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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
FulL-cREw LAW SUSTAINED

The supreme court CT Indiana has
declared constitutional the full-crcw
law of that state passed in 1907, and
affirmed iudg1 ent against the Pitts
burg, Cincinnati, Chicago and ST
Louis for running its fast mail train
from Richmond to Indianapolis with
crew of only four men. The train
consists of seven mall cars and no
passenger coaches, and the crew con.
sisted of the engineman, the fireman,
conductor and one brakeman The
statute says that any passenger, mail
or express train of FIVE cars or more
must have Aagman il. addition to the
four named
The company answered that the
train is supplied with mechanical de.
vices which make any additional
brakeman or fiagman unnecessary;
that this train is engaged in inter-
state commerce, and that the regula-
tons imposed by congress are the
only ones that can lawfully be i'm
posed; also that as this is mail train
the exclusive power of congress to
establish post offices and pest roads
is infringed. The court said it was
not statute regulating interstate
commerce. but merely a police meas
ure to provide for the safety of eiti-
zens. and as such did not unreasoa.
ably burden interstate commerce.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
PAUL REVERE.

The Burlington Hawk-Eye recalls
that one hundred and thirty-three
years ago last Sunday Paul Revere
made his fam ous ride to warn Lex
ington and Concord of the intended
attack of the British forces, and
adds:
This gave Longfellow an oppor-
tunity to write poem that has been
recited by practically every school
boy since it was published. Revere
was a copper plate engraver in Bos-
tor and used his skill in caricaturing
the British in the pre-Revolutionary
period. He was one of the prime
movers of the Boston tea party He
engaged in the printing of provincial
paper money and erected mill for
4 the manufacture of gunpowder. He
4 helped shoot the gunpowder at the
4 British afterwards"
Revere was also manufacturing
! ieweler. Specimens of his handiwork
in that line were on exhibition at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago in 1898
Something of his character and stand
ing may be inferred from the fact that
at the beginning of the Revolution he
was Grand Master of Massachusetts
Masons.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
TIE wAR ON FLIES.

The Merchants Association OF New
York has joined in the campaign
against flies and through its water
pollution committee is dong effective
work In conjunction with the boards OF
health and health officers. In forty
eight-page pamphlet issued by the
committee flies are held to be guilty
of the dissemination of the germs of
typhoid fever, tuberculosis and sew
eral lesser diseases, and are declared
to be more dangerous than the tiger
or cobra and may easily be classed
as the most dangerous animal on
earth. a number of health author
tiles are quoted in support of this
view.
In Brooklyn the investigators set up
cages During the week ended June
6, 1908, there were fifty deaths from
intestinal diseases and fifty-fve flies
were caught. BY July there had
been 212 deaths and 1000 insects
were CAPTURED, thus proving, so the
fly catchers declare, that the increase
OF disease was due to the increase of
flies. More than this, by means of
charts it is demonstrated that in cities
like New York, Boston and Ba6ti-
more. where the water supply is good,
but where flies. increase and multiply
and replenish the eating houses, there
is great prevalence OF typhoid fever
in August and September, seasons
when insects most congregate. Still
more weight is attached to the fact
that as soon as cold weather has
killed off the musca domestica the
epidemics also cease troubling.
Not content with this evidence. in
vestigators made a map of New York
with black dots for deaths from intes
final diseases. The whole water front
Immediately went into mourning
I Then the investigators went down to
the docks and found multitudes OF
| flies. The flies were then trailed by
means of staining fluid 20 their haunts
namely, the eating places near the
docks. Their movements over sand
witches, pies. and doughnuts were
carefully followed. Then they were
4 seized and searched and literally
caught with the goods When the
flies shoes" were removed thous
ands of faecal bacteria were found
They walked the flies over a gelatin'
plate and photographed the bacteri;
left there.
The most practical suggestion o
all is pointed by the story of resi-
dent of Germantown, Pa. He caugh
typhoid fever and sued the city TO
damages. An entomologist convince
the jury that he had contracted tn
disease from flies which had carrie
the infection from polluted strear
to the food exposed in plaintiff
house. The man won his suit, an
the city had to pay damages.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

