The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-02
SMALL TOWN TALK

stead of before it.
If the press keeps on making a fuss over
"Mr. Average Man" for few weeks longer he
will no longer be the average man-he'll be just
one big swelled head!
The warden of the Saltwater prison is ask
ing for twelve hundred new cells to take care
of the overflow" many of the guests" now hav-
ing to sleep in the halls. A popular hostelry,
that!
If Hotel Lakeland at Willmar is half as
fine Vic Lawson's special edition that told
all about it u.s. it is some nifty little sleep shop
Wilmar needed just that kind of place and we
are glad it has it.
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Charles Lamb said he felt as much like say
ing grace before reading as before eating. If
Charles were here today and reading some Of the
present day stuff his petition would undoubtedly
be one for protection.
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It's all in the point of view! John L. Suli-
asked his opinion Of football as he
stood watching a game. Lowering his voice to
a scandalized whisper John L. replied, "There's
murder in THAT camel"
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The average American man spends $71.38
year for clothing while the average American
woman spends only $63.55. The difference is
probably matter of heavy winter underwear
which the lady finds she really doesn't need.
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1t doesn't take much to get some folks into
the papers. A plain kippered herring has been
doing that for Mayor Jimmie Walker of New
York We have known times when Johnnie
Walker" got in on less than herring!
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German town has placed tax on bobbed
heads. Now if they tax similarly the abbreviat
ed skirts of its womankind the city Golfers will
be full to running over. This act appears proof
of the old adage-it is the woman who always
pays!
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One of the most hopeful signs of the age
that we have seen for some time is to be found
in the report made by one of the Brainard pa
pers that shat hiking has become popular
that some of the boys thinking about aband-
oning the old car and walking to school," That
sure is going to the extreme edge of popularity.
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Capper's Weekly has just published book
of One Hundred and One Ways to Make Money
for the Church. Communities who have felt that
they have been hard quito to keep up with
bazaars and church suppers are about to discover
that they haven't had bit of experience in what
it really means to have the women set out in
earnest to grow church money. Rummage sales
are the least of it.
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| 1t is said that Miss Sarah Schuyler Butler
who is lecturing, follows her illustrious dad,
Nicholas Murray Butler, in being ardent ad
mrer and advocate of the Republican party. VI
to date it has not appeared whether the lady i:
as inclined to anti-prohibition or not-for the
future reputation of the sex assurely hope she
is not. The paternal Murray may be gooG
prophet far certain of the Republican ten
ants go, but he doesn't preach all of them.
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1t seems only natural that the university re-
gents in closer touch with university needs
than any other body of men in the state. They
are appointed by the governor to look after the
welfare of the university. In past years they
have planned well for its growth and have hand
led funds allotted to them in manner that car
not be criticized. In view of these conclusions
we can not help but think that the Legislative
act to put the control of university finances in
other hands will not work to any good advan
! tage-Heron Lake News.
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The editor of the Mankato Free Press pass
es on this idea of extreme good sense.
I Each succeeding day finds smaller
place in the niche of important affairs
for the cynic. The world is turning
cold shoulder on his criticism, and it is
healthful sign. There has existed fall
lacy in the minds of many, particularly
of the younger generation for several
years past, that all criticism to be effec-
tive must be destructive, that opinions
should carry weight in equal proper
ton with Judgment based on hard ex-
! perience.
After all the criticism that spells
most in world affairs is action and not
/ words. The man who works steadily
on to correct conditions in social, econ
omic or political affairs, instead of at
tempting to tear down the entire struc-
ture because they exist, realizes his aim
while the cynic is still talking about it.