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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
Pit love into the world and Heaven with
all its beauties and glories becomes reality.
Ralph Waldo Urine.
a CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION

In the century and a quarter past this coun-
try has never had, or seriously considered hav-
ing. a national constitutional convention. Yet
article five provides how such a body may ne
called and its work ratified by conventions IN
the several states. The only limitation on the
power of such convention is that no state
without its consent shall be deprived OF It's
equal suffra ge in the senate. The wisdom OF
the original instrument, its elasticity, the sim
pier process of amending it and the reasonable
fear that no body of statesmen comparable III
ability to the original constitution makers could
be brought together have combined to make
national convention inexpedient. But if the
practice goes on of loading our basic law with
matters that have no proper place therein, the
demand for convention will IN time become
insistent. The tendency to write what should
be statute laws into the organic law has been
carried to extremes. Ridiculous tinkering with
the federal constitution has now begun. No
one can tell where it will STOP and the proba-
bility is that it will go until little In the
way of personal liberty is left that the people
will rise in their wrath and demand conven-
ton to revise out of the constitution everything
which has proper place in a fundamental
Naw
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
Glass Of Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Hab
Open sIuiees Of the system I'll
morning and wash away III
poisonous, stasnant matter

Those OF us who are accustomaJ
feel dull and heavy when we q
splitting headache, stuffy from
foul tongue, nasty breath.
stomach, lame back, can. inst
both look and feel as fresh as q
always by washing the poisons
toxins from the body with phospii1
hot. water each morning.
We should drink. before Dream
a glass of real hot water with
spoonful of limestone phosphate n
to flush from the stomach, u
kidneys and ten yards of boweis
previous days indigestible Ta]
sour bile and poisonous toxins;
cleansing, sweetening and pulll]
the entire alimentary tract peg
putting more food into the ston3
The action of limestone phosp3
and hot water on an empty SION
is wonderfully invigorating
cleans out all the sour fermentau]
gases, waste and acidity anu "
one a splendid appetite for orea1
and 1t Is said to be but little v
until the roses begin to appear u
cheeks. A quarter pound OF llmes1
phosphate will cost very ittle
drug store, but is sufficient 70 ~ y,
anyone who is bothered with ol 10y
ness, constipation. stomach ~
or rheumatism real enthusa'',,
the subject OF internal sanitation
1t and you are assured tnat Wv
look better and feel better IN y
way shortly.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
THE NEWS HoLDUP.

From Paris comes the wall of a disgruntled
newspaper correspondent. There are indlca-
tons, he declares, that not all the messages
destined for the United States getting
through. AT best, he says there is little
enough to cable over, and if the scraps and NOR
sells and notes of fact the peace conference
does give out are to be held up, the American
people may as well resign themselves to remain
in darkness until the treaty reaches the senate.
But there are compensations, and while we may
not be permitted to know what our ENJOYS are
achieving or attempting have we not, as Con
gresham Madden, of Illinois, points OUT as
full accounts of social activities, festivities and
full dress functions any people could possibly
desires Did we not have only a few days ago
that eloquent address of President Dubost, OF
the French senate, in which he told how France
had taken our president spontaneously to its
heart the moment it perceived this loyal and
open physiognomy?'' And did we not have
that fine speech in reply about the tokens OF
welcome and affection = the president found in
the faces of the Frenchi Not single word
of all that eloquent exchange of compliments
was deleted, and the American newspaper cor
respondents were free to cable as many columns
about it as they desired.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
TWO CENT POSTAGE.

