The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-09-13
'DEN|zfNS OF GOTHAM
PREPARE TO REGISTER
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND WILL
SIGN UP FOR DRAFT
Dispensers of Booze Are Getting
Ready to Shift to Another
Vocation
Especial to Free Press.1

New York, September IL One
hundred thousand strong, the men
from Greater New YORK called to reg
lister under the man power bill are
today eagerly waiting to line up be-
fore their draft board in every sec
ton and from every social class in
this town. Already registration cards
are being rapidly circulated to census
every one Of the tenth of million
men in the new older and younger
draft ages, and soon all the available
strength of this fresh draft legion
will be picked for speedy services.
Unless all signs fail, this big town is
going to add scores Of sturdy regi-
ments to the forces of freedom "a
broad by means of the recent extern
sion of this chance to fight.
The Wet Withdrawal.
Resigned to the almost certain
prospect of prohibition by next fourth
of July, the operators of many mil
lions of dollars worth of facilities for
making, importing, handling and sell
ing serving alcoholic beverages are
already getting ready to close up the
booze trade all over town. Brew
cries are being turned into war
plants, storage vaults into ammuni-
ton dumps and bars into lunch coun-
tiers, as quietly and as quickly as
their proprietors can catch a chance
to~forestall the new order of the i'm
pending dry dispersion. While few
New Workers seem to rejoice over
or approve the victorious dry ban,
hardly any of them are making much
of fight against it, and every one of
the people here is ready to accept
any wartime condition that is ever
supposed by anyone else to help win
the war.
Helping the Heroes.
BY offering to it's courageous cops
and fire1len a salary increase of ten
per cent, to try to meet their fifty
per cent, rise in living cost, the city
fathers here have only just begun 20
meet the popular demand that these
peace time heroes should not suffer
too severely the common wartime
pinch. Day after day, the men who
must brave flames and firearms in
these city services have for years
and years faced danger and death for
the public just as staunchly, if not as
constantly, as our fighting men in
France, their supporters assert, with
hardly enough wages to keep their
families from want. Since the serv-
ice of its protecting redcoats and
bluecoats has always been appre-
ciated by the people of this town, no
effort will be spared to see them
fixed to fight poverty as fairly as
any other workers in town.
The Sea Smear.
That the friEges of war may reach
even to the peaceful beacher of the
seacoast hereabouts, is testified to
by thousands of bathers who have re-
turned on recent holiday nights.
heartily cursing the latest and least
of the effects of operations Of enemy
submarines off the\coast. Begrimed
with tar and smeared with oil, these
irate excursionists declare that the
torpedoing Of tankers, or other fright
fulness, has served to turn to shiny
surface much of the bathing sea
stretches. Whatever may be the ex-
PLANTATION of this new salt water faint,
it is certain that most surf going
New Workers return stained and
smeared by some substance that has
been rarely encountered in these
parts.
The Service Stars
Casting away bats for bayonets and
balls for bombs, the heroes OF the
baseball bleachers here are just be-
ginning to leave in force for France.
or some military or naval station
on the road to the fighting
front. With the only "Matty" COM
a gas warfare company
ely" Cobb donning another army
suit, "Rube" Morquard sweeping the
seas for mines and Benny" Kauff
clad in corporals stripes, the fans
are finding that they can follow their
favorites far beyond the diamond.
Though the baseball bugs may never
see their star players at the home
plate again, they declare they will
worship them all the more in khaki or
navy blue.