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"V-*! a 4 The Proper Spirit .V'li^. V" New UlmReview Published,*}? 9fo *r TJlm in a Subscription Rates $2.00 Per Year Wednesday July 10, 1918. Knteieri as Second Class Matter at the Post office at New Ulin. Minnesota Official paper of City of New Ulm. The recent auto accidents at Comfrey and Springfield lead one to wonder whether there may be some very good and potent reasons for the extreme anti-non-partisan league feeling existing in tho.se two towns. Their saloon traffic with the people from the surrounding desert is probably quite lucrative and it would be a pity to have it cut off. Gov ernor Burnquist and the Safety Com mission must be kept good natured and assured of the loyalty of those two places in order that they may not close up the booze joints which are supplying the boot-leggers. An easy way to prove one's loyalty to Gov. Burnquist is to fight the non-partisans. "Satan finds mischief still for idle hands to do" is still true, evidently, and this was proven again when young Wartha of this city stole an automobile and sold it last week. Wartha had been an employe at the Review office for about four years and we never found the slight est indications of thievery in his make up. He frequently had opportunities to make away with cash or with other materials in the place but never was anything ever missed during the whole time he was working here. Last fall he thought he saw a chance of advance ment by working for the Liesch Print ing Company and left our employ. From that time on he has worked only intermittently and frequently has been off duty. This gave him time to run around and to think up mischief and that he used his spare time for this purpose appears very plain since he managed to get into what was very serious mischief. The work or fight order may do away with such escapades. A lively, spirited youngster needs to be kept employed for he's got to be doing something every minute and if he's handled right he'd just as soon expend his efforts to some good end as not. Wartha was not a bad boy, not naturally dishonest and not nearly so foolish as I his act would lead one to think. Joy riding has been looked upon with tol erance by many and it is very doubtful indeed whether he had any intention of making away with the car for keeps when he drove it out of the yard at Wagner's. Probably if he had been working at a steady job he wouldn't hav.e- thought of such a thing as a joy 7ride to Minneapolis in a car not his own on a working day. 'If all County Attorneys would publicly denounce acts of vandalism and other such doings as County Attorney A. L. Young of Sibley County recently did in tthfe "Winthrop News" there would be fewer acts of violence and less personal spite work committed in the name of loyalty. To enforce his arguments for decency, the County Attorney quoted as follows from President Wilson's address delivered before the labor convention at Buffalo, I IN. Y. last fall: "We are in the conflict across the 'R'&ters in support of Americanism, 1»fi*2£rican Ideals, good morals, obedience fkiiiEw sind the good order of society, the rig|it/7Ji every individual to all freedom and liberty which do not tend to deprive any other individual of the same right. How inconsistent it is and how highly improper then is it not for persons and individuals, claiming loyalty, good Amer ican citizenship, and to be lawabiding torecall, prowl about in the night time and in a cowardly way under the cover of dark ness mar and injure other people's -property and to discolor and take de light in making it seem abormal. "And then again, what good does condtact of that kind accomplish? It ,. Tivtmld seem that the least thought on v*he subject ought to dictate that it •cures no evils, but, on the contrary, .kindles new ones, arouses animosities, ^and stirs the victims to resentment and •dispositions to retaliation. And it is positively true that these results are ^brought about. How decidedly wrong, then, is it to do these things!" Young is to be' commended for the stand he takes and it is to be sincerely hoped, that jithers may follow suit. "A stranger visitinsc New Ulm for he first time one day last week com mented on the beautiful, well-kept thorofares. However, it would not do for him to see some of our back alleys. There is one right in the heart of the busi ness district that certainly needs a clean ing up and there really is absolutely no need for the accumulations of paper and other refuse there. Whose business is this? A PICTURE OF RUSSIA We are in Russia. The Neva is fro zen. Heavy carriages roll upon its sur ace. They improvise a city. They lay out streets. They build, houses. The biiy- 'They sell. They laugh. They dance. rThey permit themselves any- thing. They even light fires on this water become granite. There is win tier, there is ice and they shall last .forever. A gleam pale and wan spreads over the sky and one would say that the sun is dead. But no, thou art not dead, «oh Liberty! At an hour when they ihave most profoundly forgotten thee tat a moment when they least expect thee, thou shalt arise, oh, dazzling ssightJ Thou shalt shoot thy bright and 'burning rays, thy heat, thy life, on all this mass of ice become hideous and dead. Do you hear that dull thud, that crackling, deep and dreadful? 