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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
Gypsies Again

NNE certain sign of spring is the return
\ J of stories such as appeared in news
papers recently under such headlines
as this farmer robbed of $75 by gypsy"
These thieving bands rove through the
country from season to season, spending the
warmer months in the northern states, the
winter in the south. Most towns drive them
on as fast as they come, yet they steal and
graft cleverly enough to avoid all work and
live in comfort
If they steal and the theft is reported,
they flee. If they are caught they give back
the money and are allowed to go on. No
city can afford to Jail them because it would
simply take on the task of feeding them.
Fines are Of little use. It would seem that
federal authorities could take hand and
ship them back to the foreign land from
which they came.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
Tables Turned

~ RDINARILY business and profession
al men from the smaller towns gather
- in the big cities once or twice year
IN he informed on the latest trends IN their
line. profit by the experience OF their city
cousins and take something back, second
hand. with which to startle the natives;
But the situation was reversed last
week when 500 Chicago merchants, mem,
hers of the Executives club, gathered around
Fred w. Andersen, owner of department.
store in Cozad, Nebraska, town OF only
800 souls to learn from him how ne 6ullt
no an annual volume of 100000 IN nag
stop village. -. ,;d
Mr.. Andersen must have gotten conslo-
cradle pleasure out of his unique distinction
vet the message he brought was the OBVIOUS
one that most dealers learn sooner or later
when the other fellow or the other town be-
oins to get all the business. He SAID:
Advertise: It's the lifeblood OF every
business. It's personal contact-ike long
distance phone call to your customer WIN u
the charge reversed. In my hick town
found it pays. It can change your break
fast food, change your wearing apparei'
make YOU buy a new radio. The man VINO
won't learn that ought to be advertised aS
Joo1O
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11

undoubtedly consume much Of the
remaining session is a bulky af-
fair of SO pages. In several hours
of. study over the weekend / was
able to digest only 32 pages of its
contents. 1t includes the follow
ing major items:
L. Increases gross earnings tax
en- telephone companies from four
to six per cent; on freight lines
from six to seven per cent and on
sleeping car earnings from five to
six per cent.
2. Higher income and inherit
ance taxes-but not high enough.
8. A special sales tax of two
per cent on all electrical energy,
natural or artificial gas, tele-
phone rentals and telephone ex-
change service.
4. A tobacco tax which includes
one cent for each seven cents of
retail price on cigarets; on other
kinds of tobaccos the tax is ten
per cent of the retail price but at
least one cent on a five cent cigar.
Cigaret papers would pay one cent
pack.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
Time to Act

.ERSONS who have been sketching ana
making mental pictures OF improve
ments they hope to make about their
home or business place this summer may be
wise to bring their plans to completion and
arrange for skilled workmen before it IS TOO
late.
Several contractors consulted in the
last few days tell us that if any reasonable
part of the jobs quite definitely planned by
various citizens reach the building stage,
they will not have an idle moment from now
until snow flies again next November.
improvements big and small, some
made possible by loans and others to be
maid for from cash on hand, are more than
likely to materialize this summer, partly
because the depression has caused neglect
of property and partly because of the agita-
ton and encouragement to builders by the
loaning agencies. Once the fellow next door
decides he needs new porch or an attic
bedroom, the spell is broken and every pro-
perry owner in the neighborhood contem-
plates improvements.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
THURSDAY. APRIL II. 1885

5. An accommodation tax of
three per cent to be charged for
use of all rooms and other facili-
ties at hotels, restaurants, dining
rooms, lunch rooms, etc.
6. A general sales tax of three
per cent on all retail sales, ex-
empting however all foods except
candy, coffee, tea and cocoa pro-
ducts. No tax on a sale less than
nine cents; nine cents to 40c, one
cent; 40 cents to 20 cents, two
cents; above 70 cents, three cents.
z. A check tax Of two cents.
8. An admission tax of ten per
cent on all admission charges to
places of amusement and enter
tainment.
This, in brief, is a skeleton out
line of the present measure. 1t
will certainly be partially chang
ed on the house floor. The sales
tax feature which proposes to
raise about one-haf Of the total
revenue will probably be reduced
some and other features as in
comes and inheritances raised.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
Crime Methods

