The Mankato free press., 1921-09-02
MANKATo FREE PRESS

rol Kester. verna Neitge and Marion
Stoves; bread teamsi Leona Peterson,
Evelyn Cuddy and Myra Jones. who
won the district championship and will
visit the state fair; Melva Peterson,
Violet Johnson and Carol Cox; Wal
drena Ellis. Lois Kerseon and Carol
Cox; Vera Keever. Elizabeth Parry
McCargar, George Williams and Billie
Snyder Of Judson; canning teams from
Lake Crystal. Esther James, Isla
Dodds and Anne Seeley; Stanley
Cookson, Petra Christensen and Mar
garet Ulrich; Laura Jones, Anne Seel-
ey and Elizabeth Pritchard; Evalyn
Jones, Eva Lamoreau and Cleo Fitch;
Good Thunder sewing teams; lrma
Possin, Florence Sperra and Gertrude
Wrucke: Madlyn Mccarthy, Rose Kel-
logg and Cornelia Bode; poultry team,
Howard Williams. Peter Sanger and
Clarence Nelson. This team will also
| go to the state fair.
Grounds Open Last Evening
For the first time in the history of
the fair, the grounds were open last
evening, and program given. During
the afternoon music was furnished Dy
the Gerlich orchestra for dancing, aad
this was the feature o: the evening.
A very fine pavilion was provided tor
dancing. During the day the Good
Thunder band gave numerous concerts
and were heartily applauded. Many
people watched the two ball games
that were played between Vernon Cen
ter and Jackson Lake. and Rapidan
| BOD Thunder and Vernon Center
will play the. Dig game today. Free
attractions were offered in the way
of tight wire walker and trained
dog.
Just before the splendid talk given
10y j.. Adam Bede OF Pine City, w. II.
Pay, Mankato introduced an old Civil
war veteran, j. w. Williams, who re-
cited poem of his own composition
written about the war. IT was timely
conceived poem and greatly apprec
lated.
Mr.. Bede who enjoys national
fame, gave one of the finest talks
that has been heard for some time.
He punctuated his serious remarks
with humor, which kept his audience
keenly interested. In speaking OF
the great work the women did dur
ing the war, he said thu he 4" -'5
attendance at q meeting recently
where the main speaker was dwelling
on the great work of the women,
and at the conclusion called upon
said that the only thing he added
was that he, like Nathan Hale, was
sorry he 'only had one life to give
to his country"
"Now you know I would not hang
the kaiser or kill him in some other
way if 1t were for me to do. | would
just set him free-free in Ireland
and then set Ireland free. Neither
| would 90 to war with Mexico. No,
would take a half million soldiers
and go down there and declare peace.
would then take about five hum
dred thousand good teachers and edu
cate the country and open the won
derful resources that the country has
to offer, which as yet are lying idle"
he suggested.
World Has Ricketts,.
What is wrong with the world,
well in my opinion it has the ricketts,,
its body has outgrown it's soul. The
spiritual awakening that was pre-
dicted to come after the war has not
yet arrived" But do people as a rule
go out and shoot someone and then
have spiritual awakening?" he
asked. Fifty million men are dead
as the result of the war, and if We
were to have another with the worlds
knowledge of gas and other war
dred million dead So it is up to us
to stop war and how can we do it
well by letting the common people
rise to the place where they may
rule, and then we will have no more
war, for the common people of one
nation never declare war against
the common people of another ma
ton. Another thing that is wrong
with the world is that it is long on
limousines and short on manure
spreaders and wheelbarrows. Lots of
people have been living up in the
air, and had no parachutes to come
down in, or they are coming down on
second mortgages. There are twen-
ty million families in this land, and
only seven million no mes. Last year
there were one million marriages,
and only seven hundred thousand
homes built. so that leaves the rest
of the number to live IN their limou
sines and probably at the movies"
he said, and continued, Lots of mo-
vies are not what thsy should be
know, and yet expect to- live to see
the day when they will be adopted
as part of the educational system of
the world" s...
Profiteers Have Blood Money.
Mr.. Bede said that profiteers have
on their hands blood money, and
the only way they can make it right
with him Is to buy bonds with the
money and then burn the bonds, and
thusly help pay the national debt. 1t
is his opinion that the very men who
fought the war will pay for it, and. it
is up to the profiteers to help unbur
den the debt from their shoulders.
The same thing applies to the bond is
sue that is under consideration.
| America cannot hate the world
and umpire it," he said. France
and Germany hated each other for
years. and finally came to war. Just
so with us If we sit up nights hat
ing another race sooner or later we
will come to blows about it. Why
not feel something like the Canadian
who was celebrating before the
eighteenth amendment was passed.
! This certain Canadian was listening
to band that played bis. national
anthem and then one of the national
songs of this country, and he shakilv
informed the bystanders that he
could not for the life of him tell
whether the band was playing God
save the Weasel" or Pop goes the
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