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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25

case full market value for them.
Those agricultural lands in southern
Minnesota and in the middle counties
and the valley were cleaned up some
fifty, some forty, some twenty years
ago.
The state sold its standing pine
and got good prices for the stump
age, though the lumbermen some
times made up in the slackness of the
scale for the generosity of the bid
per thousand. Dunn, summing up at
the end of his term, was proud to say
that all lumbermen agreed that the
state got higher prices than private
and up to his time was $1.S1; he got
owners; the average price per thous-
an average of 1882 the first year
and as high as $3.50 the last year.
Iverson, following him, saw one
sale made at $15.75 per thousand and
noted with satisfaction that the state
got better prices than the sales by
the United States on Chippewa lands.
Now here is little left of the original
stand of pine and other timber.
The state in like manner has given
leases for the likeliest mineral de-
posits. There are no more rich de-
posts to be found on the surface. De-
velopment of mineral resources here
after means underground mining, or
heavy stripping, or processing the ore
to separate waste matter.
The cream has been skinned and
perhaps if we had to do it again the
matters would be handled much the
same way. Certainly the older gen.
Grafton used the base judgment it had.
The present generation may be no
wiser than its elders, but it knows
more.
They had to guess whether south
ern Minnesota could produce wheat
and there was no corn then procur-
able which would mature in Mime
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25

Rev. Father REM, former assistant
priest at st. Mary's parish in Sleepy
Eye and who was assigned this spring
to serve in st. Mary's parish at St.
Paul, was appointed last week as
head of the parish at Lamberton and
also the one at Sanborn.
Rev. REM will thus have complete
charge of his own parish and takes
the place of Rev. Father Winter who
was assigned to the charge at Delano.
Lamberton parish is also supporting
Catholic parochial school and thus
comprises a good sized congregation.
Father REM, who conducted his
first services at Lamberton Sunday,
was stationed at Sleepy Eye for a
number of years. He was instrument
tai in the work at the school and in
stituted athletic activities at St.
Mary's some years ago, directing it
for a period of years with the utmost
success.-Sleepy Eye Herald-Dis-
patch.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25
seas, she stated.


The economic value of prohibition
was stressed and statistics quoted
showing the progress Of the progress
of the prohibition movement during
the eight years since the Volstead
Act became part of the constitution.
Laws have been broken since the
beginning of the time, the speaker
said: Thousands of years have pass
ed since the Ten Commandments, and
none can say there is no murder or
crime, but who would think of abol-
ishing laws against murder and theft.
Railroads and economic institutions
refuse to employ drinking men, and
Henry Ford, Kresge, and other great
capitalists contribute largely toward
the Anti-Saloon League, showing
their stand on the prohibition question
from practical and economic point
of view.
Beginning with first efforts to
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25
VOLSTEAD DAUGHTER
DEFENDS DRY LAW

Miss Laura Volstead, daughter of
A. P. Volstead Of prohibition fame
gave a brief informing talk on pro-
hibition at Teachers College last
Tuesday morning.
Herself an attorney at law, and
having been private secretary for her
distinguished father during his pro-
fessional life in Washington, Miss
Volstead is exceedingly well inform
ed on this subject in which she is
vitality interested.
The speaker refuted the statement
used frequently by the vets, that
prohibition was slipped over an un-
suspecting people while the soldiers
were over seas. Senators and repre-
sentatives who passed the eighteenth
amendment were chosen for their Of
fices before the boys went across the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25
BY JOHN STONE PARDEE

sofa.
They had to guess whether pine
stumpage, which was going begging,
would ever have market value. Small
stuff was worth nothing and there
was no such thing as pulpwood.
They had to guess whether the soft
Mesaba ores could ever be used in
blast furnaces. The best furnacemen
said they couldn't or only in mixture
with other ores.
We know a lot of things they did
MT.
In the light of their knowledge and
their necessities, they sold the school
lands in the southeastern counties for
about two million dollars and gave
away what swamp lands were found
there.
In the eastern counties as far north
as Pine, the school lands fetched a
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25

