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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26
GOOD TURNS BY SCOUTS.

Freshmen were met at all incoming
trains by scouts In Ann ArbOr and
given proper direction.
The odd jobs and the difficult tasks
in a town naturally fall to the scouts.
In Grand Rapids, Mich, the scouts car
ried sewing machines to the different
homes where Red Cross meetings were
being held.
Scouts in Jamestown, Pa, built a
mailbOx wheel for the convenience Of
the local mailman. 1t had about ten
boxes on 1t.
In Fort Wayne. Ind, the scouts
made 1t their business to keep a space
around all fire plugs In the city clear
of snow, while scouts i'm Warsaw, Ind,
cleaned leaves from the catch basins
during a heavy rain.
Scouts at Carnbrook, Pa, while out
camping took prompt charge of the
situation when can Of kerosene ex-
ploded with which young woman was
starting fire. The scouts admins
tered first aid, called q doctor, notified
the girls father, who was working
several miles from home. and extin.
guished the fire, which was threatening
the farm buildings.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26

three little letters, NJ q D. The floor
Of the dusout was an inch deep in
water. Outside 1t was raining cats and
dogs. and thin rivulets were trickling
down the steps. From the air shaft
Immediately above me came q drip
drip. drip. Suicide Annex was a hole
eight feet wide. ten feet long and six
feet high. 1t was about twenty feet
below the fire trench; at least there
were twenty steps leading down TO IL.
These steps were cut into the earth
but at that time were muddy and slim
perry. A man had to be very careful
or else he would "shoot the chutes."
The air was foul. and you could cut
the smoke from Tommy's flags with n
Knife. 1t was cold. The walls and
roof were supported with heavy SQUARE
cut timbers, while the entrance WAS
strengthened with sandbags. Nails had
been driven into these timbers. On
each nail hung a miscellaneous assert
ment OF equipment. The lighting mr.
raugements were superb-one candle
In a reflector made from an ammuni.
ton tin. My teeth We're chatterinc
from the cold, and the drip from the
airshaft did not help matters much
While l was sitting bemoaning nv
fate and wishing for the fireside at
home, the fellow next to me. who WINS
writing a letter. looked up and limo.
Gently asked. Say. Yank. how do Won
spell 'conflagration'?''
I'looked Mt him in contempt and an
swered that l did not know.
From the darkness in one of the cor.
ners came a thin. piping voice singing
one OF the popular trench dittles en-
titled:
Pack UP your Troubles In your Old XII
Bag. and Smile. Smile. Smils.''
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26

a hollow square around the opening OF
the grave. the chaplain read the burial
service.
German machine-gun bullets were
cracking" in the air above US, but
Pete didn't mind, and neither did we.
When the body was lowered into the
grave the nag having been removed.
We clicked our heels together and
came to the salute.
left before the grave was filed In.
I could not bear to see the dirt thrown
on the blanket-covered face Of my COM
rade. On the western front there are
no collins. and you are lucky to get a
blanket to protect you from the wet
and the worms. Several Of the sec
ton stayed and decorated the grave
with white stones.
That night, in the light Of q lonely
candle In the machine gunner's dugout
OF the front-llne trench / wrote two
letters. One to Pete's mother, the
other to his sweetheart. While doing
this I cursed the Prussian war god
with all my heart, and think that st.
Peter noted same.
The machine gunners in the dugout
were laughing and joking. To them
Pete was unknown. Pretty soon, In the
warmth Of their merriment, my blues
disappeared. One soon forgets on the
western front.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26
"Hooverizino" on Tobacco.

