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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-21
Is the Brand.
Try a Dozen
Cans and You
Will Buy More.

pathy. They are obviously traceable
to working conditions. AS a result,
compensation legislation has put eco
nomic pressure behind efforts to pre-
vent industrial accidents by making
1t more economical for employers to
prevent industrial accidents than to
pay compensation AS accident losses
were made legitimate burdens upon
industry, arrangements became inter-
ested in establishing safe processes.
There are now in nearly all of the
States of the Union safety codes and
agencies charged with the establish
ment and maintenance of industrial
safety. Supplementing Government
agencies, the great energizing forces
in this field have been the National
Safety Council and variouh technical
societies. The policy of the Working
Conditions Service is to avoid dupli-
cation of work and activity and, by
acting as coordinating agency, to CO.
operate with the forces already in the
field to bring Federal directing impe-
tus in the national campaign for uni
formity of safety standards, practices,
and equipment, Standardization of
safety organizations, and for the col
lection of data necessary for the con-
| tinuous modification of standards to
meet new conditions. The Bureau of
Standards has offered its cooperation
in the formulation of codes. The as
slstance of the National Safety Coun-
Gil will be invaluable in securing the
practical application of safety standd-
ards and practices The Council hasg
agreed to cooperate with the Working
Conditions Service and appointed a
committee of five for consultation and
advice. The codes which are to be
worked out under the Division of
Safety Engineering will be the result
of experienced and experimentation
consultation with technical organiza-
tions, and conferences with employ
ers and employees in1order to ascer-
tain the necessary practical modifica-
tons Various codes for war indus
tries, when approved by the Secretary
of Labor, will be submitted to the War
Labor Policies Board in order that the
influence of the various agencies rep
resented on that Board may be put be-
hind the labor standards in war pro-
duction.
The INTERPOLATION of these three
divisions, Industrial Hygiene and
Medicine, Labor Administration and
Safety Engineering, will further the
maintenance of principles formulated
as an intergral part of general pro-
gram for working conditions.
1t is the intention of the Working
Conditions Service to seek the cooper
alton of all agencies and organizations
concerned directly or indirectly with
working conditions, in order that all
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umerated by the Secretary of Labor,
are as follows:
"To examine into working condi-
tions in war industries; to determine
the standards as to conditions which
should be baintained in those indus
tries; to adopt rules embodying such
standards and explaining them; to de-
termine the best means for securing
the adoption and maintenance of
these standards and to cooperate with
States authorities for the above pur-
poses"
Although the organic act creating
the Department of Labor provides
that the function of the Department
shall be, among other things to i'm
prove the working conditions of the
wage earners of the United States, the
Department had not undertaken speci-
fically work of this character until the
urgent need demonstrated by war en-
ergencies. 1t has become increasing
ly evident that working conditions
have a direct cause and relationship
to labor turnover. Moving many men
from civil life to military service
made it necessary to exercise the
greatest wisdom in utilizing our limit
ed human reserves. The extravaA
gance of a high labor turnover has
been emphasized bp prevailing high
wages, thus increasing the costs
chargeable to labor turnover. Thus
there has come a new interest in bet
tering working conditions and an ap-
probation that such betterment has
an economic advantage and pays the
employer in every sense of the term,
Working conditions in widest sense
comprise environment, relations be-
tween employer and \employed-all
that makes W life within the indus
try. For administrative purposes there
are three divisions in the Working
Conditions Standardization of In
dustrial Hygiene and Medicine, Divi-
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-21
GOOD CAUSE FOR ALARM
These Figures WIN Make MaysvilIe
People Take Notice.

