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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
Some Mental Effects of the War

The newly published annual reports OF
three of the leading mental hospitals IN
Scotland tend to confirm the opinion OF
nearly all competent observers, that the
war has had little or no evil influence upon
the mental stability of the civil popula-
tons in the belligerent countries. The
medical superintendent of the Glasgow
Royal Asylum is rather inclined to think
that it has steadied many whose sanity
was threatened, especially among women,
who now have a much larger choice Of
callings than in ordinary times and are
therefore better able to find suitable occu-
patton. But though some patients whose
illness began before the war recovered for
time under its compelling influence, not
few had since relapsed and showed an
aggravaton of their symptoms.
DR.. G.. NJ. Robertson, Sir Thomas Clous-
tons successor at the Royal Edinburgh
Mental Hospital is likewise unable TO find
any evidence of increase in mental disease.
He, too, is of the opinion that so far the
extension of women's work has been dis
tinctly beneficial, being far less injurious
than the aimless and shut-in existence that
too many were formerly condemned to.
But there is one interesting point in DR..
Robertson's report that is worth noting.
He points out the grave danger that lies in
the current revival of spiritism. The
large number of sudden bereavements
caused by the war has encouraged the
quest of easy consolation in supposed mes
sages from the world of spirits, and though
DR.. Robertson has no prejudice against
what is usually called psychic research,
yet as a physician of large experience IN
mental arrangement he strongly advises
all who may possibly have the least ten
dency to nervous disorders to let it alone.
His observation has convinced him that
any dormant proclivity to Authorizations,
for instance, may easily be stirred into
activity by meddling in this kind of inquiry.
Not impertinently he remarks that those
who are curious about visions and spirit
messages will find the greatest variety OF
seeming mediums in the wards of mental
hospitals; for as in many Of these the de-
lusions and hallucinations are so gross as
to be easily recognizable to the casual and
superficial observer, so in the trained eye
of the experienced physician the nantes
tations and experiences of honest mediums
are often significant but not in any sense
supernormal or even astonishing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
Woman's Work in the War

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Permit US to express our appreciation
of your recent editorial entitled "Woman's
Work in tho War; in which you say: "Thc
shallow notion that, inasmuch as the stabil.
ty of the state must depend ultimately upon
force. and that therefore all women are COM
paratvely superhuous when the final test
comes, has been completely disposed of in the
last two years, to the manifest concern of
some of the most valiant foes of the suffrage
movement"
The opponents of woman suffrage have al
ways admitted that the government made
every demand upon women that it did upon
men. with the exception that it held men liza
BILE for military service, and asserted its right
TO call upon them at any time, while women
were exempt from such demands. The Sec
rotary Of the Navy has just announced that
women will be called upon to fill the clerical
positions in that department in order to free
the men for other kinds Of service, and Gov
ernor Whitman in providing for a census of
those available for military service has ex-
pressly included women.
These acts utterly demolish the standard
argument of the "anti-suffragists, and there
is not another shadow of an excuse for the
denial of the suffrage 10 women by the gov
eminent of the United States Congress
should at once submit Federal amendment
to be acted upon by the legislatures of the
various states at the earliest opportunity.
and every one which fails to ratify it should
exempt every woman within the borders of
the state from military service of any kind,
if war is declared
IDA Hustled HARPER.
Chairman National Suffrage Press Committee.
New York. March 81, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
In Busy Maine

lFrOU The Boston Hcrodf
The recent session Of the Maine State
Board of Trade in Portland brought out in
the reports Of the officers and in the discus
sions, the exceptional prosperity that Maine
has been enjoying of late. We have all been
impressed with the food of wealth that has
been rolling in on the potato "Aroostocrats,'
and have known in a general way that the
shipyards along the coast, many of them de-
serted and silent for years, arc hummng
with activity again, but that is only part
of the story The summer business last year
was far the largest ever known, and the pros
poets are that the season Of 1917 will dupli-
cate or exceed it. Great hotels going up at
York Harbor, Dark Iarbor and elsewhere are
indications of what is expected And the
tourist business is no longer confined to the
summer months and the hunting season.
Maine is getting known as winter resort.
Thus optmistically the story goes from
one part of the state to the other-the state
equal in size to all the rest of New England,
and with barely a beginning made in realiz-
ing It's agricultural and manufacturing posi-
biites. There is significance in the renewed
enthusiasm and activity Of the numerous
local boards of trade. most of which are OK
hbitng a sudden fondness for changing their
name to chamber of commerce"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

