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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
WASTE.

WASTE.
Forest and field and orchard, noun
tains OF coal and ore,
Mighty has been their bounty, limit
less seemed their store;
So we have blithely squandered, SO we
have sacked and spoiled
Boosting about our progress" brag
ging Of how we toiled.
Drunken with natures bounty, we laid
our plenteous gain
To the magic Of Yankee hustle, to the
vigor OF Yankee brain.
And we looted the goodly forests and
planted the wasteful crop,
And we hooted the careful prophe,
who said that the loot mus,
stop!
But we're learning our little lesson
and we relish 1t not at all,
And we're paying for past excuses
in bills that are far from small
We Quilted and gouged our forests
and the floods came roaring
down
To ruin the farmers acres and raw
age and wreck the town.
Over and over and over we planted
the same old field.
With the same old crop repeated, then
sighed at the dwindIing yield,
And we wasted our coal and iron, nor
cared for the wealth we lost,
TIL the price moved up and onward,
and we growied at the added
cost.
We are learning our little lesson, bat
we have not learned 1t true,
For We waste In some directions the
same as We used to do,
Our natural gas we squander to
poison the healthy afr,
We're wasting our oil-flow blindly,
and nobody seems to care.
In factory, farm and forest we're
throwing our wealth away,
And the bill for our careless living
our children will have to pay.
Tariff and trusts and wages are prob
lens that must be faced,
But the greatest OF all our problems
is the problem of careless waste.
-Berton Braley in Farm and Fireslde.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
I. IL p W

Local No. 400 I. B. E. w. meet first
Inescay and third Wednesday at 500
o'clock at Trades and Labor Assem-.
bly, hall, Tenth and Johnson streets.
Visiting brothers cordially Invited E.
H. Shilling, F. 8.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
A. o. U. W.

$500 n. VI. y. w.
Keokuk lodge, No. 256, meets every
Thursday night at 7:3o o'clock at hall
over keokuk Savings bank, corne,
Fifth and Main streets. Visiting
brethren cordially invite C. H.
Griffith. NJ. W.; ]. A. Branson, record.
er.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
administration.

Metcalfe's selection was male
at conference between President
Wilson and secretarys Bryan, Garri-
son and Daniels. The new governor
resides at Lincoln, Nebraska, and has
been lifelong friend OF Bryan. a.
was considered for position on the
Philippine commission.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

Senator John Sharp Williams pro
poses to give married men a $1,000
exemption from the income tax for a
wife and $500 for each child. It should
make a hit In Utah.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
X. OF p.

/ Morning Star lodge No. 5. meets al
Fifth and Blondeau, X. Of P. building
Tuesday at 1870. John P. 1Iornish.
chancellor commander; ]. A. Burgess,
K. OF +. and s. Visiting Knights fra
iternally invited.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

MUTUAL PROTECTIVE LEAGuF
Acorn Council No. 1o46. NJ P. l..
meets first Tuesday OF each month,
1870 p M, A. o. U. w. hall, Fifth and
Main. A. L. Hemenway, president:
Lena M. Sansone, secretary
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

question of the future rests on his
success with the tariff bill He thinks
Wilson has started off in a way that
promises success with that matter
Probably no President ever left the
white house with fewer heartburnings,
in spite of the rough deal he got at
the polls He discussed the various
senators who had fought him and
done SO much to compass his defeat,
but except in one case there was no
bitterness. Of one prominent senator
who fought him savagely, he said:
He hates me worse than the devil
hates holy water and hates Roose-
welt worse; but admire him. One
can't withhold admiration from such
man, because he is such a standup
flghter SO determined on the course
OF action he believes right and so ut
terly immovable and steadfast in his
way Of pursuing it. He can stand any
amount of punishment and can't be
turned aside from his goal for a mo-
ment."
No lit-Feellng Toward Foes.
Of another OF his enemies in the
senate he said: He always has his
eyes as close to keyhole as he can
get and loks through 1t with both
eyes at once. And he's narrow; but
he's perfectly honest and does his
duty as he sees it. l can't get up any
dislike for him"
So he went on discussing these
men who had striven for SO many
years to bring about his downfall, and
paid tribute to their good qualities
with hardly qualifying mention Of
|! their bad ones. One man. indeed, he
did speak of less dispassionately, but
ut was because he regarded the man
as insincere-as playing part. Roose-
velt he mentioned several times, but
without comment and without feeling
of any kind.
Nor is he under the slightest illu-
sion about his defeat He looks at
that as independently as If it had hap
pened to some one else. He spoke of
his unpopularity in the latter part Of
his administration as If he were talk
] ing of another President-say, some
one who had figured in history early
in the last century / mentioned the
comments had seen rather frequent
! ly of late to the effect that since his
! departure from the white house there
had been a current setting in his ia
j vor, and he replied:
Well, there were about 100000
people who voted for me. If you
| anaiyze these pleasant epressions you
/ speak of, you'll probably find that
they come from some of those $780,
oOo.,
Then he laughed big, joyous laugh.
Later on when his defeat was re-
4 ferred to again he said with another
laugh: Whenever a man comes up
and tells me I voted for you, al
ways feel like saying, Well, my
/ friend. you are one of small and Sc.
lect body of men whose judgment
concur in and admire"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

