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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

no statements regarding their trade.
The Netherlands and the Scsndi-
navian states supply no monthly
.rade figures. Argentina's exports
are below those Of last year. but the
imports are increasing. Brazil shows
an increase in both imports and ey-
ports, and so does Chile. Japan's
imports and exports are larger, but
China and India show a fall in both
exports and imports. Australia and
New Zealand report increases of i'm
norts and exports, and this is also
true of Canada. Cuba. Egypt and
British South Africa. The record
of the United States is before you
every day, an enormous increase in
exports, and material advance in
imports.
II is, however, in the classes of
articles forming this greatly in
creased international trade that we
are especially interested. The de-
mands of the war have changed the
movement of certain lines of mer-
chandise. Our exports of explosives,
for example, grew from $6,0O0,00O
in 1914 to s467, 900, 900 in 1916; fresh
beef exported increased from 7,00O,-
900 pounds in 1914 to 231 900 900 in
1916. Exports of knit goods from
the United States were in 1916 near
ly ten times as much in value as in
the year before the war, and prac-
tically all of them went TO the
trenches; while in woollen goods the
outward movement in 1916 was also
ten times as much in value as in
1914.
Every country which has food
stuffs to spare has been drawn upon
by the warning countries TO the
limit of its surplus. and upon every
manufacturing country the calls
have been equally earnest, irrespec-
tive Of prices. Argentina, Brazil.
Australia, New Zealand and Canada
have exported enormous quantities
of breadstuffs ard meats to the war
ring nations, and the United States,
Canada and Japan, the only manu-
featuring countries outside of Eu-
rope, are supplying enormous guam
titles of manufactures; not merely
wa munitions, but many other
articles necessary for the battlefield
CT the movement Of troops and sup
plies. Practically all Of the increase
in our exports TO Europe, an ad-
vance from S1,5O0,0O0,000 in 1914
to S3,O0O,0C0,O0O in 1916, is due to
the demands Of war, whether for
food, clothing, transportation facil-
tiles or actual warfare, and this is
true in perhaps somewhat less
degree Of the great increase which
has occurred in the export trade Of
Canada and Japan
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

country in the war. To the neutral
countries Of Europe the increase has
been large. but a considerable per
centage of this has probably passed
thence to the nations at war, while
the remainder is chiefly temporary
demand. due to the inability Of those
countries TO obtain their usual sup
plies from their immediate neighbors
in Europe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
Rerlin. October |

Berlin, October |.
The German Empire in time OF
peace had slowly grown to be the
second best customer of the United
States. More than three hundred
million dollars worth of American
goods we're bought annually. To-day
il can hardly get 1 per cent Of this
total. The United States is at the
moment not feeling to any degree
the elimination of this once splen-
did customer, as the selling Of goods
to the Entente Allies more than
fully compensates the loss of Ger
many's custom. That will not re-
main so forever.
After the war the Entente coun-
tries now living on their capital will
rot even buy as much as in the
last years of peace, for the greatest
economy will be necessary for them.
England's economic life faces a
fundamental change. That coun-
try, having neglected its own pro-
duction to a high degree as com
pared with Germany, is bound to
raise by every means the domestic
production of its industries, but es-
pecially of its agriculture. AS a
consequence, English imports will
sharply recede. On this account
alone the question is of great i'm
portance to America if Germany
will again appear as buyer as for
merly. To it we must add the Sec
ond question: Can Germany pay for
a considerable import of goods?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19
Many Epoch-Making
Inventions

