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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-12
St Louis Cash Grain. Close.

ST. LOUIS, Mo, July 12.-Corn-
No. 2 white, s2.O5; No. white, $500;
No. white, s1.s5; July, s1.92h;
September, s1.s5.
oats-No. 2 white. 1879 79c; No.
8 white, 7s97Shc; No. white,
THE; July. 7shc; September,
.7S7sc-
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FOR SALE-At reduced rates, all OF
my property. Mrs. ]. c. Howe, S1s
South Second street
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co,,r,.r Pushes to Paris.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
VIENNA, July 11.-Allied repre-
sentatives were hurrying courier
to Paris today to ask the authority
of the allies to take energetic meas
ures against the Hungarian soviets.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-12

WANTED-Salesman with car to cali
on auto owners in your county;
book orders for European puncture
proof tires-the kind that helped win
the war. Easy seller; big sales; ex-
elusive contract; repeat orders quick.
ly establishes permanent income.
Risse Tire Corporation, 1500-l51S w.
Fifteenth street, Chicago.
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Peoria Grain.

PEoRA, H., July 12,-Corn-Mar-
ket unchanged TO 1c higher. No. 2
white, 1893; No. / yellow, s1.95; No
yellow, s1.94A; No. 8 yellow. $685.
No. yellow, s1.9001.91.
Oats-Market 2Ac higher. No. 2
white, THO; No. 3 white, 76Ac;
No. 3 mixed, 7s5zc-
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LADIES

when irregular or delayed, use TIL
Pmph pills. Safe and always de-
Rendable. Not sold at drug stores.
70 not experiment with others, save
disappointment. Write for Keller
nd particulars, It's free. Address;
National Medical Institute. Milwau'
Zee. Wis.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-12

Minneapolis Journal, Old age IS
said to be due to "a decrease of
water in the system" Life will be
much Longer. aa well as safer. now,
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(CT ,ASSIFIED COLUMN

FOR SALE-The corner OF Is feet
with stable, at 100 Main street Must
be sold to satisfy paving. y. w. King
biel.
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statesmen WANTED to sell shares
in big oil company. Something
new. A crackerjack oil proposition.
Pay cash commission. Write Mon
arch Investment company, Black
well, Oklahoma
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WANTED-District manager to es-
tablish sales force and book orders
for fruit and ornamental trees,
shrubs, roses. ETC.; exclusive terri
tory. Pay weekly. Fruit Growers
Nurseries, Newark, New York state.
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LEARN AUTOS TRACToRS+B
demand at big pay for trained
auto, truck and tractor men. Oldest
most reliable school in U. S. A En-
dorsed by factories and garages
everywhere. Free big It's page cata-
log. Come to Detroit, the heart OF
auto industry Michigan State Auto
School. IS Auto Bldg. Detroit. Mich.
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II heavy cream is whipped toe
long, it will granulate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-12

FOR SALE-victrola, first class con
dition, $40. Room 10, Royal Hotel.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-12

STOCK AND DAIRY FARM-3o0
acres in most prosperous section
of southwestern Wisconsin. Soil
equal Iowa or Illinois: 140 acres
rolling pasture, well watered; 100
acres clover. oats, corn. Mile from
cheese factory, miles Platteville,
Is miles Dubuque. High state cul-
tivation. buildings equipped with
every convenience for dairying. s1s5
per acre. Terms reasonable. Box
405, Cuba City, Wise.
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FOR RENT room house, 1900
Blondsau street; s rooms, 22l
North Tenth street; room fat
twelfth and Des Moines; rooms,
2o3 Fulton: room house, 62S Bank
modern. Inquire John S. SproWls, ~
North Fifth street Call 1852.
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wANTED-To make a quick sale OF
some property in Keoklk. Make
an offer. Address Property, Gate City
Office.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-12

FOR SALE--Nins room frame. mod
ern convenienoes including garage
and cement alley. beautiful full lot and
fine neighborhood. GOT Franklin street.
low price with easy terms to buyer
If preferred. Phone Birdweu Sutlive.
Black 1857.
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wANTED-To loan money on furni-
ture. pianos, live stock, etc., ON
easy payments. Strictly private.
Keokuk Loan Co., over Milier's shoe
store.
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Storage room for house
hold goods, clean. dry and free from
vermin. Low insurance rates Col
lier Stationery Co.
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ADVERTISED LETTERS.

