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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08
COMPULSORY FARM PRODUCTION.

The United States food administration has
attempted to fix prices on various farm pro-
ducts and to regulate the distribution Of food,
but IN several European countries compulsory
food production is imposed upon the farmers.
In Germany even the hens are compelled by or
der of the food administrator to 1<come across"
with an officially established minimum limit to
their egg laying. Bavarian poultry keepers are
required to deliver to the government forty
eggs for each hen kept, at fixed price of four
cents an egg. Switzerland has compulsory
crop production law, which establishes the 1904
acreage as minimum. All grain growers who
fail to deliver the required amount of cereal
products to the government are required to pay
four fold the maximum price as indemnity for
their deficiency In Hungary hidden hordes of
farm crops are eonfscated without payment
and the owners are punished hoarders
Wheat, oats, corn, potatoes and other products
are in the list of articles liable to seizure.
In view of these rigid food and crop regula-
tons in Europe, it is evident that the American
farmers have little canse to complain of the
treatment they have so far received at the
hands of the federal food administration
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08
A German to Germans

Garden, America-mother' love met
us. We left our fatherland, and
here we found motherland, for
tenderiy and lovingly she gave us
all and everything and is still I'M
changed.
We hear it said, Peace, peace
when there is no peace. We hear it
said every day, Il wish this war was
over" How can you make peace
with a wild beast? How can you
make peace with serpents? How
can you treat with insane people
That wild beast must first be tanned,
and those serpents must have their
heads cut off. You cannot make
peace with that bunch. Russia want
ed peace and she got peace, to be
swallowed up by Germany. She was
not conquered alone by German steel,
by German intrigue, German propa'
ganda, not by German might alone,
but by German gold. She was sold
out by Lenine and Trotzky. Ger
many promised them peace, no an
when the Russian army was de-
stroyed Germany grasped all Russia
and made her sign a peace treaty
at the point of a pistol. And that
poor, brave Rumania was made to
sign peace treaty at the point of
dagger. This should be lesson
to the socialists, and the pacifists
and the nonpartisan leaguers, the
bolsheVih OF America. want to
tell You that the day will come
when We will make that government
retrace her steps and give back
every foot OF that land And we will
tear up those peace treaties as
scrap of paper, and we will write an
other treaty. based on justice and
righteousness for all nations, Russia
and the common German people in
Guided. That government knows
that If they accept our peace terms
that will mean the end of them.
Their people viii then awake. They
viii see what their government has
led them into, that they are not
fighting defensive war; that we
and the allies do not intend to crush
them. They will know the truth and
they viii say to their government,
Away with you" If we accept their
give us peace, restore Belgium and
France, all except Russia, it would
mean that we lost this war, that our
country be turned into a military
camp and our little ones would have
to go into another war more horrible
than the present war. The German
people would stfll be slaves to their
government II they should come
over here, we would be stripped of
every foot of land and Of every dol
lar, and we German-born citizens
would be counted as traitors because
We did not help that government
They would put princes over here,
put soldiers behind them, and we
would be slaves. Do you suppose
that they would be more merciful to
US than they have been to Belgium
and northern France? That govern
ment knows no mercy, no compass
sion and no consideration for hu-
mainly. I had my neck under the
yoke of the Hohenzollerns and l can
not and ] VIII not put it under that
yoke again. No, there is only one
way, and that is we must fight it out
now. 1t is for the American people
to win this war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08
TODAYS BIT OF VERSE

