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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-23

the stein song you can realize that
good fellows got together in Maui
VOC saloon by the merest accident,
and as rule. half of them are a half
or full measure behind.
The safe ice bridge on the lake is
no more between Nauvoo and Mont
rose and the Nauvoo ferrymen have
anything but pleasant going and COM
ing with the mails until another good
freeze comes along or the ice entire
" melts away.
The Nauvoo tax rate amounts to
the following amounts this year: The
state, 75c; county, TIC; road and
bridge, Gle; district school, $1.50; city
tax, $1.79, and high school. $1.02. All
of which amounts to s6.3S.
Mrs. Harry Long has had for her
guest Miss Frances Miller of Webster
Ill.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hohl have re-
turned to Nauvoo after an enjoyable
visit to their daughter at Maquoin, Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis Daugherty, Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Bush and Mrs. GalleiD
Boegner of Nauvoo attended the fun
eral Of Mr.. Daugherty's mother in
Warsaw on Tuesday of last week.
Mrs Mable White of Kansas City,
has been guest Of her mother, Mrs.
Luella Stratton and family in Nauvoo.
John Stutz, Jr., is reported to have
arrived in New York last Monday
from France where he has been since
last August He expects to be sent
Ito some one of the states camps be-
fore being mustered out and be al
lowed to return to civilian life.
All Nauvoo people, except the ice
dealers, were pleased with the fine
weather that January gave us. 1t
was also a great saving factor on
the fuel pile.
Miss Goldie, the second eldest
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. O. Boyer
of Nauvoo, was taken to Keokuk
hospital Tuesday afternoon to under
go an operation for appendicitis. The
many friends of the little lady hope
, her recovery will be rapid. Her
mother and aunt went to Keokuk
with her.
A large amount Of booze is carted
away from Nauvoo almost every day.
Notwithstanding the muddy condition
! Of the roads, and the automobile Is
the main conveyance for its transpor-
! tation. The human body that comes
! on visits here also carries away a
| lot of the fluid.
| There may be residence or two
/ built in Nauvoo the coming spring
| in spite of the fact that the wet
goods hooses will go out of business
next July.
! The Nauvoo Priscilla club mem.
bers held an enjoyable meeting at the
home of Mrs. Lou Argast one after
noon of last week. All the ladies
were present but one who is absent
from the city. The members had a
delightful time with doing fancy
needle work and conversing about
this and that. Before the departure
OF the guests, the hostess served a
dainty luncheon.
j Since mentioning that John Stutz,
Jr. had arrived from overseas In
New York last Monday, telegram
was received by his father. Geo.
StutZ, in Nauvoo that his son died
OF pneumonia on the ship on which
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-23
NURSE CENSUS
NOT COMPLETED
lt i. Now Being Made as Rapidly az
Possible by Visiting Nurse A.
ISOLATION Of keokuk
and Mrs. RIoh.
AN IMPORTANT SURVEY
All Sorts Of Nurses Listed, Not for
Any Duty Nor Drafting, But to
Determine Resources
in Profession.

No figures are yet available as to
the number of nurses in Keokpk ana
Lee county. bat it is expected tEat
when the census of them now Delng
taken is closed, all eligible to regis
ter will be enrolled.
The census began January Is, ana
Storm Lake, Waukon, Fairneld,
Mason City and other Iowa towns
completed the work at once. Here IN
Keokuk 1t has been delayed by the
Blue Triangle campaign and other
unavoidable causes. the management
says.
Mrs. c. M. Rich is in charge OF
the census here, under the auspices
of the Visiting Nurse association.
The nursing survey which Is IN
process in Keokuk and Lee county, as
well as in other counties in Iowa. is
to find and record every woman VINO
has had any training in caring for
the sick.
Who are Listed in Census.
The groups to be registered are
graduate nurses, pupil nurses now In
| training, undergra duate nurses, train
| ed attendants-as nurses in hospitals
| for the insane, tuberculosis sanitaria
! and similar nstitution-practical
nurses, midwives and women who
have taken the Red Cross nurses
! course.
/, The work In Keokuk is being done
by the Visiting Nurse association
| though appointment of the Red Cross
chapter.
| The committee gains it's informa-
| ton as to who are eligible to receive
missionaries though the physicians
| Of the county. from hospitals. nurses
alumnae associa tons and nurse regis
teries. The list of those who have
taken first aid courses is secured
through the Y. w. G. A. which has
on several occasions conducted first
aid classes.
The survey Is not draft for duty
Of any sort, but it is to find the I'M
discovered nursing ability In the
community, and to be prepared for
emergency. The survey is one fea-
ture of the general scheme of health
conservation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-23

