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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19

"cN Duy the Baby.
FOR SALE-Oak music cabinet mahogany
Morris chair, baby and push cart
Iowa City Citizen.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19

Sauerkraut is Dutch, not German" says Mr.
Hoover. Well. anyhow it is in Dutch
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19

Virginia ard other Southern States are
Vitaily interested in the report that China is
about TO close its doors against the importa-
ton of tobacco from America and bestow
monopoly OF that trade upon Japan in re-
turn for financial favors. Speedy and en-
phatic representations will go forward to
Tokyo if the report proves to be founded on
facts. The United States was chiefly in
strumental in opening the doors of China 20
the world, and it cannot now consent TO
having them closed in its face, especially at
the hands Of an allied country. TO give
Japan the tobacco monopoly would establish
a precedent that eventually might drive
Western commerce from the Orient
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19

Let's see. what has become OF the party Wy
used to say that the war was 5000 miles ava,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19
Set the
NIississ
at Work

Is inc country'S greatest waterway. 1t is as ser
Vtceabie today for low -cost freight tranSporta-
tLon as VIXEN II was the Middle Wet: main line
CT communication from Northern Joints to thu.
cur. ana II can he rendap;ce 10 this with
our delay and with only the expense OF pro-
V!ding harees and tow-boi;s. It is the logical
means of relief tor the congestion of sea board
railway traffic and affords n direct and cheap
outlet for eXnort shipments of grain and other
iarnl commoditie*. Al that stands in tho way
OF tho utilization OF the mississippi for the pur-
rose for which nature formed ii is the orposi-
ton OF the ra nroads. That opposition, with tho
railroads under government control ard with
the necessity grown urgent Of developing every
resource OF tra importation for military efficiency
has become both futile and obstructive. At
least for the duration of tho war this great idle
water route should nc revived and made to do
Us shar" Of the work of carrying material and
foodstuffS for : OOPS in France and for our
allies The mississippi has afforded historic
example Of the romance of trans porta ton; it is
StiN capable OF e&ertiag .uscfulne.S which
shouid make ii a supccmey important agency
or war tr3nSportatiou.- New York World
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19

Secretary McAdoo is engaged in the self
appointed task OF educating the American
people up TO the belief that corporations
have souls His undertaking is not so pom
derous as II would have been few years
ago. when public men of all political afiilia-
tons, from the presidency down TO the hum
bic keeper Of the pound. were busy twenty
four hours each day denouncing all combina-
tons OF capital and proclaiming that moth
ing good could come out OF the corporate
Denmark. The past year has seen a right
about-face in both the popular and govern
mental attitude, and to-day some OF the cor
poraticns which were despsed have become
the cornerstone OF the country's war build
ing. In light OF what they arc doing for the
winning Of the war. the old-fashioned de-
nunciation from every stump. which was
sure to bring an encore, is no longer in
favor.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19
British
Conscientious
Directors

they were sen
took the matt
up and old r
with the rcsu'
now permitted
lieu OF taking
the corscicrti,
worry. and for
were raccStly
iniprisounicnt.
viewed and re
some of them
priScnmcnt. 7
it. is best 10 &C
the State. no !
lions have to
trcal Gazette.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19

The representatives OF Western
states who have gone 10 Wash
ington 20 urge the rcha bilitation
Of tho mississippi River as n
trade route have an unanswer-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19

PUBLISHED every day In ,he year 1T 10 South Tenth
street Rlchmond. Va. by The Tmca- Dkpatch Pub
Fishing Co.. Inc, Charles l.. unsbrook, Editor and
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19
Current Editorial Comment

In the carly dnys OF conscrip-
ton in Great Britain quite 4 few
obstinate conscientious objcctors
we've tried by court martial and
sentenced to death Tho rnycrr
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-06-19

