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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
IOWA WILL SUBMIT, BUT 1T
ISN'T RIGHT.

Cedar Rapids Republican: OF
course those fuel administrators had
never heard about people who have
hard coal stoves and who cannot burn
soft coal without investing in soft
coal stoves. The stoves are not
alike and ~ley win not burn the same
kinds Of coal But while this NAV be
inconvenient and expensive it can.
not be helped-so say the admin.
strators. They had to take coal from
somewhere and they decided that
Iowa and a few other states similarly
situated could be made to stand il.
One of the federal explainers even
went so far as to say that Iowa had
low rate of i1Iiteracy and being an
intelligent and reading people, they
could explain it better to Iowans than
TO some other folks. For stupidity
that certainty is about the limit.
Another explanation is that Iowa
has some soft coal mines. But does
not Illinois and Indiana and Ohio
have such coal mines and vet thew
are to receive almost their full quotas
of hard coal. There are states with
out number in which the quotas are
actually increased.
Iowa is willing to suffer its part on
account of the war, just as it has
been willing to give and to invest
more than it's share, but it would feel
a great deal better if the states were
proportionately cut down and that
none should be increased until all
have had at least fair share. It is
not an action that is calculated to
make Iowa feel the happiest-Iowa
that has been so proud to do its
share of all war work. 1t is just an ar.
bitary action. And it is not right, no
matter how many explanations are
offered. But it looks as if Iowa will
have to stand for it-what, can il do
about it?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

nome my parents patted me on thu
back and commended me for my prov
ess in taking from my fellow-studenl|
what | wanted. They told me that q
must always follow that method.
What my parents taught me in this
way has for years been taught in all
German families and in German
schools. 1t permeates the very life I'll
Germany, and, therefore, an act of bar
barism as Americans think of barbar
ism is not barbarism to the Germans
who commit it.
Had continued TO live in Germany
1t would never have occurred to me
that | had done anything wrong II
had only followed the custom all Ger
mans are taught at home and in school
out after became a man / settled IN
America, and as | came to understand
the spirit of American civilization I'll
grew upon me that had committed
crime, and now for % years, asI
some atonement for my sin, | have
Deen supporting that crippled man and
MS widowed mother But bear in
mind, had l remained In Germany no
one would ever have thought of sus
costing to me that I had done wrong
and 1t would never have entered my
mead that l was under any obligation
to the man had manned. In the light
or American civilization I understand
the difference and / am seeking to-
atone for my sin, but all Germans have
been taught as I was taught The
Germans, therefore, in their compaign
OF rrlShtfulness are committing deeds
winch from the viewpoint Of Ameri
can civilization are barbarous, but
from the viewpoint of Germans are
not crimes at ALL,
PROBABLY no clearer light was ever
thrown upon the reason why Germans
can commit the awful crimes that have
stained the life of that nation was ever
gwen than this testimony of rich
who has now 50
thoroughly imbibed the spirit of Amerf
can civilization that he looks with hor
for upon the crime which he com
mltted and seeks to atone for it.
HIS statement bears witness to the
truth OF the philosophical conclusions
reached by On. Mullins in his illumin'
atlng review Of the development o.
herman kultur. We must therefore
the brutality Of the Ger
man nation as it has now flowered ID
10 frultion the teachings of many years
and realize the character of the coun'
try that Is making war upon US, and
hght this demon-iike power unto its
complete destruction. This is a def
mite war of barbarism and brute force
AGAINST civilization, and one or the
other viii inevitably be destroyed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
HOW KULTUR WRECKS
HUMAN CONSCIENCE

