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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
RUNNING A NEWSPAPER

hUNNlINU "A NEVST All
Deer folks: Now l know why
editors go made. Il ben trying to
run this paper while the sport
editor is sick. For three mites l
ben reading questions and trying
to answer them, and if l don't
quit I'll be going around talking
to myself. I'm going to answer
a few more and then go to the
nut factory.
Here is some of them and the
answers l wrote on the masheen
your loving sun Johnnie.
What is a limberneck? ].
Jones.
Limberneck in the country is
a strange disease of fowls and
chickens. In the city it is a d.
sease of human persons caused by
watching fowls-chickens.
2-Do small cows give conden-
sed milk? Mabel B.
No, Mabel. Condensed milk is
made by trying to get quart of
milk into a quart milk bottle.
3-Please tell me how hash is
made. w. M.
Hash is not made, it accumula-
ties.
4-Is it all right to feed hogs
corn in the ear? G. X.
No. Put them in trough and
let them help themselves.
81 am in love with a homely
girl who works for us but she
don't seem to care for me. while
a pretty girl with lots Of money
wants to marry me. What shall
| do? w. M.
Marry the one you love. and
send me the name and address of
the other one.
6-My hair is beginning to fall
out. What can get to keep it in?
A sack.
Please tell me how to raise
a nice fat hog of about 500 lbs. z.
Get a derrick.
How can tell when the wa.
ter is the right temperature for
bathing the baby? Young
Mother.
If the kid gets red and hollers
the water is too hot. If he gets
blue and shivers, it's too cold.
81 am 40 years old. have a
nice little farm and am thinking
Of taking a wife. What would
you advise? Old Batch.
| would advise you to be care
full about whose wife you take.
10 Our old red bull is chasing
me around 40-acre field. What
shall | do? Mike F.
j Idon't know. but don't give up
| Mike the editor will be back in 9
week. Minneapolis Chronicle.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
Refused Diploma: Ends Life.

Marquette. Mich. June al.--Leslia
Adams. eighteen years old, son of l..
E, Adams. highway engineer of Alger
county. was found in his home in
Munisine. Mich, by his mother with
a revolver by his side, DiSappoiut-
ment over his failure 20 be granted
high school diploma is believed TO
have caused him 10 take his life.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
WANTS TO BUILD sT0CkADE
Registration Slackers May Be Held At
Fort Smelling.

st. Paul, June 21.-The Minnesota
public safety commission has asked
permission OF T. w. Gregory. United
States attorney general. to erect a
stockade at Fort Smelling in which to
confine the registration slackers.
The message to Attorney General
Gregory advised him that the st. Louis
county jail is now overcrowded with
draft slackers. More than 200 men
are held and more than 100 addition
al arrests are anticipated
1t was explained by the commission
that the larger number Of arrests on
the Mesabi range is due to the large
alien population of that district.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
Robbers 6attls Whole Town,

New Haven, No, June p After a
running battle with every available
man in town in pursuit FIVE bank rob-
bers ESCAPED after an unsuccessful at
tempt to blow the safe in the bank OF
New Haven.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
Bank Robbers Captured,

Perry, Ia. June 2l--Within three
hours OTTER they had held up the
cashier of the bank at Arcadia, a
small town near here. and obtained
$1,000. two men were captured by a
sheriff's posse near Manila. The
money was recovered
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
Must Discard German Titles,

Tendon. June 21.-The following Of
fetal announcement has been made:
THE king has deemed it desirable
in the conditions brought about by
the war that those princes of his fam
lily who are his subjects and bear
German names and titles should re-
linquish these titles and henceforth
adopt British surnames."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
"AMERlCA" AVERTS PANIC
ON BOARD STEAMER.

Chicago. June 21.--When
the big excursion steamer The
odore Roosevelt ran on a pile
Of rocks with its load of 1900
delegates to the encampment of
the Modern Woodmen of Amer
lea, the playing Of America"
and the Star Spangled Ban
ner" by the band averted a
panic.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1917-06-21
SICK HOGS
Act Quickly When Hog Cholera
Is Suspected-Anti.hog-choler
Preparedness Urged.

