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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23
SANE MAGAZINE MAKING.

Walter Pulitzer has purchased Uncle
Remus' Magazine and will transplant
the property from Atlanta, Ca, to
New York where he will publish the
magazine under his own name. In an.
nouncing his plans Mr.. Pulitzer gave
expression to some significant views
which are fully corroborated by
the facts. Among other things he said
During the years have been
watching the development of period.
ical literature in America, have been
struck with the fact that, while the
undertaking magazines have enioyed
a certain notoriety, they have also
been subject to such sharp ups and
downs as to render their usefulness
practically negligible. Look back over
the past ten years; every undertaking
periodical has had its turn; they have
acquired large circulation, 1t is true,
under the spur of feverish, sensa-
tional, editorial policy, but such cir
culation has proven OF little lasting
value to the publications themselves
In fact 1t has more often proved q
source of ultimate failure than success.
On the other hand, everyone knows
that periodicals which have followed
an editorial policy along sane, educa-
tlonal and constructive lines have
Iprospered and grown.
There is a very genuine conserva-
tive element in the United States that
is more deeply concerned about the
growth of the country's forces and
rowers than in Iurid accounts of a
supposedly corrupt legislature, of q
ipolice inspector's peculations, of
ifrightful findings of an investigating
committee, etc; this element consti-
tutes the backbone of the nation; it
I is not as much interested in the sugar
ard steel trusts as it Is in hearing
about the advantages of being Ameri-
cans. Rapid development in young
country is always accompanied by
abuses. It is the price it pays for its
great energy as nation; but there is
no reason fer sickening the national
heart by constantly dishing I'D a
Thousand and one local evils In such
manner as to give them the appear
ance of national diseases"
! 1t is a matter of every day obser-
walton that the undertaking magazines
lha-e lost circulation, prestige and in.
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CARTHAGE. Ill.
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DIR. Bert Conklin, of Chicago, arriv.
ed Wednesday to visit his sister, Mrs
Reyer.
Chas. Burgner, OF East st. Louis, is
visiting home folks.
Miss Leveta Shipton went to Dallas
City Monday evening FOR two weeks
visi. with relatives there.
Mrs. Robert Henry departed for her
home at Mantle Thursday, after a
visit with her mother. Mrs. Mary
Ayres.
Miss Winnifred Hamilton, who has
been attending school at Jacksonville
is now clerking at the Emrick, Owsley
& Helfrich dry goods store.
Miss Ersle Byler of Dallas City, Wis
tied at the home Of her father, Henry
Byler, last week.
Mrs. ]. B. Risse, accompanied by
Mrs. J. D. Miller. left Saturday for
Edwardsville, H., to visit the family
4 of Mr.. Ferd L. Rise. Judge Miller
accompanied them to Fdwardsville
from where he goes to s.. Louis on
legal business.
Miss Emma Bell, of Warsaw. was in
this city Monday. before departing TO,
Brandon. Colo, to visit her brother
who owns ranch there.
Mrs. ]. Hewitt Maxwell. of Sioux
City, Iowa, arrived Tuesday to visit
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. D. H
Miller.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edw. Merck, OF Quincy
spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs
w. A. Olson.
Miss Ida Wilson, who has been Wis
fling her brothers, and sisters in this
! vicinity, departed Monday for he
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

paigns have caused decrease In cell
ebration fatalities was statement of
the speaker. Mr.. Roe said July no
longer was a national menace and
that teachers had played a leading
role in preventing fatalities by urging
care in the use of fireworks.
Moving picture theaters can be i'm
proved If teachers in each community
tell their young charges to shun un-
safe ones, Mr.. Roe said. Because
moving picture houses are located IN
| all the small towns of the state, the
speaker thought 1t was all important
that teachers see these places we're
provided with proper fire-proof boxes
for the machines.
Prevention will cut down Iowa's
fire loss so per cent, the fire marshal
asserted, as carelessness and unclean
conditions in Easements and in area
ways cause most fires.
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and in some instances they have been


