The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-02-02
Small Town Talk

Frank Day refers to Governor Christensen
as political opponent" Frank flatters him.
self greatly
i One hundred ninety-five citizens of Granite
Falls crawled out to vote at the recent city cleo
ton there. There's little town that must be
awfully Wei satisfied with itself.
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| Don't worry about the perils of flying Eight
pilots lost their 9yes in commercial aviation last
year. Eighty persons were kicked to death by
mules in the state of Missouri But airships get
more publicity than snules.-Grove Patterson
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The mental crime of our age is failure Il
think long and deeply. Most of our thinking
is only skin deep. We pay to keep ourselves
from thinking. We seldom drive ourselves
through hard book We read fiction and trav-
el, and refuse that which requires concentration
The blacksmith's muscles grow into fibres of
steel through hard toll. So are great minds
lproduced.-J. d. r. in the Omitted Presbyterian y
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The Murray County Herald calls the person
al property tax list, published each year in the
several counties of the state, "the joke list" so
flagrantly untrue are the great majority of the
listings. Some of the things the tax list re-
veals surely look like jokes, and we wouldn't
realize what a lot of "jokers" there are in the
community if the tax list were not printed. By
the way, the jokes uncovered are not the kind
folks laugh at either.-Exchange.
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New Ulm is conducting its municipal
affairs under the direction Of a charter
adopted in 1887-and appears to be do
ing quite well under the circumstances.
Exchange.
Some other towns not thousand miles away
are just as obsolete-and perhaps not doing
quite well under the circumstances But the
circumstances" might be changed with little
interest and energy.
Over in Renville county the county commits
sioners have passed resolution barring women
from serving jury in that county hereafter.
One of the objections given to women serv-
ing as jurors is that they allow their personal
feelings to influence their finding in the case to
too great an extent, which brings to mind the
saying "A poor is little better than none"
Women are just as capable as men, and in many
cases more so, to decide fairly Juries compos-
ed of both sexes should not be countenanced in
any county, Make the jury made and female ac-
cording to the case to be tried.-Cottonwood Cur
rent.
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Chocolate bombs dropped from airplanes as
an advertising stunt of Berlin Candy company
have bruised many hundreds of persons that
the police have called a halt to the bombardment
of sweets. The company has been sending up
two planes Sundays. Every park, beer gar
den or street in which the planes CHANGED to spot
a crowd bombarded with hard chocolates
wrapped in heavy foil from an altitude of about
100 feet. The aerial gifts were particularly OBJ
jectionable to the badheads whose custom it is to
stroll with heads uncovered on the theory that
the suns rays stimulate the growth of hair.
Mothers complained that children fighting for the
prizes ruined their Sunday clothes.-Exchange.
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The National League of Women Vot-
| ers which recently made a survey of
conditions throughout the country has
| discovered that while in 1925 and 1926
approximately $50 women were elected
to the legislatures in the states of the
| Union, that during the last election only
122 were so honored a decrease of eight.
The republicans elected eighty-six wo-
| men legislators, the democrats thirty
| one. Three of the women elected had
| no party designation. 1t will be inter-
esting to learn just why this decrease
1 PooSAoAS
/ cases, districts have been made over so
] the women candidates have been gerry
| wandered out. For all of that in view
of the fact that women suffrage is sup
posed to be on the upward swing, these
i figures are rather mysterious. From an
! other source it is learned that the de-
i crease was not because of the lack of
women candidates, for the total number
who entered the elections greater
/ than ever before but they simply were
/ not elected.-Red Wing Republican.
We hope the woman who calmly folds hel
hands and thinks that the equal rights fight ha,
been fought and won, reads the above witt
ithoroughness and understanding. Instead of de
Icrease in the number of women holding public of
flee there should have been an increase during
the time quoted, and there was not If womer
candidates are not elected the fault lies in tn,
APATHY or the petty jealousy of the women them
selves who are at least numerous enough to holt
their half of the election returns If they vii
ionly unite and vote. But the women fail =
vote, or going to the polls they fail to vote in
fail 70, vofp he uno1