The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-06-22
PROBABLY NOT ONE IN 20 PER

: PROBABLY NOT ONE IN 20 PER
sons could guess the first four Minnesota
industries, let alone list them in order OF
Importance Few would guess that printing
of newspapers and periodicals ranks second
and book and job printing fourth, but that
is fact brought out in report OF the Min
neSbta Resources commission
Meat packing tops the list, which is not
surprising, but malt liquors third position
indicates startling revival of a once illegal
manufacture. Pushed down to fifth is flour
milling which if we recall correctly was first
when we took eighth grade subjects.
Sixth is bakery products while heating
and cooking apparatus paper and pulp mills,
butter, electrical equipment and railroad re-
pair shops follow in order
In this community newspapers and job
printing are combined, the county,s ten
shops being among the leading manufacture
ers. Creameries move up from ninth to first
in value of manufactured products, while
the baking industry advances from sixth to
place among the first three,
A factory which would provide jobs for
40 wage earners would be welcomed with
open arms in Redwood Falls and probably
could arrange for financial backing, perhaps
tax concessions and certainly would be loyal
ly supported by local consumers.
The three industries mentioned support
that many families, are individually backed
and ask no tax concessions. They have the
same right to expect the support of local
consumers, whether it's butter bread or
printing.
CONVENTION RESOLUTIONS OF
ten go on for pages about social, economic
and political problems but the clubwomen at
the district convention confined themselves
to few paragraphs, mostly routine thank
yous."
One matter was touched on both from
the floor and in the resolutions which merits
the attention of the public, however. 1t is
the matter of crime education of children
through popular amusements. Movies have
been improved so decidedly that it was per-
haps unfortunate they were mentioned but
the complaint on radio programs and comic
strips is certainly warranted.
Few crimes are too awful to be dealt
with in detail in the narrowing experiences
of the imaginary heroes" Careful parents
who would spare children f6WM0f life's
rough edges at least until until their teens
find them glued to the radio or pouring over
the back pages almost from the time they
learn to talk.
It,takes a clever artist to make popular
comics of the simpler incidents in life but
this has been achieved in Gasoline Alley
and Blonde" and numerous others which
actually serve purpose in life. 1t is diff
cult to imagine the type of mind that devises
the episodes of several contemporary comics.
PROBING is MINNEsoTA's NEW
est industry.
Authorized by the legislature to spend
$4,000 chasing Farmer Laborites, some of
whom had their feet in the public trough,
the Investigating committee not only holds
the press-limelight, it has contributed to
employment and takes no chances on violat-
ing the federal minimum wage and hour
bill.
William Green, who prosecuted the
highway department cases successfully,
earned $50 per day, the Associated Press re-
ports. He is an attorney, but some laymen
also came in for good pay. Ray p Chase,
once COP candidate for governor and the
author of Communists or Catspaw," sensa-
tion of the last campaign, has earned $3.50
at $40 per day as one of several investigat-
ors employed by the committee
Farmer-Labor members of the legisla-
ture fought the appropriation on the grounds
that it would be political slush fund.-
Minnesotans can depend on hearing more
talk in that vein when the next political cam
paign comes along. It's like starting back
fires to fight confagration.
THE SHOCKING NUMBER OF MIN
nesota drownings this season indicates the
necessity of more thorough training in the
art of swimming and rules of conduct in
boating and bathing. The classes of a few
years ago contributed much to both adult
and youth training but there is new crop
of youths each season, youngsters at the age
when swimming is easily mastered if pro-
perly taught. We are glad to learn these
classes are to be revived and hope they will
be well attended
1t also is essential that parents insist
their youngsters swim only when properly
supervised, either at patrolled beach or
with adults thoroughly schooled in SWIM
ming and eognizant of their responsibility.
THE FACES OF A LOT OF CON-
gressmen who had fiirted with the Town
sendites must have been red last week after