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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1917-05-31
Feminists At N. f, A.

bCCduoc VI lllt Conspicuous part
women have played in education and
in politics in the West during recent
years, unusual interest will center
around the coming of some of the
nations foremost women to the Ma
tional Education Association conven-
tion in Portland next July. Half a
dozen receptions and banquets in
honor Of Ella Flagg Young, Chica-
go's noted woman educator, have al
ready ben planned Mrs. Young's
chain of receptions will begin Sat-
urday evening, the first day of the
convention, when the Oregon Civic
League will give banquet in her
honor in the Multnomah Hotel.
Edith K. o. Clark, Superintendent
of Public Instruction of Wyoming,
is one of the newer women super
intendents who has rapidly come to
the front in her able work in inter
esting her teachers in the Portland
convention. Superintendent Mary c..
c. Bradford of Colorado has been
one of the leaders in N. E. "A. circles
for a number Of years. From Min
neapolis will come the well-known
school board woman, Miss Mae Snow
Parent-Teacher Associations, and
many women's clubs on the railroad
lines entering the state of Oregon
have promised to have committees
meet the trains as they pass through
to present flowers to the visitors.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
UNITING THE TWO AMERICAS.

Under the sponsorship of the Carnegie En-
dowment for international Peace a move Is TO
be made which will be of vast significance IN
uniting in sympathy and understanding the
peoples of the two Americas. A monthly maya
zine to be known as The Inter-Amerlcan is to
be published. One month the magazine Will pc
Issued in Spanish, the next in English In the
Spanish numbers translations of articles OF I'M
Eportance from the current periodical literature
Iof this eeantry will be printed; in the English
numbers translations Of articles selected from
the public prints of the countries where Spanish
and Portuguese is spoken; the Spanish numbers
will be circulated in South America, the Eng
lish numbers in this country
Here is practical and effective means OF
bringing about a mutual understanding by the
intelligent people of the two continents 1t IS
impossible to estimate how generally knoWl-
edge of what this country's thought really IS
prevails in South America, but it is probably as
little pervasive as our own knowledge OF the
thought of South Americans Unity Of action
in public affairs by the peoples OF the Americas
will only be possible to any certain degree
when there is some degree of common view
point The first step in agreement is acqualnt-
ance; this is as true of nations of people. The
Inter-American magazine is right III motive
and plan; if it is equally right in methods, it
will be an important contribution to peaceful
cooperation between the American continents
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
Are You Being Slowly
Poisoned?

The most eminent physicians recog.
nize that uric acid stored up In the
system is the cause Of govt and rheu-
mattsm, that this uric poison Is de-
posted in the joints, muscles, or
nerve-sheath. BY experimenting and
analysis at the Surgical Institute in
Buffalo, N. Y, DR.. Pierce discovered
q combination Of native remedies that
he called Anuric, which drives out the
uric acid from the system, and in this
way the pain, swelling and inflama-
ton subside. IF you are q sufferer
from rheumatism, backache, pains
here or there, you can obtain Anuric
double strength) at any drug store
and get relief from the pains and Ills
brought about by uric acid.
Swollen hands, ankles, feet are due
to a dropsical condition, often caused
by disordered kidneys. Naturally
when the kidneys are deranged the
blood is filed with poisonous uric acid,
which settles in the tissues Of the feet,
ankles, wrists or back as uratic salts
or under the eyes In bag-like forma.
tons.
It is Just as necessary to keep the
kidneys acting properly as to keep the
bowels active to rid the body OF
poisons
The very best possible way to take
care of yourself is to take a glass Of
hot water before meals and an Anuric
tablet. In this way 1t is readily dis
solved with the food, picked up by the
blood and finally reaches the kidneys,
where # has a cleansing and tonic at
feet.
Step into a drug store and ask for
q 5O-cent package Of Anuric, or send
Dr.. Pierce 10c, for trial package An
uric-many times more potent than
lithia, eliminates uric acid as hot wa
ter melts sugar. A short trial will
convince you.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
TODAY,s BIT OF VERSE
AND so. i FOLLOW, FOLLOW


