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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
LESSON IN SIMPLE LIVING.

Irwin Cobb says this is the day of the sim
ple-lifers' There is no doubt of it and the
cult is getting recruits by thousands every day.
There are so many things which it is difficult to
get, so many things which are prohibited, that
most people are perforce simplifying the daily
business of life. 1t seems privation now to most
of us and to many it is becoming privation. But
there is compare lively little real suffering and
there need be little if the whole people are hon
est with another. The pre-war stand
ards of living must go: the Injuries must lessen
by choice where they not banished by com
pulsion. considerable amount of helpful
healthful knowledge of the sanity of plain liv
ing will come to stricken world out of the ex-
periences of the war. But there are many good
things along the way of the 'simple-h fers. =
One of the best of them leads to winning the
war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

President Wilson is prompt to denounce mob
violence and he is right from every viewpoint
We must keep within Civilizations means while
we fight to preserve civilization. Reprisals in
brutality never pay. Cannibals were con-
uuered by men who awed them by abstinence,
not by appetite. The savages who had no high
er ambition than to cut off mems heads were
conquered by men who kept their heads and
taught the savages how to use theirs. There Is
no pity like an injustice involving loss OF life.
This whole warts such an injustice but it will
neither be won nor helped by adding more OF
the same evils. The right thing to do Is to put
teeth in the law as the department of justice
suggests. If the law does not furnish means of
combating traitors, let us make it efficient and
enforce it. The speediest remedy to end inlus-
tice is to make justice easy to get, prompt to
punish and watchful to safeguard innocence.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Iowans took
a keen interest in the primary election
That was only few years ago, and
now it is the hardest kind OF work
for voters to remember the date or
what it is for.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

One trade is respectable above another only
in consequence of the superior responsibility
of the men engaged in it. G. Holland.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

Cedar Rapids Gazette: There is no
doubt that national politics was mixed
in the Davenport contest.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

Des Moines Register: The fellow
who finds no better use for his extra
hour of daylight than the discussion OF
politics isn't doing much to help wal
lop the Hun.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11

The Washington administration has at last
indicated desire for the advice of real farm
ers upon questions that pertain to crop produc-
ton and distribution. A committee of twenty
four practical, business farmers has been Or
ganized by Secretary Of Agriculture Houston
and Food Administrator Hoover to be subject
to call from time to time to advise with these
departments concerning agricultural and food
problems as they arise. Every important agri-
cultural district in the United States is repre-
sented by successful farmer who is man of
good standing with his fellow producers.
Among the number are leading live stock
breeders and feeders, dairymen, fruit growers
and general farmers. The national farmers or
carnations are represented by able men. IT
this body of farmers is called for consultation
frequently and its advice acted upon by the adj
ministration, there are good reasons to believe
that fewer mistakes will be made than in the
past, and some practical, sensible efforts begun
to assist the farmer in increasing production, in
conserving his crops and enabling him to Sc
cure fairly remunerative return from his in
vestment and labor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-04-11
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Humboldt Republican: In less than
a year at the front Archie Roosevelt
has accumulated couple Of medals.
two scars and captaincy. And Ted
dy. Jr.. besides getting medal and
his wounds, has new boy at home.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Police Disintegrat;on

The retirement of Chief Inspector Dillon
adds one degree to the disintcgration of the
police force which has been going on since
Mayor Hyian put Commissioner Enr'ight
IN charge Of the department. 1t is not now
the force Of which New York City was SC
justly proud when Commissioner Woods
was IN charge. Its elements are the same,
but its morale has been broken Political
leaders now march up the great front
steps of Police. Headquarters as they ncver
dared to do under Bingham or Woods.
Transfers are made which in the gossip
of the department cannot be explained by
the conventional "for the good of the ser-
vice. The great dining room of the Wal
dorf-Astoria hardly sufficed to house the
number of policemen anxious to pay $40 q
plate for the recent annual dinner Of tie
Lieutenants' Association, not for the in
trinsic merit Of the dinner, but because
1.-The Commissioner" also happens to be TIC
power in the association
When policeman of the long ser2ice
and known probty Of Inspector Dillon re-
tires, saying, at wasn't pleasant for me to
stay" and making remarks about the 70 IS
which run over the faces Of wounded men
in the trenchcs-an allusion to his recent
illness during which his retirement APP
pears TO have been Notwithstanding is
occurring in the Police Department which
is not for the good of the City of New
York. There always has been, and always
will be, direct connection between police
disintegration and lawlessness, which
causes the people of this city to suffer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Vienna Drops the Mask

