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The Sentinel=record., 1917-04-14

| Washington, April l5.-Means Of quickly putting additional vessels into t6e trans-Atlanttu trade and thus fui- filling the prophecy oof Premier David Lloyd-George of Great Britain yester- day that more shlps meant victory for tbe entente allies, was the principal subject before today meeting of President Wilson's cabinet
 As a result a bill VIII be ntroduced in both houses of congress early next week, probably Monday, substantially increasing the $50.0O0.000 apWOprld- ton now available Tor the shipping board and giving the board additional authority 70 that the building o' wooden ships and the acquisition Of other vessels may be eXpcd ted.
 H.egis atiou also probably will be proposed by the administration sly- ing the shipping board power to for mally take over the German merchant men iu American ports, which are now in the custody Of the treasury depar-- ment While 1t is conceded that the pres dent would have the right 10 take this step, it is understood that speci- lie act of congress will be preferred.
 At the request ot Secretary McAdoo the shipping board has deJai ed eX perts to thoroughly examine all Q. the German merchant ships with the view to their immediate repair. Th@ eX animation will be completed Wliurn two weeks.
 First among the German ships to be put into active service will be two of the fleet Of 23 lying n Phillipine harbors. The insuiar bureau Of the war department has secured per mission from the treasury department to hasten repairs on the machinery 0. the two we. ses least dame id py tnl crews and 1t is expected that Within two or three weeks the ships WI D,
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INTERNATIONAL WAR
 COUNCIL MEETS SHORTLY
How America's Resources Can Best Be Utilized Is to Be Shown, and the Mistakes Made by the British and French Can Be Avoided.

Washington, April 13.-The inter- national war council to assemble here within the next week and to which Great Britain and France are sending eminent statesmen, soldiers and sail ors. was stated officially today to have very largely for it's purpose en- abling the United States 10 avoid the mistakes and difficulties which beset the allies when they entered the war.
 American officials will have the op- portunity, it was stated, to meet the foreign commissioners personally, dis cuss with them the lessons taught by the war and consider the broad prin- ciples whereby the United States can marshal it's forces for the great strug- gle with the minimum of waste and delay
 It is realized everywhere that this country faces a stupendous task in converting itself almost overnight. from q peace basis to universal military naval, industrial and agri. cultural mobilization
 The entente nations, particularly England were faced at the beginning of the war with similar questions anu learned to solve them only by bitter experience
 Closely allied to this phaes of the conference will be the information gained al first hand as to how Ameri- cas- resources can best be utilized. The entente statesmen are expected to disclose the fullest details of the present war situation, especially as to their own needs A close study will be made as to how this country's power can be best doye-talled into
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BRITISH SEAMAN TAKES
 DISABLED oUARDSMAN'S PLACE

Boston. April l3.--A sailor of the water front patrol here today carry Ing the rifle of a national guardsmal who had collapsed on his post The sailor a member of the gun crew of steamship in port. found the guards man on the wharf telephoned for doctor then shouldered the guard~- mans rifle and kept his post in a drizzle Of ran unti. corpral arrang ed for relief.
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this time has achieved a final and irreyocable triumph he said 10 the correspondent today. "A new era has come which will transfigure Russia and irradiate the whole world
 As the train arrived, the crowd again attempted to storm the station. crying, "Let us see grandmother" '" The militia queted them. explaining the danger of crush and assuring them they would be allowed to par ticipate in the reception of Mme Breshoyskaya, who was eager to see all her grandchildren" and be seen by them
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THE WAR IN BRIEF

