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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-12-17
Christmas Brings Memories

VVIHAT holiday is Christmas, season for fest
w ivites, and joymaking, a time for renewing
acquaintance in the old home once more and
day out of S65 that momentarily thoughts go
back to old friends, period of happy "reminiscences
Christmas brings back to the delusion Of our child
hood days, and thus recalls to man old pleasures of
youth.
Our dearest memories are those which we first
recolect, when Christmas carols were first emotional
king when Santa Claus was real, and after finding
our filed stockings Christmas morning, would rush
out to find tracks Of his reindeer But as all fathers
and mothers truthfully sad Santa left tracks And
somewhat awed in anticipation we children of limo
eence watched the day before father carefully
moved the SCOT from the chimney through which Santa
was supposed to come down.
It gradually dawned upon MS little fellows one and
MI that there sort Of allegiance between San
ta and father We often wondered how they could be on
such familiar terms, since father rarely had occasion
to him in his midnight visits, nor did mother who
waited far into the night with steamng coffee pot and
freshly baked goodies get to him. But those
the days before delusionment and father and mother
were more than name, they were supreme and to
eyes of seeing they faultess and unquestion
ly accepted their stories and are glad that we
did SO. That's why we strive to keep Santa Claus
mythology intact, after have grown up.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-12-17

as mulch as it costed him to get mar
ryed. His wife told him she had TUX
a coarse in cooking frum corris-
pondent skool but Ike sed lot of
the male must of ben miss sented.
Sunday-well / had to laff in Sum
day skool today. They was new
kid in are class and he is pritty
onery and the teacher sed Looey did
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-12-17
The Christmas Shopping Center

Inc NHTlSImdS OHOpPluS ScHtcI
~ EDWOOD FALLS businessmen have made their
X city the outstanding attractive christmas shop
4 ping center" in Southern Minnesota. The ever
green festoonng, the community Christmas tree, and
the myriad mult-coored electric lights, contribute
immensely to that Christmas atmosphere predomn-
ant in Redwood Falls
Every one will want to see the hundreds of red,
green yellow and blue lights, and the reddish-yelow
illumination of the rising centerpieces at night,
but for real appreciation of the preparations that the
many merchants have made for this holiday season,
don't forget inspect the store window displays and
various counter arrangements.
Christmas stocks unsurpassed in many towns will
make shopping easy and pleasant diversion Visit
from affair most cordially invited to this
christmas shopping CENTER and special effort will be
made to show strangers consideration.
There is gift that cannot be obtained in Red
wood Falls. Shoppers from far and near invited
to make last effort to spend day in Redwood Falls
during the last week of the holiday shopping
when the business is glorious in coorations and
fantastic in its Yuletde attire
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-12-17
Unite in a Common Cause

