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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30
WHEN THE ssoys COME How'd

Independence Bulletin-Journal
good many gentlemen in Washingto}
and elsewhere, who as a rule do nd
do much work themselves, are was
ing unnecessary time trying to al
range for jobs for the boys whe
they come back from France On(
would almost think this country wal
to soon see several millions of men
dfcants turned loose upon it xh(
must either be cared for or go to th(
poorhouses. To this end wild and
monstrous propositions are being of|
fered that would cost the country
good deal more than has the war Sd
far. We will suggest that possibly
these would-be country savers ard
wasting crocodile tears. We do moi
believe many of the returning soil
diers will enjoy being ckssed ad
shabby genteel candidates Tor publid
charity, and We suggest that 1t might
be just as we'll If they are left ID
look after such matters themselyes|
When the war opened every one Of
these soldiers who wanted employ
ment had IT. There was not an idld
man in this country except by hia
own desire. Since then its business
and industry have been carried o1
by old men, women and youths.
great many lines Of industry have
been compelled to close down be
cause there was either no help t.
run them or the raw material could
not be supplied. The farms OF th'
country need the services Of hun
dreds of thousands Of the young mel
taken away from them and who vii
want to get back to them just as
soon as possible. There is no class
OF industry that has not been Imp
ing along with a shortage of help
Every one OF the returning soldiers
who wants a Job Is going to get !,
without having a guardian appointed
to find it for him. and we Suggest
that IL he finds 1t himself 1t is MOI
only going to stiffen his own sell
respect hut will be a good thing toi
the country. for 1t wifi make him
much better citizen.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

of raw materials, building will be resumed with
ia rush to make up for lost time. The cost OF
metals soon must so down, and this will stlmu-
late construction and industry in many lines.
Let the country be carefully frugal hopeful IN
these transitional weeks or months, and every
thing will come out all right Faith IN our
selves, faith in our country and q positive re-
fusal to let the pessimists dishearten us with
their dolefuI prophecies will do much to hasten
the return of permanent prosperity, greater,
possibly, and more equitably distributed than
before.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30
MELLOW WISDOM OF Will SOW

New York Sun: 1t would be ID
fortune il the American people w..
SLOWED to lose the benefit Of ths1
striking generalizations and precen|
concerning political ethics wh;d
abound In the speeches and writin1
of President Wilson. We do not
tend that this shall occur If we y
prevent 1t.
Yesterday we presented two Of NJ
Wilson's finest aphorisms. In ons
reminded his hearers that in ev.|
partnership there is talkative ms,
her who Is generally much In =
dence and silent member who geus
ally takes the consequences and ~
the bills. In the other he point
out, in the most felicitous mann
conceivable, that the man who vorL
In order that he may be distinguish
is sure to do some selfish thin
sooner or later that will disgrace n
because his object is himself and n
the ideals which he serves.
Today we have two more OF The.
utterances to offer. In N,
York city, on September 4, 1912, vbs
he was asking his fellow citizens \
vote to make him president. VI
Wilson said:
Z man, no matter how humble i,
business, can hold his head up amu
the princes OF the world, If, as
ought to do. he will think of himss
as the servant Of. the people and h,
as their master: as one who wou
serve and not govern.
On April 10. 1916. President VI
son said at the Jefferson Day dim
in Washington:
Power will never again in Ame
lea. if l know anything of its tie.
per. long be entrusted to those vi
use 1t in their own behalf"
Prophetic words,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30
SWEET SINGER FOUND A
RESPONSIVE SOUL IN kEOkUk.
How Caroline Rchings-B Bernard Enhanced Her Hear
ers, How She Died in Poverty and How
Newspapeman Remembered
Her Afterwards
0 tho Editor Of The Gate City:
Ter Afterwards.

