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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

Attorney Demsey of New Ulm, in an address
delivered at the Knights of Columbus picnic In
Ramsey Park Sunday made plea for dlsarma-
ment which he supported with sound argument
We can, as he said profit by the late world war
bv making use of the great lesson which that
war taught us in the loss of human life, human
suffering. property waste and destruction. Ii
that awful lesson does not prompt the civilized
nations of the earth to make united, effort TO
prevent wars in the future, then the World
War has been fought in vain. The people OF
this country are strongly for peace, and OPP
posed to any governmental program that would
in any way tend to lead us into war, but their de-
sire for peace should not prompt them to ap-
prove of some Of the specious arguments OF
those who would have this country disarm re-
CARELESS of the attitude in the matter of other
powerful nations. 1t is true that this nation,
as the greatest of all nations, should take the
lead in movement to bring about mutual
agreement among the leading countries OF the
world for disarmament, but unless that agree
ment can be secured it would be worse than folly
for this country to fail in providing for the nee
essary military and naval defenses Our contri-
button to the late war was increased immense
" by our lack Of preparedness and that fact
should also serve as valuable lesson.-Ollvia
Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10
A HINT TO THE WIFE.

r. W. Emerson: I pray you, 0 excellent W1te,
not to cumber yourself and me to get rich din
ner for this man or this woman who has alighted
at our gate, nor bedchamber made ready at too
great cost These things, if they are curious
in, they can get for dollar at any village. But
let this stranger, il he WILL in your looks, IN your
accent and behavior, read your heart and earnest
ness, your thought and will, which he cannot buy
at any price in any village or city, and which ne
NAV well travel fifty miles and dine sparely and
sleep hard in order to behold. Certainly, let the
board be spread and let the bed be dressed Tor
the traveller; but let not the emphasis OF hospital
ity lie in these things. Honor to the house where
they are simple to the verge of hardship, SO that
there the intellect is awake and reads the laws OF
the universe.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

a. tlra senate bv 8 vote Of 63 to on Friday The
ohiect of the measure is to bring about system
~ co-operation between the federal government
and the various states in guarding the health
and lives Of mothers and babies before, during,
and after childbirth The preventable mortality
prevalent among both women and children at
critical periods was the motive force behind the
bill. The statistics adduced by its proponents
were certainly formidable enough to justify some
action. The question at issue really was whether
the sanctity Of the home and the rights OF states
were not about to be invaded, and whether too
much power was not given to the children's
bureau Of the department of labor. 1t was main
" on these grounds that it's opponents based their
objections and they succeeded in having an am
endment adopted which prevents the entry OF
home by state agent or a representative OF the
childrens bureau over the objection OF the par
ents.
The modus operandi is the establishment OF a
nationwide system of instruction in the hyglence
Of maternity and infancy through public health
consultation centers and other approved methods.
That there is crying need for this class of nstruc
ton no one who has studied the question Will at
tempt to deny, and there is no doubt that the bill
has great potentialities for good for the present
generation of child-bearing women and for future
generations of both sexes. It is now in committee
in the house of representatives. Should it even
tually become law, it's working will be closely
watched by friends and enemies alike, and in this
way there will be to some extent provided guar
antee for it's careful adnlinistration-Was hington
Post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10
A FOOL THERE WAS.

A fool there was who bought car
To tell the truth, there many are
Of those who do this selfsame thing
And swore: "I1l burn the roads, by jung,
In spite of any motor cop
Who tries to bring me to stop!
The law he represents [ spurn
And he will very quickly Learn
That, when I wish to take a spin,
He'll have to fly to run me in!'
So, on the gas he sets his toe
And, pressing downward, makes her go
A pace of sixty miles an hour,
Or more, if it is in his power.
Regardless of congested streets
And other hindrances he meets,
He steps upon the liquid gas
Just like the reckless, brainless ass
He is, and at full speed he goes
Until somersault he throws,
Or runs into moving train
And spills his microscopic brain,
Although to doing so averse,
He ends his speeding in hearse.
Los Angeles Times
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

