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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
Strikers Stand Firm

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
MILWAUKEE,, wis, Aug. 9.-Eight
thousand Northwestern and M1MauKee
road strikers today wired B. M Jew
ell at Washington to respect the dlc'
tates of union men and not the ON
GERS, by refusing to enter into an!
agreement with federal officials to end
the strike.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
Suddenly Called Home.

limited Press Leased Wire Service. ]
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-Unofft-
cial reports from Paris that General
Pershing has been called home sud
denly were not confirmed at the war
department today. Neither Secretary
Baker nor Chief of Staff March, 1t
was said officially, had heard of the
proposed recall.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
TABLOIDS
FROM FAR AND NEAR

girl, when asked what she thought OF
high costs, etc. II get my salary, the
company buys the costumes"
Fifty Cent Hatrcuts.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Aug. 9-Rip
VanWinkle won't have anything on
Springfieldians. On August II hair
cuts go to fifty cents and shaves to
two bits
Kick In Near Beer.
HARRISBURG, Pa. Aug. 9-John
Bush discovered a way to get kick
out OF near beer. Helping unload
cargo of the stuff, Bush got in the
way and keg knocked him into
cellar, fracturing his leg.
Thirty Day Sign.
CLEVELAND, Ohio Aug. 9-Frank
Stewart, vagrant. is done with signs.
He gave Judge Silbert mysterious
sign. "My lodge. Member" Silbert
asked. Stewart said no. You've signed
up for thirty days. Next case.
Insists He Is Dead.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9-James
O'Ma1ley has been fourteen times reg
istered for re-enlistment in the army
The war department insists he's dead
and keeps sending his mother death
comp ensation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
Untitled Steel TONNAGE.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
NEW YORK, Aug. e.-Unilled steel
tonnage was 5,57S, ,661 on July 81, CON-
pared with 4,S32,s55 on June 80;
9,2S2,31o on May 81. and s,sS3,S01 on
July 81. 1918
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09

Children are happy because they
don't know any better and it prob
ably would be as well if others were
(happy for the same reason.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
Some Short and Snappy Items
Which Make News Wire
Sparkle.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
CHICAGO, Aug. Edward Smoth-
ers, fisherman, wishes today he had
obtained a state license. He was ar
rested for mussel gathering after he
had just taken out pearls valued at
$4,000.
Mayor as Traffic Cop.
NEW YORK, Aug. 9-Mayor Hylan's
auto got stuck in jam, so he climbed
out and started directing traffic. He
worked from six p. M, until 1880 and
made good in the opinion of the regu-
Lar traffic oops.
Retroactive AIimony.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9-Mrs.
Elizabeth Kolley is suing her husband
for retroactive alimony, dating back
to January 14th,
Not In Favor of Strikes.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Aug. 9.-"Why
strike when you can make a hit?"
said Elva Grieves, burlesQue chorus
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
REFUSE To
WORK WITH
BLACK MEN
Stock Yards and Packing
House Employees Threaten
to Paralyze Meat
Business.
WANT POLICE TO QUIT
Strike viii Affect Whole Country II
1.-Two Stock shipments to
Chicago are Cur.
tailed. i
WANT POLICE TO QUIT

