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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
DEPORTATION OF eELeIAns.

| Vernon Kellogg, in the Atlantic
Monthly: The world knows too,
hazily, that these deportations were
made in many. perhaps most, in.
| stances in a peculiarly brutal and
revolving manner, with treatment
of human beings comparable only
with that which migth have been
given to an equal number of cattle,
sheep, or swine driven to the rail-
ways, held in yards In the rain or
sun for a cursory examination for
possible infectious disease and physi-
cal condition generally,-for the i'm
porters wanted only sound animals.
and then packed tightly into box
cars with enough feed and water for
the trip to the distant abattoirs-
enough feed, that is, if the trains
got through on schedule, which they
never did.
The world knows this hazily, I
say. Much has been written about
this deporting; about its causes, the
conditions that melted German
authority to do tit was the highest
military authority that decreed 1t.
not Won Bissing's Belgian govern
ment,-the manner Of its doing. it's
results. But the world needs the
whole story. Unfortunately 1t can
not yet be written. Among other
things lacking is the knowledge OF
just how many Of the hundred thou.
sand Belgian slaves have died and
are to die in Germany. Some have
been sent back hastily. so that they
would not die in Germany; they die
on the returning trains, or soon after
they get back. Or, what Is worse.
some do not die. but continue to live
helpless physical wrecks.
The deportations were not hazy to
US. They were the most vivid. shock.
ing, convincing, single happening In
all our enforced observation and en-
perience Of German disregard OF
human suffering and human rights in
Belgium. We did not see the things
that happened to the deported men
in Germany. But we could not helm
knowing some of them. When the
wrecks began to be brought back
the starved and beaten men who
would not sign the statements that
they had voluntarily gone to Ger.
many to work and the starved and
beaten ones who would not work at
all; and the ones who could mot
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
NOTICE

wv
Notice ia hereby given that at q
meeting of the stockholders OF The
huiskamp Brothers company. held on
December 18th. 1917, the articles OF
incorporation OF said company were
amended by providing that in addition
to the common stock of said company
there shall be Two Hundred Thousand
Dollars OF preferred stock, divided in.
to shares of one hundred dollars each.
Said preferred stock shall be paid for
only in cash and shall not be issued
until the corporation has received the
face value thereof in cash. Said pre-.
TERED stock, not to exceed two hun
dred thousand dollars, shall be issued
at such times and in such amounts as
shall be determined by the board of
directors. The said preferred stock
shall draw four per cent annual divid.
end and shall be preferred as to div
idends and as to assets, the company
reserving the right to retire the pre-.
ferred stock at par at any time. The
record Of said amendment has been
filed in the office Of the recorder OF Lee
county, Iowa at Keokuk. in incorpor
alton record book 5, page 100; and
said record has also been fled in the
office Of the Secretary of State OF
Iowa, at Des Moines.
Signed December 20, 1917.
THE HUISKAMP BROTHERS COM.
PANY.
BY Henry W. Huiskamp as its presi.
dent
And by Leonard Matless, as its Sec
rotary and treasurer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
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IaIlla1l 4 y NEWS q
WILL DIVIDE
THE RECEIPTS
Ball Managers VIII Meet in cincin-
natl Tomorrow to Talk over
Many Vexed Questions
Concerning the Game.

| [By H. G. Hamilton, United Press
Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK, Jan. BAN Johnson
and Garry Hermann, having agreed
that Governor Tener was right when
he asked that clubs, other than
worlds series participants, be al
lowed to share in the spells, 1t is
believed certain that second, third
and perhaps fourth place ball players
will be granted the right tomorrow
to get IN.
The national commission will hold
supreme court tomorrow in Cincin-
natl and all the things that have
been talked over will be brought out
for a walk in the park.
Emergency insertions in the rules
of the big leagues probably will be
made to tide over the financial strin-
gency that is certain to be coming
along before the summer is over
smash at the cost of transportation
and hotel expenses probably will be
limited at Clubs which carry the
full weight Of big clubs probably will
be allowed to scatter these athletes
around instead OF carrying them
along on fat railway and hotel bills.
1t may even be that magnates will
get together on some plan to move
from the high speed hotels to some
of lower classification.
Charles Weeghman and the re-
mains of his bank roll will be at
Cincinnati, laying for some unsus-
pecting mariner of the baseball deep.
If Charles can pick off few more
high class athletes John McGraws
reputation as a purchaser of pen
nants will be in deadly danger.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Jack Knife Dive Romance.