'Tis the Neva tearing loose. You said it was granite. See, it splits like/glass. 'Tis the" breaking of the ice, I tell you. 'Tis the water alive, joyous and terri ble. Progress commences. 'Tis human ity beginning its march. 'Tis the river which retakes its course, uproots, man gles, strikes, together, crushes and drowns in its wave not only the em pire of the upstart Czar Nicholas, but all of the relics of ancient arid modern despotism. That trestle work floating away? It is the throne. That other- trestle? It is the scaffold. That' old book, half sunk? It is the old code of capitalist laws and morals. That old rookery just sinking? It is a tenement house in which wage slaves lived. See the^e all pass by passing by nevermore to re turn and for this immense engulfing, for this supreme victory of, life over death, what has been the power neces sary? One of thy looks, oh sun! One stroke of thy strong arm, oh, labor!— Victor Hugo. TO GE THE GOODS That exceptionally clever woman, Miss Agnes Laut, writes two strong pages in the New Republic on the subject of "Averting Famine". She says many good things on the subject. But she doesn't seem to see that the way to avert famine is to produce food. She doesn't see that food has to be produced from land, and that food cannot be pro duced from land that is held out of use. She doesn't see that all land held out of use can be taxed into use. A heavy tax upon unused land would force its use and that would get us more food, oil and minerals. Such production would stimulate manufacture generally. A tax such as referred to would not only produce food., It would produce rev enue. By such taxation everything could be done that price-filing has tried to do. If we untaxed the farmers' barns, and houses and machinery and improvements we'd keep down his operating cost. So if we untaxed fac tories and machines and tools we'd increase the supply of manufactured goods. A heavy tax upon land held out of use will increase the supply of every thing and do it sooner than any other device yet suggested, if indeed any other device will do it at all. PLATFORM O LABOR'S NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE Sec. 1. Public ownership of public utilities. Sec. 2. Home rule, the power for the municipality to legislate for itself. Sec. 3. Equal rights to all special privileges to none. Sec. 4. Efficiency and economy in city government, all municipal work to be done by day labor instead of by contract. Sec. 5. The restriction by law of the use of the injunction process in labor matters. See. 6. Trial by jury of contempt cases, arising from alleged violations of injunction orders. Sec. 7. Direct legislation through the initiative and referendum and the including the recall of judges. Sec. 8. Minneapolis for a hundred per cent "Americanism" which stands behind President Wilson in war for freedom abroad, and insistence for Democracy at home. A MATTER OF MISTAKE S When a plumber makes a mistake, he charges twice for it. When a lawyer makes a mistake, it's just what he wanted, because he has a chance to try the case all over again. When a doctor makes a mistake, he buries it. When a judge makes a mistake, it becomes the law of the land. When an electrician makes a mistake, he blames it on induction nobody knows what that is. But when an editor makes a mistake in a story, he gets (censored) for he's got no excuse. DID YOU EVER TRY Ever sit at a typewriter and try to see what matter of public interest you could write about, how you could say something nice about that one, give some idea on a popular topic, make some suggestions which might be carried out by someone in the community who had the time and money to do so, smooth over someone's mistakes which had reached the public ear, try and explain why such and such things are not so, make a hero or heroine 6ut of someone who had done something a little un usual, give the proper space to the life of a departed citizen, laud the beauty and grace of a bride, see that every organization that has met has its name mentioned, give the names of all the new officials of any order, announce the events which are planned, write up the programs of entertainments, omit everything that should be omitted f~om I publicity, write everything which every-' body wants you to write about, and withal make no. enemies? Then you're partly fitted'to be an editor of a small town newspaper.