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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10
A Child of I'M
migrants Tells What
America Means
Miss Yezierska in Literary Dig

est International Book Review.
When yet barley able to speak, |
began to think and question the just
ice of the world around me, and to
assert my rights.
MAMA" asked out of clear sky,
"why does Masha Stein have butter
on her bread every morning, and why
is our bread always hard and dry, and
nothing on it ?"
Butter wills itself in you," Shrek
ed my mother, as she thrust the hash
of potato-peelings in front of me for
my MONDAY meal. "Have you got
father, business man, butcher, a
grocer, a breadgiver, like Masha
STEMS father? You don't own the
dirt under Masha's doorstep. You
got a father a scholar. He holds
himself all day with God; he might
as well hang the beggar's bag on his
neck and be done with il"
At that time / had no answer.
was too young to voice any revolt
against my mothers dark reasoning.
But the fact that did not forget
this speech of so many years ago
shows how her black pessimism cut
against my grain.
have much clearer memory of
my next rebellion against the thick
gloom in which my young years were
sunk.
MAMA, what's a birthday" 1
cried, bursting into the house in a
whirl of excitement. Becky, the
pawnbroker's girl on the block will
have birthday tomorrow. And she'll
get presents for nothing, a cake with
candles on it, and whole lot of grand
things from girls for nothings-and
she said must come. Could l have
birthday, too, like she ?"
"Woe is to me-" cried my mother,
glaring at me with wet, swollen eyes.
"A birthday lays in your head? En-
joyment lays in your head?" she con-
that you were born into the world
A whole lot you got to be glad about.
Wouldn't it be better if you was never
born already?"
At the harsh sound of my mothers
voice, all my dreams took wing. In
rebellion and disappointment, / thrust
out my lips with trembling between
retort and tears.It was as if the devil
himself urged my mother thus to av-
enge herself upon her helpless chill
dren for the aches and WEAKNESS of
her own life. So she went on, like a
horse boiling down hill, feeling the
pressure of the load behind him.
what is with you the great joy?
That you amt got a shirt on your
back? That you amt got no shoes
on your feet? Why are you with
yourself so happy? Is it because the
landlord sent the moving bill, and
you'll be lying in the street tomorrow,
already 2"
gazed at my mother with old,
solemn eyes, feeling helplessly sucked
into her bitterness and gloom.
whats poor man but living
dead one ?" she pursued, talking more
to herself than to me. "You ought
to light black candle On your birth
day. You ought to lie on your face
and cry and curse the day you was
born!"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10

Whitman has said: 1T il Is lucky
to die as Il IL to be born" And put
his thought into my own words. ut
is as lucky not to have advantages as
it is to have them" mean that fac
ing my disadvantages the fears, the
discouragements, the sense Of inferi-
GRITTY drove me to fight every inch of
the. way for things I demanded out of
life. And, as writer, the experience
Of forcing my way from the bottomest
bottom gave me the knowledge Of the
poor that no well-born writer could
possibly have.
/ am thinking, for instance, of Vic
tor Hugo and his immortal book, lies
Misserables." It's great literature,
but it isn't the dirt and the blood of
the poor that / saw and that forced
me to write.
By writing out my protests and
disiliusions, aired and clarified them.
Slowly, began to understand my
unreasoning demands upon America
and what America had to offer. !
saw that America was a new world
in the making, that any one who has
something real in him can find way
to contribute himself in this new
world. But saw had to fight for
my chance to give what had to give,
with the same life-and-death earnest
ness with which man fights for his
bread.
What had / with my empty hands
and my hungry heart to give to AM
erica? l had my hunger, my home
lessness, my dumbness, nay blind
searchings and groupings for what /
knew not. had to give to America
my aching ignorance, my burning de-
sire for knowledge. l had to give to
America the dirt and the ugliness of
my black life of poverty and my all
consuming passion for beauty.
/ find that in no other country has
the newcomer such direct chance
to come to the front and become a
partner in the making Of the country
Not where you come from, but what
is in you and what you are, counts in
America.
In no other country is there such
healthy rebellion, such vital discon-
tent, as there is among the poor in
America. And the discomfort of the
poor is in proportion to how we'll of
they are. The poor people demand
more of America than they ever dared
to demand Of their homeland, because
America is trimming over with riches
! enough for everybody.
Life in America is a swift, sharp
adventure. In the old countries
! things are more or less settled. In
| America the soil is young, and the
| people are young blossoming shoots
of new-grown civilization.
j The writers of Europe can only be
| stylists, because life and traditions
are fixed with them. In America life
is yet unexplored, and lived new by
each newcomer. And that is why
America is such virgin stuff for the
novelist.
Fiction is mirror of life as it is
being lived at the moment. And the
moments are more static in Europe
than in America. admit that art is
not so highly developed in America
as in Europe, because art is deeora-
ton, and America is young country
too turbulent with life to take time
to decorate itself.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10

