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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-06
Foreign Advertising RepIesenta1ye
THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOClA lION
City and County.
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Harry Beatty was a business callel
at Sanborn Monday.
W.P. Francois of Marshall transac
ted business here Friday.
Sheriff and Mrs. L. j. Kise were
business visitors at st. Peter Satur'
day.
Sheriff L. ]. Kise transacted busi,
ness at Lamberton and Walnut Grove
Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fremont Schmid OF
Springfield were Redwood Falls vlsl-
tors Sunday.
Mrs. Carrie Smithers spent Saturday
and Sunday at Litchfield, the guest
of Mrs. Crowley.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Isham returned
last week from visit with TRENDS
at Winona and Milwaukee.
Attorney and Mrs. A. w. Mueller OF
New Ulm were Redwood Falls visi.
tors last Wednesday afternoon.
Clerk of Court w. G. Weldon issued
a marriage license last week to VIII
liam r. S. Reese and Edith Stenberg
The Presbyterian Country Mite So
ciety will meet Thursday afternoon
June 7th, at the home Of Mrs. Walter
Collins.
Mrs. Idona A. Herd of Musca'
tine, Iowa, is guest at the nome
of her sister, Mrs. Mary Reed and at
the Martin Freise and M. l.. Kennedy
homes.
Hector Mckenzie returned to Min
neapolis Saturday after visit in Red
wood Falls with his mother, Mrs.
Mckenzie and with Mr.. and Mrs. L.
j. Kise.
Miss Mona Leavens and her little
niece, Lola Robbins, went to st. Pet
er Saturday for visit with relatives.
Miss Leavens returned Monday, Lola
staying there for longer visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Hibbs and
son of Marshall and Mrs. w. F. Null
laney of New Prague were visitors in
Redwood Falls on their to New Prague
where they will visit at the Mullaney
home.
Mrs. Max Kertchmer of ST. Peter,
accompanied by her daughter and her
niece Miss Fern Pick, arrived Friday
for a short visit at the Leavens' and
Smithers' homes. They returned to
st. Peter
The Auxiliary ladies will hold a
food sale at the Redwood Grocery
Saturday afternoon at two-thirty o.
clock. Members who have not fur
nished for former sales are asked to
contribute food articles this time.
Miss Anna Rain who has been
teaching at Plentywood Mont. has
completed her years work there and
has returned to Redwood Falls
where she will spend the sum-
mer with her mother and sister at
their home.
George Stegner of Owatonna was
a visitor in Redwood Falls last We'd
nesday on his way to Sioux Falls,
S. d. where he went to attend the
Commencement Exercises. His young
est daughter was a member of the
graduating class.
Miss Irene Schoch, freshman stu
dent at Hamline University, was a
member of the debate team which re-
Gently won honors from the debating
team of Manchester. Miss Schoch was
member of the Glass of 20 of the
Rewood Falls high school.
The Ladies Aid of the Flora Luther
an Church will have an ice cream
social at the John thinner home OF
Tuesday evening June 18th. Every
body is welcome. Alt paid
Miss Mathilda Jensen who has beef
teaching at Fairmont arrived her
Friday and will spend the summe
months with her mother, Mrs. H
Jensen.
Miss Jensen will leave this week TO
a short visit with her sister Mis-
Lillian Jensen at Hibbing.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-06

FOR NEW SCREENS, rewriting old
screens, window frames, cabinet
work and carpenter work of all
kinds it pays to call on the Scenic
City Manufacturing Company.
46-3ts.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-06-06

Barred Plymouth Rock-Eggs
and baby chicks for sale from utili-
ty mating and prize winning stock:
Flock No. Yearling and two
year old hens.
Flock No. 2 Pullets.
Three grand mated pens, all
first prize winners:
Pen No. / Direct from Hotter
man.
Pen No. Cockerel, direct from
Holterman.
Pen No. 8 Headed by first Cock.
Distinct Barring: Bred to lay
and to win blue ribbons.
Put some prize winning blood
into your flock.
Order To-day.
MRS. e. E. MOSIER,
Phone 2337. Redwood Falls, MINI.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1923-07-25

