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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Elkins, Of Chelten
House, Elkins Park, have gone to St Au-
gustlne Fla, for several weeks.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Mattisop. OF Wayne
who have been spending "A fortnight in At
lantic City, left yesterday for NJ ami, where
they will remain until the latter part Of
March
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-23

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Disston OF the Belle
vue-StFatford. have gone 10 their plantation
near Thomasyille, Ga.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-23

Mr.. and Mrs. Macmillan f. Bonzano, Of
33I South Eighteenth street have gone 10
Miami, Fla, where they are staying at the
Royal Palm.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-01-23

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Everett Marshall,
of Rydal Waters, Rydal have left for visit
Of sey eral weeks 20 Cuba.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
DRAW GERMANY's FANGs.

/ One Of the conditions of peace to which IN
one form or another all the allied belhgerents
consent is disarmament of Germany. This IS
compelled by necessity; the world cannot De
restored to its normal living conditions with
vast professional soldiery to be maintained III
condition for immediate service.
Nothing by way of pledge or compact from
Germany would so satisfy the rghtful demand
iof the allied world that she be forced to honest
peace as removal of her power to make war
Nor does it seem that her prerogatlve as
nation is invaded unjustly by such action
Through the whole of her career as an empire
Germany has been in process of transformation
to military organization. The war has prov
ed that the intention of this organization was
predatory; that Germany designed to impose
her dictatorship on the world. Declarations that
the German people believed they fought for the
safety of their imperiled nationhood are in no
possible way supported by patent facts. Ger
many then is convicted of having conspired
against the peace and safety of other nations
which have now brought her military organl-
zation to wreck. 1t is but self protection for
those nations to end this mad business by re-
moving the power of evil from Germany. 10
attempt to remove the will to evil is too esot-
eric process for immediate craftsmanship to
grapple with Disarmament Of Germany under
allied supervision seems to promise the qua
ranty of peace for which the world waits
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
STREETS RETAkEN FOR TRAFFIC

Cedar Rapids Republican: In Sioux
City they have been compelled to
meet the problem and hereafter no
cars will be permitted to be parked on
the streets, except on certain desig-
mated places-streets without car
lines and cars must be placed not
along the curb. but the centers OF
such streets. The parking evil had
newspapers say. and 1t was necessary
statement says:
'The streets are for traffic. No per-
son has the right to a permanent stand
for his car on any street. 1t is unjust
for the business house on these streets
to leave his car standing by the hour
in front Of public buildings or a place
of business. Sioux City has in the
past used the streets in the congestei
business district for parking with less
restriction than any other city Of its
size. 1t is absolutely necessary that
some restrictions should be made"
That is common sense aid is what
all cities must come to sooner or
later. No hardships are involved. No
one is deprived Of anything, for the
right to make use of the streets as a
garage is not right that belongs to
any one. The streets were made for
traffic and they were made Just wide
enough for that 1t should not be pos
sible for a few men to block those
streets by placing their cars in them
and leaving them there all day-some-
times for no reason than that is saves
10 cents in street car fares.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
A PERTINENT QUESTION.

A. NJ. Taylor: Then. please, an
swer me this: Why should we. who
started SO late, who have done SO
little, comparatively speaking, who
have lost less men in our nineteen
months at war than any one of our
allies in less than a week-why
should we hold the spotlight as ar
bitter Of peace conditions? What OF
Britain, with one out of every three
men in military service. with per
capita cost of nearly $500 as com
pared to our 500; what of France,
whose sacrifice needs no comment?
Would we not be infinitely more
graceful and consistent to refer all
applications for peace to them? Or
are we falling into trap of German
making to create discord and jeal-
ousy? 1t may be that we have been
appointed to this task--if so it has
not come to my attention.
Frederick the Great got out of a
tighter hole than Wilhelm is now in,
successfully, triumphantly Germany
is far from licked. She has not had
even the first part of the beating
she must get to destroy forever the
idea of the superman, the arrogance
which was once the laughing stock
of the world and later it's horror.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
EXPLAINS BoLsHEWK1's CONTROL.

