The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1926-08-18

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1.-THE female Of the species is more deadly
than the male" Kipling was unkind enough to
say at one time. Maybe she is-she is also bet
ter swimmer. Gertrude Ederle has proved it.
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Representative Frank Clague of the second
district is the gentleman who should be selected
| by the republicans to wrest the senatorial toga
from Henrik Shipstead in 1928. Mr.. Clague can
| turn the trick His record in congress is an open
book and he has stood four-square for those prin-
cipes which are supported by the people.-Man-
kato Free Press
The National Congress of Parents and
Teachers recommends four things as important
to the success of a Parent Teacher Association.
There are; careful arrangement of program to fit
local needs, few outside speakers and more from
among the members, subordination of entertain
ment features on the program and whole-hearted
community singing. Since the P. T. A. season is
about to open communities where such organiza-
lions are valued features of the school-year &C
tivities, may find bit of help in the above sug-
! questions
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Competition between towns is a good thing
and should result in nothing but amiable riv-
airy. But when merchants in small towns be-
gin to Compete against each other instead of
combining with" the result is bound to be dis
astrous to the town. It's just exactly though
the members of large family were each trying
to get the better of all the other members. The
result is disruption of the family and ultimate
wreck and ruin to the home. A lot of small
towns are suffering from just that sort Of dry
rot-the germ of which is to be found in the sell
fish unwisdom of the man who grasps at the
present nickel at the sacrifice of the future dol
lar.
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We regret many things, but there are few
things that we more sincerely regret than the
fact that we were not able to meet with the edi-
torial party of the Second District in it's annual
outing at Valhalla Saturday, August 7th. There
is no better bunch of scouts in the world than the
hundred and fifty more less, who gathered
with Vim Weber for royal good time in the
Norwegian heaven. The boys are planning to
make Valhalla the regular yearly meeting place.
Maybe next year there won't be more than forty
'even reasons why we can't go. Vim Weber says
they missed our Smiling face'-well, we're
here to tell Vim it was anything but smiling
THAT day!
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Evidently Bob Forest made mistake in his
Lake Wilson Pilot and somebody told him about
it. Anyway Bob got this off his chest in his last
issue.
Those folks who chuckle and chortle
with iendish glee and who check with
minute care every mistake made by the
newspapers, should some day take sheet
of paper and mark down their own short
comings. Take big sheet, guy, and tell
the truth After you get everything
down, commit to memory, the following
lines from the immortal Burns:
20 wad some power the giftie gle US.
To see oursels as ithers see us!
1t would fra mony bunder free US.
And foolish notion"
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We used to have considerable respect for
Judge Ben Lindsay but if we are to Judge from
a brief review of his last book, The Revolt of |
Youth, good old Ben must have "gone a bit |
haywire' recently. The reviewer reports this |
book thus: "He rightly declares that boys and |
girls Of today have broken away from traditional
never to return. They are not afraid |
of hell fire any more, but he says they are hon.
est at heart. He estimates that Is to rs per
cent Of girls and so per cent of our boys do what
are considered extremely bad things for their
elders, and he is much encouraged that it is no |
worse, but this he calls venturesome warn
ing rather than innate viciousness. To his |
figures look quite shocking, and we are Jared |
still further by the Judges saying of the insti-
tuition of marriage, "the sooner something hap
pens to it the better" He even recommends !
easy divorce and trial marriage, or marriage in
principle, although should say that would be
very much without principle. On the whole we
are not surprised that Judge Lindsey had hard
time getting reelected"
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We are much interested in the various stories |
read of Hoandale, that little settlement down |
near Albert Lea, where bunch of Holland |
Dutch" making good, extremely good, on
little farms of peat land. These people farm
small tracts, from five to ten or twenty acres,
growing mostly vegetables which are marketed
comparatively. The land is now valued at five
hundred dollars acre-and before these sturdy
Dutchmen took charge it was only peat bog.
The whole settlement is a financial revelation
of what can be done by industry and knowing
how. They give two main reasons for their sue
cess; the first the small tract undertaken by
each family, and the second the cooperative mar
keting which has established stable market for
all the produce they can grow. The vegetables