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TUESDAY THE ROCK ISLAND ARGUS MAY 16, 1922.
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TUESDAY, MAY !, 1922.
probably will be reminded in the future
that it was Mr. Harding who kept u out of
Genoa.
;One wonders if the prohibitionists aren't
a Uttle disturbed over the prospect of a return
otJSeveridge to the United States senate.
Members of the Rock Island police depart
ment hereafter are to be allowed 15 dayo' vaca
tiojs with'pay each year. A policeman who i3
faithful to his tasks is entitled to such a holiday.
'
The Rock Island commission has decided to
eliminate the smoke nuisance In the city. It
is move that will be commended by all cit
izens. The remedy has teen successfully ap
plied elsewhere and it can be here.
The driver of an automobile which went
over a 40-foot embankment at Burlington, Iowa,
was fined for violating the traffic rules. When
a driver does a stunt like that and escapes
alive he ought to be willing to make a dona
tion to the municipal safety fund. '
John Volk. '
Tew men enjoy the span of earthly years and
activity that was the lot of John Volk, the
pioneer Rock Islander who has just gone to his
reward. At a time of life when most men would
not'eonsider themselves equal to business re
sponsibilities calling for close application and
keen judgment he was to be found at his dally
tasks working with the same regularity that
he applied in his younger years.. Mr. Volk re
tained a firm and intimate grasp on his bus
iness interests, and it was probably this appli
cation that was responsible more than anything
else for his remarkable record. He had accu
mulated a competence and if he had elected to
do so could have retired many years ago and
transferred to others labors that he had made
his life work. But he found his greatest joy
in keeping going. He was methodical in every
thing he did, and was not carried away by the
rush so characteristic of most business activity
of the present day. Mr. Volk believed that what
was "worth doing was worth doing well, and he
was thorough to the smallest detail in his work.
He could have had his automobile to drive him
on his : business errands, but he preferred to
make his rounds with his horse, not that he was
behind the times, for he was not, but lor the
reason that he loved the simpler things of life,
the luxuries and the more modern devices as
applying to human comfort not having par
ticular appeal to him.
Mr.' Volk as a contractor was known
throughout the middle west, and doubtless he
could have built a business of great proportions
if he had chosen to do so. He was not a seeker
after gTeat prestige or wealth. He established
a reputation for honor and good workmanship,
and he regarded this as his greater asset. The
result was that when you engaged John Volk
to build you a factory or a house, or to do the
smallest sort of job, you could leave the rest of
it to him, knowing that you would get exactly
what, you contracted for.
Jqfcn Volk represented the type of solid, con
scientious citizenship. He was a builder, not
aloneifor others, but for himself and his city
as well. Changing conditions did not disturb
him. He had a broad philosophy of life, a
philosophy that brought him contentment and
venerable age and conserved his faculties to
the end. Mr. Volk was progressive without
display. Re never sought to rise beyond the
horizon of hun.ble citizenship, but his bigness
both of mind and heart shone in spite of any
modesty that prompted him to seek to conceal
those qualities.
The Small Town and the City.
The small town does not fare well in recent
novels, particularly those of Edgar Lee Mas
ters and Sinclair Lewis, who have given us
their "Spoon River Anthology" and "Main
Street." After j-eading these two storiea all
of us owe it to ourselves to read again our
Goldsmith and traverse the inviting lanes of
Sweet Auburn or go with Grey to the country
church, yard, visit Barrie in Thrums .or Thor
eau in Concord. 'A New York may be created
in two generations, but it required two cen
turies to make the country village. In the
large city the Individual is thrown in contact
with things. In the small town he makes con-
tact with people. The big city occupies its
people' with the machinery of commerce and
industry. The little town, with its trees and
sod sidewalks, its mud- roads and flowers and
weeds,' 'its open streams and wild birds, and
its predominant human element has compen
sations that have enriched the world. The
majority of the world's leaders were bred in
the country village because the village is close
to nature and is a place of deep and enduring
friendships. The. youth of the village has so
licitude and tlm to dream. ' He learns how to
feel deeply and think consecutively. . He bo
comes wise to the ways of human nature be
cause he knows a few people well. In the city
few great wits are developed and great genius
fittest is submerged by being thrown into the
big grinding mill of Impersonal life. In ti
lltUs village individuality is more marked and
personal characterisations become more accen
tuated. The city wants to bo the biggest city in
the world, the village wants to rival too town
In siso mod smartness and the town wants to
get factories and expand its commercial pos
sibilities. The man who bas been in the city
for 20 years goes back to bis boms village for
a visit He loves it because it bas not failed
himv It remains as it was. But be finds it
seething and discontented and brewing with
ambition. It no longer prides itself in tbo
quietness and homelike sentiment It wants
to grow and become a factor in commerce and
Industry. It apologizes to the old boy because
It never became more than a residential village.
