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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
The Spring Urge.

Cleaning campaigns are an excellent insti-
tuition, one of the finest examples of organ
lied social effort. Properly carried out, they
have an effect that is not confined to the
streets, parks and private premises, but ex-
tends to the mind and soul of the community
Il is not necessary, however, to let the pro-
cess depend organization or await an Off
cial proclamation. Dull must be the spirit
and ambition of the man who does not feel
the divine urge as his women folks to
get to work putting things in order when
spring comes. The season of SHOWS and ice
is over, leaving everywhere traces Of ugliness
Nature is doing her best to cover up the ugli-
ness, but why leave it all to her?
Women are cleaning indoors, but why let
them have monopoly? Surely de-
serves a yard or a house of his own who will
not clean the rubbish away from the one and
give the other paint, varnish and general re-
pair work as it needs it and is within his
power. Moreover, without clean and we'll
ordered yard there can be vegetable and
flower garden. Unemployment affords rare
opportunity in millions of homes for this
wholesome process. Better clean up and start
a garden while there's time. Soon everybody
may be busy at his regular job.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
Somebody Is Wrong.

Two presidents of great railroads have re-
Gently asserted that the government did not
guarantee railroad incomes for the six months
following federal control of the transportation
system. Senator A B. Crmmins. one of the
authors of the much debated, condemned and
commended Cummins-Esch law, explains that
the predieament of the railroads now can be
largely attributed to the fact that the rail-
road administration did not return the prop
critics to their owners in a condition to be
self-sustaiaing.
The administration not only imposed on
the railroads most unpopular and unnsess-
sary duty of asking rate Increases said the
senator, "eut imposed congress the neces-
slty OF providing guarantee for the six
months following federal CONTROL AS author
OF the law, Senator cummins should know
whereof he speaks. As presidents of the rail-
roaas the executives should know whereof
they speak Yet the railroads and the law
maker fatty eeHtradiet one another. some
body surely is vruuS.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
Government and Civil Service.

Recent Wholesale dismissals of executives
from the bureau of engraving and printing at
Washington is regarded by stieklers for eff
cheney in federal service as a severe blow to
the merit rule generally. The incident has re-
suited in call for meeting in Washington
of the National Civil Service Reform league
and other interested organizations. The Hard
ing administration has explained that the dis
miEsals from the bureau were for the good of
the service 1t has been charged that sys-
tenn of favoritism and gross abuse and waste
had grown up in the bureau. and it was neees-
sary. in order to conserve the efficiency of the
plant and the welfare of its employed person
mel, to effect the changes that have taken place.
On the other hand those dismissed and
THAR friends are charging that the removals
were effected in order to pay party political
debts, that they were in direct violation of the
civil services rules under which the dismissed
workers were serving Doubtless some inter
esting facts will be brought to light at the
forthcoming Washington meeting The Hard
ing administration may take the position
that it is representing the whole American
pecple. and net any particular organization
of employees. and that it is within its rights
when il makes changes in the working forces of
any governmental department Yet the civil
service organizations may be able to show that
In the instance OF the bureau OF engraving and
printing the axe was welded not bseause of
inefficiency Of employees, but in order to salts
~ the demands Of senators ana congressman
with friends 10 reward.
1t is probable that no administration has
enforced strict adherence to the civil service
rules. yet it would seem the just thing to do.
The United States government is a large bust
ness institution supported BY the people. and
accountable to the people. not to any one po-
litical party. The people have unmistakably
Impressed this fact in elections when party
that has defisd the wishes OF the electcrate has
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
A Sermon on Advertising.

Fred P Mann of DEVILS Lake. N. D. should
write book on how on less than two thouss nd
dollars worth of merchandise he grew a yearly
business of over $685. coo. Newspaperdom re-
ferred to Mann's remarkable business success
some time ago. and We note in a recent issue of
National Advertising that Manns business in
1921 amounted to $685. 900 Any man who
could start in business practically on shoe
string, but with very definite idea of the
value of advertising, back in 1891, in town
of 5000 people, and develop business that is
talked of all over the United States should tell
the story of how he did it for the benefit of pcs
terity. says Newspaperdom. Since Mann cred
its considerable percentage of his great bust
ness success to advertising there are many
thousands of merchants who would gladly pay
good price for book of which he was the
author. The marvellous business record OF
Fred p Mann is sound testimony of the eff
cheney of advertising even when applied
to a small country store, carrying at the start
81 500 worth of merchandise purchased on
credit
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18

