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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
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Four Automobile Bandits Hold
Up Ohio Bank and Escape
With Much
Loot.
TAKE STOCKS AND BONDS
Clerks Locked Up While Robbers
Cleaned Bank Of Every Penny
and Paper They De-
sired.
TAKE STOCKS AND BONDS

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio, Nov. H.
Four automobile bandits held up the
First National bank at Kingston, ten
miles south of here today, and
escaped with four thousand dollars
in currency, between $150,000 and
$500, 900 in stocks and bonds and a
quantity Of Liberty bonds, the value
Of which was uncertain, according to
reports received here.
The thieves forced the three clerks
to enter an inner Office which they
locked. They then made a thorough
search of the bank. and gathered "
every bit Of money and all the Hecurf
ties in the vault and on the counters
Scores Of automobiles, filed with
armed citizens and police are hunting
for the bandits.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
IDLE WORKERS
OF EUROPE
Million and Half Men Out Of Jobs
Owing to Strikes and Slackened
Business Over
" There.
(By Webb Miller. United Press STAFF
CorreSpondent

CBy Webb Miller, United Press Stat
Correspondent
LONDON, Nov. 12.--Strikes and
slackened business in Europe have
left 100000 workers idle.
Exact figures were not available
today. but the British labor ministry
put the number of unemployed at
million and half as a conservative
estimate.
In Great Britain there are 100000
men drawing unemployment pay
from the government, but there are
tens Of thousands more who have
not benefited by the payments.
Thus far there has been no suffer
ings. The weather has been mild
At the same time there is worry over
prospects for the winter. The gov
ernment has urged unions to admit
unskilled labor to their ranks,
especially in the building trades
which the government plans to use
this winter in the construction of
buildings.
Later estimates of unemployment
in Great Britain were placed at
4O3, 600.
Gerrnany's idle army is estimated
at 100000 OF these many are re-
ceiving government rations. Strikes
have been frequent in Germany, but
much of the unemployment has been
involuntary.
France has about 100000 unem-
ployed. .. 49,.
There were no statistics from
Italy, Austria or central Europe, but
conditions were known to be bad
there. Italy has been preyed upon
by bolsheviki and anarchists. The
government is now planning on Civ
ing labor voice in the control OF
industry and this is expected to end
much discontent. Prices are advanc-
ing in Italy and the government has
just announced a new tax with a rise
in price of bread and other staples.
The Scandinavian countries have
less unemployment than any other
part of Europe. The average there was
believed only two percent of the
labor population
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
Repeal Exeesa Profits Tax.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
CINCINNATI, O., Nov. 12.-Repeal
of the excess profits tax and substi
tuition of other legislation for raising
revenue, with rigid economy in gov
ernment, is almost certain during the
first session Of congress under the
republican administration, Nicholas
Longworth, ranking member of the
house ways and means committee
said today.
He suggested tax on final sales
of articles or tax on the difference
on net earnings of corporations and
the amount actually distributed te
stockholders
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
WOMEN POSTAL CLERKS
ARE UP IN ARMS

bray aprons beginning December J..
AS a result of the edict the women
have issued a challenge to the post
masters right to dictate their sty.e
of dress.
Nagel maintains that by wearing
gray. dress rivalry will be Gu, bed,
efficiency promoted and morals pro
tected.
A mass meeting will be held, prob
ably Saturday. when all postal en-
ployes will be asked to sign pro-
test. The women assert they Will
Curry their protest to Washington II
! tho order is enforced
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
Murphy, of New York City, and
number Of eastern politicians.
Iowa State Teachers College.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, Nov. IL
Three-quarters of a million dollars
will be requested OF the general
assembly next January as the annual
budget for the Iowa state teachers
college, it was announced today by
President Homer H. Seerley.
This amount has been endorsed by
the state board of education. The
budget, which would become ehec'
tive July l, 1921, for period OF two
years, represents an increase OF
about IS percent over the present
annual budget of $439, 300.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
Compensation Law Defeated.

ST. LOUIS, Mo- Nov. 12.-The
workmen's compensation law, which
was voted upon at the recent cleo
ton, was defeated by heavy majori-
ty, according to returns from seventy
one counties compiled by the assocfa-
ted industries of Missouri. which with
the Missouri Federation of Labor, sup
ported the ratification of the law. 1t
was passed by the last legislature,
but was submitted to the voters
through the referendum by the Build
ing Trades Council of st. Louis.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
Rescued From DEATH.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov 12.-After a
search of several hours in Lake Erie
near Port Colborne, Ontario. today
four men adrift on two derrick scows
death by the U. S. coast guard crew
from this port One of the scows
went to the bottom in the rough seas
last night. A southeast gale was blow
ing all night and high seas were run
ming. The scows were being towed
into this port to be put up for the
winter by the tug Nellis, commanded
by Captain Harry Golfer. OF C1eve
land. Golfer said the tow line broke
and his tug began taking water sc
that he had to make for Port Col
borne
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
To Enter Private Business.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Nov. Ia. +.
Tumulty, secretary to President Will
son, today indicated he intended to
enter private business after leaving
the white house, March 4.
Tumulty admitted he had received
suggestions of an appointment as
Judge Of the United States court of
customs appeals, but stated that he
had made no definite plans for his
future work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12

