The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-05-21
We Did Our Best

We Did Our Best
THE Womans Club of Redwood Falls has set
out to produce this edition of the Redwood
4 Gazette not thru any feeling of particular
qualifications or capacity for the work, but pri-
marily as result of financial demands. In order
to entertain the Womans Federated Clubs of the
Second District at their annual convention to be
held in Redwood Falls, June 3rd and 4th, each
of the four federated clubs of this city has been
assessed certain amount, the sum total to be
used in defraying the expenses incidental to the
convention Several methods of raising our quota
were suggested to the Woman Club some of
these methods unquestionably simpler and entail
ing much less work and worry than the method
chosen,-that of editing the Gazette and selling
advertising. The club is indebted for the idea of
this method to one of its members, Mrs. John
Lauterbach, Jr., who is the regularly employed
local editor of the Gazette
Perhaps if our ignorance of paper editing
and advertising selling had not been so profound
we should not have embarked upon the venture
with so much enthusiasm. But the venture did
seem to us fraught with certain possibilities.
First, and foremost it presented the means
whereby we could raise quota and perhaps
even more than our quota; for it has long been
the hope of the club to put itself upon such
financial basis that it might have a reserve in it's
treasury rather than the deficit which it has
known for the past several years. Besides the
financial possibility, we believed that the editing
of the paper and the selling of advertising would
constitute for us as clubwomen a valuable ex-
perience Certainly to the majority of us new
field Of endeavor has been opened up; we may
truthfully say that we never dreamed there was
80 much time taking performance and so much
detail to the getting cut Of a weekly paper. The
work has been arduous, but we feel that the re-
suits will have more than compensated for our
efforts. The financial results seem promising
and we have realized unmeasured individual and
personal gain in knowledge Of the make up Of
q Paper; Of the methods and problems inherent
thereof and, of it's interests both in the several
phases of getting the news, writing it up, proof
reading and in the selling of advertising. We
have benefited too thru need of cooperation
with the club. Each and every member has had
definite part in the getting out of the paper, but
each part being necessarily fraction of the
whole, and cooperation making the whole posi-
BILE.
It has been our aim to make the paper inter-
esting and Informative not only to the local sub
scribers of the Gazette but also to the many
clubwomen throughout the district and state to
whom, thru the courtesy of the Gazette this issue
is being distributed We hope the paper may add
to the incentive of large number Of clubwomen
to attend the convention of the Federated Clubs
in Redwood Falls, our home town, and town
which, the reader may know by perusal of the
pages Of this paper, we are very proud OF.
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This WOman's World
w WHATEVER the next generation may bring
M in the way of evolution of organizations
w and their methods and problems, it wouit
seem that for today and the immediate tomor.
row the organizations of women's clubs offer the
best medium for all women who want to be 9
part of their times, and for those women wht
want to cooperate in all movements looking to-
ward the betterment of life.
Club life offers definite programs of worl
for the women of all ages, tastes and previous
educational advantages. It's work covers practic
ally every phase of human interest and endeavor
and its organizations, local, state, and national
are built up so as to offer opportunity for unite
effort in all forward looking movements Tha
the womens club movement is meeting and solv
ing present day problems and constantly addin
to its list of envable achievements cannot be sue
cessfully denied
There are thousands of splendid women
our state, many of them living in the remotes
places, to whom the program of the Federatio
would be a wonderful inspiration. Through tn
Federation all women's organizations can !
benefited by the contacts they are permitted
FORM and so be enabled better to understan
each others viewpoint of life.
Every neighborhood needs Federated W
mans club for united cooperative effort, for civ
Improvement, for home and child developmer
and for contact between the neighborhood Al
the state, the nation and the world.
Our country is but collection OF commun
ties. What affects the one, benefcially or det1
mentally, exerts like influence on the otne
Whatever the effort at betterment undertake
collectively, it win make life more secure mo
enjoyable, and more worth the living.
Woman's domain used to be the four corne
Of her home; but her home has expanded anna
inrly from the four corners OF house 70 u
fo,rr corners of q community, q state. nation
to the four corners Of the world. Mrs. Sam !.
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