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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

against which the masses have risen many
times, but the Germans mean to use it
as the pretext for erecting state which
will actually be dominated by Prussian
bayonets. In word, some 100000 Slavs
are to be put under the control Of not
more than 100000 Germans resident in
this region, but the latter are to be backed
by Prussian bayonets. Thus Germany adds
a territory ten times as large as Alsace-
Lorraine to her own empire and closes
Russia's doorway to the Baltic.
A Subject Poland
The second German proposal affects
Russian Poland. Some ten million Poles
living in Russian Poland and the adjoin-
ing Russian governments are to be taken
from Russian rule and turned over to
Austrian. 1t is announced that with them
are to be joined the 100000 Poles and
possibly the 100000 Ruthenans Of
Galicia but in any event some sort OF
Polish state is to be erected under Haps-
burg rule. But Germany refused utterly
to consider joining with this state her own
four millions of Poles in Posen, East and
West Prussia and Silesia. Thus she pur
poses to keep her hands not alone upon all
the great mineral districts Of the Polish
speaking regions of Silesia, but also
upon Danzig and the seacoast by which,
Poland would be able to touch the Baltic
and trade with the world
This Poland to be created then, is to be
politically subject to the Hapsburg, but
economically subject to the Hohenzollern.
Nor does it require any great stretch of
imagination to look forward to the time
when the German will repeat the Schles-
wig Holstein episode and deprive the old
ally of ground conquered jointly, but
needed for rounding OUT German estates
and completing the realization Of German
purposes. But, laying aside future con-
siderations, these facts are clear: Nearly
100000 Slavs of the Baltic Provinces
are to be distracted from the bulk of
Slavdom and placed under Prussian con
troll; 100000 peoples, fve-sixths of
them Poles-that is, Slavs-are to be
taken from Russia and assigned tenn
porarily or permanently to the Aus
TRANS, but Germany is to retain their
outlets upon the sea and thus the economic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

stirring and turning their thoughts once
more TO restored Poland, and once the
Poles should throw their lot in with the
other Slavs, the Germans and their part
ners, the Magyars, were doomed and the
Slavonic majority in Austria Hungary was
bound to take the reins, thus destroying
all the German ambitions of creating a
Mitteleuropa extending from Berlin to
Bagdad, through Austria Hungary and
the Balkans.
Now, bearing these facts in mind, what
is the German policy? Obviously to seek
to divide the Slavs in such way that
their numbers will no longer be formida-
bic and that for fifty years at least Ger
many will be free to consolidate her road
to the Near East, to build her great Nit
teleuropa and to complete her effort to
dominate the world. To do this she must
detach some portions of the Slavs from
the great Russian bulk; she must, in addi-
ton, take measures to suppress the hopes
of the Southern Slavs.
Now, with reference to the Russian
Slavs, Germany has shown her hand. At
Brest-Litovsk she proposed that two
states should be created out of the Rus
sian territory taken by Austria and by
herself during the war. The first of these
states was to include all the Baltic prov
inces Of Russia and extend from the en-
virons of Petroerad to the Prussian from
tier at Mcneil. All the great Russian
Baltic ports, Reval, Pernau, Riga and
Libau, were to be included and Russia was
thus to be deprived of an outlet upon the
omen sea and thus made economically sub
servient to Germany.
The Lithuanian Trick
This state, of nearly 100000 inhabi-
tants and about 10000 square miles, a
little larger than England and Wales, was
to be under real, if disguised, German
domination. All Of its population save a
small minority, utterly insignificant, are
Slav. Lettish and Lithuanian, but this
small minority is German, composed OF
the descendants of the Teutonic knights
of remoter centuries. And this minority
has been the controlling element. 1t owns
the land and lives under conditions recall
ing the French nobiljty's circumstances be-
fore the Revolution. 1t is a hated minority
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

