The Redwood gazette. [volume], December 01, 1926, Image 2

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the redwood gazette
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER IST, 1926.
THE WOMAN TOUCH t
By Mrs. Mabel Coan t
We are women t
And do as only women do.
The little helpless things have always been our
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But little things grow great; 1
How very great only we women know— - c
So keen a thing is woman’s vision— a
Men call women the weaker sex;
They little know how hard
How very hard they lean upon us;
The world has need of women.
We are women
And love as only women love— s
Life itself were not too much to give
Where love is worthy.
We give as women give—our all;
And serve as women serve. «
Take woman’s love and woman’s service from j
the home 1
It were as if a blight and darkness <
Had come upon it. <
The world has need of women.
We are women
And think as only women . 1
Our thoughts create —our visions materialize; j
Men see homes and little children 1
Spring up all about us— i
Flowers in waste places—laws enforced— 1
The finer things more general 1
And man himself oft made great 1
Because of woman’s thoughts;
Thank God—there are women!
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KEEP THEM IN SCHOOL 1
THE attendance at the Redwood Falls .
school, or rather the lack of such attend
ance, is little short of a crime. Students <
are using any sort of a trivial excuse to remain
away from school, and the parents are apparent
ly backing them up; at least they ask that these 1
students be readmitted to their classes. No
student is permitted to go back to his class af
ter an absence without a written request from his j
parent, therefore it seems unreasonable to sup- j
pose that these parents do not know just when j
and why their children are out of school. The j
scholarship of the Redwood Falls schools is none
too high—in fact the assurance that it is rather j
below the average is a matter of considerable
concern to faculty members. It should be a ;
matter of much more concern to the parents and ,
taxpayers of the District. And assuredly nd j
school can attain its best in this respect with
an average of absence such as was published in
the Gazette of last week. Twenty-eight pupils
were absent in the combined junior and senior j
high schools in a single day! That means that
these twenty-eight lost their class work, that
their teachers had to devote time outside the
classes to “make-up” work, and that the class
itself cannot progress rapidly with so many ab
sences, simply because make-up work never does
the work of the regular class period; the absentee
thus automatically becomes a laggard and the
class must wait for him to catch up. Illness on
the part of the pupil is a legitimate excuse, both
for the protection of himself and his associates.
There may be serious illness in the home that
necessitates his presence there and there may
be other reasons why an occasional absence is
excusable. But they are mighty few—and their
substitutes are many! It is a matter for parents
to ponder over. It is also a matter on which they
must use their parental authority (if any) in or
der that the student may not feel that he can
stay at home to satisfy a caprice of his own. Keep
these boys and girls in school. Five days of
each week. And try to see that they are there
on time. Going to school is their JOB. Why
not have them do it with the same concentration
they would give any other worthwhile work.
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If you have good health and are out of jail,
you don’t need any other good luck.
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Since man to man is so unjust, we hardly
know which one to trust. We’ve trusted many to
our sorrow, so, pay today—we’ll trust to-mor
row.
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Hanging is too good for Jim Landy. In his
Olivia Times last week he advertised “A choice
assortment of Xmas cards.” XMAS cards!
And that from a man who poses for a fine
Christian gentleman, as Jim does!
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Just the day after Thanksgiving one of the
newspapers of the Twin Cities was brutal
enough to announce that some over-busy M. D.
had just discovered that “Cancer is caused by
overeating.” Now wasn’t that the heck of a day
to make an announcement like that?
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“If all the money were divided equally each
American would have a little over S4O to spend
for gasoline” figures out the Baltimore Sun.
We wonder if anybody will care if we spend ours
for Christmas presents instead. We’d much
rather.
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THE REDWOOD GAZETTE, REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA
About all that some folks ever seem to do
on time is to pay for their automobile.
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If you do only what is expected of you, you
need .never expect much of yourself.
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New York and London are again playing
ping pong. Ye gods! We had hoped that the
world is progressing.
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Minnesota has been awfully busy explaining
for the last two weeks just why THE BEST
TEAM LOST.
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“Work for others as you would have others
work for you and you will never be out of a job,”
is a new version of the Golden Rule.
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An exchange says “In times of severe emo
tional distress we find relief in the humblest ac
tivities—working, walking, smoking.” The gen
tleman forgot to mention swearing.
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“One broadcasting station that doesn t need
a license is the sewing circle,” says the Birming
ham News. The News forgets to mention in this
connection, the regulation “Commercial Club”—
also the lobby of the postoffice.
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“A washing machine has been de
vised in England that can wash more
than 300 sheets at one time.—News
Item.
