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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31
FAULTY AUTO LAMPS
KEEP PATROL BUSY

Defective automobile lights receiv-
ed more attention from the State
Highway Patrol in November than in
previous months, according to the
monthly report Of Earle Brown, chief
of the patrol. With fewer daytime
traffic problems and more hours of
darkness, the state traffic officers
were able to effect corrections of a
greater number of faulty lights than
in any previous month.
Seventy-one arrests were made for
lack of proper lights. Arrests were
made only in cases where lights We're
in such condition as to show deliber-
ate or long continued neglect. Tags
requiring correction of faulty light
ing were given to 3,410, of which
1,1O3 were for lights out Of adjust
ment, 1,O72 for no tail light, 755 for
one headlight, 2O2 for glaring lights,
1O1 for illegal lights and 1T no clear
ance lights. All these called for a
certificate showing correction within
4S hours, but did not call for a court
appearance or fine.
Other arrests included 70 for
drunken driving, lis for failure TO
stop at arterial highways, 26 impro-
per license, 26 careless driving, II
miscellaneous. The patrolmen took
100 cars in custody for drunken driv-
ing program, previously announced,
abandoned on highway and two stol-
en-.
Warnings were given to 931 for
minor violations of the traffic rules.
Tags were given to 536 for improper
license and to 315 for illegal equip
ment other than lights. Total fines
imposed were $8,149 and estimated
receipts from license corrections
$1,000. Road information and aid of
various kinds was given to 1926
motorists. The patrolmen attended
149 accidents.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31
OBJECTIONS TO TUBERCU-
LOSIS TEST WANE

Proceeding the basis that "seeing
is believing" officials in charge of
bovine tuberculosis eradication in
Iowa are inviting persons who are
not in sympathy with the test to see
reactor cattle slaughtered and witness
the post-mortem examinations. The
results have been so convincing that
in some cases cattle owners, who
were formerly DIRECTORS to the test,
have signed statements expressing
their confidence in the tuberculin test
and the official methods of eradicat-
ing tuberculosis. This procedure has
been used in parts of Iowa where
military protection was provided for
the veterinarians in making their
tests in the face Of serious opposi-
ton.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31
MORTON BABY GIRL
SWALLOWS OPEN PIN

The Frank Edwa1 DIS family expert
enced considerable excitement a few
days ago when it was discovered that
the seven-month's old daughter, Flor
ence Marilyn, had swallowed an open
safety pin.
DR.. j. R. LEM took the baby to the
Franklin hospital where his X-ray
pictures showed the pin lodged in the
lower part of the throat. Not being
equipped to extricate the pin at such
low depth, DR.. LEM suggested that
the baby be taken into the University
hospital where specialist was avail
able
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31
FINGER PRINTS MAY LEAD
THREE SCOUTS TO WORK

John D. Virgins, area Boy Scout
executive of Mankato, is searching
for three boys who left only their
finger prints on a Christmas card
which offered their services for the
next ten years.
The "card" was printed in pencil
on plain white paper and carried the
following words: "Hoot Mon! Do
the depression let us wish u a Hap
py New Year 1881, '32, '33, "a, '35,
SO, '37, '38, '39 and 40. Three kids
inlist our services for these years."
Roughly drawn pencil pictures OF
three boys accompanied the linked
finger prints at the bottom of the
sheet.
Mr.. Virgins has begun the task of
making Thumb prints of every Scout
in the city. He would like to hold
the boys to their contract as he can
find much for them to do during the
next ten years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31
SHERIFF SHOOTS TO STOP
FLEEING CHICKEN-THIE

Captured after a chase of half
mile and bleeding from free-for-all
fight with Sheriff William Roehler
and James Nelson, farmer near Fair
mont, Harry Bennett was jailed re-
Gently. He is accused of chicken
stealing and an attempted holdup.
The Sheriff fired six shots to stop the
fleeing man. After the chicken theft
north of Fairmont Bennett stopped at
a car parked in driveway just
across the Omaha tracks, forced
Everett Mutt outside and searched
him for money while Nuts girl COM
panion remained inside. 1t was while
Bennett was searching Mutt that the
pursuing officers swooped upon him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31
MilrOy Whist Club
Entertain Tuesday