\ GOOD many of it's other faults will be
~ forgiven gladly if the legislature acts
favorably on several worthwhile sug-
gestions to expedite the handling of GRIM
inal cases and insure justice being done in a
greater number of cases.
These suggestions come from an able
committee appointed two years ago which
made careful study of the entire crime
situation, the development of the criminal
and how it can be prevented, discouraging
crime catching the criminal more quickly
and bringing him to trial which is fair yet
does not allow an opportunity to produce
fake alibi witnesses and employ other such
methods to get him off, even to putting some
curb on turning enemies of society loose on
the slightest pretense.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
Accurate Maps

TN ONE of Mark Twain's immortal books,
either Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn,
which most Of us enjoyed as youngsters,
was Negro character who expressed his
doubts about the accuracy of maps and
charts, his idea being that unless they were
taken from the air, and there were no air.
planes in the days of Twain's writings, they
just couldn't be accurate.
Yet maps haven't changed great deal
since long before the days of Mark Twain
and while their preparation is pretty much
a mystery to the layman, we have come to
respect their accuracy, even to the slightest
turn in the road or bend in river.
1t is interesting now to discover that
at last the sky view method suggested by
the old lower Mississippi roustabout is to
be employed and doubly interesting because
such map is to be made of Redwood coun-
ty. Planes lowering over Redwood county
farms this summer will employ the ever ac-
curate camera to snap views of the lands
below, the many pictures to be pieced to-
gether into townships and townships into
the county.
Besides the practical use for AAA pur-
poses which prompts it's making, the map
will no doubt be used as an example of what
can be done in this field Of photography and
Redwood county is slated to receive publ
city far and wide from the experiment, a
publicity which all who call this county
"home" will profit by and enjoy.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11

planning about the racket. And
was Bill scared until he discover
ed that Oscar was merely anus
ing himself and Elmer Helgeson
who had asked him down for
scrambled eggs.
$
Notice to Gullible Gift Givers:
Gene Charlebois' birthday is not
until November. He is just cele-
brating for the sheer joy of cele-
brating.
s.
Our friend Guy Simons at Nor
ton tells US he's such a good hunt
er that he has to put salt in his
gun so that the game he shoots
won't spoil before he gets to it.
Maybe it's living on the prairie
that has given succeeding gener-
ations of Vesta newspapermen
such clear sight. Anyway, the
new paper there is called "The
vision" The one before was
1.-THE Censor" and the original
paper was "The Vesta Bright
Eyes" We're going to move over
and start publishing "Mary's My
opia."
$
Off to buy up some land we
think the city council can use.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
Sales Tax Alley

/ 'HE Minnesota legislature is at Lne
crossroads as far as the tax problem is
concerned. Pledged to relieve the burd-
en- on real estate, members can hardly turn
back up the road they have Travelled so
long. Instead they contemplate a ride up
sales tax alley, where every poor resident
can be hit for few pennies on what neces-
sites he must buy and what few luxuries
he can afford.
Steered away from the gross income
tax, the drastic increases proposed in the
income and inheritance levies and further
taxes on property, legislators have taken to
the air in series of frantic radio talks de-
signed to popularize the sales tax.
Much is being said about the great saw
ing to the property owner, the big help
likely to come to schools, the advantages OF
broadening the tax base and the contention
that residents of the three large cities will
bear the brunt of the burden, which must
be pleasant news to the latter.
Soft pedalled is the fact that sales tax
es are extremely expensive to collect, that
they extract more by far from the poor man
than the rich man, ability to pay consider
ed; that they are a constant grippe to the
man who pays and nuisance to the mer-
chant who must keep the governments split
separate on practically every sale made.
The sales tax is the laSL resort VI a
legislature too badly tangled with politics
and prejudice to think of more equitable
way to relieve the property owner without
depressing the poor.
Petitions objecting to practically every
phase of the omnibus tax bill have been
circulated and the signers include the bulk
of the voters. Votes at Farm Bureau meet
ings, by farmers who are supposed to proht
by the sale tax as replacement, have re-
suited in such overwhelming defeats for the
sales tax as 20 to 1 and IA to 2.
Farmer-Labor members are entitled to
credit for their fight against this form OF
taxation They will profit by their attitude,
whether the measure becomes law or not.
It is surprising that in our "non-partlsan
very partisan legislature, the opposition to
the administration has not awakened to the
fact that it is playing right into the hands
of the administration.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
1885 Ford Tudor
TOURING SEDAN

