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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-26
For Madame Lenska.

The Misses Younker entertained
few members of the Music club last
night at heir home on Concert street
in honor Of Madame Lenska, follow
ing her concert. The entertainment
was informal and very delightful.
Madam Lenska sang two numbers,
one of which was Maurice Klein's
arrangement of The Night Has a
Thousand Eyes" It was q great
pleasure to the company to meet her
personally and to hear once more
her wonderful voice. Her accom-
PIANIST, Mr.. Van Grove. played a
group OF piano numbers delightfully."-.
The table in the dining room where
refreshments were served was ex-
ceptionally artistic. laid with cluny
lace cloth and with floral center
piece of primroses and green tulle.
Mrs. Joseph J. Casey. Mrs. Robert N.
johnson, Judge w. s. Hamilton. Miss
Sarah Hamilton Of FIT. Madison and
Mrs. Roswell O'Harra of Carthage,
Mrs. Murdoch Of Meridian, Conn,
were among the guests.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-26
To Help Wounded Soldiers.

Miss Adaloye Howell, assisted by
Miss Cornelia Meigs has organized a
circle to work through the Chicago
committee of the American fund for
the French wounded. The object OF
the circle is to furnish supplies for
the use OF French hospitals. The
Chicago committee sends box OF
samples OF the surgical dressings
and other needful things, by which
the local circle models its supplies.
There are thousands of hospitals all
over France working with almost no
equipment and to work for these is
the special aim. The circle includes
Miss Ada1ove Howell, Miss Corneiia
Meigs, Mrs. w. III. Bissell, Mrs. j.
L. S. Scadding, Mrs. G. F. McFar,
land, Miss Elizabeth Miller. Miss
Baldwin, Miss Caroline Baldwin, Miss
Anne B. Davis. Mrs. F. M. Fuller,
Mrs. J. F. Elder and Miss Elisabeth
Collier.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-26
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for SocD0ty 6oleoT.
Burns Day
CHI BLACK 0J0
FOR Society 6olsoe.

Burns Day.
This Is Burns day. wherever Loyal
sons of old Scotia may meet today.
there will be some words. some
affectionate discourse. regarding the
man Of all men In the hearts OF the
Scots. Perhaps 1t is not going too
far to say that Robert Burns has
won very warm place In the hearts
of the thinking people the world
over.
Someone said: LET me make the
songs OF people. and care not
who makes their laws" or something
to that effect. That surely applies
to the farmer Robert Burns. While
he lived he was poor, always in debt,
known In small circle only. And
there were hundred, yes many hun
dreds of names in Scotland that
seemed of real Importance and seem
ed destined to eternal fame. while
that OF Robert Burns was not among
them. Today, many who at that
time seemed to have earned some
thing akin to Immortality, are as
dead and forgotten as If they had
never existed, while the name and
the fame of Robert Burns grows with
the years and become ever dearer
to all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-26