Milroy, December 28-Members OF
the Whist club who reside in the
village will entertain the out of town
members in the M. w. A. hall Tues
day of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Zwach enter
tanned on Christmas Day Mr.. and
Mrs. William Fischer and two sons
of Marshall and Mr.. and Mrs. Sch
laegel of New Ulm. Mrs. Fischer and
Mrs. Schlaegl are daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Zwach.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Maroney anG
son Robert returned to Princeton
Monday after having spent their va.
cation with their parents and other
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Smith enroute to
Chenille for Christmas had the mis-.
fortune to run into the ditch about
80 miles east of here. Serr's Brothers
towed them back.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi Fraser will en-
terrain the Bridge club Tuesday eve
ming of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Dolan and
children returned home from Glencoe
Sunday evening after having spent
Christmas Day with the latter's par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. O'Connell.
Last Saturday about twenty men
engaged in a rabbit hunt and shot
about 60 rabbits. They enjoyed an
oyster supper at the home of Mrs. P.
Christopherson Sunday evening.
Christmas Day Mr.. and Mrs. j. B.
Christensen were surprised when
their son Vernon and daughter Mabel,
both of Chicago, arrived to spend a
few days with them. They returned
Sunday evening to Chicago.
The students from here who are
attending the State Teachers College
at Mankato returned home Tuesday.
They are the Misses Helen Schmidt,
Dorothy Reed and Walter Christop-
herson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Buel drove to
Minneapolis Thursday and spent the
remainder of the week, returning
home Saturday.
MI. anu MIS-. SldIlcS OcSIildu GU
tertained Christmas Day Mr.. and
Mrs. Spohn and Miss Meta Williams
of Marshall and Mr.. and Mrs. Asa
McCulla and daughter Helene.
j. H. Ruud enjoyed his Christmas
dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Masunder
and family at Hanska.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Christensen
entertained Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Sim
mons and daughter and Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Simmons and family Christmas
Day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Dysart autoed
to Minneapolis last Thursday and re-
turned via Bertha Saturday morning.
Attorney John Christopherson Of
st. Paul spent several days at the
home of his mother, Mrs. P. Christ
opherson during the Christmas sea-
son.
Among the large group of friends
who enjoyed the hospitality of Mrs. J..
Novak and family were Mr.. and Mrs.
Milbradt and son Leo.
j. C. Larson, agent for the Ship
ping association, shipped car load
of hogs Tuesday of this week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31

rives on the scene," says the Mime
sofa Mascot His parents now live
in Minneapolis, so of course the Mill
City claims him. Three other towns
have been calling him a ''home boy"
in the past week-Springield, be-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31
LOCAL BOY" MAKES GOOD

Minnesota will apparently be
glad to have local boy back here
to coach the football team at the
University when Bernie Bierman ar
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31

cause he was born there; Waseca, be-
cause his parents lived there for sew
eral years and Bernie went to grade
school there; and Litchfeld, because
the famous coach graduated from
high school there.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-12-31

IA Especial Brand" tireis made
by q manufactures for distributors
such N mail order houses, OH conn
panies and others, under . name that
does mot identify tho tire manufac-
no builds his ssbest quaiitys tires
under his own name. Firestono puts
his name on EVERY tire he makes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-06

ments, the Oakland Post Inquirer. in fea- ture editorial. says
 Lower taxes will mean higher local prosperity. The people of this community are struggling under tax burden much too heavy. This high tax load has reached a point where it threatens to handicap the development of the community It is cer- tanly handicap to the individual bank accounts. To decrease taxes would be sure way to increase business, to stimulate building operations. to relieve unemploy ment Lower taxes is the most important question now confronting this community. Excessively high tax rates do mean in the end lower total income from taxes They deprecate property values. they discourage new building. they frighten home owners, business men and industries away from community. They cut down the amount and value of the property that can be taxed. Private business is finding ways to lower costs, fixed and otherwise without lower efficiency. and in the end that may be the depression's great blessing in disguise for private business. Perhaps the same thing will be true of public business
 The Post Inquirer has summed up a sit- uation that confronts every community. What every city, county and state needs IS smaller total tax collection from every tax payer, not new methods of getting more taxes Let increased tax funds come from increased business and not more taxes from less business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-06
Silver and Depression

How depressed silver prices result in gen. eral industrial depression IS illustrated by present conditions in China China deals with the United States on the basis of the silver standard But now that metal IS worth about 40 per cent less than it was worth few years ago. As result, China can no longer buy from us in the same quantities as before, and so is establishing factories of her own to produce goods that once came from the United States
 The silver problem is of vital interest to the entire world. There are many author ities who believe the United States would be well repaid if it took the lead in any sound plan for re-establishing fair relation be- tween the value of silver and gold.
 A temporary fixing of price of silver at 50 cents an ounce by international agree ment has been proposed by Senator King of Utah as an emergency measure until an international conference can solve the silver question. He believes bettering of the sil- yer price would improve world trade and have vast influence in alleviating unem- ployment in the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-06
Boost the Rail Rate?

