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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
What One Investigation Showed.
Cedar Ranids Rer,tblican. A writer

Cedar Rapids Republican: A writer
in one of the current magazines saws
that investigations made show that
majority of the women who are in
the immoral houses of New York are
illiterates and more than one-fifth OF
them have been found to be actually
mentally defective The average age
at which they fall into errors Of liv-
ing is seventeen and at a little past
eighteen they are making commerce
of their bodies in earnest OF thou
sand or so of these unfortunate women
examined, in one of the homes estao-
lished for their relief, it was shown
that only II gave any economic or
financial reasons for their course
which is said to be an answer to the
question of low wages and their eff
feet on the business Of sexual immor-
atty. 1t was found that most OF the
women had entered upon such lives
before economic questions had press.
ed upon them in any form. At sew
enteen the average girl has not yet
thought far enough on the problems
of life to form a conclusion as to
wages of work and wages OF sin. and
their relative merits. What induces
such girls to enter such places, so
the investigators think, is sheer ig-
norance, or sheer lack of mentality or
morality. They drift into 1t because
they are lacking in moral will power,
or they have a superabundance OF
animal sexual lust. They also tell rs
that with the more than one-fifth who
are mentally defective, there is moth
/ ing but permanent detention that can
help them. With the other part, con-
stituting more than one-half. there IS
| hope held out and some surprising
reformations have been effective To
this class belong the women who
were never enabled to learn better
mode of making living. To save
them it is necessary to teach them
other ways OF making 1ivings and
many of them avail themselves OF
these better ways with avidity, be.
cause they hate the life they had fall,
/ len into.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
"The Names Of Those ,

George D. Perkins in Sioux City
Journal; But really 1t is wonder that
the world is as good as 1t is; and It
must be that 1t is moving in the d.
rection Of the fulfiliment OF some
great plan the Lord is working out
through the centuries Judgment runs
so largely to appearance, as presented
to the natural eye, that temptation is
all the time strong to appear well In
the sight of men. Men are slow to get
the proper perspective, but in some
way, some divine way, it may be be-
lieved, the proper perspective comes to
them in the progress of time. The
names of many are preserved; but
siDgularly enough only the names OF
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
To be seen In the Cemetery,

Pike County Post: Take walk
through the cemetery alone and you
will pass the resting place of a man
who blew into the muzzle of gun
to see if it was loaded A little farth.
er down the slope is a crank who
tried to show how close he could
stand to a moving train while 1t
passed. In strolling about you see
the monument of the hired girl who
tried to start the fire with kerosene,
the boy who put a cob under the
mules tail That tall shaft over a
man who blew ont the gas casts a
shadow over the boy who tried to get
on moving train. Side by side the
pretty creature who always had her
corset laced on the last hole and the
intelligent idiot who rode a bicycle
nine miles in 10 minutes sleep un-
molested. At repose is a doctor who
took a dose of his own medicine.
There with the top OF shoe box
driven over his head Is rich old
man who married young wife.
Away over there reposes boy who
went fishing on Sunday. and the
woman who kept strychnine powders
in the cupboard The man who stood
In front Of the moving machine to
oil the sickle is quiet now and rests
beside the careless brakeman who
fed himself to the 7o-ton engine, and
near by may be seen the grave of
the man who tried to whip the ed,
tor.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
VOCATIONAL TRAINING.

