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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18
WHERE PRICES ARE HIGHER.

Worlds Work: Sweden before the
war used to import about 5000 900 tons
Of coal and coke per year. This sup
ply, of course, has stopped One re-
suit is that coal in Sweden now sells
at 500 ton, and is difficult to obtain.
In Denmark, also. the coal shortage is
acute In Copenhagen's finest depart
ment store. clerks wear big straw slip
/ ers and wooden blankets because
there is not coal enough to keep the
place properly heated.
Automobile tires are scarce in Den
mark and consequently have skyrock-
eted in price. A single tire sold for
$40 there last October
| Tea in Sweden is SIS pound. Coffee
| is practically unobtainable. Wooden
clothing has increased more than 200
Il per cent. in price since the beginning
! of the war Chocolate sells for SO a
pound: ham for 81 pound.
| Gasoline, likewise, is difficult to OBJ
tain, and the price of it is prohibitive
last October it was 50 gallon.
The length of the midwinter day in
Sweden is approximately four hours.
Lighting, therefore is an essential.
Kerosene is practically unobtainable,
so the people have had to depend large
,ly upon candles. In August 1914,
candles were Is cents pound; in jan
uary. 1917, "a cents a pound, and last
October, IS cents a pound.
The scarcity and consequent abnor-
NAL prices Of motoring necessities
tires and gasoline, for example-have
necessarily affected the use of pleas
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18
THE BETTER WAY.

The president has made clear by proclama-
ton the purpose of and the methods to be FOL
lowed by the national war labor board. This
body has been formed to carry out the plan to
prevent strikes and lockouts during the war by
providing for the peaceful settlement OF INDUS
trial disputes. A method long since discredlted,
because it was crude and wasteful and added to
the burdens borne by both labor and capital IS
to be put aside in favor of a better way.
The president says in his proclamation that
the powers and duties of the war labor board
shall be ''to settle by mediation and conclla-
ton controversies arising between employers
in fields of production necessary for the effec-
tive conduct Of the war, or in other fields OF ma
tional activity delays and distractions IN
which might, in the opinion of the national
board, affect detrimentally such production, Z
and to provide for committees to sit where con-
troversies arise and secure settlement by local
mediation In the event of failure to secure
settlement in the manner proposed, it shall be
the duty of the national board to summon the
parties to the controversy for hearing and ac-
ton by the board itself. The plan is admirable
and it should be successful It is not of less IN
terest and Importance to private property and
its labor army than it is to the government and
the men employed upon the nations war
making machinery.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Republican,: They
are using the movie stars extensively
in the sale Of bonds. Marguerite
Clarke has been operating in Chic
ago and st. Louis, While Mary Pick
ford started out in Washington.
Thousands of people bought their
bonds of these little screen favorites.
The United States is wisely utilizing
their popularity The interest that
is taken in those who appear on the
screen is marvellous. 1t is part or
American hero, or rather heroine
worship, for the woman of the movies
are ten times as popular as the men.
Des Moines Register: No war gar
den looks like the real thing in dir
ty back yard.
Marshalltown Times Republican:
Really, practically everything an
American citizen wants to say and
ought to say can be expressed in the
United States language.
Sioux City Journal: Possessing first
honors both for cities and for states
in the third Liberty loan contest,
Iowa can feel that exact justice has
been done
Burlington Hawk-Eye: You are not
doing any more for Uncle Sam than
you are doing for yourself, when you
invest in Liberty bonds or in thrift
and saving stamps. Hence you are IA
roring the two persons of whom you
probably think as much of any others
in the world.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Ger
man fleet may come out. says Lon
don despatch. Yes, and We know how
| it Will come out. Second.
Davenport Democrat: The plea for
staggered hours is that it gives the
workman a better chance to get his
eats 1t has no reference to drinks.
Boone News Republican: We will
talk peace when we are certain that
everybody is going to get a square
deal.
Webster City Freeman-Tribune: 1t
may be well to cry over spilled milk,
if the crying will prevent the spilling
of more.
Sioux City Tribune: Red Cross
members, who are gathering old
clothes for the civilian population of
Belgium and France, say men are
more generous than women in max
ing gifts. Not necessarily. Men u.s.
ual1y have little except old garments,
and the opportunity to get some new
ones is splendid.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18
WE FEEL THE LOSS.

