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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1920-01-02
No 22485
Order for Creditors to Present
Clo;nno Etc

Claims, Etc.
State of Minnesota, County Of Hen
nepin. Probate Court.
In the Matter of the Estate Of
Elmer G.. Gebhart, Deceased.
Letters of administration on the
Estate of Elmer G.. Gebhart, deceased,
late of the county of Hennepin and
State of Minnesota being granted to
| Mary A. Gebh .rt of said county and
state;
And it appearing upon proper proof
by the affidavit Of the said Mary A.
Gebhart, made ard filed herein, that
there are no debts against the estate
of the said Elmer G.. Gebhart, de-
ceased.
It is Ordered, that three months be
and the same is hereby allowed from
and after the date of this order, in
which all persons having claims or
demands against the said deceased
are required to file the same in the
Probate Court of said County of Hen
nepin for examination and allowance
or be forever barred.
It is Further Ordered, That the
first Monday in April. 1920, at ten
o'clock a. NJ, at a general term
Of said Probate Court, to be held at the
Court House in the City Of Minnea-
polls, in said county, be and the same
is hereby appointed as the time and
place when and where the said Pro-
bate Court will examine and adjust
said claims and demands.
And it is Further Ordered, that
notice of such hearing be given to
all creditors and persons interested
liz said estate by forthwith publish
ing this order once in each week for
three successive weeks in the Echo
de YOuest, a newspaper printed and
published in said county.
Dated at Minneapolis, this 22nd day
of December, 1919. !
By the Court,
JOHN A. DAHL,
Judge of the ProbateC Court.
Walter S. Chase, Attorney,
1923 Mcknight Bldg. 10
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1920-01-02
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Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1920-01-02
No 226O6S
ORDER FOR HEARING

State of Minnesota, County Of
Hennepin. In Probate Court
In the matter of the Estate Of
Michael Nc Mahon, Decedent.
On receiving and filing the Petition
of Annie Nc Mahon of Hennepin
County, Minnesota, praying for the
ing to be the Last Will and Testament
Of said decedent and presented there
with as and for such last Will and
Testament and that Letters Testa-
mentary be granted thereon to said
petitioner;
It is Ordered, That said petition be
heard and that all persons interested
in said matter appear before this
Court on Monday, the 26th day of
January, 1920, at 10 A. M, at the
Probate Court in the Court House at
Minneapolis, in said County, and then
or as soon thereafter as said petition
can be heard, show cause, if any there
be-, why said petition should not be
granted.
And it is Further Ordered, That
notice Of such hearing be given by
publishing this order once in each
week for three successive weeks, prior
to said day of hearing, in the Echo
de POuest, a newspaper printed
and published in said County, and by
mailing acopy Of this order to all the
legatees named in said will and
heirs-at-law of said decedent
when their address is known or can
be a~scertained by due diligence, at
least fourteen (14) days before the
date Of said hearing, unless notice is
waived.
Dated at Minneapolis, this 31st day
Of December, 1919.
By the Court,
JOHN A. DAHL,
Judge Of the Probate Court
T. R. Kane, Attorney,
6O8 Globe 81. St Paul. 1-16
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1920-01-02

Carmen Dumas, file de Nine Laura
Dumas; Juliette Malboeuf, file de M.
ct Nine D. T. Malboeuf ct Celestine
Saucer, file de M. ct Nine Charles
Saucer, de notre vile, qui sulvent
leurs cours au %pensionnat des Soeurs
de St Joseph, de Crookston, sont en-
visite dams leurs families on elles pas
sent les vacances DIES Fetes.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1920-01-02

La reunion p%rincipale des DANES de
Ste-Anne de la paroisse Ste Anne, qul
devait avoir lieu lie 6 j%anvier fete de
l'Epiphanie, a etc remise au 18 jan
vier, alors qu'auront lieu les Quarante-
Heures, en- l'eglise Ste Anne.
On s'attend que cette devotion sera
suivie avec la ferveur habituelle ct
par tous les paroissiens.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1920-01-02
Ecbo oe l'Onest
Minneapolis lie 2 Janvier 1920

M. Paul Laplante, qui etait parti lie
70 novembre dernier, pour l'h6pital a
Rochester, Mimi, Oh il a subj n tres
grave operation, est rentre dams sa
famille la veille du jour de Tan. Son
etat est tres satisfaisant.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1920-01-02

