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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

Among the things due to the war is horse-meat
market in Portland. 1t has been in operation for
than year and it's proprietor SAYS his trade is steadily
increasing Originally it's patrons were almost all Of
foreign birth but the number of Americans learning
horse flesh for food is steadily increasing The
Stock is said to be furnished mostly by the Indians Of
eastern Oregon and the "beef is of the cayuse brand
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

The federal shipping board has let contracts for
S28000000 dollars worth of wooden ships in Oregon,
mostly in Portland This is treating the state very
nicely considering the constant abuse given Senator
Chamberlain and the national administration and every
body connected with it by the Oregonian.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

Some folks may be satisfied to feed horse flesh but
aside from prejudice which most Of have the person
who has the cayuse in action at the Pendleton
Round Up would hesitate sometime before swallowing a
chunk Of volcano in active eruption.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

dark and mystic trade The chemists brew their
noxOus DOPE and say hungry folk Cheer upl cheer
upl don't give up hopewere making flour of oak" The
German parent sick and sore beholds his children starve
there chemist to the door-"Here is brick to
cave It's made of shavngs and old shoes excelsior and
tar you're needing bread? Don't have the blues for this
is better far If famine to this our land think
we starve and die before Wen take from chemists hand
a bootjack for pie.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

The time has passed when any good
American lover can call his sweetheart
"hun" and get by with it.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

Joe Pipa, football coach at 0. A. c., has been asked
to resignbut W. J. Kerr is still drawing $500 month
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

Yesterday was the winter sostice and while the sun
is supposed to have started his journey northward
again he has in fact only turned the goal post and it
will be days before he is fairly racing back with
Spring concealed under his great coat It is little early
to get out the shovel and the hoe but already thoughts
of garden and greens permissible for here in
Oregon it will be only couple Of months until the early
flowers in bloom and the onion announces its arrival
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

If butter gets much higher Brother Hoover will have
to go to advocating the of aXegrease substitute
for it. he does it is safe bet the axlegrease makers
will iunn the nrice.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

England is demanding six million tons of ship
ping, and President Hurley of the shipping board says
the job is big one but thinks manage it. We
sure if governmental red tape be dispensed with
and common, everyday sensible Americans be let alone
at the work
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-22

The Bolsheviki government" has decided to delay
enough for long before that time eapses the bolshevi
will be only memory in Russia and not pleasant mem
ory either The Cossacks winning and apparently
the people turning away from the German travesty
Russian government, Lenine, Trotsky and such and
toward the only real solid Russian soldiers the Cossacks
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
Message Of the Stars and Stripes
sv franklin Knight Lane, secretary Of the Interior.
"Iet me tell YOU who am. The VOL

.Let tell you who am The work that we DO is the
making the real flag not the fag-not at all am
whatever YOU make menothng belief IN
Yourself your dream of what people may become live
life life of moods and passions OF and
tired muscles Sometimes strong with pridewhen men
lido an honest work fitting the rails together truly Sometimes
roopwhen purpose has from and cyncaly play
the coward Sometimes loud garsh full Of that ego that
blasts Judgment always all that you hoped to be and
have the courage to try for
IT song and fear struggle and panic and ennobng
hone days work of the weakest man, and the
largest dream Of the daring the constitution and
the courts statutes and makers soldiers and dread
drayan and street sweep cook counselor and clerk
the battle of yesterday and the mistake of tomorrow
the mystery of the who DO without knowing why
the clutch Of idea and the reasoned purpose of the reso
ton than what you believe to be and am
all that you believe be- what make moth
ing more. swing before your eyes bright CLEAN of
color symbol of yourself the picture suggestion of that big
thing that makes this nation My and stripes your
dreams and labors They bright with cheer brilliant
with firm with faith, because have made them
out Of your hearts, for you makers of the flag and
it is well that you glory in the making.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
DEMOCRACY IN GERMANY.

