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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31
ANY MAN TO ANY MAN
Bv GERALD STANLEY LEE

DO NOT know how other men feel about it. but find
ii hard with all that is happening to the world today.
TO look small boy in the face.
When small boy looks trustney up to me and
see his world the world he thinks he is going to
have in his eyes, am afraid
The look in his eyes of the world he thinks he is
going to have cuts me to the quick
have always felt had an understanding with a
small boy before
But the last four years when he looks at me in that
old way and think of his word-the one see in his
eyes-the one had myself-the every small boy
has right to- see suddenly instead the one that is
being left over for him by me- by all of U.s. the one he will
have to try to put up with have to live in have to be
man in when you and have stopped trying.
Then when face the small boy want to go off
in wide high place alone and think and ask God
want to so down into the city and f8ht-fieht with my
money and with my hope, 80 the top with my
religion and then come back and face the small boy
There are days during this struggle when my soul
Is spent and all the world seems made of iron and glass
and all these crowds of people fockins through the
streets who do not seem to
II seems as if would not turn my head to save
world to live in myself It does not matter about
me-and some days the people see so by almost
make me think it does not matter about them.
Then suddenly 80 by troops of school children at
four o'clock pouring out into the streets, pouring
like fire. pouring like sunshine out into the steetsl
II is as the roll of drums for the Liberty Loan!
want to ring great church bells to call people to
the Red Cross!
My rule for mans finding out just how much he
should subscribe to the Red Cross is this:
Put down your and address on the blank
and leave the amount open to think Then try going
past schoohouse about four o'clock when the children
pouring out
Or in the evening when the house is quiet put
IL Lit
white paper.
Then go upstairs minute and look in the crib.
Then look at your blank when you come down
once more.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31
One WAY THE RED CROSS HAS TAKEN
TO DEFEAT THE KAlSER'S GAME
1000 Ragged, Sick and Homeless People,
Daily Dumped at Evian:

sumptive germs. We have hospital
of 80 beds for children in Evian. These
are reserved for the children who are
too ill to take farther. Then our Red
Cross has convalescent hospital out
side the town and yet another in a
nearby village. 1t also keeps six am
balances busy transporting sick wom-
en- and children. Yet even then the
strain upon our workers is so great
that for eight long months one Ameri-
can nurse has had to look after 100
beds.
We, through our American Red
Cross. are doing great things toward
defeating the Kaiser in his efforts to
turn France into graveyard, but we
have just started, and our duty de-
mands that we work fast and without
ceasing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31

At the first onslaught of the Huns,
before the French were able to with
stand their invasion, the Kaiser Sc
cured goodly section of France.
With the captured cities and villages
he acquired many thousands of French
men.
True to all the rules of Teutonic
efficiency, the noble German worked
and starved these French close to the
point of death, then saw to it that an
impressive number of them caught
tuberculosis and finally sent these poor
wrecks back to burden France.
1t has taken the Kaiser from two to
three years to suck the healthy blood
from the veins of these sturdy rural
French, but now he Is sending them
back at the rate of about 1000 day.
The Kaiser never announces these
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31
A SCORE OF REASONS
FOR THE RED CROSS
1t Is Playing a Big Part in the
War for Democracy.

