The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-02-02
Small Town Talk

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Frank Day refers to Governor Christensen
las political opponent" Frank flatters him.
self greatly!
| One hundred ninety-five citizens of Granite
Falls craHled out to vote at the recent city cleo
ton there. There's little town that must be
awfully Wen satisfied with ITSELF
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| Don't worry about the perils of flying Eight
pilots lost their lives in commercial aviation last
year. Eighty persons were kicked to death by
mules in the state of Missouri But airships get
more publicity than mules.-Grove Patterson
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The mental crime of our age is failure to
think long and deeply. Most Of our thinking
is only skin deep. We pay to keep ourselves
from thinking. We seldom drive ourselves
through hard book. We read fiction and trav-
Iel and refuse that which requires concentration.
The blacksmith's muscles grow into fibres of
steel through hard toll. So are great minds
produced. D. R., in the united Presbyterian"
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The Murray County Herald calls the person
|al property tax list, published each year in the
several counties of the state, 'the joke list" SO
flagrantly untrue are the great majority of the
listings. Some of the things the tax list re-
realize what lot of ''jokers" there are in the
community if the tax list were not printed. By
the way, the jokes uncovered are not the kind
folks laugh at, either.-Exchange,
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New Ulm is conducting its municipal
affairs under the direction of charter
adopted in 1887-and appears to be do
ing quite well under the circumstances.
Exchange
Some other towns not thousand miles away
are just obsolete-and perhaps not doing
quite so well under the circumstances. But the
circumstances" might be changed with little
interest and energy.
Over in Renville county the county commits
sioners have passed resolution barring women
from serving on jury in that county hereafter.
One of the objections given as to women serv-
ing as jurors is that they allow their personal
feelings to influence their finding in the case to
too great an extent, which brings to mind the
saying "A poor excuse is little better than none"
Women are just capable as men, and in many
cases more so, to decide fairly. Juries compos-'
ed of both sexes should not be countenanced in
ANY county, Make the jury made and female ac-
cording to the case to be tried.-Cottonwood Cur
rent.
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Chocolate bombs dropped from airplanes as
an advertising stunt of Berlin Candy company
have bruised SO many hundreds of persons that
the police have called halt to the bombardment
|of sweets The company has been sending up
two planes on Sundays. Every park, beer gar
den or street in which the planes CHANGED to spot
la crowd was bombarded with hard chocolates
wrapped in heavy foil from an altitude of about
100 feet. The aerial gifts were particularly OBJ
jectionable to the baldheads whose custom it is to
stroll with heads uncovered on the theory that
the suns rays stimulate the growth of hair
Mothers complained that children fighting for the
prizes ruined their Sunday clothes.-Exchange.
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The National League of Women vot-
ers which recently made survey of
conditions throughout the country has
discovered that while in 1925 and 1926
approximately $50 women were elected
to the legislatures in the states Of the
Union, that during the last election only
| 122 were so honored, decrease Of eight.
The republicans elected eighty-six wo-
men legislators, the democrats thirty
| one. Three Of the women elected had
no party designation. It will be inter-
| esting to learn just why this decrease
! has occurred. It is possible that in some
| cases, districts have been made over so
] the women candidates have been gerry
wandered out. For all of that in view
/ of the fact that women suffrage is sup
Il posed to be on the upward swing, these
j figures are rather mysterious. From an
other source it is learned that the de-
| crease was not because of the lack of
women candidates, for the total number
who entered the elections was greater
than ever before but they simply were
not elected.-Red Wing Republican.
We hope the woman who calmly folds her
hands and thinks that the equal rights fight has
been fought and won, reads the above with
iIthoroughness and understanding. Instead of de-
icrease in the number of women holding public Of
lfice there should have been an increase during
the time quoted, and there was not If women
candidates are not elected the fault hes in the
Iapathy or the petty jealousy Of the women them
!selves who are at least numerous enough to hold
their half of the election returns Il they VII
ionly unite and vote. But the women fail "a
tv<<ns o,csucy 70 h. thew all