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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
sPENDTHRIFT, START IT YOURSELF!

Secretary of the Treasury Houstons plea to
the bankers for the ''strictest economy, not
only in our expenditures, federal, state county
and municipal, but also by thrift on the part OF
our people, is the plea of the spendthrift to
others to save their money. 1t is true that
economy is necessary for all those named in the
plea of this spokesman Of the administration;
but of them all the federal administration is the
only one that has failed to economic as much
as it could
There is very little disposition among the OPP
ponents OF the administration to criticise the
expenditures of wartime. But they have been
forced to criticise some of them, because they
were so utterly unnecessary or made without
the slightest regard to business principles. Does
anyone suppose that had there been pretense
OF business in the war department, the country
would have had to pay for seven saddles for
each mule employed in the service of the coun-
try In France? The spending of the administra-
ton since the close Of the war has been upon the
gigantic scale adopted during the conflict, and
the only curb put upon it's spending was that
imposed by congress. 81
Yes, economy is necessary, as Secretary Hous-
ton says But let the federal government set
the. example
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
EGERTON AND AGNES CASTLE

New York Herald: The deaths
OF Egerton Castle and C. N. VIII
Hanson, which occurred within
few recent weeks, removed the
male halves of the most popular
OF all literary deliberations be-
tween husband and wife. There
were condolences besides the
cfoseness OF their deaths. Their
ages were about the sanfe.
Castle was 81; Williamson, 81.
Both were Englishmen. Both
were university men: Castle, Trim
ity college, Cambridge; William
son University college, London.
Both went in for science, but
abandoned it for journalism in
their early twentfes. Castle
served eleven years on the Sat
urday Review and became part
owner of the Liverpool Mercury.
Williamson spent eight years on
the Graphic and was the founder
of Black and White.
Popularity was Egerton Castles
without the aid of Agnes. She
had no hand in The Light OF
Scarthey." which he w-o1a twenty.
five years ago. But there is no
doubt that she added much to
his popularity. Her first literary
: partnership with him was n "The
Pride OF Jennico," published in
1898. Together they wrote "The
Bath Comedy" which they drama
tized with David Belasco under
the name of Sweet Kitty Bel
LARS" The list of. the Castle
books Is long and Mrs. Castle
was represented in the most prof
table and, indeed, the best For
''The Hope of the House." their
last work, is regarded more SER
iously by most reviewers than the
novels which preceded 1t from the
same double pen.
In this country, where both the
Castles and the WiIlamson's had
their largest audience, Charles
Norris Williamson probably would
have been unknown but for his
wife. She, who also is dead,
was an American, Alice Muriei
Livingston, a Observation-Disclosures
of the chancellor Before the Z
Williamson's collaborated Mr..
Williamson HAD done nothing in
the way of book except a life
of Carlyle Unlike the case OF
the Castles, here the greater i'm
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28

aginative faculty was on the dis
tar side. All the group of mo
tor car novels" which began with
The Lighting Conductor" in
1909, have the woman's touch
strongly shown. Mrs. William
: son wrote two novels alone, Mr..
Williamson wrote none.
The Castles were very success
full because they touched the
strings of old romance in period
when the novel reading public
yearned for anything that had a
sword, heart and a noble phrase.
in it; period that found well
come for even such wretched
novel as When Knighthood Was
In Flower" The Wflliamsons
won their popularity because they
took up with novelty, as the
motor car was in 1908, and made
it romantic. The public wanted
to motor, even If only in a vicar
ious way, just as it wanted to be
romantic, even If only through the
printed page. So the Williamsons
and the Castle books each filed a
popular want of. the time.
There have been a good many
married coIlabnrators, and it is
strange that there have not been
more In comparatively few
cases have :rusbard and wife so
combined their work in literature
as to make the joint invisible.
The ThompsoR-Setcns eoIlaborat-
ed in making books, but the wife
kept to the srt side, the husband
to the letters. Joseph Pennell
Illustrated his wife's books Of
travel. There are three or four
couples in America who share
fifty-ffty the mental agony of plot
ting and the physical labor of typ
ing light fiction. These include
Ethel and James Dorrance, Robert
and Katherine Pinkerton, and Mr..
and Mrs. George r. Chester.
Perhaps the reason why there
are not more collaborating pairs
is that the creative faculty in
writing tends naturally to secret
fveness. A good many writer's,
once they have talked a plot, can
not write 1t with the zest It de-
serves. The story has been told.
Your average novelist prefers to
write his book in secret and then
try the completed work on his
wife. She invariably approves.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
PARTING FROM DEMOCRACY.

