The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-11-24

gallon in Berlin. The Philadelphia Inquirer
says. 1--WE don't believe it, but if it is true,
that settles the question of who won the war;"
TT
German doctor has just recently photo
graphed the inside of the human stomach for the
first time. Pretty soon not even our souls will
be our own personal property.
tt
A New York girl has dress made
of thousands of tiny gold plates put to-
gether by hand. The material is so as
sembled as to resemble the finest silk
News Item.
The brazen goldgger!
i Fl
None of the Constitutional amendments car
ried in Murray Co. Bob Forrest excuses his fellow
citizens by saying that they "got tired. Pretty
darned poor excuse, we'd say. Bob states that
nearly two thousand failed to vote either way
the last amendment. Looks to us much
like ignorance than laziness-or possibly it
was laziness before the election that caused the
lapse.
We've heard a lot about folks "going dumb"
Personally we've thought this habit not altogeth-
er to be condemned and evidently Grove Patter-
son approves of it. He even goes SO far as to
advocate it.
TRY walking out people. Not
literally-but figuratively, and definite
ly. When a man comes into your office
or calls you on the telephone and takes
your time in an effort to fill you up with
lot of gossip in which you are not in
terested, or takes great deal of time
to present case which has no merit,
walk out on him. That is to say, stop
listening. Freeze up. Close the door
and rest your mind Don't enter into
silly, useless argument.
"It's a wise man who knows when to
quit talking and when to quit listen
ing It's wise man who knows when
his friend is in a bad mood and has sense
enough to walk out" on him. Quit and
quit quick when there is nothing to be
learned by talking. Don't add to the
"blah" in the world There is plenty of
it."
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Some of our BEST CITIZENS neglected to
shovel their walks during the recent season of
sloppness and now that things have frozen up
tight the walks in many sections of the town
are in an awful condition. Amt it the bunk!
man who is perfectly right and correct about
the most of his civic duties will omit this one,
the simplest of them all. We heard one of the
most public spirited in the town say the
other day that he let the do his walk clean
ing. Works. out all right if the sun shines long
enough, and your walk runs down hill, and your
neighbor doesn't object to having all that water
dumped on his walk-but it doesn't show the
right sort of civic pride, does it? And yet you'd
be surprised at how many doing it. By the
wa 70 hat hoy hoo ot
time or another, that in the well-nigh defunct
city charter there is an ordinance saying that
where owners do not shovel walks, the same
shall be shoveled by the city and the cost there
fore taxed up against the property. Might be
as we'll to haul that ordinance forth into the light
of day, get the dust off of it and if it can't
be made to function There is nothing that
hurts the pride of good citizen so much as hav-
ing Redwood Falls criticized for this bit of care
lessness by outsiders or new Corners. Besides
those icy humps hurt our feet and cut the soles
of our galoshes. No, we are much agin' the
unshovelled walk.
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"The local Red Cross unit is fur
nishing temporary aid to the Schmitt
family in their destitute condition.
Springfield Advance-Press.
Folks, there is whole story crowded into
that one short paragraph! The Schmitt family
is one of the two families involved in the forgery
and petty thieving cases for which punishment
was meted out in the District court here last
week. The whole story is drab little drama
four parents, not too brilliant mentally, with
their morale broken down by poverty, trying to
get through dishonesty the of life for
themselves and their little families, the capture
by the law, the sentence that both fathers must
60 to Saltwater, both mothers sentenced to
Shakopee and then the sentences suspended that
they might stay at home with their helpless chill
dren. And now here is one Of the two families
at least, facing absolute restitution with winter
coming on What final disposition will be made
of these helpless children, innocent matter how
guilty their parents may have been-remains
Ito be seen. But the processes of the law of
necessity somewhat slow and it may be several
weeks before disposition of or provision for
these children can be made In the meantime
here are little bodies needing food and clothing
and shelter-at least enough of all of these that
life may be kept in them They are future citi-
zens of the United States They have right
to her protection and her care. But until all
these things can be brought about THE RED
CROSS is FURNISHING TEMPORARY AID.
Truly has it been said that @THE RED CROSS
rs THE GREATEST MOTHER OF THEM ALL