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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04
BETTER BABIES.

Perfect babies, with resultant few
er deaths. suicides, crimes, hospitals,
divorces and prisons. This is the aim
of countrywide campaign OF "child
welfare which the National Con-
gress of Mothers is planning to inaug-
urate during the present month. In
every town, city and village. meetings
will be held. At lectures, discussions,
lnncheons, -everywhere--the
topic will be Better Babies and Bet
ter Men and Women"
The plan is the result OF years oil
study. 1t aims to give women q com.
prehensive understanding OF how they
may be able to give their children a
better heritage CT good health All
ments, athletics. mental and physical
culture. all will enter into the pro
posed training for mothers.
The mothers will be instructed In
the physical care of infants, and es
pecially in the need OF absence OF all
that may impress itself injuriously
upon the tender mind of the mere
baby.
Among the far-reaching and all.in
Guiding topics which will be comprised
in the scope OF work of the congress
arc such matters az ciothes food, rlay
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS

, than other Daughters OF Sorrow II
Destiny had tangled you in the
meshes of her web?
How can you tell how brave and
how strong you would be until you
have passed through the fire and prov
en- your strength in a real fight with
misfortune?
Oh, be fair! It's so easy to destroy
and SO hard to rebuild.
There are too many weeds in the
Great Garden don't add to them.
Weave an occasional rose garland
and make fewer crowns OF thorns.
Go forth to heal, not to hurt.
Don't slander-don't gossip.
MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
(Which foregoing remarks. YOU feel.
don't apply to you at all, yet YOU know
of countless persons whose cases they
fit to ''T.')
For instance, there's Mrs. IS. =
across the way. and Mrs. "B.'' who
called today. When you pause to
consider how often they have poked
their respective and respectable noses
into affairs which never affected them.
of course. YOU heartily agree that
there's entirely too much busybodying
in your vicinity.
But as for you-why, you're above
the meanness and pettiness and the
cruelties that some women (and you
could name them scatter through
life You wouldn't wrong anybody
But then, if YOU could see yourself
in the same light in which you view
others, you wouldn't be SO ready to
constitute yourself trial board for
the community's morals and we could
use this page to discuss politics or
Tagnara f3gurines or take dig at the
unsreakable Turk-instead of wasting
it in foolish and futile attempt to
change human nature.
And the hopelessness OF the at
tempt lies chiefly in the fact that all
of us can see beams, but can't feel
notes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04
GEN. HlTcHcock.s GOOD WORK.

GEN. HlTcHcock's GOOD WORK.
The vitality given the laws against
fraudulent use of the mails is a feat
ure of Postmaster General Hitch
cocks administration that has not been
given the attention it merits. Remind
er of the wholesale activity in this
direction is furnished in the attorney
generals report, which shows that
during the fiscal year 1911, there were
1,167 convictions for violation of pos
tai laws. Accompanying the report is
a list Of get rich quick concerns
that have been put out of business. 1t
includes offenders big and little, and
runs the gamut OF bucket shops, fake
mining schemes, fake land operations
and all sorts of worthless stock float
ing explorations. And the list of con
victions does not by any means repre-
sent the net results of this campaign
against what had long been regarded
as semi-respectable robbery. If the
truth were known it probably would
be disclosed that dozens OF blue sky
peddlers retired from business volun.
tarily as a result of each conviction.
One can only guess as to the thous-
ands of dollars that have STAYED In
the savings banks, drawing interest in
stead of seeking Impossible reward In
glittering enterprises whose entice.
ments were set forth in advertise
ment or circular.
1t used to be that the suckers, who
dumped their money into the hands of
far away schemers were the only ones
who ran any risk. Postmaster Gener-
al Hitchcock has SO arranged matters
that the sharper who uses the United
States mails to perpetrate fraud is
engaging in as risky business as a
safe cracker or the burglar. Indeed,
the chance Of landing in prison il
somewhat better in the case Of the
offender against the federal postal
laws He must do his work in the
open, and If he keeps at 1t long
enough TO make it profitable he is
sure to run up against the postmaster
generals machinery for protecting the
public.
/ Postmaster General Hitchcock has
been widely advertised as the man
who Knocked out the postal deficit
He is entitled to some advertiging az
the man who put the blue sky seller
ON the run.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04


