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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02
OUR OWN FAULT.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: A man paid
thirty-five cents for bottle Of ma.
tionally advertised oil. When he
reached homo and opened his pack.
age he found the manufacturers
price printed on the bottle, Price
Is cents"
Another man bought pair OF
shoes. He paid $12.20 for them. He
says he has positive proof that the
shoes did not cost over $575. whole
sale.
Both men are kicking, and Kicking
hard about profiteering.
But they are not doing anything.
The explanation as to the oil, we
are told. is that the price has gone
UP and that this particular bottle
happened to be an old one left In
stock, purchased at the old price. but
marked up with the new stock. The
dealer feels that. as he cannot re-
place the goods for the old price, his
new price is legitimate. There may
or may not be difference Of opinion
regarding that. AS to the shoes, we
have heard no explanation. But ex-
plantations are not the point. The
idea is that neither purchaser Is
really doing anything except unoffi.
cially complaining.
Mr.. Riepe, the county attorney, has
announced that he will prosecute
wherever he can secure evidence t,"t
state law has been violated, and
where no state law has been violas~a
he will place the case before authori-
ties, and the federal authorities have
announced that they are In a position
to go after profiteers.
Now. the thing for anyone who be-
iieves he has been made the victim
of profitecring to do. Is to call upon
the county attorney, refrain from un.
official complaining, but make
formal complaint and give the prop
erly constituted officers chance to
show whether or not the talk OF
prosecution is mere talk.
In other words, II Is our own fault
IL profiteering goes on unknown to
the county attorney. the food com
mission or the federal department OF
Justice.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02
THE e.MADE-UP" WOMAN.

The best dressed woman is the one who wears
simple, graceful, well-fitting gowns and wraps,
and the one with the handsomest face is she who
wears thereon the colors provided by nature
This statement is made as a preface in calling
attention to the outlandsh custom now notice
ably prevalent in Keokuk, and apparently grow
ing, of women and girls daubing their faces
with rouge.
If women wish to conserve the health, purity
and beauty OF the skin of their faces they must
cut out the painting procedure. Even some OF
the powders used are said to be injurious. So
much for the health part. If any woman thinks
she adds to the attractiveness of her appearance
with her face smeared with paint she is mistak
en-, for usually there is about as much expression
in the painted human face as is noticeable In
the features of china doll; as rule, the
woman with a painted face is afraid to smile
lest she crack the artificial coloring If she car
ries the decorations to the extent of 'toning'
her eyebrows and lashes and pastering black
spot here and there on her physiognomy, she
bears resemblance to a native of some island IN
the south Pacific. And when she adds the lear
buns, Hottentot lass must look to her laurels.
Instead of paints and powders, plenty of soft
water, pure soap and gentle massaging are the
things to use to maintain beauty given by ma
ture. The "made-up' woman is an offense to
the sight and reflection on intelligence.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

have said and that he sees no rea-
son why cannot get along at
De Pauw.
Ross had some hand In the
game. President George r. Grose
interviewed him at Madison last
week, and Ross wrote encourag-
ing me to take the place. did not
make any great effort. Crosse
knew that did not care much one
way or the other. He took the
initiative almost from the start
and ] sat back and waited.
I'm afraid Greencastle Is too
small to do much with the coop.
Population 1900, thirty miles
north of Bloomington. Eight hun
dred students, mostly in college,
few in school of music, few
graduate students. Hudson Is
Prof. of &c. there.
"Beals was here last week. He
is pushing The Nation. Says the
circulation has quadrupled since
they became bolshevist. (SigneD
A. w. c."
Arthur w. Calhoun Is a graduate
Of the University Of Pittsburgh.
In 1910 he was an instructor in
German in the Florida State Col.
lege for Women. In 1912 he was
professor of social science In Len
nox college. Hopkington, Iowa.
Professor Zeuch, referred to In
Professor Calhoun's letter, in
October, 1918, addressed letter
to the editor of the Leader, a
newspaper published in Hopking-
ton, Iowa, home Of Lennox college,
where he was formerly a student.
In this letter Professor zeuch de-
Tended the atrocities of the Ger
man army on the ground that
those crimes were common in all
wars. This letter caused Profess
sor zeuch to resign by request his
professorship in the Indiana state
university.
Professor Zeuch was employed
by New Thought magazine in New
York to write series Of articles
on the Non-partisan League of
North Dakota.
Professor Zeuch is student at
the summer school of the state
University Of Minnesota.
These exposures are not sur
prising to those who have been
familiar with the undercurrent
prevailing among so-called teach
ers Of so-called sociology 1t is not
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