TIE FIGHTING SWING
0nce aS4n che regiments marching down the street,
ShouldezA legs and rifle barrels swinging all In time
het the shack civilian pIod; ours the gsyer feet,
Dancing to the music of the oldest rhyme
kG6, right, tim and Tight Hear the cadence faI.
So legion Caesar loved the plains of Gaul
Fighting b2oods of an earth pulses ring.
Stepi lads. the dads. Back the fighting
sVfns1
We kissed goodb doubt LEFT the stew;
Now the may steal the corn, milk may
Al the pruhsenns the world simmer down
One is dodge the shells how to hn.
LEFT. RIGHT gffnts Of light Down tho ranks uey
So the JanizzxJ spears caught the desert
Once agxtn the ancient stea lordfy fnng
Flash, battle array Back to the fighting
0e9 and silent every mouth, steady every eye
Cropping wraus1ng days done; let the leaders lead
Regulations how to i've, orders when to die
Lie ddeath In primer print any read
Left right, fight, Town %
Here's the Old Guard back life,
Shake the soft and quiet the sweet, loose the
that cling
Blood, dust gfapp4e thrust. Back the fighting
! SWING
Badger CLARK, IN Sc1tbner's.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

From an address by William Harm,
Mayor of Bloomfield. Neb.: / was
born in Germany and lived there
seventeen years, and I felt the pangs
of hunger many a night ! had to
make my own living ever since l was
five years old, and l have felt the
German whip. And then one day a
letter came from America, and that
letter gave me hope. It said in part,
I'VE have SO many horses, we have
so many cattle, and we have SO many
hogs, and chickens, more than we
can count" Lo, we had not so much
as one chicken. Then we came,
hungry and naked. came and you
came. And the table was set. Every
thing the country has given us, every
thing. We thought that we would
come over to get a little more to eat,
a little home of our own, but not one
OF US ever dreamed that we would
receive all these blessings. 1t has
been said that we, the German-born
citizens, made this country, but
want to tell you that God made this
great country We did not bring the
opportunities. We did not bring the
privileges and we did not bring this
great. good government. They were
all here, every one of them. All we
brought was two willing hands to
work, and We did work And we are
entitled to the fruit of our labor,
and the American people and the
government are glad that we are
here They ara glad that we are
doing well. We fled from tyranny
and oppression, and here we became
kings and freemen. There we had
ro al
and many of them. We stayed in
our own class We knew our place
and we knew there was no hope.
Here every door was opened and
the American people have helped
us. And now it comes to this, that
the friend who has been our friend
all these years needs a friend. I
say that the very foundation on
which this country is builded is
shaken, and its very life is at stake.
The very privileges and opportuni-
ties and freedom which we have
enjoyed are in peril, and that gov
eminent from which we fled is
again reaching out its hand TO take
them away from US. Now, what
shall we do? Shall we bite the
hand that feeds us? Shall we return
evil for good! No. We are going
to be true to this country Every
dollar that i have this country has
helped me make, and every dollar
they can have if they need it. IF Il
give all and we win this war, with
the very opportunities and privileges
and freedom that we have, l can go
out tomorrow and make IT again. r.
know that when every German-born
citizen knows that this is a righteous
war, he, too, viii offer all and every
thing. An angel was sent from
heaven to bring from the earth the
dearest thing it could find, and it
found a flower, and it picked the
flower. and then it found the smile
of little child, and it plucked the
smile. and then at last it found a
mothers love and took it all to
heaven When it returned to heaven
it found that the flower had wi1ted
and the smile of the child had faded
away, but the mothers love was
still the same-unchanged And so |,
we too, when We came to Castle |
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

have had doubts if our troops could meet the
test, and some Americans even have awaited
the demonstration with a measure OF anxiety,
although the fact that Canadian and Australian
and New Zealand troops have distinguished
themselves 50 greatly encouraged the hope that
ours would do as well
But there is no question now that our men
in France are equal to the best of our allies and
superior in individual initiative, and apparently
in some other respects, to the best troops Of the
central powers. The enemys famous shock
regiments have been broken IN vain assaults
upon our lines, and the superb dash and valor
of our attacks have never yet failed to gain all
or part of the objectives in view Man for man
and regiment for regiment 10th In individual
achievement and IN concerted action, our boys
have covered themselves with glory IN every
engagement thus far and never failed to infhct
heavy losses, gain more ground and take more
prisoners than they have lost. There are no
better fighting men m Europe than ours, and
they viii do all and more than has been ex-
pected of them in bringing the war to an end
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08
THE EQUAL OF ANY.

