The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-04-11
MONDAYS EVENTS IN EUROPE

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serve to convert many who were not wholly
our government to the belief that we must
be prepared for any eventuality.
They verified beyond any doubt what
has long been predicted, that the war would
break out generally on much wider fronts
with the advent of spring. This is one spring
which is met with no rejoicing by the COM
mon people of embroiled nations.
In the northwest where thousands OF
natives of the Scandinavian countries and
their descendants reside, the switching OF
battle scenes westward from Finland
prompts new interest. Towns and cities
familiar in childhood or often spoken of by
reminiscing parents replace Helsinki, Pet
samo, KviSto in the news.
One by one many of our populations
have suffered distress for relatives left IN
the more or less familiar homeland; feel
ing of desperation expressed by one man
this week, Il still have sister there but my
parents, thank God, are dead"
But there is no demand even from rela-
tives that America barge in. Always the
same attitude has been noted that Gazette
reporter marveed at after discussing Czech
oslovakia's problems with Bechyn residents
back in September 1888. She found SYM
pathy, naturally, but no relenting in the de-
sire for isolation from Europe's turmoil and
a proud eve are Americans first"
That attitude is perhaps the more firm
because of the background in European mat
tiers possessed by persons who only recently
left there, convictions that the age-old hates
taught in the nursery will not be removed
in this war, or the next, OR the next; that
no permanent peace is likely to grow on
blood-soaked soil; that Americans in Europe
are neither appreciated nor understood.
While we abhor the injustices of recent
years and have felt an impulse with each
new wrong to rush in and rid the world of
oppressors-the tuition we paid for exper-
fence in world affairs is quickly remember
ed Our sympathies are held in bound, too
by the fact that today's victims hesitated to
help near neighbors, even when their fate
was plain.
THE BUSINESS MAN WITH THE
handlebar mustache, or is it mustaches, was
successful if he followed the simple rule of
attending to business but his sons and
grandsons find competition keener, so keen
in fact that good deal of business today is
bought outright.
Few modern factories are built today
without bit of preliminary bidding by
towns hoping to secure the industry Some
times whole buildings are furnished but
more often site and tax concessions for
few years are sufficient bait
We had always presumed it was pretty
soft for those southern communities which
furnish training grounds and quarters for
northern baseball teams but readers of
Gordon Gilmore's St. Paul Dispatch column
learned this week that there is competition
in this field too.
The St. Paul club gets it's playing field,
with water and lights entirely Free plus
transportation to nearby towns for exhibit
ton games and next year, huge signs to an
nounce the presence of the guest club in
Leesburg, Florida. On top of this, Leesburg
folks buy season tickets to exhibition games
in mid-winter sales campaign. Buy them,
we take it, or else!
One may go to Florida for bit of mid
winter sunshine but the chances of escaping
competition in that cline seem thin.