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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
LITERAL INTERPRETATIONS.

The absrdities into which some curious sec
taries are led by insisting on literal interpre-
tation of scriptural passages is illustrated at
Zion City, Chicago, where one Vollva is the high
priest of queer sect established by it's former
prophet Dowie, now deceased. There are
schools and college there in which there is a
big map representing the earth as flat Ibis IS
the teaching of this cultural institution, the
warrant for it being found in the second com
mandment where it speaks of anything that is
in heaven above or in the earth beneath or IN
the water under the earth. Conformably to this
the map shows flat earth with its continents
floating in water as in a huge dish with rim OF
ice; and the sun is conceived of as going around
the earth.
How childish and pitiful this seems Yet
there are scores if not hundreds, OF other ear
nest bodies of believers who build fantastic
doctrines, fundamentally as it seems to other
christians, on some such twisted text. rake
the pastor Russellites for example, some OF
whom landed in jail through constituting certain
bible verses into opposition to the espionage
act. There are among them many deeply de-
ivout, ef-sacrifcing persons to whom their re-
Iligion is life. But they put what seems to
most reflective persons far-fetched, forced
construction on certain texts on which they
build the theory of a sleep or comatose condl-
ton for thousand years after death, after
which the elect shall awake to glory and the I'M
elect awake, if they ever do, to something else
according to some scheme of rewards and pun
ishments not generally accepted as either pro
vided or probable by votaries of other sects.
! IF this belief or any other bears fruit In
worthy lives, those that it contents may proper
ly hold it; for every person nowadays is free to
get to heaven, if he can, in his own way. But
the tendency as intelligence increases is to lay
less emphasis on the conjectured meaning OF
isolated passages of scripture, and to reject all
literal interpretations in any way inconsistent
with the revelation of the Deifc love and pur-
pose as manifest in this ordered glorious world
of which we are a part.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
CAUSE OF HIGH COSTS.

Alexander Dana Moves, in Scrib-
ner's: With the economic solidarity
OF the civilized world today, all
countries must in some way be af-
fected in their own position by such
unheard-of paper initiation as has oc-
Cured since 1914 in Europe. Yet 1t
is possible to mislead entirely
through laying too much stress on
that single influence as the cause
for the present high prices in Ameri-
ca. A very much reader explanation
lies in Europe's exhausted stock OF
merchandise; in her consequent abb
normal demand on our surplus of
production; in transportation rates
higher by so or 100 per cent. than
they were before the war; in
labor cost" in every branch of pro-
duction, increase since 1914 in only
a slightly lesser ratio. When. more
over after all the hesitancy since
November, orders from home con-
sumers had by the close Of May
reached such volume as to cause the
mercantile agencies to report that
trade revival had already in some
directions assumed boom character
istics"; when the largest inland mer-
camille house described advance
sales by it's agents as nearly double
those of year ago." and when one
weeks record of checks drawon on
all the country's banks broke all
weekly records in the country's his
tory, it was clear enough what the
rising stock market of the ten or
twelve preceding weeks had been
foreshadowing
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
The gratitude of place expectants is a live
" sense of future favors.-Walpole.
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

