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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24
EDITORS HARD HIT

-he powers that be have handed out another
Jolt to the newspapers. The latest is
that newspaper cannot send out sam
ple copies; it cannot send paper free to anyone
and it cannot have an exchange list. Only the
first of this month it put the newspaper on
zone system of postage paying, AID each week
two different rates of postage are paid, one rae
on the reading matter and a different rate on
the advertising matter. Just wha. grudge the
government has against the papers is hard to
discern but it is certainly giving them some pref
Nv hard jolts. farmer who would be so discrim-
mated against would swear that "big business"
controlled the government and wanted to ruin
them. When it comes right down to brass lacks,
the men on the farm haven't the slightest con-
ception of what real trouble is.-Cottonwood
Current
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24

When we pay postage bills these days,
since the new zone rates have gone into effect,
we tempted to say that the Gazette shall
never run another free notice for the government
so long tn present rates hold, and to regret
bit all the free publicity we have given in the
past. But we don't say it. and we probably will
keep right publishing, since the welfare Of
the country demands that the newspapers shall
each and every do their bit in the "carry
on" spirit of the times. But will somebody please
explain why, just at time when the government
is more dependent upon and more deeply indebted
70 the newspapers than for many many years.
it should choose this of all times to arbitrarily
restrict and limit them? We admit we cant see
any reason for this action and we can see ma
ny against it. However it does one more reason
why backward subscribers should come to the
front with their checkbooks. If they don't the
newspapers will soon cease to exist.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24
HAVE IT NOW!

If there is going to be any popular
excitement over a coal shortage in
the United States this year, now,
not next winter, is the time for it.
There is no good reason under the
sun why the whole country should
no. be completely supplied with fuel.
If coal is not being mined, if coal
cars are not being provided, if coal
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24
A WOMAN'S PRAYER

0 power that be, make me sufficient to my
own occasions Teach me to know and to observe
the rules Oft he game. Give me to mind my own
business at all times and to lose no good oppor-
tunity of holding my tongue. Let me never lack
proper pride or a due sense of humor. Preserve
oh, preserve me from growing stodgy and u1ima-
ginative.
Help me not to cry for the moon, or over
spilled milk! to manage my physical constitu-
ton and my practical affairs discreetly; never
to dramatic my spiritual discomforts.
Grant me neither to proffer nor to welcome
cheap prEise; to distinguish Sharply between
sentiment and sentimentality, ceaving to the one
and despising the other.
Deliver me from emotional excess, Deliver me
from atrophy of the emotions
When it is appointed me to suffer, let me, so
far as humanely may be possible, take example
from the dear, wellbread beasts and go away
quietly to bear my suffering by myself
Let me not dwell in the outer whirlwind of
things and events; guide me, rather to the cen
trail calm, Give me, nevertheless, to be always
good comrade, and to veiw the passing show
with an eye constantly growing keener, char
ity broadening aid deepening day by day.
Help me to win, if win may; but and this
y powers, especlally-of l may not win, make
me good loser.
Vouchsafe me not to estrange the other me
at my elbow; suffer not my primal light to warie;
and grant that 4 may carry my cup trimming,
yet unspilled to the last Amen Eliza Atkins.
These German propogandists who are SYM
pathetic with the American boys who are forced
to "cross the water to meet their DEATH" remind
us, very strongly of the following example Of
misplaced sympathy.
A Jersey man of benevolent turn Of mind
encountered small boy in his neighborhood
who gave evidence of having emerged but
lately from a severe battle.
Il am sorry" said tn man, Ito see that you
have a BLACK eye, Sammy"
Whereupon Sammy retorted: "You go home
and be sorry for your own little boy-he's got
two"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24
supplies are not being distributed adj

supplies are not being distributed adj
equately, there should be no post
ponement of demand for correction
of these deficiencies. Last summer
was frittered away by those response
BILE for the fuel supply, and the re-
suit was a winter filled with short
ages, discomforts, and alarms. Thai
course should not be repeated. If
the public asserts its power, it will
not be repeated. Christian Science
Monitor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24

