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New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21
Americas Greatest Rudi0 Station

The largest and most powerful radio
station on the Western Hemisphere has
just been completed at Chollas Heights,
California; and the operators are able to
communicate with stations $4,000 miles
away. The day after the plant was
opened, and before the machinery was
fairly broken in, the men in charge
chatted pleasantly with Melbourne,
Australia, Alaska and the Panama Canal
Zone. '"~
The receiving instruments are in an
absolutely sound-proof room. The fifth
station in chain of radio bases that the
government is building, will be con-
structed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaiian
Islands. 1t will be twice as powerful as
the one at Chollas Heights.
The government is equipping itself
with the best radio system of any
country in the world.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21
The First ConqressWomon

The election of woman to Congress
has occasioned much comment as to the
stand she would take on questions that
come before that body of the govern
ment. While not going into details as
to the course she has planned to follow
while member of Congress, Rep.
Rankin has expressed her beliefs and in
tentions upon several public matters.
One of the things she wants to do is to
look after the children of the Nation.
Directly or indirectly there is no piece
of legislation in Congress which does not
affect the child. But widening the
sphere of usefulness now exerted by
the Childrens' Bureau under the De-
partment of Labor, that bureau should
be equipped and empowered to do all
things necessary to increase the child's
opportunities in all directions. This
touches on education, child labor, and
has to do with public charities.
This is not the first interest that Rep
Rankin has taken in helping to care fo1
children, as she had quite an experience
in Seattle in finding childless homes fol
homeless children.
The little woman from Montana is
well equipped, too, to represent the
Suffragists in Congress, as she has
several times done legislative work fol
suffrage associations.
Rep. Rankin has expressed herself az
an enthusiastic advocate of direct legis
lation. She believes that the initiative
and referendum should be adopted every
where, and that the voter should have
the right to name his own candidate TO-
office. s=.
* Rep. Rankin is a firm believer in tn
people and in the right of the majorit!
to rule.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

asking them, in the event of war, whether
they also would place their plants, and
their wealth at the governments dis
posal, as Ford has done, to receive no
profits on the same.
''The replies so far received to his >en-
quiries, remind one of the biblical mar
rative of the man who made great
feast, and whose invited guests ''all be-
gan to make excuses While a few
have offered their plants without profit,
so far none OF them are reported to have
offered their fortunes, without interest
for the same purpose.
"Some replies received are noncom-
initial; some of the FIRMS passed the
buck to the stockholders, while one of
them took sarcastic slap at Mr.. Ford.
Among the missing were the United
States the Bethlehem, Midvale, Crucible
and Cambria Steel corporations, and the
Standard Oil Company.
whats the use of war if the monied
men are not to use it as an opportunity
to get richer on the blood shed OF the
ignorant masses who do the fighting?
This is the only thing that has made
modern wars possible. No war can be
carried on without money, and even the
European war would never have been
started had the money power Of those
nations not believed there was fat thing
in it for them. War is profitable, there
fore we must have war; =
''The Citizen has contended that there
never would be war if the government
would first of all conscript the fortunes
of the monied class, just as government
conscripts the bodies and lives of it's
citizens. This CONSUMPTION would not
need to be of such character that the
money conscripted would be lost to the
owners. 1t could be returned to them
after the war without interest, just as
Henry Ford proposes in his own case.
No surer test of the patriotism of those
who are doing their best to bring about
war could be found, than to conscript
all necessary moneys to carry on the war,
to be returned without interest.
"Hurrah for Henry Ford! His is a
patriotism we can all be proud of, and
it is safe to say that he realized the full
effect of his offer when he made it. He
has made these parior, ten-per-cen
warriors look like dying ducks in snow
storm. He has punctured their "patriot-
ism for profits" Long may he live
to confound the enemies of our country,
for he has shown that the greatest
enemies this country has are the loud
mouthed patriots-for-1eveule-on only
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

The Joint meeting of the Boards of
Commissioners of Brown and Renville
counties, to have been held at the Court
House here Thursday, for the purpose of
acting on the bid for the construction
of the proposed bridge across the Mime
sofa river, joining the two counties, was
indefinitely postponed. 1t was dis
covered that mistake had been made
in the proceedings, and they will have
to be started over again.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21
Was Lincoln A Tru1tor?

