The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-08-19
THE GAZETTE'S EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE


fact he swallowed his cud of tobacco and it
made him sick.
The boys in the scoring section couldn't
find a way to enter it in the box score but
several sport writer's were sure at least three
ball players had to do it in single game to
set a new worlds record so there wasn't
much in the extras about the incident.
A sport writer leads peculiar life. He
works while you play and when the game
is over he writes up the angles you missed
so you can read about it next day and recog-
nize the points you might have commented
on to the fellow next to you, had you been
smart, or gives you smart ideas you could
yell at the umpire, except that the game is
over.
incidentally the umpire's life reminds us
of that of the editor except that the sub
scribers don't all get together at once to yell
at u.s. Everyone in the stands sees things
job of it if given the chance. No decision
quite satisfies everybody, we even noticed
some we would have liked to override.
THE SPRINGFIELD-ADVAN HAS
investigated the claim that government en-
ployees pay no income taxes and sets its
readers straight on the question, as follows:
Every U. S. government employee is sub
ject to the federal income tax law just the
same as a private employee. Furthermore, it
is difficult for him to escape the tax because
his salary is matter of public record. Every
congressman must pay an income tax to the
federal government his salary and he can't
lie about it. Every postmaster comes under
the law. There no exceptions. Even PreSl-
dent Roosevets salary isn't exempt.
There appears to be misconception about
this. This may come about because federal
employees not subject to state income tax
laws and state employees are not subject to
the federal income tax law. One government
cannot consttutionally tax the salaries of the
other. There should be such exemption
but it would require constitutional amend
ment to change the situation There many
who would like to see such amendment.
HERE'S THE BEST STORY OF THE
week, in fact of several weeks, and it S really
a true story. Some friends of ours have
daughter who is of the modern age and,
naturally, does not take to the old-fashioned
idea of wearing heavy underwear in the win
ter time. Her grandmother, who is living
at her home, noticing the family wash on
the line as cold weather set in, complained
considerably because her granddaughter
was not wearing warm underwear. So each
week throughout the winter the girls moth
er put a suit of heavy underwear in the
wash hung it out on the line until dry, then
put it aside until the next weeks wash went
into the machine when the process was re-
peated. The grandmother was happy be-
cause she thought the girl was warmly clad,
the girl was happy because she did not have
to wear the garment and the mother was
happy because the other two were satisfied
with practically no extra work on her part.
Heron Lake News.
A TRADE MAGAZINE CONTAINS
an interesting sidelight on government, tax
es and the power industry. 1t points out
that the average family pays $33.S4 per year
for electricity, which, considering the serv
ice, isn't considerable sum. The man who
$50 year in cigaret taxes. If two or more
members of the household have the weed
burning habit, they pay more in taxes on
their smokes than for lights. The govern
ment has tremendous program in mind for
cheap electricity but the tax reduction
champions somehow forget the cigaret
smokers, and all other taxpayers, once they
are elected
IN RESPONSE TO OUR CONTEN-
ton that higher building costs are discour-
aging the construction of badly needed new
homes, lumber dealer has handed us a very
interesting article in which there is much
| truth.
1t contends that 1887 home builders, in
spite of rising costs, are still getting one
third more value than in 1929. It points
out that modern homes contain improved
equipment, such as automatic heat, air con-
ditioning, concealed radiation and improved
construction, particularly as to insulation,
which when considered with the fact that
material costs are still ten to Is per cent
below 1929 or 1926, means that the home
builder is still getting bargain.
A FAIRMONT WOMAN QUESTIONS
whether government agencies work together
in their beneficial pretenses. She under
took to save her home by having the govern
ment take over the mortgage on it's well
known easy terms. Unable to earn enough
to make the required monthly payments she
applied for WPA employment which would
enable her to carry them. This was denied
because she owned her own home, and WPA
was mot interested in saving peoples
homes" So she lost the home, and maybe
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