It has been hard to understand the bolshe-
lvih's continued hold upon Russia On credible
Ievidence we have come to believe that they
never represented a majority of the Russian
people, and that they have lost great mass OF
former adherents since the Brest-Litoysk peace.
But notwithstanding apparent reason for their
fall from power they have held on A special
iespatch from Archangel throws light on this
natter. It is declared that the anti bolshevik
;asily overthrow the soviet power there be-
cause they united; that the bolsheviki are
greatly outnumbered everywhere throughout
rural Russia, but their opponents are so divid-
ed into factions that the bolsheviki sup
press one after another Of these while the others
are inactive in support of their anti-bolshevik
fellows This gives a picture of Russia split
Up into factions each insistent its own ten
cts and more willing to see the bolsheviki con-
tinue in power than to make concessions look
ing to union against them. In Archangel the
allies were welcomed and aided because it was
determined that through them the German
menace could be forestalled and because the
allies promise of non-interference in Russia's
domestic affairs was believed. AS the allies
gain more of this confdence-and they will
gain it now that they are on the ground there
will be marked cessation of facionalism and
more of union for restoration of freedom of ac-
ton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21

Springfield Register: A Prussian
kings lawsuit in the st. Louis, Mo-,
circuit court in 1S49 has been called
to our attention by Rev. James w.
Lee, of that city. Foreign govern
ments are not unknown as plaintiffs
in American courts. but when the
state Is the king, as it very decidedly
was when Frederick William ~ was
ruling Prussia, ordinary language OF
law is replaced with phraseology OF
a most czarlike exuberance. The Pc
tition which the ST. Louis court was
called upon to consider in 1S49 began
as follows:
The plaintiff Frederick Will
liam w, king of Prussia) states
that he is absolute monarch OF
the kingdom of Prussia, and as
king thereof is the sole govern
nlent of that country; that he
is unrestrained by any constitu-
ton or law, and that his will ex-
pressed in due form is the only
law of that country and is the
only legal power there known to
exist as law.
That may strike an American as
rather steep. But, after all. Fred
erick William ~ was a more naive
and ingratiating parsonage than the
emperor who holds the throne today.
He considered the means and not the
end only. He even refused to be-
come emperor of Austria because he
would never stoop to pick up a
crown out OF the gutter" Though a
fanatical believer in the divine right
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
A Kings Lawsuit in Missouri

of kings, he really had friendly In
terest in his subjects, and. though he
was impressionable and changeable,
he illustrated rather the folly and
stupidity than the wickedness OF abb
solutism.
The occasion of his grandicose ap-
oearance In the courts OF Missouri
was simple. An employee of the post
office in Prussia had embezzled funds
and fled to America and the king,
having been responsible for the loss
es to patrons of the postoffice,
brought suit against the absconder's
estate in Missouri to recover. the
stolen sums, with interest thereon.
The Prussian king must have had a
good case. for 1t was tried IN the
Missouri court and he proved his
this st. Louis lawyer did. 1t Is inn
possible to believe that a Missouri
court in the days of Thomas H. Ben
ton was prepossessed in the kings
favor after hearing the splendiferous
outburst of divine right with which
the petition opened.
1t should be added that the king
was grateful to his American lawyer.
This man, Charles Gibson, long prom
inent at the Missouri bar, received
two magnificent vases from Freder-
lex William " as token Of appre-
citation. Honoring Gibson became
subsequently habit with the Hohen-
zollern dynasty, and as late as 1890
the present emperor conferred upon
him the decoration OF the grand
cross.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
NEW YORK LEARNS.

