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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

coats and pink tights wave Old
Glory aloft and screech, Now is the
time-to fall in line" a cabaret crowd
will applaude uproariously, but not
from patriotism. Everyone feels dis
gusted, a trifle outraged, and re-
markedly like fool, and applaud5
merely because he is ashamed not to.
In war time cabarets count. So do
vaudeville houses. So do homes OF
burlesque." 1t is from crowds such
as theirs that enlistments come. The
more thrills, the more enlistments.
We need popular songs that stir the
heart deep down and make an over
whelming patriotic appeal. We need
to have them presented with dignity
as well as gusto. Songs for the pur-
pose are not far to seek. Revive
''Tenting Tonight" Revive "The
Hymn of the Republic" Revive
When Johnny Comes Marching
Home" and "Bonny Blue Flag" and,
though it requires no reviving,
Dixie" Or give US "Tipperary"
afresh. 1t will bring crowd to their
feet cheering.
every ballad writer bear in mind that
undying fame awaits the author of
an American Marseillafse. The in
spiration is not to be had for the
asking. Naturally But neither is it
to be had without throwing open ones
soul consciously to the passion and
all but tidal emotion of a great peo-
pie at war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
Do not hold an umbrella over

5. Do not hold an umbrella over
you.
6. 1t is safer to sit or lie down in
an open field than to stand.
Z. Drivers should dismount and
not stay close to their horses.
8. Do not work with any large
metal tool or implement.
IL you are indoors.
/. Keep away from the stove and
chimney. The hot gases from the
chimney may conduct the lightning
to and down the chimney.
2. Do not take position between
two bodies of metal, as the stove and
water pipe, for example. An excep-
ton to being near metals is the case
of an iron bed. One of the safest
places is on a mattress in an iron
bed, provided you do not touch the
metal. The metal surrounding you
makes safe cage, which will pre-
vent the lightning from reaching a
person inside.
8. Do not stand on wet floor nor
draw water from the well or faucet.
4. Do not stand directly under a
chandelier, near radiator, nor on a
register.
5, Do not use the telephone
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
SALVATION ARMY NATAL DAY

the Army grew 1t was forced into
streets; narrow alleys, abandoned
saloons, or unoccupied theaters be-
, came Salvation Army chapels.
Today the Salvation Army Is the
greatest evangelistic organization in
the world. The poke-bonneted Army
lassie is a familiar sight in every
country on earth.
Their battle GRIP is heard in every
commonwealth of the United States;
more than 900 "outposts," lor mis-
sions, are located in nearly every
city and town. In these meeting
places more than 100000 Ameri-
cans gather during years time, to
listen to the exhortations of nearly
1000 officers, of both sexes, that
make up the Salvation Army in the
United States.
The street-corner meeting Is a
familiar sight in every aprt of the
world More than 100000 of these
are held every year in, this country
at which over $4,000 recruits have
been gathered in twelve months to
the Armys ranks from the congrega-
mercy" they proclaim and it is wit
ueSSou ny Tic WOllo-WlQC ChdilIy VI
the organization.
1t has established in the United
States nearly 100 workingmen's
hotels which accommodate annually
more than 100000 persons; over
12O industrial homes where about
100000 meals have been served In
a year; about 80 rescue and mater
nifty homes where 5000 girls and
children find shelter.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
PASSING OF THE WOODEN CAR

