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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-12
Liner Wae Torpedoed.

AsSOcIated T7resS JJlSDatCn.T
An Atlantic Port, April 10.-keports
that the Anchor Liner Anchoria Brit
ish) was torpedoed and beached off
Ireland April 4 is confirmed in re-
sponsible shipping circles.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-12
hAUTINY AMONG SOLDIERS
German Troops Said to Have Fired
on Their Own Officers.

Amsterdam, Holland, April 10
Word has beeh received here of a
mutiny In the German camp at Bev-
erloo, Belgium. Belgian advices say
that German soldiers fired on their
own officers, killing three of them.
Seventeen soldiers have been arrested.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-12
BANNED THE WHITE SHOE
Minnesota Retail Dealers Association
Has Taken Action.

TN~efOTTs
A resolution banning the white
shoe was adopted by the convention
of the Minnesota Shoe Retailers as
sociation at Minneapolis. The Off
GERS selected are r. B. Thompson,
Albert Lea, president; Charles Deppe,
Duluth, first vice. president; Ernest
Mailman st. Paul, second vice presi-
dent; Otto Wieske, Minneapolis,
treasurer; H. S. Montgomery, Ro
chester, secretary.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-12
Raid On Enemy Aliens.

~ f7fs59T ~.
Milwaukee, April -Eightv-two
enemy aliens charged with violating
their permits were arrested. in the
first raid Of several. 1t is expected to
round up 200 others.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-04-12
SENATOR STONE is ILL

Gentleman From, Missouri Was Strick-
en- With Paralysis.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.1
Washington, April l0.-Senatol
Stone Of Missouri was stricken with
paralysis. His entire left side is af-
fected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
A New Musical Composer

In his account of the Philharmonic
Concert on Friday MIR. Vernon paid
tribute to the power and vitality of a
new symphony, written by twenty-one-
year-old Swiss composer. 1t was heard
here for the first time in America, for
the fourth time anywhere
1t was written nearly sixteen years
ago. That is what it means to be mu-
steal composer Of the highest type. One
must wait
Last spring the Society of Friends of
Music gave an entire concert of the
works of this new composer, Mr.. Ernest
Bloch. 1t was, if we mistake not, the
first time that an orchestral concert of
almost wholly new works, from an all
most wholly unknown composer, had been
given in America.
Mr.. Ernest Bloch has written operas
as we'll. One of them was given some
years ago at the Opera Comiquc, in
Paris. 1t was acclaimed by the friends
CT modern music as work of great orig
inality and power. 1t is extremely
modern"
Perhaps when it is done with the pro-
duction Of such masterpieces as "Lodo-
letta," "Marouf" and the like, tie Met
ropolitan, with its present great financial
success, might give New York an oppor-
tunity to hear Mr.. Bloch's "Macbeth."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
that across the death zone the American
flag first swept swapping from a Cana
dian bayonet.
A Concrete Cargo Fleet

We present in this issue careful re-
view of the possibilities of large fleet
of concrete cargo boats
There have been grave doubts as to
the feasibility of this type of ship con-
struction. 1t is new. Marine engineers
and ship designers have been almost
unanimously against it. 1t is the old
story.
Engineers Of standing have investi-
gated and are now ready to put their
regulations behind the innovation. A
4,500-ton ship will be launched in San
Francisco next week Three or four
others are under construction.
A 600-ton craft has crossed and re-
crossed the North Sea.
We have an almost unlimited supply
Of concrete. The boats could be built
on almost any shore. They require no
heavy expenditure for yards"
They would engage no labor that
could now be employed on steel or wood
en- ships
We could add 500 concrete cargo
UOdtS W our present. pIOuUCI OIL SHIPS
between two and three million tons. We
could very nearly double with these
boats the present prospect from steel
construction.
1t is solely as an emergency meas
ure that the concrete fleet is urged 1t
might prove a permanent addition to
ship types.
But the ship need is here Congress
and the Shipping Board ought not to
waste another month in testing out the
new boat San Francisco, and if the re-
suits are satisfactory begin this cargo
fleet at once
1t might mean a tremendous gain.
While we are pouring out billions for
munitions it seems worth the gamble
to risk fifty or a hundred millions to
get boats enough to land these NUM-
tons in France
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
The Russian Tilsit

