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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
JAMES J. HILLS FORESIGHT.

In a speech in New York City last week. 4 /
fred H. Smith, regional director OF railroads,
recalled what James j. Hill said several years
before his death about railroad requirements.
Mr.. Hill, who had broader outlook and clear
err vision than most other men OF his time, told
the public that the roads required an invest
ment of one billion dollars a year for at least
five years This was while the country was ex-
periencing a business boom following 1907, and
Mr.. Smith said that ever since that time every
railroad executive has been trying to convince
the public that Mr.. Hill was right. The rai-
road executives did not convince the govern
ment though they did make out case which
was accepted as sound by large part OF the
people The railroads advocated preparedness
in their own field. They made the most OF
what they had, and in 1917, with the same plant
as in 1916, they carried fifteen per cent. more
freight than in the preceding year. Had the
government granted higher rates. thus raising
railroad earnings to level warranting the IN
vestment mentioned by Mr.. HILL there would
have been no failure of transportation, and,
no occasion for government operation
in the war period.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
sH1PBU1LDERs NOT AT FAULT.

Chairman Hurley, of the shipping board, has
.'passed the buck'' to the shipbuilders OF the
country in sharp communication in which he
says the nation wants ships and not excuses.
This is criticism of the shipping board as
well as the shipbuilders. The shipping board
has been prolific in excuses for the failure to
make a specific program in the first place and
for the failure to carry out a program after 1t
had been adopted. The shipbuilders will prob
ably not sit silent under the implied rebuke
which Mr.. Hurley would administer to them.
Much of their delay may be laid at the door OF
the shipping board itself, because the board I'M
dertook to furnish much of the material re-
quired for the ships under contract-especia[
" for the wooden ships and then failed to
make deliveries on time, and not infrequently
was unable to make deliveries at all; as for eN-
ample when the board determined to use
southern pine for certain timbers in the ships
only to learn that it was impossible to cut south
ern pine in the dimensions which the schedules
called for The shipbuilders may not be with
out their faults; but it is grossly unfair to try
to load upon them the responsibility for the er-
rors which Mr.. Hurley's own organization has
committed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
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Miss Mildred Foreman OF Salem.
has been retained as one OF the IN
structors in the Web City schools, AT
an increased salary. This Will pc
the third year for Miss Foreman IN
the same position.
Mrs. /. l.. Moore departed Thurs
day evening to visit her aunt, Mrs.
Sarah Vogt, at Monmouth. Illinois.
Mrs. vogt has been quite poorly tor
several months. Mrs. Moore will also
visit relatives at Milan, Illinois.
The funeral OF Mrs. A. G. Neuman
was held from the NJ. p. church az
$3.50 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Sery-
ices were conducted by Rev. J. r.
Ware. Interment in Salem cemetery.
Mr.. and Mrs. AL Miller had for
their guest Sunday, their daughter
Mrs. Ed Lyon, from Stockport.
Mrs. G. r. Pierce recently enjoyed
visit with her son, r. =. Pierce
from Collingwood, New Jersey.
S. Bonnell has sold his property IN
the southwest part Of town, to Melvin
Smith, Of New Providence.
w. L. Spray Of Kenwick, recently
visited relatives here.
Charles Mckenzie of Fairfield, was
guest OF relatives Thursday.
Miss Mary Cough left Friday for
her work in the Mulholland depart
ment store at Malvern.
Miss Florence Baker and Miss
Elizabeth Smith attended the South
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09

ate to the liens Of farm mortgages
to federal land banks. AS soon as
the attorney general Of the Unit
ed states renders his opinion I
will communicate it to you. viii
you please let the. people of North
Dakota know that the officers of
the federal land bank Of st. Paul
and my colleagues of the farm
loan board and myself deeply SYM
pathize with the people OF North
Dakota in the predicament in
which they find themselves be-
cause OF the prior lien given I'M
der the seed and feed law, and
that we are sincerely DESTROYS of
doing everything in our power to
relieve them. 1t is impossible,
however, for the farm loan board
or the farm loan banks or myself
to do anything in this connection
IL the attorney general Of the Unit
ed States should hold that the
lien of the seed and feed law is
paramount, to that Of farm mort
cages to federal land banks"
w. G. M'ADOO.
The Dakota legislature has goo
leal to learn before It can finant
matters in that state on bolshevil
and save the people OF tt
state from having to pay the bills,
lot from actual bankruptcy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
The attitude of unhappiness is not only
painful, it is mean and ugly.-William James.
SWIVEL CHAIR SOLDIERS.