total replacement cost of $SS1,Ooo
600. At per cent this cost repr
sents an annual interest charge
$44,000,000. II the wooden cars II
placed be given an assumed value
$4,000 each, the charge to operatn
expenses for the replacement wit
steel under the classification of 40
counts of the interstate commend
commission amounts to $156, 67O,0OoI
The bulletin claims that there bal
been certain relation between lid
building of steel passenger equip
ment and the condition of railws
business in different years. The sub
stitution of steel cars for woodej
cars is safety measure. 1t mean
an added expenditure in railway open
alton with little or no expectation
corresponding return in revenue
Nevertheless, periods OF prosperity I'd
the reverse are reflected in the NUM-
bers Of wooden cars replaced will
cars Of steel construction. The Ian
gest number of all-steel cars acquired
in any year was 1856 in 1914. .
large proportion of these were prob
ably ordered in 1913, which was
prosperous year, and 2,111 steel card
were acquired within that calendad
year The next largest numbers werd
2.214, acquired in 1911, and 2OlsI
acquired in 1910; and 1910 was a
prosperous year. On the other hand
the smallest number acquired in any
years since 1909 was 1880 in 1915
which is reflection of the depres1
sion in 1914 which only began ID
abate in the later months of 1871
There were acquired in 1916 or unde1
construction or contract on Decen1
Der 81. 1916, 2,7S7 steel passenge1
train cars. There have been nd
wooden postal cars built in the LAST
five years, though the law requiring
the use of steel or steel underframd
cars in postal service goes into
effect only on July I, 1917.
These facts" says the Gazette
seem to point to the conclusion
sometimes overlooked, that railway
arrangements endeavor to keep their
equipm ent. even that which is no'
directly of profitable nature, up 70
the highest standards, to the extent
that their revenues permit them TO
do So"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
Music for Mar lime.

Chicago Tribune: For months we
have been at war with Germany, and
where is the thrill Flag flying
stirred us at first 1t is now an old
story. Ringing verses appear. Moth
ing mastery, however. And music
the chief thriller by rights-is simply
out of il or worse. What then?
Mobilize the composers? Order up
a Marsellaise or two2 We wish We
might, for a French general once de-
clared the Marseillaise worth half a
dozen army corps; and yet the fact
remains that great war songs are not
machine made and still less made to
order
AT present we not only peg along
without thrills, but tolerate ragtime
doggerel that is cure for thrills.
When string of girls in soldier
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

Fifty-two years ago today the
worlds first meeting of the Saliva
ton army was held. 1t took place
In an old patched tent erected in an
ancient burial ground in the White
chapel district of London. The first
preacher was William Booth.
clergyman who was at that time with
out a church. He had been called
upon to take the place of the regu-
lar minister, who was lying Ill at his
home. The first congregation was
made up of mass of poor people,
many of them evidently without God,
or hope in the world" After the
meeting Booth hurried to his home
and exclaimed to his wife:
Kate, l have found my destiny!
AS | passed by the doors of the
flaming gin-palaces tonight, seemed
to hear voice sounding in my ears:
Where can you find such heathens
as these and where is there SO great
need for your labors?' And there
and then in my soul l offered myself
and you and our children up to this
great work"
This was the beginning of world
wide organization. From that day
meetings were held regularly. On
the third Sunday the tent blew down
and was wrecked beyond repair.
Having no money for another and
without funds to rent building,
Booth preached in the open air.
Finally he secured the use of an
old dance hall that was not in use
on Sundays. Weekday meetings
were held in a dilapidated shed, for
merly a storehouse for old rags. AS
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
Venison for All.

Christian Herald: 1t is said that
only one person in hundred in
this country has the opportunity or
money to buy venison as regular
article Of food. The meat is so de-
licious that considerable attention is
paid to the serious proposition to
raise deer and elk as food product
for the masses. 1t is claimed that
venison can be raised from herds Of
animals in as large quantities and as
cheaply as beef, mutton or pork, and
the common people can have as a
staple that which now, is a forbidden
luxury. The ordinary deer have so
much of the wild in them that it is
difficult if not impossible to domesti-
cate them, and yet they will thrive
and multiply in herds in semi-wild
state. and much of the year in many
parts actually take care of them
selves The elk Is more easily
domesticated, and grows into meat
rapidly, weighing from 900 to 1000
pounds. Now, when the food supply
of the world is so critical a problem,
it is well to consider venison, which
it is said can be raised easily and
profitably.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
What to do in a Thunderstorm.

If you are out of doors in very
severe electrical storm, the Electrical
Experimenter offers the following
rules for your protection:
1. Keep away from wire fences
They may carry dangerous electri-
cal charge long, distances. Cattle in
pastures are frequently killed from
the neglect of farmers to ground the
wire of the fence.
2. Keep away from hedges, ponds
and streams.
8. Keep away from isolated trees.
Oak trees are frequently struck;
beech are seldom struck. It is safe
in dense forest.
4. Keep away from herds of cat
tie and crowds of people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
Let Nothinu SpoiI.

