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The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12
1t Pays to Be Honest Just as
It Does to Have Clean Hands
They
Of selfRespect Consequences.
From the Los Angeles Tribune. j

[From the Los Angeles Tribune.l
Here Is letter from some poor
creature whose gelatinous spine needs
stiffening, and who disguises his ident-
ity behind the fictitious name Of IAN
Old Subscriber"
He processes to be puzzled as to the
rewards OF virtue.
AS the Evening Herald is the most
widely read and sought-for paper in
California today am gong to ask
one question through its columns, as
| know It will reach more people than
in any other paper and see II 1t at
tracts as much attention as your puzs
zles. The question is this.
Does it pay to be honest and tenn
perate?
have had hundreds of opportun-
tiles in the last twenty yexrs in Los
Angeles TO fleece the poor lone widow
or the poor old man or the lone
iorphan opportunities that hundreds
took advantage OF and became
my conscience rebelled and did not
lido it. What Is the result? am
poor and my would-be friends laugh
at me. Does 1t pay? Though poor, l
lam a gentleman still. Again ask,
does 1t pay in this day of civilization?
What do you say? s
An Old Subscriber.
/ Seriously we doubt his being sub
lscriber to this paper. He certainly
cannot read 1t intelligently or he
would not need to ask us what we
think.
Who can have read this papers
account Of the arrest, trial and con
viction of M. NJ. Dawson without
Having brought home to them the
moral lesson that it does not pay to
irob the widows and orphans? Davi
son basked in the sunshine OF sue
|cess and esteem until the mask was
Itorn off him. The law was no re
lspecter OF this person, however. and
denied the petitions OF his pityine
4 friends. He is now serving time II
state prison.
| Who can have read, without taking
thought, of John Grant Lyman
wealthy, prosperous ann :. brilliant
scholarly man, yet who laid aside his
moral scruples, transgressed the rules
of business probity and Is a convicted
felon today. A penitent one, too. i
we are to accept his own estimates O.
himself and his resolutions for the
future.
The news columns of this paper ant
every paper continually do bear wit
ness to the truth that men may soa
aloft and conspicuous in high financ
for time by doubtful methods, dis
honest transactions. meanness, chea,
1 ing and oyerreaching others, bu
some day there comes the tulnbl
and the fall.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12
Then they become suicides, convicts,
or fugitives from justice.
Does it pay3 Do you need to ask? ?

I & =
Does it payS Do you need to ask!
Our correspondent really has an
swered his own Interrogation. Mark
where he says: Though poor, am
q gentleman still"
He respects himself. And SO long
as any man can preserve his self
respect is that not better than the
fawning and batteries of "would-be
friends,,' If that is gained at the loss
of ones own respect?
II this queer querist considers that
nothing pays unless it comes in cash
and not in credit-then we must
answer that dishonesty often is tenn.
porarily profitable on dollar basis.
But the man who gets rich by dis
honesty is the suspect Of the world.
The world very grossly asks of a
man: Has he got money?
Being answered in the affirmative.
the world asks very skeptically: How
did he get it?
And many man would give all his
ill-gotten wealth if ever he could re
move that sneer from the faces OF
those who see him ride by. and which
he feels in his very bones Is the sur
face indication of their mistrust OF
him, their contempt for him, the sat
isfaction with which they would read
| in their paper that he had been in.
dicted for obtaining money under
false pretenses.
No; it does not pay to incur the
scorn of intellectual men and honest
men by STOPPING to dirty tricks to
lpick up tainted money.
Money is not the end-only the
means. And its possession is not
proof positive of anything merely
one of many standards of measure
ment, man to man.
You cannot buy respect with mon
ey. At most you can only rent 1t
and there are tremendous taxes te
pay withal
You cannot buy happiness with
money. Although the lack Of money
contributes much to human unhap
lpiness.
We asked the other day: "Wha
are we here for?" Are we here fol
what we can get out of the world o.
for what we can give to the world?
A very old book-which it woult
seem is little read in these days b.
FAN Old Subscriber" asks: .Wha
shall it profit man If he gain tn.
4 whole world and lose his own SOUL?
i That is the big question of th
( ages-this age and every age an
I oyershadows quite the little querulou
!. lquestion which moral weakness
|prompted this anonymous correspond
ent to ask.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

