The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-12-21

ask more than we deserve or seek as gifts
what we should be willing to. earn for our
selves. do not punish us too severely for we
are, after all, only small boys and girls all
too quickly grown.
With love,
Ye Ed
CHEEKY HEADLINE FROM THE
Northfield News: Mortified hospital ready
for occupancy.
AMERICAS SYMPATHY AND GEN
erosity toward Finland brings home again
the fact that there is no asset like first
class credit rating.
BEWARE OF THE MAN WHO OPENS
conversation with the words Nov I'm go
ing to be honest with you." -Waseca Jour-
nal.
NOW WE KNOW WHY ANCIENT
civilizations died. They reached the point
where it was cheaper to start over than TO
pay the debts.-W innebago Times.
AFTER THE DEVELOPMENTS IN
Europe of the past few months, if there is
such thing as an American communist left
we think he should be sent to the Smithson-
ian Institute. Minneota Mascot.
Q =
MUSSOLINI SAYS HE WANTS TO GO
forward with the people and for the peo-
ple." After telling them, of course, which
way they're to go.-Little Falls Transcript.
TIL. WINDOW CITIZEN SEES A RAY
of hope when an eastern candidate for pre-
sident chimes in that the farmers buying
power ought to be restored It's probably
just a. before election mirage, however.
THE OLD-FASHIONED MOTHER used
to offer her son gold watch to abstain from
tobacco until he was q. Nowadays mother
hopes that daughter won't start smoking
before she is 15.--Blooming Prairie Times.
- .
THE MAGAZINE LOOK EXAMINED
the University of Chicago football team and
found that it's chief popularity isn't that the
boys lose games but that they still regard
football as a sport not as business, down
there.
IRELAND HAS LESS THAN ONE
divorce year-Now we can hear some oner-
Gus Englishman say that it is because they
enjoy good fight SO much that they would
not spoil the chance by getting a divorce
Olivia Times.
g
THERE ARE 12s,ooO,Ooo RATS IN
the country, according to reports from some
one who has been counting them. This
proves how limited my acquaintance is. I'm
sure dent know more than half that many.
Appleton Press.
A. KANSAS COUPLE WHO WE'RE d.
vorced 40 years ago, met at Thanksgiv-
1 in m oil 10
start life anew. So they were married. There
is no end of the marvellous things that Cali
fornia climate viii produce, even to an old
mans mind.-St. James Plaindealer.
BEFORE THE BAck-ro-THE-LAND
movement in this section of Minnesota gets
started, a commission should be provided
| that would make honest surveys of lands, de-
lineate the land that is sub-marginal and
that which, when cleared and developed, will
make good farming lands.-Itasca County
independent.
THE REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL
committee did very commendable thing in
having Thomas E. Dewey, the successful
racket-busting New York attorney, deliver
an address in Minneapolis recently Regard
less OF the fact that it was political gath
erlng, Dewey's presence IN that racket-gov-
efned city ought to have tendency to stiff
fen the backbones of the local law enforcing
authorities Waseca Herald.
EASTERN RAILROADS HAVE. De
cided to continue for nine months more the
/ experimental cut in passenger fares which
has been in force this year., Lower fares
have brought increased traffic it has been
found and made the railroads more money
than running. their trains half empty did. It
is encouraging to note that the railroads are
| forgetting their time-honored motto of .All
that the traffic will bear. Park Region
Echo.