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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-24

crescent brooch,
between Hamilton and Keokuk and
Nauvoo, probably on car or train.
Return to this office. Reward.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-24
Mazda cIuh Meeta.

Mrs. j. H. Klefker entertained the
members of the Needle club last night
In honor of Mrs. John Mott of Chicago,
a former member.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-24
Juniors to Enjoy Picnic.

JUhI0FU 90 EHJoy P1cHfc'
The Junior congregation of the First
Christian church will enjoy picnic at
Rand park tomorrow afternoon. The
children are asked to meet at the
church at o'clock, and all children
of the congregation are urged to at
tend.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-24

FOR SALE-Brown reed baby carr
rage, also almost new hammock,
1919 Blondeau.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-24
153,60O,0

Total .......... S1,241 SOC, 900
In other words, we are following a
program that Is absolutely wrong
relating to $1.241 100000 annually OF
our business life, to say nothing OF
the reductions in the cost OF food If
every state IN the union could be
provided with fertilizer factories for
the furnishing of fertilizers that the
farmers need to increase greatly the
production of the farms and cor.
respondingly reduce the cost of living
to all of our people. How can we
claim as a government even moderate
intelligence in the face of a misfit in
our industrial methods because OF
which we are going wrong respecting
s1,241 100000 yearly? Private bust
ness so conducted could not survive
If the reader has arrived thus far
in this discussion, the very first
question he will ask will be, What
Is the matter and why don't the en-
gineers and the bankers develop ouI
water powers?"
The answer is that there Is nc
law now on our federal statute books
that will permit of dollar of invest
ment in water powers if the investor
demands safety. Revocable permits
subject to cancellation at the will
of any politically ambitious cabine
officer, are offered in the way Of Sc
curity of tenure for those trying tc
bring about development on public
lands, and on navigable rivers there
is no authority at all Much the
largest element In the cost Of de
yeloping water power A. interest or
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-24
Saving In Labor.

During 1915, $4,000 900 tons of bit
luminous coal we're mined. requiring
the employment OF $4,000 miners.
from which it is apparent cSat the
mining of coal is at the rate of 1926
employees per annum per 1000 tons Of
Goa, nined OF the above q,ant!ty Of
coal mined, approximately 38I.090,p10
tens were shipped on cars and requir-
ed tie use CT abort SOC. r06 condola
cars and $1,000 locomotives, and in the
way Of labor in all Of the branches Of
tile railroad serving the movement Of
this freight thera were required ap-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-24

FOR SAIID-Good driving horse,
$4,000. M. O. Bever, ZIG North
Thirteenth.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-24

FOR SAIE-Good milk cow. En-.
quire 619 Washington avenue.
cheap. Phone Red 1855.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
Lakeland Ministers Well
Equipped for Eervice

st. Petersburg Independent Sew.
eral ministers in ST. Petersburg now
have automobiles and find that it
increases their efficiency wonderfully
and broadens the scope of their pas,
t'ral duties. Up to year ago no To-
cal minister had an automobile. But
one minister had a Ford car leaned
to him for the summer and he put
lii tc such good service that ono or
two other ministers secured cars and
it is likely that every minister in
town will save car in a short time.
The minister needs car almost as
much as doctor, and no doctor,
tfese days, could handle anything
except small practice without a
motor vehicle. A minister is expect
ed to call on the members of his
congregation at regular intervals and
every day must go to see persons who
are old or sick or shut-in for one or
another reason. If he has to walk
or trust to street cars it takes him a
long time to get about to few
places. With his own car he can
make twice as many visits in the
same length of time.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

Our good looking Senator COM
manded recognition on the floor the
other day, and had his say in opposi-
ton to the fixing of the price Of
wheat at 50 per bushel, one Of the
provisions of the food bill. And we
agree with him that the figure
named is too high, just as there are
probably other imperfections in the
food bill A measure so comprehen-
sivo will naturally include some pro-
visions Objectionable to some people
or classes. And it is questionable at
this juncture, when time is the es.
sence of things, whether it was the
part of wisdom to attempt to hold up
legislation of such magnitude to
quibble over single item. How
ever, Mr.. Trammell spoke his convic-
tions right out in meeting, and made
an excellent address. which we have
pcrused with interest in the Congress
sional Record.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
Fort Meade Way.
Is to "Use Your Gun"