You never tried anything half so
wonderful as "Ulypto Ointment for
those back-breaking pains. Nine times
out of ten your stoop-over muscles
cold. One application Of "Ulypto Oint-
ment" will get the kink out OF the
muscles. youm strafghten out and
ENTHUSIASTICALLY.
"tJiypto Ointment" contains the won
derfui bland, safe properties of the oil
Of the eucalyptus tree. 1t Is magic
also for rheumatic pains. sore muscles.
and head colds,-for any Inflammation
or congestion. Sold at all drug stores:
csc and soc o Jar, or sent on receipt OF
price by the Macmillan Chemical CO..
Falls City. sNeb.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-23
Mothers!
An Appeal For Your Children

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the physic that mother insisted -castoal
OIL salts or cathartics
How you hated them. How you fought them. How
you threaded their after-effects. ssaHagEsN
That all wrong, but then nobody knew betters
With our children it's different.
The day Of harsh physics is over. - 81 fs
I'VE don't force the bowels we. coax them
We have no dreaded aftereffects.
And the dose is candy tablet s ~
Mothers who cling to the old forngof physic simply
don't know what they do. $50
The chidren's revolt is wellfoundeds
Their tender bowels are harmed by them
The modem way is to give gentle laxative rnors
frequently To keep the bowels always active
The best method is Cascares n
Cascarets are candy tablets.
Children love their pleasant taste.
They only 10 cents box, with full directions
for children's dosage at all ages. Babies too!
Give Cascarets then don't worry-they never daPpoin
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-23
Wants Anzoc Graves.
[By United Press. ]

!. MELBOURNE, Australia, Dec. 20
INV MaiD Australia will obtain
vested right In the land where Aus
tralian soldiers are buried ON Call
,oU. in order to assure proper care
of the graves, il suggestion maze
in the federal parliament Is adopted
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-23
: WIN Release teachers.
rRu United Press.

sydney. N. s. W.. Dec. 22-tBy
MaiD In view Of the shortage Oh
teachers in New South wales. AUS
tralia, A. G. F. James. minister Ior
education, has arranged for lmmedi,
ate release of teachers VINO enisteu
in the Australian armed forces.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-23

Stop that tickle" in the throat.
stop hoarseness by taking "Ulypto
Cough Drops" sc everywhere.
For sale and recommended in Keo-
kuk by Wilkinson & Co. McGratk
Bros. Co., Scott & O'Heilly Engel-
hardt & Co. w. II. Siegfrfed and J.
F.. Kiedaisch z Som
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-23

read the classified column.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

We have seen how General Foch
worked his Will upon the leading Ger
man generals. Here was a man of spirit
and genius pitted against the heavy.
numbering, thick -skulled Prussian type,
and he outmatched them as the human
brain can always outmatch a machine.
Had the armistice been delayed few
days, he would have bagged the whole
German army
1t has been said that we cannot indict
a whole people, but the German people
of our time are the most indictable peo-
pie that have appeared in modern his
tory, aiming not merely to defeat or
capture the armies of the enemy, but to
destroy for all time their industries, their
very clvilization--a people who were a
unit in starting and carrying on preda-
tory war, war that should fill their
Golfers and empty those of their neigh
bors. No nation ever set out so de-
iberately and systematica to destroy
another, root and branch, as Germany set
out to destroy Belgium and France
They had been for years secretly pre-
pairing inventories of French and Bel
glan industries, machinery, trade, mines
and coal fields. The fact has recently
come out that they divided the countries
of Belgium and Northern France into
zones and organized obstruction COM
panies,' each of which was operated by
director, appointed by the German
government Under this plan the invaded
countries we're literally stripped of
everything that might enable them to
come into industrial competition with
Germany after the war The linen in
dustry, the sugar industry, the brewing
industry, the woollen industry, the cot
ton industry were wiped out, and mill
ions upon millions Of tons of machinery
and material were carted away to Ger
many. Rivers were conducted into coal
mines and iron mines destroyed as far
as dynamite could destroy them Much
of the industrial population was deported
into Germany and much of the capital
of mercantile and manufacturing com
munities was taken by fines and levies.
Their aim was, of course, to carry out
the threat made by Bernhard before
the war in his book about "the next war;
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
So the Germans, Long Honored
for Their Philosophy, Betrayed
Themselves i'm Their Deeds

