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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-10-05

Things manifest need no proof.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-10-05

Miss Elizabeth MARYLAND is the only
woman surgeon In the British army.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1917-10-05

FOR sALE-Maine Grown Cobbler Seed
Potatoes, Spring delivery. Write for prices
A. s Seeley. Commerce St. Norfolk. Va.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
CONSIDER PERsH1EG's MEN.

! General Pershing and his gallant Twelve
thousand have been in Mexico long enough TO
vote there; and some of them long enough 10
die there as occasional reports have shown. As
soldiers they might have achieved much In the
way of safety for Americans and peace TOT
Mexico but as wooden men on checkerpoard
of leisurely diplomacy they have achieved
nothing. Villa, the bandit whom they were
sent forth to capture or kill, is a hundred times
more powerful than ever, threatening the or
ganized government Of Mexico more seriously
every day. President Wilson, whose policy
they are serving, has failed to gain ground. and
American lives as insecure American
traditions as unmended, as at the time of Mr.
Wilson's first venture toward paclhylng
Mexico.
1t is rumored from Washington that the
Pershing army is to be brought home It is ru-
mored from Mexico that the army is III danger
of attack by superior forces. A withdrawal
he has sought over American purposes, and
will dignity Villa; also it will be a confession
of American failure to enforce rule of safety
for Americans in Mexico, Texas and Arizona.
But the American failure is so plain that
the confession at this late day would be harm
less The United States government has
bungled in Mexico. It bungled in deposing
Huerta, bungled in efevating Carranza, bun
gled in arming the Mexicans, bungled in the
punitive expedition. Another bungle would be
to sacrifice Pershing's twelve thousand and
fight Mexico for defending her own sover-
eighty.
Why not withdraw. from Mexico, protect
our own borders, and hope that enough killing
will be done in the rising Mexican revolution
to satisfy Mexico and leave her territory less
thickly settled with armed imbiciles7
That would be the true hands off policy. We
could continue it at least until some European
power forced us to do something more active.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
NORRIS HOME THRUST.

Sometimes truth hobs up in unexpected
places, and who would look for an exposition
of national wisdom on the part of a performer
In New York Winter Garden showi Be-
sides being interrogative,- the previous sen
tence is meant to be EXPLANATORY. William
Norris, who furnished much Of the fun at Fri
day night IS offering of ga World of Pleasure"
at the Grand Opera house, reused the patriotic
fervor of the audience by his recitation of a
poem depicting the unfortunate results Of a
careless conception of the value to the country
Of preparedness. It was the only serious note
in a medley of fun and frolic, and it was wei
timed and effective.
We may hope and believe that an age is
dawning for the world when war will be the
last concern of civilized states But it may
well be some years in coming. and common pru-
dence dictates that we should be reasonably
well prepared to resist aggression, and not in
vite it by weakness, wealth and Indifference.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

is IMPORTANT
Or. @. X. Summer, Secretary Of State
Health Board, Claims Il 10
Preventive Of Smallpox.

AS result of an outbreak of small
pox in Iowa cities, DR.. Guilford II.
Sumner. secretary Of the state board
OF health, just recently announced
the following bulletin regarding the
effects OF the disease:
Two methods are being adopted to
obtain immunity from smallpox.
There is one class OF people who
have adopted the method discovered
in 1896. and known as vaccination.
AS rule, those people who adopt
this method are for the most part in
favor of adopting preventive means,
many Of them are college graduates,
and large percentage OF them be-
long to the successful and influential
part of our citizenship. In health
matters these people believe that an
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
OF cure; q foresight counts as mucn
ii the preservation of their health.
This class OF our people here in Iowa
regard smallpox as a disgrace and
as blessing.
The other class are not afraid Of
smallpox, in fact they have adopted
smallpox to immunize themselves to
Making up this part OF
the population, we find a large per-
centage Of people not we'll informed,
and scarcity Of college graduates
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
DON'T SUFFER
WITH NEURALGIA
Musterole Gives Delicious Comfort

