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THE DAILY GATJ OITY3
and Cons ti tutlon-Democrmi.
puwf JiUHwIi BY
THE) GATE CITY COMPANY
18 North. Sixth Street
OA.TB CITY—Established 184*.
CONSTITUTION—Established 18".
DEMOCRAT-—Established
OsnMlUtted Uueb tt, 1&S3.
In 1S91.
Consolidated SeptaiOber W 189s.
Jftimr--Established
OATl CITY and COJOTIT UTION-DSJMOCBAT—•
Consolidated April t, 191*.
a HL Wfcrwtok .Brume- Manage*
Entered at the poatoflVce at Xeokak a« ••onnrt Hn"
Butter.
SUBSCRIPTION EATSBJ8.
XfeOyv tr mail, outside city, jrwr
Bally, kSaoknk, per n—k
Dafljr, except Sunday.
Keokuk. Iowa October 5, 191?
it would probably be found upon examination that most
men who have devoted their lives successfully to great la-
bora and ambitions and who have received the most splen
did gifts from Fortune have nevertheless found their chief
pleasures in things unconnected with their main pursuits
and generally within the reach of common men.—Lecky.
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE WAY I FOUGHT.
I am not bound to win life's fame, I am not charged to
reach a goal
It is not told that victory alone shall consecrate the soul.
Not all the great men come to wealth, not all the noble
men succeed.
The glory of a life Is not the record of one daring deed
And if I serve a purpose true, and keep my course though
tempest tossed,
It shall not matter in the end, whether I won my fight or
lost.
I was not ordered at my birth to come to death possess
ing gold
No stern command was given me that riches mast be
mine to hold.
The reason for my life is hid, I shall not solve the mys
tery here.
And even what is victory for mortal man is far from clear
But this I know, when comes the end and all my tolling
here is done,
The way I fought will count for more than all the goals 1
may have won.
If only victory were g(*d, and only riches proved men's
worth.
Then only men of strength would live, and brutes alone
would rule the earth
Then striving" for"a lofty goal and failing to succeed were
And men would lie and cheat and steal and stoop to any-
thing to win.
than success,
I've
But there are greater goals than gold, and finer virtues: ^urne(j
fought shall count for more than what
managed to possess.
—Edgar A. Guest, in American Boy.
A business which is not a benefit to all
three classes of partners proprietor, con
sumer and employe, is a spiritual failure and
its proprietor spiritually bankrupt.—"Wil
liam I)e Witt Hyde.
THE GAME OF WAR.
eeption of the political ends of the conflict, ^rafje
Tactics is half business.
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critic as to wars in general that they are
greatest interest. If they are to survive. thei^f.t jt?s
whole art of contest at arms must be revised, kaiser
There are conclusive reasons why this must be
the last conflict in which the manhood of the
nations will be under arms. War with armies
of millions is becoming an impossibility, and
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[the army of the future will be a small highly
I trained body of professionals "frith an immense
[equipment of artillery. The infantry will be
few in number but each man will be armed
with a machine gun and be able to hold a front
that requires a company now. The airplane
will overleap the trenches, and being used to
transport small armies with incredible rapidity
to points of vantage, trench lines will be obso
lete. In fiue, war is to be changed from an ele
mentary game like draughts to an elaborate
and complicated game like chess with a greater
variety of moves and endless possibilities of
fresh combinations. Military power will no
longer depend on numbers but directive genius,
and companies of soldiers scientifically equip
ped will do the work divisions are now doing.
If this conception of the armies of the future
is near to the truth it will make for that aboli
tion of war of which humanity has dreamed. A
small internationalized army and navy with a
perfection of equipment would suffice to hold
semi-barbarous peoples in check. The best
guaranty of peace, however, will be the fact that
that democracies desire it and governments of
the people do not intrigue to bring on wars.
THE PRICE OF COAL.
The federal fuel administrator asks no man
to do business without a reasonable profit but
is at the same time determined that no coal
dealer shall take advantage of the situation to
gouge the public. To cover the climbing cost
of living and oi doing business the retail deal
ers are permitted a margin of profit greater by
thirty per cent, than that of 1915. The general
understanding is that heretofore retailers who
supplied domestic consumers expected to add a
dollar a ton to the carload cost. They can add
one dollar and thirty cents this year but coal
for household use may still be cheaper than it
]asf- season
TAKING OVER THE SHIPS.
