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P* V( •I fc *v- I 'r['*' Wt I PAGE FOUB I KeoKux, Iowa J. 4 & Efv 1 1 1 1 THE DAILY GATE CITXj and Constitution-Democrat. &}*•- PUBLISHED BY THE GATE CITY COMPANY ti 18 North Sixth Street. OATB CITY—Established 1864. CONSTITUTION—Established 1847. DEMOCRAT—Established 188* Consolidated March 26, 1888. OHI1SP—Established in 1892. Consolidated September 22, 1892. OATH CITY and CONSTITUTION-DEMOCRAT— Consolidated April 3, 19145. wKlrvin General Manager C. E. Warwick" Business Manager Entered at the poetofflce at Keokuk as second-class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dally, by mall, outside city, year Daily, In Keokuk, per week Dally, except Sunday. "I am happy because it is so sa»y for me to *vrKe," sale a beginner to one of the great masters of French prose. "Go home and pray,'' s»»d the maater, "that It way come hard." It is so of writing, so of thinking, ao of life. The easy thing is barely worth doing. The hard thing worth doing, though the end be failure. A goal, to make which one fairly tugs at life and yet misssa, is better than a victory softly won. So, often the man who speaks easily tells the least, while the sparing words one wrenches from a taciturn speaker are imbedded in thought. Shakespeare said that Gratiano talked more than any other man In all Venice. But he compared hia apeech to a bushel of chaff in which lay hidden a single grain of wheat—and that not worth the finding.—Anon. TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE THE MAfi WITH A DREAM. He may be right or he may be wrong, He may be false or he may be true— The singer la often more than the song. The idea more than the man, perdue! Bui right or wrong, there's glory in it— Full to the brim each glorious minute— When the man with the dream goes forth to see What the world and the man and the dream may be! And the ship may sink and the brare go down. And the wrong may triumph and know no rest But one man more may have won a crown For trying a lltle to do his best! And the dream won't hurt, and the seed may blow In a fertile heart that will come in time To help it sprout and help it grow In the sun and rain of a kindlier clime! It is so with dreams, and wfth men that dream None ever knows what there is in store Till he follows the path of the luring gleam, Or whether it leada to pence or war For without the dream there .is never a deed That is worth the hour it costs to do— And the man with the vision is this day's need— For man may be false, but the dream is true! —Baltimore Sun. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.—Col eridge. for research work in laboratories where serum* sought by a bill introduced into the congress by Senator Gallinger of New Hampshire and top-, resentative Kahn of California and referred to dreds of thousands. the committee on agriculture in both houses. Tt kncWI1 13.00 April 15, 1916 instructs the secretary of agriculture to make,possegsi(m government, there wore in 1914 about 80,0001 searcli, the freedom from any regulative or re-i„0 strictive laws, the many endowments for re- yearly in this country must, in comparison with the English figures, run into some hun-|tho8e ^.ho speak for themselves," are absolutely under the control of the individual. The professional! The answer to these questions will be made! clearer if the Gallinger-Kahn bill becomes ef- fective, and The Clate City believes that it should have the support of all persons who claim humanitarian feelings, whether profes« 8*»nal or layman. s' PITY THE DUMB CREATURES. Allen is one of the most painstaking of the How many animals are used, how are the^ 8faf.e 0fficiaig treated, and is there much useless repetition ot joafjng ^oric of that important office has experiments, cruelty and abuse of animals usc"!more an(j and vaccines are gathered! now in force. To give some idea of the exten These are questions to which an answer is gf-ate} tQ about *, STATEHOOD FOR ALAflKA. Statehood for Alaska, pp -'S' •Such is the dream of the Enthusiastic Alask ans that seems to be in fair prospect of realiza tion. And yet, just forty-nine years ago, the States entered into a treaty with Russia where by it agreed to pay $7,200,000 for this bleak region, then sparsely settled and incompletely explored. For many years after this deal, it was thought that the United States had made a bad bargain. But within the last quarter of a century the development of Alaska has been near phenomenal—one of the most romantic images in our history. It is turning out wealth, in minerals and fisheries, of tens of millions of dollars annually. It has passed through its jrude rough, pioneer experience and has blos jsomed out into a staid, settled, 'progressive community that aspires to state hood. Up there, under those northern skies, stretches a great territory 590,884 square miles in extent, the development of whose natural