Notice of Foreclosure Sale.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
That by virtue of Judgment of the
District Court for Redwood County,
Minnesota, rendered and entered on
the 9th day of August, 1923, in favor
of The Straus Brothers Company, a
Corporation, plaintiff, and against
Floyd M. Bravinder, Ethel Bravinder
and The First National Bank Of Red
wood Falls, defendants, for the sum
of Eighteen Thousand Seven Hundred
Fifty-eight and 11-100 Dollars ($18,-
758.1D, certified copy of which said
Judgment by the Clerk of said Court
having been delivered to me directing
me to sell said property, I shall on
Tuesday, the 9th day of October, 1923,
at the hour of ten o'clock in the fore
noon of said day, at the front door of
the Court House in the City of Red
wood Falls, Redwood County, Mime
sofa, proceed to sell all the right, title
and interest of the above named de-
PENDANTS in and to the following de-
scribed premises: The North frac-
tional Half Of Section Two (2},
Township One Hundred Twelve {112),
Range Thirty-eight 1857, West of the
Fifth Principal Meridian, Redwood
County, Minnesota, to satisfy said
Judgment and the costs amounting to
Eighteen Thousand Seven Hundred
Fifty-eight and 11-100 Dollars ($18,-
758.11l together with all incurred
costs of sale, and the interest on said
Judgment from the 9th day of Au-
gust, 1928, at the rate of six per cent
per annum, at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash.
L. j. KISE,
Sheriff of Redwood County
CLAGUE & BARNES,
Attorneys for Plaintiff.
Dated at Redwood Falls, Minnesota,
this Goth day of August, 1928
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10

= Professional in Piano Tuning,
= and Player Piano Regulating
= and Repairing.
= Piano Tuning College graduate.
y Endorsed by leading musicians
= and teachers.
= Leave orders at Mike & Joe's
= Parlors or at w. T. Wilcox.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10
these Rats Wouldn't Eat My Best
Grain," Says Fred Lamb.

'Tt's hard to keep rats out of a
feed store. Tried for years. A
neighboring store sold me some RAT
SNAP. It worked wonders. Gather
ed ND dead rats every morning. Bought
more RAT-SNAP. Haven't rat now.
Tier wouldn't eat my best grain when
1hrew RAT-SNAP around" Three
les, 35c, 65c, $1.25. Sold and
euaranteed BY Farrell + Keefe and
FuAks Drug Co. LIFTS.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10

The thing that goes farthest toward
making life worth while,
That costs the least, and does the
most, is just pleasant smile.
It's full of worth and goodness too,
with manly kindness blent,
It's worth a million dollars and it
doesn't cost a cent.
w. d. Nesbit.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10
Those Land Sharks.

