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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31

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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31
Mrs. Mary Tonak, 76,
|. Pioneer Of Shutdown
.y Township, Succurnbs

Funeral services were held May 81
at the Christ Lutheran church in
Wanda for Mrs. Mary Tonak, 76,
pioneer resident of the county, who
died May 10. Rev. William j. Lang
holz oficiated and burial was in the
family cemetery at the homestead.
Mrs. Tonak suffered slight stroke
October 25, 1888 and more severe
one few days later. She was confin-
ed to her bed several months.
Maria Tonak was born at Marine,
Minnesota, May IL, 1858. She was bap-
tzed and confirmed in the Lutheran
church. When she was eight, she
moved with her parents to Farming
ton, Wisconsin, where she was mar
ried to August Tonak, April 2, 1872.
They moved to Shutdown township
and made their permanent home there.
In 1897 they observed their silver an
niversary and in 1922 their golden
wedding. Mr.. Tonak died February "a
of the following year.
Twelve children were born, two of
whom died in infancy. The surviving
are, August of Osceola, Wisconsin,
Mrs. William Douglas, (Anna) of
Lamberton; Mrs. William Kuske
(Caroline) Of Osceola, Wisconsin;
Mrs. Joeph Bellig, (Emma) of Man.
kato; Mrs. August Bloedow Mary
of near Wanda; Mrs. Ben Christensen
(EaSa) Of Wabasso; Mrs. William
Clarken (Bertha) Of Redwood Falls;
William at home; Mrs. Walter Basel
(Minnie) of Agar, South Dakota and
Herman of Clements.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31

June Wnen MISS harriet MelgeS Will
be among those who will be gradual
ed.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. R. Windgate en-
tertained a number of relatives at
their home Sunday. Included in the
group were Mrs. C. H. Wingate, Mr..
and Mrs. Morris H. Wingate, Mr.. and
Mrs. John H. Wingate, Mr.. and Mrs.
Lloyd Rasmussen and daughter, judi
it'll Bell, Mr.. and Mrs. E.. A. SERVER
and Miss Mary Louise SERVER, C. E.
Riebeth and daughter, Jane and Clair
Haseriek all of Minneapolis and T. R.
Hill of New York City.
A family reunion was held Mem
orial day at the j. Albert johnson
home when the guests were Mr.. John
sons father. J. B. Johnson, and Mr..
and Mrs. Otto johnson and children
Of Grygla, Mr.. and Mrs. George john
son and family of Scandal, Mr.. and
Mrs, E. G.. johnson and Miss Lucille
johnson Of Hendricks, Mes. Phter
Nancy Of Edmonton, Canada and Mrs.
George Bake of Wa1es, North Dako-
All yS.JS siy5ss
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31
PROBATE COURT CALENDAR

Claims in the estates of John AL
fred Johnson, Carl Boelke and Hans
C. Christopherson, Probate of Will
in the estates Of Albert C. Spalding,
Luella Turrell, Julius Maker; Admin
istration in the Irving B. Engelhart,
C. H. Grouse, Mary Jane Clancy,
Carl Meyer and Jennie 2. Rawlings
estates; Decree of Correction in the
Hans Larson estate; Final Account
in the estate of Emma Knueppel,
Damase A. Frechette and Mathilda
Belisle and Petition to Mortgage in
the Hedge o. Hegdal and Elizabeth
Kerby estates.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31
SPRINKLINC LAWNS.
PROHIBITED, WATER
SUPPLY IS SHORT
Fire Danger Cited; DrOuth
Causes Flow From Springs
to Drop Below Normal

Continued drouth and the danger
of water shortage caused the water
committee of the city council to issue
an order Tuesday prohibiting further
sprinkling Of lawns.
Members said the situation is not
yet serious but they feel every pre-
caution should be taken and every
effort made to conserve water as
springs which furnish the city pro-
duce a smaller supply in dry years.
The order is in line with request
made Monday by J. M. :Corbett, fire
chief, that great care be taken to pre-
vent fires. A serious. FIRE would place
a severe burden on the water supply
at this time. E'E-1
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31
Second Wild Cat Put.
In Ramsey State Park