and IN some instances they have been
taken
The situation is complicated. II the
United States sends troops there to
protect its people that would DO an
invasion that might result in war. II
1t does not thus protect them they are
likely to be massacred II they stay.
and If they go they will forfeit ell
their property that is not portable,
and they can then pass me balance
OF one-half Of their lives waiting for
Uncle Sam to collect indemnity for
them from the Mexican government.
Then they can pass the other half
trying to collect from Uncle Sam the
indemnity money which he will col
lect from Mexico Witness the history
of the French spoliation claims, the
Alabama claims and the claims
against Russia for selling our sealers.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23
THE CALIFORNIA PROBLEM.

One Of the best reviews of the
Japanese problem in California is
furnished by Professor H. A Willis,
formerly of Leland Stanford, Jr.,
University. He was in charge of the
Asiatic immigration investigation
made by the United States immigra-
ton commission, and thus based his
article on dispassionate and unex-
ampled stores of information. He
believes that Cahfornia's recently
enacted law is unjust and impolitic
and under that it is unnecessary be-
cause. as he points out, Japanese farm
ers in the state number only $500,
their 5000 holdings embrace little
more than 10000 acres, only 10000
of which they own, an almost neglig-
ible part of the 10000 900 acres of
improved farm land in the state. and
because under our treaty agreement
with Japan, the japanese population
is now decreasing and consequently
their operations cannot expand great
ly beyond the present extent. Writ.
ing in the Survey he describes the
development Of farming by the
Japanese:
California and certain other parts
the west, because of climatic condi
lions, soil and reliance upon irrigation
are peculiarly suited to the produc
tion of certain crops (such as fruit o.
various kinds, grapes. vegetables
sugar beets and hops) which involve
a great deal of hand labor
The japanese have served in these
highly specialized industries in the
same way the Chinese did before
them, and as the Chinese still do to {
certain extent Migratory, organized
under bosses, and easily lodged ant
self-subsisting. they have fitted III
well into the requirements of sucl
agricultural industries as rave beer
mentioned
But there have been other factors
The japanese have had little oppor
tunity to advance In the scale Of oc
cupations or to secure a settled resi-
dence and home for their families 81
long as they were laborers. This ha
placed premium upon the securin;
of farms or engaging in business
Moreover. the Japanese find the wag
relation distasteful; a position as ten
ant or as landowner is distinctly on
of honor. Farmers have found it boil
profitable and convenient to leas
land to them. Land ownership is. O
course, the next step for those VIII,
are successful
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

A Chicago doctor willed mis- brain
to science in the belief that the
thoughts which it contained could be
detected and photographed after
death. The probable outcome of the
experiment is thus forecast by the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil:
No doubt thoughts are in the de-
ceased NJ. DIS brain, but so was the
cost of the Hebrews oyercoat in his
expense account. The bookkeeper
didn't detect the fact of the presence
of the coat, however, and it is doubt
full if the photographer can do more
In the case of dead mans brain.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23
Hob Typhoid Rates.

DR.. w. A. Evans in Chicago Tri-
bune: For many years American cities
have been condemned for their high
typhoid rates. To prove that such
rates were not necessary 1t has been
the custom to quote the rates OF
European cities. Certain German
cities have served particularly as OBJ
iect lessons. The rate used is the
number of deaths for each 100000
population. The group of European
cities cited is composed of those hav-
ing rate of less than TO- Occasion
ally a city has had lower rate than
/, and many cities have maintained a
rate OF less than for series Of
years; but 10 has served as a boun-
Diary to the honor class.
Quarreling with the rates OF Ameri-
can cities has been an unpleasant
task. It has brought many good citi-
zens into bad odor. His neighbors
have become unfriendly; his fellow
citizens have at times abused and
maligned him-yet he has been a use.
full citizen--far more so than those
who have lied about him and abused
him.
We learn from the Journal of the
American Medical association that
fifteen American cities were in the
honor class in 1912. They were Cam.
bridge, Paterson, Cleveland, Worces-
ter Newark, Bridgeport, Seattle, Chi
cago. Cincinnati, Jersey City, Boston,
Scranton, Oakland, Lowell and New
York.
OF these, Cambridge and Paterson
had rate of less than 5. But seven
of these have been in the honor class
for two years, and but one for seven
years. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
are just outside the honor class, but
their improvement has been so rapid
and they are now so near the limit
that they will certainly get in within
a few years, If not this year.
There are those that hold that no
southern city can reach rate lower
than 20, and yet we find New Or
leans with liza drop from 36, the
average of the FIVE preceding years.
1t is evident that the agitation is
bearing fruit A small group OF
American cities are comparing favor
ably with German cities Within five
years the honor class will be so large
that the bars will be put up. Nobody
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23
EARLY MARRIAGES.

