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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
land OF BURIED MOUNTAINS
co, of the states Of Iowa. and South Dakota

seldom to the geologist are mountain
phenomena more clearly deplcteo.
Form. extent. and startal attitudes
are measurable with great precision.
"The discovery OF the old and long
buried mountain range Is a matter
so recent and so instructive that
brief statement Of the manner or It's
finding is not without distinct inter.
est. It well illustrates the method OF
modern scientific ventures beyond
the confines of the unknown. By peel
ing Off. as it were, the thick Sretaclc
and glacial coverings of the area the
entire Mesozoic floor is laid bare,
and the Paleozoic formations then
constitute the uninterrupted bedrock
LOT the whole region. By what Is es-
sentially the same thing, elimination
of these later coverings Is accomp-
lished by plotting the numerous deep
well records and other data relating
to the underground structures.
.Rarely in SO small compass are
there so well displayed the effects OF
every great geologic process known.
For countless ages fire. flood. and
frost have played upon these rocks
without completely effacing them.
Volcanic outbursts have. scanned,
scared and smelted these formations
until often they are almost beyond
recognition, but they are not yet de-
stroyed. When rains have failed to
wash these rocks away or the rivers
have been unable to wear them down,
the sea has time and again cut into
them or carried them hundreds OF
fatlloms deep, yet they have reared
themselves again above the surface
Of the engulfing waters.
'Heat Of sun and chill of Ice have
alternately commended in Taking off
the rock-surface; still they have ever
presented new faces to these insid.
ious attempts at their destruction.
Winter blasts and the siroccan winds
OF summer have blown the rock-areas
bare and clean as a city pavement,
and the wind blown sands and dusts
have rounded off all corners and pol
ished all surfaces until the hard,
vitreous blocks appear as IL fused III
furnace, without seemingly making
any marked impression. Continental
glaciers have repeatedly passed over
the region. planning off the CLASSY
masses as a joiner does his beam of
wood, and deeply growing the
smoothed facets as by some giant
graver. Compression and arching OF
the earth's crust have uplifted the
country into mountains, but they have
signally failed to destroy the rocks"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23

Literary Digest: There lie buried
under the flat and monotonous prairie
land that lies at the junction OF the
three states OF Iowa, Minnesota, ana
South Dakota, the remains or nish
and mighty range OF mountains.
Charles Reyes, Of Des Moines, Iowa,
who writes of the region IN Inc
Scientific Monthly, says that IN days
gone by this land was covered by
glaciers which would dwarf existing
ice fields into utter insignificance.
Lofty volcanoes poured forth tneir
floods of molten lava. But now the
mountains have vanished; they are
1eveled to the sea, lost and forgot
ten. Their foundations are being
slowly exhumed' by the action OF
stream and rain; and here and there
the old structures are being brought
to light. The traces, Mr.. Keyes tells
us. are many but inconspicuous. Re
Gently through. means of the records
of many deep. well borings and other
data, the height, extent, and form OF
the ancient mountain range nave
been fully figured and it's character
istic features pictured Writes MI.
Keyes:
"This great earth-wrinhe which
sprang from the sea In MesoZonlc
times extended from the east shore
OF present Lake Superior southwest
ward beyond the path of the Mis-
souri, river. Medially the rocks were
bowed up more than mile above
the existing level Of the 2rairies. In
their prime these Siouan mountains
riyaled in scenic beauty and grand
eur the Adirondacks, the southern
Appalachians, or the Juras of today.
Then Joye and Boreas and Vulcan
each laid claim to them; and each
did his work of demolition quickly
and well. They reduced the majestic
pile of adamantine down to the very
level of the ocean, when Neptune
gathered it to his own.
although now no remnant OF for
mer mountains remains in the relief
expression of the region and the en-.
tire area Of once high attitudes is as
level and as smooth as any other
part Of the vast interior plain, there
beneath the glacial mantle mountain
structures as well pronounced and as
typical as they are anywhere else
in the world The broadly arched
strata, the folded formations, vaulted
rocks, the intfusions Of once molten
magmas, the prodigious extravasa-
tions of volcanoes, are familiar fea-
lures which here are characteristic
ally developed The evidences OF
2rogenic uprisings are unmistakable.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
ling more sincere and more general as the war as
sumes a place Of reality in public thought.

