The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-04-21
1T is TOLD THAT SEVERAL ABB

president pump pruning SpeeCu OVeI ChS
radio last week got up in the middle of it,
switched off the radio and lights and went
to bed. Being movie-goers, they thought
the show had got around to where they came
in go
Even among Democrats, it's little dill
ficult to explain why another spending spree
is necessary. Once the federal government
had spent enough to set the wheels in mo-
ton, it was supposed that it could taper OFT
it's expenditures and normal business would
take up the slack.
I'VE planned it that way" the presi-
dent stated proudly when the process OF
lifting ourselves by the boot straps had
temporarily restored part of the national
income some months ago. But there was no
claim of fortunate planning the other night
and, unfortunately, no adequate explana-
ton of why another round of printing is so
soon necessary.
Possibly the reason for the failure of
the first new deal to keep on an upward
course is skeleton in the white house blue
room closet, uncomfortable, but the facts are
no secret in business circles even this dis
lance from the centers severely hit by the
recession"
Once the first pump printing program
was launched and business was reacting
from the shot-in- the-arm, there were
strikes. They follow in the wake of any
boom, but this time the government encour-
aged, yes, almost sponsored them. Reform
and social legislation followed thick and fast
The Social Security program might have
been assessed in slow easy payments until
business got accustomed to it, instead it was
slapped onto gradually recovering business
in heavy doses. With it came the new con-
ceptions of profit levies, aimed to encourage
business to adopt the same spend-all-or-
more-than-you-earn scheme of the govern
ment. There has been much adverse dis
cussion at the white house of Favored
fews," go families" and "selfish interests
who, whether we like them or not, were ex-
pected to rejoice in the criticism and take
up the spending whirl where the administra-
ton left off.
There is room for reform in business
There was and perhaps still is plenty of
justification for a government program to
offset depression. Business could and prob
ably would have taken up the banner as an
ticipated had the bait of worthwhile profits
not been tainted with excessive taxes, labor
troubles, government interference and the
uncertainty of a loose federal financial
policy. If the new printing program takes
into consideration the errors of the past eff
FORT it may work out as it's sponsors anti
cipate. If it does not they will have diff
Guilty selling a third such scheme.
TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATIONS CAN
be of real assistance in government by keep
inq an eve on expenditures, offering sugges-
tions for sensible savings and encouraging
able men to file for offices and assisting In
their election-or they can degenerate into
snooping, trouble making, seml-polltlcal as
sociations whose meetings are devoted MAIN
ly to name-calllng.
There is no basis for blanket charges
frequently made at tax meetings that all
holders of public office are leeches and IN
competent, grating spendthrl1ts. ANY
thinking person knows persons elected TO
offices, particularly local Offices run gaunI-
let of inspection of the most private details
of their lives which weeds out all but small
minority of the incompetent and unscrupu-
lous. The latter, fortunately, are seldom
reelected.
Down at New Ulm the taxpayers asso-
citation has indicated it will hire a steno-
grapher to attend all council meetings to
take down the proceedings in shorthand, the
implication being that neither the men elect,
ed to office or the public to whom they must
answer in seeking reelection are competent
without the interference of an association
gifted with superior wisdom.
The taxpayers association which ap
breaches the problem of taxes with the Idea
that expenditures for government generally
are bad investment, or which criticises
public officials without offering them hear
ing, can hardly hope to have the co-opera
ton of officials or even of the public whe1
it has worthwhile suggestions to offer.
REDWOOD FALLS CHURCHES RE
port unusually large attendances at holy
week observanceS, great interest being
shown by both the older and younger groups
within the organizations, particularly thu
latter on whom the churches must depend
for future leadership and support. Consid
cradle time and effort was put into these
observances, not only by the pastors but b!
leaders of organizations and members gen
orally, all of whom feel well repaid. AS on
church member aptly commented this week
LET us keep the Easter interest through
the year."
MARTIN A NELSON, IN THE FELL
again seeking third chance to represen
the Republican party in the gubernatoria
race, made the prize political bum guess
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