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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
MATHEMATICS AND MENDAcITY.

A Michigan professor of mathematics de-
clares that poor mathematician are usually
good liars and fortifes his contention by the
argument that this line of study inculcates a
respect for actual facts. 1t may be that the
Imathematicians appreciate, as some others fail
to- the value of accuracy in their work, and this
may tend to make them weigh their casual state
ments with greater care. But from the lmpll-
cation that proficiency at figuring begets any
essential love for truth there will be much dis
sent born of unforgettable experiences with
that class of men, Who is it that Juggles fig
ures so expertly as the man for whom arithme-
teal processes are easy7 And who has not
found that people who could figure all around
him were less desirable acquaintance than
many others of slower minds? Who is a
reader and more gifted calculator than the
short-change artist? Who has not discovered
that his bewilderingly rapid computations al
ways include an element of error to his own adj
vantage7 And who can impressively sup
port an erroneous proposition as the statlstician
concerned to establish case? Rather would it
seem that the poor mathematicians were the
poor and unsuccessful liars the dismal failures
at prevarication, and that fair degree of
! mathematical skill was essential to mendacity
of the profitable kind Notwithstanding.
therefore, the dictum of this Michigan profess
sor it is likely to remain rooted conviction in
many minds that very considerable sprlnk-
| ling of expert fgurers will be found eventually
with other enumerated undesirables.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
WAR MAKES
STATE PROSPER
Connecticut Filled With Workers
Special Trains Used When
Houses Become
Scarce

NEW LONDON, Conn, Aug. g.
With flood of prosperity sweeping
over Connecticut to an extent un.
dreamed OF before, there has arisen
| some degree OF rent profiteering, and
to counteract this the rent situation
! in all parts of the state has been put
under surveillance by Governor Hol-
comb. Special commissions to con-
troll rents have been established at
the buster centers: New Haven, New
London, Bridgeport, Waterbury, and
Hartford Hero attempts at rent
profiteering have been particularly
obnoxious.
TO assist In overcoming the lack Of
suitable living quarters for working
people, a special workers train" is
now operating from New London as
far as Saybrook to the west, while
another runs to Westerly on the east
By means Of the railroad, storekeep
ers in dozen towns are enabled to
share in the prosperity Of New Lon
don Without any exception the own
ers of these stores say their business
is now greater in volume than ever
before, and they have about all they
can swing to. though OF course they
would welcome more Present indica-
tons are that business win keep on
increasing.
To relieve both the Bridgeport and
Waterbury districts, the hating town
of Danbury has been called on to
provide rents. As soon as an ade
quate list Of suitable rents at Dan
bury is compiled, the railroad prom
ises to run special workers trains"
h0f ~
bury, each not over 20 miles distant
Now that batting has almost expired
in Danbury, great boon to the mer.
chants is expected from the new train
service. Danbury also gains by the
removal Of the central New England
headquarters from Poughkeepsie, on
August l. Thfrty-f1ve families have
already made arrangements to shift
and as many more single people work
ing for the railroad have secured
homes in Danbury.
Under guidance of 'Rent-a-Room"
campaign, the five large towns have
found residences for many people
They have been taken in by people
who never before rented single rooms
or took dodgers" and who do it now
solely as matter of patriotism
With the increased manufacturing
and shipbuilding, the latter having
almost lined the Connecticut shore
from Norwalk east to Stonington
merchants have prospered exceeding
ly. The big town merchants report
July business larger than ever before
and see a great season ahead of them
for the next six or seven months at
the very least. Similar stories come
from all the large towns; people are
patronizing the high-class shops now
who apparently used them on occa-
sions only, in the past
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
POOR, CHILDISH FRITZ.

Hundreds of German prisoners have been
taken who have been told and actually believed
that the allies would starve them, torture them,
maui them to death; and some of the poor
scared fellows were really convinced that the
Australasian cannlbalS roasted and ate such
captives they took Where In America could
equal dense stupidity be found7 And yet we
have heard much about the towering intelll-
gence of the Teutonic race!
It is probably natural for them to believe
that they will be cruelty treated, kicked and
starved, insulted and spat upon, for they have
been taught to consider that the proper way OF
treating helpless foes. They know it is the
Prussian way; and all their lives they have
been told, until in their dense ignorance they
never doubted it, that they were the salt Of the
earth, the supreme the noblest breed the ages
had produced. So when the poor child-minded
rustics who now compose the bulk of the Ger
man army get smiles and food, humane consid-
Grafton and tobacco, their terror gives place to
great and wondering delight. Hosts of them
are most content to be prisoners and regret
thot they were not captured before. The Prus-
sian officers and more intelligent soldiers, how
ever, as rule, show their viciousness in their
faces; and when they find that it is safe to dc
so are insolent in behavior and insulting in
their speech.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
ONE GOOD TRAIT.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Probably no
man who once stood at the head of
a nation has upon his death. received
less mention than Nicholas, one time
czar of all the Russias. His weak
ness, his timidity, his inconsistency,
his many other poor and bad quail
ties have been recalled briefly. Humor-
lists used his reported death and his
collapse just before his execution as
material for jest and headline writ
ers also took advantage of the oppor-
tunity thus given. But few had even
a kind word for the one-time mon
arch.
Yet in each human being there Is
some good, some better side, If only
people will take the trouble to dis
cover it.
The good in Nicholas Romanoff is
brought to light by one who spent
many years as worker in the liberal
movement in Russia, DR.. e. j. Dillon,
who says of him:
"a tender father, he literally adored
his children with almost maternal
fervor and often magnanimously de-
prived himself in order to
watch over his darling little grand
duke and duchesses and see that SUM-
shine frightened their lives"
Such a man was not wholly bad
nor was his life entirely useless
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
Paper Consumption and Waste

