The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-12-21

1t was an old colored philosopher who said:
Being contennted wifi you lot amt
no excuse fob not hustlin' to get de
mortgage off'n it,
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Once upon time were asked to define
"tactfulness." We gave as our definition "the
art of making folks around you think they
amount to something" After studying the mat
ter for number of years that still remains the
best definition we have been able to work out.
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At least civilization has improved some
what. We no longer have with US that door-mat
sort of person who always signed his let
tiers: "Your obedient and humble servant" Not
even the one-time fashion of courtesy could make
that sort of signature anything but an insncere
and Insignificant gesture.
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Pupils in high school in Paris gave
these answers to the question, "Who is
Calvin COOLIDGE" An aviator, the in
ventor of the Paris subway, big dip
lomat my father knows him we'll, and
relatives of Lafayette.-News Item
Funny, isn't it? But have you stopped to
think that if similar question were similarly put
to class of American high school students con-
corning the president of France the replies would
be quite similarly funny? And we suspect they'd
be just about the same if the name of the French
official sprung all of a sudden in one of
these What-Do- You-Know sort of contests, up
group of American adults
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Curtis johnson is out for governor with
quite array of planks, making a more or less
shaky platform upon which he has posed himself
for public perusal. In the first place Mr.. John
son is advocating $2O,000,0O0 bond issue for
completing Minnesota's highway system. We
amt for THAT! That he is advocating the mar
riage of agriculture and industry in the north
west. Nothing new in THAT! That's Just re-
naming of the Farmer-Labor vaudeville stunt.
Then he further advocates that Minneapolis and
ST. Paul must work together on the river trans
portation. Everyone is agreed to THAT! But
try and make 'em do it! Curtis is blowing
bubbles, and they burst without trace
President Coolidge sounds this word of
warning:
'The test which now confronts the
nation is prosperity There is nothing
more likely to reveal the soul of a peo-
pie History is Uttered with stories of
nations destroyed by their own wealth."
thing for US to worry about, but as individuals
most of US are not haunted by the thought that
we are about to be destroyed by our own
wealth." In fact the majority of us, just at this
season of the year, and under the existing finan-
cial conditions of the Midwest, are quite willing
to come considerably closer to the edge of that
sort of destruction
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Dbl 4.
sofa highways. At least he doesn't want to set
about the job in the Year of Our Lord 1928, and
put Minnesota twenty million dollars in the hole
to do it. He wrote long and worthy editorial
on the matter in of the recent issues of his
Lake Wilson Pilot and closed it by saying:
1.-The Pilot is not interested in GEM
ent contracts; neither does it own a
gravel pit"
Bob is probably right about the gravel-but
he has heap of sand; all in his heart and brain
and none of it in his eyes,
There is no waste like the waste on intoxi-
eating liquor. We spend annually on liquor
er three hundred million pounds, and that sum is
approximately equal to the yield of the income
tax and the super-tax 1t is wasteful and unnec-
essary expenditure. Nothing depresses me
more in connection with the many discussions on
national economy than the way in which this
colossal national waste is always totally ignored.
National expenditure is not going down, it is GO
ing up, and l am afraid it will continue to do
SO unless we get down and grapple with the chief
causes of national waste. Expenditure upon
drink is one of the greatest forms of waste, and
somewhat comparable is the enormous sum spent
on betting.-Philip Snowden late chancellor of
the British Exchequer.
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transient looking for work
in the office the other day and apparent
ly sincere in his efforts to find something
to do. He stated that he had been for
merly employed in the factories and ma
chine shops in the cities but the employ
ers had let them off and was replacing
them with foreign laborers. He added
that in some of the factories a greater
part of the help consists of women who
work on a lower wage scale 1t seems
an injustice if this is true, that women
are creating a condition that is driv-