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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05
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Editorial from the Joplin Globe
of Jan. 26, 1919, regarding the
Stockdale lectures now being held
in this city under auspices of the
Commercial club at the Orpheum
theater:
The Frank Stockdale lee
ture progrem is to be started
at the Chamber Of Commerce
rooms In Joplin tomorrow
night and will. continue, one
lecture each evening, during
the week. Tuesday excepted,
when the lecture will be given
at the noon luncheon at the
Conner hotel.
Business men, and particu-
larly retailers of Joplin,
should attend these lectures. .
No admission is charged, but
they are certain to be worth a
good many admission prices.
Stockdale is not an unknown
quantity here. And there
never was a time when a
better knowledge of the vari-
GUS problems of merchandise
ing was desirable than right
now.
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SEVEN MILLION
IN OUR ARMY
Had War Continued This Year..
American Fighting Force
Would Have Been
Great.
oRowDER MAKES REPORT
Reserve Of $4,000 Men Waiting to
Shoulder Guns, When the
Armistlee Was
Signed.
CRowDER MAKES REPORT

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5--The United
States was ready to increase It's fight
ing force to 7,131, 172 men during 1919
If the war had continued, Provost
Marshal General Crowder today stat
ed In his annual report to congress.
A reserve Of $4,000 class one men
was waiting to be modified when the
armistice was signed, the report stat
ed, the armed strength OF the nation
then being 4791,172 men. When war
was declared the armed strength was
37S,619 men.
Two out Of every three men in uni
form were raised through the draft
Crowder stated, the total number in
Quoted during the war being 2,S1O,296.
Every one was taken from class one.
Only eighteen per cent OF the men
Of military age, eighteen to forty-hVe
were in the service, the report stat
ed, while England contributed sixty
two per cent Of her available fighters.
In all, 24,234,021 men were register
ed by the great draft system for mill
tary service
Seven per cent was the maximum
percentage Of men taken from any one
industry.
The farmers were treated better
than any other workers, sfxty-nine
per cent of those registered being
granted deferred classification. Com
paratively few married men were TAX
en-. the record showing that eighty
nine per cent of them were deferred.
Physically the nation is seventy
percent perfect, according to the
draft examiners. This is the per
centage Of the men found fit. This
does not include the limited service
men or those whose defects could be
remedied.
The highest percentages of physi-
cal fitness come from the middle
west. Oklahoma led the nation with
eighty-two percent, closely followed
by Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska,
wyoming, Texas and North Dakota.
Rhode Island and Arizona show the
largest percentage of physically un-
At. with Connecticut, Massachusetts,.
Vermont, New York and Washington
close. Rhode Island had only fifty
three percent fit, and New York sixty
percent.
Liquor was the smallest factor in
causing physical reflections, the per-
centage being only oneatenth OF one
percent. Heart troubles. eyes. tuber-
culosis and mental defects brought
the largest number OF reflections,
each claiming more than ten percent
of the total disqualified. Flat feet
took only 1,3 percent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05
Red Pepper is Thrown.

LAWRENCE, Feb. During the
morning there were some minor in
cidents, such as woman picket
Selling the lunch basket of girl
strike breaker and being promptly
arrested. Several other girls told the
police they had red pepper thrown
in their faces and lunch baskets
broken, but no further arrests were
made
All mills which operated yesterday
opened again today and few more
employees returned to work
The strikers plan parade and
mass meeting tomorrow and have a2-
piled to the police for a permit
Only TWO Mills Operating.
COLUMBUS, Ca, Feb. 5. Follow
ing refusal of mill owners to agree
to an eight-houf day without an IA
crease in wage ratings, approximate
ly seven thousand textile workers
today claimed they were locked out.
Only two mills out of fourteen were
operating. The two mills in opera
ton were said to be running on a
limited scale with unorganiZed work
ers.
First City Wide Strike.
SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 5.-Mayor
Ole Hanson today quietly awaited
developments in what threatens to
be the first attempt at a general
city wide strike ever made in an
American city.
If nothing intervenes to prevent
the strike tomorrow at 10 a. m.
Hanson will take charge of the stu
alton and attempt to operate the
vital rtfv utilities with cJ1hStit1,ta
men.
"The seat of government is still
at the city hail. declared Hanson.
THE city governm will continue
to operate the light and water plants.
1t will care for sanitation. If the
men now on the Job quit, other men
will be substituted.
"The mayor and the chief Of police.
together with their legally chosen
assistants, are the peace officers of
the city and will continue to police
the city of Seattle. Our function is
to preserve order and protect life
and property
Unless General Manager Piez, in
Philadelphia, does the unexpected
and grants concessions to the 10000
striking ship workers, the sympa-
thetfc mass walkout of 95 pei cent
of union labor will occur, according
to labor leaders.
They declare $4,000 men will vol
unfairly stop work.
The electrical workers union voted
overwhelmingly to refuse exemption
from the waikout of municipal light
and power employees.
Street car men, in mass meeting
tomorrow morning, will determine
their attitude.
The civil service commission has
warned all employees to remain at
work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05