WE like Oatmeals ballad of Rock Island.
We like ii so much we wish it had tune that
it might be sung-not by US. of course, but by
som cone who sing On the sober s. t.,
this would seem an inopportune time to boost
this ballad. for old Mississip' is threatening to
send his melodious waters singing around the
legs of the kitchen tables and into the record
compartments OF the family victrolas out in
the west end of town.
MORE THAN 20 OF EM?. GOSH! WHAT A
DEVOTED WIFE
Dear Mac: Your selloquy IN the late issue
of the diary of the P. B. Ass, stirs ne to action
hasn't given me interested eer.
The reports of my death have been" etc,
as Mark 7. would remark under like circum-
stances.
ing wolf has been lowering near my door! You
know darned we'll it don't pay to monkey with
that old hellion.
Worst of all, the wild melee to round I'D
the SC. honest dollar has led nae in places
where the Tombstone is unwept and unsung
But now, thank heaven, the spring trip is
finished: the gladstone is in the attic and the
81. o. !. valuable commission checks are paus-
ing, Just that, in the custody of Jesse j.
Castsel
A eng narrow pile in front of me contains
tWenty-odd Tin number only Tombstones,
clipped and carefully saved by my better seven
elghths. After Stoneless month. / read and
am bewildered Sonneteerng seems to be the
great freside sport, and the fondest thing the
clientele is Of Strike me pink, Old thing, it's
deep stuff,
Fourteen lines on dead mans chest,
70 heaVe no! and a bottle of rum
For me at this season of the year? Well,
reply to the Thrush. A mite too serious, per-
haps but a good spring tonic.
Congrats and Bravo. Mac, your com
plete recovery SCoRPIo.
WHAT is the difference" Calcitrosus asks
Keith Preston in the Chicago News. between
Lord taketh the simple out of the dust FPS
1880 and the confidence maxwell, he taketh
the dust out of the simple
GO on, rain, and see if care,v muttsres
Babe Ruth in his Achilles tent.-RIQ, Chicago
Post, April IL
RACED. Babe Ruth hath nothing on me-" he
said-GEoRGE PHAIR. Hexanafner ApriI *
The Hearst choir will now rise and sing
Where He Leads I'll Follow.
A PEORIA police magistrate sentenced an
srring husband to take care Of his children an
hour each day. help his wife prepare breakfast
each morning and wash the dishes every night
There were nine other mandates In The list
but the three quoted ought to be suf6cjent
grounds upon which TO impeach this police
judge.
She Arei Well. Aren't That Nice!
tChipost Sassiety Coli
Mrs Philip Citing. 1T Bellevue place
with her children are at French IieL
Springs for 10 days.
CARDS distributed at Terrace Gardens read
thus: ITO our patrons kindly helm MS ahev
the law. 1t is violation to bring and serve
your own Any party wilfully violating the
law will be asked 20 leave"
Only in ease, however" howevers Red
that il is wilful violation"
THEY'RE wearing white kniehers At At
lsntic City and Jane Compton can't "rspress a
shuddeF as the imagination leaps toward the
heated term. It's SO easy to turn a knicKer
into a snickeF"
Not easier. however. than the time-henored
male pastiune of turning to rubber.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Another Alfruistic Trade.

Isn't all this noise about the poi
sonous" effect of hooch just prohi-
bition stuff? 1t doesn't seem tc
iibe with the facts one observes
every day. NJ. r.
Ans er-Hooch, according to
good chemists and health authori-
ties, as well as coroner's. police
and morgue records, is killing right
up to it's reputation. Why monkey
with buzz saw?
Spinach.
Please tell Inc whether spinach
is of any particular value in the
diet c. o. F.
Answer-So far. as fuel value, as
measured by the heat calories, is
concerned, spinach is not nutri-
tious, but as relish or as greens
it is the superlative. 1t has most
wholesome influence on intestinal
digestion. Spinach is one of ma
lures mild laxatives. Spinach is
rich in all three vitamines, perhaps
being the top of the list of human
foods as Source of vitamins.
Waiter SCOTS Paralysis.
Can you tell me whether the
limp of Sir Walter Scott was an
instance of marking. as defend
ers of the idea of antenatal impress
sions assert? J. P.
Answer-According to Sir Wal
ter's own testimony it was caused
by an attack of poliomyelitis lin
fantile paralysis) which he suffer
ed when IS months old. Uock-
hart's Life of Sir Walter Scott, p.
131
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
HEALTH TALKS
By William Brady, NJ. [
Noted Physician ard Aurnor.

