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Iowa City, la., Nov. 12.-—Posaesslon of a social conscience is necessary to the newspaper which would "do its duty to readers and public alike,"

; James Keeley, editor of the Chicago Herald, today told the first annual conference of Iowa newspapermen here under the auspices of the State University of Iowa. The conference held two sessions today and will hold another tomorrow morning. Other waking hours of their two days stay-here were to be devoted to participa­tion in the "rah-rah" activities of tne university "home-coming?" and the annual Ames-Iowa football game.

; Mr. Keeley's announced subject was "The Newspaper" and on this broad subject he spoke in part as follows:

"With a social conscience on the job the newspaper will not confine its en­ergies to printing the news (accurate­ly) and commenting editorially (also with accuracy) on men and measures. It will initiate helpful movements and fight to carry them to a successful is­sue. It must be of service today, not only in politics and morals, but in aiding in the solution of problems that are part of the daily life of the people. It must not only urge the public to swat the crook; but should plead with them to swat the fly. It must not only fight for a clean city administration, but must light alongside those who are preaching the doctrine of a clean home. It must not only decline to receive the dirty dollars that come from lying, murderous medical ad­vertising, but It should teach the peo­ple how to keep well.

"There has been a great forward movement along these lines in the last decade. The average newspaper in America today is a clean paper, an -honest paper. There are not many examples left of Virtue on the edi­torial page and Vice in the advertis­ing columns. The advertiser of honest goods doesn't like o sit in the same pew with the quack, the loan shark, the mining swindler, the oil pirate and the merchandise faker. And. m the long run, he is going to be the broom that will sweep the few remaining Augean stables.

• "There is no better investment than a single standard of honor, honesty, truth and integrity from the title to the last agate line on the back page. T^uth, cleanliness and decency are the greatest dividend payers on earth.

"Thus far I have dwelt practically on the pleasurable side of newspaper making, for there is delight in doing pood, particularly when helpfulness -walks hand in hana with success. There is another side of the picture, however—the side of perplexities, problems ivlid exigencies. If man were superhuman It might be possible to •hold eveen the scales between men who differ on religion, politics, poli­tical economy, sociology and all other topics, isn't und happenings which create discussion in the world. No man can serve two masters, and I have found it equally difficult to satis­fy those who hold divergent opinions on any public or private matter. But when both sides kick, you feel meas­urably certain you are not far wrong.

"I have little sympathy with the myopic individuals who believe, or rather say, that if nothing were print­ed about crime, crime would cease or decrease. They are wrong, absolutely wrong. The punishment of public opinion often is more potent and dreadful thou that imposed by judge or Jury. Scores of times men have come to me and pleaded for the sup­pression of the stories of their crime. And in nine cases out of ten they have urged wife, children and family as the reason for concealing their wrong­doing. My answer always has "been. 'WJty didn't you think of them before you did this thing? I am thinking of the men, women and children who have Tjeen defrauded by you and of

AUSTRIAN SHARPSHOOTERS IN HIGHEST ALPS ON FRONTIER

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The fighting between Austrians and Italians has been largely in the Alps on the Austro-ltaiian frontia Photo shows Austrian sharpshooters in the Alps at an elevation ot 7,874 feet.

And Another Mr. Peder P. Dahl, who took a

course In shorthand and bookkeeping at Aaker's Business College, writes from Sharon that he has accepted a position with the Citizens State Bank and offers to do anything he can for the A. B. C. in that locality. Our gra­duates are our best advertisers, which is strong evidence of the quality of service rendered by the school. Day and evening , sessions. Gas Tractor and Auto course is proving a hummer.

the others who will suffer unless your form of villainy is stopped.'

"1 believe suppression of news is more of a wrong than the prlnung of a piece of news that possibly might better not have been written. By im­proper suppression a newspaper sells its soul and betrays its readers. To my mind it is the high treason of Journalism. No paper that permits its advertisers or the personal, social und financial friends of the editor to control of taint its news and editorial columns ever has become a big news­paper.

"If there were no fight in this busi­ness of ours it would lose half Its charm, and without the incentive of opposition I believe the press of Amer­ica would lose its virility. And that day, should it aver come, would be a sorry one for America. For twenty-five years I have been keeping a rec­ord for brickbats heaved in my direc­tion. Ninety-nine per cent are anony­mous letters. The war started the letter writers afresh, t suppose every editor in the land was criticised last year for not printing news it was im­possible to get. Would that we edi­tors had the omniscience of our cri­tics, the unerring instinct which can pick out lies and truths in official statements and enable us to say when a victory is not a victory and when a rout is a strategic move of military cunning.

