The Redwood gazette., 1936-06-25
5 Years and 81

3,484 weekly issues, the efforts of perhaps
a dozen editors and several dozen office and
shop employees toward giving the COM
munity a good newspaper. And through
that newspaper, helping to build and i'm
prove the city and it's environs.
With this issue The Gazette completes
it's sixty-seventh year. Oldest business en-
terprise in the county still existant, it also
was the earliest newspaper in southwestern
Minnesota. Among publications of Mime
sofa still alive and thriving, it ranks tenth
in age.
incidentally this issue completes five
years. efforts at this desk for the writer.
Not a great span when considered as one
thirteenth of the life Of the paper, yet the
term lengthens with the thought of 1882
and 1888 with their depressing bank fail
ures, bank holiday, shattered prices for farm
produce and other factors which served to
make 260 pay days come too often for the
cash drawer.
Even through lean years there has been
great satisfaction in the progress made by
the community Checking door by door up
and down the streets one finds several new
buildings and dozen or more new stores
which have added their bit to the city's
shopping district. The sewage disposal
plant, the athletic field now underway, street
and highway improvements, the band shell
and many more minor developments are evil
i dence of the citys steadfast progress.
The Gazette is proud to have played an
important role in each new project. No
sound suggestion for the growth and better
ment of the city has found the paper failing
of support. When occasion demanded we
have taken firm stands against danger to
our resources, such as the proposed charges
at the park. Publicity has been freely CIV
en- to every enterprise likely to benefit the
community.
The Gazette is proud not only of the
community's strides forward but of it's own
progress. Building on the firm foundation
left by previous managements, the paper
has developed from a six column to an
eight column newspaper. A new press was
vital factor in this transition. New type
has added greatly to the metropolitan ap-
pearance of the Gazette. A larger staff of
writer's and shopmen has made it possible to
news and advertising. The result has bee
phenomenal growth of SO per cent in sound
circulation in five years, a growth of over
200 per cent in the last decade.
But the past is less important than the
future although it is easier to review than
to predict. The Gazette plans to continue
to improve. To give it's subscribers bet
ter newspaper each week. To maintain it's
independent stand in politics, working for
cover the news more fully, always striving
for accuracy and fairness. Through these
factors to add subscribers.
More than any other private enterprise,
the newspaper belongs in sense to it's
community. Our aim will continue to be to
give this territory a newspaper on which
it can depend-and refer to with pride.
IT. HE candidacy of Congressman William
Lemke of North Dakota for president
in third party movement by more
radical elements throughout the nation
creates an interesting situation in Minneso-
ia.
Governor Olson was looked to here to-
lead any such movement should it develop.
Seeing no hope for success, the governor
very wisely decided being the successful
candidate for the senate was much to be de-
sired over the distinction of having run,
third in a presidential race. The gesture
was postponed until 1910 with every pros
pect Of further postponement then.
Yet the governor, Congressman Kvale
and the party in general have advocated
the Frazier-Lenke farm mortgage bill on
which Lemke will lay claim to support in
the northwest. At the same time they are
obligated to support President Roosevelt in
return for Democratic help in state races
this fall. The heavy vote cast for Republi-
cans at the primaries, although discounted
by the FL, indicates such assistance will
be essential.
What support Lemke will get in this
state will naturally go to Olson and Benson
20 the Farmer r-Laborites have everything to|
lose and nothing to gain by getting into a
third party struggle. Without their help
Lemke can't hope to get far in Minnesota.
A corollary may be that failure to support
the third party movement this year will
handicap, if not discourage, such a move
ment in 1910.
Funny business this writing editorials,
You labor long over something masterful,
you think, and never see or hear Of it again.
Then you dash off something to fill the last
three or four inches of the old two columns
and dozen subscribers pat you on the back
or yell at you and the piece is repeated in
half the exchanges you pick up.