ing of corsets or other orthopedic
apparatus on young girls at the
very time when they need proper
physical development, the placing
of sso-called shoulder braces On
poorly trained children without
medical advice, and permitting
young girls to wear high narrow
heels. are all factors of round shoul-
ders and spinal curvature.
Active recess play out of doors
every forenoon and afternoon, base
bali, basketball, running, \ gymna-
SUM and athletic field work, and
spontaneous unsupervised open air
games on the Fairgrounds are the
best preventives of such deformi-
ties. 1t is regrettable that SO many
mothers of girls permit the young
ones to acquire health destroying,
ladylike dignity in their early teens
when the girls Should still be in
terested in wholesome play.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
Round shoulders.


The considerable weight of head.
neck, arms and shoulders IS sup
ported by the flexible spine in the
standing and sitting pastures. When
the spinal erector muscles. which
straighten up the spine. are weak
or poorly developed through neg
lect of education. the shoulders
droop forward. bending the neck
and back with them. The deform-
ity thus produced is called stoop
shoulders, round shoulders, slant
shoulders, round back, fat chest.
bowed back, SLOUGH posture. or. IL
Won can pay about 40 per visit,
HYPNOSIS. When the muscular de-
feet is greater on one side, so that
deviation from normal posture is
10 one side, the deformity is known
as lateral curvature of the spine,
or scoliosis. In the earlier forma-
ton of these vicious postural de-
fects the deformity is almost al
ways remediable by proper exer-
else, but when the child's education
is sadly neglected, as in most COM
mon schools even where farcical
physical training is perpetrated to
comply with the letter of the law,
the deformity is likely to become
fixed and irremediable unless by
radical surgical treatment.
DR.. R. TAFT Mckenzie, professor
of physical education in the Uni
ersity of Pennsylvania, in his ex-
cellent book on Exercise in Edu-
cation and Medicine" wv. B. Saun-
ders Co.. Philadelphia, says that
the requirement OF q fixed position
in school for more than a few min
utes at time is an important cause
of this defornity. THE child's
restlessness in school," writes Pro-
fessor Mckenzie, lis his only means
of protest, and is the object of much
misapplied correction by those
school teachers who believe that
quietness and goodness are syn
onymous.
Professor Mckenzie is a gentle
man and does not say old maid
school teachers, but l am no pro-
fessor and that is what l call teach
ers who still use the antique sup
preston system. Round shoulders
constitute an appeal for adequately
trained teachers. for teachers who
are themselves mothers, or at least
not child haters. There is still far
too much old main business in our
schools.
III fitting school furniture (seats
and desks not adapted or adjusted
to the child's height, long contin-
ued writing at the desk, the plac-
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18

Q.-Has Lord HortneIiffe ever
the United States? E. F. H.
A Lord Northcliffe does not
own a newspaper in the United
States, but on the occasion of a
visit to this country in 1900 he was
given charge for one day of a New
York daily and published it as a
quarto, the form he considers news
papers should adopt.
@. What can be grown on land
when the original crop has been
ruined by flood? ]. T. D.
A. The most promising crop
universally from a late planting is
cowpeaS. Some varieties of soy
beans, sorghum. German millet and
Sudan grass are also successfully
grown from late paintings.
Q. Has a negro ever been gradu-
ated from Annapolis? E B.
A. A history of the United
States Naval academy shows that
no negro has. ever been graduated.
The first negro was appointed to
it in 1872. One was appointed in
1873 and another in 1874 E T.
Holley who is now Naval acad-
envy candidate, will be the fourth
negro to enter the institution if he
passes the examinations.
@. How many two penny nails
are there in a pound? T s.
A. Smooth wire two penny nails
run almost exactly 1000 to the
pound
Q. What was the Nashville con-
vention? E R.
A The Nashville convention
was convention of delegates fom
southern states, held June 10. 1850
at Nashville, Tenn. to consider the
slavery question and the encroach-
ments of northern abolitionists,
Q. What is the national hymn of
Canada? G. l. T.
A. 1.-The Maple Leaf Forever, -
words and music by Alexander
Muir, is the national hymn of Can
ada.
@. Where is the largest tele-
scope in the world: N. M.
A. The largest reflecting tele-
scope in the world is the one at
the Canadian government Iabora-
tory On Little Sani.eh Hill, six
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
The Daily Short Story