Des Moines Capital. The report
comes from Washington that the SEN
ate and house copferees on the new
revenue bill have agreed to reinstate
the pre-war postage rates on first class
mail, beginning July /. This will mean
a return to the use of the two cent
stamp for letter postage, and one-cent
postal card rate. 1t further provides
that soldiers, sailors and marines in a
foreign country, engaged in the pres
ent war may have the free use of the
mails for their letters.
We regret that the amendment to
change the zone rate for newspapers
and other publications has been block
ed by Representative Kchin. Kichin's
chief duty in the congress OF the Uni
ted States, as far az we have observed
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

wounds. A shell fragment bruises
and mangles the flesh, causing what
rapidly becomes dead tissue and
forming a nest for infection. To ap-
ply rough temporary dressing TO
cavity filled with torn and ragged
tissue, foreign matter. dirt. metal
splinters and coagulated blood is abb
solutely useless.
No matter how literally the
wounded man may be douched with
iodine it cannot penetrate all the
recesses of such wound, and the
inevitable result is Infection. which
it may take months to eradicate II
the patient survives.
The modern surgeon proceeds upon
. the theory that he is as much Of a
, soldier as the man with the gun and
that whether he is In front line
hospital or fifty miles back of the
firing line his duty is to do his best.
He has thrown antiseptics to the
dogs. During the early stages OF the
war they were in universal use; now
they are studiously avoided. In 1914
every wound was douched with every
variety OF antiseptic liquid; now all
wounds are kept as dry as possible
and the gauxe drain has supplanted
all others.
The idea that there is not time OF
that the surgeon has not the nerve
to operate under fire is exploded. He
starts upon the assumption that
every wound which is not made by
THE clean cut track of rifle or ma
chine gun bullet is contaminated, and
the first thing he does Is to open 1t
| up SO completely as to expose the
entire cavity. Every particle Of
i foreign matter is then removed ana
any tissue that looks as II 1t might
die and slough away is cut out.
The old method OF treating the en-
trance and exit. of projectiie Dy
enlarging them as little as possible
and passing a drain through Is obso-
llete. Instead of that the surgeon
makes liberal incision, long and wide
enough to search the recess and
Etraumatism thoroughly.
! The greatest departure from the
/ old text books lies in the recommen-
dation for the front line surgeon TO
do his work thoroughly and to lay
/ open the wound rather too much
than two little. This insures the
| patient against infection in case II
should be ten days or two weeks be
/ fore he arrives at the base hospital.
If his wounds have not been sub
jected to careful and thorough
! cleaning by the front line surgeon
! by the time he arrives at hxed hos.
pital infection may have progressed
/ to 4 degree that will entail months
| of treatment.
! But If his wounds have been prop
erly opened and cleaned out, the sur
face thoroughly gone over with tam
pons and soaked in hydrogen perox'
iide the cavity being then carefully
ipacked with gauze and bandaged to
withstand the demands Of rough
travel. he will usually arrive at his
final destination in condition for the
beginning of healthy FORMULATION
It has been found that any wound
which has been properly cleaned and
packed should remain untouched for
lat least a week unless there is some
sign of infection or rise In tenn
lperature Redressing a healthy
wound too frequently has now been
found to retard its recovery.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
ToDAYs BIT OF VERSE
CANOE TRAILS.

Broad is the track that the steamer takes
Over the open sea-
Wide are the ways of the windy lakes.
Dear are the lakes to me.
And the sparkling sound is good,
Bright Is the river too;
but the am winds to the heart OF the WOOD
Is the trail OF the little canoe.
Up through the fields where cattle browse,
Up through the farms of rye,
Under the arching hemlock boushs,
Under the laughing sky,
Out through The maze where the musArats niue
Drawn like silver clue,
Clear to the buttressed mountain side
Goes the trail of the little canoe.
Clean blue flags in stately ranks
Stand where the shadows CLEAN
Ferns grow thick ON the messy banks
Edging the deeper stream;
Tanagers flash in the vauted leaves
Where, faint shimmering through,
a drowsy pattern the sunlight weaves
On the trail OF the little canoe.
Dip OF the paddle. gurgle and splash
Quiet and bird-note clear,
White of the birch, gray of the ash
Balm OF the heart is here,
Here where the boldest footpaths cease,
Here where the best is true,
The loyliese road to the shrines OF peace
Is the trail OF the little canoe.
Arthur Guterman.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
MODERN WAR SURGERY
ADDS MUCH 70 SCIENCE.

