The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-08-24
SMALL TOWN TALK

Men of little faith never amount to much
in business
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People no longer struggle for an existence.
Now the struggle is for payments on the auto
mobile and the radio.
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One good feature-and only one-has the
bootleg liquor of the period. 1t doesn't give the
imbiber any opportunity to sing "Sweet Adeline."
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Alfalfa lacking just two inches of being six
feet tall has made it's debut at Ortonville. We
can now compete with Iowa by singing ''Where
the tall hay grows"
The old-fashioned fellow who never thought
anything of walking eighteen or twenty miles
in an afternoon has a grandson who never
thought of it either.-Detroit News.
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Oxford University is allowing one woman
to enter for every four men studying there.
That shows what Oxford thinks of woman
petition. The men there became worried be-
cause the women had gotten into the unpleasant
little habit of carrying off the honors. "Four
to one" is about the right ratio for the mental
ity of the sexes we would say.
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large vocabulary is handicap to many
writers-their reading public doesn't know what
they are writing about Studying dictionary
is not popular pastime with the average Ameri-
can and as result there is rather alarming
and depressing poverty of language on the part
Of most people.
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Ebert Hubbard defined advertising thus:
advertising is the education of the public as
to who you are, where you are, and what you
have to offer in the way of skill, talent, COM
modify. The only man who should not adver-
tise is the one who has nothing to offer the
world in the way of commodities service"
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The highest type of man is he who is full
of knowledge of what keeps his mind and Wis
ion open to what ought to be- and supplies i'm
petus to push the world in the right direction. 4
"No nation has succeeded in maintain
ing itself in prosperity upon creed of pure ma
terialism," writes Stanly Rice in the Asiatic Re-
view. America has many observers who think
that she should have care lest she suffer de-
feat from this very cause
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Watch good woodsman light his pipe He
shakes the match out, feels of with his finger,
and nine times out of ten will break it in two and
can not be broken with ease and safety unless it
is thoroughly out, and a match that is thorough
ly out can not start fire. The carelessly flip
ped match is responsible for considerable per-
centage of the disastrous fires both in city and
forest When you have finished lighting your
pipe, your cigar, or cigarette break the match in
two pieces cautions the Forest Service of the
United States Department of Agriculture.
The Mt Lake Observer endorses the sug-
gestion of this paper that Red Rock Dells be
made state park or a county park by the coun-
ties of Redwood, Brown and Cottonwood
Springfield Advance-Press.
So we say, too Keep it as near its original
state as possible. It is to be regretted that SO
much Of the work of the white man is in evidence
there now. The writer can remember when two
old stones still carried the sign pictures made
by Indians and the rocks showed the travel of
glacial deposits. Let us save what is left of this
bit Of wild scenery.-Windom Reporter.
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Trees about the city need lot of
trimming up. Branches which over
hang the sidewalks are a nuisance to
pedestrians, and of course must be trim
med, but the trees which are entirely in
the control of the owner need attention
in very many cases. Trees thrive bet
ter if the lower branches are kept trim
med, and especially is it necessary to
remove al dead branches. A tree
should also be given room in which to
grow, and if the trees are too thick,
some of them should come down in or
der that the others should thrive There
is no special season of the year when
the owners saw is sharp and he can
find time. Branches should be trimmed
close to the trunk, and the paint brush
follow the saw-Morris Tribune.
And don't let any novice practice Surgery
on these trees-they are too precious. Recently
we were shown magnificent elm, the property
Of an admiring Mankato. Between $500 and
$500 has just been spent by the Park Board of
Mankato in having this tree properly cared for,
in order that it may prove to be the same joy to
future generations that it has been to this one
That is as it should be. What does money count
against the health and preservation of tree |
which should outlast many generations Of men. |