The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-09-21
A DEMOCRACY NEVER is LESS

more sinful at rs than at 5 AS, yet the six
o'clock law is a long established fact in
Minnesota.
We have on the books innumerable laws
regulating the hours of various respectable
places of amusement, most of them passed,
no doubt, with high minded intentions but
tending today, where rigidly enforced, co
drive trade to questionable places outside the
zone CT enforcement and regulation
CRITICAL AS MOST OF US ARE OF
must admit that WPA recreational programs
have enlisted great many who enjoy par
ticipation in athletics and offered them an
opportunity to do so that was never avail
able before.
In view of the benefits derived from less
elaborate sports programs, Redwood Falls
should seize it's opportunity to be a trial city
in the new more complete and better super
vised play plans contemplated.
Certainly few cities our size have COM
parable facilities for testing the projected
plans and it is doubtful if many have more
persons ready to take advantage of the OPP
portunity offered.
WEAKEST LINK IN THE REDWOOD
Falls traffic chain, from the safety stand
the city's large student population must
cross busy streets several times per day.
We say this with all due regard for the
efficiency of the school patrolmen whose
record is the more remarkable when it is
remembered that the city has not lost
child's life in traffic in several years.
Our point, however, is that the city is
asking too much of the willing youths of the
patrol in expecting them to maintain this
record in the face of the increasing odds
against them.
A large portion of the traffic which
passes the school going to and from down.
town work, in the morning and at noon part
icularly, could without serious inconvenience
and certainly with greater safety avoid the
congestion at the Fourth and Fifth street
intersections ef Lincoln street by driving a
block or two further west or by passing the
school on the east where there is much less
pedestrian traffic. 80
ON BEHALF OF THOUSANDS OF
patient fans at high school football and
basketball games, we protest against the
shocking lack of yelling originality and ap-
parent satisfaction of students with worn
out yells.
Hasn't someone in the student bodies of
our institutions the time and ingenuity to
than the whose all right?" yell that had
ahiskers when we studied algebra and strug-
gled with English II?
Possibly the locomotive" of the early
20's is preserved for the benefit of those old
grads with the lung power and spirit of their
youth by student body too young to re-
cognize that it sounds rusty and is moth
eaten, but if so the respect for elders is un-
due and unappreciated for it is the student
body that yells, and always has been.
Give us something new and novel in
student enthusiasm as expressed in massed
vocal support and we will cheer the origin
ator as violently as we praise the halfback
who breaks away for the winning touch
down in the final minute of play.
THE TENDENCY AT THE MIME
sofa Highway department for several years
has been to satisfy as many delegations as
possible from out over the state by passing
out thin blacktop treatment literally and
letting fewer and fewer contracts for per-
manent and more costly concrete paving
1t has been short-sighted policy. There
arc many roads on which only the less ex-
pensive treatment is advisable, but compile
ton of a great many roads which eventual
ly must be paved if the state is to escape
great maintenance bills has been expensive
ly delayed by the please-all method.
There should be some balance point be-
tween building no concrete roads and max
ing no permanent provision for traffic as
maintenance costs mount on one hand and
trying to build more than is possible out of
current receipts without sighting mainten-
ance CT existing temporarily improved routes
on the other.
1t is hoped by good roads advocates
throughout the state, particularly those con-
cerned with tourist traffic, that one north
south route such as highway II will come
in for permanent surfacing very soon and
that other north-south routes will be sim
ilarly treated as soon as this job is DONE
We can spend literally to bring people here
but if they go away saying, "the lakes are
swell but the roads are rough, dusty and not
to compare with what you find in Iowa. Wis
consin, Illinois or Michigan" the cumulative
effect of the campaign through satisfied Gus
toners is lost.
NOW AND THEN YOU MEET A MAN