The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-09-12
SMALL TOWN TALK

| SMALL TOWN TALK /
Kohler's campaign slogan will probably
be "a full bathtub-and many of EN-"
Misguided but honest" seems to be
the kindest way of summing up ]. F. Reeds
shortcomings.
It isn't so much what time you get to
work as what you do after you get there
that really counts in the business world.
Mrs. VIM. McCluer .of Saltwater broke
the worlds record on her ninety-first birth
day. She said "The world is no worse than
it used to be-"
We hope we are patient soul but we
quickly lose what little of that virtue we
may possess when our hostess keeps con-
stantly adjusting the radio so that we can
hear better.
"When federation really tolerates we
have tolerably good world" says Dr. John
Holland. Which brings us back to the in
tolerable intolerations of the present politi-
cal campaign.
A New Jersey man says he has inven-
ted shock device that will stop an auto
mobile instantly. We've tried wire fence,
a telephone pole and fifteenfoot bank.
They all work excellently.
Clarence barrow says that crime will
never be solved through punishment of any
kind but only through education. Theoreti-
cally Clarence is right. Practically society
is bit anxious to know how it is to be pro-
tected while the criminal is being educated.
A Berlin stenographer rushed into
court to collect damages for having been in
suited by her employer. Her testimony
showed that the only "insult" was that he
wore no coat while debating to her while in
his office. This is terrible world. No
really delicate-minded woman is safe.
After several days of headlines about
John Coolidge's betrothed and his job we
are finally told he has neither. There is
this at least to be said for weekly paper
it always has time to verify the news before
it publishes it. 1t usually takes about a
week to find out if thing is or amt
Two girl strikers of Kenosha, Wis.,
have gone on hunger strike since August &c.
That's one inexpensive way of getting pub
licity since they are perfectly confident that
forcible feeding will be resorted to before
they are permitted to kill themselves. The
only price they pay is little discomfort.
They gain the much-sought slimness of fl
CURE and much notoriety. Sometimes hui
man nature is just plain cheap.
Some benighted souls are quick to place
the blame for the deflacations of Mrs. Flor
ence Knapp of New York upon the fact that
she is a woman. To give the lie to that the
Dry one has only to consider the thousands
of women in Minnesota alone who are trust
ed with huge sums in banks and stores and
business houses. Collectively they handle
millions of dollars each week. And vet
how seldom do we hear of one of them be-
ing charged with the least dishonesty of ac-
ton. Embezzlement and absconding are
not habitual to the women of the race.
Now comes the national senate commit
tee; which had spent week along the Min
nesota-Canada boundary investigating the
proposed Backus dam scheme, and every
member of the party, senator's, university
engineers, and others, boldly and in the
strongest and most emphatic terms, con-
dennis the scheme as one extremely selfish,
and one in which the rights of the people of
the state and nation are given on considera-
ton. The congress committee, which re-
Gently made tour through and an investi-
cation Of the same territory, was just as en-
phatic in condemning the Backus scheme.
We have no figures available, except
one, and this applies to practically all stuff
shipped by rail. At Winona, there is a big
canning factory which uses thousands of
acres of produce each year, pays $1.2O per
unit to ship its products west, while the
Gamer in New York state can ship his by
water for 60 cents. Shipping is from the
west coast east The railroads have pleaded
with the Interstate Commerce Commission
to reduce western rates so that instead of
taking thousands of cars west, empty, to
haul goods east. that they might by re-
duced rate have a haul each wav Can thew