The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1920-05-21
NOTE AND COMMENT

Writing from Shakopee to the st.
Paul News, lone who works signs
tn e folio w ing CO nm unic att on
while walking down the street one
day with girl friend of mine heard
remark about us by one of our high
chap of the home guards, too yellow
to join our country in its fight for
freedom. We are both Is years OF
age and think we are capable of TAX
ing care of ourselves. 1t is habit OF
these boys to pass remarks about the
young girls of Shakopee and wish
something could be done to stop it.
He ought to be tarred and feathered
and then maybe he would learn a
lesson. They have never done a days
work and never will as long as the
county poorhouse stands. Please give
the young fair set a chance" Are
there cads OF the yellow sort in
Mankato?
Production of maple sugar and
strip has declined this year, accord
ing to the bureau of crop estimates,
United States department of agri-
culture. The sugar production was
7,529, 900 pounds, which compares
with 100000 pounds in 1919 49,
I'll 900 pounds in 1918, and 10,S39,-
600 pounds in 1917. Sirup production
has not fallen off in the same de,
gree, and yet the estimate of $685.
600 gallons for 1920 is much below
the 1854 900 gallons of 1919, the A.
905,000 gallons of 1918, and the A.
2S6,000 gallons of 1917. With strip
converted to terms of sugar, the ma :
pie sugar production of 1920 amount
ed to 36,373,000 pounds, and this COM
pares with the estimate OF 41,005, 900
pounds in 1919, 52.513,0 900 pounds in
1918, and 45,127,000 pounds in 1917.
The productive season of 1920 was a
short one and the average number of
pounds of sugar per tree, with strip
expressed as sugar, was only 1.91,
while in the preceding three years
the averages ranged from ZIG to 2.72
pounds per tree.
North China Herald: While ricksha
coolies and tea house gossips tell each
other that bolshevism means three
acres and a cow all around, and even
the sober middle class Chinese think
there may be some remedy in it for
militarism, it is interesting to learn
from Berlin that the most powerful
man in soviet Russia today is a Chi
nese or Confucian buriat named Ipak
Yen, who was formerly a BARRIERS as
sistant in Blagovestchensk, and was
nearly hanged as a spy during the
months Ipak has had working quar-
tiers in the Kremlin and has a palace
in Moscow, where he keeps up grear
state and parades his four Christian
wives on Sunday in gilded carriages.
The orthodox Communists bitterly
criticize Ipa kand his ways, and &C
cuse him of having accumulated $500
million rubles Is million dollars) in
six months. Ipak owes his power, say
the Rabotchi Golos, to his industry,
insinuating ways, cunning, and ability
arties. He is on first rate terms with
Lenine who calls him "My Celestial"
and takes no important step without
consulting him. The Communist lead
er Jakovief lately declared 1--WE have
a new Rasputin, who hypnotizes our
new car"
A dispatch from The Hague says ::
"The socialist Deputy Schaper, who
had previously addressed pertinent
questions to the Ministers relating
government to the German ex-roy-
alists, yesterday asked the Minister
of the Interior whether funds had
been taken from the public revenues
for the use Of the ex kaiser and the
ex crown prince for food, luxuries,
alteration of buildings or receiving
guests. Especially in the case of the
ex crown prince the minister was
asked to state the sums and details
of these expenditures to date. and ~
there was any change of the amounts
being returned. Some of these ques-
=, "rnAalv relate to the purchase
of house for the ex- crown prince
on the Island of Wierlingen. Dutch
newspapers recently published ad-
vertlsements in which horses car
riages, saddles and other equipment
formerly the property of the ex-
kaiser are offered for sale"