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The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15
PROTECTING MOTHERHOOD.

TT BEATS all the new ideas that are coming to
I us from that newest world-Australla. Inc
l. government of the state of New South Wales
has lust added ministry of motherhood" to its
cabinet For the department just created, an en-
doWment from income taxes has been set aside
which, it is expected, will produce $25,OOo,OOO
year.
The money will be used to protect mothers IN
a variety of ways. There will be pensions, OF
course which will warm the heart OF our own
American Judge Henry Neil of Hinsdale, ILL.,,
the father of mothers pensions. Then there Will
be government-paid doctors who will attend ex-
pectant mothers, not as charity but as a mothers
right from her own government. There Will be
government nurses for maternity cases, especl-
ally in the rural districts where there are few
doctors and fewer nurses. Nor will this free
nursing be charity but act of enlightened gov
ernment
i, The United States has been mouthing and maw-
ing over this same idea for years-the government
protection of rural mothers, in calm and stress
but while we were foolng the time away, Austria
liza was acting.
Aw, let's wake up!-Fairmont Sentinel.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

SHH! The sieuths getting warmer
The Associated Press informs US by the way
of several newspapers that the identity of the
blacksmith that shod the horse that hauled the
wagon that conveyed the explosives that blew
up Wall street on September Is has been
established! Marvellous! Now just as soon as
they find the guy with the busted brain that
hatched the plot that called for a bomb that
was filled with window-weights that were
hauled by man that owned the horse that
was shod by the man that the A. P. knows
about, the mystery will be solved!-St.
Charles Union.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15
THE VILLAGE HOLD-BACK.

-H HE GAZETTE has been accused upon seV
and different occasions recently OF maxim
l. editorial coats to fit various persons. w
plead mot guilty. to past charges, but we don
deny that in publishing the following borrowe
poetry, we have at least six people on whom W
have fixed our minds eye. Read it-and see i
you can pick 'em out.
He was one of the class found in every town.
Who is self appointed to keep taxes down,
And he leaned himself on his garden fence
AS he told his neighbor of the town expense.
ssTheres the sewer tax and the water rent.
(The Lord only knows how the money is
spent)
And cash to raise for the high school bonds,
Which burden us now and will tax our sons.
I've been in the harness since I've lived here,
Which is now nigh onto fifty year
And I've talked and pleaded and tried to show
These things wasn't needed, but don't you
know
That blamed town council and their crooked
crowd
Just talked so smooth and yelled so loud
That they got the water and sewer too,
And helped to put the school bonds through.
Now they're wanting to pave the whole main
street
With rocks and gravel and then concrete.
And are talking around about civic park
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

George Witte, correspondent for the ST.
Paul Dispatch, sends the following cable
gram to that paper from Berlin.
Beginning January 1, Germany will
have an army Of 100000, the size allowed
under the peace treaty. But it will be
an army of 100000 officers. Germany
thus will have the best trained army in
the world. The army budget, which
comes up for debate in the reichstag at
early date, is put at 5,000,O00,000 marks
(nominaly $1,25oOOO.0O0). Before the
war the kaiser spent only 1000,000,000
marks (s25O,O00,O0O) annually for both
army and navy. In 1913 the army cost
Germany s1,085 marks (S271.25) per man
officers included. Next year each sol
der will cost $4,000 marks
That's fine for the Germany army, but if Gel
many doesn't take better care of her starvin
children than she is reported to be doing, how
;he going to keep the army of the future built up
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

Redwood Gazette: Some people who pride
themselves on being conservative have many
of the marks of being plain stingy.
Duluth Herald Is this thought for Christ
mas?
We didn't mean it so, Herald-we meant it
as thought for Christians. 1t grew out of our
observations of the conservative" line of talk put
up by some careful sidesteppers of the Red Cross
Roll Cab and other worthwhile campaigns.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1920.
81 WAS BLIND, BUT NOW l SEE"

