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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06

OF ENGLAND
Newspaper Says Preaching Self Gov
eminent Sounds Bad While
ireland Is Not Given
Such.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.i
LONDON. Feb. 6.-The London
Chronicle today declared that Eng
land should grant self government to
Ireland before 1T breaches self de-
termination to others The state
ment was made in an editorial con-
corning the visit of Sir F. E. SMITH,
British attorney general to the United
States and his return before the time
previously set.
"The incident regarding Sir F. E.
Smith shows the need of extreme
caution in conducting war propaganda
in the United States" said the Chron-
icle. I'VE have done some mischief
in sending speakers unacquainted
with American conditions and senti,
ments. The best way to inform the
American people regarding BNlsh
efforts is to give plenty Of facilities
to American journalists, authors and
speakers to see what we are doing.
1t would be more useful still if we
would give an example Of the self
determination we preached by grant
ing self government to Ireland. I'm
til we do, British propaganda in Am
erica will be largely wasted or worse.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06

PLAN TO STRIKE
Some Time After April %, Nation
Wide Walk Out May be
Staged by the
Members.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Feb. Anticipating dis
charged members who will openly de-
clare their union utilization in public
meetings April %, the Commercial
Photographers Union of America is
planning for nation wide strike
shortly after that date.
President s. J. Kone nkamp, in max.
ing this admission here today declared
that responsibility for interference
with war work by such strike must
rest with tAe telegraph companies.
For years they have been discharg-
ing telegraphers who joined the union
secretely," he said 1T is far more
Important to have industrial democ-
racy at home than fight for political
freedom abroad. We have no desire to
strike, but no person in the United
States will deny that the te!egraphers
have just the same right to organize
as any other group OF free men and
women"
The railroad telegraphers have
pledged the G. T. U. mot to scab" in
case the latter organization orders a
valkout. Konenkamp stated.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
ADJUSTMENTS.
Elsie Ferguson. "esrbarv Sheep.

Elsie Ferguson, "earbary Sheep"
1t is a wonderful mystifying, en-
chanting place-the great desert. It
puts into ones soul thoughts and
wishes that perhaps are strangers
there; 1t draws one to it in way
that one cannot resist. And these
people of the desert seemed filled
with its spirit, and the power is in
them to draw one to them, especial
ly If one has imagination and spirit
such as Kathryn Wyverne had Yet
Kathryn knew that trouble would
come. and trouble was almost upon
her when a wild figure sprang out Of
the desert sands. This is Miss Fer.
guson's first appearance on the screen
an event you will not care to miss
The Grand will present "Barbary
Sheep tomorrow, Thursday. 1t is
the most talked Of picture that has
been shown in Keokuk this season
Neokuk people were enthusiastic over
it. Critics and audiences everywhere
applauded it. Mae Tinee said, words
are entirely inadequate to describe
her charms" in speaking of the de-
lightful Elsie Ferguson
ment
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.
lom it may concern:

To whom 1t may concern:
Notice is hereby given that at the
annual stockholders meeting. duly
held on January Is, 1918. at which
meeting majority of the stock OF
said company was present in person
and quorum was present and by the
articles of incorporation authorized to
take the action herein referred to, 4,
was unanimously voted that the Keo,
kuk Hydraulic Tire Setter Company
be dissolved said vote being had in
accordance with the articles Of in
corporation and in pursuance Of the
statutes of the state of Iowa. This
notice of dissolution of the company
and the surrender of its charter is
given by authority OF its stockholders.
Keokuk, Iowa, January IS, 1918.
KEOKUK HYDRAULIC
TIRE SETTER COMPANY,
BY c. A. DEVERO, President.
Attest:
P. T PECHSTBIN, Secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
A CLEAR COMPLEXION
Rudy Cheeks-Sparkling Eyes
Most Women Can Have
Says DR.. Edwards, Well-Known
Ohio Physician

