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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26
Suffrage Leader IN Iowan.

Sioux City Journal: Interest in the
tour by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait,
president of both the International
Woman Suffrage alliance and the Ma
tional American Suffrage association.
lin behalf of the equal suffrage
amendment to the constitution of Iowa
is heightened by the fact that this
director of the equal suffrage activ1-
ties Of two continents did her first SUI
frage work in Iowa.
/ Though born in Wisconsin, Mrs.
Gait is an Iowan by adoption and
doubly so by marriage. AS girl she
lived at Charles City. For three
years in the late 70s she attended the
! Iowa State college at Ames. At Ma
son City she was principal OF the
high school and superintendent OF
schools. There she met Lee Chap
! man, who was editor of the old Ma
son City Republican, and married
| him in 1884 They went TIC California
| for the benefit OF his health, but he
died in 1886. His young widow re-
turned to Iowa and from 1890 TO
1892 was state organizer and lecturer
for the Iowa Woman Suffrage asso-
citation In 1890 she was married to
George William Gait. who had been
reared near West Side, Ia. gradual
ed from Ames, achieved exceptional
success as an engineer and gathered
together a considerable fortune. He
died in 1905. Since 1892 Mrs. Gait
has bern identified with the national
and international phases OF the suff-
rage work.
Mrs. Gait will be pardoned any con-
gratulatory reflections in which she
may indulge during her tour Of Iowa
as to the pronounced change which
has taken place in public sentiment
on the suffrage question In the
twenty-five years which have inter-
vened since she worked as an organ
!izer in pioneer days Of the propa-
ganda in Iowa. Then the proposition
that women should be allowed to vote
was regarded as a joke; now it Is
taken sc seriously that two general
assemblies have voted to- submit to
the people an amendment to the con-
stitution providing for votes for wo-
men. and the people are about to vote
on that amendment. When in 1890,
/ 1891 and 1892 Mrs. Gait travelled from
place to place in Iowa. preaching the
gospel of equal suffrage, only one
state had granted the franchise to wo-
men That was Wyoming. Since
then ten states have followed its ex-
ample in the following order: Colo
RADIO. 1893: Utah and Idaho, 1896;
Washington, 1910; California, 1911;
| Arizona, Kansas and Oregon, 1912;
and Nevada and Montana, 1914.
Much of the ground that has been
gained by suffrage In the last quarter
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26
SIMPLIFYING LEGAL PROCEDURE.

An act of the British parliament which has
just gone into effect cuts all the Anticipated
verbiage and jargon out of judicial documents
and makes it hereafter practically impossible
for a criminal to escape punishment on a tech
nicality, flaw, defect or departure from ancient
form terminoligy in any paper or proceed
ing. All that an Indictment need set forth
henceforward is that A, at time and place
stated, murdered B, all the tedious reiteration
and circumloeutory recitative being elimin-
ated and prohibited.
Undoubtedly this rationalizing and sympli
flying Of legal procedure will in time be fol
lowed by the courts of the United States, thus
heralding and bringing nearer the day dreamed
of by Senator Root when any man Of ordin
AIRY intelligence can be his own lawyer and
take his grievance to the courts and get il
passed upon with minimum of expense and
DELAY
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26
STOMACH UPSET 7
Get at the Real Cause - Take
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That's what thousands of stomach suf-
ferers are doing now. Instead OF taking
tonics, or trying to patch up poor dises-
ton, they are attacking tho real cause OF
the aiiment-clogged liver and disordered
bowels.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse the
liver in a soothing, healing way. when
ire liver and bowels are performing their
natural functions, away goes indigestion
and stomach troubles.
II you have q bad taste in your mouth.
tongue coated, appetite poor, lazy, don't
care feeling, no ambition or energy. trou-
bed with undigested food, you should take
Olive Tablets, the substitute for caionel.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are purely
vegetable compound mixed with olive oil.
You will know them by their olive color.
They do the work without gripping. cramps
or pain.
Take one or two at bedtime for quick
relief. so you can eat what you like. AT
i0c and 25c per box. All druggists.
The Olive Tablet Company. Columbus. o
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ToDAYs BIT OF VERSE
DISCOVERING A FRIEND.

