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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
THE RISE AND FALL OF NITRO

off the field, when it was pied
and burned; and at the same
time the administration was
shipping in carloads of feed for
the subsistence of the live sto ,h
it had there.
When horses were tired and
tagged out, instead or giving
them rest they were taken UP tho
branch to the crematory. killed,
and first class lumber piled upon
their carcasses ana burned. Fin
ally, after the armistice was
signed and construction slowed
up, some of the horses were adj
vertised for sale at $40 per head
Citizens offered SIS for such
horses, and instead Of making
the sale the government employees
at Nitro killed them and burned
them in the manner above
stated Millions OF dollars worth
of government property going to
waste, while hundreds of idle
employees, at extravagant prices,
sit around and perform no serv-
ice whatever for the govern
ment.
Employees at Nitro went to
Gallipolis, Ohio, fifty miles away,
got drunk, were arrested and
locked up, and stayed away from
Nitro as long as fourteen days
at time, yet they drew COM
pensation for the entire time
they were absent. Men VINO were
in Gallipolis drunk boosted that
their time was going on at gov
eminent expense at Nitro.
Any man who came along with
a hammer and saw and told the
government agents no was a car
penter was put on the pay roll
at carpenters wages--I think 81
day. Any man who came along
with. a soldering iron and
monkey wrench and told the
government agents that he was
a plumber was put on the pay
roll at plumbers wages-as ! re-
call 50 per day, with time and
half time for overtime, Sundays
and holidays-thus increasing
his wages to $3.50 per day,
while West Virginia boys from
this very locality fought in the
battle trenches of Europe at $50
month.
Thousands Of dollars were
spent in putting in WORN at the
instance of some incompetent
engineer, only to be torn out by
instructions of some other engi-
neer who perhaps was less COM
petent.
make no charge of criminal
action, but it would be interest
ing to the public il it could be
ascertained why the onIy serious
fires that occurred at Nitro burn
ed only the buildings that con-
tanned the public records.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
The world is woman's book.-Rosseau-
A QUESTION ANSWERED.

President Schurnan, of Cornell university,
at Ithaca, n Y, takes the ground that the COW
enant as the president explains it means sub
stantially what the reservations suggested by
Messrs Root and Hughes and others would
make it say Then why not, says DR.. Schurman,
adopt these reservations interpretive OF the
treaty, make them part of it, ratify it and get
it out of the way2
The answer is short and simple The presl-
dent has not yet permitted his followers IN the
senate to make the covenant say what he says
ii means As it stands, people of equal intelll-
gence disagree totally as to its meaning. AS
far as its wording makes its thought clear, 1t
binds us to do and suffer many things which the
American people would never do or endure.
The president tells the country that IT does NOT
mean this, but he convinces no one who reads
the treaty for himself; for in it, plainly stated,
black on white, are the specific obligations
which the president endeavors to explain away.
The treaty should never be ratified until It's
meaning is made clear beyond the possibility
of rnisconstructon. We want no such bitter
controversy between America and foreign pow
ers as has for months been waged between the
senate and the president of the United States
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
SOME BLANK PERIODS.

On about as good authority as can be clam
ed for any news from Russia, 1t is SAID that the
bolshevik leaders have decided to create what
they call ga blank generation TO this end
they would not educate the children but destroy
what there is of Russian civilization, science
and art in order to cut the people off from their
past 1t hardly need be added that Prusslan
mlitarism, which is already schemlng and
dreaming of exploiting the empire, looks with
benignant approval on this plan. The less
thinking exploited people do the more tractaole
and profitable they are.
Europe has had blank centuries The So
called dark ages was such a period. handfull
of people, the merest fraction of the whole, had
IA monopoly of such enlightenment as there was
and used it to promote their selfish interests.
Generation after generation the people as
whole became more ignorant, helpless, hopeless
and debased Peoples that had been the lead
ers of civilization were set back Thousand
years and have never been able to recover their
former place But for the fact that there were
lands where the blighting influence of the de-
cadents could not reach. it is an open question
in many minds if civilization would not have
persisted. Certainly the world of today would
be largely cut off from the world of the gor-
ous periods of Greece and Rome had not So
called infdel nations kept the spark OF the
earlier learning alive. As to the cause of these
blank centuries there is no general agreement,
but the theory that churchianity gave a nearly
fatal lower turn to christianity seems most ten
able on the whole, and that the movement to
rpulift humanity which the Founder Of our
faith began got temporarily out of hand.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