DE-. F. M. Edwards for II years treated
scores of women for liver and bowel
ailments. During these years he gave to
his patients a prescription made of few
well-known vegetable ingredients mixed
with olive oil, naming them DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets. You will know them by
their olive color.
These tablets are wonder-workers on the
liver and bowels, which cause normal
action, carrying off the waste and poison
Gus matter in ones system.
If you have pale face, sallow look, dull
eyes, pinples, coated tongue, headaches, a
listless, no-good feeling, all out of sorts,
inactive bowels, you take one of DR..
Edwards Olive Tablets nightly for time
and note the pleasing results.
Thousands of women as well as men
take Dr.. Edwards Olive Tablets-the sue
cessful substitute for calomel-now and
then just to keep in the pink of condition.
l0c and Csc per box. All druggists.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
ASK PERMISSION
TO RAISE FARES
Street Car Company Perfectly Willing
to Grant Higher Wages it
Public is Made to Pay
For II

limited Press Leased Wire ServiceJ
ST. LOUIS. Mo, FeD. 6.-The Unit
ed Railways company expected to file
its petition fer permission to raise
fares. before the public service COM
mission today, in an effort to bring
about a settlement with 5000 striking
employees who have tied up street car
service in st. Louis for five days.
Employees refused to accept the
company's peace Offering yesterday,
because it did not include recogni-
ton of the newly formed street car
mems union. The company has agreed
to the wage increase asked by the
strikers, providing it is permitted to
increase passenger fares to take care
of the boost.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
CITY NEWS.

-Breddo. Ask your grocer.
Have Heart Victor records.
Loewenstein's. 625 Main.
Smoke the w. e. cigar, manufac-
tured by John Eisenhuth, "a 8 18th st.
Masonic. Special meeting of Har-
din lodge No. 30 Wednesday, Feb. 6,
1880 p. m. Second degree.
Order print Of Al Nut Margar-
inc today. T sale at all dealers in
Keokuk, Har II and Warsaw.
-Puckechetuck Enc, No. Z, meets
Thursday Feb. Z. Work in the Royal
Purple degree. John Esenhuth, Fin
Scribe.
-Keokuk camp M. W. A., No. 622,
viii hold It's regular meeting tonight
Woodman hall. All members are
r.luested to be present.
-Breddo. Ask your grocer.
-Farrell's AL Nut Margarine Is a
aocoanut spread for bread. For sale
:. all dealers in Keokuk, Hamilton
and Warsaw.
Rev. ]. H. Helm OF Pilgrims Rest
BAPTIST church wishes to say that he
is not retiring from the ministry as
has been stated.
Regular meeting Of Keokuk aeris
No 6S3, r. o. E., tonight at Eagles
hall, 4O7 Blondeau street. at 8 o'clock.
Visiting brothers always welcome.
Cbas. A. Noakes, secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
Ao.inst prohibition Amendment.

Against ProhiO'tion Nhe.
limited Press Leased wire SerVlce-I
BALTIMORE, Md, Feb. Car
dinal Gibbons today denounced the
proposed national prohibition amend
ment and declared legislators of the
states should not bow to the "fanati-
cism that seems to be ruling US In
this respect"
ut will be calamity If the amend
ment is adopted" said the cardinal.
Beer and light wines Will pass
out Of existence, and the man VINO
n,.nts drink will have to resort to
tho brand of intoxicant that is made
surrepitiously and we all know what
effect that will have.
"There is no greater advocate of
temperance than myself have
preached il on every occasion. l feel
that this is the only way to overcome
the evils of drink that do exist
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06

brought the ship shortage forward as
the most critical problem before this
government.
With approximately 100000 tons Of
shipping now available for war service,
conservative estimates for three mil
lion tons to be built this year will pro-
vide only 100000 tons by the end OF
1918, against the needed 1000, 900 tons
and this does not figure in probable
submarine losses.
Meantime 100000 tons OF freight at
American ports, awaiting shipment. is
causing great anxiety, particularly in
France.
It is pointed out that in the face of
this great need, steps must be taken
beyond the speed up" ship building
orders. Neutral ships must be press
ed into service. Already the Dutch
government has been pledged to an
arrangement whereby about sixty per
cent OF her tonnage will be used to
relieve the stress on the allies. This
however, will add only about 100000
tons. Negotiations are in progress
with Spain and Norway and other
Scandinavian countries to bring about
similar arrangements.
But the step most favored by ship
ping board officials is to cut to the bone
imports Of non-essentials, thus forcing
into the allied trade neutral ships
which do not wish to remain idle.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
Norway is Unwilling.

