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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-12-13
OUTLINES NEW WHEAT PLAN
Proposes Selling or Giving v. 9. Sur
plus Wheat to Foreign Countries.

s'Sf~e~e S~'fH8 W S'"tss2 ~ - Ses-
plus Wheat to Foreign Countries.
washington-In a late report to
President Coolidge on the wheat sit
uation." Secretary Of Agriculture
Henry c. Wallace reviews the world
situation as to wheat and makes sug.
gestions to relieve the present dis
trtss.
Secretary Wallace say:
The Government Should
Create an export corporation to sell
or give our surplus wheat to foreign
countries. Reduce temporarily the
freight rates on wheat and wheat pro-
ducts rs per cent Create a commits
sion to study freight rates with view
10 the redistribution of this burden so
that the farmer will be relieved OF
part OF 1t.
The Farmer Should
Make a study of his condition and
OF the condition OF his farm with a
view of changing his products. Take
full advantage Of all credit facilities
conferred by the government. includ-
ing the farm loan act and the new
farm credit act. Reduce his wheat
acreage.
Bankers Should
Help the farmer by extending him
all credit possible.
States Should
Reduce taxes on farm lands. Pro
vide for other taxes for road con-
struction.
People Should
Consume more wheat.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-12-13
KIDNAPER GETS q MONTHS
Only Wanted to Get Coward and Trsi-
tor Back TO America.

S"ty Wshtco 10 Get CoWsfo ano tFsr
tor Back to America.
Mossbach. Germany - Il only want
ed to get that coward and traitor.
Grover Bergdol,. back TO America ]
acted only from motives Of patriot
i<m." Lieutenant Corliss Hooven Grifns
OF Ohio. declared when his trial for
assault and battery in connection with
the attempted KIDNAPPING of the no
torious Philadelphia draft dodger
opened. Grifhs assumed entire re-
sponsibility for the affair. Others who
we're with the Ohioan when the kid
naping attempt failed. also are TO be
tried. Bergdoil himself was present
at the trial His sentence was Il
omnths.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-12-13

waukegan. III. Homer Cooke.
aged -. a close friend Of President
Lincoln and Roosevelt. in whose cam
paigns he took part. and said to have
been the oldes. prscticing attorney In
the country, died al his hume.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-12-13

case, 1890; No. candled. good cases.
free from rots. dirtIes and checks out
per dozen. CSC: seconds. small dirty and
held stock. rots and 1eakers out, per
dozen. 2ze: quotations on eggs include
cases. Refrigerator extras. dozen. s4c.
refrigerator frsts. ale; refrigerator Sec
onds dozen ATE
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-12-13
COOLIDGE ENTERS THE RACE
James q. Reynolds VIII Act AZ Per.
sonaI Representative.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the
candidacy OF President Coolidge for
the Republican nomination in 1924 was
made by Frank w. Stearns OF Boston.
who Is known as his CLOSETS personal
and political friend.
william NJ. Butler. Republican ma
tional committeeman. for Massachu-
sets. also q close personal and poll
teal friend OF Mr. Coolidge. II was
stated will act as the Presidents per
sonai representative in the campaign.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-12-13
VETS BOARD REoRsANIzEs

Hines Expects $1,000 Cases To Be Han
died In First Year.
Washington = Complete reorganiza-
ton Of the central board OF appeals
OF the Veterans bureau IN order TO
expedite the hearing and adjudication
Of claims. was announced by Director
Hines, as one Of the FIRST steps In q
general readjustment Of bureau activi.
ties. Another change announced IN
the organization was the creation Of
finance service. with separate divi
sions Of disbursing and accounting
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-12-13
n,....,ell. cIo-r.r c..h Prices.

No / dark northern. sf.is-11I: No. I
sfea,fas ~ hard sos. 49, s so'o
amber durum. e4c-si.o4; No. durum.
s2c-ssc coRN--No. 4 yellow, zoe
oATs-No. . white. Gle. BARLEY
ssc: FLAX Seed No. !. t2.ts-z.57.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-12-13
EXPLOSION KILLS 7 MINERS
sis Others Hurt In Gas and Dust Blast
In kentucky Coal SHAFT

Hazard. Ky.-Seven miners were
Killed and six others were injured In
4 mine OF the Black Hawk Coal com
pany OF Cars Fork. ~ miles from
here. az the result Of q dust and gas
explosion IN the mine.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-12-13

SO. 90. Pnul livestock.
Steers, tz.50-ii.s0. cows and .heifers.
f1.0o-s.7S. veal calves, 80. $1,000; hogs.
t5.7s-s50: sheep and lambs. t3.S0-i1 20.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
WHERE DOES PUBLIC COME IN?