1t is somewhat OF jar to learn that the first
man convicted OF violating the antloaing law
convicted because he went fishing
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Associated Is exclusively entitled to the use Tor
Republication of gil dispatches credited to 1t or
not otherwise credited In this paper and also Lno
local news published herein. ALI rights Of rcpubiica-
tion Of special dispei herein also reserved
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
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Three cool frosty mornings and
three cool nights have been our exper-
fence for several days, but everying
was ready for it and 1t will have a
tendency to ripen the corn up. Many
are cutting corn with the harvester,
while others are busy drilling wheat
and rye in their fall blowing. Good
seed wheat Is selling at from $3.50 to
$3.50 per bushel. Others are filling 81
los. SO 1t is impossible to get hands
10 90 the work as so many or our peo-
PIE have gone to kill the kaiser. IL
seems that everybody Is looking for,
business to help the war along and
1t really looks fine to see it coming
our way SO nicely.
Quite a number Of our twenty-o ne
year olds are expecting their call
about the 7th OF October. our last ones
that went to Rockford, Illinois are
guarding German prisoners. Quite a
unique sight for an Introduction.
Mr.. ano Mrs. Ira Smarte are Keokuk
shoppers today.
Miss Helen Price held a sale on Sat
urday and sold the household Goods
which belonged to her father John A.
Price, who passed away t., weeks
ago. A large crowd was present and
everything sold at high figure. Hell
en- will go with her sister Mrs. Minnie
Barber and stay the winter with her.
It will be needed rest for her as she
has been in constant care of her par
ents for six years, both having been
paraletics and suffered long.
Mr.. Jos. Kessler has put new con-
crete sidewalks in and around his
palatial home which adds much to its
appearance.
The Presbyterian people heve been
repaperingg and painting the interior
of the church.
We are glad to learn that Rev. Sci
bel has been returned by conference
to preach for the NJ. E. congregation.
PREACHING will be held in the Baptist
church, Sunday at eleven a. M and at
1880 p. m.
Our poultry dealers are very busy
gathering in the chickens at present
so much SO that the market price has
dropped to twenty-five cents the
pound but that seems like a good
price.
DIR. c. A. Runyon is reported to be
but not able to leave the
sick room, we are all trying to be real
well Willie he was so sick, and all are
glad he is recovering from his dan
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

|gerous sickness. but his son. DR..
Claude has filled his place very salts
factory, during his sickness.
Henry Seibenborn and wife attended
the Price sale and met many of their
old friends and rneighbors.
Miss Lenie Newman has aeen Wis
iting friends at Clayton and Vienna HUI
ley is doing the switchboard at the
Independent Exchange IN ner absence
Miss Helen Garard returned to her
home in Butler, Mo-, last Thursday, af-
ter several weeks with relatives and
friends.
Miss Leota McGaw will attend
school at Blackburn college at Carl
irsville ILL.,. this year.
Thursday night OF last week our
town was visited by harness thieves;
they visited Earl Kern's barn and
stole harness and also to w. S. Mack's
barn, where they stole parts OF two
sets OF harness; some have an idea
who the culprit was by his foot print.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
CLOTHE THE NAKED.

If there is any well-to-do family in this city
or In the farm homes round about which has not
on closet hooks OF shelves articles of clothing
(which Will never be used and never be missed
IF given away, the habits of the people must
have materially changed in recent years There
lis of course some difference in family practices
in such matters. There are people who haste
Ito get rid of every article that has served it's
purpose, confident that they will never need it
again. But probably the custom in the major
hty of homes is still to retain for time garments
with warmth and wear left in them until it is
evident that they never Will be pressed into
service again.
s. 1t is articles Of apparel of this kind for which
There is now in northern France and Belgium
need so crying as never to have been equaled in
any land at any time of which we have knowl-
edge. The people having worn their clothing
unto rags, have actually worn out the rags Their
Restitution is pitiful and their suffering as the
days grow colder will be beyond description.
NO family III this city of Keokuk has ever been
80 near stark nakedness as hundreds of thou
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
PEACE CHATTER
CONTINUES
Chancellor Won Hertline Now Said to
be In Favor Of Wilson's
Fourteen Points, In
Principle.

/ UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
/ AMSTERDAM, Sept. 25.-Chancel
lor Won Hertling says he is ready for
peace based, in principle, upon Pres.
ident Wilson's fourteen points.
This statement, according to ad.
vices received here today was made
in the chancellor's speech to the main
committee Of the reichstag yesterday
The chancellor declared he had
evinced such readiness in his speech
of February % to which, however, he
pointed out Wilson has not replied
Members Of the main committee
are reported to be dissatisfied with
Won Hertling's speech. considering it
unequal to, the gravity of the situa-
ton. Party leader of the reichstag
were to meet this morning to decide
their attitude toward Won Hertling.
.'In regard to President Wilson's
fourteen points. my speech Of Febru-
airy % showed that agreed in prin-
cfple with a peace on such basis,
but Wilson has not answered that
speech" the chancellor said.
I'VE desire general disarma ment
and freedom OF the seas. The foreign
secretary will discuss the political
situation, particularly the Austrian
note"
Won Hertling said he would ener-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
TIE BEST Letter.