Deaths from kidney disease have in
creased 72q6 in twenty years. People
overdo nowadays In 30 many ways
that the constant filtering of poisoned
blood weakens the kidneys. Beware
Of fatal Bright's disease. When back
ache or urinary Ills suggest weak kid
neys, use Doan's Kidney Pills, live
carefully, take things easy and avoid
heavy eating. Doan's Kidney Pills
command confidence, for no other kid
ney remedy is so widely used or SO
generally successful. Home endorse
ment is the best proof Of merit. Read
this Maysville residents story:
Miss Dora Edgington, Wood St,
says: II have used Doan's Kidney
Pills and from the results received,
have every reason to recommend
them. At times my kidneys have be-
come weak and have been irregular In
action. My back has aohed, too, and
has been very weak and lame across
my kidneys. When l have used Doan's
Kidney Pills for this trouble, they
have never failed to relieve the COM
wise anyone to get q box OF Doan's
Kidney Pills at Chanslor's Drug Store
IL troubled in that way"
Miss Edgington is only one of many
Maysville people who have gratefully
endorsed Deans Kidney Pills. II your
back aches-if your kidneys bother
you, don't simply ask for a kidney rem,
edy-ask distinctly for DOAN'S KID
NEY PILLS, the same that Miss Bdig'
ingten had-the remedy backed BY
home testimony. Coo all stores. Eos
ter-Milburn Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y
when Your Back is Lame-Remembe
| tho Mama"
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standards shall be the results of care
fully considered judgments based on
experience of all elements in produc-
ton There are three ultimate tests
human effects, production, industrial
organization. There is need for en-
ployers to understand that good bust
ness demands conservation and de-
velopment of the workers whose men
tai and physical ability conditions
production, quantitatively and quail
tatively. There is need for workmen
to understand that good health, skill,
good management, care to prevent ac-
cidents, mean to them increasing ma
terial well-being and greater oppor-
tunities for advancement
The Director of the Working Condi-
tions Service is Grant Hamilton and
the Assistant Director is Florence c.
Thorne.
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THE WORKING CONDITION
SERVICE OF UNCLE SAM
It's Chief Function Is to See That
There Is Majority of Standards
For Working Conditions In
All Industries.

An outstanding result of the war is
to emphasize the basic importance of
tools in present civilization. Tools
are instruments by which the will of
man and the social group is express
ed BY tools the forces of nature are
made to serve a determined human
purpose. Tools are the products of
thought and efforts to achieve-they
are a material proof of development.
In this war period, users of tools have
become indispensable agencies for
carrying out national purpose. They
are the producing arm of the govern
ment which must serve the military
arm. The tool user who makes the
shell is as essential as the gunner
who fires it.
1t was appreciation of this funda-
mental principle that convinced the
= Government that, in order to avoid
confusion by multiplicity of orders
and standards, labor administration
must be centralized. There resulted
the proclamation of President Wilson
designating the Secretary of Labor as
War Labor Administrator The Gov
eminent has consistently maintained
that production would be furthered by
maintaining standards in industry
which promoted the health, safety,
and betterment of employees.
In order that there might be uni
formity of standards for working con-
ditions in all industries, there was
created in the Department of Labor
the Working Conditions Service. The
duties of this Service, as briefly en-
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sion of Labor Administration and Di-
vision of Safety Engineering. Since
there are in operation other agencies
with the specialized function of deal
ing with wages and hours as contro-
versial questions between employers
and employed, they will not be dealt
with as such by this Service.
The proclamation of the President
instructing all governmental depart
ments dealing with public health
questions to utilize the United States
Public Health Service for that work
was step toward unity of action and
purpose in health problems. Indus
trial health is closely related to COM
munity health and the general scien-
tibc principles underlying public
health problems and industrial health
problems are identical. However, or
ganization, methods of operation, spe-
cial occupational problems in the in
dustrial health field are fundamental
ly labor problems, affecting directly
human relationships and human activ-
ity. The formulation of policies for
dealing with these phases of industrial
health belongs properly to the agen-
cies entrusted with labor administra-
ton. Cooperation between the De-
MI ne oh D,,hl 10
Health Service for dealing with indus
trial health problems brings a unified
national health policy and action, and
at the same time renders the policy
and action practical and in accord
with needs and ideals of those most
concerned. Accordingly, the Secre-
tary of Labor at the request of the
Working Conditions Service requested
the Secretary of the Treasury to au-
thorize the United States Public
Health Service to detail personnel tC
the Division of Industrial Hygiene and
Medicine of the Service. AS a result
of the agreement reached, DR.. A. ]
LAMA, Passed Assistant Surgeon G.
the Public Health Service, was detail.
ed to act as Chief, Division of Indus.
trial Hygiene and Medicine. Workino
Conditions Service. Or. C. d. Selby
of Toledo, Ohio( will be at the head O.
the Section of Industrial Medicine.
Various employers are appreciativc
of the fact that output in productio,
is directly influenced by the physica
well-being of employees. Preventive
methods and musical assistance ma
terially assist in reducing the labor
turnover and in keeping employees in
physical condition to do their best
work. Accident dangers are compar-
atively obvious, but the assistance OF
health experts sanitarians, and in
dustrial physicians is necessary tc
discover health hazards. Physica
breakdowns. diseases not understood
by the ordinary physician, are readily
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>ngsapeake & Ohio Ry.
Schedule subject to casnQs without notles

