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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
JAPs PREPARE TO STAY.

The fact that sixteen thousand, one hundred
and nineteen tons of steel rails were exported
from this country to Japanese China during
the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, last, is an
indication that Japan considers President Viii
SON s assurances give her copper riveted hold
ION Shantung. That little item appearing In the
monthly summary of the foreign commerce OF
the United States for June, issued by the de
Ipartment of commerce. tells more than all the
Iapologists for the treaty can explain away, for
no country goes into the business OF laying rails
lin stolen territory unless it has a very DEFINITE
idea of remaining permanently IN occupation
of that territory And what makes this item
replete with ''portents of impending doom z for
Shantung is the fact that of this tonnage,
twelve thousand, one hundred and fifteen tons
lor seventy-fve per cent. OF the total were ship
ped out from this country in the single month
Of June; for it was along in the spring of this
year that the japanese got the wink at the
peace conference, came forward in support OF
the league of nations which Mr.. Wilson was
nursing, and delivered the quid of their sigma
ture for the quo of his approval of the Shan
tung outrage.
Sixteen thousand, one hundred and nineteen
tons of steel rails if they are of the prevailing
EIGHTY pound type, will string nearly one hum
dred and thirty miles of railroad track, and 1t
is a pretty safe bet that Shantung has been
shackled with it by this time. Does anyone think
Japan is going to pull out of Shantung the day
after the treaty is signeda Mol Nor the cen
fury after, until it is so nominated in the bond.
Japan is in Shantung to stay until compelled to
relinquish, and no league of nations will put
her out because with three of the big five
she has the promise of support written IN secret
treaties, and one of the ''big fve,' the United
States of America has been the victim OF mis-
placed confidence by reason of Mr.. Wilson's act
The sole way in which this country can cleanse
itself is to repudiate the act of it's agent.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

ern roads, for the purpose of dividing
the through rate between them. Indf-
ana, Illinois and Iowa and territories
north and south thereof were called
the middle states. The writer
coined the term middle western
states" to apply from the Mississippi
river to the Rocky mountains, for
beyond the mountains was termed by
road officials as the far west or Pa
cific coast territory. Ohio and east
thereof for some distance was east
ern territory. while New York, Bos-
ton, Newport News and other points
on the Atlantic were know as the
Atlantic seaboard territory.
1t may be that the term middle
western states" was used prior to my
advertisement. If so, ] am not aware
of it.
In my opinion the term as now
used is erroneous, as many writer's
apply it to the middle states of Indi-
ana Illinois, and Iowa. Logically
middle western" would mean the
middle states which would take IN
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, the Da-
kotas. etc, and which is the territory
referred to in my advertisement.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
GERMAN MUSIC in THE UNITED STATES

Christian Science Monitor:
With the resumption of peaceful
relations between the United
States and the central empires it
would seem logical that there
should be resumption of must
cal relations. Yet the facts of
the situation will not bear out
this contention. From such plans
as musical organizations have
announced for the coming season
and from interviews with promi-
nent artists and managers OF
artists and musical organizations
the conclusions so drawn indi-
cate that the coming season in
America will do nttIe-but
only little-toward a readjust-
ment to pre-war conditions.
The field for German opera
was prior to the war limited TO
the Metropolitan opera mouse IN
New York. Mr.. Campanini in
Chicago made an attempt to pro-
duce German opera, but his ener.
gies have always been directed
more to the cultivation OF the
French and Italian schools. But
for a score of years the Wag-
merriam list was the backbone,
both artistic and financial, Of the
Metropolitan's seasons.
Mr. Gatti-Casazza' plans for
1890 include the revival OF a
single one of the Wagnerian
music-dramas, and 1t, "Parsifal,"
will come late in the year and
will be sung in English. That
"Parsifal" was the choice indi-
Gates that the Metropolitan's
director is skepticl how the pub
lie will receive German opera
even when given In the vernacu-
lar; for "ParsifaP above all is
the least representative of the
Wagnerian theories both in
musical structure and in the
origin of its book. The English
text to be used is by H. e. Kreh-
biel. The scenery will be de-
signed by Josef Urban.
So far as the orchestras, the
chamber music organizations,
and the solo instrumentalists are
concerned, the forthcoming year
will bring no new development
in their attitude toward German
music. These three classes of
interpretative mediums have
never ceased to rely upon The
great German classics as the
basis for their programs. Plan
lists have never ceased 70 play
Beethoven sonatas; violin;s.5,
the Beethoven and Brahms con-
certos, string quartets the quar-
tets of Mozart and Hydn, the
choral societies the oratorios of
Handel. Haydn, Mendelssohn, or
the masses and passions OF Bacn,
orchestras the symphonies of the
great syInphonists from Haydn
to Brahms. This year will find
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
A SIGNIFICANT CLASS.