|BLooDsHED IS USELESS
People Who are Dissatisfied with
Their Government Can Use
Ballot to Right Any
Wrongs.
[By L. G. Martin, United Press Staff
CORRESPONDENT

correspondent
WASHINGTON. Feb. 5.-Progres-
sive senators today planned speaking
tours after March 4. to advocate q
number Of measures intended to
make the people more satisfied and
render it more difficult for bolshevist
propagandists to find hearers.
Senator's Eorah, Hiram Johnson,
Kenyon, and Poindexter are the ones
who will probably do the campaign
ing Borah outlined his message to
the people as follows:
"You can do whatever you want to
do with your government, without
inaugurating reign Of bloodsh ed,
who. esafes assassination and destruc-
ton Of property. You have the bal
lot Upon your use of it depends
the measure of your freedom, your
happiness and prosperity"
The measures these progressives
advocate are:
Return of American soldiers; elm
nation of militarism, complete re-
moyal of repressive measures upon
speech and the press, protection and
fostering of American business and
commerce against any and all foreign
aggression, and inauguration of do
nestle program of betterment for all
the people.
Against such policy, the progress
sives believe, bolshevism of any type
will fail. On the other hand, lit will
feed upon repression and wordy
abuse by legislators who are welded
to out-worn political creeds or special
interests.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05
eace Delegates Working Now on Difficult
Problem Of Deciding How Big an Army
Will be Needed.
I0RA[ OR PHYSICAL FORCE NEEDED?
lew Freedom of Seas Laws to Include Provi-
sion That All Floating Mines Must be
Abolished.

mines would have to be anchored and
designed SO they would be rendered
'non-explosive il they broke free
Three mile limit to territorial waters
possibly will be extended. however.
due to the fact that modern guns,
both land and naval. have greater
range.
Lewis Criticizes Maurice.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-General
Frederick Maurice's views on the
league Of nations, as given In an in
terview with The United Press, were
criticized today by Senator Lewis,
strong advocate of the league. and
commented on fayorably by Senator
Borab, who opposes 1t.
Lewis, who processes to have
clear understanding OF President VIII
sons idea regarding the league. de-
clared Maurice Is wrong in his inter-
probation of what the United States
must take upon itself.
Maurice says the United States
must be the financial hacker OF the
league, but he is mistaken said
Lewis. 1.-THE United States will not,
under any circumstances, become
money lender TO the world In gen
eral in peace time. For specific pur-
poses and in cases where the need
is well established, the United States
probably will use it's financial re-
sources to help nations. But the
American people should understand
that in pledging this nation to the
support of the league President Will
son did not bind them to assume the
money burdens of every needy ma
ton.
president Wilson will never con-
sent to the use of American military
power. permanently or to any great
degree, to make the league fact
1.-THE big navy which Maurice says
is essential to arm the league for
exerting economic pressure may be
used for that purpose IL at any time
circumstances should arise which
would make it necessary. Should
the league Of nations find it neces-
sary to coerce any nation by cutting
of its imports for time naVS
would be the means used. But be-
fore such a step can be taken, 1t
must be approved by the united
public sentiment of the peoples form
ing the league. Our navy Is for
ourselves primarily"
5Borah, who opposes the league be-
cause, he declares, 1t means the
gradual eradication of national spirit,
said of General Maurice's statement:
This Is a candid and most intelli-
gent statement Of very whole man.
America Is to underwrite Europe
financially and to police the whole
4
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05
IODAY'S CASUALTY LIST
CONTAINS 155 NAMES

