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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
NO TROUBLE ABOUT IT.

Des Moines Capital: When COM
munities and telephone companies
cooperate in promoting the use of the
English language over the telephone
lines. there is no trouble. All that Is
needed is little nerve, The board
of directors of the Interior Telephone
company, with exchanges In Grinnell
and Montezuma, recently passed the
following order: ra
"All conversations over the lines Of
this company must be carried on IN
the English language"
The people are obeying the order
of the trustees of the telephone COM
pany.
In Tama county, where there has
been much noise made about the dis
comfort which follows the governors
proclamation, practically everybody
speaks English and yet hundreds of
those who speak English better than
they speak any other language, and
this by their own admission, insist on
talking in foreign language over the
telephone When challenged they
gave no explanation 1t may be that
they do not want their neighbors to
hear and understand what they say.
1t may be they think that foreign
language adds to the privacy of the
talk over the county wires.
But it is little singular that
foreign speaking people are unwilling
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
SAFETY IN PREJUDICE.

eve must beware of prejudice, says Dr.
David Starr Jordan in his latest contribution
to the government publicity bureaus expen-
|sively published platitudes. Ii DR.. Jordan, evil
IDENTIFY looking longingly toward the peace he
has always labored to keep and attain at any
price, means that we must avoid unfairness,
well and good. But it is a statement which can
be defended by strong argument to say that,
when the allies win their victory, the world will
have been saved by prejudices. 1t was not good
reasoning that rushed France and Great Britain
into the battle against Germany; it was not
cold logic that sent us to the of free life
reason was back of the motive that begot action,
but the action itself came from that instructive
prejudice in favor of free institutions which
constitutes the underlying substance of char
acter in free men and nations.
Germany sought to make the neutral world
believe that American thought through the
American press had been bought by Great
Britain. But it was no love of England that
worked its way into the thought of this people
1t was slowly accommodating knowledge of what
Germany meant to do acting our prejudice
for liberty of thought and action that brought
conviction If an example of cold, selfish reas-
oning is sought-reason that sets at naught the
teachings of eXperience-let German policy be
taken as its product If the value Of those in
stincts built by age-long experience and effort
be doubted look to the rising of the free ma
tiens against Germany to still the doubt for
ever.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
DOCTORS URGE
PEOPLE To USE
MORE IRON AND
PHOSPHATES
They Come Out Strong for
Phosphated Iron.

Leading doctors all over the coun-
try are rapidly learning that one OK
the preparations they can always de-
pend on for all blood and nerve trou-
bles is Phosphated Iron; they have
found that 1t gives results and can
be depended upon.
Phos2hated Iron has proved a real
red blood and nerve builder in the
Spring season when so many are all
run down and dragged out, due to
lack OF fresh air, exercise, green
foods and clogged poisoned blood.
Scientists say Phosphated Iron builds
up your body by building up your
blood and nerves, and many physf.
clans claim there would be few over
worked men, nervous women. blood
less old people and pale children,
were the benefits OF Phosphated Iron
more widely known, that there is no
need OF anyone going around tired
out. all In, nerves on edge, suffering
with poor blood and lack OF energy
when Phosphated Iron will make you
feel like live one, make you look
100 per cent better, give you restful
sleep, brace you up so you can work
with ease and enjoy life once again.
Get Phosphated Iron today and
start in right; you owe It to yourself
and friends.
To insure physicians and their
patients getting the genuine Phos-
phated Iron we have put it in cap
sules. Do not take pills or tablets.
insist on capsules. McGrath Bros
Drug Co, Keokuk, Iowa, and leading
druggists everywhere.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
FOR A FAIR TRIAL.

Sioux City Journal: The case of
Thomas Mooney is like the case of
Leo Frank in this one respect, that
the people are convinced he did not
have a fair trial. 1t is impossible
for any fair-ninded man remote from
the scene to say whether Mooney Is
guilty or not guilty. That makes no
difference. 1t was impossible for
fair-minded men to say whether
Frank was guilty or not guilty. And
that made no difference. What is
essential is that every accused man
have trial so free from suspicion
of unfairness as to surround the
verdict, however it may go, with pub
lie confidence and approval If there
is no way under the law for Thomas
Mooney to be granted another trial,
there is only one possible thing to
do in the long run, and that is to
pardon him. The comparatively long
repTieve that has been granted
Mooney by Governor Stephens, of
California, Is an assurance that the
executive comprehends this, and may
almost be taken as a promise that
Mooney will never go to his death
without a fair trial.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
BOTTLES.