For some days past the Austro- Hun-
garian government has been ostentatiouslv
washing its hands of completely in the new
German military enterprise in Russia.
This has been a part of the Czernin pose
The Austro- Hungarian government te!e-
graphed the Bolshevik leaders that it
stood aloof from the German reopeninc Of
hostilities. That was reassurinp and
helped to keep Vienna's camouflagc record
straight.
Now news has come of a movement of
Austro-H Hungarian troops into the Ukraine.
They are going IN 'to restore order and to
protect commercial routes" German troops
have been pushed into the Ukraine for the
same purpose. Restoring order and pro-
tecting commercial routes include expelling
the Bolsheviki from Southeastern Russia
and propping up the new Ukrainian repub-
lic with Teuton bayonets.
The disinclnation Of the Austro- Hun
garian authorities to send forces into
Northern Russia is easily understood. The
northern line is held by Germany. and Ger
man interests are paramount in the Baltic
Finland. Vienna has no surplus of men to
waste on an expedition to Petrograd. It's
interests lie in Southern Russian the
Ukranc's granary lands and Black Sea
ports.
When Austria-H Hungary sends armies
into the Ukraine she is backing up the new
German invasion Of Great Russia just as
much IS il she were joining actively in the
parade to Pctrograd. Her occupation Of
the Ukraine releases German troops for
service in the north. 1t amounts to a new
declaration Of war on the Lenine govern
mcnt, for the latter has never recognized
the independence Of The Ukrai1an repub-
lie and been fighting desperately to hold
Southern Russia in line with the ideas and
objects Of the revolution.
AustriaHungary is whipping the devil
around tn" stump in protesting pious dis
approval Of the German attack on Russia.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
-Poulbot, in Le Journal

sources of her force, we'll as her prepon-
derant situation in the world"
This is the situation, which is perfectly
clear; it is the possession of the Luxem-
burg Lorraine basin that has enabled Ger
many to undertake the war. 1t is the capture
Of the Briey -Longwy basin that has enabled
her to continue it.
"From this fact" NJ Barrcs says, Ger
many draws the conclusion that the German
Empire not only ought to annex the French
basin but also a hintcrland which would
be sufficiently deep to protect the conquered
treasures from the cannon. 1T is necessary.
says the document; that we should have in
the future considerable resources of ores
at our disposal; for the richer certain in
dustral country is in iron the more it is
dreaded by the enemies. 1t is necessary
that those parts Of Lorraine which are stiil
French to-day should be returned to the
German Fathcrland. If we should further
succeed in developing our great mctallurgic
industries, we will double, we will Guadruple.
the HgnllnE force OF armies and our
navy. In the future, indeed, it is not the
masses Of men and the gigantic groups of
armies that will decide the war, but, in the
first place. instruments for offensive and de-
fensive tactics, which will be at the disposal
of the combatants in sufficient quantity In
this way the mining districts of Lorraine to
which we already indebted for not hay
ing been annihiiated, will protect us in the
course Of struggle which is to come"
NJ. Barrcs, in conclusion, congratulates
himself that the retakng of Lorraine, while
it will mean the restoration of justice, will.
be guarantee Of future peace, even az.
cording to the German avowa By taking
back Lorraine we take away from the Ger
mans the iron without which they cannot be-
gin the war anew. We disarm them more
surely than by any possible clauses Of
treaties. The best means for assuring peace
is to take away from our enemies the means
for making war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
No Bargain Peace"

