The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-12-08
EVER SINCE. ELECTION DAY WI

crackpot, got more votes in Redwood county
$500 than in any other of the districts 10.
His home county, Traverse, gave him 1913
which was second high and his totals rang
ed down to GA in Pope county. Undoubtedly
he owes his Redwood county popularity to
the voters familiarity with the name. A.
P. Fak has been a local mike Holm for
several terms and perhaps half or more of
the $50 were confused.
Although he finished poor third, Jen-
nings O'Connor of Renville had the distinc-
ton of making the best run in his home
county. He piled up 1852 votes to 1908
for Kvale and 1896 for Andersen at home,
i'm the face of Republican landslide Kvale
carried his home county, Swift, but with
only 3,086 while Andersen got 2,346 and
O'Connor $50. Lincoln county gave 2,437
votes to it's native son. H. Carl Andersen,
while Kvale got 1850 and O'Connor 423.
With 1884 votes, Andersen carried
ten counties. Kvale was favored in eight
and got 42,572 while O'Connor got 1880
and Falk 4,742.
MONTEVIDEO BUSINESS MEN have
declared war on petty racketeers, who have
been taking over their town for several
months and intend to put a stop to the graft
ing. One hundred of the merchants in that
town have banded together and unanimously
agreed to assess a fine against any OF their
group who donates to advertising schemes
without an authorization from the Civic and
, Commerce association.
E This association of merchants is direct
ing its efforts against itinerant racketeers
who solicit funds for directories, programs
j of limited circulation and solicitors who are
after funds for organizations which do not
operate within the confines of the city and
county. Merchants are being run ragged in
Little Falls every day by outside solicitors
and hundreds of dollars have been thrown
away each month
1t should be pointed out that the mer-
chants of any community do not want to
shirk their responsibility for support Of
worthwhile movements or organizations
which are helping to build bigger and bet
ter community, but they are tired of donat-
ing to gimme" rackets which benefit no one
but itinerant solicitors-Little Falls Trans
cript.
JAPAN HAS BEEN OUR BEST GUS
toner this year, it is announced, because of
huge purchases of scrap-iron. That shows
what fake our so-called neutrality law
turned out to be. One can see that the
Roosevelt administration would let manu-
featured steel be shipped freely to Japan,
in order to keep Americans employed in the
steel plants. But the sale of scrap-iron adds
practically nothing to unemployment pro-
gram. A neutrality program that lets Jap
an buy unlimited quantities of scrap-iron
here, and lets the Chinese get practically no
munitions from us, is queer sort of a sys-
tem.-Park Region Echo (Alexandria).
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you CERTAINLY CAN'T IMPROVE
on nature" the sweet young thing said as
she looked over the beautiful autumn scene.
"Not a blemish. An artist able to catch the
exact colOring would be said to have over
done it. Really nature is perfect, isn't it"
she insisted as she adjusted the car mirror
and got out her own kit for improving on
perfection.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN POOR,
fair, medium and good towns inevitably is
traceable to the number of far.seeing bust
ness men each contains. Every town has
some who spend literally and wisely for pro-
motion as individuals and join in every COM
munity building program. Others sit idly
by and depend for living on the overflow
trade, brought there by the boosters.
PROBABLY NOT LESS THAN TEN
thousand government employees are engag-
ed in writing and sending copy" to the
newspapers, not one tenth of one per cent of
which is ever used directly or indirectly. As
news nearly all of it rates zero minus, but
its dandy way of spending public money
and fooling lot of people into believing they
are news writers.-Fairmont Sentinel
THE CONSERVATIVES WILL HAVE
undisputed control of both branches of the
legislature and the taxpayers will hold them
responsible for the results of the next ses-
sion. They have the opportunity they have
long waited for and their work will be close
ly watched by the people of the state
Waseca Herald.
TO THOSE OF US WHO WERE NOT
completely happy at election results there
is one small compensation. f-and when.
the Republicans get around to keeping just
half of their campaign promsises we will
think the millennium has arrived.-Stillwate
Docf Moccopuor