CHRISTIANIA, Norway, Feb. e.
Norway is unwilling to comply with
Americas proposals for cessation of
trading with Germany, but wishes to
retain her commercial relations with
the United States.
The following official announcement
was made today:
Norway cannot break commercially
with one belligerent without imperil-
ling it's neutrality. There is no doubt
but that the United States and the al
lies will understand Norway's difficult
situation. We justly claim We should
not do without bread and are thus con-
fronted with the alternative of COM
plete distress or an agreement that
might endanger our neutrality and pos
sibly expose the country to war"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
p,rhtheria Carrier

UNITED Press Leased Mln,oRD
CAMP GRANT, ROChrGroide
Feb. 6.-Lieut. Cleaves hi ..aIiou
the 332nd machine gun paed At
been sent to the isolation We" re 4.
base hospital here because nant y
diphtheria carrier. Lleule I'm GG
kade is the author Of 'Coiu
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06

William NJ. Benninger, member of
the Pennsylvania house from
Northampton, is the father Of seven.
teen children.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06

included in the blanket Indictment
returned in Chicago against l. w.
VS., charging violation of the es-
pionage act
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
AlIened |. w. W. Arrested.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Michael
Wachta, q. of Pawtucket, r. l., al
legged l. w. W, was under arrest
here today on a federal warrant. A
quantity of l. W. W. literature is al
legged to have been found in his pos
session. 1t is believed Wachta was
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06

LOAN AND BUILDING ASSOclA-
TON.
Dues payable Thursday, Friday and
Saturday. Fines assessed If paid aft
er 3 o'clock p. m.
]. D. ECKER, Secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-06
-. - -
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank friends and neigh
hors for their kindness, also beautiful
floral offerings during our recent be-
reavement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
The Acid Test
BY WALLACE IRWIN

the recruiting stations, however,
showed that his partner was right.
After an Army doctor had gotten
through with him he went away
feeling like a chronic invalid. How
ever, he submitted himself to two
or three minor surgical examinations,
applied again, was rejected. went
the rounds of Army, Navy. and Ma
rines. and at last found himself hope
lessly outside the circle. where
wealth and success count for moth
ing against the splendid claims of
youth.
He went back to his desk. grin
ming sheepishly when his partner
was unkind enough to say, 81 told
you so!' But two weeks later, when
he appeared in the uniform of the
Aviation Corps and showed the little
silver bar on his shoulder, it was
time for First Lieut.. Williams to
boast.
II found they wanted experienced
business men as ground officers to
manage the flying camps" he ex-
planned. They wouldn't take me as
private, so I decided to become an
officer"
Ours is true Army of democracy.
| know of a prosperous corporation
lawyer who recently enlisted in the
Navy and found that the petty officer
over him was one Sweeney. whom he
had recently employed as chauffeur.
The lawyers wife decided to give her
sailor husband a reception on his
first day of leave. But early on the
appointed afternoon there came a
ring at the telephone.
This is Bob came the voice of
the beloved recruit. IT can't be
home. dear. I'm SCI ubbing the mess
hall and Sweeney won't let me co.
Sweeney may never rise to the
ward room; his eX-employer may
command a ship before the war is
over-or vice Versa-depending on
merit alone.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
THE WORLD BEYOND

1t cannot be that the earth is
mans only abiding place. 1t cannot
be that our life is a mere bubble cast
up by ertenity to float a moment on
its waves and then sink into nothing
ness. Else why is 1t that the glor-
ious aspirations which leap like
angels from the temple of our hearts
are forever wandering unsatisfied :?
Why is it that all the stars that hold
their festival around the midnight
throne are set above the grasp of
our limited faculties. forever mock
ing US with their unapproachable
glory? And, finally. why is it that
bright forms of human beauty pre-
us, leaving the thousand streams of
sented to our view are taken from
our affections to flow back in Alpine
torrents upon our hearts? There is
a realm where the rainbow never
fades :; and where the beauti-
full beings which now pass before us
like shadows will stay in our pres
ence forever.-George y. Prentice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
PerShing Relies on Workers

