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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

gary and parts Of Germany, fomented for the
purpose Of enabling Germany to win through
such methods what she lost on the battlefield.
Intelligent thought now realizes what blunder
was made in forcing the arnistice upon our al
les The allied and American armies in Berlin
would have made it possible to force the Ger
mans to realize that they were beaten; would
have maintained order in Germany and Austria
Hungary, and made it certain that stable gov
eminent could have undertaken to pay the cost
OF the war to America and the allies. = This
is the view of the Manufacturers Record, and
ii argues further: 1--WE venture the assertion
that the armistice viii cost the world ten times
the blood and treasure which would have been
expended in going on to Berlin. The worlds
civilization now and for generations to come is
endangered because America forced the arms
tice against the judgment of England and
France. If we had gone on to Berlin, Russia
could have been saved from coming under the
power of Germany, and if Germany can domin-
ate Russia. as now seems almost inevitable,
then woe betide the world few years hence"
That that fighting stopped on the old fronts
of the main war too soon is an opinion that had
many adkerents even In that day of Jubllant
excitement when the armistice was signed on
November eleventh. There are many, or perhaps
more today who think that the world would
have been better off if the fighting had con-
tinued, when the enemy was collapsing, if Ger
many had been invaded and quick peace had
been dictated in Berlin before bolshevism had
become factor and before the Germans had
plucked up courage to say what sort of peace
they would or would not sign. As everybody
knows, it was the French desire to go on fight
ing last November They still think that they
were right, and attribute the present very dam
gerous critical situation of the world, first, to
the fact that the enemy was not crnshedWhen
it was possible, and second, to the delay if tax
ing full advantage of the victory that was won.
The prospect for humanity is appalling I'M
less bolshevis1n is effectually crushed. All
civilized nations are confronted with the gospel
of human ruffianism- Blood and Merciless-
ness
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
LITERATURE UNVEILED

Lawrence Gilman. IN North American
Review: The comic spirit is te,hered
FLY these days-cr at most she is
goaded into becoming an Irish bull and
uttering horse laugh of cynical deri-
sion at the international spectacle; yet
e cannot but think ito change again
the metaphorical gear that one Of her
o.d-time silvery pearls would result
I, ON her observation OF that moment
in Mr.. Albert Mordell's psychoanaly-
teal unwilling OF the literary great
wherein he seeks to give us the Freu.
dian view OF Browning. Reading Mr..
Mordell's blithely Boccassiostic diagno-
sis of THE Last Ride Together" and re-
niembering the generation of austerely
puritan Browning clubs that guilelessly
exposed themselves to this apparently
innocent poem of the masters. one
cannot but join in concert with those
relaxing peals of pure joy. Browning.
Mr.. Mordell remarks, wrote rarely OF
sex; but he warns US against those
innocent poems OF the poet where we
have no doubt there must be sex sym
bolism." OF course it is precisely in
these seemingly innocent" aesthetic
expressions (as every good Freudian
knows) that the ubiquitous bolshevik,
suppressed libido. is most divertingly
concealed.
We shall not dull the edge OF the
classic Browningite's reaction to Mr..
Mordeil's Interpretation of THE Last
Ride Together" by attempting con-
veyance of it. We should perhaps
not be thanked Certainly Mr.. Mordell
will not be. But then he is not writ
ing primarily for the elderly virgins
OF culture, either male or female.
Mr. MordelPs investigations provide
rare sport Mainly. because Of the
joyous enthusiasm with which he seeks
to demonstrate his thesis that many
writer's who were deemed respectable
and pure because they never dealt with
sexual problems are full of sex SYM
bolism. They consciously strove to
conceal their sex interest, but their
unconscious use OF sex symbolism
shows that they were not as Indifferent
to the problems as they would lead us
10 imagine" Obviously, his book would
have been comparatively unrewarding
if he had confined himself to such easy
game as Burns, Byron. Rousseau, Dan.
nunzio, Heine. De Musset, Whitman,
yerlaine and the rest of the passional
decIaratives. Mr. Mordell deals with
this familiar type, as matter OF
course, but his principal quarry lies In
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
You find yourself refreshed by the pres
ence of cheerful people? Why not make
earnest effort to confer that pleasure on
others-Lydia Maria Child
DID WE QUIT TOO SOON?