When those sharp pains go shooting
through your head, when your skull
seems as if it would split, Just rub 2.
little Musterole on the temples and
neck. 1t draws out the Inflammation,
soothes away the pain, usually giving
quick relief.
Musterole is a clean, white ONT
ment, made with oil of mustard:
Better than . mustard plaster and
does not blister.
Many doctors and nurses frankly
recommend Musterole for sore throat,
bronchitis, Group, stiff neck, asthma
neuralgia, congestion. p1eurisy, rheu..
matism,. lnmbago, pains and aches OF
the back or joints, sprains, sore mus
cles, bruises, chilbiains, frosted feet
colds of the chest (it often prevents
pneumonia). It is always dependable
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

and successful and influential citi-,
zens. At best these people just be-
lieve in an ounce of prevention, but
..s!s. On buying full pound of cure.
1--WE are continually getting letters
and inquiries from some sympathetic
persons who bemoan the fact that
the people in their communities are
suffering from smallpox. Now. these
people do not have to have smallpox
and II they do not know that vacct-
nation will prevent smallpox. then
they fare just exactly one hundred
and twenty years behind time, be-
cause that is when the discovery OF
the preventive power Of vaccination
MA. made, I'm the year 1875. Really,
we think people that are so far be-
hind the procession or, IL they. do not
know better. arc so Negligent, deserve
a nice little case OF smallpox. The
only thing that worries the Iowa
state board Of health is the children
(and for their sakes we believe that
parents should look to the vaccina'
ton of their children). The grown
sf person that gets the smallpox de
serves 1t and the state board OF
health is not wasting a bit of sym,
pathy on him. II it doesn't kill him."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
SAYS II IS STICKY
BUT WA0W|LL CARE
Cincinnati man tells how TO shrivel
up corns % they
lIft out.

Ouch 2! -. This kind OF rough
talk will be heard less here in town II
people troubled with corns will follow
the simple advice OF this Cincinnati
authority, who claims that a few
drops 9: 6 drug called freoxone when
applied TO . tender. aching corr. stops
soreness at once and soon the corn
dries up and lifts right out without
pain.
He says freezone Is a sticky sub
stance which dries. Immediately and
never inflames or even irritates the
surrounding tissue or skin. A quarter
of an ounce, which will cost very
little at any drug store Is said to be
sufficient to remove every hard OF
soft corn OF callus from ones feet
Millions of American women will
welcome this announcement since the
Inauguration OF the high heels.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
Filthy Play. Denounced.

Leslies: Filth! When the bishop
of London attacked immoral plays
recently he spoke in defense Of the
morals OF every city and every home.
Having Just said that shooting was
too good a punishment for a white
SLAYER the bishop declared: "Side by
side with the male hawk as a traitor
to- his country is the man or woman
who writes lecherous and Shiny
plays" The male hawk" deals with
vice at first land and fattens upon
the shame of helpless girls. The
writer's of immoral plays subtly sow
the seed Of vicious suggestion in the.
minds of thousands of youth of both
sexes. It is a disgrace to the theatri-
cal world that this paper or any other
should have TO publish for the pro-
lection Of it's readers a list of plays
to which a woman may be taken
with safety. The bishop Of London
would like to see the writer's of filthy
plays dealt with by the law, and
would have The managers stand for
punishment 1T the same time. The
answer of the playwright and man.
ager is that they give the public
what they want, or what writer and
manager think they want. Without
resorting to law or courts. an aroused
public sentiment can drive any OBJ
jectionable play from the boards
And the stage would need no better
censor than this to keep indecent
plays from even appearing once.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
The Chicago DIET
Squad, succe eded 4.

Squad succeeded AL
cutting down the average
cost of each meal to 8-II
cents II sPits Of the high
cost Of foods. And the
squad waked fat and hearty.
The most expensive foods
arc generally the least nu.|
tritious. Two SHREDDED
Wheel Biscuits with mill
make q perfect meal, con-
tanning all the nutriment
any man or woman needs
for q half days work and at
q cost Of four or Eve cents,
Shredded Wheat has a! the
Bodybuilding material IN
the whole wheat grain In q
digestible form. For break
fast with milk or cream, or
for any meal with fruits.
Made in NiagaraF Falls, N. Y.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
Black Wedding.

United Press Leased Wire Seryice.I
NEW YORK, Jan. 8.-Enter the
black wedding.
When pretty Eleanor Klinger,
fashion model, and Ore Cne. fashion
designer, are wed here January 20,
they will be clad entirely In black
Black is artistic and serviceable, they
say.
The groom WILL wear black suit,
shirt, collar an gloves. also the bride.
A black servant win serve the wed.
ding breakfast of blackberry cock
tails, black bass. black bread, black
coffee. They Will honeymoon on the
Black Diamond express.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
Refused Chicago Pulpit

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO. Jsn. 8.-Rev. Chas. F.
Aked, former San Francisco and New
York pastor, rejected an offer OF the
New First Congregational pastorate
here after touring the district.
IT'S not central enough and don't
like the district" he said.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
PROFITS OF big BUSINESS.

