The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-03-14

A college student lived for sixty days with
"a paralyzed brain. Which accounts for many
strange things in college circles.
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Having done all he can to besmirch the char
acter of George Washington it is now suggested
that Rupert Hughes bring out book whtewash-
ing one Benedict Arnold
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Somehow we miss the Fathers and Sons BAN
quets like those Redwood Falls used to haves
There are still fathers and yet sons-why not
combine them into banquet?
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Helen Rowland says that any girl who can
keep the seams in her stockings straight has sex
appeal for any man. Judged by that ability or
the lack of it not many girls have this much
over-rated quality.
favored universal suffrage when that mat
ter was an issue, but sometimes it seems to me
en- when what they really craved was reliable
weight reducer.-Irvin S. Cobb
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Maude Royden, England's great woman
preacher may be the advocate of companionate
afire, but we believe she at least shows good
common sense when she says, "When people
stop regarding the young people as something
special there probably will be no young peoples
problem"
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After reading even small portion of the
Brooks-Dickey controversy in the Minneapolis
papers, one is moved to wonder how men ever
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duct their political scraps or to accuse these
women of being personal. This little family row
brought everything from dirty linen to Swallowed
pedigrees into the direct ray of the political sun.
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Why elect delegates to convention and then
insist that they be instructed? Why not just
send to the convention an expression of the wish
of the District and State and save the expense of
delegation? national convention is cut-and-
dried enough without inflicting instructed dele
gates upon it. With the candidates now up for
delegates from the Second no instruction is nee
essary-their unnstructed judgment is all that
is necessary.
49,
Scientists investigating Steffansons
statement that he and his men lived all winter on
meat diet because there were green veget-'
ables growing in gardens of the Attic circle.
Apropos of this Arthur Brisbane says, eff COM
PEELED to choose between all meat and all veget-
ables choose the meat You probably will not
live as long but you will think more and farth-
err" We await with interest the reply of George
Bernard Shaw to that statement Shaw is ac-
credited with having the keenest and quickest
mind of his generation-and he is strict veget-
arian.
Fathers, today, are Indifferent,
stubborn, intolerant, and have undue
regard for their own opinions" is the
charge of university students in response
to QUESTIONABLE circulated by Profess
Frank Lee Wright, head of the de-
partment of education of Washington
University, who has sought to discover
the most common fault of fathers.
The modern father has forgotten
his own youth; he refuses to share his
time affection with his children; above
all he is unwilling to confess his faults,
according to the returns of Mr.. Wright's
QUESTIONABLE.
81 have never known boy to go
wrong who had a good father" says
Professor Wright. "The fathers of boys
who go wrong are often good men, but
not good fathers hildren's Maya
zine.
We thank whatever goods there be that at
last there has arisen a man brave enough to
put Sons failure onto Dad instead of hosting it
all over onto Mothers shoulders.
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This is part of what Jewish Rabbi told a
group of women in Minneapolis last week:
"The woman of today has gained
freedom physically, economically and
politically, and now her duty is to meas
ure up to her independence.
"She has gained physical freedom
/ with the modern tendency in dress,
which makes her more able to per-
form the duties of life; she has gained
an eccentric competence and security
by entering the business world, and she
has gained the equal franchise in poll
tics
"But she has not lived up to her
freedom entirely, for in politics she has