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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-13
Three Day Sale
Cottons
SHOP EARLY
Last day to save.

You can relieve the last minute ten
sion by doing your Christmas shopping
now. So do it. please. or 30 10 AS
duty shop early. DO your thinking
iu advance Make out your list now.
N1uI be- doing something big Tor
your government. Youth make this .
happier Christmas for Yourself. Tor
your family. for your friends and for
the people who serve YOU.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-13

The Innocent Suffer Even Unto the
Third and Fourth Generations,
But Relief is Now in Sight.
1t has long been accepted as a
matter Of course that the sins OF the
fathers must be suffered by inno-
cent posterity. yet it is hard TO be
come reconciled 20 this condition
The heritage OF physical inhrmity
is a handicap under which thou
sands must face the battle of life
Scrofula is probably the most no.
ticeable OF the transmitted blood
disorders. though there are other
more severe diseases Of the blood
that pass from one generation to
another. No matter what inher-
tied blood faint YOU may be labor
ing under. s. s. s. offers hope. This
remedy has been in general use for
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-12-13
MATER WORKS
OFFICE To Be
MOVED SOON
Board OF Works Will Install
Department on First Floor
of City Hall to Benefit
10000 Patrons.

Plans for moving The city water
department from the second 10 the
FIRST floor Of the city hall were thor
oughly discussed by the board Of
public works Thursday night with
the result that the board practically
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
FLU COMMITTEE
is APPOINTED
Some Physicians Say Masks are Pop
pycock" and Closing Theatres
and Churches Entirely
Unnecessary.

CHICAGO, H. Dec 14.-Physicians
began consideration Friday OF the
question of whether influenza masks
and the closing OF churches and places
of anus ement are practical measures
to combat the spread of Influenza.
The question was referred to CON-
mittee Of five by the American Public
Health association at the closing ses-
sion of it's four-day convention, as the
result Of a spirited debate which de
veloped about equal division of opin-
ion Some of the physicians asserted
masks were "poppycock" and the cos
ing of churches and amusement places
entirely unnecessary" while others
contended such measures were most
efficacious."
The committee appointed to fight
il OUT consists OF Doctors w. II. Da-
Wis, E. F. Yolf, w. c. woodward, D. r.
Armstrong and w A Evans. They
will take up the influenza situation
where the association left off. con-
sidering the mass of the evidence pre-
scented at the sessions, and make re-
concentrations, TO be applied in COM
batting the epidemic. Members of the
committee stated that their delibera-
tons might last two or three days.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
.lrreet 500 Iibertx. bonds.

three 800 Liberty bonds. This he
placed in the box with his own
hands, and after the philanthropist
had placed his offering to suffering
Italians alongside 1t, the box was
locsied and the stranger kept the
key, his only guard against possible
deception. The box was to be opened
by appointment q week later.
Mrs. Maccki at this point became
excited and announced she was go
ing to have just one peep at all that
wealth. Tony tried to dissuade her.
But she jimmfed open the lid with
poker. 1E&sf
Two rolls Of paper wrapped in two
81 bills lay within.
After a family conference Tony
took the box and his story to the
police. ~.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
ARRIVES IN PARIS
AMID BOOMING GUNS
CONTINUED iron. paee II

inces has already filled the streets
with enormous crowds.
Laborites generally decided not to
work, but street car men and subway
employees later agreed the best way
to celebrate was to assure good trans
portation, otherwise a serious damper
would be cast On the demonstrations.
Practically every league and society
has passed resolutions to make the re-
ception to Wilson nation wide.
The program as drawn up and sub
mitted to Ambassador Sharp, provides
for the official visit in Paris to last
only forty-eight hours. 1t is-unders TODD
that this Is the presidents wish. After
that he will be treated like "home
folks"
These probably will be the busiest
two days of the presidents life to
date They will begin with gun sa-
Lutte as his train draws into the Bots
Bologne station.
President and Madame Poincare
will greet the Wilson party on the sta
tion platform.
The two presidents will ride in one
carriage and their wives in another.
Following their carriages will be those
carrying various officials.
The carriages will proceed along
the Avenue Bots. Champs Eyses and
the Concorde Royal.
A presidential dinner, a reception IN
the city hall and banquet by the SEN
ate will be the principal functions.
President Wilson will attend the
American church on Sunday.
The president already has been
showed under by Invitations from var
ious organizations and requests to re-
ceive delegations. The general confed-
Grafton of labor and the league Of the
rights of man have asked the minister
OF the interior for permission to hold
a monster parade in front of Prince
Murat's paloce, which will be Wilson's
home. The minister replied that IL
Wilson is willing, he will also be will
ing
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
FROM
RIVAL GAMES
Baseball Not Expected to be Quite
as Popular as it was
Before the War.

