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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
GARFIELD NOT FOR 1T.

Cedar Rapids Republican: H. A..
Garfield, who served the cuontry as
fuel administrator, public job that
the politicians did not covet, for fear
it would bring them unpopularity,
and SO showed it off upon a college
president--Mr. Garfield is president
of Williams college-has seen some
thing of government ownership and
recent speech made by him says:
Government supervision of public
utilities rather than public owner
ship. which he characterized as
clumsy was advocated by DR.. H. A.
Garfield, United States fuel admins
traitor. in an address last night be.
fore the American Academy of Politi-
cal and Social, Science. The fuel
administrator said that a certain. but
not too pronounced elaboration in
the shifting of government control to
private ownership is necessary"
There are many more Americans
who will learn to think in such WAYS
There are many railroad employees
who would like it better if they were
back under the old system, with.
perhaps, stricter government super
vision and guardianship of wages as
well as profits for stockholders. The
prospect of becoming mere govern
ment employees Is not entirely to the
liking of ambitious and high-spirited
men. II one will study the mental
characteristics and attitudes of mere
government clerks and other en-
ployes he will not be carried away
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
Skilled Road Makers Needed.

Monticello Express: The road ques
ton will be to the fore again in the
Legislature this winter. What we
need more than anything else is the
training of men so that they may
know how to make good roads. The
weakness of the former plan of work
ing out their road taxes on the roads
themselves Is that not one in ten Of
those set to work know anything
about the technicalities of road max
ing and drainage and the result il
that much of the work is more thar
wasted, If not a positive detriment
The state started right by providing
for state supervision and compulsory
engineering in the counties on county
roads. In that way much good mas
been accomplished, but it is only
beginning. We stand greatly In tht
need of force of road makers whit
know how TO do the work and com
pIete It. When men schooled in TN
business become more numerous ant
make 1t a business as positively so 81
that of those employed by the rail-
roads to keep their tracks in repal
the road question will be nearer
solution. It will continue to be de
batabIe question just so long as roal
making is left to the unskilled am
the incompetent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
CHANGES IN PRACTICE.

New York Evening Times. We are
experiencing Inconvenience from prac-
tees which ha - endured ffr cen
tury or SO and ought to be ended forth
with. Repeatedly ancient history has
been exhumed with the result Of show
ing that 1t is an accident that our pres
idents are inaugerated on March 4,
and there is no particular present rea-
son why our congresses should not
meet in regular session for thirteen
months after their election. New
Years o. tho F,t.:l Of July wnHld he
a better date Tor The fnaoguraiion NJ
the 80. ,dent than March that date
matches rothing. The former dates
have relation either to calendar or fis-
cal years, and are more suitable for so.
cial reasons, If they are to have
any weight. The postponm-Lt of the
meeting of congress for more than q
year after election is more serious
matter.The popular mandate cools in
that interval, and congress which
has been rebuked by the popular YER
dict at the polls is LEFT TO legislate for
session with fixed adjournment
day. If new congresses were made to
start with a new president and a new
year there would be both new
political position and two sessions OF
congress Of equal length and equal
opportunity for good work. The short
second session Of congress Is so much
preoccupied with appropriation bills
that other legislation Is sighted
We ought to give both our retiring
presidents and our functioning vice
presidents something to do worthy of
their dignity The discharge of the du-
ties of the presidency for either one
term or two is an education which fits
any man for position as elder states
man, or sage, better than almost any
other man who has not had such op-
portunities.
These are points which might we'll
receive the attention of congress while
present impressions are fresh. Such
of these points as are suitable for stat
utory rather than constitutional regu-
1ation would be better treated now
than at another time, which hitherto
has meant not at all. 1t is not too soon
to take thought about them In OUR
present situation we have president
less country. vice president exulting
in his lack of work and responsibility
and yet held to duties of an underlined
sort and amount and rei.uked con-
gress disputing with it's successor re-
garding precedence in exacting taxes
through leyying of billions under one
system or another
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
Economy in Public Now.

