The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
COMPLAINT ON
SM|LEAGE WORK
A Citizen Files 4 Kick About One Of
the Details Of tho Publicity
Methods in Use in
keokuk.
KEoKUK NEGRO SOLDIER
A SUGGESTION Founded on Some Study
of Them In Camp Dodge 10 Of
fered to the People
Of keokuk.

Gust file my kick, will you" said a
man In a cigar store this forenoon,
land fix it up for the paper SO that it
sounds right and reads well.
TITS not exactly a kick, maybe, but
want to call the attention Of DR.. Barr,
or whoever's running the publicity
mart of this OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
campaign, to the fact that a lot Of the
soldiers have fathers and mothers VINO
Just can't afford to spend even q dol
lar for a coupon book.
TITS all we'll enough to holler. Get
q, book-for-vour-son, but lot OF Keo-
kuk families have given their son to
the army and thereby cut off their own
chief support. Some of these families
have to make every nickel count in
these days Of high cost of living
Nov take it from me, il a man or
a family give their son to the army,
somebody outside the family ought
to buy that soldier coupon theater tick
cts and send them on. You know
what 1 mean You fix it up in the
naper in the right way and don't men
ton my name whatever you do"
What About Safety First?
There has been a good deal OF sug-
gestion in the paper that fatners puy
the Smileage books for their sons, and
DIR, G.. Walter Barr. who is John A.
Dunlap's propaganda promulsator III
the Smileage campaign, was told what
the man in the cigar store sald-w1tn
some hopes of an interesting debate
not to say scrimmage, resulting. But
DR.. Barr agreed with the other mau
and said:
"That mans right about 1t, and l
wish he would make that talk long and
loud ali over town. The man that
gives his son to his country ought TO
let somebody else buy these enter
tainment tickets-but If he plays safe-
ty first, he'll send his son the coupon
book and not rely on somebody else 10
do 1t.
Comment on Negro Soldiers.
mThere's another phase to this, too.
that probably everybody's forgot.
There are a couple Of dozen negro
soldiers from Keokuk in the camps.
There were thirteen negroes brought
home for Christmas week. Now,
studied out a negro regiment at Camp
Dodge: heard an old regular army
adiutant hold officers school for lieu
tenants and captains with skins or all
shades Of brown; talked to their white,
regular army colonel about them !;
watched the non-coms and privates
around their barracks. Take it from
me I'd a little rather have that col
ored regiment with me in the front
trench when the Huns make a counter
attack than most other troops. These
coiored men work and fight like the
devil all day--a and then they enjoy
recreation and a good show about four
times as much as any white soldier
does dollar is as big to most OF
them as major-generals automobile.
| wish a syndicate would buy fifteen OF
those coupon books and send them TO
Lieutenant Ralph Tebeau with orders
TO give each Keokuk negro SOLDIER one.
"Of course there's more white sol
diers that need these Smileage books.
and / hope at least two hundred OF
them will be sent to Camp Dodge alone
for the Keokuk men there"
Make it three hundred said John
A. Dunlap who was standing by.