The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-03-16

Someone has figured out that the 1927 cal
endar will be good in 193s-and is passing the
suggestion on to any who are of Scotch parent
age.
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War is foolish and destructive If the same
energy were turned toward the arts of peace and
industry this world could be fine place for all
manner of people and there would be no such
thing as poverty. You can assure the world that
Krupp steel works will never again be used in
the service of the god of war.-Baron George
Krupp, now a student at Harvard
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Our Roman Catholic brethren, in keeping the
confessional have pretty nearly wiped us off
the stage in one feature of human service.
Through the confessional, they have built up an
amazing service for the treatment of sick souls.
We have nothing to compare with it.-Harry
Emerson Fosdick.
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Bob Forest of Lake Wilson speaks right up
like this:
"A member of the legislature must
be pretty conceited, when he thinks he
knows more about appropriations in
forty days than the Big Three does in
two years."
The killing of the anti-evolution bill should
mot be considered, by either its friends or its en-
emies as a victory for the theory of evolution.
1t is merely very definite stating, by the men,
bers of the legislature, that the subject and the
decision were outside the realms of legislation.
And with that decision all thinking people will
agree
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How's your back yard since last Fridays
rain? Ours looks like stretch of unreclamed
swamp land that has been used for dump
ground for two years, and with Pixies Peak of
ashes in the distance. And at that we notice that
it stacks up about even with the rest of the views
from alley. This town will be much i'm
proved after the rake and shovel brigade (if
any, completes its maneuvers.
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We have always known that the athletes
of Redwood Falls were group of sporting young
men. Hence we were doubly glad when public
recognition of this quality was given them at the
New Ulm meet. To bring home the sportsman
ship cup from contest staged by large num-
Der of school groups is no small matter. To
Superintendent Wichman, to Coach Stockton and
to the boys themselves, the Gazette wishes to
say: "We are right stuck-up and naughty to
know that you, OUR BUNCH, have achieved this
again!"
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Every county benefits more or less from the /
tourist trade which has grown so rapidly since I
Minnesota began systematic Improvement of it's
trunk highways. H. C. Hotaling secretary of I
the Ten Thousand Lakes Association, estimates I
that visitors spent $71,OO0,OOO in Minnesota in
1926. This is average of more than 100000 /
per county. Even counties that have no lakes /
or summer. resurts get more or less business /
from tourists driving through. If Mr.. Hotaling's Il
estimate is correct, tourists spent money in 1
Minnesota last year than the entire amount paid
out by car owners in the state for license and /
gasoline taxes since the trunk highway system
was established Mortified News.
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Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis new book,
mas come forth along with much other spring
'lurb, and we may as well make up our minds
hat we shall have to listen to many comments
or and against it during the next few weeks.
# we can escape reading the book itself we shall
consider ourselves lucky-but the comments con-
'ernng it cannot hope to escape This is the
'ook, We recall that has to do with Commercial
zed religion" and all the faults of the church Il
md the clergymen Sinclair set out to "show 'em
III up" and we have little doubt that he is happy
n the consciousness that he has done good Job.
William Allen White seems to have summed up
he reason for at least few Of the books faults
when he says:
Sinclair Lewis stood in the pulpit
of Kansas City church last spring and /;
defied God to strike him dead. So far
as Sinclair Lewis, the artist, is concerned
in the book, Elmer Gantry,' God took
him at his word. He got so excited max
ing faces at God that he forgot his 4
craftsmanship. The only good preacher
in the book is saphead. The only good
women dull And the thing bears
the same relation to life that Punch and
Judy bear to life"
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There lie only one disadvantage that the home
town merchant has in his competition with the !
mail order house and the canvasser and that is /
that we insist on his giving rs credit People /