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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-28
Rev. P. [. Grove
Gives Address
on "The FOOf''
FAMOUS POLLOCK PLAY MADE.
SUBJECT OF STIRRING SERMON
AT METHODIST SUNDAY EVE
MING SERVICE.

The Fool" Charming Pollock's lat
est dramatic success, was the sub
lect OF very stirring sermon by Rev.
z. L. Grove of the Methodist Church
OF Redwood Falls, last Sunday even
ing. Mr.. Grove saw the Shubert
Stock Company produce this play
while on q recent visit to Minneapo-
lis, and the tremendous impression
which 1t marie upon him as well as
upon the other members of the audi
ence inspired him to preach a sermon
wifh tins play as the subject. The
speaker handled his subject with great
skin and the sermon made a wonder
ful appeal 10 his audience.
The story of the play concerns a
young aszistant-rector in large New
York church, who feels the urge Of
Christ vithin him SO strongly that
he . reGazded a. . radical by those
(Coutinnsd on hast page)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-28
Guards Win
and Lose in
Games of Week
HUTCHINSON BEATEN TUESDAY
NIGHT; ST. CLOUD BEATS WE'D
NESDAY EVE; DAWSON HERE
TUESDAY.

The Redwood Guardsmen played
Hutchinson and St. Cloud last week
taking in both towns on two-day
tour. The gang came off with a fifty
fifty draw for the two games, as
Hutchinson went down under them
and the st. Cloud tossers won by a
narrow margin.
Tuesday evening the purple and
gold basketeers took on the Hutchin
son aggregation on the large floor in
Hutchinson. From reports that reach
home, Paavo Nurmi wctild die of old
age before he could r-,n the length
of this floor. This in itself was big
handicap to the soldiers, as their style
of play is adapted to a moderately
large floor, like the Redwood armory.
The tussle was plenty tough as the
referee refused to call fouls on the
Redwood boys and called only four on
the Hutchinson crew. Nevertheless,
the guardsmen swept the Hutchinson
team up the floor like oayonet squad
and slipped the pill through the hoop
for point after point. Incidently
they made four out CT four free
throws. The Hutchinson crew was
made up of heavy men and in the
rough style of game which was play
ed they had considerable advantage
over the lighter Redwood team. Dur
ing the entire period of playing
Donlln sunk seven field goals and a
free throw, while Castle and Bobzin
came out of the fray with three field
counters and free throw apiece.
Lamberton made one field goal and
Gaasch sunk free throw. making
the final score 1912 for the local
soldiers.
The following evening Wednesday,
Continued on last page)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-28
Comfrey and
Morton Beaten
by II. S. Team
CARDINAL AND WHITES PLAY
TWO GAMES ON HOME FLOOR
AND ADD TWO VICTORIES By
FAST PLAYING.
(By Wild Ricel


Last week the Cardinals tackled un
two nifty sealps to their collection
when they made successful attack
on Morton on Tuesday evening and
on Comfrey on Friday evening. Per-
haps the best consistent basket halt
the local hoop specialists have pre-
sented this year was trotted out dur
ing the Morton session when the Car
dinals overwhelmed the villagers
down East by "a to score.
Meeting their playmates on fairly
even terms the crew started barragu
OF baskets and at the same time pre-
senting on air. tight defense help Off
the Morton Hopefuls with consider
able spirit. Irish" Enelund the dex
mon guardian of the Redwood hoop
started off the game by neat field
donation. Basket followed basket
added to by free shot now and then
eventually gave the Cardinals a total
of 20 while Morton could only annex,
8.
Manning and Englund and Cole for
Redwood starred and Good Thunder OF
Morton was their flash. Manning and
Englund at guard played their best
games of the season, covering the
floor nicely and powerful on the de-
fensive. Manning at running guard
played wonderful offensive game,
caging three field efforts himself.
Irish was tower of strength in the
back garden and few efforts got by
him.
Comfrey went down to defeat in
the second conference squabble by a
20 to Z score on Friday evening. For
the first quarter the Cardinals put up
a wonderful exhibition of basketball
for in eight minutes of play the boys
Continued on last page)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-28
Football Men
Receive Letters

