The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-06-11
Worse Than War

n n ONDAY morning papers carry automobile caus-
lN1 ulty accident lists comparable to major war.
Twenty-seven killed and forty-two injured the
first Sunday in June and this goes every day
throughout the year. accidents somewhere at sometime
of the day or night.
Most of the accidents are caused by trifes, but
their damage is tremendous There is careessness in
attention. dscourtesy, misjudgment, selishness and
Impotence There is neglect of the working parts of
an automobile, failure to inspect brakes headlights
and steering apparatus.
The ill-conditiored ear causes accidents. There is
no for cars on highways not mechanically safe,
for reckless and irresponsible drivers New stories
tell of drivers being blinded by glazing headlights; of
cars suddenly swervng from the to collide with
other cars and finally land in the ditch.
And why? All for the everlasting hurry; hurry
that gets where but nearer the grave.
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Park Spoilers
A GAIN comes the annual complaints against per-
n sons who mar and deface the spring beauty Of
the public parks. Wild flowers uprooted in
wholesale. Trees bark defaced by knife cuts
Somehow warnings and fines fail to stop the mis-
chief How much are the public schools doing to pro-
duce new generation that will have respect for
its own parks?
Why should it be necessary to defend public trees
and flowers and property against the ruthlessness OF
people to whom they belong?
Why spoil what is beautiful merely because it is
everybody's?
We are not barbarians. Still many farmers may
have reason to believe it. They too cannot help but
be resentful for the in which city people con-
duct themselves when in the country and overrun pr-
vate property
It is hoped that the parents are doing their bit to
discourage dsrespect for nature and both private and
public property and that the public schools through its
Boy Scout, Girl Scout and Campfire organizations are
contributing their share in restraining this ruthless
ness
Wonder what effect the autogro will have on
romance. Probably the June evenings Of future will
be full of billowng parachutes, each bearing in
| digant damsel back to earth.
Shifting The Gears
Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy lot Of
fun.
A girls idea of perfect is subject to fire.
quent revision.
It rains more on the just if he leaves his umbrella
within reach Of the unjust
Ole Buck tells of neighbor whose ambition is t.
be tester in q mattress factory.
i We read Of q hen that laid an egg every day TO
"A weeks which proves the existence of good laye
or good liar.
Youngsters viii probably be diligent in spreadin
the news that New York father dropped dead Will
spanking his SON.
An exchange says: RAY Harper was married las
week. We didn't get the lady's name; but no mattel
it's Harper now"
i We eagerly await television apparatus which wi
enable long-winded radio advertising spieler to Sc
us turn the dial on him.
i $50
The most heathenish African tribe has been on
covered It's members never try to reform their neiei
I bors.
Our admiration for John D. Rockefeller Il e
hanced BY the fact that he waited until he was neaz
80 years old before writing his first posm