"he truth is that General Pershing has
failed to report all the casualties.
The three deadest things in Europe are
The typical Eaglishman;
The typical Frenchman;
The typical American.
We went to Europe looking for the English
man we had heard about-the snobblsh, self
satisfied, don't you know; but nobody ever found
him. Instead they found very hkaole' un-
selfish good hearted gentleman who talks and
thinks lust about the way we do-only little
more shy in manner.
And this grimacing, exciting, gesticulatng
Freedman!
Nobody ever found him. Instead they found
a quiet, philosophical bulldog with an almost I'M
earthly instinct for seeing things as they are and
with queer cold courage that faces the bald
truth without faltering. Los Angeles Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24
"A PLEDGE

Say folks,
Let's cross our hearts
And hope we'll die
If we ever ever buy
Or use the thing on which we see,
The trademark
"Made in Germany"
Preston Langley Hickey.
Minneapolis, July g.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24

When four good Me.hodls.;c families drive to
Green Lake of Sunday morning and one car
alone has four blowouts on the trip-now what
is that? Is it poetic justice, the punishment met
ed out to the wicked justification Of the ten
commandments or is it just a poor grade of
tires?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24

When the American soldiers covering
themselves with glory last week, a Redwood Falls
citizen saunter into the shop and said, believe
me- those Germans are going to find it is one
thing to eat sauer kraut and quite another thing
to push back the American "Louts." We take
it he was quite right.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24

"Meet Fritz, a little than half way, ano
give him a of a good time is the slogan of the
boys going into battle, according to letter from
one of Them. The boys are truly American in
this, their idea of true hospitality is to devote
themselves entirely to the consideration of their
guest, and to let nothing distract their attention
from him for a minute
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24

Whooperup tells about fellow who when
asked how the world was treating him replied,
Cali right, only not often enough" We know
how he felt, too.
Quentin Roosevelt has given his life for the
American honor just as freely and as willingly as
the lowest private in the ranks. The kaisers six
son remain well and able-bodied, thank you!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1918-07-24

Frank Day and Joe Reynolds have a. last uni
ted on one thing They have decided that about
the best thing in the world to look upon is a
girl in a white dress. All of which reminds US
of how desperate and deadly were the efforts Of
these two gay old birds to flirt with the wait
resses upon the memorable occasion when the
Second District editors graced Redwood Falls
with their presence Some boys, those two!
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04
CRAWFORD ADAMS
 PLAYERS RETURN

The third entertainment of the 1917-1S United Parents and Teachers association course originally sched. uled for Feb. 19 will be given in the Grammar school hall on Tuesday evening, March ,. Many members of the Community orchestra have joined the colorS, so that the orchestra is unable at this time to render any extended work.
 The committee has been very fortunate in securing as a substitute the Crawford Adams company. Those who heard Crawford Adams on any Of his previous visits to New Britain know that he has the tone and the technique of a great violinist and that in addition he has a soul, dash and enthusiasm distinctly his own. His versatility is shown in his wonder fu1 limitations and in his requests to the audience to name the pieces they care to hear played. The other mem Eers of tho Adams trio are also mas ters in their respective fields. Miss Helen Rumsey Smith. the contraltO sCloist, a pupil of Herbert Wither- spoon, is 8 charming singer with d marvellous voice. MT. Hudson, the pianist, has played with MT. Adams for years. His repertoire is as mex hauStible as is that of Adams and his aCcompaniments to the violin are marvels of tone-blending.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04
LES MISERABLES"
 CONTINUES AT FOX'S

Without a possibility of doubt, Les Miserables" that stupendous William Fox film presentation of Vic tor Hugo's dramatic materpiece, is the most sensationalIy successful cinema production that has ever made it ap- pearance in the state of Connecticut. William Farnum, the ideal Jean Val jean, could not help making the best of the wonderful possibilities offered
 him in the story, for in completing 8 the novel, Victor Hugo devoted the choicest twenty years of his literary career, and the plot and incidents of the narrative are the most evtraor- dinary and human that any genius has yet conceived. Many of the worlds famous literary classics have been transferred to the screen, but with but mediocre success. In Les MiserableS', however the screen yer sion has all the perfection Of the ori- ginal form, and, in addition, many little touches that are only possible in the movies. The story of the book is familiar to all readers It is the dramatic tale Of Jean Ealjean, tho
 humble peasant of France. After the
 French revolution, the country was in
 a deplOrable state, and the food sup
 ply was a a. low ebb Thousands of poor people were starving to death day after day. Valjean, unable to endure the sight of his sisters starving chill dren, steals a loaf of bread, and being caught is sentenced to five years in
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04

