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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

noon at 2 o'clock.
Luther N Ketland, of f412 South
Lee street, another of Alexandria S
Young volunteers. left for the naval
training station at Newport. Rhode
Island, this morning.
A cake and pie sale will be conduct
ed throughout the day tomorrow at
$50 King street for the benefit of
the Sanctuary of St. Mary's Church.
Homemade cakes and pies will be
sold at reasonable price.
Arrangements are completed for
the dance tonight in the Elks' audi
torium for the benefit of the AleXan-
dria Light Infantry, and this is the
oportunity to show the proper inter-
est in the local military organization.
A reception is to be given to the
Rev. z. Y. REGISTER, the new pas
tor of the Methodist Church. South,
and also to the Rev. B. W. Bond,
presiding elder, on Tuesday evening
next in the Young Peoples building,
to which the public is invited.
Henry Lewis Gunncll, of Fairfax,
who served as a lieutenant Of the
Seventeenth Virginia infantry, Con-
federate States Of America, in the
civil war, died suddenly at the home
of his sister, Mrs. Horace Atkisson,
1904 P street, Washington, Wednes-
day. The funeral services will be
conducted at Lees chapel tomorrow
at . o'clock. Interment will be in
Arlington. The deceased was we'll
known il; Alexandria, whieh city he
often visited
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

The recruiting squad of the Alex
andria Light Infantry report two re-
cruits today. They are Robert j. Poss,
and Frank C. Glasgow.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

MONEY TO LOAN-On first mort
gage in Alexandria and Rosemont
Apply to Howard W. Smith, 1Oi
north Fairfax street 1-12-H
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

Mrs. Emma Ross, aged IS, wife Of
Wm. F. Ross, who died at their home
in Del Ray, Alexandria county, on
Wednesday, will be buried this after
noon ct 2 o'clock.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

Garden and flower seeds, 1c pack
age. Elliott's.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20
Alexandria City and Suburbs

]. Randall Cation, Jr., will be the
orator on the occasion of the Confed-
crate Memorial day services or May
oath.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

The regular monthly meeting Of the
Promoters of the League of the Sa-
cred Heart has been postponed from
tonight to Monday April %, 1917, at
8 D. m. in the Lyceum Hall.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

Maryland spring chickens at Ram
mel's cafe. 7.'
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

Potomac shad and shad roe at Ram
mers cafe.
FISH
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

Vegetable seeds, full Of life, fol-
your garden, 10c cup. Elliott's.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20
Lecture.

Lecture on Faith and Patriotism"
by Rev. Randolph n. McKim, Christ
Church Parish Hall, Monday, April
%, at s p. M. Admission 25 cents.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

California privet for hedges, spec
ial this week 75c dozen. Elliott's.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

The Rev. William Jackson Morton,
has returned from visit to his par
ents. Dr.. and Mrs. Charles Bruce
Morton, at their home in Spottsyl-
vania county.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20
CLANS

CLANS
OYSTERS
J. BRILL. No. 2 King St.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

Deviled Crabs. little neck clans and
clam chowder at Rammers Cafe.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

Miss Betty Tyler, died yesterday
at her home at Fairfax Court House,
of apoplexy. The funeral will be held
at II o'clock Saturday morning. at
Fairfax.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-04-20

The ladies of the Willard W. c. I.
u. will hold cake sale in the public
market tomorrow from to II o'clock
for the benefit of the Children's Home
and other charitable work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
THE ALLIED CONFERENCE.

Z Orr government has decided wisely to take
no part in the allied conference In Paris this
month The principal matter to be discussed
at the coming meeting is the situation at Sa-
lonica: but as we have neither troops nor ships
there we can very properly leave that campaign
to our allies. They have an army in that region
of more than seven hundred thousand men to
which two hundred and fifty thousand Greeks
are to be added as soon as they can be moblllzed
and be equipped
Having fought the war for nearly three years
before we Joined them and their situation being
more Immediately desperate than ours, the
allies are entitled to determine what their pres
ent policy shall be. Their sufferings and sacrl-
fees have been unreasonable Ours have only
begun The entente governments can make
ouick and secret decision what they Will do;
but if our government took part and had to
refer any matter to the senate, unfortunate pub
licity might be given to the PLAN We shall be
a very great factor in the final settlement OF
world affairs and shall have earned our right
to be. But it probably would be more embar-
RAISING to us than otherwise to take part in
allied conferences now, with an element IN con-
gress that would bring pressure on the presi-
dent to propose pro- German peace.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25