Many an American may consider
the once splendid custom as lost,
for when a country after more than
two years of warfare has been get.
ting along without American goods
once considered absolutely neces
sary, then it may be possible to be
able to do so later on. This as
sumption might be strengthened
further by news constantly recur
ring of epoch-making German in
ventions. One hears of substitutes
for copper, cotton, saltpetre, arti-
fetal rubber and many other things,
and this news is no bluff. The best
proof of the truth of these reports
consists in the fact that Germany
up to the present time is not lack
ing ammunition, that the automobile
is still in active service, and that
the great electrical concerns, in
spite of the lacking import of cop
per, are doing more construction
work than in times Of peace.
And yet the assumption that Ger
many can in the future do without
these former imports is totally
wrong, for great number of these
substitutes ara so expensive that
they will, when peace comes, not be
able to compete. One has to dis
tinguish in these substitutes be-
tween two kinds, namely ta) those
able to stand up under foreign COM
petition, and (b) those that worry
along only thanks to the necessity
of the moment. Now, it so happens
that just those materials which
without doubt will prove for all
future time an enrichment of Ger
many, and which will therefore be
retained in the economic life OF
peace, offer no competition to prod
ucts of the United States.
AS far as it is possible to judge
for the outsider, the most splendid
technical progress is represented by
the production of nitrogen from the
air, based upon the process of Pro-
fessor Haber. There are two rea-
sons for this fact: First, the pro-
duction is extraordinarily cheap;
second, the production can be in
creased indefinitely. as no raw ma
terials are necessary, with the eX-
ception of air and coal. This in
vention should enable Germany to
multiply its production of foodstuffs
for animals and also for the human
being. Possibly Germany will save
in future years its entire bill for
import of foodstuffs, which had
finally increased to nearly three
billion marks. As it is well known,
Germany has never imported a con-
siderable amount of foodstuffs from
the United States. These came es.
pecially from Russia, Rumania and
South America.
Substitutes Are
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
ROCK ISLANDS REVIVAL.

The advance in Rock Island road stock quo
tations is significant in view of the recent con-
ference of the interests concerned in the re-
organization scheme The statement for the
year is most favorable and gives hope that in
time this great transportation system will be
in the place it should occupy viewed from
the standpoint of the travelling public and the
investor. The surplus for the year ending in
June was $2,927, $50, as compared with deficit
for the previous year of $734,67 making a
gain for the net income Of $685., 1856 The
surplus for the year just closed was equal to
about four per cent on the present stock, which
is regarded as a splendid showing under the
circumstances
There was an increase in the gross revenue
for the year Of 81 ,399,077. which brought it up
to above $75,OOOO0O for the first time in the his
tory of the system. Some good work was done
by the operating force along the lines pro
posed by Expert Kendrick, with the result that
expenses were increased only 81 AS, sos, leav-
ing gain in the net revenue of So 9S3,471.
Detailed figures of operating expenses show
that the saving was entirely in the transporta-
ton expenses and that larger amount was
spent for both maintenance of road and equip
ment than in the previous year. In other
words, larger expenditures the property
charged to operating expenses were offset to
certain extent by actual decrease in the
transportation expenses, notwithstanding the
heavier tonnage handled
Taking the statement as a whole, it is high
1y encouraging and shows that the earnings are
giving substantial value TO the stock; Also that
the present management of the road is getting
better results out Of the business than formerly
Were shown.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
SUNDAY PLEAsURING.

What christian may properly do on Sunday
was considered Interestingly in recent sermon
by Chicago clergyman, the reasonable conten-
ton of the speaker being that any use OF the
day is permissible which upbuilds men and does
not violate the spirit of worship.
Little fault will be found with this state
ment, for the conception that the Sabbath was
made for man and should serve his needs very
generally prevails. But when it comes to par
ticularizing and drawing the line between
proper and unpermissible activities the ideas OF
individuals will be as different as their up
bringing has been and as their predictions
and opportunities for gratifying them are.
We can agree with the Chicago dominic that
it is Sunday relaxation rather than recreation
that our complex and fatiguing social order de-
mands. But these cannot be ASSOCIATED, rest
fulness and pleasure being commonly conloined
in Sunday outings or activities Other men
quite as earnest for righteousness would extend
this clergyman S list of permissible enjoyments
to cover many more. Others might cut it short,
and the most that can be said is that one con-
scientious person is as justified as another in
making the list to suit himself and fit his own
particular needs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
o. o. Magoun, Former Iowa Resident,
Makes This Statement in Inter-
view in Davenport
Paper.
SAW BooTLEGGERs, ALSO
Thinks Burlington and keokuk Are
Suffering From Hootlesgins, Ae-
cordins to the
II
Interview.