Charles Robinson, lie comedien anne
ricain bien connu sera au Gayety avec
sa troue les "Par;sian Flirts" la semal-
re du 4 %j"nvier. Cette organisation
est au nombre des meilleures du bur-
lesque. La troupe est nombreuse ct
est formee d'artistes choisis par les
meilleures attractions de Broadway.
Les costumes sont riches eft ncuveaux
ct le choeur salt chanter ct danser.
Les dernieres charsons populaires Sc
ront rendues. Enfin vcus passerez une
soiree que vous ne regroterez pas.
Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1920-01-02

No226O5
ORDER FOR HEARING
State of Minnesota, County Of
Hennepin. In Probate Court.
In the matter Of the Estate Of
Jesse E.. Woods, Decedent.
On receiving and filing the petition
of William Woods of Madi-
son County, Illinois, praying
for the allowance of an instrument
purporting to be the Last Will and
Testament CT said decedent and pre-
sented Herewith as and for such last
Will and Testament and that Letters
testamentary be granted thereon to
said petitioner;
1t is Ordered That said petition be
heard and that all persons interested
in said matter appear before this
Court on Monday, the 26th day of
January, 1920, at 10 A. M, at the
Probate Court in the Court House
at Minneapolis, in said County, and
then, or as soon thereafter as said
petition can be heard, show cause,
If any there be, why said petition
should not be granted.
And it is Further Ordered, That
notice Of such hearing be given, by
publishing this order once in each
week for three successive weeks,
prior to said day Of hearing in the
echo de POuest a newspaper printed
and published in said county, and by
mailing a copy of this order to all the
legatees named in said will and
heirs-atJlaw of said decedent when
their address is known or can be as
certained by due diligence, at least
fourteen (14) days before the date of
said hearing, unless notice is waived.
Dated at Minneapolis, this 31st day
Of December, 1919.
By the Court:
JOHN A. DAHL,
Judge Of the Probate Court:
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The Rurnely Conviction

In view Of the crushing weight
of the testimony adduced in sup
port of the indictment the convic-
ton of Edward A. Rumely, former
proprietor of a New York news
paper, cannot be criticized on the
score of justice.
The man secured money through
IN agent Of the German govern
ment, invested it in the purchase of
newspaper and concealed the fact
both from the custodian of alien
property and from his readers. To
the latter he presented himself as
patriotic American, authorized in
virtue of his vocation to give ad-
vice to his fellow citizens during
grave public crisis. And the while
he jingled in his pocket the price
Of his shame. 1t is difficult to i'm
aglne a more obnoxious crime, and
though his plight may be pitied
sympathy cries up at thought of
the nature Of his offense. No
longer can an honorable calling
boast that the successful corrurtion
of representative American news
paper is impossible.
A sensation-loving muck-raker
recently assembled in book called
The Brass Check" all the filth he
could assemble to the dishonor of
the American press. The volume an
larently gave great pleasure to the
pro-Germans and the pro- Boise
visits and revolutonaries who form
the chief constituency of the radi-
cal press. Its hodge-podge of un-
supported gossip and insinuations
has been whispered about. And, 10.
it appears, when the matter is
brought to test, that one with
whom the radicals were pleased is
the dirty one.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
Enright's CapituIation

Commissioner Enright has stopped
writing letters to show that the
Police Department hasn't "broken
down" He no longer tries to parry
The Tribune's charges by saying
that his administration has been
even more efficient than the Woods
administration. The crime wave and
public indignation have forced him
to go back to police fundamentals.
He is reviving the Woods system.
His own actions are a capitulation.
What is Enright now doing to
suppress crime? He has ordered
many changes in police methods.
The ten-squad system has been aban-
doned for the nine-squad one, thus
putting about 600 more policemen on
duty at given moment. The Com
missioner has reestablished the de-
tective automobile squad, and will
require detectives to keep travelling
the streets day and night. What he
complacently called "the best policed
city in the world" when he returned
from his last vacation will become
even more marvellously policed-to
the extent, at least, that it will be
guarded by men actually patrolling
their beats and not trying to cover
two, three Or four posts in addition
to their own.
Mr.. Enright backslid grievously
from the high standards of the
Woods administration. He disorgan-
lied the force and reduced it's pro-
tective activities to a minimum He
is now trying to retrace his steps un-
obtrusively, if not penitently. That
fact alone makes all his recent pos
turings and claims to super-efflciency
meaningless.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
Repairing the Danzig Blunder

