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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24
There must be a wonderful soothing pow
er in mere words, since SO many men have
used them for self ornmunion.-Conrad.
SOME Do1NGs AT DEs MONIES.

Should the teachers of Iowa and those who
would recognize the fulfillment Of duty con-
tinue the fight, the two defeats suffered by the
bill providing for pensions for the teachers may
yet, and at no distant day we hope, turn into vic
tory by acquiring sufficient votes in the legisla-
ture to insure its passage. The present general
assembly disposed of teachers pension legisla-
for the session when the house defeated the
Shortless annuity bill by vote of fifty-four to
fifty-three.
Resubmission of the amendment to the state
constitution granting woman suffrage is prac-
ticaiiy assured by passage Of the joint resoiu-
ton for submission by the senate. The vote
was thirty-five to thirteen The house will in
all probability take similar action within a
week The passage of the resolution by both
houses will put it up to the next general assem-
bly, whether or not another election upon the
suffrage question is to be held. The state con-
stitution requires submission by two consecu-
tive general assemblies before the vote is taken
by the people.
So, the women of Iowa have won prelilnin-
airy victory.
A fool bill to apply the injunction to the pres
ent libel laws has been killed in the senate
judiciary committee. The majority of this
committee appears to be composed of men who
have some sense. Warfare against Iowa news
papers and their publishers is form of terror
ism which seems to be in high favor among GER
tain of the legislators at Des Moines There
are other bills, either on Legislative files or in
process of making that have for their aim
policy of annoyance in which to engulf
publishers. Newspapermen have long mem
cries, and will not forget
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

one-half of all the girls pe'y Work
1e and 20 years old IN Nv are
state work for wages, ana lne in
in all 3,6S3,610 working Woii'
the state.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Burlington Gazette: Truth for
ever on the scaffold wrong forever on
the throne"-but II this stuff keeps up
there won't be any throne.
Sioux City Journal There is some
sense in the suggestion that the teach
ers be given generous increase in
salary instead of a pension. There
are plenty Of teachers who would pre-
fer to get what is coming to them in
that way. Tho objection to the sug-
gestion is that the teachers salary is
local issue and cannot be made a
state ISSUE If the state as whole
is to do anything for the teachers 1t
nuity system. 1t Is not mere theory
that something can be done for the
teachers in this way. 1t has been
done in almost three-fourths of the
states, and it will be done In Iowa
eventually.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: President
Wilson is permitting himself to be
gently pushed along, without distinct
leadership. 1t is the easiest way in,
but 1t may not always prove the cas-
lest way out OF troubles. And when
we once get in it will take leadership
Of a high order. We will need Gen
eral Grant before we get through. The
man who might have become the new
Grant died recently at San Antonio.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Apparently,
the teachers have again lost out in
their fight for pension law. How
ever. there is no reason for feeling
discouraged. Iowa prides herself up
On being conservative in many re-
spects. 1t will come in time, and per.
haps the Iowa legislature wants to
make record and have the Hawkeye
state to be among the very last to
grant what all right-minded people
know to be a fair request.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Southern
gardeners are being paid Sc the pound
for turnips, which goes to show that
water as beverage has won a place
In regular quotations.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The old
topic of Which was the greater man,
Washington or Lincoln?" for popular
debate may now be replaced by did
the supreme court give it's decision
on the Adamson law under compul-
Sion?'
Des Moines Tribune: An eastern
contemporary, evidently laboring I'M
der great excitement, suggests that
since onions are so high it might be
good idea to get along without them.
The very idea!
Waterloo Courier: Some of Iowa's
Ia vscv1 &Nrn
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24
NO ST. HELENA FOR HIM.

