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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-11

Cleveland H. Dodge, of New York,
contributed 100000 to the American
relief fund. Riches attached to chart
tvs wings wins applause in flight
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-11

punch -
the fire, the
spirit and
the pep
to accom-
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-11
out of Ma ordInarx.

Out OF the OToIHdTy.
Capt A. II. Evans will be chairman
OF the meeting, which Is under the
auspices Of Terrence post G. A. r. and
Terrence w. r. G.
AS Lieutenant McManus represents
the world war among the speakers Of
the evening. John NJ. Rankin, repre-
sents the soldiers Of the Spanish war.
He was private in Company D. Of the
Sixth Illinois infantry and was on the
tig expedition Of General Miles to Por-
to Rico to capture that possession Of
Spain which Is now part OF the Unit
ed States. He saw real service in that
war.
He will speak on the life Of Lincoln
in Illinois. his own native state, which
promises something out of the ordi-
nary. The reputation as an orator OF
Hazen I. Sawyer will draw auditors to
the Lincoln memorial tomorrow night,
and everybody wants to hear Riley
McManus tell about the actual occur
rences of the present war.
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naturally mistakes them for his
wife's. In the end the tangle Is
Strengthened out and the Leffingwells
once more lead a happy life.
Also Ham in "a Tight Squeeze"
is one of the funniest comedies ever
seen in this city.
Wednesday-The story of I'm the
of Her Hand" in which Alice
Brady will be seen at the Hippo
drome theatre tomorrow. Also latest
Pathe Standardization
Private Peat-Tonight-
With our returned soldiers about
US the Grand presents timely photo
drama for tonight and Wednesday,
Private Peat" a picture based on
the book and experiences OF that
hero and starring Private Peat him
self Fighting soldier, author, lee
turer and now a good screen actor
is Private Peat. His story in this
picture is simply the story of each
American boy who went to the front
in France-the facts OF the war
brought home to you who have had
sons, brothers, sweethearts or friends
In the fight; and that means every
body.
The picture Private Peat throbs
with human interest and is vibrant
with patriotic fervor. The story
deals with a youthful clerk in a
country store, enraged by the Ger
man atrocities, who seeks to enlist.
To his disgust the recruiting officers
refuse him on account of physical
unf1tness. But they can't keep him
out and by a subterfuge Peat gets
to the front. In the trenches he
volunteers with nine 9th ers to secure
some needed ammunition and starts
across a bullet-swept strip of coun-
try. Badly wounded, then follows
days in the hospital, the arrival OF
Mary from back home, many adven-
lures and then peace and happiness.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-11

Read the classified column.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-11
A specially Good Program.

A Specially Good Program.
The addresses will be delivered by
Hazen I. Sawyer. John NJ. Rankin and
Lieutenant J. Riley McManus.
The music will be community sing
ing and a double quartet composed OF
Miss Martha Baldwin. Miss Carolyn
Baldwin, Mrs, w. C. Howell, Mrs. e.
M. Hanson, Howard w. Wood, James
Young, O. w. Dickinson, Dr. M. c..
Vandeventer. with Miss Katherine
Reidy as accompanist.
The invocation will be by Rev w. s.
D. Lamont, rector of ST. Johns church.
Corporal Lewis D. Sheppard will
give a demonstration Of the use of the
gas mask and helmet of the up-to-date
soldier of the American army.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-11
Memorial Services VIII be Largely
Attended Wednesday Evening
in camorons Hall on
He Birthday.
NEW THING IN PROGRAMS
Three Wars VIII be Represented, and
Soldiers VIII Tell Many Inter
estIng Things to the
Audience.

