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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-03-09

100000 In Stakes at Saratoga.
The Saratoga N. ~ Racing asso-
citation is expected to hang up close to
100000 in stakes for running horse
events at the Spa track in the present
year.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-03-09
OUR PUBLIC FORUM
j. S. CuIlinan
ON CITIZENSHIP.

Mr.. j. S. Cullinan, President of he Texas Economic
League, in inviting the people to study and discuss cti-
zenship and to give special attention to the problems of
government, said in part: Before we can intelligently
study so important a subject as citizenship we must first
define it. What is citizenship? Who is the best Ameri-
can citizen? Search the statute books for a defini-
ton Of citizenship and unless one is a member of the
legal profession we Immediately become entangled in a
Of confusing and ofttimes contradictory laws,
seeking TO promote Oh restrain most every form of human
activity, much of them good, some of them bad and others
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-03-09

LODGEOF Observation-Disclosures No. 8,
holds regular communications ON the first and
third Thursdays of each month at the Masonic
J.E. TRUAx, V. Nj.
ROBERT WORK, Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-03-09
SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

CHAPTER OF ROSE CRoIX-Langdon Chap
the first and third Thursdays of each month
at the Masonic Temple.
WILLIAM FLAcK, W. NJ.
Robert Work, Secretary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-03-09

A. F.. e. A. M.-Lebanon Lodge holds regular
communications at the Masonic Temple on the
second and fourth Fridays of each month.
WILLIAM FIACK, w. M.
VIM STEyENSON. Secretarv.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
HE KILLED FIVE
RATTLESNAkES
Bridgeport, Ia, Man Collects Bounty
at County Court House
on Saturday.

H. M. Green, resident Of Bridge
port, received $3.50 bounty at the
county court house at Fort Madison
Saturday for killing five rattlesnakes.
The largest of the rattlers was four
feet and half long. while the small.
est was foot and three inches long
The smallest had one rattle and
button. the largest twelve rattles and
a button. The remaining three were
possessed of ten, nine and six buttons
respectively.
The rattlers were killed within the
last three weeks in the same vicinity
Mr.. Green killed one .nce before
this year that had thirteen rattles
and a button. He states that none OF
tho snakes have shown much fight
one blow of a stick being sufficient
to dispatch them to snake heaven
Eight were killed on the Klopfensteln
place during the past month. he
could give no reason for so many
of them being killed this. year I'M
less the dry weather was forcing the
reptiles to seek water.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
Sixteen Millions or Ninety Per c.,.
Of Money coIIsoted In 1915,
Was Spent on the
Highways.
AMOUNT IS INCREASING
Seven Per Cent Of the Bridge Fund !,
Paid This Way Now, While
Formerly Il Was One
IA. Per Cent.

Ninety per cent OF the REGISTRAR,
| and license fees paid In 1915 by anto.
mobslists to the state, or s16.2133s
was spent for the building and main.
tenance Of county and state roads AZ.
cording to compilation just published
by the office Of public roads of the da.
partment. In all, {, 445,664 motor va.
hicles were registered in that wear
and their owners paid total of s1S.
245,713 for registrations and driver,
and dealers licenses. This is an In.
crease Of $5,S63,760 over 1914. and an
increase of 734. 1895 in the number 81
vehicles registered. Automobile fees
now defray nearly per cent of the
total amount spent on rural road and
bridge building, whereas in 1906 the
income from this source was less than
three-tenths Of per cent OF the total
expenditure.
The growth OF the volume of fees
and registrations is noted by the fact
that in 1901 New York, the first state
to require fees, collected only 1854. In
1906 only $4,000 cars were registered
throughout the entire United States.
By 1915, however, the number has
jumped to the figure given, so that
there is slightly more than one motor
car registered for each Of the 2,375,00O
miles OF road outside of the incor.
porated towns and cities.
The relation between cars and road
mileage varies widely in different
sections. There is only one motor
car for every six miles OF rural road
in Nevada, but nearly six motor cars
for every mile Of such road in New
Jersey. There is an average of one
motor car registration for every for.
ty-four persons in the United States.
Iowa apparently leads, however, with
one motor car for every sixteen per.
sons, while only one for every ~
persons is registered for Alabama.
1t must be understood, however,
that the figures Of registration do not
necessarily represent a. total number
of cars, as some OF the states do not
require annual registration, others
group pleasure and commercial cars
and motorcycles in their accounts,
while still other states do mot reqaaso-
registration of motorcycles.
There Is great inequality in the reg.
istration fees charged by the differ.
ent states The average for the
United States was $746. The state
of Vermont, however, secured in 1915
gross revenue of $3.50 for each
motor car, while Minnesota received
only about so cents annually for each
car. In Texas and South Carolina
no annual registration fees are col.
lected, the only requirement being
county fee OF so cents and 81, re-
spective1y, for perennial registration.
Most of the states, however, also
levy annual taxes on motor vehicles,
and this adds Importantly to the pub
lie revenue contributed by the owners
of motor-propelled vehicles.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
REFORMING OYSTER BAY.

