The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-02-15

"The saddest words of tongue or pen, are
these-them pipes is froze again" chirps a
northern Minnesota paper. Everybody but the
plumbers please applaud.
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Chief Justice Samuel B. Wilson announces
definitely that he will not be candidate for
the United States Senate That makes Rockne
more safe than he was before-f possible.
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A Minneapolis woman got the idea that the
Hickman case was being tried in the court Of
Minneapolis and inquired her way to that par
ticular court. Thank heavens that is one evil
Minneapolis and Minnesota have escaped.
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One thing we can all learn from the many
criminal cases which have attracted recent at
tention of the public-if we aim to enter upon q
field of crime it is wise to do a lot of awfully
fool things early in life. They make nice lit
tie alibis in the insanity tests that come later.
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Katherine Mayo describes her view of the
need of Mother India" Probably most In
dams and missionaries would agree that while
nine tenths of the book factual, its total i'm
preston is false. Such book could be written
of the dark side of America or any other coun-
try-Sherwood Eddy.
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"Infuenza germs are blue, those of
pneumonia look like strings of minute
pale sausages, and those Of scarlet fever
like ropes of scarlet rings through the
Exchange.
Sort of hard for person inclined to enjoy
poor health to arrange a good looking color
scheme out of that.
Economy and ever more economy is Ted
Christianson's cry. He emphasized it forcefully
from several angles in his talk before the Min
nesota Tax Conference last week. One of the
things the Governor opposed was the $20,000,-
900 Road Bond Plan. Doubtless Governor Chris
tianson's ideal of bondless Minnesota is impos-
sibe of attainment-but it is a goal toward
which the state may well work.
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For twenty-five years Senator A. j. Rockne
has served the people of Minneapolis faithfully
and well as member of the State Legislature.
Now he asks recognition of that service and files
as candidate for the United States Senate. He
has the right to expect that recognition and the
people of the state are privileged in having this
opportunity to give it-and at the same time
to secure some real representation for the state
in the national Senate.
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Certainly if anybody in the world knows the
meaning of that old saying cts damned if you
do and damned if you DON'T" that person is C.
M. Babcock of the State Highway Commission
In the mail recently Mr. Babcock received
two letters, condemning the commission for
taking ALL the snow off the roads, leaving none
for sleighing purposes, and the other condemn
ing the commission for not using the style of
pillow which scrapes "cear to the dirt" Charlie
Babcock is a big man, but he can't please 'em all
any better than the rest of US.
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Once more has Redwood County produced
famous man and one of whose achievement she
is extremely proud. Probably never before Gene
Shank looped his SIS loops on the Saint Paul
air port last week has any resident of this county
ever broken world record and it is matter
of pride for the County well as for Genes own
town of Morgan. The young man is to be COM
plimented upon his courage and the persever-
ance he showed all through his years of training.
The county and village are to be congratulated
upon having this lad among their residents.
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In the next age of man, Wiggam able writ
er scientific things, thinks man might be
made to live forever. There is high speculation
among scientists on the possibilities of prolong-
ing life past the average age of 81 which it has
now reached. It's all interesting. But we have
immortal life now Logic, theology, and science
all seem to have established the fact that the
spark of life is indestructible. We live on
somewhere. Isn't it the wise thing to go on
that assumption in plans? If character is
not destroyed with death, what we do take as
considerable Importance.
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The head of one of the greatest automobile
companies in the United States said last week
that he is positive motor makers have achieved
the ultimate in speed, adding that few people
want to ride at a speed of eighty or ninety
miles an hour ANYWAY. We hope he is right and
that Americans will be content to ride at the
present moderate ca rate, or buy airplanes. It
is said that the thing that would drive a modern
Diagense insane would be to search for a driver
who had an honest and legitimate reason for the
speed at which he was driving. We don't need
faster cars to meet any need imaginable to hu-
man kind.
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