limited Press Leased Wire Service1
CHICAGO, Jan. THE marriage
Of Miss Edith Larsen. Of Chicago, to
Henrik Bagger-Sorenson, boat
manufacturer of Copenhagen, Den
mark. will take place next Saturday
evening in the church of the Atone
ment.
At a fashionable watering place in
Denmark, where Miss Larsen was re-
garded as one of the most accom-
plished swimmers, Sorenson, an ex-
pert swimmer himself, was attracted
to the American girl because Of her
skill and when she showed him how
to do the jack knife dive, he proposed
on the spot. Some say he even dived
in to tell her of his love before she
could regain the raft. At any rate
the engagement was announced the
same evening and last week Sorensen
braved the U boat zone to come to
Chicago
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
BOBBY M'LEAN
BEST SKATER
He Won at Chicago Over Norwegian
in the Series of Races for the
Worlds TitIe-Made
Records,

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service !,
CHICAGO, Jan. BOBBY Mclean,
American champion, today was the
possessor of two new professional
ice skating records, as well as a
lead of three events, In his series of
races with Oscar Mathewson, Nor
wegian champion, for the world S
title.
Mclean won the furlong dash in
20 1-5 seconds, and the mile event in
5:44 3-5, both new marks, before a
big crowd in the arena last night.
He also took the mile in 1852 Is.
Mathewson was favorite In the bet.
ting, especially in the distance races,
but the only event in which he made
showing was in the 220.
The 440, half mile and three mile
events will be SLATED tonight.
Mclean has to win one to obtain
the title.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
THE HARDEST
BALL HITTER
babe" Ruth Given the Honor by a
Unanimous Vote-He is High
Man in Both Major
Leagues.

Who's the hardest hitter in base.
ball?
This query was put to Clarence
Rowland and other members of the
White Sox array.
One or two said Bob Veach. One
or two said Joe Jackson. One man
said Pipp. Another voted for Zach
Wheat.
How about Babe Ruth?"
This query broke up the session
For it was voted with unanimous
consent that Ruth could outhit the
entire flock when it came to long
distance crashing.
Ruth is Sam Crawford's success
sor. The big pitcher can hit a ball
harder than any entry now recorded
in either league.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Former keokuk, Central Association
Manager, Goes to American
Association as Head
of "Brewers."
MANAGED TEAM IN 1905
At That Time He Had Good Players,
But Failed to Cop Anything
That Looked Like Pen
nant for Keokuk.

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MIL WAUKEE, Wis, Jan. 7.-"Ned
Egan. OF ST Paul, who has been IL
baseball about twenty years-four
wears as a player-will manage the
Brewers next year and is under pro
yisional contract for 1919 and 1920,
Al Timme announced today Eean
has already left on a tour to secure
PLAYERS for the Milwaukee team OF
the American association. Etsan mas
managed teams in Canada, Iowa, Wis
eonsin and other places.
Egan will be remembered as the
manager of the Keokuk team, Central
association, in 1905. He came here
from the Canadian country where ne
had had such phenomenal success
with teams in the twilight league,
and while he seemed to have the In
diyidual players, he failed to get a
team together that could do better
than cop fifth place, although at one
time early in the season they We're
going at the head of the crowd, and
during the July squirt established a
record for consecutive wins.
The following year Egan went to
Burlington and made a pennant WIZ
ner out of that club. He managed
Waterloo and Burlington for several
seasons in this league and always
managed to pull his club we'll to the
front If not leading the race.
Egan was popular with the fans in
the circuit even though their chief
delight was to treat him in much the
same fashion that the Chicago south
side rooters boo at Heinie Zim in a
worlds Championship series. Egan.s
appearance in a class A-A league will
be watched with considerable interest
by his friends in the game in Keo-
kuk and throughout the old Central,
association.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Must Vote for suffrane.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
WASHINGTON, Jan. Southern
democrats stand to lose their control
of committee chairmanships in con.
gress by any sustained opposition to
the federal woman suffrage amend
ment, according to Congressman Can
trill, of Kentucky.
Representative Cantrill, in a state
ment given out today, points out that
ten southern states are now in con-
troll of thirty-one of the sixty COM
mittee ,chairmanships in the house.
Four of these ten states control eight
of the thirty-one chairmanships. That
the south would like to keep in con-
troll goes without saying. But it won't
be able to do so in the face OF oppo-
sition 1t will encounter if these ten
southern states vote almost solidly
against the federal suffrage amend
ment, he says.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Stayed In Too Lono,

