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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13

Is down and they will trim up the
lower blades of the corn, bat they will
not ride" the stalks down as hogs do.
The benefit which they thus render is
much greater than the damage they
do.
Woven wire fence is convenient for
combining sheep to specified areas, es-
pecially when this area is in corn,
since the cornstalks serve very well
as posts to which to tie the wire net
ting. Corner posts should, of course,
be more substantial.
Sheep may be used also to destroy
weeds in fields that are not planted
In crops, along roadways, and in waste
places, thus tending to clean up the
whole place and reduce the weed seeds
that may be blown in or tracked in on
cultivated fields. On the ordinary
farm sheep are better than goats for
this purpose, since they are more cas-
lily confined.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
SHEEP AS WEED DESTROYERS
Turn Lambs Into cornfieids
to Clean Up Rows.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Sheep are extremely valuable as
weed destroyers, and they can be
shifted from field to field as crops per-
NIT, where they will clean up the fence
rows. In some parts of the country
1t is common practice to turn the
lambs, at weaving time, into the corn
fields, where they destroy weeds, but
do not injure the corn. Where the
corn ears stand up fairly high, sheep
may be turned in after corn is laid by.
Whey may eat an occasional ear that
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
BANK BANDITS GET $4,000
Daylight Robbers Make Big Haul at
Minneapolis Bank.

Minneapolis. Feb. 11.--Forcing five
employees and two customers to stand
facing wall, under threat OF death
II they moved or shouted. four day
light bandits at $50 a. IN. took $40.
900 in cash and $4,000 in Liberty
bonds from the Liberty State bank.
1888 East Franklin avenue, and es.
capped after forcing the employees into
one of the bank vaults and locking the
front door.
When the four bandits left after
taking all available cash and bonds,
the employees and customers escaped
from the vault in which the banks
books were kept. through a side door,
and notified the police,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
Navy Would Return Hero Dead.

Washington. Feb. 11.-Plans for
bringing home bodies OF all officers.
sailors and marines buried on foreign
soil are being worked out by the Navy
department and the actual work will
be undertaken within the next few
months. The wishes of relatives, will
govern not only as to the return Of
the bodies. but also as to their Anal
disposition. Those brought home will
be sent forward for private interment
or buried in Arlington or some other
national cemetery ~ relatives may
decl6A
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
sal Curbs Wilson's pow.rs

v" hington, Jan. % Revocation =,
rreS'aent Wilson's powers to 800 -.
.sni''us under government cortro, -
% e,e'i private owners any time wi,bin
q months after peace is declare, n'aa
proposei in bill introduces, h., va vas
a'ol .ummins of Iowa, a Repns,non
>mehoeF OF the senate interstata n,,n
meree COMMITTEES. It was re:s-rn, -
ue committee. The measure .r-,, -
~ sIa' government control dur,,y ~
months period shall be mand ,,o-,.
uIisss otherwise ordered by ,nn.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
DELAYS IMMIGRATION BILL
House Committee Leaves Measure for
Next Conqrass.

Washington. Feb, lt.-Chances for
the four-year immigration exclusion
bill coming up at this session of con.
gress were virtually killed by decis,
ion OF the house rules committee to
provide for consideration of only three
measures outside the regular supply
bills The three measures are a bill
making minor amendments to the
Federal Reserve act. the wheat guar
antee bill and bill providing addi
tional funds for the Federal Board Of
Vocational Training.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
PLANES WORRY ANARCHISTS
British and Russian Filters Harass Red
Army in Siberia.

Arhangel. Feb. 1.--Rritish and
Russian airplanes, flying over the
frozen cumberland between the Vaga
river and the Cologda railway are
greatly harassing the Bolshevik forces.
This is one branch OF equipment in
which the allies are superior to the
enemy who has virtually no aerial de-
tense, while the allied fiiers are dem,
onstrating their efficiency despite the
extreme cold,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
GERMAN PEOPLE ARE FOOLISH
mink Ih2t No indemnity Will Be
Demanded of Nation.

