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Oxford eagle., 1919-06-19
JURY VERDICT FOR
LEWISSTEPHENS
Qu0W arantO Proceedings End in Vic
tory For Lewis Stephens-JuryS Says
He is Legally Entitled To the Of-
fee of Commissioner

The quowaranto proceedings insti-
tuted in the name of the District At
tomey, Rush Knox, against Louis
Stephens, came to trial Tuesday, bfore
Judge Lee Crum. The Judge arrived
here at IL a. m. and at once went in
to the trial of the case.
A jury of twelve men was selected,
as follows:
H. B. Parks.
A. A. Grammer.
M. l.. Childress.
A. J. Bratton.
Ira Holcomb.
f. T. Gafford.
C. C. Stephens.
J. T. Courtney.
Hardy Brown.
Cortez Courtney.
Ed Huggins.
The witnesses in the case were A.
A. Young, A. H. Kendel, f. ID.
Beanland, John Falkner, Jr., Lewis
Stephens and Mrs. r. l.. Stephens,
step-mother of the defendant.
The City was represented by John
Falkner, Jr., while the defendant was
represented by W. P. Shinault. The
forenoon hour was taken up in select
ing the jury and five minutes before
one O'Clock the Judge was back at the
desk and the court was called to or
der. The entire afternoon was taken
up in examining the witnesses, and in
arguing motions. The case was given
to the jury about six o'clock, or short
lv after; it retired with the instruc-
tions of the court to decide as to wheth
err the defendant was "bona fide resi-
dent" of the city of Oxford for three
years preceding June 2, 1919. The
Jury was out about five minutes a nd
returned with verdict in favor of i-.e
defendant.
This case has caused much talk up
to the day of the trial. Lewis Steph-
ems was elected by a majority of the
woes cast, but a question arose after
the election as to the eligibility of
Stephens to hold the office. Commits
sioners Furr and Beanland elected H.
A. Moore as clerk, to serve until the
matter could be settled legally. When
this was done, Stephens then institut-
ed ousster proceedings against Mayor
Beanland and Commissioner Fur,
which is now pending.
An election will be held at an early
date when the people of Oxford will
take vote on the matter. 1t is be-
lieyed that in as much as the custer
proceedings were instituted as much
through spirit Of animosity as other
wise the matter of recalling the Mayor
and Commissioner Furr will be voted
down by an overwhelmingly large ma
jority.
Awaiting Decree From Judge.
While the jury in the case found
in favor of the defendant, the City
Commissioners are awaiting the de-
cree which will be handed down by
Judge Lee Clum. 1t is not known at
this time just what the decree will be
and the commissioners cannot take
further action until they hear from
Oxford eagle., 1919-06-19

Miss Myrtle Smith left Tuesday for
Walnut Grove, Miss, where she will
visit relatives and friends.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
OBEY THE LAW.

One Chicago newspaper that is ''agin' ma
1 tionwide prohibition advises all who think as
it does to obey the law and prepare for the
fight to repeal prohibition The first part OF
the newspapers advice is of finely COM
mendabe quality; the second part contains in
dication of line of procedure comprehending
individual leaning and decision of the mind of
the majority. The best way to repeal a bad law,
said President Grant, is to enforce it. Thus it
will be discovered if the law works hardship
and should never have been passed. About the
only liquor law that was not evaded was that
requiring federal license for its sale As the
government was out for revenue, it was rather
particular about this: and as it cost only twenty
five dollars per year, dealers found 1t expedient
to pay that sum. 1t saved them worry and pos
sible trouble to take out government license
whether they had state license or not.
OF course nobody knows as yet just how the
nationwide prohibition law will be construed.
But shall know this in time and how far its
enforcement will be attempted and succeed.
As there will be no state or federal revenue in
its enforcement it may be quite perfunctory.
There those who believe that its enforce
mnt will be physically impossible and that a
million special salaried agents could not put in
to effect an act which made the manufacture
or use of a beverage containing half of one per
cent of alcohol a crime. For every intelligent
person knows that it is not crime and to call
ii such does not make it So
The law is wrong in theory in that it sets out
to prevent intemperance by furnishing temper
ance, to constrain offenders by penalizing peo-
pie guilty of no offense This in principle is
precisely like an attempt to repress burglary
by curfew law keeping all citizens off the
streets at night or to restrict the social evil by
not against offenders but against the
vast impeccable majority of high-minded men
and women. The inherent weakness of such a
law and the folly of such attempts will be APP
parent, even to bigotry, in time; and the more
generally the law is obeyed and the more com
petely it is enforced the sooner it will be modi-
fed or repealed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
THE SHEKEL. CLEANERS.