Nobody envies the Interstate Commerce Commission its duty of answering the rail- roads plea for IS per cent increase in freight rates. Suppose the commissions says. Yes" Imagine the bowls that will arise (that already have arisen, in facD from embattled farmers who have to ship their commodities to distant localities. Suppose the answer is. No" An indispensable in- dustry claims that it cannot survive without the increase It justly points to it's policy Of maintaining wage levels in tin. of depres- sion and to the losses t has suffered from the growth of automobile, bus, and water way transportation.
 As usu-., the politicians have pitched in to the fray. Representative James Beck of Pennsylvania is so wrou, up over the railroads plight that he says Congress will grant the increase if the !. C. C. doesn't. Senator Capper of Kansas retorts that the Commission must not be influenced by the railroads The Commission responds with dignity that it will be influenced by nobody.
 Even the railroad people are not too opti- mistc over the effect of the proposed ln- crease. They run the risk of having their traffic SO greatly lessened that the higher charges will prove suicidal. It would be doubly difficult for item. after obtaining favor from the I. C. C.. to justify wage slashing If the increase is refused, how ever. retrenohment in salaries seems almost inevitable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-06
THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 193l
The State Police

We wonder just what new rules and regulations Commissioner Sunderland of the state police is going to adopt for bis organ ization. Certainly, they need many. and the new commissioner should see that such action is taken without further delay. Com- missioner Sunderland has been in office over month now, and from our observations the state police are continuing in the same old rut as before change was made in the organization. For instance you will find members of the Beacon Valley barracks making liquor raids on Sunday, when every member of that precinct should De on the public highway doing traffic duty The same is true of the other barracks of the state, conducting cheap and petty rai~s and doing a work that could be done at times other than on Saturday and Sunday.
 Governor Cross should instruct his com missioner to better the state police depart ment at once. Heretofore, it has been nothing more than a political machine. Now its head is democrat, or was when he was appointed to office. The proper duty of the state police is traffic on the main highways. During the encampment at Mantle. criticism followed because of the scant attention given traffic down that way on Governors day. One could hardly ob- serve state policeman on the main highway to New Haven. regardless of the heavy traffic.
 Commissioner Sunderland can do much to improve the state police work. if he will. Most of its members seem to think its main duty is making liquor raids. This impress sion should be removed at once. Grant time of to members early in the week. but make every memter perform traffic duty on Sat- urday and Sunday. Let's have better state police than Connecticut has had for these many ye.rs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-06
THE CANDIDACY OF
 SENATOR FRANCE
(HartfOrd Courant)

The mystery, if there ever was any, of the candidacy of former Senator France of Maryland for the republican presidential nomi- nation is now revealed. He had q coming-out. party at his Mount Ararat Farms last Saturday where he delivered a speech setting forth his political philosophy. The New York Times, in an editorial written | in pastoral style, made some allus" ions to the probable effect of the | discourse on the Senator's herd of ITO registered Guernseys. which moved MT France to write letter to that newspaper.
 The editorial suggests to him that his COWS, being peaceful and devoted to productive pursuits, were more likely to understand what he said than many humans ki'ncluding gifted editorial writ ers." But pleasantries aside. Sen ator France assures the Times that it's gibes at him would be Justified If he were really setting out by methods of elf-advertising to ob- tain a presidential nomination. On the contrary. he has no expecta- tion of obtaining one. The only | DuTDOSe OI HIS lS to bring to the American people "a vision of what might be accom- plished both in domestic and inter- national affairs if all our policy and action were to be based on the principles of love and brotherhood, which in religion we rofess but so often repudiate." He will be quite content if he succeeds in bringing about real cooperation in international and domestic affairs instead of "a narrow nationalism and ruthless and destructive competition"
 Not in a long time have we had a presidential candidate who de- sires merely to radiate light and understanding and substitute brotherly love for the usual type of political warfare. It seems em- inently appropriate, therefore. that Mir France should have opened his campaign where his peaceful Guernseys proves rather than where men congregate and where noise and confusion prevail. A candidate with mission but with no personal ambition to further who seeks office not in the hope of attaining 1t but only to set an example in right conduct. Is dis tinct novelty in our politics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-06
Profitable Public Expenditures