Three Worcester (Mass.) men Hoov.
erie on tobacco In the following man.
ner: One smokes cigar down as far
as he can without burning his mus
tache and then inserts It In the bowl
Of his pipe in order to burn 1t to an
ash. Another smokes his butt until
he can no longer hold it between his
lips and then sticks a pin into the
fragment. which allows him to smoke
1t to an ash. The third has found that
by saving the heel Of tobacco from his
pipe and drying II In the sun he can
cut his tobacco bill Is per cent.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26
The richest man in the United States

The richest man in the United States
Is John d. Rockefeller. who is said to
have n fortune of 81 200 .OOO. 900 and an
annual income of $6O,OOO,OOO. The sec
0nd Richest man is ii. c. Frick, with a
fortune Of S225,OOO,OOO and an annual
income Of S11.OOO,OOO.
The valve of a whales blowhole is
a more perfect structure than it is
possible to imagine. Day and night.
asleep or awake, the whale works his
breathing apparatus In such manner
that not a drop Of water ever gets
down into its lungs.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26
CHAPTER TX.
Suicide Annex.

I was in my nrst dugout and looked
around curiOusly. Over the door of
same was a little sign reading "Sui-
eide Annex" One Of the boys told
me that this particular front trench
was called Suicide Ditch" Later on
/ learned that machine gunners and
bombers are known as the Suicide
Club"
That dugout was muddy. The men
slept In mud. washed in mud. ate mud.
and dreamed mud. had never before
realized that so much discomfort and
misery could be contained In those
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26
P0sIsCRIPTS

In Iceland gull flesh is one Of the
principal winter foods of the people.
A decorative shield, easily removed.
has been invented for excluding dust
from telephone mOuthpieces.
An English scientist claims to have
discovered a gas that has the same re-
lation to hydrogen that ozone has to
oxygen.
For deep sea fishing tiny subma-
rine carries the line to any desired
depth.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26
Muscular Activity and bes%

Owls and other birds which are active
at night show a rise Of temperature
during the hours of darkness and n fall
during the day. This is a result of the
well-known fact that muscular activity
means an increased production Of
heat
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26
EmPEY LEARNS, AS C0MRADE FALLS, THAT DEATH Turks
ALWAYS IN THE TRENCHES

sy"opsa-Fred by the sinking Of the Lutana
American lives Arthur Guy Empey
England enists
short experience recruiting London
Ing quarters In France where
makes the acquaintance
Empeys the fronlne
his first while
learns comrade falls death
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26

Lieut.. Eddie Rickenbackcr standing
by his machine at an American avia-
ton field in France. Ricfenbacker
was n prominent auto racer I'm this
country and was formerly chauffeur
to General Pershing I'm France, but he
wanted something more exciting. so
he Joined the aero corps and has made
good. He has been officially credited
with bringing down a number of Boche
airplanes and is known as daring and
courageous flyer.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1918-07-26

Empey goes lover the top" for
the first time and has a hand
to-hand fight with a giant Prus-
sian. In the next in1taIIment he
tells the story Of this thrilling
charge.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09
THE REAL ISSUES.

Leslie NJ Shaw, former secretary OF the
treasury, finds in the fourteen conditions OF
peace set down by the president, and IN some
of the executives other utterances, an avowed
determination to prohibit protective tariffs by
treaty provisions, thus throwing our markets
open to an impoverished world He finds the
president committed by his declarations to a
doctrine concerning the freedom OF the seas
which would debar us and our allies from using
our fleets to prevent Germany from importing
war supplies while engaged in some other war
which she might force upon US. He also finds
other questions on which many citizens gener-
ally take issue with the president. These are
the real issues, he declares, on which the cleo
tons this fall should hinge. The war is not an
issue. Winning the war is simply great hui
manitarian and business proposition on which
both of the major political parties are agreed
The vital issues are the treaty conditions and
policies for peace for which the president has
taken an open stand. Shall the peace treaty
international free trade and thus
make the enactment of a protective tariff by
this country an act of war against Germany
Shall the peace treaty prohibit the use OF our
fleet for the protection of our lives should
Prussianism again show its accursed head?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09
eRocERs' CLERKS MAY HELP.