That he saw beer sold openly over
the Keokuk bars, is the statement
credited to d. o. Magoun. a former
resident Of Davenport, in an inter
view In the Davenport Democrat
Magoun has come back to Iowa after
ttirty-seven years away from its Dor
ders, and he has considerable to say
about every city where he stops.
According to the Davenport Demo
crat here is the way Magoun de-
scribes the great Iowa desert, as he
sees 1t.
ut Is strange to see no sa-
looms. and it looks odd to me in
the river towns, such as Bur
1ington. Ft. Madison and Keokuk.
However, in Keokuk saw beer
sold openly over the bar and was
told the town was full of boot
leggers, which I was informed
was the situation at Burlington.
also"
Judging from the general trend of
Magoun's interview in the Davenport
paper he Is the same person as the
hitherto unidentified man who has
been passing out such glowing COM
pliments to the cities along the river.
He had quite a package Of "boosts"
for Keokuk at the time he was in
Burlington, and evidently he has
saved some of his knocks until now.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
NAVAL BUILDING PLANS.

It is good news that with the signing of the
naval bill the secretary of the navy will adj
vertise for bids for the construction of four
new battleships The bill provides for the
building of one hundred and ffty-seven vessels,
including ten battleships, six battlecruisers,
ten scoutships and many auxiiaries. all to be
constructed within three years. The plans for
the battlecruisers are not complete, but those
for the battleships, which will be of thirty two
thousand or more tons burden and will carry
sixteen-inch guns, are ready and the advertise
ments prepared
There was merited criticism of the admins
tration's delay in providing for the constructio,
OF ships authorized by the last congress- and i
has been said by way of explanation that there
We're controversies with the armor plate manu-
1acturers and private shipyards and that tn,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
SURE, KEOKUK
Is INTERESTED
Whatever Concerns its Nelahbors ID
Of Moment to This
City.

Under the caption "Keokuk Shows
Interest in MonUose Chautauqua,'
the Montrose Journal says:
A few days ago. while in Keokul
the question of how we came out
with our chautauqua came up and
one of the members of the Retail
Merchants league made careful In
quiry. and when he learned that the
committee had come out ahead, he
seemed very much pleased He is one
of the men who gave substantial as
sistance in this work.
The Keokuk people are beginning
to know that those who live outside
of the city have interests which are
linked to their own. We were much
pleased with the interest shown by
this gentleman and We are sure that
others OF the league are interested a
well.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
Voice Of the People


1.-THE Gate City does not assume re.
sponsibility for views expressed by
correspondents. Writers of communi
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication, but
for the information Of the editor.]
Farm Production and Cooperative
Credit.
To the Editor OF The Gate City:
Thursday you had an article written
by Joe L. Long with challenge to
show how there would be anything
left Of the problem OF farm produc-
ton IL we get good roads.
Now, through both the Homestead
and the Register and Farmer" have
advocated both q state commission
for highways and some such rival for
the road laws as suggested in your
paper, July "a, 1915. Both parties ia.
in exact disfavor, as 1t is still pos
sible to get some test OF efficiency as
well as some superior Jurisdiction
on organization for business, for the
farm is now too much OF social
matter both as to exemption from
eXcCuIlOu duu % " cnuo"AASAS, oAAo
these should be looked after in trans
fer and levy on shares.
The farmer must first get 1t made
clear that farm is q factory and the
farmer legally a manufacturer under
Section 1919, and the shares are ex
empt from taxation, owing to the fact
that both the real estate and the per
sonal property have to be listed. In
so far there is no double taxation, but
there is when it comes to mortgages
the interest on which should be listed
as personal property and treated as
is rent in probate. but the principal
represents the fixed asset. on which Is
based the cost of production. Even Z
man on a velocipede ought to see that
cheap living and improved produc
ton cannot be If the cost is to go on
and on-up and double. The rural
l. e.. really cooperative credit law,
NAV cause mortgages to be relieved
from taxation, but l fear the cost OF
promotion Is as bad or worse, and
want to know whether the one is or
can be subrogated to the holdings OF
the all or any In case Of default, or
really what is the meaning of requir-
ing ten to get a loan? The idea OF
cooperation is foreign and undigested
yet
The farm can be Incorporated, in
Iowa, too, and stop outside or foreign
investments. The farm as a factory,
was presented in st. Paul paper
some years ago.
:. P. DICKSON.
Keokuk, Iowa, August 26. 1915.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
BIT OF VERSE
FRIENDSHIP.

