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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

/ mastoid abscess, passed away on Sat
lurday morning at o'clock. All that
love and sympathy could do. was
done, but the death angel ever hov.
cred near. John was bright, dutt
| full son. and his progress in studies
| was remarkable, he being not only
Ethe favorite of his school compan
| ions, but also with his instructors
and his death is mourned by the en-
tire community. He leaves to mourn
his death. besides his parents. his
brother and sisters: Hunt Ferris
Mrs. Ellen Culkin, Mrs. Dorothy
Mack. Misses Julia and Phoebe Fer
ris, Of this city, and Mrs. Adelaide
Andrus. of Boulder, Colo.
Arrangements have not as yet been
made for funeral services.
Miss Katherine Ramsey, who has
been spending the past month with
her mother, Mrs. Maggie Ramsey, Ia
her home in Wichita, Kansas, stop
ping off in Quincy for days visit
with relatives enroute.
Mrs. o. H. Rohrbough and daugh-
Viola, left Friday evening for New
Raymer, Colo, to spend the summer
with her daughter, Mrs. Claude
LdCUCh Lucy StOppcA dI oIuduc,
Neb., for a few days visit with Mr..
and Mrs. Edw. Rohrbough, who ex-
pect to accompany them to New Ray
mer, for a visit with their daughter,
Mrs. Clinton Cutler, then to Kansas.
where they will visit another daugh-
ter.
Carthage college announces the
following commencement program:
June 3-11 a. m. Reformation an
niversary sermon, Rev. Bruno Led
erer
500 p. m. Baccalaureate sermon.
Choruses from Stabat Mater by the
college oratorio society.
June $500 p. m. Annual acad-
envy banquet.
500 ,. m. Academy commence
ment exercises. Address, Rev. Thorn
as B. Uber.
June $500 p. m. Concert by col
lege girls glee club.
June $500 p. m. Alumni field
day exercises.
coop. m. Alumni picnic dinner.
100 p. IN. The senior sing.
500 p. m. Closing convocation OF
college community. Address, Rev. A.
E. Isham, Rev. c. Knudten.
June 1000 a. m. The forty
third annual commencement exer-
cises.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
REAL MEANING OF EDUCATION.

