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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24

A message direct from moyleiano
n the American Expeditlonary
Forces has reached France. II
was "cheer-up" film, made just
for the soldiers, sent to france by
special messenger, and SO 1uii Oh Pep
that the American boys WIN 70 a.er
nv she see IL. "Doug" Fairbanks, Mary
pict ford. Charlie Chaplin and the
.th.rs sent it over as personal
D Oord TO the boys. 1t will be shown
IN the sY" hut Of every army camp
Get 'em, boys, we're with your
The message says, in effect. Famliiar
Faces of ilm favorites grin at the
American soldiers, and their lips
move in words that should make the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24
Employe Of Wholesale Grocery Com
pany Severely Handled by Rail-
road Brakeman After
Taunt.
REPORT TO THE COUNCIL
State Defense Body to Learn of Occur
rence-"Brakey" Hailed by
Those Who Saw
Beating.

Persons on the levee who saw a
fight last Friday night, between a
Wabash brakeman and travelling
salesman are hailing the aggression
of the railroad man and police are
preparing to turn the name of the
drummer, who made pro-German re-
marks to the brakeman, to the atten-
ton of federal authorities.
The salesman is said by the police
to be in the employ OF local gro
Gerry company. The department has
his name and address.
The name of the brakeman Is Jo-
seph Couster, who lives near Bluffs.
Ill.
The brakeman had alighted from
his train and was proceeding up
town when the salesman is said to
have accosted him with the taunt.
you patriotic American
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24

soviets were compelled to conclude
foreign loan The interest he said
would be paid in raw materials
AS a guarantee, BronsAy declared.
Germany win be granted numezUuh
concessions affecting the natural 10
sources of Russia.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24
Burned Her Two Babies.

limited Press Leased Wire Servfce.1
HAMILTON, OhD, June 24-Edna
Cook poured coal oil on the bed OF
her two children, Everett, five and
Mildred, three, and burned them to
death early today. Gates Cook, her
husband, was severely burned trying
to rescue the babies
Police say that Mrs Cook admitted
starting the fire, saying she was
afraid her husband was going to send
her to an insane asylum.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24
|COuN1Y TO SEND
| 81 MEN TO BAT TIE
single June Increment Departs for
Camp Dodge at a. m, Tues
day to Enter
Training.
PARADE TO THE STATION
Band viii Lead Procession Of Citizens
and seIectmen-Two July
Quotas Already in
Sight.

keokuk will escort city and county
select1ves to the railroad station
Tuesday and bid farewell to the new
followers of the tolors.
Twelve men from Keokux and
twenty from the county, outside. will
entrain for Camp Dodge a. a m.
They will probably be mustered in for
various kinds Of service by 6 D. NJ, to-
morrow
1t is expected that Frank o. Barber.
former sergeant in Company l., Keo-
kuk. will be responsible for the de
livery OF the group Of selectives to the
commanding officer at the cantonment.
Parade from Club Home,
A parade of citizens will form ct the
Elks club home, Sixth and Blond eau
streets at 6:15 a. m. Members o. the
Elks lodge, Grand Army veterans, city
officials, Uncle Sans drum corps, let
ter carriers, the selectmen and others
will take part In the parade to the
depot, led by the Keokuk Concert
band
Tomorrow's increment will be the
only one sent from the county this
month.
TWO July lncrements.
There will be two quotas furnished
by Lee, next month. All negro selec
tives in class one will go July Is and
all white men will entrain beginning
July 90 to the number Of nearly $4,000
in the state. The county will furnish
practically 275 men under the July
call.
The men who depart tomorrow for
military training are:
keokuk Selects.
p. NJ. Chamberlain, 823 Franklin.
Henry Edward cosgrove, 1o1 North
Second.
Lewis Schneider, 22so Mckinley
avenue.
William Edward Brugmar, 1919 Or
Ica' s avenue
Clarence !. Matheney, 1909 Ridgs.
Charles Wiesemann, 1909 Exchange.
Edmund Barry, 62e Franklin.
Arthur WaIter'nor Scfmidt, 1905
-imea.
Henry Young, 71s Grand avenue.
Frank ortheIIo Barber, 2117 Des
Moines.
John X. kavanaugh, 1902 Estes.
Carroll Edward Olson, 52e North
Fourth.
County Men.
Men in the county, outside Of keo-
kuk, who will enter service under the
next call are:
William MoxIey, Kansas City, kans.
Vincent r. Scierbrook, West Point.
Donald A. Magness, Salisbury, Mo.
Bernard Joseph Schultz, Fl. Madi
Ton.
Charles w. Castor, Ft. Madison.
Allan A. Muerhoff, Fl. Madison.
Herman Teddy klug, Argyle.
Ross Saddier, Fl. Madison.
Albert 3. constanz, Detroit. Mich.
Henry G. Shier, Fl. Madison.
Herman WeIIman, Yves. Point.
Omer M. Valley, West Point.
Henry c. Ossenbrinck, West Point
George Henry Miller, Viewer.
William Levefing, West Po:rt.
AIoysius Stuekerjuereen, P1ict
Grove.
VIM. Riley Mcmillan, Tana Iowa.
Orr Stevens, e. Madison.
George Harmeyer, West Point.
Rufus Earl Smith, Mt hanniII.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24
Reports Of Chief Of Departments Else
where Show keokuk is the Low
est in Group Of
Cities.
SOME FURNISH CLOTHES
TT. Madison Pays $50; Mason City.
sos; MarshaIitown Men CARRIED
For All Weather by the
City.

