The Redwood gazette., 1927-07-06

paperhanging to be done. She sent for Rohr.
He chinched the contract, which amounted to $3.50.
Business for Rohr has been better for the last
few days. He is advertising again.
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The editor of the Lake Wilson Pilot
announced in the last weeks issue that
he was wilfully and maliciously absent
ing himself from the environments of his
every day work and worries to spend
| two weeks in the northern part of the
state on fishing trip. Brother For
rest will drink in the glorious beauties
of some of northern Mnnesota's most
ennobng landscape, breathe the pure
ozone of wind and sun kissed lake and
land, fragrant with balsam pine and
hemlock.
We HOPE that the glorious beauties of
Northern Minnesota are the only things Bob
will "drink in" But knowing Bob and also
knowing fishing trips .
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We don't know who is responsible for the lit
tie paragraph which appeared last week on the
back of the Dearborn Independent but it is
splendid doctrine for broadcasting right now at
this season of the year when PATRIOTISM of
sorts is running wild.
| Patriotism in its purity is not
selfish. 1t is fallacy to think that be-
cause We love one country We must sus-
pect the motives and defeat the purposes
of all others. The United States never
has and never will become productive
soil for the seeds of international hatred.
We will never rise against lands or peo-
Piles to do them harm; we will only rise
! against the aggressive errors of which
| land nd how tho off
deluded servants.
! Redwood County has had number of peo-
pie who in the popular parlance of the day are
real "goers". One of those who has gone some
and is going some more is Mrs. c. D. Clipfell who
leads so many of the worthwhile activities for
farm women. No one in Redwood County needs
to be reminded of Mrs. Clipfell's good work but
it is pleasing to note that she is getting recog-
milton out over the state as her appointment on
important committees testifes. Just recently
the writer was introduced to a man of promin-
ence in Farm Bureau work and when we men,
toned Redwood Falls as our home he showed
visbly more interest in us by enthusiastically
remarking, "Oh, that is Mrs. Clipfell's town."
And it struck that that was a mighty good
subtitle for the best little city in southwestern
Minnesota!
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The desire to send away for things
that you can get in your home town is
revival of the old gambling instinct.
People like to think they can get some
thing for nothing and that they can
somehow beat the game by sending
away. They evidently prefer to buy
sight and unseen. mail order house
recentlv established a sample store at
Little Falls so the people could come and
examine goods. This has proved fail
ure and they are moving it out of the
town, for they found that when people
could compare the goods with that of the
local merchants, the home business men
got the trade. The mail order house can
only do a successful business in the dark.
Miaca Times.
Maybe that's the explanation. But the fact
remains that perfectly nice and respectable peo-
pie with no gambling background do it with the
greatest constancy.
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This bit of regular, good, hard, common
sense comes from the testers column of the Min
neota Mascot-that ever-so-good column written
by one of the brilliant young sons of Gunnar
Bjornson.
icled an act of fiendishness possible
only in the United States. A mob of
one thousand American citizens. one
hundred per centers took two Negroes,
brothers, from the hands of the sheriff,
tied them to a telephone post, poured
gasoline them, and burned them
alive. Reports say that their screams
were so terrible that one member of the
mob had momentary impulse of hu-
manity and tried to put out the flames.
But the more hardened members of the
mob held him back. These Negroes
had been charged with shooting to death,
in a quarrel, the white superintendent
of a sawmill which employed them
they had not been proven guilty. They
were not seeking to escape, they were
in the hands of the law. And still we
read that federal lynching law is not
necessary!