/ Of all the periods of the year June IS the
month of highest visibility within the view OF
the girl graduate and the American boy, who
have prepared themselves for what is not IN
aptly termed commencement. In very
short while the ambitious youth and his fair
sister will realize that graduation is not educa-
/ ton.
! Education is what men and women can do
/ for themselves, and some men and women can
not be educated. They can be highly trained.
/ What capacity they have can be raised to the
VERY highest power of efficiency. That is what
our colleges and universities are doing for the
immense majority of their students They are
simply developing the natural capacity SO that
the younger element may serve society to its
best advantage and gain the maximum out OF
| life for themselves-that maximum varying
according to avocaton.
College or university education is not to be
| deprecated. 1t is education for want of a bet
ter term but not education in its entirety.
Education implies culture and culture implies a
knowledge of the best that has been thought
and said and done in the world, and whole
hearted effort to make that best prevail IN the
lives of men. The genuinely educated man is
free from moral bugbears and small fanitlcisms
that usurp the functions of lntelectOn More
than any other man he perceives that human
life is the sum total Of all its activities and that
the one thing needful is to understand this fact
so that no false conceptions may cloud the
spiritual view. The essential difference be-
tween the uneducated and the educated lies
simply in the difference in the things they
deem worth while. The graduates soon to be
turned out on an unsuspecting public will learn
these things in time. It is well to let them in
on the secrets before commencement" day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Nothing in dispatches from Washington
since the war revenue bill was submitted to
congress shows that the tariff commission has
given attention to the recommendation that on
all articles now imported duty free tax of ten
per cent be collected or to the provision for
horizontal increase Of ten per cent. in all Gus
toms duties imposed by the present tariff law
Both these proposals are unsound Many
articles crude or unfinished, and intended for
use in our industries must continue 10
come in free, unless manufacturers are 70 be
subjected to unnecessary hardship It is obvj
Gus that much injustice will be done if all raw
materials now on the free list are included in
one classification. Not less absurd is the rIan
for uniform increase in all existing duties
Both proposals violate every principle of scien-
tifc tariff revision. 1t was to provide for
such revision to take the place of the han
hazard method of making tariff changes that
the tariff commission was created The evils
OF the old system were apparent, and much
was expected from board headed by Profess
sor Iaussig There was occasion for haste in
craving the war tax bill, but it did not Justify
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Andrew Irving Carlton passe'
away at his home. No. 81 Buchanan
street, in this city, Friday afternoon
following long decline in health
at the advanced age of eighty years
one month and fifteen days.
While Mr.. Carlton had been vi
and around the house most of tbs
time, yet he had been great suf
ferer for many months. Mr.. Carlton
was born April Is, 1887, in Kentucky
being the son Of George w. ant
Mirenda fTulD Carlton. the father
being a native of Virginia and the
mother of Maryland His father was
farmer by occupation and removed
from Kentucky to Woodyille, H., il
1910, and after engaging in farming
in that community for number Of
years, came to Carthage in 1851
where he made his home until his
death in 1895, the farm he resided
upon having been plated into town
lots. which is now known as Carl
toms addition to Carthage.
Mr.. Carlton was carpenter by
occupation, and has followed his
trade during his entire life in this
city and vicinity. In 1864, he was
married to Miss Amelia Davis, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Squire Davis, OF
this city, and to this union were
born four children, two of whom
Mrs Bessie Orr, and Fred Carlton
have preceded him in death, he leav-
ing to survive his widow and two
sons. John, at home, and Douglas
of Quincy.
Mr.. Carlton had been assessor of
Carthage township for many years,
and was acting in that capacity At
the present. time, but had been unable
to fulfill his duties, and depended
upon deputies to do his work.
He also leaves surviving the fol-
lowing: His sisters, Mrs. Susan
Davis. of this city, and Mrs. Marietta
Davis, of Springfield, and the follow.
ing half brothers. and sisters: Ed
ward, of Huston, Texas; VIM. H.
and Robert L., and Richard B., of
Carthage; Mrs. ]. H. McQuary, of
Missouri; Mrs. Richard McCrellias,
of Aurora, Mo-; Mrs. Minerva e.
Starkey, of Bentley.
Funeral services were held from
the residence at 2 o'clock p. m. Sun
day afternoon, Rev. j. w. Ferris, of
the Methodist church, officiating.
Burial at Moss Ridge cemetery
John d. Ferris, the IL year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ferris, who
was operated upon at Keokuk hos
pital Thursday Of last week for
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
FARMING ToN.t
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Mrs. Harry Barton and her sister.
Mrs. Clark OF California went to Win
field Saturday to visit the formers
son Merit Barton and family.
Miss Alice Keppler went to Alex
andria Saturday for a visit with
friends.
Mrs Alice Coulter and grandson
Maurice went to Winfield Saturday for
la visit with her son Dr.. Truman Coul-
ter and wife.
d. NJ. Powell left for his home In
Manly, Iowa after two weeks visit
at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
Alice Wright.
The Pennington band, gives band
concert and show at Hillsboro next
Wednesday night.
Miss Blanche LueclSle and Florence
Wright went to Donnellson Tuesday
evening and stayed over night to play
in the band.
Mrs. Nellie Lueckle and three chill
.dren came home Saturday from visit
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
Rainey slanders Newspapers.