The radio, the telegraph, the rural mail, the
telephone, the automobile and other Ingenious
things nave changed the littla town. The old
fashioned village has become a quaint dream
of former days. It has no poet Greys or nat
uralist Thoreau, but it has its future Edisons,
Fords and James J. Hills, and perhaps some
stray Beecher or a Philips Brooks, but it has
no old-fashioned lovers of its simple life who
hope to live and die in its solitude. It may be
that this intense, rushing age may have to save
itself some day by reviving the spirit, of the
old-fashioned village. In the meantime people
who are fortunate enough to be living in the
small towns should congratulate themselves
that they still have some of the remnants of
the rural atmosphere that gave the world its
finest poetry nnd most picturesque literature
and produced the greatest types of human
character. ;
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HEALTH TALKS
By Williarn Brady, M. D. .....
Noted Physician axd Alienor.
For an Honest Label.
' If yon want a piece of woolen goods, buy
aa article labeled wool and therefore pay the
price wool commands, you ought, in simple
justice, to receive wool. If you don't receive
it you have been both deceived and defrauded;
honesty la trade has been struck a severe
blow, and unfair competition has been set up
against the firm that really produces and sells
woolen goods. That is the line of reasoning
and justice upon which the United States su
preme court recently upheld an order of the
federal trade commission directed against a
hosiery company. The commission had ordered
the company to cease using on any underwear
or other knit goods it produces the words
merino, wool or worsted when such goods
were not composed wholly of wool. Correct
designation of the substance of the goods was
ordered through use of such words as merino,
wool and cotton; wool and cotton, or worsted,
wool and cotton. The company petitioned for
and obtained a review of this order in the
United States circuit court of appeals. The
court set aside the order on the ground that
its issuance was not within the province of
the federal trade commission.
In giving the opinion of the higher court
Justice Brandeis cites that the ruling of the
commission was founded on fact supported by
evidence; that none of the underwear sold by
the company throughout the United States and
variously labeled wool was "all wool, and that
much of it contained only a small percentage
of wool; some of it as little as 10 per cent. The
court held that through this practice of the
company a part of the public was misled; that
unscrupulous retailers and their salesmen
were encouraged, and that unfair competition
was set up against theproducers of all woolen
goods. The unfairness of the competition was
not mitigated, the court held, even though a
good number of those who did the trafficking
in the mislabeled products understood, through
experience, that they were only in part wool.
The protceion of the public and the encourage
ment that is given honest business in the de
cision of the court ought to be far-reaching.
There is no good reason why any form of busi
ness should object to the kind of regulation
which simply insists that the product of that
business shall be what it is.represented to be.
If this principle is not recognized, insisted
upon and enforced, there is no dependable
basis upon which business relationships may
be carried forward.
THE MOO.
On a night I walked serenely
- Down the calm streets of the city.
Strolled along in deep contentment.
Dreamed of romance and adventure.
Overhead the moon gleamed softly,
. Bathing all below in silver.
Gentle whispers stirred the tree-tops,
BUent were the daytime voices,
Save that of a flapper singing.
She sat before a grand piano.
From the sidewaUk I could see her
Though much farther one could bear her.
Probably the moon inspired her
To go in and sing a ballad.
"Silv'ry Moon" 'twas, she attempted.
But her consonants were slurry
"SilvTy Moo' " was how she sang it.
Sang it softly and with feelin.
Dol-shay and pensee-eroio,
Slanclo and then slentando
"Silv'ry Moo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oooo' "
Like the old calf slowly dying.
And my dog, who'd walked sedately
By my side until this moment.
Sat right down upon his haunches.
Turned his face up to the heavens.
Rent the air with notes of anguish.
Till the "Moo'ing" ceased and silence
Fell (unconscious) on the greensward.
Le MOQUEUR.
JITST BEFORE THE WRECK.
