The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-01-11

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excessive quiet.
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| st. Paul police headquarters reports only
twenty-six New Years Eve DRINKS, the lowest
record the city has ever had. And yet certain
persons in st. Paul are skeptical about whether
prohibition really helps or not.
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Mules carried 100000 in gold to
ransom six French prisoners from Moor
ish bandits in Morocco last week.-News
item.
Good mules! And yet that lazy beast over
at Monte won't even raise his head and send
forth bray of prophecy
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Can you remember away back when the Red
wood County Fair didn't have any All club ex-
hibit nor any school building nor pay much of
any attention to boys and girls anyway except
to get their admission fee Well, that time has
passed not only for Redwood County but for all
the counties. Now the secretary Of the Mime
sofa Federation of County Fairs says that more
than $4,000 of the $25OOOO spent for premiums
last year was for All clubs exclusively.
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The names of ten thousand residents of Du-
luth have been dropped from the registration
lists of the city. These people-alleged citizens
of Duuth-have not voted at any election for
the past two and one-half years, missing total
of thirteen elections. Ten thousand people
makes some little difference in the voting list of
Duluth. We wonder if everyone of that large
body of people has kept quite silent when mat
tiers of city and state government came up or
have they dared to criticize.
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The state of Minnesota may be practicing
economy nowadays, but its really unfair to be
so d. stingy to the men who shovel snow from
the Babcock highways. Paying men 30 cents an
hour to shovel snow in sub zero weather is not
the just kind of way to economic. Men from
this town worked last Saturday on the state road
and came in with frozen faces, hands and toes.
They received the magnificent sum of $2.4O for
a days work, while the thermometer was Is be-
low zero. Mr. Babcock should see that who
do this kind of work have at least decent COM
pensaton.-Bob Forrest in Lake Wilson Pilot.
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Will Rogers isn't any keener about this pros
porous times stuff" which is being broadcast over
the country than is the writer of this paragraph.
In his quip of January 3rd Will said:
"Did you read all the New Year
optimism and applesauce in the papers
today by all our leading men and bank
ers? Same gang every year. Every
one either a millionaire or an officehold-
err Now there is 10000 mionaires in
the country, and 100000 that are not
yet You never see a New Year predic-
ton by one of the hundred and ten.
Looks like just for the novelty one paper
would print just what some poor man
saw in store for the coming year.
And there is more truth than poetry, more
sense than nonsense in what Will says.
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A new and gigantic purchasing power has
developed in this country, since we have had
prohibition that accounts for the prosperity of
our railroads, our manufactures, and trade
in all directions. That, in large measure, is a
purchasing power derived from the diversion of
former booze money into economic channels. 1t
does not come from the rich, nor from the poor,
although it has decreased the number of the
poor, any student of economics knows. 1t
comes from the average American citizen, the
blood and bones of this country, and it comes in
part because booze is no longer article of
legal merchandise in this country; because the
saloons are gone; because liquor to the average
American is not worth the money and the effort
required to secure it, not worth taking the risks
that go with the drinking of it. Hence, the in
benefit of the wages and profits that formerly
went to the non-productive saloon keeper
Samuel G. Blythe, in Saturday Evening Post"
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We have been hearing great deal
about the ladies breaking their shack
les and rushing to a new-found freedom.
1T has been told to us often that this is
what's going that most of US perhaps
have come to take it for granted. But
four women in Brooklyn the other night
discussed just this very thing-Mrs.
Will Durant, Elizabeth Marbury, Fam
lie Hurst, and Texas Guinan. And from
! their remarks we gather that there
hasn't been any revolt at all. Miss
/ Marbury said: Il don't know what you
mean by revolt Why should there be
such thing? The women have seven
ty-five per cent of the good anyway. If
there is any revolt it ought to come
from the other SEX" The others echoed
Miss Marbury's assertions. The simple
truth is that American women haven't