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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-27

L DSS MONIES llS6lStCA. SAOWNOAe AAAesS
drive gamblers, baseball players and
jockeys to work, but we doubt II ne
can ever make them like it
Burlington Hawk-Eye: According
to the statute, elections are to be held
this year. But there Is only vague
comprehension of that fact in popu-
lar thought
Iowa City Press: Every summer
there's a new crop of youngsters who
don't care how many million germs
there are in ice cream.
Marshalltown Times-Republican:
Des Moines complains that it takes
twice the gas to boil q potato that it
used to and proposes to protest its
gas bills. Why not burn wood this
winter in the cook stove anyway?
Sioux City Journal: Some people
go to the greatest extremities to keep
body and soul together, when it is ap-
parent to all onlookers that the COM
bination does not exist.
Davenport Democrat Sad news
for some of the boys, that every man
of draft age must either fight or work.
Some of them. We are quite sure. will
prefer to tight!
Cedar Falls Record: The eclipse
of the sun has been postponed for
half an hour. Another Joshua running
loose, Ell?
Waterloo Times-Tribune: One
steamship has been completed in
twenty-seven days. Why. it takes con-
gress longer than that to rise to .
question of personal privilege.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-27
The MovIe-struck Girl

William a. Page exposes fake
schools for teaching movie acting in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-27

Iowa City Press: Every summer
there's a new crop of youngsters who
don't care how many million germs
there are in ice cream.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-27
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Des Moines Register: Crowder may
drive gamblers. baseball players and
jockeys to work, but we doubt II he
can ever make them like it
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-27
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-27

Cedar Falls Record: The eclipse
of the sun has been postponed for
half an hour. Another Joshua running
loose, Ell?
The sun., 1918-11-17

Edith WhartOn's war novel, The MGrne,
will be published by D. Appleton & Co.
1t tells of an American boy of IA who is
taken, in the first year of the war, over
the Marine battlefield. Four years later
he comes back, an American soldier, to
fight on almost the same ground. Mrs.
Wharton's A Son at the Front, another
war novel, will be published by the APP
pletons early in 1919.
The sun., 1918-11-17

OF the women are Parisiennes who are
returning to Paris from summer in the
country. ABR cries one. "VOus avez
une moustache! C'est Francaisew "Mais
non" you reply. "Cest Americana"
The whistle blows. The train moves.
The disappointed doughbOy squirms. And
his buddies go past, leaning from the win
dows and shouting and waving their hands,
these boys who have been through hell
once and are on their way to the same
place again. One of them, who summed it
all up in beautiful terseness, cries, "We're
going back for seconds" CHICK.
The sun., 1918-11-17

Copyright, 1915. Al rights reserved.
nEAR BILL: It's pretty difficult to
~ write q so-called "war letter" from
q hospital centre so far back Of the lines.
We hear no shells back here, and we only
see the machine guns in the magazines.
We have lots of mud, but it isn't anywhere
near the trenches.
We don't know, suppose, half as much
about the war and its going on as you
do. Although / met sergeant the other
day-one is always meeting sergeants over
here, You know-who contided in me that
He said he was going to cover the whole
war, all its phases. | minated that it
might be difficult for him to cover the
whole war from this little dot on the map
back here, but that didn't seem TO feaze
him.
He was going to surmOunt all such OBJ
stacles. He had only come across to
France about week before, but neverthe-
less he said he thought he wouldn't have
much trouble in getting a pass from the
Colonel to go up to the front and tour
around and see what was what. He has
been here longer now; so maybe his ideas
have changed-slightly.
But we hear plenty of first hand stories
Of the fighting. We get them from the
wounded who come in on the big hospital
trains. We get them from the first mo-
ment they arrive until the last moment Of
their departure after cOnvaleseence. They
can't help talking about it.
When hospital train arrives all of the
base hospitals here have detaehments of
men waiting with litters. The litter bear
ers line the road alongside the railroad
track, and as soon as the train draws to u
halt its doors are opened and the line of
htters bearing the wounded begins at the
doors of the train and winds up the road
to receiving ward and thence to the par
tieular ward in which the soldier will be
put to bed with fresh bandages and hot
cocoa. And many wounded man has
looked up from his litter and, perhaps in
response to a question, has begun to tell
what he went through up front.
Fighting 1t Over.
The hospital orderlics are the ones that
get it most. They hear it from morning
to night, until they say their ears ring
with the stories of what this man did there
and that one did somewhere else. They
may even hear it in the dead of night
when a delirious patient springs up in
bed and thinks he's out in No Man't Land
cutting barbed wire, when, as a matter of
fact, he's cutting down the Balkan frames
that hold up broken arm or leg.
These hospital orderlies have never seen
the front. The patients know it, and they
press their advantage, relating tales which
make every one of them hero. And the
The sun., 1918-11-17
A Soldier Poet in France
Letters of Private Charles Divine, Author
of "City Ways and Company Streets"

