The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-11-13


1t was gratifying to read in the newspapers the
other day that the members of the Minnesota League
of Women Voters had contributed, in scant eighteen
minutes eleven thousand dollars for the carrying for
ward of the work for another year. 1t crafty
ing for two The first of these is that
interested in the final program of study and education
which the League is sponsoring, convinced that
that work should be carried and extended if pos
sble The second is that it is gratifying to
know that women CAN, if sufficiently interested and
convinced, contribute money. 1t is thing for
a womans organization to be able to get funds in
than minimum amounts from it's membership.
This may be true because in many
dependent upon their husbands and dislike making
demand which is not really necessary. At least that
is the excuse most often given We rather of
the opinion that in most it is because women
belong to the highly indivduazed sex and prefer to
spend their money personal wants and inter-
ests Our observations number of years
vinces that women poor contributors
they inclined to niggardlness except in things that
effect the welfare of themselves their own families
1t is refreshing to find group that is intent
upon purpose outside their interests that they
willing to give eleven thousand dollars for what
to the unnitated, might appear abstraction That
they did it willingly is evidenced by the fact that the
whole collected in less than twenty minutes.
No imprisoned clergyman collecting funds with which
to pay off the church debt did better than that It
revives our confidence in fellow
Geraldine Farrar, noted opera singer, tells the
world she will retire when she fifty and that she has
less than three years to go. Our guess is that she
won't. she does she WILL in the habit of other pub
lie appearers, keep right making farewell tours
for the following ten years. And why not! Why
should this artist quit work long as her voice and
her acting still give pleasure and other emotions
to the humans who have listened to her and looked
at her all through her lovely and lively career We
hope she will think again. Retirement is something
with which have little to do and it's period should
not be determined too long before. If one is going
to use that time that follows quitting the job in the
pursuit of other work he has long wanted to do that
is one thing If he is going to it just for dling
and being lazy that is something ese In the later
case may well be deferred to sixty or seventy or
even left to the discretion of DEATH
In spite of all the unkind and frequently untrue
things said about her still believe Mabel Wilt
brant did good piece of work for the prohibition
forces and we'd have liked to have seen another
appointed to succeed her. Since this is not to be- the
writer like every other Mnnesotan is glad that our
own IT, A. Youngquist selected by Mr. Hoover
Tor this important office. Mr.. Youngquist goes from
the office of attorney general of Minnesota an office
ne has filled with credit to himself and satisfaction
" Ine staIe incidentally Mr. YOungqust is the ninth
minnesota man in Mr.. Hoovers administrative
staff. We grow mighty useful men out here in the
SUCKS The fat-salaried positions still apt to drift
eastward But when they need workers down in
washington there call for Minnesotans.
The mantle of the attorney general for this great
state of ours has slipped the shoulders of
Senator Henry N Benson of ST. Peter where it rests
with an air of having found its right place. Mr. Ben
son has the background of training in law with an
experience gained through many years of practice
through long service in the legislature He has
ness, and industry which assures his office of gettne
all OF his time and energy. We should say Minnesota
is to be congratulated upon his latest choice of it,
governor.
No less a person than Mussolini told Italy's vet
Grams last week that Nobody is frankly and effective
~ disarmng Pity tits, it's true in spite of our hav
ing lived for eleven lorg years in the shadow of tn
great war Every nation seems going on the though
OF Mussolni who told his men, eff the need come
you veterans must be ready to fight and win again.
And some nations aren't going to be timid about urg
ing forward the need, either.
"The last of the covered wagons" has been see1
in Minnesota said newspapers last week in telling tn
story of the family travelling in prairie schoone
from Missouri to Wisconsin. Maybe So But we'll be
it will come back for pageants and homecomings
such.