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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
CHIcAG0-THE MARKET FOR BRAINS.

The appointment of Charles Dyer
Norton to be assistant secretary of the
treasury not only gives Chicago three
executives high in councils of President
Taft-Secretary of the Treasury Mac
Veagh, who chose Mr.. Norton as his
assistant, Secretary of War j. M. Dick
inson and Mr.. Norton-but makes the
third Chicago man who i'll recent years
had held the important post of assist
ant secretary of the treasury. The
first was Frank A. Vanderlip, now pres
ident of the biggest bank. in the United
States, the National City of New York
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
DEPARTMENT STORE IN LONDON.

On Monday the business life of the
great British metropolis. London, was
all agog over the opening of the new
department store of the American mer-
chant, Selfridge, formerly of Chicago
who boldly advertised his intention of
showing the slow Britishers now the
Yankee does things in that line. I'm
mense throngs of people crowded the
big store owing to attractions offered
but at the same time the leading
London houses in dry goods accepted
the challenge by inserting bid ad
vertisements in the papers and also
drawing crowds. Hitherto they had
not used the daily papers extensively
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
CRIME PURE AND SIMPLE.

a new impetus has been given to
the crusade against secret societies
by recent occurrence in Dunkirk, n
y, where complaints have been filed
with the hoard of education, alleging
crneities inflicted on three high school
boys by fellow members of secret
organization. The initials of the soci-
ETY. were burned into the cheeks of
the boys with acid and one at least
it is said, will be disfgured for life
The young men who are guilty of the
crime should be sent to states prison
for a term Of wears.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
TIMELY GOOD ROAD SUGGESTION.

''To those who have given this mat
ter much thought it may seem inn
possible to drag the roads of a great
state in three hours but it can he
done and is being demonstrated in
Jackson township, Hardin county, Iowa.
If one township can drag its roads
in three hours another can, and if
two townships can. a county can and
if a county can the state can. My
method is 70 employ farmers through
ont tho township to drag the roads
and IN particular to employ those who
are most interested in good roads, "
says an enthusiastic Iowa farmer.
eve put them out on stations of
equal distance as near as can be and
direct the stations so that the one
drag TO meet another all over the town
ship. Each one has a telephone, and
when the roads are in condition to
need DRAGGING I call them up and
start them al ont about the same
time and in three hours the roads of
the townships are dragged complete.
Each one receives from the township
fifty cents per mile for dragging.
have followed this system for three
years and never failed but once or
twice to drag the roads of the town
ship after every storm. l invite road
superintendent who have not system
lied their road dragging to try this
system and 1 believe they will find the
result very satisfactory. This article
is written in the interest of good roads.
After reading it, those who coinside
with my views might pass it along
by clipping it out and sending it to
some newspaper. If the editor thinks
it of any value ne will gladly publish
it and appreciate you for the item.
Editors, and men of all occupations
should be interested in good roads, and
ought to be willing to boost a little
whenever they can. Let every fellow
who reads this take up his pen and
write an item to his home newspaper
i'll the interest of road dragging, in
sist that your roads be kept smooth.
If your road superintendent is indif-
ferent about it criticise him severely.
Tell him in black and white all the
things you thought of when riding
over some of his roads that shook your
false teeth out" A timely sugges-
ton
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
HOW ONE CITY PROMOTED PARKS.