"I had one answer for these gentle­men and it ran something like this:

'You say you know what is true and what is false in the news that we print. Come to Chicago and The Her­ald will pay you more money in a month than you can make in your own town in a year. You are the man the whole country—yes, the whole world—is looking for. Telegraph me when you start and I will reserve a room for you at my club, meet you at the depot and see that you are well taken care of in every respect.'

"Guess how many accepted the proposition!

"Turn to the other side of the led­ger. Cast up the accounts there and you have a credit balance that is good for the soul. The joy of one little shivering orphan in Belgium whose freezing toes were warmed by woolen stockings %-on« 'ast year's Christmas ship pays for all, wipes out the sting of malice and heals the wounds of un­just criticism. Were I to die tonight the thought that I had been instru­mental in the abolishing the Fourth of July slaughter would set . me on my journey glad that I had lived. You gentlemen in this 'business, all of you have your Christmas Ships, your Fourth of July Crusades, your Good Fellow Movements. your battles again ts loan sharks, your fights against quacks in some form or the other. They are the joyous high lights of our business. It Is fine to win a political victory, but it is more satisfying to make life better wortlt living for those who have drawn no prizes in life's lottery.

"The newspaper of today occupies the -position of the herald of old. In ancient days the ear held reign and the sphere of influence was limited by aural range. The eye has been en­throned and the whole world is our field. In olden times the mightiest voices reached thousands but fell sil­ent within the mile. Our silent voices defy distance and seek our myriads behind brick walls. We talk to those who never see us. The thunder of our presses dies away, but it has bred a billion living tongues.

"Our responsibilities are great be­cause our power is so immense. For­get the former and the latter wanes."

ALMOST ENOUGH NAMES SIGNED

TURNJ.IBERALS Frequent suspension of Con­

servative Papers Shows Change in Policy.

Bemidji, Minn,, Nov. 12.—The sev­en boys who have been securing sign­ers to petitions, giving the federal government full authority to select a site for a new federal building in Be­midji without protest from the citi­zens, report that they have received over 1,000 signers.

They are now securing outiside sign­ers and it is expected that the work will be completed soon and the peti­tions forwarded to Washington for action.

A single word to the point is better than a speech. I

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(By Raymond E. Swing.) Berlin, Oct. 11.—The Deutsche

Tageszeitung, agrarian organ, has again been suspended for three days by the censors. This time some other reason than a protest against the con­ciliatory American policy is behind the punishment.

When a German newspaper is sus­pended it sends to its subscribers a single sheet with a newspaper name at the top as usual, but with the sheet blank except for the statement that the publication has been "for the time being" forbidden. This sheet of the Tageszeitung might serve to an opti­mistic prophet as a banner of hope and could be taken as a promise that the support of the German govern­ment after the war is to rest with the liberal elements.

Government Rested on Agrarians. If, before the war, any one had

been so mad as to predict that the Tageszeitung, the conservative organ, ever would be suppressed in Germany, the prophet would have been laughed over the frontier. The German gov­ernment is a stationary institution but depends on the friendship of a Reichs­tag majority to pass its laws and to obtain its money. Before the war it counted always upon the conservative and agrarian support and then made up the rest of its majority by appeal­ing on local issues to the Clerical and National-Liberal parties. On any real issue the truly liberal parties usually voted against the government.

The agrarian and conservative in­terests were so invariably behind the government that one came to think of them as being almost part of it. And now the newspapers of these two groups have been as frequently pun­ished as the Socialist press itself. There is cause to speculate.

Foreign Office Most Liberal. The most liberal wing of the gov­

ernment is the foreign office, which explains why the chancellor and the American policy have not been unani­mously praised. Slowly but surely the foreign office is veering for public sup­port to the "left" because slowly but surely German foreign policy is shap­ing Itself to met the liberal thought in the world with which it comes in contact.

For a long time liberal men have been in the foreign office, and their energetic work has helped give Ger­many's policy direction and clarity. The press of circumstances has made the efforts of these men effective. If one clamors for an instance, the American policy can be oited, and it can be added that German concession to the United States is the most radi­cally friendly act on the part of a na­tion to satisfy another unallied nation in the history of modern Europe.

As has been frequently written and hinted In these columns, such acts have not been lauded in Germany, and the severest criticisms have . fallen from the mouths of the ultra-conser­vatives, the standpatters of Germany. Because this is so, because the chan­cellor is likely to find himself without much conservative support after the war, one is entitled to predict that he will find his support farther to the left.