Privates-
Henry /. Bonham, Nauvoo. Mo.
Nick Evans. North Tonowanda, N.
Y.
Bernard Fried. New York City.
Charles +. Harris, Seattle, Wash
Leslie R. Herner, Cleveland, Ohio.
Perry Allen Herring. Nokesville,
Va.
Ebert c. Hogan, Stanford, Mo.
Joseph Powell, Como, Miss.
Hanloas Vlassopulous, New York
City.
Richard E. winningham, Graham,
N. Car,
Died Of Wounds.
Sergeant Cornell Odell Strand, Mil
waukee, Wis.
Privates-
Handy Cephas. East Newma rket,
Md.
Robert A. Davis, Pilgrim, Texas.
Harry L. Miller. Hopkins, MINI.
Eugenia P. Scarloto, Kenosha. wis.
John X Smith, Madalin, N. Y
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05
England Will Not Call Ameri-
cans as Witnesses, But
Look at Figures.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
LONDON, Feb. 5.-According to
plans today, the inquiry into the ac-
ivities of the American meat pack
ers in this country will be short but
effective. 1t is not proposed to at
tempt to call any of the American
packers or their representatives as
witnesses unless they voluntarily
offer to testify.
The investigating committee will
be formed of representatives from
the be Ard of trade and the food and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05
Government Regards English Labor Situation
as Fight Between Regular Labor Union
Leaders and Rebels.
TO INTERVENE TO PROTECT SOCIETY
I. w. w. Agitators Busy in Big Silk Strike,
Attempting to Get Control Of Thou
sands of Workers.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, Feb. 5--The ministry Of
labor will intervene in the strikes
which are spreading throughout Great
Britain and Ireland, ii union officials
fail to gain control Of the situation.
The United Press was authorized
to make the following statement to-
day:
1.-THE government regards the labor
situation as fight between regular
labor union leaders and rebels. If
the regular leaders are unaole to gain
control, the government will then in
tervene for the protection Of society,""
Active l. w. w. Agitators.
PATERSON, N. j.. Feb. Sin
their efforts to get control of the
striking silk operatives here, l. w.
w agitators were on hand for. the
workers mass meetings today. So
far, however, the strikers had re-
fused to follow the advice Of the l.
w. w.
Intervention by the national war
labor board is expected by the mill
owners. There are about $4,000 on
strike here.
Dead With War Labor Board.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-The Bethle-
hem Steel company, according to an
nouncement today, has abandoned
It's policy OF refusing to deal with
it's employees as body in wage dis
putes and the war labor boards de-
cisions will be accepted as a basis
for settlements.
Eight Hour Day.
GENOA, Feb. 4.-Delayed)- Iron
and steel manufacturers here today
granted their employees an eight hour
day effective May 1.
No Trouble So Far.
LAWRENCE, Mass, Feb. 81. w.
w. agents were here today making
efforts to organize the striking tex
tile workers. The general committee
OF the strikers has repudiated the
American Federation of Labor and
the local textile workers unions, but
has not joined the I. w. w.
A. ]. Music, of Boston, leading
the agitators, addressed the strikers
and said, Soon you will take over
the textile business yourselves"
Most Of his listeners were foreigners
and apparently did not understand
what he was advocating. There was
DO trouble.
Early Adjustment Predicted.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. with the
exception of about 1000 textile work
ers who were locked out here yes
terday, the many thousand others to-
day continued their work on an
eight-hour day basis. 1t was stated
that large number of the employ
ers had accepted the forty-eight- hour
week, pending decision of the war
labor board. No violence was re-
ported and an early adjustment was
predicted.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05
1nlrteen Killed in Action,
Eight Died of Wounds,
Three Of Disease.