logical problem hard to solve: one SO full
of grace, wit and idealism the other.
SO base and grovelling. Try to think of
Joan of Arc in Prussia, Compare LA
Marseillaise' with Die Wacht am
Rhein.'
1t IS hard to find words to paint the
German portrait black enough. Let any
falr-minded, cool-headed man sit down
and try dispassionately to think of the
deeds they have been guilty of in this
war, and see if he does not grow hotter
and hotter the longer he thinks.
In The Education of Henry Adams"
we get glimpse of Prussian educational
methods and aims in the years 1858 and
1859. The main effort was the arbitrary
training of the memory. The reasoning
powers and the moral sense were en-
tireiy neglected, but to perform pro-
dlglous stunts in memorizing was the
one great feat. What else could one ok
pect of such people in such an arbi-
trary state? What use had they. or If.
for reason? If you are going to make
machines of men, the memory is the
faculty to cultivate; drill them to act
automatically. But if you aim to pro-
duce men. develop the reason and the
moral sense.
There are still 100000 Germans
all unrepentant. In few generations
there will be 10O,0O0,0O0 of them. and
they will not have changed for the good
one lota. Their porcine propensities and
unscrupulous character will remain un
abated. They are of the earth earthly.
They wallow in materalism; they have
ceased to produce literature, art, music.
or philosophy; they have run all to ma
terialism for the past two or three gen
erations, and to expect any radical
change in them is to expect the serpent
to walk upright or to forget to use It's
fangs
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

to cripple France so that she could
never cross their path again, that is,
compete with them or stand in their way
IN any future time.
In the second year of the war one of
Germany's leading generals and states
men, Baron Won Freytag Loringhaven,
wrote a book called deductions From
the World War" The book, written for
home consumption, assumed that Ger
many had won the war. Its main pur-
pose was to prepare the minds of his
countrymen for the next war, for which
even then Germany was preparing. In
this work is disclosed the radical char
acter of the war Germany was then wag-
ing and expected to wage in the future,
a war not merely against the military
power of her enemies, but against their
whole people, men, women and children,
aiming not merely to defeat their armies.
but to strike at the very source of
national existence, refraining from no
deed that would cripple her enemies for
all time.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

The. Germans are without sentiment
or imagination. They can understand no
psychology but their own, and on every
important occasion msread the feelings
and purposes of the other peoples. The
chlvalrous and the heroic are unknown
to them. AS soon as the tide of battle
turned against them, they lost their
morale. They had nothing to fall back
upon, nothing of which the souls of
heroes are made. Their sudden collapse
before their territory was invaded, and
while they still had millions of veteran
soldiers at the battle front, the cowardlv
flight of the Kaiser, the ignominious
terms they fastened to accept, the sur
render of their fleet without firing a
shot, the mutiny of their crews when
required to face the feet of the enemy.
are all typical of an unheroic people.
Is 1t possible to conceive of the Brit.
lsh fleet, or the French fleet. or the
American fleet, or the fleets of anv of
the Allies, surrendering in this COW
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
Certain Problems
Abroad