to finish it all before mamma sees
Say. pa. someone's tapping on
| the window" All l could see was
a hand, first, then Mr. Jones head
! Jones must have sneaked up the
/ back stairs and onto the piazza
without anybody seeing him.
Little boys" whispered father
as he tiptoed to the window.
Get me? Sn- An, there, Mr.
Jones-eYerything is o. k
Got the paste?" whispered Mr.
Jones, climbing through the win
dow
"Yup," said pa And Mr.. Jones
put on q pair OF white overalls.
! Mighty good of you, Jones. Tell
the truth, 1 didn't dare tackle the
blooming thing alonei Not but
what I'd get by-but you know
, Tilly-man alive, how she took on
when l sprung I'd do the papering
myself"
She said you was a smart Alec, -
giggled |, and father was mad as a
/ hornet.
! Mr.. Jones told pa "Tuttut." and
that it was all right and that he
was glad to help. They laid the
paper on our kitchen table and M
Jones cut off one edge, cut them
in strips-that is, the paper in
strips, and told pa to paste EN- and
he'd hang 'em. Geai it didn't take
most covered. He stayed on tie
ladder and pa handed him the
strips.
Pa was pasting to beat the fly
ing horses when | heard ma COM
ing down the hall. l told pa. and
he hurried to give a long strip to
Mr.. Jones, and somehow he got
tangled up ard slipped on the
pasty side. He grabbed the lad
der, and Mr.. Jones said cuss
word, but that didn't stop him, and
next minute down came Mr. Jones,
ladder, brushes and everything, Oh
top of pa.
Mercy" yelled ma, banging the
door. What on earth are you
doing?"
Don't you get off that thing"
whispered pa at me, trying to get
out from under Mr.. Jones and pull
the paper off his neck. YOU
George, open that door"
| stuck until ma banged a chair
against the door and knocked me
and the old horse over.
Ma burst into the room. She
paid no attention to pa. but puileI
the paper off Mr.. Jones' face, and
when she saw who it was she lit
into him, just as if he was pa.
What does this mean, Mr..
Jones?"
"Mean?" snapped Mr.. Jones, red
as a beat and hunting for his neck
tie. Means like as not I've brok-
en- my collar bone!"
He helped DIa and me get pa up,
but pa sat down again.
Next time. George. don't ring
me in on anything you're afraid to
tackle yourself Another thing. I
wouldn't stick this cdnfou nded
looking stuff on wall for any
man living; not by a joyful.
think too much of my reputation.
Ma was holding pas head in her
lap.
I'll paper the blamed thing or
bust!" muttered pa. rubbing his
shoulder. I'm going to have a
den, and have it the way I want
it."
NO, George, you're not!'
I'm not? Well, why Amt Ter
asked poor pa. kind of feeble like.
Cause her letter Just came, and
Aunt Mary's coming back!''
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18

miles from Victoria. B. c. The
glass for this telescope was made
lin Belgium, but was polished IN
Pittsburgh, Pa. The objective has
a measurement of y inches. The
largest refracting telescope is at
the Yerkes observatory, Williams
| Bay. Wis. The object glass meas
/ urement is 40 inches.
Q. What was Nat Turner's re-
bellion? n. A. B.
A. A negro insurrection at
Southampton, Va, in 1881. was
known at Nat Turner's rebellion,
| taking the name of its leader. a
slave, who claimed to have been
/ chosen by God to free the colored
race.
@. When were the first jury
| trials in America? A. Fl. d.
A. The first jury trials were
those when Jehu Robinson and
John Smith sued the deposed presi-
dent Wingfield of the jamestown
colony on September II, 1907, and
! recovered damages
@. When does the Jewish New
Year come and what date Will It
be? R. r.
A. The Jewish New Year in 1929
occurs on Saturday, September %.
II is known in the Jewish calen-
| dar as the first day OF Tishri, 56S2.
The celebration of this day begins
on Friday, the twenty-second, and
ends at shutdown on the twenty
F; third.
@. Under what head would you
class edible snaiIs? H. z.
A Snails are classed as she'll
fish.
Q. At what army field has the
| most flying been done? ]. r. A.
| a The air service says that
Post field, Fort Sill. Oklahoma
holds the record. with total time
/ flown by pilots at the field, $3.50
! hours at IS miles an hour, or $685.
I GEO miles Easing computation
On two men to a plane. the mai
mile total would be 1.672.120 miles
/ or approximately 81 times the dis
lance around the earth.
@. How long has wood engraving
been known? P. c.
! A. Wood engraving was inventor
iby Cunio, an Italian. about the
year 1885.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18
FATHERS DEN.
BIZ Vivian CasseD Burbank.

