The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-07-27
business man must develop and ever display this
phase of courtesy.
SMALL TOWN TALK

life, devotng himself unreservedly to Others
His skill and time are yours on the shortest not
ice, in the blacklist hour of night and in the
worst of weather. His devoted unselfishness,
ready sympathy and healthy good humor but in
crease his gray rs."-Hon Alton B. Parker
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We hear lot of talk these days about eff
fciency. That's why it struck us as very pat
the other day when he heard a speaker say that
efficiency is nothing in the world but common
sense dressed up in silk hat-nothing but old
fashioned shrewdness under fancy title" And
yet for the last few years efficiency experts"
have tried to make us believe that theirs is
brand new discovery and brand new profession
Truly there is nothing new under the sun.
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Some of the country towns which are so fond
of "panning" St. Paul and Minneapolis for their
allegedly lax police forces are in no position to
throw stones until they have solved the gypsy
problem within their own gates. Passing these
groups of thieves along after one of their men,
bers has made three hundred dollar theft, is
about as lax a performance as has ever been
permitted in Minnesota. So long as municipal
tiles do that just that long will the state be in
Tested by these theiving hordes each year. Rur-
al communities may well watch their own door,
yards and leave the care of the Cities to the
Cities. Their problems bigger any
worse than the small town problems-they are
simply multiplied the population is multiplied
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"Be Yourself" isn't such an idle suggestion
as it as first may appear when today you hear
the expression on every corner. Being yourself
means that you aren't affected. It means that
you are human and thoughtful and praiseworthy
and just; at least that is what you and think
it means and that is what it should mean. When
we forget ourselves we told: "Be yourself"
The next time someone tells you that, if he is in
earnest, check yourself up and see in what quail
ity you are lacking and cultivate that quality.
We like to be known for all these good qualities.
1t is pretty safe statement to make, when we
are told: "Be yourself that at least for the time
being have forgotten ourselves and need
new supply of the milk of human kindness, of
thoughtfulness, of praiseworthiness and of JUS
tice "Be yourself. Edward F. Flynn, Direct
or Public Relations, Great Northern Railway.
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Quite in keeping with number of things
in Henry Fords life is his denial that he had
ever said or published anything against the
Jews; that while all this publishing had been
done over his name he had been in total ignor-
ance of it-and now he is very sorry that the
poor Potashes and Perlmutters have had their
feelings hurt. Seems bit late for Henry to
find all this out but such is the case! How he
could have read daily papers for the past ten
years and have remained in this superb Cor is it
supine ignorance) is the unfathonable mystery
Perhaps Mr.. Ford, who disbelieves in history
anyway, doesn't read the daily papers for fear
of absorbing that history while it is in the max
ing. At any rate it is timely that when the de-
NAL should come just at the time the Hebrews
are setting in motion the machine which is to
try Mr.. Ford for broadcasting untruth.
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Another sign of topsy-turvy age! Who
ever figured, some years ago, on the possibility
of entering barber shop and waiting for bar
Der to put the finishing touches on boyish
bob before getting ones chance for a mere
shave. But it's SO, as anyone can testify who
has seen the barber shops suddenly converted
right under his scandalized eyes into beauty par
lors No longer is the barber shop a sort OF
mems club. redolent of bay rum and tobacco
smoke, the gossip punctuated with picturesque
language. Now the conversation bears on teas
and dances and bridges and sheiks and things.
Times have changed, though, and judicious adj
vertisine is certainly the order of the day. Hair
bobbinp has developed from fad into rage
and finally, an obsession. Marching and beau
tifying generally have kept pace with the flair
for shorn locks and every village has at least
one barber shop who caters to this trade, and at
least one cottage beauty shop where the local
bellies get trimmed-roll your own on transla-
ton of that last word.
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The action of Redwood County officials in
irving to apprehend and punish the gypsies who
stole thirty-five dollars from a Morgan farmer
last week is surely commendable. Even after
the loot was recovered the officers continued
their search for the band of wanderers that they
might be punished and made an object lesson to
others who might have the same hght-fingered
/ inclinations True, after spending night IN
iail. the dark-skinned ladies got of without
further punishment by sacrificing five hundred
dollars of bail, but they have had lesson they
will not soon forget. Redwood County will see
little of them in the future, for no one knows
better than the thief where he can and where
he can not ply his nefarious business. Too often,
after we have caught such criminals and recover
ed their loot, we turn them loose to prey upon
others. The practice is one of the weak points
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