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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1936-03-19
A Reader Writes

The letter in the February q
issue of the Gazette by a reader
in regard to the debate on the
solution of the farm problem,
prompts the writer to try and
keep the ball rolling, by inviting
constructive criticism.
This problem is ages old, as it
dates back to the time of the
creation, and as it was completed
in six periods of time, mot "a
hour days. then on the seventh
period came the rest to nature as
an institution which should be a
perpetual covenant between ma
ture and man, referred to by some
very ancient writer's as the "Sab-
bath to the Lord"
The soil conservation program
to be soon put on by our govern
! ment seems to be in harmony with
this ancient law, so it may get
some farmers awakened to the
dangers of exploitation of the
land in their eagerness to pay in
Gebtedness or accumulate wealth.
When America was discovered,
it was great nation of natural
resources but nature and wealth
cannot be served at the same
time, so in the rush after wealth,
nature was destroyed. Most of
the Indians that had preserved
nature, were murdered, all wild
life was destroyed, buffalo, were
lot n l.nt no Mo 1n
hide was taken for the dollar it
would bring, elk were shot for a
tooth, forests were slashed down
for great wealth they would
bring; it was, according to the
records of history, a mad rush up
to about 1914, when times were
very normal.
The nation was about all set
tied up, railroads built, towns
were down to business, then came
the war. Prices for everything
arose including land, and here is
where the farmers troubles start
ed, by taking on too much indebt-
eGness, then much more land was
brought under cultivation by
III oiAoSS etilu lut plo" at great
cost on long time payment, then
when this great production was
put on the market to get money
to pay off indebtedness, the mark
ct could not absorb it all at a high
enough price for farmers to keep
up their agreements, some made
for as long as 35 years, so they
paid taxes and interest, also in
stallments where necessary, but
they had no money left to buy
anything else so this caused man.
ufactured goods to back up and
threw millions of labor and capt.
tai out of work.
No one could buy the farmers
products and resell them at a
small profit, unless bought at a
very low price, high tariffs only
caused other countries to retail
late, so we arrive at the depres-
sion or judgment day.
Coolidge saw it coming and did
not "choose to rum" Hoover never
did much because he knew he
couldn't, even at that he didn't
make the Indebtedness any worse.
When he did tell the farmers to
slow up on production they told
him to sell that farm board wheat
for about $500 per bushel and
Continued on Page 10
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Advertising

Tel me not in mournful numbers
Advertising doesn't pay;
For the mans mon compos mentis"
Who would such absurd things say
Life is real, life is earnest;
And the man who hopes to rise
To success in any calling
Must expect to Advertise.
In this worlds broad field of battle,
In the conflict of real life,
Advertising is the secret
Of achieving in the strife.
Lives of rich men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And by liberal Advertising,
To the highest summit climb.
British Printer, 1888.
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Farnsworth, the Fanciful Fore
man, slipped a full-grown eve in
to the Lam's corral a few weeks
ago, thereby laying US open to
caustic comment by the Gentle
men of The Press.
For instance, August Erickson
of the Springfield Advance-Press
remarks on the size of the late
animal, adding, "You can't expect
to be a lamb all your life. -
and you really can't, what with the
wear and tear of daily traffic
among the so-calied business men
of this Miniature Metropolis.
With their income tax reports ILL
ed, the boys decided to infiict
some of their recent pain upon
somebody else. 1t seems that bert
Crosby had ordered a new dog
from Iowa, sending the company
a check and Saturday was impat-
iently awaiting the arrival of the
pup. Usually a man of calm,
Crosby blew up when "a disguised
voice over the telephone Informed
him that the dog was at the depot
with $3.50 c. o. d. charges
against it. Furious, he stalked to
the bank, stopped payment on the
check and sat down to await the
arrival of the crate. Of course it
didn't come, and everybody laugh
ed and laughed except Crosby and
the bank officials who were busy
saying NO when they were SO
rudely interrupted.
Anyway, the candid cut now
grazing the column heading is a
graphic illustration of what ten
der little lams degenerate into af-
ter months of that sort of thing
or, as Glib McDougall suggests,
what will happen to this one if
its mother maintains her vicious
habits of jaywalking.
-T-f-
Well, the Lam's graduating in
to the Tom Reed, Boy Johnson
class a group which devotes it's
waking hours to public service in
the form of committees, organiza-
tions and contest Judging. Course
she can never hope to attain those
two bachelors positions on the
board of the Parent Teachers as
ISOLATION, but she's coming along.
She has been asked to act as a
judge in a column-naming contest
now being conducted by the New
Ulm Review, which misguided
sheet is actually offering prizes
for a title, never foreseeing that
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Backward
Chances
so Years Ago

