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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05
LOAN TO FARMERS

The War Finance Corporation of
the Treasury Department will make
loans, in exceptional cases, directly
and without the Intervention of
banks, to livestock raisers, whose in
dustry has been classified as one nee
essary or contributory to the prose
cution of the war.
Those loans are to be made under
section 9 of the War Finance Cor
poration act, and the loans will be
made to individuals, firms, and cor
porations whose principal business is
the raising of live stock, which in
cludes cattle, goats, sheep and hogs.
For the present only the Federal
Reserve banks of Kansas City and
Dallas are designated as agencies to
execute these loans, which are to be
made to livestock raisers who are eX-
periencing great difficulty in their
operations owing to drought condi-
tions, though cattlemen from other
districts are not excluded from the
benefit of section 8.
The War Finance Corporation has
also effected an arrangen ent for ex-
tending financial assistance to the
Gamers of New York State.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05
NEW LIST OF SUBSTITUTES
HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED
Rice, Ootmeal and Hominy Are no
Longer Regarded as Substi-
tutes for Wheat Flour.

Wichita, Kan, Sept. 4.-Rice, oat
meal and hominy can no longer be
sold as substitutes for wheat -four
according to a statement given out
at Food Administration headquar-
tiers today in reply to inquiries from
grocers.
A new list Of substitutes was an
nounced when the new flour saving
rules went into effect Sunday. Fol
lowing is the official list as announced
by the Food Administration:
Barley -four, corn meal, corn -four,
kafir -four, milo -four, feterita -four,
feterita meal, rice flour, oat flour,
peanut -four, potato flour and buck
wheat flour.
Retailers may sell any of these sub
stitutes with standard wheat flour on
the basis of one pound of substitute
to four pounds of wheat flour. Re-
tailers are required to keep barley
flour, corn flour and corn meal in
stock as substitutes so the consumer
may have them for mixture in MAX
ing Victory Bread. Householders are
asked to use all the substitutes in
making bread. Additional breakfast
foods and corn bread are to be made
from additional purchases of wheat
substitutes, according to the volun-
tary conservation plan.
Rye flour also may be sold as a
substitute with wheat -four on the
basis of two pounds of rye flour and
three pounds of wheat flour.
Whole wheat flour may be sold
without substitutes.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05
A CHILD'S PARTY

One of the pleasantest times the
little folks have had for some time
was spent at the W. V. Griffith home
August 2Sth, when Mrs. Griffith en-
tertained about % little girls and
boys at a party honoring her daugh-
ter Faye, and son, Gerrald's' birth
days, which occurred within the
month of August, Faye being 6 and
Gerald years of age.
A few hours was spent on the lawn
in games that children enjoy, after
which the hostess, assisted by Mes
danes Barrow, Tregallas, and Lemon
nier, served ice cream and cake.
Faye and Gerald received many
pretty little presents that will help
them remember this happy. occasion
for some time.
Superior Drills.-Thos. W. Cav. Al
Sacks, sacks, sacks-bring your old
sacks to Jim Johnston. 13-tf.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05
LOOKED LIKE OLD TIMES

A few days ago we had occasion to
make trip west on Second street
and when we approached the South
western Hardware store there in the
doorway stood AL Blake, and our
mind travelled back many years when
AL was at the helm down there.
We wish AL would make up his
mind to move back to Liberal. We
need him here and there would be a
lot of tickled people if we should be
able to print the news that he was
coming back to stay.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Every father and mother, brother
and sister, wife and sweetheart of a
soldier boy cover there" should read
the article regarding the Holland case
in this issue and get back of Mr..
Holland with their moral support. If
we cannot protect the boys from the
ldisloyal, the Stacker and the pro-
German here at home how can we ex-
pect them to do the same for us on
the firing line in France.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Mr.. and Mrs. j. W. Long and chill
dren, who have been visiting Mr..
Longs brothers, Sam and J. w. Long,
near Forgan, returned to their home
in Manchester, Oklahoma, yesterday.
They made the trip here in their car
but were compelled to leave it on &C.
count Of the condition of the roads
made by recent rains.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05
THE FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN

The campaign Tor the Fourth LID
erty Loan begins September 28 and
closes October 10. While the amount
has not yet been announced, it is gen.
orally conceded it will be for larger
amount than any of the preceding
loans. The American people, there
fore, are called upon to raise larger
sum of money in shorter length of
time than ever before. There is need
therefore, for prompt action
prompt and efficient work and prompt
and liberal subscriptions.
We have great inspiration for a
great effort. The news from the bat
tie front inspires every American
heart, not only with pride and patriot
ism but with a great incentive to do
his or her part. There is no shirk-
ing, no shifting of the individual
burden, no selfishness by American
soldiers in France; there should be
none here. We are both supporting
the same country and the same cause
our army in one way, ourselves in
another. Theirs is the harder part,
but at least we can do our part as
promptly and Loyalty and efficiently
as they do theirs.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05
DIR. LEVI NOT TO ENLIST
Says Draft Will Meet the Needs of
the Government at This
Time.

DR.. Levi informs the Democrat
that he has decided not to enlist, as
he expected to short time ago. He
says that the draft will furnish the
government all the doctors needed
and as he is beyond the draft age he
will remain in practice here. He says
the report has gained circulation that
he had abandoned his practice to en-
list and that many of his former pa
tients think he is no longer practicing
here.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Mr.. and Mrs. W. S. Wolley and
daughters, Misses Hazel and Ruth,
returned from two-weeks' auto trip
thru Colorado Saturday. The Misses
Wolley are some drivers, having driv-
en- from Manitou, Colorado, Satur-
day, which is a distance of $50 miles.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Mrs. F. Y. Colt and children of
near Moscow visited at the home of
Mrs. Colts parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T.
G. Hubbard, few days this week.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Harvey W. Hill made business
trip to Hugoton this week.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Little Marie Hood and brother,
George, returned to their home in
Larned, Kansas, Saturday after sew
eral weeks visit with their grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. Hood, on
the ranch.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

LOST-Somewhere on the streets
of Liberal, Sunday evening, gold dou-
BILE eagle Masonic pin, mounted with
Pearls. Reward. = Mrs. c. E.
Woods. 16t1c
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

L. v. Gardner is quite ill this week
at his home on north Jordan.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Mrs. Harvey Parker is spending the
week with Mr.. and Mrs. l.. E. Allen.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Sacks, sacks, sacks-bring your old
sacks to Jim Johnston. 13-tf.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

j. S. nepuo 1ety returned from
Linsey, G PIE ma, yesterday where
ne had spt me time buying broom
-)r y
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Moline Corn Binders. W.
Cav. 16t4c-
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

E. D. Cooper, who has beer
in Colorado for the past several days
looking after land matters for Mr.
Baughman, returned Tuesday night
He made the trip overland in cal
and reports exceptionally heavy rains
all the way from here to Lamar, Colo
RADIO.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

The big watermelon which has been
on display in Griffith and Baughman's
show window for the past week has
been making the mouths water of
those passing by. The melon was
raised by Owen Stotts, southeast Of
town, and is one of the best we have
ever seen.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Ray Kennedy and family returned
Wednesday noon from a few days
visit with Mr.. Kennedy's parents at
Norton, Kansas. Mr.. Kennedy made
the trip in one of Griffith & Baugh-
mans Fords and reports that nothing
but a "fiivver" could have stood for
the muddy roads which he encoun-
tered from Garden City here.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

C. E. Terry, salesman for the Die
taphone, has been in Liberal the past
week and while here installed several
of his machines in the different offices
in town. The Dictaphone method is
the up-to-date manner of hadling a
large correspondence. Mr.. Terry
covers large territory in his travels,
and says that the business men of
Liberal are certainly up to the minute,
and that Liberal is far ahead of any
town he has ever visited of its size.
Miss Ida McGoldrick who left Lib
eral about two years ago to enter
the hospital training school at Sa-
betha, Kasas, returned Monday for
a two weeks vacation which she is 60
ing to spend with friends and rela-
tives here, and is at the present time
visiting with Mr.. and Mrs. John W.
Baughman who she was with some
time before leaving Liberal. Miss
McGoldrick says that when she grad
yates, which will be within the near
future, that she expects to enlist for
Red Cross duties which means that
she will, no doubt, be in active service
across the waters within the next
year.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Published Every Thursday at Liberal,
Seward County, Kansas.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05
Superior Drills.-Thos. W. Cav.