by H. C. Hamilton, Written for the
United Press.l
CAMP BUSTIS, Va, Dec IL
Baseball is going to suffer from the
war.
Before this conflict ended it was
common thing for baseball fans to
stage an argument over what might
be expected to happen to the national
game at the end. II was generally
commended that the soldiers would
have big kick to make when they
came home and found that number
of baseball players had done their
bits as timekeepers in shipbuilding
plants and as sailors up and down
Broadway.
But that isn't the reason for the
statement that baseball likely will be
hit to some extent by the belligerency
of the nations. 1t is of a fact that
the soldiers themselves have learned
games, like to play them, and have
become reasonably proficient at them.
They have learned amateur sports ac-
cording to a code of rules that does
not exist in professionalism sports.
The dollar has been kept on the out
side of the barbed wire fence and has
had no place in the thoughts of the
Several years ago small communi-
ties which supported minor league
baseball clubs began to lose interest
in the game, and many leagues were
hit hard enough that they disbanded,
deserted cities, combined with other
circuits, or resorted to other methods
in a fight to keep themselves entirely
out of the hole. Plat was blamed
to golf. It was contended that so
many 1en were learning to play
their own games that they had no
time to sit in a grandstand and let
eighteen other men do their exer-
cising.
That is what is going to hit base
ball when the war is over. The
men who have learned new games
are going to continue to play them
when the war is over or they are
going to be so set against other sorts
Of sports that they will ignore base
ball.
OF course, this does not apply to
every soldier nor does it apply to
all baseball players, but the effect
of this feeling, already noted in the
home camps, undoubtedly will be
most apparent when spring comes
again.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
CHRISTMAS GIFT
FOR SWINDLER
Italian Buncoed Out of $4,000 Savings
by Cid Game Of Being Gus :
tcdian Of Strangers
Fortune.

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 14.-Tony Maccki
OF 2343 Clark avenue, last night went
home and showed his wife an iron
box. In the box, he told her, was
more than $4,000, to be spent in re.
lieving the sufferings OF deserving
Italians in st. Louis.
Mrs. Maccki desired details.
Maccki then recounted how this
great sam happened to be in his
possession. An Italian gentleman OF
business-like proportions. he said, in.
troduced himself Tuesday and de-
sired Maccki to accompany him to
look over some highly profitable
lunchroms and candy kitchens.
At Clark and Ewing avenues the
prosperous looking gentleman met a
long lost friend The friend had just
returned from the west where he
lad aInassed great fortune. He was
bringing $4,000 of this to st. Louis
for 9hilanthropic purposes.
The westerner protested fear of
the big city, was apprehensive of
confidence men, "of whom he had
read in the west" and even some
what timid of Maccki, who was a
perfect stranger to him.
Maccki then told Mrs Maccki how
he was recommended by the other
gentleman, and how it was agreed
he should be the one intrusted with
the $4,000 to keep the confidence
men from getting it from the gullible
westerner. AS a mark Of good faith
he was to put whatever wealth he
had with the strangers roll.
Maccki went to the Mercantile
Trust company and drew out his
life savings, amounting to $4,000 and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
AUSTRALIANS CASE
AT PEACE MEAT
(contiaued iron. page ID

