The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-03

the problem of soil pollution and the
hookworm disease.
WINNING HIS WAY.
Edwin Hawley, who is interested
largely in western railroads and who
is now being hailed as the successor
| to e. II. Hartman as railway king
! of America, was recently asked to
what he owed his success He said:
Il hava played lone hand and
stuck to my job. / have simply done
two things: | have worked and
! have waited. Most persons do not
realize what good thing 1t Is to
know how to wait. Many things
come to you. 1t does not pay to get
restless. The reason why SO many
persons lose money, especially down
here in Wall street, Is that they get
| restless for results"
| Mr.. Hawley believes firmly in the
gospel Of hard work, and he gives this
counsel to young men:
IF were to lay down a rule for
any young man to follow should say
! to him: Save as you go; but behind
all this is work When men ask me
what am say that | am a laboring
man / work as hard or harder than
any man on my pay roll. / expect to
be worker as long as / am able.
The finest thing about the average
American is that he is worker. Inc
moment he retires he becomes a bore
to himself and everybody else"
In railroading Mr.. Hawley says 1T IS
his rule to stand by his railroad prop
critics and not to skin them. He
says, too, that he believes in giving
the shipper a chance.
Mr.. Hawley@ policy is good, and
his counsel to young men sound sense.
SAVE as you go. but behind all this
| is WORK" is statement that young
men should heed, and profit by. To
practice it will bring success every
time.
BOYS AND GIRLS AND MORALS.
DR.. Y. w. Kline Of Fort Dodge takes
exceptions to some recent statements,
alleged to have been made by Clifford
Roe, assistant states attorney OF Chi
| cago, concerning the morality OF Iowa
young people. Mr.. Roe intimated that
| there was a too low standard OF mo-
rality among Iowa young people. DR..
Kline replies after this fashion:
| II do not like to hear Roe or any
| body else say anything about tue
morality of boys and girls IN iowa.
believe that we have the best boys
and girls in the country right here in
Iowa. / do not believe that the
standard of morality here is any lower
| than it is in the best state in the coun-
try. We have just as pure boys and
girls in Iowa as there are in any other
part of the country. have been
general practitioner in Iowa for over
| twenty-five years and / make the as
sertion without reservation. Our rural
boys are clean, manly men and our
rural girls are just as sweet and pure
as can be found anywhere on the
| globe. There Is a great deal OF talk
| about the low standard of morality OF
our young people, but the accusers
are misled Statistics never proved
anything and cannot be accepted fol-
truth. | do not like to hear people
say that more of the young people &c
wrong than in anv ctber state in r''s
! portion to population. 1t is nonsense
to believe that; Iowa is an agricIl
tural state and it is preposterous te
believe that so much crime coult
come out of the rural districts Of the
state believe in the hoys and girls
of Iowa and always will"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette makes
DIR. Kime's letter the subject of timel.
and sensible editorial comment. /
foresees that his utterances will ge
liberal applause, and rightly so, TO
the average Iowa young woman has
high idea.-a high moral ideal
There are lnultitudes of clean, mani
young men; multitudes of sweet an
| pure young women. There's not
, low standard of morality among tn
, young people, and especially anon
Iowa young people," The Gazett
thinks it probable that smaller pr
portion of Iowa young people g
/ wrong than among the people of an
other state. 1t is at least disposed
, make this claim until it has positiv
I proof to the contrary. 1t holds it
3 be duty to believe in our boys an
q girls as we believe in the boys an
. girls of no other state. But. on tn
Q other hand, the average standard {
4 morality could be higher, even
o Iowa; it ought to be higher. Tt
Q Gazette well says as to this:
=. There are evil influences at wo1
= tAat are having a detrimental effe'
: on morals. When one sees young CIR
parading the streets, and small BIO.
e smoking pipes or cigarets and usir
g language pirate would be ashamt
1t to use, one shudders and wonde
,r what morals are coming to There
plenty of work for those who desi
70 higher standard of morality amor
= young people, even though 1t isn't ia
:. to our young people to declare tn
u the standard of morality is being 10
r. cred.
h. NOTES AND COMMENT.
- DIJyctaria 10 MT rai}piOn aJfhouph