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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20

Carol Todd assistant attorney gen.
eral and Mark Hyman4 special assist
ant to the attorney general to direct
the investigation of alleged irregu-
larities at the Hog Island ship build
ing yards. Todd and Hyman have
been associated ia the investigation
of many big trust suits.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20

Russell, former Texas Lacquer, and
more recently pitcher for the Chi
cago White Sox; Cadet Marshall, end
on the Brown football team last year.
names on all-American football teams.
and Cadet Aubrey (Tubby) Carter,
right guard on the University OF
Virginia team in 1912.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
Packey Teaches Boxing.

limited Press Leased Wire Service ]
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-Camp Grant
soldiers today received word that
Packey Mcfarland has been engaged
as boxing instructor for the men
stationed there. Major Mclaughlin
is reported to have agreed to pay
Packey's expenses and salary person
ally. Signing Of an instructor follows
defeat Of Grant boxers last week by
Camp Dodge representatives
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
Kino Of Hoboes .EnIists.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.j
TOLEDO, Ohio. Feb. 20-King
Davis, king of the hoboes, who found
ed the Hotel DeGink in New York,
and who has been about the country
organizing hobo tanks, enlisted in
the U. S. marine corps here today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
Twenty Year Sentence.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CAMP FUNSTON, Kan. Feb. 90
George Yeager, Troy, Kansas. and
Gordon Spradfin, Montrose, Colorado,
convicted by a military court here on
charges of draft evasion, today were
sentenced to twenty years each In
worth.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
Rice EnIIsts.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, Feb. 20.-Sam Rice,
outfielder for Griff1th's Washington
club, today was a regular at Uncle
Sans Great Lakes naval training
school
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20

While bunch of sporty boys were
striving to break a faro bank in Min
neapolis. seven holdup men butted
into the game and cleared UP the
house and the crowd. The haul net
ted $1,000 in money and jewels.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
Three Stare In Aviation.

limited Press Leased Wire Service
DALLAS, Texas, Feb. 20.-Three
nationally known athletes today were
s'high" on the way to becoming avia-
tors for Americas flying service.
They are stationed at Camp Dick
ground school near here. Cadet Reb
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
Farmers of This Section Are Helping
to Discover Data About This
Very important
Crop.
THIS is PATRIOTIC DUTY
West Point Club Is Working In Co.
" operation with George B.
Stewart for This
' Tahuation.

The farmers Of Leo county, with the
cooperation of George B. Stewart,
county food administrator, and through
a general committee of the West Point
Comm ercial club. are undertaking
general census Of wheat acreage and;
seed wheat throughout the county. A
county committee has been called
which will undertake to obtain the
names of all farmers in every town
ship and school district, asking them
to report the number OF acres Of wheat
sowed last year. the approvima ate yield
per acres the amount of spring wheat
they now have on hand:s the amount
for sale; the number of acres that
would be sown if seed wheat could be
obtained: and finally. the number OF
acres which will be sown this year IL
seed wheat can be obtained at rea-
sonable price.
A Patriotic Duty.
The Lee county men, are Going at
ter this proposition in earnest They
feel that every farmer in Lee county
should be member Of this committee
and feel It his patriotic duty to assist
In an enterprise which is undertaken
for the further security of the country
The men Of Lee county are proba-
bly, the first In the state to start up
an organization of this kind and
tremen dous increase in the acreage
sown in spring wheat is anticipated.
An effort will be made to induce
every farmer to SOW at least few ad-
ditional acres this year in wheat and
the total for the county will be q
handsome one.
Telephone is Used.
The census is being taken by per-
sonal visit and by telephone Every
possible volunteer among the farmers
| is being pressed in to aid in making
| the census complete. When all the
districts have been thoroughly can
vassed. the blanks viii be mailed to
1.-THE West Point Commercial club,
which will make a tabulation of them
Saturday. February 23rd. This tabu-
ilation will show just how much seed
wheat there is on hand in Lee county
| and how much additional wheat will
| be needed to take care of the addt-
tional acreage, which the farmers will
be prepared to SOW. These reports
will then be presented to the United
States food administration at Burling.
tton. Iowa. MT. Deems will endeavor
to secure any additional seed wheat
which may be needed, through the
United States food administration
grain corporation, which has its OF
fee at IA Broa dway, New York.
Prompt attention to this matter Is
urged upon every canvasser by the
county food administrator. and the
/ investigation blanks are Ito be mailed
TO the West Point Commercial clAt
not later than February 22nd.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
BIG i:::;; !: / II;
SOLD BY DRU9GIsTs:.. ~
Parcel Post II desired-Price y, OF po'A
= fL0RnL0AS ~u>sCfAjNA1tv
dun EVANS CHEMICAL co.. CiNS''''
EARTHQUAKE Y
KILLS 2,0N
City In China Reported Praet'eAq
Destroyed and Hundreds
are Dead or
Wounded.

