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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-20
Governor Approves Measure-Put
Eugenics Board in Control.

Salem, Ore, Jan. 2O--A steriliza-
ton bill to apply to women as we'll as
men and embodying views expressed
by Gov. James Withycombe in his
message to the legislature was on file
TODAY in the assembly.
The bill provides for a state board
of euzenics to be composed of the
heads of the health board, insane hos
pitfalls and penitentiary. The board
must report quarterly the names of all
inmates who in its belief should be
examined with view to sterilization.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-20
FAIRCHILD IS DYING
Former State Superintendent
Near End, Friends Hear.
He Has Been President Eastern
University for Four Years.

kilograms received in Topeka to-
day announce that L. T. Fairchild.
former state supe rintendent of public
instruction, is dying from tuberculosis
at his home in Durham, \. H. Pro-
fessor Fairchild went to New Hamp-
shire four years ago as president of
New Hampshire university He was
six years superintendent of public in
struction and one of the most able
and popular educators in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-20
Trolley Passengers Injured.

indianapolis. Ind, Jan. 20.-Three
persons were seriously injured when a
street car going at high rate of speed
left the tracks and plunged against the
heavy railing of Pleasant Run bridge
early today. Fifty-five passengers
were on the car. All were bruised and
cut by flying glass
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-20
Strange Steamship Sighted Off Brazff
Coast by Sailors.

Buenos Aires. Jan. 20.-According
to press dispatches from Rio Janeiro
a strange steamship with four smoke
stacks painted black has been sighted
off Ceara, Brazil, running at high
speed.
Word of this vessel was brought by
men on a steamship at Bahia, Brazil,
who say they saw the steamer.
The German raider that has been
operating in the South Atlantic is re-
ported to be equipped with collapsible
smok estacks the number of stacks Wis
able being changed at intervals to dis
guise the identity of the vessel The
state of Ceara is in the north of Brazil
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-20

SUPPOSE there was a 'Icak"? Out
side OIL Wall street stock gamblers,
who cares?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-20
MAY BE THE RAIDER

Continued on Page Two.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-20

WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas:
Snow tonight and sunday; colder
Sunday in the west and central Sec
lions.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
The Toothbrush BRIGADE.

The American Boy: Do you know
the proper way to brush your teeth?
Toothbrush drill is a regular part OF
the hygiene calisthenics of New
York schools. The boys line up in
rows with their toothbrushes, denti-
frice and paper cup Of water, and
are taught to brush their teeth thor
oughly with a motion up and down
from the lower to the upper gum and
back again-instead Of brushing
across the teeth. On the lower teeth,
brush from the gums upward. This
causes the bristles of the brush to
cleanse the spaces between the teeth,
the place where most dental decay
commences. The pupils are also
taught the necessity of visiting the
dentist twice a year for a general in
spection of the teeth and cleaning.
BY arresting the decay, and filling
the tooth before the decay has made
much Roadway, a great deal of trou-
BILE later on can be avoided.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
a Fire in the Rear.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: President
Wilson's message to congress has
been translated into German and Is
being scattered in that country by
British and French aviators. That is
a new kind of fire in the rear" The
message will carry assurance to
soldiers and civilians that the United
States enters the war not to fight the
German people, but the arrogant and
tyrannical militarists n autocracy
who hold central Europe with a ruth
less hand and are needlessly sacrific-
ing millions of human lives in an I'M
iustiffable contest against human
rights.
The inspiring words Of the message
will filter through the masses of the
German population and will start
them.to thinking. The very fact the
United States. a republic, devoted to
peace, and champion of liberty and
popular government, without lust of
conquest and territorial aggrandise-
ment, enters this world struggle and
after over two years of Intellectual eff
fort to remain neutral now appears
only in the national defense, will be
profoundly impressive upon the Ger
man people. This in connection with
the wonderful overthrow Of despotism
in Russia, will set in motion currents
of public sentiment that cannot be
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
The Anonymous SIanderer.

Dubuque Tim%e-Journal: The vic.
iousness of the secret few vino exist
only TO create trouble is best known
by newspapers which receive anony,
nous communications from the dis
turbers who are too cowardly to
sign their names. OF course, no at.
tention is paid to the anonymous COM
munications. They are invariably
consigned to the waste basket, but
this does not stop the evil practice.
Some of these disturbers even go so
far as to forge the name Of some
well known man or woman to a COM
m~unication that reflects on some
members of society. If the newspap-
ers did not make IN inquiry into the
communications, and printed them.
the characters Of good people would
be wrecked and libel suits would fol-
low.
Every newspaper Of standing vel
comes from readers communications
that are bonafide, but no serious at
tention is paid anonymous offerings.
It is not necessary that the name OF
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
NOTICE OF INCORPORATION.