A very sensible letter of suggestion to gro
GERS clerks has been issued by the federal food
director. He tells these clerks that they can
help to create sympathetic attitude of people
toward food restrictions if they will but inform
themselves carefully and tell what they know
courteously to their customers This is true
enough Too many times the clerk who is be-
sieged with impatient questions and com
plants over refusal to sell what is wanted is
brusquely non-committal in his replies and
gives an impression of Indifference to peoples
annoyances, which Indifference is in the end
charged back to the food administration. Mr.
Hoover's letter suggests that the clerks have
the best opportunity afforded anyone to ex-
plain to people what is required or requested
and the reason for it, and if this were rightly
done great influence for popular good will
toward food regulation would be at work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09

by anybody who is not willing to
regard it as temporary, and to set
about earnestly making the time
of that enjoyment as short as pos
sible. That means a fundamental
revision of these foreign churches.
No freedom of the press will pro-
tect perpetual foreign press In
these United States. It won't pro-
tect any press or any church
who, while it is trying to meet
temporary need, does not set It.
self earnestly about the business
of making that temporary
situation Just as temporary
as possible, and not making it, as
has been true in the past, just as
near perpetual as possible.
Men who are not willing to do
that will havae to choose. If they
prefer to cherish foreign Ideals
they will have to go to their own. If
it is necessary we will cancel ev-
cry certificate Of citizenship in
these United States. The federal
government has power to deal
with that subject, and it is going
to deal with it. Nothing else than
that surely can he possible. And
the object of the sentence which
/ pronounce upon you today is not
alone to punish you for the dis
loyalty OF which you have been
guilty, but to serve notice upon
you, and the like of you. and all
of the groups Of people in this dis
trict, who have been cherish1ng
foreigness. that the end of that
regime has come. 1t is a call to
every one Of you to set about
earnestly the growing of an Amer
lean soul inside of you.
The court finds and adjudges
that you are guilty under each
count of the indictment, and as
punishment therefore, it is
further adjudged that you be i'm
prisoned in the federal peniten-
tiary at Leavonworth for the term
of three years. The sentence I'M
der the three counts of the In
dictments are to run concurrently
and not SUCCESSFULLY"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09
ToDAY's BIT OF VERSE
THE MOUNT OF HOLY CROSS

Mount of the Holy Cross, transcendent
Heart and soul of peaks respondent
Marked with the sign of the Son Divine,
From apex down to timber line.
Among all the heights that here abound
Thine is the one with holy ground
Here the hosts Of heavenly glory
Stayed their flight with sacred story.
When the angels first were sent to bear
The news to all men everywhere,
OF Christ and His loving sacrifice,
Saying: by this sign conquer vice.,
They carried with them through the sky,
The emblem of that which lifted high
The Son of God. Wearied in their flight,
They rested thy dizzy height
And when again they essayed TO rise,
Upon the steep, before their eyes,
Law the imprint OF the Holy Cross,
Clear and plain, in the mountains dross.
That men might see the sign from afar,
And know Gods love for all, the scar
Was filed with the snow that CLEANS with light
And stands supernal, day and night
From thy side stream does ever flow
That dribbles, and drips from the snow
Distilled water rare and purified.
Like that which came from His pierced side.
The Indian paint brush. drops of blood
Spring I'D beside the crystal flood,
AS if from thy outstretched beams did fall
New sin atonement for us all
So here I face in alteration.
Not of thee or thy creation,
But of Him of whom thy Sign doth speak
Mount of the Cross, sublimest peak.
o. l. orion, D. D.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09
QUICK RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION
Get DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That is the joyful cry Of thousands
since DR.. Edwards produced Olive Tablets,
the substitute for calomel.
DR.. Edwards, practicing physician for
II years and calomei's old-time enemy,
discovered the formula for Olive Tablets
while treating patients for chronic con.
stipation and torpid livers
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do not
contain calonel, but healing. soothing
vegetable laxative.
No gripping is the s.keynote" Of these
little sugar-coated, olive-colored tablets.
They cause the bowels and liver to act
normally. They never force them to
unnatural action.
Ifs>u have a dark brown mouth" now
and then - a bad breath - a dull, tired
feeling sick headache-torpid liver and
are constipated, you'll find quick, sure and
only pleasant results from one or two lit
tie DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take one or two every night
just to keep right. Try them. l0c and
25c per box All. Druggists
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09
EAT LESS AND TAKE
SALTS FOR KIDNEYS
Take a glass Of Salts if your Back
hurts or Bladder
bothers.

