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Askov American., 1922-11-30
INTERESTING MEETING
Many Take Part In Discussions
1t Parent.Teachers
Meeting.

The parent-teachers meeting at
the H. C. Andersen public school
Friday evening was not quite as
well attended IS some former
meetings owing to the bad con-
dition of roads but considering
the roads the attendance was
very good and what lacked in at
tendance was made up in en-
thuaiasm. One farmer and his
wife walked in three miles to
attend the meeting and returned
home via the same Transports
ton system making a six mile
hike that evening. thus showing
their interest in these meetings
and . desire to profit by OK.
changing ideas with neighbors.
The program opened with the
singing Of two songs by the en-.
tire assemblage after which Ar
thur Ellington and Hjalmar Pet.
ersen played two violin duets
Simple Aveu" by Francis Thoms
and Melody in F" by Ruben
stein. Several vocal trios by tn
Misses BronA Jacobsen and Wos
gard were also enjoyed.
Frode Stottrup gave . yer!
rood talk about the school. tn
teaeher and the home, showing
that he had given the subjec
much thought and confederation
Askov American., 1922-11-30
LABOR PROFTTEERING
DEPLORED BY HOWARD
National Farm Bureau President
Sees Better Prices for
Farmers Who
Stick.

J. r. Howard. president of the
American Farm Bureau Fedora
tion, in an address delivered at
University Farm, St. Paul. last
week. said labor has no more
right to profiteer than has capi-
tai. Mr.. Howard attended the
second annual meeting of the
Conference for the Prevention of
Grain Rust.
Mr.. Howard thinks the farmer
who sticks to his industry soon
will be rewarded by an era of
higher prices.
Mr.. Howard told of q former
senator now practising law in
Chicago. who. in remodeling his
home, had employed several
plasterers. These workmen were
paid SIG a day. extra pay for
work on Saturday afternoons and
Sundays. with the privilege of
resting on Monday and Tuesday.
Il believe. he said in telling of
the circumstance. that these
laborers have a right to a fair
wage, but such obvious profteer-
ing is intolerable. These high
wages. in the last analysis. fall
on the farmer. who can not pass
them to others,
Mr.. Howard said he was look
ing forward to a shortage of farm
labor with corresponding de.
creased production. This step in
the cycle will be followed by
higher prices for those who stick
10 the farm.
The Farm Bureau president
told the delegates that grain rust
y = serious menace in the wheat
growing sections, just As is the
cotton boil weevil in the South
and the European corn borer in
the corn producing states.
Askov American., 1922-11-30

Henrik ShipStead. United
States senator elect. is a native
of Minnesota. He was born on
a farm in Burbank township.
Kandiyohi county. January 8.
1881. He is Of Norwegian an
cestry and was one of 12
children.
DR.. Shipstead is a self-made
man and he has experienced
what it really means to be a
member Of the producing class.
When q mere boy his father gave
him Ia acres Of land which he
put into potatoes. This was an
experience affording some edu-
cation in economics for when he
came to sell the potatoes IL cents
q bushel was the best price he
could get. 1t also dawned upon
him that the producer has
nothing whatever to say as b.
the price he gets for his pro-
ducts. Since this first small ex-
perience in farming Shipstead
has been q student of agricultur,
al problems and has done what
has bsen within his. power to
solve them.
DR.. Shipstead attended the
public schools and graduated
from the high school at New
London and later from the St
Cloud normal school. He WORKED
his way through Nortwester,
university. Chicago. and gradua
ted from the school of dentistr,
in 1903 at the age of %. H,
waited on tables and worked q
odd jobs in order to defray tn
1
necessary expenses. He spen
his vacations in the harvest field
of North Dakota
| In 1904 DR.. Shipstead locate,
at Glenwuod. Minn.. and begal
the practice Of dentistry. HI
soon became we'll known amonl
the members Of his profession a
one Of the ablest dentists in tn,
state. He was one Of the frs
} members Of the dental profes
/ sion in America 10 point out tn
falacy of devitalixing teeth o,
this subject, a. well a on othe
Askov American., 1922-11-30
SHIPSTEAD'S CAREER
IN BRIEF

