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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
DAMAGE Suit of s;25O.OOo.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 90
George S. McLanahan, receiver for
the Missouri Farmers Crop Insurance
company, today filed a damage suit
of $250,000 in federal court here
against c. D. Sharpe and O. S. Ches-
ley, former directors of the defunct
company. Sharpe and Chesley are
engaged in the insurance business
here.
McLanahan alleges the defendants
took the affairs Of the company into
their own hands and made dunn
mics" of the other directors. A ma
jority of the directors reside in Kan
sas City. Mo.
The Missouri Farmers Crop Insur-
ance company was founded in Jack
son county, Mo-, IN 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
Community and Civic Relief Bodies
VIII Operate Through This OF.
flee at Central Agency to
be Recommendation.
PRAISES FOR OFFICE
keokuk's Home Service Section Con.
sidered One of Most Efficient in
State, Miss Ethel McLane
Says.

The Keoluk Red Cross home serv-
ice sections office In Keokuk, under
the direction OF Miss Laura Alton, Is
one OF the most efficient, II not the
most efficient in the state, In the
opinion Of Miss Ethel McLane, of the
central division office in Chicago.
Miss McI.ane is here to make re-
port On the continuation of the office
in the peace time program of the
Red Cross. Her report will recon-
mend that the home service office
continue in the peace time program
of the Red Cross and that all Of the
social and community relief bodies
work through this office.
Such an arrangement will avoid
of efforts in the commu-
nifty, will coordinate all branches Of
relief and will bring the Red Cross
idea of service to It's highest eff
cheney. The Red Cross will be Of
service then to everyone under this
plan. Miss McLane has met with the
officers of these other organizations
and they are all willing that the Red
Cross office shall assume the pro-
gram They feel that the highest eff
flciency in service can be secured
through such cooperation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
LABOR UNREST
GREAT PROBLEM
One OF First Questions Being Disc
eussed These Days Among the
Chanceliories of Europ-
can Nations.

! by Webb Miller, United Press Staff
Correspondent
LONDON, Jan. 20.--Gen eral POI
litical and social unrest are among
| the first problems under consideration
in European chancellories today, ad-
vices to the Unitea Press indicated.
The bolshevik menace, still realized
as danger despite lifting of the
blockade against Russia, unfayorable
rates Of exchange, necessity for ex-
tending immediate aid to Austria, Ar
menia and Poland, strikes and lock-
outs, all are questions demanding inn
mediate attention. The labor situa-
ton may be summed up as follows:
Great Britain: The labor move
ment has grown in strength until the
nation is face to NsIce with labor
government. Several strikes now are
under way The Irish question height
ened by unexpected strength of the
Sim Fein in recent elections is ever
present Commons probably will con-
slider it next month.
Germany: Rioting and blood shed
have accompanied industrial and POI
litical disputes Communists again
have come to the front with demands
for specialization of industry. Some.
leaders have warned of suffering dur
ing the coming months from the food
and fuel shortage.
Italy: The government apparently
has succeeded in putting down the
strike of postal, telegraph and tele-
phone workers, but is confronted by a
threatened walkoutu Of railway
workers. ~
France: Premier Millerand's new
government is faced with consider.
able demand among the workers for
peace with soviet Russia.
Spain: Industrial situation has
been marked by serious lockout in
the Barcelona district, throwing thou
sands out OF work. Strong commun-
ist movement has demanded socializa-
ton of industry. |
Portugal: Industrial and political
discomfort has forced resignation OF
the recently formed government of
Premier Costa.
Austria. Stripped by the peace
treaty Of her grain producing areas
and coal fields the country faces ut
ter ruin.
In the Balkans. Poland and the new
w created states of northeastern
Europe conditions are bad but i'm
proving. The Baltic states are sue
cessfully defending themselves against I
the bolsheviki.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
HOW TO BATTLE FACE
TO REMOVE WRINKLE,

