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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-09-04
Lyon County
Fair To Open
September 18th

Lyon County's Goth annual fair
will open next Wednesday, Septem-
Der 18th, at Marshall. Exhibits will
be entered on Wednesday, and the
Fair will continue with a full pro-
gram for the three days following.
Outstanding on the entertainment
program this year are two fireworks
displays and the big parades schedul-
ed for Thursday and Friday nights.
The night shows this year surpass
anything ever offered before. The
display of fireworks each night will
equal the popular show given at Mar
shall this year on the Fourth of July
A Farm Bureau and All Club
parade, with 600 persons taking part,
has been arranged for Thursday eve
ming. The All Clubs will show their
livestock and Farm Bureau units will
demonstrate various phases of their
work in this parade, which will be
headed by the Candy Drum corps of
"a women and the Marshall school
band. Other features ON the Thurs
day evening show are the Cottonwood
band, night horse races, 10 circus
acts, and fireworks.
The American Legion music festi-
val, which heads the entertainment
for Friday evening, will include a
parade of eight music organizations
and a concert by massed bands of
255 pieces. The Legion Auxiliary
drum corps of Candy and bands from
Balaton, Cottonwood, Russell, Ami
ret, Tracy, Minneota, Marshall, and
Garvin, will take part in the parade,
while at the head will be the massed
colors of seven American Legion
posts. Following the parade the
bands will play as one organization
of more than $50 pieces. Circus acts,
races, and fireworks will complete
the Friday night show. State Fair
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-09-04
| wo Contests
Are Open To
4-H Members

Two more educational trips to mas.
tional All club events and many 9TH Z
er attractive prizes have just BEEN
added to the long list of opportuni>z
ties that are open to boys and girls. !.
who participate in All club work irf~
Minnesota during the ensuing year,
announces T. A. Erickson, state club
leader, University Farm, st. Paul.y
These trips and prizes will comprises
two contests sponsored by the Quak-
er Oats company, and the other for
advanced dairy club members, spon-a
sored by the Linseed Meal Education-z
al Committee. -
Sterling silver medals of honor will
be awarded county champions in the
poultry contest, while the state cham
pion will receive a free trip to the
Ninth National All Club Congress at
Chicago. State champions will also
compete in a national contest for two
college scholarships, one of which will
consist of $500 for first place, and
another of 5000 for the runner-up.
The state champion in the dairy
club contest will be given trip to
the National Dairy Show at St. Louis,
Missouri, while those making the
highest scorings in the various coun-
ties will be awarded gold filled med
ais.
Competition in these contests will
be based upon the economical produc-
ton of poultry or dairy products
with birds or animals raised by the
club members themselves in All
work. Final judging will be based
upon the past records of the particle
pants, as well as on the production of !
their cows and chickens, Mr.. Erick-
son says.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
Exit-the Paid Informer.

United States Attorney Rover has
virtually ended the usefulness to the
Police Department of the paid inform
ers by making known his official atti-
tude regarding the type of work that
they should and should not perform.
The informer, he says, could legitimate
ly be used to ferret out places where
liquor is unlawfully sold. But the
Police Department or the prohibition
agents must obtain their own legal EVIL
dence, and not rely upon the inform
ers to get it for them. The testimony
of police informers has been so often
and so successfully impugned that they
have lost standing, as a class, in court.
The very title has become opprobrious.
Their evidence has been discredited.
AS Mai. Pratt points out, the utility
Of the police informer never lay in the
informer's ability to locate speak
easies" or to trace the source of illegal
liquor. The police themselves are
generally familiar with the location of
such spots. The informer's value rest
ed in his ability to obtain evidence that
easily could be concealed from the police
or the prohibition agents. for these lat
ter officials are generally known and
Immediately recognized by the bootleg
ger or saloonkeeper. Maj. Pratt in
tends to confer with prohibition ON
Gals in the hope that a substitute for
the informer can be found.
A substitute should be found. The
use of paid informer, whose fee de-
ponds upon his success in making a
CASE" is wrong in practice and in prin-
ciple. The forces Of the law should be
able to function without him.
The reasonable substitute is the pro-
vision of more Federal enforcement
agents, or the deputizing of more mem
bers of the Police Department to en-
forcement work. The latter step has
been recommended by the grand jury,
which pointed out recently that the Fed
eral officers spend most Of their time
in Maryland and Virginia and that the
number of policemen detailed to help
them in Washington is wholly made
quate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
Gate Receipts Held Main
Factor i'm Athletic Row

