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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03
Federal Jurisdiction.

The department of labor orders the
local board to study the industries
in Keokuk to determine in which ones
women can be used in place of men,
and in what non.war industries
women may replace men, 30 that the
men may go into war work.
The United States employment ser
vice will place women in the posltlons
the board finds they can NIL IN all
Industries.
The standards adopted are denneo
at length by the government as re-
CARDS women workers, 1nciuoins
hours, wages and all other details
all of which has been transmitted 10
the Keokuk labor board.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

WANTED-To buy 3A good farm
wagon. Phone Black 144s or call
at 1924 Orleans.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

The Norwegian mile is the long
est-12, 1872 yards. The shortest is
the Chinese-some 600 yards.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

WANTED-A collector at Sinton's
Transfer and Coal Office.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

WANTED-A modern 5-room house,
centrally located. Phone Black ISL,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

WANTED-A good girl. colored pre-
ferred. Apply 504 Orleans.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03
An Illinois Woman Criticises Them
Sharply FOR Not Saluting the
Flag When II
Passes
IS SAME DUTY AS MEN S
Few keokuk Women Salute the Colors
Even in This Time Of War,
and it is Hoped That
They Improve.

Not one woman in ten in Keokuk
salutes the American flag when 1t
passes by on the street.
A woman from large city in ILL
nois was heard discussing this fact
with companion in the lobby or
a Keokuk hotel few days ago.
well, l see that the women IN
Keokuk haven't caught on yet, re-
marked the Illinois woman.
Caught on to what?" was her COM
panion's inquiry.
THAT they ought to salute the flag
when it goes by. 1t is getting to be
the genearl rule everywhere. Men 40
the flag honor by removing their hats.
The Keokuk women are unpatrloac,
that's all"
The Best Excuse for It.
Her companion resented the use
of the adjective, unpatriotic.
maybe the women here 90 MOI
know about the new rule. The neglect
may be through ignorance. DO the
women all over the country carry out
this new plan Of saluting the fiagF"
well, not everywhere as yet al
mitted the Illinois woman. But they
are being educated into the custom
as fast as possible. 1t is only proper
that the love and reverence in every
woman's heart should be expressed III
salute to the flag. Women IN heo-
kuk should learn to follow this OBJ
| servance." -
The proper salute for women Is
placing the right hand on the heart
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

WANTED-Girl for general house
work. Mrs. John Tumelty, s0l
North Ninth street.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

FOR SALE-Cheap. my 7-passenger
Buick in first class condition. b,
d. Haubert.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

FOR SALE-Winchester shotgun: Z
bargain. Phone Black 1864. even-
ings.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

FOR SALE-One roll.top desk, cash
register, floor case, one old high
post bedstead. William Holland. 814
Main.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

FOR SALE-Three-chair barber out-
fit, hydraulic chairs, SIS. Williams
Holland, $40 Main.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

WANTED-500 bushels good oats.
Dimond Milling Co.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

FOR SALE-One kitchen cabinet,
one sideboard, one secretary, ona
rug, one gas range. 229 N. NINTH
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

WANTED-Housebe eper; no wash
Ing. No objection to one child,
1916 Park street
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

FOR RENT room modern house.
Enquire OF Mrs. Thos. MoManus.
Phone Black 1853.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03

Read the Classified Column.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03
FOR SALE.

FOR SALD-Buick Little Six, almost
new. VIII sell at bargain, or
trade for lighter car. Address,
Buick" care Gate City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-03
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-Six room house, gas and
water, 61S North Thirteenth, $40:
6 room house. 1900 Orleans, water,
newly papered and painted. $500.
Phone 245.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14

