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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20
Stadium Fund
At$74O, Work
Is Underway
DIGGING OF FOOTINGS
MAY START TODAY;
SALE is PUSHED

AS stadium ticket sales reach
ed S740 by Wednesday night, di-
rectors of the Redwood Falls
High School Alumni association
met to discuss further plans in the
drive to raise $4,000 as the city's
share in the $4,000 stadium to be
constructed with WPA labor at
Memorial Field.
1t was decided to keep present
teams, including Mrs. Joseph M.
Corbett and Mrs. j. B. Philbrick,
c. H. Burmeister and D. w. Gold
end Russell Whiting and Glenn
Hillig, at work selling books of
80 tickets to school athletic events
at $40 each.
Work on the stadium began
Tuesday. Rock from the old high
school foundation is being moved
to the field for use in construc-
ton of the stone and concrete
stadium which will seat 1900
persons. 1t was expected that
digging footings for the structure
would begin today
Completion of at least one sec
ton, to seat 800 people, is ex-
pected in time for this years
football season but the entire pro-
jeet will not be finished short of
year.
Sixteen men are working at
present and the crew will be en-
larged to 80 by February l. APP
proVal of a foreman has not yet
been received.
The athletic field stadium is
one of two large WPA projects in
the city. The Ramsey paik
bridge, road and building repair
project is employing Al men at
the present time and II more
will be brought in from the west
Continued on page five)
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20
A. C. Burmeister,
Mrs. r. Theiring
Married Tuesday

A. c. Burmeister, Redwood
Falls business and civic leader
and Mrs. Rome Theiring, a MEM
Der of a pioneer Redwood Falls
family, were married Tuesday
morning at Aberdeen, South Da-
kota.
Mrs. Theiring, whose maiden
name was Ella Laird, lived in
Redwood Falls until recent years
when she moved to La Moure and
Later to Cooperstown, North Da-
kota. She has many friends here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Burmeister will
return to Redwood Falls IN a few
days and will make their home on
West Bridge street.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20
Is BUY TICKETS
TO PRESIDENTS
BIRTHDAY BALL

About IS tickets have already
been sold to couples planning to
attend the Presidents Birthday
ball at the Redwood Falls ar1nory
Monday, January 81.
Wilbur Lamberton, city COM
mittee chairman, urges good re-
Spouse to ticket sales, proceeds
from which will 60 to the national
foundation for infantile paralysis.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20
Stores to Close
One Hour Earlier
Saturday Nights

Following a practice of re-
cent years, Redwood Falls
stores will close an hour ear
lier Saturday nights during
the mid-winter months.
All stores except food stores
will close at 9 p. m. until
March l while food stores
will remain open until 10 p.
m. Saturdays, the Civic and
Commerce association an
nounced this week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20
West Bridge Street
Crash Case on Trial
In PipestOne Court

Merriam Johnson was the only
Redwood Falls resident called to
testify in the suit of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Shields of Woodstock
against Walfred johnson of Pipe
stone in district court at Pipestone
Monday.
johnson operates the Pure Oil
station on west Bridge street near
which an accident occurred in
which Mr.. and Mrs. Shields who
were riding with johnson, were
injured. The mishap occurred in
October 1886 and has been the
subject of two court cases here.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20
City Prepares for
Swimming Season;
Beach is GraveIed

City employees completed gra-
yelling of the Lake Redwood
bathing beach Monday in prepar-
alton for the summer swimming
season.
Over 200 yards of gravel were
piled on the beach and near the
shore. 1t win be leveled after the
spring thaw.
Gravel was hauled across the
ice from the city pit on the west
side of the river.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20
Fair Has Winter Lin1elight
With New Acts, NelU Orders
S33, 134 LOANED
ON COUNTY CORN

Redwood county farmers have
received average loans of only
S312.50 under the federal corn
loan program in its first month of
operation here.
Up to January Is, completed
loans in the county amounted to
$33, 134.50. One hundred six
farmers sealed approximately
$4,000 bushels of corn in compli-
ance with government regula-
lions.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20

