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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
Eclipse of June Eighth

eter, but extending all the way from
the Pacific coast of the. state of wash
ington to the Atlantic coast of Fiorl-
da. The scene to be witnessed within
this narrow path of totally will lex
cept where cloudy weather intervenes)
be incomparably more interesting
than the partial phase of the eclipse
visible in other parts of the United
States, and will amply repay a long
journey on the part Of persons living
outside the favored zone.
On the date in question the moon
passes between the sun and the earth.
and the tip of her long conical shadow
extending out into space, sweeps over
our globe from a point in the PACING
ocean south of Japan eastward to the
Bahama islands. The shadow travels
from Washington state to Florida in
Al minutes. 1t should be noted, how
ever. that clock time is two hours
faster in Florida than ON the Pacif1c
coast; thus the shadow arrives at the
mouth of the Columbia river at $3.50
p. m, Pacific summer time, and at Or
lando, Florida, at Gal p. M. central
summer time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
HOW 1T WORKS.

Cedar Rapids Republican: A meth
odist minister who has occupied
many pulpits in Iowa, writes that
upon three or four occasions he has
been located in so-called foreign
communities" and he did not find
the living or the associations very
pleasant. Speaking of these foreign
language pastors, he writes as fol-
lows:
In no case has the pastor of such
a church been man of public
spirit. We could never get any OF
them to mingle with the men of the
community in any movement for pub
lie good; nor would they encourage
their people to attend any patriotic
meetings such as Memorial day, or
Fourth of July exercise. They would
never appear on the platform In the
annual commencement exercises OF
the public schools, and they did try
their best to keep their young from
mingling with the English-speakirS
Young people of the community. Their
idea is one of clannishness, and they
endeayor to build up community of
their own, as nearly like the old coun-
try community as Is possible in the
United States.
There we think we have state
ment of the most evil in American
life. That is the evil we ought to
reach. Whether few old people may
talk in a foreign language which they
can understand is not SO vital. The old
folks will pass away. Most of them
are good souls, even If they have not
been able to Americanize themselves.
They will do us no harm and we
should in no wise harrass them or
make them feel un-at-home among us,
such policy would debase us with
out ennobling them, but the thing to
do is to look after the young, the
boys and the girls of the future. Let
it be seen that each one is not only
given the opportunity to learn the
language of the country of which
they are to be voting citizens, but
that they are compelled to learn the
language of their country. And if the
old folks do not like the idea then
the old folks are wrong and are do
ing wrong to their own children for
their good is included in their Amer
icanization.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
DON'T SPRINKLE YOUR 60
Grace Tabor write, :, J,

Grace Tabor writes in the w.,
Home Companion: "onai|
1T has already been exp,ai,,,
1t will bear repeating, that usa
a plant or garden space bv etls|
ling is usually more barm ny sprit]
helpful, inasmuch as it indmau taaa
growth, UP in the moistened h
fine feeding rootlets that shonls !,
deep in the ground. These ress,.
in a network near the surface . saS ~
moisture, find themselves arna ,t Y
the fierce and baking heat p "
summer whenever the moistnra ~ aa|
out, and dry out it will. They =, "
able to bear this scorching bo s,s Y
tremely tender and demand;nas q
earth around them; and the ras,' y
either death to the plant or so s wy
ened and miserable condition ~, W.
might as well die. 1a
This surface watering hv !.
Or hand bears no relation Of soas
to a thorough saturation such
system OF irrigation makes posss]
But unless such a system is ip pSssls
/ would urge every gardener IN h
country to pin his faith to the ~
vator and his own industry tharoSj
rather than to any method Of u..1
ing by hand. Certain, things NAV !
'watered in when transplanting. j
otherwise, eschew the hose and u
ering CAN"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
THE SPIRIT OF VICTORY.

Chicago Daily News: More calk-
ing-less talking is the latest word
of counsel from Schwab, the ship
builder. 4
The Belgian soldiers. coming to
Chicago after four years of active
service on western and eastern fight
ing fronts, and the French blue dew
lis" carrying wounds from the Marine,
the Somme and Verdun, have spoken
to us calmly but with whitening force.
These men, SCARED and burned in
the terrible furnace of war. tell us
that there is nothing worth thinking
about or living for except the win
ming of the war.
We must forget all politics that
does not help win the war. We must
forget all business and all daily work
that does not in some way contribute
to victory in this dreadful, this lib
Grating conflict.
Underneath all attempts to express
this need in concrete terms Of our
day and our people is an ideal The
simplicity of it rises to a terrible
grandeur in these words of Steven
Louzanne Of the French high COM
mission in the United States:
France will die rather than live
in a degraded humanity. To fight
Germany France has already given
LOCO 900 men. We are ready to give
more. When there are no more men
the women and children will rise up.
When there are no more children
the dead will rise up. France will
live free or die free. And France
will live"
America as yet has no right to
speak in this heroic and prophetic
tone. America can earn the right so
to speak by living up to the best that
is in the hearts of its people.
Meanwhile the words of Schwab
will help: More calking-less talk
ing"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
OUR GUESTS
Fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle.