Since it's remarkable astringent a
tonic properties became know
clever women all over the count
have been using the saxolite ia
bath to tone up" their faces, reno
wrinkles and draw fiabby cheeks a,
neck back to normal. After using &
solution, the face immediately fee
much firmer. The skin tightens eve
ly all over the face, thus reduci,
lines and sagginess. The formula J
Powdered saxolite, one ounce, d.
solved in witch hazel, one-half pint.
These ingredients are Of cour3
perfectly harmless and there is
difficulty in obtaining them at a.
drug store.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
Two Blue Ribbons.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
DENVER, Colo, Jan. 2O.-Two blue
ribbons to the stables of John r.
Thompson, of Chicago, were highest
honors at the debut OF the national
western horse show here Monday
night. Entries by George A. Heyl, of
Washington, ILL.,, and Loula Long, of
Kansas City, took a blue ribbon each.
Thoroughbreds from these stables
will compete again in other classes
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
Germany and America

tIhlsed Press Leased Wire Service. /
LYNDON, Jan. Dispatches
rom Berlin by way of Amsterdam
9 9Siu To-Day relations between the
e onlted States and Germany, arising
Ilom me situation brought about by
tn anl failure to ratify the peace
'ieasy' VIII be taken up by the par
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
Cannot Restore Government.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. !
LONDON, Jan. 20.-British, French
and Japanese diplomats who have ar.
rived in Hardin, Manchuria, have
agreed no anti-bolshevik government
similar to that of Admiral Kolchak
can be restored in Siberia, west of
Manchuria, Hardin dispatch to the
Times said today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
Brakeman Instantly Killed

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
KELLY, Iowa, Jan. 20.-F. e. Nc
Neal, brakeman, was instantly kill
ed here today when struck by a Des
Moines-Fort Dodge interurban train.
The train was switching in the
yards when the accident occurred.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
&c rrnan SANDER Suit.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
BERLIN, Jan. 10.-The suit of
Matthias Erzberger, minister of fin
ance, against DR.. Karl Won Helfferich,
former German ambassador to Russia
started here today. Erzberger charges
the former ambassador with making
slanderous remarks while Won Helf-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20

on tonight's program. Over ten
million dollars worth Of blue-blooded
cattle, sheep, swine, horses, chickens
and farm implements were on dis
play at the stockyards, viewed daily
by thousands.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
Round UP Of Radicals.

TUnited Press Leased Wire Service.
BERLIN, Jan. 19-Authorities today
continued their roundup of alleged
radical agitators. Ernst Daeumic,
president of the independent social
lists was among those arrested.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
Prince Goino to australia.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
LONDON, Jan. 20.-The Prince OF
Wales, who plans to leave for Aus.
tralia March Is, will return by way
of Canada, visiting his ranch in AL.
berta, 1t was stated here today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
THREE HERE AT PRESENT
Cooperation of Doctors With Health
Board is Asked by These OFF,
Gals in Combating This
Disease.
WARNINGI
INFLUENZA

All persons are warned against
entering these premises. except as
provided by the Rules and :tegula.
tons of the stale Board OF Health
signed: ED. s. LOTION. Mayor
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20

A boy may wash his neck and ca
and shine his shoes without being
love, but when he voluntarily MAJ
cures, he is.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20

canary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20

An alpaca with its wool shorn
looks like small camel without a
hump.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20

To stop falling hair at once and rid
the scalp of every particle of dan
druff, get a small bottle of Dan
Gerine" at any drug or toilet counter
for few cents. pour little In your
hand and rub it into the scalp. After
several applications the hair usually
stops coming out and you can't find
any dandrcff. Soon every hair on
your scalp shows new life, vigor,
brightness. thickness and more color.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20
W. :.
nlgE1kAs

liamentary war responsibilities com
mission.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-20

ferich declared he will prove his
charges that Erzberger was guilty Of
profiteering in his official posts dur
ing the war.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
Boy Author