Golden, home demonstration
agent, will form the program
committee.
Refreshments will be arranged
by Mr.. Tersteeg, George M. Ham
son and E. L. Gallea. Mr.. Lau-
terbach and MIR. Nelson wiz be
in charge of finances and public
ity will be handled by H. A..
Schenck, M. v. Kurschner, Scott
Schoen and Charles Duncan.
Mr.. Swedberg is arranging for
speakers and dates in st. Paul,
where he is attending Farm and
Home week.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20

Mrs. Minnie Hagen returned
Monday from a visit of several
days in Morgan.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20

Mr.. and Mrs. C. N. Nelson viii
entertain the members of their
Birthday club at dinner this eve
ming after which cards win be
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-01-20

Mrs. Ed Sinclair and Mrs. Mer-
lam johnson visited in Mime
apolis Friday.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
Other Editors Say
Albuquerque JournalD

Some philosopher whose name is not even
entered alongside his observation once defined
life "A mirror of groteSque Inconsistencies
and strange contrasts created by ineXpcabe
bodies collectively known as man.
There are always strange contrasts and gro
tesque inconsistencies to be seen on all sides.
There may be even more than usual now
In the Orient and in Europe a life is not
worth much A life? Ten thousands of lives
is more accurate. The war lords not show
ing the slightest hesitancy about slaughtering
as many human lives as necessary To gain what
they want.
Thousands have been killed in China. Six
hundred died in one air raid in Spain. Hundreds
have been executed III Russia. Life is indeed
cheap over there, if, indeed, there is any price
on it at all.
Yet. on the same pages which record those
awful happenings. there is the story about the
infant in Pennsylvania who was born with
detection which causes blindness. Only deli
cate operation can spare the victims Of this
affliction. What happened when the plight of
this infant became known? The governor Of
the state called tor the most expert surgeons
available The mother offered an eye for graft
ing. What is even more remarkable eight other
persons, all strangers to the infant and the
mother, made the same offer
In one part of the world the killing and
manning of thousands means little In another
part. whether an infant is to retain its eye
sight means so much that nine persons are ready
TO give up part Of their own vision to the child.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
THE NEWSPAPERS
AND THE PRESIDENT
( Arizona Republic

Senator Minton of Indiana head of the for
mer Black Senate Investigating Committee. IN
a public statement on Sunday said that 80 per
cent of the newspapers of the country are anti
administration If that We're true 1t would surely
indicate that something was seriously wrong
with the administration. That would be so II
it were shown that 98 per cent of all the red
heads or black headed or cross eyed people
were against the administration. Il would then
appear that any such prepOnderance would in
dicate a state of rottenness in Denmark.
But Mr Minton is in error as To the prepon
derance The President was the first to call
attention TO a preponderance. We do not recall
the percentage he named but !, was nothing
near Mr. MintOn'S figures We think. though, that
Mr.. Ickes estimate nearly conceded with the
Minton figures. but II was generally assumed
that Mr IckeS. as usual was speaking Through
his hat" There had been no actual estimate
to the proportion OF the papers opposed to
the administration.
Since then, however. a census of the news
papers has been taken, resulting in a showing
that about 66 per cent OF the newspapers are
administration. not. of course. as to all
administration policies. but to one or more.
A larger percentage than 66. however. opposed
the attempted seizure of the Supreme Court
and some. attracted by that issue. have since
remained in opposition to the President.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
A FIEND STRIKES
IN SAN BERNARDINO

Another brutal sex crime against a
small girl has entered the long list of
such offenses. This time it was in San
Bernardino, only a few miles north of
Imperial Valley. 1t is not pleasant to
think that the next one may happen
here
Some day society may learn to deal
with the degenerates who are respon-
sible for such crimes. Today police
courts, township courts and even supe-
rior courts are turning them loose every
day, either on probation or because par
ents will not let their children testify
in court, fearing the effect on the young
mind In the minor courts, of course,
the offenses do not approximate murder
but each offender of that type is a
potential murderer.
Medical treatment or, failing effec-
tiveness Of that, Imprisonment for life
should be the penalty for these people
who. after all, are mentally diseased.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
DAIRY DAY IN
IMPERIAL VALLEY