know not where you pitch your tent or when you SET
your patteran,
Or where amid the hemlock scent there broods your
flame-lit
only know day passed beside in the village
street,
And backward at the last sudden SMILE SO
strange and sweet.
The little life called my its hour beats set in
line,
Seemed swift so SNUG and soulless grown could not
think that 1t mine.
And follow, follow still through slyered nights and
MINDLESS dawns
BY breakdown trail and sprngblurred HILL set far from
tdied streets and lawns.
And sometimes down still wandering ways your green
#s5 scarf flutters at the bend
And somewhere through the blue haze dream the
gypsy chase must end
Some Turing trail will sudden turn. reflys little
friendly lamp
thread the dim green forest fern, and lead me to
your waiting camp.
Martha Haskell Clark, in The Outlook.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

the trials and triumphs OF these two
apostles is one which relates that the
Roman project Rictiovarus command.
ed that they be cast into a caldron OF
boiling tar. The brothers emerged
unscathed and refreshed after the
bath, much after the manner OF their
Jewish forerunners. Shadrach. Mes
heck and Abednego, from the fiery
furnace in Babylon. Rictiovarus, up
on witnessing this miracle, cast him.
self into the caldron and was CON
sumed. But the martyrs were sub
sequently beheaded and their remains
rested for a time in the city OF their
execution.
ACROSS the Aisne from Scissors
is the suburb of st. Medard, famous
for its celebrated abbey which was
one OF the weahhiest and most In
nuential in all France during the
middle ages. 1t was in this institu.
ton that the Roman emperor Louis
the Plus was held prisoner by his
own sons in the ninth century, and
here also Abelard, the great teacher,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
BUSINESS IMMoRAL1TY, EXToRT1oN.

Spectators in food stuffs and other neceSs1-
ties or utilities of life were bitterly denounced
in the senate recently by Borah Of Idaho,
Thomas of Colorado and others as enemies OF
The nation who merited lynch law or prison
stripes Consumption of food and government
control OF the packing industries were among
the possibilities suggested.
Hasty, radical action is uncalled for. Hys-
terra should not stampede into unwise
courses. There is no absolute lack Of food as
here which may go higher but we have no need
of food dictator yet of taking out of private
hands the business of food supply
What we ought to have, however: what we
have long needed and what we may get in one
way or another as a result of this war and the
shortage in many lines which it entails is re-
vised standard Of business morality which Will
not permit greed to fatten need. There was
a time. or SO our fathers have told us, when
dealers were not unknown whose idea was
reasonable profit, not all the profit possible.
Having bought goods cheap they would sell
them cheap as long as their low-cost stock
lasted, without reference to what their future
purchases might cost. Not until they had paid
high for goods did they consider it just to put
high prices on them. But what different and
deplorable business immortality prevails today
Is shown by the alleged combination of flag
manufacturers whom Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Byron Newton denounces as ''pickpockets
and pigs There is evidence to the effect that
finding that they could do so they doubled.
triped, quadrupled the prices they were glad to
get before our entrance into the war augmented
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
SCISSORS, UNFORTUNATE CITY
Ancient Town Where ciotiIda Mar
ried King Clovis, the Frank.

SCISSORS, one of the many unfor
tunate cities of northern France
around which the varying fortunes OF
the French and German armie,
have eddied and flowed since the
first days of the war, is again in the
zone of fbombardment. The National
Geographic society Of Washington Is.
sued the following war geography
bulletin on this city between which
and Rheims the French have recent
ly scored q notable victory, advanc-
ing along front Of nearly twenty
five miles:
Although it remained untouched
when the Germans made their first
sweep through northern France, adj
vancing to the Marine, Scissors was
sorely buffeted in the bombardment
which accompanied the battle OF the
Aisne. and was further damaged dur
ing the weeks battle of scissors at
the end OF which the French were
forced to retire across the Aisne at
a point to the east Of the city, in
January, 1915.
"Bombardments, sieges and pillag.
ings are part and parcel of SCISSORS
history Indeed, few cities in Europe
possessing as little strategic sig
nificance as this place have suffered
as greatly in war. In early Roman
days the place was known as Now
iodunum, chief town of the Suessones.
Here the last of the Roman govern
ors of Gaul, Syagrius, was defeated
toward the close OF the fifth cen.
fury by Clovis, the Frank. And In
this city, which witnessed his trl-
um2h over the foreign foe, Clovis
was welded to Clotilda, she about
whom SO many romantic legends have
been woven and who finally prevail
ed upon her husband to renounce
paganism and embrace christianity.
Long before this notable event, how
ever, scissors had become an import.
ant place in the chronicles Of the
christian faith for 1t was here in 237
that the famous shoemaker mobiles,
the brothers Crispin and Crispinian,
suffered martyrdom.
among the many stories told Of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

