The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-30
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

= BOY mas SrOWn. len years ago LIE
first troop of boy scouts was organ
In the decade the movement has
spread around the world. Like 9th
er great movements, it has outlived
the jokesmith and the objector and
! today those original boy scouts can
| see their followers doing a great part
in the war to make the world safer
place for the next generation OF boys.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: German
| crown prince says he wants to visit
| Canada, after the war. He'd better
do his Canadian excursion in priv
| ate tank
Des Moines Register: A lot of our
| neighbors east of the Mississippi may
soon get tired of Sundays forty-eight
hours long.
Sioux City Tribune: So long as
the coal mines do not close down be-
cause of lack of fuel it is in order TO
continue hopeful as to the future.
Webster City Freeman-J Journal: If
they cut off half the passenger trains
| it will relieve some of the town girls
of a lot of work and some of the
dear things need rest. 1t is some
thing of chore to meet every train
without being wG<::!.ps'sta~esz's e.s -">
Sioux City Journal: Ensign kry-
Ienko has issued call for volunteer
soldiers who want to fight the Rus
sian burgeoise, Germany, and all the
other forces of earth that are dis
tinct from the proletariat. Evidently
nr,1 xxrhN y 81 no, a
appetite for combat need apply.
Council Bluffs Nonpareif: The pres
ident and Lloyd George have rot ex-
pressed it as tersely as Grant said ii
to Lee, but by including every pos
sible cause of difference they have
made unconditional surrender" al.
most as plain to the understanding.
Cedar Falls Record: Senator Ken
yon was once a pacifist. That was
before the war. Since we entered the
struggle, the watchword of the Iowa
senator has been victory. Recently
Mr.. Kenyon returned from visit to
France and England, having spent
some time on the battlefront. He
came back with a new vision of what
war means to us and a broader I'M
derstanding of the problems that con-
front the nation. This fact gives
special significance to what Mr.
Kenyon has to say to US now.
Sioux City Tribune: Whether
based upon fact or fiction, each price
fudge in war time holds the position
gained.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: When
Roosevelt attacks the president, Taft
comes to the presidents defense.
Wilson hasn't noticed Roosevelt in
six years-tlo telling. But if he does!
Burlington Hawk-Eye: 1t is dis
grace to the middle west that there
is such disease (as smallpox pre-
valent. Perhaps no change for the
better can be expected until the dis.
ease again appears in it's worst form.
Waterloo Courier: Rather it should
be counted proud privilege to be
able to help fight the battles of lib
erty with our savings. 1t is time to
begin now putting away dimes for
the next Liberty loan.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Il think
we have really accomplished wonders
in Iowa." writes Colonel Young OF
the state council of defense, in a
personal letter. Yes, we have, when
we come to think back Disloyalty
has been almost stampes out and we
have made provisions for wider and
deeper patriotism among US in the
future. The Iowa state council has
had very little to do with in the way
of money, but it has had good men to
do whatever could be done Mr.
Young has made an excellent chair
| man and he has done lot Of travel.
| ing and speech making at his own ex.
| pense. He is the example of a man
who accepted a public trust and was
willing to pay the freight himself
he did it for the good of the cause
| and he has done it well.