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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
SENATOR NORRIS EXPLAINS.

Endeavoring to justify his course to his con
stituents, Senator Norris of Nebraska asserts
that we find ourselves in our present relations
with Germany because our president without
due authority put guns on ships and took
men out of the navy to man the guns
It is much to be doubted if Stone or Mann OF
Cummins or even Zimmerman could have put
forth a more speoous and disingennous plea. 1t
was not until after the Lusitania was sunk that
any suggestion Of arming merchantmen was
made, and not until eighteen months thereafter
that the proposition was seriously discussed.
AS for the presidents authority to arm our
vessels to defend themselves against
what we have characterized as practical piracy,
who but pacitist of the Norris-Bryan Cum
minis school can question that9 Or, for that
matter, can any clear-thinking American ques-
ton the right of an American owner or captain
of an American ship to arm his vessel to defend
itself against attack with OF without the ap-
proval of the presidents Only because no guns
or gnnners were to be obtained outside OF our
navy was it necessary for the president to take
any action in the matter; and to say that he
brought on our present relations with Germany
is absurd.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
WAR BRUTALITY DUE TO OFFICERS
TRAINED in WAYS OF INHUMANlTY

that the officers, the exalted defend
ers of the fatherland, outrank every
man in civilian clothes. He is made
to consider himself exalted above all
others. His uniform, "the coat of
the king practically places him
above the laws Of the land. He looks
with contempt at the civilian popuia-
ton. Imagine this young boy OF ten
coming home on his first Christmas
vacation! In his well fitting. smart
uniform the young cadet walks along
/ the streets of his home town. He
meets boys he used to know before
he entered the academy. He does
not look at them now. If accosted his
reply is: Il do not know you any
longer. You must not talk to me.
Do you not see that wear the coat
of the king? You are only ordinary
belong to class exalted above YOU
and off he walks, saying or thinking,
Il am it," And this is a boy OF ten
years only! Is there any wonder
that later on as an officer he is filled
with arrogance, is heartless, is brut-
al?"
AS the years go on he is instilled
with the belief that war is blessing,
a heavenly institution, and not mere
ly an occasional necessity; that with
out war country was bound to de-
generate, that only war developed
those qualities which make man
what he should be.
At every session Of the German
reichstag many deputies bring forth
complaints and proofs OF bTitaifties
committed by German officers on
their own men. The so-called IA
! bern affair" ts not an exceptional
but a typical case. 1t stirred the
whole world some years ago. Think
of an arrogant Prussian lieutenant
Of twenty or so years knocking down
and wounding siclzly and unarmed
old cobbler without qrovocation In
the streets of the garrison of 2abern,
in broad daylight! Only because of
popular Indignation did the lieuten-
ant receive a short sentence OF con-
4! finement within his home, not Inn
! prisonemnt He retained his COM
mission. Later on the military court
set aside this sentence and acquitted
! the young officer altogether. The en-
peror showed his approval of the
acquittal by decorating the presiding
officer Of the court. and Chancellor
Won Bethmann-Hollweg also voiced his
satisfaction over the outcome in an
open session of the reichstag.
| At the outbreak of the war a9
proximately so per cent OF the reg
ular army officers were transferred
/ to other regiments because they
were known to be extremely harsh
and brutal toward their soldiers, and
! 1t was feared even those subservient
soldiers might take revenge and put
some officers secretly out of the way.
| To the regiments where the officers
were ordered to report for duty they
| were absolutely unknown, and the
| soldiers had no knowledge Of their
| brutal record
| What can officers be expected to
| do in war with soldiers of the en-.
| envy, since they act brutally toward
their own soldiers and civilians in
| times of peace7
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
ROAD NoIIcE.
q all whom It NAV concern :

