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The daily independent., 1937-07-23

back, but they are delaying his
burial.
Trotting tracks are having their
biggest year all over America, the
Hambletonian at Goshen will draw
it's greatest crowd and, despite the
fact that airplanes, speedboats
and automobiles are breaking the
speed records everywhere, the out
standing sporting event of 1887
will be an international race be-
tween a couple of hosses!
Mussolini has sent MuScletone,
his pet trotter, to America for a
100000 match race against Grey
hound, the crack trotter of this
country, and if it does nothing
else it will bring back the old
cracker-barrel flavor to American
life for a few weeks.
With the whole world yelling
for more speed. clamoring for mir
acleS and boaSting about its me-
chanical triumphs, it is relief
to get into an atmosphere where
a man out riding in a two wheel
sulky thinks he is going fast
enough.
With the planet sputtering with
super passenger planes, bombers,
trip e-moon rockets and war
machines, it is mighty comfortable
to know there are still people who
attach some Importance to minor
matters like greasing an axle, and
adjusting the horsetiy net.
With so many responsible lead
ers of America dashing all over
the lot, breathleSS and hysterical,
it is conSoling to see somebody
quietly harnesSing a horse, and
murmuring STEADY! Steady"
With nine out Of ten people off
half cooked, humping tables and
adding to the general static, it's
a grand relief to take time out to
go to a grand circuit meeting in
Goshen where you will meet that
rare customer, an old-faShioned
American who doesn't talk much.
With so many Americans max
ing goofy proposals for rebuild
ing the universe and rShrieking,
into microphones. lisa pleasure
to locate those timers who at
tach as much importance to
"Whoa!' as to "Giddap!""# =,
- tr'" ,,a. l.J :.
Believe it or not, at a. trotting
meet you will find dozens of quiet,
calm, efficient-looking men who
can't make a speech, have no
plans for reconstructing the social
system. and are not hell-bent for
a fillibuster, a sit-doWn strike, a
riot or war.
At a harness-racing track you
actually have a swell chance of
rediscovering an American who
has no program except to get back
intact with the same vehicle he
started out with. (And not kill
anything in the process)
Those trotting races are a treat,
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
brother. More power to 'em!

Observation No. 649
The evening comes with vesper
star,
And there's line of laSSeS
At every long Manhattan bar, .-.
For tall and frosted glasses.
And thus the old me-honored
soak .i'.
Is finding it quite risky
To fight his way through women
folk, "'
For just a shot of whisky.
H. NICK.
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
Setting Us Straight

Hi: Jack Benny played Proctor's
Fifty eighty Street theater in
vaudeville and I was present when
he got the Bronx cheer and made
a hasty exit. Marilyn Miller was
in vaudeville with her parents in
an act called THE Five Colum-
bans" Ed Wynn's act was 1.-The
Kings JESTER Edward Ferguson.
The daily independent., 1937-07-23

HERE is a good subject
for debaters: Resolved
that the medical prac-
toner is of greater serv-
The daily independent., 1937-07-23

A WOMAN who tells us
that she has just sold 1.-The
last stick" of furniture she
owns. says: Il have never
The daily independent., 1937-07-23
THE
ONCE OVER
BY
H. I. PHILLIPS
49, rka ASen-
Land O. Goshen!
copyright, 1887, by Tho Asso-
clated heWspapers.)

The horse may not be coming
back, but they are delaying his
burial.
The daily independent., 1937-07-23

With so many responsible lead
ers of America dashing all over
the lot. breathleSS and hysterical,
it is conSoling to see somebody
quietly harnessing a horse, and
murmuring STEADY! Steady"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
Give Them a Hand

IF YOU ARE writing your congressman
concerning some new legislative indiscre-
4 ton, don't fail to insert paragraph OF
praise for the lower houses approval OF the
presidents bill to put first, second and third
class postmasterships under civil service.
The bill is expected to pass the senate also.
Should the measure become law, con-
gressmen will forfeit their spoils system
privilege, when their party is in power, OF
appointing friends to well paid postoffice
jobs where their service to the department
frequently is nil but it matters little so long
as they are able to get out and gather votes
when their benefactor's term is about to ex-
pire.
Congressman regretfully give up this
long standing privilege and the presidents
hand had to be shown in the chamber to
avoid qualifying amendments which would
have nullifed the law. However, once COM
mitted to a program in opposition to the
spoils system, the government must to be
consistent, follow the plan down through
departments. 1t is an important step to-
ward better government.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
Handwriting on the Wall

