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

family Strycnlnlne II you Wish TO RIO yourself OF
them, or you can get the same results by using
unclean milk. The latter is bit slower, but
quite as sure.
The Baudette Region insists that Ray Chase
is due to "get somewhere" Granted! If only
Ray would tell US which way he is headed for
it would help lot. He's bound to get there
but we might like to assist
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We haven't as yet heard any really logical
reason why President Coolidge should not seek
third term if he desires to keep on serving
the United States. There are many arguments
put forth of course but they all lack logic.
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We are told that the demand for ostrich
feathers has declined to the point where they
are being used for busters. And yet some of us
can remember paying fifteen dollars and up for
even the most modest willow plume" Times
do change which "the Lord be thankful"
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According to the latest estimate every third
person in the United States works for living.
We interpret that as meaning that Father goes
out to earn the daily bread and gasoline for
Mother and Daughter. Mother, being recorded
by the United States census as woman of no
occupation doesn't count, we assume. After all
isn't proportion of one to three working peo-
pie in this Democratic America rather small :?
We wonder how the other two-thirds gets by.
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In the last presidential election, out of SIX
TY MILLION men and women having the priv
ilege of voting, less than THIRTY MILLION
placed enough value on the right of suffrage to
drop their ballots in the box. Those who failed
to vote out-numbered those who voted. That
shows an Indifference which is little short Of
criminal. 1927 is none too early to start a cam
paign Of education which shall make that sort
of thing impossible, or at least improbable, in
the 1928 election. Only education as to public
needs and problems, and thorough convincing
that these can be met only by the ballot will get
people to understand the arduous task of voting.
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1--WE have no sympathy with the
warfare against billboards. We like
them, both in city and in country. They
are interesting. Many of them are the
masterpieces of great artists, produced
at great cost. They show pictures of
beautiful woman-and who does not love
them ?-spectacular scenes in nature,
brilliant notices and catchy phrases
The above was written by Frank Day who
loves cigarettes just about as much as an Indian
loves Saturday night BATH We assume, in the
above little raphsody on billboards, Frank is
thinking of that recently posted picture of the
beautiful" woman and the gallent gentleman,
said poster bearing, in box-car type, the legend
"The best you have ever smoked-dear!" Yeah,
that's art all rght-and SO very moral, according
to Franks standards!
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Anyone who thinks we are bit unduly wor-
ried in this issue about the pollution of bathing
beaches should read, for his own education, an
article on Danger from Disease at Polluted
Bathing Beaches" published in the August issue
Of the Northwestern Health Journal We doubt
if anyone of mature mind and just usual good
sense would enter our Lake Redwood bath
ing pool or any other pool within an area
of hundred miles, after thoughtfully reading
that article. BY the way that is only one of
many plendid health articles which appear each
montr in this little publication put out by the
Minnesota Health Association. Why don't you
subscribe for it at fifty cents the year, study
each month, and give the kids you are rearing a
fair start in health?
When President Coolidge dons cowboy garb
and plays with the people he is caricatured and
ridiculed in the press. When he doesn't play he
is dubbed "cold;" called "Sient CAL" and it is
regretted that he "can't get into the spirit of
the Midwest" 1t is another case of damned if
you do and damned if you don't This is just
one of the unpleasant things about being pres-
dent. Another equally unpleasant thing, posi-
BILE only in America, is the publicity given even
the most personal and private happenings in the
lives of the President and his family. Such
publicity is not only undgnified and most unin-
teresting-it is manifestly unkind, unnecessary
and unbeautiful.
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Now that parents and young people alike
are worrying about schools and colleges it is
well to pause for minute and consider what
is the purpose and the function of these schools
which absorb the youth of the nation for practi-
caly the first twenty years of their lives.
Schools are useful only as they put men and
women in possession of their own powers and
they cannot do this without the earnest desire
of the students to be so helped Amy man can
LEARN anything he win, but no man can teach
except to those who WANT to learn. Educa-
ton is prominently a matter of quality, not
quantity. Education and ability are by no
means interchangeable terms. man who can
not think is not an educated man no matter how