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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
SHIPPER ADVOCATES INCREASED RATE

Manufacturing bulky commodities IN ten
western and southern states, paying freight on
approximately $4,000 cars yearly of raw and
finished products, Walter S. Dickey, OF Kan
sas City, believes that that railroads should be
granted an immediate and substantial increase
in rates. Owning and operating a number OF
plants producing burned clay products, extern
sively employing labor and using quantities OF
fuel oil and coal, he is troubled with car short
age, congestion at terminals, serious lack OF en-
CINE power of the roads, and is convinced that
these conditions cannot be improved until car
.riers are permitted to earn more.
Railroads sell only transportation, prices are
fixed and regulated by law, but not so with their
expenses, declares Mr.. Dickey. Every element
of cost in transportation is now greatly in
creased, labor, fuel, equipment, supplies and IN
terest ON capital and borrowed money. These
increased costs with the demands of America
for speed, efficiency, capacity and performance
can only be met by an increase in the price OF
the only commodity carriers have for sale, to-
wit, transportation.
With their enormous disbursements, rail
roads of the United States affect a vast number
of people in every section, and it is of national
Importance that they be permitted to prosper
and flourish.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
HELPING THE sPEcuLAToRs.

Humboldt Republican,: We do not
know her name, and we do not want
to know he rname. But she lived in
or near Humboldt, N during the re-
cent sugar shortage she called up her
grocer n ordered a dollars worth
of sugar. The groceryman explained
to her that there was a temporary
sugar shortage and that he was selling
in 50-cent lots only, and hat it had
been agreed that sugar consumers
should use sugar as sparingly as pos
sible to avoid a shortage. And did
the lady content herself with so cents
worth of sugar, and use sparingly to
avoid a shortage? Emphatically she
did not. She argued with her grocer
until she induced him to send her a
dollars worth of sugar, and then she
called up every other grocer in town
and got a dollars worth Of sugar out
of each. In short, that lady laid up
several dollars worth of sugar
in time of shortage, thus robbing
more patriotic families of their just
share. Not only that. but she set a
precedent that, if followed by the
people, would make a wild sugar
scramble, the boosting OF price out of
all proportion, and force want and
misery INTO thousands OF homes. his
woman doubtless did not know it, but
she performed exactly as the trust
barons and sugar kings would have
all humanity perform. Combination
Of selling forces when seeking to force
prices on any commodity to the skies.
always bank on the ayaricious spirit
OF the people who rush to buy and
hoard when there is talk Of shortage.
We have no desire to call hard
names, but the action of buying in
quantities and boarding supplies when
there is talk Of shortage, marks the
hoarder as selfish, foolish and unpat-
riotic.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
SERVICE
HINTS GIVEN
Red Cross Workers Act on Expert.
ence Of Other Nations In
Dealing With Situa-
tons,

The American Red Cross depart
ment Of civilian relief authorizes the
following in it's Manual Of Instruc.
lions to Home Service Workers:
So many people become accus.
toned to a low health standard that
they actually regard i'll health as q
normal thing. Accustom the family
to a higher standard. Attend to
dental defects, eye defects, nose and
throat defects in time, bringing them
promptly to the notice Of the proper
medical and dental specialists.
1t will be necessary in particular
to guard against an increase Of tuber-
culosis. The experience of foreign
countries, especially of France, in
this war indicates the possible rapid
spread of this disease. Accordingly,
especial attention should be directed
ID to any loss of weight in men,
bers of the families visited, (2) to
any persistent cold or cough, (3) to
fever or loss of appetite. Suspected
cases should be Immediately referred
to a doctor or to the local tubercu-
losis dispensary. If the presence of
the disease is determined, adequate
care, either at home or in an avail
able sanatorium or hospital, should
be provided. Close cooperation be-
tween Red Cross visitors and the
local anti-tuberculosis agencies is ad-
vised.
The diet of the family. both in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
AN OLD SUBJECT.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: And now
there IS much comment upon the fact
that John P. Mitchell was defeated in
New York, and badly defeated, de.
spite the fact that he had almost the
entire New York press for him. An
Iowa newspaperman promptly arises
and explains that this is due to tho
fact that the newspapers are usually
far ahead Of the people. That is not
the most modest way OF looking at
IL, nor is that complimentary t o the
people. 1t would perhaps be better
to say that W the newspaper man
is not infallible and cannot always
judge conditions Alright.
II is recalled in this connection that
in Chicago the Harrisons-father and
son-practically m~onopolized the mya-
or's Office and with that the city ad-
ministration, during many years, and
despite the fact that practically all
the papers of the western metrop-
oils were anti-Harison. There was
something similar in the recent guber-
material election in Iowa. 1t seems as
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
Jumplna ON HARDING.