Public parks and drives in Madison,
the capital city of Wisconsin, have
excited the admiration and praise of
many visitors. For the results ac-
complished in making Madison one of
the most beautiful cities in the state,
credit belongs to the Madison Park
and Pleasure Drive association which.
for upward of seventeen years, has
been an agency for park and drive i'm
proYement.
Through this association more than
100000 have been contributed and ex-
pended upon the city's parks and drive
ways, the average contributions
amounting 10 sl3,4l4 a year. One of
the best evidences of the general in
terest taken in the work of beauti-
flying Madison is that, with popula-
tion of $4,000, the subscribers to the
Madison Park and Pleasure Drive as.
ISOLATION numbered more than 500, ac-
cording to the 1908 report of the or
ganization. Of these, 500 contributed
S. or less.
ious ways, not only for the improve
ment of existing park areas but for
the extension of the city's pleasure
grounds. 1t not only has planned and
collected the money for various i'm
provements but, with the consent of
the municipal authorities, has super
vised the work. In addition, the as
ISOLATION has planted more than 10000
trees and shrubs in the last seven and
half years.
In addition to the aid given to the
association, the citizens of Madison
have co-operated enthusiastically in the
work of improving their city. This is
shown not only in the interest dis
played by property owners who bene.
flied directly by the improvements, out
in the gifts to the city in land and
money, amounting to $53,ll4 in the
last five years.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
STORING the SUNS RAYS.

An inventor by the name of George
s. Cove of Boston claimssto have solved
the problem of storing up the suns
rays and converting them into cleo
tricity. He is demonstrating his ap'
paratus by lighting his home and shop
by a simple apparatus on the roof
No wires or connections of any sort
enter his house, and yet the mean
descent lights burn brightly day and
night. He says the apparatus can be
made for 800, and if encased in glass
VIII last ten years without repairs OF
attention.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
IT'S POSSUM CABINET, ALL RIGHT.
Noah Webster's "Dic" Sanctions the
Use Of the Nickname.

Washington, March 29.-It's the
"possum cabinet" now without doubt
The wit who invented that phrase
after President Taft's exploits in the
south made the southern tree climber
sort of national emblem, has received
the backing of Webster on top of that
of the newspaper photographers.
A Washington man who has time on
his hands-he is not government en-
ployee-looked in the dictionary the
other day, and his eye fell upon the
word "philander." The meaning given
was "a South American possum." Thus
has fate worked to give to the secre-
tary of state his final credentials for
the office
Other seachers since have examined
Webster, with the following results, as
regards cabinet members:
Franklin (MacVeigh)-"A substan.
tial householder Sunch the secretary
of the treasury certainly is.
Jacob (Dickinson)-"A supplanter.'
He supplanted Luke Wright.
George Won l.. Meyer IA land
hholder husbandman." This designa-
ton of the new secretary of the navy
applies also to George w. Wickersham
the new attorney general
James (Wilson) Same as Jacob
Mr.. Wilson, however, has supplanted
none but himself for the last twelve
years.
Frank Hitchcock Free" No ref
erence to government franking priv
ileges.
Richard (Ballinger) Strong, like a
ruler; powerful'-as BELTS secretary
of the interior
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
TINE FUTURE OF COLLEGE SPORT.

Whether or not one agrees with
Charles Eliot of Harvard in the extreme
denunciation of football contained in
his parting presidential report, one
must at least receive his prediction of
our athletic future with respect, says
a writer in The Chicago Post.
at is reasonable to expect" he
writes, "that the barbarous stage of
public opinion and college opinion con-
corning athletics, which in this country
has been partly the result of inexper-
fence in competitive sports and partly
of the general predisposition to ex-
aggeration in pleasures which charac-
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
TIT FOR TAT, UNCLE jim.

MANY an innocent man is today
paying the penalty of the ambition of
states attorneys and police officers,
who forget they are chosen to pro-
tect the innocent as we'll as to con-
Wet the guilty" is the sad refrain of
The Gilmore Eye
And there are murderers and law
violators without number that might
now be serving time in states prison
had it not been for the Vaccinations of
scheming attorneys.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02
Five Injured in Riot

Glen Falls, n. Y, March 31.-Fiye
men were injured in series of riots
between rival gangs of laborers em-
p'oyed on the barge canal work al
Smiths Basin near here. Policemen
put al end to the disturbance.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02

The st. Paul Dispatch asks the legis-
lature to put the other Minnesota
cities in the same category with Man
kato in the bill introduced by Senator
Works at the request of the charter
commission of this city. The Dispatch
is strong advocate of the commission
plan of city government.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02