To all whom it may concern:
The commissioner appointed to ex.
anime into the ex2ediency of alter
ing a highway commencing at point
just north OF the north line of sec
ton one "a township sixty-six (66)
north, range seven CD west and run
ming thence in southwesterly direc-
ton through the north half on Of
the northwest quarter (A) OF said
section one ~, township sixty-six
(66) north. range seven CD west and
terminating at the west line OF said
section enc ~, being that part Of
along the side of and intersecting
Monks" creek, towit:
Commencing at the ~ mile stone
on the west line of section one.
township 66 N, r. W., this stone
being near the center of the Belfast
to Argyle road; thence north 152
feet; thence north IS deg. AZ min.
East 235 feet; thence north SO deg.
SO min. East 236 feet; thence north
SO deg min. East 315 feet; thence
north 9 deg. SO min. East POI feet;
thence north &c deg. so min. East 156
feet; thence north 43 deg. Al min.
East PA feet; thence north 81 deg.
SO min. East 226 feet; north 81 deg.
So min. East 172 feet; thence north
Sc deg. 4s min East 1911 feet:
thence north sc deg. 90 min. East
271 feet; thence north deg. 13 min.
East ia feet; thence north "a deg.
40 min. East 173 feet: thence north
65 deg 26 min. East 184 feet; thence
north 80 deg. 16 min. East 127 feet;
thence north Al deg. 5S min. East
233 feet; thence north 8 deg. IA min.
East 145 feet to point in the center
of the present road-all in Des
Moines township, Lee county, Iowa,
has reported in favor of the alteration
thereof, and all objections thereto, or
claims for damages, must be filed in
the auditors office on or before noon
of the twentieth day OF April. A. D.
1917, or such highway will be altered
without reference thereto.
G. T. HULL,
County Auditor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
The Big
Event Has
Happened!
Free 64O-Acre
Wyoming
Homestead,

The long-wanted 64o-acr
Homestead Act is now a law,
1t permits application for
homesteads in the grass-cov.
cred livestock area of Cen.
trail and Northeast Wyom,
ing. You can reach this area
either over the Burlington's
main. line via Douglas for
Converse County,, or via
Moorecroft and Gillette for
Northeast Wyoming. In
quire early and go early.
This area contains large
bodies of excellent grazing
lands from fifteen t o fifty
miles from the railrdA.
Write me for circular Of In
formation and instructions
which will tell you exactly
what to do, without loss Of
time, to apply for a stock
raising and dairy homestead
You can secure one Of thes'
valuable mile-square home
steads in a well-known, per
manent, livestock area Of
Wyoming.
It is my Judgment that practical
" all OF the desirable grazing ana
AGRICULTURAL lands will be applied
for during 1917, and ! consider
my duty to advise you OF this op
= portunity.
e. 3. HOWARD, immigration
AGENT, c., 8. & G. r. r. Room 10
q Building. Omaha, Nebr.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
THE WAR MESSAGE.

The president of the United States but
voiced the sentiment of the people of his coun-
try when he declared in an address delivered to
the congress last night that a state of war
exists between the United States and Germany.
Denunciation of the course of the imperial Ger
man government in waging a war of frightful-
ness against practically all the world merits
the anathema of civilized nations, and that con-
gress will follow the suggestion Of Mr.. Wilson
that this country enter the conflict as a pro-
test against Ger1nany's treatment of United
States citizens and in resentment of disregard
of national rights, is foregone conclusion.
It was a momentous address; an Indictment
of the German government-not its people-on
the charge of high crimes and misdemeanors
against the peace and the liberties of the world.
The president spoke in no uncertain tones. 1t
now remains for congress to act.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
OUR ADDED TERRITORY

The twenty five million dollar purchase price
has been paid down and the United States en-
tiers into formal possession of the long coveted
Danish West Indies three small islands con-
tiguous to Porto Rico. The islands are to be
under the administrative jurisdiction of the
navy department, with Rear Admiral James II.
Oliver, chief Of the naval intelligence bureau,
as governor until congress provides a perma-
nent form Of government. No longer Danish
the islands are referred to in departmental or
ders as 1.-the Virgin Islands of the United
States, in accordance with the desire of some
of the islanders, and there is historical iustica-
ton for the name Columbus discovered that
rather large group forming the northwestern
extremity of the Caribbean chain, situated i'm
mediately east Of Porto Rico and named the
islands collectively the ''Virgin islands, in
honor of the eleven Thousand VIRGINS ;, II
included what became the Danish islands Of ST
Thomas, Santa Cruz and st. John. now taken
under the American flag; Tortola, Anegada
Virgin Gonda and some islets now BELONGING
to Great Britain and attached to the COLONY Of
the Leeward Islands, and also Culebra, Vilouis
and some islets which passed from Spanish tc
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
ORIGINAL NOTICE.
State of Iowa, Lee County. IS. :
In tho District Court OF said cOuh1!