The world is distressed by food shortage
and high prices. The food abstinence COM
PEELED by war is bound to be resented in
peace. Peace will not relieve hunger un-
less more food is produced Our returning
soldiers and unemployed makers of war
material cannot engage in farming for lack
Of initial capital. The cost of living viii
soon exhaust their cash. What after that >
Hunger is an evil counsel. A period of re-
adjustment is coming, and with it some
business depression. Colonization on farms
is obviously the relief from most social
and economic Ills, and it averts political
danger Agricultural reconstruction is ur-
gently necessary. Americanization work
conducted with disregard to economic re-
qulrements may be sport for rich people
but it will not improve conditions.
If our thrifty immigrants are removed
with their savings, and only the unfortu-
mates and good -nothings remain, we are
bound to have bad conditions in time. The
condition of great numbers of native Amer
lean farm tenants appears to be in urgent
need of improvement.
According to the statistical abstract Of
the United States Bureau of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, our total wealth of
crops and livestock production in the fiscal
year ended June 80. 1917. amounted to
$l9,4t3,s49,oo0, our import of foodstutfs
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
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Baron Won treytag's book is a cool cal
culatlon of when and where they might
have reaped better results from their
military efforts. Never hint anywhere
that they had wronged anybody or that
they have, on moral grounds, anything
to regret. Hear him on this phase of
the subject:
The moral element proved to be now.
as ever, the decisive factor in the war.
In the case of the Central Powers the
lofty moral strength arising from q
sense of righteous self-defence in war
which had been thrust upon them
showed its superiority to the zeal which
a commercial and predatory war could
kindle in our enemies"
The moral element decisive factor -
forsooth. Could perversity and self de-
ception further go?
And he asks What have we learned
IN this. war that will be of service to rs
IN the next War-what about the cavalry.
the artillery, the small arms?" and so on.
The Germans lost at the Battle Of the
Marine, he points out, but they must do
better next time. In future, in their
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

peace maneuvres they must train their
companies and battalions in trench war
fare-must devote more attention to tao
ties on large scale and less to strategy.
A more scientific military system, more
perfect war machine they must have in
the next war than they had in 1914 War,
the baron says, has its basis in human
nature, and as long as human nature re-
mains unchanged war will continue to
exist. He quotes with approval Won
Moltke's saying, that eternal peace is a
dream, and not even a beautiful dream
If there is no international law that
has been infringed by the course of
William Hohenzollern when he was the
Kaiser. and no precedent for Furnishing
him, then it is high time that we made
one. Let the peace commissioners estab-
llsh precedent by executing the world
scoundrel. 1t has been suggested that
wave of his own mustard gas would be
d just retribution for him and the Cen
eral Staff
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13
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Think of the appalling calamitles that
are traceahle to him and to the military
gang that surrounded him--the lives of
at least 100000 of Europe's and
Americas best young men, with prob
ably 20,o0o,OoO wounded and manned
for life, and other millions of men,
women, children, and old men dead
from starvation and exposure. Shall he
go free? and Won Tirptz? and the mur-
derers of Edith Cavell, and of Captain
Fryatt? Then there is the blighted and
devastated land. and the spectre of
famine set stalking through all Europe
and parts of Asia
That there should spring up in the
heart of Europe two peoples, side by
side, differing so fundamentally as do
the French and the Germans is a bio
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

sale of steamship ticket to Europe, no
taral cerNhcations; besides. they conduct
a veritable bureau of "misnformation. -
ihelr business is the moro profitable the
longer immigrants are preserved alien to
everything American. 1t requires less So.
nous qualifications than any other occupa.
ton. II is quite rcmunerative. csncciallv
for those who are not ovcrscrupulous
our authorities fail to realize tho So.
riousness Of this sort of abuses At the
present time only the states of New York
New Jersey, Pennsylvania Massachusetts
and Ohio have laws regarding these CON
Germs. These laws endeavor to prevent
the embezzling of immigrants money. Our
other forty-three states have no lerisla-
ton along these lines We have no laws
whatsoever which would regulate or super
wise the propaganda conducted for induc-
ing immigrants to export their savings ard
10 remi CRATE. There is no money in Amer
icanizaton for the interdealing forces. hut.
there is much money in the export of say
ings and the sale Of transportation for
remgrants. Keen competition stimulates
their activities.
IN SHtS|u CDoIeo poSld! savings banks.
If at least effective as those in the
Philippine Islands, might have called forth
Improvement. Unfortunately this was and
is now the case. In 1914 there were some
$4,000 postal savings banks in the United
States At the present time, only about
100 are operated. During the war remi-
grafton and export of savings had TO stop
Immigrants earned higher wages. during
the war than ever before. 1t is said that
immigrants hoard a the present time
about 81 ,50OO00,000; that about 100000
immigrants are ready to return to Europe
Immediately and another 100000 when ad-
dltional transportation will become avail
able. The lnterdealing forces prepare for
verltable harvest of profits to be derived
out OF commissions paid on the sale of
steamship tickets and profits to be made on
the export of savings. The bills. H. R. No.
s9SS-10l66, S. 1852 and s. 5472. providing
for remedial measures, slowly dying
IN the committee rooms.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

