The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-07-17


Have you seen the new money? Our glimpse
was very fleeing.
Colonel Dawes has became settled in the
American embassy in London and smoke, un-
heedful of all precedent begins to issue from all
the doors and windows.
The New York Times is so interested in
Minnesota politics that it used two column art
icle on the subject recently. That is more in
terest than most Minnesotans take.
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A. C. Townley is out in Montana organizing
the state preparatory to putting up terrible
fight against the eighteenth amendment. AS far
as is known Mr.. Volstead's sleep has not been
disturbed.
You pay thirty-ive dollars week for a
vacation place SO you can put coat Of tan,
and then two dollars a bottle for very small
little bottle of goo to take the sunburn sting
away.
Imagine the embarrassment of the woman
who, wearing her new slit-in-the-back dress
for the first time heard small son zip after her
NAV your dress is ripped awfully up there by
the neck"
We no longer call person the short and
ugly word-we say he has such vivid magma
ton that the demarcation between truth and fic-
ton is only shadow line. That makes every
body feel better.
An Indiana paper tells of a hornets nest
having been found in telephone booth. Many
that would seem to have that sort of an inspira-
tion at end or the other.
An Iowa man tried to protect himself by
putting Don't Shoot" sticker on his automo-
bile and then got fined two dollars at Fairmont
for having disobeyed the non-sticker law. It's
tough world for over-cautious souls.
$50
1t costs more to run the schools of the state
than any other phase of state government and
before 1929 is done this little item on the bill of
expense will be more than forty-two million dol
lars. And that's all right too. Money wisely
spent in education is not 'spent"-it's invested.
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The great school system of Minneapolis, one
of the outstanding ones in the United States,
now has woman at the head of its Board of
Education. It's assistant superintendent, the per-
who has direct supervision over the thous-
ands of children in grade schools is also woman.
These two statements needs no Interpretation.
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c. j. Laurisch, member of the state railway
and warehouse commission, seems to have feel
ing that telephone rates are too high and has
ordered an investigation. The results of that
probe are going to make interesting reading
if the investigating committee doesn't take so
long to function that we forget what it is all
about.
Earnings on state bank funds for the final
quarter of the fiscal year ending June 80 exceed
ed that of the quarter last year, according
to figures announced Wednesday by State Treas
urer, Julius A. Schmahl. The state obtains two
per cent interest on it's active funds and three
per cent on inactive money. Interest was $685.
1886 while for the final quarter of last year the
amount s7O,726.52.
European editors visiting this country are
surprised to find that many of the things they
had read about America in books weren't SO at
all. We probably would have similar shock
if were to swim the Atlantic and go down
into Italy, Greece and others of the pink and
blue spots the map of Europe A few visits
back and forth would do lot to increase inter-
national liking. and respect
Just about the time are abroad a
Minneapolis store is about to close because of
"hard times, that store starts in on an elaborate
rebuilding plan, itself up two or three
stories, adds cafe big enough to handle several
hundred people all at the same time or does
something else both expansive and expensive.
There is no SYMPTOM of hard times in the north
west if we are to judge by the building program
of its metropolis.
The bright Bjornson boy who writes for the
Mnneota Mascot and is right now writing the
editorials for the daily paper published the
campus of the University of Minnesota, wrote
la long and very readable editorial for the little
publication,-all about the foolish feminine foible
of going without hose. The boy was right in
all his premises, too. The chief decision to
which he has apparently arrived is that it is
stupidity rather than humidity that leads the
girls to go about with their rather ugly legs un-
screened by silk