The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-09-09
REPRESENTATIVES OF TWIN CIT

les newspapers, making brief stops in dozens
of Minnesota towns, have sent back glowing
accounts of overlooking bins after an unpre-
cedented harvest, optimistic comments by
persons willing to receive the publicity and
a general over-statement of conditions in
the country.
1t makes pleasant reading of course, ex-
cept that the quantity of it becomes mono
tonous. While it may stimulate eastern ad-
vertising agencies to place schedules in the
offending papers and cause Twin Cities
dealers to take bigger space alotments, the
inaccuracies of the picture painted violate
the newspaper creed that stories must above
all else, be true, complete and yet concise.
Truth of the matter is that farmers
generally have harvested good crop. While
it is an unusually good crop in comparison
with several drouth years, accurate report
ing would include mention of the fact that
in some sections of the state where crops
are particularly abundant this year, COM
plete crop failures are unknown.
The farmer is pictured as having sold
his crop and standing ready, pockets bulg
ing with currency, to buy every item his
family has desired for years past. No &C
farmers, like business men, have incurred
and must pay before going on any spending
spree, or of the prices for grain which are
causing great many to hold their harvest
for price recovery.
Properly sailed stories of this kind
would contain mention of the fact that what
the farmer must buy is also higher in price.
Such statements as "The farmers credit is
good again" might well be accompanied by
the explanation and warning that too free
use of credit in the past was very import
ant factor in running that credit.
Instead of picturing the farmer as
spending for every luxury, the writer's might
stress that machinery, fences, paint and re-
pairs for farm buildings and similar neces-
sites are receiving first attention after debt
obligations have been met and cash laid
away for seed and the expenses necessary to
produce another crop in 1888.
We would enjoy reading that money is
flowing thick and fast if it were true. We
would throw our hat in the air and rejoice
at these hurried-trip- crop-reports if they
have tendency to prevent rally in grain
prices.
The farmer no longer needs SYM
pathy, if in fact he ever really desired it. He
still has need for comprehensive program
offering some guarantee against market
fluctuations. He must avoid another boom
with it's sad after effects. Accurate report
ing of his circumstances would help.
LIN "A DEMOCRACY IHERE ID,
after all, public opinion that determines the
policies of government. We have passed
through an era of extreme radicalism. There
have been outbursts of violence by minority
groups. These demonstrations, while not
general, have been sufficiently extensive to
make people sit up and take notice. We be-
lieve that it is safe to predict that a reaction
is taking place, and that politicians who are
now catering to noisy minorities will begin to
seek other sources of support.-Milan Stand
ard
WE SUGGEST THAT IN SECURING
the country for oddities for Believe It Or
Not" radio broadcast that Robert Ripley
secure the services of Governor Bib Graves
of Alabama who actually appointed his wife
as United States senator to succeed Hugo
Black who was elevated to the supreme
court. If there was ever ranker example
of nepotism in American politics we have
yet to hear about it.-Red Lake Falls Ga
zette.
Illinois couples have been going to In
diana to get married since Illinois passed a
law requiring physical examination Of both
parties, to aid in stopping the spread of sy-
philis. Illinois courts hold that such mar
riages are null and void, but that is much
less important than the fact that such fea-
ther-headed folks are deliberately taking the
/ chance of bringing tragedy to themselves
and to the children they may have.-Park
Region Echo.
AN EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS RE-
marks that if you should have six cows,
Co mmunism would take them all, Socialism
would take three of them, while Fascism
would permit you to keep the COWS and feed
| them but would take all the milk.-Jordan
Independent
A GOOD MANY OF THOSE CREASES
in the fender of the family car were put
there by some fellow who had an idea that
he could park two cars where but one park
ed before.-Monticello Times.
WE NEED CAPITAL, WE NEED
labor, and we need farmers, too. We all have
our place in the world, but we should all be
controlled when we. get greedy.-Madison
Independent Press.
SAW A BUNCH OF NEW HIGHWAY