If the town of Oyster Bay, n. Y, is In a
heroic mood it has an opportunity to enter
upon new era of social and industrial Justice,
led gently but firmly by the hand of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt.
Oyster Bay has not maintained a vigorous
foreign policy, and as a result has been invaded
by infantile paralysis germs from New York
CITY The town charter has been full of pussy
footing and weasel words. the colonel finds, so
that s'this town has never had real cleanup
But adds Colonel Roosevelt, cit is going
to get one now When the colonel voiced
this prediction the crowd cheered and decided
to include public park in the general i'm
provement plan.
Theodore Roosevelt is an exceedingly active
citizen, whether the job of the mo1hent be 8
war with man-eating fish or with European
government; disease germs, the predatory rich
the willful and malicious liars-they'r re all alik
to the colonel.
Oyster Bay may be small field for tn
Roosevelt energies. but because of that thos
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
SCHOOLING FOR OUR FARMERS.

! Factory and farm have proved beyond ques-
ton the value of giving their workers all the
schooling possible. It is possible now to sno"
by figures gathered from the manufacturing
plants and from special educational reports that
the high school trained factory worker makes
double the wages of the man who has not been
so trained and that there is still higher per
cent of gain for the graduate OF the technlcal
college In agriculture the graduate OF the
farm high school and of the agricultural college
has an equal advantage; perhaps the showing IS
even better. for although the maximum wage
lis lower than in factory work, it represents net
Income since the farm furnishes house ana
food
But Clarence Sears Hayes, secretary OF the
Philadelphia agricultural service bureau, de-
clares that farm education is at a disadvantage
in comparison with trade education; he says
that the organized industries are bearing part
of the financial burden of educating workers
and are showing willingness to regard this as
a profitable investment. He contends that
with farm workers there is no organization to
furnish a supplemental fund and thus the op-
portunities for advanced study do not keep
pace with those offered to workers IN the
trades This fear does not seem justified by
past experience or present outlook.
The farms of the country represent an
enormous capital which is rapidly swinging INTO
column force behind the movement for sclentlnc
methods and trained workers The government
department of agriculture under James Wilson
inaugurated an educational movement for the
farmers of the country quite as efficient as any
that formal trade organization has started The
rural high schools the state agricultural col
leges, the courses in scientific agriculture OF
fered by our universities and technical schools
are giving plenty of opportunity to farm stu
dents Moreover, the farm worker looks to
market for his labor which is not crowded; ne
looks to many chances to turn his labor into
capital in the shape of land; these are advan-
tages which the trade worker has In far less
measure Organization of the farming inter
ests of the country is valuable and Is coming,
but schooling for farm workers is not hafnpered
by the lack of it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
Mr.. sryan's Compensation.

