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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
The Argus
Business
Review
(By Consolidated Press.)
Telegraphie dispatches from
nations important Centers
giving Business. News and
Reviews of Interest and I'm
pOrtance to Producer and
Consumer.
CHICAGO.


Chicago, Feb. 1.-The farmers
are in better state of mind. Their
buying power is still at a low ebb
and there probably will be little
real change in this respect until
the new crops are in, but his out
look toward the future has i'm
proved. A careful survey of bust
ness conditions throughout this en-
tire district shows fundamental
soundness and improvement. Pro-
duction is increasing in many lines
although the total employment fig
ures show little change. Living
costs are falling slowly and people
are more inclined to buy. Money
is easy but there were too many
factors which contributed to the
depression of business for low
money rates to restore at once to
normal.
The labor controversy in Chicago
is in a critical stage. The building
trades wage, awards of Judge h. M.
Lands, arbitrator, are under fur
ther review. Building operations
are at a standstill, although it is
iDtimated a satisfactory adjust
ment is in sight Nothing could do
so much to improve conditions here
as to put the 10000 men now idle
| to work.
| For the moment drygoods jobbers
are pessimistic. Bargain hunters
are plentiful and retailers are
/ looking forward to an increased
trade but just at present there is
more planning than buying for the
! future.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
CANADAL0ANS
MONEY TO VETS
More Than $S7,000y0O0 Given Sol.
diers Who Settled on Land
Under Provisions of Act

Ottawa, Ont, Feb. 1.-Exactiy
81 ,371 Canadian war veterans have
been settled on the land under the
provisions of the Soldier Settlement
act, says an official report by the
Dominion government
OF these, q ,246 have been granted
government loans totalIing S87, 7,495.-
815, an average of more than 1000
per settler, for the purchase Of
land, permanent improvements
thereon, stock and taking about
three weeks.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01

Fresno, Calf, Feb. 1.-More than
a hundred persons stranded by
CALIFORNIA; recent record snow
along the ridge route, much trav-
eled highway from Los Angeles
north, had been rescued or ac-
counted for, according to a special
dispatch from Representatives Of
the Fresno Republican, early to-
day.
The newspaper men fought their
way along a great part of the route
in an automobile and on foot. A
rescue truck sent out by the Auto
mobile club of Southern California
had provided 80 stranded automc-
bile parties with food, they re-
ported.
Automobile club officials express
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
PURDUE FIRES
STAR ATHLETE
Don s. White, All-WeStern Basket.
ball Guard. Is Disqualified for
SeIni-PrO Playing.

Lafayette, Ind, Feb. 1.-(By the
associated Press. Don S. White,
Ali-Western conference basketball
guard, today was disqualified from
further athletic competition at
Purdue university, for playing
sem-professional baseball and bas-
ketball.
The disqualification of White vir-
tually wrecked the chances of Pur-
due in the western conference bas-
ketbal race. Purdue is now tied
with Minnesota for first place. but
tne loss of White was described by
athletic Director Kellogg as ruin
ing the team. White has been
named by many sports writer's as
he best guard in the country.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01

