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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
CARRYING PAPERS.

Marshalltown Times Republican: A
jobs job. Carrying papers" on
route is a job. 1t isn't an all day
job, but it's a job and steady one.
1t comes in on odd time and brings
in, from a boys standpoint, consider
able income to the boys who actually
consider it their job. Perhaps If all
the successful business men in any
fair-sized town with daily paper
were to be interviewed nine out of
ten of them held his first job carry
ing papers"
The main things about 1t are, first,
it's job; it's regular employment.
Then it's a job that tests the boy and
his parents. for he must be prompt
at his post daily and stick until the
last paper has been folded and
thrown with a thump on the front
porch or placed in the mail box. The
fellow who figures it as a job and as
his Job gets lot of experience along
with his pay. He learns that he can't
scamp his work: for If there is any
thing a man will kick over quicker
and harder than failure to get his
paper on time nobody has yet dis
covered it. 1t is no snap in cold and
rainy weather. so he learns that a
contract is a contract and to be car
ried out in the face of difficulty and
discomfort Also he begins the les
son so hard to learn, that the man
who is looking for snap doesn't
often find 1t and when he does find
1t it doesn't last or pay while it does
last.
Carrying papers" in town is like
building fires for the schoolma'am in
winter time in the country. It's a
job and brings in certain funds. It's
the difference between having money
that was earned and begging for a
dime. It's like helping the neighbor
husk corn after fathers is all cribbed
money that belongs to the Garner
And that kind of money cent for cent
and dollar for dollar is the best
money in the world It breeds more
money. The little job well done
breeds the bigger job. In short
carrying papers is part of an educa-
ton, part of the training that makes
for success; for after all success is
simply intent and purpose carried
out day after day with faithfulness
and promptitude as the newsboy
carries his papers.
Nobody ever got anywhere unless
he started ANY steady job is a
start. whether 1t is CARRYING papers
or tending Old Mrs Jones' furnace.
It's the beginning. And sly as we
keep it the beginning has whole lot
to do with the end.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
THE "cLAss-coNscloUsv /. W,

New York World: Il am not ii
u. w. w." said James H. Mature;
president of the Pennsylvania Fedsf|
alton of Labor, at the Madisos|
Square Garden meeting Sunday night
"but l will say this for them: thei|
only crime is that they are class
conscious and consistent, and thg|
fight for their convictions"
The Convictions" for which III
4. w. w. fight are that every agra
ment with an employer is sem
of paper" and that workmen NIL
follow the policy of sabotage; ha
the churches; cod the mines; n
the crops; fire the forests and
saw-mills that turn out spruce
airplanes: poison the soup, as NIL
famous Chicago case; resist ~
draft, and help the kaiser. This q
not crime; it is class-consciousnea
And what a convenient theory fa|
others than the /. w. w. Cocch
was merely cIass-conscious when no
murdered the daughter of respect
able man and hid her body in Dis
cellar. The gunner who killed Kos
enthal were Transformations" and 50
was Becker. who engaged them fof
the job. They, too. were waging waf
on society by direct action 'Jacs
the Ripper" was class-consclous
patriot ahead of his time. Possibly
that is what ais the German govern.
ment. When it started out on ~
career OF blood and devastation y
was merely class-conscious.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
SELLING FOOD UNDER LICENSE.