Webster City reeman-Tribune:
The Freeman-Tribune asked one OF
the gentlemen who spoke. at the
chautauqua here if he knew what
compensation Mr.. Bryan received. He
replied that he did, saying that Mr..
Bryan gets $3.50 and half the gate re-
ceipts for each address. Mr.. Bryan
insists, too, upon making two adj
dresses a day. hence his income from
Ichautauqua addresses must be from
800 to 81 900 per day Yet this Is the
man who told the people here that
the press is subsidized, intimating that
the newspapers are supporting the
preparedness propaganda because
they have been bought. MIR. Bryan
declared that the advocates OF pre-
parejness are for preparedness at so
much per prepare. On the other hand
Mr.. Bryan is against preparedness at
the price he demands. It is doubtful
if any Of the big newspapers-even il
they are all dishonest and have sold
| THAR soul 20 the munitions trust-ge'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
You cannot step twice into the same river;
for other and even other waters flow on
Heraclitus.
ON WITH THE POLITICAL DANCE.

What disappointment this campaign Will
prove to those weather prophets who gave us a
forecast of deadly dulness They based their
view on the notion that both candidates were
of the intellectual type, quiet scholarly men
who would talk in measured tones and classic
English of the basic principles of government.
The ball has opened and there aren't any old
fashioned minuets on the program Mr.. Hughes
began to make things lively with the first num-
Der and now that the administration has caught
the STEP we shall have very pretty dance, as
modern as could be wished for.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
He wa. Convinced.

Charles City Intelligencer: We once
heard of man who did not believe in
advertising. A newspaper man, a
personal friend, tried to convince him
of the error of his ways. But he
pleaded in vain. But one day the man
who did not believe in advertising lost
a wrench He made known his loss
among his friends, but to no avail. The
newspaper man made the proposition
to the man that If he did not find his
wrench through advertising. the ad
would cost him nothing, SO the bargain
was made. In a short time five
wrenches were given the man who did
not believe in advertising. He is now
regular space man with home
papers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
keenina car.

New York World: Economists with
a passion for Analysing figures have
a fertile field for study III the auto
mobile statistics prepared by the
United States department of agricul.
ture To say that last year there
were 2,445,664 motor vehicles regis
tered in the United States and that
the owners paid $18,245,718 in regis
tration and license fees is the small
est part of the story.
To boast that in lows there was
one motor vehicle for every sixteen
inhabitants Is to testify to the farm
ers' prosperity, which has been no
secret But how much, of the hum
dreds Of millions of dollars invested
in automobiles Is productive invest
ment for the owners? How much OF
it represents expenditures for plea
sure that brings no economic return
How far has the autombile contrib
uted to economies In business? How
much has it added to the general cost
of living, in the promotion of luxury
and ease among all classes of people
In the creation Of new industries and
new occupations for wage-earners?
To make up balance-sheet for the
whole nation would be an endless
task. Before it was begun the figures
would be out of date. There was an
increase of 734.325 motto. vehicles in
1914 alone in the UniteI States.
Some day, however, social sur
vey revolving around the automobile
must be made. Everything else con-
nected with the family income and
the family expenditures has been
tabulated, turned over and scruti-
nized. 1t still remains TO be settled
positively what is the minimum wage
on which a respectable American.
faithful to modern standards of liv-
ing, can keep a car.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
Food and Dairy Inspector Of Iowa
Tells Conventions In East How
He Brings Offenders
to Time.
VENDORS WATCH STEPS
Finds That Majority Of Trade 10 More
Than WILLING TO Conn
ply With state
Regulations.

