The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-12-14

EDITOR SOUTHWARK HAS THE Ma
tionaI Youth administration mixed with the
National Youth Congress, we suspect from
a "Vision'' editorial last week warning good
citizens of the county seat that we may be
enthusiastic over a project which is really
fostering the spreading Of communistic doc
trines
Certain other taxpayers objected to Of
fering the county home for an N4A girls
school Tuesday, on various grounds, some
good others quite unsound.
We believe it significant, however, that
of the 16 citizens of the county, including
several from outside the county seat, who
went to Fairmont to investigate the school
there, not one to our knowledge has ques-
toned the value of the training offered or
the manner in which the schools is conduct
ed
Those most active in advocating offer
ing the home for the purpose Tuesday were
persons who made that trip-ministers, a
schooman, banker, and other business
men, lawyers, welfare workers and office
hoders-a tough bunch we would say, on
which to unload gold brick.
EVERYBODY KNOWS THE WAR IN
Europe has been boon to the steel and air
plane industries in this country and has
otherwise served to speed up business.
Not all the big gains are being made by
makers Of implements of war, however. This
week a salesman of automatic printing
equipment told us his company has two
shifts working in it's factory for the first
time since 1928, and has business to warrant
the extra WOrkmen.
He didn't verify the figure, but we pre-
sumo at least every other unit his firm turns
out serves to replace a pressman in some
print shop, so the picture isn't entirely rosy.
More men are working to provide equipment
to replace other men.
However machine cannot be so readily
condemned as causing unemployment. In
this industry introduction of automatic
type-setting equipment was followed by an
era of sabotage in large printing plants
where workmen felt it meant the loss Of
thousands of jobs. Actually newspapers
of the change that the industry came to en-
ploy more men than ever before.
DESPITE The SETBACK CAUSED
by October and November crashes Mime
sofa begins the twelfth month of 1889 with
a better record for the last II months than
any made since the establishment of the
highway department accident recording
bureau.
While 493 deaths in the state in II
months is still an appalling figure, it is well
under the 545 recorded for the same period
in 1888, 568 in 1887 603 in 1886, Sal in 1886
or COG in 1884. Placed alongside gas con-
sumption figures, the improvement is more
impressive. Minnesota's death rate was
10 per 100000 gallons of gas consumed
in 1889 as compared with 16 in 1884.
Seven more fatalities resulted in No
vember 1889 than last year, the death total
for the month rising to 60. Of these, %
were pedestrians, Is were drivers and %
were passengers.
December has been "joner' for safety
programs, the yule season fatalities follow
ing an upward trail contrary to the general
trend Motorists will be wise to exercise
caution in the face of hazardous weather
and holiday increased travel and festivity.
FRITZ KUHN, NAz1 BUND LEADER
in this country, has been sent to jail for
from two to five years. He will not write
book while in prison about "Mein Camp,"
like Hitler did. 1t was his dallying with Mrs.
Camp that put him behind the bars, and he'd
probably rather forget her.-Park Region
Echo.
WAR EXPERTS SAY THAT COM
plete victory is not necessary in modern
war; it's only matter of convincing the
enemy he can't win. But it's hard to pound
facts into the skull that stays a couple of
hundred miles behind the battle 'front.'
Carlton Vidette.
NEXT YEAR THERE WILL BE NO
''B" license plates for cars There will be
$4,000 "a" plates for the old model Us still
rambling the highways but the others will
have plain numbers. Was there any justi-
fication for the two classes in the first place?
Springfield Advance press.