Lenine tried to make head against
German militarism with phrase. Now,
cuffed, kicked, plundered and outraged,
he tries to invent another phrase to cover
over his humiliation.
eve have concluded another Tilst
peace" he says. eve shall yet arise to
victory, even as Germany, after Tilsit
attained deliverance from Napoleon"
In 1907 Prussia yielded to overwhelrl-
ing military force. Her territory was
completely overrun. She succumbcd
from exhaustion. When Russia, her ally,
was defeated at Friedland her last hope
of resistance vanished
But the Russian Tisit of 1918 does
not represent a necessary submission to
an all-powerful invader. Russia's plight
was not desperate, in a military sense
She had lost but a small fraction of her
territory She had powerful allies,
ready to help her. For nearly two years
she had held the enemy at bay Since
the great retreat of 1915 she had actu-
ally recovered ground in Volhynia and
had again penetrated into Galicia and
Bukowina. Her armies were fully equal
to the task of meeting any forces which
Germany and Austria-H Hungary could
spare for use on the Eastern front. .
Then suddenly the revolution dis
armed. 1t disorganized and disbandcd its
veteran troops. 1t set up deluded ideal
Of international determination, ground
ing it's own weapons and appealing for a
peace without penalties to the fellow
feeling Of the German and Austro- Hun
garian proletariats. There never could
have been Russian Tilsit in 1913 ex-
cept for the grotesquc and paranoiac
self betrayal which Lenine himself
staged at Brcst-Litovsk.
And how about the war Of liberation
which is to follow cnslavcment? Prussia
was freed in 1913 because Napoleon
overreached himself in the campaign for
Moscow. Had he stopped at Smoensk the
history of Eastern Europe might have
been very different Does Lenine expect
William II to repeat Napoleon's blunder
by trying to send a Grand Army to
Picking and Toxic? That is desperate
hope.
Another thing. Prussia was able to
take advantage Of the Moscow d4baclc,
because her people had been aroused,
after Tilsit, to a keen sense Of national
ity. Koerner, t'ichte, Stein, Scharnhorst,
Cnescnau and other great leaders in
epired them with burning patriotism.
which replaced the fashionable, languid
intcrnationalism by which even Goethe
had been affected. Can Lenine and his
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
Breakfast in Bed

. Is it a lingering I'.!ritancal instinct
which makes American stomachs revolt
at the thought Of breakfast in bed? Is
it too comfortable, too pleasant, too luxu-
rious to be quite moral? There lies an
interesting speculation. Puritanism has
declined rapidly in this land Of freedom
and the movies yet a plenty of it sticks
around picking up a dry crumb of tribute
here and there. Very possibly stomachs.
those most sensitive and temperamental
of organs, have retained more of the an
cient prejudice than souls or eyes.
At any rate the instinct against the
bedside breakfast is still strong with US.
One good American after another breaks
away from the instinct and succumbs to
the Establishments Of the bedside tray.
The aroma of efIeteness still clings to tho
practice. 1t has no call for the husky
American man who always shifted at the
mention of tea and viewed the wrist
watch as the last word in effeminacy.
Appetite for breakfast, for an American
breakfast, was inconccivable in bed; not
only a tub, but exercise and a dining
room, a full start on fresh day, were a
necessary foundation for fruit, cereal,
bacon, eggs, Coffee rolls.
In England and Europe stomachs have
long lived by quite another rule. So was
it made exceedingly clear in poetry con.
test in "The Westminster Gazette" A
prize Of one guinea was offered for a
poem called "Brcakfast in Bed" and the
replies were endless. They came from
the trenches, cries Of longing and regret:
Breakfast in Bed! I do not know
OF anything that's half so topping.
Peace" an Gun -boated sea" and the
League of Peace" among The wars
goals, but topped them all with cream,
and oatmeal and toast and butter and
jam served in bed. The thing was
hymned as the ideal of rich and poor, the
last reward of the pure in heart APP
parently the labor leader who will prom
Use breakfasts in bed to his constituents
can count on every vote in the British
Isles.
Will the war bridge this chasm? Will
breakfast in bed seep into the hearts and
minds of our soldiers in France--even
though they have precious little chance
Of practising the faith in the trenches?
We shall have to await the advent of the
international mind to find out The in
ternational stomach may follow in it's
train. AnG, again it may not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
"A Free Route to India"-
What 1t Means

