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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Mr.. Burleson
! is releasing his control OF the cables
and contemplates turning back the
telephone and telegraph companies 10
their owners. Now IL he just can see
his way clear to resigning his JOB as
head of the United States postal ser
vice he will have performed his fuii
patriotic duty.
With other departments OF the gov
eminent steamed up to their fuilest
capacity, greatest speed and maxi
mum of efficiency, the post offlce
department is tagging SO far behind as
to receive only pity and condemna'
ton, rather than commentator.
Never were the mails so poorly
handled. Never was the railway post
Office so inadequately performing It's
frnctions. 1t is this latter weakness
that causes most of the dissatisfaction.
Without properly handled railway
nostal service local departments can
not expect to satisfy the public. II
they do not receive the mail they
can not deliver it. After they handle
outgoing mail they can not see that
the railway post office does its share.
Mr.. Burleson has tried to econ
omize in the railway post office de-
partment, and he has done SO at the
expense OF the service formerly rem.
dered He has cut down his force OF
clerks, so far as the amount of mail
to be handled and the territory to be
covered are concerned, and the re.
suit was all that could be expected.
For example, on short line railroads
running out of Cedar Rapids, where
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15
WHY THE MAILS ARE SLOW

the expressman method of handling
mail in sealed express bags became
obsolete long before Mr.. Burleson ever
went into office, the clerks have been
taken off and the express bags put
back into use. Cedar Rapids business
houses and Cedar Rapids people in
general suffer In consequence. not to
mention the tens OF thousands OF
individuals dependent on mail to and
from this city. And this Is just one
of thousands OF cities similarly af-
fected.
The Gazette has its own exper-
fences as a sample. A copy Of The
Gazette should arrive in Des Mofnes
late at night or early the following
morning after It is mailed here IN
the afternoon. Once in while it
does; more often 1t does not. On In
vestigation in several instances
proved that very frequently a Gazette
mailed here one afternoon did not
reach Des Moines until the second day
afterward. In some instances 1t was
the third day. A Gazette mailed here
in the afternoon should reach Chicago
that evening, for delivery the follow
ing morning. Frequently they are
delivered the second morning after
ward and occasionally the third morn.
ing.
Mail, telegraph and telephone
rates all have been increased and the
service given in return has deterior
ated in shocking degree. Mr.. Burle
son is responsible for these services
The services have failed So has MI
Burleson. It's time for change. The
country is tired of "mailfeasance."
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15
A Walters Problem.

Manchester Guardian: The recent
BARRIERS strike in England raises once
aCain the matter OF tips. How and to
what extent we shall tip Is one of the
minor problems Of life and one that
certain eccentrics have solved in I'M
conventional fashion. A waiter in one
OF the New York swell restaurants
told of man who on sitting down to
dinner tore a S. bill in half and gave
him one-half, telling him that he
should have the other If he gave him
satisfaction. II took pains to serve
BIN poorly" said the waiter after
wards, Ito show him that did not
care for his money. was SO care
less that when he was leaving he re-
fused me the other half. / pointed out
to him that the piece he had was no
god to him as it was, and offered TO
buy it from him for 81. He thought
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15
FEDERAL PLANT QUARANTINE.

