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

Faith may move mountains but it takes
a team of horses and lot of language to
move "a mud-stuck automobile.
ESQ
Having soul for the better things of
life is quite different from having an appe-
tite for them. Many man who has taken
a soulful-looking blonde out to dinner has
made this great discovery.
Lewiston had its annual sauer kraut day
the other day and Frank Murphy wasn't
invited to talk-just Art Nelson and Ray
Chase. Outside Of that little matter it real
ly wasn't as much success as Springfield's
big event.
Minneapolis has about 1000 children
enrolled in her weekday religious schools
and Redwood Falls has few less than four
hundred. We should say the best of that
proportion lies all with Redwood Falls and
is creditable to parents eager to have their
children grounded in the truths of religion.
Hx
Romance still haunts Newspaper edi-
toral rooms" Howard Kahn of the ST. Paul
News told a group of his townspeople the
other day. Dear, dear; we hope this doesn't
start rush of young girls into the news
paper offices of the state. Think of the
dashed hopes of sweet young things who
come in looking for the FAIRY Prince of
Romance" and find Frank Day, or Carl
Eastwood, or Heinie Mitchell-or even
Howard Kahn himself. Cruel-we call it!
We like this idea of a garden club for
Redwood Falls. "He who has garden has
all the friend he needs" says somebody who
knew the loneliness of watching the iris
poke through the soil in the spring, and who
has covered the dahlias and asters from the
wood Falls club progresses and the whole
town becomes one vast garden instead of
dandelion patch. Think of vacant lots
where cosmos blooms float hike colored but
terflies-instead of lots filled with burdocks.
There is work and pleasure and genuine joy
and incidentally health and sleep o'nights
for members of the garden club.
ELASTIC type is invented" we are told.
That gives some of the boys an infinitely
greater opportunity to stretch the truth"
in their weekly organs.
>"Me! Pm sap said a twenty-one year
old Chicago boy charged with killing night
o1sn ND
now facing a life sentence or possibly death.
He started in at thirteen, has eight years
of crime back of him; "and all you have to
show for it is this dollar bill you had when
we picked you up" as the officer said Me,
a sap is correct! Someday a wise and con-
siderate society will find out ways of educa-
ting each boy that he is potential "sap"
and save him from becoming real one.
These are the days when everybody is
talking prohibition and putting himself or
herself on record one way or the other.
Everybody, that is, but Senator Shipstead.
So far as we have been able to learn it has
been a long, long time since the Senator has
made statement as to whether he was for
or against the Eighteenth Amendment and
its enforcement. There remain few weeks
before election; plenty of opportunity for
voters to ask for an expression from Mr..
Shipstead-and to insist upon its answer.
Politicians have willy-nilly made this mat
ter an issue. Now it is up to each and all
of them to take a stand. Search Of poll
teal archives reveal no expression on the
part of Senator Shipstead-and we believe
we are not making too great a demand on
him when we ask him whether he is "for or
against"
Grove Patterson is thoughtful over the
oft-repeated statements that much damage
is done by inaccurate and unnecessary news
paper reports. He comedies such damage is
probable, but that there is another news
source even more damaging. He says:
Speaking of proverbs, there is
an old one that says che was scant
of news who told that his father
was hanged" Joseph jefferson, as
was said in these columns once b.
before, used to remark that he sci
dom had occasion to regret his 81
lences. The desire to make CONVEX
sation is kind of nagging itch that
besets millions of us. Having moth
ing worth saying we somehow feel
that it is up to us to say something.
And so we tell things we are not
sure about, or we tell the truth
when silence would be much kinder.
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