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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-12
Presidents Statement.

Tho presidents statement follows:
"The Council Of National Defense
has been created because the congress
has realized that the country is best
prepared for war when thoroughly
prepared for peace. From an eco
nomic point of view there is now very
little difference between the ministry
required for commercial efficiency
and that required for military pur-
poses. In both cases the whole in
dustrial mechanism must be or
gauizod In. the most effective way
Upon this conception Of the national
welfare, the council is organized, In
the words Of the act, for the crea-
ton of relations which will render
possible In time Of need tho imme-
diate concentration ana utilization OF
the resources Of the nation The
organization of the council likewise
opens up new and direct channel Of
communication and cooperation be-
tween business and scientific men
and an departments OF tho govern
mcnt, and II Is hoped that it viii in
addition became a rallyng point for
civic bodies working for the national
Jgfauge
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-10-12
Members Of Advisory COnr0is-
sion Are Named and Worl
to Be Done by Them Is
Outlined in General.
EFFICIENCY DESIRED
IF WAR SHOULD COME
Statement by Chief Executive
Explains Plan to Provide
for Rapid Mobilization of
Industrial Resources,

on Board President wilson's spe-
cial Harrisburg, Pa, oct ll.-Pres-
ident Wilson. en- route 10 Indianapolis
tonight, announced the members Of
the advisory commission TO be asso-
ciated with the Council Of National
Defence, created 10y congress OF the
last session. At the same time, he
issued a statement saying ne hoped
the council will become a ralying
point for civic bodies working for ma
tional defense"
The seven members Of the new adj
yisory commission named by the
president tonight are Daniel willard,
president Of the Baltimore & ohio
railroad, Samuel Gompors, president
Of the American Federation Of La
Dor; Or Franklin H. Martin Of Chi
caRo. Howard T.. Coffin Of Detroit.
Bernard Baruch Of New York, Dr
Hollis Godfrey Of Philadelphia and
Julius Roseuwald Of Chicago.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
Thriller Still in Prospect.

Lincoln Journal: One of these days
the world will be thrilled with news
of the greatest sea battle of history
in the North sea. This is the settled
conviction of the British people. They
are convinced that the final act Of
the Germans in this war will be a
dash with powerful fleet for the pur-
pose of breaking the British naval
power The Germans well know that
failure means destruction for their
fine feet and the speedy ending OF
the war, but they are certain to make
the final throw when nothing else re-
mains to be done. For months now
the preparations for the sortie have
been in progress. Men have been
gathered, trial cruises have been
made, and all of the strategy Of the
movement has been worked out with
characteristic thoroughness. England
believes that when Verdun is given
UP the next hammer blow will be
struck on the sea. The whole Brit
ish navy is waiting with keen ex-
pectation for the clash.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
When Nature Calls.

Kansas City Star: At this time OF
year, when the cherry and plum trees
are in bloom in the back yard, when
sidewalks are strewn with the tiny
gray husks OF burst tree buds, when
lawns are green and the air is full
of the smell of the good damp earth
and growing things, the city man
sours on his job and yearns for a
little farm.
Every store, Office and factory has
man or two who finds 1t hard to
work within prison walls when his
soul is out where his dreams are,
on a plot Of rich green grass. be-
meath a tree, lying upon his back,
gazing upward at the drifting clouds.
hearing the songs Of birds, the squak-
ing of insects and the soughing OF
warm breezes in the branches. II
he only had a little farm he could
shake of these shackles of indus
trial slavery. He could tell the boss
to go hang He could be rid for
ever of the time clock, and lift up
his arms to the blue sky. free man.
All very nice, as dreams go, but
every man who has lived on farm
knows that to get along there one
has to work, not from o'clock in
the morning to 5 o'clock in the after
noon, but all the time. The man in
the city works from sun to sun, but
the farmers work is never done. Be
fore the man in the city steps upon a
street car to ride down to his work
the farmer has been up three hours
and has done almost as much work
in that time as the city man will
do before noon; he has MIXED from
four to ten cows. run the milk through
the separator, put the cream in a
cool basement, fed the skinned milk
to the pigs, fed and curried from two
to four horses, carried corn to three
or four different pens Of hogs, fed
from two to six young calves, shelled
corn for the chickens, driven the cows
to pasture and on the way back
driven the calves to the lower twenty,
has eaten his breakfast and has been
in the field blowing for full hour
and half
There's always something to do on
a farm. Even when 1t rains there
is harness to patch and fences to
mend and errands to town; and on
top Of all the physical labor the
farmer who makes his business pay
has to keep up with the markets,
Farm life has many compensations.
1t is an independent life and a simple
life and wholesome way of living.
But there is boss there, too. and
his name is Work"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
More scIentlnc Now.