The Washington correspondent Of our
contemporary "The Sun" has informa-
ton that President Wilson'S next utter
ance on the war will bristle with the
spirit Of fight and will show the country
that victory on the battlefield is the only
means to be relied on for forcing German
militaIism to accept a lasting peace"
4 member Of the Cabinet is further re-
ported as saying that ''the government
fully recognizes the danger of peace dis
cusson, because Of the effect it may have
IN causing the American people to relax
IN their efforts to win the war"
We deeply hope that this is true.
The effect of peace talk is insidous.
Officers III the training camps report that
in the last two weeks the morale of the
army has been weakened and that, in
homely parlancc, "thc boys have let down."
If we were not in this war to win the
war, by the only power that war knows,
we had no business to go into it,
A peace achieved by any other means at
this time would be inevitably q German
peace.
This is the clear issue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
A Year Behind Time

The French government has decided TO
put its summer daylight saving schedule
into effect next Saturday. The French are
at war and know they are at war. They
are neglecting no expedients which work
for economy.
We are at war, too. But Congress is not
yet fully awake to that fact. A daylight
saving bill should have been passed in
April, 1917, Immediately after we declared
war on Germany. The Senate passed such
a measure late last summer. The House
has not yet acted on it.
Twelve European countries have tried
out this plan. They began trying it out in
1915. It's advantages have been fully
demonstrated. 1t would save the United
States 100000 tons Of coal; and the fuel
less holidays of January and February last
have shown US that l 900 900 tons of coal
are worth saving.
Why doesn't the House Of Representa-
tives pass a daylight saving measurcy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Trust the Nation!

Secretary McAdoo has done admirably
IN ending the suspense over the date of
the new Liberty Loan.
There have been signs of uneasiness at
Washington, perhaps justified; we hope not.
This is a very large country. 1t is very
rich. 1t has courage. We believe it will
back the war to a finish.
The people of every nation save Russia
have shown this spirit. When have the
people of America flown the flag Of
cravens:
In England, in France, in Germany,
each successive loan has been larger than
any preceding.
Shall we do less?
We believe that the results of the new
loan will reassure some of our doubling
and timorous fnancers. We believe that
if the issue is put squarely up to the ma
ton whether we shall pay for this war by
thrift and saving or by Russias expedient
Of printing paper dollars, the people will
not fail.
We believe the result will show shat
there is no need to pursue adventures
into the boys and morasses of shifty
finance.
Nor is there need for concern over cur
rent quotations for outstanding bonds We
are not a nation of per cent patriots
Most of CIR hundred millions live far,
in thought, from Wall Street They do
not consult the stock ticker before they
buy Liberty bonds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
German Textbooks

The Board Of Education, after weeks of
deliberate and minute investigation, has
decided to eliminate nine German text
books from the city schools.
Superintendent Straubenmuler has ruled
that passages such as
And Christian and hero, paying heed
to these tokens, the Emperor had acquired
keen for Gods words. a keen eve for
hints which made him always follow the
right path;
and
Good luck, Hurrah the Fatherland, hurrah
and be true to the holy customs of our an
cestors, and, at the same time, look out for
posterity,
are dangerous and unfit. Nine books have
been thrown out of the schools.
But several dangerous ones pointed out
by The Tribune remain. Superintendent
Straubenmuller says they are being scruti-
nized
The Tribune is glad that at least nine
books to which it has objected have been
discarded. This is progress. But why is
so much time required?
Our business now is TO make quick and
prompt disposal of the enemy, whether his
head appears IN No Mans Land or Ger
man textbooks.
Purging the textbooks Ct German pyop-
uganda should be a comparatively easy &C
complishment. A few loyal interpreters
could accomplish the task in an afternoon.
We do not see why the Board Of Educa-
ton or its agents should split hairs and
lose time in deciding which books are inno-
cent and which are dangerous.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