piece of primroses and green tulle.
Mrs. Joseph J. Casey, Mrs. Robert N.
Johnson, Judge w. s. Hamilton, Miss
Sarah Hamilton Of FIT. Madison and
Mrs. Roswell O'Harra of Carthage,
Mrs. Murdoch of Meridian, Conn,
were among the guests.
IL Guest Of Honor.
Mrs. Clara Mckinley who is visit
ing her son l.. G.. Mckinley. was the
guest of honor at delightful dinner
last night in the private dining room
of the Y. w. c. A. The dinner was
served at half past six, with covers
for fourteen. The dining room was
very attractive in pink and white
flowers and the party was one Of the
pleasant affairs of the week.
To Show Pictures.
In the Y. M. C. A. auditorium this
evening at s o'clock. the keokuk
chapter Daughters of the American
Revolution will be sponsors for a
benefit for the American ambulance
service in France. Mr.. W. G. Blood
will speak in behalf of this service
which Young men of America are
giving in appreciative memory Of the
service rendered to America by
France at the time Of the American
revolution. A fllm Of pictures de-
scriptiye OF the work and several
musical numbers will constitute the
nropram. The indications are that
the auditorium will be filled with
patriotic citizens.
Mentor Reading Club.
The Mentor Reading club at Its
annual meeting yesterday at the
home of Mrs. N. T. Wilcox, elected
Mrs. Eugene S. Baker as president
and Mrs. James Young, secretary
treasurer. Mrs. W. G. Blood was APP
pointed chairman of the program
Committee. The reading for the aft
Sernoon was on Argentina and in
cluded some delightful travel letters
from Mr.. Albert Northrup who Is
stone and Webster's representative
in Uruguay and who formerly lived
here and who married keokuk girl,
Betty Board.
kensjnoton at Y. w. @. A.
The monthly kensington held yes
terday at the z. W. G. A was one of
the most delightful Of the series
siven this year. A very attractive
program was given by Miss Martha
Eornish who gave reading, piano
number by Miss Victoria Franzen,
vocal solos by Miss Gladys Guiss and
Miss Lynore Rich, violin number
by Mrs. John HUDSON and a duet for
piano and violin by Miss Franzen
and Edward Lantz.
w. v. s. Club Entertained.
The w. Y. s. club was delightfully."-
last evening at the home
Of Miss Miriam Wescott. Games and
music were enjoyed. Later delicious
refreshments were served and
very enjoyable evening was spent
by all.
Birthday Party.
Firth Reed was host at birthday
party at his home, zoe High street,
Thursday evening, on the occasion Of
his tenth birthday anniversary. Those
present were Mary Walden, Cecil Long,
Merxaret Smith. Elizabeth Smits,
49,. w.r-d6r EidA Blaisdell, DON
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-26
Birthday Party.

Firth Reed was host at birthday
party at his home, 1O6 High street,
Thursday evening, on the occasion OF
his tenth birthday anniversary Those
present were Mary Walden, Cecil Long,
Merxaret Smith, Elizabeth Smith,
49,. W.--4xak. EidA Dlaisdell, Don
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-26

FOR sALB-Lot in fine location on
north side OF city for cash or time
payment, Address a1s Blondeau.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-26
ken.inqton at Y. w. o. A..
w. Y. s. Club Entertained.

The w. Y. s. club was delightfully."-
entertained last evening at the home
Of Miss Miriam Wescott. Games and
music were enjoyed. Later delicious
refreshments were served and
very enjoyable evening was spent
by all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-26

MEN-Our illustrated catalogue ex'
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Der College, St. Louis, Mo.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14
WHAT WE OWE THE PRESIDENT

1t need hardly be repeated that all peacelovng citizens of the
United States were for a long time hoping against hope that we might
be kept out of the wal to its end, and nothing would have given more
satisfaction than to have that hope realized. But circumstances wholly
beyond our control have been shaping themselves steadfasty to draw
us into the maelstrom in defense of our rights and the rights of hui
naniy.
1t is really the irony of fate that President Wilson, after being re-
elected on the strength of his record for maintaining the country a
peace should have been destined to affix his signature to a proclamation
of war, and it only goes to show again how short is the distance any o
us can look ahead.
Being in the war, it behooves us to make our strength count fol
the accomplishment of the purpose. To proceed this far without going
the whole length would be worse than continuing to sit idly by without
attempting to resent the war that has been made upon us.
A nation engaged in war has a right to expect the ungrudgins
service and the full limit of support of all loyal citizens, regardless o
birth, color, creed, politics or previous condition. This the president, az
commander in-chef of the nation, should have. We are not in a wal
for conquest or for spois. We are in a war of defense, a war of tht
people of the world against the military despots of the world; a wal
which if successful will mean the end of all wars. 1t is the people.
war, and the people, in our case, chose their own comnander-in-chie
And the whole people will support him.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14
A GOOD PLACE FOR SPIES

