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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-01-28
Backward
Chances
SO YEARS AGO

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The long contemplated news
paper enterprise at Morton was
about to be launched by Mr.. Ho-
gue.-There was a regular jam
around Delhi mills every day and
it looked as if Baker and McMil-
Ian were doing a big trade.-Miss
Carrie Struthers was married to
Fred Healy at Marshall.-Will
French went to Chatfield where
he had position in a harness
shop.-C. w. George was made
manager of the Empire Lumber
cmpany.-Emil Kuenzli was gath
ering in the shekels at the treas
urer's office while Mr.. Homer
was away.-French and Hough-
master used up 10 pages of ab-
stract blanks in abstracting a title
of the Nettiwyntt farm.
Is YEARS AGO
A Roosevelt for president club
was being organized in the coun-
ty.-Neighbors a quarter of a mile
away heard his cries for help
when Alvin Ducan, IS, was kick
ed by horse.-Mrs. Little and
A. D. Stewart talked on the pro-
posed parcel post bill at the
Farmer club meeting. The cast
for the senior class play included
Donald Gold, Frank Griffith, Ben
Fuller, Jack Philbrick, Gilbert
Orwell, Reed Johnson, Minnie
Owens, Agnes Lauterbach, Josie
Griffith, Adah Tenney, Ethel
Sauer, Susie Lauterbach, Ruth Nc
Lean, Blanche Clark, Florence
Clough, Alma Castle, Mabel Borg,
Grace Alexander, Erma Liskey
and Helen Callaghan.-J. Albert
Johnson who was credited with
having the largest speaking &C
quaintance of any man in the
county resigned his position with
the D. L. Crimmins land company
to be a silo salesman.-Rud
Stensvad was elected president
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91ary' S
Little foam

with, witty to talk with, pleasant
to think upon"
A prophet could have simplified
1t to "Witte to walk with, Witte
to talk with, White to think upon"
We turn the page to Alma Cas-
tie, "a school ma'am and funny
sometimes
Listen you, we do not consider
Mrs. o. w. SimOndet, correspOn-
dent extraordinary of the Gazette
subject for frivolous comment.
Cali that l want is love-" says
Jack PhiIbrick.
And nobody loves a landlord.
Frank Griffith was THE only
handsome boy in the whole class
That for you Gold and Phil
brick, you old homes!
IS
Hello Alice Barnes, HAS unus-
ual ability 80. absolutely hid
den."
VCAA, IL SdhCS lOt W uedI WITH
that fiend Clarence Hillig.
Together Ada Butcher, who is
who? Ada or Addie?" and Addie
Butcher (Which is which? Addie
or Ada?" greet us from the yell
lowed page.
One of the twins married Erwin
Otto of SanbOrn, but not even our
most accurate stOoge knows which
is which or who is who.
Grace Alexander, fashioned
after the pattern of school teach
err" followed said pattern by up
and getting married to Will
liam Sickman at Vesta.
And so we regretfully close the
little book with only quick CLAN
ce at the junior class of which
Bernice Hodge was vice-president..
Come in and see it sometime.
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granted in order not to curtail the
all important function of their re-
spective departments. It may
here be stated that the present
committee has shed the cloak of
previous timidity and has ex-
pressed the determination that
all departments must live within
the confines of their allotments.
gu" REQUESTS
Having graduated from our
state university several years ago,
the writer was surprised upon
careful investigation to find the
extent of the building program
that that state institution has car
ried on in the past several years.
Even during the present period of
our crisis, buildings have sprung
up rapidly. Now that institution
comes before the legislature with
additional requests totaling five
million year. 1t has reached a
point where many are beginning
to question the policy of pouring
so much money into that central
institution. Many feel that in or
der to properly equalize educa-
tional opportunities that it would
be advisable to distribute that
money somewhat throughout the
state and help establish junior
colleges. This would afford more
pupils throughout the state an
opportunity to attend schools of
higher learning nearer to their
homes and would perhaps prove
more advantageous to the state in
general. This situation needs a
thorough and intelligent study.
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More Building

