The Redwood gazette., 1937-10-21
VERY FAIR IN ALMOST ALL

Advance-Press slips in declaring the Duke
of Windsor's interest in housing is gag
and that he is bringing his wife to America
only so she may ''show off," We contend
that Edward, at least, is entitled to better
break.
Being prince and made over until mid
die age had plenty of drawbacks. Having
his choice of brides restricted to a few spoil
ed princesses in an age when men are sup
posed to be free and equal was no asset to
the position. Furthermore being king when
the Job amounts to being an ornament prl-
vileged to do and say only what you are told
to do and say, would get on the nerves OF
any red blooded man.
A playboy for 40 years, yes, but an
English king with enough will OF his own to
refuse to be dictated to, after such back
ground, has qualities to be admired. Many
things indicate that his progressive ideas
were more feared by the powers in his gov
eminent than his viii to marry outside the
selected list.
Many believe he has more influence today
than he actually had as king. He may yet
prove he is sincere in his desire to do some
thing for the common people of his country
A GOOD MANY EDITORS CALL
these contests "husking bees" which in most
rural communities designates an occasion
when a farmer is sick or otherwise hard
pressed and sympathetic neighbors get TO-
gether for day or two and work Tor him
without charge. A husking contest is quite
different thing. The farmer who donates
use of his place for the contest may get
few acres husked without charge but not
nearly enough to compensate for what Lhe
heavy traffic does to his lanes and pastures,
or the crowd to his fields and fences, not TO
mention the inconvenience The farmer who
lie
spirited citizen and guests at contests
should remember they aren't paying $3.50
per seat and are therefore not entitled to
rip up the goalposts.
BERRY AKERs, EDITOR OF THE
Farmer and frequent visitor here since the
state cornhusking contest field was selected,
tells this one on the Fairmont Sentinel pub
fishers, to whom any place but Martin coun-
ty is desert. A banquet speaker there
sometime ago declared "Fairmont has every
thing in the world, according to it's publish
ers, except a seaport and if they would build
pipeline to the Atlantic ocean and suck as
hard as they blow, that too could easily be
provided"
A SUBSCRIBER RAISES THE QUES-
! tion as to whether all the publicity given
the campaign to stamp out the Marijuana
drug will not have the opposite effect by
arousing human curiosity and encouraging
people to try the weed. We string along
with that Scripps-Howard newspaper axiom,
"Give light and the people will find the way"
ANDREW MELLON, ANDREW CAR
negie and John D. Rockefeller died leaving
large fortunes, but there was time in the
lives of each one when, if he had lived with
the same disregard of thrift that many
twenty -dollar-a-week employee does today,
he would never have been known for his
success.-Heron Lake News.
OVER AT FAIRFAX AN INGENIOUS
hostess asked guests at party to come re-
presenting some famous book. What brought
down the house was picture of the Dionne
quintuplets which an elderly matron wore
pinned across her bosom-"It can't happen
here" by Sinclair Lewis.
NEXT SPRING woRKMEN WILL
wreck the unsightly old capitol building in
St. Paul. Wonder how many years will
''restore" the structure as an historical ex-
hibit.
HARNEssED TO PLow SNOW ON
October 16, Worthington horse laid down
and refused to get up. Even a horse knows
that October SHOWS in Minnesota are what
Californians call Unusual Weather."
THE LINEUP AT THE MUNICIPAL
liquor store Saturday morning started the
rumor that the city is in the ammunition
business-of half-pint, pint and quart
calibre.
RADIO RECEPTION IN REDWOOD
Falls has been getting worse steadily since
: the last drive on static ended. 1t is time for
: renewed efforts on the problem.
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ONE HUNTER REPORTS. GETTING
' duck while his friends contend that what
he actually got was ducking.