All doubt of the wisdom of the government's
decision to requisition every American mer
chant ship of more than two thousand, five
hundred tons is removed by frank expressions
of approval by the heads of important ship
ping lines. The manager of the Southern Pa
cific Steamship company summed up the situa
tion by saying: "The government needs the
,«hips, and we are with the government." It is
understood that most of the vessels except
I those required for direct government service,
?tant and corcji^i
a
Herbert Sidebotham, an English
critic of recognized acumen, makes illuminating' ^vernmentaTneeds." It is bel'ieved that within
comment in the current Atlantic on the .-trateg months every American ship available for
and tactics of the war. Strategy is half P°^"!ooean service will be engaged in supplying
tics, he says, and must be based on a clear
cpn"!^merican
reqUjred
w^- nthe
since the government has put
down the cost at the mouth of the mine.
After explaining the system now in force the
fuel administrator advises dealers that they
need not consider themselves as under any sort
of compulson to add the thirty per cent., or any
per cent, to their former prices for they will be
subjected neither to criticism nor annoyance if
they neglet or openly refuse to increase their
profits over those which came to them in for
mer years. Our ooal dealers will thus be
within their rights in selling coal on an even
smaller margin than the government has fixed.
There can be no room for two opinions on this
and it goes without saying how gratifying to
the consumer the information will be.
back to their OfWners for
Its end is to inflict tempoary loss and inconvenience due to
the enemy frith
a
the maximum of loss on
minimum to yourself
tactics, convention and dogma are the enemies
of success. In his opinion, Napoleon's dictum
that the moral is to the material in war as three
to one, still holds. Superior animal spirits win- The advance of a cent a quart in milk is at
battles, and men succeed because they feel thattributed to the high cost of fodder. Why can't
they can. The Germans who mad* the mistake the cows do as well as humans and be con
of attaining their maximum energy at the out- tented with the cheaper cuts of grass until
set soon came to suffer from discouragement as times are easier?
the war was prolonged beyond their expecta
tions, and the knowledge that they were fierht-, Mayor "V\ ilham Hale Thompson, of Chicago,
ing not to increase their gains but to hold them planning to become a candidate for the Lnit
gave them the feeling of going down hill. It
and alike in strategy and
routf,S)
f'd
would seem that in a war as in a race the rnaxi- ^ghies the senate resembles the bundesrat or
mum effort cannot be put forth safely at the reichstag.
start. The kaiser has again said that it won't be
It is, however, the general conclusions of this'ormany's fault if the war is prolonged. Wil
°^'helm not anxious that the American army
Opel a-
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government account, DUt all Will oe
subject to the ordecs of the shipping board,
Rates will be much lower than present charges
'for carrying government supplies, but they
'may be revised at any time in the interest of
fairness.
Gradually, but satisfactorily to all con
cerned. the country's shipping problems are
'being solved. Many ships are building, and
everything afloat under the American flag will
be used to win the war. There is no hesita
tion, no needless delay. Everywhere is geen in
military
response by private owners to
troops and warships abroad, or in
in carrying on the war. There
withdrawal of ships from regular trade
}JU^ the remedy may be found in the em
p'ovment of neutral tonnage and the admission
of foreign vessels to the coastwise trade.
States senate. Wonder if Big Bill un-
anxious
coveted opportunity to "can the
When von Hindenbnrg
ago ''Victory is in sight,"
ferred to hindsight.
mmm
said three months
he must have re-
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daily gate city.
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
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Sioux City Journal: Then Just as
we had worked up an appropriate
thrill at the apparently mysterious
successes of our American secret ser
vice, along comes the un-mysterious
head of that service and wet blankets
all our enthusiasm by saying it isn't
Des Moines Register: After a while
Mr. Havner may begin to suspect that
somebody wants him to resign.
Davenport Times: One of these
days soon we shall be paying 3 cents
postage on letters. If you are behind
In your correspondence, now is the
time to catch up.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: When Con
presewoman Rankin had an engage
ment with the president she of course
took advantage of her prerogative to
keep him waiting ten minutes re
gardless of the stress of his business.
A plain congressman would have
found the engagement broken and he
would have made no arrangement for
its renewal.
Cedar Rapids Republican: What
the state department has been publish
ing ought to be sufficient to answer
every foolish question about why we
are in the war. The man who can
still ask for sach a why ought to be
in an insane asylum.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: It is quite
possible that some people would he
better off in health if they were to
cut down their candy ration by more
than thirty per cent, and were to sub
stitute corn bread or rye bread. And
after all, good bread has a better
taste than the finest and most expen
sive candies.