City fireman are interested in re
ports of salaries paid to men in de.
partments in other cities. Comparison
with seven or eight other cities
shows that Keokuk's flame batuers
are the lowest paid
A. A. Durham, chief of the fire de.
partment in Waterloo reports these
salaries Chief, $40 month; assist.
ant chief, Sis; captains, sos; lieut..
anants, 500; fireman, first class, Sn5
second class, 500, third class, SO,
fourth class, $50. The men have
twenty-four hours away from duty
every fifth day and fifteen days va.
cation each year.
No man in the Quincy fire depart.
ment is paid less than $50 month,
Chief George C. Marriott says. En-.
Drivers, pipemen and truckmen are
paid $50.
Equipment Furnished.
Fort Madison, smaller in popula-
ton than Keokuk. pays it's men $50
a month, beginning with their third
year and thereafter. The city fur
nishes rubber coats. boots and bunk
er suits, Chief John B. Shoemaker
states.
Eighty dollars month is the low
est money paid in Marshalltown. The
salaries as reporded by James H Ell
lis, chief, are: Chief, 500; assistant
chief. 500; captains, $S5; drivers,
pipemen and others receive $50 re-
CARELESS OF their length of service.
Each man gets one day off in every
five and the city furnishes rubber
boots and coats, jumpers, and duck
coats and also sheepskin lined coats
for extremely cold weather.
Burlington Gets 1888
"Our fireman are not receiving as
much money as other cities of the
same class throughout the state
says Chief Ellis.
Burlingtm's department pays its
chief, L F. Blank, $125 month, as
sistant chief, 500, captains $3.50;
pipemen and truckmen, first year,
SIS and second year and thereafter
1888.
Mason City fireman are paid sos
a month beginning with their third
year. The men were given a $40 a
month raise beginning with January
Is, this year. First year men in the
Mason City department are paid $50
and second year men, $3.50, says
Chief Thomas Conner.
Des MONIES, the capital city of the
state, pays its chief $167.50 a month.
Pipemen, truckmen and drivers in
the department are paid 800 a
month.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24
seIoians Are Executed.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
AMSTERDAM, June 24.-Forty-
four Belgians were tried by court
martial at Client on charges Of trans
hitting to the allies certain papers
concerning the German army and the
effects of air raids on the Bruges
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24

chief salaries range upward from
Sis, is the report Of Chief VIII Bur
nett
Keokuk firemen, regardless of the
length of -ae,r service, are paid SIS
a month. The assistant chief gets the
same money as the other men. An
increase of SIS month was granted
the firemen several months ago, but
even with that increase the firemen
said recently, they are unable to buy
blue serge uniforms as were former
ly worn. Practically all of the fire
men in the department here are mar
ried.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24

The railroad man didn't stop to
talk and the salesman thought that
fists were beating TATTOO on his
Uranium from all sides.
Report of the affair is to be made
to Lafayette Young, chairman of the
state council of national defense.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24

canal, the Echo De Beige declared
today.
Sixteen were sentenced to death,
five were acquitted and the remain
der were sentenced to prison terms
of two to twenty years
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24
More Pay Recommended.

The civil service commission re-
commended to the council not long
ago that firemen be paid at the rate
of $50 a month or that shorter hours
be held out as an inducement to en-
ployes. The department is now under
manned.
The recommendation of the COM
mission was received and filed by the
council with the statement that there
are no funds available with which to
pay more money to men in the de-
partment-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24

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Read Gate City Want ads.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24
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Paid $40 Here.
Captains, lieutenants and assistant
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-24
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The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-01
DISABLED SOLDIERS IN INDUS
Try