Having disappointed the Prussians' expecta-
Hons by entering the war, America has falsifed
their predictions in two other important re-
Spects First by the number of soldiers sent
over and second by their superb efficiency as
ngnting men. Germany ridiculed the notion
that our hastily created army of undriIled con-
scripts could stand against her soldiers. reared
an q military atmosphere, prepared for war by
ses'rs OF framing and hardened by long expert
nces IN The held Some of our allies also NAV
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08
DEMAND FOR UNsK1LLED LABOR.

In removing restrictions against Mexican i'm
nig rant labor needed IN states of the southwest
President Wilson shows partial recognition of
the demand for unski1led werkrnen to which
Judge Gary called attention last January. It
is pointed out that the Mexican labofers admit
ted into this country viii be exempt from the
head tax, Hteracy test and contract labor pro-
visions of the immigration laws and that they
viii be required to return to their own country
when the emergency has passed and they are
not needed here. A step IN the right direction
has been taken, but some students of the labor
problem believe that longer one viii be re-
quired in the interest of industrial efficiency
The chairman of the United States Steel cor
poration, speaking last winter before the Chi
.eagp Commercial club said that IN order to do
our part IN winning the must have more
men for soldiers and workmen, skilled and
skilled; that cannot produce the quantities
of materials demanded unless the number of
men Is materially increased. 'STo the extent
needed for the purpose named he added,
sSthe United States should Immediately, under
proper conditions and reasonable restrictions,
draw from the islands of the seas and from
oriental countries enough men, including sol
diers and sailors, to meet every emergency. -
Judge Gary did not ignore the probability that
objections would bo made to this plan but he
said that the first thing to do was to win the
war. Nothing VIII be permitted to stand in the
way, but there is room for difference of opin-
ion as to how far we should go in removing
restrictions against immigrant labor. What is
clear rs that laws governing the admission of
workers coming from other countries when the
United States was at peace do not meet the sit
uation created when this country entered the
war and prepared to make all ITS resources
avaihble IN war work
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

The Great Lakes naval training sta,
ton band consistse OF 1924 men in
charge of Senior Bandmaster Rich
art Tainter. On gala occasions the re-
giment of musicians unite in concert
Generally 1t divides into Is COM
plete bands, each with a membership
of over so
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times Republican:
Quit arguing with the governor over
the foreign Language proposition
Law or no law, he has fourfifths Of
all Iowa behind It
Burlington Hawk-Eye: VIII the
folks down on the other side of Ma
son and Dixon's line please take no
tice. We of the north also make
short shrift of black fends who at
tack white women. But we do it in
a perfectly legal way. We waste
little time, but the results are ever
so much E.ore satisfactory.
Sioux City Journal: As usual, the
German government explains the
sinking Of the hospital ship by say
ing It was a mine How injudicious
British floating mines with fun crews
of Heinfes.
Muscatfne Journal: Canning activi-
ties viii be reduced unless some
means is provided whereby the fruits
can be harvested and marketed. IT
is not too late to remedy the discour-
aging situation Caring for the crops
Of this summer is a war measure. 1t
will reduce the demand for other
foodstuffs during the winter. There
should be no waste.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Now the
Germans and Turks are quarrefing
about who owns the Russian Black
sea fleet. II occurs to neither of
them that perhaps the Russians
might have q claim.
Sioux City Tribune: The Indian
has habit of inventfng new words
to describe new situations. His gen
eral designation for near beers Is
Nokickum. That name also sets forth
the white mans disappointm ent.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Exit the
term Dago from our vocabulary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

When David B. Weaver, saxony.
MINI, went to Montana in 1864, he
discovered a gold mine. While he and
MS parents were at work on it, In
dams drove them off. Four months ago
he went prospecting again and he
found the same mine and intends to
work it, despite his seventy-eight
years
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

A Catholic soldier, dying in France,
not speaking French, made his con-
fessfon through Protestant woman
Interpreter in a Young Mems Chris
tan association hut
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

The Lathrop family of Chicago.
consisting of mother, two sons and
one daughter. have been regularly en-
listed in the navy-mother and
daughter as yeowomen.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

The Austrian navy has Quilt the
largest floating crane in the world.
mounted on a self-propelled barge
and with lifting capacity of 240 tons
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08
How they Feel.

