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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-12
A LETTER TO De Needed.

Sioux City Journal: A letter writ
ten upon the battle front In France
by South Dakota man. Captain E.
ID. Rowley, incidentally gives the
most scathing denunciation of the
sinister activities of the Non-parti-
san league that has yet been penned.
The letter Is framed in moderate
language, but gathers force and IL
Illuminating expression from having
been written in the midst of wars
unhoIy horrors-tfe booming OF
guns, the shrieks OF exploding shells.
the glare of star rockets, the din and
rattle OF machine guns and the
groans OF wounded men. After de-
scribing these things in graphic and
intelligent terms, Captain Rowley
paws his respects to the league in
these words:
am sorry to note in the pa
pers that so many of our good
people Farmers especially are
working with the Non-partisan
league. Every soldier over here
who has studied the league and
it's methods feels that the lead
ers and promoters are either
knowingly or innocently doing
things which are bound to pro-
long this war, and therefore
sacrifice more lives. have
heard the soldiers here talk OF
the leaders in strong terms and
liken them to traitors. You may
know that as we see our best
pals give up their lives or are
crippled for life and think Of
anyone back there who would
lift up his hand to hinder in the
least the efforts we are making
to bring this awful war to sue
cessful conclusion, we do not
have the kindest regards for
such.
This Is a striking arraignment, an
awful condemnation OF men who are
working with an organization whose
purpose seems to be to defeat. or
hinder. the work Of their neighbors
engaged over there" In life and
death struggle to save the country
from defeat at the hands Of strong
and interruptions enemy. Gould any
appeal be more direct, or forceful,
with its graphic setting of the glare
of battlefield? 1t should be heed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-12

The FIVE largest counties in Ire
land are: Cork, 1.S3s.931 acres; Gal
way. 1,502.362; Mayo, 1.31S,13o; Don
eeal, 1,190,26S, and Kerry, 1,15s,So6
acres.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-12
Making Old Clothes Popula'

Making Old Clothes Popu'',
New York World: war tiine
eminent regulation OF shoes ~
clothes reduces the mum per OIL ~
bars French heels. limits sa '
sweaters and knit goods 10 "
cent. wool and enforces otner 81,
mics of material. One OF lts ~, ~,
should be to popularize old e'O'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-12
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

ADVERTISED LIE -
List of letters remaining ~
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the week ending October Il i'''
Ladies.
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Mrs. Marge Shultz.
Miss Blanche Smith.
Gentlemen.
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B. ]. Andemon.
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-12

ed by the men to whom
dressed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-12

If we understand and willing to pay the
Temporary price practically nothing that we can
least in quality Of habit character,
life attain to.-Raiph Waldo Urine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-12

Waterloo Times-Tribune: In his
speaking enga gements TO his troops
the kaiser will be careful hereafter to
select front where his audience
won't run away
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-12

Marshalltown Times-RepubIican: Il
you were writing peace terms what
disposition would you make Of those
six cowardly louis known as German
princes?
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15

Your KODAK WORK satisfactorily
done at JULIEN STUDIO.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15

Going through the factory the other
day, | was stopped by this man.
OF course, | thought he wanted to
thank me- Nothing of the kind;
he told me the increase was not
enough. | tell you, there is no graf
itude in them, no matter what you
do for them"
This set me thinking. What
prompted the employee to express for
the first time in years his wage
aspirations? Did the unsolicited
and long-deferred increase in wages
break the bonds of fear that eco
nomic isolation brings to the I'M
organized wage Garner? Was
there the sudden out-burst Of pent-
up resentment against a condition
of servitude that precluded any
voice, direct or indirect, in the sale
of labor and time?
Gratitude may be unfettered or
slavish; it may be the natural express
sion of free wage Garner, or the hypo-
critical and expectant fawning of the
unorganized toiler protected only by
his mythical if legal right of con-
tract" Organized wage earners are
self reliantly grateful; they are ap-
preciative of their hard-won right
of collective bargaining; they are
conscious of their gains through
mass action.
To organized toilers wages are not
gift.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15
DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST WOMEN

