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

And now, along with Willmars fine new
hotel, Editor Vic Lawson has decided that the
city shall also have daily paper. Truly Willmar
is rapidly becoming the metropolis of its section
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The suggestion is made that the League of
Nations be taken out of politics. If so taken
where shall it be put, and what will there be
left to put, anyway?
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The automobile has become an object of
much usefulness as well as luxury. But when
the younger generation insists on using its horn
for door bell it does seem as though the point
of usefulness were being stretched Bit
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Just before Thanksgiving day comes the an
nouncement that pork is easily digested
than turkey. That announcement comes just in
the nick of time to give some of us the excuse
we needed
Let him who believes that femnnsm is an
invention of recent years harken to the words of
good old Senaca who lived centuries ago. "Who
said that nature had acted scurivi1y with the
characters of women and had contracted their
virtues into narrow sphere? Equal force, be-
lieve me is possessed by them and equal capabil-
ity for what is honorable" Coming from the
lips of the wise old philosopher and teacher these
words are indeed significant.
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The war is over-in fact we are told it has
been over for some considerable period. And
yet we still pay the nuisance taxes, among them
the tax amusement admissions. Congress is
due to take up tax reduction when it meets next
month. We'd like to suggest to its members
that they might well abolish nuisance taxes like
the one above mentioned. Only war conditions
made such taxes tolerable-and we again rise to
remark that the war is over.
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"Only six cities in Minnesota of $500 popu-
lation or over" says Miss Clara Baldwin of the
State Library Department. "have no public Ebr-
aries" We were surprised to learn that New
Ulm, progressive in the extreme in most things
is of the six. Too bad for New Ulm. We
don't wish to brag but we suggest that represen-
tative citizens from the Brown County capitol
come over to Redwood Falls and see the splendid
service our library is offering our citizens-then
they'll go straight off home and start one. New
Ulm is much too fine town to be without this
fine educational medium. The law allows full
one mill tax to provide library facilities for the
people of Minnesota but only one county, Henne-
pin, takes full advantage of this law.
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There is just about as much real necessity
for an accident on a grade crossing as there is
for walrus to be provided with monogramed
napkin before his evening meal. And yet these
accidents occur and keep right on occurring For
instance Washington reports that in the first half
of this year there were 1851 grade crossing ac-
cidents resulting in 1862 deaths. A similar per-
iod in 1926 resulted in 2644 accidents which kill
ed 1856 people The grade crossing is never to
blame for these accidents. The cause of them
the real murderer in each of these deaths, is the
human carelessness which permits an automobile
to be upon railway track at the time rail-
road train is due there. We can't imagine any
accident in the world for which there is less ex-
cuse than the grade crossing accident