IN several ads on these
the carefully and supply the missing words
address the bottom Place in plain envelope and bring
viii be allowed contest In writing your
specify the ads and the lines which the missing
this
following prizes will be award
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All entries be the
Monday following of ISSUE No
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Address answers to Editor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
MOTOR FUEL TAX AND ROADS

Not only those who deal in auto mobiles, but owners and operators of motor vehicles, are fully justified in undertaking to have the two-cent tax on motor fuel applied to the construc- tion and maintenance of roads. A large percentage of motor vehicle owners already pay an ad valorem tax. The special tax on motor fuel came to be known as a luxury tax That is misnomer. Motor vehicles are a means of transportation, are very widely employed in business and are not luxury, but necessity. Putting an additional burden on the motor vehicle owner and operator, which is clearly in the nature of double taxation, and crediting all or part of this rapidly increasing reve- nue to the state general fund was not contemplated by automobile owners when they consented to the extra tax with the understanding that they would receive direct benefit.
 It is altogether reasonable that mo- tor vehicle owners should oppose any plan to impose an additional burden on them and use the proceeds in such way as to give them no more benefits from this source than are enjoyed by everybody else in Alabama. All the proceeds from this tax should be spent in the construction and main tenance of public highways, and should be credited to the state highway de- partment for that purpose. It is the fair and commonsense plan. Credit ing half the revenues from this tax to the state general fund, or dividing the proceeds equally among the coun- ties, is neither fair to the people who pay the tax nor sound business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
JOHN-A-DREAMS
Dreams of Bakers and MilIers

The sight Of bakers and mlllerS in your dreams, or of any person partly covered with flour, is a distinct admonition that you are not applying yourself to the full extent of your ability and duty to the various obligations that are properly demanded of you. In many ways this dream Is the ex- act opposite of the one which I described recently. Flour, in a dream picture, means guests, pro- vided it appears to you in a bowl or other receptacle or if you seem to be using it yourself. But when it is on others, either on their hands or faces, you must pause and think carefully whether it IS not true that you have grown neg lectful and somewhat contemptu- ous of your duties, the non-fulfill- ment of which can result only in bringiljg discomfort to your home and dissatisfaction into the minds of those who justly expect you to cater to their comfort and con venience.
 To be in conversation with a baker or miller is dream which goes even a trifle further than the one I have just described. It tells you that the day of reckoning Is very near. A few days after hay ing had this vision you will not only be called severely to account for your neglect, but you will have the humiliating experience of be- ing compelled to admit that you have failed to do your duty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
TOO HEAVY A BURDEN

His friends were fond of referring to Warren G. Harding as a second Mckinley, and in some ways there was truth in the comparison. Further, if Mckinley was a martyred president, Harding was scarcely less so. It was not the strenuous final four weeks of Harding's life that caused his death, but the strenuous two years preceding that undermined his resistance. The presidency has become an increas- ingly heavy burden until it has grown well-nigh unbearabie for a sincere man that takes his responsibilities to heart. Woodrow Wilson fell victim to this enormous presidential burden, and Harding was no less worn by the ceaseless grind, and the intending feel ing of personal concern for the welfare of this great nation. There has been an ever-growing tendency on the part of congress to load the executive down with added cares, many of them of a clerical and routine nature the de- tails of which might very we'll have been left by statute to department. Congress will henceforth be urged to tighten the presidential load, instead of adding to it.
 And so today, as Warren c. Harding is honored by the final obsequies in his old home, the American people should. reflect that he died in harness in the public service, striving to pull load to which mere man is unequal. The presidents position is a lonely one, an arduous one, bearing, as he must, the incubus of final decision on such multitude of important ques- tions deeply affecting the life of the nation and of the people, and braving often the storm of either mistaken or just criticism that is almost certain to follow any outstanding act. The outward show may be courageous, but inwardlytit is impossible for a chief executive not to quiver under the at tacks of his assailants, even though they be unjust and he is fortified by his own confidence that he is right. It may be that public forbearance is as cardinal virtue as any other in d democracy. AS the body of Harding journeys to its final resting place, the American people cannot escape the feeling that something should be done to make the harsh path of president more smooth and endurable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
MOTHERS OF FAMOUS
 MEN
The Mother of Rousseau