"Patriotism" Argument Lost. Many there have been who ha^e

prophesied that the effect of the war on Germany itself would be to give liberalism a strong impulse. There have been many signs which have led close observers to see a change which they thought led in this direction. Some great change must come in the attitude toward social democracy, and it has been healthy to see that the patriotism, of the radicals and progres­sives has been recognized to -be just as good patriotism when it comes to the final test as the patriotism of the con­servatives and agrarians. It means that monopoly on dyed-in-the-wool Germanism has been destroyed. . -

In the past, the patriotic alnrument always carried the day. In; 19.0,8 .It cut down the Socialist representation and carried the huge naval. budget. Now the patriotic' argument is dead as a national issue and the; govern­ment-will have to come to tne people with ideas, living issues.

MAN ARRESTED ON SHOOTING CHARGE

HOI F1 Flames Work Way Around Two Men and They Have

to Run Through Them.

Calgary, Alta., Nov- 12.—Three men had a picturesque escape from death here when they literally fought their way through a wall of flames to safe­ty, a big well of gas and oil owned by the Southern Alberta Oil company ta:king fire, and threatening for a time the lives of the men.

When the well was opened, a spout of oil shot into the air, and before it was capped, fully 2,000 barrels of oil escaped. With it came a flood of gas, and a lantern carried by a man 600 feet from the mouth of the well caused an explosion:-

William Livingston, president of the company, and two men, engaged in a long fight against the flames, and finally found themselves trapped by a fire which had worked its way around behind them. To escape, the men had to run through the flames. Each was badly scorched, but suffer­ed no serious injuries.

MAN INJUREDIN DRUNKEN BRAWL

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Go on Excursion of Nara Home of Beautiful Tem­

ples and Famous Lake.

Bemidji, Minn., Nov. 12.—Hans Anderson and another man whose name is not known were injured in a brawl at the Hotel Nicollet. The men had been drinking.

Several men were playing cards in an upstairs room when Anderson en­tered and asked tci be allowed to "get into the game." A dispute arose and a young man about 22 years of age began a quarrel with Anderson. In a scuffle that followed both men fell downstairs. Anderson was severely cut around the head and body and the other man disappeared.

Anderson ran' up sand down the street and Frank Klriple, chleff of po­lice. was called. CJMef Ripple took Anderson in charge,; had the wounds dressed and kept him in jail over night.

The younger man- has not been lo­cated.

Bemidji, Minn., . JTov. 1 J.—Frank Kozz, Bohemian,, aged 36' years, was arrested by Chitff Of Police.' Frank Ripple, charged With'havingshotjoe Novak, a Bohemian, aged 26 years. Koh and Novakhave been held at St. Anthony?* hospital since the shooting, which occurred Noveniber B. . The; .two. men -had returned from the harvest fields, in North Dakota several days- before the shooting and were staying at: the Dickenson hotel. The shooting occurred after, a .short, scuffle between the'two men.

Noyak, claimed that Koiz would not allow him to sleep and that upon pro­testing Kossdrew a revolver. In a scuffle that followed both men were' shot, Koh being shot three times and Novak twice, None of the wounds proved serious. Both men had been drinking.

KM denies the shooting, claiming that Hmk attempted to rob him- at the point of a gun. The pottee m-fns* tobelleve his story.

• Novak will be held, as a witness.

SHOWS HIS CAPACITY. 'President Wilson Is said to have

played recently what was for him— with all doe respect—a good game of golf. Just shows what the president can. do when he tries, In spite at te-tenettonai '•••rtiatfio®*™'"

750 BIG GAME LICENSES ISSUED

Bemidji, Minn., Nbv. 12.—Over 760 big game licenses have been issued in Beltrami county, according to an announcement made at the office of the county auditor.

Reports are that f ieer are especial­ly numerous in this section. Al­though yesterday was a bad day for hunting, several hunters got their game and others report that they had good shots but missed.

It is believed that wolves, which have been unable to find their cus­tomary rabbit diet, have driven the deer closer to civilization.

A light snow fell in the vicinity of Tenstrike which will enable the hunt­ers to track their game. It is believed that at the first time.of real cold Weather or snow that there will be a general exodus of hunters to the woods.

No accidents were reported during the first day's hunt. "

AND LOTS OF THEM. "I've started a ten-cent bo* for

Christmas, dear!" said the better half. "You won't forget it,-will you?"

"Me forget it!" replied the other fraction. "Why, how can you say such a thing? Of course I won't for­get it."

And he didn't. The very next day he shook four dimes out of the box to meet a deficiency in his car-fare al­lowance.