New York Tribune: Those New
Workers, who sit upon their Atlantic
coast and look only eastward may
still have entertained the notion that
the east was still leading the nation
with the war-that the west, a vague
district lying somewhere beyond Ho-
boken, had perhaps assented to the
war, but was still tagging along.
For these Iowa's Liberty loan lead
ership will come as an eye-opener.
But for most Americans with true
American pride in the whole nation.
its peaks and valleys and seas and
people, Iowa's record is no more than
another confirmation of the most won
derful fact in their country's history
its utter and devoted unity in the
war We of New York throw our hats
in the air and cheer Iowa. We are
in the air and cheer Iowa for showing
the way. We are proud Of her en-
thusiasm and husky, heartfelt effici-
ency. We know that such record
at home means even more wonderful
doings in France-by Iowa. for Amer
lea
When for America the balance sheet
Of the war shall some day be struck,
this new unity Of the nation must
stand high upon the credit side. We
never conceived such magnificent
swinging step to be possible. We were
too large. to composite, too individ-
ualistic. Yet 1t has come. No nation
has shown trIer and stancher face,
more complete surrender of section
alism and every petty. contending
scruple to the one sacred cause. We
are proud OF America as never before.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
AN OUTRAGEOUS ORDER.

Burlington Gazette: Complaints are
swamping the postoffice department
from every part OF the union over
the order promulgated by Postmas-
ter General Burleson. fixing exorbi-
tant charges for installing or chang
ing telephones. This was one of the
first DEGREES of the postoffice depart
ment after taking over the wire sys-
TENS of the country. an order never
dreamed of by the phone companies
and utterly uncalled for and unnec-
essary, as no complaint of poverty
had been made by the concerns.
No more autocratic or oppressive
uka-se has ever been issued by any
y. S. official taking advantage OF
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
REGISTRATION NOTICE.

Notice to the qualined voters OF tls|
City of Keokuk, Iowa:
The registers of election OF nl
City of Keokuk, Iowa, will be in coi|
slant attendance at the places hersi|
designated from eight tS) O'Clock y
M. until 8 p. M, THURSDAY, Octo0a|
"a, Friday, October 70, and Saturdah|
November z, 1918, Tor the purpose 4
registering all qualified voters for a
general election to be held on Tues
day. November S, 1918.
Said registers will also be IN seq
sion at the same places on SAID sss
urday, November 2, 1918, from elslT
90 o'clock a. m. until nine 90 ocloH
p. m. for the purpose OF revising
correcting and compiling the res's
ira tons. :.
First precinct-Sixth street ensln'
house. 81
Second precinct - Edward vi
Moore's shoe shop, No. 70 soul
Fifth street. =.
Third precinct-Leake Printing w
office, No. sol Main street.
Fourth precinct-West keoKuh y
CINE house. 49,.
Fifth precinct-Camp's drug s'Oi'
Twelfth and Fulton streets.
Sixth precinct-Ewers' cigar s'''s
112O Main street.
Seventh precinct-Jos. Si.li''
grocery store. 172s Main street
Said registers will be In aV'e =.
ance on election day, TUESDAY, Nv
vember s. 1918, at the same plat ar-,
above mentioned during all the noT :.
that the polls are required ~ ,ss
open, for the purpose of grantins, ' ~
tiflcates of registration 10 i' .ss
voters, who were absent from -,
city during all of the days fixed I w
registration, or to foreigners W.,
may have received their final paps -,
since the last preceding Gay .,oss
registration, or to any person "r
name was on the preceding oaso a-son
and in the absence of such rbo
stricken from registration, anu .r,rs
on said day of election shan p ia.srs
to the satisfaction of SAID Ies ,sctor
that he is a lawfully qualinea ei'
of said voting precinct Uho
Every voter and every pefso. Il
will be voter on electlon u reeis.
notified to present himself iol - on
tration in the proper precinct anu he
the dates above mentioneu, - yot.
will be debarred the privilege "
ing at said election. ,o,b DAY
Given under my hand this isN
OF October, A. d. 1918. ,r,vor.
ED. S. LOTION, MAJ
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
DICTATE PEACE IN BERLIN.