re AN EFFICIENT OFFICIAL. William S. Allen, secretary of state, in pre senting his candidacy for another term, is only asking for a courtesy extended to former secre taries of state who have been accorded third terms without opposition in their own parties. that were such an investigation and report the results. present vear estimate. It must be gratifying to According to the official report of the British Mr. A1]e*n to learn that gtate are animals used in Great Britain for experimental gQnj»agrjng the entrance of any other candidate purposes. Taking into consideration the larger number of persons engaged in medical re- opposed hy search purposes, and the enterprising spirit ot Register and Leader in a recent issue said: "No our scientific men, the number of animals used United law-respecting, sources is but in its infancy. Its total popula tion today is but a handful compared with the hundreds of thousands who will people it ere long. Besides its mines, its fisheries and its forests, it has agricultural possibilities of no mean proportions. Statehood is the logical ambition of AlasKa, Hawaii and Porto Rico. It is only a questiou I of time, and it may not be distant, when these outlying territorial regions will fully qualify for admission into the unitjn. SCORE: KEOKUK 49, WARSAW 46. The tumult and shouting on the grand stands and bleachers have started and baseball fans are in their element. Only in Keokuk has en thusiasm waned for lack of posssesion of a club to uphold the honor of the sport and with play ers who would do their best to keep the organiza tion from dropping into the-cellar position. But away back in the sixties Keokuk had her root ers, fanatics and baseball bugs who spent much time in lavishing praise upon their favorite players and roasting the manager and the um pire every time the home club lost a battle. Here's an indication that this bald statement is based on fact: At Sixteenth and High streets oh August 14, 1867, the Mutuals of Warsaw and the Gate Citys of Keokuk played, the score be ing 49 to 46 in favor of Keokuk. The only rec ollection as to personalities is that John N. Ir win and Roy S. Worth en scored the game, which lasted three hours and was witnessed by a large crowd. The names of the players are buried in oblivion, but God rest their ashes. and there has been no time for than doubled since he assumed the duties, }jUgjnegg 8ygtem g^ve 0peration ever adopted is and business of the office it can that the receipts this year will amount 000,000. Some idea of the growth carl made bv the Iowa automobile are cffice Qf the Under existing conditions this large number I "known^ and Iowa has surelv been fortunate of our four-footed friends, "those who cannot in having for ]ace do wp], to re_elect men and women ongaged in research through animal experimentation are about the onlvj The Hamilton Press, following the lead of class, of persons to whom society gives absolute hundreds of other newspapers, has increased trust and confidence and permits their perfect the subscription price. The soaring price of freedom from restraint. white paper is assigned as one of the causes. Are we justified in this confidence? Are wo The newspaper game besides being hazardous neglecting our responsibility in this direction, is also growing more and more expensive every while we recognize it so fully in tho care with 1 vc-ar. which we guard "against and prevent cruelty to animals by the public generally as is evidenced The Boone First National bank is just com bv the humane laws and the hundreds of so- T'leting a new $150,000 building. On top cieties for the prevention of cruelty to animals building had been placed a mamnio which exist throughout the country, but which searchlight of 240,000 candlepower. On a clear have no application or jurisdiction where am-!n^ht this searchlight can be seen forty miles, nials are used for experimental purposes? be understood when it is the receipts when Mr. Allen took less than one-fonrth of the member other gtate in the 11Ilion can equai the friends all over the pledging him their support and dis- against him. They feel that his record has been so efficient and his attention to duty un- faithful that he should be returned his own party The of record department." To familiar with the work in the secretary of state it's importance is the chief official in this important ^rr William S. Allen, whom the voters Chicago democrats are in great glee. They outvoted the republicans in the recent alder manic elections by 20.000 votes. The first mosquito and the first fly season never get a mention all they get is a swat. i«* 4 -i THE DAILY GAfSJ CITY IOWA PRESe COMMCNT. Dubuque Telegraph-Herald: That little affelr, the presidential primary, la settled. Now we may have the spec tacle of the fellows &(ter state and county offices rolling up their sleeves and stepping to It. It is good, too, to realize that there