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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-09
SriOus at Norfolk

Norfolk, Va, Oct. 7-One thousand
new cases Of Spanish influenza and
rs deaths from that now much dread
ed malady caused local health officers
to adopt more drastic measures this
afternoon, all barber shops, pool
rooms and soda fountains being or
dered closed Immediately.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-09
Won HINDENBURG
DOWN AND OUT
Field Marshal Resigns After Late
Interview With
Emperor

London, Oct. Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg has resigned as chief of
The German general staff after heat
ed interview with the Emperor in
which the field marshal declared that
a retreat on large scale was i'm
possible to avoid, according to Cen
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-09
REJECT PROMPTLY
URGES MANNING

Columbia, Oct. 7.-Governor Rich
ard |. Manning today urged President
Wilson to promptly reject Germany's
peace proposition. Telegraphing to the
President, the Governor said:
Permit me to express the earnest
hope that the German Kaiser's peace
proposal will be promptly rejected by
you. Peace on conditions named by
you should be dictated to Germany
and not made subject to negotiations.
Germany's peace proposal will cause
slowing down of liberty bond sales
and other vigorous war plans unless
clearly and promptly rejected"
Governor Manning has six sons in
the United States army, five of them
being in France.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-10-09

German dcserters were quoted as
saying that Bavarian Prince had
'tried TO shoot the field marshal, but
that Won Hindenburg was not wound
ed. In commenting on the American
and French replies to Austria's peace
proposal late in September the field
marshal told the German people to "be
hard"
The field marshal celebrated his
72nd birthday October 9.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
A friend must not be injured, even in jest
.Syrus.
AIRCRAFT, NOT BoRGLUM.

What the public desires to learn from the air
craft investigation is concerned with aircraft,
not with Gutzon Borglum. Are conditions put
right so that from now on we and will build
aircraft of sorts and sizes to equip our army
and navy? What has been done with many hun
dred millions which were appropriated during
the time of great promises as to air fleet?
What dishonesty and incompetency has there
been deserving punishment? These are the
questions to which the public seeks answers
Gutzon Borglum would appear to have been
accredited as an investigator by President Will
son. He may have discredited himself by GER
tain acts, or he may not have done so. AS for
Mr.. Borgum, apart from his charges of injus-
tice to the nation in the management of aircraft
production, the public is not interested at this
time We are continually seeing matters of
great public concern beclouded by questions
alien to the real point at issue. If Mr. Borglum
and his deeds and possible misdeeds take the
center Of the stage in aircraft investigation, we
shall again have case in point.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
1.TREES AND THE WIND"

Years ago Gilbert K. Chesterson wrote a
pheasant little fable about cause and effect
which he began by telling the story Of a little
boy in a London park who asked his mother one
day why the king didn't have the trees cut
down so that they wouldn't wave and make
the wind Something of this same twist in
getting cause and effect mixed up is bothering
some of our good people in thinking clearly
about increasing our army. They want just
soldiers enough to win the war and no more.
They seem to feel that an extra soldier might
mean an influence for more war. A great deal
has been written about standing armies causing
wars; about Germany s war purpose being the
result OF her army. Now we plainly
enough that her war purpose is the cause of her
army. And ought to be able to see equally
well that war purpose somewhere is the cause
of armies everywhere. It is putting the thing
the wrong way around to declare that by dis
arming them nations can be kept in permanent
peace. Permanent peace must be the will of
enough peoples to prevent warrior nations
from making war successfully. It is doubtful if
nations can be kept from making war even with
the threat of defeat before them. And for any
nation to believe that it can insure itself peace
and safety by limiting its army is disproved as
a sound theory. Our army might include the
whole nation without making warlike, and
our nation might spring to war again, as it has
now done, with a army so weak in numbers and
equipment as to be unable to help in crisis
threatening the free institutions of the world.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

