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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
If Too Fat Get
More Fresh Air
Be Moderate In Your Diet and Reduce
Your Weight. Take OIL Of
korein.

Lack OF fresh air 1t is saia weakens
the oxygen carrying power OF the
blood, the liver becomes sluggish. fat
accumulates and the action OF many
of the vital organs are hindered there
cy, The heart action becomes weak,
work is an effort and the beauty OF the
figure is destroyed.
Fat put on by indoor life Is un-
healthy and IL nature is not assisted
I'm throwing 1t Of serious case OF
obesity may result.
When you feel that you are getting
too stout, take Ii tbs matter in hand at
once. Don't wait until your figure
has become joke and your health
ruined through carrying around bur-
den OF unsightly and unhealthy fat.
Spend as much time as you pos
sfbly can in the open air; breathe
deeply, and get from Wilkinson & Co..
or any druggist box of OIL Of korein
capsules: take one after each meal
and one before retiring at night.
Weigh yourself every few days and
keep ND the treatment until you are
down to normal Oil Of korein Is alb
soIutely harmless. is pleasant to take.
helps the digestion and even a few
days treatment has been reported to
show . noticeable reduction IN weight.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
A CHILD DOESN'T
LAUGH and PLAY
IF CONST|PATE|
If PEEvIsH, FEvERlsH AND SIGN
GIVE ~CAllFoRNlA SYRUP
OF FIGS"

Mother! Your child isn't natural
cross and peevish. See IL tongue
coated. this is q sure sign its li1us
stomach, liver and bowels need :
cleansing at once. !.
When listless, pale, feverish, full q
cold, breath bad. throat sore, doesns
eat. sleep or act naturally. has ssol'
ach-ache, diarrhoea. remember. gen
tie liver and bowel cleansing snoua
always be the first treatment given.
Nothing equals California Syrup y
Figs" for children's ills; give .ss
spoonful. and in few hours all ~.
foul waste, sour bile and fermen'ln:
food which is clogged in the Dove.
passes out Of the system. and you nan y
a well and playful child again. =.
children love this harmless, deicio. :.
fruit laxative" and it never fails ~ y
effect good inside cleansing: y y
rections for babies, children OF
ages and grown-ups are plainly on 'n'
bottle. :.
Keep It handy in your home; a ~, ~
tie given today saves a sick child =. y
morrow, but get the genuine. A !,
your druggist for a 50-cent bottle =
California Syrup OF Figs" then loy,
and see that it Is made by the
fornia Fig Syrup Company.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
PIMPLY? WELL, DON'T Be!
People Notice 1t. Drive Them Oh
with DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

A pimpiy face will not embarrass you
much longer if you get package of DR.,
Edwards Olive Tablets. The skin
should begin to clear after you have
taken the tablets few nights.
Cleanse the blood, the bowels and the
liver with DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets
the successful substitute for calornel-
there's never any sickness or pain after
taking them.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do tia,
which calomel does, and just as enec-
lively, but their action is gentle and
safe instead of severe and irritating.
No one who takes Olive Tablets is
ever cursed with "a dark brown taste"
a bad breath. dull, 1istless, no good"
feeling, constipation, torpid liver, bad
disposition or pimply face
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets are a
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil; you will know them by their
olive color
DR.. Edwards spent years among pa
tients afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result.
Take one or two nightly for q week
See how much better you feel and look
l0c and 25c per box. All druGgista.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
FREE TRADE IN SHOES.

In it's last issue the Shoe and Leather Re
porter notes significant trade development
that is of great interest to Keokuk on account
of the Importance of the shoe manufacturing
industry here. Between eight and nine
thousand pairs Of shoes a month are brought
into this country from Great Britain, notwith-
standing the fact that most Of the factories III
England are working for the government and
are able to use only part of their plants TO.
making other than army shoes. The explana-
ton is to be found in tariff changes. Saying
that, for the first time in the history of the in
dustry here, leather and shoes were put on the
free list by the Underwood law, the Shoe and
Leather Reporter asks:
If shoes be imported from Great Britain
Canada and other countries under the extreme
conditions prevailing during the war, what may
expect after peace is restored and the in
dustries Of Europe return to normal conditions!
The answer suggests itself. Today the i'm
ports are small They will be important when
the war is over, unless in the meantime Ameri-
can manufacturers are given tariff protection.
Even now, several shoe jobbing houses in the
east are said to be showing samples of British
make which they can buy for fifteen
cents pair less than the cost of similar shoes
made in the United States. The interest OF
American employees in this trade development
is not less than that of American manufactur-
ers. The new competition will be sharper than
the old trade rivalry, and there is not the
slightest reason to believe that those respon-
sible for this dumping policy will make
adequate provisions forsmeeting it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
M,ulet and Prohibition.