Are you friend Of mine? If 1 forget
And say thing which i should not have said,
Will you stretch forth your hand and tell me yet
You are my friend so let the past be dead?
Are you friend of mine? True friendship lies
Deeper than hate within the mortal core
And through the fires of anger it shall rise
Nobler stronger, purer than before.
Are you a friend OF mine? True friendship lives
And burns with fires which shall forever burn;
All that it asks is friendship and it gives
All that it has of friendship in return.
Are you a friend of mine? In life's dim light,
When friends have met and quarreled in the way,
They bear grief, but rising from the fight.
They still are friends they yesterday.
Arthur Names, in Kansas City Star.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

navy department merely awaited favorable
opportunity for building. But evidently the
president and Secretary Daniels have seen
new light, and probably the liberal building
program approved by the house and senate VII
be carried out as rapidly as possible. Six bat
tleships are under construction, and it IS ex-
pected that the four authorized in the present
bill will be commissioned in 1918. The new
ships will be as good, it is promised, as any
afloat, and within three years the American
navy will be adequate as we'll as efficient.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

/ - :, a z =
Cedar Rapids Gazette Colonel
Lowden, republican candidate. prom
ises If elected governor to rule I'LL
nois on the Ten Commandments, a
platform wholly unfamiliar to the
rank and file Of politicians who de-
mand to know whether 1t represents
the standpat or the progressive ele-
ment.
Sioux City Journal: Mr.. Harding's
friends have one consoling reflection:
II the opposition of the Des Moines
Register was at all effective, Mr..
Harding would not now be the repub-
lican party's candidate for governor.
The Register used up it's whole stock
Of munitions Of war during the pri-
mary campaign.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: He who
reckons upon the present fortuftOus
business and industrial activity as a
permanent condition in the United
States after the war without revision
Of the tariff and other essential legis-
lation Is, indeed, fit subject for the
fools paradise" to which Hughes
referred.
Charles City Press: Candidate
Meredith says he drinks champagne
at public functions through courtesy
to his guests and hosts. A man Of
stronger personality, with settled
temperance convictions, would have
merely turned his glass, and neither
his guests nor his hosts could have
taken offense. But what excuse can
Meredith have as temperance man
for serving liquor at his own ban
quets?
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Mr..
Bryan has apparently given up the
idea of becoming president. He has
given his crown Of thorns and cross
of gold speech thorough tryout on
this line. He will now, if reports are
true, try the more substantial route
of going to North Carolina from
which place he will try for election
to the senate by dependable state
democracy. By the way, who hap
pens to be representing North Caro-
lima in the senate now? Who knows?
Sioux City Journal: The bakeries
at st. Paul have Joined forces to cut
down the cost Of production, and will
also devote much energy to convince
the housewife that it is cheaper to
buy a 10-cent loaf Of bread than it
is to buy a scent loaf. Pretty soon
the housewife will have to take a
magnifying glass along to locate s.
cent loaf. and then the conviction
that 1O-cent loaf is cheaper, or at
least more worth while, will have
been reached.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

have always thinking Of the different ways In
which Christianity taught wherever find one way
that makes blessing than other cling to
that as the trest-i which takes in the most
people 1t II is surely better to pardon roo
much than to condemn much-George Eliot
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

The golden moments in the stream of life
rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the
angels come to visit u.s. and we only know
them when they are gone-George Eliot.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
ADVERTISED LETTERS.


