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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
THE LIMIT OF SAFEGUARDS.

There is perfectly understandable eagerness
by the French to safeguard the future from any
possibility of attack by Germany But 1T is
clear that there is a limit to possible safeguards.
The spirit Of malevoence will escape any ma
terial means of ending it. There is no way IN
which one nation can be free of the-deslre OF an
other nation to harm it.
The latest of French proposals is that the
peace conference attempt to limit the freedom
of air traffic; to decree certain limitations TO
the use of the air for locomotion. The purport
of the proposal is that France might be de-
structively attacked by German aircraft mask
ing under peace DISCUSSES There is such pos
sibility But we cannot protect peaceful so
ciety from attacks by thugs and murderers by
regulating the use of our streets and highways;
we must leave them free to all and police them
for protection The duty of policing the ar over
a land seems necessarily business for that
land to undertake.. International protectorates
are bulky enough and clumsy enough already.
Plan as they may with the hearty wish OF the
world for success behind them, men cannot ind
a means of ending malevolent will and ingen-
uity save by meeting menace when it comes
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
A Free Prescription Does Its Work
Overnight. You Can Prepare
II at Your Home

New York: 1t is my own discovery
and 1t takes just one night to get
such marvellous results. says Mae
Edna Wilder. when her friends ask
her about her wonderful complexion
and the improved appearance of her
hands and arms. You can do the
same thing if you follow my advice,
she says: feel 1t my duty to tell
every girl and woman what this
wonderful prescription did for me. !
never tire of telling others just what
brought about such remarkable re
suits. Here is the identical prescrip-
ton that removed every defect from
my face, neck. hands and arms Until
you try it you can form no idea of
the marvellous change it will make
in just one application. The pre-
scription, which you can prepare at
your own home, is as follows: Go to
any grocery and get ten cents worth
of ordinary oatmeal, and from any
drug store bottle of derwillo. Pre-
pare the oatmeal as directed in every
package of derwillo and apply night
and morning. The first application
will astonish you. 1t makes the skin
appear transparent, smooth and vel
vety. especially recommend 1t for
freckles. tan, sun spots, coarse pores,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
RoLsHEvisTs AND REASON.

New York Evening Telegram: One
of those strange beings, American
Bolsheyists (parlor variety. was
al guing his newly discovered theories.
a re-hash of Trotsky, Lenine & Co.,
outpourings cleaned from fugitive
publications from the east side. Seven
on eight acquaintances of normal type
were trying to convince him OF erro-
NOUS application he made of the
facts of the world drama unrolling be-
fore the eye of mankind. The bolshe-
visits method was simplicity itself.
ANY statement which bore against
him was false" 'nonsensical," "a
fake"
You have most perverted view OF
the world" he finally shouted.
How about you?" was the retort.
Here you are, one against seven. Are
We all perverted and you the only one
that sees straight?'
yes" he said. 81 am right; know
I'm right; and | know you are all
wrong
What's the use? There is none. ex-
cept, perhaps, the moral, which may
be needed by those whom 1t may con-
Germ more or less:-Don't argue with
la bolshevist Act,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
IF HAIR IS TURNING
GRAY, Use SAGE TEA
Here's Grandmother's Recipe to Dark
en- and Beautify Faded
Hair.

That beautiful, even shade of dark.
glossy hair can only be had by brew
ing a mixture of Sage Tea and Sui
phur. Your hair is your charm. II
makes or mars the face. When 1t
fades. turns gray or streaked, just an
application or two of Sage and Sui
phur enhances its appearance hun
dredfold. +.
Don't bother to prepare the mix.
ture; you can get this famous old
recipe improved by the addition Of
other ingredients at a small cost, all
ready for use. 1t is called Wyeth'
Sage and Sulphur Compound. This can
always be depended upon to BRING
back the natural color and lustre OF
your hair.
Everybody uses "Wyeth's" Sage and
Sulphur Compound now because II
darkens SO naturally and evenly that
nobody can tell It las been applied.
You simply dampen a sponge or soft
brush with ii and draw this through
the hair, taking one small strand at
time; by morning the gray hair has
disappeared, and after another appii-
cation II becomes beautifully dark and
appears glossy and lustrous.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
MARSHALL WRoNGFULLY CREDITED.

