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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
JAPANESE SHIPS COMING.

It is good news that the long-expected ex-
change of japanese ships for American steel is
about to begin. Delay has been disheartenlng,
and, so far as the public is permitted to know,
without excuse. It seems that negotiations have
been completed for the transfer OF one hundred
and fifty thousand tons OF shipping to the Unit
ed States, payment to be made IN steel plates
Other negotiations are under way and look to
an understanding on a broader basis. Details
are of little importance. The big fact is that
Japanese ships are coming to the help OF this
country and its allies, and the United States is
to furnish the steel needed to keep Japan's ship
yards running. This arrangement should have
been made long ago For many weeks 1t has
been known that Japan was ready to help with
ships if she could get the steel to build more
ships. 1t has been known that the United States
could spare the steel. Much time has been
wasted when there was none to lose.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

tract societies, Rev. Alva S. Covert.
Middletown.
Committee on church life and
work, Rev. H. G. Duckett, Bloomfield.
10:30-Hour OF devotions.
Leader, Rev. L. Pillmeier, Oakville.
:00-Home Mission Hour.
Report of home mission committee,
Rev. w. E. Graham. D. D.. Of Fl Mad
ison.
12:00-Dinner hour.
Address of welcome, Mayor Hun
ter.
Reply, Rev. c. D. Jacobs, Ottumwa.
Report Of committee on resolutions.
Brief talks by others as time per-
mits.
1:21-General Business.
Oral reports of the following com
mittees:
Foreign missions. Rev. c. D. ia
cobs.
Church erection. Rev. A. Cardle.
D. D.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
IF YOU
Will Only Read This You'll Help the
Government Win the War.
BY EUGENE HECTOR

BY EUGENE HECTOR
Financial Editor of The Tribune)
II you don't think the war is over
buy Liberty bond.
If you wish to make small invest
ment in the welfare of your country
buy a Liberty bond.
II you believe you ought in some
way help win the war-buy a Liberty
bond.
If you wish to feel that you are q
part of the great crowd of Americans
who are helping to win the war-buy
Liberty bond.
If you can figure out that 1t concerns
i you whether we win or lose the war
/ buy a Liberty bond.
/ If you can find any satisfaction in
feeling yourself loyal citizen-buy a
Liberty bond.
If you don't feel you ought to let
somebody else do all the fighting and
money raising for you-buy a Liberty
bond.
If you do not wish to feel that you
are selfish and wanting in slight
sense of obligation to the country
buy Liberty bond.
If you do not wish to be classed
among those without pride in their ma
tive land-buy Liberty bond.
! II you wish to have sound invest
ment that will pay more interest than
a savings bank-buy Liberty bond.
| If you do not believe with the kaiser
that the mutilation of children and the
lmaltreatment of women is a part of
the laudable warfare-buy a Liberty
bond
II you feel it your duty as member
of ORGANIZED society to rebuke the ego
tism and blasphemy of associating the
approval of God with the aims of a
physically diseased and officially bank
trupt kaiser-buy Liberty bond.
| If you wish to feel you are not with
out the inspiration of love Of country
buy Liberty bond.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
CANDIDATES AND PROHIBITION.

In submitting the prohibition amendment to
the states, congress fixed a period OF seven
wears within which legislatures might ratify it.
This was not because it would take seven years
for these bodies to meet, but In order that they
might take the sense of their constituents on
the question and find out what the people de-
sired These seven years permit elections on
the issue or referendums to the voters where
that course is preferred. It is true that our
federal constitution does not prescribe that the
people shall pass on such matters before they
are made part of the organic law. 1t matters
not whether or not the people vote directly on
the proposition. But in the coming elections IN
various states Legislators Will be chosen on that
issue and will have to declare their position be-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
THE SEA AND THE WOMAN.