! We are facing a folderless summer; and
while railway folders have never been neces-
!sity of life, we have not within living memory
been compelled to get along without them and
may not get used to it all at once. Those glow
ing folders with their alluring pictures, how
often have we ia zen home packet OF them and
journeyed IN our minds, to places where HE
was long delight! And those enticlng maps
of railroad marvels of engineering, built on the
shortest, straightest possible line to the place
we dreamed of going, while other insignificant
roads rambled like paths over half the terri
tory! With what pleasure have we pored over
them, seated in fancy in the breezy observation
icar watching the unfolding panorama OF the
landscape pass! And those enchanting colored
pictures of Iisome beauties loling on silken pill
lows in canoes; of youth in the prime OF happy
life guiding their boats over bounding pillows,
or of noble gentlemen holding rods bent In cir
cles by powerful fish which leap from the water
yards away! These all belong TO the old life
now. for Director General of Railroads McAdoo
saws that, as a matter of economy, the transpor-
tation companies must longer circulate
these works of art and information. The en-
chantment of travel planning is gone; the days
!of arm chair touring are over. The world s
grown cold. The light that was never on sea or
land has gone We may as well stay at home
and work as the government wants us to; and
the wise will reconcile themselves in advance
to restful summer evenings, smoking their pipes
on the back porch, watering their struggling
war gardens and watching the stars come out.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18
TO The Man Of German Origin

Hagedorn's careful statement OF facts
and closely reasoned argument. he
presents the case in a masterful ana
convincing fashion. and he is nlled
with an optimism about the German
American attitude that we hope "a
thoroughly justiiiable. Through much
that is forcible and pathetic, we may
pass to his concluding words: i APP
peal to you only because | am one OF
you," he says, addressing his fellow
Americans of German blood. have
been torn as you are torn. love Ger
man men and women as you love
them; /, too, have father in Ger
many; /, too, had German mother:
and l, too have brothers fighting IN
Germany's armies. For time my
reason as well as my heart was in Ger
many's cause, and even after my rea'
son would no longer let me hope for
Germany's triumph, for time my
heart was still rebelliously thrilled al
the news Of German victory. So
perhaps, have a right to speak.
have stood on Germany's side. / have
walked to the valley Of the shadow OIL
neutrality. have stood and now
stand irrevocably with the cause OF the
cause Of America. And say to you
most solemnly. the time has come fol
us all who are OF German origin tc
stand forth and individually and col
lectively publicly declare ourselves
I, an American citizen of German
blood, believe in America, my country
and the principles of liberty, equality
and democracy for which she stands
Therefore, and inevitably, am against
Germany; wish to see my country
victorious and Germany defeated. Tt
the fulfillment OF this wish I pledge
my hands, my heart and my spirit. II
the taking and the keeping OF thai
oath or its equivalent lies the hope
lies the only hope of the happiness
and the present and future usefulness
OF Americans OF German blood" Amid
multitude OF books about the war
Mr.. Hagedorn's takes first place.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