 Isaac Rousseau was lucky man. He had won one of the greatest prizes there Is in life the love of a charming woman. Suzanne Is too good for that fellow!" the gossips whispered Its a wonder her father ever tol- erated the match!" said others She could have her pick of all the young men in the place, what with her father being the minister!! So the tongues wagged when Isaac Rousseau, the Frenchman. married pretty Suzanne Bernard. daughter of a seriousminded min ister.
 Now Isaac Rousseau was far from being seriousminded. It is true that his forefathers had been sufficiently religious to have to flee from France because of their religion, and take refuge In Switzerland, but Isaac Rousseau had inherited the French love of pleasure rather than the serious ness of his pious ancestors. Isaac, like most other young men of his time, was fond of his glass Of wine. Then, too, quite in the fashion of the day also, he was fond of dark eyes and happy smiles, too fond, if rumor was true. Then, besides. he was none too bright, in spite of the fact that he carried on the work of making watches, which, after all, calls for some little skill.
 Suzanne will have her troub- les" the gossips said, as they congratulated the couple after the wedding. Suzanne did have her troubles. Isaac Rousseau did not improve with marriage, nor did he grow wise with age. He let all his bad habits increase. and added a few new ones. A child was born, and Suzanne, none too strong in health, did her best to care for the little one. The hus- band raved at her, and abused her with an -too-fluent tongue. Another son was born, and to him, knowing the fathers gross life and violent ways, Suzanne was ready to give all her devotion. Death, however. took her from the world she had found none too happy. Somehow or other. the boy grew up, inheriting the dissi- patton and semi-madness of the father, and the mothers power of serious thought. Perhaps all that Is best in the great philoso- pher's work came from the serious minded mother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
THE COURTHOUSE PROJECT

Without undertaking to say how much truth, if any, thereeis in the re- ports that the board of revenue may decide to go ahead and build a court house without offering the people the opportunity to express their views and wishesa on the character, cost and other important details in connection with the project, it is widely held that the board made grievous blunder in not referring to the people it's recent deal in real estate. There is good req son to believe thatthe is much popu- lar objection to erecting a courthouse on the site recently decided on by the board and some ,l'ealty men.
 The board cam legally obtain cer- tain amount of funds for courthouse by issuing post-dated county war rants. Unless the people are given opportunity to pass, on the character, cost. location, and other important matters in connecti1l with the enter nrise. the task of marketing these war rants. even at a high.rate of interest, would be difficult. Investors on a large scale would demand better se- curity than that which would attach to arbitrary action by little group of temporary public servants on such an enterprise without the expressed approval of the people.
 If, on the other hand, the board de- cided to issue bonds for the erection of new courthouse, the project'would have to be submitted to the people. Bonds cannot be issued for such pur- poses without the sanction of the peo- ple. Under such plan, the people would have the power to accept the proposal of the board as to costs and other conditions, or they could turn down the proposition on the ground ot costs. location, character of building or otherwise. There will be no new courthouse until the people are per mitted to say what kind of structure they desire, where it shallvbe docated. the approximate cost and how the funds for erection of the building are to be handled. --,-.~-~ >.-.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
WHAT ONE NEGRO IS DOING