The wisdom mankind has gained by expert
ence finds terse expression IN proverbs, ana
many of these wise maxims concern, as they
naturally would, the Importance and manifold
advantages Of early and effective attention to
meet emergencies that must soon or late be met.
The gist of all Of them is that stitch In time
saves nine; and the disastrous consequences OF
failure to act upon this precept were never more
conclusivelv demonstrated than in the last few
years.
In 1914 the whole fabric Of civilization began
to rip and grave fears existed IN thoughtful
minds if the destruction might not go so far
that little but rags and tatters Of it would re-
main That was the time, as some OF US saw
then and as even the most obtuse see now, Tor
our government to have taken the stitch Whlch
would have saved so many more. Had we
thrown ourselves into the struggle at that time,
or had we aligned ourselves openly with the
civilized powers and proclaimed our intention of
cooperating with them as soon as possible and
to the end, whatever it might be, think for
moment what we should have saved thereby
both for ourselves and for the world!
Our announced determination and our assist
ance. though slight at the first, probably would
have brought the war to an end before the date
on which we finally entered it. The allied ma
tions were at that time able to finance them
selves and did not need the ten billion dollars
we have since advanced them. 1t seems also
rea sonable to assume that our own expenses
would have been far less and probably might
have been cut in two, saving ten billions more.
Had we been in the war or committed to get IN
to it with all our power when the Huns were
turned back in the battle Of the Marine there IS
much reason to believe that Germany would
have realized the expediency of making peace
Some of her statesmen at that time that
she must be eventually oveTmatched; and had
This great republic been among her enemies
working feverishly to throw its colossal sword
into the SCALE the Encouragement in Hundom
might have been intense.
1t may seem fruitless now to speculate what
Roosevelt or some other president at this crisis
might have done. It is certain, however, that
there were Americans of presidential size who
would not have deferred for a single day the
work of national preparedness and who would
have made no secret Of their full sympathy with
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
ON GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.

New York Times: If the opinions
OF several thousand newspapers are in
considerable degree an indication OF
the public wish and thought, then we
are headed away from that form OF
socialism which prefers government
ownership and operation to private
operation and capitalism. That is
what may be deduced from a referen-
dunn to the newspapers of the country,
OF rather 1900 Of them, regarding
their preferences as to public or pri-
vste operation OF the railways. About
half replied, and the 1922 replies
have been tabulated and published.
The replies from republican and indie
pendent papers were about equal in
number; the democratic proportion
was little smaller. and there was a
sprinking Of prohibition and labor
sentiment.
Upon the question of return of the
railways to private management there
were 1915 ayes; 4,431 based their
replies on the desire for the restora-
tion OF competition and facilities"
On the general question of govern
ment ownership 1884 were hostile and
1850 were against the extension OF
government operation for five years.
The lowest percentage of the adverse
vote on any of these questions was
"a, which makes analysis of the con-
trary replies superfluous. The senti-
iment Of the country thus indicated
is not unanimous, but It is more
nearly unanimous than on almost any
appeal to the ballot box. This is not
news. Similar assertions often have
been made. But this is the certifica-
ton of certainty.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
SOLDIER SETS EXAMPLE.

Manufacturers Record: Thousands
OF returning soldiers will be dissatis-
fled with home conditions to which
they return 1t is in their power to
better them. A news letter sent out
by the Alabama Polytechnic Institute
OF Hamilton contains an interesting
account of how an Alabama soldier,
who was former student Of its agri-
cultural school, after fighting in
France to save his country, upon his
return home Immediately began to put
into practice the results of his obser-
walton in Europe, looking to the de-
velopment of his own country.
This broad-visioned soldier de-
cided that the most effective means
for improving the agricultural and
general conditions Of the community
was to organize boys agricultural
club and get the entire support Of the
community back of it. He secured
the assistance of successful teacher
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
kENYoN's ENTHUSIASM.

Des Moines Tribune: Senator Ken
yon, who has had better luck than
most men do in politics who make a
practice Of promising bull pups" is
now out with Characteristic enthu-
siasm for Hiram Johnson, OF Cali
fornia, for president.
The senator knows, of course. that
Johnson has no more chance Of get
ting a delegation from Iowa than
he has of being elected mikado of
Japan, and he ought to know that in
the present situation about the most
unfit man in the United States to be
considered would be johnson.
Johnson apparently has but one
settled purpose in his public career,
and that is to involve this country
in war with Japan. He got into
politics as a Japan hater and he has
made the most OF it. That is really
the reason he carried California by
10000 while the state gave its cleo
toral vote to Wilson.
The mere fact that he did carry
California by SO great a majority at
the very time that his supporters
were cutting the head Of the ticket
and returning the democratic admin
istration, ought to be enough IL there
was nothing else to show to any poll
tician how impossible he would be at
the very next election.
To name any man from the Pacific
coast at this time for the presidency
would be to upset everything. The
republicans would be more foolish to
do that than the democrats would to
name man from Mississippi who
had no other issue but anti-negro
For abusing the negro will not mean
foreign war, while abusing the ia
panese is just as sure to involve us
in trouble as the day is to come.
But these considerations aside
Hiram Johnson has shown no quail
ties of presidential warrant. He is
impulsiye, goes off half cooked, is
never sure of his facts, overstates
everything. is excitable and unstable.
Reed Smoot would be tower of
strength and craftsmanship in the
presidential office as compared with
Hiram Johnson, and would be just
as dependably progressive.
The Evening Tribune does hope
that Senator Kenyon will quit this
discriminating way of dealing with
great situations. The people are be-
ginning to look to the republican
leaders If the west with some atten.
ton. The time has come for real
leadership.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
SUFFERED WITH
RHEUMATISM. CATARRH
AND STOMACH TROUB