l.. s. Echols, representative IN
Congress From West Virginia:
There has been s50,O0o,000, or
more, of the governments money
wasted in my district within thu
last two years, Such miserable
extravaganza, regret to say, is
still going on there. When
came here to attend this session
of congress, the administration
was expanding at Nitro $250,000
per month furnishing automo-
biles to scores Of employees, and
paying hundreds of clerks,
stenographers and typists ex-
travagant salaries for sitting
around in Offices of that compare
lively deserted village looking at
each other. There was not one
single thing being manufactured
or produced at Nitro by the gov
eminent. The employees were
doing nothing there except I'M
loading about forty-rlve carloads
of empty shells per DAY. This
service should not have required
the labor of more than 100 men,
yet there were on the pay roll
at that time 2,100 people re-
ceiving Compensation far in ex-
cess of that now being paid thou
sands of postal clerks who really
render valuable service to the
government.
There was then at Nitro Sl0.-
100000 worth of cotton, most of
which was out in the fields ex-
posed to the weather, rotting,
and no effort upon the part of
the government TO dispose of it.
There were 10000 tons of sui
phur that had cost the govern
ment S31 per ton piled on the
ground by the sidetracKs, and
there appeared to be no effort
upon the part of the administra-
ton to protect or dispose of it.
There We're thousands of feet of
lumber and hundreds of trucks,
automobiles, wagons and dump
carts scattered around over gov
eminent property going to ruin,
and no effort upon the part OF
the administration to take care
or dispose of it. Since coming
here, | have been informed that
thousands of feet of such lumber
have either been burned or
dumped into the Great Kanawha
river. In addition, there were
tons of copper wire. nails. iron.
steel rails. and hogsneads of
dishes destroyed or buried at
Nitro.
A specific Illustration of adj
ministIation destruction OF prer-
erty is found in this-when the
government took over the land
upon which this plant is located.
there were IS o. 100 acres of
corn, and at maturity 200 m IN
were put to work cutting the com
and carrying it and the fodder
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08


The Nations Business: How shall
we define normal price" today?
Are these times normal? And prices,
moreover, have no fixed relation to
prosperity What we call the cost OF
living has actually no real relation to
prices. Fo- willis the present price
level is high. the human effort that
must be put forth to live. which Is
the actual cost of living" is as low
as it ever has been-far lower for us
than ever In any one country in tho
history OF the world--simply because
in most cases a days work will buy as
much and som etimes more than before
the war and because given amount
of labor will secure an amount OF
necessities and Injuries that men,
say twenty-five years ago, never
dreamed of possessing.
There is no doubt that salaried peo-
pie and unorganiezd laborers have
suffered from the fluctuating dollar
and that Spectators have made tenn
porary large winnings, but, by and
large, the cost of living in the sense
of this country's productiyeness, the
yield Of it's natural resources, the ac-
feasibility of it's supplies brought
about by the vast net work of distribu.
ton, is on an excellent basis.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
Furnishing Road-Hoss in Seattle.

