The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-13
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

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Ottumwa Courier: The man who
l kicks about the hot weather is a
crouch. He would kick harder ard
with more justice IL it were not hot
The weather we have been having
Is what makes the corn crop Of Iowa
and the corn crop is what makes Iowa
the best state in the union.
Sioux City Journal: AS girl, the
late Hetty Green just loved to dance,
but there is lingering suspicion that
she always let someone else pay for
the fiddler.
Marshal1town Times-Republican
General Wood predicts that one re-
suit of the Mexican trouble will be a
method Of equipping the national
guard. The regular army officers Will
be the first to back such movement.
1t is to their interests to have the
national guard, or some other form Of
secondary defense, ready for service
when the call comes.
/ vinton Eagle: Even the southern
people took off their hats to those
! colored United States troops who
were returned by Carranza They
surely have earned the title hero
Nobody can dispute the fact that they
have earned the title of citizenship.
! Anita Record: Those fellows who
hope and expect to see the saloon re-
established and legalized again in
Iowa, are going to be more disap-
pointed than the fellow who got a
wife from Chicago mail order house.
Waterloo Courier: Colonel Morgan,
the mastering officer at Camp Dodge,
has found job for the slackers. He
| Is not going to send them back home
to their mothers. Far from it, They
are going to be held to their national
guard oath and kept in the service.
They will be taken to the border
when the order comes and will be
held for camp duty. They will be
kept at work cleaning the officers
boots, wiping the dish pans, and
washing out uniforms. That is just
thessort of work a Stacker Is adapted
to do
Sioux City Tribune: Wherever
there is a fresh paving job you may
| look for some youngster II Lave his
footprints on the sands of time.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Troops
are going down to the border largely
as matter of precaution This ex-
perience will be worth mora than it
costs the country. 1t will enable lis
| to find just where we stand in the
matter of preparedness. Very few
people in this country know anything
about this subject.
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| Waterloo Times-Tribune: Carranza
notifies us that Villa is on the war
path again. Has Carranza issued an
order that Villa can go no other way
| than no .th !!
Cedar. Rapids Gazette: The fact
that Harding carried eighty-seven Of
the ninety-nine counties Of the state
gives a good idea Of the windlings Of
the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
The editors opposed to Harding have
declared his success due to the sup
port Of the river counties.
/ Davenport Democrat: Carranza is
reported to have taken over the big
Hearst ranch in Mexico and put a
remarks Of Mr.. Hearts newspapers
are awaited with interest
Muscatine Journal: The Deutsch-
land was laid down in March and
four months later had crossed the
Atlantic. Two years aga congress
appropriated for the Schley. year
later the contract was let and on
July 1st the boat was reported to be
one-fourth completed. America, it
would seem, may learn something as
to German efficiency to advantage.
Des Moines Register and Leader:
It's all in the point of view. Hetty
Green's son, speaking of her secret
charities, says that once when work
was slack she built hundreds of cot
|tages in Chicago, giving employment
to thousands of men, A cold-blooded
biographer says she nettei $4,000, 900
. profit on real estate investments in
Chicago. The relationship between
, the two versions appears 10 lie in the
fact that labor is cheap when work
is slack.
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