The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1938-08-25
JUST WHY MINNESOTA NEVER

able to figure out.
We realize that the job is somewhat
complicated by the fact that we have sew
eral counties with large populations but this
certainly could be overcome by reserving
groups of numbers for the heavily populat-
ed centers.
Certainly the plan has many uses. 1t
would be of considerable help to police de-
partments in identifying cars. Hit run driv-
ers might be located at least as to county
if the victims or witnesses got only the first
set of digitS. Stolen cars would be much
more readily traced. Local authorities would
know without asking questions, whether
persons violating comparatively minor traf-
fic regulations could be expected to be fam
iliar with them. 1t would blast the "Im
stranger here alibi in a good many in
stances.
Traffic counts, particularly as to tourist
travel, would be considerably more valuable.
A southern Minnesota car in the north
woods is as much tourist car as the car
from just over the line in Iowa or the Da-
kotas.
State residents would soon become fam
iliar with the numbering system and would
know when they came across a Minnesota
car in another state, what part of the state
it represented. A small item, perhaps, but
one of many
IL "oulu oceH IIldC CIle lGCle duulIlOIldl
bother such system might be to Mike
Holm's department would be more than
amply repaid in convenience.
LAST YEARS BRILLIANT PRO
football game here between the St. Paul and
Des Moines teams was high point in the
years athletic events. While the treat was
not financial success, it was new and had
many other handicaps, such as coming too
late in the season, bad weather and the fact
that the calibre of football played in the
league to which the teams belong was pref
ty much an unknown quantity here.
This year such an affair would go over.
1t should be played about October 1 when
evenings are still reasonably warm and it
EShould be backed with a strenuous advance
sale of tickets. Facilities for handling a
crowd are improved with the new stadium
and the quality of the teams is no longer
guess work.
1t would do much to popularize high
school football and certainly would improve
the cty's already enviable position as an
amusement and sports center if such game
was made an annual event.
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS COST OVER
Az millions in Minnesota during the first
half of 1888 In the compilation, human
life is valued at only $4,000 yet $2,4OO,OOO
is accounted for in this way. Personal in
juries, estimated at $500 each, amount to
81 100000 and include loss of wages. Car
damage-$157 for each reported accident
is figured at $525,923. These figures do not
include the numerous mishaps where dam
age amounts to less than $50, which under
| the law do not have to be reported.
Compare these figures with the value
| OF time saved by driving like mad.
THERE is A DIFFERENCE BE-
| tween malfeasance in office and crime. A
public official may violate the law, as was
done in the Bemidji case, and still not be
| guilty of crime. For malfeasance in office
| the remedy is removal by the governor. If
| the Big Three violated the law, Governor
Benson has the right, yea, it is his duty, to
| remove them. Instead, he demands that
| knowing that malfeasance in office is not
indictable. Then, when the grand jury re-
ports mo BILL" the stigma will appear to
have been removed. Politically speaking,
| this is throwing dust into the peoples eyes.
Remove from office the public officials who
have knowingly violated the law. That is
the action which Governor Benson should
take right now and if evidence of crime is
uncovered the law should take it's course
Springfield AUVdnCe-freSS. |
SECRETARY WALLACE HAS DE-
cided that there is no surplus of corn in
sight and no referendum need be held on
quotas. The opposition of corn belt farmers
to any further limiting of corn acreage may
have scared out the secretary, but it is pos
sible that over the whole nation there is no
more corn than can be fed and consumed at
home-Park Region Echo.
IF THE ARYAN RACE CAN NOT
take care Of itself in competition with other
races, then it is an INFERIOR, not SUP
ERROR race.-William Randolph Hearst.
.
CITIZENS OF EVERY TOWN HAVE
something to worry about. Think what free
love would do to Reno, Nevada.
REPUTATION is WHAT WE ARE
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