The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1931-10-15

All of Washington is sitting up and
taking notice of a proposal to cut the
wages of federal employees. The
reason that all of Washington is pay
ing attention to such a matter is be-
cause all of the people here either
draw salaries from the government or
they live off money which is spent by
government workers. Reduction in
wage scales of federal employees
would naturally have a grave effect
on the prosperity of this community
which is at present the least affected
| by depression of any place that
know of, thanks to the money contri-
buted by the people of other parts of
the country.
President Hoover, it is confidently
believed, does not wish to see wages
of Uncle Sans workers diminished,
in spite of the fact that number of
big industries have announced drastic
wage cuts. The general belief is that
should the government put inches in
its wage scales, employers throughout
the country would be encouraged to
go and do likewise and that this
would only contribute to the prolong
alton of the period of depression.
Another topic of keen interest here,
in the shadow of the United States
! Capitol, is the wet and dry issue,
upon which the American Legion in
national convention focused the spot
light at Detroit. Congress will come
into session again in early December
and many here are of the opinion that
/ there will be some interesting battles
on the floors of the Senate and the
House of Representatives over the
! proposal to legalize the manufacture
and sale of real beer. The consensus
of opinion, however, is that it will be
quite impossible to get Congress to
submit the matter of a referendum
on the prohibition question in its en-
tirety to the people of the United
States. The new Congress will
scarcely be wet enough for such a
purpose.
\ The Department of Agriculture
here has not forgotten the boys who
went from its service to fight for the
flag in 1917 and 1918. A great bas-
relief marble memorial has been
erected in the court of the main build
ing of the Department for those who
! fell in the World War. A soldier and
sailor are standing at present arms,
facing a tablet bearing the names OF
! the fallen agricultural heroes.
The government has lots of exa-
limitations for all of it's citizens, white,
black, red, and yellow, but sometimes
| it desires only persons Of one partic-
ullar race. Examinatio for such
post have been announced Tor October
when tests will be held for those de-
string to become senior medical tech
nicians in bacteriology at $4,000 a
year. The position is open for the
Veterans Administration Hospital at
Tuskegee, Alabama, the center of
noticeably colored population.
1t has come to pass that there are
too many statues and monuments in
Washington, judging from the opin-
ion of U. S. Grant, who is direct
or of the Office of Public Buildings
and Public Parks in Washington. He
/ says that civic bodies are asking for
permission to erect further monu-
ments in newly created parks,
squares, circles, and triangles in
Washington, and he emphasizes the
ments serve their purpose, on the
other hand the capital city really
needs these new areas for breathing
spaces. However, a few memorials
will undoubtedly be raised. One Of
these will be for Samuel Gompers,
long the president of the American
Federation of Labor. This is to cost
one hundred thousand dollars Colonel
Grant emphasizes another point and
that is one which / have frequently
harped upon myself,-that Washing
ton people and visitors here should
more carefully study the monuments
in the city, to the end that they may
know the men and women for whom
they were placed in position and why
they were deemed worthy of thus be-
ing remembered.
Oh, by the way, this U. S. Grant is
a grandson of the u. S. Grant who
was the successful Northern leader in
the Civil War and later president of
the United States.
Cities and villages in this part of
OF the country are old. There is, for
instance, the little village of La
Plata, Maryland. In October it viii
j celebrate it two hundredth anniver-
sary with . fitting historical pageant.