She is helping Germany to complete the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Russia by setting up
military protectorate in the Ukraine. Ber-
lin and Vienna spin fine webs of duplcity
But they never work at cross purposes.
Nobody should be deceived by imaginary
differences of policy which they artfully
exploit for the benefit of a gulible outside
world.
1t is foolish to put any faith in Austrian
protestations of moderation and disinter-
cstcdncss. Austrian diplomacy has always
been prolific in generous pastures. But
when The time comes for performance the
clovcn hoof shows. Germany and Austria
Hungary are brethren in guile and in &C
quistiveness Git was Francis Joseph who
broke the Treaty of Berlin by anneXing
Bosnia and Herzegovina). They were Co
partners in the partition Of Poland. They
are .copartners DOW in the grandiose
scheme of partitoning Russia All the
sugary rhetoric emanating from Vienna
should not lull us into forgetting that fact.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Saving the Pieces of Russia

There is one simple fact which it is we'll
to consider before we become unduly
alarmed over the possibility of japanese
occupation of Eastern Siberia
This is that TIE RUSSIA" which we
knew has ceased to exist. The Russian
Empire is dismembered.
AS we have already pointed out, the
Germans now occupy the most highly de-
veloped part of Russia on the industrial
side--that is, Poland and the territories
Of the west. In the south the Ukraine
has become independent and the territory
to the east Of that is held by the Cossacks
and other peoples under apparently
autonomous rule
All that is left of the great Russian
bugbear is the vast central plain and the
frozen regions Of the north And Siberia
l What feeble power the Bolshcvik gov
eminent still exercises is largely confined
TO Petrograd, Moscow and the northern
cities. And even this remnant of author
ity may at any time be swept away either
by the German invasion or by internal
revolt.
<sii1 al Iiiio WHfL-l-.-iEl L-Ci-isuE.fl - n
a helpless state Of anarchy
If Germany SEXES Petrograd there
seens little reason why it should not take
Moscow as well, and in some form or an
other aEsume suzerainty over the whole OF
Northern Russia.
Do the sentimentalists and alarnists
wish TO wait until they have seized Siberia
as well? II not, who is to stop them?
The United States cannot do it. We
have not merely our hands fuU We have
or arms full, AZ it is. Nor could any
pslier allied power. japan can do IT, IL
fas sworn fealty 10 the Allied Gauge. If
taa. caugc mems anything it means the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Pass the DAYLIGHT Saving Bill

10 the Editor OF The Tribune.
S.f' What is delaying the passage of the
oaShgat saving bill? This bill was intro.
nuccd IN the Senate last year by Senator
oaider AVID promptly passed and sent to the
House II was there buried in committee.
and although the time is now here when
action should be had if this bill is to be-
enacted into law, action has not been forth
&C ming. VI
Ii 'his bill had been passed year aro
one million additional tons Of coal womb
nave been available during the present Win
yer. One million tons Of coal would have
KEPT one million families in comfort for =
month; it would have kept factories work
l"g ana people employed who were COM
teaiec to walk the streets in idlcness.
Ihc fuel situation is still critical. hrt
apparently Congress delays to act On this
o'll' b!li against which no open criticism
h&s been offered and which is unique in
haN'nf nnumerable advantages and 10 dis
advantages. s G. ROSFNNAI1NT
New York. Feb. %. 1918.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
The South Should Feed Itself

'sfroa The s.. LoMis ecau6.iel
The Memphis Costoa Exchange has sent
out warning % Southern planters that they
must increase their acreage of corn. pots.
toes aHd other ,ioodstufs this year, even
though they have 20 cut the acreage of Get
ton to DO it. The high price of cotton
threatens to again stampede the South anc
undo much OF the diversified farming mis-
sionary work that has been done.
Cotton Is, OF course. necessary to carry on
the war. but for tie South TO DRAW me'e
heavily ior locdStufs upon the rest OF ths
couni'N than has been the case the last wv
yrals would be calamity That Is wa .a
VIII happen II thc tendency to increase tns
cotton acreage a tho expense OF food CROP s,
ana livestock prevails. The South shau noun
try to feed itself this year as patf1ous
duty, IA we'll as an economic one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
"GreenbacISs"

Tomorrow morning, on its financial
page, The Tribune will print an article of
unusual interest, recounting the origin
and the effect in our Civil War, and after
of our famous 'greenhaclls'
It is from the pen Of the Hon. George T..
Roberts, long Director of the Mint, and
well known as one of the clearest and most
thoughtful writers upon these subjects.
Because it is a matter of very vital cen
Germ now, we hope no one of our readers
will miss it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Stop While 1t Tastes Good
A Way to Save the Food Americans
Eat Excessively