Iov;n DISTINCTION, Feb. 5.-The fol-
s ynlns casualties are reported by the
srnass anoing general of the American
7Appesdaitionary forces:
nllled in action, 10.
ned ~ from wounds. g.
4 D'eo OF accident and other causes.
W Ulea Of disease, IA.
T MSanded severely. 1T.
=. Killed in Action.
Ton. D. c. washing
tr ssan, +. Bernard c. crewe. De
W. "a Mathew F. Kyrus, Miner,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-05
e,a Navy Bill.

WASHINGTON, Feb. managers
of the big navy bill today were con-
fident they would have their measure
through the house by the last OF this
week and ready for action by the>sen-
ate.
Long threatened opposition in the
house has failed to materialize since
the unanimous report by the house
naval affairs committee.
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The Telegraph Service OF The
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our own leased wire.
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THE WEATHER.
Fair Tonight. Unsettled Thurs
day. Local temp. 7 p. m, "a; Z
a, NJ, II.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

so we'll know where to look the next
time you disappear"
"Ah, now. You'll have to do better
than the British Secret Service if
ever you start looking for me-"
The brown eyes twinkled be-
hind his rimless noseglasses and he
began to grin at some recollection
Of outwitting that secret service, the
sport of sports in Ireland to-day.
When he grins, three vertical lines
appear on either side of his mouth
in the region where some persons,
not revolutionary leaders, have
dimples.
"Mr. President" reporter asked,
"do you propose to spend any Of the
money raised in this country through
the sale Of bonds for arms and
munitions with which to fight Eng
land? I'd like you to answer yes
or no."
"Now don't be asking for yes and
no answers or I'll have to ask you
that old one: Have you left off
beatin' your wife?' I'll tell you this
for your question: The money will
be used for the purposes of the Irish
government. The Irish government
will strive to function in every way
that a country can function"
The Sim Fein leader reached for
ward and clasped his dark blue silk
incased ankle where it rested on his
knee. His was one Of the few
straight backed, armless chairs in
the room. The reporters lolled in
all the comfortable chairs and divans
that Oscar provides in those ex-
pensive suites.
Some one asked Professor de
Valera where in New York he was
born.
II told you I had tried to find the
place, so If I tell you that I'd be
telling where I'd BEEN"
His Mother
Then he softened for a moment
and explained that his first visit IN
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

you know, and then you must take a
ride through the parks"
De Valera glanced at q watch
strapped to his wrist. Then he
said:
~ can't take a ride. I've got far
too much to do"
mo, you've got to take the ride"
insisted Boland; but de Valera said
"no" fatty, and turned his attention
to the other Irish patriots who had
been waiting for him.
"If you could only know the dea.
man like ! know him. wished Mr..
+ Boland. "If it seems strange to you
that he should fit through Brit
ish barriers, in and out of jails and
suchlike, you've only got to remember
that in Ireland five men out Of
six are prepared to die for him.
= "These last few years have been
wonderful years to me. Full of ex-
citement they've been. The most
wonderful time was lying behind the
barricades during Easter Week.
That was excitement for you. We
lost about 65 men killed and tn:
British lost about $500.
"The trained soldier becomes de-
moralized when he has to fight in
the streets of a town. You can't
blame him. It's the fault of his
training. 1t was then you should
have seen de Valera.
with his little battalion he stood
off three British divisions for days.
A wonderful strategist he is. The
British will tell you so. There was
building that stood between the
house in which he was and the bar
racks at which he was sniping.
"I'l! make the British clear that
out Of my way he said. Then he
had an Irish flag hoisted on the roof
of the obstructing building. The
British decided that the building was
filed with Irish and they opened on
it with artillery. A few shells and
they had levelled the building. After
that de Valera's snipers had a clear
shot at the barracks"
The Sim Fein leader is going to
remain in the United States aboas
twelve months.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