Advertising is the thing-in politics, rehgi-
on and business. Two Protestant Episcopal
conferences have indorsed the advertising of
the business Of churches in newspapers. The
business Of the church is the biggest business
Of all. It has to do with needs as vital as
food and clothing But whereas all men know
they need food and clothing, not all Of them
sense their need for religion. The church has
come to see that it must create in men a sense
Of need for religion. And the newspaper
advertisement today is performing the func-
ton of disciples teaching old religion in a new
way.-Mankato Press.
All Of which leads us to remark that salvation
IS the freest thing there is-but millions of dollars
have been spent in paying for the publication Of
Bibles to advertise the fact
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

| can recall forty years ago in small town IN
this state when there no such thing as "socie-
ty," when there was seldom theatrical perform
ance and when entertainers were few and far be-
tween How did folks live, you say? They made
their own entertainment, and found their own
fun At night the family gathered around the
table, and listened while read the works OF
masters. Children grew up loving Dickens and
Scott, and having in their imaginations great
pageant of the wonderful world that SHAKESPEARE
had given folks to live in. They sang the old
songs, and nobody seemed to suffer because jazz
had not been discovered. They had neighborhood
picnics and were satisfied with their own frolick-
ing. How many children of this day, my friends
have ever heard their parents read to them from
the great works of sages Larry Ho.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10
XII KLUX KHAN OPERATIONS.

-HE Ku Klux Khan just now is attracting I'M
usual attention. It's spokesman are protest
ing it's good intentions and giving its good
work publicity. In general, however, the press OF
the country condemns its doings and insists that
it is outside the pale of sensible ideals. Recently
the authorities Of the order Cancelled the charter
of Texas group for exceeding its internal law,
presumably for some lawless outrage. In some
localities in the South anti-Ku Klux Khan societies
have been organized, equally lawless with the
body they oppose, proposing vengeance on the
Khan for any invasion Of right
There is one thing certain. The Khan has no
right to usurp the functions Of the courts These
courts, with their history and executive offices,
are set up by the people to enforce and administer
the law, civil and criminal. It is ntoerable that
any other group undertake these functions In
fact the Khan itself says it does not 90 this, al
though there is evidence in abundance that local
groups often arrogate to themselves right to
judge and punish.
OF late some local bodies, having decided that
certain women not what they should be-,
have taken them out of their home in the night
and inflicted degrading punishment on them.
This is outrageous. A sort Of terrorism arises
The great majority of the individuals in the
Khan are men of good intentions, although narrow
and without much vision. They fail to grasp the
essentials of American history. They do not
know that our institutions developed slowly, and
that one Of the big things our ancestors fought
for was the doing away with autocratic power, ex-
ercsed by irresponsible tribunals, lawless or even,
in old days, lawful
When these persons see this, the Ku Klux klan
will be reformed from within. No doubt, as in all
societies, corrupt and dangerous individuals creep
in. These get control and lead the innocent into
evil paths. It would be shocking if majority OF
the persons in the Khan were bad citizens. They
are not In fact they fairly represent public
opinion in the places where they flourish.
Men in the Khan should study the life histories
Of all great Americans without any exception
whatever They would learn in this way the
viewpoint Of the truly enlightened and patriotic.
They would get the ideas of Washington, Jeffer-
son. jackson, Clay, Lincoln, Grant, Mckinley,
Roosevelt, Wilson, and Harding. All Of these in
their lives and conduct, in their spoken and writ
ten words, have been for Americanism based on
publicity. based on free courts, where man or
woman had right to an open trial before jury
of his peers, with the right of counsel and cross
examination, and to confront the accuser. The
Khan must watch it's step. It should not seek to
reueal the Bill Of Rights based on Magma Charta
which is at the foundation and is in fact the foun
dation Of all American Constitutions Duluth
Herald.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10
THE REDWOOD GAZETTE REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA

The only citizen who is worth while to the COM
munity is the one who feels himself an insepara-
BILE part of it; who expects to live and die in It;
who is willing to share in its prosperity or advers-
ity; who invests in it the money that he makes
from it, and who maintains that, whatever its
faults, it is the only place in the world worthy
to be called home, Fill community with that
kind of citizens, and then watcher grow!-Daw-
son Sentinel.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

Joe Reynolds, editor Of the Mankato Free
Press, has read "The Band-wagon," an alleg-
ed novel written by the man who attempted to
represent us in Congress Franklin F. Els
worth Mr.. Reynolds commented on the
"book" as follows: Eliminate the conceit
shown by the author and there is not much
left of the story" The Enterprise editor
read review of the stuff, and we want to
say that the drug stores should stock it as an
emetic.-Fred Hadley.
Boys, boys, this is cruel!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

Running country bank has its difficulties
during these days Depostors draw out their
money either for living or to loan to neighbors
at higher rates than the bank can pay; while
deposits are being constantly depleted loans re-
main unpaid The banker who weather the
storm without accumulating gray hairs and ac-
curing wrinkles is a real optimist. When you are
inclined to abuse the banker for refusing loan,
put yourself in his place-perhaps you would be
more hard-boied than he is if your situations
were reversed-Ted Christensen
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

We read the other day that every person should
have hobby and ride it gracefully. We have
the hobby all right-three of it in fact; municip-
al incinerator, consolidated school districts and
the banishment of all bill boards from the road
sides. But how are to manage to ride any one
of the three, gracefully, is beyond us!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

Northern Minnesota editors frolced at
Duluth last Wednesday and Thursday. we
were with them in spirit. "-Anoka Herald
So were we 1t didn't cost anything for our
spirit to travel and we didn't have enough money
to send our material body.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

Paris may say skirts down, necks up and arms
covered" but the American woman has become so
fond of her present comfort that we doubt if she
jumps quickly to the cracking of the Partisan
whips Besides lot of momen of an economi-
cal turn of mind right now and it's hard to leng-
then that which was once shortened. Economy
and reversal of present fashions hardly go hand
in hand
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

Tourists are already making use of our
tourist park. "A party going from California
to Ohio stopped over Monday night and in
cidentally remarked it was the finest camping
ground they had struck in their travels.-Ren-
vile Star Farmer.
Now how do you spose those people happened
% miss Ramsey State Park?
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1921.
FOR HE WAS SCOTCH AND so WAS SHE

They were couple well content
With what they earned and what they spent,
Cared not whit for styles decree
For he was Scotch and so was she.
And oh, they loved to talk of Burns
Dear blithesome, tender Bobby Burns!
They never wearied Of his song,
He never sang note too strong.
One little fault could neither see
For he was Scotch and so was she.
They loved to read Of men who stood
And gave for country life and blood,
Who held their faith so grand thing
They scorned to yield it to a king.
All, proud of such they well might be
For he was Scotch and so was she.
From neighbors' broils they kept away;
No liking for such things had they,
And oh, each had canny mind,
And could be deaf, and dumb, and blind.
With words or pence was neither free
For he was Scotch and so was she.
I would not have you think this pair
Went on in weather always fair,
For well you know in married life
Will come, sometimes, the jar and strife;
They couldn't always just agree
For he was Scotch, and so was she.
But near of heart they ever kept,
Until at close of life they slept;
Just this to say when all was past,
They loved each other to the last.
They're loving yet, in heaven, maybe
For he was Scotch, and so was she.
Jean Blewett.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

The Minnesota delegation in the National House
of Representatives may be much disappointed
that Congressman Davis failed to obtain the ap-
pointment as chairman Of the committee on ap-
preparations we doubt if any one OF that
delegation was greatly surprised
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

And now Detroit Doctor says to cut the noon
day lunch if you wish to escape illness during the
coming August dog days. 'Snice! Right here
in the height of the green corn and tomato sea-
son! Well trust to luck-and our family physi-
clan.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

Several of the Minnesota editors who recently
attended the meeting of editors at Duluth are
complaining bit of hotel charges Among these
compliments is Jim Landy Of Olivia who says
"Some people 60 up to Duluth for change and
rest-But the landlord generally gets most OF
the change and the waiter the rest"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

