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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
a CHANGE.

Manufacturers Record: On Janu-
airy q. 1915, President Wilson sent
to Kaiser Wilhelm. the arch fiend
of history, a telegram Of congratula-
lions, and the secretary of state.
though fully cognizant of the afro
cious crimes Germany was commit
ting in America, called upon the Ger
man ambassador. On January 81
1919, President Wilson and Secretary
Lansing were in Europe discussing
with the representatives of other
countries what punishment should
be melted out to the nation OF crirni-
mails whose kaiser had cowaraiy
sought safety in Holland.
What hollow mockery of dip1o-
macy was the cable of congratula-
lions from the president of America
to the emperor of Germany and the
call of our secretary of state upon
the German ambassador. the murder
ing representative of nation OF
murderers!
May the world be saved from any
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

''ifs.'' The appropriation has not been made;
until it is made returned fighters should engage
in some other work The project cannot be as
sured after the appropriation is made until
enough men signify their desire to engage IN
this kind of work The wage scale is indefinite
How will the returning soldier and sailor view
a proposition of this sort. They have done their
duty and are eager to get back into normal lie
again They want work and want to see fu-
ture in it. Here is for the present mirage.
There are too many s'ifs = about this proposal
at present There are too many ifs about
most of the proposals we are making. 1t Is
the first duty of congress to make a straight
proposal possible.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
THERE ARE TOO MANY IFS"

Secretary of the Interior Lane is sending out
q little booklet in the form of a series of ques-
tons and answers in which is set forth the pros
pective opportunity of obtaining work and later
of obtaining homestead through his project
for retaining lands by means of an appropria-
tion of one hundred million dollars. The pros
pect is one of encouragement to returning sol
diers and sailors 1t is one to attract ambitious
and hard working men, for it is no charitable
scheme The man who wants work must expect
to get down to good, honest manual toll at dig
cling bitches, clearing brush land, grubbing
stumps and putting waste land in tillable shape.
In return he is promised wages at a rate de-
termned by the wage for this kind of labor and
if he is frugal and shows ability to accumulate
a surplus, the government engages to aud him
to by homestead tools to work with and to
provide home community and market facil-
tiles.
But at the end of the document come the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
Music Club Did Not Profit
the Editor of The Gate City.

TO the Ed1tOr or The cate C1ty:
In the article appearing in last
nights paper concerning the COM
munity sing sponsored by the Monday
Music club Sunday afternoon 1t is
stated that, although the advance
announcements. on the authority Of
Miss Martha Baldwin, president Of
the club, said that the sing was free
to the public, a collection was taken
to defray expenses incurred by the
club and considerable coin went in
to the collection boxes" The infer
ence is that the club profited by a
misrepres entation.
It was not considered Incompatible
with the announcement made through
The Gate City that mo admission
would be charged" to allow those
who cared to do so to contribute some
small salrn towards defraying the ex-
pense of renting the opera house.
Mayor Lotion made the announce
ment Sunday that any money over
and above expenses would be given to
j the fund, which is Just being started,
for the trees which will be planted as
living memorials to Keokuk's gold
star heroes.
1t was altogether a free-will offer-
ing. A previous announcement would
have imposed an obligation where
none existed 1t would undoubtedly
have assured more money, as it was
realized that the majority would
come unprepared.
1 The expense of the National Vic
/ tory Sing on Thanksgiving day was
borne by individuals. The method
adopted Sunday was considered fairer
! than to call upon the same men again.
J Community sings seem popular in
Keokuk The Music club stands ready
to do all the work (Which is not in
| considerably for such occasions, but
cannot be expected to bear all the ex-
pense. A commendajb1e spirit of CO
operation has been shown throughou,
/ the community.
/ The receipts and expenditures OF
Sundays sing are appended:
Collected S2S.12
Expended for opera house 49,. 25 90
For Memorial Trees .......... BIZ
s2s ~
4 MARTHA P. BALDWIN,. President
Keokuk, Iowa, Feb. rs. 1919.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

such hollow diplomacy at the peace
table, and may the open diplomacy
so called be a diplomacy of square,
straightout, unequivocal enuncia-
ton Of crime, that no diplomatic
courtesy may ever again place this
nation in a position OF official con-
gratulations Of birthdays to men who
were known to be the blacklist crimi-
mails in human history.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE

STARS.
Alone, In the night,
On great hill
With pines around nae
Spicy and still.
And heaven full OF stars
Over my head,
White and topaz
And misty red;
Myriads with beating
Hearts of fire
That aeons
Cannot vex or tire.
Up to the dome of heaven
Like a great hill.
| watch them marching
Stately and still.
And | know that /
Am honored to be
Witness
OF so much majesty
Sara Tea
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

of the saddest things in life Is to see men ana
women who started out with high hopes and with proud
mediocre positions, half salts
merely get living, to plod along ino'Herehty.
What tragedy in being content with nedoerty
When you satisfied with the work you are DONG WIN
the thoughts you thinking. with the dreams you are
dreaming, the character are BUILDING with your
Ideals the life living you may be sure tnat
you already beginning to deterorate mere Is tte
hope do not know "the noble disconten.
that stirs become an oak"-orison SWEET
Marden.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
Voice Of the People

THE Gate City does a ot assume re-
sponsibility for views EXPIRE sed by
correspondents. Writer'S Of communi
cations must furnish their names
not necessarily fer publication. but
for the information OF the editor.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

Cedar Rapids Republican To de-
port anarchists is not recIudes-
cence Of know nothingism, but it is
simply the right that every man has
to expel snake from his house il
one happens to have, crawled in.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
The New York Idea.

Springfield, Mass, Republican.
Prohibition in New York state. a..
cording to present plans Matched II
certain quarters, is to be prohibition
Of everything but wine and beer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

them are going to find their food,
and food is quite as necessary as
drink.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Webster City Freeman-Journal: Is
there right thinking man in Iowa
who does not condemn the appoint
ment of George d. Heron as one OF
the commissioners to represent the
United States at the conference at
Princes island with the Russian boil
sheyiki?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25
No Time For travelling.

NO IHFo TOT IFdSSIHg.
Kansas City Times: 1t is denied
that King Alfonso is planning visit
to South American capitals. Kines
who still have thrones are sticking
pretty close to them these days.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

Cherokee Democrat: Whisky ma,
improve with age, but how is it goins
10 get a chance these days?
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

Perry Chief: Let us hope the legis
lature does not become SO intereste
in the Rathbun case that the roa,
question is forgotten entirely.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

Eagle Grove Eagle: The Eagle
would like to see one measure intro
duced and urged to adoption at this
session of the legislature. That is
a compulsory voting law. There is
nothing that would SO reform and
give value and right direction to
elections as such law. The gov.
eminent lays the duty Of voting upon
its citizens, but they are left free to
ignore and neglect 1T at pleasure.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Now we
have one set of men saying, INC
beer. no work. and another, "No
work, no food" We wonder how
those men who are going to refuse
to work If their beer is taken from
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

Villa is reported to be on the warpath again.
IF this is true then the customary disorder in
Mexico may soon be restored.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

At the present rate of progress of bolshevism
everybody in Europe will be on strike by next
summer except the politicians
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-25