Unless labor unions and employers ex-
ercise self restraint over their respective
powers and recognize the rights of the pub
lie, the government will step in and take con-
troll, DR.. Robert l.. Sutherland of Bucknell
University, declared recently when speak
ing on the long drawn out Pacific Coast ship
strike and the automobile strike in the east.
Dr. Sutherland said it was ''only mat
ter of time until any group using power
without responsibility will be checked and
pointed out that as general rule this coun-
try never curbed power until it was abused.
When any group of leaders, no matter
who, deliberately plan to win their point at
all costs, regardless of suffering workmen or
the public, it is time to break their grip
that is what government is for, to protect
all the people.
If the day arrives when our govern
ment can be controlled by either labor OF
industrial dictators, to the detriment of the
people, fascism or communism will have
swallowed democracy, individual rights will
be wiped out and labor will become form
of slavery.-Industrial News Review.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
THE GAZETTE,S EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE
Insecure Employers

THE FOUR o'clock coffee addicts have a
seemingly inexhaustible subject for
conversation in social security legisla-
ton with it's old age pensions or annuities,
unemployment insurance, percentages, de-
auctions, bookkeeping methods, who pays,
how, when, where and why.
Like so many enterprises OF the govern
ment, the explanations furnished perfectly
willing employers become so involved in
technical language and the records to be
kept present such an awe-inspiring appear
ance that the mere business man is inclined
to throw up his hands in holy horror.
If as an employer, one could set down
with a government official and say here,
want the lowdown on this thing with the
least possible extra verbiage and minus the
why and wherefores, the whole thing would
become ridiculously simple. Instead state
and federal offices are throwing forms and
missionaries at us in such quantities that
we wonder whether they know what they
want or why.
An encouraging note at the Minnesota
Editorial association convention recently
was the advice of federal tax man who told
the editors frankly that his department ex-
poets some mistakes and isn't going to be
unreasonable with those of us who at first
are some what thick-headed about the whole
DrOpram
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
Everybody's Health

Hopeful new figures are avail
able, according to a bulletin is
sued today by the Minnesota
State Medical association, to show
that cancer can be conquered by
intelligent forethought.
The figures are vouched for by
the American Society for the
Control of Cancer. They show
that breast cancer was RESPONSE
BILE for large percentage of can
Ger deaths in Minnesota in 1885,
the last year for which there are
complete figures. But most of
these deaths could have been pre-
vented if the victims had sought
aid Immediately at the first alb
normal sign in the breast.
Fully 80 per cent of all breast
cancers can be cured if they are
treated in time, according to this
study. There are figures on thous-
ands of cases to prove it. Further
more, only 10 per cent of the
Jumps noted in Women'S breasts
actually prove to be cancerous
The deaths occur when that 10
per cent of Jumps is ignored
through ignorance or fear and al
lowed to grow to point where
removal is difficult, and the NAL
ignant cells spread through the
blood stream to surrounding
structures or to distant organs Of
the body.
Women who seek an examina-
ton promptly as soon as any
small irregularity appears neec
have little fear of death from
cancer.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

Cross roll call netted $750.-The
attendance at a musical revue in
which members of the Scenic
City band and school organiza-
tons took part was disappoint-
ing Elmer Becker of North
Redwood received facial injuries
while cutting ice.-Freeman Oh
son, former store owner, died at
the county home. = Raymond
Lindeman, Margaret Smith and
Rosellen Jackson won the divi-
sions of the high school declama-
tory contest.-R. E. Anderson was
employed by the Redwood Thea
tre.-Alfred Raddatz died-Wil-
liam D. Allen, president of the
organization, talked at a meeting
of Minnesota Farm managers in
st. Paul.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
for Springfield and is still striving
BY PERCY CROSBY

