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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-06

The Tageblat states that 5000 Ar.
rests have been made IN Munich, the
prisoners including Doctor Levin,
leader OF the Bavarian independent
socialists, and town governor Weber
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-06
EIGHT Die IN
COLUMBUS FIRE.;
MANY INJURED
Several Are Believed 10 Be
Fatally Hurt,

COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 6.-Eight
persons are known to have pcrished
and a dozen were injured, several
probably fatally, in fire which early
stroyed SlX-Story apartment house
IN the downtown section shortly after
midnight this morning Miraculous
escapes, some by jumps from the fifth
and sixth stories. into life nets and
The tossing ot infants several stories
into nets and an army OF re.iighters
made It the most spectacular fire this
city has known in some time.
Identified dead are:
MRS. CHARLES SPEAKMAN.
MRS. CARL STElGELWALD.
GEORGE REIFSNElDER.
MRS. GEORGE RElFSNEIDER.
At 4 o'clock this morning the police
found the bodies OF a man and a wom-
an on the fourth floor. Their names
have no, been ascertained
They were suiiooa,ed and burned in
bed
Four small children Of Mrs. Steigel-
wald are believed to have perishsd on
the sixth floor from which their
mother leaped to her death. They arc
unaocounted for Numerous others
have not been found by friends or the
police and officers carly this morning
expressed fear that half dozen were
trapped and burned to death.
Miss Anna Bell Joyce, ~, cannot
live, physicians say. She was taken
from the building in a semi-o conscious
condition after the blaze was under
control. That she was alive is at
tributed to her hanging across an
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1919-05-06
Clan Leader Held
For Judges Death

STANDARDSVlLLE, Va, May o.
Edgar Morris, mountalneer clan
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
July 16. Fever; wrote.
July II. Fever; wrote.
July IS. Feeling better.
July 20. Five hippos.
ExAGGE RATED DISTRESS.

Lincoln Journal New York is
making so much fuss over the COM
ing Of prohibition that one would
gather from perusing the newspapers
that the 100000 people at the mouth
Of the Hudson did nothing but drink
beer and spirits from early morn till
late at night One of the great ho-
tells has set apart new bone dry
room-a soft drink buffet to which
the patrons Of the bar are expected
TO repair for daily increasing visits
until by July 1 they have become so
accustomed to alcoholic aridity that
they can bear to remain in this Sa-
hara all day long. In point of fact
the distress of the metropolis over
the coming drought is greatly exag-
gerated by the newspapers. The peo-
pie are not expecting the end Of the
world on July /. When the time
comes they will be amazed to find
how little shock prohibition will
bring to their daily lives and to gen
eral business conditions After few
months they will find themselves in
better health, their pocketbooks in
better condition, and general social
conditions much improved. In few
years they will wonder what all this
worry was about. In future years
some of the most amusing and amaz-
ing exhibits in the museums will be
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28

river or pillared border hes region mag
nificently mneralized, of rare fertility IN spots,
Astounding in possibilities, fascinating in It's IN
vitation to enterprise. This vast land is sparse
ly inhabited by an impoverished, unlntelllgent,
unambitious people, who wait in their Incidence
and degradation for men of another race to
come and improve their condition by the magic
open sesame of ideas and enterprise which shall
unlock the idle riches of their land. 1t seems
inevitable in the eternal course OF things that
Americans will push into these regions and LEAD
in their developments and this is desirable In
the interest of the inhabitants themselves. Yet
when this movement begins, endless friction
with the Mexican government may be looked
for: and if some league of nations arrangement
permits envious or intriguing foreign powers
to inject themselves into the situation, no one
can tell what the outcome may be.
What seems beyond doubt is that the com
pulsion of economic conditions makes the
peaceful penetration of Mexico by American
brains and capital the highly probable next
great movement on this continent. No people
has ever been allowed to fence in riches 1t was
incapable of developing. The necessities OF hui
man evolutions have overridden all such
claims and the working theory of the world
has been right of usufruct. This right IN
time viii be applied to Mexico by the govern
ment of the United States; and the time is not
far distant.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
Better make penitents by gentleness than
hypocrites by seyerity.-St. Francis de Sales.
THE LURE OF MEXICO.