NOTHING DOING. "Can I sell you a copy of the latest

edition of the unabridged dictionary? It is a work that should be in every home."

"Does it contain any words that are not in the older editions?"

"Thousands of them." "Then I don't want it in my home.

My wife has quite enough words at her command as it. is."

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Kioto, Nov. 12.—( Correspondence of the Associated Press).—At the conclusion of the official coronation functions the members of the diplo­matic torps were the guests of the courts on excursions to the city of Nara, the home of beautiful temples and to the famous Lake Biwa which lies about fifteen miles from Kioto.

Nara, 26 miles from both Kioto and Osaka, was the capital of the empire between 709 and 781 A. D. during the period of the reign of the Nara dynas­ty. The clay abounds in places of his­toric fame and scenic beauty and is known as "Nara the Beautiful."

Lake Biwa is in the province of Oml, near Kioto. It is the largest lake in the country, having a circum­ference of about >0 miles. The lake is noted for the scenic beauty of. its environments, among which the most famous are known as "The Sight Beautiful Scenes." These were . se­lected by Prime Minister Konoye In 1600, following the Chinese example of Lake Tungtlng. They are the- Eve­ning Snow on Mount Htra, a Flight of Wild Geese at Katata, the Night Rain at Karasaki, the Deep Tone of the Ev­ening Bell at Mildera, the Sunshine with a Breeze at Awasu, the Evening Glow at Seta, the Autumn Moon at Ishiyama and the Returning Boats at Tabase.

These are favorite themes of Japan­ese poetry. It is traditionally, .relat­ed that Lake Biwa was formed dur­ing a night in 286 B, C. by the ac-tion of an earthquake, Which at the same time raised the sacred Mount Fuji on the spot where it now stands. Legend aside, the two are considered to be among the most beautiful places in Japan.

The swords used by the officials of the coronation commission during the coronation rites are a special kind named "efu-no-tachl," worn by the daimio and other retainers of the Shogun in the Tokugawa period on the occasion of tendering congratula­tion to the Shogun on New Tear's day or on his installation. As this type of sword has become rare, new J^/brds were especially made by the -smlUis to the order of the coronation; cow-mission. The officials who wear the swords at coronation functions num­ber 640. About thirty officials carry the blade made by the noted sword-smiths of olden times. These have been kept in their households as fam­ily treasures.

Public procurator. General K. Hir-anuma caused a swordsmith to make a new blade for his use. His idea was that a blade newly made at the hand of a swordsmith in the new era is preferable to the old blades, when the Intention is that of commemorating the new era of the new sovereign.

Sixteen swords to be used by prin­ces of the blood and six swords for the . use of the emperor were newly fade by Sadakatsu Gassan of Osaka, who is the greatest contemporary swordsmith and holds the post of art connoisseur in the household depart­ment The sheath of the swordB for the emperor, the crown prince and princes of the blood 1b decorated with gold dust and mother of pearl on lac­quered ground and mounted with the imperial crest, the ' chrysanthemum flower, in purple, gold, the metal ac­cessories beihg all of pure gold. The emperor when dressed in the military uniform of generalissimo both of the army and navy will wear the swords but In other cases they will be held

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After the coronation ceremonies, the Shishllden, Shunkoden, Dal Jo shrines and other ceremonial halls as well as the gardens of the Nijo pal­ace and the coronation banquet halls will be thrown open to the inspection of the people. The halls and decora-itons will be left as they were at the time of the proceedings of the coron­ation ceremonies, in order to enable the public to get a true idea of the proceedings. The period of public viewing will last till the end of Jan­uary next year. Kioto is therefore ex­pected to become a mecca of pilgrim­age with a large Influx of visitors from all parts of the country.

WAR ORDERS BEING SENT FROM CANADA

Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 12.—Exclu­sive of contracts for munitions, .-war contracts allowed to Winnipeg man­ufacturers -aggregate approximately a half million dollars at the present time, and the work of filling such or­ders Is now under way. The orders

are principally for tunics, trousers and shirts.

Canadian manufacturers are not able to compete for any of the busi­ness that will be created on this con-

i tinent by the recent Anglo-American : loan of $600,000,000, because of the stipulation that such money be ex­pended in the United States.

Four Arms are now manufacturing munitions in Winnipeg, and their out­put is being gradually increased as the equipment for turning out the muni­tions is being enlarged.

WHICH KIND OF STATESMAN? Colonel Roosevelt calls Mr. Bryan

a milk-and-water statesman, though it was supposed to have been' conceded that Mr. Bryan is a grape juice states* man.

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