Webster City Freeman-Tribune:
The Freeman-Tribune is not cocksure
that the repeal of the mulct law is
genuine temperance legislation. That
law was enacted by the republican
party after statewide prohibition had
proved unsatisfactory. The mulct
law put hundreds OF saloons out OF
business that had been flourishing
under prohibition It is to be hoped
that public sentiment will now sus-
tain prohibition in the centers where
it was openly violated few years
ago. There are many temperance
people who were not yet ready to do
away with the mulct, believing it was
the best method OF dealing with the
liquor question in certain towns.
Moreover, II the voters 90 against
prohibition at the polls many OF those
instrumental in bringing about re-
submission will admit they made a
mistake Being opposed to the re-
peal OF the mulct and looking with
suspicion upon resubmission. or op-
posing it, Is not proof that one is wet.
Conditions must be met and the best
way to improve them is oftentimes
open to debate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20

A good fat potato patch these up
lifting October days surpasses the
average gold field. Spuds are sure
thing winners on booming market.
Just now the potato fields of Long
Island are banking money for the
owners, profits from sales mounting
ND to gladstone figures. Shortage OF
male help brought to the fields fiocks
of women and children, who are paid
cents a bushel for picking behind
digging machines. One unusually in
dustrious woman pulled down $40 for
a weeks picking.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
Unjust to the Farmers.

q ~
To the Editor OF The Gate CITY.
On all sides we are hearing the cry
or the high cost of living, and a com.
parisoni OF prices today with what pre-.
vailed before the European war shows
the cry Is justifiable. Nearly every
thing that enters into human con-
sumption. either for food or shelter,
has advanced from ten to five hundred
per cent and the end seems not yet in
sight
In many quarters have heard the
farmer criticised either for inefficient
farming resulting in lessened produc-
ton or grasping avariciousness in hold
Ing his products for higher prices,
causing an initiation of the markets
We farmers are human and plead
guilty to our fair share Of human
selfishness but ! for one think that it
is about time that we come to our own
defense. While willing to bear our
share of proper blame for existing con-
ditions, that we refuse to be made the
scapegoat for greedy capital
Bread and meat are the mainstays
of this country. Four hundred per
cent dividend by one Of the large
packing companies is sufficient indi-
cation as to who got the profits on
meats, 30 we have only to consider the
bread question which is being agitated
now.
This fine coutry OF ours by the
grace of God produces sufficient for
all to live in frugal comfort II we in
addition exercise our God given intel
gence to properly use what has been
bestowed on US.
II though our lawmakers at the
NJ frNI IL
ere to thwart the Divine goodness we
have. only ourselves to blame for per
hitting such practices to continue
and we deserve to have taken from us
the ballot bequeathed to us by noble
|forefathers.
This year the great state of Iowa
alone will raise over 100000 900 bush.
els of corn but the Iowa farmer Is to
be Disseminated against in securing
proper return for his labor, and in
|dustry and untold millions are going
to pay tribute to the wheat flour ba-
rons because there is law on our sta
tute known as the mixed flour law
that says it is not permissible to mix
corn and wheat flour although science
tells unequivocally that the mixture
makes more sustaining flour and a
better loaf and economists and COM
mon sense show 1t will reduce the
cost to the baker and the consumer.
Congress will meet early in Deem
Der and il the farmers are alive to
their interests and their fellow mems
interest our representatives will be de-
Iluged with demands that the present
unjust law be repealed and the more
favorable measure that has been pre-
scented be enacted into law.
AGRlCOI4A.
Croton. Iowa, Oct, 10, 1916.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
Value Conferred by Demand.

Value Conferred by Demand.
New York Times: With platinum
now costing around $50 an ounce"
said a widely known manufacturing
jeweler Of this city, ''it may be hard
to believe that half a century or so
ago peasants In Russia were wearing
buttons of this metal on their cloth
ing. They we're also using It for
handles OF knives, forks and umbrel-
las, and the workmen in the jewelry
shops we're using # for making
pickle pans, a contrivance now made
Of copper. that plays quite an I'M
portant part in the making Of jew
elry. At that time platinum cost
about IS an ounce. and In Russia 1t
was 50 plentiful, because there was
so little use for It, that the Russian
government decided to make coins of
it In lieu Of silver. The Russian peo-
PIE, however. were susDfcious Of the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
There is no fit search after truth which
does not, first of all, begin to live the truth
which it knows-Horace Bushnell.
DEFEAT STORMS.

