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The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05
Charity Without a Sting.

J. B. Sax prospered as a merchant in
ottumwa, Iowa He was known to many Rock
Islanders, having married girl from this city
md having been owner OF Second avenue bus
iness property. Mr. Sax died few weeks ago
tn a Chicago hospital following an operation
HIS VIII has Just been probated at Ottumwa,
md its contents reveals the Ottumwa merchant
- a man OF unusual impulses II shows him
III have been man who really did care how
The other half Of the world lives. and he sought
IT. do his part in relieving distress among the
unfortunate OF his home town. where doubtless
rs benefaction viii hold him in blessed MEM
Dxy for years to come.
Il MT. Sax didn't follow the accustomed course
ia bequeathing specified amounts to charitable
3<nsututions- He had his own ideas of how he
could place his money to the best use in serv-
ing humanity, and you viii agree that he hit
upon plan that win accomplish incalculable
rood. Mr.. Sax leaves fund of $3.50 900 to
|3eerve the needy of Ottumwa, with the specific
understanding that advances from the fund are
70 be madeoniy in cases Of sickness, operations
~ keeping intact homes that are threatened
nth dissolution becsase-of the Aeath or inca
|ac3ty Of the bread wmnsr. Tins =fzzds-are- 10
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

be dispensed in the form Of loans 70 persons
without regard to race. creed or color, but
only to residents Of Ottumwa- Mr.. Sax in
estant minister, Catholic priest, and represen-
tatives of the welfare societies and the local
banks. While it is expected that money loaned
shall be paid back, there Is to be no interest
charged, and in event of default there is to be
no legal means applied TO collect the same III,
at the end of two years. loan is not paid, the
note is to be cancelled. Mr.. Sax orders that
the benehciaries OF the fund be known only to
the trustees who make the loans.
This may truly be called charity without
sting Mr.. Sax IN his many years Of business
had learned human nature and came to under
stand its frailties. He knew that the majority
of men and women are honest and that they
will meet their just obligations If it is humanity
possible for them to do so. He found that there
were many who suffered rather than become
public charges. 1t is his purpose that his fund
shall reach out and help this class of people.
The fund will be a perpetual monument IN
Ottumwa to ]. B. Sax. His example is worthy
of emulation by citizens of large means in
other communities. The trouble with most
charity requests is that they are made with
view of increasing family prestige. the human
element being entirely overlooked. ]. B. Sax
believed that when you help the other fellow
your compensation should suffice in the salts
faction that you have done a good turn. Good
deeds don't need world acclaim to reward the
doer
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05
Terrors of Science.

Various glandular theories along the line
that the adrenal glands the source Of
courage and the thyroid establishes fortitude
are being tried out An eastern surgeon in
sists that it is the suppression Of the secretions
of the adrenals that gives man weak knees,
heart stoppage or dry lips at the moment of
direst peril 1t is the streak of yellow in a man.
1t is ssid that a Burbankian scientist has so
treated the adrenals of rabbit that the
ferocious animal attacked bulldog and drove
him to the top of tall tree. 1t is said that
even the humble and self-sacrifcing guinea pig
can be so developed through the adrenal glands
that it will act like hyena and bite the hand
that feeds it. If this should happen to be the
there is danger ahead. If these expert
ments go on there may develop a race of Frank
ensteins that it will be hard to suppress If
courage is to be developed into ferocity by feed
ing or fattening the adrenals this may become
a peevish and peculiar world to live in. If a
man stands the risk of being torn to pieces by
a frenzied woodchuck freed by some scientific
explorer, kindly wrap us up in quilt with a
sponge dipped in chloroform.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05
PUT ON YOUR PEDOMETER.