Thursday will be Dairy Day in Impe-
rial Valley-the day when business men
and others pay their pespects to the one
great industry upon which the valleys
most stable hopes for the future are
based
There is nothing seasonal about the
dairy industry 1t brings the valley
day-to-day income that benefits farmers
and business men alike. 1t looks forward
to a day when the growing Los Angeles
and San Diego markets will make this
one of the most important dairying sec
tions in the United States.
1t is entirely fitting that day should
be set aside to pay tribute to the impor-
tance Of dairying in this valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
Ry HUGH S. JOHNSON

If any demonstration were need
ed that the terrible reorganization
bill now being strong armed and
bums-rushed through the senate
should not pass, it will be found in
the Morgan mess in the Tennessee
Valley administration
The reorganization bill in its
original form gave the President
the power Of a personal proprietor
over all the independent boards and
commissions which are called quasi
legislative and quasi judicial be-
cause to some extent they. like
congress. make the law and. like
the courts. to some extent Judge
the law
One difference between a dicta-
tCrShip and a democracy is that in
the former the same authority con-
trolls the making, the judging ani
the execution Of the law, and that
in the latter the three tasks are
religiously kept in separate hands.
In the reorganization bill as pro-
posed, by one sweeping slash, that
separation was to be abolished ex-
cept for congress and the courts
Senator Byrnes reWrote the bill 20
except from it some of these boards
and commissions, but the bill as
first written expressed the intent
of the third New Deal. 1t gave
notice Of a fundamental purpose to
grab more power.
Always Called Dangerous
Theoretically such concentration
Of power has always been called
dangerous, but maybe that is just
theory. The President himself has
said something to the effect that
in other hands the Executive grab
of Congressional and judicial pow
ers would be dangerous to liberty
and democracy-1heoreticallyd dan
gerous, but with him practically
safe Well the Morgan case does
Mt bear that out.
Defying the IVA statute that
made DR. Morgan removable only
by Congress, the President fired
him. He fired him because he re-
fused To defend himself before a
kind Of drumhead court-martial de-
signed and prepared for publicity
as a holy show to discredit him
and Whitewash his opponents He
thought that because in what ne
charged were perVersions of the law
by his associates the President had
supported them to am extent that
sterlized him. DR.. Morgan insisted
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
tTulare Advance Register

Action of the Tulare county board of super
convention urging caution in leyying taxes on
the people for the Golden Gate International
Exposition until and unless the city of San
Francisco takes definite steps to end strike
threats and establish law and order in the area
seems to be exceedingly timely.
Only today wire reports carried the news
Of another threatened strike which would halt
construction Of the exposition If SO much trou-
bic and doubt clouds even bare preparations for
the coming event who can say how much
greater and more intensified and costly tie-ups
in store should the time ever arrive when
everything is III readiness to open the gates
to the public?
We further believe the supervisors are en-
tirely correct that NOW is the time for San
Francisco TO declare itself Now is the time
to clean house. if it is to be cleaned to end
lawlessness and demonstrate that the forces of
both labor and law and order are agreed and
ready to see that the millions Of dollars pouring
into the exposition grounds. exhibits and build
ings are not to be leOpardized or rendered entirely
a loss.
We not only do NOT blame but heartily ap-
prove the attitude Of the supervisors in demand
ing that definite action and protective steps
to be taken to safeguard the proposed expendi-
ture of thousands Of dollars in tax leyies BEFORE
the money is actually expended.
If San Francisco cannot give reasonable
and tangible guarantee of security for the huge
investments requested, it would certainly be
folly TO put any amount of tax money into it.
Speak up. San Francisco.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30