Fort Meade Leader: One of our
readers sends wanted" item this
week; same is found on the first
page. Vicious, jumping, marauding
cattle managed to get into her flower
garden and back yard garden the
other day and did considerable dam
age to both. 1t is understood that
the matter was reported to the au-
thor tiles. but the answer received
vas Use your gun on them - If
this advice had been followed, there
would have been more trouble on
hand. The town has an ordinance
on the vicious, marauding, jumping
scrub male cows and when complaint
is offered the matter should receive
prompt attention
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
WHATq

1t isn't what life may be doirg to
you,
But what are you doing to life?
How are you helping to pull it all
through?
Sc many murmur life's bearing them
down,
That it's treating them roughly
but you,
What are You doing, in country or
,e11 town, -
How much are you doing that $
true?
Life may, despoil us and harry us
quite,
And ruin and wreck us at last.
But what are you doing to life in it's
night.
And how are your efforts being
cast?
AS what we may do in our day.
To help it means something that's
To our brothers that dwell hy the
way.
What aresyou doing to make it seen.
sweet,
To make it grow happy and fine?
What are you doing to save from de-
feat,
The failures that falter and whine?
Not what it's doing to you, in the
end.
Put what are you doing to life?
All, that is the question to answer,
my friend,
In this facing and meeting and
strife.
The Bentztown Bard.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
May Have Spoken Too Soon

Ocala Star: 1t is against tn,
Stars principles to criticise any Of
our young soldiers. Even the leas
of them is making sacrifice tina,
should lin him the respect and secur,
him the help of every citizen. There.
fire Sidney J Cats Jr. has oul
best wishes. We hope he will make
a good captain and win the hearty
goodwill of the men of his company
A. the same time, his promotion, for
which, however. he is not RESPONSE
Bile, has the appearance of being
os: irregular. He was not elected
co the command of his company as
Is the custom in the National Guard
EIe was taken out of the training
camp. yhere he had not even com
pleted his course as second lien
tenant and put over the heads of
other officers into the command of
"a company. There was evidently
Si'o' idNoi iliSii SOuleW mere, ana we
are afraid the war department con-
Hived at it. It will be bad thing
for the service if it has done so. It'e
nc excuse to say he had the recon-
mendation of the adjutant general OF
the state. It's a well known fact that
the adjutant general Of Florida does
not know enough about military af.
fairs to command company. and
that the regular army officers do not
pay any more attention to him tina,
is absolutely necessary; also. he
would probably recommend com.
pany cook for captaincy If Cats
told him to do So. It's no surprise
to us that Cats would recommend
for position or put in a position
any relative or friends or political
henehman, That's what we expect.
ed him to do But it's not for the
good of the service that the war
department helps him to pull off such
stunt. We remarked. the other day.
that the army and navy departments
were sternly set against favoritism
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
Editor Frank Harris, of the Ocala Banner
Writes of the Negroes Of North and South