10 WlOm ms May COnCeIn.
In compliance with section 1913 of
the 1913 supplement to the code of
Iowa, notice is hereby given of the
incorporation of the keokuk Coca
Cola Bottling company, under the
provisions of chapter l, title 8, of the
code of Iowa, and acts amendatory
thereof.
Cd The name of the corporation
is "Keokuk Coca-Cola Bottling Com
pany" and it's principal place Of bust
ness will be at Keokuk in Lee county,
Iowa.
ca The object for which it is
formed and the general nature of the
business to be transacted by the cor
poration is to bottle, distill, manu-
facture, prepare, buy, sell and deal in
mineral and ~carbonated waters,
spring waters, coca-cola, flavoring ex-
tracts, syrups, salts, ices, prepared
drinks of all kinds, including all in
gradients therefor; to erect, operate,
buy or deal in refrigerating plants,
machines, bottling apparatus, sugar,
glucose, confectionery, and any and
all ingredients used in the making of
mineral or c~arbonated waters, or any
and all raw materials from which
said products are made, and any and
all products therefrom; to own, reg
lister, assign or dispose of trade
marks, trade-names, patents, inven-
tons and processes; to own and dis
pose of stocks, bonds, or other obli-
cations of corporations in a similar
business which may be legally sold
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
How the Army Helps Boys.

Cedar Rapids Republican: Aside
from services rendered the n
there are many benefits in military
service, to the young men themselves
A few years makes a lot OF difference.
The men In khaki uniforms one sees
on the street are different. They are
trimmer, heater, more orderly, litter
physically and quicker mentally, as
well as better looking than the rest
of the young men. When one sees
and studies them he is quite reconcil-
ed to universal military service. The
military service can be made to oper-
ate as a great universal university.
We have seen many parents In the
last few weeks who are not only will
ing. but anxious to have their sons
take advantage Of the training that
the service Of their country offers
them. They would rather see them
in uniforms than in pool rooms loaf
ing and smoking and learning nothing
that is upbuiIding in its influence.
There are a thousand boys in Cedar
RAPIDS who would be better off for
the discipline that a year or so in the
army would give them-and then
think of the patriotism that the khaki
uniform puts into men!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
otherwise than exceedingly embar-
RAISING to the war party in Germany.
WHEN IOWA WAS UNKNOWN.
World Knew Little of This Region
Ia 1S41.

in 1S41.
Less than eighty years ago Iowa
was a region comparatively I'M
known, although it was even then
rapidly becoming settled. This fact
is emphasized in a little book writ
ten by John B. Newhall and pub
lished in 1871, which is in the library
of the State Historical society at
Iowa City. Situated as it is, north
of Missouri. and on the western
1T has been somewhat a singular
fact hat many intelligent people
have been totally ignorant, Of the
geographical position of the territory
of Iowa. True, they had heard of
some Of our prominent cities and
towns, but it was difficult to persuade
them that these fourishing points
were west of the Mississippi. The
limits of their vision seemed hound
ed by this mighty river, and they
as sociated no ideas of a civilized.
country beyond. On the 4th of July,
1888, the act of congress took effect
organizing the territory of Iowa,
when we were disconnected from
Wisconsin. And then arose the query
where is Iowa? So rapid was its
increase, and so sudden had been Its
organization, that the great mass OF
the people seemed to have been I'M
conscious of it's existence. And when
told hat the west side of the river
contained a greater population than
Wisconsin proper, it produced excla-
nations Of establishment"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE

BATTLE LYNN OF THE REPUBLIC.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord
He is tramping out the vintage where the grapes Oh
wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning Of His terrible swift
sword;
His truth is marching on.
1 have seen Him in the watch-fre of a hundred circling
camps,
They have buided Him an altar in the evening dews and
damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring
lamps;
His day Is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in FURNISHED rows OF steel;
"As We deal with my contemners, so with you my grace
shall DEAL"
Let the Hero. born of woman, crush the serpent with his
heel,
Since God Is marching on.
He hath sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call
retreat;
He is sitting out the hearts of men before His judgment
seat;
Oh, be swift. my soul, to answer him! Be jubilant my
feet!
Our God is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;
AS He died to make men holy, let us die to make men
free,
While God is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06