Charles City Press: The Pennsyl
vania railroad has taken a Liberty
loan census of its employes. It finds
that 32 per cent, of its foreign horn
contributed to the loan, to 34 per cent
of natices. That is to say, the immi
grants gave Uncle Sam their monej
Just as cheerfully as those who were
born and bred Americans.
BONOS' STRONG BOX.
Charles J. Keller "If I bought the
durned thing what'ud I do with It?
Can't carry a bond around in my
jeans, yon know."
That was one of the difficulties
that faced the first offering of Lib
erty loan bonds. The people were
willing and they had the money. But
they did not know where to put a
bond if they bought one. Safety de
posit boxes are not found on every
stump about the farm and they are
scarce even in many a good sized
town. Besides, most people in the
city do not own boxes and the yearly
cost of the smallest of chests would
take the income from a hundred dol
lar bond.
But the difficulty Is being sur
mounted in various ways. The Penn
sylvania railroad, for one has come
forward with a plan that thousands
of employers will copy. The Penn
sylvania has addressed to its em
ployes a circular In which it expresses
this idea: "Do not let the question
of caring for your bond keep you
from buying one. Buy the bond and
turn it over to the treasurer of the
Pennsylvania system. The road wiil
give you a receipt .for your bond and
accept all the responsibility of cus
todianship. Your bond will be kept
In the same sort of place in which a
big bank keeps ita treasure. When
the interest is due the road will clip
your coupon, collect the amount
coming to you and send you a check
for It. When you want your bond
for any purpose it will be turned
over to you upon demand."
Now, that is a very helpful idea.
Every business house has safety de
posit facilities and can secure from
its bankers special service. In tak
ing the bonds of its employes for
safe keeping and In assuming legal
responsibility therefor, the manage
ment would run little, if any, risk.
The employe would be relieved ol
the only difficulty standing between
him and the ownership of a govern
ment security. He would respect hLs
employer for coming to his aid in thu
their mutual patriotic endeavor, and
the employer would respect his man
for having become an investor and a
participant in the financing of the
war. Both would have the satisfac
tion of a patriotic action done and
their relations would thenceforth be
better even-than before.
But the Pennsylvania idea may be
extended beyond the field of business.
Take the thousand and one churches,
lodges, societies, unions, associations
and otlfpr fraternal, social. Industrial
and religious organizations. Each
of them could rent a Liberty loau
safety deposit box. One $3 box woul'i
hold half a hundred bonds. The cost
would, collectively, amount to noth
ing. The members Invidiually could
not afford a safe, but through the
action of their association they would
have absolute security without cost
Patriotlwn of the Jews.
New York Times: The Jewish pop
ulation In Greater New York consti
tutes about twenty per cent, of the
total, i. e., there is one Jew to every
four non-Jews. It is therefore more
than gratifying to hear that among
the first quota of two thtousand who
went from Greater New York to Camp
Upton, Yaphank, L. I., about fifteen
fcMndred, nearly seventy-five per cent,
were Jewish young men. As Is well
known, the fir*t contingent of the na
tional army consisted of volunteers,
who *ould have—had they so desired
.—waited until ordered to camp. To
those who are acquainted with the un
dannted patriotism of American Jews
there will be nothing surprising In
this overwhelming number of Jewish
enlisted men who hastened to take
their place in the ranks-of America's
fighting forces. As for those—fortu
nately few—who attempted to sow
discord among the various elements of
the population of this country—we be
lieve that even those evil-minded. Ir
responsible persons will not dare come
out with their false accusations' with
this proof of Jewish loyalty staring
I in their eye#.
BUSINESS IS
VERY GOOD
Reports From All Over Country Show
Conditions Thoroughly Satis
factory at This
Time.
cleverness at all, but only hard work. [Unlte(1 pre8B Leased Wire Service.]
Still, there are some people to whom
that must only increase the mystery.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.—General
business conditions throughout the
country are "thoroughly satisfactory,"
the federal reserve board announced
in its monthly official bulletin, made
public today. Reports from the fiscal
agents in the federal reserve districts
September 23 included the following:
New York district—General business
good, factory construction active for
eign trade well maintained labor
scarce, wages increasing large crops
with a shortage of fruits expected.
Chicago district—General business
active, war industries very active,
crops satisfactory, shortage of labor,
construction dull.
St. Louis district—General business
good, industries active, fair labor con
ditions.
Kansas City district—General busi
ness fair, crop outlook good Indus
tries quite active much unrest in
bor situation, but outlook good.
San Francisco district—Crops good,
industries active, foreign trade in
creasing, labor conditions disturbed,
large volume of trade with rapidly
rising costs.
