The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-08-03
SMALL TOWN TALK

Most often IL is the stitch ahead of time
which turns the trick.
Duluth had its peony show July 18th and
18th. Must be sort of fun to live on the north
pole like that!
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During the past one hundred years the pop
ulation of the world has increased more than
70O,0O0,0O0. We should worry about race suicide
in SOME races!
Will Irwin, the writer, has been responsible
for many travesties against human nature dur
ing his career. One of these is the foisting of
the word "highbrow" upon an unsuspecting pub
lie
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Eating in many languages" is the title Of
an interesting article on restaurants. May be
true that solids adapt themselves to many Ian
guages, but that is just one universal language
for good old beef broth
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Thirty-five sacks of mail order catalogues,
running forty-five books to the sack, came into
Redwood Falls last week. This is just the first
arrival of the fall "crop" of these insidous SOL
icitors. If the fact that these books are circu-
lating through the community doesn't make the
local merchants rise right up their toes and
get good and busy-well, nothing can bring about
the condition!
Governor Christianson says:
"Let it be said that the publishers
alone cannot make newspaper. In ev-
cry sense, a newspaper, especially
country newspaper, is a community
enterprise. 1t reach its ultimate
possibilities only through cooperation
of publisher, reader and business man.
Let readers do their part by furnishing
the news of their respective localities,
let the business men advertise generous
ly and regularly and give to their home
paper their entire advertising and print
ing business, and the newspaper will be
worthy representative of the commun-
ity and an efficient exponent of it's in
terests. Every dollar a newspaper re-
ceives will return seven-fod in good
will and favorable publicity"
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Our attention was recently called, by a
stranger to Ramsey Park, to a sign nailed to a
tree at one of the most beautiful land apparent
ly bathable) spots in the Redwood River. This
sign says Unfit for Bathing or Wading.' Even
if one had no intention of doing either much of
the charm and beauty of the spot was gone inn
mediately-instead of lovely and clean flowing
water one saw only pollution plus. This situa-
ton prevails not only in the Redwood River but
in practically every river in the United States.
Swimming in the local river was the sport of
boyhood some twenty-five years ago. Every
country town had its "old swimmin hole" and
in those days the sign of the two fingers meant
something. Swimming at any point along the
average river in the United States now is ex-
tremely hazardous from health standpoint
From one overflow sewer enough communicating
elements are available to make the average
stream unfit for use. Pollution of streams makes
them liability instead of an asset and it is hiah
time the pollution situation was attacked with
vigor and intelligence. Failure to cope with 1he
situation is apt to lead to an epidemic that may
prove disastrous in the extreme. For You can
not keep healthy boys out of running river IN
warm weather unless the pollution exists to the
extent that it is obnoxious. What boy can
not see he does not fear. It is only when death
and disease begin to take their toll that the pub
lie awakens to the importance Of control meas
ures.,