Affairs in Mexico have received scant atten-
ton lately, but there is little to. Indicate lhat
conditions below the Rio Grande give any early
promise of stability. Villa is active IN the Dor
der province of Chihuahua and an American
company has just paid five thousand dollars 1or
the release of employees held to ransom by this
enterprising brigand. The announcement tnat
Japanese interests are seeking again TO OBTAIN
extensive holdings in Lower California Is aus
quoting The question of Mexican OIL land
concessions to certain European powers con-
tains unrealized possibilities OF friction with
the United States; and Carranza, unfr1endly at
heart towards US, indirect not to say tortuous
In his diplomacy and apparently pro-German
in his leanings, always needs watching and IS
open to the reasonable suspicion of scheming
to our disadvantage.
Under normal conditions we could afford per-
haps to drift along until time cleared up the sit
liation. But normal conditions are nowhere to
be found on earth today and not in sight. On
the contrary, strange and trying conditions, I'M
restful, disturbed, darker the immediate future
OF our own and other lands. Speaking gener-
ally, it seems within the facts to say that great
Disseminated elements in the populations of the
debt burdened nations Of earth, our own in
Guided, will turn anxious eyes to every land
rich IN undeVeloped resources, and that their
more adventurous spirits, pioneers Of enter
prise, will be under propulsion to seek those
regions whose unexplored natural resources Of
fer an attractive field of effort for men of abil
ity and force.
Heretofore our western territories stored
with unknown, unworked riches-fertlity of
soil and mineral deposits-whch nature had
been long ages in laying up, have been our ma
tional safety valve. Men whom the humdrum
life did not content and who felt the inner urge
tc throw dice with fate for big and sudden win
nngs, treked in endless streams across the
rivers and the plains allured by those caches
Of untold, untouched wealth which nature hac
buried for future discovery and use. But nov
all this is largely changed The west still of
fers wealth in return for toll, but only by thos
small increments of increase which possibl
in the east
Yet just to the south of us, across a shallo,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
THE NEW COLLEGE BOY.

Scribner's: The technicians and
the financiers have Numbered into
better understanding Of youth. Ro-
nance is perhaps the most powerful
Influence in young mans life, and
a hard and practical thing besides;
the technician appeals to 1t. Great
effort and great reward-the over
coming of difficulties and the achiey
ing of applause-are the very bones
and blood of romance; they demand
hardship, sacrifice labor and service,
and give to their devotees daily
reward OF personal satisfaction Of
which the financial reward that fol
lows is but the symbol and the seal.
Would you build bridge where men
who went before you have failed?
Would you cause the wheels to turn
faster, or tame a jungle, or utilize
forces which have never been dream
ed Of, and develop products hitherto
unknown? The technical school will
set you on your way. And all you
learn will be of evident value to you
there will be no lost motion in your
education. 1t is efficient, exact and
you will achieve efficiency and exact
ness; these two are prerequisites of
Certainly, the case for technical
education is strong; ciassicists have
admitted as much by the tragic COM
promises they have made with it.
They have entered competition with
forms of activity whose Justification
is financial success, and have COM
pletely lost sight of the fact that
the greatest value of humanitarian
education lies in the fact that, from
a commercial standpoint, 1t is abso-
lutely useless Science and art can
not be placed in competition; they
complement each other, and the man
who understands one but not the
other is incapable of seeing life
clearly and seeing it whole. The
extremes of both types are out of
place in civilization; one maintains
that he can live without bathrooms
and the other that he can live with
out pictures, and both are wrong
Within Institutions, at least, the dis
cussion between the classical and the
scientific departments are generally
acrimonious and frequently personal,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
AN AFTERMATH FOR sLAcKERIsM.

