The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-02-29
NEARLY FOUR THOUSAND EAGEF

tilS SIdte gUlSSeSt SpOTIS cVciI, CHC <tiiiuci
high school basketball tournament.
Before the champion team is crowned
in ST. Paul late next month, 483 teams will
have met sturdier, more proficient, and In
few cases luckier opponent and tasted
bitter defeat, but along the way eight re-
gional champions and 80 district champs will
have proved local superiority and 80 or 40
Sub-district winners also will have been
rewarded with cups and plaques.
More than 600 games will have been
won, and lost Hundreds of thousands of
fans will have cheered and moaned, but
rarely booed as the most sportsmanlike
sporting event of all moves along.
The high school basketball playoff is a
model of organization, the duties OF admin
istration delegated to hundreds of schoolmen
throughout the state, working on district and
regional committees. In the vast majority
of cases schedules will be carried out with
classroom-like precision, every team will be
ready to go at the appointed time, every in
convenience to players, coaches, officials,
spectators will be avoided if possible.
1t is credit to the institution, it's man.
ayers and the fans that the sportmanShip of
the events has improved UNNECESSARILY
since the early years. Most of the nations
colleges could take lesson from the prep
schools in enforcement Of eligibility rules
and amateur standards. Rare indeed is the
high school athletic scandal in Minnesota;
thoroughly taught is the lesson that vic
tory won by unfair means is shallow tri-
unph
CALL THEM THE '.DOLEFUL THIR-
ties if you wish but the last decade was not
without progress in some fields. Municipal
building served to keep tradesmen busy
when private construction begged, PWA and
WPA being the best known OF several gov
eminent agencies in the building field.
Projects for the construction of sewage
treatment plants were plentiful aiding in
the fight to prevent pollution of streams and
. in turn to improve health and contribute to
conservation of wild life
Figures just released show that SO cit
les and villages in Minnesota built such
plants during the decade, among them Of
course Redwood Falls. s.&1 "a 49,
January l, 1880 only SO cities in the
state, with population OF 1877 18 people,
had any kind of treatment plant. During
the decade this list was increased by 88 but
what is more significant, the 1877 plants now
in existence serve cities with total of
1,248, 488 people, or 70 per cent of the city
and village population of the state.
OF THE 35 MEN REPRESENTING
northwest states in congress, 81 voted
against extension of the reciprocal trade
agreements act.
Seventh District Congressman H. Carl
Andersen remarks in his letter to editors
this week: This, to me- is conclusive proof
that the trade agreements act, as operated
at present, is detrimental to midWestern
agriculture"
Without disputing Mr.. Andersen's con-
tention that the amendment asked by the
Farm Bureau to protect home markets
should have been adopted, we suggest that
in an election year, the vote is conclusive
proof that the congressman think that the
farmers think that the act, as operated is
detrimental to midwestern agriculture"
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AN EXCHANGE POINTS OUT THAT
the best auto lights now will light the road
about 100 feet ahead and that the best
brakes can stop car safely within 100 feet
only if the car, is travelling not faster than
35 miles an hour. The conclusion is that if
a man drives faster than 35 miles an hour
at night he is driving blind into all space
more than 100 feet ahead. This is good
thing to keep in mind. Hospital bills come
high.-Long Prairie Leader.
THE NEW LAW REQUIRING TOWN
ships to go through all of the forms of state
elections to elect town officers, marks the
end of the one form of real democracy left
in America land the oldest form of govern
ment we have-the old-fashioned town meet
ing. We doubt if the legislature filled any
longfelt Want when it made the change
Park Region Echo.
AN EDITORIAL RECENTLY En-
pressed the fear that, with all the youth
movements and the current accent on youth,
the young people of this country will de-
velop into a ''class" We can't see that it's
anything to worry about. Time will take
care of it.-Minneota Mascot.
YOU CAN ALWAYS COMPROMISE
with woman by letting her have her own
way. We would have fewer divorces and
more domestic bliss if men would only learn
to see things from the wife's point of view.
ST. James Plaindealer.