The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-01-16

either of which must bring disaster to the
crown.
PATRIOTIC BOARDINGHoUSE PATRONS.
The food administration is an institution OF
war, just as truly as our army and navy are
When the food administration issues an appeal
the average restaurant keeper and the director
of a private establishment where food is served
lat so much per week are inclined to put them
selves in the class of profiteers, buying and
serving what is most easily obtained at the
lowest price Theirs should be an educational
point of view, and this point of view is sadly
overlooked right here in Keokuk. They expect
others to take the advice of the food admins
tration but do not take it themselves, serving
! to their patrons Just as much meat on Tuesdays
and Just as much wheat on Wednesdays as
ever they did.
/ The time has come when all of must take
the meatless and wheatless days seriously.
4 Without the conservation of wheat and meat
! we cannot win this war. In one clearinghouse
lin KeolSuk the patriotic patrons have taken the
matter into their own hands, and have APP
pealed to the keeper to .'serve one wheatless
meal and one meatless meal each week, In addi-
ton to the observation of one wheatless day
| as requested by the food administration. These
are really patriotic people; they would add one
hundred per cent. to what is expected. and on
their own motion, too. IF there were more of
this kind of Americans there would be less
fault-fnding in other quarters.
Germany demands the restoration OF her
colonies. Premier Lloyd George has intimated
/ that the British colonies which captured them
| will have something to say about that. Presi-
dent Wilson suggests that the wishes and In
terests of the natives must be considered.
i Charles E. Eliot president emiritus of Harvard
4 university, declares that the task of enforcing
peace throughout the world would DE 1mme-
diately more difficult if the colonies were re-
turned and Germany was at liberty to create
Notifications and depots Of fuel and munitions
therein. The congress to follow the war will
decide the question, and until then it seems safe
to doubt if the colonies will ever have ''kutur"
!, imposed on them again.
! Mexican raids on borders are being
/ briskly handled by the soldiers. On the whole
Villa and his crew of murderers have bungled
matters badly They have put themselves be-
vond possibility of competing for the Nobel
peace prize, while perpetrators of atrocities
they have shown themselves tyros in COMPARE
son with European competitors.
i There is no appetite for binder twine as a
diet auxiliary, but the nation will be glad that
4 supervision Of the supply goes to Mr.. Hoover
4 rather than to the ordnance department.
i Cutting off fifth of the passenger trains on
our railroads is all right, of course, but what
about the transportation companies that boast
of but two passenger trainsa
4 Diplomacy in Russia must be difficult. It
Il consists in ignoring Trotsky, who is the only
/ outward semblance of government that Russia
has now.
j News dispatches devote some space to what
lTrotsky thinks Not long ago it was debated
in these dispatches whether Trotsky thought a,
. all.