The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-11-14
SMALL TOWN TALK

Don't say 81 dread the long winter" Instead
say isn't it fine that we are only about five
months away from spring."
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Kathleen Norris recently said that every
woman in the world has to work though some
times the lazy ones or the rich ones never find
! it OUT
One Roosevelt lauds Smith and the other
lambasts him-and both do it in characteristical-
ly "big stick" language and with appropriate
gestures. You can always count Roosevelt
to do something but sometimes it may not be
just what you'd expect him to do.
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There is much significance in the fact that
Danube, the cradle of the non-partisan League
when it first took Renville county, went on
record election day as favoring Republic policies
when it gave Hoover big majority vote. The
League could have no better evidence of it's state
of being defunct than just that
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Children in the public schools of one English
city are to be taught French, English and music
by photograph. 1t will only be short time I'M
til all subjects will be taught by radio-one set
of teachers doing for all the schools within reach
of the radio station. That presents a situation
which should claim the attention of educators
If that time ever comes education will be the
loser just through the withdrawal of the personal
element which is the biggest single factor in edu-
cation.
George Bernard Shaw is the worlds most
consistent pacifist. Invited to take tickets for
the British Legion armistice dedcatory service
at Welwyn he wrote to the sender:
81 will not take tickets, but if there
is any lightning left in heaven, God
help you when you go to church to con-
gatulate him and one another for four
years of devastation and murder.
have never read anything more wicked
ly blashphemous than the service you
have sent me-"
Anyone who thinks the huge vote polled by
Senator Shpstead was tribute to the virtues
of the third party is greatly mistaken. The
vote was entirely personal tribute to the abil-
ty of Shipstead and to his record made during
his first term in the United States senate 1t
would have been practically the same had he been
either a Republican or Democrat and possibly
only little less had he announced himself a
Socialist With the exception of the senatorship
the third party lost ground throughout the state
in the last election. It's members have nothing
to new upon which to build future strength.
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Many local leaders all over the state have
long claimed that the farmers were wrong-until
the votes of November 6 began to roll in. Then
we came to a full realization of how little the
farmers cared that Herbert Hoover has never
been an advocate of that form of farm relief In
cidentally the election proved that the so-called
farm revolt" had been much exaggerated John
Casey one of the strongest of Democrats, in writ
ing for his paper the Jordan Independent says
frankly that he regards the vote as referen-
dunn and realizes that the farmers have definite
ly rejected the McNary- Haugen Legislation.
This is hard for some of us who have advocated
it to accept-but is just as inevitable as it is diff
ficult.
Americans have finally showed willingness
to vote but they have just as definitely shown
that they don't know how to vote. Numberless
people in one precinct not far away voted for
all three of the presidential Candidates One
woman came into-a pricinct demanding "a Hoo
yer ticket and nothing else" spurning both the
state ticket and the vote on constitutional amend
ments. Jim Landy tells that in his town Of
Olivia more than 400 people voted for Smith
there but because Of errors sixty of those votes
could not be cenmted. That is an alarmingly
-
large proportioaL And from all over the United
States comes stories of errors just as glaring in
both parties. Americans can't boast of much
national intelligence until the masses learn the
simple rudiments of ballot-marketing.
Out of all the worry and more or less mali
ciousness and general prediction ud-voiced
discomfort comes the answer that the Minnesota
farmer and the others of his profession in the
northwest are not the living examples of discon-
tent they thought to be-. This state was
the home of the leading bolters and claimed the
attention of the nation because of its alleged dis
content with things as they are. The vote of
November gave the lie of the whole thing. In
its post norton column the Minneapolis Journal
analysed the situation thus.
Where all estimates went ebay wire"
was in the rural precincts. They were
expected in most cases to cut down Hoo
yer leads. Instead they helped pile up
his majority. Early returns from the
cities and villages showed Hoover carry
ing the state big, but until the counties