Besides the large capacity built-in trunk
which leaves the interior Of the car free for
passengers, this beautiful sedan has many
desirable features. Front seats are the COM
Portable bucket type. Drivers seat is easily
adjustable to leg length, doors open forward
and rustless steel running board moulding.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
@3ary's
Little &

This department found L Dit
benner knee deep in nuts and
bolts in his implement store the
other day. "The only thing I
like about my new location is the
view of Billy Hauck across the
street." he said
s.
Herman Werder says that the
times are getting better and pre-
diets that the Democrats will buy
us all stokers-just like the one
that Howard Sanders has.
s.
Someone tells us that Heinie
bought treats at the Rocks a few
weeks ago. Guess the boys clos
ed up out of sheer surprise.
$
Mrs. Steve Johnson is wonder
ing what became of her husbands
spats. Well bet he divided them
up between Fritz Pfeiffer, Fred
Anthony and Irl Starr for the
good of the masses.
$
Bill Wester is the Martyr Of
the Week. The other night Bill
was quietly visiting his girl when
Oscar Warner burst into the
house and got tough as only Oscar
can get tough. Oscars theme
was that the neighbors were COM
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11

and intelligent only through ex-
perience. By solving their local
township, school, tax and other
various problems they develop
that American independence and
knowledge which is so important
if a democracy is to succeed. The
gradual web which state and ma
tional governments are weaving
around local governmental agen-
cies should be curbed. If people
are to take interest in government
and make intelligent decisions,
and that is extremely necessary,
they need that experience garner
ed by a contact with local units.
Omnibus Tax Bill
The Omnibus tax bill which will
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
Backward Chances
so YEARS AGO


The city council ordered dozen street lamp Tbbetts D.
Whet and D. Bingham began apprasng the state lands the
COMMITTEEMAN Schmah opened drug store at Sank Center
Madison and Dawson competing the being the
Qu Pae county eatMiss Carrie Stenon married W.
Darby of Renville
Is YEARS AGO
Seveng all telephone and telegraph connections in the
bandits robbed the Seaforh bank early the morning of April r.
holding ppulace guns people awak
of three explosions of which the rob-
bers used blowing the safe The doors of the bank bar
raded and who ventud close threaenedEar
formerly of Redwood Falls suffered the loss OF both legs
below the when he in the switch
yards Oskaoosa formerly of Redwood
Falls named superintendent of schools at North ST. Paul
Joseph E. Mckay and G. Pease left for the west with
Canadian Seattle
Portland southern their itneraMss Luela Tur
re accepted position of English the high school at
Mitchell DakotaMs Huhnerkoch left join her
husband Alberta licenses issued to Fred
Barsch Marea Schuman Morgan; John Pock and Their
Kzenbger of Seaorh Robert Fenger and Anna Fumer
Willow Hans c. Johnson Sophia Lndqu of Char
lestown.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
Too Honest