He stood before the Sanhedrim;
The scowling rabbis gaZed at him.
He rocked not of their praise or blame;
There was no fear, there was no shame,
For one upon whose dazzled eyes
The whole world poured its vast surprise
The open heaven was far too near,
His first days light too sweet and clear
To let him waste his new gained ken
On the hate-clouded face of men.
But still they questioned Who art thou?
What hast thou been? What art thou now?
Thou are not he who yesterday
Sat here and begged beside the way;
For he was blind.
For was blind, but now see."
He told the story DER and DER;
1t was his full hearts only lore.
A prophet on the Sabbath day
Had touched his sightless eyes with clay,
And made him see who had been blind
Their words passed by him like the wind,
Which raves and howls, but cannot shock
The hundred-fath rooted rock.
Their shocks and fury all went wide.
They could not touch his Hebrew pride.
Their sneers at Jesus and his band,
Nameless and homeless in the land;
Their boasts of Moses and his Lord
All could not change him by one word.
I know not what this man may be,
Sinner or saint, but for me,
One thing I know-that | am he
Who once was blind, and now | see.
TT oil of
The great men of a famous town;
With deep brows wrinkled, broad and wise,
Beneath their wide phylacteries;
The wisdom of the East was theirs
And honor crowned their silver hairs.
The man they jeered and laughed to scorn
Was unlearned, poor and humbly born;
But he knew better far than they
What came to him that Sabbath day,
And what the Christ had done for him,
He knew and not the Sanhedrim.
John Hay.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

| consider this Farm Bureau organization
a mighty good thing for the farmers of the
Northwest If judiciously managed it will
secure for the farmers every right to which
they are entitled, and that is all the farmers
ask for Politics will eventually kill any or
ganization no matter how strong that or
ganization may be, and the Farm Bureau has
been wise in keeping the organization free
from politics-R w. Clough, Danube.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

We are strong for this "Handkerchiefs for
Christmas" campaign which all the dry goods
stores are staging right now. When there is
found in the small daughters MILDLY one ink spat-
tered, torn-hem "hanky" which has served as a
cache for one nicke-sized cud of chewing gum,
one very fat chocolate with pink insides and one
penny to exc out the nickel tied in the opposite
corner, one can easily see where even two or
three of these useful and dainty bits of linen"
might not come amiss in each we'll regulated fam
i1y n
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

These being the Christmas season we are try
ing to cultivate true spirit of forgiveness. We
have almost, but not quite, forgiven the last
bringer of coal who succeeded, while depositing
seven tablespoonfuls of black diamonds in our bin,
in cutting four ruts eight inches in our own back
lawn and doing a somewhat slighter damage to
the lawns of our neighbors on either side. We
have succeeded in forgiving him what he did to
the neghbors anyway.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

Bank advertisements interest US greatly. One
for a bank in southern Minnesota starts out by
saying "The computation Of interest is fascnat-
ing mathetical problem" Granted-if the right
fellow is computing it! Another, for an Olivia
Bank slogans Better Bulls and Bears Build Big
ger Bank Baances"-and never says a word about
what effect British Bears have. It's all in the
viewpoint, boys, all in the angle of refraction Of
your specs!
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

Christmas seals may not be as unusual and as
artistic as some of the higher priced ones you may
purchase if so minded, but they the most
soul-satisfying little stickers anyone ever
bought. Every you buy may help somebody
to see another Christmas here earth-every
one helps a little in giving some one chance.
Buy many and often.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

It's hard for man to feel that he born
to do great things, while he is helping his wife
on with her rubbers.-Joe Reynolds.
Well, its a bit hard for woman to feel especi-
ally great and glorious while she's equpping her
husbands clean shirt with the necessary fasten-
ing operandi. But so long as they both keep still
about their feelings the rest of the world should
worry.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

Charley Dillman of the Blue Earth Post says
Christmas tree in the home symbolizes jolity,
friendship, joy health happiness, faith, hope and
love-" We can't think of anything tina; Charley
has left out but, if there is an omission in the
above, it symbolizes that, too. By all means have
a christmas tree even if you have to plant it in a
flower pot.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