Herbert kaufman, in Woman's
Werld: How dare you Judge? BY
what right do you sit in justice over
the acts OF your neighbour
Has Providence gifted you with eyes
that see the scars upon souls and
ears that can hear the battles be-
tween will and weakness?
When did you walk in Gethsemane ?
Has your life been SO full and have
you journeyed SO far that you know
the lures and temptations that face
all men and all women-the creeds
upon which they were reared and the
early Influences that surrounded them
the griefs that they bear-the hurts
that they wear and the storms that
beat upon their hearts?
Have you paused at all the roads
where duty and desire cross-have
You felt the need OF bread and the
want OF roof?
What tests have you withstood-
what privations have battered the
edge of your resolution
Did Necessity ever hurl you to your
knees and leave you cropping blindly
for the first straw that could be
clutched?
What sacrifices have you laid upon
the altar Of honor?
Until you have seen tired, don't
you are convinced, don't
convict.
You can't accurately estimate any
motives in any life but your own
1t isn't your place, it isn't your
right, it isn't your duty to WELD the
lash.
Are you so perfect that you may de-
termine standards of perfection?
Are you so truthful, so virtuous, so
nnselfsh that you may direct the mis-
guided?
Have you ever visualiZed what you
yourself might have done had you
been placed in the same position as
another whom you condemned? Would
you do better-would you be better
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

vorable advertising as commission
form OF government town, she must
educate her officials to come out in
the open and transact the public bust
ness where anyone who cares to may
see and hear what is going on.
"A railroad may run its business
that way, but city-never, that is il
it wants to keep up with the process.
sion. The public has some rights
which public officials are bound to re-
spect.'
1t is greatly to be regretted that
Mayor Elder and his associates at
the head of the municipality have not
kept the public advised at all times
concerning the conduct OF city affairs.
Proper publicity would have forestall-
ed many suspicious and much unfav.
orable comment. There is q spirit
of unbelief and dissatisfaction prev
alent in the community, growing out
OF lack Of proper publicity, that will
require great effort TO allay. All this
might and would have been avoided il
| the public had been taken into the
confidence Of the city authorities at
the outset.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04
keokuk, Iowa
NY GUIDE.

MY GUIDE.
There is no path in this desert waste,
For the winds have swept the shift
ing sands;
The trail is blind where the storms
have raced,
And stranger, I, in these fearsome
lands.
But / Journey on with lightsome
trend:
| do not falter nor turn aside;
For l see his figure ahead
He knows the way--my guide
There is no path in this trackless sea;
No map is lined on the restless
waves;
The ocean snares are strange to me,
Where the unseen wind in it's fury
raves:
But it matter naught; my sails are set,
And my swift PROV losses the seas
aside;
For the changeless stars are stead
fast yet,
And / sail by his star-blazed trail
my guide.
There is no way in this starless night;
There is naught but cloud in the
inky skies;
The black night smothers me, left
and right,
start with blind mans straining
eyes;
But my steps are firm; for can not
stray:
The path to my feet seems light and
wide;
For hear his voice-''I am the way."
And sing as l follow him on-my
guide.
Robert ]. Burdette.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04
DOING BUSINESS IN THE OPEN.

DOING BUSINESS IN THE OPEN.
In recent address President Taft
said in effect that it had been his mis-
take and his misfortune as chief exec
utive not TO make himself clearly I'M
derstood at all times: that as a iur-
list, in which capacity he had served
most of his public life. he had never
jelt called upon to explain and defend
Els decisions. His course as Presi-
dent has been in line with this policy.
and he is now reaping bitter fruit
not as the result of wrong doing.
but because he did not take the trou-
bic to make it clear to everybody at
the time why he did certain things.
As chief executive Of Keokuk Mayor
Elder is undergoing like experi-
ence. He has been unfortunate in that
he did not at all times take the com.
munity into his confidence as to the
reasons that influenced his course
Perhaps a still more potent factor in
the case was his failure to keen the
community advised of what he was
doing or was about to do Prior to two
years ago the conduct of municipal
afalrs was given the widest publicity
and every citizen knew what had been
done and what was in prospect. I'm
der the commission plan exactly the
! opposite course has been pursued
/ ne citizen who knows what the
mayor and commissioners have done
or propose to do is the exception and
not the rule.
Before becoming mayor of Keokub
Mf Elder was for many years rail-
road official. His training in that
capacity was along the line of secrecv
and 1t is only natural that he should
incline TO the same policy In his pres.
ent capacity. This fact is recognized
by the Quincy Wing, which in friend.
~ crltielsm of him as mayor saws that
ne should have forgotten that he was
brought up in the railroad business !,
Inc same paper, after recountino tbe
discussion in The Gate CITY between
Mayor Elder, H. w. Green and i n
.oie relative to railroad tracks on the
, levee, says by way of comment.
We do things in the open here II
Quincy. and believe that IL ouinc1
ever goes under the commissioT
: form Of government plan that We vii
continue TO do business in the open
he people have perfect right t.
4 know what is being done by the of
, ficials they elect, and we do not won
der that our friends In Keokuk ar,
!. lnterposing objections to the sta
, chamber methods of the present cit,
i government there
What Keokuk people should do i
!, to elect men to Office who are wjllin,
e to let the people know what they ar
e doing-men who are willing to admi
a the newspaper reporters to their ses
o sions, SO that the public may lear
= the opinions of their representative
: on questions of public interest.
III Keo';uI. ns'-ecctr To rooaira n
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