1.-The Indiana Bell Telephone Company again has gone into
Federal Court in effort obtain increased This
time cried before hurt and rushed court before the
public service could order fixing
1t is time for showdown rate regulation in Indiana
is time for the to demand to know where they stand
It time people Indiana learn whether be
given monopoly public necessity and then permitted
ignore regulatory body duly established by the citizens the
State
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company which
Telephone Company which the
telephone system of the United grip
powerful combinations formed this country 1t is
engaged other utilities breaking down anything
resembling public control over rates.
The Indiana Telephone Company has been granted in
before public service commission following
the when prices peak and given increased
throughout the State But satisfied 1t cried
that it did obtain the it deserved during the
and that still higher should be charged The commission
turned down the request and the company Federal
Then commission Now before
commission acted the company gone
The telephone company not only owned almost outright
the American Telephone and Telegraph Company but
of its operating expenses charged the public pays
per gross the American company for
rendered by that concern.
There been repeated reports that the operating
penes of the Indiana company higher than they should be-
But the public service commission has authority into
these things 1t must take them for granted The
charge the almost anything peas under the head
of operating expenses
But public service commission rapidly becoming
powerlesS to regulate rates.
Utilities have discovered that they go the with
the plea existing conscator they make showing
that will obtain for them what they Masters chancey
yet become the theories and anc
figures Of engineers
The public service commission is supposed stand between
the public and grasping monopoes may not always have
served the public we'll but at least should be given oppor
tunity. If its hands be tied might just well be abo
hd and understanding reached whereby the courts would
take utility regulation Or better STILL from the point of
Of the monopoe why the telephone and SINH
lar companies to wild with charges until decide to do
without their service?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
THE BRITISH BACK DOWN

re TO- Britain not going break with France and
Ii Belgium the Ruhr and reparation Rather
says London cabgram, the British plan be
force her through publicity and bringing France and Bel
GUM into line through force of world opinion
How perfectly splendid world opinion could be called in
untangle foreign complications But swing
this way that? Can nation tell what world opinion
matter? Less than five there conference of
the nations which Great Britain conspicuous figure
There question world opinion
ences decisions PREPARATIONS be paid by Germany Can
Great Britain swing world opinion the cutting
those PREPARATIONS?
World opinion not merely the opinion diplomats trade
interests nancers and investors foreign securities
justified in saying that the people of America Britain
France Italy of the whole world would France and Bel
out of the Ruhr let Germany avoid payment of
full bill decided upon Versailles?
France and Belgium have good thing Ruhr, any
body foolish enough think that they will let because
nations thing they ought to- 1t wouldn't be human
do it. wouldn't be like any action all the history of nations
THE only solution to be the telephone
and dsconnect the bath tub.
LOAFERS are about to be rounded up again. How about
the burglars who work their life OF crmeg
IT will take only reports to establish the fact
SzfQsanitary conditions exist at the State farm
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
HOM SIMS
| Says

TINE second crop of straw lids is
l. about ripe.
Los Angeles bathing girls are get
ting tanned this year where they
were tanned before.
The mad college graduate informs
US Dempsey is offered 100000 just
to fight a little while.
A Columbus (Miss.) man who
went swimming before cooling off
got rescued, all right.
Small picnic parties are being
called Gypsy teas, which doesn't
keep the ants away at all.
Must be great to be an oyster.
oysters get four months vacation.
go
A man with a fly swatter in each
hand can't see anything SO very won
derful in nature.
These candidates throwing their
hats into the presidential ring may
get them stepped on.
Wouldn't it be funny If everybody
wasn't funny?
The June husband tells us he
would like to see a comb without
hair in it just once more.
In the summer young girls fancy
lightly turns to fancy clothes.
Our objection to work is there are
so many other things to do.
Song writers are not as ragged as
their music.
The smartest thing on earth may
be an atom, but the too smallest is
an electric fan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
WE ARE WE'LL OFF

