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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-01
NOTICE.
There viii 30 no issue of The Daily
cate City next Monday-Labor dav,
CITY NEWS.

some Grand Leader cfear
special: School dresses. Iowitz
Get your old shoes made naw a,
Moore's Shoe Shop.
-Dwers-McCarthy Co. shov ,be
best selection OF fall hats in Keoknk
The best Is always the cheanest
Take your shoes to SayIler's shoe hos
pital, 112o Main. ~ Ao'
-Pucketchetuck lodge No. 4s meets
every Friday evening at 500 O'Clock.
w. =. utley, N. g.; George W. I'm.
mesart, permanent secretary.
wines from the cellars of e. Bar.
.ers Sons, Nauvoo. ILL.,, can be had
TOT family purposes in no less than
sallon quantities. Write for prices or
come direct to their cellars.
-Dr- E. B. Newcomb is expected Ia
Dc nome tonight from his August va,
cation, and to occupy the pulpit a,
westminster church at the morninp
and evening services on Sunday.
-vandals have already been at
Work on the newly laid cement side
walk adjoining the high schoo,
grounds. Hardly had the mass hard.
ened when its surface was disfie1,rad
by the marking Of characters. Peon1a
with a mischievous bent In tba;r
makeup are public nuisances. and
keokuk suffers from their presence
in no small degree.
That Matthias ODonnell, who ia
now q prisoner in the state peniten,
tlary at this city, awaiting a new
trial for the murder Of his wife vii,
not be given hearing at the Senten,.
Der term Of court was learned today
says the Fort Madison Gem civ The
case VIII, however, be carried over IN
the November term of court. when II
VIII probably be the first case on tbe
criminal docket. The delay is occa.
stoned through incomplete prenara.
ton on the Fart of the prosecution
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-01

In The Gate City's list of students
who are to attend college this year.
the name of Bernard Davidson was
omitted. Mr.. Davidson will attend the
University of Illinois at Champaisn.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-01

for the time being. It is fact that
owing to the raise in the price Of
PRINT paper very many publications
are getting along on a hand to mouth
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-09-01

cus OH the freight, and papers so un-
paper is freight and strike wouId
fortunate as not to have a supply on
hand VIII be forced to quit business
Meade County news., 1916-12-14
leather From Ostrich Skins.

Ostrich skins form the subject Of
a late news item from Cape Town,
South Africa. The truth seems to be
that there has been no business man
enterprising enough to push this side
line of the. ostrich feather business
during the last couple Of years, when
skins have been procurable at nomi-
nal sum. 1t can be produced in vari-
Gus colors and thicknesses, and just
after tanning it is about twice the
thickness of a goatskin, is very tough,
with strong fiber, which, unlike ordi-
nary leather, is not interviewer but
lies in separate layers, which can be
pulled off by hand so as to get the
thickness required. There is no rea-
son, says the dispatch, why ladies'
leather goods, slippers, and other ar
ticles should not be extensively manu-
factured out Of ostrich hide.
Meade County news., 1916-12-14
One Spout of the MELTING Pot.

81 have just come from Hawaii"
said, "where there are as many Japa-
nese as all the other races together"
"Yes," replied Count Okuma, "and
when they come back to Japan they
are so thoroughly Americanized that
they can't talk to me in their own
language"
"It is singular" continued the -pra-
mier, chow the past is linked with
the present. Many years ago a poor
Japanese fisherman was shipwrecked
and was rescued by an American
ship. He learned English and be-
came Commodore Perrys interpreter.
A son of that shipwrecked fisherman
is now professor in the Imperial
university. Thus, old Japan and new
Japan come together in his person.
Christian Herald.
Meade County news., 1916-12-14
METHOD OF..SAVING
BETTER TO "EVEN THINGS UP"
THAN EVEN THEM DOWN.
Advice Given Youth Who Had Re-
ceived Small Legacy Is Well Worth
Heeding by the Man Who
Would Win Success.

