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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
Mayor Hylan Of New York
City Says Threatened Car
Strike is Inside
Job.
CALLS FOR SHOW DOWN
Five Thousand Employees on Subway
Lines Threaten to Quit Sunday
Unless Wage are Ad-
vanced.
CALLS FOR SHOW DOWN

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-Mayol
Hylan was to ask "show down
this afternoon in the threat Of 5000
employees of the Interborough Rapit
Transit company operating the prin
cipal subway in Manhattan and
Bronx to go on strike Sunday morn
ing unless their wage demands were
granted by six o'clock tonight. The
men were just granted ten percent
increase, but now ask an addttiona
fifty percent which would mean 81
an hour for motormen and slightly
tlcss for other employees.
In formal statement Hylan init
mated that the strike was an inside
job, meaning that employees and com
pany were in colusion to force the
public to pay increased fares. The
l. R T. has been agitating for a
raise from 5 to s cents for some
time. A strike threat was made by
the Brotherhood of Interborough
Rapid Transit Employees which Is not
affiliated with the Amalgamated AS
sociation of Street and Electric Rail
way Employees. The latter directed
the recent successful strike on the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines. The
brotherhood was organized with the
approval of the company.
Hylan called a meeting of the pub
lie service commission, committee
Of brotherhood and officials of the
company for this afternoon when he
will reiterate his charges and ASK
an explanation.
Interurban Men Walk Out.
Los ANGELES, Calf, Aug. 18-
Tieup Of interurban transportation be
tween Los Angeles and cities of foul
today with the walkout Of 1900 train
men Of the Pacific Electric Interur
ban Railway at two a. m.
Tickets are sold exclusively to Sar
Pedro. Bus lines and steam trains
are the only committing lines open
They will not be equal to demands
commuters say.
simultaneously strike of con.
ductors and motormen on the Los An
geles electric railway was called.
Officials of the local lines declared
that service Is between 65 and 70 per
cent normal.
The strike Of Pacific Electric EN-.
ployes has been declared a success
Los Angeles railway strikers did not
as readily respond to the walkout call
Four counties-Orange, San Ber
nardino, Riverside and Los Angeles
are cut off from interurban connec
tion with this city as a result of the
strike. Shipyard workers who depend
on Pacific Electric transportation to
the harbor received no service this
morning. Although tickets are sold
to San Pedro, service Is said to be
uncertain. Over 100 sailors were
marooned at Sixth and Main streets
early this morning unable to return tc
their ships. Passing automobiles were
Communicated by many.
The usually crowded viaduct Of
the -Sacific Electric had decidedly
vacant appearance
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
Merry Underta kers.

DETROIT, Aug. 16 = Dropping
their professionally long faces, al.
lowing them to break into hundreds
Of sunny smiles, Michigan under
takers made merry here last night
at their annual convention ball
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
MYSTERIOUS Tapplnqs.

NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-'S6S3-A q.
1919" government carrier pigeon,
seeking shelter from a storm, fright
ened stenographers of a skyscraper
office by tapping on the window.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
Some Short and Snappy Items
Which Make News Wire
Sparkle.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service,l
NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-"Speakins
for God when the spirit moves you"
after II p. m is misdemeanor,
William Turner learned in court.
Turner was arrested for keeping a
neighbor awake.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
Two Cats and a Dog.

NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-two cats
and q dog broke up real estate
business and led to suit and coun-
ter suit for $4,000 each between
Mrs. Sarah Lodewick and Esther
Schultz, neighbors.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
Tells Democratic Senators Not
to Attempt Compromise
Agreement with Re-
publicans.
TREATY RESERVATIONS
| All Proposals to Amend Peace Treaty
Must be Defeated, Presi ident
Has Told Hitch
cock.
[By L. @. Martin, United Press Staff
Correspondent

