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The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

EXTRA CASH-Who couldn't
use some? Who hasn't many
things no longer used which other
persons would be quick to buy is
offered the opportunity Turn
those things into cash with a
GAZETTE want ad.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

FOR RENT-80 acre farm with
good buildings, for cash. Inquire
William Dunno, Vesta, MINI. 8-2p
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

FOR SALE-Feeder cattle, direct
from west. Will have several
shipments every weekend. In
quire at Renville Stockyards. 7-tf
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

FOR SALE-Eight room house, an
oil burner, 100 bushels corn, and
some wild and Alfalfa Hay.
Frank H. Schumacher, 123 Bridge
Street, Redwood Falls. 9-1t-pd.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

FOR canning Peaches,
Bushel $2.09; Potatoes, bushel 75c.
Melges Produce, Redwood Falls,
MINI. Git
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

FOR SALE-Two year old Here
ford bull. E. H. Payne. Redwood
Falls, Minnesota. -9-2ts-pd.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

PAINTING and PAPER HANG
ING Etc. Schumacher & Sons, 123
Bridge Street. Redwood Falls,
MINI. 9-1t-pd.
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

FOR SALE-My Farmall Tractor
with full equipment. See Ike
Bronsema, Delhi, Minnesota. Git
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

FOR SALE PIANO-We have a
customer near Redwood Falls un-
able to finish payments. Only
$47.5O left. Cash only. Write
Minneapolis Piano Shop, 2906
Humboldt No., Minneapolis. 8-4p
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

FOR SALE-Do you want to buy
a good improved farm? Come and
see me. L. G. Torgerson, the To-
Gator, 2O3 w. Maple Street, Aus
tin, Minnesota. SIP
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29
FOR SALE

FOR SALE Whitney Crabapples,
81 per bushel. John Welter, A
miles southwest of Morgan. 9-2tp
The Redwood gazette., 1935-08-29

INDIAN MOTORCYCLE for sale
or trade. Inquire at Gazette Of
flee. 8-2p
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
Looking at America
by GEN. HUGH S. JOHNSON

WASHINGTON April 3-The air of this
w town has become electric with tension
Touch the tap of friends talk and you may
get a cracking blue spark and perhaps a slight
shock You feel these things more clearly after
an absence Of two weeks than you do when you
live through their development.
The peace between labor and NRA is only a
truce for parley with both sides resting on their
arms The fate of the bill extending the recov-
cry act hangs by a thread as thin as goSsamer
It is the opinion Of many that if it came to a
vote tomorrow 1t would carry the Borah amend
ment maintaining the statutory ban against any
combination restraining trade. There is not a
code in the category that is not combination
restraining trade.
If the Borah amendment is tackled on, MIRA
is nothing 1t would be far more frank and
kind and fortnight to repeal the act or let 1t
lapse 1t would be just a shell. 1t would still
cost the country at least 100 million dollars
year as much as our pre-war Army or Navy
cost and it would be as a tale told by an IDIOT
full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
If YOU ask why the Congress would permit
such a disemboweled statutory creature to GO
staggering to a lingering and agonizing death by
moving forward the limit Of its life, the answer
is: Fear Of workers"
IF you repeal NRA or let it lapse, you decree
Il the return of child labor or sweat shops, OF
starvation wages, or lntOleraDle hours anu VI
the end Of any Federal attempt to secure the
rights of organization and collective bargaining.
You would get furious protest from many MIL
lions Of employees who have not the least idea
of what threat is hanging over them in the Sen
ate today.
Cut a hole in the bottom of the bag by the
Borah amendment. Let these rights dribble
slowly and silently away through the rent as
the great codes are one by one abandoned. Hope
that their gradual loss will not be felt. 1t may
be the part OF politics thus to kid workers along,
but it is not TIE part of honesty 1t would be
kinder to kill NRA outright.
THE coward does it with kiss, the brave
man with a sword"
TNHERE is in this town, silent apprehension
l. of the threat of war in Europe. There is
fear that the suffering of this depression has
gone on too long for endurance. The situation
in a Congress that came here on a mandate
overwhelmingly indorsing the Administration is
one of scarcely suppressed revolt.
In these days of radio, wire-photos, air.
planes and instant news service, Congress is not
so much Of a composite brain as it used to be.
It is more of a complex mirror instantly re-
f1ectng shadows of home emotions. The I'M
stable balance here is a mirage of popular UNI
certainty.
There began forming yesterday, in the Union
for Social Justice, the most powerful Federal
lobby and organization for political and social
upheaval this country has ever seen.
Copyright 1885, by United Syndicate Inc. All
rights reserved. Reproduction in whole
in part forbidden)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
TWO PROBLEMS

