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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-23

ALFRED from head to foot in new
working toys, Magistrate William
James, of Mahanoy City. Pit, returned
to the mines recently He says there
is more money in the new job. A
score Of saloonkeepers have gone
back to the mines, attracted by the
high rate OF wages.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-23
Sees Air Battles.

The London Statist is responsible
for the following figures as to war
prices on food: Vegetables in Eng
land have risen 1874 per cent; animal
food, so per cent; sugar, coffee and
tea. Sc per cent Foodstuts on an
average have risen ia per cent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-23

An invention for department stores
and mail-order houses is the wrapping
machine, which. by method Of ad-
justment, wraps packages of all sizes
uniformly and rapidly.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-23

A New York beauty doctor has been
sued for 5000 damages for running
the good looks Of one of his patients.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-23
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What Our
Lads Write

Eight days in the trenches is the
thrilling experience Corporal Raymond
Bossler, of Company L, 168th Infan-
try describes in letter written to his
uncle, o. A. Bossler, 1902 Orleans
street. -Four or five machines were
having an air battle over his head at
the time he penned the letter, he says.
This is the letter:
Now Back Of Lines.
"T am well and feeling fine. The
weather is warm and balmy for spring
has arrived The winter was very
cold with lots of snow. We have been
in the trenches and out again and
are now in support back of the lines
"We are stationed in barracks and
have a good place to sleep and good
feed. We were in the trenches eight
days and had several crashes with the
Germans. They crtainly did lombard
us most Of the time, day and night.
Sees Air Battles.
.T have seen several air battles
There were four or five machines hav-
ing battles above us today. 1 have
also seen several Boche machines
down. I have met Italian SOL
diers who worked on the dam in
Keokuk.
How is everything in Keokuk? I
was surely glad to hear from you"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-23

Yes. the Shriners have a goat, too.
Nearly every one thought camels
were the only animals the mystic
order possessed. but several MOBILES
were pulling nicely be-wniskered
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-23

for food bought by Austro-G Germans.
Thus does good sense hand the boot
to hyphenated kultur.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-23

mand peasants shrewdly de-
american money in exchange
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-05-23

William around with them today.
The goat is being fed on dynamite in
preparation for the evenings ordeal
the candidates win go through.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
WHAT YOUR
SUBSCRIPTION MEANS

When you subscribe to a Liberty
Loan you subscribe to the sentiment
that the world must be made safe for
democracy and subscribe to the fund
that is to make the world safe for
democracy.
You subscribe to the belief that in
nocent women and children on I'M
armed ships shall not be sent to the
bottom of the sea; that women and
children and old men shall not be
ravished and tortured and murdered
under the plea of military necessity;
that nurses shall not be shot for deeds
of mercy, nor hospital ships be sunk
without warning, or hospitals and un-
fortified cities be bombed or cannon
AIDED with long-range guns.
You subscribe to the doctrine that
small nations have the same rights as
great and powerful ones; that might
is not right, and that Germany shall
not force upon the world the domin-
ion of her military masters.
You subscribe, when you subscribe
to a Liberty Loan, to the belief that
America entered this war for a just
and noble cause; that our soldiers in
France and our sailors on the sea are
fighting for right and justice.
And you subscribe to the American
sentiment that they must and shall be
powerful, efficient, and victorious.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
OREGON MAN IN CHARGE OF
HORTICULTURE AT M. u

V. R. Gardner, professor of pomol-
ogy at the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, Corvallis, Ore, has been ap-
pointed professor of horticulture at
the University of Missouri to fill the
vacancy made by the resignation of
DR.. J. C. Written.
Prof. Gardner is an experienced
teacher and investigator. He took his
undergraduate work at the Michigan
Agricultural College, and majored in
horticulture. After he was gradu-
ated from this institution he spent
some time doing investigational work
in Michigan, one of the foremost hor-
ticultural States. From there he went
to Iowa State College as a graduate
student and assistant in the depart
ment of horticulture, and received his
Maser's degree in 1907. Prof. Card
ner was instructor in Macdonald Col
lege, st. Anne de Bellevue, Quebec,
for year, and for about three years
had charge of the department Of
horticulture at the University of
Maine. For the last seven and half
years he has been connected with the
Oregon Agricultural College, first as
associate professor and later as pro-
fessor of pomology and pomologist for
the, Experiment Station. Prof. Card
ner comes to Missouri highly recon-
rnended, and is recognized as one Of
the leading horticulturists Of the
West.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
CURTAILMENT OF
LOANS BY BANKS

