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Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10
Walt Mason's Ripping Rhymes
POOR ME

Soon shall hear the soldiers tell OF mighty deeds they've done;
SLAMS fell-and I have bagged not one! soon shall see the hero
here, with port and front OF Mars. the who knew no craven
fear when prodded with q lance o spear-and can show no scars!
and I shall feel 20 dad-blamed cheap I'm likely to break down and
weep-I have not crossed the zeal The irnen o will with Il 3
tread. their voices will resound; they'll tell of trumphs overhead.
oh. weary days are coming soon. for men too fat TO fight; a melan-
choIy lay they'll Groom as they sit out beneath the moon and weep
through half the night. What If / bought a green thrift stamp and
did without cigars The man from battlefield and camp will on IN .
turf a scorpful lamp. and show his honored scars What IL I lived
on graham bread. and cut out pie and cake? The man who piled
u D rteks OF dead. and lost an arm. a leg o. head. Will say my boasts
a fake I've done m best: ALA. aack. that 1t should be so small:
for when the boys have joarneyed back I know I'll want to hunt a
crack. in which a gent IA crawl
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

We know that clothes are getting
but there is a girl in Dunbar,
who isn't in any danger. Her
name is Iva tigg Leaf.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

Well, Let's Commencei
Mr.. and Mrs. B.. CHM have just
moved to Augusta, Ky.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

From care their married life is free,
They never come to blows;
She honestly believes that he
Tells her all that he knows.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

How many old-tlmers remember the
words of THE Homestead Strike" or
the words of How Paddy Stole the
Roper"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

Do not go hunting trouble, BIO,
Sit down and sing Il song,
And you will find. first thing you know
Your share will come along.
No Joke.
"Oh. we'll" remarked the Optimist,
.sThere is room for everybody in this
world. .
YES" growled the Pessimist- But
the trouble is that everybody wants a
front room"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10
In Darkest pittsburg.

There are nearly 5000 steam laun-
dries in the United States. But you
wouldn't think so when YOU look at
the y-shaped opening at the top of a
lot of mems vests. Luke McLuke.
Dear Luke: After spending a few
days in Pittsburg. I regret TO report
thai il doesn't look like a single n
OF these iaundries Is located In this
burg.-c-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

Just get a little lemon,
Let the lemonade you, dear.-M.
w. 2.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

Luke's old friend Private Dalzell
tells us hat he is only so years young
and is a candidate for Assistant Ser
geant-at-Arms of the Ohio House or
Representatives He claims that he Is
the only living mar who has made 81
active campaigns for the Republican
party. He started out hustling for
Fremont In 1856. and IL still hustling.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

irwin Getzall lives IN JohnstoWn
Penn.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

1t will not avail TO heller,
Nor TO get so sore;
Even MIR. Rockefeller
only cries for more.
Newark Advocate.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

If it's sick the d has made you.
And you're feslin' kind o qneer'
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10
Bits of By-Pldy

BY LUKE McLUkE
Cop, eight. 1913, the Cincinnati
Enquirer
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

Only an Cunlucky Man Trusts to
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

Mrs. II. Has Buried the Rolling Pin.
Gainesville Gazette.)
Invitations have been given out 10 a
large number of her friends who are
invited to help celebrate the declara-
ton of peace at the Timmons home.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-10

Luke McLuke.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
Paternailsn1 a Real Danger

Kahn Of paternalism
preserve nDery - 1 es
supreme ask
fore the nation to
be of the necesues OF
submit to them
critsing Of present ac
in
fondest
at its table will not easily give
really believe ana
the best to leave tn
permanently much OF that which mas oeeh
in
plausible arguments TO sup
-.
will the sup
VIII
the pportunst and the
of social justice do
which available 10
that without doing harm than good ,.. ~
in ancient modern
individual
general
Its strength not to but
individual
whilst
individual which handed down TO
socialism
afiction under the emotional stress and turmoil
scornuy rejected
bitter fate II
infected with the poi
phaanx
right
combine the dictates of social Jus
of welbeing content
Of its people
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
GERMAN DiABoLIsM.

