The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-24
GOAL s. ONE THE IELD

The proposal. to turn the 1oId capitol
into d school for; NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. sug :
gests that the building has been used that
way before. In 1881. Dwight M, ssSabin
put a bent pin in the chair of Willie; Win
dom, and he, arose rapidly from his place.
with yells of pain. Six years later some
boys took the Stats out of Dwight sabin's
bed and he fell down just as hard. :Davy
Clough, who used to- go to this school
regularly, was one of the brightest but
most mischievous boys we had over there.
He was everlastingly putting up jobs on
people. 1t is all right to give the ,incor-
rigible boy thes building. but keep him
away from"its history and memories =
In arguing against a federal Or, !nnayor
form of government some ytyearsi ago,
Judge Simpson made the point that the
council system, so far from having, in
jeoted politics unduly into the admins
trati6n,% had tended the nther way. He
cited the fact that in twenty years three
men had held the office of city engineer
under the council and three men during
the same period had held# the office of
chief Of the fire depatme ntyf whereas the
city had had three times that number of
men in the office, Of chief? Of police, non+.
mated by the mayor. The facts seem to
made violent or sudden ASSOCIATIONS Of
the departments under itsscontrol. The
reason for this, however, IS to be found
in the fact that the council has been
uniformly republican for twenty years,
except when Kiichh executed bis Coup
some years ago, and this .affecteda only
the presidency Of the council If the
council had f1uctuated with the mayor
atty it is quite. likely the personnel of the
departments would have suffered like duc-
tuations. This might argue that the
council ought to- appoint the chief OF
police It might even argue that the
council should appoint the mayor in order
to- introduce stability. But it does not
go that far. It goes this far, however,
| that Minneapolis ought to have "a metro
politan police system under reasonable
civil service and that the mayor should
not be- merely head policeman, responsi-
BILE for minor bits Of police work. ;..-F
/ Those sharps =. who write - sporting
"hews'' have way Of working phrase to
al dismal death. First it: Is: dope the
Sheet the "dopester' and the "dope
artist; then came the @sgruel'n and
! "gruelling' and the "gruelling contest
| These expressions are old and formerly
referred to the prize ring, but it appears
| Lila .IHey are dppllCStDle = W tLe Sellt1e
manly sport of college Footballs: The
dope is the stuff the lightning chain
thinkers on the press give US toEabsorb
before the. game and the "gruel''s is the
pasty mess handed out to the players.
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Pastor Morrill, 8 wedding on the stage
was an immense success: But wedding
is something which can meyer. be- prear:
1 ranged. 1t does not compare in SEN
satioralism with the feat OF fTorace b
Hudson, who signalized his first year as
press agent of the exposition by having
| twins born under the Edison electric
! fountain. That marked Hudson as the
! man to bring the state fair to the front
Behind a mask of conventional Nhiskers
Horace conceals a worldeof Talent fol
exciting folks to leave home and happi.
ness sand go against the state fair street
car and the state fair sandwich.
| # &C. H.
I The meek and loWly special seorre
ent figures this morning. that John d
Rockefeller's fortune has shrunk S1S6 600,
900 since last Thursday. We may yet
see the press Iumorists taking up sub
scription for John. :, James Gray.
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