If sorrow never happened and trouble never came
The thing you'd know about your nelghbor is has
If your days and fair and certain your
place,
You'd only know fellow by the features of his race
Acquaintance upon this earth all you'd ever own
II care always passed by and grief you'd never
known.
Time was nod to who lived across the way
1 knew name and he knew mine We passed the
time of day.
nothing did to and nothing to him
Until morning and all my world was
grim.
saw his face 1 felt his he'd come to
lend
The strength 1 needed and right then I found l had
friend.
IT'S sunshine friends made, but when our
skies
The splendid souls that possess never on dis
play
We tell what lies behind the hasty nod SMILE
of will from it in just little while
We only know that when face the that life must
send
We realize the passerby changed into friend.
Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press.
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1 know every thing except myself Fran
co.'s Villon.
TALK. TALK, TALK.

Lawyers in the United States congress enjoy
nothing so much as they do the discussion OF
the constitutionality of proposed bill. They
love to ventiate their knowledge of the law in
that way, their supposed knowledge, rather,
yet many Of them lose sight of great principles
and split hairs so enthusiastically fine that com
mon sense takes wings and flies away. On the
other hand there may be much good result
from the practice Of the legally-minded legis
lators. There is lot of fool bills offered at
every session which have the backing of some
otherwise sensible men and which cannot be
put to sleep except by the injection of a tried
and true legal soporiic. Even the law, which
at times is not exact justice, has its uses.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26
The DANGER of the Hour.

John A. Sleicher in Leslie's: The
danger Of the hour is not that we are
pressing slowly. The real danger is
that we shall be swept off our feet by
clamorous crowd pursuing the
shadows of high ideals, and in their
mad rush forgetting respect for the
opinions and the rights of others.
The danger of the hour is that this
crowd may become ravenous mob.
such as France had in it's bloody revo-
luton, when brilliant leaders, elo-
quent in speech, Astounding In zeal,
and crusaders in purpose, trampled
upon the rights of others, denounced
those who had accumulated property,
and proclaimed the state as the sup
planter Of the church and Of parental
authority. This is the gospel of un-
rest and unreason. It is as much so
today in the United States as it was
in France one hundred and twenty
years ago.
It is not new. 1t is as old as the
world itself. Sixty years ago. Ma
caulay, referring to these dangers.
said: Europe has been threatened
with subjugation by barbarians" and
THE truest friends of the people
have, with deep sorrow, owned that
interests more precious than any
political privileges were in jeopardy
and that it might be necessary to sac
rifice even liberty in order to save
civilization"
Is not this picture OF the present
day or a shadow Of what is coming
dangerously near? Religion is scott
ed at The courts are Knocked, prop
erty rights are assailed, and we are
told by men who should know better,
that the state is the sovereign power
that should make all men equally
rich or poor. The Creator never in
tended to create a world without vari-
atoms. Men differ as to stature, abil-
ity and strength, just as animals,
trees and flowers of the same species
differ from each other in noticeable
respects.
Strange indeed that this revival of
social quackery, stirred by dema-
gogues and stimulated by yellow jour
nails and undertaking magazines, has
not only the support of selfish politi-
clans, who in every age have protest
ed their devotion to the common peo-
pie, but now, as in Macaulay's time
the support Of wellmeaning but mis-
taken men and women. They have
been swept from their anchorage by
the maddening rush OF the excited
crowds.
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manufacturers and merchants Of Great Britain,
and even in those countries, including Ger
many, where it is the legal standard, the older
systems of measurement exist and have con-
siderable vogue. In the measurement or
thread, for instance, the standard all over the
world is $40 yards to the pound. Opponents OF
the metric system point out that, expressed IN
that system this would read: Il ,693,o4A
meters to the kiogram, " which is not so easily
apprehended.
Both systems have their advantages and
disadvantages. Undoubtedly the metric sys-
TEN is most scientific, though its unit, the
meter, is as arbitrary as the yard. The ques-
ton, can the metric system be imposed upon
manufacture trade and commerce in the Unit
ed States by statute?
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of a century has been gained as a
result of the energy, the tact, the re-
sourcefulness and the perseverance of
Mrs. Gait, who has been in the fore
front Of practically every battle that
has been fought in the interests OF
votes for women. 1t is plain to be
seen, however, why Mrs. Gait is dou-
bly, interested in the outcome of the
contest that now is being waged in
Iowa 1t was she who started the
suffrage ball rolling in the Hawkeye
state, and no doubt the ten strike she
would have it make on June In the
way OF victory would be dearer to
her heart than any victory that yet
has been won in the cause In any of
the forty-eight states in the union.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26
Is METRIC SYSTEM WANTED?