How the vocational guidance sur
vey of New York City voluntarily pc
came the vocational education survey
because those in charge believed that
the really needful thing was to tram
children to be efficient rather than
TO find Jobs for them for which they
were not trained. is told in docu-
ment just issued for free Distribution
by the United states bureau of edu
cation.
what the children really want,
SAYS Miss Alice B. Barrows In the
bureau report, is vocational training,
The kernel of truth In this popular
movement for vocational guidance is
the need of vocational training LOT
children. Vocational guidance should
mean guidance for training. not guild
ance for jobs. Hence, under present
conditions, the interests Of public
school children can best be served.
not BY the establishment of q vocation
bureau, but by the Development OF
vocational training.
The survey was undertaken by a
Joint committee of the junior league
and the public education association,
1t was organized for the purpose OF
studying a group of New York chill,
dren leaving school to go to work, In
the hope of determining what yoca-
tional guidance should mean to the
public schools of the city. Like all
careful investigations OF recent times,
this survey demonstrated that eco.
nomic pressure accounts for only ?
small proportion of the children who
leave school to go to work
Investigation of the children al
work showed that what they wanted
more than anything else was "a Job
where you can learn In most IN
stances they were not getting it, Tor
the most part their work meant moth,
ing TO them; they were rapidly devel
oping feeling Of protest against the
lack Of individual attention and train
ing; against the military discipline
and inexplicable tasks
On one point the New York report
is unusually explicit There are nc
jobs for children under sixteen which
they ought to take" it declares
Furthermore, 1t emphasizes the need
for more information about indus
trial conditions before attempting C
steer boys and girls into positions
Neither the Vocational Education
! Survey nor any other organization
has adequate information at present
about the demand for workers or the
opportunities and conditions of worl
and training in the twenty largest in
dustries, not to mention the legion o
smaller ones" Until more exact in
formation is at hand the vocational
guidance movement says the report
| will remain little more than bod,
of good intentions without any clari
/ fed PLAN
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
A Vile caIumny.

Donnellson Review A hundred
years ago this month the first rail.
road locomotive was built. II was
designed and constructed by William
Hedley. an English engineer Some
one has started the report that this
engine is the one now In use on the
Keokuk and Mt, Pleasant line, but
We do not hesitate to brand the story
as vile calumny. We have taken
the trouble to investigate the matter
and find that the locomotive used on
the North road was built several
years later
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

The women OF Canton. H.. were &C
corded the honor Of being the first of
their sex in central Illinois to vote I'M
der the new suffrage law in that state.
They did not make the showing ex-
pected OF them. In all, 23s women
votes we're cast, but the $4,000 bond
proposition. which was the issue or
the election, was defeated. Wives and
daughters of the socialists killed the
proposition. At Mt Vernon in the same
state the women took little interest in
the primary election held to nominate
a mayor. Less than fifteen women
took advantage OF the opportunity to
cast their first ballot under the new
suffrage law. effective July l.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
BelIttIlnq the Job,

A farmer in great need OF extra
hands at haying time finally asked ST
Warren, who was accounted the town
fool II he could help him out.
"What'll We pay?" asked ST.
TIL pay what you're worth" an
swered the farmer.
81 scratched his head minute, then
announced decisively:
I'll be darned If I'll work for that,n
-Evcrybody's Magazine.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

The Christian Endeavor conference
in session at Los Angeles predicts a
"saloonless United States In 1920"
Yet the latest statistics of the inter-
nal revenue bureau show that with 40
per cent Of the territory of the
country theoretically dry" more
liquor was consumed last year than
in any year in the history of the coun-
try. 1t is evident that prohibition
and temperance are not synonymous
terms.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

Two hundred thousand dollars
seems good deal Of money to give
for painting, but it may be fairly
considered that any article Is worth
what 1t will bring at public auction
after due notice. Rembrandts
"Bathsheba'' recently sold at auction
in Paris for one million francs. the
highest recorded prices ever given
for painting. It was bought by a
firm OF New York picture dealers in
sharp competition with an agent OF
the Rothschilds.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
GOOD ADVICE TO THE FARMERS