Slowly but surely democracy is making prog
ress in Germany The recent declaration OF
Chancellor Won -Holweg that the
German people must have a. larger share III the
government of the country has a'pecullar sig
niticance, for it was almost simultaneous with
the emancipation of Russia from autocracy.
But this is not all. The chancellor promised
that there would be important reforms after
the war. Herr Scheidermann, head of the So
cialist majority in the reichstag has clearly in
timated that these reforms must be carried
ont Immediately. He further said that Ger
many is now the only great state which Is not
democratic, that as result, she is dlslked all
over the world. and that she needs constltu-
tional monarchy like England, Denmark and
Norway.
The exigencies of the war have compelled the
German government to trim its sails. More
over. the dawn of liberty in Russia has shown
the more enlightened portion OF the German
people how politically backward their country
lis A demand is now made that the relchstag
should henceforth have control over the forma-
ton of alliances and the making OF war and
neace Furthermore, it is insisted that there
should be proportional representation, and
abolition of upper houses. The shortage, OF
food and the retreat of the German army on
the western front-a fact which could not be
concealed although it has been elumsily ex-
planned as strateglc-have generated unrest
discontent. and even the spirit of revolt in
Germany. . Ho-..
At the rate things are going democratic IN
dienation NAV soon develop into revolutionary
rage.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
AN UNsoLVED QUESTION.

mo time for visiOnaries' is the caption of
an editorial comment printed in the Chicago
Tribune apropo Of the interest in the reported
visions of young French girl. The headline
and editorial are quite in keeping with the
thought of the hour; close practical thinking as
to ways and means, hard doing of difficult
tasks discarding of everything unnecessary to
immediate results-thcse are the characteris-
tics which are accomplishing most. But there
was never time when new vision Of better
things to be was needed more than it is today:
never a time when humanity was yearning al
though in major part inarticuIate and perhaps
unconscious of its DESIRE for new visions for
old For we have multiplied mechanical Won
iers only to create desires: we have bet
tered conditions only to create new powers and
opportunities; have helped many people TO
the possibility of attaining much that they
have never had. But we have not solved nor
sought to solve the question: "What shall we
do with it?'' An opportunity without knowI-
edge of how to use it; leisure without the Will
or the way to employ it to real advantage: de-
sire without definite aim and foresigh to lead to
its fulfiliment-these are causes Of discomfort
and content will only come with vision of how
the materials of life shall be shaped into con.
sentiment. This world must have dreams
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
OF NATIONAL INTEREST.

If we were living in ordinary times re-
quest by the railroads for PERM to IN
crease freight rates, in order to raise money for
the development of their properties, would ap-
peal to the public because all prosperity, bnsl-
ness, industrial and individual, is dependent
upon adequate facilities. Now the appeal IS
broader. because national interests are at
stake 1t was with no purpose to eXaggerate
the seriousness of the situation that the roads
say in their petition to the interstate commerce
commission that nothing is more essential to the
national welfare than that the railroads
should be in position to respond to the fullest
demands made upon them, either by the general
commerce of the country or in connection with
the subject of national defense The COM
panies state what every intelligent person
knows TO be true-that it is essential to the
adequate preparation of the country's resources
for the present crisis that the transportation
machine be brought to the highest stage OF etfl-
cheney. 1t is for the reasons stated that the
appeal of the roads for higher rates is OF ma
tional interest, and one need not look beyond
these reasons for an explanation of the puhllc,s
friendly attitude toward the carriers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
SAVING the PAPER Waste.

Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: Junk
dealers in Sioux Falls during the last
year have sold a full trainload of
waste paper-twenty cars of 1t carry
ing twenty tons each. This means
that the people in this vicinity have
picked up about $4,000 which they
would not have if they had burned the
paper or scattered it to the winds, as
was the old custom. Paper is scarce
and waste paper is in demand. A To-
cal junk dealer says that he is now
paying from 50 to 81 per ton for I'M
sorted baled paper. and from SIS to
$40 per ton for paper made up OF
books, magazines and letters. At
these prices a paper baler will soon
paw for itself at school, a public in
stitution or a busy business office.
The forming of the habit OF saving
would also be a valuable lesson and
uo1,ld evtArd IN nthaf anfivftiAs-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
sAsco, Ill.
800 go . - . . ,

Miss Fern Steffey Of Dallas City,
H., is spending a few days at the
E. D. Williams home, north of town.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Arnold,
March 81, daughter.
Ruth Rem who has been quite sick
with typhoid fever for several weeks,
is improving slowly.
Mrs C. L. Steffey spent last Friday
in Quincy.
Mrs. John Harrison, north of Basco,
is on the sick list.
Mrs. c. c. Collins and daughter
Lois, Of West Point. spent Friday
night with ner mother Mrs. Hawk
ms.
Miss Sarah Freeman spent a few
days in West Point last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Jamison Wetzel. re-
turned to their home in Carthage
last Monday after spending the win
ter here with Mr.. and Mrs. Argast
and other relatives.
Mrs r. H. Groom and daughter
Helen spent last week visiting near
Lomax I'll.
Mrs. Harry Haneise visited in Keo-
kuk one day the past week
Mrs. Neal Atkinson of Aledo. ILL.,,
came down Saturday to help care for
her mother Mrs. John Harrison
Mrs. VIM Garard and daughters
Ruth and Media, were in Quincy shop
ping last Thursday.
Mrs, Felix Wallet and daughter
Vera, visited over Sunday in West
| Point.
The play given by the Baptist
young people at the opera house last
Thursday night was very successful
On account of the bad weather
Rev. Saunders was unable to fill his
| appointment Sunday night at the
| NJ. E. church.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
REVERE, MO.
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Hurrah for April showers; they
bring forth May flowers.
Sunday was a gloomy day in our
town as there wasn't any preaching.
Grandma Wolf has returned to her
home after spending the winter with
her children IN Oklahoma.
The sick in and around Revere are
improving.
Mr.. Owens, our agent. has moved
in Mr.. Bishops property while the
latter has gone to live with his son
Will Bishop.
Lloyd Ramsey Of near Revere has
purchased a new Ford car
Many acres of oats have been
sown in the past week.
Mrs. Maud Morris OF Kahoka is
spending few days with her mother
Mrs. Wolf
There will be a lecture Tuesday
night at the M. E. church at Revere.
Jesse Vineyard spent Sunday at
the Seymour Stephen home.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04

Mrs Olive Fusson and little son
OF Berwick are guests of their aunt
Mrs. Martha Yakle.
On April 10 at the Friends church
the matron's declamatory contest
will be held.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hudson have
been enjoying visit with George
Curl from Fl. Madison.
Miss Carrie Weeks Of Keokuk re-
Gently visited her parents Mr. and
Mrs. William Weeks.
Miss Mary Cough departed Satur-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
Our undraped Women.

Britt Tribune: It is a wonder that
one.half the girls Of today are not dead
with the fool fashion of wearing moth
ing on the arms but veil. If man
or boy went practically bare armed
they would be sick with colds nearly
all the time. The Zulu maiden's full
dress is hairpin and garter, but
the climate where she lives don't pro-
duce snow banks ten feet deep. 1t
must be that the present generation
of girls and women are naturally
tougher than beggar boys heart. or
they could not go with azure hosiery
and diaphanous drapery when the
mercury touches zero. OF course this
lis fashion and fashions behest must
be acceded to If the heavens fall.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
STATE RAILWAY COMMISSIONS.