UNITED Press Leased Wire serFi.sa
TOXIC, Feb. 20.-Two thous's J.
persons were killed or injured III q
earthquake which practically oesu
ed the Chinese city of SwatoW nm
cording to a dispatch from nv
Kong today.
[Swatow is a treaty port M
province of Kwang Tung, on the =
river. It. is 225 miles nortneas
Canton and is center OF the . ss1
industry. The 1901 census 90 oToj
gave the city population OF o0''
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
Aasistants Appolnted

United Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2o--Attorney
General Gregory today designated G.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20
OIL BETTER
THAN JUICE
Standard Oils Prove Superiority OF
Their Product, and irwin
Phillips Take Another
Game.

Scientists seem to think that cleo
tricity is more powerful than saso-
line, but exhaustive Ito the players)
tests made in the Y. NJ. G. A. gym
nasium last night proved the con-
trary. The Standard Oil quintet
mopped UP the floor with the Mlssis-
sippi River Power company's team TO
the tune of % to T.. The game stood
at to 4 for the Standards at the
end of the first half, but the Rookie
fellers popped up during the latter
period and fairly ran away from their
opponents.
The Irwin Phillips took firmer
grin on their title when they wal
Ioped the Keokuk Electrics to the
tune of 40 to IA They short cir
cuited, grounded and dead wired
their opponents with easy strides
and went one notch nearer the cham
pionship of the Commercial basket
ball league.
The line-ups:
Irwin-PhiIlips. Keokuk Electrics.
Devero ..-....... Marks
Right forward.
McQuoid dorooh
Left forward.
Hopp hopeie %
Center.
Mccafrery .......:.... Carlson
Right guard.
Metzinger ............. Richard
Left guard.
Field baskets: Devero, 8; McQuoid.
A.: Hopp, 4; McCaffery. 3; Marks, q;
Gordon, A; Carlson, 2; Roberts.
Free throws: Hopp. 2.
Standard Oil. NJ H. r 20.
Banks ..-...-....-., "ycoH
Right forward.
klann uiesS
Left forward.
- Center.
Shank hieheit
| Right guard.
Klepfer -. Denton
| Left guard.
! Field baskets: Banks. 5; Klann, 3;
| Shank, Q; Wolf, Yeast, Q; Rfekert.
F! Free throws: Klann. Denton.
| Referee. Dickey; scorer. Schaefer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20

Field baSRets. BaLhs, o, N1dHH' o,
Shank, Q; Wolf, Yeast. Q: Rfekert.
Free throws: Klann, Denton.
Referee, Dickey; scorer, Schaefer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-20

Field baskets: Devero, 8; McQuoid,
4; :, Hopp, 4; McCaffery, 3; Marks, =,
Gordon, A; Carlson, 2; Roberts.
Free throws: Hopp. 2.
Standard Oil. M. H. r 20.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
HAD NEWS FOR THE PIE BELT