IN little lampghted house in the isolated Vermont hills
sleepyeyed colarless old farmera backcountry
notary public administered solemn oath younger
his
By that oath he greatest executive of the greatest
Nation earth transferred from shoulders that had yielded
to death to those alive and alert.
simplicity it, the peace of it, the steadiness of the
poetry of and the drama, awensprng Only strong
Solid stable rockrooed system of could be party
ard witness to such
We ought know by this and other other parts
of the world that well off.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
A Prayer
By BERTON BRALFY

By BERTON BRALEY
Lord, when my burdens are hard to
bear
l shall whimper at times, no doubt,
l shall groan, perhaps, in my deep
despair
When my courage and grit run
out.
For life, at whites, is a torturer's
rack
Inf1icting such bitter pain.
Thou canst not blame if my will shall
crack
Under the cruel strain.
l ask the pity, dear Lord, when l
Am broken and hurt and weak,
When under a black and sullen sky
| stray from the path / seek;
But scourge me, Lord, if with craven
heart,
/ struggle not back again,
To play a worthy and manly part
In world that was made for Men.
| cannot always maintain a smile
When all of my dreams go wrong,
l shall vince a little once in while
At the jeers of the mocking
throng;
But help me, Lord, when to earth
I'm hurled
And roweled by fortunes gait,
To rise in the face of a cock-eyed
world
And laugh, and laugh and laugh!
Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
Science

The forerunner of the chemist was
the alchemist OF the middle ages.
Most of the efforts of the alchemist
were used in an attempt to turn com
mon metals into gold. He worked
with lamentations and amid weird
surroundings. One of the elements
that was supposed to be necessary in
making gold was the blood of an
infant
Despite the ignorance that we now
know surrounded these attempts, the
development of alchemy finally created
chemistry. Today science, through
chemistry, can do many of the things
that the alchemist tried to do. Even
the making of gold Is not an impossi.
BILE process, although it is not prac-
teal. Certain precious stones can be
made chemically and many other
things that the alchemist tried to
produce can now be created by the
chemist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
Heard in Smoking Room

TT WAS TRYING a criminal case
in San Diego, Cal. The States
star witness had fallen down"
in his testimony and both sides agreed
when the jury went out their verdict
could be nothing else than acquittal
To our surprise and the the discom.
fort Of my client they were out forty
two hours. The only pleasant thing
was their verdict was as both sides
and the judge predicted-"not guilty. :"
stopped the jurors in the court
house hall and learned juror named
Swendson had held up the jury's
speedy return. Until the forty second
hour he had stood out against the
eleven others for conviction.
He was a very small man with a
lean face that ended at the top In a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
STEARNS is
CLOSEST TO
PRESIDENT
Boston Merchant Is Friend
and Political Advisor
to Coolidge.
BY ROBERT TALLEY
Times staff Correspondent

xvi ASHINGTON, Aug. 9.-McKin-
IIWI ley had his Hanna, Wilson had
III his Colonel House, Harding
had his Daugherty and President
Coolidge has his Frank w. Stearns.
A short, stout, healthy 67-year-o old
Boston dry goods merchant, who has
made modest fortune by selling la
dies lingerie, Bingham house dresses
and what not, is 1.-The man behind the
President" so Washington has al
ready observed. Although active in
political office
Stearns is neither Calvin Coolidge's
master nor his slave. He is, rather,
the new Presidents closest friend and
political adviser. His relation to the
new executive, sixteen years his
junior, has been something like father
toward son.
II would rather not talk for publ
cation just now" said Stearns when
asked for an interview describing his
friendship with President Coolidge.
II am sure you newspaper boys will
understand why"
Eyes Tell Story
But one doesn't need words to ap-
preciate Stearns' intense admiration
for his now celebrated political pro-
tege. The expression in his keen hazel
eyes, smiling at you from behind his
rimless glasses beneath two bushy
gray eyebrows, tells the story when
the name of Coolidge is mentioned.
Short and plump. he looks the part
Of the prosperous Yankee merchant
that he is. He wears a black suit.
black four-in-hand necktie and
black vest-Cespite the warm weather
in the buttonholes Of which there
Is knotted a heavy gold watch chain.
trailing off into a vest pocket The
front Of the vest is rather spacious.
and necessar tly so.
His hair IS white and bushy and
he puffs almost continually on a fat.
black cigar that protrudes from I'M
der a closely-cropped gray mustache.
The firm-set lines of his mouth de-
note determination
Active as Man of 20
He walks brisky around the TEN.
porary white House" on the third
floor Of the Willard Hotel as active
as a man twenty years his junior.
Occasionally he pauses to chat with
one Of the numerous newspaper cor
respondents who have taken charge of
several of the rooms. throwing out the
beds and bureaus 10 install type.
writers and telegraph instruments.
y Stearns and Coolidge are as different
In personality as daylight and dark.
but he has guided Cooudeg's destiny
ever since their friendship began un.
der such strange circumstances when
Coolidge was a member OF the Massa-
chusetts Legislature.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
Observations

