The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1932-04-14

the rural sections pay for greediness
Law Enforcement
IT HE utter inability of law enforcing agencies in
heavily populated to cope with organized
crime has been brought to public attention clear
ly through the Lindbergh kidnapping.
While rural sections are prey to bank robbers, and
petty thieves, law enforcement agencies able to
arrest drive the criminals to thicky populated
There they live in luxury under the very of
police.
This state of affairs is partly due to corrupt city
officials while honest officials hindered by the pro-
lection their colleagues lend by complicated law
codes which make difficult to bring the apprehended
criminal to justice
Where officers are known to the voters who elect
them the process of eliminating the inefficient and the
dishonest is simple In cities where politics
trolls their appointment, much reform is needed
Student Drinking
TAIRMoNT, Minnesota, was shaken this week
when seventeen-year-old high school student was
arrested for selling liquor to fellow classmate
An investigation by county officials followed
The Fairmont Sentinel, edited by fearless Major
Nelson, demands and apparently will get an airing for
the whole affair, protecting far possible the
youths involved but Furnishing the cafe owners dance
hall propretors and bootleggers who are responsible
officials, wherever they exist.
1t has been disclosed that booteggers sell their
wares near the campus, the campus and in
the school buding that school children of both
drink and smoke both the campus and off; that
drinking parties at all hours of the night are common
and that high school students are frequently seen
toxicated in public places at late hours.
Another "Cure'
II He St. Paul Pioneer Press, metropolitan news
] paper which hold in high esteem, this week
came forward with depression wrecking scheme,
which, while in line with that papers commendable
independent policies appears nevertheless to be as
workable the hundreds of others advanced in
months
The Press plan to elect Calvin Cool dge as presi-
dent and Alfred E. Smith vice president in 'nation
before party" movement is startingly new. But like
all other cures it lacks practicabity It's chance of
adoption is woefuly slight and even if the election
could be accomplished the chances of any good COM
ing from it seem remote.
Perhaps, however it points to one of the foremost
weaknesses of government in that it forgets that
most of Americans in an abstract way but Re-
pubicans, Democrats and Farmer-Laborites in more
active Only occasionally in the face of war are
called upon to give lives and money-then we stress
Americansm. At other times we kick the government
at every turn, complain, dstrust condemn Our party
feeling is shown before each election when get
excited over platforms and candidates. did when
less frequent real danger threatened.
Stronger even than party lines are our feelings
on other questions which sometimes split party ranks
tariffs, prohibition, race, nationality, religion
We have waited too long for parties and govern
ment to return prosperity is time realize that
we ourselves must bring that abou-with the aid of
Time The government didn't bring on this depression
taxes and tariffs may have been factors war and war
debts helped but the fundamental cause is a greedy
world, speeding outputs and profits urging sales on
persons with little ability to pay mortgaging incomes
Tor months and to dispose of todays manufact-
nres giving little thought to the future allowing
duction to outstrip distribution.
Reconstruction corporations, coalitions all the
other means governments may devise to bring pros
perty back again drops in the bucket. They are
worthwhile adjusting steps, serve to restore con-
hdence and get by the dangerous places but when
prosperity returns, it surely will it will be time
and individual effort that brings it.