A Russian ruble is now quoted on the money
market as being worth twelve and half cents
or about as much as an American half dollar is
worth in a meat shop.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16

sratating appeal which the idea of es.
laollshing universal brotherhood
makes to so many minds.
When to these things are added fam.
me- industrial dislocation and the i'm.
p'lrment Of existing forms everywhere
We ind thousands of honest neonla
h'H IN hope and half i'm hopelessness
turning TO desperate remedies These
are some of the conditions which make
'ne thoughtful man concerned as TO
the foundations Of society.
How shall political equllibrium he
restored? How shall society be steadied
So that the processes OF healing may
serve their benefcent purpose? Has
craftsmanship no better answer than
TO suggest that America shauld attempt
10 withdraw into position of studied
ISOLATION, leaving the world 10 chaos
ana inviting a recurrence of world
war into which America will be drawn
as inevitably as it was drawn into this
war; Shall We follow the policy of ig.
nominious bur futile seldshnesse Shall
that great light Of hope which famed
from liberty-loyne America upon the
troubled and desperate peoples of the
world be darkened forever?
There is neither honor nor safety in
such response TO an agonized world
No man and no party Intentionally
placing obstacles in the way of a league
OF nations will survive long enough TO
outlive the memory OF such an ofIense.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16
DID HER A WORLD
OF GOOD; SHE SAYS
Mrs. Moore Was So Weak She Could
Hardly Get Up-Health Restored
BY Tanlac

Il feel so well now that can hardly
realize the awful condition was in
before | took Tanlac." said Mrs. F..
l.. Moore, OF 943 $ Wellington street.
Memphis. Tenn.
/ had been in "A rundown condition
for two years. she continued, and
was so weak | could hardly keep go
ing | had to force myself to eat, but
nothing agreed with me and l got so
lifeless and no account that l could
hardly get up when | was sitting or
lying down. or even do my housework
| suffered with splitting headaches
that would almost drive me distracted
MY appetite picked up on my first
bottle of Tanlac and | am now eating
three hearty meals a day, those awful
headaches are gone and / am feeling
just fine, | have gained ten pounds
and am strong enough to do all my
housework with ease. Tanlac did me
q world of good-more than all the other
medicines | have taken put together"
Tanlac is sold by all leading druggists
everywhere. adv.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16

Rhine which the Germans tried to
interrupt with wireless Jams"
Wages OF the Maud Muller in the
Women's Land Army are to be raised
60 cents week to S5.4O a week, and
"a new enlistment campaign inaugu.
rated because demobll2ed farm hands
are not returning in great numbers to
their plows.
The perfection Of aerial photography
so that negatives were exposed at
heights Of four miles was compelled by
the development OF antlaircraft guns.
Lord Weir, former air minister, has
said. Just before the armistice expert
ments were bringing about the use OF
shells instead Of bullets from airplane
guns and another year would have
seen aerial battleships in action. The
British were producing 1000 airplanes
a month in the last months of the war.
Three hundred head OF cattle. all
shorthorns with pedigreed bulls, pre-.
sented by the British Royal Agrlcultu.
raj Society to the Belgian government
to help rural reconstruction. have
reached Bruges Three hundred more
are to follow. In all s25O.OO is TO
be spent on cattel gifts for Belgium,
and $5O000O for France and Serbia.
An agent Of the society is now in Ser.
hia discussing distribution.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16

and costs IN 80 different summonses.
Repair Of main roads through Great
Britain, neglected during the war. is
now under way, Sl2.5OO.O goo already
having been allocated lay the road board
for that purpose
Between the armistice and Feb IA
the ministry Of labor paid unemplov.
ment donations to 633,3l9 women. 4
fourth OF these have found work. 49,.
55S as domestic servants, 1879 as
clerks and typists 7,5O2 as engineer.
ing hands, and 6O27 in textile mills.
The temperance OF Croydon Bourne
Flow the woe water once regarded
as an omen Of national calamity. has
set the superstitious trembling.
Wireless telephonists Of the British
Royal Air Force can now talk for a
distance of 150 miles. The apparatus.
first brought out in March 1918. was
used for code messages from a British
aerodrome at Dunkirk. When It was
found that German wireless telegraph.
ers We're listening In" a photograph
was connected and the enemy treated
TO Winding Up the Watch on the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16
AUTOMATIC TRAIN CONTROL. ~
URGED N WRECK REPORT
As ONLY SAFE SYSTEM