class has just been formed in a New York
City elementary school which in makeup and
conditions of study is significant of our great
national educational problem and its solution.
Ihe class is of adults and one member Of it is
q grandmother; it is composed of people who
are wage-earners by night and scholars by day;
as to birth and race, it has in it three Amerl-
cans, one Italian, one Bohemian, one Lithuanian,
two Koreans. two Hebrews, three Greeks and
one Chinese. Ten of these pupils want to go on
with their study in high school courses; they
are all of them semi-illiterate now. In New York
City's mass fourteen people are an atomic unit,
but the spirit of this fourteen is encourage
ment and what they hope to do is well worth
note This spirit for achievement will count
something to the people who are to do this work
Furthermore, it ought to induce educational
authorities to broaden opportunity for like
work to all who seek it. This public school edu-
cation of ours is, after all, the best agent of
Americanization and the best ever to raise pub
lie intelligence and morals that exists to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
CORPORATION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given, that at a
special meeting Of the Stockholders
lof Stricken Store Fixture Company.
duly and legally held on the 18th day
Of August, 1919. all of the stock
holders being present, OF represent
cd by proxy, by unanimous vote
of all the stockholders in favor OF a
resolution therefor. the Articles OF
incorporation of said Company were
changed and amended as follows, to-
wit: Article ! was amended by
changing the name Of the said cor
poration to Stricken Manufacturing
Company; Article was stricken out,
and in lieu thereof new Article was
adopted which provided that the gen.
eral nature of the business to be
transacted, Is the manufacture and
sale of store and office fixtures and
furniture, cabinets, racks and devices
for holding and displaying carpets,
rugs, mattresses, linoleum, lace cur
| tains and other articles of merchan-
disc, and the manufacture and sale
iof all kinds of merchandise as the
Board of Directors may determine;
Article 5 was amended by making the
Board Of Directors to consist or
three, instead of four stockholding
members, and by providing that meet
ings Of the Directors of the Company
shall be held in Keokuk, Iowa, and
such other places outside the State
! of Iowa, as the Board of Directors by
resolution may determine. In all
other respects said Articles of Incor-
poration remain the same as they
were before. John F. Stricken, Sec
iretary of the Company, was author
iized to sign and acknowledge said
Amendments.
ISTRICKLER MANUFACTURING co.
| By John F. Stricken. Secretary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

good crowd of buyers was present.
The highest price paid was $735 for
a cow. Happy Day. The average was
1910.
G.. d. Dawson, one Of mphis'
Oldest and best known business men.
died on Sunday morning at his home.
|629 West Jefferson street. Of physical
disability, superinduced by typhoid.
pneumonia For the past month or
more Mr.. Dawson has been confined
to his bed. but on account OF his
worn out physical condition medical
attention could not counterfeit the dis
ease. Mr.. Dawson had been in the
drug business in this city for about
forty years and has been factor in
the upbuilding of the city. He served
in the civil war and while in service
contracted disease from which he had
suffered to his death. Funeral serv-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
this representative music again in

