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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04
THE FARMERS RESPONSIBILITY.

It is hardly possible to exaggerate the re-
sponsibility resting on the farmers OF the Unit
ed States in this world crisis. Clifford Plnchot
does not overstate the case in saying that If the
war lasts beyond this summer, it will be the
American farmer who will win or lose it. The
British and French missions are holding back
none of the truth concerning the food shortage.
The ENJOYS say the United States must act
quickly to avert world famine. The first step
will be to provide ships to carry abroad the
supplies Immediately available The next is to
see that nothing is left undone to maintain and
increase the supply needed to keep Europe
from starving.
Men who know the facts say that the gravest
problem for our allies is the food supply, and
they point out that the United States is in the
best position of any country in the world to in
crease its production. Not even an early peace
would remove the danger of famine, for with
the end of the war Germany now in great need,
would begin to draw on every available stock
of food. Probably Russia can take care of her
self and aid to some extent the nations now
fighting with her. but England and France
look to the United States for the supplies upon
which their salvation depends.
We have the land and the money. The great
est danger is the shortage of farm labor Up
on the solution of this problem may depend not
only Europes safety but our own. None doubts
that the American farmers will be equal to
their present responsibility if they can obtain
the help required for an abundant harvest.
The nation must see that the farm labor sup
ply is ample.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04
ToDAY,s BIT OF VERSE
The SONG


He was Just street musician and he played simple song
In the softness of the twilight shadows fckered
long;
But boy hurried past stopped to listen to his
play,
And girl whose had fatered found the grace to
and pray.
He just street musician pointed way
Yes the simple, the boy mountains
green,
And shining, threadlike river, tiny homelike
scene;
Eaw farm house, stained by weather he knew the
door wide.
And he that waiting just across the sill
inside;
And softly Mother" and his heart within
him cried
And the girl remembered dmy in the long ago.
How she knelt beside her window watched the
sunset glow
Out across the golden cornfelds-when her heart was
free from sin,
When she had city its fever and its
din
And her tears the surface as she breathed
'Tu fght-and win"
He just street musician, and he played simple
song;
But 1t echoed through the twilight
cred long,
And 1t lowered DER the city, pure and light as silver
foam.
And wandered and it told them
not to
He just street musician, song was Home
Sweet Home"
Margaret e. Sangster Jr.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04
THE SIBERIA OF FACT.
1t Differs Greatly from the Province
of Fiction

OF Fiction.
Christian Science Monitor: Siberia
is Russian province larger than
Europe. Such a bald, guidebook in
PRODUCTION gives, perhaps, an idea as
good as any other of the yastness
of that great land which stretches
from the Urals to the Pacific, and
from the Arctic ocean to the Chinese
frontier. Perhaps no other country
is more consistently and persistently
Inexperienced than Siberia To the
world at large the name still con-
jures up visions of eternal snow, OF
frozen wastes and frozen rivers, of
bleak, forbidding uplands and great
treeless valleys and, every now and
again, long file of chained convicts
slowly and toilfully, verst after
verst, traversing the continent on
their three years march to that
great inferno of the far east, the
convict island of Sakhalin."
This traditional Siberia was for
many years favorite field for the
melodramatist and for the novelist
who desired to give an utterly free
rein to their imagination. Siberia,
however, is very far from being
frozen waste" or any other kind OF
waste. In winter, it is true, there is
snow more than enough, but, by the
end of April, spring has set in with
remarkable beauty and charm, and,
during the weeks that follow, Siberia
makes up for lost time. Of course.
in country so vast. conditions vary
greatly in different parts; but, gener-
ally speaking, the land is astonish.
ingly fertile, and those who know
the country best confidently predict
that it will, some day, become one of
the great granaries of the world. The
Russian authorities have known all
about this for years, as they have
known of Siberias immense re-
sources in other directions. and
every means has been resorted to to
secure the colonization of the terri
tory by Russians.
AS early in it's history as 1855.
Siberia began TO be place of exile
and penal colony Rebels under
Peter the Great. courtiers of rank
under the expresses, Polish confed- |
crates under Catherine H., the .sDe-
cembrists" under Nicholas l., nearly
5000 Poles, after the insurrection of |
1868 were exiled to Siberia. and
vast armies of political prisoners |
since have passed through the great |
clearing station at Chelyabinsk. on
the eastern side of the Urals. and |
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04
Steel corporatlon Earninns.