—Miljord {Mass.) Cit izen. YOUTH (The writer of this letter, printed in the Atlantic Monthly, is a boy of nineteen, who at the time was making his third flight without guidance.) seven chocolate gumdrops which I shall eat. The flight commander sent me up and said, 'Fly around for an hour so here I am, with a board on one knee to write at him. Whee! Motor off, stick for ward, and down we go! Gad, it's bumpy down here at 2,000! It's Tom all right, because I know the number of his ma chine. He waved I waved. I shah climb. I hate this bumpy strata of air I'm in now. Smooth again. I'm now at 6,000 feet,/ still climbing. Tom is about 1,000 feet, but passing directly under me «f oia«. with both hands. Down I go after him, over 100 miles an hour. I'm now at 3,000 again. Tom has landed in a field about half a mile from the aerodrome. from some little farm houses. No, he »35^ ™tf5 January 3, 1918. a Aunt Lot: Where on earth do you think I am? To tell you the honest truth, I'm not on earth at all. I am 5,CC0 feet in the air! All alone! The ermine is rr.cldn3 such a noise that I can't hear myself think, but it is very smooth up here at 5,000 feet, so I can run the 'bus with my left hand and write to you with my right! I am beginning to think I am some aviator now, because I can go up and write letters in the air. I just received your Page ^& Shaw's chocolates to-day. They have followed me all over England, and finally got here. There is a little box on the instrument- ,_,_,. ., Behnke and Christ Filzen made a. trip board-of this plane, and it are six Tom has had engine-trouble or run out The request was granted cheerfully and of petrol. He sees me and is waving the people from that section erf town were commended for their patriotic spirit. I've been up half an hour. I shall gum-drops. I've lost the aerodrome again! I'm now at 9,000 feet, and am getting very cold, so I'll turn around and glide in. I'll stall first, just for he sinking sensa tion./ Going only 30 miles an hour, motor off, and about to sink sink ing, noselevel. Controls have very little effect at this^speed. I'rm merely drop ping, nose down, and get up speed 50, 70, 90, 100 miles an hour- Flatten out, 90, 80,10, 65, motor on. again, and away we go—7,000 feet noxr- AH chocolate gum-drops eaten! Ahl—Iseetheaerodwm«again. Tom's machine is just leaving the ground hfs getting further and further away from its shadow. I'm all alone in this:, aero planes, with one empty seat in. front. I wish you were in.it Td give you some: wonderful thrills .that would make 70 miles an hour down a. crowded street irj an automobile seem like riding in a baby carrage! N O MORE OIUNGOF STREETS THIS YEAR FEDERAL REGULATIONS FORBID USE OF ROAD OILS BY MUNICIPALITIES NEW FIRE TRUCK WILL COST NEARLY EIGH THOUSAND DOLLARS From $7000 to $8000„will be expended for5 the new. auto fire truck .which is to be supplied the Fire Department of the city of New Ulm. Bids have been asked for and will be received up to Mon day evening, July 29. The new machine! is to be a combination truck with chemical engine, hose carrier, and pump. The capacity of the pump is to be 300 gallons per minute with a pressure of 125 pounds. 1200 feet of hose will be carried in addition to the 200 feet of hose belonging to the chemical engine. Complete Apparatus.' Some time ago a committee consisting of Mayor Eibner, Chief Henry Engel and his assistants Jos. F. Groebner and Fred Pfaender and Councillors Fred a hasn't crashed. I can see him getting his property on North Minnesota Street. out of his machine. Out of petrol, I guess. They must have forgotten to MINNESOTA LAKES TH E fill his tank up before he went. I hope, PLAYGROUND O TH E NATION he has had sense enough to telephone to the aerodrome for some petrol. He's fv Ten thousand lakes is not a mere now.sitting calmly on top of his 'bus. ffigure of speech it is a concirete fact, a climb to 10,000 feet and spiral to the ij. The hills and valleys, great areodrome, just for practice On the timbered stretches and the rotors' and way up there I shall eat-the chocolate Do I dare tiy a. loop? I believe not yet anyway* right over he 'drome at 6,000 feet, so I'll try a spinu. a beauty in nature^ Whee! Three times wing over wing was all I did, but what a sensation drop ping all the time! There are three other machines trying to get into the aero drome, and they are all below*me, so, have right of way. They're in now, so down I glide need right hand for landing, and so I must stop. Now at 1,000 feet. Bumpy again and can't make the aerodrome from here, so must fly around it and try again. Well, I've got do to the rest with my right hand! Much love, and how I fraction of the pleasures to be found miss my dear old aunt! Your loving nephew, (200 feet from ground) JOHNNIE P. S I'm now on terra firma,,engine stopped (my fault), and calmly stranded in the middle of the field, waiting for some one to. come and swing my pro peller again, so I can "taxi" back to the sheds. Had a great flight 1 hour and 10 minutes, with a very good landing, except for letting the engine stop. Well anyway this is some letter. poor .hand is cold as ice, but I had a great time. JOHNNIE a kinds of trucks and it was their report to the council which brot about the call for bids. The machine will be a complete x.n fire apparatus in itself and will be of a a a a a on. Isn't this a novel letter? I see an- ,tutions, such- as the hospitals, college, other machine over, the town doing cir-'mills, breweries and brick yards -j., TX7-„ No More Road Oil. cles. I guess it's Tom -. We were told to meet at 2,000 feet over the town and fly around together. I'm at 5,000, .