In an article in the American Maga-
zine writer says:
"When an old uncle of mine died
and left me a little bequest of five
hundred and forty-ive dollars, my first
impulse was to even it off, and If 1t
hadn't been for an old friend of my
fathers 1 think would have succeed
ed in neatly pairing it down to zero.
"'What were you thinking of doing
with that money? he asked casually
one day.
"'Well,' I replied, I think I'll just
take that forty-five dollars and go for
little lake trip and then I'll have
five hundred dollars to put in the
bank
"'Why five hundred dollarsT he
said. why not five hundred and forty
five dollarsP
"'Oh,' replied, you might as well
have an even amount
"'Do you suppose you could spare
me five dollarsT he asked suddenly.
"'Why, yes I replied, little sur
prised that he should ask to borrow
money of me; but handed it to him.
"'All right, then,' he said; here's
five dollars'-handing me back that
same bill. IF you'll just put this with
that five hundred and forty-fve dol
lars you'll have five hundred and fifty
dollars, and that's nice even amount.
Now, If you'll put that in the bank,
in three months it will have earned
five dollars and fifty cents more, and
surely in the meantime you can scrape
together forty-four dollars and fifty
cents, and then you'll have an even
six hundred dollars instead Of five
hundred
"'Well, what could I do with six
hundred dollarsT 1 asked, not very
much impressed, as the difference
didn't seem worth the trouble.
"'One thing you could do replied
the old gentleman, would be to ask
your banker to buy a thousand-dollar
bond for you, or, rather, to lend you
the extra four hundred dollars, keep
ing the bond as security, and then it
wouldn't be long before you would
have a thousand dollars, which, for
seven amounts is a little better than
five hundred
'Then with a pencil and paper he
showed me carefully just how long it
would take.
"'Of course you don't have to do it
if you don't want to; but I have no.
ticed,' he went on thoughtfully, that
this business of having little by you
is pretty much matter Of the way
your mind works. Some people al
ways want to even things off in money
matters others want to even them up.
And once you get started at it, think
Ing up isn't much harder than think
ing down. For instance, If l showed
you thirteen cents, you might say, II
can spend three cents for popcorn,
and then I'll have dime;" or you
could say, eff put two cents with
that I'll have fifteen cents."'
"It's the downhill people, the
people who follow the path of least
resistance, the people who slice off a
little instead of building up a little,
who never get anywhere in life.'"
Meade County news., 1916-12-14

Aluminium on Skis Lengthens Jump.
An increase of several yards in the
jump of ski-runners is rather sur
prising result Of the process of metal
lizing objects by means of spray. In
Switzerland coating of aluminium of
the thickness of thin cardboard is be-
ing applied to the ski blades by this
method, and this not only adds greatly
to the durability of the bearing surface
but 1t also very materially lessons fric-
ton, and tends further to prevent cak-
ing of snow on the blades. 1t is the di-
minisbed friction that lengthens the
Jump.
Meade County news., 1916-12-14
Fatal Kindness.

MTnnie-So sorry to hear of your
motor accident!
Lionel-Oh, thanks; it's nothing. Ex-
pect to live through many more.
Minnie-Oh, but l hope notL-Cin-
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Meade County news., 1916-12-14
Tnrn About.

Mrs. Knagg-I wish you wouldn't
talk in your sleep so much. 1t dis
turbs me. l never talk in my sleep.
Mr.. Knagg-I know, my dear. But
you have to rest your vocal organs at
times and really ought to exercise
nina
Meade County news., 1916-12-14

Queen Maud may find her country
involved in the great war, owing to
Germany's destruction of Norwegian
shipping. She was the third daughter
of King Edward VII of Great Britain
and married King Haakon in 1896.
This Is new and hitherto unpub-
lished photograph of the queen.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01
FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT ON
"LAW ENFORCEMENT"

Former President Taft in his work,
"Four Aspects of Civic Duty" writes
at length on the subject of CLAW En-
forcement." An extract is pertinent:
"Nothing is more foolish, nothing
more utterly at variance with sound
policy than to enact law which, by
reason of conditions surrounding the
community is incapable of enforcement.
Such instances are sometimes presented
by sumptuary laws, by which the sale
of intoxicating liquors is prohibited
under penalties in localities, where the
public sentiment of the immediate COM
munity does not and will not sustain
the enforcement of the law. In such
cases the legislation usually is the re-
suit of agitation by the people in the
country districts, who are determined
to make their fellow citizens in the city
better. The enactment of the law
comes through the country represent
atives, who form a majority of the
legislature, but the enforcement Oh Tue
law is among the people who are gen
orally opposed to its enactment, and
under such circumstances the law is a
dead letter. In cases where the sale of
liquor cannot be prohibited in fact, it
is far better to regulate than to at
tempt to stamp it out.
"By the enactment of a drastic law
and the failure to enforce it, there is
injected into the public mind the idea
that laws are to be observed or violated
according to the will of those affected.
1 need not say how altogether per-
nicious such a loose theory is. &.
The constant violation or neglect. of
any law leads to a demoralized view of
all laws"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01