On Emile front northeast of Ara and on a 9-mile front north west of St. Quentin the forces of Field Marshal Haig have shattered the German defense and forced the Germans to restire
 North ana east or tho Vimy ridge in the Arras region the British seized six villages from the Germans dur ing successful move forward from the Scarpe northward to near LOos. London says a footing also has been gained in the German trenches north east of Lens, q mining and railroad center.
 Nimy, Petit Vimy. Givenchyen-Go- helle and Angres, all north of the Nimy ridge, and the villages of Wille- val and Bailleul east of the ridge, were taken in the advance.
 South of the Arras-Cambrai road. it is announced, the British forces have gained ground east of Wanoourt and are astride the IIindenburg line as far as point seven miles south eas' of Arras
 Prisoners taken since the beginning of the battle of Arras last Monday morning now total more than l3,O00, says London. Field Marshal Haig also has captured lGG guns and other war material
 Northwest of St Quentin the Brit. ish advanced on a line between liar gicourt and Mctz-en Couture, captur. ing two woods the Sart farm and the village of Gouzeaucourt. This advance enlarged the salient in the German lines between St. Quentin and Cam brai and outflanked the uayrmcourt wood on the south
 French troops are engaged with thp Germans south of St. Quentin. The latest official statement from Paris says the battle continues in front of the positions captured by the French. The Germans resfsted desperately. but the French carried several lines of trenches between the Somme river and the railway Artillery actions are reported between the Somme and the Disc and in Champagne.
 German thrusts Berlin says, coun- ter balanced British attacks on An ares and Giyenchy-en Gohelle. and near the Scarpe British attacks are said to have been repulsed with losses. Berlin reports only minor en- agreements north of St Quentin and says that French attacks failed on both banks of the Somme south of St. Quentin.
 On the eastern front there has been some activity in Galicia near Sokal and near the Bystritza river.
 At the latter place, Prograd says. Austrian soldiers who were adyanc. ing toward the Russian trenches with white flags were shelled and dis persed by Austro-German guns.
 On the AustroItaIiau front and in Macedonia there have been only ar .tillery exchanges and minor raids
 Two British hospital ships the Sal ia and the Gloucester Castle. haze been sunk.
 The Salta struck a mine with the loss of 52 lives, and the Gloucester Castle was torpedoed without warn ing by a submarine All the wounded on the Gloucester Castle were saved
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the Germans and their opponents and was a great protective chain of hills shielding invaluable coal, iron and other mineral lands that Germany had wrested from France in the first rush of the war in 1914. The city of Lens, now within sight of the British lines, is a great mining center,
 It is generally believed that in yield ing the mines, which have been of such help to the invaders. the Ger. mans will undoubtedly try to wreck them by every means. But even if France does not regain immediate use of the mines, the shutting off of Germany from their precious products will mean an important step toward the ultimate allied victory
 From the top of Vimy ridge the British now look down on the plain of Doua and toward the great in- dustrial sections of France, which so long have been in enemy hands.
 We are the top dogs at least" & Canadian officer said to the Associ. ated Press correspondent today. We have the Germans on the downhill and once they are started you may be sure they will go back fast"
 In the continuous hall of shells that is going over and upon the Germans many are thrown from their abandoned field pieces.
 tasting what British Tok
 the joys of some of their q
 ish explosives" The GermS
 are getting bitter pelting fri
 dreds of their own machine s
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GERMAN MINISTER
 HANDED HIS PASSPORTS

