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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20
GETTING READY
TO QUIT MEXICO
Every Indication That General
Pershing's Punitive Expedi-
tion is About to March
Back Home.
PROBABLY STARTED NOW
No More Forage Being Shipped and
Many Empty Trucks Have Been
Sent South to Return
Supplies.
PROBABLY STARTED NOW
tBy Webb Miller, United Press Staff
COrreSpOndentl

tBy Webb Miller United Press Staff
Correspondent
Ell PASO, Texas, Jan. 20.-Al-
though official announcement is lack
ing, there Is every indication today
that withdrawal OF General Pershing's g
punitive expedition from Mexico has
virtually begun. Reports today stated
that the American camp at Ell Vale,
Pershing's southernmost outpost, was
broken yesterday, the troops there
starting northward to join the main
camp at Colonia Dublan.
There were other straws in the
wind which bore out these unofficial
reports. During yesterday, more than
one hundred and fifty empty trucks
went south into Mexico from the Co
lumbus base, while the construction
of corrals for horses was started at
Columbus.
In official quarters here today, 1t
was admitted that preparations for
withdrawal are undsr way, but officers
stated that they did not know that
withdrawal had already begun.
In Juarez, railway men declared
that many cars have been concen-
trated in Dublan on the Mexican
Northwestern railway line, while or
uefS nave Deen given 10 sup ali snip
ments of forage from the border by
rail.
AS the news spread through the
militia camps that preparations indi-
Gated that withdrawal Of General
Pershing's expedition was near,
cheers went up from thousands of
guardsmen. Tie men expect that
orders sending them home will follow
the arrival of the expedition at the
border.
Carranza officials at the Mexican
consulate here are frankly jubilant
over the reported withdrawal.
1--WE hope it is true and that 1t
takes place soon,' they said.
Expect Orders Any Time.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.- An
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20
Complications May Arise With
Germany Over Recent Ac-
tions of New Commerce
Raider.
NEUTRALS AS PRISONERS
Situation More Grave Now Than Il
Has Been for Months, In the
Opinion Of Washington
Today.
LBy Carl D. Groat, United Press Staff
Correspondent

LBy Carl D. Groat, United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Jan. 2O-Danger of
mplications with Germany over
marine problems seemed to authori-
ties today to be nearer than for
months past.
Her capture of neutrals and max
ing them prisoners on the steamer
Yarrowdale; plus the strong trend of
German sentiment toward wider sub
marining, made these possibilities
more ominous.
The official German statement re-
counting that the missing Yarrowdale
with more than $50 souls aboard. had
been brought into harbor'' as q prize
with a number Of neutral prisoners
gave rise to a graver concern than
anything that has happened In months
of ups and downs of critical relation
ship.
This government does not know
that Americans are among the prison
ers, but it is possible some are thus
held.
Germany explained the neutrals had
been made prisoner in cases where
the had taken pay for employment on
armed enemy vessels.
This involves broad questions OF
armament, but even more so the in
fringement upon neutral rights by go
ing SO far as to make such subjects
prisoners of war.
The whole problem Is tied up. also
with the peace situation.
In so far as officials reveal, they re
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20
|NO ARMY
Av|ATORS
| ARE FOUND
[utlived Week Of Hardship on
Mexican Desert, After Air
ship Had Been
Wreca1ed.
-pTu rvuAnRTEn
bbertson Managed to Reach civIllza.
tloa, Leaving Bishop b b
Picked up by Rsosue
Party.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
SANDIEGO, Calf, Jan. 20.-A
bry Of endurance and heroic en-
|avor against death was written
hay into the annals of the aviation
rps Of the United States army
len Lieut.. W.. A. Robertson. Jr.,
ssing army airman, came back
bm the dead. Out in tho desert
Ith of Yuma, Ark, q party OF men
s bringing into Yuma, Lieut.. Col.
rry G. Bishop whom Robertson
forced to leave exhausted and
but unconscious IN the Mexican
tes sb06osp 10 made his AnaA d..
nc Try iOT iiffv an1 assista1ice:
although weakened and worn.
|ther man will suffer any III con-
luences of his experience after
ID. rest and warm clothing have
tored them both to normal health.
70 newspapermen at Welton and
ma, Ariz., Robertson gavS 3
lphic description of his nine day
tile with the desert. After he And
lionel Bishop left San Diego Wal.
Fday, Jan. 10, to fly for Calexico.
said, their aeroplane mou 1tsd
b in order to cross . mountain
tge. This swung the machine into
strong current of wind which
ept It rapidly southwark.
The airmen found 1t impossible to
ect the wind. however. and when
fy saw. at noon. a large body OF
ter they both thought 1t the Salton
Instead 1t was laguna far
er the border, in Mexico, as they
covered when they tried to make
landing because their gasoline was
i. In the landing one wing Of the
(chine broke and made the car
eless. Then 1t was that the fliers
md thas instead of being in their
n country, they were $50 miles
IN San Diego in Mexico.
ABANDONING the aeroplane the two
y took. all the food they had car
along with them and one gallon
water and started the long hike
onward to civilization and to
ety.
Robertson touched only lightly the
fdships they had endured-the
olate stretches of country through
pen they passed. the almost over
fering rains-by day and icy cold
night.
Pefying physical exhaustion, the
officers kept up their walking by
ht and day. For four days they
Psisted on one gallon of water.
oranges and four small sand
nes. Then their water ran out.
was Sunday. The same day
onei Bishop began to break under
strain. Robertson, too, was weak.
stronger than his superior off,
That day the men faced square
me problem OF life or death. They
med trapped in a place where
re was no way out. In a last
perate endeayor to get aid.
mop proposed that he remain be-
q on the sands and that Robert
struggle on alone and try to find
ms was done. From that time
ward. neither man had drop to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20
All Week Feast enjoyed
By News Pirey|ss Of Country
United Press EXCLUSIVE .or.1ies Commerce Raider
We're Lifted Bodily BY Newspapers Scooped Every Day