List of letters remaining In the
Keokuk postoffice. uncalled for, for
week ending August 26, 1915:
Ladies.
Mrs. Katie Bawer.
Mrs Will Erman.
Mrs Alex CASTOR.
Mrs. Edna Gordon.
Mrs. Bertha Johnson.
Miss Mae Lacey.
Miss Grace Richardson.
Mrs. Will Woods.
Gentlemen.
G.. z. Allen
Mr.. Carl Ashley.
Mr.. Clarence Brown.
Mr.. Frank Faulkner.
Mr. Edward Mcintosh.
Mr.. Charles Parey-
Mr.. Theodore Rolaugh.
Persons calling for letters in above
list will please say they are adver-
tised- E. p. McMANUS,
PoStmaafAe-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26
PUPILS SAVINGS.

The federal bureau of education has under
taken to foster and extend the school savings
bank system. The plan is believed to have or
iginated in France in 1884, but it was in Bel
GUM about 1873 that it was first popularized
Now it is in force in those two countries and has
pretty firm hold in Germany, Italy, Switzer-
land, Denmark, Australia and Canada. In this
country it was first adopted in Beloit, Wis., in
1876, but made little or no progress until insti-
tuted in Long Island City in 1885 Now it is in
hundred cities in the country. More than two
hundred thousand pupils are depositors; de-
positors of four and a quarter million dollars
have been made and more than one and a
quarter million dollars are now on deposit in
the public school banks. The design is to incul-
cate thrift teach business methods and conserve
health by reducing small expenditures for un-
wholesome foods and drinks. sza
Another explorer has returned from the Arc
tic, battered by the severe winter seasons that
have prevailed there for the past few years. En-
sign FitZhugh Green was sent north In 1913 as
the governments representative on the expe-
dition to Croker Land. The brief word from
him in Copenhagen fails to tell anything about
Croker Land or the fate Of the rest of the
party Should it turn out that no trace of the
land reported sighted by Peary has been found
and worse, that men have been lost in the wild
goose chase we should have but another ex-
ample of the disappointments of the Arctic,
that great expanse which has yet to yield a
single particle of material return for the labor
of exploration.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

Don't try to make guest feel al
homo unless you know what sort O.
home he has.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

Fortunate is the man who has no
time to take advice because he is too
busy selling 1t.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

In spite of the increased cost of living, it is
costing less than ever to feed the men in the
navy, says the paymaster. Well, it must be
admitted in Secretary Daniels behalf that he
has done his best to take away the mems ap-
petite.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

Girls at Michigan's agricultural college, it
announced, are to study husbandry. But VIII
mention it?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

New York City wig-makers have declared a
strike. At any rate, they have got the con-
sumner where his hair is short.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

The Chicago burglar who had the misfortune
to be throttled by woman with his own neck
tie brought it ON himself by wearing black. If
the silk had been azure ecru such
delicate tone she couldn't have brought herself
to crumple it up.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

punitive expedition tangled up in apron
strings wasn't very inspiring at best.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

1.-THE Gate City does not assume re-
sponsibility for views expressed by
correspondents. Writers of commune
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication, but
for the information Of the editor.]
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

The militia will be kept on the border until
the border is safe, says Secretary Baker. We
may as well begin work on the Christmas boxes
of our soldier friends.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-26

No more touching example of loyalty has
been recorded than the rise in the price OF
beans when their old side partner, pork, went
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