The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-01-18
THE REDWOOD GAzErTE REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA

George Remus says he will spend the rest
of his life fighting the prohibition cause We
can think of no better boost for the Eighteenth
Amendment than just that.
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"a lot of hens are going to stop laying next
summer with three million Fords let loose
says Billy Noonan Billy is dead wrong A lot
of hens are going to lay as they have never laid
before-nicely flattened out in the middle of
the highway.
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Moos has hour with Maas"-says the ST.
Paul Dispatch. Sounds as though a herd of
cows might have met up with flock of young
sheep. At least it might sound that way if ev-
erybody didn't know that these the names of
two prominent political gents of ST. Paul.
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Year by year and season by season farming
in Minnesota becomes more and more diversi-
fled. This year three hundred farmers in the st.
Cloud community went in rather heavily for to-
bacco and the crop raised is valued at 100000.
Farmers at Thief River Falls went in seriously
for turkey raising instead of leaving it side
line for Mother, as is usually done. The result
more than paid for the time and effort and they
count the Thanksgiving dinners their most pro-
fitabe crop up in that section. GAINESVILLE farm
ers have gone in for clover seed, crop which
the Rainy River farmers around Baudette have
made worth while for number of years. And
so it goes. What shall Redwood County try
raising next year to increase her bank deposits
100 per cent?
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The world is full of strange people-and
some of them more foolish than strange. For
instance papers Of last week told of woman
who took to her bed twenty years ago because
she was angry with her husband. She announced
she would stay in bed until her husband saw
things her way, and she has stayed there for
twenty long years. The husband died the other
day; so far as we know the bed has become such
a habit and so depleted the woman's activity that
she will stay there until she dies-a life
sentence imposed by herself. An Englshman has
stayed at home for fifty years because girl
refused to marry him-making himself prison.
err in his own house because he couldn't have
what he wanted. Too bad grown-ups can't
sometimes be spanked as refractory children
are!
Patrons of the Redwood Falls Public Library
are now privileged to read Rolvaag's masterpiece,
"Giants In The Earth" And it is great priv
elege for anyone to be able to read this book
which is distinct addition to the literature of
Minnesota and to America. While the plot of
the story of these pioneers is not laid in Mime
sota it touches the western border of the state
very definitely and pictures the conditions Of the
state as whole as it was during its early days.
Vividly and virilly written, the book pictures
with clearness and freedom the hardships, the
simple joys and the tragedies of the primitive
peoples of the northwest. 1t has fine full
flavor of the prairies of Minnesota and the Da-
kotas, and is probably the most characteristic
and distinctive portrayal of this sections early
life which has yet appeared in the fiction world.
It's honesty and its sense of values makes it
splendid antidote for the poison spread by Sim
clair Lewis and others of the murky-mucker
class Written originally in Norwegian by one
Minnesotan, and translated by another, it claims
the attention of every resident of the state
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When we see the rural carrier bithey
trundling about in his Ford in the summer, it
looks like blamed good job and we quite envy
him. But we haven't heard many expressions of
envy of the boys during the past several weeks
when it has been one continuous round of deep
snow or icy, rutty roads. Then its job none of
us want. The rural carrier is anxious to do his
best for the service and for his patrons and it
is only fair that those patrons meet him at least
half way One of the upstate postmasters sug-
gests the following ways:
"Have heart, for the mail man!
Help him all you can for he is doing his
| best to keep you in touch with the out
| side world. Keep the approach to your
mail boxes clear if you can. Don't
leave pennies in the box for chilled fin
gers to be fishing out. Buy book of
stamps. Help "break the roads" if you
can. Any assistance will be a help to
~the service and therefore help to your
| self and to all the patrons"
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Herb Hotaling, editor of the Mapleton En-
terprise and one of the kindliest, gentlest souls
in the world finds an element of virtue in capital
punishment. In a recent issue Of his paper he
wrote thus concerning it.
at is a significant thing that the
men who come in closest contact with
the criminals of this state and are thus
the men who are in the best position to
know and study the lives of those con-