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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
MANS FOOD REQUIREMENTS.

Yale Review: Studies of the food
requirements of man as expressed in
his heat production under ordinary
conditions have been especially nu-
merous. That muscular activity is a
patent factor in the food require.
ments is well known from experience,
but experiments in which various
occupations have been carried on in
the chamber of a calorimeter or in
which the heat production has been
measured by the indirect method
have given cumulative value to the
facts OF common knowledge.
The influence of bodily position,
too, has proved to be not insignifi-
cant factor A woman required to
stand ten or twelve hours day be-
hind the counter of a store, to say
nothing of other i'll effects, consumes
some 1914 per cent. more body tissue
than when sitting quietly in chair.
Lying on couch completely relaxed
reduces the heat production in the
body by from to 10 per cent as
compared with sitting upright, while,
curiously enough. lying propped up
comfortably in a steamer chair has
recently been found to reduce it still
further, so that there is certain
physiological justification for the
favorite attitude of the lazy man with
his chair tilted back and his feet on
the desk.
The influence of other factors, such
as sex, age and athleticism, has like
wise been investigated, and for many
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
WHERE MEDICAL ETHICS COME IN

sure of employing all his know
ledge and skill according to the
established rules of his. art.
There are two kinds OF secrets
referred to in the Hippocratic
writings-one which might be
called trade secrets and the
other secrets of trust acquired
in the professional intercourse
with patients. Trade secrets
have practically ceased to exist
in medicine. There is nothing in
the mode of conducting modern
practice that any layman might
now know. Professional secrets,
secrets of trust, are and Should
be invi3lable except under the
compulsion of court of law, and
even the courts of law have
recognized distinction between
the ethical and legal aspects OF
these secrets"
On this foundation the conclu-
sion is rested that the tendency
on the part of the legislative and
administrative authorities to en-
croach on the principle of pro-
fessional secrecy may have to be
combatted. In the case of many
diseases, as Sir John suggests, no
harm may be done by "notifica-
tion," but great personal and 90.
nestle misery may be caused II
extended to diseases of a strictly
personal and private character,
especially if sany stigma or i'm
moral imputation were rightly or
wrongly implied.
The ethics of the medical pro-
fession, turning on the confiden-
tial relation between physician
and patient, cannot be lightly up
set without needless grief. Be
fore legislation goes much
farther, the line will have to be
carefully drawn else we will be
merely loading our statute books
with more dead letter legislation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
PERsHlNe DIDN'T SAY 1T.

The Home Sector: Lafayette, we
are here!" Did General John ]. Per.
shing ever give expression to such a
noble thought? The commander-in-
! chief of the A. e. F. never did actual
ly utter these now historic words,
according to Hudson Hawley.
Mr.. Hawley, who accompanied
General Pershing during an inspec-
ton of the American battlefields OF
France and then returned to Chau-
mont, gives the following description
| of his leave taking at the old chateau
of Val des Ecoliers, the neat and
graceful proportioned building some
three stories high, set off from the
main highway between Chaunont
and Langres, the ranking Hank's Of
ficial billet: Il said goodbye to Gen
eral Pershing standing by one OF
the long French windows overlood-
ing the lawns of Val des Ecoliers, on
which the cows were still peacefully
grazing.
Hate to leave here he unused,
wistfully; I've grown awfully at
tached to this old place. 1t was fine
to come down here and get away
from all the rustic and noise around
the office and to be able to sit down
and think and talk things out. But
one thing l always insisted on was
that, unless something very impor-
tant-something that had to be de-
cided right away-came up, we
shouldn't talk business at meal times.
il think that's very good rule
1--WE shook hands, and he started
upstairs to finish the supervision Of
his final packing, and to sign let
ter which was to go with the. mayor
Of Chaumont's distinguished service
medal
ut is worth noting that the gem
eral never did actually utter, La
fayette nous voilap any more than
Clemenceau ever really said Of the
fourteen points, And the good Lord
Himself had cnIy tent Neither did
he say, All that we have is yours
in just those words, though he made
his famous offer to- Marshal Foch
right enough. But he did say to a
representative of the federal council
of churches way back in December,
1917: Germany can be beaten, Ger
many must be beaten, Germany will
be beaten
"'And that he says, laughing, is
about the only thing that I've been
credited with saying that ever
really did say.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

