The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-06-19
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1929.
WE WELCOME YOU


~ EDWOOD FALLS is call set" today to ex-
X tend it's most cordial welcome to the young
y people who come from all over Minnesota
to take part in the convention of Christian En-
deavor Workers. Welcome them to our churches,
our homes, our schools, our unrivaled out-of
doors; but most of all we welcome them as fut-
friends, as young people whom we are glad
to know and whose acquaintance we shall hope to
continue
Redwood Falls is not a metropolis cities
go; we don't estimate that we have more than
a million people that we shall ever have more
than that-not of citizens that really count! But
we do claim to bigness of town spirit, warmth
of hospitality and an appreciation of fine things
equaling that of many cities many times larger.
Among the "fine things" which we appreciate
is the class of young people and of religions who
will be with us this week, ,t~
? The mayor of Redwood Falls will tonight
extend official welcome of the city to our guests.
Every citizen will extend the right hand of good
fellowship in the several days that are to come.
But, unoffcally, for the city and it's citizens the
Gazette wants to extend right now its per-
sonal welcome, and to express it's pleasure at the
prospect Of the next five days.
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ISN'T 1T A TIME FOR OPTIMISM?
(By Rudy Leg
THE Hutchinson Leader, that fine Mcleod
county paper which we always read with
interest, is quite pessmistic over the farm
legislation and thinks that the editor of this pa
per who is writing from Washington is unduly
optimistic.
Time, of course, will tell and the editor of
this paper hopes he is giving the people who
read his dispatches the correct impression.
In general way here is what the proposed
legislation is designed to do, and we refer to
Minnesota farmers in particular. 1t will %
give the farmers of the state the American mark
ct for practically everything they raise or pro-
duce and (2) it will develop in a national way
system of marketing farm products that will
give to the farmers complete control of the
marketing which among other things means
voice in the price at which the product SELLS
These highly desirable consummations. They
will contribute to the dependable prosperity of
Minnesota farmers.
The new tariff certainly gives generous pro-
lection to the farmers of our state. Just run
over the list and note the protection on butter,
milk, cream, wool, flax, potatoes, beef, veal, NUT
ton, live cattle, eggs and poultry.
linen take That otner part OF the farm pro-
gram soon to become law, the proposed market
ing system. AS far back as the editor of this
paper can remember, the development of mark
citing system in which the farmer was to have
control of the marketing of his products has been
the dream and the goal. If that time could only
arrive, then the business of agriculture would
come into its own Practically every complaint
that has had to do with farm product distribution
hoc hoo,, %ho4.4
hands of the farmer and that while he produced
the crops and the products, others stepped in to
distribute them and in stepping in, took control
OF most everything including what profit there
was.
line idea has been that if farming is to be-
come permanently prosperous, the farmer must
control his marketing. There must be an elmin-
alton of undue price fluctuations, gambling.
manipulation, trade practices that eouped the
producer, etc., etc. This new marketing bill.
which would have been law long before tb;s -
the senate had not held it up by playing politics
with the debenture plan, is designed to turn over
to the farmers this marketing control
The principle of cooperative market
ing is not only recognized but the factor
of farmer control of the cooperative
is assured. On top of that the whole
system is to have government protec-
ton and assistance The assistance is
to be not merely advice but is to be fin
ancial The government is to put half
billion dollars back of the system to
make it go. Why, it is wonderful
consummation of that for which the
farmers have dreamed for years and
years.
It will take little time to develop the sys
tenn even after the law has passed but we are
going to get the law and as Congressman viii
liams Of Illinois said in the House the day the