a bill has been introduced in congress on
behalf Of the government bureau of standards,
to compel the use Of the metric system IN place
OF the present system Of measurements, after
July /, 1920 The system is already required
in the medical work of the navy and the war
departments and in the public health and ma
Ilne hospital service. The bill is one of several
which have, from time to time. been introduced.
Their defeat was due to the opposition of large
numbers OF industrial and business leaders
who see in the change a vast expense and pos
slble confusion, at least for period
The metric system is the legal standard in
thirty-one countries and is permissible in nine
others including the United States and Great
Britain 1t has never won the good will of the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

| NoiouA SAly JOuEHdl. IL Ouly HGu.
Weaver could come back to life long
enough to hear the news" exclaims
the Davenport Times anent the demo-
cratic party's espousal OF prohibition.
Yet it couldn't surprise Gen. Weaver
any more than it must have surprised
Horace Boies.
| Dubuque Times-Journal: j. C. Muir.
tsgh, of Waterloo, appears, in ring
parlance. to be a glutton for punish.
ment. He is going to run for congress-
! from the third district once more
Two years ago he was badly defeated
by Burton Sweet, of Waverly.
Davenport Times: The Carranza
administration has another cause for
complaint against the United States.
Inadvertently or otherwise some of
the Carranza soldiers were paid off
partly in American money and they
forthwith celebrated their good for
tune by getting drunk and starting a
riot.
Nevada Representative: So as the
matter stands Cummins is growing
and Roosevelt is growing. while the
| Hughes movement is in difficulties and
other movements without standing at
all. AS the matter appears now the
question is between Cummins and
Roosevelt, and there we apprehend 1t
will continue to be until the finish.
Marshalltown Times-Republican
| Speaking of Ed T. Meredith he seems
to be the democratic party this year.
Comparison is often embarrassing
yl,aft ,ny. CIf c{il TO-
| sible to refrain from comparing Mere
at Des Moines and Meredith outlawed
in the Meredith Connolly campaign.
| How time fugits and folks change.
Watertown Courier: "Carranza is
pouring gasoline on the troubled wa
ters in Mexico" says the Minneapolis
Journal. The next step vol be to set
a match to it.
| Britt Tribune: Such a man as Taft
in our present difficulties is thous-
and times to be preferred to fire eat
err like Roosevelt Taft is impossible
owing to the prejudices of many re-
publicans. Root or Hughes is the only
alternative, for a western man also is
an impossibiiity owing to the big scare
CT the eastern cities over the Europ-
can war.
/ Ottumwa Courier: Our guess Is
that the "ultimatum" will turn into
another controversy that will give Mr..
Wilson chance to write notes for at
least several months before it peters
out.
Sioux City Tribune: Begins to look
like Uncle Sam ought to take Carranza
out in the ante room and let him prove
jhis comradeship by working his wav
intn the lodge Sometimes one grows
suspicious that the bewhiskered pro-
tege is an imposter who doesn't even
possess the grip and password.
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their money where they get II; II
the scheme is successful, and there
seems to be every reason to oeiiese
it. will be, Canton should send dcie !.
CATION to Dubuque to discover now IL
was done, for there are here, IKE
lot of sister cities. far too many
people who persist in building up
Chicago and other large seats OF the
buy-at-long-reach concerns
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HOW TO FLY.

