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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-06-09
TWO GRADUATE FROM
ASKOV HIGH SCHOOL.

~ ~st~ AAS0Vv AAA2se A~ss~Ss WSA~
held at the D. B. s. Hall, last
Friday evening, and were attend
ed by the largest crowd 1t any
educational function in the his
tory Of this comnunity.
Just before the program began
the two graduates Miss Nanna,
Rodholm and Miss Ruth Kilstof-
te; S. Chr. Dixen. president Of
the school board; Rev. s. y. Rod
holm; the high school teachers
Miss Rathburn and Miss Enge-
bretson and Prof. ]. Soronsen
marched from the rear Of the
hall to the stare. to ! march
played on violin and piano.
where they were seated. The
two graduates were dressed in
white, the others in college caps
and gowns with the exception of
Mr.. Dixen who was in civilian
clothes.
The stage was prettily decorat-
ed with white flowers. The
class colors were purple and gold
and class motto: Anything
Great is not Lightly Won"
Invocation was given by Mr..
Sorensen after which 4 song was
sung by Ave high school girls
and then the commencement ID
dress was delivered by Rev. Rod
holm.
The. speaker started out by
saying that the meaning Of some
words have changed much in
years gone by as for instance the
word school in the old Grsek
language Of about 1000 years
ago meant a loafing placa and
now has an entire different
meaning; the word snob in the
English language originally
meant a shoemaker and now Il
understood to mean an affected
and pretentious person who
thinks he is more than he really
is. Other examples were. given.
Rev. Rodholm then lodged into
the subject of his address name.
ly culture. He said that about
100 years ago culture was under.
stood to mean the cultivating ot
soil but now it is the study 81
science. arts. literature. music
poetry and philoeophy-cultiva
ing the human mind. A very
small percentage of educated
people look down upon the oli
kind Of cultivation with scorn
but they are not people Of cul
ture. People Of culture (no'
educated fools) respect and ad
mire honesty and honest work.
The speaker also went on Il
say that those who cultivate tht
soil should not look down upol
culture and think that scienti
fic research is only q waste o.
time. energy and money. Their
should be a craving for scienti
fic research and historical fact
as well as the natural craving
for food. The laborer who scoffi
at or scorns culture is no better
than the educated fool WIN
treats honest labor in a lik.
manner.
| Even if not in full accord witt
the church an educated and cul
tivated man will never scoff o.
smear at religion. It is only thu
educated Of the second, third
fourth or fifth class that would
do anything like that. A first
rate man would not do it.
The speaker further said that
education is not always culture
but it is the royal read to cul.
ture, and that graduating exer.
cises were rightly named in cal
ling it commencement exercises
1t is a commencement and moi
the finish and the school has
given it's graduates q start On
the royal road to culture.
(Ccaeinped On page u
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-06-09
MArkvIlle S-Keryjek /.

kerrick journeyed over to
Markville Sunday and met defeat
there at the hands Of the strong
MArkville team, in . well played
game Of the great national pas
time. Manager Coleman writes
that his boys had to work for
the victory ~ Kerrick has 4 good
team and q bunch of clean bAll
players.
Score by innings
Markville ....O3OO2OO1x- 6
Kerrick .OOO1OOOOO-- 1
Batteries: Markville Gibson
and Linn; Kerrick---Lund and
Southcrton.
Summary Markville-Hit by
pitched ball 2; earned runs s;
struck out 8.
Summary Kerrick--Hit by
pitched ball /: earned runs 1:
struck out 3.
Umpires- -Brunner and Hogan.
Time--1 hour and Is minutes.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-06-09

Mr.. and Mrs. Nick Nielsen,
North Kedzie avenue, Chicago,
have celebrated their fftieth
wedding anniversary, and mem
hers of the two Danish congTe-
cations with which Mr.. and Mrs
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1921-06-09

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The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Food for Pessimists and Cynics.