Winona Republican-Herald: Land
sharks may not be so deadly as wa.
ter sharks, but their victims are more
numerous in any community.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10

There can be no reasonable objec-
ton to our statesmen visiting Europe
unless it is that they come back.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10
Aug. 1929, Sept. 5-12-19-26
Sheriff's Sale

STATE OF MINNESOTA, COUNTY
OF REDWOOD, DISTRICT
COURT, NINTH JUDICIAL DIS
TRICT.
The Straus Brothers Company,
A Corporation------- Plaintiff
Floyd M. Bravinder, Ethel
Bravinder and The First Ma
tional Bank of Redwood
Falls Defend nfs
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-10-10
Household Goods

Piano, Singer sewing machine, Sonora
photograph, almost new; Bed daven-
port, Bed room suite, Chairs, Tables,
rug and other articles too numerous
to mention. Canned Goods.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13

burden from the pocketbook of every tax pay
er. 1t should not just release few people
from paying sur-taXes Possibly these men are
better able to pay the sur-tax than the average
person is to pay the normal tax. Both
sur-taxes and normal taxes should be reduced
and the reduction should be all that is possible
under economic handling of the affairs of the
nation.
To reduce taxes for political effect with a
view of advancing them again after political
victory has been won will be very poor business.
Any bill framed with a view of reduction of
taxes should be framed by business experts and
not by politicians. If we are to pay the sol
diers adjusted compensation - and they should
be paid-then tax reduction should be consid-
cred with the idea of meeting the demands Of
such compensation We are not convinced that
it is impossible to reduce taxes and pay the So
called bonus but if to pay the bonus makes it
necessary to keep the tax levy congress should
elect to keep them.
The nation is prosperous just at present and
able to pay and it would be folly to force the
nation to try to pay at time when it would be
all but impossible. We can see the present
but we can only guess at the future. Prudent
tax reduction is the kind which will not come
back to plague us and possibly embarrass us in
future years.
TO reduce taxes to meet political demand
is bad business. To base a campaign on bad
business is not good politics and worse econ
omy.
The nation is financially. strong and when
nation is financially strong that is the time
to pay its debts no matter the nature of them
Ii there is a debt owed to the men who served
in the world war there can be no better time
to pay it than now.
The part of wisdom is to find out just how
much money the nation is going to need and
then make the taxes accordingly It may be
that this would not mean great reduction in
any of the federal taxes but it would give the
assurance that the present congress can look a
business situation fairly in the face and act to
meet its demands That is just what the peo-
pie want. It may not offer great chance for
the man looking for political propaganda but it
is the-sound way of doing nations business
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
WE START TOWARD A POST OFFICE

Kenosha made it's start toward new federal
building on Saturday when Congressman Cooper
introduced bill directing the officials of the
Treasury department to negotiate for site
here.
1t is not improbable that this bill will pass
congress without opposition as it does not carry
an appropriation and most members of the two
houses are wiling to vote for negotiations so
long as they are not too expensive. n
Kenosha will be expected to do her part
in these negotiations. One thing that the Unit
ed States Government will insist on is that it
be permitted to purchase property at fair
price. .44 r.,
Kenosha must see to it that site for the
new federal building is available at such a
price. While interested the government is
not desperately interested in the erection of
this building in Kenosha and if there is an
indication that real estate prices are soaring
just because the government wants to buy the
land it is probable that the men down in Wash
ington will decide that the federal department.
can get along for some time with the present
quarters.
Kenosha wants this new federal building to
be a part of it's civic center. The government
would just as leave have it part of that CEN
ter as to put it somewhere else but the gov
eminent is expected to be thrifty in getting a
site and in building the building. 1t is just
possible that there are some reasons why the
government does not care to build at this par
ticuar location. A site near the railway station
would result in the government saving a lot of
money in transporting the mails. 'Kenosha does
not want federal building stuck up by the
railroad station, but it wants it as a link in
the civic center.
Kenosha should start now to see to it that
the land sought no matter where that land is
is offered to the government at a fair price. This
is the one big contribution that Kenosha can
make toward the erection of this building.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
Blames Industry for
Curtailed Production

London Sir Herbert Handling,
president of the Bankers Institute,
blames capital and labor for restricted
industrial output in England more
than he does the economic crisis in
Europe.
II say without hesitation" Sir Her
bert declared in a recent address,
"that although we are losing much
trade because of the European situa-
ton, situation largely outside our
control, we are losing more as a re-
suit of our high production costs, a
situation within our control.
81 contend that if all restriction on
output were removed by labor, and if
all our trading interests aimed at MAX
ing large total profit by securing a
small profit on each individual item
of big output, rather than by making
large profit on a small output, we
should increase our overseas trade,
develop our home markets and provide
large number of our unemployed
with remunerative work.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
AS TO TAX REDUCTION.