To get to the cemetery. we had to
pass through the little shell-destroyed
village, where troops were hurrying
to and fro.
AS the funeral procession passed
these troops came to the 'ta41ExsS
and smartly saluted the dead.
Poor Pete was receiving the 0l,y "a.
lutte private is entitled to ''some-
where In France"
Now and again shell from the Ger
man lines would go whistling over the
village to burst In our artillery lines
in the rear.
When we reached the cemetery we
halted in front OF an open grave, and
laid the stretcher beside 1t. Forming
a hollow square around the opening of
the grave, the chaplain read the burial
service.
German machine-gun bullets were
Cracking" In the air above us. but
Pete didn't mind, and neither did we.
When the body was lowered into the
grave the flag having been removed,
we clicked our heels together and
came to the salute.
left before the grave was filed In.
could not bear to see the dirt thrown
on the blanket-covered face Of my COM
rade. On the western front there are
no collins, and you are lucky to get a
blanket to protect you from the wet
and the worms. Several of the Sec
ton stayed and decorated the grave
with white stones.
! That night, in the light of lonely
candle in the machine gunner's dugout
of the front-line trench L wrote two
letters. One to Pete's mother, the
other to his sweetheart. While doing
this l cursed the Prussian war god
with all my heart, and think that st.
Peter noted same.
The machine gunners in the dugout
We're laughing and joking. To them
Pete was unknown. Pretty soon, In the
warmth of their merrlment, my blues
disappeared. One soon forgets on the
western front.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
To Aid Man Power.

Prof. G. /. Christie assistant to Sec
rotary of Agriculture Houston, recent
~ pointed out some striking illustra-
lions of how the available labor sup
ply could be used to much .better ad-
vantage H. supplemented by ma
chinery: Of how some labor Is not
fully utilized because machinery is net
used. On one farm In the corn belt
he saw two strong men, each with a
team of horses and single moldboard
pillow, following each other around the
field. On an Adjoining farm seven
teen-year-oId boy, driving four horses
to two-furrow pillow, was doing as
much and better. work. On one farm
two men with two horses to a. wagon
were spreading manure with forks. On
an adjoining farm one man with three
horses to manure spreader was ac-
complishing larger amount Of work
In more efficient way. For lack of
proper machinery the labor of one Of
the men blowing and one OF the men
scattering manure was thrown. away.
Professor Christie points out that dur
ing the rest Of the season farmers can
handle their work with a. materially
reduced number of men II they avail
themselves Of such things as the
double cutaway harrow. wide cutter
bar of mower. and binder. sheaf car
rier on the grain harvester. tractor,
haying tools, milking machine.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
CHAPTER x.
1.-THE Days Work.


was fast learning that there is q
regular routine about the work Of the
trenches, although it is badly upset at
times by the Germans.
The real work in the fire trench
commences at shutdown. Tommy is
like burglar. he works at night.
Just as 1t begins to get dark the
word ''stand to" is passed from trav-
erse to traverse. and the men get busy.
The first relief, consisting Of two men
to a traverse, mount the fire step. one
man looking over the top. while the
other sits at his feet, ready to carry
messages or to inform the platoon off,
Ger of any report made by fhe sentry
as 10 his observations in No Mans
Land. The sentry is not allowed to
relax his watch for a second. If he is
questioned from the trench or asked
his orders. he replies without turning
around or taking his eyes from the ex-
papse of dirt In front of him. The re-
mainder of the occupants Of his tray-
So either sit on the fire step, with
spySaets fixed, ready for any emer-
..=s.sS, or If lucky, and dugout hap
pens to be in the near vicinity OF the
traverse, and If the night Is quiet, they
are permitted to go to same and try
and snatch few winks of sleep. Little
sleeping is done: generally the men sit
around. smoking flags and seeing who
can tell the biggest lie. Some Of them.
perhaps with their feet in water. would
write home sympathizing with the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
CHAPTER TX.
Suicide Annex.

