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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-12-28
Lucan Christmas
News In Letter
BY Mrs. Paul Martin

by MIS-. raul Mdrtlu
Lucan - Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Wasiloski of st. Cloud, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Jones and daughter
Of Minneapolis, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
E. Gehrke and family Of New Ulm
and Mrs. Henry Willie were Sum
day and Christmas day guests OF
Mrs. O. II. Gehrke.
Verna Hansen came from Min
neapolis Friday to spend the holi-
days at the Halver Rue home.
Betty and Philomena Soupir
came from Minneapolis Saturday
to spend Christmas with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Sou
pir.
Mrs. H. L. Jensen and Vivian
entertained at dinner Christmas
eve. Guests were Mr.. and Mrs
Elton Gehrke and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Milton Jensen and Roger
Mr.. and Mrs. Milan Jensen, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Martin and family
Mrs Mary Haag, Henry Soupir
and C. S. DickerSon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Pickett OF
Mankato came Saturday evening
to visit at the Thorvald Nelson
home until Monday night. Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Jaros and sons
Of Vesta were Christmas dinner
guests there also.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ole Lovald OF
Milroy were Sunday dinner guests
at the Earl Balfany home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Thuer and
daughter of Springfield spent
Sunday and Christmas day at the
Anton Kramer home.
MIR. and Mrs. L. 0. Timm spent
Christmas day at the A. M. Timm
home at Sanborn.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. M. Anderson
and Betty Ann and Christ Hansen
of Worthington came Sunday to
visit relatives for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reuben Rieke and
family went to Litchfield to spend
the holidays with Mrs. Rieke's
parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Philip Raveling
had as guests Christmas day, Mr..
and Mrs. Ralph Raveling and
daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. John Ra-
yelling and daughters, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Raveling and son and
Mr.. and Mrs. Erwin Ballard and
family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Brau and
family were dinner guests at the
Charles CORES home at Wanda
Christmas day.
Jennie Lyle came from Sioux
City to spend the holidays at the
L. c. Patterson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Fletcher ac-
companied Mr.. and Mrs. Elton
Gehrke to New Ulm Tuesday and
from there went to visit at the
Vernon Schultz home near Hans
ka.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Haag
were Christmas guests at the
Frank Fridley home at Wabasso.
Mr.. and Mrs. Loren Timm and
family spent Christmas eve at the
Anton Johnson home at Milroy.
Leonard Brau of Arlington
spent Sunday and Christmas day
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of Dawson spent Sunday and
Monday with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Sickman.
Mrs. Hugh Kenney and daugh-
ter left Thursday for their home
in Faribault after visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. E. Hunt
for several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Montgomery
and Margaret were Christmas
dinner guests at the Tom Hicks
home at Tracy.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Southmayd
were guests at the H. H. Mattson
home Monday evening.
Calvin and Robert Alexander
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-12-28
VESTA