Young Mr. Waugh is amazing" saw a
"New York Evening Post" review Of Alec
Waugh's book, "The Loom of Youth"
(Doran), written when the author was
seventeen years old. "He is the miss
ing link between Daisy Ashford at
nine and F. Scott Fitzgerald at twenty
three. If the successful fiction of the
future is to be written by audacious
children, what are our deans of lit
erature to do? Sit at their feet and
relearn the art?''
In a preface to "The Loom of
YOUTH" Thomas Seccombe, who knew
the author at the Royal Military Col
lege, writes about young Mr.. Waugh:
"He almost lisped, with Difference
which it would be impolte to call af-
fected; but I could hardly fail to dis
cover in his judgment sublime con-
tempt for all the fatted calves of the
nineteenth century affairs, as he might
have called them. To these fanatical
worshipers, these partial advocates of
Les Jeunes'-and I have come across
several of them-Rupert Brooke is a
mellow classic, while the Churchyard
Elegy,' In Memoriam, Shropshire
Lad Swinburne Arnold, Morris, and,
| rather think Masefield, certainly De
la Mare, are hopelessly superannuated.
"These young men are sublimely un-
conscious of the havoc they are deal
ing out among cherished ideals"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
A Joke on the Censor

Sir Douglas Brownrigg in his re-
cent book, "Indscretons of the Naval
Censor" (Doran), does not hesitate
to tell jokes on himself, and betrays
quite shocking lack of shame in his
own nefarious proceedings. Here is a
sample:
"The cheap clock on the mantelpece
of my room had stopped and its voice
was stilled and silent. AS such it was
useless to me, and so I waited until
about 1880 at night, when nobody was
about, and I sailed forth literally as
thief in the night and made for a
room in which I knew there was no
great pressure Of work, substituted my
silent clock for the one which was
ticking merrily, purloined the latter,
and, covering it with my raincoat, got
back to my room and went on with nv
work with the pleasant feeling of
good deed done. About ~ noon the
next day Mr.. Harnett inserted his head
into my room and said soemnly that
Mr.. So-and-So wanted to know if
wanted my clock back and would l
mind returning his clock? was so
taken aback that l quietly said, How
the devil did he know?' To which Har-
nett smiled and answered, Your clock
is marked "Chief Naval Censor" on
the back of it, and we all roared at
my being bowled out!"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
A Chesterton Preface

When Gilbert X. Chesterton. the
creator of that master detective Father
Brown, lends his Endorsement to de-
tective story to the extent of writing
preface for it, one is led to expect
something worth while. In the case of
The Skeleton Key" just issued by
the George Fl. Doran Company, by the
now deceased Bernard Capes, ones ex-
pectations are not disappointed, and
every bit of praise given to it in Mr..
Chesterton's preface is we'll deserved.
He writes:
"In sense, in this department of
his work at least, Capes carried on
the tradition of the artistic conscience
Of Stevenson, the technical lberality
of writing a penny-dreadful so as
to make it worth a pound. Many an
other hero has ridden on a long road
to lonely house, but Bernard Capes,
by something fine and personal in the
treatment, does succeed in suggesting
that at least along that particular road
to that particular house, no man had
ever ridden before. We might put this
truth iippantly, and therefore falsely,
by saying he put superior work into
inferior works. ! should not admit the
distinction, for l deny that there is
anything inferior in sensationalism
when it can really awaken sensations.
But the truer way of stating it would,
perhaps, be this-that to type of work
which generally is, for him or anybody
else, work of invention he always
added at least one touch of imagina-
tion. have too great love
or lust for the Roman policier to
spoil sport in so unsportsmanlike
fashion. but cannot forbear to COM
ment on the ingenious inspiration by
which, in this story, one of the charac- |
ters contrives to remain really an un- |
known quantity. By trick of verbal
evasion, which he himself defends, half !
convincingly. AZ q scrupls Of verbal ye-
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
The Dickens Circle