Opposition of the nursery interests to the fed
eral plant act is not warranted by the facts ac-
cordinc to the American Nurseryman PERIOD
zeal devoted to the nursery trade. This publ
cation argues that the quarantine will act as a
benefit to the American nurserymen IN the
same manner as would prohlbltlve protective
tariff on nursery stock importations. 1t Will
give them a monopoly of the fruit tree and plant
trade in this country.
1t is intimated that most of the opposition to
the quarantine comes from foreign nurserymen
and wholesalers who deal in imported stock be-
cause it is cheaper than American grown stock.
In fact it is asserted that the United States has
been used as the dumping ground for cheap
nursery stock that the average yearly importa-
tions of nursery stock are about two millions OF
dollars in value, and that it costs the country
hundreds of millions to fight the bugs and dis
eases that are brought in on this nursery stock.
There are ample grounds for the belief that
the quarantine, while protecting the fruit grow
ers and saving their crops from the ravages of
imported insect pests and diseases, will give the
american growers of nursery trees and plants
opportunities for safe expansion such as they
have never before possessed; for the American
markets will belong to American nurserymen
These are important points which should be
carefully considered by nurserymen and all
others before they take sides in this plant quar-
antine controversy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Des Moines Capital: Students OF
road work realize that there is only
one thing in the way of good roads
in Iowa. That one thing is the diff
Guilty of getting honest pavements,
honestly laid down. Every city has
been struggling for forty years. 70
secure the creation of good pave
ments, but contractors who will give
the public square deal have not
yet been discovered.
Des Moines Register. Unfortunate
Nv for a robber nation, though 1t win
four wars and lose the fifth, 1t shall
have to surrender in its defeat not
only the loot 1t hoped to get In the
unsuccessful wars, but also the loot
that it got in all the wars that pre-
coded it.
waverly Independent-Repub
How shall it profit the people of the
United States, by involving them
selves in the European system, to
make foreign questions paramount In
American politics and keep one ele-
ment in our citizenship arrayed
against another, instead of turning
our attention to the rather good sized
Job of discussing and deciding the
affairs Of our own country?
vinton Eagle: We do not know
the scope of the movement to pry
Postmaster General Burleson out OF
the cabinet, but it will have to be
strongly equipped with crowbarsl
cranes, pulleys and blasting ma,
terials to prove effective. Mr.. Bur
Lesson is not man who is mounted
on rollers and who may be moved
easily to the exterior of things.
Council Bluffs NoIipareii: The
peace treaty was not framed to
please the Germans. There would
have been grievous disappointment
in allied countries IL it had pleased
them. The facts in the case are that
the more the Huns growl the better
we like the noise Let the stirring
/ of the animals continue.
| Davenport Democrat: BOLD anG
junrepentant'' is the description -oi
1.-THE attitude of the German delegates
ION receiving the treaty Of peace
That saves the rest of the world the
trouble of being sorry for them.
I Webster City Freeman-Journal
General Foch is the main incentive
that Germany will have to sign thu
peace treaty The general is mai
of few works and mighty quicl
actions. The Germans know n
means what he says. Such repu
tation is worth having.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE HOUSE BEAUTIFUL.


A naked house. a naked moor,
A shivering pool before the door,
A garden bare of flowers and 1rut
And poplars at the garden 1901;
Such is the place that live In,
Bleak without and bare within
Yet shall our rugged moor receive
The incompatible pomp OF eve
And The cold glories of the dawn
Behind our shivering trees be drawn;
And when the wind from place TO place
Doth the unmoored cloud galleons chase
Your garden gloom and CLEAN again,
With leaping sum- with glancing RAIN
Here shall the wizard moon ascend
The heavens, in the crimson emu
OF days declining splendor; here
The army of the stars appear,
The neighbor hollis dry or wet,
Spring shall with tender flowers beget;
And oft the morning muser see
Iarks rising from the broomy lea,
And every fairy wheel and thread
Of cobweb dew-bediamonded.
When daisies go, shall winter-ume
Silver the simple grass with r1me;
A,,tunnal frosts enchant the pool
And make the cart-ruts beautiful;
And when snow-bright the moor expands,
How shall our children clap their hanos!
To make this earth. our hermitage,
A cheerful and changeful page,
Gods bright and intricate device
Of DAVIS and seasons doth suffice.
Robert Louis Stever
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15
Sense never fails to give them that have 1t
words enough to make them unoerstooo.-
William Penn.
WE'LL DONE!