Vesta-Harold Wyman of Min
neapolis spent the weekend with
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. D.
Wyman.
Edward Schneider left Friday
for two weeks vacation with his
mother, Mrs Peter Schneider at
Lebanon, S. D.
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Leiske and
family motored to Gaylord Mon
day for Christmas dinner at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Anton
Woehlers.
Wilfred Stelter of Orr, arrived
Friday to spend the weekend with
his sister, Celesta Stelter. He re-
turned to the CCC at Orr Tues
day. -
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Rengstorf
and family spent Christmas with
Mrs. Rengstorf's parents, MIR. and
Mrs. Carl Pruess at Wood Lake.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Jaros and
sons were dinner guest sat the T..
Nelson home at Lucan Monday.
Weekend guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
H. H. Harris were Mr.. and Mrs.
Rockwell Smith and Mr. and Mrs.
Arnold Anderson and Richard of
Minneapolis and Mr.. and Mrs.
Michael Gilland and family OF
Morgan.
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond HUM
and Richard of Alexandria arriv-
ed Sunday morning at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Marquardt
to spend Christmas.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Dallman
motored to Seaforth Tuesday eve
ming to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Stage.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Jaros enter
tanned the following guests
Christmas day: Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Sonnichsen and James,
Genevieve Jaros and Gordon
Turnwall, all of Minneapolis, Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Larson of Lucan,
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Salisbury
and family of Wabasso and Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Jaros and sons
of Vesta.
Mrs. Frank Bendix and Ralph
motored to Annandale Sunday to
be guests at the DR.. Lester Bendix
home.
Margaret Montgomery who is
attending school at Evanston, Ill.
arrived Friday to spend her two
weeks Christmas vacation with
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. E. N.
Montgomery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harley Manning
went to New London to spend the
Christmas holidays with Mr.. Man
ning's mother, Mrs. Harvey Man
ming.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Kelsen of
st. Cloud arrived Wednesday af-
ternoon to spend the winter with
Mrs. Kelsen's father, Dick Gerte-
jansen.
Linda Sickman who is attending
the University of Minnesota ar
rived Friday to spend her yaca-
ton at the Henry Sickman home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Dallman
entertained the following guests
at dinner Christmas day: Mrs. E.
Kotval and Rudy and Mr.. and
Mrs. Arnold Kotval of Seaforth,
Gust Dalman and Raymond, Mr..
and Mrs Barney Benson and FAM
lily and Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Dali
man and daughters, all of Lucan.
Virginia Larson of Minneapolis
spent the Christmas holidays with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
Larson.
Florence Hunt Of Minneapolis
visited her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
A. E. Hunt from Sunday until
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bernard Hovald
left for Waseca to spend Christ
mas with Mr.. Hovald's father,
Frank Hovald. They returned
home Tuesday.
Harold Hansen of Minneapolis
spent the weekend at the Andrew
Hansen home.
Mrs. Eva Void of Pine Rive
arrived Friday to spend two
weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. Fl. M
Mattson. Mrs. Void is Mrs. Matt
sons mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Zitzmann
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who attend Buena Vista college at
Storm Lake, Iowa. arrived Satur-
day morning to spend vacation
with their parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dallas Whittet
and Robert of Lamberton were
weekend guests orr Mr.. and Mrs.
Ross Barber.
Dr.. w. P. Curran and family
were dinner guests at the w. S.
Southmayd home Friday evening.
Mrs. w. w. Shelton and chill
dren motored to Madelia to spend
Christmas with Mrs. Skeletons
father, E. Leonard.
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WABASSO EVENTS
IN NEWS LETTER
BY Mrs. Edw. Weldon

Wabasso - Mr.. and Mrs. Lloyd
Jensen and son left Saturday for
GAINESVILLE to spend Christmas
with Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Arnoldt,
parents of Mrs. Jensen.
Sylvester Turbes who teaches
at st. Thomas academy arrived
Saturday to spend two weeks with
his parents Mr.. and Mrs. H. H.
Turbes.
Appalonia Starken of Mankato
spent Sunday and Monday with
her parents Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Starken.
Mr.. and Mrs. Linden Robinson
were visitors of the latter's moth
er Mrs. Bertha Schmidt of North
Redwood and at the F. Moritz
home near Delhi Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Gumto and
daughter Of LETTERS spent Sunday
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THE FIRE SEX

Macon, Mo.-(P)-The ladies of
the quilting bee at the First Bap-
fist church smelled smoke. They
tossed down their sewing, grab
bed axes and buckets and went to
work on partition inside of
which flames were cracking. BY
the time the firemen arrived, the
ladies, thank you, had the blaze
well in hand.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-12-28

The human heart does less
work when the individual has
been standing for a considerable
time than when he is at rest.
Evening star., 1939-03-09
Bond Issue Referendu

One of the post-election surprise
moves made by the United Demo-
cratic Organization in Montgomery
County that has aroused consider
able discussion seeks to modify a
law requiring referenda on county
bond issues. Like the move to abolish
the county merit system, the refer
enda proposal was kept under cover
during the election campaign.
Specifically the Democrats propose
to make referenda unnecessary on
all refunding bonds and on school
issues of not more than one hundred
thousand dollars a year.
The party leaders claim legislation
Of that sort is required because, un-
der the present law, it would be
necessary to make school bond issues
needlessly large to provide improve
ments for all sections of the county
in order to win enough public sup
port to carry the election. On the
other hand, opponents Of change
in the law contend that such pork
barrel theory is fallacious; that the
smaller the bond issue the greater
Evening star., 1939-03-09
Effective Tomorrow