Mount Vernon Hawkey: 1t is al
ready conclusively manifest that 1t \
going hard for many who have beef
softhearted in war activities or con
nected up with more or less direc]
touch in the mammoth treasury
spreading from war taxation an1
bond issues to shake themseive]
loose. But it must come, and wig
the utmost expedition possible. WI
do not know just exactly what the]
are thinking and planning down |
Washington headquarters. but IL
apparent enough out in the counti]]
proper that there is not even partl
san division of sentiment for re
trenchment of radical degree
public expenditures. In plain. ever
day English, what every one is inter
ested in and demanding now IS SIM
ply economy in public business :
Economy has been the watch WORD u
private life and business during tn'
war stress until there is little otheI
disposition at large. The people nav
been outraged and bully-ragged unoe
cover of war necessity until the.
have gone clear to the other extrene
until SANDER has succeeded patrio'
ism.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
"FAIR BINGEN ON THE RHINE..'

It will be odd and interesting it American
troops shall for the next few months or years
garrison Rhine cities between Coblentz and
Mainz, as now seems probable, occupying the
ancient imposing fortress of Ehrenbreitstein
and perhaps the castled crags OF Draehen-
fels'' which Grown on the wide and winding
Rhine And what if they shall be quartered
at Bingen, fair Bingen on the Rhine" where,
as an almost forgotten poet has told us, sol
diers of the legion came from who lay dying in
AIgiers where there was .'lack Of woman's
nursing and dearth of woman's tearsY" A
certain sorority and pathos in that poem by
Felicia Hemans who died in 1885 gave it place
in the old school readers and still keeps it IN
anthologies which treasure verses in which our
fathers found delight. Bingen is only minor
city of about ten thousand inhabitants with a
commerce in grain and cattle and wine, and few
Americans would ever have heard its name had
it not lent itself to the meter Of the verses
which told an earlier generation how the last
thoughts of warrior in far-off land went
back to his birthtown, .'fair Bingen on the
Rhine
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
Years do not count. A man lives by
Barnard.
A MORAL PEsTI LEECE.
Washington, D. c.

We used to hear about the "yellow peril. =
But it never materialized and probably never
will for us as long as Anglo-Saxondom is SUI
ureme upon the sea. Civilization has scotched
the German peril, and the allied nations have
it in their power to make it negligible for an
other generation at least. There is probably no
economic peril which prudent craftsmanship
cannot avert, and the only menacing peril Is
bolshevism in some one of it's present forms.
Bolshevism and bolshevist propaganda are
very real and terrible things. They have
wrought more woe on Russia than the war 1t
is the looming, ghastly specter which is fright
ening the central empires It is the vague and
shapeless menace which disputes the western
powers Here in America, as far as it exists, it
usually wears mask which more or less con-
ceals it's ugliness. But our Independent Work
ers of the World, our avowsd anarchists, our
bomb -throwers, our direct-action socialists
whose weapon is sabotage, are bolshevists in
masquerade-in fact if not in name.
It seems not too much to say that civiliza-
TONS greatest present peril is this moral pesti-
lence with which Russia has deliberately in
oculated by Germany. 1t is spreading like a
virulent plague in other lands, and while it
would be righteous retribution if it ravages
Teutonic countries where its germs were cult
waited, it might not in that event be easy to
quarantine it and keep it out of western lands.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
A HOPEFUL OUTLOOK.

Two noted financiers on whose sobriety OF
Judgment the people have learned to rely see
prosperous days ahead of the United States
Mr. Vanderlip predicts world demand for
labor and for all the food and practically all
the wares our country produce He thinks
that the general level of wages will be mann
tanned until prices fall. Mr.. Warburg sees
ceaseless streams of money pouring into the
country as interest and principal on loans and
debts and steady demand for all the raw ma
terils we can spare. Having curtailed our ex-
pendtures for several years, we have stored
up reserve purchasing power which will tax
our productive capacity and together with the
foreign demand for many things will keep US
prosperous and hard at work
These seem reasonable representations
The shortage of labor has suspended work IN
many lines which will now begin again, and
since 1914 immigration has in round numbers
been something like million below the aver
age of preceding years. Hopeful indications
for the future seem therefore to have basis OF
fact.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