1t is estimated that five million foreigners
viii leave this country and return to Europe as
soon as they can obtain passports and means of
transportation, and the average wealth of each
foreigner is plced at two thousand dollars, or a
removal in wealth from this country of ten bill
lion dollars. While this estimate may be over
drawn, these returning aliens for the most part
represent an element who came to America sole
ly to profit by the high standard of American
wages and with the ultimate intention Of return
ing to their native lands to expend their savings
They can have but little regard for this country
else they would not now be IN such hurry to
depart. Industry may be crippled more or less
by their departure, but it is surnnised that ma
tional character and ideals viii be strengthened
and elevated In their absence. It may be we
have suffered rather too much dilution in the
past. Industry can eventually be stimulated
and restored 10 its proper balance by proper
legislation and encouragement but national
character and ideals once destroyed can never
be regained. So ii may be just as well that
those who refused 10 embrace Americanism and
now seek 3 speedy return TO old world ideals
and customs were out Of the country. Somehow
or other We fancy We can get along without
them
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
WILL NOT INSURE PEACE.

Manufacturers Record: The peace
treaty has been signed by Germany.
but that does not lean that Germany
has the slightest intention of fulfill
ing its agreements The German
papers openly proclaim that they will
get ready for war of revenge. They
say that Germany has signed, but
Germany will not fulfill. No one who
knows the German nature need be at
all surprised. In the most crucial
hour of human history a mistake was
made when an armistice was pe.-
mitted. We should have marched on
to Berlin and accepting nothing but
the unconditional surrender of Ger
many. Then we might have STAYED
the tides of bolshevism. Civilization
might have taught GERMANY some.
thing of the meaning of civilization
and humanity, and gradually taught
that country to recognize with some
horror the fearful crimes of which II
had been guilty.
Returning soldiers are loud in their
complaints that they were not DER.
m1tted TO go on TO Berlin. A few DAYS
ago a captain in the United States
regular army in a public address in
baltimore said: "Oh, if there had
been no armistice. and we had been
given 80 days more. we would have
oeen IN Berlin and all the questions
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
Tranquility is a certain equality of mind
which no condition of fortune can either ex-
alt or depress.-Seneca.
DOWN TO $500, 900.

In the sundry civil bill there is an item pro-
riding for the establishment by the department
os labor at Washington of an organization
to act as central clearing house for cooper
alton with the states and the political divisions
thereof In the furnishing of information and the
rendering of assistance to the employment of
wage earners throughout the United States
This is proposal to continue the federal en-
ployment service as a single Office of informa-
lion at Washington. The usefulness of such an
organization is readily apparent and many OPP
ponents of the earlier proposition for continu-
ance on large scale have declared that they
would favor a clearing house of information to
cooperate with the state employment bureaus
and other agencies of credited standing.
But the point that engages interest is the
scaling down Of the appropriation needed to Sc
cure employment efficiency. The first demand
was for fourteen million dollars; after a time
this was reduced to four million. Now comes
a proposal to appropriate two hundred thou
sand dollars. Here is drop within SIX months
Of thirteen million, eight hundred thousand dol
lars in the estimated cost Of one item of federal
expenditure. This may not stop the effort to
secure the four million dollars, but it should
serve as valuable evidence for the public and for
congress in handling this effort.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
Careless Shampooing
Spells the Hair