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHICAGO, Aug. 9-Despite the
withdrawal of national guardsmen and
other soldiers from the vicinity of the
stock yards, union officials today u.s.
serted the walkout of butchers,
scrapers and other workers at the big
packing plants will continue until all
police and extra guards have been re.
moved.
While union leaders claimed 10000
men had quit work as a protest
against return Of negro help and plac-
ing of 1000 extra policemen and 200
deputy sheriffs throughout the yards,
officials of the packing houses de-
clare not more than 10000 men had
struck.
If the unions press their claims and
the police guard is not withdrawn, it
was predicted 10000 men will be
thrown out Of work and the meat in
dustry tied completely up. The strike
would affect the whole country since
shipments Of live stock to the Chicago
yards would have to be curtailed or
entirely stopped.
Chief of Police Garrity said the
police would not be removed until a
lSduSot hdo oCCi lladS Wy lAS
packers, and until race feeling had
cleared up sufficiently to preclude pos
sirility of further outbreak of race
rioting.
Sixty Per Cent Capacity.
CHICAGO, Aug. 9.-Packing houses
operated today at about 60 per cent
of their capacity, officials said, be-
cause of strikes there. They said.
however, the strike is broken and
that the men will return to work
Monday. The number striking could
not be determined, packers claiming
net over 10000 were out; labor lead
ers said the total was 10000. Many
were idle because of lack of produc-
tion in other departments.
Statement by Brown.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1
CHIAGO, Aug. 9-President Everett
C. Brown of the Chicago live stock ex-
change issued the following statement
at noon today or the strike situation
II. the packing houses:
'The yards are cleaned up Of all
stale and fresh stocks and the killers
are doing business in all the larger
plants.
"a conservative estimate is that we
can handle $4,000 hogs day or about
9C, 900 week under present condi-
tions, against 10000 as the normal
figure at this season of the year.
with the active demand for cattle
for shipping, it is estimated that the
market can handle 10000 cattle a
day IT is generally believed that
shippers who can get their stock to
market during the strike will re-
ceive more than when all the workers
come back.
"On the whole the condition in the
packing plants is better than the
earlier reports would Indicate"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
Strike DELAYS Food.

NEW YORK, Aug. Possibility OF
the food situation in New England be.
coming serious was admitted here to-
day by officials of the New Haven
railway when they stated that it has
become necessary to accept only per.
ishable foods for delivery because OF
the strike of shopmen Freight is pill
ing up rapidly at the terminals. One
hundred and forty-one passenger
trains, most of them expresses, have
been withdrawn. No parlor cars are
being operated and only few sleep
ing cars.
Possibility of a settlement rested in
the agreement of the strikers to con.
slider President Wilson's appeal to re.
turn to work.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
Wilson Ready For roy- No,.

WASHINGTON Aug. 9-President
Wilson, having handed the high cost
OF living problem over to congress at
least for the time being, turned his at
tention today to plans for his tour OF
the United States. 1t was believed
however, that he would touch on the
high cost of living in his speeches.
In his address to congress yester.
day. the president said there can be
no real peace prices until there is
peace. He is expected to use this ar.
gument in his cam paign. Before Will.
son goes on tour, he may hold a
series Of white house conferences with
representatives Of both capital ami
labor to discuss present economic con
'ditions and the remedy for certain
evils. In his speech he said many
things should be corrected In the reia
tions between capital and labor and
that he was ready to confer on the
matters, with men who knew what
they are talking about"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09

girl, when asked what She thought OF
high costs, ETC. II get my salary, the
company buys the costumes"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09

(Continusd on page 2.)
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09

CONTINUED on page 81
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-08-09
THE WEATHER

Partly Cloudy. Warmer. Local
temp. z p. M, rs; Z a. m, 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17

those basic facts upon which inland
water transportation legislation to he
Of economic benefit to the people must
be constructed. 1t is dismally dis
cournging to face the facts which
have controlled the construction Of
every bill affecting the subject passed
by the Congress within the memory
Of this generation.
1t is needless to remind readers of
the character Of many items, projects,
as they are called, in such bills; ap-
preparations to deepen bitches which
could never serve transportation pur-
poses unless they were paved; money
to clear sluggish backwaters of vege-
tation-hynclnths millions to farm
ers who cheerfully depend upon the
Congress to save them from the ex-
pense of building necessary levees.
Director General HINES has another
problem to arouse public wrath which
will force the Congress to leglslate
upon inland waterway improvements
by separate bills: to kill thievlng
omnibus bills which always carry
more pork than ever could be freighted
on creeks, sloughs, bayous more often
filed with gold than with water
More votes than boats are obtained
by omnibus river and harbor bills.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17

Every payer Of freight bills. and
that means every rent payer, user of
fuel, wearer Of clothes, consumer of
food, with intelligence enough to add
two and two knows that water trans
portation could under conceivable con.
ditions reduce the freight cost added
to the price which users pay for ne
cesslties of living. Director General
HINES Is tackling the problem of wa
ter transportation as substitute for
transportation by rail In some cases
for some classes of freight as an adj
junct where there is mo obstruction
to the interchange Of traffic between
rail and water on terms substantially
equal to those between rail carriers"
In his letter to Senator FLErcHER Mr..
HINES sets forth clearly other condi.
lions which must prevail before inter
state water transportation can be
made a practical, efficient traffic aid
TO commerce.
1t is encouraging that an official
having precise knowledge Of the mat.
ter has informed a member Of the
Interstate Commerce Committee OF
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
Nebraska Holds . Lamp for New
YOrk's Guidance.

