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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
RERNsToRFF THROWN OVER.
St Louis WestIiche Post Compares
Ambassa doris Acts to Judas
Part of Argentine


St. Louis Westliche Post: The hrst
excitement caused by the Luxburg
case had hardly begun to cool down
when another chapter was added 10
the seemingly inexhaustible story
German diplomacy" This time IL
affects the American people directly
and this latest revelation has caused
an even greater sensation than the
expose of the Judas part the German
envoy in Argentina had enacted Inc
central figure this time is Count Won
Bernstorff, the former German am
bassador at Washington, man VINO
by those who unreservedly condemn
ed the M cans employed by German
diplomacy and also by those VINO
opposed Germany on principle was
considered to form an honorable eA-
ception He was credited with tact,
good sense and more thorough
Knowledge of the American people
than that possessed by all other Ger
man representatives combined. For
this reason the disappointment and
the indignation is doubly keen, when
it becomes apparent that Bernstorff
was not a whit better than the ma
iority of his aristocratic colleagues.
While it seemed that he was not
concerned in the intrigues OF Won
Papen. Boy-Ed and others, present
revelations indicate that in reality he
was their originator and directing
spirit and that he also attempted to
| exercise a pressure on the congress
| of the United States. In what man.
ner that was to be done has not yet
been made quite clear. but the fact
that. while asSeverating his friend
ship. he deem ed a beggarly $4,000
suH cient to make the greatest par
liamentary body of the world service
able to his purposes, is proof of
the contempt that in his innermost
heart he entertained for the United
States. This contemptuous disregard
is expressive of the arrogance OF
! "junkerdom," an arrogance that as a
rule is coupled with an appropriate
dose of dullness. Bernstorff evidently
thought that it was only necessary to
throw out the bait to have a horde
of "dollar-hungry" Americans pounce
upon it-S50,000 in a country where
one is used to figure in billions. In
this Bernstorff case it is hard TO de-
eide If one should condemn the de-
ceitPulness or laugh about the stu
pidity displayed At any rate no one
can blame the other countries for re-
fusing to have further dealing with
such diplomats and if they insist that
there be q radical change, not in per
SONS alone, but of the entire system.
Whether or not to accomplish this
an outward pressure is Indispensable
depends entirely upon the Germ an
people themselves.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
SELECTED MEN
GOING SOUTH
Boys Who Went Up in Last Division
to Des Molnes Except to
Leave In About Ten
Days.

Selected men from Lee county who
went to the cantonment at Camp
Dodge last Friday are sending their
thanks to Keokuk people for the
send off given them, and to the
women in Keokuk and Lee county for
their kindness in furnishing lunches.
The boys were given their examina-
lions and were mustered in to the
First battalion, Fourth company,
163rd depot brigade. There are six
Keokuk boys in the company, Charles
Brice, Ernest Connor. John Stroh-
maier Roscoe Hise, John Ellie Meyer
and Louis Bode. The other men are
scattered out in other countries,
1t is expected that the company
will leave Des Moines in ten days
for Deming, according to one of the
boys in the contingent which went
up last week. Uniforms will be Is
sued next week.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
A PROFITABLE SCHOOL.

There is constant debate and lndecislon
among young men as to whether they shall
try to find place in active work OF some sor'
in the war or go on with their educational pro
gram until some direct call to them comes
There is a school in which they may IND ooth
the most important sort of war work ana the
most practical of educations. Moreover III,
stead of paying for the education they are palo
for their work in good money and the educa,
ton costs nothing This school is the Onltea
States navy. =
1t is fine thing when patriotism and sell
interest may operate together as motive IN
action The navy needs men by thousands ana
Immediately. Although it is war time and the
navy schools are now aboard ship, the very
need of the hour makes the instruction lnten-
sive and the experience in active work when
adds so much to the students real knowledge
is constant Instruction is given IN the navy
schools in eleven distinct courses. A navy re
cruit may learn electrical engineering or
cooking, boiler making or aeronautics While
the student is preparing himself for career IN
or out of the navy he is serving his nation
when she needs him most. Enlistment IN tl%
navy now is as unsefsh and self-serving an
act as Young man can perform.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
Cheerfulness and content are great beauti-
fiers and are famous preservers OF youthful
looks-Dicken.s
GERMAN OPINION.