Plans were announced for the
establishment of cheese cream
cry at Walnut Grove A dearth
of dwellings existed in Redwood
Falls and the Building and Loan
association planned an extensive
building campaign Arrest of
three men for drunkenness, sal
DON keeper for liquor law viola
ton and another man for assault
and battery by Justice of the
Peace March Melted the village
treasury $55 in fines.-John Jor-
genson was fatally injured when
he jumped from a passenger train
near Delhi and suffered fractur-
ed SKULL A Twin Cities brick
manufacturing company sent a
representative here to inspect the
CLAW deposits along the banks of
the Redwood river on the Clough
property. Advance reports follow
ing a chemical analysis indicated
that the clay tested was high
grade fine clay M. o. Byram
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Small towns have their troubles but
where we all live and work close to the
ground, elevator mems strikes such as New
York is experiencing are not among them.
Come to think of it we know of no building
In Redwood Falls that has passenger ele-
vatOr.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1936-03-19

A $40 bill, issued by the u. S.
government in 1879 during the
Revolutionary war, was discover
ed among old family papers by J.
/. Donohue, St. Cloud
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1936-03-19

A perfect cribbage hand, five of
clubs, five of hearts, five of spades,
and Jack of diamonds, with the
five of diamonds turned to him,
was received by DR.. M. A. Swim
ski at St. Cloud.
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up straight.

up straight.
A careful physical examination
with the aid of x-ray should be
made first to find out just what is
causing the deformity. Posture
exercises based upon accurate
knowledge Of what is wrong can
be prescribed, then, and the child
benefited.
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Is Years Ago

merly occupied by Charles De-
Groat.
Is Years Ago
Fire from a rubbish pile ig-
nited and burned the porch of the
Methodist church of which Rev.
Schuman was pastor The barn
and chicken houses on the DR.. Gar
ner farm in New Avon township
were destroyed by fire. Rev. c..
F. Martin was pastor of the
Church of Christ George VOL
verton suffered dislocated knee
when thrown from the wagon he
was driving. The team bolted when
frightened by dog A talk SCH
eduled to have been given in Red
wood Falls by Senator LaFollette
of Wisconsin was cancelled be-
cause of special session of con-
gress.- c. w. Lussenhop of Pax
ton township won a $50 first prize
for raising the barley adjudged
the highest grade grown in south
EN- Minnesota At the annual
meeting of the Redwood County
Auto association, H. M. Aune was
elected president, o. A. Gimme
stad, vice-president; George Pa
ton, secretary and treasurer; A. C.
Burmeister, state director and H.
A. Baldwin, j. P. Cooper, Louis
Lindeman and Drs. Pease, Brand,
and Chadbourne, local directors.
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and son moved here from Walnut
Grove and leased the home for
merly occupied by Charles De-
Groat.
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92Gary' S
Little foam

its readers will have their own
and more pungent names for it.
Milford chronicle., 1936-12-04

lty Of the range. Intelligent ad-
justment demands a local knOWl-
euge Of food habits and this 50 far
exists only in a few states"
OF the antelope, the COMMITTEES
says: I'VE still are unable I'd ex-
plain why a few antelope remnants
have continued to increase until
they destroy the carrying capacity of
their range. while others dwindle
until they disappear"
Besides Df. Leopold, the commit
tee Is composed Of Gardiner Bump,
superintendent of game, New York
Conservation Department; George
G. Emory, professor Of Fish Culture,
Cornell University; Carl L. Hobbs,
director, Institute Of Fisheries Re-
search. University Of Michigan; and
Herbert l.. Stoddard, Cooperative
Quail Study Association. Their re-
port is to be the basis for a research
program financed by the American
Wildlife Institute.
Milford chronicle., 1936-12-04
WILD LIFE STUDIES


