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The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-12
Naughty Youngster.

James was starting out with his
mother and the new baby. The baby
was put into the cab which had for.
merly been used for james. Feeling
that 1t belonged to him, he protested
that he should ride, but was told that
he must let the baby have the cab He
stopped short and said, "Well. I'll call
\ taxi."
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-12
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

WANTED-Respon woman. UNI
usual opportunity for someone of re-
tinement to utilize spare time intro
ducing PRISCILLA FABRICS, HOSI-
cry, CORSETS. Etc. Beautiful sam
pies furnished. Address FITZCHAR-
LES co. Fitzcharles Bldg. Trenton, n
j. 1t.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-01-12

On what ground did she sue him
for divorce? Somewhere in South
Dakota, l believe.
The meeting of crows over there
sounds like they were swearing at
one another. l suppose it is a kind
of caW-cuSS
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
HOW TO BATTLE INFLUENZA.

Naturally there are two views expressed as
to the wisdom Of quarantine and efficacy of
that means in combating spread of influenza
Medical practice frequently is operative not in
direct dictate of common sense; in the long
run carefuness in conduct and observance of
ordinary rules that may, perhaps, be sef-im-
posed, will do much in mitigating disease or its
effects 1t should be borne in mind that deaths
are not the immediate result of an attack of in
fluenza; that sorrowful end to life is hurried
by pneumonia which attacks after influenza has
disappeared in the case or it NAV run nearly
parallel with it. So the vitality important duty
Of everyone is to exercise care when the syrnp-
toms Of influenza appear. This means voun
tary isolation, and it should not lie necessary
to enforce isolation by official order. Self
preservation should be regarded as one of the
firsf laws Of nature The experience of Ottum
wa, according to the Courier, OF that city, has
shown that it is difficult for anyone to avoid
becoming exposed to the prevailing disease, al
though sensible precaution cannot but increase
each individuals chances for escape The
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
THE RAILROAD PROBLEM

properties. It insists that extrava-
gance shall be eliminated and that
stock shall not be watered SO that
ii represents only initiation upon
which to base incomes. 1t requires
service both in providing cars for
handling commodities and in moving
the same after loading. 1t exacts
i safety in passenger traffic and suffi-
cient service to enable the business
of the country to be conducted with
out unnecessary delays, with their
consequent losses. 1t demands that
the individual who has one carload
of POTATOES to ship shall receive the
same attention and be as exped1-
tiously served as the mine owner
who ships hundreds Of cars daily
Under the old system these things
were not done, even though the in
terstate commerce commission was
constantly on the job to compel the
roads to do so. To return to that
condition will not meet the natinal
requirements.
On the other hand, the nation is
not ready to accept complete gov
eminent ownership. 1t has too many
objections not yet settled and ere
ates too great an opportunity for
political machinery. The conditions
are too diversified to permit a gen.
eral scheme of operation which
places all lines under the same gen.
eral policy. Transportation in the
agricultural regions, where the traf-
fic is excessive for few months and
light for the remainder of the year,
cannot be managed the same as IT
can in a mining region or a heavy
industrial region. where the traffic
is uniform throughout the year. This
fact justifies regional management
in which circuitols routing and IA
voritism in connections are elimi-
mated. Freight rates, in Justice, may
be higher in mountainous regions
than in level ones because OF the
lesser tonnage which can be moved
by the same motive power.
1t is hardly possible, so long as
the provision of the federal constitu-
ton relative to interstate commerce
remains as it now is, to eliminate
the duality OF state and federal SUI
pervision, because roads might, and
probably would, fix intrastate rates
which would be extortionate, but
which, because they did not cross
state boundaries, could net be regu-
lated by national legislation or con-
trolled by nationally authorized
body. These and scores of other
things connected with the manage
ment of the roads must be solved by
congress at an early date.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
A wo..D OF WARMING.

