The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1928-12-19
CHRISTMAS EVE.


the workaday world are smoothed away. Fol
awhile people cease to be tradespeople clerks
DOCTORS lawyers, toilers severally distinguished
by burdens of work they bear and become
brothers in the great experience of Christmas.
For at least the few days that center
around Christmas the world knows that all mer
can be brothers. It puts check upon ambition
calls halt to pickering and crys truce to con-
tention. For at least these fews days men Warm
themselves by the fires of benevolence, throw
open their hearts and let the spirit cramped too
long, fly forth.
Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men! What
avails it if in a moment or two all is forgotten,
if men harden their hearts toward one another
again, and bitterness and worldly vanity resume
their sway? 1t is no matter. The world is the
better for having dreamed however briefly, the
brotherhood of man.
THE DISABLED VETERAN
The decision handed down recently by S.
Kudish, acting regional manager of the Veter-
ans Bureau, in which he states that all veterans.
regardless of the war in which they served or
whether or not their illness is the result of army
service, entitled to free disqualification at the
United States Veterans hospital at Fort Smell
every patriotic citizen, and especially those who
have had the matter on their hearts and minds
for So long.
Heretofore it has bec- considered that the
great institution that was only recently opened
at the Fort was exclusively for the purpose of
treating and caring for soldiers whose disability
resulted from army service. Regardless of the
type of sickness, all veterans of any war of the
Ir;%o 70 ifo1iz of of
the government veterans hospital" Mr.. Kudish
has said. He further shows the liberality of our
government and it's grateful attitude towards
the defenders of the liberty enjoy by stating,
at is the purpose of the veterans hospital to
give aid to any man who served in any of
the United States regardless of the origin of his
disability"
+ To any who think that this rs too liberal
manner in which to treat the matter let it be said
that it has been only by virtue of the bravery the
sacrifice and suffering of these very men whom
we today term as disabled veterans" that we
are privileged to enjoy a civic and religious lib
erty that makes for greatness among the world
of nations. The giving of our soldiers free hos
pitalization treatment a very broad basis is
all too little an act of appreciation for what they
have done for the citizens at large. Let us be
in hearty accord with Mr.. Kudish's decision and
within our hearts may we wish that he could give
il an even broader scope-Lake District Advo-
cate.
GOOD HALF LOAF
Steele county this week saw the first appli-
cation of the new Minnesota "Baumes law" or
habitual criminal statute and probably, therefore,
came to closer realization of just what 1t
means to Minnesota law enforcement and the
suspension of crime. The new law cannot be re-
garded as complete solution to the states
complex crime problem as an instrument that
will halt in more than mild degree the rather
free and easy committing of crimes. But it is
one of the steps that should be taken in that
direction and will be great help to society. 1t
is good half loaf delivered to people who
were becoming used to nothing more than few
crumbs.
The habitual criminal law would be infinitely
more effective if it were backed by a tightly
woven organization of well co-ordinated agents
of law and order-but it is not. Thus it will
have to go along doing the best it under
considerable handicap, until the state Legislature
ceases to shake its boots at the finger-snappine
of some union labor leaders, who evidently hope
at some time in the future to commit crimes
I against the persons or property of other people
| judging from the tantrums they have whenever
anyone mentions state police.
The law which was recently declared fully
constitutional will go a long way toward curbine
the criminal who is caught. Under it, if a man
makes a vocation of crime and is unlucky enough
to be caught, he may well learn his lesson and
quit A second conviction or a third will proba
bly, mean the rest of his life in prison, and that
is not the ideal of the ordinary crook yegg-
man. Minnesota is thus equipped to deal PROPER
ly with the crook who is caught. There remains
only the vast army which remains at large.
The only problem left to US now is the mat
ter of solving problem such one is faced with
in the making of rabbit pie. We must first
catch our criminal-And, with disconnected
system of small town and metropolitan police
and sheriffs offices as our principal means Of
combating crime, that is indeed problem. VIZ
have, it is true, the new bureau Of criminal ap