storm is gathering in congress, and its
muttering thunders are already heard, over the
action Of the war department in putting some
thing like sixty thousand noncombatant officers
in uniforms whereas there only about that
many officers of the Iine-fghting officers here
and in France Swivel chair officers they are
called, holders of ''slacker commissions and
"bombproof jobs" and Representative Cox, of
Indiana, likens them to Jobs war horses want
ing to sniff the breezes of battle from affair.
Senator Thomas, Of Colorado, and Congressman
Butler, of Pennsylvania, have introduced reso-
lutions calling on the war department for in
formation concerning the number of non-ight-
ing officers Of draft age to whom commissions
have been given; and Representatives Kahn,
Mccormick and others expect to have much to
say upon the subject when it comes before the
house. The recent appointment of l.. Ames
Brown, of the public information bureau, seems
to have precpitated congressional action, for
this young man, who is within the draft age,
has Just been commissioned as an officer in the
intelligence service of the army, the order ap-
pointing him explaining that he is not to be
sent to the front.
Many patriotic men undoubtedly have put
on the uniform in order to serve their country
in any capacity where they can be of use; but
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE
EXILE OF ERIN.

There came to the beach a poor exile of Erin
The dew his thin robe heavy and chill!
his country he sighed, when at twilight repairing
To wander alone by the wind-beaten HILL
But the daystar attracted his eyes sad devotion
For it his native isle of the ocean.
Where once, in the fire of his youthful emotion,
He sang the bold anthem of Erin go bragh.
Sad is my fate. said the heartbroken stranger;
The wild deer and wolf to covert flee,
home and a country remain not to me-
Never again in the green sunny bowers
Where my forefathers lived shall / spend the swee
hours,
Or cover my harp with the wld-woven flowers,
And strike the numbers of Erin go bragh.
Erin my country Though sad and forsaken,
In dreams revisit thy sea-beaten shore:
alas! in far foreign land L awaken,
And sigh for the friends who can meet me no more!
o cruel fate; wilt thou never replace me
mansion of peace, where perils can chase me?
Never again shall my brothers embrace me?
They died to defend me, live to deplore!
Where is my cabin door. fast by the wildwood?
Sisters and sire did We weep for its fall?
Where Is the mother that looked childhood?
And where is the bosom-f friend. dearer than all?
o my sad heart, long abandoned by pleasure
Why did it dote fast-fading treasure?
Tears like the raindrop, fall without measure,
But rapture and beauty they cannot recall
Yet, all of its sad recollectons suppressng,
dying wish my lone bosom draw,
Erin exile beaueaths thee his blessing!
Land of my forefathers, Erin go bragh.
Buried and cold, when my heart stills her motion,
Green thy fields, sweetest isle of the ocean!
And thy harp-strikng sing aloud with devotion,
Erin mavorneen, Erin go bragh!
Thomas Campbell
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
eastern Iowa Teachers associatio,
held at Ottumwa last week.
should Not Lower Flau.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Service,
SISSON, Calf, April 9.-"As lona
as / live in Sisson the American fla
win never be lowered to be kissed By
q disloyal citizen, but rather will wa
raise the traitor to his country pu ia
the flag"
That was the edict Of Mayor Frank
Lawrence which was impressed on all
"disloyalists" today alter its delivery
lat . Liberty loan meeting. At thu
meeting Emil Rupp was forced to So.
lutte the c0lors.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
LEAGUE FiNANC-
ING.

