The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-31
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Much Check Beast,
Some one must check the mad
rush of the savage beast on his blood
| thirsty career. We dread the costly
price of driving him back into his
| lair, but for humanity's sake and the
coming generations it must De done.
We can not stop until he is fully cor
rallied and his nest of helpers at Pots
dam and Berlin are looted and ami
Inflated, God hasten the day when il is
fully accomplished.
All Can Help.
And how may we answer this chal-
lenge in its fullness? Let me tell you:
every man, woman and child can at
least do something; as truly as the
needs are great so also are the oppor-
tunities for every one TO assist in
bringing about permanent peace
through an overwhelming victory.
These silent tombs, that speak more
eloquently and bring deeper feelings
than any words we can utter, those
little white slabs that stand as lonely
sentinels saving. Take heed, though
dead yet they live to inspire you to
greater activity for right and right
eousness; your careworn weather
beaten faces that battle scar and that
empty sleeve challenge us more fore
IDLY than any words can utter.
in answering this challenge we
can all assist in one way or another
buy all the war saving stamps and
Liberty bonds you can possibly af-
ford: save the wheat flour for the
boys at the front, conserve all the
food possible, till every foot OF soil
you can; women as well as men, do
your bit, whenever you have the nee
essary ground that can he converted
into'a garden plot, and take time for
Red Cross work.
Doing Her Part.
Il have a magazine to edit monthly,
hundreds of calls to make On my
pastorate work, home and child to
care for three TO five sermons or ad-
dresses to deliver weekly, vet / have a
well kept garden and know I VIII get !
at least three hundred quarts OF veg
etables to can from it, besides our
summers food l have attended TO It
myself and expect to do my own fruit |
canning. OF course it means hard |
'foi pul Ill LIAiS uoUI 10 one 4
IAN afford to be a Stacker, everyone |
must put his or her shoulder to the |
wheel, remembering Hoover says,
Food will eventually wiz the war /
can not shoulder my musEet-not |
ret, anyway, for our heroes wouldn't |
ct u-yet can do my part to raise 1
God that will stay the wolf from the /
ioor Of our allies, thus leaving them |
M n -iy bet h,-
ervices, uncrippIed and unhindered, !
~ starvation. /
Help the "Boys.r
Surround our boys who have gone
orth with the best influences pos
;ible by helping the 7. NJ c 4 Only
5od knows the temptations. the home
ickness and the lonIfness they are
allied upon TO endure Give them |
very moral support possible that |
hey may resist all ev1 Influences and
,ome back pure in mind and hody IS
vhen they left US. Help the 7 II c.
\. to assist them IN this SEh. and i
,eep their souls from becoming
wounded, polluted, diseased sick and
crippled for the greatest
uture work and blessings
Red Gross Needs.
forbid one aching wound should
70 undTessed, or one tortured pain
acked body go unnursed, because we
lave failed to do our part to assist in |
he Red Cross work I know it takes
ime to knit and make han6agss- and
money to buy the material and send
he nurses, but here is place we can |
Tot economic These angels OF
marcy (our civil war nurses) can tell
vou how heart breaking it was not 70
AVE the dainty food for the sick, !
,andages for the wounded, and time
o care for all the dying. God spare
,ur nurses of today such a sight and
,ur boys the disappointment and suf-
ering, from - not doing our duty.
Forbid any mothers son might lie
wounded and bleeding upon the field
If battle, though afar from home in
france, and cry in vain for the loving
are We withheld from them.
Proud Of Them.
I'VE are Justly proud of our Iowa |