List of letters remaining in the
xeolyuk postoffice. uncalled for. rof
the week ending July II, 1919:
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hand McCasky reg
lister. Address II. L. Lons. Way
land, Mo.
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WANTED-washing to do at home
Tel. Black 1859.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-12

FOR RENT-House, 1900 Franklin,
$3.50. Would sell cheap II sold
soon. Enquire 1119 High
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FOR SALE-Six, five and six room
frame cottages, all Of them close In
and modern, good condition, two
south, four north side, including 222
and T24 Concert, and $40 High, prices
from $4,000 to $4,000. Phone Bfrdveii
Sutlive, Black 1857.
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WANTED-l0 men for quarry work.
Call at Keokuk Box Co. T. c. Har'
rison.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-12

FOR SALIA washing machine and
clothes basket. as good as new.
Phone Black 535.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-12

FOR SALE good milk cow, cheap
II taken at once, also chickens. 1917
BIondeau.
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WANT Ford owner to represent fac
tory. Ford necessity. Rearden Co,
Peoria, Ill.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
SPANISH LESSONS FOR THE HUN

lTsWENTY-ON years after war which
= deprived Spain of her colonial empire
her ruler takes occasion to interpret the
close of much greater conflict as a spe-
cisI augury of happiness for the nation
which so swiftly and decisively humbled
his own
II ask you to accept" entreats King
Alfonso of President Wilson, my very
best wishes and those of Spain for the
happiness and prosperity of the United
States In the new era now beginning"
Here is more than the conventional
feiicitations to the Entente which Spain
in her eagerness to intrude her national
dignity into a situation in which she
|loQayed no active part has been so prompt
10 proclaim. The note of sincerity is un-
nistAkaole. Nc policy of "revanche" has
had standing in Spain as a result of
\ res That war was gallantly fought, gal
Plantly lost. Ceryera. Montijo and Toral
Ere narnez that spell only material fail
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
NEW MOTOR LAWS

THE new motor regulations approved
by the Governor and the Highway
Department of the state have been de-
vised to make the theft and resale of
motor vehicles more difficult and dan
gerous for those who make living by
that means. The clause which makes it
necessary for drivers to be physically
qualified is like that which is operative
in the motor regulations of several other
states. 1t imposes a desirable restric-
tion. AS important as physical qualifica-
tion is temperamental qualification in
the operation of automobiles. Nothing
so clearly reveals the disposition of an
individual as the manner in which he
drives motorcar in crowded streets. If
the police could arrest drivers whose
stupidity and bad manners are conspicu-
Gus under such circumstances they would
eliminate the causes which must bring
about growing multiplicity of restric-
tions to bother the vast majority who use
automobiles with decent care for their
own safety and the safety of others.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
SHUTS AS A STlMULANT

