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The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

When lady with about hundred dollars
starts out to buy her winter wardrobe IN this
year of our Lord 1919 she make it either a
tragedy or comedy according to whether she
is one of the kind that weeps or smiles over the
unbeatable inevitable. A hundred iron men will
just about buy one ordinary pair of shoes, one
ordinary waist one ordinary-very ordinary-hat
and pocket handkerchief, and what in the world
is the fair shopper to do for the other nine hum
dred and ninety-nine other necessary exqulsltles!
If she is frugal spirit she goes home and plans
how last years coat and suit and things can be
made to do for another season. If she is weak
kneed she makes herself and her friends miser-
able, moaning over the inaccessibility of things.
If she is a diplomat she will Immediately set
about conceiving ways whereby the world, or
Friend Husband, which ever the case may be, can
be made to produce about five times the original
amount. Most women are diplomats; consequent
ly most of them will be pretty well dressed
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

Every one who heard the high school orchestra
at the armory last Friday evening emphatically
remarked: "That man Bittrich is wonder" :"
Wonder is right Eight weeks ago Mr.. Bittrich
organized an orchestra of the young boys and
girls of the city, many of them with only the
scantiest knowledge of music. Friday evening
these same boys and girls played throughout the
serving of the dinner to the American Legion and
played mighty we'll If you don't think that is
wonderful, just try it yourself and see how far
you will get with it. There are times in the cool
gray dawn or the late twilight when we say other
things about Mr. Bittrich than wonderful" !"
These are the times when weird or blatant moan
ings and sobbings break up the peaceful atrnos-
phere. But we and the rest of the toWnspeople
of Redwood Falls are suffering in good cause
and IN after years we will realize that the city
owns real debt of gratitude to the man who has
the patience and the courage to labor with these
young musicians and to make their work and his
of real and lasting worth. Besides the first eight
weeks are the hardest for conductor, musicians
and loving parents and friends. More power to
the baton Of Mr.. Bittrich!
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

for dairymen, the country over, to
double the present production of their
herds. To increase the production of
the average dairy cow from 100 to 800
pounds of butterfat year would not
be difficult, according to dairy experts
of the United States Department of
Agriculture, and would increase net
profits out of proportion to produc-
tion costs.
This should be the aim of every pro-
gressiye dairy farmer. He would eli
inmate the low producers from his
herd and feed the remainder accord
ing to known production. He should
improve the foundation stock with the
idea of making the daughters yield
as much more milk than their dams
as possible. This practice in a few
generations would greatly increase
production, decrease the cost of fees
and add much to the profit and plea !.
ures of dairy farming.
Redwood County Farmer.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24
THE GOD OF THE OPEN AIR.
(By Henry Van Dyke)

(By Henry Van Dyke)
Thou who hast set thy dwelling far
With flowers beneath, above with starry lights
And set thy altars everywhere
On mountain heights
In woodland valleys dim with many dream,
In valleys bright with springs,
And in the curving capes of every stream
Thou who has taken to Thysef the wings
Of morning, to abide
Upon the secret places of the sea
And on fair islands, where the tide
Visits the beauty of untrodden shores,
Waiting for worshppers to come TO lnee
In thy great out-of- doors
To Thee turn, to Thee make my prayer,
God of the open air!
From the prison of anxious thoughts that greed
has builded,
From the fetters that envy has wrought, Snd
pride has gilded,
From the noise of the crowded ways and the
fierce confusion,
From the follv that wastes it's days in a world
of illusion
(Ab but the life is lost that frets and languishes
there),
would escape to be free in the joy of the open air,
So let me keep
These treasures of the humble heart
In true possession, owning them by love;
And, when at last I can no longer move
Among them freely, but must part
From the green fields and from the water clear,
Let me not creep
Into some darkened room and hide
From all that makes the world so bright and
dear,
But throw the windows wide
To welcome in the light;
And, while l clasp well-beloved hand,
Let me once more have sight
Of the deep sky and the far-smiling land
Then gently fall on sleep,
And breathe my body back to natures care,
My spirit out to Thee,
God of the open air!
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