your long letter received today,
about Gladstone. Indeed you were
lonely for him when you wrote that
letter. Reading 1t all over
again about Glad, feel that that is
mortal mind viewpoint which your
letter expresses, and viewpoint
which / cannot share because l see
beyond it. not in imagination but in
reality.
There are two or three things we
must do. One is we must abandon
that old outworn thought and feeling
about our loved ones, who have
passed out from our physical sight,
as being dead They are not! And
we must keep alive wildly the mem
DRY of their earth life and along with
that seek to live with them in their
new life. When I think of Glad now,
let my spirit go to him. / go into
his new world, and ] can feel his
presence in that new World--a real
world-in which mind and heart and
spirit-body are active, alert, and full
Of all the interest, life. ambition,
merely transferred to another plane.
He is happy! Tie life he has entered
is full of interest to aim. He is
lonely for us, but if we will not shut
him out of our society by refusing to
understand his new relation to us
and reciprocate it intelligently, he
will keep close to us and we will
feel him near actually.
What are a few earth years?
Glad was ready for this change, and
the life he has gone to is full OF
life-interest, beauty and gladness.
Soon We shall be with him, and I'M
til we see him face to face we can
feel him heart to heart and mind
to mind If we will.
Death is not what so many peo-
pie think it to be. II we could ac-
tually look into the spirit-world to-
night, and see Glad as he is--full Of
the keenest interest in his new sur
roundings, radiant with life and in
telligence, getting acquainted with
really-he has found your father.
whom he never saw in earth-life. and
what wonderful personality he will
find in him.
"You will think me strange, but
this is to me like a new cash in my
own consciousness, and l am not
going to deny it nor discount it. l
am going to do, be, feel and think
about this in the way that my mind
obliges me to, and l am not going
10 pretend other. I see beyond the
dark shadow called Death, and it is
glorious beyond. > .
Imagine someone somewhere
twenty five years ago April &c, weep
ing when the baby boy we named
Gladstone was born into our home
9 soul out of the infinite unknown.
The universe, that gave him a father
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE THREE STARS.

THE THREE STARS.
In days gone by long, long
A star shown bright night
And shepherds watching with their flocks
Beheld its radiant light
The wise men saw 1t from afar
And followed where 1t led
Until its silv'ry beams shown on
The Saviours lowly bed.
Another star all have seen,
Blue, In field of white,
And, round the edge, band Of red
Is cleaning clear and bright.
In palace grand, and lowly hut
To rich and poor alike,
The service star tells one has gone
To battle for the right.
And yet another star know
Where the blue one shown
The gold star is often seen
In many a saddened home.
Yet should we grieve tho great the price
That pays for victory,
When think of tortured Belgium
So far across the sea?
And when, Christmas morning
The bells ringing clear
And Peace earth. good will to men,"
Falls the listening ear;
Well ask Him to protect them
Our boys, where e'er they are,
And. comfort bring to lonely hearts
With the golden service star.
Carrie ]. Starr.
Washington, d. c.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
BEYOND THE SHADOWS
LIFE is EVERLASTING
Mrs j. Stitt Wilson Reveals the Faith That Brings
Her to Visualize Her Son, Killed in The Service,
as One Radiant With Lie in the
Glorious Hereafter
Glorious Hereafter

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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27
Mr.. wilson SAYS:

Continuing, Mr.. Wilson says:
"Of course strangers may not see
in this letter all 1t meant to me. But
considering the sorrow and pain the
world has passed through, feel that
l have no right to keep such a let
ter, merely as my personal solace
and as treasure Of my own heart.
1t belongs to humanity. have had
extra copies Of both of these letters
printed, so that il anyone wishes
them for the comfort they may af-
ford anywhere, we shall be glad to
send them.
"As I write this the great war is
over. May history so fruit that none
of these noble boys shall have died
in vain. We shall live to fulfill their
holy sacrifice.
Yours very sincerely,
u. STITT WILSON"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