Rev. Joseph H. Odell, in the Out
look: Why do Americans persist in
differentiating between the German
military caste and the German
people? They were ordinary Boche
regiments which held Chateau
Thierry, and when their evacuation
of the place became obviously neces-
sary they set about to destroy and
pollute everything within reach. Re-
member, this is not hearsay; went
into Chateau Thierry on the heels of
the American advance and saw things
with my own eyes. Every available,
Hunish, fiendish, filthy thing that
men could do these Huns did in Cha
teau Thierry just before they left.
The streets were Uttered with the
private possessions of the citizens
thrown through the windows; every
bureau and chiffonier drawer was
rifled and its contents destroyed; in
the better class houses the paintings
were ripped and the china and por-
celain smashed; furniture was broken
or hacked; mirrors were shivered
into a thousand fragments; mat
tresses and upholstery were slashed ;
richly bound books were ripped; in
fact, there was hardly a thing in the
city left intact. The houses of the
poor, in which the German privates
had been billeted, were just as badly
pillaged and devastated as the homes
of the well-to-do. The church, grand
enough for cathedral, had not been
spared. Its paintings and affairs and
crucifixes and stations Of the cross
had been ruthlessly battered and de-
filed Vet even this does NOT fell tho
story-a story which cannot be told
to people who respect decency-for
the Germans left tokens of physical
and mental obscenity in every house
I visited, and / entered scores. II
all hell had been let loose in a choice
suburban town for half day, it could
not have put its obscene and diaboli-
cal mark on place more unmistak-
ably than the Germans put theirs on
| Chateau Thierry.. ] stood amazed
that there could be so much unre-
lieved vileness, such organized beast
| Illness, In the world.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
MORE POWER TO U.s.

Los Angeles Record: Maybe when
you were just wee bit of a child
mother made candles.
Remember how she did it? She
laid out the moulds, then she creased
the wicking and stuck it through tie
taper of the mould and tied 1t. Then
she passed the other end of the wick
strip over stick and brought it back
through the mould and tied it and
cut it off, and SO on with each mould
When the moulds were all wicked
she swung the stick at the end so
that it held level, then the hot tai.
low was poured in, maybe she put in
a little rosin and some beeswax. too.
After a while she went and felt the
moulds and soon they were about
right. and the knots were cut off. and
the candles slid out slick as Won
please.
Of course you couldn't have a win.
dow open in the house with candles
and the hot tallow did spot you nm
some. and baby brother usually had
TO be watched mighty close. and If
you blew the candle out instead of
snuffing it out 1t smelled something
scandalous, but all in all the candle
was for good many hundred years
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
rather satisfactory illumination.

a rather satisfactory Illumination
The modern farm home today has
a four-horsepower gasoline engine
that turns dynamo, that loads a
storage battery, that provides bright,
abundant. convenient light all over
the farm. So
And also the same mystic power
turns the churn handle, separates the
cream, runs the sewing machine,
heats the iron, washes the clothes,
mixes the bread, bakes 1t too, and
will pump the water and milk the
COW and slop the pigs and wind the
clock and kick the cat out IL you will
coax 1t bit, and say pretty please.
Well, what OF 1t?
Oh nothing much, except since so
much of our work is done for us
these inventive days 1t would seem
that we might make better showing
with our time than we do.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
GAS IN THE STOMACH
IS DANGEROUS
Recommends Daily Use OF Masns'
To Overcome Trouble. Caused
by Fermenting Food and
Acid Indigestion.