We are done with talk about slackers; those
who within the law and with steps outside 1t
have escaped the service they were too poor IN
personality to undertake are out of danger now.
But as our men who entered the ranks, both
here and abroad, in army and navy, workshop
and Office come back into civil life they will not
forget indeed, they are not forgetting. There
is evident already keen scrutiny by our war
workers of their fellow citizens. Sympathy for
the men who were kept at work in the home
country is freely expressed by those who are
coming from foreign service. 1t is commonly
declared by returning soldiers that some Of the
most courageous and self-sacrifcing work OF
the war has been done by men who sat at desks,
performed the routine duties in camps, super
vised detail here and there and all the time ate
their hearts out in disappointment over the fate
that kept them from the front. At first there
was much confusion of thought over slackerism
and from it arose injustice. But now clear
estimate is possible and the Stacker is known
for what he was and did. There will be an
aftermath for slackerism. Those who lodged
duty cannot dodge the disdain of men who did
their duty.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
HOW ROOSEVELT ovERcAME

Davenport Democrat, One OF the
most remarkable commentaries on
the character of Theodore Roosevelt
that we. have seen is given in the
March number Of Garry On, the
magazine devoted to the reconstruc-
ton of disabled soldiers and sailors,
Herman Hagedorn writes of Roose-
welt as 1.-THE Man Who Overcame. ;"
The world knows how Roosevelt
overcame the physical weaknesses of
his youth; it may not know as well
how he overcame when he was past
so. And yet he was older than that
when he was hunting hippopotami at
Lake Naivasha in Central Africa,
where he was Frustrated again by
the Cuban fever he had been subject
to at intervals ever since the Santi-
ago campaign. Did the fever put him
down for long? Read his diary for
that period. The entries in his jour-
nal were:
July Is. Fever; wrote.
July IT. Fever; wrote.
July IS. Feeling better.
July 20. Five hippos.
That was the life of Roosevelt in a
nutshell. An epic in eight words.
Two days Ill, but working; day re-
covering; next day, Ave hlppos. One
gets from this hint of how he
packed 80 much into his life. And
Hagedorn finds message for the
wars cripples in the words of Roose-
welt when a physician told him in the
last month of his life that he might
be confined to his chair for the rest
of his days: "Al1 right! can live
that way tool"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
TODAY,s BIT OF VERSE
THE LEvELER.

Near Martinpuich that night OF hell
Two men were struck by the same shell,
Together tumbling in one heap
Senseless and limp like slaughtered sheep.
One was pale eighteen-yearold.
Giriish and thin and not too bold
Prest for the war ten years too soon,
The shame and pity OF his platoon.
The other came from far-on lands,
With bristling chin and whiskered nanos;
He had known death and hell BEFORE
In Mexico and Ecuador. -As-s--
Yet In his death this cutthroat wild
Groaned Mother! Mother!" Ike cnlio'
While that poor innocent In mans clothes
DIED cursing God with brutal oaths-
Old sergt Smith, kindest OF men,
Wrote out two copies there and then
or his accustomed funeral speech
To cheer the womenfofk Of each
Robert Graves, in New Statesman
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
state Park Boosters.

To the Editor of The Gate oity,
A short time ago there came .
attention clipping from Inc !
Gate City headed state ram
Keokuk Is Plan" 1t is graulsn5
see your paper taking interest," ~
general movement for the sta''
is surely worthy aim for tns i
monwealth, and one desernns
hearty and especially the III
minded support and co-opefsuo y.
every citizen In the state Oh wi
There were several parts "
article referred to above ~nl.n
cate that there are some Pnas
this movement not entirely . ass'
would like to call afternoon ssps
to the lines stating tnat tls
are to be established through
forestry extension departmeans, MI, y
state college at Ames' Us,
course. is erroneous, since 'ns u
ment had its foundation IN a ~,
been in a large measure Il r
tirely, promoted by the Iowa .o III
walton association. ms as'O u,
is composed of citizens iron a az
the state. from all insututlo ar,s1
many not college men OF a0 mt #
all It is entirely indepehueu' 81, =,
.;on donartments except loi
interest that the members " I'M
denartments take in the s'l|
movement. ur IN KeO|
and lived there until ! en.. a,Iv
adv, for park work e.. es''1
that locality. / am, therel aooDlJ
ticularly anxious that the hat hat
KeoLuk shall know just ' waas
Iowa Conservation asso 3as deTd
what its purposes and wh a. red
ments are taking place d.
the state park movement; :, cod
vat - n ASSOCIATION ass will apfes IN
i inform which your paper .0 VI
able to give its readers . at
mort it may give in tur1 ,n,ra.
state parh no IRWIN T. BoDl
Ames. Iowa, March 26' lsl'
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28