Blessed are the peacemakers for they
shall inherit the kingdom of heaven.
And not infrequently they get into the
police court. See case of DR.. Ii. NJ.
Bracken.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-04-02

Emma Eames has demonstrated her
ability as pugilist, having knocked
out in the first round bellboy in a
Pittsburg hotel. She is the logical per-
son to issue challenge to fight Jack
Johnson for the championship of the
ring.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04

"go out and get acquainted with the
r1ob &" instead of as now, only Keep
within the walls of their particular
churches, they would then ma thdI
our so-called Christianity compares
Well with those whitewashed graves
Tesus speaks of. Let theni al, allu Wy C,dyy,
the employes at the Pressed Steel Car
company struck. These strikers have
sent out reports showing their wages
Tooking the list over l find the hlgh-
ost nav check is $3.50 for l9o hours
work An average check is $3.50 tor
12O hours work. one is 80 cents Ior
forty-fiVe hours.
Let them notice that there as at
other strikes. were strike breakers
krd that these would not be had they
NOT been out Of work and needed work
so badly that they even risked their
very lives. And also that the city ana
the state governments, with their po-
lice. etc. will help the fat employer 10
exploit the miserably paid 9mploye, put
viii put starving man in jail or cnain
gang if he begs for food. And TINS IS
Christianity! Then let THESE churcIi
saints 90 to Kenosha, Wis, to the tan
mrs They struck for a raise of from
10 cents to dollar week. They had
heen paid 80 and $40 week for ten
twelve and thirteen hours per uay'
This strike was broken by paying about
half of the workers what they de-
manded. And as no union bound theIn
together, these accepted the olIer anu
went to work. But what miserable
wage to live on and support family
in a civilization that expects us to llVe
and appear more decently IMAM the
wild man of Borneo,"
Christianity shields the employer in
his outrage against his employee and
pretends that the employer and en-
niove have made a just contract, no
matter for how small wages. "A man
should have the right to work for as
low a wage as he pleases and as many
hours as he pleases per day" But
does he willingly choose? Not by far.
It is. want that chooses for him, and
the employer takes advantage Of his
need. And the church. If it says any
thing, will be amen" Jesus did not
annuI Moses where he forbids taking
interest and increase on food. Still
the church will chime in with its con-
demnation against the Socialists, who
saw as Moses did. g.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
TARIFF REVISION

M HEN representative Repub-
w Hcan morning newspaper calls
attention to the fact the mem
bers Of the California delegation were
standpatters we are paired and sur
prised by its evident attitude Of CON
tempt of the Roosevelt policies and
reputation Of the platform on which
a Republican candidate became prest-
dent of the United States. The people
Of the United States were assured the
revision of the tariff would be under
taken by the new administration. They
were told further-over and over again
were they told--it would be a revision
downward, with a view to removing
handicaps and disabilities from citi-
zens engaged in business on a modest
scale, and also with a view to making
the prices for living more reasonable
than they had been in ante-panic days,
and bringing them down to a post
panic basis.
Our morning Republican contem-
porary says THE happiness of our lot
is evident, and our obligations to our
congressional delegation are great"
We presume the possessive adjective
used is the editorial our" for we do
not think our friend would presume to
nominate and elect himself joy chort-
Ter at large for California. When We
know positively there is something to
chortle about, We too, may be among
the chortlers.
Here is the reason given for the evi-
dent happiness of our contemporary S
lot: The members of our congress
sional delegation We're all stand-pat-
ters They went to congress as stall
wart Republicans, they refused to lis
ten TO the clamor for revision down
ward, they kept close within party
lines and aloof from Republican in
surgents who fought in the ranks of
the free trade PopuHsts oftener than
with their own side; they We're ready
to vote with congressman from other
states for ample protection on the
things in which they were interested,
and thus had no enemies looking for
reprisals."
Now, Just supposins" some of the
things on which cougressmen from
other states wanted ample protection
were of such nature that the pro-
lection thus granted initiated against
the interests and industries of Califor-
mia, what excuses win the platform re-
pudiators, pledge spurning, Roosevelt
rejecting stand-patters have for be-
traying the confidence reposed i'm them
by their constituents? The people of
the United States are about TO make
the discovery that the joker crammed
schedules show revision is am empty
dream. tariff rates are mournfuI num-
bers, and things are not what they
seem.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04