! Manufacturers Record: ct is easy
10 discern why Germany feels no
qualms OF conscience in the use of any
criminal method employed to win the
war. she does not deliberately become
a criminal. For the German in this
war there fs no such thing as crime.
what we call crime She considers
means TO a holy end . She has organ
lzed IN thoroughgoing scientific man
ner the whole domain of crime as
measure for winning the war. Cutting
OFF the hands of Belgian children and
the scattering of disease germs &C.
complish two results. They kill or
mann the enemy and they fill him with
terror of the German name"
The foregoing is an extract from a
broad philosophical discussion of the
history of the growth of German kul-
tur by Rev e. Y. Mullins, D. D.. LII. D..
president of the Southern Baptist
Theological seminary, one of the most
widely known and most learned min
listers in America, who in tracing the
history of German krltur reaches the
conclusion which he has thus so clear
ly and graphically stated. Here is a
statement Of great religious leader
that the German nation has become
SO STEPPED in crime and barbarism
that 1t has no computations of con-
science. 1t is against such a fearful
condition of immortality that we are
fighting to save ourselves from this
Hunnish, deVilish brutality. DR.. Null
Inns artile is published in fun in this
issue.
A specific illustration will illuminate
the whole story and doubtless give
even to DIR. Mullins a clearer insight
INTO the reason for German barbarism
than that developed from his philoso-
phlcal researches. The story is this.
Mr.. William G. Seldom, a Baltimore
banker and son of the secretary of
war of the confederacy. has in New
York friend of German birth, who
however, to his everlasting credit, has
to some extent overcome that handi-
cap and is now wholly American in
spirit. Some months ago hir. Seldom.
IN conversation with his friend de-
nounced the barbarism of Germany.
and this gentleman in reply said:
Mr.. Seldom, you must remember
mat the barbarism of Germany is not
oarbar1sm as viewed by Germans. and
Will illustrate in my own life the
reason for this.
When | grew up in Germany there
was student in the same school who
had something which wanted. II be.
onged to him. but | wanted il and
Jumped on him and beat him IN so
BADLY that l MANNED him for life bnt |
got what | wanted. When l went |
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

ut win be used at home for tha
heather is less an object of com
misseration now that we have had
four years Of war brought ON nv a
so-called Christian nation. The Chin.
csc do not need Christianity as mucb
as the Germans, for instance need
Confuscianism and the Japanese
seem to be getting along very well
on the road to civilization with thei,
pagan" gods. In fact there is little
left of the old heather, world now
that we are beginning to comprehend
our fellow human beings under other
systems better
In the past the writer's who trav-
eled in heather lands used to startle
us by describing things they had seen
on the Ganges or the Amoor-lsrg,v
exaggerations we must believe now
but. If Hindoo and Chinese writer's
had travelled through our own inn
giles and tenement districts and writ
ten in the same way about our civil.
cation their readers might have been
equally shocked
But missionary funds can still he
profitably employed at home, for our
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
INsINCERE LAWMAKERS.

The luminosity of aspirants for Office is gen.
orally regarded as running high when one chal
lenges another to comparison Of personal
habits Theoretically candidates for positions
of public honor and trust should be men who
have nothing to fear from the closest scrutiny
of their private lives But human nature aver
ages 50 fallible and imperfect that political OPP
ponents as a rule refrain by tacit agreement
from bringing a rivals peccadilloes to light.
Unless these are so fragrant and notorious as to
evidence turpitude and moral unfItness they are
usually ignored by common consent. There
are advantages IN this A man who is far from
faultless may be wise and patriotic and serve
the people we'll Men who were no saints have
saved their countries, and if candidates were
measured with tpo much exactness by moral
yaTdsticks there are cynics who would argue
that 1t might not be possible always to fill the
offices with intellectually qualified men, But
on the other hand if hypocrftes are not un-
masked and men are allowed to pose before the
people for what they profess to be rather than
for what they are, it manifestly tends to lower
the standards of public life.
For example, it is common knowledge or gem
eral belief, that there are men at WASHINGTON
who vote as matter of political expediencv tn
impose a regimen upon the people they them
selves have never observed and have no inten
ton of observing. There are senators and rep-
resentatlves whose public professions and per
sonal practices are widely divergent They
might, for instance, vote to penalize gambling
while gambling habitually in various WAYS
themselves. Or they might vote to impose tee
tptahsm other people and vet have LIQUOR in
their homes and consume it every dav OF
course 1T can be argued that good laws are no
Jess useful because bad men made them But
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
DAaEsT THOU NOW, 0 souLa