for Springfield and is still striving
for the community's betterment.
It was of interest to note that
they were facing about the same
problems which our city is facing,
that they were attempting to find
new ways and to improve old
methods of getting people to
Springfield, and that there was
about the same percentage of &C
tive and passive members as are
found in every club.
Commenting among themselves
after the meeting, three or four
of the more active complained
bit about those who left early,
those who never had quite
enough time to help solve COM
munity problems and those who
wouldn't even join the club. eff
we could only get 100 per cent
cooperation" said one business
man, couldn't we do things?"
Surely, you could, gentlemen,
but it wouldn't be right. If you
had a hundred per cent co-opera-
ton ii. Springfield, you would
sweep off the MAJ Redwood Falls,
Lamberton, Sleepy Eye, Morgan,
Sanborn and all the other Gowns
that surround you and are your
competitors for business. So, too,
would Sleepy Eye be able to put
you and all it's neighhors in the
shade if only we had one hundred
per cent cooperation. You don't
have it, we don't have it. For
the good of everyone, possibly it
is a good thing we don't. 1t
wouldn't be fitting to have only
one good town every 70 or 80
miles.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
91fary' S
Little foam

niest one we've seen this week is
Olson, sub dictator at Montgom-
cry Wards, stalking about the
store with his suspenders worn
from the waist down instead of
vice versa.
And wasn't Fritz Seifert silly to
carefully install new telephone,
complete with number, at Tom
Tyson's house when Tom was al
ready well supplied with the in
struments -. and Red Lang
next door was so anxious to have
one?
Best Seller of the Week among
members of the legal trade is Bur-
CESS Bird Book.
The General Motors strike may
have Willard Holmberg at loss
as to what to sell but you'll
never find his competitor John
EuStice at wits end. EuStice is al
ready preparing for any car shor-
tage which may come by getting
horses used to being tied up in the
used car building.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

Should a leader arise to guide
the faltering steps of the Civic
and Commerce club, we have one
thing to suggest. Why not make
it a major point of the 1887 pro-
gram to remove the remaining
1896 Christmas decorations?
Lady at Buff Carity's last dance
couldn't find her coat. "And I dis
tinctly remember giving it to the
little boy in the blue suit" she
said, pointing at that adorable
youngster, Chef Baldwin.
These snow trains out of Min
neapolis don't make us feel a bit
out of things. Why, all we have
to do most anytime is call up j. D.
Ziegler, and he says, "Sno train
today"
You've probably wondered why
Jack Reynolds gave up the ancient
Dodge for a shiny new WHY'S.
Rumor shouts that Jack was
threatened with arrest for hoard
ing.
All men are funny. But the fun
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
Who Is at Fault?

There is growing feeling that it is not
so much our times as it is the people them
selves that are at fault. Of course, during
the depression years there was shortage
of jobs and millions of skilled people were
without jobs. But the younger generation
is being fed up too much on the easy life,
short hours of work, high wages and little
siasm for our job.
America was not built by men and wo-
men clamoring for six hour day or 30
hour week. In those days job was some
thing to be proud of and the workman had
a live interest in the business to which he
was attached. We have often wondered how
many of the strikers throughout the cOun-
try and their leaders are real up and coming
workers in their various industries. A NAL
content is usually not much interested in
his Job and less interested in the firm for
whom he works.-Tracy eadlight-Herald.
There is no particular reason to be dis
turbed at the report that Twin City liquor
lords have provided barrels OF money for the
corruption of the state legislature The
thing to be disturbed about is that there are
men in the legislature who can be thus cor
rupted- probably enough of them to pre-
vent the passage of any laws not satisfac-
tory to the liquor interests What Mime
sofa wants to know is, who are the men in
the law making body whom King AlcohoPs
money can buy ?-Fairmont Sentinel
Who says Soviet Russia isn't civilized?
The swell hotels in Moscow were filled with
proletarians paying $23 apiece for dinner
and dancing. IF aribault Daily News.
Men are born with two eyes and only
one tongue so they may see twice as much
as they say.-ex.
War is not an act of God, but crime
of man.-Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
Same Old Problems

w. E. Barnes of the Sleepy Eye
Herdld-DiSpatch dined aoith the
Springfield Boosters club recently
and found the same problems be-
fore the house that he knoaDS at
home and that every small city
man recognizes by sight. His
comments:
AS a guest OF a member, the
writer attended meeting OF the
Springfield Booster club Monday
evening.
Our western neighbors have a
good club, it has accomplished
much in the way of Improvement
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
Preachers VS.. Editors

