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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23
Sizina Up Erookhart.

Donnellson Review: We do not an
ticipate that the contest between
Senator Cummins and Colonel Brook
hart for the senatorial nomination is
going to be very exciting. There is
too much difference in the mental
makeup of the two men Cummins
has shown himself to be a construc.
tive statesman, while Brookhart's
past record places him among the
disgruntled disorganizers-one who
is never satisfied with existing con-
ditions, no matter how good they
may be, but always sees some new
Utopia in the dim distance. which,
niiragelike, disappears as you draw
closer. He is a believer in govern
ment ownership of public utilities
In fact anything which appeals to the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23
-TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE RIVER OF LIFE.

THE RIVER OF LIFE
The more we live, more brief appear
Our Hfes succeeding stages;
A day of childhood seems a year
And years like passing ages
The gladstone current OF our youth,
Ere passion yet disorders,
Steals lingering like river smooth
Along its grassy borders
But as a careworn cheek grows Ean
And Sorrows shafts fly thicker,
I ye stars that measure life TO man,
Why seem your courses quicker
When Joys have lost their bloom Of breath,
And life itself is vapit,
Why, as we the Falls OF Death,
Feel we its tide more iS--id?
II NAV seem strange-yet who would change
Times course to slower speeding,
When one by one friends are gone
And left our bosoms bleeding?
Heaven gives our years of fading strength
Indemnfying neetness;
And those Of youth seeming length,
Proportoned to its sweetness.
Thomas Campbell
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23
A SILLY FAD.

There is general agreement among sensible
folk that the fad for the wearing of overalls
protest against the high cost of living will not
accomplish it's purpose and will tend to cause
such scarcity of the materials out of which
overalls are manufactured that the price of these
articles viii rise In that case the one who will
most suffer will be the man who feels called up
on to don them in pursuance of his daily labor
Fads usually are the product of unwashed
brains. That silly movement spreads is sure
indication that the unthinking are not all dead.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23
TWO GOALS.

1t will be interesting to note as Great Britain
and the United States work out their industrial
and social problems the result Of two different
ideals which animate these peoples, according
to Lord Bryce This wise historian has said
that in this land people have been devoted to
the ideal of equality and have sought it as a
goal, while in Great Britain it has been person
al liberty that has animated the people as
prime motive to concerted political action. At
first thought there seems little difference in the
path by which these goals would be sought, but
there is an essential difference. In the quest
for equality there would be a trend always to-
ward leveing process; there would be an
underlying motive to average things, property,
work, social conditions. In the quest for per-
sonal liberty there would be constant rebel
lion against constituted authority set up by op-
position and restriction to freedom of speech
and action. This of course is an extreme state
ment Of what actually prevails in practice but
there is ground for accepting its truth In
Great Britain, for instance, radicals are not sub
jected to restriction in speech and act as we are
seeking to restrict them here; but individual
radicals who do act in opposition to the law
are much more promptly repressed than their
equivalents in this country The labor party
program in Great Britain seeks to control
through the state conditions under which work
ers labor; it looks to naturalization only SO far
as this is deemed essential to making workers
independent Of private compusion in their
work; it is not program of confscaton of
property for the sake Of property itself
Labor in this country is not unit in it's pro
gram; it is, so far its leaders can be inter
preted, still averse to constituting party pre-
ferring to seek to dominate existing parties, II
denies a desire to coniscate property, but it
demands wage and working conditions looking
toward practical elimination Of return to cant
tal control Of industrial plants and means, and
to bringing the status of the industrial worker
s to an equality with that of the property owner
Apparently our labor program seeks equality OF
influence of personal GAIN and Of social adj
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23
SUP HUR CLEARS.
ROUGH, RED SKI
Face, Neck and Arms Easly
Smooth, Says Specialist

d
Any breaking out of the SKIN, \
fiery, itching eczema, can Dc w
overcome by applying a NIUE
tho-Sulphur. declares noteu
specialist. Because Of its germ lin,
stroying properties, this SUD uoa
preparation begins at once 10 ~. sS
irritated skin and heal eru ~
such as rash, pimples and ring
1t seldom fails to remove tns
mont and Disagreement. ana y~'|
not have to wait for Keller lfo,a
barrassment. improvement w a.as
shows. Sufferers from shin NM
should obtain a small jar oil ~
Sulphur from any good drusgN
use 1t like cold cream.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

vantage as its goal In short, as Lord Bryce
sees it, British labor is following age-long ira
dition in seeking to make the workers free from
private domination in their work; American
labor is seeking to get for the individual work
er an equal share in everything available. The
latter program is on the face more socialistic
In trend than the former
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

The thought that education best be COM
bined with agricultural labor the principal of thorough
work. that careless, half performed, soveny work makes
for eombinations and thorough work. again
renders sufficient the smallest quantity Of ground to each
and this again. conforms to what must occur In
world less inclined to and devoted to the arts
than heretofore Population st increase rapid
Iy, rapid than in former times, and long the
valuable of all will be the art Of deriving COM
subsistence from the smallest of soil. No
community whose member possesses this art can
the victim of oppression in Of it's forms Such
community will be alike independent Of crowned kings,
money kings and land kinss.-Abrahann Lincoln.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

in the Times yesterday, deserves care
full consideration. 8 He claims that
there is scarcity of overalls piece
goods, that there is not enough to sup
ply the legitimate demand, and that if
people, who really do not need to
wear these garments. persist in buy
ing them, it will mean that prices win
go UP and the men who need them
will not be able to secure them.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

Such things as honor and love and faith
are not only nobler than food and drink, but
indeed I think we desire them more and suf
fer more sharply for their absence.-R. L.
Stevenson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

Quincy Wing: People who plan to
affect overalls should go the whole
way and do work with which those
garments are associated. IL will be
far more effective in reducing the
cost of living than in merely wearing
blue denim.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23
THE icy OF DOING THINGS RIGHT.

1t is Rudyard Kipling who sings of that mil
Ilennial day where mo one shall work for fame,
but each for the JOY of working 1t is a sad
commentary upon our present civilization that
the joy Of doing things right is almost unknown
iamong large class of people The widespread
incapacity for doing things right is not the
Esaddest part Of this modern tendency, but the
Esadder fact is that there is no longer any JOY in
the work The craftsmen of the ancient guilds
banded together for mutual protection and hene-
fit, but they also had high standards for work
manship They inculcated a great love for
work and pride in the finished product.
IF we would find those today who love their
work and do things for the JOY of doing We
must look not among craftsmen and mechanics
but among professional men and women. Law
yers doctors, preachers, social workers and
businessmen and women are largely governed
by the JOY of doing things right American
business has become passion and a JOY to
thousands Of men to whom the other rewards
are incidental. The same thing is true of those
fields of activity where the money rewards are
never large. In such fields the JOY of working
and the satisfaction of doing things right is the
chief incentive. IF this were not so we should
find ourselves deserted by practically every pro-
fessional man and woman, teacher, preacher
and nurse.
And will the restlessness in the ranks OF the
craftsman and the mechanic ever cease until
these men get back to the professional spirit
Mere wages do not bring satisfaction and CON
tent Shorter hours will not usher it IN Moth
ing brings so much satisfaction and content as
a task we'll done.
Nor is this said in any spirit OF gratuitous
upIift. It is straight truth and backed by the
wisdom of ages The JOY Of doing things right
exists It is tangible thing. 1t is the impulse
that exalts business and the professions 1t
must come to labor or else labor viii starve In
the midst of it's own abundance.
Out of four million, nine hundred Thousand
hides shipped from Argentina in 1919, the
United States received three million, one hun
dred thousand, or more than sixty per cent.
If there shall be scarcity Of shoes IN TINS
country, what must be expected IN other ianos
And the hides shipped to America came duty
free.
From observation, it is deduced that keo-
kuk's organization of automobile speeders is
contemplating another strike with possibly
fatal results
/ On February fifteenth, 1917, The Gate City
said: ''The Mexican situation still remains
situation And the condition has not yet
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23
A Possible Excuse.

A Possible Excuse. ~
Louisville Courier-Journai ..,on
better marry me. Eligible m''
scarce" n,ot 4!
II suppose could offer taa' d Y
explanation" said the gifi
lively.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

From observation, it is deduced that keo
kuk's organization of automobile speeders i
contemplating another strike with possibly
fatal results.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

passions and prejudices of the unsat.
isfied classes and produces votes
With which to ride into office.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

On February fifteenth, 1917, The Gate CITY
said: 'The Mexican situation still remains
situation" And the condition has not yet
changed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

philadelphia Public Ledge: Those
who propose to cure the "hign cost
OF living" by wearing overalls are
mixers" They can only pin-pick
the enemy that way.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

The toughest denim made - broad double'
stitched seans-roomy patterns, and extra WIDE
suspenders. Free swing raglan sleeves on the
coats reinforced, convenient pockets - strong
brass buttons, loops and buckles-and a strong,
solid back band = you get all these, and the ex-
pericncc Of the biggest overall makers in the world
behind every pair of Blue Buckles.
Ask your dealer for Blue Buckles.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

Davenport Times: The protest of
the Steffen Overall company, against
the movement to substitute overalls
for business clothing, which appeared
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-04-23

Cedar Rapids Republican: The
man who invented the overall theory
lis not going to be acclaimed the SOW
Ter of all our mundane troubles Inc
man who will invent theory By Which
the club rooms and pool halls can De
emptied during the working hours OF
the day will go much further on the
way to success and glory.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-01
" OMAN ROBS SAILOR
or HUGE BANK ROLL

BORDEAUX, Sept GIVES Der
thon sauntered of the good ship
Laverdiere where he presides over
the destinies Of the galley. with 1900
francs in his pocket and a great
longing in his heart for a sailors
good time
Hands up was the shout of a
feminine voice tnat greeted him as
ne turned into a waterfront street
from the docks.
This Is a sood joke, said Yves.
as he wheeled about 10 look into
the muBzle OF business-like re-
volver. held 10y a steady feminine
hand. This Is indeed a good joke.
let me Kiss YOU -
"Bins." spat the busIness-liSe re-
volver and Yves felt q singing pain
in the left shoulder.
When he aVvoke. the 1. soc francs
had gone and so had the business
like woman. Ii was just gettins
dusk. Yves went 10 the police sta
ton first then returned 20 the good
ship Laverdiere-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-01

first president-eIect 10 ride in "a train
even part OF the way 10 Washington.
and the expansion Of the steam rail
way system was beginning 10 in
flame the national Imagination.
when the das ~ reckoning and
remorse came when bread riots
broke out, when laborers stood i'm
Inc near New York % get Jobs ar 2
was Of 81 "a month and board
when banks suspended payments I'm
coin. and when business houses were
tumbling into bankruptcy. the bank
crF and business men. who had al
ways been violently anti-democratic.
turned upon Van Buren, and pointed
tneF accusing fingers az the White
House. The foremost man OF bust
ness IN conservative New ENGLAND
Abbott Lawrence. did not hesitate
10 hint TO public meeting i'm Ros-
ron. the inCendiary suggestion that
The time might come for forcibls re-
sfrtanCe 10 the government. when
the crew, as he said would have
10 mutiny and seize the ship Of
state
Van Ruren faced the gale without
bending. Tie rose above political
maneuvering and the temptation 10
fiatter the mad passions Of the hour
and preserved an attitude OF mas
ierful inactivity
The president did call congress In
extra session. but only 70 recon-
mend the adoption of the sub
treasury system. The banks having
failed. he proposed that Uncle sam.
like a timid old woman. should lock
mp his money in the bureau drawer
And the economic folly Of the sub
treasury was persisted in until the
esta blishment Of the federal re-
serve system.
II was squaily weather all around.
with the costly Seminole war drag
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-01

gIrE lis slow course through the
malariai everglades OF Florida. with
embarrassing revolutions on both
sides 0f us. in the revoited Mexican
province Of Texas and in Ontario.
ticket IN the on years plainly fore
Swallowed the ill-starred presidents
own defeat in his candidacy for re-
election I'm fS40. No prophet was
needed TO write the refrain OF the
popular campaign song OF the Wings.
Van, Van
Is a used M man.
Nevertheless Van Buren, remained
I'm active politics 10 years. For still
another 70 Gears he lived on i'm re-
tirement At Underwood. his country
estate in his native village. where
he died i'm the midst Of the Civil
war
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-01
DAILY DECLINES JOB
IN P4LNER'S OFFICE

WASHINGTON. Sept. 3O.--Frank
G.. Daily Of indianapolis recently
appointed assistant attorney general.
has declined the post. This state
ment was issued at the white house
today
The attorney general and Frank
G. Daily Of indianapolis called at
the white house today 10 let the
president know that for business
and personal reasons Mr.. Daily felt
Obliged TO decline the place as as
sistant TO the attorney general
which had been rendered him by the
president"
Mr.. Daily was named 10 succeed
G. 3. Ames resigned.
Try NEWS-TIATES Want Ads
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-01

in sowing The wind whose harvest
was the whiriwind ~ 1857.
The nation had beer indulginC in
the first 81 its biz western hooms
The river steamboat aided TO open
up new regions. where mushroom
states. In ambitious emulation III
New York and ifs Erie canal ran
Wild iu appropriations for The build
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-10-01
FIVE MINUTE CH4TS
on OUR PRESIDENTS
by JANIS MORGAN

MARTIN VAN BUREN,.
fs37-Waftu Van Buren, inau-
Euratod eighth president.
aEed 81
Revolution IN Ontario.
Revolution in Texas.
Thc Seminole, war
fhf0-Thc sub-trCa-ury law
Van Buren, defeated for
reelection
1Sf4-Defcatcd for nomination
1SfS--frcc soil Candidure for
president
1S62--Iulv q. died at kinder
hook. y y. AGED -.
The most notable event Of Van
Buren, administration was The oc-
currence of one o. the great panice
from which r tho nineteenth CEN
tury the country regularly collapsed
every ~ 0r ~ years. 1e iu 1919.
1857. 1857. fs1. and iu 1893 Those
periodic prustr1tious always follow
Cd wild dehauChcs iu speculation
but since 10 b. convenient and con
soling 20 blame some one else s0r
our own sins tho president invar-
iahly has been made the capeeoat
IN each period Of hard times.
No doubt Jackson removal Of the
public deposits from the United
states bank caused financial dis
turbance and his distribution NJ the
federal surplus among the state
treasures also was disturbing. Tho
government. the banks and the PEG
pie generally had an merrily joined
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-12

evident that Edwards did not have
a chance.
With Cox the winner at the cleo
ton this fall. Tammany Hall viii
dictate the federal appointments for
New York; Taggert will be recognize
ed in Indiana: Brennan will be the
spokesman for Illinois and here in
New Jersey it will be the unspeak-
able Jim Nugent assisted by the even
less m~entionable Mayer Hague, Of
Jersey City, who will be in the sad
die. No matter how much one mai
admire Cox and the platform on
which ne stands. it is going to be
hard for the average voter to
stomach such a combination as is be-
hind the Democratic candidacy. The
Republican Old Guard MAJ be back
of Harding, but they r of an ems
tirely different from this Democratic
bunch.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-12
Ripping Rhymes
By WALT MASON.
TTJIANA

In Mexico, across the line, Tijuana
merchants sell you wine. or any kind
of sudden death with which you like
to paint your breath. And dead
game sports go there to drink their
favored brands of purple ink, and
cough up seven bits a throw for little
drinks of liquid woe. And when
they've toured through sundry bars
they climb into their meteor cars, and
throw on all the motors power, and
hit a hundred miles an hour; and
eftentimes they break their necks
and leave their costly autos wrecks;
and, failing this. some moral cop
stands in the road and bids them
stop, and leads them to the nearest
Jail, and then a jurist takes their
kale. oh, gents who mourn our free
dom lost, and say the dry law is a
frost, shedding tears and jour-
ney down to old Tijuana, freedoms
town! There You may drink a peck
of gin, and no cheap sleuth will run
you in. and though YOU wade in beer
and rye, no MAGISTRATE will bat an
eye. And when you've had your
poisoned drink, come back and tell
us what yeu think of this punk, ty-
rant ridden land, where all the bug
juice graft is banned.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-12

The reason q couple become one
when they marry is because The male
end of the sketch soon develops into
a rimless cipher.
Love isn't so blind that she won't
spend two hours posing In front Of q
mirror before He calls.
What has become Of the o. Z. man
who used to pay a nickel to hear The
rawlings OF John Mccullough In a
phonograph?
Try to wear a cheerful smile and a
brave front. For Dame Fortune
hates to airt with a discouraged
looking man.
OF course it Is none of our business.
But when a girl wears a Summer
dress that is cut extremely low in
front she can't expect the men to
stare AZ her feet when they pass her.
Then there is the kind of wife who
will VERY because she forgot what IL
was that she was going to worry
about.
Another Damli: Once upon a time
there was a fat wife who saw another
fat woman on the street. and who
didn't say to her husband; Am I as
big as SHE ISL"
Mother makes Father convince the
kids that Castor oil Is nice to take
before they take it. And later on
Mother will throw UP to Father the
fact that he is such a liar that his
own children won't believe him.
The o. (. girl who used to play the
pretty colors the Jockeys wore now
has a daughter who carries her own
dope and does her own h~aHdioappiHg.
A man never realizes what a good
fellow his wife is until she leaves him
for five or six weeks.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-12
DEMOCRATIC HANDICAP.

The biggest handicap that the
Democrats have got to overcome IN
this election is the calibre of the
local leadership in the various states
and cities. No matter how competent
Cox may be for the presidency and
no matter how excellent the plat
form on which he is running may be-
each state and each community
knows that under a Cox administra=
ten the man of influence as far as
the state or community is concerned
will be the local men who played the
leading part in the campaign.
While organization men are back
of the ticket in both parties, the
crowd back of Cox is perhaps the
most obnoxious 70 the thoughtful
citizen. II is well known that prior
to the San Francisco convention a
bunch of ring leaders met at Tom
lTaggert's famous French Lick re-
sort and planned to use every en-
deaver TO put Cox across. Among
those present were Murphy, of Tam
many Hall; Taggert, of lndianai
Brennan, the successor 20 Roger
Sullivan, of Illinois. and a lew others
o. that stripe. They hate President
Wilson almost as much as the Re
publican leaders do and chey were
Teedy to adopt any prograro that
would defeat the administration.
Cox was their man and they stuck
TO Cox to the end. OF course, such
a mar as the unspeakabie Jim
Nugent would fall in readily with
the Murphy-Taggert combination
and it was not surprlsIHg, therefore
70 see the New jersey delegation GO
ing eysr to Cox as soon as Il was
Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-07-12
BOSSES IN CONTROL.

Every time any OF the eid-time
political bosses open thsif mouths
to make a statement on the coming
election they put their foot in it;
lthey do more 10 hurt the cause than
sey do to aid It.
y~5Ths latest exhibition of this kind
comes frem senator Penrose, of
Pennsylvania, Of the Old Guard
OF the Republican party. Penrese,
in his latest eut-pourings, says that
the Democratic party is in the hands
of political bosses. Judging from the
outcome Of the San Francisco een'
ventien there is good reason to be-
lieve that the senator is right. But
it Ill bsheeyes a la of the Penrose
type to deride a political party for
being hess-ridden. When it comes
to bosses IN politics Penrose is a past
master and the grip that the Old
Guard has on the Republican party
today IL n of the greatest obstacles
to success In November.
But. a. the senator points out. the
Democratic party is no better off in
this regard, Both parties. apparent
". have gone back to their old moor
ings. the so-ealled progressive ele-
rnent IN both parties will be forced
TO take a back seat II they sit on the
band wagon at all.
There is this difference between
the boss OF the Psnress type and
the boss OF the Murphy type, how
ever, The Murphy breed know
enough to keep their mouths shut
and do not try TO condemn the oppo'
81 ion on the ground that It is boss
ridden.