The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-11-14
MANKATo FREE PRESS

sion. In calling attention to. what he
termed illogical conditions in America,
DIR. Chew said:
"You refuse to allow your children
to read the Bible in school, and after
the child gets out of the school and
into the penitentiary you force him
to read the Bible. 1T this part of his
punishment"
He said China was encouraging the
study of religion in the schools and
that the text books included some
chapters from Confucius and some
from the Bible ~
"You exclude the Bible from your
schools, and yet on your money you
say In God We Trust Does this
mean in this God we trust?" he
asked.
ProqressiveneSs of China.
DR.. Chew spoke of the progressive
| ness of China citing as incidents the
fact that China had already adopted
the gum chewing habit, together with
the form of government used in the
United States. He compared the
whisky drinking of the United States
with opium smoking in China, and de-
clared the only way to preserve man
hood was to stamp out the national
/ vices.
"But there is difference in these
! vices" said the speaker. can Amer
lean drinks whisky and goes home
and kicks his wife, while a China
man smokes opium and goes home
and is kicked by his wife,"
Dr. Chew drew a great applause
from the congress when lie said that
China welcomed all the missionaries
the United States could send. eff
1 other countries don't want your mis-
sionaries, send them all to u.s." he
said.
Minneapolis, November 1!-George
II. Richards, secretary of the Min
nesota Bankers association, returned
yesterday from Waltham, Mimi,
where he investigated the blowing OF
the safe in the State bank at that
place on November 7. The robbers
got $4,000 in cash.
Never in my life have l seen
/ such a clean cut job" said Mr.. Rich
ards. 1.-THE doors were blown slicl,
and clean and not a paper of any
kind was left in the so-called burglar
/ proof strong box in the vault. The
robbers took gold, silver, currency
notes and 1900 pennies, so they must
have had heavy load. There are few
i instances on record where every
paper in the bank was taken, as
in this case. -
Things Were In Robbers Favor.
THE town and the weather was
probably as ideal Cor tn work as any
town in the country. 1t was cold
stormy and pitch dark, and there arr
no street lamps in the town. Neither
is there policeman. 1t was cincl
for the professional yegg to blow tina
safe and there is every indication
that these We're experts. A few per
sons in town heard the, explosion, blu
were afraid to go near
! Not Cent of Negotiable Paper.
"On the morning after the rObbcr.
!, the bank opened without a cent of ne
gotiable paper in the house. Within
an hour after opening time the bank
at Austin had sent, funds and tn
: bank was doing business as if moth
ing had happened. The next day tn
+ insurance company settled SO tina
the bank is really out nothing NOR
than inconvenience. The notes an
mortgages stolen can be duplicate
from records and depositors hav
been quieted.
First BIow-up in Two Years.
This is the first bank craCkin
that we have had in Minnesota sine
October 20, 1911, more than tw
years ago. This job was attempted
no doubt, because of the banks lac
of equipment or protection. No on
saw the yeggs. There was evidenc
of them breaking in to the railwa
tool house, where they got hammers
picks and crowbars. How they &c
out of town we do not know. The
did not take a handcar, nor did the
use an automobile. The ground wa
wet and would have shown tracks
From Tuesdays Daily
What may prove evidence of til
manufacture and use Of iron NOR
than 5000 years ago in Minnesot
is a package received by Presider
George E. Vincent of the state Ill
versity from l.. K. Anderson, Incl
? chant at Goodhue, Mimi, yesterda,
: The specimen is small bar of til
: metal about eight inches long an
: an inch in diameter, heavily incrus
" ed with rock.
Mr.. Anderson said that it wa
found in a sand pit fifteen feet b
) low the surface. The package wi
be turned over to Professor Villa
p II. Emmons of the department
= geology by DR.. Vincent for invest
II cation. 1t is thought that the piet
9 of iron may have been carried in
q this region 5000 years ago durir
the glacial period.
II From TUESDAYS Daily
IS jim Ryan ii finished his ten da