A number of the young men of Redwood Falls
have quit smoking, putting up, as an excuse, the
Sunday supplement stuff that it is too effeminate
Rot! What they mean is that it is too expensive
only they hate to own that the financial de-
preston has depressed their bank accounts to
that degree Of fairness.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10
THE MATERNITY BILL.

lew legislative proposals have caused more
II widespread discussion or provoked more bit
ter hostility than the Shepard Towner, or
maternity bill, which after stirring debate pass
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

"White House Dinner Speeds Congress Bills
Humph! Nothing presidential
about that A dinner always speeds the bills.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10

Cy Thompson is just another horrible example
of what chickens can do to man.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1921-08-10
SMALL TOWN TALK


Governor Small Of Illinois must feel about the
size of his name.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-06
AGED COUPLE MARRIED.

Mr.. NJ. V. Hutto, of Swansea, S. c.,
and Mrs. Josephine Sturkie, of Cas-
ton, Lexington county, S. c., were
quietly married in the office of the
Judge of probate here Tuesday after
noon, the ceremony being performed
tbv Judge W. L. Mcdowell. The groom
gave his age as 7S, while the bride
gave hers as IS years. The aged cou-
nile who are highly respected people
of their respective communities made
the trip to Camden by automobile and
were accompanied by a young married
couple. intimate friends of the bride
and groom. Mr.. Hutto has been twice
married, while Mrs. Sturkie is a
widow. After congratulations and well
wishes from court house officials the
aged couple returned to their homes
by omobile.-Camden Chronicle,
July 1, 1921.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-06
ROSES

June is the month Of roses. In
spite Of all dispute and competition
tie rose seems to hold it's place as
the ideal and the typical flower. There
are some who will question the asser-
ton. The simple grace of violets has
its perennial charm. To certain hearts
(the incompatible pure candor of lilies
speaks more searchingly than the pas
sionate crimson glory of the rose.
And the large increase Of botanical
and horticultural ingenuity has given
the curious splendor of the orchid a
prominence that it could not claim
in earlier times. Yet the rose reigns
supreme and apparently always will.
Its artificiality, it's infertility, it's sacri-
flee of usefulness, of fruitfulness, to
beauty seem rather to enhance it's
hold upon the esteem of it's adorers.
The poets have made it their own
and by centuries Of worship have
given it a symbolical glory that per-
haps it's original charm could hardly
have deserved. From the earliest
ages of literature the rose stands out
as the embodiment of color, of rad
lance, of all the passionate perfection
of pure beauty in the mysterious and
haunting complexity of life. The Mid
,dle Ages, with their strange fancy for
allegorical Interpretation, wove about
the ideal rose a great web of roman
tic legend. Shakespeare, with his
marvellous gift Of words, summed up
all the intensity Of love in one dazz-
ling figure of a rose:
For nothing this wide universe
T call,
Save thou, my rose; in it thou
art my all.
And as the rose has been made to
image the concentrated beauty Of
life, so it has come to stand for it's
fragility. Strength, grace, wisdom
and delight decay; but nothing more
quickly reaches it's splendor of per-
'fection and more quickly passes away
from it than roses. So have sung
lthe poets Of Greece and Italy and
every other age and cline, none more
'deliciously than Spenser in his de-
rscription of the Bower of Bliss:
$50 passeth, in the passing of day,
Of mortal life the leafe, the bud
the floWre:
Gather therefore the Rose whilest
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-06
WITH THE CHURCHES
ST. STEPHENS EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN CHURCH

Arthur B. Obenschain, Pastor.
Mr.. B. Heber Barre, Supt. of Sun
day school.
, Divine services at 11:00 a. m. and
S:15 p. m. Sunday school at 1000 a.
M.
The morning theme on Sunday,
July the 10th, will be: Goods Love
Commended" The evening theme
will be: "The Necessity of Christian
knowledge, if One Wishes Eternal
Life" The Lords Supper will be ad-
ministered at the morning service.
To these services the public is cordial
ly invited.
ARTHUR B. OBENSCHAIN,
Pastor.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-06
CITATION NOTICE.