in the county Jail Finally an act OF
the legislature was passed prohibit
ins private schools for NONRESIDENT
colored persons" and the news of tse
uassage of the act was received III
Canterbury by the ringing OF church
bells.
But why prolong the story?
We have but a small community in
Ocala, but we are living in compara-
five peace and harmony. We nave
but little if any friction between the
races.
Our colored population, as will be
at.ested by Rev. A. L. James and otn-
ers. are never afraid of molestation.
They are conducting their businesses
in the even tenor of their ways.
1t may be said that they are pros
pering, too.
They have their own stores, and
they are not mere shacks, either.
Some of them are two-story brick
buildings. They operate baDk or
their own. 1t is a pretentious three
sterv brick building. They have a
two-story brick hotel and numcer
of smaller hotels and boarding
houses. They have three-story knit
ting mill, built by their own Efforts
and conducted by themselves. 1t is
proposed to be enlarged and will COW
er an entire block. They have two
ass. mbly halls, grist mill, moss
factory, moving picture building. a
cotton ginning establishment, a vel
vet bean huller, large real estate
agency, several contracting firms,
arket stalls shoe shops and other
enterprises
They have their own physicians
ard dentists and two-story brick
hospital They have an excellent
pubic school, and seven miles away
is Fessenden Ocademy, conducted af.
ter the style of Tuskeegee. They have
a number of churches, one large
brick, and they are all nicely fur.
nished. Many of them live in preten.
tious homes, and enjoy the luxury Of
every modern CONFERENCE.-The
lights, gas, baths, etc. They ride in
automobiles and have their own So
ciety and social functions.
And in this ambition for improve
nent they have the cordial good Will
Of their white fellow citizens.
After being clothed with the rights
they now possess, Horace Greeley's
advice was: Now, root hog, or die.
They are not dying.
| shall dlose by saying that not a
great while ago l was invited to
make an address before our state
rress association and in closing said.
/ can never forget the loyalty of
the old slave and his fidelity to the
trust committed to his keeping dur
ing our civil war period. In all civic
transactions in our courts of Justice
1 would plead for his race a SQUARE
deal His attempts at right living
should engage our solicitude and re-
ceive our Encouragement
FRANK HARRIS.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
UTAH TO BE BONE DRY.

Salt Lake City, Utah, July 2s..
County attorneys and sheriffs of Ut
met in conference with Attorn
General Shields here today to sgr
Upon uniform plan of procedure
the enforcement of the Utah Sta,
wide prohibition law which is
come into effect one week hence. II
law is considered one of the md
drastic of it's kind adopted in any
the States. In general, it prchibl
the manufacture, sale or possessl|
or importation of any intoxicatij
liquors except alcohol for manuf}
turing, scientific and medicinal pj
poses.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
CONTINUED from Page 81

CONTINUED from Page -
Was there not antipathy between
the Egyptians and Hebrews? Be
tween the Jews and all other races!
Are not whole pages of sacred MS
tory a recital of total annihiiation
or expulsion of races by races, and
volumes of profane history tell the
same story.
After the Normans conquered Eng
land did not the prejudices between
the conquerors exist for number o.
centuries? Was it not for long
time considered a disgrace for the
proudest Norman knight to marry
the richest Saxon princess? Race
hatreds between the ancient popula-
tion of Spain and the invading Goths
lasted for eight hundred years Be
tween the Arabs and the Moors there
was bitter enmity. Do not race an
tasonisms still exist in Europe, and
otser parts of the globe?
On this side of the Atlantic did we
not drive the aborigines back and
back, and back, until now they hard
ly have territory enough upon which
to rest their feet? And many of the
tribes have become totally extinct.
Benjamin Lundy was the first one
to start a newspaper to create 4 sem
timent for the liberation of the slave,
1t is little remarkable that he
should have established it IN the
south, and as long as it remained
here he was unmolested, but when he
removed it from Jonesboro, Tenn
to Philadelphia it was burned by =
mob.
In 1884 Thomas Jefferson proposed
All ordinance that after the year
1900 there should be neither slavery
nor involuntary servitude in any of
the States. If the northern States had
voted for it that ordinance would
have been adopted
Was not William Lloyd Garrison
mobbed in the streets of Boston, Was
not Mr. Owen p Lovejoy, Presby
terian preacher. who next had tha
temerity to start an abolition news
paper, when The moved it from st.
Louis to Alton, Ill, humiliated and
was not his office entered by mob
and his type, presses and everything
connected with it., destroyed, and
" hen he purchased new outfit, and
in the third attempt, was he no.
nobbed and his printing plant
burned?
That was long time ago, but was
not the same spirit manifested at
East St Louis. H.. within the past
six weeks?
And what about the history of
Prudence Crandall? She taught the
frst negro school. 1t was at Cante-
barry. Conn, Samuel May Of your
own city was one who volunteered
his services as one of her attorneys.
The meeting refused to hear him
When her school was finally opened
she was arrested for harboring young
persons Of color and was imprisoned
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

i.ather unkind Of that Arcadia sub
scriDer OF the Tribune to say he'd
pay double the regular subscription
rate if those Flashes from Floyd"
were omitted. We've always rather
enjoyed this feature. 1t provides fine
mental gymnastics, anyway, for the
person who attempts to get the
drift"
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
Words Chance Meanjna.