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Of hervis
to to was not ended
Of
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why sending the
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Manson Democrat: The coming ses-
sion OF the Iowa legislature can busy
itself at no more important item than
that Of providing some way to obtain
and establish permanent. good roads
lin Iowa The business men OF the
state have lost thousands Of dollars
lin the past week because there were
no roads for the people to get 70
the towns to do their holiday shop
ping.
Sibley Tribune: The roads at the
beginning Of the week did not look
as If thousands Of dollars had been
expended upon them every year for
ia generation.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Iowa
hasn't any money In its treasury and
the state legislature will meet In
couple OF weeks to see that NO money
iis accumulated,
Washington Democrat: You do not
believe that anybody has any notion
OF sinking the German navy. do you?
There 10 Z lot Of rag chewing going
on about 1t, but nobody has the least
idea that such q fool thing Is con-
templated. Nobody with . thimble
full OF brains would believe such q
thing could be possible.
Carroll Herald: It would require a
good deal OF nerve now for member
Of the legislature to oppose = pro-
gressiye good roads policy in the
approaching session But mud road
advocates are possessed OF a peculi-
arity of mind that goes for nerve.
Marshalltown Times-Republican: II
anything actual is going on in peace
preparation the correspondents are
battered and tied to a post One
thing that Is certainly not being put
across is news.
Perry Chief: There Is something
wrong with the congressman who
would wish patch of sage brush or
rocks upon a returned soldier as
reward for the part he has played IN
the war. He worked hard enough
for the little pay while In the SER
vice. Why sentence him fer life?
Des Moines Register: The least
Tom Marshall can do these days IS
to furnish the cigars consumed at the
cabinet meeting over which he pre-
sides.
Boone News-Republican: Iowa IS
beginning to realize that the, handi-
cap of poor roads must be met by
the bond system. After the good
roads are in we will realize that we
are financially losers not to have
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

Houston, Texas. thinks it knows
BurIeson. the Lone Star boss OF tns
postoffice department, telegraph anu
telephone lines and ocean capie'
Wherefore, the Texas city, through ~
mayor, declares it will not he plufle.
by Burieson and his fifty per cehs
boost in telephone rates. stand paus
and give the Texans room to hano''
their guns.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

very easy thing toss copper to begsar on
the street, is generally easier thing than not to do
IT. Vet love just often the withholding. We pur
the sympathetic feelings reused BY the
spectacle Of misery coppers cost. 1t Is too cheap
cheap often dear for the beggar. ~
really him, would either do for him, or
Iess.--f4enry Drummond.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

congress will lose its luster II The
public has reason to prefix Rubber
Stamp to the name OF a member.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30
DIRECT PRIMARY A QUAcK REMEDY.

The Iowa state legislature will meet in Janu-
airy next There has to be q general feel
ing of uneasiness while this body of men Is IN
session with free reign and ambition to do some
thing for the state. Some things need to be done.
but not many. The little needed is mostly to I'M
do what has been unw1sely done In previous SEES
sions.-Eagle Grove Eagle.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

The innocent bystander in this world has a
chance to stand up straight and draw long
breath again.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

We may not have been able to get a salute al
Tampico, but we re getting one in Germany
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30
piran,cs Glory.

St Paul Pioneer Press: Some Of the
glory of being member OF the peace
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

The watch on the Rhine has an American
movement.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

Boone News-Republican: Iowa is
beginning to realize that the handl-
cap of poor roads must be met by
the bond system. After the good
roads are in we will realize that we
are financially losers not to have
done 1t before.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

The former kaiser calls Ferdinand, of Ru-
MANIA a traitor to Hohenzollern traditions.
That compliment will be Ferdinand's passport
to the respectable circle of posterity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

Des Moines Register: The ieas
Tom Marshall can do these days j
to furnish the cigars consumed at TN
cabinet meeting over which he pre-
sides.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

Germany is Jared by revolution
nounces a newspaper headline Germ
the jars, certainly, but does not yet
unanimous desire to preserve the fruits
luton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-30

Waterloo Times-Tribune: low
hasn't any money In its treasury AM
the state legislature will meet in
couple OF weeks to see that NO none.
iis accumulated,
The sun., 1918-11-24
HURRY UP SONG HITS.

