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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Americas Hand Not to be
Stayed by Peace Talk
of the Pope or the
President.
KEEPING RIGHT AT IT
Will Not Remit One Moment's Prep
aratlon Until Peace Treaty
Is Actually
Signed.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHARLESTON, w. Va.
MA Aug. 30.-Peace talk will
eESA not stay Americas hands
VS. Its sword will not be sheath
ed until victory is won and the men
ace Of aggressive autocracy Is re
moved" In this fight America Is
even fighting for the German people
themselves. And the navy will dc
its part.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels al
today's ground breaking for the Sill,
100000 government armor plate and
projectile plant, delivered this mes
sage to the world. Following closely
on President Wilson's reply to the
pope's peace note, Daniels address
emphatically reiterated Americas
unselfish war aims and r~qewed the
presidents appeal to the kNiser's sub
jects to Join the democratic nations
of the world.
Germany began this war for a
place in the sun We believe there
can be no place in the sunshine for
any nation upon earth underneath
the ominous shadow of the Prussian
eagle, not even for the people OF
Germany themselves" Daniels said
"In fighting for the right to live and
grow on the part Of our own people
on the part Of Belgium, on the part
of all the democratic nations Of the
earth, we are fighting also the great
battle Of the people Of the German
empire themselves"
The navy department, said Daniels
is building up fleet greater and
more powerful than we dared hope
for" as the surest means OF an early
and effective peace.
LET there be no fear that pos.
sibilities of peace will cause us to re-
nit one moments preparation. Not
until the peace treaty is actually
signed will we remit a single item
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
TAXING WAR PROFITS
UP TO EIGHTY PERCENT

"The war profits In France during
the first year OF the war have been es-
timated at $3.50 100000 The second
year was about the same. But coltec-
tions have been slow, owing to the
difficulty in establishing the taxable
TO date only about S46O,OOO.OOo has
been collected.
Our law of July, 1916, taxed war
profits under $50O,O00, fifty per cent.
1--WE are now introducing law tax
ing these profit makers revenues OF
more than million dollars a maxi
mum of eighty per cent, according to
a sliding scale.
The French nation is well able to
bear the larger share of war expenses.
To date she has contributed S13,00O.-
100000. But this is hardly fifth of
the total war cost New taxes will add
a billion of state revenues to this.
+ 1T is naturally difficult for France
to subject large properties and indus
tries to any general tax because many
industries are now no longer in opera
tion. The invasion by the Germans
seized many of our plants. But the
French fiscal system is most democrat
ic and most flexible.
! I'VE feel confident our new legisla-
ton will have the desired results
namely in throwing the main burden
OF taxation on our richer classes,
/ Our aim now is to consolidate our
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Jitney Buses in Service.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.-Witt
President Ltlienthal Of the. United
Railroads on record with a refusal
to arbitrate the San Francisco car
m mens strike, today saw the city pre-
pairing to extend still further it's tenn
porary transportation system. Jitney
buses have been rented by the city
today and will be placed in opera
ton in isolated districts.
It was announced today that the
receipts of the municipal railways
have increased $4,000 daily since the
strike began.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
DOGS OF WAR
BEING TRAINED
Sport, Spot and Gyp Are En-
listing and Being Accepted
by Secretary
Baker.
OWNERS OFFER ANIMALS
Mobilization and Training Camps to
be Provided for Hundreds
OF Four Footed
Patriots.
OWNERS OFFER ANIMALS
lBy George Martin, United Press STAN
COrreSpOndent