There two endless mysteries in life
The Sea, and Woman. Mystic sisters they
Today the tender sweetheart, gentle wife,
And then the storm, and blues that turn to black,
The roaring tempest and the broken wrack,
And then peace as sudden as the strife,
With no tomorrow like their yesterday.
Who has not looked into the soundless deep
And wondered much what out of vision lies?-
What subterranean secrets she may keep,
What memories of old storms, what starry nights,
What unthought passions and what sweet delights.
What hopeless hopes thought dead that only sleep
Who has not looked into woman's eyes?
Whence comes the wind to lash the quiet sea
This thing of life and laughter in the sun?
Today floor of sapphire it may be
Where stately vessels walk in their white sails,
To die tomorrow in the raging gales
Today all love and gentleness was she;
Today's tomorrow's woman-are they one?
Douglas Maoch.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

you would find the magical strand Of the seuptors
garden Faryland if would tread the beautui way
children delight to play to eiffn pipes,
would hearken and hear till the glad days dance down the
snang year. the garden that has key no
gate unlock and t, Fee would follow the path to
the gladstone Art-,hen must you come with ehdiike
haert. chdlke heart is the demand OF Heav-
en-, Art FaryIand-steIIa George Stern Perry
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
DON'T. Do Il.

Milestones: Cars are generally 80
safe and go few fires occur that the
motorist is likely to forget the IN
flammability Of gasoline and handle
1t carelessly. 1t is unwise In the ex'
IRENE to use q lighted match Tor II
Elimination IN examining the carbur-
etor after dark or seeking to determine
the level of gasoline in the tank. This
il often the first impulse where an
electric flashlight or trouble light IS
not available. but such thoughtlessness
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

fore election day Every individual citizen VIII
know what he wants, and we may be sure ne
will insist on knowing how his candidate IN
tends to vote. The people should decide the
matter When they do so, the outyoted MINOR,
ity should accept the will OF the majority ana
give up the fight.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
Trading with japan steel to Duiia
more ships for ships already built
looks like good business from every
point Of view.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
mayor of New York has issued proc
lamation to the people of New York
calling upon them to sacrifice some
thing In the name of the war-anu
then he augustly and devoutiy calls
upon all the liquor shops to close at
one o'clock in the morning. Not TO
drink after one o'clock seems to be
the supreme sacrifice for the war on
the part of these stupid peoples.
Sioux City Journal: If the Kenyon
speaking tour of Iowa was a political
move it seems to have delivered the
goods.
Boone News-Republican: Uncle
Sam is going to quit fooling with the
| / w. WIS and is going to deport alien
anarchists. We should have had a
deportation station long ago.
Charles City Press: The thrift cam
paign has brought the child before the
public as a financial agent. That the
child be encouraged to buy thrift
stamps as patriotic measure is good
Anything for which they share, be
comes peculiarly their own. Whether
| it be the sick kitten in the barn te
whom he gives part of his milk, or the
country at war, to which he gives his
penny, the moral effect upon the chile
is good.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: In Seat
tile the voters on Tuesday recalled
woman member of the school board
Iwho had been rather pronounced
tagainst governmental policies in the
lwar. The vote was oyerwheimlns
Those westerners have no time lol
islackers-male or female.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: We can no
all be officers. Many must serve II
the ranks. That same thing ought Z
be apparent to folk with political am
ibition. We can not all be office hnlo
!ers. And it is much better to do goot
lservice as a plain9 common citizen
than to rattle around tn an office thai
one can not fill.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
too often results In destruction for n.
car and injury to the owner. 80
What 10 the Answer,

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: M.
packers are able to show that thas
do not make wide margin Of pros,
on a dollar. But the list of tia
thirty richest men in the country in.
cludes more paclOers than any othe,
class and this makes pertinent tbs
old query. Where did you get thu
money!"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

The anti-idleness laws that have become
operative in several states are discouraglng to
folks who have retired. In one New Jersey
county there upwards Of two hundred farm
ers many of whom have retired from their
farms and moved to town recently, because of
the poor prospect of getting labor. These men
will be compelled to help supply the farm labor
needs of their community under the law, which
forbics an able-bodied man to remain idle I'M
der penalty of fine and jail term.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
Monday Evening.

