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the cities. instead of furthering meth
DDS to bring them closer togetner.
The Babcock highway system is doing
noble work in cementing the city TO
the country. Besides. the cities pay
the larger part of the gas tax and get
no direct benefit in their road build
ing and street paving programs. lhey
are not kicking however.
The members of the committee 10
shove over the gas tax amenomehI
are Senator Johnson; Senator Lee u
Glenwood; Representative oscar "A.
Swenson of Nicollet county; Rep. An
drew Finstuen OF Kenyon; ole Lang
hough of Evansville and Harrison Hat
ton of ST. Paul In looking through
the files of MinneSota'S 400 state
builders we fail to find where any OF
these have set the world aflre" with
ANYTHING of benefit to the state more
than being on the payroll ard TINS Is
probably the reason why they are
making this squirt ON the gasoline tax
amendment in order to show their
constituents that they are busy. Inc
best minds of the state worked on TINS
tax measure which has proven pain
less and now it viii be attempted to
hamper all the efforts OF the state
builders and road builders in the pro-
gram of getting roads to every part OF
the state The counties, townships ana
subdivisions built roads before the gas
tax was invoked to help out the trunk
lines and do yet. The road and bridge
fund of all but few counties in the
state now get back more than they pay
in. in some cases as much as S. Tor
every dollar paid. Among these few
counties are Hennepin, Ramsey and st.
Louis in which are located the three
large cities who receive nothing from
the gas or auto tax and of which they
pay more than almost the balance Of
the counties combined.
County Commissioner Chas. Penttila
win again be called upon to defend
custer proceedings, petition signed by
35 taxpayers having been filed with
the district court clerk Saturday after
noon. Penttila has done, in getting
elected, probably the same as hundreds
of others. We are under the impress
sion that, although he may have made
some mistakes, that he should not pe
picked as the goat to whitewash others
with a more unsavory record in cam
paigns heretofore. We think that he
should be allowed to serve his term
providing he is doing satisfactory work
and that if the voter is not satisfied at
the next election, then is the time to
elect some other commissioner. In
speaking with some of the other men,
bers of the board they informed us that
Penttila is valuable man on the
board and that new man at this time
would handicap the range districts
But, we will say that the road on
No. under his jurisdiction is in an
abominable condition and should be
ironed out. Even in the dark, it is
possible to distinguish where the Jake
Pete district ends and the Penttila
district begins. While we are throwing
bricks and boquets we will hand one
of the latter to Jake who is proving one
of the best commissioners in the coun-
ty and who has the respect and CO.
operation of the other members. Quit
nagging Penttila and keeping him IL
hot water all the time on this election
stuff. Prod him up little to keep No
z and roads in his district on par with
other range roads. Also remove the
mote from the eye of the state crew
and have them kind of look after No
IS from Ely to Tower. This part OF
No. IS can only be compared to the
Penttila end of No. z.
Ernest Lundeen was here Saturday
night and spoke to a fair sized crowo
on the corner near Berglund'S store
He also addressed number of the
faithful at the Ronka farm on the
north side of Shagwa Ernest, as mar
to meet for a heart-to-heart talk, /:
entirely at variance to the Ernest who
soap-boxes his way to the governship
In his soap-box orations he exude:
pessimism of the most pessimistic kline
and everybody is out of step except
Ernest. He graphically recounts the
ills of present and past officials but ir
his entire talk he failed to suggest any
remedy for said ills more than to elect
him governor. The range towns art
not fruitful vote gathering sections fol
Ernest Lundeen for governor. The PEG.
pie here are not concerned with hi.
class of political bushwah. To fur.
ther complcate matters, bis party is a
variance within itself and ali candi.
dates named are going it on their owl
hook We predict that Ernest will ge
some votes, probably just enough tt
cause the clerks on the election board
to say things when searching for TIT
sheet upon which his votes are tabula
ted every hour or so during the lont
night.
DR.. Preston Bradley in his talk a
the Old Settlers banquet at Towe
Thursday evening told the story of hi
introduction to an audience by holier
than-thou speaker. The introduce
spent some time in enumerating TIT
vices Of Chicago and characterized !
as the Sodom and Gemorrah Of TIN
universe. After his lengthy harrangu
he introduced the DR.. as from Chi
cago and held up his hands in hol.
horror. DR.. Bradley however is equa