The exclusion of women from COM
petition for four positions in the
Department of Agriculture, examina-
ton for which is announced by
the Civil Service Commission to take
place November %, has brought
forth vigorous protest from women
in the departments and from the
Washington Committee Of the Ma
tional Women's Trade Union League.
In letter to Secretary Houston to-
day, the League calls attention to
this discrimination as a violation of
President Wilson's declaration of the
principle of equal rights for women,
and urges that furthermore, the
military demands of the country
would seem to suggest that women
be appointed to civil service positions
at this time rather than men,"
The positions in questions are four
existing vacancies and others that
may occur in the position of pathol-
ogist in cereal disease Investigations
In the Bureau of Plant Industry.
The salaries for the four present DO
sitions are $4,000 to $4,000 per year,
and the duties as described in the Of
ficial announcement are ITO conduct
and direct research on disease of ce-
reals in the office of Cereal Disease
Investigations in the Bureau of
Plant Industry" Much feeling is
said to exist among the women in
the departments that the exclusion
of women from the competition is
due to the fact that the salaries for
these positions are high for Gov
eminent work and the women de-
clare that the appointing officials
nearly always reserve the higher sal
aries for men.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15
Try BLUE RIBBON" Cigar. &c
WHAT Do YOU
THINK is MY SHARE?
(By Bruce Barton)

He is conscientious gentleman,
who honestly wants to do right.
And he came to me shaking his
head.
81 want to do my full part in this
United War Work Campaign" he
said. "Do you think a hundred dol
lars is my share?"
And | told him that it would be
hard for anyone but himself to de-
eide. There are so many differ
ent ways of looking at money" l
said.
A hundred and seventy millions
looks big at first glance. 1t is
forty times what jefferson gave for
the Louisiana territory.
It's dollar and seventy cents for
every man, woman and child in the
land; it's more than eight dollars
and half for every household.
"You can figure it on that basis"
| told him. "On the basis of dol
lars and cents. Or you can figure
it on the basis of boys"
"Of boys?" he questioned. 81 do
not understand"
ITS less than fifteen cents a day
for each of our soldiers and sailors"
| answered. Fifteen cents a day
to give them warmth and comfort
and entertainment, and lectures. and
games, and the thought of mother
and Of God"
Fifteen cents a day for boy:
two for quarter a day How many
boys will you take?
And his eyes kindled. 81 think
could take ten at least" he said.
He drew his check book out.
Figure it out and tell me the
price" he said, | want you to give !
hem the best you've got. What is
t going to COST"
for ten boys, for year, at
.wo for quarter a day."
So | figured it out for him: sup
pose you figure it ont for yourself.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15
AFTER-WAR PROBLEMS

an Time of War Prepare for
Peace"
While massing the nations ener-
gies with increasing effectiveness for
the victorious prosecution of the
war, the duty is pressing more and
more insistently to make full and
well-considered preparations for the
after-war period of readjustmcnt
and reconstruction. The transition
from war to peace will impose a
strain upon national institutions and
resources quite as severe as that
involved in Transforming the coun-
try's activities from a peace to a
war basis.
"a country may court disaster in
two ways: by neglecting in times
of peace to organize for war; by
neglecting in times of war to or
ganize for peace" writes Sir Ed
ward Ward recently in The Months
Work, a magazine issued by the
British Ministry of Munitions. "a
decade ago the first of these two
problems was the one vital to the
Empire; it is the second which is
equally vital today"
Secretary of the Navy Daniels, in
recent address to munition work.
ers, said: when the boys come
back we will have new America,
and we will never go back to the old
times"
An international conference of
workers at Leeds, in 1915, urged
that countries which have not yet
enacted insurance laws regarding
sickness, invalidity, old age and I'M
employment, should pledge them
selves to do so within the shortest
period"
The duty of catching up to al
lied countries with legislative meas
ures of full protection for labor is
not only urgent but immediate. Prob
lens of construction confront us at
the very threshold of entering, with
the rest of the world, upon a pro-
gram of social and industrial re-
construction.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15
WAGES A GIFT?