surely deserves universal assistance
Not until very recent years has the
fly received the recognition 1t ought
to have had long ago as not only a
nuisance but menace. Somehow, the
race regarded the buzzer as a harm
less affair, which did not bark or bite.
which did not sing or sting, and
which, if it got into the butter occas-
ionally, did the butter less harm than
itself. So as q mere ANNOYANCE the
fly was tolerated. and in some quar-
tiers it is still tolerated.
But the fly should have no such
right of way. 1t should be over
whelmed with the loathing it so richly
merits for the insect is one of the
/ filthiest creatures imaginable. 1t
breeds filth 1t cannot breed in clean
spot; it feeds on filth. From it's foul
birthplace and from it's foul breeding
places it carries millions and millions
of bacilli about its person." disease
makers, which it deposits wherever it
lights. If it should fall into the milk
the germs are received by the milk
and the drinker o. the milk-well.
there should be no drinker of that
particular milk.
1t is by the fy's process of distrib-
uting it's bacilli that typhoid fever is
spread. Typhoid fever is the favorite
article which the fly keeps in stock for
its unwary customers. Frequently It
happens that a typhoid fever patient
will wonder how he ever happened to
take into his stomach the inconsider
ate germ which laid him low. If he
had pointed to the fly, which became
involved in his bread or milk, or wa
ter, or whatever 1t was he would prob
ably have pointed to the guilty party
Therefore, citizens should work with
the health department to exterminate
4 his sinister ubiquity, the fly. Garbage
cans should be kept covered tightly,
should be kept free from manure, al
! leys and streets should be be made
spctless, rubbish heaps should be re-
moved Slack lime or diluted carbolic
acid on refuse piles can help to pre-
vent the breeding of the tiny monster.
Down with the fly.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
TEACHING MORALITY in SCHOOLS


A new method of giving moral in
struction in the public schools was
proposed by Dr. Emil G. Hirsch last
Sunday in his sermon in Sinai Temple,
Chicago. He denounced the system
which educates only the brain, and
pointed out the difficulties in the way
of introducing instruction in morality.
His solution of the problem was the
change of school discipline SO as to
give children the greatest possible
liberty, eliminate appeals to their
sense of fear or of recompense, and de-
velop their personalities by appealing
to their sense of honor. He declared
the eighteenth century theory that
knowledge was sufficient to build
character had been exploded by the
conduct of "a generation STEPPED in
knowledge and drunk with science
4 He said in this connection:
To-day, every master of the art and
of the science of pedagogy is GER
tain the imparting of knowledge, I'M
less supplemented by something else,
is insufficient to build character and
that our public schools are deficient
as educational establishments because
they pay no attention to the develop
ment of conscience or to the imparting
Eof moral principles The Catholic
church is undoubtedly correct in its
insistence that education must be more
than the mere transfer of knowledge.
DR.. Hirsch is opposed to any distri-
button of school funds to denom-
national schools On the ground
that the integrity of the public
schools as they are is essential
to the amalgamation of the
races in the United States. He is also
opposed to the plan to allow ministers
and priests of various denominations
to take a part of the school time for
moral instruction of the children OF
their faith on the ground that it would
lead to disputes. In his sermon last
Sunday he ridiculed the idea of teach
ing morality through a text book
agreed upon by the different sects
CHASING text book instruction as a
dead and out of date method. The
religious element should be kept out
. of the schools, he said, as sectariar
schools had failed as teachers of moral
ity because they relied on theological
. subtleties beyond the grasp of the
i pupils.
None of these objections, he said
{ applied to the instilling of morality b.
an incessant impressing on every sub
t iect of the law of cause and effect OF
r the pupils mind and an appeal to hi
i sense of honor through a system of lit
e erty and discipline. Good teachers d
i this now" he said, "and there is mora
n teaching in the public schools. Al
$ biography, history, and literatur
d teach the law of cause and effect. A
We sow, so shall We reap. This
teaching morality without preachin
or text books"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
MOTHER HUBBARD.

