The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-01-04

OOKING back on the best Christmas business in
several seasons, merchants afford to comph-
ment their own good judgment in anticipating
turns from the better feeling which is prevalent and in
stimulating them through of the strongest adverts
ing campaigns put on here in recent years With money
returning west through government programs, the
merchants who prepared after many quiet months
will be first to benefit This also is true of cities.
Redwood Falls should present united front in promo
lions whether through newspapers other
Everybody prefers to trade in live town.
JANUARY l has come and gone with the usual hill
arity. The year 1888 undoubtedly will be looked
y back to the turning point in the depression the
year in which deal became than politi-
clans phrase.
1t will be difficult for historians to point to the
act that "dd the trick" in turning business up
ward. To many wage earners, the MIRA and codes
wages, hours and child labor spelled better times To
some business codes of fair competition and bust
planning to be the factor credited with re-
newed hopes Some farmers will laud refnancing, dis
continuing of foreclosures and lower interest rates. To
others who debt free but suffered for want of
fair return their investment, allotment payments,
the corn price guarantee and similar enterprises
be the best stroke of the president Laborers not
affected by the NRA will tell their grandchildren of the
administration that hired 100000 overnight to end
privation restore buying power and start the wheels
of industry turning to employ them through regular
channels.
A group of college professors who evidently were
consulted when built have taken the presi
dents program apart and found everything about it is
wrong Braintrusters then are related to politicians,
at least to the that everything the other fellow
does is wrong.
A STUDY of all wars since 500 B. C. has been
~ completed by Harvard professor. Like many
such studies it resorts to graphs and curves to
reach conclusions which may may not be important
but the statistics compiled by the professor and his
aid, army man, are interesting.
A total of 9O2 wars have been carried on during
the period which is about for every two and two
third years. Since many were waged over long per-
iods the world probably has more often had at least
war going on than none
France has the dubious distinction of having taken
part in the greatest number of conflicts total OF 1885,
Engands record is little better with 176 while Russia
has had ISL and Austria 49, Holland holds the best
record of countries considered with % while Germany
has had only a. Italy 3d. and Spain 75 In number OF
men engaged loss of life and destruction OF property
the World war dwarfs all others combined.
The conclusions drawn from the study are dis
couraging to advocates of peace Wars are most fire.
uuen he says periods of greatest cultural influence,
territorial expansion and industrial lower Holland
has been free from since 1888 This the professor
explains is due to decline in influence as compared
with other nations.
World peace can only be realized through a mir
acle the professor declares but he admits that until
the nineteenth century very little done to discour
age wars which increased in number and extent as man
became more grasping and developed new equipment
with which to wage battle.
It is here that the study takes some import
ance Equipment now developed would make new
war more costly in life and property than even the
world war; Whole cities, perhaps countries, could be
wiped out at one blow. The development OF war and
civilization together suggest that peak Will be reacn
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destruction.