Those German spies arrested last Saturday for trying to COLOMBO
negroes in Mississippi and Alabama for German military service in
Mexico showed about as intimate a knowledge of conditions on this
continent as Foreign Minister Zimmerman did when he proposed to
Mexico that she assist in disnnembering the United States and to have
as her reward dominion over Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. A re-
port has also qone out to the effect that threats have been made to re-
vive the Ku K1ux Klan to subdue the blacks.
If this latter report has any substantial foundation, which the
Tribune believes it has not, it is more unworthy than the act of the
kaiser or his secret service. The people of the United States have not
forgotten the service of the colored troops at San Juan Hill nor have
they forgotten the recent conduct of those troops in Mexico when at
tackled by Villas bandits.
There are individuals in the south, and possibly communities here
and there that tolerate them, who would revive the XII Klux Klan
if possible. but there will be no occasion for it And they will
not get very far with any attempts in this direction.
The detection and arrest of these spies of the kaiser was due to
the LOYALTY of the very men against whom these fire brands would oper-
ate. These men never fought for any other flag, and while the kaiserss
emiSares arr spending their time among them, selling Bibles" or
anything else, they are in fields that offer 10 menace. Let William
send more of them into that field.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14
OUR GIFT TO THE TEUTONS

The Tribune is printing a little story that comes from Los An
peles. telling of the attitude of a man whose native country, Austria,
is It war with the United States, and which has, in effect, been at war
with us for months. Three of his boys re already in the army and
the navy fighting for the country which gives them what neither Aus
tia nor Germany has ever given n will give Until kalserlsn is over
thrown and the people assume the powers that rghtfully are theirs.
And all over the country instances of this kind are coming to light.
How fortunate for America it would have been, and how fortunate for
the neop1e of Germany and Austria it would have been, if the kaisers
newspapers in this country had told him of this condition instead OF
fa1selv placing every Teuton who had sought American citizenship III
the light of a perjurer and a traitor.
This country is not going into war to increase its territory. 1t is
not going into war to add to the number of people it may rule ari tax.
II is not going into war to add to the number of those it may impress
aio military service to increase the strength OF the army. It is not 60
ing into war for any indemnity. The country that freed Cuba from
Spanish tyranny and turned Cuba over to its own people to govern II
for themselves the country that freed Porto Rico and gave its people
citizenship and self-government; the people that freed the Ph1E?
nine and stands ready to turn these islands over to their people as
soon IS they are prepared to protect themselves against their AgW-
naldos and other ambitious expohers on one hand. and against their
vet savage tribes OF the other; the republic that has spent and s
spending millions to educate these people for selfgovernment, that
country is not fighting for indemntes o spons or to extend its domain
by the process of war.
The Tutons in America are beginning to understand that we are
in the war because ambitious kings and emperors, whose occupation IS
wal. whose idea of glory is war, have made wa upon us. And beng
in il. we have now but two objects: First, defense of this republic
and second. to give to the people of Germany what their kinsmen came
here to seek. and to free the people of Germany from what their
kinsmen came here to escape. This will be our gift to the 1eutons,
and this Teuton in Los Angeles will help to bestow it.
Governments controlled by their own people seldom make war
uron each other. They find other means of settling their differences.
The truth to the kaiser from his newspapers and his spies in America
would have kept Germany and America at peace.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14
HOW THE PLOT INCLUDED CUBA

