The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-06

INK IOI ndTQ TOdQS Is u Dc dA easy
investment for Iowa.
"A bill has been introduced In this
Legislature to invest s75,000,000 in
hard roads-and the legislature at its
last session wanted to repeal what
road laws we already had" he said
and this indicates the changed
sentiment all over the state.
The Iowa Hard Road,. Program.
Mr. Clum outlined tie Iowa hard
roads program which provides for
six thousand miles of paved roads
| which shall cross every county at
right angles. Nine roads are to cross
the state from east to west and
eleven roads cross the state from
north to south, according to this pro-
ject. In speaking of the difficulty
which Iowa has in keeping a dirt
road smooth he said:
Our soil is as soft as mothers
smile Our dirt roads could raise
more corn than the roads Of any
! other state in the union, but they
are hard proposition as roads in
wet weather. New England has fine
hard natural roads. but they can't
raise corn in their rock piles. Well
raise the corn in Iowa and pave the
roads,
In referring to the prosperity OF
Iowa he said:
THE English have saying that
! a fat dog won't hunt, and I've won
dered sometimes if Iowa didn't need
some first aid to the prosperous.
/ Recently l heard a speaker in the
! east say that Americas greatest dan
/ ger is the inertia of the well-to-do.
IF It be true that democracy's
greatest danger is the inertia of the
well-to-do, let us go back and keep
alive that splendid spirit which put
Iowa over the top the first of any
state in two of the Liberty loans.
"All we need is the will and the
courage to howl the calamity howlers
out of the state. Remember that the
patriotism of peace is as necessary
as the patriotism of war;" concluded
Mr. Clum.
Moonlight Club Entertains.
Last evening the Moonlight club
| outshone all other features of the big
convention. It's entertainment was
held in the Elk's club house, and it
was an excellent one, lasting from
$50 to 1890 o'clock.
A program from an extemporised
| or laughing for two hours The audi
ence filled the large lodge room OF
the Elks, and every person there
wore paper cap. gaudy in the tri-
color. which under the bright lights
made the scene brilliant one.
The Orpheum Concert company
had the major part of the bill and
were easily its headliners. 1t is COM
; posed of four handsome young women
who sing and elocute and decorously
| cut up with much good taste and
ability Parkhurst, the comedian, in
monologue, was pretty good at
times, and Zano, the magician, did
some very clever parlor magic which
was not the old hackneyed stuff
which has become monotonous. Al
| together it was good show, and the
audience appreciated it.
The Moonlight Dance.
But the vaudeville was only the
prelude to the real thing, which was
the dancing party given by the Moon
| light club to all the lumoermen and
their women folks under big full
moon which lighted the floor.
! The large floor was filled with
( dancers, Agnes orchestra played It's
/ best and the music was particularly
| fetching; people who had not met
! before became acquainted and the
most difficult things the hosts had
] to do was to stop the merriment and
| the dance.
! ]. M F'urlong, president OF the
| Moonlight club, was master OF cere
monies and kept things moving rap
/ i6Iy all the evening. THE only thing
Z ~ ocraTr
/ that it ought to have given us two
/ evenings like this" said one lumber
/ man from out CT town.
! Hoo Hoos Initiate Four.
| The Hoo-Ioo Initiation last even
/. ing i'm the Masonic temple omitted al
! borseplay tendencies and was de
voted to the work of the occasion
only. -.
I Four candidates were taken into
! tha o-t1eY and one member was re
| instated.
A team from all over this part Of
4 the country, including st. Louis, Des
| Moiues and Hamilton, gave the neo
) Dhytes the obligation of the order
/ TIRE attendance at this meeting was
smaller than usual, and the Hoo-Hoc
lodge obligingly planned to adjourn
.arly to get out OF the way of the
! Moonlight club entertainment at the
! ;,7lks' club house little later.
The Real Function Of the Hoo-Hoo's
That the order of the Hoo-Hoo has
an important and serious work te
do and that is not devoted entirely
70 having fun, was the message OF
n d Tennent. of st. Louis, secre
tary and treasurer of the Hoo-Hoo's
who spoke in behalf of that frater
nal order among the lumbermen on
the program yesterday afternoon He
said:
"Hoo-Hoo sounds like joke, but
N is more than that-it represents
the friendship among lumbermen.
'sHoo-Hoo encourages lumbermer
to get out Of their business the spirit