A story ran the rounds of the
press some weeks ago that club of
girls in Wellesley college had pledged
years after graduation, and then not
to marry any man with less than a
ive-thousand-dolla income. Now
comes the New York Independent and
says that the story was the inyen-
ton of an INSCRIPTIONS reporter of
his own imaginations. An investiga-
ton by responsible board of stu
dents themselves proved that no such
club existed, says the Independent.
But it is true that both President
lowell and ex-President Eliot, of
Harvard. have given to their stu
dents the wise but unusual advice to
marry early. President Eliot goes
farther He does not like to see so
many young male immigrants coming
to this country, and he would restrict
the number, allowing freely those TO
enter who bring their wives and chill
dren.
For early marriage the arguments
are many and weighty. They include
morality. steadiness, responsibility,
Tparenthood, unselfishness, industry
and character. 1t is on the family
that worthy civilization rests. Mar
riage is honorable and decent. It is
the solid basis and the preservative
of society.
The usual objections to early mar
riage are unworthy. selfish and COW.
ardly. and are called prudential. In
stead of an ambition to take up the
responsibilities of caring for a com
panion In life and children, young
men and young women, too, wish to
delay care and to enjoy the frivolities
of unattached life. Then, too, often
there follows the beIated prudential
marriage, which continues to avoid
the responsibilities of parenthood, or
talks nonsense about children few but
we'll born. In old days there was a
pride in large families; now the re-
verse Is too much the case The
well-born genius of the family is quite
% ilhCly W pC Lie lOuI III vi ltllu
child, and the race is enfeebled in
brain and muscle which limits the
chance of superiority. We would
rather have clubs in colleges OF either
| sex whose members would choose to
marry young, to accept social bur
dens. and who will hope to be the
proud parents of numerous descend
ants. That is a worthy ambition
Children Of such parents will rule the
country, will create a country that
4 will lead the world Those who pu;
off marriage are selling their coun
try to the numerous children OF the
unframed and the ignorant. Out Of
love of country, If for no other rea
son, those who have the privilege Of
education, and the superior menta
structure which has sought 1t and
can transmit it, ought most Of all tc
seek early marriage and such famf
lies as are infrequent in decaden
France
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may be f1attering, but 1t is not true,
and in his heart every man knows
It is not true; the demagogue knows
1t and the man he praises knows 1t,
In fact we need experts in govern
ment just as we need them In all
other departments Of life, and there
Is no more discredit in going to the
man who knows In a public question
than in a private matter.
In recent years there has been a
growing notion that whatever plu-
rality OF male citizens thinks is right.
1t Is a ridiculous notion, Of course.
Colonel Roosevelt proposed last year
that there be referendums on ques.
tions of law. AS we'll might we have
referendums on questions OF gram.
mar, or submit to the people the
question Of the desirability of opera.
lions on the vermiform appendix.
The Declaration Of independence,
greatest of American political docu.
ments. to which We are all fond OF
referring. did not contemplate that
49, 2iAeNd NeAo4 dc ssOCu do cf6t y
other man." or that every mans
opinion was as good as every other
mans" The principle it set forth
was that of the equality OF every man
before the law, the equality in legal
privileges, the right of every man to
square deal. 1t did not maintain
that when the ballot was conferred
upon an immigrant, or when an
American-born person reached the
! age Of 81, he became fitted to grapple
with every sort Of problem, and no
longer stood in need OF advice of men
better informed than himself in spe-
cial subjects.
| We need referendums on broad
questions of public policy; we don't
need them on technical, or complex
subjects. We need elections for Ger.
tain important officers, we don't need
them for the multitude OF smaller Of
ficers whose duties are mostly cleri-
cal The people have the ultimate
right to act, but they do we'll to con
/ fine themselves to broad principles
and to delegate authority to trusted
men especially trained for special
work. That's President Van Hise's
| idea as We get 1t from his address;
| it has long been ours.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