Il think Number 40 For The Bloc
as a blood purifier has no equi
When | began to take Number
! was in very poor health as d
rheumatism, Catarrh, Stomach Trd
BILE, Lead Poisoning, and an Itch ti
l had tried almost every known rel
edy to relieve. ! have taken six D
ties of Number 40 and am on Ia
road to recovery. | owe my life
1t as | used to weigh 127 pounds q,
now weigh 14S, my usual weight
could write more but this should
enough to convince the most sKep
cal, and you are at liberty to u
this letter anyway you desire. VI
Klinker, Lima, Ohio.
The ingredients in Number Az y.
The Blood" are set down in the u
Dispensatory and other reliable nS
ical books as follows: "Employe0
diseases of the glandular system
blood poison, constipation, STONE.
and liver troubles, chronic rheu5
tism, catarrh, sores, ulcers, -
eruptions, mecurial and lead pols.
ing. Under it's use nodes, tunlYs
scrofulous swellings that have W. W.
stood all other treatment oisapp'
as II by magic a
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
GODS BEST BERRY.

Minneapolis Journal The English
clergyman who remarked DOUBTLESS
God might have made a better berry
than the strawberry, but doubtless
God never did" said something.
The color and fragrance of the mod
ern strawberry as 1t grows here today,
under reasonable conditions, is one
OF the clinching proofs Of the exis-
tence of a benign providence. A
look into well kept strawberry bed
H. June would tempt Quaker TO
pilfer.
The great, big, rich strawberry IS
the easiest berry on earth. 1t simply
falls into mans hand. The creator Is
literally pelting humanity with 1t. II
is the quickest producing berry on
earth. Strawberry plants set last
August are loaded to staggering with
large, luscious fruit today. You can
hardly kill strawberry plant. 1t will
cling and bear any old where; but If
you give it square deal 1t will pour
you out round crop so generous as
to shame your little labor.
A strawberry patch, not much larger
than a flower bed, will furnish a
table with fruit for months. Vacant
city lots are everywhere about US.
They pay as high as $50 tax yearly.
Planted to strawberries such lot
could pay the tax in three days full
bearing. and give family to boot
perfect saturnalia of fruit and short
cake from mid-June to mid-October.
and fill the fruit shelves of the cellar
with berries and jam sufficient to last
till the next June bearing.
There is no 'witchcraft in the sue
cessful cultivation of family straw
berry bed, and but little labor. Any
man with wit enough to marry and
pay house rent can raise strawberries
as we'll as a professor of horticulture.
The berryless man with idle soil has
himself alone to blame.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26

and club worker from a neighboring
community and organized his club,
with the result that the whole COM
munity Is working enthusiastically
for its success. Prizes are offered for
the corn club and pig clubs. A COM
munity club show is to be held in
October, at which the club products
will be judged and prizes awarded.
The community plans to make the
club permanent institution of inter-
est to all the people, and through the
club to standardize their hogs, poul-
try, corn and other products. Co.
operative marketing plans will also
be undertaken.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
OLD FRIENDSHIP STREET.