No good to us! We only have a dozen or
The village of Morgan has eighty-five Red
Cross memberships to its credit. That isn’t
a hundred per cent of course, but it’s a pretty
good percentage at that. We are only hoping
that Redwood Falls will do as well when the last
count is in—but we have the two first fingers on
our right hand tightly crossed.
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After snooping around a bit in Redwood
Falls’ stores we can’t see a mite of an excuse
for anybody purchasing a single Christmas
gift outside of our own city limits. The “gift”
lines are exceptionally pleasing this year. The
staple and standard things are just as good as
they always are, and Redwood Falls merchants
have built up their reputations on having these
things the best on the market.
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The series of articles by Judge Kavenagh,
appearing these days in the Minneapolis Jour
nal, are splendidly written treatises on the sub
ject of crime and related subjects. In these
times when we are all thoughtful on America s
crime future, it is well for us all to educate our
selves at least in the rudiments of criminology.
The thoughtful reading of Judge Kavenagh’s
articles is a good beginning.
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Miami is advertising in the Duluth Herald
! with “Farming below the Snow Line” as the
• theme of the advertising. We wonder if Duluth
lis wise enough to advertise in a Miami paper—
; just about the time hot weather down there gets
to going good and strong—with a series of ad
! vertisements calling attention to the coolness of
Duluth and the beauties of its adjacent country,
i What’s sauce for the gander—you know the rest!
|lf it pays Miami and Florida to advertise north
lit will pay Duluth and Minnesota to advertise
south.
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One of life’s most tragic jokes is seeing
the merchant, who howls long and loud about
the community patronizing the mail order houses,
ship in.huge crates of furniture or groceries, oi
electric light fixtures, or automobile tires or any
other merchandise, just because he can exercise
his “buying at wholesale” privilege. That’s one
I of the chief reasons why small towns are grow
ing smaller—and large ones larger. Not all the
“buying-out-of-town” crimes are committed by
the farmers. Watch the dray! You’d be s pris
ed!
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These “young moderns” begin to be modern
while they are very very young. They even
start in the kindergarten age to give the modern
version to things held in reverence by their old
fashioned parents. F’rinstance: a Redwood Falls
mother was casually singing to herself while
about her work and she finally drifted into that
once popular war song, “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp,
the Boys Are Marching.” Small daughter ap
parently paid no attention, but a short time lat
er she said: “Mother, what is that song about
Honk, Honk, Honk, the Boys are Stepping?”
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We never bought a gallon of gasoline and
had the garage man throw in a tire. We never
[bought a pound of hamburger and had the butch
!er throw in a ten-pound roast. We never bought
a yard of kitchen toweling and had the merchant
throw in a damask table cloth. We never paid
1 our interest at the bank and had the banker
‘cancel the face value of the note for us. And
I yet we are constantly having dealers of one sort
| and another take a three dollar advertising space
and then ask that we GIVE them, in our news
columns, publicity which would outvalue the cost
of the advertising many, many times. Think it
over.
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Over and over high schools girls and boys
| ask, “What am rgoing to gain by keeping on at
| school?” The Massachusetts Child Labor Com
'mission answers the question thus:
“You will gain just nine dollars a
j day by keeping on at school. Statis
tics show that every additional day a
pupil keeps on in school adds nine dol
lars to the sum he is likely to earn dur
ing his working life and a high school
education adds $33,000 to the whole
amount he will likely earn after leaving
school. The average untrained man at
tains to a maximum of $1,200 a year by
the time he is thirty, as compared with
the maximum of $2,000 reached by the
high school graduate at forty. The
earning power of the untrained man
decreases with the piling up. of years;
that of the trained worker usually in
creases.”
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In the old days a ford was a place where
you crossed the river. Now it’s every place where
you try to cross the street.
“There never was anything made but that
someone else made it worse—and sold it for less.”
Just bear this in mind the next time one of these
peddlers offers you a rare bargain in printing
supplies.—Montgomery Messenger.
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If we had enough money to go away some
place for the winter (and we haven’t, goodness
—and our banker—knows) we’d have an awful
time trying to decide between what the Winne
bago Enterprise calls “the hurricane belt and the
earthquake district.”
Make a resolve to prepare and wrap five
Christmas packages each day from now on until
you have them all wrapped. That proceedurer
will make you a much pleasanter animal to have
about the house when Christmas really comes.
.We don’t expect to do this ourselves but we re
ognize it as a piece of virtuous advice at that!