In the bolshevist call for "a worldwide com
Inunistic international Leon Trotsky, minister
OF war In the Russian bolshevist government,
is quoted as urging the necessity Of blood and
Irercilessness'' in the work Of establishing
universal proletarianisnl. - This is really sgo-
ing one farther than the "frightfulness" of
the Prussian miIitarists. One is reminded of
Millions unforgettable line about the gradual
worsening strata Of Satan's dominions: For
In the deeps there is a lower deep"
The conference at which the bolshevist APP
peal was read was opened in Moscow on March
sixteenth. 1t advocatd the overthrow of all
capitalist governments, and the substitution
Of the dictatorship Of the proletariat. The
signers of the appeal considered certain Ameri-
can organizations worthy Of Ginning up'' with
the bolshevii in Russia and the sparticides in
Germany. These include the sociaist-labor
party, the Industrial Workers Of the World. the
Workers international Industrial Union Tan
offshoot Of the l. w W. and the Cleft ele-
ments of the American socialist party, one Of
whose opponents is Debs, now under the shad-
ow of the penitentiary.
The task of the proletariat is defined as the
immediate seizure of the power Of the state and
the destruction of the state machine of the
bourgeosie. +" A dictatorship Of the working
classes is proposed and the appropriation" Of
the exploiting class" The abolition of "pri-
vate property in the means of production, is
one of the 'pianks'' in the bolshevist platform.
For the purpose of carrying out the social
list revolution it is declared to be necessary
to ''dsarm the bourgeoise' and to arm all
the proletarians' Mass action is one of the
things required-this really means the use OF
violence against all who property.
1t is believed that had American and alhet
troops been permitted to go on to Berlin there
would have been no bolshevistic chaos in Hun
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
The Near East.

Omaha World Herald: Europea
writer's are saying that America ha
assumed responsibilities in the "nes
east" long before the present war. tn
Americans had established Robert co
lege at Constantinople and the COLES
at Beirut. There are Englishmea
closely acquainted with Balkan como
tons who regard the first principal
Robert college as the maker of modef
Bulgaria. American missionaries ma
performed much Of the same work
educational leadership in Syria throus
the American college at Beirut. VINE
1t is said that the Intervention in nes
eastern affairs was deemed impossiol
five years ago. 1t is forgotten tn1
there has been Intervention for man
years, and so important was 1t that
some measure It affected that VINO
region. The result Is that 1t has oe1
suggested that the United States Y
come the mandatory power over
that part Of the world. 1t is clalm1
that the assumption of that pow
would be of very great economic 'ai1
to this country as well as to the "a
PIE residing there. There is an U
mense amount of semi-tropfcal gool
20 be exported as soon as good, go'0'l
ment is established.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
HOT SUMMER PREDICTED.

Boston Transcript: Evidently we
are in for fierce old summer. The
Burlington Free Press has dug up an
old copy of the Boston Journal. is
sued in the early autumn Of 1870,
which reviews the extraordinary
weather of the winter Of 1S69-70 and
the summer of 1907 1t seems that
the winter was extraordinarily mild.
in Just about the same way that this
winter has been. There was no
frost in the ground until the last
week in January. and not much then.
June in January" people called it
The pussy willows were out in the
first week in February. A farmer In
Raynham left his potatoes in the
ground all winter and dug them I'M
injured in the spring, like parsnfps.
Violets blossomed all winter. Farm
ers near Boston they had them in
1S70-finished their spring blowing
in March. There was no reaction Of
the cold weather-no killing spring
frost.
And what happened then? Peo-
pie said that the cold winter preced-
ing the terribly cold summer Of 1916,
when there was no crop except hay,
was exceptionally mild, and predicted
cold summer In payment for the
warm winter. Nothing of the kind
happened. On the other hand, the
summer OF 1870 was the hottest that
had been recorded for 108 years. The
Journals account Of that summer,
just after 1t was ended, is enough to
make one dream Of the Internal re-
gions. Here is an extract:
The hemisphere on both sides the
Atlantic groaned beneath the rays Of
heated. The mercury had in June,
for many successive days, gone up
above 100 degrees. But now in July,
and the first half of August. it ap-
peared as If the south winds blew
from land of fire. Roads became
dust heaps. Mills stopped all over
New England for want OF the needed
water. If thunderstorms came they
failed to cool the fevered air. All
fruits ripened early, and as a natural
consequence there is much complaint
OF an early decay. The first week in
July the mercury exposed to the sun
ran up to 119 degrees. On Sunday,
July II, it rose in the sun to 129 de-
grees, Fahrenheit. Hundreds of
horses and men went down before
the heat, struck dead as with the
blast of simeon.
To the end of July and on to the
middle Of August. the weather all
over the north was such as is u.s.
ually experienced in the hot season
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
SALVATION ARMY DRIVE.