What q lot of things this war has changed! What a lot more it is go- ing to change!
 And one of the things that belongs to both those classes is the servant problem.
 Everywhere one goes one meets women who are cutting this Gordian knot. Before the war they were for ever trying to unite it--that is to get god servants at reasonable wages. Then the war came along and offered them the shears and straightway they cut it by doing. the work themselves. Two Children and Nineteen Rooms
 Just the other day I met a woman who has two children, a house with nineteen rooms and a husband with moro than a comfortab ble income. She used to keep one, and sometimes two maids. She is doing her own work now with two days of a chore-won1- ans labor. She has two reasons one that by so doing she can better rob the greedy maw of the crunb bucket. The other that she can thus have money of her own for the countless needs of war time.
 Fine for the Children
 Again I know a young mother with four children all under ten. Her husband, too, has a reasonably com fortable income and her father is a wealthy man. Yet she, too, is dong her own work, for much the same reasons. One of the interesting re- suits in her case is the effect on the children. Each child has his or her task. Three of them are girls and
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04
PATRIOTIC DRAMA
 ON KEENEYS SCREEN

keeney's IS showing as an added attraction this week, Metros senSa- uOnal patriotic spectacle Draft 20S'. It IS a flaming torch of patriotism. This seven act patriotic feature has been given superb production suit able to its great central idea and it's thrilling and absorbing story. It dra- matlzes the present situation in Am erica, when foreign propaganda bat ties for victory with native patriot lSm and shows the actual struggle the honest difference of opinion that sometimes separates families. Will liam Christy Cabanne the man who wrote and directed the Slacker'', is also responsible for Draft 25S" and Mabel Taliaferro is the star. From the Battle of Bunker Hill to a lawn fete of the present day for the ben eft of the Red. Cross, stirring scenes follow each OtRcr.
 The Battle of San Juan Hill is viv- idly presented by regular U. s. Cav airy men charging in the re-onacting g of these scenes. In connection with this picture a motion piCturA camera was planted for the first time on Bed loe's Island for the purpose of taking pictures of the Statue of Liberty.
 Nm. $. Htrt is shown Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in "Prowlers of the Plains, and another western drama showing the escapadcs of the western cowpuncher. A new o. lien ry story with other dramas and com edies are on the same bill Thursday, Friday and Saturday brings popular Harry Carey and Molly Malone in their latest five-part photoplay, Wild Women. High class vaudeville is shown all week
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04
COLLIER COMING TO
 PARSONS THEATER

The sale of seats for the engage ment of William Collier in Nothing But the Truth" at Parsons theat CT for two performances on "Wednesday and Thursday opens today. William Collier is this country's foremost comedian and when he comes with a successful play he is sure of a hearty welcome.
 Nothing But the Truth" is one of the most successful farces that has been produced in decade. It's chief character plays the role of d truth teller for one day and gets himself into such a mess that he resolves thereafter to sandwich in the GUS tomary lies in his social and business life.
 The skilled American worker, well paid and accorded all privileges of the land of liberty, stands in re- markable contrast to the Chinese coolies, depicted in Lyman II. Howe's Travel Festival, which comes to Par sons theatcr on Friday and twice of the industrial methods of the Chi nese are given in MT. HOWe'S facinat- ing pictureS. Another striking link in the new Travel Festival program is an excursion into the Wilds of Alaska, while considerable excite ment is furnished in the capture of a wild mountain lion by intrepid hunt- CTS in Montana.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04

