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The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
of love to all, your son, Sergeant
Lester c. Morris.


Mr.. and Mrs. s. S. Thomas of GIL
North Fifth street, have received the
following letter from their son,
Sergt. Harvey S. Thomas, Air Serv-
ice, United States army, American
e. f.; under date of November %:
Just a few lines to let you know
that / am still alive and hoping to
be with you sooE. / am spending
some time at St. Milo, and will have
my Thanksgiving dinner at Hotel
De La PLACE. 1t is sure a fine place
to see. Pretty scenery all around.
The streets are narrow and every
thing is built of stone. / was through
Mont st. Michel / wish you were
here to see it. / enjoyed it very
much. I spent day in Paris. That
is sure some city, the most beautiful
place in France. But wouldn't
want to live here. 1t is no place for
me. The States for mine. This isn't
a long letter, but will tell you more
when / reach home-Your son,
Sergt. Harvey S. Thomas"
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
Contracts For Rail Income.

WASHINGTON, December ZI.-Tho
railway administration today COM
pleted the drawing up of a contract
with the Northern Pacific Railway
company in which the company is
guaranteed an annual income of
$30,130,16S.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27

Mrs. Oliver Blrsaw of Fairnont
was killed as the result of runaway
on Thursday at about 6:15 p. m.
One of the tugs became unlocked
allowing the pole to drop from which
the horses became frightened and
started in to rum Mr.. Bursaw told
Mrs. Bursaw to jump. He followed
but when he came up to where his
wife was laying he found she was
dead
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
She Was Victim of Pneumonia Fol-
lowing Influenza Attack.

Mrs. Harry Burnett died at the
detention hospital early this morning.
death being caused by pneumonia
Ioiiowlng influenza. Surviving rela-
tlves are the widower and two chill
dren, ard the parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Peterson of Belgrade. Funeral
services will be held at the Johnson
Boman funeral parlors tomorrow
afternoon. Rev. o. J. Arthur officiat-
ing
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
Can Raise Brewers Grain Ban.

United Press Dispatch.J
Washington. December 20-Reports
at the capitol today were that Food
Administrator Herbert Hoover had
advised the president to raise the ban
on forbidding brewers grain. He said
that the breweries all closed on De-
cember 1 ard there was no longer any
need for the law.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
lea Comes From Germany, Fol
Modification of Armistice.
Associated Press Dispatch.

DISptICCT.1
Washington, December 20.-Des-
pitc Secretary Lansing's emphatic
admonition that such communities
tions must not be sent to the United
States alone Germany has sent an
other appeal to the United Staes for
a modification of the armistice terms
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
Number of Germans Killed DURING
The Worlds War

ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.J
New York, December 20.-A COPY of
The Cologne Gazette received here
says the German casualties when
published will show about 100000
dead. There are over $4,000 dead in
the naval casualties
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
Socialist Ministers Resign.

UNITED Press Dispatchl
Paris, December 20.-Following
meeting of the French minority So
cialist conference today all socialist
members of the cabinet rendered
their designations.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
Two Nations Unite.

UNITED Press Dispatch.1
Amsterdam, December 23.-Monte-
negro and Serbia officially united as
one nation today, dispatches an
nounce.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
More Than Sixty thousand People
Have Succumbed in America.

Washington. December 19.-Infiu-
enza caused the death of 66.534 peo-
pie in the larger cities of the United
States between September IA and
December IL and pneumonia caused
the death of 3S,763 more during the
same time.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1918-12-27
Hearings On Railroad Legislation

hearings On Railroad LEGISLATION
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch
Washington, December 19.-The
ser ate Interstate commerce commits
sion has decided upors the inaugural
ton of hearings on r\lroad legisla-
ton January 2 and to be concluded
as soon as possible. McAdoo probably
will be the first witness.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
SHIPS OF WAR

Tn THE glad uproar that greeted the
returned battle fleet in New York there
were vivid suggestions of the almost sky
high barriers that Mr.. Wilson and other
statesmen will have to overcome before
league OF nations can be made to operate
successfully for world peace Here was
spectacle that could not but touch the
pride and the deepest emotions of a nation.
There is q singular beauty and majesty
about great ships returned after perilous
cigls on the far rim OF the world. They
bring in something OF tho seas mystery,
and they bring. too. Just sense Of great
service done, Of honor maintained, of great
causes protected with endless fidelity
against all tides. And when they come
back after a long absence, with bands play
ing and banners against the sky tho man
whose flag they carry is touched with a
sense OF their protective might. He sees
the pride Of his land made splendidly
visible.
The world has always loved brave things
and brave people. A man may be an
idealist and a philosopher seven ways, yet
the sight OF his flag upon a great warship
will always shake the heart in him and
draw him closer to his own land and his
own people.
The love of pageantry that is latent in
every mans blood is only incidental in
this phenomenon. A warship will be- as
long as warships last, the symbol of ma
tional will, maintained in far places against
storms and fire and crowdng perils.
1t Is probable that nobody but a Britisher
navy in the years Immediately ahead or
how inevitably he will be overwhelmed at
the sight OF his Grand Fleet with an emo
ton that can be expressed only in a shout
or in tears. Night and day for four years
he knew the fleet was somewhere in the
North Sea guarding his island for him.
ready every instant of the twenty
hours for unimaginable impacts, in order
that he might sleep in peace. The British
ships became things OF life waiting in the
mists-proud, seepless, impossible. With
out them England would have been swept
by fire. If they had ever failed, England
would have passed into martyrdom. These
memories in Britain are among the things
that must confuse President Wilson's task.
Yet they are natural.
1t is against such deep.hldden emotions
that the world will have to grope its way
to the enduring peace which can come only
with some general plan of relative dis.
armament
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