cessation of buying throughout the
country and abroad which have kept
the mills working at half capacity.
Flour prices at the mills today were
$3.50 to $3.50 per barrel on family
patents, compared with $3.50 to-
$500 last June.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
Attempts Suicide.

United Press Leased Wire Service. ]
DES MONIES, Ia, Nov. 12-Joe
NJ. Jameson, Des Moines grocer, at
tempted to commit, suicide today by
shooting himself in the head with a
revolver, according to police report
The shooting occurred at his home
He was removed to hospital. where
physicians pronounced his condition
critical.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
Terrific Beating.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service-l
PEORIA, Ill, Nov. Tommy
Gibbons, of ST. Paul, gave Hugh
Walker, of Kansas City, a terrific
beating in ten rounds here last night.
Gibbons was the aggressor all the
way and outfought Walker from the
start
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
BREAD PRICE
is REDUCED
Bakers Cut Penny From Loaf as
Result Of Tumble in Wheat
and Flour Since One
Year Ago.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service ]
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-New Yori.
bread yielded today to the decline III
wheat prices and reductions of one
cent in the price OF ordinary loaves
were announced by one company.
Other large bakeries will follow
the lead of the Schultz company, it
was said.
Flour Much Cheaper.
CHICAGO, Nov. 12-The public
was being given the benefit OF de-
clining wheat prices in buying flour.
leading grocers here stated today.
Chain grocers charged S1c,72 a
barrel for flour, while others de-
manded $13.20. The wholesale price
Of flour today was $1o.05 barrel.
Flour reached the price peak this
year on May II, when it sold whole
sale at SIT barrel At that time
chain grocers charged s1S.56, while
others quoted it at about Sl9.2o
There has been a gradual decline
along with wheat prices, grocers
said.
Sugar Away Down.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-There was
another break OF one-fourth cent
pound in the price of raw sugar, with
Cubas selling at cents, cost and
freight, a new low record for the
season. The decline came under
continued pressure from producing
countries and the poor demand for
refined sugar.
At today's level. prices represent
an almost perpendicular decline or
17h cents from last May.
Six Dollars Less.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Nov. IL
Flour prices at the mill have dropped
six dollars a barrel since June, north
western miilers declared here today.
The cause, they say. is due to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
Ieaoue Of Nations.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.]
PARIS, Nov. 12.-French delegates
to the league of nations have been
instructed to withdraw if Germany is
admitted, accssdirg to the Echo de
Paris
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
Object to Order That They
Shall All Wear Gray
Aprons.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 12-Post-
master Nagel has decreed that all
women employees of the postohce,
while on duty, mast wear gray cham
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
TEL LEGRAPHIC TABLOIDS
FROM FAR AND NEAR

her father threatening to rob the
house. Wallace's father wields d
wicked slipper.
HoIdup Was Bet.
!. HABER HILL, Mass, Nov. 12.-An
unknown man held up clerk, rifed
the cash register and escaped. Later
the police received letter enclosing
the stolen money, explaining the hold
up was the result of a bet
Ten Gallons Recovered.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1.-TWO
thieves stole as many de1nijohns from
William Crim's automobile. An ex-
cited crowd and two cops gave chase,
capturing the robber pair and restor-
ing ten gallons of distilled water to
Mr.. Grim.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12
Some Short and Snappy Items
Which Make News Wire
Sparkle.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-Rocco Gia-
ciana, ordered to pay back alimony,
was arrested for burglary two hours
later. He said he had rather be in
Sing Sing than pay his exyife 81 a
week, according to the police.
Tilted Ten Year OH.
YONKERS, N. Y, Nov. 12.-Wallace
Langston, 10, ''jilted" by Betty Brown,
next door, sent an anonymous note to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-12

The only excuse for your not doing
your best under all circumstances Is
that you are unable to do any better
under any circumstances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-05