Spokane Spokesman-Rey1eW: Ihe
automobile and motorcycle become
no less deadly as their umbecs
multiply and the years roll on. The
VIC. hit of an automobile going at 4
hish speed gives 1t a moIaspruln
comparable to that of the locomotive,
and it is not confined TO two rails,
but ranges freely over the width of
a highway. The crowded condition
of city streets and the recklessness
Of many drivers and of some pedes-
TRANS also make it Imperative 10
have drastic regulations for the Use
of autos and rigid enforcement Of
the regulations.
Judge Gordon of the municipal
court Of Seattle, shows what can and
ought to be done for the protection
of the public. A couple of days $50
he made the following announce
ment:
After today jail sentences viii be
imposed on alleged speeders, in cGr-
formity to the new law which gives
cities the right to regulate speeding.
have been operating on the
schedule that So mile for excess
speed are sufficient But they do not
appear to have had the proper re-
suit. So, in addition to the Jail SEN
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
The Delightful Way to Remove
Supernuous Hairs

THE removal Of superfluous hairs
is very simple matter, though
there are thousands of women
who actually make it difficult for
themselves by using the many hair
burners commonly sold Sometimes
the painful, dangerous and expen-
sive electric needle treatment is
used, and with little success. Some,
disappointed, resort to cutting or
shaving the hairs. which of course
results in their growing out much
faster and becoming bristly.
A scientific discovery has been
made of a simple. safe application
which "dissolves" away every hair
quickly and thoroughly, instead of
burning it off as pastes and powders
do This is called sulfo solution and
can be procured at any drug or de-
partment store. ready to use, for
about one dollar. This gives imme-
date results--in a few moments
every hair, no matter how coarse or
light, vanishes, leaving the skin
soft, smooth and of natural color.
1t never reddens. scars or irritates
the skin. 1t can be applied under
the arms, on the face, shoulders.
ankles, on she most delicate skin
with perfect safety and success. In
fact 1t becomes as easy and delight
full to use, as face lotion.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
ITALY NEED NOT FEAR.

Tie British, French and Italian governments
are IN full agreement as tc disposition of Fiums,
but our president has diametrcally opposite
plan Of his own which France and England do
not favor and to which Italy will never agree.
Mr Polk, who IS now The Presidents spokesman
in Europe, goes 80 IA IS to hint that the United
Stases Will exert economic pressure on Italy if
she refuses TO yield to theaDresictent's desire
Tl'e lmprudence Of such threat is eqnaled
only by its irnpudeace, and Italy need have no
fear but stand mistakenly for her rights. The
American people will not attempt to starve the
Italian people into a surrender of anything that
belongs to Them and certainly will not take up
arms to drive them from Fiume. The American
people have had all the European wars they
want and have meddled about much as they
intend to in old world affairs. There is little
sympathy in this country with the president IS
passionate determination to force his views on
the rest of the world, but general establishment
and disquietude that he should undertake to dc
So The conference with its bluff and buster
its pulling and hauling, it's bitterness and it's in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
You Can Make Yourself Look Years
Younger in a Very Short Time

NUICK changes in the condition
s sf the is skin ie are n OF made fade s
pie ingredients. used in proper pro-
portion. To be sure that the mix
lures are correct. you should mix
these ingredients at home yourself.
Then you can be certain of a brill
liant success
The following formula makes the
skin delightfully."- plump and youth
full, Immediately begins TO build up
the tissues and finally leaves the
skin almost as firm and smooth as
in early youth. Simply mix two
tablespoonfuls OF glycerine in a half
pint of water and add two ounces
of eptol Use literally every day.
Soon crows feet, deep lines. big and
little wrinkles. and flabbiness of
flesh will disappear. The result in
your appearance Will be startling.
This rarely fails 1t Is exceedingly
economical and is no trouble at all
You can obtain the eptol from the
drug store for about fifty cents
Save your precious time by laying
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
How to Beautify Your Complexion
In a Very Few Days Time
Without Fail