DR.. William Tindell, the author,
calls attention to the fact that in the
states where women will vote at the
next presidential election there will
be thirty-seyen electoral votes cast.
In addition three other states are to
ask for woman suffrage before the
election and if it should carry would
give sixty-four electoral votes out of
531, which would mean that women
would have something to do with de.
Gliding who shall be the next Presi-
dent.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04
CONSERVING THE FAMILY LIFE

THE FAMILY LIFE.
No one denies the prevalence OF
great domestic evils. The reports OF
the census office on marriage and d.
vorce. the disclosures of the Chicago
vice commission, and complaints OF
experts in public education and relig-
ious training" have drawn the especial
attention OF the Federal Council OF
the Churches of Christ in America,
who now address an appeal to the
churches in behalf of the family. They
find encouragement in the fact that
on many sides appears the conviction
of the Importance of the home as
the place where all that builds up or
pulls down in the social order does its
final work" There Is, therefore, much
effort to protect and develop family
life" The recommendations they
make are signed by Bishop Doane,
Samuel w. Dixie, and DR.. E. B. San
ford, and appear in various publica-
tons of the religious press. They
point to three or four things that
seem in most immediate need of at
| tention and action" Thus:
/ 81. A uniform marriage law has
lately been prepared to follow the uni
/ form divorce law now in process of
enactment by the states. We recon-
mend these measures. though they
may not be wholly ideal, to your at
tention The clergy have widely cali
ed for some such provisions to meet
the evils Of discordant legislation, es-
pecially as protection against migra-
| tory marriage and divorce.
But we especially urge the need OF
a similar comfy between the churches
themselves so that persons who can
not be married by their own minis
tiers will not resort to those OF other
churches for the object. Do not con
sistency, the responsibilities for social
leadership, and the obligations OF
Christian fraternity demand this
course from our churches? Shall we
not in this way observe that comfy
between churches that we are demand
ing of the states?
4 20. We also urge at this time great
care in the marriage OF persons un
known to the officiating clergyman
and Of those who are morally or physi
cally unfit for married life.
IS. The terrible evils of sexual vice
are in urgent need of attention by the
} clergy, teachers, and parents. in ways
: that are wise and efficient w
gratefully recognize the growing in
.. terest in this subject and urge the
, leaders of the church TO become In
telligent concerning it, and to cooper
5 ate in all practical ways with tn,
: medical profession and with compe
: tent associations for dealing with II
r. Only one thing more at thi
|. time. Our churches should lead thei
! people TO see that the family has it
true place in the activities of religion
. ! education industry and public order
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

Mrs. Catherine Waugh Mccullough
has issued the following admonition
to her fellow suffragettes in Illinois:
DO not bite policeman" Certainly
not. Mayors and congressman and
governors and the like were of course
made TO be bitten. but policemen,
never. No Illinois suffragette with the
least regard for herself or the cause
80 dear to her heart will think for a
moment of sinking her incisors into
The flesh of a blue-coated guardian
q he pence Rad taste2 OF course
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04
THOUGHT Fca THE DAY.

pertinent to the present situation in
Keokuk.)
The public is in many ways like a
big obstinate boy; also something
like mule. You can persuade it to
do almost anything, but when you be
gin to thrash an idea out of its head,
and another in, your arm tires before
the boy or the mule does.--Judge
Henry Shute in "A Country Lawyer"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

games, athletics, school, home work,
hygiene, vocational studies, musical
training, art culture, religious needs
talthough absolutely nothing sectar-
ian or restricting is permitted by the
congress) home life in its relation to
school and Fairgrounds; the proper
training OF young girls and young
Dogs, the leading into older years,
college training and instruction in the
duties Of motherhood and fatherhood.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

Sumner Curtis writes from Wash
ington TO the Chicago Record-Herald
that the relations between Senators La
Toilette and Cummins have become SO
strained that those eminent apostles
of insurgency hardly speak as they
pass by Does the Wisconsin senator
imagine for a moment that the senior
Iowa senator has Wilsonized him, Per
fish the thought
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

The Cummins headquarters in Des
Moines are incidentally alluded to by
the Capital as the Film, nation and
Substitution Bureau" The much
Wanted Iowa primary election law
must have slipped a cog. When the
measure was pending in the iegisla-
ture we were solemnly assured that
1t would do away with that sort of
thing for all time.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

