The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-07-14

sofa DOarQ OUT cases vi tHlS kIIu have hap
pened here.
A MAN WHO FREELY ADMITS 1--WE
know because we tried" states just as frank
ly that political pressure has no appreeiable
effect on the state board of education in its
administration Of school matters. His state
ment is substantiated by political writer's,
some of whom would be critical If there were
even small grounds. Commissioner Rock
we'll and compaty are entitled to commend
alton for keeping their record politically
clean.
THE DUAL ROLE PLAYED BY PRE-
sident Roosevelt in going into state primar-
les, not as the president of the United States
but as head of the Democratic party, is an
innovation which we hope will not be widely
copied. Too many men elected to office as
representatives of the people play dou-
bic role as private interests ambassadors as
things stand now.
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E{ FARMERS HAVE HAD A FINE OPP
pectunity to witness the injustices of repre-
sentative government in the wheat acreage
matter now widely discussed in the north
west. While wheat surplus is imminent
growers of hard spring wheat point to i'm
ports from Canada as positive proof that
there is an actual shortage of their product.
The law made no provision for differences as
to grades and for all the highly touted pow
ers given Secretary Wallace, apparently
congress must act before the oversight may
be corrected
SENATOR VANDENBERG'S PRO
posal that government officials, be REQUIRED
to make public the amount of income they
derive from market transactions, personal
holdings and private services strikes us as
an excellent idea It may ferret out an &C.
casional dishonest official and certainly will
provide protection for the honest office hold
er who may be the victim of ugly rtlmors
against which he has little defense.
With the government taking big hand
ii business affairs, there must be no end of
tips which the official with yen for stock
market gambling can turn to good advan-
tage. Information at the fngertips of even
minor government officials under the new
Setup could be passed out under the guise of
personal service" at handsome profit
Even members of state legislatures some
times find themselves in position to aug
1nent their meagre salaries with personal
service fees which are in reality nothing
more than brides.
The government is regulating every
thing else, why not regulate the men con-
nected with the government and complete
the picture. -,
THAT PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, AS
was said of Caesar, has ambitions goes with.
out saying That they include becoming q
dictator is no more than the hue and cry OF
d badly defnoralized opposition which has
better grounds on which to stand and has
rallied it's forces somewhat since it's leaders
began to recognize the fact.
THE COMPLAINT THAT RELIEF
and politics are mixed under the new deal to
control elections is not new but is becoming
more serious and is deserving of more than
blanket denials from the federal officials OF
Investigating committee whtewash.
That votes naturally accrue to the poll
ticians who edo something" for their con.
stitutents goes without saying but such poll.
tical moves as increasing expenditures and
wage scales in doubtful states, dealing out
credit for. allotments to party favorites
in need of votes, spending more literally in
election years .(Other conditions being
equally and the brazen calling on reliefers
to "help your friends" are deserving of the
harshest criticism and will react, against
the party guilty of them among thinking
voters.
FORI Y7SlA aPEHSONS DIED In "a
accidents ON Minnesota streets and high.
ways during May. In all there were 70a
accidents reported to the highway depart
rient and 696 persons injured.
Nineteen of the. victims were pedes
trians, although such accidents decreased Is
per cent; nine died as the results of COLI
sions with other cars, eight in tipovers and
similar accidents and five in the age old rail
road crossing encounters which the locomo-
tive always wins.
There was so per cent increase in &C
cidents caused by defective equipment, such
mishaps being particularly common in the
country where 60 per cent of the accidents
occurred.