Keep it out of the paper" is the cry which
the local newspaper publisher daily hears. To
oblige often costs considerable, though the par
ty who makes the request thinks the granting
hardly worth saying "thank you" for. A news
paper is peculiar thing in the eye of the pub
lie. The news gatherer is stormed at because
he gets hold of one item and is abused because
he does not get hold another. Young men, and
often young women, as well as older persons,
perform acts which become legitimate items for
publication and then rush to the newspaper Of
flee and beg the editor not to notice their escap-
ades. The next day they condemn the same pa
per for not having published item about an
other party. doing the same thing-Nicollet
Leader
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

A warrant for deportation has been served up
on Emma Goldman who completes her two years
prison term September 27. Well say it is going
to be mans size job to put Emilee abroad that
ship in case she doesn't care to go-and we reckon
she won't.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24
GOSSIP OF THE PRESS.

You can wish for riches if you want-but for
MS, just turn back the clock many years and turn
us loose with pair of patched pants, some angle
worms, fish hook and have the bullheads bitin'
fine!-Preston Times
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

Northfield newspapers accept cigaret advertis-
ing, but the Mortified city council has twice re-
fused to grant license for the sale of cigarets
or cigaret papers Mortified is so good it hurts
don't you know.-Jordan Independent.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

When you get your tailor's bill for your new
suit and the bill from your wife's modiste for
her new fall clothes, you realize more fully
how very foolish Adam and Eve were to eat that
blamed old apple.-Mesaba Ore.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

So far as we know the only man greatly pleased
by Congressman Schall's high and mighty atti-
tude toward General Pershing is one I. Schall.
Most of his statesmen are bit disgusted with
his hypercrtical frame of mind regarding the
American General.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

Some people do not believe in footing their
own horns, but are even more averse to hav-
ing them remain untooted.-Lakefeld Stan
dard.
Thereby providing good means of livelihood
for press agents who otherwise might have to do
some real work for their daily bread. Don't be
heartless about this thing, Standard.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

Some perfect ladies are known by the way they
crook their little finger when holding their tea
cup and still others are known by the poise and
aplomb with which they wear toothpick after
lunching in the best restaurant in town.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

People who cry loudly that newspapers are not
fair usually mean that they do not agree with
their particular opinion. The editor who tried
to please everybody went to the insane hospital
a long time ago.-A1bert Lea Standard.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

While all the big talk about self determination
has been going on, Great Britain has been estab-
fishing protectorate over Persia. Those canny
Britishers don't care who does the talking, SO
they get the goods.-National Republican.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

A modern novel contains the following lucid
sentence: "She held out her hand and her lover
took it and departed" Some of these lovers have
such a queer way of collecting souvenirs where
ever they go.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

How many bushels of seed corn did you save
last week? There is still time to pick a peck or
two you know, if you get right at it.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

c. M. Bendixen put up good fight. 1t isn't
the fault of the gentleman from Redwood coun-
ty' that one J. A. A. Burnquist became skeered
of the keers.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

Senator Sherman says certain portion of our
people are suffering from verbal delusion. That
seems to be what allied the last congress, which,
because of this element, came near permitting
our government to be changed from democracy
to an autocracy.-N. P. Olson in Red Wing
Eagle.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24
SMALL TOWN TALK

How are the weeds thriving on those vacant
lots you own in the other end of town?
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

The press association of North Dakota has en-
dorsed Governor Frazier for presidential candi-
date Let's see! Has North Dakota kept press
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

1t is a pretty safe policy to always cut the
deck after the fellow who is forever proclaiming
to the world how honest he is.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

Non-adyertising merchants are always looking
for places to economic. We suggest that they
rent smaller quarters and fire clerks. Might as
well do it now as later.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24
DANGER TO THE GOOSE OF THE
GOLDEN EGGS.