our industrial production were so developed
by modern technique that the employment
OF unskilled people is possible The European
peasant and the native farm people are
employed by our industries without loss
OF time IN preparatory instructions, AT
wages acceptable to both the employer and
the employe.
Our stage and literature present tho
American farmer "Rube' in contrast
with the picturesque and popular farmer
known all over the rest of the world. Oar
boys and girls grow averse in increasing
proportion to farming. The native Amer
lean gravitates toward the cities Citv
amusements and cash wages at frequent
intervals are preferred to drudgery on the
farms.
Most of the easily tillable land is by
this time IN private ownership. The yet
remaining homestead land involves long
years Of hard work in making it profitable
The great hardships in overcoming the diff
fculties of beginning, the absence of
schools, churches, stores, the great dis
tance to railroads, the difficulties of OBJ
tanning water, building material, merchan-
disc, fair prices for the farm products the
lack Of comfort OF living, the solitude and
isolation on the homesteads discourage
the pioneers. 1t is the history of our West
that the first generation starved and failed,
and it the second generation and some
times the third generation which finally
made the farm pay. Storms, drouths, in
sect pests and failures Of crops handi-
capped the new settler. Credit could be
had only at usurious rates or not at all
for new settlers. The time passed forever
when the average family could thrive on
homestead with a small capital.
Statistics show about seven million farms
in the United States, with an average gross
income Of about 50 400 for each farm. De-
ducting rent, interest, wages, upkeep, etc,
a net income of less than $1,000 remains
The size of the average farm is about sew
entyfve acres Of improved land, it's value,
with buildings, machinery livestock, ETC. is
about $6,444. About half of our farms arc
titled by tenants. Thrty-three and six
tenths per cent of owners carry mortgages,
averaging s1715 per farm. The sum rep
rcsenting the value of all the possessions Of
the others amounts in each instance to- less
than $4,000
The equipment Of livestock, implements,
seed, feed, WE'LL fences and buildings for
an average farm costs at the present time
not less than $4,000 Moving expenses to
the farm and living expenses up to the time
"hen crops would provide for an income
require additional capital. The total initial
capital required at the present time for the
acquisition Of farm amounts to more than
"hat the average established American farm
or possesses-and, Of course, it amounts to
much more than what the bulk Of the would
be new settlers have. No wonder that our
skilled farmers and land hungry immigrants
continue to remgratc
New-York tribune., 1919-04-13

States. In their present state 228.-
100000 acres Of cut-ovcr land are picture
OF desolaton calculated to discourage the
hardlest pioneer. Lying also large
" II tho eastern half Of the United States
and overlapping the cut.over lands to some
extent arc some eighty million acres OF
swamp land Where enterprise has re
claimed small areas of swamp land the won
dorful productivity Of the soil has been
amply demonstrated Millions Of acres OF
land Of the very best quality are in private
ownership, idle. awaiting the settler
Our Secretary of Agriculture states that
our output from the soil has not even
reached the end Of the pioneering stage.
The total arabic land in the United States
IS S35, 100000 acres, of which only about
4o0,00O,000 are in farms and i'm
proved. Less than 40 per cent is Welding
fairly full returns Besides the idle and
abandoned farms in the East, some 49,
100000 acres of agricultural land in the
United States lie idle because there is
none to farm it." Of irrigable area 800
1882 acres of public state school, In
dian and other lands are available accord
ing to the annual report of the Recama-
tion Service for 1916. We have plenty of
land and qualified families to raise crops,
but these families came to believe that
1t IS impossible to succeed in farming in
this country. v Large numbers of native
American farmers emerated to Canada,
Argentina and other countries. The aver
age resident peasant immigrant rem igrates
as soon as enough money has been saved
out of American wages to enable him to
buy land in his European native country.
In normal years about 400,O 900 resident
immigrants remigrate. They export each
normal year about s4O0 900 900