Boston Transcript: A valiant plea
is made by Hermann Hagedorn In his
little volume which asks and answers
the question ON its title pags, Where
Do You Stand?" 1t forms an appeal to
Americans Of German origin. and it is
dedicated to the memory of it's writer's
grandfather, Friedrich SCHNEIDER, "a
Saxon by birth, an exile by choice, a
|staunch and successful defender Of
American ideals by the grace Of his
own high spirit In his dedicatory
note Mr.. Hagedorn tells his readers
that his grandfather fled from Saxony
after the revolution Of 1S4S and 1849.
leaving thriving business and a con-
genial circle OF fellow musicians to
seek in America the freedom his own
country denied him. He became edit
or and proprietor of the New York
Demokrat, and fought vigorously with
his pen for the election of Lincoln and
for the defense of the union. In the
midst of a great battle, fellow Ameri-
can and fellow fighter, your old play
mates salutes you!' concludes Mr..
Hagedorn.
To those Americans of German orr
gin who ask why they should be call
ed upon to give evidence OF their com
plete loyalty, Mr.. Hagedorn replies
that in view Of their attitude prior to
our declaration of war. in view Of their
vocal and tacit approval OF the sink
ing of the Lusitania and other atroci-
ties, the question, Where Do You
Stand?" is a necessary and logical
question. 1T is not an evidence OF
|anti-German hysteria. 1t is plain, com.
mon sense. based on the established
record of German-American opinion
during the two and half years pre-
ceding Americas entrance into the
war. During those years. we Amerf
cans of German origin permitted the
rest of the American people to gather
the impression that we were all. with
out exception and without reserve, ar
IDENTIFY and intellectually for Ger
many and all its works"
1t is unnecessary to outline Mr..
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18
This world belongs to the energetic
Emerson.
FEWER SILVER CERTIFICATES.

Senator Pittman, of Nevada, has introduced
a bill with the approval OF the administration
designed to enable the government to use two
hundred and fifty million of the four hundred
and ninety-one million silver dollars in the treas
uTv to paw our trade balances abroad The silver
certificates issued against these would be with
drawn from circulation and replaced with fed
eral reserve bank notes: and the minted dollars
would be melted into bullion for export sale
TO countries like India, China and Japan which
need more silver coinage than they now pos
sess. The bill authorizes the secretary of the
treasury to fix the sale price of this bullion, the
assumption being that he will fix it at a dollar
an ounce As the government shall require
more silver, the proposition is that it shall buy
it of the producers at this price, which VIII have
effect as is believed, to stabilize the price of
the metal at one dollar an ounce and stimulate
its production.
Our government has coined no silver dollars
since 1904 and they have declined in circula-
ton. The people do not like to take them, but
the happy expedient of issuing certificates
against them has worked exceedingly well. In
1890 the silver purchase act raised the price of
the metal to one dollar and twentv-one cents an
ounce. which was only eight cents below the
artificial sixteen-to-one ratio price. Thereafter
if fell until it touched low mark at fifty cents an
ounce. but of late it has been well up in the nine
ties and was quoted not long ago at ninety
seven. 1t does not appear how much paid
for the metal now proposed to be remelted and
sold for a. dollar an ounce The government, as
voiced by the secretary of the treasury, dis
claims any intention of making permanent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18
"DIsLOYAL FOOLS"

Former President Taft in an illuminative dis
cusson of the pro-Ger7nan menace In this coun-
try and of measures to suppress 1t, expresses
confidence in our ability to deal with traitors,
spies and open enemies. He believes they will
be found out and believes they should be shot or
hanged. But he sees problem in the ''disloyal
FOOLS who are not a part of any German me-
chanics of war, OF of any organized conspiracy
against this government. The temper of our
people is rising and this rightly enough. The
risk of impulsive punishment of disloyalists
outside the law increases, and this is an unfor-
tunate but foreseen circumstance. The law
must furnish remedy for all the ills of pro
Germanism and of foolish disloyalty. It is not
yet made adequate because it does not yet pro-
vide for the various phases of disloyalty with
which we are battling Mr.. Taft is undoubted-
Ely right in his contention that the disloyal fool
lis the hardest problem for the law to cope with
His disloyalty must be punished and stopped
but his foolishness is not on parity with open
enemy attack or secret treason. Public sentl-
Iment can do much to help the law. People are
sensitive to the touch of hostility in their home
environment. But people, if they would help
Wisely must be WISE
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