TT o arms, to arms, the weeds the weeds, dispense
the rebels, should be a statewide cry Redwood
county entirely without precedent has estab-
lished fairly successful methods of combating OBJ
noxious weeds which has gained recognition from Of
cals in the state department of agriculture fell
low extension workers.
If there ever was time for the people to unite
in a common cause, did the 'embattled farmers by
the rude bridge that arched the flood" it is now with
the spirit of TO- against far more dangerous pub
lie enemies, weeds those pesky parasites of thous-
and and varieties that rob the farmer of his pro-
fits and him to knot his brow and his dis
position
When the board of county commissioners turned
the job over to county agricultural agent, Nate H.
Bovee to conduct war against weeds there
precedent to follow. Extension workers have found
it difficult to handle and with dscouraging results
Mr. Bovee developed plan of attack that was fairly
successful because it efficiently organized, and
every man played his part. Not only farmers but
county and township officials and various other agen
cies interested in combating a common enemy united
in county wide campaign to eradicate and control
weeds.
"The spirit of cooperation in Redwood county fur
nishes the inspiration which is needed carrying on
agriculture extension work." stated County Agent
Bovee in his annual report The chief result is that
there has developed consciousness among the peo-
pie to unite in against an all to COM
accomplshes that which advancement DEGREES.
competent general must develop perfect coord-
ination of his forces Bovee has this idea in mind
because he is aware that it is man job any
more than it is county job Il must be state wide
and national in scope before the flag Of victory can
be hoisted. Insects, like ants, and even weeds are
and organized in their methods of scatter
alton Let every county get hack Of statewide war
on weeds One lone county can keep fighting ever
lasting as long as weed seeds being blown from
county to county, for these parasites recognize no
boundary line.
The Springfield Advauce-Press commenting ON the
Redwood plan of weed control said: One farmer
can't do much alone but when all the farmers Of
county unite in war weeds, great deal can be
accomplished. Weeds public enemies. The older
county gets, the moro weed pests it has to contend
with 1t requires vigilance the part Of farmers to
make successful fight against weeds. Redwood |
county has the right idea.
i q s
Shifting the Gears
dam Bin VIII Pass"-Headline. That kind
would.
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Everyone has guaranteed for cold ez-
cept the doctor.
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Being denounced is hardly more Offensive than
hearing rival praised
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1930-12-17
STATS DIARY
By Ross Farquhar

Friday-Pa was q reading about
the govermint haveing trubble with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Impressed With Extent
Of Machinery in U. S.

American ingenuity in substituting
machine for hand labor Is regarded a.
a leading factor In American business
success In the export field by party OF
Japanese business men returning To
their homes after a tour Of the United
States and Canada They toured the
North American continent for two and
a half months and presented historic
swords to the governor general OF Can
ada and President Hoover.
This party was particularly impressed
with the extent to which machines such
as bookkeeping. debating and adding
machines are used in American business
Offices, including the small ofices. They
had expected to find such machines
widely used in large businesses, but not
in small plants, shops and accounting
departments.
The party Is taking back volumi-
nous series of reports for Japanese bust
ness houses and associations. The Wis
itors include Eijiro Matsumoto, land
owner and department store proprietor
Of Kioto and Sapporo: SEMI Suzuki
designer Of commercial kitchens; Sol
chiro Sato, chief engineer of the Dai
Nippon Sejhyo Kaisha (artifcial ice
concern) of Toxic: T. Takahashi, mer-
chant OF Sapporo; Shigetaro Matsui
lawyer of Hiroshima and adviser to the
Overseas Development Association of
Hiroshima prefecture, and N. Matsui,
japanese passenger agent of the Cana
dian Pacific Railway and Steamship Co.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Great Britain Keeps Sharp Eye Skyward,
Watching Russia's Progress in Aviation

LONDON.-Soyiet Russia's great adj
vance in the field Of aviation, and
particularly the expansion of her aerial
routes, has not passed unnoticed in
Great Britain, for one thing because
those lines give the Russians access to
the whole northern frontier Of Afghani-
stan, which country lies at midas back
door.
There are now Russias airways to-
taiing length Of II ,445 miles, but with
IN the next three years the total Will
be raised to 1885 miles.
Lord Thompson, the late secretary OF
state for air, gave detailed pic
ture OF the progress Of aviation in Asia
In an address before the Central Asian
Society. Russia, as he emphasized,
forms a link between Europe and Asia.
There is q service every week day from
London through Berlin, Moscow and
Sochi to the Black Sea, TO Baku, thence
twice weekly to Bushire. journey &C.
cupying 81 hours so minutes actual n.y.
ing time.
There are aviation centers IN Rus
ha now at Tashent, Samarkand, Termesr
Kabui, Lake Avail. Khiya, ChaxJui
Eenaipalatinsk, Sergiopol and Alma-Ata
But the most important Russian ali
link. according to Lord Thompson. u
that between Moscow and Tashkent
which gives her access by air to the
whole northern frontier of Afghanistan
and to Mongolia and Sinkiang. The line
from Tashkent to Kabul Is to bt
operated once week throughout the
year. Three important new airways
are TO be opened up this Summer. One
Of these, running over the Caucasus
Mountains TO Baku via Tifiis. VIII COM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Move for Prohibition
Begun in South Africa

