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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

Don't take this election too seriously"
urges w. X. Nicholson in his very readable
Waseca Journal. mo matter who gets elect,
ed or defeated, we will have twenty four
hours day, eat our three meals, and the
world will probably wiggle along without
even getting a hot box. Don't take life
so seriously. You'll never get out of it alive
anyway" Brother Nicholson is philoso-
pher, but we are not quite sure whether he
is an optimist or pessimist Perhaps the
part of wisdom is to be little of both. The
wise man avoids the extremes, for he has
learned the truth of what the sage old Ro-
man said, 1--WE walk most safely in the
middle" Dawson Sentinel.
Most safely perhaps, but there isn't so niue
un in this "middling' business:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18
This from the loquacious Mr.. Johnson;

This from the loquacious Mr. Johnson;
Il don't give damn for books. want
things that are alive, not things that have
been dead thousands of years. have read
more histories than any man but can't see
thing in them. Only about Lincoln. stand
) where he stood He was great man.
quote him in my speeches"
Imagine disciple of Lincoln who proudly con
fesses he doesn't give damn for books!u Ii
the light of the hearthfire by which the boy Lin
coin thoroughly studied every book on which h
could put his hands, it doesn't seem just con
sistent, now does it, And the following state
nent by the same johnson is just as unbecom
ing in student Of that Lincoln who simply
directly and definitely measured a question by
his own four square rule Of right or wrong;
81 don't believe in being too definite on is
4 sues I'll walt until get Brookhart's report
3 before decide on foreign relations. / don't
want to get tangled up before know soll,e-
thing. La Toilette knows lot about these
hlnes. III listen to him. 2
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

AS we struggle manfully (womanfully rath-
er!) to fill up this column this Friday morning,
we are struck by the consciousness that since
it is not to be read until next Tuesday evening
or Wednesday morning, anything we might feel
inspired to say about Mondays election stands a
good chance of falling far short of the mark. For
who can prophesy on Friday what the great
voting citizenry of Minnesota is going to do
on Monday Certainly not political novice like
the editor of the Gazette. 1t is no secret that
the Gazette hopes Preus will win and win by a
sufficient majority to prove that whatever Min
nesotans may be politically they not for send
ing an aide of La Toilette to Washington as
their representative IN the Senate But just at
this minute our big hope is that however Min
nesotans may vote, they will VOTE; that all
this talk we have heard the last few weeks about
people not being interested, is untrue; that we
win all vote to prove that we are awake to poll
itical problems, that are at least thinking ev-
en- if we are thinking wrong. Above all else we
hope that there will be bigger woman's vote
than ever before, thus showing to the sceptical
that women are awake to statecraft even though
we are still studying its merest rudiments. May
be these hopes Of ours viii all be dashed to
pieces when the ballots are counted Monday
night. But who could live without hope or who
wants to elay down" even though hopes are DASH
ed! 8 IS s g &s 81 s
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

Because they have failed to comply with
state laws regulating rural schools nine school
districts in Mobiles county will lose $3.50 each
this year. One school has neglected to fly
the Stars and Stripes; another has poor IA
cilities for drinking water and the others have
inadequate buildings
What has happened in Mobiles county may very
easily happen in every other county where school
officers are negligent in their duty of providing
proper school facilities and otherwise conform
ing with state school regulation. It should hap
pen-there is no better way that we know Of
to teach officers and school patrons that laws are
made for regarding instead of disregarding.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

The Minneapolis Journal of last Wednesday
stated that there have already been twelve years
of steady conversation toward the doing away
with the twelve hour day, calling this the great
est talking marathon race in American indus
trial history" Still the twelve-hour days drag
dreariy on in the steel and iron industries, which
thus become not industries at all but institu-
tions of torturing slavery Latest figures show
that hundred, twenty thousand of these twelve
hour workers are still to be found in these works
in spite of Mr.. Gary's recent so liberal remarks
which bark back to Andrew Carnegie's 1914
statement, Three turns are sure to come. Eight
hours will be the rule EIGHT for work, eight
for sleep and eight for recreation. It is not
capital we need to guard but helpless labor" We
don't blame Samuel Gompers for sayig Bunk
in very loud and unpolite voice!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

