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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
THE vANITiEs OF ANNA HELD.

Cedar Rapids Republican: They
say that Anna Held died twenty-five
years too soon and all because she
laced too tightly and did other fool
ish things to make a success on the
stage The lacing interfered with
the operations of her liver and her
stomach, and it twisted her insides
into all sorts. of abnormal combina-
tons. That was Anna Held's sacri-
flee of her body to make a success
on the stage.
And what did her success on the
stage amount to? She could neither
sing nor act All that she could do
was to display herself, and to make
that worth while to the gaping idiots
she had to go through those contor-
tions of lacing. Dressed in beautiful
clothes, more beautiful than numer-
Gus, she romped and called 1t dancing
and screeched and called 1t singing
and that was Anna Held, whose press
agents talked about her familiarly
and about her milk baths and all
such rotten stuff to excite the Curl
Gus and to satisfy the morbid. And
there was nothing in it all that was
worth while, not even the dollars
that came to her, for the time soon
came when she could not eat even
one decent meal day. and the only
gown she could wear was one that
fitted a hospital. Vanity, vanity, all
is vanity, saith the preacher.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
WARTIME SUBSTITUTE

Youngstwr Telegram: Unison
LEANED back in his chair at the dinner
table, held a cooky between the thumb
and first finger Of his right hand, and
eyed it closely.
Mrs. UNISON looked. but did not
smile. ~ ad
Pinching the cake and moving 1t up
and down as it to carefully ascertain
its weight, UNISON continued his in
spection.
BY this time Mrs. UmBon was glow
ering.
WELL" she said, n suppose you
are going to poke fun at my cooking
again" s
Far from it," her husband answer
ed.
Then what in the world are you do
ing with that cooky?"
II was testing it's resiliency,"
Its what?"
And also taking note of its COM
pactness and strength"
Isn't that making fun Of it?"
"My dear. you may have unwittingly
made great discovery"
"How's that?"
This thing may not be much of a
success as cake, but it might make
a wonderful substitute for a rubber
heel"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
TO PUNISH LYNCHERs.

No more striking proof of the growth in the
south of second public sentiment in respect
to the lynching evil has been shown than is
seen in the action of the owners of the San An
tonic Express, who have established fund of
one hundred thousand dollars to be used in re-
warding persons who secure the arrest and con-
viction of those responsible for this form of
mob violence. Not only is lynching reproach
to states where men who commit this crime
against civilization go free, and to the nation
itself, but it is having serious economic eff
feet in many parts of the south. Negroes whose
labor is needed have moved away, because they
feared an outbreak of the mob spirit.
The owners of the Express have taken step
from which important results may be expected
They will pay from the fund reward of five
hundred dollars to each person directly respon-
sible for the arrest, with subsequent conviction
and punishment, of any person or persons who
were instrumental in arousing mob to commit
lynching Or in putting through the lynching
itself, when the individual lynched was not
negro" The reward will be increased to one
thousand dollars when the person lynched was
negro. In fixing the sums to be paid, due ac
count was taken of the fact that negroes more
often than white men are the victims of lynch
ings. Rewards will apply to every case of
lynching in any state, and they will be paid tc
private citizens and peace officers Of every
class
1t is an interesting experiment that this
Texas newspaper has undertaken. Rewards
have been offered for the arrest and conviction
of Iynchers in individual cases, but probably
this is the first time that men have set aside
large sum to be used anywhere in the United
States in an effort to stamp out the crime of
lynching.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
FUTURE OF WAR SAVINGS.