1t is always we'll to have
a fair knowledge of the
makeup of our representa-
tives in lawmaking bodies
and the American is therefore
pleased to present a short
sketch on the life of DR.. Hen
rik Shipstead. United States
Senator elect. to date. This
story was written and pub
lished in the Minnesota Lea
der after election and is
therefore. not campaign lit
erature. It follows:
Askov American., 1922-11-30

subjects pertaining to dentistry,
DR.. Shipstead has written ar
ticles for some of the leading
dental publications in the United
States.
DR.. Shipstead has always been
a student of public affairs be-
sides being. as stated above, vi
tally interested in agricultural
matters. Because Of his interest
in public matters he was drafted
by the people Of Glenwood to be-
come mayor. He was elected for
two terms.
In 1915 DR.. Shipstead was
elected to the state legislature.
polling an overwhelming. ma jori-
ty of the votes in his district. He
made an exceptional fine record
in the legislature and proved to
all his colleagues that he was a
man of more than ordinary abili-
ty. During his term in the legis-
lature he was always one Of the
leading fighters for the tonnage
tax and made a 100 per cent re-
cord on labor measures. In
1918 the Leaguers Of the seventh
congressional district drafted
him to become their candidate
for congress. Due to the fact
that he entered the field shortly
before the primaries he was de-
feated by Congressman Volstead
for nomination.
In 1920 DR.. Shipstead was a
candidate Of the Farmer-Labor
forces for governor and polled
the remarkable vote of 281 900
at the general election. This
was 100000 votes in excess of
that given the Democratic nomi-
nee. The constructive. thought
full campaign waged by DR.. Ship
stead placed him on the political
map and thus it was that in the
sDrinr of 1922 he was the unani-
nous choice of both farmer and
labor groups for United States
senator or governor. 1t was de-
cided by their convention that
he should enter the field against
Kellogg.
The campaign just closed has
again demonstrated Shipstead's
ability as a campaigner and as a
stateman. The election returns
show that he not only held the
votes he received in 1920. but
Igained tremendous strength
among the business men in the
cities and villages.
Shipstead at no time has
hedged on the Farmer-Labor pro-
gram. He has analyzed it in his
speeches in such a way as to con-
vert not merely farmers and
workers to it but business men
as well.
In DR.. Shipstead the people Of
Minnesota will have a real rep
rsentative in the upper house
of congress. This progressive
state will be in part. at last. rep
resented at Washington as it
should be. He will be associated
with a group Of progressives
that will include La Toilette,
Borah, Frazier. Brookhart,
Howell and Wheeler. There is
not the slightest doubt as to
where Shipstead will stand. He
cannot be influenced either by
money. by social position. or by
the sophistry Of smooth-talking
politicians.
Askov American., 1922-11-30

American Want Ads are only
lc per word per insertion. Big
result getters.
Askov American., 1922-11-30
IN TESTING VEIN


First Question.
"Could you be happy with love In .
cottageT
"DO we have cart?
Askov American., 1922-11-30

Praise for Hubby.
"There goes q man who Is good to
his wife," THAT so? Who Ii her
my husband."-London Answers.
, 1922-10-04
MARRIAGE MADE A BUSINESS
Practice in France That Can Hardly
Be Said to SAVIOR Much Of
Romance. 5

Anyone can marry-anyone, every
one lii they have a business man.
age who knows the business.
Since the val. in France. weddings
have doubled, births increased and
ing manner.
Now. as all know. marriage does not
necessitate a business manageable
old helter-skelter way of falling in
love by hazard viii undoubtedly con-
tinue very much in vogue; but If
anyone imagines that marriage Is not
moving with the times and yielding
to business organization, they know
little of what Is happening In France
todayi
Never before have girls done such
marrying in France-with available
bridegrooms so reduced in number I
What is more, this organized promo
ton of marriage gives every girl a
chance-despite handicaps of unac-
quaintance. social disadvantage, plain
looks, lnck Of money, lack of family.
lack of pushing friends to aid the
match.
Your business managers your push
ing friendl
Helps girls to marry?
Helps men. also.
Perhaps even. more so. 49,.
You will object.
And romance7
but the quality, monsieur, think of
the quality" said madame. Durable,
solid, the best mark in Francel Before
the young folks are allowed to meet,
both had been investigated, weighed.
compared and balanced by social ex-
perts and the pairing-off o. KID in
final conferencei Now, there's a mar
riage that will last. It's got good
wear in iti'
, 1922-10-04
PARROT FISH ODD CREATURE
Must Have Been Devised When Moth
er Nature MAJ In Unusually
Freakish Mood.