Another step IN food control has been taken
by the federal government. The new licensing
system is now effective. Mr. Hoover and his
associates expect that the food profiteers-
there is reason TO believe there are many Of
them-will find their occupation gone. No one
content with fair profit will have occasion to
complain, but there Is to be no more fooling
with men in the food business who show dis
position to take advantage Of the country s
necessities by making fortunes out Of the war.
The food administrator did not ask authority
to fix prices, nor does the law give him that
power. But every manufacturer OF food, all
dealers who supply hotels and institutions,
every wholesaler or iobber, all commission mer-
chants foodstuffs brokers, food auctioneers, re-
taiers doing business of more than one hun
bred thousand dollars year, and every ware
house, elevator, or cold-storage operator must
do business under the government license sys-
tenn. Something better than price-fIing is the
power to determine what fair profit is and
this power the government has. Licenses will
be revoked for making more than fair profit
or for violation Of any of the rules established
by the government. The food administration
will know what is done The books will be
open to inspection. 1t is provided that no deal
err affected by the license system shall charge
more for any article than will give him rea-
sonable profit over what he paid for it, This
means Just what it says, and its importance be-
comes apparent when it is stated that no &C
count will be taken of any advance in the cost
of any article subsequent to purchase The
dealers percentage of profit must be based on
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
CLOSED FOR PuBLlc,s GOOD.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: 1t is as
surned that the Elgin butter board
has been closed "for the term Of the
war" for the public's good. The gov
eminent would hardly suspend the
operation of this handful of gentle
men for the public's injury. If the
operations of the Elgin board are adj
Judged to be injurious in time Of war
it is deduced that they are at no time
beneficial.
This board did not constitute a
trust. 1t did not produce the butter
and at no time owned the butter
Except few tubs), the price Of
which it assumed to control. The
careful attention given the Saturday
sessions. when the board" journeyed
from Chicago, held it's sessions in
due form, purchased" a few tubs of
butter and telegraphed details of the
transaction to all parts of the coun-
try, would indicate that there was
financial gain for the members. The
game has been worked for fifty
years, despite the fact that as a but
ter producing country the E1gin ter
ritory has ranked below any one of
several counties in Iowa
The Elgin board has been allowed
10 fix prices at will. supply and de-
mand not having been the ruling
factors. Relieved from this restrain
ing power butter priceg viii attract
the close attention OF dealers and
consumers anxious TO learn what
they have lost or gained through the
dissolution of usurping association
of spectators.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

HIGH PRICES FOR POOR BEEF

Omaha WorldJHerald: The pack
ers accuse the retailers of charging
extortionate prices for meat. They
say that there are three grades Of
meat and that there should be con-
siderable difference in the retail
price of these grades. but retailers
sell all at the same price though
there is a great difference in the
wholesale prices which the packers
charge. The three grades are first
the cornfed steer, which has been fed
on corn for at least six months; sec
ond. steers that have been fed from
sixty to ninety days on corn; third,
animals OF ell sorts fed on forage.
There Is a very great difference in
the food value OF the meat of these
three grades, but with the retail deal
er, the packers charge. sirioin
steak Is sirloin, whether 1t comes
from an animal fed on corn stalks
and weeds, or from one fed for six
months on corn. The food value of
the meat from the animal fed exclu-
sively on grass and other forage is
very low in comparison with corn fed
beef. 1t is said that more of this
lean beef is sold in the west, near
the stock raising center of the coun-
try, than IN the east, ana always at
the price that good beef should bring.
On the other hand, the retailers
say that when the price Of hides and
other by-products Of the packing
houses is very high. as ar present,
the price of meat should be lowered
and the packers make no such re-
auctions. There is only one thing
certain about the matter. The people
have to pay very high prices for poor
beef.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
Helping the Preachers.

New York World: Fourteen reli-
gious organizations are conductive
campaigns to provide better salaries
for ministers and old age pension
funds, the total proceeds of which
are expected to reach SIS ,00o. 900.
Apart from the philanthropic charac-
ter OF the campaigns, their effort will
necessarily be to make the ministry
a more popular profession than it
has been under the previous condi-
tfons of small pay and arduous SER
vice.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
Killed by Poisons