in this state; to Issue bonds az
other obligations in payment OF PRO
erty purchased OF in the operation
its business and to mortgage
pledge the same; to buy and sell Y
shares of It's own capital stock a
the shares of the capital stock
other corporations which may be 50
in this state and to buy or sell RI
estate or any interest therein;
sue and be sued in It's corpora
name and to have and enjoy 4
other powers not expressly GLAZING
which may be desirable or necessaI
and not contrary to the laws OF y
state.
(3) The authorized capital sto3
of this corporation is five thousa3
(s5. O0O) dollars, divided into fY
shares Of the par value OF one ny
bred (S100) dollars each and m]
commence business when three h1
dred $4,000 dollars of the capi7
stock is fully paid in money y
certificates of stock issued therel9
and the remainder Of the stock pm
be issued from time to time as /
board Of directors may autho,lleI
(4) The corporate existence oes1
February "a, 1917, with the issuanI
of a certificate by the Secretary
State and its corporate ex1stelI
shall continue for a period OF wen
years from that date or unul fep1
airy "a, 1897. .,,uI
(5) The corporation shall be n1
aged by a board Of three direc"l
and until the next annual meetihs
be held on the third Wednesda!
the month of January. 1918, the
lowing shall constitute the Doa[a
directors of the corporation: ~
Clark. N. A. Hodges ana AA
Hodges. and tbe officers shall De
follows: President. c. {. Clarh, ~
president. Alma Hodges; secre
and treasurer, N. A. Hodges ]
The directors are to be electea !
nual1v at the annual meeting U,
corporation held on the thiru WI
nesday in the month OF Jahuaiy
each year. and the officers 'nan
elected bv the directors at a MEL
of the directors held wl,hln =. n
DAYS after the annual meellhs u
stockholders. .,e I'd
& The indebtedness OF the y
poration shall at no time eNceeu Il
thirds of It's capital stock u
~ The officers, directors y
stockholders personally, and me !
yate property of the Officers rsn|
tors and stockholders shall be even
from all liability for corporate
debtedness. n-o,o vo1
For a more full and compIeLe ,ti
ing of the Articles of lncorPu
including a full and complete US
ton of the powers and purppseSp
incorporation see corporatlou IovI
naee I64. of the Lee county,
records at Keokuk and the reco.s
aI;ne said Articles of lncorpo," \
IN hook rs on page $50 OF 'ns !,
norate records in the ofice ,poind
Secretary of state at Des
Iowa. This "A
mated at Keokuk. Iowa m'
dav of February. 1917.
c. c. CLARE.
n. A. HODGES
ALMA HODGES
Incorporators Keokuk coca'
Ting Company.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
How a Submarine Net Works.

Worlds Work: A submarine net
is made of wire rope. about as thick
as a lead pencil. and the meshes are
of great size-about ten or fifteen feet
square The net has floats on top
that keep bobbing up and down like
the float on a fish line and on the bot
tom are weights that keep the whole
thing in a perpendicular Position. The
submarine cannot submerge to very
great depths on account Of the pres
sure-200 feet being about the limit.
ing depth. It sails innocently along,
therefore, until It pushes its nose in
to these meshes. The net now trails
along on both sides of the submarine
is progress revealing the fact that
something below is supplying the mot.
I've power. Perhaps the net suddenly
stops; that means that the hidden
gu bmarine has stopped, it's navigators
having made the horrible discovery
that they are trapped-or perhaps the
net has become twisted in the pro-
.peller. Under these conditions the
wise submarine rises to the surface.
It surrenders, becomes the property
of the enemy. and it's crew are made
prisoners. II it does not take such
action one of two things will happen.
The enemy will wait upon the sur.
face until the submersible comes up
or. If it starts moving, the enemy will
follow until the inevitable uprising.
But perhaps the surface commander
gets impatient; in such a case he can
let a bomb down into the water, which
will explode when 1t touches the roof
of the submarine. OF course, the sub
merged Germans know that this bomb
is likely to drop at any minute: the
Psychology Of such a situation tends
to persuade the imprisoned crew to
surrender.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06

the writer be printed with a COM
munication, but the identity of the
writer must be known to the news
paper.
Writers of anonymous communities
tions intended to injure others are
wasting their energy. They are re-
garded as a menace and rarely re-
ceive the slightest consideration.
They are classified with the pariahs
of society who have lost whatever
honor they ever possessed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
In Dry Denver.