are hut two more political squabbles scheduled for this year. a J",-, Dubuque Times-Journal: If Clifford Thorne has been as big a man for Iowa as is claimed why send him down to Washington where he may he lost in the 9huffle? Burlington Hawk-Bye: The faction anl fight among Iowa democrats has reached the stage where Eld. Dunn calls Ed. Meredith a liar and so forth and so on. The material results of this civil war will be manifested In an old time republican majority in Iowa this fall. Des Moines Register and Leader: It is going to cost this country some thing to have Its correspondence with the kaiser published in book form. Marahalltown Tlmes'Republican: Iowa never has had a president. And now is as good a time to start fur nishing chief executives as she Is like ly to find. See what Ohio did- for herself. Waterloo Courier: A Tale professor recently declared that the flag wouia be less disgraced by being spit on than by having blood spilt upon It. If the professor thinks he expresses the s"' t.iTnent. of the American neopie he might take the flag and go to any busy corner, publicly spit upon it and ob serve what happens. Davenport Democrat: Chicago wo men voted heavily for Roosevelt. The ladies always did adore a man who rat tled his sword a lot. Waterloo Times-Tribune: Knowing the facts, th« public must support the concern that furnishes gasoline at a fair price. That will bring monopoly to its knees. The public can "bust" any monopoly once it makes up its mind to do it. Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The milk producers who furnlBh Chicago with this fluid food have Just won an in crease In price over the Drotest of the distributing: trust. Now watch the dis tributors pass this Increase ud to the consumers, with trimmings! Des Moines Tribune: A good many of the folks who sneer at the news appearing in a newspaper believe every bit of gossip circulating in the neighborhood. Burlington Hawk-Eye: A farm of 160 acres near Broadlands changed owners recently, the price being $256.50 per acre. The purchaser made out a check for $41,000 in payment. It seems but yesterday that there was practically no money In circula tion among the farmers. And when but a very small amount of cash would have changed hands in connec tion with a transaction of this kind. In those days the price of that prop erty would have been perhaps $4, 800, and that would have been con sidered a lot of money. No doubt there is a certin intimate relation between land prices and the fact that there is plenty of money in the land. Position of the New York Tribune. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: The New York Tribune exaggerates, for psychological reasons, the "sense of resentment at what occurred in 1912" it has put aside that it may support Colonel Roosevelt for president. The Tribune put a good deal of its re sentment aside early in 1914, when It supported Mr. Hinman. the colonel's choice for the republican guberna torial nomination in New York and bitterly opposed the nomination of Mr. Whitman. It has never forgiven Whitman for winning both the nomi nation and the election. The activity of the governor for Hughes, which was an issue in the recent election of a chairman of the republican state central committee, may have had something to do with the Tribune's lukewarmness toward the justice. It is in keeping with Tribune traditions, under the rule of the elder and the younger Reid. that it should declare for the colonel immediately after the republican state central committtee unnanimously passed a resolution against him. The Tribune never feels that it is really republican unless it is opposing the republican organiza tion of New York. Recently it has felt it to be its mission to extend its sphere of influence outside New York. In 1914 it made a vigorous flght for the election of Gifford Pinchot as United States senator from Pennsyl vania. It naturally suffered the han dicap of its distance from the scene of the fight. Perhaps, but for its valiant work, however, Mr. Penrose might have got more than the 250, 655 plurality he received. The Tribune's latest pronouncement Is not exactly surprising. On Decem ber 11, the Saturday before the re publican national committee met. the Tribune published a thunderous edi torial declaring that Colonel Roose velt was the only candidate who could defeat President Wilson, al though, judging from its scathing ar raignment of the president's Euro pean policy. It might have consistent ly argued that anybody could defeat the president. The contention that the country would approve the presi dent's "craven course" if anybody ex cept the colonel ran against him con tained an implied reflection on the country which it scarcely deserves. BUCK-REINER CO aoJ a 1314 Safety Tr*a4 34 4 "FiifLK" $22.40 36 37 sT? SHERIFF'S SALE. State of Iowa, Lee County—ss. By virtue of a special execution to me directed, issued