Davenport Democrat: The bolshe-
Wiki government of North Dakota,
creature of the Nonpartisan league
which gained practical control of that
state at recent elections, has made a
mistake which in degree Is little less
suicidal than the many that the boil
sheviki have made in Russia.
Inflated with their own Importance
as controllers Of legislation, the so
cialists in charge in North Dakota re-
Gently passed law which would rank
| as second mortgages all the securities
OF the national government for federal
farm loans in that state. The insur-
ance companies had already taken
alarm at the kind of government
North Dakota had elected. and had
ceased loaning there The action OF
| the legislature compelled the federal
farm loan banks to take the same
course
| The new law that made the trouble
authorized counties in that state to
Issue bonds and from the proceeds to
make loans to farmers to procure cat
tie feed and seed wheat. One of the
provisions of the law was that the OBJ
Legations given for such loans should
have priority over any liens on the
land not in existence On Jan. 30, when
the act became law. This tied the
hands Of the federal land bank serv-
ing that district, because the federal
farm loan act provides that all loans
made by banks incorporated under its
provisions shall be secured by first
liens. North Dakota officials have
been IN conference with the farm loan
board in Washington for some days.
and Governor Frazier Of that state
wired an appeal to Secretary McAdoo,
as chairman of the farm loan board.
The secretary summarized the situa-
ton and the boards position in the
following telegram to Governor Fra
Zier:
Am in receipt Of your telegram
as we'll as kilograms from farm
ers, bankers and organizations in
your state AS you know the fed
era, land banks are required by
act of congress to lend money on
first mortgages only. The enact
ment Of your seed and feed law
with the unusual provision that
loans made Hereunder should
have priority of lien over mort
cages previously recorded raises
serious questions, both of law and
of the security Of loans made by
the federal land bank under the
act OF congress. l have referred
the question to the attorney gener-
al of the United States for his
opinion. II he should hold that
your seed and feed law is prior
lien to farm mortgages made to
federal land banks, then it will
not be possible for the federal
land bank to lend on mortgages in
North Dakota. Your only remedy
in that case will be to make the
seed and feed law liens subordin-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Ottumwa Courier: The time has
gone by when officials could success
fully defend themselves for failure
to do their duty by demanding that
formal evidence be presented by cltt-
zens as a basis for inaugurating OIL
cial action. Such defense is so
old outworn and threatbare that 1t
does not deceive even the most In
genuous citizen.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: Our
friend. Billy Sunday. seems to be
speaking about as many words Tor
the war as for God, and he lambasts
the kaiser more than he does that
strange orthodox contriyance of his
which he still calls the devil. But the
devil can always be conjured up and
pounded, while the kaiser is going to
last for only limited time.
Marshalltown Times-Republican:
The country shudders to imagine the
abject condition. of this nation had
Colonel House been bombed or cap
tured while he was across the pond.
Sioux City Journal: Our war
policy, of course, is absolutely right
in every particular. oh. absolutely.
Only it takes so much good white
paper to keep on explaining why it
is right.
Des Moines Capital: President Will
son has made a special appeal to the
boys of the United States to get busy
on the farm. In Illinois and other
states great effort is being made
to show to the high school boys
their patriotic duty. In Iowa the same
effort is being made and the pros
pect is for success. Farm life would
be glorious for any boy. He would
enjoy himself as he never has en-
joyed himself before. His work
would be new and interesting. The
wages he would get would be salts
factory and helpful. The school men
throughout the state are cooperating
in this boy reserve labor endeavor.
The high schools will close very
shortly and the time to get the boys
ready for duty is short
Davenport Times: The recommen-
dation Of the senate committee that
the employees of the postal service
be given an increase Of Is per cent.
is likely 10 receive Ine dppIOfoi VI
the country. The government as a
model employer must take into con-
sideration the fact that postal en-
ployes' wages have not been ad-
vanced recently, while the cost OF
living has increased, and for that
reason the men in the postal depart
ment are entitled to consideration.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: It's not
so much the extra hour of daylight
that counts, but what we do with 1T.
Sioux City Tribune: 1t may or may
not be pertinent. but coincident with
the attack on the airplane board sew
eral Washington newspapers carried
advertisements of certain engine
for airplane use. And it was not the
Liberty motor.
Waterloo Courier: Now that two
noted pugilists have been matched
for a battle to determine some
trifling point of difference between
them, will the allies across the water
please proceed with the job In hand
of lamming the daylights out OF the
most complete example of concen-
trated cussedness the world ever has
known?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09