Our great-granddads often referred
to their overcoats as 'bangups." This
word has different meaning now, Just
as slump" was used at Harvard 10
years ago to denote a funk by stu.
dent. Now it is commonly employed
to denote big recession in the price
of stocks.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

A graceful and courteous thing is
the reproduction in the Ocala Star of
lengthy article by the editor Of the
Banner. Such things are not unusual
among real newspaper men. 1t is
only when type-lice crawl into the pro
fession that mud begins to squirt.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
Wavelets
a From
The Deep
C.. Gree e n

G&t
Talk about fhard tines. even the
moon is down tss'.. ft QUARTER.
E..}
Some RUSSIANS are RUSSIAN
the wrong wax.
s.<
They maybe wE4k1Ne THEM
HIGHER IN HAWAII but they are
wearing them lower in Iowa.
Many minister has saved his gar
den by S-PRAYERS.
Wonder who gave the peas the
black eyes.
See where the Giant in a circus in
Ohio ate twenty-five pounds of steak
at one meal wonder what the
MIDGET.
The girls love to kiss a fisherman
because they love fishing SMACK.
Nothing doing in Pennsylvania but
CHESTER race riot.
A man who drinks enough SCOTCH
highballs imagines he has on kits.
Sometimes it is the SCOTCH that is
the cause of his being KILT.
Beware of the food you eat. Even
the vittles have CONSUMPTION
now.
Lookout for the girl that an anar-
CHIST.
TEN YEARS AGO IN LAKE
LAND:-Man stole watch from
O'Steen's Jewelry Store, Truby
caught him and fought for TIME.
FIVE YEARS AGO IN LAKE.
LAND:-Woman went crazy and
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

This man Yon must be pretty
good sort. Nobody has had any
thing to say in CRITICISM of his ap-
pointment as auditor This may also
be construed that where there has
beer criticism of the Governors ap-
pointments there were excellen:
grounds for it.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

Having been urged by the Govern
ment to give up something during The
war, we have decided that we will
make the sacrifice of giving up war
poetry. War poets, therefore, will
kindly take their commodity other.
where's, and not tempt us with it.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

New York is finally free from horse
cars, or, rather street cars drawn by
horses. Lakeland has been in that
condition quite some time.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

TCu have no idea how far away is
the brick paving you've been walk
ing on until you try to touch It Y it'll
your tinger-tips without bending
your knees. The Home Guardcrs can
corroborate this.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

Who would have thought that
Honest Clay's" son would have OBJ
jected to serving under Sidney j., Jr. =?
Every SO often you find a boy who
can't stomach the things his daddy
can
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
Forty days warning.
temple rebuilt at Jerusalem
On September siyteentb.

IeHPIe reUulIt at Jerusalem.
On September sixteenth.
AT ll;OS New York time.
Every child caught away
Every saint caught away
world confederacy begins.
inside the books there seems TO be
hopeless tumble of quotations from
."e nioie' Inc Rambler did not read
IT. If the world is to come 70 an
eno Sept, l6 then the Rambler b.s
II" time to be spend in reading the
pfophesy of it; he must arranee b;s
EARTHLY and spiritual affairs
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

In this issue we reprint the excel
lent article of Editor Frank Harris to
northern newspapers ignorant
comments on racial conditions in the
South. 1t is well worth careful
perusal
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
ScintiI0tiOs1S From
Florida Sa11ctu,71S
Cats q Fashion Designer

Tampa Tribune: Governor Cats
has been assigned to design the uni
form for the home and county
guards. When did the Governor be-
come a modiste?
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

Those capsules may yet prove
bitter dose to Germany.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27
That End of the
World Prediction

