The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-09-29
BEING A DICTATOR GIVES ONE

campaign in New York City and in Mime
sofa the state safety council is specializing
on whether the horn is actually menace in
stead of the safety device it has always
been considered.
Theory of the anti-horn advocates is
that the privilege of pressing a button and
making pedestrians jump or saner drivers
pull-over, causes the driver with bully
inclinations to be overly careless.
One thing is certain, most drivers use
the horn much too frequently.
NEWSPAPERS ARE OFTEN thought
to benefit nightly by spirited local pol
itical campaign. Political advertising, the
familiar cards, blotters, circular letters and
placards are ordered and paid for-usually-
with abandon when the campaign wakes
hot Nice work for the printers when the
lists for primary swell to unusual pro-
portions.
But there is a responsibility side to the
campaign which often becomes headache.
Campaigners sometimes get into the news,
news which must be reported. Newspaper
people, as individuals, have their prefer
| ences, naturally, among candidates, yet all
must be treated alike in the news. The
fairest paper is apt to have both candidates
| for a position "down on it, before the vot-
| ing begins
| EVERYONE HAS A BOY OR BOYS
in whom they are. particularly interested, a
son or sons, brother, nephew, cousin, a
neighbor or a friend that you enjoy seeing
get ahead. You will thrill when he does
some kind deed, or leads his class in studies,
or makes the winning touchdown.
| Tomorrow is devoted to all boys-your
how and rpina-and tO their Ualfara tOdav
and their future Tomorrow's activities are
but the forerunner of the day when today
boys will be men-grown citizens taking on
the official capacities they now hold in pre-
tense. Our prime aim in life should be to
improve our city and community-to give
them the best starting advantage possible.
i
A BERWICK MERCHANT RECENT
ly ran three column going out of bust
ness" advertisement in the local newspaper
which brought such mob of customers
that huge plate glass window was broken
and 18 persons were cut by flying glass or
trampled in the melee.
i Berwick is in Pennsylvania but the
same thing might happen here. Moral of
the story: don't wait until you're going out
of business to run advertisements.
/ NATIONWIDE D1SGUOI- WAS REG-
istered this week when a new trial was
granted in the case of Jimmy Hines, prom
inent New Yorker who was accused of COM
plicity in big city racketeering 1t seems
today that many courts lean backwards in
order to show that people accused of crime
are being given fair trial.-Waseca Her.
aid.
OUR OWN FARMERS ARE A BET
ter prospective market for the products of
our factories than all the foreign markets
combined that we might gain by a GOOD
neighbor policy When we have set our own
house in order will be plenty Of time to
start worrying about the economic problems
of the rest of the world.-Thief River Falls
Times.
THERE AREN'T ANY RURAL
weekly newspaper editors working for com.
pensation. They may be working for this OF
that political party, this or that movement
or this or that individual, but never fol
pensation.-Appleton Press.
BEFORE A WAR is DECLARED, THE
nations leaders usually report that they
have the people behind them. After its
once started, though, it's the people who &c
out ront.-Minneota Mascot.
J
FROM LAMBERToN, MORTON Stan.
ley reports that farmers in that section are
posting signs which read: Warning to hunt
ers: Do not shoot until it noves-it may be
a WPA worker.
THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE is
a wolf in grandma's clothing, all set to de-
YOUR little Red Riding Hood, according to
, John H. Hougen of the Benson Ail-Party
committee. Can it be true that after all
these years of liberal rule the wolf is not at
our door but in our bed?
i THE WOMAN OF FEW WORDS US
u ually manages to keep those few mighty
busy.-Fergus Falls Tribune.