The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-04-26
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

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down some flags and were fined $1O(
and costs. 1t seems to have been All
automobile jag party In dry state
An excellent thing to do would. be
to hunt UP the man who sold the
off to the enlising officer. A year OF
SO of service under arms or upon
coast defenses might do the swhole
gang a power of good.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Congress
man Kennedy will support the gen.
eral army staff bill which will in.
clude the plans for selective con.
senting the prevailing sentiment of
the First Iowa district and Of the
state, if The Hawk-Eye correctly
gauges the status of public opinion.
Sioux City Journal: A legislature
may disappoint the people of Iowa.
but it can't surprise them.
Waterloo Courier: Women have
done many things in the war. but
we have never heard ofsone Of them
! being made a censor.
Algona Upper Des Moines-Republi-
can: Maybe if Nick Romanoff would
stop shoveling that snow in Russia
the weather would get warmer.
Manson Journal There is move
ment on foot to take all idle men
and boys in our cities and towns
and draft them for work on the
farms or elsewhere that they may be
needed. That certainly would be a
joke on some people we know.
Britt Tribune: Talk about setting
aside farm lands for glory acre. -
Set golf links aside for a thousand
glory acres" Blue grass sod, well
pulverized, is excellent potato land.
stead of the farmers. Des Moines
toes to feed the city. Don't keep
should do. Golfers are just the people
to get at as potato raisers. They
claim want of exercise. II they
paris green" potatoes until noon
and hoe them until shutdown that will
give them exercise. A nicely bal
anced hoe will beat golf stick clear
out of the reckoning If the golfer
kicks on this let the government run
him through sorghum machine and
squeeze the price of a substitute out
of him. Instead of his sitting with
his feet cooked up on table dis
cussing hazards" and puts" and
tees" let him discuss Early
Ohios" and "Cobblers" and EARLY
Rose"
Waterloo Times Tribune: The
house of Hohenzollern and the junk
ers never could find any use for the
social democrats of Germany. They
considered them as traitors The
political organization of Prussia,
which as yet dominates the empire.
is such that the social democrats
could not make progress against 1t;
unequal suffrage and the kaiser
power of appointment prevented any
progress. But in the reichstag, the
popular house of the empire, social
democrats came, before the war,
near controlling. Each year the
democratic idea was growing and it
is a pretty safe conclusion that a vic
torious war was necessary in order
to prevent the advance of social
democracy This was but one and
minor cause of the war.
Odebolt Chronicle: We believe
every man is entitled to a reason
able profit, but when a man buys
potatoes for less than dollar per
bushel and holds them until he re-
ceives at least 81 he is receiving
more than a reasonable profit. To
gamble with human food is not in
the same class as specializing with
luxuries. 1t looks to us like robbing
the poor. The governm ent officer
! who does not make an effort to put
stop to this nefarious practice is
guilty of dereliction of duty. The
railroads are toasted over a fire OF
Goals If they attempt to raise their
rates, but where, oh where, is the
man to lead the host against the
citadel of the food Spectator?