but Mr.. Hildreth, proprietor of this
hotel, has never been guilty of this
practice. Mr.. Humphrey is anxious to
let the public know just the kind of
treatment he has received during his
five years employment as chef for Mr.
Hildreth.
It is safe to assume that a man who
stands well with his help will also stand
true with his friends. We are sure
from past experiences with Mr.. Hid.
reth, that he is right on the Race issue
This alone entities him to your full
confidence. Show your appreciation by
voting for him. We predict for Mr.
Hildreth, a fair share of the Colored
Vote on Election Day, April 4th. He
is entitled to them on general prin,
ciples. The time has come for US to
vote for our friends, rather than any
political party. If you do not know
Mr.. Hildreth try to meet him tomorrow
or next day. A short conversation viii
convince you that he is the man wht
should have your vote for Alderman
of the End Ward.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01
NATIONAL NEWS NOTES
Brief Bits of News and Comment
On Men and Women
HAITI UNDER CONTROL OF
UNITED STATES

Washington, D. C.-The treaty be-
tween the United States and the
Republic of Haiti, ratified by the
Senate, may be said to constitute a
sequel to the latest of series of tragic
chapters in the history of the most
turbulent island in the western hemi'
sphere. 1t is the hope of the element
in Haiti that has been striving fol
years to crush out the revolutionary
tendency among the people, and to
promote orderly and stable government
as it is the hope of the United States
that the signing of this convention will
start the little country on the road to
peace and prosperity. The treaty seems
to have been drawn with the purpose
of establishing in the island a benev'
olent despotism. Perhaps this is the
best that could be done in the present
circumstances. The conditions were
extraordinary, and doubtless they had
to be met in kind. But the establish
ment Of benevolent despotisms is hardly
the proper function of democracy
and it must be difficult for any well
wisher of the United States to refrain
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01
BEREAN BAPTIST CHURCH NOTES

Despite the rain last Sunday morn
ing, Berean congregation looked like a
flower garden, with the ladies in their
new spring hats.
Rev. Braddan delivered very touch
ing sermon and the choir rendered
beautiful music. DR.. W. N. Thomas,
choirister.
The Entertainment given last Tues
day evening, was one of the most sue
cessful ever rendered at Berean church,
beautiful solos and choruses were rem
dered by some of Chicago's best must
cal talent.
Mrs. Myrtle Winfrey, directress and
Mrs. Il. B. De-Coursey, manager, and
Miss Gladis De-Coursey, pianist.
Rev. Bradden so elegantly delivered
some poems from Shakespeare, assisted
by Mrs. Willie Bah.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01

In a far away district of Alabama,
twelve miles from a railroad, there is
situated little school which found its
beginning first in the hearts of some
of Coosa County's patriotic white and
Colored citizens, and which under most
trying difficulties has blossomed into a
little community oasis of civiliza-
ton as it were, in a desert of ignor-
ance. It now pulses with the quicken
ing throbs which come from education
and purposeful toll.
The Coosa County Training School of
which Mr.. Robert w. Taylor is prin-
cipal is the center of activity in this
model community and from this school
there radiates encouragement and an
awakening pride of race which is
moulding a strong sentiment for
progress and advancement.
But Coosa County is not unlike other
counties of the South for it depends
almost wholly upon the production of
its farms for its existence and CITIZEN
there be lean years and there be fat
years" Last year was very clean"
with the Colored people of Coosa
County and they have suffered much
and been deprived of much. But they
are stout-hearted and hopeful and have
vet to show the first evidence of a
faltering faith in the ultimate achieve
ment of their ideals.
When the call for support to the
campaign for the Booker T. Washing
ton Memorial Fund was issued, Coosa
County was among the first to reply
that they would spare nothing in doing
their part to perpetuate the work
founded by DR.. Washington and in
helping to erect a suitable memorial in
his honor on the grounds of Tuskegee
Institute. The story of their great
love; of their great loyalty, and of
their great sacrifice to participate in
this expression from the race is best
reflected in the following letter from
Mr.. Taylor:
"I take pleasure in sending you here
with my check for $3.50 as a contribu-
ton from the children of the Coosa
County Training School to the Booker
T. Washington Memorial Fund. A large
part of this contribution represents the
sale from eggs donated by children who
were too poor to give anything in
cash"
The spirit of the "widow's mite"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01

