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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
CHILDREN WILL
ATTEND FUNERAL
One Son and TWO Daughters Of the
Late Henry Luder Have Been
Located and Will Arrive
Here Tomorrow.

The funeral services for the late
Henry Luder. which will be held
from Cunningham & Hawkes. chapel
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock, will
be attended by several of his chill
dren who live out of the city and OF
whom Keokuk people knew little
about at the time Of their fathers
death.
John Luder, a nephew of the de-
ceased and resident of Keokuk. got
IN touch with children OF Mr.. Luder
this week in time to inform them of
their fathers death, and three of
them will be here tomorrow, a son,
CHARLES, from Dallas City, and two
married daughters from Basco, Ill.
There are two more daughters living
at Kansas City.
The services tomorrow afternoon
VIII be held at the chapel, with the
Key T. L. Rydbeck officiating. In
,erment will take place in Oakland
cemetery.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
e.,deners and Farmers Smile AZ
Rain Comes Down This Morning
and Again This Afternoon
on Their Crops.
HELPS OUT ON ROADS
uo4orists viii End Driving Fine To-
morrow with Rain Enough to
Settle the Dust and Pack
Surface.

The rainfall which came in this
eaction today was called blessed by
the farmers and truck gardeners in
the vicinity of Keokuk. Lawns and
small gardens in the city eagerly
drank up the water, and the rains
were reported to be very beneficial
GU. through the rural districts.
ut was million-dollar rain while
II lasted" one Of the truck gardeners
said today. Some Of the farmers
near Keokuk said that while nothing
as vet was suffering from the dry
weather, the rain was very beneficial
to everything, especially to the corn
and tomatoes.
The roads leading in and out Of
the city are being benefited by the
rain. too and will be in fine condi-
ton for motoring Sunday.
The storm this morning came with
A few flourishes Of thunder and
flashes of lightning. This noon, with
the sun about to clear the atmos-
phere, there came sharp flash of
lightning, and this was evidently a
signal for showers, as several heavy
ones were let loose about the time
everybody was scurrying home for
tho half holiday.
The market has been affording a
large number of the seasons products
this week, including sweet corn and
homegrown melons. The sweet corn,
which started in last week at fabu-
lous price, has been reduced to real
summer prices this week. A number
of the smaller gardeners who were
content to sell their corn at small
profit reaped big harvest all of the
fore part of the week by selling cora
at considerably less than market
prices Whether this had anything
to do with the drop in market prices
is matter of speculation amongst
people who have been buying roast
in ears.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

STORIES TOLD
Death Of LOFTS as Witnessed by Jayne
and Miss Woods, is Being inves-
tigated by Chicago
Police.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
CHICAGO, July 31.-Police today
conferred their investigation Of the
mysterious death Of Samuel T. A.
Lofts last night on the story of Miss
Ruth Woods. The woman was Lofts
guest at his home during the evening
and was with the pajama clad diamond
broker when he died.
Coroner Hoffman and CHEZ - Pc
lice Clarity visited the young woman
this afternoon in an attempt to get a
coherent story. They said she and
Roy M. Shayne, her fiancee, were so
Ibefuddled that their version Of the
death party was unreliable.
According to Garrity, the young
woman told first of two attempts up
on her person during the evening. The
first, she said, was by Lofts. The
other was by a taxi chauffeur, she
said. She was driven from the
Lofts flat after calling Shayne to be
sure to protect her from Lofts who,
she said, had been drinking heavily.
The story of the wealthy brokers'
death as related by Clarity, was that
Lofts inveigled the girl to his flat on
the pretense that he was ready to
start Shayne in business and wanted
her advice. At the flat she said she
had been piled with drink and LOFTS
attempted an attack. She called
Shayne who was welcomed to- the
party by Lofts.
LOFTS, they told the chief, hilarious
ly danced about this rooms, flnally
tripping on a rug and falling heavily
across the couch. In the fall his head
struck a door knob which inflicted the
fatal wound. While Shayne called a
physician and the coroner's office, the
girl fled. She later told Clarity she
had intended going home, but the
chauffeur attempted to attack her and
robbed her Of thirty dollars. That was
why police did not find her at her
rooms when they called shortly after
Lofts death.
The taxi chauffeur, Herman WeXler,
said the woman told him to drive
about for two or three hours, that they
finally picked up a male passenger.
When the man left the cab, Wexler
said. Miss Woods told him she had
been robbed.
wexler was held for further ques-
tioning.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
AUTO INDISPENSABLE
IFrom the St. Louis elobe-Democrat.1