a SOFT. velvety complexion Is
~ within the reach of every
woman. If she Will but give II
the proper care and If the proper
means are employed. identifying
cream must be used very literally to
be successful at all. To get the best
results mix your own complexion
cream by dissolving one ounce of
zintone in pint OF hot water. The
result is a beautiful white. satiny
cream of unusual worth and four
times as much as you can buy ready
to use.
You will quickly notice that your
skin is taking on a most beautiful,
spotless tint. and that all bIemishes,
such as freckles, muddiness and SAL
lowness are promptly disappearing.
Apply the zintone lotion freely and
rub well into the skin. You will
notice the difference the first MORN
ing after, and after a few nights
treatment you will be surprised at
the Improvement in your complex
ion. The zintone can be obtained
for fifty cents at any drug store.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
THE PRoFiTEER.

(TWenty Years Hence)
A little girl climbed her grand-daddys knee,
And pleaded "Oh tell true story to Inc!
She wheeded and leased little girl can
To hear him live the days AGAIN
So he told her of gallant and glorious fight,
OF the nations response to the call OF the right
mothers and sisters and sweethearts ana Wives
OF young manhood who poured out their Ves
That the world might when the conflict was DONE
And men keep the freedom their fathers had wcn
Then she wistfuly oueried 'And what did you do?
think that the who brayest was YOU
The grandfather gazed round the beautiful room
And its luxury seemed like symbol OF doom
He regretted the past for he felt he was OLD
And the fire of desire expiring and cold
He thought of his end in deep narrow hole
Too small for his body, too large for his soul
And he made reply, he stifled sign,
But he lowered his head at the look in her eye
For he knew in his that the arrow had nit
He had done the poor people instead of his bit.
Blanche F. Gile in New York Times
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
HEAL SKIN DISEASES
Apply Zerno, Clean, Penetrat
ing, Antiseptic Liquid

It Is unnecessary for you TO suffer
witheczema. blotches, ringworm, rashes
and similar skin. troubles. Zemo.
obtained at any drug store for Csc OF
$l.00 forextra large bottle, and prompt.
ly applied will usually give instant relief
from itching torture. 1t cleanses and
soothes the skin and heals quickly ard
effectively most skin diseases.
Zemo is a wonderful penetrating,
disappearing liquid and is soothing to
the most delicate skin. tits not greasy,
Is easily applied and costs little. Get
1t today and save all further distress.
The E. w. Rose Co.. Cleveland. O.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

fences. there will be a sitter pre-
MUM on excess speed. THOSE found
flagrantly guilty Of violating the
speed ordinance will also have their
machines conflscated for a time.
In keeping with this policy thirty
violators of the Seattle ordinance
against excessive speed received
fines ranging from SIS to s42, while
three Of them also had their ma
chimes taken away from them for
fifteen days.
The lesson is sharp, but needed.
Confiscation and Imprisonment will
do much more than lines alone TO
curb reckless driving.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

trigue gives us a fair idea of what league
council would be- It would be continuous
performance of the tragedy, Gan international
QUARREL No American will live long enough
to see old world nations feel as kindly towards
us as they did when the armistice was signed,
before the president began to gee and nav
them bulldoze and bluff them and tell them
where to get on and where to get off.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

Learninu disposes me fix settle IN oe.
fects but to remain ever susceptible of Improvement anc
nformation the iterate person knows not what 10
to himself, call himself to an accou n.y.
the aoreeableness life which is daily senspie OF
its own Improvement may perhaps learn to snow ana
employ talents, but not increase tne ne
learn to hide his faults but not to amend ne'
like unskilfui mower, who continues to NOW on WIZ.
scythe. The of learning on tne
trary always joins the correction and improvement OF me
mind with the use and employment thereof--francis
Bacon
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
How to Get Rid of Your Blackheads
In Few Moments

ID LACKHEADS can be removed in
ID surprisingly quick way. with
out pinching. face steaming.
dieting or by using any of the
many tedious and often useless
methods often suggested. The fol-
lowing. formula never fails when
properly used. in fact its use is so
simple and easy that failure is prac-
tically impossible- The blackheads
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
A Head Wash and Shampoo You
VIII Rave Over

