The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-10-24

Inc mOSC recent OeIlnlClOn OF 0etOuf IS
the toughest distance between two points,"
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Billy Noonan of Baudette believes there is
little danger of Magnus johnson ever conducting
whispering campaign. "Not with that
voice." says Irish Bill.
Well wager it surprises some of those old
southern states to hear themselves called doubt
ful"-and doubt if they arev Elections may
come and candidates may go but the South re-
mains "The Saouth, subj"
H*H
Physicians keep on insisting that music is
necessary for cure of the insane. Well, one
thing is quite sure; asylums won't have to import
saxaphone or accordian players for their orches-
tras-they are already there in sufficiently large
numbers.
Three Minneapolis women have registered
for every man registering. At last the women
are beginning to wake up to the call of civic
duty as it lies in the ballot. Perhaps, too, they
are coming to recognize the value of massed
women power-only it will be divided into sever
al masses!
No more will the mourners at funerals be
ccmforted by Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,
United Lutherans of America have voted this old
hymn down being untitled to singing in
churches and have barred it from their hymn
books. 1t may never have been great music, but
we hate to see the hymn which many have loved
classed with the jazzy and bizarre.
CSC
Newspaper reports of few days ago ntim-
ated that Arkansas has two laws which seem to
restrict the processes of justice and to crowd in
tolerance into the courts. We have not invest
igated the possibility of these laws and they may
not exist as the daily papers gave them, but as
reported they forbid an atheist to testify in the
courts and deny an atheist the right to hold pub
lie office. The most of US have small patience
with athest-so small that he probably
would not be elected to office in most commune
ties even if he sought it. But the most of us
have quite small a patience placing any
such restrictions upon man because of his per-
sonal beliefs. For Arkansas reputation for
tolerance we hope the newspapers are wrong.
Some idea of the great growth made by
Minnesota was given by State Treasurer julius
A. Schmahl in addressing a group of business
women in St. Paul the other day. "At the end
of the states first fiscal year. julius said, the
state treasurer reported balance of $1,4O1.
flee handled $151,OOOOOO." These figures not
only show how rapidly and how big the state
has grown but it also shows the necessity of
keeping in the office that handles these vast
sums man who is capable, watchful and wise
in the matter of the states business. That is
why the voters are electing Julius again this
year-they recognize that he has all these quail
ties and that in his hands the states strong box
is safe.
Wisconsin reports that it has the finest po-
tato crop in its history and we have idea that
Minnesota is able to report the same kind. But
without some means of keeping the stock until
such time as the market is fair to the man who
has watched and worked over them from spring
until fall and drawn on his bank account to get
them out of the ground and ready for market
until such a market adjustment is made, there
is no reason for standing up and shouting about
good times because the potato crop is good. On
the streets of Minneapolis they are sold for six
ty cents per bushel-just the finest potatoes one
could want. And in Northern Minnesota farm
leaving them in the ground because it
costs too much to dig them. We leave it for
the wise on the street corners to suggest
solution. 1t is too much for us. All we have
arrived at is vast pity for the farmer who has
raised bumper crop of the tuber upon which
America depends for big share of it's diet, and
can't find the means for marketing it at fair
price to both himself and the consumer.
Before the administration of the University
of Minnesota is criticized for the increase in the
budget presented to the state commission of fl
nance for its consideration, it is well that the
critic think for minute over the. fact that while
collegiate enrolment for the past seven years
has increased 81 percent, financial support from
the state has been increased only GIG percent
This means an increase in student fees. On this
point the report of President Coffman has this
to say.
Forced by necessity to meet the needs
of these thousands of students and to
stem the tide of competition from other
institutions for the members of the staff,
the regents have from year to year
placed an increasingly heavier burden
of maintaining the university upon the
students. While the states support
has increased GIG percent, the load i'm
posed upon the students has increased
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