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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-06-04

in very poor quarters but seem
so pleasant and happy. | guess
the heat agrees better with them
than it does with us, although we
have felt fine so far. The frost
of May rs went down as far as
fifty miles south of st. Louis. The
farmers are replanting large
fields of corn in Illinois and Mis-
souri,. Potatoes are frozen flat
in some places.
Have called on rutabaga deal
ers and found that most places
they prefer Canadian bagas in
place of the Minnesota variety,
but some have promised to give
us trial.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-06-04
MAJORITY OF ASKOV
FACULTY RETURNING

Supt. F. Clarey Nielsen has
another year of his contract with
the local school, to be filed out
and of the other instructors here
the past year who will return for
the i925-1926 term are the fol-
lowing: Mrs. c. M. Nelson and
Lucia r. Brown, high school
teachers; Ruth Poechmann, sixth
grade; Anna c. Yngve, fifth;
Esther Everson, fourth; and Mrs.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-06-04

Chris Jensen and family Of
Hutchinson, visited at the Car
Degn home from Friday till Sun
day.
Clement Sebald came up from
st. Cloud and visited Saturday
and Sunday at the home Of his
parents.
A baby girl was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Adolf Jensen during the
thunder storm Monday evening
Thus a storm sometimes also
brings happiness.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Clausen and
three of their children left Sun
day on a two weeks auto trip ex-
pecting TO visit at various places
in southern Minnesota and in
Iowa.
Miss Agnete Fenger who re-
Gently returned home from Tyler
where she had taught school, left
Saturday morning for West Den
mark. Wis, to teach six weeks
of Danish summer school. The
trip was made to Markville in
auto and from there by train
which makes a short and quick
route.
0Leo G.. Nielsen, who has been
working in Minneapolis the past
few years, and Miss Doris An
drews, originally from Wisconsin
but who has also been working in
Minneapolis lately, were United
in marriage in the Twin Cities
Friday evening. The BRIDE
groom's mother and sister. Mrs.
c. p. Nielsen and Miss Verna.
were the only Askov relatives
present. The newlyweds will go
right to housekeeping in the
Mill City. This young couple
have visited in Askov on several
occasions and the American joins
with friends here in extending
congratulations and best wishes.
Thorkild Ravnholt who visited
friends in Askov Saturday and
Sunday together with others
from Minneapolis, is the same
Thorkild as ever, interesting to
visit with and who can and does
relate occurrences exactly as they
happen. He and his parents left
Askov in the fall of 1916, going
first TO the states of Washington
and California where they spent
the winter. In the spring of 1917
they moved to Wayne, Alberta,
Canada, the new Danish settle
ment where they have since re-
sided. Things are not progress
ing as rapidly there as might be
hoped for and the Ravnholts de-
clded after eight years of farm
ing on Canadian soil to return to
the States. Mr., and Mrs. Ravn-
holt are at present in Winnipeg
awaiting their turn TO come to
u. s. as immigrants. They ex-
pect to be able to cross the bor-
der in another month. A loca-
ton in the States has not yet
been decided upon. Young Ravn-
holt said great changes have TAX
en- place in the Askov community
since they left eight years ago,
large fields having been cleared,
many new buildings have gone
up and other Improvements
made.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-06-04
ASKOV