The Keokuk department of public safety IS
- IL CONGRATULATED for the manner in which it
succeeded in keeping vehicles from the thor
,,,,cbfaras over which the returned soldiers
marched Yesterday. Heretofore it has been
canse of inst complaint that at similar events
The arab-it-all policy of no small number OF
owners Of automobiles has worked to the dis
advantage Of those who have equal rights IN the
yiew;np Of public functions Now that the au-
thorities have shown their intent and ability to
keen the streets clear and open to all, barring
vehicles of every description, it is to be hoped
that the public will so far cooperate as to make
porcine infringement thing of memory only
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15
DOGS AND PEOPLE.

Los Angeles Times: A while back.
there was an article on this page
about spies. 1t was something that
was very rough on spies, and rightly
so. But, in the article the remark
was made that spy is like dog that
bites the hand that feeds it.
Now comes Jean Campbell in pro-
test against said remark. She declares
that dogs do not bite the hands that
feed them. She says the remark Is
a SANDER on the dog.
What the remark really meant to
convey. however, was this: That dog
that would bite the hand that feeds
tiff such a dog could possibly be
in:agined-would be no better than a
spy.
Do not think, Jean Campbell. that
we do not love dogs as you do. And
far be it from us to SANDER any
decent dog. We have had friends
among them that we shall remember
while life lasts. We have many
friends among them now ST. Francis
as much as said that dogs have souls,
and 1t Is indeed something not diff
cult to believe.
If through the long centuries. the
dog had not won his place as the
friend Of man. he has surely won 1t out
OF the annals Of the great world war
that laid It's heavy toll of death up
the whola earth. In this great war
the dog has won laurels OF everlasting
glory.
We knew man once upon whom all
kinds OF insults and indignities could
b. heaped with i:upunity. He could
not be aroused to resentment. But
the moment any one harmed his doc
he became terrible In his wrath. There
was a man after your own heart, Jean
Campbell.
Love me, love my dog"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15
sHoIJID RETAIN THE PHILIPPINES.

Native born officials OF the Pmnppine lsiouiuo
arrue that the F'ilipinos have established staa-
+ HE government and are entitled to lndepenu-
ence The officials belong to the runng ciass
which has Spanish or Chinese blood, or poti'
in it's veins. The Chinese hafbreeds are tue
most astute element in the islands Most OF
all of the Filipinos who come on MISSIONS ~
the United States or whose names are heaiu
here are of this racial mixture, this class.
It is easy to understand why tins eleiileh,
aspires to the unhampered control tney Wouio
enioy were the islands at this time given theli
lindependence. They would rule the natlVes ~,
traditional Spanish and Monaghan INES anu
the world knows what these are James y oen-
kins, Princeton graduate and lawyer OF ois-
tinction. when appointed by President Roose-
Welt served for twelve years as Judge IN Tug
islands; he is familiar with conditions there
and is an unbiased witness, having resigned
his office year or two ago. He says that TO
the average Filipino Independence means I'D.
lerty and liberty means license and absence OF
legal restraint independence at this time
would mean anarchy, and it will be at least
half century before independence would pro-
mote the best interests of the ishders They
are still in the handled pillow stage of devel-
yelopment, and while the islands are self sup
porting to the extent that their revenues MAIN
tain the government, they would not be able
Ito keen up their naval and military defenses,
for which the United States now pays or the
modern Notifications our government has erect
ed there.
There are but three possible courses which
congress can take 1t can cede the islands 10
some foreign power, give them independence
when they are ready for it, or keep them and
admit them ultimately to statehood. This last
would be the best thing for them, and II the
Fihpinos were really capable OF self govern
iment they would be too intelligent to want
autonomy, but immensely prefer to continue
their union with the United States. we are
training them in the uses of freedom as last
as we can and in the best way possible by per
Uniting them full management of their AFFAIRS
under the oversight of a governor whose WIS
dom and detachment from their factional poll
tics are designed to be restraining influences.
The watchful interest of such man and his
mere presence are powerfully potent for good
with all backward peoples. He stands for and
embodies justice and the high ideals which
make the English-speaking peoples what they
are and their governments the most righteous,
tolerant and benefcent political institutions
which have ever com> into being on this earth.
Colonel Roosevelt believed that we should con-
Itinue control of the Philippines; and the fact
! that the governing caste in the lslands-the
/ Chinese-Spanish hybrid elements so uneasy
! at our presence and so eager to get us out does
mot tend to convince thoughtful Americans that
we should promote the true interests OF the
I islands by doing so.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