If talking a lot and saying nothing
means presidential candidacy, no one
in sight has anything on Oscar Under
wood.
Read the character of an auyomo-
bilist in his horn.
Further. no one ever suspected, I'M
till now, that there was any curb to
Wall Street.
An ex-Russian nohleman is now a
floor walker in a Kansas City depart
ment store. All is lost but hauteur
That disgruntled London air pilot
lost a big point when he staged his
strike q the ground rather than in
tho air
McAC 30 admits Charles W. Morse
paid him sS3,000 for advice. and see
what is happening to Morse now.
Hollywood will film the Ten Com
mandments'' Wonder how 1t hap
pened to hear of them?
Let each wheat farmer help himself
by starting a bakery.
Flora McFlimsy" wasn't bit mod
ern. She had nothing to wear, and
to her credit, be it said she didn't
wear it.
Barber shops are reopening in Rus
STA and that is proof enough that the
Soviets have failed completely.
Los Angeles bonds attracted no bid
ders in New York. Probably thought
they were those unstable marriage
kind.
Coolidge was sworn in by the light
rof a very dim, oil lamp, Let us hope
he has a better light by which his
feet are guided
They are talking of George Harvey
for the Senate in Vermont. Are those
folks allowing their granite to get in
their heads.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
WOMEN IN
SCOTLAND
WORK HARD
Have Few Conveniences, but
Homes Are Kept I'M
nooo,,lo+o
nnaculate.
JOHN w. RAPER

ANYWHERE IN SCOTLAND-Of
all the things man has invented as
additions to human discomfort, moth.
ing equals the home Of the worker
in the industrial center, whether the
industry is fishing, mining cloth max
ing or iron and steel
In the Glasgow district, which in
cludes multitude of towns from
5000 to 10000, and in the city, the
skilled worker of relatively high pay
as well as the unskilled lives in a
tenement from two to occasionally
five stories in height.
The dark and winding stair of stone
is feature. On a landing on each
floor is a common toilet for the use
of two or perhaps more families.
In the back of the house is the
scullery, a small room in which is
kept the coal and the heavy and
rough articles of household use. The
when it is bought, as a rule. by the
hundredweight, often in smaller guam.
titles.
Kitchen and dining room are com
bined and there is an alcove off the
room just large enough to hold a bed.
One other bedroom and the old-fash-
toned parlor would complete the aver.
age tenement, though more prosper.
Gus workers might have two.
Few COnveniences
The cooking stove is clumsy and
inefficient. How the Scotch woman
manages to prepare on 1t the fine
meals she does is 4 mystery to me
She has marvellous skill
The kitchen sink is small and with.
out a draining board.
In the back of the tenement Is an
open yard filed with small brick
wash houses, generally one to every
two families The sh-house con
tains an old-fashioned brick furnace
with a heavy built-in kettle of iron.
There is a cold water pipe. generally
left dripping through the winter to
prevent its freezing.
To add to the Joy of living the
Scotch woman's home is heated by
CRATES.
Always Clean
In spite of all the handicaps you
never see any dirt in a Scotch home
outside the slums. The house always
shines like a new needle.
The homes of many well to do folk
have in them no more modern con-
veniences than those of workers with
low pay.
The Scotch housewife does not
know what ice is in the home and
she knows of nothing like the Ameri.
can household refrigerator. Climate
helps her a great deal, for the weather
is cool the greater part of the year.
She also buys in small quantities
and nothing ever "spoils" in her
home.
American Type" Homes.
Scotch women who have been in the
United States complain bitterly Of the
lack of modern conveniences. Several
newspapers within the last month
have printed letters from women now
in the United States and Canada, tell.
ing Of the comforts of the houses in
the western world.
NEXT-Warmest spot in a Scotch
heart is likely to be sacred to Robert
Burns, the poet-voice of the common
man.
Raper visits his birthplace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09