Carl W. Alderman has been in Germany for
several years in a position to meet the leading
public men and know what was going on be-
hind the scenes. He returned with Ambassa-
dor Gerard and has just published a book en-
titled 80 Germany, the Next Republic in which
he shows the country as divided against
itself, the unrest of the people and the trend
of popular opinion there. Democracy must
prevail, in his opinion, and the day Of its tri-
umph is not far off. Apropos of this it may be
noted that the Vorwaerts, organ of the numeri-
cally greatest political party in the empire be
fore the war, is holder and more outspoken day
by day in advocating a democratized govern,
ment The suggestions in President Wilson Is
reply to the pope, it says, are very acceptable
of the human race, and they would gladly end
that they are forced to fight against four ffths
of the human race, and they would gladly end
the war by furnishing the guarantees America
Demands
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
OIL EXPLODES
ON STEAMER
Fifty-one Thousand Barrels on Board
Destroyed Ship and
Killed TWO
Men.

UNITED Press Leased Wire 2ervicel
RICHMOND, Calf Sept, 25.-Two
men were killed and two are reported
to have beea injurd when the Stand
ard Oil tank steamer J. o. Moffatt ex-
ploded at her wharf at Richmond
early today,
The cause is unknown and police
and 2tandard Oil company officials
started an immediate investigation
to determine whether the explosion
was from accidental or incendiary
causes
The Moffatt completed loading 81
900 barrels os oil last night and was
to have left port today.
The two men killed, Quartermaster
Ernest Rutter and H. r. Julliat, a
laborer, were the only men known to
have been on board. The vessel was
entirely destroyed, the wharf serious
ly damaged, windows were broken In
Richmond and all east bay cities
shaken.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
IJTTLE-EOY-LAND,

IL
Rosily stretching just at hand,
Next my land lies Little-BoyLand;
All its doings full in view
6weetly inaccessible, too!
I'd turn my back the seven seas
Sphinxes, pygmies, cocoanut trees
On the Isles of spice and Samarkand,
To take one leap into ttleBoy-Land
There today shoots up to the sky;
Who cares for grown-ups' By-and-By?
A two-foot cave is pirates den,
Filled with treasure and bold, bad men;
Puppies and puddles, knaves and knights;
These are Little-Boy-Land delights;
Jokes to make you roll on the floor,
And gooseberry tarts that taste like more.
Noise? If it wasn't blue with noise,
Those who live there wouldn't be boys,
But somewhere through all the dust and DIN,
Wonderful dreams steal out and in,
AS / look down on the busting street
Intimately, naccessibly sweet
/ sigh, and chucke, and understand
For once lived in Little-Boy-Land.
Dora Read Goodale
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
MINERS ASKING
HIGHER WAGES
Conference Being Held at Which
Men Give Reasons for De-
mand Of Increase
In Pay.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHI1 JGTON, Sept. PA joint
conference of bituminous operators
and miners opened here today, por-
tending an average Increase of %
cents per ton in soft coal to the
consumer and substantial wage in
creases for 100000 union and non
union soft coal miners.
President John P. White, one Of
the United Mine Workers, presided
over the opening session which was
attended by eight operators and
eight miners delegates each from
Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and western
Pennsylvania.
White outlined the workers de-
mand-ten cents per ton advance for
machine and pick miners, $3.50 flat
increase per day for wage laborers
and twenty per cent increase for
'yardage" and dead work"
Fuel Administrator Garfield ad-
dressed the conference, outlining the
governments plan for control of the
coal industry through state and
local committees on the base of
prices already fixed by President
Wilson.
An advance in wages to the miners
would naturally mean an increase in
these government prices, Garfield
stated. The added cost would be
passed to the consumers.
That some increases will be grant
ed the miners, is accepted as a fore
gone conclusion. The operators do
not oppose the miners demands, Ieav-
ing it practically up to Garfield to
say how much the workers shall re-
ceiye.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

