The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-02-23
IOWA nREss COMMENT.


account of the high cost OF living,
then on your own account. for your
own benefit, make garden this
spring. It will benefit you more than
some new-fangled treatment or trip
to some more or less famous springs.
There is a world of wisdom in the
old Greek fable OF the giant Antaeus,
who always gained new strength,
when he touched his mother, the
earth. We might put in place OF the
giant, all sorts of useful effort, man
working to make the earth a better
place for the children OF man. And
as of old, weary, worn, almost defeat
ed man gains new strength by getting
close to Mother Earth. Make gar
den.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: It IS become
ing apparent that in case of war 1t
will be much easier to secure the
requisite number OF colonies than
the proper number of privates willing
to concede that these colonies are the
real thing.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The rail-
way people are alert to the value OF
good manners. They have rendered
their services and good offices 10
the government in the event OF war.
Doubtless the boys higher up in the
railway world are aware of the fact
that If the necessity arose they
would have no choice in the matter.
The government would take EN- over
with or without their consent If the
need became urgent.
Sioux City Tribune Three cheers
for Princeton university! 1t is back
ing the nation in a worth while man
ner in the formation Of battalion
of 900 students for military train
ing. 1t is up to Roosevelt to inspire
Harvard and Taft to rouse Yale.
Winterset Madisonian: One OF the
reassuring proofs Of the loyalty OF
the German-American citizens to the'-
adopted country is the promptness
with which the German press and the
German societies of this country have
rendered assurances Of their loyalty
to the United States in the present
crisis. There viii be isolated exceE
lions, to be sure, but the rank and
file OF the German-American people
of this country, will not wayer when
the time comes for them to declare
their layolty. We should not forget
that the situation is one that calls
| for nobler sacrifice and deeper
patriotism than 1t has been ours to
experience. Bound to the mother
country by birth and by an enduring
love for the fatherland that Is pecul.
far to the German people, their 10y.
atty is the more patriotic and tho
more commendabIe.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
charges that powerful newspaper
have been subsidized by munition
makers to stir up war in. the United
States is such miserable bosh that
| it is hardly worth considering. One
congressman--he is only from Texas
has figured out just how It was
done. So far as we are concerned
we would rather trust the average
newspaper than the average Goa.
gresham. That Texan agitator IS
merely judging others by his own
standards Newspapers do not reflect
munition makers. but public senti-
ment. There is no newspaper tina.
would not rather have public senti
ment with 1t than dozen munition
makers. Newspapers live by the pub.
lie. They have no other existence.
Without the public conscience back
Of them they would not, for they could
not. exist. Newspapers consider the
public welfare much more than they
consider anything else. The average
editor Is still something OF an ideal.
ist, although idealism may be be.
smirched occasionally. He Is apt to
look at great public questions from
the ideanstic and patriotic standpoint.
however much some men may doub.
this-and they doubt it most often to
| cover up their own mendac cities.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: It is the
duty of the men and women now liv-
ing to be photographed in the act
of dining on SO potatoes. Such EVIL
dence of wealth handed down In the
family might be the very thing that
would gain welcome in exclusive
society for their great-great grand
children.
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