, country would be restricted far below
what it is at present and the prices
the people would have to pay for food
would mean starvation for those who
could not double their incomes. There
has been too much of tendency to
| look upon the automobile as purely a
pleasure vehicle. 1t is true that use
| of the machine for pleasure is a large
one, but the same can be said of the
indispensable telephone. There is no
way to disassociate the pleasure use
! from the business use. 1t is as inn
possible to class trucks and tractors
as business vehicles and other auto
mobiles as pleasure according to
whether or not they were in business
buildings or private residences.
It is not the fact that the making
Of automobile vehicles gives labor to
large number of persons that
makes it so important in the industrial
and business life of the nation, but the
use of the vehicles for production.
TRANSPORTATION and business activities.
Without them production and distri-
button would both be paralyzed.
Whenever invention and science add
something of practically a revolution
airy nature il the methods of doing
business or of general living, there
can never be any step backward. The
steam engine, the steamboat, the rail-
road the telegraph, artificial gas, the
electric light the telephone, the phono-
graph, the elevator, the multiple print
ing press and typesetting machine.
the electric street car, now the auto
motive vehicle and soon, probably, the
flying machine, each in its turn has
caused can only be changed by the.sub
stitution of something equally new
and revolutionary. There is no going
backward. They become absolute
necessities of our economic system
until superseded.--(E Editorial from the
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
The TaiIest Men Live in One Part Of
the Country and Shortest Ones
Dwell in Another-climato
Cause Of II.
BIG RACE IN EUROPE
II is Found in the United Kingdom in
Southwestern Corner Of Scot
land-Men Average Five
Feet, Nine Inches.

Habitually we think of Japanese as
small men and imagine Russian to
be tall man in a big greatcoat.
The Englishman, according to pop
ular opinion, is supposed to be taller
than Frenchman, much in the same
way that dog of the st. Bernard
or mastiff breed surpasses a TERROR
or a poodle, remarks a writer IN the
North China Standard. The common
idea is not SO very far wrong, for
measurements made by scientists
show that differences exist between
the average height of races of man
kind. Generally stature varies be-
tween feet inches and feet 10
inches. OF really dwarf men under 5
feet height, there are few, chiefly the
lbushmen of South Africa, the dwarf
|of New Guinea and the Laplanders.
The tallest race in Europe is to
be found in the united kingdom, in
the southwestern corner of Scotland,
where the average height is feet 10
inches. Scotsmen, on the whole, are
a tall race, and on the average meas
lure about S feet inches. This height
lis only equaled by the tall Polynesian
and American races.
Among the shortest men are the
south Italians, Sicilians and Sardini-
ans, where the usual height is as low
las 5 feet inches or feet 3 inches.
THE lowest average in England is
found in the southwestern parts and
lin Wales, ranging from feet 6
inches to feet tx inches. In
it rises to 5 feet s
inches and among the burly York.
Ishiremen it even goes as high as 5
feet 9h inches.
This leaves the nearest rivals on
the continent far behind Even the
North Germans, Danes and Scandi-
Inavians, who are classed among the
ltallest people there, only range from
Is feet 5 inches to feet 7 inches.
iF'renchmen are generally smaller.
measuring about feet 5 inches. and
the Spaniards an inch shorter.
Stature depends a good deal on
climate. The bushmen live in the
great Ka1ahari desert. the tall Poly
,nesians on the Pacific islands and
enjoy all the advantages nature can
bestow. The Hottentots of the same
race as the Bushmen, but inhabiting
more fertile country, are apprecia5iy
taller.
On higher ground the people are
usually shorter, SO that the Swiss
and central Europeans generally IRE
istocky rather than tall. Sometimes
stature varies with the class of men.
Early emigrants to America before
things were made easy by the stcam-
ship companies were always taller
than the races from which they had
sprung. They were picked men full
of physical vigor and courage. Stature
varies also according to nrofnssion.
About half the professional and
ecclesiastical classes are tall men,
but only about one in ten of the
.cobblers. weavers and tailors reach
the height of 5 feet I inches.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
IOWA ROADS IN
FINE CONDITION
Motorists Who Plan to Drive Sunday
in the State viii Have No
Trouble Picking Out
the Good Ones.

Main travelled highways of Iowa
are probably in better condition than
they have been at any time previous
in the present season.
The weekly road report issued by
the weather bureau, says this morn
ing that roads are generally IN
good condition Showers have been
light and scattered. Rough places
have been dragged. A few dust holes
have appeared in drier sections.
A favorable outlook IS forecasted
for the week end. The weather may
be unsettled, but there is little 1ndi'
cation that there will be much rain.
All roads are good for long lis
tances with one or two major excep-
tons.
The Okoboji trail is rough few
miles north of Perry and from Gran
ger to Camp Dodge. A detour IS
recommended south at Gardiner
through Minburn to a point west OF
Dallas Center, then south to elevator
at Otonville and into Des MONIES m
the River-to-River road.
New construction work makes
going hard on the Daniel Boone tran
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
AUTO INpIsPENsIBLE-2 coils

