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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE VIKING.

THE VIKING.
The soul of viking wandered down in the wake OF roar
ing gale
FroIl the bergs in the polar that long DEAD
Ncrsemen sail,
The c1 the glacier launched that lift their
ghostly spars
In the flicner OF the Northern Lights and the
gaIa the cold white stars.
II ship said the vikings soul. TO speed IN the
te1npests teeth
When the lash of the wind fails fast and foaming
would feel the thrill that felt OF yore when sang 10 the
rhy hInc sweeps
And my conquerng from the haze Of
unknown deeps"
He came tc the wild Newfoundland Coast and saw in a
lonely place
strange long ship that and like stallion
keen for a
Nov here ne cried, lis noble craft; Ho this Is the
ship for me-"
And he leaped aboard the long CO sailed
up the chill fog that hangs and curtains the
northern skies
rushing form in the Arctic storm the vagaoond arsnlp
And the sea kings steered Of the boat
of the ford
has scared.
The Flying Dutchmen below but the flying blimp
will haunt
The Banks for many stormy year fshermans heart
daunt-
shape half seen in rolling through the scud
ding mist and rain
Careenng nky and lost in the murk again
beating against the wind to the urge OF the
angry surge
win see gloom Of sudden squa shadow black
emerge
And the seething night and will below: Look
There goes the wandering navy blimp runaway ship
Nina Irving in New York Sun.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
ADOBE HOUSE is PASSING.

I Minneapolis News: More u an
/ $500, 900 worth of lumber was IN
I ported into Mexico from the Uni:ed
States during the month of April,
( through the Laredo, Eagle Pass, Iii
Paso and Brownsville gateyays, &C
cording to the reports of the collec-
tors of customs for those ports OF
entry. While the import records for
Tampico, Vera Cruz and the Pacific
ports for that month are not avail
able at this time, 1t is known that
lumber in considerable quantities was
brought into the country through
, those points.
! Retail lumber dealers IN Mexico
! say that but for the fact that rail.
road transportation is so unsatisfac-
tory, the imports of that material
! from the United States would be
much larger An unusual amount OF
activity in the manufacture OF domes-
| tic lumber is reported. Mills in the
forest districts of Michoacan, Jalisco,
| Durango and some of the other states
| have resumed operations. 1t will be
some time, however. before the yards
in the principal cities and distrfbut-
ing centers OF the country are re
stocked with lumber and other build
! ing materials.
! In Tampico there Is a large colony
iof Americans and other foreigners
who have to a considerable degree
brought about Transformation in
| the type of residences Of that lily.
These progressive men have built mp
suburban districts with modern
homes, such as are found in few
other places in Mexico. The old
adobe type of building is gradually
passing in this country, although the
process is slow.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

| Muscatine Journal: Despite the
socialisic program adopted ana
initiated by the Non-Partisan league
1 of North Dakota, farmers in otner
states who have heard of the re
forms" sponsored by the bolshevusi
of the west refuse TO be aroused 10
the fact that in lending even mild
measure OF support TO this communis'
tic enterprise they are inviting con.
fiscation OF everything they possess,
The rule a la Russia has the en-
dorsement of the Townley organiza-
ton and il is now realized that in
the ascendency OF the red socialists
in North Dakota a repetition of the
Russian experiment is invited.
Lest Iowa farmers who are not in
close touch with the Dakota situa-
ton or who have been misled through
the reading of certain publications
which, in their hostility to the forces
which are contributing to the up
building of Iowa, have been driven 10
the limit of supporting program
which invites anarchy, entertain
false hopes of good TO come from the
iradicalism of North Dakota, we quote
If. B. Packard, state TAX commits
sioner and a member of the Nom
Partisan league who. IN statement
issued at Bismarck, makes known his
fears.
Il am frankly afraid Of civiliza-
tion,' ne says. Il can see in the
congregation in North Dakota and
lneighboring states of scores of the
most radical socialists. menace to
society. In my judgment the crew
of socialists which surround A. c.
Townley constitute real menace to
the state Many OF them are atheists
and many others have strange no.
tions of the relation which should
exist between the sexes and OF the
status of the family in society.
THE socialist party of few years
ago and the socialist party of today
are as different as daylight and dark
ness. A few years ago the revolu-
tionary socialists were not in cont. oil
of the party. Since the disloyal con-
vention in st. Louis, the party has
been in control of revolutionary and
red socialists This type of socialists
is more closely allied TO the French
syndicaIists and the American /. W.
w. than with the revolutionary
socialists. 1t succeeded 20 the
philosophy of the anarchists and be-
lieves that society is to be reformed
by destroying, root and branch, the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
THE WESTERN BOLSHEVlKI

