The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-07-20

out that the present primary is "a good thing
except for its long ballot, its Ineffective party
leadership, the spols system and the tremend-
GUS campaign expense" The League will have
to think fast and hard and seriously to find suf-
ficient virtues to Offset these several faults.
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Mrs. Medl Mccormick of Illinois has an
nounced that she will become a candidate for
governor of her state at the next election. Ru-
mors have been frequent in Washington that
Mrs. Mccormick is looking longingly at the
presidential campaign of 1928. Apparently the
lady has acquired wisdom and decided to attain
her ambition by earlier days.
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The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet,
The best house hasn't been planned
The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet,
The mghtiest rivers aren't spanned;
Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted,
The chances have just begun,
For the best jobs haven't been started,
The best work hasn't been done.
-Berton Braley "No Chance"
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The Faribault Pilot says, Imagine if you
can group of boys aged eighteen to twenty OBJ
tanning liquor and getting drunk in the old
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very young but even at that we don't have to
imagine We can ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS when
boys of that age got pitifully drunk, and much
less was done about it by public officers than is
done right now. We hope the Faribault Pilot
man didn't really think that he had advanced an
argument against Prohibition. Rather he has
strengthened the arguments for it.
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Two young farmers, 10 years old each, at
tended an agricultural college farm week. In
terviewed by a newspaper reporter, they said
that above all things farmer should not marry.
They say farm work is too hard for women.
Which shows truly enough that they are only 10
years old. Farm work in the history of America
has not been too hard for women. To the wives
of farmers all over this land goes much of the
credit and the glory for the successful manage
ment of thousands of farms. Ask the farmer
how he would get along without his wife.
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Prophecies that julius A. Schmahl will be
a gubernatorial candidate in next years primar-
les put afloat every and then by people
who profess to be in the political know. Julius
is fixture right where he is for the next sew
eral terms if the voting citizenry of the old
state is wise it pretends to be. He has
no present ambitions to become governor-of
that thoroughly confident-he likes his
present job, he is giving the state a splendid
service in the Treasurers office and should be
kept there long as he is content to remain
Whatever the future may bring, however, the
very near future will NOT see Mr. Schmahl
candidate for governor.
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Dean w. C. Coffey of the University Depart
ment of Agriculture draws striking picture of
the changes which have taken place in farming
Agriculture is now complex industry and
farming is regarded commercial enterprise,
he says. "The farmer has much more response
bility in directing labor, handling money, and
marketing products than he used to have. The
efficient modern farmer is business man, and
American agriculture has evolved from self
sufficient farming enterprise to business enter
prise which carries the commercial spirit in
far greater degree than did the agriculture of
the earlier days" Dean Coffey takes an opti-
mistic view of the situation, asserting that the
standard of living is higher than it once was,
and that the social life of the people is improv-
ing.-Northfield News.
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Some person, full of baseless information, is
responsible for the statement that Redwood
County has more unmarried mothers reported to
the State Board of Control than any other Coun-
ty in the State. The statement thrusts itself
forward ever and anon and will not down as an
untruth should. 1t is without foundation and
should not for a moment be believed. What
started it, other than someone's too earnest de-
sire to talk too much, is hard to say. But think
ing people over the County will take the trouble
to deny it. knowing that it can be disproved by
statistics should feel the necessity of so dis
proving. 1t is true that many such cases are re-
ported from Redwood County, as they are from
every other County which has a social worker
in the field. The counties not reporting such
cases the counties where there is no such
worker and real canvas of the situation is ever
made. But to make such a statement, indicat-
ing that the young people Of our County are less
moral than those of other sections, is the rather
CHASTITY sport of would-be reformers. Because
Redwood County has had efficient social workers
for the past several years there is an aspect of
social problems here which is much envied by
counties not having had this service. The stu
alton is still bad enough and regretable. But to
say that It is the worst in the state Ia unthink-