The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-10

III lAC ho4oCl d4my IS "ApCu I'll IiS
face of the earth. / heard one soldier
off the kaiser's trousers. I don't. l
don't want his trousers, or his coat or
his shoes, because l think he can get
another wardrobe, but what 1 would
bring back would be his head, be-
cause I'm sure God Almighty will new
er give him another.
Like Stone Wall.
1.-THE world is going to write new
definition OF Stacker. It will be the
man and women who failed to heed
the call OF bleeding Belgium and
France, and who failed to save meat
and wheat and sugar and who had
money and who would not buy bonds.
Give us the bullets and the cannon
and stand back of us like stone
wall"
John E. Craft, chairman of the pub
lie meetings committee opened at all
Of the meetings and introduced Mayor
Lotion who presided at the afternoon
and evening meetings. The Keokuk
Concert band played program at the
Hippodrome and the chorus sang sew
eral numbers. In the evening meet
ing. P. C. Hayden led the community
singing program.
The mayor last night paid tribute
to the work done by County Chairman
Dunlap, City Chairman Boyd, and
John e. Craig, who planned for the
meetings and arranged all details. He
then turned the meeting over to Chair
man Boyd. Father j. w. Gillespie Of
fered prayer at the afternoon meet
ing, and DR.. E. B. Newcomb in the
evening.
The Women's Meeting.
A fair sized audience of women at
tended the Liberty bond meeting de-
signed especially for women at the Y.
w. C. A. auditorium. The women were
in attendance in large numbers at the
meeting at the Hippodrome and at
the evening meetings as well.
John e. Craig called the meeting to
order and introduced Miss Martha P.
Hcrnish, president Of the Y. w. c. A,
through the courtesy of which associa-
ton the use of the auditorium was
given for the meeting.
The program opened with the sing
ing of the Star Spangled Banner, led
by a chorus composed Of Miss Martha
Baldwin, Miss Caroline Baldwin, Mrs.
O. w. Sandberg, Mrs. William c. How
ELL Miss Harriette Kastner, Mrs. Hugh
J. Robertson, Messrs. James Young,
John HUDSON, C. w. Dickinson and
John Nodler.
The chorus later sang America, the
Beautiful; a song Over There the
words of which were written by Mrs.
c. Byrd Mock of Los Angeles, who is
a niece of Mrs. Charles A. jenkins.
The Rev. John H. Matthias Of the
First Baptist church offered the invo-
cation, Mrs. Hugh j. Robertson, presi-
dent of the Civic league then formally
introduced the speaker Of the after
noon, Mrs. Cora G. Lewis.
She said that she assumed that the
women of Keokuk had been asked to
assist in the sale Of this third Liberty
loan as in the two previous loans the
women Of America had sold one-fourth
of all the bonds sold. There is
PSYCHOLOGICAL reason why women
should be asked to share in the work
of winning the war. 1t is their war as
much as it is mans war, they have
given to the world the soldiers who
are in the trenches. Then again, II
the war continues, the American wom-
en- will have to do what the French
and English women are doing today,
carry on the worlds work outside the
home. Only those who have given
sons know what the war means. NO
mother whose boy wears the uniform
asks for pity, save that for the mother
of the Stacker But these mothers who
have given their boys do ask that
every woman shall help the boys in
the lighting line to win the war by buy
ing bonds, by saving food and by aid
ing in the Red Cross. You cannot
measure the patriotism Of women by
the size of the flag on her front porch,
the bond record tells the story of her
patriotism, the measure of her sacrt
flce of all that she has, sons, money
and time are the things which count.
Earthquake Shock Recorded.
limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, April 10.-As
though from the rumble of distant
guns. an earthquake shock disturbed
Tho national capital and Virginia
towns last night A slip" In the