The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-21
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| sharks that wear fms AMI eat men
are numerous just now in the Allan
| tic ocean. There are others much
more numerous who walk about on
two legs and are content to live on
| the fruits of the toll of other men.
| Davenport Times: Preparedness Is
of more kinds than one. and while
New York is reporting deaths due to
infantile paralysis at the rate of one
death an hour, Iowa medical authori-
ties claim that conditions in this
state, as result Of previous pub
licity campaigns, are such that there
is no need now to fear an outbreak
of that disease. However, it will not
be well to be too sure Of that sort Of
thing. 1t will beswell to be on guard
against that and other diseases
peculiar to the heated term.
Muscatine Journal: It seems that
the near beer saloons at Davenport
provided little something more
than the atmosphere Of the old time
institution.
Sioux City Tribune: Laws regulat-
ing the operation OF automobiles were
all enacted to protect human life. It
is saddening to think that il 1t 'twere
not for those laws 1000 people would
be killed where 10 now are killed
This justifies the laws, the oaths ad-
mlniStered to men to enforce them,
and their strict enforcement.
Ottumwa Courier: Don't drive an
automobile between the curling and
a street car which has stopped to
take up or discharge passengers.
Slow up and wait until the car starts
moving again. Common sense and
the law agree that this latter is the
right thing to do.
Waterloo Courier: It might be well
to recall some of the militia from the
border to protect grocery stores,
bakeries, delicatessen shops and pea
nut stands from the hungry militia
now on its way to the border.
Dubuque Times Journal Well, old
Pancho Villa has been Surrounded
again by the defacto troops. Between
dying twelve times and being com
pletely encircled" at least eight
times. the way that man moves
around is something scandalous.
Sioux City Journal: To find the
proper solution of the primary prob
lem, it is necessary for the Journal
only to go back to its files ten years
ago. When the present primary law
was in process of incubation, this
newspaper advocated the application
Eof the primary principle without de-
priving the political parties of the
benefit OF such deliberation in the
making Of nominations as can be
! found only in the convention. To dc
| this, it is not necessary to carry the
function of the primary beyond the
| election of delegates to the county
convention. The Iowa primary law
was enacted as the result CT wide
slIead disgust over horrible
| example" of the evils Of the unfairly
| manipulated caucus AMI consequent
convention clashes. The caucus was
the main source of the nomination
evils the public desired to correct.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Man
chester Press declares that not by a
jugful will Iowa elect a democratic
governor this fall. Majorities in
Iowa this fall will be measured by
dry and not by liquid measure. AS
| a vessel for computing political SEN
timeent the jug is falling into disuse.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Heat ma
lures corn. Corn makes money.
! Money makes the mare co." accord
ing to the old maxim Of colonial
times. Here is chain Of sequences
that should be considered by every
growler at the weather in the coru
belt.
| Waterloo Times-Tribune: The dyes
the Deutschland brought over are
selling for 400 per cent. about peace
! time prices. One guess as to who
pays for the construction Of that boat