A PECULIAR condition has developed through
n the Lockwood legislative investigation in New
York 1t is which is very disquietng. 1t is fod-
der for the pessimist and the cync. There first
shown far-reaching combination between corrupt
capital and corrupt labor. There could not be a
condition Corrupt material combined
with corrupt labor leaders, divided the loot forced
from building contractors and in turn from building
investors. This must again be taken from renters
1t then developed that the insurance COM
panies in making loans for construction, COM
PEELED the borrowers take part of the loans to
in effect buy, real estate they did not want, but
which the companies wanted to unload. Again the
renters must pay the price. In this way, and by
refusal Of investment for building, the insurance
companies have played their part in the housing
and rent problem along with corrupt capital and
labor
Another factor in the present situation has been
the policy of the insurance companies to recall farm
loans, giving the preference to the higher interest
carrying investments in stocks and bonds, or
less speculative Instead of helping carry the load,
they have added to it Instead of enabling the many
others make small investments, they have made it
hard for these many to barely live while they used
funds in ways that were Of doubtful wisdom
That this is fact is shown in the OF the Mu-
tual Life which ordered by the legislature in
1906 to dispose OF large amount ~ securities
held to be speculative, but did not obey the law
These securities today show depreciation Of $o,-
900 ooo The ponsbility for this loss OF policy
holders money, of trust funds, is clear. But it is
not clear that anything can, will be done to make
the guilty pay any penalty whatever for deliberate
defiance Of the law.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
100 Per Cent American.

THE Federation of Labor decided not to under
take to unionize the steel industry tins
time. This may have been because there not
enough of it in operation to organize that what
is left would be quite to refuse to be organ
lied. There is room for ruminaton, if the time
will ever come when to organize industry on its
labor side, will not be regarded an act of social
war; but as an assurance of peace.
Will the time ever when the manifest
benefits from organizing Of labor will be cvi-
dent that the workmen or an industry will not
have to be organized but will organize themselves? !?
If unionizng is an agency of peace, it should be
welcomed If it is an assured agency OF better
working conditions and better pay. should it not
by these tokens assure higher average OF produc-
tion?
Is it not possible by making unionization a
trade mark OF better quality of product, lowering
of cost in waste and accident more cheerful work
ing force and higher percentage of output per
man. to open the doors of all industries and of every
industrial plant, to unions? One side cannot be all
right and the other all wrong. But should not a
union card be evidence of more than membership?
There will be labor unions They are the
product of conditions They a social necessity.
1t would seem wiser then, on both sides, to spend
less time exchanging expletives and more in demon
stration OF benefits both Sides and in discussion
of ways to increase and evidence these benefits
There is nothing impossible to who sit
across table in honest debate willing, if not quite
wishing, to reach agreement. Even those who
come merely to be stubborn, be sent away to
think 1t is American to be honest and fair. Why
not all Of us be this sort of 100 per cent Ameri-
cans" with each other?
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27

and manufacturers as q quasi-reAeetion upon their
integrity.
The real anomaly in the enforcing law is that it
permits a man to buy what It is crime to make or
sell To manufacture, sell, deal in transport
liquor is crime; to buy it of criminals, is rather
regarded as virtue. In such transaction there
can be no such thing as an innocent purchaser.
Everyone who buys, knows he is in fact aiding
and sbetting in a crime though not legally at fault.
McCutcheon in a cartoon in The Herald, recently
pictured the unetious man of prominence giving an
address to graduating class, He warned them
against sinister influences and the forces of evil he
impressed them with the value of high ideals he ap
pealed to them to support law and order as the
corner stones of government, he urged that they
should be examples of law abiding clean living. An
insert shows the same man whispering to a boot
logger order for couple of cases of good
Bourbon and two Of Scotch.
MeCutcheon did not exaggcrate He told in
this but the truth of much preaching and practicins
Yet these men who preach high ideals, who prate oi
law and order righteousness and sinister forces oi
evil and buy liquor, are surely no bette, but worse
than the bootegger who ives crime by ihciI
patronage.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Attacks Educators.
TO the Editor. The Washington Herald