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Sad news, bad news, comes from the food administration. The licensing of the bakers and the restricted use of wheat flour will seriously interfere with the manufacture of pies and doughnuts. It is said that there have already been ve- hement protests from New England, the center of the pie belt. The exact limits of this gustatory area are open to dis pute. It is supposed to stretch across New York into Pennsylvania How much further south or west does it go? It would be an error to regard it as con terminous with the use of pie. The real test is the eating of pie for breakfast. There is no we'll defined doughnut belt, but as a rule the pie and the doughnut are twin dishes. A doughnut with the second cup of coffee has long been the rule in many households. It is taken after the pie. Can both be given up at orce? May the New Englander have choice between pie and doughnuts at least until he can accustom himself to hardship? Or may it not be possible to use other materials? How much wheat flour must there be in a doughnut? Does it differ in this respect from a cruller? Tn one portion of the pie belt the Rhode Island johnny cake, made of white corn meal, is preferred to either pie or dough- nuts. Hitherto its use has been strictly local. Perhaps this time of scarcity may spread it. Yet to think of any substi- tute involves stupendous flight of inn agination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
Great Building Boom
 After War Is Over

1 Wl{THILE vast sums of money have w been expended on industrial iexpansion and the erection of mills for the production of munitions and other things needed in the war, com- lparatively little has been done in other lines of building. The govern ment has wisely discouraged every enterprise that would tax transporta- tion facilities or draw upon the labor supply.
 But after peace comes this coun- try will witness the greatest build ing activity in it's history. There will l be a phenomenal demand for large mercantile houses of modern design and for the better class of dwellings,.
 Handsome residences that have been
 planned, but will not be built while
 the war lasts, will be in course of
 construction immediately after the
 smoke of battle is gone.
 l Real estate values will reach far higher levels and the prudent man of
 ample means will not wait until the
 building excitement is due, but will
 Invest now while prices are down. 1 When will the war end? No one
 knows, but many keen observers are
 predicting that 1918 will see the last
 of it. President Wilson, himself, in
 his recent address to the farmers, let it be known that he was inclined to
 believe hostilities would not be ex-
 tended beyond this year.
 If this belief becomes general a
 healthy real estate boom should be
 under headway before the year is
 much older.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
* * < Men Who Rise From Humble Environment

ONE sometimes hears it said that W in this day of "big business" a poor boy beginning life in a work shop at an age when he should be at school, has little opportunity for self improvement or advancement in leadership requiring brains and cul- ture.
 Time was when few statesmen, and fewer great manufacturers or great merchants, had early educational ad- vantages. Most of them began earning wages before they were in their teens, but ambitious boys rose steadily until they reached the top. And it has been so in recent years. Today many captains of industry and politicians of commanding influence have come up from humble environment. The late Senator William Hughes of New Jersey was a conspicuous example.
 At the age of eleven he was em- rloyed in mill in Paterson. It is learned from one of his senatorial colleagues, in an interview in the New York Sun, that Senator Hughes was not only democrat of constructive ideas, but a man who could "do things" While a member of the House of Representatives he led the movement to change the method of committee selections from appoint ment by the speaker to election in caucus
 MT. Hughes had been student all through his youth while working ten hours day in the mill, and at the age of twenty-one was admitted to the bar. In addition to his political equipment and influence, he was known among his friends as man of literary taste and wide reading. He was an authority on Shakespeare and could recite more lines than any body. outside of the theatrical profes- sion. He had read all the commen- taries and those who were his inti- mates say that, had he chosen liter ature as his life work, he would have become eminent as q man of letters
 Notwithstanding the fact that the public school system has broadened and college training has become pop ular, many a poor boy is forced by circumstances to become wage eaTner while mere lad, and the time will never come when he cannot rise to distinction, provided he be manly and has the stuff in him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