Uninformed people still harbor a
notion that consumption is incur
able. Let's look into that. Nowa
jdays we call it tuberculosis of the
lungs or pulmonary tuberculosis.
The Old time doctors lacaea several
instruments of precision which we
have now available for diagnosis,
including the microscope, the
stethoscope, and the fluoroscope or
Xray pictures, and so we are en
abled to recognize or detect the
disease in its earlier stage, before
the lung tissue is destroyed and
before there is even greater emaci
ation of the body; and with an ear
lier diagnosis we are able to Insti
tute earlier treatment; and as the
natural tendency in tuberculosis
are rushing right past the signals
and beading into a wreck.
I am bound to say that we doc
tors haven't made such tangible
Frederick Haskih's Letter
(Spade! Cum nin5eiii.. mS The im,)
WOMAN MAY BE STATE GOVERNOR
Washington, D. C, May 15.
South Dakota may have a woman
nrAMa in th riv diagnosis of ! governor after next election. For
cardio-vascular degeneration as j the first time in the history of the
we have in the early diagnosis of (country a woman has been nomi
i, th.nin,i. t miiot sianfnated for the governorship of a
confess that we are still in the
habit of doing a great deal of quib
bling in the early or "purely tunc
tional" stage of this disease. Thus
we find a comparatively youthful
patient with an abnormally high
blood pressure, so high that a life
insurance company will not grant
the individual a policy, yet we per
mit the patient to go right along
with the habits which are hasten
ing him on toward the wreck,
is toward spontaneous recovery, if j Should we "throw a scare into him
the oatient gets a fair chance, re- about it then? Certainly not. But
covery is the usual thing nowadays j as certainly the victim should be
in this disease, rne oia ume aoc- cieariy iniormea mat a signal is
OLD BILL BORAH wants the' senate to de-
tors were practically powerless,
because they were unable to deter
mine positively what was the mat
ter until the disease had progressed
a signal whether it actually por
tends danger or not.
In the early stage of cardio-vas
cular degeneration the victim gen-
to the third stage, cavity formation J erally considers himself a pretty
in the lungs, and by that time the
patient's body was emaciated and
the term "consumption" really ap
plied, i
Compare the facts about lung
tuberculosis with the facts about
cardio-vascular degeneration (the
heart artery wearing out wjiieh
clare for recognition of Red Russia. : The j brings so many careless persons up
loose-jowled soion from Idaho can think of
more ways to get his name in the press reports
every day than Peggy Joyce. And one is about
as important to the welfare of the s. c. human
race as the other. ;
Us Certainly Appreciate This Opportunity
That Is Afforded We.
From The Argus.
Director White has dug deep in the
'musical archives in securing airs suited
to the time of the story, and some of
these are of the kind that stirs one's
blood, affording we of the present gen
eration opportunity to appreciate the
chivalry and daring of the men of
France of those early days.
have for months and years before
the wreck. We like to jolly our
selves that these warning signals
merely indicate the need of a tonic
THE Radio Editor discovers the fnllnwine ' or a little nervous fatigue or dl-
sign on the Palmer school bulletin board: jgestive disturbance or autointoxi
"For Sale Baby buggy; good condition; (cation or weak blood or whatever
reversible body; been used 8 months. Cheap the trend of the loudest nostrum
suddenly with hardened arteries,
slow heart muscle failure, apoplexy
or Brighfs disease between the
ages of 40 and 50 years). There is
no such thing as sudden heart dis
ease. There is no such thing as
sudden breakdown from overwork
or business care or domestic wor
ry. No man or woman has a sud
den stroke of paralysis out of a
clear sky. That sudden fallacy is
just an alibi. We prefer to ignore
sound person and he is liable to
drop the doctor who honestly diag
noses his condition.
QUESTIONS ASD ASSWERS.
Root Beer.
Would like to know whether
drinking a glass of two of home
made root beer every day is harm
ful. It makes me feel good and
gain flesh. A gentleman friend of
ours said it will cause diabetes.
R. A. A.)
Answer It is harmless.
o Arch Props.
1. When walking I frequently
get sharp rheumatic pains just un
der the arches of my feet. Must
I wear arch supporters? Does run
ning and acrobatic work weaken
the arches, when considerable
jumping is done? 3. Are long
the many repeated warnings we hikes good for persons with flat
for the right parties.
Those whose babies are not adjustable need
not apply what?