from next Saturday. Her friends will
be glad to see Miss Spring.
There Is some big loud talk about
another interurban line to be built
from Hamilton to FIT. Madison this
spring and that the road will miss
Nauvoo and pass through the country
Ave miles east OF our town unless our
business men and citiayns dig up a
sum amounting to $4,000. But why
should Nauvoo people worry? r. o.
Marsh is going to build the interurban
line from Quincy through Nauyoo to
Burlington and to see two lines run
ming In about this same section is
simply ridiculous. Besides, it will
not pay any company to miss SO good
q town as Nauvoo. Nauvoo will be
better feeder than Hamilton or
Warsaw for any interurban line. II
either the .xarsh or Petch lines that
are being built on paper now, are con-
structed, Nauyoo will be on the rail
road map.
John Koehler purchased tract o.
timber from the HANNA Bros. in
Sonora township and will convert the
trees into railroad ties for the Marsh
int tsrurban line that will pass through
Nauvoo this summer.
Many of our people had 'sit-up"
time watching for the eclipse of the
moon Wednesday night.
| Mr.. Jas. Shelton Of the Consumers
Supply company Of Keokuk will be in
Nauvoo Friday to make arrangem snts
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12
On Foolish investigations.

Washington Post. Another example
of the pernicious effect of the foolish
investigations which are being urged
so constantly In congress is now CIV.
en- in a resolution to inquire into the
company which has invested millions
OF dollars in the construction Of the
dam across the Mississippi river
from keokuk, Iowa, to Hamilton, Ill.
The company's Investment was
made under law passed by congress,
but now it is proposed to take action
which might result in repeal of the
law.
OF course this action is not prob,
able, but foreign investors do not al
ways realize the force Of Speake,
Clark's remark that it is possible tc
have introduced in congress any kind
OF bill, even one to carve green
cheese from the moon" AS the speak
er pointed out, the mere introduction
fof bill means nothing
Foreigners, however, do not realize
that bills may be introduced in the
! American congress by request O
some outsider, or for passing politica
! effect, or for purposes of publicity
without any thought that the measur,
will ever become law. Much foreign
capital has been invested in the Keo
kuk dam under the specific law passed
: by congress, the investors resting uu
I on the assurance that our laws ar
, permanent
President Wilson's appeal for
: demonstration that the United State
shall discharge every obligation Will
out quibble or hesitation Is applicabl
to the Keokuk dam matter. The rest
! luton probably never will be heard Z
J. again, but individual members shoul
realize their responsibility and r,
r frain from introducing resolutions an
. bills which may seem of no cons
g quence here, because they cannot pas
a but which may be misunderstood b
J. those foreigners whom we have il
> duced to invest in American ente
S prises.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

One signicent feature to the second
district election which has totally es-
capped comment is the fact that no in
quiries were made among republicans
to find out what faction Harry Hull
belonged to. says the Iowa City Re
publican. There was contest in his
precinct a couple of years ago, and he
led one of the contesting delegations.
But which one? No one took the trou-
Bile to find out. No one wanted to
know. The plain designation 'republi-
can is coming to mean something
once more No further tag is needed
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12
Pure Wholesome Reliable
Indispensable

to receive live poultry and eggs. 1t
would be well for him to establish an
agency In Nauvoo to purchase this
product that comes here any day In
the weJk, and he may do SO.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Princess Sophia, wife of the ruler
of the new state of Albania, is said to
be highly gifted woman. She is the
mother of two children and quite a
musician. She plays the harp, mando-
lin and guitar, singing to her own ac-
compartments. She paints and writes
poems and has collected about her in
Potsdam charming circle of artists
She grew up in the country in Rou.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Mrs Rudolph Blankenburg, wife if
the mayor of Philadelphia, has joined
with DR.. Marie Jennie Howe of New
York in the feminist campaign that is
to be waged against labelling" married
women by their husbands names. The
movement is for the purpose of per.
mitting the married women to retain
their maiden name and eliminate the
prefix Mrs
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Miss Caroline c. Van Blarcom has
prepared report for the Russell Sage
for the Committee on the
Prevention of Blindness. She has
made tour of the United States and
has seen the workings of the English
law. The report recommends the es-
tablishment of uniform system of Ii
censing and inspection of midwiyes,
such as the English law requires.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