Soap should be used very carefully, If
you want to keep your hair looking its
best. Most soaps and prepared sham
poos contain too much alkali. This
dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle,
and ruins it.
The best thing for steady use is Null
si6ed cocoanut oil shampoo (Which is
pure and greaseless), and is better than
anything else you can use.
One or two teaspoonfuls will cleanse
the hair and scalp thoroughly. Simply
moisten the hair with water and rub it
in. It makes an abundance of rich,
creamy lather, which rinses out easily,
removing every particle Of dust dirt,
dandruff and excessive oil. The hair
dries quickly and evenly. and it leaves
the scalp soft, and the hair fine and
silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy
to manage.
You can get Mulsifed cocoanut oil
shampoo at any pharmacy, it's very
cheap, and few ounces will supply
every member of the family for months.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
AMERICA DID SEE.

In one Of his recent addresses President Vii
son declared that America did not at first see
the full meaning Of the war. At first it looked
like natural breaking out of pent-up jeal-
ouses and rivaries III Europe. America looked
on at first without full comprehension but real
lied at last that it threat against the free
dom Of free men everywhere
This is all quite true Of certain Americans, in
cluding the president himself This evidently
was his honest belief when he said that both
belligerents were fighting for the same thing.
But there were hosts Of Americans who did see
at the very outset what the president came to
realize thirty months later-that Germanv's at
tack was "a threat against the freedom Of free
men everywhere 1t did not take thirty DAYS
or thirty hours for some Americans to see it
Was Roosevelt long in doubt, Joseph H
Choate, James NJ Beck or David Jayne Hill
These men and tens Of thousands more saw
what the war meant the moment the treaty with
Belgium had been torn up, and heard with un
utterable heaviness Of heart that the war was
10 ou{ 666eern OF ours They knew it was oul
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
Doctor Tells How TO Detect
Harmful Effects of Tobacco
Try These SIMPLE TESTS
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at a regular pace, then stop. II you
find that you are out of breath. your
heart beat is forced, trembling Of
irregular, you may be victim Oh
functional or organic heart trouble
If you feel that you must smoke, cneW
or snuff to quiet your nerves. you are
slave to the tobacco habit and are
positively poisoning yourself WIN
the deadly drug, nicotine. In either
case you have just two alternatives
keep on with the self-poisoning pro
cess irrespective of the dangers anu
suffer the consequences, or give up
the habit and escape the dangers,
You can overcome the craving anu
stop the habit in a very short lLas
by using the following inexpensive
formula: Go to any drug store anu
ask for Nicotol tablets, take one lae
let after each meal, and in a compare
lively short time you viii have ~ y,
desire for tobacco, the craving VIA
have left you. With the nico'ins
poison out of your system your sel
eral health will quickly improve
Note-When asked about Moo"
tablets, one of our leading drusglss
said: 1T is truly a wonderful RENE
dy for the tobacco habit; away aheaa
of anything we have ever sofa
fore. We are authorized by the lnaha
facturers to refund the none! y
every dissatisfied customer, ana W
would not permit the use OF oa
name unless the remedy possesses
unusual merit" Nicotol tablets az az
sold in this city under an lrohei,.
money-back guarantee by al w.
date druggists, including Wilkinson
Co. and McGrath Bros. Drug "
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