the causes for which America shared in
the war, these are fashioning the struc-
ture of the new era.
It cannot be that the edifice will be
ierry-built, because these two foremost
nations and their leaders behold each
other more clearly than any other two
groups of peoples on earth. America
and Britain are bascally incapable Of
fooling each other on tactics for any
long-continued period. They have played
their game of both aversion and inti-
macy in every phase. Their proclaimed
unity of intention now is the fairest hope
for year which must be one Of con-
structive accomplishment in order that
we may contemplate record of tragic
sacrifice with a scintilla of pride.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

in the charter, but that II should be made
possible at a single election, or at two
elections at the most, for the people to
dismiss unfaithful officers.
This cannot be done IL authority is di.
vided among a lot of different elected off.
cials chosen at different times, but It can
be done by reducing tho size OF Councils
or substituting even more power in the
hands of the Mayor
1t is beside the question to argue that
such an arrangement would enable the
bosses to control the city by controlling
the Mayor, because it is impossible TO draft
any charter which will prevent the bosses
from controlling when the people elect
their candidates.
What is needed is the easiest and surest
way for the people to take control in their
own hands when they are tired OF the
bosses. The surest way Is through the
election Of a strong Mayor with full power
to clean house. Concentration on single
issue and a single candidate Is possible,
and through It we can get good govern
ment when we want it.
But no form of a charter will insure
good government when we are Indifferent.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
RECOGNITION FOR MR.. HEINZ

AMONG the sufferers by the war must
a be listed the food and fuel admiristra-
tors, who were given posts as thankess as
they were complex and difficult
In his term as food administrator Of
Pennsylvania Howard Heinz did much good
work and took lot Of criticism. some fair
and some foolish, as part of his job. He
proceeded wisely upon the theory that the
people could be best disciplined to the food
rules IL they were made TO share the re-
sponsibility Of the administrator. So in.
stead OF trying TO drive them, he made
them his helpers. Thus he achieved results
which cannot be appreciated in Pennsyl.
vanla until we have had time to realize
something Of the immensity of his Job and
the success with which it was performed.
The record which Mr.. Heinz made in
this State caused Mr.. Hoover to summon
him to Europe. In this instance Mr..
Hoover has given another illustration Of
his habltual foresight and instinct for eff
cheney.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
A p. r. T. FRAME.UP

T,HoSE citizens who accepted the invita-
4 ton Of tho P. r. r. car circulars and
attended in good faith the meeting of the
Committee of Thirteen yesterday afternoon,
expecting to be permitted to give testi-
mony and express protest against the
deadly character OF the skip.stops must
be CONVINCED by the cavalier treatment ac-
corded them that only one side is wanted
the chairman Judge MacNeille, the secre.
tary, and Mr.. Lennon, q member Choked
off efforts OF business men to make them
selves heard, recalled the familiar steam.
roller tactics of the days in Councils when
the Durham-Ashbridge gang assisted the
traction crowd in putting over it's iniqutous
merger franchises in the face of wide
spread public indignation.
To limit yesterdays session to Safety
2rst" movie lecture designed for school
children and a selfcongratulatory speech
by Mr.. Mitten when representative citi.
zens were present and eager to condemn
the skip.stop botching with facts shows
the bias of the committee, or at least of
those members who have assumed its
direction under the nudging Of the P. r. T.
president.
Whatever the verdict OF the Committee
OF Thirteen may be, it is nullifled in ad.
vance by such crude maneuverlng.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

ferring to the declaration Of dividend Of
s1.25 per share on the preferred and COM
mon stocks Of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company on or as soon after January 4,
1919 las the company receives from the
United States Government an adequate
payment OF the rental now due" Members
Of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee who wrestled with the Presi.
dents railroad control bill are inclined to
look upon this announcement as nebulous.
Following long after the President dumped
the problem back on Congress, only to
learn from the director general Of railroads
that fveyear program Of control was
contemplated, the form Of the Lehigh divi.
dend notice is mystifying. Chance for
Secretary Horace II. Lee or Percy Chand-
Ter or Gordon S. Carrigan or ]. w. Sparks.
the new president OF the New Jersey So
ciety of Pennsylvania, to e:ucidate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
CECIL TALKING SENSE

