The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-12-18
ssWhat Are We Waiting FOr?"

ssWhat Are We Waiting For?'
IRON many sections of Redwood county comes the
II question-"What waiting for? Why
hasn't another social welfare worker been
ed to take the place of Miss Mona Calster who left
several months ago."
The Gazette like other thoughtful individuals and
agencies little purpose and point in this stop
ping of program of welfare work which made Red
wood county outstanding among the visioned counties
of the state. For years the social program of the
county has been the admiration of surrounding
ties and the biggest single piece of pubcbeneft work
in the county itself Now, all of sudden has stop
ped. Why? We wish we knew!
AS factor in financial economy a social worker
should be given high rank by county officials. Public
funds have been saved because investigation has shown
that asking county help did need it, that
relatives could be made to the burden that
state agencies would part of the response
bilty. Over term of years the saving thus
made has, by conservative estimate, gone far to-
wards defraying the expense of keeping worker in
the field.
But money saved or spent has little Importance
in the final settlement of the question. In the help
ing of stricken handicapped unfortunate people
of all types, the work has been invaluable. In the
common cause of humanity it must be carried for
ward and since benefits the whole county it should
be supported morally and financially by every thought
full adult in the county
If the board of county commissioners who have
felt it wise to thus far provide worker believe in
the old axiom "Let sleeping dogs lie they may have
acted in support of that axiom. If they think that
poverty, or vice, cruelty, wrong left covered
to be poverty vice. cruelty wrong, then they
justified in refusing to employ worker. We find
it hard to believe they short-si,hted.
Rather with skilled person seeking out the in
fected places and applying curative measures such
diseased spots become great creeping which,
surely physical disease, affect first an individual,
then a home, then a community. There is no economy
of money or life souls in that.
Years ago. hard work, careful study and patience
the part of thoughtful residents of the county
this helpful program to Redwood county. To drop it
now would be a backward step which would not only
auger Ill for the county but would be step backward.
We can't conceive of Redwood county taking that STEP
or breaking the chain which is making this whole
state one vast program for the protection and care
of children and for the help of adults.
Just what ARE we waiting for anyway?
Why should not each Of ask his commissioner ?
Christmas Eve.
VVIHEN Christmas Eve comes at the end of the
w last hurried pre-holiday week and the last
preparation is completed, this environment of
ours will undergo swift and welcome change. The
buying ended the fever of trade subsidized the business
weary world and his wife gone home finally laden
with gifts the tree placed the parcels mailed and the
candles lighted-another Christmas Eve!
Then for few hours humanity puts aside the
burden of and worries that carried from
the cradle to the grave At least for this evening
and tomorrow the frowns and burrows that wrinkle
brows bent over the toll of the workaday world are
smoothed away For awhile people be trades
people, clerks, doctors, lawyers, toers severay dis
tmgushed by burdens of work they bear and become
brothers in the great experience of Christmas.
For at least the few days that center around
Christmas the world knows that all men can be broth
ers. 1t puts check upon ambition calls a halt to
pickering and truce to contention For at least
these few days men warm themselves by the fires of
benevoence throw open their hearts and let the shirt
cramped too long, fly forth
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men! What avails
it if in moment two all is forgotten if men hard
their hearts toward one another again. and bitter
ness and worldly vanity resume their sway? It is no
matter The world is the better for having dreamed
however briefly, the brotherhood of man.
The First Christmas
ND 1T came to pass in those days. that there
~ went out decree from Caeser Augustus, that
all the world should be taxed
And all went to be taxed, every into his own city
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the
city of Nazareth into Judea the city of David
which is called Bethlehem,
To be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being
with child.
And she brought forth her rstborn son. and wrapped