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New Britain herald., 1918-04-17
BEATING
(HAT HUNS NEED
!. s. Davis Does Not Favor
After War Boycott

DIR. 0. S. Davis. former pastor
II South Congregational church
city and now the president of
rmlck Theological seminary in
3go' returned to this city last
to attend the tenth annual ban
$and business meeting of the
#lonWealth club, which he was
~ instrumental in organizing a
e ago. DR.. Davis visit proved
cas1otn of pleasure for his many
Is here and at an informal re-
Pm he was kept busy greeting old
Is Following the business meet
II Davis delivered the principal
sS Of the evening. His talk
De divided into two phases, the
Pleasant reminiscent story of
Vn days in New Britain and the
months Of the Commonwealth
the second a talk on the war
Il which he exploited his own
pom what he thinks the attitude
II world towards Germany should
Dr. Davis declared that in his
ION Germany must be decisiveIy
IN on the battlefield-then, after
4 has come, be restored to her
place among nations. DR..
said he did not favor the plans
Forward and fathered by many
Is for q complete boycott and
clzatton of Germany after the
Ipper and Business Meeting.
meeting of the Commonwealth
took place at the Y. M. c. A.
pet hall and about 200 members
oWn to the supper prepared by
women, while music was fur
"a by the High school orchestra
the direction of Miss IlIga Har-
Members and guests were each
Rnted with a neat little souvenir
Pet containing panoramic views
he city, as we'll as individual pic
and pertinent facts about the
present the membership of the
club is 254, according
9 annual report of Secretary Viii.
e. Fay. This is a decided in
Se since at the beginning of the
lnd winter season there were but
members. During the year the
has lost one member by resig-
IN, three by death, four In the
I'D States service and eight by re-
tl from the city. There have
"a new members received dur
Ehe year. Secretary Fay's report
/ contained words of commenda-
[for Mrs. w. B. Montague and her
i of young woman assistants who
served such delicious suppers
hg the season, and also to Mrs.
|. Slade, head of the membership
New Britain herald., 1918-04-17
EAT LESS MEAT
AND TAKE SALTS
IF KIDNEYS HURT
Says tablespoonful of Salts
Pushes Kidneys, stopping
Backachc.
Meat forms Uric Acid. which
Excites Kidneys, and Weakens
Bladder.

Eating meat regularly eventually
produces kidney trouble in some form
or other, says a well-known authority,
because the uric acid in meat excites
the kidneys, they become overWorked;
get sluggish; clog up and cause all
sorts Of distress, particularly back
ache and misery in the kidney region;
rheumatic twinges, severe headaches.
acid stomach, constipation, torpid
liver, sleeplessness, bladder and
urinary irritation.
The moment your back hurts or
kidneys aren't acting right, or If blad-
der bothers you, get about four ounces
of Jad Salts from aDv good pharmacy;
take a tablespoonful in a glass Of
water before breakfast for a few days
and your kidneys will then act fine.
This famous salts is made from the
acid Of grapes and lemon Juice, COM
bined with Hthia, and has been used
for generations to flush clogged kid
neys and stimulate them to normal
activity: also to neutralize the acids
in the urine SO it no longer irritates.
thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia-
water drink which millions of men
and women take now and then to
keep the kidneys and urinary organs
clean. thus avoiding serious kidney
1iSpo
New Britain herald., 1918-04-17
BALDWIN HAS RESIGNED

Carlisle II. Baldwin, chairman Of
the City hall commission, has ten
dered his resignation to Mayor Quig-
ley, explaining that inasmuch as his
term would expire in few weeks
ANYWAY he did not care to be m en-
Der of the committee to select a SUI
pervisor for the city building from
the IS applicants. Mr.. Baldwin's
idea is that the city hall commission
appointed on May / should take the
entire responsibility for naming the
new superintendent of the city build
ing.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-17
BABIES WITHOUT MILK
Investigation in Baltimore Shows
Many Are Not Obtaining Nourish-
Inent Because of Increase in Price.