Springfield Republican: Amid all
surd suggestions for saving, the bull
letins of the department of agricul-
ture shine with common sense let
nothing spoil' is the heading of the
third in the food thrift series. 1t
aims to be useful rather than to
thrill. Hence such admonisitions as ::
Do not keep perishable foods in a
hot kitchen or pantry or in sunny
place moment longer than is neces-
sary.
The dust particles in the air carry
molds and germs.
Meat, fish and milk are ideal
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
THE POWER or

Below is an extract from the System Magazine -
january 1917, written by Colonel George Burr II
S. A., commandant of the Rock Island arsenal which
is good 'sermonette'' and worth reading by all.
~ am more powerful than the combined armies
of the world.
have destroyed more than all the wars Of
the world.
am more deadly than bullets, and T have
wrecked more homes than the mightiest of siege
guns
steal in the United States alone over 100000.
600 each year.
I spare one, and I find my victims among the
rich and poor alike, the young and old, the strong
and weak, widows and orphans know me.
I loom up to such proportions that I cast nv
shadow over every field of labor from the turning
of the grindstone to the moving Of every train.
am relentless I everywhere-in the home
on the street. in the factory at railroad crossings
and on the
bring sickness, degradation and DEATH and yet
few seek to avoid me.
destroy, crush MAIN, give nothing, but take
ALL
am your worst enemy.
AM CARELESSNESS.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
THINKING in Billions.

Aberdeen News; These are plii ~.
dollar days. So much so tla ALL,
linotypes have come to automatr" an,
set row of nine ciphers attei ,, nm
figure whenever an amount OF nv
ey is mentioned.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

Buffalo Times: The friendly Wit VII,
the kindly usages of companlon'ac
and recollection, are never ilioi ,i,,
ceptable than in strenuous aa!s civ,
these. 1t is well to let conduo' aou.
the lie to the cynical provero'
of sight out Of mind
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

There due to the United States among hatons
which will withheld, if absolutely lost by the
reputation of weakness If desire to avoid Insult we
able repe it. If desire to secure peace, one
the powerful instruments of rising prosperity
1t must known that are, at all times ready for
NWar.-Georae Washington.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
And now the hyphen once so promi-
nent has been dropped and American
is just one word. There's another
ugly word, but it doesn't apply to
Americans.
Muscatine Journal: 1t is estimated
that for the coal operators to provide
coal at fair margin of profit, a saw
ing of $1S0,0O0,00 will be made to
the American people Accepting this
statement as true, it means that dur
ing the past twelve months. the coal
operators have extorted at least a
hundred million dollars from the
people.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The, wo-
men leaders" who are precipitating
those rows about the white house
gates are not helping themselves nor
their cause. What shall it advantage
them to insult the president of the
United States because they do not
have the ballot? The country as a
whole is engaged in business that is
entirely too serious to have any pa
tience with such impatient leaders.
But in every movement a certain num-
UeT VI lOOlS oil Z ucFCiopCu- lifoSC wv
men may be said to represent the 1.
w. W. element Of the sex.
Sioux City Journal: Business as
usual Is the fireworks dealers motto.
too.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: 1t is just as
important that the work Of peace go
on as that the men be trained and
armed and sent to the front. Hence
the fact should not be overlooked that
the baby beef clubs and the corn clubs
and the pig clubs are busily at work
in Iowa, and that the banks and other
public-spirited folk are boosting this
movement with might and main.
Dubuque Telegrath-Herald: Ameri-
Ia's entrance into the war is serving
to get the people of this and other ma
tions with which we are allied better
acquainted if it does nothing else.
Davenport Times: The farmer
doesn't get the large price that the re-
tailers have to charge for the staple
food products. The wholesaler denies
he gets the difference. The suspicion
lof all rests upon the spectators. An
adequate government control system
would put the blame where it belongs
and stop t.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02
RAILROADS HEAVY TASK.

