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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-25

NJ" ORLEANS. Dec. 2a-Morc thar.
nii''oii dollars We're given as bon
banks. factories and other businesses,
ms Christmas WAS the estimate made
here tonight.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-25

NEW YORK, Dec. 24-Every
wounded soldier who obtains leave
from n military hospital to go to the
ing House here tomorrow morning.
will find two S bills and :, little pach-
age hanging on tho big Christmas tree
for HIM, il was announced tonight. y
feminine Santa Claus will distribute
the gifts.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-25

DOUGLAS. GA. Dec. o4.-Tom Smith.
constable OF Atkinson County. died
at noon today from Eunshot wounds
&c eG =, i've when when he raided negro
we're brought to the Douglas jail to-
night in connection with the killing.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-25

thorities have arranged for Christmas
gifts OF one loaf OF bread for each
person. The bread, IL Is said. will he
If slightly better quality than usual.
Physicians report an epidemic of in
tcstinal diseases. owing 10 the had
bread which has been consumed during
he past few months
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
RED CROSS PREPAREDNESS.

One motive of the membership campaign
which the Red Cross viii begin next month IS
to perfect better organization to meet dis
asters The Red Cross takes note of conditions
and foresees need of preparedness. 1t has IN
the past shown fine capacity for meeting emerg-
enoies but its managers declare that more
perfect organization so planned as to establish
local agents throughout the land would greatly
facilitate its work should need arise for quick
action.
Here is perhaps the most significant organ
ization that present day civilization has per-
fected. Irrespective of creed or class the whole
people believe in the Red Cross; they cannot
help it for it has proved itself. And the people
can support what they endorse by becoming
members of one kind or another. The best
thought of the nation is bent on prevention OF
disasters; but even if wise councils prevail and
all that is done that may be, the unforeseen is
always imminent. The Red Cross should have
no trouble in enlisting the American people in
its endeavor to be ready for whatever may be-
tide
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
All reason is against life and all healthy
instincts are for it-Samuel Butler.
THREE PALACES.

u Vice President Marshall puts the situation
teTsely when he says that the high cost OF leis-
ure is the evil confronting the country today.
Several mistaken notions are chiefly respon-
sible for this One is the idea that cutting
down the hours of labor will make more work
for all. This is dangerous fallacy. The truth
is the reverse of it. Where a single Job is CON
sidered, it may seem to work ont that way; but
for the country whole multiplied produc-
ton means multiplied opportunities for remun-
erative work. Another is that a division of the
wealth in existence is all that is needed to
make conditions for the laboring man ideal
This is the bolshevist idea, but it has not work
ed out we'll anywhere it has been tried; and
John Spargo, the socialist, has conclusively
shown that a division of accumulated wealth,
even without compensation to it's former own
ers, would not meet the present demands of la
Dor third vagary is the insistence Of some
superficial thinkers that labor of all kinds
should be equally remunerated. This will not
stand the test of reason If labor is not reward
ed in proportion to it's productiveness, injustice
is done Efficiency goes for nothing and there
is no incentive to effort to do good work or adj
vance the interests of all.
There are people who would rearrange so
ciety on the basis of these three fallacies
Wherever they attempt it with any success they
bring calamity on the land and on all classes
including themselves. Their effort runs coun.
ter to natural laws which cannot be disturbed
by anything that men may do. A campaign OF
education against these misconceptions must be
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
SAFETY FIRST"