F. w. Clarke, in Science: The
older men among us can remember
the time when American mills and
factories rarely employed a chemist,
except when difficulties were encoun-
tered which could only be solved by
analysis. Even then the most OF the
work was paid most grudgingly as if
It were an extravaganza which should
have been avoided. Now is it usual
for manufacturing corporations to
maintain laboratories, in which chem
lists, too often underpaid, are regu-
larly employed. Some companies,
General Electric company, for
example. spend large sums OF money
on research, but others are more mig
gardly. Here we have much to learn
from Germany. Her great advances
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
seneats Of the Short skirt.

Chicago News: Women of fashion
and thinking women-not that one
woman may not be both-agree in
saving that the short skirt Of the
present period is sensible and sani-
tary, contributing to freedom of move
ment and keeping itself clear Of street
germs 1t has remained for mere
male observer, however, to state more
convincingly the case Of the short
skirt.
This OBSERVER close and per-
sistent observer. no doubt-says the
short skirt has revealed to him that
80 percent Of the women are pigeon
toed and that so per cent have poor
ankles. But he says, on the other
hand-or foot, rather-that shoes and
stockings are much neater than for
merly, though how he should know
one cannot even guess. Anyway, he
opens door OF hope.
If the brief reign of the short shirt
has brought about an Improvement in
footgear il is almost certain that its
continuance viii bring about an i'm
provement in walking. in foot confor-
nation and in ankle development. It
is the disposition of the human race
TO put it's best foot forward, so to
speak-that is, to display its best, OF,
failing that, to make the best of its
display
When lovely woman realizes the at
tention that students of the race are
bestowing upon her underpinning she
will take steps-it seems impossible
to avoid these unintentional word
plays-to improve her foundations
She will acquire better understand
ing-there is goes again,-of the
laws OF peripatetic progress. She
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

may cease to amble or pace. as she
is now charged with doing. and learn
to walk straight ahead as our very
best walkers do.
or course these reflections are
based upon the empiric evidence OF
a man who claims to be a close OBJ
server, and he may be wrong about
the pigeon toe percentage. Further,
experts in track work insist that pro
crossing on pigeon toes is the best
possible method, so the observer In
question may have merely discovered
that 80 per cent Of womankind have
the right idea.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
He who aspires to nothing, who learns
nothing, is not worthy of living. -Helps.
COOPERATE FOR KEoKUK.

Now is the time for the businessmen, the
taxpayers in general land, in way, the rent
payer is a taxpayer) to get together and pull as
they never pulled before. Within the past few
months great opportunities have opened up for
Keokuk-the incoming of industries that were
but dreamed of or doubtfully hoped for, have
materialized and others have been placed with
in reach The spirit of cooperation, if given a
strong backing today, will overcome what few
obstacles remain.
Within a few weeks the practically new
bridge across the Mississippi at this point will
be open to traffic and prosperous area In IL
linois will find easier to the business dis
trict of its logical commercial center, Keokuk.
Stick pin there
The time is ripe for additional constructive
work Keokuk is at a period in her history
when things look unusually bright. They will
be made brighter much of the small-town
feeling and practices is eliminated from public
affairs Let the wailing Jeremiahs go way
back and sit down.
The affairs of the municipality are in the
hands of an administration that thus early in
its career has given concrete evidence of eff
cheney and undeniable proof of an earnestness
that merits public approval. Possibly there
may yet come that which may be justly crit
cised; it usually comes where the bushes:
of city is concerned But in the larger civic
affairs the best interests Of city viii be con
served by undivided cooperation.
Keokuk is ready for strong pull a real pull
q cooperative pull in the right direction.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
RELAXATION FOR TIRED BRAINS.

