The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-07-29
THE GAZETTE'S EDITORIAL AND FEATURE PAGE
WADENA, IF YOU KNOW YOUR

WADENA, If YOU KNOW YOUR
Minnesota map, is nicely situated for lake
outings, yet the Wadena Pioneer-Journal
told it's readers recently of ten year old
boy, born and reared there, who only this
month saw lake for the first time.
1t sounded very strange at first but we
recall that on our first trip to the Twin Cit
les we were taken through the state capitol
to Minnehaha Falls, Fort Smelling and num-
erous other places that some of our hosts,
natives of the cities, admitted they hadn't
ever visited before or hadn't been to for
years.
1t is very often the places of interest
close at home that we never quite get around
to see. We drive off 100 or 200 miles to see
attractions. Well bet there are persons
well over ten years of age living within 10
or 20 miles of Redwood Falls who have never
been in Ramsey park, yet people drive much
greater distances to spend few hours there.
A NEIGHBOR TOLD US THE OTHER
day that he had paid the mortgage on his
home and now did not owe dollar in the
world. He was very happy. So much so
that we did not disillusion him. This man
has family of six-himself, wife and four
children. The per capita public debt in this
country is now $452 so that on family of
six there is debt of $2,712. This is first
mortgage on the home or the earning power
of the father that comes ahead of all other
claims and it has to be paid. Perhaps the
father will not walk up to the treasurer's
window and pay the debt in cash but if he
does not pay it thus directly, he will pay in
the high cost of living-in everything he
buys, uses or needs. There are, for example,
48 different taxes in suit of clothes.-Long
Prairie Leader.
DO NOT RIDE WITH DRUNKEN
drivers. The new traffic law forbids it.
Even if you are sufficiently foolish to risk
your life with a drunken driver, you will not
be permitted to do so under the Minnesota
statute. You can be hailed into court for so
doing. So do not take a chance. Another
thing, if a tavern operator advises tippler,
who has "too much to get in his car and
drive home, he is subject to arrest. The new
traffic law has teeth in it. To enforce it!
that's another thing.-New Ulm Journal.
GOVERNOR BENSON HAS MADE 1T
clear that he plans personally to carry the
legislative fight into the districts of the SEN
ators who baked his program. The senator
whose places might thus be endangered,
however, are consoling themselves with the
thought that he may have reelection
problem of his own at that time.
WE ALL LIKE THE 80 MILE. PER
hour speed limit that was set for villages
and Cities but it is not going to be worth
rap unless village and city officials enforce
it. The only way to enforce the ruling is to
make few arrests regardless of whether it
hits the towns elite or not.-Red Lake Falls
Gazette.
ONE GATHERS FROM THEIR RE-
marks that the leaders of both legislative
factions are somewhat dissatisfied with the
net results of the six mouths wrangle. Which
probably means that the outcome was a
fairly decent compromise
"EVERYTIME YOU BREATHE"
says the Swift County Monitor, "a Chinese
dies, the government at Washington spends
$7285O and two strikes are called" And
holding ones breath doesn't hold up the ma
chinery one bit.
IN ITALY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM
might we'll be, "I am raising my boy to be
soldier, to kill some other mothers boy"