Sacks, sacks, sacks-bring your ole
sacks to Jim Johnston. 13-tf.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1918-09-05

Subscription Price, $3.50 Per Year
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
CONGRESS
MAKES PROMISE
Agrees to Cease DalIyine and to Gel
Down to Business and Push
the War Bills
Through.

IBy L. c. Martin, United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, March 11.-Con-
gress wants the close of the first war
year-April 6-to find all major war
bills off the slate.
So, from today on, dallying will be
the exception rather than the rule,
leaders said, and diligence will be ap-
piled. With less than month to April
6. the leaders hope to clear aside all
but appropriation measures and sec
ondary bills.
The house was expected to spend lit
tie time over the conference report on
the railroad control bill.
Leaders realized today that in spite
of President Wilson's statement that
he considers the war finance corpo'
ration bill necessary war measure,
some time will be required to get IL
through the house. The real difficulty
in IL way of realizing the clean
slate program is the opposition to inc
administration prise fixing and com
pulsory food saving bills.
The Overman empowering measure
ia another likely to blast hopes OF
leaders. The senate Judiciary commit
tee met today in another EFFORT 10
check opponents and get it out. Sen
ator Reed paraphrased the French $40
gan at Verduh and applied IL 10 tne
hill. at shall not pass.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
PREP TEAMS TO
STATE MEET
HIoh school Basketball stars to Con-
eregate at Iowa City Next
Week to Wind up
Season,

With the sectional basketball meets
out of the way, basketball fans are
looking toward Iowa City where the
final state meet will be held next Fri
day and Saturday. There are some
classy teams who won their way out
of the preliminaries and those &C
ouainted whit the dope look for a
repetition Of last years games when
Iowa City and Mt. Pleasant fought II
out.
There was only one real surprise IN
Tho nreliminarv meets and that was
when Go1dfeld handed beating to the
strong FIT. Dodge team who had pre-
Of running away with the Ames con-
tests. The teams that will fight 1t out
for state championship at Iowa City
next week are Mount Pleasant, Gold.
field, Sioux Center, New Hampton, Ell
lesion. Dallas Center, Cedar Rapids
! and Iowa City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
Troop Ship Conuoys
Want Chance at Subs

some good shots, but no subs ever
showed up even though we were
anxious to use our guns and depth
bombs on one The depth charges
are all handled by the marines on
the ship.
1.-THE only disappointment We had
was that we didn't go on into France,
When we we're about 800 miles OIL
the coast we were met by fleet OF
destroyers who took our convoy and
we turned around and started back.
The letter goes ON to tell about the
sailors chipping foot and q hak Ice
off the decks, and how the old timers
on the ship say the weather has been
most unusually severe. A second let:
ter received while in port, tells OF
the big Washington day feed which
the boat served, and in which there
was roast turkey and all the trim
mings.
Mr.. O'Bleness tells of receiving
sweaters from the Red Cross while
on the trip across, the garments ev1
IDENTIFY having been taken on board
at one of the Atlantic seaports On
the return trip, he tells of the grape
fruit and all the trimmings OF the
landlocked breakfast being served
the first day the ship came into
harbor. His verdict is that the chow
in the navy is good.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
CITY NEWS,