Those editors who are seeing the
political end of Senator La Toilette and
other statesmen who refused to abide by
President Wilson's plan to declare war,
against Germany, should remember that
Abraham Lincoln refused to stand by
President Polk, when the United States
was at war with Mexico. The war
rabid press at that time was just as bitter
against Lincoln as it is now against La
Toilette, Clapp,, Works, Davis, Lind
burgh, and the others. The "Great
Liberator" was as much a traitor in
1848 as La Toilette is in 1917.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21
ST, PAUL PUBLISHER DIES

w. L. Abbott, publisher Of the St..
Paul Enterprise, official organ of the
Associated Bible Students, died at
Mounds Park Sanitarium last Thursday.
He was 40 years old and had been re-
sident of St. Paul since 1877. For
twenty years he was in the printing
business, and for the past seven years
publisher Of the Enterprise, which he
established.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

Senator Knute Nelson, who has prob
ably received more newspaper pub
lefty, and had more kind things said
about him by the press of this state
than any other man in Minnesota,
voted to laise the newspaper postage
rates, when the bill was before the United
States Senate. Senator Nelson has,
in this matter at least, proven himself
to be just an ordinary politician.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

A very excellent communication,
signed Reader, is withheld from pub
LEGATION this week, because the writer
failed to take the Review into his con-
fdence as to his identity. 1t is an in
flexible rule that all articles for pub
LEGATION must be signed by the writer.
The name, however, will be kept secret
providing that is the wish of the author.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

Joe Mannix, expert state printer, has
recovered from three months siege of
fitness, having been confined in Mime
apolis hospital since early in December,
and is back at his desk in the state
capitol. Mr.. Mannix has held his
present position since 1907. He is one
of the best known printers and news
paper men in Minnesota.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

The mid-week services at the Friedens
church will be held Thursday evening
of this week, instead of Wednesday, the
usual time for the meeting. The change
for this week is owing to the fact that
the Rev. George Mayer, the pastor, il
absent and will not return until THUS
day.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

Former residents of St. Peter, now
living in Minneapolis and St. Paul, will
hold a reunion and banquet April IA.
There are said to be about 1000 former
St. Peterites in the Twin Cities.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

Most Of our exchanges are Dragging of
the increased deposits in their local
banks. This era of money boarding does
not seem to be confined to any particular
town. but all seem to be sharing in the
possession of wealth.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21
The Open Forum
MUNSTERBERG'S IDEA.