every professor of sociology who
rcan keep his head, and preserve
his ratinal reason.
The patriotic people OF the
United States owe II to their
country and themselves to look
after ali the Calhouns and the
Zeuchs in the education world.
Men should not be permitted to
present their unwholesome ideas.
no matter how modest the fornl
may be, to the growing boys and
girls OF the United tSates.
We are glad these exposures are
taking place. Professors Colhoun
and Zeuch may not have conc
mitted an offense sufficiently
well-defined to justify eheir BAN
ishment from the United States,
but 1t is certain that they should
not be tolerated as instructors in
American universities or colleges.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

has brought lot Of visionary amateur would
be breeders down to solid earth. 1t has taken
some of the wind out of the extravaganza propa-
ganda promoted by the breed organs and hired
boosters.
But it will not hurt the real Holstein COW as
she is known on the farm, the business COW
whose sisters are grazing in tens OF thousands
of pastures throughout the country and are
furnishing the fine milk supply for our great
population. The Holstein COW has proved her
worth as the dairyman's COW. That through
selfish motives, scheming men have attempted
to make her accomplish in milk production
what she cannot do, and failing in this have
used her as a means Of perpetrating fraud up
on the public will not lessen the confidence the
dairy farmer has in the COW that pays the feed
bills and taxes, builds his home and equlps 1t
with modern improvements, educates his chill
dren and adds to his bank account.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02
THE "sHY', ENGLIsHMAN.

The notion that Englishmen are "shy" is
somewhat absurd. But to many Americans
Britons appear unsociable The Englishman
in Paris in Thackeray's day, if we may believe
that novelist, was churlish bully who treated
Frenchnen worse than negroes we're treated in
ante bellum days in the south. But it is true
that many English clergymen in the Victorian
age suffered from excessive Usefulness 1.-THE
Private Secretary "a comedy, strange to say,
adapted from the German--was caricture of
curate, and British and American audiences
accepted it is true portrait of young English
clergyman.
And now, according to one student of British
psychology, NJ A. Kinross, the very voices OF
the English are changing. They are high
pitched an dalmost shrill. Young English Of
conventionality and are so ELUSIVE and even
bosterous, so it is said, that they seem almost
: continental
Perhaps this is reaction after the tension of
the war. British phlegm, at any rate, is disap-
pearing. It was suggested to Mr.-or who
knows that it is Mrs. or Miss9-Kinross that
the English are becoming Americanized; and
assuredly if some Americans are becoming
Anglicized the two great English-speaking ma
tions will be more closely drawn together so as,
i'll the writer's words, to constitute the happy
graph the movie and the jazz dance have help
ed in the Americanization of our British cou-
sins" Anyhow, the "shy'' Englishman-if he |
ever existed-will soon be "a thing of the
past
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak;
thew are but the instruments of the wise
Lever.
THOSE BLUE-SKY COWS.

