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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
their government further inland.
Eventually they will find that even
Russia ends at the Pacific ocean.
When in Doubt Eat Cheese

Whereas in 1881 we shipped abroad
nearly 150.00o.000 pounds of cheese,
in 1914, just before the war cut off our
trade, we shipped only $500 900. saws
William Leavitt Stoddard in the
Mothers Magazine. We simply did
not appreciate cheese, and we came to
rely on other nations for our supply.
We relied on foreign cheese makers
to such an extent that whereas in 1900
we bought only 1880 900 pounds from
abroad. in 1914 we bought nearly five
times as much, or GA, 900 900 pounds.
much of which could and should have
been produced in the United States.
1t is bound to take some years to re.
verse this drift of things.
BY legislative fiat or court decree no
governmental power can induce folks
to eat cheese. Perhaps the war viii
do what courts and congresses cannot
Perhaps the scarcity of meat will turn
us more to cheese. good, solid di.
gestible. outstanding food.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
FREEDOM OF TRADE.

Sir James Bell was not thinking of the com
iparative advantages of free trade and protec
Ition but of governmental interference with nor
NAL business, when he said at recent meeting
in London Zone of the disturbing conditions
in our national life just now is the constantly
increasing creation of new departments with an
army of officials, all requiring to interfere
more or less with the freedom of trade, and
these collectively must cost an enormous sum
of money! There can be no doubt about the
cost Nor is it doubtful that businessmen in
England share Sir James hope that when
peace comes an energy even greater than that
expended on the creation of these departments
Twill be displayed in their dispersion, so that
the officials may return to their former occupa
tons and allow our trade, commerce and private
enterprise to carry on with the same freedom
and success that they enjoyed prior to 1914 :"
The same feeling that prevails in England
exists here. In both countries disturbing condi
| tons due to the governments constant Interior
| ence with private business are believed to be
necessary to success in the war There Is no
complaint nor has there been the slightest
failure on the part of the business community
to cooperate with the government. But there
should be. when the is over, quick return
to normal conditions, and this be brought
about by the governments retirement from the
! field of private enterprise.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
hiohbrow lPacifists.

Des Moines Capital: The report
comes to the Capital from various
parts Of the state telling what certain
lecturers from the east have said
We are at a loss to know who it is
sends out so many freaks. The
school teachers are frequently i'm
posed upon DIR. Driver at Cedar
Rapids, pulled a paGifist stunt before
500 teachers. and now word comes
from our own state university that a
certain Professor Ward of Boston,
Mass, last Thursday made an ad
dress before at least zoo students on
the subject of War and After the
War saying that anyone with
hands red with blood cannot enter
the Lords temple" The German
propa ganda now appears to be in the
hands of the highbrows, among them
certain ministers and lecturers. We
call the attention of the people of
Iowa to the kind of work that is go
ing on.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
TO THE PRESIDENT

is a war of supreme organization,
war Of supreme industrial and mill
tary organization. We are not SUI
premely organized. There is arduous
effort, but it is frustrated by major
ganization, in some directions by non
organization.
The agency of superior organiza-
ton does not exist. America cannot
put forth her vast strength until 1t
does exist. The experience OF our
allies cries out to us. Our own CON
dition cries out to US. 1t is time to
organize America. The superior war
council which every experienced ex-
ecutive in the country approves is
not theory. 1t is not situation. 1t
is necessity. 1t is the necessity.
You have been granted great pow
ers. That was as it should be. You
have asked for still greater. the most
sweeping ever asked for by a chief
executive. The nation will not op.
/, pose the grant if you will exercise
them with the best available assist
ance to achieve harmony, to speed
production, to draw forth and concen-
trate all our strength for victory. I'm
der the Overman bill. modified to in
sure the creation Of the superior
planning and co-ordinating agency
which is essential to enable you to
function efficiently in your tremend-
Gus task, America will move more
swiftly, will move irresistibly to the
aid Of our allies.
We cannot afford to waste another
day. We are not at the millennium.
We are at Armageddon. 1t is the
cannon that speaks. Shall not Amer.
lea answer with cannon?
Our fate does not wait upon dec.
trines. Our fate is our strength.
Summon that strength. Mr. President.
organize it, launch it against the en-
envy while there is time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
ORIGINAL NOTICE.

