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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
RIGHTS OF BR1FoNs ENFORCED.

On February seventeenth 1914, William S.
Benton, British subject, was killed in the vi
cinity Of Villas headquarters in Mexico. It is
now announced that the British government
has agreed to settlement of the claim by the
government Of ten thousand dollars cash ato
Mrs. Benton and pension of two dollars and a
half day as long as she remains unmarried.
That is the sort of government protection that
accounts in large measure for the prestige of
Great Britain today Wherever a law-abiding
British subject may be, he knows that his home
government is looking after his welfare, and
will be quick to demand redress should other
countries fail to extend the protection of their
laws to him. Benton's death occurred three
thousand or four thousand miles away from
home, and since then the British government
has been racked with four years Of the greatest
war in history, but through it all it never for
got the account it had to settle with Mexico.
There have been hundreds Of American citi-
zens murdered or wounded in Mexico in the
last eight years. Tens of millions of dollars
worth of American property in Mexico has been
wantonly destroyed Never has there been
substantial effort made by this government to
obtain redress. Notes have succeeded notes, all
to no effect. With a change Of administration
we may look forward to radical reform in our
attitude toward our citizens travelling not only
in Mexico but in any other part of the world.
But we can never efface from American history
the shameful record of official impotence under
Wilson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
GREAT MEN UNDER SCRUTINY.

While the speculations concerning the next
president cabinet are without authority, they
are useful in aiding to crystaze public sentiment
and acquaint the people with the merits Of their
eminent men, their policies opinions and views.
Recent guesses are that Senator Knox may be
asked to serve the nation as secretary OF state
or that if his health does not permit or he pre-
fers to remain in the senate, DR.. David Jayne
Hill may be named Both these citizens are
men of conceded high ability, experienced IN
statecraft and in general accord with Senator
Harding as to the part the republic should take
in world affairs.
1t is surmised also that Governor Lowden, OF
Illinois, may be rendered the treasury portfolio.
II this shall happen and he accepts, the finances
will be wisely and carefully administered by a
man who has filed with credit many posts OF
honor and responsibility and made notably
fine record as a. business administrator Of Lii
nols. Whoever may be appointed, it can hardly
be questioned that it is Of even greater import
ance that the nation should have wise and
conservative secretary. Of the treasury than that
bank should have careful and conservative
head in whose Judgment depositors can safely
confide. For head Of the war department the
name of General Leonard Wood comes first to
many mnds. The fact that his friends contested
the Ohio primaries with Senator Harding may
be expected to have but little weight with u
man so broad and big the president-elect.
Such considerations had no effect on Lincoln
when he saw in Stanton the capacity the nation
needed; and the fact that General Wood is an
administrator Of demonstrated surprising abil-
ity is undeA 9e and undenied.
All this i tesswork, but, as said above, it
has its uses; itrhelps the people to take stock
of their cat =, eligibes and reach conclusions
as to the type of men they want. The unex-
ampled plurality which carried Senator Hard.
ing to the white house places him far above any
need, real or supposed, of allowing personal po-
ltical considerations to Influence his course. He
is beyond the necessity of maneuvering for ex-
pediency's sake. He has only to do the wise
thing and the right thing, as he sees it, and all
that he can to give the country honest, econom-
ical, capable management, and the plaudits Of
the people will be all the political machine"
he needs, if circumstances shall SO shape that
he aspires to a second term. No man less mort
gagged and freer to give the people the best that
is in him ever took our highest office; and the
general feein is that he will make superbly
good.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
wAYLAMD, MO.
. . - . o . s>>~> 4

The protracted meeting held at
the NJ f. church, south, under the
direction Of the Rev Mr. Speer and
daughter closed Sunday night with
some sixteen converts. Miss Speer
The town feels the benefit and ap-
preciates tho revival.
T. F. Higbee, of Clay township.
bought the farm gate at the school
fair. The gate was made and painted
by the agricultural class OF Wayland
high school.
Mrs. J. A. White. OF Warsaw, H..
spent the week end with Mrs. Kate
Fore
Mrs. Morgan Morris and sister,
Miss Kearns, were Keokuk visitors
last Saturday.
Mrs. Andy Rogan has been con-
fined to the house for the last week
with a severe cold.
Professor Kitch and wife have
gone to housekeeping in the F. Stark
residence and are active workers in
everything that is good for the high
school and our town.
Miss Sutterfield, one of our high
school teachers, spent the week end
with Miss Emma Soole and enjoyed
the country outing as well as the
kind hospitality.
Mr.. Arthur and family have moved
into the Talbot residence in east
Miss Bridges, our primary teacher,
spent a part of last week in Kansas
City.
The freshman class Of the WayiaRd
high school, all from surrounding
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
Reactive Pullman Rates.