lord ROBERT CECIL has given the
IL League of Nations Just the sort of
stimulus It needs in a period OF hazy gen.
eralities. He has come forward with
plan, whose leading feature is the holding
of periodical and special meetings for the
discussion Of all causes which may seem
to threaten war.
Deliberate, careful investigation is ever
the deathblow TO thoughtiess jlngoism. AS
Mr.. Wilson has pointed out, just little
more fr8nkness in July, 1914 might have
Rverted the whole titanic struggle. The
British ex-Mintster of Blockade has SINH
lar idea which he expresses in categorical
terms.
1t is this specific nature of his remedy
which is food for hope. Other proposals,
outlined in detail, should be forthcoming
from other sources. The more partcu-
larized they are the better. Contradictions
and apparent paradoXes can be balanced
and alleviated as they were when the
American constitutional convention faced
Its tremendous task
This is the way really constructive work
can best be done, and Lord Robert is think
ing wisely and helpfully when he blazes
the way.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
THE READERS VIEWPOINT
Save the Noble Horse

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger
slr-It is criminalIy wrong TO put'a horse
on our modern streets and highways with
out being properly shod. The automobiles
have so polished and creased our streets
and highways that it is impossible for
horse to stand on its feet without being
properly shod. either in the winter or the
summer. 1t looks to me as very inhuman 10
neglect this important matter which may
result to the horse in strained back or
broken leg. necessltating the shooting or de-
structlon of the horse.
HENRY ]. TALLEY.
Philadelphia, December 27.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
THE DOCTORS KNOW

= unsung heroes The arrival OF DR.. John
/ III. Gibbon and Or. George W. Norris, who
have returned to this city as colonies after
extended service in the thicK of the fight
ing. suggests again the extraordinary po-
sition that physicians and surgeons occupy
in the field.
They witness a reversal on a vast scale
from all their accumulated PHILOSOPHERS
which demand the preservation of life
They endure all the risks and experience
none Of the elation of the men in the
ranks. 1t would be interesting to know
what all the surgeons on the western front
actually thought of war. 1t is highly
probable that they would vote twenty to
one for a league of nations.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
pENRosE AND THE MAYORS POWERS

gTsHE men engaged ON preliminary draft
OF city charter win make a serious
rnEstake IL they act on the suggestion of
senator Penrose and provide for curtailing
aha power 6f the Mayor.
The Bullitt law, which concentrated
power IN the hands Of one man, was based
nn a sound principle Endorsed by nearly all
municipal reformers. OF course, bad
mayors have been elected, They would
I probab;y have been elected under any other
form OF charter. But good mayors also
have been elected. And when they took
oiIlce they had the power to do something.
Where they were frustrated was in
C6encilT.
Il 1t Is possible for the charter trainers
AZ make It possible for the people, when
fney hre no longer willing 70 endure mis-
novernment, to turn the unfaithful serv-
nntt out Of office ana put worthy successors
h their places. they win accomplish some
th'ne worth while, BY this we do not
N.eAp ,het the rsf,ll should be Incorporated
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
Little Studies in Words
OVATION

DOMAIN heroes Of the second class when
honored with an ovation, while the heroes
Of the first class were treated TO a triumph
The word in Latin is ovdtio, an eXultatlon,
which comes from the verb oUdre. meaning
to exult. 1t is derived from a root OF the
same form as that on which oUum, an egg,
Is formed. If It were possible to demon
strate that the Latin word for eXult were
akin to the word for egg we should have
a most interesting derivation, for tho hen
exults when she lays an egg, and we could
easily say that the ovation extended to a
lesser hero was like the cackllng of the
domestic fowl when she has succeeded in
accomplishing one OF the chief ends OF her
being But the etymologists will not con-
sent to any such satisfying explanation of
the origin OF the word. They connect It
with the Greek word meaning a breath
or breeze and not with the other Greek
word which is at the root OF egg and bird
in the ancient languages. ovation, from
meaning a lesser triumph, va gradually
extended to apply to the shouting and en-.
thuslastic approval which accompanied the
triumph In popular usage II is now con-
fined to enthusiastic demonstrations OF ap-
proval In this sense the hens in the barn
yard give an ovation to one OF their flock
when she lays an egg and announces the
fact. All the other hens begin TO cacSle in
sympathetic approval. The English say
ing, ITO egg him on" unfortunately. has
no Connection with ovation, for the egg
is not an oyum. Il Is merely corruption
OF the word edge.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