Manson Democrat: The securing
that Governor Harding has undergone
from the prohibition crowd in both
political parties since he became gov
ernor has been enough to drive al
most any sane man crazy, but 1t has
served only to steady his nerves and
make a better man, a better polite
ian and a better governor out of him
He has been heckled, abused, ira
duced, threatened, coaxed and cajol
ed, but he has stood firm as a rock
for the things Thai he considers besi
for the greatest number OF Iowa PEG
pie. His conduct as a war governor
has brought him into the limelight
as a national figure and he is big
enough to fill the part. While his
traducers among the prohibition gang
denounce him as a wet, the fact Il
that the liquor laws OF the state
were neve so well enforced as they
have been since he took the guberna
torial oath. Governor Harding Is
head and shoulders above any OF tbs
crowd Of statesmen, near statesmen
peanut politicians, professional pro
hibitionists and warped Drained news
paper editors that keep nagging a
him and trying to catch him with his
hand off the lever long enough fol
them to throw a monkey wrench into
the machinery.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

quantity and variety, may be i'm
proved where this seems necessary,
by consulting a home economist. One
of the cooking classes organized now
in so many places might be just
what the mother or older girl of the
family needs. Mr.. Hoover's messages
to the country about food c~onserva-
ton should be distributed by home
service visitors wherever they go.
Housing conditions thai make for
health and decency should be main
tanned, and the aid of the board of
health, Or whatever department is
charged with the duty, should be
sought in remedying insanitary con-
ditions and in removing ~nuisances.
The signs of mental defect and
mental disturbance escape those who
have had no experience Of either, but
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
ne PROTESTS TOO MUCH.

Washington Democrat: Did you
ever hear of DR.. t. F. Cooke of BIC.
lington? Neither did we. And no
body eve would have heard of him,
except that he made a speech or writ
Ia letter to the Burlington Hawk-Eye
Iproclaiming his patriotism which
makes us think he is pro-German
Anybody who has to protest his pat
riotism these days is wrong. Anybody
who is not straight out from the
shoulder for Uncle Sam, is a traitor
and is for Germany.
Why didn't Rev. Naboth Osborne OF
Rev. Cudlippe or a lot OF Burlington
clergymen have to come out In pro
~testation of their loyalty? DR.. Cooke
refused to have anything to do with
food conservation, because he says
he did not understand it. If that is
true, then all We have to say is, that
he is not intelligent enough to be
pastor of any church, not even In
Hungry Hollow.
He gets too loyal, all at once and
says he is willing to go on n meal
a day, for the sake of the soldiers
II his sermons are no better than his
logic. we wouldn't give one meal
day for his preaching. He also wants
to commander the whiskey to make
into explosives. We did not know be
fore, of any preacher who is in the
business of making explosives, but il
he knows, we are willing to let him
try it. We have known many a fel
low to go on a bust, with whiskey, but
he did not know how to blow up the
other fellow.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
Men who Know only enough to do as they
are told do not know much and do not do
much.-L. K. Washburn
MADE IN GERMANY"

1t is announced that a cargo of German toys
valued at 100000 bought by Americans and
paid for before the beginning Of the war but
held up on the other side of the Atlantic under
the embargo enforced by Great Britain, has
been released. At the time those toys were sold
to American dealers we were operating under
a tariff which encouraged the purchase of toys
made in Germany. We shall not only get these
TOYS now, but when the war is over we will re-
sumo the sending of millions Of dollars of good
American money to Germany to pay for toys
that could be as well produced from American
material by well paid American labor. The re-
lease of these toys from the embargo serves to
emphasize the Importance Of the re-enactment
of the protective tariff before the war shall end.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
LURE OF H WAR.