There is 80 much similarity in the
early history Of South Africa and the
United States that it is not surprising
that idealists in this country should
be inclined to take the American model
rather than run true to the British
type.
Durham Is more British than Britain,
but the rest Of the country approx
mates more closely to American stand
ards, although, of course, on a modified
scale. The latest manifestation Of this
tendency is to be found in q campaign
| throughout the country for some form
OF liquor prohibition or, at least, 1mi-
tation.
The campaign has all the earmarks
Of being healthy and vigorous affair
It WAKES eloquent on hundreds of
platforms 1t is the sole topic at count
less meetings Of woman's organiza-
tons: churches Of all denominations
subscribe to it. Yet 1t would be diffi-
cult to imagine a more forlorn hope.
South Africans have always been q
hard drinking people judged by Euro
pean standards, but they have learned
to carry their liquor like gentlemen.
This is probably because in South
Africa the women drink with their
menfolk and exercise a restraining in
fiuence, or, at any rate, put them on
their best behavior. The habit of pub
crawling" which used to be a popular
American pastime, and is still part of
mans normal life in Britain, does not
obtain here. Instead, there Is the
"sundowner," which means anything
up TO a half dozen WHISTLES or brandies
at time when the evening chill is be-
ginning to displace the heat Of the day.
ARTHUR BELL.
johannesburg, South Africa, Septem-
Der 6,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Inland Tariff Levies
Abolished in Italy

Fascism. continuing It's campaign for
n1odernization Of the country, has
abolished local tariff barriers through
out the country, thus putting an end
to an old medieval custom which had
pestered inhabitants for years. A man
who bought q pair of shoes In Milan
had to put them on before reaching
Rome or pay duty to the customs ON
GERS at the station. In fact, large
cities were like so many separate states.
Turin, for example, is doing her best to
offset Rome and the latter is turning her
wrath on Naples and so forth. Local
tariffs have hitherto brought big in
come, 000, 000, 900 lire per year--to the
state, but have also kept the cost Of
living high IN the towns. For three years
the strong men Of Italy drew plans
on this local-tarih question and finally
Mussolini authorized the publication
recently of the decree which abolishes
local customs tariffs that went into
effect on April /. For the first time
the Italian farmer or merchant has q
national market to work for freely. The
government has come to the aid OF the
communes with a preliminary subsidy
Of 375, 600, 900 lire, while the stamp duty
! on commercial and legal documents will
be raised by so per cent. Wines, meats,
gas, light, electricity and building mate
rails are the only items which Will be
taxed for the consumers sake. The
Fascists predict that food prices VIII
drop at least 20 per cent due to the
measure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
UNINFORMED CHATTER
WOULD AID RELATIONS
Noted Novelist Discusses Situation as Lit
May Prevail Between United States
and England.

