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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21
HOW AMERICANS SAVED THE DAY.

In an address at y United war work CAM
paign meeting at Boston the other night, Otto
| Ell. Kahn paid high tribute to the valor OF our
marines and other American troops in the first
battle of Chateau Thierry, early in June.
| His story Of what our troops did cannot be
told too often and it is told with fine effect by
the New York banker The allies had seen
dark days. s'and then suddenly out Of the
gloom flashed the lightning of a new sword,
the sharp and valiant sword of America, the
sword which has never known defeat" Mr..
Kahn, who was in France at the time, says that
when the Americans reached the front the sit
uation had become such that the French COM
mand ordered them to retire; 81 but they and
their brave general would not hear of it. =
They fought like demons and they paid the
price, but for what they paid they took more
than full measure Of compensation. Ihey
formed of themselves spearhead at the point
nearest Paris against which the Hun onslaught
shattered itself and broke They stopped the
Hun, they beat him back, they broke the spell
of his advance, they started victory In It's
march. A new and fresh and mighty force had
come into the fray. And the Hun knew it to
his cost and the French knew it to their I'M
bounded JOY. The French turned Side by
side the Americans and the French stood, and
on that part of the front the Germans never adj
vanced another inch from that day. They held
for a while. and then set in the beginning OF
the great defeat
An inspiring picture of the turn of the war!
No wonder Mr.. Kahn says the talk OF the
Americans was everywhere in Paris and that
all gloom vanished over night.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21
AIR MAIL SERVICE.

An carly Development after the conclusion
OF peace will be the rapid extension of the air
mail service of the United States 1t is said IN
dispatches from Washington that plans have
been worked out by which machines which can
Ec spared from military work may be employed
in carrying the mails. If these plans prove
practical large part Of the first-class mail will
lie Forwarded by the air lines The Washing
ton-New York aerial service has been success
full, and as the New York Chicago tryout prov
ed satisfactory it will be inaugurated as fact
on December first. Best of all, it is said that
statistics show that the air service can be made
a paying branch of the postoffice department.
Tie saving of time is important, and extension
Of the plan already in successful operation
would provide employment for the thousands
Of flying men soon to be released from military
work
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21
ToDAY'S BIZ OF VERSE
A PAINTED FAN.

Roses and butterflies shared fan,
All that is left of summer gone by;
or swift bright wings that flashed in the sun.
And oveliest blossoms that bloomed to die.
BY what subtle spell did you lure them here,
Fixing a beauty that will not change
Roses whose petals will never fall,
Bright swift wings that will range?
Had you owned but the skill to we'll
The swift-wnged hours that came and went
To prison the words that in music died.
And fix the spell of the hearts content;
Then had you been of magicians the chief;
And lovers should bless your art,
If you have painted the soul of the thlng,-
Not the rose alone but the roses heart!
Flown are the days their winged delights,
AS the is gone from the summer rose;
Yet still whenever | wave fan,
The soft. south wind of memory blows.
Chandler Moulton.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21
"MOPPING UP"

hopping up, after any situation permits the
process, is not a grateful task, but it is neces-
sary This thing now to he done by the allied
armies is complicated affair nor is the work
done when the debris is swept away. There is
the reconstruction to follow as the ground is
cleared for it, That reconstruction must begin
under military supervision seems evident and
that it must begin as soon as possible is also
clear Were there united and Stable govern
ments in operation in the conquered nations
the business would be simplifed. AS it is, no
one can yet forecast how much mopping must
be done nor where it may be necessary to do it
1t is for Marshal Foch and his aides to deter
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

his home near Douds, Iowa, after
several weeks stay at the Ham
Leazer home near La Crew, where
he helped gather corn.
r.. Z. Lynn, Lee county chairman
OF the war saving stamps campaign,
Is IN Des Moines this week attending
d state conference.
Mrs. J. II. Holdefer, John and 10
seph were keokuk callers Wednes-
day.
Arch Vermazen, who attends mill
tary school at Canton, Mo-. spent
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

the mission festival. Sunday school
at 9 a. m. and the usual evening
service.
Little Alice Jean Miller, who
makes her home with her aunt near
Elyaston. H., is visiting with her
father, DIR. ]. E. Miller, at the H. A
Trump home.
Mrs. F. Dahms is on the sick list
Mrs. Charles Scheurs and Carl
were Keokuk callers Saturday
Floyd Barnes visited at the l.. Z.
Barnes home Monday, en- route to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