Des Moines Capitol: Between noon
and six o'clock D. m. Monday, seven
teen persons were killed at railroad
crossings in eastern Iowa and west
ern Illinois.
The people who were killed were
riding in automobiles and were hit by
railway trains. This is the ever In
creasing and pathetic story. In near
ly every instance a majority of the
members of family are wiped out
and in a majority of instances the
drivers felt so confident about what
they were doing that they drove
themselves to their death.
1t is extremely difficult to induce
automobile drivers to be careful wher
about TO cross the tracks of steam
railroads. In every case the dis
patches say that the crossing was
somewhat dangerous one. This means
that there were no bells ringing and
no voices shouting 'Beware!" Al
railway crossings are dangerous IN
less the roadway is above the railway
which is not often the case in Iowa
The local newspapers in every com
munity have been busy warning PEG
pie to be careful about railway cross
ings. The managers OF steam rail
roads have used al their power and
influence 10 induce people to beware
but the killing goes on. Not week
passes but what from five to ten lives
are sacrificed at railway crossings
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
May Form Third Party.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct ga new
third party may grow out of the con-
ference Of the countrys farm and
labor organization to be held here
December 9Th.
The gathering has been called ~
1.-The Committee of Forty-eight,
which has an organization under way
in New York City. Dudley Field Ma
lone. former prominent democrat, ap-
pointed collector OF the port of New
York by President Wilson, is active
in the movement.
The official convention call says
delegates from all states will attend
The convention will be in session
four days. The democratic and re-
publican parties are denounced, in
the call, as unrepFes entative. Heavy
taxation and wasteful extravagau
of public funds and responsibility for
the high cost of living are CHARGED
against the two parties.
Right to a decent living for a
days work" free speech, free as
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
POOLING WITH
HEALTH SERIOUS

I have frequently asked druggists
What do you push IN blodo medi-
cine" The answer usually came
1.-THE kind can make the most
money on" My answer has always
been, Not me-" / have succeeded
pretty well and have Always recon
mended the one that l had found by
experience to be the best and the
one / would be willing to take my
self or give to members Of my own
family. I have never offered the
public a medicine that we do not use
at home. This Is why can offer
Number 40 For The Blood" with a
clear conscience; we have not only
tried It on thousands OF others. out
on ourselves. We take 1t In all
cases where a blood MEDICINE IS
needed no matter. in what form it
shows itself and we get splendid Ie-
suits In constipation, kidney, stomach
and liver troubles. / firmly believe
If every one would begin In the spring
and take Number 40" they would
escape malaria and fevers in all
forms. J. C.. Mendenhall, 40 years a
druggist. Evansville. Ind Sold BY
McGrath Bros.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
AUTUMN BOUQUETS

the CLEAN Of the white pillars of
a clematis-covered cottage;
hear the sound Of the wind in the
balm of gilead trees. Through
tho gathering dusk the asters
sparkle like small white stars;
a last tall larkspur shakes its
blue chimes on it's bending stalk.
Sweet William with his homely
cottage smell.
And stocks in fragrant blow;
Roses that down the alleys shine
afar,
And open jasmine-muffled lat
tees,
And groups under the dreaming
garden trees.
And the full moon and the white
evening star.
Yes, all these recollections,
these vague impressions and half
forgotten words press curiously
about ME, mingling with the
mingled scent of the flowers, as
gaze at an autumn bouquet.
How many late September
evenings have | hurried forth to
gather a late basket full Of
blooms before the white frost
should creep up ON them, leaving
its black. black mantle behind?
And always there were few Zin-
Mas left-a dahlia or two; some
times a twinkling little nastur-
tium, sometimes a frightened,
flat-faced cosmos. And every
year as l gather them l gather
at the same time sheaf OF MEM
ories-a sheaf growing heavier.
but sweeter, too, with each sue
ceeding season. Thus 1t is two
baskets that / fill--one real, one
visionary, as gather the last fall
flowers.
We all admit that much OF the
charm Of a gardener at least
OF gardening in anticipation
What floral patches ever bloom
as gayIy as those we fondly plan?
But If much of the charm lies in
anticipation, how much lies in re-
membrance? And that is why
the autumn bouquet-the last one
of the season speaks so elo-
quently to whoever has loved and
tended many gardens. 1t is as IL
all those gardens, so loved, SO
tended, were yielding UP a flower
In remembrance-a flower for
the autumn bouquet.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
PLAN TO LOOT s25o,ooo, COO 900.