San Francisco Argonaut: The at
torney for the prosecution and de
tense had been allowed fifteen min
utes each to argue the case. The at.
torney for the defense had begun hia
argument with an allusion to the old
swimming hole of his boyhood DAYS
He told in flowery oratory of the
balmy air, the singing birds, the Joy
of youth, the delights OF the cool
water. And in the midst Of It he was
interrupted by the drawing voice OF
the Judge. Come out, Chauncey. "
he said, land put on your clothes.
Your fifteen minutes are up"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
kaiser's Bell Melted III.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
THE HAGUE, Jan. THE great
"kaiser's bell has now been remov-
ed from It's cage in the southern tow
er of the grand cathedral to be melt.
ed for war uses. 1t rang it's funeral
chant on New Years night.
The bell weighed 5000 pounds
and it was necessary to saw 1t in
pieces to get 1t down
French guns captured in 1870 and
1871 were the material from which
the bell was made, and 1t was first
sounded on March 81, 1877, the birth.
day Of William l.
1t took twenty-seven bell ringers
to operate it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Needed REBUILDING.

San Francisco Argonaut: Jilkins
sat behind girl with tremendous
hat on. He leaned this way and that
way and peeped underneath and over
the top till he was tired, and then.
taking his life in his hands, SO to
speak, he asked the damsel If she's
either take off her hat or sit still.
Il want to look as well as you do
he finished. The girl glanced at him
over her shoulder and smiled a smile.
ooh, you do she said slowly. well.
in that case you'd better go home and
change your face.''
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Moran Too Busy to Box in January.

Moran Too Busy to Box in January.
United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
NEW JORK, Jan. Unless Frank
Moran suddenly changes his mind
he will not box Fred Fulton at New
Orleans on the night of January g.
Moran asks for a postponement until
Washington's birthday. Moran wired
from Camp Wadsworth today that
he would not be able to meet Fulton
on January %.
Moran's telegram read: Tmpos-
sible to leave off work to train for
Fulton. Can box him February %"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Horsemen to Raise $4,000 for Red
/ Cross

United Press Leased Wire Service. |
LEXINGTON, KY, Jan. THE
committee appointed at the general
conference Of thoroughbred horse in
terests at which was pledged $500 900
to the American Red Cross to be
raised during the racing season OF
1918, met here yesterday
1t was agreed that while certain
rules will obtain as basis for fig
uring proportions to be derived from
the various branches of the industry,
no assessments will be made, and
that the money is to come in from
contributions.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Wartime Sport at Harvard

limited Press Leased Wire Service I
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Jan. 7.-Har-
ward adopted wartime sport today
with the announcement that a bay-
Dnet team would be placed in the
field this season and would meet
Yale, Columbia and other colleges.
Jules LeBlas, fencing coach. is to
have charge Of the new team.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Frenchman Won at Chess

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-David Jan
owski, of Paris, wound up his chess
match with Charles Jaffe, of this city.
by winning the eighteenth game of
the series at the New York City Chess
club. His final score was ten games
won, four lost, and four drawn,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07

The Moors, like the Turks and
most other orientals, are more solicit
tous as to the number Of pounds
which their brides weigh than about
the stock Of accomplishments they
possess. Throughout Morocco there
are villages where the elder mem
bers of the adult population follow
professionally the pursuit Of fatten-
ing young ladies for the matrimonial
market.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07

work even when, driven by fear of
punishment, they tried to, on the
acorn soup and sawdust bread of the
torture camps,-when these poor
wrecks came back. they brought
their experiences with them, and re-
vealed them by a few words and
the simple exhibition of their
SCARED and emaciated bodies.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Robinson Dies from Injuries.