The first purpose Of a
Worth Considering League Of Nations will
be the prevention of
needless slaughter, And since the p. r. II
cars killed ninety-one persons last year one
cannot but wonder whether the league, when
It is formed. would consent to use a little
auason on the company.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

Baron Won dor
Were Listening Lancken and DR..
Reith, two of tho un-
forgettable Hun tyrants of Belgium, Just ap-
pointed by the German people to diclfer with
the Allies for food, have been told by Mr..
Hoover to go to hell. Tune your ears for
wirelessed protest from Gehenna!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

Some of the Senator's in Washington
who have old grudges to settle are prepar-
ing to make war on Pershing by fighting the
move TO have his present rank made perma-
nent. Political suicide seems to become moro
fashionable every hour in the high places.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

This Is the Presidents sixty-second
birthday. For the moment at least ne Is
swinging the world, And we can recall a
time when 1t used to be said that everybody
ought to be chloroformed at forty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
Woe. " oe!

Striking walters in
Woe. Woe! New York and the
affiliated unions nre
threatening Broadway with a jazzless,
waIterless. foodless, drInkIess New Years
Eve. And, Of course, there will be any nuta-
ber Of cafe patriots who will feel that this is
q rotten way in which to greet the most snl-
emn year of the century.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

zeppelins are proposed for use in trade
between New York and Hamburg, Germany.
They will have to do better in peace than
they did in war If there is not to be more
ruin in Hunand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

The Kaiser used to have a cyclone cellar
at the front. And It Is altogether likely that
he now wishes he could have carried It
around with him on his travels.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

lot Of persons are hunting amid the
debris OF their minds for old New Year reso-
utions that may be polished up for next
Wednesday,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

Mr.. Bryan has yet to be heard from
concerning that little party Of Gold Demo-
Gratis" who dlned off the wondrous yellow
plates in Buckingham Palace yesterday.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

Considering the way the Prince of
Monaco has lambasted him, the ex-Kaiser
suggests the man that shuns the spank of
Monte Carlo
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

Camden, says a headline, is going to
compel better street-car service Who will
send a commission to Camden to find out
how the thing is done?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

A downtown friend of ours who speaks
bf redical Socialists appears to have added a
much needed and extremely handy word to
The iEnglish language.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28
The Lions Cub

The whelp that npped its mothers dug in
turning from her breast,
And smacked its lusty lips and built its
own lair in tho West,
Has stretched its limbs and looked about
and roared across the sea:
"Oh, Mother, did bite thee hard, but strll
thou lowest mel"
She lifts her head and listens as waking
from a dream,
Her great Jaw set, her claws outspread, her
lion eyes ageam.
The voice is deep as thunder on the far
horizon rim.
And up the Mother spoke and said, 1T can
be none but Him"
Cried England to America MY love for
thee abides,
The old Trafalgar courage still on the
ocean rides"
Liberty
Goes with US marching up the land ana
sailing down the sea-"
The twain are Joined for hunting-let all
the packs beware,
The tigers kith, the panthers kin, the
race.hordes OF the bear.
They two step forth together, Gods hand
has struck the hour,
All pathways lead to freedom, each foot
step broadens power.
The world is still in dull amaze, agape and
dazed to hear;
There is a rustling Of the thrones, uneasy
far and near,
King leaning unto king. and on oppres-
sion's hateful lips
A pallor, as the wind brings in the boom.
ing Of the ships.
The star is up, the star OF splendor, never
to set or wane;
The flag leads on. the flag Of glory, never
to turn again;
And where it goes we cheer and follow, no
man OF us will fail;
We all are where our armies camp, and
where our navies sail.
World -conquering Mother, hard we bit in
parting from thy breast;
Yet still we smack our lusty lips and love
thy milk the best;
For the blood our Mother gave us is the
true imperial strain:
She bore one cub, one only, but It wears
the lions name.
MAURICE THOMPSON.
1t has Just occurred to US: We forgot to
send a Christmas card TO Garabed. We
fear that a great many people forgot to
do so.
It is not fair to condemn some Russian
statesmen for being anxious to have other
people solve their problems for them.
Aren't we all like that?
Surely 1t was characteristic of Colonel
Roosevelt, when he had rheumatism, to
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

How the exile at Amerongen must have
cursed the futility of Zeppelins when he read
of the $4,000, 900 worth of gold plate spread
out 30 temptingly at Buckingham Palace!
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

It seems to The Chatting Dish that the
United States Supreme Court is unduly
hard on afternoon papers. The business
of newspaper, said the Court in a recent
important finding, is ito place the daily
events of the world at the breakfast table
OF the millions"
The Chatting Dish, which interferes with
no mans morning ham and eggs, enters n
respectful protest. Who ever heard Of a
Chatting Dish on the breakfast table?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-28

Some day we hope to write an interview
between Captain Kidd and a hat.check
bandit. SOCRATES.