Credit extended by banks to their
customers for nonessential purposes
hurts in several ways. First, it in
wolves the use of money that might be
better invested in Government securi-
ties, thereby helping to win the war,
and shorten the war with the conse-
quent saving of American lives. Sec
ond, it involves the use of labor, ma
terial, and transportation, which ought
to be left free to meet, to the fullest,
the needs of the Government. Third,
it involves unnecessary competition
with the Government, both delaying
Government operations and making
them more expensive.
Every resource of the United States
and its people should be devoted to
the winning of this war. We should
hit the Hun with all our strength. To
win the war we have got to keep our
soldiers in a high state of efficiency
and keep our people at home. and our
farms and mines and factories in a
high state of efficiency. We are not
keeping ourselves in the highest state
of efficiency when we are using money
and goods and labor and transporta-
ton for non-essential things, for lux
uries, and extravagances.
1t should not be left entirely to the
banks to carry out this policy. The
people should cooperate with them,
and curtail their expenses, their ex-
penditures, and their borrowings.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
PREPARING FOR PEACE

Lloyd George said recently that it
might easily be more disastrous to en-
ter peace without preparation than to
enter war unprepared. The world, he
affirmed, will be very molten when the
hour for peace comes and will cool
quickly. 1t is of the utmost import
ance that the right form be ready
that things may not set in the wrong
mold-a mold that cannot be changed
without another world-convulsion.
Already the Allies should be getting
this form for peace shaped and
ready for the momentous hour that
must come, soon or late. Eliminate
the politicians, the defenders of old in
trigues, policies and conventions, such
great business interests as think first
and last and all the time of financial
gain, let the rank and file of all the
peoples who have lavished their blood
and treasure to end the reign of auto
cratic might, of brutal power, of mil
itaristic ambition, of the divine rights
of kings, Of special privileges-let
these, through their representatives
through men who will actually repre-
sent them--let these be fashioning
this mold into which the molten world,
ready for peace, may set, and set in a
form both fair and enduring.
The vastness and complexity of this
task no one will deny. With the chaos
that will exist in European affairs
when the war is over, with the multi
tudinous interests of the many ma
tons, small and large, that will have
to be considered, the problems before
the peace conference of the world will
surpass in difficulty any mankind has
ever faced before. 1t will be nothing
less than the most stupendous of
blunders not to be prepared for the
day of settlement. Not only should
statesmen with the widest historical
vision be thinking upon this momen-
tous theme, but each of US as well, for
it is the interest of the common ev-
ery-day man that ultimately must be
considered.
sour of this agony of the world" to
quote Lloyd George again, "let US see
to it that no deformity is born-no
militarism, no mammonism; no, nor
anarchy, either"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
CONSERVATION OF CREDIT