III.
FOUR ESSAYS.
Of Adulter A Matron.
To my father.
Who saved me from life-long misery
exploitation of the moment hap
pens to suggest, and in thus jolly
ing ourselves we are voluntarily
assuming the position that the old
time doctors and their patients as
sumed, namely, that the present im
pairment of health is merely a
Answer No.
The Old Yarn.
Kindly let me know about salt
peter as counteracting the effects
of salt pork, grease, etc., in the
system. I understand they give
saltpeter in the navy in the coffee.
(S. W.)
Answer They have never given
saltpeter in the army, navy or ev
en the marines. That yarn is just
a sailor's yarn. So far as I know,
saltpeter does not alter the effect
nf nn.lr ,t, fata Caltnatfti fa itbo
run down condition and calls for j in curing meat, to increase the red
t
The Daily Short Story
I ty prevenung my marriage to wenry Kennick, no particular care. In fact, we color.
A faithful wife,
A devoted mother.
To hi3 foresight I owe it
That I have been spared o serve my community
In the relief of the poor and unfortunate
And in the rescue of threatened girlhood.
Which work I perform in expiation of sin
Deliberate and to be continued.
Love '
Hindered in bestowing itself
Remains potential;
And that woman who steadfastly considers a
man.
Desiring him in her heart.
Is an adulteress.
RED.
ROACE BY PROXY.
Caroline H. Wilson.
(prefer to finish, spinning my own
i yarn."
(Copyright, 1922, by Wheeler Syn- "Well, perhaps I can. bake the
"There will be a 'good - many sh ' t""6'1 . tt
matches made at the shearing," "Thank thee, I am going to teach
,Kh. a t iHrfir a h. nuiind Bethiah to make them, as it is
the bobbin of the Folger front door.
Good morning." said Dorcas
hospitably, to her uninvited guest.
Little Mary made up an awful face,
high time she was learning to cook."
Aunt Liddy sighed.
Just then Tristram bounded into
the room,
Organized Labor and Capital.
William H. Johnson, pre'sident of the Inter
national Association of Machinists, told the in
terstate commerce commission the' other day
that the railway managers want to destroy all
unions. Organized labor cannot be destroyed.
Neither can organized society, organized force
or factors of any kind representing necessary
or useful interests. The reason is that the or
ganization in every case, whether well planned
or faulty, brings into unity or purpose and ac
tivity certain important, perhaps vital, ele
ments of human existence. The world cannot
do without labor, and a. wisely directed under
taking to make the toiler more efficient, more
intelligent and more happy is as impossible of
overcoming as is the industrial factor jtself.
The same is true of the other concerns men
tioned, and of additional elements having to
do intimately with modern life. It is the truth
which makes largely imaginary the belief of
people here and there that destruction is sought
and will result to a favorite interest. They
scarcely realize that matter's value to the
world, or they could not think it so easily dis
pensable. . ,
But it is possible for an organized move
ment representing a vital interest to have
phases which must be done away w-ith for the
advancement of the general welfare. Organ
ized labor possesses some such elements. Cap
italistic methods are equally prone to mistak
en thought and effort. Society has yet far to
go before it will serve mankind as it should.
The required betterments will come through
a general movement toward that end by all
people affected by those interests. Jt has been
frequently stated by the rail heads that the
unions would wipe railroad management out of
existence if permitted to do so. Such an accu
sation is ill-founded, as are such charges and
counter-charges n other fields of industry.
Most of us are faulty in judgment, and often ,
we betray michievious tendencies. There is
too much common sense in humanity, however; t
to make it possible for the minor mistakennes
of all to destroy the well being of any portion
of the people. Fire alarm leadership and oc
casional wrong-headed following are in the
minority. Cool minds will always dominate
when a crisis comes, , and usually wi?a not
await Its demand to develop.
GOSH! Red, you make us tremble for our
fhnihto fh.0,"" eD we reC8JI al' the sinful bend Liddy's beck. Her mother Bark Eeteey in the lower hab
tnoughts that have scampered thrnnirh ,r .j i . . . . " . . . . ".
. . . o-. w. i saw il auu icyruicu not. rinr n pTnaimpn " i nouenr uprn-
holdtng
train-shed to
, ui am, icavmg eacn us inaeiiDie impression, we
ieci like seeking sleeping room in a crematory
in order to inure ourself o coming heat wave.