United Press Leased Wire Service. I
BALTIMORE, Md, Jan. Twill
bert H. Robinson, Jr., 81, son of the
manager of the Brooklyn National
league baseball club, is dead here
today of injuries received in an auto.
mobile accident.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07

The fishing fleet landing fishery
products at Boston and Gloucester.
Mass, and Portland, Me, during
September included 242 steam and
sail vessels. The total for the three
ports during the month amounted to
63SN trips, aggregating 1897 ,222
pounds of fresh and sailed fish, hav-
ing aA value to the fishermen of $685.
674.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Walter Gets Into Ersv

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. 7
NEW YORK, Jan. 7-Another
New York sports writer has Joined
The military forces of the country if
was learned today. Walter TrumbulI
of the New York World staff, is now,
sergeant in the 115th field artil.
lery.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
BID Sum for Bed Cross

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
NEW YORK, Jan. THE national
horse show held here recently and
other shows held during the summer
netted total of s62, 719 for the Amer
lean Red Cross fund.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Ten Years Has Been Length Of Time
That This New Legislation
Has Been m Effect
Here.
REPORT IS BEING MADE
Chemistry Bureau Of Agricultural DC
partment Reviews Situation and
Tells What Has Been
Accomplished.

Ten years of enforcement Of the food
and drugs act of June 30, 1906. are re-
viewed in the annual report of the bu-
reau of chemistry, department OF agrl-
culture, which says that the acts chief
contributions to the safety Of the peo-
pies health have been its corrective
effect upon the drug and patent med1'
cine industry, it's control OF trade In
unclean milk, polluted, decomposed, or
filthy foods, and protection Oh food
stuffs from contamination with poi
sons likely to be met in manufacture.
The general effect Of the food and
drugs act may best be estimated, says
the report, by considering its effect
upon food and drug control by the
Estates, upon development Of the food
and drug industries, and by the princi-
pal abuses that have been corrected.
But to illustrate the scope Of the work
through f1e"res and facts, the report
points out that more than 5000 prose-
cutions have been terminated in the
courts in the first decade of the act;
that manufacturers have been cited
at hearings more than 10000 times,
that many thousands Of factory inspec-
lions have been made, and that more
than 100000 shipments of domestic or
imported food and drugs have been
examined.
Development Of Industries.
The food and drugs act was one of
the first laws which today would be
classed as laws for the prevention Of
unfair competition The report says
that the suppression Of fraud upon the
consumer and of unfair competition
among business rivals are but the
two faces of the same COIN" In conse-
quence the food industries are sincere
ly and actively helping the bureau of
chemistry to enforce the law.
frequently, the report says, the bu-
reau is appealed to by the Industries
to compel the cessation of unfair prac-
tees and to encourage the standard
ization of the products, when the in
dustry is incapable by itself Of oring-
ing about these results.
The best evidence, according to the
report, that many of the abuses form
erly occurring in the food industry
have ceased is found in the fact that
the violations of the food and drugs
act observed today are hardly COM
parable, in degree. with those In the
first few years following the enact
ment of the law.
Consequently there has been de-
cfded change In the direction of the
work. In recent years it has develop
ed quite noticeably in the direction of
factory sanitation, Of the study OF
spoilage and decomposition of food
stuffs, and OF improvement through
laboratory research of methods of de.
tecting the more refined types OF
adulteration.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
Soldier BartfeId Matched.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 7.-Soldier
Bartfeld has been matched to go
twelve rounds with Ted Lewis here
January IA.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07
He Asks Whether You Use Your Auto
for Business or Pleasure
and When You Were
Married.
EACH CASE DIFFERENT
Necessary to Use Utmost Care IN
Filling Out Blanks so az
Not to Forget
Anything.