Copyright, 1922. by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Incl
1 wanted the kind with the hunt
ing scenes, and ma picked out the
one with the moss roses.
Who ever heard of papering a
den with rosas?" shifted pa.
Il have" said ma.
Yes" grunted father doubtful
Iy, but you never saw one"
Ma muttered something about
expecting to see lots of things shed
heard about. She piled all our
socks in a basket and put it in the
closet.
I'm not over crazy about hay
ing a den, anyway"
Maybe you're not" Pa threw
his paper down on the table, dis
gusted like. IF your Aunt Mary
hadn't camped with US for two
years, we'd had a den, then, and I'd
had one room in the house that |
could sit in in peace! Can't smoke
in the kitchen, might suffocate the
canary. Cant light up in the din
ing room, or the parlor; mustn t
spoil the curtains, or turn the sill
yer, I'll tell you right now. Tiilie,
that I'm doggone sick and tired of
trotting down three flights of
stairs every time l want to smoke !
Sit there on an old butter tub and
we'll, I'm sick of it-and I'm 60
ing to have a dem"
"There'll be NO curtains"
NO. you BET there won't! Csnar-
les either!"
But, George. we won't have any
guest chamber"
Thank the heaven for that -
draWled father. There won't be
any place for the company to park,
and we'll be so much in"
Say pa, can't We have the hunt
ing paper?"
mo, I've picked out the paper
with the country scenes, brindle
cows and all that | hunted all
over town for a peaceful and rest
full paper
"Scenes, did you say!" asked ma,
innocently. Country graye
yards?"
That's it," snapped pa, take the
Joy out of it, Seeing that I'm pay
ing the rent on this place, Mrs.
Winslow, l guess l can have some
thing to say about the wall paper,
can't I?''
Far be it from me to stop you
from having your say. But | must
say | don't admire your taste. Aunt
Mary just hates cowsi"
mo? By joye, that's so, too"
Pa and tried scraping the pa
per off the best we could with ma 5
bread knife, and a screw driver.
Then someone told pa to soak the
walls. and we soaked EN-, all
right It ran down on the mop
boards. and pas got to varnish 'em
all over, besides paying for the
ceiling to be whitewashed under
meath US.
When the paper came we took it
into Aunt Mary's room, or what's
going to be the den, now that Aunt
Mary's gone back home. and it
sure is swell paper There's i
church. and rivers, and a lot of
cows. and, well, ma laughed and
laughed, and said it gave her the
horrors
Pa told her he could do lots bet
ter If she'd leave the room.
But Ma was bound she'd stick.
and said lot she cared, but to
keep the peace she'd go cut. She
brought In the paste and then
went out and left us.
Lock that door" pa said to me,
but thsre was no key, so he put a
wooden horse against the door and
made me sit on it.
Jimmy, you sit there says pa,
an if you should hear mamma
coming, tell me. You see, I want
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18

Attempt to embellish nature are often dis
astrous To illustrate: She breezed along
Second avenue. Her bobbed hair was bleaehed
her skirts were shorter than they should have
been and her hosiery was immodestly loud.
She was 20 and thought she looked it. But
she didn't. She looked more like rs
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18

reliable writer, who has gone over the
situation thoroughly and analytically, gives it
as his opinion that what Europe is suffering
most from now is "spoils politics" and that
the ill is with the domestic side of the countries
involved in the Genoa conference rather than of
an International character. And yet there are
people who pretend to think that President
Harding has purpose to return this country
to such perils,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-18

Governor Small, who months ago demanded
an immediate trial in order TO have an oppor-
tunity to establish his innocence OF the charges
returned against him by grand jury yester-
day again proved the earnestness of that re-
quest by securing another weeks delay of his
case in the court at Waukegan The governor
is acting very much like the small boy who
doesn't like the doctors medicine