Schedule subject to casnus without notles
Effective Sunday, November II, 1918.
EastbOund
No. 8 9:4S a. m, daily.
No. 2 1855 p. m, daily.
No. 16 200 p. m, daily, except
Sundays.
No 1S S:25 p. m, daily except
Sundays.
No. 4 1855 p. M, daily.
No. 6 9:45 p. M, Mail and Elk
press only.
WestbOund
No. 1 1920 a. M, Mail and Ex-
press only,
No. 5 1854 a. M, daily.
No. 10 5;25 a. M, daily except
Sundays.
No. II 1000 a. m. (arrives) daily
except Sundays.
No. 8 3:47 p. m, daily.
No. Z 1850 p. m, daily.
". " wIRoET, Agent
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RAILROAD TIME TARLR

Time table effective Sunday Feb
ruary 10th.
No. IL leaves Maysville 6:3S a. m.
daily except Sunday.
No. . leaves Maysvills $40 .. IN.
Except Sunday.
No. 2eS leaves Maysville 4:10 D. IN.
Sunday only.
No. 10 arrives in Maysville s:45 q.
a., daily except Sunday.
No. 210 arrives in Maysville 2:s5 p
a., Sunday only.
Ne. 16 arrives in Maysville $3.50 p.
m, daily except Sunday.
H. 8. ELLIS, Agent.
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BEWARE OF SPANISH rNrIvRSzA

1t Is caught BY breathing germ in-
to the nsse or mouth. SteriEol kills
germs and prevents disease. sela By
MRS. emo. sEIPLEY,
sos HAST Second Street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
GROCERS ARE
LOYALISTS
keokuk Business Men Attending Ma
tionaI Meeting, Say Resolutions
Are Passed in
Cleveland.

Ira Wills, L. A. Hanill and J. w.
Collier have returned from Cleveland,
Ohio, where they have been attending
the annual convention Of the National
Association of Wholesale Grocers.
Representative from the dlfferent
departments of the food administra-
ton of Washington were speakers. IN
every address the absolute necessity
of conservation Of food was empna-
sized.
Although great deal of sugar Is
being conserved, refners are doing
their best to supply people with SUI
gar to do their preserving with, thus
eliminating waste of fruit, was one
fact brought out
The convention passed resolutions
to support the government IN every
way possible and aid in food conserva-
ton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
OFFERS PEACE
TO ITALIANS
Germany Launches Move at Same
Time as Offensive, TO Break
Morale Of the
Tnoona

CUnited Press Leased Wire Servce]
WASHINGTON June 17.-That
Germany has offered IAN honorable
peace" to Italy. was disclosed by Pre-.
mier Orlando before the Italian cham
Der of deputies yesterday. according
to Rome cables here today.
The deSWtch did not indicate
Italy's reply but It was officially as
sumed here that it was promptly re-
jected.
No indication Is contained in the
cable as to the means employed IN
advancing the offer. Orlando's state
ment as cabled saying merely the
Germans ever hove offered an honor
able peace"
The peace move was launched re
emily" probably as step in antlc1pa
ton Of the Austrian drive. These are
the same tactics employed by the Ger
mans before their last assault on Italy
designed to break the morale OF the
Italian troops. That the Teutons
would pursue such a course was fore
cast some time ago by the Italians.
At that time it was stated tina,
Germany would also extend her prof
| fer through the usual concealed chan
nels to other powers fighting against
her.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
Daily Stock Letter.