By turning under crimson clover
grown with the corn crop, a farm in
Edgecombe County, N. c., carrying on
demonstration in soil improvement
in cooperation with the county agri-
cultural extension agent, secured an
increase of 6.3 bushels of corn per
acre over the corn crop where the
clover was cut for hay. This was in
1926, when one crop of clover was
turned under. In 1927 second crop
of crimson clover was turned under
and an increase of % bushels of corn
per acre was secured. The type of
soil in this county was Norfolk sandy
loan, and 400 pounds of a. home mix
ed 6-31a-44 fertilizer were applied
to an acre.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25
K-THE BEST THEY KNEW

N-THE BEST THEY KNEW.
Sixty millions so far accumulated
in the rust funds came of itself, you
might say. 1t took fighting to gain
the lands and keep them from depre-
dation; it took care and foresight to
realize fair prices and hold the funds
intact; to took vigilance and pru-
dence. And Notwithstanding some
leakage and some losses, the job was
well handled.
But it was mainly matter Of
cashing in on what was in sight and
holding on to what was on top.
For the next sixty years or so, it
is a very different job. Instead of
merely cashing in, the state has to
make its values hereafter before it
can realize on them.
The state sold its agricultural lands
for So and SO an acre and got in each
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25

curb the use of liquor in America in
1742, and continuing through the
sixties when more definite measures
were taken and an anti-saloon lea
que formed, the speaker reviewed
briefly the history of prohibition and
avowed her firm belief in the perm
ancy of a measure which the women
Of the country SO strongly support
Mankato Free Press,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25

state lands have been thinking about
tors who have been custodians of the
that. Recent reports by Iverson and
Preus and Chase all full of sugges-
lions for the future constructive pol
icy of the state trust.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25

One million dollars worth of food
is wasted every day by the American
people, according to AN estimate of
the National Conference of Marketing
and Farm Credits. Enough food is
wasted annually in this country be-
cause of premature spoilage to feed
city the size Of New York, it is
said. sa
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-07-25

A cadet at the United States Mill
tary Academy at West Point receives
pay at the rate Of $3.50 year.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-26

S. W.. DeWard, of Minneapolis,
State Agent for the Hartford Fire
ms. Co., transacted business in
Sank Centre last Friday.
Mrs. Ben Minette returned
home Sunday after spending the
past seven weeks in st. Cloud with
her mother, Mrs. Henry Zenzius,
who has been ill.
Mrs. G. Denzine returned
home Thursday of last week from
Springfield, Mimi, where she had
spent two weeks visiting with her
son and family, DIR. and Mrs. Carl
Denzine.
Jack Orth returned to Sank
Centre Thursday of last week from
Los Angeles, CAL, where he has
spent the winter. He returned by
way of Chicago and visited for
several days with his uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Rowland,
and with MIR. and Mrs. Dan Row.
land.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-26
City News Items

Miss Adelaide Nathe spent Mon.
day afternoon at Long Prairie.
C. j. Wittbecker, of St. Paul
was a business visitor in Saub
Centre Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McGibbon
spent Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Halverson, st. Cloud.
Misses Ruth Borgmann, Adelaide
Nathe and Sophie Hense motored
to Glenwood Sunday afternoon.
H. w. Bishop returned home
Saturday evening from a few days
business trip to the Twin Cities.
&C. WI. Arneson, of the Union
Mortgage Co., of Minneapolis, was
a Sank Centre business visitor last
Friday.
Mrs. Anton Nathe, Mrs. M. Ma
the and daughter Miss Julianne
visited with relatives at Metre
Grove Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Minette
went to St. Cloud Sunday, where
they spent the day visiting with
the lady's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Zenzius.
Miss Vione Steege, of the St.
Cloud Teachers College, spent the
week end at her home in this city
Monday evening Miss Steege sang
for the inmates at the U. S. Vet,
Grams hospital at St. Cloud.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-26
Chief Of Police Miller to
Enforce Dog Ordinance
Sank Centre Has Stringent Law
Regulating Licensing and Tag
ging of CANNES