II some n asked you, "what Is
that which has a beak like that of a
parrot and cheek pouches like those
Of a monkey, lives In the sea and
chews the cud like a cow7' you might
imagine 1t was some kind Of catch rid
die. Yet there is a creature which an
swers this description perfectly. It Is
called the parrot fish.
The upper and lower jaws have be-
hardened into a sharp, curved
beak, which is just the tool required
for Topping OF Jumps Of tough weed.
Each piece shipped Off by the beak is
passed Into one of the two curious
pouches which adorn the cheeks, and
there 1t remains until the parrot fish
feels that he has collected enough to
make a good meal
he then lies On the bottom and chews
the cud by means Of the splendid set
OF teeth which nature has placed, not
IN his mouth, but IN his throat-Ex-
~
, 1922-10-04
THEM's TRUE WORDS
Says the Lander Journal:

says Une LdnueT JOuIudl.
1.-The Wyoming Workmen's Com
pensation act needs amending about
as badly as any of the laws on the
statute books. 1t was poorly written
in the first place and some of its pro-
visions are most inequitable. All In
dustries that come under its provis-
ions pay the same fiat rate regardless
of the hazard of employment. For
instance, print shops pay the same as
coal mines when as a matter of fact,
since the passage of the law no print
er in the entire state has been seri-
ously injured except one and he was
a homesteader on the side and his
team ran away and nearly killed him
while he was out working on the
homestead. Some of the newspapers
of Wyoming have paid as much as
$4,000 into this fund without any of
their employees ever having had .occa-
sion to call for reeeilhf. T me, nhoce
sion to call for relief. The a ought
rightly to fall upon the more hazard
GUS forms of employment" Z
Good sense and good logic. Yet we
lear that brother Cook is liable to be
branded as an inciter to riot by some
of u dry friends because he dares to
suggest the repeal or amendment of
the "law of the land"
, 1922-10-04
Robin Get. tho Worm.

Robins are growing fat on worms in
Lafayette square.
The grass there must be literally
alive with worms, for no robin seems
to have any difficulty whatever in pick
ing up the best kind of living.
You will see one of the birds hop
along. hen suddenly reach down.
He begins to pull.
Up comes his head with a worm
dangling to his beak, n end of the
worm held tenaciously by the robin.
the other clinging fast to mother
earth.
Bracing himself the bird throws his
entire weight in one final heave. He
then consumes half the worm. and
flies away with the remainder.
The performance does not strike
one as cruel, for both bird and worm
are operating under the laws of ma
~ture.-Washington Star.
, 1922-10-04
POLYTECHNIC ON
EVE OF NEW ERA
Eminent Eastern Educator
Assumes Presidency of
Billings School

Within the borders of Montana is
building. step by step and year by year,
one of the most unique and interest
ing institutions of learning in all
America, yet 1t is probably safe to say
tana and adjoining states are not fully
aware of this fact.
Organized some IA years ago, the
Billings Polytechnic Institute, Just out
side the city of Billings and connected
Herewith by a concrete highway, has
since developed into a school of COM
handing excellence, the growth and
equipment of which is the marvel of
all who visit 1t. With a campus and
farm of 175 acres. and IL beautiful
buildings, the institution represents a
valuation of no less than 5000, 600.
Many special features are making
the POLY so attractive to people
throughout the country who delight in
helping worthy cause that thousands
of these have contributed and are con-
tributing to Its support and upbuilding.
Three-quarters of a million dollars
have come to 1t mostly In small
gifts, among those early interested be-
ing James J.. Hill, to whom the prac-
ucal idea OF education upon which the
school was founded strongly appealed,
and who gave 1t 2 5000.
The school is unique In that It offers
to the boys and girls of Montana and
the Northwest an opportunity to lay
the foundation Of an education and
equip themselves for useful service
without regard to the work they have
previously had. In other words, a stu-
lent may enter the Poly and take mp
his studies at any point, from the
lowest grades up to the first two years
Of college work. Special emphasis Is
laid upou vocational training and In
addition to the regular academic
courses, teachers training, music. etc,
thorough instruction and complete
courses are given In electrical engineer
ing, Including radio. automotive en-
cheering, agriculture, business, draft
ing. etc.
The very best Of instruction Is given
by a fine corps OF teachers, backed by
modern equipment. hui in addition to
this the Polytechnic is unique in the
emphasis 1t lays upon the development
Of efficiency. The student is taught
to work. and the unfolding of power
rather than the examining of Informal
tion is the ideal of the school. 1t
builds character, and the success Of the
1000 young men and women whom 1t
has turned out attest its success. The
world wants men and women who have
health, character, power Of self-con-
troll. accuracy and high ideals, and
these things they develop at the Poly.
A new era of growth in service and
influence Is promised through accep-
lance Of the presidency by DR.. James
p. Whyte. an experienced and very
successful educator from the east. who
has found at the Folly the realization Of
his lifelong dream of an educational
Institution ideally conceived and limit
less in its possibilities for good
, 1922-10-04
FORESTRY SERVICE URGES.
PROTECTION OF TIMBER


