The Redwood gazette., 1937-07-01

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WITH THIS ISSUE THE GAZETTE
begins it's SiXty-ninth year, new series of
So issues which will chronicle the triumphs
and troubles of the large area surrounding
Redwood Falls in which the paper now has
paid correspondents, the majority of whom
are able and active.
Father or foster-parent of much of the
forward-looking effort of the city since it
was promising pioneer village, The Gazette
will continue to be persistent advocator of
improvements it believes the city should
make and to serve as medium for others
who conceive practical programs of civic bet
terment.
Full coverage of the news will be the
principal aim of the staff, however, with a
view to greater circulation and improved
service to advertisers.
The past year has seen considerable in
crease in circulation, the addition of several
correspondents, the installation of second
linotype making possible the publication of
more news and more timely news, change
in the mailing time of the paper so that it
reaches practically all subscribers within "a
hours of printing, big increase in the num-
ber of pictures employed to tell news stories
and the replacement of much old type with
new, more readable faces.
A newspaper practically has age beaten.
While it grows old year by year, it is new
each week.
REDWOOD FALLS HAS A PRIV
!ege only occasionally accorded cities its size
in entertaining statewide convention, that
of the Minnesota State Cemetery associa-
tion, this week.
Delegations from all corners of the state
will be our guests today and Friday, here to
study the problems peculiar to their organ
ization and the associations which they re-
present, to meet others interested in ceme-
terry Improvement and to enjoy our scenery
and our hospitality.
Conventions mean much to a city, not
just for the dollars the delegates leave with
hotels, restaurants, oil stations and stores
but because of the impressions they carry
away, their comments on the advantages the
city has, it's treatment of strangers and the
feeling of good will, born of their visit,
which later may prompt favOrs, large and
small, in the citys interest.
Cities have gained industries through
the recommendations of casual visitors, they
have been chosen as the sites of state insti-
tutions through friendships no more casual,
they have gained new conventions by
thoughtful treatment of visitors at one such
meeting
Welcome the visitors.
PARENTS OF BOYS WHO HAVE
neglected to encourage them to affiliate with
the Boy Scouts or like organization where
yer it is possible for the boys to do so will
be interested in a announcement by federal
secret service authorities on the subject.
They say the percentage of juvenile crime
in America is far less in communities where
Boy Scouts and similar organizations are
maintained than in those communities which
either discourage or fail to take any inter-
est. IF we are to prevent crime" says one
federal Investigator, 1--WE must begin with
the high chair instead of the electric chair"
Combating crime is a responsibility of all
citizens and not merely of law enforcement
officers. Those who help the boys of this
country to grow up into useful, w-abiding
citizens are helping to prevent crime and
there can be no doubt but aiding and encour-
aging the Boy Scouts and like organizations
is an excellent way to 60 about 1.-THE
Westbrook Sentinel.
AN INSURANCE COMPANY HAS
made survey of all parts of the country,
trying to find out who pays the taxes. 1t
arrives at these figures:
The $18 a week worker who owns no
property pays $116 year in invisible taxes
on goods and services.
One cent out of every five spent to own
and operate secondhand car goes to taxes.
If person pays rent, 25.3 cents of
every dollar go to the tax collector.
The head of a family with $3.50 a
month, used car but no real estate, pays
1929 year in taxes. This does not include
income tax.-Taxation Magazine.
THE STATE is UNDERTAKING THE
remaining of lakes whose titles are too fire.
quently duplicated for easy Identification.
Indian words will be favored. Thus the Mud
lake or Long lake on which you fished last
season may bear some tongue twister like
Winnibigoshish or Koochiching when you
dip in an oar next season.
WHEN LEGISLATORS BEND THEIR
efforts toward fair tax program in which
everyone contributes directly in accordance
with ability to pay, no one can complain.
When tax bill is conceived and pushed with
the idea of prosecuting certain groups for
political advantage, Democracy is seriously
threatened