Within the last two or three years we have
been hearing about the marvellous records be-
ING made on a large Holstein-Friesian cattle
breeding farm in New York state. The milk
and butter records of some Of the cows were
enormous-away beyond the dreams of the
modest pikers who had spent years and years
trying to develop a cow that would produce
thirty two pounds Of butter In seven days.
There was ty-tive- pound record, forty
eight-pound, forty-nine-pound record, and be-
fore the ordinary mich COW man could catch
his breath the ffty-one-pound COW burst forth
in blaze Of glory on the front pages OF the
breeders journals Then their advertising
columns were filed with offerings of the sons
and daughters and grandsons and granddaugh-
tiers of forty thousand dollar COWS, hundred
thousand-dollar bulls and one hundred and
twenty-five thousand-dolar bulls Prices paid
for the stock at public sales were reaching dir
zy heights.
But the bubble has burst. 1t is a sorrowful
tale The Holsten- Friesan World says:
Charles E Cole detected circurnstantialy in
fraud connection with the 51pound OF
Creampot Pontiac Korndyke, has confessed that
e sepng hs s cow BY the direct addition Of
cream and water. His complete confession
the HosteinFriesian Association OF America
which is conducting searching inquiry in an eff
fort to get at the bottom of the matter.
Cole fed and handled the COWS tested in the
herd. In his sworn statement he confessed that
the records he made were false and that he
never made bona fide record Of more than
thirty two pounds of butter in seven days. The
method used by Cole consisted of an ordinary
hot-water bag suspended by cord about his
neck underneath his clothing, and connected
with the milk bucket by tube. This bag was
filed with cream and water. A cork in the end
of the tube held the mixture in place until the
bucket was nearly full, when it was removed
and the liquid ran into the bucket and mixed
with the cows milk. 1t is said that this man
sold the apparatus to other parties, and that
there is no telling the extent of his fraud
The owner of the herd, it is claimed. had no
knowledge of what was going on. Coles inter
est in the affair was influenced by large cash
bonus for every record he made, and it is alleg
ed he faxed most of them.
The exposure of this fraud has punctured the
much inflated fancy pure-bred stock boom. #
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
OF LITTLE THINGS.

OF LIT TIE THINGS.
many things there be that lure;
Aye, many little things there be;
The fern trimmed forest fountain. pure,
The dancing. frail ephemerae;
The lunar moths first STRINGS when
1t bursts from out its rough cocoon;
The wood thrush futing from the glen
In early watches of the moon;
The moss rose as It bursts It's sheath;
The flame breast of the oriole;
Words that, like subtle altar, breathe
A something fragrant from the soul;
The tender touch of loving hands,
The arm that clasps, the lip that clings;
All, is it strange my heart expands
At the sweet lure of little things?
Clinton SEQ
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times Republican,:
But If folks have to quit using an
thracite on account Of the high cost
OF labor and profiteering, maybe the
boys will not have to work even the
six hours--digging anthracite. There
is such thing as robbing the birds
nest.
Webster City Freeman-Journal: II
all communication with Washington
could be cut, 1t is likely that some
Of the so-called punitive expeditions
into Mexico would get what they go
after.
Cedar Rapids Republican: II there
Is a good reason for intervening in
Mexico it should be clearly stated
and the action should be decisive,
but this country should not inter-
vene on the quarrels Of border ruff.
fians-and there are ruffians on both
sides Of the line, we doubt not. It
is pity that in Mexico they do not
have government with which the
United States can cooperate so as
to establish better conditions.
Carroll Herald: A good many
causes have been assigned for the
high cost of living. But when one
mentions profiteering. superabund
ance Of national currency and gov.
ernmental extravaganza there is lit
tie left to point out.
vinton Eagle: If you watch the
trend Of affairs closely you will OBJ.
serve that 100 people are engaged
in telling how to solve our problems
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

A real nation is unity of individuals. There
can be no national spirit without national pros
perity. The two are inextricably interviewer.
Therefore the worker who strikes at a time vital
to the nations welfare must be regarded as a
profteer in degree akin to the odious individ-
uals who trafics for excessive profit in the neces-
saries of life at the expense Of the nation g suf-
ferings.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

The president seems willing to allow the SEN
ate swallow of water to help it make gulp
at the treaty in capsules.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

Missouri farmers catching grasshoppers
with machines and selling them for two dollars
q bushel for chicken feed. Some day we shall
find use for potato bugs and mosquitoes and
profiteers and bolshevih and everything
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

have an idea that born out OF their duo
place. Accident them amid certain surroundings
but they always nostalgia for home they know
not They strangers their birthplace and the ieay
lanes Trey have from childhood the poPuious
streets they played remain but place OF
passaae They may spend their whole lives aliens among
their kindred and remain aIoof among the only scenes
they Perhaps Is this sense OF strange
ness that wide in the search for some
thing permanent which they may attach themselves
Perhaps deeprooted atavism urges the wanderer
back to lands which left in the dim begin
nnas of history Sometimes hits upon place to
which nysterousy feels that he belongs Here Is the
home he soudtt, and settle amid scenes that he
has never before among he has never KNOWN as
though they familiar to him from his brtn here al
last he finds rest.-W. Somerset Vaughan.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