tongue for his money. MoneT isn't
everything.
"No, / must admit that you British
are not so hospitable as we are. And
how unplayfull I want to get out IN
the solemn streets Of your beautiful old
London and toss up my cap, or some
bodys cap. Anybody's cap. A hobbies
me with another pale paste called York
shire pudding, I'll jump to Paris and
commit suicide on 1000 little escargots.
"Of course, you are not to think am
finding fault with your glorious country.
Dear knows we have plenty to worry
about at home. I always say England
is the only real democracy. And love
your young people! So cocksure.
could tell you stories that go on, espe-
cially since prohibition, in our younger
sets! I've never happened to see any
of the goings on first hand; we live so
far inland, you know. Vandalia. Only
200 miles from Chicago. Just don't
want you to think that things in, Amer
lea are all hunky dory."
We'll" say the English to the Amer
leans, I'VE aren't a demonstrative peo-
pie! We don't put ourselves out very
much to make you feel at home, simply
because we are not like that"
Comment on America Quoted.
A general awareness that nobody
seems to do anything about.
1T Is this way with us" say the
Americans. I'VE live like a pack Of
lunatics and yearn to learn how to adj
Just our lives to your ruieter, pleasanter
pace"
'I think America is too amusing and
fantastic for words" says the English
man who has seen New York, Chicago
and Niagara Falls.
ct love the way the English talk.
can't understand four words out Of six"
says the American who Is forever ask
ing whether the wife of Sir is called
lady or nothing.
It Is all very brisk and animated and
bit poisonous, this tea-table patter.
which, like the tiny particles that make
up the elements, goes to make up the
elements Of the complicated interna-
tional picture between alleged cousins.
A little less talk and more tolerance
might help to clarity the overloaded
atmosphere Also little less super
fetal comment on profound matters
including that of lady novelists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

plete the former air connection be-
tween Vladikavkaz and Baku
The two others run through Siberia
one from Moscow to Irkutsk, which
marks the first step toward establish
ing aerial communication with China
and Japan. the other connecting
Semipalatinsk, in South Siberia, with
Alma-Ata, In the Soviet Republic OF
Central Asia
While Soviet Russia has to a con-
siderable extent been influenced by Ger
many in aircraft and aero engine con-
struction, many types of purely Rus
sian design are being produced.
Lord Thompson realized the posi-
bility Of big developments in the air
ways OF Asia through Russo German
combinations.
Germany is largely interested In
Russian Developments he declared
land II friendly relations can be estab-
lished with Russia it is possible that a
joint arrangement will be made for the
operation Of the route from Moscow tc
Irkutsk. urga. Peiping, Marking and
/ Shanghai"
Copyright 1897
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Gigantic Colonial Show
Will Be Held in Paris

An international colonial exhibition.
called International Overseas Exhibi-
ton, will take place in Paris, France,
in 1881, according to an official an
nouncement recently made by the
French consul in Chicago. Many
countries, including the United States
which already has accepted the invi-
tation from the French government to
participate, have signified their will
tngness TO be represented at the ex-
hibition.
A feature of the gigantic colonial
show will be complete reproduction
of the most famous of Angkor temples
in Indo-China. And with view to
giving the average European and
American an opportunity to acquaint
himself with the different races of
mankind, much effort has been and Is
being made on the part of the man
agement to present as accurate an
image as possible of native life in vari-
Gus parts Of the world.
Three information departments or
buildings have been especially organ
lied to accommodate visitors who may
want Information, and are classified
into permanent overeas museum, a
metropolitan section and an interna-
tional city of information. The gen.
eral management of the grand exhibit
ton is in the hands of Marshal Lyau-
tey, noted for his efforts and success
in pacifying and organizing Morocco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

worlds, nor that selfishness is
always punished and virtue al
ways rewarded.
On the contrary, I see many
notable examples of men who
have apparently never done a
gracious thing in their whole
lives who yet have achieved
fortunes and are quite serene
and contented in the enjoy
ment of the good things of the
world.
But at several different times
in my own experience I have
been surprised by having
bread which I had cast on the
waters and forgotten come
back to me spread with good
butter and even considerable
jam.
One Of the most valuable
contracts Of my business life
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

