The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-07-14


looked the little matter Of price tags.
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We have long known of the word "vegetar-
ian" as applied to those who eat no meat. Re-
Gently we were introduced to the word "iquid-
arion" by young person put on liquid diet at
the local hospital Now comes the Anoka Union
with a paragraph about "equilitarians." 1t
seems that "pure equilitarian" is one who in
sists on ffty-ffty basis of equality between wo-
men and men. new word for new idea-one
is born every minute!
An engine does not run today because there
was fire, and steam in it yesterday. Nor does
it run because it is a good engine best in
the railroad yards. Neither does it run because
people are in the habit of seeing it run, and know
it CAN run. The fireman has to build fire
in it TODAY if it is to be useful today. store
is not busy store unless it is advertised today.
1t is not busy because it is "well Enown;" nor
because it is good store, and we'll located 1t
"goes" because of the public steam generated by
advertising that is gotten up today.
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There are still many benighted souls who
think Minnesota has no concern with Child La
Dor. The Kansas City Star doesn't agree with
them. Editorially it says:
Children under IL years of age or
slightly older are too young to be work.
ing in tobacco fields ten to twelve hours
day, and at times when they should be
in school. Yet that is the plight of sew
eral thousand boys and girls in a group
of Southern states and in the Connecticut
valley.
The children's bureau of the depart
ment of labor has made survey of the
conditions and reveals its findings in
recent report. The survey made in
typical districts where tobacco growing
is leading industry.
Of 2,273 child workers in these dis
tricts alone it was found that about one
half of those in the South and ore-third
in the North were less than IL years DID,
while smaller percentage was less than
10 years old. The usual working day
was ten hours, but twelve and even thir-
teen hours daily, with some work at night
constituted the employment of part of
the children. Loss of school time
amounted in some cases, to almost
month each year.
1t has been established that similar
conditions exist in other industries, not
ably the sugar beet industry, onion and
strawberry field and the canning indus
try.
Once more, there is the reminder of
the necessity of better regulation of child
labor.
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Herman Roe of the Mortified News has been
gra obinc off honors these last few days First
he gets himself made president of the National
Editorial Association at the annual convention
at Los Angeles. Then, about the time,
along comes word from New York that his paper
has taken first prize in national contest of the
best weekly papers. Herman isn't very big but
he hold down jobs with hand and
take more prizes with the other than any other
two Minnesota newspaper people. We are
among his admirers and also his congratulations.
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Gleason Pease could evidently v1ite whole
book about Pavement Pests or "Wi1d Drivers
l Have Met He mentions a few OF that breed
in the following little paragraph
The pavement lizard is coming in for
considerable newspaper abuse. The driv-
er who uses paved highway AMI never
goes over twenty miles an hour and
often around fifteen miles, is a pave
ment lizard. If he's pest, how about
the pavement scooter, the fellow who
must pass everything movable on the
states highways? Then there's the
center driver, who never thinks Ct driv-
ing on his own side, and Hairbreadth
Harry, who drives as close to You as he
dares. Added to these are the drivers
who never signal their intentions, the
fellow with one around girl, and
the tipsy driver. There's enough pave
ment pests to make pleasure driving
thing of the past. No wonder insurance
companies can write forceful ads
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While Christianty's Golden Rule is the
most beautifully expressed, yet Christians can
not claim that it originated with the founder of
their religion. In 600 B. C. Pittacus, Grecian
poet said, "Do not that to your neghbor which
you would take ill from him." In $50 B. C. the
Persian prophet Zoroaster said concisely, do as
you would be done BY" CONTIGUOUS, the Chinese
sage, five hundred years before Christ said the
same thing when he instructed his followers
thus; "What you would not have done to your
self do it not unto Others" Forty-three years
before Christ came into the world the Jewish
RABBI Hillel said, Whatever you would not wish
your neighbor to do to you, do it not unto him.
This is the whole law; the rest is mere exposition