Waterloo Times-Tribune: There Is
wealth in bottles. We do not REFER
to the contents, but to the intrinsic
value of the bottles themselves
Glass, like so many other common
ties that were formerly almost as
cheap as dirt, is scarce and expen-
sive. And the quantity of glass KEEP.
out of circulation in idle but per
fectly disable bottles Is something IN
credible.
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer estl-
mates that there must be more than
nine billion empty bottles lying m
American cellars. That is about W
apiece. Judging from some cellars
we have seen, and supplementing that
evidence with backyard memories,
we can hardly call that an exaggera-
ton. :.
All those bottles are worth money
as containers or as material Tor ne"
bottles. In most communities the
once fourishing old bottle business
has been revived, and collectors are
reaping a harvest. They ought TO De
salvaged everywhere. 1t would help
the economic situation, easing the
pressure on a hardworked industry
and it would be highly profitable.
The Post-Intelligencer suggests tnat
there might be great bottle drive.
in connection with the next Red
Cross or War Savings or Liberty
bond campaign. The dry states OF
Washington and Oregon, 1t says.
would certainly go over the top II
their empty bottles were marketed
for war support. There are patr1ots
in Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, Spokane
and other centers who coulo COZ
tribute a truckload If they were sure
that no unnecessary advertising
would attach to- the philanthropy. and
most of the smaller towns could IN
ouestionably earn honor flags"
1t may be likewise in other states.
A bottle drive would be good thing
anywhere, especially for those cit-
zens who "have either got to move
their houses or their bottles"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
A Country to Be Proud o..


Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: m
American who is not proud of hi
country today must be a man witho.j
soul. In one short year we havj
assembled the finest army in M
world for it's size. The dash anj
courage and initiative and intelld
gence and vigor of the America
troops is already the talk of aa
Europe. Wherever they have had
chance to take part In the maio1
fighting, they have covered them
selves with glory. It cannot hi
doubted that the crown prince set on1
to infiict great disaster on ths
American army. He has paid fer h
with terrific losses and is now sweat
ing blood to get his men out of Md
;lutches Of the American divisions
Our boys have made a wonderful
showing-boys who a year ago knew
nothing Of fighting just plain eyerv.
day American lads who came firm,
the farms, the factories and tbo
offices of America to stop the Hnr
who was crushing the life out of civI
lization. The world never saw a fine,
soldiery. The Hun has had a taste y,
what they can do; he will get ths
full measure later.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
School For Army ChapIains

school of chaplains which, taking
men of breadth and character In the
first place. will develop them to I'LL
the requirements made upon them.
AS with the rockies" the chaplain
in his training camp turns out of bed
when the bugle blows reveille ar
6:15 o'clock. He takes a half hours
setting up drill and lines UP with cup
and plate at GAS for the regular
army mess. Glass work, after mess.
includes instruction in military law.
military customs, international law,
French, military hygiene, first aid
and general lectures on recreationai
and amusement work. In the after
noon there is military drill and in
struction in horsemanship.
A month is short period to be
grounded in these lines of work, and
physical exercises, particularly, are
more or less hard on the men. How
ever, they have the right spirit. The
instructor in riding urges the men to
realize that they are on army charg-
ers which have dash and go.
Remember" he calls, taking 1T
for granted that the students have
been country parsons, you are not
driving the old horse and buggy
now"
Chaplains rank as lieutenants and
wear the regular uniform, the only
difference being that where the lieu
tenant in the ranks wears his in
sigma on his collar, the chaplain
wears a simple cross. Major is the
highest rank that can be taken, and
there can be only limited number
of that rank among the chaplains. 1t
takes several years before a chaplain
lieutenant can rise above that rank.
Some dissatisfaction has been ex-
pressed at this ranking of the men.
This chaplains' school is for men
of the army only. Navy chaplains
get their positions more simply and
there is no training. Chaplain John
B. Frazer has been detailed by Sec
rotary of the Navy Dariels to see to
the navy chaplains. They also have
a careful physical examination, and
Chaplain Frazer sees them person
ally, the personal equation having
much to do in both army and navy
in the choice of these religious ad-
visers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
The ingenious human mind, face to face
with something it downright ought to do,
does something else.-Robert Louis Steven
son.
ECONOMY IN THE WIRE SERVICE.

Certain economies are promised under gov
eminent operation of the telegraph and tele
phone systems, and it does not yet appear
whether the attitude of the department of jus
tice toward of the telegraph companies in
respect to an important saving has been chang
ed since the administration took the wires for
the war period. Complaint and arrests were
made in the east when the government discover
ed that a wire company was sending night mes
sages and letters by train between New York
City and Boston, Washington and such other
places mi ght be convenient Apparently the
government intends to press its case against
the company, for, while the wires are now
under its CONTROL the federal grand jury at New
York City has returned two indictments, one
charging violation of the United States criminal
code which forbids the establishment of private
express for the carriage of letters between
points to which the government operates mail
service, and the other the violation of another
and somewhat similar provision of the code
1t appears that up to August second 1917,
the defendant company had made little use of
the trains for the carriage of night messages.
But between that date and June fifteenth, 1918
the number of messages sent by train from New
York wGs more than three hundred and fourteen
thousand Business was increasing in that
period, the wires were overburdened, and what
the company did was done in the interest of eff
fciency and economy. That in sending night
letters and messages by its own train messen-
gers 1t was In active competition with the post
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