OLD FRIENDSHIP SIHEEI
led unknown land and fain was TO go;
From peak to peak weary way lures to and fro;
On narrow dizzy height he dares my wayworn
feet
would that we're again to walk Old Friendship
street
It's there level road. the even grassgrown
My brain wildered there my Ieet shl e'oi
stray;
But for the path with every soul meet
would that back again to walk Old Friendship
street.
y
re hare find no gracious hand within own;
But there raised to find he sang alone
always neighbours hearth were kindiy glass anu
seat
I would back again to walk Old Friendship
street ,
I'm sick of awful depths and heights, I'm sick OF storm
and strife;
TIL let love lead folk and take my ease IN e
know whose voice will hail first whose welcoming De
It's am going again walk Old Friendship street
- -Theodosia Garrison.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26

the powers that fought for human freedom. we
can figure therefore in money that national
temporizing probably cost us twenty billion
dollars at the least, and cost the world as
whole immensely more. What we do not know,
however and never can determine at the time,
is how far heads of statesthe kaiser, Buchan-
an, George the third-serve the unseen purposes
of evolution by their misconceptions and mis-
takes
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
ART. WORK AND APPETITE.

Italv's rich art treasures have long been
guarded and lovingly cared for by curators who
have loved art more than wealth. Never has
the wage given these men by the government
and by municipalities offered more than re-
spectacle subsistence But now the line OF sub
sidence has been reached; the curators OF five OF
Italy great art galleries are leaving their posts
because they are hungry and say that there is
no prospect of means to satisfy that hunger.
There is no class of workers who get so much
of the compensation that keeps them at their
work as the art devotees In this dominion as
in many kinds of writing love of work and
work. products is motive that transcends APP
ipetites And this is the sort OF motive that
within reason would do much more to solve some
of our economic problems than most people real
ize Moreover, given reasonable comfort and
assurance Of protection against want In the
future, this pride and interest and content do
develop rapidly The guilds OF the past had it;
the artists and scholars of bygone day lived
gloriously happy by reason OF It, When can
did review of the causes which have gradually
banished pride Of work and love OF product for
it's own sake is made by an intelligent person.
a considerable start is made at knowledge Of
modern economic problems.
It is reported from the bureau Of justice at
Washington that there is sufficient evidence to
support the statement that systematic invas
ion of he United States by European propa-
gandists of radicalism is both planned and al
ready in operation. 1t needs prompt measures
to meet it. Once the facts established that
radicals of dangerous type are getting within
our borders through Canada-this is the report
those borders must be guarded against new
corners and the fomenters Of treason who have
passed them must be sought out and deported.
We have laws that make this possible We
have great majority that wants these laws en-
forced.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
WOMEN! DRY CLEAN
THINGS AT HOME
Try it! For few cents you Cav
dry clean everything

save nve 10 ten dollars qulcAss IN
Try cleaning everything N tne .,,.,
with gasoline that would Dc ma.
by soap and ~ater-sults' esos
waists. silks. laees. gloves; ,,ei
furs, draperies, iugs-everyshlrnasso, ,s
Place a gallon or more OF sa,' \
in a dishpan or washboiler, tn ~ Nd
In the things to be dry cleaned sd
wash them with soivite SOAP ,p;,s ID
l. everything comes out looklhHs s
rev. Nothing fades, snrip .o \
wrinkles. Do not attempt o,,,s \
clean without Solvise SOAP Ill
cline soap Is the secres OF
cleaning. contsi
A package of Sc;yite soap ,, IS
irg directions for home dry cree. d
costs little at any drug SLOT ssd
clean out doors 81 away from
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
He Was on the Right Track.