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The Winaom Reporter wasn’t pleased be
cause E. H. Canfield of Luveme was defeated in
the recent election. And its editor is moved, by
his displeasure to write bitterly, “We used to
say 'Old men for wisdom’, but now it’s the young
men promising everything that is demanded that
brings the votes.”
The weather several mornings has been
too darned reminiscent of “the good old days”
to exactly please us. Dr. Ross comes down town
when the mercury is sagging down about ten de
grees below or thereabouts and remarks “It’s a
GLOR-Ri-R-IOUS morning.” We look at him
pityingly and then remember that there’s a rea
son. He hails from Canada!
Why do we need a city election every year?
If we can get a good set of city officers who are
willing to serve for a two year or four year term
why not let them. What’s the use of stirring
up a mess of petty politics every year? Why
not show our efficient officers a little apprecia
tion so that they will consent to strugede along
with the burden for a while longer? Why and
why not?
“For her who tooteth not her own horn the
same shall not be tooted,” was evidently the pro
verb upon which is based the philosophy of the
woman writing the little poem which heads this
page. At that she said not a word too much
for the women who are working in their homes
and through their organizations. We believe
thoroughly in that poem—that’s one, reason why
we are handing it on to you. The other reason
is that it was handy when we faced the desper
ate job of filling up these three wide columns of
blank space. (Confession is good for the soul
—here’s a bit of our soul’s cleansing!)
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I heard a good old mother say,
“Every day’s Thanksgiving Day;
Every night I count each blessing
Just before I go to rest,
And so many keep me guessing—
Which is better, which the best?
Though some pesky things depressing
Fall to everybody’s lot,
And sometimes they keep me guessing
Which is worse and which is not—
Yet when comes around November,
And Thanksgiving Day is set,
ust the good things I remember,
, And the other kind forget.”
—Albert Judson Fisher.
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The story of Rachel and her sons Jacob and
Esau is again brought to modern attention by a
strife over the repair of Rachel’s tomb. This
woman, revered alike by Christian, Jew and Arab
and claimed by each, has left her impress on the
three races. Now because an Arab has been
given a contract, by the English government, to
repair the tomb, the Jews are upset and have
even gone so far as to voice an official protest.
It takes a woman, even a dead one, to effective
ly stir things up! We can well believe that the
-Jewish tribes descended from Jacob would re
sent the intrusion of the Arabic tribes descend
ed indirectly from Esau, and because Rachel was
an ancestress of Christ, the Christian people
might resent both! After all the centuries are
not so long—and Rachel still lives!
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If anyone closely studied the four bank state
ments published in the Gazette of last week he
learned several things. One of them is that
each one of these institutions is handicapped by
| overdrafts —by the careless little habit people
have of writing checks with no funds in the
bank. Like most other people privileged to
have a checking account at a bank, the Gazette
editor has been guilty of this same carelessness,
never stopping to think that we are breaking
a law every time that we write a check without
being positive that we have funds with which
to pay it. In addition to this we are greatly in
conveniencing the bank, causing an extra expense
in its operation since a notice of delinquency
must be sent us and other measures taken to
record our carelessness. In addition to that we
are causing the bank to break one of the strict
laws applicable to banking. We are too prone,
all of us, to expect the bank to do our bookkeep
ing for us. And yet when it is suggested that
in self defence a bank shall make a nominal
charge for the carrying of an account of insig
nificant dimensions we are apt to resent it. An
account which fluctuates between ten cents and
a hundred dollars is an expense to a bank in
stead of an asset, and the bank which makes a
monthly charge for the carrying of such an ac
count is assuredly well within its rights. We
hold no brief for bankers; they have called us up
and called us down too many times! But we
do feel that the great American Check Writer
might be a little more thoughtful about the abuse
of banking privileges. At least he might
have the grace to be apologetic instead of angry
when he gets a notice that his “account is over
drawn $1.13.” Bankers are a queer breed but so
are some of the folks with whom they have to
deal!
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LET US BE THE T
GUARDIAN
Would you act as custodian and as
sume the responsibilities, day and i
night, of guarding bonds, deeds, and
other valuable papers from fire and
theft for a few cents a week? Of
course not. Your time is worth more 1
than that.
One of our Safe Deposit Boxes of
fers just such a service. Absolute
safety at minimum cost and contents
are always readily accessible. If
you are assuming the risk of fire
and theft of your own valuable pa
pers for a few cents a week, better
come in and rent a box of us today.
Your peace of mind alone is worth
more than all the rental you will
ever pay.
State Bank
Redwood Falls, -s- Minn.
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