The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-06-12
SMALL TOWN TALK


a loss, now doesn't it?
We sometimes wonder if those "Eat-Sauer-
Kraut-f for the f-your-health" ads all orr
giniated in Springfield.
"Why compel the federal government to
clean house in Minneapolis" asks A. j. Volstead.
Or in ST. Paul or in any other city with crack
police force he might have added.
What's mere husband in Connecticut? A
woman there confessed she chloroformed hers
until he was quite quite dead-and she was CIV
en- sentence of from one to ten years.
woman has been given place in the new
British cabinet. There are many things America
could well learn from the government that is
organizing over across the seas under the able
direction of Ramsey Macdonald.
Do you remember away back when Redwood
County had county-seat fight on its hands :?
Well, then be sympathetic with the residents of
Scott County where Jordan and Shakopee are
pitted against each other in contest that began
is counted next Friday. Such fight is always
pity because of the scars it leaves. But as long
as there are both human nature and county seats
such battles will probably appear from time to
time.
"Life is funny in spots. For years a
man has been telling US that nobody
reads small town paper, but few
Ike he OOt into lam nd he wa
at the Region office at 1880 in the morn
ing to request that nothing be said about
it in the paper."-Baudette Region.
And dollars to doughnuts the kind hearted
Billy Nooman who runs that paper left it out!
Editors are like that.
Girls whose mothers require to know with
whom they are spending the evening and who de-
mand that they reach home at a reasonable hour,
think those mothers are unreasonable. Mime
apolis, reused by the Ann Hudok tragedy, is
making roundup of Washers, or attempting to,
and-t newspapers of last Friday contained the
statement that "More than a dozen calls were
received shortly after midnight from girls stat
ing they had been molested by men who tried to
force them into their cars" Maybe the old
fashioned hatpin wasn't such useless piece of
furniture after all.
To those of us who have loved and love Carl
Sandburgs Prairie Days in which he so beauti-
fully tells of Lincoln, the announcement of an
other book upon which the poet is now working
brings real joy. The announcement was made to
newspaper writer upon the occasion of Mr..
Sandburg's visit to Minneapolis last week, and
was the first public statement about the book
at will probably take me five years to complete
it," Mr.. Sandburg said, "and am afraid it can
not be written in less than three, perhaps four
volumes. 1t will be called "The War Lincoln"
will deal with the Civil War period, and it will
be just as complete as can make it." To readers
who have enjoyed Sandburg's Interpretation of
the earlier Lincoln, the new books promises much
pure enjoyment, and apparently much informa-
ton.
President and Mrs. Hoover, says the dis
patches, returning from days fishing at Cat
octin Furnace, Maryland, enjoyed picnic sup
per in pleasant woodland haunt So if any
of us have questioned if picncking along the
roadside is up to the level of our dignity, we
have the example of the heads of the nation to
justify us in it. But we can be absolutely sure
of one thing, that when President and Mrs. Hoov-
er, and the rest Of their bunch, finished eating
their hard-boiled eggs and sandwiches, they care
fully picked up every bit of refuse. One could
go over the scene of that picnic and find no traces
of eggshells or tissue paper or lunch boxes or the
rest of the stuff that so many of the ordinary
picnic parties leave around. The habit of scat
tering this stuff around turns many beauty spots
of Minnesota into dirty dump heaps. When it
does so, it makes itself public nuisance.
"A newspaper down the state declares
that the smaller towns of the country
are on trial for their lives, what with
automobiles, busses, concrete roads and
radios Assuming that the statement is
true, the test can be won by co-opera-
ton. Instead of considering every COM
petitor in business as an enemy it is
the part of good business to make
friend of him. Cooperation for the pur-
pose of attracting custom because of the
various lines offered is the winning plan.
People like to trade where the stores
are good and the assortments arge.
One store in q small town may not at
tract much trade. If the clothing stores
bring customer to town by reason of
being the kind of store he likes to