The findings of the late Prof. Hugo
Munsterberg the popular German author,
and professor of psychology in Harvard
University, relative to the literature of
the American people and of the libraries
he found in this country, is related at
length in his book, "The Americans.
The fondness of the Americans for read
ing finds cleverest expression in the
growth of libraries, according to Pro-
fessor Munsterberg, and in few matters
of civilization is America so well fitted
to teach the Old World lesson. Ger
many has a larger collection of books
than any other European country. But
they are largely kept in the universities
and are for scientific investigation, and
in the large municipal libraries, being
mostly used by those who need material
for special purposes.
He says: Exactly the same type
OF large library has grown up in America,
and for the same use" He goes on to
enumerate these universities and schools
where such libraries are housed. Then
there is the Congressional library, with
many more than a million volumes,
which has an official right to one copy
of every book published in the United
States, and so may claim to be national
library, and will soon grow to an all
around completeness like that of London.
+ American libraries are modern, their
reading rooms. are we'll lighted and
comfortable and their catalogues con-
veniently arranged.
But the great difference between
Europe and America, Professor Num-
sterbefg says, "begins with the Libraries
which are not learned, but which are
designed to serve popular education.
The American public library, which is
not for science, but for education, is
to the European counterpart as the
Pullman express train to the village
post-chaise."
To quote further, Professor Munster
berg says:
1t is the many small libraries scattered
thru the smaller cities and towns which
do the broadest work for the people.
Each little collection, wherever it is, is
the center of intellectual and moral en-
lightenment, and plants and nourishes
the desire for self-perfection, and there
is TO state which does not encourage in
every possible way the establishment
of public libraries in every small COM
munity, giving financial aid if it is
necessary.
mo community is quite content until
it's public library has become sort of
general meeting place and substitute
for the saloon and club. America is
the working mans paradise, and at
tractive to the rich man; but the ordinary
man of the middle classes, who in Ger
many finds his chief comfort in the
Bierhalle, would find little comfort in
America were it not for the public
library, which offers him home Thus
the public library has come to be
recognized instrument of culture, along
with the public school.
'''The American taxpayer supports
libraries more gladly than any other
burden, knowing that the public library
is the best weapon against alcoholism
and crime; against corruption and dis
content, and that the democratic coun-
Try can flourish only when the instinct
of self-perfection as it exists in every
American is thoroly satisfied"
3D.. READER.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

Hope deferred maketh the heart
sack," and hope con the spot" some
times doesn't help much. Nest every
body a week ago was hoping the last
snowstorm of the season had gone But
the hope was changed to another hope;
and now we are again hoping.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

Among the snowbound travellers at
the Dakota House last Friday were
Ed. Aug. 4. Erickson of Springfield and
E. Johnson of Minneapolis, representa-
tiove of the Paper Supply Co. The
two were on their way to Mankato to
attend the editorial association meeting
and when they could get no farther,
struck the Review office for job They
got one which kept them busy till al
most the small hours of tie night and
incidentally solved most of the news
paper mans problems before the session
with the Review folks ended.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21
RED TAPE DISRUPTs THE
POSTAL SERVICE, CLAIM

James Mammalian, St. Paul attorney,
has written the Review, urging that
measures be taken to remedy several
defects which he says are damaging to
the postal service of the country, and
which are seriously affecting the north
west. He says that influence is being
used in the Department at Washington
that prevents the prompt delivery of
mail, by cutting down the force of
employees on the plea of economy. This
action and the consequent injury to the
service, according to Mr.. Mammalian, is
driving business from the post office de-
partment to the telegraph and express
companies.
Ever since the European war began"
he continues, there has been shown 80
clearly the inherent selfishness as well
as weakness Of private ownership in all
matters concerning the general public
welfare, there has been in this country a
craftily organized campaign to discredit
all government service.
''The bureaucracy entrenched in the
Post Office Department at Washington
has lent itself, and it's red tape rules are
being used now, in this campaign and
process of scuttling the mail ship of the
nations business, and nothing but Il
thoroughly aroused public sentiment
will ever break the grip and graft of
that bureaucracy, because in this in
stance it can hide behind the hypocri-
tical plea of holding down expenses. In
former years, before the wire companies
and express trust took any especial in
terest in the postal department, news
papers as well as letters were promptly
handled by the railway mail clerks and
reached destination on the first train
but under the present policy the number
of clerks in many mail cars is SO. limited
that it is impossible even to handle all
the first class mail during the run.
This often means several days delay.
Il do not wish to be considered as
finding fault with the railway mail
clerks. They are as class very efficient
and patriotic in their service for the
government. They are simply over
worked, and the fault lies in the men
entrenched behind red tape higher up, +
who sympathize with the corporations
competing with the government by
telephone, telegraph and express
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

Winthrop merchants have decided to
cooperate in the conduct Of their de-.
livery service, as a means of reducing
the cost of that work. The plan has
been tried out in some cities, and
strongly advocated by efficiency experts
for some time. Merchants in this and
other nearby cities. will be interested to
learn, after the. plan has been given a
thoro trial, how successful it is.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-03-21

