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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02
SENATOR PERCY
ON EDUCATION
Tells Illinois Teachers Convention
That Last Legislature
Did Much.

SPRINGFIELD Ill.,, Jan. 2.-State
Senator w. Duff Percy of Mount Yer.
non, who was one of Governor
DUNES right hand men and frequent
ly the executives spokesman during
the last session of the legislature In
an address before the Illinois Teach
ers Association in convention here.
reviewed the work Of the assembly
for education, and gave the teachers
a forecast of what legislation they
might expect from the next legisla.
ture.
Speaking on education AMI the gen
eral ass emily, Piercy said:
The last legislature did much for
education. A million dollars per an.
mum were added to the public school
fund making that fund now three
millions a year A new teachers Ger.
titicatlng act was passed design I'd
to increase the efficiency of teachers.
Free high school privileges were civ.
en- to those pupils not then receiving
them. Salary was appropriated for
high school inspector under the
control of the state superintendent,
whose work will be to increase the
standards and ideals of the high
schools. Some improvements were
made in the teachers pension fund
laws for the large cities. A bill was
passed providing for tn education of
members Of board Of education in
cities and towns.
Among the educational bills thai
failed Of passage at the last session
were measures fixing the minimum
salary for teachers, establishing adr.
cational qualifications for the oflice
Iof county superintendent OF schools
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

creating certain sanitary standard
for school houses; all the bills. re-
garding text books and vocational
education. A bill making the term of
the county superintendent end in June
instead of In December passed both
houses bue was held unconstitutional
by the attorney general and for that
reason vetoed by the governor.
Some OF these bills that failed will
undoubtedly be reintroduced durins
the next session.
Among those which believe will
probably pass are:
The school house sanitary and
safety standard act; some kind OF
law for text book uniformity; the
restoration of the two-mill tax an
some system of vocational education
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02
WON'T PAY TAXES.

Or. Anna Howard Shaw, president
Of the National Woman Suffrage as
ISOLATION, has started what might be
retarded as militant form Of actiy-
ity by sending to the local tax collec.
Tor at Moylan, Pa, whore she lives, a
letter refusing to make cut the Gus
tomary inventory of her personal
property as basis for computing the
tax thereon on the ground that taxa.
ton without representation is tyran.
ry.3 After referring to the revolu
tionary var, Or. Shaw wrote as fol
lows The daughters Of 1913 are
no less loyal to that principle thar
We're h'eir sires and in that spirit
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02
the first of the week with his parents,

the first of the week with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Layton.
Mrs. Nellie LaMonte and daughter,
Miss Elizabeth, of Hamilton, and
daughter. Mrs. Nora Hermann and
three children of Winnebago, Mimi,
were guests of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. P.
Berry Monday.
DR.. B. A. Ccnklin of Chicago is
spending the holidays in the city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Scofeld of Keo.
kuk visit ID relatives here the first OF
the week.
Mrs. Duane Pennock is ATTENDING
the state librarians meeting in Chi
cago this week and Is accompanied by
Miss Emily Pennock
Mr.. and Mrs. Tressler Callahan and
baby of Galesburg, are spending the
holidays with Mr.. and Mrs. j. w
4 HARVEST.
Miss Lulu Ayers spent the holidays
with Rev. and Mrs. Robert Henry, II
/ Havana, H.
Otis Helfrlch of Champaign, visited
homefolks last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. C. Ferris and Mis-
Mary, went to Oquawka to spend New
Years day with friends
Miss Mary Mcmillan who is attend
ing school in Chicago is at home fol
the holidays.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

decline to aid this government which,
with equal tyranny, taxes its women
citizens while denying them repre-
sentation, and thus violates the basic
Principles of all governments which
derive their just powers from the con-
sent of the governed
The Dubuque Times-Journal wisely
counsels DR.. shaw's suffragist sisters
to advise her to be calm. The strug-
gle for equal rights is advancing all
over the country and woman is in a
fair way to secure the ballot, unless
she resorts to picturesque methods
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, honor.
airy dean Of the Washington College
OF Law, takes issue with DR.. Anna
Shaw in regard to the payment of
income tax, which DR.. Shaw has re.
fused to pay because she can not
vote. Women should remember that
they receive the protection of the
government" Mrs. Musssy said. "and
1t Is only right that they should con
tribute to system of law and order
IN which they share the benefit. In
addition to this, the income tax was
enacted by the aid of legislators from
equal suffrage states, AMI, therefore
suifragists should not hinder its op r
alton"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