In connection with his latest cartoon
John T. McCutcheon tells the story of
Mother Hubbard in his own inimitable
way. Following is his version OF the
well-known domestic ipcident:
Mrs Hubbard highly esteemed
lady of this city, had occasion yester,
day 10 90 to her cupboard in search Of
valuable loaf of bread which She
had deposited there She was saving
1t for eating purposes. What WIS her
surprise. not to say desnlav to fad that
the bread had disappeared leaving the
cupboard quite devoid Of contents. In
consequence she had none.
Mrs. I'll is the parent Of little
coterie of lesser Hubbards I'll Of
whom assisted her in being dismayed
when the loss of the treasure was re
vealed The matter was at once re-
ported TO the police who at once re-
paired to the scene and verified the
loss of the bread, and there the matter
rests ct present. She carried no In
surarce.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
"OId Dinner Horn"

The following was one of the songs
at the recent Gridiron Club banquet
in Washington:
Sound the good old dinner horn, well
sing another song,
About the trip that Taft once made,
when, with digestion strong
"He ate his share of everything that
they would bring along,
.'As we went eating through Georgia
eve tackled the opossum that they
took such care to bake.
I'VE ate canned watermelon and
dish they called hoe cake.
I'VE didn't even draw the line at ALL
gator steak,
"As we went eating through Georgia
by southern hospitality, our hearts
were surely won,
And we resolved to do the very best
that could be done,
".For Democrats. and SO we saved
some pie for Dickinson,
"As we went eating through Georgia
And the chorus-well, it would CRATE
on tle nerves OF hungry man If he
heard these words:
"Hurrah Hurrah! We sound the
jubilee;
"Hurrah! Hurrah. Twas something
fine to see.
1--WE put away three meals day, and
sometimes three times three,
"As we went eating through
Georgia"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

In several cities the movement
among churches to prevent the wear
ins of hats by women during services
has taken shape recently. The Meth
odist churches are particularly active
in this cause. At Richmond, Va, the
board OF the First Methodist church
on Tuesday voted to require all women
attendants at service to remove their
hats In the Metropolitan Tabernacle
at New York the minister has pro
posed to have a room set aside for
the women to lay off their hats and to
adjust them after service. The West
ern Christian Advocate of Cincinnati
asks: What are our Christian wom-
en- thinking off Are they such dew
otees of fashion that they must haul
these unseemly, hideous, outlandish
constructions to church with them to
make the devout groan and the unde-
vout almost swear? It is our solemn
conviction that this. which looks
like such a trivial matter, amounts to
almost an absolute moral offense and
sin The First Baptist church OF
Comerville, a Boston suburb, has
officially barred from service all
women who refuse 10 remove their
hats before entering the auditorium.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

In Washington, D. c., a day was set
apart for a general cleaning up all
over the city. The undertaking was
in the hands of the women of the city
and it is stated that the effort was a
success in every way. Keokuk women
would earn the gratitude of the COM
munity by emulating their example.
This city needs a thorough cleaning
up and if the women should under
take TO oversee the job there is every
assurance it would be well done.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

Arthur Hugh Thomas 7. Dewitt
Talmadge Hardin Eddy Lane Arland
Linnie Marion Branch Sam Jones Pigg
Reuben Walker Chiles was drowned at
Paducah KY, last Sunday. He was
the son of the Rev. r c. Chiles, SUI
perintendent of the Rescue mission,
and each name was for some minister
Of note. He claimed his name was
the longest on record. The right OF
a parent to weight a child down with
SO many names may well be ques
toned.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
The Attorney Generals Program
Saloons Gambling Houses and Houses Of nlFame to be
Different Institutions.

