The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-10-08
October 8, 1909

live so fast that mere entertainment
wins the public, but certain it is
that this country will produce great
drama and great dramatists. She is
so young, so full of tremendous vigor,
so commanding in the field of inven-
ton and industry that attention has
not yet turned to the drama as it has
been known to other nations when
they had reached that point of opu-
lence and ease when art gained as
tendency in the public mind. In Eng
land the present fad for the light and
sparkling entertainment began five
years before it did in the United
States, and probably it's end is that
much nearer at hand" Mr.. Dodson
talks of the future of the drama with
histrionic earnestness, his features, his
hands and his attitude reminding one
of the character roles he has played
for sensational runs in New York of
"The House Next Door,
The experiment. 1an on mail at
Chicagos postoffice general delivery
windows against girls VINO haven't
their parents consent, wives who
haven't their husbands permission and
any who could not identify themselves
under the names to which letters were
addressed continues to cause conster-
nation to thousands of people-princi-
pally women who call and are con-
fronted with the new rule. Futile re-
h., ..,h and fhnra ha
been much defamation about Sin
fringement of rights" Over three thous-
and women a day have been receiving
mail at the general delivery section.
Postoffice Inspector Stuart now is con-
WINGED that his experiment was needed,
for he says That evil has come to
thousands of girls under age who have
received mail surreptitiOusly, and that
the safety of thousands Of homes has
been imperiled by mail which husbands
and wives have received in general de-
livery boxes. Now every person is
compelled to sign card before mail
is delivered and investigation is made
of the signe-. Parents of girls are
notified, and some radical changes in
the domestic arrangements of love af-
fairs have been caused by the abrupt
order from Inspector Stuart. As usual
thousands of innocent persons are suf-
fering needlessly from the attempt TO
discipline guilty folk Thousands of
girls and women, whom circumstances
compel tic live in cheap boarding
houses, aid hundreds of foreigners
whose livings are precariously got and
who have trusted to the protection of
Uncle Sam as surety for honest
delivery of mail untampered with, find
themselves entangled IL red tape.
The fortune at stake in the fate OF
most dramatic evidences of the poor
boys chance in the United States, for
while not of the Hawley or Hartman
rank, it runs into many millions. The
statement of securities taken by the
associated banks of Chicago when they
liquidated to depostors Of the Chicago
National and other Walsh banks proved
to include $3,900,000 of bonds of Hi
nois Southern railway, nearly $1,000
900 of bonds of the Chicago Southern
railway, over 100000 of those of the
Southern Indiana railway, $4,4OO,OOo
of Illinois Southern stock, the Bedford
stone quarries and other items which
bring the total to $l4,000,O36. Walsh
began life as Chicago newsboy, and
at the zenith of his bank career had
such political influence, through the
backing of Sullivan, Hopkins, Jameson
and Smyth, that his bank held funds
of the state, county, city and West.
South and Lincoln park boards, and
finally the funds of the drainage dis
trict. The Chicago National had &c.,
100000 in deposits and the Home Saw
ings bank $4,00O000 the total liabili-
ties of those banks and the Equitable
Trust company reaching total of
$26,OOO,OOO. During his trial in the
federal court for fraudulent banking,
Mr.. Walsh practically ignored his de-
Tense, leaving it to his attorneys and
mis- friends, while he devoted his ire
mendous energy to efforts to conserve
his assets and again become the fig
ure of commanding Importance in
financial circles of the west.
The requirements of today for Ii
brarians of great public libraries like
Chicago's, whence 100000 people an
nually get reading matter, were il
lumined by the prolonged hunt by the
Chicago trustees before Henry E. Leg
Ter of Milwaukee was chosen. Time was
when librarian was not necessarily
trained professionally. Nowadays the
head of big public library must COM
bine the qualities of scholar, Dip
lomat, an executive and literaten.
The experience of Mr.. Legler, who has
been secretary of the Wisconsin Free
Library commission for over five years,
shows what varied training and ac-
complishments are necessary. Born in
Palermo, Italy, he was educated in
Switzerland and began work in Il
Milwaukee newspaper office as
printer. Later he was reporter and
then editor, and was eelcted mem
Der of the Wisconsin legislature. Now
he is president of the publishing board,
the executive board and the national
council of the American Library as
ISOLATION. He belongs to the American
ihrary Institute no has been conn