The Lincboln birthday celebration
by Keokuk Wednesday evening prom
ises to be very big thing and entire
~ adequate to the occasion and the
part that Keokuk took over half a cen
fury ago to uphold the hands of Presi-
Gent Lincoln.
Talks Indicate that the attendance
will be very larges and some good mu-
sic heard and addresses made, not, to
speak of the current events special
interest in hearing soldier Of the
world war and seeing the tools he
fought the Hun with in France
The war between the states, the
Spanish war and the world war will
each have Its place in the Lincoln me-
mortal services at Cameron's hall,
Eighth and Main streets, tomorrow
evening. They will start at o'clock
sharp.
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CHOKING BUSINESS.
A Case Where Taxes Prevented the
Employment Of 200 Men.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Sir:
have an old straw hat and am willing
TO bet It even against an old pair OF
shoes that fifteen good accountants, all
working on the same income, war profit
and excess pront tax Of the average
COZ poratlon, would not come within 20
per cont. of the same results. l also
commend to the members of Congress
your editorial article of a few days ago
or the folly OF the Government taking
all Of the excess profits from individ-
uals and corporations and then expect
ing them to continue business on an
expanding scale. 1t is plain to any one
that no business can continue to exist
for any length of time II this tax is not
changed.
have had occasion to go personally
into this tax matter to sec II I could
undertake a certain contract calling for
the investment OF $4,000 of borrowed
money, end pay back the loan and the
tax called for by the law. I md that
It does not seem possible to meet the
demands made, and therefore have con-
Guided not to employ the 200 men needed
for the Job rather than take the chances
called for by taking on this contract
PLAINFTELD. July 3. j. T. h
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TEXAS Ratines.

1t is In order to extend congratu-
lations to Texas on taking step
forward in political civilization. The
Legislature OF that State has ratified
the Federal suffrage amendment. 1t
10 not only the ninth State in the
Union to yield to the inevitable but
It is the first of the Southern States
to see the Light.
We have read in biographies Of
Colonel HOUSE that Texas, like the
chancelleries of Europe and other CEN
tres Of intellect, does nothing without
consulting the Colonel. Whether the
commissioner PlenipotentaryY ad-
vlsed Texas to ratffy the amendment
we do not know. but at any rate 1t
did the right thing.
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FINANCIERS TO HELP
BOOM ACTORS FUND
National Memorial Day Is Set
for December S.