Having endured the nuisance OF
direct nominations long enough to
learn all it's disadvantages the legis-
lators of Nebraska have passed a bill
for the restoration of the convention
system. The measure applies TO all
offices below the Governorship.
This precedent may embolden the
Legislature Of New York to do what
the electorate of this State wants 1t
to do and rid us OF the expensive.
cumbersome and unsatisfactory direct
nominations which misdirected reform
fastened on us. Public opinion has
been registered against the primary
nominating system in every conceiv-
able way. The sentiment Of the State
IS overwhelmingly in favor of the
restoration of party conventions.
Hitherto a few of the opponents Of
the convention system have defended
their refusal to reestablish party con-
ventions for the nomina ton of can
didates for office on the ground that
no other State having adopted direct
primaries had abandoned them. They
have argued that the leader in the
return to sanity in politics would be
called reactlonary. Their argument
never had any force. and now 1t has
been destroyed by the enlightened and
progressive act of Nebraska.
New York should have led the
States in the reestablishment of noml-
nations for public office on rational
basis. 1t has lost that distinction
but the good sense of Nebraska's law
makers should give courage to the
legislators of the Empire State to dc
their duty without delay.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
Where the U-BOats VIII Go.

Prom tAe Army and Nary Journal.
The Navy Department has arranged
the itinerary for the Ave ex-German
submarines now en- route TO the United
States conveyed by the U. S. S. Bush
nell and manned by American crews.
The U-boats. which are being brought
over for the double purpose OF exhibit
ton to the public during the Liberty
Loan drive and for study by American
naval experts. are expected to reach
New York the latter part OF April. and
will then proceed on the following itin-
eraries: U-1l1, to Portland, Portsmouth.
Boston, New Bedford, Newport, Provi-
dence, New Haven, and then lay up al
New London; U-1l7. to Philadelphia.
Wilmington. Del; Charleston. S, c.
Wilmington, n. c.. Norfolk, Baltimore.
Annapolis, to Washington CB-SS, to
Savannah. Jacksonville. Tampa, Pensa-
cola Mobile, up Mississippi River TO
St Louis. then Galveston. Key West
through Panama Canal, up Pacific coast
TO Puget Sound district, TO San Pedro
CB-l4S. exhibit at various places in
and about New York. then up Hudson
River as far as draft will safely per-
NIT. then Bridgeport, and lay up at
New London; UC-97. from New York
to Halifax. up st. Lawrence River. ex-
hibit in lake ports and finally lay up at
naval training station. Great Lakes.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
EVENTS TO-DAY.