the practice carried so far as it seemingly has
been of giving young men shoulder straps ana
officers pay and assignments to keep them
permanently in this country out of all danger
is unjust to the young men who have come from
training camps as lieutenants only to find that
the captaincies and higher commissions have
gone to swivel chair soldiers who have no idea
of ever going to the 'front.'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09

There are $50 cities In the United
States with populations in excess q,
$4,000, and practically every one OF
these cities has hundreds OF acres Of
park land. These park acreages, the
government believes, could easily
maintain 10000 sheep each summer
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
HATS OFF TO THIS MOTHER.

herman HaSeOOTn, Oh the S1Si-
lantes: Regimental Sergeant Major
William B Jenkins, Three Hundred
and Fourth field artillery, is dead at
Camp Upton, but his soul Is march.
ing on. It is question indeed
whether in death he may not do
more to defeat the Germans than he
could ever have done in life. For his
death has brought from his mother
an utterance OF stirring patriotism
that is sure to rouse to greater effort
the defenders OF America abroad and
at home.
Sergeant Major Jenkins came from
Holiday, Tennessee, and it is from
there that his mother, Mrs. M. e.
jenkins, writes as follows to Major
J. ID. Whitman.
Allow me as one who has lived
until I am now an old woman to
express to you my thanks and
appreciation for your many cour-
tesies to me as mother OF Ser
geant Major William B. Jenkins.
l had hoped my boy would get
his chance in France, but 1t was
not to be, so I am as submissive
to his death as If he had died in
the trenches in Europe. Please
accept my thanks for all your
kindness and to any of his COM
rades that we're with him in his
sickness. With sad heart l die
tate these lines, but with a quick
ening pulse and an accelerated
being I look forward to the day
when victory shall come to the
brave boys who are giving their
lives for our beloved land.
shall ever love a soldier boy
May Gods blessing be on you.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09

The Billy Sunday cocktail is the
latest liquid CONNECTION in the wet
belt of Chicago. The stick" in it
is pronounced a corker, whatever
that means.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09

Henry Ford advises men to begin by think
ing and go thinking" A lot of people do
this and never do anything else.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09

Await the issue. In all battles, you await the issue
each fighter has prospered according to his right His right
might the close of the account, were one and
He fought with all his might and in exact
lyle
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09

A Chicago paper says that Trotsky is now
worth five hundred thousand dollars. AT that
we don't believe the kaiser got his money IS
worth.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09

German agents in this country are allowed too
much leeway, but not enough rope.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
A BAD INVESTMENT.

There is reason to believe that something
like a half billion dollars worth Of German
bonds are held in this country The value OF
these depends on German victory. The German
inanciers practically admit that when they tell
their people that indemnities exacted from
their enemies are absolutely necessary to the
solvency of the nation after the war. This
means therefore, that America must be de-
Heated to make these bonds good.
Of course most of them floated here were
bought before our country entered the war, and
hosts of holders undoubtedly now regret their
purchase Other holders probably are more
sympathetic with the German ambitions than
they would be if they had no direct financial in
terest in the result. It seems safe assump-
ton that the money invested in these Teutonic
securities may be marked off the books and dis
missed from mind as bad investment. 1t was
money put on the wrong cause. 1t was put
against human liberty, against racial progress.
It was wagered on the triumph of remorseless
brute force in the wrong and the defeat and de-
struction of faith-keeping nations which stood
for the right. It would be misfortune, an in
calculable disaster, for mankind if these bonds
should ever be worth cent on dollar; for they
can have no value unless much that makes life
on earth worth living has been lost.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09