__. A and I going to dive to 2,000 and wave' Federal regulations prevent the sale of this oil to municipalities I'm now at 8,500, and have completely [would not be interrupted and also to lost sight of the aerodrome. I've lost request the use of lights for their park o,-^tt T'lt iW Ynm an, bp.,I^ sigh of To also 11 1 let him go be- cause it too wonderful up here. 1 guess both for. in case a fire should any of the large outlying insti- The application of the city made to the State Highway Commission to allow the purchase of road oil has been denied: 1™—s Thi° leave the city practically" without any road oil and no more work in this line will be done during this season. It is possible that the request for Tarvia may be, granted but this will depend upon the decision of a representative of the Highway .Com mission who is to visit New Ulm some time soon. East Enders Praised. Representatives from the east end of town appeared at the meeting to make sure that their Fourth of July parade their Fourth of July celebration a is turday evening this week. Routin Business. The Chicago & Northwestern Railroad has been notified by the City Council t® construct cement crossings on First and Hose house Num- gnmtvA. a building permit to improve thev lakes are the prettiest in he a combine in the* greatest picture a& natural beauty to besasen any where. Even, our own people have no real conception of the. grandeur of thejsGenery of northern Minnesota, and now hate we ares building good roads and other-P wise providing for the tourist, it is rea-1 sonable to believe that he efforts «l!f the association will meet with speedy response*, and that soon the: fame afi northern Minnesota as a. playgrojundl will bejkisow the country ow«r. W® have but to make ojir wonderful' domain known to have it, appreciated! by t$he thousands upon thousands? wh® ar« lookiag for exactly what we? have: toil off« people who would a satisfied with much less. Vmnillion, Pelican, Pokegama,, Leech* Red, ISFinnibegoshish, Kainy. antf Lake ©f the Woods are the best knowa lakes of the ten thousand, because of their size, but there are thousands of lesser bojd*Bs,oi clear, sparking water that are just as attractive, a»d ara awaitiag the pleasure of the people who. kmg for the A consistent advertising' campaign will bring people to. us from afar, and they will bring others with them,, because there is no other locality that approaches northern Minnesota. This week*s Review contains evidence that some of the people in the lake regions of the state realize the value 0f advertising and have decided to do their share to build up their section of Minnesota. The three advertisements this week's paper contains all tell but a in the resort regions so near to us and yet so far because no one has ever before asked us to visit them. Try to get time this summer for an outing that will show you the beauties of your home state. There is no fairer or more won derful'state taken as a whole in the Union. Get acquainted with it. Don't let people from Kansas and Nebraska and Chicago and other places to ,he south know more of bur own section than we do* ourselves. In writing to the advertisers be sure to tell them you saw the advertisement in the Review. This will help both you and us. Hotel Idlewilde,' AN OLD AND well known Summer Resort on Osakis Lake tinder present management for seventeen years has proverl that the best advertising iscto sat isfy its patrons—They tell others. Write for rates, stating when you would like to come, and that you have read this apvertisement and if we have the room we will beglad to accomo date you. E. R. Ruggles, Osakis, Minn. Pleasant Lake Lodge S. DUNTON, O ANNANDALE, MINN. N a it S re E in N E or in Pickerel a fishing. at free it a a is a A E S $12.0 0 E W E E Spring Dale Resort Lake Augusta, South Haven, Minn. An ideal place to spend y*ur summer vacation. Best of fishing, excellent bathing, good, roomy, screened cottages, boat free, farm in connec tion where fresh eggs, milk and vegetables can be had. Two mails daily and first class tele phone service. Rates $1.00 per day for cot tages. For full particulars write GEORGE W. RUDOLPH, Prop. N r/"QSQQQOQDQQQQOQDQQQQTiyrry^ ^=^5IRVICL5EcuwT7( oURTESy TODAY Yesterday has gone into the dis card forever. Tomorrow may never be allotted to you. Today is the only certainty. What you do not do todays may never be done. Many things may happen before tomorrow, someone may sell you some worthless securi ties at exorbitant interest rates— better stick to farm mortgages. We have on hand a fine list of them of various denominations. FIRST MORTGAGE FARM LOANS 6 per cent net PHONE: OFFICE 102 ,\ RESIDENCE 106 (ESTABLISHED 25 YEARS) JGQQOQQQQQQOQQQQQQQQQS NHENNINGSENAGENC New Ulm, Minn. •. 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