Not only should the goods and labor
of the Nation be conserved for the
prosecution of the war; the credit of
the Nation must be conserved for the
same purpose.
This is being impressed upon the
banks, and it should be impressed up.
on the people, too-the borrowers
from banks.
All of the banks of the country are
being urged by the Federal Reserve
Board to curtail their loans. They
are urged to loan money only where
the borrower is going to use it in
some way that will aid in or contrib
ute to winning the war.
This policy is not aimed at hamper
ing legitimate business. 1t aims to
help win the war, which is the best
thing possible for business. 1t sim
ply means that money wanted for non
essential purposes should be refused.
Let the nonessentials wait until the
war is finished. The Government
needs the money to carry on the war.
The farmers, the men and the indus
tries engaged in war work or en-
gagged in producing things needed for
eAAS ShhSiSiSy pVbii VI uuJ SoiuttTS adiu
of our home people, need the credit to
carry on their enterprises.
Merchants should not borrow money
to stock up on Injuries or things that
the people should not buy at this
time. No one should borrow money
now to spend needlessly or extrava-
gantly. Unnecessary building, I'M
needed articles, unessential enter
prises should all await the ending of
the war.
The Federal Reserve Board points
out that in the interest of successful
Government financing it would be
much better for the banks to hold
credit within reasonable bounds by in
telligent cooperation rather than to
discourage borrowing by charging
high interest rates. The people should
cooperate with the Government and
the banks in this policy Of conserving
credit and curtailing borrowing ex-
cept where the money, directly or in
directly, helps win the war, helps our
soldiers who are risking their lives for
our country.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
UNCLE SAM WANTS THOU
SANDS OF STENOGRAPHERS

Washington, D. c., Aug. 24.-Not-
withstanding the fact that thousands
Of stenographers and typewriters have
been appointed in the Government SER
vice in Washington, D. c., since our
country entered the war, the United
States Civil Service Commission an
nounces that there is pressing need
for several thousand more workers of
this class. Women especially are urg-
ed to offer their services for this Of
flee work and thus help in a practical
way in the nations great undertake
ing.
Entrance salaries range from ST.
900 to $1,000 a year. Most appoint
ments are made at SLIGO. Higher
salaried positions are usually filled
through promotion, original appoint
ments at salaries in excess of $1,000
being rare.
Examinations are held every Tues
day in $50 cities, and the Commission
states that an examination will be
held in any city, day or night, when
there is prospect of assembling a
class of as many as three competitors.
Eligibility for appointment may be
obtained through passing an examina-
ton in practical tests in shorthand
and typewriting, or in typewriting
alone. 1t is practical to complete
such an examination in one hour.
Representatives of the Civil Service
Commission at the post offices in ell
cities are prepared to furnish definite
information to persons interested.
The Room Registration Office of the
District Of Columbia Council of Do
Tense maintains list of rooms in pri-
vate homes in Washington which are
available to newly appointed Govern
ment clerks. All rooms are carefully
inspected before being listed. The
Room Registration Office states that
the usual charge for rooming accom-
modations with board, that is, the
two principal meals of the day, is $40
a month. To obtain this rate It is US
ually necessary for two persons to
share room. In addition, the Gov
eminent is erecting residence halls,
including restaurants, for the use of
Federal employees in Washington. 1t
is expected that the first units will be
ready for occupancy by December.
The Room Registration Office states
that it is able to provide accommoda-
tons in the meantime.
.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
WAR PROFITS TAX AND
EXCESS PROFITS TAX
THE DIFFERREN CE

"By a war-profits tax we mean q
tax upon profits in excess of those re-
allied before the war.
"By an excess profits tax we mean
tax upon profits in excess OF a given
return upon capital.
"The theory of war-jrofts tax is
to tax profits due to the war.
"The theory of an excess-profits tax
is to tax profits over and above given
return on capital. The excess-profts
tax falls less heavily on big business
than on small business, because big
business is generally overcapitalized
and small businesses are otter under
capitalized.
"The wGr-profts tax would tax all
war profits at one high rate; the ex-
cess-profts tax does and for safety
must tax all evcess profits at lower
and graduated rates."
The above extract from Secretary
of the Treasury McAdoo's testimony
before the House Ways and Means
Committee gives his differentiation
between war-profits and excess-profits
taxes and explains his position in urg-
ing upoH SOuRIcSs ah SACSoS-pI OuIo
tax with an alternative war-profits
tax in the forthcoming revenue legis-
lation.
To the average citizen Secretary
McAdoo's position seems well taken.
Most small and local corporations are
capitalized at an actual valuation.
Many Of the very large corporations
are greatly overcapitalized; the stock
of some of them has been repeatedly
watered. With only an excess profits
tax corporation earning 10 per cent
on grossly watered capital will pay
the same tax as another corporation
not overcapitalized earning 10 per
cent on the real, actual valuation of
the money and property invested in
its business. The profits of the first
corporation might be 30 per cent on its
actual valuation, and it is to cover
such cases that war-profts tax is
urged.
As many of these large corpora
tions are engaged in Government work
and drawing huge sums from the
United States, it seems particularly
just that they should pay taxes on
The same actual basis as corporations
not overcapitalized. A tax that taxes
equally 10 per cent profit on water
ed capital and 10 per cent profit on
unwatered capital is not equal and uni
form and scarcely just.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
HUNS PREPARE FOR RETREAT
BY FORTIFYING THE MEUSE
BETWEEN DINANT AND GIvET