[By L. @. Martin, United Press Staff
Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.-Al ef-
forts by democratic senators to
agree with republicans on a program
Of reservations to the peace treaty
were abandoned today as the result
Of word from President Wilson.
The president, in talk late yes
terday with Senator Hitchcock, SEN
ate administration leader, strongly
discouraged even the discussion of
reservations by democrats. He made
it plain to Hitchcock that In his
opinion the day for discussion OF
reservations is a long way off.
What democrats must concentrate
their efforts on, in the presidents
opinion. Hitchcock said, is defeat of
all proposals to amend the treaty.
At the presidents suggestion,
therefore, Hitchcock will begin n
drive next week in a speech to the
senate against acceptance Of amend.
ments. While it has been generally
recognized for weeks that there are
not enough votes in the senate to
make general textual amendments,
the president is said to feel the
slightest possibility Of amendment Of
any section must be removed before
he will even consider reservations.
The presidents attitude, as stated
by Hitchcock today, broke off vir-
tual negotiations which promised to
develop into compromise on mild
reservations. The negotiations were
begun by some democrats without
consulting President Wilson.
Following his talk with Wilson,
Hitchcock said in the end some COM
promise may become necessary.
But" he added, ''the president is
not at all sure reservations must
be accepted, and at any rate won't
cross that road now"
Reservations are regarded by Will
son as likely to be embarrassing,
Hitchcock said. Their adoption
would indicate in the presidents
view that the United States has little
faith in the treaty.
Hitchcock, in his speech next week
in the senate, will point out, he said.
as the president did in their talk
yesterday, that amendments would
mean that the United States would
lose the benefits conferred by tho
treaty. He cited access to German
dyestuffs as an example.
"The president said that II the
senate made it necessary to negoti-
ate a separate peace with Germany,
he would send Senators Knox and
Lodge to Berlin to make the new
treaty"
Senator Lodge said today that II
it becomes apparent that a majority
Of the senate Is willing to accept
milk and water reservations" he
will vote for rejection of the treaty
rather than accept such a program.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
First Amendment.

WASHINGTON Aug. 16-The first
amendment to the peace treaty of.
fered in the foreign relations commit
tee was proposed by Senator Fall, New
Mexico, to section 81. This section re.
uuires Germany to renounce in favor
Of Belgium the Kreise and Eupen and
Malmedy.
Falls proposed amendment would
require plebiscite on this question,
and would have the result Of the pie
biscite communicated to commission
appointed by the allied powers, not In
Guiding the United States instead of
having the league Of nations oversee
the transfer of the territory as the
treaty now provides.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
Taft STAYS Down.

PANA, Ill, Aug. 16.-Army avia-
tors arranged an airplane trip for ex-
President William Fl Taft. who was
here speaking at the chautauQua. Il
am not built for airplanes,' Taft said
in refusing
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
TABLOIDS
FROM FAR AND NEAR
China vs.. ia pan.

China VS.. japan.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. tS.-Shan.
tung relations have begun. T. Koray-
achf, Japanese, was set upon by two
Chinese, who confiscated his purse.
Profiteerina by Undertakera.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug 10
Federal authorities are investigating
complaints Of protiteering by under
takers.
Bull Pups Stolen.
CLEVELAND, Aug. 16.-Chicken
thieves broke into Martin Tavis'
chicken roost and departed with two
bull pups.
Case Dismissed.
SHAWNEE, Okla, Aug. 16.-Too
hot to sleep in hotel room, Bill
Dfllman, farmer crawled out on the
street IN his night shirt and slept
in an empty wagon. Dismissed,
said the Judge.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
Safety Deposit Vault.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 16.--Mrs. Harry
L. Mounts mouth saved her jewels.
She put her rings in her mouth when
attacked by robbers. They choked
her, but she only screamed for help
and frightened the robbers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16

The Telegraph Service of The
Daily Gate City and Constitu,
tion-Democrat is received over
our own leased wire.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16
Search for Hoarded Food.