An interesting article in the current number
of the Literary Digest (current meaning the issue
of July 14th) is the article entitled Men of Sci
ence Also Men of Faith This is condensed re-
port, resume in fact, Of an article written by
DR.. Robert A. Millikan for the Christian Cen
tury, and is in some measure at least refu-
tation of the world-old contention that men Of
science are prone to be atheists. It's climax is
reached in the authors statement that Every
man who reflects believes in one way or another
in God" DR.. Roberts elucidates this by saying
that it Seems as obvious as breathing that every
man who is sufficiently in his senses to recognize
his own inability to comprehend the problem Of
existence, to understand whence he himself came
and whittier he is going, must in the very admis-
sion of that ignorance and fniteness recognize
the existence of Something q Power, Being
in whom and because of whom he himself lives
and moves and has his being" For the thought
full the Digest's article has sufficient merit to
make want to read DR.. Roberts article in
its entirety.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

Wilson kept Edison Ford out OF war but all MIN
neapolis could not keep him out OF st. Paul
LeSueur Herald.
If those Chinese bandits want to do something
now to square themselves with Uncle Sam let
them kidnap few sugar and coal barons.-beiie
Plain Herald
The farmer is capitalist-the average capl-
tai investment being $4,000. On this capital ne
gets an average return of $3.50. No profteering
there, that's sure-Lakefeld Standard
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

We are glad to know that the thirteen thousand
Minnesotans who have not paid their 1928 license
fees are going to be made to do it p D. @. This
is legitimate fee, in compliance with a.reason-
able and easily understandable law. The state
has been lenient enough with the negligent ones
and now is plenty late enough to start about the
task of making them pay up. Anyone who is
financially able to own and drive car is able
to pay the contingent tax. Evaders should be pun
ished just as surely as should the evaders of
other laws.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

From the International Conference of Christ
ian Citizenship at Winona Lake comes the word
that the only formula for universal peace is to
TRY Christianity" For nineteen centuries men
have struggled to bring to success some self
chosen process to this end. Now comes the first
constructive admission that there be success
for such process. Was it not Bernard Shaw
who answered the charge, made during war days.
that Christianity had failed, by replying that
christianity has not failed, because Christianity
has never been tried" When every nation arous-
es herself to real consciousness of what con-
stitutes Christianity the try will have become
well started And on this matter the Winona
Lake conference says "The nations of the world
must depart from selfish individualism and hui
man isolation" Which brings us back to world
of brotherhood rightly founded.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

And now from both the old line parties comes
the statement that the balance of power belongs
with the women voters We are glad the powers
that be have at last found place for that poor
balance thing that has been drifting hither and
thither mostly thither-for the past three OF
four years. Now if the girls can only agree or
how it is to be used for the greatest good of the
greatest number we will begin to look for re-
suits Sometimes we are driven to think that the
balance of power, like little knowledge. is q
dangerous thing to have around the house. Its
use certainly calls for good deal Of plain horse
sense.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

Mr.. Townley has said that papers like The
Dispatch were right in opposing him and his
Nonpartisan league but we have not as yet heard
of any of his followers who were carried away by
his appeal to prejudice and hate, who have come
forward and admitted that these papers were
doing the farmers and their community friend
" act by taking a positin against Townley and
all his works. Common fairness and honest
ought to compel them to do SO but viii it,
Dassel Dispatch.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

One of the best opportunities Redwood County
women have had to get acquainted is offered in
the County Club Rally to be held at Milroy next
Thursday. This is the kind of meeting where
you take your luncheon and stay all day and just
have a good time every minute, besides learn
ing lot Of things you didn't know before The
best part of day like this is the fellowship-and
we hope the school house at Milroy will be packed
so that we on the north side of the County can
get to know the women of the southside, that re-
sidents of Three Lakes may feel that they really
know the women Of Delhi, and so on all the way
around.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

