The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-05-11
Need Of the Hour to Mend
All The Sick Soldiers
RUSH FOR RECRUITING
One O'clock Closing Has Most
DOIefuI Effect On the New
York Denizens
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From Mondays Daily.

'oHl WoIodJS DdIIy.
New York, May 5.-That every
physician, surgeon, nurse and order
ly now practising here would be re-
quired to medically man the troops
10 be raised from this state alone,
was admitted to-day by representa-
tives of the local health and military
authorities who have just begun to
map out this end Of the coming cam
paign. Already the enlistment in the
medical corps of scores of the busiest
doctors throughout this city has be-
gun to overburden every prac-
titioner and hospital staff with their
regular private work, and serious
shortage in nurses and attendants,
due to army mobilization, has set in
all over town. While it is expected
that all the medical colleges will be
asked to graduate their senior class
es soon and many retired doctors will
be again impressed into service, the
shortage in this professional field
promises to work to the neglect of
many of the needs both of the public
and of the army.
The Recruiting Rush.
Centering about the good ship
Recruit" that has been built to rep
resent a modern battleship in the
midst of Union Square, the greatest
drive to enlist navy tars ever ex-
perienced in the history of this city
is being made this week by the
Mayors committee on National De-
Tense Fully manned by regular jack
les and officers from the fleet OF
Uncle Sam, the U. S. S. Recruit"
stands as sort of stage over which
the patriotic parade of the men en-
listing is shown to the cheering
crowds that pack this park. With
squads of sailors and marines
marching from every section of the
greater city to this spectacular re-
cruiting center, followed by en-
thusiatic boys and men, it is ex-
pected that thousands of new MEM
bers of the navy forces will be pro-
cured before this 'Navy Week" is
ended.
Broadway Brave.
Cutting one whole hour from the
midnight revels of Broadway, the
new wartime edict for one o'clock
closing has just been enforced on all
the white-light resorts with but 1T
tie protest from the people w"o
must make the earlier exit or eject
ment.
Few proprietors of dance halls,
bars or cabaret restaurants are COM
planning of this curtailment OF their
hours of most lavish patronage,
though the sacrifice is known to
mean a cut of hundreds of dollars in
receipts each night. In fact, sporting
sentiment is apparently rising 10 the
apueal for more limited joy hours in
time of war, and frequenters or the
great white way seem too ABSORBED IN
the national situation to mind gong
to bed bit earlier.
The Bitter Blow.
BY breaking up the old merry-So
round in Central Park that has peen
bestridden by almost everyone IN
town for three generations, the park
commissioner has just invited the
open enmity of every child and the
secret spleen of every adult here. On
the backs of the score OF Scared
wooden beasts that now lie in the
junk heap, many OF the happlest
hours of New Workers have been
spent, when their skirts and trows-
ers were shorter, and no later finan-
cial fortune has ever made them
more elated than the childhood cap
ture of the battered gold ring. now
flung far into the dump heap. Unless
some new carousel is speedily set up,
no one will forgive the man who,
however innocently, has destroyed
,>on,,1ar idol .