CONTINUED on page 2.)
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-16

Fair. Slightly Cooler. Local
temp. z p. M, Sc; z a. m, 63.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30
Preserving the American Home

a french woman physician, speaking at the
International Conference of Women Physicians
in New York, recently made plea for increas-
ing the birth rate by every means possible, re-
CARELESS of marriage. The inspiration of this
effort to break down the sanctity of marriage
is the desire to increase the population in
country in which the population is decreasing,
by which she. probably means her own land
The real inspiration of this suggestion is the
fear of Germany, which still pervades France.
The population of France is less than that of
old Germany and probably somewhat less than
that OF what the peace treaty leaves to the new
in population more rapidly than France This
idea of population rivalry in the past has been
founded upon the military situation. France
has felt the pressure of the need of soldiers as
protection against German invasion. How
badly she needed them during the past FIVE
years the whole world knows. If the old con- on
ditions are to continue then this pressure of
the need of soldiers will continue upon France,
and there will be mpre than this woman ply
slcian-m-.probably are many more now-who will
be willing. to break down the barriers of religion
and morality in order to increase the birth rate
II chlld-bearing is to be considered only in
military terms, something which is abhorrent to
Americans, and the world is to be organized
on the military basis even more firmly than it
was before the United States. made her great
are the fruits of Christian civilization to be
laid on the altar of Mars. In their anxiety to
fortfy. their country against possible repeti-
ton of German aggression, many French men
and women, particularly those who have a
purely scientific view Of life without spiritual
vision. may be willing to sacrifice religion and
morality to mere population, but such doctrines
will find little acceptance in the United States.
The greatness Of this country is founded
upon the American Christian home. The moral
fiber which makes this country what it is and
has given us the spiritual headshp of the world
is result of the home training of our boys and
girls It is unfortunately true, that there are
many children deprived of this home life and
training because Of the death of parents, or be-
who, for the sake of humanity and for the COM
mon welfare must be given the best possible
substitute for the home and the home training
they are denied. But in the name of that Amer
lean home and in the name of Christian civ
ization, let us not purposely encourage an in
crease in the number of such unfortunates-
St. Louis Globe Democrat.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30
Thinks the League a Mistake.

Grand Island. Neb., Oct. 26.-To the
editor Of The Bee: When President
Wilson, in the last election, asked
the voters to elect a democratic con-
gress, they turned him down fiat.
And now that our congressman want
something to say about the future
of the "U. S. A." who are, or at
least were, elected by the patriotic
voters, the president has made tour
of the country, telling us, what a
contemplate set of cutters they
were, even though they were ignored
in the peace conference over there.
What we really need is thousands
of Borahs, Johnsons and Reeds, who
can and will tell the people the real
truth. If this league should be rati-
fled in its present form, we would
get our instructions from Europe
from just a very few selected mon
archs. When they report that the
people are for the league by big
majority, I believe them to be mis-
taken, for. while great many favor
a league Of nations, the largest ma
jority want the good old U. S. A..
to keep herself free. something our
forefathers fought for-freedom in
dependence and liberty. I've been
voting the democrat ticket for over
20 years, but the present admins
tration has made republican out
of me. Yes, by all means, let's find
out just what this league is first,
then there will be plenty Of time
to sign. This is the greatest calamity
or disaster since our war with Eng
land. Ex-DEMOCRAT.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30
Meat Packers as Hotel Keepers.

Disclosure in Chicago of the fact that the
great leaders of the meat packing industry are
extensively interested in hotel enterprises of
the first magnitude will excite two lines of
thought At first it will occur to the reader
that their enterprise in this matter is legitimate
Being purveyors of food, it is quite natural the
packers take an interest in the business of
finding market for their product. If by own
ership of stock in great hostelry they may OBJ
tain preference in furnishing its provender
even at disadvantage to rival concerns, they
can rely on accepted business practice for justi-
fcation.
The only question rightly raised is whether
there should be stopping point at which hotel
ownership should be halted. If line is to be
drawn it can not be limited to packers, but
would have to apply equally to ALTO other
purveyors of foods and liquid refreshments as
we'll. The forced separation of the railroads
from their controlled coal mines will be cited
but hotels are different in that they can easily
be multiplied. The propriety of the packers
going into the hotel business extensively, pre-
sents still different problem. They doubtless,
themselves, realize by this time that most of
their present troubles come from trying to
cover too much territory, and that little rein
ing in may be quite in order.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30
Germany's Public Debt.

