The Redwood gazette., 1933-08-10


time as you are brother. It costs
money to run a newspaper, and there
isn't much coming in these days.
Much of our pay is in promises back
ed by our faith in the individuals.
But we are making the best of the
situation. We are not growing or
grabbing or complaining. We are do
ing our best to make the world seem
brighter for our readers.
If we point out defects in our sys-
tenn of government, if we censure pub
lie officials who are obviously failing
in the tasks assigned to them, it is
not that we have a chip on our
shoulder, or knife up our sleeve,
or any other spirit Of i'll will. 1t is
just our way of convincing the peo-
pie that we can do better if we want
to do so.
We can improve conditions only
by supporting that which is right
and condemning that which is wrong,
by aiding instead of destroying.
When a doctor discovers cancer
he cuts it out, that the patient may
continue to live.
Our economic life is full of cancers
today, much Of them having their
origin in political incompetence and
dishonesty. When the people operate
these cancers will gradually disap-
pear-and not before.
There is no gold at the end of
the rainbow, just hard work. And
we're doing our share Of that work
as we think it should be done.
Smile with us-you'll feel better
Statesman, Fargo, Oklahoma.
There is faculty given to some
men that it is hard to find phrase
for. 1t is the faculty of getting
things done.
1t is a gift. A man may have abil-
ity, education, training and ambition,
and still lack the genius that gets
things done. Another man who has
had little or no education and whose
training has been of the most hap
hazard, without any fuss or ado will
seem to accomplish the impossible.
Part of it, perhaps, is a daring TO
tackle things that seem impossible
to others. Perhaps another part is
made up of intense concentration and
steady patient work. There is always
sort of placid certainty about the
man who gets things done.
In almost any small community
can be found the man to whom the
residents inevitably turn when some
thing especially difficult to solve
comes up in the life Of the communi-
ty. For some reason this man is
seldom in an official position. He
seems to have no flair for politics.
He is more apt to be found running
business of his own and taking a
comfortable and transformations part
in the affairs of the village. He may
be a diamond in the rough. He new
er dictates. He never boasts. He
never exaggerates. He never scolds.
But somehow, as if by magic touch,
when something is badly needed, he
manages to get it done.
In the larger communities and the
big cities it takes longer for the man
who gets things done to be recogniz-
ed, but eventually he is discovered
, and used. He is the man of the
smaller communities, only his oppor-
tunities are larger and therefore his
accomplishment seems more import
ant.
Not always does he get the credit
for it. And it is characteristic of
him that he doesn't care.-Rhinebeck
IN. W Gazette.
There's entirely Too much viewing
with alarm" and not enough point
ing with pride" in this country. Too
many people running around with
long faces and dropping mouths. Too
many ready to believe that the re-
public is either going to die or blow
up. The fact is, it is not going to do
either. Here in our own community
we have entirely too many gloom
spreaders, and other towns are in
the same fix. These prophets OF
gloom around Carmi who are still
spreading their hands and making
grim prophecies are doing more to
forestall good times than any other
class.
One citizen who goes about his
work with hearty good will and
who looks into the future with hope
and confidence is worth all of the
gloom spreaders who walk the face
of the earth. But just one optimist
L.