Rev Newton Dwight Hills: There
are many things in the present stu
alton that are very disturbing. Hay-
ing failed through terrorism. the
Hun is now trying tears. l saw 1900
German prisoners come in north of
Cambria on September 19. and they
looked as well fed as the American
and British boys who captured them.
This appeal for food is pure camou-
flase. After the Belgians and French,
the Serbians and Italians have been
taken care OF, to say nothing of Po-
land and Armenia. there will be time
to consider the claims of the Huns.
All over the country the pacifists are
sticking up their heads and peering
about to see whether or not anyone
will fling an argument at them En-
couraged by certain events in Wash
ington, fear that we are in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
WAR AND DENTISTS.

Address OF Harden j. Brockhardt
before life insurance presidents: From
the very beginning of the war, no pro-
fession responded more promptly or
generously than the dental profession.
Within three months after the first
call, examine lions were closed and
enough dentists had volunteered to
supply an army of 5000. 900.
The making of an army of 100000
men dentally fit had beer. tremen-
dous task, but it has been done The
soldiers have been made comfortable
apd fit by the removal of impacted
teeth, the treatment of abcesses and
diseased teeth and gums, the filling OF
cavities and the removal of various
other pathological conditions. While
many Of these things will be only tenn.
porary in character by far the great
est permanent good will come from
the knowledge that has for the first
time been brought to many Of them
that a clean, comfortable and healthy
mouth goes hand in hand with good
health in promoting greater efficien.
cy. The value Of education to secure
improved dental conditions in the ar
my does not stop there. When the boys
return to their families, they will tell
them Of the need OF paying careful at
tention to their mouths and teeth. as
one Of the most important things to
be done to maintain good health. The
government has not only provided the
machinery to take care Of the present
emergency. but it has inaugurated an
educational campaign that will be far
reaching in its effect In promoting
good health.
Congress has placed its stamp OF ap-
proval on dental service by passing a
law giving dentists equal rank with
medical men. The surgeon generals
OF the army and navy are keenly alive
to the value of good teeth and have
spoken in complimentary terms Of the
work performed by dental surgeons.
No branch OF medicine during the
present war has done as much in per-
manent restorations as have dental
and oral surgical departments.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: 1t was
certainly worthy motive that
prompted Theodore Roosevelt and
his wife to decide to leave the body
Of their son Quentin buried in France.
The earth which covers the Ameri-
can boys who gave their lives for
civilization in this world war will
forever remain sacred to the French
people. These graves will be cared
for with loving tenderness until the
end of time.
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: There
comes a story from an Arkansas
town to the effect that all the food
stores in the city are to be closed
for two days, with the exception Of
one store, which is operated by a
Chinese dealer. He is the only food
merchant not found guilty of pro-
fiteering. If the report is true 1t is
sad commentary on the official and
business life of that particular town.
Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t is
well to bear in mind that throughout
Germany there are shops and fac
tories in fine running order. for they
have not been ruined as those of Bel
GUM and France. The Germans are
anxious to open them up, but to do
SO raw materials of all kinds are
wanted and after that markets in
which to sell the finished products.
1T has been surmised, and that wisely
and correctly, it may be that what
Germany Is now anxious about is not
food but materials for the factories
that are waiting.
Des Moines Register: The German
pIotters who seek to restore Hohen-
zollern to the throne will II eed all
their energy to save him from the
scaffold.
Waterloo Courier: When the people
of Germany get familiar with the sea
map that wildly indicates the ships
that lie at the bottom of the ocean
as result of the ruthlessness of the
U-boat, and the price they must pay
to make good that shipping, they are
likely to conclude Won Tirpitz' whis-
kers were rather an expensive luxury.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: The girl
who married the young cub to help
him avoid the draft for some reason
or other can't keep her eyes off the
young fellows in uniform.
Mason City Globe-Gazette: The
power of government to maintain
itself in office through the support Of
a vast and increasing army of en-
ployes of the railroad, express, tele-
graph, telephone and cable services,
is q consideration to give the nation
pause.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
GERMAN EMPIRE GOVERNMENT.

