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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
POLLUTION ATTACKED
BY THE WALTONIANS
Minnesota Division Inaugurates
State Wide Anti POlluti0n Cam
paign.-Disease and Death
Bringing Filth to be Barred
From Minnesota Waters.


A strenuous campaign against pol
luton is about to be inaugurated by
the Minnesota Division Izaak Walton
League of America, was announced
by Fred H. Doellner, sec.-treas. of
the organization.
Judson L. Wicks, prominent Mime
apolis attorney, chairman of the
Minnesota Division State Pollution
Anti-Pollution Committee fired the
opening gun in this campaign at the
annual convention of The League of
Minnesota Municipalities at Virginia,
Minnesota, when he said:
mo more important or pressing
problem will present itself to our
next legislature than the pollution
of our lakes and streams. Our ex-
banding population and industries are
yearly increasing our water contain
nation.
mot much has been done in a state
wide way to check pollution. Some
very good work has been done in GER
tain localities. Certain cities have
installed sewage disposal plants and
the state has joined with Wisconsin
in survey of pollution conditions of
the upper Mississippi, but, very little
has been accomplished compared with
what ought to be done.
Economically, the pollution prob
lem affects great interests. In great
er or less degree, and in some way
or other, it affects the following in
notwithstanding, paper and pulp,
packing, creameries and cheese fac
tories, commercial fisheries, iron
mining, and many others; it affects
state and federal investments in fish
hatcheries; it affects the water sup
ply of our cities; it affects our tour
list business computed last year at
fifty million dollars and growing
yearly by leaps and bounds; it af-
fects the use of our waters for re-
creational purposes, and never was
there time when outdoor recreation
was as necessary as now. This in
dustrial age makes excessive demands
upon our energies. To meet these de-
mands, outdoor recreation is neces-
sary. 1T is NOT A LUXURY, 1T is
A NECESSITY. Nothing contributes
more to outdoor recreation than pure
lakes and streams.
"Then there are considerations of
pure sentiment. Our streams and
lakes are among the most beautiful
in the world. Do we want them
defled? !. Do we want them converted
into open sewers and cesspools?
Pollution is fruitful scource of
discord. 1t engenders bitterness be-
tween individuals and communities.
1t affects interstate relations. Many
instances of interstate friction caused
by pollution might be cited.
els there any way to stem this tide
Of pollution? The science of SANTA
ton answers yes. 1t is prepared to
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
FIRST AID PAYS DIVIDENDS

Probably not one business = estab-
lishment out of ten, with several en-
ployes or employers at work, has an
adequate first-aid kit, or knowledge
of how to use it if it were : there.
First-aid does not mean surgical or
hospital equipment or medical skill
for final treatment of severe cases;
it means only the quick, easy rene
dies and methods for minor accidents,
OF palliatiyes or preliminary treat
ment for the more serious cases that
the hospital must finish. S..
Compensation insurance figures
show that the ratio of major to minor
injuries is only about one to 2as but
that infection that might have been
avoided by good first-aid treatment,
is responsible for practically One-half
of all injuries paid for under, COM
pensation. In brief, minor injuries
that should have been cured with the
preliminary first-aid treatment. make
up one-half of all the compensation
losses. Ignorance and disregard
double the cost of compensation; they
double also the load of suffering and
impaired earning ability that uncom-
pensated industry must carry. 49,
Three great industries that have
faithfully followed first-aid treatment,
report that with more than $4,000
cases in three years, there has been
not one case of Infection, that for
industry at large causes one-half of
all hospital and compensation and
Joss cases. ~
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
AT A DISADVANTAGE

Liza had been robbed and was told
by the judge to explain to the court
the circumstances of the case.
oval, jedge, yer honor" she! said
ION this particular day, eff yo' all re-
members, there was a big Democrat
P'raGe goin' on. was leanin, out
nah winder a watchin' 'em goin, by
when this buck sneaks up benin me-
an slams the winder down on NAH
neck an robs me-
do you mean to tell this, court,
that with a big Democratic parade
going by and all the people watchin G
it down on the street, you let this
man rob you without making an
outcry?"
"Sho' ah could o, outcried, jedge-
but do yo' all think all wanted them
Democrats to think all was cheerin'
them?"-The Grit.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19