The editor of the Webster City
Freeman-Tribune is hiding in the
woods until recent item in his paper
is forgotten The ladies' aid society
recently met at the editorial home,
and the linotype artist made the ac-
count of it read as follows: 1.-THE
meeting Of the ladies aid society was
hell at our house yesterday afternoon. =
The editors wife is trying to make
the ladies believe it was a typographi.
cal error, but thus far she has met
with only Indifferent success.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23
THE LnNoTYPER,s REVERE.

THE LiNoTYPER,s REVERE.
There's storm a-ragin' at sea- Billy;
There's a steamer a-sendin out
Flashes for help and &C Q D."
Fifteen hundred, or thereabout,
Are watchin', an waitin', an prayin'
Men who never We prayed before,
This take" says-What's that you're
sayin'?
Wagner has tied up the score!
Here's take" o. the markets, Bill;
The bears are maxim raid,
They're hammerin' Copper an South
ern an Steel
Only Reading an Atkinson stayed.
Right and left they're shearin' the
lambs, Bill,
Nor pity the fellow that's done.
The shorts are in clover-How's that,
Eray! The captain is in with run.
Society's out on parade, Bill
IS debutante a-makin her bow,
The gowns are in splendid array
NIOilOW COpys SICu IL SOluCo " juoI
howl.
There's Helen-ey. Wayne and HAZEL,
Bill,
An the names must all go in print;
An woe unto him who mis-spells
Yes, Cammy got in by sprint.
There's hell broke loose in Berlin, Bill;
They're marchin an calm for
bread;
The strikers are gainin' like sin,
An industry's paralyzed, dead.
They're burnin' q warehouse in Hamm,
Bill,
In Bremen they're stornnin' tn dock
But what do we care for all of the din
When Carey Is in by block?
So Wen rattle the keys an the ribs,
Bill,
An send the lines into the jaws
"A wreck on the rail; next few squibs;
Tales of men who abandon the laws,
a furry on change or war, Bill,
Or a banquet in Timbuctooo,
What are we carin' for home rule in
Erin
Since Marty came Gathering through7
Ira N Hull in the Typographical
Journal.
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will be considered in except those
with rate lower than 5.

In the meanwhile the army has
been doing much better still. No
European city has had anywhere near
SO low a typhoid rate as the United
States army has had since 1910. Dur
ing those years large part Of the
troops have been stationed in the
far south. The good record made by
them proves what can be done, and
confirms the opinion that the typhoid
rates of the best governed American
cities will equal those of the best
European cities within ISIS than a
decade, which means that the people
living In cities with high rates should
quarrel the harder. They have the
right to demand that their families
shall be as safe as Cincinnati, Cleve.
land, and Chicago have made their
families.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

A Spanish historian says he can
prove by eighteen documents that
Columbus was a Jew. Many Hebrew
scholars for long time have main.
tanned that the expedition of Column
bus was financed by two Jewish mon
ey lenders and not by the jewels OF
Queen Isabella. If all this is true it
is quite appropriate that the stars
and stripes should really be the flag
of the Jew.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

fluence. Some have already suspend
ed publication and others are known
to be nearing the end The country
has had more than enough of them
and should welcome an addition to the
periodicals conducted along education
al and constructive lines. Notwith-
standing the multiplicity of mag gaines,
there is still field for magazines OF
the right kind.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