Springfield, Ill, Feb. 1.-Appre-
hension behind their outward show
Of confidence prevented sponsors of
county representation from calling
for a vote on the proposal immedi-
ately after the constitutional con-
vention reconvened yesterday, op-
ponents of the plan asserted today.
~ believe county representation
is doomed to defeat" said Oscar E.
Carlstrom, of Aledo, one of the
leaders of the small downstate bloc
opposed to the proposal.
In order to muster every avail
able vote, advocates of the plan
were likely to ask for a roll call
before night, it was said today.
Delegate J. Mack Tanner, of
Flora, upon whom hackers of the
county representation depend for
support, was in a Springfield hos
pital waiting to be carried into the
convention hall on stretcher when
the time comes to call the roll. His
family objected to his removal TO
the capitol building at night, it
was said, and for this reason many
delegates were expecting an early
roll call today.
Advocates Hopeful
Both sides in the controversy
carefully weighed every vote, and
while opponents of county repre-
sentation expressed the belief that
the proponents could not possibly
muster more than 81 votes-one
less than a majority ty-adVocates Of
the plan said they were still hope
full
Defeat of county representation
viii result in immediate considera-
tion of a proposal, similar to the
Garrett proposition which was re-
jected in June, 1920, it was said.
The revised substitute, which fol-
lowers of Delegates Carlstrom and
Trautmann are expected to support,
provides for 81 senatorial districts,
10 of which would be located in
Cook county Membership in the
lower house would be apportioned
to districts on the basis of voting
population.
New Proposal.
Under this plan Cook county
would always be limited to one
third in the senate and would not
have a majority of tho house MEM
bership until its voting population
increased to the point where the
Cook county districts would be en-
titled to more members by virtue
OF the appOrtionment plan
Lower house membership from
downstate districts would likewise
vary according to the growth of
tho voting population
This proposal will probably be Of
fered by one OF the downstate oppo-
nents of county representation who
hold the balance of power in the
impending battle over the county
unit plan.
Il believe the constitution will
be approved by the people," said
Delegate Caristrom today, "but it
would be calamity to have it in
ciude this county representation
plan"
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
INLAND STEEL
PROFITS DROP
COmpany's Deficit is $503,23s After
Paying 81 Per Share in
Dividends.

Chicago, Feb. 1.-The Inland
Steel company's report for the year
ending Dec. 81. 1921, made public
today, shows net profits of s510,72S
compared with $4,107,060 in 1920,
and $10,535,067 in 1917. The 1921
profit was equal to about so cents a
share on the 1,S13,259 shares out
standing. After payment of 81 a
share dividends the years deficit
was $503, ,236.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
TO SEND GRID MEN
TO ERIN OLYMPIAD

Chicago. Feb. 1.-Preparations to
send a football team and athletes
to Dublin to compete in the Irish
OIympiad this summer are being
made by the Irish-American Ath-
letic club of Chicago, it became
known today. A meeting to COM
pIete plans will be held Sunday, it
was announced.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
TWO KILLED IN
RAIL COLLISION
Engineer and Fireman on r. & d.
Passenger Die in Head-0n
Smash With Freight.

Noble, Ill. Feb. IA head-ou
collision between an eastbound
passenger train No. 81. and a west
bound merchandise freight train on
the Baltimore &. Ohio railroad kill-
ed the fireman and engineer OF The
former last night, a few miles east
of here No passengers were re-
ported seriously injured. ThG
cause Is undetermined.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
FORD PLANT IN
EAST is BURNED
Oily Rag in Drying Oven Causes
S200y0OO Blaze; SpOiIs Plan to
Re-Hire 1,S0O Men.

Kearney, n. J., Feb. 1.-Omcials
of the Ford Motor company said
today that the loss from a fire
which damaged the plant here last
night probably would reach $780,
900. The blaze started when an
oily rag, left among 200 carbides in
a drying oven, caught fire.
The company had planned to
re-hire today 1, 500 former employees
and increase the output Of the
plant.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
FLAYs WESTERN BANKERS.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The depart
ment of agriculture charged that
the banks of the corn belt had dis
criminated against growers of live
stock by using funds advanced by
the war finance corporation for ag-
ricultural purposes to liquidate
debts to the federal resarge hoxFA
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
AGED JAPANESE
'CENRO' ISDEAD
Field Marshal Prince famagata
One of slider Statesmen,
Dies at 81.

London, Feb. Field Marshal
Prince Yamagata, one of the few
remaining of Japan's -Genro,~ or
elder statesmen, died at his home
in Odawara today, says. an Ex-
change Telegraph dispatch from
Toxic. He Was in hiSS4th yeaE- !
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
HOLDUP VICTIM
SHOT, KILLED
G. Z. Bennett, 80, Middle Grove,
Ill, Slain by Bandit ut
Deer of Own Home.