In the last session of the Canadian
parliament legislation to extend the
parcel post system was adopted 1t
viii probably go into effect toward the
end of January, but the railroads are
asking for an enormous increase In the
charge for carrying mails as a result
OF the new legislation. The roads are
now getting s2.46o,ooo year, but ask
s6.ooo,ooo. 1t is suggested that sub
stantially they are asking for COM
pensation for loss of business to ex-
press companies, which are subsidiary
services to railways.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02


Heads of the various state instit,,.
IONS while attending a recent quar-
terly conference in Des Moines agreed
mat there is an alarming increase in
the use OF drugs in the state and that
as result there is a growing stream
OF victims into the state institutions
one superintendent traces a large
number OF cases brought to his place
70 one drug store in southern Iowa
Guy where they sell a preparation
mat contains morphine and other
similar drugs He also reports that ii
was found that two persons in that
CITY who had committed murder were
louna 70 nave made use of this partfcu.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 1.-THE
postage stamp is wonderful little in.
stitution, but it's marvels were nsyer
thoroughly understood by congress
until David j. Lewis came from
Maryland as a member and told con-
gress about them. 1t was largely due
to Mr.. Lewis keen study of the func-
lions performed automatically by the
postage stamp that congress voted to
have the government go into the ex-
press business-for the parcel post is
express business.
When the parcel post bill was under
consideration Lewis showed that a
postage stamp affixed to parcel auto
matically did away with eleven pro-
cesses in bookkeeping and accounting
performed by employees of the express
companies as something outside OF
the actual collection, dispatch and de-
livery of parcels.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02
THE WHY AND THE WHEREOF
OLE Ii

THE WHY AND THE WHEREOF
OF 1T.
1t Is merely matter of dress, l say,
That prevents the feminine race to.
day
From holding in history just as great
A place as the lords of high estate.
Had they been permitted to wear the
clothes,
And to follow the selfsame styles
as those
Who, having been born of the opposite
sex,
Had never such worries their minds
to vex.
He'd Columbus and all OF his dare
devil crew
Worn hats like the women OF our
time do,
They wouldn't have sailed in those
damp, old ships;
'Twould have taken the curl from
their ostrich tips.
And I'm more than delighted that Paul
Revere
Didn't say on that night when his
foes drew near
I'D like to go warn all the folks, ]
swear,
But haven't thing that is fit to
wear
Had Wellington dared some FIVE min
utes to wait.
In trying to fasten his hat on
straight
(While Napoleon's forces a-hurrying
camel
He wouldn't have climbed to the
heights Of fame.
And had Washington fingered to mar
eel his hair
That night when he crossed Ger
the Delaware
He couldn't have gotten his army
away
Till the British appeared on the
scene next day.
And SO / repeat: In the race OF life,
The woman has more than her
share of strife
And man would find it quite easy to
frown
Had he to run for car in a tight
fitting gown.
If he'd carried a mesh bag and para
sol
Had worn high-heeled shoes a size
too small,
All me! Oh my! He'd have taken fit,
And he'd never. no never recover.
ed from it!
O. AL
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

A bill having timely significance
has Just been introduced in the house
by Church of California, Democrat,
which would make it criminal Of
Tense against the government for any
person to make or circulate false
statements orally or in writing about
financial conditions for the purpose Of
bringing on a stringency in the mon
ely market" 1t provides fine of S.
600 or ten years imprisonment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

Gross earnings of United States rail
roads making weekly returns to Dun's
Review continue to show a falling off,
the total so far received for the first
two weeks Of December amounting to
SIG, 79S,s62, loss of 5.5 per cent as
compared with the corresponding pc
Rod year ago and of IL per cent as
contrasted with 1911. Almost every
road in the west and southwest re-
ports more or less decrease.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02
A Real Time Saver.