THE head of a large industry shows figures
proving that the output of his mills has
: decreased forty per cent per employe.
A lumber mill that produced seventy thousand
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

What do you mean by modesty, any
way? Did you ever hear anybody ac-
cuse Eve of immodesty?
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

Of course you are intensely interested in your
own troubles, but keep them your own-don't
pass them on to other people who may be about
you.
The Redwood gazette., 1919-09-24

Don't worry too much about doing better than
your best-it can't be done. But your work is
well laid out for you in achieving your best.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23

labyrinthine structure of commissions
to do the work Of government. Over
these the Governor has only limited
control. he has a two-year term Most
commissioners have longer terms and
function more or less Independently
There is also a constant criss-crossng
of jurisdiction, with resulting duplica-
tlon OF work. The commission finds
that there are 1877 separate agencies
operating under the Governor. but only
partially accountable to him. 1t wants to
consolidate these 1877 into sixteen de-
partments, each with a clearly defined
jurisdiction. 1t would bring all these
sixteen departments directly under the
control Of the Governor, increase his
term 70 FOUR years and abolish all cleo
tive state officers except the Governor
and the Controller. What an absurdity
it is, for instance, to elect every two
years an Attorney General and State
Engineer and Surveyor,
L the Governor is to be made the
centre Of all executive authority he
ought also to assume responsibility for
1nc states expenditures. The commits
sion therefore strongly recommends the
introduction of real budget system,
under which all estimates must be sub
mitted by the Governor to the Legis-
laturc, and the Legislature is debarred
from increasing sums asked for, though
retaining power to reduce them. 1t is
difficult to hold the Legislature to ac-
countabllity for excessive appropra-
tlons. 1t is impossible at present to
hold either the Legislature or the Gov
crnor responsible. Accountability should
be fixed, as far as possible, on one indi-
vldua, elected by a statewide vote
The blame for the extraordinary in
crease in state expenditure in recent
years could not be put on anybody's
shoulders. The old system of divided
power thus accomplished its perfect
work. 1t is time to try the other system
The people nowadays want results in
government and are not afraid to in
trust power to agents who will secure
results Government in this state has
been conducted too much for the benefit
Of the officeholdng class 1t should
now be made real instrument for the
protection and welfare of the com
munity. The commissions report is an
admirable move toward smplifed and
efficient state government.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Renaking The State

Tomorrow the New York State Re-
construction Commission Will submit it's
report to the Governor The supgestions
winch The commission makes are syveon-
ing and challenge attention.
Our present state government renre-
sents long, Slow growth. 1t has been
Tor the most part a growth in the wronp
direction. The form of state povorn-
ments set up in this country a centurv
ago was colored by the excessive dis
trust OF centralized power cherished bv
Thomas Jefferson and his followers
Each state initiated in it's domestic
scheme the cautious checks and balances
OF the Federal system, and MANI wont
much further than the Federal Consti-
tuition did in restricting the authority
of the Executive. In some cases the
Governor had no veto, a condition which
persisted IN Ohio and Indiana until verv
recently. The legislatures, unwieldv.
two-chamber bodies, were vested with
'he flght to intervene in many details
OF administration. A system of dual
control was thus set up, which produced
negatlvlsm and irresponsibility.
lhls system was relatively innocuous
while the states We're sparsely populated
poor and undeveloped The state govern
ments dealt then chiefly with questions
or party patronage and politics. But
When the states grew large and rich
ana mad to face the problem of a ma
tured industrial civilization the old
governmental model became misft
What the people need now is service
not the negation of it, And thew cannot
get service ont of machine so con-
structed as to minimize governmer+.,
activity and preserve the old Jefferso-
man ideal of deadlock jefferson thoucht
that state which was governed least
was governed best. But that rule can
hold good only IN pastoral and frontier
communities
The main contention in, the Recon
struction Committees report is that the
bonds which now tie ,he Executive should
be broken. The Lestlature has created
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
The Nurse Turns