1OOO AGbtSE ~ iiE FSthWGho.
In speaking OF rural institutions that
are failing, before the Rural Life con-
ference at the state college at Ames
the other day, DR.. st. Clair s. Adams
OF Dement,, H., declared that absentee
landlordism is the big factor respon-
sible for the social and moral disin-
tegration OF our rural communities.
Speaking further along the same line
he said:
I'VE are rapidly approaching IN
many sections the conditions that
prevail in England and Europe Glass
distinctions between landlord and
tenant are being developed. The time
is coming when there will be no
great middle class In the rural COM
munities, but the nation will consist
|of landlords and peasants God pity
the day when We have peasantry here
In free America"
Mr.. Adams deplored the rapid
movement of the middle aged farm
ers to the towns and cities. AS soon
as he has made his competence, the
farmer moves to town and rents his
farm. AS a result. he fights any
thing that has to do with better
schools, and better social advantages
for the tenants in the country, be-
cause 1t will increase his taxes. Be.
cause OF our short time lease sys-
TENS. the tenants form d shifting
population. Schools and churches
suffer, and the morale OF the rural
community drops into a depiorabie
condition.
With good roads. and the automo.
bile. DR.. Adams can see no reason
why the farmer should not retire In
a comfortable home on the home
farm and supervise the work of his
tenant on long time lease system
to see that the fertility of the land
is maintained for his children and
his children's children. Then the
farmer would take an interest In the
educational and religious forces IN
his community and he would make
the country the finest place in which
to live.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
START THE DAY RIGHT.

START THE DAY RIGHT.
Start the day right. When the sun
comes to greet you
Give it smile for each ray that
it sends:
Shake off the worries that long to
defeat you,
Strengthen your faith In yourself
and your friends.
Yesterdays ghost will be striving 10
haunt you:
Yesterdays errors may come to
your brain.
Throw of the worries that trouble
and taunt you:
Start the day right: begin over
again.
What a brief span is the longest
existence
One flashing journey from Nothing
to Night
Show while you may the old Roman
resistance
Off with your drowsiness-into the
fight.
Never an empire was won by the lag
gard,
Never a prize was obtained but by
worth;
Heed not the sneers OF misanthropes
haggard;
Start the day right and they'll
know you're on earth.
start the day right and your find as
it passes
Something to live for and some
thing to love;
View not the future through indigo
glasses
Note the bright streams and the
blue skies above.
Failure may mock you through years
of endeavor;
Fame and success may not come at
your will:
But nothing can battle climber for
ever,
Start the day right, and you're half
up the hill.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

is put In the ice box. Milk bottles
should be kept closed. both in the ice
box and out OF it II there is any
doubt at all as to the excellence OF the
local milk supply. pasteurize all milk
Knocked foods as general propo-
sition should be avoided. Children
should not be allowed to eat the skins
OF fruits. especially fruits which have
besn exposed to flies or street dirt on
unscreened stands on push-carss.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
can take xold out Of ground but once:

can take gold out Of ground but once.
corn comes every year.
What's the matter with Iowa2
Blamed il we know. unless it would be
that Iowa Is first in the tillable soil
area, first in the value OF implements
on the farm, nrst In the number OF
hogs, first In total products from the
soil. FIRST IN the number of banks,
first in the lowest percentage OF II
literacv, first in the number of horses,
first in cat crop. and almost first IN
the hay crop. potatoes and dairy cows
|It is also first In coal production west
Fof the Mississippi river. except Colo
rado.''
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

The Iowa state law requires that
between July IS and August Is each
year owners and holders of land must
destroy all noxfous weeds thereon. The
state highway commission has desig-
mated July Is as state weed day
and all good citizens are urged to
get out with scythe and hoe on that
day and do some effective work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

An Illinois woman. Miss Mary E. Nc
Dowell, declares that the duty Of wolr
en- at present, is not to run for office.
bat TO see that men of good character
are elected That should keep them
busy for quite while.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

Policel Police! Arrest Doc"
Whetstine who perpetrated the follow
ing in the latest issue of his Column
bus Safeguard:
a funny old bird is the pelican; his
bill can hold more than his belican.
he can take In his beak enough food
for week, but we don't understand
how the helican. Author shot, or half
sfot
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