La Paz, Bolivia, April l3.-The Ger man minister and his staff have been handed their passports by the Bo- liyian government with a note declar- ing that diplomatic relations between Bolivia and Germany have been sey- cred
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Washington. April 13.-lntensiya development of the food producing power of the United States on a scale never before contemplated was dis cussed by President Wilson and See retary Houston today and the means of meeting one of the vital problems of the war with Germany.
 Secretary Houston returned late today from St Louis. where he con. lered with representatives of the great grain raising states. He laid before the president plans under which the federal government, work ing in cooperation with state and local agencie-. will put forth it's ut most enAearors to stimulate the pro. duction and economical distribution ol food
 The plans include a request for legislation by congress giving the government power 10 regulate and fix food prices. if necessary and to license large distributing agcncies. Secretary Houston tomorrow will be- gin conferences with congressional leaders to agree on the terms of he needed bills
 To continue the governments agi- tation for increased production and economy in the use of foodstufls. President Wilson probably will issue d proclamation to the nation soon calling attention to the situation. A suggestion to this effect approved by Secretary Houston was laid before him today by Representative Fisher If Tennessee and J. k. Paine of Mem phis, representing the Fri State Bet ter Farming Association
 Secretary Houston. through the St Louis conference, already has begun the erection Of an organization eN- ending into every state, through which activities of the federal gov enment can be carried on. This or gani2ation will be represented in the states by the commissioners of agri- culture and agents of the land grant colleges and in local communities by committees of farmers and business men. Officials pointed out today that the two government agencies in the present moyement-the department of agriculture and the land grant col .leges-were created with the approval of Lincoln during the national emer- .Ecucy of the Civil War
 Secretary Houston said the govern ment was counting on the active CO., operation of every man. woman and child in the United States and that the increased power to be requested of congress wa only aimed to meet 10 al situations and emergencies where drastic action might be neces- sary
 Mir. Houston had planned to hold conference in the East The St Louis meeting was so largely attended by men from all parts of the United States, however. that he now believes another immediate conference is ul- necessary and will devote himself to working out the plans formulated at St Louis,
 The government expects people in the cities to stop the waste of food and the naonip in inc countrv tO raise more The task of getting young men and boys not needed in the army or in industries to undertake farm work will be undertaken
 Representative Fisher :bld the pres ident that unusual efforts will be made to stimulate the production of food in the cotton growing states of the south. Cooperation in fthis move ment, he said, already is being given 'hy business men as well 'as farmers.
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Arnhem, near where is situated the Castle of Middaohten, is the capital of the province of Gelder- land, and is on the River Rhine, 50 miles southeast of Amsterdam. Arnhem is IS miles north of Gloves, the nearest German city, with which it is connected by a railroad. The German border reaches to within ten miles of Arnhem.
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OVATION ID
 GRANDMOTHER .OF REVOLUTION
HAD SPENT FORTY-FoUR YEARS IN EXILE TO SIBERIA FOR
 HER TEACHINGS.
RECEPTION TAKES PLACE IN
 TRUE DEMOCRATIC STYLE

Many Others Who Had Advocated Re- forms and Were Sent to Prison or ExjIed Were Guests of Honor at the Reception Rendered. the Grand. mother" of the Revolution.
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PLAN INCLUDES LEGISLATION BY CONGRESS GQVaNG GOVERN MENT POWER TO REGULATE
 AND FIX FOOD PRICES.
PROCLAMATION ON FOOD
 QUESTION MAY BE ISSUED

Secretary Houston Announces That the Government Is Counting on the Active Cooperation of Every Man, Woman and Child in the United States to Assist.
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WILLIAM PAYS
 VISIT TO HOLLAND CAPITAL
London, April 14 (3:O4 a. m

London, April t4 (3:o4 a. m., Saturday. .-According to an un- confirmed report received at The Hague, Emperor William either has arrived at or is expected at the Castle of Middachten, near Arm hem, Holland, says a dispatch to the Times from the Dutch capital.
 The Castle of Mddaehtcn be- longs to the Bentck family and the German emperor visited there some years before the war.
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PRACTICALLY
 NJ OPPOSITION ID BOND ISSUE
PASSAGE OF THE MEASURE TO- DAY BY AN ALMOST UNANl-
 NOUS VOTE SEEMS CERTAIN
VOTE IS LOOKED FOR
 EARLY IN AFTERNOON

Absence of Partisan Spirit Marked the Measure, Representatives Kitchen Democrat, and Fordney. Republican Leading the Dsuassioon for Adop- ton of the Bill.
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A FOR RENT WILL
 RENT THAT VACANT ROOM

People looking for rooms turn to the classified ads of the newspapers to see what is offered. An ad in the is almost sure to bring you a customer.
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Forecost for Arkansas- Saturday fair; Sunday increasing eloudlness.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-27
POTENTIAL MOVIE QUEENS.