In an article in the Railway Age Gazette, Fair
fax Harrison, chairman of the railroads war
board says that what the carriers are trying to
do is to furnish transportation in the largest
measure. 1t is a heavy task, because the trans
portation machine, efficient today Sin spite OF
the vicissitudes of past years. cannot be sud
denly amplifed. Mr.. Harrison, who is presi-
dent of the Southern railway, makes no COM
plant; the roads "are far from having broken
down as has been said of them'' They are
producing more transportation than ever be-
FORE but the demand is greater than the
supply 1t may be assumed, he says, that last
winter more traffic was constantly offered for
Transportation than could be promptly handled
The necessity for giving preference in car sup
iply to shipments made for the government
involves a corresponding reduction
Fin that handled for commercial interests, ''un-
less the efficiency of the transportation machin-
cry can be increased to still greater extent. y
Efficiency can be increased, but this requires
cooperation between shippers and the rail
roads.
A pretty clear idea of the magnitude of the
task confronting the roads may be gained from
this statement in Mr. Harrison's article: can
army is to be created. From transporta-
ton point of view this involves the erection of
many cities, each having many thousand inhabi-
ftants. These cities must be constructed with
lin a very short time. All the material for their
construction must be assembled by the rail
road; cars must be furnished to move it; tracks
must be laid on which to dispose of it; after
the cities are built, facilities must be provided
and the subsistence Of the army living in these
cities must be assured Another war demand
will be made upon the roads as the government
prepares to send an army across the water.
Great bodies of men must be moved and there
can be no delay; vast quantities of material
must be moved, and while this work is being
done the food supply must be made available by
transportation.
Evidently the head of the railroads war
Iboard has no illusions concerning the part the
roads must play in the war Nor should any
one doubt that they will respond to every de-
Imand made by the government. The shippers
and the public generally will hear the call for
cooperation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

The Missouri suggestion of conserving the
food supply by doing away with the top crust
of the pie is not likely to gain more than state
popularity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

The only reason why Jess Willard kept out
Of the world fight and bought the Buffalo Bill
Wild West show instead was because he WASH It
assured of sixty per cent. of the purse and the
moving picture rights.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

The federal trade commission does well to
keep track of the prices the wholesalers are
paving the Gamers for vegetables, and the in
ouiry should be continued to the end of the
season. The information thus obtained may be
of considerable value later in passing upon the
question of the fairness of prices charged by
retailers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

The horrors of war will not have ended if
with the restoration of peace the war heroes
take to the chautauquas to tell us how they did
it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

Dubuque Telegrath-Herald: Ameri.
.a's entrance into the war is serving
to get the people of this and other ma
tions with which we are allied better
acquainted if it does nothing else.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-02

Marshalltown Times-Republican
And now the hyphen once SO promi-
nent has been dropped and American
is just one word. There's another
ugly word, but it doesn't apply to
Americans.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-08

question Of tbs employment Of the
three new girls that pre"lp!tated
The trouble.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-08
NOT TO RELAX EFFORTS
Vatican Believes Reduction of Arm
aments Will Destroy German Pow

er.
Pope Benedict will not relax his
efforts for peace. 1t was learned
from an authoritative source in
Washington yesterday that the Vati-
can is far from considering the mat
ter closed with President Wilson's re-
ply to the last note.
Already a new plan for the salts
faction of the demands of the United
States for the overthrow of German
militarism has been informally ad-
vanced. II is this:
The Pope has already proposed and
President Wilson has accepted the
doctrine of universal reduction of
ornaments. The Vatican is credited
with the belief that reduction Of
ornaments would more etfectually
destroy the power Of German Mill
tary autocracy than would internal
reform of Gcrmany's constitution.
An authentic though unofficial out
lino of the present position of the
Vatican has been made available. It
is roughly as follows:
1. The crimes which the allies
charge against Germany already
stand condemned in the public ut
teranccs Of the Pope.
2. In his potential character as a
Judge or mediator the Pope cannot
now express his opinion rs to wheth-
or the allied charges are true and
Germany guilty.
=. "1'hc issue has been joined as
the lawyers say, and the only way
to determine the justice Of the al
lied claims and the guilt or innocence
of Germany is not in the heat Of bat
tie, but in the calm of the council
chamber.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-08