Pres
m
"Ynondae"
peared in the
simply lifted from the United Press
lifted bodily United Press cable credit and carried
Associated member client Of the United Press
Ifted edverbatm ressc
giaeV proed
invegme Of ande
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20
Dead Man Is Not Simmons.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WACO. Texas, Jan. 20.-C. A. Bon
fills, demurrage agent Of the Katy rail-
way, who came here to identify the
body of the man who dropped dead in
a local hotel yesterday. said today
that the man was not George r. Sim
mons, OF Denver, transportation in
spector of the Katy, as first believed.
The dead man Is now believed to
be Q C. Simmons, connected with the
state live stock sanitary commission.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20
If Livingston Roe Ever Gets
Out Of This Scrape, He Will
Never Venture Again.

III United Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Jan. 20-If Livingston
Roe. Jr., son of a retired Standard Oil
magnate, now residing In Philadelphia,
ever clears himself Of alleged en-
tangling alliances that are being un-
raveIed before Judge. Steik in the
court OF domestic relations. It's safe
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20
Bank Robbers Escaped.

KANAPOI1S, Kan, Jan. 20.-James
Cowie, Jr., son Of the president Of
the Exchange State bank here, was
wounded in the arm early today in a
running fight with a band Of five men
who blew up the bank vault and es-
capped with $4,000 in cash and 81 900
in stamps.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20
y Confesses to Crime, But
Fohce Do Not Know Just
What to do With Him.

,sd Press Leased Wire Service ]
IvELAND. Ohio. Jan. 20
orities were puzzled today over
cnarge to place against Law
u Southall, who has confessed to
uerins Charles H. James, b. and
r inspector. while the latter
asleep.
~! believe the boys story that
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-20

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Daily Gate City and Constitu-
tion-Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-09
Has America Isolated Itself?
From the Chjeaxo News.

