The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-16


give Fred johnson to Fairmont.
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Chicago women started $4,000 suit be-
cause the operation to make her more beautiful
failed in it's purpose. There is one girl who
certainly believes that her face is her fortune.
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Pedestrians Should Be Seen and Not Hurt"
is the legend on cards placed in Twin City street
car windows 1t has protective sound but we
don't trust it much. We notice that the pedes-
trian who escapes is the one who can run the
fastest and jump the fartherest.
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Shakopee is having a court house fight on
its hands these days. Not satisfied with that it
is starting an agitation to have the Minnesota
made navigable (or at least trafficabe) up as
far as Mankato. We can't quite make out wheth-
er Shakopee is really serious about that last
scheme or if it has just adopted it as counter
irritant.
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When you wondering what you are 90
ing to do tonight, look over the paper and see if
anybody is going to lecture on foreign land or
a question of international significance What
this country needs, much as Tom Marshall's
scent cigar, is a better knowledge of the rest
of the world and what the rest of the worlds
people are like. Intolerance is the shriveled fruit
of ignorance.-Grove Patterson.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr has donat-
ed the University of California sum of
$1,750,0O0 for the erection and furnish
ing of 5O0-room dormitory which is to
serve as residence and social center
in Berkeley for both American and for
eign students.-News Item.
Would that the University of Minnesota had
some John D. Jrs. among its alumni.
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Bayard WELLER, the talented playwright,
worked for several weeks on a dramatization of
Elmer Gantry. Then, when he saw what he
had done and came to realization Of what the
effect of such play would be upon the American
public, he tore his manuscript into bits and re-
turned the two thousand dollars paid him in ad-
vance royalties In other words he couldn't and
wouldn't assume the responsibility of putting
the evil Elmer Gantry up for inspection. Would
that Sinclair Lewis had been thoughtful be-
fore he created that hideous caricature of man
in the first place.
The annual Red Cross Roll Call is on all over
the United States with its aim to increase the
membership from three million members to five
million You can't invest dollar at any higher
rate of interest than using it to purchase Red
Cross membership. A dollar isn't so much
just the sacrifice of few trivial and insignifi-
cant luxuries for one single week-and yet when
added to all the other dollars it looms large We
maintain that the annual roll call is your op-
portunity to make an investment that will bring
you tremendous returns throughout the year.
Answer Here" when your name is called.
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Congressman Frank Clague spread sunshine
among his constituents in this community Mon
day. Frank Clague is not only one of the big
men of the state, but of the nation. Clear-head-
ed and shrewd-minded, he is fighting the battle
in Washington for the great Northwest He is
a fervent advocate of the McNary- Haugen bill,
because, as farmer, he realizes the inequality
that has worked hardship on the producer
which cannot long endure without dire results
to the nation. No man in Minnesota keeps in
closer touch with the public pulse than Mr..
Clague, and for his courage, his honesty and his
ability he will be rewarded with election as
long as he wants the office-Murray County
Herald.
The other day the Chicago Tribune reprinted
this item from its columns of October 3Oth 1862:
President Lincoln, although special
ly exempted from having his salary tax
ed under the revenue law, has ordered
that the same deduction be made as if
tax were imposed. By this voluntary
act the president pays q tax of 1920
out of his salary.
And this tax was paid out of his salary Of
twenty-five thousand dollars-all a president
was considered able to earn in the days Of Lin
coln But because it was war time and every
one was sacrificing, Lincoln insisted upon bear
ing his portion Of that sacrifice. Not many
such tax payers among office holders or private
citizens today-but then there aren't many of
Us capable of being Lincolns in other respects
either.
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We are indicated! We have sometimes in
Cured the dislike of our fellow townsmen by
contending that the tax dollar buys more of
those things that make life worth living than
any other dollar spent by Minnesotans The
other night, Gunnar Bjornson of the Tax Com