supremacy in this new state. Here, then,
are upward of 100000 Slavs subtracte(
from the central Slav block
Now, in addition, it is plain that the
Germans and Austrians contemplate some
temporary arrangement which will throw
the Galician Slavs into the new Polish
state, thus removing the Slavs who give
the Slavonic element a majority in Aus
tria proper With 100000 Poles and
Ruthenians thus eliminated, the German
speaking clement would regain numerical
supremacy in Austria and be able to deal
with the Czechs and Southern Slavs as it
chose Poland, as created by the Con
grcss of Brest-Litovsk, will be CONNER
cially at the mercy of Prussia, politically
under the rule Of Austria, miitarily domi-
mated by Austrian and Prussian bayonets
and in this state the Poles of Austria will
disappear as potent Slav forces.
Russia Crushed
In this situation Germany pushed Aus
tria forward against Serbia, and the World
War was the result. Now so far as the
World War is concerned, it has been a
German failure in the West and on the
sea. Germany has occupied 1000 square
miles of French territory, but by contrast
Britain and France have seized 1000, 900
square miles of German territory and l2,-
100000 German colonial subjects. Ger
many has been excluded from the sea, and
against sea power and the loss Of her colo
MES she holds only French and Belgian
territories as an insurance. AS far as
Austria and Italy are concerned, after
many reverses Austria. aided by Ger
many, has occupied considerable territory
in Venetia, but Italy has closed the Adra-
tic, occupied Albania and remains across
Austria's only commercial routes.
On the East on the other hand, the Ger
man. with his Magyar ally, has over
whelmed the Sav. He has occupied $780,
900 square miles Of Russian territory
holding upward of 20000,000 Slavs. end
he has brought down the whole editice of
Russian government. There is no moro
government, no leadership, only impotent
anarchy in the great Slav state, and the
Slavs of Eastern Europe are therefore
powerless before the Germans. And in
addition. by enlisting the Bulgar, the Ger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
A Peril to the Whole World

In sum, then, 100000 Germans, allied
with 100000 Hungarans and less than
100000 Bugarians are planning to put
under their yoke $4,000, 600 Slavs and H.
100000 Rumanians, more than half Of
whom were free when the World War be-
gan and the remaining half Of whom were
moving toward political liberty under Aus
trian yoke. And outside of Europe Ger
many has fastened her power upon 49,
100000 Of people in European Turkey
who are also in her scheme of things to
supply economic resources and cannon
fodder equally. Thus. in fact, 75,C0O.O0O
Germans are to rule 10000, 900 of other
races, Slav, Hungarian, Bulgar and Turk.
This is the present German plan, the first
details in which have been sketched in the
terms proposed by the German representa-
tives at Brest-Litovsk
1t requires no discussion to set forth
the peril to the whole world of this Ger
man plan. More than all else we are at
war with the German idea which con-
ceivcs that power is the sole consideration
I'm international relations, which conceives
that the German, as the member of su-
perior race, is permitted to use any means
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

to draw troops. Thus we shall see Central
Europe in which $4,000 900 Germans will
control the fate and fortunes OF wellngh
5O,OOO,0O0 Slavs, use them for cannon fod-
der, use them to advance the cause of the
German against the Slav, use them to
make still stronger the German power in
the world
shall not at this time go into the sub
Ject Of kumania, yet it is worth noting
that detail Of the German plan is to put
the 10000 600 Rumanians of Hungary
Rumania and Russian Bessarabia in such
leading strings as to reduce them to the
condition proposed for Poland and make
them soldiers Of Teutonism henceforth,
bound commercially politically and mill
tarily to the central group. And since
Russia has collapsed the Rumanians have
no choice, no method of escape; they are
the helpless victims of the Russian revolu-
ton. who automatically lost their liberty
when the Russian revolution decided to
destroy the Russian army and negotiate
with the Germans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13
In the Next War

Now. exactly what this means is clear.
In the present war, when Germany and
Austria assaulted Russia, they were able to
throw the military resources of 2S,000,000
Slavs within their own frontier against
the great Slav state which they were at
lacking because it had ventured to cham
pon the Slav cause in the Balkans. With
out the aid of these Slav troops, Austria
would have been overcome long ago. for
she had but 100000 of German and
Hungarian subjects who We're loyal. In
the next struggle with the Slav, bound to
come if the Slav world is now placed in
Teutonlc chains, Germany will have more
than 20 ,000 900 additional Slavs from which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-01-13