work. "Allezw He bumps into his
daughter, who comes flying bareheaded
to ask him a question. She goes back to
the signal house and pulls switch. An
other daughter, Pierrette, whose wooden
shoes are a mile bigger than her feet,
looks ON complacently. She is only IL
years old, too young to work yet. Mean
while Monsieur the Chef de Care is lead
ing the way frantically along the train,
and the doughboys are being packed in
wherever We can find room for them.
The Doughboy They Left.
At the last minute a messenger comes
up with card saying that one of the
doughboys can't 90 this day; he must
return to camp for some reason or other
known only to the medical officer We
find the doughboy and drag him off the
train. He's mad clear through, fighting
mad, and we almost have to hold him to
keep him off the train.
From various ear windows men and
women are looking out at the scene; some
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

Having permanently located out
side of this city, my residence ON
Holt Ave, is for sale at a price con-
siderably less than it cost to build.
Very modern, s rooms, bath, large
closets and packing room, cabinet
mantels, hardwood floors, equipped
with gas, wired for electricity, in
Simultaneous hot water heater, large
grounds, outbuildings, bearing fruit
trees, property now occupied by
Judge Ben r. Turner. VIII be sold
at once at a bargain.
W. II. Berry.
For Sale by-W. Hoffman Wood
35-3t T. F. Rogers, Jr.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
NOW REQUIRES LICENSE

No commodities may now be ex-
ported from the United States nor
imported, without license Accord
ing 10 a statement By the War
Trade Board the military and ton
mage situations have made increas7
ingly apparent the necessity Of in
stituting a complete and thorough
going control of all exports and i'm
ports Licenses for the export or
import of coin, bullion, currency,
evidences of debt or of ownership
of property and transfers of credit
will be issued by the Treasury De-
partment; licenses, for all other
exports and imports, including mer-
ehandise, bunkers, ships supplies,
etc, viii Be issued by the War Trade
Board.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR
ARMY CHAPLAInS

A typical daily schedule of the
course of training at the recently
established school for army chap
lains at Fortress Monroe includes
military drill, military law, interna-
tional law, army regulations, mill
tary hygiene, organized recreational
work and sectional conferences.
Including the large number re-
Gently appointed there are now
nearly 600 chaplains in the service,
and this number will gradually be
increased with the passage of ex-
pected legislation permitting the ap-
pointment of one chaplain for every
1900 officers and men.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
WAR SAVINGS STAMPS SELL

Treasury receipts from the sale
of war savings stamps are running
at the rate of $11, 100000 a week.
Savings bank deposits in the last
few years have been increasing at
the rate of 100000 business day.
Treasury receipts show the Ameri-
can people are putting their small
savings at the service Of the Nation
through war savings stamps at a
rate far in excess of prewar savings
hank accumulations. Two billion
dollars of war savings securities
will be issued. If these are all sold
this year the Treasury will receive
about $1,6sO, 100000, and at the
end of five years the Government
will repay the loan together with
$320,000,0O0 in interest.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

German papers are gloaeing over
the sinking Of the Tascania, ex-
pressing the conviction that the in.
cident "must unfaihngly dampen
the spirits of Americans"
II evidence were wanted that
Germany is lamentably ignorant Of
American character the above is
sufficient Americans are the last
race on earth to be given to cry
ing over split milk. Probably no
nation in history has grown to
commanding influence in the world
over greater opposition than has
the United States. Opposition is
the bread Of life to our people and
your red-blooded American has
mild contempt for any occupation
that contains none of the element
Of danger or chance.
If proof were wanted to refute
the insinuation of the Teutons that
we would blanch at the dangers
of their submarines, it is found in
the fact that before the ink was
hardly dry on the papers in this
country giving the news of the sink
ing of the Tuscania, enhstments in
all branches had jumped to records
never reached before. Thousands
are hocking to every branch of the
service, many with the avowed pur-
pose of avenging the heroes so
shamelessly butchered.
Germany is due for very rude
awakening as to the real American
character. She is due to discover
that our aversion to war does not
cover craven heart, but arises
rather from a national sense of
justice and right. She is also due
to learn that when that sense of /
justice and right has been fragrant
ly abused and insulted, there is no
hesitation on our part to resort to
the weapons of force so dear to the
German heart.
Germany, however, is merely
whistling to keep up her courage.
She sees her doom when our troops
reach Europe in force.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
WASTE AND THRIFT