New York Sun: Among the many
changes which tho war has brought
about it looks as IL one of the most
important would be complete reyi-
sion Of our present text books for
army surgeons, and the Introduction
iof new methods of treating ragged
wouads. whether in military or do
nestle life.
Doctors at the front have found
that the engines of modern warfare,
asphyxiating gases, flame projectors.
tear shells and the tncessant crash
Of artillery fire, produce conditions
in the wounded never before known.
Shock. exaltation, Juror and demon
aiization and such abnormal symp-
toms frequently make the employ
ment of any anesthetic dangerous.
DIR. B. SherwoodDunn, who was
himself wounded at the front. relates
the case Of an officer who was
brought into the front line hospital
with slight fracture of the fore
head, but suffering from profound
shock. He was put to bed with a
first aid dressing without admins
Itering any anaesthetic. Later, when
he was anaesthized, he developed a
state OF extreme exaltation, calling
upon his men to charge, and urging
them on with cries of encoura cement
and patriotic fervor."
Almost without exception, all the
doctors who were sent to the front
line hospitals at the beginning Of the
war had been taught that their func-
ton was to douche all wounds with
iodine solution, apply first dressing
and send the patient to base hos
pital for any operation that might be
necessary. As the journey. with re-
peated transfers, frequently took ten
days or two weeks the usual result
was the development of countless
cases OF gaseous gangrene, tetanus
and fatal infections. Thousands OF
men lost their lives or limbs through
Ignorance Of the proper treatment.
During the early stages of the war
lit was the universal opinion of army
surgeons that operations could not
be performed in the war zone. If
the standard text books and records
of past wars are consulted it will
be found they prescribe that NO
operating shall be done in field hos
pitfalls. This ruling was based on
the fact that the majority of the
wounds in past wars were made by
bullets.
! In this war rifle fire has been al
most entirely replaced by shells. and
1 almost all the wounds are from shell
! splinters or objects forced into the
| body by shell explosions. In former
wars a bullet wound was usually q
clean cut track, seldom contami
mated Under modern warfare the
nature of the wounds has completely
/ changed. both in their aspect and
gravity. and they not only demand
Immediate treatment but treatment
never dreamed of In field hospitals
of former wars.
! Instead of the smooth path of .
bullet the surgeon has to deal with
fragments of shells, grenades, tor
lpedoes and shrapnel. Each of these
.carries into the wound bits of cloth
ling. which is always dirty; particles
of earth, hair. splinters, and ever
small pebbles. which are almost Ger
tain to set up immediate Infection.
| The necessity for immediate treat
ment lies chiefly in the form of the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
THE KA1sER's RESPONSIBILITY.

1t is perfectly easy to understand the deter.
mination In entente countries to bring the
kaiser to the bar of justice and to make steps
to this end one of the first proceedings of the
conference. It is felt that it would be uniuri-
ideal to allow him to escape responsibility for
his crimes Not only would it invite a repeti-
ltion Of them but ii would be notice served upon
the world that there was one sort of Justice
for the highly placed and another for the lowly
and poor. Public sentiment in England and
France demands the punishment of all the
tmurderous miscreants of Hundom whose crimes
are proved. This in Great Britain was an un,
derstood issue of the late elections and LLOYD
George considers himself committed to this
course.
When the matter came before the conference
Premer Clemenceau referred to a report OF
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
NOT WORLDS SUPERVISOR.