Word comes from California that our army
AVIATION prentices have been ordered OFT the
only practice ground assigned to them, which
was at San Diego. The owners OF the property
needed il for other purposes and the govern
ment paid no rent. But Uncle Sam is used 10
having his official plans and those OF his prl-
vate citizens upset. so he takes it philosophical
w. and if the private citizens do not, that's
their fault
After all, maybe Nature IS method is the
right one for nation. When birds want to
teach their young to fly, they push them out OF
the nest and let them futter about till the les
son is learned The logical way for America
to do is to stumble into war or near-war and
let fledgling aviators try their wings. This is
the Brvanite way 1t is true that Nature sup
niles better grade of wing stock, on the aver
age but in the course Of few wars and after
q few men have been killed and manned, we
NAV hope to catch up to Nature.
|. sWhite collar jobs for young men and
;. afternoon tea costume employment for
younp women are the clue to non-employmenG
troubles declares an authority, who shows
righteous Indignation in recountlng his efforts
TO convince young people that wages with
which to buy these desired elegancies of APP
nsreI are better when earned in shop and fac
tory than the clothes in combination with a
lower wage paid for office employment. The
average factory worker has the right idea: ov-
erals for work and evening clothes for leisure
hours; moreover, they have money to pay for
/ the clothes.
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Requirements Of public OFFICIALS

Ottumwa Courier: Men who aspire
to public office should acquaint them
selves thoroughly with the duties or
office. Until the public shows a keen
err interest in the doings of public Of
tcials. these latter will continue to be
careless to a degree that makes hon
est men look otherwise when suddenly
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The only satisfaction to be gained from a
contemplation of the above is realization OF
the truth that it will pay the human race TO
keep in good health and so be able to lay the
ghost of high drug prices.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26
w.. n NORTH the Gundrops7

Omaha Bee: 1t Is seven years ',
the north pole was discoverSi a s
three years since the south pore We.
uncovered If any transloli ~ q
in the appearance OF the worm n@
resulted, the fact has escapeu sA
eral attention.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26

An induction balance has peen ud
yised for the purpose of tindlng pu,tu
shells in the soil of the former oa arar
field, so that the farmer may gu wv
it safely with the pillow.
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We never expect to gain wisdom or fame,
but we would like to live long enough to find
out what all the funny little doo-dads and fix
ings on our typewriter are for.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26

Some persons become cross-eyed from trying
to see the right thing in the wrong way
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-26

Dubuque Times-Journal: j. C. Muir.
Ugh, of Waterloo, appears, III ring
parlance. to be a glutton for punish.
ment. He is going to run for congress-
from the third district once more.
Two years ago he was badly defeated
by Burton Sweet, of Waverly.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
MUD BAY

\ 9-pound boy arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Barnes De-
cember End.
Mont Blackwood, who has been
working during the summer at the
Mckenzie ranch, visited relatives and
friends in Tacoma last week.
The little niece of Mrs. Charles
Starr, who visited her through the
summer, of last year, died quite cud-
denly last week at the family home
in Corvallis, Ore.
The farmers of this section are at
tending the lectures of the Agricul-
tural Extension Course and find them
very instructive.
Bert Shannon is building a cottage
on his place near Galligan's corners.
The masquerade ball at the Nc
Lane Grange hall last Saturday night
was we'll attended and very much en-
joyed by all present. Miss Charlotte
Rogers as Pocahontas and Miss Mabel
Wages as Minnehaha took the first
and second prizes for best costumed
ladies. and Frank Twohy as a hobo
and Mark Aspinwall as Gen Won Hin
denDers took first AID second prizes
for men.
Mr.. Price. of the Pullman State COL
lege. Mr.. Pierson, of Union Mills, and
Mr.. Backman, Of Rochester. dined at
Springbrook ranch Tuesday.
Mrs. Galligan entertained Charles
Starr and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Bert
Bennett and Mr.. Swartz Thanksgiving
day.
Miss Mabel Aspinwall, who is teach
ing in Tenino, and Huston Grover. Of
the Contrasting association, ate
Thanksgiving dinner at c. c. Aspin-
wallis.
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(Too Late for Last Week.
BRIGHTON PARK