Many Are Not Obtaining Nour-ish-
ment Because of Increase i'm Price.
Washington, April 17.-How many
babies and little children in Balti-
more are being deprived Of sufficient
milk to properly nourish them and
the fact that some are actually get
ting no milk at all as the result Of a
steady decrease in milk production,
is brought out by an investigation by
the children's bureau of the Depart
ment of Labor.
The investigation included 756
children between the ages Of and
of whom it was found only PIG had
fresh milk to drink against 454 a year
ago. OF those only 20 received as
much as three cups q day. Babies
under two Jared slightly better, their
needs being more generally under
stood than those of children Of two
years and over.
It was found that 107 families
bought no fresh milk at all as against
81 a year ago. The families included
one-fourth of all the children UNI
der Z.
Substitution of tea and coffee for
milk in children's diet was found
prevalent. That is regarded by the
Children's Bureau as the most serious
aspect of the investigation. OF SIS
children not drinking milk 36S were
found to be drinking tea and coffee
and 1873 were "sharing the family
diet"
The children investigated repre-
scented families with various incomes
but the decreases in the amount of
milk purchased was not unlike for
families Of different earning capact-
ties. Some mothers seemed to real
i've that milk should be provided at
any sacrifice while others who could
better afford it, the report says, failed
to grasp the Importance of what it
meant to their children
Foreign mothers with very limited
incomes were generally the last to
cut down on their children's milk.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-17

place and he often visits it in memory
and to him it will ever be a noun
tain of vision. Other reminiscent
words added to the personality of DR..
Davis talk and he also told Of his
work since leaving New Britain and
his life as president of the great theo
logical school, weaving into his mar
rative some Of his extremely original
stories
Germany Must Be Beaten.
Then swinging from the more per-
sonal element, DR.. Davis brought his
talk around to the greatest subject
Of the present day-the war that is
threatening the world and devastat-
ing Europe. His words were full of
patriotism for the United States and
her Allies and his condemnation Of
the German methods were positive
and scathing. But withal, DR.. Davis
spol%e in an optimistic vein, despite
New Britain herald., 1918-04-17

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
GERMANY, A DIABoLIsT.

Gilbert X. Chesterton in of his fugitive
papers tells the story of a man whom he once
knew and whom he calls ''diabollst The
man had education and at command refinement
of taste He could talk well about affairs,
about books, about art. Yet he lived evllly and
liked most to be with evil. He did not defend
his life as decent according to accepted stand
ards of decency; he simply said: What you
call evil I call good.'' Mr.. Chesterton heard
group of his boon companions urging him to
some act, of which. it was told him Nobody
can possibly know Then came the diabohst's
answer: 81 tell you I have done everything
else IF do that shan t know the difference
between right and wrong. -
No one doubts that Germany has all along
known well the difference between right and
wrong as the rest of the world standardlzes
them No one doubts that she is convinced
that now these standards will prevail even over
her own acts. But is she accepting right be-
cause she must without believing it right? Is
she really ready to say: "What you call evil
I call good" Has she lost the sense of right
and wronga Has she gone the road of Chester
tons diabolist7
If the light is her darkness how great is the
darkness thereof?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
NATroNAI, CHARACTERISTICS.

Do national coats Of arms tell nothing OF ma
tional characteristics? Look at our heraldic
eagle offering an olive branch with one claw:
but holding sheaf of arrows in the other to
be used if occasion requires. Our pacifsta
would make one-legged bird of him or put
fountain pen in one talon to indicate aptitude
for writing notes But such was not the idea OF
the fathers and founders of this great republic,
Turn now to the German coat Of arms. 1t
shows black eagle with protruding serpent s
tongue screaming hatred and defiance. Its
beak is blood red, and it's feet are scarlet from
wading in blood. But its wings are frayed be-
yond apparent usefulness and its torn and
tousled plumage gives it every appearance Of
having come second best out of terrific fight.
The black double headed eagle Of Austria
Hungary is also bloody of beak and claw, where
as the American eagle is a normally colored
dignifed bird though not without an air Of
sternness and strength. The republic of France
shows Roman fasces and battle-ax, symbol of
unity of purpose and power, and bears two
branches of olive or laurel indicative of eminent
achievements in the pursuits of peace.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
Characters never change. Opinions alter
characters are eveloped.-Disraei.
PEACE DOES NOT MEAN PLENTY.

1t is a great mistake to think of peace and
plenty as likely to travel together Peace
probably will reveal wideflung suffering by
peoples of which we at present do not know,
The federal food board has appealed to the
people to save meat and fats to a greater ex-
tent during the present year than during the
past year. AS our own emissaries penetrate
into the lands that have been overrun by the
central powers the restitution and starvation
will be found to be almost beyond imagination
Word comes from Palestine that one hundred
thousand women and children are dying of star
walton Russia has millions in imminent
danger of starvation. Even the valiant sol
diers of France who are in her hospitals are in
sufficiently rationed. 1t will be mistake
amounting almost TO cruelty to let the pros.
pect of a final ending of the fighting cause
1ethargy in saving to meet the demands of re
construction in the stricken nations
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
Mr.. WILSON'S FAULT.