spent Sunday with Ann Eliza Gardner
and granddaughter, Cleo.
Walter Ehrhart was kicked by q
horse last week. which has laid MN
up for several days.
Howard Bogus returned home
from Quincy last week. where he has
been attending school.
Rev. v. r. Wood Of Canton. preach
ed his farewell sermon at PeakesVlile
Sunday, as he L. now called 70 ~ ~
the training camp. v. i. leaves nosts
OF friends here that are wishing MIN
a safe return.
Mrs. Curtis and daughter. from
Wvaconda, are spending . rev DAYS
with the formers brother, William
Harrison, west of town.
Mrs. Jesse Moore left Saturday fol
Indiana, to visit her husband VINO Is
there in camp.
There was quite a crowd attended
the rally at Peakesville, Friday night
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Kantz spent
Sunday at the ]. X. Blakely home
north OF town.
Bert Ball and family Of Farming
ton, spent Sunday with his parents
near Peakesville-
Miss Lena Bane Is hero staying
with her sister, Mrs. Charles Gudka
John Kinkade, south OF town, has
pneumonia
Mrs. Owen Morris OF Kahoka, spen
i Monday with her mother, Mrs. Wolf
Mrs. Sam Beard Is visiting hel
| neice, Mrs. Van Johnson. north O
town.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
PERSEVERANCE.

PERSEVERANCE.
swallow in the spring
Came granary, and meath the caves
Essayed TO make nest and there did bring
Wet earth and straw and leaves.
Day after day she toed
With patient art, but ere her work was crowned
Some sad raishap the tiny fabric spoiled
And dashed it 10 the ground.
She found the ruin wrought.
But cast down forth from the place she flew,
And with her mate fresh earth and grasses brought
And built her nest
Bat scarcely had she placed
The last soft feather its ample floor,
When wicked hand, or chance again laid waste
And wrought the ruin DER.
But still her heart she kept,
And toiled again-and last night hearing calls
I loaked-and 10. three little swallows slept
Within the earth-made walls
What truth is here, mani
Hath hope been smtten in its early dawn?
Have clouds o'ercast thy purpose, trust, or plan?
Have faith. and struggle on,
R S. S. Andres.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18
REVERE. MO.
>>>>>> 80 . 80

Protracted meeting is being held
at the NJ. E. church by Rev. Selby, Of
Wayland.
Cephas Cronin departed for Fort
Riley, Kansas, Friday to see his son,
Rudolph, who is there in the training
camp.
There are several In our town en-
tertaining the measles at present.
George Kantz and wife and sister.
in-law, Mrs. Tim Gardner, Of Kahoka.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

The Dominican Republic. /,
within TAO miles Of Panama sl y
New York and $3.50 of Southhaa, III
is almost totally unexploited y.
continuance Of peace and y
government. which now y
sured. this island should ds, s@'
rapidly as its neighbors cny
Porto Rico. which it equals - wv
passes In fertility. 10y
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

change in the status Of the silver certificates,
but speaks of the bill as war emergency
measure to permit the use of metal which has
long been idle in the. treasury vaults. The sem
ate discussion of the measure will be awaited
with interest and possibly furnish some clue
as to the role the white metal is to play in world
finances after the war;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

On a trolley car running from
Brooklyn bridge to Coney Island
George Roth is motorman and his
daughter Grace is conductorette. The
traffic on this line is exceptionally
heavy at all times OF the day, and
Miss Roth has proved herself very
capable in looking out for the sa1ety
of the passengers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

ure cars. Recently there were only
seventeen taxicabs operating in Stock
holm.
In the spring Of 1916 ordinary w.
grade walking shoes In Sweden had
increased in price to $11 pair. They
are now $25 a pair.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

sorng but in century, instead of once
year. b-rsls the of earthquake, and
silence, wonder and expectation there would
all hearts to tchold the miraculous change! But now
suggests nothing but necessity-to
most men only cessation the miracle would be
miraculous and the perpetual exercise Of Gods power
fellow.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

Just about this time one man at the front is
worth two in the training camps.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

Victory in the war lies with America.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-18

Mother and child both
profit from a mothers
use of Nujol during
the nursing period:
the mother, from a
cleansed system; the
baby from mothers
food thus madewhole-
some. Mothers read
this letter:
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-06
AUTO MEN WILL
NEEDS
Government Will Get Close
Aid of Makers of Cars
and Accessories.