Washington, April IA rear-end
collision between two New York Cen
tral passenger trains near South BY.
ron. y. y. last January, in which u
persons were killed and Il injured.
was caused by failure of the engine.
man Of train No. II properly to ob.
serve and be governed by AUTOMATIC
block signals, according to report
today by the bureau of safety to the
interstate commerce commission.
The report points out the number of.
accidents which have resulted from this
cause and suggests that the automatic
train control system is the only funda-
mental and comprehensive remedy
which has been advanced to meet the
conditions and it possesses reasonable
promise of successful application for at
least reducing such accidents"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16

the general fund instead of TO the one
from which it was taken,
Mr.. Mcbride told the commissioners
they had done well, but showed them
how they could do better. He said
there were too many people buying and
not enough knowing what was bought
He advised them 10 keep an account Of
all purchases and keep 1t on the ledger,
in order that all might know what was
in any certain fund at all times, and
thus avoid spending money too-rapidly
More than this, he advised them to pub
lish every month statement OF re-
ceipts and expenditures Commission
er Fraley said the law requires them
to publish a quarterly statement, but
they had not done so for a year. Mr.
Mcbride said the taxpayers liked to
see what was received from different
sources and where the money went
He said it was good news to them and
many times stopped grumbling among
them as to the conduct Of the city's af-
fairs.
When the statement was completed
and fully canyassed a motion was
made that the application 10 the county
excise board be published The motion
prevailed
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16
SIMPLIFIED SPELLING

| INGUISTS say that the English language is the
l. most difficult OF all modern tongues to learn,
That Is because OF its nborn irregularities. There
are many exceptions to rules OF good conduct in the
English language Particularly is this true as to the
spelling and pronunciation OF words. foreigner finds
great difficulty in understanding English because much
OF it is spelled way and pronounced another way
and some OF it is spelled in several ways and pro-
nounced in one or more ways
The Simplified Spelling Board for many years has
been trying to reform the spelling but with little
cess. People who English have got into the habit
of spelling words thus and So and they won't stand
for any reform Spelling was invented by man says
a recent publication by the board mentioned and
like other human Inventions is capable of develop
ment and Improvement by man in the direction of sim
pIicy, economy and efficiency. Its true function is
to represent accurately as possible by means OF
slmbols-' Aha! there we pause. "Simbols?' Does
the man mean symbols; Very likely But let us try
to read along:
TO perpetuatc the etmoogic gesses of the partly
learned "ltimologic gesses!' Whoop! Why that
fellow doesn't know how to spell But let us endeavor
to proceed: "Our spelling has become so irrational
that we ar never sure how to spell new word when
we near IT, or how to pronounce a new word when
we read it, lust so-eyen as to "ar' and "Spel' The
Simpihed Spelling Board hasn't travelled far in its
twenty years OF effort. Probably that j., be-
cause it takes steps that too mncinely short For
instance, luSt now it hands out, somewhat tmidlv
a new list OF word, put into smphed spelling accord
ing to the best simp6caton methods known to the
board, There are only thirty OF these words--iust
thirty, when there least thirty thousand in our
beloved language which should undergo the same
major surgical operation ii the theory OF the Simpl-
fled Spelling Board correct. But let us accept what
is offered and cavil not For instance:
"Dct is the new way Of spelling it, whether YOU
are IN 1t or not "Enut is sufficient unto itself Re
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16
SWAMP ROOT FOR
KIDNEY AILMENTS

There is only one medicine that really
stands out pre.emlnent as a medicine
for durable ailments OF the Kidneys
liver and bladder
Or. Kilmer's Swamp. Root stands the
highest for the reason that it has prov.
en- to be just the remedy needed in
thousands upon thousands OF distress.
ing cases. Swamp.Root makes friends
quickly because its mild and immediate
effect is soon realized in most cases.
It is a gentle, healing vegetable com.
pound
Start treatment at once. Sold at all
drug stores in bottles OF two sizes,
medium and large.
However, If you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Blnghamton, n. Y, for
u sample bottle. When writing be sure
and mention the Ardmore Daily Ard.
moreite, ADV.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16
London SideIights
On All Sorts OF
interesting Things
by Reciprocal News Scryice,.

