Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1918-08-22


Belgium. Many are motoring there
now driving or riding in convey
ances branded with the Red Cross
which is respected by all allied ar
mics and disrespected by those hell
hounds Of the Central Powers. These
motors roll on rubber-tired wheels.
Gives us another thing to think
of~--rubber--made into hot-water bot
ties, hose, gloves. tires and hum
dred common items OF commerce.
Before the war three and half mil
lion dollars OF our money found its
way to Germany each year to pur-
chase rubber goods. After the war
well. we will ride over those battle
fields on more rubber tires to pay
our tribute to those brave men who
fought and died there. We will visit
those towns where Germany and Aus
tria Knocked God and shook their
mailed fists In the face of civiliza-
ton. But we won't ride on German
made tires, and here at home MADE
I'm Germany" on thing of rubber
will rob II absolutely on any COM
mercial value. Keep It out. We
don't want II now. and we won't want
1t then. Mr.. Buyer, it's UP to you.
In recent speech John Kendrick
Bangs said: II want to tell you what
the Hun is doing~-tell you what kind
OF an enemy we are up against at
the end Of four years. Six weeks
ago held on my knee a little boy,
who, only seven years old, was play
ing In little village that had not
been bombarded. Then the Huns
dropped bombs from their airplanes
and killed some of the old men and
women In his town. After they had
passed the child was allowed to run
put and play. On the road he found
a toy--one Of those toys we used to
get Mt our children's parties with
fancy caps and verses in them. He
picked II up--as he was intended to
do. He thought 1t was a toy---as Il
was intended that he should. Then
he tried to break 1t apart~~as 1t was
intended that he should do. Five
hours later, when that little fellow
regained, consciousness. there was
only one finger left on his left hand.
All the rest had been blown to
pieces"
ls there man with good red
blood In his veins who would not 20
over to help put such beasts out OF
existence as could do such a thing
as this?
The airplane that carried that
vicious toy could hardly be made
without the use of aluminium. Other
Hun machines built OF more alumni
nun have bombed defenseless cities
In England. Still more OF them have
successfully attacked hospitals and
dressing stations. They have been
at II for three years and their air
raids have been carefully planned.
vicious murders. Their victims have
been civilians. women. little children
wounded soldiers. doctors and nurses.
Before the war they sold us near
ly four million dollars worth of
aluminium wares every year.
There's no excuse for that when
peace comes to cast a gentle mantle
over a world so horribly treated. No,
not bit Of It. America has uncov-
cred too much aluminium. American
manufactures have come into their
own, and we are going to keep them
there.
Some distant day. when the Ger
man Crown Prince has taken a Ger
man-mnde aluminium saucepan and
boiled the Atlantic Ocean down to
where the victims of German subma-
rine warfare lie on dry land, we
may forget. but until that time no
more German or Austrian-made
aluminium In any form. And still.
MIR. Buyer. it's up to you.
We could so on endlessly matching
each hideous inhuman atrocity with
an article on which Germany and
Austria enjoyed American business,
hut It Is useless to continue to con-
vince when we are already over-sold
on the subject. We could measure
miles Of dead French. English. Itall-
ans. Belgiaus. Roumanians. Russians.
Greek and American soldiers with a
German-made tape. and then forever
blacklist German-made measuring in
struments, The sights seen thru
periscopes and field glasses have
killed their optical glass business.
The pictures taken with German
made cameras have killed their lens
business. Oh. It's endless, The Ger
mans and Austrians have repeatedly
said that business Is our God. Let's
not argue with them. They aren't
worth It. Let's allow them to con-
tinne the Islander. Yes. the Central
Powers may have their own way on
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