TO the Editor. The Washington Herald:
1t is one of my stock sources of
laughter to see how the educators
go for every man who has sue
ceeded in making record along
any line. Just now the educators
seem TO have secured Gen. Pershing.
He says il is the duty of officers to
see that the educational laws Of
each State are enforced and the
educational facilities of each State
ere extended. The excuse for all
this is that the war found so many
inefficient in body and mind. For
cannon fodder" the body is the
most essential, and for bodily de-
velopment of the youth Of the coun-
try useful work is far better than
any kind of education.
The schools are practically ruin
ing the youth, and all the proposed
extension Of them will further eN-
tend the ruination. Sergt. York. the
greatest American hero of the war.
is Southern mountaineer; but re-
ports have il that he. too, has been
captured by the educators and is in
training to head a college.
FRANCIS r. LIVESEY.
West Friendship. Nd.
June 20, 1921.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Wants Wild Woods Saved.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
Although one can seldom get any
thing like my howl" in a daily
paper. l feel like emitting il.
Charles G. Pinckney, a Maryland
statesman during our trouble with
France in the last decade of the
eighteenth century. originated the
slogan, Millions for defence. but
mot one cent for tribute" So these
times the maxim is. Millions for
automobile drives, but not one cent
for footpaths for naturalists along
our small water courses"
Now II is proposed that what lit
tie is left for lovers of wild nature
in Rock Creek Park shall be COM
pletely destroyed by the invasion
of automobile roads, besides one
large block to be knocked out for
golf grounds! To thousands of us
it seems shoCkingly strange what
dismal tastes" many people have
even many of those who have in
tellect enough to be high in au
thority. They don't want to see
anything on the face OF the earth
but a monotonous park like our
Mall for instance. And what is
worse they do not seem to care for
the lovers of primeval nature
such lovers are narrow minded
cranks who deserve no attention"
The monotonous people l refer to
think they leave enough for us silly
people; but are they to be the judge
for us, any more than that we
should be the judge for them?
The original picturesque wildness
so greatly admired by all scientific
! naturalists of earlier times is al
ready half ruined by automobile
drives and Clearings. Each ''vandal'
says he is not taking much of that
! forest; but there are so many of
these destructionists that their
many '1ittles" amount to much. In
behalf of the many thousands of
/ Washington people who take more
/ delight in the original wilds than
! in anything else, l protest against
any further encroachments.
! EWING SUMMERS,
! 314 Seventh street northeast.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
. = IHYJ
MONDAY, JUNE II. 1891

Astrologers read this as doubtful
day. Although Venus and Mercury
are in benefic aspect, Saturn and
Neptune are adverse.
1t should be a fortunate rule for
| theaters and all places where per-
| sons assemble for the lighter forms
of amusement
Women have the best possible
direction of the stars today ana
writers should benefit especially.
The rule is most auspicious for
advertising and both newspapers
and ma agazines should profit.
The stars seem to presage a ten
dency more and more marked for
national movements that will more
| closely unite special interests of the
people.
This should be a lucky day for
actors and actresses to sign con-
tracts, for engagements accepted to-
| day are believed to assure increase
/ of fame.
Saturn is in a sinister place for
real estate interest in certain cities
which may suffer from declining
values, owing to unforeseen circum-
stances.
The west may feel stress in some
| lines of business during the sum-
mer and there may be sudden strikes
in Chicago, Detroit and other large
! cities.
| Travel on the high seas may be
subject to new perils at this time.
Neptune exercises today an in
f1uence that is not conducive to COM
mon-sen views and for this reason
important decisions should be post
| poned.
Persons whose birthdate it is
should keep business affairs well in
hand. The domestic outlook is most
| favorable.
Children born on this day will be
intelligent, industrious and much
respected in all probability These
subjects of Cancer may not be
| lucky in business.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
QUITS DRY POST
WITH RAP AT LAW

The country is drifting towards
prohibition anarchy" Alfred d. Van
Buren,. of Kingston, y. Y, who re-
signed as chief counsel to the Fed
eral Prohibition Commission, de-
clared here last night.
Opposing the passage by Congress
of the Nolstead resolution pro-
hibiting beer for medicinal use. Van
Buren asserted that the original
purpose Of the prohibition act has
been distorted beyond recognition.
From all over the country" Van
Buren said. professional and busi-
ness men, ardent supporters OF pro-
hibition against beverage liquors,
generous contributors to the cause
and among the dryest of the drys,
arc raising their voices in protest
against further encroachment upon
rights guaranteed in the pursuit of
lawful occupations"
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
CHICAGO HAS 5000
APARTMENTS OPEN