Luther Burbank and his "wonderbery,"
also sarcasm of equal proportion or the
'effete east" as i'll bred people of the
west Invariably term anything pertain
ing 20 New England, and especially
massachusetts,, the beans furnishing
John l.. Sullivan with muscle, also
heart generous enough to pay the bills
of a local theater for a week where he
was playing, according to your paper,
said beans also occupying conspicuous
place on every bill of fare" in either
swell cafe or less pretentious restau-
rant, and as nearly resembling the
genuine Boston pork and beans as saw
dust to sirloin steak. Luther Burbank
was born and passed his early child
hood in the very town in Massachu-
setts where I was born and lived for
thirty years, so | may he credited with
proving whereof l speak. his early
botanical experiments are still cherished
on the old homestead. All his friends
there (and they are legion) are just as
proud of him and of what he has done
for California, and the world for that
matter, as any native here is.
There would not have been west"
had it not been for the east. 1t took
brains of hardy pioneers to face untold
hardships to find it's gold, eastern
brains to grow fruit on sticks, turn
dry, parched deserts into producing
food for man and beast, eastern money
to build it's cities and miles of railroads,
eastern people to increase its popula-
ton by thousands every year. I CAM
not understand how city like Los An
geIes, boastful of everything progressive
and up to date, can be so behind the
times in good breeding. Possibly it is
only the smartness of it's newspaper
men," and it's good citizens are judged
by them.
In my whole life, passed in the "effete
east" / never heard so many untrue,
unknd remarks made about the west
as [ have heard in the three years
passed here. Every inducement is
made eastern capitalists to invest their
money here. Also to the people with
out money, because one does not need
anything. Oh, no! To live on hue,
"climate" feeds, clothes and finds
homes for all. The climate is all right,
but it gets a little monotonous served
for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For
my part l wouldn't give one year OF
seasons for a dozen tWelVemonths of
everlasting sameness and frazzled
nerves. l think there are many east
erners here who will heartily agree with
me. Let Los Angeles be half as well
bred, kind hearted and broadminded. as
it claims to be, and the easterners will
be less homesick and go "back home"
with a warmer spot in their hearts for
Southern California Visit with us
there and we will never once mention
the wild and woody west"
L. HARTMAN.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
GRADE CROSSINGS

II NASMUCH as Los Angeles Herald
has repeatedly called attention to
n the fact grade crossings are a
constant menace to life and property.
we need hardly say we are heartily in
accord with the new movement to
abolish these hazardous crossings.
Months have elapsed since the grade
crossings which disgrace and menace
the people of Los Angeles were sub
ject of discussion. At that time The
Herald called attention to the fact the
first agitation 20 ask or to compel the
railroads to abolish grade crossings in
cities throughout the United States
was begun after Charles Dickens had
commented on the barbarity Of the
level crossings. That was a long time
ago, and since Charles Dickens tried
to persuade the American people to
follow the example of the British in at
least one particular in which they
could initiate the islanders without
sacrifice of national pride, and to
abolish man-killing grade crossings.
thousands upon thousands of human
lives have been taken at the crossings,
which still exist, and still kill people
even as they did forty years ago, when
they Mortified the English novelist.
Los Angeles, a progressive and pros
porous city, should abolish grade
crossings. 1t would not be difficult to
abolish them. It would not require an
extraordinary feat of engineering or a
great expenditure of money For the
protection of the public, and for the
good Of Los Angeles grade crossings
should be abolished
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
GREATER LOS ANGELES