his devotional mood of the moment IS forgot
ten in the Joy and excitement OF getuns
through alive AS for the English at home'
thew hear at all times that the war must be won
and that men, munitions and money must VIII
it; which, being manifestly true seems 70 leave
no room or need for aid from on high Dr. VI
chard may not be pessimistic, but his position
is that the church must work with all It's ener-
gies and heart and soul to counterfeit decnrls-
tianizing influences if the world Is not 10 lose
its faith by reason of the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
THE TASK OF THE CHURCHES,

One of the famous divines of London, DR..
Orhard, is quoted as having said concerning the
effect of the war upon religion that while not
despairing, his reflections were serious and
somewhat sad. In the first weeks of the war, he
is reported to have remarked, there was turn
ing towards the higher things, but it was short
lived and did not permanently increase the
membership of the church. So also the soldier
"goes over the top with prayer on his lips
nr in his heart; but if he comes back unhurt,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

nesation-n complete and universal ne9ation-tnere
salvation found Deny everything and you WIN
easily pass of ability It's weiknoWn trick.
Supplemented people quite ready to conclude tnat
you worth more than what deny And that's oi.-
error. place. you pick holes In any
thing secondly, if you right in what you
say intellect directed by simple
neuation grows colorless wthers up. While you
crafty your vanity you deprived Of the true
tons thought; ifethe of life-evades your
petty and iaundiced criticism you end by scodins
becoming ridiculous only one who loves has the
right to censure and find fauIt.-Turaenev
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
UNIONS VOTE
TO END STIR,
Men Expected to, Accept Waos 4,
ment and Put End "a
Trouble In Ship
Yards.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Sa,v
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25.-TJ
ty-five unions, comprising the
trades council, took a Referendum
day to determine whether they
ratify the temporary wage ~
ment accepted by their delegated
settlement of the strike which
tied up ship building in San h
cisco bay for more than a week
doubt OF ratification was exprsl
by officials of the iron trades cou,
The agreement provides wage
creases ranging from 10 to 20
cent with no wage advanced bey
the Sc a day mark. Double time
be paid for overtime after Ii n
Because of settling the San Franc
strike, Gavin McNab. federal ada
er, may be asked by President viii
to go to Portland and Seattle and
tempt to settle the strikes III
also. He received telegram
night from northwest labor lead,
asking him to take a hand, but 4
not believed he will act unless
thorized by the president to do 81
Others to be Settled.
PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 25,-s
tlement of the Seattle and Portl
shipyard strikes will undoubtedly
settled by the federal shipping Do
on basis of the temporary San h
cisco adjustment, it became knt
here today.
Mayor George Baker announced
day he wired the federal board,
ing for federal action to prevent
strike. The shipping boards II
today declared call differences
listing in Pacific coast ship bull
plants are to be adjusted in acc
ance with settlement reached in
Francisco. State, city and COZ
authorities met today to dis
measures to insure order during
strike. Union leaders are conduc
the strike without violence and
cts are not used.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
Don't Ask Death Penalty.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
RED OAK. Iowa, Sept. 25.-The
state did not ask the death penalty
when States Attorney Hess began
his argument before the jury that
will try Lyn George ]. Kelly, timer
ant, unordained minister for the Viii
lisca ak murders,
The states representative said he
would leave the fate of the man who
is charged with killing eight persons
five years ago, in the hands of the
jurors without asking that he be
killed.
Hess dwelt considerably on the
fact that the state is satisfied Kelly
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
OKLAHOMA PLOT
TO BE REVEALED
Witnesses Will Tell Plans Of Work
ing Glass Union to Protest
Against Draft
1 5v