Ottumwa Courier: The priorities
division of the war industries board
has announced that paper mills have
been listed as an essential industry,
but the concession is made only with
the understanding that newspapers
will reduce their consumption of
news print paper 15 per cent. on daily
editions and 20 per cent. on Sunday
editions.
The publishers of newspapers all
over America are making every eff
quests and demands emanating from
various governmental departments,
but they are finding it difficult in
some instances. The call for a re-
duction of paper consumption made
by the war industrie board does not
give evidence of having been based
on an intimate knowledge of the
newspaper business A reduction OF
! 20 per cent. can be made in the size
of Sunday newspapers without the
slightest injury either to the reading
public or the publisher, but a reduc-
ZION of Is per cent by the daily news
papers must rob their patrons of
news or the publishers of a portion
of their revenue. 1t may have both
results.
11iC dciby hCWopdpCi VI IOUiy ID
put together only after much matter
that should be published is reduced
in volume or entirely eliminated. The
Sunday issue, now as always, is a
dumping ground for leftover news
from the dailies and for a nondescript
lot of so-called feature matter which
interests the reader little or none
at all.
I Most Sunday newspapers include
four pages of COMICS and many of
them include fiction magazines which
are of decidedly doubtful literary
value. Pictorial sections, most of
| which are devoted to war subjects.
add to the interest, but whole pages
could be eliminated from the average
metropolitan Sunday issues so-called
! news sections without causing seri-
Gus loss to the reader.
Competition has resulted in the
enlargement of Sunday newspapers
far beyond unitarian size, and the
present would be good time for
publishers to serve both their own
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09

San Francisco Despatch to Chris
tan Science Monitor: The coming
fight in California for the enactment,
by direct vote of the people at the
fall election, of the Rominger bill,
which the anti-saloon forces as a
whole are supporting, though many
radical prohibitionists oppose such a
halfway measure, and which pro-
poses to abolish the saloon and place
some restriction upon the manufac-
ture and sale of alcoholic beverages,
gives interest to the argument for
the bill, which is printed below This
has been prepared by State Senator
j. A. Roninger and Frank T. SWEET,
state viticuiturai commissioner, for
publication in the pamphlets which
the state issues for Information of
voters prior to the. election. 1t is, in
part, as follows:
This law, initiated by the grape
growers Of California, is practically
the same as the Rominger bill that
was considered at the state legisla-
ture in 1917.
~On July 1, 1919, it will colse all
saloons and disreputable roadhouses
in California, and will outlaw whis-
key, gin, rum, brandy and all ardent
distilled liquors. 1t will not interfere
with the manufa cture, importation or
expectation of wine or beer.
California is cosmopolitan. Among
our citizens are hundreds OF thou
sands who, in their native countries,
have been accustomed for generations
to the temperate use Of light wines
Tor beer with their meals. This law
does not deprive them of that privi-
lege. 1t will permit a person to serve
wine or beer to members of his fam
lily or to his guests.
Hotels, restaurants and clubs will
be able to serve light wines and beer
Cup to IA per cent. of alcohoD with
bona, fide meals in the public or gen.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
Abolish Saloons, But
Profecf Wine and Beer