THE system whereby the American gov
eminent paid its farmers to grow less food,
in a time when many people were having
hard time finding enough to eat, is on the
verge Of being oismantled, according to re-
cent advices from Washington.
In its place, it is said, may come scheme
whereby the necessary crop restriction will be
attained through retirement Of marginal land.
And while any restrictive plan may look odd to
people brought up in the belief that granary
can't be too full. it seems obvious that the new
idea would be a good deal more logical than
the old.
The Department of Agriculture hopes to
kill two birds with one stone. 1t wants to
check soil erosion as we'll as eliminate over
production. The retirement of marginal land
offers itself as a program which can accom-
plish both ends.
Under present plans approximately $1,000
100000 of public works funds will be used to
set I'D and finance the land retirement pro-
gram
Experts believe that millions of acres now
being farmed should be withdrawn from pro-
duction. In the first place, their cultivation
makes them especially subject to erosion by
wind and water Deprived Of its original cover
the topsoil is irreclaimably dissipated; even
tually. if present trends continue unchecked,
the land will be permanently worthless.
In addition, this land contributes directly
to farm surpluses 1t may be hard pill to
swallow, but we might as we'll recognize the
fact that the American farmer has been pro-
ducing more than he can possibly sell at a
proht-has been doing it ever since the World
War.
Unless his lost markets can be restored
and that, under present conditions, seems i'm
possible-he must cut down on his production
if he is to be prosperous.
The present way of meeting that situation
is admittedly unsatisfactory. There is some
thing so incongruous about paying men to
raise less wheat and cotton and hogs at time
when millions of people are suffering for want
of food and clothing that We can hardly expect
to make this scheme permanent.
The land retirement idea looks like the
answer to both problems. 1t calls for national
planning in its best sense-a far-reachlng'
carefully devised plan to use our agricultural
resources for the best interests of all the
people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
SPENDING RELIEF FUNDS

TT took long time to do it, but the $780,
Il 100000 work-relief bill finally passed the
House of Representatives; and the interest
ING question is what will all the money be
spent for?
The prime purpose, OF course Is TO put
men to work, and almost any program that
accomplshes this end will be a good one
But there are ways and ways of doing it.
One way is illustrated by the CWA prof.
ect of a year ago. This did give men work
and il did get some needed jobs done, but
there was a great deal of waste motion to It,
As far as tangible accomplishments are con-
cerned II did not begin to be worth the money
it cost.
Another way is involved in the large-scale
construction of needed public works. And
while a program of this kind is necessarily
hard TO start, because of the time taken by
getting blueprints. contracts, and so on in
shape. it is the sort of thing that pays for it
self in more ways than one.
Think of the big jobs that await the doing
in this country We could very profitably
spend hundreds of millions on food and ero-
sion control alone, for instance, in our great
river valleys We could spend as much more
on the colossal job of replacing our urban and
rural slums with houses fit for Americans to
live in. We would be amply repaid for al
most any sum we cared to put into reforesta-
ton.
There are dams and bridges to be built,
grade crossing elimination schemes to be
carried out, public recreational centers to be
devised. highways to be built-a long list Of
things which would be well worth doing even
if We had no unemployment problem at all.
Used on projects like these, the s4SSo,ooO,-
600 would have a double usefulness. 1t would
accomplish its primary purpose Of taking men
of the dole and stimulating private industry,
and it would be an investment in the nations
physical plant which would pay for itself
many times over in the coming years.
We have allowed that plant to deterio.ate
pretty badly in the last few decades. To maize
it the magnificent productive instrument that
nature intended We must spend something for
upkeep and repair.
The new work-relief bill gives us the OPP
portunity Of a lifetime. If the money is wise
" spent. we shall eventually find it one Of
the best investments We ever made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
THE TAX DODGE