Chapter 164 of Sank Centres
City Ordinances, passed in Febru-
airy, 1927, provides for the licens-
ing of dogs. Chief of Police Miller
published notices a few weeks ago
calling attention to the ordinance.
The dog owners have not respond
ed as they should. Mr.. Miller does
not care to be unduly harsh, and
by his order the Herald is publish
ing certain provisions of the ordi-
nance for the benefit of dog own
ers. If the provisions are not COM
piled with in "a reasonable time,
summary action will be taken. If
you own a dog comply with the
ordinance or expense will surely
follow. Read the following Sec
tions of Chapter 1854:
Sec. 1. Beginning on April
1, 1927, an annual tax of one
and one-half dollars ($1.50)
for each male dog and three
dollars 5000 for each female
or spayed female dog ire
spective of age is hereby lev
led upon all persons, firms or
corporations, owning, keeping
or harboring a dog or dogs
within the limits of this city.
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the
duty of each owner, keeper
or harborer of sucn dog or
dogs annually, on or before
the first day of April, 1927,
and the first day of each and
every April thereafter, to
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-26

file with the Clerk descrip-
ton of such dogs giving the
name, sex, breed, color and
the name of the owner and to
pay to said Clerk the tax i'm
posed in Section l hereof for
the general fund of the city.
Sec. 10. Any person,
firm, or corporation convict
ed of violating any of the
provisions of Sections 2, 4,
13, Ia, Is, 16, or 18 of this
ordinance shall be deemed
guilty of a misdemeanor, and
shall be punished by a fine of
not less than three dollars
($3. O0) and not more than
fifty dollars $3.50. 00) and the
costs of prosecution, or by
confinement in the city jail
for not less than three days
nor more than thirty days and
in default of payment of fine
and costs he shall be confined
in the city Jail a number of
days equal to the number of
dollars of fine and costs ad-
judged in the case.
I wish to serve notice that tn
bove ordinance will be strictly en-
creed.
Joseph Miller,
Idv. Chief of Police
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-26

George Bowman of Hull, Eng,
was fined $75 for kissing "a neigh
boris daughter three times.
Karl Gretchen, of Chicago, went
to the store to get some onions for
a night lunch and on his return
found his wife had eloped with a
boarder.
Robert Colvin, lbigamist, of Lam
caster, Eng, escaped with only one
day in Jail because he thought he
was free to marry after his wife
had been absent for seven years.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-26

Under new federal regulations,
effective May /, 1928, the inter-
state shipment of tick-infested cat
tie will be prohibited. The old reg
ulations permitted the interstate
shipment of ticky cattle under
quarantine restrictions for i'm
mediate slaughter.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1928-04-26

Recently the manufacturers of
a well known nationally advertised
food product offered $4,000 in
cash prizes. Eig:hty-eight thousand
people from all parts of the United
States entered the contest. The
contest has a local interest be-
cause George Berggreen, of this
city, COPIED one of the 1,O01 priz-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-01
Remember Liebknecht

Nine Karl Lebknecht and Rose Luxembourg were
murdered
Lbknechts life characterized by his constant struggle
against capitalism and its inevitable offshoo marism He did
become pacst but raised the slogan War Against War
Those whom he relied in the first place the socialist
working youth organization which he had devoted much time
organizing and building and which in time became the basic
material of the Communist Party of Germany.
At the crucial when leadership necessary in
1914 German Social Democratic Party betrayed the working
class Lebknets alone heard in the Reichstag Leb
kneh and his comrades the street laundering against
Imperialism and the socialdernocrat lackeys.
1919 when the German working class revolted it
Lebnech with the young workers whom he had carefully
organized who to be found battling in the streets for the
which the leaders drowned blood
this fight the Nosks the of capitalism by deal
ing death to Lebknecht and Luxembourg
The of Lebknecht and Luxembourg the most
glorious traditions of the working class and especially of the youth
@ class. sra~,s@
The memorial meeting being arranged by the Young Work
League of New York for Friday night at the Labor Temple
should receive the support all New York workers and
old. &xN
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-01
The Bar Association and the Bureaucrats
Unite on AnttStrike observation-disclosures
and Fight the New Conspiracy