CHICAGO. June 26.-With thou
sands of vacant apartments in Chi
cago. renting agents and landlords
are confronted with situation they
have not had to meet in years. They
have to go out and look for ten
ants and offer them inducements,
instead of having the tenants pay
bonuses for finding them homes.
Just how many vacant apart
ments there are in Chicago is hard
to estimate. The records of the
Cook County real estate board have
over 5000 vacant apartments listed.
These are the ones turned in by
the renting agents who are mem
bers of the organizations.
There are more vacant apart
ments in Chicago today than there
have been for a number of years"
one official of the Cook County rca!
estate board said. This is because
many people doubled up with other
families, and because building has
taken a boom"
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Opposes Welfare Bureau.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
DIR. w. H. Holmes, dean of the
Harvard School of Education.
writes this pregnant sentence in
protest against the Sawyer scheme
of a Department of Public Welfare:
The public school is not a phase
of philanthropy"
For eighty years red-blooded
Americans have struggled heroical-
ly to make the country realize that
the public school is not a poor
mans school, is not charity
school, and now General Sawyer's
scheme would dump the public
school into a mess-pot with all
phases of charity from crippled
soldiers to imbeciles. Are there no
red -blooded Americans to protest?
A. Z. WlNSHlP.
Boston, June %.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Garland's Christianity.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald
The Charles Garland, of Buzzards
Bay, Mass, who last year refused
s1,250.OO0 that he might go tn
rich young men of Scripture one
better. now has a prospect of get
ting another million from a de-
parted uncle after whom he was
named. Young Mr.. Garland is re-
ported to be quietly saving wood.
or farming, and devoting himself
to the religious life which nobody
nowadays considers essential for
salvation. 1t has been noted that
not a clergyman of the land has
endorsed Garland's Interpretation. of
Christianity, Notwithstanding the
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Praises Norris Speech.

To the Editor, The Washington Herald:
Those Americans who had the
luck to hear the fearless champion
of Irish freedom, MIR. Norris, in his
convincing and eloquent speeches
on the floor of the Senate recently.
would do well to bend their every
effort towards having our country
officially go on record before the
world as denouncing uncompromis-
ingly the atrocities being committed
by England in ireland.
As Americans we should be very
much perturbed over the passive
Indifference which Congress has
taken in the matter OF condemninG
England's Black and Tan terror in
Ireland. The Irish will never be
downed by the British. 1t is one
of the Slories of the race, that it
stands for right regardless of the
consequences.
r i TRYON
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27

left" he said, are my silver flask
and imported motor car"
A big red automobile with a loud
Changing bell turned into Fifth
avenue from Central Park. The
side street sluice gates of traffic
went up and all avenue traffic
stopped as the demon car shot
sOuthward. Inside the car two
men. one in uniform, were smokins.
cigars and chatting pleasantly.
The car stopped at a hc.el and ths
two men alighted to ATTEND a
luncheon. 1t might be all right
hut my sympathy for the middle
aged gentleman on a side street
who was handed police sum.
mons an hour later for no;
muzzling his dog was doubled.
William A. Brady. long known as
a producer. has announced his in.
tention of goinG on the stage. He
receTtly appeaIed in a skit at the
| Friar's and his success brouEh,
amazing praise from the critics
Brady is casting about for a play
He is the husband of Grace George
enc his daughter Alice is a cinems
player.
The Plaza entrance to Centra
Park has been opened to the pub
lie revealing the regilded Sherman
statue, the Pulitzer fountain anC
the st. Gsudens statue. 1t is on,
of the finest spots in the city. IL
the little park are comfortabl,
benches and patches OF gren. Al
ready the tattered little urchin
from the East Side are seeping int,
the park looking about shyly an'
with wide eyes at the beauty o
the place. over some of them tn,
brightly hued blooms cast a spell
of fascination. They peek through
the hedge fearing to enter tn,
fairylRnd. But the little park hai
a kindly white haired policeman
who explains that they are welcom
just as long as they are orderl!
and do not trespass on the gras
and flowers
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Another Amendment Needed.

|ONGRESSMAN VOLSTEAD with his usual
u good sense, has accepted the mider substi-
tute for his somewhat drastic amendment to the
prohibition enforcement law bearing his name.
This substitute prohibits the of beer IS medicine
which all doctors agree it is not. 1t limits the
number of prescriptions a physician give of
other liquors and their alcoholic content.
The provisions omitted those which would
make it, maybe unnecessarily difficult to get alcohol
for medicinal and other proper uses. These were
not essential and caused division among those who
arc beyond question ardent supporters of prohibi-
tor- 1t was also opposed by physicians, chemists
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Half a Loaf.