ing more sincere and more general as the war as
sumes place Of reality in public thought
The same hearty Acknowledgement and the
sympathetic encouragement to look upon their
service as a high national duty should be given
To the draft recruits. These men are in no sense
the victims of necessary chance, they are not
driven into dangerous service by
arbitrary need Of the nation. The nation de-
te1mined through its congress that its best IN
terests demanded control of service; that safety
was best secured by putting men into the army
whose selection should be wisely made so that
other services of Importance might not suffer.
But these other services are all to bend united
energy to support in all ways the welfare and
the safety of the men who are to fight.
The draft men will be in the van where there
is most danger, but it is not the danger which
will be most blighting to their spirit 1t IS
rather the feeling that they must leave behind
their homes and friends; that they are COM
PEELED to forego in dangerous service what their
fellows enjoy. The draft recruits should be
made to feel that the nation honors the service
they do; that the nation acknowledges response
biity for the safety and welfare of their families
as well as of themselves and that they will stand
in public estimation as the foremost servants
of the people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
Rabbits for Meat Supply.

Rabbits, which have proved valu-
able source of food in Europe dur
ing the present war, may well be
raised more extensively in America
by way of reducing the drain on the
ordinary meat supply. according to
biologists of the United States de-
partment of agriculture. The bust
ness of growing rabbits, the special
lists point out, can be carried on by
youths and adults not engaged In
military or other national service or
in regular industrial employment
The animals may be raised in back
yards of cities and towns as well as
on farms.
The Belgian hare, says a statement
by the department, breeds rapidly
natures quickly, and produces a
palatable and highly nutritious meat
The cost of production is less than
that of any other meat, not excepting
poultry.
The department has published a
bulletin on raising rabbits which will
be helpful to those who wish to en-
gage in this pursuit.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
If only we knew it, if only we could realize
it, all Of US in this world would have every
thing to live for.--Irvin S. Cobb.
TO THE DRAFT MEN.

In the book Of Ecclesiastes of the Old Tesla
ment it is admonished that we should fear God,
and keep his whole commandments. And it is
further said that this injunction is the whole
duty Of man. As paraphrase, it might now
be said, honor the flag, fear naught and observe
the constitution and the law. The first draft
has ended, and it is anxious times for the young
men of the country. No one can fail to sympa-
thize with the widespread dread of leaving
home for service which to an unmiitary peo-
ole promises unknown dangers and trials Of
strength and courage. We have cheered our
volunteers; we have done and said much to
make them feel that their countrymen &C
knowledge debt to them as protectors of ma
tional safety This Acknowledgement is becom-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23

Where Men Are Made or MARRIED.
Tekemah Journal: The army is a
great place for the making or mar
ring of a man We have no time for
the idea that just as soon as young
man becomes a soldier in the Ameri-
can army he begins downward
course in manhood or morality. It
is a place where one man learns an
other as he can in no other place.
The fellow who may have been a
SISSY boy" at home may turn out
to be the best trained and most meri-
torious soldier in his command. And
the fellow who was a dead gam e
sport at home may turn out to be a
first class gentleman in every sense
of the word. 1t is a place where men
are counted for what they really are.
The man who at home may be worth
million In dollars finds he ism
worth cent in the estimation of his
fellows and he may turn out to be
just the opposite from what the fell
low with little cash to his credit
estimates him to be in physical
prowess The war game that the fell
lows are in is going to do good to
many and harm in others. If it's in
fellow to come out. decent he will
do SO and reflect credit upon every
one with whom he may be connected.
| If he is bound to go wrong anyway
j he can get his fill in the army and
he a credit to none.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
THE WIND SQUAD.