the demand Their business ethics, it the WORD
may be used, permits them to exact the last
cent of profits possible; and to corner a mar
ket, push prices up and bleed the necessltous
is the ambition and day dream OF dealers OF
that kind.
In the opinion of many students of the signs
of the time an epoch lies not far ahead OF us IN
which neither governments nor public sentl-
ment will permit food spectators or extortlon-
ers to prey upon the people in this or any other
civilized land.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
Some Things His Royal Hishness
Might Ask If He Were Privileged
to Express His
Ideas.
DOCTRINE OF RIGHTS
To be Loved and Trained Wisely, and
to Have a Fair Chance
In Life Is the
Request.

Baby week in Keokuk will be OBJ
served next week. The baby week
campaign is under tho direction OF
the Visiting Nurse association, as
sisted by the Baby Welfare league.
and the merchants of Keokuk, the
mothers of Keokuk, and their royal
highness, the babies, themselves.
If baby could talk there is no
doubt but that he would put his plat
form into statements something Ike
these:
Do not kiss me on the mouth.
Do not let the sun shine In my
eyes nor the wind fill them with dust.
Do not sneeze or cough In my face,
for / may take cold; and that would
be bad for me.
Do not expose me to whooping
cough or measles or other catching
diseases. or may get sick and de
Do not pick me up by the arms.
Be careful how you handle me anc
lay me down.
things which are not good for me.
Do not give me a dirty pacifier to
suck nor allow me to suck my thumb,
for 1t will spoil the shape OF my
mouth.
Do not rock me to sleep nor teach
me other bad habits.
Do not take me to the motion
picture show nor keep me up nights,
for it robs me OF my sleep and makes
me cross.
Do not dose me with patent medi'
cines or nasty mixtures.
Do not give me wine, beer or
whisky, coffee nor tea, for want TO
keep well.
DO not jolt me nor trot me on
your knee when / cry.
/ want the right things to eat and
want my meals on time.
/ want some pure cold water to
drink between meals, for | get very
thirsty.
/ want bath every day and plenty
OF clean clothes.
l want my own bed. comfortable
plenty OF time for sleep, for must
have it in order to grow.
/ want to be taken out OF doors
every day for the fresh air.
/ want mother to love me and al
ways be gentle with me.
/ want to be a good baby.
Declaration Of Rights.
A child's declaration Of rights
printed in several newspapers during
baby week last year is given here
with:
Every child has right to belong
to the aristocracy of health and in.
telligence; to be born with good
mind and a sound body.
Every child has the right to De
loved; to have his individuality re-
spected; to be trained wisely in
body, mind and soul; to be protect
ed from disease, from evil influences
and evil persons; and to have fair
chance in life.
Every child has the right to be sur
rounded by that environment in
which he may develop to the fullest
his ability and talents.
The child is the asset of the state;
he owes the state nothing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
Nuxated Iron Makes Strong,
Vigorous, Iron Men and Beautiful
Healthy Rosy Checked Women