A German has been arrested in Frankfort on
the-Main for posing as an American. In other
words profteering.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

for overy one who IL In his shirt
sleeves trying to solve them. Solving
problems now Is matter OF sweat
and elbow grease.
Des Moines Register: Possibly the
next war will be for the purpose OF
making Mexico safe for foreign in
veStors,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-02

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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-02-06
Married at Ashland

Miss Lydia Arseneau and Mr..
Joseph Kasmarek, both residents
of this city. were married at
Ashland last Wednesday and
have returned to this city where
they will make their home.
Both Of the contracting parties
are we'll known in the city. The
bride is the daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ed. Arseneau and for the
past several years has been chief
operator in the central office of
the Bayfield, County Telephone
company. The groom has re-
sided in the city during the past
several years and has been en-
ployed at the plant of the du-
Pont Co. at Barksdale. Both
are well and popularity known
and have a wide circle of friends
who join in extending congratu-
lations and best wishes.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-02-06
SAYS HE'LL FIGHT TILL
HE'LL FREEZES OvER--REPORT

of the committeeman put it "be-
fore he would resign from office.
During the past several weeks
a number Of meetings Of tax
payers have been held at which
the assessment question has
been hotly discussed and at a
meeting held last Saturday
evening a committee was ap-
pointed to circulate petitions
asking for the removal of the
assessor.
Mr.. Sheridan contends that he
was elected for a term of two
years and that this assessment
is just and equitable, except in a
few instances where there have
been oversigns. He claims that
because taxes in the city are
high that he is not to blame and
# the committee report is true
he proposes to fight before he
will submit to removal. The next
action is up to the taxpayers.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-02-06
CHEAP EXPLOSIVE MAY
OPEN POWDER MILLS AGAIN

| acter of the material. 1T is al
so the force which wiped out
great industrial plants in blasts
that shook the country"
The safety of the product as
compared with other explosives
is made clear in these words:
A ton or more of this substance
exploded at a plant near one OF
our large cities several months
ago. The explosion killed GO
men and rocked the surrounding
country for miles yet close to
the scene of the accident was
stored 80 tons of T. N. T. which
had it exploded would have de-
stroyed the great manufacturing
plant and probably wrecked the
city nearby. Thanks to the
stability of this compound it
withstood the shock. I. N. L.
is described as dangerously safe
for it can be so roughly treated
without undergoing any change
that munition workers grow
careless in handling it. )
The cheapness of the materials
involved in it's manufacture is
made clear as follows:
"The basis of T. N. I. is toluol,
a light oil produced as a by-pro-
duct in the destructive distilla-
ton of bituminous coal. By
treating totuol with a mixture
of nitric and sulphuric acid, I.
N. T. is produced. In the i'm
mense coal fields of the U. S.
we possess therefore greater po-
tential sources of this essential
high explosive than any other
nation and yet we are recovering
a relatively smaller percentage
of the toluol evolved in the
coking of this coal and up to the
time of our entrance into the
war little effort was made to
separate this important COM
pound from the Illuminating gas
to our large cities.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-02-06
To Organize a League

A meeting will be held at the
Assembly room at the Y. M. c.
A. on Friday evening of this
week for the purpose Of forming
a bowling league. Washburn is
developing a number of star
bowlers and some Of the players
think a league ought to be or
ganized so that match games
could be played at frequent in
tervals. The meeting will be
held at eight o'clock and all per-
sons interested in bowling should
attend the meeting.
The Y alleys are becoming
very popular and are kept con-
tinually busy. Some good scores
have been made during the past
month. We publish those above
the 200 mark. George Waters,
200, Wegsten 202, j. Mathews
2O2, AL Larson 2O2, Roy Mark
ham 200, John Gibson 2O5, Mil.
berg 217, C. Hansen 222, Bru.
baker 228. Wolff 224y Ed. Kas-
marek, 234. Walter Milberg has
the high score for February
with 223 pins.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-02-06
Washburn Wisconsin. Thursday. February 6th 1919