Rambler in ST. Petersburg Inde.
pendent No use to worry about wha.
is golng to happen after Aug. be
cause that day is to mark the begin-
ming of the end of the world 4,
least that is what some unknown AN
thor' claiming to be inspired, SAYS
III book that was received AZ rho
independent Office yesterday Tho
writer thinks he knows all about il
and this is not so remarkable as how
he ever persuaded anybody to nrint
the stun he wrote. On the cover of
tne small book the followin. is
found:
Jesus Is Coming Again
Or August fourth:
Heavens on fire.
The agony of hell.
Death everywhere.
All business ends.
The end of the war.
Rivers dried up.
All crops DESTROYED
ALI things destroyed. :,
Three days darkness.
Earthquakes everywhere.
Resurrection of Saints
Devil appears on earth.
On August seventh:
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

Wish we had that money back VIC
loaned Russia.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

and nepotism, but we may have spok
en- little too soon.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

FIVE YEARS AGO IN LAKE
LAND:-Woman went crazy and
swallowed three boxes of shoe pol
ish. Twas THREE IN ONE.
The Lakeland evening telegram., 1917-07-27

TEN YEARS AGO IN LAKE
LAND:-Man stole watch from
OSteen's Jewelry Store, Truby
caught him and fought for TIME.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-15
HAWAII DRAFT
PROBLEM PUT Up
TO WASHINGTON

Can people who come to Hawaii
following their registration on the
mainland, and who find that they
have later been drafted in their home
towns, take the physical examina-
lions before Hawaiian board?
This is the important question, so
far as local cases are concerned,
which the central board of registra-
ton has put to Washington author
tiles by cable. An answer is now be-
ing awaited.
The local board was induced to ask
this question of Washington through
the large number of persons that
have applied recently for examination.
Some of these we're obviously unfit
for military service, and desired to
get a certificate here to show their
unfitness, rather than to pay their
own expenses back across the ocean
and, the mainland 49, "a Ssa,.-.
One man who had registered on the
mainland had an eye missing; another
had curvature Of the spine. These
men would have no chance of being
taken, and could as well be examined
here, it is believed, as to return for
examination to the states.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-15
ENDORSES
COAST TRIP in
ALLOWANCE CASE

Circuit Judge Ashford has officially
sanctioned an agreement whereby Al
torney Carl Carlsmith, who has been
appointed master to say whether ne
annual allowance TO four-year-0iC
Richard Smart shall be increased from
$4,000 to $4,000, will 90 to San Fran
cisco on September 19 personally t.
take the testimony Of Mrs. Elizabeth
knight, grandmother and guardian OF
young Smart. who filed the petition
for the increase.
Attorney David L. Wilmington, rep,
resenting Mrs. knight. favors the
trip Of the master. but there is pro-
viso to the effect that the expenses
incurred by Attorney Carlsmith shalt
not exceed $500. Aside from inter,
viewing Mrs knight, he will take
such other testimony as he deems ne
cessary in assisting him to reach a
final conclusion.
The Trent Trust Co., guardian of
the estate of young Sma<G entered a
protest to the proposed trip of the
master. especially as regards the IN
curing OF the expense, but Judge Ash
ford ov&-ruled the protest and is to
isSue an order covering the trip OF
Carlsmith.
Attorney Carlsmith expects to re-
turn to Honolulu the first week in
October, after which he will proceed
to complete the inquiry and present
to the court a report containing his
final recommendations.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-15
COTTON SHIRTS
ADDED TOU, 5.
SOLDIERS KITS

Cotton shirts for soldiers in Hawaii,
the Philippines, Panama, and Porte
Rico, are authorized in addition to
the we'll known Cd. wooden shirts, &C,
cording to word received in war de
Partment orders.
The shirts are also authorized for
soldiers in the United States upon the
authorization Of various department
commanders. The order reads as fol
lows:
The issue of cotton shirts is not In,
tended as a substitute for the wooden
shirts. which must continue as an
article of issue for service. the char.
acter of which renders the wearing OF
wooden shirts desirable and neces
sary.
THE cotton shirts will be issued
as soon as they can be procured with
out. prejudice TO other clothing re
quirements for the army.
Department commanders will be
the final judges of the particular posts
and stations, in their respective de,
partments, where cotton shirts may be
issued to troops serving in the United
States"