Chicago Evening Post: Alter d
saloonless year Denver. Colo, repo-t-
ed two-thirds less prisoners In nei
jails: fifty per cent eve arrests LOT
drunkenness and a 80 per cent oe'
crease in divorce cases. The last
item of the three is a significant IL
1ustratiou of the effect of liquor on
society. A law that saves homes,
eunties fails and increases the sobe;,
efficient citizenship of the commun-
ity by so per cent has a good deal to
commend it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
PRESS

MarshalItown Times-Republican:
The difference between talking about
the necessity Of a garden and making
one is the difference between hot air
and sixty cabbages and ten bushels OF
potatoes, with carrots, beets and truck
in the cellar in the fall.
Sioux City Journal: Two years ago
yes, one year ago-anybody who pre-
dicted hat colonel Roosevelt would
ever call at the white house to con-
graduate the president on a message
calling for war, a large standing army
and universal military service would
have been referred to an appropriate
commission for investigation with a
view to subsequent segregation.
Which offers renewed reminder that
truth is stranger than some OF Allce's
adventures in Wonderland.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The world
is assured by the Cologne Gazette and
Senator LaFollette' that "the Ameri-
can people do not desire war." That
is a play upon words and credulity.
OF course the people OF the United
States do not want war, but whe II
is thrust upon them they are not in
the habit of lodging. The newspapers
of central Europe, as we'll as the gov
ernments, utterly fail to understand
the American character. They will
now have a chance to learn.
Council Bluffs N%onpareil: Digging
in the garden may not seem heroic
considered alongside digging in the
trenches, but the garden trenches are
necessary to sustain the fellows In
the war trenches.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
newspapers are not printing the move
ments of our national guard troops,
but every one knows where they are
and what they are doing and. presum'
ably, even the German spies are
able to find it out without reading
about 1t in the newspapers. But. new
ertheless, the newspapers are going 20
keep mum about it since it is the de-
sire of the government that they 90
so. The newspapers are for the gov
eminent.
Sioux City Journal: No doub
teacher would forget her ~disappoint-
ment over not getting an annuity II a
raise in salary should be slipped to
her right away. Hoping for two things
at once involves too much wear and
tear on the imagination.
Marsha lltown Times-Republican:
The army enlistments may drag a lit
tie now but business will pick up with
a rush if congress declares war. me
average American is willing to fight
all right enough but he desires to be
assured of trouble before he signs up
for a term of years. The first 100000
will come easy.
Sioux City Journal: Iowa is trying
TO economic. but nobody will regret
TO see the state appropriating $4,000
to paw the railway fare of the oWa
veterans to and from the NicksDurs
reunion next summer, as well as a
ing provision for the expansion or n
soldiers home at Marshalltown. The
veterans of the civil war are not go
ing to be with us long at best. While
they remain they are entitled to pref
tv continuous evidence of the puoiic's
appreciation of a service that can
never be fully compensated in any
tangible ray
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
SYMPATHY FOR LA TOILETTE.

Evidently Wisconsin is represented in the
senate of the United States by a man mentally
unbalanced. Senator La Toilette is entitled to
deepest feeling of sympathy on part of the
people of this country. 1t is, indeed, sad to
realize the wasting of a great intellect, as
given proof in the senator's course in contra
v~ention to the demands of humanity voiced by
the president and the senate in our dealings
with Germany. But it must be remembered
that the mind disease from which the Wiscon-
sin senator is suffering was first manifest
in his primary campaign for president six
years ago, when. during a speech at a banquet
in Philadelphia he collapsed mentally and was
led from the room. La Folette's sneers and
laughter during the address of President VIII
son to the congress last Monday and his in
flammatory and unpatriotic wanderings in talk
previous to the senate's adoption Of the war
resolution should give warning to his friends
and hasten a movement to remove this wreck of
n man from the halls Of national counsel.
La Follettc's condition is pitiable. None
should blame him, for he is plainly irrespon-
sible.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06

Russia is confronted with the dilemma of
having no word to express the idea Citizen
We might loan the use of our word until she
can coin something that will do, but if the new
republic tries any "citizenoffski' or citizen
anovitch" it will severely strain the traditional
friendship.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06
Royalty In the Discard.

Topeka Journal: BY the time the
war ends there probably will be
enough deposed monarchs in the
world to organize and hold reunions
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06

s'Small potatoes has long been a synonym
of contempt. The reason for this figurative as
persion is made evident by a bulletin just IS
sued by the government farm bureau in which
farmers and gardeners are warned against the
planting of the small tubers which have been
cast aside for this purpose from the saleable
variety. The bureau is informed that to save
seed potatoes a great quantity of small po-
tatoes is to be used for planting. Now a small
potato is small because it's growth was stunted;
in a majority of cases because it grew in a
small hill on a defective plant. By using
these small potatoes their defects will be re-
peated in the new crop and widespread harm
will be done to this years potato yield. The
small potato should go to the pigs and its full
statured brother be planted and tended with
skill and unfaltering industry.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06

You can't tell anything about a woman. IF
she makes fun of a style one day, the next day
you will see her initiating it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06

Nothing so strongly advertises a locality as
being backward and unprogressive as bad
roads. Good roads are q testimonial of prog
ress.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-06

It isn't a good plan to allow your regrets for
yesterday to overshadow your hopes for to-
morrow.