New York Times: Ordinarily it
you'd be appropriate that the ratifi-
cations of peace should be exchanged
at neutral city. Austria's proposal
for peace congress at The Hague
is not appropriate, for several
reasons Any such proposal will be
premature until our enemies have
surrendered Internationally. When
they have surrendered it would be
unsuitable that neutrals should have
anything TO do with the settlement
of moral question upon which they
have not taken sides. This is holy
war, and those who have not been
in it, or for 1t, have, in effect, been
against it, and are disqualified for
association with the finishing of it.
Neutrals being thus disqualified for
sharing in the ceremonies of victory,
the ratifications of peace will, doubt
less, be exchanged on the territory
of either the victor or the vanquished.
France has filed a pious wish that the
peace settlement shall be made at
Versailles, where France was
humbled in 1871, and militarism and
the Germany of our times were
founded together. That claim is I'M
deniable, and yet there is another
equally attractive. Germany has
been allowed to think that the
Rhine could be crossed only in one
direction, as it has been since the
time of julius Caesar. This time the
Rhine must be crossed in the reverse
direction. The notifications of peace
should be exchanged where it would
make the deepest impression upon
both Germany and the Germans. Can
it be doubted that there is fitness in
the signing of peace on the soil of
the vanquished, in the manner of
1871, and preferably in Berlin? Ger
many may be left to make her choice
whether the allies shall blast their
way there or make a peaceful march
by extorted permission. But, one
way or another. the notion that Ger
man soil is any more sacred than
Belgium's or Frances or any other
nations should be ended forever
and how better than by a peace of
Berlin?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
TODAYs Bat OF VERSE
NOT BY BREAD ALONE.

/ hope never shall be wise
Nor learn to my ears and eyes
Like those rich fools the gods despise-
Shrewd business men,
no. when they hear the skylarks song,
tIl hear the prayer-or hear 1t wrong
md much prefer the dinner-gong
clerks Amen"
no. in the voice Of wave and wind,
quite unmeaning echo find
o jejune thoughts in hollow mind
90 devils seven.
q. 40. in the sunsets opal skies,
Le naught but clouds before their eyes
lld miss the angel-shapes that rise
rom earth TO heaven.
:. no turn from flower and silver brook
O cash, or wine, or rotten book,
nd find the joy for which they look
,,or dream OF sweeter.
hen when life's sands are running low,
- parson or to priest they go
And hope to dodge their devil
and hoodwink Peter!
But man lives not by bread alone
Tnat on the solid earth is grown
nd sold at market-price per stone
Adulterated-
.e lives whose life is fed with dreams.
Is warmed by Loves unpurchased beams
And guided by the Hope that CLEANS
Far, far ahead
Alfred Clark. of the New Zealand Medical &C
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
There is no new thing under the sun
Ecclesiastes, /. TX.
THE KAIsER's MENTALITY.

Deliberations that have been going on for
the past few days between the various govern
ment representatives in Germany are interest
ing in particular entirely aside from any dis
cussion of peace terms or surrender Sig
nifcance is attached to the fact that no men
ton is made of the kaiser in the report of the
conferences, and it would appear that he had
not participated in any of these meetings.
There is much speculation as to the reason i'm
polling the absence of the previously august
ruler. Easily believable, in these crcum-
stances is the news from Berlin that the kaiser
s'is suffering from fits of mental depression
bordering on distraction;'' and this probably
Us the mildest statement of the case. There is
insanity in his family. King Frederick VIII
liam ~, of Prussia, was placed under restraint
as a hopeless lunatic when about the age of the
present kaiser; and the similarity between the
two rulers in character and in the growth and
progress of their hereditary maady is pro.
nounced. Both of them were under decisions
as to their semi-divinity; and in the earlier
stages of their affliction both showed the same
extravagances of speech and the utter disre
gard for truth and honor and their plighted
word characteristic of this type of alteration
The nervous system and mind of the kaiser-r
have also given way, according to reports by
way of Holland. Insanity runs in her family
also; aud her mother, late Duchess of SchIes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
WE'RE A BIT CARELESS.