ACall on Doctor before You Get Sick'-is the
advice in a recent periodical Well, we've heard
it said that some doctors recognize the need Tor
a tonic when a before-sick person calls on them'
and more of them don't. Around here the NJ. Us
all belong to the don't class, so whats the use'
DR.. Fosdick says that the majority is wrong
most of the time. This gives the Southern Lum-
herman paragrapher chance to say ~Inat
what Democrats have been contending for years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

Ten or more years will show the world the
quality of our children's religion. Time will
show whether it built up character, kindled en-
thusiasm, quckened responsibility, strengthened
the muscles and sinews of character. Ethics are
not enough. A childhood without religion is a
childhood without romance, and romance is to
child - the greenwood is to bird. Romance
means the freedom of far-of lands and magic
cities, the vision Of dim mountains and distant
seas the hope of infinite possibilities; it means
faith and hope and love. If religion is pushed
out of sight by materialism, childhood will suffer
and later civilization will suffer. For it is es-
sential to civilization that your young men
shall see visions" and 'your old men shall dream
dreams" Only with vision can mankind go for
ward-Yale Review.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

Dickens wrote that Tattycoram, tne jealous
servant in Little Dorrit trots about WITH an non
box two feet square under her arm. mas e
the Boston Transcript sees It, proves tnat lae.s,
coram was the ancestor Of Mr.. Fox's Powerful
Katr;nka. which isn't SO bad thing for the
slow old Transcript to see!
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

Dad may think he is hard put to these days
to find money with which to pay the grocery bill,
but his job is as nothing compared with Mothers
She has to plan what the family shall eat and to
find menus of food that will tempt jaded appe-
titles these days. is woman's size job. But Ma
is enough for it,! Even with all the heat we don't
notice many emaciated persons moving about
town.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

New York State College Of Agriculture
calling the attention of the editors Of New Yol
to what Whittier has to say about the "villai
paper" in "Snowbound." Inasmuch as Whit
is probably not so much read nowadays as once u
on time, many editors probably are not ava
that he once paid the local paper very high II
butte, both as a news medium and as a WELDON
guest Here it is:
AT last the laundering carrier bore
The village paper to our door.
10! broadening outward as we read
To warmer zones tn horizon spread,
In panoramic length unrolled
We saw the marvels that it told
Welcome to us its week-old news
Its corner for the rustic Muse,
Its many gauge Of snow and rain,
Its records nningling in breath
The wedding bell and dirge Of death;
Jest, anecdote and loye-loln tale;
& The latest culprit sent to jail;
q It's hue and cry Of stolen and lost,
It's vendue sales and goods at cost,
And traffic calling loud for gain
We felt the stir Of hall and street,
The pulse Of life that round us beat;
The chin embargo Of the snow
Was melted ia the genial glow;
{ Wide swung again our ice-locked door,
And all the world was ours once more. I \
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

.There was bad typhoon in Manila last
week. This may not mean much to some
folks We are always confusing typhoon
and octoroon. Anoka Herald.
That's plenty bad enough but our dilemma i
worse We are always confusing these words
with spitoon and cacon.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

Thousands of cars are now equipped with
courtesy" lights, which reduce damages from
glaring head lights.-Le Sueur Herald.
We are glad to know this. We so seldom see
a demonstration of these lights that we thought
perhaps they had become obsolete.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

A week ago Sunday, during the most terrific
heat this state has known for some time, ton
Of ice was stolen from the ice house at Blue
Earth If ever a theft were justifable that one
was! It also must have been manifestation Of
considerable cleyerness on the part Of the thief.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18
REVIVAL OF MATCHES.