Gold is where you find it. Way back IN the
wear 1S48 laborer at Suffers mill, named jim
Marshall. found nugget Of gold IN the Amerl-
can river in California, and overnight he and
his discovery became famous. He was the mod
ern Jason who had found the Golden Fleece,
and upon the heels of his discovery men from
the four quarters of the world flocked to Span
ish California They iourneyed across the
plains in oxcarts They went around the Horn
il. sailing vessels They toiled afoot across the
Isthmus of Panama. Those were the days of
old, the days Of gold, the days Of forty-nine. -
The world was gold mad.
Almost twenty years ago the state of Cali
fo1Tia erected at Coloma monument to James
w. Marshall ''The discoverer of gold in Cali
fornia - died in Cooma August tenth 1885. He
was buried on a hillside overlooking the site of
his gold discovery. The monument is from
granite quarried from nearby mountains. It
is surmounted with a life-size figure of Marshall
in miners garb One hand clasps a bronze re-
production of nugget of gold the other is ex-
tended with the index finger pointing toward
the site of the famous Suffer mill An inscriD-
ton placed on the monument at the time if was
dedicated stated that Marshall discovered his
first nugget on January nineteenth 1S48. For
many years pioneers protested that the date
was incorrect Finally Governor Stephens an
pointed commission Of historians to deter
mine the correct date, and the commission re
ported that January twenty fourth, 1848, is tn,
correct date SO the California Legislature ha
made an appropriation Of five thousand dollar
to have the inscription changed.
So far SO good. As a matter Of historical fac
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
Famous in a Day for Her
Beautiful Complexion,
Oatmeal Combination Does

rough skin, ruddiness, wrinkles
in fact, every blemish the face, ha'
and arms are heirs TO. II your u
or chest is discolored from expos'
apply this combination there and
Objectionable defect will dissppa
1t is absolutely harmless and VII
produce or stimulate a growtn
hair. No matter how rough ana
calmly the hands and arms, or
abuses they have had through u
work and exposure TO sun and VI
this oatmeal-derwillo combinar]
will work a wonderful TRANSFORMER
in twelve hours a. the most ~
sands who have used it had the ~
results / have had.
Note: To get the best efiec
sure TO follow the complete dn1
tons contained in every pacSass
derwilio. You have only to gel y
wilio and oatmeal. You need noun
else, and it is SO simple that any
can use it; and it Is SO inexpeaa)
that any girl or woman can ah1
it. The manufacturers and ~
gists guarantee that there VIII "
noticeable improvement after
first application or they wiz ~
the money. 1t Is sold In this cay
der a money refund guarantee y
department stores and all up.oDJ
druggists, including the "lAl']
and the McGrath Bros. stores
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
FIGHTING PETER MCCOY.

Peter Mccoy, of Kentucky, is back from
France and home again in the bosom OF that
fighting clan of which he is the most dis
itinguished member His mountaineer kinsmen
never fell into the error so properly derided In
the vivid poster of thinking that he could not
fight They knew that he could. They knew
that if there was fighter from Fayetteville in
our expeditionary forces his name must be Nc
Coy But the rest of the country did not know
it, and it may be that Peter himself may not
have adequately estimated bis own capacity for
martial achievement Real heroes are proverb-
tally modest. even self deprecatory at times It
is only the crude imitation, the plated hero, who
was sure in misunderstanding to his nara
tive-of the prowess he was going to show.
But the citation which called Peter up for
the distinguished service medal recounts what
he did. and he certainly did enough and all that
could have been expected even of the doughtiest
Mccoy We are told that, encountering seven
enemies single handed he killed them all with
his bayonet and a hand grenade. Then he cap
tured four machine gun nests, took seventeen
prisoners, rescued wounded officer and after
that continued on the objective, whien
seems to mean that he did not consider his fight
ing over for that day.
Yet Peter is only private and goes back to
vegetate in his native 'moonshine' mountains
when he should be in the permanent establish
ment of the army. And inasmuch as the league
of nations seems likely, as pessimists insist, to
involve us In endless wars, would it not be well
for the government to have moving pictures
made for use in future recruiting of Peter Nc
Coy in action at Bellincourt, showing how the
seven good Huns fell on peace and how Peter
hercled the seventeen bad ones back to camp.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
What would They Have Done?

Cedar Rapids Republican: If the
Germans had won this war. 1t is not
fair question what they would have
done with their victory? Would they
have consulted the conquered nations
or considered their ability to pay as
scrupulously as the allied nations
have done? We are of the opinion
that they would not have accepted
even advice from the conquered. Their
secret literature shows that they ex-
pected to collect in Paris alone
enough to pay for the whole war, with
q profit of Bismarckian proportions.
Did they ask in Belgium what they
could pay when they levied the war
indeminties? Did they not take
everything there was to take, not leav-
ing even food for the conquered race.
go that America and other nations had
10 step In and feed the people who
had been denuded2 Did not Bis
marck say that a conquered people
should be left nothing except their
eyes to see and weep with? 1t comes
now in poor form for the Germans to
complain of the hardships imposed In
TIE peace terms OF the allies The
allies will not exact the price of the
war. but they will content themselves
with the barest reparations. Such
countries as France. England and
America viii be left to pay what they
had 10 spend to force the blonde beast
hack into his lair beyond the Rhine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
Everyone is as God made him, and often
times great deal worse.-Don QulNote.
OCEAN TRAFFIC IN THE FUTURE.