On every express shipment the fol-
lowing processes are necessary: The
clerk must look UP the rate to be paid,
make out way bill, make two copies
of this way bill, and check UP snip
mants daily in two or more ways.
Meanwhile the clerks records and
waybills are double checked by auii-
tors. If the package is through"
shipment, similar processes are me- es-
sary on every express line helping to
forward the shipment. Finally there
is an elaborate bookkeeping and &C
count system necessary for the divi-
sion of receipts among railroads and
companies handling the sh .pment.
The postage stamp replaces every
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02
New Pcddlers ardinane.

JOLIET. ILL.,, jar 2 Joliet's new
peudlers license ordinance went into
erect today and peddlers found relief
Heretofore they have been Obliged TO
OBTAIN an annual license before work.
ing in the city Now they can get a
incense good only for one day. The
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

According to a Missouri editor,
when a girl imagines that big boob,
who has bristles on his chin, and who
smalls like an old pipe, is the great.
est thing ever invented-that is love.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

Peace, we are again told, can be re-
stored in Mexico by nothing less than
the fall Of Huerta, And then by the
fall of the fellow that succeeds HUI
erta, and SO on ad infinitum.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

More than 100000 horsepower has
been developed from streams on ma
tional forests under government regu.
lation. This represents the output I'M.
der conditions of lowest streamflow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

Late talk is to the effect that Con-
gresham Maurice Connolly Of Du-
buque will be a candidate for United
States senator in the June primary.
1t is stated that he has said he may
go in.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02
Postage Stamp a Little Giant
Just as 1t Did Away With Eleven Processes i
Connection With Express, It Would Sup
plant Sixteen For the Telegraph.
Processes in

one OF those processes, at a tremen-
dous saving on the entire volume OF
traffic In fact, as Lewis points out,
if the postoffice were required to go
through these processes on parcel
post shipments, the first pound par
eel post rate would have to be doubled
at least to pay the expenses"
Saving Apparent.
But now Mr.. Lewis has taken up
crusade for government telegraphs
and telephones, and is showing that
the postage stamp is a veritable little
giant of business system. For while
the stamp did away with eleven ex-
press processes, it would do away
with sixteen processes in connection
with the sending of telegram, and
in addition, supplant fifty-two ac-
counting processes now used in the
business Offices Of telegraph com.
panies-a total of sixty-eight pro-
cesses eliminated, with consequent
saving to the public purse.
Mr.. Lewis has presented this study
of the postage stamp to congress to
meet the common objection off cred to
public ownership service as cheaply
as IT can be done by private c n
Germ. The private concern cannot use
stamps in its Office routine. The very
nature Of the business, which is trans
acted for profit, demands bookkeep-
ing system which shall show every
minute operation in the business. The
government, on the other hand, being
interested in giving a maximum OF
i service rather than taking profit,
/ can and does find the postage stamp
sufficient accountant of its hundreds
Of millions of postal revenues.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02
rAoIaHr EoR rhE DAY

Learn to enjoy the plain. simple
things of the world. They are the
things that nature alone can give, that
wealth cannot buy. cunning steal. or
power seize.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

# the Keokuk dam IS an obstruction
to navigation The Sioux City Journal
hopes that GONE enterprising corpor-
alton may BE- indIeed to ob..truct the
navigation pt The Jis oari
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

The St. Louis Globe-Democrat in
sists that everything is taught at
school except self-control; and that's
the king pin Of success.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

Secretary Daniels says that an I'M
failing sign Of age is an aversion to
snow Probably because an old man
knows how hard work it is to keep the
walks clear
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

