The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-02-08
WHEN YOU VOLUNTEER A GUESS


this year, or even who'll be elected, don't go
out on the limb without taking the various
candidates for first lady into account.
Although wives have always been con-
sideration in choosing presidential timber,
who is to be matrOn of the white house is
today considerably more important than
ever before
Like some vice president candidates.
wives who didn't quite measure up to re-
quirements in the public eye could be kept
in the background in the old days when the
men did all the voting in this country.
Women naturally take a greater inter-
est in how we'll the first lady wears her
clothes and her ability to pick the right i'm
plement for each course of state dinner.
After Mrs. Roosevelt's career at the
white house, however, wives of presidential
candidates will do we'll to cultivate their
radio voices and brush up on current topics.
Future first ladies will be expected to have
more than poise at the dinner table; they
can look forward to being called on for after
dinner remarks as well.
That this fact is recognized among as
pirants to the white house is shown by the
prominence given to wives of candidates in
their early publicity. Several of the pros
pective first ladies are out making speeches,
in some cases doing a good job of fronting"
for husband who has to be known to be
loved. In every case the little lady" gets
place in publicity pictures and at least half
the writeup.
That hand that rocks the cradle" ad-
age applies more than ever to the white
house.
HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE COSTS,
like interest and taxes, stay with us year in
and year out, liberal administration or con-
sentative one.
A comparison in the Engineering News
Record, however, indicates Minnesota tax
payers bear larger burden than northwest
states with comparable trunk systems.
Maintenance expense in this state for
1889 is given as $6,477,OOO, while Iowa spent
! $3,825,0OO, Wisconsin $5,5O0,OOO and Illinois
$685., 900. With it's funds, Minnesota main
tanned 3,O41 miles of high type" and 1856
miles of medium type" roads. Iowa has
400 miles less in the two classifications,
6052 miles of high type and IA Of medium !;
Wisconsin is more nearly comparable with
4,724 of first grade and 1898 of second and
Illinois has considerably more, 1865 miles
of high type and 119 of medium.
TO make fair comparison of taXpay-
ers' burdens it would be necessary to know
how much extra the others pay in interest
on bonds and how much Minnesota motor
lists pay in travel expense by reason of
poorer roads. Minnesotans probably are COM
ing out on the short side of the ledger.
Il Apparently our neighbor states are not
disappointed in their investment for they
continue to build roads of the higher type.
With all it's mighty system, Illinois added
TT miles OF hard surfaced roads last year
and Iowa and Wisconsin, 142 miles each.
Minnesota meanwhile was paying for
e..
IT'S miles of hard surface.
THE THEORY so WILLINGLY AC-
copied by legislators that employees of less
than eight in towns of less than 10000 don't
need unemployment insurance because they
are never unemployed has been completely
exploded by statistics on benefit payments; ;
also the cOrollary that employers were pay
ing tax that would never benefit their en-
ployees. Actually the Ill per cent (of all
employees covered who were employed in
firms hiring less than eight drew Ii per cent
of the total benefits while their employers
paid only 1873 per cent of the total tax.
THE EDITOR IS INDEPENDENT
yes sir! The Hutchinson News explains:
'The United States is the only ajor nation
today that can boast of free speech and a
Tree press. 1ndC means as long as an eQltOr
in this country writes nothing to offend the
advertisers, the churches, the lodges, the
unions, the subscribers, or the wife, he can
fearlessly print anything he darn pleases."
WILLIAM BORAE FELT REPRE-
senting his state in the senate was full
time job, according to his biographers, new
er practiced law on the side for liberal fees
which his position in the nation would have
commanded Yet with insurance and saw
ings, he left his widow an estate of $2O7, O0O
Given enthusiastic cooperation, he might
have balanced the federal budget
CONGRESSMAN JOHN G. ALEXAN-
der, from Minneapolis district, is supplying
q weekly release" to papers well outside his
district; as far away as Redwood Falls at
least. Sometimes that broadening of scope
indicates senatorial ambitions.
. .
THE ACTION DOESN'T INCREASE
in popularity when we break our trade agree
ment with Japan and the British Immediate
ly make good use of the opportunity to settle
their difficulties nrOfitahlv