lBy George Martin, United Press Stan
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-Even the
kaiser's dogs of war have turned
against him.
Immediately the news spread that
Secretary of War Baker endorsed Sen
ator Brady's war dog bill in the senate,
hundreds Of fanciers throughout the
country wiGed Baker offers of trained
war dogs Most of them are German
shepherds.
Pending passage Of the Brady war
dog bill, Secretary Baker is tentatively
accepting the Sports and Spots and
Gyps in the name of the American Red
Cross.
Most Of the army Of American war
dogs will be trained and sent abroad
as parts Of Red Cross units, under
Brady's ''selective service" bill, which
WILL provide dog mobilization and
training camps. Nearly every offer OF
dogs received by Baker stipulate that
the fanciers themselves will train the
CANNES according to war dog training
regulations.
Freeman Ford, Pasadena, Calf, al
ready has trained seven of his famous
show dogs and sent them to France
with American Red Cross units. At
several places throughout the country
war dogs are being trained for Uncle
Sam.
Probably the biggest dog camp thus
for established is at Allentown. Pa.
This formerly was training camp for
police dogs. These dogs are being
trained differently than were the first
European war dogs.
They used to be taught to bark
when they found a wounded man"
said Miss Anne P Tracy today, cor to
bring back bit of the mans cloth
ing to the stretcher bearers. But bark
ing drew the enemy's fire and the dogs
often tore at bandages on wounded
mems arms and legs. We are train
ing our dogs merely to return to the
lstretcher bearers and lead them to
the wounded"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
TWO MILLION PEOPLE
CHEER PARADE OF TROOPS

avenue. Difference was paid to rela'
tiyes of the march;;s men VINO were
supplied with sp cial identifying
badges.
Major General Organ led the
march through a broad lane, walled
with cheering humanity. The roar OF
hundreds of thousands, shouting and
excitedly waving flags, at times al
most drowned out the bands. Here
and there a woman darted from the
crowd and marched a short distance
beside her boy in the ranks. Groups
of little girls threw flowers at the
fe2T of the troops.
It took five hours for the grand re-
view to pass a given point. Every
branch Of the service, except avla-
tfon. was represented. Infantrymen
swung steadily along, rank on rank,
wearing their blanket rolls and all
their field paraphernalia.
Governor Whitman, Mayor Mitchei
and other officials reviewed the pa
rade at the Union League club on she
srni where many another great out-
nourinp of Americas youth has been
nHciaIIv witnessed. Civil war veter-
ans and other honored guests occupied
q Grand stand in front of the pubnc
library.
Numerous private stands appeared
a1ong the line of march early today
and were soon filled at five a seat
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Washburn is Exempted.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. !
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-Bryan T.
Washburn, "the man who was afraid
in the film play of that name, today
won a reprieve in his fight to avoid
going to war.
Exemption board No. So on recon
sideration of its recent exemption of
Washburn on grounds of dependency,
returned a sealed verdict, upholding
It's action. The case now goes to the
district appeal board and federal Of
ficials have announced they will
make a strong effort to reverse the
ruling
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Ehoice of Peace This Winter or Two More
Years Of War, With Crushing Defeat
at the End
|A|SER MUST Be STRIPPED OF POWER
PRESIDENT Wilson's Reply to Pope's Peace Mes
sage Points to Path Which Leads
to Happiness.