Knoxville Journal: When England
gives up her navy and France dis
bands her army Germany will renew
her toast to "Der tag"
Storm Lake Register: So far as
Mr.. Rawson's adaptability for the
office 1.-THE governorshipl is concern
ed, 1t can be said that he has often
been complimented by the request to
become a candidate. He could not
make any nationwide speaking tours,
but he could give Judgment and mi
tiative to the business affairs of the
state. which will likely be in need
of some such attention before Raw
son or someone elise Is chosen to at
tend to them.
Sac City Sun: The Sun is confident
that If the party shall unite upon his
candidacy the state will have at its
head man of whom the people may
be proud Many of the political lead
ers in the state are SO indebted to
Mr.. Rawson that 1t is hard TO see
how formidable opposition to his can
didacy can arise.
Boone News-Republican: Il, univer-
sal popularity is a political puiler,
Charles A. Rawson will have walk
away for the governorship.
Cedar Rapids Republican: In Iowa
we see but little hope for solution
of the road promlems that we have
we may have to wait until we all
travel by the air routes and then
who will care about the mud?
Anamosa Eureka: A few weeks ago
it was a question of stamping out
non-essentials to keep the war going.
Now it is question of keeping the
non-essentials moving in order to
help industrial conditions back to
normal.
Iowa City Citizen: The. proposition
to sink the German ships means
merely running away from the prob
lem because it seems difficult.
|. Waterloo Times-Tribune: Regard
ing the German people starving,
there's going to be plenty of food for
repentance as the months drag on.
Marshalltown Times-Republican: II
the government keeps the railroads
and express companies another five
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

yeras and keeps on raising rates pro-
portionately we may see the farmers
driving hogs to Chicago again, as
they used to do before the railroads
came.
Iowa Falls Citizen: There may be
reas to disagree on what freedom
of the seas means, but there can be
no disagreement about what world
disarmament means.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: If re-
ports from Holland are authentic
William Hohenzollern is getting his
punishment good and plenty. He is
in the hands of great jailer, one
who takes note even of the fall of
q sparrow, and he can no more
escape punishment for his misdeeds
than he can get away from the air
that surrounds and holds him on the
earth from which he would fly.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

with the prospect of the proposed
conversion. The government employee
is apt to be man who merely wants
to get along, sort Of pensioner upon
the public. He is always more or
less restricted in the doing of his
duties, and he learns 10 fall into the
habit of doing merely what is pre-
scribed and that with red tape tied
all around him.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

time questions it will appoint com
missioner of time in each city, and
have him ready to answer time calls
This would give some deserving poll
ician a place and there would be nd
necessity to bother the civil service
commission about it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

like you and mother, and home
like ours, and love such as he re-
ceiyed here. has taken care of him
in this new birthing into another
unknown-all one universe. He
came into the heart of love here. he
has gone into the bosom of love
there. Let US cease to harbor old
outworn conceptions of existence
and move forward into the new. We
have much to learn. We are in eter-
nifty now. We cannot lose anything.
and only our ignorance can make us
sad or depress US. i am going to be
glad and happy. / am going to find
the best way to communicate with
Glad in mis- new life. He will be
near you, and be a part OF your life
very consciously, if we give him a
chance. The things he loved best
on earth he still loves best. And |
cannot think of him not seeking to
relate himself definitely with the
things You are giving your life for,
and which he would have given his
life to serve had he returned from
the war to take up life again with
US.
"Be comforted with the knowledge
of his presence with US now and
ever till life's quick years have all
flown, and, one of the great joys
ahead of us is the meeting with those
darling boys there. -
"The beauty and glory of all Of
our darling children seems SO great
these days to me, that cannot feel
other than full Of Joy that I have
had the great privilege of knowing
them, and the glory and wonder Of
each and all of them.
And when his vacant place see,
My heart shall bound with Joy,
that he
Was mine SO long-my fair
young son:
And cheer for MIN whose work
is done
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

The world has talked gbIy and long about the failing
love at first sights. of and But there is
such thing love at first sight of wood sky line
human habitation world of woods, always a hor-
everywhere the homes Of Yet Of these
will power all the 20 stir the depths in u.s.
elizabeth Robins.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

