The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-01-12

AzETTE, REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESO'
the creation Of brotheriy social order, humane
industrial organization, clean political system,
Ia sanitary civic life, constructive International
ism education for life, recreation for recreation,
the restraint of selfishness, the observance Of
law the curbing of crime, the Of delinquents
and detectives, the abolition of poverty, the de-
struction of disease the defeat of death, the pro-
duction of happy homes, pleasant Fairgrounds,
cultural centers, creative churches, Christian
We still have faith in Redwood Falls-much
faith. So very much faith have we that we are
sure there will one day, sooner or later, be
commission form of government here, which is
the way and the only way in which the city can
ever be assured of it's affairs getting the same
expert attention as do an individuals affairs.
However loyal unpaid city officials may be, it
is not in the nature of things that they can af-
ford to give sufficient time to the actual bust
ness of running the city's affairs to make good
interest on the money invested therein. In order
to do this there must be constant and expert at
tenion to every detail, and policy that Will
continue for term of years without any posi-
bility of it's being upset before it has had
chance to work the good for which is was origin
ated. What Redwood Falls needs-what every
city of several thousand people needs-is paid
and bonded manager, equipped mentally and well
trained for the job of running the city's affairs,
and secured sufficiently so that the city does not
have to suffer the financial penalty of his mis-
takes. We face the fact that anyone propos-
ing such radical change in city management is
due to be unpopular with those citizens who be-
lieve that public work should be "labor of love-"
and with that less commendable group which loves
the fun of messy and petty 'city politics" each
year. But in the face of this probable unpopu-
larity the Gazette still maintains that it is un-
fair to expect men without pay to give the nee
essary time to the business of running the
city's affairs with that true economy which looks
toward the future as well as to the present. We
may not live to see the City Manager at work
here, but we know he is coming some time
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A good "business head" is man who lives
within his income and promptly pays his bills.
A first-class business man prides himself on
meeting his obligations on their due dates. The
man who always owes money, who lives beyond
his income, no matter what his income may be,
who four-flushes his way through life, is Meth
er business man nor gentleman The bust
ness training of lifetime will not cure this fail
ing. The man who disburses billion dollars
year in the settlement of his accounts is no more
to be admired than the Flooding scrub-woman
who pays her Sc grocery bill each payday. II
you pay the money you owe exactly at the time
lit is due, you will be just as good risk as the
man worth milion-for that is all he can do.
Red Wing Daily Eagle.
Last week Springfield had fire, quite big
one. Evidently August Erickson, editor OF the
Springfield Advance, heard some criticism OF
the work of the fire department and it apparent
lily "got under his hide" bit. What he says OF
the Springfield department is applicable to ev-
ery other volunteer fire department in the state
including our own very efficient one.
No organization gets more kicks
than volunteer fire department. When
there is fire, minutes seem like hours
quick to criticize and slow to praise. But
the fremen work as fast as they can;
they disregard their safety, their
own comfort, and while the critics look
before the water is turned on. People are
on, they go into burning buildings, get
smoked up and soaked up, ruin their
clothes and perhaps injure themselves,
all for the honor and glory of serving us.
Think of these things when you go to the
next fire. Slap the chief on the back
and tell him the boys did fine
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DR.. w. B. Riley of Minneapolis, the noted
Fundamentalist, is preparing legislative war
on evolutionists and will ask the Minnesota state
legislature to prohibit the teaching of the evolu-
itionary theory in the public schools. The prop
osition can stir up more ill-feeling and cussed-
ness than any question which might be preached
and in the end produces nothing. Evolution
means thousand different things to thousand
different persons, according one gives greater
or less weight to the meaning of the word given
it in religion, biology, botany, astronomy, geo.
logy. mathematics, sociology any Of the other
fields of study and investigation. But roughly,
it divides itself into two main aspects, the reilg-
ious and the scientific. In its religious aspect
is not the proper subject for legislation, both
the federal and the state constitution guarantee
ing religious freedom and forbidding the pass
age of any law having to do with the establish
ment of religion. Certainly, the religious as
poets of this question are not being taught II
the public schools. In fact, We have gone so far