Writing in "The Yale Review" of j.
W. 7. Ley's "The Dickens Circle"
which E. P. Dutton G. Co. recently
brought out in an American edition,
Wilbur Cross, long professor of Eng
lish at Yale University and now dean
of its graduate school, says that it is
book of uncommon interest,
"a book of several circles, inner and
outer, of intimacies, friendships and
acquaintances. Here we see the Victo-
rians all at play, as if life were never
serious undertaking. AS in Pick
wick innumerabe arc the JOURNEYS.
the jests, the hoaXes and the pastimes.
When in London people are always go
ing to the theater to see Macready or
are getting up private theatricals of
their own, when they are not eating
and drinking. Rarely did Dickens be-
gin a novel or end one without a din
ner with his friends to celebrate the
event. 1t is amazing to read how they
drank in those days"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16

sion" Fifty-fve years afterwara :,
ever, Italian unity was cons,, w.
as Victor Emmanueps troops mar.ss ~ :
INTO Rome. Cavour's patien.. s'
skill had triumphed over sasro,'s ss'
lnsurmountabls obstacles. The .uss
gives a frank picture of the ratho-s
satisfactory period which follovo. a
attainment of unity. She does ~. '''s
ceal the mistakes and dificultie, IL sn' ?
nampered the progress of the yo.,a .a
state but expresses confidence in ~ ~
capacity of the Italian people to VA =
out their destiny successfully. Fv. sn
1or a few appreciative sentences r..
lreveiyan does not touch UPON .
part played by Italy in the war
upon the new problems which b,v.
arisen since the close of the cons,..
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
History of Italy
Nations Story Traced
Down to Modern Times

nF ALL the European nations, Italy
~ is certainly the richest in his
torical "reminiscences. The splen-
dor Of her classical age was not fol
lowed, as in the case of Greece, by a
long period of subjection to barbarian
conquerors. On the contrary, medieval
Italy, with her numerous fourishing
city states, probably was the most civ
ilized region in Europe. Later, as
petty tyrants gradually overthrew the
more or less restricted republican in
stitutions of the Italian cities, as
Naples and Sicily suffered more and
more under the reactionarY tyranny
the northeastern part of the PENN
sula. Italy declined materially and cul-
turally. Her rise to freedom and unity
as one of the great modern powers was
due to the self-sacriicing zeal of two
genuine patriots, Mazzini and Carl
baldi, and to the wisdom Of one great
statesman, Cavour.
Italy's history from the reign of the
Emperor Diocletian to the present
time is very we'll described in "a Short
History Of the Italian People," by Janet
Penrose Trevelyan (Putnam's). The
author is the wife of George Macaulay
Trevelyan, nephew and biograDher of
the famous historian and we'll known
authority on Italian history Mrs
Trevelyan cannot, of course, give a de-
tailed explanation of period of more
than fifteen hundred years, crowded
with interesting events and personali-
ties, within the compass of a single
book of 500 or 600 pages. She does,
however, give clear and definite ac-
count of the main political currents
which have helped to determine Italy's
present position.
For many centuries Italy was in the
unfortunate position of being a battle
ground of French and German impe-
rialistic ambition. The Congress of
Vienna left Italy, in Metternich's cyni-
cal phrase, "a geographical express
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16

