The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-04

GAZETTE, REDWOOD FALLS, MINNIE!
'Womens Colleges Need Cash" says a two
column headline in a metropolitan paper We
really don't know why the paper should insist
on that word college"
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Life, that publication which always purports
to be in the know, insists that the most modern
inventions is the orthophonic bathtub, designed
to give the best of tone qualities to the bathers
voice.
! Farmers in the vicinity of Princeton, Mimi.
have planted more than thousand acres of peat
land in potatoes this year. They say it is not
an experiment, that the results of smaller acre
age in former years have been successful and
that therein lies the solution of the waste-peat-
land problem.
Poor hotel accommodations and unbearable
heat seems to have occupied the minds of the
Houston delegates first of all. After they had
thought and said all they could about these dire
topics they gave attention to farm relief and
the dry plank. But relief from their own prick
ley heat and from the ever-increasing thirst were
paramount which was quite to be expected-since
they are all only human beings after ALL
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dance may be dance and it may be
marathon" when feet move just as little as
possible and still keep time to canned music
That's what was demonstrated in Minneapolis
last week. The results of the demonstration
were not commensurate to the pure unadultered
waste of time and physical strength. It might
have been an illustration of strong foot power
but it didn't indicate proportionate amount of
gray matter.
In Redwood County we have had the rural
free delivery for so long and so extensively that
we have ceased to regard it as a special privil-
eye or convenience just accept it as much
fact as we accept sunshine and rain. And yet
there are spots in Minnesota where such a con-
venience is not widespread. For instance
Koochiching County's first and only delivery in
the rural sections became effective July l. That's
what it is to live on the frontier.
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Don't ask the editor to '1eave it out of the
paper" if something unpleasant happens. Bet
ter give him full particulars yourself and ask him
to print them in his first edition. Such pro-
cedure brings any matter to a head at once, it
creates buzz for a day or two and then is for
gotten. But if it is "kept out of the papers" it
testers like an old sore, is whispered back and
forth over the backyard fence, becomes worse
with each telling until finally current opinion has
the affair painted twice as black as it really was
Publicity, like sunshine, is the best cure for
many things.-Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch
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One who knows something about
life said the other day: "Few were ever
permanently hurt by sock in the eye'
The eye grows black and blue, and for
while feels very uncomfortable. But
the blue wears away and the black wears
away, and you can still see. Don't worry
about sock in the eye.' 1t can't last"
Exchange
That's all right-maybe. We are willing to
take the word of the one "who knows something
about life" in this instance He didn't know
enough to know that it's perfectly human to
hate sock in the eye, even if it does get WELL
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Less than so per cent of the mothers
of the United States who act as purchas-
ing agents of their HOUSEHOLDS were
placed in the class of intelligent buyers
by Margery Pliver BEEN, chairman of
the Illinois home-makers' section, in an
address before the American Home Ec-
onomics Association at Des Moines Ia,
recently. The remainder" Miss BEEN
said, "buy, not with their minds but
with their emotions. They want their
children to look like the children of
their rich neighbors. They want dur
ability and comfort, yes, but they want
first expensive appearance at a low
price."-Des Moines Press.
The Small Towner, being woman, was all
resentful at the end of the first sentence of the
above paragraph. But when the sense of the
final sentence grew upon our consciousness we
had to admit that maybe Margey Pliver BEEN
wasn't as radical as we at first thought-nor
so far wrong perhaps Mother is just as apt to
want to keep up with the Jones" when she buys
the children's new clothes as Dad is when he
selects a new automobile
Brown, Mcleod, Rice and Lac qui Parle
county papers have right to be boastful of the
financial conditions of their counties. There
have been few, very few, mortgage foreclosures
in these counties, proving that the land boom
which swept over the state several years ago
left them mscathed. The Brown County Jour-
nal opened the discussion by reporting that "a