Fort Dodge this week has been en-
PERTAINING an organization that has
taken it's place in the front ranks of
fraternaI societies, because OF the ex-
cellent work it has been doing in
helping win the War-not only in the
character of the effort which has
been put forth in the American army
camps, but on the battlefieldS of Eur
ope as well.
The knights of Columbus, an or
ganization of Catholic laymen COM
prising some 100000 members in the
United States and their possessions,
was one of the agencies~-aesignate
by Secretary of War Baker to do so
cial welfare work when hostilities
started on the Mexican border and
the knights made good in such a man
ner, that when America entered the
present conflict, the secretary of war
asked the good work be continued
along with the Y. M. c.. A., the
Young Mems Hebrew association, the
Lutheran brotherhood and the other
| kindred societies which indicated a
desire to do their share in making
army life as attractive as possible for
| the boys from back
! The knights of Columbus have
been called "the right arm of the
Catholic church" and it must be ad-
mitted that the spirit and broad
minded attitude apparent on every
hand where the knights have been do,
| ing war work, has done more, per
haps than any other agency to batter
down the wall of religious prejudice
and bigotry which has prevailed since
the Catholic church was established
Out of the melting pot of the allied
nations and the coordination of the
various peoples and organizations In
this country has come about bet
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

ter understanding and more liber-
al tolerance of the other fellows
views. 1t is inspiring indeed to see
Catholics and Protestants, Jews and
gentiles; X. C.'s and Masons joining
hands and going forth to do the ma
TONS bidding 1t is now considered
nothing uncommon to hear members
of the Masonic fraternity speak at
banquets and social functions held
under the auspices of the Knights of
Columbus, as was done here in Fort
Dodge Sunday night. No longer do
we view with surprise Catholic
priests and Protestant ministers upon
the same platform at public gather
ings. The war is making US all more
democratic in these things and 1T is
largely due to such organizations as
the one to which Fort Dodge is now
host, that these events are coming
to pass.
Over all the X. of C. buildings In
American army camps and the nuts
in France appears the sign, every
body Welcome" There is the best OF
feeling and cooperation, we are toio
between the secretaries of these diff
ferent societies in charge of the
buildings and 1t makes no difference
what a mans religion may be-or II
he hasn't any at all, the welcome
sign is out.
Therefore Fort Dodge is glad to
welcome the knights and to add
tribute of honor and respect to the
excellent work which they are doing
| in all patriotic endeavors calculated
to win the war. We hope they viii De
so well entertained and so well satls-
fled with their visit that they Will
want to come again. Like the slogan
which they have adopted over the
cantonment buildings everybody
welcome" in Fort Dodge.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
WHEN A MAN IS DRUNK.

In an article in the American Mag
azine a man says:
"a man is half idiotic when he's
half drunk he told me. He thinks
he thinks great thoughts; but IL he'd
only take the trouble to write them
down Look here!' John produced a
little book full Of notes. did this.
These are some Of my great thoughts.
I'd be ashamed to read them to you.
When I was drunk they appeared so
wonderful that / recorded them. I
didn't want to lose any of the gems
that John Barleycorn had handed me.
That's the fun. the pleasure the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

The friendships Of vastly agreeable, but they
You know all the time that one friend VIII
marry put you second accept situation
in China and become more to you than name, RENT
nscence occasional crossed letter. laborous
to read; take up religious crochet and
treat you thenceforward. So in way or
another life apart and breaks the 9oody
feIlowships foreyer-Robert Louis Stevenson
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

fine French front sends this despatch to the peo-
ple of the world outside of Germany:
German airmen last night deliberately dropped
bombs on hospitals in which there were scores
of Americans and hundreds of French sick and
wounded. The hospital is in a town many miles
in the rear of the front
A number of Americans were slightly injured
nv flying glass. One French nurse was killed and
another injured probably fatally. Several civilians
died of wounds.
Civilized belligerents in most of the modern
wars have aimed to put their antagonists out OF
the battle and incapacitate them from further
Immediate fighting by wounds that could be
healed rather than by inflicting horrible in
iuries that must result in death. To this end
huge, tearing bullets gave place to slender ones
which would put men out Of commission, so to
speak, without manghng them beyond repair.
Such a thing as numbering the wounded was
never thought Of If foeman hors du
combat that was all his honorable enemy de
sired: and the idea Of bombarding a hospital or
sinking a ship which carried only nurses and
wounded soldiers on beds Of pain was so alb
horrent that nations with one consent declared
that savagerv like that should have no place in
war. But the Germans have habitually done
both of these horrible deeds and squadrons of
Hun airplanes lombard allied Red Cross hos
pitfalls All Red Cross hospitals are plainly
marked as such. No air1nen can mistake them
for anything else, and there is no possible ques-
ton as to the deliberate intent of the Germans
Does this not prove conclusively the nature
of the enemy we are fighting? Does it not show
that they have put themselves by their barbara
ties outside the pale Of civilization No allied
airmen have done these things. Had they been
ordered to do so they would have refused And
IN all their fighting on the sea no enemy who
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
A WHITETHROAT SINGS.
from ancient Edens long forgot
He felt a breath of spring,
And in the leaflesS apple tree
s-ix