Vice-President Marshall is justified in speak
ing of the everlasting, tiresome takers in con-
sress as ''The Wind Squad" who might well
be sent with our aviation corps to France. The
most conspicuous lack or weakness Of our form
of government is that its men of many words
IAN paralyze it's men of action and hold up legis-
ation of vital Importance to the country and
to the world.
part Of the interminable talk which so long
prevented the passage of the revenue and food
control bills was the work of men who are loyal
but unwise. Much more of it, however, is the
work Of men who have Interior motives care
fully concealed-to serve some, interest, pander
% some element in their constituencies or help
TO make failure of the war.
1t is dangerous and shameful thing that
they should have the power to tie the hands
| of the government at time when action is SO
(! imperatvely needed. Districts that feel humili-
ated by such representatives can bring pressure
to bear by letter or by public meetings and in
fiuence them to some extent. But senators like
Stone and Reed of Missouri, whose terms do
not expire until 1921 and 1923, respectively,
can defy the sentiment Of their state. We hope
for the honor of Missouri that it will find some
way of rebuking these senators for their recall
Icitrancy. Two such senators as Stone and Reed
give that state an unenviable prominence in
the union.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
Why Villa Roams.

Mexican Review: "Why do they
not catch Villa?"
This is question frequently asked
by people whose knowledge" Of
Mexico is derived for the greater part
from newspaper reports.
There was once upon time a very
we'll known person named John s.
Mosby. There were certain people
who very much desired to make his
personal acquaintance-an acquainta-
ance which undoubtedly would. have
been attended by unpleasant results
to the object thereof So earnest
were they in the quest that large
bodies of troops were constantly sent
hither and yon, through valley and
over mountain and hill, in search of
him. This quest was kept up for
four long years or more, but he
never was caught. The region where
in Villa secretes himself is thou
sand per cent more difficult of access
than that wherein Mosby held sway
so long, while the forces that sought
him were many fold any possible one
that could be sent agains the Next
can bandit.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
BEL1TTLING US.

If the kaiser has derided America IS Rldlcu-
lous little army as he did England's at the
outbreak of the war, the fact is not generally
known But the German press and Count Raw
ventlow, the naval expert and champion brag-
CART of militarism, call Pershing's forces Fal-
staff army and declare that Hindenburg will
make short work of them.
Of course all this bravado is to keep up the
spirits of those German people who are studl-
ously kept in ignorance of the true condition
of affairs without the borders of the empire.
No thoughtful Germans minimize our entrance
into the war, but realize that it multipies the
odds against them. Nor is there reason to
doubt that the effect of it has been prodigious
on the better informed masses of the people,
and that it has given great impetus to the revo-
lutionary movement.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23

Statement of Person Examined.
Have you found that your health and
habits in any way interfere with
your success in civil life? If SO,
give details
Do you consider that you are now
sound and well? If not, state de-
ldilS $500. ..... :.
Have you ever been under treatment
in hospital or asylum? II SO,
for what ailment?. .................
l certify that the foregoing ques-
tons and my answers thereto have
been read over to me; that 1 fully
understand the questions and that my
answers thereto are correctly record
ed and true in all respects.
I further certify that / have been
fully informed and know that making
or being party to making any false
statement as to my fitness for military
service renders me liable to punish
ment by Imprisonment.
Signature of person examined.l
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Examining physician.)
Place ................. .l............
Date .................


race ............... ..............
Examination by Physician Of Local
Board.
(Person under examination stripped.)
Weight, lbs; height, -. inches;
gtrth of chest lat nipples): at expi-
ration, -. inches; at Inspiration.
inches; general examination (head,
chest, abdomen, extremities), ......;
nose and throat, ......; heart, $500;
genito-urniary organs (urine will be
examined in suspicious cases), ......;
hernia, $50; hemorrhoids, ......;
fiat foot or other defoI mites CT feet,
......; eyes: vision, right eye,. 1890;
left eye, ......; ears: hearing, right
ear. $1,000; left ear, $1,000; teeth.
missing teeth.
Upper ....S7654321 1234567s
Lower ...S7654321 G234567S
(Strike out those that are missing.)
Remarks NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
I certify that / have carefully ex-
amined the person named on, the first
page hereof and have carefully record
ed the results OF the examination. and
that it is my Judgment and belief that
he is physically qualified for mill
tary service physically deficient and
not physically qualified for military
service by reason OF '..............
M. D.,
Examining Physician.
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Instructions.