Garter Dowdell, Lee county ne- gro, is an interesting character. whose record thousands of the members of his race in the South might contem- plate as an example of what a negro With common sense and industry can accomplish on his native heath. The Age-Herald recently carried an inter- estlng little story telling of this ne- gro's achievements. He owns a farm of 380 acres, all paid for out of his toll and savings. By diversified farm ing, industry and good management. he put his land into a high state of productivity, raises cotton as his chief money crop, and sells something from his farm every month. His sales of butter, eggs and chickens alone bring him in about six hundred dollars a year. He raises and markets meats, vegetables, fruits and dairy products, and thus has fine lot of high-grade livestock and poultry.
 This negro, on his farm several miles from Opelika, has demonstrated that there is no need for members of his race, with industry and resolution to succeed, to emigrate from the South. There is plenty of work in this section at good returns for ne- groes who know how to do anything worth doing and who will do it well. Such workers who have the will and common sense to save and invest their earnings in something serviceable and profitable of their own can succeed better in the South than elsewhere. The Lee county negro is one of many who have demonstrated this.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
THE SEAPORT OPPORTUNITY

The legislature is commended for it's apparent intention to enact port enabling legislation, in order that the program of port development may pro- ceed without delay. Public approval follows efforts to safeguard the eX- penditure of the money in such q way as to offer the fullest protection to the public welfare. A dollars worth or more for every dollar ex- pended is the desire of those who sin cerely have the public good at heart. It is proper to eliminate from the har- bor board for all future time anyone who has property interest in the land or frontage which shall come within the scope of the port undertaking. It
 is also proper to take all reasonable precautions to head off any possi- bility of graft in the disbursement of the funds.
 Care should be taken, however, that the safeguards do not also act as impeachment to efficient administra- ton of the port construction and oper- ation. Once certain expenditures are authorized there should be reasonable latitude allowed those charged with the undertaking. Only the best men should be chosen for this position of public trust, and much should be left to their discretion in the way of de- ciding and expediting details. The it's drawbacks. It appears to have some political basis, rather than the basis of efficiency and business or ganization. A board of eleven men would be over large, if anything, and is open to the same objections as are advanced against the present highway commission. It is sufficiently hard now to obtain a quorum of the harbor board. This difficulty would be in- creased with an enlarged personnel. The fundamental need is not to have each political district represented, but to have only men chosen for their fit ness, regardless of residence The pur- pose of the port development is not bestowal of political favors, but the provision of commercial facilities to encourage industry, business, com merce and production in Alabama.
 It is hoped that the legislature will envision this splendid opportunity in a big way, and that petty politics will not be deciding factor in arriving at any conclusion with respect to this epochal undertaking. The Alabama legislature has an opportunity to go down in history in this one project as either gifted with statesmanlike vision and foresight, or else as astigmatic and unable to perceive the mountain heights of achievement because of the concentration on the political fogs of the immediate present. The people would be gratified to behold the leg lslature rising to the full granduer of it's opportunity,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
To Compel Local Government

est. Louis Globe-Democrat)
 May we not hope that President Harding's death will, reinforcing other influences now gaining strength, con tribute to change in the present ten dency and arrest the centralizing pro- cess before it goes further? Since Garfield's time it has not seemed that the vituperation of presidential cam paigns went to quite as great length as it did before. May we not look for some further moderation in criticism and a greater consideration toward those who fill this exacting post? Is the grade that is already too steep to be made sleeper? Rather, should it not be made much less steep? The only way to do it is to compel local government to take up more of its proper functions. Unless it is done, we may be sure that the toll which has had it's effect on two presidents within a. few months will be exacted in na- tional mourning from future presi- dents.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10

in discovery of effective methods. That they will be evolved goes with out saying. Even at that, cotton, like wheat and oats and corn, will always have it's enemies, for that is the law of nature.
 The Southern farmer is accustoming himself to realize that nature is the same everywhere and that no line of business is operated successfully that does not take into cognizance the diff faculties as well as the facilities for doing business. The Southern farmec has become a fair business man. and he is getting to be a better one each year. The boil weevil aroused him, and he has not gone back to sleep.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
Too Much for Most Men (Dallas News)