Complete victory has brought not peace alone but
the confident promise Of day well, in which JUS
shall replace force and jealous intrigue among the
nations. Our gallant armies have participates in tri-
which is mared stained by another purpose
selfish In righteous they have won
Immortal glory and have noby served their nation in
tnmation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

Election results and the wars IN
ish heartened Chicago saloonists any, an,
they are fiocking to the captain
Office with the quarterly instaiimeln.
of license money. The boss OF ".
license bureau expects every one y :.
the 5,631 saloonists in the city "
come across
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21
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DOM ELLISON.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Seyb and son, of Fort
Madison. spent Sunday with relatives
here.
There will be no services at the
st. Paurs church Sunday morning,
November "a, as the pastor and con-
gregation are invited to Primrose to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

mine the moves to be made and the extent to
which they must be carried. OF their compe-
tence for the work, the allied nations have rea-
son to be confident.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21
GARY ON THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

Judge e. Ell. Gary, chairman Of the United
States Steel Corporation, is optimist as he
considers the outlook for business. Upon a
careful survey of the situation, he says 1T will
be found there are many reasons for believing
prosperity in this country should continue. Of
course, the war will bring reactions and read
iustments Economic depression and panics|
are possible ''and we must be on our guard.
But there will be a normal and certain volume
Of business, which would not be increased by
or unfair means. Amy spas
modic effort to divert or interfere with the
natural progress or to secure more than the
proper share will as a total net result impede
rather than accelerate prosperity declares
Gary. One of his reasons for hopefulness, and
good one is that Judging the future by the
experience of the last four years, there will be
/ a. disposition on the part of those in authority
| to assist rather than to attack business Ell
| forts'' He believes that both capital and labor
+ will be rewarded, that employers will lead In
the effort to promote the welfare Of their work
men and that cooperation will be seen on
ieverv hand Particularly interesting is his be-
lief that with the ending of the war large IN
crease in expectations may be expected. War
orders have had so large place in our export
trade in the last few years that many persons
have feared serious decline following the re-
| turn of peace; but now it is pointed out that
countries whose needs could not
/ be met while the war lasted will appear as buy
ers. In this country, extensions and new con-
struction which have been postponed for lack
of material will be taken up. ':For the long
future we have reason to believe that the coun-
/ try will be more prosperous than ever before, -
is the conclusion of Judge Gary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

Some people in this country worked over
time in an effort to bring the United States and
Germany together. WE'LL they succeeded.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

Sunday with home folks.
Miss Lizzie Barger, OF Farming,
visited at the A. Bonnell home u
past week.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

The self-starter on Germany's war machine
worked all right but its self-stopper was de-
fectve.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

1t may be within the scope of possible events
that Wilhelm and son will get to Paris
There are details to be arranged there
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

But we have still to keep right on dieting to
make the world safe for democracy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

American made dyes are selling well in for
eign markets. Here is the best sort OF argu-
ment to prove the assertion that we have new
industry of major Importance. Our home mar
ket for dyes is supplied and evidently there IS
call for the surplus our manufacturers can now
produce. The tariff commission is making
thorough survey Of the dye manufactures
situation preparatory to making recommends
ton of measures to insure the permanence and
prosperity of the industry. 1t is well establish
ed that both in quality and quantity great pro
gress has been made in the last nine months.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

Natures that have much heat, and great
and violent desires and perturbations, are
not ripe for action till they have passed the
meridian of their days.-Lord Bacon.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-11-21

The all highest is now the all lowest.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20
REGARDED AS A THREAT.

According to report, railroad executives were
hurriedly summoned to Washington just be-
fore Mr.. McAdoo's proposition was made pub
lie and were told unless they supported the
plan for extended control the roads would be
handed back to them by the first of March.
This would be a great hardship. Their rolling
stock has been increased little if at all since the
year before the war. 1t has seen hard service.
Wages have been raised, the business has been
ldemoralized, and if the roads were thrust back
suddenly without legislation enabling the own
ers to advance freight rates as emergency re-
Iquired and to do other things which the direct
or general had found it necessary to do, many
Iof the weaker properties would be put into re-
Iceiver's hands. Mr.. MoAdoo's proposal was
regarded by many railroad managers therefore
lin the nature of a threat to force their consent
to an extension of government control.
It looks very much ike political scheming to.
keep the roads for, FIVE years more, paving the
way for permanent ownership and preventing
the next congress from enactingNa law under
which they might be returned without hard
ship to their owners. Yet this plan or threat,
whichever it may be considered, has, according
to Mr.. McAdoo, the presidents approval, not
withstanding that he declared so recently that
he had formed no judgment of his own upon
the question. As the matter stands, the present
congress, will not have time to enact a suitable
law for the return of the properties. They can
not be operated successfully under the present
law, as Mr.. McAdoo. has admitted. A return
to the old conditions would mean disaster. The
administration wishes to keep the matter out
of the hands of the coming congress, and the
president has it in his power to hand the roads
back whenever he sees fit.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20
the first step to something better--Wendell
Phillips.
DEMOCRACY AND REPUBLIC.

