The Redwood gazette., 1937-10-28

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NEXT TIME YOU MEET A SINCERE
patriot who complains about the shortcon
ings of the capitalistic system in providing
the abundant life" ask him what percent
age of the worlds motor cars are owned in
America. American families operate a total
of 29,0G0,O00 passenger cars. All the rest
of the world has but 100000. In Ameri-
ca there is motor vehicle for every "A per-
sons. France has one for every 10 citizens,
England one for every 20 and Germany one
for every 40.
Furthermore over Is per cent of the
cars in America are owned by families earn
ming $40 per week or less and well over SO
ger cent by families whose weekly incom
is $50 or less. They keep up the payments
under the capitalistic system.
WITHOUT THE RURAL MARKET
any business boom in this country necessari
ly turns into tailspin With farmers hold
ing onto their cash crops, particularly corn,
until the prices move upward, trade in the
rural areas slows up and big orders for mer-
chandise cease to flow into the industrial
centers. The solution should be clear
enough. Liberal government loans will en-
able farmers to hold their corn until the
price is stabilized and give them the money
with which to make the improvements on
their farms and buy the equipment they an
ticipated getting from this years crop. 1t
is sound farm relief at minimum cost.
A QUAINT PHILOSOPHY IN THIS
modern age is that of the Amish sect of East
Lampeter county, Pennsylvania, who believe
in the simpler things of life and right now
are involved in dispute with the govern
ment over attendance of their children at
PWA financed consolidated school just COM
pleted The Amish sect objects to school
buses, prefers the old one-room schools to
more modern structures. 1t all sounds very
odd to us but in this nation Of religious free
dom they should have been consulted before
the building project was launched and can
hardly be forced to accept it, even though
completed.
TRAFFIC WOULD MOVE MUCH
better and safer if the pokey driver and the
impatient speedster would each adopt a
more reasonable speed and permit traffic to
move along more uniformly, but until zones
of maximum and minimum speeds are estab-
lished and observed, we will continue to use
our highways as race tracks rather than as
roads.-Morris Tribune.
WHILE THE GOVERNMENT TAKES
credit for revival of business, it may well
point to the automobile business as it's out
standing ally in the drive for recovery. The
United States News is authority for the in
formation that from 1888 low of PA, 900
persons, employment in the industry was
stepped up in 1887 to $4,000 which was well
ahead of the 1929 peak of 448,OOO.
BIG CITY NEWSPAPERS WHICH
print columns and columns about profession
al wrestling and fighting and pages and
pages about highly commercialized college
football, virtually, in comparison, ignore
corn husking contests which have bigger
reader interest in rural areas than all the
Joe Lewises and Bronko Nagurskis put to-
gether.
AT THIS TIME OF YEAR MINNIE
sofa is always gorgeous. We can travel by
any highway and behold grandeur and
splendor of scenery such as few can exhibit.
But unfortunately many of these natural
beauties are SCARED and obscured by the un-
slightly bill boards that grin at us mile after
mile as we travel along. The bill board has
become general nuisance.-Slayton Herald.
"HOW YOU HAVE AGED" is THE
nfSC LnOuSnC CIldI IuuS CIIOuSu CIc IlIIloo
of two persons who have not seen each other
for number of years. Strange we do not
feel that we have changed much but that
our friend has grown grayer or heavier or
thinner as the case may be.-Blooming
Prairie Times.
MUSSOLINI WAS HAILED IN ITALY
as a new Caesar after his annexation of
Ethiopia. But the Italians are finding the
colony is luxury. 1t costs many lives and
much cash to keep the natives in check. A
Roman empire is not maintained without
heavy taxation. Any trade obtained from
such territory comes at high price.
THE CANADIAN STORK DERBY
was over a year ago but the several hug
families now on relief who feel they should
share in the fortune which was posted as a
prize are still waiting for the money. An
other scheme for getting -rich-quick is found
to have drawbacks.
LOTS OF THE FELLOWS WHO
uara kickinU themselves few weeks apO