Monday Evening.
7:30-Hour with the church choir.
Opening selection by the orchestra.
DR.. c.. E. Hoag, o. B. Stephens, Chas.
Paris and Miss Alice Hunt. Solo.
Mr.. A. H. Picffiord. Quartet, Mrs.
H. w. Baker, Mrs. Fred Keck and
Messrs. Pickford and Wright. An
them by the choir. Duet, MISSES
Maud and Thelma Warren.
S:15-Hour for opening presbytery
Scripture reading and prayer. hymn
THE Spacious Firmament on High"
(Creation). Sermon by the retiring
moderator, Rev. w. R. Graham, D..
H.. Fort Madison Constituting of
presbytery by prayer. Roll call.
Election of moderator and temporary
clerk. Reception and dismission of
members. Ministerial relief. Rev.
Philip Palmer Freedmen, Rev. Ira
T. Hawk Evangelism, Rev. Peter
Book. Temperance, Rev. A. G..
Beecham Country churches, Rev.
Edw. Roberts. Sabbath observance,
Rev. J. c. B. Peck. Every member
canvass, Rev. H A. Mosser, d. d.
2:3O-Hour for communion, Rev. S.
lOllerinshaw presiding; Rev. e. B..
! Newcomb, to administer the bread,
| and Rev. A. G. Beecham the cup. Wis
| ting elder to serve
3:OO-Hour Of standing order. Elec-
| ton of commissioners to general as
sembly. General business. Report of
standing committees. Unfinished bus
mess.
5:oO-Roll call. Adjournment.
Tuesday Evening.
| 7:30-Patriotic Hour. Music under
direction of Rev. +. II. Austermann.
| Scripture lesson and prayer.
Star Spangled Banner" by high
school chorus, under the direction OF
| Mrs Blanche Bigger.
Battle Hymn of the Republic" by
choir and congregation.
| Solo, Mrs. S. H. Erwin.
Male quartet, Messrs. Anderson,
Pickford, Wright and Ebert.
Helping America.
| Address, What the Church is Doing
| for America Now" Rev. Archibald
Cardle, D. D.. Burlington.
Solo, Mrs. James Rogers.
| Address, What the Church is in a
Position to do After the Close of the
war" Rev. Cornelius Steffens, d. D.,
Dubuque German college and sem
| mary.
Song, America"
Raising of the national service flag
Prayer and apostolic benediction.
Report of committee on arrange
ments.
Song, America"
Benediction.
Tuesday Morning.
I S:30-Hour for General Business.
Reading of minutes.
Appointment of committees on
leave of absence.
| Bills and overtures.
Reviewing the session records
judicial business.
Place of next meeting.
Resolutions.
Minutes of synod.
900 Report of committee on re-
ligious education, Rev. J. S. Mitchell,
Mt Zion.
Committee on brotherhood, Elder
Hector Ballantyne. Burlington.
Committee on education, Rev. w.
R. Coventry, Wapello.
Committee on American Bible and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

If the pursuit of whales for food becomes gen.
eraI what stories piscatoria friends will
have of the big ones that got away.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

"Allies won't state attitude toward Russian
government No language suggests itself,
probably, sufficiently printable to convey an
expression of this attitude
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
PRESBYTERY
WILL MEET
Iowa Body VIII Be In Session Next
Week at Wapello, With
keokuk Ministers
There.

WAPELLO, April 2.-The annual
stated meeting of the Iowa Presbytery
will be held in Wapello April s. The
program is as follows:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and
do nothing Those who are not quite salts
fed are the sole benefactors of the world
Lander.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

Monday Afternoon.
3:O0-Hour of devotion.
3:3O-Hour with the eldership.
5:OO-Adjournment.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02
CONSCIENTIOUS DIRECTORS.

The attitude or the government CoWdI Oo SoA-
scientious directors, real and pretended seems
at last to be crysLa]lizing into sane and Logical
policy. Drafted men who fail to report because
of conscientious scruples will be treated as de-
serters: but members of recognized religious
sects which oppose military service on princl-
pie. and sincere individual DIRECTORS will be per
mitted to explain their motives, and IN the prop
CT cases will be assigned to the medical corps or
ouartermasters department or set to work at
supply depots or on docks or ships.
Broadly speaking, the position OF any man
who refuses to combat the enemies OF his coun-
try or alleges scruples that prevent him from
taking the lives Of monsters OF brutality who
commit wherever they go the horrid atrocities
they have perperated already in so many lands
lis indefensible on any rational grounds. Ii
these men are sincere and not simply paltroons
or enemy sympathizers, as many OF them are,
their mentalities are defective or warped out OF
inor1naity by their illogical stand. Both as
citizens of states and members OF the human
family these men deny their obigation-to stand
for the right against the wrong, for justice
against injustice, and refuse to do their part for
the common veal. At the same time they are
more selfishly insistent than any other class OF
people on their rights to enjoy the opportuni-
ties. advantages and security of the political
systems under which they live Intrench ever
$50 little on these and they violent in their
diatrbes.
However unpalatable the truth may be to
them the lucid, unequivocal English of the
matter is that they are shirks recreant to their
obligations, leeches who expect their fellow men
to give them more than they give in return, para
sites on society who demand to be protected III
their privileges by nobler men. Out OF the
shreds and scraps of christian doctrines they
! have woven a flimsy cloak in which they parade
as men of spirituality superior to their fellows;
but it does not conceal their ESSENTIAL sefshness.
It does not hide the fact that they alone, alike
as citizens and human beings, repudiate their
obligations to their state, their communities and
their fellow men.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