There is no subject upon which there has
been more persistent misrepresentation than
that Of the profits of so-called 'big business -
A case in point: Profits of the beef packers, or
'sbeef trust E. A. Cudahy, president Of the
Cudahy Packing company Of Chicago, in his
report Of the operations Of the corporation for
the fiscal year ending October twenty eight,
last, shows that all sales amounted to $133,96O,-
9S6, and that the net profits were 1901 AS,
or about % per cent. the turnover. He
says that of the sales about $24,OOOOO0 were of
products dealt in and not derived from the
animals slaughtered, including butter and
eggs, cheese and cotton-seed oil products, such
as soaps, cleanser, glycerine, etc. Upon
dressed beef the profit during the year was less
than one-fourth of one cent per pound Mr.
Cudahy says:
In the marketing of fresh quite
possible TO make very extensive profit.
With exception of rel atively small amount,
vantageous marketing. practically all fresh meat
must be sold at the point to which it is shipped
condition may govern at the time. 1t
held to await favorable The cured
meats and other animal products
distributed wellknovn and we'll
established trade brands reason can
be marketed better advantage fresh
meats There is demand for hides, cured
enables to select the favorable time and
place Tor their disposition In our operations,
a very great extent to production
in other products
In fact the packers practically colec-
ton agents OF the farmer. Our of
taken in from the sale of all products derived
from animals, eighty cents has o farm
er Out of the remaining twenty of
dollar, seven cents has been paid he
Garner, five cents for freight and four cents for
other materials needed and in
the preparation Of the goods for sale, as for in
stance, salt, used in curing boxes, barrels tin
) etc Out of the remaining cents there
have been paid interest. taxes Insurance repairs
+ and all such items. residue not quite
+ two cents per dollar applies net profits
of the company.
/ These figures go to show how fallacious is
the contention of those opposed to business ex-
!, pansion that, large corporations necessarily
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
TODAY,S BIT OF VERSE
STAND FOUR-SQUARE

STAND FOUR-SQUARE.
Stand four-square to the world for praise or blame
{ Deserve but touch no guerdon
Name and fame,
Titles and useless wealth. leave them to them
Who can be paid thereby. Such be not thou!
True work. true love, spare the laureled brow:
The great greatest with no dladem
Sebastian Evans.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

COuncl Bulls hepODuCAu. AiIeauy
the demands for higher salaries and
more offices bas reached Des Moines.
with the meeting of the legislature
still week la the future. The dis
trict judges who now draw $500,
are going to ask FOR substantial In
creases, and there is to be an effort
t. relieve the judges of the supreme
court of their too much work. ALL
the state officers are asking for in
creases. So you see the new gov
ernor may have some difficulty in
cutting down taxes.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Poor Maize
Colbert. No doubt, she had enjoyed
some publicity. had seen herself in
print. and perhaps she had hopes,
perhaps she nourished an ambition to
break into the hrst pages and the
editorial columns of many papers. II
30, she succeeded. But had she
known the price that she would have
ID pay. she would surely have cast
away that foolish hope. She would
have been content to live in obscurity
ever after, rather than to pay the
price that she had to pay in order
that she might win a bit of fame.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The bust
ness of inspecting hotels cost Iowa
only 81, 1884 for, the biennial period,
but of this amount S2.286.60 was
actually spent ar the hotels for meals
and rooms, SO that the inspectors
must have amassed information
worth the other $12.352.34.
Sioux City Journal: If you don't
feel like reducing the quality OF your
rations, you might try reducing the
quantity. All hygenists agree that
oyereating is at the bottom of most
Of the stomach trouble that is now
making business for the doctors. BY
cutting down the quantity of the food
consumed you will not only cheat the
doctors and druggists out of their
fees. but you will be reducing the In
flation which the increasing cost OF
things has been putting into your
meat and grocery bills. Isn't plan
b. which you can save both money
and discomfort worth trying?
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: A court
MAS ruled that an egg sold as fresh
must be fresh. But what does fresh
mean? Will the court apply its rule
of reason in cases of this kind?
Upton Advertiser: Upton is get
ting ready to give warm and gem
erous welcome to her boys who have
been guarding the border. The fact
that these boys were not compelled
to engage in active warfare takce
nothing from the credit which Is
theirs. When we said goodbye to
them SIX months ago the outlook was
for a long end bloody war wi.h
Mexico, and their patriotism in re-
spending to the call was just the
same as though that war had follow
ed We are all glad the boys are
coming home without loss or casualty
of any kind. and that the community
was worthily represented in what
seemed at the time to be real ma
donal emergency.
Marion Register: The 'Thi:d
House." composed of lobbyists and
interested" visitors, promises to be
a large one in Des Moines this
winter.
Sioux City Tribune: Just for a
change why not discuss protection"
for consumers? Manufa cturers are
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
A Short Cut.