Frank A. Vanderlip, in the Ameri-
can Review of Reviews: I presume
when the secretary Of the treasury
asked congress to fix an authorize
ton of war savings securities amount
ing to s2,000.000, 600 that no one ex-
pected anything like that sum would
be accumulated from the small saw
ings of the people this year It is
racy how much money will flow into
the treasury, but the rapid growth
of the receipts makes 1t certain that
the amount will be very important
and may reach the cash total of a
little over $1,000 900, 900; which will
represent the sale price of the entire
$4,000, 100000 maturity value of war
savings stamps. The first half of
July will show nearly 500, 00O, 900
receipts. The total sales and pledges
may be put conservatively at 81 ,500,-
100000 maturity value, although the
most accurate figures obtainable in
dictate total much above that.
There seems to be an almost uni
versal wish that this form of small
investment be made a permanent
feature of our national financial pro-
gram. In legislation providing for
further issues, if there be such legis-
lation, / should hope TO see incorpo-
rated a plan for converting full war
savings certificate representing 800
maturity value into another and still
more attractive form of obligation.
II it should be thought desirable for
the government ever to extend its
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
We always love those who admire US, and
we do not always love those whom we ad-
mire.-La Rochefoucauld
TRAINING COLLEGE, MILITARIsTs

Military training in the colleges under gov
s11ment supervision is to be no mere adjunct to
regular work; it is to be the real thing. On
July thirteenth three training camps were insti-
tuted one at Plattsburg, n. Y, second at Fort
Sheridan, Ill, and a third at San Francisco, in
which there are more than seven thousand mem
bers of college faculties and selected students
undergoing an intensive training of the sort
given to inmates of officers training camps
These are the men who will have charge of the
training work in the colleges. In addition to
the strictly military drill the physical training
which preparation for army life requires, this
college training will take stock of the student
body and offer special opportunity for work in
engineering, chemistry, industrial physics and
the many other lines of activity for which the
army has use.
! It is we'll that the government has taken
measures to make its military training in the
colleges an accessory to army recruiting and
real education. Until there is need Of them at
the firing line young men of college am
Ibtion viii be serving the best interest of the ma
ton by maturing themselves for efficient work
in the colleges But there would have been
i 3st criticism had the college program made
IN itary training a mere imitation of the real
Eproce7s. Now it is assumed that the college
draft nen will be found ready trained for serv-
dce whenever they are called from their studies
TO camp dly.
III SNA'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
HAVE PATIENCE

When things go amis by just waiting bit, you yourself
Will serve-wl lend hand.
Amid the disordering of customary arrangements every
where which the has brought the call for consideration
lis of extraordinary Importance
Service is less handicapped because Of the war;
because somebody has from his usual work to the
countryour countrythe land whose welfare is the safe
guard of all that you hold dear.
Almost everybody in business is working under disad
vantages
Recognize this fact take yourself in hand and gain the
grace of patience the pose of cheerful forbearance
It will avoid much undeserved and unfair criticism,
words and actions hurfl treatment of fellow
mortal who may be doing his or her best.
While others have gone to fight for your country you
the great just by showing enough
patience keep good naturedand wait little when things
go wrong don't go promptly as they might
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
TRAVEL is A NIGHTMARE

leges and Pullman reservations, and
to have all the necessary arrange
ments as to baggage transfers made,
| simply by tele2honing a passenger
agent or interviewing him briefly,
leaving all the details to him and
completing the operation by paying
him when he delivered the tickets,
checks and itinerary schedule.
Now, if one desires to make such
a journey, he must inaugurate his
negotiations several days in advance,
take a sporting chance on being able
TO obtain Pullman accomm odations,
forego stop-overs and side trips. at
tend personally to his baggage and
make numerous trips to ticket offices
for lengthy and unsatisfactory inter-
views.
1t is an achievement to travel now.
even when one has sufficient money;
frequently it reaches the proportions
of career.
In a mojority of instances the en-
ployes with whom the traveller deals
are the same men who served him
in other days. They explain that the
new regulations make the old Gus
toms impossible; perhaps some of
them use the language quoted by
MI. ANAooo, "ulSHs "uic IL pdi-
takes somewhat of "lese majestic"
has the old-fashioned virtue of stick
ing pretty closely to the truth.
But the public accepts these dis
comforts, as Mr. McAdoo says.
"cheerfully and periodically" just as
it. pays the increased freight rates
and passenger fares. The loyal
American citizen is willing to under
go more hardships than these as
part of mis- contribution to the force
with which we must win the war.
He is content with government con-
troll as war measure, but he cannot
be blamed If he INDUCES the hope
that after the war he will be able to
enjoy some of the conveniences that
formerly made travel joy instead
of a nightmare.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22

insurance plans so as to provide old
age incomes there would be a most
attractive field presented to convert
full war savings certificates into old
age annuities.
A profound impression has already
been made upon our national charac-
ter by this movement. although its
influence is only in Its beginnings.
1t needs no optimistic dreamer to see
that with one-third Of our population
committed to this form of saving,
the influence upon the character of
a generally corresponding people will
be incalculable. Meanwhile, the finan-
cial results that will flow from any
savings movement in which the in
dividual effort Is multiplied by thirty
five million will reach totals such as
the world has never before known in
this field
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22