What does 1t mean to you to know
that your America Red Cross:
Is supporting $4,000 French children.
Sends supplies to 3,423 French mill
tary hospitals.
Provides 1000 French hospitals with
surgical dressings.
Is operating 80 canteens at the front
line.
Is operating six other canteens al
French railway functions, serving
10000 French soldiers day.
Operates a movable hospital in four
units accommodating 1000 men.
Is operating children's refuge in one
part Of the war zone, and in another
a medical center and travelling dis
pensary. both capable of accommo-
dating more than 1000 children,
Has opened a long chain of ware
houses stocked with hospital sup
plies, food, soldiers comforts, to-
bacco, blankets. ETC., all the way
from the seaboard to the Swiss
frontier.
Has warehouse capacity for 100000
tons.
garages, making all repairs.
Has shipped 46 freight car loads OF
assorted supplies to Italy from
France within two weeks after it
began operating In the former coun.
try.
Had battery of motor ambulances
at the Piave front four days after
the United States declared war on
Austria.
Started hundred different activities
in Italy at the time that nation was
in Its most critical condition.
Has established five hospitals in Eng.
land and operates workshop for
hospital supplies employing 1000
women.
And that 10000 cases of supplies
have been received at the Paris
headquarters of the American Red
Cross from your various chapters
scattered throughout the United
States.
What does all this mean to you?
And have told you but a fraction of
the work your Red Cross has done
and is doing. 1t means that without
this ceaseless, heroic work of the
American Red Cross, we could never
win this war
Without your Red Cross thousands
in Rumania would have starved to
death.
Without your Red Cross Italy would
never have realized that powerful sup
port of the United States in the hour
of need.
Without your Red Cross thousands
of French soldiers now CALAMITY fight
ing for you at the front would have
died of wounds, exposure and lack of
food.
But now we must all redouble our
efforts and sacrifices for our Red Cross
because million mothers sons are
going to carry the stars and stripes
to the greatest victory God has ever
given to men fighting for honor and
liberty.
With the help of your Red Cross
your boy will win.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31
A MESSAGE FROM EDWARD N, HURLEY.
Chairman Of the United States Shipping Board.

Chairman OF the United States Shipping Board
livery dollar that has been appropriated by the Aer
~ can Red Cross in this has welded closer that
relationship between the United States and the nations of
the Entente, relationship that will have married. effect
upon the peace council that is coming
If this work of spreading the posna1 of .: !.
continue, every man, woman and child in this rnuh1
must give the American Red Cross his fullest snnn i;
its second campaign for 100000 900 fp' "
Our boys in Europe are looking to us to back them up
through the instrumentalty of the American Red C
The good it has already accomplished and ~
forts and welfare it will provide later when ~
of war becomes greater for the United States s. esS
it imperative that the second fund of s1oo noo make
spontaneous gift the part of the American ne, Ne
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31
THE WARS REC0MPENSE

original this
brayey fought and nobiy died. The
a. Ye who have faith to look with fearless eyes
Beyond the tragedy of world at STRIFE
And know that out of death and night shall rise
The dawn of ampler life.
Rejoice, whatever anguish rend the heart,
That God has given you a priceless dover,
To live in these great times and have your part
In freedoms GROWING hour.
That ye may tell your who see the light
High in the heavens-their heritage to take
Il saw the powers Of darkness put to fight,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31
The Rainbow
In Antonine's Sly