All scientists agree that poisonoui
products in the blood are eliminated .!
the kidneys and liver. The kidneys ae'
as kind of filter for these products
When the kidneys are changed or oe'
generated, by disease or old age, tneu
these poisons are retained in the BODY
If we wish to prevent old age coming
on too soon, or if we want to increase
our chances for long life, DR.. Pierce o.
the Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, n. T., say
that you should drink plenty OF wa'e'
daily between meals to flush the kidneys
Then procure at your nearest drug ssois
Anuric. This Anuric drives the uric aO.u
out. Scientific men have learned tha'm
govt, also rheumatism, poisonous un.
acid crystals are deposited In or a0ou
the joints, in the muscles - where IL
farnmstion is set up. :,
If we wish to keep our kidneys IN w
best condition q diet of milk and veg.
tables, with only little meat once day..
the most suitable. Drink plenty OF pul'
water, take Anuric three times das ".
q month. An-u-ric is many times noi.
potent than lthia and dissolTes VI"
acid as hot water does sugar.
Send 10 cents to DR.. Pierce, If you "isD
to obtain trial package of Anuric'
ScHAILER, Iowa. For several yen! 'sas
l have been bothered from time 70 VIZ. M
with weakness of the back and hip st a
urinary disorder. especially on snnnc
cold. / tried trial package OF a; an .bs,
Tablets with such gratifying resu! Fam :
bought more of them and gave ma ssss,
lair trial, and found them. IN M fs.
to be just what they are cialElea an
They are the best ever used, ana ! 4.
very much pleased with them. soS
DANDY.
DR.. Pierce.s Pleasant Pellets fer me I'm
and bowels have been favora6y 81 ~
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

Before the entry Of the nation into the war;
prepared every effort to keep the ma
ton of the | in position to say that
organized prepared work for diplomatic
settlement that would keep OF the But when
German buccaneer infamous vapr in his
tory decreed Germany be above ALL then or
Manuel
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
WHY HAIR FALLS ONT

Dandruff causes a fevari.h
ton OF the scalp. the hair r 10y
shrink, loosen and then tba foo
comes out fast. To stop raIHn, y
at once and rid the scalp Of y
particle Of dandruff, get a smo,, 1v Y
tie OF Danderine at any drng -. y
LOT a few cents, pour littla q su
hand and rub well into the s sO'
After several applications ali Sss
run disappears and the hair s ssa
coming out. slo
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
SUCCESS Ihrounh Eailure

st. Paul Pioneer Press: Even when
you have fallen short of the object
YOU had hoped to gain you have not
failed IL your aim vas true and yo,,
are able to profit by the mistakes
you made.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

In impounding enemy property here the
United States does not confiscate it, but mere
" assures that it will not be used against
America, while the war lasts
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
Slim Picking.

Washington Star: The industrious
insurance man finds little encourage
ment in Germany. The kaisers 81
sons appear to be about the only sal'
propositions.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

udtlOndl Is a puOI pidSe AoI Oily
tips except those on fighting.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: There are
suggestions that a turkeyless Thanks
giving would be in order. That it
would be patriotic. Yet some people
explain that they have eaten turkey
as a patriotic duty than because OF a
special preference for the bird that
| always roosts so high in November.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Count Min
otto, son-in-law OF Louis F. Swift,
more justly famous for hams and ba-
con than for royal alliance, is accused
OF plotting against the United States
and is likely to be informed for the
term of the war or expelled from the
country. A better scheme would be
to assign him to Chicago stock yards
job under patriotic Bohemian fore
man
Davenport Democrat: Poor Nor
way. She seems to have no recourse
except to cause a laugh In Berlin by
notifying Germany that she consid-
efs the continued sinking OF Norweg-
| ian vessels violation of the laws of
humanity.
Sioux City journal: And Martin j.
/ Wade gives every other day demon
1 stration of the fact that man may be
american though judicial.
! Cedar Rapids Republican: OF
course, there may be Americans who
are fools enough to believe that the
great fires are always in docks and
shipyards and such things-acciden-
| tally But there are some Americans,
thank God, who are not such fools as
! TO believe such things They know
| who sets such fires, or causes them to
be set and they also believe that
/ there ought to be detectives smart
enough to furnish few men for firing
| squads, not waiting until sunrise in
the morning, either.
| Marshalltown Times-Republican
| The solicitors tell story of a wealthy
man with more than one farm who re-
fuses to subscribe dollar to the loan,
but a renter on one of his farms took
a large subscription though the
wealthy land owner had just raised
his rent to SIP an acre. There's NO
! need or editorial COulHleul Oh lille
case. The neighbors and the com
munity will attend to the comment.
Mason City Times: In spite OF
the bluff they have been putting W
to the contrary. the vets had their
vote out and the drys did not.
Sioux City Tribune: This country
! cannot be full fledged democrat y
until the idea is eliminated that peo
pie in official life should enjoy special
exemptions In taxes and war service
responsibilities.
Emmetsburg Democrat: We should
quit talking economy and begin prac
/ . ~
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