A Missouri editor has noticed that
the average politician who announces
that he hears the people calling him
is usually a pretty good ventriloquist.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

new ordinance provides slidin,
scale of rates, from $500 for one day
to $4,000 for a year.
Joliet citizens bought loaves Of
bread weighing sixteen ounces each
as q result of another new ordlnanc,
which was effective today. Bakers
had asked for permission to make :
hiteen ounce loaf to sell for FIVE cents
ana twenty-four ounce Leaf Of h.
quality to sell for ten cents. Theft
plea was refused.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

be the most proper education of the
voter for his larger social duty OF
voting on behalf of the future genera
ton"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

Let's all hope that 1914 will afford
us at least occasional glimpses of the
sun.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

There viii be fffty-three Thursdays
In 1914. Now let's make Thursday
payday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

The first thing in order is to ao-
custom ones self to writing it 1914.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-01-02

Read The Daily Gate city. ia
per week
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-08-21

who looks 10 Chicago to bring him
promotion. Instead he said to him.
self at the end OF the first week ON
the job:
I'm going to be the head OF this
department"
Now other office boys have started
out with that selfsame ambition, bu,
this boy went a step farther. He said:
To get there I've got to start de-
finite plan of campaign. l can't walt
for others 10 boost me there. I've
sot TO find the way and get there
myself"
He say the way leading UP in a
series OF steps, the steps being the
succession OF jobs; each one little
higher up" leading eventually TO the
job. So he said:
IN understudy each job immedi-
ately above mine And when tha,
step is vacant I'll show that I am the
logical one to stand on it. III study
each job until know. not as much
about il as the man who now holds
IT. but little hit more
And today he is holding down the
step at the top of the stairs. which
is the best proof of the merits o. his
system"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-08-21
MAKE 1T THE GAHLARp CIT

President Wilson wants to ohapga
the name OF the Culbera eut ~ the
Panama Canal to Gaillard cut. 1t is
understood that the President is not
quite sure that he has the authority
10 make the change by an executive
order President Taft changed the
name Of the isthmian town Of In
Boea 10 Balboa. ana no one disput-
ed his right To do so. Mr. Wilson
can be certain that If he issues the
order making the change he wants
70 make the country will approve his
action.
Inc great army engineer. I.ieuten-
ant-Colonel Davis du Bose G,illari
dug the Culebra cut. overcame the
iandslides and died a martyr TO his
completed duty. Sentiment ana JUS
tice demand that the work be given
his name There is no historic rea-
son for keeping the present name.
Culeora, which is a Spanish word
meaning snake. The hills through
which Gaillard dug the cut abounded
with snakes, and this fact alone was
responsible for the name given to tho
big ditch.
In the years TO come it is likely
that the different construction works
on the Panama Canal will be named
Tor the engineers who carried them
10 completion. All these engineers
except Gaillard are alive. and it is
not the custom of the United States
10 name the places. forts or battle-
ships for living men. Gaillard is
dead. He completed one Of the great
est engineering works known to his
tory and he laid down his life for
his country. President Wilson will
90 thing most grateful to the peo-
pie if he will issue the order meking
the Cule5ra cut the Gaillari cut
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-08-21
GETTING ACQUAINTED AT HOME

Those accustomed to summer tra-
vel abroad will find this a conven-
lent time to become acquainted WITH
their own country. while the interru.
ption of war makes impracticable
European tour. 1t will be an ex-
cellent time to study America.
1t lacks certain attractiveness
Possessed by older and more histor-
ic countries, but It has the freshness
and novelty of the newer one. The
Rocky mountains, from the Mexi-
can border far into the Canadian
northwest, may be reached with easy
travel. and will not fail to sent the
visitor home refreshed and enthused
II he seeks relief from the heat and
noise and confusion of the crawded
centers.
The country about the upper
Great Lakes has charms one may
not hope to find in the Old World.
The fresh air, laden with the health
tonic from the pines, the water
the fishing, the boating, the travels
through a country new and ever in
teresting, may lack the charm OF
the poetry OF the Danube, but the
charm they offer is their own; the
touch Of nature Is good for the bady
and brings the glow of health to the
face.
Most people know too little OF
their own and we study too ex-
clusively the maps of the Old World
There are thousands along the east
ern shore who have had no personal
view OF the West, or even the Central
West. Why not take trip out across
the prairies. try journey On the
great fresh water lakes seek for
charm and novelty in your own land
One who has made the lonS trip
across the Continent, has studied the
varied scenery and ever-changing
view from the Atlantic to the Golden
Gate. will be a better American fol
the Impressions received. 1t is a
great country, how great AMI vas
vast only such trip will prove. And
as We contemplate the greatness oi
the country, ones appreciation o.
our national blrthright Is increase,
Take a trip around the country al
home. The experience will be wortf
while Cleveland Plain Dealer.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-08-21
PUPILS SEGREGATED
IN SEATTLE SCHOOLS