Teddy adorns the first page as nat.
urally and gracefully as though he
had never been relegated elsewhere.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

THOUGHT. FOR THE DAY.
There are two perfectly good men
one dead and the other unborn
Chinese proverb.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
A Taft Lecture.

A Taft Lecture.
He has been showing them the dis
tinction between representative gov
eminent, as ordained by the constitu.
ton, and what he calls "hair-trigger
government What I think is the
most serious part OF it," he said to
me, lis the disposition, through the
initiative and referendum, to reduce
the constitution to mere statute, SO
that it shall not operate as any re-
straint at also that they can repeal
IA constitutional provision with the
same ease that they can statute
went to hear one of these lee
lures, the one on the direct primary.
He reads from manuscript, but fire.
quently lays it down as something he
has read reminds him of some Incl
dent in his own long Official exper1.
ence, and he tells the story in free
and-easy, off-hand sort OF way that
makes a vast hit with the students.
The responsiveness Of his audience
reacts upon him, and gives a verve
and JUNCTION to these parentheses that
IS 1rreS1StDle.
For instance, he was explaining the
abuses of the primary system, and in
particular the way in which members
of one party vote in the primaries OF
the other, and of the attempts by law
to circumvent this sort of thing. That
reminded him of something, and he
laid down his manuscript and took off
his glasses. The students by this
time knew what that meant and ev-
erybody leaned forward eagerly.
He went on to say that he favored
the abolition of local conventions,
but not that of state or national con
ventions, for the reason that party
in the state must have policy, which
could not be decided upon by the
whole electorate, but only by respon-
sible representatives Of the party. He
analysed the advantages and the dis
advantages of the direct primary.
One of the latter. he said, was that
men of wealth, activity, and little
modesty" had better chance than
men who had no means or we're I'M
willing to spend money. The result
was that "the direct primary reduces
the probability that the office will
seek the man, 1t puts premium on
the man seeking the Office
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
wooDMEN OF THE 1ycRID

WVODMEN OF THE WC1tLD
Gate City Camp No. 81. Woodmen
of the World, meets first and third
Thursdays of each month at Hawkes.
hall. corner Eighth and Main. Visit.
ing sorereigns cordially invited. Al
bert Kiefer. consul commander; A. j.
Anderson, clerk.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

Puckechetuck Encampment, No. I.
meets first and third Thursday evea.
ings OF each month. VIM. C. Kun
mer. scribe.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04
B. P. o. Elks

B. P. o. Elks
keokuk lodge, No. LOG. meets first
and third Thursday nights 1T Elky
hall. Sixth and Blordeau streets. club
rooms open daily Visiting brethren
cordially invited. w. B. Woolley, e. II,
Leroy ]. Wolf, secretary. @
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

I.,rman lodge No. ll6 Germany,
meets regularly every Wednesday ev.
ening at s o'clock. Otto Seise, N. G.:
Albert Kiefer. recording secretary.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

keokuk. Iowa ......... june 4, 1918
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

1.-THE corn crop of Iowa may hest
tate at the start, but IT never fails at
the home stretch" says the Des
Moines Tribune.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

Alex Miller is always sorry for ;
young man who thinks when he Il
dressed up he has to use perfumery
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-04

The Iowa City Republican suggests
that Woodrow Wilson ought to pillow
up that mint julep bed. and plant
sweet peas
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20
REVENUE FORCE:
HAD BUSY MONTH
Eighteen Stills and Eleven Noon
sinners Fall Into Colonel
Chapman's Hands.