Manufacturers Record: That Amer
lea must maintain a great navy ana
a large army and that universal
military training should be enforced
goes without saying. Partly by reason
of the war and partly because OF the
vast storehouse of wealth developed
and yet to be developed from the
limitless resources with which nature
has endowed our land, we are de-
stined to become the center OF the
most tremendous world-encircling
trade activities and influence ever
known. We are building a vast mer-
chant marine, and soon our ships
will be found in every port of the
world and our business men will be
pushing for trade in every corner OF
the earth.
These things will make necessary
la great fleet and strong army. To
that extent we are in hearty accord
with Secretary Daniels idea Of q
large fleet; but it would, we believe.
be great mistake to follow out Sec
Rotary Daniels idea, which, in eject,
was a threat that If other nations
did not unite in forming league of
nations, we would ener upon cam
paign Of naval construction designed
to equal or surpass Great Britain's.
AS shown elsewhere in this issue.
the British empire includes three
times as much area and population
as our country. Any threat to build
naval ships to match Great Brains
navy would be merely a vain and
foolish following Of the policy adopted
years ago by Germany and which
eventually led to the world catastro-
phe.
The Manufacturers Record does
not believe 1t is Americas task to
be the arbiter of all world affairs.
We do not believe that we should
undertake the idealistic role OF sup
cruising all world affairs or OF de-
Gliding on the power and the right
of self-determination of every people
and every tribe.
1t Is now our task to crush forever
and destroy the accursed Teutonic
power which threatened to overrur
the world, including America. Duty
called us to that mighty job two
years before we entered upon it. We
were long recreant to our response
bilities, but we must not now go
rushing headlong into an effort to
make the world think as we think
and act as we act.
We cannot force democracy upon
the world, but we can make certain
that autocracy shall not destroy all
world democracies.
Had the German people been
worthy of democracy. they would
have overthrow autocracy years ago
and made themselves as free as the
people of England and America, who
live under democracfes because they
were worthy to fight for and win
self-government.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
PUT CREAM IN NOSE al,
AND STOP CAIAhh'
Tells How To Open Cioggea w
trils and End Head-Colas

You feel fine In q Few ,no LII
Your cold in head or catarrn w.
gone. Your clogged nostrils
open. The air passages OF you, -
will clear and you can orea.ns
No more dullness. heaaaoms'
hawking. snuffling, mucous
charges or dryness; no struss'
breath at night.
Tell your druggist you want
bottle of Ely's Cream Balm ,,,ss
a little Of this fragrant, aI !. \
cream in your nostrils, lie.
trate through every air passes .ss
the head; soothe and heal us
len. infiamed mucous memofan'
relief comes instantly o,,a I
1t is just what every s O
catarrh sufferer needs. Don
stuffed-up and miserable.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Waterloo Times-Tribune: In his
message to the legislature the gov
ernor urged the state highway COM
missions plans for good roads.
Wouldn't he have been in a fix had
he succeeded in his efforts of hay-
ing the last legislature abolish the
commission?
Marshalltown Times Republican:
That Mr. Mann accepted a horse and
chunk of beef from the packers
tasn't much to do with his speaker
ship qualifications. There are many
other and quite sufficient reasons
why he should not be elected to that
office. But the beef and old horse
have sufficed to make Mann a ridicu-
lous object at whom the press Is
poking fun, and no man who has
attained the ridiculous has much
chance of election to anything in
America.
Des Moines Register: States re-
fusing to ratify the prohibition
amendment will feel lonesome as
well as dry year hence.
Boone News-Republican: There
will be publicity for the worlds
leace conference, but evidently 1t
will not be pitiless.
Winterset News: The big hearted
editors of the big daily papers and
the gushing girls who write for the
Sunday papers propose to give eau
soldier a homestead. Giving sol
der a homestead is one thing ami
getting him to take it is another.
The Iowa young men who have re-
turned from the war do not seem to
be much impressed by the gift or
so acres of desert land.
Mason City Gobe- Gazette: If any
one wants to find Colonel House dur
ing these reception times In Paris
and elsewhere they would better
ring up the woodward. where he
seems to be still saving wood.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
Millions Use
Il For CoIdl
Because "Papes Cold Compound relieves cold OF grim
misery in a few hours-Really wonderful!