From the Des Moines Tribune Capital
Three things are to be noted in con-
nection with the athletic upset at Iowa
City:
/. The games at Iowa City were not
money making for the big schools like
Chicago and the rest. That is at the
bottom of the trouble, for with all the
players the managers look to the gate
receipts.
2. The athletic director had Just
been dismissed at Iowa City, and the
disclosures evidently came from him.
3. The charge against Iowa City is
made by Stage, Yost and Huff, three of
the big men in college athletics, and
cannot be minimized or ignored.
At bottom, the trouble arises from a
perfectly impossible adaptation of Eng
lish amateurism to American standards.
In England nobody who earns his liv-
ing can be an amateur, no matter what
he earns it at A carpenter cannot be
an amateur golfer, for instance. We
have made 1t so man must not earn
his living out of his sport and be an
amateur. But We have gone to all sorts
Of makeshifts to draw the line. For
our big amateurs do make their living
out of their sports, and everybody
knows it. How many men in golf and
from amateur to professional in recent
years, according to the way the line was
drawn?
There will be time enough for Iowa
to decide on what to do when the smoke
has cleared. But Iowa is out of the
big Ten" because Iowa was not q
money-making foot ball center for the
big Ten" elevens.
That is the main thing to understand
now.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
Snobs.

The professor who advised his stu
dents to become snobs stirred up a kind
of intellectual hornets nest. 1t was a
good thing. Students and others ought
to think about what they would like to
become in life, and how they are to
accomplish it.
Too often young people go out into
the great world without any adequate
idea of just what they want to do, and
especially without any clear conception
of the best means to accomplish their
legitimate ends. The psychology Of
actual living in competition with the re-
mainder of the world has been sighted.
1t will seem to most persons, however,
that the advice to young people to be
snobbish is rather short of the mark
1t has a bad sound, to begin with, and
scarcely fits most young people, in the
second place.
In the third place it is bad advice. In
England the term "snob" means "a vul-
gar, ostentatious person." The ordi-
nary dictionary definition is "a person
who has an excessive and vulgar regard
for wealth and social starding," and
zone who vulgarly affects the manners
or station of those of superior rank"
Thackeray defined a snob as "he who
meanly admires mean things"
In the United States snob, to most
persons, means one who makes it point
to act in a superior manner-that is. to
put on a superiority which he feels he
has, but which few other persons recog-
nize. The unfortunate part of 1t is that
usually the only way he can so impress
others is to stick his nose into the air
and fail to speak to others except when
he gets ready.
All in all, snob is no admirable per-
son, and certainly not one to be aped
by ambitious young Americans. The
educator would have done better to have
selected some other word, since his
whole idea seems to have been the inno-
cent one of advising young men and
women to make the most Of themselves.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05

the Republican party. Efforts will be
made to discover some rift between the
President and himself. Apparently,
however, there has been no such rift
and no occasion for it. DR.. Work now
discloSes that he has had 1t in his
mind for a long time to quit the chair
manship of the national committee,
and President Hoover says that he was
cognizant of DR.. Works wish. The most
reasonable explanation of DR.. Works
decision to retire seems to be a desire
to give up the active management of
a huge organization which carries with
it heavy burdens and anxieties. He will
retire at a time when his party is in
entire control of the Government, in
the knowledge that he has aided ma
terially in placing 1t there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
In Passing.