Ottumwa Courier: II is regrettable
that Secretary McAdoo saw fit to in
ject into his otherwise admirable
order to railroad employees a petty
charge of partisanship which is in
capable of support and cheapens his
entire effort.
There are many people who for
partisan OF selfish purposes wish
government operation of the rail-
roads to be failure he wrote.
Every employee who is discourteous
to the public or makes excuses or
statements of the kind I have de-
scribed is helping these partisan or
selfish interests to discredft govern
ment control of railroads"
The excuses and statements to
which he referred were touched upon
in the following paragraph:
My attention has been called to
the fact that employees have
sometimes. offered as an excuse
for their own shortcomings or
as a. justification for delayed
trains or other difficulties the
statement that Uncle Sam is
running the railroads now" or
These are McAdoo's orders"
In another paragraph he refers to
the recent wage increase, says the
increased passenger and freight
rates are their direct result, and
adds, THE people accept this new
burden cheerfully and periodically"
The unvarnished fact, as everyone
knows who has had occasion to travel
for more than a few hours at time
since government operation of the
railroads was Instituted. is that the
regulations which are part and parcel
of government operation make it i'm
possible for railroad employees to per-
form many acts of courtesy for pa
irons of the roads which, in other
days, were extended uniformly.
1t was possible, a year ago, to buy
tickets for trans-continental trip on
several roads, with stop-over priv
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
THE FIGHTING PARsoN OF '7s

Christian Herald: Pastor William
L. Pieplow, in an address delivered
at the dedication of a service flag in
Milwaukee. Wis, told the following
incident in the life of the famous
pastor, Peter Muhlenberg:
Peter Muhlenberg, at twenty-nine,
preached to congregations scattered
along the Virginia frontier. He was
a friend of Patrick Henry, and went
hunting with George Washington.
After the farmers of Lexington fired
the "shot heard round the world
he determined to enlist and was
chosen colonel of the Eighth regi-
meft. Muhlenberg had no military
knowledge, but his character and
bearing proclaimed him a man to be
trusted in comm and. He set about
raising a regiment, and on his ar
rival at Woodstock his different con-
gregations were notified that he
would deliver his farewell sermon
to them on the following Sunday
1T was about the middle of Janu-
ary, 1776, and the rude country
church was filled to overlooking with
the hardy people of the mountains.
Even the churchyard was filled with
stern, excited men. Pastor Mullen
berg arrived. About his shoulders
was his clerical gown. After stir
ring his congregation with the
wrongs the people had suffered, he
said:
In the language of holy writ,
there's time for all things-a time
to preach and time to pray, but
those times have passed away
Then, in a voice which rang
through the church like a trumpet,
he cried:
There's a time to Highland that
time has now comet
Thereupon he stripped the cler-
ical gown from his shoulders and
stood before his people a girded
warriori Descending from the pull
pit he ordered the drums to beat,
and his people gathered about him
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
OLD AGE A CRIME

Some people are young at 6e-re
checked, rudy and vigorous. otheI
are old at 4O-joints beginning u
stiffen up a bit; step beginning 10 ~
and lose its springiness; occaslona3
touches of pain in the back, feel ureJ
without cause. and possibly tWlns7
of rheumatic pain
In most cases these are the dangel
signals ito warn you that the kidneys
are not promptly doing their Work ~
throwing off the poisons that are III
ways forming in the body. To negiec1
these natural warnings is crln1
against yourself. If you have thes1|
symptoms you can find prompt relie1
in GOLD MEDAL HARLEM OIL Capl
sules. For more than 200 years thls|
has been the recognized remedy io'l
kidney and bladder ailments. n
GOLD MEDAL Harlem OIL Cap|
sules are imported direct from tn
laboratories at HARLEM, Holland. 90
them at your druggists. Do not ian
q substitute. In boxes three sizes
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
TODAYs BIT OF VERSE
THE LAY OF THE COCK,