" ShS GulCdAV NEWS.
Having made what history may declare
it's big. initial error in bringing the great
war to q head without having calculated
upon certain mighty factors. German
diplomacy appears to- rave recovered IT'S
poise and efficiency. and to have done alt
that could be done to retrieve certain,
early blunders. In various quarters It,
has accomplished wonder and has aided
the marvellous German military machine.
most effectively.
followed the subtle. farseeing Ger,nar
ent declared sea blockade INC ruthless,
warfare is mainly a gigantic
bluff which. will serve the Teutonic pur-
quite as well il not better than the actual
operation of the ruthIess warfare which,
1T threatens.
ample. that it would be really to Ger
many.s interest to have the United States
event the United States would ,,Iee have IA e"a to-,
conserve it's munitions and other military
supplies and could not sell them to the
To bluff the United States into a sus-
pension of diplomatic. intercourse, usually
preli nntaay to a declaration Of war but
American Industries to the production ,aia1tE Of
fabliaSme ,0r the. Amerscan military es-
tente nations and giving the Germans a
greater fighting chance. II Germany
rupture with this country or It eomtd / b..
IN a position to press the quarrel with.
unrestrRtned power.
This may not he the German program.
put conceivably it might be. Whether il
Is or not. this country must guard against
every eventuahty and decline to be used
as a cat's-paw for the Taking of foreign
chestnuts out Of the IRE.
me United States cannot afford to
s sIsm1 aloof In gloomy majesty, nursing its
TO aid humanity. Neither can it afford
20 make wal In some particular. unre-
act In reasonable harmony with any ma
Ions Ions fghtine In the interest OF those ma
Iional ideals to which it ID itself devoted.
OF being driven into war national safety
n0W - the future demands that ID
ni liz cortnon cause with the entente
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-09

dlers in emergency. One of them had
1 ne lieutenant governor of his state.
VINO heard the short addresses they made
as men exceptionally we'll informed and
OIL excellent Judgment, the kind of men
consideration in their home Communities
II is remarkable that while Pershine:s
lf fe,n are marching out of Mexico ali these
~ conceded In the deliberate opinion
Una. we n have to go pack" The
enlisted men with whom citizens spoke of
v v;ctinn, on the border agreed. The con-
be Of more serious trouble ahead and the
expression 9 r. was common We shall have
W 30 pack some day soon."
And this was a remarkably body of men
ama OF o%fficers. The enlisted men. young.
s hg; bold of appearance and with some.
the certainty that boldness was not nsI
sunled put that they are ready and effec-
i've soldiers. The officers seemed fit to
ssaisn All so snen i o more Of tbt troops BPS The. They
VINO serves for pay or for love of adven-
p uIpe; a These sea were citizens from the
the professions out in the service of their
country as q patriotic duty; and they saw
conditions n situations as citizens as
we We shall have to go back
They agree that the movement of the
tshonS 20 tas border has beer worth while
definite as between the W nat.enss' eh Rnf
It did accomplish this: The Bows Who y
vent laughing to the border came awav
tsa grown men with a full realization
No. patriotic service. as q soldier IS not a
Also what mobilization of green troous
mean eat when but 1000 are to be reviewed.
tbs OF them brought back with them
training is q necessity and while iittle
vas SAID regarding this particular point
their service in actual defense or oSSens.
must be plain before those men arnSne
ieave their occupations and their bust
nesses and professions to go afield.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-09
Quaint supsrstitions.
Prom the Madras Mail.

Great virtues are ascribed to III claws
and horns OF certain animals. Tigers
claws are in great demand with the COM
mon people. One or two claws may b
worn near the loins. but should one pos
sess a larger number the fortunate owner
makes q garland OF them and wears them
around his neck. Deer's horns ground into
hne paste Is an excellent balm for pains
and Eswellings. "A more curious use u
found for the same substance: 1t 10 some
times made Into . powder which u sup
posed to aid h growth Of stunted women.
The joints taken from the long and slender
tail OF the black scorpion are supposed to
keep Illness at arms distance when chill
dren wear them on their waist thread.
A red or swollen eye Is cured by having
1t touched with the bolt or chain OF q
door. A remedy which I have seen app
piled with considerable effect In more than
one epileptic Mt Ii to place a bunch Of keyv
in the palm OF the sufferer. / have heard
1t said that the ut passes away. AZ readily
IL the keys are placed ON the head. A rath-
er quaint remedy n the case Of 4 sprained
neck Is to use An. iron measure for q nil.
low.
Sore throat = cured by splitting on red
hot iron-quite the simplest and least ex.
pensive cure known to the native doctor.
Peacock's fesh and pigs ghee : the
hest medicines for acute rheumatism.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-09
Who Pay. Your s.larxY
From the Dnlneh 1....,a