Local studies Of the factors whicl
make for the increase or decrease o
nine important species of farm. for
est and range game viii he required
before any intelligent national pro
gram for conserving them can bl
adopted, the Technical Committee o
the American Wildiife Institute has
informed the trustees Of the insti
tute, In a report made public recent.
ly. Il named the species as the
western Quails. bObWhite, grouse
wild turkeys, pheasant and Hunga.
rian partridge. cott0ntaiI, deer and
antelope.
The committee, headed by Dr.. Al
do Leopold, professor Of game man
agement Of the University Of Wis
consin, is recommending study OF
these nine species to the trustees
for institute financing, at least in
part.
OF the need to study these species
the Technical Committee says: "Ex-
cellent life history work on CalifOr-
mia and gambel quails needs to be
tested in practice. Studies Of scaled
quail need TO be executed It will
be of great value TO know in detail
Just how livestock limits the prOduc-
tiyity of quail range"
Studies OF the bobwhite begun in
Georgia, Wisconsin, and Iowa, the
committee said, are disclosing fun
damental laws applicable to all gal
linaceous birds, but the degeneration
OF the bObwhite In New England has
never been explained"
The fact that Civilian Conservation
Corps companies are now altering
the cover Of large amounts of land
Where grouse would naturally range,
and that a great deal more OF such
land Is coming into public owner
ship means that studies of grouse
eonsefvatiOns need to be started as
quickly as possible, the committee
reports. No study ever has been
made, il says, Of the western grouse.
The committee notes with gratifi-
cation that some progress is being
made in research concerning the
proper environment for wild turkeys
on private game preserves in the
southeast. IT. observes, however,
that no study ever has been made, Of
the Southwestern or Merriman tur-
keys. The committee asks that
studies be made Of the recession Of
population vigor among the pheas-
ants and Hungarian of Oregon and
New England. 1s
"A similar decline might well oc-
cur in the now thrifty stands of
South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa."
The report says. eThe general fail I
1re Of Tingneek pheasahts and Hun I
garian partridges in the south is
still a mystery -e s
AS for research into ways to save I
The cOuntry's deer and antelope. the I
says: Browse eating |
game ruins its own range, while
,eed eating game does not. All over
he country valuable spots. of deer
'ange are now threatened with grave
ninry.to both range and deer. These
rouble spots are worst where no
remain to keep the herd
II balance with the carrying eapac-
Milford chronicle., 1936-12-04


diseases that are truly occupatiopaI
in character and exclude the Ordi-
nary diseases Of life to which all
persons, irrespective Of occupation,
are subject
''In addition the accrued liahili-
ties arising from past exposures in
connection with diseases Of the pro-
gIessive type, such as sillcosis, as
bestOsis and the like, present a SER
ious problem. They represent
events that have already occurred
and, as SUCH. are not uncertainties
that may be transferred through the
medium Of insurance. No one would
think of writing fire insurance on
house that had already burned
down"
This indicates the difficulties that
confront those who must frame new
compensation laws to cover Occupa-
tional disease. The problem is not
simply one Of protecting the casu-
atty insurance industry = though
that is important, as no business
Milford chronicle., 1936-12-04
FISHERS DISTRICT
(NoaF Greenwood

