The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-03-04


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RECENT studies indicate that farm
youths are no longer rushing to the cities to
find jobs. Breadlines are no inducement to
boys and girls in whom All clubs have de-
veloped an interest in farming as a vocation
The fact that farm life did not offer the re-
lief from monotonous tasks that city people
take for granted was one reason for the mi
grafton which now has waned. Rural cleo
tricity will be an important factor in max
ing youngsters happy in farm life.
ONE OF these problems which legis-
lator views with alarm" is that of provid-
ing funds for highway construction pro-
grams partly financed with federal money
in a state where motorists object to further
bond issues and are not enthusiastic about
high gas taxes or license fees. With work
to be done on highway II, Redwood county
has reason to wish to see funds for construc-
ton provided.
SNOW REMOVAL during the winter
months is an expensive item in highway
maintenance. But roads cleared of snow
escape that spring breakup" period when
holes and ruts increase maintenance ex-
pense. Snow blowing therefore serves not
only to keep roads passable in winter but
during the spring months as well. Sounds
like pretty wise investment.
THE GAZETTE office has been in the
same building for a good many years, yet
we are concerned every spring with scores
of movers Some subscribers warn us weeks
in advance to change their paper March
to their new address. Others call in and
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few seem to expect us to guess where they
are going and when. They usually write or
call about March Is and want to know "why
the heck you haven't sent our paper"
FORM LETTER B" was popular ex-
preston Tuesday evening at the Civic and
Commerce association dinner, used in refer
ence to those very polite but unrevealing
letters which senators, congressman and
postal officials write in answer to queries,
petitions, etc. concerning Redwood Falls
new postoffce. 1t would seem that someone
down at Washington could and would be
willing to inform us as to just where we
stand in the postoffce circle and how to go
about improving that standing.
This sitdown strike business is dyna-
mite for employers, strikers and govern
ment officials if they all could be made to
realize it. Strikers are losing public SYM
pathy by openly and defantly breaking the
law. The government is made to look like
a monkey when it allows it. Some day troops
are going to evacuate one of these plants
with bloodshed, property damage and
great hue and cry. The administration would
do well to quietly tell union officials that this
sitdown business must stop.
LIBERAL minded ourselves, we never
theless find one fault extremely common
with liberals. That is extreme Impotence
and the desire to reform everything at once.
Like the man in business who spreads out
faster than conditions warrant, the govern
ment which becomes involved in too many
enterprises is on dangerous ground. All lib
eralism suffers when one plan so classed,
like the NRA, becomes so involved that it
is unavoidable. 1t is not for one administra-
ton, either state or national, to right all the
wrongs and establish an entire new way of
life. Steady progress is better than splash
ing attempts which get no where.
CONSIDERABLE credit is due the dis
trict committee, c. N Nicholson, tourna-
ment manager and his helpers for the
smooth manner in which the sub-district
basketball tournament went off. The close
attention to every detail including punctual
starting of games was a credit to the school.
This will be an important factor when, with
completion of the new auditorium gymna-
SUM, Redwood Falls asks for district and
regional meets.
ONE THING we can depend on seeing
more of during the summer months is trail
Ter homes, some of them palatial mansions
of the highways. Southern states at this
season of the year, our travelled friends tell
us, are full of them.
ONE SUGGESTION for improvement
of downtown parking which is practical
costs nothing and would help considerably
is that of requiring business and profession
al people to park their cars outside the bust
ness district. Campaigns on the subject in
the past have worked well for few weeks
after which they were forgotten.
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THE STATE conservation commission
has been in the news constantly with inter-
nal strife and answers to criticism from the
outside. One of the commissions ideas
which got it into hot water out here was the