A significant fact brought out by the Rall-
yvav Age Gazette's latest study of the person
mel of the railway. commissions IN forty -slN
states is that, while the principal function OF
the boards is to regulate railroads, only ten
members, out of a total Of one hundred and nj
weight, ever had any experience as officers or
emploves of transportation lines. In the eight
wears since similar study Of the state com
missions was made, the number of lawyers on
the boards has increased from forty-two to sew
entv-nine and the number of railway officers
ond en,n1oves has decreased from thirteen to
nine.
Tn the lack of special qualifications IN the
men whose duty it is to regulate the roads is 10
he found one explanation of the frequent fail
nres Of state regulation. Another, reason for
failure. as the Gazette points out is that the
commissions are s'prevented from regulating
the railways as wisely and fairly as they other
wise would by the passage by the legislatures
Of arbitrary laws which many OF the state com
missions themselves do not favor Inc
situation is made worse by the fact that there
lis no uniformity between regulation by 'he
1arions states or between state and federal
regulation.
Tn these circumstances it is easy to account
for tho growing demand for the unlficatlon OF
roonlation under federal control. The present
double system is costly, and it acts as a bar TO
tbe DEVELOPMENT of the highest efficiency In
railroad operation
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The
people will back up the government,
, you bet. They will pay the freight
| rates that pay for the advances in
wages provided by the government,
through the Adamson law and the
supreme court.
Burlington Gazette: BY calling
J, 100000 men, Uncle Sam may also
call a bluff.
Waterloo Times Tribune: The
funny part of 1t is this legislature
started out talking about efficiency
in state government.
Jefferson Bee: If the general as
sembly abolishes the state printer
and binder, as now seems likely, and
goes to system of farming out the
state printing here and there, the
honest friends of this proposed re-
form are in for great disappoint-
ment. 1t not only will not work well,
but in the long run it will cost
/ the state more money for less salts
| factory product. The state now buys
: all it's own paper at wholesale, and
pays the printer and binder a GER
tain scale of prices for the actual
work, and this scale has been gone
over from time to time and fixed on
la reasonable basis. You cannot i'm
prove upon that system. Under the
proposed plan there will grow up a
printing bureau. with clerks and
other expenses which will more than
, absorb any saving that might be
made. 1t is simply one of those re-
forms that will not result In improve
ment from any standpoint.
! Marshalltown Times-Republican ::
Seems like job on the suprem e
court bench ought to keep a man too
busy to bother with back yard poll
tics.
! Boone News Republican,: To have
| passed the teachers pension bill
would have been a direct confession
that the teachers were not receiving
high enough salaries.
Sioux City Tribune: If the Sunday
blue laws are to be enforced as At.
| torney General Havner announces
there will be little left for the boys
to do on Sunday but stand around
on the windiest corners.
Burlington IIawk-Eye: The sixty
fifth congress convened in extraordi
nary session yesterday. Champ Clark
was reelected speaker of the house
Th..i is well. " Under all the cir
cumstances it was really due the ad
ministration, and due the country
that the democrats should organize
the house. And with his maturity Of
experience as leader, a parliamen
tartan and publicist, Champ CLARK
was the best choice for speaker thai
could be made under the exceptions
conditions now prevailing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04

We have quarrel with the German people we have
no feeno towards of sympathy and friend
ship 1t upon their impulse that their government
acted in entering with their previous
kno,vledoe or approval. determined as
wars used to determined in the Old unhappy Gays
when peoples consulted by their rulers ana
and wased in the interest OF dynas
ties or of groups of ambitious men who were aeeus
TONED TO use their feowmen pawns and toos. SELF
aoxcrncd nations DO I'LL their neighhor states with
spies the of intrigue to bring abost some
critical posture of affairs will give them oppor
-n;t e. strike and make conquest. designs be
only under and where no one
has the riaht to ask questons.-Presid ent Wilson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
TODAY,S BIT OF VERSE
WHERE is YOUR FLAG?


