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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
IN RECOGNITION OF vALoR.

The senate has passed bill permitting
Americans to receive and wear decorations be-
slowed on them for valor by allied governments,
and the measure authorizes the president to be-
stow American emblems on heroes of our allies.
If our decorations are beautiful appropriate
and conferred with judgment, they will be
treasured and handed down as precious heir
looms by those who receive them. 1t is emf
nently fitting that nations should thus reward
conspicuous merit. Decorations are the acco-
ladies' of knighthood which teach men to set
higher store on honor, on sacrifice and on no
bility of life. This commercialized age OF ours
has been too prone to consider money the only
measure and reward of achievement; and it Is
well that we now create value that money
cannot buy. The fathers of our struggling re-
public had double reason for refusing to al
low its citizens to wear foreign decorations.
They wished to emphasize the fact that equality
was the cornerstone on which they built; and
they sought to prevent sacrifice of American
interests and subservience to foreign powers by
which decorations might be won. They had no
wish to see American ambassadors come back
beiewelled with the gifts of kings. But the
present plan of recognizing valor is not open to
the old objections. 1t simply puts a premium
on noble acts and those high qualities that even
the humblest citizen may posses. What could
be more truly democratic than thisf
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
IN POOR TASTE.

The conviction and sentence of Mrs Rose
Pastor Stokes is the first under the new espion-
age and sedition laws which has attracted wide
attention; and the case will undoubtedly run
the gamut of all the courts before it is ended.
Mrs. Stokes comrades in socialism are, of
course, caustic in their comment and they ind-
cate belief that she was tried as much by a
deranged public opinion as by constitutional
tribunal. This comment is only natural from
people whose reasoning powers have led them
TO the excess of statement from which Mrs.
Stokes is now suffering. But, if the Stokes
case is to be considered from angles other than
those which the law provides, it may be well to
reflect that if she had remained in her native
Russia the chances are as one to thousand
that she never would have made advantageous
marriage that she never would haze attained
to anything like the position which America
has enabled her to take, and that it is mighty
poor taste, to say the least, for one for whom
country has done as much America has done
for her to revile the government under which
she has made so great an advance.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

American Review of Reviews: No
spectacle provided by Nature is more
impressive than total eclipse of the
sun. This fact is not generally real
lied by persons who have never seen
one, because their idea OF such an
event is. as a rule, based upon the
relatively commonplace phenomenon
of a partial solar eclipse or upon the
equally tame spectacle OF lunar
eclipse. With favorable weather, the
produced by the sudden
failing of the light of day just before
totality, the weird sunset colors
around the horizon, the appearance OF
the brighter stars and planets, and the
lovely wispy glow OF the corona,
spreading outward from the suns Dor
der-all features of a total as dis
from a partial solar eclipse
lis one that can never be forgotten.
The eclipse of June s, 1918, will De
total for the brief period of from one
to two minutes along the center, ana
for an instant along the border, OF a
strip of territory in the United States
nowhere more than 40 miles in diam
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
OUR GUESTS
Fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle.

Fort Dodge this week has been en-
taken it's place in the front ranks Of
fraternal societies, because of the ex-
cellent work it has been doing in
helping win the war-not only in the
character of the effort which has
been put forth in the American army
camps, but on the battlefieIds of Eur
ope as well.
The Knights of Columbus, an or
ganization of Catholic laymen COM
prising some 10000 members in the
United States and their possessions,
was one of the agencies-Aesignate
by Secretary of War Baker to do So
cial welfare work when hostilities
started on the Mexican border and
the knights made good in such man
ner. that when America entered the
present conflict the secretary of war
asked the good work be continued
along with the Y. NJ. c. A.. the
Young Mems Hebrew association, the
Lutheran brotherhood and the other
kindred societies which indicated a
desire to do their share in making
army life as attractive as possible for
the boys from back"
The knights OF Columbus have
been called 'the right arm of the
Catholic church and it must be. ad-
mitted that the spirit and broad
minded attitude apparent on every
hand where the knights have been do
ing war work, has done more, per-
haps than any other agency to batter
down the wall of religious prejudice
and hiPofry which has prevailed since
the Catholic church was established.
Out of the melting pot of the allied
nations and the coordination of the
various peoples and organizations in
this country has come about bet
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
HOW 1T WORKS.