he stands looking down. th,. \,
tome, peasant the "man with =.
hoe"-looking down into the MA
soil from which he and his anc.,t...
have lived. They have made this .na
and the sun and the rain eiva IN
something each year-not much. NJ.
lihood-do you see, and perhaps /, n.
tie besides. =
But the hoe il broken. The ,rou,.
about him Is torn, trampled. SCARF
the fields full Of great pits, as II ann.
terrible, blighting disease has passss
and left land MANNED and dean
Tangles Of coarse barbed wire, posts
driven deep and now shattered. uelv
distorted, like the wrecked piling Of !
rotting wharf
Trees Blasted by Shell Fire
In the orchard are trees blasted ~
shell fire, hacked with axes, branch.
less, and Antoine's vines have beeo
hopelessly uprooted and destroyed.
Nearby are a few blackened upriehh
pointing to the sky like burnt finger.
a pile Of loose stones from the fallen
chimney, forlorn heap Of everyth!n.
now become nothing, a confusion Of
eloquent and silent decay. Here stood
the house Of Antoine.
And Antoine Is a peasant, stron,
with the dried and toughened strength
OF old age, stopped. leaning upon that
broken hoe. a grotesque silhouette
against the pale sky of dawn, a sllhou
cite Of despair in the hope of a new
day. Above him, close by the ruins q
that home, stands a single slender
cherry tree somehow untouched by thu
storm that has passed, tree with
fresh green leaves and blossoms
From 1t some petals Of pink float down
upon the blackened stones.
It Is slow work this digging with Z
broken hoe. But what can we do? An.
toine begins the toll Of the day. The red
Of the sunrise pales to blue. The tive
sons of Antoine, they would be great
help. but they are gone; the horse too.
"Hello. Bill;'
Strange words, but plainly some
form Of greeting. Antoine looks up
round red face surmounting smut
ted canvas coat is beaming upon the
peasant from a considerable height
This is then no canton.
A Horse Of Iron.
''Time for spring plowin', bo," says
he stranger. Then painfully and pa.
.iently in the French of Columbus, O.
he explains that this Is tractors
l0rse Of iron-which will draw pillow
If i've shares, turning five burrows at
/ time, and here is the pillow and here
coupled on behind, is great set Of
trundling lumber enough for
veil, a small house at least, Antoine Is \
Jure.
Antoine's hoe Is broken. About him
les the chaos Of his ruined dwelling
Ais sons are somewhere of there on
he firing line. But If they shall one
lay come back to him and find, after
III, the fields in cultivation, house
Antoine looks up-flrst at the cherry
rec. dropping petals upon the black
med stones; then at the smiling face
4 the man who drives the horse Of
ron.
"And who, m'sieu', sends this great
low of many burrows and the LUMBER
or a house? Is 1t the good GodI'
''Oh, nong, mon sure" replied the
nan from Columbus. "Ree Ang con
lah! nothin' like that, old top. III
ust the American Red Cross. winch
ne o them fields do you want to tufn
yer first, hey?"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31

There are Is divisions Of the Red
Cross in the United States. There is
a complete organization at each divi-
sion, with great warehouse for the
collection and shipment of all kinds Of
Red Gresa supplies.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-19
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TAKE CHOICE OF
ANY AEWSTYLES
Women Have Great LeeWay in
the Fashions Approved for
This Season.
COAT SUITS IN WIDE DEMAND
American Long Skirt Is Favored Over
Short French Type-Designer2 of
Jackets Play Many Tricks
Upon the Hem.

New York.-Well, we are settled as
far as the fashions go. The designers
have done their work :; now arises he
time for us to do our work. The pub
lie insists, writes fashion critic, that
it has the harder job, or at lea;t that
is the conclusion one reaches "fter
hearing the discussions of countless
women for and against the purchase
Of 4 single garment.
1t is not easy to buy clothes in war
time. when the slogan of judicious
spending echoes and re-echoes from
every point of the compass. Even pow
erty has rarely impressed upon us with
such drastic emphasis the need to
spend wisely and well.
Apparel is not the only branch of
industry that demands judgment and
caution in spending. We have somer-
saulted from a nation Of extravagant
individuals to one Of thrift and
shrewdness.
There has been a story current for
two decades among the French design
eTs that the American women are not
helpful to them, except through theil
money power, for the reason that they
90 not approach the choosing and pur
chasing of clothes with that watchfu
discrimination displayed by the French
woman. They buy q gown because il
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-19

