The Redwood gazette., 1936-05-14

Damage to Minnesota trunk highways
and abnormal expenses resulting from the
unusual winter approximate three million
dollars, according to Commissioner N. w.
Elsberg. Abnormal snow removal expense
amounted to $750,000; damage to gravel
roads, $1,116,000; to bituminous roads,
$9O5,00O; to shoulders, slopes and bitches,
$4,000 and to bridges and culverts, $780,
600. 1t will be noted that the only expense
item at all related to paved roads is the
smallest of the lot. Paved roads cost more
but what saving they make possible in up
keep.
tion as opposed to either the frankly radical
or the strictly conservative can be seen in
the fact that no one in all the wide area
which makes up Brown and Redwood coun-
ties saw fit to oppose John M. Zwach for re-
election. A student of government, few
slips on which to base campaign could be
found in the first term record of the repres-
entative-at-large. His voting indicates he
feels improvements can be made without
overthrowing what we now have. His phil
osophy is fair sample of the attitude think
ing people have toward government today.
Government building experts say they
have worked out plan by which four
room house, complete with plumbing, wiring
and heating, can be constructed for as little
as $1,000. The variety of design available to
builders of more expensive houses undoub
edly would be missing, but basic require
ments for reasonable comfort are said to
have been met. The American standard of
living can get no greater boost than by max
ing available better homes, while greater Sc
curity and better citizenship also would re-
suit.
We turn sour and growl at whoever is
near, sometimes, because advertising copy
seems to come in slower week after week.
The same advertiser who would have red
face all day if his store wasn't opened on
time or before, who closes on the dot and
prides himself on being punctual, will put off
and daily about the ad he knows all the time
he has to write until he gets it in under the
wire or few minutes late, costing us hours
of grief and seriously handicapping the pub
lication of good newspaper.
With note of pride in it's tone, capitol
news review" very partisan Farmer-La-
Dor publicity letter to editors, by A. I. Har-
ris, tells of Miss Jane Hoey's visit to Mime
sofa from Washington D. C. and her pro-
nouncement that the system of old age as
slstance here is an excellent one. Mr.. Har-
ris previously has been inclined very definit-
ely to criticize the assistance bill as arduO-
usly uncompromising and entirely made
quate thing passed by reactionary legisla-
ture.
Magic results claimed for most varieties
of stock tonics sold to farmers by touring
sharpers are grossly exaggerated' accord
ing to tests made on state experiment sta
tion farms. They failed to find a single one
which would make hens lay two eggs day
or cause cows to give pure cream. They ad-
wise prospective buyers to check up on such
experiments by inquiring at the county
agent office in their vicinity.
We hear considerable about importa-
tions of farm products. When prices were
low, we had no importations worth men,
tioning. These importations are not the
cause of low prices; they are the sign of
high prices. They are not as important
as they are played up to be. While the
importation of canned meats in January
was 400 per cent more than in January,
1884, the whole amount was less than one
oonSe pei CsplId. ourely one ounce Oh meat
per person in a whole month, just one good
bite, isn't worth worrying about, but as a
matter of principle it is wrong to import any
farm product so long as we are curtailing
our own Observation-Disclosures Advance
Press.
Sunday was Mothers Day day when
we were supposed to take time out to give
thought to the many sacrifices she made in
order that we might be success in the
world. But for these sacrifices many of us
would not be holding down the jobs we have.
But for the things she did for us, many of
us would not have been enabled to accumu-
late the property we own. We might have
been nobodies, or worse than nobodies, de-
pendent upon others for support. Even il
your mother had nothing to give you but q
| healthy body and a sound mind Won oma ha,