The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-01-19

It's too bad! In so many of the homes the
children have outgrown toys and Dad has had
hardly any fun at all since Christmas!
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1t isn't the tax we pay-it's what the other
fellow doesn't pay, that makes us unhappy. May
be that doesn't indicate a mind of broad and
long proportions, but it at least indicates how
awfuly human we are
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Men can be moral without religion, but it re-
mains to be seen whether a whole people can
solve the problem of living together without the
most powerful force.-John NJ Clark, in "Social
Control of Business"
In the face of impending disaster the aver
age human being is pretty much of a coward
This was very forcibly illustrated at the burn
ing of Montreal theatre few days ago when
80 were killed and several were injured in a
stampede following the alarm of fire. It was the
old law of sef-preservation rampant in the face
of disaster.-Sauk Center Herald.
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With the exception of small target models
every pistol and revolver is made for but one
purpose-to kill humans. It is as easy today
to purchase an automatic pistol as it is to buy
Ia cigar. Criminals have no difficulty in procur-
ing machine guns, which are manufactured
solely for wholesale human slaughter. Shall we
expect decrease in crime when such condi-
tons are prevalent flake Wilson Pilot.
IT
We are thoroughly in sympathy with the
farmer in his troubles and hope that something
will be done, and that soon, for his relief but
we fail to find anyone taking up the cause of
Mr.. Ultimate Consumer. He is numerous but
unorganized and usually takes his medicine with
only mental protest, feeling, however, that
there is too wide gap between the price of the
animal on hoof and the chunk of meat on the
block, for example. One of the main excuses
for this is the cost of labor, but that is over
worked. In mass production the time consumed
in preparing critter for the market, in the
making of a pair of shoes, suit of clothes and
so on, is after all an insignificant amount. We
hope that Senator Capper's truth in Fabric"
bill passes one of these days, so that we may
stand better chance to get what we pay for, at
Observation-Disclosures Times.
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The anti-evoution bill, to be considered in
the Legislature this session, seeks to prohibit,
under penalty of fines ranging from $50 to
5000, the teaching of any theory or dogma that
man is assembled or descended from lower order
or animal. Of course this ruling will apply only
to public schools, colleges universities sup
ported by public funds. The bill is so drawn
that it avoids the use of either the word relig-
ion evolution-in fact the most interesting
phase of it is the adroitness with which it
written. The little fracas it will raise promises
to be interesting if one likes that sort Of time
wasting But in the end both religion and science
will march on-and hand in hand-as they are
doing now if only one is wise enough to look deep
and straight instead of slantwse. If we had
nothing in the world to worry about except
whether this bill would or would not become a
law we would be the most Supremacy worry free
person in the Universe.
IT
We have been laughed at lot because we
so strenuously insisted that Christmas shall be
spelled out in full Therefore, like balm to our
troubled spirit, was the following little comment
by Arthur Brisbane:
"Clergymen are protesting against
the abbreviated "Xmas," which reduces
the name of Christ to "X." The alb
breviation is disrespectful to the most
beautiful word in history, and it is dis
respectful to the English language. Any
one who is in too much of a hurry
to write out christmas" should not use
the word.
TT
There has been some comment pro and con
concerning the Gazette's suggestion that the city
study the wisdom of the City Manager plan
applied to our own municipality. Some folks
have approved, thinking the plan feasible one
and one that would be really economical in the
last analysis. Others don't believe in this last
analysis stuff at all, against anything that
would call for the paying of any considerable
salary, and believe that the present charter and
its enforcement are perfectly adequate and sat
isfactory. If each of these proponents and OPP
ponents would say to the public what they have
said conversationally the matter might be dis
cussed and studied with more or less thorough
ness. With that in mind the Gazette is opening
its columns for Open Forum on the matter, in
vting articles, signed by the writer, for publ
cation. We make only the few conditions always
made in such matters. The articles must stick to
the subject in hand, and contain personal al
lusons of any sort, they must be legibly written
or typed and must not exceed five hundred words