earliest participants in. the war, has
earned a right to consideration. she
has not fought with any ideas of
aggression or plumber. Most of her
men--the very flower of Australia,
free volunteers in the cause of right,
fought in the hopeless campaign at
.Gallipoli. or her 100000 enlistments,
more than $4,000 lie dead in alien
lands. She had no territorial inter-
est in fighting the Turk. 1t was but
her willing, and glad contribution to
the battle of right against wrong.
And after tens of thousands had, been
slain at Gallipoli, no word OF reproach
was heard in Australia itself. l men
ton this campaign merely to show
that Australia has right to be
heard
This is her case:
THE islands in the Pacific are
capable of great development in the
right hands. They were never prop
erly developed by Germany, but were
mismanaged, and held as strategic
points in case of conflict So quickly
did the Australians and New Zealand
ers descend on them, however. that
they were ,wrested from Germany be-
fore she could use them as bases to
destroy trade.
/ 2-The German administration of
the islands in the Pacific reveals a
record of cruelty to natives--a record
Of utter failure to colonize success
fully.
3-If these islands were to go back
to Germany they would be used as a
base of possible naval operations. 1t
is impossible to keep under strict sur
yeillance the operations OF a power
on such remote waters. Even while
protesting the most peaceful inten-
tons Germany might be sending sub
marines in parts to these quiet isles
there to start at a given signal, a
campaign OF frightfulness against
peaceful commerce such as we have
witnessed during the past four years.
4-One of these islands, the Ger
man portion of New Guinea, is with
in eighty miles of the mainland of
Australia The ceastline of what was
once German New Guinea is made up
of series of small bays and inlets
which would be admirable as base
for U-boat operations.
5-Australia, a large country, but
sparsely populated, has but limited
financial resources. With her popu-
lation of only 100000 souls, she can
not afford the tremendous financial
outlay that a policy of coastal defense
against such potential danger would
entail. Nor should she be asked to
face such an expenditure. She, like
other small communities, has won
with her blood immunity from the
spectre of war. viii this immunity
be denied her?
6-America in common with Aus
tralia, has an interest in keeping the
Pacific free from the German. The
trade routes from America to the far
east, from America to Australia, will
be menaced if ever the German is
allowed to go back into these waters.
There is stretch of many thousands
of miles of ocean between the west
coast of America and China and
Japan-from San Francisco to Aus
tralia alone is 5000 miles. There is
one way to guarantee that this great
sheet of water shall be kept free for
commerce Shut out the Hun. The
alternative is to keep up a tremen-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
Sanitary Inspection to be Made Next
Week Of All Toilets and WASH
rooms in keokuk Shops
and Factories.
TO INSURE GOOD HEALTH
II Any are Found Dirty or Unsanltary
In Any Way, the Owners Will
be Notified to start
House Cleaning.

The Keokuk board of health has Is
sued new order designed TO safe
guard the health of employees of shops
and factories In this city.
Beginning Monday, sanitary Off
Ger will inspect all the toilets and
wash rooms in factories and work
shops, and report as to their cleanli-
ness and sanitary condition.
II any are found dirty or unsanitary,
the owners will be notified and given
an opportunity to start cleaning.
The order Of the board Of health
provides that all toilets and wash
rooms shall be as clean and sanitary
as those in the homes Of Keokuk, and
1t is intended to make then, so.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
dous1y costly system of policing these

|dously costly system of policing these
waters. Is there any choice?
Finally, Australia can be at once
acquitted of any desire for territorial
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, because she does not
necessarily ask that she herself shall
occupy these islands. She simply
contends that they shall not go back
to Germany. If it can be shown that
they should be taken by some other
friendly power, Australia will not OBJ
ject But Germany. she contends,
must be barred.
This, in brief, is Australia's case
against Germany's return to the Pa
cific.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
SOLDIERS CAN
KEEP UNIFORMS
Continued from page y

the development Of chemical engi-
neering projects. The war had made
it plain, he said, that this was not
because of lack of ability among
American chemists or engineers. He
expressed the hope that the nation
would take its lesson to heart in
this regard and that both congress
and private enterprise would per-
petuate the science and industry Of
chemical engineering that the war
had served to inaugurate in this
country on a scale never before pos
sible.
For Early Convoy Home.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE war
department announced the following
ORGANIZATIONS abroad have been as
signed to early convoy home:
Chemical warfare casual company
No. 2.
15ith aero squadron, with medical
detachment.
151st aero squadron.
+ Fourth regiment air service me-
chanics of the 18th, 18th, 18th and
18th companies.
374th, 137th and 373rd aero squad
rcns, with medical detachments.
Twenty-ninth engineers headquar-
tiers detachment. with companies B,
c, D and e, a total of 81 officers and
2,05S men.
The transport Buitenzorg sailed
| December s, from France, with nine
officers and sixty-one men Of the
Twelfth anti-aircraft battery and the
medical detachment of the Ninth and
! TM elfth anti-aircraft batteries.
The transport Amphion sailed on
| the same date with 125 civilians
while the transport Suwanee sailed
December II with casual company
| 107 and five civilians.
American Sector Shortened.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-"The
American sector" said General Perish
ings communique dated December IL
has been shortened ana now extends
along the west bank Of the Rhine
from Rolandzeck to Brey."
| The December II communicate noted
occupation of CoblenZ and said the
! troops at night were along the west
bank OF the Rhine from Rolandzeck
Bonn to Trecht, in Shauzen.
Cure For Shell Shock.
| WASHINGTON, Dec. IA. - More
than 1000 American soldiers in
France suffering from she'll shocl,
were cured by news of the signing
of the armistice. Surgeon General
| Ireland told the senate military com
mittee or $500 shellshock patients
the general said, all except about
SEQ were well almost Immediately.
Plans OF the army for dealing with
shell shock were explained by the
surgeon general and assistants. The
principal hospital for such cases is
at Pittsburgh, N. Y, where virtually
ell patents are first sent upon being
brought home. A large majority
completely recover, it was stated
often within twenty-four or forty
eight hours.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
Horses and Mules.