A writer in woman's magazine
tells all about the Tango dance and
closes with the assertion that bust
ness Is picking up in hell" Shouldn't
wonder.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

A Swedish scientist has advanced
the theory that bearded grain. such
as wheat draws electricity from the
air, and that the plant Is aided in it's
growth thereby.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

The currency reform that is really
needed is some arrangement that VIII
get the currency out Of the other fell
lows pocket.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
The Best Medicine In IN. Wal,

Ny little girl had dysentery very
bad thought she would die. Cham.
berlain's Colo, Cholera and Diarrhoea
remedy cured her. and can truthful
ly say that ] think it is the best med
icine In the world writes Mrs. VIII
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

Kansas farmers are offering So a
day for harvest hands There's
chance for the I. ". VS. II they want
work. Which they do not.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

An automobile that won't turn turtle
is another crying need.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

An expert" IN the tariff business
is one who agrees with you. The
lobbyist" is against you.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

The Sioux City Journal says that
when Dave Brant butts in he Jars the
foundations.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

Some OF the papers are calling him
Mulcthall and others Mul-howl.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

A plain and simple answer for
This questions what we wish:
Does fishing make man liar, or
Do only liars fish?
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
THOUGHT EoR THE DAY.

Gossip has been well defined as
putting two and two together and
making it five.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13
NOTES AND COMMENT.

No mere human could improve on
this Iowa corn weather" says the Des
Moines Capital
1T is seldom that baseball game Il
postponed on account of the heat, OBJ
serves the Des Moines Capital.
It is suggested that the medical stu
dent who remains at the foot OF his
class should become chiropodist.
"The broken camp at Gettysburg
means the last muster of the veterans
of the great war" says the MARSHALL
town Times-Republican
"As soon as you get over kicking
about how hot it is, most likely you
will be nrumbling about having to dig
up your overcoat before summer is
half over says the Waterloo Reporter.
A Dubuque paper says the saloons
will lose about $50 month each by
the closing of the thirst resorts at 9
o'clock Nothing said about somebody
saving that amount monthly, COM
ments the Waterloo Reporter.
"The liquor men are obeying the new
laws made for them. They are open
ing at and closing a. 9. Why shall
not the automobile and motorcycle
men respond with like compliance
to the new law?'' inquiries the Cedar
Rapids Republican. Let us get into
the law obeying habit more, and then
we will all be better for it. The men
who are rich enough 10 own such We
Ihicles ought to be superior men in a
community and they ought to set the
example of oheying all the laws made
for them"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

It is suggested that the medical stu
dent who remains at the foot of his
class should become chiropodist.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

Here's nice point to determine.
Answers must in all cases be fully
prepaid:
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

No mere human could improve on
this Iowa corn weather" says the Des
Moines Capital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

1T is seldom that baseball game II
postponed on account of the heat, OBJ
serves the Des Moines Capital.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

those who have served the Lord by
serving their fellow men are embalm-
ed In the love of men.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-13

THE broken camp at Gettysburg
means the last muster of the veterans
of the great war" says the MARSHALL
town Times-Republican.
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keokuk, Iowa ....... July 1s 1918
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-11-12
PHlDELAH RICE.

rendition he was called back twice by
the large audience. Two nights later
he gave David Garrick'' and at the
close was given Chautauqua salute.
This salute was started in the audi
ence. as there was no one but Mr..
Rice on the platform at the time.
Usually Bishop Vincent starts the sa-
lutte from the platform, and it is only
on unusual occasions that this is done.
For example, during the same summer
it was given in honor Of British Am
bassadOr Bryce as he rose to speak
and to Walter Damrosch as he appear
ed with his orchestra of fifty pieces.
The ovation. therefore, which Mr. Rice
received from large percentage of the
audience was one of the most unusual
on record. This little incident should
be enough in itself to inspire interest
in his coming to this city.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-11-12
LINCOLN MCCONNELL.