in order to maintain bare minimum
of political, social and economic rights
that we get also a correct idea of
the manner in which this united front
of lawyers, VIGOROUSLY, SO far as the
overwhelming majority of them are
concerned, the most willing and eff
ficient agents of reaction, and official
labor leaders, and the anti-strike pro-
gram outlined, dovetails into the
scheme of surrender adopted by the
Wolls, Greens and Lewises.
Officialdom's Answer.
1t is characteristic of the official
labor leadership that with the whole
labor movement in the worst crisis in
its history, it wraps it's arms around
the neck of the Bar Association and
enters into conspiracy with it
against the working class, instead of
calling upon the labor movement to
ignore all injunctions, set up militant
organization committees in each in
dustry, coordinate them nationally
back up the United Mine Workers by
organization campaigns in other in
dustries-steel, railways and automo-
biles particularly-and thus smash the
drive of the capitalists.
100000 Starving Workers.
Six hundred thousand men, womer
and children are being starved, evict-
= Il l. II
less manner in the coal camps of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia
and Colorado. While the miners and
their families bear the brunt of the
struggle to maintain the living stand
ards of the whole working class and
to save the unions. labor officialdon'
consults with capitalism's agents as
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-01
Filth on Jobs
Editor, The DAILY WORKER:

Editor, The DAILY WORKER:
We often hear workers complain
about the dirty and filthy jobs they
are compelled to hold down in order
to make living.
What l am trying to bring out is
this, in the hotel where | am working
as a house painter, there is an old
Austrian who is my fellow worker.
Ills job varies great deal from mlEe.
He is employed as furniture finish
er" for S9J a month and his work IS
confined to the endorsement. All the
furniture in the building is of shell
lac finish and his work is to remove
the shellac with wood-alcohol, and
after sandpapering over the stain he
puts on fresh coat of shellac. Work
ing down the sub-basement and about
six feet away from the engine room
the temperature is 80 degrees fahren-
nett and this fellow worker was over
come three times in the last two
months from the fumes of the shellac,
neat and the alcohol, and there isn't
any fresh air in the basement.
He is forced economically te de that
sort of work and he is at an age
where he is not in a position to look
for new field.
Fraternally,-JACK KALMAN.
New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-01

which force the manufacturers of
Massachusetts to employ the most
ruthless methods to make the work
ers pay the price in terms of longer
hours, lower wages, the restriction OF
free speech and the repeal of legal
safeguards which labor has won thru
years of struggle. These are the
objective conditions behind the bar
barrie murder of Sacco and Vanzetti
two foreign-born labor leaders, who
will not be the last to feel the iron
hand of the New England bosses in
their desperate struggle against the
economic forces which threaten them.
The textile workers and the shoe
workers are not the only ones to bear
the brunt of this struggle. The de-
cline in the field of the textile. shoe
and metal industries has already be-
gun to affect the building industry.
AS result, the building trades, the
backbone Of the labor movement in
Massachusetts, also is threatened
with general offensive. The aris-
tocracy of labor is being drawn int,
the maelstrom of the class struggle
is beginning to feel the general at
tack side by side with the unskilleo
and the semi-skilled in the textile ano
shoe industries. The injunction
against the Milkdrivers Union OF
Boston is but one example. Police
brutalities against the Capmakers is
another.
effectively, there is basis in Mas
sachusetts for a real insurgent poiit-
ical movement on the part of labor
Other subjective factors must be ex-
amined to determine whether the
forces are sufficient to carry the
project forward, SO that it becomes a
real, living movement.
In 1924, Massachusetts polled AL.
225 for LaFollette or more than one
half the number of votes cast for
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-01
By WILLIAM F. DUNE.