SutCtoc Annex.
/ was In my first dugout and looked
around curiously. Over the door Of
same was a little sign reading "Sui-
eide Annex" One Of the boys told
me that this particular front trench
was called Suicide Ditch" Later on
I learned that machine gunners and
bombers are known as the Suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
slept In mud, washed in mud, ate mud,
and dreamed mud. had never before
realized that so much discomfort and
misery could be contained In those
three little letters, NJ u D. The floor
of the dugout was an inch deep In
water. Outside 1t was raining cats and
dogs, and thin rivuletss were trickling
down the steps. From the MIR shaft
Immediately above me came D drip,
drip, drip. Suicide Annex was a hole
eight feet wide, ten feet long and six
feet high. 1t was about twenty feet
below the fire trench; at least there
were twenty steps leading down to It.
These steps were cut into the earth.
but at that time were muddy and slip.
perry. A man had to be very careful
or else he would "shoot the chutes.'
The air was foul, and you could cut
the smoke from Tommy's flags with q
knife. 1t was cold. The walls and
roof were supported with heavy square
cut timbers, while the entrance was
strengthened with sandbags. Nails had
been driven into these timbers. On
each nail hung miscellaneous assert
ment Of equipment. The lighting ar
engagements were superb-one candle
Id a reflector made from an ammuni
ton tin. My teeth were chatterinl
from the cold, and the drip from the
airshaft did not help matters much
While I was sitting bemoaning my
fate and wishing for the Preside al
home, the fellow next to me. who was
writing letter, looked up and limo
Gently asked, "Say. Yank. how do you
spell 'confiagration'T
/ looked at him In contempt and an
swered that ] did not know.
From the darkness In one Of the cor
ners came a thin. piping voice singing
one of the popular trench ditties en-
titled:
Pack up your Troubles n your Old Ki'
Bag, and Smile, Smile. Smile.
Every now and then the singer
would stop to cough. cough, cough, but
1t was good illustration Of Tommy's
cAeerfulness under such conditions
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
shortage Of Harvest Labor.

OF all the agricultural labor prob
lens confronting the farmers of the
country at this time, probably the most
serious is that of. getting enough help
to harvest the wheat crop. In normal
times there was & shifting population
Of from 10000 to $4,000 men who fol-
lowed the harvest season from the
South to the North Of the wheat belt
Floating labor is no longer available
to any such great extent, and the mat
ter Of harvest labor. always a problem,
Is now more serious one. Mr.. r. n
Frizell, the department Of agriculturcrs
farm help specialist for Kansas, re-
Gently wrote: after full and COM
plete investigation, i am free to say
that the farmers Of Kansas will not
be able to save the wheat crop unless
they can get help from some Of the
surrounding states" What is true OF
Kansas is probably true of most of the
other wheat states. The department Of
agriculture and the department of La
Dor, with fairly adequate funds avail
able, are using their best efforts 20
solve the problem, which they undoubt-
edly will do. But the city people Of
the states involved, by proper organ
ization and cooperation. can help a
great deal. If they care at all for
more wheat bread and less war bread
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14

A machine-gun officer entered the
dugout and gave me hard look. !
sneaked past him, sliding and slipping,
and reached my section of the front
line trench, where was greeted by
the sergeant, who asked me, "where
In - ave you been?"
1 made no answer, but sat on the
muddy fire step, shivering with the
cold and with the rain beating in my
face. About half an hour later I
teamed up with another fellow and
went on guard with my head sticking
over the top. At ten o'clock 1 was
relieved and resumed my sitting posi-
ton on the fire step. The rain sud-
denly stopped and we all breathed a
sigh of relief. We prayed for the morn
Ing and the rum issue.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14