this representative music again In
evidence.
With regard to music by con-
there will also be no cnange in
the policy of the war period.
Strauss. Humperdin,x Scncn-
berg, and the rest VIII be con-
spicuous only by their absence.
From the present outlook a re-
sumption of commercial relations
with musical Germany will cone
last of all: there will undoubtedly
be every other German product
product of contemporary musica
Germany.
The song recitalists were the
hardest hit by the agitation cou-
ira German music. The songs o..
Schubert. Schaumann. Franz,
Wolf, Brahms, and Strauss had
provided the meat OF recital pro-
grams. No effort was made by
singers in war time TO give these
greatest songs in translated ve,.
sion. The singers followed The
easiest way; they dropped from
their lists composers who re-
manned represented on programs
of pianists, violinists, and or
chestras.
Nor can 1t be asserted that
the singers are deeply concerned
with the problem for the coming
year. Inasmuch as the engage
80 40 n -1rv1 <,NryY1
artists have been long contracted
for, they are playing the game
safely by relying upon such pro-
gram material as was available
last year and the year before.
The majority Of them, either be-
cause of self-assurance or be-
cause they have never realized
that their programs during the
past two years verged on monot-
ony, evince little interest in Eng
lish transiations of the German
lieder.
So far as this investigation has
proceeded, only a half dozen
prominent singers have indicated
a desire to use such, and they
have limited themselves to
Schubert and Brahms Until the
necessity arises for good singable
and poetic translations, the only
ones available will be those I'M
singable and unpoetic emana-
lions that are on the market at
present. Yet George Harris, Jr.,
Sigrnund Spaeth. and Deems Tay-
lor-to list a few-have, during
the past year or so, produced
poetic translations that ought to
be used generally this coming
season. AS the situation now
stands, there will be some song
groups Of German origin, but
until the musical public evinces
a greater desier for such. the re-
citalists VIII not venture the
counting Of public disfavor by
their use.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

tain point, try as we might. With the best will
in the world to Danish sorrow from the lives
around us, we can only alleviate it, for indivld-
uals and families and states have their own bur-
dens which no one else can carry for them
have their own trials which they must meet
and bear alone.
This is no counsel of cold -heartedness but
merely a recognition of facts as they are 1t IS
little that we can do to help Europe to dill
ferent state of mind. The doctrine of working
out ones own salvation applies no less to ma
tons than to individuals. Tribulations must be
designed to teach men and nations lessons that
can be learned in no other way. We as a ma
ton have had our own and have profited by
them; and it may be that the most that we can
now do is to give unhappy peoples such help
as our relative abundancy permits in these dis
turbed years of their readjustment to the better
order which will grow out of the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
OUR DUTY TO- THE WORLD.

The world longs for peace. The greater ma
tons are heartsick Of war. Unless they were di-
rectly attacked it would be difficult, perhaps
thusiasm for further fighting Yet angry pas
sons still flame up in much Of Europe. The
Balkan cauldron still seeths Russia is in tur-
mol and misery Conditions in Asia Minor are
pitiful beyond our comprehension Racial hat
reds are as fierce as ever. Not even nominal
peace with Turkey and Bulgaria has been
made. and no statesmen of Europe can be found
whom dark forebodings for the future do not
Cypress New problems have been added to the
age-old, still unsettled questions, ambitions and
national aspirations out of which the great war
grew Racial rancofs and rivalries still inflame
tavaged and destitute peoples; for even in their
awful tribulations human nature has not SEN
sibly changed.
Alone among the nations America faces the
future with optimistic confidence, more pros
porous peaceful and hopeful than any other
land We have less of internal dissensions and
fewer adjustments to the altered world condi
tons born of the war. We have our problems
and our worries, and while these seem serious
enough, as minor troubles always do when
great ones do not dwarf them, we ought to real
lie how light they compared with those of
the rest of the world. In sense the old world
troubles are ours and call for our sympathy and
assistance But they do not come home to us
be possible for US to relieve them beyond a GER
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
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MEMPHIS, MO.
- . - . . . . 80 ~