significant. He pointed out that the
German government made such prom
1ses to America-only to break them
| later. Others, however, thought Ger
many saw the handwriting on the
wall and was easing up on her U
| boat contest so as to get some moral
phere.
That she is looking to trade after
the war is considered obvious.
Russia, despite her enormous
struggle to keep weakening forces in
line, is heartened by the presidents
note, which, diplomats feel makes
Russia and the United States virtual
arbters of peace. The answer, it is
felt, may crush the last traces Of
separate peace talk in Russia
Meantime allieo diplomats gave
their word that their nations agree
with President Wilson as to aban-
donment of ideas Of post bellum
trade war. They said that if Ger
manys claws are clipped such wars
will be unnecessary except in isolated
instances. On the whole, however,
observers here saw in Wilson'S ex-
preston a notice to Germany that
she will get fair trade deal after
the war and sign that Amreica and
the allies realize blunder was COM
mitted in notifying Germany she
would be commercially crushed no
matter how the war ended. A GER
tain suspicion must attach to Ger
man business after the war, it is
pointed out, but under the presidents
ideas Germany can re-establish her
trade If she will remove from it the
taint of kaiserism.
One Paper Does Not Agree.
LONDON, Aug. 3O.-British news,
papers searched for adjectives and
superlatiyes today in which to ex-
press admiration and complete ap-
proval of President Wilson's reply to
the pope The only feeble note OF
difference with the presidents doc
trine. was sounded in the Northcliffe
newspapers They agreed with every
other feature Of the reply except
President Wilson's "acquittal Of the
German people from any responsible
ity for the war;
The Northcliffe editorials pointed
out this was incompatible" with the
fact that the German people accepted
the war enthusiastically and have
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Father Wants His Boy.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, Aug. 30.-Andrew Dudler,
OF ST. Louis, Mo-, started suit in cir
cult court today to obtain possession
Of his five year old son Michael.
Michael's mother is alleged to have
eloDed with Andrew Matos in July,
1914, taking the boy with her. Dudler
obtained a divorce and started a
search for Michael. He is said to have
found the boy, his mother and Matos
last night. He began habeas corpus
proceedings today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Princess Is in Jail.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, Aug. 30-"Princess'
Alma Kalamaka of the Sandwich Is
lands, whose bank book shows she has
a fortune of $4,000, languished in a
police cell today because she refused
to pay a taxi-pirate fifty cents for
four block ride.
The princess" was enroute from
New York to San Francisco, where she
intended to embark for home. Her
father, she said, is chief Of police of
HilO Hawaii.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Movie Theatre Srtike.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
DETROIT, Mich, Aug. 30.-Strike
of operators, musicians, stage hands
in Detroit movie theatres loomed as
possibility today following demand
Of the workers for wage increases.
An agreement between the unions
and the theatres expires on Septem-
Der 1 and the men threaten to go
out at that time.
The unions are asking the follow
ing scale:
Operators S34 a week instead of
SGT. now paid. Musicians $35 instead
of S29. Stage hands $50.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Having Attained Dominance of Bainsizza
Plateau, Now Start on Second Inn
portant Stage.
EXPECT SOON TO CAPTURE TRIESTE
British Operations on West Front Hampered
Today by Heavy Rain Storm
Battlefield.
SAM CRumania) today. the war of1ce

SAM CRumania) today. the war Office
announced
1--WE extended our success OF yes
terday" the statement said, "and
pressed the enemy back from Iresti
over the heights northward in the
direction of the Susita valley. We
took 800 prisoners"
Russians Deserving.
PETROGRAD, Aug. 30.-Two more
Russian regiments ANONYMOUSLY de-
serted 1le front lines east of Ireshti
(Rumanian 'front.' today's official
statement reported. The Teutonic
armies gained there.
"The enemy dislodged us Tuesday
and in the course of the battle yes
terday which continued. two OF our
regiments abandoned their positions,
the statement said. "One after
wards dispersed
Russia's Determination.
LONDON, Aug. 30.-The Russian
provisional government has decided on
partial re-establishment of the death
penalty to restore discipline in the
army, according to Central News dis
patch received today from Moscow.
The cable quoted Premier Kerensky
as making the announcement to the
Russian conference concluding:
This hurts us to the very soul. but
for the salvation Of the country we will
kill with all our SOUL"
Todays War Map.
While the senate in Washington
wrangled over gigantic program to
raise money for the war and officials,
resting on President Wilson's de-
clination of the pope's peace sugges-
ton, speeded up on all war prepara-
tions, the first of Americas militia
soldiers were bade Godspeed on their
way to France These were 10000
New York militiamen. The greatest
assemblage of people that the biggest
city in the world ever turned out for
parade, wept at the spectacle or hys-
terically cheered the trim, grim, kha-
ki-clad lines The farewell was un-
der the war departments sanction.
The 1000 men may not have another
chance to say goodbye. They go to
camp and some day, weeks or months
hence, will quietly board transports
for France.
In Washington the senate was
threatened with cloture by Senator
Simmons, of the finance committee to
Continued on page 2)
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
W W Pickets Disapnear.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service.j
ABERDEEN, Wash, Aug. 30.-1.
W. w. pickets at local lumber mills
and ship building yards disappeared
entirely today. Under. the protection
of federal troops lumber workers
and ship builders are returning to
their old jobs. The ]. w. w. agita-
ton evidently has failed completely.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Next Meetino at Frisco.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Aug. 30.-San
Francisco was chosen today as the
next meeting place Of the American
Federation of Catholic societies.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Mrs. Walsh Is Dead.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service ]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-Mrs.
Thomas J. Walsh. wife of the Junior
senator from Montana, died today in
Baltimore hospital, following an
illness of many weeks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Rain Hampers Operations.