Peoria, Ill, FEB. 1-G. E Ben
nett, 30 years old, was shot and
seriously wounded late last night
at Middle Grove, ILL.,, near here. by
a man who attempted to hold him
Lgp at tho rear door OF his Aama.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
SENATE PASSES DEBT BILL.

Washington, Feb. 1.-The senate
passed the bill authorizing the re-
funding of the $11, 5000 900, 900 for
eign debt into securities maturing
in not more than 25 years.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
TO END MEAT STRIKE.

Chicago, Feb. 1.-HeadQuarters
of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters
and Butcher Workmen of North
America recommended the immed-
late calling off of the strike OF
packing house employees.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
The WEATHER

Snow tonight followed by cold
wave, with temperature about 10
degrees above zero Thursday
morning. Thursday generally fair
and colder. Strong winds becom-
ing northwest.
Highest temperature yesterday,
so; lowest last night, Al.
Wind velocity at Z a. m II miles
per hour.
Precipitation last "a hours, .15
inch.
yester yester. today
12m. 7p.m- am
Dry bulb tenn. 81 A a
| Wet bulb tenn. "a SO ~
Rel humid Ill 60 81
River stage at Z a. N. 3-9, a fall
of L last "a hours.
Sunset today, SIS p. m; sunrise
tomorrow, 7.15 a. m.
ANDREW HAMRICK.
Meteorologist
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
WANT SOME GOOD
ALCOHOL? GET 1T
FROM THE GAS JET

Decatur. H.. Feb. DIR. e
X. Darling, head of the Nillikin
university chemistry Depart
ment, today announced that he
had been able to produce pure
grain alcohol from Illuminating
gas.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
SEE DEFEAT
OF COUNTY
REP PLAN
Adoption by Con Con
Would Be Calamity,
Carlstrom Says.

Springfield, Ill, Feb. Del
egates in the constitutional
convention have agreed to vote
on @county representation" at
four O'Clock this afternoon.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
NEW ORLEANS.

New Orleans, Feb. 1.-The fear
that the south will have to sell at a
sacrifice about six million bales of
cotton of a carried-over crop is
depressing commercial life in this
section. Spinners have already
bought an amount of cotton prac-
tically equal to last years produc-
ton but the vast quantity held over
from the previous year is still on
hand and the only outlet for it IS
Europe. Unless the purchasing
power abroad is increased greatly
in the near future it is felt that
this cotton will have to be sold at
a big loss. The decline in cotton
since the first of the year from IS
to 15 cents has SO upset business
that no one is disposed to buy far
ahead until improvement is again
in sight, and collections are CORE
spondingly slow. Both producers
and handlers of cotton feel that
the recent decline is the result of
the failure of world conditions to
improve as rapidly as expected.
Business men in this section have
been expecting the Washington ad-
ministration to accomplish in some
manner a speedy improvement in
conditions abroad and disappoint-
ment in the results is keenly felt
and very widespread.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
David
Lawrence
Says:

Harding, Hoover and Cuban
Sugar Producers Much Con-
cerRed About Price OF Amer
ica's Greatest Household
Necessity; Producers Want
q Boost in Price, But Say 1t
Shouldn't Go Beyond 6 Cents
a Pound; Ques It ion Has
Usual Political Aspect.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
PACT TEXT
GIVEN OUT
BY HUGHES
Outlines Terms; Says In
tegTity of Original Plan
Is Maintained.

Complete draft of naval linz
itatiOn treaty is printed ON
page. 15.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-02-01
PHILADELPHIA.