The German senate has just been informed
by its budget committee that what is left of the
empire is burdened with debt of $51 900, 000,-
600, an increase of $46,OOO,000,OO0 over the pre-
war figure. Prior to the war the national wealth
of the German empire was set at $75,000,000,-
600. The total imperial revenue of Germany
prior to the war was about $o00,000000 of
which $3O0,O00,000 went for interest charges. If
this item has increased correspondingly with
the debt it will take $2,700000,000 to meet it,
or three times the entire prewar imperial rev.
enue. These figures are most eloquent in ex-
preston of the problem facing the government
of the defeated people. 1t is very we'll to talk
of the Germans being as wealthy as ever, but
their wealth is represented largely by this
tremendous mortgage on all their possessions.
It's one advantage is that the enormous debt is
self-contained, that is the nation owes its own
people. That the industries Of the country will
be revived is certain, but it will be long time
before the German people as nation will figure
extensively in world financial transactions. Nor
if money is needed to carry on war will it be
possible for them to set in motion any great
military operations, if they make any effort to
pay their public debt.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30
Precedent for Settling Coal Strike.

Seventeen years ago this month a commits
sion convened to carry out most important
public duty. 1t was to investigate and weigh
the differences between the owners of the
anthracite coal mines and the miners, to de-
termine an equitable adjustment of the same,
and to report to the president. 1t might be of
service to the soft coal operators and miners
as we'll as to the public if the action taken by
Theodore Roosevelt in that crisis were to be
initiated by Woodrow Wilson in the present.
Practically the same state of facts is involved,
save that the miners are not actually on strike
as they were then. We realize how reluctant
the president is to even seem to be guided by
anything that was done by any of his predeces-
sors, especially those who went Immediately
before him in his great Office, yet there is one
place where he could do his country and per-
haps himself great service if he were to fol-
low plan that turned out we'll when it was
first tried
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30
Reyelimg IN War Spoils

The cynical comment of an M. I. belong
ing to long past congress concerning what ne
then believed to be the overcrowded status OF
employment in the departmental service at the
national capital that. of those listed on the gov.
eminent payrolls, "few die and none resign,
has a three-to-one basis of justification when
comparison is made between then and now
The payroll records, according to recently
published statement. show that about 5o0oU
employees we're drawing departmental pay. when
the United States entered the war and they
also show that about 100000 are now on the
departmental payrolls year after the signing
Of the armistice. And, amazing as 1T may
sound some of the department beads are ask
Ing for more clerks-they are behind with the
work
The committee ON appropriations OF the
present republican house, budget or no budget
Is anxious to reduce the expense cost of gov
ernment This query has been humming around
in the committee-If 81 per cent of enlisted
men drawing pay at $50 per month have been
eliminated from the service, how is it that only
2 per cent of departmental war workers. draw
ing a minimum salary as to each of 500 per
month, have been dispensed with The civil
service payroll in the District of Columbia
alone now calls for more than STA, 100000 an
nualiy
Once in the government service always in
The government service seems to be the popu-
lar idea in departmental circles in Washington.
War workers dismissed from one department
hunt Jobs in other departments-and quite fire.
ouently have enlisted on another payroll. This
IS statement that has been openly made and
It is made upon the evidence of the payroll rec
ords.-Baltimore American.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30
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The Dav We Celebrate.

nc Lay we NclcDTdte.
Lucius w. Wakely general passenger agent
of the Burlington, born 1858.
William E. Rhoades, vice president of the
United States National bank, born 1866.
James A. c. Kennedy, attorney at law, born
RI Rev. John A. Richardson, Lord Bishop
Of Fredericton, N. B., born in Warwick, Eng
land, 81 years ago.
Sir William Mackenzie, famous Canadian
railroad builder, born at Kirkfeld, Ont, 20 years
ago.
RI Rev. Cortland Whitehead Episcopal
bishop of Pittsburgh, born in New York II
years ago.
Thirty Years Ago in Omaha.
The Misses Sherwood returned from sum-
mer spent on the Atlantic coast.
James Dermody and Miss Emma Krammer
were united in bonds Of matrimony, Rev. Father
Koopman officiating. r.
Mrs. Horace Luddington gave handsome
luncheon in honor of Mrs. Marshall Luddng-
ton ...
Mrs Conant Mas gone to Denver
Celebration of the nuptials of Miss Annie L.
Turner daughter of Isaac Turner of the Ossa-
wan Mills company of Norwich, to Mr.. James
E. Preston of Omaha took place at noon
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30
POST-VACATION PARODY.

