The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-04-17


either the police or the crooks must go"
says the Pioneer Press. Why discriminate?
Why not put em both out and get whole new
set of both?
Paul Dehnel is going to start another news
paper. This time he is inflicting himself upon
Rochester. But that town shouldn't be uneasy
because Paul won't last long-he never does.
go
A. B. See, who has said such lot of fool
things says; Nothing could be better for this
country than to have the husbands rule the wives
| again" All we ask is that may be by
stander when A. B. and his kind tackle the job.
u*u
| And now the whole world feels pity for Spa"
Gam who must eat off the kitchen table while
his wife is officially hostessing-and fighting to
get Just the chair she wants at the tables of
grandees.
A woman killed Senator Sullivan's duck-pass
bill because she didn't know what it was and
voted "no.' Now it the male members of the
legislature will only follow her example and vote
"no" when they don't know what they vot-
ing on, we shall have fewer fool laws. Senator
Laura Naplin has performed real service-Ex.
VI y
"To Edward K Hall; In recollection of his
and my son who have the privilege by the grace
of God, to be boys through all eternity" wrote
Calvin Coolidge in book for father who had
lost his son in the world war. Brief, pointed,
epigramatic- yet how lovely and how full
of faith!
After two years the United States
Sinclair must go to Jail for contempt of
court. This is fast age but justice
still travels on foot-Springfeld Adj
vance Press
Well says it's slow! Down in Minneapolis
last week they just got around to find out who
was guilty in the acid-throwing contest staged
by dry cleaners of that city sometime in 1927.
Courts are clogged-and still the cases roll in.
The situation would be funny if it wasn't so
pathetic.
Renville County has finally got it's Birch
Cooley State Park and we rise to offer congra-
tulations. For beauty Birch Cooley doesn't COM,
pare with our own Ramsey but it has historical
significance presented by few other spots in the
state and it is fitting that these be recognized.
Now it's up to Jim Landy of the Olivia Times
ing the Time readers information which is pos
sessed by old settlers of the county and which
will pass when they pass unless it is captured
and put into print before that time No one
can assemble this material quite as we'll as Jim
and we are anxious to see him set about it.
| O 4 O
| Truer words were never written than these
by the "Shortake' columnist in the Mobiles County
Times, that admirable sheet that gets itself out
each week over in Worthington.
A never-failing source of wonder to
| this typewriter agitator is how man
! can build up such a population for in
| tegrity, fearlessness, charity, kind-
ness and constructiveness abroad, and be
| such first-class sunuvagun at home, as
definite and concrete examples that come
to mind now and then. Shutting to be
| wonder at, after all, when you put
| little thought to it. Many chap is re-
| puted in public to be jolly, kind and
considerable, who is the horrible reverse
Of those qualities the moment he closes
the door of his dwelling behind him.
| $50
In these days when many of the things we
old-fashioned people have loved are touted as
mid Victorian and utterly beyond endurance by
the young intelgentsia, it is a relief to read
statement like the following from the intelligent
and thoughtful William Lyon Phelps, professor
OF English in one of the large eastern colleges.
Robert Browning died in 1889 and Ten
nyson in 1892. There has been since no
English writing poet who can stand COM
parison with either of these; nor is there
| any living poet from whom new book
| would be awaited with such general in
terest as greeted every new publication
of the twin Victorians Once in while
l see some foolish remark to the effect
that Tennyson and Browning are no
longer read; but the fact is they are at
this moment more widely read and
known than any of their successors
Nearly every novel read contains a
quotation from Tennyson or Browning
| or both.
Governor G. A. Parks of Alaska, passing
through Chicago, complained Of the bitter cold
e.