In Argentina every man over 20
who does not get married is taxed
AZ a month for every month he re-
mains single, until he is 30. If he
has still fought shy of matrimonial
bliss at this age. the tax is inceased
to $40 month until he is 80. From
35 to so the tax is $40 month, and
then $50 month till rs. Hearty old
bachelors over that age, however.
are taxed only $40 a month.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

deeply minute and declined. Then
! offered to sell him my half for 49,;
somehow or other this appealed to
him. and he bought it and seemed
happy. I'll bet he hasn't stopped fig
uring out yet whether he won or lost.
One thing he's sure OF: he didn't tip
the waiter"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15
A MOVIE" CLEANUP.

News comes from New 1ork City that the
National Association of the Motion Picture
Industry has taken real step toward providing
the public with clean and wholesome motion
pictures On and after June first members OF
this association, including most of the principal
producers of the country, will refuse to sell the
production rights of any of their pictures to
theater managers who exhibit pictures of a
questionable sort or who by their policies bring
the motion picture under just condemnation by
the intelligent public of the nation.
This is the best sort of thing to remove valid
objection from motion pictures as public en-
tertainment They have become a vast enter
tainment business-a big business engaging the
demand of an immense public. Any business is
best regulated by the men who own and man
age it. Continued prosperity only come to
a business that is clean and decent and run with
moral motive. The motion picture producers
who are real builders of their industry know
that they will be the worst sufferers from a just
revolt against motion pictures by great
moral public and they are acting to forestall
such an event by removing the possible just
cause The action of the national association
will do more for clean pictures than all the
sporadic censorships which have been devised
and put into operation.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

1t appears that the covenant of the league
makes it possible to pull off future wars in >ex-
ecutive session.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

The pessimistically inclined who have been
crying that democracy is a failure might wait
until it has been tried.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

with Mexico, but with the "system"
attempting to establish on ANY por>-
ton of this hemisphere"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

The true inwardness of the league of nations
pact will not be satisfactorily elucidated until
the graduating exercises next month
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

Premier Orlando will not get the Nobel peace
prize this year.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

The foundation world peace is and must be cease
less steadfast striving soul culture that can a
transform nationasm patriotism 1t is nrst sno
by this extremely slow method that women VIII DC = ~
10 hinder future war further future peaee-Een neS.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-05-15

Davenport Democrat: BOLD and
Iunrepentant" is the description OF
the attitude of the German delegates
on receiving the treaty Of peace,
That saves the rest of the world the
trouble of being sorry for them.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05
How Many Tires Does Your Car Need
To Go 10000 Miles?

the hammer, the harder and more destructive
the blow. Heavy weight pounds out tires pre-
maturely. And the heavy car owner, accus-
toned to paying for tre-mileage he doesn't get,
accepts it as part of the game-until he meets
Franklin owner
For Franklin O7vue,y in eUe,y part ofMe
country, get q consistent aeAVe,y Of
I0,0001uies and more to the set Of ti,es =
The reason lies in the sixteen-year old
Franklin principle of Scientific Light Weight
and Flexible Construction. The Franklin
weighs 2445 pounds-the right weight for a
tull-slze tive passenger car. Moreover, it car
rles the minimum nn&b,uHg weight-weight
belo7O the springs, that contributes to the pound
and shock tires must meet.
Franklin Flexible Construction-full clip
tic springs, instead of the usual compromise
type; chassis frame of tough, resilient ash in
stead OF, unyielding steel-is still another
reason why tires on the Franklin get every op-
portunity to deliver the full mileage that IS in
them. This flexible construction reduces
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05
Light Weight Also Means
Gasoline Economy

