The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1929-01-23
SMALL TOWN TALK

| An Omaha Judge thinks that a wife is a
| luxury and man should expect to pay for one
| Wives think so too.
The worst has happened; fire which started
in the ladies' dressing room of hotel was started
from tossed aside cigarette. The girls are get
ting careess-they should smoke 'em up closer.
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Factions spit on the question said the Min
neapolis Journal the other day in reporting a
house debate the prison goods bill. "Well
what can be expected in an organization known
for its "snoose chewing" one newspaper man
asks.
The Duluth Herald, advocating state traffic
patrol, believes that such an organization need
not be large. "The mere fact that state
patrolman may be encountered anywhere would
be enough the Herald says. "It need not be
used for any other peace purpose than this-thus
| reassuring organized labor which mistakenly OPP
poses state police force and fears that the
highway patrol would be the nucleus for it.
0*H
Congressman Andersen and Clague are about
to realize victory in their great fight of an in
crease in the tariff on milk and cream. report
of the tariff commission, which is expected to ask
that these commodities be placed on parity with
butter, has gone to the president for approval.
That is actual farm relief.-St. Peter Herald
$50
Along with the fun of panning the governor
for this and that, making fun of the legislature
and few other such idiocyncrasies of the aver
age Minnesota citizen comes the gentle art of
telling just how many things are entirely wrong
with the University of Minnesota. These things
are usually best told by people who have never
visited the institution never sent student there
and have opportunity of knowing anything
about the administration of Minnesotas largest
institution.
The Mankato chief of police states that
fifty boys of his town were taken into custody
last year for questioning in connection with petty
crimes, and twenty-one were taken into juvenile
court. What Mankato and most other towns of
| that size need is child guidance clinic in con-
nection with its school system so that when a
boy shows wrong tendencies early in his life,
those tendencies can be analysed and the boy
helped before he has taken the first criminal
step. A clinic of this sort would cost the tax
payers much less in money then do penal
institutions, and the comparative value of human
| salvage is not to be estimated.
H*H
We are 1attered as we have seldom BEEN
The Short Takes columnist in the Mobiles County
Times, having made the testers column in the
Minnesota Mascot, says "We have hopes of MAX
ing the Redwood Gazette Small Town depart
ment after accomplishing this feat" We repeat
we are fattered; first at being put, by so reput-
able wit as the "Short Takes" man in the same
| class with the Jester, and secondly we have long
wanted to have somebody anxious to make our
col.-just as they are to make the daily offerings
of great people like Stoddard King and Ted Cook
| and "The Line" of the Chicago Tribune. The
| thing that peeves about this is that Brother
Refsell doesn't know that we have frequently
| quoted him from the past. We don't believe he
reads us quite closely as he would chivalrously
pretend.
From over the state along with thousands of
| other items of advice to the Legislature, come
many arguments for the county assessor plan.
One of the strongest advocates of bill making
provision for such county office is Gunnar
| Bjornson, member of the state tax commission,
| who has many opportunities to see the faults of
the present system and the futity of trying to
correct them without total change of system.
Another warm advocate of the proposed change
is "Vin' Weber, editor of the Slayton Herald
| who says:
glance at the personal property
tax list, published in this issue of the
Herald, will bring all fair thinking men
to the realization that the present
method of assessing property is entirely
wrong, and that the only solution is the
plan recommended by the state tax COM
mission, namely, the county assessor
plan. The need for county assessor,
elected by popular vote, is obvious.
/ Given official in charge of an entire
county, assessments would be more
regular, and fair degree of equality
/ would result Under the present plan,
assessors are too well known in their
townships. They are only human
and want to be as lenient with their
friends as possible. They take much for
granted, in many instances, and in other
cases become afflicted with poor MEM
cries and still poorer vision. Thousands
upon thousands of dollars in taxable