The Christian Science Monitor, which is a newspaper more than
an organ of a church, has had a special representative in Cuba who has
been able to establish with considerable accuracy som sort of con-
necton between Won Zimmermanvon Bernstorff and the Cuban revo-
luton. 1t would be strange indeed if those industrious plotters had
left the island unconsidered in the plans of foiing the United States.
With Japan on the west and Mexico on the south and Cuba to the
southeast, the ring about Uncle Sans neck would be quite formid-
able.
When the war began they were going to start revolutions in every
part of the allied world, in Ireland, in Morocco, in Egypt, in Persia,
in India, in South Ahica-there was not a place where they failed
tt start some plot, but all of them fell to pieces, since the Berlin gov.
eminent had been acting on the advice of very stupid spies, spies who
made the emperor so mad that he fired a whole bunch of them at one
tnme-they were just as stupid as Won Zimmerman and Won Bernstorf
were when they permitted their papers to be captured.
The Monitor says it has definite information to the effect that an
agent of Won Bernstorff has been spending the winter at Miami, Florida,
in close touch with the Gomez who started, or tried to start, the Cuban
rebellion. Gomez was once president of Cuba. There is also informa-
ton, and some traces of a temporary submarine base IN the Cuban
coast, where some oil cans were found. When Gomez property was
to be confScated, it was found that it had all been decided over to one
Upnann, a German subject of great wealth in Havana, and another
one of the suspects took refuge in the German legation of Cuba.
That they knew who their friends were was thus made plain. The
United States has agents working on the Cuban plottngs, and it prob
ably has a great deal more information on the subject than has leaked
out. We are assured from Washington that not a tenth of the infor-
nation in hand has ever been given to the public, nor was all the
Won Zimmerman letter to the Mexican minister printed when that doc
ument was given out to make congress realize the seriousness OF the
situation. There was a very important part held back, one part dealing
with the rewards that were to 60 to Japan. 1t is limited that while
Mexico was to get back the lost provinces of Texas, New Mexico and
Arizona, Japan, in this great German plot, was to get the whole Pa
chc coast back to the Rocky mountains, and including Utah the
Mormon state was especially mentioned as being the eastward limits
of the coast empire which Japan was to set up on II western coast
Nevada was to be a part of the mkados domain.
And the beauteous Won BernHorf, who was defended by Brother
Bryan in several emergencies, was not only cognizant of all these plot
tngs, but was the big man in them, and all this while he was enjoying
the Inequalities of our country and entrusted with negotiations with
Washington.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14
ELI MAMMA | AM ALL RIGHT, DADDY"

Chicago has the story of a sweet young girl named McGoorty,
who al away from home to go on the stage She wandered IS far as
Grand Rapids, Michigan, and there got into trouble, which resulted in
her coming to her senses and her restoration to a family, a prominent
family. When she had been brought to a realization of her folly she
got hold of a long distance telephone and these were the words she
used: Tell mamma that am all right, daddy
Those words were not only comforting to daddy and to mann
ma but they will in the years to come be the most comforting words
ever spoken BY a girl over a long distance or a short distance tee-
phone:
Tell mamma that am all right, daddy
The heart of that girl after a somewhat sensational and almost
bitter experience returned to its right place. 1t sought the place
of refuge for any broken heart-home, the place where she is cher
ished, nurtured, admonished, comforted and where alone she can grow
into the kind of womanhood that will bless her life. Young girls, as
we'll as boys, now and then think that the restraints at home are s-
we're. They think that there is a wide, wide world for them to disport
themselves in. But it is a cruel world that they are coveing and
seeking, For most girls the hardships and the Establishments and
dlappointments of that actual world come soon enough, and the years
spent at home are none too long to prepare themselves for those tasks
and trials of life. Home and discipline every one is bound to recog-
nze in the end as the very things that are needed as a preparation, and
when they have been submitted to lovingly they become the anchors of
life, the fixed points to which the mind and the heart will most often
return for safety and for comfort.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14
DISPOSITION OF THOSE SHIPS

One of the first defensive acts of our government in the newly rec
oenized war with Germany was to seize upon the German ships in
termed in American waters. In its first application this move was a
precautionary step, although it may easily lead further.
One of the interesting sideights of the war is here brought to
view. In the midsummer of 1914 German commerce on the high seas
was suddenly abandoned and many of the finest vessels afloat were laid
ND in safe harbor in IL American waters. The spectacular flight of the
Kronprinzcessin Cecele, which put in at Bar Harbor in the haste of its
master to secure safety, was one of the sensational incidents at the be
ginning of the war. Demolition of the machinery of this boat under
orders from high German authority forms one of the unpleasant lines
in the later chapter of the relations between the United States and
Germany leading up to war. 1t serves to support our charge made
against the imperial government of Germany, that it was not acting III
good faith with the United States at the time.
The German owned vessels now in possession of the United
States amount to almost the total tonnage of all ships sunk through u
boat operations in the last two months and can be used to replace the
lost ships. Their employment in commerce or transport service might
raise another delicate question. If one of them should be sunk by a
submarine could the owner hold the United States responsible for an
act of the German government which in itself is held to be unlawful
and not permitted by war? 1t is not likely, however, that for the pres
ent a great deal of hair-spltting will be done by the federal authorities
as to the disposition of these ships.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14
THE APPEAL TO THE FARMERS