Philadelphia, Feb. 1.-The wool
en- branches of the textile industry
in this section are f1ourishing.
Knitting yarns are in active de-
mand with fairly large sales being
recorded Carpet and rug manu-
facturers are extremely busy. Will
tons and Administers have been
sold far ahead and advances in the
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A National Theater for the Capital?

international conference, are likely to
base their opinion of American culture
and civilization upon what they sec
in the capital of the nation. They are
accustomed In their own countries to
the magnificent structures for the pro-
duction Of the drama, and If they do
not find similar facilities for the en-
couragement Of art in the United
States, they can hardly be blamed IL
tlsy give some credence to the old
slander that Americas Is dollar
civilization and that Americans excel
only in the mechanical arts and SCI
ences'
Mr.. Kerans believes that the de-
velopment Of national drama Is one
Of the best possible forces tending to-
ward the AmericaniZation Of the varied
elements Of our population. 1t can
be made a medium through which the
salient, inspiring facts Of our history
can be brought home to the conscious
ness of the foreign-born citizen. The
government would be justified In tax.
ing up the project Of a national thea
ter as means of combating the spread
OF insidiouS radical doctrineS
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mixture Of turpentine and alcohol. 1t
gave a much brighter light than whale
oil, but was dangerous on account of
its explosive nature, and consequently
was never very popular.
Kerosene was first procurable In
commercial quantities about the time
Of the Civil war, and the ordinary ker-
osene lamp Is still the chief illuminant
in territories where electricity and gas
are not as yet available.
% In 1879 came the "incandescent"
electric lamp invented by Thomas A.
Edison. In the autumn of 1877 Edison
announced his intention Immediately
to devote himself to the problem Of
producing n commercially practicable
electric lamp.
His triumph came on October 81,
1879. On that date, after persistent
labor, Edison succeeded in carbonizing
q piece of cotton sewing thread bent
into d loop of horseshoe shape. This
he sealed in a glass bulb which had
been exhausted until very high vac
uum was produced. For forty hours
after the circuit was closed, the bright
ly incandescent. filament remained in
tact.
Not being satisfied with this form Of
filament Edison began to carbonize
everything in nature that he could
think of. He wanted a material that,
when carbonized, would be uniform
and homogeneous. AS he looked
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Economy May Strike Remount Service

the year in cooperation with farmers,
as 1t has been found that the most
desirable type Of horse for army use
is exactly the type best fitted for
farm work. =
A message to Col. F. S. Armstrong,
chief of the. remount service, signed
by representatives Of more than 40
horse breeders organizations In the
New England states, New York and
Pennsylvania, said the work carried
on by the service is "of incalculable
value to the horse-breeding industry
Of the country"
1--WE especially protest" 1t said,
against the proposal to abandon the
remount depot at Front Royal, Va,
the only remount depot in the east or
SOUTH"
The Utah Cattle and Horse Growers
association transmitted resolution
indorsing plans Of the remount service
and urging congressional support Of
this work.
The service was allowed $15O,OO0 In
the current army bill, reduction from
S25O,000 the year before, and plans
for the coming fiscal year contemplate
continued operation Of three depots-
Front Royal. Fort Robinson, Neb., and
Fort Reno, Okla.
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Supreme Court Upholds Woman Suffrage

CONSTITUTIONALITY of the wom-
- ans suffrage, or nineteenth,
amendment was sustained by the
Supreme court In a unanimous decision
rendered by Justice Brandeis.
The challenge came from the state
Of Maryland, where Oscar Lester and
others sought to prevent the regis
tration of two women as qualified
voters in Baltimore. Lester and his
associates contended that the consti-
tuition of Maryland limited suffrage
to men, that the legislature Of Mary
land had refused to ratify the wom-
ans suffrage amendment and that
the amendment had not become
part Of the federal constitution. The
Maryland state courts sustained the
amendment.
The contention that an amendment
to the federal constitution relating
to additions to the electorate can
not be made without the consent of
the state, the court disposed Of by
reference to the fifteenth or equal
suffrage amendment, declaring that
zone cannot be valid and the other
invalid, 1t pointed out that the va
lidity of the fifteenth amendment had
been recognized for half century.
The suggestion that several Of the
SO states which ratified the nineteenth
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WlaS1pireS}feorNs
WSie3es1isSRrfS 5
Why Congressional Record Has Beats