The Ladies' Aid of Todd's Chape
VIII meet at the church on Wednes
Gay afternoon, December 9Th an,
viii also have their Christmas part
at this meeting, Mrs Nora Rust vii
entertain. A cordial welcome to ali
Mr. and Mrs. D. D. Lloyd anC
daughter moved 10 their new homo
near Dover on Thursday. They viii
be greatly missed in this community
Everett Triee spent the Thanks.
giving holidays with relatives and
friends IN Philadelphia.
The PIT. A. meeting for November
at Fishers was held on Wednesday
evening with a good program by the
children.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Mcdowell
and grandfather, Charles North,
spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Nc
Dowel's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Burnette Of Kennett Square,
Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Al. johnson and son,
and Mrs. Bessie Jones enjoyed tur-
key dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. George
Palmer Of Wilmington on Thanks
giving Day.
Neil Edgell of Wilmington spent
Thanksgiving with his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. ]. H. Edgell.
Wilson Shouse was a weekend
visitor in Wilmington.
Burton Marvel Of Seaford enjoyed
9 days sport Of ginning with Aiva
O'Bier on Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. p. Morris enter
tanned Mr.. and Mrs. George Young
and son. Mrs. Jack Rust and daugh-
Ter and George Norris at a duck
dinner on Sunday.
Mrs. Edgell Coates and sons. Eben
and Johnnie, Of Harrington, visited
relatives here ON Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Scott enter
tanned twenty-one relatives and
friends at Thanksgiving dinner
& Mrs. Pauline Taylor, Miss Georgia
Taylor, Miss Dorothy Rust, Mrs. Ber-
tie TatnaH and Mrs. Jack Rust en-
j0yed a visit at an initiation meeting
on Wednesday evening at .Canter-
bury. it is just too bad for those
who could not attend for il you want
a warm welcome and an evening of
real fun just visit Canterbury Lodge.
Miss Taylor was. initiated at this
and did we. do something
10 the delicious refreshments!
Mr.. and Mrs. Gootee Brown, Mr..
and Mrs. Isaac Mcdowell. Mrs. John
Lloyd, Miss Margaret Mcdowell and /
George Collision were Dover visitors |
1n Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Aiva O,Bier enter /
aimed at turkey dinner on Sunday |
dfs. Cora West and daughters, Mary, /
Margaret and Ruth. OF Bridgevllle. I
VIZ. and Mrs. Ebe West and daugh- I
'er, Of DagsbOrO.. and -Messrs. Bur I
on Marvel and Wade Ryan Of Sea-
ord. Edward B. Short Of BFidgeville.
ind Selby Raisin of Philadelphia.
Z Charles DeaFman was the guest |
Il Mr.. and Mrs. D. E. Lloyd Of near
Power on Friday.
The Misses Eleanor and Hilda
groten Of Wilmington spent the
holidays with their
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Wroten.
Mr.. and Mrs H. &c. Edgell enter
aimed their son, Louis Edgell, of the
&C Camp at Leipsic, Mr.. and. Mrs.
'fank Wroten and family and Mr.. !
Milford chronicle., 1936-12-04
Protecting The Worker

A speaker connected with the cas-
ualty insurance industry recently
said: 'The most serious problem
confronting the compensation busi-
ness is In connection with Occupa-
tional diseases. II seems inevitable
that compensation for Occupational
diseases will be universally provided
within the near future. No one can
quarrel with the principle OF thus
extending the scope Of our compen-
satiOn laws. But the legislation
must be carefully framed or It VIII
defeat its own purpose. The laws
must be so drawn as to cover only
Milford chronicle., 1936-12-04

about BY over-liberaI laws. would be
enc of the worst possible blows to
the welfare of labor. It is essential
that compensation be maintained on
a sound basis--or the workingman
will inevitably lose protection he
Milford chronicle., 1936-12-04

soreiy needs and deserves.
That mo one would think Of writ
ing fire insurance on a house that
had already burned down. should
be remembered in framing new com
pensation legislation.
Milford chronicle., 1936-12-04

can be expected to do business at a
loss and remain solvent. The main
problem is how to protect the in
terest Of the worker himself-for it
is obvious that a breakdown of the
compensation structure, brought
Milford chronicle., 1936-12-04

and Mrs, S. F. COLLISION at dinner on
Thanksgiving Day.
Mrs. Alba O'Bier attended class
Of which she Is 3 member on Thurs
day evening IN GeDrketoNn.
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trend of few toward liberal Interpretation
and of the majority toward conservative
reading of the law has been apparent, par
ticularly in recent opinions.
It is not criticism Of the court but of
the workings of government to point out
that it should not have required from May
1888 when the AAA law was passed until
January 1886 to determine whether the law
complied with the constitution. Surely some
road can be found to reform in this regard.
There will be some glee among new deal
opposition yet excessive celebration seems
ill-advised in view of the necessity of a new
farm problem solution. There will be cri-
ticism of the court and of the constitution.
That the six justices were sincere in voting
against the AAA no one should doubt. The
three voting favorably were equally sure Of
their position. The implication is that some
Qualification of the powers of the executive
and legislative branches should be possible.
For farm organization, the blow is
severe yet the all-important thing today for
farmers and persons interested in solution
of the farm problem to remember is that by
organization they got two noble expert
ments," that by organization alone can they
expect efforts to continue until a true solu-
ton is found.
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Chop Ice To Save Selves
From Drifting Ice FlOe