For the first time in the history of
Butte, Mont, the legal business of the
city has been in the hands of a wom-
an, owing to the illness of the regular
attorney. Miss McAuley is leader
in the socialist party, which controls
the administration.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Maria Sukloff, who has recently es.
capped from the prisons Of Siberia, is
in this country visiting Miss Jane Ad-
dams at Hull House, and will tell her
story in Russian to fellow revolution.
lists in this country She escaped in
the guise of boy and after a month
of hiding took child over the border
as its nurse.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

DIR. Charles A. Morse, of Newman.
ket, N. H., is at one and the same time
postmaster. judge of the district court
moderator OF town meetings, chair
man of the board of health. foreman
OF the hose company, water commits.
sioner. pension examiner and repre-
sentative in the legislature.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

A great scarcity of male stenograph-
ers is reported in the government de-
partments in Washington. Stenograph-
ers start at $S40 year, with oppor-
tunities for trailing Cortelyou and
Loeb.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Some food faddists insist that pota-
toes are unwholesome, but their theory
does not agree with the results of the
experiments Of a Danish medical man
described in the Hamburger Fremen-
blatt. In order to prove that albumen
is not essential to the maintenance OF
the human system, DR.. Hindhede has
since 1895 lived for months at a
stretch on potatoes for his staple diet
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

The Turkish government has decid
ed to admit women to the university
where special lectures in hygiene, do
mestic science and women's rights
will be delivered for their benefit
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Orville Wright expresses the belief
that a Transatlantic flight is impos.
sible. At the same time he announces
that any aviator who lands in the
United Kingdom must pay him royal
ty or stand prosecution for infringe
ment of patent
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Omaha's big wind" grows smaller
and smaller as new records decorate
the perspective. Down in Washington
last Monday the wind blew all the wa
ter out of the eastern branch of the
Potomac river, leaving the local pow
er plant without enough moisture to
generate electricity.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Matt Mcintyre of Long Island City
farmer who made a fortune of s1,-
100000 raising hogs, willed the bulk of
it to the cause of education and left
nine nephews and nieces out in the
cold. Uneducated himself, the thrifty
old farmer decreed that no child with
in reach of his coin should be denied
an education.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Mrs. L. S. Sheldon of Lawrence,
Kansas, has announced herself as a
candidate for associate justice of the
supreme court. She has practiced law
in Topeka and Lawrence for twenty
years and is the first woman to seek
a place on the bench in Kansas. She
lis candidate on non-partisan ticket
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Mrs. Kate Whitehurst, colored
woman of Philadelphia, has an attest
ed age record OF la years, having
been born in the closing year of the
eighteenth century.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Talk about carrying Goals to New
castle!" A satirical press agency in
New York put out record of mean
temperatures in Alaska" just at the
moment natives and aliens were
sprawling and fuming among snow
drifts.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Oxygenized ice is said to be superior
for refrigeration purposes, but can
not be used when the ice is likely to
come in contact with food products.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

ss The microscope is in daily SO in the
examination of metals and alloys in
more than 200 laboratories in the
United States.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

Moving pictures shown on slight
liz concaye screen are relieved Of
some of the distortion that is notice
able on flat screens
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

1t is believed that previous to civili-
zation badness was unknown among
American Indians. The unoiyilized
Indian apparently is yet free from
pellagra and almost immune from can
Ger.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

In new refrigerator the air is kept
in circulation by means of a small
motor-driven pump, which blows the
air against the ice
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

THOUGHT FOR TODAY.
Perhaps there is no juster MEASURE
of the grade of our culture than our
amusements.-Ha Harper's Weekly.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

mania and can ride any kind of a
horse.
The daily Gate City., 1914-03-12

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week
The Washington times., 1914-03-11
What's on the Program, in
Washington Today

