The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-07-14
From MONDAYS Daily.
From Mondays Daily.
Militia In MIDDLE; a t Is Do
ing in the Great Big
City
Especial to The Free Press.l

New YORK, July IV.-I nat ueSoti-
ations for truce, pending peace
negotiations, between the warning
powers abroad will be under way
before this summer is ended, was
asserted today by diplomatic experts
who are passing through this city
from Washington. Though no
hint as to the inside information
upon which federal officials base
this belief can be obtained from
these diplomats, it is believed that
the United States will take prom
inent part in effecting the predicted
preliminary peace moves. Religious
leaders are said to be cooperating
with officials of the administration
state department to bring about con-
sent to arbitration by the rulers OF
the foreign fighters, which it is now
declared has been virtually assured.
The Child Curse.
With hundreds of children sue
cumbing to the deadly ravages OF
| infantile paralysis with every new
| week, that has begun to record a
| thousand fresh cases, Greater New
York is now admitted by the health
| authorities to be in the grip of the
most hideous epidemic that has
swept over it's boroughs in a decade.
| While doctors are helpless to do
more than diagnose this subtle sick
ness, it is even proving impossible to
check its spread by the health Off
GERS, since hundreds of infected chill
| dren are known to be at large with
out any means of finding or holding
them in quarantine. Since the dread
virus of this mysterious malady is
believed to thrive most in the hottest
season, it is declared by the medical
men that the next two months will
witness the most widespread plague
of the little ones that has ever been
known here.
| Militia In Middle.
Indicting the government manage
ment of the militia mobilization in
this state as the most laundering and
extravagant piece of business ever
engineered by any public office hold
ers hereabouts, the local followers of
the volunteer army are this week
pointing out hundreds of cases of in
excusable delay and mismanagement
from which the militiamen have suf-
fered severely. Although New Workers
have had it demonstrated long ago
that the city and state are never cap
| able of conducting any business I'M
dertakings without the most gross
inefficiency and waste of the tax
payers money, it was believed that
possibly an arm of the federal govern
ment might be able to conduct such
! transportation problems as railroad
men solve satisfactorily in their every
day work. Now that the sad militia
muddle of the mobilization camps is
being laid at the door of the federal
office holders, the people of this town
are losing faith in the ability of any
political place-holders to perform an
ordinary business transaction.
The "Sun" Sinking.
Predicting that The Sun will set un-
der its new Munsey management until
it's last beam of the days of Dana has
faded to darkness most of the news
paper workers of Park Row have
now given up hope of the future of the
newspaper that was once alone in it's
field as the brightest light of journal
ism here. Since Frank Munsey ran in
to the ground an afternoon paper
here years ago, the editorial crafts
men have lost faith in his ability to
hold up the head of even so cele-
brated an organ as the New York
"Sun," and they foresee loss of pres
tige and money ahead for their fav-
orite sheet. Following the death of
Dana, it is considered that his news
paper columns have been steadily
losing their old snap, which no one
believes Munsey or any man he may
hire can ever restore.
| The Rain Reasons.
Figuring that five days in every
six have been rainy for a month or
more back, the weather sharps here
are just inclining to accept any ex-
PLANTATION for the worst weather that
ever ended spring and started sum
mer in these parts. Loudest among
the local weather explainers are the
numerous near scientists who de-
clare that the discharge of ammuni-
ton abroad has brought on a condi-
ton of almost perpetual rain in this
country. Until the time when another
squad of atmospheric experts begin to
account for summer drought by the
same cause, it seems likely that the