The German ships informed III our ports dur
inc the war have now become the property OIL
the United States which takes them at valua-
ton of one hundred million dollars to be deduct
ed from the indemnity due us. F'orty-one OF
them are freight and passenger ships and forty
eight are cargo carriers. Some of the hugest
German liners are among the ships we thus ac-
auire the Leviathan, as have renamed her,
being the largest merchant vessel afloat how
we shall use them remains for congress to de-
terlnine The government may sell them to
private owners, change the shipping laws SO
that they can be operated at profit or subsi-
die the But it seems likely that American
sentiment will oppose their sale to foreign own
ers and demand that they be-kept beneath our
flag. The transatlantic traffic will now be
something near evenly divided between Eng
land and America, and save for the French and
a few lesser lines will be in the hands of the
English-speaking race.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
Cen Wnod,s Boom

Springfield, Mass, Republican: The
strong sentiment for Gen. Wood as q
presidential candidate exhibited by
the republican delegates to the st.
Louis caucus OF the new American
Legion is fact 70 be recNoned with
by republicans who prefer another
kind Of candidate. Among soldiers
of republican affiliations Gen. wood
seems to be more and more accepted
as the legitimate heir OF the Roose.
Welt tradition. In the year before the
national convention the sentiment
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
POSLAM REAL
TREAT FOR SKIN
THAT ITCHES

ONLY those who have itched and
scratched and still itched continually
can appreciate what it means when
the aggravation is ended by the
soothing. penetrating, antiseptic In
fiuence of Poslam. And what relief
to be rid of any eruptional blemish
which has entailed prolonged enbar-
easement. Turn TO Poslam first for
the quick healing help which ailing
akin must have You do not have
10 wait in uncertainty for indications
of Improvement. II soon SHOWS.
Sold everywhere. For free sample
write TO Emergency Laboratories,
24s West 47th ST., New York City.
Urge your skin to become clearer,
healthier by the daily use of Poslam
Soap. medicated with Poslam.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Waterloo Times-Tribune: The coun-
try expects the republican congress
to get to work 1t Is in a great hurry
for reconstruction legislation. 1t gives
not a snap for the past. 1t will not
get enthusiastic about any investi-
CATION" order of the past acts OF the
administration. What 1t wants is not
proof of democratic mistakes, or
rather charges of mistakes by poll
ticians, but legislation that will start
the business ball to rolling.
Des Moines Register: The repub-
lican congress will be wiser IL, in
stead of spending it's time investi-
eating democratic failures. 1t takes
the constructive steps necessary to
guarantee that democratic congress
will not be investigating its failures
two years from now.
Marshalltown Times Republican,:
Winnipeg's strike is more costly than
big fire. But that is true or all
big strikes in all cities. Strikes al
ways cost more than conflagration
and everybody loses without insur-
ance.
Des Moines Capital: The national
guard can be further popularized by
not being called into service so as in
any manner to interfere with labor
disputes In sane world, as we now
hope this world may be, labor dis
putes will grow less and less each
year. But the national guard should
be relieved of police duty. The young
workingman should be In the ma
tional guard for his own good and
the good of the state. and he will not
want to 60 into the national guard
provided he can be called out during
labor troubles.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Now and
then some regular may claim superb
ority for his section of the American
army, but good and sufficient an
swe- to any such assertion is the
record of the Rainbow division.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: The man
who made fifty-seven varieties IA
nous had to die with the rest. But
he can tell them up in heaven that
he did some good while he was down
on earth And he did.
vinton Eagle: One trouble with our
country today is that We are all
hogs. We all want exorbitant prices
for what we sell and normal prices
for what We buy.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: It begins
to look as though the arrogance new
er can be knocked out OF the typical
Teuton A smashed army, an over
turned government, decayed monarch
ialism, disintegrated materialism and
the crumbling of the ambitions OF
half century have failed to obliter-
ate the most supreme national and
individual impudence ever displayed.
Mason City Globe-Gazette: Our
modest young returned soldiers and
sailors are much more anxious about
the fit of their new "civies" than
over public demonstrations.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE


| stood tiptoe upon little hill.
The air was cooling. and so very sun,
That the sweet buds which with modest pride
Pull droopingly, in slantng curve aside
Their scantyieaved and finely taPerlng stems
Had not lost those starry diadems
Caught from the early sobbing OF the morn
The clouds were pure and white as fiocks new snorn.
And fresh from the clear brook; sweetly they slept
On the blue fields OF heaven and then there crept
4 little noiseess noise among the leaves
Born of the very sigh that silence heaves;
Far moi the faintest motion could be seen
OF all int shades that slanted DER the green
There was wide wand'ring for the sreeoiest eye
To peer about upon variety;
For round the horizons crystal air TO SKIM
And trace the dwindled edgings OF its orm;
To picture out the quaint, and curious oenains
OF a fresh woodland alley, never ending
Or by the bowery clefts, and leafy shelves,
1 49, Keats
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

gold was not first discovered in California on
January twenty-fourth, 194S, and the discover
er was not James w. Marshall. Gold was dis
covered half a dozen years earlier than that
date by a Mexican peon working in river bed
near Los Angeles But of course it wouldn t do
to erect a monument to Mexican peon.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