Rev. Newell Dwight Hills: There
is well-defned conspiracy on among
millions of men and women of alien
blood and birth, with a rev criminal
native Americans, who desire to over
throw our government and who wish
to replace it's ruins in Washington
by one great bolsheyist state social
ism machine, substituting labor
leader, like Lenine, tor our presi
dent. and transferring all properly
whatsoever to muscle men. Tlare
are four forms OF production-iand
produces something; capital, which
is the preserved labor OF the yeste,-
days, contributes something; invent
ors, with their ability, organizing 10
produce their thousand-fold tools, do
something; labor of human muscses
does something-these four groups
fill the granary of society. Take
away your man of ability and society
would revert to condition where
each man, muscle worker, woald
nave simply that which his muscle
can produce--not over 81 day.
When the granary is full and the
storehouse oyerflows, the mob starts
looting. The lawless element and the
aliens looted Ephesu5. Ephesus was
never rebuilt. The lawless element
looted Alexandria. The great city
was never rebuilt. The mob looted
Athens-it was never rebuilt. Once
more the granary is filled. Already
the spirit of eupidity and ayarice
looks longingly for the moment when
the footing can begin. Bolsheyism is
not a philosophy. I. w. W.-ism is
not a philosophy. The revolutionary
state socialists in Winnipeg and
Seattle had never read a page of
Karl Marx Their state socialism
and their bolshevism were simply a
eamouflage behind which criminals
can start the looting. Today the so
called better classes are acquies-
cent. They are simply trying to
keep their annual incoMe, which for
the nation is s5o,O00,0 200, 000 But the
lawless element is organized, turbu-
lent, infiammabIe and is arming be-
cause its stake is s256,O00, 0oO, 600.
namely. the entire accumulated prop
erty of the nation. That is why
Trotsky said to the worsmen, Throw
down your spade and buy a gum
The spade brought a SIS wage. The
gun through murder will win the
$3.50. 600 900, 900. The prize is gilt
iering. And the burglars argument
is, the stronger the lock and bars,
the greater the treasure and loot to
be won.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
REVERE. MO.
: >>>e>>~>>>e>

Still we are having lovely weather
and not much sickness, for which we
are very thankful.
The protracted meetings at Peaks
Vile closed Saturday night with a
few additions to the church
On October Is, Ovel Vanfossen and
Lorene Ballard were united in mar
rage at Wyaconda. Their many
friends wish them a long, happy life.
They will reside near town.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bowden enter
tanned Sunday the latter's mother,
Mrs. Henderson, OF Peaksville; also
Mr.. and Mrs. William yanfossen and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ovel yanfossen.>
William Ehrhart and family enter
,taiEed on Sunday at dinner Mr.. and
Mrs. George Galland, Mr. and Mrs.
Ora Walker, Dan and Amelia Ehrhart
and Misses Matte Seward and Ella
bruce.
Charles Mcdonnell and wife en-
tertained the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. James Armstrong. Sunday.
We have two meat shops in town
now, SO If we go hungry for meat
it will because we haven't the dough.
Mrs. Fannie Inglesbee and daugh-
tiers, of Oklahoma, are visiting her
brother, Van Johnson, and sister,
Mrs Mary Lucas, north of town
Marion Wells has purchased George
Moore's farm, northeast of town.
Jack Savage had a stock sale octo-
Der It. He is leaving the farm and
coming to town
Gene White and Ray Dorothy and
the Misses Vera I1orothy and Hazel
Courtney motored to Memphis, Mo-.
Saturday and visited with Albert
Rener and wife, They returned home
Sunday.
Alice Wilson came home from
Quincy Saturday and returned to her
school duties Sunday.
Jasper Gilbert came home Friday
night from Kirksville for a visit over
Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Otha
Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Curtis and two
sons, of Montrose, visited the for
mer's brother, George Curtis. and
family, north of town.
Mrs. George Christy, Jr., is visiting
relatives in northern Iowa.
Mrs. John Kaylor, of near Cham
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
INEOUITABLE DEMANDS.