sick headache, dullness. feveriss,
sore throat. sneezing. soreness
stiffness.
'Pape's Cold Compound" n
quickest, surest relief known
costs only few cents at drug n.
1t acts without assistance, TASTE, ,
and causes no Inconvenience. i
accept substitute. Insist on "PS
nothing else.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

Don't stay stuffed-up!
Quit blowing and snunling! A dose
OF .Pape's Cold Compound" taken
every two hours until three doses are
taken will end grippe misery and
break up severe cold either In the
head, chest, body or limbs.
It promptly opens clogged-up nos
trils and air passages, stops nasty
discharge or nose running; relieves
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

hundredth part of the cost OF , ,Iv
to the entente. Payment o. r,,,s.|
ties beyond that proportion od ID
made in sales of goods apl .sors
cess of purchases. YET Thai
those who still insist: a. ! h
many must pay in fun, anu Goods
Germany must not export -, uO;s1
entente countries. me W
cannot be legislated.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
How the Constitute on Grows.

Omaha World Herald: We now
have eighteen amendments to the
constitution, and the woman sat
fragists won't be happy till we have
nineteen. and then somebody will
want another. and SO the constitu-
ton will keep growing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

has been to block intelligent legisla-
ton on all occasions.
The public generally will rejoice at
the proposed return to the two-cent
letter and the one-cent postal carl.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

The body bird is raIl and delicate thing, ye.
an uoI.ed WINGS guided by unerrng instinct, Il
rres the storm; and so soul of man, on the wings
cf some faith divine although he not know IT. Tor
fru has ridden of death and mas not
faen or been dashed pecesRobsrt Gordon Anderson
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

Herbert Hoover has been appointed virtually
food dictator of the world. And yet when he
was born probably his mother had no other
hope for him than that some dag he would grow
up to be president
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

Lord Northcliffe says that what Russia
needs is wise despot. Sure. Russia might
apply to the United States for the loan Of one
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

Danish scientists claim u ~
discovered a method OF m MAJ j
ing yeast without using graz
material
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

Advocating the Impossible.
New York World: There is gold
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

If Kerensky changes his mind about allied
intervention IN Russia many more times, it
will be quite easy to understand why the boil
sheviki chased him out of his premiership and
the country. The bolsheviki at least know
what they want.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30
srATEsMANsH1P IS COMMON SENSE.

some people nave IOOHSn HOtioH tuett
craftsmanship calls for preternatural acunen
whereas it calls for nothing but common sense.
What businessman would now, at present prices
and wages, manufacture twenty year stock
of goods, with the certainty that exists that
cost and selling prices must
soon go downa Yet that is what this admin
istration insists, against all advice, in doing.
We are building three billion dollars worth
of ships at war prices ranging as high as two
hundred and fifty dollars ton A billion of
this must be written off and will be total loss
the day the ships are launched. More than
this, our secretary of the navy IS bound to
build two billion dollars worth of warships
now with labor and materials as high as they
are. Yet we are the second naval power on
earth, having more warships than all the other
nations, outside of England, put together.
There is no craftsmanship in all this and
there is no common sense in it. The thinking
mind rejects it as childish.
The Ebert government in Gremany which
claims to have received nearly half the votes
Icast at the late election, is going ahead on the
assumption that it has the mandate of the
country to convert the empire into fedora
ltion of eight separate republics. One of these
will be Berlin, which is to be separated from
the rest of Prussia; while German Austria and
the Rhineland will be combined into another
state. The plan as outlined contemplates a
president elected for seven years with power
as would appear, to appoint the chancellors
or premiers of the several federated states
This would erect strong and highly central
lied government, and the federation with Aus
tria in it would be greater in area and popula-
ton than the old empire was. But there may
be objections at Versailles the part of those
nations having belief that Teutonism has
dominated Europe long enough.
IL Kerenskv chanoes his mind about allied
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-01-30

Des Moines SRegister: States re-
fusing to ratify the prohibition
amendment will feel lonesome as
well as dry a year hence.