State of Iowa, Lee County-ss.
In the District Court of Said County
at Keokuk.
Ada Leona Brownlee, plaintiff.
versus Homer Brownlee, defendant
Original Notice.
To the Above Named Defendant:
You are hereby notified that a pc.
tition is now on file in the clerks of.
fee of the District Court aforesaid at
keokuk in behalf Of the above named
plaintiff, against you and claiming a
divorce from the bonds of matri-
mony now existing between plaintiff
and defendant on account of your de-
sertion of plaintiff. and other causes
stated in said petition.
And unless you appear thereto and
DEFEND before noon of the second day
OF the next regular April term of said
Court, to be begun and holden at Keoe
kuk on the 18th day of April, A. D.,
1918, default will be entered against
you and Judgment rendered thereon
as prayed for in said petition.
S. III. JOHNSTON,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
AT LINcoLN'S GRAVE.

May one who fought in honor for the south
Uncovered stand and sing by Lincoln's grave?
Why, If l shrank not at the lannon's mouth
Nor swerved inch for any battle wave,
Should l now trembe in this quiet close,
Hearing the prairie wind go lightly by
From bowy plains of grass and miles of corn,
While out of deep repose
The great sweet spirit lifts itself on high
And broods above our land this summer mornf
/. mindful of a dark and bitter past
And of its clashipg hopes and raging hates,
Still, standing here, invoke a love SO vast
1t cancels all and all obliterates,
Save love itself, which cannot harbor wrong;
Oh, for voice of boundless melody,
voice to fill heavens hollow to the brim
With brave burst of song,
Stronger than tempest nobler than the sea,
That might lend it to song Of him!
Meseems feel his presence, Is he dead?
Death is a word. He lives and grander grows.
At Gettysburg he bows his bleeding head;
He spreads his arms where Chickamauga flows,
AS if to clasp old soldiers to his breast
OF south north, no matter which they be,
Not thinking of what uniform they wore
His heart the ralimpsest
Record record of humanity,
Where love is first and last forevermore.
His humor born of vire opulence,
Stung like pungent sap or wild-fruit zest
And satisfied a universal sense
OF manliness, the strongest and the best;
A soft Kentucky strain in his voice,
And the Ohios deeper boom was there,
With some wild accents of old Wabash days,
And winds of Illinois,
And when he spoke be took US unaware.
With his high courage and unselhsh ways.
He was the north. the south, the east, the west;
The thrail, the master, all of us in one;
There was no section that he held the best
His love shone as impartial as the sun;
And so revenge appealed to him in vain,
He smiled at it as at thing forlorn,
And gently put it from him, rose and stood
moments space in pain,
Remembering the prairies and the corn
And the glad voices of the field and wood.
Annealed in whfte-hot fire, he bore the test
OF every strain temptation could invent
Hard points of SANDER, shivered his brest
Fell at his feet, and envys blades were bent
In his bare hands and lightly cast aside;
He would not a shield; selfish aim
Guided one thought of all those trying hours;
No breath of pride,
No pompous striving for the post Of fame
Weakened one stroke Of all his noble powers.
Maurice Thomps
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Like ]. Rufus waIlinoford.

Pella Chronicle: Its hard for us
TO take the "Nonpartisan league
seriously. For an organization t.
come into a rural community and en-
deavor to get the horny handed sons
OF toll to dig UP SIG in real money
for the privilege Of joining a political
party is too much like j. Rufus Wall
ingford or the comic movies to be
treated with anything but ridicule
1t is said to have worked among the
lonely homesteaders in North Dakota,
where Just to- belong to something is
considered relief from the monotony
of existence. Also the Swedes OF
Minnesota may have fallen for It;
but that an Iowa farmer who rides
to town in a six-cyiinder car and has
an income tax should pay tribute to
a cheap graft like that-well, we'll
have to be shown. that's all.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
A LEADERLEss WORLD.