One effect of the war has been
that the people are beginning to
understand the truth of the state
ment that whatever is spent for
unnecessary things is a waste of
labor.
ALI that is paid out for unneces-
sary and expensive food, clothing,
and a thousand other needless
things, involves a dissipation of
labor that is serious and alarming
at this particular time.
The scarcity of all sorts of neces-
sary commodities drives home the
need of stopping the waste of la
Dor and of diverting it from the
production of non essentials to the
making of those things that must
be had to sustain the physical and
mental efficiency of the people. The
only possible way to accomplish
this is for everyone to always
think twice before buying the things
that are not necessary. In other
words, systematic thrift-not spas
modic saving-is the one method
by which the production of necessi-
ties can be made to equal the es-
sential demand. Otherwise the
shortage of commodities is bound to
become more and more acute, and
the physical stamina of the people
gradually undermined.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
WHAT THE ARMY
Y. N. C. A. Is DOING

Contributions made by residents
of Mt Sterling to the National
War Work fund Of the Army Y. M.
c. A., which has now reached $50,
100000, are already paying big divi-
dends in the lives Of the boys who
have gone from this city and coun-
ty TO receive their military training
at Camps Taylor and Shelby and
other military points IN the West
and South. According TO advices
reaches here this week the Y. N C..
A. huts in the big cantonments
never have bene so popular as dur
ing the recent cold weather, when
thousands Of enlisted men we're
driven inside the buildings for thei,
amusements, games and letter
writing. The CHEEKY open fire.
places, the monographs and pianos,
books and magazines form happy
combination that spells "home" to
the boys away from home.
Practically every family in this
community has received letters from
Kentucky and Indiana boys writ
ten on Y. N. C. A. or Red Triangle
which is issued without
cost to every man in uniform. At
Camp Taylor recently a total of
Ia, 1922 letters were mailed by the
Y. N. c. A. in a single month, all
of them having been written at the
benches in the nine Y. NJ. c. A.
hutS.
Y. N. c. A. accommodations have
been provided already in more than
l50 centers in France for the sol
iiers in Pershing's expedition. At
he present time there are more
han 1900 American Y. NJ. C. A.
now in the war zone
promoting for Uncle Sans boys the
same program they have enjoyed in
he big camps of this country.
When the American troops took
'ver their section of the French |
lighting front there were eight Y. NJ. |
:. A. dugouts waiting for their ex-
.lusiye use. These provided ehoco-
ate, sweets of all kinds, biscuits
md knicknacks. The last thing
American troops will get before
hey go over the top viii be a cup
If hot coffee or tea a biscuit or
wo, some chocolate for emergenc, /
-ations and a word of cheer and
from the Y. N. C. A
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
TENNESSEE MANS LIFE SAVED
by WIN HEPATICA PRESCRIPTION
Most Stubborn Case Bsd -Four Physicians Win Hepsca On
Advice Of Brother Working Man, and Gels Well

Mr.. ,Dass Johnson, working man Of
Jacksonville, Tenn, who was in a
mighty bad shape as result Of indi-
gestioh, kidney and bladder trouble,
says his life was saved by the Vim
Hepatica prescription.
II was so bad that after trying
four of the best doctors l could find
in the; country" says Mr.. Johnson, 81
had about given up to die. But @.
w. Spencer, Of Johnsonville, who had
been, so helped by using the Win He
patica prescription, persuaded me
70 try a bottle. I began to feel bet
ter from the first dose and l was
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

soon eating everything and feeling
as At as a fiddle began taking II
in October when weighed but 1873
pounds, and now, on February s,
weigh 16S pounds.
"If you are all down and out I
recommend that you get bottle Of
Win Hepaica. II saved my life and
made me a new man."
This famous Win Hepatica pre-
scription certainly does the work
Come in and get a bottle Of II and
take 1t on our recommendation.
w. 8. Lloyd. MI Sterling, KY.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

Any fool may criticize. But
criticism is not remedy; that re-
quires constructive ability. So un-
less you possess this, better hold
your tongue and saw wood.
w. S. S.
Austria tired of warl Well, it
isn't the first time in history that
an individual or nation has start
ed something that they couldn't
stop.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

Probably the reason why light
ming never strikes twice in the same
place is because the place isn't
there after the first strike.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
w. S. s.