Don't take a chance with a sick
hog. Act quickly. Get a veter-
marian or a trained man imme-
diately. Don't wait a single hour
when you suspect disease in your
herd. Use the telephone or send
to town at once. Only prompt &C.
ton will stop hog-cholera losses.
Every hog saved will help win
the war.
This is the message of tremen-
dous Importance which the Uni
ted States Department of Agri-
culture is carrying to farmers,
not only in the great hog belt in
.cluded in Iowa, Missouri, and
Illinois and nearby States, which
produce 81 per cent of the hog
output of the United States, but
also to farmers of the South,
where in several States in 1916
hog losses due to cholera rose to
two to three times the average
losses for the country. Hog loss
es in 1915 by disease rose to 100
per 1000 in Arkansas. los in Lou
isiana, 100 in Florida, 80 in Geor-
gia, rs in Tennessee, 70 in Alaba-
ma, and IS in Mississippi. against
an average of AZ per 1000 for the
entire country. At least 80 per
cent of these losses were attribu-
ted to hog cholera.
The time for argument about
anti-hog-cholera serum is past,
declare the specialists of the
Bureau of Animal Industry, Uni
ted States Department of Agri.
culture. Explicit figures are
readily available which prove un.
mistakably that. when admins.
tered in time by competent per.
sons, hog cholera serum will keep
well hogs from taking the disease
for a period of three to six weeks
Not argument but quick action
is imperative to get serum and a
trained operator to the farm to
treat the hogs. Hogs will be
saved and the Nations meat. sup.
ply increased if every farmer will
Immediately upon sign of disease
call in the nearest available
expert to diagnose the complaint
and administer whatever treat
ment is necessary.
The Department of Agriculture
is urging that all State, county
and local livestock boards, State
college workers, county agents
and local veterinarians, begin i'm
mediately to organize anti-hog
cholera preparedness campaigns
to reach every farmer in ever,
county. Such organizations al
ready exists in many places
Where it does not there is neet
of special and immediate action
before the hot-weather condi
tons favorable to hog choler
come on.
Bankers, and other bushes
men. can aid in the, work of infor
ming farmers where they can ge
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05

government headed toward the goal
Indicated by President Wilson. Fin
ally. ne condemns Germany > peace
proposals as fusinceTe and only an e%-
cuse for relentless submarine war
fare. and with his uiud evidently
upon the war lord. he declares that
peace must come On the responsibility
OF the nation and not upon that OF
any prince or family.
Noble and courageous as these sen
tlmeuts are. Americans must wonder
why one man only is allowed 10 eE-
press them and what effect they may
have upon the German people Her
aids Of democracy like AaELrlll lau
Harden are not common 3n ANY land
but how docs II happen that he has
no known disciples when i would
seem that even 40 such men might be
able 70 redeem a nation ensIaved bg
. dr5Ilnasters and war-makersE Where
there ts no vision. the people perish,
said Solomon. While Macmillan Har-
den lives. Germany viii be not wholly
without 3 vision
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05

Albert St Clair vas philosopher.
Ie was born in America, but Of Eng
Hsh parents. Re had papers 20 SHOW
that he was Of good stock, but had
never examined them. He believed all
men to be a development Of the ape.
St Clair fell in love with a girl.
who reciprocated He didn't talk about
man and woman having descended
from apes. He talked the language Of
love. After he had proposed Laura
Hilton-that was the girls name
sent him TO her father for an answer.
II shall have 20 know more about
YOU before 7 can give my consent
said Mr.. Hilton To what family do
you belong and what is your income
Il belong 10 the human family. and
my income is $4,000 p year. The prin-
ciple was earned by IecturinE ON man
and his ancestors.
That is barely sufficient to lodge
and feed yourself and wife You
would have nothing for clothes and
incidental expenses"
Clothes are simply the covering OF
the lower animals which are trans
formed to man What he does not get
this way he derives from tine vegC-
table kingdom The sheep clothes him
and his wife She wears rat skins on
her hands and sticks an ostrich
feather in her hat Her stockings
when she is much dressed are the ex-
cresceuce OF worms
Nevertheless You will find if IN
convenient to get on without these ar
tiClez- How about your family CON
nectious 2'
Family connections are of no more
importance in man than any other
"a rrfT EvAua#
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05
a Man Of Vision