Rotary Club, luncheon. Hotel McAlpin.
1880 P. NJ.
Eastern Arts Association, meeting. 10
tel McAlpin. r. NJ. exhibit, all day
tennessee Society. smoker. Hotel Mo
Newell Dwight Mills will speak on tn.
League Of Nations" Marble Collegiate
Victory Loan Committee. meeting. Ho-
Lecture on "Italy's Part In the orsa.
Var" by F H Wright. West side 7. N.
Daushters OF tho Empire State, meeting.
Waldorf p. NJ.
Merchants Association, luncheon for
Philippine delegates, Hotel Biltmore.
Club OF Printing House Craftsmen, din =
ner Hotel Pennsylvaria, p. NJ.
Disoussion on THE Clinical Signincane.
Medicine. $40 P. NJ.
In Europe; by James Auditore. Rits-Csrl-
Lecture on repeal of the Evpionaxs
Law" by Charles Recht. 22s LenoI ave-
Lecture on 9Th. Russian peou,. and
Their Institutions" by Jerome Landnefd.
Bush Terminal Building, s p. NJ.
Entertainment for soldiers. sailors and
marines at the Cardinal Farley Club. is
Brooklyn Institute Prof Nelson p
Meade will speak on Current History, I
!. NJ recital by Arthur shsttuck pianist,
s:l5 =. NJ.
Republican County Committee, meeting.
Bryant Hall. 725 sixth avenue 5 p NJ
Drawings from the ]. Pierpont Morgan
collection. Public Library, room 32l.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
ENFORCING THE DROUGHT.
An Alarming Prospect Of Ever In.
creasing Forces Of Rum Sleuths.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir! Or,
Tuesday. July 1, promises glorious
thirgs, because each OF the 5000 rum
sleuths who then begin work will proba-
lily receive $1,000 or $500 a year. and
Uncle Sam will thereby add four or five
millions to his payroll.
without questioning their ability oil
their activity. II is unreasonable to ex-
pect 5000 detectors to ferret and STAMP
cut possible Illicit production among
100, 900. 900 people: about one detector &c
each 10000 Inhabitants.
We therefore have the pleasant pros.
pect Of increasing the rum sleuth army
but what Of that? We have men enough
end increased taxation could create any
required amount. even though 10000
men might eventually be needed at a cos
OF $40. 600. 900 to 10000. 900 annually.
1t certainly lie happy thought to have
local police cooperate, and to leave the
greater part of enforcement work to
those when proficient in II.
The police are certain to be delighted
with this additional work, and TO be-
come proficient in It, but In fairness to
them, let them be paid for II. Let us
either increase their salary or let Uncle
Sam pay them as subsidiary rum
sleuths.
The people will cheerfully foot all bills
to any extent especially the prohibi.
tionists who have brought about this
IDEAL condition.
ADoLPH OPpENHEIMER.
NEW YORK, April 16.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
A New Park Avenue.

The completion of the Park avenue
viaduct, which was opened for traffic
yesterday. gives Manhattan what
amounts to a new north and south
thoroughfare. which should relieve
congestion on Fifth and Madison ave-
nues considerably. The rectification
OF grades at Thirty-second street and
the bridge over Forty-second street
make this route practicable for We
hicles Of all kinds, and under proper
regulation Of traffic this improvement
should be Of great value to the whole
city.
This betterment Of the street sys-
TEN has long been needed. 1t be-
came imperative when vehicular con-
gestion made the other north and
south highways impossible except ut
an expenditure Of time that seriously
interfered with the transaction of
business. The remarkable real estate
development Of Park avenue north of
the Grand Central added difficulties
to situation already complicated by
heavy truck movements to and from
the Greensboro Bridge. The new ave
nue., for 1t may be fairly called new
does not anticipate the needs Of the
future, but tardily provides for Ger
tain necessities of the present.
Having improved Park avenue, the
city must at once begin to provide
additional highway facilities in other
quarters. The extension of Seventh
avenue has opened a new way on the
West Side. Is It not possible to
adapt the far East Side thorough.
fares to the requirements Of modern
transportation?
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
Why Only the Luxury Industries
Are Doing Well.

An inquiry made by the National
Association Of Manufacturers into
business conditions In the United
States reveals tile fact that of the
twenty-five principal groups of in
dustries only FIVE groups are having
normal business. These are jewelry
and sllverware, musical instruments,
automobiles, rubber and tobacco. AS
Stunning that the rubber industry Is
doing we'll because of the tire trade
we see that the only thriving indus
trial groups are those producing arti-
cles which in time Of war came under
| the head Of luxuries
1t is not surprising that the people
should turn, with the cessation Of
| war, to things which many denied
themselves for about twenty months
| in order that they might lend to the
Government or give to war charities.
The chest Of silver. the monograph,
the motor car, all the desirable COM
forts which the patriot put behind
him two years ago, plesded for pur-
chase as soon as the guns stopped !;
and some citizens probably listened
to the plea when they should have
kept their ears stuffed bit longer |;
the sale Of Liberty bonds by the small
Investor has indicated this.
The lively business In these luxu-
ries-they are better classed as de-
cencies when prosperous America is
at peace-is not a bad sign in itself.
The American works hard and long
SO that he may have these eo-called
luxuries, just as the Frenchman Is
thrifty SO that he may purchase the
luxury of early retirement from bust
ness, just as the peon goes without
the simplest of luxuries-even the
decencies, as we know them-in or
der that he may have the luxury Of
! daily Incidence. All men work for
that which they most enjoy, and 1t
happens that Americans not only en-
Joy the best of comforts. conveniences
and things Of beauty but also like
work for itself,
If all lines Of business were picking
up as the luxury lines are the situa-
ton would be encouraging. But they
are not. The backbone industries,
such as those which use iron and
steel, are reported as in state Of
compa rative lethargy. Several rea-
sons are assigned by the men in these
industries
Delay in signing the treaty of
peace"
This, due TO the blunder Of COM
bining the peace terms with the
League Of Nations covenant, has set
back all trade in the civilized world.
General high costs Of labor and
materials"
High prices Of wheat due to Gov
eminent guarantee"
/ These two reasons travel hand in
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17