TO.trS.WIDOW MOVIES.
Shrieks from a brazen throat . . .
Discordant clanging of bells:
Hissing of steam:
Shouting of goodbys:
Bawlings from leathern lungs . . .
This last a cue
tor the curtain of the dark
lift . . .
That I, perched on red velvet,
May watch a movie
From a car-window.
So they come ...
Tenements, crowded houses:
Store-buildings, abandoned gin-mills,
Billboards, flying streets . . .
I watch them all:
I must be patient:
This is but the comedy . . .
The feature picture will soon flash on.
Xow, then.
Here we are! . .
These scattered trees.
This grass-green carpet
These are Just the captions,
Foretelling the plot
Presently to be unfolded.
And then ...
I am entranced!
Come and watch with me . . .
Grey ribbon-roads:
Puppet-driven toy motors:
Noah's Ark cows' and sheep and horses
The sun a great polished metal disc
Clouds like the tails of grey stallions:
Spectrum colors furnished by feathered things
Goldfinch, cardinal, tanager. bunting:
Snuff -colored ploughed fields,
Shrinking from the glances
Of their curious sisters.
The sweet virgin meadows.
And here is romance, too ...
The prairie and the plow mate:
There are houses sheltering new ;OTe
And barns hovering over little yon. -',,-...
Wheat fields, corn fields . . 5 thu,:
Mute angers to man's ceasele.. .
For daily bread . . . ' Prayer
Ah, .
I picked a good show
A marvelously good Sbow!
But my pleasrr? vf ehort-Iived ...
Grinding brakes:
A brick buildir.g'
Blots out my picture-
HtSt au?ince s beginning to leave:
Somebody a uniform
Bawls a n.am
My stat'io.
Ab, ,Vut' It was a picture
W,rth seeing! . . .
I, 'wonder
Sow many millions of ages and fives
It-ost ...
To produce that picture
JAY G. SIGMUND.
"Thee'll never make a thrifty liah might be interested
housewife, Mary, unless thee sets out his hand for the silver dollar
thy mind on thy- work. Gat thy ! that was generally forthcoming for
sampler and sew for just one hour, ' the bearer of such news to the rcla
and mind thee does not turn the ' tives and friends of the returning
hour-glass until the sands have all j sons of the island,
run out." j He snatched the dollar from Dor-
Mary wiped away a tear and, giv- j cas' hand and rushed off just in
ing one last glance at Tristram now time to collide with Benjamin, who
swinging down the street with a j was coming through the kitchen
basket of berries, reluctantly went door.
to the cupboard and took down the The sailor came up behind
sampler. I Bethiah and gave her one resound-
"The sun is fading thy rug, Dor-' ing smack before she could re
cas," said Aunt Liddy, giving the cover.
curtain a jerk which nearly re- "Hello, Aunt Liddy; still visiting
moved it entirely. around on your relatives with an
"We like it that way," retorted empty basket?"
Deborah, the eldest daughter, and ! "Bethiah, I've come home to make
jerked it up again. j thee my wife. I am going back to
"Deborah," said her mother calm-! the mill with grist to grind and
ly, "I will arrange the curtains in j then I will stop in for supper and
my own house." The reproof was ' my answer."
meant for Aunt Liddy, as well. He laughed, slapped Dorcas
"Set the table Bethiah, with heavily upon the back, and de
the pink lustre dishes. They; parted.
tell me there is a whaling barkj The gentle Dorcas stiffened,
just, outside the bar, and if it is thejproudl.-. Bethiah burst into .tears
expected bark Betsey, that means 'and rushM put into taelean-to to
that Benjamin Swain will eat sup-vent her pent-up feelings. Only
per with us tonight." '.AunU-Llddy spoke her mind.
Aunt Liddy immediately sniffed i "The knows the rest of the folks
a love affair. Love had passed her : ditty, 'the Swains are clownfish,
by. .:. swinish called.' Well I think Ben-
"I guess Ben jarhin' Swain's lay jamin has grown into the biggest
will be more ViSn a cup in a bag o' clown of them all. It Is the first
barley," she, remarked, slyly peering ' time anyone ever made a remark
up into Eethiah's face. I about my visiting around to my face,
Bethi&h blushed the tint of the and I'll warrant it is the first time
china Dorcas Folger was ever thumped
"i hate him, and thee knows it, on the back. I don't wonder that
Atint Liddyl" exclaimed Bethiah. Bethiah says she hates him!"