prison, which sentence, through his repeated efforts to escape, is continual ly increased, until at length he has served nineteen years before being re- leased. During his period of incarcera- tiOn, he has turned from the simple
 charitable peasant, fearing God and loving his neighbOr, to a dcspicablc, hateful type of human beast After his release he is refused food and aid by all whom he approaches until he meets a, certain Bishop, who treats him like one of the nobility. True to his prison training, however. he turns the tables on the bishop, and robs him of his silver, and barely refrains from murdering the saintly old man. But later, we see a, great change in the eX- convict, for through the force of cer- tain circumstances which had in- huenced him, he became the highly respected and much beloved mayor of the community to which he had come as stranger. The experiences through which he is compelled to go, and the adventures that lead to his ultimate UndOing and how he starts life all over again for the third time, and again succeeds, but in a Vely different way, are all told in this greatest of all wonder productions, Les Miser- ables'. William Farnum reaches the greatest heights of his wonderfully successful theatrical career, as Jean Faliean and has received nothing but unstinted praise from every critic who has viewed the picture. But the great
 est praise of all is the absorbing at tention and appreciation that he is winning at every performance from every audience that witnesses the pie MiSnro b
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04
SIDE ' TALKS
After the War.
nY MUHH CAMERON

they are learning a wonderful lot about housework. I asked the old est how they liked the new order. T don't like dishes" she said, "but Pm learning to cook and that's lots of fun. I used to want to go into the kitchen and mother would never let me, and now I can go there whenever I want and I've learned to make haSty pudding and gingerbread and I'm go- ing to make corncake tomorrow"
 There will be many results of this exodus into the kitchen.
 One will be that after the war (especially with the probable influx of immigrant labor) inefficient maids will not be able to exact a wage out of all proportion to their abilities and to the rest of the economic scale.
 The Maids Will Gain, Too
 Another is that women will be more intelligent and more thought full about the equipment of their kitchens. One woman I know has al. ready reorganized her kitchen. When she used to keep a maid she was all ways wondering what made her so slow about getting meal. She knows now. She knows that when the ice chest is down a long corridor and one has to go through two doors and round corner to get the dishes to set the table. getting q meal is q burdensome thing. And she has changed all that. So the maids will gain as we'll as lose by this readjust- m ent.
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04
MABEL NORMAND IN
 LEAD AT LYCEUM

Mabel NOrmand will make her re- turn appearance on the screen after a years absence, today at the Lyceum theater in her most recent and great est film story, "Dodging a Million. . a story com hining everything u good story requires. Mystery. comedy and love elements enter into the making of this story, and interest is seized firmly, at the beginning and kept un- til the end. There is no ieta1p from the first flash until finish tells that the picture is over, and lovers Of good, interesting, clean, snAppy com- ody will get their ideal in "Dodging a MiiIlion.''
 Miss Normand has established her
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04
REVELATIONS OF 4 WIFE
Ry ADELE GARRISON

l looked Up into his eyes to find them swept clear of all mockery Kindness, sincerity looked out from them, and I longed to believe they weren't a mirage
 A sudden impulse came to me It could do no harm, I reasoned, for me to tell Mr. Underwood the story of the anonymous clippings purporting to portray my fathers horrible death as a spy, which had been sent to me. It ne had had any hand in them something which I didn't believe-I was sure I could detect the fact, inn
 perturbable as he was. On the
 other hand, if the clippings had been sent by Grace Draper without his
 knowledge or sanction, I felt instinc- lively that it would not injure either
 my fathers cause or the work in
 which l was engaged with Lillian, for
 him to learn Of the dastardly scheme.
 l folded my hands in my lap, for l
 could make no pretense of eating dur
 ing the recital of the events which
 had so terrified me. and spoke slowly.
 meeting his eyes deliberately as ]
 did so.
 "There is something very grave ] troubling me- I said, something which involves my fathers very life But if I tell it to you you must re- gard it as q confidence" His black eyes gazed steadily, in- tently at me.
 "I give you my word of" he stopped with an almost imperceptible saturnine twist Of his lips, and re- peated impressiVely, "f give you my Word.'
 CT accept it. I returned convinced in spite of the slip he had made in answering me. I knew as well as if he had explained the matter at length that he had started to say "ny word of honor' and had stopped in sheer self-loathing at the word "honor" ap- piled to himself
 Thank you" he returned, and there was a. humility in the tone wholly foreign to any phase of Harry Underwood I had ever known. Nh Unexpected Diversion. I cast about for words with which best to frame the story I had to tell
 him. As I did so the sad-eyed French
 waitress camC up and in her usual deft manner cleared away the dishes
 of our meat course, preparatory to bringing our cheese and coffee. Then she stepped back to the table near
 us at which l had seen the imperious looking woman. An instant later. while the opening words of my story i still fingered on my lips reluctant of i utterance, I heard the clear. carrying voice of the woman at the other 1 table:
 ''I usually give 1 0 cents, but I shall ] not give it to you"
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04