Amsterdam, Aug. 25.-Germany's
continued reverses have caused the
general staff to take precautionary
measures which were considered "out
of the question" only two months ago.
These include the completion of the
Mouse, in connection with which
trench digging has been started on a
large scale between Dinana and Gil
vet, thousands of prisoners of war and
Belgian civilians being occupied in the
work.
The Germans evidently believe they
will be forced back on the Mouse
front next winter, and doubtless hope
to cling to that line until spring.
/ had a talk today with Dutch
woman-of German descent, who had
just returned from visit to rela-
tives in a small village near Bonn, OH
the Rhine. This woman, who had not
been in Germany for two years, al
though personally much attached to
the old country, and who has lost two
brothers in the war, made the follow
ing statement:
"The impression gathered from
what saw and heard in Germany was
one of real despair. In spite of what
the newspapers say, or, rather, do not
say, Germany's retreat makes the
worst possible impression in Germany,
especially on the Rhine, as the people
there know that they will be the first
to be hit if the enemy ever comes.
People Expect Invasion.
"The idea that German soil would
be inviolate to the last has complete
ly disappeared and on the Rhine ev-
erybody expects, sooner or later, a
foreign invasion. Many families are
making plans to leave for the center
of the Empire.
"The ravages made by the Allies
aircraft are simply terrific. Nobody
is allowed to print word about them,
but you make take it from me when
you read that there has been some
material damage, it means that whole
streets have been torn up, with ter
rible casualty list to complete the
picture.
"The Germans would have endured
everything-a continuance of the
blockade, famine, rations, lack of
shoes and clothes, and all the rest-if
their military successes had contin-
ued. No one ever believed it would be
otherwise. The disappointment, there
fore, is something tragic and many
persons told me, "if we haven't peace
soon we are lost And that is what
everybody thinks.
Terrible Conditions Prevail
"To add to the general discourage
ment the Germans lack food and
clothes, and the price of linen is ris-
ing to fantastic heights. How the PEG
pie stand it cannot understand. / am
terribly weakened through remaining
in Germany two weeks. It's really too
terrible for words.
"There is little hope, either, for the
future. Some of the people still be-
lieye there will be a revolution in
France, England or America that will
end the war, but even the prospect
of the Kaiser's sudden disappearance
does not help them.
Germany, as / just saw it, is the
saddest country in creation. } One new
err sees anyone laugh, and, in fact, the
onlysSmile / detected was at a NOV
ing picture show in Bonn, when an
American pre-war film was exhibited"
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
COUNTY HOME DEMONSTRA-
TON AGENT DELAYED

The Home Demonstration work in
fifteen counties of the State has been
held up, due to the fact that Congress
postponed the passing of the emergen-
cy food bill. This means that it will
take at least two weeks or longer af-
ter the passage of the bill before the
agents can be assigned to the coun-
ties.
We regret this exceedingly, but il
is something which is beyond our con-
troll.
MRS. F. j. ANTOINE,
County Food Chairman.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30
Mother O Mine, I'll Meet You By and By