Whatever may be the value of the evidence given by MT. Harding's death, there can be no doubt that the presi- dency exacts, during the course of eight years, greater expenditure of strength than many men can make without bankrupting themselves. The cases of MT. Roosevelt and of MT. Taft might appear to be somewhat contra dictory of that idea, but in reality they are not. The burden of the pres idency has increased greatly since the days of MT. Roosevelt, and even since those of MT. Taft. That something needs to be done in the effort to re- duce the burden of the job to some thing like the strength of the normal man is obvious, and the fact has lately been getting ample recognition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
THE EIGHT-HoUR SCHEDULE

While little definite information has been available as regards conditions under which the steel interests will es- tablish the eight-hour day and adjuss wages to the new situation, it is in- teresting in this connection to note the experience of much smaller en. terprise engaged in a similar industry. The change to the eight-hour basis as made by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company showed distinctly favorable results. According to the record, pro- duction per man-hour was sufficient to offset the payroll increase. Labor costs, with ten per cent. increase in wage rates, decreased per ton of output. It has been figured out that twenty per cent. increase in the Eastern mills would not increase cost per ton of steel anything like certain published estimates of the steel mak- CTS.
 Whether or not shifts and adjust mvnts as between less efficient and highly efficient mills with a view to keeping the output up to the mark without large increase in the number of new employees will solve the eco- homie problems arising from the change, the fact remains that estab- lishment of the eight-hour day by a Western steel enterprise did not bring
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
THE FARM AND THE CITY
(Omaha World Herald)


 Every one has a moral and a le- gal right to better his condition. No one can deny that. If one is not satisfied with a position and believes it to be to his advantage 9 to make radical change 1t is for him alone to decide. That is his right. But if the change proves unsatisfactory and disappointing 1t is not only detrimental to him, but to others near and dear to him. Take the case of fine young farmer, who knows the work he is engaged in from sow ing to reaping-from raising crops to breeding graded live stock-for instance. AS he works he whistles; he is happy. He loves to see nature open and ex- pand. He looks forward to the time when he will own his own farm, and all thereon, just as others do. Then one day comes a stroke of adversity-and farmers get many of them in the course of years-and he picks up and goes to some big city where wages are high, for skilled men.
 A year or two passes. The young farmer is skilled at farm ing, but not at the trades. His occupation is lowly; his wages have been far below the skilled trades. He has had a hard time making both ends meet. The bloom on the cheek of the young Wife begins to fade. There is worry in the eyes of the man who whistled as he worked on the farm. The result has not been as anticipated and the young farmer wishes he were back on the farm. But he struggles on, and rarely goes trade and be. fairly contented. but his days of whistling as he works have passed. This young farmer still has the right to change, but he erroneously fears ridicuie should he return to the farm. Years pass and an old. broken down man, bereft of his once viz orous outdoor manhood, remains. Not a pleasant picture. is 1t? Yet it is picture painted all too often on the scroll of human life. The young man who was a king or kings among the green fields and lowing herds has become only q serf, where he might have ruled In the royal robes of husbandry, with the whole intelligent world doing him homage
The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-10
ONE TRICK A DAY
To Pierce n Pin With Il Needle

The pin is thrust halfway into cork, from which hang sus- pended a couple of pen-knlves of equal weight. Should they hap pen to be of different sizes, you can maintain the equipoise by va rying the angle of the blades. The essential thing is to keep them at a balance. Balance the head of the pin on your forefin- ger and make sure, by swayins the knives gently to and fro, tha, they will hold themselves horizon tai. Next balance the body of the pin on the point of needle whose eye is run into another cork in an upright wine bottle. By blow ing on the cork that holds the knives. you will set the little sys- tenn rotating on the point of the needle.
 Further, the needle being harder than the pin. which is only brass, will penetrate it, and bore a hole, which, if the experiment be con tinued long enough, will traverse it completely.