Mr.. Balfour, concededly one. of the broadcast
minded men III Great Britain, declares that the
world cannot be made safe for democracy mere
y by multiplying the number Of democratic
states, democracy being possible for those coun-
t1ies only which have reached a relatively adj
vanced stage Of civilization.
1t is sufficiently clear what Mr.. Balfour means
by democracy, but, strictly speaking, there is
no such form of government, in the world of our
today. The chaos III Russia comes nearest to
it. The dcmocracies Of the past were city
states-Athens, Sparta, Rome-in which the
qualified citizens met in popular assemblies to
pass DEGREES. These soon degenerated into gov
,nment by the mob and persisted. They show
no trace Of representative government int the
modern sense. Democracy is impossible for a
state much greater than a city in extent.
Our declaration of independence adopted the
representative government idea based on the
claim Of a right to speak OH the government Of
the nation by a subject born within it. This
was a new idea. We added the idea of the rule
of the people through representatives chosen
by them and a republic came into being. The
essence of a republic is that the head shall be
elective and the people through elected repre-
sentatives shall rule the state. Any state in
which a ruler has or claims powers based on a
right superior to the popular will is emphatic
ally not a republic. There is no democracy on
earth today except in cities, Hamburg for ex-
ample, where a clamorous mob has put a com.
mittee or an individual at the head of affairs
and controls his acts.
Democracy is never safe for the world and
can never be made so. Neither can the world
be made safe for that form of government
Civilization has no use for it. Republics are
the hope of the world. Ours was the first and
is the greatest of these. In it the people do
not make the laws. They elect representatives
to whom that function is delegated. The only
right our constitution gave the people was that
the qualified among them might vote for repre-
sentatives once in two years. Amendments Sc
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20
POOR BERNsToRFF,s TROUBLES.

New York World: With regret
! Count Bernstorff confessed that "the
fact Of an American newspaper being
subsidized can never be kept secret,
because there is no reticence in this
country"
This national failing was deplor-
able. 1t was annoying and embar-
RAISING to the kaiser's trusted agent
i'll Washington in his efforts to en-
Tighten the american people. They
were not SO easily fooled as the hon-
est Germans, whose government
made it a business to stuff them
with stupid official lies. The Ger
man ambassador had unlimited funds
with which to corrupt purchasabIe
publications or to nourish needy anti
American editors. But none of his
ventures turned out well. ct al
ways ends" he complained to Ber-
lin, "in my being held responsible
for all the articles of any such news
papers,"
The only investment Count Bern
storff found profitable was the
peace propaganda, which has cost
the largest amount, but which also
has been the most successful" He
had tried the Embargo association.
which enjoyed the patronage of a
representative since indicted and an
eminent western senator. He made
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
EYES.

LOVES EYES.
Each night when 1 walk down the hghted street,
Feeling against NY dumb and aching heart
The restless heart OF goldlmad traffic beat;
And seeing high above this dingy mart
The gloomy buildings reaching for the stars,
And false beauty peering through each brilliant sign
A turmoil prods anew my word-oid scars.
Crying for some dreambalm that is not mine.
But once / met You coming up this way
With a lovespiendor shining through your eyes;
You did not speak and / had naugat 10 say,
But gioriousIy the stars famed in the sizes,
And all these ugly towers whose stones men trust,
A mighty ruin, cruInbled into dust.
Oscar C. Williams, in ETerybodys Magazine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20
- E{s
WILKINSON g co, KEoKUK, IOWA

use Of the German University league
and other associations, but none
gave real satisfaction. After the
sinking of the Lusitania he found it
expedient to get rid of 'sall dubious
Individuals; some sought to fasten
themselves on him as permanent
pensioners, and failing that, they
try to blackmail u.s."
The real burden of Count Bern
storff's grievances, however, was not
that he spent enormous sums to no
purpose, that he was bled right and
left by the kind of people he selected
for the services he required. but that
he was bound to be caught if he sub.
sidized an American newspaper, be-
cause the suspicious of American
newspaper readers would at once be
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20
IOWA PRESS