THE gloon" which General Smutss So
l. called "protest" against the peace
treaty was reported to have cast over the
proceedings at Versailles last Saturday
is susceptible rather of hopeful than of
depressing analysis. While the distin-
guished statesman and soldier censured
the pact for harshness, the heart of his
observations was referable not so much
to what has been done as to what remains
to be accomplished.
His appeal for a healing peace, one
which shall act as restorative to the
whole world, even including broken Ger
many, is one which not even the most
fervent advocate of iron justice to
criminal foe cas dispute. Nor is there
any unconquerable reason, in spite of
General Smuts's honest forebodings, why
civilization cannot be repaired according
to his sane principles. The treaty need
not stand in the way of them and the
league of nations should be of the ut
most assistance.
Indeed, the great Anglo-Boer admits as
much. He is firm in his position that
"the Germans must convince our peoples
of their good faith" and equally insistent
that the Entente shall remember its i'm
mense responsibilities and not abuse the
fruits of its overwhelming victory. The
league of nations he beholds as vet
form, but none the less "a path of escape
for Europe out of the ruin brought by
this war"
"a new creative spirit" he adds, must
fill the institution with life and with the
inspiration for pacific ideals, and so con-
vert it into a real instrument of prog
ress."
Statesmen at Versailles who were
troubled over reflections of this sort-if
any, indeed, were-are unworthy of their
office. To read warning General Smuts
painted a dark picture. In its outlines,
however, it is true one. But admission
of the fact need not be accompanied by
pessimism concerning the treaty AFRO
gance, stupidity and blindness can make
a mockery out of the most admirable
document ever penned. Vision, sense
of obligation and sound liberalism applied
to the future can render the Versailles
treaty the solid basis of new and loftier
civilization.
General Smuts is only one of millions
in passionately hoping for fairer era,
AS spokesman for moral standards, the
battle for the maintenance of which justi-
fies the existence of mankind in his
earthly habitat, the stalwart champion of
the league of nations is stimulant, not
depressant. His criticism is of the
courageous, healthy type, which should
disturb only the purblind.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02

THE Philadelphia General Hospital has
Il right to pride in its war record. The
general public has scarcely realized the
measure of its accomplishment, for, as is
usual with work efficiently conducted, the
performance was unobtrusive.
It was known that under army juris-
diction the Blockley institution was
caring for invalided soldiers. Publication
Of the admirable results attained, how
ever, waited upon the completion of the
task. The account was closed with the
transfer Of the hospital back to the city
yesterday, when disclosure was made of
the fact that of the 1858 service men,
many of them very severely wounded,
who were treated there, only four died
and hundred and forty-four were dis
charged as cured.
Furthermore, the hospital. as we'll as
its inmates, benefited by the regime,
since approximately seventy-fve thou
sand dollars worth of improvements were
made to the buildings by the govern
ment.
Doubtless the prime reward of the
skilled physicians responsible for saving
90 many lives of the nations defenders is
the simple knowledge of that fact. But
It is right that outsiders, hitherto un-
aware of what was being done, should be
acquainted with a fine performance.
Though far indeed from the base of
operations, Blockley was brilliantly in the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
oUTGUESSING THE POLICE

ONE sweet and lovely thing about our
~ present police force is that it enables
esthetic thieves to indulge their taste
for the thing beautiful without any
>horrid fear of untimely molestation. So
when robbers entered store on Chest
nut street the other night they showed
no unseemly haste as they went through
the stock, but were able to pick and
choose, with a nice discrimination, just
what they wished to steal. They went
leisurely away at last with six or eight
thousand dollars worth of the finest
shirts, underwear, hosiery, Office coats
and raincoats. The best is none too good
for those who know the ways of the
police.
Knowing the ways of the police pre-
sumes a shrewd knowledge of police
psychology. 1t so happens that the
guardians of the law were notified last
Saturday of an unsuccessful attempt the
evening before to jimmy into the place
and had promised extra vigilance. But
that was bunk. Any wise guy knows that
lightning amt a-goin' to strike twice in
the one place; anybody, that is, but the
lightning-and the crook who is a good
guesser.
Doubtless the men in blue have a clue
While they are nursing it the thieves
have, for a time at least, quit worrying
about the high cost of mems furnishings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
NOT A HOSPITAL