Meetings, evening:
Masonic-Harmony. No. u: Grand Lodge
school of instruction. Royal Arch-AL
Pleasant, No. Is; Knights Tenplar-WaSh-
ington. No. l. 81. Johns Mite Association
Meeting, board VI trustees. Eastern Star
Naomi. No. s: BrUokland No. IL.
National Union-Postoffice Department Com
Gil. Interior Council.
Maccabees-Golden Rule. No. ): Capital
City. No l.
Odd F'ellows-Easteru. No. Z: Harmony. No
9: Federal City. No. 20; Friendship, No.
L. EncaInpmeuts-Columbi No. 1.
knights Of Pythias-Mt. Vernon, No. 8: Her
mione. No. l.: Union, No. %: Columbia.
No %. Uniform Rank-Wsshington Com
pany, No. -. Pythian Sisters-Fr.endship
Temple. No. 9.
Socialist Party-Italian Branch-a1 E street
northwest.
Sons Of Jonadab-Cnity, No =
District Council, Royal Arcanurr. Ifol Z
street northwest. p. m.
Hearings, Interstate Commerce Commission
mezzanine floor, New willard.
Concert by u. ;. Soldiers Home Band Or
chesuA Stanley Hall. $3.50 D. IN
Amusements.
National-''Maids OF Athens" els and Sis
y. m
Columbia-"Nearly Married" Sis .. m.
Belasco-"The Pleasure Seekers" ECO and
500 .. m.
Poli's-"EindlinG" 2:I5 and Sis .. m
Keith's-Vaudeville. els and Sis D. m
Cosmos-Vaudeville. continuous.
Cas1no-NaudeSille. afternoon and evsniAe.
Csyety-BurlesQue. Els and Sis .. n.
The Washington times., 1914-03-11
IMPROVING THE PLAZA.

The authorities have decided that
the fire, broad open space fronting
the Union Station shall be sown in
grass, rather than paved. This will
be a satisfaction TO almost every
body. The long delay about making
any improvement in the Plaza has
caused many to fear that there was
a purpose to pave it whenever the
"made" land should have set
tied sufficiently to make that pro-
ceeding safe. It would have been
altogether wrong to lay down a
pavement, whose chief function
would have been to focus the heat
and make the whole neighborhood
unbearable in summer.
Now that it is determined that the
Plaza is to be treated in quite the
right way, will not somebody start,
in the right quarter, a movement to
have a shelter provided at the front
entrance to the Station; extending
out over the car tracks, so that in
storms passengers might enter and
leave cars without leaving the pro-
lection?
There is architectural authority
for the assurance that it is possible
to provide such a shelter, of iron
and glass for the greater part, with
out injuring the general effect of
the Stations splendid front. Even
the sacrifice of a little in appearance
could be excused, however, by peo-
pie who get off cars in rain storms,
without rubbers or umbrellas. At
such moments the concern about ar
chitectural effects is very slight.
The Washington times., 1914-03-11

peake region in favor of continuing
the oyster culture experiment; with
the great newspapers of Baltimore
urging it; with the argument. IN
all the broader aspects, seemingly
all on one side-with all this in favor
of oyster conservation, the fact re-
mains that the legislature at An
napolis is on the point of passing
legislation which. according to the
news dispatches from that ancient
capital, will in effect emasculate the
present law and end all possibility
of the success of the enterprise.
It means simply that the "inter-
ests" have won. They are not
necessarily to be set down as vicious
or wicked, for they are rot. The
thousands of plain people who make
their living dredging oysters are
concerned about getting that living
right now; not about a generation
hence. They are entirely normal
humans in that regard. They are
very much in earnest, and they rep
resent power on the Eastern sho';
therefore the politicians arc moved
by instincts ,of self-preservation. In
this eyigency, it appears that both
the politicians and the oysters cam
not be preserved together, so the
oyster, being less vocal than the
politician, will have to go.
The Washington times., 1914-03-11
The Scribbler's RetOrt.

