The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-01-27


ence. The youngest Of the four is
10 and the eldest SO. They got
$1,000 out of the bank. Four men
at hard labor for a lifetime for
$1,000. Wonder if they think it paid.
Madison Press.
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A city concern is getting out a
rural directory that will be of much
value to the thousand and one mail
order concerns in the country, and it
has come out to the country towns
to ask the country town merchants
! to pay the cost Of this mail order
directory. If the concern can put
over the feat, and it says it can, we
may next hear of snowballs in tor
rid locality. Nothing hereafter is
| impossible.-Belle PLANE Herald.
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| Down in Martin County-and in
the other counties of his Judicial Dis
| trict-Judge J. E. Haycraft is in
sisting that women be permitted to
serve as petit jurors. He believes
that it is possible for women to be
as impartial, as just and withal as
intelligent as the men of his district.
We once heard Judge Haycraft say
that certain Minneapolis woman
was as competent to sit in the Unit
ed States Senate as any man in Min
nesota. You can't fool "Jule" Hay
craft-he knows a good thing when
he sees it-and he has seen lot OF
'em!
One more reason why editors some
times get shot is to be found in the
following little paragraph taken from
the st. Paul Dispatches account of the
Farm Bureau meeting and Home
Makers Week. "The home and COM
munity committee, composed entirely
of women, is the PEST of them
all, Mr.. Jones said" Mr.. Jones will
never be able to convince those wo-
men that what he really said was that
they were the BEST!
t i T.
Hon. Tom eastman of Owatonna,
man who is sincerely and patriot
ically devoting his ability and money
to the betterment of conditions on
the farm, is emphatic in his praise of
the splendid Frank Clague in the
struggle now going on in the nation
al capital to give the man with the
! hoe chance to live and pay his
! debts. Tom eastman knows what he
is talking about and although demo-
crat, he is broad-minded enough to
give honor to whom honor is DUE
Fairmont Sentinel.
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A poor old woman, aged seventy
one, is found dead in a wretched tene-
ment, no furniture, few dry crusts
and six thousand dollars to her credit
in three banks. Unjustly this old lady
is called "Miser." Interest on six
thousand dollars would give her less
than eighty cents a day. You can.
LIVE on that, although you can
keep going if you rummage in gar
bage cans and pick up fruit dropped
by peddlers, as Mrs. Deutcher did
Arthur Brisbane.
! 1t appears to US that back of the
pathos-perhaps bathos-of this lit
tie item there is real moral. And
that is that more than six thousand
dollars must be saved in our youth
if we are to live with anything re-
sembling comfort in our old age. We
rather like the precept upon which
old-time residents of New England
lived, that the principal of ones mon
ey must never be touched because
one never knew how long he might
live nor how much he might need that
money before death came. The argu-
ment was all for gathering sum
which would earn comfortable in
come, and then LIVING WITHIN that
INCOME! That was probably what
the poor old woman was trying to do
her only difficulty lay in the fact
that she had not acquired enough
capital. 1t is all pretty good argu-
ment for being thrifty-not fol-
boarding money, but just to keer
from spending it.
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Ray P. Chase has just the best lit
tie explanation in the world of Fed
eral Aid and what it costs you anC
me. Anyone who has heard Mr.
Chase give his splendid talk on Taxes
has heard him give this analysis OF
the federal aid" evil. Those who
haven't heard it are hereby given an
opportunity to read it.
eve have devised in the United
States scheme whereby we attempt
to deceive ourselves into thinking that
we can get something for nothing
and we call it federal aid. The fed
eral government says to the states
If you comply with our rules and
) match our contribution dollar for dol
lar you may have federal aid Out il
the various states we say that tn,
scheme is a splendid one and W.
want federal aid. Then from on,
pocket as taxpayers of the Unite,
States the public takes dollar tt
pay federal aid and from a secont
pocket as taxpayers of their respec
} tive states they take a second dol
lar to match the first, but they pay
both dollars and there are very few
states in the union which get bacl
as much in federal aid as they pay
} in the federal taxes.