American troops on the Cham
payne front. They wish the folks
at home to understand, however,
that there's nothing in a name.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

of your shoes by having them re-
paired at O'Connell's Shoe Labra-
tory, Maysville St., opposite Lloyd's
Cafe. 33-tf
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

In deciding on a renewed German
perhaps Hindenburg con-
cluded Petrograd would be a more
suitable place than Paris for that
April fool dinner.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

Before a meeting of teachers in
Iowa, DR.. John Merritt Driver, of
Illinois, has been accused of dehv-
ering a pro- German address. This
was the message he sent his accus-
ers: "I'd rather he dead than be
pro-German. May God
damn the Kaiser and his govern
ment. / hope this viii be under
stood" Why the sulphur?
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

A double benefit will accrue if
the savings that result from thrift
are invested in Liberty Bonds, for
the strain of war financing will
then be just so much removed from
capital which can to that extent
continue to be used in the produc-
ton of those things that are needed
in the war and that are vital to the
prosperity and progress of the
country.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
FEDERAL FARM LOAN BOARD

News of schemes to swindle
farmers by men advertising to be
authorized farm-loan association
organizers is met by the statement
by the Federal Farm Loan Board
that organizers are not employed.
In order to borrow money under the
farm-loan act, farmers must organ
ize cooperative national farm-loan
associations in their local communi-
ties. 1t is a violation Of a ruling
Of the Farm Loan Board for a ma
tional farm-loan association or a
joint-stock land bank to spend
money for promotion purposes.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
win incubats EGGS.

! viii incpbate eggs at 3 cents
{ ach and viii book orders nov.
Mrs. Richard Wilson,
35-2t Phone 34s WI
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05

The Advocate for printing
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1918-03-05
PrOIOng the Life

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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-02
ARRANGE DEnvRRACE
CHARGES FOR COAL
Three Days Free Time and So Daily
Thereafter. Says Commerce
Commissioner.

Washington. Feb, Three days
free time and demurrase charges Of
three dollars day thereafter were
determined today by the interstate
commerce commission on cars con-
tanning anthracite, and bituminous
coal and coke sent to seaboard. Ihls
goes into effect February 10th, and
applies TO coal for trans-shipment d.
rect by vessels, or to be stored for
shipment by vessels when held for
ar by conSignoTs, or for any other
purposes
Cars reconsignod or reshipped. for
rail delivery or to another rail desti-
nation wjll be subject to the national
car demurrage rules. 4 car shall be
Ccnsideres released at the time the
vessel registers for the cargo or fuel
supply or which the coal or ccsSe
dumped into suth vessel is a part,
except that when cars are unIoaded
before the vessel registers. such cars
shall bc released when unloaded.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-02

.,,. ..nr,7-y,t,t ~ +ha r-,itaa qts,es Of
North America. We stiu have faith in
the friendship of the great sister re
public.
"Our position regarding the sup
plying Of the country with indis-
persable foreign products is not only
serious; 1t is precarious. We demand
from the outside world the right, as
q pea ceful, independent. strictly neu-
trail nation, to maintain our life
through our labor. The great powers
OF the two groups can undoubtedly
spare us the most necessary articles
for importation If they have a mind
&c, for the quantities that we need for
our little country form only an insig-
nlfeant, almost unnoticeahle part Of
the enormous masses of products at
their disposal
aft aDuesrs to me inconrefyable
that any of the great powers that rule
the world would he capable of para
lyzjng our industrial activity and thus
coqdemning us to economic ruin
through cutting off our imports. or
even exposing us to starvation. Such
action would be nothing less than a
ronudiatio1 OF the international
solidarity through which our state
feels itself connected with the rest of
The civilized world.
Commits ON International Law.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-02
BOARD Of EDUCATION
MAKES APPOINTMENTS
Governor Davis, Nttorucy -GcncFal
Saunders and superintendent Hart
Attend Eirst Official Duties.
NUMEROUS POSITIONS FILLED.
Dr. w. u. smithcy, 'Ir.. Is Named Sec
rotary. while Former occupant Il
Supcrs isOr of Training Department.
Other Officers Named.

with the now personnel OF the state
hoard of naucatfar IN t,s entirety p-rs-
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-02-02
Trtse to Slinn. Irninc.

Stockholm. Feb. 1.--Tlcolal fen5ns
had another nair-hreasth escape from
being assaasfnated today His wrath
Immediately after the attempt 70 F'il
him was not. however. cnncentrat@ e
against the would lie assAHsi0, q young
unidentified student, bat against tho
xuards who had let Rim pass through
TO his (fenine'e) office in the Smoluv
institute
Have them court msrtiaiad," was
his scornful order The wnuld-he
murderer was arrested on the spot.
The shot he had fred A. the Eoishevist
premier had gone wild.