suasion. A boycott of Japanese goods
was widely enforced; and hatred
between the two peoples, in the au-
thor's opinion, is genuine and deep
seated.
Professor Dewey does not BY any
means confine himself to a discussion
of Chinese political conditions. He
interprets the salient characteristics
of the great, inert, ancient Oriental
country, its respect for it's traditional
literature, its backward industrial con-
dition, it's singular patience under pal
pably unjust and inefficient institu-
tions. He feels that the chief weak
ness of the Chinese is general spirit
which he describes as "Let George do
it,
Discussing Chinese art the author
says:
Their art is really childlike, and
all the new kinds of artists in America
who think being queer is being primi-
tive ought to come over here and
study the Chinese in their native
abodes. A great love Of bright colo,s
and wonderful knowledge of how to
combine them, comparatively few
patterns used over and over in all
kinds of ways, and preference for
designs that illustrate some story or
idea or that appeal to their sense of
the funny-it's good deal more child
like than what passes in Greenwich
Village for the childlike in art"
Frankly informal and written with
out any thought Of publication the
letters of Professor Dewey and his
wife convey great deal Of valuable
information about the little known
Far East. The book has the great
merit, not shared with some, more
ipretentious works, of not being writ
zen from propagandist viewpoint. 1t
gives a human, natural picture of the
lives of the Chinese and Japanese neo-
pies, quite impossible in a work con-
structed primarily to prove a case or
a theory
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16

Father Lockington bursts into lyric
of the Irish people He describes Ire
land as country wholly given up to
the service of God. He finds the same
spirit Of warm hearted piety alike in
city and in country, in the crowded
churches of Dublin and in humble way
side chapels. He recalls the dark days
Of Cromwell and the Famine, not in any
spirit Of bitterness, but merely in or
der to show what trials Irish Catholi-
cism has triumphantly survived.
Father Lockington writes with Celtic
warmth and enthusiasm. He loves every
foot of Irish soil; and the musical
Gaelic names of towns and mountains
and rivers give a poetic quality to
many passages of the book. To him
religion is the highest and most nat
ural expression of Irish nationaism.
SO he says:
whether kneeling in little mountain
chapel at home or in splendid cathe-
dral abroad, whether living in peace in
his cottage, or defending his country
at the battle front, the Irishman fear
lessly stands before the whole world
and unhcsitatingly proclaims that his
greatest glory is the heritage that was
given him by St. Patrick-our Holy
Catholic faith"
G. K. Chesterton, in his introduce
ton to the book, declares that "the
resurrection of Ireland, of which
Father Locllington writes here with so
much spirit and eloquence, is really a
historical event that has the appear
ance of miracle" Characterized bv
reverence and insight, Father Locking
tons work contributes notably to a
sympathetic understanding of this
miracle.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
George E. Woodberry Returns
Classical Poetic Traditions Expressed in "The
Roamer and Other Poems"

Who serve far off and in lowly
place.
/ was not fashioned Of the suitor race,
Who give their labor and their
hearts for fee;
No recompense of my fidelity
medtate-not even to see her face.
Only always invisible tenderness,
Hanging about me like a spiritual
cloud,
Holds me obscure, and undivulged
doth bless
My sour, and in this world doth
strangely shroud;
Whereof the meaning 1 but family
guess,
Save that it keeps me private in
life's crowd"r
Professor Woodbcrry's "Poems of
the Great War" consist chiefly of we'll
made sonnets of a type that has been
discredited by the work of Siegfried
Sassoon and the soldier-poets who have
painted war as they found it, They
are marred also by such banalties as
"Harken, the feet Of the destroyer
tread,
The wine-press Of the nations"; :.
Ihe rivers or fair France are running
red!"
"An Easter Ode" for 1918 is char
acteristic of Professor Woodberry's
lofty spirit, but his sentimentalizing
over the common soldier is somewhat
out Of keeping with the facts of ac-
tual battle. The most high-minded re-
fectiops on the beauty of dying for
ones country cannot blot out the grim
truth that for the great majority of
fighting men war is a hideous and
revolving experience which cannot be
wiped from the memory.
Throughout Professor Woodberry's
verse there Is fiery love Of independ-
ence and democracy-a love which.
he himself manifested about fifteen
years ago when hu resigned his post
at a great university after brave
and vain fight against powers that
seemed to threaten not only his own
intellectual integrity, but academic
freedom in the large. 1t is a pity
that the very profundity of his scholar
ship and the richness of his thought
are the factors that tend to obscure
his lyric powers and to deprive him of
a place among the great names in
poetry,
New-York tribune., 1920-05-16
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