committee OF men prominent in
financial circles II was announced yes
terday, has been formed to cooperate
with the Actors Fund of America in
making December next Actors Ma
tional Memorial Day" on which testi-
monlal performances are planned for
every theatre in the country. The pur-
pose of Daniel Frohman. president OF the
fund, in setting this movement under
way is to commemorate the work OF the
theatrical profession here and abroad
in connection with the war and the Lib
erty loans. and to place the Actors Fund
on firm footing to avert its threatened
dissolution. due to war burdens
The committee OF hnanciers Includes
the following:
James 5. Alexander. president OF Ma
tional Bank OF Commerce and member
OF Liberty Loan Central Committee dur
ing the five drives; Benjamin Strong.
governor of Federal Reserve Bank and
chairman OF Liberty Loan Committee
during the Ave drives: George Gordon
Battle, chairman OF the first Salvation
Army drive; William Sloane Coffin, Jr.,
director Adjoint des Foyers de Soldat
and the Y. NJ. c. A. work in French
al Al'lcS anu vi war "OTk council
OF the Y. NJ. c. A: Joseph F. Cullman.
Jr, vice-chairman Limit Club, War Saw
ings Stamps; Col. Harry Cutler, chair
man of Jewish Welfare Board, United
States Army; Charles f. Lydecker pres
ident National Security League: William
G. McAdoo. former Secretary OF tho
Treasury and chairman OF recent nation
wide Boy Scouts drive
William Fellowes Morgan. vice-chair-
man New York District Y. NJ. c. A.
drive and president Merchants Associa-
ton. New York; Morgan ]. O'Brien
vice-chairman war fund drive Of Ma
tional Catholic War Council; George w
Perkins, chairman finance committee
United War Work drive: Louis ]. Rob
ertson, chairman special trade commit
tee Ihberty Loan and all war drives;
Mortimer L. Schiff. Kuhn. Loeb & Co.
and chairman finance committee Jewish
Welfare Board: James n. Wallace Cen
trail Trust Company and formerly OF
Liberty Loan committee: Felix NJ. War
burg, chairman joint distribution COM
mittee all Jewish relief funds: Albert II.
Wiggin, president Chase National Bank
and formerly OF Liberty Loan commit
tee: Guy Emerson, vice president OF Ma
tional Bank OF Commerce and formerly
vce-director in charge OF publicity and
war savings, Liberty Loan committee:
Jules s. Bache, Cleveland II. Dodge, Wal
ter f. Frew. president OF Corn Exchange
Bank, and DR.. Herbert Putnam.
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IS THIS HYPOCRISY?
Stopping Our Own Grog and Letting
Other Peoples Buy 1t.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-sir: What
altruistic hypocrites or hypocritical al
TRUSTS we are. The Attorney General
OF the United States. no doubt an honor
able man, decides that ut will be I'M
lawful TO sell for beverage purposes any
distilled spirits and any beer, wine or
other intoxicating malt or vinous liquor.
except for export"
Except for export Deprive every
one of us of his or her beloved poison,
whether taken moderately or otherwise,
and let the benighted peoples OF other
countries have the liquid joys Of which
we are deprived. Let them enjoy them
selves at our expense. laugh at our dis
comfort and sneer at our hypocrisy.
There has been lamentable lack of
scphrosyne in the treatment of this
question: also a sickening amount OF
cowardlce on the part OF many OF our
legislators. G. F. KAUcHER.
NEW York. July S.
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OUR IDEALS AND EURoPES.
History Does Not Teach That the
League Can Prevent War.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir: The
advocates OF the League OF Nations
claim that its main object is to abol-
ish war. ds 1t not a fact that the pres
ent war vas brought on by a league
OF nationsf
Before the war started there was in
existence league OF nations called the
Triple Alliance, composed Of Germany,
Austria and Italy. Austria was in
volved in a controversy with Serbia; a
shot was fred and the war was on.
Germany Immediately sided with Aus
tria because she was under obligations
to do 30.
On the other hand there was league
o. nations called the Entente, which
sided with Serbia. The war therefore
was between two leagues of nations.
II these leagues of nations had not ex-
listed the controversy would have been
confined TO Austria and Serbia, and per-
chance the war would have been avcrted,
or at least 1t would not have culmi-
mated in a world war.
But we are told that this 10 not to
be a league of nations, but the League
of Nations-only one. IL two or three
nations cannot agree, how can thirty or
moro nations agree, with their varied
interests and policies?
Several of them have subject nations
which are continuously in revolt. One
o. them controls the seas and wants all
the land she can get, honestly IL she
can. Two of them are already vyins
with each other for naval superiority.
Why should we tic ourselves up with
a league of nations which are not de-
mccracies? Even our sister republic
France Is not congenial company. She
holds about 10000. 900 subjects in her
African colonies, and one of them, Al
geria, has been struggling for self-de-
termination for a century. These ma
lions should be told to conform to the
high ideals for which we brought this
war to a successful conclusion before
We amalgamate with them.
II Is said also that the League OF
Nations is to be used to keep our beaten
foe in subsection. and one of Its chief
opponents, Mr. Taft, said not long ago
I'VE have Germany on her knees and
We are going TO keep her there" Is
such a sentiment conducive to peace
What a contrast between him and Lin
coin, who said with malice toward
none, with charity for ALL"
If the League OF Nations Is to abol'
ish war why does 1t not favor imme-
diate disarmament? On the contrary
armies and navies are to be Increased
in size and the theory that might Is
| right has not yet been exploded, for they
are all initiating Prussianism. In my
estimation we ought to tell the Euro
pean nations to make Europe safe fol
democracy, and we will now mind ouI
own business and make our own coun'
try safe for democracy.
GEORGE FESrRIcK.
NEW YORK, July 5.
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CHINA IDEALIZED.
Protest by a Missionary Against the
Film Play Broken Blossoms"

