The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-08-01

A person who can laugh over Menckens
americana" instead of getting mad at it has
proved that he has real sense of humor
Our most hated of mankind today is the man
who tries to spring new pun on the names of
Good" and tsWork."
The Governor and his Big Three have come
in for an awful lot of panning. But just the same
they piled up $4,000 majority in the primary
election-which isn't at all bad considering that
the vote was light.
A scientist reports that the modern young
girl-the flapper-has been weighed and found
wanting. Well say she is found "wanting"-
wanting everything from clothes to freedom. And
is getting her wants too.
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One of the papers is throwing fit because
this is the "silly season" and so many folks are
living up to it. Well, if anybody wants to take
the trouble to be silly when the weather rates
almost hundred per cent its all right with US
Iso long as we don't have to look on.
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Fool wills are like the poor-we have them
always with us. A Washington woman has left
$1,000 to feed her cat. A man in New York left
$4,000 to be spent, at the rate of twenty-five
dollars day in feeding the poor of the city
What we want to know is; how did people with
so little judgment ever accumulate these sums?
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st. Paul aviator says that within five
years aviation will have become so popular that
many Minnesota residents will own their own
planes. Dad might just as well begin to prepare
the bank roll against that demand from the fam
lily. 1t won't be the first time that keeping up
with the Jones' has kept whole families up in the
air.
Gall money is going East, is the cry
of the Minnesotan, and it is true that a great
deal of our money is going East with only
small portion of it returning to US. The St.
Lawrence waterway would remedy this situation
by establishing Minnesota as great Industrial
state. Not only that, but the waterway would
add 20 cents bushel to the price of wheat.
Hoover, Republican presidential nominee, favors
this waterway, while AL Smith is opposed to the
waterway, as is all New York, from whence he
haiis."-Waseca Herald.
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Henrik Shpstead is a reticent sort of den
fist. Here the campaign is warming up here
and there from day to day and he maintains
that it is not yet time for him to announce to
the waiting world whether he is for Hoover
Smith, what his plans are for farm relief, how he
stands on the Great Lakes Waterway nor when
nor where he will make his opening campaign
speech. He's the curiousest sort of candidate
that has shown up in these parts for consider
able period of years. We think it is all passing
strange Politicians are not prone to be so
self-effacing
Perhaps the best answer to be made to the
persistent wilmer who insists that Business has
gone to pot" is that there are 12O,0OO,0O0 people
in this big, resourcefu energetic country of ours,
that every one of them must be fed, clothed,
sheltered and amused regardless of conditions.
Therefore business cannot go to pot-it must go
on. The outlook for spectators may be bad
at intervals but for investors of time and money
and energy it is always good. We are nation
of well paid workers and good spenders High
,ly paid and well satisfied labor cooperating with
capital is the rule in most of the industries of
the country. There are exceptions but they do
not govern. Viewing today's conditions as q
whole, outstanding defects do not appear unusu-
ally numerous serous-surely not to the ex-
tent of justifying the "gone to pot" position.
We stand ready to quarrel with anyone who
says as DIR. Arthur Dean wrote recently that
Grades mean nothing. Look at the case of
Lindbergh." There is too much of that sort Of
propaganda going the rounds. Grades Do count
for something whether they entitle one to a
place on the honor roll in the grade school, or
make him the valedictorian of his class in high
school or give him Phi. D. for his college work.
They show that the individual has accomplished
the scholastic work upon which he bent is ener-
Igies, that he applied his mental ability to the
task at hand and won out. Why should he not
have as much recognition for that feat as though
he had accomplished something more tangible
something that the world can see or hear about
or pay for? Some of us still so quaint and
old-fashioned" in views that we find GER
tain unfairness in handing out honorary degrees
|, as reward of merit for physical accom-
plishment. This quite defeats their original pur
pose as milestones marking mental and intellec-
tual progress. The fact that Wisconsin Univers-
, ity didn't recognize in the boy Lindbergh the
future hero of world aviation is nothing against
either the University nor Lindbergh. 1t is simp-