You may not believe it. But many an orator can convince others when he ] can't convince himself. It is a good thing that there is no marrying in heaven. If there were, some married men would prefer the other place.
 A mans idea of economy is to quit smoking five 1o-cent cigars per day and smoke 10 5-cent cigars per day. Another remarkable thing is how women lack the sense of humor and yet like to be humored. Isn't it strange how many dumh pin- heads there are who had sense enough to he Torn with rich fathers?
 A man will growl all day and then kick the lining out of the dog because l 1t barks at night. And the weaker man is the easier
 he finds it to break promise 4 man needs set of tools when he l,wants to fix something around the house. But woman can get along with a hair pin.
 When you hear man whining that 1 he is. tired of the world the betting is thsr tie world reciprocates. 1 Any elderly woman can tell you that l a lack of wrinkles on womans face
 shows 2 lack of character. | Our idea of brave man is one who
 has nerve enough to bring a male friend
 herle 10 dinner with him without noti- l flying his wife that she is to have coia- pany.
 l It takes most men long time to dis
 cover that things won't come your vas
 unless you go after them. We overheard an argument in kaii the other day. One man claimed hal an acrostic was scantling used in rig. tsing up scaffolding and the other man claimed that an acrostic was man whr didn't believe in any religion.
 1 After a woman makes up her mic tf Ego downtown she goes upstairs saa
 makes up her face.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06

Europe is because they had studied in a conservatory with a view of becoming authoritative leaders, and, because too, they had had large ex- perience
 No one can become conductor on theory alone. Modern exactions call for thorough knowledge of harmony and counterpoint, but experience also lis necessary, to say nothing of per- sonality. Many a musician who can write music grammatically is com pletely at sea when he stands up be- fore an orchestra and tries to con- duet. Indeed, some of the most emil nent composers have failed in con- ducting. Masters like Richard Wag- ner and Richard Strauss have been among the few exceptions to the rule. But we Americans have developed a marked appreciation of the best music, and Americans are coming well to the front as composers. It should be only a short time, then, when all the large orchestras will be led by Americans.
 It may be of interest to give the Musical Leaders list of orchestras, most of them of guaranteed perma- nency." Here it is: The Chicago Sym phony, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Symphony, the Mime apolis Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the New York Philhar- monic, the New York Symphony, the Russian Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, The American Symphony of Chicago, the Philharmonic of Chicago, the De- troit Symphony, the Denver Sym phony, the Kansas City Symphony, the New Orleans Symphony, the Port land Symphony.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
Regarding Cotton
 Acreage Increase

|N COMMISSIONER OF AGRICUL- N TURF J. A. WADE, in his
 weekly letter just issued, discusses
 chiefly the cotton acreage question.
 That there will be larger acreage planted this year than last may be taken for granted. The high price of the staple obtaining now, and an even higher price level is expected, will naturally invite a larger crop in the coming season; but it would be a mis- take to plant for bumper production. The world will need more cotton
 than was grown in 1917, but a new lrecord crop-a crop of over seventeen million bales-would result in such a
 low price level that the south would
 get less money for it's yield than if
 only a thirteen or fourteen million bale crop were ginned. This is a very |
 l important matter and now is the time | for it to receive earnest attention. Commissioner Wade says:
 We meet people every day who are spreading the news that Alabama farmers are planning big increase in their cotton acreage. As a general rule these news spreaders are not farmers, and am inclined to think that the agitation is considerably overdrawn by spellbinders. I have | heard very few farmers express l themselves on the subject, and for 1 that reason am inclined to discount ' such reports. Alabama farmers have ] too much sense and patriotism to go 1 heavily into proposition which they l know is financially treacherous and I not to the best interest of their 1 country. while it's national strength is challenged and being tested. They
 are too we'll satisfied with the money
 which they received for corn. beans. l peas, potatoes, hay, peanuts, cattle and hogs last year to run the boil | weevil and weather risk on large l cotton acreage this year. Of course,
 they want and should have some cot
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
ISAu rRnr1;.
From the New York World.

