The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-08-25
GRANTS FOR SCHOOL IMPROVE

GRANTS FOR SCHOOL IMPROVE
ments have been so plentiful in Redwood
county in recent weeks that The Gazette
news staff has had difficulty keeping its pub
lie informed as to the circumstances OF each,
whether bonds have been voted or voting
dates set, whether grants have been asked or
granted and all that. With several towns
going through the process, it is a bit con-
fusing.
However it is a thoroughly healthy
condition when parents and others IN COM
munity are seeking to improve school facil-
tiles for the youth of that community. Get
ting along with outdated equipment and in
adequate buildings is short-sighted economy
where there is any practical way of financ-
ing better. go
Life today is highly competitive and
youngsters who are not trained to the stand
ard of the youths with whom they will COM
pete for jobs are unfortunately handicapped.
Much can be said for the schools of yester-
day, and the graduate course of experience,
but the modern school aims to give more
practical work and spare the child as much
time as possible in finding his place.
The practical side of the modern educa-
ton is it's strongest point. Not all can go
to college and enter the professions. There
would be no room for them if they could.
The up-to-date school offers courses with
view not to preparing students for college,
but for life.
ASKING CANDIDATES FOR LEGIS-
lative offices just what they will do about
this or that if elected, not taking into &C
count factors which may arise affecting
their decision, is not wise policy. We pre-
fer to vote for men whose general attitude
towards problems we know to be satisfactory
and trust them to vote wisely when the oc-
casion arises.
However on the matter of publishing
welfare board expenditures of county money
for relief clients, we feel there is little argu-
ment and we know of no circumstance that
would cause us to believe that the public
does not have the right to know who it is
supporting, and how WELL This is certainly
the public's attitude as registered last spring
at township meetings. One of the first du-
ties of the next legislature should be to make
clear what it presumably 4aadt ended, athat the
same publicity be- given to welfare board
doles as to county board payments for relief
in the old days.
AS it now stands, we understand the
expenditures will be listed in the county
financial statement published about the first
of each year. This is unless MIR. PearloVe
who made the first ruling, makes another.
Once per year, however, is by no means Of
ten enough for an accounting on a matter
SO difficult to keep check on as the needs of
hundreds of families scattered over large
county.
BELATED PERHAPS, BUT NEVER
theless welcome, was the statement of Har-
ry Hopkins, WPA administrator, disapprov-
ing of solicitation of funds from WPA work
ers to assist in defeating congressman mark
ed by President Roosevelt for "purging" at
the polls this fall The Workers Alliance
was reported raising $4,000 in New York
state to oppose the reelection of John J.
O'Connor.
The Alliance is an organization of WPA
workers devoted to the legitimate work of
raising WPA pay standards. While defeat
ing New Deal foes might conceivably be
part of it's program, it should be considered
that WPA is not designed as permanent
employment program but as a stop-gap job
giver to tide over persons without private
jobs. Its wage and hour scales are design
ed to give only subsistence wage.
If the WPA worker has money for a
political contribution, it follows that he is
getting more than a subsistence wage. The
Alliance would be only proving the point it
was organized to disprove if it carried out
its campaign plan.
RADIO STATIONS GOT TOLD" IN
recent survey, that the two worst things
about their programs are: l. Commercial
announcements, particularly those which go
on for what seems like hours dishing out ad-
vertising of the bunkem variety, and e.
Crime and gangland programs for children
Among lesser gripes were old jokes, inane
serial stories which clutter the daytime pro-
grams unbearably, too much baseball, too
much jazz, too much studio audience ''re-
sponse," swing bands and political speakers.
Pleasing the public is not easy, but it
would seem the stations and program spon-
sors might have guessed they were off-base
on the first two counts.
IF ASKED GOVERNOR BENSON'S
foremost fault we would say his highly in
tolerant attitude toward any who disagrees
with him. The true liberal grants everyone
the right to his opinions without questioning
their honesty and sincerity