The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-12-16

The New York World explains that
the cause Of the increase in drunken
drivers in the Metropolis is the Vol
stead Act. It's certainly good logic
the World suggests-to vote liquor
back in order that drivers may not
drink any more. Not all the chick"
editors are in the far west.
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There is no excuse in the world
for hate of ones neighbor. But the
nearest alibi one has for such men
tai attitude is to be found in being
forced to drive behind said neighbor
when he insists upon driving at fl I.
teen miles an hour on the wrong side
of the road.
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In President Coolidge's message he
said to Congress "In all your DELHI
erations you must remember that the
purpose of legislation is to express
principles in action" We have known
Legislatures in Minnesota that SEEM
ed to have forgotten to remember
this-we hope the next Speaker re-
minds them Of it too.
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Fred Hadley occasionally gets sar-
castle. His most recent outburst in
this direction was the nomination for
the "justly famous Poison Ivy Club.
the Hon. Bill McGuff, candidate for
congress, who promises his farmer
friends cheap coal, cheap clothing,
cheap food, and high prices for wheat,
oats, barley, corn, hogs and cattle"
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A man in Sioux City, Iowa, pleads
insanity as the reason for his having
two wives at the same time. Seems
as though the women would forgive
any thing but plea like that.
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Congress is no Santa Claus" cap
lions the Duluth Herald editorially.
One more thing that Congress is
NOT! Now will some kind soul
please tell us something that Con-
gress IS?
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One reason why the average small
town is travelling in reverse gear is
that all of the cit Can't Be Done
Bows are on the job when any new
proposition comes up. When Fulton
started his first steamboat the banks
of the river were lined with members
of the Anvil Chorus, but recently a
steamboat went 158 miles in three
hours. Mitchell.
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The St. James Plaindealer in speak
ing of Alexander Pope says while
Pope was not the greatest OF the
English bards he was no mean poet
Evidently the editor of the Plain
dealer has forgotten how in his higr
school day he labored with Pope''
Essay on Man. If he can reca!
those days and then say that Popi
was no MEAN poet, he is bette'
Christian than any we have met re
Gently.
One of the prominent club wome'
of Minneapolis puts it this way
1--WE learned in Algebra that TX" wa
an unknown quantity. Those who il
not believe in Christ may be pardon
ed for writing Xmas, but Christian
should try to have Christmas callet
by it's right name so that it may Loss
! none of its significance. BILLY Moo
nan of the Baudette Region say
"Xmas is pronounced Christmas
and should be SPELLED the sam
way"
There are always a few Christina:
iokes-some of them pleasant and oc
casionally one the other way. Abon
the worst example of the later kline
is the joke on the fellow who send:
to a mail order house for his Christ
mas gifts, and then finds few day;
before Christmas that his local mer
chant has the same article, no higher
in price and of better quality. That
little item of quality is something the
catalogue picture doesn'tt show-thi-'
is why this little joke on the buyer
is such grim little affair.
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Down in Saint Peter there died the
other day woman who was the
mother of eight children, all now
college graduates. Nothing so start.
ling in that but when we go a sten
farther we read that the mother was
| widow, that her husband died III
1908 and she and the children left
the Iowa farm on which they were
living and with no appreciate amount
of money set out from ST. Peter that
the children might have the advant-
ages of Gustavus Adolphus College
This woman built monument to
Mother Love such as few women car
hope to erect, but one which every
woman will recognize and honor.
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Just as a reminder; don't forget
that Santa Claus is only bi-produc'
of Christmas, that the central figure
of this tradition whick make Christ
mas the greatest day in the year L
not Santa Claus but Christ; that ths
| day is observed primarily because i,
| is the anniversary of His birth, am
not because of any jolly fat old Saint
Nick. Too often in the homes and If