Somebody has sent to The Gate City an open
letter to the kaiser calling attention to certain
advantages of st. Helena as a place OF resi-
dence for an elderly person who has played his
part upon the world stage and might profltably
pass in reflective quiet his few remaining years
The island, the Prussian autocrat is told, is
a pretty eight by ten earth speck In the South
Atlantic, seven hundred miles from Ascension
island, it's nearest neighbor, and one thousand
two hundred miles from the African mainland
It's Cliffs one thousand feet in height, afford
sea view which cannot fail to be enhancing to
one who longs for a free ocean SO passionatey
as does the kaiser. Standing there man prob
ably would never see a submarine torpedoing
merchant vessel, that ocean being one Of the
freest in the known world. Neither would the
lheartrending cries of I'M ured and drowning
men, women children and babes reach his ears.
Another advantage of residence there is the
perfect security afforded Being more than
four thousand miles from England and even
further from Belgium, the kaiser would not
have to lie awake nights or roll restlessly IN
bed with his spurs on gun beneath his pillow
and a sword nearby, fearful that those two ma
tons would treacherously attack him as they
did two and a half years ago. Nor must the
climate, salubrious and. temperate, be over
looked Longwood, where Napolean died in
1921 is a farmhouse on plain two thousand
feet high England having given it to the
French, and while they doubtless would decline
Ito let the kaiser use it lest Napoleon should
kick the lid of his tomb off in his disgust,
there are places near where wholesome, simple
board can be obtained And the kaiser would
find a congenial society on the island, since it
was originally settled by pirates and some of
their descendants remain there to this day. All
these suggestions are from the correspondent
who has used this paper as medium OF COM
municaton between Keokuk and Berlin.
The correspondents suggestions are of in
terest but there is not the remotest probability
that the kaiser will ever get a glimpse of that
historic isle. History does not repeat itself so
closely as that. The great Napoleon, command
ing intellect, architect of his own fortunes and
most extraordinary military genius of recorded
time, stands in class by himself, and the Prus-
sian war lord of today is in no wise comparable
with him. There are some who think that the
logical fate to which the kaiser is hurrying IS
!dethronement insanity or death; and there are
some who would not be surprised if this year
brought him some of these things or all OF
them. But no st. Helena awaits him, we may
be sure of that.
D.r4o, ,-op,or :, e,,;p .. Cor dyoroo On Tho
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

a freak Of nature to attract ,rnd q
has but little upon which to
claim for patronage.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

Waterloo Courier: Some of Iowa
legislators appear to find highway leg
islation an impossible barrier.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

affairs mental affairs the bright Ideas OF
today realities tomorrow. The real history OF
mankind Is the history Of how Ideas have arisen how they
have taken possession Of mans minds, how they havs
struggled, altered proerated decayed There Is moth
Ing In this all conflict of ideas, traditions
and mental habits.-H. G. Wells.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

Des Moines Tribune: An eastern
contemporary, evidently laboring I'M
der great excitement, suggests that
since onions are so high 1t might be
good idea to get along without them.
The very idea!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

Some people don't know an overt act when
they see it, and others refuse to see 1t when
they know it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

The Stars and Stripes proved a flag of truce
Al. IxraP
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

A Boston woman is suing for divorce on the
ground that her husband has not taken her to
a movie show in five years The example OF
other women who go, and let their husbands
come home to wonder why dinner is not ready,
seems to have been lost on her.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

IF the Mexicans must have revolutl
commend them to the Russian variety,
ough and quickly completed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

Admiral Sato proudly announces tina
controls the Pacific. What's boone
three United States gunboats we used
out there?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

Burlington Gazette: Truth TOT.
ever on the scaffold wrong forever on
the throne"-but II this stuff keeps up
there won't be any throne.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The old
topic of Which was the greater man,
Washington or Lincoln?" for popular
debate may now be replaced by did
the supreme court give it's decision
on the Adamson law under compul-
sion?''
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

Perhaps the threat Of another railr
was given because the supreme court
a move on in handing down that decisi
the threat was successful in results.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-03-24

erica was the personnel Of public life
so weak and incompetent as it Is to-
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
BUSINESS WOMEN
ELECT OFFICERS
ASSOCIATION WILL MEET EVERY
TUESDAY EVENING AT
6:15 O'CLOCK.