The pageant of national, urban and
community life leaves little time for the
contemplation of the passing of a
mammal which since 1901 graced the
bear cages at the National geological
Park.
So much is going on in the world
today that few besides Zoo officials
paused to note the death Of the big
female Yakatak bear, the Oldest man.
NAL at the park. Yet she was ia
vorite with thousands Of children and
their parents who visited the Zoo dur
ing nearly three decades.
Keepers said that during the entire
period of her captivity she had re-
NAMED In good health. but had begun
to droop with old age about two weeks
ago. Despite the fact that she was one
Of the largest Of Alaskan bears. she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
DR.. Works Decision.

The resignation of Dr. Hubert Work
from the Craftsmanship of the Repub-
lican national committee is surprise.
1t was generally expected that DR..
Work would continue to direct the
operations of the national organization
Of the G. o. p. Indeed, all his an
nounced plans since the election last
November have looked to the building
I'D of a permanent organization, con-
stantly at work, so that the need OF
building anew every four years would
be eliminated DR.. Work, however,
"does not choose" to continue as ma
tional chairman. His going Is not I'M
mediate. for his resignation will not be
affective until the Fall and he will
continue In charge of the headquarters
until that time.
DR.. Work retires at the flood tide OF
Republican success. Under his leader
ship the party won smashing victory
In 1928. President Hoover was given
a tremendous electoral vote-444-and
defeated his Democratic opponent with
q lead of some 100000 popular votes.
Despite this overwhelming victory, the
campaign was not without its trials
and difficult spots. Many elements were
at work for Mr.. Hoover and against
him. Issues were injected into the
campaign which should not have been
there. Passions ran high. 1t was
Chairman Works job to hold these con-
fiicting elements in hand. In his quiet
way he was largely successful. He
took upon his own shoulders without
complaint blame which might well have
gone to others. He was never dusterec
and was always supremely confident Of
victory.
After the campaign DR.. Work sough
no public Office or any special recog'
milton for his work. He was conten
to remain chairman of the nationa
committee. Before he assumed tina
Office he had held two posts in TIT
cabinet under President Coolidge. Hi
tirst appointment was as Postmastel
General and his second made him Sec
rotary Of the Interior. In both Offices
he served with satisfaction and distinc'
ton. The veteran politician has M
illusions about the honors which conn
with high public Office. Such honors h
had had already. He himself tabooet
any suggestion that he might go int
the Hoover cabinet.
Doubtless there will be speculation
regarding Chairman Works decision b
:, yelinguiSh his grasp on the affairs 9
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
Senate Investigation of Cancer


The Senate has authorized its COM
merce committee to investigate means
and methods whereby the Federal Gov
eminent may assist in discovering q
successful and practical" cure for can
Ger. The sentiment actuating the In
vestigation is praiseworthy and COM
mandatory. But what the Senate can
do to hasten the discovery of cure for
cancer is problematical.
Buried in their laboratories, scores Of
scientists throughout the world are
working day and night, not to find a
cure for cancer, but to determine the
cause of cancer. For science is more
interested in the cause than the cure.
Whether a committee of Senators, by
putting the cart before the horse, can
do anything worth while toward abol-
ishing one Of the dread scourges Of
mankind remains to be seen.
Some time ago Senator Nicely of West
Virginia offered a bill which would
award one million dollars to the person
did not pass, but the Public Health
Service in Washington was swamped
with kilograms and cables and samples
of so-called "cures," one Of which sug-
gested the process of rubbing the left
arm against a moss-covered tree as an
unfailing remedy. But if the prize &C
tually had been offered, 1t would still be
awaiting a bona fide claimant. 1t is
doubtful If any prize would spur cam
GER research. Money, to science, Is a
means and not an end.
The Senate's commerce committee,
however, might find it practical to in
vestigate the proposal made before
meeting of public health officials here
which has just come to close. This
proposal was for the establishment Of
institutions in the large cities Of the
country, equipped with radium in
sufficient quantities to treat large num-
bers of patients and with staff Of
surgeons and trained investigators
available. There is no successful and
practical" cure for cancer. But surgery
and the use of radium are practical
and often successful methods Of treat
ment which, in the hands of experts,
alleviate great suffering. If the Gov
ernment's interest, as indicated by the
Senate resolution, is to aid in the con-
troll of cancer by available methods, the
appropriation of several millions of
dollars to assist in the establishment
of cancer treatment institutions through
out the United States might prove a
practical and helpful form of govern
mental participation in the task.
Discovering the cause and cure Of
cancer is a problem that cannot be
placed in the same category with flood
control or farm relief or reforestatlon,
where money and effort and knowledge
may be combined to reach solution.
The cause and the cure of cancer re-
main secrets of nature, 50 far unre-
vealed. And nature has disheartening
disregard for legislative efforts in re-
vealing her secrets.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
suffered from the cold OF washington