Louisville Courier-Journal: One
way to get prominent Is to move to
a smaller town.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

Harvard's president in referring to the May
flower as an immigrant ship, invited letter
of sympathy from Secretary Baker
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

Wanted-A new name and a catchy slogan
for the Danish West Indies.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

IT IS only by labor that thought can be
made healthy, and only by thought that Ia
Dor can be made happy, and the two cannot
be separated with impunity.-Ruskin.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

draw down excessive profits. There is truth
in the admonition slive and let live, ana
s.big business recognizes that even as 90 the
"small fry
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

If there is a crooked employee in the state de-
partment he should be dragged forth and pun
ished-talked to death by Tom Lawson, per-
haps.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

A bill for food supervision is all right, blu
looking at the food isn't what the people want
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08
LIVING COST ABROAD.

In the two years ending September, 1916,
the cost of living in England rose sixty five
per cent. Wages were never before so high,
but the prices Of meats have outstripped them,
these having increased from fifty to ninety
per cent. The only satisfaction the Britisher
gets out of the situation is the reflection that
the rise has been one hundred and ninety-eight
per cent. in the central empires, and that beef
prices in Vienna have risen three hundred and
forty-four per cent.
But the people are making jest of it, are
eating about one-sixth less meat than former
ly and are receiving favorably the suggestion
of one meatless day week. The stay -at-homes
are cheerfully willing "to do their btu by self
denial and sing light heartedly how "Mary
had little lamb, and very little too,' mas
much as the price was about thirty seven cents
pound. The one commodity that is pretty
much out of the reach of many people is sugar,
the rise in price of which has been one hundred
and sixty-three per cent Granuated sugar
formerly nine cents pound is now twenty
five, and is so scarce that grocers decline to sell
it unless other purchases are made. Some
grocers offer to sell a pound of sugar with
every pound Of tea, with the result that the
tea chest in the average family is Overlooking,
while the sugar box is bare.
And yet on the whole the general condition
of the country and the people appears to be
more prosperous as result of the war. Wages
are substantially higher; and while there has
been no all-around increase keeping pace with
the rise in living cost, there is said to be total
absence of the pitiful chronic distress and slum
life wretchedness of three years ago. There
is employment for everybody. The industrial!
Stacker has gone to the front where the army
is making man of him, and hundreds Of
thousands of women working now who
never worked before
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

Rumors that Colonel House may become sec
rotary of state are plausible. A man who can
serve as secretary of all creation is worthy of a
place in the cabinet, surely.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

Saccharfne is 220 times sweeter than
cane sugar.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

To like mans motives but to doubt his ability 70
carry any of through than to doubt
his motives certain that whatever they are ne
will force them resoiute bad is frequently
better than vaeIIatins good man.-Roy Norton
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

Sioux City Tribune: Just for
change why not discuss protection"
for consumers? Manufacturers are
able to protect themselves, usually
with extra margins of profits.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

Marion Register: The "Thi:t
House." composed of lobbyists ant
interested visitors, promises to b.
a large one in Des Moines this
winter.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

Increased Orders for New Equipment.
The increase in the purchase OF
new equipment was much greater
relatively than the Increase in new
construction. The following table
gives the numbers of cars and loco
motives ordered by the railways OF
the United States within the last
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-08

These figures go to show how fallacious is
the contention of those opposed to business ex-
pansion that large corporations necessarily
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-15
Many Submarines
LOST Thru Netting; =
325 In Operation

Amsterdam, via London. May 10
The Germans have about 325 subma-
rines in operation and about so to 100
have been lost thru British nets alone,
according to the TELEGRAPH, which
prints an interview with member of
the crew of the submarine U-5S. This
Is the submarine which sank the Dutch
grain ships in February.
The U-5S Is commanded by Capt.
Count Won Plaetau According to the
interview the submarine discharged
three or four torpedoes against the
Dutch ships and then zig-z Jagged be-
tween them sinking with bombs and
shell fire.
when at sea the submarines as
semble at given point every morning
and receive instructions by wireless.
presumably from Helgolani. There are
about thirty nine U-boats OF the new
type, each carrying a crew Of sixty
men, and this squadron Is supple
mented by secondary squadron
marked C-class.
Two thirds of their crews are ex-
perienced and one-third novices The
boats carry fortnight's stores and
have maximum period Of submerg-
ence Of from eight to ten hours. Each
is equipped with two periscopes and
sometimes descend from 80 to so