FROM ancient EOenS long lOTSOI
He felt breath of spring,
And in the leafless apple tree
He heard a whitethroat sing.
With fluted tripets, clear and sweet,
The bird proclaimed its JOY,
And on the withered orchard grass
The man became a boy
boy who ran, boy who dreamed,
In April sun and rain;
Who knew all good was happiness,
All evil only pain.
Sing on, whitethroat in the tree,
He does not hear you now!
The years trampling on his heart
And armies DER his brow.
From ancient Edens long forgot
No resurrection comes
Until the smallest sparrow's song
Is louder than the drums.
Walter Prichard Eaton, in Atlantic Monthly.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
axe IL All Rack

1roquois Chief: That chicken, /
come home to roost is again exemr,
fled in the fact that former critic,
William H. Taft are praying n,
everybody will forget what thew n
about him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

devil says he gives us. the reward.
4 But the real pay! Well, let me tell
you something: you haven't any idea
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
rh e.n. pavino Material.

Chicago News: Both Rose Pastor
Stokes and Senator La Toilette deny
that they intended to be disloyai. Pos
sibIy not. But the road to German
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

could be rescued by allied sailors was permit,
ted to drown The Germans alone are guilty OF
these atrocities They alone wage conscience
ISIS, inhuman war;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

The next time Emperor Charles of Austria
Hungary makes any tentative remarks on peace
he will wait until he is told what he thinks on
the subject
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

domination and the famous highway
to hades are paved with the same
material
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

A Chicago scientist predicts that coal will
give out in a billion years. Undoubtedly there
are many people in this world who are glad of
opportunity to have something more to worry
about.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

The fact that hundreds of thousands of Rus
sian husbands and wives separating shows
that the Russians cannot even agree among
themselves.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

nominee for congress in the tenth
district had the two unbeatable as
sets of a loyalty issue and the failure
of a certain Des Moines newspaper 10
support him.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: 1t may pc
all right, but some of the stay-a.,
homes find it difficult to understand
why the privates and the non-coms
in the militia are going across, ana
The officers are compelled to stay at
home. So far as general appearances
go, the officers and the priVates coulu
well play their part" if they were
given chance.
Ottumwa Courier: The question OF
buving coal now or waiting uutii
NEXT winter is one of patriotism. IL
is a question of business judgment,
TOO, hut first of all it is question OF
patriotism.
Cedar Rapids Republican: WASH
in eton recently sent out an appeal TO
tho neople not to write so many let
ters. many of them on silly questions,
to the various departments OF the
government The answering OF sucn
letters has become burdensome. NO"
will some one in Washington very
kindly take the hint about Writing SO
MANY letters to the people. NC
mails are filled with circulars, docu-
ments. speeches and SO on, nlne-
tenths of which find their ways into
the waste paper baskets. What INC
government has wasted IN such wnol
" useless literature would nave
atr 11y
Des Moines Register: General
Wood will have the laugh on some
bodv if things get so serious over
there that they find it necessary 10
send him across the big pond
Dns Moines Tribune: We shall
shin American soldiers to France I'M
iii there are enough to drive the Ger
man army back; that may mean y
moo GOO or it may mean 1O,OOeooo. be
the number what it may, there Will
no enough to win the victory now
we are in it.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: If more
determination to fight the war
through to a victory were necessary
the Hun attacks on hospitals would
s,rpply il. They rarely fail, When the
allies falter. to supply the motive
necessary to impel them to fight
with renewed energy.
MarshalItown Times Republican:
The president should notify the war
department that politics Is ADJOURN,
ed. Maybe then General Leonard
might be assigned a command across
the seas in conformity with the de-
sires of the entente nations.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
If Poverty is the Mother of Crimes want
of Sense is the Father-De La Bruyere.
DELIBERATE INHUMANITY.

