The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1940-04-25
THE REAL UPPER CRUST OF speech


hire Speech-writers (ghost writers) and
turn them loose after few helpful sugges-
lions. 1t has been estimated that Tom
Dewey's speeches cost him $4,000 each-lt's
too early to tell whether they're good invest
rnents.
Governors aren't quite in the upper
crust but keynoters at national conventions,
role which Governor Stassen is to fill in
June, definitely can rely on ghost writer's,
without the upkeep, if they desire.
He will have help, of course, but good
many of his friends are quite sure, that his
convention address will be Stassen manu-
script-if not Stassen masterpiece.
Certainly he is not lacking in inspira-
tion. Few realize more fully than the gov
ernor, what questions the COP candidate
will have to answer during the campaign
and what pressure he will be subjected to
when, and if, he is elected.
Closer to the common people than some
earlier generations of Republicans, Stassen
realizes that many new deal reforms are
popular with voters. With adjustments
which the administration has Deen miser-
ably slow in making-most OF the program
is here to stay and any candidate VINO fails
to recognize the fact IS doomed to defeat,
as sure as the budget is out OF balance.
The governor is we'll aware that there
are many varieties OF IDEALS within the
party as many as there are opinions. Pro-
badly by now he can tell a political JOB
seeker when he sets foot in the office cor
ridor. He knows the mine owners solution
of national problems doesn't doVetail with
views expressed at Farm Bureau meetings.
and that bankers have opinions conflicting
with those of labor leaders.
lo4, ,Lo
"salvage" the new deal and those who would
"scrap" it, the governors speech might
puSSyfoOt with platitudes to dull end.
But MinnesotanS of all parties have
hopes that the governor will DO more than
make speech. AS the keynoter his talk
is expected to point the way He can, by
frank discussion, influence greatly the
course of the convention Perhaps as can
didate for the nomination at some later ma
tional convention, he can refer back to the
sound advice he gave in 1910. - ~
a PROPOSING A SHORTCUT FROM
east of Window to Morton (via Springfield)
which would cut out Window, Sanborn, Red
wood Falls, the Springfield Advance-Press
says, 'The purpose of highway system is
to provide good roads over the shortest
possible routes. Any arrangement that COM
pels motorists to 60 out Of their way when
a Short route is available is not in the pub
lie interest,"
If roads were built solely for through
travellers, they would follow those lines on
the map which as kids we knew as parallels
and fneridianS. However road builders re-
cognized, and the Legislature accepted the
theory that, most Of the traffic is going
places" locally and made every effort to con-
meet nearby towns while following a general
direction. The idea has never been general
ly condemned by the persons who supply
most of the cash for the roads.
NIGHT, YOUTH, THE THRILL OF
speed over fine highway, curve, another
car similarly loaded-and crash. Eleven
youths killed, two others in the hospital.
1t happened last Sunday at Siayton-
was the topic of conversation throughout
the state for part of the second day, main
ly because it snuffed out SO many young
lives in one noise like an explosion" The
same number of deaths in three or four &C
cidents would have caused no special COM
ment outside the Immediate area, would
have been more rapidly forgotten locally,
except by grief-stricken parents, brothers
\and sisters
y
y THE MINNESOTA HIGHWAY DE-
partment is joining in the Cleanup, Fix-Up
campaign by declaring war on signs and bill
boards built on the right-of-way, contrary
to state law. This summers tourists will
see more of the state than glimpses between
specimens of outdoor advertising.
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THE OFFICE WINCHELL HAS TT
quite straight that popular young legisla
tor who has stuck to nliddle-of -the-road
course in politics for three terms with con-
siderable merit is going to take conserva-
tive stand with the behedicts, come June.
D .
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is SAID
to be planning a on-political tour Of great
part of the nation this summer When a
president can make ''non-political' tour,
it will also be possible for him to wear an
Informal top hat.
WITHOUT COACHING, ANY GRADE
school youngster can tell you the robin is
the official sign Of spring, But one must
have a lawn to know that when the first
dandelion shows up, summer is not far be-
hind