The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-09

some one makes the suggestion to the Big
Three that Minnesota should adopt such plan.
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Who says women grow DID, Here's
Lilli Lehman, the greatest of all women in
Wagnerian opera roles, still teaching advanced
students and established artists in Berlin. And
she is past eighty years of age. Early training,
care of her health and constant study are given
as ingredients of her recipe for eternal youth
and usefulness.
Too>many present day Americans have mil
lions on the brain instead of a few hundreds in
the bank.
Lord Dewar is guilty of this:
"The Goldfish lays million eggs and the
helpful hen lays one.
The Goldfish never cackles to tell US what
she's done;
And so we scorn the Goldfish, and the
helpful hen we prize,
For it indicates to you and me that it
pays to advertise"
In letter received at Fairmont the day
Frank Day was buried Claude Atkinson, form
ery of the Tribune wrote, eve will come to-
gether somewhere, sometime-maybe in the
Mansion in the Skies-but we'll visit just the
same as in the good old days and be very hap
py". Dad didn't know of the death of his old
friend whom he called "the grandest old man of
the grandest profession on earth" Two days
later Dad himself passed away. And now his
prophecy is fulfilled and they are "very happy"
Konrad Bercovici, writing in Harpers maya
zine, tells how Charlie Chaplin went incognito to
San Francisco to try to win prize offered by
moving picture house to the man "giving the best
imitation of Charlie Chaplin
81 did my BEST, Charlie assured me,
"but couldn't win the BOBBY prize.
The man who won the prize was perfectly
awful. If that's what look like in other
peoples eyes"
All of which should show something or
other about the lack of observation of people in
general and the rarity with which the genuine is
discovered.
Along with other suggestions for beginning
the new year along correct lines comes the init
nation that will all be helped in our search
for the uplift of our own souls or at least aided
in clear thinking and definite understanding of
ourselves by writing out our own philosophy of
life. 1t is not the stupendous task it appears on
the surface-just the honest setting down of
what we honestly think and believe about things.
Not many of us would produce piece of writing
that any publisher would care to buy, but we
would clarity our thinking, and prepare ourselves
for the thoughtful living which so very few of
us accomplish. The most of US would be amazed
too at the sloppy" philosophy have, the in
definite and contradictory things we think we
believe and our vast inability to think things all
! the way through
Speaking of bond issues and unpleasant
things that may happen to them here is how the
Springfield Advance regards the threatened dis
aster to the people of Koochiching, Beltrami and
Lake of the Woods counties because of the ditch
bonds issued under legislative direction years
ago:
"The bondhoders are entitled to their
| money. The counties cannot pay it.
Counties are created by the state They
not autonomous units like cities
and villages, but involuntary govern
mental divisions. In drainage matters
they are mere state agencies designated
by statute to carry out the state laws.
The state can well afford to come to the
rescue of the settlers who face the loss
/ of their homes"
A shipment of $50 tractors, routed from
barge line was unable few weeks ago to find
cargo space the upbound barges. At the
same time consignment of IA carloads of farm
implements offered for shipment was unable to
find the governments carriers. The
line to Minneapolis is new extension of the
governments original service lower on the Mis-
sissippi, from st. Louis south, and the Warrior
in Alabama.
Only few weeks ago, the head of the cor
poration in charge of the service, Major General
Ashburn, issued warning to the Twin Cities
and the upper valley that if the line was to be a
going concern it would have to be a two-way
service, with freight for its upbound barges as
well as grain on downstream runs. The warn
ing was hardly necessary since the upper river
is already complaining of insufficiency of equip
ment and service, and demand has arisen in Min
neapolis for doubling of the size of the barge
terminal there. Downstream freight is Offered
far in excess Of the barges' capacity, and, as we
have seen, upstream shipments are already un-
able to find cargo room.
Yet it is only little while since officials