Wrist-watches are said to be Civ
ing way in England to a revival of
the older-fashioned pendant watch for
ladies.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

Magnus johnson says he has often been "hooni-
Hated because people have said he could not
speak the English language well. Is there such q
thing as just 'hoomliation" we wonder
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18
SAALL TOWN T Ak

And now they are advocating interchangeable
gas books to be good over the whole United States
Those gas men certainly make it awfully easy
for person to tsburn it up"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18

The biggest insult Minnesota has had in some
time is the assumption that she needs any help
from La Toilette, and the demonstration of that
ten days.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-18
TO RECEIVE PRIZES.

Best-kept homes in Cleethorpes.
England, this summer will receive
prizes from the local council.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-31
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The Detroit Tigers have won but
one game in Washington this sea-
son. They have two more Of the
present series to play.
Red Ornsby, the umpire, has one
of the most impressive gestures
ever seen when he calls a strike.
Also, he accompanies 1t with a
regular barrel roar. Good judg-
ment in the use of gesture and roar
may give Ormsby a wide reputa-
ton. It did for Silk O'Loughlin.
Topper Rigney had to jump high
into the air to get Johnson'S bound
er in the fourth frame yesterday.
He came down with the ball and
nipped johnson easily.
After the Pirates had emulated
rubber heel and slipped up from
the rear to win the first game,
to 4, with a five-run rally against
Scott in the ninth, the Giants as
saulted five pitchers and won the
second, II to 2. Thirty-five thou
sand honest souls viewed the pro-
ceedings.
The Reds stepped into second
place, IA games behind the Giants,
by front-running the Phils through
double header, to 5, and 5 to 4.
The Athletics spent an entire
afternoon chasing the Browns but
ran second all the way. to 2, and
4 to 2. McManus slapped a pair of
homers in the opener.
The Dodgers came from behind
with five runs in the ninth and
topped the Cards, 6 to s, Griffith's
home ruin with two aboard win.
ming the game. Griffith also obliged
with two doubles and a single.
Sam Jones hurled very superior
ball in pitching the Yanks to a
5-to-3 decision over the White Sox,
the victory being Jones fourteenth
of the season.
Just to vary the monotony, the
Braves won a ball game from the
Cubs, 6 to 5, Ford's home run off
Osborne with the bases filled in
the first being responsible.
The Red Sox dropped a pair to
the Indians, to 4, and to 0, but
the world will roll on as usual.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-31


I'll tell 'em that it is a wild
game when anyone with bat
and one eye can slug out so. many
when that kind of slugger passed
by a barber shop why all the
BARRIERS would be liable to carve
hearts and flowers on the GUS
toners chins they would be SO
excited over the heroes.
Just turn your mind back, if
you are not afraid of spraining
it, and recall the boys who used
to have the handle to their mon
ikers of "Home Run" Of course
the writer was pitching his best
in them days, and that may have
accounted for so few long 1its.
Yes, the writer was a puzzle to
everybody then, but mostly to
his managers, who never knew
where to find him in the eve
nings.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-31
MINOR LEAGUES
DEALT HARD
BLOWS
Cotton States, South Dakota,
and Sally Leagues Feel
Pinch.