WHY is the world SO barren of leaders of con-
ceded. outstanding eminence in this most criti-
cal hour in human histo1ys Unless we rank
President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George as
towering figures of the highest type, where on
earth today are to be found IN control OF ma
itionaI destinies great men who by common con-
sent are the peers of the epoch making leaders
and statesmen of the past! The outbreak OF
the war found everywhere In Europe mediocre
ties on thrones. Many of them were inexperi-
enced ineffectull men who have been nothing
but straws whirled along helplessly on the rag
ing current of events Nor was it different IN
the democracies. Where was there prime
minister equal to the crisis? Where a
Gladstone. a Gambetta, Disraeli Bis
marck to be foundl IF the nations had no men
of equal rank with these at the head of affairs
and have found no equals to them, there must
be sufficient reason for 1t, and the question
evidently is one of great and practical interest.
According to Ralph Adams Cram who has
given consideration to the matter, the world
was so rich in leadership in 1880 that sixty men
can be named who were then accepted, and
would be now, as great captains and leaders OF
men, To this long list one hundred other names
might be added of men Of scarcely less emlnence
whose claims some might contest. AT that time
there was a notable group of men in our own
country, strong, brilliant, capable men with de-
voted personal followings-Grant, Blaine,
Conkling, Sherman, Everts, Garfield, Tilden,
Cleveland, Bayard, Harrison, Mckinley, Tom
Reed and very many moro. We have few
commanding figures in our country today, many
if not the most of whom are not in official life.
But have we group of that size and high
average of capacity; or has any nation a group
of public men which measures up to its group
of generation ago9
Mr. Cram contends that the tendency of de-
mecracy is to enthrone it's mediocrities. 9th
ers suggest that the strong men and natural
leaders of the peoples have turned from public
affairs to seek material ends. To others it
seems that this is destructive epoch of over
throwing leveling and tearing down; and that
the great upbuilders have no field of usefulness
now but will appear in the constructive epoch
to follow the war. This consideration de-
serves the attention of reflective people. For if
lack of leadership of the highest type is to be
long continuing or a permanent outgrowth of
characterization, a problem which mankind will
have to meet, after the world has been made
safe for democracy, is how to make democracy
safe for the world.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
The state cannot in the long run, be better
than the citizens who compose it A.
Spender.
IT Is THE LAW OF NATIONS.

The Dutch ships which have been tied up in
allied harbors, most of them, we believe, in
American ports waiting for cargoes of food,
have been taken over and now fly the allied
flags and will be used in transport and other
necessary war service. This communicating of
bottoms is well recognized by international law;
and the complaint which the kaiser's govern
ment has been making about it is absurd. In
this connection it is worth pointing out that the
largest of Dutch ships, the Nieuw Amsterdam
of the Holland-America line. was not taken
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27

over, though she lay at San American port. =
She came here while the question Of dealing
with the Dutch ships was still undetermined,
and the promise of our government was that
she should be allowed to depart, even though
communicating should be decided upon. So our
word is made good and the Nieuw Amsterdam
will be unmolested. Wonder if she would
have been treated similarly had the port been
Bremen instead of New York City.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
observation-disclosures
President

Secretary-Treasurer President
OF course the doing Of anything In
excess of requirements of the statute
would not invalidate a mcrteage. bur
1T is not putting farming on business
basis. 1t is not the duty of the officers
to endorse True. the association is
empowered to endorse and become H.
able for MORTGAGES (not notes.. But
this is not matter Of course and so
is the act of commumi tic asso Ia
ticn and net corporate body. Any
way. here we have no ccmrunistic
spirit and yet we need the capital and
the business push aud even manv OF
the legal features of the farm loan
act The liability, other than stock
to the extent of five rer cent. of what
the individual borrows. is for what the
corporate BODY itself horrows. II is
sent out that the directors may cary
a delinquent two years. borrowinr at
six per cent. and charging delinquent
eight per cent This, while an admir-
able way of having insurance net paid
for unless needed. IS not in the Inv
and II is decidedly Inconsistent with
the idea that the association does or
must guarantee payment. as we'll as
with the idea a loan committee acts as
appraisers and the directors as nation
al tankers under limits Of law and
with the liability of stockholders of
banks 1t is clear the land banks
should be Communicated, If not the
farms needing capital
p. DICKSON.
Keokuk, Iowa, March 26, 1918.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
No "Mere Loose Association"

NO Mere Loose Association"
To the Editor of The Gate City:
Oflcially national farm loan as
ISOLATION is now national corporation
and whatever Is done in excess of it's
corporate power likely makes it still a
mere loose association. Anyway, de-
spite Sec. 80 of the federal farm loan
act, the states do not control. The
associations legally have power to
make their own articles of association
but practically this is done by the fed
eral land banks. In this district, No.
%, the blanks are good reading for a
class in rhetoric. l am told they have
been published in farm papers, but this
is largely business concern of the
public and congress might well study
the details in the temple of the un-
known: "In the event Of this associa-
ten becoming insolvent, each stock
holder shall be liable for the debts of
the association in a sum not exceeding
five per cent. of the amount borrowed,
but there shall be no other liability CT
one member for the debt OF obligation
of another"
But for the "but" there would seem to
be no liability one for the other save
the amount borrowed" is construed
to mean the sum all borrow and the
word "association" construed to mean
not a corporate act, but acts of men,
bers Of loose association. The liza
bility of the law is. only for "alI con-
tracts. debts and engagements of such
association" and includes five per cent
and all paid on shares in addition. The
word member does not occur here hut
shareholder does occur. Member
should be reserved only for applicants
or with shareholder as in Sec. s..
Throughout the law the security for a
loan is the agricultural value of the
land save when an agent makes the
loan. The stock is collateral security
in two sections In spite Of this the
practice attempted is to have FIRST
recourse" to the association. am
told this is not in this district only.
but here note dated at Omaha. Neb..
is secured by an Iowa mortgage and
the note. but not the mortgage, must
be endorsed as follows.
The payment of the within note
and of all payments due and to become
due thereon. is hereby guaranteed and
presentment, demand. protest and no.
tice CT protest waived
me -------------------- National Farm
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27