The German empire was a confed-
Grafton of twenty-five states and one
imperial territory, Alsace-Lorraine.
Prussia was. the dominant member
and the king Of Prussia was by that
fact emperor. The upper legislative
body, known as the bundesrat. was
a Federal council, composed of repre-
sentatives OF the ruling powers of
the states-that is to say, of the
royal and princely families. The
members were appointed and in
structed by the rulers. There were
sixty-one members of the bundesrat.
of which Prussia had seventeen, and
these were appointed by the emperor
as his representatives. He also APP
pointed three for Alsace-Lorraine.
The approval OF the bundesrat was
necessary to all legislation and its
proceedings were in secret.
The popular legislative body was
the reichstag, body of 397 mem
bers, for the election of which all
male citizens aged % years or over
voted, but there had been no re-
arrangement of districts since 1871,
with the result that the Industrial
sented. The reichstag was not as
powerful a body as the house of rep
resentatives at Washington or the
house of commons. as the execr---a
authority was less dependent upon
it. Appropriations for particular pur-
poses once made were automatically
continued from year to year. The
reichstag had no power over the
ministry as in parliament, and none
over the emf =, who made the
ministers. Even the bundesrat was
not consulted upon the declaration Of
war The two emperors at Berlin
and Vienna put their countries into
the, war by their own will and au-
thority.
The government Of Prussia, the
dominant state in the empire, was
even more autocratic- than that of
the empire. The legislature was the
landtag, the upper chamber OF which
was composed of the nobility, with
hereditary privileges and titles, or
indebted for them to the emperor.
The lower house was elected by man.
hood suffrage, but under a system
which in this age is remarkable. The
voters of each electoral district
were divided into three classes ac-
cording TO the amount Of taxes they
paid, and these groups were entitled
to elect, each for itself, and equal num-
der Of representatives. The result de-
signed and accomplished was that
the small group of the heaviest tax
payers had as large representation
in the house as the great body OF
voters in the third class. 1t was a
virtual notification OF the doctrine
of one man. one vote. Finally, the
king had an absolute veto upon ell
legislation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
SWITZERLAND HAS SUFFERED.

Washington Post: Switzerland
has suffered more during the war
than any other neutral country, If
not, in fact, more than any country
that has been involved in the stu
pendeus struggle remarked Henry
Holt, an American resident of Paris
who has spent several months in
Switzerland, at the Willard. From
the beginning of the war Switzerland
has been at terrible disadvantage.
, Henll,d in on all sides by the fight
ing nalions, it has been Impossible
for the Swiss people to exercise any
independence. In eastern Switzerland
the German propaganda has con-
trolling influence, and practically the
only news regarding the war was
that given out by the German govern
ment. Necessarily the sentiment of
the people in that part of Switzer-
land was with the Germans until. the
real truth began to trickle through
in the last several months. Now
there is change and virtually the
whole of Switzerland is strongly with
the allies.
There have been no tourists in
the country for more than four years
Before the war Switzerland was the
most popular country on the CONT
nent with travellers, and the wonder
full pleasure resorts entertained many
thousands of Americans. Scores Of
hotels, however, have long since
ceased doing business because there
were no patrons. Food conditions, of
course. have been abnormal. Every
body has been rationed with a book
and coupons. Three ounces Of but
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
PACKING HIS CHRISTMAS BOX.


No box could hold Christmas gifts for him, in
uying
No box big enough and this box is SO small
Why, mother laughed and cried and into reach
ed signing,
And stood there close against my heart-no box would
do at all!
Why Sister Girl made things for him than our
contrving
Could crowd into little box And Brothers got
He aimed to send and our gift spite
striving
Is big enough to more than fill box heap
Why just the motherlovng that must go-no box can
hold it!
Could be pent twould swell and burst
it's bars;
Ii is bigger than the word-no tongue told It
Why than all time and reaches to the stars.
So shop for Christmas as we should were he
beside
Get all the things he'd love, and put them in
his room
And we shall be as glad his going tried
mistletoe holly red shall light the perfumed
gloom
And so this box long, so high, wide" shall and
find him
out underneath Old Glory on the land
And he know loving is beside him and behind
And that our hearts reach him wherever may
be-
will put list of all his gifts in it to send him,
him a srTig of holly and sprig of mstletoe.
And smiling pictures of al-Oh, God, keep him and
preserve him
Who may still be far from while Christmas candles
glow!
Judd Mortimer Lewis in Kansas City Star
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07

