The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-07-21
OUR CONTEMPORARY, THE SUN


accident in three years. Any Minnesota
Safety Council figures to that effect are un-
fortunately inaccurate for in no year of the
seven during which this writer has been
harping on the accident problem has this
county escaped without several tragic high
way deaths, minimum for any one year of
perhaps four, possibly three.
1t is true that five as the figure now
stands is unusually high for this early in the
year. Should the rate hold probably an all
time high of nine or ten would be establish
ed, although it would be a record in which
we could take little pride.
In the seven year period of which we
speak approximately 80 persons have gone
to early graves here through traffic injur
les. Unfortunately there are no records
classifying these deaths as to causes. Often
the public never knows, beyond MINORS and
circumstantial evidence, what was the act
ual cause. Speed probably took the heav-
lest toll. Liquor too often has been factor.
Carelessness, weather conditions, mechanic
al faults, purely human errors have at times
been responsible.
There is strong tendency after life
has been snuffed out to spare the relatives
the grief of an investigation which at best
cannot restore the life. With no legal basis
for blaming liquor, speed or other factors,
the obvious facts.
Perhaps in our thoughtfulness of the
grief-stricken, we are contributing to future
tragedies Thoroughly studied, we might
establish whether, as is popularity supposed,
many of these tragedies are bred in night
spots. Doing 7O' might be made less popu-
lar and driving with care become more
fashionable. With driving record as black
as ours, obviously some way of improvement
must be found.
THERE'S A LOT GOES INTO THIS
newspaper you read, and especially in the
great metropolitan dailies. There are trees
chopped into pulp to make the paper, a
lead and steel to fashion the type and press
eS.
There's inventive genius too, the genius
of the Gutenberg that formed bits of wood
and metal into letters. There's the press of
Robert Hoe, the folder attachment of Dun
can and Wilson, and the linotype of Ottmar
Mergenthaler, the eighty fourth anniver-
sary of whose birth is celebrated this week.
In Hindustan and Ball. Rocky City and
London, men watch the passing parade of
events and speed their record through space
to fill the pages of your paper. Right here
at home, other men write copy, set up type
print the pages, and pass your paper on TO
you.
But there's something more than this
in the paper you read. There's a tradition
of truth, heritage of free thinking and
writing that has come down to us as the
freedom of the press. Throughout Ameri-
cas- history, editors have sought to record
true picture of things happening. But the
passing scene isn't set and static. 1t is fluid,
changing, moving, different today than it is
tomorrow. Editors who watch it may see
it in a different point of view. AS human
beings, editors have made mistakes. But
through it all, truth has remained a goal, the
aim of the real editor to record what goes
on in the world, honestly, truthfully, and
without bias.
That is what you'll find in the paper
you read paper, ink, type, presses, and
people! But it would all add up to nothing
were it not for the tradition of truth and
freedom which the newspaper represents
Murray County Herald.
AN INSURANCE srAT1sT1c1AN
says intelligent people live longer than dumb
ones. In times like these, with prospects as
they are, it doesn't seem very intelligent of
'em to do it.-Joplin (Mo.) Globe.
CITIZENS OF SALINAS; CALF,
were surprised to find a patch of grass
springing up on one of their busiest streets,
but Mr.. Hoover had been expecting it all
| along.-Goshen News-Democrat.
SINCE COLLEGE FOOTBALL IS
now big business, by ruling of the highest
court, how's about cracking down on Mime
sofa under the Sherman antitrust act p
Detroit News.
PROGRESS is A GREAT THING. IT
enables one to exclaim at the slaughter at
Gettysburg and forget that every year auto
mobiles kill five times as many persons as
fell in that battle.-Hartford Daily Courant
NEW YORK PROFESSOR SAYS A
college graduate with Established work