Secretary Baker is combining with his in
spection of our army IN France the mission OF
gathering information for President Wilson. 1t
is of the highest Importance that the president
know not only facts but the Interpretation put
on them by the leaders in France and England.
Under the strain of the coming summers war
press the allied powers will feel the need of
close mutual understanding A keen news
gatherer and candid reporter admitted to the
counsels of England and France can be of great
value in overcoming the distant partnership we
are maintaining.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

Marshalltown Times-Repuolican
Trading with japan steel to Dulid
more ships for ships already oulit
looks like good business from every
point OF view.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-02

Sioux City Journal: If the Kenyon
speaking tour Of Iowa was a political
move it seems to have delivered the
goods.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27
Ie4C700 Cu17Z12ZED mn E,UWH ~ ME %

United States today with men WHO hne" wv.
to operate them and take care OIL tnem -. -
would be no question but that we couiu '..s eApo.
to our allies every bushel Of wheat tney requtie
and still have an abundance for our own use.
That is, if old Mother Nature and the weather
man did not conspire to turn things topsy-turVy;
The first track layers ever manufactured anu
nut into commercial use were very much IKE inc
track LAYERS sent over to the Russian armies De-
fore the bolsheviki disturbed our calculations us
to the course Of the war. They were adapted 10
haul heavy loads through snow, ice, mud ana
slush and on uneven roads in the logging WOODS
of Maine. They were invented by A. o. LomDara
of Waterville Me-, who is, so far as is KNOWN tne
inventor of the track layer He put his first track
layer in operation early in 1900 and secured
patent on it on May 21 1901.
In the six months following our declaration tnac
a state of war existed with Germany an average
of two gas tractor companies have been tncOr-
porated each day. They are good, Indifferent and
bad Some are of the stockselling, getrich-Qulck
variety.
There is no way Of telling how many gasoline
tractors there are in use upon the farms of the
United States. An expert in automobile power
puts the number at 250OO0H
Farm experts already foresee the day when
gasoline power will be almost universal in agri-
culture. The war in few months has done more
to increase the demand for mechanical power on
the farm than years Of peace would have accom-
plished. The faithful horse will never leave us
but much Of his hardest work will be done BY
gasoline, even on the smaller farms.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27
The Pershing Rifles.

Fifty yellow and blue badges, the insignia of
the Pershing Rifles, crack military company
Of the University of Nebraska, are being treas
ured by as many former students of that insti-
tuition these days. One Of them is William
Green Of Abilene, Kan.
1T was Pershings idea." says Mr.. Green.
1--WE had been picked from the military company
Of which he was instructor after coming from
West Point to Lincoln. We met in his room one
night to organize and The Lieut. as we ia.
miliarly called the instructor-he was a second
lieutenant then-asked what coors we wanted
on our badges.
yellow and blue-cavalry colOrs'
" have the very thing he responded, ano
went to a chffonier from which he took brand
new pair Of cavalry trousers. With shears he
ruthlessly cut them across, making fifty badges.
each with strip Of blue and the yellow leg
stripe We called the organization the Per.
shing Rifles and were very proud of the honor
Pershing took us on long camping trips under
strict military regulations, and we felt that he
was more Of father than professor to u.s.
He never forgot his boys, as he called us,
The night he arrived in San Antonio to take
charge of the Southwest division after the death
Of General Funston, was at his hotel. Though
score Of prominent men and officers were wait.
ing to see him he recognized me and spent fiye
minutes asking after the students and laughing
over the university days.
"He was a strict disciplinariar, always want
Ing things done in hurry-whch makes reason.
able his impatience now to get at the Germans
but intensely human. He was the one profes.
sor to whom the boys went with =, ,ir troubles
and that Is a good test Of the human side OF
anybody"
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27