State of South Carolina, County Of
Lexington-By George S. Drafts,
esquire, probate judge.
Whereas, Mrs. M. C. Johnson
made suit to me, to grant her Let
ters of Administration Of the Estate
of and eeffcts of NJ. C. Johnson.
These are therefore to cite and ad-
monish all and singular the kindred
and creditors of the said M. C. John
son, deceased, that they be and ap-
pear, before me, in the Court Of Pro-
bate, to be held at Lexington, c.. H.,
S. c., on 21st day of July, 1921, next,
afer publication hereof at II o'clock
in the forenoon, to show cause, if any
they have, why the said Administra-
ton should not be granted.
Given under my Hand, this 9Th day
of July, Ano Donini, 1921.
GEO. S. DRAFTS q. S.
Probate Judge, Lexington Co., S. c..
Published on the 9Th day of July,
1921, in the Lexington paper, 2
weeks.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-06
VIRGIN ISLANDS PRODUCE
FINE QUALITY OF COTTON

Cotton raising has become one of
the principal industries of the Vir-
gin Islands, Uncle Sans newest ter
ritorial possession, according to Bull
letin No. /, Sea Island Cotton in St..
'Croix, of the Virgin Islands Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, just issued
by the United States Department Of
Agriculture.
Sea-Island cotton, the much-prized
long-staple variety which has been
rendered almost extinct in continent
tai United States by the boil weevil,
is the basis Of the Virgin Island in
dustry. The area devoted to it, while
yet small, produced an average Of
1000 pounds of seed to the acre in
1919 and 1920. One of the plants at
the Government experiment station
produced at the rate Of 4.450 pounds
Of seed cotton.
Since the establishment of the ex-
pertinent station in 1911 the aim has
been to secure varieties of cotton re-
sistant or immune to the blister mite,
and which also possesses heavy
bearing quality with extra long, fine
lint. A series of experiments has
been undertaken in crossing sea is
land with other varieties in the hope
of getting a more remunerative type.
Some of these hybrids show an even
heavier yield than pure sea island
while retaining the desirable charac-
teristics Of the latter and the resist
ant qualities Of the other variety.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-06
FISH NETS MADE
FROM SPIDER WEB.

Native to New Guinea is giant
spider, it's body as big as a hazelnut'
with hairy legs two inches long. 1t
spins a web six feet in diameter and
very strong.
Advantage of this fact is taken by
the cannibals of the island, who set
up long bamboo sticks in places ire
auented by the spiders, thereby Of
fering an invitation to the arachnids
to spin webs across them.
By this simple means (if one is to
believe the story) ready-made nets
are obtained which the canlbals use
for catching fish.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-06
NEWS FROM PELION ROUTE 1

We have been having plenty of rain
lately.
We were glad to see Uncle Noah
Lucas down to the barbecue with US
again. Trusting he will remain in
'perfect health for several more years.
Uncle Jimmie Dunbar has some fine
corn this year instead Of so much
cotton. Guess the boil weevi1 will not
hurt him this year.
Mr.. Pete Ivy will stop eating so
much corn bread now for while, un-
til his flour bread gives out.
The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1921-07-06
vet is prime.
For soone comes age that will her

yet is prime,
For soone comes age that will her
pride devoWre.
Recently there have been published
the exquisite letters Of one of the
greatest American scholars, Prof. F.
j. Child. These letters are full of
noble thoughts and witty comments.
They are also full of roses, and the
glow and glory of the roses show a
surprising radiance over the dull rou-
tine of scholars life. See how they
shine and quiver-and fade-in this
passage in which the great scholar
would impart his ecstasy to all of US:
~'Ah. what a world-with roses, SUM-
rise and sunset. Shakespeare. Beeth-
oven, books, mountains, birds. maids,
ballads-why can't it last why can't
everybody have a good share!'