DAREST THOU NOW, sOuL7
Darest thou, O soul,
Walk out with me toward the unknown region.
Where neither ground Is for the feet path 10 FOL
Low?
No map there, guide,
Nor voice sounding, touch OF human hand
with blooming flesh lips, n that
land.
NOT, Q soul
Nor dost thou all is blank before
waite undreamed II that region, that EzecesSEofe
land.
Till when the ties loosen,
All but the ties eternal Time and Space,
darkness gravitaion- bounds bosnd-
ing
Then forth foat,
In Peace, o SOUL prepared for them,
Equal equipped last % joy! fr1ft Of AMI them to
fulfil, SOUL
Walt Whitman
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
KEEPING THE HOME TRENCHES.

We are called now into the home trenches by
the needs of the war What we have to fight
here at home is impatience routine worries,
deprivations that take the spirit from us and
make US prone to accept an evil by reason IF
it's comparative ease We have to go on with
our work at top speed without even hope of
commendation, not TO speak Of distinguished
service crosses; we have to stick to the thing
that we can really do best without regard to the
alleged high pay which other work brings; we
have to make dollar do more than double
work in financing our homes; we have to learn
reasonable reticence, knowing that loose
talk begets trouble. All this is not easy; it is
war work
But it is what the French have been doing for
three years and more 1t is what Great Britain
has been doing and what Italy has learned to
do. It is only reasonable service to mate with
what we are sending our young men IN the
ranks and on the seas. The great satisfaction
comes in knowing that if we do this work and
hold steady under sacrifice, keeping the
home trenches and making sure that at the front
the enemy shall not pass.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

Ice prices in Chicago have been
shaved by the food administrator OF
Illinois, the maximum price for fami-
lily cakes being 65 cents for $50
pounds, delivered. Jitney stations
have been established where ice is
sold at lower prices on the cash and
carry" plan
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
GRAPHIC STORY OF THE
SINKING OF TWO U-BOATS
Deroers Dart Around Big Liner
to on u. S. Transport

OF
Miss Louise huI-
Robert
on he liant craft
vate'and When the United States
soldiers France 10 nht against
should
the cotton with precious
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

laws lose their moral force if hypocrites make
them TO bind other people and not themselves,
and there has been from of old persistent
prejudice against class of structures exter
iorly white and seemly but full Of all unrlean-
ness and dead mems bones.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
THE HEATHEN AND OURSELVES

- ''H-FN ' 7 Nv FNTFD OONoEI s.
CedaF hdpids Republican: The
Nethodists are going to raise a mis-
sion fund of S1t5,000, 900 to celebrate
the founding of the missionary so
ciety of that church, the Tooth ami
versary. OF this vast sum $50 600 900
are to be provided by the Methodists
of the north and the balance by those
OF the south. The subscribers viii
be given five years in which to nav.
Some of the money will be used for
foreign work and some for home
work 1t is TO be hoped that most of
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
EXCESS OF GALL.

Notwithstanding the fact that the news
papers of the country VIII be Soaked TO the
extent of millions of dollars year under the
operation of the zone rates as applied to second
class mail matter and readers may ultimately
have TO stand portion Of the increase our CON
gress, through the official voice of Speaker
Clark, gives recognition to the dependence il
places upon worldwide utility In a report
of the Notifications appropriation bill debate
In the house the Congressional Record gives
publicity OF the following:
Mr. Fes-Ar. Speaker. think the country
bill at the OF and oae-quarIsT billion dol
lxrs hour-soTns<hiag Ike 1a@0e.e-eo per min
Ute. which would De about SSe1. go sscond-aa
announcement that ought 10 reach Germany
The Spesker-And the newspapers OF the cUuE-
It sets Ill after practical boycott by con-
gress OF the newspapers of the country 10 read
that the press is still expected 10 extend 10 the
government the favor OF publicity III large
chunks. and also to pat our national legislators
ON their backs for doing something IN the line
OF duty and performing acts absolutely neces-
sary TO the conduct OF the war The point Of
view from which the subject is considered at
Washington and that occupied by publishers
and newspaper readers does not conform In
parallel
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
Omission

webster City F7reeman-Jo urnaf-
Among some of the things we have
not noticed in the newspapers is the
letter of congratulation from FRANK
L. Woods TO l., !. Dickinson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

those of the central powers, namely
plumber. This will put this theoris
dangerously near the border which
marks the boundary between traitors
and patriots.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

i
her. thought 10 myself as took it
all in:
wen this Is the time and the place
Now where in h--e those doggoned
Hurs--
~As Il u answer 70 ny question the
nearest DESTROYER tur1e5 on her tail
and shot straight a. OR cutwater as
If TO head something of. ar the same
time firing rapidly at something the
other side Of her and close By. In
stantly the others pointed in toward
Us and came darling in like diving
shorks
more than fifty yards distant Next il
the black stern Of submarine as il
destroyers that they actually bumped.
sub only few feet under the surface.
There was terrific ex. losion; it
shook our ship as If it had been
struck. That sub just naturally was
blown to atoms. II almost cut the
destryer in two, nearly blew the
stern of her off.
over in Short Nme
1T was over in less time than It
takes to tell At the same time the
next nearest destroyer was perhaps
a hundred yards away, spinning
around in a tight little circle and
dropping depth bombs as fast as it
could spill them over the stern.
Presently great oily blob of water
rose and the destroyer curved away
from the ship and went over to the
first craft to see what it was doing.
The rest of them apparently h ad
gone plumb crazy They were whip
ping the nearby surface of the sea
to white ribbons.
"a flock of English gunboats and
destroyers came up from nowhere in
particular and moved ahead of US and
on our f1anks. We reduced our speed
to theirs and our own flock Of wasps
came up and forming living wall
around US and we moved along up to
where, an hour later, an English
pilot was picked up. He took us
through mine fields and into port
I'VE learned then from the COM
mander OF the destroyer fleet that
there had been three subs waiting
FOR us. They fired three torpedoes at I
close range, but just as the fracas .
started we had been signaled to turn .
sharply and beat #. We did. The /
.orpedoes skinned our SIDES Two I
IF the undersea craft went to Davy /.
Jones' locker and they kind of felt /
hat the other one was smothered the /
same afternoon
Dispatches Saturday night stated .
hat the Leviathan had been attacked I
N her home voyage. The Kaiser's !
J-boats again were repulsed, how /
however"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

think there is something for TO all these VINO
know grief knew Every rrotrer and father
who loves a in this strong un5rea.e
able faith in the future life, the world oey-nS where
you will your again Do give 70 grief
Regard your BORIS absence though were but 9
journey BY keeping faith, you will help 70 win the
you lose II the ard your personal self are
iost-iarry Lauder.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

own homes are still far from being
IN the kind or order that ought to
prevail in them. Let US worry lit
tie less about the heather" who
seem to be getting along fairly well
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

Now that the various states are passing no.
loafing bills, we may expect at least show of
activity on the part of Legislators.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

Cleveland Plain Dealer: One hog
out of every four raised in this coun.
try IS being sent to the allies Ana
we haven't even started on the renS
profteers. either.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

If the kaiser is planning to send the crown
prince over here to be emperor of the United
States, he had better think about it twice We
are so used to the escapades of sons of Pitts,
burgh mi1lionaires that the exploits of the
crown prince would not be much of a novelty.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
THE OFFICIAL FOOD PRICES IN KEoKUK