loads of beets she was do
ing the work of ten two
horse teams. With hay at $3O
a ton, rolled barley at from
$55 to $50 a ton and other
feed proportionately high, 1t
will keep a farmer busy TO
feed his work stock, let alone
make a profit. The United
States department of agrfcul-
ture once made an estimate
that it cost $121 in feed and
time to keep q horse through
out the year. The operation
Of LISA, which replaces 70
horses, costs as follows:
Twenty-Five gallons OF dis
tillate developing 20 horse
power (the work of 20 horses
for ten hours), at 10 cents
per gallon, $3.50; two gar
Ions Of cylinder oil at about
55 cents a gallon. $1.lO:
track oil. transmission OIL
and cup grease will probably
90 from Is cents to 81 a day.
Total, $4.N.
If anything in the world
could stave off a threatened
crisis in the worlds food sup
ply it would be the tank
in agriculture. If there
were a sufficient number OF
gasoline tractors In the
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27


with loudness showed excellent
"Wel I'd
though"
should You d"nt halter before Easter
home
I'd
a a
cents
moneyand look Daisy
whit a movies
nohn blythe getin
always enough
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27


Sabbath mobild Of allied
Of unmolested.
Quanico Va, the day.
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27

creeping trolleys. 1t still has the same
old shooting galleries, and the ''r0oms
for so cents" and the hand-painteG
Martha Washington china plates AMI
the miniature Washington MONT
ments. with thermometers attached, fS
the shop windows, but Pennsylvania
today is an Applan way along which
surges constantly continual stream
of elbowing, energetic. endless human
ity and vehicles. Potomac park used
to be q place where You could ride
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27
Thousands of Tractors
Now in Use on Farms
mall Parts Of The World

ETGENzgzEW HOSE who have watched the
! !: ! ; ! ;
kXV@7$E operation of the tanks at the
hNV MIN movies and have marvelled ut the
f3Y numbering machines that crawl
kSx0 S&% over the face Of the earth like
AS6LN prehistoric monsters have gained
E32&l E>Et some idea Of the adaptability Of
UEOAS the modern tank. No other
armored nachine that moves upon the ground is
90 capahle Of surmounting obstacles.
Wheu the squadron Of tanks appeared in the van.
guard OK Rings famous drive at Cambrai, it's ap-
pearanee seemed providential. writes Hamilton NJ
wright In the New York Sum- The armored levia.
tnans pushed through the German barbed wire en-.
-. rnnsIements as II they were SO many cobwebs.
Aney ndeste2ped deep pockets. stretched their long
easxs 80 over miniature chasms dipped rose, backed
.na uppea at dangerous angles as they picked their
way forward amid hail of missiles
And YET fer all its supreme adaptation to the
1eus Oh tRe hour the tank was not invented for
VI pu<peses The first tanks introduced into
Iurope were used in numbering operations and in
;C.av na1nag just as they were in the United
ota.es. hapidly their use was extended to large
@slcuiturat works and before the present war
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27

O1oae OUT the track lay
ers were weii-known in
every country in the
world. Even the prosaIc
track layer used in
farming will. IL arm
ored, make a tank for
war use. Indeed dur
Ing the 1877 recruiting
season ordinary track
layers arnored with
sheet from plowed
through wallis almost ms
readily as the biggest
war tanks yet built.
AT fho npoSox Al,
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27

in front by steel quill cut in the
shape of sword. But you can't always
tell what sort Of impression you are
going to make on the everyday human
mind. Two passengers-gOod-hearted,
double-chinned daughters of the people
seated across, considering Madam
Fashion Sheet from the viewpoint of
wearers of tabby black velvet hats
bought last fall to wear until warm
springtime-and maybe after. The one
Sho was pony-skinned whispered ad-
The Twin City star., 1918-04-27

public institution Not sword at mans sideno mans
shoulder! Gold soldiers
to be the admas permitted All the people bustng
buildings
which
hundreds writing whing Mixed
experimenting
interfering with their operations This far the casual visitor
Washington
in
by handi