With the refusal of the supreme court TO re-
view liquor cases, the last opportunity Of prov
ing the unconstitutionality of prohibition seems
gone. The situation illustrates well he extent to
which the federal government has encroached
upon the rights of the states and the dangerous
tendency toward still further encroaefments
The country is surely parting from the democ-
racy that was in the minds Of the fathers.
Although the socialists are not a powerful
party at the ballot box in this country, they
have made great gains in influence until there
has come into the making and the interpreted
ton of our laws distinct and decided tendency
towards fundamental socialism. We have fed
eral regulation of our railways. We have pro-
hibition by constitutional enactment and now
we asked to endorse federal education and
various federal welfare plans
Of course, the people themselves are to blame
for this. 1t seems SO much more easy and so
much less costly to have the government at
Washington do things than to do them ourselves
In smaller communities that federal aid is
being asked for almost everything that the COM
munity would do 1t is perhaps easier and
cheaper, but it is an ease and cheapness obtain
ed at the price of democracy. When the com
munity or the whole people ask the federal gov
eminent to do thing, they give it a right to do
1t. And rights are not easily relineuished. once
they have been exercised
This may be more efficient, but it is almost GER
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
JOY IN A GOOD BOOK.

Theodore Parker: What a Joy is
there in a good book, writ by some
great master Of thought, who breaks
into beauty, as in summer the
meadow into grass and dandelions
and yiolets, with geranfums. and
manifold sweetness As an amuse-
ment, that of reading is worth all the
rest. What pleasure in science, In
literature, In poetry. for any man
who will but open his eye and his
heart to take it II. once knew
la Woodworking man. farmer and
mechanic, who in the wlnter-nights
rose a great while before day, and
out of the darkness coaxed him at
least two hours OF hard study, and
then when the morning peeped over
the eastern hills, he yoked his oxen
and went forth 10 his daily work, or
in his shop he labored all day long;
and when the night came, he read
aloud some simple book to his
family; but when they were snugly
laid away IN their sleep the great
minded mechanic took to his hard
study anew: and SO, year out and
year in, he went on, neither rich nor
much honored, hardly entreated by
daily work, and yet he probably had
III HedIL anu
which the whole country might have
been proud to share.
I fear we do not know what
power Of immediate pleasure and
permanent profit is to be had in a
good book The books which help
you most are those which make you
think the most. The hardest way Of
learning is by easy reading; every
man that tries It finds It SO. But
great book that comes from a great
thinker,-it is ship OF thought,
ds~p freighted with truth, with
beauty too. It sails the ocean. driven
by the winds of heaven. breaking
the level sea Of life into beauty
where it goes, leaving behind it a
train of sparkling loneliness. widen
ing as the ship goes on. And what
treasures It brings to every land,
scattering the seeds Of truth, Justice
love, and pfety, to bless the world
in ages. yet to come.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
A. Fairy Godfather.