Three main causes are advancing the sec ondary road movement: the need for re- lieving congestion on main highways the efforts being made in all states to reduce taxes and keep down governmental expense and-of perhaps greatest import ..ce-the necessity of giving farmers year-round con- tacts with markets and the outside world.
 Good secondary roads are a perennial attraction to tourists who welcome the op- portunity to see the back country, that main highways often avoid. They bring business to small towns and rural and sem- rural areas that would otherwise go prn- oipally to the larger cities. It has been found that the average cost of good, year-round secondary road made waterproof dustless and mudless by use of asphats or road oils, and suitable for fair amount of traffic, is but S4,000 mie-about one eighth the cost of standard hard paving. Upkeep expense is likewise low and such roads may be adapted to their territories by using local materials as the base
 From the standpoint of the farmer, good roads are indispensable. They mean an end to the time when he stayed home in the bad weather, or started for town and got mred. They remove the obstacles In he way of receiving medical attention and fire fighting facilities, of sending his children to and from school. They are the best invest ment the states have ever made in behalf of agriculture and the small town.
 It is no wonder the good roads move ment is making great progress even in time when money is tight ' The public IS learning that tax money invested in good roads is one of the few forms of public ex- pendtures for which the people get more in return than they pay out.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-06
Quotations

The autogyro is the sort of a ship you can get careless in with out serious results. Amelia Earhart. The history of the progress of the United States Is but the his- tory of the republican party. Senator Simeon D. Fess. Women generally do the most competent gold digging of their lives somewhere around the age of eight.
 -Elsie Mccormick. The small family is the product of economic pressure, and at the same time the cause of dimin- isher harmony and stability in marriage.
 --Dr II. Crichton Miller. British physician.
 
 Modesty Is not for me.
 Gabrielle D'Annunzio. He nudy Vallee) is just an or dinary man to me.
 Mrs Rudy Vallee. It Is always a temptation for those who have power to abuse it..
 Henry l.. Doherty. We are q generation which lives on newspapers just as caterpillars feed on green leaves.
 Winston Churchill.
  The Continental. the Irishman, the American overstate. The English understate.
 --Dr R. J. Renier.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-06
SHIPWRECK OF DEMOCRACY
(Springfield Republican,


 Democracy in Great Britain will suffer shipwreck," says the report of the governments special commission on national expendi- lures, unless severe economies are carried into effect-amounting to $500, 100000 in the next budget. The implication is that democracy as a form of government Is waste full, that 1t has no capacity for re- trenchment in expenditure, that democracy and bankruptcy are in government.
 That democracy is put to its se- yerest test in finance is obvious from experience. Yet democracy inherited the war system, which remains the heaviest burden of modern governments. It is Great Britain's misfortune that 10 years of trade depression, which can hardly be charged up against democracy, has brought unemploy- ment insurance into such financial disorder that the system costs some $530,000,00O 6 year, of which the imperial treasury must pay more than $350.00O,O00 in or der to meet the annual deficit. Colossal as is the failure of the unemployment insurance system to be self lf-sustaining, even It's sever- est critics admit that it has re- duced revolutionary tendencies te minimum. If that be granted, British capitalism has been itself insured by unemployment insur- ance against the growth of com munism. Yet, after all, unemploy- ment insurance in Britain was not originated by the labor party, but by Winston Churchill when he was home secretary in the liberal gov ernment of 20 years ago.
 The so-called social services, however, expensive as they may be, whether in Britain, Germany or the United States, are hardly comparable in cost with the mili- tary services. Great Britain could easily carry the social services, in- cluding the abnormal unemploy- ment demands, if expenditures on the military establishment could be substantially reduced. Last year the British government spent 15,00O,0O0 on the army and the navy. Fortunately, British naval policy no longer requires the main tenance of a fleet strong enough to whip any other two navies com. bined. Yet the financial drain Of defense remains tremendous, and 1t is more accountable than the governments enlarged social serv- ices for the growing weakness Of government finance. If democracy in Great Britain suffers shipwreck. democracy cannot be held wholly | responsible.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-08-06

When private business has deficit, it begins to cast around for ways and means to increase its earning power or decrease its overhead. Now that our Federal gov ernment is facing gigantic deficit. many of our lawmakers are chiefly concerned with how to increase taxes Tax gatherers overlook the simple fact that in times of distress the more taxes that are taken from the people, the less money there is for pro- ductive enterprise. And it is from pro- ductive enterprise that all taxes and em- ployment must eventually come. Industries and individuals have been readjusting them selves to present conditions. Let tax levying bodies follow the same course or admit to the people that they are incompetent to adjust government expenditures to govern ment income.