was never better exemplifed than in
this instance of the Coosa County
School children s contribution to the
Memorial Fund. This same spirit
should spread throughout the South
among the school children and en-
courage them to contribute freely on
Friday, April 5th, the day which has
been set aside for this purpose because
it has been found to be the anniversary
of DR.. Washington birth.
Some teachers in the Colored schools
have arranged to hold suitable me-
mortal exercises on this date. A
program is being arranged by these
teachers in which the students will
speak and recite upon some phase of
DR.. Washington IS life and his achieve
ments. At the conclusion of these ex-
ercises the special collection will be
taken and forwarded to Tuskegee In
stitute.
Persons arranging such memorial ex-
ercises in their communities may write
to Emmett J. Scott, Secretary-in-charge
of the Fund to be raised by the Col
ored people, Tuskegee Institute, Ala
bama, for suggestive printed matter,
Contributions may be sent to him, or
to Warren Logan, Treasurer of Tus-
kegee Institute.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01

Wilmington, Delaware. - Every
Evening"" Wilm1ngton's hustling
evening newspaper thus comments on
situation to the south of US: In the
city of Birmingham, Alabama, accord
ing to the Daily Age-Herald of that
city. more than a hundred arrests were
made during Saturday night recently
for drunkenness. Yet Birmingham is
"dry" city, the sale of intoxicating
liquor there not being permitted by
law. The intoxicants, of course, come
from the outside, and the same paper is
authority for the statement that during
the morning of this particular Satur-
day, more than thousand packages of
"booze" were delivered to purchasers
in that city. On several trains, it is
added. it has been "found necessary
to put on extra coaches to accommodate
the thirsty"
The experience of Birmingham, how
ever. is not unusual. Nearly every
community, especially those that in
clude cities within their limits, has had
similar experience after voting to pro-
hibit the sale of intoxieants under
license. People living within these
communities insist upon having their
indulgence, and the liquor is purchased
from outside sources.
1t is an interesting speculation what
the effect would be if arrangements
could be made, in respect of a COM
munity that voted "dry" to make it
absolutely "dry" in fact as well as in
word. There is a probability that such
condition would, instead of proving
a lasting encouragement to prohibition,
result in an about-face movement at
the earliest possibility.
There is an element of hypocrisy in
all reform movements, good or other
wise, and in none to greater extent
than in movements for prohibition.
There is no "dry" community that
does not include many persons who op-
pose and vote against the licensed sale
of Intoxicating liquor, but will not con-
sent to deny themselves an indulgence
! in its use.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01

race prejudice, who believes in giving
every man an equal show or an even
break or run for his money. This be-
ing true, Alderman Toman has no bet
ter friend residing in his ward than
Lawyer c. J. Waring who has the dis
tinction of being the only Afro-Amer-
lean living in the 34th Ward; residing
in his own two fat building at 2SO2
South Trip Ave-, with law offices at
143 North Dearborn st., and the most
of his clients are composed of his White
neighbors who have known and lived
near him for many years, who know
his worth as a good American citizen.
In common with the other good eiti-
zens of that ward he is doing every
thing in his power to assist to return
Alderman Toman, who is finishing his
second term, to the City Council Tues
day, April 4th, for Mr.. Waring is firm
ly convinced that he is the right man
in the right place.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01
THOMAS A. DOYLE
Candidate for Reelection as Alderman
Of Fifth Ward

Alderman Thomas A. Doyle, one of
the youngest members of the City
Council, is seeking reelection and from
every indication his prospects of sue
cess are bright.
The attributes and qualities which
make Mr.. Doyle an ideal man for the
office he now holds are as strong and
appealing as they are numerous.
During the first year of his term he
was appointed Chairman of the Special
Park Commission by former Mayor
Harrison. This post, in Importance,
ranks second to only the chairmanship
of the Finance Committee.
His ability in handling important
municipal problems was soon rec.
ognized, and the following year he was
appointed member Of the Committee on
Finance, an accomplishment very
rarely achieved by men serving their
first term in the City Council.
Recognition of his honesty and fair.
ness has been eity-wide, he has been
endorsed by all civic organizations of
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01
HARRY HILDRETH, PROPRIETOR
OF TUE HOTEL WARNER,
MAKES MANY FRIENDS AMONG
THE CoLoRED VOTERS OF THE
2ND WARD.

