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

One more advantage of being small town
stuff. We can still vote even though we haven't
registered
Along with the other bumper crops this
year is the bumper crop of campaign lies-the
largest in many elections, old-timers tell US.
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Somebody with a taste for weighty thought
has been trying to figure out if the closed cars
caused the petting epidemic or the other way
round.
Billy Sunday graphically speaks of the vets
as "carbuncles on the neck of progress" Billy
is picturesque but not always pleasant in his
figures Of speech.
Evidently some passing crowded Bob
Forrest bit and made him so huffy that he
wrote something to the effect that mot all the
hogs on the public highways in the back ends
of the trucks.
writer has said of AL Smith, "He was in
toxicated with his verbosity." Anyway it
was nice of AL to use his instead of borrow
ing his neighbors-there's too much of this slip
ping about of TASKS.
The Small Town Talker is refraining this
week from giving any political advice If you
don't know by this time that you should vote for
won't have much effect you-you that
dumb
drunken speeder got smart when Mime
apos Judge fined him ninety days and the judge
tripled the sentence. Sort of reminded Of the
old days when we learned that sassing the teach
er because we had to stay after school had unde-
sireable consequences.
Many things are even more fleeting than
time. For instance consider the popular interest
in dance marathon. 1t has fitted clean out of
sight and it would be daring organization that
would again try to make easy money by staging
one of the things.
Vim Weber of the Slayton Herald who is one
of the best judges of race horses in Minnesota
makes this prophecy; Governor Christensen
will be elected by the greatest majority ever
given candidate for Governor this November,
and two years hence will sweep Schall from his
senate seat by as great a majority" We reckon
Vim knows whereof he speaks.
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Seventy-nine members of the Minneapolis
school system voted for Hoover the other night
against sixteen who voted for Smith and one for
Norman Thomas. Of the seventy-nne, sixty
said they were regularly Republicans while
thirteen said they were ordinarily Democrats
and the others didn't say. We aren't making
any comments but thinking quite num-
ber
This is the way Grace Dunn of the Princeton
Union feels on the somewhat talked of coming
election:
Minnesota before the Kansas City con-
vention was not for Herbert Hoover, but the
vast majority of Republicans in this state
now are supporting him because they be-
lieve he has much more to offer the people
of the agricultural districts of the Middle
West than has AL Smith,
The Minneapolis Journal carried an item
paragraph long about the Hickman hanging
last Friday. Other Twin Cities papers carried
two column heads with accompanying articles
ranging from to two columns, recalling all
the hideous details of Hickman's crime and
citing the lurid circumstances of his passing.
Now is good time for those persons who have
been prating that they want clean journalism
with freedom from sensational stuff to show that
they meant what they said.
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Some folks of disposition and
canny of action For instance Editor Evans of
the Sherburn Standard keeps file of every is
sue of the Fairmont Daily Sentinel edited by the
erudite Frank A. Day and last week the STAN
dard carried two full columns of the editorial
matter published by the Sentinel in 1920 to 1924,
during the period when Frank was eulogizing
every move Herbert Hoover made-the same
Herbert Hoover whom Frank is now so sure
will utterly ruin the country in case of his ell
ection 1t just shows that women are not the
only ones who change their minds-sometimes
Frank Day does too.
Pity the poor presidential candidate who has
to spend his days land almost his nights) in the
limelight The average person likes to get away
from formality, do what he pleases when he is
home, and not be always on dress parade.
Such relaxation is not for the candidate. All
his doings are chronicled for waiting world.
He may want to skin church for some reason on