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
ENID, Okla, Sept. 25.-Further
revelations were scheduled today In
the plot of the Working Glass union
for a general uprising" in the Unit
ed States in opposition to selective
military service.
The government was expected to
introduce several new witnesses In
the trial of draft resisters, to de-
scribe the wild schemes Of proGer-
man leaders who fomented the recent
demonstrations in northeastern Okla
homa.
Witnesses have already testified
that government and state officials
were to have been killed, railroad
bridges dynamited, telegraph and
telephone systems. demolished. high
ways INSTRUCTED and wells poisoned.
The revolution" was scheduled to
begin July 81.
RUDE Munson was the alleged lead
er generally referred to by .the wit
nesses. He was said to have led
members of the Working Class union
to believe there were number of
similar organizations in the United
States and that through the I. w. w.
they had connections with German
agents. Munson, according to wit
nesses, advised them it was 'uncon-
stitutional" to take men to foreign
countries for service
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

is paranoiac of the worst type,
He said his various actions and
words indicated he was Of unsound
mind. He then asked the jurors to
remember their families might be
endangered by a man Of this type
at any time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

attempt had nothin to do viii,
case. "u|
Herrod testified lat the ria,
ammunition bought cy him
three sons We're to repe, N
which is rumored to have -
against them and were not int,9
for use against the governma,'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
IOWA PRESS COM MENT.

Marshalltown Times-RepuDilcan'
The grand lodge Of Masons IN the
state Of Missouri has voted to expel
any member who signs saloon pett
ton. 1t is going to mean somethihs
to be a Mason down in Missouri.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

Davenport Democrat: Expressions
of horror at Secretary Lansing's Vlo-
lation of etiquet in publishing extracts
from Count Won Bernstorfr's private
are now to be expect
ed from Berlin.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

Des Moines Register Now that the
methods of the Germans are nelns
more fully revealed, the Turks ooh
seem the worst in the world.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

Yes the Star Spangled Banner still waves
O 'er the lands of the free and the homes Of the
brave and an effort is shortly to be made to let
it float over some other places.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
Witness Attempted Suicide.

ENID, Okla, Sept. 25.-J. c. Her
rod, aged farmer of Tecumseh, Okla
homa, defense witness in the draft
resistance trials, who attempted to
take his own life few days ago.
was called to the stand this after
noon
An alleged statement of Herrod's
was read, in which he declared he
would give up his life rather than
testify against his neighbors. Her
rod repudiated the statement and
said his suicide attempt was not
caused by this, nor through fear of
the vengeance of members Of the
working class union. He said the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25


Cedar Rapids Republican: In all the
diplomacy of this war. and preceuins
il. there is hardly a shred Of German
honor revealed. From the haisei
down it has all been characterized
with deliberate duplicity and stuuusu
with downright lying. I'VE care noun
ing for treaties" said one of the grand
dukes to Ambassador Gerard-and ne
might have added that they care MOTH
ing for the truth, and nothing Tor non,
or To them truth is a travesty ana
honor a dirty rag.
Sioux City journal: II the Kelly
confession was not true one, at least
| 1t casts no doubt on the theory that
the one time minister has too vivid an
imagination to run loose.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: The passing
Of the livery stable Is the supJect ol
occasional comment in the Iowa press,
However be it remembered that we
have made half-dozen garages gro"
where one livery stable grew before.
Thus the passing of that industry Is
not real loss-it Is only very I'M
portant and very interesting trans
formation.
Davenport Democrat: The Piute IN
dams know how to deal with slack
er. If an Indian refused to hght OF
showed cowardice in battle he had TO
dress like squaw and do squaW
work as long as he lived-and he could
not have any squaw, either.
Marion Sentinel: Coai producers
had their account books ruled for one
column of figures that will not be
needed on the profits side.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Why is a!
that the average man passing a GROVE
of boys playing with. football, VIII
chase the ball If it comes his way!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25
FOREIGN LANGUAGES.