st. Paul Pioneer Press: The sleep
ing car rate is in pretty much the fix
in which certain imports were placed
by tariff so high as to be prohibitive.
The business is falling off because, the
public cannot afford to pay the price
except under the prod of necessity
When high impost duties were levied
to prohibit importations they worked
out their ends. but they ceased to pro-
'duce revenue when they got SO high
as to become prohibitfve. Railway
management now is asking itself
whether, as a revenue maker, the
sleeping car rates are failure. There
is no profit in hauling half-filled
sleepers when it costs no more to
haul completely filed cars.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
The right word is always a power, and
communicates it's defniteness to our action.
George Eliot.
EPIDEM1Cs loF CRIM1NALITY.

Philadelphia with fifty hold-ups in a single
day, Chicago and st. Louis and New York City
with their offerings Of murders and raids once
in twenty four hours or less and disquieting
increase Of crimes Of other sorts throughout the
country suggest that there is room for supple
mental police forces able to cope successfully
with the clement defiant of law. plan sug-
gested is that bandits who use motor cars are
to be chased and subdued by riflemen in power
full automobiles or racing sldecar motorcycles
stationed night and day at strategic points; and
the expectation is that crime as a business can
be made more precarious than it has been of
late.
It is idle to gainsay that an epidemic of law
lessness is on the land. Explain it as may,
or accept it as inexplicable, the fact is beyond
dispute that municipal machinery for combat
ing crime is overmatched and Intellectual to a
degree unknown before. This is not to say that
the forces making for law and order have deteri-
Grated. 1t may be that they are merely over
taxed and inadequate to cope with the volume
of crime. Yet the fact that New York City has
had, so far this year, over one hundred murders
which still mysteries, not to speak of the
Wall street bombing horror, would seem to in
dictate that criminality as a profession has be-
come safer than heretofore. If this be so, So
cety must equip itesif more thoroughly for
sef-protection.
There is no question that our population as
a whole has deteriorated in generation. Its
moral average has been lowered by the millions
Of less-developed immigrants it has absorbed.
The foreign names that figure in crime records
establish this. Several causes also have con-
spired to bring about lessened respect for law.
You cannot give country law which millions
of upright citizens hold to impose no moral OBJ
legations them without cheapening respect
for all laws. The fugitive slave law was such
a law, and the laws in England under which
dissenters in matters of faith were hunted into
jails, and congregations Of sectaries-God-fe fear
ing men and women of irreproachable lives
were broken up and their pastors put in the
stocks, were other laws which put good laws
into contempt and led to revolutions in the end.
And there are other causes and, as we NAV be
sure, reasons in the nature of things for every
condition which exists, including the present
epidemic of criminality which society must
stamp out.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
auto Party Killed

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
DENVER. Colo, Nov. 17.-Mrs. M.
S. Mayer, of Denver, today was re-
covering from injuries received in an
automobile wreck yesterday in which
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Baer,
were killed. Their automobile was
struck by a Santa Fee train near AL
buquerque, N. NJ, yesterday
Mrs Baer was instantly killed and
Baer died late yesterday at a hos
pitai. The chauffeur was uninjured
and Mrs. Mayer, the daughter. was
Slightly injured
Baer WAY a ,~.lthy cattle man and
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

It was to be expected that Michigan would
defeat the bill to abolish all private schools and
place education entirely in the hands of the
state Though We have gone far in taking from
individuals rights, privileges and duties, we
are not yet quite ready to deprive parents of all
supervision over the education of their chill
dreR-
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
A PRETTY GOOD WORLD.


This worlds pretty good sort of world
Taking it all together,
In spite of the grief and sorrow we meet,
In spite of the gloomy weather.
There are friends to love and hopes to cheer
And plenty of compensation
FOR every ache for those who make
The best of the situation. III ig
seTs.sa
There are quiet hooks for lovers Of books,
With nature in happy union;
There are cool retreats from the noontide heats
Where souls may have sweet communion;
And if there's spot where the sun shines not
There's always a lamp to light it,
And If there's wrong we know ere long
That the God above will right It
80 It is not for to make fuss
Because of life's sad mischances,
Nor to wear ourselves out to bring about
change in our circumstances.
For this worlds pretty good sort Of world,
And He to whom debtor
Appoints place and supplies the grace
To help make it better.
Josephine PoIla
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