Ramsey State park now has two
wild cats besides number of other
animals and birds.
The second untamed kitten was re-
ceived last week by Waldo Marsh,
park superintendent and came from
about the same place from where the
first one was received-the hills in
Texas. IN
Considerably wilder than the frst,
extra caution had to be prac-
ticed by the men as they placed him
in the cage with the other one.
Mr.. Marsh said the first cat was
so tame that he now can walk into
the same cage with it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31
Poppy Sale Returns /
Good in Scenic CITY

I. Total poppy sales in Redwood Falls
Saturday exceeded those Of last year.
, The American Legion melted $76.75
which was less than in 1893 when
about $85 was collected. The Veterans
of Foreign wars sales yielded $63.80
compared with $50 last year. The v.
F. w. also conducted a sale in Nor
gan when 5000 was collected. The
Girl Scouts sold the v. F. w. peoples
and Campfire Girls handled Legion
sales.
Officials of both posts issue thanks
to the public for its support.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31
GETS LIGHTS CONTRACT

Duncan's Radio and Electric shop
has been awarded the contract for
wiring and installing the ornamental
lights on the bridge under construc-
ton here. Considerable material and
a months work will be required.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31

Mrs. G.. "A. Alexander who had her
tonsils removed at Fairmont Thurs
day, returned here Friday.
Rex Gales came from Minneapolis
Tuesday evening to spend Memorial
day with his grandmother, Mrs. E.
Schildmecht and his father, G. :. F.
Gales.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1934-05-31
TODAY LAST DAY
L. p. WINTER

Taxes must be paid May 81 and
penalties will go on as provided by
law June /, A. P. Falk, county treas
urer, stated this week. The Gazette
enormously stated June / was the
last day in story last week.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-19
Wheeler and WOOlSey
In Hips, Hips Hooray'
Ruth Etting, Dot Lee, Thelma Todd
Aid and Abet Comics In Nonsensical
Tour Among Fun, Beautiful Girls
And Melody

A gay and hilariously insane saga
Of two slap-stickian heroes who let
the world laugh with, for and at them
while they peddle favored lipsticks,
participate In cross country auto
mobile race, make love to beautiful
girls and wise-crack gaily, is Hips,
Hips. Hooray." RKO-Radio Pictures
musical extravaganza starring Bert
Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, with
Ruth Etting. Dorothy Lee and Thelma
Todd featured.
Hips, Hips, Hooray" comb n S
laughter, music and gorgeous girls In
SIS tomfoolery. Wheeler and Wool
eey are seen as cosmetic statesmen
whose office is the city street. BY a
stroke OF luck, they find themselves
promoting the sale of Miss Frisby's
beauty preparations. Soon, Woolsey
Is falling In love with the dangerous
Miss Frisby. Wheeler is falling In
love with her assistant, Daisy, and the
world is falling in love with favored
lipsticks.
Their luck runs smooth until George
NASSAC1s tAAC OO9lCSIA0 u1d1ldScI, JuLS
his sweetheart Ruth and forms de-
signs on Daisy. He frames the boys
to get rid Of them, making them the
innocent thieves Of $4,000. To escape
detection they flee In q racing car
which Is entered In cross continen-
I'll raco. The climax = crammed
with Incidents said to set an audience
bowling.
''Hips, Hips, Hooray" features an
aggregation Of beautiful blondes,
br1lnettes and redheads selected fo9
their beauty Of face and figure which
aro shown IN the spectacularly gilt
teEing dance sequences.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-19
AT THE MOVIES
Famous Beauties
In Cantor Film
Broadway's Loveliest Shine In Front
Line Chorus Of Roman Scandals

The Broadway show girl Is still the
supreme beauty Of them all.
Hollywood is said to be the center
of feminine pulchritude at the mo-
ment, but seven New York girls will
be seen In the front line chorus OF
Samuel Goldwyn's new Eddie Cantor
musical screen production for United
Artists release, Roman Scandals"
showing today. Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday at the Paramount
theater.
There will be l0l girls in the "Ro-
man Scandals chorus. girls from
Maine to Texas and Oregon to Flor
ida, but the front line will be held
down by Katharine Mauk, Rosalie
Fromson. Mary LANCE. Vivian Keefer,
Barbara Pepper, Theo Plane and Luz
cille Ball.
The seven beauties are known
throughout the length and breadth Of
the land as the models for the most
famous poster and magazine adver-
tisement artists In the United States.
Scandals Song Hits
The numbers are Keep Young and
Beautiful" Build . Little Home
and TAX on Love-" The first two
were written by Al Dublin and Harry
Warren, while on the last Warren COL
laborated with L. Wolfe Gilbert.
mo More Love-" the plaintive bal
lad crooned by Ruth Etting Of radio
and ziegfeld Follies fame in the spec
tacular Slave Market sequence Of THU
United Artists release, was also writ
ten by the Dublin and Warren team.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-19

international trade i at present
hopelessly clogeed With tariffs, peol,i-
billions, enbaTgoes. quotas ana special
restrictions Cofdell Hull, SECRETARY q
state.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-02-19