LONDON, Aug. 3O.-Further British
operations on the west front were
hampered by heavy rain storm to,
day. All Field Marshal Haig reported
was enemy artillery fire in the Nieu-
port sector (Flanders.)
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
American Schooner Sunk.

LONDON, Aug. 3O.-Siuking of the
American schooner Laura G. Ander-
son, by bombs yesterday was an
nounced by the admiralty today. The
crew was landed at Portsmouth.
The Laura c.. Anderson was wood
four masted schooner of 961 tons,
owned by A. D. Cummins and com
panv and registered at Philadelphia.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30

German Official Report.
BERLIN, Aug. 80. (Via London.)- y
Further successes marked progress
of German troops northwest of Foe
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
Italians Drive Back Enemy.

ROME, Aug. 3O.-Italian troops on
the Bainsizza plateau drove back in
bloody repulse counter attacking Aus
trians, today's official report de-
clared. All enemy attempts to recap
ture positions were fruitless. Italian
forces took SCI prisoners.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, Aug. 30.-Italy's victor
ious offensive reached it's second and
most important stage today. Having
attained practical dominance of the
Bainsizza plateau, General Cardorna'
troops began vast thanking move
ment northward Tolmino Is the I'M
mediate objective Of this drive.
Front dispatches today indicated the
Italian troops were forging ahead and
had arrived almost before the pre-
liminary line defenses of this Aus
trian city At the same time another
Italian army reached out beyond
Montecxo for a coincidental drive
eastward on the same city.
Rome cables told OF further prog
ress gained east on the plateau to-
word the Chiapoyano valley. 1t Is
through this gap that one of the
main arteries of Austrian communi-
cation between the northern and
southern arrnies-the latter guarding
Trieste-is run. A victory here will
be of vast strategic Importance.
All dispatches today emphasized
the ferocity of the fighting in the
Bainsizza sector The Austrians are
offering desperate resistance.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30

The Telegraph Service Of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu-
toni Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30
THE WEATHER

Fair and warner. Local temp
u p. III. ~; z a. m. go.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30

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The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-12-13
REAL WAR NEEDED.

We know that we are at war with Ger
many because we have contributed to the
Y. M. C. A., the Red Cross, have raised
two Liberty Loans and sent food, coal
and several hundred thousand men across
the ocean. We are apparently now wax
ing up to the fact that we have one or
two million German and Austrian enemies
fighting US actively but more or less in
secrecy, right here in our midst. We
have been unpardonably slow in dealing
with these people. The time and the
crisis now demand that the President,
Congress and the people should deal sum-
marily, sternly and effectively with the
enemy within our gates. Germany is at
war with us both here and lover there. )"
If she ever has the opportunity and the
power she will treat us as she has her
enemies elsewhere. Belgium had not in
jured or affronted Germany. She stood
in the way of Germany's subjugation OF
France, and look at the ruthless way
the treaty with Germany was pushed
aside as a worthless scrap of paper,
her cities razed, her fields devastated,
her able bodied men made slaves IN
the rear of German lines and her wom-
en- given over to the passions OF her
officers. We were not at war with Ger
many when the Lusitania was sunk but
that crime was celebrated by the Huns as
a triumph of German efficiency. We
have had enough of hesitancy, enough of
leniency. The l. W. w. should be sifted
and the guilty and the suspects should 60
to France and be put to work under guard
behind the lines of the Allies. The Aus
TRAN and other Alien suspects should be
under guard building roads in this country
or in France. The German merchants and
men of wealth in this country who are
caught with the proofs of their treason,
as was one of them in Boston the other
day, should be interned and the wealth
which he has acquired in this country
should be confiscated and used for the
benefit of the nation which he has done
his best to injure. The incendiaries, the
dynamiters, the leaders of the German
propaganda, and every spy who can be
caught should be dealt with not by the
slow process of statute law but by martial
law. We know what Germany is and what
Germans are. We know they are at war
against us. Let us from now on make
real war against them wherever they or
their Allies are to be found
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-12-13
MORE AIR.

