The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-26
FOOD WINS THE WAR
The chautauqua Of This Year Was
One of the Best Ever Held
There and New Meth
DDS Win.
[By a Staff Correspondent

one OF the most successful years in
Its history.
Eight hundred season tickets for
1919 were sold, which insures an
assembly for next year.
TOO much cannot be said in praise
Of the management of the Hamilton
chautauqua," said a prominent citi-
zen. The directors put into 1t their
best efforts, and this year added to
their former responsibilities that of
managing the platform. This was
done most successfully and every
body hopes it will be in the future
an established CUSTOM"
Plan and Push for Success.
Stanley L. Krebbs, who is pres1-
dent of the Institute Of Mercantile
Arts Of New York. gave the lecture
on Sunday afternoon.
He had for subject. "Focaliza-
ton He said just two things are
necessary to success, a plan and
push to work out that plan.
A man with a plan and no push to
execute it, is an idealist-an unprac-
teal person. A man with push and
no plan Is a fussy person who gets
nowhere, he said. He illustrated the
point of a plan successfully carried
out by John P. Holland who worked
twenty-six years to perfect the sub
marine, finishing it when he was an
old man Mr.. Krebbs said he was
present when the submarine was
tried out in the New York harbor.
He said that no man with plan
ever got discouraged; it's the aimless
man who gets the blues. The civil
war was won by Grants plan OF "On
10 Richmond" Everyone in the army
said to General Grant, Its fine
plan but 1t won't work" Grant
started to Richmond and met victory
aalf way, at Appamattox:
The Schuman Quintette Recital.
The musical attraction was the
Schumann Quintette, one of the best
Of the week.
The leader gave sort of lecture
recital in that his introduction to
each number gave a brief history of
the composer and of the composition.
This feature added much to the edu-
cauonal value of the program as well
as to its enjoyment. A soprano
soloist, who was formerly with the
Chicago Symphony orchestra, gave a
delightful group of songs.
export, of the University of Illinois,
talked on the subject of the farmer
and the war.
He told the farmers that they must
raise a greater acreage of wheat,
they must use their corn to fatten
hogs, and the beef cattle should not
be above ATS pounds in weight when
sold.
The various armies Of the allies
must have the kind of food to which
they are accustomed-a Britisher
must have beef. an Italian spaghetti,
a Frenchman bread and our own boys
must have bacon and bread.
Is Up to the Farmer.
Its up to the farmer to furnish
these things. He is not patriot II
he demands excess profit while he is
at it, either. That's his share OF
winning the war, even as going into
the trenches is the soldiers part.
Suppose Germany were to win this
war, the farmer would go on just as
he is doing now, but what about the
profit from the farm? The German
government would take everything
above living wage, and that living
wage wouldn't be the present scale,
either.
"That has always been Germany's
policy. In her great scheme Of world
conquest, she planned to get money
from America.
when Hoover asked America for
seventy.five million bushels of wheat
last year, we gave him hundred mil
lion bushels. Some of this was lost
In transport. The submarine was
after wheat ships and she got some
Of them.
Our food administration asks for
a federal reserve of two hundred mil
lion bushels of wheat, as guarantee
against famine That federal reserve
of wheat is just as necessary as is
4 federal reserve of gold, and if there
is any difference it is more neces-
sary; you can't eat gold, and you
can't buy wheat with it unless the
farmers raise this excess amount OF
wheat"
The said for anyone to take excess
profit during war was exactly as con-
temptible as to steal from your
leighbor while his house is burning.
It's identically the same type of in
lividual
Sugar Short Until January.
Dean Davenport said that we would
have to save on sugar until January,
when new supply will be available.
There is plenty of sugar in Hawaii,
but there are no boats to transport
IL Our shipping is needed elsewhere.
He said that an experiment was
made this summer in Illinois when
$1,000 high school boys Were put on
farms to take the place of men who
had gone to war. Recently reports
and statisticians have been filed