A proposition is before the voters
of Memphis to issue bonds in the
amount of $4,000 to buy and maintain
the plant of the old electric light COM
pany. The election will be held Sept.
80.
Scotland county voters have two
elections submitted for their decision
next Saturday. An issue of s4O0, 900
in bonds to make and maintain dirt
roads, and an issue of $4,000 in bonds
to erect a county hospital. Both are
ommendable and should carry strong.
w. w. Quinsteg of this city sold his
beautiful residence last week to Silas
Stonebaker of Cantril, possession to
be given March /.
Memphis ball team iourneyed to La
Belle Sunday, to receive trimming
in a 10 to IL score game.
The HEREFORD breeders of this coun-
ty held their first sale Saturday. a
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
ORIGIN OF MIDDLE WESTERN

T. F. Graham, in Christian Science
Monitor: Referring to your editorial
of August Is regarding the origin or
meaning of middle western, l beg
leave to say that, SO far as | am
aware. the writer is the inventor OF
the term middle western states"
From 1897 to 1910 he conducted the
bond business Of John f. Graham &c
Co.. Chicago In 1905 or 1906 he in
serted an ad in the Chicago Econo-
mist, Financial Chronicle, Wall
Street Journal and several Boston
and Philadelphia financial papers,
reading: Wanted, partial or total
issues of municipal and corporation
bonds in the middle and middle
western states"
He was formerly in the railroad
business as private secretary to va
rious officials. Railroad tariff ad
justments and percentage divisions
of through rates from Atlantic to
Pacific seaboards and intermediate
points were figured or based by east
ern and western roads on the termf.
nal gateways of Chicago, st. Louis,
Memphis, New Orleans and Missis-
sfppi river terminal or transfer
points o. e., the ending Of eastern
and beginning of western roads).
Various passenger and freight asso.
Citations had always termed this
transfer territory the middle states
territory" meaning the middle or
coming together of eastern and west
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
Mo Man Knows II All

Cedar Rapids Republican: 1t is waste
and hysteria to have the president Of
the United States talk for twenty
nine days-well called 10000 miles of
talk about a matter in which he SIM
ply wants to have his own way in a
country which 10 million people live
and move and think and have their
being. 1t is little assumptions"
to say the least about 1t and the ego
of no man ought to be SO excited. No
man knows 1t ALL
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Cedar Rapids Republican: No, the
president is not greater than the con-
stitution and the constitution provides
the way for doing what he is now try
ing to do in bolshevikian ways that
are spectacular appeals to the people.
when every enc knows that the few he
can reach, who are apt to be mere par
tisan shouters, do not really represent
all the people.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Yes. the
price of lot of articles has gone up.
But in most OF these cases the Top
story of the price is style and IL you
are not too proud to wear or use the
one-story stuff it can still be had Tor
a. price that Is not extravagant.
Carroll Herald: OF course the prince
of Wales will be met by crowds when
he appears in the United States. The
American people viii turn out to see
him for mere curiosity's sake, but they
viii not care a continental for the
right he has to the British throne. lie
is made Of common clay, just as COM
mon as any clod hopper.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: Now the
I miners want the government to levy
on the people enough money TO buy
the mines and let them run them. IL
they won't work much now, how mucn
will they If they have all the say
about 1t?
| Des Moines Register: The world IL
divided into two principal classes
those who economic on victuals so
that they can dress well and those
| who dress poorly SO they can get
enough to eat.
| Algona Upper Des MONIES Repunli.
can: In years past a ragged, pare
| footed kid was generally the child OF
| a drunkard. A bare footed kid touay
is often the work of profiteers OF snoe
leather.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE

GROWTH.
Each dream that fires mortal brain
Some day be made true;
Whatever family hope
That can he strongly do.
Once terrified he scanned the skies,
And feared each stone, each tree;
But something in him watched and strove
And led his spirit free.
Proptiate but not with gifts,
The Powers of heaven and EARTH
They and their friendly yours
BY right Of soul, of birth.
Dream then, nor fear to dream too fair
Zach seed is made to swellD
If hand and brain linked by faith,
Gods realm is yours we'll!
Marie L. Englington, in New York Time
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
Easily Predicted.