New York Herald: Headed by
Brigadier General Cornelius Wander
hilt. recent commander OF a brigade
of engineers in the big war, the Sal
walton Army will open its campaign
to raise the $13,000.000 fund to carry
on the great task of aiding France
and our own unfortunates at home
with vim hitherto unknown by the
Organization.
Governors of at least twenty states
have already consented to head the
local boards of directors and Cover
nor Alfred E. Smith, of this state,
has telegraphed his willingness, say.
ling:
Il recognize the splendid and i'm
portant work the Salvation Army is
doing, and gladly accept membership
lin the national committee in raising
funds to finance its various services
to our people at home"
Charles E. Whitman, formerly gov
Iernor, is no less enthusiastically at
work on behalf of the movement.
Brigadier General Vanderbilt has ac-
cepted the Craftsmanship of the COM
mittee for Greater New York of the
home service fund. Governor Low
II have long been impressed by
the valuable work Of the Salvation
Army, but never more SO than dur
ing the war period. ! shall be glad,
therefore, to accept membership on
your committee"
Governor Emanuel L. Phillips, of
Wisconsin. in his letter of accept
ance spoke of the work of the Sal
walton Army in France, declaring
that all one had to do was to listen
to the stories of the soldiers who
have come back to know what 1t has
done.
will be very glad to serve on your
campaign committee on behalf of the
Salvation Army"
Arthur Capper, formerly governor.
but now United States senator from
Kansas. was another to accept
: Other governors who have joined
in the movement are Alfred E.
Sleeper Of Michigan, r. A. Cooper of
South Carolina, G. A. Larrazoia OF
New Mexico, d. w. Davis of Idaho.
Robert d. Carey of Wyoming, r.
Livingston Beekman of Rhode
Island, A. H. Roberts of Tennessee.
Emerson c. Harrington Of Maryland
and Governor Goodrich of Indiana.
Governor William C. Sproul, of
Pennsylvania, in accepting added:
my only son, Capt. John r. Sproul.
lately returned from the front, where
he saw active service. praises highly
the work of the Salvation Army"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
TEN COMMANDMENTS sAnisHEu

Manufacturers Record: A good
many Harvard university people have
in times past been somewhat lax In
their appreciation of the divinity OF
the scriptures, but so far as we know
President Lowell now stands out as
the most conspicuous exponent OF
that view IN his recent debate with
Senator Lodge on the league of
nations, and referring to Washing
tons farewell address, he said:
ut was a great document in it's
day, and SO were the ten command
ments."
BY Implication DR.. Lowell banishes
both Washington's address and the
ten commandments from further con-
sideration by humanity. And yet in
teiligent people are asked to accept
DR.. LowelPs advocacy of the league
Of nations as worthy OF considera-
ton. When the world banshes the
ten commandments it will have ban
ished all morality, all that makes
life worth living, and it will justly
have brought down upon itself such
condemnation by the Almighty that
II 1t should be blotted out of exist
ence it would get only its just
punishment President Lowell made
a monumental blunder He insulted
God Himself as well as the audience
which had right to expect some
| thing better OF him. This nation
cannot afford to follow such leader
ship unless 1t wants to get on the
toboggan slide to hell or Germany.
To avoid the possibility of Presi-
dent Lowell having been misquoted,
we wired him twice asking him to
reply at our expense il he had been
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