Law enforcement in the state dairy
and food department has a powerful
weapon in the law which requires the
licensing of food and drug vendors
giving the state commissioner power
to revoke the license II food laws are
violated. This is the conclusion
reached by State Food and Dairy
Commissioners w. B. Barney in his an
nual address at Detroit before
the National Association of Dairy
Food and Drug officials, OF which or
ganization he is the president.
after an experience of more than
six years at the head Of the depart
ment in our state where l have the
enforcement of twelve laws, am
Obliged to say that the license feature
in many Of these laws is the strongest
best and most helpful section they
contain" the Iowa commissioner de.
clared.
1--WE believe the license clause in
our sanitary law has cut down the
total number OF prosecutions over one
hundred per cent We have not been
Obliged to revoke more than a dozen
licenses a year. The revoking OF
licenses is big stick with which to
line up the willful offender. This Is
especially true where the commits
sioner is given the authority to revoke
the licenses"
Commissioner Barney said these
licenses to food and drug vendors
should not be large enough to be
hurdensome. In Iowa they range from
81 per year, milk dealers license
fee, to 50, the fee for testing scales.
The annual revenue to the state has
increased in the last six years he
said, from about $500 to $4,000.
I'VE find. too. that our legislature is
more apt to look with favor on
changes in our old laws. or the enact
ment of new legislation, il a commits
sioner can show that the department
is self supporting or nearly SO.
For some time my conclusions have
been that there Is no calling in life in
which we do not find a small percent
age of men who will for pecuniary
gain use dishonest methods, or what
we might less harshiy term. sharp
practices. But this is no reason why
the better class of men in the trade
should not, to certain extent, be
taken into your confidence. 1t becomes
comparatively easy to enforce a law
or regulation where 20 or greater
percentage of the trade to be regu-
lated is perfectly willing to comply.
81 have frequently said in talks be.
fore clubs and associations and at
other times that the best way for the
public to get rid of the insanitar,
place. or short weight place. is &c
patronize the clean place and the
honest dealer"
Failure to enforce the law tends to
promote dishonesty. he said. He said
that IL one dealer In town adulterat-
ed his products and went unpublished
the other dealers would be forced to
do the same thing to meet competition
and thus one crook would make all his
competition dishonest who before had
been honest.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
WHERE RESPONSIBILITY LIES.

No one should be misled by the careless
statements made in some quarters respecting
the trainmen' IS vote. There was no vote to
strike, but there was an affirmative vote au-
thorizing the brotherhood chiefs to call strike,
if they unable to make terms with the
roads. Responsibility goes with authority 1t
must be assumed that no sane person desires a
tie-up of the transportation lines. The respon-
sibiitv of the men at the head of the train
mems organizations was vastly increased by
the action Of the members The leaders are in
honor bound to employ every means at their
command to secure peaceful settlement Of the
questions at issue
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
a snapshot in Boston.

New York Evening Post: In Boston
a photographer surreptitiously snap
ped a young blonde. The young
blonde called him an impudent NAM
mothrept He had strength enough
left to grope for a dictionary, which
informed him that in the young
blondes eyes he was "a child reared
by its grandmother; spoiled child
If he were to pack that word UP care
fully and take IT down to Oyster Bay,
he might be able to sell it for its
weight in gold.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
TODAY,s BIT OF VERSE
FRIENpsHlP AND FORTUNE,

= =
Everyone that flatters thee
Is no friend in misery.
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find;
Every man will be thy friend
Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;
But If store OF crowns be scant,
No man will supply thy want.
Ii that one be prodigal
Bountiful they will him call.
And with such-like flattering
Pity but he were king"
IL he be addict to vice,
Quickly him they will entice;
If to women he be bent,
They have at commandment;
Bit IL fortune once do frown,
Then farewell his great renown:
They that fawn'd on him before
Cse his company no more.
ie that is thy friend. indeed.
He viii telp thee in thy need;
r thou sorrow, ne will weep,
II thou wake, he cannot sleep;
has of every grief IN heart
lie with thee doth bear part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.
William Shakespeare.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
London Land Values.

London Tit-Bits: The recent sale
of the Arundel estate in the west
end of London, comprising land and
buildings on both sides of Arundel
street and Panton street, which
fetched e250.000, again calls to mind
the amazing value of land in London.
Not long ago a tiny piece OF ground
at Charing Cross, adjoining the Mall
archway, and comprising only 1914
square feet. with frontage of SO
feet, was sold by the London county
council to an insurance company for
G11,737, which works out at G1,100,-
900 an acre.
It is in the city, the square mile of
which is valued at 6 ESQ, 000, 900, how
ever, where land can easily claim the
distinction of being the dearest in the
world. For property near the center
OF the city E3,250,000 an acre is not
an unusual price. Portions of Cannon
street, Queen Victoria street. Upper
Thames street and ST. Mary-at-Hill,
are said to be worth about 5 shillings
square inch, while in Lombard
street and King William street land
has been sold for $40, $50, ESQ
and G70 per square foot freehold.
The three acres on which the Bank
of England stands would realize at a
low estimate, E7,000.000, for the land
adjoining has sold at a70 and ESQ
square foot.
On King street, Cheapside, G13 los
foot was paid for a piece of land
last year Land at the junction of
Old Broad street and Threadneedle
street changed hands for nearly E7O
square foot Land in Cornhill was
sold at price which worked out at
92.452.023 an acre, while some time
ago a1.00.000 was offered and re-
fused for the site Of church in Aus
tin Friars.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14

