The Redwood gazette., 1939-09-07
TODAY'S RUSTIEST IDEA: THAT
anybody actually wins war.


books. Then is when you will really see
football teams Blooming Prairie Times.
WILL WE SELL TO EUROPEAN Ma
tions on credit again? The United States
News predicts we will-when European
cash runs out, because the alternative will
be another depression.
WITH THE FAIR SEASON IN FULL
swing, city papers are running pictures of
pretty girls leading cows, but in most cases
there is more calf than cow to be seen.-
Baudette Region.
THE SLOT MACHINE RACKET IS A
vicious one from every angle. The public
official with the nerve and the will to check
it will be a public benefactor.
Journal
THEY HAVE BUILT UP A MORE OR
less fake job for Ed Shave, promoting sauer-
kraut, doughnut, fapjack and other special
days that Minnesota communities put on.
1t would have been far better to have kept
him at the head of the Tourist Bureau,
where he was the best man possible for the
job.-Park Region Echo, Alexandria.
PEOPLE DON'T EAT MORE DURING
war, in fact many eat less. Fighting farm
ers don't produce farm crops, of course, but
the immediate raises after declaration of
war are partly because of hysteria and part
ly because Immediately there is strong
tendency to hold supplies off the market in
anticipation of rise; the Farmer Holiday
idea, approached from a different angle.
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REDWOOD COUNTY SUCCESSES IN
All club work are attained with such fire.
quency and regularity that we sometimes
are inclined to take them for granted and
| overlook the background of training and
work by contestants and supervision by par
ents and club leaders which develops cham
pions.
Our hats should be off again to the
youngsters who completed projects, to the
hundreds who brought them to the county
| fair, to those who won state fair and junior
| livestock show trips and particularly to
| those who brought home more honors for
county agriculture their parents and
! leaders.
FEW WILL CRITICISE THE CITY
administration in it's progressive step re-
garding new city charter. There is little
defense for an instrument however hoary,
which does not begin to meet demands Of
the modern day and has not been satisfact-
cry for many years.
The very history of the present charter
however, places emphasis on the Importance
Of the task to be assigned the charter COM
mission when named
1t is not practical to change charters
often. Preferably they should not require
frequent amendment or experimentation.
The alternative is that as many eventuali-
ties as possible be provided for in its pre-
paration.
f4ol H.
under which the city government now func-
tons could not have been expected to fore
see the advent of the motor car or to provide
for its regulation in an era when practically
every family has one. They might have had
the foresight, though, to extend the juris-
dlction Of the city government in certain
matters, not to the end of streets as they
existed then but to the city limits.
charter adopted this year which pro-
vides for three wards in place of two for ex-
ample if it did not offer opportunities for
more, would be more shortsighted then the
present one which established two as per-
manent. ca city in which votes are count
ed for the better part of two days at times
has need for four wards for general elections
right now.)
There are many cities of our class which
have new charters, some features of which
can be adopted with little change. All should
be examined carefully by men associated
with the city's government over a consid-
cradle period of years, to consider how we'll
they would have fitted where the present
charter was weak. 1t is likely that some
matters, such as the election date, will and
should come in for considerable public dis
cussion. Certainly it should not be placed
as at present, 50 that any election scrap
must be carried on during the holiday sea-
son.
There are thousand other details to
be weighed and decided. The task has been
staring councils in the face for several years
and the city has reason to be thankful that
it no longer is to come under the head of un-
finished business