and then only when local officers re-
fuse to act
THE removal bill puts it within the
power of any five qualified electors to
compel local officers to act, and ap-
peals should only be made to this ae-
given by this bill has been exhausted
without bringing results.
County Attorneys Are Warned.
Letters are going out from this
office to every county attorney in the
state with copies of these several bills,
with the request that they be put in
operation so far as possible in every
county in the state immediately on go
ing into effect.
I'VE do not urge am unreasonable
activity upon the part of the officers
throughout the state whose business
it is to enforce the criminal laws, just
simply firm and determined effort
! to stamp out lawlessness in every
form.
with the right kind of cooper alton
between this department and the local
4 prosecuting ana peace officers, and
with faithful work all around the evils
of the saloon, the gambling house and
the house of i'll fame can be reduced
| to a minimum 1t will not do, how
ever. for the people to expect these
things to be wiped out at once. There
must be patience and forbearanco.
with anything like good faith
effort all along the line and the right
kind of encouragement and help, with
in year every city and town in Iowa
can and will be rid of the Illegal sa-
loon, the bootlegger, the blindpig,
the dive and the open gambling
house, and conditions that affect the
morals of the youth of the state will
so improve that it will be admitted
that if the legislature had done moth
ing else but pass these bills they
!! would be entitled to tae thanks Of
everybody"
, Mr.. Byers believes that the success
, of the law enforcement programme de
ponds largely upon the newspapers o.
Iowa.
Depends Upon Newspapers.
| IF the newspapers stand Loyalty BY
, the county attorney, the mayor ant
/. police officer who are trying in goot
! faith to do their duty we will have {
cleaning up that will make us ali fee
5 it is good to live in Iowa. is the va.
Mr. Byers expressed 1t.
1T would have been impossible t.
q get these laws through without the eli
e fective help from the press, and news
:. papers are entitled to much credit TO
q their attitude during the agitation tina
V has aroused public sentiment and crys
g tallized it in these measures
Senator Moons bill limiting tn
l. number of saloons to one for ever
l. 1000 people is considered by Mr.
e Byers an important work of the Thil
s ty-third general assembly in regala
l. ing the saloon business.
It While tae new measures for law Ell
q forcement were primarily pressed /
order to reach the evils that follo'
o the Illegal saloon, the dive AMI tn
lie gambling house they are intende
G. also. according to the attorney gel
& eral. to reach other violations and a
e sist in the prevention of law-breal
-e ing along all lines-not only in tn
in liquor business, but also by combin'
t, tons and trusts,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
Down With the Ely.

Louisville Courler-Journal: It APP
pears that one of the cam
paigns planned by the health depart
ment this summer is campaign
AGAINST flies. In undertaking the war
on these pestiferous insects the de-
prtment asks for public cooperation.
1t is a praiseworthy venture and IT
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

The moral uplift in Pittsburg cut
down the divorce business 60 per cent.
The exhibit sheds a food of light on
the intimate connection between di-
vorce and immortality.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
q "Have tor onerino

Marion Register; The Keokuk Gate
City refers to the $1O,734 purse which
Billy Sunday carried away from
Springfield, Illinois, as free will
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

In the, final analysis it is quite plain
that it is up to the farmers to raise
more wheat.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

The baccalaureate speaker for June
10 at the State university will be Dr.
Smaller Matthews. dean of the Theol-
ogical School Of Chicago University.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
TO MY BETTER SELF.

TO NY BETTER SELF.
Godlike self who sits afar-
Leave me not to things that are.
In my darkness hold the light,
Turn my erring eyes Alright.
Strive to show me where l fail,
While remembring l am frail.
Help me to do the thing should,
For the widest, greatest good.
Speak, if in esteem 1 fall,
Teach me charity to all
Teach my manhood to be true
To my brother and to you
You-the godlike self and star!
Guide me through the things that are
Stephen Chalmers in New York
Times.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

paid for by popular subscription and
is tribute from the northwest to the
genius of Mr. Hill in the construction
Of the Great Northern railroad.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

If the weather isn't revised shortly
the farmer anu the baseball enthusiast
will insist on knowing why.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
State Takes Initiative.