TNHE Public Service Commission was
l. not created to provide offices for
"lame ducks or fat salaries for personal
friends of the appointing power, or to
give momentary prominence to obscuri-
ties in order that they might be quail
fed for high office.
Yet almost since it's creation it has
been used forsShese purposes. Capable
men have served on the commission and
they have done good work. James Alcorn
is one of the most conspicuous among the
men of this class. But he has been
dropped without notice in order to make
a place for personal friend Of Governor
Sproul.
Thomas B. Smith was appointed to the
commission by Governor Brumbaugh and
thus made an "available" candidate for
the mayoralty. Mr. Smith received his
commission on August 18, 1915, and re-
signed on August 81, serving just four
teen days. Then he was made Mayor.
A number of men who have failed Of
election to other offices have been taken
care of by putting them on the commits
sion.
And this sort of use has been made of
the most important technical commission
in the whole commonwealth. The COM
mission should be composed of experts
untouched by political influence. 1t
should contain a lawyer versed in rail
road and municipal law. 1t should con-
tain a man familiar with the manage
ment and operation of railroads and
other public service corporations. An
expert engineer should be a member, and
there should be a man trained in the
ways of big business, capable Of under
standing the financial problems involved
in the just treatment Of the public serv-
ice corporations. But there has been no
effort to create a commission of this kind
with a permanent personnel.
The commission is a semijudicial body
intrusted with what amounts almost to
the powers of life and death over certain
kinds of business. 1t is as reprehensible
to name to it a man who must learn the
duties of the Office after his appointment
as to put layman on the Supreme Court
hapch
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02

ure. Their spiritual splendor is as fine
as Don Quixote's.
AS a partner in civilization, Spain to-
day plays far more potent part than
she did as the possessor of external pos
sessions infinitely richer than those over
which imperial Germany ever tyrannized.
From America the proud Castilian realm
has won respect and sympathy, emotions
inspired by Spanish chivalry even before
the ink was dry on the peace treaty Of
more than two decades past.
The reciprocity of understanding be-
tween each of the former belligerents is
an illustration of how the wounds of war
can be healed by moral attributes
stronger than the mightiest battalions.
Not until Germany has learned to dis
tinguish fne-souled pride from debased
sentimentality will that fallen nation be
enabled to comprehend how Spain and
her former victor can cooperate to make
the earth a more decent abiding place.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02

fore, funds were made available for a
large scale gun development program
The War Department was blamed for un-
preparedness.
The Democrats in the House who
fought bitterly to have the aviation ap-
preparation cut to $l5,0OO,OO0 show the
old spirit.
If there is another war it will be fought
in the air. And we may be assured that
the country will be unready for it.
The United States is doing less for the
development of air traffic than any coun-
try in the world.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
CONGRESS REPEATS

CONGRESS, dealing with appropria-
" tions for the further development of
naval aviation, is adopting course sug-
gestive of earlier disastrous blunders in
the routine ordnance program.
Appropriations necessary to keep army
artillery up to the European standard
were stubbornly refused almost to the
moment when we entered the war. There
was delusion in Congress that gnns were
guns and nothing more. OF the elaborate
technical experiments, or the length of
time and the exacting effort necessary to
scheme of modern artillery, the mem
bers of the appropriations committees
knew nothing. When the United States
declared war on Germany, and not be-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
BoRAH, BUNK AND BUGABooS