TT is almost impossible to remove
all the fatty Accommodations
which constantly form on the
scalp, by the use OF soap, no matter
now Drlskiy brush might be used.
Every scalp contains these fatty ac-
cumulations, unless OF course they
are removed by dissolving them
away with eggok This splendid
preparation can be obtained at any
drug store, In sufficient quantities
In one twenty five cent package 10
last for over twelve luxurious sham
poos This win remove every par
ticie of scurf and dead skin from the
soap, ana also give the hair a very
renarkable sheen of vigor and
health. which Is hair as IL really
should be, This will also let the
hair breathe, and It will grow that
much more luxuriantly.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

B B renember Are ionai
and no amount of drug
ging, blood treatment or dieting will
dispose of them. No one
should resort to pinching out black
heads because the act of pinching
causes spots to appear and damages
the complexion just that much. OBJ
tain from your druggist, for about
fifty cents, package Of neroXin.
Sprinkle a little of this on wet
cloth and apply this to the affected
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
How To Make Your Hair Stop
Falling and Make 1t Grow
Luxuriaptly
a1rHERE is one way .and only one
way to stop your hair from
falling and to make 1t grow


way to stop your hair from
falling and to make 1t grow
luxuriantly. Science has now come
to your rescue. The treatment is
very simple mixture prepared at
home in a few moments. at less ex-
pense than that of buying any pre-
pared hair liquid which often fails
to produce the results desired.
Simply get q. one-ounce package of
be ia quinol from your druggist. at
a cost of about fifty cents. and add
the contents of this to half pint
of water and half pint of bay rum.
or if you prefer. to a full pint of
witchhazel instead of the bay rum
and water. Then your real hair
grower is ready. This mixture has
no oil and it, can be. and should be
used every day. Very soon a de-
cided difference will be noticed in
the vigor and length of the. hair
hair will stop falling and dandruff
will disappear. indicating a decisive
Improvement in the health OF, scalp
and hair cells. This has already
solved the hair-falling question for
thousands of women and is rapidly
replacing all other methods of hair
trea tment
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
The Question of Superfluous Hair.
To Remove Wrinkles Positively.

aside all the so-called wrinkle
creams you have been using and
try this. You will never regret 1t.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
A QUESTION OF PRONUNCIATION.

After more than five years Of war a discus
sion arises as to how the word 'sally' should
be pronounced Should the accent be laid on
the first or last syllable? Opinions vary. Even
the photographers are not agreed-they sell
dom are in matters of pronunciation. A ma
iority of able opponents of correct pronuncia-
ton prefer Wordsworth to Webster, Macaulay
to Worcester. Wordsworth, in a sonnet writ
ten in 1902, SAYS:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Vinton Eagle; Retrospection en-
ables nations, as well as individuals,
to look backward and see what fool
blunders they make. The Adamson
law involved surrender of sovereign
ty under pressure that it may require
this nation generations to outlive.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

An Episcopalian clergyman down in Arizona
makes the rounds of his diocese in an airplane
He must be high churchman.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

~ your druggist cannot suppIy
YOU with the articles mentioned.
same will be sent by the S,oaner
rhnrmacal Co.. ss5 Thompson HIdw.
ohicasos on receipt OF price, posf-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

Sometimes II is hard to tell whe,.
imagination ends and lying begins
but IL you are genius you hays
and II you are not your
be known as a plain liar
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

Traer Star-Clipper: Congress is
making an effort to reduce expenses
but it is not reported so far that the
appropriation for mailing theil
speeches to constituents will be cut
down.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

Were P. T. Barnum alive today, he probably
would say: There's purchaser of oil stocks
born every minute.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

A simple dessert may pc made Of
grape ice.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-08

The suggestion that, inasmuch as a French
title has appropriateness, it be known as
"le ague of nations has something appealing
about it,