New York World United States
Steel corporation net earnings for
the past quarter year at above s113,-
100000 just about meet the average
of Wall street estimates. There
have been several whole years in
the corporations experience when it
failed to earn as much as that i.
has raised wages again and again
and still its treasury overflows. 1t
lifts dividends on the common stock
to IL per cent. yearly rate; it
will pay its last years income tax
of S9,000,000 right away; it will buy
s5,000,000 of the governments per
cent. notes-and it will still carry
huge sum to cash surplus from the
net income for the past quarter
alone. Such fairness goes beyond the
craziest ante-bellum dreams of ava
rice.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

have been transported thence TO
their allotted zone or prison some
where between the Urals and the
Pacific, 5000 miles away. Prisons,
indeed, are common enough build
ings in Siberia. Irkutsk, for in
stance, is literally surrounded by
have received the criminal and
political offenders of Russia. Then,
as Imprisonment for any length OF
time has almost invariably carried
with it exile for life. scarcely any OF
the prisoners, when released have
been allowed to return to Russia.
The population of Irkutsk, as of SO
many other Siberian towns, is main.
ly composed of former convicts or
their descendants.
A convict in Russia, however, is
very far from being necessarily a
criminal. And these towns, such as
Omsk and Irkutsk, have no appear
ance of being convict settlements.
They are not the ve.grown, dreary,
steppe villages which many still pic
ture them, but thriving and modern
cities. with lofty buildings and broad
streets, long and straight, with all
the side streets set at right angles;
schools, universities, theaters. and
hotels in which the traveller finds
himself amidst the most approved
hotel surroundings. Then there are
public gardens, public fetes, fire.
works displays, and bands, whilst
everybody dresses very much in the
same way as people do in Europe or
America.
All that, however, is the best side
of Siberia. A very little closer in
spection only is required to under
stand the full misery of the life of
thousands of those exiles, so many
of whom are now returning ioyfully
to Russia. The horrors of the pre-
scribed area, the utter inadequacy OF
the government allowance, the lone.
illness Of the exile, often highly edu-
Gated, condemned to live within the
confines of some village peopled
with semi-civilized peasantry, would
require many books adequately to
describe. Certainly for no part of
the Russian dominions will the great
release of March II, 1917, be more
full of immediate blessing than for
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04
To Overcome Eczema

Never mind how often you have trie
and failed, you can stop burning, itchin
eczema quickly by applying little zem
furnished by any druggist for 25c. Ey
ira large bottle, $l.00. Healing begin
the moment zemo is applied. In a shor
time usually every trace of eczema, tel
ter. pimples, rash, black heads and sim
liar skin diseases will be removed.
For clearing the skin and making
vigorously healthy, always use zerno, til,
penetrating, antiseptic liquid. 1t is not
greasy salve and it does not stain. Wha
others fail it is the one dependable treat
ment for skin troubles of all kinds.
The z. w. Rose Co.. Cleveland o.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

of acting; and as time passov
Nagel may, it is hoped, iii -.
toward which his ambition load
his evident ability demands.
And Fancy working side by side =,
Truth
Said, Help me set this story d.,
OF Youth;
OF Youth with Springtime ever
his heart,
And scenes OF Joy where Soro
plays no part!"
And Truth said: mo, we'll write
one who failed,
Whose barQue DER drear and storu
seas has sailed;
Well write of Things That Are 4,
must abide
Till Good and Evil perish side
side.
Some weary heart out where Lii,
breakers roar,
May see our feeble light and rea
the shore!"
Then Fancy said. with sadness
her tone:
"You write it, Truth" and TuJ
wrote on-alone.
Experience" is based upon fad
of life which are extremely mode
and is presented in ten episodd
Youth starting with Ambition to cd
quer the world, is led by Exped
ence through many pitfalls and learI
that he must be accom- panied
Love in fighting his battle with lid
Youth starts from the Land WheI
Dreams Begin with Ambition to col
quer the world. He leaves Love al
Hope behind and is accompanie
only by Ambition. In the Street
Vaccillation he meets Experien,
who becomes his friend. He al!
meets Pleasure. Ambition bids hi
follow the path to Fame, Pleasu
asks him to follow her along Il
Primrose Path.
Youth chooses the Primrose Pa
and is accompanied by Experient
In the Primrose Path he meets
element, Blueblood, Fashion, Sly
Frivolity, Beauty, Wealth, Am biti
and 1ntoxication. Ambition dies.
the Corridors Of Chance he risks
all on the gaming table and los
Next Youth and Experience wand
into the Street of Disillusion, outsi
the Primrose Path. He finds all
fair-weather friends refuse to rec
nize him. He becomes a waiter
the House CT Las: Resort, but
finally cast out by the prophet
Makeshift. In the Street of Remol
he evades Poverty and follows
fusion into the House of Lost Sor
In his attempt to escape Poverty
starts TO follow Crime, but hears
mothers voice calling him In :,
Street of Forgotten Days. He
turns to his old home, the La
Where the Dreamer Wakens.
returns here to Love and his sis
Hope. He learns that Ambition
not dead, but only sleeping. Expt
ence tells him that he has not lc
but conquered, but when he sta
out again Love, Hope, Exporter
and Ambition shall accompany hir
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

great impetus to this enlightenment But 1t IS
reasonable to believe that out of the land to
which Russian autocracy consigned its freedom
loving foes is coming the strength that will
make permanent the triumph of freedom over
that autocracy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04
No More Than Justice.

