The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-04-15
THE HOUSE and senate have adopted

THE HOUSE and senate have adopted
bills to do away with the five man commits
sion in charge of the state conservation de-
partment, substituting one-man board"
similar to the highway department setup.
After differences in the two bills are ironed
out, the change is likely to become law.
If we may offer one suggestion to the
new commissioner, whoever he may be, it
is that he save himself and his department
considerable grief and improve park govern
ment by restoring home rule to our state
parks. If what changes have been made or
are contemplated in other parks are no more
popular with the park-going public, than
those instituted at our own Alexander RAM
sey in recent years, the conservation COM
mission must receive no end of kicks.
Where once inviting by-roads diverted
park traffic through particularly beautiful
glens, today forbidding "road closed" signs
keep out scenery loving visitors. More of
such signs, we understand, will soon be
erected despite protests. Economy and
safety" serves as the excuse for the changes
although park accidents are notably infre-
quent and what savings, if any, can be ex-
pected through the closing of few furlongs
of already improved roads certainly are
insignificant. The reported saving on the
closing of one such stretch last year was
SIT, less SIP for the sign or net saving
of SIS.
The buffalo must go, state park officers
tell us, although citizens stand ready to pro-
vide what feeo Is necessary to keep this ma
jor attraction in the park. Proposed ad-
mission charges were a bone of contention
a year ago, finally ending in charges to tour
lists which didn't gross enough to be worth
the bother.
Like so many other instances where
control has been taken out of the hands of
local governing bodies, directly concerned
with the welfare of the institution and on
hand to get any kicks promptly, remote con-
troll of state parks has not worked out.
THAT the state money and credits
tax should be made effective upon the wealth
of the dishonest as we'll as those who hon.
main on the statute book at all, is conten-
ton that few will deny. However, there is
great danger in some proposals before the
legislature. The plan to take fourth of
the income, already tiny, from savings bank
deposits, without exemptions, is as unfair
as demanding quarter out of the first and
every dollar that small wage Garner earns.
Proposed taxes on mortgages, aimed at the
bloated rich, are more likely to come out of
the poor cuss who gives the mortgage, like
the mortgage registry tax which was sup
! posed to hit only, the wealthy.
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IF THOSE nine supposedly crustily con-
sentative old dodgers on the supreme court
continue to hand down liberal opinions,
President Roosevelt's court packing plan
may get support from real reactionaries in
| the hope that some of his appointees,
through slip, will prove mite conserva-
tive in their opinions.
Seriously, however, this hub-dub about
one man decisions is wasted breath. Amerl-
ca is too accustomed to the majority rules
principle to warrant any variance from that
principle. It's tough to lose decision by
the vote of one man, but has anyone heard
a new deal lawyer grouse about winning by
that scant margin?
EVEN among those who supported him
last fall, there is a growing lack OF confid-
ence in Governor Benson who assembled to
the position after favorable record as COM
missioner of banks. Possibly it is because
of studied attempt to follow in Governor
Olson's footsteps. Most of us are poor imi-
tators. We do better when we are just our
selves.
THE last generation took care of their
parents. 1t was unusual to find a person
on a poor farm who had any family. Among
the blessings of the new order of things,
this has all been changed. The old folks
are turned over to the government.-Long
Prairie Leader.
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ONE PROBLEM of modern parents
which did not concern our fathers and
mothers is that of teaching the youngsters
to talk during the radio advertising hooey
and keep quiet during the entertainment
, feature.
:
SOME folks save time at 80 miles per
then spend six months in the hospital fig.
uring out where they were wrong.