The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-29

One Year (vvthIn 80 mIIss Of City, $50
One Yea- ELSEWHERE In United stated q
One Year (outsde United stated &2bo
AFTER the weather experience of late
April, possibly Redwood Falls business men
should take out snow insurance on their
festival, June % and "a.
THIS is the season of the year when
many of the teachers weigh the advantages
of a secure contract against the comparative
uncertainties of marriage.
A HIGH Italian authority says that not
a single Italian soldier will leave Spain until
the war is ended. 1t would no doubt be COM
forting to their parents if they knew they
would be able to leave then.
DON'T COMPLAIN that the 1887 leg
islature shirked. 1t actually set some sort
of record for number of laws adopted. Ut
course it failed to accomplish it's main pur-
pose, that of raising enough taxes to match
its spending ability.
AT LEAST four Redwood county towns
are making determined efforts to bag the
100000 poultry dressing plant which the
Land O'Lakes organization plans to build in
this territory. The interest shown by bust
ness men in the project indicates the de-
mand for industry which exists in these
towns. Growth and improvement depends
on providing more employment and adding
property to the tax rolls.
LAKE BREEZES in the Fairmont Sem
tinel wants to know What has become of
the old-fashioned business man who looked
around at the close of the school year for
WI n n start
at the bottom, learn the business from the
ground up, marry his daughter, then be-
come a member of the firm" He's dolling
up the upstairs rooms for an apartment and
hoping that the dude daughter picked out
will bestir himself sufficiently to keep the
lawn moved.
ment insurance and old age annuities princi-
pally) costs business firms three per cent of
their payrolls and another one per cent
comes out of the employees salary. But is
it paid in one check to one government bur-
eau. Certainly not, that would eliminate red
tape and confusion-also jobs and admin
istrative expense. Instead we pay 1.8 per
cent here, 2 per cent another, 8 per cent
in third check and another 2 in fourth.
1t takes genius to concoct such system.
last 20 years is the concentration of more
power in the hands of the federal govern
ment-more power to be abused, misused
and misdirected by the bureaucrats in
charge of the various departments >. There
is danger ahead, but am confident that the
American people know that democratic
form of government, though defective, is the
best form of government that can possibly
be devised for our own best interest. They
will not surrender it, either to the president
or the court.-Congressman William Lemke.
VERY POOR POLITICS" is the opin-
ion of political guessers on the special ses-
sion of the legislature necessitated by dis
agreement on tax program between the
senate and the majority faction in the house,
the latter working with the governor.
Which side will be most seriously af-
fected will depend on what success the other
has in placing the blame for the mixup, the
expense of a special session and difficulties
which may arise as result. The special SEES
sion and the peoples lobby" will be the sub
ject of much oratory in the next campaign.
Undoubtedly both sides are partly at
fault. For the house, it must be said that
it prepared it's tax bills (All tax bills must
originate in the house, and had them in the
hands of the senate comparatively early In
the session. Selling the opportunity pre-
scented by carelessly headed house bill, the
senate attached it's own ideas on tax matters
to an apparently innocent tax measure late
in the session and another omnibus" tax
proposal made headlines. Every senator re-
cognized and was warned that this encroach.
ment on the privileges of the house would
not be we'll received. Furthermore it was
altogether too late to begin the necessary
conferences before an agreement could be
remotely hoped for.
On the other hand the house had al
ready played politics with its taxing bills
Many of them were utterly unreasonable
made so for the political thunder to be OBJ
tanned from the reductions in rates certain
to be made by relatively conservative SEN
ate.
In the end it appeared that some agree
ment might be reached. After many hours
in conference, both sides had backed down
part way and the state seemed destined to