addition to vhat she has stolen from pillaged
lands. 1t is also stated tina. whereas the Eng
lish treat their prisoners with notable kind
ness" Germans treat their British captives
with extreme rigor, thus securing much SUI
perior moral effect; and that several thousands
Of them have died in consequence in German
concentration camps On the whole, there
FORE it is shown that Spain would do much bet
ter to stand with Germany than to espouse the
cause Of the allies.
No comment on this remarkable document is
needed further than that Prussia1lism boasts of
its crimes against divine and human laws and
threatens other nations with them unless they
neutrality. Will the circular have the
effect on Spain intended, or is it another evi
dence that Germans, judging other peoples by
are at fault in their psychology in
this as in much else?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

creased during the past year. Has
it ever occurred to the Keokuk Elec-
trio company to appeal to the Mis-
sissippi River Power company to re-
duce the cost OF its electricity in
order to enable it to make a better
financial showing? In view Of the
fact that the power company Is not
paying taxes like other people have
to, OF the many favors this company
has received from this city, the
power company might be willing
to share some OF it's increased earn
ings with the electric company and
not throw the whole burden OF this
support upon the citizens Of Keoknk.
and save this city from the unen-
viable reputation OF having higher
any other city in Iowa.
The gas business is in direct com
petition with the electric lighting
business, and the character Of the gas
furnished for lighting purposes is
such that most customers have been
driven to substitute electricity for
gas. It is not surprising that loss
of revenue should appear in the gas
department..
Many of the merchants and citi-
zens Of Keolluk are suffering serious
financial loss, which arises out OF
present conditions; but they have
not called on the public to make
good their losses. Why should the
Keokuk Electric co. not bear its
own burdens as other people have,
and build UP its business by develop
ing the industrial conditions in this
city?
The Keokuk Electric CO. has been
careful not to publish any statement
of its electric lighting and power
business. AS long as the company
can pay quarterly dividends on any
Of it's stock, the city council ought
not to add additional burdens on the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
Dandruffy Heads
Become Hail,

# you want plenty of thick ~
glossy, silky hair, do BY ali M Os
rid of dandruff, for it will st,s
hair and ruin it if you don't
It doesn't do much good !, \
brush or wash it out. The onlv
to get rid Of dandruff is to d;s ~,
then you destroy it entirely. To%I
get about four ounces of ordin.ruI
arvon; apply it at night when ~
use enough to moisten the scaln -
It in gently with the finger fins
BY morning most, if not ali Il al
dandruf win be gone, and three :.
more applications will complies. y
solve and entirely destroy eyery
sign and trace Of it
You will find, too, that all ;teh;,.
digging of the scalp will stop. anI1
hair will look and feel HUNDRED !
better. You can get liquid arvon !.
drug store. It is Inexpensive and II
ounces is all you will need, no =
how much dandrufF you have
simple remedy never fails
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
THE THREAT TO SPAIN

As a warning to neutral nations Of how Ger
many would treat them if they took up arms
against her, circulars have been sown broadcast
in Spain listing the loot that has been taken in
Belgium and northern France and the properly
destroyed. Copies of this document now in
Washington show that the Germans boast of
having ruined seventy-three cathedrals and
churches and name the indemnities levied, the
art treasures confiscated and the watches, jew
elry and women IS embroidered garments stolen
No figures are given of the other buildings
plundered and destroyed nor of the revolving
crimes committed against helpless people. It is
not considered expedient to publish these. But
the circular explains that as the English are
pledged to return the captured colonies after the
war, Germany viii get back all she has lost in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
THERE ARE NO BROOK

THERE ARE NO BROOKS.
There brooks in city streets,
There are brooks that babble by
Only dry gulches, narrow, high,
Into whose deepest creyice beats
The searching summer of the sky.
The lure is not the lure of grass
That brings the weary pilgrim here;
The dirty pavements breathing gas,
The treeess plots and alleys drear
Call not the mortal and the mass
It is the gilded call Of gold
That calls US far from better things,
That calls us from the paths OF old,
The red of rose, the whr Of wings
For this the very soul is sold.
My boy, when your own heart repeats
That call, and yearns and almost yields,
Remember, while with joy it beats
In gazing DER your fathers fields,
There are no brooks in city streets.
Douglas Malloch.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
keokuk Electric Co. Dividend.