There is no doubt in the minds
of Detroit residents about the gov
ernments determination TO respond
promptly and theoretically 10 Pre-
mier Lloyd Georges pleas for a
million men and a mountain of
arms" Although many industries
have quietly taken over the manu-
facture Of munitions since the war
began, the new rush started only
recently. Gigantic new structures
are being put together with amaz-
ing speed to- handle immense new
contracts for the government. No
shortage of materials handicaps
these undertakings. Everything
comes under government priority
order.
Probably the most prominent eX-
ample, both in magnitude and dis
patch is the immense new plant
which will house the Dodge Broth
ers' munitions industry. The day
after a contract for millions Of
dollars worth of special recoil
mechanism had been allotted to
Dodge Brothers by the government.
a force of hundreds of men. teams
and machines was on the ground,
excavating and assembling mate
rails. The work since then has
been pushed with great rapidity, the
force of workmen being ENLARGED
as fast as laborers and mechanics
are available over night acres of
ground are transformed into broad
level floors Of concrete. Great mass
es of material are piling up on all
sides in readiness for a building
which will measure 578XS1S feet. 1t
lis intended to have the plant in op-
Grafton next spring. with thousands
Of workmen employed. The entire
work is in charge of Dodge Broth
ers' own construction superintend-
ents.
Dodge Brothers willingness to
accept this contract was induced by
their realization of the necessity for
prompt and complete cooperation
with the government and not
through any desire to engage in a
business other than the manufac-
ture of motor cars. As in the case
of their motor car industry. the
Dodge Brothers are their own eX-
ecutives and their own directors.
There were no prolonged meetings,
no debates. When the government
asked them to take over the con-
tracts. the work was ordered, and
it is being done.
Dodge Brothers are building the
plant entirely apart from their mo-
tor car factory. Neither viii in
terfere with the other.
Not only are Dodge Brothers
now engaged with this tremendous
project, but they are building hum
dreds of cars for service in the
army, both Of the passenger and
commercial type. The latter is sim
liar in almost all details to the
Dodge Brothers commercial car on
which deliveries began a few weeks
ago.
AS a whole, the automobile in
dustry is cooperating with the gov
eminent on a vaster scale than the
public generally imagines. this be-
ing but one example of the energetic
spirit which is enabling the coun-
try to get 10 the front promptly
with men and supplies.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-01-06
Studebakers Plan
to Meet Emergency
Outgrowth of Steel

Most - car makes a good ap-
pearance when il is new" says NJ.
F. Wollering, vice president in
charge of production Of the Stude-
baker corporation, and TO the I'M
initiated it might seem capable of
giving a long and faithful service.
But it is in the test of actual per
Torrance that an automobile proves
up.
"Studebaker engineers always
provide for the Unforeseen emerg-
ency. Our designing and metallic
graphic divisions working together
make every one OF the thousands
OF parts which go into a Studebaker
car several times stronger than will
ever be necessary TO meet the de-
mands Of average service.
Our engineers measure strains
and stresses TO the very ounce. They
know exactly how many pounds of
pressure are carried by each bear
ing. They know how much bending
strain is placed on the chassis frame
at so miles an hour on a rough
road with seven passengers. They
I AnON u the lIdNAAOAldl part OL al
ounce the turning or twisting strain
that is put on a rear axle by a 90
/ horse power siX-Cylinder motor on
a Is percent grade at from > to so
miles per hour.
''Studebaker metallurgists specify
/ the kind Of steel which at the lowest
possible weight will meet all the
strains and stresses Of actual service.
I The great steel mills are asked 70
/ furnish the kind OF steel that will
meet Studebaker requirements-and
/ they are asked 10 manufacture this
steel with a certain amount OF alloy
TO give it the necessary quality de-
manded.
But our engineering department
I is not satisfied with the raw ma
terial which it receives from the
| steel by its own various heat-treat-
I ing-a and forging processes.
In the metallOgraphic division a
piece Of steel is cut of and FURNISH
ed and then photographed from one
hundred 10 one thousand times
larger than actual size. The satin