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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
WAY OF A JAPANESE WOMAN.

Atlantic Monthly: Lafcadio Hearn
was very critical man. For instance
when he was doing business with pub
fishers in foreign countries, and be-
cause he was so far away, the publish
or would take the liberty of deciding
the arrangement of such things as
book-covers and illustrations without
consulting Hearn, who was very par
ticular about all details. At such
times Hearn was often made furiously
angry. When he received letter
from the publishing house, he would
Immediately write back fierce (sic)
answer in anger, and order it to be
mailed at once; but then l would say
yes and hold IT over a mail or two
Two or three days afterward, when he
had become calm, he would regret
that he had written too severely, and
would ask, "Mamma-san, have you
mailed that letter." I would answer,
Eyes" and watch to see whether he
really regretted 1t, if SO, would give
him the letter. He would be immense
~ pleased and say, "Mamma-san, you
are the only one," and would begin a
new letter In a milder tone.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
American, Y. NJ. C. A. Work in
WILDLY Island, Bantry, Ireland
Washington
ofieers, Square, s. w.

walton. He is a very valuable man
as an educator and in religious lines.
Arrangements are being made to
chaperon a party to Killarney next
Sunday. The captain here is very
helpful and gracious, and told me
that as long as we kept the men sat
isfied, 20 go as far as / liked. A
number of fellows are wanting to
send money. home, and l think it
should be encourag ed / don't want
the least opportunity to escape to be
OF service to these fine fellows. We
have dandy camp; the water sup
ply is a problem, but the men are
happy and willing to do anything.
Last night after Chow" we con-
verified an almost impossible stony
field into a respectable diamond. We
had two auto trucks and hauled dirt
and filled up holes. and all worked
very hard You can count on our
sticking tight and making the best
of whatever we have on hand here.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14


has expended his force or relin-
quished his effort to conquer. If
there is great hope. so much great
er must be the measure of attack. If
we are at the turning point, 1t fol-
lows without argument that we must
turn the point 1t would be lame and
unbelievable to relax and drop the
hammer just when the impact is at
hand. Just as the first and succeed
ing Liberty loans were necessary to
give the blow momentum, Just SO
necessary is the fourth loan to give
1t crushing force. So long as men
are fighting IN the field 1t is i'm
perative that we struggle to main
tain them. Optimism is great so
lace. But don't try to buy bonds
with it. You can't whip Germany
with hope. 1t takes bullets. Bonds
buy bullets
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
SAVE THE WAlSTcOAT.

New York Sun: A proposal OF the
National Association Of Retail Cloth
iers to restrict, during the war, men
outer garments to two pieces, that
is, to eliminate the waistcoat, will
be turned down decisiFely, sternly,
by gentlemen unafraid of their
tailors Two or three months IN the
wear the unreasonable inconveni'
ence of going about without waist
coat because the thermometer makes
clamor for less clothing is all of that
man can endure.
Few men wear waistcoat for or
nament; in peace and war it is an
essential garment; it's utility gives
II its value. Deprived OF it in July
and August, man suffers the annoy
ance of carrying otherwise than in
their accustomed Places watch, pen
ell. fountain pen, eyeglass case,
cigars. matches, cigar cutter, small
change. notebook, his wife's list OF
articles urgently needed, the theater
tickets bought to square himself at
home because he forgot 10 buy them
and various more or less valuable
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

realized, even in part, until long after
his death, but to this day the canal
is a carrier of trade between Cum
berland, Maryland, and Georgetown,
in the District of Columbia. 1t de-
rives it's water partly from the Poto
mac. and if deepened would be Ok
much Importance to the national
capital. 1t has for years been under
railroad control. The government has
now placed additional boats upon 1t
and the lock crews are working night
and day. The channel is becoming
as busy as it was in civil war days,
when eight hundred boats, ten times
the number which it had when the
federal authorities took charge, were
in constant operation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

