The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1939-10-19

son, that the state highway department
work out a proposed schedule OF road I'M
provement activities, based on probable re-
venues and needs.
While such a schedule might be a
handicap when a promise OF certain road
work would swing some senator's vote Tor
an increase in highway revenues, in the long
ruin it would work to the advantage OF the
department.
There is no denying that pressure plays
an important role in determining which
roads are graded or paved. The community
or group of communities whose delegation
parks in the commissioners outer office and
interviews him on it's pet project most per-
sistently gets results. If the commissioner
could refer to his five year plan for Mime
sofa roads and inform his visitors that their
project will be undertaken in 1941 or 1914
as the case might be, depending only on
revenues, the answer usually would suffice
and much time would be saved.
Biggest complaint on any public office
is broken promises. Highway II promoters
cried long and loud for grading of the San
born-Redwood Falls road, their principal
kick being that it was promised in the
spring for the fall and in the fall for the
next spring so consistently that all faith in
promises was lost until the contract actually
was let and work commenced.
tempts at curtailing department revenues
as practically every community would have
some stake in a five year Set-up and would
be slow to advocate curtailments affecting
that stake
FARMER ONCE WERE
accused of opening the deer season for mer-
cenary reasons, charge which has been
made against the COP conservation depart
ment this month for authorizing 10 day
pheasant season.
Whether additional license fees was a
deciding factor or not, it appears that the
department is working at cross purposes in
spending freely for propagation OF the birds
and at the same time extending the season
so that hunters may bag as many OF them
as possible. 49,
It is not the only complaint against this
years rulings No one will know how many
hens are shot by mistake, and left to rot in
the fields because the rules specify that they
cannot be kept, even under the plan last
year by which they could be taken to the
nearest game warden for disposal. There
is no doubt that many hunters, through in
experience or carelesSnesS, shoot hens The
ruling is not only wasteful but foolish from
a conservation point of view in that hunters
are allowed three cocks no matter how many
hens they leave in the fields, increasing the
bag of male birds.
HJALMAR PETERSEN IS SAID TO
have support from members of three poll
tical parties, disgruntled Republicans des-
perate Farmer-Laborites and all-hope-in-
-politics-shot Democrats, to oppose
Governor StaSsen for reelection next fall.
So much support may prove tempta-
tion for the railroad and warehouse commits
sioner who sat in the governors chair sew
eral months after the death of Floyd Olson
and liked it. But it is doubtful if Hjalmar
will get even as close to the office as he was
when he narrowly missed beating Governor
Benson out of denomination in 1898.
Minnesota is not in the enc term COVER
nor habit, even though it disposed of the
Benson clique after a brief trial. Unless
Governor Stassen errs very sadly between
now and next fall, his reelection will be an
excellent bet.
IT is RATHER STARTLING TO READ
that there are minorities in some European
nations which have lived apart from their
distinct as to customs and thoughts and may
now be moved back in great exchanges of
wanted for unwanted populations.
Except in large cities, we have few
minority groups in this country that are
ever considered as such. Even communities
made up largely of one nationality find in
ter-marriage and other factors soon break
up old country traditions in the great pro-
cess of Americanization. There are few who
would go back if transportation and stake
in the old country were provided.
Q
THESE NEW REPORT CARDS FOR
the grade school youngsters could be revis-
ed bit and adopted for average citizens
Would you score, very seldom" part of the
time" or nearly always" on such topics as
boosts civic enterprises" or thinks of the
communitys welfare ahead of personal adj
vantages."
THE BAN ON DANCING, WHICH
was placed when Germany entered the war,
has not been lifted We don't suppose there's
much enthusiasm for dancing over there,
anyhow-they always got to dance to the
same tune.-Minneota Mascot.
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