Colonel Watterson is probably
RIGHT in saying that ii was not so
much the policies Of Harper's Weg.--
ly as the fact that the daily news
papers had takon up the picture part
of it that forced the change in that
venerable publication.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

The Iowa City Republican says that
the fact that Congressman Pepper
was born on Soap creek may not
make him senator, but that the fact
that he has never had to swim in
Salt creek is Of some value.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

A Kansas City minister would put
all the scarlet women in a secluded
quarter with a high wall around it,
and mot allow single man to enter"
why not also bar out the married
ones2
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thoughtful.

Aunt with her two nieces at con-
cert --oh, but this is tedious! Let
me take your fan, Ida, SO ] can hide
my yawning behind it! Olga-Tahe
mine, auntie! It's bigger!- Fliegende
Blaetter.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

LATE Young says in his Des Moines
Capital that !. is nice and cool about
o'clock in the morning. Surf rise is
expressed that the ditor Of an evening
paper should be SO well informed
Perhaps one Of his hired hands was
up at that hour.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

Supplementary thought for the day:
Don't drink too much. Remember
there are other thirsty souls besides
yourself.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

Lake Cooper" meets the approval OF
the Donnellson Review, which says
that a more appropriate name could
not have been found.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

Does college education pay?
Great question to ask In view OF the
large number of Princeton appoint
ments by President Wilson.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

with the Democrats in power in
Washington it appears to the Los
Angeles Times to be a government of
conversation
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

Consumption is bad, and recent ex-
per;ments show that It is made still
worse by mixing turtle serum with it.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

Enquirer: No, this is Mrs. Pank-
bursts day for being in Jail Tomor-
row is her day for getting out.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-23

Motto of the l. w. w.::'tstrike, and
we strike with you; work and you
work alone"
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

A conscience void of offence before
God and man is an Inheritance for
eternity.-Daniel Webster.
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DAILY NY MAIL

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keokuk, Iowa ......... June %. 1918
Arizona republican., 1913-07-16
The Lamar

Tn a splendidly staged Nitagraph film showing at the Lamara today and to- night is told a story of "The Omens of the Desert" showing how supersti titous some of the men, who have made the desert yield them a liveli- hood, really are. For instance the bug gard is regarded as an omen of death. It's shadow cast across the path of the outlaw in the story spells to him fail ure. Another picture well worth while shows the manufacture of plaster of paris. It follows the gypsum rock from the time it is mined until it is used for decorative and utilitarian pur- poses. The picture has an educational value Remember the Lamara, the theater comfortable.
Arizona republican., 1913-07-16
Coils cum.

It takes more than a rainstorm to dim the enthusiasm of the first
 ni@hters among the patrons of this house, as was demonstrated last night when the new vaudeville bill was re- ceived bv crowded hous" And those who braVed the elements were net disappointed, for the bill is strict " mp to the minute. Bernard Eek ert starts things moving in a re- fined musical act which is all class. He is a finished musician and uses during the performance the trom- bone, XyIophone and chimes. He is master of them all Especially well received was his selection rendered on the NlyophOne comprising the beautiful Poet and Peasant overture. The overture was rendered in it's en- tirety, making one of the best must events that has been heard here for a long time. The HickVille pair ar"
Arizona republican., 1913-07-16

up second in 2 scream in rube spc- cialty work. Rube sketches are as rule troubled with large degree of sameness, but this team has gotten far aWav from the beaten path, and the result speaks for itself The house was kept in roars of laughter during the entire act. It is a clean comedy sketch in which the principals are comedians, pure and simple. Closing the bill the Gilmore girls appear. This team is known in Phoenix. hay ing appeared here before. They have lest none of their popularity nor abil- ity. The act is song and dance of the higher order, closing with a cow boy song which brings down the house.
 The two-reel Selig picture. Wanda, was the feature of the movies pro.