governor" because he was laid up
with cold, contracted by getting his
feet wet on his way to work in Wool
witch arsenal. TIA man should manage
to doze of, likely as not he would wake
with start as the clammy, cold feet
OF a rat passed over his face, or the
next relief stepped on his stomach
while stumbling on their way to relieve
the sentries In the trench. gal
Just try to sleep with a belt full Of
ammunition around you. your rifle bolt
biting into your ribs, intrenching tool
handle sticking into the small Of your
back. with a tin hat for pillow and
feeling very damp and cold, with
coolies" boring for oil in your arm
pits, the air foul from the stencil Of
grimy human bodies and smoke from q
juicy pipe being whitfield into your nos
trils.- then you will not wonder why
Tommy occasionally takes turn In
the trench for rest.
While In q front-line trench orders
forbid Tommy from removing his
boots, puttees, clothing or equipment.
The 'cooties" take advantage Of this
order and mobilize their forces, and
Tommy swears vengeance on them and
mutters to himself. "Just wait until ]
hit rest billets and am able to get my
own back"
Just before daylight the men ..turn
to-. and tumble out of the dugouts, man
the fire step until 1t gets light. or the
welcome order stand down" is given.
Sometimes before "stand down" is or
dered, the command five rounds yap
Id" is passed along the trench. This
means that each man must rest his
rifle on the top and IRE as rapidly a.
possible Eve shots aimed toward the
German trenches, and then duck fvieh
the emphasis ON the "ducks). There il
a great rivalry between the opposing
forces to get their rapid fire all Oh
first, because the early bird, In this In
stance. catches the worm-sort OF gets
the jump on the other fellow, catching
him unawares. ~
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
Temperance
lazVOfeSa
Conducted by the National woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
MANY DRINKERS FOR pRoHIsl.

As an example of liquor-users who
acknowledge the evils of drinking and
are helping to vote out the traffic is
the millionaire packer, Patrick Cud-
ahy. He is doing fine antiliquor edu-
cational work in his packing plant at
Cudahy, Wis. In an open letter pub
lished In the Milwaukee Times he thus
describes some of the effects of a
worldwide prohibition as he sees
them:
IF some all-powerful person were
to appear at the present time ON earth
and perform a miracle, changing all
the boaze in the world back to water,
and issuing decree that any person
who attempted to make another drop
OF 1t would be struck dead by an cleo
trio bolt from heaven, just imagine If
you can the change that would take
place in the world. say ninety days
after this event. See the red noses
changing to white; the fat beer bloats
shrinking to their natural size; the
man whom alcohol made a brute of,
returning to his normal condition; his
wife. whose life this alcohol brute sad
dened and almost destroyed, returning
to her normal condition; the wrinkles
and tear burrows in her face being
smoothed out; the color coming back
to her cheeks; her eyes becoming
bright again; her saddened and
wretched face becoming joyful and
happy.
"In short, the home that alcohol
made wretched is now joyful and
happy.
"We also see the saloons changed
into places of usefulness-some of
them ice cream and soda water par
Tors. A great many of them are used
for book stores, for the men who spent
their time in saloons are now reading
books.
"The saloonkeepers themselves have
gone back to their trades and are now
useful citizens. And by doing away
with alcohol we do not need nearly
so many policemen. About seventy
per cent of the policemen have been
discharged and are engaged in other
employment in the shops, and on the
farms, changed from idle men to use
full producers. The prisons such as
our house of correction, are changed
from prison to recreation halls. The
grounds about them are converted
into beautiful parks. People are now
saving the money formerly spent for
booze. Savings banks are springing up
all over the country. In short, the
drunkards and criminals of the world,
made so by alcohol, of all classes, are
now Industrious people and living
happy lives. What glorious change,
If this could be brought about, and
it may be partially brought about some
time by prohibition"
Mr.. Cudahy confesses he drinks both
beer and whisky, yet seeing the evils
of intemperance he uses his influence
against the saloons in his own town.
A friend of his, Mr.. J. p. Benscher, in
letter published by the same paper,
says:
II am not a prohibitionist. I drink
beer although / have never touched
whisky, but I have seen the misery
which 1t has created, and shall do
everything within my power to wipe
out the .thirty-eight bum factories
which we now have in sCudahy."
Many drinking men, rich and poor,
are taking the same attitude.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
PLANT FOOD DISEASES

You know something Of how
the United States department of
Agriculture protects Americas
100.000,000 consumers against
diseased animal products.
Do you know that the depart
ment is just as vigilantnin pro-
tecting the same consumers
against diseased vegetable prod
ucts?
That, anyhow, Is true.
But do not be too conceited
over what the department is do
ing for you.
The department is interested
In the consumer as an individ-
ual--in his personal welfare, in
seeing that he has good, whole
some foods.
But it is also Interested in the
population en- masse-in seeing
that everybody gets ENOUGH
food.
Diseased vegetable products, of
course, are not good for the in
dividual. But there is another
element. When vegetables are
allowed to become diseased; in
transit or otherwise, and have
to be thrown away, the total sup
ply of available food Is reduced
by just that much, and some-
body has to do some more
scrimping. ~
! Those are the two reasons
why the United States depart
ment of agriculture devotes
good deal of attention to pro-
i tectlng vegetable foods against
diseases found at markets.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
EVEN BREWERS HATE THE sA.