JenS lnOInSen came over lTOli
Centuria, Wis, and spent tn,
week end with his family here
VIM. Johnson and Miss Evelyn
Larsen of Minneapolis, visited Al
the Carl Miller home Saturday
and Sunday.
Miss Gudrun Kilstofte, Crane
View College student the past
term, at Des Moines, Iowa, re-
turned TO her home here Sunday
j. p. Frederiksen was on duty
at the Minnesota Potato Ex-
change warehouse a couple days
the first of this week to receive
potatoes and ship out the last
ones. The house will now be
closed until next fall.
L. c. Petersen left Tuesday
evening for Peters, Nebr., where
l.. c. Laursen and family, former
Askov citizens, are now located,
for a visit at the Danish colony
there. From Peters he will go
10 Omaha to attend the annual
Danish Lutheran church confer
ence as a delegate from the
Askov congregation.
Miss Bodil Fenger returned to
her home here Monday after hav-
ing attended Grand View College,
Des Moines, Iowa. the past term.
Elmer Sorensen, another Askov
student there, returned home
Saturday. The two were men,
bers of the Grand View College
orchestra which recently made a
concert tour to several Danish
settlements in Iowa.
Thorvald Andersen, local COW
tester, was a business visitor in
Minneapolis one day last week.
While there he called on Aage
Jensen, a young man who will
likely apply for the position as
COW tester in Askov TO succeed
Mr.. Andersen who leaves about
Sept, LIST. Mr.. Jensen came over
from Denmark about a year ago
and has been a student at the
State University.
Miss lngrid Sorensen, Johan
Sorensen, Niels M. Mortensen
and Thorkild Ravnholt drove up
from the Twin Cities in the lat
ter's car and spent Saturday and
Sunday visiting at various homes
here. Thorkild is former Askov
boy, going from here with his
parents to Wayne, Alberta, Can
ada about eight years ago, but is
now employed by the Steenberg
Construction CO.. in st. Paul, as
is also Niels Mortensen. Miss
Sorensen visited at the home of
her aunt, Mrs. Hans Bagge.
A deal was closed last Satur-
day whereby Grundtvig jacobsen,
whose home is at Flaxton, N. d.,
became proprietor of the Askov
barber shop, starting in his new
enterprise Monday. Erode Bruce
has been barber in Askov the
past five years and holds the
record for continuous service.
Mr.. Bruce has learned the trade
here, built up a good business,
and raised a family; however he
seems to have his mind set on
going TO the state of Oregon and
plans to leave the latter part of
this month, which reminds a fell
low of a story heard the other
day that runs like this: Two old
friends, who had not seen one an
other for several years acct
dentally met one day. After a
warm greeting the local man
said: Gee. but you look pale and
sickly; what is the matter with
youf" To which the other re-
piled: why ! don't know, | Just
came back from a couple years
stay in Oregon"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-06-04
ASKOV MARKETS

Butter, creamery, per ID. so. AZ
Eggs, per doz. ............ %
Chickens. under 4 lbs. per ID. IA
Chickens, over 4 lbs, perlb. II
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-06-04

American Want Ads work
night and day.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-06-04

H. A. Kolstad, second grade. VAL
borg Justesen of Ringsted, Iowa,
has been engaged to instruct the
third grade and Corrah lverSen of
Lake Benton, who taught the Sec
ond grade here in the 192O-21
term, will have charge of the first
grade next year.
Teachers for the seventh and
eighth grades and the Danish de-
partment have not yet been def
nitely engaged.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1925-06-04

The Girl: Stand on that dime a
second. Now you represent WOOL
worth's store.
The Boy: Why Woolworth's?
The Girl: Nothing over ten centsi
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-06

Irwin, and it was recommended
that 3,776 additional beds be pro-
vfded Tor this class OF cases. In ad.
ditiOn, the program calls for 1850
beds for tuberculosis cases and $40
for general cases.
To, lessen the load on hospitals
in Washington, D. c., it was rec
commended that 200 beds be pro.
vided for tuberculous patients in
Virginia and 200 for the same class
in West Virginia. which States, to-
gether with Maryland and the Dis.
trict OF Columbia. make up District
No. 4.
Relief measures asked Ia. some Of
the other districts include:
The Fifth district including North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Flor
ida and Tennessee. For this group
Irwin asked that permanent struc.
lures be erected to take the place
Of the temporary buildings at the
tuberculosis hospital at Oten, ". c..
and that 176 additional beds be pro.
vided for mental cases, bringing the
number OF beds for this class in
the district to 500.
In District No. / Of the Veterans
Bureau, comprising the New Eng
land States, 200 beds are asked for
tubercular cases, while for mental
and nervous cases 200 additional
beds are recommended.
For District No. 2, which Ii made
up Of New York, Connecticut and
New Jersey, the organization rec
commended the establishment Of q
1,OOOlbed hospital for, mental cases
TO take the place Of Hospital No. 81
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-06

burden to the taxpayers and the
Maturities during 1926 total
1851, 704, 900, including notes and
March. S4os, osi 900 in June, 1907
$4,000 in September and $685.
774,50O in December. The situa-
ton will require re.financing
arrangements in each Of the quar-
terly periods.
Payment By 1867.
The retirement program contem-
plates complete payment of the
present public debt of over $21,.
900, 0O0, 900 by 1887 In 1914 the
Government must meet an obliga-
ton OF $4,000 100000 to finance the
maturing soldiers bonus policies,
extending the period OF getting the
United States out Of the hole.
However, through a special sink
ing fund arrangement the Treasury
will be In q position to do the
necessary financing without danger
Of upsetting economic security.
The public debt will cost Amer
lean taxpayers approximately ST.
336, 500, 600 this year while estf.
mates for interest and retirement
for 1926 are $1,314, 500, 900. An
approximate $500, OO0,0 200 annual
appropriation for reduction Of the
debt principal Is provided. Pay
ments from foreign creditors,
which under present funding agree
ments will total $1S8,O87, 400 in
1926, so to reduce the public debt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-06
u. S. To REFUND
. 100000 IN
5 YEARS
Third of Public Debt Must Be
Refinanoed-$1 ST., 704,-
600 This Year