printed and circulated about five million copies
of other speeches. The total weight OF paper,
Including the McAdoo documents, was four
hundred and forty-seven tons, the total weight
OF envelopes in which they were mailed was two
hundred and seventy eight tons, making total
iof sevent hundred and twenty five tons OF paper,
white and manila, that could easily have been
conserved.
s'That is only small part, }" says Senator
Smoot, ''of what is going to be shown later IN
the distribution of many of these speeches that
have been made public documents in the house
or in the senate, and then printed and sent broad
cast by those who are interested in them; ana
it is practice that think ought to cease.
The senator predicts that in the near future II
may be impossible to get sufficient paper to
carry on the absolutely necessary printing OF
congress Even now the public printer is forced
Ito go into the open market and purchase a
few hundred pounds or such other small guam
Itity that he can secure. Mr.. Snoot pictures the
difficulty of the ordinary small publisher VINO
has to pay nine cents a, pound for has supply,
and even at that price is unable to secure
enough to keep his paper going Il think that
the time has arrived declares Senator Smoot,
i.swhen every member of congress ought to IN
sist upon halt being called upon the waste OF
paper by the government of the United States.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

Omaha Bee: The point is now
made, and made from the very
highest source of medical ethics.
that it is quite possible to oyerdo
the new demand Tor registration
OF all alleged transnfittable or
contagious diseases. In the an
nual grafton to the Medical So
ciety of London, Sir John
Tweedy, past president of the
Royal College of Surgeons of
England, talking on the subject
Of The Medical Tradition de-
clared that the air is thick
with projects of reconstruction,
which lessen the responsibility OF
the physician or hamper his
intellectual activities, and would
be detrimental to the authority
and usefulness of medicine. He
referred to the brilliant triumph
OF curative and preventive medi-
cine in the war, largely the result
of scientific research, but gave
warning that the future of medi-
cine must still be determined by
the ability, the personal charac-
ter and the moral endowments of
individual practitioners rather
than by schemes O. professional
reorganization" Continuing, he
declared:
While we have other names
and other forms of disease than
the ancients, and other means of
healing. medicine is always the
same. Modern medicine is on a
,surer and more positive founda-
ton than in the days of Hippo
crates, but the classification
which he gave of the causation
of disease and of the nature and
significance of symptoms still
hold good. There is not, and
can not be, absolute gertrude in
medicine. The most skillful ply
stefan can never be sure of cur
ing his patient, but he can be
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
Grip, influenza
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the nose and throat several times a
day with one part Wizard Oil and
two parts water, using an atomizer.
If you haven't an atomizer, gargle
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Chest colds and sore throat lead
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Ever constipated or have sick head
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

occupations it is now possible to COM
pute with a good degree Of accuracy
the average daily requirement of a
man or woman on the basis of the
number of hours spent sleeping, sit.
ting quietly, walking about and work
ing at specific vocation. Parallel
with these investigations upon en-
ergy requirements have gone deter
limitations OF the quantities Of energy
available in, foods, and extensive ta-
bles have been prepared which rem
der it a simple task to compute a
dietry supplying the required amount
of energy
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
The man who feels weary of living may be
sure that he does not love his fellow creatures
as he ought.-Arthur Helps. I'd, ..
A PAPER WASTING CONGRESS

To those newspaper publishers VINO are com
planning OF the shortage OF print paper it may
lie interesting to know that from May twenty
first, 1917, to December thirtleth, 1918, our
former secretary OF the treasury and director
general of railroads, W. Il. McAdoo, had print
ed and circulated at government expense no
less than twenty-five million and sixty thousand
copies Of speeches delivered by himself, approx
nlately one to every family in the United States.
Those speeches weighed SIX hundred and
teighty-one thousand, six hundred and thirty
pounds, over three hundred and forty tons.
They cost the government thousands OF dollars
tc furnish the paper, print the speeches, and
transport them through the mails; but, of even
more Importance at the present juncture, is the
great drain they made on the newsprint supply.
Most of the McAdoo addresses were made in
tie interest of Liberty loans, and may have
been of value in enhancing the sale of bonds,
but at the time they were delivered it was not
cd with what cunning the speeches were made
to play the double role Of inviting the public to
invest in bonds and calling attention to the ac-
accomplishments of the administration. Through
sout that period McAdoo considered himself the
natural heir to the white house, and his utter
sances were carefully prepared with a view of
lmpressng his own virtues upon the people.
~ But the McAdoo speeches are not the only
drain upon the paper supply Of the country that
might have been stopped at the government
printing Office in Washington Senator Reed
Smoot, of Utah, chairman Of the joint commit
tee On printing, has in course of preparation a
statement showing the tremendous waste of
paper that is continually going on at that es-
Establishment. The executive departments are
responsible for much of it, and senators and
members of congress add to the total by the
thousands and millions Of speeches and other
documents that they order printed and mailed
Il is true that congressional orders are paid for
at cost by the member concerned, but the con-
sumption of print paper continues just the same
In addition to the McAdoo publicity cam
paign the various executive departments had
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
Worn Out Woglls
Many Women Feel Tired All Thel
And Sleep Fails To Refresh Thea