Sioux City Journal: The amend
ment to the draft bill providing for
student army training corps has the
stamp of genius 1t is the most for
ward looking piece Of legislation that
has been enacted by a war congress.
Its value to the youth of the country
can hardly be oyerestimated. 1t has
opened the door Of opportunity to
thousands of young men that could
not have been opened in any other
way. The governments magnanimous
proposition, If carried out according
to its intent, and accepted in the
proper spirit, will widen the horizon
of life for many men who would
otherwise have remained In the mar
rover paths of mechanical pursuits.
The government can be trusted to
know what it wants. The war has
demonstrated to experts the vital
need of broader training for the
average young men of the country,
and the congress has had the fore
sight and courage to provide a means
for that training. Educators and
philanthropists have long since seen
the need of this training and have
done what they could to provide It,.
But the efforts of individuals, no
matter how enlightened, have of
Necessity been limited in scope, and
lit has remained for the government
at one stroke to make provision for
lit as broad as the nation itself.
No doubt the cry OF socialism will
be raised No matter. 1t is construc-
tive socialism of high order. And
there can be no question of its need.
In the present crisis the government
needs and must have the most com
petent as well as the largest force
!of trained men in the world. 1t needs
them for its army and navy; but 1t
Ialso requires them for its vast civil
and industrial forces. In fact, 1t Is
easier to find men enough for its
fighting forces who are competent,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
THE LAST FLIGHT.

THE LAST FLIGHT
o God OF France pilots pray
For Frances safety, and obey
Thy pointed finger in the gale
Hail Thee. Master of Storms, all Hail!
Keep this day from sudden so-ro6,
Spare today, for I'm home Tomorrow.
Guard me this day 'gatnst the weakened wire,
The tiny bullet Of flying fire,
The treacherous wing that would buckle or break,
To drag N down in its whisuing wake.
The brings respite from lighting and flying
And breath Of the Seine day is dying.
o God OF France, by the prophet sung,
4.The eagle beareth her young,
Let me pass quickly the curtain OF shei,
Grant Thy conduct, and landing well.
Watc5, DER my flight till the sun be setting,
For the faces of friends, and weeks forgetting
Only this day grant me Thy care
Where tempt the avenues OF air.
Lest heart joyful of earthly things
Should needless fall meath the foernen's wings
Grant Thy support should be falling
Tomorrow I go, and Paris is calling!
On the soldiers road the Care de Nord,
,rs,ereps a vision love we've loved before,
THE Tour Faffe1 keeping eternal tryst
with towering Montrnartre through the Paris mist
n Great Storm Master from sudden sorrow
Keep me this day, for I'm home tomorrow!
~F D. H, in Leslie's Week.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

With more of our men coming in
here now. there is plenty of work to
do. On the Fourth of July we had
great day-a baseball game in the
morning, score $40, and In the after
noon a field meet, with the usual en-
tries. The captain and officers at
tended: some played ball, and the
men all voted it great success. IN
the evening there was mock trial,
and a sing-song rounded out a most
perfect day. The weather could not
have been improved upon, and many
of the men said they would never
forget the Fourth Of July on WILDLY
island"
The captain sprang a surprise in
the way Of a flag raising, and now
Old Glory floats in the breeze and
cheers the hearts of the brave men
who are willing to lay down their
lives in her defense. E. Evans has
been quite i'll and was sent to
Queenstown by the doctor for obser-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
EMOTIONAL LEGISLATION.

