The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-21

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bottom and stay there. Let nobody
say that the navy is not doing good
work. Let none offer criticism. Those
boys on our destroyers are the UNI
named, unsung heroes of this war.
Admiral Sims and his men are doing
wonders. The navy and its work is
vindicating that much, criticised but
nevertheless efficient secretary of the
navy, Josephus Daniels.
Nail Flag to kaiser's Flag Pole.
We must hasten our work with
the air planes. They are of the
utmost Importance, and the correla-
| tion of infantry and artillery by
means of the aeroplane is most effi-
cient Ten thousand of these dart
! ing out from behind the American
lines on their way to Berlin, would
come close to mailing the Stars and
Stripes to the kaiser's tlagpole. The
| sooner we have these, the lesser will
be the sacrifice of human life.
And our soldiers in France are
doing splendid work. The Canadians
went up Vimy Ridge in two hours
and captured it, and in that contn-
gent were 5000 good American boys,
and the first flag to be planted on
the ridge was the Stars and Stripes,
put there by lean, lanky boy fron.
Texas.
| Do Our Durndest.
l. Our work over here is importan.
Every man in the trenches means
j just that many men behind him. We
must make them comfortable. The
most unfortunate expression ever
coined is do our bit. It lets the
man that could give twenty-five dol
liars off with one. We should change
| that to do our best and If it were
! not Sunday afternoon, / would say
1--WE should do our damndest' What
sort of sacrifice is it that you stand
UP for the Star Spangled Banner, and
then rush off to the telegraph Office
and wire your congressman, For
Gods sake don't vote anything to
make me any more taxes What
! kind of patriotism is it to have
j Hoover banquet of seven or eight
courses to discuss food conservation?
What kind of Americanism is it to
preside over Liberty loan meeting
and then lie to the government about
your income tax return? We have
meatless, wheatless and porkless
days, and I hope we will have some
of the latter in congress before long.
Beefless here, means beatless over
there.
Gloom VS.. Glitter.
| "On my return was in London,
and ! remember the seriousness, the
gloom there. The people are eating
their war bread and take the struggle
, seriously. Here in New York were
brilliant crowds in your hotels. cham
paign and expensive wines and all
kinds of foods. 1t was enough to
make one heart sick. especially when
he remembered the fifteen miles Of
graves at the Somme, and the big
cemetery at Verdun over populated
| by those who fell stemming the Ger
man advance. Two and a half mill
| lion men sleep there. and palms wave
over them. The war means sacrifices
for us, the time to have kept out is
past, if we were not going through
with it. We must go straight through
to the end. now. 1t is going to cost
less to win than to lose. Already
those war lords at Berlin have de-
creed that we should pay indemni-
ties to the amount of eighty-nine bill
/ lions, but it's going to take bigger
collection agency than they could
ever devise to collect that money.
The work Of the Red Cross. the Red
| Triangle and the Knights Of Column
bus must be kept up. because our
| countrys life is in peril.
GAS a people we are careful about
criticism, and this is right. But
1 ha1, F,,I III f1sr c1@ ~
stifed. If there are men, whether
in the army, even If they are doing
their best, if there are others that
could do better, then they should be
replaced. This is no time to talk of
hurt feelings.
Pure Old American Soup.
"Out of this struggle viii come
great things. We have been prone
to wonder sometimes, if our melt
ing pot were not more like a gar
bage can. But we are going to- keep
it boiling and we will get rid Of the
scum as fast as it arises, and we will
get pure old American soup The
war will rid up of the hyphenated
citizen. He just won't exist. If there
are Americans here, who think more
of some other country, they should
go there and if their honor or their
feelings don't take them, then we
should escort them to the ocean and
set them adrift. We can't be half
/ American and half something else
There must be one flag for our citi-
zenship to follow and that must be
the Stars and Stripes. l am cast
ing no reflections on our foreign
born, or on the citizen of Germa n