Last week the football boys wers
presented with the official athletic
letter "R' by Supt. hargis. The
award is made to football men VIII.
have taken part in at least twelve
quarters of football. The followins
boys received the coveted letters.
Capt. Manning, Thomas Hosken
Gordon Cole, Karl Englpnd, Herbert
Melges, Richard Jueneman, Leo
Schmid, John Jackson, Gilbert Corbett,
Clarence Schmid, Dean Harck, Royal
Theiring, Edwin Wallin, Ben jackson.
Leland Laidlaw, Floyd Byington, Her
bert ,Whittet and Captain-elect Wester.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-28

p J. Kolbet returned Saturday from
short stay in the Twin Cities.
Alex McIlreavie and his son-in-law
William Glassco spent Sunday with
DIR. and Mrs. Herman Bloemke at
Springfield Mr.. Bloemke who has
been Ill for several days was operat-
ed upon Monday at the Springfield
hospital Mrs. Glassco went to
Springfield last week and win be the
guest of her sister for several days.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-28
And Home Came
Ied'' to Be Seen
Here Feb. 9Th
PARENT-TEACHERS ASSOCIA.
TION SPONSORING AMUSING
PLAY TO BE PRESENTED IN
SCHOOL AUDITORIUM.

| The play "And Home Came Ted
to be presented by parents, teachers
and students IN the grade school au-
ditorium on the evening of February
9th is fast rounding into shape. The
play is comedy, clean and rollicking.
The story is laid in the Catsxill Noun
tains and deals with efforts of an
unscrupuious Villain to gain posses
sion of furniture factory. The ac-
tion rolls swiftly to an interesting
conclusions.
There are number of excellent
character parts, cleverly and expertly
portrayed and the play is bound to
please the audience. Miss. .9Atcherson
of the high school faculty is coaching
the production. =
Skeet Kelly-The Clerk Earl Powers
Diana Garwood-The Heiress-
------------- Mrs. Perry Nelson
Miss Loganberry-The Spinster-
------------- Miss Warner
Ira Stone-The Villian--R p. Nelson
Aunt Jubilee-The Cook
------------- Miss McNaughtoE
Mr.. Man-The Mystery
--------------- Clifford Reynolds
jim Ryker-The Attorney----
Ward Baldwin
Mollie Macklin-The Housekeeper
------------ Mrs. John Lamberton
Henrietta Darby-The Widow
Miss Giebler
Ie0-The Groom Erwin CoIlorx-
Elsle-The Bride Loretta Kolbet
Senator M'Corkle-The Father
DR.. Inglis
Scene: The office and reception
room OF the Rip Van Winkle Inn ia
the Catskill Mountains.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1925-01-28

Scene: The office and reception.
room of the Rip Van Wrinkle Inn in
the Catskill Mountains.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
School DAYS
By Hal Cochran

It's just around the corner, from
most any place at all, where Riddles,
every morning, hear the mellow
school bell call. Vacation time is
over with the coming of the fall.
The girls have dropped their jump
ing ropes; the boys their bat and
ball.
The youth of all America IS
p'radin down the street. From ev-
cry nook and corner comes the
tramp Of little feet. Each day, with
in the schoolroom many little young
sters meet. To see them at their
studies, quite in earnest, is a treat
Good morning, dearest teacher?"
is the song they daily sing. An ap-
pie or a sweet bouquet is what they
often bring There's husky, grown.
up Tommy. who must have his cut
up fling, and dainty little Mary,
who's the dearest little thing.
We seldom give a teacher all the
credit that is due. Just think. most
every day lot is learnin' something
new. The parents send their kin
to school to co what they must do.
But, always. it's the teacher who
has got to bring them through.
Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Incl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
Nothing Just as Good

KY1ALTER MYERS Democratic nominee for
w Mayor, evidently realizing to some ex-
tent the popular demand for the city manager
form of government in indianapolis, attempted
in his keynote speech to promise advocates Of
the business form something "just as good y
Like all things that are supposed to be just
as good, " Myers plan falls considerably short
of the original.
Myers promised that if elected he would
appoint an advisory committee of disinterested
citizens to consult with the administration. He
promised to take the police and fire depart
ments out of politics and to practice economy.
All of this is very well, but Mr.. Myers for
gets that as mayor he would be the representa-
tive of political organization responsible at
least in measure for his election. He forgets
that this political organization will make con-
slant demands on him. demands that to save
his soul he will not be able to overlook.
There is only one way to take politics out
of the administration of affairs in Indanap-
oils That way is tc set up d nonpolitical gov
ernment a government as nonpolitical as the
executives and board of directors of any other
business corporation. This never can be done
so long as city officials are elected as represen-
tatives of party organizations All the adj
visory committees and good intentions in the
world will not change the situation.
So long as indianapolis retains its present
system of government, politics will play a
major part in the administration of city af
fairs No MAYOR no matter how conscientious
he may be, will ever be permitted to forget
that he has political friends to reward and po-
litcal enemies to punish
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
Farmers Ride Toward
Prosperity