suffered from the cold OF washington
Winters.
The pool In Summer was her greatest
Joy. Then she might be seen swimming
easily about, plunging In and out of
the water and diverting herself in ways
which only bears know.
The bear In captivity Is one Of the
most interesting of animals, impressing
all with its fun-loving qualities. No
doubt Bruin is an ugly customer to meet
in the woods. but in geological garden
he is charming.
1t is pleasing to remember, in pass
ing, that the last hours of the old
Yakatak bear we're spent in the warm
weather she loved. May the two
Yakatak bear cubs now on their way
from the North soon learn to be as
contented in their captivity as she was,
and to demonstrate as well to passing
humanity the virtues and graces Of the
tribe!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
While Congress Argues.

While Congress continues arguing the
pros and cons of farm relief legislation
the prospects of the farmer grow black
er. Already there has been a tre-
mendous slump in the price OF wheat
The new crops in this country ana
abroad are expected to be unusually
heavy. Unless Congress moves prompt
" whatever chance existed for real aid
to the farmer this year is likely to van
ish. even if it is not now too late to
be effective. The delay arises because
the Democrats Of the Senate and a
group of Republican insurgents con-
tinue to cling to the debenture plan.
They have assumed the position that
they will take the debenture or nothing.
Such a position means no legislation at
all. for neither the House nor the
President will stand for the adoption
of q plan which is not only unsound,
but which doubtless would bring about
a continuation of the unfortunate on
ditions in agriculture, since 1t would
stimulate overproduction.
The country, including the farmers,
looked to President Hoover to handle
the difficult farm problem. 1t conf
IDENTIFY expected the prompt passage by
Congress in special session of farm re-
lief legislation in accordance with the
views of the administration. The
country wished its newly elected Presl-
dent to have an opportunity to deal
with the problem. 1t had confidence in
him and still has. But the Senate, In
its wisdom, has declined to permit the
passage of such legislation and thereby
has denied the farmers the setting up
Of a Federal Farm Board with wide
powers 10 advise and aid them. 1t has
prevented the establishment Of a $780,
100000 revolving fund to be used for
the more orderly marketing OF farm
crops including wheat. And yet there
are Senators who today are attacking
the administration because, forsooth,
1t has failed to keep its campaign
pledge of prompt legislation for the aid
Of the farmer.
The conferees of the Senate and the
House on the farm relief bill two weeks
after the passage Of that bill by the
Senate are still struggling. They have
compromised some of the differences
between the two houses. But still the
debenture clause hangs suspended, de-
laying a final report on the measure.
Yet 1t is well understood by the MEM
bers of the Senate that the farm bill
cannot become a law containing the
debenture clause. Sooner or later the
bill is expected to be written finally.
In the meantime, however, the Ameri-
can farmer is compelled to wait for a
measure Of relief which should have
been accorded him long ago. Politics
is politics even though farm relief must
lag thereby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05