Much attention is paid to giving rest to tired
bodies But there is need to provide facilities
for resting weary, tagged brains. Mere physi-
cal relaxation does rot always give mental re-
pose. The mind needs it's own special catering.
The business and professional man or woman;
the student; the writer-all those who must
needs apply the mind intensively, in the day s
work, need wholesome means of resting the
tired brain.
Good music is one of the most refreshing,
delightful and exhilarating means of attaining
mental relaxation Melody soothes the weary
brain cells, straightens out the tangled skeins
of nerves, feeds and nourishes the whole men
tai and spiritual machinery. Good reading
suited to individual needs, is likewise service
able. Also good lectures or sermons Ths
stage, too, offers facilities for mental recrea
tion-if its productions be worth while Then
there are outdoor games from which one may
extract a sense of change either as an onlook
a participant, and adventuring afoot
into the country is one of the best of cure alls
for that tired feeling which attacks human
ity especially in the spring time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
NEW AIDs TO DEvILTRY.

Another case of eavesdropping by dicto
graph is reported from New York city. This
time it is in private office amid negotiations
over war supplies that the listening in was
supposedly done.
1t would be easier to condemn the dicto-
graph as device of the devil to corrupt human
dealings were it not for the abundance of mod
ern inventions at least equally susceptible OF
underhand use. The infrequency of the use OF
the silencer on firearms criminally employed is
due chiefly to the heed that those responsible
have taken to keep this instruments out Of the
market Even So a few Of the silencers have
been procured by indirect means and put to
use, as is indicated in case Of assault with a
deadly weapon in Albany, N. Y.
Far more menacing than these two instru-
ments of stealth pure and simple is the normal
Ily innocent automobile when pressed into
criminal service. It has played sinister part
in the exploits of criminal gangs in all of the
large cities. First exploited for such purposes
in Paris it has since become standard tool Of
the murderous crook in New York and Chicago.
1T answers the criminal needs for conceament,
rapid flight and complete anonymity.
/ What is to come of so many new aids to
secret deviltry-defying apprehension The
use of disease germs for assassination, first sue
cessfully carried out some five years ago in
Russia, has been recently attempted in New
/ York, not with success but in a manner at least
indicating its menace. The present war has
popularized the knowledge of explosives more
destructive than dynamite and easily prepared
in the simplest home laboratory; explosives that
would have made the exploits of the structural
ironworker emissaries ten times more deadly
and difficult to trace to their perpetrators
It will yet be found necessary to call to tho
aid of the law abiding the inventive genius of
an Edison and the detecting mind of William
J. Burns in an effort to find escape from the
menace of new ways to make crime easier
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

In chemical Industries have been
made possible by the employment Of
trained investigators, whose duty it
is to discover new products of value
and to improve processes. Men who
had shown ability in the solution of
unsoived problems were chosen for
this work. and not mere analysis
only. In Germany, more than in any
other country, has the commercial
value Of scientific intelligence been
realized. The routine man has his
place, but the thinker outranks him.
When American employers are will
ing to spend as much time and money
on research as they now spend or.
law, their economic conditions will
be much improved. The chemist who
solves an important problem. or who
shows how to avoid waste, might well
be paid as much as the lawyer. who,
after all, may only lose his case. Al
though we are improving. we still
have far TO go.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
Uncle sam and Advertising.