Today is the last day of the edu-
cational period decreed by District
officials to permit the public to
familiarize itself with the workings
of the new pedestrian protection
regulations. Penalties for violations
become effective tomorrow.
The police and traffic officials
have done fine job, during the past
two weeks, in assisting Washington's
citizens to learn the new rules. It
is important to remember that the
police have promised the same eff
cheney IN enforcing regulations when
they become effective.
On the whole, intelligent pedes-
trians have been quick to recognize
the benefits of the new plan and
have shown their cooperation by
adopting its spirit even at intersec-
tions where no policemen were sta
toned. Most motorists, likewise,
have joined in the general recogni-
tion of the rights of pedestrians
making legal crossings.
The necessity for the unpleasant
ness of reprimand or arrest will be
obviated by general needing of
final warning to the comparatively
few pedestrians who have been in
too much of hurry in recent days
to observe their obligations, and to
those motorists who have been too
anxious to complete their turns to
yield right of way to those afoot.
The basic idea OF the pedestrian
regulations is constant vigilance for
safety by motorists and pedestrians,
rather than by arresting officers.
Arrests. will not reduce the Capitals
accident toll, but a sense of respon-
sibility and cooperation on the part
of all citizens will.
Evening star., 1939-03-09
Beyond Reality

Like pros lOSC IN trackleSS clouds
are mans longings.
They are let loose from the ark of
the troubled mind to find some
Utopia across the stormy deluge of
uncertainty and insecurity and
alight wherever they can find any
resting place. 1t may be in some
dlmly remembered past which be-
comes a golden age. 1t may be in
the haven of some far-off future, or
in some paradise beyond space and
time. 1t may, in fact, be anywhere
outside the immediate reality.
This explains the widespread in
terest shown in reports of an Ameri-
can explorer of a people living in
the most primitive simplicity and
guilelessness in the interior of British
Guiana-Indians who have never
before come in contact with white
men and hence are free of the white
mans vices. The world d-that-is is
avid for lost worlds and dead worlds
and worlds-to-be, where it's weary
birds of longing can find a secure
spot amidst the stormy waters. It
must be some spot beyond the bounds
of reality and yet not so far beyond
as to be obviously unattainable.
1t is one of the penalties of our
times that there are few such places
left. Anthropology skaters the illu-
sion of the golden age and philosophy
the illusion of an anthropomorphic
paradise. Even so, exploration, espe-
cially by airplane, skaters the illu-
sion of Utopias left on earth. The
rising tides of reality wash all the
golden beaches of dreamlands.
The jungles of Northern South
America constitute one of the very
few areas left on earth which have
not been thoroughly explored. They
are about the only islands of illusion
remaining high and dry, where the
confused refugees from the mind can
find secure roosts.
Perhaps it is unfortunate that they
should be exploration this can only
mean that they will be buried deep
under the relentless waters and soon
there will be no green peak of dreams
but only the black, cold ocean of
reality stretching from everlasting
unto everlasting.
Evening star., 1939-03-09

exercises has been entrusted to Major
General Hugh A. Drum, commanding
general of the 1st Army. Units of
the I'd Wing, General Headquarters
Air Force, including squadron of
long-range Bit flying fortress"
bombardment airplanes, will be at
tached to the 1st Army for the period
of the exercises.
The Navy Department has indi-
Gated that at least fifteen warships,
including two battleships, and a
strong air force, with at least forty
eight long-range patrol flying boats,
will participate.
The holding of joint Army-Navy
exercises is part of continuing de-
fense policy and in itself is not par
ticularly new. The shift of such
exercises to the New England theater,
however, may be regarded as signif-
icant-it unquestionably will be so
regarded in certain European
capitals.
The results, as is often the case in
these troublous days, may not be
made public. They should, however,
prove of no little value to Congress
and the Army and Navy high COM
mands which now are coping with
the problems of adequate defense of
the vital areas of the Atlantic sea-
board.
Evening star., 1939-03-09
Gives Consumer Side
OF Milk Controversy.

TO the Editor of The Star:
Strawberry ice cream Is my favorite
dish. Not the vapid pink colored article,
but the kind one makes in the icebox at
home. It is heavenly, but it takes "a cup
of whipping cream" for every trayful.
And whipping cream, in Washington,
is beyond the reach of the average FAM
ily's budget. Mine is an average family
with an average income. But if we at
tempted to provide each member with
his recommended quart of milk-or its
equivalent in cream-every day, we would
have to stop renting house and live in
trailer.
And now the Embassy Dairy that sells
cream to the Government employees SO
they can get enough vitamins to main
tain degree of efficiency is being prose-
cuted.
Through the Office cafeteria can now
get small bottle of cream twice a week.
AT the regular price we can't afford 1t.
OF course, we pay full price for fluid
milk-what we get of it. seldom touch
glass for myself. There isn't any left
for me. Besides never liked skim milk,
and the top-such as it is-must be
poured off for use as cream.
Maybe the Health Department is 60
ing to all this trouble just to make sure
that the milk we buy is clean milk But,
IN that case what does the milk asso-
citation have to do with the case?
March I. A.E.W.
Evening star., 1939-03-09
Comments on Work
Of Borah and johnson.

