The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1920-12-29

Germans but Americans, and that the
| Fatherland we had sung SO much ABOUT
was not the Fatherland that our boys
and our neighbors' boys were going to
! fight for Their Fatherland was Aneri-
ca" said one of those men, whose fath-
er had fought in the Franco-Prusslan
War Of 1871 and whose son fought
! AGAINST Germany in this war. at
gave US many a heartache to tear loose
from all the old traditions, but the
new German policy of frighttullness
made it easier for US, and when we
cut loose we became 100 per cent Am
orleans"
In every Liberty Loan and Red
Cross drive the township went over
the top, and in the last drive more
thrift stamps were sold by the school
children in that township than IN any
other in the state except one.
The~campaigns for. funds, the boys
going away to fight, and all the incl
dents of the war gave leading men IN
the township the realization that they
had not been fair to their boys and
girls. At one of the meetings called
to talk over the consolidation of the
seven township schools, a farmer
said:
at isn't fair to raise up a boy in
America and let him hear the German
language so much that he speaks that
most, and speaks English only in
broken way, like a foreigner. If we
are going to live in America let us be
Americans. And let US give our boys
and girls as good a chance for an
American education as any boy or
girl"
And so they called an election in
the spring of 1918 to vote on township
consolidation and the issuance of $685.
900 in bonds to buy a site and build a
school, and there were only four votes
in the township against it! Five acres
for site were bought in the exact
center of the township, on knoll that
is said to be the highest point in the
district. Before the school was fin
ished it was seen that more money
would be needed, and second issue
of $4,000 in bonds was voted, with
out ballot against it, and later $780,
900 more in bonds was voted unani-
mously for school equipment and for
the school grounds.
The school building the teacherage,
the janitor's house and the barn are
in group at a crossroads in the open
country, with farm lands all round
and no other building near by. They
| have their own electric light, gas, wa
| ter and hot-air pants. The floors
are Of hard maple, the interior finish
is birch, and the stairways in the
school have noiseless treads of heavy
slate. On each floor are bubblin2
fountains Of cold drinking water. The
baths and toilets are as modern ans
sanitary as those in any city school.
| There is an auditorium with five hun
dred opera chairs, stage and a NOV
| ing picture machine.
Some Striking Results.
The teacherage and janitor's house
are furnished by the school board
| The only article Of furniture in the
teacherage not supplied by the dis
trict is.the baby's high chair.
gether on the second floor of the
teacherage and by their own groceries
end take turns at cooking and do
ing the homework.
The district spent $4,000 in gravel
ing the Fairgrounds, planting trees
and shrubbery and in concrete side
walks. 1t spent 5000 in crawling the
roads in front of the schoolhjuse,
Lock at what this school has done
for this township in the two terms
has been open," said Superintendent
Molenaar. '"In 1918, only two years
ago, there were only four persons in
this township who had ever been
high school, and they had to go away