g.. a trade paper. addressing .clerks.' in
rs sores" SAYS: 1T h the customer in
aaarSyn... q Tt .ne m con'ter vho pays your sal
clerk waits % e%fseien q 4 on y . t easto wnse ~ !.
- performing q servkce 10 himseff h1
treating his real paymaster poiiteIy. W
statsme .ne ~, Dayton News. making this
II ~ to go further b Just clerks in
h,s.tnas. ~ every department Of every
emninve. M FOR It Is am actual fact: tho,
~ goes broke. The consumer must stand.
tha 1t b fixed in the price of
ing fOouct, OF somebody hoses money"
as = veay well. and true enough, as far
fo r1 IT, We CUB very much II it is wholly
a " me goo q the employer to push the
ar 1sSn to- its logical conclusion.
JUST as he pays the rent and the taxes
and the cost of delivery and the loss from
Dad bills and the wholesaler account and
The consumer pays the salaries. but he
SoeS not DO the hiring and firing, nor does
y ~ the salaries. II you get 1t well fixed
~ the employees mind that the public
feeis tbs. %%ases' may the employe who
toner! =" 'he GUS
Nobody. probably. gets what he thinks
think: he u worth salaries would take It
I. - !ndeed the GROSS receipts proved
osx ono1gh to cover the salary account.
not h,r r.ncs the customer pays but does
tce.!y guilty OF tho unfairly low ws9e
~ OF us believe We get has the pow
Ss % 9ischarke and therefore must BE-
n.1 xoed az gnESs .,Ay: Il c.rtainly wo9idn't
man behind the unit that this con
.umoS VINO can not tire b The man ros
sponsibls Tor the low wage.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-09
a Fairy Tale Of sueee.,.
Is. c. Forbes. IN I.e.li..,

D.. =. COtU60, IN Leslie q.
One day Nelson Morris & Co. tha Chi.
cago cker asked the chief clerk OF
the Burlington railway to send them :
young fellow to keep tab on their refrte-
orator and other cars. He selected hls
CHIEF assistant. as the man best qualified
for the job. Within an hour or two the
assistant returned from the stock Yards
III they offered me the whole stock wards
! would not go out there to work" lie de-.
clared emphatically. a. he reached out Tor
his pen to resume his clerical duties. y
VIII you let ms go out and look 4.
over?' asked q ~19-year-old youth, who had
,assented.
OF he went to the stock yards.
- FOUND" he said. describing his visit.
that conditions at the stock yards were
not exactly salubruus: When YOU Got
there you found the plank roads %ioat3nS
In mud, which had q knack OF .0uirtina
up the legs OF POUR pants when Won
stepped from one plank to another. Everv-
thing was rough and crude md %untnyitinr
quite different from the clean mi ssmis
tarY condltl0ns Of today.
INSIDE Norris 4 Co.'S office the employ.
e. were 50 crowded and huddled together
That they appeared 70 be working one on
TOP OF the other great contrast with
osl!L 6aIs1sGaa1s G.. s. q. quarter.
"But there waa NO . ck 81 bvsineasy II
looked - if . fellow couh ana 8 lOt 10 do
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-09

L thought ! could see an opportunity for
anyone willing to work and to stay by
the proposition. The prospects appealed
to me. SO l accepted the job at 500 a
month. 1 was getting only $40 a month
from the railroad.'
That was one day in 1881.
One morning in the summer of s16-the
2lst of July-Amertcans awoke to find the
name Wilson & Co., Successors to Sulz-
berger & Sons CO., blazoned in bold type
and elevated cars, on thousands Of bill
boards and on hundreds Of meat estab-
:Who is Wilsomn - ey e1rv Goa asks,,.
The public was curious to know who
night had displaced that Of q great con
Germ which had been a household word
and whose products had been familiar to
every American home for 90 years. Sure
ly he must be a man of no ordinary rep
utation and attainment. What had he.
done to achieve such distinctions
The man was the penniless clerk who
was not afraid of the stock yards and its
hard work.
He was Thomas Is. Wilson.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-09
WHAT FEBRUARY DOES To HEALTH.

The New York city health depart
inent made two sickness censuses dur
ing the year ending March, 1916, in an
experimental health district. They
chose a typical district inhabited by
working people of rather small earn
ing capacity. There were almost 80, 600
persons i'll the district. OF these near
~ 1900 were clothing makers, nearly
1900 factory hands, 200 were clerks,
over 200 were peddlers, and over 500 re-
tail merchants,
When we know that of the remainder
over 5000 We're housewives and over
l0.4O0 were children we are to de-
clde that the experimental health dis
tr1ct is inhabited by workingmen and
their families and the usual complement
OF small merchants.
On the average the people in the dis
trlct are young. Fifty-four and one-
half per cent OF them were between Is
and 40 years of age.
In these censuses inspectors who had
been trained went into every mousse and
every place of business in the district
inspecting the sanitary conditions and
inquiring as to illness.
One census was taken in August, the
healthiest season Of the year, and the
other in February, the unhealthiest
The August sickness rate was eight per
1000; that for February was IS, or
more than three times as high. In Feb
ruary nearly one-fortieth of the popula-
ton was sick at the time the survey
was made.
OF the ISL who were i'll, 10 per cent
were unable to work on account of the
illness. sc were i'll with cold. eight with
pneumonia, so with bronchitis and
other acute diseases of the breathing
apparatus. These make a total of 124
cases. The inspector gave it as his
opinion that this rate would be three
times as great in certain other dis
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-09