for their services from 500 to $1,000
per day. The Freeman-Tribune is not
complaining of the pay Mr.. Bryan
gets, but it does resent his insults to
the press and SO far as this paper is
concerned it has Just as much conf
dence in the integrity and honesty OF
the men who conduct the big newspa-
pers of the country as it has in the
men whose business is making public
speeches for pay.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14

energies will loom large in the public prints.
And anything that looms large and having the
colonel as the center of attraction is not as
pleasing to the strenuous one. We look to see
Oyster Bays iniquities dragged into the Iight
and dubbed over the head with the spear that
knows no brother.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
IOWA.

! MARStALdIIOWN, Iowa, Aug. II.
Robert ]. Williams, arrested at
Tama recently for q murder at Dillon,
July 20. has made a written confess
SIGN in which he admits he murdered
Mrs. Matilda c. Stewart, mother of his
former sweetheart. Ruby Stewart, and
committed a murderous assault upon
Wendell P. Foote, betrothed to marry
Miss Stewart. Jealousy was the mo-
tive for the murder.
MUSCATINE, Iowa, Aug. 14.-The
reorganization of the Muscatine North
and South railroad under the name OF
the Muscatine, Burlington & South
ern, became effective when an order
was received by M. Daily, receiver to
lpay all outstanding claims Money for
this was provided in the 100000 in
denture filed in the district court last
week.
WILTON, Iowa, Aug. 14.-Entries
for the races at the Wilton fair, Aug.
i16-1S, indicate some good speed
events, with speedy animals from four
states competing for the honors. Most
of the entries are Iowa animals, but
Illinois, Missouri and Minnesota will
be represented.
| DIES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 14.-State
| Auditor Frank S. Shaw has not yet
found anyone to take the office Of
chief bank examiner, made vacant
some six weeks ago by the death of
Andrew Wolever. The Office only
pays 1900 per year, which is the
same salary which the bank examin-
| ers out on the road receive. The ex-
aminers do not want to take it at the
same salary as they are paid on the
| road because more money can be saw
| ed living in some of the smaller towns
of the state than in Des Moines, they
! say. 81
WEBSTER CITY. Iowa, Aug. IA
The second accident occurring around
threshing machines of this vicinity
happened on the Smell form near Dun
combe, when Knut B. Williams, aged
35 years, married. and resident of
Eagle Grove accidentally stepped
threshing machine and had part of his
right foot torn OF in the cylinder.
DIES MONIES. Iowa. Aug. 14.-At
the close of the biennial period the
Panama Pacific commission from Iowa
had balance Of $14.776 on hand out
of an appropriation of $4,000 made by
the legislature for the Iowa represen-
tation at the San Francisco exposi-
ton.
DUBUQUE, Iowa. Aug. 1.-THE I'M
rest that has prevailed among street
car motormen and conductors has van
fshed. No impending strike looms UP
Ito menace this city as it has for the
past few days. in fact ever since the
street car men refused to accept the
new wage scale offered by the COM
pany. At melting held Thursday
morning all differences were settled
and now both sides contend that they
are satisfied.
| FORT DODGE, Iowa, Aug ia
Threatened strike CT 500 cement mill
workers was averted when at the close
OF hard fought session the mill oper-
ators conceded the requests Of the mill
workers fer five cent an hour raise
and recognition of their union. This
means that the lowest paid worker in
the mill will get 80 cents an hour for
ten hours.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-08-14
Illinois Iowa Missouri

BELLEVUE. Iowa, Aug. 1.-THE
citizens and old soldiers of Bellevue
have prepared a petition to be present.
ed to the board Of supervisors Of Jack.
son at the September session asking
for a two-tenths mill levy additional
for the soldiers relief levy OF this
county, representing $1,000.