efforts to throw off Prussian rule. In 1848
they tried to deliver themselves from Prusslan
militarsm and Austrian imperialism but were
crushed. Again in 1866 they tried it, but the
Prussian militarists were perfectly organized
while the German states were not and IN add
ton were hampered by the dishonest leader
ship of Austria. Once more the liberty lovers
failed and the unifcation of Germany which
followed was really Prussias conquest and
domination of the German race.
A result of these Intellectual fights for free
dom of much Importance to the world was that
great numbers of the most highly developed
Germans forsook their country and carried to
other lands our own included,~ their passion
to be free In their new homes they showed
themselves as tenacious of their rights and as
resistant of interference with them as any
people on earth Memories of their birthland
invest it with glamor naturally enough. But
most of them who revisit their ancestral land
feel cramped by the governmental system and
discover that they are Americans whose heart
home is here
The Germans who did not emigrate were
more amenable to discipline, and under Prus-
sian control the empire grew rich and powerful
and prospered enormously up to the outbreak
of the war. Their material progress recon
ciled the people to system of government IN
which the king of Prussia and the imperial
senate under his control have all the political
power there is But this war which is bank
rupting the empire has dealt Prussian prestige
a heavy blow; and it is now the innermost pur-
pose and the avowed intention Of the allies to
make if possible an end of Prussianism and set
the.German people free.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
BEWARE OF <sWAR SUBSTITUTES. .

It is fantastic story, related by Prague
newspaper, of an artist determined to kill him
self and yet could not succeed until he partook
of ''war substitute stew in a restaurant
This tired-of- life man Of middle age procured
a potion of violent poison and took a deadly
dose-that is, it would have been deadly If 1t
had been deadly. But death refused to come
The vial was analysed and was found to con-
tain harmless 'twar substitute = poison. The
desperate man then procured rope and pro-
ceeded to hang himself But the rope was
made of paper pulp and broke, leaving him
full of life.
The would-be suicide began to feel that the
Fates had decreed that he should live. In
the joy of the thought he repaired to restau-
rant and ordered and ate alleged meat stew.
It was a 'swar substitute stew. In two hours
he was dead
This may be true story. And yet again it
may be the snalze-story season in Prague. At
any rate, the dire possibilities of "war substi-
tute'' stews will be borne in mind here in
Keokuk.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25

sary for the Gazette to explain that
when thing happens it is news? An
nouncing it before 1T happens is plain
and simple advertising, service
which the Gazette is pleased to offer
for sale at very moderate price,
just the same as a merchant offers
his goods for sale. There is no
more reason for the Gazette giving
away it's advertising than there is
for the merchant to stand behind his
counters and give away his mer.
chandise to all who come and ask
for it.
The Gazette Is not finding fault
with anybody. because the public Is
not to blame. For years some news
papers have simply gone down on
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
Iandis snsaka Out.

Chicago News: Judge Lands, a
lifelong republican, addressing the re-
publican Hamilton club, was cheered
enthusiastically on Saturday when he
spoke out plainly against the attitude
toward the war which has been as
sumed by Mayor Thompson and Will
liam E. Mason, representative at large
in congress from Illinois.
Judge Lands performed one SER
vice OF special importance in his Ham
ilton club speech when he pointed out
the absurdity of Representative Ma
sons position on the question of the
legal right of the government to send
the militia to Europe, position which
Mason has sought to bolster up by
quoting Attorney General Wickersham
in support of it.
Mr.. Wickersham, when attorney gen.
eral, did give an opinion in 1912 to
the effect that the president was with
out authority to send organized militia
of the states into foreign countries.
This opinion antedated the outbreak
Of the European war by more than two
years. In a telegram to Judge Lands
Mr. Wickersham sustains the validity
and the wisdom Of the present prac-
tice Of the United States, which is TAX
ing the members of the national guard
directly into the federal service as a
means of meeting the legal objection
raised by him five years ago.
If politicians of the type of Thomp-
son and Mason think they can gain
political prestige by acting the part Of
lcopperheads in the present war they
have failed to reckon with the indigna-
ton of patriotic citizens Of their own
party.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
The cave Taking.

Omaha World-Herald: We are en-
tering the "goodby" days in America
In thousands Of homes, mothers
and sisters, wives and sweethearts
will be kissing and embracing their
bow in khaki Fathers and elder
brothers will be clasping his hand
In grip whose significance lies TOO
deep for mere words.
It is a beautiful ritual, this leave
taking. 1t is more. It is a symbol OF
American idealism. Although the
soldier may be only exchanging his
home for the concentration camp, the
parting from loved ones is always
sweet SORROW" He is going forth
to take his chance with an honor
able death that America might have
a chance with an honorable life.
There is pathos and pride in the
tragedy that is enacted on every
doorstep Of every American home as
its soldier boy steps across the
threshold, out Of the comforts OF
home into the grim gamble of war.
But there is compensation for
all this. America is engaged in the
greatest war of all time and is act.
uated by the noblest principles that
ever moved nation. There is rea-
son for great pride if your boy or
your neighbours boy plays his part
well, even though his duty leads him
to death. Mere living is nothing.
1t is the way a man goes to his death
that glorifies his life. And Ameri-
can soldiers have the privilege of
dying for the most glorious cause
that ever warranted war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
TO SET GERMAN PEOPLE FREE.