AUTO INDISPENSABLE coils -.
Possibly few yet realize the indis-
pensable part automotive vehicles
have come to play in the economy Of
the country. If they were to be sud
denly taken out of the daily life OF
the nation things would go smash. In
dustries could not be maintained,
merchandising would collapse. Agr1-
culture would be in hopeless confusion
and impotency and the managers OF
railroads would throw up their hands
in despair of their ability to handle
the traffic of the country. This great
change in economic conditions. this
practical Transformation Of business
methods and equipment, has come
about within the short period OF two
decades. Twenty years ago the au-
tomobile was but an experiment, with
it's possibilities unrealized and its pos
session confined to few pioneers, SO
to speak, practically all of them seek
ing their pleasure only. The whole
nation is now virtually on automot1ve
wheels, for work, for business and for
pleasure. 1t has become as great
necessity of the everyday life of the
people, without which its social, INDUS
trial and commercial life could not
proceed, as the telephone and the cleo
trio light. Indeed, from an agricultur-
al point of view it is of far more I'M
portance than either of those.
The tractor, the truck and the pas
senger automobile have so been woven
into the machinery of agricultural
production and life that to take them
out would be to paralyze the farm in
dustry of the country. They have
been the means of maintaining agr1-
cultural production in the face OF the
declining farm population and the
alarming decrease in farm labor. If
II were not for automotive machinery
and vehicles, including the so-called
pleasure type, farm production IN this
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
RATE. INCREASES
ARE SWEEPING
Commerce Commission De.
cision Late Today Boosts Freight
and Passenger
Rates.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.
WASHINGTON, July 31.-Sweeping
rate increases were granted the ma
tons railroads in decision handed
down late today by the interstate COM
merce commission.
Freight increases were awarded as
follows: Eastern railroads forty per
cent; southern railroads twenty-five
per cent; western railroads thirty
five per cent; mountain Pacific group
twenty-five per cent.
The average increase was approx
Imately thirty-one per cent while the
roads asked an average of about
'thirty-seven per cent.
Passenger rates were increased
twenty per cent which was the amount
asked by the railroads.
Excess baggage rates were also
Increased 20 percent. Rates on milk
and cream carried on passenger trains
were also increased 20 percent.
Pullman charges were increased So
lpercent, the increase to accrue to the
carriers.
This was the amount OF increase
asked by the railroads on Pullman
fares.
The increases granted may be put
into effect by the railroads after five
days notice to the commission and
to the general public.
Commissioners Eastman and NC
Chord concurred in the decision Of
the commission, but said they ar
riveG at the conclusions by differ.
emf method than did other member;
OF the commission.
1t is estimated that the increases
will bring the roads $1,500,000, 900.
They asked S1.645, 900 900.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
congested Shipping Conditions, High
Cost Of Living, Etc, Make Farm
er Most independent Man
on Earth.
AFFECTS CITIES MOST
Industrial Unrest and Other Post War
Problems Hit the People Who
Live in the Metropolis the
Hardest.

Conditions arising out of the rail-
way tieup emphasize the postwar com
Iment of many observers that the world
is returning in it's economic aspects
to something closely approaching me-
Idieyal methods of existence. They
do not mean that the world is return
ing to feudalism, but to the conditions
of life that period, remarks the New
York Evening Sun.
The war, industrial unrest, difficult
ties over shipping and exchange in
international trade, affect the great
cities the most, it is pointed out. The
farmer is much more Independent than
the Industrial worker. The man who
has his own house and garden is much
less tied to this complicated machin-
cry of trade than the flat dweller.
The cellar of the home as a place
of storage against rainy day had
been almost forgotten by the present
generation until prohibition brought
it sharply to mind. The man with a
bank roll and a cellar had little to
worry about, but the man who lived
up his salary every month and had
only room in his fat for beds and
chairs and the poodle inherited a
whole lot of worry.
Blessed Condition Of the Farmer.
This instance applies to food as
well. The farmer who can raise his
own vegetables, cure his own hams
and make his own sausage can fill his
cellar with enough to last him year
and have no cares over the transpor-
tation problem or the rapacity of prof.
teers.
AS some economists point out, we
are returning to the era when the
wise man, as in the middle wages,
provided for the future with goods for
himself and his family-and not with
mere money.
Even now the housewives Of the
land are learning anew to make the
clothes for their children and even for
themselves There is movement
on foot to teach an inept generation
the skill of their ancestors in the spin
ming of flax and the weaving of linen
because of its scarcity. We are
forced to recall the not far distant
days when every family provided its
own tablecloths, comforters and stock
ings as matter of course.
In those days it made little or no
difference whether there was railroad
service or whether the world was short
of shipping or not. The milk came
from the COW stable, the green vege-
tables from the garden, the potatoes
from the root cellar, the clothes from
the loom, the meat from the smoke
house or the poultry yard and the
-four (if necessary from the field.
That was system of life which
did not take great cities, which can
not feed themselves, into account and
to which some say the teeming world
must return. Undoubtedly, though,
there was another side of the picture
and, looking at it from this distance,
our forefathers probably thought the
world just as complex and perplexing
an institution then as it appears to
us today.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
All Ordered to Return