London, March so By Main -Eal.
ing, q London suburb. has decided TO
continue It's war bonus Of S25 wear
for each child of married school teach.
ers
A bent 1912 halfpenny. which a Lon.
don soldier carried in his pocket for
luck during his four years in France.
had been carried through the Crimean
war. when it was dented by Russian
bullet 10y his father
1t is said that over $4,000 soldiers
Of Canada, Australia and South Africa
have married English girls. who have
gone. or soon win go, to the dominlons
where women We're scarce before the
war.
For selling cocoa at cents ove
the nNed wholesale price. firm of
wholesale grocers has been fined 81 500
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16
WHITE CAVALRY FOR HAWAII
AND COLORED FOR PHILIPPINES

The army recruiting office here IS ac.
ceptlng white applicants for service in
Panama, Hawaiian and Philippine de-
partments. Enlistments for these ser.
vices will be for three years only and
can be made for the infantry, coast ar.
tillery, engineers and signal corps and
the medical corps.
In addison to these opportunities.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16
A REVIEW OF THE RECORD OF PRESIDENT VIII US0N
IBy Homer S Cmmmings NJ. - ~ ..
cummings Chairman Democratic National Committee)

ga
mon, ......, ....
'' 0'''''' nave Io''
""'' win devotion his leadership
through the most difficult period of
American histo n. The miebt,. i,puls.
which he gave TO prorrassi,. t,nr,bt
and the uneXampled skin with which
Doc directed the forces or r.rfsI,ti,o.
have resulted i'm the pl,cfpo I'm tn.
very structure of our Inv rsr,..Ii,r
statutes. long needed. and SD inst l..J
c.Hcacious that mo- critic .uapasfs tbs.r
repeal
From the passage of the income tax
to Tine establishments inf r,. f.I.r.,r ,...
serve system. the whole moyemapi b,.
been ever forward. when the rre,t war
came. his leadership rosa fo stu pr.,,
,r heights until today Americ, {. the
most loved and the most trustel r,f.o1
In al the world Her record .. Yp.
bemished and there is a Worldwide
RECOGNITION of the nobility and o.r.,.
usity of her purposes
There are some who would dem. to
President Wilson any credit for those
great achievements ,scrn,i,,.. ,,.,,, d.,
mere coincidence or proclginine their
ne,nabfiy with such persors ,y.
shall not pause 10 debate n ba, ,rs
known TO history at AN. they will be
remembered ms ungenerous critics ,ybo
Jon "a period of great difficulty. sourb, ro
mbarrass one of the preat leaders of
all time They viii be remembered ,s
the fault finders of tbe civil war ,,a
remembered. with a sort of pItvinp con
temp, for men whose vision yos so
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16

enlistments are being solicited for the
white cavalry for Hawaii and for the
infantry for ehe PhilippiN depart.
ment is for assignment in China. Ap'
plicants for Panama will be sent to
jefferson Barracks. Mo.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16

Wher you miss your Daily Ard
moreite cali 259. the circulatot be-
fore 7 p. m.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-04-16

Ardmorelte Want Ads bring results.
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-05-08
THE BREAKING OF GROUND

The breaking of ground this morn
ing for the new home of the School
of Journalism means much to CoIum-
bia and the University; it means es-
pecially much to the School of Jour
nalism and the Evening Missourian.
We hope it will mean much in the
way of service to the readers and ad-
vertisers of the Missourian.
Words are but feeble things to ex-
press the gratitude we feel toward
Ward A. Neff, who is making the
building possible. We can only hope
that the future will show the invest
ment earning proper dividends in
work done and service rendered to
the public.