The Nations Business: BARLEY !,
Doyle, who divides his time between
an automobile business In Detroit
and P. publishing business In Phila-
delphia, is the self-made foster-father
Of twenty-five boys. He found his
children--fnund them in the streets.
They were waits, strays, homeless,
friendless. One Of them was so black
when Doyle ran across him that it
was difficult to tell whether the
youngster was white or negro. Tho
child never had worn pair Of shoes.
In summer he had gone barefoot. In
winter he had covered his feet with
anything he could obtain. When Mr..
Doyle found him 1t was winter and
his feet were clad with rubbers, old
cloth being used as substitutes for
stockings.
Some of Mr.. Doyle's boys are in
schools. Some are in colleges. Two
are in his office in his big printing
establishment In the Bourse. Phila-
de1phia, where Mr.. Doyle occupies a
good1y portion of floor in that huge
structure.
Occasionally Mr.. Doyle gets his
crowd OF youngsters together and
has men of prominence in public life,
in industry, in finance or other lines
of endeavor address them Men like
Governor Sproul know how to talk to
such an audience. but not few men
OF prominence give the kids severe
pain.
You're going 10 hear from some OF
these foster. children Of Barley Doyle.
They're wonders.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
MAGELLAN.

Quiet at home, safe in pleasant places,
Shall remember all you hoped and dared.
Steadfast before your mems dark, suien races
Holding the hope they never bred nor shared!
You found the kind. the rough wind falrer,
And can We sheltered how your heart rre1nDaeo
When you beheld your Grail; and, standard bearer.
Carried your flag before the tribes assembled?
zs-s.z
Out Of the into the strange, dark water,
You followed hope that towards never know
Your country goried in the pride broughtsh er
When had filed her scup to Overflow
You have been dead long, Do you remember
Your glimpse of the land and that slow tide
The threats and sorrows OF that dark september &,-
Before October found you justified?
DO your perhaps now stand on some far shore
With whose eyes look white in their dark faces,
And wish for ships to carry you once more
Adyenturing in strange and lonely places?
feet will never linger in the city,
Tour sailors heart will follow the winds way
mink you look with Just a hint Of pity
to heaven day by day,
haps at last, God will you standing,
III looking the great waves wistfully,
win repent and alter his commanding,
you adventurers may have your sea!
Louise Driscoll. in New York Times.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
IT rs A HARD CHOICE.

st. Louis Globe-Democrat: It Is a
hard choice Fiat confronts the repub,
licans OF Illinois. There are the
strongest reasons for supporting the
national ticket, not only as to the
president but the candidates for sena-
tor and the house Of representatives.
But when II comes to the state, their
beloved and progressive state. what ?
Shall they vote for Small, the Gre
alton OF Thompson, whose
record makes his name anathema to
lovers Of good government? Or shall
they vote for Lewis, that fantastic
egotist. whose vanity is balanced
only by his fncapacity; that wiIl-o'-
the-wisp OF American politics, who
during his term in the senate has
contributed more to the amusement
Of the country and less to It's edifi-
cation than any man In public life?
1t is, we say. sorry choice. Either
way there is no satisfaction, no con.
viction OF right or Of public service.
in the vote. We can offer no so1u-
ton for this problem, for we can see
none. But we do see in the situation
Of Illinois, rising like mountain be-
fore us, the gigantic wrong of ma
chine domination In politics, whereby
organized self-interest in great city
not only acquires absolute control OF
the city, but developes the power to
command the electorate of proud
state There are no finer, more pro
gressive or more patriotic people in
America than those Of Illinois. yet to
this complexion they have come, not
through any fault or completely Of
their own, but through the weaving
of q strong net in the sinister re-
treats Of tho Chicago political ma
chine.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
It is easier to appear worthy Of position
one does not hold, than the Office which enc
fills-La Rochefoucauld.
ON THE EDGE OF UNrRUTHFULNEss

The Rumanian statesman and former premier,
Bratiano makes his contribution to the issue OF
veracity between the president and Senator
Spencer, of Missouri, and other men Of promi-
nence here and abroad who quoted Mr.. Wilson
as promising in certain contingencies that the
American army and navy would cross the sea
Mr.. Bratiano to whom the presidents remarks
on that occasion were directly addressed, says
that he understood Mr. Wilson to make this
promise, as did also the French official report
ers of the speech Clearly Mr.. Wilson attempts
to squirm out technicaity of verbiage; for
there is no dispute about the meaning his words
conveyed to the statesmen to whom his talk was
addressed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