by the Clerk of the District Court of said county in favor of Howard L. Connable and against S. R. Overall, I, John C. Scott, Sheriff, will sell to the highest bidder, at the front door of the Court House in Keokuk, Lee County. Iowa. on the 6th day of May, A. D. 1916, between the nours of 9 o'clock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. m.. commencing at 2 o'clock p. m. of said day the fol-1 lowing property, to-wit: I Lots ten (10) and eleven (11) in, block one hundred and sixty-one (161) in the City of Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa. And to be sold by order of Court to satisfy said writ of execution. Keokuk, April 7, 1916. JOHN C. 8COTT, Sheriff of Lee County, Iowa. By W. S. Montgomery, Deputy. The only really novel thing about the Tribune's latest editorial is the dec laration that the colonel stands for the same things the Tribune does. Will the colonel agree to adopt the Tribune flies as his platform? Monument for Fitch, Burlington Hawkeye: Knox college students at Galesburg are trying to raise a $50,000 endowment fund for the Institution, to be a memorial for the gifted and lovable George Fitch, who was a graduate of the institution. That seems a most fitting manner ot hon oring the memory of a man who was summoned before his time, hut who lived long enough to do good work and to win many friends. No one can really and truth rally state that he would have done much better work and would have won an enduring place In the literary world if he had lived. But he harmed no one, and he made thousands upon thousands smile and I laugh. And surely he was one to be honored by those who knew him, and those who followed him in his old col lege. More than most of the writers of his time did he keep his youth and I his work always recalled the happy college boy at hia very best. Another Disappearance. Boston Transcript: What's* become of the old fashioned pastor who used to preach religion instead of polit ical economy? BUCK-REINER CO. Wholesale Grooorw mnd Coffee Rommters Distributors for the Hart Brand of Canned Fruits end Vegetables WHOLF9 ALE •j DISTRIBUTORS 2 CJ- .ft J* GOODRICH SAVING A Flag Free with Each NEW Sav ings Account of $15 or More. SATURDAY, APRIL 15 INSIDER now the means by which many Tim have been given maximum Traction,—i.e., bv means of a "sandpapery" texture in the Rubber of their Anti-Skid Treads. Every time the Brakes are put on, to make such Tira grip the road, the relatively hard, unyielding, and comwu! atively brittle, texture of the Rubber in their Treads causes these Treads to grind away on the pavement, to WEAR OUT fast at the point of contact* The sudden efficiency of their grinding-Traction also fitga BO sharply on the Rubber Adhesive between tfat layers of Fabric in Ureas to separate these layers. There is little "give" to them*—just as there is little "slide?', to them. So, they gain Traction at the expense of Mileage. Naturally such Tires require a great BULK ofntek Rubber in order to deliver reasonable Mileage before worn out. And, therein they differ radically from GOODRICH "Barefoot" Tires. Because,—the Safety-Tread on Goodrich Tires is made of "Barefoot-Rubber," a new, and exclusive compound.! which discards unnecessary whitish 'frictional" ingredi- I ents that are heaviest and inert* as proved by their lighter weight ERE is how it acts in Automobiling,— —When the weight of the Car bears on this clinging "Barefoot-Rubber" Tread, and the power is applied to go ahead or reverse, the wonderful stretch in the ''Barefoot" Rubber Sole (or Tread) of the Goodrich Tire acts as a sort of Lubricant between the Fabric Structure of the Tire and the Road. Then, the Barqfoot-Rxibber "Toes," of the Goodrich Safety-Tread Tire, CLING to the pavement (instead of —1 in such manner as your Bare Foot surf ace—without Grind, and so, Heat or Wear for maxi mum Traction. Goodrich' 'Barefoot-Rubber'' is now made Into Goodridi FABRIC Tires,—Goodrich Silvertown Cord rich Inner Tubes,—Goodrich Truck Tires,—•Goodrich^Motor Cycle, and Bicycle, Tires, as well as into Goodrich Rub* ber Boots, Over-Shoes, Soles and Heels. 4 Get a Sliver of it from your nearest Goodrich Branch, or Dealer. Stretch it thousands of times, but break it yoa can't —. That's the Stuff that GOODRICH Black-Tread Tirea are made of. THE B. F. GOODRICH C(kj A Business Without Worry CTART one in this bank and you'll know that we are right. A Savings Account in this bank is ever ready to do you a real and genuine service, and is an ever abiding friend. 1Tires,-—Good- Akron, Ohio "BAREFOOT* Tires money is a business, and it is the only business that we know of that does not bring worry. A SAVINGS account means less worry for you and for each member of your, family. Keokuk Savings Bank A wise person will cultivate such a friend Our Depositors Savings Club Offers you a great opportunity. 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