That the operation of these laws will
do away with the necessity for pri-
vate persons. civic societies, or leagues
taking the initiative in bringing actions
for violation of the criminal law is one
of the most important results predict
ed by Mr. Byers. In this connection
he said:
I'm every community where such
bodies do take action and procure de-
crees against saloonkeepers that will
/ be taken by this department as con-
/ elusive evidence that local officers
have failed in their duty"
/ This probably means that hereafter
the activity of the Anti-saloon league
and similar local organizations will be
confined to cooperating with the sher-
iff and county attorney, or to setting
in motion the removal machinery
which may be employed when these
officials refuse to act.
The people of the state who are In
terested in the enforcement of crimi-
nal laws must not proceed on the
theory that now that we have this
legislation there is nothing for citi
zens of local communities to do except
wait for the attorney generals de
: partment to act" said Mr.. Byers.
) THE purpose of these bills was tc
: provide method by which the people
of every community could compel ac
, ton on the part of local prosecuting
and peace officers. 1t will not be the
policy of this department to interfere
r with the work of law enforcement il
g any community exec as last resort
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

A conscientious Galveston man is
deeply chagrined to find that he had
robbed an old woman's home under
the mistaken impression that it was
an orphans asylum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

"The lawmaking assemblies ought
to have a vacation Of ten years after
each session. concludes the Fayette
Postal Card.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

Mrs. scrappington-T Tomorrow is the
fourteenth anniversary of our we'd
ding.
Mr. scrappington-well, you needn't
taunt me with it-Puck
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20
NOTES AND COMMENT.

The weather indicates to the Coun-
ell Bluffs Nonpareil that winter has
troublesome appendix.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

Offering A "have to Offering"
rather. The genuine article of saliva
ton may be free. but Billy's brand
comes at SO much per"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

The Des Moines Register and Leader
fears that the Des Moines school cail-
dren who hope Mr.. Roosevelt will give
up his hunting plans upon receipt of
their petition are fated to meet up
with a crushing disappointment
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

Announcement is made that the
bronze statue Of James j. Hill, which
will be placed in the center of the
grounds of the Alaska YLkon-Pacific
exposition, is nearly completed. The
statue Is of heroic size and viii be
set upon granite pedestal. At the
close Of the exposition it will be placed
permanently on the campus of the
state university. Tae statue has been
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

With the right kind of cooperation
between the department and the local
prosecuting and peace officers, and
with faithful work all around, the
evils of the saloon, the gambling
house and the house of Ill fame can
be reduced to a minimum in Iowa.
Attorney General Byers.
Des Moines Register and Leader:
With three of the Cosson laws already
in operation and the certainty that the
other two will go into effect July 4,
Iowa now has the machinery for law
enforcement more perfect than that of
any state in the union
The three measures now in effect
are the law giving the attorney gem
eral supervisory power over county
attorneys, the law providing for the re-
moyal of county attorneys, sheriffs,
mayors and police officers who fail in
their duty, and the law providing for
injunction proceedings against houses
of i'll fame.
Laws dehnlng the duties or the coun'
ty attorney and the sheriff, leaving no
ambiguity by which they can justify
failure or neglect, will become opera
tive July 4, and with those already or
the books they are expected to bring
to Iowa the credit of having come
/ nearer to a solution of the problem Of
controlling the great social evils thar
any of her sister states.
Attorney General Byers has giver
the Register and Leader Statement
of policy of his Office in relation tt
the programme of law enforcement
that is is of more than ordinary i'm
portance in view of the statewide
awakening of the possibility of bette
enforcement which has eliminated il
putting the Cosson laws on the books
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

Stephen Chalmers in New York
Times.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

The Boston Herald says that Mr.
Taft chose that Massachusetts water
ing place as the summer capital be-
cause he wanted to find more ex-
elusive society" than oyster Bay could
furnish. The Chicago Post suggests
that this sounds a good deal like Bos-
ton, but it doesn't sound much like
Mr. Taft.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

You-the godlike self and star!
Guide me through the things that are.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

Godlike self who sits afar-
Leave me not to things that are.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-04-20

Teach my manhood to be true
To my brother and to you