(By James NJ. Lynch, Former
President, International Topographic
cal Union; New York State Indus
trial Commissioner
There is no gratitude in them"
This assertion was recently made by
manufacturer discussing his en-
ployees. 81 voluntarily raised one
mans wages; he had been with me
for years at the same weekly rate.
and made the increase on my own
motion, without request from him
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15
MEADOWMOORE ICE CREAM
is always the best
MEADOWMOOR DAIRY
1918 Hewitt Ave. Main 20
MANLY LETTER FROM
JOSEPH A. SLOAN

Seattle, Wash, Nov. 9, 1918
Publishers Everett Labor Journal
Everett, Wash.
My Dear Sirs-I wish to take this
occasion to extend to you my sincere
thanks and appreciation for your
loyal support in my candidacy for
Congress in the Second District. Like
myself, you conducted the campaign
in clean and decent manner, as DO
litical campaigns should be conducted
at all times. / was personally con-
graduated by Mr.. Hadley himself.
on the fairness and decency of the
campaign was putting up against
him. Notwithstanding that, however,
Mr.. Hadley's friends and supporters
resorted to the old-time method of
defamation, directly and by inuendo.
their satellites whispering stories
through the district that it was i'm
possible to refute because impossible
w 'iOAV ihSSbih5o UttI LIC voters,
and my appeal was not to the preju-
dice but to patriotism and sound
judgment of the people.
We did not win, but there remains
the satisfaction of having made a
clean fight along honorable lines and
with nothing to make apologies for.
There will doubtless come day
when candidates for office, standing
on this basis, will win easily. There
is an awakening of the higher con-
science of the people and determine
ton to set aside party prejudices for
principle. In the end this will win.
Again thanking you for what YOU
did in my behalf, beg to remain,
Very sincerely yours,
JOSEPH A. SLOAN.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15
HIS PATRIOTISM
SURE HAD A LIMIT

At a recent conference of labor
officials from various States which
was held in Washington represen-
tative from the West told Of a man.
ufacturer who asked for a permit to
work women employed in his fac
tory 10 hours day, when the State
laws set the limit at 50 hours a
week.
81 have invested thousands of dol
lars in Liberty Bonds and War Saw
ings Stamps" said the manufacturer.
Il am doing all possible for the
war. My plant is engaged on Gov
eminent contracts, and it is impera-
tive that l should be able to run the
extra hour a day."
You make your plea from purely
patriotic reasons?" answered the la
Dor official.
absolutely on that ground"
Then, of course, you will be will
ing to give the profits earned by this
extra time to the women workers.
The law is for their protection, and
the extra money would enable them
to command help in their homes and
otherwise ease the strain of long
hours"
The manufacturer turned on his
heel and went away without pressing
his patriotic" claim.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15
UNITED WAR WORK

If there ever was a time the sew
en- splendid organizations engaged in
making the American soldiers in Eu-
rope feel that their sacrifice on the
altar of their country is appreciated
at home NOW is that time.
While our armies have been sue
cessful from the beginnng-which
fact alone was sufficient to main
tain the morale of our soldiers-the
time has come when there is little
prospect of more heavy fighting,
when home influences are more need
ed than ever
The Y. NJ. c. A., the Knights Of
Columbus, the Y. W. C. A., the Jew
ish Welfare Board, the Salvation
Army, War Camp Community Serv-
ice and the American Library Asso-
citation have done noble work for the
boys over there"-made them feel
that the homes they are fighting for
are worthy of their efforts not only
to protect those homes from future
danger but to bring freedom and
peace to the oppressed peoples of
other lands.
Now, that the enemy has gone
down to defeat these soldiers of free
dom must remain for an indefinite
time in foreign lands to restore and
maintain order while the peoples of
the beligerent nations are readjust-
ing themselves to new and far better
conditions.
Our armies have ceased fighting
once powerful and relentless enemies
and are now to become policemen in
the lands of their defeated foes.
Their lives will be humdrum and dis
interesting, at least to the most of
them, and me-sickness will make
them yearn for the comforts and
good cheer of their own dear homes.
Then let each and all of US give
all and more than we can afford to
enable the United War Work societies
to provide those comforts and bene-
fits so much needed by the boys who |
have earned them.
The American soldiers will need
entertainment, and education, and
everything which they are now de-
prived Of and which they would have
at home,
The boys will have many tiresome
idle hours in camp life, then give all
you can to make them feel that the
folks at home love them and are
proud Of them.
Those who have not already con-
tributed to this worthy cause still
have four days Including Sunday
in which to make good before the
campaign closes on next Monday
night
Come through"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15