countered by asking who had told
that he visited Cardinal Gibbons.
There is one infallible way to in
terpret my actions" said de Valera.
Every act Of mine is calculated to
advance the cause of Irish freedom" !"
Just then waiter carried in a
table. 1t was near lunch time. The
only food on it was a fruit salad.
English prison diet destroyed my
appetite" explained the Irish leader,
barking back to his days in Lincoln
prison. II never think of food now
and have to be reminded that it is
time to eat, as a rule, for I become
deeply absorbed in my work. I am
quite honest in saying that food
doesn't interest me any more"
De Valera was asked if he didn't
think England would construe as an
unfriendly act non-interference by
the United States with his efforts
to float bond issue and to gain aid
for an Irish revolution.
England will consider anything
unfriendly that interferes with her
wishes in the slightest. 1t will be
like Turk who has abducted a
young girl and placed her in his
harem. The girl is wildly anxious
to escape, but if you should seek to
aid her he would begin to yell that
you were desecrating the sanctity of
his home. AS if his home had any
sanctityw
knowing that England will re-
sent it, Professor de Valera, don't
you think it is likely that the United
States government will be annoyed
by your efforts?"
"Well, now, I'll tell you. always
like to bid the devil good-morrow
when meet him."
In an adjoining room General"
Liam Mellowes, refugee in the
United States as a result Of the
Easter Week rebellion, was running
nervous hand through his tow
colored hair. Dairmuid Lynch, M. P,
and National Secretary Of the
Friends Of Irish Freedom, was pac-
ing the floor, and finally Harry Bo.
land, secretary to de Valera and also
Member of Parliament, came in
to remind his chief that there were
other appointments to keep.
"You've got an appointment now,
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the United States was to his mother,
in Rochester, N. Y. It. had been
twelve years since he saw her last
in Ireland, and then only for a short
time, and the last time before that
was nineteen years earlier, when
he was slender, black haired, ia
therless boy Of six years.
When this tall man Of many ad-
ventures was two and a half years
old his father died and his mother
returned to Ireland with her baby
son. She married again, becoming
Mrs. Charles Wheelwright, and lived
once more in America, raising
another son, Thomas Wheelwright,
to be a priest of the Roman Catho-
lie Church, while little Edward grew
up in Ireland, a lonely, studious
soul who learned to hate England
before he had learned to love.
Reminded of his American birth
and consequent American citizen
ship, Professor de Valera said:
$50 far as my will and my desire
are concerned I am Irish. I've never
wanted to be anything else and l
acknowledge no allegiance to any
other country or people.
international law may disagree
with that, but international law to
my mind is sort of rules of con-
duct among thieves. There is a
deeper law than the law of nations
or of municipalities. The law of
humanity is the most fundamental
of all. By the law Of humanity
am Irish. One thing I am certain of !:
Under no law on earth am |
British citizen"
AS the Sim Feiner talked he
seemed to expand with a sense of
wrong and his chin rose until his
Adams apple throbbed above his
high white collar.
There is no agreement and no
contract by which England has any
right to Ireland. Very likely the
peace treaty will be signed by her
representatives for the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire
land Go back to that combina-
ton and you will find that it was
brought about by trickery and
fraud. We regard that England
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29
rails President-E1ect Gets the Key to Our City

are not grown here, while Ameri-
cas- manufactured articles, which
Of late have witnessed an unpre-
cedented demand in South America,
are not produced in Brazil. The
United States buys more than half
of Brazil's coffee. Sugar and rub
Der are other tropical products
which must be imported by this
country. Brazil, since the outbreak
Of the war, has grown more and
more dependent on the United
States for her flour, industrial and
agricultural machinery, steel and
other metals, fuel, oil and general
merchandise.
American goods have supplanted
many Of the British, French and
German manufactures. Will the
manufacturer hold his newly gained
markets? That is up to him. Ger
tainly he will have every oppor-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

Gated that there Is an element Of
still greater Importance than all
these in the factors which will con-
tribute to broadening the relations
of the two republics. This element
is commerce--commer as it has
grown in the past four years and as
it will continue to develop in the
years during the reconstruction
period.
The value of business as means
Of creating closer relations between
the United States and Brazil as
sumes it's greatest significance when
it is considered that there is no con-
fict in the productions which one
country can supply the other. This
condition, rare in the day Of world
competition for commercial suprem-
acy, is explained by the fact that
Brazil's raw materials, indispen-
sable to the needs of this country,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-29

learns upon investigation, a man
can be elected president wholly un-
beknown to him. That statement,
of course, must be qualified with
the proviso that the man be of such
character and ability as to merit
such confidence. DR.. Pessoa's
career shows him to be such a man.
When the Brazilian republic was