New York: Doctor Connor, former
ly of Johns Hopkins hospital, says:
Many men who smoke, chew or snuff
necessarily and who are seemingly
healthy are suffering from progress.
sive organic ailments. Thousands OF
them would never have been afflict-
ed had 1t not been for the use OF
tobacco, and thousands would soon
get well II they would only stop the
use Of tobacco. The chief habit form
ing principle Of tobacco is nicotine.
a deadly poison which, when alb
sorbed by the system. slowly affects
the nerves, membranes, tissues and
vital organs of the body. The harm
full effect of tobacco varies and de-
Ponds on circumstances. One will be
afflicted with general debility, others
with catarrh of the throat, indiges-
ton, constipation, extreme nervous
ness, sleeplessness, loss of memory,
lack OF will power, mental confusion.
etc. Others may suffer from heart
disease, bronchial trouble, hardening
OF the arteries, tuberculosis, blind
ness or even cancer or the common
affliction known as tobacco heart. If
you use tobacco in any form you can
easily detect the harmful effects by
making the following simple tests:
Read aloud one full page from
book. IL, in the course of reading,
your voice becomes mufned, hoarse
and indistinct, and you must fire.
quently clear your throat, the chances
are that your throat is affected b.
catarrh and it may be the beginning
of more serious trouble. Next, in the
morning, before taking your usual
smoke, walk up three flights of stair
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
1ODAY,S BIT OF VERSE
NIGHT coMETA.

Comesh the night The wind falls low,
The trees swing slowly to and fro:
Around the church the headstones gray
Cluster like children strayed away
But found again, and folded so.
Nc Gliding look doth she hestow;
If she is glad. they cannot know:
If ill or well they spend their day,
Cometh the night.
Singing or sad intent they go:
They do not see the shadows grow;
There vet is time" they lightly say,
Before our work aside we lay"
Their task is but half done, and 10,
Cometh the night
Colonel John McCl
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

vital concern; and men like Theodore Roosevelt,
General Wood and Robert Bacon incurred the
impalacabe i'll will of the administration In urg-
ing as a national duty preparedness for the part
we should inevitably have to play. For such
Americans as shared the views of the president
in 1914, 1915, 1916 and the early months OF
1917, he can properly speak. But he has no
warrant for his declaration that America did
not see, until he did, ''the full meaning of the
war;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

surface proved as to the present - ~
tainty OF flight between polnS "a
apart. A ship that canno' IAN
moored without the help OF 7eo ~,
is not very promising to finaHt hn.i.
interested in the Transportation mt rr,r
ness as a business. The little - ..
that assembled at Mineoia was ,hst
minder of the line Of waTships he
stretched from Newfoundland 70 rlr
Azores. Such things are poss'Oi. IN.
for governments, and for IA
ments only when they do no' -. 4
consider cost. The airplane, n' r,,-a
different--in every respect la .ors
like those best Of aerial na''S@ =
the birds, and. incidentally i !.
invention purely American. TnH N
dirigible for many a year Wa -
the zeppelin to the mind O
observer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
The Cost of pirioibles.

New York Times: So elaborate and
expensive We're the preparations made
at Mineola for the anchoring and
protecting of the dirigibIe balloon
R734 that even her safe arrival at her
CHOSEN destination would not have
proved much more about the present
commercial practicability of her kind
OF aerial navigation than her en-
forced demand for succor from an
oidfashioned slave of the oceans
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
This is very old world and human ole

This a very old world and human nature is as OLD
the still remain human nature. Nations
cannot merged into super-hurnan nature Nations
be localized There still be friends among ma
lions friends among The world has no
dettante ideaism that prates and poses that
drawing in evening dress to frt
with boshevism dangerous but fascinating pastime
play with fire. These enemies OF this re-
public and they should dealt with enemies. And
the weli-ne aning dealst whose
humanity blinds him to realtes who has not
daring the facts of life. Vapors thrown on
oy overfed faulty of mind sometimes mistaken
cr visons.-Dr Chas. A. Richmond.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

which now perplex the world would
have been settled then and there
That is the voice of the American
soldier, and the American soldier
knew then, and he knows now. that
eventually the cost in lives and in
treasure will be many, many times
what it would have cost 10 go on to
Berlin.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

The safe arrival Of the R-334 airship prompted
Secretary Daniels 70 declare that it proved more
than ever the susceptibility Of the United States
to enemy attack. What. With the league of
nations anchored In the ofingf Wash t it Sec
rotary Baker who saw no use in hurrying be-
cause the war was three thousand miles
away7"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