hand. An artificial price for wheat
affects not alone bread but all kinds
of food, for the price OF wheat regu-
lates the price of cattle and poultry
feed. The price Of food regulates the
cost Of labor, and the price of labor
makes the price of materials.
Continued Government control of
railroads, &C."
The Governments control has raised
the cost Of running the railroads, the
telephones and the telegraph. This
hurts business. 1t has made uncer-
tain the business Of the concerns
which produce supplies for these utll-
tiles. The touch Of the Government
In business is tle touch of death.
Labor unrest, agitation and indus
trial strife"
The Government created artificial
prices for labor through it's cost plus
contract system. BY keeping food ut
artificial prices, through the wheat
guarantee, 1t has alarmed labor ms
we'll ne capital.
Sudden imposition of heavy war
revenue tax burdens on industry"
American Industrial success has
been the result of ambition; to a GER
tain extent the selfish but quite hu.
man endeavor to make money; an6
that ambition dies when n collector
stands Mt the business mans elbow
demanding two-thirds Of all he makes,
never offering to repay losses.
Further reasons are given for the
lack of life in the great lines Of in
dustry, but these surely are enough.
1t will not do to say that all the In
dustries will follow the fortunes of
the luxury industries and improve
Quite the contrary. What would hap
pen If general depression should be-
come sufficiently profound Is that the
luxury industries would recede, and
once they fell, they would fall lower
than the others.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
Monroe Doctrine and League.

Lord ROBERT CECIL, discussing the
League Of Nations, says
Acceptance OF the peace terms in
wolves acceptance of the covenant.
The Monroe Doctrine amendment
does not weaken the covenant. 1t
was inserted to quiet apprehension in
the United States. 1t would have
been a real misfortune IL a large por-
ton Of American opinion were Sc
cretly hostile
Lord ROBERT CECIL of course is not
the only person to whom is permitted
an Interpretation of the revised league
document. Lord RoBERT Cecil is not
the sole authority which can decide
what the Monroe Doctrine means in
the covenant or means out of it.
Nevertheless, there would better be a
common understanding and a clear
understanding Of whether the Monroe
Doctrine went into the covenant to
mean something and to do something
or to mean and to do nothing.
I; If 1t would be misfortune to have
"a large portion of American opin-
ion secretly hostile" to the League OF
Nations because of its admitted sacrl-
fee Of American sovereignty, 1t would
be something more than n misfortune.
it would be an international tragedy.
to have American opinion openly and
violently hostile to the League of Ma
tons because the American people
had been deceived and defrauded
with the insertion of a sham Monroe
Doctrine amendment,
There would be trouble enough II
the American people learned that af-
ter they had been assured that the
Monroe Doctrine amendment was a
genuine safeguard they found 1t still
sacrificing the sovereignty Of the
United States and still maintaining
the supersovereignty Of the League of
Nations, overwhelmingly manned, con.
trolled and operated by the Powers
Of Europe. Asia and Africa.
Something, in truth, would burst
wide open on this half Of the globe.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
An Open Competition.

On many billboards in New York
appears a poster which is said to
have been put up on behalf of the
Victory Loan and which reads as
follows:
'1f America at this juncture should
fail the world. what would become
OF IT,"
Buy the bonds by all means, but
THE Sun offers dozen assorted
PEANUTS, or copy Of the Fourteen
Points, to any person advancing an
elucidative theory MS to what Ameri-
chs failing the world at this juncture
has to do with the raising of S4,5OO,-
100000 to pay debts almost entirely,
IL not entirely, due in America.
The author of the cryptic poster is
particularly invited to compete.