LOON 1877
mo one understands the saloon bet
ter than those engaged in the business.
They 1--we as far from 1t as their
means will allow ;; they know that no
saloon can live except as it draws
money to the bar that is needed by
wives and children round about. They
know that the saloons in the city can
be traced by the raising death rate
among little children that die from
neglect because the money to which
they are entitled is squandered at a
neighboring bar. They know, too. that
when the alcoholic habit is once fast
ened on a. man or q woman. 1t travels
in. the blood and that little children
have the door of hope shut on them be-
fore their eyes have opened to the
light of the day. e
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
inspectors Detect Diseased vege-
tables and Fruit Arriving at
Destination.
COUNTY AGENT IS NOTIFIED
Selling Value Of Inferior Product 10
Decreased When Arriving on Mar
ket-steps Taken to Combat
Various Disorders.

To check the loss from plant dis
eases in hipments-which also means
a loss of time. labor, material, and
transportation--the food products In
spectors of the bureau Of markets sta
toned in most of the large receiving
centers now keep close watch for
plant diseases on fruits and vegetables
arriving on the markets.
Bad Product Not Wanted.
Diseased fruits and vegetables are
not wanted in the markets any more
than on the farm, and when carlot
shipments arrive showing evidence of
plant diseases their selling value is
decreased even If none of the produce
must be thrown away. Sometimes, in
the case of very perishable crops, like
berries or lettuce, there are serious
losses of food because the shipments
carried plant diseases when loaded.
While no shipper would knowingly
load badly infected fruits or vege-
tables, such produce may reach the
markets In poor condition because the
disease was present when loaded and
developed in transit. This is espe-
cially true where shipments are made
without providing proper ventilation
or refrigeration. .a*
Steps to Combat Disease.
Whenever shipments of produce suf-
fering from plant diseases arrive the
inspectors Immediately notify the
shipper, and through the Psychologists
of the department of agriculture the
county agent In the locality where
the diseased shipment originated is
instructed to take steps to combat the
disease.
Although the inspection service has
been In operation only few months
as a part of the general inspection
work of the department in certifying
to shippers the condition Of carlot
shipments as they arrive at markets.
already 1t has resulted in the detec-
ton Of diseases in many shipments,
and has aided growers and plant path
ologists Of the department in con-
trolling the outbreaks of diseases and
preventing their spreading to other
sections Of the country
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
Your County AGENT.

Do not forget that there is sort
of deputy secretary Of agriculture who
is always ready to help you with your
poultry problems. He is the farm
demonstration for the United States
department Of agriculture. He is COM
monty known as "the county agent"
II there are young people In your
household he would no doubt like to
enroll them In the clubs for poultry
raising which are carried on In most
Of the states. He Is a good man to
get in touch with--and to keep In
touch with.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14

during the next II months, they will
help great deal. If their patriotism
is at all manifest, not to say militant,
they will help great deal. For the
nation to mature wheat crop and
then fail to harvest it would be exactly
as bad policy as for the government
to mobilize and train an army and
then poison 1t.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14
NINETY PER CENT DROP IN
DRUNKENNESS.

Drunkenness In Ogden, Utah, during
five months Of prohibition decreased
approximately 80 per cent. During
the FIRST seven months of 1917 there
were 916 arrests for drunkenness as
against 62 since August l, 1917, ac-
cording to the report Of the police de-
partment. The Salt Lake City News
records the fact that more OF the stock.
men than ever before brought their
wives and daughters OF: other members
of the family with them tosthe conven-
tion held in that city this year, and the
dryness OF the state is said to be the
reason.