Labor has won much TO which it is justly en-
itled-yery much which it is inconceivable
that Ii can ever lose Ever since orr civil war
the so-called conflict between capital and labor
has been on and one by one the reasonable con-
tentions OF labor have been secured. This was
precisely as il should be: and there are rights
not yet conceded which men who labor with
their hands VIII ultimately gain 4 time can be
foreseen when. as President Butler, of Columbia
university, suggests, the net profit, and the loss
when it occurs, viii Be divided among the three
classes Of workers who carry a business on
those who work with their hands, those who
work with their brains and those who work with
their savings But when laborers as lndlvid-
uals and labor as class secure their rights, the
struggle TO promote lis group welfare must end
ANY gains beyond that would be unrighteous
and soon be lost.
The whole trend OF events in modern civilized
society is TO do away with privileged or favor
ed classes or castles There have been many OF
these in the past but the day Of their doom has
dawned All Of them are gone or going or to
go, and no new ones viii take their place. The
king, the church aristocracy, plutocracy have
in their turn, and at times eoncurrently, exer-
cised and often misused an undue power. But
the people are changing all that and will never
the ruins Of the old. All the people will never
buy a business ike that of transportation and
give it over TO a particular group All the peo-
pie viii never consent 70 see a majority in any
group of workers deprive minority of their
right TO work and sell their labor as they see
fit. All the people will never consent that any
group Of public servants shall desert their posts
Of duty, as In Boston, and give city over to
thieves and thugs. And all the people will not
long permit any group of strikers to paralyze
public utility and thus cause general distress
and loss. Organized labor has in the past claim
ed all these powers and is battling for some OF
them still But its claim is unjust, untenable
and viii surely fail There will be no perma-
nent settlement Of industrial problems ON that
basis or on any basis, that exalts one group
above another. The world has now outgrown
all that.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23

Christian Science Monitor:
There are xinnias in 1t, OF stain
edglass clarity. and asters, firing
ed and feathery: a few daisies, 9
dahila, q spray of rose geranium
and one fair pink Killarney. An
old-fashioned nosegay, the iaSt
gleanings from the passing gar-
den-what is there so profound
~ stirring in this autumn bou-
Quet?
All summer long have ar
ranged the flowers from the gar
den; big bowls of nasturtiums,
tall vases of gladioli: baskets OF
larkspur. All summer long they
have sweetened the house with
their perfume and their presence,
flowers far handsomer than this
heterogeneous collection. But l
do not recoilect one floral ar
rangement that seemed so lovely
as this small pitcher fun of
stragglers. / think 1t must be
because last night, when the
frost was in. the air, hurried
forth and gathered them all to
save them from their blackening
fate. And now my imagination
Imagination is always very live
ly when 1t comes 10 flowers
tells me that they are grateful
and that that is why they regard
me with such ardent brightness.
Like refugees. fleeing before the
storm. taken in and given shelter,
they glance at me. Look at those
zinnias for instance: stiff old
spinsters, with hardy complex
ions and uncompromising figures
how sparkling are the looks
they give me! Those pompous
dahlias, like important old gentle
men with ruffled neckclothes,
seem quite modest now, properly
humbled as they think Of the fate
they have just escaped. The rose
geranium breathes forth a gentle
prayer of thanksgiving and the
Killarney, destined to be blasted
in her dawning youth had ! not
rescued her, is delicately trem-
bling with emotion.
Oh well, I suppose such talk
is all nosense but, nevertheless,
I can never hold an autumn bou-
auet IN my hands without a hun
dred half-gotten memories surg
ing over me. Once again smell
the salt air Of seaside garden:
once again see moon hung in
vast and broooding sky see
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT IT?