The peace treaty with Germany IS bound
volume of eighty thousand words, the size OF
an average length novel 1t contains more than
a thousand clauses As the world grows older
it becomes more garrulous. The treaty OF
Paris. 1915. had only thirty-eight clauses The
treaty that brought the Crimean war to an end
contained thirty-five clauses. The San Stefano
treaty. 1878. contained twenty-nine clauses.
And the story of the creation was told in six
hundred words!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

Four years ago William Hohenzollern, then
kaiser, said: ;. 1t is time to abolish all that IS
foreign" Had he been prophet or the son
of prophet, he would have added: And all
that is domestic
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

may change. yet the general is getting
. flying start. and the organization
booming him Is already formidable. a
Taft organization is being started In
Omaha, Neb But Mr. Taft has been
RooseYelt's heir once already, and he
is no novelty.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23
4 WASHINGTON newspaperman OF uneomme

a Washington newspaperman of uncommon
penetration has so far unveiled the hidden re-
cesses of the presidents mind as to discover,
so he says, that if the senate swallows the cove
rant and looks pleasant he viii not be q candi-
date for reelection But if senators refuse to
accept the intertwined league and treaty set
before them the presidential hat will be in the
third-term ring 1t does not appear whether
this is an extraordinary instance of mental di-
vination or merely the conjecture of a news
writer with an alert mind 1t may therefore
be taken for what it is worth which apparently
is not much.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

Another thing the peace document does
makes the world safe for hospital ships,
churches, Red Cross ambulances and hospital
bases.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

New York World: Corsets are
taxed If luxury. not if necessity.
Soda water Is taxed In a drug store
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

Marshalltown Times Republican,:
Winnipeg's strike is more costly than
big fire, But that is true or all
big strikes in all cities. Strikes al
ways cost more than a conflagration
and everybody loses without insur-
ance.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

If the power hard work is not talent it IS the pes.
n,.s;ha institute for IL THINGS do up in this
world unless somebody them upJames q. Sareo'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

Des Moines Register: The repub-
lican congress will be wiser II, in
stead of spending its time investi-
eating democratic failures. 1t takes
the constructive steps necessary to
guarantee that democratic congress
will not be investigating its failures
two years from now.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-23

Council Bluffs Ncnpareil: Now and
then some regular may claim superb
ority for his section of the American
army, but good and sufficient an
swe- to any such assertion is the
record of the Rainbow division.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-01
OLD ROMAN HAPPY
|. THAT HIS SOX ARE
IN THE BIG SERIES
Charles ComiSkey Believes
Hose Will Have No Trouble
in Winning Over the Reds
in Classic.

CHICAGO, Oct. Charles Albert
Comiskey, known as the Old Roman.
president Of the peunaut- winning White
SoX is indeed the grand old man of
baseball" Ever since he upset his
fathers hope some forty years ago by
taking up baseball instead of becom
ing a plumber he has neen connected
with baseball in various capacities, hav-
ing travelled around the world with the
Chicago and New York teams In l9lS-
IA and being instrumental IN the pro-
gress Of the game from the early days
Of the sport
Although he celebrated his stiieth
birthday IN August ComiskeN sttll il as
active as he ever was except that he
does not play.
1t did not REQUIRE much plumbing to
convince the SoN president that his
was another field, so disrcgardlpg the
apprenticeship under which his father
placed him he Joined the Milwaukee
baseball club as third baseman In
1876, He was seventeen years old and
his salary was $50 a month Before
this however, ComiSkey played sand
lot ball with his pals ard became quite
proficient in the art Of handling base
ball
Comiskey is accustomed to seeing his
team win pennauts, In fact, he started
the pennant- winning business back in
1886 when as captain and manager OF
the st, Louis Browns his team won the
American association nennant in 1885,
6-7-S, The Browns participated In the
worlds series of those years, winning
one series, losing two and tying one
In 1892, he became captain and man
ager of the Cincinnati Reds and while
acting in that capacity met Byron s.
johnson, then engaged in newspaper
work In that city. Comiskey and John
son saw the financial possibilities of
another major league and were the chief
factors IN the expansion of the old
Western league into the American
league.