The Redwood gazette., 1939-04-06
THE FACT THAT REDWOOD CouN


last six months, compared with toll OF
eight lives taken in the previous half-year
period, does not mean that all county resi-
dents and all our visitors have reformed
and are driving with extreme caution-far
from it-but it no doubt is true that many
were appalled, by that sad record and re-
solved to take greater precautions Not all
drivers are as thick-skinned as the fellow
who swung past the ambulance being loaded
with mangled bodies from wreck few
minutes before and remarked, Scenes like
that makes me feel like slowing up for a
couple of blocks"
One mentions the improved record with
some misgivings, fearing that perhaps let
down in standards may be born of the know
ledge that our luck, recently, has been good
For certainly there is a great amount of
luck, good and bad, in any kind of traffic
record.
There is need in Redwood Falls for a
concerted drive to enforce traffic rules. This
morning on our way to work huge truck
roared through stop sign on Mill street at
Fourth. This afternoon a heavily loaded
truck swung onto Second street from Mill,
almost on two wheels, and missed by inches
crashing into sedan, driven by woman
which turned up Second from the opposite
direction. In this case the woman driver
was 100 per cent in the right, but that might
not have saved her from serious injury.
These are just two everyday incidents.
All persons involved are local, entirely fami-
liar with arterial streets and busy intersec-
tions where precautions are imperative
Luck happened to be with them.
THERE HAS BEEN CONSIDERABLE
speculation on just which public post would
be allotted by the federal administration to
fA,. l..l e..
assignment has been made and the chances
of the erstwhile Farmer-Labor chief Ger
tainly aren't improving with time.
No doubt there are positions which the
former governor could fill with more fnesse
than he demonstrated as state chief but the
trend of Investigations doesn't serve to
make the appointment more popular and
there was little enough sentiment in his
favor among voters last November.
Not one for kicking felloWmen when
they're down, we nevertheless question the
wisdom of immediate assignment to import
ant positions of men whose work in office
has been censored by voters at the polls
The president, whose political talents are un-
questioned, has picked some of his key men
from the wreckage of political machines
No doubt some good men are spared
from political oblivion and their. talents saw
ed for useful purposes by these appoint
ments but they still seem bit out of step
with Democracy as we like to think of it.
AREN'T WE AMERICANS DUMB
department: "Here in Washington it has
been announced that the President and Mrs
Roosevelt will personally meet the king and
queen of Great Britain at the Union station
upon their arrival in this city I. and a
new street, short in length, is being con-
structed at the station so as to prevent any
possible mishaps :. :" Excerpt from H.
Carl Andersen's Congressional News Let
teri.
A PUBLICITY RELEASE TELLS
that IAN investigator is seeking the cause
of marked decline in the number of mar
riages." We submit as one reason that it is
getting increasingly difficult for a man to
support both a wife and the government
Minneota Mascot.
AND SPEAKING OF HONKING
horns, there is the chap who drives up be-
fore the door of his fair lady and, instead of
stepping out and calling for the fair one at
the door, sits and honks and honks That
is the way the gander calls his mate too and
she comes because she is a goose.-St.
James Plaindealer.