If any shadows of question as to Ger
many's wild dreams of world power re-
NAMED they must have been dissipated
by the terse announcement from the
semi-official Wolff Bureau in Berlin:
eve have acquired a direct free route
via Russia to Persia and Afghanistan"
The curtain is now drawn back on
Germany's immediate aims. She feels
that her position in the West is fairly
impregnable, at any rate in no danger
She has, or soon will have, Russia,
practically all of Russia, in her grasp.
The enterprise to Bagdad and the
Indian Ocean was checked. But that
has merely deviated her route.
The astounding collapse of Russia,
Germanys undreamed of success in the
quarter which at the beginning of the
war she most deeply feared, has opened
up vistas which the most imaginative of
Pan-Germanists would have regarded
four years ago as little better than
seductive mirage.
The German alliance with the Turk
and the Mahometan will now begin to
bear fruit! With the hundred and fifty
millions of Russia under her heel, with
a route opened to the back door of
India, with her submarines blockading
the Mediterranean, with the difficulty of
England's sending considerable army
to the East, she feels assurance that
there is now no hindrance toward her
next and vaster enterprise.
India is her goal.
With ''free route" for her arms, an
Indian uprising is probably the next on
her programme. One does not need to
read far back into history to imagine
something of what this might mean.
This is not to say that such a result
could be achieved next month or this
year Or even next year. But every
month of the appalling inability Of the
United States, through lack of ships, to
make effective its vast resources to help
IN forcing OSClSlOu Oll luS w COtCl IL
front makes nearer the realization Of
Germany's dream.
In the face of this situation we bal
ance and bubble over the question OF
engaging the active aid of Japan.
That nation alone has the equipment,
the organization, the men, actively to
oppose the advance of Germany into
the East It alone at this time can offer
any effective check to the Mahometan
hordes which Germany may rouse to aid
in her assault, upon India.
The only other possibility is China.
Japan has intimated her willingness to
invite China to cooperate in the defence
of Siberia. China could be an aid. It
is in no sense a first class power.
Is it to be our policy to make Japan
at this time an ally or give it a rebuff?
It is now in reality world war. The
pawns in danger are no longer in
Europe.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
Our Other Army

Every night they come through fsom
Ottawa-the American casualties among
the Canadian overseas forces-usually
late, SO that the newspapers do not dis
play them very prominently. Bald as
these lists are, they have a certain
sombre eloquence.
Thn Jones, Petaluma Cal, killed.
James Smith, WATERFOWL. n. Y, killed
Thomas Robinson, Detroit, Mich, gasscd.
Samuel Brown, Dallas, Tex, missing.
Presumably there Is a record some
where Of all the Americans who have
given their lives or sacrificed their free
dom with the Canadian armies Many
more than 10000 men from the United
states have enlisted under the Mar
Leaf. In the aggregate their casualties
far exceed all those announced from
Washington and even now they are run
ming as heavy as our own.
Our own? They are our own. Rest
iess men, roycrs, adventurous spirits
these volunteers from the States have
been called. Even so. But they remain
ideaiistg every one, some perhaps I'M
conscious Of 1t, and most Of them hope
lcssly inarticuIate. They saw the issue
before we did, and without much fuss or
feathers took their places along the from
tier Of civilization.
Now that we are at Last steaming hot
in the battle and have begun to count our
dead, do not let US forget those quiet
pioneers who have fought for us for
nearly four years. Do not let us forget
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
Out Of the Mouths Of Babes

