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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
where the Doctors Agree.

Washington Post: With prac
ticalIy unanimous voice the doctors
In recent meeting at the New York
Academy of Medicine agree that the
Chinese system Of treating folks
while they are well and leaving them
alone when they are sick is not to
be adopted in this country.
The general view was that the
well man should not be disturbed
Humping his chest and testing his
arteries merely stir up his apprehen-
sions. The more he talks or thinks
about divers diseases the more liable
he is to contract them. Referring to
a prophecy that the day was coming
when it would be fashionable to be
examined physically and mentally
every now and then, DR.. 8. j. Meltzer
of the Rockefeller institute. said:
THAT will only make people
sicker-to examine them. Do you
know why dog doesn't die! III
tell you-a dog never knows why he
Is living and that he is going to die;
after he's dead he doesn't know IL;
therefore a dog never dies People
70 on for years living orderly lives
until somebody, maybe an insurance
doctor, tells them they have some
thing the matter with them and,
until they reach the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
PIMPLY7 WELL, DON'T Be!
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with DR.. Edwards
Olive Tablets

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much longer if you get package OF DR..
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taken the tablets a few nightA
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disposition or pinnply face.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets are 2
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olive color.
DR.. Edwards spent years among pa.
tents afflicted with liver and bowel
complaints, and Olive Tablets are the
immensely effective result.
Take one or two nightly Tor week.
See how much better you feel and look
Toe and Csc per box. AL druggists.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
JAPAN'S FRIENDSHIP,

In his address at the dinner given in honor of
the establishment of regular steamship serv-
ice between New York and Japan. C. Yada,
japanese consul general, paid hearty tribute
to the builders of the Panama canal. Without
that great waterway, he said, the enterprise Of
the promoters of the New York-Japan steam
ship line would have been powerless to accom-
plish what they have done. This is true, Of
course, and he might have added that but for
the lack of wisdom that resulted in the passage
of the seamen's bill, his country would have
fewer advantages in the Pacific carrying trade
than it now has The fact has been recognized
in Japan as well as in the United States. But
Mr.. Yada spoke only of pleasant things, and his
cordial recognition ofAmerica s service in build
ing the canal was not more gratifying than
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

grave, they are sick Let the physi-
clan treat the sick and let the well
alone. 1t is time more was done for
the sick man. The doctors Job ID
with the sick man."
This suggestion that the well need
no physician is In excellent harmony
with q statement coming from the
highest of authorities many centuries
ago. The insistence on keeping well
is an insistence on the normal. SO
much desired In every branch OF sta
tistics. even that of the insurance
company. Doctors themselves know
the danger of being too much occu-
lied with diseases. Jerome n.
Jcr ONE did not exaggerate the ex-
periences OF the average medical
student when he told how his own
first studies Of human ailments
brought him down with every known
afYliction except the housemaids
knee.
or course, the doctors may have
had possible disastrous misadJust-
ments nf the fee system IN mind
when arriving at happy unanimity
on the subject. But the doctors
n,,,st live, rs well as other people,
and good sound sense seems to be
ct the bottom OF their conclusions In
this particular instance.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