"There, there, 'tis not seemly fori She slammed the door and went
a- birthright Quaker to hate any-' to comfort Bethiah, who was sob
body, much less thy neighbor,", bing on her chest of linen. "Why
said Dorcas mildly. has thee lighted a bayberry dip at
"He's well enough, but thee this time of day, Bethiah?" she
knows that I love Obadiah Pink- asked curiously,
ham." I "Oh, Aunt Liddy, I gave one to
"A Pinkham!" cackled Aunt Lid- Obadiah Pinkham when he went to
dy. "Thee knows the old Nantucket ' sea. You know that there is a
folk ditty, 'the Pinkhams beat the legend that if a maiden makes two
devil.' " she taunted. "Why the last bayberry dips with her own hands
time he was at home he went to and gives her lover one to take
quarterly meeting with brass but- away, their spirits will drift to
lons on his blue suit. They glit-'gether with the smoke of the
tered so I could not keep my eyes ' candles if they think of each other
oft of them all through the serv-'and light them at the same time. I
ice." I am calling to Obadiah for help."
"But thee knows they had Amerl-1 Aunt Liddy was in her element,
can eagles on them, Aunt Liddy, and There was going to be some excite
if thee had looked straight ahead ment when Benjamin got back from
thee would not have seen them glit- J the milL
ter." 'I "Well, thee bad better not let thy
"Bethiah, thee must show more father see the candle, or it will fare
respect for thy elders. Put thy: hard with thee."
basket nnder the table and bang "Why, Aunt Liddy, I thought thee
thy calabash upon the peg behind was ever on the quest of romance!
state by a major political party,
The nomination is the more unus
ual in that it was unanimously
granted.
The woman is Alice Lorraine
Daly, and the organization backing
her is the Non-Partisan league,
which has displaced the Democrat
ic party as one of the major polit
ical parties of South Dakota.
Miss Daly has already begun ber
campaign fight. She is standing
firmly on the platform of the Non
Partisan league. Her people are
farmers, and she advocates the va
rious reforms which the league be
lieves will remedy conditions. She
thinks she has a good chance of be
ing elected.
"In the past two years deflation
of prices and contraction of cred
its have so affected the farmers
of my state that they are turning
as never before to the Non-Partisan
league," she says. "Many of them
now look upon it as their only hope
economically. Financial conditions
are in a critical state. Unless the
farmers can get some assurance
of stabilized prices for wheat and
other products they will soon have
to give up the task of trying to
feed the country.
"One little story will show the
conditions: A ranch woman came
to me tearfully after one of my
speeches and told of her 14 years of
ranch life in South Dakota. She
came to the state, she said, with
her husband, young and full of en
thusiasm. No sacrifice wa& too
great in the interest of the chil
dren's future. A good education
for them and some day a comfort
able home. For this dream they
lived in a sod house and put every
cent they made into cattle. Their
herd represented 14 years' savings
when the price of cattle was de
flated and the bank refused to re
new their note. The cattle would
sell for a smaller sum than they
owed the bank. 'Our 14 years of
hard" work and loneliness are a to
tal loss.' she said."
Miss Daly's Platform.
Miss Daly's platform recounts
the remedies proposed by the Non
partisan league. She advocates a
state-owned bank for South Da
kota to give the farmers longer
credit at cheaper rates. Such banks
are considered a radical departure
over her, she says, but in Australia
they have been successfully oper
ated for some time. ,
She believes in state owned ter
minal elevators, warehouses, flour
mills, stock yards, packing houses,
cold Ktoraee plants and suear re
fineries, and in public ownership ofj
m a
counter jobs" in state government,
so that tax payers may be relievaj
of an unnecessary burden.
Disarmament is advocated
paragraph which says:
"Militarism is a curse from which
the whole world seeks to free it
self. We, therefore, earnestly op
pose any system of compulsory m.u
ltary training and favor immediata
total disarmament with a referen
dum vote before any declaration of
war, except in cases of invasion by
armed enemies."
Women candidates for all sons
of public offices are no longer a
curiosity, but people still find the
women politicians an interest!
study. Miss Daly is an attractive
young woman, of fresh coloring
and pleasant blue eyes. She is aa
outdoor type, though not of a heavy
build.
