The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-06-08
WELCOMES!

to entertain today and Friday, delegates and
others who are attending the second district
womens club convention. We want you to
enjoy your stay here.
We are proud of Redwood Falls, and
with good reason. Redwood Falls is clean
city, efficiently, managed. Our schools and
our streets are fair examples OF our CIVIC
enterprise and belief in progress. Ramsey
park is a scenic wonderland unequaled IN
southwestern Minnesota.
We take particular pride in our bust
ness district The modern outward appear
ance of our establishments bespeaks the up
to-the-minute merchandise and service Of
fered within. The vast majority of our peo-
pie take pride in their homes and lawns, as
tour of the city will verify.
Most of all we cherish and encourage
the spirit of friendliness vital in communi-
ty which seeks aggressively to grow and to
expand it's area of influence. We want you
to feel at home and to look forward to an
other visit with us.
LET'S GET TOGETHER ON THIS:
When the diamond jubilee committee sought
to advertise the affair with windshield stick
ers carrying the attractive jubilee insignia,
the state highway department quoted sec
ton of the statutes which says: "No person
shall drive motor vehicle :. with any sign,
poster or other nontransparent material
upon the front Windshield, sidewings, side
or rear windows of such vehicle other than
certificate or other paper required to be
SO displayed by law" Since the law seems a
sensible safety, measure, the committee
dropped the sticker idea without a whimper.
But let's see who use them. The high
way patrol has unobtrusive little ones for
light and brake tests. big item in Cover
nor StaSSen's campaign expense was those
Look ahead with Stassen" stickers that
were on well over half Minnesota's cars last
fall. Now the Minnesota tourist bureau is
putting out an official windshield sticker
with picture of a fish and the legend
"We're from Minnesota" which we hope is
no reflection on Minnesotans.
Point is, it's either a good or bad law
and should either be observed or abolished.
LONG THE SUBJECT. OF. lrriieA-
tion and panaceas, the Minneapolis and St.
Louis railroad was spared from dismember-
ment and parcelng out to competing lines
last year only to be faced with another
"cure" for it's troubles which would I'M
doubtedly have a similar affect on the serv-
ice afforded towns in this section of Min
nesota.
Latest scheme would split the roads in
two parts. Corporation would own all the
lines west of Winthrop and the line south
from Winthrop through New Ulm to Tara
Iowa. Corporation Al would embrace other
lines of the system and would lease lines of
corporation B, but under the terms of a
$5,000,00O, 25 years, 4 per cent loan which
the RFC would make to Corporation A con-
ditonal on the split, no part of the earnings
of the road could be diverted to corpora
ton B.
Fred K. Gage of Fairfax who had much
to do with defeating the original dismem-
berment plan points out that this is little if
any more favorable to the part of the road
serving this section of the state. His OBJ
servation that corporation B, with no metro
politan area to draw FROM would be like a
limb cut from a tree and expected to sur
vive, appears entirely accurate.
is 1T NOT TIME THAT WE RE-EXAlI-
ined ourselves and exposed to the healthy air
of public discussion the very methods by
which groups are seeking to concentrate
within their grasp economic power far be-
yond the scope of political government, so
that ultimately these economic relationships,
whether they come from the ranks of bust
ness or labor, will make rubber stamps of
our legislators and puppets of our courts
Is it not high time to sound call for true
democracy-the kind that does not recognize
the proprietorship of America by any class
or group or creed or race? 1t is not difficult
to perceive where these imported phioso-
phies, shared alike by our so-called defend
ers of private initiative and by the misguid-
ed leaders of the working classes, are begin
ming to lead us.-The United States News.
TOM MOONEY WAS A WORLD FIG
ure while he remained in prison. Freed he
is one of great number of men with inter-
esting histories, but no longer force in the
world as still-suffering martyr. Califor-
MAS mistake was in not pardoning him long
ago.-Duluth Herald.
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WE HOPE THAT WHAT FISH ARE
put in the lakes will amount to more than
that which is taken out If that is true the
children will have some fishing in the years
to come If it is not true the children will
go hungry.-Grand Rapids Herald.
PEDWOOD RAILS IS To HAVE NEW