/ Try 70 80 the terrible consequences
/ md then avoid what I am facing
lneW- Gordon Alcorn. convicted kid
Evening star., 1934-04-15
The Senate Tax Bill.

Swollen to twice its original size the
new revenue bill has finally been
passed by the Senate. AS amended by
the Senate the measure is calculated
to raise $3.50, 100000 additional reve-
nue., or 1920, 900 900 more than the bill
which the House passed. 1t has be-
come a major revenue bill as con-
trasted to a measure which was pro-
jected merely to close the holes in the
existing law. What the House will do
with the Senate amendments remains
to be seen. The bill doubtless will be
sent to conference. Much may de-
pend upon the attitude of President
Roosevelt. If the Chief Executive de-
cides that the country needs the addi-
tional revenue and casts his weight
behind the Senate amendments, they
may be accepted, although there are
members of the House who look with
considerable dlStaste upon this swollen
tax bill. Particularly do they object
to the Couzens amendment by which
a special levy of ten per cent is added
to each income taxpayers bill which
must be paid on income derived this
year.
The Congress passed the inde-
pendent Offices appropriation bill over
the Presidents veto. In his message
to the Congress on that measure,
which provided more literally for vet.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
John Bulls Surplus.

When Neville Chamberlain, chan
cellor of the exchequer, presents his
budget to the House of Commons on
April II it will be his privilege to
report that the British treasury is
the proud possessor of a surplus of
f31, ,148, 900. It is not only the biggest
surplus Britain has had for ten years,
but compares to deficit Of E32 ,279 900
a year ago. The result was accom-
plished not only by rigid economy, but
by unprecedented sacrifices by tax
payers. government workers and un-
employed ever since the nations
financial situation became acute in
1881.
To effect the budget status now
achieved taxpayers endured the burden
ut income taxes at the basic rate of
Is per cent, civil service employees
suffered a 10 per cent pay cut and
the jobless had their meager insurance
benefits reduced 10 per cent.
To the treasury's surprise its income
during the past year appreciably ex-
ceeded estimates, while expenditures
fell. Estate duties from large for
Evening star., 1934-04-15

Grams and for Government workers,
the President pointed out that it
would throw the Government budget
out Of kilter. Administration leaders
indicated that the President might de-
mand additional taxation to care for
these increased payments to veterans
and Government workers. Well, here
is the additional taxation, if the
President feels that way about the
matter.
The effort of the Senate has been
to levy most Of this increased taxa
ton on wealth." on the people who
have the most means. However, the
special ten per cent increase in the
income tax bills which is called for
by the Couzens amendment will reach
the man who pays small income tax
as well as the man who pays a large
one, and perhaps more heavily. The
tax rates on estates have been greatly
increased and the exemption, now
$4,000. has been lowered to $40 1000.
Before the Senate finally passed the
bill it adopted the La Toilette amend
ment making all income tax returns
public records. The vote stood Al to
"a. A similar amendment was adopted
by the Senate when the tax provisions
of the recovery act was before that
body last year. In the conference
that followed the amendment was
changed so as to give the President
full authority to deal with the ques-
ton of publicity of income tax returns.
Nothing whatever has been done by
President Roosevelt about the matter,
however, up to the present time. Sen
ator La Toilette contended, others
agreeing with him, that if the income
tax returns were made public records.
there would be no such abuses or eva
Sions Of the income tax law as we're
brought to light during the Senate
inquiry into New York financial in
stitutions, revelations that shocked
the country.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Nanny Songs Broadway Never Heard
BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN.