~
Davenport Democrat: Did you get
that figure? Six billion bushels
that's what we have been wringing
out of our soil in a year, under the
impetus of war needs. We can do
better than that, If we continue to
apply ourselves to the production of
larger crops. The returning soldiers
alone, ii a large proportion of them
go back to the soil, can add millions
of bushels to 1t.
Fort Dodge Messenger: AS a mat
ter of fact, if the government pro-
poses to control and operate the
railroads for five years. adding equip
ment, making readjustments and es-
tablishing new systems and policies,
1t might just about as well take them
over permanently at once 1t would
be manifestly unfair and un-Ameri-
can to control railroads for five
years and then expect the former
owners to take them back.
Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: While
the allies are planning to get the
Germans guilty of criminal acts and
Great Britain plans expulsion of all
alien enemies, why should not the
United States government get the
d~espicable Won Bernstorff, hatcher
Of all the murderous German plots
here? He is O n man this govern
ment should use for example to all
future diplomats of the consequences
of abusing hospitality and immunity.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: A e
invention makes four conversations
at the same time over one telephone
line possible. But she'll be equal to
it. With a little practice she'll be
able to no only understand all four |
conversations, but identify the voices.
Anamosa Eureka: The punishment
of the kaiser is not SO much a ques-
ton as it affects him as to the i'm
preston to be made on future gent
erations. If skinning him alive and
turning him loose will prevent some
royal neurotic of coming years from !
starting another var we are for skin
ming him Immediately. His memory
should be made as hideous and loatn-i
some to the future as 1t Is possible
to make it. /,
Cedar Rapids Republican: We are
afraid that Wilhelm will be In more
need of spiritual advisers than he is
of law advisers. He has had his
chance. in this world and he has
1t were best for him to pre-
pare himself for the world to come.
Webster City Freeman-Journal:
Why not let this question be dis
cussed on its merits, instead of lug
sing in the insinuation that military
training leads to- Prussianism? Uni
versal liability to military duty is
one of the best deterrents to war
imaginable. while universal military
training is one of the best Jewelers. of
and preventives of class dis
tinctions possible to conceive.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20

cured to them the right of petitioning and GER
tain personal rights; and at a later date, the
right to vote for a president and vice president
once in four years. Onr government as mstitut-
ed was thus the reverse of a democracy, and IN
situations like the referendum are a departure
from the original plan, as are all other social
istic proposals.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20
eritjsb control Of Flax Trads, !,

New York Times: The Brilsn fro,
eminent, according to a repo n,nde,
Consul IL. Albert Johnson Oh ,rol /,
Scotland, intends to keep co ON Gel
the flax trade during the 1rsate
son. 1t also purposes giving an
facilities for the exports OF sa 9TH d
cloth and to deal literally houl
REQUESTS for permits for tne 1
market. The very heavy ll o-,al BID
the price of the raw
made all quotations nominal.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20

Springfield. Mass, Republican: Let
us be frank about the railroads. If the
period of government control is to be
extended, the chances will be greatly
diminished that they will yer be re-
turned to their private owners and
managers on any basis whatever. Mr..
McAdoo argues very forcihly, perhaps
unanswerably, his side of the case.
yet those who are uncompromisingly
hostile to government ownership can.
not listen favorably to his proposal
without virtual surrender. If the ex-
trenfe opponents of the nationalist
ton of the railroads are not to lose
their fight at the outset, they will not
risk the state of the public mind five
years from now, when alf the people
would have forgotten that the rail
roads ever had private management.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20
German DIGNITY.

Washington Post: Germans who
must step off the sidewalks at AK
la-Chapelle when they meet Belgian
officers insist that it hurts their dig
nifty. But their dignity will have
c%allouses before long.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20

aroused. ,rs-s
We would not tolerate the s rsy
of fraud which the German y
ment cultivated in German.
were not kultured.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20

Subscribers to German war loans are reported
to be uneasy. No wonder. They were told that
they would be paid back out OF the 1ndemnltles
the government expected to collect at the end OF.
the war. .
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20

The chief Characteristic Of the gossip is that he or she
prefers to live in the iowiyins miasnic strata of life,
revelins in the negatives of like and taking joy in finding
and peddling about the findings that he or she naturally
makes there-RaIph Waldo Urine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-20

There may be no patched up peace, but there
is going to be a whole lot of patched up nations.