~C you believe in babies? Show II me the man with soul 80 dead ~ that he does not believe in ba-
 bies, and I'll show you the man whe has no heart-no sympathy-no live! Everybody believes in babies, and everybody loves them. and I think it must be because, as Mark Twain says, we've all been babies, and we know how 1t feels."
 Sometimes in brief flashes no mat ter how old and lonely and gray and worn We may be, it is given to us 10 return to that golden time of our ear Hest youth ere the shades of the prison house began to close round us; and. then, indeed, we realize that a glory departed from the earth when the gates of childhood changed shut behind us.
 What would we not give, we hope leesly "grown-ups," to recapture and retain the zest and innocence and trust of our baby years, and to revisit that enchanted land that lies south of -Four Years Old"
 Sometimes when the storms gather round us and the old world almost gets the best of us-when everything else faiis-how many of us croon to our selves the old sweet verses: "Backward-turn backward .t
 Oh! Time in your flight, Make me a child again
 Just for tonight;
 Mother come back from that
 Echo less shore,
 Make me a child again.
 Just as of yore!'
 How I wish that everybody who loves babies could have been with me the other day when I went to call on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-05
&1 A GLIMPSE OF SOME LITTLe Tors" N
 IT Ar THE CHiLDREhs HOSPITAL. S$4

an1 ayed. But even maternal intuition could not have foreseen such a swan
 swimming triumphantly through the troubled waters of life. A swan, do I say? A condor. an eagle. peacock, a nightingale. a panther a society dame, gallery of moving pictures a siren, an indomitable fighter, human woman with a heart as big as house, lover of sport, and a canny Scotch lassie who can force from an operatic manager avails of anguish because of her close bargain ing over a contract; in word, super. woman"
 And it is this "super-woman'' who in response to the little note from Birming- ham which told her of the desire of tho "All-Star Concerts" to whom she be- longs during her visit here, to have her present doll to the Doll Bazaar, sent the most charming of letters to the lovely chairman of the bazar. saying it was her pleasure to send a doll. and ''she hoped the little miss who got it would be very happy
 u 10 q PtCtIy HIN ludl wary 1dIuCu the world-famous singer, the beautiful actress, the gentle-hearted woman, the interpreter of multiple personalities Cleopatra. Melisande. Phyrne. or Norma Wanna. Thais. both saint and courtestan; salome who breeds terror; and in the of Jean the Juggler of Notre Dame-a Mary Garden. hitherto sub merged. tender boyish. sweet, fantastic; a ray of moonshine has entered her love ly head and made of her an irrespon-' sible yet irresis.iby charming youth makes in the chain which means life and chance" health and good luck to the little sick babies over at the Children's Hospital who. through her and kindness. will reap happi- ness and joy from the lovely doll which the great singer has sent with tender est messages to the Doll Bazar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-05

the children at the "Children's H. pita1.
 The sternest, crustiest old heart would have melted at the sight of help less babyhood at its most helpless! If you had seen as I did, the pale faces of the sick children, and felt as did, their clinging little hands, you would have longed, as I did, to start 1 right away to do something for them. Won't you come with me on trip to the Childrens hospital just for a ! little while?
 Which is the way to Babyland? Anyone can tell 1 Ups one flight
 To your right, Please to ring the bell. A white linen-clad nurse, with a white linen cap answers your ring;
 'Tdng-a-ling; ting a-ling," goes the
 little bell. She is lovely Miss Elise Walker, the superintendent of the hospital; she I leads us through the hall and opens a
 door into a cheerful room, bright with i firelight, and there l What can you see in babyland?
 Little folks in white. Downy heads,
 Cradle beds, Faces pure and bright. The sickest children are in clean white, little cribs. which stand in rows against the walls. The convalescents are grouped around the open fire, the smallest in high chairs; the oldest child SO is q little girl about 12 years old, Miss Walker tells us. but she looks much younger.
 Grace, for that is her name, is pitia-
 bly, thin, and in her large eyes a child
 ish happy expression contrasts strange
 ly with a wise little look that be- speaks a rather bitter Knowledge of the
 world and it's sadness. She is sitting by a baby, patiently turning the pages of an illustrated merchandise catalogue
 which seems to entertain the baby Walker tells us Grace's story She was found by the Alabama Children's Aid Society, in a dark, stuffy, inside room over grocery store, where she was cooking and taking care of the. baby, while her mother worked outside. She
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-05
FAC STYLE OF MARY GARDENS LETTER
 TO MRS. SIMS