following on sal. N
by the special committee appointed 1
Article Pay Should D.
sls5 s15s per say
rel of s247a pound sacks 241s pounds 7 n
pound in less than naa
Rye Flour s12a5 to $3.50 per bar &c to sse per sack
OF pound pounds Z pns
sacks in less than mill bail
Barley s2os per sack
rel Of eight 241s pound 241z pounds
Corn 0nr e per Poq psl pound s 70 Sc per
SIC pound sc SIC pound
Rod Oats &c PEP Per poaaa se % &C per- p 91na
pound SIC pound
1870 per poua
Rice to lie per pound 14e to 141sc
Mix small fig to Sc per can &C to SIS per
Lima beams se per- pound zoe to sr per- per- pound
Pinto Beans 1oc to lie pound 1Ssc to 15c
canned Corn TO 151sc per can 1870 to &c
Tomatoes 1sc per can
Tomatoes se to s1e sse to soc
per 141sc 2s1sc Der can
pound per pound
Pruns zoe pound
Sugar per pounds ~ per pound case
pound pound
pound sacks $3.50 100 pounds pound
pound sacks sS4s 100 pounds
Lard, bulk
Substitutes per pound c SOC Der pund
Lard, Substitutes m = ~
small cans e6c to 2 1910 per pound
eS, 2oc 70 zoc per pound 3c to S5c pound
. candled .s5c dozen
pound -. .44c SOC 5ec ner Mound
&c TO 2sc per pound sac
per pound Sse to CSC pe pound
10 &c per pound BIC ACC
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

The more money you give to the Red Cross
the fewer wooden crosses there will be cover
there"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

Most OF the men aboard were raw
recruits" says Seaman Slower in mis-
letter, in telling of the trip across the
Atlantic, but when emergency came
the constant drill and training told and
not a man disobeyed orders Twenty
hours from our destination Al day
break, We picked up the destroyers in
a bowling gale
They came swooping at Us out OF
q rain squan like flying fish. They
looked goodi They are little, long. in
Trepid devils-all engine and wicked
Eess. We were tearing along at high
speed, trusting 10 luck not to hit any
thing. but those little craft curved and
circled and zigzagge around us as If
we we're at anchor
Even with our thousand feet of
length 1.-THE Leyiathan is the largest
croft afToatl we could hardly keep
our feet on deck, but they, with their
POO feet or less, were simply doing
the impossible. Seas too high to
ride they dived through, actually dis
at times. And when. in
their circles, they fell into the trough
they took a list that would make your
heart stop They carry two spars,
about fifty feet high. On top of each
IS 2 crows nest, with man in each
watching for periscopes. The gunners
are dashed 10 their guns. They must
be auphFDsoUs. The ride those
crows nest birds took that day would
-u-i your hair.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

Wealth is to be used only as the instrument
of action, not as the representative OF civil
honors and moral excellence.-Miss Porter.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

Cedar Rapids Republican: In North
Dakota non-partisan Lacquer having
been named by the republicans in the
state primary, for governor, and a
man with no such connections having
been named by the democrats, IL
ought to De considered the duty of
all loyal republicans in that state to
stand by the democratic nominee.
This is no time to elect men who are
tainted with kaiserism nor things that
used to be associated with the late
Nr. La Toilette.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
HowIed and Rafned All Day

An day long II howled and rained
and blew and most of the following
night too II was too rough for u
boats. but we we were pitching over
Tire bones Of the Lusitania and hun
drads Of other good ships and des-
s--oys-s were taking no chances
a1y time the United States navy
IS mentioned you just get on your legs
and salute-5ust on general prin-
cEples- When you cross you will IN
6srStand why. They are there
those lads
Il went on duty in troop section
below the water line that evening at
O'Clock and was on duty for
twelve hours, stationed on a stairway
where ! could pick off the first bird
that batted an eye. About midnight
the sea went down Then we did ex-
pect trouble any minute. Il was a
tough, long night We knew that If
a torpedo ever hit in that section we
hadn't chance in the world. At
5 o'clock in the morning / was re-
lieved and went up top-side to for
ward upper deck. It was just break
ing daylight. clear, no wind, sea as
smooth as glass. Six more destroYers
had Joined rs some time during the
night and they were coursing like
pointers, near and far, in great,
curves all around Us.
Sailing in Sharp Ziszags
We were rearing along in sharp
zigzags, the ship trembling like
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times Republican:
What surprise dye s'pose George
Creel is getting ready to spring on US
by telegraph this Fourth of July?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-01

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Eugene
Debbs is quoted as saying that the
aims OF the allies are the same as