CENATOR PAT HARRISON and Rep. Bob
- Doughton are the tax polyannas Of the
Administration. As chairmen of the con-
grcssional tax-framing committees. periodi-
cally thcy inform the taxpayers that higher
leviss viii not be necessary.
In counting unmatched tax chickens they
are worthy successors Of the Hoover heroes
Mellon and Mills. They look at the public
debt mounting into the 80 billions and think
not OF the next generation but Of the next
election.
Their reassurances are for the benefit Of
only one class Of taxpayers-income taxpay-
ers Yesterday when they said higher income
taxes would not be necessary, because reye-
nues this year viii be about $50 million dol
lars higher than last year, they also advo-
Gated continuing the emergency nuisance and
excise Ievies.
These are the balance the-budget" levies
enacted in the closing days of the Hoover
Administration They were to have been
temporary. The last Congress continued
them. And this Congress will be asked to
keep them on the books for still another year.
They produce approximately half billion
dollars annually. They include taxes on auto
mobiles and accessories. gasoline and motor oil,
electrical energy and appliances. radios and
toilet preparations. sporting goods ana chew
ing gum. They are based on consumption,
not on ability to pay. They are taxes on
trade. sand in the bearings of business re-
covery. But they have the political virtue Of
being hidden taxes.
Income taxes, on the other hand, are not
painless. Apparently that is the reason po-
litical-minded taxing authorities treat income
taxpayers so gently. Less than two million
people. representing less than 5 per cent of
the population, pay income taxes. The heads
Of families in the other 95 per cent of the
population do not enjoy incomes large enough
TO be taxed under the existing schedules. But
10 pluck the taxpaying goose with the least
amount Of squawking. Congress and the Ad-
ministration resort to indirect levies. which
are far more burdensome TO the poor than
to the upper or middle classes.
The Roosevelt Administration came into Of
flee on platform pledging taxation based on
ability to pay But its most important tax
reform thus far was the income tax readjust-
rnent made by the last Congress- which reduced
taxes on all incomes up to $4,000 year and
made only fractional increases on higher in
comes.
A few years ago income taxation was the
backbone OF the Federal system. Today in
come taxes Gre incidental and hOdge-podge
OF discriminatory sales taxes account for the
bulk of Federal revenue. Only by lower ex-
emotions and increased rates can income taxes
be made 10 carry their share Of the depression
load Especially in times like these should
taxes be paid by those who can afford to pay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
NeWs Suppression Scored

propaganda, as handled by reac-
tionary Republican newspapers, it
is apparent to any one with his
eyes open just where the menace
of Fascism really lies. The we'll
known strategy of Fascism is to
divide the enemy into factions. 1t
is explained by Hitler in his book,
"Mein Kampf." The theory is eX-
pressed in the lines: ITO start
fight among the asses, keeps jasS-
acks off forbidden grasses" The
identity of the interests for which
Fascism is now being promoted
was revealed in the testimony of
Gen. Smedley D. Butler, upon
which subject the reactionary
press is now silent as the tomb,
after simultaneously rushing to
the laughing post to laugh it off.
On this point, the chairman Of
the House Committee on I'm
American Activities made the fol-
lowing remarks on the floor Of the
House:
cat some future date I should
like to discuss more fully the evil
dence taken by the committee
centering around the names OF
Gen. Smedley D. Butler, Gerald
c. Mcguire and Robert Sterling
Clark, but it would be useless, at
this time, to connect number of
links which Gen. Butler COM
plains we have not done. Gen.
Butler gave his evidence before
the committee in executive session
and told a most fantastic tale, but
the peculiar fact is that the story
was substantiated by many docu-
ments submitted by Gen. Butler"
In these efforts to turn Protest
ant against Catholic, and both
against the Jew, the people should
begin to get an inkling as to who
is in fact their common enemy.
With their eyes open, let them
examine into the nature, purposes,
results and methods of FasciSm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
REARMING OF GERMANY
NATURAL, READER SAYS

