Evening star., 1925-07-15
WESTERN OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

President Coolidge said at Cam
bridge on the Fourth of July that the
nations of Europe ought to get to-
gether in mutual security pacts for
the preservation of peace. He could
do worse than advise St. Paul and
Minneapolis to do likewise. The riV
airy between the Twin Cities is in
tense beyond all belief and, to an
Eastern tenderfoot, not lacking in en-
tertainment. 1t has to be experienced
on the spot to be appreciated. The
presidential party that visited the
region in June ran straight into the
latent civil war When Mr.. Coolidge
addressed the Morse centennial at the
Minnesota State Fair grounds he was
on neutral soil. But when he attend
ed the centennial luncheon at a Min
neapolis hotel st. Paul was one down.
Forthwith it was made urgently plain
to the President that he must even
up scores by gracing some function in
ST Paul So, on short notice, it was
arranged he should appear at the
public reception in the State Capitol
a couple of hours before starting back
to Washington.
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One of the big Twin Cities industrial
CORPORATIONS
broadcasting station, WCCO. In order
TO keep the peace in the air. the an
nouncer one evening will Tilt This
is WCCO, Minneapolis, and the next
evening he will proclaim it is 'WCCO,
St. Paul" There's a street car line
that travels between the two cities.
Half of the cars have painted on them
the legend: "Minneapolis-St Paul,
and the other half are labeled: st.
Paul Minneapolis. Cases are on record
this is a Minneapolis allegation of a
St Paul business concerns refusal to
accept delivery of heating plant it
had bought. because it bore too con-
spicuous evidence of manufacture in
Minneapolis! The late Archbishop
ireland, whose official seat was in ST.
Paul, used to solve the problem dip
lomatically. When asked which was
the larger city, the archbishop would
reply: II live in the Twin Cities. Their
population is 600, ,000'' Today Min
neapolis claims about 425 900 and St
Paul about 325 900. They are both
beautiful and bustling communities.
The lake region fringing Minneapolis
is loveliness incarnate, and Summit
avenue, ST. Paul, is one of America s
finest boulevards.
w after w. de1IelIlnSer. the famous
''Pudge' Heffelfinger of Yale foot ball
fame in the early COS, is now a
prominent Minneapolis business man.
Age has not withered his giant frame
nor the fighting qualities which made
him a terror to Harvard Princeton
and Pennsylvania on the gridiron.
He is now a, commissioner of Hen
nepin County and INDUCES in period
ical scraps on behalf of clean gov
ernment. "Pudge" practices girth
control on the golf links.
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While making my way West on the
Northern Pacific, across Minnesota
and North Dakota, | encountered
Oswald Garrison Willard, son of Henry
Willard. the creator of that pioneer
trunk line across the open spaces.
With his family, the editor of the
Nation was en- route to dude ranch
in Wyoming for the Summer. MIR.
Willard remembers viyidly the time
his father took him. a lad of u, to
the then wild and woolly West to see
the last spike driven in the Northern
Pacific line and to travel aboard, the
first transcontinental train to polish
| its rails. That was in 1883. Willard
is deeply interested in observing the
fate Of the PrQgressiys movement in