The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-04-03


barb.
Now father is beating the living room rug
in the funny papers and mother and the kids
beating it on the front lawn.
Radio is said to have added five hundred
words to the average vocabulary. Static has
done its share of this-but the words are not
suited for parlor use.
According to bill passed in the present
Legislature election day has been shortened by
an hour at each end That isn't as much as we
hoped for but it is something.
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The fellow who listens most touched and
sentmentally while some oozy chirrups "Home,
Sweet Home" over the radio is the first to dash
out and send mail order for groceries or cloth
irg.
Spring certainly arrived all in hurry this
year-which means you have got to hustle bit
about that cleanup campaign, you'll be deco
rating a dirty yard for Decoration Day and
Fourth of July.
A siX-year old kid in Minneapolis runs
away twenty times in month, gets candy from
the police each time and finally makes the front
page of the three Minneapolis papers in picture
and story. That isn't what kids got in our
day when they ran away Newspapers and police
must be kinder than parents.
This is the time Of year when detour signs
sprout along all the highways and dandelions
spring in both highways and low-ways. The
detour signs will die naturally after few weeks
but you'll have to put up fight early, late and
often to get rid of the dandelion.
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With every section of the state having
cannery or wanting one it is about time news
paper men got over making cracks about the
use of the can opener. It was weak, foolish
and dishonest sort of joke in the first place,
so neither the writers the readers will loose
much if it is deleted
public officer who gratis in Cuba is
placed against a wall and the firing squad turn
ed loose. Think what depopulating of Mime
apolis there would have been these past few
weeks had such a rule held good here. But per-
haps Cuba pay her officials more than 300
year so the need fro graft is not SO great.
Stafford King suggests that all members
of the American Legion become members of the
State Historical society and take an active part
in the work of preserving the history of the state
That's a good suggestion-not only for Legion
members but for every other citizen of the state.
We are strong for Staffords common sense.
Somehow we feel lot safer about the forests
and reforests of Minnesota now that we know
Vim Weber of Slayton has been given the task
of starting campaign for the prevention of
forest fires. Vim knows his Minnesota, has
splendid personality that always gets for him
the things he sets out to get, has youth, abili-
ty and energy-an all round unbeatable COM
bnation. We don't know what Wins plans are
but we do know that when he starts he will have
every editor in the state right with him and
doing all they can individually and through their
papers to further the good work.
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We are glad the little University girls who
manipulated the the Gazette last week found
out that Billy Hauck could blush: We had al
ways thought he was perhaps capable of it if
the right provocation could be produced. We
knew that Jack Philbrick looked unapproachabe
but isn't, that A. C. Burmeister always does
his talking by proxy, that L. E. Backer is serious
minded in spite of his Undated curls-and all
the rest. But we were never quite sure that
Billy could blush and we are so relved when we
learned positively that he cam But think how
fearsome a thing Mr.. Hauck's German" must
be to a real native of Germany if even he has
to blush for it.
A North Dakota editor reports that he starts
each days work with the following prayer which
might well be observed by many people outside
of the newspaper office:
Teach us to drive through life without skid |
ding into other peoples business.
Preserve our brake Innings that may
stop before go too far
Help us to hear the knocks of our motors
and close our ears to the clashing Of other peo-
pies gears.
Keep alcohol in our radiators and out of
our stomachs.
Absolve us from the mania of trying to pass |
the other automobile on narrow road.
Open eyes to the traffic signs and keep
our foot on the brakes.
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