Eight million Americans put down five
million-dollar bet that the kaiser will finish last
in the international event.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

Herr Ahchaelis is returning his portfolio to
the kaiser because he has disposed of all the
green goods it contained.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

Grown folks are funny All you have TO
do is 10 LET them think they are alone and
You can almost always count on new e1-
perience-E. G. Scott.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

Mayor Thompson is reported to have put
FIVE thousand dollars in Liberty bonds. If you
give them time they'll all come to it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

II is better to say, "This one thing
/ do" than to say, These loFs
things l dabble in"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

The kaiser is so mad at America that he
swatted Italy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
BITTERs AND ToNICs.

The commissioner of internal revenue has
given out q column-long list of proprietary
remedies with high alcoholic content, which,
as he gracefully puts it, have been found to be
insufhciently medicated to render them unfit
for use as beverages. The great majority OF
these are labeled tonics or bitters, though oc-
casional cordial extract, elixir, compound or
cure appears In the list. A few of them I'M
blushingly advertise themselves as bracers, and
they probably are as bracing as from forty to
sixty per cent of alcohol can make them; but
bitters and tonic are the words which have
come into general use to designate that class OF
bottled fluids which can be taken for the
stomaeh's sake and often infirmitieso in any
quantities, safely and with no fear whatever OF
their medicinal effect.
The commissioner ruling puts the makers
OF these compounds in a quandry- They must
either pay taxes on them as liquors, reduce
them to a near-beer inspidity by taking the al
cohol out or medicate them sufficiently to set
up an internal commotion in the person who
uses them as beverage. Either course is cal
culated to impair their popularity; for while a
little more taste might not destroy their
salable value in bone dry district, that would
be nothing but havoring whereas the law de
mands medication that will jolt the in
terror vigorously if the compounds are not to
pay liquor tax. The probabilities are there
fore that the vast majority of these will disap-
pear from drug store shelves
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

what he paid, not on any rise In value between
purchase and sale, and the profit must be
reasonable.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Des Moines Register: Those Pull
man porters who are now at Camp
Dodge are due to discover that the
national army is a poor place for any
tips except those on fighting.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

A fast life usually ends in a slow
death
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

That the food administrator intends to pre-
vent unreasonable charges by the small retail
dealers is shown in the announcement that sup
plies viii be cut off in cases where the seller is
not satisfied with fair profit As the admins
traitor says. this is one Of the most sweeping
safeguards against high prices to be incorpor-
ated in the licensing system. While the small
retailers are exempt from the licensing provi-
sion, they are forbidden to make any unrea-
sonabIe charge, to hoard to monopoize or de-
stroy food, or to conspire with anyone to re-
strict PRODUCTION or distribution or to ask ex-
cessive prices. The licensing system enables the
government to keep track of large dealers. The
small retailers who yield to the temptation to
engage in profiteering will find that they can
not get supplies.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

DR.. Pierce.s Pleasant Pellets S!.. ~ ,,,asp
and bowels have been favoraG!
ior nearly so years. Ask your druss'ss
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

Mason City Times: In spite OF
the bluff they have been putting W
to the contrary. the vets had their
vote out and the drys did not.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

Sioux City Tribune: This country
cannot be full Pledged democracy
until the idea is eliminated that peo
pie in official life should enjoy special
exemptions In taxes and war service
responsibilities.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-11-05

Emmetsburg Democrat: We should
quit talking economy and begin prac.
ticing it.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-19
wayside Resort Ordered Closed.

Littleton.-The Wayside Inn of Pc
tersburg, with it's remarkable history
of the last ten years, has closed it's
doors to the pleasure-seeking public
and its proprietors, w. H. Smith and
fine and jail sentence. The two
men were found guilty in the County
Court at Littleton of maintaining a
disorderly house. Judge George w.
Dunn, before whom the case was tried
suspended sentence for ten days,
asked for by the defendants counsel,
in which to file motion for a new
trial.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-19
Major John M. Burke Is Dead.