Isn't it queer how who will spend twen-
ty-five cents day for cigars or lose good dollars
in his weekly bi-weekly, tri-weekly or nightly
poker bout, will invariably charge his wife to ego
mighty easy on spending money for Christmas
presents this year," Now honest, isn't it queer?
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

And now from Walker, Senator Pat McGarry,s S
little old home town, comes ripping southwark
little boomlet for Pat for Governor some several
years hence-said boomet basing itself on Pats
splendid good roads work. Alright! Well stand
Pat! Now that equal suffrage has come to
stay he can't do the state bit of harm.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

If you and me-just you and me,
Will give to all humanity
Our love, our smile, our song,
The World will have Christmas Tree
That lasts the whole year long
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

For heavens sake if you've worn a crouch eV-
cry other day Of the year. cast it off this morning
and meet your fellow man with an honest-to-
goodness smile >and real, old-fashioned hand
shake-Oivia Times.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

Three million said to be out of en-
ployment in this country. That job you are
holding down in the country would look mighty
good to most of them. How does it look to you
now?
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

"If you can't help to build the grade, don't be
muskrat and spend your time undermining what
others have done" says Gunnar Bjornson. Not
half bad advice-that
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

"Give your loved ones memory this Christ
mas" advises an advertisement. We cant-a
memory is about the only thing our Redwood
Falls merchants won't charge to our account.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

There is just Christmas gift we would ask
for Redwood Falls and that is for one solid year
of every body workin' wild instead Of agin!
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

No winter blurs the green of the Christmas
tree; and no gloom can blur the glory of the
Christmas heart.-Larry Ho.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

Frank Day says the Republican gangsters are
drunk with victory" What are the Democrats
using-moonshine?
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

We admit paper is a member OF the, kept
uress.-guess we should know, for we pay for its
keep" ourselves.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

The man who doesn't believe in Christmas is
worse than an infidel-he is fit only for sneers,
frowns and bois.
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15

My dream has come true. remem-
Der of calling peoples attention to the
hard times that was sure to come.
Now that they are here, it places us
all in the same boat. Let us be brave
and fight it right through to finish.
Look wise, and pay your bills just
as soon as you can. Listen to sweet mu-
sic, have turkey for Christmas and try
to have your wife and little ones con-
tented and happy.
Last but not least put your entire
trust in God.
Yours truly,
DAD
The Redwood gazette., 1920-12-15
SMALL TOWN TALK

Burbank is working new nut. We don't
need him.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-12-18
GOLD HILL MINERS AGREE
TO NEW SCALE OF WAGES

Mine and mine operators OF the
Gold Hill district, at the end of q
three-day conference, signed up a
new wage agreement. according to
the Virginia City Chronicle.
Accordingto this agreement miners
are to receive $3.50 per day. muckers
$5.25 and pump men and cage men
$3.50. This wage agreement is to
run for six months. and at the expir-
alton of that period there is to be a
reduction of SO cents a day II living
conditions warrant this reduction. A
committee representing the union en-
dorsed their action.
Those present at the conference
were Buckley Wells. representing the
mine operators; Frank Ingham, la
Dor commissioner; and J. McCluskey.
representing the Mine, Mill and Smell
ter Workers of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor. The conference was
brought about through the action of
Governor Boyle, and the Office. later
meetings being held In the Gold Hill
Miners union hall. wells is report
ed as having told the representatives
of the miners just what 1t was pos
sible for the operators to do when
working In low grade ore under pres
emit conditions.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-12-18
SAM TO AID
IN FIGURING INCOME
County to County Campaign AM
nounced by Internal Revenue
Bureau

Washington, Dec. IA county
to-county campaign by Internal Rev
enue officers to aid taxpayers in pre-
pairing their income tar returns was
announced tonight BY Commissioner
williams to begin shortly after Janu-
airy / and continue until March Is,
the final date Of filing statistics OF in
come for the year 1890.
Revenue officers assigned to the
work of assisting taxpayers. Commits
sioner Williams said. will be prepared
to answer all questions relative to ex-
emptions and income.
THE Bureau Of Internal Revenue
is urging taxpayers not to delay In
fling their returns" the commission
er said. Merchants and business
men are now casting up their ac-
counts for the calendar year 1920.
With the facts and figures necessary
to make a correct tax return fresh in
their minds the making out Of forms
should be an easier task"
Mr.. Williams claims that tax re-
quirements for the next payments are
the same as for the year 1919. and
he urges that all taxpayers begin at
once to arrange for the filing of re-
ports of their returns.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-12-18
GRAND JURY
FINDS IS INDICTMENTS