seldom left the room. and in consequ- l ence of the bad aid and poor food little Grace has been suffering fromxan ex-
 treme case of aenemia. She has been I taken on a new life under the kindly care of Miss Walker and her assistants Who is the tiny, tiny baby, lying so ! quietly in her little old crib just yon-
 der we ask.
 ] The baby's name is Oscar, we are
 told. She had no name of her own; her
 mother is dead; the nurses named her
 Oscar. She never cries, and seems quite uninterested in life which is small 1 wonder when you consider how slim her chances are of "bucking" the world i alone Oscars looks belle her age; she ! looks two weeks, but is in reality 12 weeks old; how pitiful! I know of some fashionable people who would like to learn little Oscars secret of so successfully disgusting her real age, don't you? But they would probably
 not be willing to pay the price that she has pail. poor little pitiful child! Next we look at the Suitcase baby" who was found on the street car in a battered suitcase. Because she could not pay her carfare, the conductor brought her to the hospital; she was half dead with cold, and the good kind hospital people thought she could not possibly live. but now she is thriving and taking on weight, waiting mean while, for a good home to be found for her by the Alabama Children's Aid society,""
 See that adorable pink1cheeked. gold en-haired, -year-old baby in the high chair over there, with a lop-eared teddy bear in front of her? ,
 That is little Helen, who has been very, very. very sick, but is now well again; however, she will stay on at the hospital for while, because her moth- CT is in the detention home at present, and she has none to care for her!
 If only had the space to, tell you the story of every single one of those dear little babies in the hospital! It would read like story book, I assure you. But here have used up almost all my space. and have only told about four of the precious little "tots."
 I'd love to tell you about Charles, who is so fat and rosy and "bouncy," the very antithesis of sick baby. You wO1lld rla to hear about the mother who had lost her own baby, and who was at the hos pital when we were there the other day playing with this. baby whom she wanted to adopt
 He has lovely big brown eyes. and is getting we'll fast, and soon he will be ready to go home with his new mamma"
 It IS absolutely necessary that you be allowed to know some of the secrets of the Children's Hospital; how it works. and who supports 1t, 80 I'm going to tell you all about it, so that you will do at once what I'm going to ask you to do aad to which know you'n say as all the people in the audience say when Wendy asks in Peter Pan so passion ately and so insistently:
 Do you believe in fairies? Do vou believe in fairies? Say you believe in fairies T. Please say you believe in fairies-Please-please"'
 And all the wonderful sweet generous hearted people shouted pack:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-05

the least of these. ye have done it unto me-"

| And the Doll Bazar?''
 ; Just let me tell you word about it | It is going to be more beautiful and
 more fascinating and more lovely this year than ever before, for the good women who are sponsors for it have worked their hands nearly, off making i "pretties," dressing dolls, making can dy. making dainties of every kind and l look at. and to admire, and you just can't help but love all the beautiful things which you'll see there
 Every sort of doll under the sun can be found at the doll bazar; crying
 dolls and laughing dolls; blonde dolls
 and brunette dolls; crooning dolls and singing dolls; big dolls and little dolls | medium sized dolls and huge dolls ! dolls pretty and dolls ugly; dolls ex- pensive and dolls inexpensive; dressed dolls and undressed dolls.
 | Then there are doll clothes, doll kitch- ems, doll pianos, doll bonnets, doll bug gies-everything of every kind and every description for dolls, so that the most fastidious little Miss" and her mama may be quite pleased
 And the lovely Mary Garden doll. Wasn't that happy thing on the part
 of the great prima donna who has the
 world at her feet in homage and adora-
 tion-to let her sweetness and gentle ness be known to us down here in old
 Alabama and out of the riches which she has accumulated by her wonderful art. her beautiful singing, her superb acting, to send her check to her sister in New York asking her to buy the
 very prettiest doll she could find in that big city which Santa Claus had, and send it down to Birmingham to the Doll Bazaar. which is going to be held for the benefit of the Children's hospital this week?
 It is easy to understand how Mary Garden. with her big, beautiful heart for she must have this exquisite attribute emphasized to marvellous degree, else she couldn't sing and portray the char acters she does so lumnously-would be interested in dolls and babies and Chill drens hospitals and all the wonderful, things of life. for she is so human so gentle, so kind. with all her greatness, that her heart shines forth in everything she does; in everything she says; because she is that almost unheard of creature. a ''super-woman."
 That inimitable critic of hers, Mir. James Gibbons Huneker. in his Be douins." says of Mary Garden:
 Mary Garden was. no doubt. a naughty little girl in her time. That she climbed trees. fought boys twice her size. stuck out her tongue at pious folk. scandalized her parents, and tore from the heads of nice girls handfuls of hair. I am quite sure. Hedda Gabler thus treated gentle Thea Elvstad in the play. But was this demon Mary aware of her multiple personalities? Of her com plexes? Her art fusion is a perfect syn- thesis. Subconscious is nowadays an ex- cuse for the Original Sin with which We are. saddled by theologians We'll, one bad turn deserves another and we can easily picture the wild Scottish thistle dcfiantly struggling shoulders at law and order. She did not analyze her Will-to- Raise-Merry Hell. No genius of her order ever does. There had been signs and omens. Her mother before her birth had dreamed wonderful dreams: dreamed