The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-22

How come! Scandinavian Minneapolis with
Liska and Mancuso baseball battery!
Hoover is accused by his enemies of being
wet-he is all that; on the Great Lakes Water
way project. And incidentally Smith is bone dry
on that proposition and that only.
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The touring tourists are welcome to Mime
sofa scenery and all the good air and good water
they want. But they should respect public prop
erty when it comes to roadside gardens and
sweetcorn fields.
We hope all possible styles of headgear have
now been tried upon the President of the Unit
ed States and that he need no longer be photo
graphed in hats which make him comedy in
stead of president.
Job was patient man but he never had to
explain to an ardent local poetess why her poem
about mother, home and heaven is more suited to
The American Mercury than to the pages of the
home town paper. Even Job would have baked
at that task.
Duluth and Superior are laying their plans
to become Chicago-in-size overnight. Which
would mean prosperity for the rest Of the state
and the northwest. But to do it Duluth and
Superior must have the Great Lakes Waterway
to help them. Hoover is the who will bring
it quickest The implication is clear.
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We are all for Judge Marley Fosseen who
believes man is gin part justified" for hitting
his neighbor because he kept his loudspeaker
'loudspeaking" all the time in spite of requests
to tone it down. We take it for granted that the
fist was the part in which Judge Fosseen felt
the puncher was justified Anyway all the man
got was suspended fine of $1,000 and the sus-
pended part of that also fills our soul with glee
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The fact that Mrs. Coolidge spanked the pet
white house pup because he chewed her pet red
bedroom shipper may be interesting as showing
that Mrs. Coolidge is quite as human as several
millions of other women but we doubt if it has
front page news value at that. However, that
is where at least one paper which prides itself
on being metropolitan put it.
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Claude Mackenzie sent out 400 questionaires
recently, sending them unfortunately to Demo-
Gratis, Republican and Farmer Labor leaders alike
More than half of them were returned to him
and from them he reports the following facts
concerning the next election. Read them and
tnen place your pets.
Secretary Hoover will carry the
state by $4,000 votes on the basis of
100000 cast.
Mr. Nelson will defeat Senator
Shipstead but by more narrow margin.
Hoover will gain more votes than
Smith in the campaign.
That Mr. Nelson has gained strength
since the primary election and is con-
tinuing to gain while Senator Ship
stead is losing popularity.
That there is every indication of
record smashing vote in Minnesota next
November
We hope the average American reader will
not be afraid of Stephen Vincent Binet's "John
Browns Body" just because it happens to be
written in poetical form. 1t is one of the most
readable of recent books, is thrilling narrative
of the Civil war and has the distinction of be-
ing the first epic poem written in many years
probably the most distinctive one in the past
several generations. Every lover of folk story,
of tradition and of history will want to read it.
Every student of literature will adore its varia-
tions of the poetic forms, its transcendent style
and its lucid English Harry Hansen, one of the
most discerning and soundest of present-day
critics devoted the whole of a recent column to
it. The two paragraphs below are a part of that
column:
stephen Vincent Benet is the
Homer Of the Civil war, taking the
mass of dull documents and records, the
war reports, the tales of battles and of
bloodshed, of privations on the farms,
of courage and desperation in human
hearts, and weaving them together into
this long narrative poem. Himself des-
cended from one of the heroes of the
Civil war-that Stephen Vincent Benet
who lies buried in Arlington-he han
brought to his work mature American
viewpoint, careful research and patient
labor. The poem written during
the last few years in France, where Mr..
Benet has been sojourning as a fellow
of the Guggenheim fund. Thus his auto
biographical lines in the Invocation"
explain the poet.
perhaps can best describe "John
Browns Body" by telling what it is not.
1t is not the work of the clustered
scholar who is remote from life and in
in fic,1l-