NcOkuk EicCIFtC AC. OINt0SnO.
To the Editor Of The Gate City:
On the financial page OF Tuesdays
Chicago Tribune it was stated that
the Keokuk Electric co. has declared
quarterly dividend Of one and a
quarter on it's preferred stock, pay
able May 18th. If this company had
not earned net profit over all it's
expenses it could not, legally, have
declared any dividend.
This seems inconsistent with the
campaign of publicity which the
company is now conducting at con-
siderable expense, and regardless Of
the injurious notoriety it is giving
this city in order to induce the city
council to increase the charge for
gas and streetcar fare, higher than
any other city in Iowa or in the whole
country, where the conditions are
similar.
The recent increase in the price Of
coal fortunately does not affect the
cost of power or electricity for this
company as it has in nearly every
other place. 1t has, however, added
greatly to the value Of the Mississip-
pi River Power company's plant, the
earnings of which have largely in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Sioux CITY 1T1Duue. udfc UccA
hit by shrapnel and got thirteen
wounds-the head. both arms. body
and right leg. Don't worry" an AM
erican corporal writes his father.
There Is no pessimism over there. .
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: In striv-
ing to account for New York's failure
to subscribe heavily to the third Lib
erty loan, a New York paper says that
New York bankers take a national
and not provincial view Of the loan
campaign. In other words, New York
has at last found one thing she is
willing to share with the rest of the
countryside will share the expense.
However, if there is anything con-
corning which New York does not
take a provincial view it is probably
worth what it costs.
Davenport Democrat. Some peo-
pies speeches. some peoples writing
and some peoples conversation sug-
folks in this world One believes the
best of other people until it knows
the worst, and the other class believes
the worst of everyone until it knows
better.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Several of
Austria's ministers have quit as a
protest. One of the best things to
do after being fired is to quit.
Sioux City Journal: Another ex-
cuse has been added to the list. At
the laundrymen's national meeting at
Milwaukee a noted specialist told
them that beer was good substitute
for soap.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
Time enough to investigate Borglum
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
Voice Of the People

1.-THE Gate City does not assume re
sponsibility for views expressed by
Writers OF communi
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication. but
for the information of the cditor.1
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

mexico's Day Is com,n,
st. Paul Pioneer Press: sos
sense may have to be taLau
Mexico until our Job across H.
is finished. Then. you feas.1
Hun propaganda and exnloi..]
trouble, look ont '
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

After 1t Is all over it will be almost like a va
cation to Count Czernin to be able TO tell the
truth again
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

1t begins to look as if by another year all the
able bodied men in the country would be at the
front except politicians
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17
A PERMANENT POLICY.

The senate by a unanimous vote mas passed a
bill under which the I. w. W. and similar or
CARNATIONS can be broken up. The measure is
broad and general in its character and declares
unlawful every organization association So
ciety whose purpose it is to bring about any
governmental, industrial or economical change
in the United States by violence, physical
force injury to persons or property Any
member of such an organization, officer or agent
of it, is liable to ten years imprisonment and
five thousand dollars fine.
While this is measure which the war has
rendered necessary, once in the statute books
we may be sure that it will be kept there in
times of peace as the permanent policy of the
republic. Theoretically, and also as matter of
fact, there is nothing uni Just or evil in our in
stitutions which cannot be cured by the votes of
citizens as soon as majority desire to have it
cured. This being so, there is neither excuse
nor justification in this country for violence Or
any appeal to force. The people can make such
laws as they wish and enforce them as they
will This was not so in the Russia Of the old
regime and is not so in the central empires of
today. Ruling castles are able to withstand
and override major ties in those countries, and
where the masses of the people are oppressed
and helpless they cannot be blamed for estab-
fishing by revolution institutions under which
they can peacefully obtain their rights. 1t is
totally different here, where fraction of one
per cent. of the people, many of whom are not
citizens, defy restraint of laws and would be a
law unto themselves. Their methods are sabot-
age and arson and their aim is pillage and a
state of things,in which idleness can prey on
thrift. Under the law proposed this menace to
society can be stamped out.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