In that simple beautiful record OF molly 'te .n
journal of John Woolman, there is passage OF which
have been than once reminded IN my
with my feIobeines Some chances OF real beauty may
be seen In their who dwell in true meekness nere
;s divine harmony the sound of that voice to whS
divine Love gives utterance" Quite the usiies, race ~
ever saw was that of a whom the world cahs
h.a,,ifu On the other hand, there are faces
which the multitude the first glance pronounce money
and such mature fashions by the gross
for the world would one feature changed eney
pIease mo as they are; they haowed by nd memo
rles: they are beautiful through their associations no
are they any welcome that with my aom'ao'
~ 4han Athe stranger interrneddieth not-Whittef.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
THE WAR COST.

The money cost of the war is estimated at
two hundred billions; the cost IN human lie is
believed to be about nine millions. The life
loss will be made good before the money loss.
In this country last year the excess OF births
over deaths was about nine per thousand popu-
lation If this rate Of increase holds good
throughout the world something like one hun
dred and thirty-fve millions are added annual
" to the population of the globe Nine million
human lives is thus in sense a trlfhng mat
ter. But wealth amounting to two hundred b.
lion dollars is no small thing or easily replaced
Each unit of the human family would have to
add one hundred and thirty dollars to the
worlds wealth above what he consumed in or
der to make the war waste good. Amassng
money. and creating wealth are very different
things. A man may accumulate dollars WIN
out adding an iota to the wealth of the world.
All the money printing presses Of all the ma
tons running night and day do not make the
world one penny richer Wealth is some pro.
duct of nature useful to man fashioned into
usefulness by him. It is quite conceivable
therefore that century may not see the de-
struction of the last five years made good
Count Won BernstortP's wife petitions the SUI
prem ecourt of the state Of New York to enJo'n
the eXnlDlClng Oh ID moving Plobuio nm " ''' /,
she is shown with her husband in banquet
scene that bears the heading: "Bernstor1 ana
His American Wife Who Were Engaged in
Murder Plots and Other Grimes in the united
States, ,, OF course, no one believes that the
Countess Won Bernstorff, who was an American
before her marriage, committed murder or
other crimes while she was in this country, but
/ if cannot be denied that she was in bad com
Ipany when she was with her husband.
1 Secretory Redfcld says that he approves thc
policy of protecting the person and properly
of an American who goes into foreign country
in the legitimate pursuit Of his business. we
dare say that the account American troops gave
, Iof themselves in the few months they were ~
the war will have the effect Of making Amer
cans more respected in foreign clirnes--eVch -
v Mexico.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28