/ Glidden Graphic. A dollar sixty
cents for wheat, rs cents for corn
and 40 cents for oats is not enough
for Iowa farmers to break even on.
There is something wrong some
where when such prices prevail. II
it is the board OF trade spectators,
then they should be rigdly controlled
and supervised by the government
The Graphic never was able to see
the logic in a bunch OF New Pork
and Chicago gamblers setting prices
for farmers products. n the federal
reserve board Is at fault in restrict
ing credit, then that should be I'm
Imediately remedfed-
Mt. Vernon Hawkeye: The present
campaign may be quiet SO far as
noise and the brass band type of
campaigning goes, but we do not be
lieve that from standpoint of actual
interest it Is at all lacking In COM
parison with campaign periods OF the
past. We take our politics today like
a good many other things
ImatteF-of-fact than we used to.
Des MONIES Capital: A vote for the
league Of nations Is not a vote Tor
peace. 1t Is vote TO increase TAXA
ton and to renew our relations with
every trouble there is on the face OF
the globe.
Iowa Falls Citizen: When thfs
country gets to a place where It is
not a question Of adequacy" of
prices or wages. but question of
work and market, it win be right
at the spot where It begins 4 regime
OF stable and lasting prosperity. It
will be at the end of getting rich
quick and at the beginning Of normal
business
Cherokee Democrat: No matter
how you feel about it, you viii have
to come to the conclusion that politics.
IS pretty wen jazzed all over the
country.
Cedar Rapids Republican: A labor
court may not be as much needed In
the future as someone who can keep
things going and provide the labor
jobs that win be desired.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
The pitfalls OF slann.

London Express: Those well in
tentfoned leagues and clubs which are
always talking about the unity of the
English speaking races, the bond of
common language and the rest are q
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28

tain In the course of human events to lead to the
death OF democracy, because each thing that the
from the people and the government is moved
with it. And government that is far from the
people is certainly not government OF, for or
by the people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28
delusion and a snare. TT

delusion and a snare. There is no
common language between the PEG
pies; 1t is the very spscious resem-
blance which makes the gap Kip
ling well described the American in
London who heard men talking a
tongue specifically like his own,
on inquiry turned out to be something
quite different" An American says:
I've got you," meaning II under
stand" The Englishman thinks he
has been discovered in some hsllous
deception, The language resempiage
is in fact bar rather than a bond.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28

The man who worthy being leader of men viii
never complain stupidity of his helpers OF the in
ratitude of the Interpretation OF the pub
lie These things part the great game OF Ihe
and TO meet go down before them in dis
couraaenent and defeat, final prooftof powerful
Der Hubbard
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28

Prices will drop, says one authority. Prices
will remain high, says another When wise
men disagree, what can stupid folk think7
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28

General de la Huerta, having survived his
term Of Office, the Mexican government is now
confronted with the stirring problem of "what
to Do With Our Ex-Presidents
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28

Looks like Mr.. Harding was going to be Civ
en- a very nice present his fifty-ninth birth
day-which happens to fall on November sec
ond by the way. 4...
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28

OF the Russian officers who fed
from bolshevism to France, General
Nicolajeff is driving a truck. while
others are working as mechanics and
some as taxicab chauffeurs in Paris
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28

Cedar Rapids Republican. A labor
court may not be as much needed In
the future as someone who can keep
things going and provide the labor
Jobs that win be desired.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-28

Cherokee Democrat: No matter
how you feel about it, you win have
to come to the conclusion that politics
IS pretty wen jazzed all over the
country.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-17
COx's Mate Continues
|! I.audatiOn of Chief
at New Bedford

New Bedford, Mass, Sept. 10
Franklin d. Roosevelt. speaking at Il
meeting III this city this afternoon.
said he did not believe the time has
come when the country needs four
years of reactionary government.
Instead he said he believed that the
new-found idealsm would continue
through the coming generation, and
upon this conviction he looked for
the election of Governor Cox in No
Nember.
Yet the ISSUE is distinctly that be-
tween conserva4 ism and liberalism.
The Democratic party under the
leadership of Governor Cox stands
for d progressive and constructive.
On the other hand the group back
of Senator Harding, such men as
PenroSc. Lodge and Smoot. want us
to be drawn into a state of reaction
like that represented by Hanna and
Tweed, a type of politics and policies
we hoped had passed forever
Mr.. Roosevelt is the grandson of
the late Warren Delano of Fair
haven, and he has spent considerable
of his boyhood days at the family
homestead He was greeted by an
audience composed largely of per-
sonal friends of all parties. One of
the unusual touches of the meeting
was that Mrs. Charles S. Hamlin.
wife of the Federal Reserve Board
member and her daughter, Miss
Anna Hamlin were ushers. They
are close friends of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Governor Coolidge, Mr.. Roosevelt
said, did not believe down in his
heart that this country was endan-
gered from autocracy, despite his re-
cent assertions in his speeches.
Rather the danger is that we shall
go back to a discredited clique and
place them in control of our govern
ment. DO you think that Washing
ton, Jefferson or Lincoln favored a
syndicated presidency? Instead.
they believed that the constitution
intended the executive and legisla-
tive branches should have their dut-
les, and one not be sub servierit to
the other. Harding would have a
composite presidency, with a group
in control who would make the chief
executive figure head
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-17
MASTER RULE
IS BLOCKED BY
CONSTITUTION
P e pl e w i'll Rule
Themselves Senator
Harding Declares
Nominee Issues Statement on Eve Of
"Corstiution Day Asserts That
Cessation of Its Powers Would
Mean Regime Of Autoeraey and
Loss Of Peoples Sovereignty

Marion, O., Sept. 16.--Intended 10
usher in the observance of "Constitu-
ton Day" in his home state, Senator
Harding tonight issued a statement in
which he asserted that If by some
tragic dispensation of fate this con-
stitution should cease to be, the door
would no longer be closed against the
stealthy appropriation of autocratic
power and gradual absorption of the
peoples sovereignty"
Tomorrow Senator Harding will de-
liver a front porch address on consti-
of central Ohioans as part of the pro-
gram of observance of the annivcr-
sary of the adoption of the Federal
constitution.
Beginning his statement. the SEN
ator declared there is abroad in the
land a spirit which seeks to weaken
the aCherance of the people to their
constitution and which reGklessly
challenges it's worth" After discus
sing the necessity for respect to the
basic law OF the nation, he asserted
that so long as it endures the people
will never have master, but will rule
themselves. subject to no compelling
force. but their own authority and the
will of God.
His statement follows:
There is abroad in the land a spirit
which seeks to weaken the adherence
of the people to their constitution anu
which recklessly challenges its worth.
1t is well. therefore. to have one day
in the year set apart for the clearing
of our vision and the regeneration OF
our faith
Continued on Page 9-CoI. 81
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-09-17
THE INJURED

Among the injured who live outside
of Greater New York:
Jesse r. Baer, Burlington, ". J.
Worth Begley, Washington, D. c.
John G. Bronvlow. Hillsda!e. n. ].
James Butss, Yonkers, n. Y.
Arthur G. G.. Cole. North Arlington.
N. J. condition serious)..
Joseph Dickman. Plandome. y. Y.
Paul Darkin.- Hoboken. y. j.
Sam Diamond, Jersey City, y. J.
Walter Dickinson. Yonkers. N. Y.
Leo h Drury. Washington. d. C.
Martin Ellis West New York. N J.
Reginald Ellsworthy, West Orange,
\. J.
William Foley Englewood. n. ].
Arthur Gathersole, North Arlin gton,
y. J.
Floyd Johnson, Yonkers. n. Y.
a. 3. Jessup, Jeddo, Pa.
John kunkle. Crawford, y. j.
George Luhrs. Freeport. n. r
John Markle. Jeddo, Pa.
Harry MCGUIRE, Jersey City. N. J.
Ray McQuade. Yonkers, y. Y.
T. c. Peck, Nyack, n. Y.
William Peterson, Bogota, n. J.
]. W. Ridge. Mt Vernon, n. Y.
Raymond Reddinston. New Nom
mouth, n. j.
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