The foremost designers of jackets
play all sorts of tricks upon the hem.
cutting it to points like n testers cos
tune, and blocking it out in battle
ments as if it were a medieval tower
One well-known dressmaker accent
aates this jester effect in frocks as
we'll S jackets. He cuts long panels
at the side, which hang from hip to
henI of skirt; he places long panels on
the sleeves that leave the arm at the
elbow nd Irop to the knees, and he
Gu. the bodice into : panel at. the
middle C. the back. letting it drop be-
low the knees. al of these panels
placed simultaneously on one suit or
frock, but are used in various methods
yer tIe majority of street clothes.
here are som short jsckets. Dou-
Get and rherujt, and many of their
American followers have adopted a
square hip-leEgth Jacket that does not
give -ong lin !, does not promote the
established silhouette, but achieves an
air and presti f its own, apart from
| the regular run of fashions.
Doucet made one especially striking
costume that has been taken up by
! mart women. It is in a deep tobacco
j, brown cloth. The jacket is box
shape, and on nearly the whole sur
face, except for about four inches, is
| laid fiat piece of sealskin. 1t goes
without saying that an excellent trick
like this was taken up by everyone
who demanded something new in coat
suits.
The desire of the United States gov
eminent to promote Alaska sealSkin as
the most fashionable fur for Ameri
| can women bore agreeable results, anC
| by some persuasion the French de
| Signers acceded to the wish that Amer
lean peltry should rule. 1t is true tina
Russian squirrel steadily advances, .bu
| it is also true that most of these an
imalS grow in the woods of America
New Fastenings on Jackets.
No woman who is interested in TIL,
subject of her coat suit, which is TIL
usual first choice of the autumn
should be ignorant of the diagonal fas
tening which has leaped into fame u
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-19

substitute for the conventional OPEN
ing down the front
a great many taiIors. some of whom
are among the best in this country, do
not cater to this novelty, but the wom-
en- like it, One guesSes that it's inspi-
ra ton was in the Sam Browne belt,
and women believe that the bias line
across the bust is an attractive one.
Buttons are sometimes used down this
line, and often it is braided or run
with tiny strands of furnished gold
braid, if the material is velvet or vel
veteen.
1t is not possible to say that the
other novelty in the method of fasten-
| ing the jacket, which is in a straight
| line down the spine, is a new thing,
but it is possible to say that it is a
pleasing thing. 1t has spread like a
prairie fire.
There are jackets that are modelled
Geeply-colored broadcloth or velours,
such as Burgundy or bottle green, and
these end at The hips, are cut in bat
Elements at the hem, and fasten down
the line of the spine with round bone
buttons. .sis'
There is another ingenious jacket
which has no fastening at all. Tt Is
cut off squarely at the hips and goes
over fitted cuirass blouse of deep
colered angora wool. This blouse is
longer than the coat, itsclings to the
hips, and it gives the jacket the ap-
i pearance of a hastily donned sacque
i Yet il IS so well put together and the
/ colors- are so admirably composed thai
the woman who wears it cannot fail
to achieve the distinction of being diff
ferent from her neighbor. "a.
Copyright, 1918. ty Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate)e
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-19
CITY OF NEWPORT

The annual meetings of the Or
at school hall Wednesday, Nov. 20, at
2.30 in the afternoon and at 500.
o'clock in the evening. Local and out
of town speakers including return
ed Canadian soldier will be present.
1t is hoped there will be a large at
tendance.
There were two inspiring services
held at the First Congregational
church last Sunday In the morning
the Rev. L. A. Edwards preached on
the subject, Americas Place in the
World War; His subject in the
evening was "What's the Matter with
Germany" Miss Marion Redfeld of
Barton rendered soprano solos both
morning and evening. A vested choir
is being organized under the leader
ship of Mrs. Bigelow and Blanchard,
nearly 40 were present that evening.
Remember the Board of Trade
meeting Wednesday evening at the
City Council rooms at 8 o'clock.
The harvest dinner and supper at
the M. E. church last Friday was a
grand success and the Ladies' Aid
society realized net profit of $127.5I,
this includes the profit from the
sale in the afternoon.
Reginald Savage of the U. S. navy
arrived home Sunday night for ten
days furlough.
Mr.. and Mrs. A r. Wells went to
Burlington Monday where Mrs. Wells
viii undergo an operation on Wednes-
day.
Miss Florence Doolin has returned
to work at Whites shop after two
weeks spent in Sherbrooke.
The Woman's missionary society
of the Congregational church met at
the home of Mrs. ]. r. Aiken Monday
afternoon and elected the following
officers: President, Mrs. Willard
Goss; vice-president, Mrs. ]. R. All
KEN. secretary, Mrs. ]. E. Foster;
treasurer, Mrs. C. F. Bigelow.
Three fine bucks were brought into
Newport Monday, and are on exhibi-
ton at the Economy market. The
lucky hunters were Hugh Falrbr0th-
Ell, Bert Davio and Everett Hunt.
The weight of the bucks were 203,
176, 1913 pounds.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. C. Clark returned
Sunday from a weeks auto trip to
Guilford, Maine
Why not send your friends the
Caledonian having the report of New
ports celebration, and let them know
what the new city can do. Extra
copies can be procured at the Gale
DOMAIN office, 81 Main street, New
port, -
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-19