New York Times: The American
army chaplain must know his manual
of tactics as well as his bible. He
must be able to sit horse and to
undergo the exposure and strain OF
trench life. He must be a soldier as
well as an evangel and a spiritual
counsellor; and so there has been
established at Camp Zachary Taylor,
Louisville. KY, the only educational
institution of its kind in the world,
so far as can be learned-a school
eighteen denominations, and they are
hefty lot.
In addition to the Presbyterians,
the Baptists, the Catholics, the Meth
odists and representatives of other
Protestant creeds, there are a few
Latter Day Saints and members OF
the Christian (Campbellite) church;
and there are three negroes, an
gregational preacher.
Graduates of this school and all
the chaplains of the army are now
to be under one general mead
Bishop Charles Henry Brent of the
diocese of western New York, for
merly bishop Of the Philippines, hav-
ing just been appointed to that Of
flee. The appointment of Bishop
Brent to this position is the latest
development in the work of organ
izing the chaplains Of the army.
There have been 5000 volunteers
for the service of chaplain since the
United States went into the war, and
now the men are selected by what
is called the Manipulating process.
The men must be under As years OF
age, and they range from recent
graduates of theological seminaries
to men of wide and varied experience
in the ministry. They will see hard
service and the physical examination
which they are obliged to pass is as
strict as that of the men.
Never before has such emphasis
been laid upon the morale of an
army as a factor in achieving victory,
and never before has the spiritual
welfare Of the soldiers received so
much attention. These things have
all been important in bringing about
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
For Pound Of Bread.

LONDON, Aug. 1.-The iron ems,
has been SO cheapened In four yeara
OF war that German soldiers no Longer
prize the decoration as distinction
and are willing to part with it for 4
good ration of bread, on being CAP
tured.
The French crofx de guerre is the
most common decoration in the allied
ranks; but as it is won only at great
risks by acts OF conspicuous bravery
the French soldier prizes it today as
highly as he ever did.
German soldiers get the iron cross
In its varying degrees for very com.
monplace acts at the front and even
for services far from the fighting. The
decoration has been bestowed literally
by the pound. Long lists of new
awards are printed nearly every week
in the German newspapers.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
ToDArs BIT or VERSE
A CASUALTY LIST.

A CASUALTY LIST.
There was always waiting in mothers eyes,
Anxiety and wonder and surmise,
Through the long day and in the longer slow,
Still afternoons, that never seemed to go,
And in the evenings when she used to sit
And listen to our casual talk and knit.
And when the day dark and rainy, and
Not fit to be abroad in, she would stand
Beside the window and peer out and shiver,
AS small sleek raindrops joined to make river
That rushed, tempestuous down the window pane,
And say: Il wonder what they do in rain?
Is 1t wet there in the trenches, do you think?"
And she would wonder If he had his ink
And razor blades and tooth paste that she sent;
And II he read much in his Testament,
Or clean forgot some mornings, boys will.
But always the wonder in her eyes
Was: "Is he living, living, living still
Alive and gay? Or lying dead somewhere
Out on the ground, and will they find him there?"
She closes her lids each night upon that look
OF waiting hand might close book
But never change the words that were within,
And when the morning noises would begin
A new day and young sun touched the skies,
Again she woke with waiting in her eyes.
But that is She does not read
The lists of casualties since that came
week two ago. There is need
She's making sweaters now for other men,
And knitting just as carefully as then.
There is no change except that she plies
Her needles swift and rythmic before,
There Is no waiting in our mothers eyes,
Anxiety or wonder any more.
Mary Carolyn Davis in the Century Magazine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

Office department was apparent. OF course this
competition will not continue now that Mr.
Burleson, postmaster general, is in charge OF the
telegraph service as well as the postal service
But it seems that the government, while aban-
donng the plan adopted by the company to save
expense, win put in operation one OF It's own.
According to despatch from Washington, 1t
is proposed that night letters and messages be
delivered by letter carriers with the first mail
deliveries in the morning.
When the government began to operate the
railroads it lost no time in adopting economy
and efficiency methods which the roads had pro-
posed in their own behalf. Now that the wires
have been taken over we may expect to see it
making the most Of ideas that originated IN the
active minds of wire experts.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
EoroetfuJ.