degenerating sometimes into fights
for places on the schedule. Since the
scientists have had more obvious evil
dence to. support their arrogance
than have the classicists, compromise
and not cooperation has been the
usual result Of the argument.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Webster City Freeman-Journal:
President Wilson can easily rectiIy
the mistakes of omission OF the last
congress by calling the new congress
in special session. He should do so
at once or accept full responsibility
for the postponement Of necessary
legislation. Whether he accepts re-
sponsibIlfty or not, the country VIII
hold him responsible, as 1t should.
Boone NewslRepublican: The gov
ernnent did not make hit in Iowa
by calling for the income tax IN
March. the month in which all other
taxes come due.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Senator
Kenyon likes to travel and SO he is
going to Russia to study bolshevism
first hand. He may be able to learn
something, but is bolshevism worthy
OF any study? We very much doubt
Il. The senator might acquire the
same sort OF information by visiting
an institution in which the criminal
insane are kept.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The fell
low who will bear watching Is the
one who is going through the coun-
try taking Liberty bonds at face
value In exchange for stock in some
concern which he guarantees to earn
10 TO so per cent. dividends.
Atlantic News-Telegraph: The
truth about Taft, 1t seems to this
newspaper is that he never was and
never can be a candidate for whom
men would grow enthusiastic. He is
an able man and has an ample fund
OF pojse and common sense, but for
! come reason as q candidate for presi-
| dent he never enthused the ordinary
man.
! Waterloo Times-Tribune Wonder
how Havner when governor df) will
| like It with an attorney general and
| his crew of sleuths butting into his
| affairs all the time.
| Perry Chief: Remember when you
| did not like to ask company to stay
| for dinner because you had nothing
| but pork chops?
| Davenport Democrat: We're for the
Iowa Falls man of 80 who took a
| ride In an airplane and enthused over
| the upper air because there were no
| flies there, and no mud. The time
is coming when a man of 81 who
hasn't been up in that favored region
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
Our Boys Ia Camp

Have many hardships without complaint To
outbreaks of disease both in and in times it n
that the kidneys be kept active. Rid the body the
poisons and you keep we'll An occasional laxative is
the health Such is made of May apple aoes and
rolled into tiny sugar-coaed pellet and long sold Dr. Pierce
Pleasant Pellets at all drug stores Send Pierce trial
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
,.,lsans chanaeabIe MI'

st. Paul Pioneer Wilson
ru M. that President -. Nan an !
change his mind anu !, May. 4
session of congress IN lind in
does not change his 81 mi nuly 81,
respect, it will De .a0 changed !
on which he has no'
least once.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28
copies of daily newspapers pictul
the distress of New York over a.
ing unwelcome reform. o
Voice Of the People

THE Gate city does aot ASSUME
sponsibiIity for views expre, SEQ
correspondents. Writer'S OF COMM
cations must furnish their nan7
not necessarily fer publication
for the information of the edi'osl
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28

Turning the handle ,,rg churnl
inventors double-aci,, I, one dire
wolves the paddles , !, orr
and the barrel in aho
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28

will be looked upon as we now re-
gard the native who has lived all his
life near the sea coast but never
been over to look on salt water.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28

Sac City Bulletin: The season Is
drawing near when many men VINO
fear to call spade spade Will
learn to speak of it with at least
some degree of familiarity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28

Boone NewslRepublican: The gov
eminent did not make hit In Iowa
by calling for the income tax IN
March, the month in which all other
taxes come due.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-28

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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-06-05
IOWA BIRDMEN FLYING
HERE FROM CANADA

Toronto, Canada, June Carl
Duede and George Barnett, Iowa avi.
ators who are flying from here to
Des Moines in an army plane which
they purchased from the British gov.
eminent. left here at lis yesterday
afternoon.
They will stop at London, Canada
enroute to Detroit.
According to the schedule, which
includes several stop-overs, they will
arrive in Des Moines about Tuesday.
From Des Moines, Ruede and Bar
nett will fly to Guthrie Center, Ia,
which will be their headquarters.
Carl Duede was a civilian flying
instructor during the war and saw
service at seven different camps in
this country. George Barnett was
formerly a lieutenant in the air SER
vice at Southers Field, Americas,
Georgia.
The British airplane was purchas-
ed for the town of Guthrie Center
State Representative Frank Moore
of Guthrie Center, chief sponsor for
the project, will meet the flyers in
Des Moines and will fly with them to
Guthrie Center.
Detroit, Mich, June 2-Duede
and Barnett, Iowa flyers, arrived
here yesterday evening and will
leave today on their fight to Des
Moines.
London, Canada, June 2.-The
Iowa aviators who are flying from
Toronto. Canada to Des. Moines, Ia,
arrived here at 4:36 yesterday even
ing. Their next stop will be at De-
troit, Michigan.
The above was taken from Mon
days Des Moines Capital.