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Your article in to-day paper en-
titled "a Lesson for New Yors' is tne. and
agree with every word o. il; bu- won't
you say word for the nurses also?
I wish you could visit some Of the public
schools and find out the work Of thc nurse
in the school. Talk with the principal, or
with the nurse herself think +, would
only be necessary to have yoa know no
work to realize how totally inadequate $
the remuneration.
At present. with u working Cay Of seven
hours and three hours Saturday. nurse
receives $l,C60 a year am l.vng in
house with business girls, TWO Of wnon
Lave only been at business Two years. All
receive over $1,000 and some over $1,000.
Sometimes wish had iskea . business
course instead Of three years' hospital
training and three months social service
training; and YET l ike my worA.
When doing private nursing il anusod 10
to hear people say they thought muse
was trained TO do without sleep. Perhaps
they think "a public health nurse" IS trained
to do without food and clothes also
A SCHOOL NURSE.
New \ ork Sept. i, 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Another Counter-L,eague

The idea of counter league of ma
tions, launched every now and then in
the anti-Entente press, is revived by the
Boyr7sche .Staats~ eitung, official organ
of the Bavarian government, which SAYS
that Germany is driven to the plan by
the refusal Of the Allies to admit her to
the league already established. The Ba-
varlan newspaper combines the two pat
terms usually suggested for the rival or
ganzation-the one based on nationalis
tic jealousies and the other built upon
the principle Of class war
lhe favorlte daydream Of the German
bourgeois press is an alliance of Ger
many, German Austria, Hungary, Bull
galla and Italy, with possibly also
the Ukraine. The other pattern bears
the Leninite stamp. Favored mainly by
the radical Socialists, it would embrace
soviet Russia and Hungary, with a Ger
many turned communistic, and its watch
word would be class warfare spread
over the entire world, aimed at the de-
structlon of the "capitalist" powers
England, France and the United States
Besides, there was the continental" plan
Of Herr Georg Bernhard and the Major
lty Socialists, Cohen and Kaliski, who
advocated joining hands with France
and Russia against "Anglo-Saxon i'm
perialism."
The scheme now suggested by the
organ of the Bavarian government would
include IN the counter league "all the
peoples who have passed through the fire
OF social revolution" meaning GERMANY.
German Austria, Russia and ultimately
Italy.
The writer continues: "To Germanv
VIII revert the intellectual direction of
the enterprise. For the only means hv
which Germany can raise herself from
her abasement' is, not to live up to her
Obligations and convince the nations of
the world of her good faith, but "to put
herself as early as possible in the posi-
ton of thinking and acting for other ma
tlons IN a word, to go in for the old
game with renewed vigor.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Local Daylight Saving

All power to the local leaders Of labor
and business who are trying to do by
local ordinance what Congress defeated
when it repealed the daylight saving law !
viii there be confusion as a result of
the passage Of such a city ordinance? 1t
is the contention Of Mr. Marks, president
Of the national association, that uniform
ity can be achieved through uniform
law adopted by towns and cities through
out the Eastern zone. Possibly state laws
can follow.
Unquestionably the problem is ma
tlonal one which Congress could best
handle in the interests of all. But Con-
gress has yieldedSsto the wishes of a
strong minority, the farmers, with scant
effort to deal with the problem on its
merits. Therefore it is an admirable
idea to have localities step in and act
where the national authorities have re-
fused to act. Ultimately nationwide
policy may be worked out that will do
justice to all.
We hope that the Board Of Aldermen
will find the proposed ordinance work
able, and that its spread over the East
crn states will be speedy.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23

often carried them beyond the wishes of
the international officers. The use of the
sympathetic strike and the attempts at
general strikes also show this aggressive
ness. The idea of the industrial union
first agitated by the w l. l. T., then by the
I. w. w. and now coming from the guild
movement in Great Britain, is behind much
of this form of attack
1t is also the cause of the revolt against
the American Federation of Labor, both
within and without that organization The
State Labor Commissioners mostly report
that there has been little tangible success in
this revolt SO far, but all recognize its exist
ence and most concede that it is dangerous
The federation numbered 3,26OOO members
at its convention in June, having gained
$4,000 in the previous year. But there are
some 100000 members of other unions so
radical that they are not affiliated with the
federation. Of those the Amagamated Cloth
ing Workers is probably the chief, and this
figure does not include organizations like
the I. W. W., the W I. l. T., and the One
Big Union, which all labor bodies along
the industrial union lines. In all it is
estimated that organized labor to-day en-
braces about fifth of the wage workers OF
America, and is only a third as strong in
proportion to the total as is British organ
lah
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Standard Of Liuing 4drnnced