| Congressman Young, of North Da-
kota: l find, after looking it over,
lthat IL the United States governm emit
had paid to the publishers of the Ho-
iquiam Daily Washingtonian a fair
price for all the advertising given to
this government they could afford to
1 send the paper out by first-class post
| age.
| The value of publicity to the depart
ments of the government is little aD-
preciated by those who have not STOP
lped to think about it. Almost every
governmental activity requires pub
licity. The president of the United
States appreciates this, if some other
officials forget it. In a recent address
he tsed these wor,is:
Il beg that all editors and publish
ers everywhere will give as prominent
| publication and wide circulation as
possible to this appeal"
What is worth asking for is worth
paying for.
Yes, they ought to pay reasonable
tax. The publishers are willing to
pay a reasonable amount We are
talking about this bill that makes an
unreasonable demand, a requiem ent
which in many cases will amount to
take into account the services render
ed TO the government by the news
papers. But there is bigger and
broader question involved in the con-
sideration of this subject A free
democracy is dependent upon a free
public opinion, and a sound, rational.
broad, intelligent public opinion Is
formed by press of which a portion
at least must be nation wide in scope
and circulation. Dr.. Lyman Abbott at
firms that one contributing cause OF
the civil war was that the north and
south did not understand each other
One contributing cause Of the great
European war is that the nations
speak differnt languages and do not
understand each other. Patriotism
calls for legislation making mutual I'M
derstanding easier and better. The
proposed legislation makes mutual I'M
derstanding more difficult. 1t tends
10 denationalize the nation.
My contention is that when the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Rainey)
stated that the newspapers of this
country were grafters there never was
a greater Islander uttered. They are
men who have been paying their way,
giving the government full compen-
sation; that is my contention.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
PITY the NEWSPAPERS.

Springfield Register: Congress is
now considering the placing of tax
of 5 cents on every dollar received for
advertising by newspapers and other
advertising mediums. If the total
sum received for advertising IN the
United States is 5000, 1000. 900 the rev.
enue to the government at cents on
dollar viii be one-twentieth OF that
sum, or s3O,O00.000. No wonder con-
gress looks with longing eyes upon
an advertising tax as source of re-
venue to help carry on the war. The
newspapers proportion of the $780,
100000 probably will be one-third, at
least, or s10.0Go,000, and the State
REGISTERS share a great deal more
than 1t can afford. 1t is to De hoped
congress will have pity on the poor
newspapers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

The remarkable people of this world useful in their
but the people after ALL represent the
ton, the and the civilization. Go into town
city: lives in that splendid house, do not
This is fine town. here streets of houses with
gardens and yards. and everything that is beautiful the
whole way through. Go into the lanes into the back
streets where the mechanic lives; where the day
Iaborer lives See what Is the condition of the streets
there. See what they do with the with the helpless
and the II the top OF society bends perpetuay
the bottom with tendernesses If the rich strong
the best friends of the poor needy that is
civilized and christian community but the rich and
the wise the and the great bulk of the popua
hon skirnmiIk that is not eommuntyHenry
Ward Beecher.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
Nail THE FLAe 10 lie PLoW.

MAIL TIE FLHS ~ TIE FLo"
Nail the flag to the plow-
The country needs grain
While the sailor boys guard
The tracks of the main.
God gave you the fields
And the sun with its light;
Then doubles their yields
While the sailor boys fight,
Nail the flag to the plox-
The soldiers must eat
While defending the trenches
Or suffer defeat
You can help the brave soldier
At this time Of his need
By increasing your acres
And planting more seed.
Nail the flag to the plow-
Your children and wife
Must be saved from starvation
While the world is in strife.
Your duty is plain:
Your mission is grand;
Each man is a hero
Who's filling the land.
You say you're too old
To fight with gun:
Then work in the fields
Till the setting OF sun
And show to the world
BY the. sweat on your brow
That you're serving your country
With a flag on your plow.
w. 3. Lockwood
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