Sioux City journal: The annual
address of President Wilson to con-
gress brought acutely before that
body and the country the problem
of relinQuishing government control
of the railroads. The president
handed the problem to congress and
in a way told that body to cut the
Gordian knot. 1t is the largest do
nestle task which the president or
the next congress will have to solve.
Unfortunately, the political majority
in the lower branch of the present
congress is not qualified to legislate
without partisan prejudice on the
matter. Its solution requires men
who are able to grasp the immensely
of the transportation industry in this
country and to understand its rela-
ton to the prosperity of the whole
people. 1t must be approached with
open minds ready to concede the
rights of capital invested, but at the
same time determined to safeguard
the rights Of the public against bur-
densome handfcaps that sap the vi
tality OF prosperity.
1t is generally conceded that it is
not wisdom to return the railroads to
the condition which existed before
they we're taken under government
direction as a war measure. Rail
road men whose judgment is worthy
of consideration agree that the old
cut-throat policy of competition Is
destructive Of business prosperity,
while those who might be classed as
the helpless patrons assert that
gross injustice was done them be-
cause OF unfair technicalitfes in rate
fixing which could be remedied only
by tedious and expensive hearings.
The ntermountain rate cases illus
trate this point. Under conditions
then existing shipments could be
carried from eastern points to Pa
cific coast points at rates made nee
essary by water competition, and
then returned to points inland at
local rates cheaper than they could
be carried from eastern points of
initiation to points of destination
and unloaded before being carried to
seaboard. 1t does not require rate
expert to understand that carriers
lose money by such process or else
shippers to inland points pay an ex-
cessive direct rate.
The public demands that there
shall be- q freight rate which will
pay a business dividend on the
actual money invested, together with
whatever appreciation in value is
justified by foresight in development
or good judgment in managing the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
A SPLENDID ANSWER.

Sioux City Journal: The American
sentimentalists who are beginning to
hint that mercy should be shown the
Germans now that they are down and
out will learn something from the
splendid answer the women of Franco
made to the appeal of German women
to French women to use their influ-
ence to have the terms Of the arms.
tice modified in favor of Germany.
The French women have not for
gotten the brutes in the forms OF
Germans who ravished their sisters
and killed their mothers. They have
not forgotten that these vile demons
were the husbands and sons and
brothers of the German women who
are now showing themselves as vel
low as the German men. They have
not forgotten that every act of lust
outrage, murder and torture, includ-
ing the slaughter of babies, was
enthusiastically commended and en-.
dorsed by the women of Germany
The reply of the French women is
the greatest indictment of German
womanhood and lack of humanity
ever proclaimed. 1t reads:
No, we will not intercede with
our government to mitigate the
conditions of the armistfce, which
are only too justified by the
manner in which Germany has
waged war. In the course of
these tragic years German
women, believing victory was
certain, remained silent at the
crimes of their government, their
army and navy.
At the congress at The Hague,
to which we refused to go, the
president of the national council
of German women was invited to
protest against the violations of
Belgium and against the tor
pedoing of the Lusitania. She
wrote in reply:
1--WE are as one with our people.
The men who took the respohsi-
bility for Germany's decision are
as dear to us as those who are
shedding their blood on the battle
field"
To our indignant protest
against the deportation of women
and young girls, and when we
showed that history might bring
a reversal Of fortune, there was
no response.
That declaration should be COM
mitted to memory and repeated at
1.-THE end of every prayer uttered by
those mollycoddles who are in favor
of extending leniency to the depraved
nation. II ought to create a demand
in the heart of every American
woman that the peace council exact
lin ST retribution so far as III ran he
exacted from the German people
under whatever form of government
they pose for all the crimes com-
mitted by German men and abetted
by German women.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
Hot Water for
Sick Headach'
Tells why everyone should Dr.
hot water with phosphate
In it before breakfast