At last St. Paul is to have that long
coveted Union Passenger Station, ac-
cording to a decision reached by the
railroads entering that city. 1t will cost
$11, 100000:
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

Gay, Sept. 3rd. This is one of the
saddest pieces of news received in
this city in many a day, and her
many friends throughout the state
will miss this genial and whole-soul-
ed worker in every good cause. Mrs.
Northery came to Florida before the
big freeze and was in affiuent circum-
stances. The big freeze wiped out a
fortune of nearly one hundred thou
sand dollars and precipitated the
death of Mr.. Northery, who as a
world traveller had gathered together
a large and valuable collection of for
eign rugs, bric-a-brac, coins, furni-
ture, paintings and antiques, in their
handsome and commodious home at
Orange Bend in Lake county, which
home and grove at that time was one
of the show places of Central Florida.
Following the settling of the estate,
Mrs. Northery moved to Belleview,
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

making of Red Cross ammunition in
the shape of bandages, garments and
head gear, under the auspices of the
Belleview Workers, who will inaugur-
ate this service on the anniversary of
their 32nd yearly birthday, and from
this on the Belleview Workers will de-
vote themselves heart and soul to the
alienation of pain and suffering on
the battle field For who knows but
what soElc of these same goods may
apply to aSsuage the suffering of
some of our own boys.
Last Saturday when one of my tires
emitted a gentle kissing sound l won
dered how many motorists all over
the United States were listening to
that same gentle sound called pune
ture.
Mr.. John T. Hardison has receiv-
ed word from Lynn, Mass, that Mrs.
Helen G. Northery passed away Sun
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

sixteen or seventeen years ago, bring
ing here this large collection of val
liable personal property, quantities of
which she had disposed of from time
to time. Of very active disposition,
she found occupation of late years in
various parts of the state in various
lines. In the early part of the sum-
mer she remarked to the writer that
her daughter, Mrs. V. D. P. Pratt,
needed rest and recreation and that
she would take her north for the
summer, and it is pathetic fact that
she is no more and we will not see her
again.
This has been a long, hot summer,
with no recreation in sight. The writer
has cast all cares to the winds and
has gone hunting for a change. |
am headed for somewhere, but don't
know where until l arrive. Please see
that this space is kept blank.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12
BELLEVIEW

Belleview, Sept. 10.-Mrs. R. L.
| Sumner and children are visiting
| friends in South Florida this week.
Miss Clara Mae Crosby, Myrtle and
| Gladys Maier. and Miss Eleanor Alb
shire spent last Thursday in Ocala
enjoying military day.
Mrs. Lula Dudley left last Wednes-
day for Kentucky, where she will visit
with her friend, Mrs. Abbie G.. Nor
row Brown.
A cheerful letter from Rev. B. N.
Tanner at Cleveland, Ohio, comments
on various happenings and lends a
special emphasis on the necessity of
our getting together on our next
barbecue week for next 4th of July,
Sc the time is not too far distant to
accomplish all that is desired be-
tween now and then.
Score one more for Belleview. On
account of Rexford Fl. Nichols fairly
itching for a fight, after careful train
ing and nursing of himself, he has
brought himself up to the weight re-
quirement. He had looked forward to
this day with anxious determination,
and as soon as the scales balanced on
the right side up to Ocala he goes,
hdAiOOd Op Scpts Gu"dIQ OIdh6 ana
saluted la correct imitation military
style. This caught Capt. brakes eye,
who gave him the once over and
passed him along to the doctors who
expressed the opinion that there was
enough bone, nerve and muscle to car
ry him thru-almost to the gates Of
So now Rexford is happy, back in his
old home with Co. A, filled with en-
thusiasm to win DISTINCTION or die in
the attempt.
The young people of the Baptist
church enjoyed a social hour at their
park last night.
The night of August 30th was one
of the most memorable occasions in
Masonic circles ever known in Belle
view. There was a sort of a union
meeting in which Belleview lodge had
a candidate that it wanted some I'M
usual honorary degre upon. The
Ocala lodge of Masonse also had a
candidate upon whom it wished to
confer unusual impressive and ever
lasting degrees upon. Therefore
Belleview was filled with visiting
Masons from far and near. and as
the hour of congregation approached
the hall was filled to seating capacity.
The candidates were Mr.. Richard L.
Clyburn of Summerfeld and Mr.. Nor
ton Davis of 0cala. Mr.. Davis was not
only a candidate for unusual Masonic
honors, but was also seeking honors
IN new field, that of the life of
soldier of freedom, and so in taking
these honorary degrees of Masonry he
was simply fortifying himself to gain
strength for future trials and tribu
lations. These ceremonies were
lengthy and impressive and along
about 1890 in the morning this unus-
ual lodge broke up and the members
wended their way hotneward feeling
that they had attended one of the
most remarkable Masonic meetings of
their lives. Among the notables in at
tendance were Edward Drake captain
OF Company A, N. G. F. Two doc
tors We're there, H. W. Henry and E.
3. Lyle, respectively, from down at
the Lake Weir section Emmett Rob
lnson came down from Jacksonville to
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