Hints concerning the vast sums
'lch mon as Irving Berlin and John
.olden annually pay as income tax
are periodically responsible for the
release of new floods of song scripts
from amateur melody fash!oners and
rhyme rnan!pulators. The hard work
ing pianist Of the Gem Motion Picture
Palace Of Wayback, Kan, reads that
George Cohan's latest effusion. of
which more than 'steen hundred thou
sand copies already have been sold
and which in less than three months
has returned its author more than
s2G,0g0 in royalties. was written during
the time required for Mr.. Cohan 10
travel in a depositor's line from the
door to the receiving tellers window
in n bank
He has heard somewhere that
"AleXander's Ragtime Band" was con-
ceived and composed while Mr.. Berlin
in his earlier career in an East SIDE
cafe was waiting for a customers
order. Logically he concludes that
the production Of a song that will fol-
low in the footsteps OF every viCtrola
salesman from Kamchatka to Karnak
is simply matter OF luck He dis
counts the almost uncanny faculty
some men have of striking exactly the
right chord to which theatre or
other audience will respond.
There have been few more popular
songs than "Good-by, Girls; I'm
Through" It was a feature of Charles
Dillingham's production OF Chin
Chin" and has been sung and whistled
in every part of the world. 1t was
written by John Golden. who sat with
Mr.. Dillingham; watching n rehearsal
OF the show. At a point where n
change of scene was required the pro-
Queer voiced the opinion that song
was needed as connecting link be-
tween the two periods OF the enter
tainment AS the original score con-
tanned no song suitable for the par
ticular situation Mr. Golden offered his
services. He left the theatre TO return
in half an hour with both the words
and music of "Good-by. Girls" which
The sun., 1918-11-24
THE "PEP" IN EVERYTHING

With Everything" entering on, the
fourth month OF its run at the Hippo
drome, r. II. Burnside, the general
stage director OF that institution. can
sit back and take a long breath after
The gigantic task of staging the huge
superspectacle. He can sit back. But
everybody associated with the indie
fatigable stage director. with his dry
wit and his friendly smile and his eye
that never misses anything, knows
that he won't. For a Hip" show is
never done. And from opening night
in August until the curtain goes down
in May Mr. Burnside ia at work to
see that there Is never a duh moment
Vigilance, according to this wizard
of pageantry, is the sole secret of the
success of all spectacular productions.
Weed out the story, throw away the
plot, but gather together pep" and
more pep" The spirit CT youth must
he there and splashes of gorgeous
color in costume and scenery. There
must be the sort of music which
crashes its way into your inner con-
seriousness and sends you away whis-
Ting in spite OF yourself. and there
must be continuous comedy, so that
one laugh trips on the heels of an
other.
1t is that ruthless hunt of the dull
moment which makes the summer
long rehearsal of the Hip" show SUCH
tremendous time. Mr.. Burnside has
1t all figured out on q mathematical
basis-one poor line kills six good
ones, just as it takes six good sea-
sons to erase the unfavorable effect of
one bad one. He judges when a scene
needs cutting by watching the on
lockers, not the performers. A yawn
frequently cuts q dialogue in half,
while q restless twitching may ampu-
:ate an entire scene. Sustained inter
| est, which is more or less sought in
highhrow literary circles, Is wor-
hipped as god by the producer OF
ne spectacular play. Thelatter must
70 built UP step by step and the cul-
ninatiOn must be n smashing punch
which gathers all the previous glories
II the show into one last sensation
nd sends the audience away with a
thrill.
The sun., 1918-11-24
was Immediately Incorporated in the

was iiIHIlSulutely lnCOTpOTdueu III Ihe
performance.
Another such instance occurred dur
Ing the preparation OF 1.-THE Canary"
Mr.. Dillinghams most recent success
Mt tho Globe Theatre. Irving Berlin
was the magic worker in this case. In
the second act Joseph Cawthorn and
Maude Eburne play comedy scene,
the success OF which was foreshadowed
from its first private performance. But
Mr.. Dillingham; decided that 1t re-
quired a song as a climax. Miss Eburne
was character actress who had never
before appeared in musical comedy
and no one had thought of her as n
singing coincidence. But this meant
nothing to Mr. Dillingham;. Telephones
were started after Irving Berlin. He
was located at dinner In a hotel near
the Globe Theatre. Mr.. Dillingham;
mont.
"All right" answered Mr. Berlin.
But when do you want this song?"
ut is 1880 now" replied the pro-
Queer. II must have it by 10 o'clock.
I'VE want to rehearse 1t tonight"
"Wow!" said Mr.. Berlin, "1'l have
to cut my dessert"
At 10 o'clock Mr.. Berlin walked into
the Globe Theatre with the words and
music Of You're So Beautiful" under
his arm. A New York audience heard
it few nights later and it is an estab-
lished hit.
The sun., 1918-11-24
WAKEFIELD rs TRUEs TO OLD
LOVES.