There are sensible Germans who warn their
countrymen now rejoicing at the prospect of
peace with US not to expect too much from the
incoming administration. Our desire for peace
with Germany does not mean that we are going
to be SO soft with her as to Let diplomatic VIC
tory offset the defeat suffered by her on the
battlefield.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

country districts, lead the sophie
mores in grades and department the
first quarter. The sophs took notice
and vowed that next quarter there
would be q change
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Waterloo Times Tribune: The
country is expecting congress to limit
public expenditures to the lowest pos
sible point. The country expects
economy to the limit
Webster City Freeman j Journal. Pro-
duction must be cheapened. Wage
earners must either accept lower
wages or produce more for the same
wages. Capital, too, must be satisfied
with smaller profits. There is no
other alternative. 1t is coming Just
as sure as fate.
Washington Journal: No doubt
there are other just judges, but they
are not so spectacular in their perso-
nalities, nor SO widely known as Judge
Lands is.
Newton News: Some way or other,
the word Investigation" does not car
ny much weight any more.
Waterloo Courier: What we need
is, first, to eliminate the commercial
pirate-the profiteer-then, co-opera-
>tion
Mason City Globe Gazette: Iowa
should have the double election board
system, one set of judges to take the
vote and enter the names on the poll
books, and the other to count every
hour the ballots deposited.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Price re-
auctions are most welcome but they
can reach point where they will
cease to be a blessing to many people.
Sioux City Journal: In some in
stances, such as the governor, the in
cumbent might be made ineligible for
reelection to succeed himself. thereby
destroying in a large sense the desire
of building up political machines
through the influence of the office.
Sioux City Tribune: Gambling in
food should be minimized, and the
middleman, insofar as he is him
drance to this end, should be curbed.
But the fixing of prices would be Of
doubtful efficacy.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

pioneer resident of Colorado. With
his family he was enroute to Cali
fornia to spend the winter when the
accident occurred,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
Eve Salnn Anna4

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. I
PROVINCETOWN, Mass, Nov. IL.
Five sailors were afioat today on a
navy oil barge somewhere between
Cape Race and Cape Ann.
The navy tug Penaeook, on az
rival here today reported the tug
h-d h-9l-e- r--?v in heavy sto~-~
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
Fruit Desserts
Rich in real fruit, sealed in glass

Thanksgiving serve a Jify-
Jell dessert. Get it now, and
let us send you free some
dainty way of serving.
Jiffy-Jell is the new grade
quick gelatin dessert. Its fruit
fiavors are rich and real.
We crush the fruit, con-
dense the juice and seal it in a
bottle. So you get real fruit
and much of it, not mere
fruit taste.
Eight fruits thus come to
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

is the fashion of time to bette pain. am
this tendency All such theories tend to harden
suffering. If tell child it is not hurt and
carry thought it will destroy that precious SYM
patty loving tenderness and compassion for Others
beautiful of christs teachngs-Rt. Rev. r. H.
Weller D. D., bishop of Fond dl Lac.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

Burlington Hawk-Eye: Price re-
auctions are most welcome but they
can reach a point where they will
cease to be a blessing to many people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
Wilkinson q Co.

In the early Greek plays only tWa
sl-characters appeared ON the stage a.
woo ti.-,a
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

Waterloo Times Tribune: The
country Is expecting congress to limit
public expenditures to the lowest pos
sible point The country expects
economy to the limit.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

Waterloo Courier: What we need
Is, first, to eliminate the commercial
pirate-the profiteer-then, co-opera-
>tion.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

Washington Journal: No doubt
there are other just judges, but they
are not so spectacular in their perso-
1alities, nor so widely known as Judge
Lands is.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

Newton News: Some way or other,
the word Investigation" does not car
ry much weight any more.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17

you in Jify-Jell desserts. Each
package has bottle of a rich
fruit essence. 1t gives to these
supreme desserts a multiplied
delight.
Jify-J ell comes ready
sweetened. It comes acidu-
lated with lemon or grape
acid Simply add b oiling
water, as directed on package,
then the flavor from the bot
tie, and let cool.
A package serves six in
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-17
add attractions to the dinner

mold form, or IL if you whip
the jell-all for Is cents. The
fruit alone would usually cost
more.
Get several havors of this
new-type dainty. Millions now
enjoy it. Then send us the
trademarks for dainty ways
of serving. Do this now, SO
your gift may reach you for
Thanksgiving dinner.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05

lea, knowing that that power will likely
be welded by an alien. a man who may
not even speak our language, is the
worst enemy lie United States has ever
had (Apnlausel
Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05
PROFIT 25O PERCENT

In the midst of other important matters recently it
became necessary investigate the high cost of the chicken
sandwich dear the paates of clerks and
other employees who patronze the House Office
Restaurant in Washington, D. c.
Representative King Of Illinois, feeling that profteer
being carried little too far the matter of chicken
sandwiches purchased sample at the usual price OF 30
cents He did not it. but hasened to drug store and
had analysed its various component parts duly weighed
and their value appraised at current marked prices The
tabulated statistics follows:
Cost: Chicken-5 drains 80 grain apothecares', 12
1886 drains avoirdupo at 45 cents per pound216 cents
Lettuce-5 drains 20 grains apothecaries', 1l.968
drams avoirdupois, at cents pound, .28 cents.
Butter1 dram 40 grains apothecaries, 3728 drains
avoirdupois, at 70 cents per pound, 1.O1 cents.
Bread ounce dramS so grains apothecaries', or
1904 dras avordupois at cents for 12ounce loaf
lib cents.
Total cost .naterias4.5S Adding 100 per
for handling makes total net of serving of 81 cents
Subtracng that from the selling price of 35 cents
arrives at the profit 1884 cents considerably
than 250 per cent profit.
And now the point that interests the long-sufering
public s-what did congress do about it?
Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05
GET AFTER THIS LIE
RedIands Facts

The Home Industry League of California has inaug-
urated to organize the olive producers and
packers of the state effort to correct sensational and
unounded story being spread the East to the effect
that the ripe olive is injurious as food.
Following the action of the league the Board of Sup
of San Francisco has taken official action urging
all industries interested adopt expedient at
The story, which given wide publicity, had its or
gin in fatal incident in Ohio town where of ripe
olives happened to be the means of ptomaine poisoning
The apparent discovery of form of poison IN canned
goods made the incident the basis of wide discussion which
focused on the California olive instead of making it alb
stract treatment of canned goods.
A. C. Rulofson, we'll known business man of San
Francisco and director of the Home Industry League
his return from the East few days stated that in
New York and Chicago he found that several hotels
refusing olives the tables their action being
due the misleading statements that had been published
The following statement has been issued by the Home
Industry League the olive producers of California;
Unfortunate publicity has been given to instance
of poisoning attributed to ripe olives We desire to place
disposal the efforts of the Home Industry League
Of California to right this wrong and will be glad to give
statewide publicity to any information that will give
proving that the danger from preserved olives greater
than from any other form of natural preserved food
stuffs when properly handled.
I'VE would suggest that you write US fully and give
the matter immediate attention. contributing all practical
scientific data possible"
Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05
"LITTLE WOMEN"

They like the play of Little Women written from
Louisa Alcots book of that They like it in London
Our English cousins ockng it and laughing and
shedding tears just Americans did both play and
book.
delightful sign of the real soundness of the times
when PLAYS and books of such simplicity and sweetness
hailed with unfaling popularity whenever they ap
pear.
Little Women" pretended to be anything but
the chronicle of nice family in decent home yet after all
these years it still ranks high among the best sellers and
the Observation-Disclosures books in the libraries.
About every often misanthrope decides that all
the world about is the so-called problem plays,
the shows which feature young ladies whose clothing is
most conspicuous by its absenceand they in terrible
stew about it. But the trouble with them that they them
selves of touch with the wholesome side of e and
here the international popularity of little oldashio-
ed, homely play TO prove them wrong.
Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05

First-Instead of setting up an
organization that. will bring peace
to the world and settle questions ac-
cording to the principles of law and
OF equity, it sets up a political tri-
bural that viii be controlled, not by
the equity, but by the interests of
the nations concerned.
SecOnd-There is nOlimitatiOn up
on its power and authority except
the right of nation or the power of
nation to secede and go out Of it.
Third-it sets no super-goverrl-
ment of the world and whoever con-
Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05

trOis that super-g0vernment of the
world controls the destiny and fate
of the United States.
FOurtf--it inyades our constitu-
tion many times and, i'm principle,
il is Il sacrifice of all those things
the fathers fought for and gained i'm
the great Revolution.
Fifti--It undertakes to set up Il
soviet labor government of the
world. TO investigate labor conditions
here in this country and punish the
United States of America by the tle-
cree of three men, not one OF whom
is an American citizen,
Imperial Valley press., 1920-01-05
IN PEOPLES HANDS

The Cummins railroad bill is in conference-in
the hands Of committee composed of members of both
houses of congress That bill prohibits railroad strikes
and provides tribunal for che readusment of differ
All citizens interested in the railroad problem
of wage differences Al citizens interested in the railroad
problem should write to their members of the and
house. telling just exactly what they think Of the strike
provision All those who think wage controversy should
settled by strike threat of strike should All
who think adjustment board should be created
and strikes prohibited should also make their known
Members of will doubtless be glad to hear from
their constituents such an important question
Detroit mail carrier has been fined 500 for throw
ing mail behind bboards, instead Of delivering it,
Burleson couldn't stand for that