This is the time of all the year
when every one who is not an in
valid and who does wish to enjoy
health should get his minimum
daily does of oxygen, which may
be set at two miles on the hoot
tres in diem, or, if you prefer, or
if you can't understand medical
Latin, six miles in one dose at any
time in the day or night, though
preferably while the sun is up.
A pedometer costs a trifle and
affords a certain degree of inter
est in measuring of distances. IL
also does tend to stimulate walk
ing, Just for the childish pleasure
of watching the thing work. BY all
means add a pedometer to your
health armamentarium-it is a
durn sight more economical to in
dulge in such a plaything than It
is to go to the movies or buy some
cIaptrap magazine. The purchase of
a pedometer is a matter of health
interest, and Notwithstanding all
our health propaganda and all the
efforts to teach health in schools,
there is no getting around the fact
that the great majority of people In
the country are still practically
impervious to considerations of
health, though they are only too
eager to investigate symptoms, dis
eases. and remedies. Such popular
interest as finds tangible express
sion is conferred almost exclusively
on the morbid side, not on the
wholesome or cheerful side. The
Yankee is still the same glommy
pessimist that Dickens painted him
in Martin Chuzzlewit. Too much
almanac, l reckon.
Compare the way the average
mortal spends money for nostrums,
medicinal and verbal, which appeal
with such overwhelming force to
his credulity, with his niggardli-
ness and downright self denial III
the matter of his own sleeping
equipment, for instance. Thousands
of people suffer from restless
nights, backaches-I hate to list
symptoms-because of their miser-
able sleeping arrangements, and
people, too, who can and do afford
very good clothes and all sorts of
unessential or actually harmful
luxuries. This is just one illustra-
ton of popular disinterest in the
wholesome side of health. Isn't it
absurd to think of going to bed
every night to take punishment,
whereas for a reasonable invest
ment wholly within the individuals
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05
The Antidote for Jazz.

Jazz music, imported from the underworld
dives of Buenos Aires, began to sweep America
in 1913 Sailors brought it into New Orleans
1t spread up the Mississippi river. Negro steam
boat bands chanted new varieties of jazz blues.
Tramps in their camps caught the infection
They called jazz snowbird music. Snow is
the underworld name for cocaine and snow
bird is a of dope. The epidemic of Jazz
spread over the country, evolving from Jazz
melodies to form of jazz life characterized by
fatalism, Indifference restlessness and immor-
atty. simultaneously the jazz germ swept
Europe. In THE Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse" you read Ibanez' fine description
of France being worked to high pitch of jazz
emotonalism. Psychologists recognized the
jazz epidemic as one of the peculiar waves of
social neurasthenia, or hysteria, which period
ically sweeps countries or even the whole
world. The tango craze was one of the psychic
epidemics. The international wave of hysteria
resulted in the World war
The reaction is on. The world is SOLDERING
The people are becoming normal again-think-
ing healthy thoughts. Jazz is passing. During
the jazz epidemic there has been lot of worry
ing about Young America Youth in general
seemed to have gone on on a tangent of wild
prodigalism- One morning the country woke
up and was amazed to find that the youngsters
had gone crazy the subject of wireless. The
radiophone had corralled Juvenile enthusiasm
The wireless craze has developed far enough
TO show that it's going to be the most wonder
full antidote against jazz The lad who is tinker
ing with Hertzian waves has his feet on the
ground, is thinking clean thoughts, training his
brain, soaking up useful knowledge The wire
less fan is vaccinated against jazz, just as boys
OF generation ago were kept in a healthy
normal mental state by playing Indian, building
shanties. collecting bones and old junk in al
leys, listening to street fakirs. staging amateur
minstrel shows. stringing toy telegraphs. We
are foolish lot Of sheep-we humans But
kindly providence shepherds us, bringing US
back 10 the fold when we stray too far from
normal,
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05
HEALTH TALKS
By William Brady, NJ.
Noted Physician ard Aurnor.