trlctS. one hundred and nineteen had
tuberculosis in some form.
mother group of diseases which was
nigh in February was rheumatism. So
called rheumatism is Il group composed
OF seNera diseases rather than a single
disease.
There was "a good deal of digestive
disturbance, principally shown by
diarrhoea, but the increase over August
was altogether in diarrhoea of adults.
The babies had diarrhoea in the hot
season. the adults rather more fire.
quently in the cold season.
An Increase of ne~urasthenia, neuritis
and other nervous diseases was noted
when the winter survey was compared
with that of the summer, but this in
crease was principally due to nervous
disorders. which came secondary to
more acute illness of one sort or an
other.
This is about all h information as
10 the seasonal increase of disease Civ
en- by the survey. 1t gave a great deal
or valuable information along other
nnes. however. 1t was estimated thai
.ne yearly cost Of illness to a family
among persons of this type was $40.
Ihlrty-four per cent OF the sick persons
IN THIS district were cared for by pri-
waite physicians; 35 per cent were treat
ed In free d-ispensaries: II per- cent
were taking medicine bought at the
dr0g stores, and the remainder were
cared for in hospitals and sanitaria.
One conclusion is that the family
income is a most important factor in
raising or lowering morbidity and NOR
tally. Where the family income is suf-
hclent to permit living under reason
ably favorable conditions (sanftary
housing. ample food, adequate clothing,
wholesome %recreation), sufficient 10
permit of prompt and efficient medical
attention in case of illness. morbidity
and mortality are invariably lower"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1917-03-09
FEEBLE MINDEDNEss.

The population Of Arkansas is almost
exclusively American. Few are the
children of persons born abroad, and
still fewer were born abroad them
selves. Furthermore. it is largely a rural
population. There r but few cities.
Most OF the people were born in the
country not far from their present
homes.
Dr.. Treadway Of the public health
service has just published a study of
feeble mindedness in Arkansas. The
study was made under the authority Of
the state legislature. The Investigators
found 1900 white children between 8
and IA years of age to be definitely
feeble minded. In 1910 there were 345,-
282 white children in the state between
6 n IA years of age.
Treadway estimates that there are
$500 feeble minded persons in Arkan-
sas. From this he calculates that there
are 300 families in the state in which
there is the faint of feeble m~indedness,
or, he ~ One family in every 300
is composed of potential criminals. de-
pendents. disseminators of disease.
and is an economic loss to the COM
munity in which it lives"
About IS per cen of feeble minded
ness in inherited. What is tru Of Ark
ansas Is true in about b same mea-
sure Of every other state whore the
population is rural, does not migrate,
and 10 practically exclusively American.
In making the examination the chill
dren passed in review before the exam
liner. The teacher helped to pick out
those who appeared dun or shambled
along, looked wrong in any way. or who
gave q history Of poor progress in
school. These were held for closer ex-
animation.
In addition to those who wer4 feeble
minded there was a large group OF re-
tarded children. These generally had
some sort of physical disorder About
5 per cent were retarded becouxe Of
poor vision.
The next largest group was the
undersixed and underweight. Enlarged,
diseased tonsils was the third cause in
importance. Three per cen Of tie boys
in the rural districts were retarded be-
cause Of tOnsils. Adenoids as a retarder
was about AZ important az tonsils. De-
fective hearing. suffering and STAN
mering, and st. Vitus' dance were i'm
portant causes Of retardation. Three
and two-tenths per cent Of the retarded
girls had anemia and lie per cent had
malaria. About one-sixth Of the re-
tarded children had some definite
physical disorder.
These childr1n can become normal
mentally II th.tr physical defects can,
be remedied. The feeble minded are q
more difficult problem.