Gas and wind in the stomach u
companied by that full, bioatea .s
ing after eating are almost cel.ss
evidence of the presence of excessi'|
hydrochloric acid in the stolna
creating so-called "acid indlgesuOts
Acid stomachs are dangerous ~,
cause too much acid irritates a..
delicate lining of the stomach, 9i nj
leading to gastritis accompanieu Is.
serious stomach ulcers. Foou ~ y.
ments and sours, creating the y,
tressing gas which distends s,l
stomach and hampers the nol
functions of the vital internal ois
often affecting the heart. -,.s
1t is the worst OF folly to hes -S,,
such a serious condition or 10 st,s
with ordinary digestive AIDS m,
have no neutralizing effect on orf
stomach acids. Instead get lIoh
druggist few ounces OF 'Bisu i.,i /.
Magnesia and take a teaspooniu "a,
quarter glass of water right er,,t
eating. This will drive the gas sod,
and bloat right out of the m
sweeten the stomach, neutralilfe NH.
excess acid and prevent It's IV naiu,
ton and there is no sourness " n
Bisurated Magnesia Tin po"u i,,,, i:
tablet form-never liquid or iill'n IKE
harmless to the stomach. inexlen.r
to take and the best form Vi b
nesia for stomach purposes. 10 %
used by thousands of people IA
joy their meals with no HUI
lof Indigestion
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
THE HUGHES REPORT.

Wall Street Journal: With only a
few details yet cleared up and pos
sibly a short additional hearing, the
Hughes-GresA,y probe of America s
aircraft production program is com.
plete.
The report is in the hands of
stenographers being prepared for
President Wilson. There was a re-
port at the capital that portions of it
at least already were in the presi-
dents hands.
Great expectancy is manifest both
at the capitol and in official circles
in publication of the report Gossip
at the capitol declares that the
Hughes report is even more severe
in its tone than the senate aircraft
investigation committee report. For
some time there have been guarded
| intimations that high representatives.
of the government would be affected
/ by the Hughes probe.
! President Wilson asked Hughes 10
take up the probe May Is, last, fol,
lowing the charges against conduct of
the aircraft production program by
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
MoNTRosE


All mail subscriptions to The
Daily Gate City not paid in adj
vance were discontinued Sept.
LIST, 1918. Subscriptions sent by
mali must be paid in advance.
Watch the label on your paper
which gives you the expiration
date. send in your renewal.
week or ten days before your
subscription expires SO you will
not miss any copies of the paper.
It is with regret to our townspeople
that Rev. Beecham and family have
sought larger fields of labor. A recep-
ton was held at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. R. L. Reed Monday evening.
when a beautiful set of Haviland china
dishes was presented by the Presby'
terrain church people as token of
esteem of this worthy couple. After
the presentation, appetizing refresh
ments were served.
The latest fad here is 10 o'clock
mush and milk socials.
Sheriff Scott and wife were in the
city Tuesday.
Miss Dorotha Christisen will be &C
companied by her brother and sister,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgner Christisen to
OakdaIe sanitarium, where she goes
in search Of health Wednesday even.
ing.
James Sprott Of Danville, Ill.,. Is a
guest of his brothers Thomas and
John Sprott, a former resident OF this
place.
Emmett Comstock and Miss Virginia
I hemingway were recently Joined in
holy wedlock at FIT Madison Their
friends hope for them great happi.
ness and success. long life to be
helpful to their fellow men.
The L. e. Denmire canning plant
is among the largest and best indus
tries our town affords. The factory
: employs forty-five and has had the
best season run for years. With Lee
Davis at the wheel everything is run
ming smoothly The forty-fve ladies
who wear the uniform of the Denmire
I factory and take the jacket Off the
tomatoes, are a bunch who we will
wager an F. Lee Davis check can't
be beat. The factory don't carry a
brass band but an orchestra of young
ladies whose voices blend nicely TO-
gether. Last but not least, a CORES.
pondent who is proud to say wears
the same uniform. The factory for the
last week has been showed under with
/, the lucious Baltimore tomatoes.
Mrs. Robert Tricket of Rock Island.
HI, was an over Sunday visitor with
her sister. Mrs. Lizzie Noles and
DAUGHTER Vada
We are informed Clayton Myers
! has arrived safely overseas. which Is
good news.
AT the mid-week prayer meeting we
were permitted to listen to the nov
minister. the Rev. Wilkinson. from
( Climbing Hill. Ill His initial ta1k
was well chosen. was helrfnI. milf.
ing ard inspiring and the song service
iipleasing.
The Lee county district convention
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02