The fedora. ooara, Ger vocation9
education. assisted by the uniteu
States employment service. proposes
to make a real job out Of the task
Of placing disabled soldiers and sail
ors in industrial employment
For a long time England permitted
volunteer associations to fin5 jobs for
the discharged soldiers, and the plan
proved an absolute failure. Too many
employers offered to take the boys
in and give them jobs on the assump-
ton that it was their patriotic duty
to help the disabled. 1t didn't work
Then England made a government al
fair of employment and found places
for their disabled soldiers and sail
ors where the employer could cheer
fully write for value received" across
the mans pay envelope.
The American government is fol-
lowing the latter course; and it ~
LTdIulIlS SOluIcES LII saA W.
ployment, spending six months or
more on each man. When he is pre-.
pared for employment place IS
found. and he is sent out to earn his
living in a way that makes him absO-
lutely independent. and the PROPOSE
ton balances dollar for dollar be-
tween employer and emplOye. The
matte of Uncle Sam in this task is
mo sentiment The operation OF
the whole plan is made absolutely
practical. since the disabled man
when turned into industry has been
evolved from the soldier into a real
economic factor in the industrial life
Of his country.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-01
"NoTAaMG DOING"

No That does not apply 10 Ocald,
and if one thinks so he will be dis
illusioned if he will take a jaunt
through our manufacturing districts.
1t was our privilege to make such a
pilgrimage the other day, and it really
makes one feel real good to see SO
mu,h activity going on.
The Taylor Brothers pla4t is a real
beehive of activity. The crate mill is
so rushed with orders that it can no
longer depend ON its avalcade of log
teams, but is now compelled to get a
number of carloads of logs per week
by rail.
To say that it is a beehive" is no
Pigment of the imagination.
The ice plant is in full swing and
the business does not seen to have
been curtailed by the war making
such inroads on our population.
The gas plant is in full operation,
as a,..e the Coca-Cola and CherO-Cola
botkling works
1.-THE Chazal & Sons milling business
Seems to be running full capacity and
gives promise of large future posi-
, bilities.
The knitting mill is working stead
lily along, and keeps supplied with
more orders than it can fill.
The Ocala Iron Works seems quite
busy
The garages are constantly multi,
plying, and instead of decreasing all
are being kept constantly busy.
The cotton gins are also beginning
active operations.
The auto sale places are selling all
the automobiles and auto trucks that
they can procure from the factories
The White Star and Red Star line;
are as busy as they were before we
entered into the war.
The shoe shops, wagon works, wood
yards. job printing plants, newspa
pers, grocery establishments are all
busy and oar banks show larger de-
posits than ever before. and are daily
climbing upward.
Don't think fer moment that Ocala
is on the blink.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-01
GERMANY'S NOTE

Germany's answer to President
Wilson's latest communication says:
"The GermaR government has TAX.
en- cognizance of the answer of the
president of the United States.
THE president is aware of the far.
reaching changes which have been
carried out and are being carried out
in the German constitutional struc-
ture and that peace negotiations are
being conducted by a peoples govern,
ment. in whose hands rest. both act.
ualiy and constitutionally, the power
to make the deciding negotiations.
THE military powers are also sub
ject TO it The German government
now awaits proposals for an armis
tice. which shall be the first step to-
ward just peace. as the president
has described it in his proc Up ton. ="
(Signe55 -" -
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-01

the railroads were quibbling about
their contracts with the government,
the express companies had their
agreements drawn up ana, put into
operation.
All the activities and methods Of
rendering service were consolidated
in the express business, and sys-
tenn for a division of responsibility as
well as the distribution of profits was
devised in such a manner as appears
to have really given Uncle Sam a
very fine chance to pick up some
easy money. However. transporta-
ton and profits have not started run
ming together as yet, as thus far the
public have heard more about in
creased charges all along the line,
than anything else. 1t is neverthe-
less. a pleasant contemplation that
all advances in charges along these
lines have resulted in large increases
in wages throughout the country.
The present experiment IN Che gov
eminent control and regulation of the
express business is mighty interest
ing, particularly in view of the fact
that it is likely to permanently separ-
ate the postal system and the ex-
press business, which it is becoming
palmer every day can best accomplish
their purpose by remaining indie
pendent of each other.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-01
A LoNG-HEAOED MOVE
agency.