Mother O mine remember in days that more
How oft stood beside you with wide and wondering eyes
And listened to the stories you told DER and Ger
The treasured tales of childhood from lands and Skies
Sometimes instead of stories you sang sweet songs
When had learned to sing them them, you and
Today, dear heart, I'm leaving to help make free
Let's keep old song singng-I1l meet you by and BY
Mother O. mine, remember though now I'm grown a
And a soldiers ramsnt by which I'm gorfed,
I'm still your boy ever and here's my heart and hand
When keep watch at twight-you by the old roofree
And the beneath a far-of sky
The stars will be shining for you and me,
The we'll be snging-Tll meet you by and by
Mother O. mne remember please God I'll the blue,
When drums beat longer and battle flags urd
And find here to welcome warrior home to you
Both glad served and helped world
But if some day a message should flash the SEAS
Your soldier boy has fallen where heroes dare and de-
Forget days of anguish the hours your
And set heart to singng-In meet by and by.
Mother O. mine, remember, when back again
may not find you waiting to throw your around,
For God may send his angel and you'll be sleeping then
The sleep that knows waking till Gabriels trumpet
mother, shall miss far than tongue tell
Your sweet kiss of welcome the loveght in your eye
But this shall be my comfortz-In Heaven all is we'll
And I'll just keep singng-Tn meet you by and by.
T. Berry Smith
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30

No doubt the King of England is
glad to know that the Irish home rul-
ers have dropped the slogan "Let
George do it,, for the latest and most
popular wall of trouble makers, "Let
Woodrow do it."
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-08-30

We cannot but admire the Judgment
Of Explorer Amundsen, who is pre-
pairing to leave for the North Pole snd
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-04-26
ULTON TO CELEBRATE
LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE
TO Hold Enthusiastic Meeting Monday
Evening in Honor Of Tripping
Quota Of Bonds.

Fulton has received its Liberty Loan
service flag with two stars on it, and
Las the honor II being the only city or
town in the state 10 triple is quota OF
The Third Liberty l.o;Ln EondS. No;
sat istird with this. the committees arc
S,i:ll working night and day until bonds
equal 10 almost four times of the. town s
quota have b"cn disposed of. In tho
event OF selling four times rs much as
their quota. the town will be the proud
recipient OF Il third star. gold one.
whica is very seldom given.
In order u give this achievement OF
the people OF tho town n hitting ooScrr-
ancc the citizens OF the town are plan
ming l;rg celebration TO hc held next
Monday evening The festivities Will
start with parade and practically cv-
cry one in the. town will turn out To
participate. The line of march vii!
move forward at O'Clock. and will
cover every street in tho town.
Upon the termination of the parade,
which will BE- headed by band. the
flag will be raised over the Fulton
public school building on Fifth street.
Albert NJ. Schcnk will introduce the
S,rakcrs OF the occasion. who will be Il.
&, Ogden who will deliver the pr"scnta-
lion address. and Judge Frank W. Nos
bitt who will deliver the patriotic ad-
dress. All efforts 70 MAX" this one M
The most memorable occasions OF The
towns history are under way. AMI 1t IS
expected 20 be @ grand success from
every point OF view.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-04-26

Tyler Grown-ups who know life and
how hard it is for some folks to find joy
III it. are the most loyal admirers of
the orphan optimist, one Of the most
fascinating characters between bouk-
covers OF upon the stage. How sh"
swcctcns up sourcd natures and puts
trouble TO flight by sheer force Of mag
nct!c example. is all good comedy. with
sonic touches Of sentiment and romano.
for Poll gamma is not only seen i'll short
Skirtcd checked ginghaIn. but later ~
the fluffy finery Of sweet seventeen. }"
The rluttcrinS enjoyment OF her IRIS
love. Miss Helen Noycs. the youngest
leading lady on the American stag"
phys tho leading part that OF Polly
anna Whittier. George Allison. john
Webster. Fanchon Campbell. Agnes Gil
lca. Adrian Morgan. Master Donald Nc
LELAND and others. are prominent III
her support