From Hdrpct's Muodstnc)
Mary was very serious minded young
miss of ten and keenly interested in the
religious education Of her younger sister,
Dorothy, aged six. Indeed she .elt that the
little sisters education in Biblical stories
had been sadly neglected. One day she
confded to her mother that Dorothy was
very ignorant on the subject of the Cruel
tlxion and the Resurrection and should be
enlightened before the next Easter time
came around.
The mother suggested to Mary that she
be the one to tell the little sister the sto-
RIGS and TO make them just as vivid and
real she could.
This Mary did, and at the close Of the re-
'ita| the only comment made by Dorothy
this:
Say, were those men Germans 2"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

Observation-Disclosures who have no feel
ing for Russia, who are not patriots or
even Slavs-turn in their tracks and re-
create a militant, intensely nationalstic
Russian state?
1t is Incredible The delverance
which Lenine prophesies in order to gloss
over the ruin which he has wrought will
not come from him or from Russians Of
his stamp. If it comes, it will come
through leaders who are genuine Rus
SLAMS in heart and disqualification build
ers, not nation wreckers-by whom he
will be remembered only for the infa-
nous heresies through which he brought
Russia under the German yoke.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
The Machinery of Art

Fabricated art is as old as fabricated
ships are new So correspondent &C
curately points out in the following let
ter:
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Concerning your reference this
morning to the historian Hubert Howe
Bancroft, who "employed large staff
of assistants and turned out gigantic
works. and was designated by Dr.. Holmes
the inventor of "the application OF
machinery to literature" what about the
late Mr.. Pope, who organized a syndicate
Of versifers and reproduced Homerc his
tory in rhyme. Is he rot entitled to the
distinction Dr. Holmes, probably through
inadvertence, conferred upon Bancroft?
ALFRED 0. TATE
New York, March 6, 1913
Such credit as goes to Bancroft must
go for organizing the manufacture Of
machine made history on a scale to make
Henry Ford jealous. That was his new
idea. Pope did hire translators to help
him out with his Odyssey, and they
wrote whole books for him. But why
stop at Pope?
And what ne saw and liked he took.
That was written of Homer; and the
chain runs clear down to those master
fabrcators of assembled literature, the
columnists, B. l.. T. and F. P. A. There
is no line of division that can be drawn.
At one extreme is old Dumas touching
up the sheets penned by his busy hired
staff At the other the great poet, like
Homer or Shakespeare, who merely
YIELDS the crude, shapeless metal Of some
other and lesser artist into a finished
whole. Most of the great painters and
sculptors were fabricators, with pupils
by the score who often brought the
works to a certain point at which the
master brush or chisel supplied the final
touches of genius.
Was Michael Angelo, therefore, only
syndicate-and Rubens an early as
sembling portrait plant? Not unless a
ship is the same thing as the carloads
of plates and rivets now rushing to Hog
Island. Not only the skilled hand lies
between, but plan, design and the imagi-
native genius which begins where ord1-
nary human labor leaves Off
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
In Barracks

The author of this series Of solder
poems Is Lieutenant Baker Browneu for
some months IN training at Camp DOM.
pl,a,, Okla., and Fort Myers, Fla. They
are taken from the March number d
"Poetry."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
Departure