Dr.. Howard James, formerly
Resident Physician Of a New
York City Hospital and AS
sistant Physician The Manhat-
tan State Hospital of New
York, says:
Iron is absolutely necessary to
enable your blood to change food in.
to living tissue. Without it, no mat
ter how much or what you eat, your
food merely passes through you with.
out doing you any good. You don't
get the strength out of 1t, and as a
consequence you become weak, pale
and sickly looking. Just like a plant
trying to grow In a soil deficient in
iron. A patient Of mine remarked
to me cater having been on a six
weeks course of Nuxated from
Say, Doctor, that there stuff 10 like
maglc.'
IT you are not strong or we'll you
owe 1t to yourself to make the fol
lowing test: See how long you can
work or how far you can walk with.
out becoming tired. Next take two
five-grain tablets OF Nuxated iron
three times per day after meals for
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

was confined for a time after the
tragic denouement OF the Heloise
romance.
scissors was the rallying point
for Napoleon's shattered army after
the battle OF Waterloo. During the
war of 1870 the town capitulated to
the Germans after three days bonn
bardment. Only few years ago q
monument was erected in a public
square Of the city to the memory oil
those citizen whom the Teuton in|
vaders shot
AT the time of the outbreak oil
the world war scissors had 2opu-|
Iation OF $4,000. Its chief Industries
were iron and copper foundries, boil,
er factories, and the manufacture Oh
agricultural implements, straw hatsI
and glass. Its grain market was i'm.
portant and it was famous for its|
haricot beans"
The first declaration of war IN
America was made by Boston against
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

two weeks. Then test your strensl1
again and see how much you raw
gained. From my own experieuo1
with Nuxated Iron, feel it is sue.|
valuable remedy that 1t should y
kept in every hospital and prescrss|
ed by every physician in this cou'
try"
Nuxated Iron, recommended ano"|
by pr. James, is for sale by Wilkins.
q Co, and all good druggists on y
absolute guarantee Of success aa
satisfaction or your money refunoeS
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Republican, Some
one has issued protest against the
misuse of the flags, especially the ad.
hesive tiny flags which are stuck In
all sorts Of improper places. some.
times on the dirty collars of men
and, less frequently, on the exposed
necks OF silly girls. We noticed one
the other day on the street rather
well down on girls exposed bosom,
il was far below her throat line.
These are the silly manifestations OF
the times and 1t may be best to en-
dure them in silence. But those VINO
have been trained in the service OF
the flag, we are told, are shocked by
such uses of the national colors.
When it comes to personal adorn'
ments in the way of the colors they
should be limited to a tiny flag IN
the lapels OF a coat, or in a necktie.
Let us be. accent and dignited as
well as patriotic and above all, show
proper regard for the national
colors.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

Davenport Times: 1t appears that
the democratic members are afraid
that in some way Roosevelt at the
front would overshadow the leaders
at home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

It is estimated that 15,000,000
ounces of silver per year are used
for sensitizing purposes in the MAX
ing Of motion picture films.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
PLENTY Of These.

Topeka Journal: After an army OF
100000 has been raised there still
will be enough men left at home to tell
how it should be done.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

Marshalltown Times-Republican
Ed Meredith's money was not an as
set in a political campaign. but when
he offers to advance $250,000 to boys
and girls of the middle west living
on farms that they may buy pigs,
calves. chickens and seeds to help
the food supply, Ed Meredith's
money isn't national liability by
any means.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09
AUTHORS IN WAR TIME.

Thomas Is. Wells OF the Harper publIShng
house brings back an interesting picture OF what
he saw in literary England and France IN war
time. Authors and publishers, he says, are
among those contributing conspicuous service
to their governments Sir Gilbert Parker, An
Ithony Hope and Gilbert K. Chesterton are ac-
tive in propaganda; W. G. George is at the war
office. Others of no less note are on foreign
missions, and among them is John Masefield,
engaged upon an errand in France Many au-
thors and publishers are with the colors.
All Of which may cause some wonderment at
the continuing production of books in England.
It has been noted in The Publishers Weekly
that more than nine thousand books were pub
lished in England in 1916, decline of only fiji
teen hundred over the preceding year. Italy,
too, keeps the pace. France and Germany show
the greatest havoc of war. The normal pro
duction of France was more than eleven thou
sand books year, which had fallen to hardly
more than four thousand in 1915. While Eng
lands literary efforts have been reduced by
less than half since the war, Germany's are
believed to have suffered much more severely.
In 1913 there were thirty-fve thousand and
seventy-eight German books; in 1915 there were
only twenty-three thousand, five hundred and
fifty-eight; 1916must have marked dwindling
fully twice as great. The United States, mean
while. has increased it's output by some two
thousand volumes in the last year, with total
of ten thousand, four hundred and forty-fve.
Mr. Wells was particularly impressed by the
milder tone of French and British propaganda
That is good news. Great hatred never made
great literature. After all, that optimistic pre-
diction of two years ago may be fulfilled; per-
haps Europe will grow more humanely philo-
sophical, more truthfully analytical.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