This has been an unhappy sum
mer for many of the smaller minor
leagues. They have had much
trouble with umpires. and many
clubs have been charged with seri
ously overstepping salary limits
Now the small minor circuits are
popping up. Both the Cotton States
League and the South Dakota
League threw up the sponge last
week.
Now the Sally League. one Of the
most substantial of the small leagues
before the war, is in danger. The
Augusta club, which sent Ty Cobb
and Nap Rucker into the majors, is
bankrupt, and other clubs are on
thin ice Fear is expressed whether
the Sally" can weather the season
Small leagues quickly feel the eff,
fects of market conditions. Wheat
selling under a dollar a bushel was
reflected in the collapse of the
South Dakota League. Poor prices
for cotton brought about the fin
ish of the Cotton States League
and the embarrassment of the
Sally League.
However, it is doubtful if the
small leagues of the country ever
will return to where they were be.
fore the Federal League war of
1914 and 1915. The remarkable
growth of golf, automobiles and the
movies in the last ten years has
dealth minor league ball of Glass c
and D caliber a severe blow.
Up to 1912 and Whereabouts the
minor league ball team furnished
much of the summer amusement in
the small cities with populations
from 5000 to 10000. The small
minor league clubs were splendidly
patroniZed and every man, woman
and child in a town considered the
home team its property.
When the home club got into f.
nancial trouble the business men
OF the town took up subscriptions
and the deficit was soon met. Now.
aoays these business men have a
nlne-nole golf course, and they re.
tam only a small interest and lit.
Tie OF their former loyalty in the
nome town team. Now most every
one IN these smaller cities drives
some Kind of a car. Then the mo.
tlon pictures also get a lot Of
money formerly spent on minor
league baseball.
Between taking his girl to see
tiayseedborough play Pratrietown
the small town swain now would
rather blow her to Gloria Pickford
Dawes In The Red Hand on the
Wall' In eight reels.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-31
RAIN HALTS PLAY IN
AMATEUR-PRO TOURNEY

As a result of rain, the amateur.
pro. tournament scheduled to take
place at Indian Spring yesterday
was called off and will be held next
Monday.
President Fred Mcleod, of the
Professional Golfers Association,
announces that next weeks event
will have no less than fourteen
pairs entered in the event, that
number of local pros. having signi.
fled their intention Of competing.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-31
forward press and then flowing
into the stroke.


With the weight OF the body
thrown back on the right leg, and
the left heel slightly raised, press
forward on your club until hands
are a little in advance Of clubhead,
then bring the back behind 1t, club
head still on the ground.
With left hand under draw the
club back along the ground on the
direction line for a short distance,
then lift 1t with a backward, up
ward, slightly curving swing, until
the left arm IL almost straight and
you can feel the cl1bhead pull the
left arm socket at the back; break
wrists quickly, bring club down,
tracing the ascending line, clubhead
leading and the hands and clubhead
describing smoothly the arc Of an
inner and outer circle.
Hit into piece Of the line at ball.
Hit the ball crisply but do not hit
1t until you feel the clubhead solidly
on it. Do not shove. Hit ball up
into the air.
Come UP in follow through with
left leg braced, hand and clubhead
extending equally the inner and
outer arcs Of the back stroke, right
side nearly facing hole at the finish.
Avoid cutting follow through too
short; bisect the angle OF the left
shoulder by full bent follow
through.
Now try the whole swing, follow.
ing directions.
Copyright. 1923. by John F. Ollie Col
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-31
Leach Had But Six.

X|OU remember Tommy Leach ?
Well, in 1902 he had the
u most circuit smashes in the
National League. And how many
did he have? Ask me. He had
just half a dozen all year.
Maybe you will remember Red
Murray, once with the Giants.
In 1909 he led the National in
four-cushion billiards. Ask me
again and I'll tell you for moth
ing that he had only seven.
Why the Yankees, who now are
known as the death-house smack
ers, had only seven in the whole
year of 1918. That isn't so long
ago that babies born then have
white spinach in their boards to-
day.
Baker, the famous Frank, never
had more than a dozen homers
in any one year. Yet he led the
American League four times.
Bobbie Roth in 1915 led the
American League in homers with
only seven circle knocks. A man
who can't whack out seven a sea-
son is regarded with the same
scorn as one would hestow on the
home runs. Why, can remem-
Der the days when seven home
runs was enough to make some
of the boys lead the league and
wife if she appeared on dress
parade without her false teeth.
With a thousand home runs be-
ing pretty average for season
in both leagues, and with the
Ruths and Williams, the Hornsbys
and other rough fellows thinking
twenty is a deuce pair against a
full house, why it looks like
something ought to be done to
make it look more difficult.