Who will awaken the Lay Of the Cock?
Who will praise his prowess and power?
Who will sing Of his virtues seven?
With royal train, whose sheeny stain
Is sable shot with ernerolde;
Breastplate broad OF brightest gold.
Scarlet crest, thick ruTeted
As CyDle's, on stately head;
Beard OF ruddier tint than is
If old legends lie mott his
Who, fuilarm'd, is slumbering still
Hid in the heart of Salzburg hill;
Shining cuisines, greaves Of steel,
Spleentul spur On knightIy heel;
Who is he doth lightly leap,
Flashing forth Ger the nights dim tent
When the dew Is deep and the lark asleep
Orient arms II the ORIENT
II is the guardian, gallant and gay
Of the great worlds drowsy conscience. Day
BY day he doth in the twilight wan
Rise mp, and with resonant roundeiay
From the cloyen cave-ns OF dream unlock
Sleeps bondsmens speeding upon their way
The wills and wishes Of waken'd man
Then on great sunbeam he springeth,
His -clashing vans doth thrice unlock
With shudder OF joy, and make sweet shock
OF ali his sheeny, siIken feathers;
And wingeth, but not far he wingeth,
His weighty flight, erect and tall
Descending on the breezy wall,
Where he with voice sonorous singeth,
After the fashion of his forefathers
To rally his clan from far away,
His ancient, famous roundelay.
Owen Meredith Gord Lytton).
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
An Iowa Plan.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
On September 2. 1916, there wal
introduced to the world Mr.. JONI
Hamilton, OF somewhere in Iowa.
He merited that. He furnished foul
farmers cattle to feed during winte(
up to April. He owned the cattle Al
the time. but charged the cost, plui
freight, up to the farmers bunch A
that time ii cost but $6.65 to s6SI
per hundredweight to put cattle Of
the farms. Mr. Hamilton first restel
the stock up. He agreed to take bacI
the cattle and do the shipping q
further feeding at S7.65 to s7.S5 pei
were from lab to 2321a pounds anq
1S1 to 237 pounds, owing to qualit1
of animal and feed. Some sold a
once for SS.75, some were worth ss|
but all were better stock to feed foI
sixty days more than the market az
forded Mr.. Hamilton exposed him
self to neither cold nor mud, and N
paid no commission for the extri
quality. The farmers were enabled
to use lot of stuff that otherwise
would have gone to waste. The own
er could turn off the cattle prior u
the summer dry and hot spell, any
so his personal comfort was assurel
while his capital worked. The. di9
ferent punches were figured TO farm
ers at 10641a and 1913 pounds pei
steer. and back to owner at 1915 "
1897. 1t has been tabulated lusI
what the value of feeder is in rel
erence to a fat steer. Age can ioi
figured, but not so Importantly as th1
condition The farmers could usJ
fall and winter pasture, silage, aj
falfa and corn culE, or corn and col
meal, but the owner finished wiz
coarse corn and cob meal and onej
fourth or one-fifth cottonseed mea9
all dry, feed and lot, and he save9
right at 81 per hundred on what goo1
feeders would cost when he wante1
them. So the fall Is the time TO pu1
for use when needed. and so seVeraI
people can have a fair chance any
the ANIMALS also. A shipper coul1
supply cattle as we'll as FEEDER
J. P. DICKSON
Keokuk. Iowa, Aug. 81, 1918.
Milwaukee machine shops enpio'1
more than 1000 women.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22