Daily Stock Letter.
limited Press Leased Wire Serv1ce.l
NEW YORK. June 1.-THE New
York Evening Sun financial review TO-
day said:
Following upon preliminary ad-
vance in prices of substantial proper
tons the stock list suffered rather
broad reaction in today's stock market.
Reading, Union Pacific, New YORK Cen
trail and st. Paul had early spurts Wild
gains of a point or SO but they EDGED
Off later. The idea prevails that there
may be an early adjustment OF the
government control contract matter.
Business was slow through the after
noon and the list continued subject
to a good deal of pressure. Steel re-
ceded nearly three points from It's top
price and those issues which had been
conspicuously strong, more than lost
their gains in numerous cases.
Marine preferred yielded more tnan
two, points from its high level ana
Reading about one point. In the last
hour prices were fractionally irregu-
lar.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
CANADA'S GREAT WORK
She 10 Doing Her Duty by Her Soa'
diers-Le4 Ansefiea Heed

Food Administrator Deems has been
notified OF the great success OF the
food conservation program in Canada
and he desires TO cal the attention OF
Iowa people to the way IN which Cana
dams are supporting their soldiers
and allies abroad. In Canada the re-
duction in the consumption OF beef.
bacon and -four in the homes and pub
lie eating places Is sufficient to pro-
vide these foods for an army OF 5O0.-
coo men,
Canada this season has set upon 1t.
self the task of producing 4oo,O0O.OO0
bushels Of wheat instead Of the 49,
OOo. 900 bushels grown IN 1877. A
campaign is now on for the production
of more spring wheat and pleas ara
being made that every farmer shall
raise at least five acres more than In
former years. In Quebec the expecta-
ton is an increase In the grain pro-
duetion of at least 100000 acres
through this plan In Manitoba the
acreage is being greatly increased with
the expectation that the crop this year
will reach 1900. 900 bushels.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
CITY NEWS.

THE Keokuk Community band
II play for celebration at Mooar
" 4.
lice for sale at the Belmont Berry
DIVERS ice house, Mon, Wed, Fri.
enings, 6 to s p. m, Csc per 100.
Small boys have been cOasting in
kgons at Eighteenth and High
feets to the annoyance of residents
that neighborhood, is complaint
hde to the police today. Police say
lasting on walks is prohibited.
The Lee county republican con-
kntion will take place in Fl. Madison
hne 20, at II a. m. Notice to this eff
let is being sent out to party men
|day by c. T. Hull, county suditor.
Members of the Commercial club
|ill 90 to Vincennes, Tuesday night
br supper. The last cars are ex.
ected to depart from the Industrial
ssociation at $50 or 6 p. m. James
/. Fulton, secretary, has issued re-
uest that those who expect to &c
0 vincesnes notify him at once.
Prospects for crops in this vic1n.
" are better than in years, The
orn which is now knee high has
cen plowed twice. It's color is GOOD
nd shows the result of careful cul
walton. Wheat is heading well. Gen
|e rains are needed to help the fur
her development of both the large
nd smaller grains. /,
John S. Clare, county agrlcui
|1ral advisor, will be the guest OF the
club of Keokuk when the
hub gives it's dinner at Vincennes
tuesday night. He will talk on agrl
|uitural topics.
Going Sure! Excursion steam
+ Keokuk, Wednesday, June 10. Boa
eaves Keokuk at 8 a. m, returnln'
eaves Quincy at ,. M. Round trip
hults soc; children Under twelve, %
FINDER the auspices OF the G. E. SC
fety of the NJ. p. church.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
KEOKUK MEN
TO CONFERENCE
Committee Of Three to Represent City
in War Industries Convention
Meeting in
Chicago.
Popuiace Wear, Lizzie.

c. w. Kellogg, C. NJ. Rich and j.
Albert Kiedaisch will go to Chicago to
night as representatives of keokuk's
commercial activities to take part in
a conference arranged for the purpose
Of establishing Chicago region OF
war industries.
Iowa, Indiana and Illinois cities and
towns will be represented on board
known as one Of resources and CON
version with the sole object Of con-
Quoting a survey and establishing a
list of industries that can be used ex-
pediently for manufacture Of war sup
plies.
Keokuk has several such industries.
The conference will take place at II
a. M, Tuesday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
IND BODY OF
MAN IN RIVER
discovery Of "FIoater' Made by Small
Boys Who Telephone Police
Funeral is Held
Today.

The body of Leo Wathas. drowned
Fhen transfer truck plunged into
he Mississippi west of the covered
bridge on the dixie road last Thursday
las been found.
Floyd Wilson, boy who lives In
Nest Keokuk, and small companion
Ielephoned the police. The body was
discovered Sunday in slough mile
below the bridge on the Illinois side OF
The river.
Funeral services took place at 10 a.
|n today from the Crimmins undertake
|ng parlor, the Rev. S. B. Moore ON
Batting
Wathas was born April "a. 1889. in
keokuk. He was employed by the
Standard Four Tire company. He is
furvived by his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
ohm Wathas. two brothers. George
ind Charles, two sisters, Mrs. Nett1e
kebc and Mrs. Anna Robinson, and an
PUNT, Mrs. Mary Fields.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
FACE STARVATION
ALL OVER WORLD
FOOD SITUATION REALLY rs
CRITICAL IN MOST OF THE
CIVILIZED LANDS OF.
THE GLOBE.