Called Joan of Arc.
Out in her state she has been
called the Joan of Arc of Sout'u Da
kota because she has given herself
so completely to the work of im
proving the farmers' lot.
With B. A. and M. A. degree
from the University of Minnesota
and diplomas from the Emerson
college of Oratory at Boston, sbs
came to the state normal school of
South Dakota to teach public
speaking.
She responded intensely to the
unnecessary hardships of life about
her, to "the cry of undernourished
children echoing through unkempt
day coaches as they lumbered slow
ly over South Dakota plains: the
knowledge that mothers, already
too heavily burdened with care, re
sponsibility, and endless work,
must go down into the Valley of
Death alone, miles from any med
ical assistance, in order that our
state, heedless of their nesds,
might be enriched by the coming of
new life; the dearth of good homes
among our workers; the lack of ed
ucational opportunities for oar
rural children."
She became interested In the
aims of the Non-Partisan league,
and when she was nominated by
the league for superintendent of
public instruction of the state shq
gave up her salary and teaehins
to devote all of her time to com
paign work. The league was not
strong enough to elect its candi
dates. At one time it was pro
claimed a "corpse," but Miss Daly
affirms that it has come back, and
that the next election will show
what a lively corpse it reaally it.
Candidate Thoroughly Feminine.
The first woman nominee for
governor is a feminine person.
With all her terse explanations of
credit end taxation problems, sqj
gives a feminine picture of the gov
ernor's job.
"Governing a state is house-
all public utilities. m She also ad-; keeping on a large scale." she says,
vocates the revival of the govern-j "And a woman is suited to su :a
ment grain corporation to stabilize j work because the instinctive tend
prices of grain and other products. ; ency of womanhood is good house
She has no particular planks for j keeping. The housekeeping of
women except one sweeping de- state includes all phases of human
mand for "complete equality of 'welfare care of infants, provis
men and women in industry and ! ion for motherhood, problems of
government, with the fullest en-1 education, housing, food ami
franchisement of women and equal clothes, protection of the weak, the
Dav for women and men engaged in j unfortunate, and all wards of the
similar occupations.
"I am not a woman's candidate,"
says Miss Daly. "I am working
state.
"Women have vision of an eco
nomic svstem that will function
for the state, and both men and Dnmarily through the state and
women alike will benefit by the i will be a powerful factor in emphr
fundamental reforms of our plat-sizing the superiority of humnn
form. Lower taxes, credit, and sta-j rights above property rights. The
bilized prices for farm products i governing class of men is in deep
are what farmers and their fami- ruts of our present economic .iys-
lies most need. tem. The sympathy and wide u:i-
Other planks in the platform are I derstanding of women is needed in
not strictly of farm interest. Mis3 ! politics today.
Daly says that she strongly be-1 "I like to think," she added with
lieves in amnesty for noliticaJ nris-Ia smile, "that the farmers tava
oners, and in "religious liberty, I been the first to express their be
freedom of speech, of the press, I lief in these things by nominating
and of assemblage." She demands a woman for governor, and I am
the immediate abolition of all "pie I proud of their confidence."
Argus Information Bureau
ABT nwlif eaa pet the answer to IT question t7 WTitinc The Arro Informs.
Boa Bureau, Frederic J. Baakin. Director. Waahinirloa. S. C Give tall nuns aui
eddree and encloss two-cent a lamp tor return postaee. Be bnet. All inquiries ma
'tonfideBttal. tse replir beins scut direct to eaca individual. Xo a'.taaUon eul la
said to anonymous let ten.
Q. Please give names of Ameri-fare free from capture or confisca
can cemeteries abroad established j tion when found on a neutral vec
tor World war dead. M. S. j sel, with the exception of such ar-
A. The war department says that j tides as are contraband of war.
the following are the American? q. Bible day is from sunset to
cemeteries in Europe that will be sunSet. Now it is reckoned from
permanent: Aisne-Marne at Bel-I midnight to midnight. When was
leau Wood (Aisne) ; Suresnes at
Paris: Meuse-Argonne, (Romagne-sous-Montfaucon)
; Somme at Bony;
Oise-Aisne (Seringes - et - Nesles) ;
St. Mihiel at Thieucourt; Brook
wood in England near London, and
Flanders Field at Waereghem, Bel
gium. Q. What is meant by the phrase
"free ships make free goods"?