The American men and women
must guard constantly against Kidney
trouble, because we eat too much and
all our food is rich. Our blood Is
filled with uric acid which the kid.
neys strive to filter out, they weaken
from overwork, become sluggish; the
eliminative tissues clog and the re-
suit is kidney trouble, bladder weak.
ness and general decline in health.
When your kidneys feel like Jumps
of lead; your back hurts or the urine
is cloudy, full of sediment or you are
obliged to seek relief two or threel
times during the night; if you suffer
with sick headache or dizzy, nervous
spells, acid stomach, or you havsI
rheumatism when the weather is bad
get from your pharmacist about four
ounces of Jad Salts; take table
spoonful in a glass of water before
breakfast for few days and your
kidneys will then act fine. This
famous salts is made from the acid
Of grapes and lemon juice, combined
with lithia, and has been used fofI
generations to flush and stimulateI
clogged kidneys; to neutralize mel
acids in the urine so 1t no longer ~
source Of irritation, thus ending
bladder disorders.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot
injurc. makes a delightful efferves
cent lithia-water beverage, and BEL
longs in every home, because nobody
can make mistake by having GOOD
kidney flushing any time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09
October is the opal month of the year. 1t
is the month of glory, Of ripeness. 1t Is the
picture-month-H. W. Beecher.
DAY OF JUDGMENT.

In another column of this issue will be found
Hhe dispassionate, well-weighed, impressive re
marks of a federal judge III passing sentence on
q naturalized citizen convicted of violating the
espionage act. The defendant, like so many
others who are among US but not of US, had re
carded his oath Of allegiance as mere for1nu-
la of words 1t meant nothing to him. No
Thought of his mind or emotion of his heart
was changed His body was here but his soul
and all his interests we're in Germany, for Ger
many and hostile to the United States The
fudge foresees time to follow this war when
all our citizens and institutions which have
cherished foreigness must change or cease.
This will cut deep, but it will come. No free
dom of the press will protect foreign press in
these United States. No church will be toler-
ated here, even to meet the needs of citizens
nho do not understand the English tongue, I'M
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09

Our president calls all to loyalty. don't believe
In war but do believe in this and do you And
well rally round the flag with eheer-yes, and with
more than cheer with logged resolution to do more
than follow the flag We propose TO carry the nag Every
SAVING food every purchase of bonds economy
practced every given the government
hosts the just that much higher Suppose your
name not among the roll of national heroes suppose
you are given decora ton of merit or Victoria
cross. your conscience and you are sur
rounded by great company of witnesses-Wasnh9eon
and Lincoln Grant and an innun1berabie company
who interest the battle that you fgnt
tne sacrifices you make, the contributions ofer
upon your country's weaiRev George Craig
Stewart, D. D.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09
COMMERCIAL A1RPLANING.