present order with violence IL neces,
sary, and building upon the ruins an
arbitrarial government which has
been defended and approved by the
working classes.
After all discussion had been
concluded, the fact yet remains that
the only social republic of which we
have any knowledge is that estab-
lished in Russia. It is approved by
practically all the socialists In this
country; by their newspapers ana
the resolutions adopted by ',leir cen
ventions and official gatherings. Inc
Russian republic has been dcnned
and approved by the Townl'y fupil-
cations in North Dakota and mas
been defended and approved by the
great bulk of the officials and organ
izers of the Non-Partisan league.
Il have compiled a list OF the
socialists whom Townley has gather
ed together to carry on his organi-
cation of the Non-Partisan league and
this list convinces me that this is
radical socialist movement in DIS
guise.'
The question which addresses itself
to the farmers of the west and mid
west. is a challenge to his patriotism.
TO his christianity. his common sense,
and to his material welfare.
There can be but one answer.
Reports from the headquarters OF
the Townley organization presage an
intensified membership campaign In
neighboing states.
The picking is poor in the Dakotas
now because of the skepticism and
distrust of the farmer. The people
of that state are now calling upon
the Townley crowd for a showdown.
It might be well for the farmers
of Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota to
await results as well. Iowa's pros
perity has made solicitation for mem
berships in the league lucrative
pastime, for in this day of top-notch
prices for farm products the mem.
bership fee in the league is small
potatoes" to the average farmer.
Even the knowledge that half of the
SIG goes to the solicitor does not
discourage those who seek to pro-
test against things as they are.
The fee may be small, but it has
possibilities of evil which are diff
cult to ignore. Only those who are
in sympathy with revolution should
ally themselves with the forces te-
hind the Non-Partisan league.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
when RaIIroadina was Young.

Christian Science Monitar: AS his
toric addition to much present con-
versatioh about railroad management
sc somebody has unearthed a list OF IN
structions to conductors, trainmen'
enginemen, and station masters In the
DAYS when American locomotives
burned wood and were going very fast
indeed at twenty miles an hour. Engi-
neers were then forbidden to make up
lost time If the train Got behind lts
schedule the order was to let all Tue
time of delay or detention be addeu
IL. the running time" When tram
was a full hour late the station master
was directed to start on horseDach
to learn the cause of the delay" The
head brakeman in that day of hama
brakes carried whistle which ne
blew when he wished to notify the en-
g;neer to stop the train; and conduc'
tors were ordered "as much as they
can consistently with the duty OF tax
ing tickets, to keep lookout FOR dan
gers and difficulties upon the road. In
al! directions, seeing that no objects
project into the road at any point, and
when discovered have them removed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND.