These facts of Franklin construction af-
feet the. whole performance of the car Be-
cause of Scientific Light Weight, because of
Flexible. CONSTRUCTION, e\Franklin is not only
delivery to its owners of 20 miles to the gallon
of gasoline instead of the usual 10, besides re-
markabe riding-comfort and ease of handling.
Think of these things-and decide that
any car that combines Themes with motoring
economy such as this, is worth your immediate
inspection.
For, any way you look at it, your motor
whether or not you have car that will give
you efficient transportation, with the utmost
comfort, safety and reliability-at the least
expense.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-05

road-shocks on tires. There are no torque
bars or strut rods to cause the ,1gudity that
leaves tires unprotected.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-29
THE CHAMELEON TURK
(MemphiS Commercial-Appeal.l


The infamous Turk is back at his old game
of playing one nation against another in order
that ne might escape just punishment for his
crimes. This is the news sent out from Con-
stantinople by William T. Ellis, the near eastern
correspondent of the New York Herald Mr.
Ellis says the intrigue is so obvious that it
should defeat its own end. The trick has served
the followers of Allah we'll in times that are
gone, but it is hardly likely that it will prove
effective in the present Turkish crisis. The
only danger is that the cupdty of some one
of the powers might be aroused in a way that
would be protection to the Turks, but this
does not seem to be very grave menace.
Mr. Ellis tells us that on BaStile day one
could easily have mistaken the foreign quarter
of ConStantinople for French city The flag
OF France flew everywhere, and there was a
made-to-order enthusiasm that apparently bore
evidence even of Spontaneity. little later on
at Greek celebration the scenes shifted, and
the casual observer might have imagined he
was in Athens or some other Greek town On
another occasion, enthusiasm was stirred up
for Great Britain, while almost constantly the
United States is referred to by the Turkish
leaders as being the real and unselfish friend
OF the Turks. The motive actuating these
chameleon changes is plain. The Turks would
tickle the vanity and Self-conceit of the ma
tons that are being honored while arouSing
at the same time the jealousy of all the other
powers In this way they would create di.
vision of allied sentiment through which Tur.
key might escape.
Strange as it may SEEM the salvation OF
the Turks heretofore has been the mmensity
OF Russian power and ambition Great Britain
ana the other world powers have allowed the
turks 10 remain in Europe and in charge of
the DardanelleS chiefly because they wanted to
prevent Russia from having such control. Rus.
Sla now is no longer the open menace that she
was and the ancient excuse for Turkey does
not exist Whatever befallS, we believe and
we hope that the day of the Turk in Europe
has gone forever
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-08-29

rate to take care of all increases in the
wages of railway employees through appgo-
priations from the public treasury"
Nor can we doubt in the circumstances
that it will seem clear to every thoughtful
American, including the shopmen themsel YES
when they have taken second thought, and
to all wage earners of every kind that ques-
tons of this sort Ought to be postponed
until normal conditions come again" The
Journal agrees also with the President that
cit is the duty of every citizen to insist upon
a truce in such contests until intelligent set
Elements can be made, and made by peace
full effective common counsel"
We believe that the appeal to citizens OF
every employment to cooperate in insisting
upon and maintaining the truce and to CO.
operate in sustaining the government will
impress all thoughtful Americans for there
can be no question that the President is
right in his declaration that, demands I'M
wisely made and passonately insisted upon
at this time menace the peace and prosperity
of the country as nothing else could ana
thus contribute to bring about the very re-
suits which such demands are intended to
remedy"
In the same spirit of frankness and fair
ness that marks his appeal to the shopmen
and to all classes of American citizens, the
President agrees to the justice of the shop
mems contention that they entitled to
enjoy the same advantages that other rail
way employees are enjoying in the matter of
basic pay. He therefore agrees that the shop
men should be paid on the basis of ten hours
labor for eight hours work, which is an IN
crease of four cents per hour in their
wages.
1t is the hope of The Journal as we be-
lieVe it to be the hope of the public gen.
orally, that the railway shopmen will be i'm
pressed with the fairness of the Presidents
decision and will be guided by his advice.