TT is WITH great deal of civic pride and
pleasure that The Gazette as it did last
week, periodically reports on the progress
of a building boom which in approximately
two years has provided homes here for 70
families, either in completely new dwellings
or in remodeled homes.
No more convincing evidence can be
found of the healthy and consistent, though
somewhat phenomenal, growth of the COM
munity, development in which this news
paper as perpetual booster finds great sat
isfaction and encouragement.
Seventy homes provide living quarters
for at least 200 or 800 persons whose pur-
chases naturally swell the volume of the
city's trade. New and improved homes on
the tax rolls help increase the revenues for
the functions of government, making posi-
BILE economies or extended functions while
improved living conditions tend to make
more satisfied citizens.
Nothing gives town higher recon-
mendation that to drive through it's streets
and find building operations in progress
every few blocks or as has sometimes been
the case here, several projects resounding
of the saw and hammer within single
block.
In this connection it may be well to call
attention to the fact that this is the COM
paratively slack season for members of the
building trade If plans for new home are
taking shape somewhere in the rear regions
of your head it may be well to take the mat
ter up with artisans at once. Once the spring
program gets underway it may be extreme
ly difficult to get competent help and advice.
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Out of Step

T IKE OTHER arguments, difficulties be-
tween capital and labor have two de-
- finite sides. Usually injustices on one
hand are offset at least in part by unrea-
sonable demands on the other and a COM
promise settlement is often quite fair and
equitable.
Labor has seldom had less sympathy
from the public in major strike, however,
than in it's current difficulty with automo-
bile manufacturers, particularly General
Motors.
Apparently that firm is caught in the
crossfire between two great labor move
ments, the militant Lewis detachment and
the more level headed Green organization.
A third group of labor within the plants, it
appears, has no interest in the fight, is sat
isfied with it's treatment at the hands Of the
company and is interested only in getting
back to work.
One has always assumed in labor dis
puteS, with slight chance OF error, that Wag-
es and hours are the bone of contention, the
workers wanting more pay for shorter hours
while the employers have wanted to hold to
existent schedules.
In this scrap no one denies that the au-
tomobile industry has been almost model
in generous pay and general fairness, with
the inevitable occasional exceptions OF
course.
Representing a comparatively small
minority of the workers, the Lewis labor
group which began in the coal fields is max
ing desperate effort to organize an indus
try whose treatment of labor is far better
than that of employers in it's own field.
Most of us are not bloated bond holders
and have been therefore more or less sub
consciously on the side Of labor in efforts to
improve conditions. This support hardly
extends, however, to sit-down strikes violat-
ing property rights and it cannot be given
minority groups attempting great organiza-
ton programs among workers who are sat-
isfied with conditions under which they
work. There is so much to be done for the
Improvement of labor where it is being ex-
plotted that leaders seem to be totally out
of step when their efforts are directed at
comparatively model employers.
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of the Commercial club.-Captain
Inglis and Lieutenant Charles
Gales returned from st. Paul
where they learned that the APP
preparation for the new armory
had been cut down.
10 YEARS AGO
Walter Seebeck died in st.
Paul.-James A. Baikie was in
vited by an oil company to take
trip to Scotland where he plan
ned to visit his parents.-The Ga
zette won fourth place in a state
wide front page makeup contest.
Ganske and Earl w.
Henze of North Redwood were
married.-The new Atlantic hotel
at Marshall, built by Charles Jo-
hammock of Redwood Falls, was
opened.-The high school cagers
defeated Winthrop 80 to 18 and
the guardsmen beat Dawson 80
to %.
5 YEARS AGO
H. E. Jack Cannon" 81, died
of burns received in gasoline
explosion at the Redwood Clean
ers.-James Baikie Jr. was select
ed one of 25 Minnesota boys to
make a trip to Europe. L.
Hendricks was named manager OF
the Montgomery Ward store to
replace R. E. Anderson Sheriff
L. ]. Kise arrested an automobile
thief who abandoned car stolen
at Sioux City, Iowa, after trailing
him to Sanborn.
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much of the corruption around
the state house is the anthology
ing bill recommended by Cover
nor Benson and being pushed by
the liberal group in each house.
The lobbyists around the CAPT.
toll are thicker than f1eaS and
some of them even more trouble
some. They invade the chambers
even during session hours and
plead the causes of their hench-
men. The proposed bill would
require that lobbyists register
with the secretary of state and
with the chief clerk of the house
and senate. They would be re-
quired to list their employers and
their remuneration and make
detailed report every ten days.
Even worse than these hired
lobbyists in the estimation of
your correspondent are certain
attorney members of the legisla-
ture who put stipends above con-
stituency and do Herculean work
for the group or corporations
which they represent for so call
ed retainers, i. e. money. One
never can depend that one of
these individuals is talking from
conviction rather than for COM
mercial reasons. 1t is the inten-
ton of the writer to tack an
amendment to the measure re-
quiring that such members full
fill the same requirements of re-
gistration as regular lobbyists
who at least present themselves
for what they are.
STATE DISPENSARY
Like a bombshell on a peaceful
scene came the request by the
governor that all liquor distribu-
ton be taken from the hands of
private shop keepers and that it
be handled by the state exclu-
sively. Representatives of the Ii
quor industry seated in the
crowded chamber almost needed
some of their strong product as
restoratives so great was the
shock. Hardly had the speech
been concluded when the liquor
interests rose up in arms against
the change. The writer received
16 kilograms in one day from
constituents in Brown and Red
wood counties.
It is improbable that the plan
will be carried out. 1t is drawn
to make the state the car of the
industry. Entire state regulation
of wholesaling, purchasing and
retailing of all liquor is proposed.
1t would be large state industry
and afford an excellent opportu-
nifty for a fine, modern, stream
lined political set up.
All conversant with the situa-
ton admit the present arrange
ment has not accomplished what
was hoped, neither has law vio-
lation been eliminated. But
whether state control would be a
step towards temperance is also
very questionable. The evils of
the present system and the poss-
ible evils of state setup leave
the question in quandary.
LOOSE REINS
Sitting on the appropriation
committee is a sweet job. The
members were greeted by the
welcome news that the various
state departments spent more
than three million more than was
allotted them two years ago and
so the present appropriation COM
mittee faces the prospect of pro-
viding for the deficit of the pre-
sent biennum along with the
problem of securing enough re-
venue for the coming two years.
1t has almost reached the point
where state heads do a Hitler,
Mussolini act all in one and die
tate to the timid solons just what
their needs are and what must be
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Etiquette