BY Margaret Otto.
1t is beyond me how the world
can express surprise at Germany's
move to rearm. 1t is only natural.
In 1914, Kaiser Wilhelm said in
1.-The War Lord"-"I am opposed to
war; but war can only be avoided
by eXerting to the utmost the de-
fensive forces of the state"
Again he states, Germany is in
no need of fresh military glory, ror
does she require any new con-
quests, for she has already obtained,
once and for all, on the field OF
battle, the right to exist as a united
and independent nation"
It is the birthright of every Ger
man to be free to choose; 1t Is the
proud heritage of the Teutons
which has been handed down from
one generation to another.
Kaiser Wilhelm goes on to say,
1.-The mighty German army is the
mainstay of the peace Of Europe.
German pride is so thoroughly in
stilled from the cradle up, that by
the time one reaches maturity, ne
is no longer just noble and in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
PHYSICAL CARE WOULD
SOLVE MANY PROBLEMS
BY DR.. Frank ]. Wright.

BY DIR. Frank J. Wright.
Your editorial Wednesday WARN
ing of Folly" relative to the pre-
vailing dust storms in the West,
in which you point to the part man
has in these recurrent periods of
dust storms, in the blowing up of
those vast ranges which should
have been left to grass, is a sermon;
it closes with strong statement,
quoting-"The dust storms are
forcing us to learn that unwise eX-
ploitation of these resources has
to be paid for. We can use
our resources (unwisely) but eventu-
ally we have to foot the bill"
Thus you give us warning. Will
your words of wisdom be needed?
Probably not, such is human ma
ture, or human Self1shness.
Folly rules-foolishness controls
man from early teens to 40, possibly
so years of age. Folly is a milder
term than I would choose, for his
is a crime. I am speaking now of
his attitude toward himself and tC-
ward his physical body. I would
use the term crime, rather than
folly; crime against life as mani
tested through his body; life, the
most marvellous thing OF which we
know.
There has, from time memorial
it would seem, existed lack of ap-
probation for ones body. Fault
is found with it and complaint is
registered and it is denounced for
its failure to stand the strain Of
our orders and give perfect service
with perfect ease.
Man demands much too much of
his body. He pushes it to the ut
most, refuses it rest, hides it away
from the sunshine, stokes it with
fuel often unfit for its use and in
greater amount than it requires,
thus calling early in life for emer-
gency powers which should be re-
+ served for use beyond 10.
The body must carry all burdens,
physical, and imaginary, as they
often are, though just as wearisome
and oppressive as if they were real,
! sometimes even more. Lies race
is fast and at times furious and
tends to increase as the centuries
advance.
In the words of your editorial, let
me ask men to cease this foolish
ness. We can use our bodily re-
sources unwisely and we are doing
this every day, but we had better
learn that the exploitation must be
paid for; that eventually we have
to foot the bill.
Payment is always, exacted in
broken health. 1t falls due as early
as 80, more often As or so. Then
it is We find that I'VE are done, y
whereas at so man should be in
his prime and remain so to 10 or
more, with then possible letting
down to a natural end at better
than go.
When we learn to conserve our
resources nationally and individu-
ally physically ours will be a
greater and more peaceful nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
UNITED FIGHT ON DOPE

livery state Legislature could prohtaoly
Z give heed to President Roosevelts appeal
for a system of uniform state laws to abolish
the illegal traffic in narcotic drugs.
AS the President points out, the FeoeraI
government alone can not wholly check this
traffic. 1t must have full cooperation from
local law enforcement units. But the great
diversity of existing state laws on narcoCc
drugs makes such cooperation very hard TO
obtain.
No part of the current campaign against
crime is more important than the drive
against the drug evil. Passage OF uniform
state legislation along the lines suggested by
the Federal authorities will help us to attack
the crime problem in most vital zone
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
By An American.