Thomas Josephs has established a
record at the Fore River shipyards.
He worked ten years without losing
day. He was awarded a vacation
with pay. 1t is not known how long
vacation he got, but it should be
the remainder of his life.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15

Smoke Chas. Sheets CHALLENGE
Toe Cigar.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15

Trunks, Ladies' Handbags, Leather
Goods and Repairing At Everett
Trunk Factory. 2815 Rockefeller.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15

We have repair shop in connec-
ton with store and have an expert
repair man in charge of same. We
make speciality Of repairing motor
cycles, bicycles, typewriters, cash
registers, guns and revolvers. We
also do lock, safe and key work. Tel
ephone and we will cali for your
work and return same when repaired
at Arthur A. Baily's Sporting Goods
and Hardware Store. Both Phones Is
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
JOSEPH M. GLEATON
Deaf AT WARWICK
PIONEER AND CITIZEN OF PROMl-
NENCE BURIED AT SMOAk
YESTERDAY

Joseph NJ Gleaton. one OF he Oldest
and enc OF the most pre- minent citiz,
ems OF Warwick, was buried yester-
day afternoon at Smoak cemetery,
the funeral being Cle of the most
largely attended in this section in
many years. An automobile process
sion nearly two miles long follodew
the remains from the residence 10
the cemetery. Rev. w. +. Hincsley
of Doles conducted the funeral pre-
limin21ies and Warwick Mascns llad
charge at the grave
Mr. Gleatcn was 70 years old was
q Mason and a member of Fort Ear
~ Baptist church. He had much to
do with the up building of the COM
mUni,y : d his section and was a
man of strong personality. He was
an uncle Of p B. and Guyton Gleaton
of Cordele. brother of T. E. and J,
w. Gleatcn and is survived by two
SOS, W. d. and NJ. M. Gleaton and
enc daughter, Mrs Joseph w. Pate
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
DANIELS PRAISES
AMERIC AN NAVY
DELIVERS ADDRESS AT ANNAPo-
LIS TO GRADUATING CLASS.

ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 1.-The United
States naval reserve force, now en-
bracing sixty-nine thousand men and
seyenty-eight hundred officers is iarg-
er than the regular navy when the war
was declared and three times as large
as in the Spanish-American war, Sec
rotary Daniels declared. addressing
the special graduating class of three
hundred reserve officers at the naval
academy.
This is a wonderful record for q
service authorized eighteen months
ago he continued and its creation has
made possible many phases of the
devirsilied work the navy has been
called upon to do Much of the Sc
cretary's address was taken up with
a recital of the brilliant achievements
Of the American destroyer Flotilla in
war and the bravery OF the American
gun crews aboard the merchantmen
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
SON 81. AVS FATHER
in GRADY COUNTY
BAD BLOOD HAD EXISTED Be
TWEEN THEM FOR SOME
TIME.

Cairo, Ga January 81 Niles whit
field, prom emf farmer living ~
miles south OF Cairo, was shot and
Instantly killed yesterday afternoon
by his sea. Robert whitfield The hom-
iciGe occurred Il the home OF the son.
Robert whitfield had earlier in the
afternoon gene 10 the home Of his
father and eGdeavcred to set him to
Dc little saving The father oper-
ated. small mill in that community
end did special iohe r.; sowing Thn~o
he'd been i'll feelings between the
father and SON since last Christmes
end when the son appeared at his
ather' hcEse he was ordered to
leave and did so.
The vC1neer man returned home,
but his father followed him. ahrsing
9nd aursirg him all the wav. When
fho son refused LEI him in the hcuss
tho eatne1 1erlarca wculd Kill MIN
and began to brcakntc the house. It
was then THAI the on shot him. One
load 'ro" double bartel shotgun
was discharged il the breast of the
older man
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
HUNS TO COMBINE
AMERICANS IN CAGE
HAVE ADMIRABLE PROGRAM FOR
FURNISHING PRISONERS.