At a time when free speech, free
publication and free communication
are limited or suppressed as so all
others. Macmillan Harden boldly tells
Germany the truth. Sweeping away
tue whole fabric of falsehood which a
reptile press has reared against the
United States, BE proclaims zhe ne
cess5ty for our entrance into the war
euloEIzes the Ideals 1y which we are
inspired and calls apoa his country
men 60 make their house hahitabIe
and rot an eyesore 70 the world
la Ills assault upon the military au-
t0cracy. even she emperor is left in
40 doubt as to he meaning OF zJr
Hardeu's words. lie pleads for deuoc~
racy as the one hope CT peace now
and hereafter, for liberty to speak ana
10 write, and most significant Of ALL
perhaps, he demands new men IN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05

LAGOON Perhaps YOU have seen
him pictured in stone, strengJhfuIs
powerful figure He is labor Of TO-DAY
And never until he mas unsheatned
himself from the myriad rainga
That grid and bruise his lolns
20 bleeding viii he be enabled 70 use
his power oil strength and will for aim
self and others Not hand from out
side sources offers 10 aid him in an
rsngIing tine nests Of crawling Flpers
binding HIS feet TO one spot.
We know from the taut muscles Of
chest DEVELOPMENT and the wired tissue
of arm that he is 10 win in the un-
equal struggle, get we do not see its
outcome. The sculptor left il 70 US TO
see the day of LaOcoon's freedom. IN
true arts great imagery there can ne
no pretense. and Sc the giant IS left
partly crippled 20 our gaze not crying
fer help. but making the bystandeF
feeI . frj6e uneasy
Men have to take account Of half
way means If the whole measure their
rightfuL due. is withheld This is the
heel of necessity which those 10 con
troll know SO we'll how to grind into
the tenderest spot eff you strike,
YOUR women and children viii suffer-
IS the steel thrown IN the eyes Of work
men. and # rarely fails, but labor re-
mains crawling on its belly i'm couse~
oueuce. erecting sEyscrapers than
which no office gent could drive nail
in on penalty of his Iimpy neck.
We need more Trojan women among
the workers wives. such women as
John Walker tells about m the earlier
days Of the miners difficulties in
Illinois. Men VINO tn bodies
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05

DIaiulv than ornamentation BE tHa
body The most barbarous woman
wears necklaces and ear and li3 rIres
81 teeth OF Done or metal The NOS,
refined woman wears stones ANA
metals
"Oue with such iGaas SIS goaa.
not apt TO have much respect for las
sacred ceremony of u.arrjag
Marriage draws man away from hts
native state. the state OF other au
mails -Four footed brides and groom.
do not trouble themselves about eael
others relatives and other dc.riuants
70 q hearty progeny 1T strong ana
healthy man who eats with his knife
desires to marry strong and healthy
woman who cats with her fork hes
relatives viii defeat the union If fhay
can But is she desires To marry
living skeleton Of birth and breeding
they are delighted with the uatea"
mir. ST Clair. have listened tn
YOUR statement or reasons why Son
should be permitted TO m8rre nv
daughter and am forced t2 admit that
while as reasons thew are worthless
there are truths I'm them NeYesrhs
less j consider you the biggest fool
I ever met But, as YOU have said
intellect is not so liable to ne inheri-
ted as strength, the intellectual man
seldom marrying the fn.aITerfasI
o-onaD. or vice versa. therefore n ,a.
are a king or prince. ar even
nableman. with large wealth. YOU ma.
be my son-iu-Iaw. If not forbid
the bauns.
Nothing romans. said ST. Cfs-
howiuy himself out. but Cd look iuta
my pedigree and learn whether any
of my family. in whom { have rsya-
taken the slightest interest. have ls.r
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05

ffearst's Chicago Americana
The Hearst newspapers have gladly
and free of charge printed constant
appeals for army and navy recruits
The Heart newspapers have also OPP
eued recruiting stations at their own
expense and given daily throughout
the country pages OF their u6"sp5r
space TO the cause oE securing enlist
meuts. This means 81 good deal of
white pauer. TOR IT requires ia excess
of three tons Of white paper go print
page in Hearsts Chicago Evening
American alone.
Bat the fact that one newspaper on
chain of newspapers chooses To de
vote its space free OF advertising pay
meut 70 the appeals of the navy is no
reason for demanding that the small
weekly and daily newspapers through
cut the country shah accept govern
leuE advertising free
liza congress three gentlemen who
are politicians FIRST and e#paper
owners afterward declared that the
newspapers Of the country should
print the advertising Of the govern
uent and charge nothing for b.
We are sure that every me-" 5papar
editor. no matter how small his in
come or how great his difficulties with
the present eE-Crtouata charge for
white paper. would gladly accept this
suggesTion-H other citizens would do
the same.
There are thousands Of editors In
the United States whose total profit
i'm "a year IS less than the price that
an ammunition maker charges for one
single big explosive she'll These
small editors. working. many Of them
for less than the pay Of good day
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05