Burlington Hawk-Eye: There are
brains enough in this country to
frame an equitable and Just tax
iaw-but there is very, little of this
capacity in congress- says the Coun-
Gil Bluffs Non7areil. How does the
editor know this? Call together some
of the best brains in the country to
frame bill which, in their judg-
ment, would be IAN equitable and
just tax law" and another assem-
blage of brainy men can be con-
vened who would vigorously dissent
from the claim that the proposed law
would be equitable or Just. Has the
forgotten the experience
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
Foes Side bv Side.

WASHINGTON, Aug. Pit brought
smile to the faces of senators re.
Gently to see, seated side by side in
the senate galleries. Rev. E. A. Din.
widdie, legislative agent of the Ma.
tonal Anti-Saloon league, and Levi
Cooks, plain lobbyist for the liquor
interests.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

IF those pacifists who are in favor of "peace
at any price, had had their own sweet way
they would have awakened one of these fine
mornings to find that they didn't have the price
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

to make a slight sacrifice at hon
for the good of patriotism, wbij
thousands of our boys are sacrifcirI
their lives for liberty on the otbsl
side of the ocean.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

Consular reports refer to the incessant thefts
of elephants. 1t might be wise for the authori-
ties to examine carefully the baggage of out
going tourists.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

Dollars may not go as far as formerly but
one of them will still buy four War Savings
stamps.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Sioux City Journal: Nobody can
seriously object to the democrats
playing politics, so long as they play
it reasonably fair and do not put it
above country. What lots of people
do object to is playing politics and
then lying about it.
Boone News-Repubiican: It is use
less to speculate on the duration of
the war One guess is as good as
another, but we can dismiss as friyo-
lous the talk about the war being
over in a couple of months. Make
plans for two years hard fighting,
which is a better estimate.
Des Moines Register: If the crown
prince comes out of this war with
whole skin, it will be sign that
retribution can no longer we wished
on a sinner.
Marshal1town Times Republican:
Strike" is word that should be
eliminated from the American vo-
cabulary in this war. If it isn't, II
will be abolished after the war is
over Imagine the contempt with
which returned soldier will look
that struck while ne waited on the
firing line for munitions or food or
other supplies. Imagine also the re-
sentiment which he will not hesitate
to express in voice and action.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: If Burleson
couldn't speed up the mail service,
what the dickens viii he do to the
telegraph? Send it by mail? Or
parcel post?
Vinton Eagle: This year we should
accept the statements of the farmer
as to how tall their corn is and not
waste a single stalk for display pur-
poses.
Iowa City Republican: You may
be in doubt as to whether we are in
this fight in self-defense, for the free
dom of the seas, to ayenge the Lusi-
tania or what not, but there is no
doubt that we are in this fight to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

win. Reasons are of minor i'm
portance.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Senator
Cummins now admits the Iowa pri-
mary law ought to be changed. All,
the father disavows the child!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02
MOB SPIRIT AND ITS CAUSES.

The president bids us have done with the
evils that come from mob spirit in action. The
consensus of all good citizenship will agree
with the worth of this advice at this time and
at any time. We have a record with many
smirches of yielding to mad impulse in antici-
pating the orderly procedure of justice But
it might help remove one OF the outstanding
causes of the proneness of our people to yield
to this spirit if the president would use his in
fluence to make more prompt, more effective
and widely known the procedure of justice, par
ticularly in the cases of persons who are trait
ors to the nation, who set its laws and in some
cases the moral basis of all law at defiance. By
no means all our breaks from law and order
come within the limits of such cases, but it is
true and truth attested by many Of our best
iurists that the slow and entagled procedure
of the law in dealing with infringements of our
statutes and the peoples rights is contribut-
ing cause to the prevalence of mob spirit.
German press apolog ists are evidently spar
ring for time The quotations from many of
the leading German papers make interesting
reading in which cause for amusement may
easily be found One thing is plain: the Ameri-
cans are to be given no credit for the German
reverse And in this is strong evidence of the
predicament in which the German government
through it's censorship of the press has put it
self The press has systematically been forced
to belittle the American war power, to deny
facts and suppress official information. The
government cannot afford recantation of all
this lying propaganda; it must break ground
for gradual enlightenment which is bound to
come as news from the troops at the front per-
colates into Germany. The German armies
know our men are in the war and in time the
German people will know In the interval the
press gets on as best it can assured that what
ever it does, it will be sorry.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

The bessedness Of giving Is limited checks and
hankbIis There gifts that far thesesfts
patience, sympathy thought and counsel and these
DtSts that the poorest give-L. Whiting.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

Des Moines Register: If the crown
prince comes out of this war with a
whole skin, it will be a sign that
retribution can no longer we wished
on a sinner.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

Vinton Eagle: This year we should
accept the statements of the farmer
as to how tall their corn is and not
waste single stalk for display pur-
poses.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-08-02

Cedar Rapids Gazette: If Burleson
couldn't speed up the mail service,
what the dickens will he do to the
telegraph? Send it by mail? Or
parcel post?