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Don't Let Catarrh Drag
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bureaI at the request of the local Red Cross chapter. In requesting the two memoers to assume their respective experiments, the association declar- ed:
 We have been requested by the To- cal Red Cross chapter to organize the Publicity Bureau" for this organiza- ton, and we shan request you to serve upon this board. This committee IS one of most importance, as. without publicity or education. very little could be done with Red Cross work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03
PITILESS PUBLICITY.

We must go to President Wilson for a phrase
peculiarly and entirely applicable to the pres
ent condition of affairs at Washington. That
phrase is ''pitiless publicity" The people ought
to know, and are going to insist on knowing,
what the departments of their government have
done, and why, and what they have left undone,
and why. The mistakes already made have
proved that no little group Of officials knows as
much as all the people know. We seem to have
no departmental head who is so big as not to be
overwhelmed by the task of arming and equip
ping a million men. We have no governmental
bureau, crystalized as all Of them are into rou-
tine methods, which seems equal to the work Of
spending billions of dollars wisely and to the
best advantage. We have no war board which
will take the nation into it's confidence and keep
it constantly Informed of what is being done.
This is no war of governments but a war of
peoples. They are fighting it with their treas
ure, their labor and their blood and they have a
right to demand pitiless and perpetual public
ity Of what their servants-their salaried man
ayers of affairs-are doing, of every important
step they propose to take and Of every moment
Gus conclusion to which they come. The coun-
try wants the truth now and it is in a fair way
to get it through disclosures induced by cues
tioning of heads of departments and bureaus
who are testifying before senate investigating
committees.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03

County Superintendent OF SehoolS
|Faris has returned from
at the State Teachers association
held at Springfield last week, n
reports the most enthusiastic meet
ing of teachers he has ever
AS soon as the first session nau
opened with the singing OF America,
Hon. Hugh S. Magill, Jr, chairman
of the legislative committee, pre-
sented a resolution in which the M
teen hundred teachers unanimously
pledged Allegiance to our country
and whole-hearted support to the
cause which we and our allies are
fighting. We will endeavor at all
times to teach the youth commltted
to our charge loyalty to our govern
ment, reverence for our flag, and
devotion to the principles of liberty,
Justice and humanity for which u
nation stands" AS the assembly
arose to vote on the resolution, Gov
ernor Lowden who was present. SAID
II was a teacher for seven years.
May l vote on this question: me
assembly of teachers a~pplauded en-
Enthusiastically as the president gave
assent.
Among the noted speakers were
Governor Lowden, and ex-PresidenI
Taft. Governor Lowden, in a brlef
but ringing patriotic speech IN re
ferring to the teachers and their
duties said: ut seems t. me that the
school teacher is to be more affected
by this war than any other body OF
persons in the country. If we lose
this war" he said, "the pages OF our
readers which tell of mercy and love
and kindness will have to be torn
out and rewritten" He continued by
urging the teacher as the center OF
American life to make any sacrlnce
that the principles for which the
American schools stand may not be
forever lost and that the world may
escape the iron heel of despotism.
The chief address of the meeting
was that of ex-President Taft. As
Mr.. Taft accompanied by Governor
lLowden and State Superintendent
Blair, entered the hall, the teachers
and visitors who packed the hall and
galleries, arose and ~applauded until
long after the former chief of our
nation had reached the speakers
stand. Mr.. Taft began by reviewing
the policy of our government prior
to the var, and said that before we
entered the conflict the policy of our
government has been entirely neu
trial. He then cited numerous hos
tile acts of Germany that finally
drew our nation in to the war. Il
don't believe" said Mr.. Taft, that
we are not at wal with the German
people. We are at war with the Ger
man people for they have become
obsessed with the idea that they are
the chosen people of God, until that
obession amounts to insanity. The
German people and statesmen who
came to this country before the revo-
Luton and exposed their lives for
liberty had learned to appreciate lib
| erIy. Those who remained behind
learned the blood and iron policy,
unity placed upon the German people
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03