land and Greenland it was sure that
they would before long see the coast
of. North America, and this is pre-
cisely what. happened 1t would be
harder to believe that these mariners
never sailed beyond. Greenland than
to. believe that they effected landings
and made at least temporary settle
ments on the coast of the nearby
mainland of the Western hemisphere.
Some day bold sailors will make a
special sea journey along Lief Erick-
sons course from Greenland to Labra-
dor to New England. His course is
well known and the seas he sailed are
well charted.
The bold sailors now resting at Bos-
ton surely did well on their heroic
journey through stormy seas in their
small but staunch craft from the Old
World to the New.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
SALMON BUSINESS
is GOOD IN ALASKA
s. J. Simonsen Writes in Letter
to American That Many Tour
lists From U. s. Visit Alaska
Native Siwashes Hard to Re-
form.-Haye Neighborly Scraps
Chitina, Alaska, Aug. 8, 1926.

Chitina, Alaska, Aug. 3, 1926.
The three leading professions, the
reform business, the mining business
and tourist business, are flourishing
here this year. 1t is my unbiased
opinion that the last two should be
developed more. We have just with
stood an assault of reformers of con-
siderable magnitude, some of whom
by the way have threatened to come
back, but everything at the present
time is calm and peaceful.
Hundreds of tourists have passed
through here this year on their way
to Fairbanks and the interior of AL
aska. If person did not know
better he would be led to believe that
the States were populated with
people at least over fifty years of age
mainly.
1t has rained here all summer and
the foliage in the valleys resemble
that in California, everything is
green, berries of all descriptions grow
wild in abundance, and all around
the tops of the mountains are covered
with snow. Active glaciers under
ground and overground are every
where a strange combination of
things.
The salmon run this year was ex-
ceptional heavy and all the boats
leaving Cordova are loaded to ca
pacity with canned fish. Some of
the canneries put up as many as
three thousand cases of salmon a
day, each case contains forty-eight
cans of one pound each, so after all
the salmon business is not a thing
of the past. F.
For excitement, and to break UP the
monotony, couple of old sourdoughs
here staged a little friendly fight last
week. Wishing to entertain every
body as much as possible, it was nee
essary to take both to the hospital
after their exhibition, one with bull
let hole through his chest and the
other with his face slightly out of
shape. Even though a truce, had
been declared it was thought best to
put, them in two different hospitals
two hundred miles apart. - a.
The Siwashes are Flooding along
about the same as usual. Several
attempts were made this summer by
missionaries, etc., to make them
abandon their wayward ways. They
were ardent for a short time, but
soon drifted back to their old ways.
Siwashes do not believe in becoming
too heavily burdened with worldly
possession, as several eminent scien-
fists have lately predicted that the
world will shortly come to an end
anyway, due to sun spots, etc.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
LIEF ERICKsON's COURSE
Duluth Herald)

A few days ago tiny boat was
towed into Boston harbor. She had
been picked up outside and accented
a tow although her captain and sereW,
four in number, were not in distress.
These mariners were Norwegians.
They had sailed all the way from
Norway in a little boat, duplicate
of that in which Lief the son of Eric
sailed when he visited the American
coast thousand years ago. "a. 49,
Of course Lief Erickson on his
voyages along the American coast had
not, just then, come from across the
Atlantic. In fact he was already a
resident Of the Western hemisphere
when he saw Vinland and wintered
there. He had come from Green
land, where his home was, and which
his father, Eric the Red, had colon
lied from Iceland, where ThorWald,
Liefs grandfather, had died.
These modern Vikings, now at
Boston, have demonstrated that the
boats of the sea rovers of the tenth
century were seaworthy craft, al
though that fact has long been beyond
dispute. At any rate these modern
seamen have satisfied their own love
of adventure. .%sf-
When the early Morse colonized Ice
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
MINNESOTA'S INCUBATOR BLIND
BABY

