The Redwood gazette., 1926-02-10

of existence. In fact he has seez
white rats as large as cats patrollins
the city garbage reservation, and al
this in town where Frank has beer
preaching prohibition for seventy-tw'
wears. You tell 'em that's seeing
things.-Northfield News.
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The Minneapolis Journal is start
ing mild little campaign to have ths
governors term extended to fou
years, thus doing away with the ev
ery-two-year campaign which th'
governor must now make We lik'
that little idea-and several state
find it works out very advantageous
ly. A two year term isn't fair tes
for the worth of any public official
and the fact that shortly after {
mans election he must begin to plar
for his reelection doesn't auger wei
for his giving one hundred per cent
service to his office.
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Minnesota citizens are being asked
to subscribe for a new chapel to be
built at Fort Smelling where there is
is at present no church accommodation
whatever and religious services, if
any, are held in building of very
temporary character and used for any
number of different activities. One
of the arguments advanced for the
erection of such chapel is that there
are two hundred children living at the
Fort who have no place in which they
may attend Sunday School. Certain
ly that is not the least of all the good
arguments advanced.
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Zone day." said the old country
man from the hills, who was on trial
for murder, when my rheumatism
was pestering me, and my daughter
had just eloped with q good for
nothin' scallawag, and my barn had
just burned down and lost both my
mules, and my best old sow got the
cholera and died, and l just heard they
had foreclosed the mortgage and the
sheriff was lookin' for me, l told my
troubles to one of these here opti-
mists and he said: "Cheer up, old
top, the worst is yet to come. So /
shot him" m."-Ex.
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An eastern editor recently told
his readers not to worry when fire
broke out-the insurance companies
had plenty of money with which to
pay the losses! Of all the idiocy!
Who, does this editor think, furnishes
the money for the insurance compan-
les in the first place, and who pay;
the increased rate which is sure to
came when the finances are all used
up paying losses? AS for us, we will
continue to get a bit anxious when
the siren sounds, and to put up lit
tie prayer that the local Fire Depart
ment may live up to its splendid past
record.
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Mayor Arthur Nelson OF Saint
Paul announces that he is quitting
politics and public office in order to
make livelihood for his family. AL
Smith of New York makes the same
statement concerning his announced
withdrawal from the public service.
If men of brains and ability (and we
must concede that to both of these
men regardless Of the dissimilarity o.
their politics) cannot make living
by helping the government to gov
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ficient and helpful public servants?
We need them-and the public must
do just as any individual business
must do, pay value for value. Are
we cheap with our public officials
We can't afford to be.
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To the Honorable Frank A. Dav,
Fairmont publisher: (Which would
you rather do-pull down all the peo-
pie in your town to the level of the
poorest, or raise the poorest to the
level of the most prosperous? Wh-n
you have written your answer and
your reason therefore, Bro. Day. you
will have written complete analysis
VI lllS A1Si dlO . pOolIiOIl III ACSoIu W
the protective tariff and its relation
to the farmers. Instead of pulling
down industry to the financial level
of agriculture through free trade, let
us raise agriculture to the level Of
agriulture through free trade, let us
raise agriculture to the level of indus
try by increasing the protection on
farm products.-MaAe Moreaux in
Luverne Herald.
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Sinclair Lewis, Sauk Center boy
who wrote the crude satire on Main
Street, has evidently converted him.
self into confirmed cynic. He has
forgone his attacks on the small town
that fed and nurtured him, and is
now finding fault with the larger
cities. He recently told the trustees
of the proposed Lincoln and Lee Uni
versity, a Kansas City school, that
their college yells were "rotten" and
advised them to spend more time
hiring capable instructors instead OF
selecting college yells and colors
3. Upon seeing the $2,0000,000 memorial
to soldiers of the World War, he
sneeringly remarked that it was g;
perfect type of Teutonic architecture
and would look well in Munich" Sauk
. Center cant ho vqry nrol16 0f fhoi,