m RlCES Of the things farmers have for
II sale are overtaking the things they must
buy. For the past five years, and in some
cases longer, the farmers have witnessed a
widening gap in the prices of their products
and of their needs. .t-4- s
Now the tide has turned, says the Federal
Reserve Board Prices of farm products have
increased fully 16 per cent above the peak
prices reached during the mild boom of 1928.
During the same period the prices of nonagri-
cultural products have either declined, re-
manned the same increased only slightly
The present trend, experts of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture and Of the Federal Re-
serve Board tell us, will probably continue for
many more months. The forecasts are that
food prices will continue to mount during the
autumn and winter While no definite express
slons are made as to the exact course of non
agricultural products, government officials be-
heve they will not keep pace with the prices
of farm products
The price of wheat at above ST so bushel
compared with a price Of $125 at this time
last year indicates in a measure the improve
ments in the price of farm products Corn is
an exception to the general rule and is now
selling for less than in September of 1924 The
larger crop following really poor year, ac-
counts for this condition
The government forecast Of business
conditions does not confne the prospects of
good times to farmers. Nea. y all lines of
business are reported in good condition.
Even the three lines of business which
have failed to share in the prosperity of the
year-the wool trade the sugar trade and the
manufacture of locomotives-are now reported
on the upgrade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
Making the World Sweet and Good With Bee Honey

children, and with what wonderfully
loving but human touches does Mrs.
Porter paint EN- for you.
Here Is a book that will bring
sweetness into every home, and If
I am not all wrong this book Is
going to be in many many homes.
THE Keeper Of the Bees is that
sort of a book that you want TO
have around, because you may con.
slider It a pal, human living thing.
Am going to recommend this book
as one which will turn your think
tank into a bee hive.
Obtained my copy for review from
book shop at l.. S. Ayres & co.
Published by Doubleday, Page & Co.,
New York, and sells for 81.
From a workmanship standpoint
this book is a beauty.
One OF the delights Of the new
season.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
TRACTION SPEED
AND SAFETY

m DGEWOOD citizens. as a re-
suit of a mass meeting
u Monday night. will seek to
limit the maximum speed of inter
urban cars between indianapolis
and Southport to twenty-five miles
an hour. A traction-automobi
crash on the line a few hours pre-
vious, costing three lives, prompted
the action.
On the past week two auto
mobiles have been demolished and
six persons killed at crossings
along this line, while twenty per.
sons have been killed in similar
accidents between Indianapolis and
Southport in four years.
Obviously that particular stretch
Of interurban tracks is exceeding.
ly dangerous. Wherever it In.
tersects highway Is a death
crossing. Residents along the line
claim the high speed of the trac-
ton cars is largely responsible for
the mortality.
ItIldDS 50. Out II is doubtful
If limiting their speed to twenty.
five miles an hour would greatly
reduce the fatalities.
No matter at what speed trac-
ton cars or railroad trains are
travelling. automobiles can not dis
pute grade crossings with them
without being disheveled. Twenty.
five miles an hour is just as fatal
as sixty to the occupants of the
machine struck. In fact, ambling
freight trains. making no pre-
tensions to speed, are responsible
for a surprisingly large percent
age of crossing accidents.
On the other hand, no cautious
driver who pauses at a crossing
and glances up and down the
= track before venturing across is
demolished by a train whether the
latter is hustling or loafing.
The question of grade crossing
safety can be solved as easily by
individual motorists as by con-
certed effort to limit rail speed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
Weekly Book ReUiew.