August Erickson of the Spring.
field Advance-PreSS has the du-
ddcity to compare the preaching
profession Dith the newspaper
business and makes a good case
for both in the following para
graphs:
There is some similarity be-
tween editors and preachers. Both
try to lead the public along right
lines and encourage the cultiva-
ton of virtues. But the editors
must entertain as well as instruct.
If a preacher becomes too enter
tanning he is put down as lacking
in piety, dignity and religious
zeal.
In the old days a preacher was
supposed to preach two sermons
on Sunday, but the auto, the
movies and other diversions cut
the Sunday evening attendance
down to the point where the col
lection didn't pay the hight bill
and now the preacher has only
one sermon a week to prepare.
Some congregations think that
isn't enough work for the salary
they pay so they make the
preacher take another church
nearby.
However, with the editor it's
different. In the old days he
dashed off a few editorials and
put ads on the editorial page. The
ads paid for his editorial efforts.
Now in addition to his editorials
he thinks he must write "col-
umn" and keep the ads off the
editorial page. So many advertls-
ers told him not to put their ads
on the editorial page, because no
body ever reads that page, sc
gradually the ads are disappear
ing from that page and with them
all compensation for the editorial
efforts.
The editor has some advantage
over the preacher, however. II j,
rains the slipping member finds q
ready excuse for staying at home
while the paper is read in all
kinds of weather. If the roads are
blocked and members can't get te
church, they can read the paper
after the roads are opened, while
the sermon has vanished in thlr
air and the lesson is entirely lost
4 And in some cases it doesn't take
much snow to block the roads or
a Sunday morning, but on banl
nights at the theatre it take:
pretty high drifts.
A man can 60 to sleep reading
his paper but if he goes to sleeI
during the sermon he disgrace
himself. Besides he doesn't save
anything, because the man wht
passes the collection baske
usually wakes him up and he ha'
to pay anyway.
In many instances, however
the preacher has it all over tn
, editor. When child is born. tn
f editor chronicles the birth. Tn
: preacher baptizes the kid and col
lects an honorarium. When tn
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
S YEARS AGO

Mayor H. D. Thorp announced
a strict enforcement campaign
against selling cigarets to minors.
The mercury fell to Is below
for the coolest records in two
years.-R. w. Ziemer retired at
ter 81 years as rural mail car
rier-C. A. Lauterbach was APP
pointed treasurer of the fair
board to succeed M. w. Dennis
toun who died.-The annual Red
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
Advertising Helps
Prevent Oversupply

A striking story of how private
business rallied to the support of
agriculture on four occasions last
year to avert a national economic
crisis in the food business is re-
lated by Editor and Publisher"
a trade paper in the journalistic
field.
According to the magazine, a
vigorous campaign of newspaper
advertising which stimulated
public buying each time relieved
the situation so promptly that
most of the public was never
aware of the existence of a crisis.
Extensive campaigns conducted
by large food distributing organ
izations helped materially in
moving surplus meat when
drouth brought heavy slaughter
of beef cattle and aided later in
the year in preventing turkeys
from becoming a drug on the
market. The canned peach and
dried fruit industries also were
benefited by cooperation OF big
food chains.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

Bob Burns, the Arkansas funny
man, has an unreasoning dread OF
radio scripts-afraid he'll loose
,em. So he memories his lines.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
child grows up and gets married,

child grows up and gets married,
the preacher gets good fee,
sometimes entirely out of proper
ton to the value of the service,
for he makes no guaranty that
the knot will stay tied, while the
editor describes the brides gown
gratis. And, finally, when a man
dies, the preacher gets paid for
his eulogy, although the editor is
expected to lie harder and doesn't
get paid for keeping still about
things that come into his mind
and that would make crackin'
good reading.
l have known preachers who
forsook their churches for the
newspaper business but l have
never seen an editor who could
qualify for the ministry. Hence
the expression, "You can't make a
purse out of sow's year."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04
Backward
Chances
SO YEARS AGO