How many citizens of late years have Won
dered regretfully why they did not realize the
possibilities of the automobile business and get
into it early, as they might have done! how
many will wonder, ten or fifteen years from
now, how it happened that they could have
been blind to the financial possibilities IN
aircraft agencies or manufacture? Of course
the development of the airship will not follow
on parallel lines that of the motor vehicles.
The latter was left entirely to individual enter
prise and initiative, whereas governments are
now devoting millions to the manufacture of
flying machines. But these are all for war
uses, and it will doubtless be left to private
concerns to develop the commercial possibil
titles of the craft. Will this grow into bust
ness of notable magnitude? Will craft of large
carrying capacity come into general use? Will
inventors succeed in making fool-proof ma
chimes, slower perhaps, but safe, which or
binary people will not hesitate to use? 1t will
be strange and exceptional in human history
if this shall be the first of mans epoch-making
discoveries which does not prove of great and
general utility.
In any event, when the war is endel the
greater allied nations will have hundreds Of
thousands of flying machines in stock and few
if any military uses for them. They will also
have great numbers of trained flyers, daring
fore the least accessible spots of earth are over
flown and photographed VIII there not prob
ably be an international rivalry to which
flag shall be the first to cross the polar tracks
and bring back indisputable Photographic evi-
dence of anything that may exist in the two
unique spots in latitude ninety degreesa
There are many theatergoers of an older
day who will read of the death of Edwin Arden
with regretful memories of him and his famous
play, Eagles Nest 1t was just one of those
plays which for reasons that are matters of
sentiment lying hidden under reticence made
q strong appeal to great number of people.
Arden a player who made vivid impress
sion his audiences After he left his
Nest he probably did better acting than he
ever did while in it, but it is the old play that
Will hold the memory longest.
) II this thing goes on it ought to be easy to
write a Thanksgiving proclamation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09
A DAY OF JUDGMENT
We Have Fostered
as

the picture of Washington; that
you will take down the pic
ture OF Bismarck, and hang up
the picture OF Lincoln. 1t means
that you will begin to sing Ameri-
can songs; that you will begin
earnestly to study American his
tory; that you will begin to open
your lives through every avenue
to the influence of American life;
it means that you begin first of
all to learn English the language
of this country, SO that there
may be a door into your souls
through which American life may
enter.
am not so simple as to enter
tain the idea that racial habits and
qualities can be put aside by the
will in a day, in q year, in a gener-
alton: but, because that is diff
cult is ell the more reason why
you should go about it, and quit
cherishing a foreign life. If half
the effort had been put forth in
these foreign communities to
build up an American life in the
hearts Of these foreign born citi-
zens that has been put forth to
perpetuate there a foreign life,
our situation would have been en-
,trely different from what it is to-
day. You have violated your oath
of allegiance in this, that you
cherished foreign ideals and tried
to make them everlasting. That
is the basic wrongs of these thous-
ands OF little islands of foreign
ers that have heen formed
through our whole limits, that in
stead OF trying to remove the for,
eign life out of their souls, and to
build up an American life in them
they have striven studiously, from
year to year, to stifle American
life, and to make foreignness per
petual. That is disloyalty; and the
object, one of the big objects of
this serious proceeding in this
court, and other like proceedings
in other courts, is to give notice
that this must be stopped.
I have seen before my eyes an
other day Of judgement. When we
get through with this war, and
civil liberty is made safe once
more upon this earth there Is go
ing to be day of judgement in
these United States Foreign born
citizens and the institutions which
have cherished foreigness, are go
ing to be brought to the Judge
ment bar of this republic. That
day OF judgement looks more to
me today like the great Day of
Judgement than anything that I
have thought of for many years.
There is going to he a separation
on that day,of the sheep from the
goats. Every institution that has
been engaged in the business of
making foreigness perpetual in
the United States vill have to
change or cease. Thai IS going to
cut deep, but it is coming. recog-
nize the right OF foreign born
citizens to hear their religion, II
they cannot understand it in Eng
fish, spoken to them in the tongue
they can understand If they have
not yet acquired enough English
to read, they are entitled to have
a paper that shall shall speak to
them the language that they can
understand. l cannot go further
than that
And this is the capital thing
that is going to be settled on that
day of judgement. namely, that
the right to those things is tenn
porary, and it cannot be enjoyed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09

lss it sets itself earnestly to the task of Amen-
canizing those to whom it speaks. Men who
cherish foreign ideals will have to go to their
own, and every certificate of citizenship Will be
cancelled, if need be, to unity the sentiment
which sustains American ideals.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09

Cedar Rapids Republican: If the
Turks had taken $4,000 Armenian
prisoners most OF them would be put
to death in one way or another. But
now that they themselves are the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-09
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Manson Democrat: The universal
war has taught the fellow who thinks
the world owes him a living that he
is entitled to 1t if he earns it.