The Redwood gazette., 1940-03-21
REDWOOD FALLS MAY BE SAID TO


be gaga about basketball, as this is written
Tuesday night. Not the weather and busi-
ness but "how strong is Montevideo" and
''do you think We'll go to the state" are the
topics of conversation throughout the city
and in much of the territory which sur
rounds it.
Since the press will be rolling on this
part of the paper before the final whistle is
blown at Granite Falls Wednesday night, it
cannot contain congratulations or condol-
ences on that game.
But we can say that sooner or later in
tournament play all but one of the more
than $50 teams representing high schools OF
the state must fall by the wayside. Some
times they lose on off-nights to teams poor
er, generally, than they are. Often lucky
basket in the final moment or in an overtime
period decides the fate of a team that except
for that incident, might go much farther in
tournament play than the fortunate rival.
Right now we have the champion OF one
of the 80 districts in the state, one of the
strong districts That is an honor for which
the fans of most teams gladly would settle
tournament hopes with paid-in-full stamp.
Tomorrow we may be one of the l6
teams which have or had chance for con-
ISOLATION honorS-to be among the "a to win
third place or better in their regions, or we
may be one of the 16 which by winning once
more can go to the state. There we might
climb into the top four as one Redwood team
has, or be reduced to a chance to take fifth
place, which another Redwood team did, or
go still farther.
But every upward step in the march to-
ward the state championship involves
stronger competition, higher hopes-greater
disappointment.
When disappointment con,es-and it
must to all but one-it is we'll to remember
that the boys have come long way, that
they have established themselves as great
team and great group of young athletes.
After all it is game, not matter of
life and death. You are more confirmed
fan than most if you can name the 1888
state champion.
b POSSIBLY THERE is SOME REASON
outside our scope of observation why the
state of Minnesota should be concerned Off
cially about whether it's citizens get Kitty
Kean, Rollie Johnson, Clelland Card, Life
Can Be Beautiful and Cedric Adams over
WCCO ON an exclusive wave band but to us
it looks as if the radio magnates should do
their own lobbying and suing when a New
York station wishes to share their spot on
the dial
"FERsoNS CLOSE TO THE MILL
tary doings of Europe report that the morale
of all the armies is lower than it was in the
7 World war."-News item. It's not very en-
couraging to men in the trenches to think
that if they are lucky enough to escape
death, their sons probably will be in the
same spot rs years later fighting the same
fight.
A MOST ENCOURAGING BIT OF
news is the item that the state highway de-
paItnent is completing the grading of high
way Il north of Window this spring. Event
ually MinneSOta's sector of the American
Highway will reach the standard establish
ed south of the border, in backward" Mexi-
PEDESTRIANS, TOO, CAN BE wrong.
In fact they were wrong in II per cent of
the accidents in which they were involved in
Minnesota last year, according to a highway
department bulletin. One hundred seventy
two of them were killed. It's something to
think about when you jaywalk to save half
blocks walk.
JAPANESE 'CONGRESSMEN" GOT
into fist fight the other day, blacked out
each others eyes. If we could get the
worlds dictators and political leaders to
settle disputes in the same manner arna-
ment could be reduced and the old globe i'm
measureably improved.
H. CARL ANDERSEN, OUR CON-
gressman, points out that the census this
year is costing just thousand times what
the first count in 1870 cost the nations
founders. There are thousand times more
Democrats, Carl.
A MONTANA MAN ASSAULTED A
young girl, was caught and sentenced in two
days time to 25 years in the penitentiary.
If arrested at all in Minneapolis he would
have got 80 days, 60 of it suspended.
HAROLD E. DAHL is BACK AFTER
two years in the Spanish war and prisons,
convinced that war isn't fun. Seems he
could have inquired around bit before he
took the job.