onions once more, 10 lbs. 25c.
Fred DeYong. -,
IF you want quality soda call TAI.
Coca-Cola Bottling Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. J, Riechman are
the proud parents of son porn
Wednesday, March s.
Special meeting Eagle lodge NO.
-, Tuesday evening. March H. at
1880 o'clock; End degree.
Miss Nellie A. Gallup, graduate
of Graham hospital, this city, mas
been assigned to the post hospital at
FIT Logan, Colo.
Claude Bland was injured Satur-
day afternoon during the wind storm
when one of his bill boards on upper
Main street was blown over and
struck him.
Potatoes, s1.40 per bu. Fred De-
Yong.
Della M. Fannin, residing at 1915
Reid street, who has lately a1iillated
with the national Red Cross, leaves
tonight for Fit Worth. Texas. to
enter service in the base hospital
located at that place.
When you want quality soda
think Of Hodges, the Coca-Cola man.
Miss Carrie J. Starr left Friday
for Chicago, from where she Will pro-
coed to Great Lakes naval training
station, under Red Cross assignment.
Miss Starr is graduate Of Graham
hospital and daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. B. A. Starr of South Eighteenth
street, this city.
The Summitville Red Cross
auxiliary during the month of Fob
ruary held four meetings and COM
pleted the following articles: Forty
eight hospital shirts, sixteen sweat
ers and nine pairs of socks This
brings their work to date as follows:
Eighty shirts, twenty-one sweaters,
twelve pairs Of socks, two pairs or
wristIets and one muffler.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
COMMERCIAL :
CLUB MEETING
March Business Session to Be Held
at Hotel Iowa at 6:15-Many
Important Matters to
be Discussed.

The Keokuk Commercial club Will
meet tomorrow evening at the Hotel
Iowa at 6:15 o'clock. A sixty cent
luncheon will be served the mem
bers in the main dining room ana
after supper there will be business
session which will be Of interest to
all of the members, President Justice
says, and urges that all members be
phesent.
Dollar day which will be held this
year March 23, will be under discus
sion. The club Is planning to make
this the best and biggest bargain day
that has been staged here, and the
discussion of plans for this event Will
be feature Of the meeting Tuesday
Flower boxes along Main street may
also be discussed at the meeting, and
there will be other matters Of inter
est to the members to be taken up.
President Justice wants all OF the
members to be present Tuesday night
and urges that they notify Mr.. Full
ton at once If they will be able to at
! tend
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
VISIONS OF THE DYING.

American Magazines: AS a pastor l
have been with many who were slip
ming over the brink, and In not
few instances there have been appa-
rent visions of that which lies be-
yond. | would not make too much
of this, yet such things are too fire.
quent and impressive to be negligible.
As, when a dying boy turns his eyes
upward and they are bright as with
a CLEAN Of glad recognition; as, when
a young girl suddenly and, to herself.
unexpectedly, is called away, and she
exclaims, "Mother! Why, mother!
her countenance radiant with JOY at
the evident sight of the parent from
whom for several years she had been
separated; as, when the matter OF
fact business man, by no means
IMAGINATIVE, after a very brief i'll
ness passes on, saying, "They are all
here. and they are calling me- nam
ing the children and other dear ones
who had gone, while he speaks com
forting words to those left behind
and smilingly departs.
Many instances Of this general
sort come under the observation OF
one long in the ministry, and he car
but see in them glimpses Of immor
tality. Sometimes the vision of the
beyond is very clear, and the watcher
with the dying seems almost to catcA
with him a flash Of the brightness
a snatch of the song and he is sure
that the departing. enters immediate
! ly upon experiences that are not o
earth
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
Newspaper owners and War:

IUnited Press Leased WIRE serVice.l
LONDON, March 11.--"Journallsts
and newspaper owners are holuing
high Offices in every great aineu
country" Premier Lloyd George de- de-,
clared in the house OF commons tnls
afternoon in discussing the relations
of the government with the press.
"As soon as Lord Northclihe ana
Lord Rothermere were app s 1e;L
thew gave up all direction OF their
newspapers. Both are men OF excep-
tional ability"
Northcliffe is director OF propa,
eanda while Rothermere is head or
the air ministry.
Northcliffe has made a special
study of conditions in enemy coun-
tries" Lloyd George said. "rhe gov
eminent is grateful that he has I'm
dertaken the work to which he has
been assigned"
The premier vigorously denied that
anv of his staff had inspired the
press attacks on British admirals and
generals.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
Ralph O'Bleness Who is
With Marines Tells of
Stormy Crossing He Ee-
pe1ienced