Saving daylight ought to result in a greater
saving of Thrift stamps.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

people Of this city in order =.
company may pay more div;dS
accumulate surplus.
Keokuk, Iowa. May IT, 1914
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

II one would have friends he she must be friend,
radiate habituaiiy friendly helpful thoughts The
cultivate the hopeful, cheerful goodwill
attitude life and others, becomes drag,
making life others well for oneself
Ralph Waldo Urine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

The Dutch are long-headed people, and. re-
Numbering the effectiveness of the relief expe-
ditions to Serbia and Belgium, undoubtedly
they will demand the relief first before enter
ing the war on the side of the allies.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-17

after we find ort how and where and
why two-thirds of billion dollars
failed to get more than one airplane
to France.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15
MOTOR LIFTS GREAT WEIGHT
How Mysterious Power 10 Employed
70 Do the Work Of Great
Number Of Men.

Almost, If not equally, as famous as
the immortal imam with the hoe" Is
the imam with the magnet'-the man
we see In all the leading Industrial
plants nowadays. The modern cleo
trio magnet described In a recent Is
sue of The Experimental. lifts ten
ton billet just as easily as a man
would lift 25-pound sack of flour.
At the touch Of switch the mag
net loses Its magnetic power and the
billet drops or lays where 1t is. At
tached to travelling cranes, the
amount Of work one Of these electro
magnets in the larger size can accom-
plish In one day is astonishing. II
will unload freight car full Of pig
iron In less time than a gang of men,
and at fraction Of the cost.
The larger sizes Of electromagnetic
are capable Of lifting single pieces
weighing as much as 10000 pounds, or
30 tons. Such a giant electro-mag-
net as this measures 62h inches in
diameter, consumes u amperes, at 200
volts, and weighs 1900 pounds net.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15
Why War Makes Criminals.

At the annual meeting Of the Young
Mems Christian Associations of Mass
achusetts and Rhode Island, speakers
said that investigations by judges and
others In the United States had shown
65 per cent more crime among boys
and young men last year than in the
previous IL months.
The increase was largely due, 1t was
declared, to conditions resulting from
the war-decreased home supervision,
caused by the absence of fathers and
older brothers; employment at high
wages, with resulting increase in
spending money; dhrkened streets at
night, due to fuel supervision, and an
spirit of adventure causing
boys to initiate soldiers and sailors
in their vices rather than In their
virtues.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15
Why sawmIIIs Are Kept Busy.

Sawmills all over Ohio are engaged
In war work, turning the states tim
Der tracts into many different kinds Of
machinery used In the rear. ]. w.
Calland of the department Of forestry
of the Ohio experiment station, re-
ports many mills are working on gov
eminent orders.
Several orders are for oak and hick-
DRY dimensions to be used In making
artillery and escort wagons. Bending
oak and elm 60 to firms making auto
trucks. Select ash walnut and quar-
tered oak are used in the manufacture
of airplanes.
Considerable good white oak from
northeastern Ohio Is being sawed into
ship timber and boat units. One Ohio
firm has an order for million tent
stakes to be made from hardwood.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15
owossO MARKETS.
GRAINS

Owosso, Mich, Mach Is, 1918.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15

AS a result of the activities Of the
state and federal officials, venereal
cases at Camp Custer have been re-
duced to a minimum. The most recent
daily report received at the Office of
the state board of health shows less
than $50 venereal cases out OF camp
population of more than $4,000 men.
This record, according to medical ex.
perts, could not be equaled in civil
life.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15
Must Tell Source Of Disease.