They feel languid, faint and "
especially in the morning; the appe1
becomes variable, digestion impair
they often have headache and psn|
the back, hips and loins, cold hands
feet. The blood becomes thin
watery, the nerves lacking in strensj
the complexion sallow. the cne1
sunken, the bust flattened and reduj
.and the disposition irritable and n nd
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
INTERNING WILLIAM HoHENZoLLERN

Dutch socialists are said to favor the intern
1uent of the ex-kaiser in some part OF Holland
remote from the frontier The suggestion is
good one. It would relieve both Holland and
the allies from anxiety and it would give far
more appropriate status to the dethroned en-
peror than that he now enjoys. He is guilty OF
one of the great crimes of the ages. He ought
to be executed. But to make him live in some
sequestered spot, under supervision and sur
rounded by regulations, with only his disap-
pointed ambition and the knowledge that the
world both hates and despises him will be pun
ishment as severe as the limitations of mere
human ingenuity can devise for such monster.
Some lonely island in the sea would be better
than Holland for the internment; but since
Count Hohenzolern seems to like the country
and because his removal might cause more
Il ouble than he is worth, let it be in Holland
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE APPIAN WAY,

(The Appian Way built 800 before Christ BY
Appius Claudus one Romes greatest generals, con
1ecting Rome with Capua, and later extended tc
randsi This highway is still bearing burdens OF com
nerce and the or the builder, which proves thai
here is monument enduring highway
When Caesar took westward ride
And grabbed the Gauls for Rome,
What the first thing that he did
To make them feel at home?
Did he increase the peoples loads
And liberty forbid?
No, he dug in and built good roads
That's what old Caesar did
Did Caesar put the iron heel
Upon the foemans breast
Or did he try to make them feel
That Rome rule the best?
What did he do to make them glad
He their lands amid?
He built good roads in place of bad
That's what old Caesar did.
He built good roads from hill to hil
Good roads from vale to vale;
He good roads movement
Till old Rome got all the kale
He told the folks to buy at home.
Build roads their ruts to rid
Until all roads led up to Rome
That's what old Caesar did.
If town would make itself
The center of the map .
Where folks will come and settle down
~ And live in plenty's lap
II any town its abodes
OF poverty would rid,
Let it go out and build good roads
Just like old Caesar did.
Ohio Motorist.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
BeY0ull3
hrYOurr
Years
ByL- ". BOWER. M. D.

You were taught at school
that your body undergoes a
complete change of structure
every seven years.
This tearing down and build
ing up process Of body tissue
continues without q moments
pause throughout life.
And when q man gets into 3
physical condition that the It's
sues keep breaking down and
wasting away faster than Ma
ture can replace them, right
then he begins to grow ''old''.
This doesn't necessarily
mean, however, that he has
reached an advanced age.
Thousands upon thousands Of
people begin to break down,
their vital organs giving evi-
dence of fast approaching de-
cay, long before they reach
middle age simply because
they fail to give Nature, at
the proper time, the needed
help to rebuild.
If you are beginning to show
the slightest sign of a physical
''let-down"-if you are losing
your old time ''pep" vim and
vigor-if high tension energy
and nervous strain are begin
ming to tell on you-it's a sure
sign that you are growing cold"
too old foryouryears. You've
reached that stage where your
vital forces need rebuilding.
Don'tmake the serious mistake
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