One Keokuk boy. Ralph O'Bleness.
has had the privilege OF serving on
one of the ships helping to convoy
troop ships across the Atlantic. and
he writes some interesting letters to
his mother, Mrs. ]. w. OfBleness. In
one Of them he says:
1T doesn't seem as though we have
been away from the states for twenty
two days without seeing land, but we
have We left with our conveys, and
when we were out one day and a
half, we hit some storm which lasted
three days. and believe me 1t was
tough going. I'll bet some of those
doughboys on the conveys never come
back until they build railroad across,
because we could see they were about
all seasick
1--WE had target practice when about
ten hundred miles out and made
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
CHECKER CHAMP
MEETS Corners
Illinois Champion to Meet Local
Checker Enthusiasts Wednes-
day Night-Games open
to All.

A. B.. Harter, who claims to be
checker champion of western Illinois,
will hold a match against all corners
at the Y Wednesday night Several
checker fans who are going to at
tempt to wrest the Illinois mans lau-
rels from him have listed their names
and any others desiring to participate
in the game are asked to call up Di-
rector Danielson at the Y. M. G, A.
This will be the final session Of the
checker players. Preceding the match
there will be banquet at the Y. w. q.
A This banquet, as well as the games
will be open to every one. A charge
will be- made Of 35 cents per cover.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
Steamer on Rocks.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
SEATTLE, Wash, Mar. LINE
steamship Admiral Evans of the "a
cific Steamship company, which wen'
ON a rock at Hawk Inlet near Juneau
Alaska. Saturday evening. was com
nletely submerged at high tide today
and reports received at the Seattfe
off1ces Of the company indicated thai
much of the cargo would be com
The ship has huge hole in hei
hull near the keel.
The Evans ninety-one passengers
were taken to Juneau by the Canadlar
pacific steamer Princess Sophia.
The cause Of the wreck, it Is said
was the shifting OF a channel buo!
during the winter storms that nae
beaten the coast near the inlet mouth
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
SKIRTS SHORT
is FORECAST
Anes Professor Sees Standardized
Clothes Within Six Months,
He Tells Conven-
ton.

In an address before the Amer1-
can Home Economics association at
Atlantic City, Prof Ethelwyn Miller
of Ames college, Iowa, caused some
little comment when she declared
that the short skirts and to a certain
extent standardized clothes for
women would be reality In the
United States within six months.
Professor Miller was not without
proof to substantiate her assertion.
'I do not mean that women are
going to wear uniforms" she said.
What I do mean to say Is that In
a very short time the patriotic
women of this country are going to
be wearing common sense clothes,
made from a very limited number Of
fabrics Of American production in
standardized colors made by Ameri
can chemists, made by themselves or
American manufacturers from a very
limited number of designs.
Result Inevitable.
such result is inevitable, be
cause we are already confronted by
limited yardage, limited models and
a color card The American Fashion
Art league, which comprises the
leading dressmakers of the country
has given its approval. A good start
already has been made. In New
York, Philadelphia and other cities
experts are helping artists to gel
down to practical designs in all kinds
of fabrics for all kinds of purposes
The artists are passing on the goot
word to manufacturers. showing how
they can save by eliminating null
tiplicity of designs and colorings IL
silks and other materials made II
! America Thousands of men nov
| employed in producing frivolous
things for women will be released t.
| supply prime essentials"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-11
Delaware General Assembly.

toalIed Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LOVER, Delaware, Mar. 11.-Under
q - eau Issued by Governor Townsend,
~, me delaware general assembly con-
,eaed in special session at noon to-
way 70 consider ratification Of the
ass prohibition amendment, CO.
saulhation Of the state and national
H sal work and aims and solution OF
as affecting farms.
,,a asooaole action on the national
bmoaloltlon amendment is doubtful,
ses of report that while the
81 AZ was controlled by the "drys"
III. me regular session, two senators
,.a classed as dry" will re-
, ,hss 70 support the amendment. If
ho s should prove true, with the vets
smang their old lines intact, the
T rv ~ would fail of ratification.
mo my leader leaders however, claim one to two
uecisively dry. -