rect line of descent. II only pro-
fesses to have found irrefragable evil
dence that men and women were
living upon this earth at. least a
hundred thousand years ago, and
that, while distinctly human In
bodily form and structure and in
mental qualities. the earliest known
representatives of our race were
much inferior in both these respects
to their descendants of historic
times.
Moreover. science has demon
strated that there are structural re-
sem blances between men and apes
which show that both are descended
from q common ancestor. One very
telling fact Is that serum reactions
prove that there exists close blood
relationship between men and the
three great species OF anthropoid
apostle gorilla. the chimpanzee
and the ourang-outang.
It is not necessary to retell here
the story of prehistoric man-the
river-drift man, the cave man. the
man of the Old Stone Age, and the
man of the Later Stone Age-fcr
that would make an article. and
many articles, In itself. But we may
ask ourselves such questions as
these: If God made man as totally
independent creation, and at single
stroke, how does it happen that
mans entire bodily structure is
simply an adaptation Of general
plan, on which a vast number Of
species Of lower animals were gradu-
ally developed before man appeared?
Ii God made man in His own
Image, how does It happen that man
looks SO much, and in many ways
behaves SO much, like an ape or
monkey?
Again, why should the scientist"
(abominable name for good mani
be accused of impiety or atheism
because he prefers to believe that
God, instead of making man by a
sort of legerdemain out OF a hand
full of dust, brought him into exist
ence through the operation OF a beau
tiful and marvellous law Of evolution,
q development, is. which He
himself had established, as an archi-
tect first lays down a plan for his
intended edifce?
Is not this a nobler conception than
that which assumes God TO ne
doer of miracles" breaker OF his
own rules? This conception does
not force God out OF nature. and
neither does 1t deny that He Is
superior to nature or to natures
laws.
II does not, as many appear 10
think 1t does, shut out any Interior
ence by God with the course OF
events, for science pretends to no
knowledge OF the way in which the
material and the spiritual are re-
lated II only feels confident that
whatever relation Of that kind may
exist is not capricious. but IN &C
eordance with some as get uncss-
covered law. Prayer may be an
swered and yet no law b violated.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
MAY FIND USE
FOR BLOCK HEADS

WASHINGTON. D. c.. Jan. 81
Did you get pair Of hickory socks
for Christmas or q hemlock necktie
from your best girl? You may not
think you did. but the odds are much
better than even that you did Just
the same for according to o bulletin
being prepared by P. S. Ridsdale,
secretary Of the American Forestry
association for the annual meeting
here Jan. Is and 10. there are . lot
OF things in every day uses made OF
wood that the average person does
not think OF.
MANY of the so-called silk socks.
ueckties and fancy braids now on the
market contain artificial silk made
frc,., wood, says the bulletin. Fine-
tenths Of all the paper Is made OF
wood. Powder for munitions or Tor
blasting is being partly made OF
wood. Now disinfectant for protec-
ton against contagious disease Is
made OF wood All the acetone used
as solvent In making nitrocelluiose
powders Is derived from acetic ACID,
a product Of hard wood distiiiation.
oh. yesi They are making sausage
castings out OF wood and those same
sausage casing materials are being
used in making tapestry. Therefore.
when she sees q wonderful piece OF
tapestry again you will know that II
is made out OF q com bination OF tin
can labels and left over suit cases
for sausages perhaps
Incidentally new field has been
opened for the saving OF waste paper
in a dozen different lines in the coun-
try-a waste that because OF the war
is being utilized to the limit, and
teaching q big lesson in thrift.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

their internal management. Tam
many is political society with
head ana nome and Is not IN It's
existence regulated by the primary
laws of New York.
The primary has been injurious In
the degree that 1t has been force
for rather q solvent) for disorganiza-
ton. 1t has abolished responsibility
and while it is utterly anta9onistic 10
the spirit OF rule 1t has been by
law designated as the agency through
which alone rulers may be selected
The primary is the legless. armless,
headless trunk OF politics.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
This Number Has Moved AWAY ),
the state In the Last Fifteen
Years, and Has Taken
Much Money.
EXODUS rs COSTLY on
Average Of $4,000 to a Family, !
Amount Wasted In Educate,
Makes Big Loss to the
state.

