The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-09-26

Facts are stubborn but statistics are darned
pliabe. Ask the fellow who gathers them up
for the campaigners.
The worlds greatest need is scientist who
will discover valuable vitamins in food which we
really enjoy eating.
Some drink parlors in Minneapolis were
literally PARLORS. That is why three homes
there padlocked until October 20.
H*u
There is mechanical man that talks-more
than one in fact. We know the wives of several
of them and know why the dear chaps speak
mechanically.
An Arkansas woman shot three times at her
husband from distance of ten feet and missed
him. But number of wives have been more
successful lately.
The Importance of the Brown Derby will
sink into insignificance before the Brown jug
for the next several weeks on the campus of the
University of Minnesota.
CSC
The editor of the Brainerd Tribune says "A
Democratic friend of ours is so optomstic that
he has ordered set of stens"-but we don't
really believe anybody could be that foolish.
ESQ
John Lind, ex-governor of Minnesota says he
has been a lifetime Democrat but he will be
switched if he will stand by and watch himself
help to put Tammany in the White House. All of,
which means the venerable governor will cast his
ballot for Hoover.
We wonder how many applications Henry
Ford has had from people who want to 20 back
a hundred years and live like their ancestors
did, in primitive homes and under simple pioneer
conditions. This is jolly chance Mr.. Ford of
fers lot of praters about ''the good old times"
to strut their stuff in real life.
csc
Governor AL Smith, if elected president, pro-
poses to so change the immigration laws that
more immigration from Italy and other southern
European countries will be permitted.
That is probably a part of his farm relief pro-
gram-to bring in more farm labor land locate
it in the East Side of New York where it makes
good votes for Tammany)
U*U
In the olden days when a man was
called "Doc" we knew he was a physi-
clan. Now days he may be anything from
freak healer to football coach.-Bob
Forest.
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however. Take Doc Spears for instance with
his diploma from one of the best medical schools
in the U. S. A.
Amelia Earhart is one of the few women fly
ers who is actually flying her own plane instead
of being just a picturesque passenger. She re-
Gently completed a trans-continental solo flight
the first in which woman has actually handled
the steering wheel, the monkey wrench and the
gasoline tank. Her sex should honor her for be-
ing the real thing instead of pretense
/ ESQ
Congressman Hugh Peavey of Washburn
Wis. will go into the November elections in the
race to succeed himself The newspaper mar
who ran against the former Redwood Falls boy
in the primaries writes it like this:
"The smoke of battle has cleared away
and on the face of the returns we will
not go to Washington this year-and
probably that is just as it should be. We
never did relish the idea of leaving Mer-
rill-the City of Parks-even for a few
months"
Mrs. Knapp's lawyers put up plea for lem
iency on the ground that "beng a woman she
did not understand the finances of her office and
part of her difficulty was ignorance and inexper-
ience." That seems weak plea-by no stretch
of the imagination could it be called alibi. II
she did not understand the financial importance
of her office and how to maintain it with dignity
and integrity she was guilty of her first crime
when she for the office of treasurer of a
great state. Just because men are constantly
seeking positions for which they untitled is
no reason women should feel free to do it.
| This is how Dad Sherman of the Isle Ad
vance feels about his town having to borrow
band to greet Ted Christianson when he comes
visiting:
at is nothing short of disgraceful to
have to borrow band. In time of nee
essity a municipality might, without
dscredt, borrow a snowplow, a steam
shovel or a gallows but to have to turn
to our neighbors for the commonest nee
! essity a band is as bad borrowing
i cookstove from a neighboring house
hold. Let get band, with shiny
uniforms, with the biggest bass drum in
4 the world, and tuba whose feebest
i grunt will proclaim to the world that
Il and