The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1927-11-09
AMERICANS AND FOOTBALL.


~ itial energy. They bubble over with siren
9Th, they are thrilled with energy plus.
The old world delights in games of skill, care
fully and scientifically demonstrated, quite apart
from the massive strength or energy displayed
Americans like the boundless activity. The song
of their heart is the 'wid joy of living" That
rs the spirit that makes football popular and gives
to it, its fascination. In other country in the
world could two football teams attract from
sixty to over one hundred thousand people time
after time. Americans understand the strain of
the contest and gloat over this strain. They
know the men are alive with intensity and mas
ters of their science. This is the key to the
American character: Supremacy through siren
9Th. They will grow, develop, advance, exactly
as the great game of football has grown and de-
veloped. The game is born of the initial energy
of a nation and nursed by the inexhaustible
strength of the people. Delight in this, count
it matter of pride to be one with this vast,
virile, far-reaching impulse that admits no
problem impossible and whets it's appetite upon
difficulties. To be American is to be strenuous
and to be strenuous is to carry civilization for
ward, as Atlas sustained the world.
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GROSS PROFITS?"
N OF long ago we talked with a retired
N business man; one who with years of bust
ness experience as background MENTION
ed that certain local institution would show a
neat Gross Profit for the year. That silly phrase,
Gross Profit" You might as we'll say "vic-
torious failure" or disastrous victory" Gross
profits is phrase that was invented by account
ants to hide the inefficency of managing direct
>ors. 1t is an excuse. I: is an attempt to make
things look better than they are. 1t is an effort
to white-wash black situation. profits" has a
definite meaning. 1t can never be "gross," it
must always be met" The fact is that few dare
to face the facts. They expect their accountants
to cover up their mistakes and their losses They
think first of appearance and second of actual
facts. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, have
ultimately been wrecked because they did not
wish to know the facts about their affairs. They
compelled their accountants and bookkeepers
to invent excuses; and eventually they learned
the truth from official receivers. So do not use
the silly phrase "Gross Profits" The only kind
of profit you can have is a net profit. It's not
the amount you make gross that counts.
TT
GIVING THE DOCTOR A CHANCE.
A MERICANS cannot fairly term themselves
~ as the most efficient people until they stop
the present loss of three billion dollars
worth of human values through preventable dis
eases.
Infection, acute or chronic, by bacteria or
parasites, is probably the most potent cause of
disease, old age and death. Fortunately most of
these infections can be dealt with if physician
is consulted in time. However, this doesn't
mean waiting for signs of illness. The appar-
emily healthy should occasionally be examined
by physicians to detect departures from the nor
NAL, so that the tendency may be checked at once
and illness obviated