The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-04-21
THE PRIVILEGE OF DOUBLE PARK


Falls when the parallel parking system re-
placed the diagonal method several years
ago. Aside from the difficulty some drivers
experience in getting into parallel spaces UNI
less there is room for several cars, the par
allel system probably is the safer and more
satisfactory method generally-so long as
double parking is regarded as a special
privilege and not abused. When persons
double park longer than the Specified limit
they not only impose upon persons parked
next to the curb who wish to get out but
they contribute to traffic tie-ups, of which
there were several on Second street Satur-
day.
The parking problem is one which has
practically every city more or less baffled
today. The situation in Redwood Falls has
been helped materially by the generous
furnishing of several close-in lots, free, by
private parties but there is no conceivable
method by which the city's growing number
of customers can all be accommodated with
space directly downtown on busy days. Lo-
cal residents who avoid taking up space for
long periods with their cars and otherwise
show consideration for others, however, con-
tribute materially toward the realization of
such parking Utopia.
EVERY CITY HAS SOME NATURAL
advantages, such as the matter of location,
nearby resources, development of local in
dustries from small beginnings, fortunate
settling within it's confines of far-seeing in
dividuals willing to cooperate and work un-
selisSly for the further development of the
city.
Likewise every town has some handi-
caps, circumstances which are difficult to
overcome; some which involve considerable
effort to offset, some which only time will
IoT11 nd Of ovc will oI1uou han
progress.
Every community whose citizens feel it
has future should favor some form of
planning committee, some group fully repre-
sentative of it's citizens which is capable of
taking careful inventory Of the advantages
and handicaps and willing to devote thought
and effort to development along such lines
as the city has possibilities. Such COM
mittee might be amazed to find how often
progress has come about through tickle Lady
Luck, how seldom because of fellow citizens
having seized opportunities and promptly
seen to their fulfllment.
| EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE SOME
one suggests that names of all persons receiv-
| ing relief be published, undoubtedly in the
hope that making public their names would
| humiliate them that they would prefer star
walton to receiving relief
Inc counter Suggestion mas DSen maze
| that of all persons, firms and corpora
tions who pay their employees such low wages
| that supplementary relief is necessary be pub
| lshed.
In Ramsey county alone 1900 persons
| receiving supplementary relief-and many of
| their employers listed among "Minnesota's
| Sixty Families" Payment of living wages
| would take these persons off the relief rolls
| A. 1. Harris Capitol News Review.
AS one of those who believes all relief
expenditures should be published, although
anticipating no epidemic of hunger strikes,
we believe that Mr.. Harris owes it to the
state to name the firms which pay less than
a Giving wage for fulltime employees. In
situations accomplish nothing while facts,
if he has any, might accomplish much.
THERE SEEMS TO BE A SHARP
difference of opinion in couple of the state
administrations publicity offices. The one
which puts out the main political letter in the
state capitol lists series of calamities that
''have all combined to bring agriculture to
its present sad condition" In the same mail
the state department of rural credit has
piece headlining active market for farm
lands" and says 'the demand for farms on
the part of bona fide farmers is well above
last year." If the first fellow is right, then
the second one is guilty of misrepresenta-
ton; or the other way around Montevideo
News.
| PROGRESS EVEN IN DEPRESSION
is indicated in the state tax commissions
published reports on Redwood county fin
ances for 1880 and 1886.
4 In 1880 the debt Of the county was
ii $1,399,65 in 1886 it was $818,500.
j In 1880 townships debts totalled
III $51, $751; in 1886, $14,911.
In 1880 city and village debts ag-
!, gregated $161, sos; in 1886, $132,854
In 1880 school districts owed $417,-
535; in 1886, $366,676.
!
NEBRASKA HAS NO INCOME TAX,
| no sales tax, no bonded indebtedness. No
one has gone hungry there, although rural
areas of the state have suffered from a
severe and extended drouth. Minnesotans
might be wise to study how Nebraskans
do it.
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