Misses Ruth Moore, Pauline Johnson
yirgie Blanchard, Ruth Knight, Mar
iorie Payne, Dorothy Johnson, Roxl-
belle Kaiser, Helen knight and Mable
Lear, from Kirksville, and Messrs.
Comley McQuoid. Miller Kinney,
Cleon Rothert, Frank Smith, Wallace
Roberts, Lynn Forester, Vane John
ston. Gordon Moore, Stanley McLane.
Mrs. Perry Couch, living southwest
Of town, suffered a broken ankle last
Thursday evening. Mr.. Couch was
having a well cleaned and while his
wife was looking over into the well
the windlass fell, struck her on the
ankle, fracturing the member. DIR.
Bondurant was called to reduce the
fracture.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. M. Walker return
ed last week from Chicago, where
they had taken their little daughter,
Amelia, to have an operation per-
formed for the removal of a grain of
corr from the windpipe. The opera
ton, which was a delicate one, was
a success, and the friends of the
family are delighted to learn that the
child is now well.
At the manse 221 w, Madison
street, Tuesday afternoon, January
1, 1918, by DR.. F. M. Hawley, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church,
occurred the weddings Of Oscar j.
Li~ngenfelter and Miss Mary Belle
Huffmen, both of Rutledge, and EN-
nett j. Arnold and Miss Grace Esti!,
both of Meadow neighborhood, near
Memphis. Each wedding was wit
messed by a few friends.
Mrs. Fred Naggs was operated on
at the Sisters hospital In Centerville
last Friday morning for abdominal
cancer. DR.. Heaton, assisted by DR..
Mitchell of this city, performed the
operation. Her condition shows i'm
provement and her friends are hope
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03
TIME FOR

!. Milwaukee Sentinel: The appoint
ment of Mr.. Baker as secretary OF
war was ridiculous at the outset.
Mr.. Baker was a pronounced pacl-
fist, and his opposition to military
preparedness vas well known.
But promoting military prepared
ness is a prime duty and function
of a secretary of war.
1t might be thought that Mr..
Baker, having accepted that office
and incurred the involved obligation,
would drop his pacifsm and hostility
to the doctrine of preparedness.
But not SO.
Even in his latest report, and at
the very time when the Whole coun-
try was anxious and angry over the
results Of the idiotic neglect of plain
duty of pushing preparedness in the
two years before the sinking of the
Lusitania and the declaration of a
state of war, Mr.. Baker betrayed his
residual pacifism by intruding an en-
tirely gratuitous declaration against
a system of universal military train
ing.
For the i~nexcusable lack of prepa-
ration at the opening of a war whose
clouds had been visibly gathering
over the country for two years, Mr..
Baker gives an absurd excuse:
Adherence to a strict neutrality
delayed the beginning of activity for
military preparation"
What had strict neutrality to do
with such absolute attention to our
own business as ordering equipment
for our troops-especially as Presi-
dent Wilson had virtually notified the
German government thai persistence
in it's lawIess acts must result in
the severance of relations?
So far as the logic of the Baker
appointment went, the president
might as well have appointed David
starr Jordan. A pacifis. at the head
of the war department is a manifest
incongruity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03

full for her complete restoration or
health.
Charles Ruse suffered a very pain
full accident at the Merritt feed barn
last Thursday afternoon. He was IN
the NOW putting back hay and made
a misstep and fell through an open.
ing to the floor below. His leg was
broken above the ankle n he also
suffered a number Of body bruises.
DR.. Bondurant was called a ne
was taken to the home Of his sister,
Mrs. A. A. Rice, north of town, for
care. The fracture was reduced and
he is now getting along very nicely.
Lieutenant Maurice Raines came IN
from FIT. Riley, Kansas, the first OF
the week on a few days furlough.
He is looking fine and appears quite
well pleased with his assignment IN
the army camp.
otto RAIDER OF Keokuk. visited
with Scotland county relatives sew,
eraI days the past week. He leN
his home in Keokuk without Inform
ing his parents and his whereabouta
was a mystery to them for several
days and a general search was being
instigated when a telephone messaGs
from the boy to his parents cleared
the mystery. He met a travelling
man in the Dam City" who waa
coming out to Memphis via Kahoka,
Granger, ETC., and was brought alons
for company.
John t. Brann has been appointed
fuel administrator for this commun
ity by State Fuel Administrator Wal
lace Crossley. His duties are to see
that coal received here rs distributed
SO there is no suffering. in the com
munity due to unequal distribution
and that coal cars are promptly un
loaded and sent on their way back G
the mines without delay.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03
CARTHAGE. ILL.,, JAN.