Now that Carranza has been inaugurated as
president Of Mexico, it is up to him to act like
president.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

Des Moines Register: Advocates of
the volunteer system ought to re-
joice over the way the CONSUMPTION
act has stimulated volunteering.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

The English edo your btu should be Ameri-
canized into ''do your best''
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

Sioux City Journal: Are the cor
respondence school boys going to
overlook the opportunity provided by
the nearly unanimous desire OF young
Americans to be made army officers?
Burlington Hawk-Eye: In New
York a pacifist lady was fined $40
and costs because she had called
President Wilson a Scotch parson.
That seems rather hard on the
Scotch or the parsons. AS a rule, it
is not considered disrespectful or in
sulting to call anyone Scotch and
there Is nothing of shame or disgrace
connected with the good old title OF
parson. And surely there is nothing
in the combination of the two words
that could be considered an insult.
No doubt, the president would put it
up to the Scotch and the parsons,
and would let them worry, If there
was any worrying to be done.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Iowa has
a reputation as food producing
state. She forked over lot of cash
on the first day of the offering OF
the two billion bonds. 1t may be
said in view OF these IdctS THAI uOl
only does she furnish the best of all
that is good. but she furnishes right
smart of it at the same time.
Mason City G1obe-Gazette: Champ
Clark simply has the Missouri habit
like Senator Stone, of speaking and
voting against war measures and
next day asking every one to make
it unanimous and line up with the
president.
Davenport Democrat: Guatemala's
possible entry into the war is impor-
tant chiefly from the fact that she
lies just across Mexico, and under
certain contingencies could be very
useful ally for the United States.
Dubuque Times-J ournal: Some
body suggests that we use sharks for
food. There are a lot of sharks in
this country that we could spare, but
few citizens will banker for the can
nibal stunt.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

One product of the universal service which
will furnish US an army is sure to be common
loyalty to service Of the country such as has
not prevailed before. There is no loyalty so
firm and lasting as that which develops from a
common form of labor. Manufacturers of
products and the men and women employed by
them are severally loyal past all peradventure
to their trade classes. The whole of the great
labor organization of the world is built up on
the loyalty that develops from community of in
terest. The best way to beget loyalty to coun-
try is to set every citizen at work for the country
The nation becomes reality and each citizen
realizes his stake in it because he works to
maintain it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

The first declaration of war IL
America was made by Boston agains
the Dutch colonists in the year 1872
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-09

Sioux City Journal: Are the cor
respondence school boys going to
overlook the opportunity provided by
the nearly unanimous desire OF young
Americans to be made army officers!
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-16
Face Peeling Habit
Becoming Fashionable

Women of fashion and refinement
in this country as in Europe seem
to have been acquiring the mercolized
wax habit, depending less and less up
on cosmetics for their complexion diff
ficulties. 1t does seem a. lot saner to
just peel off the wornout skin when
it loses its youthful color and appear
ance-now that this can be done so
easily, safely, painlessly and econom-
ically.
There's no trouble getting merco-
lized wax at any drug store Can ounce
will do), since it's virtues have become
generally known here, and there's no
trouble using itTjust as you use cold
cream, applying at night, washing it
off next morning. The wax takes off
the old scarf skin, in tiny flakes, a lit
tie each day. This new under-skin
which gradually appears, is velvety
soft and beautifully white, radiant
with girlish loneliness. Any surface
trouble like chaps, pimples, red or yell
low blothes. freckles, etc, vanishes of
course with the discarded cuticle.-
ADV.