A better understanding Of executive
or secret sessions Of the United States
Senate seems to have come out of the
controversy over the publication Of the
vote on the confirmation of the nomi-
nation of former Senator Irvine l.. Len
root to the Court of Customs Appeals.
It Is agreed that certain matters involv-
ing foreign governments should be dis
cussed in secret, and that some charges
against appointees of the President
should not be carelessly broadcast, but
the weight of opinion reflected by the
press is that final votes on conflrna-
lions should be made known.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle holds that
members of the Senate should be will
ing to let the people who vote them into
office know exactly where they stand"
and the Texarkana Gazette AYERS that
1.-The public is entitled to know how they
act and how they vote on all questions.
presidential appointees are public
servants, and neither their fitness, nor
the vote thereon, Is private matter" in
the Judgment Of the Philadelphia Rec
ord. In fact, secrecy In legislative
practice under any circumstances. Be-
sides, 1t doesn't work" The Madison,
Wis, State Journal, indorsing the argu-
ment of Senator La Toilette, that he
regarded the right Of his constituents
to learn of his stand on public matters
as of greater importance than the Sen
ate rule invoked in that caSe," re-
marks, 1.-THE majority of public opin-
ion casts the deciding vote IN such mat
ters."
A similar stand is taken by the Joliet
tot
Senate is a powerful body. but there is
a still more powerful institution in this
country. and it is the supreme govern
ing power-public opinion" The San
Antonio Express gives the explanation:
"Vesting the confirmation authority
in the Senate, the trainers OF the Con-
stitution intended to provide a check
upon the Presidents appointive power
in the peoples behalf. Performing that
function behind closed doors. therefore,
does violence to the spirit of the Con-
stitutfon."
Executive sessions are survival OF
eighteenth century parliamentary prac-
tice and diplomacy, when secret treaties
were made" says the Richmond News
Leader, while the Portsmouth Daily
Times declares that sit Is the real
American way to have AL confirma-
tons voted on IN the open and record
kept of the individual vote"
There may be charges against mans
record which have> some bearing upon
his Qualifications and which are de-
serving OF mention, even though proof
is lacking" declares the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette. In such cases. 1t is prob
able that an injustice might be done
If these suspicious, rather than facts,
were brought Sat in open session. But
these occasions are rare. Charges that
cannot be substantiated are seldom
worth repeating. But even IL 1t Is
granted that such circumstances may
exist, there is no reason whatever for
secrecy as to the actual vote on con-
Armatiop.n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-05
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE

conclude there must be a doctors rea-
son there somewhere.
Y X ~
A granddaughter Of the City Of
Washington-Lady Cynthia Mosley-
joins Lady Astor as British member of
Parliament with American blood in her
veins. Lady Cynthia (whose husband,
Sir Oswald Mosley, has been a Labor
M. P. since 1920 is the first wife to
sit In the House of Commons along
side her own consort. She is the
daughter Of the late Marques Curzon
OF Kedleston, who in 1895 married Miss
Mary Letter, daughter Of Levi z.
Letter of Washington, D. c. Lady
Cynthia Is one of three daughters of
that union. She was welded to Sir
son and daughter. Lady Cynthia
became converted to Labor at the time
OF her marriage. Her victory in last
weeks election was sensational. It
turned the Conservative majority of
$500 at Stoke-on- Trent into a Labor
majority Of 1900.
X
Formal rules governing White House
newspaper men are now in force, They
conform to the conditions to which re-
pofteFS ana correspondents affiX their
signatures when they obtain the
privileges OF the press galleries of Con-
gress. The White House scribes must
declare in writing that they're not en-
gagged IN prosecuting any claim pending
before Congress or Government de-
partment. and are not employed in any
way by the American or any foreign
government, or by any stock exchange,
board of trade or brokerage house, or
by any person. firm or corporation in
terested in congressional legislation. The
object OF this declaration Is that a
newspaper man Cor woman) shall not
use, except for newspaper purposes. any
information which may be produced
from the conferences with the President
of the United States" The scribes
must also specify ANY other occupation
or employment, including publicity
work."
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