New York Evening Telegram:
Sounds good to hear that one of Won
Bernstorff's pet clubs, the Deutscher
Verein, is now a Red Cross hospital.
Still, Margaret O'Sullivan, cabaret
singer of Hoboken, arrested for sun.
plying liquor TO U. s. soldiers and
sailors, in conjunction with a Ger
man alien enemy reservist, was also
Liberty loan team captain and war
worker.
Notice that the Illinois Stats
Zeitung has resumed publication in
Chicago. Another peace sign the
government will probably remain
blind to-
1t occurs that while our men are
giving up their lives abroad we are
mighty careless of things at home
and take far too much for granted.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
HEAVY MEAT EATERS
HAVE SLOW KIDNEYS
Eat less meat IL you feel Back
achy or have Bladder
trouble.

No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make mistake by
flushing the kidneys occasionally,
says well-known authority. Meat
forms uric acid which excites the
kidneys; they become overworked
from the strain, get sluggish and
fail to filter the waste and poisons
from the blood, then we get sick.
liver trouble, nervousness, dizziness.
sleeplessness and urinary disorders
come from sluggish kidneys.
The moment you feel dull ache
in the kidneys or your back hurts,
or IL the urine Is cloudy, offensive,
full of sediment, irregular Of pas
sage or attended by sensation Of
scalding, stop eating meat and get
about four ounces of Jad Salts from
any pharmacy; take a tablespoonful
in glass of water before breakfast,
and in a few days your kidneys will
act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acid of grapes and lemon
Juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush
and stimulate the kidneys. also to
neutralize the acids in urine so it no
longer causes irritation, thus endr
ing bladder weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and can
not injure: makes delightful effer-
yescent Whitewater drink which ev-
eryone should take now and then
to keep the kidneys clean and active
and the blood pure, thereby avoid
ing serious kidney complications.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21

be issued by the State Historis|
society of Iowa.
In 1866 and again In 1858 II
amendment to the constitution N
Iowa which would permit women i,
vote was suggested. but it was ,d
until 1870 that the first constitution
amendment to enfranchise the wone,
citizens of the state was Introduce
In the legislature by John P. IriA
and adopted by both houses. Sinc
that time, an equal suffrage ameut
ment resolution has been passed tel
times by the house Of Represents
tives, nine times by the senate aaa
five times by both houses at the sand
session, but only once-1913-l915-h
both houses at two successive sa
sions.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
EQUAL SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT.

Although there had been some agi-
tation of the question of suffrage for
women before the outbreak Of the
civil war, the debate over the rights
of citizens which arose at the close
of the war gave an added impetus to
the movement, says Miss Ruth A.
Gallaher in volume on THE His
tory Of the Legal and Political Status
of Women in Iowa" which is soon to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
Mark Of a Real Fighter.

st. Paul Pioneer Press: Man
Whittlesley, who answered the Gl
man demand to surrender with q
to hell" gets a Recommendation fro.
his New York landlady. She says
was. always quiet as mouse an
not at all like a fighter" That is Ii!
kind that turns out the real fghts
Look out for the quiet men who GET
pale \, len he gets mad.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21

authority conferred upon him, and II
is time that someone higher in au-
thority than Burleson investigate his
naughty attitude and ascertain the
lengths to which he is permitted to
extend in imposing burdens on the
people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21

wig Holstein, passed all her later life under re-
straint.
The expected will have happened II the
kaiser's mentality is wrecked, his lncuraoie
malady of the ear having long Indicated sucAi
q fate. He has been the principal factor IN
bringing his dynasty, his kingdom, his empire
and everything around him to ruin; and a saner
mind than his might break under the strain to
which his unbalanced intellect is now subject.
ed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21

There is when such pleasant and sunny
spots may lighted and produce pleasant effect
on the feelings October. The sunshine is pc
cuiary genial and in sheltered places the side OF
bank, house, becomes acquainted and
friendly the sunshine II to be of kind and
homely And the green grass srewn with re"
them-dawthorne.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
wilheIm's Finish.

st. Paul Pioneer-Press: A Germal
editor says Wilhelm is the last Ca
man military monarch. And as 70
Wilhelm's tenure it's matter of tT
down. two strikes and the last inning
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-10-21
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: 1t was over
looked in the official report, but Won
der if some Of that famed German
efficiency wasn't left behind in the
retreat.