A Splendid Man-has a chance to be
elected, and should receive the support
of the Colored people for the following
reasons: A report from Colored help
employed by Mr.. Hildreth shows that
beyond a doubt he is fair in all his
dealings with them. He was the first
proprietor to install Colored Maids and
Housemen in a first class hotel. In this
capacity we find that Mr.. Hildreth en-
ploys 80 of our people, 365 days in the
year, out of total of 65 employees of
his hotel, while Mr.. Norris does not
give employment to any Colored help
whatever.
Mr.. L. Humphrey, who has charge of
the kitchen, told US of many disagree
able features to be found in other hotel
kitchens in the way of discrimination,
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01
DIDN'T ADOPT JUST TOOK GIRL.

DIDN'T ADULT just TOOh c4nh.
Mrs. l.. Bracket Bishop, Chicago
suffragist, who resides at the Chicago
Beach Hotel, has not adopted the
daughter of Kingston, Jamaica, Ne
gro bus driver. Reports to that effect
were vigorously denied at the Bishop
apartments today. But what is still
stranger, the girl was presented to Mrs.
Bishop by the father as a gift-and
accepted.
"Mr. Bishop and were in Kingston
last January and our Negro driver said
he had twelve children and wanted to
make me a present of the youngest
one," said Mrs. Bishop. "He told us
the girl was waiting in the Plaza until
we came to see her. We took her in
the carriage and talked with her, and
when we found her a very bright girl
1 decided to educate her.
"The girl, whose names is 'Gelina
Hail., is fourteen years old. There are
no public schools for girls over four
teen in Jamaica, so put her in a pri-
vate school. When she finishes there
L will bring her to Chicago and make
her a protege of the Negro Y. NJ. c.
A. and the Bishop Sewing School fol
Negro girls.
"She will be taught commercial
courses and dressmaking and given
every chance, but I have not adopted
Lher."
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01

Chicago, the American Federation OIL
Labor, Municipal Voters League
United Societies and unanimously g
the press of this city.
An element of strength which MI
Doyle will bring to bear in securing DIS
reelection on April 4th is his PERSONA
popularity throughout the Fifth warn
where the residents delighted in pay
ing him the honor and displayed tnen
absolute confidence in his integrity O'
extending to him a plurality of forty
eight hundred votes on last Primary
Day.
Mr.. Doyle is a Chicago product, anu
typical one at that. A man OF pun
pose, determination and up-to-dsi'
methods, he has never failed to ~
there" whenever he started in ques' v
any object. He takes a good citizen
interest in all that makes for the %.
terment and civic progress and Wen.
of Chicago, and is ever ready to 'A-'
an active part in all such movements
His home life is ideal. In eve.
capacity of life his record is clean
has made one of the best AldelI
that has ever served in the City W.
ell. Upon his merits he deserves
will receive reelection to the ONCE
L1l1.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01

Mrs. Carrie Warner, 1928 s. Dear
born street: ''I wish to speak in the
highest terms of your short editorial
comment, which appeared in the last
issue of The Broad Ak, on Hubert
Eaves, the young Colored school boy
of Des Moines, Iowa. Your editorial
was short and right to the point and
at the same time very sensible. Chill
dren or people who are taught and be-
ieve that they should not salute the
American flag and have no respect for
it will never make nor become good
loyal American citizens"
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1916-04-01
jim CROW BILL FAILS

Annapolis, Md. - Especially Balti-
more will have no "Jim Crow" cars
for the next two years at least, the
Judiciary committee of the House of
Delegates having made an unfavorable
report on the bill introduced by Del
egate McCusker, of Baltimore City.
No one took the bill seriously, and
among its strongest opposers were city
Democrats.