A.
In the District Court OF said couny
John H. w. Happs, plaintiff Veis ~.
George Happs and Anna HRps, m
wife, Robert Happs and Hulda nap ..;,
his wife. Thomas Happs ana ne.aS|
Happs his wife, Joseph Happs sa'|
Rose Happs, his wife, William Happs|
Joseph Happs and Mildred or bess.'
Happs, minor heirs Of Charles Happ.a|
deceased. John Happs, trustee 0HN|
Susan Happs, defendants:
To the Above Nam ed Defendants.
You are hereby notified that peysl
ton is now on file in the cielNs
flee of tie District Court aforesalu
Keokuk in behalf of the above nHtI so-
plaintiff. against you and PRAYING a.
the partition OF the following on
scribed real estate towit: Lols o1
III, Two (2), Three (3), -Four ,, MI
Five 10. Six co., Seven 90, L
(sl and Nine CO.. in Block livery wen,
nine (29) and Lots One ~ fC sid
Three (3), Four O., Eve >- az Gll
(6), Seven CD, Eight ~, Ni Trs,yd
Ten (1O), Eleven 1D ana ,oe1 ID
12), in Block Thirty,sM lo .S,,t,ou|
Reeves, Perry and Williams ronntyl
to the city Of Keokuk, Lee So ossnil
iowa. of which plaintiff ana sa soJ
ants are the sole owners;
costs and attorneys fees an ,et1
dor further particulars see p
ton on file.) ,,,o-oto and
And unless you appear there.Ss da,I
defend before noon OF the ~ said
of the next regular April Term Keo{
Court, to be begun and holden len, ID
kuk on the 10th day OF Api Il. .rains4
1917, default will be entereu s0rs,r a
Won and judgment rendered there0H
nrayed for in said petition. >-r-s
Attorney for plaintiff
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