other fields. Packing his complete set
of Freud in not too cumbersome grip,
stuffing in his pocket a capacious note
book already crammed with yolumin-
GUS observation on the technique Of
psychoanalysis, the compulsion neurO-
sis, the aedipus complex as an explana-
ton OF Hamlet's mystery, the nature
and mechanism of the obsessional
Neurosis, unconscious consolatOry
mechanisms. the reaction impulse and
infantile repression, etc, etc., and emit
ting the glad cry of the pursuing
Frendiam following a scent, he sets
forth hot-fOot after such unsuspecting
victims as Dickens, Wordsworth. Cow
per. Keats, Tennysone, Longfellow.
Charles Lamb
The chase is delectable indeed. Let
us see. for example, how Mr.. Mordell
gees after the author of that earliest
OF prohibition lyrics, Drink to Me Only
with Thine Eyes" at is well known
in science what great part odor
plays in sexual attractions. In this
poem the poet, after having received
the returned rose breathed upon by
Celia. smells her perfume, which now
submerges the natural fragrance Of
the rose In other words, the poets
unconscious says that he wishes to
possess Celia physically. He is talking
symbolically in the poem" That is
as pretty demonstration as one could
desire. Is 1t not?
Then, again. take Tennyson Recall
the song in THE Miller's Daughter"
The poem begins innocuously:
1t is the miller's daughter
But Mr.. Mordell is too slirewd a
Freudian to be deceived by such Vic
torian window-dressing. There is more
here than meets the eye. The poet
says = .naivefy enough. discreetiy
enough, you would think-that he
would like to be the jewel in the ear
OF the miller's daughter in order to
touch her check, the girdle about her
waist
I'd clasp It round so close and tight
and the necklace upon her BOSOM to
fall and rise
l would lie so light. so light
! At this point Mr.. Mordell engages
his victim. welding his scalpel with
exquisite deftness 1.-THE unconscious
sexual feelings here are only too APP
parent" he says. 1.-THE symbols of the
earring. girdle and necklace are I'M
nnistakable. The poet is saying In a
symbolical manner that he would pos
sess the miller's daughter"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
TODAY'.S BIT OF VERSE
SO eoopeY. WINTER.

I'd think old Winter-time would be
Ashamed, ashamed as no could De,
For handling April, Springs dear child,
In manner anything but mild.
He surely should be told to go
Instead OF sending winds and snow.
For pretty April's frocks are thin;
She needs warm days TO wear them in
And IL old Winter were polite
He'd let her spin the weather right,
With days becoming merry Spring.
That swell the buds and make birds sing.
Oh, Winter ought to be content
With his three boys on mischief bent;
December rough, and January,
And cold relentless February.
Besides he boasts the large share
OF blustery March; why should he care
To tease poor, busy April so?
She never worries him, know
I think 'twould more becoming be
If he'd retire gracefully
where he had gone no one would ask
And leave fair April to her task
For she would weave leafy way
For wedding Of her sister, May,
With Mr. Year Nineteen-Nineteen,
Who chose the fairest bride, / ween
That e'er danced to a wedding bell.
So goodby Winter, fare thee well.
Our April must distil sweet scent
For flowers for May bride innocent
She's marshaling bird choir which
VIII render wedding music rich;
And when arrives her sister sweet
Dear-heIpful ApriPs tasks complete.
And she withdraws with perfect grace,
But leaves sweet thoughts we can't erase
Grace Potter B,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

in Burmahs August the mercury
Milwaukee was 100 degrees in III
shade and 100 degrees in the sui
while the same day at Chico,
California, 1t stood at 112 degrees
the shade Even SO late as Septen
Der 25 thesthermometer at New Yor
exhibited so degrees in the shad'
August IA hot wind passed owe
a four-acre field of cotton in p
maria, S. c., and blasted it white an
dead In few hours. In all the ioul
nails of the land there were pull
lished complaints OF the extrem
heat There is no question but wha
the summer of 1870 will be memol
able one in weather records.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
"Easy Payment" Plan.