Kansas City Star: A good way to
guess how the Germans are feeling
over the Austrian retreat is to re-
member how we felt last year when
the Italians were retreating.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

following staples and
food administrator for county and published with daily
public
Article Pay
per
S244s pounds
pound in less than mill
Rye .-..Sl225 10
Of pound pounds pound
sacks in less than mill
Barley ..sto55 per
rel Of eight 24A pound sfA
Corn pound 71kc per pound
Elce Flour to 11Ac pound 131kc pound
fomnz sc per per- pound @ to to sec & p per pound
Rolled Oats &c to SIC pound
Ground rolled Oats to TIE pound SIC pound
ee to 11e pep bound &c ly e. per onnd
MIX tall cans e1ac to lie 1910 to
Slnal cans --5c to SC per can &C to 61sc
Lima Beans - 5c to l6c pound
into Beans 100000. Oc to lie pound 1870 pound
canned Corn .1sc to 151ac 1870 o
Tomatoes per 1sc 21hc per
r Tomatoes :--1 sc to 21o per 2sc
to zoe per can e 20 s as per a cam
basins He to 15c to pound
ed TO nc per pound tic pound
Syrup to 81 p p naa SG TO Ssks per Pe ae
per 100 pounds 81 oe y oou p
GTanula a Sugar Is
Sugar per ''' pounds 1888 per Is pound ~
sacEs :SS~5s per 100
pound sacks 49,. $50 per 100 pound, AZ nor ound sack
per pound Bic pound
small pals &c to oc
Lard nstie ou fc 10 zoe per pound 2sc pound
ranaa cans aec to sA pound
BntterNcreanery in 80" per '01en eoe per dozen
~ pound 44c pound SOC DER pound
Potatoes New pep no per pound Sc to s5c pound
Bacon &c TO $oe per pound
~ '-.----..'..A'e 10 SIC per pound BIC
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08
The Golden Harvest

New York World: Thousands of
cars are being assembled over the
winter wheat states to move the crop
being harvested It is not the least of
the bright war news of the day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

Twelve French deputies have made
the supreme sacrifice for France
since the war began Il is claimed
that no other legislative chamber in
the world can equal the record
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

The musical acuteness of horses rs
SHOWN by the rapidity with which
cavalry horses learn the Significance
of trumpet Gals.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

Hun artillery has succeeded in destroying
several comnissary wagons filed with Ameri-
can pie and dougfnuts Those Prussians GER
tainly do love TO commit atrocities
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

1t is rather interesting to reflect what effect
this war will have on those titles that rich
American fathers bought for their daughters.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

A correspondent writes that there is no
longer any night life in Paris Perhaps that
accounts for the turning back of the crown
princes army.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

Dr. David Starr Jordan says that he favors
the abolishing OF the house Of Hohenzollern.
Now If he viii just endorse the law of gravita-
ton everything viii be lovely.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

The elephant. apparently invariably
and the horse, commonly, sleep stano
ing Cattle sleep lying down, and dur
anE many hours of the day lie down
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

The handle of new pocket knife
can be unfolded to form a six-inch
rule
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

sainteSeuS as he Older to regard all es-
pefenee single great book in which to study for a
lew years 90 hence; seemed all to him
whether you souid read chapter which is the diff
ferenkaI Calculus chapter 81 which hearing the
band play in the earden.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-08

Council Bluffs Nonparel: Exit the
term Dago from our vocabulary.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-20
ATLANTA CARMEN
 ID RESUME POSTS Differences Settled at Con- ference and Cars Will
 Begin Running