Mitchell Republican: OF course.
we are not wishing anybody any bad
luck, but 1t does seem that it would
be only poetic Justice if those who
are trying to corner the supply of
potatoes and wheat and other foods
were to be buried under an avalanche
of eatables.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04
The FIas-sehoId it'll Listen to it! Every star has .

s The FIas-Behod it'll Listen to it! Every star has
tongue; stripe is articuiae There is language
speech where their voices not heard There Is
magic In the of it. 1t has for
ton of duty II has solution for doubt and per-
Pexity 1t has word of good cheer for every hour of
gloom of dependency. Behold 1t! Listen to it.! 1t
speaks of earlier of later struggles 1t speaks of
tories, and sometimes of the the
land 1t speaks of patriots and heroes among the living
and the dead before all and above all other assooia
tons and memories, whether of glorious glorious
Deeds glorious places its voice is union and ber
y of the constitution and the aws-Robert Winthrop
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04
DAILY LOSS BY FIRE.

A large though often unrecognized factor in
the cost Of commodities it is pointed out by the
National Board of Fire Underwriters, is the ex-
tremely high fire loss in the country. There is
an average Of more than one reported fire every
minute and the daily destruction approximates
six hundred thousand dollars. This total is
made up largely Of the necessaries of life, as
grain elevators, grist mills, farm BARNS gro
ceries, markets, wooden and cotton mills, saw
and lumber mills, oil refneries and storage
places are regarded, as rule, as extra hazard
GUS risks, and in some of the structures the fire
danger is very great To such losses must be
added fires in grain fields and forests and the
economic loss in the interruption Of employment
of wage earners due to destruction of their
places Of employment. The situation is not
without remedy, for statistics show that 214
per cent. of the country annual bonfire is due to
strictly preventable causes, 37.9 per cent. to
those that are partly preventable and that the
remaining 4O.7 per cent. from unknown"
causes is probably largely preventable.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04
Not Indispensable.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
You see, with those under 81 and
over 40 we could raise lot of stuff
Don't get the idea that you are so
bitterly needed at home that it is
solemn duty to avoid military SER
vice.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

Trees are topped" with charge Of
dynamite placed high among the
branches and fired by electricity gen
Grated from dynamo on the ground.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

If you wish success in life, make persever-
ance your bosom friend, experience your wise
counsellor, caution your elder brother, and
hope your guardian genius.-Addison
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

Wonder who was the cheer leader in the
Mexican congress when the German ambassa-
dor was given thirty-minute ovation while the
American representative was being hissed9
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

The Turks have severed relations with us.
Oh, well, we were always little ashamed of
our outwardly friendly relations with them
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

Sioux City Journal: The. slogan
Register or you can't VOTE" will now
be exchanged for more efficient one
or go to jail
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

Make the Land Work.
Mitchell Republican: Idle land
as unpatriotic as idle men.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

It would seem as though ostrich feathers
were among the least urgent Of our needs yet a
cargo carrier from Africa reached New York
City recently with much of its space given up
to plumes. The duty on them is sixty per cent
ad valoren, which will help the government
some; but still it seems as though we had more
use for wool and hides just now.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

Farm loan bonds, to be issued under the
federal farm loan act, have been made accept
able at par to secure postal savings bank de-
posts. This means that portion Of the one
hundred and twenty five million dollars de-
posted in the postal savings banks of the
country becomes available for helping farmers
to meet the food crisis These bonds are to be
issued in denominations of twenty-five dollars
and upwards; they will bear interest at four
and one-half per cent A ready market for
them will put capital at the immediate service
Of farmers who need it sorely for the purpose of
seed, Of machinery and wage payments. The
farm loan bureau reports that farmers all oyer
the land are showing eagerness to cooperate
with the government in increasing their plant
ings to the utmost of their capacity, but the de-
mand for loans will be great. One county in
Montana stands ready to seed three hundred
thousand acres to spring wheat, if capital for
the seed can be had. In all our efforts to In
crease food production the one of vital import
aace is cooperation with the farmer by giving
him the capital and labor he needs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

Marshalltown es-Republican
The kaiser evidently never read Don
Quixote or If he had forgot the advice
let no one stretch his feet beyond
the length of his sheet"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-05-04