From The Poetry Rorie,c Of London
So it's Good bye" again!
Harkl The shrill whistles blowing,
There's fine. cold rain,
And gusty wind blowing.
o! the dark night is falling.
And the slow train is crawling.
But the Big Voice is calling
Above the winds blowing.
Yes. the Big Voice calls.
And It's we must be going.
When the slow train crawls,
There are many. many going.
o the bright life we're leaving.-
And some will be grieving:-
And the Blind Fates are weaving,
All the while that we're going.
Blu. the web that they weave
There is none of US knowing;
And It's idle to grieve,
For il won't help the knowing.
Nay! From pride let US borrow
Strength, and hope, but no sorrow:
And so wait the Tomorrow
When at last wen be knowing.
ERIC FITZWATER WILKINSON, VI. c.
Lieutenant. West Yorks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
June
IRON The Poetry Joprnat)

From The POETRY Journal
He was here again,
all morning long
that bagpipe man.
Nowhere near the house,
to be sure,
(he's a man of mystery
but among the surrounding villages
and trees
and hills
noisy.
joyous,
incessant,
monotonous
now here,
now there,
like some big fat dizzy bee.
ALFRED KREYMBORG.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
A New Wonder of the World
from The PHILADELPHIA Ledger

from The Philadelphia Lcdgcr)
But it is not alone the mass or the size
Of the arch at He'll Gate or its unequalled
transportation Importance that gives 1T a
special significance, since a great part Of its
absolutely overwhelming impression is due
to it's location and TO the viaducts and con-
tributory structures that serve the central
arch, whose towers of granite $50 feet high
tower like the pylons Of some gigantic Egyp-
tian temple, while the arched approaches
span island and water and mainland with a
challenge that makes the most famed OF all
similar effects, the approach Of the Claudan
aqueduct 10 Rome over the historic Cam
pagna, seem mere child's play. For nowhere
else in the world is there such combination
Of colossal splendor in all the surroundings
as is revealed from Sound steamer as the
He'll Gate bridge is approached from the east
and the distance. gridironed with other lofty
and famous bridges to the west, leads the
eve to the skyscraping heights OF Manhattan,
which in the pearly haze of summer morn
ing seem, indeed, some faryland of Brob-
dngnag, but Brobdingnag in which size is
not fatal to beauty, an almost terrifying
beauty Of monstrous design, growing out Of
mans audacious conquest Of nature where
her physical problems are most difficult Of
solution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
The Southards of New Jersey

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue OF March 10 you give
the portraits of Senator John H. Bankhead
from Alabama and Of W. b. Bankhead, his
son. who has just taken his seat as mem
Der of the House Of Representatives. This is
interesting and very unusual. You say there
is the first time in history that father and
son have been at the same time in Congress"
That is a mistake
Samuel l.. Southland represented New Jer-
seq in the Senate, beginning ] think, in 1888
His father was member of the House be-
fore his sons term closed. That was the
first and only instance Of the kind in our
history until now. Alabama rcverses the
order and sends the father to the Senate and
his son TO the House +. VOSSELLER.
Pennington. y. j.. March 81 1917.
The official Biographical Congress
sionaI Directory" shows that Henry
Southland. father Of Samuel l.. Southland
served fourteen years in the House of Rep
resentatves, his seventh term ending on
March 3. 1921. Samuel l.. entered the
Senate on February l6, 1921, so that his
service in Congress overlapped that of
his father by fifteen days.-Ed.]
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
An Organism of Democracies

This will be the greatest extension of dem
ocratic control ever applied to the map OF
the world. The dimensions of it are so large
that the Imagination even of its projectors
has not awakened to what it implies. A great
da) will exist in a world still half in politi-
cal bondage.
Since the war began many persons have
asked: Can a democracy produce leaders OF
the same merit as an autoerscy? And the
answer has often been no. But the ques-
ton fails to state the problem. War lead
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
In the Alameda
IRON The POETRY Journal