The American people were indeed
fortunate in having nature supply
them with what was at one time
considered an unlimited supply of
timber. For years.no effort was made
to save this vast amount Of timber
from destruction. and 1t has been
cut and burned without regard for
the future. When the eastern states
alone were settled, they produced mil
lions Of feet of timber. This supply
was soon exhausted and the center
of timber production moved to the
Lake States. This supply was soon
gone and the Southern supply was
Their utilized. Today the center of
timber of the timber production is
moving westward to the Pacific Coast
When this is out, what then? There
is no other place to go, and when
one considers the years necessary to
produce trees suitable for timber, tn,
situation cannot be considered other
han very serious. If the people of
the United States continue to cut and
burn timber as they are now doing,
a timber famine is inevitable within
twenty-five years.
The protection of our forests, de-
Ponds entirely on public opinion. For
est preservation and perpetuation is
a necessity. Civilization is imposs-
ible without wood, and the sooner the
public realizes the Importance of tim
Der to the welfare of their country
and themselves, the sooner will
wasteful methods be eliminated. The
public must realize hat the cost of
replacing Forests must be reflected
in timber prices just as the necessity
OF putting back into the soil the fer.
tflity removed by farm products is
Is reflected in the price of food.
The actual growing of treesc cannot
proceed until the public realizes its
duty with regard to fire protection.
Fires destroy more timber than is cut
each year and rs per cent of these
fires are due to human carelessness.
The forestry problem is a problem
for every community, for every cit
lien Community prosperity depends
on an adequate supply of timber.
Soouby VI ours SO aQe-i
quately supplied by nature with tim
Der, is an aggregate of states; each
state Is an aggregate of communities,
and each community is an aggregate
OF individuals. The necessity of an
organized national policy with regard
to forest protection is self evident to
all who know conditions, and its sue
cess depends on each individual in
every community. Community sent
iment must be developed to a point
where the careless camper or smoker
is considered and treated as an enemy
of the country, which in fact he is.
There is foresty work In every COM
munity and every citizen should take
upon himself the duty of pushing It
in all possible ways. =
, 1922-10-04
HORTICULTURAL REPORT

The farm editor of the New York
Sun says:
"They will soon start making cider;
and nature, with its damnable frivol-
ity. will step in and triie with the
cider and work on its inherently gen
tie nature until that cider will get so
ornery and mean by next July that it
will go and make some farmer enthu-
siastic about pitching hay"
, 1922-10-04
Time Clock for orators.

Members of the British parliament
pay little attention to the rules some
times in force limiting the length OF
aae speeches before the body and 1t Is
now proposed to put In a time clock
which will show just the length OF
time that a speaker has consumed Il
is set at zero at the beginning Of his
remarks.
, 1922-10-04

Binks-"Say, old man, do you know
of any cure for insomnia?
Jinks-"Counting one thousand is
said to be a remedy"
Binks- That's what everybody
tells me; but the baby's too young
to count" -Tit-Bits
, 1922-10-04
Lincoln Ancestor owned Slaves.

