The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-03-09
LET US EMPHASIZE THAT THE


LET US EMPHASIZE THAT THE
does not wish or intend to cover events in your
local community EXCEPT INSOFAR AS
THEY ARE OF STATE OR NATIONAL. IN
TEREST. We do not wish to print news about
your community to please cultivate your
community or to compete in any way with the
function of your local newspaper in printing
local news. We do not wish to advertise or
publicize your community. BUT WE DO
WANT TO PRINT NEWS AND PICTURES
FROM YOUR COMMUNITY WHEN 1T is A
: LEGITIMATE STATEWIDE OR NATION
WIDE NEWS SOURCE.
The above statements are quoted from
an instruction sheet sent correspondents of
a Minneapolis newspaper which is making
strenuous bid for support in rural areas of
the state. While it's avoidance of news con-
flict with the local paper is appreciated, this
does not preclude claims for national adver-
Using on the grounds of statewide coverage
legitimate insofar as the claims can be
supported.
However the disavowal of any interest
in "cultivating" small community interest
by printing news of only local Importance
and the unwillingness ''to advertise or pub
licize" local communities strike us as sing
ularly provincial attitude. Were The Gazette
to adopt like viewpoint, no mention would
ever be made in our news columns of Wa
basso's Harvest days, Sanborn's Watermelon
day, Clements Balloon days, or Santa's visits
to any of the towns which compete with
Redwood Falls for business, to mention only
a few examples.
Our attitude, and we contend it is broad
er and more farseeing, is that as each of the
communities which go to make up this area
benefit, SO do we all prosper. We suggest
that this Mill City paper consider the future
OF Minneapolis if the 4 outstate areas give
constantly and never receive; not to mention
its own future so long as it's rivals in Min
neapolis continue to give as well as take.
A WESTERN FOOD STORE CHAIN
has instructed it's divisional managers to
avoid using handbills and free distribution
sheets except when absolutely necessary,
and then to use the newspaper job shops for
such circular material. The company holds
that successful newspaper is essential to
a successful community, and that anything
that tends to injure the newspaper hurts the
community, and stores of that community.
THE RAMSEY COUNTY GRAND
jury refused to indict the two men charged
by four members of the legislature with
having tried to bride them. Lobbyists al
ways did bear charmed life in Minnesota.
Everybody knows they swarm in ST. Paul at
every session, and promote or kill legisa-
ton. But nobody ever does anything about
it.-Alexandria Echo.
DENYING RADIO AND PRESS FREE
dom from censorship because some Of them
distort news occasionally would be like deny
ing everyone the right to speak because
there are few liars.-Sleepy Eye Herald
Dispatch.
IN COOPERATION WITH THE FED
eral and local governments the state gives
relief to people. In almost the same breath,
the state passes a small loan bill which leg
allies an interest rate of Sc per cent on small
borrowings of poor people.-Grand Rapids
Herald.
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A GOOD THOUGHT FOR ToURNA-
ment teams:
'To brag little, to lose we'll,
To crow gently if in luck,
To pay up, to own up,
To shut up if beaten
Are the virtues of sportingman''
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
( A HUSBAND IS SUING FOR DIVORCE
because his wife hit him with flatiron,
which seems poor way to iron out domestic
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