The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-23

That you and l have done with, and the
Night
Is but a tent where wanderers may fold
Their WEAKNESS to slumber, as the wind
Sobs it's old solace on the sleeping heart"
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Levangs Weekly reprints the following read
able poem of Douglas Malloch. 1t may be covered
by copyright law but if Ola Levang got away
with it, maybe can:
If could just get organized
I oftentimes have realized
Not all that matters is the man;
The man must also have plan.
The fellows doing mighty deeds
Are reaping crops by planting seeds;
And planting isn't all they do,
They sow the seed and see it through;
They choose their ground, however small,
And then they cultivate it all;
And they are men of greater worth
Than those who try to farm the EARTH
90
Governor McMullen of Nebraska tells news
paper that "every governor should take
course in a newspaper Office, for its mighty
good training for public life" The governor
might have gone further and suggested period
of newspaper training for all citizens-compul-
sorry training similar to the universal military
service pre-war Germany required of citizens. If
the average citizen could be put through the
grind and training that falls to the lot of report
ers, he would emerge wiser and more tolerant
person. He would soon part with those fetshes,
certainties and taboos which compose the mental
baggage of many citizens. Reporters soon
learn the fundamental similarity which exist be-
tween persons of all stations of life. He dis
counts externals, and acquires horror of sham
and pretense from too frequent contact with
them. If the newspaper man is usually short of
worldly goods, he is plentifuly endowed with
tolerant philosophy which makes life more liv-
able That is philosophy sadly lacking in too
many American citizens-Cedar Rapids Gazette.
90
Mr.. Will Rogers, Americas premier COM
medicine, has his own idea of what man should
wear, and says so in a few words in of his
daily letters to the press:
"Some nuts have got habit here in
New York; doubt if it has reached
your home town for most of your States
have asylums-it's to go bareheaded
the street.
"Now, these nuts have worn some
thing their heads ever since their
mothers tied hoods under their chins, but
they have never attracted any attention,
they let it rain down their necks to
show people that they battle.
eff your head hasn't got enough in
it to carry hat, why all the sunshine
it in the world won't do it any good.
eve have scene in our show where
another comedian and myself come out
with dress suits and barefooted, no diff
ference from being bareheaded on the
street. Only we get paid for attracting
attention and being funny.
"Let women leave off something,
they do it much better than
Every time woman leaves off some
thing she looks h&tter but every time a
man leaves off something he looks
worse."-Yours, Will Rogers.
90
And so Maude Adams is to return to
the stage for one last look at the audi
ence, and to leave one last message to
those whom she used to charm. And our
guess is that she will wish she hadn't
She will face a new generation that
knows nothing of her or of her art.
She'll be received by crowd of young
wise cracking critics whose groundwork
in the traditions of the stage doesn't
extend farther back than Elsie Janis, and
who measure everything by AL Jolson.
1t will be good for them, perhaps, to see
Maude Adams, but it would be better for
Miss Adams feelings, perhaps, to let
them know her by what they hear about
her from their older sisters and their
cousins and their aunts.-Kansas City
Star
All tommy rot This generation is just as
interested in drama of the kind Maude Adams
and Barry gave the world now the gen.
Grafton of theatre goers who saw Maude when
she first played 'The Little Minister" or "Peter
Pam" Unless the years have been terribly
unkind to Maude she could revive either one of
these before audiences just as large as the
original ones. Real things live-and Maude
Adams art is real art. So is that of Barry who
wrote for her, Within the week we have heard
group of University students discussing "The
Admirable Crichton," Mary Rose" and equality
Street" with just as much love for them as the
boys and girls of fifteen years ago.