The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-05-30

You've got to recover from your experiences
before you can learn from them
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"School Teachers Union Loses Suit" head
line. Much less for anxiety than if it
read "School Teacher Loses Union Suit"
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Noah was six hundred years old before he
knew enough to build the ark. Why should we
be discouraged because we can accomplish so
little in just one generation.
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No man knows how little he knows until his
children old enough to ask questions; and
when they become old enough to correct him he
is still more acutely conscious of his ignorance
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Everybody has known for weeks that there
was possible chance of President Coolidge do
ing anything else but veto the McNary-Haugen
Bill. Why all the after-veto chatter? The time
to have done something was before-the only
trouble being that there was just nothing to be
done, since Coolidge is Coolidge.
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Reading and writing are such dangerous
things that one should learn them until his
character is formed" says Dhan Gopal Mukerji
There never comes day when any one of us
can safely say snow my character is formed
if ever to become so hopelessly fixed
with idea of our own perfection not even read
ing and writing could help US. Character is not
fluid to be turned on through spigot, nor is
it a reward to be earned at the end of specific
time like a salary. Dhan Gopal whatshisname
is all wrong.
Congressman Frank Clague, who filed re-
Gently for reelection, is to have opposition in
the general election, but not in the primaries. ].
A. Cashel, of Worthington, former senator from
the Nobles-Rock district, has filed on the Demo-
cratic ticket and will be Mr.. Clagues only OPP
ponent. While we can't commend Mr.. Cashel for
his political acumen in deciding to become a can
Gidate against the most popular representative
Minnesota has in congress, might admire his
willingness for the tri1ing publicity he will re-
ceive if he would how this publicity would
help him. Being admittedly hopeless candi-
date in seems about the heighth of USE
less neutrality-suspicious. Herald.
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Many Gazette subscribers have learned that
it costs them from four to eight cents to RENAL
a copy of the Gazette to relative or friend to
whom they have been in the habit of sending the
paper each week after they have read it. Many
subscribers, realizing that copy of the Gazette
will carry much news than a letter can,
have sent the paper regularly to some son or
daughter other relative or friend after the
home family has read it each week. Now the
best and cheapest way is to order the paper sent
from the office each Wednesday afternoon, the
cost that way being only two dollars year, less
than the postage would be the other way and
without the trouble of mailing.
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Grade kids stood up for two hours in ma
tional spelling contest the other day, spelled such
mental twisters as "charivari and alteration
and then vent down on mildly" One thirteen
year old girl stood for four hours against bar
rage of all the words Mr.. Webster used in that
book he wrote long ago and then went down
on "knack." Probably the going down was in all
cases much more matter of sheer fatigue than
of not really knowing. Anyway the old timers
who say the present day school pupils are not
taught to spell should take notice-we doubt if
any spellin' school of the SOS showed anything
any better than that. Seventeen girls and six
boys started and the boys were the ones to drop
out earliest. Each contestant represented
newspaper and prizes were 81 900, $500, and $780,
Sometimes it pays to study spelling lesson.
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committee of business men at
Tracy is circulating petition favoring
new city charter. The present charter
it is claimed, is Anticipated and the mu-
ncipality is sorely in need of a new
one. New Ulm is in the same position,
but there seems to be but little incen-
tive to set the wheels in motion for
new charter.-Brown Co. Journal
Most towns in Minnesota are in the same
state as Tracy and New Ulm, but it seems i'm
possible to arouse interest enough in most of
them for even casual study of the charter. If
more towns did study the ordinances under which
they function and became fully cognizant of all
the obsolete absurdities which make up their
priced charter" they would do away with said
institutions and work under the city manager
plan. It's just easier to let things drift-so
towns mostly do.
These are the days of high school valedict-
orians and the Dawson Sentinel reminds us of
what happened to lad who won first honors in
the Dawson school not so many years ago.