Ottumwa Courier: There is only
one man with the power TO make the
result of Tuesdays elections mean
anything but that the majority of the
country's voters trust the republican
party and its principles in preference
to the democrat party and principles.
That was the issue of the campaign
until the one man with the power to
change it did the thing which put him
and his administration publicly on
trial before his own nation and the
world.
The man is President Wilson. Vol
UNFAIRLY, and with no reason save his
overwhelming desire to perpetuate
the democrat party in power. he in
jected his personality into the cam
paign ten days ago. Mistaking un-
selfish loyalty to the government for
unreasoning loyalty to the personal
whims of the man who temporarily,
is the titular head of that govern
ment, he undertook to dictate the
course of Americas citizenship in
the elections.
He left nothing undone to tie up
his personal political fortunes with
the fortunes of his party. He dis
regarded the public record of nom
support of war measures on the part
Of democrat leaders. He ignored the
patent fact that republican leaders
had rescued some of the most impor-
tant war measures from defeat. He
drew q strict line between his party
and the rest of the country and
served formal notice that failure to
return a democrat congress would be
considered tantamount to disloyalty
because he willed 1t so.
He spoke grandiloquently of his
eadership, and declared the failure
of his party to win a majority of the
incoming congress would be regarded
by European peoples as reputation
Iof that leadership and of the Wilson
policies. He left nothing unsaid to
make an absolute parallel of republi-
can victory and Wilson defeat.
He has his answer American vot-
ers recognize no dictation save that
of their own considered judgment.
And if Americas position among the
powers at war is weakened it is not
the fault of the untrammeled and in
dependent electorate. but of Mr.. VII
son. He it was who made the issue
"a personal one, not the voters.
If Mr.. Wilson experiences chagrin,
dS wen NC hC 80 DdCh
along the path of what might have
been to the time when we entered
the war. Then he had his opportun-
lily to organize coalition cabinet.
drawing into the circle of his trusted
councillors. the strongest, ablest men
In all the nation. He refused to do
this. He surrounded himself with
none but democrats; he took counsel
with none but democrats when he
took counsel at all He ignored re-
publican leaders and went to unusual
lengths to shut them out of partici-
patton In governmental affairs.
At the critical period when the
country's future hung in the balance
and indeed that period is not pass
ed even now-he withdrew farther
into the shell of solitude than ever
before, shutting himself off from the
benefit Of general opinion and giving
his ear to none but those who spoke
the language OF the democrat. His
single real confdant Is a private citi-
zen, who now is entrusted with the
weighty duty Of representing our
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

very basic industry Of the nation fall by the
wayside in neglecting to supply the needs OF
our schools The difficulty is that the schools
have stood aside from the wars economic adj
justments; they do not help themselves by at
tracing young men and women by the wage
paid for the work done The farms call 1ot
help on the plea Of patriotism and TINS is a just
call But the schools quite as justly need pat
riotism as a factor in getting them the teaching
force thew must have. 1t is time that the great
intelligent public of the land realized the urgent
need of this service and that young women, at
least enter preparation for teaching without
regard to any need by them of working else
where for wages. We need loyal Americanls1n
to keep our schools at par.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
government and our people in the

government and our people in the
inter-allied conferences.
Colonel House, whatever his quail
fcations may be, is in Europe simply
and solely as the personal representa-
tive of President Wilson, and not as
the representative of the American
government He was appointed for
this important mission by the presi-
dent alone, without consultation with
anyone, so far as there is any record
and certainly without consultation
with the senate, which is vested by
the constitution with definite duties
in regard to treaties.
President Wilson's course has been
the course of the dictator, not that
which would be expected of a prest-
dent of all the people As president
and as commander in chief of our
armies and fees he has received the
whole-hearted and patriotic support
OF the people. AS an individual Office
holder and partisan, his actions have
met with merited rebuke.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
OLD TIMES.

OLD TIMES.
There's beautiful song the sumbrous air.
That drifts through the valley of dreams;
It from cline where the roses were,
! And a tuneful heart and bright brown hair
That waved in the morning beams.
Soft eyes of azure and eyes of brown,
And snow white foreheads there;
glimmering Cross and glfttering Grown,
thorny bed and couch of down,
Lost hopes and leaflets of prayer.
A rosy wreath in dimpled hand,
ring and slsnted VOW
Three golden links broken band,
A tiny track the snow-white sand,
A fearless and sinless brow.
There's tincture of grief in the beautiful song
That sobs the slumbrous air.
And loneliness felt in the festive thropg,
Sinks down in the soul as it trembles along,
From a cline where the roses are.
We heard 1t first at dawn of day,
And it mingled with matin chimes,
But years have distanced the beautiful lay,
And its melody floweth from far away,
And we call it now, Old Times.
B F. Taylor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
SHORTAGE OF TEACHERS.