Some idea as to what the Christmas
season means in the mountains of
southwest Virginia can lie obtained
from the November report OF Revenue
Agent w. Ill. Chapman To Commission
er Osborn. According TO this state
ment, eighteen Illicit distilleries were
seized and destroyed by revenue ON
GERS last month. III addition. a score
OF places were raided after the pro
prietors OF the moonshinc plants had
scampered on with their stills &c sa fe-
~. Eleven men were arrested FOR vio-
lation of the Internal revenue laws reg
ulating the manufacture OF ardent
spirits: one big wagon. two mules a
horse and several barrels OF contra
band whiskey also fell into govern
mcnt hands.
The month was the busiest In tho
history Of the office. In u measure
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20
Bill Asks for $4,000 as First
Years Fund for Institution
at University.

IN the absence OF President Alder
man. Dean j. VI Page presented TO the
Senate Finance Committee Yesterday
the budget OF the University OF VIZ
yiuia. showing $50 students on the
rolls. AZ from Virginia The total
income Of the Institution j. S9Gi,0OO. as
follows: from IN. state, $4,000; from
students fees $Si.Otn. from endowment
und donations. 100000. For the com
ing year NJ asked $3.50 for main
t"hauce. tn" increase 10 provide for
Development of the department OF
education. $4,000: FOR the university cx-
tension course. 5000, and for aid in
maintaining the dining-hail $1,000.
For the university hospital lie asked
>lS.dcD for maintenance. Several mem
bers Of the committee spoke Of the
great value Of this hospital to the sick
% the STATE in securing free tre;,,-
meut For bcttermcnts Or. Page asked
for $4,000 for repairs TO buildings to
prevent the property from detcriora :
ton: $500 for Il new heating plant.
the present central heating plant haV-
ing been Installed seventeen years ago.
II was Of the cheapest type. and has
proved very costly to operate; $1,000
for sewerage system. the State Board
OF Health having criticized the prescnt
system as antiquatcd and inadequate;
Sl15o0 for completion and furnishirR
OF tn" educational department build
ing $4,000 Tor new chemical labora-
tory. and $4,000 To refund money bor-
rowed when the law building was
erected. These needs. amounting To
S22o.oo0 he said, were stated la the
order of their priority. Income from en-
dowment raised outside of Virginia ana
fees from nonresident students. he
said. made the income OF the univcrsi-
- from outside OF Virginia larger
,,,..
state.
Effect OF Merger.
IF a merger Of the medical colleges
Is Effected said Dean PAGE. lit viii
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20

iact that that county cost the state
more Of its criminal expenses than it
contributed In taxes 1T isn't so much
what l'ittsylvania JAYS in," answered
Mr.. Clement. "as what Pittsyivauia
needs"
Superintendent Watkins. OF Halifax.
said that the only safe way to get
the masses. Mr.. Stcarnes laid cmpha-
sis on the fact that the increase Of
100000 asked for was only 90 cents
for caci child Of school age in tho
state. There were not less than %
600 children in Virginia absolutely
without oDportunity for education. he
said. I'm buchanan County 81 per cent
OF til" children cannot read and write.
with the exception of one county. it
ranks as the most illit.ratc in this
country, yet it's local county school tax
Is tn. maximum allowed BY Law. Su-
pcrintcnd"nt Abbott. Of bedford Coun-
abandoned cabins. an unused church.
and shacks in which tie would b.
ashamed I" have Tia" committee visit
him SECRETARY Binford. uf the Coop
"rative Education Association. said
that ia Iilackwatcr District. Of I'runi-
liu County. Tho yearly salary OF
teachers averaged Slii: and that many
boys ~ seventeen years are not up to
the seventh grade. as result OF tho
slow progress under the nv.-rnonths
school year He could show forty
ditioms. he said The civic leagues
raised $4,000 last year to aid TIA.
schools. showi that the people want
ed their money spent that way, and
We're willing To pay T.. even II Il had
TO be In excess OF taXes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20
Speakers Show How 1t Is Double
Taxation-Many Depart
mentS Heard