wide triangular forehead, on top of
which sat dusty black "dicer" derby.
AS the other jurors eyed him, he
seemed to shrink smaller, but never.
theless he wore an air of stubborn
ness and conceit.
Didn't 1T strike you as peculiar,
Mr.. Swendson," asked. that the
eleven Jurors were for acquittal from
the start and you were the only one
who wanted conviciton?''
He turned a cold, expressionless eye
upon me, then appraised the other
Jurors with a glance of ice-cold dis
gust.
We'll" he said struggling his
shoulders and cooking his head to one
side, II might be the only shmart
vonr'
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
Gasoline

Thirty-six States now have a gaso-
line tax. The tax averages close to
2 cents a gallon. In West Virginia
It is highest, cents. In most of the
States the sugar coating that induces
people to smile when taking the gas
oline-tax pill Is that the money is to
be used for motor roads. or at least
part of it.
BY the same reasoning. pedestrians
should be taxed to pay for sidewalks
instead of making property owners
foot the bill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
T rom the
u Referees Tower
China
BY ALBERT APPLE

China takes a census. finds it has
a population Of four hundred and thir-
ty-seven millions not counting three
big provinces Of which at least one,
Mongolia. may have as many as 1--we
in the United States. despite it's huge
desert
The Chinese population is at least
Ave hundred millions. Most of them
are in wretched condition eccnomi-
cally. not so much on account of over
population as of forest depletion. That
is the real economic problem in
China. Its original forests were
chopped down without being replanted.
This has created a shortage of natural
building materials, caused periodic de-
structive floods and permitted much
Of the rich fertility Of the land to be
washed down into the ocean.
We Americans are destroying our
forests faster than China ever did.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
I axes
ct. wayne News sentineD

ct. Wayne News SentineD
Too many Americans today are pro-
ceeding on the theory that no minor
ity has any right to object to the tax
burdens which a majority imposes
upon It And that sort Of an idea
carried too far-carried to the ex.
tent of making the minority bear
the whole burdens going to wreck
the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
GASOLINE CONTROL

HE amount of gasoline placed storage this year has
broken all records but before you cheer Mr. Motor
Chicago
Rather than reduce the price twenty-five major oil
fneries of the mdconnen field will close during August
eliminate oil and gasoline surplus"
In other words by exercising the oil ndustry peculiar
law of supply and command they determined
keep prices UP bust
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
What Editors
Are Saying
Constitution
marion Leader Tribune

tMdF1On LeaQeT-1rlDune)
A course of study of the Corstitu-
ton OF the United States is to be add
ed to the curriculum of the high
schools throughout the State of Indi-
ana. The course. backed by the
American Bar Association. will &C.
quaint students both with the history
of this important document and its
amendments, and with the contests
and meaning of the document itself.
1t will be compared with similar CON
stitutions in foreign countries and will
BIO taken apart for criticism and dis
cussion by the young students.
The course should be a good one
IL carried out in the right manner.
The wonder is that IL was not added
to the school schedule long ago in!
stead Of some Of the apparent dead
wood which has been taught.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
Don't Hesitate
Rokomo Dispatch


Judge Ebert Gary Of the United
States Steel Corporation declares that
the death of Harding will be bad for
business. If this is causing him any
inhibition in the matter of going into
the eight-hour shift in continuous
process steel operations, we have a
feeling that Presientd Coolidgels atti-
tude will be Don't hesitate on my
account.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-08-09
Baseball Abroad

Yucatan is sending a physical in
structor to the United States to study
baseball. They've fallen for the ma
tional game hard down there. In
Cuba it is the most popular sport.
They play it on almost every vacant
lot in Japan where it is no uncommon
sight to see boys batting, fielding or
running bases with baby brothers or
sisters strapped to their backs.