Paris. Jan. 2S.-A French poro,,
VINO has Just arrived from Berlin saws
in the Matin:
me German people think that
their tad ia : re at an end. They
10 no. oeiieve that the German army
was beaten aud that therefore M W.,
mce2anity will be exacted. They Ia.
DO under Illusions regarding thu
zee 3 OF the American people "a.
peg President Wilson Thor.
nay cen seen professions passin9
the on hotel cheering the rener.I
IN lnand of the American missile,
In in" 'sioA
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
U. S. Lends Rouranla 5000, 600

WASHINGTON. Feb IA credit of
$4,000 600 has been established in IA
vor OF Roumania, the treasury an
nounced. This makes total credits of
$40. 900 900 for Roumania ard sS.61S.-
l51 ,ooe for all the Allies.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
NJ IS GAVE THEIR LIVES
rec ross Lost More Than 200 n,,;,.
influenza Epidemic

nington, Jan. 2s.-More than
1v' .nerican Red Cross nurses died
Oh : ,-aenza contracted while adm,n
,s'e'.@s to influenza stricken sol,,;a-s
herf md abroad, the Red croau aieiS
vea.cd. o'oss re-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13
GERMAN DEMAND REFUSED
All Poles Of Military Age Called To
Eiuht TeutonS.

Berlin, Feb. 1.-THE Polish volks-
rat has refused the German demand
province Of Posen and has called all
Poles of military age to the colors for
defense Of that territory. it is report
ed
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13

County tax rate, 1913 mills.
Average rate OF all taxes for County.
5e.4 mills
The foregoing statement prepared by
the County Auditor In approved by this
Board and respectfully submitted to
the Taxpayers OF the County.
Dated at Pine City, MINI. this sew.
enth day Of January. 1919.
GUST ANDERSON,
Com'r District No. !.
ROBT DERK,
Com'r District No. I.
NEIS OAKLAND,
com'r District No. 3.
JOS. r.. ZIMMERMAN.
Com'r District No, I.
N. A. ANDERSON,
Com'r District No. 8.
Board OF County Commissioners OF
Pine County. Minnesota.
(SeaD w. ii. HAMLIN.
County Auditor and Eek -ofiicio Clerk
Of the County Board,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1919-02-13

Ansu.t q Taxes LevieA for 1918.
state revenue ... SI7,s0s.5S
state school ................ 9.S6S.72
Teachers Insurance and Re.
tirement Fund ........ 401.04
FOR County purposes $3.50. ss.s2s.s3
For Village purposes includ-
Ing State loan ......... 27,S95.21
For Township purposes In
GLIDING State loan ...... 127.0S3.77
For School District purposes
including State loan ...... 1S2,164.39
Tax on moneys and credits. 1865
Total .1453,729.5s
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-27

army asiators did we not clearly open
the way for repetition of the offense?
The ransom should never have been
paid in the first instance and when we
sent our troops across the border we
should have kept them there until our
aviators We're returned.
With regard to the Mexican situa-
| ton, always growing worse ,stnd more
| to blame. Until the government of the
United States adopts a policy of firm
ness toward Mexico, and that means
toward Carranza as well as to every
lawless band of bandits, we may eX-
| pect to see our citizens seized and held
for ransom. and other outrages COM
mitted. The trouble with the United
States is that we have not in the past
four years offered protection to our
own citizens nor have we enforced that
protection when it was not given.
Things have come to a pretty pass
when an American can not leave his
own country without placing his life
in jeopardy.
What is the result? Americans are
the prey of Mexicans, who hold them
and the United States in the utmost
contempt. Mexicans believe they can
insult an American, they may hold him
for ransom and they may even murder
without fear of being interferred with.
The Carranza government offers them
no protection, or even a pretense of
protection. Villa and other self
appointed leaders certainly will give
and permit this to go on. How long
do we propose to do It?
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-27
LABOR THAT REFUSES TO BE
RESPONSIBLE.
(World, New York;


Whatever weaknesses or inconsst
encies there We're in Judge Gary's tes-
timony before the senate committee,
there was one point at which he was
on the soldest of solid ground That
was when he discussed the relative
responsibility of organized capital and
organized labor before the law.
Organized capital has been shackled
by statute and rightfully. Its vast
powers have been brought under re-
staint. 1t has been compelled to be
responsible, but no such responsibility
exists in respect to organized labor.
1t is not obliged to incorporate and
it does not incorporate. Its contracts
are worthless except in so far as it
is willing to carry them out. When
1T is unwilling, there is no power that
can make it carry them out. Day
after day come strikes which involve q
direct reputation of contracts en-
tered into between employer and en-
plcye, and the employer is helpless.
He can not make men fulfill their writ
ten obligations who deliberately choose
to violate their obligations, and he has
no redress.
In spite of the most solemn agree
ments a strike can be called for the
most trivial of reasons or for no rea-
son at all; vast private injury may re :
suit and equally great PUBIC narIn
may follow; but if the members of the
union insist upon disregarding the
plain terms of their contracts. their
decision is final. They demand the
right of collective bargaining, but they
refuse to accept the principle of coll
leetive responsibility.
That is the basis of most of the an
tagonism to organized labor, and both
here and in Great Britain, organized
labor is engaged in demonstrating that
it does not regard the employer or the
public or government itself as having
any right that it Is bound to respect
As long as it maintains that atti-
tude the corporation that insists on
the open shop regardless of every
other consideration is sure to find
plenty of sympathizers.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-27
NO "BLACk SHEEP" IN THIS
FLOCK.
(Everybodys' Magazine.)

(Everybodys' MagaZine.)
How a Kansas rancher imported
sheep from Asia and proved his neigh
bors wrong is the subject of Robert
II. Moulton.
Mr.. Moulton says: Several wears
ago l.. NJ. Crawford, q Kansas rancher,
invested $4,000 in a fur farming VEN
ture, whereupon his neighbors began
to indulge in sundry facetious remarks
regarding his fitness to occupy suite
of rooms in the state hospital for the
feeble minded. Now he is receiving
congratulations from scientific men in
all parts of the country for dis intro
ductions of new fur industry into
the United States.
"Mr. Crawford reasoned that II
sheep could be bred in Asia they could
be bred in Kansas. So he played his
mysterious hand and won. He i'm
ported So karakul sheep from Box
hara-20 rams and Is ewes. These he
crossed with native Lincoln and Cots
void sheep. and the lambs of this
cross bear the valuable pelts. Nearly
1000 lambs bearing these pelts, which
are valued at from $40 to $50 apiece
were born on the Kansas fur farm
this wear. Bundles of pelts in lots of
SO, worth more than $1,000 bundle,
have been shipped to the New York
markets. Only the lambs that died,
however are being sold for fur. the
rest will be kept until grown and SOLD
for breeding animals. Pure bred kara
kul rams now command S250O to $1,000
each, while the halfbloods sell Tor
about $780,
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-27
INNOCENT FUN AND
HALLOWEEN FRANKS

57HERE is a lot of misery in the old
world, brought about by thought
lessness. There is rioting and
bloodshed, labor troubles and pow
erty and hopelessness among the peo-
pie. So the coming of Halloween, Oct.
81, may bring a season of frivolity
Just as a sort of relief from the So
called serious things of life.
In the midst of present day woe,
however, boys and girls should learn
the difference between wanton des-
truction and innocent fun. Halloween
is good time for innocent fun, but
there Is no time, except when kings
start their favorite game, war, that
wanton destruction is to be commend
ed. Parents, teachers and guardians
Of small boys and girls-and of the
older children too-should strive hon
estly and patiently to instil ideals of
kindness. fair play, courtesy and re-
epect for property and life in the mind
Of the young.
Let there be just as much happiness
and real fun in the lives Of these young
sters as possible. But teach them the
difference between true fun and the
kind that hurts and destroys. Hal
loween should not become an excuse
for weeks of harmful pranks and law
Jessness. Get the jack-o'- Lanterns
ready and the masks and fancy CO.'S
tunes. plan to do all the quaint, old
fashioned things such as bobbing for
apples, popping corn roasting nuts,
telling fortunes, etc. But put the ban
Of popular disapproval on the activi-
ties that lead to abuse of the rights
Of Others.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-27
WHAT THE PRESS OF THE
NATION SAY
SENATOR LODGE REeukED
(Wnrld. New York.

In condemning all amendments to
the peace treaty the republican con-
vention of Massachusetts condemned
Senator Lodge. He may say what he
likes, he may offer as many explana-
lions as the ingenuity Of an accom-
plished politician can invent, but the
platform unanimously adopted at Bos-
ton speaks for itself:
All are also agreed that the
sooner a final disposition of this
problem is made the better it will
be for the peoples of the world.
We therefore favor prompt rat
ification of the treaty of peace
without amendment.
Senator Lodge had appeared before
the platform committee, he had la
bored with it overnight, and as re-
ward the Endorsement that he won
from the Massachusetts Republicans
was a plain vote of censurc for the
policy he has persistently maintained
as chairman of the foreign relations
committee and Republican leader of
the senate. He has not worked for
the prompt ratification of the peace
treaty. He has urged and voted for
amendments that would radically alter
| its terms. Only a little while ago he
was going to send the treaty back to
the Paris conference.
| AS for the effective and uneuuivo-
cal reservations enumerated by the
Republicans of Senator Lodges state,
they amount to nothing more or less
than the amplificatton of provisions
already embodied in the treaty. 1t is
not disputed that the United States
can not be involved in war except by
the declaration of congress, that it
retains control of domestic questions,
such as the tariff and immigration,
and that the Monroe doctrine shall
stand as a fixed American policy.
81 accept the PLATFORM" Senator
Lodge assures the Boston convention
after it declares for prompt ratifica-
ton of the treaty of peace without
amendment" but he says that if need
be he will stand by his convictions if
he stands alone A gentleman who is
beginning to think about standing
alone may be a heroic figure, but he
is not much of a party leader.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-27
WHAT ABOUT THE CONSUMER?

IW0HITH capital effectively organized
NWI and labor more determined than
ever to ring itself with strong fed
Grated band, will some one please tell
us where the consumer is to get off?
We might answer our own query by
stating that the consumer has been,
is and will continue to pay the freight
imposed by the two separate organized
camps mentioned, unless he takes a
hand in the situation and proceeds to
organize himself.
consumer more consideration in the
future than they have in the past, they
may awake to find a mighty organiza-
ton perfected that will make their
own look insignificant. The consumer
stands between the two conflicting or
ganized classes. Upon him depends
the existence of the other two. 1t is
within the power of the consumer, if
organized and properly directing his
life overnight. Will he do it or will
! he piod along under the staggering
burden, that is being added to instead
Of lightened?
Commenting on this subject, the
Wichita Falls Times, OF Wichita says:
1.-THE middle classes in America
are beginning to ask where they
come in.
Between the profiteers who have
autocracy which has been taking
care of its own in splendid shape,
the rest of who, by the way, make
up rs to so per cent of the popula-
ton have been dividing our share
of the nations wealth until many
ofSus have little left to divide.
! Professional men, business
men, farmers, clerks and the whole
mass of middle class folk who have
been without voice in the indus
| trial and commercial life of the ma
ton are becoming aroused and It
would not be surprising to see some
effort made to form some kind Of
citizens organization. They are
the people who pay the manufac-
turer and the laborer. They are
the last in the circle to benefit by
higher prices. Why shouldn't they
assert their rights Just as the mi
nority elements in the population
are doing?"
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-27
STRANGE FACTS THAT
FEW PEOPLE KNOW

American educators are launching
the famous library of the University
of Louvain destroyed by the German
invaders early In the war.
Not only the University of Louyain,
but the city, is an object lesson in the
wanton destruction of the German
army. Early in 1915 a group of uni
versity professors of other countries
drew up a petition express ing strong
indignation and adherence at the
gratuitous destruction of ancient
buildings that has marked the inya-
sion of Belgium and France by the
German army and protesting in the
strongest terms against the continu-
ance of SO barbarous and reckless a
policy.
To this a group of German univer-
sity professors, among them Gerhart
Hauptmann, Max Reinhardt and Ru-
dolf Eucken, replied that il was not
true that their troops had treated Bel
GUM brutally but that, anyway, we
must decidedly refuse to buy u Ger
man defeat at the cost of saving a
work of art.
II Louvain has contributed little to
scientific achievement it had a tre-
mendous effect upon philsophic and
religious thought 1t has been said
that the citys chief product was the
ology. But Germanys contempt for
that kind of culture Is reflected un-
consciously in Baedeker's guidebook of
1910 which describes 1t as a. dull place
with 42,200 inhabitants.
Thus the German guide casually
dismisses the cradle of Belgian inde-
pendence, an early home of the Euro
pean weaving industry. and a treasure
house of marvellous art works. In one
of his most famous pastorals, Cardt-
nal MERCER, now a visitor In the Unit
ed States, describes the havoc wrought
in Louvain thus:
In this dear city of Louvain, per-
petually In my thoughts, the magnifi-
cent church of st. Peter will never
recover it's former splendor The an
cient College of st. Ives, the art
schools, the consular and commercial
schools of the university, the old mar
kets. our rich library with its collec-
tions its unique and unpublished
manuscripts. Its archives, Its gallery
of great portraits of Industrious rec
tors. chancellors, professors dating
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-27
on T.. French with playing petty poll

ton T. French with playing petty pol
itics. He is not that ealibre.
When he discovered that beans
were being imported from China and
Japan in competition with the bean
growers of Idaho and ether northwest
ern states, Mr.. French got busy. He
did the proper thing at the proper
time. He did not rush into the news
papers and give an interview con-
demning the administration or sone-
body for what is occurring. He very
quietly wrote to farmers here, heads of
farm organizations, and asked for
data on bean growing in Idaho, and
stated that he is preparing a bill to
protect the farmers who raise beans
in the northwestern states.
He will get what he is after. He
is noted for his successes because he
never forgets that he is Idahos rep
resentative, the representative of the
whole state and not little coterie
Of politicians who call themselves a
political party. He is too big and
broad and able for that
And herein lies his strength. He
looks after the peoples interest is
modest, never rushing into print or
getting himself quoted, and we are
proud to say that during our residence
in Idaho we have never read in any
paper any comment d1sparaging to or
in criticism of Burton L. French. He
is often praised. but never condemned
in the press of the United States.
His recent action in starting the
inquiry about bean growing in Idaho
in order to protect the farmers of this
section, is in line with his services
since he became congressman for Ida
no and is Characteristic of the man.
The story only reached the press
through an accident. He was not
seeking glory for himself but JUS
tice for the farmers of Idaho.
Idaho and the Republican party
have cause to feel proud of Hon. Bur-
ton l.. French, of Moscow.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-10-27
RIPPING RHYMES
By WALT MASON.
WEATHER,


All moods are due to weather.
I often sadly think; when rain
clouds get together they put me
on the blink. They chafe my sun
ny spring, SO you'd with me con-
dole; they freeze. or pretty near
it, the current of my soul. Out
doors it's raining, raining with
steady beat and slow: the night
wind is complaining of some un-
charted woe. II tells of CHASTITY
sorrows that long dead people
knew. and hints that our tomor-
rows will all be lemons. too. And
/ have grim foreboding that evil is
in store; disaster, stern, corroding,
is waiting at the door. But now
the dawn is breaking, the night
has journeyed by; and I, from
sleep awaking, behold cloudiess
sky. And am blithe and clipper,
and happy as can be, as I pour
down dipper of fragrant worm
wood tea. How could / De so silly.
/ ask, with great disdain; how
could my feet grow chilly because
of wind and rain? But when once
more the winds abhorrent fill all
the night with sighs, the fanteds
viii come to me. as always they
have come; and I'll be sad and
gloomy. and sick and out of plumb.