~.
al Bonaparte with her fatber !,
Daniels. III. "
Ben keppler, and Ivan slee va.
heokuk last Thursday on businsaa.s
The program given here Deeosas..
day was certainly fine, mnsi. ssle'
speaking. AZ
Don Marson and wife spen. \,
Sunday at Milton visiting NJ "a ~
sons sister. who is very Sick ~
Fred Keck and wife spent Las. :,
day at Milton visiting. s' ~
Mrs. Geo. Jenkin and children !.
last Wednesday for a visit VIII viii go "a
tives. ssi
Mrs. Sam Keppler returned ;. /,
home in Keosauqua Saturday at,.a .
weeks visit at the Ben Keppie, 1, sss
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

4
nually produced All that is re
quired is the labor to take it from
the mines, get 1t ready for consumQ-
ton and distribute 1t to consumers.
1t follows that if there is an appear
ance of shortage it is artif ,ically
created. = = Shortage of labor
Is pretense. The federal trade
commission has given assurance that
there is an abundant supply Of coal.
IL spectators attempt to extort mon
ey from the public through fear that
unless exorbitant prices are paid,
suffering from cold may have to be
endured, the government should
find way to protect the public. The
mine operators and all others who
have to do with the distribution of
coal, are entitled to reasonable
profits, but not to more.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

the carelessness displayed by the ways and
means committee when it proposed sweeping
changes that are calculated to do more harm
than good. No time should have been lost by
the tariff commission in pointing out the most
serious mistakes made by the men who framed
the tax measure.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Good roads in Illinois halts while
lawmakers strive to cut a few slices
of legislative pork A measure
carrying a s60,000,000 bond issue
is said to be held UP by COM
bine which insists on getting good
roads in their neighborhoods. No. l
is the big figure on the legislative
score board
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
IOWA pREss COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Republican: Ever
the blue laws are all right if we VII
apply them to the things enumerated
| by their makers, for none of us care
about horse-racing, trap-shooting OF
even dancing on Sundays.
| Sioux City Journal: II is we'll to
bear in mind that there never has
been draft anywhere without stfr'
ring up more or less opposition. Even
in the civil war, with the life OF the
nation at stake, there never was IN
animous support for the draft. But
everywhere. when the draft becomes
necessary. there is strong popular sup
port for it. Otherwise there would be
no draft.
Marshalltown Times-Republican !:
One of the big coal operators ex-
presses himself as astonished and puz-
zled over the high prices of coal. He
says coal is being stored by over
anxious and selfish persons. That
selfish person" stuff is the ultimate
coming from coal baron. And it is
ridiculous for any coal operator to
assert that he doesn't know who is
hogging the coal which is being piled
up in monstrous heaps all over the
country by railroads and manufacture
ers. Moreover it is not selfishness on
the part of householders to fill their
bins but natural and justified fear or
what the coal magnates may 90 TO
them later in the season.
Boone News-Republican: 1t Is not
too late yet to join the sowing cir
cle.'
Des Moines Tribune: Looks as If
the garden will now have to grow
nights to make up for lost time.
Sioux City Tribune. violators of
the Havner blue law" enforcement
order apparently believe in literal
Interpretation OF the American COM
mercial slogan business as usual"
Davenport Democrat: The Presby-
terrain general assembly advises
against the church taking part in poll
tics, and cites the late and lamentable
campaign in Iowa as a horrible ex-
ample. Judging from it's results.
that is putting the case rather mildly
Des Moines Register: A few months
from now they may be court martial
ing somebody found guilty OF cutting
his bread slices too thick.
Cedar Falls Record: Politicians
sometimes aspire to the political Of
fees in the armies and navies. but the
mere politicians do not offer to go on
the firing lines.
Webster City Freeman-Tribune:
Governor Harding. in the Judgment OF
the Freeman-Tribune, made the mis-
take of his life when he vetoed the
bill repeating the ncnpartisan judi
ciary farce and the one restoring the
circle to the election ballot.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
The Coal Situation.