The Iowa Magazine, the off,cIa,
San OF the Greater Iowa association
very handsome and very well edNl
publication. has the following:
While We are dealing in larg.
ures, there is another thought Viii
might be taken home by our Iowa \
pie during. these long winter eyen,n
Within the past fifteen years, IN
has lost approximately forty thour
farm families, made up of good
|stantial men and women who \.
sought greater ease, or greater pm
In the adroit1y advertised Eldorado
the north. or south, or west.
The best estimates available ID
cate that the minimum amount tai
cut of the state by each of these IA
lies was $4,000. Most Of them IA
away many times $4,000. But. let
figure on that $4,000 basis; d
means a loss to Iowa of $500, O0oN
This was money made in Iowa,
Think what could have been d
with the $500. 900 900, If we had ma
Iowa more attractive-made It's
IN the farm more desirable, direc
this wealth into the avenues d
create opportunities for young ID
and young women-in other wor1
given to Iowa those advantages (
both greater ease and greater profit
which these exiles aspired.
Again, the loss to Iowa greatly ;
ceeds that $500, 00o, 0o0-or MAYBE
was $500, 900 900. who can tell? Th}
was loss OF eighty thousand men
women whose mature tudgme
whose genius. and whose enterph
might have been used to the grea
advantage of Iowa. 1t included q
hundred and twenty thousand m
an girls, most of whom had been
Gated at the expense of the taxpayd
Of Iowa. We have lost their Ind
tive. their Judgment and their geni1
too. More than that, our loss is n
mendously increased by reason 0! Y
fact that these young men and woml
have identified themselves with Y
progressive measures Of our compel
tive states, and We find ourselves
the peculiar position OF being Oppose
in our race for dominance u the 9
sentiai Things OF ire by young M
and young women-sons and daus.
tiers OF Iowa for whose education a
carly development Iowa has paid !
price.
When We have placed consolldha
schools IN every rural school DIST
in the state OF Iowa, when we have
pert agricultural assistants In ev7
county in Iowa, anil when we ha
constructed roadways that VIII ca
the vehicles OF either business
pleasure every day in the year, ID
We win have begun to create an 10
that will be immune to the emu
ments OF these Eidorados, these Z
sian fields that are found at the
OF rainbows.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
TODAY,S BIT OF VERSE
TO Each HIS DREAM.

The winds of the uplands. they buffet,
The winds of the valleys blow sweet;
The lure of the uplands is me,
And may not stay my feet
One night when the moonlight aquiver
Made path of white light to the dawn
/ caught far glimpse of the upands.
Where the bravest of forbears have gone.
The call ce the Ip.alds is me,
Far down In the valley lies peace,
And they who bide in content there.
They know not my need of release;
They hold me with hands that are tender,
yearn back to them. yet ! turn
With glad, shining face to the uplands,
Where the lights of my dream city burn.
And I shall when winds buffet
Even joy in their keen, flashing beat,
For, warm in the heart of my BOSOM
Lies the dream, may stay not my feet;
l shall fill my hands full with cliff lilies,
l shall drink to the deep of their thrill,
And shall find in the fair flower, contentment.
In the facing of winds on the hill.
Flora Shufelt Rvola in Springfield, Mass, Republican
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Council BUNS NOnparelI. lho
present insurance law has many
fierce opponents and some warm
friends. From some random remarks
coming from these groups we Judge
that one bunch is made up OF fei-
lows who had their rates lowered
and the other includes the Fellows
who had their rates raised when the
new law become effective: - 49,
Marshalltown Times-Republican
Perhaps the assertion once accepted
by all youth that a snakes tail never
ceased to wiggle until the sun went
down. no matter how little was left
OF it's head, may be untrue. in fact,
but that Jones case at Viiiisca sug-
gests that there might have been
something in the superstition. It's
tail keeps right on wiggling.
Burlington Hawk.Eye: Yes, the
high cost of living Is nuisance ana
it makes people do some close hgur-
ing, and they have to cut down on
many things. But consider the pio-
neers, and how they frequently ran
short of about everything that IS
needed, and there were no ways or
replenishing the stock until later in
the season. 1t Is bad, but it might
be much worse.
Sioux City Journal If the legisla-
ture could work as hard when II has
sixty days left as when it has only
ten it might be possible to dispose
OF all its work with no loss of time.
But it can't be done, There is lot
of procrastination in human nature
and the legislature is made up wholly
of human beings.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Ames col
fege is preparing men for matrfmony
by conducting course In cooking
for their benefit. In every new move
ment Iowa arrives on the COW.
catcher at the very front.
Ottumwa Courier: Some papers
that cried loudest for popular cleo
ton of senators in order to make
them responsive to public opinion,
are now commencing the recent &C.
ton of the administration leaders IN
choking off discussion In the SEN
ate of the presidents peace propa-
ganda. They say that ~wAa: the ssIa-
tors think is beside the question, that
the president Is the spokesman for
the people.
Cedar Rapids Republican; We are
in favor of an eternal closed season
on the shooting of quail, also prairie
chicken and other game OF that KIND.
Rut, unfortunately. there are no
chicken left on our prairies. There
are some quai! left and If they were
not moIested for ten years we might
rave many more. A quail is one
of the best friends the farmers and
orchard men have for it is a great
insect hunters live quail may rea-
sonably be considered worth more
than a dead hunter in Iowa. or the
two we think the quail with an IN
sect in it's mouth is worth more to
Iowa than the man with gun IN
his hands.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