limited Press Leased Wire Seryice.l
SPRINGFIELD, Ill, July 81
Frank harrington, president of the
Illinois district miners, late today is
sued orders for all strikers to return
to work Monday.
Farrington's action followed an
nouncement by John L. Lewis, inter
national president of the United Mine
workers, calling on all miners to re-
turn to work pending appointment OF
a commission by President Wilson to
consider their demands for in
creased wages.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

south of Madrid. A suggested de-
tour runs from Madrid east to Slater,
south to Polk City and then to .1es
Moines.
The Sixth avenue road should con-
tinue to be followed from Ankeny to
Des Moines. The highway north Of
Ankeny is In the best shape chat it
has been this year. There is de-
tour between Osceola and Leon.
The River-tolRiver road is dusty
in places. 1t is slightly rough near
Nicola and from Mitchell to Colfax
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
GLAD TO HELP
THE SOLDIERS
MANY keoluk People Say They Are
Pleased to Be Able to Assist
in Making Big Picnic
a Success.

We consider it an honor to do
awning to help the soldiers" is the
way one local firm has responded to
ne American Legion's request that
uckets be purchased by them for the
picnic de luxe which the legion is
sponsoring for Bluff Park, August 26.
responses are coming in rapidly
now and, according to the post adj
lutant over fifty people have re-
sponded to requests to help in the
financing OF the big outing.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
Mexican Chief of Operations.

rIJnited Press Leased Wire Service
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 81
General Alvarado Rodriguez has been
appointed by the Mexican secretary
of war as chief of operations in the
campaign against Governor Estaban
Cantu, of Lower California, a report
here today said.
Rodriguez will have all the federal
soldiers in the states of Sinoloa and
Sonora under him during the Cantu
campaign.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

A wonderful echo can be heard in
a room in the castle of Simonetta,
near Milan. A loud noise, such as a
pistol shot, is repeated sixty times.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

The campaign to secure the passage
of the suffrage amendment through
congress necessitated the raising and
spending of more than 100000.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

Spain is not the has-been some peo-
ple think-Madrid now has the worlds
finest and most up-to-the- minute post
office building.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
CITY NEWS

knights of Columbus booster
meeting and fish dinner at o'clock
Friday evening, August 8.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

California housewives are discuss
ing the abolition of Sunday motor
rides in order to conserve fuel Tor
tractors, irrigation pumps and trucks.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

In 1919 it was estimated that H..
600 900 women over ten years OF age
in the United States were wage earn
ers
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

Human nature may be all alike but
if you treat it all alike youn ma
most of it is different.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

In 1865 Edward Vii forbade the play
ing of football, and made it a criminal
offense, because it hindered the pro-
gress of his pet hobby-archery.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31
MINERS QUITTING,
IOWA FACES TIEUP
Danger Similar to That In Illinois Is
Confronting HaWkeyes as the
Mines Begin to Lie
Idle

OTTUMWA, Ia, July 31.-Danger
of a coal mining tie-up in Iowa simi-
lar to that now being experience in
Illinois followed reports from south
ern Iowa today of walkoutS in several
of the largest mines,
The strikes, it is reported, are be-
ing brought about, as in Illinois, by
the day men, who are dissatisfied
with mining conditions and wages as
they apply to them.
The following mines in the vicinity
of Ottumwa are reported idle:
Mines IS and 10, Buxton.
Rex No. 4, at Lovilla.
Reports at headquarters OF the
United Mine Workers at Abba state
that other mines may be out of OPP
GRAFTON.
The mines where the strikes are
taking place are among the most i'm
portant in the state.
Railroads Confiscate.
Operators fear the "outlaw strike
fever" may spread.
In anticipation of a tie-up, rail
roads have begun Selling coal In
transit for storage.
Local dealers stated today that
they do not expect coal from the
railroads for some time.
Rumors of impending increases in
price of all coal were current today.
Iowa coal was selling for immediate
delivery, by those dealers who have
sunnlies on hand, at $3.50 ton.
orders for future delivery are be-
inp accepted only "at current prices
at date of delivery"
prices will go to SIS a ton Monday,
rumors state.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-07-31

Don't expect deep thoughts from
shallow minds.
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