TIE BEST LETTER.
the maiden adore,
And declare in every letter that love
You may praise grace beauty thousand glow
ing lines,
And compare her with the brightest
that shines.
If had the pen of Byron you would every day
In composing written worship your sweetheart
away,
welcome older gentler
letter your mother the boy loves
Youthful blood is fierce and flaming, and when writing
your love
You Will your passion, swearing by
above,
Moving by the moons spendor grille you
adore
Is the you'll maid loved before
You will pen full many promise those pages white
and dumb
That you never can UP the married years to
But precious letter, bringing deeper
bliss
is the letter your boy
She will read very lights
low,
Sitting in the old corner where she held you years
And regardless Of dction spelling style
And although composition would provoke critics
smile
IN her old and trembling fingers of
Stained by and sadness she hugs it her
heart.
Yes the letter letters you may roam
letter mother from her boy from home
q. William F. Kirk
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
MORE HOGS ON THE ISLAND.

Rochester-Post Express: Charles
Piez, general manager of the Emer-
gency corporation told representa-
tive of the Philadelphia Public Ledg-
er on Wednesday that at the present
rate of work the Hog Island plant will
not complete more than 55 per cent.
of its years program Of construct
ion. Furthermore Mr.. Piez's statement
is endorsed by the labor leaders of the
/ plant; they say that the spirit of the
men must be changed or the falldown
will be lam entable The working force
showed conclusfvely what 1t could ac-
jccmpfish under the stimulus Of the
! prize riveting contests, but with that
Istimulus removed the work slumped
nearly 80 per cent. While Mr. Peiz and
| the labor leaders agree on conditions,
/ they do not as yet agree on the causes.
Mr.. Piez, however, does not deny the
allegations made by the labor men
! and is investigated to determine the
reliability of them. The labor leaders
| say the trouble is caused by complais-
ant foremen, Bosses" ballplayers.
professional patriots and all sorts OF
"easy job getters' who have been put
into positions Of authority over work
about which they know nothing. Every
member of Connie Mack's team and
many members of lot of other
teams are said to have been given re-
munerative jobs on the island; their
interest is in their pay and the occas-
ional ball games they play in. Phila-
delphia politics comes in for share OF
the indictment.
Whatever the cause of this threat
to honest work in one of the most I'M
portant of our war plants, it is an
aromination. Mr.. Piez declares slack
erism exists to an alarming extent.
He ought to be able to find where 1t
is and if it is pervasive of the whole
organization, so much the more easily
should it be found And more than this,
as representative of the government,
Mr.. Piez ought to endeavor to stop it
and make widely public any influences
he has to fight in this endeayor. Over
in France more than million young
Americans are doing superb service
at a great risk and for small wages.
This island is rightly named If 1T is
the industrial home OF workers, whose.
paw is large, whose labor is vastly inn
portant and whose spirit is lazy and
greedy
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
A FiENDISH TRAP.

Des Moines Capital: One of the
eneny's most fiendish acts yet
chronicled-and the London Morning
Post says its authenticity is unques-
tionable-occurred during the recent
operations of the Fourth British army
in reoccupying a town when the Ger
mans had retreated from it.
The British soldiers were making
their way through the war-scarred
streets of the town and a group Of
them were halted by sight which
made their souls sick. On the door
of one of the, evacuated houses a
little kitten was hanging, crucifed,
with nails driven through its four
paws. The poor little thing had
probably been there two or three
hours, and was crying pitifully, and
struggling desperately to release it.
self.
One of the British soldiers, with
the natural instinct of pity for the
suffering animal, rushed forward to
free the kitten. The moment he
pulled out one of the nails in the
little kittens paws, hidden explo-
sive was released and the young sol
der was blown to atoms.
Could human nature conceive
more inhuman trap? In the big book
of German atrocious horrors, this
brutal act on the part of the boche
will be one of the blood red acts for
which humanity will demand expia-
ton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