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Instructions, aoie
=. me name OF the person ~.
ca ana serial cred ink numhs sAania
registration card will he au. o. hi
the spaces for that purnosa 'ered NJ
as they appear on his reyi. .aaety
GARD. 'esistfatlo,|
2. The questions under ~
ing statement of Person Eyam aeae
VIII be asked by the examinin. /
clan and the answers recorded $ p pl y,
before the person to be exan,i, " aia|
been stripped. Any answer ina,a ~,
a possible disqualification will u,ui :
lowed up by searching inquiry w. ~ lol
animation and the result notsa A ~ q 2
examining physicians report ~ ~
8. The physical examinat,,.
CONFORM strictly to the reou;ra WI
of this form and all prescrihas ,nieaa|
lations and instructions gor. .esa
physical examinations under th .llas
lectiye service act of NAV IA ,o,,
4. Deviations from normal ~. ~.
not cause for finding the person mug
amined physically deficient and v
physically qualified for military u01
ice, will be noted under the nr sss.j
headings. Pope
5: The space under the Rem.,,,
will be used for continuation ., !.
answer If the allotted space ia 10y
f1cient. and for any further statem,.
that the examining physician NAV N
sire to make. "
s. In each case in which, afte, n
animation by one examining nhvsl.,,,|
a recommendation by another il !.
CURED by regulations, an indenenas,
report Of the re-examination will IV "
made on this form; and the word M
examination" will be entered IN III
ink under the words Serial numhs,a
on the first page of the report a. MI
denomination. After completion n
the re-examinatfon~ the report there
will be permanently attached ia M
report of the original examination
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Sioux City Journal After expert
ence with the manufacturers, govern
ment price fixing for paper has nc
terrors for the newspaper publishers
| Davenport Times: Mayor Thomp-
son of Chicago, who has had the
UNIQUE distinction Of being wrong on
almost every important question that
has come up since he was elected
chief executive of Americas second
largest city, proclaims that he is
"pro-American," while others are all
.'pro-European." In this serious time
one doesn't have to be anything ex-
cept plain American. There is no
need of being pro anything. And as
an American there is very distinct
duty to perform--namely, to uphold
America in whatever it undertakes.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Preparation
for the present conflict began long ago
began when the humble son of the
west was inaugurated president.
Those who now follow the flag but
follow where Lincoln would have led:
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The
Japanese ambassador has given Pres
ident Wilson sword 600 years old.
1t will be an interesting keepsake,
and in. years to come will look nice
alongside the blade presented to the
president by former Kaiser Wilhelm
just before the peace of Berne.
Davenport Democrat: An article
ION the Sands O. Dee in an eastern
paper, opens with, 1.-The Welsh call
the Dee Dyfrdwy.' Another reason
for being thankful that the war has
not spread into Wales.
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Des Moines found several policemen
on the force who were taking their
mornin's mornin regularly and a little
between times and fired the whole
kit and boiling of them. What with
the cutting out the booze and a gen.
era1 expectation that he will work
part of the time policeman's job
is no sinecure nowadays. The Des
Moines idea is a good one to copy.
A boozing policeman doesn't belong
on an Iowa force under present con-
ditions.
Des Moines Register: The mere
fact that man is distiller is proof
that he has no active conscience.
Whatever benefit the country gets
from him that interferes with the
making of whisky has to be forced
out of him, or paid for at whisky
prices.
Mount Pleasant Free Press: A man
is either for the United States or he
is for Germany.
Usage News: BY far the most ex-
pensive meat for the American people
is congressional pork.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
LITERATURE AND NATURE
Of Keeping Data Of County
History Fssf 81