By An American.
On Monday an important In
dianapolis newspaper publishes a
column of vicious propaganda
against the Jews.
While that newspaper very free
Iy cenSorS out of its columns any
matter that might be distaSteful
to the particular interests it
serves, it seems to feel under no
obligation to censor out matter Of
this kind. Yet the Jews of Indi-
annapolis have 1917 columns of dis
play advertising in that issue
several times the amount of space
purchased by the particular inter-
ests the newspaper serves.
Of course, the newspaper can
defend itself on this point by
maintaining that, as the propa-
ganda is in the form of news dis
patches from Europe, it can not
be censored out, because it must
publish all the news. However,
III ID o. IIldGGCI VI NO441AA1O1A hAAOUA-
edge that that newspaper does
not publish all the news. In this
same issue certain phases of a
speech made on the radio the
night before, which it reported,
were carefully suppressed. This
was the newspapers privilege. It
exercised it's privilege further to
headline and set out in detail such
parts of the speech as attacked
President Roosevelt. The purpose
of this, of course, is to enable a
politician to split the Democratic
vote. This was also its privilege.
But it does not seem to consider
it worth while to exercise its privi-
lege of censorship on behalf of
indianapolis Jews.
Likewise, in reporting the
speech of Father Coughlin, the is
sue raised by Gen. HI gh Johnson
Protestant against Catholic
was carefully stressed. In all this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
DEATH ON THE HIGHWAY

THE National Safety Council reports that
Il $500 Americans were killed in auto acct
dents in 1884. an all-time high. This is only
40 fewer than all the American soldiers killed
in battle during the World War
The careless driver. now ranking as pub
lie enemy No. l. can be handled by stricter
state and local laws. effective road patrols. and
the force Of public opinion. An habitually
careless driver should be deprived of his Ii
eense. lust as a dangerous citizen is disarmed
Of his gun.
But. highways being what they are. care
less drivers are not responsible for all this
carnage. The railroad crossing shares the
guilt. And here is where the Federal govern
ment comes in.
In the new work-relef act ssOOOO0 900 Is
earmarked for building Of highways, streets
and grade crossings. Most of this money
should be devoted 10 fool-proofing and other
wise making safe the highways. rather than
building new ones.
There are $4,000 known highway death
traps 70 work on. Some states, like New
York, Pennsylvania, California ard WILSON,
sin. have undertaken this work in cooperation
with the railroads. The La Toilette program
in Wisconsin reduced highway deaths by one
half in one year through grade crossing elm
ination. and gave 1900 men Jobs in the
process.
A nationwide Federal undertaking Of this
sort will bear the same harvest Of saved lives
and restored jobs OF all the types OF work
proposed under the new program none will
bring quicker results.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03

dependent, but rather inclined to be
conceited as to his just rights. They
become egotiStical.
AS to AIsace-Lorraine, he says,
German you are and German you
remain, so help us God, and our
German sword"
Again he states quite confidently,
THE army and the emperor at its
head can alone secure the safety Of
the empire and the peace of the
world"
Wilhelm further states, 1.-THE
soldier must not have will of his
own. They must have but one will
and that will is mine"
1.-The German empire has the
right to possess such an army and
such a navy as may be necessary
to defend its interests and no one
will prevent it from organizing these
forces as it may think fit"
How adequately this statement of
his fits the thing Hitler has just
done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03

Americans as an intelligent summing-up Of the
situation.
Asked for his opinion on the outcome Of
European negotiations, Senator Borah said:
Germany will do as she pleases and the
allies will submit tc 1t. The Versailles treaty
will be strapped and that will be good thing. )"
That forecast sounds accurate Germany
obviously is doing as she pleases. Only war
will stop her, and the allies clearly DO not care
to pay the price And as for the treaty-its
defects are so apparent, by this time, that few
Americans will quarrel with the Senator's YER
dict on it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-03
So They Say

From the beaches of Florida to
the mountains of Washington the
majority of middle-aged women
have dieted until they are just ugly,
haggard skeletons. = Anna Steese
Richardson, magazine executive.
Any well-trained musician can
write to suit the highbrows, but it
takes a genius to reach the masses
with music they can whistle and
sing.-Sigmund Romberg, composer.
No national has the right to go
into the trouble zone and expect this
nation to back him if he gets into
difficulties.-Bernard Baruch.
We are being conditioned for per-
petual dependence and slavery by
benevolent smiles and God-bless-
yous of college professors and by
demagogs who say that every
American can be a king.-Silas H.
Strawn, former president, U. S.
Chamber Of Commerce.
Never since the World War have
there been such misgivings for the
fate of peace as now.-Maxirn Lit
vinov, Soviet commissar for foreign
affairs.
The movie industry must not
only be willing, but ready and able,
to respond to the voice Of public
opinion. There is no magic wand
for better picture production.-Will
H. Hays, motion picture GEAR"