The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-07-01
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

| IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
General Leonard Wood doesn't criti.
else the guardsmen for being some.
what slow in getting into motion. but
he criticises the system maintained
BY the national government. The
guard is equipped only for peace
strength. When it Is called into &C
tive service war strength is demand
ed and then it has to absorb raw re
cruits and wait for the government to
ship it equipment for the Few men.
That causes delays. Had tho govern
ment taken the guard as 1t was it
could have been on the way to the
Mexican border within twenty-four
hours instead Of ten days Ut longer.
1t is up to congress to change condi-
tions and to have in every national
guard armOry extra supplies for the
recruits or else eliminate the peace
strength regulation and require that
guard companies shall always be up
to war strength. Demo
crat.
Ottumwa Courier: The theory that
we can keep out of trouble by refus-
ing to fight, is beautiful one. I'm
fortunately it is not practical and it
will not be until all men in the world
reach that state Of perfection gener-
ally accredited only to angels.
Des Moines Tribune: The New York
republican leaders who are urging
Colonel Roosevelt for the United
States senate evidently do not attach
much importance to the coloneps as
sertion that he is out Of politics.
Marshalltown Tim es-Republican:
That split in the progressive party
committee of thirty-two for the re-
nine refusing to vote is about the
measure of division which will take
place among the progressive voters.
OF those who voted for Roosevelt four
years ago a vast majority were re-
publicans who have never been iden-
tilted with the third party organiza-
ton.
Sioux City Journal: You never miss
the khaki till the train pulls out.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Major S. B.
Philpot, republican candidate for sher-
if of Webster county. has gone into
camp and will allow his campaign to
conduct itself. Anyway there are not
enough democrats in Webster county
to make personal attention to his cam
paign a real necessity to Major Philpot.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Well be
going back to Vera Cruz again in the
near future Next time we'll stay
longer and make a more general
cleanup.
Washington Press: That Iowa is
famous for it's farms is evidenced by
the fact that application for farm en-
ployment has recently been received
from an Englishman in st. Peters,
British West Indies. He
states that he is single, age 30, ex-
perienced in farm work, good morals
and can furnish the best Of reference.
There is some difficulty in supplying
the demand for single farm hands.
The calling out of the national guard
is partly responsible for this as a
large number of the militia and new
recruits are young farm hands. This
is especially true in sections where
the cavalry is located.
Sioux City Journal: Let there be
no mistake about one thing If cleo
ted, Hughes will be Hughes man.
Everybody, including :he colonel,
learned that while Hughes was COVER
nor of New York.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: Mine
teen states are now under prohibi-
tion," so runs the boast, but in the
meantime the liquor interests point to
the fact that the internal revenues
paid on liquors for the year that is
about to end shows that he consump.
ton of alcoholic beverages has not
fallen off, but been slightly increased,
there being less beer, but more whis.
key in the total consumptions. ILo
reason for the turning from beer to
whiskey is easily explained for the
whiskey being less bulky Is more
easily transported and smuggled.
Waterloo Courier: A roted mara
thon runner has declined to enlist in
a New York militia regiment despite
the opportunities of friends. Well,
his qualifications are not just what Is
needed on the border at present.
The Ballad Of Peter Smith.
There was a man named Peter Smith,
who when he used the phones,
Said, "This is Peter w. Smith to talk
to Mr.. Jones'"