retreat. These beautiful birds are be-
coming scarce, and are not known by
the general people. Be 1t said to the
honor of the recent session OF the Ne
braska legislature, that radical laws
were made for the protection and vel
fare OF birds. Professor Thomson
has the latest and best views of birds,
and his lectures to the schools and
other audiences are very influential
in creating spirit Of mercy toward
the useful classes Of native birds. We
talked Of the lamented passenger pig
con tribe and its sudden extinction,
and the professor says that he remem-
hers Of seeing but one passenger pig
con, and this was explained to him by
friends. He told of taking photo OF
the nest OF the great blue heron. ana
to show the profound devotion OF the
bird, Mr. Thomson said that the her
on was compelled to carry the heavy
sticks some dozen miles, bringing
them from the valley OF the Loup
river. Aside from birds, the professor
has made nearly complete collection
OF the nature grasses and other plants
of the state. To be in the company
OF such a leader In nature study, one
is made happier and wiser and Will
have a more elevated and righteous
estimation OF all Of Gods creations
The second crop of alfalfa Is now
being harvested and the yield is gen
erous. Probably the greatest trans
formation OF any territory by a new
people. may be seen and studied rign.
here. A large book would be required
10 tell the happy story. So exalted an
opinion entertain of my ability ana
in the subject, that l
wish to state right here that couid
write the history. So far IN July this
district has been blessed with two
liberal rainfalls.
Plainview, Neb., July Fl, 1917.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23

Events at Washington continue to invite at
tenton to the urgent need for a war board with
power. The latest is the resignation of DR..
Edward E. Pratt, chief Of the commerce depart
ments bureau of foreign and domestic com
merce, whose retirement was forced by Secre-
tary Redfeld It is too early to judge the merits
of the differences between DR.. Pratt and hrs
chief, but it is clear that constant disagreements
in one department and another are complicating
the government s war work and increasing the
burdens now resting on the president. A war
council with power to act would straighten out
many tangles. If composed Of the ablest men
in the country it would strengthen confidence in
the administration ability to. keep all the war
machinery at high speed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23

Literary life in central Nebraska is
quite enjoyable. The summer air is
pleasant, and one from the Des Moines
and Mississippi flood plain feels that
an inspiration and new lease Of life
have arrived. If / were to write a
book of recent history of Nebraska, l
would give to the volume the name
"Great Awakening of the Central
West Beyond the Missouri" And
here comes up for serious consider
alton the Importance of making his
torfc records of county at dates
where fairly accurate history could
be made. / have inquired of citizens
here, and the information given is that
time is passing and little is thought OF
in collecting valuable records which
will gradually pass and be lost for all
time. I have thought Of my home
county Of Clark, and am amazed at
the little interest in forming series
of historic data of the conquest of the
land by the Anglo-Saxon race who
have within less than a century not
only displaced the native inhabitants
with all their ways of living. but have
so modified the nature of this fine en-
pire as to place 1t in the best condition
for the millions who will exist in this,
the most valuable inheritance given to
the human, race. And there is my
neighbor, just across the Dies Moines.
What is Lee county doing in the way
of providing a good and complete his
tory of the commonwealth? Assurably
the most interesting history OF any
country dates during the early years
of its settlement by the pale faces.
Over in Plainview / recently visited
an hour with Professor Robert Thorn
son. who is real student OF nature
and a naturalist of authority. The
professor this summer devoted hfteen
DAYS to the pleasant study of bird lie
in western Nebraska, and observed
many classes of water fowl which Sc
lect the many lakes for their summer
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-23
A BLESSING.

Cherokee Times: If the threatens
cabinet split results in Presiden
Wilson dismissing some Of the sma1
men of his official family and a
placing them with men large enouri
Ito meet the needs Of the times. TIM
lit will have been a fortunate turn I
affairs. 1t has been no public secrs
that President Wilson has had to besl'
the burdens OF numerous under d
ficials because of their incompetenc
In grasping the large things in co,
nectfon with war developments.