Cedar Rapids Republican: A meth
odist minister who has occupied
many pulpits in Iowa, writes that
upon three or four occasions he has
been located in so-called foreign
communities" and he did not find
the living or the associations very
pleasant. Speaking of these foreign
language pastors, he writes as fol
lows:
In no case has the pastor OF such
a church been man OF public
spirit. We could never get any OF
them to mingle with the men of the
community in any movement for pub
lie good: nor would they encourage
their people to attend any patriotic
meetings, such as Memorial day, or
Fourth OF July exercise. They would
never appear on the platform In the
annual commencement exercises. OF
the public schools, and they did try
their best to keep their young from
mingling with the English-speak1rs
Young people of the community. Their
idea is one of clannishness. and they
endeavor to build up community Of
their own, as nearly like the old coun-
try community as is possible in the
United States.
There we think we have state
ment of the most evil in American
life. That is the evil we ought to
reach. Whether few old people may
talk in a foreign language which they
can understand is not SO vital. The old
folks will pass away. Most of them
are good souls, even if they have not
been able to Americanize themselves.
They will do us no harm and we
should in no wise harrass them or
make them feel un-at-home among US,
such a policy would debase us with
out ennobling them, but the thing to
do is to look after the young, the
boys and the girls of the future. Let
it be seen that each one is not only
given the opportunity to learn the
language of the country of which
they are to be voting citizens, but
that they are compelled to learn the
language of their country. And III The
old folks do not like the idea then
the old folks are wrong and are do
ing wrong to their own children for
their good is included in their Amer
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
Eclipse of June Eighth

eter. but extending all the way from
the Pacific coast of the state of Wash
ington to the Atlantic coast of Flori-
da. The scene to be witnessed within
this narrow path of totally will Tex
cept where cloudy weather intervenes)
be incomparably more interesting
than the partial phase of the eclipse
visible in other parts of the United
States, and will amply repay long
journey on the part of persons living
outside the favored zone.
On the date in question the moon
passes between the sun and the earth.
and the tip of her long conical shadow
extending out into space, sweeps over
our globe from point in the Pacific
ocean south of Japan eastward TO the
Bahama islands The shadow travels
from Washington state to Florida in
Al minutes. 1t should be noted, how
ever, that clock time is two hours
faster in Florida than on the Pacific
coast; thus the shadow arrives at the
mouth of the Columbia river at 1855
D. m. Pacific summer time, and at Or
lando, Florida, at 6:41 p. m. central
summer time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
THE SPIRIT OF VICTORY.

Chicago Daily News: More calk-
ing-less talking" is the latest word
of counsel from Schwab, the ship
builder. 4
The Belgian soldiers. coming to
Chicago after four years of active
service on western and eastern fight
ing fronts, and the French blue dew
iIs,'' carrying wounds from the Marine.
the Somme and Verdun. have spoken
to us calmly but with whitening force.
These men, SCARED and burned in
the terrible furnace of war, tell US
that there is nothing worth thinking
about or living for except the win
ming of the war.
We must forget all politics that
does not help win the war. We must
forget all business and all daily work
that does not in some way contribute
to victory in this dreadful, this lib
Grating conflict.
Underneath all attempts to express
this need in concrete terms of our
day and our people is an ideal The
simplicity of it rises to a terrible
grandeur in these words of Steven
Louzanne OF the French high COM
mission in the United States:
France will die rather than live
in a degraded humanity. To fight
Germany France has already given
.000, 900 men. We are ready to give
more When there are no more men
the women and children will rise up.
When there are no more children
the dead will rise up. France will
live free or die free. And France
will live"
America as yet has no right to
speak in this heroic and prophetic
tone. America can earn the right SO
to speak by living UP to the best that
is in the hearts of its people.
Meanwhile the words of Schwab
will help: More calking-less talk
ing"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
DON'T SPRINKLE YOUR g..

Grace Tabor writes in +ho ~
Home Companion: e "ona@
1T has already been ern,.,
IT will bear repeating. tia, r
q plant or garden space h. ssssa)
ling is usually more harris ra|
helpful. inasmuch as II indnat ~
grow tn, up in the moistena,5
lne feeding rootlets that sborIs 4
deep in the ground. These wi.
In a network near the surface .s .a
moisture. find themselves eYna ,ur
the fierce and baking heat f ~
GUNNER whenever the moistn,a
Out, and dry out it will. They ~
able to bear this scorching h.:
tremely tender and demanS;aas
earth around them; and the 80
either death to the plant Or - l
ened and miserable condition H., a
might as Wei die. va
This surface watering bv
or hand bears no relation of
to thorough saturation such
system of irrigation makes no..;s
But unless such system is inst s
/ would urge every gardener i
country to pin his faith to ths
vator and his own industry thar
rather than to any method n =.
ing by hand. Certain. things u.s
'watered in when transplanting.
otherwise, eschew the hose and
ering can"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