| Mason City Globe-Gazette: But
! there are persons in Washington to-
! day in a position to know that, on the
| whole. German espionage has been
characterized by clumsiness and stu
pidity.
| Charlton Leader: There is probably
not an agricultural editor in Iowa who
ever farmed a day, and yet they not
only want to prescribe all rules OF
production, but run the politics besides.
Charlton Herald-Patriot: And we
can also truthfully say that 1t Is our
| firm belief that W. S. Allen will re-
ceive the nomination in the June pri-
mary
Webster City Freeman-Journal:
Newspaper publicity is one of the
most valuable things in the world and
the publishers ought to sell it at its
value instead of permitting themselves
to be worked.
Atlantic News-Telegraph: Secre-
tary Of State w. S. Aliens candidacy
| for denomination is meeting with the
support VI d SIOWluS SohtiA5cAl WV
believe that it is good plan when
you have a good man on the job to
keep him.
Sioux City Journal: The parcel
post limit has been raised to 10
pounds, and pretty soon Mrs. Joshua
Henpeck Jones will be able to send
friend husband on all jaunts within
the third postal zone at a considerable
saving over passenger fare.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Whenever a
man refuses to perform patriotic
duty of which he is capable and then
falls back upon the stereotyped pro-
fession, st am as patriotic as anybody"
he may fool himself but not his neigh
bors. THAT is gold which is worth
gold"
vinton Times: When Mr.. Average
man once gets the notion in his head
that politics was created for politi-
clans, he will begin to ring on much
better. administratio of affairs than
we have as yet known. With many
men the party is ike church or lodge.
They feel that they belong to 1t and
that is as far as the modus operandi
of their thinker travels.
Davenport Democrat: Not every
one can have baby, nor can everyone
buy a bond-but nearly everyone can
have a baby bond!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27

What is Justice? that whole, the question of
the Sphinx to The law of Fact is, that Justice must
and will be done. The the better; for the Time
ask many to whom cruel Fact alone will be able to prove
responsive 1t Is like jesting PLATE asking, What is
Truth? Testing PLATE had not the smallest chance to
certain what Truth He could not have known it. had
dscerned her not, there where she stood.-Thomas
CARLYLE.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27

The enemy seems to have discovered Secre-
tarv Bakers presence at the front Now the
United States government department of pub
licity'' can admit that the secretary is there
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
Voice Of the People

THE Gate City does not assume re
sponsibility for views expressed hy
correspondents. Writers OF commCni
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily for publication. Au'
for the information of the cditoT.i
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27

One way to combat German propaganda is to
combat the propagandists 1t will help if the
United States secret service men keep alertly
on the lob.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
And Then Themes shins.

st. Paul Pioneer-Press: Instead of
defending themselves against the
Germans the Bolsheviki merely move
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27

Loan Association of
Attest:
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Mason City Globe-Gazette: But
there are persons in Washington to-
day in a position to know that, on the
whole. German espionage has been
characterized by clumsiness and stu
pidity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27

Charlton Leader: There is probably
not an agricultural editor in Iowa who
ever farmed a day, and yet they not
only want to prescribe all rules OF
production. but run the politics besides.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27

Charlton Herald-Patriot: And We
can also truthfully say that 1t is ou,
firm belief that w. S. Allen will re
ceive the nomination in the June pri
mary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27
Freeman-Journal:

Webster City Freeman-Journal:
Newspaper publicity is one of the
most valuable things in the world and
the publishers ought to sell it at its
value instead of permitting themselves
to be worked.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-03-27

Davenport Democrat: Not every
one can have a baby. nor can everyone
buy a bond-but nearly everyone can
have a baby bond: