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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-07-10
Town of Norman
From Our Correspondent

From Our Correspondent
George Hyatt sold his farm
last week to Albert Sangrene.
The Ogilvie folks spent the
Fourth at Alvin Knauss' home.
Robt. Tietz took business trip
to Duluth. Wednesday. returning
Saturday.
Frank Jensen left for Duluth
Friday, where he is employed in
the garage.
The Welcome Society will meet
at Mrs. Omar Forsyth's Thursday
afternoon, July II.
Violet Sangrene from Minnea-
polls, came home last Wednesday
to visit a few days.
George Hyatt bought 80 acres
of land from Louie Bade, three
miles east of Bruno.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christoferson and
children were visitors at the Joe
Inhofer home, Sunday.
Fred Darnell has bought forty
acres of land with the buildings
on from Mrs. Messenger.
Helen Tietz left for Duluth
last Wednesday to visit Mrs. Mar
kus and daughters for few
weeks.
There will be a dance at the
North Star Club house Saturday
evening. July IL, everybody is
cordially invited.
Albert Tietz, who has been em.
ployed in the glass block store at
Duluth. is home to help the folks
make hay for few weeks.
Bill Hammond from Duluth
bought 80 acres Of land in section
Is and intends to come down ant
make improvements in the fall
Miss Pringle, who has beer
visiting her sister, Mrs. Wallace
Ogilvie, for few weeks. left fol
her home in Hinckley, last Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Nelson ant
children from Minneapolis. ar,
visiting her parents, Mr.. ant
Mrs. Chas. Sangrene, for a few
days.
Mrs. Leander Bennet, who ha'
been in the hospital at Duluth
for several weeks, is back hom.
again and is much improved il
health.
Leonard Kovetts from Duluth
bought forty acres OF land Sat
urday, in section Is. He intend
to move his family down herr
in the fall.
Mrs. Messenger and daughters
Effie and Grace, left Friday 70
Shell Lake to visit a cousin
few weeks; from there they viii
go to visit her two brothers a
Kilbourn, Wis.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-07-10
Finishing Advlce.

Finishing Advice.
The nurse to the baby, grooming, %.
Softly sings, "By-Iow by-low."
While the baby's business pa doth cry.
That's right. buy low. but. son. sell
high"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-07-10
BIG CELEBRATION
AT COUNTY SEAT
Pine City Entertained About
5000 People on the Fourth
of July.

AilS pSVpiC vi iiiC Stty uiS W
be congratulated on the manner
in which they entertained the re-
turned soldiers and sailors and
other citizens from all parts Of
the county-a crowd numbering
about 5.O00-on July Fourth. No
money and efforts had been
spared in making the day an en-
joyable one. Pine City with it's
beautiful location on the lakes
and with it's park in the center
Of the village offers good picnic
grounds.
The heavy rains the night be-
fore put the roads in rather
muddy condition and were the
means of lessening attendance
by about 1000 to 1900. How
ever the day was beautiful one.
all that could be expected and
from early morning on up till
noon people came pouring in
from all directions.
The parade was delayed about
an hour--taking place at about
II o'clock and was headed by the
marshal of the day, followed by
the Askov Band and the civil
war veterans in automobile
Pine County's sturdy men the
boys who served their country in
the world war. were in the line-
up. There were many beautiful
floats lone especially which
caught the eyes of all the one
carrying the Statue of Liberty
On the base Of the statue were
printed the names Of Pine
County boys who died for their
country. The Brook Park Band
was also in the parade.
A good oration was given by
Rev. John Tallmadge Bergen. D..
D., Of Minneapolis. after the
noon hour. He spoke principally
Of the war and was accorded
close attention throuout by those
go.
who were near enough to hear
| him.
/ The ball game between Rock
Creek and Finlayson was too one-
sided to be interesting. the Rocks
being no match for the Fins
When the writer left in the
seventh inning the score Was
about 8 to 0 in favor Of Finlay-
son. Earl Lyons, who was pitch
ing for Finlayson was too much
| for Rock Creek. The real amuse-
ment Of this game was on the
side lines watching some Of the
sturdy Rock Greek boosters bait
ling for victory for their boys
; via the verbal route. They were
giving all kinds of excuses for
Rock Creek not scoring. blaming
it onto the umpire and every
body else, but in the seventh IN
ming the climax came when they
said that every time their boys
batted a fly it became foul on
account of the strong wind.
About this time the writer
packed up and left.
The boxing contest in the eve
ming was rather lively affair;
Chas. Mccarthy winning by =
shade over Sammy Terrin.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-07-10

If you have something which
you want to dispose of you can
very soon find out if there is sale
for it by using American want
Ads.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-07-10
NEWS AMONG
SCAND|NAv|ANS
Interesting Items From Far
and Near About People
From the North.

Knute Holland, born in Tele-
marken, Norway, 80 years ago,
and known as the most talented
of all Hardanger violin players in
this country, died last week at
Chippewa Falls, Wis. Together
with his brother, Gunner, Knute
Holland had established a violin
manufacturing concern in the
Wisconsin city and had made a
success of it for a number of
years.
Died on the Way.
Mrs. c. H. Lindstrom of
Denver, Colo, received word
from the sea some days ago that
her daughter, Jenny, who had
been abroad as Red Cross nurse,
was on her way home, and then
decided to go to New York to
meet the girl. On her way east
Mrs. Lindstrom was suddenly
taken i'll at Detroit, Mich, and
died of apoplexy almost immedi-
ately. She was a native of Stock
holm. Sweden.
May Send Money.
Negotiations between a group
of New York financiers and the
Danish government are reported
to have ended successfully with
an agreement that a large
amount of American money goes
to Denmark as a loan needed in
connection with the restoration
of Slesvig to Denmark. 1t is
understood that the deal has
been handled by the Morgan in
terests and by Brown Brothers
in Wall street.
Museum Planned.
At the annual meeting of the
Norwegian Hallinglag at Grand
Forks, N. D., last Saturday it was
decided to request the Nor
wegian Lutheran Church of
America for permission to erect
a Hallingdal museum on the
ground Of one of the schools
owned by the church. The
museum is to contain a large col.
lection of relics from the ancient
Halling Valley.
Just One Hundred.
Lars Lindquist in Stromsby
Kan, died last week on his one
hundredth birthday. He was born
in Jemteland, Sweden, 1919, and
came to this country in 1879
For many years he was promi
nent member of the Swedish
Methodist church at Stromsby.
They We're All There.
Last MondayAJuly all the
Danish Brotherhood lodges OF
South Dakota gathered al
Chester, S. D., for monster pic
mic. An elaborate program. in
cluding addresses by several vel
known speakers, was carried out
and so highly successful was the
affair that number of the
visitors from all over the state
fingered until Tuesday when in
formal social affairs were held.
Gone to Norway.
Martin Ulvestad Of Seattle
Wash, has left for visit to Nor
way. He is the author Of
standard work on the history d
Norwegians in America. and ha:
been waiting for official permi.
to travel to Europe. MIR. Ulye
stad has proved himself an his
torian of unusual insight, but
the appreciation he has met with
has been rather disproportlonate
to his accomplishments.
WiuIir,i Won.
At a tennis contest in Ashville
NJ r last week Miss WinifreC
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-07-10

SeilldllNeS Oh ninety cuucaClOlal
institutions. Miss Sundeen is Of
Swedish parentage.
Signs Of the Age!
Attention has been called to
the following figures which may
be interpreted as an illustration
of the saying that coming
events cast their shadow before
them" "Danskeren," published
by the United Danish Lutheran
church, lost 447 subscribers dur
ing the last fiscal year and
gained as new. "The Lutheran
Youth published in English by
the same church. gained 724 new
subscribers. "Bernebladet," Dan
ish, lost $40, but THE Little
Lutheran English, increased it's
list with 1871 subscribers.
E. J. Amblie Dead.
G.. J. Amblie, who has been
typesetter at Decorah, Iowa,
ever since 1868, died last week
after having been i'll for some
time. He was born at Lilleham-
mer, Norway, in 1888, and came
to America in 1858. After
having spent some time sin vari-
Gus parts of Iowa and Wisconsin
Amblie took part in the Civil
War, and three years after his
discharge from the army he
settled at Decorah where he re-
mained until his death.
VIII Not Give Up.
DR.. j, H. Sjolund, a Swedish
practitioner in New York, who is
charged with the manufacture
of certain alleged harmful
patent" medicines, has been
ordered to stop sending advertis-
ing literature through the mails.
He keeps on, however, and al
though he employs various clever
methods for deluding the autho-
rites, it is learned that he now
has been given the choice be-
tween obeying orders and going
to Jail. What he will do, is not
known at the time of this writ
ing.
Many Make Trip.
From all parts of America
come reports indicating that
citizens who were born in Den
mark. are going back to the old
country for a visit. The number
of Danish travellers is said to be
quite. unusual, but one explana-
tion given is that hundreds of
people who had planned to 90 a
few years ago have had to post
pone their plans until now.
There is no tendency on the part
of the majority of tourists to re-
main in Denmark.
Mails Becoming Normal.
First-class mail between Nor
way, Sweden, Denmark and the
United States is now being trans
mltted at a faster rate than at
any time during the past five
years. All censorship has been
abolished, and letters travel much
as before the days of the great
war.
Official announcement is made
that Scandinavian steamers again
carry direct letter mail between
Scandinavia and America, and
vica versa. but this does not
mean that all mail is being sent
over these routes. Much Of it
still goes by the fast routes via
England and France.
| Parcel post service is also re.
sumed without any official re.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-07-10
HE EXPLAINS

HE EXPLAINS.
"Doctor. why don't you cure more
people with your advice?"
because lot OF them don't fol-
low It. my friend"
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Curtis johnson on Chantauaus

Curtis JOHNSON on ChaNfauque
Curtis Johnson Of Rush City.
who is well known in Pine
County and for that matter
favorably known throughout the
state, being a member of The
State Fair, Board. has been en-
gagged for 4 series Of chautauqua
lectures. to be given prinripally
in the state Of North Dakota.
Four months trial subscription ~.
thn Aunnr4Ann f0f koe. 4
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-23

H'HIE'l M MEH UMHNHfU MNMHNUENNNN r
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

humiliating injustice of such a method
to-day is becoming conspicuous to the
of many people. What then shall be
said Of the fact that such an attitude
can exist in the domain of child life?
Shall even ignorance of such an exist
ing power in the law be any longer
pleaded or admitted for excuse?
And how about the cumbersome. be-
logged method Of dragging such an OBJ
solete train of laws through our admin
lstration of justice, permitting it to con-
Fuse the procedure of justice and even
to result in criminal acts of Injustice?
Is it not time that such abuses are
brought to the attention of men and
women, and most of all to that of the
legal profession and our legislators? For
we still believe in the existence of
human good will. Clearer knowledge of
the actuality Of such laws and the
abuses possible under them should be
pushed forward to sweep away this ig
norance, confusion and destructive ac
tion of the law. In this way there will
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Panicky Employers
Took Unframed Women

complaints have been made that ne
gro girls have not been marked sue
cess in operating rapid machines. How
ever, much Of this is due to the fact
that they have not had chance to
learn their machines or sufficient time
to become accustomed to them. They
were taken on in an emergency, and
no time could be given to training
them. Also in many Of the fac
tories and shops from which we have
the most complaints no requirements
had been asked of the girls when they
we're taken on.
ut is usually in the low class shops,
where work is most grinding, hours are
longest and conditions arc mcanest that
we have the most complaints Of the girls.
These swahtshops were desperate when
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

they made the same punishment apply
to BOTH
There is bill before the Legislature
to abolish the death penalty for minors.
There is another bill to prevent the
practice of vivisection in schools. Think
what that does to children-the cutting
up of animals before their eyes How
can we expect them to be anything but
callous to suffering when they witness
this in the name of science during their
formative years?
1--WE do not think deeply enough to
realize the temptations which we put into
children's minds by permitting even what
in itself seems harmless. The very play
things that have followed this war-the
toy guns with which they play at vio-
lence in the nursery-how can we ex-
pect them to develop anything but
spirit of destructiveness?
"There are many evils" continued
Miss Wood, and then she heaved sigh.
Miss Wood had just returned from AL
bany. "Many evils" she repeated; "and
so many, many attempts to remedy them
There is too much of the haphazard and
wildcat method Of legislation. am not
sentimentalist, and l believe that SEN
timental legislation defeats its own pur-
poses. What we should do is to seek the
practical and fundamental and go at
it slowly.
conc Of our oldest legislators told mo
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

dustry divisions of the Department of
Labor they sit as specialists.
Practically all the fault found with
negro girls in industry" said Mrs. Ir-
vim, speaking Of her work and investiga-
tions, ''is the result of lack of training
among the workers. For the first time
in their lives negro girls were specially
sought by industry during the war.
"In the North some factories were SO
hard up for labor that they offered to
pay transportation for workers who
would come to them from distance. Of
course the persons with fewest ties, and
consequently those not of the best class,
took advantage of these offers. Great
numbers Of negro women went from
Southern communities to industrial CEN
tres. Problems then arose that had
never before been part Of an industrial
programme.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
The Opinion of an Eminent Psychiatrist

FAlTH in the good will of humanity
would be impossible if we had to
take existing abuses at their face
value. They can be tolerated as facts
only by seeing that cloak of ignorance
conceals them from the clear recognition
of those who unwittingly depend upon
them.
1t would be humanity incredible that
there could exist to-day on the statute
books of New York State laws which
make it possible to indict and electro
cute child seven years old, if one
could not believe that ignorance or at
least laundering, confused understand
ing, even among the members of the
legal profession, makes the existence
and administration Of such a law posi-
ble
An eye for an eye, a life for life,
may have served it's purpose once when
mans intellectual horizon was so limited
that constructive and reconstructive
work was left only to the chance of
nature and pure instinct.
The absolute futility as we'll as the
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
Boys Like Adventure
So Do Girls!

Mary Wood, lawyer, and legislative
chairman for the City, State and Gen
eral Federations of Women's Clubs, has
felt from childhood that she could never
reconcile with her ideals Of justice the
taking Of life by the state
Yet state which contains a port
of entry such as ours must necessarily
provide more drastic laws than one with
a more normal population" she con-
tinued. "We receive from Europe those
who are unframed, undisciplined by self
government. They have been over
lcgislated against! And when the lid is
taken off their repressed desire for lib
crty at Ellis Island they are ready for
nything-ripe for crime! ] heartily
wish such bill as the Burnett BILL
abolishing immigration for the next four
years, could be passed.
"Stll, though there may be reason for
capital punishment among adults Of low
standards, in the case of minors st
seems to me nothing short Of legalized
crime. A boy Of sixteen or eighteen, if
he is normal, should have knowledge Of
the wrongfulness of his act if it is pre-
meditated; but a boy of sixteen has
streak of the daredevil which is far
from crime and yet may lead into it
without his being guilty at heart. He
likes to assume the airs Of older men
along adventurous lines, and wants to
seem heroic TO himself
"I keep referring to the boys" Miss
Wood broke off to remark, with laugh,
and her eyes twinkled as she went on:
Cup to this time girls haven't dashed
around much and tried to seem heroic
| think the next generation of 'em WILL
though-and l want to be around to en-
joy it when it happens.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

demptlon. Certainly there must be some
way to salvage the large and ever in
creasng number of children who are
hailed into our courts and branded guilty
of misdemeanors or more serious offenses
before they are out of their teens
The spectacle of Paul Chapman,
boy of hitherto unblemished record, SEN
tenced to death for crime committed
when he was sixteen years and ten days
of age, is enough to create serious
thought in the mind of any person who
is interested in civic betterment | ear
nestly assert that we have no laws on
our books to properly apply to his case.
Paul Chapman never killed any one.
He planned no murder His case went
to the jury not on the theory that he
fired any shot, but he was convicted on
the technical theory that, while he re-
mained outside the building as watcher;
some one else inside did the actual shoot
ing. There was no element of evil in
tent. 1T was q question of an hours bad
company
"That Paul Chapman merits punish
ment cannot be denied, but not by snuff
ing out his life. Some slight correctional
measures would yet make him good
citizen, assuming the associations to
which he has since been subjected have
not deteriorated him. 1t seems clear to
me that it is confession Of weakness
and of gross ineiIicicncy for us to saw.
Away with him to the death chair
when he has within him great poten-
tialltles for useful service to the COM
munity.
MIR. Osborne's rule, as demonstrated
at Sing Sing, is now proving at the u. s.
Naval Prison at Portsmouth, N. H., that
the worst types of offenders can be made
over; and yet we came dangerously near
blotting out the human existence of a
mere boy of good record. If Paul Chap
man had suffered death | should have
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23
In a Man, Preparedness
In a Boy, Display

ITO go back to boys, however we
bring them up to be brave We develop
in them what to us is courage-but their
unframed minds cannot distinguish be-
tween courage and bravado. Paul Chap
man was convicted of murder because he
helped to plan a burglary, and watched
outside the house with a revolver in his
pocket while burglary and murder were
committed inside, though he was igno-
rant of the murder. Of course, when
grown man carries revolver it means
ne intends to kill. In grown man the
possession of weapon is preparedness;
m boy 1t mag be nothing but display.
"The lawmakers must have overlooked
this little bit of boy psychology when
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

spread that dawn of salvation and re-
Mobilization of human lives which has al
ready shot forth it's first indications.
Such work has begun in many directions.
From the very nature of such work
and in the adaptability, Elasticity and
rapid unfolding. in one direction or the
other, of childhood, this is preeminentlv
the time and place for such effort and
for the understanding and fundamental
psychological sympathy upon which if
must be based.
In no field could the demand for it
be more urgent, more insistent than in
that of children's crimes.
And no more definite method of an
proach to it could be made at the start
than through a definite revision and re-
codlflcatlon of these reprehensible laws
and the substitution for the ancient
spirit of ignorance in which thew have
been allowed to accrue and maintain
themselves on the statute book that of
reconstruction and salvation of these
lives still young and filled with useful
possibility. Smith Ely Jelliffe, M. d.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

court, who must usually give bond for
the faithful protection of the rights of
the infant; and no property right of the
infant can be affected except with the
full sanction of the court. Every propo-
sition of the civil law as it applies to
infants is based upon the theory that
they are incapable of acting for them
selves.
But the property of the infant is ap-
parently Of more value than the life or
liberty of the infant himself.
"When child commits crime he is
presumed to have the same capacity to
form an intent in committing it as an
adult criminal of the most hardened
type. This presumption exists with a
child as young as twelve years of age.
Between the ages of seven and twelve
the law does recognize borderland
where the capacity is not presumed, but
1T nevertheless may be proven, and if
proven the infant Of seven years of age
under our existing law can suffer the
same pains and penalties as an adult.
"A child of seven years can be legally
clectrocuted in the state Of New York.
In other words, an infant is regarded as
incapable of possessing any mental ca
pacity to enter into a'contract, but is pre-
sumed to possess the requisite mentality
to commit crime. Any such incongruity
and Inconsistency in our laws should no
longer be allowed to exist.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

"One-half the negroes in the United
States are employed, and the reason for
this large percentage is that negro wom-
en- as we'll as men have always worked.
"But until a year ago the large major
ity Of negro women have been domestic
servants. They knew practically moth
ing else to do, and the white women in
the South were almost entirely dependent
on them for this kind of work. No study
has yet been made of what the change
brought about by the war may do to
them, but 1T is easy to conjecture that
permanent change has taken place.
"In Chicago, Mrs. Irwin and l inves-
tigated several plants that had made a
point of employing negro women. In
two large mail order houses we found
conditions splendid The employers re-
quired that negro girls taken on should
have a certain amount of education, and
they gave them a chance to learn the
ways Of the plant after they had been
engaged They were as a result more
than pleased with the work done by me-
gro girls.
"ln one plant 1853 negro girls are en-
ployed in the clerical department. The
forewomen are negroes. The work of
that department shows the value of
intelligence in the success of any en-
ploye.
"The worst criticism of negro girls is
that they do not stick to their jobs. They
are absent oftener than they should
be, and do not seem to feel their
responsibility. However, where there
were complaints about rregularity Of
attendance l found that in most cases
the girls had to live great distance
from the factories, inaccessible to car
lines"
New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

in law, and since that is true, see no
reason why child under eighteen
for, after all, laws do not make man
or woman-should be subject to capital
punishment"
The opponents of the bill making life
Imprisonment the penalty for murder in
the first degree in the case of those un-
der eighteen years of age say that the
death penalty is necessary as deter
rent against heinous murders by minors,
and that executive clemency can be in
voked where the rigor of the law should
be mitigated.