The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-12-14
PUBLIC SCHOOL DIFFERENTIATION.

PUBLIC SCHOOL REORGANIZATION
It is assumed that the public schools will
feel the impulse toward intensive work to fur
Their Americanization This is quite right it
the impulse does not carry with it lot of pro-
posals of endeavors that lie outside the real
province of school work The public schools
have not failed in the matter Of Americaniza-
.tion They can and will do more for it as their
Ipower In the way of extension increases. With
the English language as the medium the facts
lof life with training to use them can be taught
las they have been and better still as better
methods of apportioning time devised.
Pupils who intelligently made acquainted
with knowledge of our history, political, SO
Icial and industrial making that history always
la living thing by constant reference to every
day life are prepared to be good Americans.
Propaganda is not necessary nor is it advis-
liable. The schools function best when they
leducate; to educate boy girl to intelligent
fAmericanism does not require a machinery OF
clubs associations or organizations that only
lcomplicate the already crowded school hours.
Our exporters being anxiously queried
by foreign buyers to prospect OF getting
orders filled in the Immediate future. 1t is
natural to suppose that neutral nations will seek
| to get their normal supplies as promptly as
and courage in the initial days of trade revival
There will be temptation to look only to the
means of meeting trade demands; to give pre-
icedence of attention to that which can be done
at once. But this will not do as trade policy
The foreign markets are eagerly waiting atten-
ton to their needs; if they do not get it here
they will look for it elsewhere. It is foolish
ipolicy to count on the fact that they cannot get
! it anywhere else to greater extent than with
US; other nations are further along with their
! industrial reorganization plans than
/ 1t is well for us to maintain a level of safety
between haste and its opposite, but as rapidly
! as possible exporters must perfect plans,
meet buyers inquiries with promises possible
of fulfllment and keep their promises.
| When it was known that Mr. Creel was going
abrood with the president, such a storm of pro-
test broke in the press of the land that he found
lit expedient to disceam any control OF official
publicity in connection with the peace confer
ence Yet his right-hand man, Edward Sisson,
now in Paris with numerous staff, announces
that .'every American official communication
to the press must pass Mr.. Creel' If this be
so and Creel is to censor the news before it can
be cabled to America, the frank and unglossed
estimates of that official, in congress and out,
are likely to be voluble and voluminous.
| Spain showed great vision in refusing Ger
many's offer of Gibraltar in exchange for enter
! ing the war on the German side. There would
be difficulty in completing the transaction at
present.
/ Some of the German socialist leaders appear
to be sinking to the level of Mexico's Villa in
their view of personal rights.
1t becomes increasingly evident that it is
hard to make the world safe for some kinds of
democracy.
We wonder what Won Papen thinks of those
!idiotic Yankees now!