defined by Christopher Billopp in Baltimore Sum
Etiquette is preceding lady up the
stairs and tagging along behind her down
the stairs. 1t is not drinking out of finger
bowl It is watching the hostess out of the
corner of your eye to see which fork she is
using.
1t is trying to cut the meat off chicken
bone without taking it in your fingers as
you do in the bosom of the family. 1t is
leaving your napkin unfolded after a meal
to show your hostess that you trust her not
to use it again.
1t is burning your tongue with boiling
hot coffee rather than pour the coffee into
the saucer to cool it. 1t is answering for
NAL invitation by speaking of yourself in the
third person as though you were somebody
else. 1t is marking a visiting card ''P. P.
c." to show that you are going away, and
"P. T. O." if you have written something on
the back and bending the visiting card in
the middle to indicate something or other
that at the moment you can't remember.
1t is, if you are hostess, having the
maid serve you first to prove to your guests
that you are not going to poison them with
out dying, too. 1t is giving your left arm
to lady so that your right is free to use
your sword in an emergency. 1t is waiting
for lady to speak to you first so that she
may have the privilege of cutting you if she
Wallis. IL Is addressing DIS LSQulT0 dUy-
one to whom you hope to sell life insurance
or bond.
1t is starting to eat something as soon
as you have been helped to it, instead of
waiting for everybody to be helped, thereby
subtly insinuating to your hostess that her
servants are ideal and are going to get
around to the others in no time at all.
Etiquette is, in short, doing lot of
queer things for fear that if you don't lot
of people will conclude that you are lacking
in refinement, if not common sense
So much time was devoted to the social
security business at the state editorial con-
vention last week that some of the boys
wondered whether after all we are news
paper publishers or tax collectors.
John Zwach's column has new kick to
it this year as John becomes more familiar
with legislative matters and what goes on
behind the scenes. Taxpayers little sus-
pect some of the abuses which veteran leg
isators are calloused to as necessary evils
of democratic government"
In that regard, word of praise to Har-
old Barker, speaker of the house, who has
his organization working full weeks at least
half the time this session, the idea being to
ease the last minute jam of bills. As coun-
try editor, Mr.. Barker learned the folly of
leaving all the work until press day
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RECESSING MANIA