An eminent clergyman Of London contesses
that at one time in his life he shared with
Carlyle Matthew Arnold and other Engllshmen
an ardent admiration for Prussia. Events and
fnller knowledge have modified that, but for
the German people he still retains his warm
regard. A Europe without great and influ-
entail German people is inconceivabe to him
as it must be to most men who give the matter
dispassionate thought. But he realizes that the
Germany of tomorrow will be enfranchised
liberated self -governing, and that the Prusslan
state which has so long disquieted Europe will
be shorn of its power
Twice have the German people made heroic
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
Free Newspaper Space.

GAINESVILLE, Wis, Gazette: When
other folks donate hall, donate the
music, donate the speaking, donate
the decorations. donate the feed.
donate the invitations, donate the
programs, In fact, everything con
nected with the entertainment. and
no charge is made for admission, or
there is nothing to sell, it ought to
be clear to all fair-minded people
that then it is perfectly fair to come
to the Gazette and ask it to donate
It's services in bringing the crowd
that is necessary to make success
of the affair o..
How many times will it be neces-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25


the 1917 Chinese Monarchy" but the
paper industry won't notice 1t.
Sioux City Journal: AS further
item OF reinsurance to the young men
who leave their jobs to go to the front
1t may be pointed out that during their
absence the number of jobs will not
Ierceptibly diminish while the num-
Der Of young men will
Marshalltown Times-R Republican
Presumably there are those among
the conscripts who may smile when
they read about the first thing those
French people did was to send over a
bottle of champagne and a liter Of red
wine for every American soldier.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The way to
bump the kaiser is to raise bumper
crops and not let him have bit OF It,
Cedar Rapids Republican: OF course
everyone except the men in congress
who wanted to call attention to the
fact that they also have something TO
do with this war, realizes that every
day that necessary legislation is de-
layed there are certain advantages
that accrue to the enemy nations. The
German Won Bernstorff were he still
in this country could do no shrewder
work than congress is doing now for
the delaying Of the game. While con-
gressmen are striving to save proceed
ents in authority. they are losing ad-
vantages for the country.
Des Moines Tribune: France may
~ fof, II of The hit AmGrt.
can tourists will learn that prices have
not been reduced so they can notice it.
Davenport Times: The appointment
of officers, if left to the war depart
ment where it belongs. will be free
from faint of suspicion. Politicians
should keep their hands of.
Abba Union: Men in this country
last year were literally robbed of their
earnings to meet high prices. But the
grafters will never get away with their
deals. Watch their future. They Will
lose out in the end.
Clear Lake Mirror: In a state in
which a systematic effort was made 10
improve the roads, 1t followed that
more money was spent on improving
the rural churches than the roads cost.
Mud is an enemy Of religion.
Estherville vindicator: Lots Of ex-
cuses have been made for refusing
Theodore Roosevelt permission to go
to France with volunteer army, but
none Of them is plausible and behind
them all can be seen the shadow OF
the greeneyed monster that too often
dominates in the administration of the
army.
Logan Observer: BY the way, there
must be quite fleet of submarines
down where McGinty went.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
ToDAY,s BIT OF VERSE
WHEN MEMORY FADES.

WHEN MEMORY FADES.
You ask dear, when fond recoections
OF days that are vanished shall pale;
When remembrance of love and affection
That / tendery cherish, shall fail?
: Know We then, when each incoming season
Brings to earth renewal of youth;
When mad ecstacy banishes reason.
When error shall triumph DER truth.
When the rivers go dry at their fountains;
When the ocean has sunk from its bed;
When the valleys and plains become mountains;
When in the dark heavens DER head,
Sun and stars with their fiery flashes
Into funeral pyres made
For a universe dead and in ashes
Then only, shall memory fade.
Francis ]. Gable
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25

San Francisco claims to have pros
perity nailed down on both sides of
the bay. Building operations. accord
ing to the Chronicle, are limited only
to the ability to get material and
labor. Fat wages prevail. jobs are
seeking more hands and general bust
ness keeps step to the Industrial
music.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
Autocraey vs.. Democracy.