means, hitting the hay might be
made a veritable joy?
There is considerable interest in
testing your accuracy in the Judg-
ment of distances and the length of
your own stride when you are fresh
and when you are tired. Familiar
distances stretch out and unfamil-
lar distances contract in a surpris-
/ ing manner when measured by the
/ properly adjusted pedometer. A
! hospital nurse wore one during her
regular eight-hour tour of ward
duty, and found she had covered
some IL miles-hard to believe, bit
true. Many housekeepers who i'm
agine they get plenty of exercise
with their household duties find,
! if they use a pedometer, that they
do not take nearly so many steps
as they would suppose.
| The effect of a minimum daily
dose of oxygen-on-the-ho mani
tests itself next day Enthusiastically
| in improved physical and mental
| efficiency in the case of a seden-
/ tary brain worker.
! 1t is good medicine for the ennui
mistaken for fatigue. Try it for
{ yourself and be convinced. If folks
were given to writing testimonials
+ for health savers, as they are for
nostrums, walking would very
likely become popular pastime in
| America
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Visit by Tuberculosis Patient.
| Kindly advise whether there is
any danger in having friend visit
US for a few days, on his way home
| from tuberculosis sanitorium
| where he is patient. We have two
children, aged and years. Our
| friend writes that his trouble is far
advanced.-(Mrs. c. L.
Answer-It is unjustifable 10
, permit infants or children to as
i sociate intimately or personally
with a tuberculosis individual, ir-
respective of relationship. There is
| practically no risk involved, for
adults, in such a casual visit, pro-
vided the patient is a gentleman,
intelligent, conscientious and takes
! proper precaution to cover nose
and mouth when coughing, etc. You
might bundle the children off to
grandma's for week
| Is Food COnstipating?
Are potatoes constipating is.
| L.
Answer.-No, and l know of no
natural food or wholesome food
which is constfpating, though some
are not laxative.-(Copyright, Ma
tional Newspaper Service.)
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05
The Daily Short Story

trust my eyes, there was Jack
whom l supposed to be far away in
Italy, standing on her steps! Then
Felice called that the light was fad
ing.
All we need now is Jack" said
Peter, on the way home, but Dot
must have stepped on his foot, for
he cried "Ouch!" and kept still all
the rest of the way home.
When the winter broke up and
the ice sloughed off over the lizzie
milldam near my house, I felt ii
calling me back. My supplies could
be brought over from the city by the
ferryman and landed near my own
| back lot.
1t was a warm April morning
but the chill of late melting SHOWS
fingered in the shadows as l di-
rected the loading of my boxes on
the small f1atboat. l was busy with
my possessions when a man, who
had evidently run down the bank
while l was occupied, landed sud
denly beside me just as we pushed
off, stepped on a box edge, lurched
to one side and fell, striking his
head on a packing case. There he
lay very still, and 1 could not see
his face.
who is he?" 1 asked Jed Part
ridge, Mortified.
Mrs. Hanscom's nephew" he re-
piled, trying to turn the still frame
over in the small space. He's been
staying there since December, writ
| ing a book. Dunn smart. they say
Now you help me lift his head over
this side. There, he's coming to al
ready"
And l saw that it was Jack. The
strangest fear came over me that
he might not be coming to, and
knew l should hate that river for
ever if he didn't, and my little
house would never interest me
again.
Then his eyes opened, all dazed
like frightened baby's and he sat
up.
YOU" he cried, surprised. al
thought Aunt Eliza said you'd be
back next week. 1 was going to
leave before you came"
Where were you going?" I asked
ready to cry.
Why, back to Padua," he said 81
finished by experiments in a few
months, the work was SO nearly
done when I arrived, but I'm to fill
out my contract with lectures at
the university this year"
Here 1 sat down beside him and
took that poor, dizzy head on my
shoulder.
Jack" I said, you might get
sick. or something, over there all
alone"
Wont you change your mind,
then, and come too?" he asked.
We'll see," 1 replied, when you
really get your senses back, if you
If you-still mean it. No, don't
Jack" I was forced to whisper.
Remember MIR. Partridge" And
suddenly, it seemed, we had reached
my back lot and the old ferryman
was waiting to put out the boxes,
smiling all the while.
And the little house stood there
smiling welcome in all its old
lines, rich with the human love it
had looked upon, and promising
peace and rest of heart beneath its
roof And the gnarIed old trees
waved all their little brown buds at
US, alive with all the promise of the
coming spring.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05
A HOME OF HER OWN.
By Mary H Walker.
Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Syn