By Mary Aquin

private swimming pools. He appears
to be an ordinary citizen. and be would
like 70 do the square thing by every
body. He has a family oE real children
and tbare is nothing the matter with
their powers Of assimilation.
John said TO rs in reply when We
asked him To explain this fabulous
sum he was asking in the new wage
scale, and when potatoes were only 10
cents apiece. sugar cents look and
-four may be seen in the sky any day.
My wife aud I figured It out last
wear" said John Smith said carpeu-
ter. you see, the building work and
construction of most kinds comes IN
seasons. it is the same with painting
and some other crafts. There IS a
short run at IT, and then nothing for
weeks and weeks. but odd jobbing and
with a horde scrappliug to do that for
nothing. Ii doesn't matter how indus
tri0us a person may be, when the
works shut down there is no full day
or steady income We'll. I've got q
wideawake. economical wife. and every
hour Of her time is consumed in trying
to make both ends meet out Of the pro
ceeds Of my work. She kent exact &C
count this last year, and after the rush
Of employment Al q steady wage was
over. found that our average netLeu
for the year round S16.25 per week,
Most any OF my fellow workers could
tell the same story. though some may
not have Jared as well Us it enough.
I ask you, to enable me and my family
to live Ia the way our Intelligence and
desire 10 he citizenly suggests? 2"
Five dollars per day, 10 the face Of
present living conditions, viii not any
more than allow q man Of average
+ family possibilities to get along,
thrift dust-thTowers is the bow-wOws.
Like LAGOON. whom We nearly lost
track Of in our excitement over Smiths
Lblg wage. the workers feet are bound
/ in the mud of muscle-breaking,
grir-straiuinE conditions. But at
That his head and shoulders and
chest bespeak the giant and We have
( the scuIptor's promise that he viii
. free himself
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05
Day in Davenport

Use Vacant Lots-FIau5 for making
use OF between five hundred and six
hundred Tac8nts lots In Rockingham
as garden plots we're discussed at the
regular meeting Of the Rockingham
town council The mayor. John T..
SuiGtiger. and City Clerk VIC Wat
terson. were instructed 20 compile
list of owners of the vacant lots and
of the people desiring to use these
lots for garden purposes. The Off
ciaIs viii communicate with the own
ers and attempt 10 secure their per-
mission 10 turn the use OF the lots
over to the woaId-be gardeners The
plan was brought 10 the attention Of
the council by Councilman =. r An
kcrzou There are a number Of vacant
tracts of land lying near the town o-
Rockingham which might be used
Councilman Anderson said.
O.
Direct Verdict motion TO direct
verdict for the defendant i'm the
case of Clara Anderson VS. Jacob M
Dickinson, receiver for the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific Railway com
panT. was sustained by Judge M. i.
Douegau iH the Scott county district
court after the defense mad put on
number Of witnesses TO support their
claim for a directed verdict 1t was
personal injury suit
Go 90 Washington Secretary I. g.
Norwood Of the Greater Davenport
committee. and Attorney n. ID. Ely iefs
yesterday Tor Washington ID o.
where they have gone GA one OF the
most important missions In connection
with the development of national
guard organization IN Iowa The mis-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05
Going Away for Health.