In the Sedate old mId-N1ctor1an England tue
only way daughter of a cultured home could
earn her living was by teaching. More recently
women broke into the medical profession ana
the war immensely increased the demand for
them in this capacity both in hospitals and IN
private practice. One military hospital with
five hundred and seventy eight beds Is wholly
stated by women surgeons, doctors, patholo-
gists oculists, dentists, anassthetlsts, dspen-
sers. nurses and orderlies.
The old theory was tn 1t home was the place
for women; but now, as a witty British suffra-
gist has said, the suggestion that she stay al
home almost invites prosecution under the de-
Tense of the realm act. In England's hnance
and banking institutions seventy-t thousand,
five hudred women are employed. Many WON
en- have positions of RESPONSE blllty IN bankers
Offices and insurance companies. Women VINO
have specialized in science are doing laboratory
research work Others have won distinction as
land and naval architects. Important admins
trative functions in government departments
are discharged by them. They fill supervisory
posts in many factories. They are in vast de-
mand as teachers, even in boys schools. They
are employed as lnguists, auctioneers, COM
mercial travellers, club walters, bus and tram
conductors, porters, ticket collectors, booking
cIeFhS. elevator operators, Car cltdlele, iiotol-
lists, drivers of trucks, street cars and mall
wagons, letter carriers, policewomen, lamp
lighters street cleaners. All factories are full OF
them They are doing heavy work In agriculture
and tens of thousands have co-operated with
the fighting men in the Womens Army Auxil-
iary corps, the Women's Royal Naval Service
and the Women's Royal Air Force.
Two professions only are still closed to them.
Women though qualified by university degrees
to do so, have not been allowed to act as bar
risters or solicitors; and the established church
steadfastly refuses to ordain them or permit
them to discharge any ministerial function.
few eloquent and gifted women, however, are
heard weekly in Methodist and Congregational
pulpits.
Very clearly new order has come upon the
world; and it probably is the most revolutionary
and far-reaching innovation ever known. In
what respects and to what extent it will modify
the home, marriage, social conventions, can only
be conjectured; but history records no other
change SO sudden, SO startling and SO vast If
any one prophecies that the end Of the century
will see women presidents and members of gor
eminent cabinets and intellect, regardless of
sex, conducting all the great affairs of the world,
it will be safer to treat his prediction with re
spect; for it often happens that the conjecture
which is secuted and flouted and seems the
widest is the one that comes true.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
LEMON JUICE
FOR FRECKLEs
Girls! Make beauty lotion for
a few cents-Try 1t!

Squeeze the juice OF two leoo,,
into a bottle containing three ounes,
of orchard white, shake well, and ",
have quarter pint Of the bss
freckle and tan lotion, and compls,
ion beautifier, at very, very sm,a
cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter win
supply three ounces of orchard whit.
for few cents. Massage this sweet.
" agrant lotion into the face necy
arms and hands each day and 81,
how freckles and blemishes disan
pear and how clear, soft and rosv
white the skin becomes. Yes! II /,
harmless and never irritatcs,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
a STILL BETTER PLAN.

Secretary Lanes scheme of locating soldiers
on ready-made farms developed from swamps
and cut-over lands has given rise to several
pther plans for aiding soldiers, some Of which
are evidently worthy Of consideration. Repre-
sentative Morgan, of Oklahoma, has introduced
a bill in congress which provides that every
honorably discharged soldier or sailor may OBJ
tain a loan of $4,000 with which to purchase a
farm homestead or homestead in a town or
eity. The soldier is not restricted in his choice
Of location; it may be in whatever state or 10
calitv he chooses to make his home. The loans
are to be made for long period of time and at
low rate of interest, three and one-half per
,ent and must not exceed the appraised value
Df the home purchased.
Mr. Morgan IS plan is not a reclamation pro-
ject. which is the main feature of Secretary
Lane IS scheme. Speaking of the measure, he
saws: sit is strictly soldiers home founding
proposition, drawn with a view to benefting
fhe largest number of soldiers at the least cost
20 the government. Secretary Lane s bill will
provide homes for only one hundred thousand
soldiers 1t will aid only those who are able to
advance one thousand dollars in cash and are
willing to make their homes and operate farms
in southern swamps or the cut-over lands and
arid regions of the west. 1t also limits its aid
to the purchase of farm lands.
The Morgan plan extends aid to every sol
der and sailor, whether he chooses to live in
city, town or country. 1t promotes individual
Initiative, while Secretary Lanes project with
its government developed farm communities,
government owned stores, workshops, churches.
and other public utilities and institutions, and
government farm supervision, would place the
soldier in about the same relation to the gov
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
UnduIy Serious.

Kansas City Times: Mr.. Gompers
takes gloomy view of the results
O. depriving people OF their beer. The
"peece and tranquility of the masses,
re thinks, are threatened by prohibl-
ZION. He is unduly disturbed. Human
heings are wonderfully adaptable,
when they have to be. Lots OF people
I've comfortably without beer. The
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
MAN AND ANIMAL.