Faced with bond maturities Of
more than seven billion dollars, or
one.third Of the public debt, within
the next five years. a refunding
policy win be employed by Score
tary Of the Treasury Mellon to
distribute the payment Of this ire.
mendous sum over q longer period.
Officials declared today that both
long and short term refunding
bonds may be employed in the new
financing program, the character
of issues depending on market con.
ditions, the maturity dates falling
at a time when the Government
can retire securities with the least
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-06
ASKED
FOR D. c. VET
HOSPITALS
D. A. v. Recommends Some
of Patients Be Cared for in
Va. and West Va.
BY HARRY WARD.

A complete disqualification pro.
gram to care for disabled former
service men, based on a survey OF
the whole country, was presented
to President Coolidge today by
Frank j. irwin, national COM
mander of the Disabled American
Veterans.
Particular attention was called in
the report to the fire hazards ex-
listing at many Of the institutions in
which veterans are patients.
The program calls for 6.166 adj
ditional beds. The inadequate
facilities for caring for the mental
cases were especially stressed by
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-06
MAN AND WIFE, AGED 90,
BOTH DIE ON SAME DAY

WARREN, Pa, Feb. 6.-Two Of
Warren county's Oldest residents,
Ferdinand Perkins and his wife,
Mary A. Perkins, died at their
farm home near here within four
hours Of each other. They were
Mrs. Perlkins's death occurred
shortly after noon and her hus-
bands at 5 o'clock. Death in each
case was due to old age.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins had
been In good health and celebrated
their SEVENTEEN wedding anniver-
sary last Christmas.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-06

Before the war the public debt
was about a billion dollars.
Melons View.
Mellon regards the view that a
part Of the burden Of the wars
cost may be passed to future gen.
erations as fallacious, holding that
a. domestic debt is simply q liabil-
ity of the people to pay them
selves
1.-THE problem Of the public debt
is largely a question as to how
rapidly the redistribution may be
effected without undue disturb.
ances to business and general
economic conditions" he said.
1.-THE obligation must be met but
the rate OF payment must be adj
justed to produce the greatest
good and the least interference"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-06
Increase In Postal
Receipts Indicate
Good Business

Improved business conditions
are reflected in postaI receipts
for fifty selected cities winch
totaled $27, 271,1 in January,
as compared with SIC, O8O,SST IN
January, 1924, an increase OF
arc per cent, the Postoffice De-
partment announced today.
Dayton, Ohio, led all other
cities in increased postal re-
ceipts, amounting to $161, 1O7,
an increase of 26.85 per cent.
Fort Worth, Tex, was second,
with receipts of $1O4,2l5, an IN
crease of 17.19, while Jackson
Vile, Fla, was third with re-
ceipts totaling 500, $50, an IN
crease of 1854 per cent.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-02-06

Ia the Bronx section OF New York
city (which is rated as not suitablel.
for tubercular patients in this dis
trict.
For Pennsylvania and Delaware,
which comprise the third district
the veterans organization thinks
the addition of $50 beds for men,
tai and nervous cases VIII meet
the present needs.
, 1925-05-08
MOTOR AGE

MUIOR ALL
is a business magazine, published for the
benefit Of everyone actually engaged in
the automobile trade.
WHO NEEDS MOTOR AGE
Every Garage Owner
Every Automo nile Dealer
Every Automobile Repair Shop
Every Automobile Supply JobOer
AND every service manager, sales nan
ger, s~tockkeeper, superintendent, fore
man, and every other man in an auto
motive establishment. To all Of them,
Motor Age is not a luxury. but a ne
cessIfy. Subscribers must furnish me
with a business card or ietternead to
send along with he order 50 that the
publishers can easily Identity me sub
scriber as directly connected with the
automobile business. Unless they have
this convincing evidence that the sub
scriber is engaged il this business the
subscription is not acceptable. Rate So
a gear local currency.
b. r. LARSEN.
C~hriStiansted, V. /.
, 1925-05-08