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, Dec ls'
Horses-Extra heavy draft, slo'
14O; good southerns, $95Q105; eas
ern chunks, S130@160. 80.
Mules-16 to 161a hands, s2VV
325; Is to 1914 hands. Sl4OG2zs;
to 145s hands, $90@135.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
DISCHARGING
$4,000 Dali
War Department Hopes to be a'''
Double This Number "
Soldiers Before
Many Days.

limited Press Leased WIRE riftes
WASHINGTON, Dec. l4.- ratun
thousand men daily are Deins s..s d
cd to civil life, General Mat'D
uouuced this afternoon. ,,es
The war department ,us
double this before many oa'f frsinir
More than 100000 men IN nh0. Ina
c,nns Of the country are deslg s II
for gisebarge while $4,000 men me al 4
{. 500 officers are designated 10. lOr tho
return from abroad. I'M NAV ~ will
sand officers and men alreau'
started home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
No Foundation For Rumor.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
WASHINGTON. Dec. 14.-General
March this afternoon declared moth
ing officially had been reported to
substantiate rumors that Brigadier
General F'oltz had been reduced in
rank for inefficiency or sacrifice of
men needlessly.
He explained that the war depart
ment concurred in Pershing's rec
concentration that Foltz be returned
TO the United States and reduced to
q regular army colonel.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
The MARKETS

1.-The Gate City was unable to SER
its readers with the daily market !
port today owing to sickness Of y
telegraph operator, and inability
get a subs titute in time to take the 4
port. The regular service will be'r
sumed Monday.1-Ed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
MAY OWN ALL
WIRES OF NATION
CONTINUED from. page ~

placed under a single head with three
operating DIVISIONS.
These divisions are telephone ser.
vice, telegraph service and mainten-
ance and manipulation of wires Of
systems as distinct from traffic oper-
atoms Below these divisions the
organization will be amplified and
arranged to meet the necessities.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
Liberty Bonds.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Final prize
on Liberty bonds: 3A's 977V; nj
convertible AS 1882; second ;.
s3.14; first convertible AIS s.s
second convertible AVS 1896; lnil
AVS 1904; fourth 4h's 1884
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
Weather Forecast
weather loTcCdSI
Department OF AgricultuI
Weather Bureau.1

Weather Bureau
For Keokuk and vicinity: Fair to-
night and Sunday; somewhat colder
tonight. 49,
For Iowa: Fair tonight and Sum
day; somewhat colder tonight in
south and east portions
For Missouri: Fair tonight and
Sunday; somewhat colder tonight in
east and south portions.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14

We sometimes talk slightingly Of
old-fashioned people, but in our
hearts We love them, every one
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
G. o,,is Hav and Straw.


ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Dec. 13.1Hayu -
spection of 20 cars showed t,mo', ,
8 clover mixed, 5 clover ana :
falfa. Light arrivals included an a., !
ceptionally small proportion OF um r'
thy, majority of receipts beng s,O .,
and clover mixed; demand conIi l.n,
to be just about equal to the re s.;p,
with high grades of all descrlpa ~.
in best request. Sales: Clover s g.'
No. Ii car heavy mixed az - :. /,
car light mixed at S2s, l w az
switched; timothy No. = csiS IN
s27 switched. 5 at SIS. l a. Z
Standard cars at $3.50; NO. 4 !.
cars at sa1, 2 at $50; clover No. 70 !; I
2 cars at s26; No. IL cars a. =
2 at s2s; alfalfa No. u Cans
$26.50 switched. -, h
Straw-Quoted at SIS per Ion
wheat, on basis of latest sa~''
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14

England now has a special type OF
railway car built to carry airplanes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
Two Thousand Red Cross Member
ships Must be Renewed in South
ern Lee County Within
the Next
Week.
MANY cHAIRMEN WORK
Making 1t Easy for Every Person to
See One Of Them and In Per-
SON or by Telephone
Arranging Renewal.
The time is at hand for the annual
renewal of memberships in the Red

The time is at hand for the annual
renewal of memberships in the Red
Cross.
The Keokuk chapter OF the Red
Cross includes in its membership
about 1000 persons in the southern
half of Lee county. These member
ships lapse this month, but 1t is ex-
pected that all of them will be re-
newed
For the convenience of rural mem-
bers,, a number OF township and COM
munity chairnen have been appoint
ed to receive memberships for 1918
in the Red Cross. People in the
southern half of Lee county should
communicate at once with the near
est of these chairmen and renew
the Red Cross membership. The, cost
is only one dollar for the entire year.
New members must also be obtained,
OF course.
In Charge Of Communities.
Miss Nettie Younker is chairman
of the township work, and the list of
country chairnen given the respon-
sibility of keeping the. membership
up to par in southern Lee county is
as follows:
Miss Lillian Kennedy, Montrose.
Mrs. lone Nisely, Argyle.
Mrs. II. w. Benjamin, Primrose.
Mrs. 3. J. Johnson, Vincennes.
Mrs. Lydia A. Mccain, New Boston
Mrs. H. C. Chapman, Dupont
Mrs. w. S. White, Sugar Creek.
Mrs. A. Vermazen, Charleston.
Mrs. John Keethler, Summitville.
Mrs. Ed Atterburg, Sandusky.
Mrs. Wyckle, Belfast.
Miss Care Vogt. Franklin.
Mrs. Larson, Melrose.
Mrs. C. II. Scheurs, Donnellson.
Miss Katherine Horsey, Croton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
CHICAGO Seed Market.

CHICAGO. Dec. 13.-Rye. NO.
s1.621s; barley. GOO to s1.O6; tm
thy, $500 to s11.00; clover. nomin'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14

A dime in time saves sO
thing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
Weather Conditions.

The depression which was attended
by rains from the central valleys to
the plains states is moving out
through the lower lake region this
morning and generally fair and some
what colder weather is following from
the west. Lowest temperature from
% to 80 degrees is indicated for to-
night.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
Local Observations.

To p. m.----Zy.SS Al NE Ltrain
Ia Z a. m.-29.97 80 NV CPdy
Precipitation in "a hours, rs.
River stage, 80 feet.
Mean temperature 18th. 40.
Highest, Al.
Lowest, 3S.
Lowest last night, 49,
FRED z. GOSEWISCH,
Observer.
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-28
COURT WON'T GUST
INSURANCE HEADS
Efforts to Remove Spokane
Officials Fails.

Spokane, Feb. 27.--Efforts of three
stockholders of the New World Life
Insurance company, with head offices
here to GUST John j. Cadigan as presi :
dent Of the company, Edward J. O'Shea
as secretary and Francis III. Benson of
Boston as n trustee, failed here today
| when w. w. Gent, hearing the case as
judge protein in the local supreme
court. ruled that the new board of
trustees which elected Cadigan, OShca
! and Benson was legally chosen to of
ficcs Mt the annual stockholders meet
ing here February ],
Thomas A. I.ally, DIR. ii. y. Luhn
and II. NJ. Waldron of New Jersey, who
brought the suit in order to get control
of the books and records of the COM
pany and to GUST the present officers.
contended .lat proxies held by Cadigan
at the annual meeting were authorized
by the board of trustees only on GER
tain conditions, among them that the
officers and trustees then serving, be
retained In office. Instead, Benson
was elected as Il trustee in place of
DIR. Edward I.agan of San Francisco,
and the trustees elected Cadigan
and O'Shea and replaced Lally as vice
president with John d. Carmody of
Seattle.