Under the provisions of the Universal
Draft act being sponsored by the American
Legion the entire citizenship of the nation
would be drafted in time of war. Not only
would the government draft able bodied
men between the ages of 18 to IS to serve
in the army, but the government would
draft labor, capital and industry to serve
where and when needed. The munition
plants would be taken over by the govern
ment and munition workers and technicians
and executives would serve for the same
wages paid the army. Every other war
necessity would be modified for govern
ment and war service The entire country
would be put on war footing at once and
the chances for war profiteering would dis
appear. 1t is extremely doubtful if the
measure will ever pass any congress, how
ever. It is too honest measure to ever
become law. Capital will oppose it and
there seems to be tendency on the part OF
organized labor to oppose the measure. Sci
fishness is universal and the capitalist
wants more in one second and the laborer
more day then the fighting man will re-
ceive in month If the legion would make
the passage of the law the major objective
of the national organization it might be
passed over the objection of selfish interests
by an aroused public opinion. The passage
of the law would do more to prevent our be-
coming involved in war than all the treat
les signed by full dressed diplomats in the
history of the world. The interests in this
country seeking to cash in on blood would
be blocked and the efficiency of the measure
would do much to discourage other coun
tries from seeking an armed conflict Sum
NIT, Forest City, Iowa.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11
CAPITOL
SLANTS
BY John M. Zwach

After final limitation on debate
the house recently rallied the In
dependent Progressive forces and
passed the tax limitation bill, 80
to Al, partially carrying out the
campaign pledges of tax reform.
This simply means that at the
general election in 1886, the vot-
ers may have the opportunity to
say that the state shall no longer
tax real estate and personal pro-
perty for state purposes.
In the course Of the debate OPP
ponents, in their effort to kill the
measure, offered numerous amend
ments. Several of these, l
thought, were excellent offerings
and received my hearty support.
Among them was an amendment
allowing the legislature to tax
'farm chains" very similar to the
present form of chain store taxa
ton.
Gave F8rmS 10 Farmers
The crux of our agricultural
set-up is to bring the ownership
of the land back to the people re-
siding upon it. Under the home
stead law and other national leg
islation, the intent was that the
land should be parceled out to
small owners and thereby avoid
the system of large holdings and
estates prevalent in Europe.
If the legislature passes sales
tax it will mean that outside cor
porations owning many farms in
Minnesota will pay no tax on the
one-third, two-fifths or one-half
of the produce they receive or the
cash rent paid to them because
they spend no money here while
the renter will be paying sales
tax on perhaps all of his income
from the farm. A farm chain"
tax would allow an equalization
tax and at the same time encour-
age the resale of the land to the
tenant.
Another amendment of which l
was a supporter, but also defeat
ed, would allow state levy
against real estate by a three
fourths votes of the legislature.
This clause would be a safety
measure in case Of extreme emer-
/ gency. An amendment allowing
state levy against ore properties
was perhaps also reasonable but
it, too, fell before the ak Of legis-
lative votes.
A Start on Reform
Therefore, it seems to me, the
amendment as it shall appear is
not entirely satisfactory. 1t does,
however, offer the first real prom
Use of reform and if the taxes to
replace it can be justly worked
out so as not to fall too heavily
on those unable to pay without
extreme sacrifice, it points toward
the day when money will again
flow back into this class of pro
perty which would do much to al.
leviate unemployment and event
ually the depression.
i Perhaps / am somewhat old
/. fashioned in that / am still flrn
believer in local sef-government
1t is, therefore, with some alarm
that I view the attempts to taxi
away powers from the hands O.
local communities and centraliz'
them in the hands Of govern
ment hundreds and even thous
ands of miles away.
Judged by the seemingly ineffi
cheney and extravaganza OF bot
state and national government at
tempts to centralize schools, as
SCISSORS, roads and other hereto
fore local responsibilities in tn
hands Of the state are somewha
alarming. People become capabl
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1935-04-11