A person afflicted with a venereal
disease is required to tell the source
of his infection. AS soon as the
source is located the man or woman
afflicted with the disease is immedia
If the person refuses he Is quarantined
or interned, the same as a person suf
fering from smallpox or leprosy.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15
Public Health Notice

An epidemic of chickenpox prevails
in Owosso, mostly in the Washington
school district. All children having it
must not attend school, but be kept
strictly at home and reported to the
health officer by phone, mail or in per-
son. Children who have had it may
attend school, but others in the same
house with case cannot.
Whooping cough is also quite pre-
valent and is dangerous to infants
This disease must also be reported
the same as chickenpox, and children
kept strictly at home and off the pub
lie walks.
w. E. WARD,
Adv. Health Officer.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15
Frankness 10 Necessary.

The principal trouble. according to
members OF the state board of health,
Is to convince the people of the SER
iousness Of the situation and to have
them discuss venereal diseases with
the same frankness and concern as
they speak OF smallpox. infantile pa
ralysis and tuberculosis. The records
of the board Of health show that gon-
orrhea and syphilis annually cause
more death and suffering In Michigan
than smallpox, tuberculosis and in
fantile paralysis combined.
From the United States department
of public health. the Michigan board
Of health has received thousands of
placards calling attention to the ef-
fects of venereal diseases. These cards
contain a solemn warning against
using so-called quack cures. Thecs
cards will soon be posted conspicu-
ously in every city and village in
Michigan.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15
Voltage in Thinking.

Now somebody advertises that he
can increase ones vocabulary. Well,
don't do 1t. What humanity needs is
greater voltage in its thinking ma
chinery and less honking on the part
of its Observation-Disclosures Post.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-03-15
HOGS PROTECTED,
PEOPLE NEGLECTED
THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS SPENT
ANNUALLY IN EFFORT TO
CHECK HOG CHOLERA.
vENEREAL DISEASE UNNoTIcED
Recent Investigations Disclose Need OF
Drastic Action to Stamp Out
"Third Great Plague"

Lansing, Mich-Michigan has ex
pended thousands of dollars to elimt
nate hog cholera and when it has
been necessary to kill infected hogs
In order to stop the disease the state
has reimbursed the owner of the hog
a certain percentage of his loss. This
money comes from the state treas,
ury and is ultimately apportioned o.
mong every taxpayer in Michigan.
No one has ever complained over
this practise. In fact the activities
Of the state along this line have re.
ceived the active cooperation and
support not only Of the farmers, but
of the city folks as well who have
recognized the campaign against hog
cholera as necessary for the perpetu.
alton of the nations food supply.
Eliminate VenereaI Diseases.
Now, however, the state of Michi-
gan, through its board of health, is
ensaged in another campaign which
has for It's ultimate goal the elimina-
ton of veneral diseases. The farmer
ShAJ wv WCii hOW QulChlJ Ouc
tubercular COW will infect an entire
herd. He has also learned to his sor-
row that one case of hog cholera may
wipe out an entire drove.
Medical men know only too we'll
that a person afflicted with venereal
disease may spread the infection
among an entire community. Rccog-
nizing that these diseases are not in.
durable, II taken in time, the War
Preparedness Board has appropriated
funds for the state board OF health to
begin its campaign against the Third
Great Plague.
The War Preparedness Board is
composed of Governor Albert e. Slee-
per, Secretary of state Coleman C.
Vaughan, Auditor General o. B. Full
Ter, State Treasurer Samuel Odell and
Attorney General Alex J. Groesbeck.
Each of these state officers is heart
lily in sympathy with the crusade
against veneral diseases, and when
the proposed plan was outlined by DR..
Richard M. Olin, secretary of the
state board of health, the War Prepar-
edness Board unanimously voted the
necessary money.