United States Commissioner of Education
Claxton issues an urgent plea for greater en-
rollment in the normal schools and college nor.
NAL departments of the nation It is impos
sible now to supply the schools with properly
trained teachers 1t will be still more difficult
to care for the absolute needs of our schools
now that the new draft is in force. The most
menacng phase Of the situation is seen in the
call to work in industries and professions of
millions of women: they must replace the men
who are to be drafted for war time and after
peace service, We are in danger of letting the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
NOTICE OF FINAL REPORTS.


In the District Court of Lee County,
Iowa, at Keokuk:
To all whom it may concern:
Notice is hereby given that there
are now on file in the Office of the
Clerk of the District Court of Lee
County, Iowa, at Keokuk, the final
reports and applications for discharge
of Q. R. Joy, Executor of the estate
of Belle B. Joy, deceased; Amanda
Busch, Executrix of the estate Of
Jacob Busch. deceased; Emile Blon-
Diet, Executor of the estate of John
Blondet, deceased; T. D. Sprott, Ad-
ministrator of the estate of Samuel
w. Sprott, deceased.
And that unless objections thereto
are filed before noon of the 18th day
of November, A. D. 1918, said reports
will be approved and discharge en-
tered as prayed for by the Admins
traitor, etc. November 2. A. u. 1918.
o. r. JOHNSTON, Clerk.
BY Albert Vollers, Deputy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

turkish empire with vengeance.
armenia and Syria will be freed and
the revolving atrocities of the Mos.
lem upon the Christians under his
power VIII be forever ended. The
TURK, by entering the war on the
side OF the Hun, has opened the wav
ior the settlement of problem as
OLD as the ages and as tough as the
Gordian knot.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
vexatious Problems to piss,,..

st. Paul Pioneer Press: what
shall become of Turkey in Eurone If
now remains for the final peace con.
ference TO determine. That confer.
ence may decree the final expuJsion
OF the Mohammedans from F,urona
In any case it will mean that the
principle of the self determination If
Inationaiities shall be applied to tbe
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
No Safety Deepest. Vault Needed.

Baltimore American: Gernan' :,
dertakes to make US the custoui"N' =,
the honor of the German peopie =,
small a trifle, as their goyeInm eli
has led us to estimate it, mlsns in.
be sealed in mustard seed anu willl
trusted to the Belgians. WY .;ou
place upon it the proper Yaiu'-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

am only beginning to suspect the wonder and beauty
ct the things that might know and do. If
could only get free of the old inherit
ence: What has mankind done yet to boast about?
0espise human hIstory-because believe in God. In
stead Of Just muddne around about the surface
Of His universe, have to get into the understanding
Of 1t to the very limits Of ability to live utmost
and do the intensest best we cam. G.. Wells
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08

When people agree on self determination, it
is easy; but when they refuse to agree on any
thing. what then?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
| IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

I
Davenport Times: In making his
appeal for a democratic congress. the
president ought to have been sincere
enough to be frank and frank enough
to be convincing.
Cedar Rapids Gazette; The Ger
mans are a slow thinking people and
only the quick-witted start revolu,
lions, but if the recent events in
Germany are correctly reported then
it would seem that that slow mind
is at last awake and active. and is
at last coming out OF the darkness
that has enshrouded il for centuries.
Burlington Hawk-Eye. A democ-
racy made in Germany will be
open to suspicion and subject TO in,
spection.
Webster City Freeman-Journal,
Church goers are bearing up under
fortitude. They are complaining less
imposed.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The re-
publicans have been sent TO congress
in increased numbers not TO obsruct,
but to construct, not to make crooked,
but to straighten out
Des Moines Capital: In the game
of politics the democrats are gensr-
ally shrewd. We had hoped. how
ever, they would stand in Iowa for
the language reforms proposed and
by Governor Harding.
Thus they could have helped the
state in all respects.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-08
THE Steel, SHIP WINS.

The long controversy over the relative mer-
it's of steel and wooden ships ends as experts
in ship construction expected it to end. The
quarrel between Mr.. Denman whose appoint
ment to place of authority on the shipping
board was an inexcusable blunder and the
cause Of serious delay, and General Goethals,
who would have done good work if he had not
been hampered by the advocates Of wooden
ships, settled by the retirement of both
men. The superiority of the steel ship became
apparent as soon as the shipping board got
down to business, and the steel ship yards have
far outstripped the plants in which wooden
vessels are built Hurley and Schwab have
given fine exhibition of team work They
know the country's shipping needs and are
meeting them. Many wooden ships have been
built, and others are on the ways, but the steel
ship has first place and will hold it.
Now that Valenciennes figures in dispatches
from the front, it may be taken for granted that
the lace which has camouflaged under that
name for several years will be further boost
ed in price ''on account of the war;