The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-12-05

they stand at present Whlcn could not
be understood by even q militant suf-
fragette. The game laws are
farce and any person arrested for
violating them couldn't be prescott
ed in a hundred years if the defen-
dant wished to spend the money
necessary to fight the case. While
reorganizing the: system Of expenses
by state office holders the Duluth
Herald should take to task the game
and fish commission for being most
negligent in their duties and compel
that body to reconstruct it's game
laws. = -,
Deerwood Times: The primary
election next year will occur in June
instead Of September as formerly.
The early primary will mean that the
campaign for office will commence
late in the winter or early in the
spring. The four-year term of Office
will doubtless cause the fight for
county Offices to be brisker than
usual. Under the new law, the coun-
ty Office becomes a bigger plum than
formerly and there will doubtless be
many more ambitious politicians
anxious to pluck the fruit than in
the good old days of 1.-TWO year
tenure" 1t is rumored that fight
will be made on. the new law and
that it will be up to the courts to de-
eide the legal phase of the matter.
The "four year term" will afford a
good reason for voting the best men
into the Office instead of voting a
candidate in simply because he be-
longs to this or that party.
Mesaba Ore: President King and
Secretary Mackenzie, of the North
ern Minnesota Development associa-
ton, registered vigorous kick
against the government patenting
swamp lands to the state before the
state had complied with the law re-
quirements to admit of such transfer,
and the protest stuck, notwithstand-
ing the poo-hooing done by State
Auditor Iverson and others of the
old guard. The state, it appears, has
been acquiring government land un-
der false pretenses, to the detriment
of development in the northern Sec
lions, and the action of Messrs. King
and Mackenzie will be for the per-
manent good ofs+bis section. State
administration newspapers and camp
followers attempted to ridicule the
development association officers at
the outset, but it is operating as a
boomerang.
Owatonna Tribune: Since Adolph
Eberhart was the originator of many
of those unnecessary boards that
newspapers about the state are clam
oring to have disposed of, why not
attempt to remove the cause before
attempting to remedy the effect and
first remove Eberhart?
To be sure Minnesota has too
many unnecessary state boards.
Why not see to an administration up
on which you can depend to see that
a large number of these unnecessary
boards, most of which were created
simply as political rewards, are >ex-
terminated? Certainly the present
administration cannot be entrusted
with that work.
Biwabik Times: The Times de-
sires to reiterate its oft repeated as
sertion that the school teachers
should be upheld in all things by par
ents. There is too much of a dispo-
sition to blame teachers for the lack
of progress by pupils, too many times
the pupils are upheld in attitudes of
defiance to the teachers and school
authority. Parents who take this at
titude are breeding in their children
a fatal weakness-a disposition to
question or defy the authority imme-
diately over them. This is DISPOSE
ton that has kept many an other
wise good man down.
Wabasha Herald: Someone rises
to remark that it might be we'll to
defer the opening of the big game
season until a month later, for the
reason that there is hardly ever much
snow on the ground in November,
which makes trailing rather difficult.
The suggestion is good one and if
carried out would benefit the nimrod
who is after big game. But what's
the matter with making plans to
diminish the danger to human life
connected with big game hunting?
Can't some one advance a practical
preventive of the heavy human toll
demanded annually during the open
season?
Aurora News, There is some com
plant from those who cannot adapt
themselves to the new order Of pro-
pressiveness regarding the fact that