The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-10
REPORT MADE
OF u. C.. T. MEET
Fort Dodge Gathering Of Travellers
Does Many Things Of Inter-
est to keokuk
Council.

| Keokuk travelling men and part1cu-
larly members of the United CONNER
cial Travellers organization of the
city will be interested in report OF
the recent state convention, the nine
teenth annual, conducted in Fort
Dodge Keokuk secured a number
of grand council Offices. Attached is
an epitomized report of the state
meeting:
| The convention was addressed on
| Thursday by Governor Harding and
on Thursday and Friday by Miss Rita
Friedman of the food administration.
The governor incidentally explained
his position on his proclamation for
bidding the use of foreign languages
in public, and made an interesting
patriotic address. Miss Friedman,
sent from Washington by Herbert
Hoover, displayed talents not usual
ly displayed by a woman addressing
an audience of men She is of Rus
sian,Jewish parentage, and having
the sympathy in her own heart for
the people and the cause, she was
able to sway the entire convention to
applause many times during her ad-
dress. She left an impressive mes
sage with the travelling men, and
showed them how they can help win
the war by preaching and practicing
food conservation, and by reporting
all cases of people who refuse to CO.
operate with the government.
The grand council voted $1,000
from the treasury for war savings
stamps, and also 5000 from special
fund which is set aside each year for
an Iowa home for disabled saleSmen.
A purchase Of IS $50 of Liberty bonds
-, f6ic fprd
The legislation and grievance COM
mittees were continued but were in
structed to take no action in regard /
to reducing railroad freight and
passenger rates during the period of
the war. The support Of the order |
was voted to the administration with i
out reservation and it was the opin-
ion of the grand body that they had a |
perfect right to criticise the admins i
tration's war program at any time If
they felt that they had conducted
their own war work 100 per cent eff
For the first time in the history of
the state organization, all officers,
delegates and alternates were unani
elected without contest. The
result of the election was as follows:
Grand counselor, j. G. Buss. Keo
kuk; grand junior counselor, Sam t. !,
White, Davenport; grand chaplain,
H. A. Bank, Keokuk; past grand coun-
selor, H. r, Berrsford, FIT. Dodge;
grand secretary, T. V. Edwards, Coun-
Gil Bluffs; treasurer, w. A. Downs,
SPENCER: conductor, j. A. Clark, Du-
buuue; page, o. H. Borgess., Burling-
ton; sentinel, Arch w. McFarlane, (:
Waterloo; grand executive committee, |,
chas. W. Fawcett, Independence; L ]
3. Moore, Oskaloosa; n. M. Fink '
Dine. Atlantic; r. B. Mcfarland, Iowa !
Falls.
Delegates to national convention at Il
Columbus, Ohio: W. A Johnson, Jas. |
Y. Townsend, Cedar Rapids; H. II.
Smith, Des Moines; J. B. Snyder, t
Mason City; J. G. Buss, Keokuk; Bos-
on Campbell. Ottumwa; J. T. Reese, ,
Sioux City; A v. Widel, Sioux City. ,
Alternates. D. G. Thompson. Bur
ington; E. E Roper, Fit Dodge; w. d
\. Gray, Des Moines; c. R. Rhode, i
Waterloo; L. J. Edsen, Council Bluffs; X
Iugh Doran, Ottumwa; j. L. Hunt, | !
les Moines; l. D. briggs, Enmets- :
,urg.
Keokuk was honored by the con-
-ention with the following officers:
J. G.. Buss. grand counselor, and
Ielegate to national convention :
n. A. Bank. grand chaplain =
C.. w. Dickinson, chairman grand
,uditing committee. ).
d. w. McDevitt, chairman necrol I
gy committee.
A n. Cushman, member executive D
ommittee of Iowa secretaries
The next session of the grand coun- $
II over which Mr.. Buss will preside, v
III be held in Cedar Rapids. n
w. B. Emerson of Des Moines, O
resent supreme page, was unani- s!
,ously endorsed for office of SUI o.
RENE conductor. p
Two past grand counselors of Iowa e.
re in Y. NJ c. A service in France, "
nd 175 members from Iowa are in Id