INVESTIGATION
OF HEFLIN
Committee Appointed in House
Look Into His Many Charge*
of Disloy
alty.
to
[United Press Leased Wire Service.]
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Investiga
tion of Representative Heflin's charg
es of disloyalty against certain mem
bers of the house has been ordered.
A resolution introduced by Rep
resentative Stephens, Mississippi,
was adopted viva voce. Only two or
three voices were heard in opposition
to it while a heavy chorus of "ayes"
demanded adoption.
Speaker Clark appointed the fol
lowing investigation committee:
Webb, North Carolina Hull, Ten
nessee Barnhart, Indiana WalBh,
Massachusetts and Longworth, Ohio.
Members were chary about sitting
as a court of trial on their colleague.
Almost as fast as Speaker Clark
could name them, they resigned.
Finally these five men consented to
serve:
Barnhart. Indiana, chairman: Veti
able, Mississippi Dewalt, Pennsylvan
ia: Longworth, Ohio, and Walsh, Mas
sachusettes.
The committee was directed to re
port. before adjournment.
Evidently surprised at the unex
pected turn of events. Representative
Heflin arose and asked to make a
Don't Waste, Don't
Starve—there
is plenty
of food for all if you will
only do your bit in prevent
ing waste. Demand the
whole wheat grain in break
fast foods and bread. Shred
ded Wheat Biscuit is 100
per cent, whole wheat—
nothing wasted, every par
ticle utilized. It contains
more real nutriment than
meat and costs much less
For any meal with milk and
fruits.
Made Niagara Falls, N. Y.
I
Slo+v milling setvt} all the baking qual
ity of beit Turkey Red Hard Wheat.
Silk rifting makes the texture extra
fine. The perftct mll-purptrt flour.
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Are all flours pretty much alike?
Most people think so —but the
thousands who use Valier's Enter
prise know that it is far superior to
ordinary flours in baking quality
and in economy, too because it
makes more baking per sack.
-Ask your grocer.
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statement. But Stephens demanded
the prevloas question, and Heflin's re
quest was defeated overwhelmingly.
Heflin asked if he would be allow
ed to subpoenae witnesses before the
investigating committee. Speaker
Clark replied he could subpoenae as
many as he wished.
Stephens &aid frankly that his pur
pose is the expulsion of Heflin, if the
latter is unable to substantiate his al
legations.
Submarine no Longer Factor.
[United Press I.eased Wire Service]
LONDON, Oct. 5.—The submarine
has ceased to be a decisive factor in
the war, General Jan Christian Smutz,
commanding British operations In
East Africa, declared in a luncheon
speech her© toady.
"Long before the British reach the
Rhine, Germany will sue for peace."
Dull Expectancy.
Atchison Globe: There doesn't
seem to be much going on when one
is waiting for the unexpected to hap
pen.
nappy dean
vigorous
—both young fellow and
Younofelo.
make their appeal to. For
standard. At leading toggeries.
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FRIDAY, OCTOBER fy
KEEP LOOKIN
It's Easy-If You Know Br 1
Edwards' Olive Tablets
The secret of keeping young
young to do tJiia you must watch«2lkJtnit
liver and bowels there's no ne^SI
having A sallow complexion
under your eyes pimples
a
Tha
tie suits the type, fifty-fifty. The fellows
who set the styles in the community
are the kind that
Younqfelo Cravats
Younofblos
are snappy, stylish, full o' pep.
Cut from full-yardage silks of the finest
quality in up-to-the-minute patterns
and shades,
Younofelo Cbavats
neckties after a man's own heart.
are
They don't Jam in your collar and pull
all out of shape. The pure-satin, slip
easy neckband takes care of that. I
Pay a dollar.k You can pay more for a
Youngfelo. You
can pay but 75c. But
Youngfelo Cravats
at a dollar are
Trade-Mark Raristarod
float
biiS!l
look In your face dull eyes with il
sparkle. Your doctor will tell yoa nhJII
per cent of all sickness comes from?|
active bowels and liver. ^1
Dr. Edwards, a well-known'phwu,.!
in Ohio, perfected a vegetable ^2|
pound mixed with olive oil to actil
the liver and bowels, which he en.?!
his patients for years. "I
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, theiaWl
tute for calomel, are gentle in their actnl
yet always, effective. They bring «S|
that exuberance of spirit that natoSI
buoyancy which should be enjoyed hi
everyone, by toning up the liver and cW I
ing the system of impurities. I
You will know Dr. Edwards' Olhefr I
lets by their olive color. 10c and 25c»!
'box. All druggists.
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