The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-05-29

is otherwise quite as active as many of his young
professional brothers. He is of the homeopa-
thetc school.
According to the Sleepy Eye Herald Dis
patch VIM. F. Kunze candidate for mayor of
Minneapolis, was born near Brown county Will
age. Minneapolis voters are trying awfuIly
hard, we are told, not to hold that against Mr..
Kunze. But they DO admit it was mighty bad
judgment on his part when he might So easily
have picked Redwood Falls for his birthplace
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'"This Hard Boiled Age"
"Radio Christians"
"The Modern Babel"
"Victim and Victor"
Blossom Time in the Desert"
"Men of Sorrows"
"Heart Searching"
"How to Be Happy Though Church Mem
ber."
Knockers at SIM"
"Ice and Sand"
Did you think they were movie titles, you
poor heather? Well, they were titles of sermons
preached in Kansas City Sunday.-Kansas City
Star.
FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND
Many people are worrying about the future
of the smaller communities. There is no need
for it.
1t is true that statistics show a trend of
population from the farms and smaller towns to
the larger cities. 1t is also fact that many small
er communities, just as in the case of many
cities, have had retrogression instead of pro-
gress
|. Compare the country town of today with
that of generation, or even ten years ago.
There is really no comparison in appearance.
few years ago small towns did not pave their
streets and park their boulevards. They do
now. Smaller communities have the same facili-
ties for convenience that the cities have Com
pare the schools of today with the older times
These things all evidences, not of decay, but
progress.
1t has been argued that the new develop
ments of transportation have interfered with
the smaller communities. Perhaps that is true,
if we consider but one side of the question.
1t is true that in the days of the horse and the
local railroad train that people did not travel
The automobile moves people back and forth
and hither and yon, to which some object. But
the automobile has placed garage or a filling
station upon nearly every corner in town. Good
roads have made it easy for people to get to
cities but they have also made it easy for the
city folks to travel to outlying communities.
We hear much of the new methods of mer-
oh cip Inns
sees something new in the process of retailing.
Within the past two years the mail order houses
have suffered great decline in trade volume.
To overcome it they are establishing retail out
lets in many cities. The chain stores have cut
stores have come new methods and new problems
which affect every merchant.
We cannot believe that these new conditions
spell diaster for the smaller communities In
fact the new methods and ideals Of merchandis-
ing are making the smaller communities more
attractive places to buy and trade. Give the
local merchant the impetus of good merchan-
dsing methods in addition to his personal ac-
tivity and influence and he is beyond competi-
ton.
The merchant who never washes his store
windows, who does not display his goods and
let the public know that he is in business, who
buys carelessly and extends credit too gener-
ously is doomed for failure. The progressive
small town merchant never had better oppor-
tunity than today.
Of course, small towns partake of the con-
ditions of the industry which surrounds them.
Agriculture is not now at its best-that is
it could be better. When farm lands have
stable value, when the population changes its
destination from city to country, the rural COM
munities will advance to unprecedented levels
of prosperity.
This period of readjustment is by no means
as serious as some will believe. The smaller
community and its outlying section has always
been the background Of American life. It al
ways will be.-Grand Rapids Herald Review.