The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-16
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ISN'T THERE A LIMIT?

ISN'T THERE LIMIT?
Critics of newspapers who contend
that the editorial pages of the smaller
papers lack foresight, logic and interest,
may be right so far part of the papers
are concerned but there many, many
of the smaller papers of this state
that will stand inspection against jour-
mails from much larger communities
The Rock County Herald at Luverne,
ably edited by Mabe Moreaux, never
misses having three or more timely, well
written dissertations on subjects of state
or local interest, clipped editorial, the
best found in the exchanges of the week,
and almost a page of editorial taken
from other papers and so credited.
Rudolph Lee, of the Long Prairie Lead
err, never fails to produce new ideas on
timely topics and Congressman Knutson
capably discusses national events in his
Wadena paper. A. M. Welles, of the
Worthington Globe, Billy Noonan, of
the Baudette Region, and Carl East
man, of the LIE Sueur News, prefer the
short, pithy paragraph and yet lack
none of the logic or wisdom of their
brothers who take more space in which
to record their thoughts.-Bemidj Sen
tinel.
Years ago there was minister IN Heron
Lake who used to preach very good sermons,
but he used up too much time preaching for an
hour and half sometimes longer. One day
one of the big men of the church called the
minister and in a very kindly way said to him:
Reverend, if had anything to say and could
not say it in half an hour would not attempt
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and from that time on the church attendants
were given thirty-minute sermons. Today peo-
pie are too busy to wade through column edi-
torial; they want them boiled down to the small
est space possible, in short, they want to get
them as they run, they cannot STOP small
paragraph often times tells big story, and
puts it over-Le Sueur News-Herald.
But the "big man" didn't, as understand
the case, tell the minister to cut his sermon to
one minute He wanted something else besides
topic. This 'big man., (who probably was about
the exact size of Editor Eastwood) wanted to
know the minister's views on the topic selected,
and his reasons for such views. He could have
gotten the topic by standing just outside the
door while the minister announced it, and then
gone on his way. But he wanted to know more
than the mere topic, so he went inside and tar
ried until the minister had finished his discus
sion. The minister could have saved himself a
lot of time and effort if he had cut his sermon
to one minute, but will wager interest in his
church would have died out in fortnight. With
those who are so busy "they cannot stop" to lis
ten to sermon or read an editorial, it does not
make much difference whether there is a church
or an editorial page not.
"The Big Three is public nuisance and
ought to be abolished" expresses Editor East
woods views of the Department Administration
and Finance, but such a statement convinces no
one of anything except Editor Eastwood's idea.
The important facts embodied in the best
love story ever written could be told in half a
dozen sentences, but the publisher could never
sell the story.
The Tunney- Dempsey fight could have been
told in dozen lines, but millions of people
stopped" to read dozens of columns about it.
Carl Eastwood will read this, and it is a
longer editorial than he has written in ten years
He would read it were it twice as long.
Which brings to the point, that it is in
terest and not time which governs our reading.
Rock County Herald
Bob Forest of the Lake Wilson Pilot is a
pretty genial Scotchman most of the time
but he gets all reused up over the proposal for a
twenty million dollar road bond or an increase in
the fishing license fee. We can understand
Bob's protest against the license increase-the
bigger the license the fewer the fishermen; the
fewer the fishermen the fewer the angle worms
Bob will sell from the flourishing angle worm
plant he is managing over in Murray Bob is as
canny as the rest of his thrifty nation.