I've taken my graft where I've found it
I've grated a bit In my time,
And critics all said I was subtle
I fancied my methods were prime),
But yester-weet, summering idly
By Erie's wild, turbulent hem,
l mixed with the genus called natives
And I learned about grating from
them.
NV guide was so really bucolic,
And vet knew enough, 1t Is true,
To let me do all the rowing
Whene'er there was rowing to do.
He promised he'd get me some fishing,
NY catch was boot and a limb;
For services he charged me ten dollars
And l learned about grating from him.
The Iandlady she was a winner.
NV chamber looked out on a shed:
The mattress she stuffed with some corn
cobs
And this she declared was 3 bed"
She gorged me with prunes and bread
buildings,
For this. she got under my fur;
BY taxing me forty-six fifty,
And I learned about grating from her!
The farm hand" who took my valises.
He soaked me an extra four bits
The girl and the ''chore boy" and bus
man" l..
Were there with the open-faced mitts;
As I said in the start. I have grated
BY ways that were smooth, but-ahem,
Believe me, I've only been piking-
I learned about grating from them!
John D. Wells In the Buffalo News.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30
ON A GREAT EXPERIMENT.

With the passage by congress over the pres
ident's veto of law that is designed to make
wartime prohibition effective, the United
States enters on 4 new era Under the comfy
subsisting between states, and in recognition
of state sovereignty, certain of the common
wealths have been able to maintain more or
less effective embargo on strong drink. Its
public sale has been somewhat effectively pro-
hibited and even private possession and per-
sonal use has been restricted in considerable
degree. The fact that in some states and in
some communities in others the sale and use OF
liquor was not interfered with, and that its
manufacture was carried on, added to the prob
lem Of law-enforcement in the dry" area.
Under the new order of things, the whole
aspect of prohibition is altered. 1t has become
federal policy for the moment, shortly to be
a part OF the fundamental law of the nation.
For the first time in history an entire people
has voted to regulate its own habits as regards
its beverage. Advocates of the measure look
more to the future than to the immediate pres
ent for permanent and justifying results, ad-
hitting that the experiment is destined to be
accompanied by definite resistance on part of
those who are not ready. to abandon the wine
cup Visions of saloonless land, in which no
distillery worm twists nor brewing vat steams,
rise up before the ardent "drys," and in that
prospect they discover ample compensation for
the disturbance now anticipated, and which will
be realized perhaps to the limit of their ex-
pectations.
-~ A brief interlude is promised, for the presi-
dent has said he would end wartime prohibi-
ton with the ratification of the treaty, which is
shortly expected, and will afford few weeks
before the 10th of January, when the lid goes
on for good, in which to replensh private stores
of liquor. Slowly but surely these will disap-
pear, and then will come the test of the ability
of Uncle Sam to enforce the most widely
reaching and generally applied sumptuary law
ever enacted by an enlightened people.
Omaha daily bee., 1919-10-30

on the wall. Make them all diner
entail as funny as possible.
Here are few suggestions:
l. Peanut; princess; tub, fish, NUT,
old cow, fine tooth comb. .
2. Overeating, Dragging, bashful-
ness, boldness, fickleness.
3. Large feet, beautiful hair, loud
voice, new hat, small hands.
4. To sleep, to dance, to jump
rope, to boiler, to study history.
5. In heaven, in a pickle jar, in a
cracker factory, in storage.
E. Actress, popcorn seller, lawyer,
baroness, washerwoman, vagabond.
7. Charming gentlemen, cave man,
perfect lover, tramp.
8. Hodcarrier, prune magnate,
hair dresser, undertaken, waiter.
9. At home, in row boat, in a
cave, in tent, in hotel.
TO- Sneeze, write book, make
doughnuts, sass the janitor, smile.
Dress up in an old sheet, with a
worn pillowcase or a -four sack tied
at two corners for hood. Powder
and color your face till you are as
CHASTITY as possible. Then distribute
the answers to every one at the par.
ty. The girls will have all sorts of
fun when they compare their an
swers with the questions on the
wall.
Next week, "A November Even
ing at Honey
Boys and Girls Newspaper Service.
CnnYright 1919 BY ]. II. Millar.