Every dollar we save and loan to our gov
eminent will come back to us pr1nclpal ana III
terest. For twenty years to come the country
will be taxed to pay this to US. we loan the
fruits of our labor now but others TO come alter
us will labor to pay us back In full. Inns war
imposes less of giving on the poor than on the 9
rich The government limits the earnings %
wealth. Men of large means are heavily taxed
and there is no comeback They are required
to surrender a greater per cent. of their in
comes. whereas men of small means are asked
only to loan the government their savings,
every cent Of which will be returned. This IS
really poor man s war and rich man s fight
For wears to follow it taxation will be abnor-
ma.lly heavy but the man who now buys all the
bonds he can pay for will be in the best posi-
ton of all our citizens.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02

Of Rebekahs convened at Bluff I'd
September 81, 1918. Montrose lH
does things by halves and made n
perations to entertain their gua|
royalty. The local lodge enteraI
well. Large delegations from NEG
boring towns were we'll represent
Ten more stars are to be added
the beautiful service flag that Eu@
80 boldly on Main street, the gloha,
emblem of the free and the homs
the brave. Much credit is due Msri
Buck for the attention and care
the service flag.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Orth ban
moved their household furniture tud
Green Bay to. their home here. lSd
are gladly welcomed among us.
The Latterday Saints held Y
days meeting at their chapel at
Madison Saturday and Sunday,
Mrs. r. w. Bowen and daugsla
Miss Grace, spent last Sunday in @
cago with her son John Bowen, Vi
considers himself a full Pledged 81
or and is enjoying. good health .
looking well.
Sunday being an ideal day, II Y
evidently automobile day frGa
mum rous cars seen on the thoroug
fare.
Miss Emily Folkner, who has ee
visiting at Gregory, Mo-. has retr
ed to her home at Galland. Quite
bunch Of Gregory people were Sumo
guests of Miss Alta Denmire.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Gordinere
guests at the parental ]. L. Vaur
dali home.
Over the top in buying Llos
bonds at Montrose. Some Of our
zens dig up well when 1t comes to
money deals and are always UP to
quota In everything.
Misses Grace and Marie bon
were guests at the home of MI.
Mrs. Matthew LeFever Sunday II
motored to Donnellson in the al
noon.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
The heart needs not for its heaven much
space, nor many stars therein, if only the
star of love has risen-Richter.
BUY A BOND NOW, TODAY,

Every dollar now invested in Liberty bonds
will make the future happier and easier for the
investor. What man ever regretted that he had
saved one hundred dollars, and had it out at
interest? What family ever regretted econo-
mics in the past which made its present and
future comfort more secure? Who does not re-
Jolce that he has one hundred dollars. or even
nifty dollars, safely banked instead of HAVING
allowed it to slip through his fingers and he
1r1ttered away2 Who does not know that one
hundred dollars or fifty dollars saved and at in.
lerest IN AN emergency may be his best reliance
better than any friend-in AN hour of need
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02