The United States grand jury did q
wholesale business In the Indictment
line Saturday at Carson. reporting
the finding OF seventy-two true bills
during the day. AS a result no doubt
many citizens of the State, mindful
of Federal law violation, are wonder
ing how soon they will be visited by
the U. 8. Marshal or one OF his depu-
ties. The jury, in the report made
shortly after 4 o'clock, showed that
81 cases had been considered during
the day. Nineteen charges were ig-
nored. One hundred eight were
considered during the three days
ressions. The first day six indict-
ments were returned and one ase
was ignored. The second days re-
port showed three true bills and
charges ignored In three cases. The
jury and the witnesses were dis
charged after the afternoons report.
AS very many of the persons indicted
are not under bonds, and have not
been placed under arrest. no details
are published as to the nature Of
many of the indictments. - Carson
News.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-12-18

Salt Lake Tribune: While Con-
gress should insist upon q rigid pro-
gram of economy In the administra-
ton of the affairs Of the country,
there IL no good reason why the Q
sources Of the country should not BE-
developed to the utmost and the
waste land reclaimed at the earliest
possible moment. With a competent
western man at the head Of the In
terror Department and another cap
able westerner appointed as commits
sioner of the general land office, rec
lamation work would be sure to be
carried out in such manner as to
bring millions of dollars into the UNI
ted States treasury in the shape OF
revenue. At the same time many
thousands of returned soldiers would
be provided with homes and our food
supply greatly increased.
At the end Of the wal 1t was stated
by competent Government authorities
that our waste land at that time com
prised an empire six times az large
as the State of New York. This es-
innate included some 100000 acres
of western desert capable Of cultiva-
ton through irrigation; 1t also in
cluded zoo. 000,0 600 acres Of cut-over
timber land that must be cleared of
stumps and brush. According to a
statement made by Franklin X. Lane,
then Secretary of the Interior, all
this land was capable of producing a
higher crop value per acre than the
majority of the agricultural land of
the country. There are between TO-
100000 and S0,O00,000 acres of
swamp land which can be made pro-
ductive by drainage and an addition
al 15.000.000 of arid acres which can
be made productive by irrigation.
Reclamation of arid lands does not
appeal to the average Senator or Rep
resentative from the eastern States
who does not see any local advantage
in such expenditures OF money. At
the same time, we poor, ignorant folk
out here are expected to fall into line
for all kinds of legislation for the
benefit of the eastern sections of the
country upon the plea that we will
get a share In the resultant prosper
ity. 1t Is a poor rule that does not
work both ways.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-12-18
NEVADA PRESS
WHAT OF THE T