The Little Scout wanted the world
to think she was a hoy but. She
had to learn the penalty of unsexing
herself.
And the Little Scout knew all
about bees.
She declares: 80 - When the
worker bee gets the pollen from Nh
Iris all over his hair and then goes
on to get the pollen from Miss Iris,
the hair is going to scatter the pollen
to make the good seed come, cause
the bees do the flowers counting for
them. That's a reason besides
honey as to why bees are so useful. T"
And the Gang
You might accuse Mrs. Porter of
creating her own Our Gang" to
get the element Of human comedy
into the story. The Little Scout had
a gang. consisting of Fat Ole Bill,
Angel Face and the Nice Child.
These four youngsters were real
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16

Whizzing out into the night atop
surglng truck, Just to give a
merry Jester a good laugh. isn't
mlrth provoking to a fireman.
Fire trucks on runs sometimes
skid and smash-and the remains
of once gay fremen are removed
from the pavement with a hose.
Such accidents are as likely to
occur in runs to false alarms as
CONGREGATIONS. Naturally firemen,
who are scrambled and mopped up
responding to box ringers
prank. fail to see point to the
merry quip.
Nevertheless such false alarms
are apparently comical TO their
perpetrators. Three hundred are
sent in a year. AS each run cost
the city approximately 500, the
testers are expensive.
The fire department doesn't need
such costly dress rehearsals. To
abate the nuisance every Joker
caught tampering with box
should be given something more
soaring than singing reprimand
by the judge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
Good Reading

A list of sixty-three recent
books worth reading, selected
by William Lyon Phelps, pro-
fessor of Contemporary Eng
lish at Yale. and including nov
els, biographies, "anesthetic
thrillers." American poetry.
plays, and miscellaneous vol
umes. appears in the current
issue of the International
Book Review.
Professor Phelps recommen-
dations to the fiction reading
public are; THE Constant
Nymph," by Margaret Kenne-
dy: "Arrowsmith," by Sinclair
Lewis: Bread Givers," by An
zia Yezierska "Mockbeggar,"
by Laurence Meynell; THE
Black Cargo" by j. p. Mar.
quand: THE George and the
Crown" by Sheila Kaye Smith;
THE Old Ladies'" by Hugh
Walpole; Points of Honor, " by
Thomas Boyd; THE Great
Gatsby," by Scott Fitzgerald;
THE Mothers Recompense."
by Edith Wharton THE RAJ
tional Hind" by B. A. Will
liams: Franklin Winslow
Kane" by Anne Douglas Sedg.
wick; 1.-THE Rector Of Maliseet,"
by Leslie Reid and Zone In.
creasing Purpose, by A. S,
NJ. Hutchinson.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16

"EV7 7 HAT the people of this country really
wv need is good fve-cent cigar" the late
Vice President Thomas r. Marshall once re-
marked.
Cigar manufacturers are now beginning
to see the truth of the witticism, but not until
their business had been cut into pretty
siderably. They are going to revive the scent
cigar.
"War-tme profits induced them to look
upon the old reliable fve-cent smoke as an OBJ
iect of charity rather than of business the
Wall Street Chronicle observes. $50 they dis
carded it."
Whereupon sales dropped from 8,000,000,-
900 year to $3.50, 100000. That was in 1921.
Since then sales have never mounted higher
than the 7,000,0000O0 mark whereas, in
period when everything else was booming, it
should have increased far beyond the pre-war
peak.
Restoration of the fve-center, cigar max
ers believe, will soon do the work. At least
they are in better position than the beef
trust. When the packers demanded such high
prices for meats, folks began to eat more and
more vegetabes-and liked EN-.
Now, when the packers would like more
trade, these same folks having discovered
vegetables, are inclined to keep on eating them
The lost consumption probably will never be
regained
Thus, says the Wall Street paper "a sound
lesson in economics has been learned" Rather
it has been learned again. as it must be every
so often. Which is that the goose that lays
the golden egg should always be treated with
respect if you expect her to keep on laying.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
BRUTAL BANDIT
ATTACKS

TN7UFUS DARE, 81 years old.
TX Of E. Thirty-Second St.
u was brutally beaten by a
burglar Monday night and robbed
of SIS. He is in City Hospital in
a serious condition. while police
search for his assailant.
Two nights before a burglar
attacked a young married couple,
recently moved into a home in the
northeastern part of the city, and
beat them into insensibility with
a hammer. The young bride. with
fractured skull. is not expected to
live.
There are the fine fruits Of the
more or less discussed Indian
apolis crime wave. Quite properly
these outrages have stirred police
authorities to unusual activity.
A few days ago a high official
of the Anti-saloon League rather
lamented the fact that only per
cent Of the indianapolis police
force was engaged in prohibition
enforcement. He said if the en-
tire force would exert itself for
sixty days on liquor law enforce
ment. Demon Rum would be
chased to the tall timber.
Perhaps he's right. But If
police devoted all their energies
to suppression of liquor violations
a good many respectable citizens
would have their heads mashed in
by brutal hammer burglars. Which
is preferable?
The prohibition law, of course,
should be strictly enforced-but
not at the expense Of other Grim
inal statutes. The great task con-
fronting the police department
now is the suppression of brutal
crimes and protection of lives,
homes and property of citizens.
Until II does that the average citi-
zen will be satisfied if not one-half
Of one per cent Of the force is en-
gagged In the enforcement of a
specific law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
TeIephQne Rates

Il CTION Of the public service commission
"A in delving into the value of the property
of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company almost
@nevitably will result in an increase in tele-
xAone rates in Indiana. This is the real eX-
PLANTATION Of the rate increase asked for by the
company.
Telephone rates have been mounting con-
tinually since the consolidation of the old Cen
trail Union Telephone Company and the lndl-
annapolis Telephone Company. They reached
new high level about year ago and another
increase appears to be almost foregone con-
clusion. The increase asked for will not be
large, but as these comparatively small IN
creases become more frequent they add up into
considerable money.
The whole affair revolves around the matter
of valuation. The commission has been max
ing an elaborate appraisal and valuation of the
telephone property 1t was thought that the
property was worth about $37 900. 1t is
reported that the valuation places the
worth of the property, including such more or
less artificial factors as going value, at about
$48,000000
Taking advantage of this revealed increase
in valuation, the company is asking for higher
rates on the ground that it is rot making a
fair return on the worth of its property. The
commission has jockeyed itself into position
where it will be virtually necessary to admit
the necessity for an increase.
All Of this is some indication of how arti-
fetal this thing called value is when it comes
to making rates. 1t merely is an arbitrary
figure arrived at by the use of well sharpened
lead pencils in the hands of engineers. Its
principal significance is that when a utility be-
comes a trust, as in the case of the telephone
system, the public eventually must provide
return on this valuation, whatever it may be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-09-16
| UNIFORM
MOTOR LAWS

T7REDERICK z. SCHORTE-
MEIER. secretary of State.
u suggests that plans be for
mulated at the annual conference
of secretaries of State for adop-
ton of uniform motor vehicle laws
and traffic regulations by the vari-
Gus State.
No doubt something Of the sort
Is desirable. The automobile is
no longer a local phenomenon like
a breach-ofpromice suit. 1t fits
from the jurisdiction Of one SOW
ereign State to another with aston
ishing celebrity. In the process 1t
frequently becomes entangled in
the diversity Of statutes and regu-
lations.
Maximum legal speed limit may
be twenty miles an hour in one
State and the sky in an adjoining
commonwealth. Some States re-
quire drivers licenses and certif1-
Gates of title. others do not. In
Oklahoma automobiles must come
to full stop at railroad crossings;
Indiana permits a flivver TO dash
its brains out against train with
out interference.
The variety Of State regulations
makes interstate motoring hazard
Gus. Also it affords opportunity
for hick constables to prey on de-
cent, though ignorant visitors.
But more distracting to the or
binary motorist than the differen-
ces in State motor laws is the
endless diversity Of local traffic
regulations and control.
In Indiana cities, through-street-
stop signs are of all types. sizes
and colors. variously placed. White
lines on the pavement means some
thing in one community. nothing
in another. Automatic traffic sig
nails bloom overhead, underfoot,
at the sides and in the centers Of
intersections. according to local
artistic sense.
So with speed limits. A speed
that an Indianapolis traffic officer
views with approval will give
Carmel marshal apoplexy. Lib
eral traffic rules" advertises Bra
I'll. Go fast and see our JAIL"
say other Hoosier communities.
A good place to start a cam
paign for uniform motor regula-
ton is right here in Indiana-the
crossroads OF the Nation,