Were you married before Dec. 81,
|1917
Do you use your auto for business
or pleasure?
These are seemingly harmless
lquizzes, but they prove to be mighty
weighty questions when 1t comes to
determining the amount OF income tax
which is due Uncle Sam from you.
II you were single on Dec. 1, 1917,
and got married before Dec. 81, the
revenue office considers you as mar
ried and you are allowed $4,000 exemp-
ton from the income tax. II on the
other hand, you were married on Dec.
1. 1917, and then got into the divorce
courts and became single by Dec. 81
(the thing has happened) Uncle Sam
considers you as single and your ex-
emption from income tax is only 81, 900
Autoists Up Against It.
The revenue office answers some
terribly knotty questions for gas
gocart owners these days. A farmer
walked into the revenue office and de-
clared he owned an auto, but that he
used it entirely for farm business.
Then he admitted that he occasionally
took his family riding on Sundays and
sometimes took a pleasure trip to
town. The revenue deputies informed
him that the upkeep Of the car when
used for farm business would be de-
Quoted from his income, but that the
gasoline and oil consumed on pleasure
trips was not deductable.
A number of physicians own two
cars. One they use in their practice,
while the other is operated entirely
for pleasure. The upkeep expense of
the business car is deductable from
the income in figuring the annual
stipend on which to arrive at the prop
er income tax.
A business man called at the reve-
nue. office and wanted to know il hos
pital bills were deductable from his
income. There's no question but what
they eat into ones income, but Uncle
Sam don't allow anything on your
medical misfortunes. Or on household
or home expenses either.
Your WIfe's Salary, Too.
II a man owns property and rents
1t to other people the insurance and
upkeep expenses are deductable from
his income. II you get married in
September. 1917, and your wife was
making salary after you were wed.
her salary from the date Of the wed.
ding counts in as part Of your income.
OF course, the fact that you are mar.
rted gives you $4,000 exemption. 80 II
you were making $1,000 and your
spouse $500 a year you are exempt
anyway. Otherwise II you were single
you would have to pay income tax on
5000.
Oh, It's no joke-tfis income tax!
Revenue deputies have to give differ.
ent decisions for almost every per.
son. They arrive at their conclusions
only after careful study of each in.
dividual case
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-07

Try Lewis Single Binder SC
Cigar-you'll stick to it.
The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1918-08-09
AMERICANS
SHOCK TROOPS
Heroiccally Hold Bribdehead
Established on Northern Bank
Of VesIe at Fismes.
B0CHE ATTACK IS BROKEN
Sammies Pour Hot Shot Into
Ranks Of Picked Men From +.
Prussian Guard.
B0CHE ATTACK IS BROKEN

With the American Army on the
Marne- Vesle front. Aug. S.L(Night)- =
Picked German shock troops unsuc-
cessiully attempted four times today
to drive back the American troops
holding the bridgehead established on
the northern bank of the Vesle river
at fismes.
Gen. Won Boehm launched his hcavi-
est attack soon after daybreak with
400 picked men from the grenadier and
Prussian guard forces. He ordered
them to regain the river bank at all
costs.
American machine guns, however.
poured SO deadly a. fire from the north-
ern outskirts of Fismes and the north
ern side of the Soissons- Rheims high
road in the region of Bazoches that the
German attack was broken down.
The enemy continues to hold Ba-
zoches technically as he has drenched
the town with gas in his determina-
tion to keep the allies out. but he is
unable to live there himself, merely
Gordon of machine gun
ners at the edge of Fismes.
Despite enemy gases, Krupp bat
teries and the shelling of back areas
by long range enemy guns, allied engi-
neers have succeeded in establishing a
bridge across the Vesle. Enemy air.
craft artillery failed to stop them.
Our artillery also successfully
grappled with the barbed wire en-
which the boches placed
along the river bed to prevent it's
fording during the Franco British Of
fensive In the Montdidier salient.