The League Council has at last
agreed to guarantee Poland the en-
Joyment OF her treaty rights in Dan
zig by permitting her to maintain
military forces there. The Councils
action takes the form Of decision
that Poland is the country best fitted
to defend Danzig in military wav.
ANY other conclusion would have
been absurd under the provision Of
Article lo4 Of the treaty, which pro-
v1des that the Polish government
shall conduct the free city's foreign
relations and give diplomatic pro-
lection to its citizens. The power
which represents Danzig in it's rela-
tions with the rest of the world
couldn't we'll leave to another nation
the right and duty of defending the
city against foreign aggression. A
states diplomatic policy cannot be
reasonably divorced from its mill
tary policy.
But there is another reason why
military control of the Baltic port
is necessary to Poland. She has nu-
rnerous commercial rights there
free dock service, control Of the rail
way system and terminals and Of
the telegraph lines, the privilege of
enlarging all existing means of COM
munlcaton, etc. But these rights
are valueless if Poland had no
means at hand to enforce them.
When the. Soviet offensive in Poland
was at its peak last summer
and the Poles were painfully short
of munitions cargoes Of war mate
rial were held up at Danzig. The
German stevedores went on strike
and the Danzig Council passed res
olution declaring the free city's ncu-
trality. The leagues High Commits
sloner. Sir Reginald Tower, rcmon-
strated with the Council. But he
took no effective steps TO raise the
embargo.
Such a situation might easily oc-
cur again II Poland were invadod
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
Big Powers and Little

Dlsregardlng particular issues and
disputes, the most striking feature
of the first session Of the League of
Nations Assembly, which adjourned
yesterday, is the emergence of an
issue which goes to the very roots
of the league.
This issue is as to which of two
elements is in effective control of
the league. Is it with the principal
powers, acting through the league
Council, or with the small powers.
which have preponderant voting
power in the Assembly?
The question of whether the
weight Of the nations should be
equal or unequal was one of the
causes of the i'll success of the
Hague conferences. 1t is back again
to vex and confuse. The hope that
The small powers would see in the
conduct of the big powers during
the war assurance that the latter
could be trusted to respect the
rights of their weak neighbors has
proven to be illusory. On the other
hand, 1t is clear that the big powers.
while perhaps willing to cooperate
in what may be regarded as a senate
OF the nations, are not willing to
yield their destiny to the control of
an international comitia.
The covenant faces both ways.
Mr.. Wilson and his co-workers
lodged the issue. They believed
that the little powers, having been
sheltered by their powerful neigh
bors, would gratefully concede au-
tlhority to the big. But the debates
and roll calls~at Geneva show that
such is not the intention of the As
sembly.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
Refugees From the Crimea

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: We would appreciate it if YOU
would call the attention of your read
ers to the terrible plight Of the vast
number of refugees of all ages and both
sexes from the Crimea in Constanti-
nope at the present time. Our presi-
dent, NJ. P. Riaboushlnsky, who is now
in Constantinople, has cabled us as
follows:
"Condtion refugees terrible. Over
hundred thousand arrived. Do utmost
collecting means, also communicate
Paris and London, requesting them or
ganize help
Some considerable time ago we or
ganized through the Western Bank
Ltd, London, a relief fund for Rus
sian refugees in Constantnople, and
many thousands Of pounds have been
remtted for their benefit during the
last few months. This was merely a
private effort on our part and that of
some of our friends to relieve the suf-
fering. We now know that the stress is
one that we cannot sufficiently render
relief, and so feel that it is our duty
to bring to the notice of Americans
the existence Of the Relief Fund Com
mittee, and would ask you to make pub
lie this appeal through your columns.
We will be glad to forward anv
amount which your readers may wish
to send, or remit for immediate trans
mission bank drafts payable to the
Western Bank, Ltd, 9 Broad Street,
London, which Is the treasurer of the
above fund. Our address is % West
Forty-third Street, New York City.
INTERSEAS CORPORA
TION,
Alexander W. Behr and Gregory Is
wolsky, Vice Presidents.
New York, Dec. 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20