THE House on Friday passed the Curtis-Nelson
bill to provide larger capital for the Fed
eral Farm Loan Board. This is in effect emer-
gency measure to provide farmers with long time
credit on land security, the best security in the
world But before permitting it to have considera-
ton on the floor of the House, the House leaders
cut the amount from $5o,ooo,ooo to $2s,oooooo.
This less amount is known to be wholly made
quate. 1t is not sufficient for economic adminstra-
tion and marketing of the bonds. AS passed by the
Senate it carried the full amount and the vote in
the House, 3I4 to 4, showed that the $5o,ooo,ooo
would have been as readily approved as was the
half loaf but for the deal made in order to gain
consideration. Congress hardly afford that
sort of record 1t is to be hoped that the Senate
will stand on its judgment and that Senator Curtis
will be able in conference to approval of the
credit as stated in his bill.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
MILITARY ENGINEERS
FORM WASHINGTON POSI-.

Engineers and technical men who
are or have been in the army and
navy have banded together here in
Washington and formed a post OF
the Society Of Military Engineers.
At a meeting held at the residence
Of George Oakley Totten. jr.. the
following officers were elected. c.
II. Birdseye. president; ]. II. Wheat.
vice president: f. p. Ellis. secretary
treasurer; II. S. Graves and Mai. J.
J. kingman, directors. There is now
a membership Of SO.
Plans for the diffusion Of know
ledge Of military engineering, fos-
tering public interest in prepared
ness and the development Of the cit
liens military training camps were
discussed.
In a talk to the rev post, MAI.
Gen. w. NJ. Black. retired. formerly
chief Of engineers. deplored a re-
duction in the size Of the army.
Instructors for the training camps
are drawn from the commissioned
and noncommissioned personnel Of
the army. the proposed reductions
will make il difficult. the general
said. TO obtain instructors Of the eN-
erience necessary to make the train
ing camps fully effective in view OF
the short period Of training that is
given.
Lack of public interest in military
preparedness is not surprising, in
the opinion Of Maj. Gen. Lansing X.
Beach, chief of engineers. who stated
that opposition to military eXpendi-
lures is always strong following
every great war.
Mai. n. ]. Sultan stated that. while
1t may not be possible for the coun-
try to be fully prepared for war. the
citizens military training camps.
which will be held this summer in all
sections. will aid materially in Gre
ating a force having sufficient train
ing to form a valuable military
asset.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Open Court letters to The HeralA
hLYAta8HA zcEggN1SGAxe@H e@H&EE&saSSEE4&Eaaa

nobility as you feel the reproach
Of the crime (mob violenc=); there
fore. you are unable to te cheerful
among yourselves because your ac-
tions do not give you satisfaction.
What you miss is a contented spirit,
pure heart. a kind and loving dis
position. a generous appreciation of
the great merits OF others. What
you most heartily miss is modest
opinion Of self. humility. and the
right understanding of what the
word charity" really stands for.
E. c. COMPTON.
Deanvood. y. c.
June 20. 1921.
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Sees Need for Unrest.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
The unrest of the American pco-
PIE moves as nature moves-slowly.
surely, irres!stibly forward. As we
have not the slightest part Of a
fact that would lead US to believe
that nature intends TO stop moving,
so the American nation moves in a
visible unrest, which promises to
lead il to some better thing.
In passing let me say to "A Ken
tuckian,' and to those who think
like he does: You feel the want of
The Washington herald., 1921-06-27
Brands Propaganda.

To the Editor. The Washington Herald:
II is needless to say that / am
subscriber to your paper since
its beginning and have often spoken
in your favor. especially regarding
the Irish claim for independence.
Now the special cable from Lon
don to your excellent newspaper.
published June Is. is not only Eng
lish propa aganda. but most disgust
ing to many OF your constant
readers.
BERNARD CAMPBELL.