Unanimous approyal was ,iy.n bv
the Senate Finance Committee las,
night to the general purpose Of q hin
providing for reform of tho mor,r,rn
tax laws To prevent duplication of tax-
alton. Several members OF the com
mittec were not prepared to vote for
the draft of the bill proposed. but tho
motion Of Senator Holt putting The
committee an record az favorinp IN.
change in TIA. system was taken With
out objection g. H. Funston. Leroy
T.. Brown. II. 4. Pollard Jr.. ana others
appeared before the committee repre-
sentnG the Real Estate Exchange Of
Richmond. The bill proposed by Mr.
Brown. in lieu Of the present tax on
mortgages, which duplicates tn. tax
on til" propcrty nlortla@ed. proVi,los a
tax of 80 cents Tor each 500 OF a prin-
cirni debt or obligation secured by
mortgage. deed of trust or other con-
NeNanc" on real eStat" situated within
thl+ STATE tn" tax To Ice imposed and
coil"oiiblc only ono. during the If"
81 tnr m"rtEogc. at tin" ttne OF
reformation
Double I"Nnti""
senator Hon Said mat ~" present
UM''snE nous" worth s",""' pays ON
NJ ~ 'S'"t' as
IN ~ 'I,c - thaI
i'1.,r.i 70, iion' "onl NJ nav
,..1,,,s,.,', i'h' 81 ~, "loi.H
~. ,. 80 ,'E ~, ~ "i. WY mo-
- 80, umI''' - 81 .e',i.'i"" 70
,,t.r..n e. ,,i n''t ss"
san,ni,r 70 NJ, ,,,o,,,;,,,
IN ,bn discussioa u.s. s,,,,,,,st,',, M,
tbo al. ,,n,t,na Would -, ., 80, -
u,nn.,tv .y.,,,,. o,l,, "a. la. .,,,,t, q,
tb, nro,,.rty nn1; ioavc ,ba ,,u,,,,,,,n
.tay in fo,cs If tb.. ,Ictali. If anch :,
plan could be worked out. senator
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20

this Is accounted for by the fact that
IN November the entire State was UNI
der the supervision of Colonel Chap
mans force, tho two revenue districts
IN Virginia haylng been temporarily
merged less than a year ago. From
this time on there will he very few
seizures OF Illicit distilleries by tho
men under Colonel Chapman for the
SIMPLE reason that the old Sixth Dis
trict, comprising all the mountainous
territory in the State. was transferred
from The Richmond District on De-
cember and placed under the charge
OF Revenue Agent X. IL Sans Nearly
all the moonshining In the State is
done in the mountains
The recent action or Commissioners
osborn in raising the informer's feo
FOR betraying an Illicit distillcry from
$40 To $50 has opened many lips thai
were heretofore silent
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20

Special Local Data for Yesterday.
- noon temperature. ............. ~
l.. NJ. temperature. ....... AZ
MaNimum temperature w To
= NJ. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. i3
Minimum temperature up to
J.. NJ. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. -
M"an temperaturc ............... 81
Norman temperature ............ 40
deficiency in temperature i
l.;..........:........... 100
Accumulated excess in temperature
since January Observation-Disclosures. 500
b.hc!cncy IN rainfall since March
;.;,.;.:. ......... 1872
Accumulated deficiency in rainfall
since January i...............4 100
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
DEMAND 100000
EXTRA NEXT YEAR
Confined from First p,pc)

''oi'ihn"d from First lagC)
ers Association. pointed out the waste.
OF the short term i'm that pupils after
being out seven months. have To review
much that they have gone over
In" average salary Of teachers he
pointed out, is $2cS i'm Virginia. s5O2
IN Maryland. whore there is q minimum
salary law. $500 in West Virginia and
>'5l In Massachusetts. Frank =. West.
superintendent of schools Of Louisa
county. and q member of the stat.
liodrd OF Education, spoke Of the un-
rest IN this state. Of the going To other
states at higher salaries Of hundreds
OF teachers. nallng it necessary to
ssu" 1000 emergency certificates to
pooriy trained teachers y T. Glenn
ents, chairman Of the school Trustces'
Association, spakinE from the bushes .
mans standpoint. said that nothing
would enhance the value OF farm land
in tn" country more than good schools.
People were moving from the country
because OF the lack OF educational IA
Cilities.
what rittsyIvnnIn Needs
How much OF tn" present State sur
plus comes from I'ittsylvania County
asked Senator Holt. a reference 10 tho
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20