Interstate Commerce Commissions
order was valid as to all roads
which are manifestly engaged in
Interstate transportation. There
may be few small roads, the JUS
tlce says, whose business is purely
local. They would not come under
the provisions of the intrastate
traffic section of the Esch-Cummins
act. This is a sound decision. New
York and the other states holding
out against the Federal commits
sion's decree have failed to recog-
nize that the railroads have become
a national agency, that the details
of operation and rates are bound
up with the conception of nation
wide system, and that local d.
vergences and discrimination re-
tard the uniformity in charges and
benefits which is the aim of ma
tional policy.
The government has pledged the
carriers a certain revenue. In or
der to produce that revenue it
ought to be allowed to impose
equalized freight and passenger
tariffs good, so far as interstate
carriers are concerned, in all the
states
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
The Downward Curve

In some lines wholesale price
shrinkages already have affected the
consumer. In others they still are
to be fully reflected. The retailer
and the manufacturer, as is natural
resent the drop in wholesale values.
Eventually wholesale prices are con-
trolling
The true measure of the price
movement is to be found in records
like those kept by the Department of
Labor. These chart the rising and
falling of the price line. Now they
disclose that in November Wholesale
prices of all commodities dropped s
per cent below the prices of October.
AID We're "a per cent below the peak
of last May.
Recessions are irregular. A few
commodities rose in price in Novem-
Der. But building materials de-
creased 12a per cent, farm products
9A per cent. clothing per cent and
food products Az per cent. These
percentages look small. But it must
be remembered that PERCENTAGES of
decrease in the present instance rep
resent approximately twice the pre-
ceding percentages of increase.
Compared with a year ago, whole
sale food prices have dropped II per
cent, clothing prices % per cent and
farm products prices 81 per cent.
The farmers have Jared worst in the
slump and Congress is considering
measures for their temporary relief,
which seems only fair treatment to
a primary industry. But the gen
eral readjustment of commodity
values will bring them some relief
through reductions in the values of
commodities they themselves pur-
chase
Prices run in cycles. We are now
swinging, more or less rapidly, to-
ward the price levels of the period
before the war. Speaking broadly.
wholesale prices have lost about half
the increment that came to them
from 1915 to 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20

all about the sermon, she broke into
IAN amazing cry" sobbing out her
agonized dread Of hell And the pitiful
part Of the tale is that neithe~ father
nor mother could comfort her having
themselves no assurance Of her safety.
The incident was not altogether un-
common. A woman Of Boston, driven
to desperation by the uncertainty Of
salvation, settled the point for herself
by drowning her baby in well, thus
insuring damnation, and freeing her
mind Of doubts
1t took strong men to live and thrive
under such a ministration, wrestling
with sullen earth for subsistence and
with an angry heaven for salvation.
That they had compensations, other
than religious, is apparent TO all but
the most superficial observer. The
languid indifference TO our neighbors
moral and spiritual welfare which we
dignity by the name Of tolerance has
curtailed our interest in life. There
must have been something inyigorating
IL the iron determination that neigh
bcrs should walk straight path, that
they should be watched at every step
and punished for every fall. The Puri-
tan who said. Il Will not Thou shalt
mott" enjoyed his authority to the ut
termost The prohibitionist who re-
seats his words to-day is probably the
only man who is having thoroughly
good tine in our fretful land and CEN
fury.
These are heavy indictments to bring
against the stern forbears whom we are
wont to praise and patronize. But Pill
grim and Puritan can bear the weight
of their misdeeds as well as the glory
of their achievements. No price WAS
too high for them TO pay for the dig
nifty of their manhood, or for the su-
preme privilege OF dwelling on their
own soil. They scorned the line OF
least resistance. Their religion WAS
never cloak for avarice. and labor
was not with them another name for
idleness and greed. Tho Pilgrim. Ike
the Roman, was expected % serve tho
state, not battcn on it, What wonder
that a few drops of his blood carries
with it even now some measure Of de-
votion and restraint. These were men
who understood that life is neither
pleasure nor a calamity. "lt is grave
affair with which we are charged. and
which we must conduct snd terminate
with honor"
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20

by the Reds and the Germans in
Danzig tried once more to seal up
the port. Poland would remain, in
fact, at the mercy of a hostile Ger
man majority in the free state, High
Commission or no High Commits
sion, SO long as she could not police
the city and keep her sea communi-
cations clear.
The peace conference should have
given Danzig outright to Poland
Instead it erected hybrid pro- Ger
man free state. The evil effects of
the present arrangement have been
glaringly demonstrated. They can
be overcome to some extent by giving
Poland, if not full sovereignty, at
least military control.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
The l0-Cent Fare in Boston