eral dining room, in which there are
no booths or boxes, between the
hours of II o'clock noon and IL
o'clock midnight
"rhe householder MAY purchase
beer and wine up to 81 per cent of
alcohol, not to be consumed on the
premises, from manufacturer (the
minimum quantity to be two gallons)
or from bottle house (the minimum
quantity to be one quart or two pint
bottles).
1.-The number of bottle houses in
each incorporated city will be one TO
each 1900 or major fraction thereof
of popula ton. If an incorporated
town has less than 1000 inhabitants.
it will be entitled to one such bottle
house Wine and beer sold in bottle
houses cannot be consumed on the
premises.
Each wet city or supervisorial dis
trict will have the right to decide
how many table licenses shall be is
sued.
Nothing in the law will interfere
with the Wyllie local option law.
Consequently cities. towns and super
visorial districts may exercise local
option as at present. The measure
provides the widest limits under
which wine and beer may be sold
anywhere in California. Cities, towns
and supervisorial districts may enact
more stringent legislation or prohibit
entirely, if desired by the people.
'HThe various sponsors of this legis-
lation, therefore, urge it's enactment
because they believe it to be a meas
ure that will largely correct the evils
of the liquor traffic, and because they
are confident it will effectively pro-
mote real temperance and bring about
social and economic betterment in
California This proposed legislation
will end the intolerable evils of the
liquor traffic"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
A man never knows all that his mother has
been to him till it's too late to let her know
that he sees it.-William Dean Howells
PUBLIC OPINION AND STRIKES.

In England and IN the United States pubic
opinion has been effective in bringing about
favorable developments in the strike situation.
The British ministry of munitions has an
nounced that a majority of the men in the mu-
nitions industry Will return to work. The con-
ference held in Washington between represen-
tatives of fremen and seamen the great
lakes and the shipping board has been follow
ed by the announcement that there will be no
strike at present, and it is expected that all diff
ferences will be adjusted. An encouraging fea-
tu1e of the situation here is the Willingness Of
employers and workers to provide for the set
element of questions relating to wages by ar
Filtration The outlook for steady production
of munitions in England frightened as soon as
it was seen that public sentiment approved the
government IS course IN telling the strikers that
they must work or fight. An appeal from pub
Tic opinion was impossible, and so it will be
here.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09

. and the governments interests by
agreeing among themselves to do
away with some of the costly fea-
lures which cannot be described as
news under the most liberal con-
struction of that term.
A pruning of this sort would light
en- the burden which the war indus
tries board puts on daily newspapers,
the great majority of which devote
their columns to nothing but news
and advertising matter.
If daily newspapers are to be com
PEELED to cut their consumption of
paper by Is per cent, many of them
must eliminate either news or adj
Tertising. Included in the former
classification is a great volume of
publicity matter which is received
from various government agencies
with requests for publication, of
course without remuneration. Some
of this matter is of no value to the
public; all of it could not be pub
lished if the daily newspapers printed
nothing else. The portion which is
of interest to the public is printed
as a patriotic measure.
Senator Reed Smoot, admittedly a
major authority ON governmental
finances, said recently in a speech
III the senate that there are forty
seven separate publicity bureaus
maintained by various governmental
departments and agencies. The num-
Der has increased very rapidly with
in the past few years, Senator Smoot
is authority for the statement, also,
that whereas the governments bill
for paper in the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1917, was S917 900, the total
for the succeeding year is between
100000 and $4,000, 900.
Much of this extra paper, Mr..
Smoot says, is used by these forty
seven publicity bureaus. Not only is
this condition contributing to the
shortage of paper in the country, but
it is filling newspaper offices with
flood of publicity matter much of
which is worthless and a little OF
which should be given wide publicity.
In the great volume of chaff it is diff
ficult to discover the grain OF useful
information and often the multiplicity
Of publicity bureaus defeats its own
purpose
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
MOST WISE DECISION.

The war labor board has wisely decided that
there is no occasion for the establishment of a
minimum wage. 1t does not attempt to fore
cast the future by telling what may be required
at another time or in other circumstances, but
for the present questions concerning wages will
be considered in the light of facts established
in each case. In a resolution written by Mr.,
Taft the board invites the attention of employ
ers and workers to the wisdom of composing
their differences according to principles govern
ing the board. Employers are told that the
period of the war is not a normal period of in
dustrial expansion from which they should ex-
pect unusual profits Employees, on the other
hand. should not look for abnormal wages.
The board has taken a reasonable view of the
whole question Of profits and wages in war
time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
AND THE THEATRES, TOO.

se'Marc Klaw, of Klaw ErIanger, the fore
most producers in the country, says that it
xeen to be the Will of congress to leglslate the
fbeater out of existence during the war; and he
calls attention to the many enterprises which
the stage has undertaken IN the interest OF war
funds Stage producers are hard hit and no
nistake The existing war tax plus the raise
,of railroad rates has made burden for them to
carry. and now the tax is doubled and the
travel expenses Will increase rather than oil
pinish The tax rates can be lesSened and the
railroad expenses made inconsiderable fac
Aor ii the stage men inaugurate policy OF stock
examinations in the big cities. Ii this sugges-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE FREE WOMAN.