There something greater in this than its
men; it is the of the world,
the appearance of multitude OF stage
Yet the few have acted their parts alone This inu
is endure to the of What more of the
present is to survive? Perhaps much of which now
bake note The glory of is often hidden from
Itself. Perhaps word has been spoken day
which have deigned hear, which grow
clearer and louder through all ages Perhaps silent
thinker among in his closet whose
70 fill the earth.-Wiam {. Charming.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Perry Chief: It is to be hoped that
when the final accounting comes the
allied leaders will not forget to give
Turkey what she deserves. The
cleanup of the world should be thor
ough.
Waterloo Courier, Has 1t occurred
to Baron Burian, Austrian foreign
minister, that the slaughter" he
mentioned in his recent sob was in
progress from March 81 until the
Yanks hit the Huns at Chateau
Thierry, but that he did not say n
word to stay the slaughter then.
Dubuque Times-J journal: Belgium
would, Of course, have given the
same reply without any consultation.
The nation which threw its frail
body in front of the fire-bfeaghins
German monster in 1914 to preserve
its sacred honor and to assist in the
protection of the worlds freedom
Council Bluffs Nonparen: Get
ready to have your pleasure car
privileges curtailed. The order is
coming.
Muscatine Journal: II a twenty or
thirty years residence in America
does not remove the faint of the
damnable philosophy to which Ger
many subscribes, we must realize
that drastic means are neces sary to
arouse the native German from his
lethargy. 1t is education by force,
the only argument the German has
been taught to accept.
Davenport Times: When the big
Yankee guns begin dropping shells
into the fortress city of Metz. as
they soon will be doing. the Germans
will know that war is something
more than "frolic," which was what
the kaiser promised them in 1911
Waterloo Courier: Today the
American army, having wiped out
salient, capturing in the
operation 10000 Huns, stands within
cannon range of Metz and at the Dor
der of one of the forfeited provinces.
Is it any wonder that Fran e is
shaken with mighty emotion:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
Fort Madison strik. 80

FORT MADISON. Iowa, Sent >.
With all Of the trouble between 90. y
factory officials and the ooO 1A ~
ployes apparently settled, the ws ~
ers at the Sheaffer Pen comn,n "oit
this city returned to their tasks asks y
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
BECOMING Americanized.

Milwaukee Sentinel: And as a
further flattering attention we expect
Queen Mary will chew gum at the
very next American function she at.
tends.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

getically support the franch,,.
form and II it seems 'impossiS,o y
obtain the desired result by the , ~.
parliamentary methods" he viii Ns ~
ploy other constitutional meona en-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

sands Of these Hun-plundered people are We
should not hesitate for moment to clear our
closets and storerooms of every garment we can
do without in order that the naked of France
and Belgium may be clothed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

When man goes into the revolution business
it behooves him to have a working knowledge
of history. For instance, it would seem as if
Mr.. Lenine had never heard of a woman named
Charlotte Corday
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
When the Rhin. ,s &c.,

When the Rhine is Crosses
Mitchell Gazette: It is easia. !.
fight on ones own soil and evan %
empty stomachs, so the Germar avn %
De expected to brace up somewS IT,,
after they are driven beyond M ua'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

LET the American army come, :" says a Ber-
LIN newspaper Under the circumstances it
seems as if the Berlin editor were giving his
readers very sound advice
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

After the war there will be something of a
rush on the part of many distinguished states
men to take part in the reconstruction period eff
the chautauqua circuits
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25
KILL THE PRIMARY Law.

| A thoughtful contemporary remarks that
| California has weird primary law but that
the west coast state is only degree ahead OF
Iowa in that particular. However that may be,
California is superative in freakish balloting
preliminary to its general elections, and its
boasts of superiority in climate will have to
take a back seat when it comes to consideration
Iof that section of its civil code devoted to the
primary. 1t is not easy to understand how
such crazy device purportlng to enable the
people to select their candidates for Office could
ever have been constructed except by debat-
ing society in lunatic asylum. Yet the Iowa
state law, while not quite so fantastic and ut
terly unavoidable and absurd, is also system
which only reformers with brainstorm could
have fastened on the state. The more that Is
seen of it the more evident are it's defects. The
more it is tried the more unsatisfactory its re-
suits. It gives political manipulators and self
seekers with large means at command power
they never before possessed, or dreamed of pos
sessing The defects of the law are radical,
incurable, whereas the old simple, logical con-
vention system gave the people full power to
choose their candidate whenever they took the
trouble to do so; and might with slight changes
have been made proof against boss rule and cor
rupting influences.
Former President Taft, in one of his regular
contributions to the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
points out some of the evils of the general prim-
airy, whose adoption he regrets, holding that
proper regulation of the methods of electing
delegates to conventions would have corrected
abuses while retaining the benefits of the repre-
sentative system which is the distinguishing
glory of popular government. Mr.. Taft writes:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

Shafts sunk into coal field in
Germany, which has been burning
several years. revealed eighteen .
veins of blazing coal
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

In these days of necessary economy of paper
1t is interesting to remember that Germany be.
gan her drive to ruin by scrapping paper.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-09-25

Do justice to your brother (you can do that,
whether you love him or not), and you will
come to love him.-Ruskin.