Now comes report that ground glass IL
bread, if fine enough, does no harm to those who
eat it, This matter of food substitutes, how
ever, has gone far enough.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-09
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Evening journal., 1918-01-18
Editorial Opinion
TRATOaoUs PROHIBITION.
from the New York World

FROM lhe New 1ork W Orlu.
Every falsehood uttered by the Board
Of Temperance Prohibition and Morals
Of the Methodist Church TO the effect
that drunkenness and lust are destroy
Ing the American Army in France is
denied by trustworthy witnesses, mill
tary and civilian. Truth may az length
overtake untruth, but meantime great
harm will have been done and anxieties.
already keen. cruelty increased.
The published slander Of this political
bureau hiding behind a great church
rests upon a few private letters the au-
thors OF which refuse the use Of their
names. With such a flimsy basis we are
informed that Gen. Pershing's troops
are whipped at this moment by de-
bauchery and its diseases; that they are
in hospitals and gusrd-houses by thou
sands; that the condition of both Of
ficers and men is appalling, and that
nothing can save them but American
Prohibition enforced in France as some
credulous people think it is enforced
here.
In regard to most things, Prohibition
lists have assumed and been accorded the
right to speak as they please Of their
opponents. Their hearts are bitter and
their tongues drip venom. II is one
thing, however. to exhaust the vocabu-
larry Of detraction upon political or
social foe at home, and emphatically
another TO apply libels 10 $hc armies
Of the Nation now facing the enemy
abroad
We shall hear in defense Of these fall
siflers that their intentions were good,
but can the authorities let it so at
that? No matter what their intentions
may be, their work IS evil and traitor
Gus. There is not an enemy allen in
custody today whose hostility to the
American cause has been so harmful.
Not one Of the opponents Of the Draft
Law now in prison is so stepped In
guilt
Is Prohibition propaganda, deadller
than any with which Germany has
familiarlzed us, to be tolerated simply
because it wears rather more ostenta-
t!ously than he the kaiser's cloak OF
piety?
Evening journal., 1918-01-18
MORE TINE FIR FILI'C
IECO~E TAX RETURNS

WASHINGTON. Jan. is.-Extension
OF time for fllng lncome-tax returns
after March 1 will be granted by In
iernal Revenue Commissioner Roper in
any case where 1t IS demonstrated that
accounting difficulties Of a business
prevent completion before that time
This rule was disclosed yesterday in
regulations accompanying the tax re-
turns form for incomes Of 5000 or
more. The forms will be ready for d,s-
tribut'on by next Satu- day or Monday
In making inventories the regula-
tions provide that returns may be
made either on tho basis OF cost or
on the basis Of cost or market value,
whichever is lower, and requires an
explanation OF which basis is used
II real property OF securities have
been held since before March 1. 1913
the regulations require reporting OF
their estimated value on that date in
stead Of the original cost, together
with an explanation Of the estimate.
Evening journal., 1918-01-18
GRANGE ELECTS OFFICERS.

Twenty-one new members for the
Red Cross from the grange membership,
were reported by Mrs. Julia Mouseley
at last nights meeting Of West Brandy
wine GRANGE, at Talleyville last night.
A. C. Smedley was elected as a trustee
Of the grange, for a term Of three years.
Elected on the finance committee were
Walter Keene, Pusey Pas more and
Henry Bartels. The executive commit
tee elected last night were a. c. Smed-
ley, Eber Y. Talley and Lewis Talley.
Miss Jenuie Talley was elected as or
eanist with William Twaddell as assist
ant organist. The new password for
the year was given out. Spring orders
Of supplies were made. Following the
business a literary program was enjoy
ed. Elizabeth Talley. Alice Ryan and
Pusey Passmore gave readings Mrs.
Julia Mouseley gave reading from the
newspapers upon the war questions.
Miss Lillian Talley sang q solo.