With the near approach of election day eff
forts in no small measure should be continued
in exposition Of the fallacy of arguments adj
yanced by G. w. Storms, candidate for rep
resentative in the legislature from this district,
who has proposed, in the event of his election.
to urge the repeal Of every act authorizing the
transaction of county business of any nature lit
the city of Keokuk. Storms would introduce,
he says, bill providing for one county seat,
and that to be located at Fort Madison.
So the sounding brass feature of the legis-
lative campaign is conferred in the candidacy
of Separatist Storms He has called to serve
under his banner of sectionalsm few discon-
tented and disgruntled individuals who can
acquire no prominence for themselves except
by attachment tails to political kite.
1t is fact that Storms contention for a
single county station is unsupported by men of
wide vision. His plea that change from the
present very satisfactory arrangement would
result in a great saving to tax payers is not
susceptible of proof when facts and figures are
considered and it is also offset by what may be
said in behalf of public convenience
There is promise that Storms will blow over
on the seventh of November and that the DO
ltical horizon will be frightened by the cleo
ton of F. W. Oertel as representative from this
district. And Mr. Oertel will represent the en-
tire body of electors, not portion, he Will act
for all Of the county, not a section.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
GUNS GUARD
GREEK STREETS
French Artillery In Athens Keep the
Crowds From Starting Any
Further Demonstrations.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
LONDON, Oct. 20.-French artillery
and machine guns now command ap-
proaches Of some of the principal
streets of Athens and there has been
no renewal OF attempted rioting, &C
cording to delayed dispatches from
the Greek capital
The French have released several
OF the Greeks arrested Tuesday night
for shouting insulting remarks, delay
ing only those who appeared to be
leaders in the attempt to incite
trouble.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
Why keokuk, Iowa?

To the Editor Of The Gate City:
In the Photoplay magazine, for
November. 1915. appeared an article.
entitled the Genius MILL" by Jan
Meunchener, in which the author re
ferred to miss Gertie Fesenield" OF
Keokuk, Iowa.
The article is over year old So
Is my love for Iowa. / was resident
'of Iowa for forty-two years. It's the
banner state OF this republic. by at
fleast ten prize counts. There are no
fool boys Or girls in Iowa. You must
Igo to the "effete east" to search for
the thin mentality. Plenty of it there.
The great and glorious west" is the
place to find real men and women.
They still have room to breath out
there The atmosphere Is full of life
and vigor.
The schools Of Iowa are guaran.
tee against "softening of the brain. ="
This Keokuk girl had three gold teeth,
only you couldn't count one thousand
gold filings IL the Iowa girls were all
lined up and grinned for tooth inspec-
ton.
They don't wear false hair, or wire
busts, or calves, or use cosmetics. oh
no; either would detract from glorious
forms. and faces Of Iowa girls.
Mr.. JAM" you never was In Iowa
in your scrubbling life. You never
even read OF Keokuk's big dam. II
you had either of these educational
advantages you would realize that the
dam preceding your foolishness.
would rival the one at Keokuk.
r. BRITTON.
Dayton, Ohio. Oct. 10. 1916.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
TODAY.s BIT OF VERSE

THE BRIDGE.
Across the foaming river
The old bridge bends its bow;
Fly fathers father built 1t
In ages long ago.
They never left the farmstead
Past which the waters curled,
3 Why should ever wander
When here is all the world;
= Family, friends and garden:
Small fields of rice and tea;
The cattle in the meadow;
The birds in stream and tree.
Though dead they live and linger
In each familiar place,
With kindly thoughts to hearten
The children of their race.
Pal Ta-Shun in Harper's Weekly.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
CoMMERc1ALIzE COLLEGE ATHLETICS

There is nothing surprising in the renewal of
criticism of college athletics because of their
costliness; college football has become com
mercial sport, that is all And entirely aside
from the ACCESSIBILITY of countenancing bust
projects Of such magnitude as are the
football and in lesser measure the other inter
collegiate athletic contests-a question that
has more debatable phases than that of the
money involved-there is a great loss in the
Concentrating of any school sport simply
from the fact that it ceases to be sport and
becomes an amusement. The thing that would
be really valuable from any school or college
Is large majority of sturdy, athletic students:
as it is, victorious eleven or basketball team
is valuable to any educational institution. II
is not the right of students to support at a
large cost skilled team in each athletic spe-
cialty that much matters; it is the disposition
to give up personal participation in the
sports of college, and this disposition is fos-
tered by the prevailing high cost of intercolegi
ate athletics. 1t is this which very much mat
tiers. great football team means nothing ex
cept that eleven exceptional young men are
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
70 REMOVE DANDRUFF

Get a 25-cent bottle of Danderins|
at any drug store, pour little intd
your hand and rub well into the scalp
with the finger tips. BY morning
most, II not all, Of this awful scurfI
will have disappeared. Two or three
applications will destroy every bit oil
dandruff; stop scalp itching and fak|
ing hair.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20