ter understanding and more liber-
al tolerance of the other fellow s
views. 1t is inspiring indeed to see
Catholics and Protestants, Jews and
gentiles; X. C.'s and Masons joining
hands and going forth to do the ma
tons bidding. 1t is now considered
nothing uncommon to hear members
of the Masonic fraternity speak at
banquets and social functions held
under the auspices of the Knights of
Columbus, as was done here in Fort
Dodge Sunday night. No longer do
we view with surprise Catholic
priests and Protestant ministers upon
the same platform at public gather
ings. The war is making US all more
democratic in these things and it is
largely due to such organizations as
the one to which Fort Dodge is now
host, that these events are coming
to pass.
Over all the K. of C. buildings in
American army camps and the huts
in France appears the sign, Every
body Welcome" There is the best OF
feeling and cooperation, we are told
between the secretaries of these diff
ferent societies in charge of the
buildings and it makes no difference
what mans religion may be-or II
he hasn't any at all, the welcome
sign is out.
Therefore Fort Dodge is glad to
welcome the knights and to add a
tribute of honor and respect to the
excellent work which they are doing
in all patriotic endeavors calculated
to win the war. We hope they will be
ca uve11 entertained and so well salts
fled with their visit that they Will
want to come again Like the slogan
which they have adopted over the
cantonment buildings everybody
welcome in Fort Dodge.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
WHEN A MAN is DRUNK.

In an article in the American Mag
azine. a man says:
ga man is half idiotic when he's
half drunk he told me. He thinks
he thinks great thoughts; but II he'd
only take the trouble to write them
down. Look here! John produced
little book full of notes dld TINS
These are some OF my great thoughts
I'd be ashamed to read them 10 you
when 7 was drunk they appeared so
wonderful that recorded them. /
didn't want to lose any of the gems
that John Barleycorn had handed me.
"sThat's the fun, the pleasure the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
A WHITETHRoAT SINGS.
From ancient Edens long forgot
He felt breath of spring,

From ancient EGenS long 1OfgOt
He felt breath Of spring,
And in the ieafless apple tree
He heard a whitethroat sing.
With fluted triplets, clear and sweet,
The bird proclaimed its joy,
and on the withered orchard grass
The man became boy.
boy who ran, boy who dreamed,
In April sun and rain;
who knew all good was happiness,
All evil only pain.
Sing on, o whitethroat in the tree,
He does not hear you now,
The years are trampling on his heart
And armies DER his brow.
From ancient Edens long forgot
No resurrection comes
Until the smallest sparrow's song
Is louder than the drums!
Walter Prichard Eaton, in Atlantic Monthly
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

The friendships of vastly agreeable but they
know all the time that friend viii
marry and put you second situation
China and become more to than name remit
nscence letter very aborious
read; will take up religious crochet and
treat you to sour looks So in
another life apart and breaks the goodly
feiIoxships foreyer.-Robert Louis Stevenson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Sioux City Journal: The republican
nominee for congress in the tenth
district had the two unbeatable as
sets of loyalty issue and the failure
of a certain Des Moines newspaper 10
support him.
burlington Hawk-Eye: 1t may be
all right, but some of the stay-at,
homes find it difficult to understand
WHY the privates and the non-coms
in the militia are going across, ana
The officers are compelled to stay at
home So far as general appearances
90 the officers and the privates could
wei play their part" il they were
given a chance.
ottumwa Courier: The question OF
huyfne coal now or waiting until
naxt winter is one of patriotism IL
is question of business judgment,
100 but first of all it is question Oh
patriotism.
Cedar RAPIDS Republican: WASH
ington recently sent out an appear 70
the people not TO write so many iet
ters. many of them on silly questions
IN the various departments Oh the
government The answering Oh sucn
letters has become burdensome. NO"
Ill, come one in Washington very
Kindly take the hint about writing SO
r,anw letters to the people. The
nails are filled with circulars, docu-
ments speeches and SO on, nine
tenths of which find their ways INTO
tho waste paper baskets What inc
government has wasted in such wnoi-
~ useless literature would nave
floated many airplanes.
Dos Moines Register: General
wood will have the laugh on some
body if things get SO serious over
,bere that they find it necessary 10
aend him across the big pond
D.e Moines Tribune: we snall
chin American soldiers to France I'M
m there are enough to drive the Ger
man army back; that may mean =,
600 600 or it may mean 1o,OOV,oVo. De %,
tho number what it may. there Win
he enough to win the victory no"
we are in IL
co,rc;I Rluffs Nonpareil: If more
.,s.nurr,;nstion to fight the war
,h,cugb 10 a victory were necessary
~ HIM attacks on hospitals would
s,,nniy II. They rarely fail. when the
sIi,eg faIter. to supply the motive
neceszary TO inpcl them to fight
vim renewed energy.
yarsbaIltown Times Republican:
,r,,, Incident should notify the war
aaa -. that politics il adjourn
ed Maybe then General Leonard
might be assigned a command across
the geas in conformity with the de-
tees az the entente nations.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
lake II AIILRanL