nUT aside other business, go to the
polls early this morning and de-
Il posit your vote in favor of the
consolidation of Los Angeles and Will
mington. Expend that part of the re-
mainder of the day that you can spare
in seeing that the other fellow votes for
consolidation. Remember that the 1S9
precincts have been consolidated into
sixty-nine in the city of Los Angeles,
and that your voting place may have
been changed since you last voted. Con-
suit the daily papers so you may be able
to vote before going to business in the
morning. DO your full duty by voting
for consolidation, that Los Angeles may
become the future great residential,
maritime manufacturing city Of the Pa
cifc coast.
These words we quote. with om
hearty Endorsement, from the consolida-
tion campaign committees appeal to-
voters.
This is the first GREATER LOS AN
GELES DAY. Begin the good work Of
consolidation by giving the Los An
geles-W Wilmington union an overWhelm.
ing majority There is no legitimate
opposition to Greater Los Angeles. If.
uninterfered with, the citizens would
have voted consolidation as d matter o..
course The opposition is illegitimate.
the result of corporationfsm. The anti
consolidation sentiment is spurious,
and is the result of the endeavors OF
corporation press agents and anti-con-
solidationists, most of whom remind us
of the man who said he couldn't think
Of cutting off his nose to spite his face,
but if there was to be anything in it
for him he might consider the disfgure-
ment a surgical embellishments
Not a single patriotic citizen will he
found who will disfgure Greater Los
Angeles and mutilate the plan for the
future prosperity Of Wilmington by
voting against consolidation. The anti
consolidationists are not patriotic citi-
zens. Historically, they will not be re-
membered with pleasure. Today they
will show their numerical weakness IS
as marked as the weakness of their ar
gument But confidence in the inef-
ficiency of the enemy and his pee wee
press must not be allowed to keep any
citizen from doing his duty by
VOTING.
VOTE FOR GREATER LOS AN
GELEs ana a square deal for maritime
interests.
VOTE FOR GREATER LOS AN
GELES and a square deal for, mercan-
tile interests.
VOTE FOR GREATER Los AN
GELES and a square deal for every in
terest represented in the population of
the Greater Los Angeles and Southern
California area.
VOTE FOR GREATER LOS AN
GELES and a greater and grander and
more prosperous Southern California.
VOTE FOR GREATER Los AN
GELES. a free harbor and a popularity
owned and controlled outlet for the in
dustrialism Of Southern California.
VOTE FOR GREATER Los AN
GELES and the establishment at this
point of vantage on the Pacific coast
of the principal maritime city of the
west.
Consolidation will win
Earn the right to speak for the rest Of
your life of the part you took in the
establishment of the great metropolis
of the west by voting for
GREATER Los ANGELES.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-04
FINE WORK

DECoRD breaking results in aque-
II, duct construction show that the
AZ American worker is stilI distin-
gulshed above all others by the fact
he takes pride in his achievements. 1t
is owing to this gallant or sporting
spirit, if we may so term it, that the
nation has won its way to the front,
and that it win hold its place at the
front During thirty one days in July
a group Of men working in one Of the
tunnels Of the Jawbone division Of the
aqueduct succeeded in aqualing if not
surprising the worlds record in tunnel
boring. The splendid showing made is
said by engineers to he the more re-
markable froIl the fact the work was
done without machine drills and elec-
trical tunnel equipment. Hand drills
We're employed. Mules dragged out
mine cars loaded with muck. Venti-
lation was secured by means Of holes
driven through the root.
But there was another factor in the
achieveme ent. When d great artist was
asked, with what do YOU mix your
colors principally?' He replied, with
brains, sir"
The brains of tho American working
man are responsible for his good work.
Brainy men who plan direct the oper-
atlons of brainy men who execute, and
every aqueduct worker no matter how
humble his place on the pay roll, who
has contributed his share toward the
triumph of tunnel boring which viii
make Los Angeles aqueduct famous in
the annals of engineering, mas a right
to say his BRAINS as well as his
Drawn contributed to the magnificent
results accomplished.