IT is inevitable IN times like these when legls-
Iation is pushed through under high emotional
pressure and all possible haste that many mis-
cbieyous laws will cucumber the statutes on the
return of peace The American Bar association
therefore very properly protests that emotion
should not be permitted TO displace reason and
that .enactrnents difficult to undo, pernicious in
principle, unwise or unnecessary, should not as
war measures be imposed upon the people.
Naturally every radical and fanatic, whatever
mis- or her peculiar Inonomania may be, is tax
ing advantage of the war in order to force per-
sonal views on the country. Some of them
realize that it is now or never with them, and
that when peace brings leisure for the full con-
1sideration of their innovations the good sense
spf the people will assert itself and propositions
so radical as to require amendment of the con
sstitution will have to stand or fall upon their
enerits.
For conditions will not be always or long as
hhev are today Peace will come, next year as
nnow seems probable Reason, instead of pas.
sion emotion, fanaticism and frenzy viii rule
hhe deliberations of law-making bodies and citi-
gems will no longer tamely submit to the invas-
ion of their traditional, inalienable rights which
linclndes the pursuit of happiness wherever
they fancy it may be found. 1t will be we'll for
the country if it can sidetrack to more tranquil
times all the radical propositions of infatuated
mHaatisLsa This Is no time to change the fed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
DIR. GARF1ELD's RESPONSIBILITY.

Fuel Administrator Garfield will not be able
to shift responsibility for the coal situation so
long as the railroad administration meets the
fuel administrations transportation demands.
Director General McAdoo does well to make
this point clear. He says the country has been
led to believe that coal production is limited
entirely by transportation and that any short
age is due to the railroads, and he adds that
this is error The public will accept his
statement without question until DIR. Garfield
can show that delivery of coal is delayed by
lack of cars and motive power. There can be
no division of responsibility for coal short
age while the railroads are doing all that the
fuel administration asks them to do.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
WASHINGTON AS CANAL BUILDER

American Review Of Reviews:
There is something of poetic justice
in the fact that one of the first of The
old sluices 10 be rehabilitated was the
Chesapeake and Ohio the building Of
which was pushed by General George
Washington, who was the first presi-
dent of the construction company
which called IT into being. The
Father of His Country was so con-
yinced that the future prosperity of
the nation had much to do with
water transportation by canal, that
he obtained a leave of absence while
he was still commander. of the revo-
lutionary army that he might start
the survey for the waterway wiki
which he hoped TO connect the waters
OF the Chesapeake bay with the I'M
sailed Ohio. The project was never
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
THE REAL WORLDS CHAMPIONS.

The common, ordinary worlds series mas
been played and the championship decided IN
favor of the Boston team. But there Is going on
all the time series of baseball championship
games played far afeld and under very different
circumstances An account of the champion
ship game between Trench fifteen and Trench
twenty-five is at hand The diamond was no
diamond at all, says the chronicler. 1t was only
pasture in Lorraine where the holes torn by
shells had been filed and the ground leveled.
Guns We're speaking from woods behind hrst
base; shells flew over the field at intervals. In
the sixth inning the umpire, 7. Nj. Q. A. ath-
letic director, who had ridden his motorcycle
six miles that morning to bring balls and bats,
had to call time when a shell fell in the playing
field, but In few moments damages to the
grounds were repaired and the game went on.
The outstanding fact about that game is that,
whoever won, both teams are worlds champ
ions.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
TAKE THE LOAN, DON'T HOPE 1T.

Chicago Tribune In no human
breast does hope spring so eternally
or so abuadantly as in the Ameri-
can. We are disposed 70 ignore a
ton of pessimfstic facts in our grasp
for an ounce of optimism. In ordi-
nary times this is the spirit that
keeps America forever young and
everlastingly on the alert. But war
must be accepted only at its face
value. We must minimize neither
victory nor defeat just now the
allies are In the ascendancy But
this does not mean that the enemy
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
RUNNING SORES OF
LONG STANDING CURED
BY NUMBER

