The Redwood gazette., 1936-09-17
On a Baby's Death

Susan Frawley Eisele of Blue Earth,
who has gone on a trip to New York, won as
a result of her writing in The Fairmont
Sentinel, has this to say about babies:
''At no time does life seem so frustrated
as at the death of baby. That a little child
should have to suffer, to lie helpless in his
innocence, fighting gallantly for breath and
struggling against hopeless odds, and then
to die, is one of the greatest of the myster-
les of God.
'Then it is that mother reaches the
depth of her Gethsemane. How futile, on
the surface, her long months of expectancy,
her travail, her joy in bringing a new life
into the world, her happiness in caring for
this child. He grows, wonder of wonders,
he smiles, he finds his hands, he hears, he
sees, and her days and nights are sweet and
full of bliss. Too sweet and too full Of bliss,
it would seem, to last for long.
"For without warning, as through a
closed door, comes the stealthy hand of
death. Shut forever are the limpid eyes,
stilled the little voice. All so near and yet
so remote. So real and yet so unreal. AS
through dream, she walks, the mother in
her anguish and despair-yet submissive
and full of faith she bows to the will of God
himself.
''Over the hard places she must go
alone-back to the living ones and their
tneeds-but slow are her steps and reluctant.
Empty are her arms-empty the crib
empty the long clothesline- her
heart-empty life itself.
What exquisite joy a child brings with
him into the world and takes out with him
again when he leaves.
How sweet and bitter-sweet the men,
ory of child'
No man has any moral right to strike
against his government. Such strikes are
almost unheard of. If person who is work
ing for the government isn't satisfied with
his pay, he has right to make his complaint
and have it heard, but he should realize that
there are plenty of others who would like
government jobs and that he has no special
claim on the job And when WPA workers
go on strike, as they did in Minneapolis last
week, that is about the limit. They soon
learned that the government could get along
very well without them and they returned
to their jobs. With all the criticism that is
being heaped upon the administration for
hiring them in the first place, these men
should have realized that their strike would
not meet with popular favor Springfield
Advance Press.
The Minnesota Highway department
will sell another $4,000,000 of its bonds Oct
ober to finance more road building, the
federal government to add $3,4OO,OOO for
construction work. Minnesota is smart to
take advantage of opportunities offered to
get federal money but it is not wise to issue
more bonds. Either the license fees or the
gas tax or both should be adjusted to pro-
vide sufficient money for pay-as-we-go
building policy.
Happened to read of Rockwell City, To-
wa, the other day and Immediately thought
of sign we saw eight years ago this sum-
mer on the outskirts of that town. Big let
ters told this legend Rockwell City-The
Golden Buckle on the Corn Belt" It is a.
good slogan. Every town ought to have one.
Means more to city than it does to a motor
car, a breakfast food or good grade of cof-
fee.
Any experienced politician can tell city
people the cost of living, particularly food
stuffs, is too high and in his next speech
sympathize with the farmers because the
price of foodstuffs is too low.