| :
current discussion of commercial war to fol
low the present conflict is premature he Is con
WINGED there is one ''war after the war; TOR
which the lines are now being drawn That IS
the war of the motey army ranging from the
! American variety of Bolsheviks to the self
/ seeking demagogues and others, against those
g who believe that the accumulated wisdom OF
centuries of human experience is wisdom stlll,
and who see in individualism, ordered, enlght-
ened, progressive, sympathetic and adjusted TO
the changing needs and social conceptions OF
the age the soundest and most effective 1nstru-
ment, for the advancement and the happiness
| of humanity
In his recent address before the convention
of the American Bankers association held IN
Chicago Mr. Kahn said that individuallsm
frankly denies that the world can be run on a
theory which assumes the existence of mental
moral and physical equality between men. "Do
YOU realize,'' he asked, ''that if all incomes
above 100000 were confiscated, as has been
urged by some, the resulting sum would barely
cover our war expenditures for one month";"
Mr. Kahn disclaimed any intention of cr1tl-
cising the present government but he SAID that,
because of conditions which he pointed out
Washington was heavy with the atmosphere OF
politics and pervaded, as no other capital he
knows, with the spirit and the very flavor OF
things governmental He believes it is not
very long step from governmental paternalism
to socialism, and he says the history of rail
roads in the last ten years shows the effect of
Ipaternalistic control.
| Speaking Of the treatment of the railroads
| as ''punative paternalism,'' Mr. Kahn added
that in some respects the same term might be
applied to our existing taxation. He did
not overstate his case when he said: SIT pen
allies success 1t penalties thrift practiced in
the past and discourages it for the present. :"
Through the accident of war, paternalism
at present rules supreme. That is inevitable in
war time.'' Inevitable or not, it is established
for the war period. When peace comes there
should be quick return to better system; to
one that does not fall to reward private enter
prise and Individual initiative.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
PRIMARY CIRCLES.

Lexington, KY, acting on the suggestion of
her superintendent of schools who had happy
idea has renamed her kindergartens primary
circle-a designation which not improbably
may come into general use. Other cities have
called them child gardens or play schools, and
have cast about for other names, the universal
desire being to get away from title even re-
motely suggestive of Germany. Nor is this an
injustice to Froebel, the German educator. if he
was simply an improver on Postalozzi the
Swiss, who himself developed the conception
of the great Frenchman Rousseau.
1t seems safe to say that nothing German ex-
icept its music and nobler literature of DAYS be-
fore the unfication of the empire under Prussia
Will for long time be tolerated by the rest. of
the world. The name primary circles is the
most distinctively American term as vet sug
gested; and until better one is offered. seems
likely to be generally adopted in American pub
Ilic schools.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-02
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times Republican
The test of our patriotism Is willing
ness to pay and to work to win the
war No other test decides. We are
come to the time when money pa
triotism and work patriotism and
fighting patriotism abroad set the
seal upon our patriotism. The day
of mouth Americanism Is past and
by. There is only one test for Amer
icanism, work and pay or fight. All
other Americanism is a brand. 1t is
not a seal of service.
Coon Rapids Enterprise: The al
lied soldiers are doing wonderful and
heroic things. They are showing
themselves masters of the war. and
they are going to win, but its long
ways yet to complete victory.
Manson Journal: If the boys do
the fighting it is up to US to furnish
the, money.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
young men of. America never had
such opportunities, educationally, Of
fered to them as are now offered.
To receive the benefits of college
training and to be paid for it, as well
as "subsisted' and "bedded," is a
marvellous development of the edu-
cational idea. The young man who
does not play that game is a very
foolish young man.
Rolfe Arrow: Politicians of Iowa
have evidently decided not to butt
in on the Liberty loan campaign with
political fireworks. This will make
a late and short campaign. 1t is just
as we'll This is a pretty good year
to let the people make their own
choice.
Dubuque Times-Journal: We do not
doubt that Won Hertling and all the
rest of the criminals who plunged
the world into war would announce
that they favored anything to get a
peace now that would be favorable
to Germany. But they are not going
to get it. Germany is going to be
conquered and is going to accept just
exactly what terms Of peace the al
lies decide to grant.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The camel
passing through the needles eye has
comparatively easy JoD compared
to the semi-American running for Of
flee.
Waterloo Courier: Suppose grand
mother" could wake up and do a
little shopping these days. What
would be her comment on 65 cents
a pound for butter-in September?
Algona Upper Des Moines-Repub-
lican: The seed corn proclamations
were hardly necessary this year.
Farmers as a rule have sense enough
not to get bitten twice in the same
place by the same dog.