The federal food administration
declares that although we thought We
had gotten By the stage where starva-
ton could imperil civilized people yet
literally hundreds of thousands of per-
sons have starved to death TN the last
three years due to the world food
shortage and other conditions bsought
about by the war.
A large part of the world is coming
into the position that Belgium Is In
and has been in; that is, coming to tho
stage where the primary and impor-
tant thing in life Is enough food to
keep alive.
The food supply of the world Is
short and getting shorter. You cam
not take 100000 men out of pro-
duction and put them into destruction
of human products and expect things
to go on as before.
In Finland. three and one-half mil
lion people, caught In between Russia
and Sweden, face a failure OF their
cereal harvest. They are now on ra-
ton of $50 grams Of war bread day.
That is less than quarter of LOAF
A large part of that is made up OF bark
and beech buds. It looks now as II
large number Of them would necessar-
lily starve.
Roumnnia is caught in between Rus
sia and the other beIligerents. Her
people are short Of food. Her supplies
have been used up. We can see no
way in which they can avoid disease
and starvation.
In Holland they are proceeding to
kill 100000 Of their dairy cattle be-
! cause they cannot get sufficient feed
| for them. A somewhat similar sftua'
ton exists in Denmark. Do not waste
! meat. The worlds flocks and herds
| are being fast depleted.
Food has now taken a dominant pO
| sition in the war. The American PEG
| pie must prepare themselves to sacrt
| fee far more than was at first though
necessary.
/ BY the first of December we had ex
ported all our surplus Of wheat. Ye
here is Europe's insistent call TO
more. We must send it II the war Il
to 60 on efficiently. II we eat all, VI
cannot ship it, and the food admins
tration has already tried to picture
how much wheat is needed by people
who will starve If they do not get it.
| For the least bit of heedlessness OF
your part in food conservation some
one somewhere in the world must sui
| fer privation. The food administra
ton has mastered the problem o.
| Americas food in such a way tina
every ounce Of food conserved and
kept in the cOTents OF trade goes t.
an empty stomach in Europe.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17

LEG WOUNDED
Cables Relatives He Will Be UP and
About in Few Days
Parents Were Coming
Here.

Kenneth Daughrity has been
wounGed in one of his legs, ne caDled
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ). Lee
Daughrity, at Centerville, Iowa, sun
day. Announcement was recently
made by the war department tlat
young Daughrity was severely wound
ed in action.
He told his parents in cablegram
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
Twelve Thousand Prisoners.

limited Press Leased Wire SerVlce.1
VIENNA (vial London), June IL
The Austrians have taken 1000 prs
oners in the Italian offensive, the
Vienna war office declared today.
The capture Of Capo Sile. on the
west bank of the Sile river, Was re-
ported.
"West of San Dona, on the lowe
Pave, we have wrested more ground
from the enemy, capturing CaHo
Sile," the statement said. Our 2ris'
oners now total 10000
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17
FUNERAL RECORD
Mrs. Rosa Letter.

Mrs. Rosa Letter, for many years
a resident of Keokuk, died early to-
day in the St. Joseph's hospital. She
underwent a serious operation on
Decoration day. Mrs. Letter was born
in November 1875, in Michigan. Most
of her life was spent in keokuk and
she was married here. She was
member of St Mary's church. Sur
viving her is one son. John E. Wheat'
ley In addition three brothers, henry
Letter and Edward Letter, who live
near Warsaw, and William OF for'
Scott, Kansas, are living. MRS. Lel1ei
lived at 219 South First street
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-17

that he would, oe up and about in
few days and tt.at be IS feeling wei.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daughrity were ex-
pected to arrive in the city to spend
the day with M. and Mrs. A w. HUI
son, SIG Grand aveK,ia, and ether
friends. They remained at horse kss-
err being inform al that their son was
wounded.
The Daughrtty formerly lived in
Keokuk.