To the Editor of The Star:
Among those now in charge of our
policy on foreign relations, Senators
Borah and johnson are exceedingly
articulate. Our postwar policy Is their
work. If the citizens OF the United
States find world conditions entirely to
their liking it is only proper that they
listen carefully to the advice of these two
veteran Senators. If, contrariwise, they
are disturbed and uneasy, oppressed by
forebodings, made fearful by the procla-
nations Of war lords whose national
history Is replete with reputation of
self-imposed international obligations, it
Is meet and right that they pause and
inquire into the omniscience of these
Senators who have brought us into
uncharted perils.
A similar choice lies with the citizens
to weep, with the two Senators, for the
innocent women and children who might
have been starved because of their Gov
ernment's criminal acts or with the
thousands whose families have been
bombed, the thousands whose families
will be bombed, because they believe in
some measure of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness.
March 4. CHARLES w. BISHOP.
Evening star., 1939-03-09
A Word in Defense
OF Government.

To the Editor of The Star:
Can you imagine good business with
out good government? And yet we are
prone to look on government as a busi-
ness and to make odious comparisons
of the inefficiency of government as
compared with business. In time of war,
in time of national emergency, in time of
depression, so-called business just shuts
up shop and looks to leaders of govern
ment to govern we'll so that money-the
end product of businessman be acc,l-
mulated by individuals.
But this is a nearsighted view of busi-
ness. History tells us that peacetime ad-
vances of civilization have come, not
through boarded money, but through
venturesome money. Since business over
reached itself just prior to the last de-
preston and then folded up, appealing
to government to rescue it from its own
mistakes, it Ill behooves businessmen
to complain about extraordinary expense
in the efforts of government to rescue
business from the mire into which it
had fallen. That is dog in the
manger" attitude. AS government i'm
proves, business will improve or, should
say, can improve. Good business exists
only under good government.
March 6. FAIR PLAY.
Evening star., 1939-03-09

is but few short weeks away. How
happy we shall all be to see the first
green shoots appear above ground and
be able to measure with appreciative
eye the daily increase in size of the
impatient leaf buds. All? Well, all at
least who have the great good fortune
to live beneath the protective flag of
the United States of America. For them
this spring will surely come in all its
accustomed sweetness.
But for many others, in lands across
the sea. the springtime chorus of singing
birds will be lost in the thunderous
roar OF exploding shells; the balm of
the south wind will be made acrid with
the fumes belched from the war guns,
and the first tender blooms of early
flowers will, more likely than not, be
crushed by the heavy, soulless boots of
marching men. The advent of spring
cannot bring happiness to the war
tortured victims of the aggressor, nor
to those unfortunates enslaved by
dictator welding his loathsome instru-
'nents of tyranny, the concentration
camp and the looting mob of authorized
hoodlums
We in America will soon be chanting
our praises of the new season and
eagerly seeking the glorious sunshine
amidst the fresh verdure of the field
and woodland. But then, we are still
free. We shall not have lain awake
the night through in trembling dread of
that sudden knock on the door, and
the strident words of doom: I'VE have
come for you'll
1t can happen here-but it must not.
Only by holding to the same implacable
determination as that of our heroic an
cestors at Valley Forge may we hope to
see each new spring come as a season
OF rejoicing to free people rather than
as a hideous mockery to a nation in
chains.
March 6. ROGER GISH McDARE.
Evening star., 1939-03-09
Joint Defense Exercises

Ability of the Nations armed forces
sea, air and ground-to secure the
vital New England area, one of the
country's industrial nerve centers,
against the threat of foreign attack
will be tested thoroughly during i'm
portant Army Navy exercises planned
for April 1922.
The first such exercises involving
joint land-sea action in the New
England area since World War days,
these maneuvers may be regarded as
another straw indicating that, in
military sense, the winds now blow
from across the Atlantic. The sug-
gestion is the more pointed in view
of recently concluded Fleet Problem
Xxx In Caribbean waters.
The responsibility for Army par
ticipation in the New England joint
Evening star., 1939-03-09
Unity in Full