James Robinson, s21 Rowley IL
Evansville, Ind, makes the foiioN.l
statement: II suffered for hve 80
with running sores from blood poi, II.
of long standing. / doctored Win
best physicians and tried a numDei
advertised remedies but receiver =
permanent benefit. My brotherlns
R. Tadlock, advised me to try
Der 40 For The Blood. After M
the first bottle l was benen.eu M
was completely cured with nfe
ties and at this time, twelve no
later, I have experienced no slen
the disease returning" Persons ,ar
fering with blood poison in any
should not delay but ges "Nuiaoei
at once.
Sold by McGratl1 Bros. Drug -
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Fort Dodge Messenger: Imagine
the thoughts of a soldier standing
kneedeeD in trench mud with shells
bursting all around him when he
reads in a letter from America, I'VE
are telling the war now. We get no
more than two pounds of sugar each
month, and / have not seen wheat
bread for weeks"
Atlantic News-Telegraph: Pierce
could WELD a good influence If he
would. He could be power in the up
building of the state, but he has chos-
en- the other path. He Is chronic
kicker. and if it isn't one thing its
another. But he can't monkey with
Uncle Sam.
Alta Advertiser: The news from the
battle front inspires every American
heart, not only with pride and patriot
ism but with great incentive to DO
his or her bit There is no Sinking,
no selfishness by American soldiers ID
France; there should be none here.
Onowa Democrat: Now that the
preachers are coming back-so many
4 of them-from the seashore and
mountain resort, refreshed by we'll
earned vacations, to resume their
useful pastoral work, We, who have
been all summer on the Job, may per-
{ haps presume to give them some ad-
vice as to what we want from them
before they start in on the fall and
winter campaign against the world
the flesh and the devil.
Perry Chief: Forget about what you
/ viii have TO do after the war. Right
now ii is I'D to you to do omething
tc win the war. Just as tip, the
fourth Liberty loan will be with US
( this month.
Cedar Rapids Gag tie: Some OF the
eminentIy practical business men IN
the council of national defense are IN
grave danger of becoming so eminent
IL practical that st hurts. anyhow,
I their suggestion that Christmas Civ
ling this year be confined TO letters
and postcards is needlessly cold-blood-
T ed and helpless.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

eral constitution in order to accomplish what
each commonwealth can do for itself and when
ever its people feel that the proper time mas
come. Congress viii show as much wisdom Dy
deferring action on some things as fastening 1t
on others.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

''How shall we solve the social problem in
Mexico?" asks one Of the bright members of
the literary staff of the federal bureau of pub
icity. One way might be to permit every citi-
zen to serve limited term as provisional presi-
dent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

IT'S not the dying for a faith that's SO hard
every man of every nation has done that
It's the living to it that is difficult Thack-
cray.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14
IN SPITE OF SUGAR SHORTAGE.

Before long thirty three million gallons of
sorghum will be available for marketing, gov
eminent bulletin announces. This syrup is not
a sugar house by-product but is made directly
from cereal grass. 1t must be canned and
cooled to prevent fermentation, but properly
handled it Is a good substitute for sugar In
cooking and for table use. Some of the market
able product contains a modicum of cane sugar,
but this will be eliminated through a coming
government order During the civil war the
north took 20 sorghum syrup and liked it. 1t
was widely used to sweeten tea and coffee, and
it was the stable sweetening for cookery. The
large supply, which be greatly increased as
demand is created, promises to give us sweet
ening in spite of sugar shortage.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

Each despatch from German war CORES
pondents proving the allied offensive failure
comes from a spot a little nearer Berlin.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

documents such as the o q ne "
ceived after the last Jackpot va
played, the broken cuff link y
means to have mended, the buttol
torn from his coat he INTENDS Y
have replaced, the time table Oh
railway on which he will neVa
travel. :.
To stow these manly essentials !.
already overfilled pockets OF co..,
and trousers so adds to the toll y
living in the hottest months oil i ".
year that some brave spirits suiLs
the lesser evil of wearing Wa''
coats. Some prefer to die.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

Canadians are discussing the qoe'
ton of having aliens now in inter.
ment camps in Canada employed u
the highways OF Canada
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

Problem for statisticians: If the govern
ment should decide to keep the railroads and
telegraph lines after the war, how many loans
would it be necessary to float to keep this coun-
try in the going concerns class? Also, how
many, or how few, reserve banks would be
needed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

There something bigger than and that is self
sacrifice, service We that he dies
ideal will forever live, and that without ideals,
though should die, he has never truly lived
We glorious thing, and one fulfilling
thing in life and that Is serviee.-Freemsn Tiden.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-14

Germany's army has developed from stand
ing army into a running one.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-01
STEFANSSON AT DAWSON
AFTER ARCTIC TRAVAIL
VIII Lecture for Red Cross Until
His Spent Endurance Is Re-
stored for Exploration.