IRON The POETRY Journal
There is music in the wind
Among the expresses.
The Alameda is quick with sounds:
Humming-birds darting from the shadows,
The laughter of half naked children.
And the vivid murmur of the city
Filterng through.
But ] cannot tell what
This multiple breath of God
Is saying.
The hammers Of the poems annoy me,
Perturb my spirit
With their thudding salvos to the gulled
Old trees Ruby-throated birds.
Unobtrusive flowers
What says the Wind and the Breath to you
Tira Liberidd, Tiro Independencid'
You masquerading utilities!
You eloquent lies of the masters!
Upon your symbolic arches
OF lath and plaster
The people will stamp with red, wet feet
The people,
Whose deep curses come even now
From the bGrrios
From gray-brown adobe novels.
Squat, squalid and evil-smelling.
Vird Mcrico!
The hammers are suddenly silent
And the poems SLOUGH off to rest,
To drink
They will drink to stupefaction.
Then tomorrow they will come back
With their heavy hammers
And their heavier curses.
God pity the poor blind.
But arches of lath and plaster
Cannot last for ever.
Then some day . When?
How long, o Lord? How long?
FRANK A. SHIRLEY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

The end of England has come. 1t IS the
war that brought it, And in place OF Eng
land the structure of the British Common
wealth begins to thrust through. Englahd
has acted on the world as principle OF re-
lease for freedom; sometimes by irritating
il into activity. as with the American col
onies. sometimes by cooperating with IT, as
in Canada and Australia. The balance oil
power has now departed from England to
wider area. But the principle of government
which creates and directs that power con-
tinues to be an English principle 1t ~ the
principle of democratic control. one nun
bred years ago England was in war III
which her three leaders were Pitt NeilIng-
ton and Nelson, three Englshmen To-day
Great Britain is in war in which her three
leaders are Lloyd George, Haig and Beatty
Welshman. ScotchmGn and an lrishman.
That is. of course, only chance Illustration,
but it serves to show the fact that the held
Of opportunity has broadened. and that Eng
land is no longer the overshadowng power in
union. but is the equal among equals.
If that extension of power among her mem
bers is true of England on her island, 1t ls
also true of her among her colonies. Already
the new Cabinet has called the domlnions to
special war conference. This is the first
step in a momentous change in the constitu-
ton of the empire. The peoples of the do
minions arc not contented with their status,
and they refuse to 90 on indefinitely under
the present arrangement, which focuses all
immortal responsibility in the hands of states
men of the British Isles.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
Allies

Ny feet that would run are elogged win the
night | come from;
Ny hands that would serve are froward anu
bruse my friend;
My spirit would fly as free as morning
swallow
Bright on the hills-but shadows bewilder
its Eight.
Yet am | tender; my heart is the heart OF
a child,
And grieves that pain is of man, and would
be of comfort;
And though my feet are confused with bitter
wanderings,
Ny eyes look out to the west to the waters
of freedom
And seek the quickening friendship Of noble
races.
I would stand with you, not over you, oh, my
brothers,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

possible way of achieving anything in Ire
land is by rebellion--a belief for which
the present government and the late gov
eminent are in large measure responsible.
Thorough reconsideration of the whole
question of Ireland is plainly inevitable,
for, great as is the risk of failure, mere
drifting is certain to be disastrous sooner
or later 80
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

You can purchase merchandise advertised
in THE TRIBUNE with absolute safety-for
if dissatisfaction results in any case The
TRIBUNE guarantees to pay your money back
upon request. No red tape. No clubbing. we
make good promptly if the advertiser does not.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25

Let my freemen speak for me.
am Drake and Frobisher
Men who climb the climbing sea;
All my pioneers that were,
Brood of sea-mews yet TO be
Hampden sowed the steadfast seed,
Seed of Cromwell Ireton,
Power of men TO match the need;
Power that worked in Washington.
Lincoln's self to stamp the breed.
Who goes with me into danger?
Who will play the man with me?
Friend and comrade guest and stranger,
Britain-bound and far ses-ranger-
Who counts the cost to keep him free
called for help from fire and sword
And though none came kept my word
When poets hereafter use the name
or Belgium, let them write in flame
SMALL STATE THAT DID NOT FEAR TIC
DIE,
YOUR ANGUISH SEALED OUR LIBERTY
".
Man is a torch borne in the wind
A spirit of air,
Streaming before, behind,
That men may see the radiance everywhere
Lovers of truth, tipped with its eager fire
Who lit your torch at mine, come to the aid
Of freedom, for it dies unless mankind aspire!
If in this hour Of desperate chance
You will 90 forth where go. the leaping blade
And tricolor-Mes enfants, to my side
And his shall be the pride
Who dies for truth, a handbreadth in adj
vance. C.P. II.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
In the Troop Train to the Front