At the meeting of the Council
held on Tuesday evening a petit
tion signed by 81 taxpayers, was
presented, asking for the dis
missal from Office Of City As
SCISSOR James A. Sheridan on the
grounds of inequality of assess
ment of property in the city of
Washburn during the past year.
The petition was read. to the
council and a committee of two
was appointed to wait upon As
SCISSOR Sheridan to ask him to
resign from office. Aldermen
Charles l.. Olson and John
Enouf were appointed on this
committee and we are informed
that after they had waited upon
Assessor Sheridan and stated
their mission that they were in
formed by the Assessor that he
did not propose to resign the
office and that "he would fight
'em till hell froze over" as one
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-02-06
Over the Top.

The committee in charge of
the drive for the Fatherless
Children of France report fifteen
new "adoptions" which brings
Washburn lover the top.
Macabees /, Nor. Ladies Aid
Soc. l, Congregational Ladies
Aid Aid 1, Royal Neighbors /.
Masons 1, Mrs. C. E. Hulteen l.,
Mrs. T. H. Pratt, Mrs. James
Murphy 1, Mrs. C. F. Morris,
Mrs. G. H. Lampson, Mrs. Bru-
baker, Mrs. Elmer Ramstead,
Mrs. Eben Burdick. Mrs. P. T.
Trowbridge l, Senior High
School 1, Junior High School 1,
Garfield school l, Lincoln school,
/, Pioneer school !, Helping
Hand Society of Engo 1, -Four
Mile Creek School l..
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-02-06
Married Tuesday

Miss Mildred Newhouse,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Eugene Newhouse, and Mr.. Roy
Lamberty of Superior. were
united in marriage Tuesday
morning. the ceremony taking
place at the st. Louis Catholic
church, Rev. FIR. Charron con-
Quoting the ceremony.
A wedding dinner followed by
a reception was held at the New
house residence at noon and the
couple departed on the afternoon
train for Superior where they
will make their residence.
The bride is one of the popular
young ladies Of the city. She
has been employed as clerk in
the store of the Segal Dry Goods
company. For the past year or
so Mr.. Lamberty was employed
at the plant Of the Dupont com.
pany and upon the closing down
of activity at that institution
left for Superior where he is
employed in the ship yards
Both are we'll known throughout
the city and their many friends
join in extending congratula'
tions and best wishes.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1919-02-06
All Fathers and Sons Invited to
Attend Big banquet.
To be Held at the Y. M. c. A, on
Wednesday, February 18th, at
Six O'clock.

Contrary to the general opin-
ion, the Father and Son Banquet
to be held at the new Y. M. c.
A. building on Wednesday even
ing, February 18th. will be open
to all fathers of the city and
their sons as we'll as to senior
members of the Y. M. c. A. or
ganization. who if they have no
son will be asked to take some
ones son. This point, the Edu-
cational committee of the Y. M.
C. A., under whose direction the
banquet and program is being
arranged, wants it thoroughly
understood, for every father in
the city is wanted at this ban
quet, as the purpose of the ban
quet is to bring a closer relation
ship between the fathers and
sons Of the city.
In order that the committee in
charge may arrange for the
number Of plates to be served,
it will be necessary for those
desirous of attending the ban
quet, to leave their names with
any member of the Educational
committee or with Secretary j..
C. Manville of the Y. M. C. A..
before 10 o'clock on Monday.
February 10th.
The banquet will begin at $50
o'clock and will be served in the
large gymnasium at the Y. M.
C. A. There is no limit to the
number that can be cared for,
providing the names are handed
in before Monday morning, at
10 o'clock. From all indications
it will be the biggest banquet
ever held in the city, for the
number who expect to attend is
growing daily.
Nels M. Oscar will act as toast
master of the evening. A fine
program is being arranged for
the evening and will consist of
musical numbers, singing and
addresses, the main address OF
the evening being delivered by
President Brownell of Northland
College.
Father and Son week is being
observed throughout the United
States. The move is fine one
for it will bring the fathers and
sons into closer relationship.