Senator Tillman. tpropos Of an aris-
tocratic abuse Of power. tod N i'm
'pressivc story about Eoltaire.
"Voltairc sat in his box at the
Opera" the Senator began" when the
Due de I.auzun. a courticr of Louis
XIV. drove 'up in his coach and de
manded a box for his party.
ALIAS, monseigneur, said the at
tendant, the r.Xes are all gone
That. m3< be. said the duke: but
] see the scIIbbIcr Noltaire over there
in a very good box with a party of
women. Throw him out"
The world does move. In those
days such things could be. Voltaire.
incredible as IL seems to us today. was
elected forthwith from the box he had
paid for. and the Due de LauZun took
his place.
'Voltaire brought suit against the
duke to recover the price Of the box,
and the dukes lawyer said in his
opening speech:
ink splasher, who desires to plead
against the Due de Lauzun. whose
great-grandfatheT WAS -" first to
scale the walls of La Rochelle. whose
grandfather took twelve cannon from
the Dutch at Utrecht. whose father
captured two standards from the
English at Fontenoy, whose
".Excuse me- Voltaire interrupted.
! am not pleading against that Due
Ge LauZun who was first on the walls
of La Rochelle. nor against the duke
who snatched twelve cannon from the
Dutch al Utrecht, nor against him
who captured two standards from the
English at FOntenoy. | am merely
pleading against the Due de Lauzun
life but my box at the opera. "-Ex.
The Washington times., 1914-03-11

showed that in Germany forty-two
cities Of $4,000 inhabitants cr more
were building municipality owned
tenements for their poorer people.
In 1909 it was reported that 747
societies for carrying on such oper-
ations had built in Germany $4,000
houses, containing 100000 apart
ments. In Great Britain, in 1911. it
was reported that $3.50 societies had
built 54,225 houses. During 19il
the government of the United King
dom loaned almost s1,590,000 to So
cieties doing this kind of work. The
city of London, down TO 1912, had
built, and owned, over 1900 apart
ments, averaging three rooms each,
and housing over $4,000 people.
These experiences demonstrate the
feasibility of the plan. Rents are
made sufficient to provide for the
loan at the low government rates,
but not to earn profit In some
communities properties of this kind
are exempted from taxation.
The Borland measure would au-
thorize the District of Columbia to
sell bonds, not over S1,G0o,O00 a
year for ten years, and loan the pro-
ceeds to- societies which will build
low-priced, modern, sanitary dwell
ings. The District is to have first
mortgage on the property; not over
three-fourths the actual value may
Ee loaned.
Ir some details the measure of
course would require reorganization
in order to get it passed; but the
principle is one extensively tested
and approved by experience. There
is no- reason why it should not be
applied in the betterment of Wash
ington; every reason why it should
have a trial in some American city,
Washington being the obvious one
for that trial.
The Washington times., 1914-03-11

The. Saxons who invaded England
in the fifth and subsequent centuries
were blcodthirSty pirates, who muir
dered all the native inhabitants they
could lay hands ON, and drove the rest
into distant forests and mountains
Certain primitive virtues they no doubt
had. They were brave and enterpris-
Ing, were accustomed to tell the truth,
and. like all the Germans they held
their women IN high regard On the
other hand. they were Guarrelsome. ra-
Tacious and cruel. So far as we can
rather the invading Saxon had not
much more religion than q Moro or a
Zulu. In 591 the first missionaries were
sent to these barbarian Engiishmen,
and in about seventy-tive years. less
than the time that has elapsed since the
Mexican war. the English had poet
who lived in northeastern Iork~nire, be-
tween IL deSolate moorland and the
stormy German ocean. In that time the
Eible had found them. and had begun TO
revolutioIiz ize their views Of heaven and
earth. The God of their new religion
was one God. he was all-powerful. he
loved beauty and suhimity. and hs
was as kind as he was mighty. All
this we krow from Caednon's first bit
OF verse. Here ii is:
Now must we hymn the Master OF
heaven.
The might of the Maker. the deeds of
the Father.
The thought of his heart. He. Lord
everlasting,
Established of old the source OF all
wonders:
Creator all-holy. He hung the bright
heaven.
A roof high upreared. DER the children
of men:
The King of mankind then created for
mOrtals
The world in its beauty, the earth
spread beneath them.
He, Lord everlasting, omnipotent God.