mobile at rapid rate and could not
stop in time when, he heard the car
whistle. The motorman says his car
was not going at more than 10 miles
an hour. AS the automobile reached
the track, the heavy trolley car
struck it and carried it about 40 feet
before the car could be stopped.
Mrs. Samuel Shuck, Mrs. DIETRICH
and Miss Edith Shuck were found
under the car. The bodies Of Mrs.
Samuel Shuck and Mrs. DIETRICH were
badly multilated, their skulls being
crushed and brains scattered along
the track. Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Shucl, were taken to their home,
while Miss Edith Shuck was taken
to the Chambersburg Hospital.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-08
GIRLS ON A STRIKE.
Twenty-Seven OF Southern Manufac-
turing Company of Richmond QUIT.

Twepfy-Seven of Southern Manufac-
turing Company of Richmond Quit.
The twenty-seven young women III
the labelling department. of the South
err Manufacturing Company struck
on Wednesday in Richmond.
When they walked out of the plant
the company was striving might ana
main to fill 4 rush order for baking
nowdcr for the use Of the United
States Army and Navy. One freight
car stood on the company's siding,
partly loaded, and another one was
at hand ready to be loaded anil both
we're to be rushed to quartermas-
ter's depot.
But the company has brought peo.
ple in from other departments, AMI
the shipment will go forward with
out delay.
The action of these young women
which led to the strike began OF
Tuesday afternoon. At that II 4
committee of five waited upon Mama
Ccr w. G. Capitaine They told
him that there were three new girls
!: their lnbeling department who
did not, and would not belong to the
mon. They asked him whether ne
fericd to keep ii;..:G three pIr's
and lose the twentv-sa"en nr to keer
he twenty-seyen al. e;ri.e- Sc; lid
Of The three or f. CO 'hn u i'm
The union.
Manager Capitaine replied that the
Southern Manufacturing Company
maintained an open shop, and had
never taken any part whatsoever in
regard either To their employees
Joining union, buL that if they put
their demand in the form Of IN uIti-
n,atum, the company would certain
" stand behind The three new girls.
as il could not be dictated to in the
running of the business.
The strikers appealed to II. 7. Col
Yin. local representative of the
American Federation of Labor. 2
former resident Of Alexandria, and
h held an interview with Manager
Capitainc. AZ this interview Mr..
Colgin tuid The manager that the
tirls complained against the strict
ness Of their forcwoman. and had
declared this to be the cause Of the
strike.
Mr.. Caoitaine told Mr.. ColTin
that such claim was prcpostcrous,
rs he could prove that ii was tie
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-08

PRESCRIPTIONS OUR sPECIALT 7
r. r Taylors Ul5 Stand.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-09-08
CAR HITS FUNERAL PARTY.
Two Killed and Three Injured II,
Crash Near Wayncsboro, Pa.

Waynesboro, Pa. Sept. S.-Two
persons were killed and three injured
yesterday afternoon at the Belmont
road, west Of Shady Grove, when a
car of the Chambersburg, Green-
castle and Wayncsboro Railway
struck the automobile in winch they
were riding.
The dead are: Mrs. Samuel Shucl;,
Mrs. Ambrose DIETRICH. The Injured
arc: Harry Shuck, son of Mrs. Sam
ucl Shuck, back injured. Mrs. Harry
Shuck, his wife, leg broken. Miss
Edith Shucil, skull fractured.
Mr. Sluck, the driver Of the car, and
lis party, Ill oil whom were of
Middlcburg, Pa, were OF their way
to attend the funeral OF Franz, Il.
Binklcy near GrccncastIe. Corn1cdi
on both sides Of the Belmont road
prevented the occupants Of tho au-
tomchiie from seeing the trolley car
and hid the approaching automobile
from Robert Berlin, motorman Of The
car.
Mr.. Shuc!l was driving his auto