A professor of German birth In
the New York Tribune: Much has
been written on the subject Of atroc-
tiles. German sympathizers insist
that British soldiers have been
charged, during the Boer war, VITA
having perpetrated similar crimes 20
those now placed to the account OF
the German armies. Furthermore, IT
is pointed out that we do not hear OF
atrocities committed by British and
French soldiers simply because these
soldiers are among friends, while the
Germans have to deal with a hostile
civilian population in the occupied
territories; that the average German
soldier is just as human as the aver
age British or French soldier. and so
forth.
Taking these matters into serious
consideration, | wish to emphasize
the point that nothing Is further
from my mind than to accuse the
German soldier OF brutality. | con-
slider him no better and no worse
than the, British or French soldier
if left to himself. IL the individual
German. soldier could have followed
his own inclinations, in Belgium,
for instance, there would have been
no material for Bryce report on
atrocities.
The men responsible for atrocities
committed in the territories occupied
by the Germans are the German Of
ficers, and the iron discipline makes
the German soldier do things at the
behest Of his Off GERS against which
every ounce of his better self reyolts.
The British and French officers are
more human than the German officers,
because the latter undergo systematic
training for efficiency in brutalities
and atrocities, beginning with their
early childhood.
Originally only sons of noblemen
could become officers, and there are
still certain regiments in the German
army Of today which are exclusively
officered by noblemen. However, as
the regular army became larger and
larger, and the nobility could no
longer supply all the officers, the sons
of plain German citizens OF means
and certain social standing-tha
is, the sons of high government OF
ficials, or university trained profes
sional men, of rich merchants, of edu.
Gated land owners-were allowed to
enter the exalted and sacred ranks Of
the German officerdom. But even to-
day the bulk Of the army officers
hail from officer fa1nilies"-that is,
from families whose able-bodied male
members for generations have made
soldering their life profession.
Usually at the age of ten the future
officer is taken care Of by the state
and educated free of charge at the
expense of the German taxpayer. The
/. latter is expected to contribute his
share to educate officers sons, while
the doors of the academy are barred
! to his own sons, no matter how able
and intelligent his boys may be
What mockery on the part Of the
German emperor to call his army j
democratic institution in the face Of
| absolute lack Of equal opportunity fol
the high and low. the rich and the
poor! The little cadet is being laugh,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
BELFAST.
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The farmers were busy last week
sowing oats. The weather was good
and the ground worked fine and lots
OF oats were sowed.
Mrs. Bertha Anderson Spring er and
little son Dean, who spent the last
two weeks with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. P. Anderson, returned to her
home last Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. N. Wells spent last
Sunday with the latter's parents, Mr..
and Mrs. E. Martin. near Warren.
Mrs. X. Miller and son Lynn spent
Saturday and Sunday with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed. Cassidy OF near
Bonaparte.
Mrs. Harold Moline and daughters
Ethel and Fern. and Miss Katherine
Horsey spent Sunday Of last week
with Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. Anderson.
Little Fern Johnson is able to be
out again.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. P Anderson motor.
ed to Keokuk last Friday.
Miss Esthel Wells was shopping in
Pennington last Saturday.
Miss Helen DeKloe visited over
Sunday with her parents.
Ernest Lucas made a business trip
to Argyle last Saturday.
Harry Lerche of Mercher, Iowa,
spent last Saturday afternoon and ev-
ening at the A. P. Anderson home.
Several from this vicinity were trad
ing in Argyle last Saturday Argyle
is very busy place at present. They
are building the new bank building
and two new garages and the merch-
ants are very busy. They. have first
class stores and the farmers are pat
ronizing them from far and near.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
Removing Ugly Hairs
Entirely Ne.u Method
{Aefuaiiy Removes shs Roots)

The question is often asked whether q
really permanently efflcacious halr-re-
fore been very unsatisfactory. Fortu-
nately, there's a new and remarkable pro-
cess that really removes every hair en-
tire, root and ALI It IS different from
and far better than electricity, depilator.
les, the razor, or any other method: II
pbeIactine from your drussist. follow the
simple instructions-and with your own
eyes see the hair roots come out Roots
are removed instantly, easily, leaving the
skin perfectly smooth and hair-free.
Phelactine is non-irritating. odorless,
and so harmless you could eat Ii 1t IS
so reliable that every stick Is sold on
.as'~So ct'on-o--nannav-hack basis.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
piscreditins Medico-lesaI Experts.

New York Herald: Nearly every
famous trial in recent years has
served still further to discredit our
partisan system of medico-legal ex-
perts. Manifestly testimony can be
obtained, when there is question OF
insanity, to uphold almost any point
of view that is at the moment de-
sired. and then little later the very
opposite can be expertly proved il
that is needed.
The reason for this failure Of the
present system of medicolegal ex-
perts' testimony is com paratively
easy to understand. Definite know
ledge of insanity is as yet not of
such scientific quality as to provide
grounds for opinions that are beyond
reasonable doubt in all cases. Extra
neous motives, then, easily sway the
Judgment to desired conclusions.
Medico-legal experts may have a
very significant place in court pro-
cedure, but it is as impartial state
employed officials and not as partisan
witnesses. Until this latter system is
adopted we may expect to see the
disturbing contradictions of expert
testimony that have characterized a
recent notorious case.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
TODAY,S BIT o. VEL VI
THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US.