them in the evening and slept os.. nd
they cooled my face, so bough. .e "a
and in three weeks my lace w
clear, and l was healed. '(Signed, en-
Bdesemeister, 3057 West l9'h d"
Chicago. ILL.,, Sept. Is, 1910. IN
Cu,icura Soap and Ointment
proved most valuable for the tres.
81 pimples, blackheads, redn ;ST;,s,s
roughness, dandruff, itching, hi.
scaips with dry, thin and falling n'
young and old. - RI
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
sobbIne Defense Of the Primary.

Sonbin0 OeSeuSS " uS Ia"~y
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The last
ditch defenders OF the primary SIN
hare one sn. in acticc-the reliable
old mortar dubbed democracy.
Each shell fired bears the motto
..yox PopuIi. vox Del" and. the pow
der comes in bags labeled Made In
America-The People Can be Trust
ed,
Certainly the people can be trusted
since logically there are none others
than these same people to do the
trusting. The people can best be
trusted when they resolve to subject
themselves willingly to discipline,
order and intelligent organization OF
forces for the promotion OF efficient
management in all things of public
concern.
The children in the home can be
trlsted-papa and mamma are en-
thusiastic in that belief. But papa
and mamma do not put the questions
OF holidays, picnics, school attend
ance. spending money and moving
the lawn TO popular vote In the hctse
hold.
because they trust each other ana
deserve to be held in esteem for their
SHOW Oh 1oN DnhNA w.
nositors do not at primaries nominate
presidents, cashiers. directors. aud
itors. tellers, bookkeepers and other
attaches of the institution. Nor
would they allow their money to re-
main in bank where such rule
prevailed.
Policyholders do not nominate by
ballot executive officers OF insurance
companies.
Capitalists buy the preferred stock
of corporations in which the common
stock holds the power TO rule.
Government Is more of business
than any business that exists under
government. Government is more OF
a business than all other business
combined. 1t protects all lines and
its powers in that direction have not
been and cannot be utilized to the
full. The powers Of government
have never had capacity test nor
will they ever be subjected to the
maximum load.
The churches, the fraternities, the
schools, the universities that enjoy
the best regulations for steadying and
sustaining discipline stand highest in
public esteem. Discipline does not
destroy rights. 1t enlarges the
Oh ever man y iA'SASASo ~
allowing him TO share in the results
of the well-directed efforts of others.
If political party Is nothing more
than mass meeting then the primary
viii serve But a political party Is
more than that. It is born, II may
die, II has personality and is an
historical character. Because It Is u
voluntary organization ambitious pol
iticians in either party have without
color Of right assumed to lay down
the rules under which all parties shall
be operated. If political parties were
at the trouble TO incorporate and
adopt constitution and bylaws the
state OF Iowa could not interfere with
their orderly plans for management
Republicans, democrats, prohibi-
tionists, socialists or any other asso-
citation of citizens have the right to
choose name, set forth their purpose
not contrary TO public interests, spec
ify their capital, their executive Of
ficers, number CT directors, dates OF
annual elections and principal place
OF business, and II 50 organized the
primary law could not interfere with
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
Blaming the Newspapers:

iowa City Republican:
newspapers were free from part!
self interest and would tell the u
aSou. candidates the primary
be much more efficient than
Aside from telling all the truth, J
newspapers. some OF them a. ~
deliberately falsify and CONFUSE
voters. It is too much 70 eip3
newspaper reform, hence the imp
ance OF amending the primary isN|
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
A mistake is bad enough; but an expiana-
ton is much more damaging.-Henry Clay
WELL DONE, MR.. PRESIDENT.

In veGOlng the immigration Dill because OF
its literacy test provisions President Wilson has
gone on record for the right and for the best In
terests of this country. In the state paper
which he submitted to the house he said:
very much regret return this bill without
signature.
be very glad to concur, but cannot rid myself
of the conviction that the Hteracy test consti-
a radical change in the policy OF the ma
ton which is not justified in principle 1t IS not
q of character, Of quality or Of personal fit
ness, but would operate in most cases merely as
a penalty for lack OF opportunity In the country
from which the alien seeking admission came.
The opportunity to gain education is in many
cases of the chief opportunities sought by the
immigrant in coming to the United states ana
our experience in the past has not been that the
iiiiterate immigrant is such undesirable I'M
migrant Of quality and OF purpose cannot
be objected principle but tests OF oppor-
tuny surely may be,
- President Wilson has made clear the vital
objection to the im1ni grafton measure. The
bill was designed to bar illiterates from en-
trance to this country. One has but to con-
slider the class Of men who would have been
kept out had a similar measure been in force
from the beginning Of our government to see
that Mr.. Wilson was in honor bound to do all
he could to keep that bill off the statute books.
Many of the most dangerous members of
communities in the United States have
keen and trained intelects, but depraved NOR
ais Men of that type would be admitted I'M
der bill fashioned as is the one vetoed by the
president while hundreds of thousands who
are capable of development into useful citi-
zens would be turned back.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31
Worst Yet TO Come.

Kansas City Times: Persons Y
think S25. oo0, 900 was lot OF Iu
to give for the Danish West NV
haven't heard the worst yet "
until the salary list Is MADE op
the deserving politicians who van
sent down there to take over tne y
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

Back In Detroit, where q drought
impends, hotel men shoe away the
curious by posting the sign: Don't
ask us what we are going to do?
What are you going to dot" Empha-
sis on the you"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

The Iowa house has by vote of 95 to 0
passed the bill providing for repeal of the
presidential preference primary law. The SEN
ate, it is said, will pass it also. Good! Now
that a start has been made, why not complete
the work and do away with the entire primary
contraption7
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

Movie patrons paid no heed to the personal
ity of the performers until their attention was
directed thereto by the managers. Now the lat
ter complain that the film stars are as greedy
as baseball players. We wonder why.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

On his return from Mexico, General Pershing
will find the United States good deal the
same as when he left it, despite cycle or two
of diplomacy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

Think of the pioneers, you who today troubled be,
cause some emergency you Into an unfr'ed
life PATH the pioneers, and read In aeta the
Wonderful story they and developed tne
the handcaps under which they struggled
advantages you possess in this prosperous
Velous twentieth century Then perhaps you VIII
appreciate clearly than have yet done why YOU
the future with courage and commence MOI
with anxiety and despar-H. Addinston Bruce
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ways came 70 a nedI e. ~
INV face was disfigured VI
much for the time Dea
Later on they became ~ ~
and burned a LOT. -
lasted about two OF U.s.
months. -
zone day | sent for an y,
sample of Cuticura n
and Ointment. ! app
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

Japan expects 1917 to be lucky year. Uncle
Sam should not leave his doormats outside
over night.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-01-31

If congress does not mend its pace there will
be falling off in demand for presidential
signatory pens.