The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-02-13

These days beauty is only skin DOPE
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The real diplomat of the world is the wife
who laughs at her husbands jokes.
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When a man says that his word is as good
as his bond, it is time to investigate his bond.
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Some of these decided blondes had an awful
time deciding-so the beauty parlor specialists
tell us.
Every community has at least one pest who
feels divine call to set everybody right on
everything, including pronunciation. And there
is no bounty them!
Some rather thoughtful columnists has said,
ga philanthropist is one who hires girls at nine
dollars a week and then makes money enough
to support home for fallen girls"
1t is prophesed that the next marathon will
be in the nature of "necking party" Of
course, that less than nothing at all to
one of our mature intelligence.
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Morton wits during fight on patronage
headlines the Minneapolis Tribune. First time
we ever knew the doughty "W l." to be likened
to the shrinking violet, or the fragrant sweet
pea
If life were valued only by years, man would
stand poor chance in competition with the
turtle, or the raven who live many times longer.
But who would change places with either of
them!
The robbers who operated in New York for
a year took only an average of $30.75 worth of
loot 1t does seem that man who will risk
term in Sing Sing for that amount is more or
less of fool.
Minnesota still has her frontier-and that
kindness that has always seemed to thrive in
a frontier country The Baudette Region veri-
fes our statement when it writes of the Home
steader who walked fourteen miles, when the
weather was twenty degrees below, to get
doctor for the sick child of neighbor.
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Commenting on the fact that there is con-
siderable difference of opinion as to when the
president is inaugurated, Phil Lesch of the
Brown County Journal, sort of admits that it
doesn't matter to him much when-provided it
is early enough SO that the president can Off
season.
The situation is much the same as it has
always been-the people do not want war, they
do not want the costly preparedness pushed upon
them by military experts, and log rolling legis-
lative bodies. What can they do; save stand
by and watch the world fall back into the slough
of despond which it seems to loath to leave?-
Minnesota Mascot.
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"When you travel" Donald Macmillan told
his audience in Minneapolis, the other night,
"dont expect to land in Greenland for the law
there prohibits the landing of any white person"
And Greenland has less disease to combat than
any other countries inhabited by Esquimos, the
explorer said Speaks well for our much-boasted
white civilization, doesn't it?
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Blanche La Du, chairman of the state board
of control wants the state to put into the st.
Cloud reformatory, factory for the making
of auto license tags. Mrs. La Du gives figures,
showing that such factory would pay for itself
in short space of time and would provide en-
ployment for hundred men-and finding en-
ployment for the men is of the hardest tasks
faced by reformatory officials. 1t is to be hoped
slider carefully the suggestion made by the chair
man and substantated by other members of the
board of control
When the next man comes around to your
office and tries to get you to join new organi-
cation, turn on the most powerful spotlight you
can command-and then use microscope An
alyze his suggestion through and through. There
is club for about everything and everybody in
this world now. Be very the suggested or
ganization not only has a definite purpose, but
a definite likelihood of accomplishing some
thing worth while before you join it. What's
the use of belonging to something just for the
sake of belonging? What's the good of spread
ing out your time so thin that it doesn't cover
anything properly?
Don't be joiner without reason.-Grove
Patterson.
Editor Bill Wells, whose pithy style has
made his paper, the Webster Journal, leader in
South Dakota, believes public officials every
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