| is in fashion, or because it is the kind
of thing their menfolk like, or because
| they have seen it on some excessively
smart woman at restaurant.
If some doctrine could only be burnt
into woman's consciousness which
would compel her to spend money
\ wiseIy! She is handling funds, and
usually they are the funds of another
party, and she has no right to toss
them into the Golfers of the dress
maker, the grocer, the interior deco
rator or the butcher.
Skirt Struggle Is Ended.
t It is probable that America has won
out in the length of the skirt. The
short French garment did not go. It is
worn by war workers as part of their
uniforms, but the great majority Of
/ women accept the desire Of the Amer
1 ican designers to launch an ankle
! length skirt.
Il Those who have been criticized for
exploiting this design at time when
II the conservation of wool is necessary
/ insist that they can cut such a skirt
l out of less material than the short,
Il fiaring one which has been the fash
ion. An extremely narrow, short skirt
H has proved to be an impossibility be-
cause of the manner in which it rides
/ Eabove the knees when one is seated.
/ There is an immense amount of vel
veteen, also soft velours, velvet and
/ heavy satin. One does not have to use
/ wool in order to have warm or fash
| ionable gown or suit. Velveteen has
been accepted as fabric for the COM
monest kind of usage, and 1t serves in
| the early morning for coat suit with
+ weisteoat blouse of angora wool OF
| eavily-embroidered jersey. =
1 There are homeSnuns and various
4 types of mannish materials of which
/ the tailors seem to have sufficient &c
4 make all the suits demanded; but there
4 is no denying that both jackets and
l skirts are longer than they have beer
II, for several seasons since the summer
l of the war.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-19
Collars Resemble Canes.

Some of the new coats show broad
collars like capes and sometimes these
collars are of the same materini as the
coat. Sometimes fur is used in com
bination.
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-31
Doctors versus Worms

That nefarious type Of practical
nurse that hates to battle the patient
or change the sheets on the comfort
able but groundless theory that such
cleanliness may give the patient a
dad cold" is the chief exponent of
the popular notion that when you
don't know what else ails a child it
iS very likely worms.
Children and adults sometimes do
harbor different species OF worms in
the intestine, and usually without hav-
ing any of the alleged worm symp-
toms" Of the old grannies. But untold
harm has been done, and much re-
morse brought to irresponsible OF ig-
norant parents by the indefensible
practice Of assuming that an illness
Is due to worms and dosing the unfor-
tunate child with nostrums p~urporting
70 be good for worms. We don't know
French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1918-10-31

how much good such medicines do
the worms; we are not versed in
worm pathology. But this Board feels
that the State of North Caroline
would be a great deal better OF with
out any neighborhood worm special
lists.
Your superstitious, ignorant, dirty,
dangerous old gossip who 'tjest
knows" the child has worms, no mat
ter what the doctor says, and also
knows what's good for the worms, is
generally as bold to intrude upon a
case of meningitis or appendicitis or
pneumonia as any tri1ing ailment. In
her vast Ignorance and her long ex-
perience Tin doing harm) she rushes
in where angels fear to tread, and the
sad part OF 1t is that SO many parents
are just credulous and careless