From the New York World.
 Leber Braunstein of the Bronx, who new under the name and title of Trotzky, Russian foreign minister. replies to President Wilson, again reveals the Prtssan inspiration of the bolshevilk at titude toward the United States
 .The problem of the American middle class he says, Ifs to weaken both inn perialistic sides in the European conflict in order to make American capitalism the heir of European capitalism
 Here we have the echo of T;rpitz, Re |vontlow and Hindenburg. and all the evil sririts sustaining Prussian militarism They started out three and one-half years ago to subdue the earth, to parcel it out, to put it under tribute. Today. in defeat and desperation, their one argument Is that they are resisting American capi- talism, and their tools at Petrograd merely repeat their phrases. There is no American middle class There is not capable young man oI woman in the western hemisphere at this moment whc may not by merit achieve the highest rank in government, com merce or industry. The theory that Amer ican capitalism as such is making wal upon Germany or opposing anarchy ir Russia originated in Berlin, and Trotzky lis merely parroting it in the interest of Berlin
 When the American people go to wal tiey go as unit. They are as uncon scious of a bourgeoisie or proletaria' as oe royalty and aristocracy. Theil
 l'Ssa are risked along with their dollars end all of them. They know the voice o1 JaNob, but they also identify the hand' of Esau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
PARALLEL DIRT DRIVEWAY,
Dn the Rochester Post- -Express.

From the Rochester Post-Express.
 bill providing for the construction of dirt drives flanking all roads here after resurfaced or improved has been introduced in the New York state legis- iature. This measuue, which is known as bill No CT in the lower house, has the support of the State Horsemen's as- sociation and all friends of the horse. It is necessity. if horse breeding is to be continued on scale sufficient to meet the government requirements for army horses. It is said on good authority that the number of horses and mules in this country has decreased from 22.0O000o to l2.od0.co0 since 1910 and the demands of tho allied armies are rapidly depicting the horse stock. As mean q pro- noting horse breeding, the hislsws $ should be made safe for horses, ala shls can be accomplished most sat iaeseas lx and economically by the buildiz4s x saa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Praise for South

Although have travelled exten- sively in Europe and through the northern part of the United States, thisy is my first trip south" said A. H. Carlisle. of Carlisle & Co.,, New York, who arrived in Birming- ham Monday night. "The people of the north who have not had the oppor- tunity of visiting this part of our great country have missed one of the greatest pleasures of their lives.
 'T attended the Tutwi1er dansant Monday evening and met several of the charming southern ladies of whom q great deal is heard the world over, and wish to go on record as saying that more entertaining or charming young ladies I have never met. I am completely swept away by the many attractions your great city of the south has to offer and expect to re- turn for a longer stay at the first opportunity"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-06
YARMOUTH OF DICKENS

l in Yarmouth! Who would look at
 church when there were gas works, rope
 walks, boat builders yards, shipwrights'
 yards, caul1ers' yards, triggers, lofts,
 smiths forges on every hand? But the
 real wonder of Yarmouth was still to
 come, and we soon spied it down on the
 sands, a superannuated boat with an iron
 funnel sticking out of it for a chimney. There was delightful door cut in the side and there were little windows in it. And that was the house we were going
 to live in. Inside 1t was beautifully
 clean and tidy. and everything was won derfully ship shape and snug. On the
 walls were colored pictures of scriptural
 subjects Abraham in red going to sac
 rfice Isaac in blue, and Daniel in yell
 low cast into a den of green lions. And the bedroom we were to sleep in! It was in the stern of the vessel with a lit tie window where the rudder used to go right height for us, nailed against the
 wall and framed in oyster shells; a little
 bed which there was just room enough to
 get into, and a nosegay of seaweed in a
 blue mug on the table The walls were whitewashed as clean as milk and the
 patchwork counterpane made our eyes quite ache with it's brightness. One thing we particularly noticed in this delightful house was the smell of fish, which was so searching that when we took out our pocket handkerchief to wipe our nose we found it smelled exactly as if it had wrapped up lobster.
 This, if the erudite news dispatcher pleases is the Yarmouth we know, and we think it Is the Yarmouth of bishop of Norwich churches and bridges and libra ries and population and statistics His
 "a, ,mouth is the Yarmouth of Mr. Grand
 grind and is about as interesting as Coke town. Our Yarmouth is the Yarmouth of David Copperfield and we wouldn't trade | if he threw in the whole revenue of the l municipal, county and parliamentary bor- 'ough.