by Bismarck" The speaker declared
that by violating international laws
and sinking our ships, Germany had
committed murder against America,
therefore there was nothing for the
United States to do but to enter the
war and protect her citizens. He
concluded by urging the teachers to
impress upon the youth the respon.
sibility Of America in this a
Among the other resolutions offer
ed by the resolution committee and
unanimously approved by the teach
ers, were those in which the teach
ers pledged their unwavering support
of the president of h United
States; commended the loyalty and
the one hundred percent patriotism
of Governor Lowden; and favored
the enactment of a federal law re-
|quiring all non-English speaking resi-
dents to acquire, within a specified
time, the ability to converse I'M
read in the English language.
A program, patriotic as well as
! educational, had been arranged, and
in every address there was a discus.
sion of some phase of the great
struggle in which we are DOW en-.
gagged. Above the speakers stand
was draped a large service flag, with
| seventy stars arranged to form a
map of Illinois, each star represent
ing ten of the seven hundred Illinois
teachers now in the service. The
spirit and enthusiasm of the teach
| ers, the decorations of the hall and
the themes of the addresses all
tended to make this what may be
| called a war session Of the socia
ton.
The grand union of the Tri-State
Insurance association will hold its
annual meeting at it's offices In The
Gallagher building. Tuesday, Jan 8,
at 10 a. m.
Many matters Of interest will come
up before this meeting. officers will
be elected for the ensuing year.
The question as to assuming the
risks of the boys who are members
of the association and have entered
the war, will be brought before the
! association, and 1t is thought by Off
! cials that the same will be acted
upon in favor Of the boys. However.
! those who are now enlisting would
| not be admitted to membership, but
those who are already members, will
be protected, without doubt.
Delegates from various counties
will be present, and the meeting will
be interesting and instructive to all
attending.
Miss Rowena Calif who had
planned to spend the winter with her
brother, Chas. G. Califf and family
! at Denver, Colo, has given up her
trip on account Of the illness of her
brother Charles, who is suffering
from diabetes, and has entered q
Denver hospital. He has been in the
| employ of the Colorado Water Power
| Co., for the past year, who gave him
a two months vacation. hoping that
he migth recover. but as the disease
was so far advanced he has been
compelled to give up his work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03
Voice Of the People

llQe GdCe City QOeS uOl ASSuAlS ~
sponsibility for views expressed by
correspondents. Writer'S OF communi
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication. but
for the information of the editoi:.1
For Those Who do Not Know.
To the Editor Of The Gate City:
Mondays Gate City had an article
criticising a Keokuk audience Tor
standing when the English national
anthem was played at the concert
given by the Keokuk concert banN,
Sunday afternoon. 1t may be OF
some comfort to the mar who rose 70
his feet first and thus induced an
unwary audience to rise with him
to know that the thing he did, far
from being a mistake, was altogether
right, fitting and proper. In fact, II
would have been a regrettable mis-
take had the audience not risen when
the national anthem of our great al
|ly was played.
1t is now the custom all over the
United States for audiences to SHOW
this mark of respect to all the al
lies, and they, in turn, show he
same courtesy to the United States.
Ever since the Christine Miller
recital when the audience, for some
inscrutable reason, failed to follow
it's natural impulse and rise to her
thrilling rendition of the "Marseil-
~laise," the practice Sof rising for all
the national hymns Of our allies has
been followed in the Monday Music
club.
1t is to be supposed that some who
stood for God Save the King" at
the concert on Sunday, knew why
they were standing. II they did not.
the man who did not know" the
Star Spangled Banner" is to be con-
graduated on leading al audience,
however unwillingly he may have
done it, to pay this tribute of respect
to u English allies.
M. P. B.
Keokuk, Iowa, Jan. 2. 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03
LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE.

Not much is heard nowadays of the Anti
Imperialist league which has worked in and out
of season for Philippine independence, but at its
annual meeting in Boston the other day Moor
field Storey, president of the organization, gave
the Filipinos good advice. Saying that the
leagues own peculiar interest must bend be-
fore the blast of war and the Philippine ques-
ton wait for saner times, he added that the
Filipinos are fortunately remote, and have the
opportunity, while the rest of the world is fight
ing, to work out their own salvation in peace.
This accurately states the situation, and, as Mr..
Storey said, the FTlipinos have now the chance
ito prove by their wisdom, their honesty,
their economy, that they can govern them
selves and are fit for the independence that has
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03
The future destiny of the child is always
the work Of the h er.-Napoleon Bona
parte.
DESERVE MORE PAY.

The postoffice department is the one branch
Of government in close touch with the people.
Each of us greets the letter carrier at least once
a day. Weather conditions, good or bad, de
lay him not and he plods along facing snow and
Billiards day in and day out in order that the
convenience of the public may be served. But
his pay is ~pitifully small. 1t is the same as has
prevailed in the department for the past ten
wears. The maximum wage of three dollars
and thirty-three cents a day holds little encour-
agemlent in the way of making both ends meet,
and as a relief in behalf Of the letter carriers a
bill is pending in the national house Of repre-
sentatives providing for a deserved increase in
the pay of these men. They have a right to it,
because they were the victims of discrimination
at the last session when the salaries of all other
government employees we're increased. When
the bill comes up for final consideration it is to
be hoped that the Iowa congressional delega-
ton will vote solidly in favor of its passage.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03
LAND AND. NATIONAL PROSPERITY.