Brighton Park Grange will hold
their regular meeting Tuesday night,
December 5, when the third and
fourth degrees will be conferred on
Mrs. Lizzie Kratz and Miss Louise
Kratz of Plum Station.
c. s. Whitmore of Seattle was in
this vicinity on business recently.
The many friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
o. E. Ferguson are glad to hear they
are recovering from their auto acci-
dent last Saturday and that it was
not worse.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. West are the
proud parents of a baby girl, born
November 20. Mother and baby are
getting along nicely. Mrs. E. Neese
of Chambers Prairie is here with her
daughter.
Henry Turner has been sick but is
greatly improved.
Robert and Fred Mulholland spent
the weekend at home.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08

lived there until seven years ago,
when he came to Thurston county
with his parents and settled on farm
south of Yelm. He was a young man
of sterling qualities and honest and
upright in all his dealings. He unit
ed with the Baptist church at the age
of II years. in which faith he con-
tinued to live. He leaves to mourn
his loss his father mother and sis
ter. besides a host of friends who are
only numbered by his acquaintances
The family have the heartfelt SYM
pathy of all III this their sad hour Of
bereavement.
The funeral was conducted from
the Buckley-King parlors in Tacoma
Tuesday.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
ROCKY PRAIRIE

Miss Inez Clawson returned Sun
day from her home at Buffers Cove,
where she spent Thanksgiving.
Mrs. Hinchcliffe came out from
Olympia Saturday. after spending a
week visiting her grandmother, Mrs.
Kelsey.
Ernest Wickenburg left Sunday for
visit in Seattle.
Miss Margaret Tierney called on
Miss Rice Thursday.
Miss Reta Smith spent Wednesday
with Miss Gertrude Kelsey.
Miss Olive Stilson visited her
grandparents at Little Rock during
the past week.
Jock McCalla Of Doctor was a
Thanksgiving visitor at the Taylor
home.
Mrs. Hinchcliffe acme out from
Tenino Wednesday and spent the re-
mainder of the week with her mother,
Mrs. Kelsey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Stark visited
relatives in South Union over Sun
day.
Mrs. Crawford. Mrs. Taylor and
John Mitchell and wife were shopping
in Olympia Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bush and sons were
Saturday visitors at the Ipe home.
]. E. Petersen of Maytown called
on friends here Sunday.
The school children will have an
entertainment December %.
B. H. Smith and l.. E. Ipe were
trading in Tenino the first of the
week.
B. Risse and son William were in
Olympia Saturday and brought out
the new Victrola bought by the
school children.
William Tnill was a Tenino visitor
Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Whipple and Mrs.
Stilson visited in Maytown Thursday.
A very pleasant time was had at
the surprise party at Mr.. Wicken-
burg's last week.
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(Too Late for Last Week.
EUREKA

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Algyer and Mrs.
Ray Smith we're Tacoma visitors last
Friday. They were accompanied
home by Miss Vera Algyer, who spent
the weekend with her parents, return
ing to Tacoma Sunday to resume her
school work.
Mr.. Frank Randle of Yakima, who
has been visiting relatives and
friends, returned home last Monday.
Misses Mae and Ruth Robinson
were in Tacoma Saturday.
Miss Helen Fitch Of Tacoma was
visiting the last of the week with her
brother, E. X. Fitch, and family.
Messrs. and Mesdames Frank Price
and Clarence Lott were Saturday Wis
itors in Tacoma.
Mr.. Hunt went to Seattle Sunday
for a few days visit.
Rev. and Mrs. Hopkins of Tum-
water were visiting their many
friends in Eureka the last of the
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee CONNIE enter
tanned few of their friends at their
home Sunday. the occasion being
their nineteenth wedding anniver-
sary.
Mr.. Chauncey Grover, Mrs. Grover
and Mrs. R. s. Smith were Tacoma
shoppers Saturday.
Mrs. Powell and son Templeton,
who have been spending the summer
with her daughter, Mrs. Jack HASTE,
returned to their home in Virginia
last week.
Mr.. Spencer has commenced the
erection of a new house. Nathan and
ALI Morris are helping him with the
carpenter work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dain, Mrs. Lee
Conine and Treva Conine autoed to
Tacoma Monday.