In another version OF "The Auc-
tioneer," which opened n four weeks
engagement at the Manhattan Opera
House last Monday evening, David
Warfield comes back to a character
ization which he has offered the
American public more than one thou
sand times.
Answering question concerning
his continuance in his established
successes Mr.. Warflcld expressed only
happiness that Mr.. Belasco had decided
to give the public another visit from
Simon Lepi this season.
THE public wants me in The Music
Master and The Auctioneer,'" he said,
Just as 1t wanted Joe jefferson in
rip Van Wrinkle The Music Mas
ter 1 have played more than two
thousand times. -The Auctioneer'
over n thousand. During this long
period of numerous revivals OF these
productions of Mr.. Belasco's I have
had ample opportunity to observe the
attitude OF the world toward them.
I stood one night last winter in the
lobby OF a theatre IN which ! was
playing The Music Master. watching
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current polite usage Of the theatre he
'busked' in lowly resorts, meaning that
he appeared before nondescript audi
ences in cnbarets and concert saloons
and danced for whatever the specta-
tors might throw to him. Nightly he
harvested from the dance floor thin
dimes and more obese pieces OF silver,
and sometimes n paper" as he termed
greenback. OF and on he subdued
himself to chorus work and buried in
the ensemble appeared in THE Choco-
late Soldier" and a Modern Eve"
His story of his experiences as a Bull
garian military man in The Chocolate
Soldier is one Of the classics OF
chcrusdom.
One day he met 4 shapely child in
her teens dancing in n Chicago resort.
and after watching her la wless rhythm
decided that here was q partner after
his own heart who knew intuitively
how to express in the dance the latent
savagery Of rag and Jazz. They
worked together at Cclosimo's anL
then. hearing that in the underworld
OF New Orleans there was a ripe and
sophisticated appreciation of their
style OF dancing, they went to the
Mississippi town and danced before
genuine jazz bands, which gave their
blood paprika and jungle Jingle
They went to Mobile and danced there
Thence the road led to Chicago and -.
to New York. The famous Jazz Ban,
on Fr.Sco's say SO followed them
Chicago and set that town wild Owe
r.,-y 4zI Ia
-hythms grew wilder and the beats
moro complicated the call Of the Wild
men and tho wild women was for
n2ddcr music and for stronger steps
ard behold Frisco emerged from the
underworld with Loretta McDermott
and was the craze OF the hour. YER
non Castle saw him, and seeking him
oIt said:
Frisco, you have what they really
want. This modern dancing has been
playing at the -eHl thing. They are
tired ef polite ballroom dancing and
the Barbary Coast perfumed and emas-
culated. Go TO New York and b. there
when this Jazz stuff hits broadway"
Frisco came to New York and 90
did Loretta McDermott. For n time
s'ACg N"AiSCb an NeithItlS dTu cares, The
mad call OF the jazz being slow in
hitting up the pulses of faded New
York Ono night they went on in an
almost show at the Fulton Theatre
and the house cheered them. Flor
enz Iiegfeld. Jr., ever hawklike in
his search for the new and the excel
lent, Immediately engaged Frisco for
tie "Ht.dnight Frolic" and THE Fol-
lies" Loretta McDermott went to
the Century Roof in limitations OF
her partner. Both registered successes
ana flowers and large incomes. Jazz
now flooded the dance places; the par
lor hooters fell back into the bou-
doir and Into the white light of the
incandescents strobe Frisco and Lo-
retta, bravely doing the red blooded
hirsute Pan-Venus steps that, had
been kept so long beyond the frontiers
or responsibility. 1t was the real thing
ut last and the dances that came from
the jungle and outgrew tomtom mel
odics and crept up the sleeves from
New Orleans to Chicago and over the
overland route from the Barbary Coast
came into their own with n whoop
and boom. boom. boom that would
gladden. the heart OF a witch doctor
The sun., 1918-11-24