reasons why considerations OF reia-
tivity Of importance must be borne In
mind. 1t Is no longer possible for the
newspapers to give full reports OF tne
proceedings Of senate and house, ana
the operations, investigations, inquiries
and conclusions Of their various COM
mittees.
In the Sixty-sixth congress no less
than 1929 public bills and 4S1 joint
resolutions were introduced In. the
legislative grist mill Of the house OF
representatives, and more than 5,OO
in the senate, of which 401 of the Tor
mer and 60 of the latter class be-
came laws, in addition to the LA pri-
vate bills and resolutions which were
enacted. NOT even congress itself IS
able to visualize at single sweep Oh
the eye a lator so vast in scope.
A follow-up system Of federal pub
licity, probably through the executive
departments, to keep the country IN
formed might be desirable. No single
newspaper car report adequately every
new act of congress and every inter
mediate step taken in the process or
converting the twenty-odd thousand
bills into the five hundred-odd laws.
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Navy Is Getting Down to Brass Tacks

CECRETARY DENNY ordered 30
~ additional destroyers and nearly
three-score auxiliary naval craft placed
out Of commission to conserve fuel.
The destroyers are in addition to the
100 ordered out Of commission recent
", and will leave in the navy 76
destroyers in full commission and 40
with heavily reduced compliments
aboard.
Among other vessels besides destroy
ers ordered out Of commission are
FIVE oil ships and one collier, two
store ships, four mine layers, six
mine sweepers and Eagle boats and
IA tugs and towing vessels.
Secretary DENLY said the ships or
dered out Of commission today and
the hundred destroyers previously re-
tired as an economy measure were In
addition to 92 other ships Of the navy
placed out Of commission since he
took Office year ago. The depart
ment in that time, he added, has sold
PSI obsolete or auxiliary naval craft
and now has on sale 81 additional
ships.
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1870

around his laboratory one day, he saw
an ordinary palm leaf fan upon a ta-
BILE. After a study Of the texture or
the binding, he asked one Of his as
sistants to carbonize filaments maze
from the rim. He was so impressed
with the result of this experiment that
he sent men all over the world TO Sc
cure specimens of bamboo A certain
variety of Japanese bamboo was hnai-
ly adopted, and for nearly nine years
all Edison lamps had bamboo nia-
ments.
In 1907, the pressed tungsten lamp
was placed on the market, but scien-
lists did not stop here; the goal was
ductile tungsten. Tungsten Is not a
rare metal, but it was not largely used
owing to the fact that no method had
been discovered by which Its natural
hard and brittle state could be changed.
Tungsten is now produced In ductile
form and can be drawn into wire
which has a tensile strength varying
from 100000 to 100000 pounds square
inch.
In 1911, the wire-drawn lamp with
which we are all familiar made its
enpearance. This lamp. which gives
three times as much light as the car
bon lamp, contains flament of drawn
tungsten wire within a bulb Of clear
glass from which the air has been eX-
hausted. In 1914 the gas-illed lamp
was produced.
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amendment had provisions In theii
state constitutions which prohibited
the legislatures from ratifying, could
not be entertained, the court stated,
because the state legislatures derived
their power in such matters from the
federal constitution which "transcends
any limitations sought to be imposed
by the people Of state"
The remaining objection that the
ratifying resolutions Of Tennessee and
West Virginia were imperative, be-
cause adopted in violation of legisla-
tive procedure in those states, may
have been rendered "immaterial," the
court declared, by the subsequent
ratification Of the amendment by Con-
necticut and Vermont. The conten-
ton was disposed, however, on a
broader ground.
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down into the sea, and many reach g
height Of 30 feet. Legend says that
the stones were put in such neatly
arranged position by an Irish giant In
order to induce his enemy the Scots
giant to come over and fight him. An
other belief Is that giants hurled these
huge stones at one another. The Idea
that the causeway really did once ex-
tend to Scotland is strengthened by
the fact that in Fingal's cave, In the
island Of Staffa, off the Scottish coast.
stones exactly similar in appearance
and arrangement are found.