FRANK A. SHIRLEY
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-29

the mysterious paper" he had talk
ed of yesterday was clearing house
sheet, but he refused to say wnat
trader was involved or whether 1t IN
Dictated there was any cabinet leak.
The committee held a secret con-
ference before the opening meeting.
representative Chiperfeld said there
were no personal animosities in the
committee. though he held that the
republicans and democrats had not
1uiIy conceded as to policy. On the
other hand, democrats held that Chip
ertieId was responsible for reports in
dicating partisan differences.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-29
FORMER KEOkUK
PRIEST IS DEAD
s.y. c,eme.. Lc.--=y Died Sunday
at Cedar Rapids-Funeral
WIN be Held Wed
nesday.
HERE TWELVE YEARS
vii; b. Well Remembered in keokuK
as Pastor Of ST. Francis Dc
Sales Catholic
Church.

Rr Clement Lowery, former pas
Cor Of st Francis de Sales Roman
Catholic church, died at ms holhe -
Cedar Rapids Sunday. he WOW
have been eighty years old next aug
asst. The funeral will be held ~
Cedar Rapids Wednesday morning.
at 1890 o'clock.
Rev. Father Lowery came 70 REQ
kuk in 1883 to succeed Rev. Howard
at ST, Francis de Sales church PREY
iouslv he had been pastor OF 81
Peters and st. Paul's church at bul
lington, Iowa.
He left Keokuk in 1895, for Calves
ton Texas. where he remained seven
years at St. Patrick's churcn. ne
was in Galveston during the time o,
the tidal wave destruction and alo
great work in helping to rebuild Inc
city. From Galveston he went 70
st. PaSrfck's church at Burlington,
Texas. and remained there until ne
celebrated his fiftieth ordination an
niyersary, which was November 20.
1913. He then retired and since that
time he had been chaplain OF Mercy
Hospital at Cedar Rapids
Rev. Father Lowery was born
August u. 1887, and was one OF the
Oldest priests in the middle west he
was well known throughout Iowa. A.
y. Mullarky of this city is a distant
relative A brother, DR.. Lowery, OF
Nicola, Iowa, survives, and there are
also several nieces and nephews at
Fort Madison. "
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-29
HUNGER STRIKING
Is POPULAR
fcontiuued from page -

come a memorial instead OF tesh
monial meeting"
Plans have been made to have MIS-
Byrne II the meeting IL her release
today ID Outlined. She VIII be car
He'd to the speakers platform on
stretcher. s..-..
Women Crowd Court Room.
NEW YORK. Jan. 29-Scores OF
women crowded general sessions
court In Brooklyn this afternoon
were Mrs. Margaret Sanger was 10
be tried on a charge of distributing
birth control literature.
A baby parade which was planned
by women of the Brownsville district
in which the birth control clinic was
located. did not materialize, but sym
pathizers OF Mrs. Sanger were on
land long before the case was called
On motion of Assistant District At
torney Cooper, Mrs. Sanger and As
sistant Miss Fannie Mandell, were
given separate trials. That OF MISS
Nandell was called frst.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-29
IMPORTANT WEEK
IN LEGISLATURE
CONTINUED nom page l.,

him in accepting or appealing from
the federal commissions report.
The prohibitory amendment comes
mn "A the house on Tuesday. II the
legislature is advised by the governor
that the seuate,s amendment is o. K.
{, will he passed without serious op-
position, both parties being pledged
To submit the question to the people.
An Error Discoveries.
mrs MONIES. Iowa, Jan. pa
technical error in a date In the pro-
hfb.tory amendment which passed the
senate has been discovered, it was
DISCLOSED today, in an opinion Attor.
rev General Havner submitted to Gov
ernor Harding. Havner stated that
the three questions raised by the gov
ernor were unimportant, but that II
the error had not been discovered the
validity of the amendment might
later have been questioned IA court.
Hayner recommended that the house
change the amendment to read March
six instead of March eight, relat-
ing to the date when the last legisla-
turs,s prohibitory amendment was ap-
proved. The senate would then have
TO concur in the change.
Harding had asked for an opinion
whether putting capitalization in the
amendment woHld nuliify tiff quoting
TIE identical thirty-sixth general as
sembly's resolution would not have
the effect Of submitting the amend.
uent again to the thirty-eighth gener
fl assembly instead OF the people, and
whether a certain comma might at
feet its validity. Havner said none OF
these questions was important HIS
opinion was thirty-three type written
sheets long
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-29