The feature of the message of President Cool
idge was tax reduction and this seems to be the
thing about which all~of the blocs and cliques
in congress seemed to be willing to rally. The
discussion of the message seemed to indicate
that every one is in favor of tax reduction by
the federal government
Taxes and tax reduction are the favorite
football of political kickers. The problem
should be an economic and not political one
but it comes so near to the hearts of all of us
that it is the easiest point Of attack for the
politician and the demagogue. Most of the men
who rail the loudest over taxes will be found to
be the men who do not pay any 1t can be said
however that pretty nearly every one pays
some tax no matter what his position in life
may be-
The people want tax reduction in the federal
government, they want it from the state and
they want it from the local governments No
matter how they get it they want it. They
do not want to give up any thing else however
to get it. They want their cake and they want
to eat it.
The administration now in power at Washing
ton has done much to reduce expenditures and
it is probable that it will do much to reduce
taxes. The important thing is that tax reduc-
ton be made along fair and equitable lines 1t
should be a reduction which will lift some
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
IN DISGUISE

Tread all the circulars sent me,
The booklets and catalogues, too.
Advertisements don't discomfort me
When plainly presented to view
But all of my rage | unfetter
In cursing, with bile and with gall,
The letter that looks like letter
But isn't a letter at all.
ITS aspect is always effective.
With quite luxurious touch,
1t gives you a feeling prospective
OF dividends, bank drafts and such.
Alas, it's an ad for sweater,
Or "Clothing for Winter and Fall, f"
This letter that looks like letter
But isn't letter at all.
I'M glad to peruse advertising
1 That's labeled so, perfectly plain.
But as to this tricky Disgusting
1t gives me a wearisome pain;
And will be anyone's debtor
Who'll help to abolish this stall
The letter that looks like letter
But isn't letter at all.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
Your Health
HEMORRHOIDS.

Stays, corsets or any clothing which
by compression tends to- draw, push
downward or displace- the organs OF
the abdomen, aids in producing condl-
tions favorable to hemorrhoids. This
may be avoided by wearing garments
suspended from the shoulders. 1t
leaves the waistline largely uncon-
fined and the body free, as nature
intended Muscles or organs uncon-
fined or released from compression
will soon reassert themselves and
natural health will result.
A large percentage of women stand
in an incorrect posture. If mothers
were properly educated in such mat
tiers, they could aid their children in
assuming a correct posture, bringing
ito development normal chest. nat
ural waistline and strong, self-sustaln-
ing abdominal muscles.
This would prevent to great ex-
tent the unnatural position Of such
organs as the stomach, intestines,
kidneys and liver, which for time un-
told have been deranged and pushed
out of true position by waistline pres
sure. In fact, the condition in which
many women in middle life find them
selves, on account of this (enteropto-
sis), brings about displacement of the
abdominal organs and causes head
ache, dizziness, backache, billiousness,
constipation and irregulsrity in de-
location, often the primary cause. of
piles.
Another important preventive is
to change your diet occasionally, to
get the necessary food elements that
will insure a good blending of fine
and coarse foods, Don't eat the same
kind of food every morning for break
fast.
One of the best prevention habits,
if you are subject to attacks of piles
and variccse hemorrhoidal veins, is
careful toilet of the perineal region.
Cleanliness will accomplish wonders.
Don't eat everything you can think
of and expect your digestive tract to
acquiesce cheerfully. Taking frequent
physics to aid in preventing piles is
bad practice. Few realize that the di-
gestive apparatus is under sensitive
nervous control and does not tolerate
unphysiologic treatment.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13