school teachers went North last sum
mcr for advanced normal work at a
personal cost To themselves OF $4,000.
IN order to secure Il university di-
ploma In recognition of their work.
Forty-two percent OF the college grad
yates now teaching in our high schools
were trained outside Of Virginia. We
have letters from prominent cduca-
tors and from organizations represent
ing G1.O0u people in Virginia support
ing the movement"
Mrs. Muntord was warmly applaudcd
at the conclusion Of her address
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20
STRICKEN VERMONT
IS SAFE IN HARB0R
Tugs, With Battered Ship in
Tow, Bring Her to Scwcll's
GLAD TO ESCAPE STORM
Naval Officers Say Boat Might
Have Fared Badly i'll Rough
Weather
Special to The Times Dispatch. ]

Special to The Times Dispatch.
Norfolk. Va, December l9.-Aftcr
struggling up tho harbor in tow OF the
three biggest tugs of tho United States
government. the battlcshiD Vermont at
4 late hour tonight was anchored off
Scwclrs Point insldc the harbor until
tomorrow morning. Tug captains. af-
ter struggling with the ship for hours.
were afraid to attempt To bring her to
the yard tonight
The big ship, In tow of the batteship
delaware reached the Virginia capcs
early to-day. after a tedious ana
perilous trip up TIA. coast. Sh. was
met at the capcs by the naval tugs
Massasoit and Hercules from Norfolk.
The tug Sanoma from New York met
the disabled vessel several miles below
The capes.
Water In Compartments.
The Vermont, with water in two Of her
Compartments her machinery complete
~ disa blcd and her starboard prOpclling
shaft broken, from III. shore at can"
Henry appeared TO DO slightly listed
Naval officers. however. sHid tho ship
was not seriously damaged. and tn"
nooding OF her compartments was Of
no material consequence. They ad
United. however. that had tho vessel
encountered storm IN her helpless
condition she might have Jared badly.
The Delaware. after reaching tho
capes. turned the helpless Vermont
over 20 the naval tugs and proceeded
TO Hampton Roads. Custom officers. on
account OF the urgent need of getting
the Vermont TO the navy yard az soon
az possible, deferred the customary IN
spection until after the vessel ~ safe
in dry dock
The Delawar. was held IN Hampton
Roads until the custom officials i'm
spccted her
bottom VIII lie Inspected.
Tho Vermont viii he dockad to-mor-
row morning Tho ohl.f engineer OF
the yard ana Other officers VIII in
spcct the damage TO the ships bottom
from the chamber Of thc Willianso
submarine tube the same Invention
from which photographs we're made
under water IL Hampton Roads several
months ago Admiral Usher may de-
scend in the tUte to Inspect the ships
bottom. Captain Huse. Of The Vermont,
viii also PROBABLY 60 down !n the
tube. This viii he the iirst real ox-
pertinent made with the new iuv.n-
ton by /)Yernment officials
Eiil Photograph Damages.
When the extent OF the damage is
asccTtained. the Vermont viii he nut
IN dry dock Photographs OF her
damaged stern ana her flooded com
partmcnts viii be made for the Navy
Department, ana q special board OF
survey VIII rcpor, just how much
money VIII be required to make re-
pairs
naval board viii also Investigate
the accident for tho purpose Of :sccr-
tanning II there We're any defects in
the material used in tho broken shaft
and Will place the responsibility for
the accident.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-20

out Che very name connected with n
r"!l,r" for womcn would have the
ii"w"r to attract both students ara en-
coy in"nts from all parts of this com
Try You cannot reproduce tn" arcs-
III" II has taken three generations to
crcatc
In II" other way can Ne establish
an Institution that would draw at
one" from thu entire nation rpr its
student r'dy Two years ESQ dftv-
"u" Virginia women were an ''orth.
crn colleges. taking out Of the state
$4,000 year one hundred high