The Redwood gazette., 1939-11-09

Quc lOIlCc give tIldllhS lOI IHcLI DIcSS-
ings.-Thief River Falls Times.
THE BEST ARGUMENT WE HAVE
seen against one-man government is the fact
that one man is responsible for thirty mil
lion men being engaged in war.-Monticello
Times.
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN (D
department: man called at this office
this week and asked to see julius A. Sch
mahl!! Mr.. Schmahl left this desk the year
the present editor was born-and it's been
several seasons since anyone called us kid.
WITH RAILROAD PRESIDENTS
drawing as high as 100000 annually in sal
aries it seems only just that they pay their
government which befriended them in the
"horse and buggy days-Slayton Herald.
CALL 1T STRANGE IF YOU LIKE,
but the most intelligent statement on the
neutrality bill by Minnesota member of
congress was made by the states only
Farmer-Labor member in the house, R. T.
Buckler. He voted for the bill and made a
very plausible case for his action.
.
EARL BROWDER, HEAD OF THE
Communist party in America, talked too,
much, and has been indicted for using false
passports to make several trips to Russia.
1t has been suggested that the proper pun
ishment would be to give him one-Way
ticket to Russia.-Park Region Echo.
WE LOSE PATIENCE WITH YOUTH
when Halloween destruction-bad enough
any place-turns to places built for their
beneft-the bath house, Memorial Field, the
library. Modern parents fail, apparently, to
teach even elementary appreciation.
DOWN IN AN IOWA TOWN OF
about 1000 population there's wholesale
grocer who operates fleet of SO trucks and
does business in the millions of dollars. Sue
cess doesn't depend on the size of the town.
1t depends on the size of the man.-Sleepy
Eye Herald-Dispatch.
BE A BIT SKEPTICAL ABOUT NEW
leagues for this and that. Some of the
groups soliciting contributions are of doubt
full character if not actually detrimental
Congressman Dies just showed up some gov
ernment employees who were careless about
joining organizations with attractive names
Donate your dollar to the Red Cross instead
L
belong to? It's familiar question, to which
growing number of people reply something
like this: "None although l usually vote
Democrat (Or Republican or Farmer-Lab-
orite), | like to feel free to vote for the man
think is the best bet to do his bit toward
good honest government"
It's very sound viewpoint.
Speaking of political parties, that office
visitor who was looking for julius Schmahl
left us a list of the parties that have existed
in America since our government began. He
lists 56 and claims the congressional library
as the source Of the information.
They are: Paper Money, Federalist,
Democrat, Law and Order, State Rights
Democrat, Anti-Federalist, jefferson Repub-
lican, War-Democrat, Peace Q812), Jeffer-
sonian Democrat, Anti-State Rights Demo-
crat, Workingmans, National . Republican,
Wing, Jackson Democrat, Nullifer, State
rights Wing, Van Buren Democrat, Anti
Mason, Free Soil, Cass Democrat, Union
Whig American, Liberty, Ultra Abolitionist
ll852), Know Nothing, Republican, Anti
Braderick Democrat, Union, Constitutional
Union, Union Democrat, Emancipationist
(1S64, Unionist, Radical Anti-Democrat,
Liberal Republican, Conservative, Independ-
ent Republican, Greenback, Greenback Lab
or, Anti-Monopolist, Readjuster, Farmer
Alliance, Liberal, Peoples, Prohibitionist,
Socialist, Public Ownership, National Gold
Standard Democrat, Silver Republican, Pro-
gresslve (Bull Moose), Farmer-Labor, La
Toilette Progressive, American Labor and
Communist.
Each represents an era in American
history; was made up of Americans not
quite satisfied with the order of things.
Many have been short-lived.