several well selected introductory sub Jects, Will be shown again today and tomorrow at Fox's
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04
Menu for Tomorrow
72.zc''. C,

Breakfast Steamed Prunes HOminy With Milk Flashed Potatoes
 Rolls
 Coffee
 Lunch Beef Broth Salsify Fritters Peach Cobbler
 Tea
 Dinner Onion Soup Broiled Steak Spinach, Mashed Potatoes Celery Mayonnaise Crystal Palace Pudding Coffee
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04

name firmly in the picture Armament as the greatest com edienne in the business. She has appeared in in- numerable comedies, but never, was she given such vehicle as this.
 Thus far this picture is easi1v\ her masterpiece and is a testimoniaE tc what she can really accomplish. The picture has been voted one of the greatest of the lighter pictures re- leased all season. And the Iyceum IS 10 nave it today and Tuesday and
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04
How Harry Underwood Brought up the Namc of Madge'S Father
 Why She Accepted His ''WOrd.'

'When did you hear from your
 father laSt?' Harry Underwood asked
 abruptly.
 I was on guard in an instant, l had
 been so occupied in trying to fathom
 the inner workings of his mind,
 especially since the incident of the
 playing of the national anthem and
 his ensuing comments, that I had al-
 most lost sight of my conviction con-
 cerning his knowledge of my fathers whereabouts. He had talked of everything and nothing with the
 charm he so well knew how to throw around his conversation, as in listen- ing to him I had felt the old, half repellant, half-attracted fascination with which this mans presence al- ways affects me
 But his question was like the sudden blazing up of a pile of kind l lings, the flame clearing away the mists of thought through which I had l been groping. One of the objects 1 toward which my presence opposite ! him in the F'leur de Lis tea room 1 constituted the first step was the un- ] locking of the sealed book which re- l corded my fathers fate, and of which ] I believed Harry Underwood to have 1 the key. It behOoved me to answer l his questions most warily.
 I waited q long minute before
 answering. Finally, I decided that the truth was my best card. 1 Not for a number of weeks" [ l said quietly. and then cOuntered with l another question and an assertion.
 You must have seen him fre-
 quently when you were in South l America" l said. ''Was he all right 1 when you saw him Iast?'
 l ever SO slightly as they met mine !? l Did he finch almost perceptibly at ! my question? I wasn't sure, for 1 when he answered me he was his usual self
 ] What's the Real TroabIe?" i He seemed to be well. but rather 1 nervous and WOrried-as if something 1 were troubling him." he replied. | pondered the answer. It might mean just what it indicated on the l surface-on the other hand. un- 1 known depths of treachery might lie l beneath.
 srWhats the real trouble, little
 girl?'' Harry Underwood's voice.
 soft, dangerously tender, sounded 1 across the table. ''You're uneasy
 about your father, I can see that
 And. who knows, perhaps l can help l you Won't you tell your Uncle ] Dudley about it?'
New Britain herald., 1918-03-04

, Wednesday, three days of pure HGal- ity.
 On the bill with ths great toa'hfe will be three headline vaudeville acts arriving hero after successful perfor-
 mances elsewhere. Jack Wentworth and his trained dog, '"Teddy', Wal
 ters and the Cliff Sisters, and the i'ull
 Bear Indians presented by Bert Fox
 will uphold this end of the list The
 first half of the week looks like gala
 days.