Huey Long says he may run Tor gov
ernor of Louisiana and again he may run for
president of the United States. And again
he NAV Just run.-Florida Times Union.
"Stable times are coming" says an ex-
change Possibly, but the horse has already
been stolen.
A reformer is person who wants you
to let his conscience be your guide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-15

with renewed delight; when the boy,
rebuked by his father for a INSIDE
meanor, plays the imaginary role of
policeman, thus incorporating with
in himself the authority which he
resents in his father.
Identification is a useful mech
anism by which human beings solve
tensions. When love and resent
ment are in conflict, as in the case
of the little boy subject to his
fathers authority, the resentment is
worked off by an imaginary as
sumption of the fathers role. Often
the child permanently retains the
fathers characteristics in his own
makeup to unconsciously influence
his choice of a profession in later
life.
Every one builds up a love image,
often largely based on the parents,
or if the parents are unsatisfactory
with their substitutes. The first per-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-15

Have you a question you would like to
have answered? Put it in letter to Jane
Jordan and read her comments in this
column.
Dear Jane Jordan-I have been
reading Modern Clinical Psy-
chiatry" by Arthur P. Noyes. He
speaks of identification as of two
types, one of introjection, in which
the person incorporates into his
own personality the elements of
another. Another type in which
we unconsciously identify one
image with another. D
1t seems to me that you have
mentioned in the column some
where that children identify
themselves with the parent. Is
this true? If so, is it a case of
introduction? Do children really
by this means adopt the ideas,
attitudes, feelings and character
istics of one of the parents? Will
you answer this in the column.
Answer have not read the book
you mention and hesitate to inter-
pref the authors meaning. There
can be no doubt but that children
model themselves largely after the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-15
Field Worker in
Education Heard
by Club Women

The Economic Values of Educa-
ton" as concerned with output,
number of persons involved, CAPT.
tai outlay, relation to other institu-
tions and Importance of the prod
uct we're explained to members of
the indianapolis Business and Pro-
fessional Women's Club last night
at a public relations meeting at the
Woman's Department Club.
Mrs. Charl Ormond Williams,
first vice president of the national
federation and field secretary of the
National Education Association,
enumerated resources, natural abil-
ity and education as the three fac
tors controlling per capita wealth
of the state and stressed the aSso-
cations creed, Better business
women for better business
world"
America will pay the bill either
IN education or in courts. iails or
refornatories." Mrs. Williams de-
clared.
Preceding the talk, candidates
names were posted for offices to be
filled at an election meeting in May
The yellow ticket is composed of
the following names:
For president. Genevieve Brown:
first vice president, Neil c. War
rem; second vice president, Grace
A. Speer: corresponding secretary,
Rae McKinniS; recording secretary,
Lillian Berkeley; treasurer, Clara E.
Dux; auditor, Lucille Maze and di-
rectorS, Agnes Cruise, Leona B.
Knight. Myrtle B. Munson and Al
ice Silloway.
The green ticket is headed by
Pearl A. Cook. for president; Sally
Butler. first vice president; Helen
L. DObbins, second vice president;
Luella A. Newport. corresponding
secretary; Adah Huber, recording
secretary; Hattie Thudium, treas
urer; WilmOth A. Benson, auditor,
and Retta Halsey. Nettie D. Jones.
FOrba Mcdaniel and Mary Stubs
Moore. directors.
Miss Louise Ford presided. and
among the special guests was Mrs.
Anna SteeSe Richardson, good cit
izenShip editor of the Womans
Home Companion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-15
Mothers Will Meet

Woodside Mothers Club of Indi-
annapolis Free kindergarten Society
will meet at the kindergarten Tues
day instead of Thursday as prev
iously scheduled. A discussion Of
II Find MY City Interesting" will
be held, followed by a white ele-
plant sale. HostesSeS will include
Mrs. James Bair. Mrs. Blythe Singer
and Miss Gertrude Elmer. Mrs
Frank Dietz will preside.