DAWSON, 7. T., August 31.-En
route to Esquimalt. B. c.. and thence
to New York via Ottawa, Vilhjalmur
Stefansson. Arctic explorer, QUILTED
himself with store clothes" here yes
terday, his first opportunity in i've
years He arrived Thursday wearing
moccasins and other rough garments.
Before going to Ottawa he will visit
his mother at Wynward, near Saska-
toon. He will leave here tomorrow or
Monday.
Stefansson is anxious to help the al
lied cause and believes he can do this
best by giving lectures in the United
States for the Red Cross He expects
It will be many months before he re-
gains his former physical endurance
and is able to resume Arctic explora-
tons
Following his illness from pneu-
monta and pleurisy at HerSchel last
January, he travelled for weeks with
dogs over snow-covered mountains,
to Porcupine river and thence to Fort
Yukon. where he took treatment for
$50 days
Stefansson reports no definite news
from Storkerson. his assistant who
Storkerson last sent back word in
April that he had reached a point ITS
miles north of the Alaskan coast, op-
posite Cross Island That location is
100 miles beyond the Lefhngwell-
Mkkelson party'S advance point the
faFtheSt north ever reached in that
section of the Arctic,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-01
AND HER CHILDREN
SAFE IN CRIMEA, IS RUMOR
German Musician Utters Belief That Gear
Lives-Both Possibilities Discounted.
Nicholas Body Has Disappeared.

terinburg coal mine and there de-
stroyed.
The officer was unable to learn the
whereabouts of the deposed rulers
family, except that he knew they had
been spirited away from Yekaterin-
burg.
The execution of the former en-
peror took place July Is. So far as
the officer was able to learn, the com.
mandant of the Yekaterinburg soviets,
who was reported to be sailor, killed
Nicholas with revolver.
Red guards who were commanded
to kill their former emperor refused,
as also did a Lettish firing party.
Then the commandant drew his own
revolver and shot Nicholas dead.
The Czecho- Slovak officer, however.
heard many other versions of the
affair.
cossacks entered the city July 6.
the main body of Czecho-Slovak
forces arriving two days later. The
bolshevik troops in their flight car
ried away with them large quantity
of gold and platinum.
The officer, disguised. left Yeka-
terinburg August 2. passed through
hostile lines and went to Vologda.
where he thought the entente allied
embassies had taken up quarters.
Learning that the entente diplomats
had left vologda for Archangel, he
made his way through another hostile
army.
The officer declared that the czecho-
Slovak, Pole and Cossack officers and
volunteers formed great united
army. which was making steady
progress and winning battles. He
termed the bo1shevik communications
to the contrary as untrue.
The people of the villages and
towns, he added. welcomed the
Czecho-Slovak forces with food and
flowers
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-09-01
I. W. W. LEADERS TO APPEAL.
Large Defense Fund for Carrying
Case to Supreme Court.

CHICAGO, August 31.-Wllliam D.
general secretary-treasurer
of the L W W., and mnety-four OF his
associates, sentenced by Federal Judge
Lands yesterday to prison terms rang
ing from ten days to twenty years and
to pay fines aggregating $2,735,000 for
conspiracy in Interfering with the gov
ernment's conduct Of the war, will ap-
peal their cases.
George F. vanderveer, chief counsel
for the defendants, was busy today pre-
pairing to take the cases to the higher
courts. He announced that next Tues
day he will apply to the United States
circuit court Of appeals for writ Of
error.
In the meantime Judge Lands has
granted a stay of execution, which will
permit the convicted men to be held in
Chicago until next Friday.
The L W. W., it is said, has collected
a large defense fund, with the idea OF
ultimately taking the case to the United
States Supreme Court.