The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-05-02
JAY G. SIGMUND.

/ OF murder,
Or cheating man
~ JAY G. SIGMUND.
! ALWAYS the world will measure success In
dollars and cents. To those who have been
give credit for achievement, but the live ones
! that's something else again. AS B. L. r once
quoted the immortal Omar: "Ah, take the Cash
and let the Credit 60"
| Sincerity Plus.
Extract from speech in the Moline Dispatch ]
| ." Therefore, before 1 have to say
| goodnight to you ALL l wish to express a
sincere wish may Manufacturers lodge,
No. 4S5, keep on manufacturing Odd
Fellows and never stop to do SO until
every worthy young man in Moline has
| been landed in the folds of ours, the most
| benevolent secret society on the face of
the earth"
| T'OTHER day we received a little poem that
we like but we can't print it because the
author attempts to rime ''perverse" with ere
verse" and "infers" with "furs" Such rimes,
of course, must not appear in colyum con-
Quoted by minor poet.
FOUR ESSAYS.
/. OF Wedlock-A Man.
Marrying and given in marriage:
Men and women firm in the faith
That in their recital of prescribed formula
Divinity has function in mystery
To make them one
Tired minds
Rested by intellectual nonentity
CLOSED by feshly beauty,
Discovering too late the essential vulgarity
beneath.
Spiritual ineffectualities
Conscious of end in life
Save the continuation of the race,
And driven by moral cowardce
From the primitive's informality in repro
duction,
Marking time through existences
OF respectable and half-comprehended dissat-
Men and women,
Who in their unions might have typiied
The best in wedlock,
Discovering one another
Only after the atrophy of their powers of
mutual realization.
Society screaming.
Whom God hath Joined, let not man put
asunder,'
At those who realizant of error,
Ask mans deliverance
From man-made unions.
ponder the significance Of wedlock
In an attempt, foreordained, 1 know, to failure
To fathom that spiritual sympathy
Which is the basis of God-made union,
Trying to answer the question of my heart
What distinguishes marriage
From a license to breed?
WE shall not attempt to answer the ques-
ton Of Reds heart; we'll leave that to some
woman. Women are uncommonly skilful in
replying to queries of that sort And though
the man may disagree with the feminine opin-
ion he learns in time (ah, yes, in time) not
to talk back.
AND THE NAVY WE UNDERSTAND. WAS
BADLY SPRAINED.
[From The ArgusJ
Breaks Army Playing Bah.
Especial Correspondence
Prcphetstown, April 29.-August Van
Wassenhove. lady of about eight sum-
mers son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Van
Wassenhove, broke his army THURSDAY
while playing ball.
HIRE Hall to Hear Appeal OF Widow
Zandor."-The W. e. n
And the widow, Of course, was there with
bells on.
In Which a City Editor Puts @Rational,
in "Inspirational-.
from The Editor and Reporter
The city editor of a metropolitan
newspaper sent one Of his cubs, who hap
pened to be near the scene to cover q
mine disaster in Pennsylvania
The reporter gathered the data and
prepared TO write his story. It was his
first chance at big assignment He
realized that he must do it justice, but
howl.
The condition Of his mind was re-
nected IN the hrst words he sent over
the wire: God sits on the hills of Corrv-
vile tonight. -
He had filed about half of his dis
patch when messenger handed him a
telegram from his chief, containing these
terse instructions: -
NEVER MIND NINE DISASTER IN
TERVIEW GOD GET PICTURES IF
POSSIBLE.
AFTER watching the massacre of Duhuoue
at Douglas Park yesterday afternoon we found
ourselt IN no condition to assemble a colyum
We couldn't see the last line for tears.