ff#aA% a ass fEh EsEAEtfsz
A hundred years ago OF more, peo-
pie living along the Atlantic coast,
we're sent 10 the AIIegheuies for their
health. As population increased slow
Dr. westward inEalids were advised to
visit the pine woods gf Michigan, then
later Minnesota. ana later still, the
Rocky mountain region became the
mecca for health seekers Bus popu-
lation kept following along and the
doctors finally had 20 ship invaIIds
clear to the Pacific coast ia quest OF
the proper climate. Population, how
ever. chased the poor lnvalids even
were uOupLusea. Leave it to the doc
tors They picked out a few isolated
spots iu the far southwest. and pres
entity Arizona. New Mexico and other
more or less hopeless places began
to boom. But, alas. the boom is al
ready waning Population follows
business The doctors are now with
out q place TO send their patients. So
they have put their heads together
and concluded that, after all. there is
no place like home when 8 patient
desires 2 good climate The porch
the roof the back ward. anywhere
guc Of doors
Consuupti"es uscl 20 get well En-
the AllegueuIes once II q while. il
was accidental. Of course. tor in those
days night air was not considered a
suitable medium OF respiration. Con
sumptlves used to get well every little
while in the Michigan and Minnesota
woods BY that time few Iuvalids
were leaving their windows up with
window boards inserted TO keep out
drafts Quite a lot Of the cousump-
lives who went TO the Rocky Noun
tairs recovered returned east and
died few years later Others re-
covered. remained IN the west and
lived ont their lives there. Those who
remained west continued sleeping
with wide open windows Those who
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05
Still FOR a Free Press.


Inc espionage oil-' rs '.-a'is
by the house. materially mcdl1ea ne
press censorship feature. con Ereas by
= fsres t.,e.4-.ri+v declining to r-nrur
--..a..4s--- +ae+
~ '49
thcre be placed ~ tAe aa--a
Of tae president ai1i5EdiE a1
fhority I'M controlling the avenues OF
publicity for the duration 81 me war
In 1s altered form tho censorship
clause iusITgs the widest latitude E2
the press id she handling of news and
provides that there must be es,a0-
Hshed q premedltated purpose en- the
part Of "a publisher 80 aid the enemy
through his printed word before gov
eminent peuaIizariCu may be invoked
None questioned that President VIII
son would have dealt fairly with the
press had he been cta.aeA WIN me
powers that We're sought under me
administrator flt aa oItTea I'D us
original form, Iar D. l7 recalled ileL ~
all discussion I4FalE-ls tae btHH'7at
he has been emphatic 1n his wish mat
there he no curb placed upon press
criticism of men aud policies. that #
fhere were mistakes being made he
wanted io have them pointed out III
the most f1rCl1la manner possible his
one desire IN having a censorship was
10 protect th7 nation against the ad-
vantage me enemy mlgAI gam through
publication OF defense preparations
Congress. en- me other laHo. saw dan
ger in tine precedent. seusl lE the gem
eral uup0naIaritE among the public
81 mHzlllnE tle new paper. EAe one
agency to which Che citizen may look
for faithful presentation of the days
events. lie wants t1 know what Is GO
ing ON whether his country is at war
or at peace. Ii matters not Huat the
news may bc. good or bad he feels he
is entitled To have f. lie does not
propose TO be kept IN the dark aus TO
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-05-05
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got better and went back east found
public opinion too strong tOr them
ana closed tLe windows On cold and
damp nights. On the coast recovery
became ii general rule By that time
night air was freely inspired In the
arid southwest. almost everybody g0g
well. because f. wasn't necessary 70
live i1 house at all, practically.
AT nome All over the country moss
i is disgrace 10 die of tuberculosis
the disease rs one thaG has a strong
tendency toward spontaneous hesJ ling,
= YOU give f q show. The open air
life, in toar or country. on mountain
or In tae valley. is curing thousands
Of cases everywhere. The essentials
81 cure are very simple 40 A doe
tor who attends regularly and through
OPT the illness. (2} Open air day and
night she year around. - AG tae
s-A-e4t available or enGurabIe; a.
Hes- tat Wholesome food in reason
able variety - Graded exercise. uu-
DER strict regulation by -he doctor
according go the conditions in each
case o. Occupation which gives
peace Of rfad.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
CLAD 90 Accommodate.
"ouia II be asking too much of y0u
5o name something good to remove
hair from the arm plls-that is. some
t1ng safe anu uou-irritatInE.
Miss s. H LIZ
Answer-Glad 10 DO so. The very
best agent know for the purpose. and
one highly recommend. IS safety
razor, II will accomplish without II
Fitaton everything that any depflatory
preparation could be expected 20 ae-
compllsh. and it is perfectly safe.
The tuberculosis Bugaboo.
ootd Il be dangerous TO purchase
any tang from q store formerly owned
by man who died with tuberculosis
Mrs .. IA
AhsWer-Eut al all The danger died
with the man.