The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-05-05
PRIMARY ELECTIONS GENERAL

FRlMAh1 ELECl1OINO
ly throw considerable light on which can
didates will take the count at the fall finals
but the figures which will be available for
computations after the first round this year
may prove as confusing so far as the state
ticket is concerned as those items they quar-
rel about in the federal budget.
Hialmer Petersens candidacy is large
ly responsible for this situation. 1t is con-
coded that he will poll big vote. In the
rural sections at least he has very GOOD
chance of running abreast If not ahead OF
Governor Benson. Even among party stall
warts there is evidence of considerable dis
content with the administration and partlc-
ularly with the efforts to run things from
St. Paul" Among FL association men, on
whom the incumbent counts, there are many
who feel not only the state but the party
will be best served by changing leaders and
they have no qualms about voting for the
protesting candidate, feeling that he is as
thoroughly FL although less radical than his
rival Many still believe he should have had
the nomination last time.
Petersen also will draw strong support
from the Republicans and Democrats, many
of whom have little choice between the con-
tenders in their party or feel the best among
fall. Petersen support has become so gen.
eral that Republican candidates at least
have recognized and admitted it in anxious
appeals to the voters.
Should Benson be renominated the bat
tie would be on from both sides to WOO the
Petersen votes. There would be all sorts of
estimates as to how many of them repre-
sented dissatisfied Els, how many Repub-
leans and how many Democrats and with
er they will be likely to drift in the fall.
Assuming Petersen's nomination, it might
ha sad hat IN I hi 70
a candidate from another party, but the
Democrats and Republicans would still court
that part of the Petersen total not normally
Farmer-Laborite.
Whoever is nominated, other candidates
will be able to work out formula making
them the fall winner, two of which are des-
tined to be far wrong
PARENTS WHO YEARN TO REAR A
child capable of earning place in Hollywood
where fame and fortune are occasionally at
tanned long before adolescence, may find
solace in the frequent reports of family
troubles and ruined lives growing out of
such successes.
Stories of actors and actresses, rich
and momentarily idolized, who have neglect
ed the duty of providing for their parents
and opposite tales of parents who have ap-
proprlated vast sums earned by precocious
children in brief period during which their
charms were "box office come from the
film capital with such regularity it can al
most be said that film fortunes are unfort-
unate-quickly obtained but as rapid in
their destruction of the finer human quail
ties, without which no life is truly success
full.
THE HEAVILY TAXED AMERICAN
can derive some comfort from the English
tax picture Forty-four million residents of
England, Scotland and Wales pay approx
mately the same amount in taxes as 100
million Americans. The base rate on income
taxes there is 2712 per cent, here it's four
per cent. Corporations there pay the same
rate while here assessments vary from 1919
to 19 per cent under the new law
IF THE GOVERNMENT GRABBED
as its own, total incomes of all persons earn
ing over $4,000 per year in this country it
still wouldn't have enough to pay it's ex-
penses. We are soaking the rich all right
as the politicians recommend but we are also
fooling ourselves when we shrug our should
ers and say '1et the government spend, it
doesn't come out of my pocket"
IN RECOMMENDING THAT RE-
covery costs be met from current income
and declaring that public welfare will not
long be served by curtailing production, the
La Toilette party struck two highly popular
notes. These are two points on which the
new deal is most vulnerable to criticism.