THE FREE WOMAN.
Women who do not love free
All day their thoughts go carelessly;
know they do not fear at all
When the nights come and the SHOWS fall.
But those who love-their thoughts must trace
All day the we'll beloved face,
And they are fearful and grow chill
At the SHOWS fall and the nights i'll
And they would fire their hearts to burn
Like a bright light at the roads turn,
And fay their souls to keep him warm
In the cold night and the white storm
Surely I may be glad that I
Softly night of storms may he,
For have watched woman's face
A black night at a windows space.
Surely I should be happier,
Nor envy-envy-envy her:
But have heard the word che spoke
In her mans as the dawn broke
-Theodosia Garrison, in Eyerybody's Magazine
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
Noblesse ObIiqe.

Chicago Tribune: All of Col. Roose-
velt's sons are at the front, one now
dead on the field of honor. They have
kept the high faith in which they
were bred, they have proved the
''mettle of their pasture" Represen-
tatives of the oldest American stock,
they have honored that stock. Sons
of q great American a world famed
leader of men, they are fulfilling the
ideals of manliness, of courageous
service. of high hearted patriotism he
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09

ton finds favor and is adopted it surely will
mean the end, for the period of the war, OF
theatrical productions given by road companies
i'm what are known as 'sone-night stands. " Pos
isibly the managers and producers will see their
way clear to continuing as of old under new
conditions, but they will meet difficulties that
may lead to financial disaster in many cases
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
A German Confession.

iSew York World: The Fra nkfurter
zeitung now declares that it WIS
American troops that made Foch's
victory possible, these being the same
American troops that could not be
transported to France because of the
German submarines and that were
raw and worthless when they did get
there.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
Know Beans

| To the Editor of The Gate City:
/ The dry weather is quite threaten
/ ing to the bean crop, but this years
/ test of pinto beans as a spring crop
on hill lands is decidedly encour-
aging, as the crop could have been
grown and marketed before the usual
dry season. This bean can be grown
as a bunch or drill bean, corn-hill
bean, or in alternating rows with a
/ large, late sort of corn. The pinto is
the speckled bean often seen and is
growing in popularity.
Another bean seems to be a cross
between butterbeans and pintos. It
beats either for hand picking, is as
early as pintos, as large and stands
the dry weather as well. 1t has been
classed as bale. or Mexican chilli"
1t is tan, with yellow eyes and shape
like butterbeans, but grows more in
one pod-not so many as pintos
| Cooking qualities not known yet
The white soup and little black
beans are bit hard; the butter and
limas at least checked, but late
planted pintos and bales are
yet green. The ground under test Is
glacial drift or Indy loan, which
needs mostly early crops or else
deeprooted ones that stay like al
falfa, fescue, bronze, orchard and
the others of like class
If beans are as good feed for sheep
as some say, and straw and all can
be fed and the ground kept up, it
seems the wide corn rows inter
planted with beans that promise to
be unframed by insects, as do pin
tos. bales and buffers. will solve
some food and soil problems.
]. p. DICKSON.
Keoliuk, Iowa, Aug. 8, 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09

We God by what we understand of Him; under
Him by His attributes; measure His attr
butes by their beauty and goodness and practeability
Wherever there has been blessing for to enjoy you
Where love has cheered you kindness
helped you, you've God In surise and sunset and
moonlight and starlight and trees and fields and harvests
and air, and health and
beauty generosity and friendship and all that gives
pleasure existence, you've God He hasn't been in
visible. There world in which God is and
another world in which He is not seen-Basil King
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of the allies he is building hopes on
foundations of sand He is headed for
a big disappontm 1t will require
but they will be defeated.
Monticello Express: Those American
soldiers sneeringIy referred to by the
t:uns. as electrically trained" gave
the kaiser's shock troops such a sam
pie of electrically executed offensive
as to really shock that nerveless di-
vision.
Burlington Hawkeye: There is,
thanks to the draft and the work or
fight rule, a great shortage of Chorus
men," War has its compensations.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: We are
going to lose all our boys in France.
They'll all come back men.
Carroll Herald: The democrats are
entitled to all creuit due for not NOM
mating a candidate against Senator
Kenyon. Their candidate would stand
no more show of election in Ior-a than
the proverbial SNOWFALL. The only BEN
eft accruing to anyt ody by reason of
the democratic failure to nominate
goes to the democrats themselves.
who thereby save the trouble and an
guish of a farcical campaign against
an invincible candidate on the repub-
lican ticket. Sc far as the republi-
cans are concerned-shoo, fly!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09

An Indiana couple were married after they
had been acquainted less than twenty minutes
The whole world will be surprised if the same
couple is not in the divorce court in less than
twenty weeks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-09
Yankee Appetite.

Hubert Adams Gibbons, IN the
Century Magazine: The American
soldiers opinion of a French hotel
petit deieuner is summed UP in the
comment of one of them, Il amt nc
hummin' bird"