The old express companies mad a
hard problem to figure out. when they
were left in the trenches and dugouts
where they had been almost forgotten
in the process of the creating of the
railway administration. They were
just beginning to see daylight after
a period of virtual reconstruction
following the rate-slashings Of 1914.
But the progressive men who sue.
ceeded the old regime that had fas-
tened reproach upon the express bust,
ness in the early days, met their
problems and brought about a salts.
factory solution. The readustment
of the industry deserves to be ranked
as one of the best constructive war
time work. The railway administra.
ton gave its approval to the big mer.
ger of the principal companies: and
as a result all the reforms in the
methods of the railroads that had
resulted from government supervision
and control. were accepted by the Elk,
press companies. Mr. McAdoo scan,
ned the plan of consolidation. and the
formula for his control of the com,
panies as railway administrator. and
found the arrangement to be a SPLEEN
did one for the government. While
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-01
oUTcAsT GERMANY

1.-TWO incidents of. the last few DAYS
are full of significance with respect
to the future of Germany as a com
and seagOing power" says
the New York Herald, having refer.
ence to the refusal of British sea-
men to permit Mr.. Arthur Henderson,
member of the house of commons, TO
cross over to France. on account of
his alleged pacific and pro-German
tendencies. and the other is the re-
lection by an American firm of ship.
ment of German toys bought and paid
for before the United States entered
the war and since held up in Holland
as the result of Germanys nefarioGs
underseas activities.
Mr.. Henderson has favored parleys
with the enemy, through information
alist and socialist gatherings parti
cuIarly and is strongly opposed to an
afte" the war commercial offensive
ne OSAOASS, III IdCI, 10 the camp OL
which Mr.. Ramsay Macd0n0ld is the
chief protagonist, and it will be re-
called that the latter individual also
was refused passage by British sea
men when he wished to sail for Swe-
den in order to attend a meeting at
Stockholm of socialists. including
Schneidmann. Mr.. Henderson, it
seems, was DESTROYS Of crossing the
channel merely to meet our own Mr.
Gompers, who is very far from favor
ing any sort of parley with the en-.
envy or discussions with pacific inter,
nationalists, wherever they may hail
from. But even that did not avail
the British member of parliament
such incidents must tend to con-
vince the Germans that they cannot
hope to escape the obloQuy and pun
1shment due to the acts of their poll.
teal and military leaders-acts which
they have approved of and connived
at until they found that they had been
deceived in the belief that they were
winning the war. Some of them may
still cling to the hope that when the
war is over they will be able to re-
sumo old international relationships
But British seamen are determined
that they will not carry any passen-
ger Of German nationality or affilia-
tions, nor will they handle any ship
or cargo of German origin They re-
gard thetGermans as a race of assas-
sins who have foully slain in cold
blood thousands of their fellow sea,
men and countrymen on the high seas
and who have indelibly disgraced ma.
val and marine traditions.
The action of the crowded gather
ing of American women last Friday
in protesting at the acceptance OF a
shipment OF German toys followed
by that of the firm to which they had
been consigned in defeating them. is
an earnest of what the Germans may
expect in this country in the days 10
come. The people have way II
taking these matters into their own
hands and will not want much assist
ance from the authorities in rejecting
goods Of German origin or manufac-
ture. It is quite likely that the Bos-
ton Tea Party will yet find its paral
lei in a toy party in which i've tons
of German made toys will be consign-
ed to the watery depths where lies
the victims of the Lusitania and thous-
ands Of other men. women and chill.
dren fouIly done to death by German
agency.
A LoNG-HEAoED MOVE
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-01

ACCORDING - Secretary Com
merce Redfeld 5000 tor. n the
nited States have zee. turned over
to war wors A great many things
that It was once deemed impo sIllo 10
secure outside % Germany are now in
wholesale production in the United
states Among these commodities
are dyes. and our own factories have
made such progress that Germany
VIII never again be- recognized in the
industry All our optical glass waa
imported from Germany before the
war Now there are two plants IN
the United States and We are forever
Tree Of dependence upon Germany Tor
our lenses and other ane glasses
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-01

points in Florida that will come as
leaves from book of dreams. AL
ways something new, something dit
ferent.
1t is land of open and fathomless
sky. of blue waters. dawns of vioiet
and rose, and the molten gold of sun
set. 1t IS the land of the dreamer,
the land Of the worker, but ever the
mecca for tired men, who are weary
of the battle in the melting pot of the
cities. Florida's wide and inviting
solitude await mans coming.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-11-01
SHORT ON FORESIGHT

Secretary q the interior Franklin
K. Lane, remarks: The thing
democracy - short on is foresight +"
Incidentally it may be said that Nj
Lane is the only cabinet officer who
has definitely put forth plan for
meeting the conditions that must ex-
ist after the war His recipe is to
provide lands which may De entered
by the returning soldiers This plar
has good many difficulties to con
tend with, a. there are no millions
Of broad acres Of homestead lands
such as existed at the close Of the
civil war. In the same connection
with Mr.. Lanes remarks comes the
statement by one of the senators that
we are as unprepared for peace a.
We were unprepared for war. As a
matter Of fact the readjustment for
the war time period has hardly been
completed, as indicated by the diff
culties now being experienced by the
short line railroads, the power and
traction companies, oil interests and
many other activities.