man has been able to destroy the Slav
states of Serbia and Montenegro, now oc-
cupied by Bulgar and Austrian troops,
and also to conquer most of Rumania,
whose collapse is assured by the Russian
surrender.
Accordingly, the German finds himself
to-day in a position to deal with the prob
lem of the Slavs. He has crushed the
great Slav movement toward liberty and
union by overthrowing Russia; the Rus
sian revolutionists have forsakcn ali
racial aspirations, all thought Of liberat-
ing their brethren Of Austria and of the
Balkans, to pursue the phantom Of indus
trial and economic UtoDias; they have de-
stroyed their army, and they have now no
choice but to yield to German terms or
else to face the consequences Of resisting
without weapons an enemy provided with
weapons and holding all the roads leading
to the heart of Savdom. Russia, as the
German would say, is 'kaput'
So much for the Northern Savs. Now as
for the Serbs of Serbia and Montenegro
their fate has already been set forth in
OulRuE ana fFuSSldn statements. MOSt or
Serbia the valleys Of the Morava and the
Vardar, are to fall to the Bulgar, the bal
ance to be added to Austrian Bosnia or
permitted to subsist under a semblance of
independence, but ruled by an Austrian
princelng. In a word 10000 more
Slavs are to be placed under alien rule,
under Bulgar and Austrian, and the last
obstacle to Austro- German power in the
Balkans is to be eliminated
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16
ADJUSTMENTS.

Hippodrome Tonight and Tomorrow.
The Savage Woman presented by
Clara KinrbalI Young and her own
company, which shows this celebrated
star in the role of young girl brought
up in the jungle.
Renee (Clara Kimball Young) Is
mistaken for the reincarnated queen
of Sheba while wandering about the
ruined palace of the dead queen. A
native prince desires her for his bride
but is blinded for moment by flashes
from her mirror while she makes her
escape Fleeing from one man she is
caught by another. Lerier French
explorer shoots her and binding up
the wound, falls in love with her
dusky beauty.
Renee is seeking her relic among
the ruins and finds the mirror. This
recalls former days Nd her clouded
memory stirring, she calls aloud to
I<erier. Just as he comes to view. The
princes men see her and bow before
their queen who walks straight to Lee
rier and falls on her knees. Thinking
that they have captured by mistake.
mighty prince, the natives flee In dis
order before his wrath can overtake
them. Also Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney
Drew in Honeymoon Baby.-AdYer-
tisement.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16
GEORGE GIBSON,
co. L, INJURED
Keokuk Soldier Wounded by the Elk
pIosion of Big Shell and
is in Base Hos
pital.

George Gibson, a Keokuk soldier,
who has been in the American drive
across seas with Company L, 168th
Infantry, was wounded July 10Th by
the explosion of a big shell. He has
seen active service for six months
and this was his first injury.
This news Private Gibson impaired
In a letter written to G.. G. White.
He had been in a base hospital six
weeks when the letter was written.
He writes that he hopes to be re-
turned to his old company when he
has recovered health and strength
and join the Keokuk soldiers who are
In this same company. But Private
Gibson is doubtful that this will
happen for many of the mon have
been transferred to other companies
and he may find the Keokuk men
gone.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16
The U. S. Food Administra-
ton for Iowa.

Following is list OF the officers and
attach of the United States food
administration for Iowa, whose head
quarters at Burlington. Iowa, were
opened August 1, 1917:
= ]. F. Deems, United States food adj
ministrator for Iowa.
r. E. Logsdon, executive secretary.
W. T. McElroy, chief of sugar divi-
sion.
D. G. Thompson, chief of the flour
division.
NJ L. Parker, chief Of the merchants
representatives.
W. T. Harper, chief Of the milk and
ice division.
w. F. Miller, chief of the hotel and
restaurant division.
R. E. Pittigrew, assistant to NJ. MIL
Ter.
R. R. Welday, chief of the bakery
division.
G. F. Altstadt, chairman Of the
bakers service committee for Iowa.
Leon Brown, educational director.
Mrs. Francis E. Whitley. chairman
Of the women's committee.
Miss Neale 8. Knowles, director OF
the home demonstration agents.
Paul Guelich. chief Of the enforce
ment division.
G. G. Pauly, chief of the mailing d.
vision.
Miss Alice French, in charge OF patri.
otto meetings.
Mrs. Max Mayer, state field repre-
sentative.
John Demling, assistant to Mr..
Pauly.
Mrs. T. Hedge. Jr., chief OF the vol
unteers' division.
Miss Julianne Doane, secretary to
Administrator Deems.
A. n. Blank, director OF the moving
picture division.
Mrs. III. 3. Boies, chief of the Col
lege Women's league.
n. c. Orrick, spec!a! Investigator.
Ed. Canny, special Investigator.
Oliver Longueville, field representa-
tive.
A. e. Peterson, special investigator
A. o. Stephenson, special investi-
gator.
Miss Julia A. Robinson, library d.
rector.
Herbert r. Wright, special organizer
for the negroes
A score of office assistants are not
included in this list. Nor are the
members of the organizations Of the
various division chiefs included, nor
their office attaches. And the names
of the 153 food administrators, their
many hundred assistants, their com
mittee chairmen-for each county is
perfectly organized-the district, coun-
ty and township chalrmen of the WON
ems committee, the district and coun-
~ chairrnen of the bakers, of the hotels
and restaurants, Of the retail mer-
chants division, etc, are not included
in this list.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16
BROKEN ARM IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
Steering Gear Goes Wrong and Law
renee Kite Is In ST. Joseph's
Hospital for Treat
n1ent