Continued From Third Page.l
may be expected from the capitalists
who have financed the Hitlerian move
ment. Are they able to realize that,
however much they were right in COM
planning of their Social Democrat
opponents the future may hold terrible
disillusions in store for them II they
stick to the childish hope that their
charlatans and nationalistic dema-
gogues?
They should understand this II only
because of the lesson the Italian capt.
talists learned at their own expense with
the Fascist movement In Italy also
certain capitalists relied on violence
on Fascist violence-to get rid OF obsta-
cles and opponents. Now, as one of
the most important leaders of italian
industry whispered to me few weeks
ago, they are trembling under the arbi-
trary rule of the very men whom they
considered a few years ago as hardly
An American philosopher, DR.. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Columbia
University, said last August in an
Capitalism is an incident and a by
product In the growth of liberty and
In the development of liberalism" But
are German capitalists ready to under
| stand that? When one realizes that
| the experiments undergone by other
people are vain and that each one must
learn through his own suffering one has
the right to doubt.
And, finally, the third point worth
considering is this: Is 1t possible that
the recent triumph of the silliest and
most vulgar slogans In Germany may
be taken as a new proof that the Ger
mans, rich as they are In stupendous
mental and moral qualities, are miser-
ably lacking In any sort Of political
intelligence? One Of the last German
rulers, Prince Won Bulow, cynically
admitted as much. At least, one eve
ming In his Roman retreat, he told me
the answer he had received from the
famous Holstein. the permanent secre-
| tary OF the German state department
to whom Won Bulow, imperial chancel-
lor at that time. had complained Of the
tncomprehension shown by the Ger
mans about some big diplomatic ques-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
TROUBLESOME FORCES
In EUROPE ARE CITED
Adolph Hitler and Aims of His Ger.
man Fascist Party Are
Analysed.

ton. "Your highness," was the answer,
1--WE are supreme in music. in philosophy.
in strategy-in almost every field. Is
1t strange that II In one-politics-we
are tncurable asses?"
Compromise Il Problem.
Sometimes I wonder whether the
explanation is not deeper and nnore
tragic than Won Bulow and his Holstein
appeared 10 think. It is possible that
the result of the German election Is
simply a further proof of what seems
to me sometimes a fatality of German
history. mean the constant incapacity
to choose between the great roads Of a
generation. Thus 1t happened during
the Reformation. All the countries be-
came Catholic or Protestant. Only
half Protestant.
The problem of today Is where and
how to discover q compromise between
the feelings of Nationalist and an in
ternational mind. Confronted by the
problem. half of Germany takes the
road through Geneva-the road of the
international mind-hoping to recon-
quer the greatness Of yore with a policy
of moderation and patience. But the
other half Is seized by the Juror teu-
tonicus, and thinks it is easy, with the
1A0 Va FEOlChOCt W bACdA bAhOuku Tic
treaties and all the obstacles. This
trait of German history seemed sup
pressed during the era of unity and
material progress created by Bismarck's
genius. But after all, the Bismarckian
empire only extended over short
period of so years in long tragic
history of centuries.
realize that I have simply laid
down problems and hypothesis and
that have RETAINED from formulating
answers which would have been easy
with a small dose Of professional GER
tainties. Well, of one thing only I
feel sure: What Is going TO happen In
the next few months or the next few
years In Germany will be for a philo-
sophical mind one Of the most interest
ing features Of postwar history. For
the rest, when one doubts, 1t Is better
to put the question marks down honest.
ly than to pretend one can answer all
sorts Of questions.
(The second article Of this series by
Count Carlo Sforza on "Europe's Trou
blemakers" will appear In an early
issue.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12
Finds Fish Can Climb
To Height of SO Feet

How high can a fish climb? This
is a question which lovers Of angling
have often argued and debated. Many
experts have declared that so feet is
the maximum for a fish to climb by
means of a natural hshway
The Canadian governments de-
partrnent of fisheries Is authority for
the statement that FISH in the Mersey
River are climbing fishway 80 feet
high.
The official statement In part states:
Some big industrial works have been
under construction on the Mersey in
recent months and, in compliance with
the fisheries laws, a fishway became
necessary so that fish might be able to
make their way up the river unhin-
dered. There were skeptics who
doubted that fish would be able to
climb any such height as SO feet I'M
less elevators such as are used in
connection with some fishways were
included in the plans. Recent reports
from fisheries officers on the ground,
however, have been to the effect that
the natural fshway is working most
successfully and the fish are making
the climb up river without difficulty. "