It is hereby brought to public no
! tice that according to the scheme
Of Amortization for st, Thomas
Harb9r ~ Loan Of 1910, the draw
ing by the Notary Public, st. Tho
mas, Of thirteen bonds at Francs
1000 has taken place, resulting
in the drawing Of the following
bonds:
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-09
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DOCTOR FRANK CRANE.
NOrUeQi0n Sailors

4 MEETING recently held in New York At "h
A the Norwegian Seamen's Church Of Brooklyn was
=. discussed.
This is peculiar institution 1t seems to be more tna
church. rather, it seems to be church IN the 1u'
modern sense Of the idea.
1t stresses service It is not particularly concerned
with peoples ideas and opinions, with their creeds ana
notions in helpng the class of people who neeo
help +.
sailor is He has home ties that BIND nlm'
as rule And many sailors Norwegian, or some klno
of Scandinavian.
This always been seagoing and sealovng race ana
now the hand Of service stretched out by society to
help them. r"
The Norwegian Church Brooklyn has been fifty years
engaged successful work and has lately been increasing
by great strides Hswork not only includes work done b
Norwegian Sailors but constant visiting Of the hospitals
to people of all countries.
1t cares shpwrecked 1t is postoffice where the
lost and found are looked after
1t has outgrown old quarters in Brooklyn and now
engaged in campaign for building This IS sadly
needed and there few works of society that better de-
support
To many sailors the Seaman's Church is the goal first
sought when they strike York These come from
every part of York and from Yonkers and Bayonne
They half million visitors year Ihey
are mostly Norwegian Swedish and Danish, and full
quarter American citizens who have taken cut
their first papers
They come the four of the earth and the
Church to most of them is their only address
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-09
By Garrett p. Serviss,
Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics of Popular
Interest.

Noted Astronomer and Writer on
Scientific Topics of Popular
Interest.
will you not help a con-
tinual reader of your articles by
telling me how l can find the
logarithm of any number by
figuring it out, using common
arithmetic? Suppose I had no
table of logarithms, how could
. make one? The table tells
me the logarithm of 81 -
1929, but l want to know how
to work that out for myself
A. j. j.. Clearbrook, Mimi.
NNHAT you should wish to know
Il know how logarithms are cal
culated is comnlendable, but that
you will ever actually calculate
table of logarithms is highly i'm
probable. If you were lost on
an uninhabited island, on ak
would be very useful nipple
ment to you, but you would
hardly he able to make one. Be
cause of the special skill and
means needed for the production
of axes very few individuals try
to make their own. To calculate
table of logarithms with the
aid only of common arithmetic"
would be like trying to manufac-
ture penknives on a hlacksmith's
anvil
Yet, as Professor C. S. Slichter
has said, the almost miraculous
power of modern calculation is
due, in large part, to the inven'
ton of logarithms in the first
quarter of the seventeenth CEN
fury by a Scotchman, John Ma
pier. This invention was founded
on the simplest and most obvious
principles, that had been over
looked by mathematician for
many generations
The principles were indeed OBJ
Vious and extremely simple, but
the preparation Of disable tables
OF logarithms for practical appli-
cation turned out to be an eX-
ceedingly tedious task.
To show you where the diff
Guilty comes in, let us try to cal
culate few >logarithms. For
this purpose we take two con-
current series OF numbers, one
progressing economically, ]. e.,
each successive term beinr mul-
tiplied by a fixed number, such
as 10 Ohe base used il common
logarithmsl and the other pro-
crossing arithmetically, /. E..
fixed number, as /, being added
to each successive term. The
geometrcal series will represent
the numbers whose logarithms
are to he found, while the arith'
metrical series represents the To-
garithms.
We set them down in two
superposed lines thus
Arith. GogD 0
GeOm. (Nos) 10 100 1000
We see that the logarithm of
| Is O; that Of 10 Is /; that OF
100 is 2; that of l 900 Is 8, and
SO on. the law being that the
logarithn of any number is the
exponent of the power to which
the fixed number 10, called the
base. must be raised in order -
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-09
RICKSHAW
OF ORIENT

