The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-10-31

the bridge party where two course luncheon
has been served at five o'clock and cooks her
husband a full-sized meal. Perfect-but rare
Ernie Lundeen says "The Farmer-Labor
party is different from the two old parties
program is different from their program" That
announcement sure was mighty big surprise to
the two old parties.
King Michael of Rumania is now seven years
old and must go to school. Suppose that extra
year was given him because he is a. king-per-
haps there is something of advantage in this
royalty business after ALL
G*H
Duluth has introduced to Minnesota the
roller skating rink marathon. We have always
been quite crazy with admiration for the zenith
City by the Unsalted Seas" but if it continues
a fashion like that we are off of it for life.
$50
When Longfellow wrote "And the night
shall be filled with music" the dear old poet
never knew that 1928 politicians would be broad
casting themselves all the nation. There
was no intention in his heart to encourage our
false hopes, are quite sure.
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Odd Mcintyre found something hopeful for
found American boy who didn't laugh at an
Eddy Guest poem, nor make fun of a Bruce
Barton editorial and who didn't think H. L.
Mencken is hot stuff 1t is encouraging
but we have an idea there is only one such boy
in the world and if Odd has found him he should
put him with the other notable objects of 1928 in
the Smithsonian Institute.
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Accordno to Minnacoto porL;rrr 1o1yc a xyor
on or buggy which may be driven at night with
out a light may NOT be parked without lights.
Silly law. wagon isn't half so dangerous
when it is standing still as when it is weaving
its way down highway where auto drivers are
blinded by each others lights. We can see no
reason under the sun, particularly if it's own
safety is to be considered why a wagon or other
horse-drawn vehicle should be from the law COW
ering motor vehicles and bicycles
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Frank Murphy is still going about over the
state insisting that Smith, if elected, will sign
the McNary-Haugen bill even though neither
Smith nor Raskob has said so. Jim Morrison of
the Morris Tribune calls Franks attention to
this little lapse and adds Frank was several
times quoted in the newspapers as saying that
Coolidge would sign the bill and again last
spring when the bill had passed for the second
lime Frank again said Coolidge would sign it.
Franks batting average as a forecaster stands
at exactly .OO0."
We are prone to think of negro spirituals
IS something growing out of the life of old
lime negroes, seldom connecting them with the
present day darkies-especially as we see him
n the North But out of the Florida disaster
here comes of these wierd songs, spontan-
eously composed by these simple souls when
hey felt the need of other human help. They
Just sang what came into their hearts, and be-
,ause of their innate musicalness and because
every one of them is poet as far as rythm
goes, what they sang grew into real music. After
1000 people had been killed in the storm of
which hit the Lake Ookeechobee district the ne
yroes sitting about the campfires sang some
thing like this-only there many stanzas in
stead of the two printed here from Red Cross
files
"On the sixteenth of September
I'm the year nineteen and twenty -eight,
God started riding early,
"And he rode till very late.
He rode out on the ocean,
Chained the lightning to his wheel
stepped on the land at West Palm Beach
Sand the wicked hearts did yield
Chorus:
"In the storm, oh, in the storm,
Lord somebody got drowned,
"Got drowned, Lord
"In the storm"
An ex-service man. now a writer on the Ow-
atonna Chronicle didn't much care for certain
parts of the speech Frank Murphy recently made
in that town and this is what he says about
part Of it.
'The most cowardly and unfair state
ment of the talk, in our opinion, was
"Where did your white flour go, when
you were forced to eat substitutes Who
ate your wheat bread when you were
eating hog feed? He left the BARLEY
bread" question unanswered and thus
left his audience to use its imagination,
which he tried to direct along most sus-
picious paths.
eff Mr.. Murphy wants to know, we
and other ex-servce men can and will
tell him. We had it and so did some two
millions of others in France and millions
more in other places the army happened
to be. We may have missed it at q few