Nevada Mining Press: While
present conditions in the mining in
dustry are not favorable, there is no
reason for apprehension in Nevada.
The copper miners, 1t is true, face q
situation that Is trying TO the patti
ence and hard on the bankroll, but
they can look forward in cours of
time to the fair profits they earned
before the war. Copper is a vital
necessity with SO many varied Use
that the world cannot do without 1t.
Just at present there Is an over-sup-
ply and 1t must be disposed of before
the industry can be conducted on a
pre-war basis.
The increase in copper mining has
released miners for the gold and sill
yer and lead mines. Commencement
of building operations on a large
scale in the Spring, assured by lower
prices for lumber andother materials,
will create a demand for lead. Sill
yer at 81 per ounce with lowered min
ing costs can be conducted at q good
profit. Increased freight and smelt-
or rates have caused q curtailment Of
shipments of crude r and this very
condition has stimulated the con-
struction of reduction works. The
shipment of crude ores is q waste. Elk
periments conducted during the past
few years have resulted in the dis
covery of methods for the treatment
of almost all kind of ore. Construc-
ton of mills will enable mine opera
tors to treat ores Of Q grade too low
to pay transportation to distantsmelt-
ers, thereby lowering production costs
and increasing the output of the
metals.
Next year should be q prosperous
era in Nevada. Two big mills al
ready have been decided upon, one Of
1000 tons daily capacity ON the Com
stock; another Of $50 tons at Candle
laria. Both enterprises are under
the direction Of experienced men
backed by capital that knows the min
ing game. A f1otation mill at the
Simon mine. financed by one Of the
big smelling companies. is now being
constructed. A small pilot mill is be-
ing built at Eureka to test q COM
p~aratively new process as applied to
oxidized lead-silver ores. There Is q
smelter, too. at Wabuska, idle since
the battling giants of Europe laid
down their cudgels of war, that in
evitably will be restored to usefulness
And SO. the mining industry of the
State will be able in q measure to
overcome the handicap imposed by
the rail lines.
Faith in the metal mining indus
try is alive in well informed capital
istic circles. Men who sit in the high
places and feel the pulse of the bus
mess world are not worried over the
future. There is money aplenty for
the financing of sound mining ven
lures.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-12-18
NATIONAL FOREST
GRAZING FEES

Grazing at present Is the principal
source of money return to the Gov
eminent from the National Forests,
SO states the Secretary of Agriculture,
e. T. Meredith In his Just published
annual report to the President. Since
1915 adds the Secretary, the grazing
fees have been doubled, with the
view of making them commensurate
with current rental rates for neigh
boring private lands of the same
character. When the existing rates
were established. the users of the
range understood that they would re-
main In effect for FIVE years, and
many Of the grazing permits were is
sued for this period. The value Of
the grazing privilege on army ranges
subsequently advanced and a consid-
cradle sentiment In favor of an i'm
mediate further increase In the fees
developed. The good faith of the
Government would be impaired by
such a course. Furthermore, to adj
vance the fees at the present time
would add seriously to the instabil-
ity which confronts the National For
est live stock industry because Of
Shah6AA6 hAaAhUb COAQllAOncp anu
would be neither just nor good pub
lie policy.
No policy has been laid down by
Congress for the guidance Of the De-
partment In the exercise of the adj
illustrative discretion. with which 1t
has for fifteen years been vested, to
determine the conditions under which
the use of the range should be per-
mittted. II Congress desires to pre-
scribe such a policy. says Secretary
Meredith. 1t should not take effect
until after 1923. when the existing
leases will expire. Even in the alb
sence Of legislation, the Department
will make q classification of the rang
es and nx a new scale of charges, to
be imposed in 1874. under which the
fees will represent the actual grazing
value at the particular portion of the
range used by each permittee or
group of permittees. Before the new
scale is determined. an opportunity
will be given the local associations of
National Forest range users to sub
NIT any data regarding the fairness
OF the proposed fees which they may
desire to present.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1920-12-18

Three Story Sleeping Places Are the
Latest idea to Be Placed
on the Market

Two-story beds, that is to say. bed
steads containing two beds placed one
above the other. have been in use for
years, but something rather novel
in this line is the lhree-story bed,
containing three beds. n above the
other, which was placed upon the
market not 81 long ago.
These bedsteads, which are made
entirely of iron, are 70 constructed
that they car be knocked down to oc-
cupy comparatively small space for
convenience in handling In shipment
and transportation. the three-story
bed separating into five parts. the
head and loot sections and the three
beds, each bed section having a wire
mattress permanently attached to the
side and end pieces.
At the ends Of each mattress frame
are pins that at into slots placed at
suitable heights up the head and foot
pieces. To set up q two or three
story bed one simply stands up the
head and foot pieces and drops the
pins on the mattress frames into the
slots and there IL the bedstead with
its wire springs in each tier ready to
receive the mattresses.
Bedsteads Of this sort are intended
for camps. apartments. steamers or
wherever the door space Is limited.