IF YOU have ever travelled In
L Japan you know that your
visit would be incomplete and dis
appointing if you did not take at
least one ride in the jinrikisha.
And If you have ever used this
two-wheeled vehicle as a convey
ance you remember, with a giggle.
how insecure and precarious you
felt your position to be. For the
first few moments you thought.
"No accident can ever befall ne
while my carriage is drawn by
human beings" But then an alien
thought entered your mind.
What II the man should think
of something funny and in laugh
ing drop the carriage suddenly"
But this never happens because
the rickshaw bearers take their
Jobs very seriously and often ar
range races to sec which member
of the profession has the most en-
durance.
The jlnrikisha has only come
into use in Japan within the last
fifty years. Before this time the
roads Of Oriental countries were
crowded with all manner OF elab-
crate vehicles. The most frequent
Iy used by the upper. classes were
OK carriages, norimono, kago, and
carts drawn by hand. The OK
carriages, used only by members
of the nobility and venerable aTis-
tocrats, were constructed of rich
lacquer. The curtains suspended
in front to afford the desired
privacy were of the finest bamboo
workmanship with thick cords
and tassels of silk. The whole
carriage was upholstered IN ele-
gantly embroidered satins. ana
drawn by an OK gayly bedacked
with flags and ribbons.
The ox-cart, which is now en-
tirely out of use except in certain
parts of China, was sue eeded by
the norimono. The norimonO.
although not so elaborate as the
x.cart was really more PC
tures0ue. 1t resembled a minia-
ture house with a brightly painted
roof. from the top of which was
extended long pole. This pole
was wide enough t0 admit two
men on either side to grasp, hold
and support the whole carriage.
Thus travelling in the norimono
YOU were suspended in the air
during the entire trip, except when
the bearers paused for rest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-09
GARRETT P. SERVISS ON TABLES
OF LOGARITHMS.

equal tie given number. The
zero power OF 10 is 1, the first
power is 10, the second power Is
100, the third power is 1000, etc.
Now. what we have made above
is a little fragment Of a table Of
lOgarithms containing only the
characteristics which precede the
decimal parts Yet as far as 1t
goes 1t will perform the logarith-
mic miracles, such as enabling US
to multiply two numbers by
simply adding their logarithms.
But we have only a few scattered
numbers. We may partly fill up
the gaps in this Nay. Set down
in arithmetical series some of the
fractional numbers between 0 and
/, and calculate the correspond.
ing geometricS numbers thus:
Arith. UIogJ .25 so rs /
Geom. NosD / 1.7s 3.16 5.62 10
The, numbers 1.7S. $40. and 5.62
are obtained by interpolating the
powers Of 10 corresponding to the
fractions in the line Of logarithms-
They are. approximately. the
fourth root of 10. the square root
OF 10, and the fourth root Of the
cube of 10. In this way we have
got three numbers with their Ioga-
rithms. to two places Of decimaIs.
between l and 10. BY a similar
process we may add others. thus
gradually filling up the gaps, but
If you try it you will see what a
task you have in hand. Better
ways have been devised. but for
these you should consult works on
mathematical analysis. In my
school days good old Elias LOOMS
showed the way and it's briars in
his Treatise on Algebra"
II you can calculate the loga-
rithm Of Sc. you will have that Of
GO, the only difference being in the
characteristic. which is for So,
and ] tor g.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-07-09
NEGOTIATIONS
OF A WIFE

AS YOU LIKES 1T
A s far as men are concerned,
"A most marriages. like MOST
murders, are not premeditate1.
but just a desperate act to which
they are driven in a moment o.
madness or mental alteration.
X
Bootleg love, like bootleg whis-
key. usually makes the world go
round so violently that it leaves
you with a headache, bad taste
in the mouth. a sprained ideal.
and a painful conscience.
X "
The trouble with the modern
man is that he regards love-mak
ing as a sport rather than as an
art and a kiss as a diversion
rather than as an achievement.
Feeding some husbands affect.cn
is like feeding some furnaces cSal
all the response you get is "a
little uncertain warmth"
y X
"A QuII man is one VINO never
does anything worth talking about
"a dull woman is one who neve..
does anything worth gossiping
about.
Some men can break off a love
affair so gracefully that a ga
feels almost as though she had re.
ceived a diploma; others can do il
so brutally that she feels as
Inundated as though she had
been run over by a 1920 flivVer.
4 X
A husbands love Is not quite
dead until his emotions have
dwindled down to three-impa-
thence. before BREAKFAST: forgetful-
ness all day. and tolerance all eve.
ming.
1t Is pretty hard, at this time Of
year. for a man to tell whether
1t is love, curiosity, improving
vanity. or just a moonlight eff
feet that gives him that dizzy
feeling.
n X X
Marriage is the strange meta.
morphosis which seems to turn an
eleetr1fying contact" into "dea i;v
friction"