Atlanta, Gn., July 10-Dfffer-
 ences between the striking street
 cnr men and the Georgia Railway
 and Power company were settled at
 conference tonight, and the men
 agreed to return to work tOmor-
 TOW morning, according Iu q stnte-
 ment given out late tonight.
 Following conferences which extended throughout the day and well into the night, an agreement, which was drawn up in it's finally accepted form at a conference between Gov. Hugh M. Dor sey. representing the state; Maj. Ebert F. Peck, representing the war department and the national war labor board; May or-elect James l.. Key, acting as inter medary for the strikers, and President Preston S. Arkwright. for the street car company, was presented to the executive committee of the strikers. The strikers committee accepted the agreement, and it was later unanimously approved by the strikers a whole
 In substance the agreement states that all points in dispute shall be adjusted by the national war labor board, with three exceptions. These three clauses consist of the recognition by the com
 
 Local 732 of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes exists and that number of it's employees have joined the union. The second clause comedies the right of the employees to join this union, while the third clause gives the company the right to maintain an open shop, to retain in it's employ it's present nolll,non employees and to employ nonunon men in the future.
 All questions concerning hours of work, scale of wages, working conditions and others are to be decided by the war labor board, together with any future disputes which may arise. It was also agreed that the boards decision shall be binding upon both parties for the dura- ton of the war.
 It was agreed that the men should return to work tomorrow morning. To nights agreement between the strikers and street railway company terminated the strike that has completely tied up street car service in Atlanta since late Monday night, except on lines to Camp Gordon and Fort McPherson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-20
RAIDERS EXPECTED

The return of the underseas raiders
 was not to be unexpected, since the
 sirkings of May and June had shown
 that the German admiralty was capable Iof carrying submarine warfare to the very doors of America.
 The San Diego was the first major warship to be lost since the country en- tered the war. None but commercial coa stwise ships fell prev to the submers- ibles on their first raid. and in the war zone none but destroyers. transports and small patrol boats have been sue cessfully attacked.
 Despite reports of attacks on other ships and that warnings had been sent to coastwise shipping to keep close to the coasts, naval officials steadfastly maintained they had no information on which to believe that the submarines had come again.
 The official dispatches to the navy tonight were so far behind the news re- ports of the disaster and so lacking in details that little official opinion could be formed. The popular effect of the loss of the San Diego on the psy- chology of the national capital however, was the cause of a great deal of com
 ment It aroused a war spirit and popular commotion far exceeding the news of the great drive by Amerieah troops in France which as propositioi' of military importance is Of vastly more concern than the loss of a comparative lily unimportant ship and the loss or probably very few lives if any. It may be stated that all the a~crcies which the navy department has at it's commani for hunting the submarres are in action and officials are still confident of thefr ability to protect the coasts, If another raid has been started with the object 9 popular agitation to cause the return ot
 American naval forces in the war zone i it undoubtedly will prove, in that respect, a faillre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-20
DEATHS

w. R, Lowery-Aged Fl. died last night at the residence of his son, Judge ]. T. Lowery, 1733 Jefferson avenue. Ensley. The funeral services will be held this afternoon at o'clock at the residence and will be con cluded at the West End Methodst church. the Rev MT Cassiday oft ciating. Interment will follow a. Elmwood The deceased is sur vived by four children. Judge Low cry of Ensley. w. l.. Lowery of Attalla H. F. Lowery of Cullman and Mrs. D. l.. Simms of Morgan county.
 Mrs. Kate Ward--Aged so, died last night at the family residence, Pratt City. She is survived by daugh ter. Miss Katie Ward Funeral ar
 rangements to be announced later.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-20
Fresh German Forces Are Unable to Halt Allie

came acting quartermaster general, and was slated to succeed General Sharpe as head O. the supply service. A statutory requirement that any officer appointed head of the quartermaster corps must have served at least four years previously in the corps, however, prevented Gen eial Woods assignment