Davenport Times: Germany NV
kick in with $4,000, 100000 francs
her first installment when the r
liminary treaty is signed. On :
easy payment plan, as decldeu :,
the peace council, she can ana y ~
mately must make PREPARATION ~
financial way for her misdeeus
the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

correctly quoted, and If not would
he wire the exact wording Of the
statement. To neither telegram has
he made any reply whatever. Com
ment seems unnecessary.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

Now is the opportune moment for Luther
Burbank to prove his right to the title of plant
wizard by showing California wine grape grow
ers how to turn their vines to the growing Of
pumpkins, squashes and other innocuous vege-
tables
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

About this season Of the year, as the old
almanacs used to phrase it, the wise and provi-
dent man gets new handle for the garden
spade, sharpens up the hoe and begins the an
nual perusal of seed catalogues.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
Should Have Thought Sooner

Washington Post: Former -
Ludwig Of Bavaria says. In ~!
age / have no place to lay my nee
If he had been careful not ~
HIS hoof on other peoples nech''
wouldn't have been bumped.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

OF growing wheat, and, after its chemical
beauty Of structure detected and ap
preczted 1t language when religious writer
illustrates humility by il in figure The VINO knows
just the OF grain that is
fullest bends over sky ~isp of wheat has
reen carried to che nobIest mill when Christian poet
extracts grains So the whole earth
dictionary for the of the nseeins mind
1T. Starr King
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

Knoxville Journal: Ii the road con-
|ditions in Iowa the past five months
are not sufficient to convince the
people of this state that a change in
method of road building is necessary.
there is no possible chance OF any
other argument succeeding.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
For the Liver and Bowels
Constipated Children Gladly Take

Tell your druggist you want genuine
California Syrup of Figs" Full directions
and dose for babies and children Of all ages
who are constipated, bilious, feverish, tongue
coated, or full of cold, are plainly printed on
the bottle. Look for the name California
and accept no other Fig Syrup. Beware
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
THE FIGHTING FAMILIES.

Hurrah for the Smiths, the greatest clan up
on this continent! Over fifty thousand of them
Joined the colors and fought the Huns on land
and sea or stood ready to. And the Johnsons
were there, twenty nine thousand of them; and
the Jones twenty-five thousand strong and the
Greens about as numerous and nine thousand
fighting Browns and four thousand, five hun
Idred valorous Cohens These six puissant fami-
lies alone could have held long miles of trenches
against the Huns.
But to the fierce and fecund tribe of Smiths
the highest honor is due. History tells of only
six others which, according to the number OF
names from twenty years old.and upward, were
able to send so many forth to war. The great
houses of Reuben, Dan and Asher could not do
it. Ephraim fell far short of it, while Ben amn
and Manasseh were only feeble families in com
parison Prolific as the Smiths are, were it not
that fully half of every generation of them
abandon the honored patronymic at the altar
they would long ere this run all the rest of us
cut. Even as it is, they have named hundred
centers Of population in the republic after them
selves, and would have had ten times as many
had not the government, to save its postal EN-
ployes from nervous breakdown decreed that
there must be no more. The influenza took
heavy toll of them. But neither war nor pesti-
lence can keep them down. They have taken
literally the Injunction to be fruitful and multi
ply Malthusian fancies and fears have never
troubled them. They are highly vitalized
gems and with the possible exception of the
lopulous and prolific Changs of China, they are
probably the most notable family on the foot
stool at the present time.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

Webster City Freeman Journal:
George Clemenceau is game old
sport as well as statesman of ability
AT his request the death penalty i'm.
posed on the man who attempted to
kill him was committed to ten years
lin prison.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
Whenever the conference gets bailed
up and lets Foch do it the thing gets
done on the summer time schedule.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-17

By vote OF seventy five to twenty eight the
Iowa house of representatives has defeated the
bill, which previously had been passed by the
senate to return the nomination Of state officers
under lieutenant governor to the convention
system Defeat of the measure leavs the Iowa
primary law unchanged Well, there is said to
be some virtue I'M persistence Let the anti
primary people load up with that and continue
the fight Prediction: They will win in the
end.