But this question of autocracy
versus democracy cannot be settled
by force, you tell me; no question
can be settled by force, my pacif1st
friends all say. And this in coun-
try in which a civil war was fought
and the question of slavery and Sc
cession settled! / can speak with
especial certainty of this question,
because all my ancestors were south
erners and fought on the rebel side;
myself am living testimony to the
fact that force can and does settle
HQuestions-when it is used with In
telligence. II the civil war had not
been fought out, If Horace Greeley
and the other pacifists had been able
to call truce, the chances are a
hundred to one that l today should
be a slave owner and a pro-slavery
propaganda.
1t is certain that there would be
standing armies of several million
men on each side of the Mason and
Dixon line, European empires In Mex
leo and South america, Canada, and
participation of the north and south
on opposite sides in the present war
In the same way. 1 say that if Ger
many be allowed to win this war
and by her ruling caste 1t is clearly
understood that Ito win means to
escape from their predicament with
their hold upon Germany. Austria,
Bulgaria and Turkey unbroken-
then we in America shall have to
drop every other activity and devote
the next twenty or thirty years to
preparing for last ditch defense of
the democratic principle This is
what foresee and how, when 1 see
it, can / fail to warn the American
working class?
l have done what could within
the party. | pleaded against the
majority report, but 1 could not even
be heard. The Appeal to Reason, a
paper to which / have been con-
tinual contributor for sixteen years.
refused to allow me to put my ideas
before its readers. It refused even
to print the minority report; you
may recall that local Pasadena
adopted resolution and sent tele-
gram to the Appeal protesting against
this course, but in vain. And now
comes the news that the Appeal has
been suppressed, and along with 1t
the American Socialist, the Masses.
the International Socialist Review.
The whole party press has been prac.
tically wiped out-just as the party
organization will be wiped out If it
/ endeavors to carry into effect its for.
mally declared policy Of mass oppo.
sition to conscription. Once before
in American history there was mass
opposition to conscription-in the
streets of New York; all students OF
our history know how 1t was dealt
with by that archespot and destroyer
Of human liberty, Abraham Lincoln.
! intend to go on working for So
cialism as hard as can; and when
this crisis is past, when the break
down of the Prussian caste system
seems to me to have progressed far
enough, may come back AMI ask
/ you to take me in again You will
then decide whether or not you care
to do so. Yours for social ravolu-
ton,
j UPTON SINCLAIR.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25

their knees. SO to speak, cha,.
felix's all over a 10-acre lot. and by
ged them to carry away their adrl
Using write-ups, free. Cond,,;os}
have SO changed that this generos,.
is no longer possible, even if II wa.
sensible. "eq
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
Letter of Resignation
Of Upton Sinclair to
the Socialist Party

organization-it would be wiped out
in twenty-four hours. pointed out
what this meant; that the rest or
Europe was compelled to arm against
Germany, and this they admitted.
The best they could answer was that
after a war, and especially after an
unsuccessful war, their time would
come.
l call attention especially to that
last sentence, which / quote literally
from a letter of Germany's intellec-
tual leader-"especially after an un-
successful war" If the German
party leaders object to my attitude
at the present moment, / tell them
that / am merely standing on the
program which they themselves out
lined to me in the summer of 1913.
If the German government is wild
beast, and if the forces of reason
and decency within Germany admit
themselves helpless in the grip OF
that beast, then obviously it is up to
the rest of the world to bind and
chain the beast. setting free the Ger
man socialists along with the rest Of
mankind.
l cannot but believe, comrades.
that the difference between our
opinions comes from the fact that
have lived in Germany, and know its
language and literature and the spirit
and ideals of its rulers. Having given
many years to study Of American
capitalism as it exists in the domain
Of the beef trust, the steel trust, and
the coal trust, am not apt to be
blind to the defects OF my own coun-
try; but in spite Of these defects
assert that the difference between the
ruling class of Germany and that of
America is the difference between
the seventeenth century and the
twentieth. I find those with whom
talk here in the west utterly unable
to conceive what the Prussian ruling
class is. They cite its modernness
its use of science. failing to realize
that this is precisely the thing which
makes 1t dangerous beast with the
brains of an engineer. They cite the
good care it takes Of its workers,
failing to realize that every farmer
who fattens animals for the slaugh-
ter house does the same thing, and
from the same motive.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25
There's a Reason

Pennsylvania Punch Bowl: Bec,r
a girl with pretty teeth laughs
your joke is no sign that the Joke
especially amusing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25

The poems by James Whitcomb Riley entitled
Goods Hand on the Heinz and 'Our Kind OF
a Man, published in The Gate City on May
ten and nineteen, respectively, should have
carried as part of the matter the following
credit: 'sFrom the biographical edition OF the
comnlete works of James Whitcomb Riley.
DOWNRIGHT 1913. The Bobbs-M Merrill company,
Indianapolis
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25

One hour of honest thought is worth whole
weeks of ecstatic alteration, when ecstacy is
not based on knowledge and alteration does
not issue in action.-F. Harrison.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-25

Mr.. Hoover was pretty popular when he
to this country from his work IN
Belgium. He may come to be loved for the
enemies he has made since.