By Mary H. Walker.
Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Syn
dictate, Inc.)
l wanted home of my own-all
mine
You'll find you have a mountain
on your hands" said Anne and
Dot, my easy-going married
friends, comfortably settled in
homes of their own, and a bit visit
full occasionally, contemplating my
swift moving about from one place
to another.
owning your own house?" l would
inquire.
"Why, no, of course not; but there
is lot of responsibility about it
that most girls are glad to avoid"
well, I'm willing to take it on
trial" l usually finished, "and
being only a girl as you jeer, I'll
get it paid for before I'm obliged
to retire to it."
"You an old maid" scoffed Dot.
What about Jack?"
Jack" said l finally, in a tone
that stopped testing, lis not to be
concerned in my future, nor 1 in
his"
One day I found it, my little
home, waiting for me. 1t was on a
side road, few miles from the city,
an acre of good land, the little, old
old house with shed adjoining,
and a small barn.
What are you going to do f1rst?"
asked Anne, looking at the fence,
down for half its length, and the
waving grass, knee-high, about my
door-stone.
Sell the hay" I retorted. "and
spend the proceeds for repairs I'm
going over to ask Mrs. Hanscom
who will buy it" For l had en-
gagged board with the dear little old
lady next door, while my Improve
ments" were going on, and my
facetious friends were content to
wait and see what would happen.
Late in the summer the currants,
blackberries and crabapples rip
ened, and Mrs. Hanscom and l made
them fulfill their destiny in neat
little glass jars, labeled like a
science laboratory; but Anne and
Dot insisted on buying them until
all my stock was used up. The
profits, however, warranted putting
little porch on the front of my
house, and a new fence across the
street side of my acre.
Mrs. Hanscom, the dear, could not
understand my zeal, think
What is it adopted grandmoth-
err" I asked.
"a real home, my dear, must have
a family life" she answered gently.
THE love of little children, the I'M
selfishness of parents, the happi-
ness of kith and kin"
For moment l had a vision of
my little home, glorified with a real
family life like that, but 1 put it
quickly away. You can't mix ca
reers with Homework for a family,
successfully. So l just patted her
little round shoulder and kept
still.
October found me back in the city
in comfortable working quarters.
When the first snow fell | invited
Anne and Dot and Felice out for
a weekend party, and 1 went I'D a
day ahead to get things ready. Phil
and Peter and Jim motored out Sun
day to take us all back. It was
hard to leave the dear little place,
and we still sat before the fireplace
when the early sunset came. 1t
was a pleasant picture for my little
room and I thought how I should
hold it in memory among the treas
ured thoughts of my cottage when
l was as old as Mrs. Hanscom. 1
stepped out to the back porch and
glanced over to her house. dark
against the winter sunset, before 1
reused the others to start.
Was / dreaming? IL could
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

Q.-Why is the new wireless
called photographic. V. n.
A.-The word Photograph was
coined because radio is an abbrev-
! iation for radiation and the radio
graph is the instrument for radiat-
! ing electric energy through air.
! els there Mohammedan
church in the United States ?-R. c,
! A Moslem Mosque has been
built in Highland Park, Mich. The
/ first magazine for Islam, the Mos
! lem Sunrise" is published there
and the first Moslem Missioner to
America, Multi Muhammad Sadiq
has his headquarters there.
! Q.-Are fish scales of any use
I commercially?-R ].
A.-Great quantities of fish
scales are used in making artificial
pearls.
Q.-How much does Germany
owe for the maintenance of the
army of occupation?-P. D. P.
/ A.-The amount of the claim of
the United States for cost OF the
army of occupation since Nov. II.
1918, is 966,374,0O0 gold marks.
t Q.-How much would 1000, 200
$40 bills weigh 3J. r. H.
A-Paper money weighs the
same regardless of denomination.
One million paper bills weigh 5000
/ pounds.
Q.-Who invented the Jews harp
and when @J. L. S.
A.-The origin of this instrument
is not known. The Jews harp is
an old invention mentioned by
Pratorius in his Organographia
! 1619) under the name crembaluln.
Q. Did Edison invent the radio
graph? ]. V. n.
a. Edison was not the inventor
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