in the senate.
The Nova Gazette considers the
message recognizes the re-establish-
ment OF the Polish state. and the pres
ident's policy is directly contradict
orv to the Russian policy"
The entente did not mention Po-
land" says the Stalfticy. But VII
con mentioned as the only important
instance, this very Poland. From
the United States this Is a stimulus
&c continue the work for establishment
|of q Polish state which already gains
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-29
"COPPER" WIRE
Was STOLEN
One Hundred Dollars Worth Of Cable
Taken From Shed Of the keo-
kuk Electro Metals
Company.
ABOUT $50 POUNDS GONE
st. Louis Woman Seeking for Lost
Relatives here-Another
Bicycle 10
Stolen.

1t was reported to the police this
morning that quantity OF copper
cable valued at 500 had been stolen
from the Keokuk Electro Metals com
pany some time during the last week.
The cable was taken from a shed on
the company's property. The shed
was locked, but the robbers gained en-
trance to the place by crawling un-
der a side. The property taken was
described to the police as follows:
One section thirty feet long and
one inch in diameter weighing ninety
pounds; a piece twelve feet long and
one and one-half inch in diameter,
weighing fifty-four pounds, and two
pieces ten and fifteen feet long weigh
ing ninety pounds. The first two sec
lions of wire were insulated.
Seeka Lost Relatives.
Mrs. Effie Frasure OF T2T South
Eewstead street, st. Louis. has writ
ten to the local authorities asking In
formation concerning an aunt Huloan
Eckels and cousin, Charles Eckeis.
whc she hsl;s-as I've here 0T have
lived here. She writes that her maid
en- name was Efie Willeford. Anyone
having information OF the persons
named should notify the authorities
or write to st. Louis.
Another Bicycle Stolen.
Hugh NJ Mcclure has reported to
the police the loss OF bicycle. 1t
was taken yesterday afternoon from
the vicinity OF Fifth and Grand
avenue. The bicycle Is National
make and is painted blue.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-29

81. Louis Hay.
ST. LOUIS. Mo, Jan. HIS
Market steady; receipts at 3. Y
% cars; at East st. Louis. %
Choice timothy $17.o0G176o; y
timothy. S1S.5O917.0o; No. . TIM
s14.00915.oo, No. ) timothy ~
1880.
Chicago Rye and Barley. !.
CHICAGO, Jan. 27.-Rye.
nominal; No. 3, S1.35.
Barley. &1.0o91-$.
omshs Butter.
United Press Leased Wire ssn
OMAHA, Eeb, Jan. 2s-bu"s
cents.
New York Money Market.
NEW YORK. Jan. 2s-Noa
call, TX percent. f
Six months. 3A percent
Ear silver London, 39Ad.
BAR silver New York, 1910
Demand sterling, s4.75.
Wheat Takes Drop.
limited Press Leased Wire 50
CHICAGO, Jan. 29.-Repors
British agents in Winnipeg ~
selling wheat, today sent May
tumbling .6% cents. May OPP
|177h and closed at 17lA,
wheat dropped A while sepu
declined 3A cents
Stock Market Notes
limited Press Leased Wire Sei'
NEW YORK, Jan. 2S.-Led
8 steel common, the stock
opened at generally higher ie's
day. Steel sold up l to il4N, n
speculation on the prooaoie aou,
the directors at their quarterg
inc Tomorrow was the leading "
factor. ~
Industrial Alcohol was up :.
1924. American Locomotive ~
Utah Copper is at 1oI q. anu
lean Smelling rs at 1854.
General Motors crumvle, s
points under bear drive ta mr.
noon U. S. Steel after seil ,.s
1I4Ih during the morning. oII
hack to 1135s. New Haven SOW
11S to 43h and Mexican fssil
broke below par. Trading We
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-29

ground in the mind Of neutral $
ments."
~The presidents message, - =.
Preglad Peranny, will incIsa \
hope for peace in nations anu
crease the hatred against nus :
resist peace. This. hoWevea' 4
bv the entente powers VINO
back the hand offered by 'ne s
powers"