The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-02
SMALL TOWN TALK

And now along come lot of believers in
the Sunday blue laws asking that the national
radio commission restrict all Sunday programs
| to purely religious music and oratory. It's the
same old effort to try to legislate goodness into
people-and would be about as successful as most
other attempts in case it were tried, which we
predict it will not be. We suggest to the Lords
Day Alliance which is demanding the restriction
that it try turning off its own radios-or hunt
ing until the best church service is found. Some
of the best of the musical programs come in on
Sunday but not purely religious so they like
the worthless stuff would fall under the BAN
The Mile Laos Messenger is not keen about
the proposed law-making the licensing of auto
mobile drivers a state requirement and gives
these reasons: "We now have laws covering
every phase of improper driving. We do not
believe it good sense to pass more laws until
we have tried the experiment of enforcing those
already passed. In many instances the proposed
law would work a hardship Many families
have only car, and this is driven at different
times by different persons Each would have
to have license. The law would give every of
ficer in the state the right to stop any car at any
time and demand that the driver exhibit his IL
cense. 1t does not seem necessary that we should
submit to this annoyance"
Charley Cheney of the Minneapolis Journal
post mortemed" over the late lamented election
the other day and his compilation of election fl
cures revealed some rather interesting things of
which the casual election-observer might be to-
tally unaware. For instance Associated Press
tabulations show that Minnesota was second to
New York in its vote for the communist candi-
dates, Foster and Gitlow. The total communis-
tic vote of the state was approximately five
thousand The Minnesota socialist vote was
larger than its communistic vote but the state
was seventh in the number of votes cast for
Thomas and Maurer. Hennepin county lead in
the socialist vote with ,424 while the majority of
the communist ballots cast in St. Louis
county with other counties following in this
order: Hennepin, Carlton, Ramsey, Itasca, Otter
Tail, and Aitkin In spite of the smallness of
the communstic vote an analysis of it geogra-
phically and otherwise might be interesting.
Not long ago nifty young lady blew into
Wadena, and at once proceeded to tell the bust
ness men of her great advertising scheme, and
they fell for it, fell hard, too. The Pioneer
Journal gives this analysis of the value of the
advertising.
1t is really astonishing how suppos-
eddy intelligent business men will fall for
| out-of-town advertising schemes, more
especially if they be put by strang-
ers. Two weeks ago attractive young
woman came to Wadena and put on such
a campaign. She sold space in
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and strange to say, Fl reputable, mer-
| chants took space at total aggregate
cost of $97 Of that amount she paid
us SIS for printing 100 directories which
distributed among the advertisers
to be placed in CONSPICUOUS places
that folks see that they are in bust
One hangs in the P. j. office
where it has been for two weeks and
we have yet to see the first person to
glance at it.
| Now, let us examine this proposition
for moment: Subtracting the actual
church directory we have 50 inches of
advertising space which cost $1.86k
per inch The same advertising in the
Pioneer Journal would cost $500, or
35 cents an inch, and it would have been
read by 4,5OO people, as against pos
sble or two under the young
! lady's plan. If this be sample of pre-
| sent day business methods we do not
wonder that 90 percent Of those engaged
in merchandising go bankrupt.
We realize that it is very hard for
some folks to say mo" to a stranger,
more especially to attractive young
! woman. Would it not be good idea
! for the Lions club to appoint commit
tee to pass on all advertising schemes
and requests for donations before being
presented to the public. The matter is
herewith referred to them for consdera-
ton.
The year is not ended and yet the toll of
deaths from automobile accidents has reached
the 1000 mark-the highest total ever recorded
in the citys' history. The situation is getting
worse instead of hetter We agree with Coroner