The public knows that there is possibility OF
coal strike. The public also knows what the
coming of this would mean to it in inconven-
fence and suffering. How much does the public
at large know of the causes or alleged causes
bringing this thing within imminent possibility I
How much is the public being made an influence
to prevent this disastrous happenings We
have lot of post-event Investigations that ac-
quaint the public with what mulcted it of
money and needed commodities Why not start
pre-investigationsf Why not put plainly before
the people all the facts of a situation that is
likely to develop into national misfortunef
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Republican: To have q
lot OF men in Washington talking over
what ought to be done-well. it's talk
ing, to say the least, and, of course,
they viii not be able to solve every
thing, II anything. What We need is
more work and less talk the world
over. But we may not get that until a
lot OF heads have been bumped up
against something incontroYertible-
Ike famine, for instance.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The trend to
the town continues The back TO the
seip' movement does not move per-
ceptibly. And yet few hundred years
ago, the people of most countries lived
in the open and pitied the few whe
were herded together in the towns.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: A news
report says "Burleson makes vigorous
defense of his administration" We do
not haupen to recall case where de-
Tense was more necessary than it is
in that OF Burleson VS.. the people.
Webster City FFeeman-Journal:
How would Ii. fellows who stand
around the streets corners arguing
that the world owes them living
ever collect If the average man were
as lazy and worthless as they ares
The world doesn't owe anybody a liv-
inc unless he earns it, no matter II he
is worth a million of dollars in money.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Now the
dollar razor fellows have banded to-
gether and they're going to find that
the dollar razor was worth two dol
lars all along.
DUBUQUE Telegraph-Herald: Cum
minis and Kenyon voted against the
Shantung amendment to the peace
treaty. But there was no one egged
in Iowa, was there?
Glidden Graphic: While labor and
capital are trying to get together IN
the industrial conference at Washinton,
who represents the great mass of peo-
pie who are not classed in either OF
these two divisions? Labor and capt.
tai could make agreements that
would be perfectly acceptable to eaeh
other and the general public might
suffer severely. Harmonious action
between these two great bodies IS I'M
portant, but it is not all-important
when taken as national proposition
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
rODAYS BIT OF VERSE
AUTUMN MOTHER CLEANS TODAY.

All said the stately sycamore,
NV golden leaves strew earth's bare floor,
Down whirls the breeze from mountain pass,
He skaters you like leaves of glass
TITS Autumn Mother near stands,
The winds the bosom in her hands.
She'll whirl you to her bosom's rest.
She'll sweep you to the mountains crest;
In hillside hooks tuck you away
The Autumn Mother CLEANS today.
You've sung in wind, and dripped in rain.
And wrought for me great good and gain.
Another ring about my heart
Is closed, and done the seasons part
The silence comes when / shall stand,
In robes of gray in mine own land
No leaves to whisper and to shake,
My mediations deep to break
For voices to the Brethren said:
'Tis time O Trees, for You to shed
Your leaves and fruits, for nature calls
Her harvest in, the order falls.
The cycle swings, the winter earth
Prepares again for springtilne birth.
And boughs are bare and fields clear.
My nextyear buds are sleeping here,
know no more, don my gray,
/ wait in quiet winters day.
All leaves, I east you all away.
l wait nquiet winters day.
All leaves l cast you all away,
The Autumn Mother CLEANS today.
Christian Science Monft
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
Tobacco Habit
Dangerous

says Doctor Conner. formerly 81
Johns Hopkins hospital. Thousandi
Of men suffering from fatal disease.
would be in perfect health todal
were it not for the deadly drug Sjeo
tine. Stop the habit now before It!
too late. It's a simple process TO III
yourself of the tobacco habit in anl
form. Just go TO any up-to-date drui
store and get some Nicotol tablets
take them as directed and 10. INT
pernicious habit quickly Fanishes
Druggists refund the money II tnel
fail. Be sure TO read large and inter
esting announcement by Doctor Con
nor soon TO appear in this paper. .
tells of the danger OF nicotine POI
soning and how to avoid il In I'm
meantime try Nicotoi tablets; y"
will be surprised at the result
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23
5 OPEN N0STRILS! END
! A COLD OR CATARRH
How To Get Relief When Head
and Nose are Stuffed Up.


Count fifty! Your cold In head Of
eatarrh disappears. Your clogged nos
triis viii open. the air passages o.
your head will clear and you car
breathe freely. No more snuffling
hawking, mucous discharge, drynes,
or headache; no struggling for breath
at night
Get a small bottle of Ely's CresE
Balm from your druggist and apply !;
little of this fragrant antiseptic cresE
in your nostrils. 1t penetrates througf
every air passage of the head, sooth
ing and healing the swollen or in
famed mucous membrane, giving yoi
instant relief. Head colds and ca
tarrh yield like magic. Don't STAY
stuffed-up and miserable. Relief i
sure.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-10-23

In nearly every case the victims are
cruelty mutilated.
OF course all the care that may be
taken cannot prevent all the &C.
cidents. Some OF them will occur
anyway. But 1t is the duty of every
citizen to aid in the education OF
automobile drivers toward greater
care and 20 remind each and every
one of safety first"