushed
his rebellious curls, and dressed him
and hugged him tightly, and sent
hi m off--an adorable vision--in Marions
proud charge. Then | obcyed Lillian's
injunction and went back to bed, feeling
as | drew the soft coverlet over me,
with curious sense OF crawling INTO q
refuge--that the encounter with my
mother-in-law bad upset noe more than
i had realized at the time.
! stayed there sleeping and reading
all day. Katie brought up my breakfast,
with so much fussing over my supposed
headache that | felt like an impostor.
Lillian ran in two or three times, ex
planning that her rusc had worked, and
that Mother Graham would take both
children into her room in the evening
and keep them there with her door Sc
curcly locked while we set the stage for
Smith below stairs. But she added, i
was still decidedly persona non grata
with my relative by marriage, and she
thought it advisable for me to remain
out of sight of the irate lady until she
was safely in her room for the night.
No use spilling the beans unless it's
necessary" Lillian said upon her sec-
ond visit. II don't need you for a single
thing, and day of lounging around
won't do you any harm"
IL love it," / returned sincerely
ffWhat time do you want me to b
dressed and ready tonight, and is there
anything especial you want me t'
wearp"
Be ready when it's time TO turn on th'
| lights" she answered, "and wear LETT
see--that outfit you play golf in, tha
dark, one-piece dress, it's comfortabl,
and loose, and easy to get into. Sticl
that big, dark blue motor veil some
where around you so you'll have j
handy, and be sure your shoes are rub
ber-soled"
Sounds like the prop directions for
melodrama," I said with fippancy
was far from feeling.
II hope that's all therc1l be-" she re
turned with gravity, which made m
realize that Lillian sensed an unusus
menace in the coming encounter.
TO be continued)
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28

illustration of feeding that would have
done credit to prize pig.
He ate with his knife. He threatened
to gouge his eyes out by keeping his
spoon standing in his coffee cup. He
fairly laid down in his plate. He made
a bib Of his napkin, and crowned the
performance by artlessly picking his
teeth.
1--WE simply couldn't associate with a
man with such manners" said the big
business man, so some excuse was made
and the young man sent back home. He
doesn't know, and will never know, that
he lost his big chance in life by not hav-
ing been taught good table manners"
This sort of thing happens continually.
We are repul.ed by people or attracted to
them; we deny them their rights, to throw
favors to them, simply because they have
bad manners or good manners. A man
once wrote and asked Henry Ward
Beecher il it was proper to eat peas with
his knife, Beecher replied that very
great genius might venture to do so but
it wasn't safe for anybody who wasn't
sure be was genius to risk it if he
wished to be well thought of by his fellow
creatures.
That view of good manners still holds
true. A man who is q wizard OF doctor,
or profoundly versed in the law, or who
has the superlative stock of goods in
town, may fout the conventions and
defy the rules of etiquette, and get
away with it, possibly, but unless one is
very sure that he or she is world wonder
it is worth while to cultivate good man.
ners as the best known method OF
achieving success.
We may find that the man who keeps
his hat on while he talks to a woman
and who lets her stand while he sits, has
really q noble nature. We may find that
the man who eats with his knife has q
heart Of gold, and the one who merely
grunts when you speak to him, is q
graduate of half dozen universities, but
most of us have been so disgusted at the
surface manners OF these people that we
never take the trouble to get any better
acquainted with them. We turn in.
stinctively to the sauve, agreeable in.
dividual who does not grasp our sensi
bilities. Nobody makes pet of procu
pine. It's the nice, soft, silky cat that
we stroke the right way, and feed upor
cream.
OF course the supposition is that tn,
teaching OF good manners is something
that Should be done in the home, antt
that parents should instruct their childrel
while they are still in the nursery in al
the arts of gracious conduct. We ignor
the fact that there are thousands upoi
thousands of children in our publ
. schools who come from homes where tn
! struggle to get something to eat pre-
/ cludes any thought of how it should b
eaten, and where the fathers and tn
/, mothers know nothing OF the amenitie
] Of life-only its struggle.
= If these children are to learn any goo
D manners, they must be taught them j
$ the public schools, and what better ca
the public schools teach children tha
: how to act like ladies and gentlemen
] how to be courteous and considerate an
, gentle Of speech and manner?
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28

feast at the long tables spread under
the trees and filled with food the for
est witch and the mountain witch and
all the magic folk were invited.
The FAIRIES came, too, but no one
saw them, for either in Che form Of
flowers or butterflies or some other
shape than their own these good little
creatures fitted hither and thither
among the guests, all unsuspected.
But they did not all stay in the gar
den. The Fairy Queen in the form of
beautiful gold and black butterfly
found her way to the lace cradle of the
little Princess and left her birthday gift
in the baby Princess heart, the gift of
goodness and kindness.
The baby was so beautiful that the
Fairy Queen saw no need for adding
more and so away she flew and took
all OF her fairies with her when she
passed through the garden.
The feasting was almost at an end
and many Of the guests were gone
when at the gate of the Palace there
appeared on a tan colored horse q
creature dressed in long black cloak,
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28
THE PRINCESS WITH ONE EYE.

PartI.
When the stork brought to the King
and Queen at the Palace little daughter
the King gave great feast in honor Of
the occasion.
Little Princess Stella was Just like
all other babies when the stork brought
her to the Palace. She was dainty
and sweet and all pink and white.
In those days there lived witches
and fairies in the forests and the Kings
and Queens while they did not fear
them, never sighted any of them when
a public feast or merry-making took
place.
So when the Palace grounds were
thrown open and everybody was in
vited to dance on the green lawns and
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28

No ono spoke on moved, 70 crest
was tho spen OF fear that waa thrown
over all the servants and the gueSts,
and spellbound thsy watched a. tho
Witch OF the Winds slowly arose from
the back OF tho tan colored hoyss and
with the black cat under her arm
sailed over their heads straight for
tho window Of the room where rested
in her cradle tho little Princess Stella.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-08-28
MAN ABUSED KITTEN;
WIFE ENDS HER LIFE
BY Associated Press to Every Evening.

BY Associated Press to Every Evening.
Cleveland, Aug. 2S.-Because her
husband Kicked her pet kitten
around" Mrs. Rose Sipos. 27, is dead.
She died in a hospital Saturday from
a bullet wound self-infiicted. Thursday
night. Sipos was fondling the kitten
when it scratched him.
Mrs. Sipos became angry when he
struck the feline. and fired a bullet
into her abdomen.