Great Britain and the United
States meet is in the prevention of
this generally feared world war. /
IF the nations should again be-.
come engulfed in the cataclysm of
a general war, we should make
ourselves very strong and ther
pursue what ever course we con
sidered to be best for the Unitk-q
States"
Best for the United States
that's putting it the way it oughf|
to be put and leaving room for nc
misinterpretation Joe Kennedy isl
a plain-speaking man. He wants
the position of his country to bd
understood. He said that two ideaH
were wrong. One was that the U1
S. wouldn't fight under any Cir
Cumstances short of actual inva1
sion, and the other was that tha|
u. S. could never remain neutral
in the event of a general Warll
When Kennedy says that. the great|
majority of the American peopld|
prefer the middle ground he isl
right. The American people BELIEVED
that keeping to such course il
the surest way to keep out of wy
Joe Kennedy will be no Grand
boy at st. James. He licks no boots
And the British should like him|
and respect him for those reasons
They received his speech enthus-
iastically, even when he frankly
warned that the U. S. would ed
which ever way seemed best to thu
us.
Kennedy said that Americans re-
fuse to believe in the inevitability|
of war That is true. The Ameri-
can outlook is not fatalistic. Meth.
er is 1t foolish. Americans know
that there is a good chance thas|
most of the big nations of the
world will be at one ahother'sI
throatS-and soon But with mera
like Joe Kennedy in the import
ant posts in the foreign service, Al
great many Americans feel that
their nation is a great deal less
likely to mix in the bloody mess
They remember all too well Am
bassador Pages maneuverings prio,
to Americas entrance into the
World War Many of them still
blame Page. And the great major
ity of them hope that Joe Kenendy
won't make the same mistakes.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
THE AVERAGE LIFE
OF A PEACE TREATY

ne average life span of peace treaty
is two years.
II may come as something of a shock
TO The average reader to discover that
tiIls average life span is not a matter
OF The last few years. 1t has been so
throughout most of history.
Here We have been considering that
this decadent modern age of ours is the
one which originated the peace treaty
as a mere scrap of paper-and we find
out that historians counted 5000 peace
treaties signed In the 300-year period
ehdlng IN lS99-the year of the Spanish
merlcan War-and found that each one.
on an average, lasted no more than two
years.
John Stuart Hamilton. associate in
journalism al Columbia University.
draws some interesting conclusions from
the statistics on peace treaties
The reason why it is unwise to
shout with 72-point alarm and italicized
censure every time a treaty is broken
or, an army budget increased abroad.
or a Hoare-Laval deal proposed, is psy-
geological. Constant arouSal of distrust
and hatred of a nation across the sea
will lead us to take four natural steps:
(a) we fear the evil lawbreaker. OBJ we
arm ourselves against him, (c) we ex-
pect the worst, CD we get tin the
shape of war"
Treaties have been made and broken
ever since nations existed. They will be
made and broken as long as nations con-
tinue to exist as they are now. Knowing
this, Americans might be wise to control
their displeasure when one nation breaks
a treaty with another. considering that
the treaty probably has lived its allotted
two years, anyway.
After all, the most important treaty to
us, as Americans, is the one we should
mutually agree upOn-to keep out of
the affairs of other nations and so keep
out of the wars of other nations.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
WELL Ill
TTellYou..
says
Bob Burns

IL locks like the minute a person
gets i'm the spot light. people start
takin' shots at him and that's the
reason why he should keep his rec
Crd clean at home. IL gives him Il
little sanctuary where he can get
away from the cruel world that
don't understand
knew one actor out here whose
conduct had started some terrible.
tales about him. One day he said
to his wife Darling, all those
things you hear about me ON the
street are lies. hope you never do
lie about me-"
The wife says well, as a matter
of fact, | do tell some little white
lies about you once in a while. I
think its a wife's duty TO speak
well Of her husband occasionally"
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
Famous Sayings
Bruce Cation Says
- Joe Kennedy Talks a Lot of Sense

The presence of that red-headed
lriShman at the Court of st.
James makes a lot of Americans
feel better about their country's
chance for peace Joe Kennedy
gives signs of being the ambassa-
cor that the United States has
needed for a long time. That first
speech was simple. it was straight
forward. it was Senible. If Great
Britian-or any other country
gets funny ideas about how the
average American looks at the
world scene, it won't be Joe Ken
nedys fault.
1t was good to read in Ken
nedys speech such passages as
these.
Most Americans insist that
their country retain its independ-
ent and unmortgaged judgment as
to the merits of world crises as
and when they arise"
where the present interests of
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
MORGAN MESS CITED BY HUGH JOHNSON
AGAINST REORGANIZATION BILL

