The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-15

A GROUP of fortunate representatives
of Redwood Falls business organizations
wore rather long faces to luncheon meet
ing of officers of the Minnesota State Gem
eterv association Monday noon, the purpose
of the gathering being to make plans Tor
the associations convention to be held mere
in july. There is something forebodmg
about a cemetery that we naturally asso-
ciated with the association. We say Tor
tunate Representatives" advlsedly, however,
for the association officers are no crepe
hangers and the meeting was as lively and
interesting as a good meeting of our Civic
and Commerce association or Lions club.
The state cemetery association is dong
a fine piece of work in improving and beau
tifying cemeteries and standardlzlng GEM
etery business and maintenance methoos.
It is fortunate that group OF citizens inter-
ested themselves in this work.
Redwood Falls will welcome the conven-
ton here this summer and find its guests
on that occasion are men and women OF the
finest type.
Vivian Thorp, who writes the best col
umn on legislation doings we have read, is
author of the following very practical COM
ment: 9" attempts of the rank and file to
purge the FL. party of self-seekers and
adventures who are driving it toward the
rocks should be vigorously renewed. II TINS
is not speedily accomplished, the control OF
an honest progressive movement Will be TOO
powerfully entrenched in the wrong hands
ever to be retrieved, and consequent set
back given the cause of honest liberalism IN
the whole country. the canker has eaten
it's way deeply into the movement In this
state Suffering as it does from lack OF
clear-sighted leadership, the prospects for
4lo Lob
are dubious 1t should not be misled by re-
cent opportunistic successes. This state is
full of sensible, Woodworking, hard-headed,
moderate minded people. They cannot be
stampeded forever, nor for long"
CONGRESSMAN Harold Knutson, one
of the few men still in congress who OPP
posed United States entry in the World
war, has figured out that money loaned Eur
opean nations, if repaid, would pay off the
mortgage on every home and farm in Amer
lea with enough left over to build 100000
miles of hard-surfaced highways. He is
concerned about the collection of these
debts, which most Americans have ceased to
expect. What may well be of greater concern
to the country is some armament truce
which might slow the worlds rush toward a
new world conflict.
DESCRIPTIONS of our river as the
Raging Redwood" have very unfamiliar
sound to all except old-timers in the com
munity. 1t might be added that, high anC
safe on its granite foundation, Redwood
Falls might be described as the Memphis OF
the Redwood while lower and f1atter Mar
shall is the Louisville or Cincinnati of the
current flood.
LEGISLATORS make liberal appropria
tions for state departments on the basis Of
estimates submitted They return two years
later to pass deficiency bills to pay debts in
CURED beyond the amounts authorized
What appeared to be economy at the time
thereupon proves to be only gesture.
ONE LAW the lower house of the leg
islature must pass, or prepare some cock ant
bull story to explain to the folks back home
is the civil service law unanimously adopted
in the senate. Minnesota needs such
statute.
IN MINNEAPOLIS it has been sug
gested that girls who are out late at nigh
carry whistles with which to summon he'll
in case they are in danger. Now isn't thi
nice commentary on life in American cit
les. t-