Des Moines Register: An authority
on certain forms Of wild life who
can not be questioned. Vilhtalmur
Stefansson, makes the following
statement in his story of exploration
in the north:
No mammal known to me has
eyesight which at all compares
with that of man. A wolf can
see you under favorable condt-
tons a little more than half
mile away; caribou at little
more than quarter Of a mile;
and a seal commonly at about
300 yards if you are standing III.
or $50 to 200 yards if you are
lying down. You can walk I'M
concernedly toward seal until
less than 400 yards away, after
which you begin careful ap-
proach.
Elsewhere in the same story Ste
fansson mentions similarly approach
ing caribou, among the better vision
ed animals. While power of vision
varies among the species, and some
perhaps approach more closely than
those mentioned to human powers,
yet the general conclusion Is doubt
less correct that the best eyes in
the world are the eyes of man.
This necessarily comes as a shock
to those accustomed to look on the
lower forms of animal life as superior
to man in strictly physical attributes
sight, hearing, taste, and so on.
Yet in taste the lowliest man is an
epicure compared to the highest
beast Except when dulled by train
ing the chances are the human ear
is a far finer and more delicate
mechanism than the ear of the
jungle denizen. Even as to smelling
while there are many evidences of
remarkable animal powers, it is n
question whether the olfactory appa-
ratus of the animal actually regis
tiers impressions so slight that 'they
escape man, or whether the average
human brain as a result of long habit
automatically rejects many smell i'm
pressions which are vital to the ami
NAL in his search for food or his
need of safety.
Just as man has lost the browning
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

eminent as that long held by the Indian on the
reservation. The local government headquar
tiers in the soldiers community would have
close relation to the Indian agency, with all It's
opportunities for mismanagement and graft.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

glory of the monkey, his tail, It Is
reasonable to assume that other
members might vanish with long dis
use. or that certain powers might
atrophy. Nevertheless the Stefansson
statement helps emphasize the fact
that in all qualities of the physical
mechanism necessary in common.
man remains superior to his fellow
creatures on earth.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
Costly, Yet Cheap.

ST. Paul Pioneer Press: Good roads
permanent roads, that is-sound
costly Building them at $4,000 a
mile seems extravagant. And yet
when the effect upon property values
and farm efficiency is taken into
account, they are cheap. Dirt high
ways are the really expensive ones.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

Salaries OF women teachers In the
Oklahoma public schools have In
creased 26 per cent in the past two
years.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

Mrs. Jen C. Murphy, of Yanktor !.
the only woman city commissions, !
South Dakota. q
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

rest will find they can get on Inc,
as well. Beer isn't so serious 4 NJ, y
ter as Mr.. Gompers supposes D'as
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

properly book which maintains ftseif oy
virtue of that happy coaeseence of matter and sye
sympathy between the thought naS
life the form that consents 70 every mood sno OF
grace dignity which simple without being 'u'-
gar without being distant, and winch IS some
thing neither ancient modern always new ana ncaP
able of growing old-Lowel.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

The wisest and most interesting men talk
little, think much, complain never, but travel
on-Ralph Waldo Urine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

Fearing to face another scrap, the Germans
have decided not to view the piece treaty a
scrap of paper.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24
WAR PIGEONS DEMoBILIzED.