cial assistance was Aunt Hulda, a
Negro nanny, who, at the time, was
104 years Of age.
Prof. Lomax has had his most con-
spicuous success in jails in the deep
South. He has found that in Louis
lana and Mississippi, for example,
there are Negroes in the jsils who.
lacking all literacy and being fairly
well content with their lot, spend
their time in singing songs never
heard on Broadway. He found his
richest material among lifers-older
Negroes who had been in Jail since
before such blackface Ministries of
another race as Al Jolson and Eddie
Cantor began their careers; in some
cases before such composers of Negro
songs as Irving Berlin and Jerome
Kern were born.
The younger convicts had been, in
many cases, contaminated by hearing
American jazz and Broadway nanny
songs. But the older prisoners were
the leaders and Prof. Lomax has been
remarkably successful in obtaining
recordings. He has obtained solos,
duets, quartets and larger groups.
In one case. the singing of an entire
church congregation was recorded.
Many Difficulties Encountered.
Acoustics has sometimes proved a
problem in this work. Prison walls
are likely to produce too much of an
echo; that is, they confine the music
straitly as they do the prisoner, and
the Prisoners Song" must have the
wings of an angel to fly accurately
into the recording microphone with
out discordant trammelingS. On q
prison farm a fairly good arrange
ment was made by taking recordings
| in a barn the walls of which were
lined with hay. The hay prevented
echoing but, on the other hand, pre-
vented Just the right degree of
resonance, with the result that the
music, though clear, was little fat.
The Archive of American Folk
Song has made great progress with its
collection OF songsters-printed song
books of early days. About 1000 of
these, published between 184O and
1890. have been collected.
Study of the material has developed
several quite definite conclusions. The
lAA oL VI IIlt INeSIU Cll lLl6
American stage had to do with
the rhythm of the dance rather than
with song. One very curious develop
ment was that the first attempts of
white actors TO burlesque Negroes had
a paradoxical repercuSsion. Negroes,
when they first began to appear,
thought the thing to do was to imi-
tate their white initators. All this
confused the issue materially, but the
Negroes were slaves and they felt it
necessary to f1atter the white actors
by initiating their somewhat feeble
limitations.
The archives collection includes
not only Negro songs but also early
songs Of the white people of both
mountain and plain and, quite con-
spicuously, sea chanteys. 1t has been
discovered, however. that many sea
chanteys thought to be of consider
able antiquity actually were first
heard on the stage and were taken to
sea, rather than the reverse. The
collection includes whistling tunes,
fiddling tunes and other early in
Strumentalizatlons
The Archive of American Folk
Song is dignified but vastly more in
teresting cousin of Tin Pan Alley.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

tunes are always windfalls for the
exchequer. During l933-34 they pro-
duced EDS 5,250,000.
The new British tariff also proved
a gold mine, accounting for $780,
600 900 in revenue, substantial excess
over what was counted on. Post Office
and stamp receipts Of all sorts sur
passed expectations, rejecting trade
recovery during the year.
The British rendered f3,250, 900 in
token payments" on their debt to
the United States during the late
budget year and, in addition, turned
f7,750.000 into statutory sinking funds.
The total of f11,0oO,0OO was easily
found out of an equivalent sum saved
on fixed debt charges.
Chancellor Chamberlain is now
cogitating over methods for distribut-
ing the benefits accruing from his
surplus. 1t is taken for granted that
he will reduce the income tax by
six pence in the pound, or ten per
cent of the present rate of five shil-
lings. 1t is also hoped that he will
restore the economy cuts and still
have a balance on hand to cover
higher appropriations for the army,
navy and air force.
Britains surplus is almost exactly
accounted for by the fact that she
made only token" payments on her
American debt. Scheduled to pay
$l82,5OO,OOO in 1888 installments she
actually rendered only $l7,500, 900.
Figured at the current rate of ex-
change, the debt saving works out
as slightly over f32 100000, roundly
the budget surplus now reported.
Britain having always paid her debt
installments out of German repara-
tions, debt payments ceased to figure
in British budgets when reparations
no longer were received.
Evening star., 1934-04-15