More fresh air in the schoolroom and
the office and the home will materially
decrease the number of colds, according
to the State Department of Health. Most
sickness comes in the winter and one
great reason for this is the tendency to
give up the outdoor life when the wealth.
er is cold When people are1 shut up to-
gether in air-tight houses they can easily
exchange infections, as it were, and with
the reduced vitality which indoor life oc-
casions there is little to stop the spread
of colds and other ailments.
The slogan of "More Fresh Air" means
different things to different people; to
some it means getting out of doors for a
limited time during the day and then 60
ing back to the alright compartment
again; to others ''More Fresh Air" means
the letting of outdoor air into the living
and sleeping rooms; to still Others, "More
Fresh Air" means combination of out
door life and of perfect ventilation in the
home and office. To these latter, the
slogan becomes daily guard against in
lection and illness.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-12-13
A Use for Old Kid Gloves.

If you have any old kid gloves send
them to the headquarters of the New
England Division of the American Red
Cross, 755 Boylston St.. where they will
be used to make kid-lined vests for the
men in the advanced trenches in France.
Such vests, or jackets, have been made
by the British Red Cross for the '"Tom-
mics" and have been found to be of the
utmost value, and the very best protec-
ton from exposure.
This movement has been started in the
interests of the American Soldiers at
the suggestion of Mrs. August Belmont
who says:
''The British army is provided with
sweater coats and such like but these are
not enough for the men in the front
trenches during the cold weather. So
here in England they started movement
for the making of leather jackets out of
old gloves-because of the scarcity of
leather These have turned out to be
the very things the men needed as they
are more pliable than leather.
They advertised for old kid gloves and
there was an immediate response. The
gloves are first cleaned, then cut up and
fitted to pattern. 1t is patch work and
machine stitched. They also asked for
old fur which they disinfect and use in
much the same way for Jackets for avia-
tors"
Arrangements have already been made
for the cleaning of all gloves sent to the
New England headquarters. After they
have been cleaned they will be sent to
the Divisional Chapter with full explana-
lions and patterns So look up some old
kid gloves at once.
The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-12-13
Trust Companies.

The Trust Companies in Maine have
resources of S1O2, 156, 238.87, a gain of
SIS, OF, 426. "a or "a per cent over last
year according to the 18th annual edition
of Trust Companies of the United
States" just published by the United
States Mortgage & Trust Company of
New York
The 1917 book, which is now being dis
tributed consists of about 600 pages and
contains wealth of interesting figures
and data. Resources, detailed state
ments, names of officers and directors,
stock quotations, etc, are given for
more than 1000 companies
In the preface, John w. Platten, Presi-
dent of the United States Mortgage &
Trust Company, says in part:
"The figures for the year ending June
30, 1917, show total resources to be near
ly SO, 600, 900, 900, an increase of more than
81, 300, O0O 900, or II percent over last year.
For the tive-year period Trust Company
resources have increased nearly 50, $780,
900, 600, or upwards of 60 per cent.
''The yearly summing up, therefore,
affords cause for the utmost satisfaction
on the part of the Trust Companies of
the country and the rapidly growing
clientele served by them"