The appeals to the farmers for cutvatng this year every foot of
ground that lies out of doors are widespread. The governors of many
states have seen fit to give to such appeals their official signatures
1t is called a patriotic duty this year to cultivate the soil. The world
must have food and the farmers and gardeners IRE alone able to supply
these insistent demands. If the food is not grown the people must
starve. This demand is the result of the withdrawal of vast popula-
tons from the soil culture activities in other parts of the world. Last
year was not only a bad year on account of the withdrawal of men
from such activities, but because of the climatic conditions. 1t was one
of the worst crop years in the recent history of agriculture. There
we're crop failures all over the world. AS a result the surplus grains
the world over are at a low ebb, and that in the face of increasing
needs. We must grow the biggest crops possible this year if we would
overcome the dangers of universal shortage of foods.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14
POTASH IN THE UNITED STATES

Several eastern papers are awakening the cry OF no potash in the
United States. Even the well Informed Wall Street journal INDUCES
in a gloomy moment over the situation. 1t is true that IN 1914 the
United States depended on Germany for its supply of potash, and that
for a time after the beginning of the war some apprehension was felt
as to affects that might follow the cutting off OF the alkall needed tor
fertilizer. for the making of powder and for other industrial processes.
Great "a the rejoicing when a plant was erected at San Diego to eN-
tract potash from kelp, and much has been made of reported discover
les Of deposits of the salts in desert regions.
1t remained for a prairie state, Nebraska, to come to the rescue
with a source of supply that is almost Unlimited, full knowledge of
which has not yet penetrated the country. In a recent bulletin the
bureau of mines reported the total potash output OF the Uned States
last year is being in round numbers 10000 tons, of which 1900 came
from Nebraska and only 1900 from the kep source of California. In
other words, Nebraska provided almost one-half of the countrys total
and four times as much as came from California. Word from the re
oon where this great industry has been developed warrants the state
rnent that the Nebraska output will be greatly increased during the
present wear and that it will be long before its full production is reached.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14

The people of America care not how many Prussians William,
king of Prussia, may rule in Prussia, but they do object to him ruling
Prussians n any others in America. His doctrines and theories of
government are out of tune with American institutions. America cares
not how many people he may rule in any part of the world as long as
he rules them by their own consent and as long as they are governed as
in the other democracies of the world. But America and every democ-
racy of the globe objects to the theories of government that still look
upon the whole human race as common fodder" subject to such use
as kings and princes may decree.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14

Wonder if Kaiser Bill consulted his German friends in California,
N.vaGa. Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Utah before pro
posing to turn them over to Japan? This game of grabbing the world
by divine right and shcing it up to raise cannon fodder for more
wars is a game that is drawing to a close. The fellow that started
the game this time has his last stack of chips "in the pot And there's
a straight flush against him, with an ae at the top.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14

Anticipation of big killings in war supplies in this country are
doomed to disappointment. Federal law empowers the government to
fix a reasonable price whenever a holdup is attempted, Moreover
price hodups involve the disagreeable risk OF pen'tent1ary punishment
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-04-14

Miss Rankin, the only woman in congress, confessed she wanted to
stand by her country, but that she could not vote for war. That
would have been the viewpoint of most women in such circumstances
But there are times when one cannot stand by his country without
fighting. And how are the two states of mind going to be reconcled.