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 21.-Edu-
Gators today began work on the plan
adopted by the city school board to
segregate the boys and girls In the
Broadway high school at the begin
ming OF the fall semester. II will be
the first time the experiment has
been tried in Seattle. School Off
cials deny that moral questions hal
anything TO do with the adoption OF
the plan. Students deny that par
ents oppose the segregate separate
class room idea will have the priv
ilege OF attending any other high
school In the city.
Not only is II planned to segregats
the boys and girls. but Supt oI
Schools Cooper will assign. as far al
possible. men teachers for the boys
classes Because OF intellectual ant
tempermental differences in sexes.
said Supt. Cooper today. "it ia though
that each works more effectively IA
separate classes. ANA that they en-
Joy such separation,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-08-21
THE ooRKED CANDIDATE
portland JournaD


Ihere are governors and governors
and candidates and candidates.
II is not often that proud COM
monwealth has the distinction of a
advising politicians" have corked up
so tightly on state issues that he will
even tell himself wha: ne thinks of
things.
II is perfectly legitimate plan ana
Tor running for office closed up as
far be it from The Journal to say one
word in derogation of DR.. withy;abme
tightly as a Yaquina Bay oyster.
The scheme is at least to be COM
mended for its novelty. DR. withN
oombe is OF course. permitted to use
MS well known speech, "A Greater
oregon" and when the inquiring vot-
er looks to the candidate for light on
the late Governor Pennoyer and the
single item veto. or on the relation
OF the governor to the legislature, or
/ ON the appropriations and the execu-
tive vetoes in the 1918 legislature. or
On other great curren issues, the can
date thus addresses them:
o, my friends, Oregon is a great
state. Its rivers TEEN with fish. It's
fir-clad mountains are yet untouched
and only the beginning has been made
in agriculture Soon, Oh. my good
friends, the mines will be but holes
in the ground
And, Eliminating on the holes to
come where the mines now are, the
Palpitating voter asks himself. what
then, oh, my good friends; will be-
come of the watermelon on the vine {?
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-08-21
BY THt SCISSORS
PATERNALIsM IN AUSTRALIA.
CTroy Standard Press. }

AlEOE Ctduu6TQ FTeGS.
The patronage OF agriculture by the
government of Australia is worth
something to the farmer there. Ac-
cording TO statements made on the
floor OF congress the other day the
government builds a residence upon
the land. giving the settler the choice
Of IL different styles OF houses to
select from. It seeds one-fourth of
each allotment TO alfalfa, the settler
paying one-fourth of the cost OF
having 10 years in which to pay the
remainder.
Besides this the government loans
10 the settler an amount Of money
equal to so per cent Of the perma-
nent Improvements that he places on
the land at rate OF interest varying
from TO IL per cent per annum.
He Is given encouragement in many
ways 10 become a home owner and
live upon the land and help TO raise
enough 10 feed the people OF the
country who are engaged in other
than agricultural pursuits. He is
given 20 years In which to pay for
his land, paying per cent interest
on the purchase price: 1-2 per cent
goes 10 pay interest on the debt;
IL per cent goes into a sinking fund
which at the end Of 30 years pays
the whole debt.
/ Evidently this land OF the free and
home OF the brave has something tc
( learn even from Australia Les
promise and more performance Il
what American agriculture needs oi
government aid in production o.
more land cheaper food for the mass
1 es