THE gravest political crime of which
any man can be guilty, in the opinion
| of certain western demagogues, is to
have any dealings with Wall street.
Bryan rang the changes on Wall street
in the days of his greatest popularity.
The country was ruled by the money
power" and the money power had it's
seat in Wall street in the offices of half
| dozen bankers. We were exhorted to rise
and throw off the yoke, and to legislate
| fifty cents into dollar so that we might
| scale down the debts we owed to the
money kings.
There was sanity enough in the coun-
| try to reject this demagogic advice and
! honesty enough to commit the nation to
a financial standard under which repu-
diation was impossible.
But now comes Senator Borah, of
Idaho, state with population less than
one-third of that of this city, with the
charge that the league of nations is IA
vored by Wall street because the money
power wants to invest its capital in Eu-
rope and is anxious that its investments
should be protected. He seems to think
that this is a valid argument against the
league and that by dangling the Wall
street bugahoo in the face of the nation
he can frghten it into opposition to
everything that big business seeks.
Now, the only effect the league can
have on the investments of Americans in
Europe will be through the preservation
of peace. If peace is maintained property
rights will be secure. If there is war the
ability of Europe to meet its obligations
l.. =. l..
stand by what process of reasoning
Senator Borah or any other man can
reach the conclusion that it is political
or economic or moral offense for Wall
street to be interested in the preservation
of peace.
Further. the rehabilitation of Europe
and the repayment of the European debt
to America of eleven billion dollars are
dependent in large measure on financial
assistance from America. Europe needs
capital. We have it. If Wall street, on
its own initiative, were not willing to go
to the relief Of Europe, it would be nee
essary for the protection of the invest
ments of America in the war bonds of
Europe to take such steps as would in
duce our capitalists to provide the ready
money needed to put European industry
back on its feet.
Such demagogic blatherskiting as
Borah is indulging in is disgusting to all
thinking men, even in the West, where
there is still some financial sanity.
And when Borah talks about the un-
willingness of America to send men to
Ireland, under Article X of the league
covenant, to assist England in putting
down a possible insurrection, he is in
dulging in pure bunk which cannot even
deceive himself. There is nothing in the
covenant which requires any nation to
lend its military forces to assist in put
ting down an insurrection in another ma
tion. The league is merely to protect
nations against external aggression, and
by no stretch of the imagination could
any one call an Irish insurrection an ex-
ternal attack upon the integrity of the
British empire.
The longer the discussion of the league
continues the more piffling become the
arguments of its opponents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
THE CURTAIN
TNHE curtain falls, the light goes out

THE curtain falls, the light goes out,
L And silence ends the play;
And Columbine and Harlequin
In dust are laid away;
And Pierrot of the nimble heart,
And frail Pierrette, the star
So must we laugh and go, my lass,
Gods puppets that we are.
Who knows but that their little tricks
Still live, and still amuse? -f-
And Columbine still runs away,
And Pierrot still pursues?
Who knows but that we, too, shall play
Our parts, and reign supreme
Upon the Stage of Silence, lass,
Within the House of Dream?
Kendall Banning,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
Answers to Yesterdays ouIz

Answers to Yesterdays ouIz
1. The Chinese delegates to the Peace Con-
ference refused to sign the Versailles
treaty.
2. Kamehameha, surnamed "The Great"
made himself master of the Hawaiian
Islands in 1909 and consolidated them
iIto a single realm. He suppressed
human sacrifice and encouraged com
merce with Europeans. His Is the
greatest name in the native history Of
Hawaii.
8. Gold is heavier than iron.
4. Brooklyn is the "City Of Churches" .
8. Donegal is in the north Of ireland In the
province of Ulster.
G. Pico della Mirandola was a noted italian
humanist and philosopher, one Of the
leading scholars of the "reminiscences.
He died in 1494.
Z. A parallelogram is four sided rec
tilinesr figure whose opposite sides are
parallel
s. Sericulture ia, silkworm breeding, pro-
duction of raw silk.
o. Ambrose Thomas wrote the music Of the
opera "Mignon."
10. General Cadorna was commander in
chief of the Italian armies in the war
from 1915 70 1917.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02
Circumstances
Queer Kinks

Score another black
Circumstances mark against prof =
Queer Kinks teering landlords !
They have hampered
the recording of Philadelphia S man contri-
button to the war. The policemen intrusted
with the delivery of the necessary blanks were
in some cases unable to hand them to occu-
pants of houses because the householders had
been warned by the Tenants Protective As
sociation not to receive notices from consta
bles or others who may be interested in the
raising of rents.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02

1t is recorded that on the receipt of the
news of the signing of the peace treaty Ger
mans in the Rhine territory drank more
beer than usual. Conditions on this side
Of the Atlantic have served to keep the
world average unchanged. .
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-02

Motor bandits are daily becoming NOR
numerous, but cheer UP the airplane ban
dts have not yet arrived.