| Of the whole number of schoolgirls who
s'leave home" the majority start out with a
definite and usually lofty purpose. Most OF the
Irunaways. so newspaper dispatches indicate,
were sufferers from a malady Of ambition IN dl-
rection of motion picture acting. Departing
from home to partake of the fame and fortune
of the big city is practice which does not de-
cline, even in day when young folks are
brought up on cynicism and suspicion. Sue
cess is always just beyond, waiting to be
claimed: and then-limousines, flowers, luxury
untold. The danger of hunger and worse, and
a trip back home in custody of policeman,
seldom engages the romantic imagination.
The story of Clarisse Zomerdyk, humble
worker in Paterson. N. J. overall factory, is
of a sort that sets young minds dreaming. This
girl leaves her bench to become soloist with a
group of distinguished concert singers and she
never need to work in factory again. But
Clarisse is twenty-six years old, and for eight
years every spare dollar and every spare hour
has been devoted to musical training Like
every other instance of transformation over
night, this was a story of hard work. 1t is so
with all achievement.
There are in our population of one hundred
million about score of highly successful and
actually wealthy motion picture actresses
There are other hundreds who make living,
and there are still other hundreds who would
welcome good home and a steady job. 1t is
fairly safe to say that any young girl so foolish
as to suppose that she can succeed merely by
getting away from home is too brainless to
succeed at all. Little wonder that the routine
of tracing runaway girls has grown monoton-
ous The path rarely leads to anything more
complicated than a rear door in a dingy neigh
borhood-the working entrance to motion pic
ture studio
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-27
ROAD NOTICE.
To all whom 1t may concern:

To all whom 1t may concern:
The commissioner appointed to ex
anime into the expediency Of alter.
ing a highway commencing at a point
just north of the north line OF sec
ton one "a township sixty-six (G6)
north, range seven CD west and run.
ming thence in southwesterly direc.
ton through the north half (h) Of
the northwest quarter "a of said
section one %, township sixty-six
(66) north, range seven CD west and
terminating at the west line of said
section one "a, being that part of
the Belfast Donnellson road running
along the side Of and intersecting
Monks creek, towit:
Commencing at the " mile stone
on the west line of section one,
township 66 N. r. Z W., this stone
being near the center of the Belfast
to Argyle road; thence north l52
feet; thence north IS deg. AZ min.
East 235 feet; thence north 3S deg
so min. East 236 feet; thence north
So deg. min. East 315 feet; thence
north 9 deg. 80 min East 201 feet;
thence north 26 deg 50 min. East l56
feet; thence north 43 deg. Al min.
East PA feet: thence north 81 deg
80 min. East 226 feet north 81 deg
50 min. East 172 feet; thence north
Sc deg. 4S min. East 1911 feet
thence north Sc deg. 90 min. East
2T1 feet; thence north 2 deg. IL MIN.
East ia feet; thence north "a deg
40 min. East 173 feet; thence north
IS deg. 26 min, East 1S4 feet; thence
north 50 deg. 16 min. East 127 teet;
thence north Al deg. IS min. East
233 feet: thence north deg IA MN.
East las feet to a point in the center
OF the present road-all IN Des
Moines township, Lee county. Iowa,
has reported in favor Of the ALTERATION
thereof, and all objections thereto, OF
claims for damages, must be filed IN
the auditors office on or BEFORE noon
of the twentieth day Of April, A. y;
1917, or such highway will be altereu
without reference thereto.
G. T. HULL
County Auditor
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-27
AMERICA Is AT WAR.

Practically a state of war exists with Ger
many today--has existed, indeed, since the
United States took measures for ar1ning its
merchant ships against attacks Of German
submarines. Germany made war upon our
ships: we decide, in turn, to make war upon
Germany's submarines. The difference be-
tween a state Of war and actual is only
the difference between informal and formal
fighting A state of war is war without formal
declaration.
Germany is informally at war against the
United States, then. and it is matter of only
days, perhaps hours, when a formal declara-
ton will come. It would he to the advantage
Of the United States if the declaration were
forced upon Germany-that IS if Germany
were the aggressOr technically as we'll as prac-
tically.
We have, and for some time have had suff-
cient grounds for declaring war upon Ger
many: added provocation provided by the
sinking of the American steamer Eigilincia with
the loss of five lives and the torpedoing outside
of the barred zone of the Norwegian frniph+er
Davanger with an American on board Rut
American opinion, at least official American
opinion. is inclined to pass over these overt
acts and let the issue be decided bv events
growing out of the arming Of our merchant
ships The sinking of our unarmed ships is no
new calamity. It might prove good statesman
ship and good strategical practice to make war
on Germanys submarines without anv decIara
ton, thus forcing Germany either to abandon
her offensive program declare war.
The mercantile ships armed and instructed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-27
MAY FREE HALF THE
JEWS IN THE WORLD