Headache of any kind, is ca
by Observation-Disclosures \
self-poisoning. Liver and
poisons called toxins, sucked inlf
blood, through the lymph ducts
cite the heart which pumps the
so fast that 1t congests in the SUI
arteries and veins of the head
ducing violent. throbbing pain
distress, called headache. YOU
come nervous, Respondent
feverish and miserable, your
sour and almost nauseate you
you resort to acetanilide, aspin
the bromides which temporary!
lieve but do not rid the blood OIL
irritating toxins.
A glass of hot water with q
spoonful of limestone phosphate
drank before breakfast for a'
will not only wash these polsons
your system and cure you ol
ache but will cleanse, puri!
freshen the entire alimentary
ldtt
Ask your pharmacist for "
pound of limestone phosphate.
inexpensive, harmless as sugar,
almost tasteless. except for q ~
twinge which is not unpieaSan
II you aren't feeling your W =,
tongue is coated or you wan
with bad taste. foul breath Vi
colds, indigestion, biliousness,s
stipation or sour. acid stoniAen y,
gin the phosphated hot water ~
rid your system of TOXINS
pofsons. Il,
Results are quick and 1t Is IL ~,
that those who continue to nus
the stomach. liver and boweis
morning never have any heau"''
know a miserable moment
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07

danger of an emotional wave sweep
ing across the country.
After my experience in Switzer-
land, l am wondering whether 1T is
not possible that the abdication OF
the kaiser and the enforcement
of the socialistic leaders are not
schemes to avoid paying an indem-
nifty. The men who have organized
the present government. and the
newspapers that are supporting It.,
are the old junker crowd.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07

cura Soap and Ointment, and afa
wards bought more, and now she
all healed, with one cake Of Cutie,
Soap and q half a box Of Cuticura Oil
ment." .(Signed) Mrs. w. Fergust
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, July 9, lsI
Having obtained clear healthy j
by the use Of Cuticura, keep it clear
using the Soap for all toilet purpo'
assisted by touches Of Ointmen.
needed. Nothing better at any pr
Sample Each Free by Mail. Address q
card: "Cuticura, Dept. II, Boston" s
everywhere. Soap Csc. Ointment Is and !
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07

Gossip fatal until it is denied Gossip goes
about human being alive and about all the dead
that live enough to remembered and almost
does any harm-untii Some defender makes
troversy Gossip is nasty thing but it's sicky and If
people of intentions will let 1t entirely alone, it
will die, ninetynine times of hundred-8ooth Tar
ington.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07
SKIN TROUBLED
ON LIP AND CHI
Face Looked Awful. Water 81
tiers ltched and Burned,
Tried Many Remedies,
HEALED BYCUTICUH
SOAP AND 0INTMEN
"My daughter had a breaking
on her upper lip and chin for
weeks. 1t was like water blisters,
would itch and IL she scratched b

would irritate and b
They seemed to spr,
and her face looked avn
For four weeks we tt
many remedies but u
seemed to make the e,l
ton spread more. II
! got a free sample Of Ct
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07

ter and three ounces of sugar .
give one an idea of how people
have been subsisting. Ihel.
been shortage of bread, ihe"',
potatoes for more than three
and the prices have been ann !
conceivable. Think of payins '
a sandwich with black breau-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07

Oxford county, Maine, has a record
of two girls who walked two miles
and picked blueberries for eleven
days out of thirteen and sold more
than $50 worth at Is and 20 cents a
quart this season.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07

New York Herald: You dou :,
a minute suppose that the ext o,i
prince who looked after hiins w.,
carefully in the war, wouiu &c
reckless as to be shot after pea''
come?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07

Several European peoples are about to Ind
that setting up governments is about the easiest
part of the business
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-07

Do your Saturday shopping early.