The English war pigeons which did notable
service in France are being rapidly demobilized
The army of occupation will retain number
of them adequate to possible needs but about
ten thousand of the birds have been sold in
France and Belgium, the proceeds being divid
ed among charitable institutions of those coun-
tries and England at the suggestion of the
pigeon breeders who had donated them to the
British army. Their services of undoubt-
ed great value Seaplanes carried them; and
many an aviator forced to the water by accident
was rescued when liberated pigeon brought
news Of his plight. In the battles of Messines
twelve hundred pigeons carried messages, no
single one Of which went astray Our army
also had it's feathered heroes One of them
called Cher Ami lost a leg while carrying mes
sage from the ''lost battalion But she
brought the message through and has been
recommended for the D. S. c. Matter-of-fact
people may sniff at this, but others will approve
it as one of those charming bits of sentiment
which do so much to brighten life.
According to despatch from Canton, China,
the Chinese believe that all their recent mis-
fortunes are due to the fact that they have cut
off their pigtals and adopted many of the ways
of the foreign devils' If such be the case, it
Will be a gOOd many years before tney can get
back to the status queue
"Who will be the first president of the league
of nations?' queries a contemporary. We
haven't the slightest idea, but he has our
sympathy.
Fearing to face another scrap, the Germans
have decided not to view the piece treaty as a
scrap of paper.
STILL there will be no prohibition against the
making and sale Of rye bread.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

."Who will be the first president of the league
of nations?" queries a contemporary. We
haven't the slightest idea, but he has our
sympathy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

Still, there will be prohibition against the
making and sale Of rye bread.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-24

Titles of
book cts
Ask for the one
you vonf:
National Parks
Crater Lake
Oregon
Glacier
Montana
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Mesa Verde
Colorado
Mount Rainier
Washington
Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Sequoia Gen. Grant
California
Yellowstone
Wyoming
Yosemite
California
National Monuments
Fortified Forest
Arizona
Zion
Utah
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-10-09

moral purpose. He enlisted in the
regular army in 1900 and served
through the grades as private, reg
mental sergeant-major, was COM
missioned second lieutenant then
first lieutenant. later captain, which
was his rank until he entered the
European war. At the beginning Of
the war he was raised TO the rank
Of major and sent 10 France as
corps and division machine gun
officer. 29th Division 9Th Corps, First
Army, He took part in the Ar
gonne drive. 81. Mihiel drive. the
sector east Of Belfort, and others.
During the st. Mihiel drive he was
decorated by citation, and later re-
ceived The u. :. G. medal from Gen.
Pershing. Major Washburn has
served in the Spanish-American
War, Cuban Occupation. Philippine
InsurrectiOn, campaign against the
hostile Morros, Mexican border SER
vice, and was also with the Ex-
peditionary Force into Mexico. He
is a brother Of Mrs. Paul Derthick.
and Hczekiah Washburn. missionary
TO Africa. II is truly inspiring TO
new as well as old Students TO
learn Of the distinguished service
and successful career Of their fell
low-students. Major Washburn is
now stationed at Camp Grant, ILL.,.
commanding the 18TH Machine Gun
Battalion, 9th Division. We ex-
pect TO see Major Washburn in our
midst more frequently than in the
past.
Mrs. Col Morell, of Philadelphia,
who is Interested in boys schools
and aids in their support, was
a visitor TO Berea College last
week. She was Interested in the
many means afforded by Berea for
self-help.
The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1919-10-09
TO THE CITIZENS OF BEREA

A Nation Wide Movement is on
foot to keep green the memory Of
Theodore Roosevelt!
II is proposed TO buy the house in
New York City where Roosevelt was
born and there TO gather the tro-
phies of his genius; his vitality;
and his untiring zeal for good works.
II is TO be used as a place from
which shall go forth the lessons OF
ROOsevelts life: his love for the
friendless and the poor; his scorn
for all that is mean and low.
Mrs. 5. Thurston Ballard of Louis
willie is the Chairman for Ky, in
the Nation Wide Campaign for the
raising Of this fund to purchase the
house in New York in which ROose-
welt was born. Mrs Ballard has APP
pointed Mrs. James w. CapertOn
Chairman for Madison County.
The name Of every one cOntribut-
ing 81 or more will be inscribed in
the Donors book which is to be
placed in Roosevelt House" Each
one who gives 81 is also entitled TO
a Roosevelt pin.
The slip containing your name
will be forwarded TO the National
Chairman TO be enrolled in the
Donors book; and the list Of do
nors for Madison County will be
published in the Richmond Regis
ter and Paragraph.
Take your contribution to the
Berea Bank * Trust Co., or TO the
Berea National Bank, sign your
name to a slip which will be fur
nished for the purpose, and you
will be given a Roosevelt pin.