When we consider the sea trip our boys in
khaki are to take, the foreign lands they are to
see and the o~vations they will everywhere re-
ceive, it is scarcely to be wondered that the most
intelligent among them are the most eager to
go. The cause for which we fight and the glori-
Gus adventure element in this war are so ire
|sistible in their appeal to ardent, chlvalrous ma
lures n~urtured in the best American traditions
that many college classes have dwindled to the
vanishing point. Some of the %unhappiest young
men in our land and the most r~eseltful of their
fate are splendid fellows who have knocked in
vain at every branch of the service only to be
rejected for under weight or some other physi-
cal deficiency or defect. Many of these have
offered their services to the Dominion of Can
ada and have been accepted, and others have
gone abroad at their own expense to enter the
ambulance service or to find some other field OF
usefulness connected with the war.
II contrast with these are the men of whom
every city has a few who are so unnerved when
called to the colors that all their manhood
breaks down and their sense Of shame is lost.
Such is the panic fear in which they find them
selves that public contempt is nothing to
them. No means of escape is too dishonorable
for them to jump at, and they will even mutt
late themselves in painful ways in order to be
rejected by examining boards. Perhaps we
cannot properly sit in judgment on such per
sons. There are a~bnor1nalities in human ma.
ture we cannot understand; and when we fine
one man in a thousand who seems to be an ex
%ception to all known rules we shall not err III
attribution of ito mental alteration or some de
Walton from type which is rather his misfor
tune than his fault.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
SMILE AS 0 PAY.

Smile and pay-smile while you pay! Here
is a simple, everyday form of patriotism that
each and every man, woman and child in the
land may manifest. All it involves is a smile
and a joke. Smiling and joking are not usual
" set down as difficult tasks, or as patriotic
services. But the man, woman or child who
pays the additional cost of articles, privileges
or incomes upon which a war tax has been
levied-from a moving picture theatre ticket to
a Pullman berth or a one-million-dollar annual
income-and pays with a smile is a patriot and
evinces patriotism by a gracious, acquiescent
attitude.
But the grouches who g%rumble ard snarl and
cautiously ~criticise and try to evade the war
taxes are potential 'slackers.' Those who
serve at the stamp window at the postoffce;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE PIPER AND THE REED

n PIPER AND n REED.
l am a reed-a little reed
Down by the river;
A whim of God whose moments need.
Was that the Giver
Might blow melodious and long
One cadence of eternal song.
o Miracle!
He who is beauty goeth by
The marches of the Meadow SKY,
Applying on the many reeds
His c%anticle,
Paused in His playing;
For He found
An undersound
Failed of the music that He made.
Wild winds went straying,
Like sheep lost on the daisied meads-
Scattered by Discord and afraid,
Lost from the fold
They knew of old.
My God had need
OF one more reed
Had need Of me
To make the perfect harmony.
l am that undersound,
That needed note.
Eternally the Piper tried
Reed after reed until He found
Me growing by the riverside,
And laughing at the leaves that float
Forever down It's FURNISHED tide.
Robert Norwood.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
IOWA PRESS