Ladies' Home Journal: DR.. J. NJ
Buckley, the Methodist divine, was
asked one day to to conduct an eek
perience meeting" at colored church
in the south.
A colored woman arose and bore
witness to the preciousness of her
religion as lighter-bringer and com.
fort-giver.
That's good. sister," commented
DR.. Buckley. But now about the
practical side. Does your religion
make you strive to prepare your hus.
band good dinner? Does it make
you look after him in every way
Just then DR.. Buckley felt yank
at his coat-tafls by the colored
preacher who whispered ardently
Press dem questions, doctor; press
dem questions. OATS my wife!"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26

shelters him and affords him an op-
portunity to win wealth or q compe-
tence, certainly the United States 10
no proper place for him. II the state
nents Of the Rosecrans-Rowland let
ter are true, the Damn family is
rightly named and Its members should
he sent back to Holland as unworthy
Of American citizenship,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Davenport Times: The convention
at Atlantic City demonstrated that
union labor Ia basically Just az Amer
lean as any other similar organiza-
ton OF American citizens in the
whole country. 1t is good for the
nation to have the men at the labor
front taking such a nrm stand
against the activities of the radicals.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: There
was no invasion of Mexican terri
tory. We just jumped across the
fence to give a few fellows who
were shooting at us bit of lick
ing. When one has bad neighbor
he has to step across the line occa-
sionally.
Waterloo Tribune: Senator
Kenyon is for Senator johnson for
president. But in all Iowa he won't
get a second.
Anamosa Eureka: General Wood
must be reckoned with in the next
presidential campaign. This becomes
over the country talking common
SGuS6 III q pam <h1ASilSoh way
Everywhere he goes he leaves host
of men who are for him.
Marshalltown Times-Republican:
Mexicans in Iowa are hard working
men who do~not make much trouble.
Perhaps all that is the matter with
Mexico is a steady job.
Rolfe Arrow: After blowing
through mud for three miles to reach
a graveled road, one wonders why 1t
took forty years to get few OF
them. We presume that in forty
years more, after we bump off a
wavy, rough gravel road onto pave
ment, we will look back and wonder
why people were so backward as to
oppose the paving Of primary road
systems!
Perry Chief: Watching the corn
grow is one of the most popular
Iowa outdoor sports at this time.
Webster City Freeman-Journal: N
spite of the vigorous opposition Of
the Iowa Homestead, county after
county is voting to pave the .cads.
, Council Bluffs Nonpareil: II vita
is as wise as some of his followers
think he is, he will in future confine
his raiding operations to the interior
of his own country.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26

While they were busy raising S1.50
corn and $40 hogs thousands of good
American boys were fighting and
dying to make this productive land
safe from the clutches of the Hun.
This is Americanism with a ven-
geance The Damn family may be
getting rich, but this country would
re a damn sight better off If such
people were given the choice of be-
coming American citizens or going
hack to the country from which they
came. The opportunities of this coun-
try belong to the men willing to de-
fend them.
The letter is signed by H. s. Rose
Grams and Roy e. Rowland. Mr.. Rose
Grams is postmaster at Oskaloosa,
editor OF the Oskaloosa Times and was
secretary of the Mahaska council OF
defense. Mr.. Rowland formerly was
county auditor and served as secre-
tary Of the county draft board during
the war. Obviously their testimony
Is worthy of belief
Also it establishes good grounds for
the suggestion that some change be
made in our immigration laws with a
view to excluding newcomers who are
rot worthy of the advantages offered
BY American citizenship, The Damms
are not good American citizens: that
is self-evident, for they are not Ameri-
can citizens at all. Their Prosperity
and the very fact that they are able
today to own a rich and valuable farm
are due to the sacrifices of American
citizens who put patriotism above
everything else and offered their lives
to buy perpetuity for American insti-
tutions.
If a resident of the United States is
unwilling to fight for the country that
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26

General Haig says that dark days for the
world are over Evidently Sir Douglas is not
planning a visit to this country after the day
light-saving repeal law goes into effect
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26

With the price of clothing still going up the
time is near when the patch on the trousers will
be regarded as thrift stamp.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26

those sentiments which make the glory OF inc
human being love, humanity faith, as being also the
Intimacy divinity and that as soon as the
right and provisions emanate from the
body and his mind; whom flowers reacn
their ripeness incense from them and beau
tifu atmosphere generated from the planet by tho
averaged from all Its rocks and sols-Emerson
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-26

Corsets with higher tops are prom
ised.