Under the direction of Mrs. Loren
Jones, a movement was started in Co
lumbia during the Bob Jones revival
to bring together the business women
Of Columbia for the purpose of Bible
study, social and educational work.
The first meeting was held Tues
day evening at the First Methodist
church for discussion of plans of or
sanization. which resulted in the elec-
ton of the following ladies to the Off
ces OF the association Miss Louise
Considine, president; Airs. A S. Gus
ter. first vice-president: Miss Nellie
Maxwell second president; Miss
Fletcher Fariss. secretary. and Miss
Ada Wooten. treasurer,
The members Of the association in
cludes women of every profession anf
employment. and all business women
not already members are invited to
join The association will meet here
after on each Tuesday evening at 6:15.
The place of meeting to be announced
later,
The business Woman's Association
rs a loHc-feIt aeed in Columbia and
promises l. ~ a successful venture
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
FIGURES WINS FIRST
PRIZE
REAL ESTATE DEALER CHAMPION
AMATEUR IN WOLDRlDGE
CD, CONTEST.

First prize in the amateur Photo
graphic contest conducted by the W..
P. Woodbridge Co., was won by T. N.
-Figuers, Jr.. with a Mississippi farm
scene it being adjudged the best OF
,313 pictures examined in the contest
by experts of the Eastman Kodak
Co. The contest was conducted for
fellr months and the many pictures
entered were all of such fine charac-
ter that it was difficult to pick the
winner Several other pictures en-
tered by Mr.. FigNers wnp favorable
mertion. The prize given Mr. Figners
is a s25 Eastman kodak, of which he
is very proud This he said, was the
first prize he ever won in any way.
Mr.. Figuers takes hundreds Of kodak
pictures of farm scenes, which he uses
in advertising real estate to be sold
pv the Figuers Realty Co. Hs has
standing offer to take pictures OF any
farm scene in Maury county free OF
charge. .# .
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
N, udl FAIR ylOSES
AfItR FOUR DAYS If
'SUCCtSSFUllvtNIS
IDEAL WEATHER WAS ENJOYED
THROUGH VIRTUALLY EVERY
HOUR OF THE SHOW.
MANY AkAkuS AkhUUhCtD
Manager John p. McGaw Efficiently
Conducted Fair-Races Were Excit-
ing and the Exhibit Contests Were
Keen.

Crowned by success in every detail
of every department the Maury Coun-
ty Fair, held at Mt. Pleasant, under
the efficient management of John p.
McGaw, closed Saturday night and
many of the awards that had not been
announced were given out this morn
ing and will be published in The Her
aid.
Weather for the fair was ideal, a
rain Thursday night and Friday morn
ing being the only precipitation to in
convenience the large crowds. But
the rain even was only boon, for it
settled the dust and made the remain
der of the week more pleasant.
Throughout the four days, with the
| exception of Friday when the track
was wet, the races were exciting and
up to the standard of Maury county
events. AS an added feature of the
ace Walter Direct and other Crane
| Circuit horses were shown ON the
4 rack.
Magnificent exhibits were shown il
1 ii departments from the textile ten
4 near the entrance to the live stocl
mems at the end of the grounds. Con
| tests for first place in many instance
was keen and decisions we're rendered
\ My by tie closest inspection on th
i art of the judges.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
MlORy COUNTY ISSUES
CHALLENGE TO OIbtR
COUNEkSIA CAMP A.Gh
WILL ENROLL MORE FOOD CARDS
THAN ANY OTHER IN THE
WHOLE STATE.
MEETING OF COUNCIL DtftNSt
Splendid Session And Much Enthu-
siasm is Aroused, Generous Spirit
Of Rivalry Being in Evdence-J. J..
Fnney Speaks.

There was a splendid meeting OF
the county council Oh defense at the
circuit court room on Monday after
noon. There were representative men
and women present from all sections
Of the county, and all of them were en-
thusiastic.
As result of the meeting chal-
lenge was issued to every county in
the state to enroll larger number of
pledge card signatures than Maury
county. This challenge was unani-
mously passed. The Glendale com
munity, through Jas. A. Bostick, chal.
ienged every community in the coun
tA. The challenge was quickly accept
ed by Percy Brown, OF Spring Hill and
Miss Luby Hays, of Dark's Mill and
number of others.
There is now no question abou
Maury county doing it's full share il
the pledge card work. The meeting
was presided over by Henry H. Hill
ltchairman of the council of defense
and Mr.. Hill outlined the plans of tn,
campaign, Practically every commun
ity in the county is organized an,
those that have no organization will
lie organized during the present week
Mrs. William P. Morgan chairman
of the woman's work of the counci
OF defense, was present and spok
most gingly of the work tina
was being done in the organization c
the county.
! j. l. Finney chairman of the pull
licity committee of the campaign i
Tennessee, was present and was il
yited to outline the work planned. M
Finney spoke of the necessity 70
conservation of meats, -four, suga
and fats and declared that every on
could serve the country in this wor
just as effectively as though the
; were in the front.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
WANT NON-COMS FOR
COLORED BATTALION
MEN WITH PREVIOUS EXPERT
ENcE IN HANDLING MEN DE-
SIRED BY U. S. ARMY.