For the peculiar danger at this time is that the
war has left Europe anaemic, out OF condition,
predisposed to such Infections and with less
power of resistance to them than ever before.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

Cigaret smoking has become y
prevalent among women and girls
England that 1t is proposed to ens.;
legislation to put stop to the haoi1
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

1t will annoy some headline writer's in the
future not to be able to refer occasionally to
the ssTerrible Turk
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

y
ever daily changes are necessary for public I'M
ministration. Prices apply to standard goods
fancy goods not quoted
Article. Retailers Pay
Wheat Flour ........ s11.55 to sll.75 per Dbl
of eight 24A pound
Rye Flour ........... s110o to s11.25 per Dbl
OF twenty 10-lb sacks
Barley Flour ..... 5000 to $11.1O per Dbl
of eight PAN pount
sacks
Corn Flour ..........5Ac to SIC per lb.
Rice Flour ......... loo to 101ac per Id.
Corn Meal .:...4hc to 4%c per h.
Pearl Hominy ....... 5Ac to &c per lb
Rolled Oats ......5Ac to &c per h.
Ground Rolled Oats. NC to &c per Id.
Edible Corn Starch. &c to TIC per lb.
Rice .10c to lie per lbs
Milk. Tall Cans. ......1 4c TO 1412c per can
Navy Beans .........11Ac to 12c per lib.
Lima Beans .........1fAc to 15c per ID.
Pinto Beans ..........16c to 1O1sc per lib.
Canned Corn ........1s1ac to 14c per can
Tomatoes ..........14Ac to 14Hc per can
No. 3 Canned
Tomatoes ..........19c to zoe per can
Canned Peas .12Hc to he per can
Canned Dried Beans. .10c to 15c per can
Raisfns .............. .1oc to lac per lb.
Prunes .............. iSc to 15c per H.
Granulated Sugar. bulks986 per 100 lbs
Granuated Sugar,
rs lb Sacks. $1,000 per 100 lbs
Lard. bulk .......... .2S1ac to 29c per lb.
Lard, small pals. 80. CSC to &c per Id.
Lard. Substitutes, bulk24c to Csc per ID.
Lard. Substitutes.
small cans ........ .2sc to 2SAc per lib.
Cheese ...............3 6c to 3654c per Id.
Eggs, country ........6 3c per dozen.
Butter-Creamery in
lb. Cartons. ......6 csc per lb.
Oleomargarine ....... soc to SAC per lib.
Potatoes .............21hc to 2Ac per lb.
Ham .26c to 40c per lb.
Bacon ............. .32c to 41c per lb.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

A pessimist is a man who believes that it will
take centuries for the world to recover from
this blow to civilization; an optimist is man
who retorts that there will be plenty of cen
turtles.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-27

Consumer Should Paw
$1.57 to s1.67 per sack !
24h lbs. or 7hc ps
10. in less than mil
packages.
67c to 72c per sack Of il
lbs. or TIC per ID. i
less than mill pkgs.
$1.66 to Sits per sack \
PAN lbs. or 6%c pc,
ID. in less than mil
packages. 2
&c to TIC per lb.
12Ac to 1870 per Id.
&c to SIC per lb.
&c to TIC per ID.
TIC to TIC per lib.
TIC to 71ac per lib.
SC to 10c per lib.
12Ac to 15c per lb.
TIC to 1870 per can.
14Ac to Ice per lib.
1870 to zoe per lib.
1870 to 14c per ID.
18c to zoe per can
1sc to 2oac per can
25Ac to 2sAc per can
Tic to 1870 per can
1890 to 211ac per can
1412c to zoe per lb.
Ice to 211ac per lib.
$4.Ss to $3.50 per case
11Ac per lb.
11Ac per Id.
34c to Csc per ID.
S5c to 41c per Ib.
29c to 31c per lib.
32c to &c per lb.
43c to 45c per lb.
zoe to Tic per dozen
Tic to 72c per lb. :
35c to 40c per lb.
&c to SIC per lb. FL
33c to 48c per lb.
4Oc to soc per ID.