The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-10-05

published The countless acts of
kindness that went on in the trenches
were overlooked, in large measure
The newspapers published things that
were bad because these things were
news. That was always the case.
Now, the very fact that bad things
were news, he said showed that the
good things were commonplace. The
good things that were done, as a rule,
were not published, because they
were so ordinary that they were not
news. If a man lived quietly and
properly with his own family for half
a century, nothing was said or
thought about it. But just let him
live with somebody else's family and
the information was spread broad
cast Why? Because it was something
unusual and out of the ordinary.
The OsIer Theory.
Following up this same line of
thought he spoke Of DR.. Osler's dec
laration that a man was at his best
at forty and ought to be chloro-
formed at sixty. That statement was
made merely as a joke, but people
took it up as a scientific fact. 1t was
seized upon because it was something
pessimistic 1t had cost hundreds OF
thousands of men their jobs. Bust
ness men acted on it. If it had been
an optimistic declaration that DR..
Osler had made at that time, little
note would have been taken of it.
Speaking of the aesthetic qualities
of the bridge, Mr.. Bede declared that
America had just begun to beautify
This country had thus far been MAIN
ly engaged in economic development.
Now, the people were turning their
time and thought more and more to
he beautiful
After the speaking was over, most
of the audience went down to the
city hall building where a general
public reception had been going on
all evening. This building had been
remodeled with remarkable success
during the able and energetic ad-
ministration of Mayor Robert Lamm
by the J. B. Nielsen Construction
company. Last night it was adorned
for the occasion within and without
On the interior the park department
had tastefully arranged autumn foil
age and flowers and w. H. Anderson
had fittingly placed flags. Three well
known young ladies of the city hand
ed out roses to the visitors. These
donors were Misses Lydia Meyers
Gertrude Eichstaedt and Minnie
Dethloff. Four thousand roses were
handed out. 1t is estimated that four
to five thousand people visited the
building last evening, going through
the whole structure in all its depart
ments from top to bottom.
Appropriate Musical Selections.
The occasion was made the more
charming by the appropriate selec-
tions of music that were played in
he city clerks office. Here was the
Scherer orchestra of five pieces.
In the firemen's meeting room or
the third floor w. H. Anderson
president of the Firemen's Relief
association, arrayed in his blue uni
form with brass buttons, received the
people, and gave them information
City officials and police were on hanC
everywhere to tell the people any
thing they had mind to ask about
It was at the armory that festiv-
tiles continued longer than anywhere
else. Within Company H was holdlns
| it's final dance, with the music OF the
| Sandon orchestra. There were at the
height of the dance about 12'
couples on the floor. Outside there
was display of fireworks. The fail
manager happened to have a box o.
| the fireworks left over and this boz
was presented to the Company t
boys.
| 1t is conceded on all sides tina
the city secured bridge at reason
able figure and the extra claim of SILL
| 600 for widening the structure aftel
the plans had been accepted and the
,orl- commanded NAV he well founded