Uncle Sam and Advertising.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Uncle Sam
believes in advertising, but he doesn't
believe in paying for It. In other
words, he is CRATER. Perhaps
CRATER is too harsh word and II
would be better to substitute moss.
back" At the present time he wants
men and wants them badly for the
army and navy. Instead OF going
about it like an upto-date business.
man, he is trying to get them by the
antediluvian method OF more or less
attractive posters and the ability Of
his recruiting sergeants to work patr'
otto reporters and newspapers Tor tllt
free insertion OF articles under the
guise OF news. The newspapers are
Uncle Sans friends and they are. Of
course, disposed to help him all they
that Sergeant John Smith has come
to town and opened a recruiting Office
and that Billy Jones has enlisted and
will soon be a general and later on
president
But Uncle Sam Is not getting re-
suits. He should adopt new methods
and instead OF wasting his good
money on methods long ago aban-
doned as improbable by wideawake
business men. he should invest his
good money sensibly In newspaper
advertising and he would find when
he comes to check up his books that
he is both money and men ahead.
John Bull. upon whom Uncle Sam
looks as about the biggest old stick
in-the-Mud" on the face of the globe.
some years ago was induced by a
bright Yankee to hire an advertising
manager to get him men for his army
and navy. Though he was reluctant
and opened his purse with sigh and
grunt, he found. like Uncle Sam
will find. If he does the same, that
the results far exceeded those prom.
ised by the advertising manager and
that he saved heap Of money b.
sides.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
"River pave. Romance Gone.


Toledo Blade: From the southland
comes the announcement that the
golden days Of the Mississippi river
commerce are about to return. Be
ginning some time in April line of
38 steel power barges will be placed i'll
service between st. Louis and New Or
leans.
In antebellum days the Mississippi
was the great north and south high
way OF commerce With the develop
ment OF rail lines, the river traffic be-
came almost negligibly small. In re-
cent years it has increased some.
Promoters of the new barge line are
confident that they can carry many
kinds of freight in successful compe-
tition with the railroads.
The business may come back, but
the old river days romance are gone
forever. The new life on the Missis-
sippi doubtless could be described
more adequately by the editor OF an
of1cial organ Of Wall street than by
Mark Twain, for the boats are to be
operated for economy and efficiency
strictly and rigidly.
So there will be no thrilling races
around the bend. Gone Will be the
tall double tunnels belching wood
smoke. In place there will be little
vent for the exhaust Of smelly oil
engine.
Look for the big paddle wheels!
Gone, too: replaced by two screws.
Hear the burly mate swearing at a
troop of negro deck hands? No. A
whirring crane, driven by electricity,
is on the job instead, while up on the
Texas somewhere you'll hear the sizz.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
ToDAYs BIT OF VERSE

THE SECRET.
The poet sits in his attic room
And writes in verse of the love of man.
But love is spun fairy loom
Threaded with dreams since the world began.
He who writes of the tears that start
Must dip his pen in his own warm heart
The artist sits at his canvas wide,
And mixes his colors of blue and gold;
But his thoughts all Of the world outside,
And his dreams narrow and white and cold
He who would paint with seeing eye
Must search his soul for the reason why
Jane Mclean.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
IL Has It's Limits.

Washta Journal: A great deal ha~
been accom- plished in this world b
the radicals. but there Is such
thing as being SO radical that yo
command no respect and SO lose YOU'D
influence for good. One can weaken
his speech by making 1t too strong.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
The democrats once proposed to take
the American flag down from the
Hawaiian flag pole-and something
happened to that party almost imme-
diately. Somehow the American peo-
pie rather object 10 the removal OF
the flag. Some difficulty of that kind
appears to have occurred along be-
tween 1S61-65.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

red. and towards the last the
pimples became one sore erup-
ton. The itching was 30
severe that I could not sleep
and 1 could not scratch my
limbs because they burned SO
badly. The trouble lasted ok
weeks and l could not do my
work a. 1t should have been
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

zle and snap OF wireless OUTFIT flash
ing the purser's report OF profits to
the corporations New York ONCE.
No, only the golden days OF cash
not OF romance, are coming back on
the Mississippi.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

