The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-04-07
What Others Think

While the law of supply and demand undoubtedly
is operating to cut down wages all the country
the action of the school board members at their meet
ing here Wednesday recommending that salaries of
rural teachers be placed at minimum of $50 and a
maximum of $40 per month is questionable to say the
least.
A farm laborer at $50 per month and his board
will get $3.50 per year and his board At $25 per
month he will get $780, A teacher of a seven months
school will draw $780, If she gets board low
SIS month, and most teachers pay more, she will
have 1925 left There five months left out of the
year and she will have to pay board or live at home
during that time If she expects to continue teaching
she must attend summer school at stated intervals
Of course if the teacher has nine months school she
will draw $3.50 and have 1888 left after paying board.
Even that is less than the hired draw at $25
month
Present economic conditions perhaps require that
wages paid teachers be lowered but surely any girl
who is competent to instruct children is worth more
than $50 per month.-Wheaton Gazette.
The two outstanding depression beaters" last
year were the two greatest users of newspaper ad-
vertising space, the American Tobacco Company and
the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.
The American Tobacco Company not only did
greater business last year than before in its his
tory but it's net profits exceeded those of any year.
those of the boom year 1929.
Atlantic and Pacific sold more than billion dol
lars worth of merchandise moving into first place in
the volume of business done by any company in
this country.-St. Louis Star.
Easy-going, sloppy and shiftless are we, the
citizens of the United States all too inclined to say
ooh, well, what's the use? All politicians (meanng
all men running for public ofice) crooked" Or,
eyes, we know so-and-so has pulled awful bon
orc but how he's getting raZZedi Let's the
poor guy break, and fool the old smarties who are
trying to throw him Quit" Good, sound reasons for
electing an important government official are they
not? But they have been used again and yet again
by us citizens if the greatest finest mghtiest country
in the world today.-Renville Star-Farmer
The Redwood County Plan" of weed eradication
will become traditional weed eradication scheme, to
Judge by the way it meets approval throughout the
entire state The board and county commission
in Freedom and Steele counties the latest to
approve of it. The state agricultural department re-
ports that the Redwood county plan has been sweeping
the southern Minnesota counties. A department bull
letn states that experience has taught is the cheap
est method of weed control in densely settled counties
Sacred Heart News.
There ought to be an intelligent continuous and
sustane interest in public spending. Nothing much
is to be gained by getting mad about taxes every
eight ten years and then forgetting them the rest
of the time It is the useless and expend
that making the taxpayers groan these days.
Long Prairie Leader.
home town booster declares that Philadelphia
has wealth per capita than any other city, May
be it will day be rich enough to afford another
Sesqui- Centennial exposition.