! Cedar Rapids Gazette: If he had
not committed political suicide be-
fore, President Wilson has done so
now. Regardless OF party affiliations,
the sympathy of the people will be
with Secretary Lansing in this con-
,troyersy.
! Des Moines Register: Those friend
ly notes which passed between the
president and his secretary OF state
remind MIR. Bryan of the time when
Mr.. Wilson said God bless you," and
handed him his hat.
! Waterloo Times-Tribupe: So many
secretaries are resigning that Mr..
Burleson couldn't possibly think of
putting the president to the trouble
of finding a successor to him.
I, Coon Rapids Enterprise: Herbert
Hoover's platform appears to be an
dieaIy. He might accept the nominal
endorsement OF the Wilsonized peace
ton of whichever political party en-
dorsed such treaty. But he would
get showed under on such PROPOSE
ton.
Webster City Freeman j Journal:
When Governor Harding retires from
office what will the fellows who hate
him with hatred that knows no
bounds do for somebody TO cuss?
Many of them are making longeared
asses OF themselves or proving that
the Creator did it for them.
Marshalltown Times. Republican:
The democrat postmaster at Farra-
gut, Iowa, wants to quit and they
won't let him. In other parts of Iowa
democrats want to be postmasters
and the president won't let EN-. SoIt
OF a reverse political peristalsis.
Ananosa Eureka: The hand which
guides the sugar market is the hand
OF a genius at control. One can al
ways buy sugar at fancy price, but
nobody seems to be able to buy
enough to indicate cause for a drop
in the market.
Rolfe Arrow: The Register says
the Homestead will support Havner
for governor. IL this proves to be
the case the state OF Iowa never had
a better opportunity for holding
double funeral, and we hope the vrt-
;ers OF the state see to 1t.
Iowa Falls Citizen: The great rank
and file of the American people are
sound to the core. Neither the floth
and foam and surface nor the dregs
can drag them down.
Davenport Democrat: Watch M.
Hoover. He may not be a candidate,
but the people are looking to him.
and the call to larger service than
that which he has performed so well
is apt to reach him before. the con-
yentiOn adiOurnS
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20
THE ENFEEBLED PRESIDENT.

Charles j. Bonaparte, former attorney gener-
al of the United States, thinks it is about time
that public opinion should express itself with
regard to the failure Of those responsible IN the
premises to deal frankly with the American
people during the presidents illness. 1t should
be recognized by Private Secretary Tumulty,
Dr.. Grayson and the one or two others who are
close to Mr. Wilson that the people constitute
the presidents employer. They pay him a
large salary and give him an official residence
and provide him with many conveniences at
public cost In return they are entitled, just as
every employer is entitled, to know the mental
and physical condition of the head workman
they employ, at least SO far as these affect abl-
ity to work for them effectively. Undoubtedly
there is a lack of candor in dealing with the
public on these questions. Recent incidents oc
curing in the white house force the conclusion
that there is much of insincerity, deceit, if not
downright perversion of truth, having mgress
to and exit from that establishment.
The fiction that the president is able to func-
ton is being maintained by every desperate and
absurd device that could be conceived.
The American people should be given full
and honest statement without any more delay
by those who are directly in charge of the en-
feebed president. If that is not soon forth
coming congress should take steps to lift the
pretentous veil Of 'mystery''-and free the
government of the United States from the en-
barrassment that the situation is causing to it's
affairs, foreign and domestic.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

''Italy Cannot Understand Interference by
Wilson," shouts newspaper headline. Is Italy
so very dense?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

The man who lives under habituaI sense OF the
Divine keeps up perpetual cheerfulness OF
temper, and enjoys every moment the satisfaction OF
thinking himself company with his dearest and best OF
friends. The time lies heavy him; It is i'm
possible for him be aione.-Joseph Addison.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

What is to become of Fiume and what is al
coholic content? These bid fair to become the
two prominent puzzles of the century.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

Vice President Marshal ventures to state
what the democratic party should stand for,
without asking permission of the titular head
of the party. The vice president is safe, of
course, so far as his job is concerned, but ism It
he running chance of getting missive of
sharp reproof from the white house?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

Davenport Democrat: Watch NJ.
Hoover. He may not be a candidate
but the people are looking to him
and the call to larger service thar
that which he has performed SO vel
is apt to reach him before the con
vention adjourns.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

The report from the comptroller Of the treas
ury on national bank resources shows the vast
growth of bank power of the middle west. In
1900 the national banks of New York and New
England had more than sixty per cent. of the
nation s deposits. Since that time these same
banks have increased their deposits $7,71O,937,-
900, but they have only forty-seven and seventy
eight hundredths per cent. of the total. Banks
of the west have in twenty years increased their
deposits by five hundred per cent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

Iowa Falls Citizen: The great ram
and file of the American people ar
sound to the core. Neither the frotl
and foam and surface nor the dreg
can drag them down.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

Des Moines Register: Those friend
ly notes which passed between the
president and his secretary OF state
remind MIR. Bryan of the time when
Mr.. Wilson said God bless you," and
handed him his hat.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

Rolfe Arrow: The Register say:
the Homestead will support Havne
for governor. II this proves to b,
the case the state of Iowa never hat
better opportunity for holding ;
double funeral, and we hope the wi
ers of the state see to it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

Waterloo Tinles-Tribupe So many
secretaries are resigning that Mr.
Burleson couldn't possibly think of
putting the president to the trouble
of finding a successor to him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-20

Anamosa Eureka: The hand which
guides the sugar market is the hand
OF a genius at control. One can al
ways buy sugar at a fancy prlce, but
nobody seems to be able to buy
enough to indicate cause for a drop
in the market.