present whom the public has taken to
jazz music and all that goes with it,
and tho steps OF Frisco are the
ultimate expression of the do!irium
tremens Of syncopation. Frisco has
always been popular in the underworld,
where they have had ragtime and Jazz
and strange dellrious dances for two
generations, He saw the dancing OF
the dumps modified into the synco-
p4ted steps and the parlor prancing
that ruled during what was known as
the modern dancing craze; but he
refused to tone down or soften his ex-
preston of the weird, wild music that
appealed so potently to the folk OF the
carefree resorts where responsibility
was shed like n garment. Frisco stood
by his art. Rather than bend the knee
or shake the foot in conformity to
The sun., 1918-11-24

Will make him happy again and re-
store his chaotic world to order.
Thus "The Unknown Purple" had It's
origin. Produced in Long Branch in
midsummer, 1t outdrew all rival at
fractions and created considerable dis
cussion. 1t moved on to Washington
and Atlantic City, where 1t duplicated
It's Long Branch success. People who
attended the play were excited by It's
novel mystery, and there was a gen.
eral prediction that New York would
respond with q years engagement.
The sun., 1918-11-24
ROLAND VESTS TWO KINDS OF
NEWNESS.

Every season brings its list of new
authors. But It i "a rare occurrence
when a new author happens to be a
rev producer as well. Such a dis
,inction is feature Of the present
theatrical year and concerns Roland
West. author and producer of The
Unknown Purple" at the Lyric The
atre.
Only a little while ago West was an
actor. appearing in vaudeville at the
head Of his own company in sketches
from his own pen. West saved his
vaudeville earnings. He had an am
bitfon. He wanted to do big things
on Broadway and alone be responsible
for his rise and fall All Of which re-
quired an extensive bankroll.
He kept on with his vaudeville
career, winning success here as in
other cities and adding to his revenue
from time to time by directing motion
picture productions. But, to gain
really substantial financial success
West knew he must write play that
would have universal appeal and then
stake all his earnings on Its produc-
ton.
West appreciated Broadway's philo-
sophy OF welcoming heartily the new
and novel. He would turn out a nov
city that would startle Broadway. He
had had an idea for years-an idea
based upon an invisible man for a
hero. He would place this hero in
logical situations. build up the action
on a logical premise and, intermingling
sentiment, comedy and tense drama,
present an attraction which might
place him among the financially inde-
pendent,
He set TO work, making his hero a
struggling. simple inventor who was
attempting TO crystalline purple ray.
To bring about the achievement of
the hero's aims he would base the
drama upon the motive OF revenge.
Calling in his friend Carlyle Moore as
a collaboration he showed his scientist
hero as a man betrayed by his wife
and best friend, suffering q long term
in prison for the crime of another and
there, under the inspiration OF a mis-
anthrope, planning the revenge which
The sun., 1918-11-24
Of THE BIG CHANGE"

the eager throng Of people fill the
playhouse. An old lady came into the
gallery entrance. She was lame and
Feeble and white haired. Even with
the assistance I added to that already
given her by loved ones she climbed
the stairs with difficulty. Yet she had
come to see my Music Master
AT another performance stood
aside to let a group of school girls
pass" Mr.. warfield continued. Later,
when the play was over, told a news
paper man that those were my two
greatest reasons for playing The
Music Master and Tho Auctioneer,''
the undying love and appreciation Of
the old; the faith and enthusiasm Of
the young.
"More than 5000 times I have APP
peared in these two characters, and
the public has never tired Of them. I
have known folk to sec them both
over and over again. It's because Of
this wonderful appreciation that am
glad to have Simon Lett, the auction
eer, pay my loyal supporters a visit
this year. I am suro it's because he's
SO quaint and human that he is so
beloved" Mr.. Warfleld added medlta-
lively.
II want my public to know" Mr..
Warfield went on to say, that
neither played The Music Master last
year nor am playing The Auctioneer'
again this season for the, mere pur-
pose Of making money. had an offer
from a moving picture firm OF $1,000
900 Tor years work, and l refused
1t. 1t Is certainly more than I could
earn In any play of the speaking
stage in the same length of time. But
1t Goes not matter. do not need the
money enough to ever sell my privi-
iege OF seeing elderly ladies climb to