An recount for 1875 shows that Nor
decai Lincoln paid for shoes for his
negro man." From this we may infer
that the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
Abraham Lincoln probably owned a
negro slave In Pennsylvania 1873 years
before the Emancipation proclamation.
-Chessman A. Herrich. In North
American Review.
, 1922-10-04

An astronomer says that the term
fixed" MS applied to stars. is a mis-
I'M Still, we know some stars that
are mighty well ixed.-Boston Tran.
script.
, 1922-10-04

Cheapest insurance ON earth. Pro
tect your family by joining the F. O..
E. now. Initiation $500; will soon be
$25. See Erickson.
, 1922-10-04
Uncle Eben,s Comfort.

"When 1 goes to church." said Uncle
Eben, ~ has de comfort of KNOWN
dat even if l don't understan' de
sermon. rs GU O. mischief fob de time
bein'."
, 1922-10-04

Say, hank. do you know anything
about a Ford?"
'rYes, sure. a couple Of good stories
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-11
CAPTURE STILL

Hacklehurg. May 1o.-(Speelal,)- J. R. Godsey, local deputy sheriff. captured l0-gallon still in the barn of James Mitchell. a farmer living three miles from here, according to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-11
SEAMAN TOSPEAK
 AT JACKSONVILLE
Commencement Exercises at State Normal Will Begin
 May 22

Jacksonville, May (Speclal)- Commencement exercises at the Jack sonville Normal school will open Sat- urday evening, May 27. with the pre- sentation of the commencement play at the college auditorium.
 The following day at Il o'clock the annual commencement sermon will be delivered by Rev. E, (. Seaman. rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter, Gadsden A B D. m. a joint program will be presented by the college Y. Nj. c. A. and Y. W. c. A.
 Class day exercises will be held Monday morning, and that evening President C. w. Daugette will enter tain the members of the senior class al reception at the girls dormitory-
 Alumni exercises will be held Tues day morning and In the afternoon in- spection will be made of the various exhibits at the college. during which time music will be furnished by the college band
 The commencement address will be delivered Tuesday evening by Dr. Thomas Alexander, professor of ele- mentary education at Peabody col lege. Diplomas will be presented to the members of the senior class.
 The commencement exercises bring to close the most successful year in the history of the school, and of- ficials declare that all indications point to record breaking attendance at tho annual summer school.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-11
AUBURN READY TO
 WELCOME EDITORS


 Auburn, May 10.-- Special. .)-Au- burn will be ready for the Alabama editors when they reach here Thurs day, May Il. They are scheduled to arrive at 10:14 a. m. and will be met at the station by members of the faculty and friends of the college and carried in automobiles for an inspec- ton of the buildings and grounds.
 At the completion of the inspection trip the editors will assemble in Langdon hall, where they will be welcomed by Dr. Spright Dowell and an address delivered on Agriculture and the Press" by Prof. A. w. Hop kins, professor of journalism, Uni versity of Wisconsin.
 Following the program in Langdon hall the editors will witness mill tary parade at 12:3e, from which they will go to the agricultural grounds where a sumptuous barbecue will be served. About 2.30 they will leave in automobiles for Tuskegee in- stitute, spend about one and one-half hours there and drive to Chehaw to catch the train for Montgomery. Every arrangement is being made to make their visit to Auburn both pleasant and profitable, and every editor in the state has been urged to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-11
STARLIGHT
By IDAH MGLoNE GIBSON The Thrilling Experience of Virginia Fairfax in the Movies

Any apprehensions I may have had regarding the reasons for Mrs. Chest er's invitation to lunch were quickly allayed. I found her perfectly de- lightful. She talked to me about my home and family in the sweetest, most motherly way and I enjoyed her immensely. It was not until the close of the luncheon that her motive in inviting me came out Then 1t vas very unexpected.
 Miss Winston" she began, since I first met you here I have been struck by the resemblance you bear to someone know. But it was only today that a ntle mannerism you both have made me associate you with Ralph Winston.
 "Oh, Mrs. Chester" I exclaimed eagerly "did you know my father"
 Yes, if Ralph Winston is your father"
 ,'Is he still alive?" I demanded in excitement.
 Don't you know, my child?" ques- toned Mrs. Chester in surprise.
 T never have known word about my father except his name" And then l told my new friend my life story. That finished I demanded news of the father whom I had never seen-the father whose very name was anathema in the home of my childhood.
 Your father. Virginia" said Mrs. Chester, has only been gone from Los Angeles about a year. For many years he roamed the world trying to recover his health. He was tuber- cular, you know. And finally some years ago, he came. out here and de-