A correspondent with the American forces on
the French front sends this despatch to the peo-
ple of the world outside of Germany:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Sioux City Journal: The republican
nominee for congress in the tenth
district had the two unbeatable as
sets of loyalty issue and the failure
of a certain Des Moines newspaper TO
support him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
USING THE NEW REVENUES.

knowledge of what financial burdens the ma
ton is to be called on to carry is necessary to
business welfare. Moreover, the admonitions
which the president addressed to congress as to
putting its best brains to work on measures
that shall distribute the burdens equally and
shall strike straight at war profiteering will
be heartily approved. But while the president
urges congress to enact new revenue laws with
out thought of party, of personal politics or OF
selfish interests it would be welcome utter
ance if he pledged the administration to a more
careful management of expenditures There
have been enormous wastes. The administra-
ton is, through its departments, particularly
through the war department and the railroad
directorate asking immense sums Of money to
be spent at the discretion Of these depart
ments. We running riot with billions OF dol
lars The nation will back up the government
to the utmost, but sooner or later it will de-
mand an accounting Good financial manage
ment is as necessary to winning this war as
the troops we are rushing to the front.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

Dr. Won Bethmann-Hollweg says that Mr..
Gerard violated the ethics of diplomacy. We
suppose that Mr.. Gerard should have wrecked
munitions factories in Germany, blown up rail
road bridges, destroyed trains, doomed fac
tories and conducted first-class spy system in
order to have upheld the finest traditions Of
diplomacy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

NarshalItown Times Republican:
The president should notify the war
department that politics Is adjourn
ed Maybe then General Leonard
might be assigned command across
the seas in conformity with lhe oe-
sires of the entente nations.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

Ottumwa Courier: The question OF
buying coal now or waiting until
next winter is one of patriotism. IL
is a question of business judgment.
too, but first of all it is question OF
patriotism.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-10-30
DEFEAT WOULD
HAMPER NATION
SAYS PRESIDENT
DIVIDED CONTROL WOULD sERk
ouSkY INTERFERE WITH
CONDUCT OF WAR.

Washington. = President Wilson
issued an appeal to the people to re-
turn q Democratic Congress in the
November elections if they approve of
his course in this critical period.
Following is the Presidents appeal {:
my ellow-Ceuntrymen:
THE Congressional elections are at
hand. They occur in the most critical
period our country has ever faced or
is likely to face in our time. If you
have approved of my leadership and
wish me to continue to be your I'M
embarrassed spokesman in affairs at
home and abroad, earnestly beg that
you will express yourselves unmistak-
ably to that effect by returning Dem
ocratic majority to both the Senate
and House of Representatives.
81 am your servant and will accept
your judgment. without cavil, but my
power to administer the great trust as
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-10-30

acceptance by Germany Hil' af-
ford the best concrete evidence
of her unequivocal acceptance of
the terms and principles of peace
from which the whole action
proceeds.
''The President would deem
himself lacking in candor did he
not point out in the frankest pos.
sible terms the reason why ex-
traordinary safeguards must be
demanded. Significant and i'm
portant as the constitutional
changes seem to be which are
spoken of by the German For
eign Secretary in his note of the
10th of October, it does not ap-
pear that the principle of a gov
eminent responsible to the Ger
man people has yet been fully
worked out, or that any guaran-
tees either exist or are in con.
temptation that the alterations
of principle and of practice now
partially agreed upon will be per-
manent. = = =
Feeling that the whole peace
of the world depends now on
plain speaking and straightfor-
ward action, the President deems
it his duty to say, without any
attempt to soften what may
seem harsh words, that the ma.
tons of the world do not and car
not trust the word of these who
have hitherto been the masters
of Germanl policy, and to point
out once more that, concluding
peace and attempting to undo
the infinite injuries and injusti.
ces of this war, the Government,
of the UnitedEStates can not dea
with any but::veritable represent
atives of the.German people whe
have been assured of genuine
constitutional::s standing as the
real rulers of Germany.
IF it mustfdeal with the mill
tary masters and the monarchia
autocrats of Germany now, or il
it is likely to have to deal with
them later in:lregard to interna
tional obligations of the German
empire, it demand, inot peace ne
gotiations, but surrender. Moth,
ing can be gainedIby leaving this
essential thinglunsaid.
Accept, sir, the: renewed as.
surance of my"hig consideration
ROBERT LANSING"
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1918-10-30
Joppa.

Two good rains fell here re-
Gently and they were certainly
appreciated.
So far nolcases.of flu have been
reported in this community.
Mrs. FannieIMontgomery, who
has been blind for several years,
is not so welliat this writing. We
hope she will soon be herself
again as she is a woman loved by
all.
Miss Eva Murrell entertained
a few evenings ago in honor O.
Mr.. Arthur Bluemshine, of Mer-
Ger, Ia. Quite a few were pres.
ent and all reported a delightful
time.
Miss Grace Cabbell was real
sick several days of last week.
Mr.. Lewis Young spent Satur-
day and Sunday with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. John Young.
Ralph Garnett, who has been
in Lexington, attending military
school, is at home on a vacation.
Miss Lucille Hereford spent a
night and day with Miss Stella
Garrett.