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, lay waste CT. powers;
Little see in Nature that is ours
We have given our hearts away, sordd boon!
This that bares her bosom to the moon;
The winds that will be bowling at all hours.
And up-gathered now like sleeping flowers;
For this, for everything, we are out OF tune,
1t moves not. Great God. I'd rather be
A Pagan sucked in creed outworn;
So might I, standing on this pleasant lea,
Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn:
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea,
Or hear old Triton blow his werather horn.
William Wordsworth.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Some years ago crooked promoters
of the get-rich-quick party trimmed a
bunch of easies and fled from Kansas
City, leaving on the Office door the
pathetic sign: Goodbye, suckers;
sorry to leave you now" A similar
situation faces a Chicago crowd, with
tho sign omitted. The crooks worked
for about a year and found numbers
biting at a proposition, guaranteeing
$500 at the end Of twenty months on
monthly payments of sS.75 each. or a
total OF s166.25. None OF the promot-
ers are in sight, the money is also in
visible. and the federal courts are
looking up the remains. Two hundred
and fifty victims have reported to date
and their total investments are some
where between $4,000 and SAC. 900.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

American sovereignty along with Porto Rico.
The latter will be administered as are the for
mer Danish islands and together they will
actually constitute the 3sVirgin Islands OF the
United States,'' and such they will be called
until congress decides otherwise.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
WHAT rs A PACIFIST?


This is no flippant question but serious IN
curry Why have we here In America educated
men of patriotic antecedents who are pacihsts
and to all appearances are proud OF it,
Before proceeding, it is important to make
distinction clear. A pacifst and peacemaker
are two entirely different things The theory
of the pacifst is to secure peace by submission
to any insult or injustice put upon him He is
lno peacemaker He makes nothing, but merely
endures indignities and injuries passively. But
the peacemaker is positive force in a commun-
ity of men, or nations He makes peace COM
mands it, enforces it, fights for it, works for it.
He does that "work of righteousness which IS
peace and quietness and assurance forever
But why is paciist7 Why have we edu-
Gated people, men and women, who take issue
with the vast majority Of mankind in consider
ing national dishonor preferaDfs to war; One
reason may be that they are intellectual rather
than intelligent, and their development one
sided Their learning may be encyclopaedia.
Their minds are often surprisingly stored with
facts thought out or dug out by other men; but
their Judgment has not developed apace. They
are like children educated far beyond their
years and who are only precoclous, and usually
rather wearing and offensive, children after ALL
It is such men who have knowledge rather
than wisdom who are meant when the word
I:shighb brow is jocularly used. Their attitude
toward their fellowmen.is superclious, for they
think their reasoned conclusions superior to the
instinct of the common men, though this instinct
is really the accumulated wisdom OF the race.
They see with revulsion the physical suffering
and discomfort of war but they fail to see that
progress is conditioned on struggle, and that
the law of life upon our planet is that values Of
every kind are only to be gained and held by
battling for them. Hence it is that eternal
vigilance willingness and readiness to
| fights the price of liberty as of everything
else worth having. 1t is not that the good Sc
cured by strife and struggle is always of itself
of special worth. The thing gained may be I'M
important, and yet the strength or spiritual
qualities gained by battling for it may be of
permanent and surprising value But the paci-
t fist does not see this. He measures all gain in
dollars. He sees only the material acquisition,
territorial or commercial, which may not be
worth half what it cost. He does not see that a
man or nation by heroic battle for principle
may be saving soul.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
Canada Stripping Herself.

St. Paul Pioneer Press: If Canada
continues sending her men to Eng
land and her gold to the United
States, her scenery soon will be her
principal asset.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03
To be Resented


Washington Star: Hereafter any
one who speaks Of France as a de-
cadent nation Is likely to have
fight on his hands in several
languages.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

The board Of education of Wheel
ing, w. Va, has bought a completely
furnished house in which the high
school girls are to be taught house
keeping through actual experience.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Doubt is increasing as to whether the HIN
denburg line is military fact, theory or a
state of mind.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

1t is pretty well understood now that the
root meanings of preparedness" and safety
first'' are nearly identical.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Now that John McGraw, the Little
Napoleon of BASEBALL has achieved fifty
thousand -dollar-a-year fve-y year contract, we
move that the word ''little'' be stricken from
his title.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

It must be increasingly difficult for Euro
pean cabinet members to obtain employment IN
surance. owing to the insecurity of tenure.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-03

Events now expected should settle once for
all the controversy to whether the Panama
canal cuts in half or doubles the efficiency OF
the nations fleet.