4 MERlCA in shufiilng crowds
~ Pelted high-voced goodbys
Upon the ragged troop train
Muddled sound of partings,
An accent here and there acute,
Popping, sudsy soap-sprays,
A girls bright dress, frantic flag.
America. shutting. gathering
To her high moment
sweter of faint calls,
Upraised civilian arms, and then
Curdy fluctuations of vague color
Drfted about the boarded station house,
UNFOLDING it like an ark,
Ever more in the distance.
L Company drifted crankily down the track
Entrained in hasty coupled cars
For mobilization,
And left there, behind, Democracy,
Slack Democracy on the station boards;
Left America Gathering into emotion
And shutting heterogeneously home.
EN- otional-not SPIRITUAL" one said
Who, with Company L, saw
A new America somewhere,
Reveille
Sleep-soaked bodies are pried
Out of the obese night; laziness,
Yearning in porous flesh,
Is squeezed as from a sponge
Silver tubes lifted upward by young buglsrs
Spout glistening sound
Upon the murk of early day.
The sounds of first call
Clink and glisten in the early air;
Bright chips OF sound tinkle and clash
sweetly
Like ice in the dusky water of an urn. =.
Reveillc and the murmur of men
A murmurous cloud of dust lifts
From the earthen floor murmur
Distant, huge. sweet with Beings joy
Rises from the awakening thousands
OF earth-born bodies
The blare of rcgimental bands
Hosts finally nights curtain
With distant shattering
The Hurricane
The wind soured into night.
Acid of a narrow rain
Fitted the sentries PAGES
With splits of cold
The wind grew in hoarse breaths
With the nights age
Until the night was wind.
And darkness spouted on the prone eartn
From the Vests nozzle
Wind and night, roaring
Like mated beasts,
Pressed huge bodies
On the bullying walls
Of tied Sibley tents.
One by one the doublc-headed pegs
Pulled with p sousclng kiss
From the rain-weak earth
rope snapped; q wall flap
Jumped; the tent heaved,
Bulged upward
With scared awkwardness.
And fell on broken tripod
The wind, night, rain,
Wnh huge onwardness
West south, east, north, poured itsen
Bitterly on the fat earth
Three nature whipped sentries,
Tied into their ponchos,
fried through the heaving night
Like tired swimmers
Taps
Into pure night
strand Of golden sound
Weavcs a design.
Life woven in sound
Is night and song.
Pathos~of a soul sg.s9
Inspires the darkness. .sY
BAKER BROWNE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
Labor and Socialists
BIZ ARTHUR S. DRAPER

British public
netna o o rnetho 0
influence this aa1d
q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

Fabricated art is as old as fabricated
ships are new. So correspondent &C
curately points out in the following let
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
The Rattle OF the
Snake

x YESTERDAY morning the New
z York Hearstorgan contained q
huge portrait of the President,
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The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1918-01-05

Germany, the subjects Of the pope
live IN all countries. His agents claim
that twenty millions of them live in
the United States where they exercise
the rights of American citizens
though bound By allegiance to their
pdpdI monarch.
But the pope has no army; and no
submarines to be used in blowing up
our peaceful merchant ships.
That is very true, for his army is
of another kind. The pope's army is
an army Of priest agents who invade
this country more successfully than
Williams army or feet could do it,
The pope's Jesuits move with greater
secrecy than Williams submarines;
and their aims, if realized, Douid b.
far more disastrous to this country
than the destruction Of all it's mer-
chant ships.
What are their aims and objects?
I am surprised that anyone should
ask such q question. The Jesu-
Its are doing all In their power
to weaken, discredit and destroy
OUR PUBLIC NON-SECTARIAN
SCHOOL SYSTEM? Is the liberal
education Of American youth Of so
little consequence that this plot to
prevent it can be safely ignored?
What is the evidence of this plot
to destroy the public school?
Briefly stated, the evidence appears
yoluminously in Roman Catholic pa
pers, periodicals and in various books
written by priests and Jesuits on the
subject of education. No epithet is
too vile for these agents of popery to
apply to our national system Of uni
versal education. They say and
write that the public school is "God-
less" that it is "crime and criminal
producer" that it is very nursery
and hotbed of iniquity. Further, they
forbid all Roman Catholic parents
sending their children. to the public
school, and then seek sto pack these
same schools with Roman Catholic
teachers.
What is their motive in seeking tc
destroy the public school?
Their purpose Is to be- rid Of the
public school 4phich teaches demoo-
racv and personal freedom so the
pope's parochial school may take its
place and teach generations to come
that the pope Stands IN the place Of
Eod A I,,,iohtn on this earth" The
monarch wishes his schools to take
the place of the peoples schools. The
monarch wishes the theory of his
divine right to be taught in place OF
the noble ideals now disseminated by
the public school. :