MarshalltOwn T1meS-RepuDllcan: II 8
only the man who shaves himself that
is willing to agree that barbering is a
Inon-esential occupation. And he can't
cut his own hair.
Ute Independent: When you bought
your war savings stamps YOU loaned
your money to the government for a
period of five years to be used in car
rying on the war. The war isn't over
and the five years aren't up. So don't
ask your Uncle Sam to give you your
money back now.
Davenport Times: Bolo Pasha is
dead, of course, but his case is another
reminder of the saw that the evil that
men do lives after them.
Boone Republican. President
Wilson did not stick to his determine
ton not to take vacation after all.
So much the better for President Will
son. It proves that he is human
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: We are
spending in this world war each day a
sum of money in excess of the cost OF
the entire revolutionary -ar, which
lasted a little more than seven years.
And the money of the revolution
wasn't worth a continental, either.
while at the present writing the Amer
lean dollar is the highest grade stuff
in the world q
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Still, those
conscientious DIRECTORS" keep on
wanting to live in country BORN out
of war and which is being made safe
for their children by few million
men not afraid to fight for those
things civilized people hold most
dear
Cedar Rapids Republican: ANY
young man who appeared before a
draft board with a hired attorney to
keep him from taking part in this war
will have something to explain. And
that is the status of young Ford. Of
Michigan, named Edsall.
Charles City Press: There's many a
man who knows he'd make good SOL
rdier who bowls with pain when they
leave sugar off his doughnut
Manchester Press People who look
for the war to end this fall because
during the last three weeks the Ger
mans have been driven back few
miles will in all probability be disap-
pointed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22

in enthusiastic, patriotic devote
Nearly 300 men of the front
churches were that day enlisted |
der the banner Of Muhlenberg."
Pastor Pieplow's church, st. Jaco
has given fifty-two of her sons
the country's service.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
Fashion Hints,

New York World: News from Paris
is to the effect that skirts are to be
higher. And what Paris does all allied
femininity will do. as matter or
course. Domestic fashion notes regard
ing mems clothes indicate that they
will generally be worn longer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
Voice Of the People

1.-THE Gate City does not assume n
sponsibility for views expire sed b
Writers of communl
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication, bq
for the information OF the editorl
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22

According to General Pershing, American
soldiers in France are already adopts in the art
of trenching And according to Hoover, Ameri-
cans at home are entitled to all kinds of encom-
iums for their skill In retrenching.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22

An exchange wants to know what has become
of the woman who a few years ago was singing
that she didn't raise her boy to be soldier.
She is proudly wearing service pin these days
and singing her boys praises to all the neigh
bors
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22

Premier Lloyd Georges speech in praise of
America goes far to prove that Englishmen are
willing to forget George the third if the max
ers of our schoolbook histories are.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22

Re have learn in a future world, and
think shall children to begin with when get to
heaven whatever when die, and shall
My Of heaven is to engaged in perpetual
ministry in this and other words.-Tennyson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
THE OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES IN KEoKUK

food staples on sala y
he consumer should paw :
9 appointed by ]. F. Eld1
shed with whatever ~
oy the food administraud
Consumer Should Pal
: $1.63 to $1.63 per saci
} Hh pounds or 7c
pound in less than n
packages.
SIC to CSC per sack Of al
pounds. or 7c per po,l
In less than mill pa1
ages.
$1.65 to SLIP per sack J
IAN pounds.
TIC to 6hc per pound
1870 to 14c per pound
&c to 61ac per pound.
TIC to 7xc per pound,
she to Sc per pound.
ono to 9Ac per pound
&c to 1910 Per pound
lac to 14hc per pound
12hc to lac per can.
&c to 6hc per can.
1870 to zoe per pound
zoe to 21hc per pound
1910 to 15c per pound
1910 to &c per can.
lee to 21Mc Per can
$50 to soc per can.
1Sc to 281zc per can.
14hc to 2S1kc per can.
16hc to 21hc per pow|
tic to acc per pound.
16c to 281sc per pound
1913 to 1857 per case
5 81 per pound.
1896 per rs pound sackl
5 .s5 per 10 pound sack
s .4s per 8 pound sack.
33c to 34c per pound.
33c to 36c' per pound.
29c to 30c per pound.
Sic to $40 per pound
34c to 35c per pound.
40c per dozen.
6oc per pound
33c to 35c per pound
&c per pound.
Soc to 43c per pound.
40c to 49c per pound.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-22
IOWA PRES COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times-Republiean It's
only the man who shaves himself that
is willing to agree that barbering is a
non-esential occupation. And he can't
cut his own hair.