sas City they actually caught a
dealer who had held back $50 pounds
on a ton of coal. If he had been a
real smart dealer he would nave
been satisfied with holding back
about So pounds on each ton u
then it might have been ascribed TO
defects in the scales, or 10 loss IN
handling. Some men do not know
how TO steal.
Des Moines Democrat: There's
always an Iowan in it, and so there
was a Des Moines boy among the
missing members of the Alcedos
crew. w. w. Smock, the lad in Ques-
ton, has two brothers left in the
navy, showing that the family is
doing its part in this a
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Having
practical assurance of $3.50 hogs
and s1.20 corn, the farmer can now
proceed with the business of hiring
his help for 1918 on the basis OF
what said help may happen to- know
of benefit to business.
Sioux City Journal: In the light of
the women's enthusiasm for what
President Wilson's commentator did
for their cause in New York, it
seems almost too bad the president
didn't find time to speak also a good
word for John Purroy Mitchell, demo-
crat.
Des Moines Register: When a man
wears a self-satisfied air, n is in
clined to suspect that his cellar
looks like a combination coal yard
and well stocked cold storage plant.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: If the boys
prefer tobacco, send them tobacco.
A man who chooses to fight and if
! need be to die for his country, should
be considered competent to make the
choice for himself. whether he is to
use tobacco or not.
ration medicine may be a little
hard for some TO take, but it will
be beneficial in the long run, in mor
ways than one.
Atlantic News Telegraph: The
present time is not one for petty
chickering's, or the threshing out or
pet hobbies. 1t is a time for all
Americans to help win the war.
La Porte City Progress-Review:
There are two important reasons for
the food conservation drive The
saving of food is a necessity in help
ing win the war, and the present
effort in the way of conservation is
a matter of education for the people
of this nation. This last purpose of
the present agitation is not fully APP
preciated by the people in general.
This education of the public is i'm
portant and is necessary in order TO
prepare for greater sacrifices which
the people of America may be called
upon to bear before the purpose of
the war is accomplished. AS a ma
ton. we are now only in the primer
of experience.
Burlington Gazette: The hard
pressed debtor is hoping, in view of
the high cost of postage, that his
creditors will curtail their postage
stamp expenses by dunning him but
every other month.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
Preserve the Trees.

To the Editor Of The Gate City:
During the past few days several
large forest trees have been sawed
down in our Oakland cemetery. These
trees were alive, and the pile of green
cordwood standing today where they
lately grew shows them to have been
sound and in good condition.
This practice of cutting down the
trees is rapidly causing u cemetery
to lose the beautiful oaks from which
it was named. These trees can
never be replaced and it is unfortu'
nate, for the public. that the GENE.
terry commissioners allow them to be
destroyed.
Would it not be well for the citizens
of Keokuk to protect the trees nov
remaining from such wanton destruc'
ton?
WILLIAM TIMBERMAN.
Keokuk, Iowa, Nov. II, 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
sizinn up New York.

Theodore Roosevelt: New York
occasionally witnesses al insurrec-
ton of virtue, but the city has never
in fifty years given a good admins
traitor a second term. The insur-
rection of virtue at n election is
followed by a Tammany revival at
the next.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

it can not be too strongly aa. N
that the advice of a speclanon n
sought at once if there is rea ssan,a
suspect feeble-mindedness OF ~ auJ
disease either in the children ;,r
or the older members of a fah'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

those who collect tickets at theaters or on rail-
roads; those who gather the government rev
Ienues have a pretty accurate gauge upon the
degree of loyalty of those who pay the war
taxes.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

III the people occasionally take keen
delight in demonstrating to the press
that they have minds and wills or
their own.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
Knows Value of Liberty. /,

San Francisco Bulletin: sps y !
of patriotism, that life pLL.antiar
the Salem, Ore, state Iiberr
who has invested $4,000 IN 20 sn
bonds appears to be entitIeu -osnd.
medal that may be floating arou-'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
Voice Of the People

1.-THE Gate City does not assume re
sponsfbility for views expressed bs
correspondents. Writers of commrni
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication. bu;
for the information of the sdito..l
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12
low Not to Win Votes.