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Nh Hoover says that since wheat and
meat saving has boon the watchword the
American people eating o per cent more
food than before the saving commenced He
evidently doesn't care how often nor how
much we eat if wo leave out wheat beef,
pork and mutton. don't know if his asser-
ton that VIC have increased our swal-
lowngs is true or not, but | do know that
each mothers son OF us eats twire as much
as he needs, and if we would all curtail
our dcvourings by so per cent the cheaper
food problem would be solved.
The human system will assimiate Ger
tain necessary amount of protein fat, starch,
etc All beyond that amount is worse than
wasted. Entirely aside from the matter of
food saving in the interest Of cheaper liv-
ing is the question of health. The great
mass of American mankind suffers more or
less from Indigestion caused by the daily
ovcrloadinStof the overworkod stomach. This
wonderful organ must be always ready at
any time of day night TO receive and
try to assmilate anything and everything
An automobile with one or two cylinders
skipping and apark plugs carbonized can
still struggle along in jerkv and provok
ing way. and so man may keep moving with
most OF his organs in bad condition. owing
to 4 crammel stomach
The real way to reduce food prices is con-
tanned in the one word "diet"
must admit that under present condi-
tons hotel and restaurant fare ia not likely
to cause fatal Indigestion, but in our home
life | am convinced VIC arc going too fast
for our own good Second holpngs are in
most cases useless.
My honored father during the last forty
n al all,
ping, ne expressed it, "whiIc 1t tostod
good And at The age of ninety he took
all care of his pigs and chickens planted
and tended wonderful half-acrc garden
could and often did follow trout stream
for miles with his rod and basket with the
same zcst and enjoyment that he had done
at the age of fifty dying at nincty-Gvc Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03

TRANSLATED from Special Gable TO the Courier DIES
Etats-U nisl
nARIS, Feb. 26.-M. Barres reveals in the
4 echo dc Paris" the existence of a
strictly confidential memorandum adj
dressed to the Berlin government by the
Association of German Iron and Steel In
dustrialists" and the "Association Of Ger
man Metallurgists"
Under the title "For the Annexation of
Mining Basins of French LORRAINE" NJ.
Barres observes that this document shows, if
it is necessary, the Importance of the Lcr.
rane basin in the war Of to-day and for .hc
future war
Speaking of that part of the basin which
is situated in the annexed part of Lor-
raine, Germany has found there a supply
sufficient to satisfy the formidable needs of
iron in modern warfare, and one can obtain
an idea Of it if one remembers that the
Luxembourg Lorraine basin yielded in 1913
more than throefourths Of the total prod
uct of Germany
AS to the French Briey-Longwy basin, the
memorandum declares as follows:
"Thc mines which we have begun to ex-
plot in French Lorraine brought us in the
course of the year 1917 enough iron to sat
sfy all the needs of our artillery"
If Germany did not have in her possession
all of the Lorraine basin she would be I'M
able to continue the war. The memorandum
states this openly:
"Fortunately, the French have not sue
cecded in destroying the organization of the
districts situated on both sides of the Franco
German frontiers; without that our artil-
lery could not be supplied with munitions
and the fate of the war would be decided in
a few months to our disadvantage. Without
doubt Germany would have had to evacuate
the great territories on the left bank of the
Rhine and would have lost, together with
her principal beds of iron ore in the Ior-
raine basin, also one of the most significant
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-03
Gray Room

Although you sit in a room that is gray,
Except for the silver
Of the straw-papcr,
And pick
At your pale white gown;
Or lift one of the green beads
OF your necklace,
TO let it foil:
Or gaze at your green fan
Printed with the red branches of a red will
low
Or, with one finger,
Move the leaf in the bowl
The leaf that has fallen from the branches of
the forsythia
Beside YOU
What is all this:
know how turiously your heart is beating.
WALLACE STEVENS.