The officialdom of the American
Federation of Labor, uniting with the
American Bar Association, probably
the most thoroly reactionary body in
the United States, is preparing to de-
liver another body blow to the right
to strike as an important part of its
program for "pacifying" the labor
movement. 1--WE use "pacifying" in
the sense that the state department
uses the term in referring to Mica
ragua and other countries coveted by
Wall Street.)
Complete Unity.
The subcommittee of the American
Federation of Labor has been working
with the committee of the Bar Asso-
citation and everything has been lovely
according to the spokesman for both
organizations. The ways appear to
have been well CREASED for proposal
the exact details of which have not
been made public but which provides
machinery for encouraging and
maintaining peaceful industrial rela-
tons and collective agreements vol
UNFAIRLY entered into and without APP
plying any power of compulsion," to
use the language of Matthew Woll
Peaceful Industrial Relations"
To speak of peaceful industrial re-
lations," and especially in reference
to maintaining them," is to speak of
a situation in which workers have
surrendered to the capitalists.
1t is when we view the Bar Asso-
citation formula" in the light of the
continual struggle workers and their
organizations are forced to carry on
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-01

come antiquated and unable to meet
required standards. With it's great
distance from sources of raw materi-
al, cotton, wool, hides, coal and iron,
Massachusetts, is being forced more
and more to yield it's leadership in
manufactures to the South and West.
The foreign born workers who form
erly supplied the cheapest obtainable
labor have become dangerously"
sophisticated. Not only have they
begun to adopt higher living standards
but they have also become friendly
to the idea of labor organizations.
Industry Moves to South.
On the other hand, the South and
Middle West has doomed up with a
formidable and irresistible challenge
% New England's place in the Amer
lean sun. Located closer to the neces-
sary sources of raw naturalization,
wool, hides, coal and iron, these Sec
tions of the country can supply in
o'N;tio- an adequate amount of cheap,
'1oyal," 100 percent American unor-
ga..lDSd iaDor, Lanen from the ranks
Of the agricultural workers, to whom
even the pittance they receive in the
mills is welcome in comparison with
the deplorable conditions on the bank
rupt farms. To some extent, the po-
sition of New, England is aggravated
still more by compe, ition with cheap
labor of European countries.
We find, therefore, mill after mill
moving South or selling out, leaving
the workers to face the BLACKLIST of
prospects. The latest under discus
sion is the Amoskeag Mill, the larg-
est in the world. Unemployment is
rampant, Massachusetts and New
England as a whole feel the dead
hand of economic decline and disin-
tegration.
Capitalist Attack in Massachusetts.
These are the objective conditions
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-01

IF the trade unions form the
basis of Labor Party, they will
give the best guarantee that the
Party will be powerful enough
to resist any change in economic
conditions. Economic crises will
diminish the strength of the trade
unions, but they will increase the
discomfort of the masses and thus
swell the sails of the Labor
Party"
Although an economic crisis is ir
prospect rather than a present even.
tuality, our present task is neverthe.
less to locate, on the basis of a cor.
rect analysis, the most fertile soil fol
the development Of labor party bases
An examination of the economic
situation in this country will disclose
the fact that there are three MAR
sources the anarchic condition.
Of the mining industry, the crisis
among the farmers, and the decline
of the chief industries in the New
England states. Therefore, thes
three areas offer the chief centers
from which the labor party movement
will draw its motive power and in
spira ion. 1t is the purpose of this
article to discuss the situation il
New England, and more particularly
in the State of Massachusetts.
The Situation in New England.
New England and especially Mas
sachusetts, once the leading work
shop of America and the hub O.
American industry, are being forcec
to the rear by the pressure of com
petition with other areas better equip
ped to meet the demands Of the do
nestle and world market for low
priced commodities.
This-is particularly true in the tex
tile, shoe and metal industries
Factories erected in the latter part
of the nineteenth century have be-