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Hav-
Ing spent some time in missionary work
in the Far East I want to register q
protest against the slur that is cast
upon the work OF our foreign mis-
sionaries by David wark Griffith In his
picture Broken Blossoms" Tho whole
wretched tragedy of that picture Is de-
signed evidently to convey the impress
sion that the ancient civilization and
religion of China are much better and
finer and stronger than the Christian
civilization and religion OF the Occi-
dent.
Deliberately Mr.. Griffith has con-
trasted an ideal Chinese poet with a
brutal degenerate of the London slums
has shown that the Chinese are tender
and gentle with little children. while the
London prizehghter is just the reverse.
The fallacy of this presentation lies In
the fact that while one such Isolated
single case might be true 1t is plain
that Mr. Griffith would have US believe
that It is typical-this unfair contrast
between two races.
As for his slur against the Christian
missionaries. It Is such that every
Christian man and woman should rise
IN protest. The religion OF Buddha has
left the 400, 100000 Chinese people the
most backward In the world; 1t Is now
only after the labor OF self-sacrifcing
missionaries for hundreds of years that
China is beginning to awake to her
duties and responsibilities.
II Is not fair or kind that such a
picture as Broken Blossoms" should
be allowed TO d!stort and warp the
truth. In the coast cities Of China
motion pictures are very popular form
OF entertainment; II MI Grin1th were &c
exhibit this untrue picture there It would
be the Chinese themselves who would be
the first 70 recognize its untruth
New YORK, July &, MIS-. NJ X
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larry few mistakes. In these mines
not only was the influenza epidemic
held within bounds but the founda-
ton was laid for sane, effective CO.
operation in health work. The selec-
tion of inspectors known to the miners
as friends prevented any misunder-
standing and obviated the dificultles
the employment of strangers might
have caused. The repellent element
Of charity was eliminated.
What was accomplished In this emer-
gency indicates what might be done
in all other similar emergencies and
under normal conditions to forefend
emergencies. In these mines owners
and workers alike were educated. No
health ordinance, no health commits
sioner, no Gordon Of armed guards
could have wrought the result
achieved by simple instruction. Such
instruction might be given through ex-
listing organizations, with the assist
ance of national association which
should tap the reservoirs of scientific
learning and distribute their treas
ures Of knowledge. Churches, trade
unions, boards Of trade, the Red Gross,
political clubs, fraternal societies,
each and every one of them. without
prejudice to its specific purpose, might
render a great service to mankind by
helping In this work. The present
seems a most suspicious time for be-
ginning a movement Of this kind, for
Americans have learned how to work
together for the common veal and
the practice Of cooperation should not
be abandoned.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-07
THE LADIES OF CARTHAGE.
Casar's Rebuke to Them for Carry
ing Pet Monkeys.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--str: In
Plutarch's Lives we find the follow
ing story OF Cesar: one day as Cesar
was strolling about the streets of Rome
he met a party of excursionists from
Carthage. who had come over to see
the sights. Some OF the ladies of the
party were carrying pet monkeys
adorned with gold and bejewelled col
lars and led by gold chains. Cesar
surveyed the party and said; What
is tho trouble. ladies'; do not the wo-
men OF Carthage bear children"
The story illustrates the fact that
civilization at its highest pitch breaks
out into fads. 1t was pet monkeys in
Carthage: 1t is pet dogs in New York.
ARLINGTON II. CARAVAN.
PATCH oduE, July 8.
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and replete as It Is with monstrous
cruelty and excuses, there is no rea-
son to doubt the truthfulness. 1t is
practically Mr.. EMBRy's official state
ment of what he saw and experienced.
There would be no excuse for him to
magnify even in details the conditions
as he found them. There is, however,
one bright side to his story, the high
tribute which he pays to Admiral
KoLcHAK, "a man whose only ambi-
ton is to redeem Russia from the
terror of LENINE and TRoTzKY and to
set up a government that will bt
democratic in the best and noblest
sense Of that word,' and his predic-
ton Of the complete overthrow of Boil
shevism In Russia.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-07
An Imaginary East Side.