A Chicago cigaret fiend went
bed with q lighted smoke betwo
his fingers. A little later he W.
up with the bed ablaxe and his "a
and night clothes burning Fire I.
rushed him to the county Hospital :
cool - and poultsce the bIisterA
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
IOWA PRESS COMMENT

IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Fort Dodge has night school that
is attracting q large attendance where
Everything from plumbing to millinery
is taught 1t Is something that other
towns might observe and Investigate
to advantage.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: II congress
can make laws raising the wages OF
some people. why not get around again
to the beautiful but somewhat vague
and unsubstantial theories of the fell
Bryan, and who wanted to make ev-
erybody prosperous and happy, by set
ting the printing presses going and
turning out an unlimited flood Of pa
per money.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: We have
heard Of another bunch of worshippers
who ought to make sane men sick.
In recent meeting, they say, Bryan
was "hemmed in" and many persons
boosted that they got chance and
'reverently touched hts clothing" We
may yet make god out of some Of
our politicians We are on the way,
but we seem hardly to know where
We are going.
Ottumwa Courier: There is coming
to be considerable sentiment through
out the state in favor OF law which
would prevent the sale or purchase of
automobiles which are so powered and
geered that they can, exceed twenty
five or thirty miles an hour.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20

students of particular university. But if a
university had dozens of football teams in ac-
tive competition, it would mean something; It
would mean student body which was literally
on its feet.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20

new metal, fearing that It had =
value, and it was not long before -
coins were out of circulation. IL
then that they began to appear
buttons, and to be melted for ~
poses more utilitarian than dec"
tive"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20

1t is eleven weeks since the Deutschland left
Baltimore for home port That weekly sub
marine merchant service is not yet thoroughly
established
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20

County Business Facts and Figures.
To the Editor OF The Gate City:
The district court. with court
Offices, was established at the city
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20

A well directed movement to get the boys
away from the Mexican border by Christmas
would take powerful hold on the public imagin-
alton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20

There exists In emmuniy the forces and ability
to solve that communltys problems. They be and
frequently latent and undeveioped but they
the less there These forces must be sought out stiu
trained and developed then applied the prob
lens OF the eommunity.-E. M. Burritt.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
THE MISSING MILES.

Even the Opulent nave their woes ana WOf-
sries. and some of them discover that the futile
effort to spread a gallon of gasoline over as
many miles as the maker Of their motor car as
Isured them that they could is lining their
cheeks and streaking their hair with gray
Perhaps it may interest them, and possibly eN /.
plain some measure of the difference between
the promise and performance of their ears, to
learn from report Of the department Of COM
Imerce at Washington the result of investiga-
tons In Illinois, conducted by the United States
bureau of standards. From that state had
come persistent complaints Of an inexplicable
variance between the advertisement and the
action of the machines, and as soon as the in
spectors began to examine the gasoline measur
ing pumps they found what was politely de-
scribed as "a very decided tendency towards
short delivery" May it not be at least CON
ceivable therefore that the failure of some ma
Ichines, no matter how expertly run, to ma
terialize all the miles expected of them is due
to the chronic reluctance of such ingenious
pump contrivances to give upi
Those soulless mechanisms can hardly be ex-
Ipected of Intentionally Withholding their preci-
Gus fluid. Yet the battling waywardness of
the gas meter is proverbial and how it some
time seems to work unrestingly all through
the dark and Silly night clicking off cubic feet
that never could be burned. As for the cleo
trio meter, of course nobody ever expects to
know how normally or feverishly active that
lis; and the monthly surprise, oftener sad than
sweet. comes with the bill.
Remembering all this, it is scarcely to be
wondered if observant motorists who have
noted that the more their gasoline costs the
more debiitated and inert it seems to be, be-
gin to look mstrustfully at the measuring
pumps. Can it be that pump with ga very
decided tendency toward short delivery" is on
the market and can be had by the worldly
wise and unregenerate whs will pay the
pricea
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20

Three out of four adults in the United States
read the newspapers. One-half of the people
of this country read nothing else. Nine-ten
of the population forms its opinions of men
and measures by what has appeared in the
daily press This is why people .'who know"
appreciate the influence of the newspapers Of
the country. Public sentiment-that mysteri-
ousu something concerning which we hear so
much and understand so little-is the printed
word; that is to say. everybody thinks about
the things in print, and what everybody thinks
is public opinion
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-20
Voice Of the People

THE Gate City does not assume re.
sponsibilfty for views expressed by
Writers Of communi-
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication, but
for the information Of the editor.l
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-12-31
profound subjects

There is a time for theory
a time for practice and a
time for play at Barnard
College.