E. A. W.
A. "Free s'hips make free goods"
is an expression in international
law meaning that the effects or
goods belonging to the subjects or
citizens of a power or state at war
CALLING Margot Asquith's diarv "exceed
ingly vulgar". Dean Brown of Yale adds "And
she did it for pay! poor woman! she lost
her way!"
We dont agree that the merry Margot lost
her way. It's our opinion that all her life she
uao n"wn twuy wnere Ffle was goine:
what she intended doing when she arrived.
B. E. M'G.
the change made? P. B.
A. The day has varied from the
earliest times. The Babylonian day
was from sunrise to sunrise, the
Jewish and Greek day from sunstt
to sunset. The Egyptians and the
Romans commenced their day at
midnight and the practice has en
dured. Q. Do cats, monkeys and other
animals shed tears or is it only the
human beings who can do so?
V. L. L.
A. Cats, monkeys and other ani
mals do have tear ducts for the pur
pose of protecting their eyes tfce
same as humans.
Q. Which two prize fighters have
the longest reach? How is tue
C. C l.
A St . I , .,... fihtorc
She made a bee-line for the cap-1 T t,,,,. . 1 . T. .-,..,. are
,h. ,, - I Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey -e
said to have the longest reach
SSU and 82 inches respectively.
before it goes out. If Obadiah Pink
ham is on the island and in his right l""'""""',
mind I'll spoil Benjamin's plans." lVt lTl
tain's room on the wharf.
"If Obadiah Pinkham is there I
wsnnr wraA rlStrl at Vt k T"M O r Q Vw4 V " I
VLrZi 111 Reach is measured from linger tip
U tU I U V. kiua a, V aa a,a. VI a a-L4e suu
together they tore up the hill.
Bethiah' was taking the plum por
ridge from the pot on the crane.
"Obadiah!" screamed Bethiah,
and fell into his arms. "I knew thee
was alive, for I saw thy candle
answering mine lh the window."
Obadiah gave Aunt Liddy one
prodigious wink as he put the
candle be had taken from the win-
the door, Aunt Liddy, thee may Aunt Liddy shrugged ber shoul
specd the week and go with us to ders and went out, down the path,
shearing. 'Twas never said of Dor- Coming up the street was Friend
cas Folger that she was lacking in j Hussey. "Did thee know that Oba
hospitality to a blood relation." diah Pinkham had returned from
The three daughters groaned in the dead on the bark Betsey? His dow ledge in Bethiah's hand. Then
spirit. Aunt Liddy, on account of, whole boat's crew from the Grey-She told them where Aunt Liddy had
her interfering ways, was not want- hound were picked up at sea." found him.
ed. She knew it, and felt it keenly. '. Aunt Liddy thought quickly. Then! "Sit thee down. Aunt Liddy, be-
She had come this year determined she took a stub of an old bayberry ; tween Bethiah and Obadiah before!
to earn a welcome. I dip from her capacious pocket and! we have an unwelcome guest."
"But how?" she thought, despair-J stuck it on the window ledge. She) "And I want thee to teach me to
ingly. I found a match and lit it. On the make the shearing buns and the poo-
'- T n..u.4.lk - r .j k i. ... ... . l i . .
. , , . . ' - ' ' . u one i diiu i.' . uiec, uuiuioi uuirr niutr mc pauc uuiui M u n v picn iui auguring, auqi
Iv .2Tv-. "afUy where she was goinr and! she inquired, going to the little Bethiah's still. ! Liddy." said Bethiah; "I've heard
uax wneei in tne corner. "There :s no wind, muttered the tell tnee was the best cooit on the4tfnden homes and schools in
""o, I thank thee, Aunt Liddy, I old lady. "1 only hope she sees it island." United States and five abroad.
to finger tip.
Q. What is the total value of the
commerce between all countries in
the course of a year? Z. M. G.
A. In 1913, just prior to the
World war, the last year for which
figures are available, the interna
tional trade of the world amounted
to $40,000,000,000. having doubled in
the period 1900-1913.
Q. When were Populists first
elected to congress? W. E. K.
A- The first Populists were elect
ed to the 52nd congress, 1S91-:!.
when t-o Populists captured sea:
In the senate and nine made their
political bows in the house.
Q. How many Florence Critten
den homes are there? J. B. F.
A. Tbre are S Florence Cr