No longer even in Hoboken, N. j., is the Ger
man language to be taught in the public
schools, while in the so-called Dutch dis
tricts of Pennsylvania the children refuse to
study their ancestral language any longer.
Whatever their forbears were, they are Ameri-
cans and want that fact understood.
The only justification Of our eign-language
press has been that some worthy people who
came over here to make their homes among us
were too old to learn the language OF their
adopted land.
The future Of immigration to our couutry is
a subject on which opinions are varions and dl-
vergent Men who have considered the ques-
ton and have given public expression to their
views are far from agreement as to whether
the rush to our shores which has been such a
notable phenomenon of recent decades will be
renewed at the close of the war. It is argued
that economic distress will drive more mil
lions over here, and argued quite as convincing
ly that the improved opportunities Of workers
in Europe will keep the mass Of them at home.
But in any event our country probably will
| have learned when world conditions have
| become normal once again, that one of our
| first concerns must henceforth be to more rap
| idly and perfectly assimilate and Americanize
newcomers and all the alien elements among us
and that foreign language papers and schools
do not contribute to the notification Of that
determination.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

An acute shortage of one dollar and two dol
lar bills is reported. News which isn't news
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

It is safe to say that Won Bernstorff never
will return to this country either in private
or official capacity. Whatever complimentary
things were said of him when he departed have
been ''sunk without leaving trace
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

1t seems that a wise decision was reached at
Washington to exempt from taxation amuse-
ments to which comparatively small admis-
sion fee is charged. The burden of the war
falls on all of us and we shall need all the de-
cent and intelligent diversions we can get.
People of meager income will have the most
need and the least means Of meeting it. Mo
ton pictures may be made vast engine Of
publicity the use Of which will be of great
value to the nation if plan be properly de-
vised and controlled But more important
than this is the fact that they are a great ma
tional amusement to which d majority of in
comes can gain admission. The same thing is
true of other forms Of entertainment to be had
at low prices. National morbidity is as pos
sible and as deplorable as individual morbidity
Clean, wholesome and interesting amusements
for all our people will be helpful thing in our
wartime. They should be free from taxation
where a tax would put them out of reach of
many who would feel the loss deeply
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

Waterloo Times-Tribune: Why is at
that the average man passing croWa
of boys playing with a foot ball, VIII
chase the ball If it comes his way!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-09-25

Marion Sentinel: Coai producers
had their account books ruled for one
column of figures that will not De
needed on the profits side.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-01
SEALED TENDERS

Sealed Tenders will be received by
the Superintendent Of Public Works,
up until II A. NJ. of Wednesday, June
6th, 1917, for Plastering Administra.
ton Building, New Penitentiary, Ka
lihi, Honolulu, T. H.
The Superintendent OF Public Works
reserves the right to reject any or ALI
tenders.
Pans, specifications and blank
forms Of proposal are on file in tha
office Of the Superintendent OF Pub
nc Works, Capitol Juilding, Honolulu.
=: CHARLES R. FORBES,
Superintendent OF Public Works.
Honolulu, May "a, 1917
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-01

It's not necessarily to make an ad-
ditional number Of parts or cost, in
order to confine a claim. Most every
article that contains old clements, can
be improved upon by some means or
another, without increasing its pres
ent value. ~ e..
When an inventor claims an i'm
provement,, he is given credit for new
idea only, although such idea have
led to the perfection of the device
So therefore what we now present
want Is, new discoveries and ones thar
contains merits. ~ :.
s. 81. : JOHN JOHNSON,
-. Auxiliary Patent Agent,
Office, 762 Sheridan St, Phone 5506.
Honolulu, I. H. May q. 1917.