Decision of labor's peace negotia-
tors, more particularly those of the
American Federation of Labor, to dis
cusS the proposal of the Congress of
Industrial Organiza tions for unifica-
ton of all American labor in a single
new organization must be considered
a step in the interests of peace on
this important economic front.
Stripped of one or two of its
non-essential details, and considered
apart from what may have been
somewhat provocative manner of
original presentation, the plan Of
fered by the Lewis group must be said
to envision unity of labor in its
broadest sense 1t would seem almost
automatic, therefore, unless there is
a conviction within labor that it
should or desires to remain split, that
the c. I. O. proposal offers a most
proper basis for further negotiations.
That there may be room for modi-
fications or refnements in this origi-
nal suggestion looking toward it's
eventual improvement or to it's adap-
tation to conditions as they are
determined in the course of nego-
tiations is quite likely.
For instance, uncertainty as to
whether the railroad brotherhoods
would agree to exchange their hith-
erto successful independence for
role as balance wheel in a fused labor
movement might force out of consid-
Grafton, or impose some qualification
on, their participation. Or further
thought might bring to light some
other solution for the existing per-
sonal differences than the proposed
temporary retirement of John L.
Lewis and William Green; or some
more Immediately positive manner of
settling jurisdictional disputes might
be devised.
These, however, are negotiable de-
tails in a basic formula which has
unquestioned appeal to those who
speak sincerely on behalf of unity in
labor.
At the same time their considera-
ton need not and should not pre-
clude the submission of other pro-
posals and the appraisal of all against
conditions as they actually exist. BY
such procedure, rather than a chip
on-the-shoulder course of action, la
bor's negotiators should find peace,
Evening star., 1939-03-09
Winter Is Here

Winter is here-we stretch forth empty
arms
To her bleak emptiness and binding
SHOWS,
Not knowing where to turn from wars
alarms,
We arm, yet will peace come through
vanquished foes?
Do we not know that only from within
Come bud and leaf, no war can hang
new leaves
Upon each bough, and only love achieves
The lasting peace, which men have died
to win.
Gods love IS here as truly as the sun,
Power no angry horde of hate can still,
And spring will come, when we have
learned of One
Who raised the dead and said-Thou
shalt not kill.
MONICA WILLIAMS.
Evening star., 1939-03-09
GALLATIN STREET.

"Dear Sir:
"Your daily chats on This and That
have been so much enjoyed by members
of our family that wish to express o,T
united thanks.
perhaps you may like to hear about
some unusual experiences we have had
with feathered friends while at our coun-
try home in the mountains near Blue
mont, Va.
"A window in the second story of our
mountain home looks down upon the
we'll with its surrounding stone wall.
"Close against this wall, beneath low
overhanging boughs of maple tree, a
wooden tub rests on the ground.
"1t is frequently filled with fresh water
for the horse and COW, who have the
freedom of the inclosed acreage.
Chickens, with the help of. large
stone, and birds, perched on the rim Of
the ove1eowing tub, often stop here for
a drink, and the latter are often seen
flying across it to wet their breasts.
"A most unsatisfactory way of taking
bath, thought, and mentally resolved
upon bird bath when returned to the
city where one could be found.
"One morning when I was writing on
the broad seat of the above mentioned
window, beautiful cardinal alighted on
the tubs rim.
Watching him quench his thirst, what
was my surprise to see him presently
tilt forward and, still clinging with his
up to the middle into the we'll filled
vessel.
II arose in alarm, fearing he might
lose his hold and drown But no, he
came up safely, and apparently liked the
experience so well that he repeated it
several times.
+ X 4
"'Bravo, Mr.. Cardinal!' I said to my
self. half bath is better than none
He whisked suddenly around, facing
me, his claws again firmly fastened to
the rim.
Then, to my amazement, he bent
backward at a dangerous angle, sub
tliclBilS Cdll, dlIu again Hall Ills DOQy,
In the water
II was ready to rush to his assistance
when up came that audacious cardinal
safely from what had seemed certain
death.
He even repeated this breath taking
acrobatic performance several times be-
fore winging his way to the top of tall
walnut tree, where he whistled joyously
to the whole world that where there's
a will there's way Hadn't he accom-
plished the impossible, and secured a
complete bath?
He got more than that, too His per-
Torrance secured bird bath for himself
and all his feathered friends.
ut was ideal. Broad and shallow,
resting on long pedestal, it was placed
near the popular tub, beneath the same
low-hanging maple.