The following order has been re-
ceiyed by Maj. W. N. Hughes, chlel
recruiting officer Of this district:
Accept for 5O5th and 5o6th Service
Battalions. Engineers. National Army,
at Camp Lee. 5O7th Battalion. Camp
TAYLOR. 5Osth Battalion. Camp Pike
5oeth Battalion. Camp Travis, white
applicants specially qualified for han
ding colored men, preferably men
with previous service. to be appoint
cd non-commissioned officers in these
colored battalions.
Send for enlistment to camps lndi-
Gated or nearest depot or depot post
en- route. II enlisted at depot or depot
nosts to he vaccinated given one ty-
nboi1 pro9hvlaxis and sent at once to
proper CAMP
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
LOCAL BJARJ lAhNji
EXTEND Time Of Men
CALLED Fur SERVICE
MANY ATpEAlS ARE BEING MADE
WHICH ARE NOT WITHIN JUR-
iSDlCTlON OF BOARD.
LEAVE COLUMBIA SAlURuAi
Nine SeIectmen In The Last incre-
ment of Maury County's First Quota
OF National Army-Statement From
Board.

Notwithstanding the fact that the
statement has been published fire.
quently from the war department that
after a registered man has been Sc
lected and called TO military service
the local and district exemption
boards no longer have jurisdiction
over his case the local board is receiv-
ing numerous appeals from men and
the relatives of men who have been
called in the last increment of Maury
county's quota OF the National Army
Tor extension OF time before being
called into service.
In regard to this situation the local
board this morning issued the follow
ling statement:
The nine selectmen to be entrained
for Camp Gordon complete the Maury
! county quota OF white men, with the
| exception OF one or TWO names thai
have not been certified back by the
| District Board, These nine mer
should have gone forward before this
| date, but were postponed for the pur
pose of gathering their crops. Some
] of them have asked fOr further post
ponement, and the Local Boart
| would have been glad to grant then
additional extensions of time, but thu
Provost Marshal General has issuet
] instructions that no postponementt
can be made later than the time o
the calling OF the last quota, and 81
the Local Board has been unable t
grant time, and all these men are eS
pecteA to entrain for Camp Gordol
lSatulday morning at $50. They ar
called to the Office Of the Local Boar'
for roll CALI Friday afternoon at
O'Clock"
| Members OF the board stated that a
much as they would like to grant tn
,aDpeals that are being made to them
4 it is Impossible for them to do sc
They granted as much extension Q
time as it was possible before calm
the men in the last increment. Tn
only recourse for the selectmen VIII
desire further time to arrange thei
affairs is through the WAY department
after they reach the mobilizatio
Icamp.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
FINAL REGISTRATION
WOMEN SATURDAY
BOOKS WILL BE OPEN UNTIL
THEN IN RED CROSS OFFICE
IN BRANCH BUILDING.

Final registration Of the wemen OF
Maury county will be held next Satur-
day at the Court House from 10 a.
m. to p. M, il vas announced this
morning by Mrs. ". P. Morgan. chair
man of the county woman's commit
tee. Every day this week the regis
tration cards will be open at the Of
fee of Miss Elizabeth Whitthorne,
secretary of the local CHAPTER Of the
Red Cross. in the Branch building,
where any woman who desires TO reg
lister may do so before Saturday. All
women above the age Of 10. white and
colored. are urged to register before
Saturday night so that the report from
this county will shcv big per cent
age of registrations.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
SPECIAL fLFCTION
IN THE EIGHTH
FOR The SELECTION OF A MAGIS-
TRATE TO FILL OUT SQUIRE
Brooks PLACE.