As implied in what we said at the out
set, the vigor and safety of all other
institutions depend on the extent to
which they strengthen the life OF the
family Every tendency in any of
these that weakens the home should
be resisted. Every plan for their own
welfare should include knowledge Of
its effect on the home"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

That the cost of living is high and
apparently getting higher, few will de-
ny, but it is not unprecedented. The
diary OF Connecticut clockmaker
who lived in the early part of the last
century, has been unearthed in which
he had set down some Of the prices
for the necessaries of life in 1916, the
year he was married and began house
keeping. Flour was SIS barrel, mo-
lasses 20 cents gallon, brown sugar
81 cents pound and pork s13 hun
dred-weight while cotton shifting was
81 yard. Taking those figures as a
be able to show that prices are lower
than they were century ago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

Governor Hadley of Missouri says
he has never found it necessary to
wear gum shoes. which suggests to
the Omaha Bee that probably he has
never had Stone-bruise.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

A western Iowa paper complains
that lot of young girls around town
do more for their complexion than for
their mothers. 1t is a safe guess that
the mothers are partly to blame.
Proper home training would obviate
all cause for complaint on this score
and keep the girls off the streets.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

The Des Moines Capital prints a
dispatch under Fort Madison date
line, headed Kennedy to Run in the
Second Not much. Mr. Kennedy
will run in the First district and as
usual will distance all competitors.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

A bee is said to travel $4,000 miles
in collecting and storing pound of
honey. 1t is the long haul, a para
grapher explains, that accounts for
the high price.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

u am standing on my own feet in
this presidential candidacy" says
Champ Clark The statement may be
true. but it doesn't alter the fact that
the speaker is tramping on Joseph
Folks corns.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

The presumption is that Br'er
Grounding seen his duty" as well
as his shadow, and done it, The
weather man will now proceed to do
the rest-and his worst.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

Only six more weeks of winter.
The time will pass all TOO soon-for
those who have notes maturing in
bank.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

Mrs. A. r. Tabor. of Crider, Mo,
had been troubled with sick headache
for about nve years. whom she began
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-04

Attorney General Cosson has called
attention to the fact that this year,
for the first time, the township trus-
tees of Iowa will have an important
duty to perform at the February meet
ing of the trustees, which occurs all
over the state tomorrow. They are re-
CURED under the law to employ a
superintendent of road dragging and
a road superintendent, whose duty is
to care for the roads and to see that
the dragging is done. The reason the
legislature provided for appointment
at the February meeting is that much
of the work must be done before the
next regular meeting which is in
April The attorney general has call
ed attention to the fact that the law
is compulsory and this arranging fol-
the road work must be done tomor
row
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The Iowa Federation of Women's
Clubs is trying to collect money by
voluntary contributions from the
federated clubs for Loan Fund from
which girls, who need assistance in
securing their education. may borrow
without interest, small sums at stat
ed intervals as shall be agreed upon,
not to exceed $3.50 90 in one year.
The recipient shall give her note
signed by herself and she shall pay
the same as soon as she becomes
self-supporting. The committee begs
for the help OF every club and club
woman, that it may become real
help and inspiration to Iowa girls.
Six girls are being assisted by Iowa
club women at the present time, and
the work has just hardly commenced
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-08-12
Legal Notices.


ADMINISTRATORS SALE.
Under and by virtue of an order of the
court Of ordinary of Fulton county, Geor-
gia. granted at the June term, 1912, l will
sell at public cutlery on the first Tuesday
sd day) of September, 1912, before the
front door of the Chamber Of Commerce
building, Nos. As and As South Pryor
street, Atlanta, Fulton county, Georgia,
now used as the court house of said
county, within the legal hours of sale,
those two tracts or parcels OF land, stu
ated in land lot 81 of the Fourteenth dis
trict Of formerly Henry, now Fulton
county, Georgia, as follows:
/. Commencing on the northeast side of
Tatnall street formerly Capers or Craps
aley), at the southeast corner of city lot
10. known as the c. c. Davis property,
and running thence northeast along
Tatnall street, fifty 500 feet, and extend
ing back northeasterly the same width,
one hundred and twenty-five 022) feet,
more or less. on the northern line, and
one hundred and twenty G20) feet.
more or less. on the southern line of said
lot 49, from Tatnall street to the property
sold by c. c. Davis to William s. Ever
EFT by deed dated April 30. 1902. recorded in
Fulton county deed record book 1862, p 1854.
being part of the same property conveyed
by Edward W. Holland to c. c. Davis by
deed dated 18th May, 1858. recorded in
Fulton county deed book Is, page $50.