Denver.-Major John M. Burke, "a,
for fifty years inseparable friend of
the late Col. William +. Cody C'Buf.
falo Bill'o. and the best-known press
agent in the world, died at the home
of friends in Washington of pneu.
monia. He had many friends in all
parts of Europe and America. Major
Buske was almost as famous and was
as picturesque as Buffalo Bill him
self, for whom he had profound ad
miration. He met Cody in the late
COS, during the Indian War, and the
intimate friendship started then.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-19
COLORADO CROP REPORT
WHEAT AVERAGE OF STATE
ABOVE THAT OF NATION.
Report Shows s5 Per Cent Of Normal,
Compared With 63.4 Per Cent
for United States.
western Newspaper Union New. Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Denver.-AN summary of the April
crop report for Colorado, as com
piled by the bureau of crop estimates
(and transmitted through the wealth
er bureau), United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. is as follows:
Wheat.
State-Condition April 1 this year,
85 per cent of the normal; ten-year
average condition figures for April l.,
80 per cent.
Rye.
State-Condition April / this year.
S6 per cent; ten-year average April 1
condition, 81 per cent.
Hogs.
State-Losses from disease past
year, 2.8 per cent; ten-year average,
per cent.
Cattle.
State-Losses from disease past
year, 1.s per cent; ten-year average,
10 per cent Losses from exposure
past year, 1.9 per cent; ten-year aver
age, 2.8 per cent.
Sheep.
State-LOsseS from disease past
year, 1.6 per cent; ten-year average.
2.2 per cent. Losses from exposure
past year, 2 per cent; ten-year aver
age, As per cent.
Horses and Mules.
State-Losses from disease past
year, 1.5 per cent; ten-year average,
1.9 per cent.
The first price given below is the
average on April l this year, and the
second the average on April / last
year.
State-Wheat, $1.62 and 80 cents per
bushel. Corn, $1.04 and 62 cents Oats,
73 cents and SO cents. Potatoes, $500
and SO cents. Hay, $1420 and 9.60
per ton. Eggs, 25 cents and IS cents
per dozen.
United States-Wheat, $3.50 and
1856 cents per bushel. Corn, $1.13 and
70.3 cents. Oats, 62 cents and AZ
cent. Potatoes, $2.35 and 97.6 cents.
Hay, $13.05 and $11.7S per ton. Cot
ton, 18 cents and 11.5 per cents per
pound. Eggs, 26 cents and 179 per
dozen.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-19
Directors Quit over Drill Row.

Colorado Springs.-Three members
OF the school board here resigned fol-
lowing a demand made upon them by
pupils that military training be estab.
lished in the schools. The board is
reported to have previously refused to
permit the pupils to train and local
newspapers took up the matter by de.
manding that the boys be given drill.
w. II. Spurgeon, Il. p. Huffred and
Mrs. Katherine Morey are the mem.
bers who resigned. The terms Of the
other two members expire next month.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-19
Faces skull Of Alleged Victim.

Santa Fe.-One of the most dra.
matte incidents ever enacted in New
Mexico court occurred here in the
trial of Elbert w. Blancett for the
murder of Clyde d. Armour of Sioux
City, Iowa, when skull, said to be
that Of Armour, was produced in
court. The skull was brought into
court by an undertaken. The defend.
ant apparently was unmoved as the
grim exhibit was produced, wrapped
in white napkin, from an ordinary
handbag.
Gilpin observer., 1917-04-19
Senate Votes $1,000 ,ooo. 600 War Bill

Washington.-The war finance bill
providing for issuance of $1,000. 100000
In securities-the largest single war
budget in any nations history-was
passed unanimously by the Senate
After seven hours of discussion, the
administrator measure, which was
passed by the House and which pro
vides for a loan to the allies of 49,.
oOO,0O0,o00 was approved by the Sen
ate, with a few changes, in record
time.