Clarence Meffert, at Camp Jack
son, is going to receive this evening
or tomorrow morning a letter that
will awaken the lively interest of his
comrades. The letter will bear on its
envelop cartoon, which we will
feebly try to describe Clarence, in
full equipment, is portrayed as COM
ing into the presence of his captain,
q Cyrano de Bergerac looking person,
who severely demands, "Well, did you
bring in that sniper l sent you to
get?" Clarence, who carries a rife
and bayonet on his shoulder, and
leads nondescript animal branded,
property of the Florida Lime Co., ="
replies humbly, "No, sir; I told him
to come along, but he wouldn't -
This work of art was the production
of Sibbald Wilson. They ought to
draft Sibbald into the most dismal
corner of the war and keep him busy
drawing pictures to make the boys
laugh.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

Florida potato crop is made and
is at least twelve months generally
from blowing to selling. The moral
is obvious for South Florida Tampa
Tribune.
Here, you, man-you'd better get
posted on cotton. Lots of cotton
planted five months ago is being sold
now. There can't be too much of it
while the war lasts. But farmers can
raise so many potatoes that they will
spoil for want of a market.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

The governor has invaded" Mar
ion county and threatens to remove
the sheriff and clerk. Both are fat
jobs, and Blake Campbell is out of
job, you know.-Palatka Times-Her-
aid.
Not so, not so; ask Joe Earman.-
Tampa Tribune.
Did Joe give Blake a job?
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

Hearst wants to give the Prussians
immediate peace on their own terms,
because he thinks they will make
wise and humane use of peace. We
are afraid Prussia will have to obtain
some other person than Mr.. Hearst
to go on her bond.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

A woman who grew gray-haired in
her efforts to have her husband re-
leased from the federal prison at At
lanta and finally succeeded is now
suing him for divorce, charging that
he called her "an old bag"
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

Two companies of cavalry and
machine gun squad restored order in
a strike in the big city of Chatta-
nooga. Contrast to Governor Cats
exploit of sending a battalion of in
fantry and machine gun platoon to
hold down thinly settled Florida
county-whfch, by the way, was per
fectly quiet at the time.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

The little cool spell was welcome to
some of the girls-it gave them a
chance to wear the dainty and sub
stantial sweaters they have been
knitting during the past few weeks.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

The Rockefeller Foundation has
contributed 100000 to the Y. w. c.
A. fund for the protection of women
and girls in the vicinity of training
and mobilization camps.
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1917-09-12

Judging by picture in Life, the
boss artist of that publication must
have noted Frank Huffaker's insinua-
ton that the first Prussian was born
just outside the Garden of Eden.