Burlington Rawk-Eye: SomebodE
is always getting after the packers.
But the prices remain up. Cattle
prices receded somewhat, but beef
did not fall in price. Now the whole
sale grocers are after the packers.
And when this blows over the packers
will be found doing business at the
old stand and prices may have gone
little higher
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Traer Star-Clipper: The entir
American people will soon quit wo;'
on a strike to compel themselves
pay themselves higher wages and t.
require themselves to allow them
selves shorter hours.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

Will President Wilson be magnanimous
enough to admit that the opposition to his
league OF nations il purely psychological
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

In time Doubt those Carranza denials of
responsibility for attacks on Americans in
Mexico will probably come on regular printed
form sheet.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

Mt. Vernon Hawkeye: The attempt
to make the league of nations a parti-
san issue has got along so far that
honest expression has been somewhat
halted in Washington. Fault finding
appears to be the mental attitude Of
the scolding bunch in Washington.
If this condition were new we might
charge it to the hot weather, but 1t
is getting to be a chronic condition
that started up about the time the
armistice was signed.
Marshalltown Times-Republican
is not the number of hours. but the
accomplishment Some men can do
a days work in eight hours. Some
eighteen hours.
Perry Chief: AS was to be ex-
pected, Governor Harding is being
criticised on calling an extra session
OF the legislature to ratify the suf.
frage amendment Just the same. the
big majority of Iowans know he did
the right thing.
Webster City Journal:
After the people of the east have ex-
perienced prohibition for thirty or
forty years, as sections of Iowa have.
they will like it. Prohibition is a
fine thing after you get used to it.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: The
state ought to encourage and give
financial aid TO those who are com
piling the records of the Iowa regi
ments in the European war. Such
records will be valuable, If not in.
valuable, in the years to come. The
state could afford to pay outright
for such publications, provided they
are made by those authorized by the
regiments to prepare them.
Bathing suits are of worsted jer-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

Vinton Eagle: Don't, for heavens
sake /. don't worry about the depart
ing aliens and the money they will
take with them. Wave them a glad
farewell.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

The bombpIotters are still at large. Why is
a department u justice, anyway
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

Americanisnl with peace or internationalism
with wari
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16

Bathing suits are of worsted jer-
sey.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-16
; Soldiers Soothe
7Skin Troubles
( with Cuticura

Soap. Ointment. Talcum sc. each.
Samples of "cuticura .psps Z. Eotton."
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-10-09
LONG WORKING HOURS

An argument submitted on behalf
of the striking steel workers made
the point that working hours have
been too long in the past. When
work is arduous, we are told that it
is prejudicial to a mans health to
work more than eight hours, one day
after another.
There seems to be sense in this.
Many of the jobs in the steel mills
are singularly arduous. OF course,
the farm hand works longer hours,
but the grind is not so killing. And
it is bad economics--also morally
wrong-to let men continue working
under conditions which hurt their
health.
On the other hand, most steel
workers draw exceedingly high wag-
es. A few of them even make as
much as SEQ to $50 day, which is
a pretty good sum to draw down,
even If the days work is firing. This,
however, is no argument for making
a working day long enough to be
prejudicial to health.
Both sides are wrong. Some way
of shortening the working day would
one would think, be easy to work
chemical experts at the mills short
err day would not be consistent with
the manufacture of certain grades
of steel-extraordinary conditions
are necessary in the construction OF
it. This may be true, but the war
has taught us how to accomplish
nearly everything that is chemically
and anatomically impossible, and
here is one more chance for high
flying savant This, however, would
not satisfy the strikers. They want
an enforcement of their rule forbid
ding any man to work at their trade
without their consent. And in a
free country it should be every mans
privilege to work If he likes, wher-
ever an employer can use him. Let
any man who wants join a union;
but let those who prefer to stay out
do so without being penalized for
their independence. t&