The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-02

in thousands of homes this week as parents
outfit Johnny and Mary with new clothes to
replace the overalls and aprons OF summer
and shoes to confne busy feet, bare during
the weeks of vacation.
Schools change as experts devise new
methods and stress more practical training
but the problems of the parents have varied
but little since we were students OF read
ing, writing and arithmetic.
Besides getting clothes and books from
the family budget, there are lunches to pre-
pare for a great many housewives. Trans
portation is still a problem except where
a bus calls at the door. A more rigid schedule
of meals must be followed to avoid the
hardness teachers abhor and the home chore
schedules face revision with the opening of
school.
The problem of keeping the youngsters
interested in securing an adequate educa-
ton, however, has diminished considerably
in the last decade The cartoons which de-
picted small boys as thoroughly hating
school and school work have all but disap-
peared.
The truant officer, school shippers and
chat group in earlier classes who were only
marking time until their sixteenth birthday
would free them from the necessity of at
tending, likewise are of back number era.
Today the modern school presents the
essentials of education much more interest
ingly, there are many more attractive extra
curricular activities to occupy the young
SterS and parents more generally take an in
terest and give encouragement in their chill
dren's progress. All are effective factors
in dispelling the prison stigma of earlier
school generations.
The back to school season is a welcome
one both to parents and children in most
homes today.
MOST OF US COME TO THE END OF
the year, figure up how much We have earn
ed and then TRY to figure out where it went.
A statistical wizard, perhaps, has taken an
averages mans" salary of $1,O8l.61 per
year and tried to show what becomes of it.
Biggest item is food which he figures at
$39S.83, an average of $1.09 per day. We
Housing is the second largest item and Mr..
Average Man lives in modest dwelling at
that, paying $500 per month, total of
$217.12.
Household operation is the heading for
an item of $1,000 which we presume in
cludes heat, light, water etc. Mrs. Average
Man dresses her family, herself and buys
her husband necktie and sox for $3.50 per
year. They operate an auto for $4821 but
apparently they stay out of accidents for
their medical care expense is listed at 500.
There is an "other transportation" item of
$13
The family has $3.50 to spend for fur
niture and equipment, $23.74 for personal
care and donations, gifts and taxes total
S2l74, besides taxes on every other item.
They burn up $25.86 worth of tobacco, spend
$21.22 for recreation, $2028 for education
and reading and $718 is accounted for as
miscellaneous.
IF 1T IS WISE TO DISARM A MAN
who seems likely to make harmful use of a
gun, would it not be wise to diSarm of his
auto man who has already demonstrated
that he cannot use properly machine just
as dangerous as a gun ?-Bagley Independ-
ent.
WAR NEWS FROM THE FAR EAST
would be considerably less alarming if Amer
lean warships, marines and citizens were out
of there. Getting mixed up with the Jap
anese, Chinese, English, Russians, French
and others in that mess looks like pretty
sure way of getting into another big war.
THE REASON THERE ARE WEEDS
is because weeds in other years have been
permitted to 60 to seed. They ripen THEN
seeds about the time the farmer is busy har:
vesting useful crops, and so 60 on from
year to year. Nevertheless, now is the time
to cut the weeds:-Morris Tribune.
THE DEMOCRATS CERTAINLY
haven't been able to ''pay it and forget about
it" on their campaign expense. That $500,
600 from John Lewis has been embarrassing
and those autographed books which sold sc
readily caused several red faces
A BEGGAR AT FAIRMONT GOT MAD
when people refused to give him handouts
Then he sat down on the curb when police
man told him to move on. The judge gave
him ten days to rest up and sweeten his dis
position.
EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU REAL
about some piece of mail taking score Of
years to be delivered. But you'll notice that
it's never bill that remains undelivereG
that long-Minneota Mascot.
SEVERAL OF OUR CORRESPOND
ents last week told of persons going to New
Ulm ito attend the massacre" Either thu
news is pretty old or something happened