The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-19
Eye Witness Who is on Howard
Hugres' Boat Has Some Inter
estina Comment on High
Costa.
USES LOCAL EDITORIALS
He Also Takes Some Matter from
Nearby Papers on This Cost
of Living Pub
icity.

With comments on the league OF
nations and high cost of living taken
from The Gate City and from various
sources in this section of the country,
Eye Witness" who is on the cruise
with Howard Hughes on the Ranger
writes an interesting article about
small towns fighting the high cost OF
living. His article, which appeared In
the Tribune few days ago is illumi
mating:
up AND DOWN THE UPPER
MISSISSIPPI, Sept. 13.-tBy MALL
From Will county, in Illinois, to Tom
Sawyer's town of Hannibal in Mis-
souri,, everybody along the great water
way is talking high cost of everything
and league of nations.
And is as enthusiastic about the
second subject as the first.
Along the countryside the farmers
are grumbling about what they have
to pay the town folks for harness and
all other kinds of manufactured arti
cles, but especially harness, and in the
towns the people tell you how there
has been a 245 percent increase in the
price of eggs in 1919 in Missouri, the
greatest poultry products state in the
union next to Illinois, with the neigh.
boring Iowa third.
"Up In the Air" on League.
After they have asked the traveller
what he thinks about high cost, they
let him ask them about the league OF
nations, and when he does they begin
by cautiously feeling themselves out
and saying, well, we're kind of up
in the air on that. What do you
Think"
That would be the answer in the
first week of the presidents stumping
tour, but as time wears on they grow
more and more candid. 1t would not
be extravagant to say that they get
madden and madden. On every hand,
from women as well as men, you hear
the words. why, the president didn't
do anything in Paris after ALI" Thus
to the original doubt, which may have
been felt as to the wisdom Of the
league pact, is now added the shock
of disillusion, and that hurts. The
rustic has been barnumed so often
that he hates another application OF
the treatment worse than he hates the
potato wart, which is his latest at
Fiction down this way.
Country Papers caustie.
The newspapers are very tart, and
always take country and small town
papers more seriously than | do city
papers, because I think they take most
things more seriously than we do. So
/ account it significant when I see re-
printed all along the line the Chicago
Tribune's pungent little editorial on
"Chafing Confinement" and doubly
significant when one little paper after
another comes out with something
pungent of its own.
The Daily Gate City Gate City now
to be the name of Keokuki began an
extraordinarily meaty editorial the
other day with this pointed sentence:
1.-THE president is losing either his
balance or his temper" and the Iowa
Forum said: ut is peculiar sort OF
president who can get himself all
worked UP over mandatory for Ar.
menia, but who is quite unconcerned
ever habitual peril that may confron,
any American who may stray into
Mexico"
Without naming names, but apropos
of the presidents late recourse 10 the
rowdy-dowdy style of argument, the
Cedar Rapids Republican unused
"What the world needs to be saved