Baudette Fighting against
death on an ice foe that threaten
ed to take them out far on the sur
face Of the Lake of the Woods,
three Baudette men were FORUM
ate to escape with their lives. Des-
mond Gunderson, Sisner Rydberg,
and Charles Tobin set out to set a
net through the ice of the large
lake, when they discovered that
the ice had broken away from
Pine Island and they were drift
ing out on the lake where waves
were high. After some quick
thinking, they used their axes to
cut off a smaller chunk from the
main foe, and with the aid of fish
stakes they started to push the
smaller foe, on which they stood,
to shore. They succeeded after
several hours of strenuous work,
but were almost exhausted when
they reached Pine Island. Had
the foe gotten out into the lake,
The high wind would undoubtedly
have broken it up, with nothing
out drowning in sight for the
three young men.
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Income Taxpayers
To File Duplicates

"The mailing of approximately
$4,000 income tax blanks to Fed
states ]. R. Landy, collector of in
eral income taxpayers of MINES
ota has just been completed"
ternal revenue for the district of
Minnesota.
The collector expressed the hope
that taxpayers, in filing their re-
turns, would give careful attention
to the instructions printed on all
blanks and, particularly, to the re-
quirement of the duplicate copy O..
return on the green form, which
must be filed in addition to the or
iginal return. This copy must be a
complete duplicate of the return,
except that the affdavits on the
green form need not be filled in.
Blanks are due back March Is.
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Do You Know What News Is?

A newspaper is first of all published for
it's readers The advertising pays most OF
the cost, but the subscriber is the one who
reads the paper. And getting the paper
read is the whole idea in publishing it.
Hence it is that news gathering is the
foundation upon which the business is built.
The problem of getting the news, all of it,
is one of the most important that the news
paper man has to face.
Getting the news depends somewhat on
the cooperation of the public in giving it to
you, but it depends lot more on educating
the public as to what you want. Few people
Intentionally withhold news from the paper.
They just don't know what news is.
Go up to any man on the street and ask
him if he has any news, and he will say
"No."
Ask a school board member, a town
board member, a councilman about the acti-
vities of his group, and he will, maybe, tell
you what is being done. And yet the things
that are not being done may be the real news.
A good reporter might make half-column
out of a meeting at which nothing was
done" by telling what each councilman said
for or against proposal, and the details OF
the three-to-two vote which killed it.
And, after all, why should the man in
the street be expected to know the technique
of news-reporting 1t is not his business.
Every local person who reads this edi-
torial has right now in his own life or in his
own business information that would make
an interesting news story for the readers of
the Messenger.
And yet how few of these can we get.
You do not tell us because you do not think
of telling us, because it is so commonplace
to you that it does not seem probable any
one else would be interested.
To get right down to brass tacks: Bar
Der D. H. Kennedy of Isle has an old razor,
worn thin from years of honing More than
three decades ago he used it in shaving Will
liam Mckinley and Theodore Roosevelt. A
representative of The Messenger overheard
chance conversation in which that razor
and it's history were mentioned An inter
news story that was picked up by the Asso-
ciated Press and Travelled all over the United
States.
Even the unframed eye recognizes
births, deaths and marriages as news. That
kind of reporting child can do. What The
Messenger wants, what every newspaper
wants, is the quaint, the odd, the historical
the unusual-all the miscellaneous stuff that
constitutes the background, "the news be-
hind the news" Where you least expect it,
there you will find news.
And So dear Gentle Reader, tell the
newspaper man about yourself, your bust
ness and things that are going on around
you. You will find him a willing listener
And perhaps from the tasteless dough of
conversation he will be able to pick a few
raisins of news" Mile Laos Messenger.
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FIVE YEARS AGO

The Palace Dry Good store,
owned by C. F. Gales, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire, with
loss estimated at $4,000. The
firemen were in the midst of their
annual banquet when the alarm
sounded.-W. G. Weldon was
elected president of the CONNER
cial club. j. Idzorek, county
engineer for four years, offered
his resignation to the board of
commissioners. = The Redwood
Falls debating team composed of
Margaret Smith, Raymond Linde-
man and Earline Martin defeat
ed the Sacred Heart team.-The
Cardinal cagers won from Sleepy
Eye II to 6 for their fifth straight
victory. The Redwood Falls line
up consisted of Wyman Corbeti
Tom and John Finn, Wilbur Mel
ges, Clarence Keefe, Ward Cuff
and Harlan Jaehning.- The Co
L team of Stockton, Arnett, Laid
law, Bravinder and Bobzin nosec
out Dawson in an overtime battl'
% to 21.-Savings deposits in tn
Citizens State bank increased
from $3,299.52 in 1929 to $11,735.-