The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-11-14
SMALL TOWN TALK

lSMALL TOWN TALK
Don't say 81 dread the long winter" Instead
say "Isn't it fine that we are only about five
months away from spring"
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Kathleen Norris recently said that EVERY
woman in the world has to work though some
times the lazy ones or the rich ones never find
it out"
One Roosevelt lauds Smith and the other
lambasts him-and both do it in characterstcal-
ly "big stick" language and with appropriate
gestures. You can always count on Roosevelt
to do something but sometimes it may not be
just what you'd expect him to do.
There is much significance in the fact that
Danube, the cradle of the non-partisan League
when it first took over Renville county, went on
record election day as favoring Republic policies
when it gave Hoover big majority vote. The
League could have no better evidence of it's state
of being defunct than just that.
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Children in the public schools of one English
city are to be taught French, English and music
by photograph. 1t will only be short time I'M
til all subjects will be taught by radio-one set
of teachers doing for all the schools within reach
of the radio station. That presents a situation
which should claim the attention of educators.
If that time ever education will be the
loser just through the withdrawal of the personal
element which is the biggest single factor in edu-
cation.
consistent pacifist. Invited to take tickets for
the British Legion armistice dedicatory service
at Welwyn he wrote to the sender:
81 will not take tickets, but if there
is any lightning left in heaven, God
help you when you 60 to church to con-
gatulate him and one another for four
years of devastation and murder. I
have never read anything more wicked
ly blashphemous than the service you
have sent me-"
Anyone who thinks the huge vote polled by
Senator Shipstead was tribute to the virtues
of the third party is greatly mistaken. The
vote was entirely personal tribute to the ab-
ity of Shipstead and to his record made during
his first term in the United States senate. It
would have been practically the same had he been
either Republican or a Democrat and possibly
only little less had he announced himself a
Socialist. With the exception of the senatorship
the third party lost ground throughout the state
in the last election. It's members have nothing
to new upon which to build future strength.
o.
Many local leaders all over the state have
long claimed that the farmers were wrong-until
the votes of November 6 began to roll in. Then
we came to full realization of how little the
farmers cared that Herbert Hoover has never
been an advocate of that form of farm relief In
cidentaly the election proved that the so-called
farm revolt had been much exaggerated. John
Casey one of the strongest of Democrats, in writ
ing for his paper the Jordan Independent says
frankly that he regards the vote as a referen-
dunn and realizes that the farmers have definite
ly rejected the McNary-Haugen Legislation
This is hard for some of us who have advocated
it to accept-but is just as inevitable as it is diff
ficult.
Americans have finally showed willingness
to vote but they have just as definitely shown
that they don't know how to vote. Numberless
people in one precinct not so far away voted for
all three Of the presidential candidates. One
woman came into-a pricinct demanding - Hoo
vr ticket md moaning else" spurning both the
state ticket and the vote on consttutional amend
1ments. Jim LAndy tells that in his town Of
Olivia more than 900 people voted for Smith
there but becanss Of srrors sixty Of those votes
could not be cmted. That IL an alarmingly
large proportion And from all over the United
States comes Stories of errors just as glazing in
both parties. Americans can't boast of much
national intelligence until the masses learn the
simple rudiments of ballot-marketing.
Out of all the worry and more or less mali
ciousness and general prediction loud-voicet
discomfort comes the answer that the Minnesota
farmer and the others of his profession in the
northwest are not the living examples of discon
tent they were thought to be-. This state wa.
the home of the leading boilers, and claimed the
attention of the nation because of its alleged dis
content with things they are. The vote Of
November gave the lie of the whole thing. II
its post norton column the Minneapolis Journa
analysed the situation thus.
Where all estimates went ebay wire"
was in the rural precincts. They were
expected in most cases to cut down Hoo