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Talking of
preparedness, Iowa got into that game
early and has been doing wonderful
work. The agricultural college at
Ames dates back about fifty years, and
it is doing work that is simply mar
velous.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-18

dents ideas, and we are confident that
none of them can be satisfied, even
imperfectly, unless peace be secured
on the general lines indicated ESQ far
as Europe is concerned) in the joint
note. Therefore it is that this country
has made, is making, and is prepared
to make sacrifices of blood and treas
ure unparalleled in its history. 1t
bears these heavy burdens, not merely
that it may thus fulfill it's treaty obi
cations, nor yet that it may secure a
barren triumph of one group Of ma
lions over another. 1t bears them be-
cause it firmly believes that on the
success of the Allies depend the pros
poets of peaceful. civilization and of
those International reforms which the
best thinkers of the New World, as of
the Old, dare to hope may follow on
the cessation of our present calamities.
ARTHUR ]. BALFOUR.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-18
lilies PLAN FOR
A DURABLE PEACE
N Note to America Completes
Entente Argument

W8a4nngtOn, JAM. 1S.-Sir Cecil
bring Rice, the British ambassador,
tie yesterday presented to the state
apartment a note signed by Arthur
Balfour. the new British Minister
Foreign Affairs, supplementary to
Ie Entente reply of January 10 last
President Wilson's peace note of
ec.s18.
The new note parallels in spirit and
haracter the reply in which the En-
$nte stated the objects sought by
+reat Britain and her allies in con-
duing the war and their determina-
ION to act with all their power and
every sacrifice to bring the war to
victorious close, but amplifes the
ttitude of the Entente. The present
tote explains why among the objects
'pukht by the Entente are the expul-
lon of the Ottoman empire from
Europe, the restitution of Alsace-Lor-
lfne to France and the restoration of
Lalia Irredenta to Italy.
The Note.
4 The note follows:
GA London. Jan. IS.
lis Excellency the Right Honorable
Sir Cecil Spring Rice:
In sending you translation of the
Killed note desire to make the fol-
tWing observations, which you
Mould bring to the notice of the
Emitted States government:
HI. gather from the general tenor OF
presidents note that, while he
b animated by an intense desire that
beAce should come soon and that
dhen 1t comes it should be lasting. he
hoes not. for the moment at least
eoncern himself with the terms on
mich It should be arranged. His
Naiesty's government entirely share
New Britain herald., 1917-01-18
lade lieutenants Of detectives.

made lieutenants Of detectives.
Lieut.. George B. Coley was adj
vanced to a captaincy and will have
charge of the newly established
fourth precinct station while similar
promotion was given Lieut.. Charles
A. Wheeler, in charge of the traffic
squad. The latter will have the as
sistance of two new traffic sergeants.
Sergeants John Barton, Edward
Wagner, James Ramsey, T. H. Flood
James j. O'Neil and George Bene-
detti of the street detail were made
lieutenants and the following were ad-
vanced to sergeancies; E. B. Cassidy,
James Bray Joseph T. Ccughlin,
John Flynn, James Burns, J. F. Nc
Govern, George F. Simon, James A..
Dooley Patrick Flanagan, John Cody,
Joseph P. Coughlin, William R. Wolfe
and Charles Meyer. Acting Detec-
tive Frank M. Holbrook was made
dog and liquor agent, Simon McCul-
Tough and William Halpin were made
truant officers and E. B. Bulkeley
and Charles S. Beamer were made
doOrmen.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-18
STOMACH FINE INDIGESTION, GAS,
SOURNESS GONE-PAPES DIAPEPSIN

gested waste, remember the moment
Pape's Diapepsin comes in contact
with the stomach all distress vanlshes'
It's truly astonishing-almos marvel
Gus, and the joy is its harmlessness.
A large f1fty-cent case of Pape's
Diapepsin will give you a hundred
dollars worth Of satisfaction, or your
druggist hands you your money back.
It's worth it's weight in gold to men
and women who can't get their stom-
achs regulated. It belongs in your
home-should always be kept handy
in case of a sick, sour, upset stomach
during the day or at night. It's the
quickest, surest and most harmless
stomach doctor in the world.
New Britain herald., 1917-01-18
PROMOTIONS FOR
PARK CITY POLICE
Officers Well known in New Britain
Are Pushed Up Official
Ladder.

Detective James A. Dooley Of the
Bridgeport police department, well
known at local headquarters, where
he has been an occasional visitor, the
last time about two weeks ago when
he came to New Britain for a pris-
oner, has been promoted to a SER
geancy He will be retained in the
detective bureau. The promotion was
in conjunction with the most extensive
and important appointments made in
that department. Many of the men
figuring are well known to members
of the New Britain force through
meetings Of the state police associa-
ton, outings and fraternal visits.
Capt. Charles H. Suckley was ad-
vanced to the post of assistant super
intendent of police, newly created
Office, with a salary of $4,000. Lieut..
Edward Cronan, in charge Of the de-
tective bureau, was promoted to
captaincy and Detective Sergeant
George E. Fox and Peter H. Hall were