Philadelphia Public Ledger s.o-
man who holds sugar or egss 10 90
age for higher prices will ho'
next president.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

DR.. Woods Hutchinson, the noted American
physician, gave war mortality and casualty
figures of interest to the Royal Society OF Medi-
cine, before which he lectured in London not
long ago. He finds that the total death rate per
annum in the allied armies does not exceed
five per cent. Of the wounded soldiers who
survived for six hours, ninety per cent. recover.
Ninety-four per cent. of those who reach a field
hospital recover, while the recoverles in base
hospitals average ninety-eight per cent. The
percentage of cripplings and amputations is
proportionately smaller than ever before in
any war, and the wounds have been found less
deadly than was ever imagined possible. These
conclusions are borne out by other investi-
gators, one of whom, an eminent surgeon of
Paris, finds that all kinds of permanent losses,
killed, captured, missing and disabled, aggre-
gate only three per cent. per annum Of the eff
~fective forces engaged.
It is reasonable to expect a deadline in
bread prices following the presidents order
requiring bakers to do business under a federal
license. The licensing system gives the gov
eminent broad powers of control and is calcu-
lated to protect consumers while conserving
the food supply.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

II is not what a man gets but what a man is that he
should think of. He should first think Of his character
and then of his condition. He that has character need
have no fear of his condition. Character will draw con-
dition after til. W.. 6eecher.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

Prohibition lost by a few thousands in Ohio.
However, with the remarkable growth of dry"
sentiment throughout the country the next try
see the present defeated on top.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

Too many socialists are of the made-in-Ger-
many brand.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

Burlington Gazette: The hard
pressed debtor is hoping. in view of
the high cost of postage, that his
creditors will curtai1 their postage
stamp expenses by dunning him but
every other month.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

Des Moines Democrat: There's
always an Iowan in it, and so there
was a Des Moines boy among the
missing members of the Alcedos
crew. w. w. Smock, the lad in Ques-
ton, has two brothers left in the
navy, showing that the family is
doing it's part in this war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-12

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Having
practical assurance of $3.50 hogs
and s1.20 corn, the farmer "a now
proceed with the business of hiring
his help for 1918 on the basis Of
what said help may happen to know
of benefit to business.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1917-06-28

The Sunday school will meet At
q so a. m. Mrs. Jamison, Snpt
The Christian Endeayor meet-
mo will be- HELD at 7 90 p. IA Top
n: ssIittle Things that Make or
Mar.
Public worship and preaching
al III a. ~. and s p. m. All meme
beers and friends are urged 20 be
present at all the services.
A series Of meetings will begin
July 10th. with J +, Slinp as
preacher and G. b. Smith as song
leader. The last issue Of the Chris
tian Journal says that these two
men Are doing fine work at
DAYTON, Wash. All departments
keep climbing higher and higher.
Brother smith has 80 in the ehor,
us and their work is deeply appre-
ciated Will yon plan 70 be pre-.
sent at every service during the
meetings Come and bring others
Z. n Finn. Minister.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1917-06-28

Idaho registered for military
service young men between the
ages of 2l and 80 inclusive as
called for under the terms of the
draft law, grand sotalpf Al, l50,
which is 1850 below the esti-
mates Of the census bureau but
far above the estimates of eithcs.
military or state officials A total
of 20, DAG claim exemptions under
the terms of the law either be-
cause of marriage, dependents,
alien birth, physical disability or
because of public offices they
hold, leaving credited to this state
a total of l5,104 Immediately
available to be drawn upon for
actual military service under the
terms of the new act.
The next step to follow regis
tratiOn is to apprehend the eligi-
bles who failed to register, after
which the exemption class will be
closely Serutinized and each indl-
vidual ease passed upon by ex-
emptiOn boards. This will be fol-
lowed by the drawing of the que
ia of available men for military
service for the first contingent Of
500, 600 men to make up the first
unit in the army of several million
men.
A total of 36,S69 whites regis
tered, PIT eOlOred people, 1883
aliens and Isl alien enemy.
The following is a list of regis
trations by counties as reported
tn the governor: