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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
WHEN NEWSPAPERS ARE MISSED

London Corr. Of New York World .
Imagine a curtain dropped between
the British isles and the remainder
of the world for two whole days, at
time when every hour may bring
forty new sensations, domestic OF
foreign. That is our experience at
the moment, with the complete sus
pension of the newspapers over the
Christmas holidays.
Anything may have happened in
the last forty-eight hours without our
getting an inkling of it. Trotzky may
have sent Christmas greetings to
CIemcnceau; Senator Lodge may have
accepted the league Of nations; Do
Valera may have condoled with Lord
French. or D'Annunzio may have
vowed to renounce publicity forever,
but. we were ignorant Of it all. Indeed,
anything short OF earthquake may
have happened in London itself, yet
residents not Immediately affected
can know nothing OF IT.
We might as well be living in the
middle ages instead Of in an era in
which the collection and transmission
Of news well-nigh reached perfection.
The sensation Of having no news.
paper at breakfast is devastating in
its feeling 81 isolation. After follow
ing from day 70 day the development
Of epoch-naking events, our interest
excited 10 tfle boiling point. and then
fortg-ejghf hours ~ inpenetrable 81.
lenee, " Is little short OF naddening.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
LIVING WAGE FOR TRoLLEYs.

Schenectady Union-Star: Hold your
breath! They put on a seven-ceni
fare in Albany and Troy tomorrow
1T will cost a nickel and two coppers
TO ride. Hold your breath, and won
der how long it will be before Schnec
tady gets the same thing.
But hold on Wait a minute and
do a little figuring before you get ex
cited!
Did you ever think that when men
were earning dollar and a half a
day, and spent ten cents OF it fol-
carfare they were spending one-fif
teenth of their earnings? And did
you ever stop to figure it out that
when they earn, wen say, four dol
for carfare they spend one-thirty.
third. A days pay that used to have
the buying power of fifteen rides now
has the buying power of thirty-three
rides.
Pretty nearly everybody's pay has
been raised except the pay of the
street railway. It's cost of living has
gone up, too. 1t has to pay more in
wages. 1t has to pay more to run
its power house and its cars. Yet
its income has not been increased
1t is working for about the same
wages it was before the war.
Either the street railway is essen.
tial, or it is not.
If it is, it merits living wages. If
1T isn't it may go to the dogs, and the
quicker the better.
We hold the street railway is
necessary, that distances are too
great to walk, that the bulk of us yet
cannot afford automobiles, that no
method has been found more efficient
and cheaper for transporting folks
than the electric car.
And it it is worthy of being main
tanned, 1t is worth a livign income. It
must have enough so it can be self
sustaining, so 1t can Keep I'D It's
working equipment, so it can build
extensions, SO it can be maintained
al high efficiency. For, if we must
have street cars let us have efficient
ones. N...
If anybody were seeking the IN
popular side of the most unpopular
question, all he has TO do is to advo.
cate higher fares for the street rail-
way. Nobody loves the trolley sys.
tenn.
But it is not question of POM.
larity, it Is n mere question of aritT,-
metic, to show that if the public re.
quires adequate transportation il will
have to pay for 1t. And paying for
it, in this case. involves giving this
utility living wage
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

George Eliot and the Modern Novel.
Yale Review: Even George Eliot's
early novels are somehow out Of
tune with the present. Even they
are too reflective. Readers tire o.
the minute story Of Maggie Tulli.
ver's thoughts and emotions. II the
entire life of a girl into womanhood
is to be presented, they prefer the
manner of Miss Sinclair who in her
Mary Olivier does not stop to
moralize, but goes on rapidly in a
quick succession of disconnacttd
scenes which they may Immediately
forget, If they wish, one after an-
other. What they want is q direct
vivid perception of life in rs MANY
new phases as possible. They care
nothing for a so-called plot worked
up to a logical conclusion. The late
Henry James wrote for them ,uany
And much may be said for his
method. No story, so far as re.
member, really turns upon its con
clusion. except The Lady or ne
Tiger?" We all easily forget now y
novel ends. II is what goes before
that counts. And in what goes lie.
IOFe, IT may REPEAT, THEW 9hOu'''
be raised, according to present stand,
ards. no question OF right o: wrong
conduct. To raise such question
anywhere would be discourtesy to
the reader. The novel must now be
immoral. The noyelists part is to
depict life in its fullness. The reader
wishes TO draw his own moral infer
ences. "a novel" says Ibanez, SIS to
give the sensation of life a.d
affairs" Here. except for details OF
technique, the Spanish novelist stops.
So. in practice if not in definition
here stop the Russians who above
all others have transformed the
novel into something quite different
from what it was when George
Eliot left it, A novelist may. If he
likes. still show up social abuses and
preach social righteousness In tile
manner of Wells and Galswortlly
But he must leave the individual
alone. There is now no place in The
novel for personal Righteousness.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
A Union That spltes Itself.

Samuel Crother, in Worlds Work
In the fear that the bricklayers
might within n short time lay all tho
bricks the world had to lay they nut
on artificial limitations. Today brick
laying is not only expensive, but the
bricklayers strike at the drop of a
hat. What has happened? Contrac.
tors, when they can possibly avoid
it, do not build houses of bricl, and
neither do they lay pavements of
brick. Instead they use reinforced
concrete. In recent operation 81
youngstown, Ohio. five men erected
three houses in two days. In that
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
ACID IN STOMACH
sOUntj TIL: Foo
Says Excess of liydrochloric Acd
Cause or Indigestion.

A well-known authority states that
stomach trouble and indigestion ara
nearly always due to acidity-acii
stcmachard not. as most folks be-
iieye, from lack of digestive juices
He states thai an excess of hydro
chloric acid in the stomach retagd;
digestion and starts food fer1nonta
ton, then cur :leGi3 soar like ga.
bage in 4 can, foFaiing acrid fluids
and gases which initiate the stomach
like toy balloon, We then get that
heavy, lumpy feeling in the chest, We
eructate sour food. beIch gas. or nave
heartburn. fiatuience, water-brash, Oh
nausea.
He tells US to lay aside all dives
tive aids and instead, get from ans
pharmacy four ounces of Jad Salt
and take tablespoonful in giasl
OF wafer before breakfast while it i
eHeryesclng, and furthermore, to con
tlnue this for one week. While relia
follows the first dose, it is importan
10 neutralize the acidity, remove TIL
Sas-making mass. start the liver
stimulate the lridneys and thus prc
mote a free flow of pure digess!y;
juices.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and 4
made from the acid of grapes an,
lemon juice, combined with lithil IN.
sodium phosphate. This harmless
salts is used by thousands for som
ach trouble with excellent results.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
LIGHT ON CARRANZA.

Carranza has just been quoted declaring
that he proposes to re-establish constitutional
order in every state in Mexico before he re-
linquishes power. Medina, his secretary of for
eign affairs, announces that no foreigners who
testify against Mexico will be permitted to re-
turn to that country; which means that Amerl-
cans out Of sympathy with the Carranza regime
will be excluded as undesirable aliens, passports
issued to them by government being disre-
garded
Carranzas attitude and course against us
seemed mystery; but the key to it probably
is to be found in recent statement of George
a. Sheldon, late consul general in Mexico
CITY. He and Ambassador Fletcher, who has
lust resigned because the present administra-
ton has no intelligent policy towards Mexico,
are the highest American authorities on Mexi-
can affairs Mr.. Sheldon declares that all the
strength Carranza has is based upon his bitter
enmitv to the United States. He voices the
group which fosters the ancient hatred of us.
This is the one source of strength the sole foun-
dation of his power His whole internal policy
~ g Down with Americans This is his plat
fern and it has made him the most conspicuous
figure in Latin America today The fact ex-
plains his acts, his insolence towards us, the in
diglltles to which Americans are subjected It
Rns why citizens, guiltless of offending
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
A Revival Aiohly Reqrettable.

! New York Times: From several OF
the big stores come reports, possibly
containing something of exaggcration,
but evidently in large measure true, of
an unprecedented demand for and sale
of what used to be called the plan,
Ghetto and now goes under the name
of the ouiia board. AS explanation of
this reawakened demand for an old de-
vice for obtaining messages" of seem
ingly mysterious origin it is stated
that the purchasers expect or hope by
means of these machines to get into
communication with the dead-most
often with soldiers who were killed in
France.
If that is the case, the condition of
minds thus revealed is at once pathc-
tic and disquieting-pat because
Of the sorrows of bereavement still I'M
assuaged that it manifests, and dis
lquieting because it indicates as a re-
suit Of the war, a widespread mental
state promising little for the future.
And this turning for consolation to
"a source whence it cannot come ex.
cept as a wild and absurd illusion does
not stand alone, unfortunately, as a
."sign of the times" Other reports are
to the effect that fortune tellers.
trance mediums, and other pretended
opponents of mysticism and the super
natural or supernormal never had so
many clients as now, and that all of
them who are even moderately expert
in the sorry craft of their tribe are
making small fortunes out of the cred
ulity OF their dupes.
To whatever extent these tales are
will founded they indicate that a like
part of the American public is suffer.
ing from what in soldiers long sub.
lected to the strains of war was called
shell shock" and, what IS worse, that
these sufferers in their ignorance are
seeking relief in ways the only ef-
feet Of which will be further and
worse forms of mental and nervous
sequilibration.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
BRITISH COTTON GROWERS EXPAND.

American cotton growers Will be interested
i'll the report of the American trade commission
er at Brussels, giving an account Of the sue
cessful experiments with cotton growing in the
Belgian Congo. These experiments are being
conducted largely through the activity of the
British Cotton Growing association, which is
also conducting operations in Egypt, the Sudan,
ard in German East Africa, now under British
control, the expressed purpose being to find
some source for cotton supply, other than
America. The SOUTH which has depended so
largely upon cotton in the past, must keep in
mind the competition which is likely to result
from these efforts to develop other cotton pro-
ducing regions. The diversfcation, which has
been so earnestly advised by many industrial
leaders in the south may become an absolute
necessity, if the British plans succeed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

1t proves the value of the public
press, but the cost of the lesson is
too great. The most inveterate giber
at the newspapers would have given
the daintiest morsel Of his Christmas
breakfast for a glimpse even at the
particular newspaper he despises in
ordinary circumstances.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
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GUS, your skin has that AealJhy g,os
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ana thai deilshtIai feeling Oi y0l-
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Old. Maggie katorsan, SHOALS, N4
writes; Il am 90 years OLD, do all m!
own work, neVrr miss a meal, eat Al
want and anything want, ana lee
as young today as | did fifty year!
ago, which / attribute to e-tmg tat
BLISS MATT II E1..Is3 IABLLl
each night before retiring. Lach
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and is sealed with a blue seal bealjus
signature of AL0NzO o. BLISS 70.
sale by all leading druggists IN bJxe,
containing 200 doseG IUf $1.U0 uad i
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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
HE BRINGS A CALM.

The day is long, and the day is hard,
We are tired of marching and keeping guard;
Tired of the of fight to be won,
OF days to live through and work to be done;
Tired of ourselves and being alone.
And all the while, did we only see,
We walk in the Lords own company;
We fight, but tits He who nerves our arm;
He turns the arrows which else might harm
And out OF the storm He bring calm.
The work we count so hard to do
He makes il easy, for He works too;
The days that are long to live are His,
A bit of His bright eternities,
And close to need His helping is.
Susan Coolid
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

Vinton Eagle: Yea. We fought for
freedom, and now we've got so much
of it that we don't know what to do
with it.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Up to re-
Gently Mr.. Wilson has largely had
his own way and played the privilege
to the limit He has crossed the
line; he no longer dominates his own
party; much less the public at large
The last year OF his administration
wanes in power and popularity
Waterloo Times Tribune: Lloyd
George says i'll luck, politically, has
befallen all statesmen who had to do
with the peace treaty, but. him. Per
haps George is beginning to think
that his private business is being too
much neglected.
Davenport Democrat: If it required
a fortune to elect Newberry, he
should resign and get out Of public
life. We want men there who have
felt and responded to the call to
service-not men who have bought
an Office to use to forward their per
sonal ambition and the interests of
those who contributed to the pur-
chase price.
Algona Upper Des Moines-Republi
can: We wonder how it happened
that Jim Pierce never got to be sec
rotary of agriculture?
Perry Chief: Attorney General
HavneT's candidacy for governor re,
ceived an awful blow when it was
announced that Jim Pierce planned
to support CD him. Havner's most
bitter enemies could not have wished
him much worse luck that such a
calamity.
Knoxville Express: Havner claims
he has the republican nomination for
governor just as good as landed-but
here comes a rumor that Uncle jim
Pierce and the Homestead are about
to espouse his cause. Good night!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

operation the contractors put up a
community of 2S1 solidly-built, at
Acknowledgment. concrete houses,
with sewers, streets, and all that a
town should have, in less than a
year and at no time were more than
200 men employed on the job.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
NOTICE.
Q whom il may concern:

~ HHOIn II may concern.
Notice is hereby given that at Ii
annual meeting OF the stockholdef
OF Standard -Four Tire Company
heolcuk, Iowa, held ON the Goth d.
.of January, 1890. Article -Four OF ti
original Articles of Incorporation .
amended was repealed and the follow
ing adopted in lieu thereof:
Article Four.
The affairs OF the corporation sbal
be conducted by a board of NM
directors who shall be elected by tl
stockholders at their annual meetn:
and who shall hold cf7ice for the teri
OF one year and until their successor
have been elected and qualified.
Vacancies on the Board of Diree
tors shall be !illed by the Board, an
such incumbent snail hold office I'd
til the next annual meeting OF ta'
stockholders.
The Board of Directors shall, fro'
among the stockholders, select
President. Vice President, a SecFe
tary and q Treasurer who shall nor
Office until the board meeting mnledi
ately following the succeeding anlilI
meeting, provided that the Board J
Directors may call FOR The resignatpI
of any officer at any time. Vacancls.
among officers shall be 1Iled by tN
Board.
J. 8. GADIsLINB,
President
c. o. FRAZIER,
Secretary
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

The report is confirmed that Henry Ford is
one of the great multitude in the Z. s. A who
are looking for a substitute for alcohol He is
not the only prohibitionist who is engaged in
the fascinating new sport.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

are haste be doing, to be writing, to be
gathering to make our voice audible moment IN
the dersve eternity that forget that one
thing these but the parts namely to live
Robert Louis Stevenson.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

The good in evil is again proven by the an
nouncement Of a leading Chicago hospital that
during the influenza epidemic no unnecessary
operations will be performed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
to. await deportation IS crimina
archists.

Agricultural science and intensi,,
farming being highly developed
France, that country is a large usei
superphosphate.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
Doubtless many Americans will wonder that

Doubtless many Americans will wonder that
the Hungarians could have voted for a mon
archie form Of government, as report says they
did. But it is not strange, after all, that they
should do so when we consider that the country
has had one experience Of one kind Of popular
rule True, it was not democratic rule, but a
class regime. However, it was enough to, sick
en- the Hungarians of all forms of popular rule.
They do not wish to repeat the experiment.
Most of the peoples Of Europe do not under.
stand democratic government, anyway. They
conceive of liberty as license for the individual
under sociaEstc or bureaucratic government.
A monarchy, with limited powers, if rightly
conducted, is far better for them than any So
called republic they could organize just now.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

are kept month after month in pest-house JAMS
and the UNPUBLISHED murder OF hundreds OF them
In the last few years.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Vinton Eagle: Yea. We fought for
freedom, and now we've got so much
of it that we don't know what to do
with it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

J. s. GADLyLINB,
President
c. o. FRAZIER,
Secretary
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-02-09

! Algona Upper Des Moines-Republi
can: We wonder how it happened
that Jim Pierce never got to be sec.
rotary Of agriculture?
The Press., 1920-09-09
SC0REBO.tRD IS HIS C...!.:CC.s.!0
Most Hopeless of Fans Is the One Who Can Enjoy Game With
 out Seeing 1t.

We never see him al the game, moi even In the bIeacherS. He stands be, fore checkered frame with scores of fellow creatures. He cannot hear the crack of bat or see the rival fingers. but yet he visions all of that us on the curb he fingers.
 He cannot hear the batters beef or hOOt in wild dersion, nor can he raise cry of "thief'' when peeved at some decision. He cannot watch, with features set, his diamond gods em. battled; he cannot start a din to get the other tWirer rattled.
 But yet he groanS or whoops with joy. looks glum or starts to grinning when now and then the office boy chalks up the latest inning. The board dissolves before his view as do the street and alley and fancy speeds him quickly to that dear old Rainier val ley.
 In fancy he Is with the birds that perch upon the railing, with "empties'' and assorted words the robber "umps'' asSailing. and though the scoreboard's potent dope portends a sad disaster he sticks around in doSsed hope his heroes yet will master.
 Most anyone can be fan who owns a season ticket; it takes another sor; of man to be a scoreboard picket. He swarms around the boards in packs. he's not aloof or clannish. If he were charged a sidewalk tax how soon our debt would vanish.-Carlton Fitchett in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
The Press., 1920-09-09
AirpIane Has It's Limits.

The officials of the United States de- partment of agriculture have been in receipt of many suggestions relative to extinguishing forest fires with the use of gas bombs dropped from air planes that it has been found neces- sary to issue a statement for the pur- pose of explaining that the scheme is not feasible. For the purpose of over- coming a detachment of men, a mix ture of one part of virulent poison to 100000 of air would be entirely suf- ficient to accomplish the purpose but one of 75O parts to the thousand would not be powerful enough to- quench conflasration. Another thing to be taken into consideration Is the diff culty of dropping the bombs with the necessary precision. The art of strik-
 ing a target with any degree of, ac- curacy has not been developed at this time, and there is no prospect that 1t will be sufficiently perfected to the point of becoming available for the purpose of fighting fires.