1t would be important, in assessing
the value of his statement that 1.-THE
people of New York's East Side have
always swum in beer" to learn how
much the Honorable ANDREW ]. Vol
STEAD of Minnesota knows about that
East Side. Assuming that he means
the part Of Manhattan between Four
teenth street, the Brooklyn Bridge, the
Bowery and the East River, the
boundaries usually laid down by the
strangers in New York who write such
delightful stories about this city, Rep
resentative VoLsTEAD is just as wrong
as he can be.
In the district thus described there
are many more real cafes where coffee
Is the only beverage sold. coffee with
cakes. than there are beer saloons;
there are as many, and more, We
think, little restaurants which have
liquor licenses the majority of whose
patrons drink red or white still wines
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The offer of the youngest five sons
Ct WILHELM HoHENzoLLEBN to take
their fathers place in the event Of
his extradition certainly was not
made with any hope that 1t would
be accepted. 1t differs from the con-
fessions of BETHMANN-HoLLwEG and
HINpENRURG in that It Is an utterly
impossible proposition. IL the prince
lings, patterning after their elder
brother, committed the minor offences
of engaging in or encouraging loot or
outrage, then they may plead for
themselves If they wish.
But the punishment for the major
crimes-the breaking of the treaty
the murder and enslavement Of inno-
cent peoples-must be visited on the
heads of the man or men highest up.
If the Kaiser's Chancellor and the
Chief of the German General STAFF
could prove that prior to the be-
ginning of the war they had usurped
the prerogatives of the ruler and his
legislators, prove that it was impos.
sible for the German Emperor to pre-.
vent the crimes that were committed
then they would be good witnesses
for Count HoHENzoLLERN.
Until such testimony is given, and
with more particulars than HINDEN.
BURG's broad declaration contains
the outer world must assume that
these sudden bursts of chivalrous gen
crosby are mere attempts to deceive
Not to deceive the Allies but to de
ceive the German people.
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Injustice Done American Business
Men by Mr.. Taft.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN-Sir: Just
think of a man who has been President
jcyously proclaiming that unless the
United States Senate ratified the pro-
posed League OF Nations the United
States would be left still at war with
Germany, and just as soon as the busi-
ness men began to lose trade they would
bring pressure on the Senators to ratify
the proposed League OF Nations-saying
that for gain the business men of the
United States are capable Of selling out
our country
1t is really unbelievable that a man
who had been President would enter
tain such thoughts OF his own country.
When patriotic Americans once fully
awake to what tho proposed League Of
Nations means Mr. Taft will find out
that he has made a great mistake and
taken the wrong side against his own
country. E. S. FULLER.
SAVANNAH. Ca, July 4.
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more frequently than they drink beer |;

more frequently than they drink beer ;
in that part Of Mr.. voLsTEAD's old
swimming hole lying between the
Bowery and the river front, not in
Guiding, either, the most densely popu-
lated district Of New York, there are
more we'll patronized stoop line soft
drink stands than in any other part
OF New York Of equal extent If the
people there swim in beer their I'M
usual performance has been observed
only by the funny writer's who have
prompted the Mlnnesotan's midsum-
mer imagininge.
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A Reprehensible Request.

To THE EDITOR oFTHE SuN-Sr: Will
some Southern Colonel or one OF his
relatives help out a Yankee during the
days to come by releasing information
as to the mysteries OF making that
golden "cawn ticker" we have heard OF
but cannot purchase? VERY d. DRY.
SOUTH ORANGE. n. j.. July 3.
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TRADE BRIEFS.

There is a great shortage of scales OF
all kinds in South Africa, particularly
counter and outside scales.
The 1919 rice crop Is failure in Cochin
China, and will probably not exceed 90 to
TO per cent. OF a normal year on account
OF an excessively dry season.
During 1918 1921 ships with tonnage Of
1.sos, esI entered the hArbor of christlania,
Norway, against 7.T6s ships OF 1869, 1914
tons in 1917 and 1o.174 ships OF 2,7s2,59
,ona In 1919.
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For eastern New York and New Jer-
sey-Fair to-day and tomorrow, mod
erate temperature; fresh northeast
winds.
For northern New Engiand--Cioudy to-
day, probably rain on the coast; to.mor-
row fair. moderate temperature; moderats
north winds
day; tomorrow fair. moderate tempera-
ture; moderate north winds
For western New York-Fair to-day ana
tomorrow, moderate temperature; mod
crate northeast and east winds.
throughout. the Eastern States was broken
during Sunday and Sunday night. Mod
crate temperatures were general through
out the middle Atlantic and New England
now confined TO the Plains States and
the north Rocky Mountain region. There
storms within the last twenty -four hours
In the Atlantic States, Tennessee. the Ohio
and middle Mississippi valleys and tho
lower lake region. showers nave also
ern Texas and at widely separated points
In the Rocky Mountain regions and on
the north Pacific coast. Air pressure is
over the Rocky Mountain region.~@It 10
high and rising over the great lakes and
on the north Pacific coast. The outlook
is for local thundershovsrs Monday In tbs
south Atlantic States and generally fair
weather elsewhere in the States east OF
the Mississippi River during Monday and
Tuesday Moderate temperature will pre-
VA generally over the eastern half OF
hours.
Observations at United States Weather Blu
re ZEE, stations taken at p. M yesterday.