Sir: That "smarty" issue of The
Subway Sun, so eloquent of green
cheese, also referred to the fact that
Boston has a 10-cent fare--but Judi
ciously avoids mention Of the privi~
leges that the 1O-cent fare insures. 1t
may be informing to persons unac-
quainted with the Boston system Git
will not be information to the Inter-
borough folk if you publish what the
1O-cent fare covers.
One may take the subway at South
station prepayment of the 10 ccnts)
ride to the Park Street Station, trans
ter to a surface car, ride to Massa-
chusetts Station, transfer to the nud-
Icy Street surface car, ride to Dudley
Street, transfer to the elevated. ride
to Forest Hills Station Cor any desired
point beyond), descend to the street
level and transfer by surface car to
destination-~a thing | have repeatedly
done. A considerable ride that--cross-
ing the city and plunging far into the
country. Five transfers for 10 cents is
hardly an Interborough proposition.
So that The Suns "whecze" about the
Boston raise being for effect on New
York would turn to moan if n TO-
cent fare in New York were mnde to
cover surface, subway and elevated ser
vice per passenger +. A. B.
New York, Dec. 10, 1890.
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
The Maste5fuI / p Puriifan
Agnes Rcpplicr in the Yale Rcyicp

Even if we make haste to admit that
two great humanizers of society, art
and letters, played but a sorry part in
the Puritan colonies, we know they
were less missed than if these colonies
had been worldly ventures, established
solely in the interest of agriculture or
OF trade. Sir Andrew Macphail tersely
reminds US that the colonists possessed
ideals of their own, (which so far
transcended the things of this world
that art and literature were not worth
bothering about in comparison with
them" Men who believe that. through
some exceptional grace or good fortune.
they have found God, feel little need of
culture.
1t the Puritans never succeeded in
welding together church and state.
which was the desire Of their hearts.
they had human nature to thank for
their failure. There is nothing so all
man as to be ruled in temporal things
by clerical authority Yet inasmuch as
the colony of Massachusetts Bay had
for its purpose the establishment of q
state in which all citizens should be of
the same faith, and church membership
should be essential to freemen. il was
inevitable that the preacher and the
elder should for time dominate publ;c
counsels. Are you, sir, the person who
serves here!' asked a stranger of a
minister whom he met in the streets
Of Rowley. Il am, sir, the person who
rules here was the swift and apt re-
sponse. Men whose position was thus
firmly established resented the un-
authorized intrusion of malcontents
Being reformers themselves, they nat
urally did not want to be reformed.
That there were souls UNFIT to bear
the weight of Purtanism, and unable
to escape from it, is tragic truth
When Judge Sewall read to his house
hold sermon on the text, aye shall
seek me and shall not find me-" the
household doubtless protected itself by
lnattention, that refuge from our neigh
bor's opinions which is natures kind
liest gift. But there was one listener,
terrified child OF ten, who had no
such bulwark, and who brooded over
her unforgiven sins until her heart
was bursting. Then suddenly, when
tho rest of the family had forgotten
New-York tribune., 1920-12-20
The Coming ower
Love in a Garden

Love in a Garden
tAnacreonta: XXI. 50
Cupid, playing mid the flowers,
In the happy, sunny hours,
Reused from peaceful, rose-wrapped
slumbers a most irritated bee.
And the creature stung him badly,
So he flew off, weeping sadly,
Thumb in mouth, to tell his mother
and awake her sympathy.
"Look your last upon your son, dear,
For alas, I'm quite undone, DEAR"
Thus to laughing Aphrodite came his
frightened, anguished cry,
GIVE been hit and sorely wounded
(Louder still his sobs resounded)
BY weapon that the farmers call bee
And now I die.''
Ripping came his mothers answer,
"lt is time that you began, sir,
To acquire little knowledge Of the
pains that you can start.
If little bee can harm you,
And SO grievously alarm you,
How do mortals feel, l wonder, when
you've hit them with your dart ?"
~ S. P