Inc legislature COSIS Tie SldtS
approximately $1,000 per hour
while in session. 1t therefore
seems absurd that the house
should adhere to the policy of re-
cessing or suspending operations
temporarily for almost any cele-
brity who happens along.
Only about one-half hour was
spent to see and hear the Black
Bomber, Joe Louis. Then, We'd
nesday, a delegation from Spain
representing the Loyalist faction
happened into the Twin Cities,
and nothing would do but that
this delegation be heard, even
though it cost the state a few
hundred dollars
The movement was also dang
erous in that it had the state TAX
ing sides on serious condition in
Europe. Hardly had the delega-
ton left when a collection was
taken among the members to help
the communist" cause in Spain.
And so the house goes on recess
ing.
ELECTION RACKET
A unique way of bleeding the
state out of a few thousands each
session is the recount racket and
it is growing like a malignant
cancer. The racket brings the
bills for election contests to the
state and expects the state to
pay from $3.50 to $1,000 for each
of these recounts. The joker In
the deck is that the individuals
who do the counting receive
about SIS a day for counting and
the attorney sends in a bill of
about $50 or 500 day for his
indispensable" service.
Legally these recounts are
charged to the losing contestant
but the state has been willing
horse. There will be about a
dozen of these contest bills at this
session. There will be definite
effort when these bills are pre-
sented this year to spike this
racket.
PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS
: The entire old age pension sys-
tenn is in a precarious position.
Should any one county refuse to
pay the one-sixth that counties
are now requested to contribute,
the entire setup would be multi
fed and some $4,000 pensioners
bereft of their monthly checks.
Several counties insist that
their finances are in such shape
that they can no longer meet their
share of the payments and the
resultant clamor is that the state
should assume all of the counties
shares. This demand, since start
ed, is gaining momentum and
there is a danger that the coun-
ties which have kept their finan-
cial houses in order are going tc
be asked to pay the bill for those
which admit they cannot carry
on.
Aimed at the elimination OF
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Capitol SLants
BIZ John M. ZUdch
Representative at Large
edlpoOd and Broapn Counties

The house has received a COM
pliment from the speaker on the
manner in which it is expediting
its work in this session. The
work is apparently further adj
vanced at this time that at the
same time in any previous ses-
sion in recent years. All commit
tees are working diligently, get
ting out bills, many of which are
now reported back to the house
and are being considered on the
floor.
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American New. Feature. Inr.

PUBLISHERS TURNED HIM
DOWN SO ne WROTE FOR
uE FUTURE WHICH COULD
NOT 90 ANYTHING
ABOUT l1--
Evening star., 1937-05-22

fundamental soundness in agricultural
economics and he taught at Wisconsin,
Oklahoma State Agricultural and
Mechanical College, University of
Saskatchewan and the George Pea
body College for Teachers, Nashville.
Tenn.
But his sermon on land economics
brought him few apostles In 1919
the Department Of Agriculture, how
ever. realized that it might have pos
sibilities and put him in charge of a
tiny division Of land economics.
His first interest was to show that
the United States had no land policy
should develop one.
I'VE in this country are backward,
compared with Europe, in developing
national concern with land holdings
and bringing about a proper adjust
ment in land holdings he told the
reporter.
Europe restricts private exploitation
Of the land. and Gray would like to
see the United States do the same.
Since 1888 Gray has been listened
to attentively, and what he says about
taking worn-out land out Of produc-
ton has been acted on. Before then
he had limited audience, and he
feels that If Roosevelt had never been
elected, he would not have signed his
options for 100000 acres.
He owns farm Of his own near
Leesburg, Va, but he has not decided
yet that Resettlement should buy it..
UQless he does, he will never have the
pleasure Of signing the same document
as vendor and vendee.
Evening star., 1937-05-22

