The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-11

certain FOODS, we did not de.
serve the name of citizens Of a
republic.
A Message From the Front.
| Hazen /. Sawyer presided at the
meeting last night and introduced
/ John B. Lord as the man who has an
insight into the true needs of our
boys and our allies and who can tell
us what we must do as our part in
the struggle. Mr.. Lord was a bi.
/ hesitant as he started to speak, for
the reason. as he said, that five
weeks ago he had gone to early mass
with American troops somewhere in
France" and three weeks ago on
Sunday he had landed in America
again, two facts which made it harder
to speak on Sundays, and which
We're bringing a lump into his throat,
as he could not help but picture the
scene as he had Witnessed it five
weeks ago, over there" Seeing
the sacrifices that the allies had been
making since 1914 he declared that he
felt the opportunity was at hand to
might be in this great struggle.
in the initiative of it's people and
their willingness to serve, and service
means Sacrifice of one kind or an
other" he declared When we were
ready to sail from France, we were
given behind closed doors, the namc
Of a man to see in London. No writ
ing was TO be entrusted to us, because
the morale of the submarine crews is
SO shattered, that they are required
to bring back with them one person,
just one, to prove that they sunk the
ship. When we arrived at the Eng
lish port, we went to the home of
this officer. We were to see the farm
where the girls of England are being
trained. They are volunteering, just
like soldiers for service anywhere in
the realm, where needed. There
were girls from every part of England,
all ready to do their party. | asked
them why they were in this work,
and they all made the same response:
81 saw this opportunity for ma
tional service and l took It.
Must Save Food.
These women need good food and
better food to carry on the work
they are doing. When we arrived at
the school, the luggage porter met us.
She was only sixteen, and slight
little thing. She said: j am the
luggage porter, sir said, yes. I'll
be glad to help you. But she wouldn't
let US help her. She tugged and
worked with those trunks Of ours and
did it all herself. While we were on
our way there we saw 120 pounds Of
oleomargerine, all the fats that that
4 f<a,, Ior 4
numbered 10000 people, and with
that fat must be divided between %,
500 people. Even a poor arithmetic
ian could find that the supply per
person would be very little"
When the commission got to Lon
don they asked Scotland yards to let
them see some results Of the air raid.
They were told there had been no
raids for five weeks, and they hoped
the Huns had given up the practice.
That morning Mr.. Lords bunkie shook
him, and in the speakers own words,
II realized that all hell had been
turned loose" The din was awful,
the searchlights followed the filters
in the attempt to blind them and force
them to earth Things whistled past
the windws, and there was confusion
and noise everywhere.
The Zeppelin Raid.
I'VE called up the office, and l said
to the clerk, we are next to the top
floor of this high hotel, and we have
never been in one of these things be-
fore, what shall we do? The Office
replied that it didn't know. and [
said, well what would you do? The
reply was, come down stairs
''At six thirty o'clock the raid
stopped and seven o'clock Scotland
yards called for us. We were taken
TO the poor section Of London Near
one house was circle of holes and
great piles of dirt had been thrown |,
against the house. From what was
eft of this house, a woman was lead |
ng little boy, his head all bandaged |
and blood running down his face.
stood and looked and I could not I'M
lerstand. A little further on. and
he bomb had struck hard sub |
stance and had blown the place to
bits. Out of the wreckage came a !
woman. Her little daughter had been
INJURED seriously. / stammered some ,
hing to her about her having all |
awful war story to remember, and