WITH AMERICAN ARMY France,
Thursday, Jan. 31.-American officers
at the front have documents said to
have been taken from the Germans OPP
posite our positions which say all
prisoners, including officers, after they
are captured shall be confined in cages
four days without food and compelled
to stand all the time.
At the end Of tina period they are to
be given small quantities of food
1t is believed the order resulted
from the difficulties the German pro-
badly experienced in extracting infor-
nation from the first-American prison
ers captured in November
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
DiscIaim Strike Credit.

AMSTERDAM, Feb. 1.-The German
newspapers generally estimate the
number of strikers at a hundred and
eighty thousand. They say the disin-
tegration movement is preceding rapid
ly.
The riots yesterday are said to have
been due to the anger of the strikers
on realizing that the movement was
doomed to early failure
The trades unions are declining to
pay out strike benefits and the gov
erning board of the social democratic
party announced yesterday it had not
taken over the management of the
strike. The trades unions through
tn general committee disclaimed any
responsibility and the strike cons
Qeuently appears to have been orphan
ed, so far as these two bodies are con
cerned.
The Tageblatt warns Schiedemann
and Ebert the socialist leaders against
trying to play Trotsky's game.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
ANOTHER SHOT IS
DIRECTED AT
LENINE
n
Sh9BENT ARRESTED CHARGED
WITH ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF
PREMIER.

LONDON, Feb. Another unsuc-
cessful attempt on the life of Premier
Lenine was made last night, accord
ing to the Petrograd correspondent of
the Daily News
A young man in Students uniform
entered the Somlny Institute at Boil
sheviki headquarters and fired the first
shot from revolver at the Premier
without hitting him.
Red guards stationed outside the
premier's room arrested him and
charged him with neglect of duty and
an attempt to assassinate Premier
Linene. He was also charged with
the tempt made January 10th when
the shots were fired at him while he
was riding with friends.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
POLISH LECIONS
HASDECLARED
WAR
BOLSHEVlKi is ATTACKED AND
HARD FIGHTING ON.

LONDON Feb. News has reach
ed Kiey from Minsk that the Polish
legion has declared war against the
Bolsheyiki. A Reuter- dispatch from
Petrograd says the report of tie lie
gion's action also is forwarded by the
Petrograd correspondent of the Ex-
change Telegraph, who says that, ac-
cording to a telegram from Minsk, the
Bolsheyiki have attacked a Polish di-
vision under General Ottapovitch and
heavy lighting has occurred
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
COAL MINERS CALL
FOR MORE BREAD
TIE UP IN TRANSPORTATION HAS
CUT OFF SUPPLIES FROM
COAL FIELDS.

WASHINGTON, Feb 1.-The scarcity
of food caused by the tie up Of trans
portation facilities handicapping the
coal output in Southwestern Virgin
ia fields and an urgent appeal has
come to officials here for -four and
meal
The Southwestern Virginia coal op
orators association tclegraphed the
National association that a hundred
thousand N2ople in that section are in
need and ten car loads of -four and
meal should be hurried into Norton,
Va for distribution to the mine work
ers and their families.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
RED GUARDS ARE
GIVING UP FIGHT
REPORT THAT SELECTION IN FIN
LAND is BETTER.

LONDON, Feb 1.-The situation in
Finland is more reassuring, according
to the latest reports received at the
Finnish Legation at Stockholm and
transmitted by the Times correspon-
dent
The Red Guards have been disarmed
or are willingly surrendering their
arms all over the country.
Revolutionists still hold Helingsfors
the capital The White Guard, it is
announced took the town of Tevaste-
hus, sixty miles northwest of Helsing
fors and Juveskyle in south central
Finland.
Strikes continue in Helsingfore.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-02-01
PLANNING FOR BIG
SEA FOOD INCREASE
MEETING IN NEW ORLEANS TO
RELEASE MEANS.

NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 1.-The food
administrators of five of the Gulf states
began a conference here today with
fish and seafood dealers, fish and game
commissioners, and the fishermen of
the Gulf states to determine upnn
measures to stimulate the production
of fish, shrimp and oysters in south
ern waters and to formulate rregu'a-
and sea foods under federal food adj
ministration.