The aggressiveness of labor in ncreas-
ing It's demands is, of course, nothing more
than an accelleration of the steady fight to
increase the standard and ease of life for
American workmen which it has always
made. The last year has been notable for
two things: the demand for fewer hours
and the extension OF organization, as evi-
denced in the attempts to unionize the
steel industry and the atfiliation with
unions of government employees, like that
Of the Boston police. There is strong evj
dence, also, that the demand for higher
wages has little more than kept pace with
the cost Of living, taking the country's in
dustries as & whole, and that the standard
OF living has been advanced since the
close OF the war. This Will be taken IN
IN later article.
The sclidifyins o. abors power is also
noticeable. The plan for Join. action by
the railroad and m.nsrs unions now be-
ing discussed y the LATEST example 81
this. Throughout the country there has
been strong consolidation os the citv and
state central labor bodies. and thev bavs
shown a spirit Of aggressiveness that has
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Why?

The steel strike viii tan.
It VIII fail because the motive is
political. The pretence of its being
economic is too palpabe to deceive public
opinion.
It viii fail because its leaders have
mobilzed industrial alienism for dis
ruptve purpose.
1t will fail because the American peo-
pie will not submit to the Specialization
Of basic INDUSTRIES by force.
1t Will fail because of q word that is
used to infame the Slavic and other raw,
unassimilated racial elements deliberate
ly organized for the struggle. The word
is revolution.
Our correspondent Mr.. Knappen,
wires from Pittsburgh that many of the
ignorant workers think the strike is the
beginning of the proletarian revolution.
It is not charged that this idea has been
directly propagated by the union organ
izers. But the probability Of its having
been indirectly propagated is overwhelm-
ing. Among the leaders arc men who
for years have been writing and talking
the patter Of syndicalism, Of Dictator
ship by the prolctariat, of revolutionary
change by the technique of force.
In short, the steel strike will fail be-
cause it is un-Amorican.
That is the essential fact about it..
The meyits Of the ostcnsibe dispute be-
tween the United States Steel Corpora
ton and the union leaders are by COM
rarison immaterial
And when it has failed the American
Federation Of Labor will wish it had
had the courage to cast out the Boil
sheviki and renounce the evil doctrine
Of force.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23

To the Editor oI The Tribune
Sir: Nay -asgest possible solution %
your admirable editorial in this mornings
issue: ~ hen Is 1 Strike a Crime" Police
departments IS at present constituted cone
s.st O: Il large group of natonali1ed' bat de-
taebad, .og~l c.e.4 4nits. varying IN size Ae-
eordiae 70 locality. To organize these De-
tached unlts INTO = great branch OF national
protective service corresponding to the army
and navy, ia which the detective bureaus
would form part, seems practicable sale
guarding loca! interests with efficiency and
fidelity. AS you say. the genera pubic Is
no abstract I.sasc but embraces ficn ana
poor alike, would not the interests o. al
be guarded ,.nder some such consolidation q
police organizations az suggested above
ANGELICA SCHUYLER CHURCH
New York, Sept. 10, 1919
New-York tribune., 1919-09-23
Still q Stanch Anti

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir; Will you allow me officially 20 correct
the impression which may have been made n
Thursdays issue OF The Tribune that Mrs
James W Wadsworth. jr.. j. q less stanch
anti-suffragist than formerly
To our irreparabe loss and profound re-
gret, Mrs. Wadsworth relnq4.shed active
work IN the National Association Opposed 20
Woman Suffrage because Of III health. She
IS, however. our honorary president; IS 10
constant touch with US and retains ths
presidency Of the Woman Patriot Publish
ing Company ("The Woman patrio| beng
the official anti-sufrage organ.
Any other impression IS not only mis-
leading 20 the public but distressing %
every member Of this organization, every
one OF whom stlil regards Mrs Nadswor'h
not only as ac.la. leader but as .nsp ration
NARY G. KILBRETH
President National Association opposed 10
Woman Suffrage.
New YORK, sept 20, 1919.