Iroquois Chief: That chicken,
come home to roost is again exam,
fed in the fact that former critic.
William H. Taft are praying i
everybody will forget what thew !
about him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

A correspondent with the American forces on
the French front sends this despatch to the peo-
pie of the world outside of Germany:
German airnen last night deliberately dropped
bombs hospitals in which there were scores
of Americans and hundreds Of French sick and
wounded. The hospital is in a town many miles
in the front.
A number of Americans slightly injured
by flying glass One French nurse was killed and
another injured probably fatally. Several civilians
died of wounds.
Civilized belligerents in most of the modern
wars have aimed to put their antagonists out of
the battle and incapacitate them from further
Immediate fighting by wounds that could be
healed rather than by inflicting horrible in
iuries that must result in death. To this end
huge, tearing bullets gave place TO slender ones
which would put men out of commission, so to
speak, without mangling them beyond repair.
Such a thing as numbering the wounded was
never thought Of IF foeman was hors du
combat that was all his honorable enemy de-
sired: and the idea Of bombarding a hospital or
sinking a ship which carried only nurses and
wounded soldiers on beds of pain was so alb
borrent that nations with one consent declared
That savagerv like that should have no place in
war But the Germans have habituallv done
both of these horrible deeds and squadrons of
HIM airplanes lombard allied Red Cross hos
nitals. All Red Cross hospitals are plainly
marked as such. No airmen can mistake them
for ANYTHING else, and there is no possible ques-
lion as to the deliberate intent OF the Germans
Does this not prove conclusively the nature
of the enemy we are fightng7 Does it not show
that they have put themselves by their barbara
ties outside the pale of civilization? No allied
airmen have done these things. Had they beer
ordered to do so they would have refused. Anc
in all their fighting on the sea no enemy whc
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
CO.. PAYING Material.

chicago News: Both Rose Pastor
a.eLea and Senator La Toilette deny
maj they intended to be disloyaL POS
sItIv not. But the road TO German
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

The next time Emperor Charles Of Austria
Hungary makes any tentative remarks on peace
he will wait until he is told what he thinks on
the subject.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

could be rescued by allied sailors was permit
ted to drown. The Germans alone are guilty OF
these atrocities They alone wage conscience
ISIS, inhuman war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

devil says he gives US, the reward.
But the real pay! Well, let me tell
you something: you haven't any idea
what the drinking man goes
through
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

The fact that hundreds Of thousands of Rus
sian husbands and wives are separating shows
that the Russians cannot even agree among
themselves
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

domination and the famous highway
to hades are paved with the same
material.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

A Chicago scientist predicts that coal VIII
give out in a billion years. Undoubtedly there
are many people in this world VINO are Glad OF
opportunity to have something more TO worry
about.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
USING THE NEW REVENUES.

knowledge of what financial burdens the ma
ton is to be called on to carry is necessary to
business welfare. Moreover, the tadmonltions
which the president addressed to congress as to
putting its best brains to work on measures
that shall distribute the burdens equally and
shall strike straight at war profiteering will
be heartily approved. But while the president
urges congress to enact new revenue laws with
out thought of party, of personal politics or OF
selfish interests, it would be welcome utter
ance if he pledged the administration to more
careful management of expenditures There
have been enormous wastes. The admlnlstra-
ton is, through its departments particularly
through the war department and the railroad
directorate, asking immense sums of money to
be spent at the discretion of these depart
ments. We are running riot with billions OF dol
lars The nation will back up the government
to the utmost, but sooner or later 1T Will de-
rnand an accounting Good financial manage
ment is as necessary to winning this war as
the troops we are rushing to the front.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

DIR. Won Bethmann-Hollweg says that Mr..
Gerard violated the ethics of diplomacy We
suppose that Mr.. Gerard should have wrecked
munitions factories in Germany, blown up rail
road bridges, destroyed trains, doomed fac
tories and conducted frst-class spy system IN
order to have upheld the finest traditions OF
diplomacy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

Sioux City Journal: The republican
nominee for congress in the tenth
district had the two unbeatable as
sets of loyalty issue and the failure
of a certain Des Moines newspaper 10
support him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07
If Poverty is the Mother Of Grimes want
of Sense is the Father-De La Bruyere.
DELIBERATE INHUMANITY.

A correspondent with the American forces on
the French front sends this despatch to the peo-
pie of the world outside Of Germany:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

MarshaIltown Times on :
,r-,,e. -,rerident should notify the war
dl,,. rtroert that politics il adjourn.
ed Maybe then General Leonard
.,sf,t,t he assigned a command across
.I.s aoaa in conformity with the de-
Tres of the entente nations.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-06-07

ottumwa Courier: The question Q,
buying coal now or waiting uht =,
next winter is one of patriotism. II
is question of business judgment
TOO. but first of all it is question OF
patriotism.