The Y. NJ. C. A. in France is a
part of the military machine. Cen
eral Pershing relies upon the work
ers of the association to aid in
keeping up the morale of his troops
so that with their military training
they shall become the most efficient
fighting machine in history.
There is a pressing demand for
men who are natural leaders, men
who are real men, good mixers and
capable of exerting the proper in
fiuence. These leaders are generally
assigned as hut secretaries, positions
which call for the greatest versatil-
ity. They must be above fighting
age, but must be able to undergo
as searching a physical examination
as do the men admitted to the COM
bat trenches of the service. Am
! bassador Sharp, in a recent appeal
for more workers, emphasized the
fact that many were breaking under
the terrific strain.
That is the answer to those swho
regard the Y. M. c. A. as a paradise
for pacifists, a refuge for slackers
We can use none of them in our ser.
vice. At least one in eight or ter
of our workers in France is in the
shell zone. Recent dispatches have
told of the gassing of our workers
of their death or serious injury by
bursting shrapnel The uniform Of
the Red Triangle is not for the mar
who does not want to go to war. i
| is the uniform that every middle,
aged man should aspire to wear. AL
| though it gives him no military
rank, it gives him the opportunitI
for patriotic service, and within three
days two " workers in France
have been cited for bravery."-H
L. Pratt, vice-president Standard
Oil Company of New Jersey.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
WORKMANLIKE FIGHTING
BRIGGS

From The New York World1
American troops on the Marne are
credited with another of the brilliant
minor operations which have become
characteristic of their fighting. Ad-
vancing on two-mile front west of
Chateau Thierry, they captured the
village of VauX. together with a Sec
ton of the Paris highway and two
patches of wooded lands, took 800
Germans prisoner and captured a
quantity of machine guns and other
equipment. And in accomplishing
the exploit they consumed forty min
utes!
This was not, of course, a great
military feat. The important thing
about it is the workmanlike way in
which it was done. There was per-
feet cooperation between the ar
tillery and the infantry, the advance
was made behind a barrage that af-
forded complete protection, and eX-
ceptional intelligence work enabled
the attacking force to take full ad-
vantage of it's success. AS at Cam
tigny, Chateau Thierry and Bellear
Wood, the performance of the Amer
leans, with the bravery and dash
exhibited, had military finish to it.
1t is this that gives Importance to
their operations. Apart from the
amount of ground gained or the
number of prisoners and guns taken,
every new action in which the Amer
lean soldiers engage furnishes cumu-
latIve evidence that they have learn
ed their trade. They have shown
themselves to be first-class fighting
men and given an earnest both to
their allies and to the enemy of what
they may accomplish on larger
scale.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
WITH NEVER A WHIMPER

[From Stars And Stripes. France1
The medical folk salute the
wounded from the fighting around
Chateau Thierry. From the young
est litter boy to the senior surgeon,
from the rudest of the field dressing
stations to the finest operating room
in Faris. the testimony is overwhelm-
ing to this effect,-that they had
never seen such grit in all their lives,
never seen such unquenchable spirit.
In the four dressing rooms of a
divisional ev ua i o n hospital
through which the procession of
wounded must pass on it's way from
the field hospitals, hundreds of SOL
diers were treated one recent week
at all hours of the day or night in all
those cases where bleeding had to
be stopped, where fresh dressings
had toNbe given, where antitetanus
had not vet been administered. Such
work does not call for anesthesia.
And in all that week, there was only
one outcry. That was from man
with a slight skin wound.
Through the receiving room in the
Red Cross Military Hospital No. in
Paris. 225 of the wounded passed in
one night and there was not a muir
mur from any of them. One infan-
tryman, who was shot through the
abdomen, crawled into the dressing
station twenty-seven hours after he
had fallen. On the dressing table he
smoked a cigaret and talked airily
of what had befallen him and told
how another doughboy had admins
tered first aid and then disappeared
in the huffie.
A major saw man walking grog-
gily out past the point from which
the litter boys were operating. He
was grading his arms.
Are you wounded?" he called out
to him.
I've only broken my arms" was
1.-THE answer. IT can hoof it,"
One infantryman was shot through
| both arms and both legs, breaking
the bones of his thighs. He was
shot in the abdomen and shot in the
| hip. He talked enthusiastically
about the battle with the doctor who
was dressing his wounds in the field
hospital.
what's this fellow got, lieuten-
anti" asked someone peering over
the surgeons shoulder.
Cuts" said the lieutenant re-
spectfully.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
THE MAD BRUTE