Lincoln Mcconnell, who is to lecture
here, Is the son Of a Tennessee law
yer and was early trained in the study
of law. At the close of his college
career he went west and became cow
boy, but later returned to the south,
where he became a policeman on the
Atlanta police force. He was soon
promoted to the position Of detective,
in which capacity he served for four
years, and still later acted as assistant
to the solicitor in the criminal court for
two years.
He was converted while member Of
the police force and determined that
he would spend his time in uplifting
men rather than in putting them in
JAIL Since that time he has been able
to help thousands. His experience in
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-11-12
THIS YEARS COURSE
Of LyCGum Concerts, Lectures
and Entertainments.
Good Things In Store For Local
People Who Attend-LyCeum
Movement Throughout
America Growing With
Marvellous Rapidity.

The concerts, lectures and entertain
ments which are pictured and describ-
ed herewith represent a group of good
things which are in store for the pat
rOns of the local Lyceum course this
season. They are booked through the
oldest and largest bureau in the world
the Redpath-a bureau which guar
antees every one of it's attractions to
make good.
In all parts Of the American con-
tinent the Lyceum movement is grow
ing, and as it grows in size it is like
wise growing in popularity. There are
today more than $4,000 Lyceum courses
in the United States. besides some
1900 Chautauquas. incidentally it is
Of interest that more than GOO of all
the ChautauquaS in this country are
managed by the same bureau, from
which the attractions described on this
page are booked
Lyceum entertainments differ from
any other types Of public amusements,
in that they leave the community life
better for their having come and gone.
Every Lyceum lecturer has q message
which he believes will benefit his hear
ers. The aim Of Lyceum musical COM
panies or entertainers is to help main
tain or raise the standard of the art
they represent in all the towns and
cities they visit.
The following are the Lyceum course
attractions which are to be heard here
this season:
THE FOUR ARTISTS COMPANY.
One of the best musical attractions
which are being offered to the Lyceum
public this season is to be found in
the Four Artists Company.
Frederick Kickbush, Jr., the bari
tone soloist, with this organization, has
sung abroad extensively, as well as
given recitalS under the auspices of the
musical clubs in Kansas City, Omaha,
Milwaukee and other cities of the Unit
ed States.
During Grover Cleveand's second
administration Mr.. Kickbush was ap-
pointed United States consul to Stet-
tin, Germany, and was again appoint
ed under the administration Of Presi-
dent Mckinley. While in Stettin he
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-11-12
ONE DAY ONLY

DR.. Lee, licensed by the state for
the treatment of deformities and all
nervous and chronic diseases of men,
women and children, offers to all who
call on this trip consultation,
examination, advice free, making no
charge whatever, except the cost of
medicine. All that is asked in re-
turn for these valuable services is
that every person treated will state
the result obtained to their friends
and thus prove to the sick and aff1ict-
ed in every city and locality that at
last treatments have been discovered
that are reasonably sure and certain
in their effect
Under his system no more opera
tions for appendicitis, gall stones,
kidney stones, tubercular glands,
tumor. goitre or piles.
Selected cases of consumption.
asthma, bronchitis and catarrhal
diseases treated with combination of
medicine, diet, hygiene and exercise.
This is a reliable and scientific home
treatment.
Rheumatism, bed wettiEg, leg
ulcers. sore eyes and diseases of the
stomach, liver, heart. kidneys. bowels,
bladder, all treated by his methods.
developed after years of special
practice and experience.
This doctor and nerve specialist
treats neuralgia, constant headaches.
sciatica, nervous debility and other
diseases related to the nervous system.
Because of his experience in the
treatment of chronic blood diseases,
sCrOfula, diseases Of the skin, falling
Of the hair, hydrocele, varicocele,
swelling Of the limbs, enlarged veins,
paralysis. and diseases of men. women
and children. he is fitted for the