The demands of the striking miners may
seeIn unreasonable to the coal operators, but
the average citizen always has felt that the fell
lows who labor several hundred feet beneath
the ground for their daily bread are entitled to
better than ordinary wage. And the prices
the consumer has been paying for coal war
rants the belief that the miner is not receiving
his equitable share.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

of the Photograph. A German nam
ed Hertz was the first in the field.
Then Marconi, an Italian, developed
the idea. Since then many improve
meats and developments have been
made by various people.
@. What is a russell orange?
A. The department of agriculture
says that the word ''russet" has
been applied to oranges, but the
word rusty" is more generally
used. 1t is used to describe an or
ange in a case where insects have
interfered with the outer layer Of
skin. Such oranges are considered
as sweet and as desirable as other
oranges since the insects simply in
terfere with the color and do not in
jure the quality of the fruit.
@. What term regarding England
corresponds to our Wall Street,
C. Vt
A. In the United States the term
Lombard Street is used to denote
London's stock exchange. In Eng
land, however, Lombard Street and
Threadneedle Street refer more par
ticularly to the banking element and
Caper Street and ThrogmOrton
Street are used to designate, the dis
trict of the stock exchange Wall
Street is used in this country as a
name for both the banking inter-
ests and the stock market.
Q. Is the name Bull Durham
trademarked? H F
A. The American Tobacco oou-
pany says that the trade name COZ
sists of the words Bull Durham
used singly or collectively, with. o.
without the picture of a bull, Ehic5
trademark name is the property Of
the company.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

Latest picture of President Harding shows
him with his arms around a couple of children,
the photographer explaining that the nations
chief is fond OF kiddies. There isn't any thrill
IN. that kind of picture. real knockout
would be one showing the president chasing the
YOUNGSTERS with a club.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

New York artist says wives can keep their
husbands home nights by wearing corsets That
may work in New York, but in this neck OF the
woods babies and the rolling pin continue to be
the favorite persuaders in most homes.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

When travellers abandon the funereal tread
in moving down the aisle and getting off stations
-along the way, and learn to step lively, there
will be less delay the part OF trains in reach
ing the terminals.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

England devotes about 10000
acres to the cultivation of hops.
Ants, believed to have been
brought from America, are endan-
gering the floral beauties of the
Riviera.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

RECALLING B. L. It's imperishabIe lines
70 The Dinosaurs brings regret that he can
not now pen a fitting ode to the pIesiosanrue
No other bard could do it as we'll
Another Tale of the @Closest Race nm F.-+h-
lOrigin of clipping unknown1
An old Scotchman, David Gordon was
seriously ill, with scant hope for his re-
covery. He had been wheedled into mak-
ing a will by relatives. and thew were
gathered about his bedside watching him
laboriously sign it He got as far a.
D-a-v-i-then fell back exhausted
ID, Uncle David, D." exhorted a
nephew.
Dee" calculated the old Scot feebly.
but with indignation. I'll dee when pm
ready. ye avaricious wretch
STEPHEN WEINBERG, one time secretary
to the Princess Fatima of Afghanistan viii
spend the next two years as guest of Uncle
Sam at Atlanta, Ga
Well. he should have listened to the warn
ing of Lucy Page CASTOR and stayed awav from
the--(censored by the ad Department.
r. E. MIG.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

An advertisement states that the harp is
coming back But this should not worry the
British government, the announcement has
reference to the musical instrument
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

The time is coming on pace when miiady
brushes the moth balls from her fur wraps and
adorns herself with them again, preparatory to
the coming of the summer season.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

If we are to believe what we read in the
papers Jack Dempsey finally has encountered
one that has got him licked. His name is d.
Cupid.
The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1922-04-05

If we are really serious about this peace
business it might help matters, while we are
scrapping ships, etc, to select another name for
our navel orange.