/, ceived second thought from the
little father"
1t has been the immemorial policy
of Russian domestic craftsmanship,
to keep the mass of the people di-
vided among themselves and helpless
under the heel of the government.
The Crimean war brought freedom
| to the serfs. The revolution Of 1905
wrung from the car the forms Of
parliamentary government. The pres
ent revolution bids fair to give full
social and political equality to the
Russian Jews.
The granting of human liberty to
the Jews would mean a wonderful
transformation OF the Russian en-
Dire. 1t would mean the end or
| mean no more such Gripping of Rus
sia's financial prosperity as the Rus
sian government recently brough.
about. 1t would mean the entrance
into Russia's civil and political Life
of an alert. intelligent, Industrious
race that no nation has been able to
| suppress permanently.
| The Jewish pale of settlement
has existed in Russia since 1871.
,, White Russia, the portion of Poland
seized by Russia, Courland and the
South Russian provinces were first
put in the pale" The territory of
thirteen provinces are now includ Sd,
with many erratic exceptions, in the
regions within which Jews may have
permanent residence. The so-called
pale" rules and regulates the lives
Of the Russian Jews. More than o.
per cent Of the 100000 Russian
Jews are compelled by the state to
reside within its limits. The district
barely covres one 1928 of the entire
Russian dominion
A large part Of the pale is now in
German hands. The war has been
raging on Jewish territory.
The revolution promises for the
long suffering children Of Israel an
end to the many restrictions. They
will no longer be barred from fifty.
four provinces and territories of the
empire, or restricted in trade, com.
merce, education or ownership of
land. They will be accorded all the
privileges enjoyed by members Of
the Greek Orthodox church. What
the future will bring remains to be
seen.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-27

Mrs. George Conner Of Mt. Pleasant
were called to Wyaconda, Mo-. by the
serious illness of their sister, Mrs.
Anthony Pittman.
Mrs. Dexter Fem went to Missouri
last week to visit her father David
Scott, who is quite, poorly.
Professor Gilpin gave musical
concert at the Congregational church
Friday evening.
Wayne Rogers and wife Of Spo-
kane, Wash, spent few days OF
last week with friends here.
Charles Meeker and family moved
from Agency to the Ed Barton prop
erty in the northeast part Of town.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Van Trump have
returned from visit with relatives
in Missouri.
e. D. Holiday is home from an ex-
tended visit with his son Lindsay in
California.
Mrs. T. R. Gray and daughter Gret-
chen were Tuesday visitors at Keo-
kuk.
H. z. Young and family moved to
Libertyville last week.
Mrs. Enoch Berry was at New Lon
don last week, guest of relatives.
Owen HourjEan and family have
moved to their farm.
/ Philip Brodv and family will move
to the Hourihan town property.
,, C. K. Hayes, a popular young man
from Salem, has been reelected sup
erintendent of the New London
schools. at an increased salary. This
will be Professor Hayes third year
with those schools.
W. o. Hoggatt, after faithfully
serving the people in this vicinity for
several years, has sold his meat mar
ket to Oscar Swartz.
/ Miss Clara Cooper came from Don
nelson Saturday and remained at
home until Monday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-27
We are generally too low in our aims,
more anxious for safety than sanctity, for
place than purity.-George Eliot.
BUSINESS IS CALM,
Memphis. Mo.

Awhile ago there were those among us who
accused American business of hysteria. But
the really remarkable thing about American
business is its calm and apparently firm conf
dence in the nation IS ability to maintain stabil-
ity Of trade in the face of foreign compiled
tons. This confidence is genuine asset, if it
be based on something more definite than faith
in potential powers. If the calm front Ameri-
can business shows is based on firm determine
ton to put the whole business brains and re-
sources Of the nation behind the government
in maintaining our national right, there is am
pie reason for confidence; but this means sacri-
fees and disappontments. With these fore
seen and discounted, as they in all probability
are, the confidence of business through the
land is an assurance Of national power to take
care of our interests come what may.