Springfield, Mass, Republican. IL
Mr.. Hoover should change his mind
and decide to seek the republican
nomination for president we would at
least be sure to hear from many
eminent authorities that the food a6-
ministration was all wrong. Some
causes and effects have an easily
predicted relationship.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09
DESERVES A TRIBUTE.

The average salaried man has kept on the
job; he has fed and clothed his family somehow;
he has done his full share in buying bonds and
sticking away thrift stamps and in giving to all
the war causes; he has pinched and economical,
taken on extra hours in the home garden; he
has done his duty in the main bravely, joyful
ly, patiently, nobly. The biggest thing about
him is that he hasn't kicked and howled; he
hasn't threatened and menaced; he hash t
bombed or bolsheviked he hasn't often COM
planned He has, indeed, borne the middle OF
the big load and has been good citizen about
it. He is not whit less of hero than some
others whose work has been more spectacular
and whose suffering has been more sanguine.
He deserves a tribute.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

ices were held Monday at his la,
home, Rev. j. w. Anderson of Ken
kuk. conducting the service. Int,
ment was made In the cemetery eas
of town.
Rev. D. J. Little OF this city. 70,
merly pastor of the NJ Fl church a
Granger. lies at the point of death 4
his home. Rev. Little Is sufferin
from nervous collapse and his deaf
is momentarily expected.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

New York World: If only Con-
sumption would also take day off
now and then to think about it, Pro-
duction might hope to catch up in the
race. But that is just what Consump-
ton never does.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

"Woman Carries Lunch to Husband Is
Shot, reads headline. No husband has any
right to carry criticism Of his wife's cooking to
such an extreme.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

Wholesale coffee prices are reported to be
distinctly lower; but apparently not so distinct
as to reach the hearing of the retailers
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

Not many presidential booms are likely to
originate in the United States senate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

There just antidote boshevism; that is AmerI
straight and it will soon put red blood
the sinister figure of bolshevism The man
American institutions, American principles
ind American ideals is wholly immune from boshevsm:
the thing therefore, is to preach Amercanism ana
Nothing Amercanism What need now above all
hngs is old time revival of An1ericanism reeonse-
ration American principes.-W. {. Borah.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

| Mr. Burleson's use of the civil serv-
ice commission to further political ends has re-
suited in the resignation of two of the commits
sioners who say that they "were not willing
the commission should be mere adjunct to the
postoffice department and subservient to it, es-
Ipecially with reference to examinations for
presidential postmasters. Our postmaster
general evidently has conducted his department
on the theory that public Office is private snap.
! w w Marsh, of Waterloo, treasurer of the
democratic national committee, may step into
! the place made vacant by the resignation OF
Secretary of Commerce Redield. It is high
time that the administration discovered Iowa
and some of its deserving ones, and not the least
of the deserving ones is the Waterloo manufac-
| turer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-09-09

Ability involves responsibility. Power to
it's last particle is duty-Alexander Maclar
en.
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-08-01

l"ve he will decide 10 accede 70 the
proposa' So far however. there
has been no indication that tho ad-
mInlnrntlon senators were ready 20
abandon their stand for unrcSrrycd
ratification.
Most " the stpulatiuns IN the Nc
tuWlrr MrNtry reservations are
declared by the administration lead.
cra to be already covered In the
present language OF the covenant
and n IS understood they have ad.
vanccd the counter proposal that u
separate resolution be adopted giving
the sonhtes Interpretation ~ these
points so as 20 make renoFotiatiun
unuoCcsary
Action to wait.
no agreement with administration
senators or with tho president Ia ex.
pcctcd howcvr, IN the immediate ~.
turo The question Ia being dia
cussod hy Mr. wilson daily with HE
ropuNHcan callers and II ls under
stood he desires TO be IN possession
OF an the facts before he acts
Criticism " the alien enemy pro
vision OF the treaty came out while