Lawrence Kite, son of T. E. Kite of
1401 Timea street, is in ST. Joseph's
hospital suffering from injuries re-
ceived in an auto accident Saturday
night.
He and Howard Heevner were driv-
ing the small Ford truck owned by c.
S. Wells and Son on 21st street.
Something went wrong with the gear
ing of the car and the machine turned
over on one side, throwing both occu-
pants out. Lawrence Kite had his left
arm broken and a cash five or six
inches long cut in his leg. Stitches
had to be taken in the cash by the
physician
Mr. Heevner was cut by glass from
the broken windshield. The car was
damaged but little. Howard Heevner
is employed as driver by the G. s.
Wells and Son Company.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16

on the SAME program is a new 5-reel
Paramount picture, Dorothy Dalton in
1.-THE Kaiser's Shadow"
Tomorrow the Grand presents local
pictures taken of Co. l. leaving Keo-
kuk for the Mexican border. Many of
the boys are now in service and in the
parade are also shown some of Keo-
kuk's older war veterans, who have
now passed away. Norma Talmadge
in 'the Safety Curtain her la>sst
and best picture also tomorrow at the
Grand.
There's mystery and a stirring story
to 1.-THE Kaiser's shadow depicting
the manner In which the plans for a
secret "ray-rifle" are stolen, hidden
and recovered. after many remarkable
and exciting adventures. A story of
the war, but without the battle scenes.
advertisement.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16

ing the service flag which honors the
following men into service from he
A NJ e. church:
Lieutenant Mckinley Brooks, Sam
uel Johnson, Clyde Johnson, Charles
Alden, Phelphs Jones, Arthur ROBBINS
Oliver Bailey, Sherman Toomes, Ben
iamen Toomes, Conway Armstrong
Pearl Perkins, Frank w. Mott, James
Grigsby, Harvey Brashen, Alonzo NC
Holmes, Walter Wade, Norris koo
bins, Cheek Mitchell. Clarence Crow
son.
The Rev. S. B. Moore preached hls
farewell sermon on this occasion, the
subject of national loyalty to tne
church. a program was also given
which included short addresses by ths
Rev. l.. c. Lowe, Fielding Johnson
and w. l.. Green. Musical numbers
were furnished by Mrs. Carrie smith
Mrs. Marjorie Toomes, and by ths
choir
Mrs. George Snoddy gave patriot
ic reading.
Mrs. Lena 3. Porter was chalrnaH
of the committee, which arranged th9
evenings program.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16
a Weather Conditions If Severe are
Likely to Make the Fuel Stu
alton More Serious Than
Last Year.
so SAYS MIR. WEBSTER
Gives Advice on How to Conserve
Coal and Urges That the Most
Rigid Economy be
Practiced.