IFrom the New York Tribune.l
All the gathering horror of the
sinking of the Llandovery Castle fits
in with what we have come to know
as the German way. 1t is the way
of incredible brutality, coupled with
a blind and stupid trickery, as in
some great monster gone mad yet
retaining instincts of jungle cum
ming. The spectacle of sumba-
rine nosing about amid the wreck
age of her victim, shelling survivors
in lifeboats or clinging to spars or
matches, is Germany at her darkest
and truest.
There seems little question that
Germany has here embarked upon
a policy of sinking hospital ships.
She has sunk enough of them be-
| fore. but the present stands out as
different act. There seems to
have been a clear intention to
manufacture a pretended excuse in
the discovery of alleged aviation
officers, and, failing that, to sink all
on board, 'spurlos versenkt."' 1t is
with which, Germany has sought to
justify every one of her violations of
the rules of civilized warfare or
common decency. When Hypocrisy
| does not succeed, barbarity is call
ed upon 10 finish the job.
And this is the same Germany
whose Foreign Minister had the
cheek to stand up in the Reichstag
and speak of "mutal confidence in
one another's honesty and chivalry.'
| What i'll luck that this one boat
land of survivors lived to tell their
tale! Perhaps. after all, God rather
than Gott presided over those dark
waters where sank the Llandovery
| Castle, her Red Cross lights blazing
| above a boatload of mercy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
A REFORM FAILURE

A FEW more misf1t elections un-
n der the nonpartisan scheme
will about convince the few
who still persist in believing that
this sort of electoral reform is the
finest ever that a change is neces-
sary. Cities of the third class like
Harrisburg have had enough of nom
partisan foolishness and the j1dici-
airy of the State are alarmed over the
positive menace contained in this
scheme of nominations.
Our system of government is based
upon parties, and unless and unit
we abandon the party entirely we
should make the best use of party
organizations in choosing candidates
for public place.
Under the nonpartisan plan every
chap who imagines he has received
call from the people for public SER
vice projects himself into the lime
light and the result is too otter
lsore disappointment for the people
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05
WORK OR FIGHT

Are your summers less than fifty?
Work or fight?
Do you feel yourself quite nifty?
Work or fight?
Are your muscles still in training?
Do you find your strength is wan
ing?
There's no reason for complaining
Work or fight?
Are you over eighteen, brother?
Work or fight?
Have you lived thus far on mother
Work or fight?
Dolce far niente S done for,
Which we have to thank the Hur
for,
Get a job or get a gun, for
You must work or fight
William Wallace Whitelock, In
the New York Sun.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-05

TAM going TO call him F1rSt Lieut..
Williams, of the Aviation Corps,
because that isn't his name and
he desires more than anything else
not to be advertised. His hair is
perfectly gray. but he carries HIM
self with military precision and obeys
| his superior officers as we'll as he
| himself was obeyed during those
years when he was boss of many
thousands of workmen in one of
Americas greatest public-service
corporations.
And this is how First Lieut. Will
liams, an old man to be starting on
! his military career, is taking orders
to-day and feeling like a young man
again.
For about a month after President
Wilson had offered America with its
men and resources to the cause of
| freedom and democracy Mr.. Will
liams sat at his desk in tall sky
scraper and envied the young fell
lows whom he saw f1ocking toward
the training camps. Finally he de-
cided he had done enough sitting
around. getting his ideas of war out
of the newspapers.
Charley" he said to his business
partner one morning, "All your sons
have gone into the service and you've
done your share. But l haven't got
any boys to offer to my country.
| Therefore it's up to me. I'm going tc
enlist"
You can't enlist as a major gen.
eral," laughed his partner, land
you're too old and too important to
be a private"
I'm neither" hotly replied Mr.
Williams. I'm going to war to fight
and as long as I can beat half my
office at tennis I'm not afraid of the
physical examinations"
Mr.. Williams's first experience al