] see that flag you have floating
Outside of your window today,
Your patriotism denoting
in quite the conventional way.
You feel big and brave
In making it sway
But whisper me, here apart
Dye it around your heart, my boy?
Dye it around your heart?
A pin in your coat you wearing
OF red and of white and Of blue
So every will be staring
To American, you.
That patriot pin
Is beautiful in
It's place in your neat buttonhole,
But is it within your soul. old top? E.-
Dye wear it within your soul?
The flag in your talk you are waving;
1t flies in the wind of your speech;
Its folds you forever saving;
But say. would you fight you preach?
With fire your tongue
You cry to the young
Fore'er to the flag to be true.
But, then, would you fight for it too good sir?
But, then, would you fight for it too2
john OKeefe, In New York World.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04
SALEM.
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Mr.. and Mrs. T. P. Randolph Of
Maysville, Mo, are guests of rela-
tives.
Mrs. W. Fl. Johnson recently enter
tanned Mrs. William Myers from Mt.
Pleasant.
Miss Selma Barnes came from
Iowa City and visited her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Barnes.
c. A. Stevens and son conducted
the funeral of Mrs. Lydia Ann Smith
at Sharon Tuesday.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04

day to spend several 1iud out
her friend Mrs. Mary Aiuiiio"N
ton,i in North Dakota. -,o ant
Mr.. and Mrs. John Elgnnu, and
children arrived from GrinneI .on,t
are guests at the pareii'"'
Eighme home. from Fair
Herman Garretson came LIT LIT will
Aeld and enjoyed short 'i'''
home folks. - With hei
After spending the winter WI" !, d
children, Mrs. A. Daviason
home
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04

Thousands of tons of paper are wasted
every year in the United States which.
If saved, would aid the manufacturers
in supplying a. market which for the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04

Partisanship is dead duck among the con-
gressional hunters.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04

Judgment for an evil thing is many times
delayed, some day or two, some century or
two but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Carlyle.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04

to employ its energy and its restless will to do
and to be.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04

Mr.. La Toilette, here's the dock Please
jump off,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-04

Burlington Gazette: BY calling
100000 men, Uncle Sam may also
call a bluff
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-01-10
GOVERNOR BOYLE
WILL RUN AGAIN

A few days ago Governor Boyle ad-
mitted to a few friends that he will
be a candidate for the office at the
next election. In the message which
he Is now preparing for the lcgisla-
ture he will strongly urge the re-en-
actmcnt OF the tax commission meas
ure. From the drift of opinion already
expressed at Carson among those In
close touch with the situation II Is
quite likely that the Legislature will
endorse the governors recommends
lion IN this particular. However, II is
expected that there will be several
changes in the provision of the meas
ure as II is now set forth. 4 state
board OF control TO supervise the man
agement of the several state institu
lions will also be requested OF the
legislature by the governor.
The governor also has in view a
new election law which he believes
should be passed and this will Do
urged on the law making body II q
return H. TO be made to pure pri
mary" Governor Boyle will urge thai
q provision be included which will pro
vide for the adoption of party plat
forms prior to the time that nomina
lions are made.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1917-01-10
HARRY K. THAW
IS NOW FUGITIVE

NEW YORK. Jan. 10.--A hunt for
Harry Thaw is on and extends to all
the principal cities of the east and
detectives say he is avoiding arrest
with all his old time skill. A search
OF his old haunts has failed to reveal
a trace OF the slayer OF Stanford
White. He Is variously reported 10 he
in New York, Pittsburg, Philadelphia.
Washington and Atlantic City. Frank
Walsh of Kansas City returned here
t~day with the boy from Philadelphia
and says that he ELECTED important
evidence from Oliver Brewer n pri.
vate detective whom Thaw had em-
ployci and was said to be Thaw's
body guard.
Brower was arrested for completely
in the alleged abduction OF the boy.
Walsh reported that he found state.
ment prepared by Thaw for Brewer
TO get a statement from the boy alb
solving Thaw from any blame. The
document stated that the boy con
sidered the alleged whipping which
Thaw Is said TO have administered 10
the boy 10 be necessary and that the
boy rather enjoyed the punishment OF
his lord and master. II is report ed
that only ha:f of the sensational Is
now out.