II weather conditions this winter
are severe there is every 1nd1cauon
that there will be a much more serl-
GUS fuel shortage in this state TINS
winter than there was last, according
to Charles Webster, state fuel ad-
ministrator for Iowa. In spite OF the
fact that the majority OF the con-
gumers have responded loyalty to the
appeal to store coal early, there are
vet a number of communities IN the
state where sufficient reserve STOCKS
have not been built up-due in some
cases to the inability to secure coal.
General Pershing has said that thou-
sands of lives of our boys can Do
saved if he is furnished with SUM-
cient supply of steel, ana the pro-
riuction of steel is dependent almost
entirely on coal production. mere
fore, in the very real sense OF the
word, every pound of coal wasted is
a direct blow at the military forces
of the nation. Coal shortage In TINS
state can be averted through econo-
mics by all Individual consumers and
the fuel administration has prepared
a number of suggestions, which II
followed will help the situation great
ly. They are:
Conservation Rules.
/. Start furnace and kitchen range
fires as late as possible. Forget the
first few cool fall days. Put up with
little discomfort and remember
what the boys over there" daily
face.
2. Raise window curtains during
the day TO admit sunlight for that is
free heat Dispense with awnings, as
they shut out the sun.
8. Membership all doors and Win
dows and put asbestos around all fur
naces, boilers and cellar pipes used
for heating purposes
4. Reduce the home temperature
to CT degrees. Do not wait until the
mercury shows "a degrees before
closing drafts
( 5. Bedrooms where windows are
opened for the night or otherwise
should be shut off from heat. Use
blankets and feel better in the morn
ing.
6. Wear heavier clothing. This
materially saves body heat.
Z. Thoroughly clean SCOT from
pipes and boilers and do not mind
doing a little work in the cellar see,
ing that window panes are tight and
weather stripped like the other parts
of the house.
s. Burn oil, wood, coke and
bituminous coal when possible, use
gas for cooking and heating Gas
lighting at night aids in heating the
home, stores and buildings where
used.
8. Use heavy draperies on doors
and windows for interior home deco
rating. This aids in outstanding heat
supply.
10. Remember you are not fight
ing in a trench exposed to all kinds
of weather Your men are and have
become hardened by contact with the
back to nature idea. They are also
healthier and more robust.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16
barley afA@o
ND1gffabIe as
Meaf af$2.oo

mailing value, that the farmers will
let it revert until it will become little.
IL any better than oats, and many
years Of working on pedigreeing bar;
ley will be lost because the lower price,
probably viii not insure its proper
care.
We have this big crop and we must
take care that proper attention Is CIV
en- to it to utilize 1t to its best adj
vantage, in spite Of the lower price
which seems imminent The growing
demand for non-alcoholic matt bever1
ages will possibly create q moderate
market.
Stacking Best Practice.
We must not leave It in the held.
The cheapest place to store it is in the
stack. The loss every year from poor
shocking and neglect to stack Is some
thing enormous. This is especially
true in rainy season after harvest
when the grain is waiting for the
threshers. In some localities stacking
has become lost art. In the long run
stacking preserves the grain, although
1t costs a trifie more to thresh than
from the shock. II you cannot get the
threshing machine promptly, stacked
grain is safe.
When stacking, make good stack
which will keep out the rain. 1t is
best to make a foundation out Of rails
or boards or tree branches, and keep
the center full SO that when the stack,
settles the bundles will slope outward
and downward to shed the rain. Par
ttcular attention should be given to
the cap sheaves.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16

(Nationa1 Crop Improvement Service.)
THE American farmer, responding
to the urgent call of the Nation.
has again broken the record In
raising an immense crop of barley.
When he sowed this crop It was worth
$1.70 per bushel. He was told at that
thine that 1t would make good bread
flour and that the manufacture of beer
and wine would not be taboo during
the war, How much the farmer will
lose on his barley crop this year de-
ponds largely on circumstances. Bak-
ers and housewives have proven that
they will not use barley -four II they
can get anything else. Rye, rice. po-
tato and corn flour are much better
substitutes for bread. and with its
mating value removed, barley win fall
with bump and come in direct COM
petition with oats as stock feed,
which together with bumper crop Of
corn, wheat and oats will also serious
lily affect the price of oats
! 1t is argued that barley is acceptable
as 4 bread -four abroad. II this be
the case. and we can get ships, the
price Of barley may be kept in accord
ance with its foreign demand as a
bread-stun. 1t is hardly likely that
our Allies will clamor for barley II
they can get wheat and from present
indications it would seem that there
will be wheat enough to fill every ship
which can be chartered for that pur-
pose.
; Barley is splendid grain, next to
corn in feeding value, but there is a
great danger, without the sustaining
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-16
Watch Your Blood Supply,
Don't Let Impurities Creep In

medicine, that is purely vegetable:
Many druggists have seen wonderful
results accomplished among their
customers by this great old medicine.
and they know that S. S. S. is one of
the most reliable blood purifiers ever
made. Keep your blood free of i'm.
purities by the use of this honest old
medicine, and if you want medical
advice, you can obtain same without
cost by writing to Medical Director
Swift Specific Co., % Swift Labora
tory, Atlanta, Ga,