carpenter NCllISdVlS was oo-
ing a workmanlike job putting in
drawers at Hitchock's drug store.
Mrs. Henry Simondet of North
Redwood died of typhoid fever
Street commissioner Ferris was
appointed for a third term.-A
train on the Sleepy Eye branch
left the tracks, the engine tipping
and coaches piling up. No one
was hurt.-The high license fac
ton defeated the saloon keepers
in a vote of a citizens committee
which met to formulate proposed
amendments to the village chart
er. o. B. Turrel presided and G.
E. Mckay was secretary at the
meeting.
Is YEARS AGO
Harvey Warner, former resi-
dent, died in Minneapolis.-Harry
West bought the Morgan Mes
senger from Cliff Eaton.-MrS. E.
A. Lyman was in Florida for her
health.-Bert Farley was arrested
on the charge of William Regal
who claimed Farley struck him
over the head and robbed him OF
$40, an overcoat and watch af-
ter a trip to North Redwood
Hugh Green killed the pet wolf
at Krieger's livery barn after the
animal attacked him.-A big land
company with H. H. Peavey, H.
w. Ward and Mary D. Ward as
incorporators was formed at
Washburn, Wisconsin. = Henry
Petrie and M. S. Tolman of Nor
gan were bidding for the Repub-
lican nomination as sheriff.
William Byington was bossing a
record ice harvest as three large
storage houses were filled and
two carloads were shipped to
Morgan.-A. A. Melges, formerly
in business here, wrote praising
Los Angeles.-The "stork from
babyland brought fine bouncing
boy to Mr.. and Mrs. Joe M. Cor
bett."
10 YEARS AGO
The Redwood Hatchery, owned
by Mr.. and Mrs. Carson Rote
opened.-John r. Trochill, form
erly of Redwood Falls, died ir
California.-The high schol car
nival made $135. Leon H. Brown
was judge of the kangaroo court
Redwood High school defeated
Gaylord "a to % in an overtime
game.-Mrs. Mary Reed went t.
Minneapolis to LIVE. M. Zeis
formerly of Renville county, dice
in Oregon.-There were 744 per.
sons enrolled in the Redwood
Falls schools.-Mrs. j. F. O'Mears
and Miss Barnice Larson had !;
shower in honor of Miss Con
stance Golden who was to b.
married.-Miss Margaret Kau
had an appendix operation
John Evans, formerly of Redwood
Falls, was married in Phoenix
Arizona.-The drum corps me
every Monday night, the fiji
corps every Tuesday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

In many instances, however.
the preacher has it all over the
editor. When a child is born, the
editor chronicles the birth. The
preacher baptizes the kid and col
lects an honorarium. When the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

War is not an act of God, but crime
of man.-Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

Men are born with two eyes and only
one tongue so they may see twice as much
as they Say.-ex.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

All men are funny. But the fun
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

Who says Soviet Russia isn't civilized
The swell hotels in Moscow were filled with
proletarians paying $23 apiece for dinner
and dancing. Faribault Daily News.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

South Florida driver fined 500 for
drunken driving had to sell his car to pay
the fine or go to jail for 80 days. Say, that's
an idea.-F1orida Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-02-04

Yes. It does get cold in Minnesota but
foods and earthquakes and hurricanes rare
Iy trouble us.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-06-25
DIR. WOODSON
EXPLODES

Since his memorable volume,
'"The Miseducation of the Negro"
DR.. Carter C. Woodson, editor of
the Journal of Negro History, has
been regarded as the most potent
and caustic of our educational
critics. The wonder is that the
orthodox educators have remained
as favorably disposed toward him,
in spite of his revolutionary ideas,
as they have. Obviously there
has been no turning down of
thumbs, for DR.. Woodson held the
late DR.. John Hope as president of
his association for the Study of
Negro Life and History, and he
was the commencement speaker at
Tuskegee few days ago. At
Tuskegee DR.. Woodson cut loose
again as follows:
"Our present system of educa-
tion, so far as it's efficiency is
concerned, rebounds more to the
benefit of others than it does to
the Negro. It has been worked
out to meet the needs of others
rather than to supply the needs
Of the Negro. This system of
education is in many respects dis
astrous to the Negro while helpful
to his oppressors. The philosophy,
ethics, and religion taught in our
schools justify the present regime
of unequal opportunity and in
equality before the law. In the
teaching of economics, history and