All the fact-flnding commissions
and investigative bodies of the Fed
eral Government probably are not do
ing as lasting work as a fractional
little division of the Library Of Con-
gress known as the Archive Of Amer
ican Folk Song. Under the direction
OF r. w. Gordon, the archive is at
tempting to assemble a complete
library of what is technically termed
the oral literature of the Nation. 1t
is a collection not only of song books,
but Of photographic records repro
ducing folk songs which never have
been put on paper. 1t is believed by
the enthusiasts assisting in the un-
dertaking that when such pretentious
documents as, for instance, the Wick
ersham report or the N. r. A. code
hearings, have been utterly forgotten,
the American people will retain a
lively interest in folk songs.
The work has double fascination
the fascination of book collecting in
a particular field and the fascination
held by an unusually intimate study
of the ethos of a people. For example,
few book collectors there are who
would not envy the experience Of the
Library Of Congress in coming into
possession of what might be termed a
first edition of Dixie. The archive
now has an undoubted first t-printed
version of that most characteristic of
sectional national airs. AS an indica-
tion of the chronological interest in
volved, 1t can be stated that the
archive has found fascinating ex-
types Of very early folk songs on the
American stage, on literature and
even on the thought of the people
Some of the work being done is not
greatly different from the work of an
archaeological explorer. 1t has been
found that after 1840 the Negro had
been listening long enough to the
music of white men, sung in StanZa
form, to be influenced by that form.
The modern Negro spirituals, that is,
those only about century old, have
fallen pretty much into the Stanzaic
form. But exploration has come upon
remote peoples still singing the nom
stanzaic forms which prevailed before
1840.
In Missouri, folk song explorers
have found people, separated by
mountain ranges from the great plan
tations and very remote from civiliza-
ton Of most Of the South, who still
chant the non-stanzaic type of spirit
uals. These people neither read nor
write. They know absolutely nothing
of written music, indeed. are unaware
there is any method of writing music.
Obviously, then, there is no way Of
obtaining absolutely correct records
save by actually recording the sounds
uttered.
Prison Segregation Preserves Songs.
Mrs. Betty Winger made one of the
most fascinating explorations. She
found that Negroes in West Virginia,
Virginia and Kentucky mountain dis
trictS were singing songs which, while
obviously Of purely Negro origin, were
certainly very unlike the Negro songs
most generally known. 1t was dis
covered that the Negroes of these
Appalachian regions traced their
memories back to the Ozark Noun
tains Of Missouri A trip was made
there and the very fountain head of a
non-stanzaic type of Negro song was
discovered deep in the hills. OF spe-
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Voters Will Determine the Trend of
The New Deal Toward "RevOlutiOn''

with part or full-time work in fac
tory trade, craft or forest. Not much
cash is needed because of the chance
to grow foodstuffs.
In the projects that particularly in
tereSt Mrs. Roosevelt, the subsistence
homesteads are to be grouped around
a factory that will provide cash in
come for the residents part of the
year. All are simply demonstration
projects, but as such they point the
way to communistic development, ac-
cording to Dr. Writ. Whether this
view is generally accepted will be de-
cided by the voters.
Or. again, take the land-buying
problem. 1t fits into this same pic
ture. Very shortly now. the Federal
Surplus Relief Corporation will be
using the first of a s25,000,000 allot-
ment to buy submarginal lands that
at best provide a scant existence for
their farmers. These lands then are
to be retired from use as farms and
turned into forests, parks, recreation
centers, or game refugees.
The country now is spending at the
rate of nearly $1,000, 100000 a year
to reduce farm production in order
to take up the slack caused by the
loss of foreign markets. With that
money it readily could buy up and
retire huge tracts of poor farm land.
But the Federal Government is
moving slowly, seeking only to
demonstrate what can be done and
then to let the people decide whether
or not they want it done. 1t is this
planning that constitutes the "revo-
luton" as DR.. Writ sees it.
The way Rexford Guy Tugwell,
leading member of the brain trust,
sees it, is shown in the following
statement. He said:
The Federal Government will, I
believe, perform two functions with
respect to our land in the future.
1t will directly hold and administer,
as public forests. parks, game pre-
serves, grazing ranges, recreation CEN
ters and the like, all areas which
cannot at the time be effectively
operated under private ownership. And.
it will control the private use of the
areas held by individuals to whatever
extent is found necessary for main
tanning continuous productivity. 1t
is only by conceiving the Government
in this double active and supervisory
role that we can expect to attain a
permanent system of agriculture.
A national land program as COM
prehensive as this has not yet been
undertaken. Past developments, how
ever, have demonstrated the inef-
fectiveness of a land system which
depends wholly on private manage
ment"
But nobody in Washington expects
that the projects now contemplated
will do more than point the way for
longtime development of a planned
use of land. If they do not like the
plans, there will be time for the people
to upset them at the polls.
(Copyright, 1934)