By Samuel O. Rice, Educational Dr.
rector Investment Bankers Association
Of America.
In an automobile repair shop of a
large acknowledgement corporation is
a young mechanic who without fin
ancial training or much of al edu-
cation combines admirably sound spec
ulation and safe investments. He owns
a little stock in the good company
that employs him and is buying more.
That is sound speculation and COM,
mendable. 1t isn't an investment, for,
always the bond holders and other
creditors come before stockholders and
in event of drastic business depres-
sion sound, well-managed business
may cease paying dividends for a
while, although they pay interest on
their bonds regularly.
But this mechanic sees daily how
we'll his department. is run. He knows
it is efficient and that there is little
waste or extravaganza. He knows how
the company treats it's employees and
some sense of tits policies trickles
down from the main Office. He does
MT know absolutely that this big bust
ness it profitable. He is not compe,
ent to judge that; few men are COM
petant to correctly estimate the worth
of any big, business or the value of
it's securities. But the mechanic
knows his experience with the COM
pany indicates that it is fair, prac-
teal business and so he bought it's
stock
This stock happens to be active on
the stock exchange, fact that has
led bucket shops to try to interest
small investors in it, with the purpose
of Switching" them to some worth
less stock later on. Had the mechan-
ic been employed in some other shop,
except by heresay, and had smooth
bucketshop operator sold him the
same stock he now holds, he would
not have been speculating in the true
sense of the word. He would have
been gambling. He would have been
buying from a person about whom he
knew nothing, a security about which
he knew nothing. That is not sepcu-
lating. 1t is gambling. Securities
should be bought only from an estab-
Iished, reputable broker or bond deal
err, who knows and will tell the truth
about them.
This mechanic considers his home
an investment. 1t may decrease or
increase in value and thus become
speculative, but in the satisfaction it
gives him and his wife, he figures that
it is an investment. 1t pays interest
in contentment and paying rent.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
COSTLY.

More than 80 million dollars have
been spent in determining the valua-
tion of the railroads. When La Fol-
lette fathered the legislation provid-
ing for this valuation, as a basis for
fixing railroad rates, he figured the
cost would be about five million.
The figure, 80 millions, is the one
announced by the press agent de-
partment of the railroads. No doubt,
another 90 millions will be spent in
Investigations to determine if it's cor
rect.
The roads claim they have paid 81
millions of the total 90, and Uncle
Sam the rest.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
TOM SIMS
Says

Experts say eyes, We Have No Ban
anas" is made Of old tunes. Well
now they are old twice.
The most fascinating thing abom
popular songs is trying to guess where
the music was stolen,
bottle cork plant burned in Bay
onne, N. j., possibly while rushing
out the Christmas demand.
Waynesville, (Pa), boy stole trair
to go to football game. He was
downed on the ten-mile line,
The college girls ane forming red
head clubs, but you will never hear o
shiny-nose club.
News from Paris. They stop thu
phone service if you get mad a
Central. One way TO abolish phones
Texas man says he killed dee
with his knife, and we say prohibi
tion isn't enforced in Texas.
r.
They are taking the things out
Tut's tomb. Maybe the women ca
dig up their Egyptian styles.
A million dollars may be spen
fighting New Jersey mosquitoes, whicl
is less than penny each.
There would be more ambition i !
didn't use so much energy.
didn't use up so much energy,
Maybe Henry Ford is running 70
president under another name.
Civilization seems to lead from tn
Jungle life to the jingle life.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
BLAH

"When an American woman feels
badly, she goes out and spends and
spends, until she feels good again.
In fact, the most expensive thing the
American man can buy is the Ameri-
can woman"
Such is the glib comment of w. L.
George, British novelist, lecture-tour-
ing America. Not that we have any
particular desire to preserve him for
the future, but if we were W. l..
George we'd stay east of the Missis-
sippi and in particular avoid the
southwest-where woman is esteemed
considerably higher than in England.
Sex cynicism arouses less resent
ment in the cynical east.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-12-13
December 10th

GLADNESS IN SESRVICE - Serve
the Lord with gladness. Enter int
His gates with thanksgiving, and int
his courts with praise; be Thankful
unto Him and bless His name. For tn
Lord is good.-Psalm 1902, 4.
QUESTION-Upon whom may W
call when in trouble Psalm 50:l5.