that the law made him responsible
to congress, that he had appealed
to congress for an investigation and
would not permit his case to be
pre-judged and prejudiced in self
serving assertions before a one
man self-appointed judge whom he
regards as biased
The administrations answer to
that is that it is all wet, because
IVA was once upheld in building a
dam, because the court held it was
built under the war powers, AMI
adds that war powers are "eXecu-
tive.
Passing the point that there are
many more war powers that are
legislative than any that are execu-
tive and the absurdity that firing
DR.. Morgan was an exercise of
executive war powers, what does
this imply? 1t implies that to the
extent that the reorganization bill
passes any great board or commits
sion to executive control it becomes
automatically subjected to such one
man dragooning and domineering
as the IVA fiasco.
Commissions Not individuals
OF course, the President ought to
have power TO interrogate, discipline.
fire and replace any appointed exc
cutive individual. Government could
not function otherwise But these
major commissions are not in
dividuals. They are great govern
ments within government. Third
New Dealers themselves call IVA
an economic province" iva is
part of a trend to replace more
powers of forty-eight state gov
ernments with seven economic
provinces. responsible to Washing
ton and not to their people If
they are to he regarded as a sort
Of military oligarchy commanded
by the executive rather than agen-
cieS of congress merely administer
ed by the President, that distinction
alone goes a great distance toward
cne-man rule with all its arbitrary
and hateful nsequences-such as
we have just seen in the Morgan
case.
That is the effect if not the pur-
pose of the reorganization bill, even
as improved by Senator Byrnes. 1t
is a bad. dangerous bill-juSt one
more colossal snatch in the con-
tinuous grab for Presidential pow
er Of the last five years.
Copyright, 1888, by United
Features Syndicate, Inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30
News Behind
the News
RdiirOdd Orphans :.
There isn't Time
By RODNEY BUTCHER

WASHINGTON. - 1AlS CollSies9
will do nothing fundamental about
the railroads, worrisome as the
problem is. There isn't time"
Nevertheless. it is likely that the
railroads soon will be used in
new pump-priming program which
will have the double objective of
helping the roads temporarily and
pouring a few hundred million gov
eminent dollars into private in
dustry. This proposal to advance
federal loans to the roads to fin
ance equipment purchases and
maintenance has become increaS-
ingly popular in and around the
White House.
Railroad experts estimate that
the carriers could pump out from
six to eight hundred million dollars
in their private public works" pro-
gram quite rapidly, with great stim-
ulus TO industry. Many of the
roads are practically falling apart y
some officials say. as the result of a
long period of skipping maintenance
in order to keep up bond interest
payments-a process especially ac-
centuated in the last year.
Preliminary discussions indicate
that money would be made avail
able primarily to those roads which
would be essential key lines in any
program of reorganization and con-
sOlidatiOn.
1t may be recalled that Securi-
ties and Exchange Commissioner
John w. Hanes, himself a Wall
Street investment banker, recently
warned that investment bankers
must meet industry's needs for
capital lest the government be fore
ed to enter the field ito keep the
national economy going Credit
of the railroads is SO poor that
hardly railroad could borrow a
nickel from private sources.
High Commissioner Paul b. Nc
Nuts radio speech in opposition to
early independence for the Philip
pines was at least indirectly signifi-
cant of the administration inten-
tiCn to maintain a firm attitude in
the Far East.
McNutt came to washington with
the idea that he would have to sell
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Hull on the proposal that the Unit
ed States should keep her hands
on the Philippines until the in1efi-
mite time when war clouds across
the Pacific had drifted away.
He was surprised, according to
his own private account, to find
them both holding his own poist Of
view. But Roosevelt insisted that
the first move or statement must
come from the Philippines. CAgri-
cultural lobbieS in Washington
vociferous for Philippine indepen-
dence. must be considered)
Whether McNutt then went ahead
on his own responsibility is not yet
clear, but the prompt IA
VCrable comment of President Man
uel Quezon in Manila at least sug-
gested prearrangement on that end.
And McNutt has been so obviously
to preserve friendly per-
sonal relations with the White
House that it is most likely he
had FDR.'s whispered approval.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-03-30

OF one of tht
most interesting
q Il q delightful
men I ever knew
His name wa.
Frank Ganlnonl
l say was be.
cause he ha.
changed worlds.
as the Japanes,
say Frank haC
little formal edu.
cation. In fact
he never attend.
ed high school