1t is infinitely better to have public play
grounds, well supervised, than to permit chill
dren to run at large, playing in the streets and
alleys and there falling under doubtful influ-
ences.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

Arb1ters of fashion have not yet told wait
ing and anxious public how long, or how short,
bathing costumes are to be this summer
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

Sioux City Tribune: Henry Ford
gave the man who invented green
powder gasoline machine and the
new gasoline has not been heard of
since. Henry is such pacifist he
may have Queered the powder.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
LIMBS BECAME
ONE SORE ERUPTION
Broke Out in Small PimpIes. itching
So Severe Could Not Sleep.
Burned Badly. In 10 Days
HEALED BY CUTICURA
SOAP AND OINTMENT

ct had a sort Of an itching on my limbs.
And at first they broke out in small pimples.
The skin was infamed and sore. and also
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

"I saw a Cuticura Soap and Ointment
advertisement and I sent for free sample
and applied it according to directions. and
1t gave me relief so bought more. and in
ten days l was healed" (Signed) Mike
eager. Westphalia, Kansas. July z. 1915.
Sample Each Free by Mail
With 32-p. Skin Book on request. Ad-
dress postcard ''Cuticura. Dept T. Boo.
ton.'' Sold throughout the world.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

The nearer this earth gets to heaven the
more flowers it grows.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03

happy man Is better thing than five
pound she is radiatng focus OF good will;
and the into room is as though
another candle had been lighted. We need not care
persons could prove this 47th proposition
they do thing than that they practically demon
great Of the lveabeness OF ife-Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-03
THE DOUBLE STANDARD.

Up in Dubuque an evangelist, Rev. Dr. Cor
don. has been vigorously emphasizing the ad
vantage of living the higher life and extendin.
the hand Of helpfulness to those whose minds
are fixed on better things yet lack, in some par
ticular. the strength that should go witt
right determination DR.. Gordon recentl.
preached avery remarkable sermon on In
Curse of the Double Standard The sermon
did not deal exclusively with that usually Gle
scrbed by calling attention to double mora
standard 1t dealt largely with hypocrisy
Particularly, DR.. Gordon brought out the fac
that those who see evil among their nelghbor'
neglect to study their own consclences. Illus
tratng this condition, Dr. Gordon said
There are men who indulge in the luxury OF a
double standard whenever they brought face
to face with the application Of personal truth
They have great skill in the application Of the
truth-to other people And the principles which
they always apply to other people they some
times fail In take themselves / sat- one day,
the Office of successful business man in the city
of Boston He thought in millions and was lead
ing character in business circles 1t was Monday
morning and on the previous Sunday this man
had listened eloquent discourse by the ia
New England divine-Philhps Brooks II
had stirred his soul and he was therefore IN a
mood to take into his confidence In Things
spiritual. and reveal to me few OF the deep
been revived and emphasized by the powerful
discourse of the previous day. He exclaimed:
L
have for a who is dishonest and untruth-
full hate dishonest mani" There was fire IN
his eye, soul his voice and conviction expressed
in the lines of his face. He meant every word
he said He thought within himself that he was
personally, the incarnation Of honesty and SIN
cerity-and yet, this very man, under the pres
of financial stress, committed perjury and
forged dishonest documents in order to breast the
waves of commercial disaster.
saw him in his dying hours-as the shadow
of the state prison falling athwart his path
way and death approaching as sweet re-
lapse from his worry and pain And the secret
of his sad ending was this-that which he had
regarded crime for anybody else was, under
the circumstances, virtue to himself he was
the victim of double standard.