The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-09-24
Football and Business

- NE industry which has little to fear from the de-
J preston bugaboo is football which just now is
- limbering up for showings before customary i'm
mense gates during October and November here and
December in many states.
Football crowds may be slightly smaller than
usual this fall but it safe bet they will not fall off
sufficiently to alarm to the proponents of the
game.
The game grows because it offers what Americans
want-coor, action, the spirit of chance battle, the
glory of victory and something every minute.
Eleven men face another eleven in what seems
silly contest the unnitated yet in many contests
$4,000 100000 people packed in coorfu array about
the field are interested in the outcome than in
business conditions, the moratorium and Europe put
together.
Football is made possible by publicity and adver-
tising it is preserved because its generals give the
customers what they There is lesson there for
the merchant who keeps Anticipated goods on dusty
shelves, meets his customers with gloomy story of
rotten business and shows them something they might
have wanted ten years ago. -
1856 Miles an Hour
~ ETTING world record for speed, Lieutenant
\ Stainforth of the British Navy few days ago
- drove his seaplane 1886 miles an hour three
klometer course beating the previous record by more
than % miles hour.
This terrific speed of more than six miles minute
represents the fastest movement of mortal man in the
world. When it is remembered that the earths rota-
ton is only about Is miles minute at the equator it
may readily be imagined that some day an arplane
will equal that speed. If so, aviator might fly
around the world keeping the directly overhead all
the while.
Or, if he could exceed Is miles minute he might
leave the behind that it would apparently set
in the east Then when he caught up with it again the
sun would appear to rise in the west.
This may not happen in day, but who can say
that it is not among the possibilities of the future?
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General Butler Retires
~ EFINITE news of the retirement October l
J of Major General Smedley D. Butler of the
- Marine Corps has been published in the daily
press. 1t has been known for time that the
stormy petrol of the "dev dogs" would shortly leave
the service for other activities perhaps the political
arena.
Since his entry into the Marine Corps as second
lieutenant in $780, Smedley Darlington Butler has been
a coorful figure among Uncle Sans fighting men, He
has the distinction of being the only ever to be
awarded two Congressional medals for bravery in
action.
Butler was given leave of absence to as
director of the Philadelphia department of safety
1924-25, but his efforts hampered by politicians
and he finally quit in disgust. He gained some unpop-
uarty by reporting brother officer, whose guest he
was, for engaging in drinking bout in California he
got in bad by criticisng Mussolin Italian DICTATOR
public speech for which the State Department apollo
gized he shut off the air for using unconvention
al language in radio address, and has otherwise kept
himself in the limelight both favoraby and unfavora-
bly,, for some years.
AS soldier, however, his efficiency and gallantry
have never been questioned His troubles have come
to him because of his ready tongue It is said that he
may seek seat in the United States Senate. If he
obtains it, he may talk his head off without the slight
est responsibility to anybody.
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When MOdernizatiOr Hurts
ut CLOUD and Winona Minnesota's fourth and
fifth cities in point of size, have recently lost the
- advantages of being division points for railroad
systems. Winona lost the office of the Chicago and
North Western railroad several months ago and the
Great Northern last week announced intentions of eli
minating the Granite City as its division point.
Both moves were made in the interests of eficien-
cy and because modern conditions make necessary few
or division points. However, merchants who have In
vested capital with an eye on the railway companys
payroll win agree that railroads are not an unmxed
einop