Lord Northcliffe in a recent interview threw
some light on the motives which inspired Lord
iLansdown's announcement looking towards a
compromise peace which was repudiated SO en-
phatically by official England. He is ll-bal-
anced and eccentric, according to the British
publisher, and is one of the wealthy junkers
who do not desire to see land divided up among
the people or any change in the existing order
of things.
But it is inevitable, as Lord Northcliffe
sees it, that England will be revolutionlzed IN
this respect. The millions of British soldiers IN
France are learning the benefit of small land
holdings. They and their women folk, most OF
whom have votes, are likely to control the coun-
try for the next thirty years; and 1t requires no
vision to see that they will stand for a system
under which lands unused or unsuficlently
TILED will be broken into small holdings
which a man can profitably work.
A vision rises on the view of an England
with it's millions of acres in parks giving place
to an England with millions of farm homes on
which families live t%hriftlly, simply and hap
PLY as in France. If, as often asserted, the gen
eral average of comfort and contentment IS
higher in France than elsewhere IN Europe,
there seems no reason to doubt that 1t is largely
due to the small farms and the host OF peasant
proprietors, each one of whom is working, saw
ing, improving his little estate for himself and
those who will come after him.. All the family
earnings, all the profits of their labor, go into
the family exchequer, no part of it going in rent
to the enrichment of anyone else. About
eighty per cent. of the holdings, amounting to
about sixty per cent. of the cultivated area,
are worked by proprietors of whom three mil
lion own less than twenty-five acres of land. In
all nearly seven million people are engaged in
work on the soil and seventeen millions depend
upon agriculture for their livelihood.
How different all this is from the old feudal
system when the hardships endured brought
about the peasant instruction Of the four
Iteenth century. And how different it is from
the terrible prevalence of poverty and want, of
famine and disease and the crushing imposts,
and extortions, and the royal and feudal oppres-
sion which led up to the French revolution. For
men, either as individuals or groups, are like
the giant Of myth who drew his strength from
Mother Earth and could only be crushed to
death when his feet were lifted from the soil.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-03
IOWA PRESS

Marshalltown Times Republican:
If you notice, only now and then q
woman bars the path Of her son to
his duty to his country. h kisses
him and sends him away with a
SMILE above her heart break. The
mothers of America are as brave as
their forbears who fought Indians for
the right to bear children in liberty
and leave them with greater oppor-
tunities. The American mother is
the finest example of courage and
adherence to duty on the face of this
continent. All honor to the mothers
Of American soldiers.
Sioux City Journal: 1t was, after
all, a rarely polite move of the gov
ernor. Those Iowans who did not
approve of the special session ldea
approved of the nice, fat string ne
kept tied to it. Those who were
suspicious of the string at least were
able to endorse the offer.
Cedar Rapids Republican: What
the world needs after this wal is a
white flag universal, but before that
can wave there are evils that must
be wiped out with blood. And they
are being wiped out.
Des Moines Register: The govera-
ment %nounc that travelling de
luxe is to be abolished. In other
words. the service isn't going to be
so much for looks.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The sug-
gestion has been made that the KIND
of work which most Americans shun
could be made most desirable by
making it the best paid kind OF work.
That looks and sounds reasonable,
and how much better for us. many OF
us, if we would get good pay for hard
physical labor instead of plugging
along" somewhere on small pay, and
perhaps combining, indoor work.
Des Moines Capital: We have
stated our suspicion of DR.. Steiner.
We have nothing to retract. II IL is
charged that we are suspicious, our
reply is that America would be bet
ter off if our people became more
suspicious. The German educational
propaganda in the United States Is
frightful and the people will com
prehend it when their eyes are
opened and their yes may not be
opened until the battle begins to
rage next spring and the American
death roll starts.
Marion Register: An Iowa daily
newspaper editor who is working
overtime on a war stunt advises al.
politicians to suspend their side n
energies until after the war and yet
he is pushing his newspaper to the
limit. No suspending his side line.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Senator
Kenyon wants to reduce the salaries
of congressman $1,000 per year each
zeal until after the war. Can, con-
gressmen conceive of an easier way
for the government to save a million
or SO per year?
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: The
Congressional Record is, no doubt,
necessary. But it is not necessary IN
such huge quantities as are daily
printed while congress is in session.