From that point he concluded that
farm tenancy in America was an
evil because it hastened erosion of
the land
Few persons paid much attention
Evening star., 1937-05-22

ton trip" And to local school spon-
sors, A. A. A. Motor Club officials,
directors and members goes thrill,
too. They return home from Wash
ington with renewed determination to
make present patrols more efficient.
II that Is possible, and to install
patrols at additional needed locations.
While the parade and conference
provide glamorous, f1ag-Waving
event to inspire and reward those
taking part in it, you, as motorist
mustn't loose sight Of the thousands
Of patrol boys and girls serving
throughout the Country not fortunate
enough to attend, but just as worthy
Of your constant commendation for
job well done. And next time you
see a patrol member, give him or her
more than q casual glance. Look
intently at that happy, sum tanned
sometimes weather beaten face, and
see in that patrolman the exempli-
f1cation of all youth courageously
serving. Better words would be
dimcult to find than those used by
President Roosevelt last May when he
spoke to patrolmen gathered on the
lawn Of the White House: "' =" when
youth voluntarily assumes helpful
activities like yours for the benefit Of
the entire community, I, for one, feel
ever SO much more confident in regard
to the future-your future and the
future Of the country"
Evening star., 1937-05-22

to the pet theory Of Gray. who was
born in Liberty. Mo. in 1881, just
Fl years after Lincoln ran on his
homesteading plank.
He was deeply respected for his
Evening star., 1937-05-22

since the A. A. A. began years ago
the sponsorship of this huge gathering
in the Nations Capital of representa-
tives Of these stalwart youngsters
safety sentinels on the Nations high
ways This demonstration has served
to vitalize the entire patrol movement.
Ofhcialdom turns out and "eyes right"
follow the snappy command Of boy
leaders as the marching groups pass
the reviewing stand filled with elders
of national reputation. Only those
who watch the two-hour-long parade,
including bands, and bugle corps, and
drill teams can understand the thrill
that comes to the thousands Of parents
and friends who line the sidewalks.
And to many, lump appears in the
throat and eyes blink as "Boydom's S
Legion of Honor" marches past-boys
with medals presented after careful in
vestigation has revealed that they had
actually saved the lives of schoolmates,
or prevented serious injury.
BUT thrills for the spectators is not
the sum total Of effect Of this
parade and conference that proceeded
it. Patrol boys. fortunate to be among
those present" go back to their posts
with renewed interest, with renewed
alertness, with renewed belief in the
importance Of the job they are doing.
Less fortunate schoolmates work
diligently for q year 50 that they. too,
might be picked" for the "Waahing-
Evening star., 1937-05-22

in haze Of dust and exhaust fumes.
Behind the Infantry. with its light
tanks, come the motorized guns of the
Artillery. OF on the fanks rides the
mechanical Cavalry on gasoline-swill-
ing chargers.
Where in this picture of mechanical
fighting machines Is the horse, which
has figured so picturesquely in warfare
since the days when the early Greeks
immortalized their cavalry in friezes
and on urns? So much stress has been
placed on the program OF mechani-
zation that it is not strange if the
layman should consider the horse as
much thing Of the past in the mill
tary service as he is on the streets Of
a great city.
Nothing, however, could be farther
from the truth. Despite the multiple
cation of mechanical equipment for
the Army, equus caballus, the good old
horse. continues to hold his own. No
wait moment. 1t is not the good old
horse, 1t rather is new horse upon
which the Army relies in this machine
age
For the Army is improving the
horse. BY careful selection and breed
ing the Army is producing horses
which are better military mounts than
those Of even so recent period as the
World War. Within the last 20 years
there has been noticeable improve
ment in the strength, stamina and all
around fitness of the Cavalry horse,
Army officers say. There is no ques-
ton. they claim. about the fact that
the troopers OF the Sd Cavalry at Fort
Myer, for example, ride much better
Evening star., 1937-05-22
By Blair Bolles.

n &c A U S E Abraham Lincoln
X learned about farming in the
- Midwest, Lewis c. Gray to-