Albany Journal: There cannot be
reason for shortage OF the supply OF
coal That supply is not dependent
upon the weather, or upon the volup-
tarv activities of many individuals
1t is not something that must be an
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
darcy for presidents

UNITED Press Leased Wire se-,.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 4-Tha ~,
ton of William c. Darcy ~ ~ :
Louis. as president, and San ~ y
cisco as the 1913 convention placs J
the Associated Advertising Clubs !
the World. was forecast here tna.'
The election will be held tomorra,
night.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
OuchI

Council Bluffs NonpareiI: II !, :.
ported that the news of the csn,, !.
/ of Bagdad has just reached Cons,.s
tinople. Must be that Turkey has i,
Burleson mail system, too.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

It Is strange how we agree that the things
we can see and hear and touch are real, and
call the invisibles that take hold Of our feel
ings, imaginary The Straight Road y
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

'What's in name?'' That which we call a
Stacker" by any other name will be as odious.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04
STARTLING BUT NOT CONVINCING

"A citizen with penchant for figures and a
propensity to inflict them on the human fam
lily quotes one Professor Dumkopf" to the eff
feet that the five thousand golf links of the
country if devoted to agricultural uses would
produce at least three billion messes of fried
potatoes; and the foot pounds of energy e1-
pended on them would if applied to hoeing
corn yield meal enough for as many loaves of
bread. That these are startling figures cannot
be denied, and while it is possible to question
their entire accuracy it might require more
computation to prove them wrong than the
matter is worth. Assuming, however, their es-
sential correctness they do not establish the
contention that the links should be plowed up.
The country has corn land enough without
them, and anybody with passionate desire to
plant potatoes probably can find ground for the
purpose by looking around. That energy is
wasted on the links is undeniable, but it is en-
ergy of kind that cannot be harnessed to
useful achievement. It is not designed for sus-
tained laborious work; and all attempts to
force it into the handle of an agricultural i'm
pIement will fail The Dumkopf figures may be
correct but that does not prove that the pro
fessor's scheme to bring the links under cult
walton is practicable. Figures appear to es-
tablish no end of things that are not SO.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Indications all favor this being the shortest
ly-swatting season on record.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Excellent results attend the efforts of the
railroads to prevent accidents, and the record
of the interstate commerce commission showing
substantial reduction in the number Of per-
sons killed in the fiscal year ending Septem-
Der 80, 1916, as compared with the average for
the five years Of the 1911-15 period is most
gratifying The annual average Of passengers
killed in that period was 313, while for 1916 the
number was 2S3, a decrease Of 90 per cent.
Deaths of employees for the fve-year period
averaged 2,871 and the number for the last
year was 2,273, a decrease Of 20.S per cent Of
other persons there were killed in the five year
period an average of 6,588 and last year 6,322,
a decrease of 4 per cent. These were all the
fatalities due to the movement Of trains and
the total decrease for all classes was 81 per
cent By far the largest number Of persons
killed on railroads are neither passen gers nor
employees but ''other persons five-sixths of
whom are trespassers on railroad property.
The figures presented are particularly signif-
cant because there was considerable increase
in passenger traffic last year as compared with
the fve-year period while freight traffic in
creased 22.7 per cent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Sioux City Tribune: violators of
the Hayner blue law" enforcement
order apparently believe in literal
OF the American COM
slogan business as usual"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Webster City Freeman-Tribune:
Governor Harding. in the judgment OF
the Freeman-Tribune, made the mis-
take of his life when he vetoed the
bill repeating the ncnpartisan judi
ciary farce and the one restoring the
circle to the election ballot.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Cedar Falls Record: Politicians
sometimes aspire to the political of
fees in the armies and navies, but the
mere politicians do not offer to go on
the firing lines.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Des Moines Tribune: Looks as If
the garden will now have to grow
nights to make up for lost time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Des Moines Register. A few months
from now they may be court martial
ing somebody found guilty of cutting
his bread slices too thick.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-06-04

Davenport Democrat: The Presby-
against the church taking part in poll
tics. and cites the late and lamentable
campaign in Iowa as a horrible ex-
ample. Judging from it's results.
that is putting the case rather mildly.