iae Election Commission of Maury
county held meeting Tuesday morn
hS IN the Offices of Secretary Hop
ANS and called an election in the
Eighth Civil district for November
IfIa Tor the purpose of electing mag
is''a'e 10 fill the vacancy caused by
N Death Of Squire John B. Brooks.
u To the present time no one has
qualified for the place. but II is under
O'1t that there will he at least two
eas 7idates in the field.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
COMPLETE WORK ON
ROADS BY NOV. IS

Road work must be done before
Nov Is. The county commission has
extended the time for the work to that
date and all of the commissioners and
overseers are warned that the work
must be finished by that time as there
will positively be no further postpone
ment
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
larger AUUIIUklLN
| NEED Of tasIS1ka
P cHuRca'''' CROWD
mnleNCE FILLS BUILDING TO
OWING TO HEAR EVAN.
GELlST /. S. WHITE.
MANY BEING ADgED To CHURCH
e,,ternal Organizations Do Great
vork. But Negligence of the
Church in Some Respects is
Alarming.

r.fora an audience that filled the |
Fir, Christian church building to
oye.aoWing and again clearly demon |
led the urgent need OF large au- |
atorium, Elder l.. S. White, the evan
golist, forcibly remarked on the estab- |
Hshment of the Church of Christ, Sun
day night The audience was one OF
the largest of the campaign and the
seryice will continue each afternoon
and evening throughout this week ex-
cent Saturday afternoon and will close
next Sunday evening. Through the
teaching of this minister, many have
been added to the church and interest
increases as the meeting continues.
Basng his text on the conversation
Christ had with His disciples as found
in Matthew 16: 1920, the speaker stat
ed that the interrogatories which the
Savior caused to be asked were for
the specific purpose of enlightening
the human family on the identity of
Christ for all time to come.
"The disciples of that occasion have
their prototypes in this day and time
We are of various opinions as were
the disciples. Christ asked; Whom
say We that | the Son of man am"
AnL they said, Some say that theu
are John the Baptist; some Elias; and
others. jeremiah. or one of the proph-
cts He said unto them, but whom
say We that ! ann And Simon Peter
answered and said, Thou art the
Christ. the Son of the living God.
AM Jesus answered and said unto
him, Blessed art thou Simon Barjona; !;
for flesh and blood hath not revealed it
unto thee. but My Father which arr
in heaven. And ! say unto thee that
thou art Peter, and upon this rock
will bulu my church and the gates OF
hell shall not prevail against il. And
| will give unto thee the keys of the
kinsdom of heaven and whatsoever
thou shalt bind on earth shall be
bound in heaven and whatsoever thou
shalt lonse on earth shall be loosed ir
heaven.
From that time the disciples be
lieved that Jesus was the Christ ant
were taught that Christ mnst be triet
by the power of death before the
church could be established. There
is no way of having unity of religion
other than having the word OF God al
the foundation principle.
Jesus bought the church and pSit
for it with His own precious bloot
and He tells us that His second com
Ing Will be tor the purpose OF takint
His church
The fratemal organizations of th'
county are doing a great work.
have no word of criticism to offer o
their work, but / declare unto you tina
the church of the living God is th'
only institution in the world that wa
bought and redeemed by the blood o
Jesus Christ. The trouble is, tn
church is derelict in doing the worl
that the fraternal organizations arr
doing.
The negligence of the church il
thlS respect is alarming and ! expec
to use my best energies toward per
tufding Christians to devote as nucl
oi their thought and work to this III
as to the future life"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1917-10-26
H. O. FUL TON SPEAKS
AT M'AD0O MEETING
COLUMBIA BANKER APPAUpEE
WHEN HE STRIKES HARD
BLOWS FOR LIsERTYLoAN.

II. o. Fulton cashier Of the Phoenix
National Bank and chairman OF the
!daury County Liberty Loan commit
tee, was one of the speakers at the
conference Of Liberty Loan workers
held in Nashville Tuesday, at which
Secretary OF the Treasury MeAdoo
was present Mr. Fulton's vigorous
in which he insisted that the
Of the nation should buy most
of the bonds OF the second issue were
cDalauded by Secretary NeAdoo and
al the bankers preSert st he aonfor-
ence.