On April g.. 1911, there came into
this world the most pitiable little OBJ
ject that ever breathed. The birth
was premature, and the little girl
baby was put in the incubator in st.
Luke's hospital at st. Paul. 1t was
soon discovered that she was blind,
she lived in the incubator Is months
before she was strong enough to be
taken, to the international Sunshine
Home and Kindergarten for Blind
Babies, Headquarters, SO Fifth Ave-,
New York City.
s Mrs. John Alden, chairman of the
Blind of the Federated clubs of N. Y.
state, found friends to adopt Barbara
when she was seven years old, and
setts.a
Mrs. Alden now sends out the news
that Barbara is spending the month
of August in the Sunshine Arthur
Home and Kindergarten for Blind
Babies in Summit, N. j., where she
spent 5 years of her baby life. Bar
bara is now Is years old, she has at
tended the Public school classes in
the Perkins Institute for the Blind
until she decided she would be a
child's nurse, and went back and took
charge of four beautiful children who
had come into her adopted parents
family. AS baby, Barbara always
played nurse with her dolls. Bar
bara is a good child-nurse, one eye
was taken out entirely and she has
light perception in the other.
"You could earn lots of money"
said Mrs. Alden to her the other
day. 81 wonder why you didn't think
of going to some family and receiving
SIG week and your board"
sBarbara's beautiful face lighted up
with a .sunshiny smile and she re-
Piled II shall never leave my adopted
mother so long as she has babies to
| care for. They are beautiful babies.
She@say God sent them to her be-
cause, she adopted me-" Barbara's par
ents were never located, but Bar
bara doesn't miss them with Mrs.
Alden and the Sunshine members who
love her. ~< 1913
Report all blind babies to Mrs. AL
den, founder of the Sunshine Blind
Babies Home and Kindergartens,
whose address is SO Fifth Ave., N. Y.
City. Minnesota has no home nor
school for blind babies. She will give
you valuable information as to train
ing and care.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
SWEDE BILL COLLECTING

A Merchant in a Wisconsin town,
who had Swedish clerk, sent him
out to do some collecting. When he
returned he reported:
"Yim Yonson say he will pay ven
he sells his hogs. Vim Olson he vii
pay ven he sells his wheat, and Bill
Pack say he will pay in january
well, well, did he really say he
would pay in january"
Veil, aye tank so. He say it will
be very cold day ven you get the
money from him, so 1 tink dot been
in Yanuary"-The Rah Rah.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19

We Americans can only do our al,
lotted task well if we face it steadily
and bravely, seeing but not fearing
the dangers. Above all we must stand
shoulder to shoulder, not asking as to
the ancestry or creed of our comrades,
but only demanding that they be in
very truth Americans, and that we all
work together, heart, hand and head,
for the honor and greatness of our
common country-Theodore Roose-
welt. -..--.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19

1t is none too soon to focus public at
tention on this important matter.
1.-The problem of pollution, stipend
GUS and serious as in all conscience
it is, is yet under existing conditions
of sanitary science and the law, cap
able of a reasonable and practical
solution. But, the public is in need of
education on the subject. 1t should
know the seriousness of the problem
and that it is growing more and more
so as time passes. To the solution
of the problem the first requisite is
the formulation of public sentiment.
Here is where the IZAAK WALTON
LEAGUE OF AMERICA offers it's SER
vices. 1t is an organization with no
axe to grind-perSonal or political.
1t is the greatest conservation move
ment of modern times. With wide
membership extended over the whole
state, 1T is in a position to assist
greatly in the education of the public
ON this question. There is nothing of
which it is so jealous as the purity of
our lakes and streams. War on pollu-
ton is the most important item in it's
program. In this war it offers it's
active and continuous support. And
here also is where the press of Min
nesota can render signal service.
No agency is so powerful in moulding
public sentiment. 1t is to be serious
ly hoped that in every city, town or
hamlet throughout the state, the press
will join with the IZAAK WALTON
LEAGUE in their great effort to pre-
serve the purity of our public waters"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19

In Sweden folks are compelled to
learn how to swim. Though not com
PEELED to do it Americans could S fol-
low the example to good advantage.
1t will harm no one and is sure to
do some good. sroa /
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19

There is no complaint now Of not
having rain enough in this section
of the country. The abundance of
moisture lately should result in good
fall pasture. 3s
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
Exactly

"She hesitated long time between
an old banker and a young doctor.
Finally she decided to make the doc
tor happy!'
81 see. She married the Danker?"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19

About the only person who can
genuinely sympathize with the Presi-
dent is the average baseball umpire
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19
Sorry for Him

She-Why do you wear such a light
suit? -
12e IT. wore 1t in a crap game and
got faded. -.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-19

The perplexing problem is to get
the tolerant to tolerate the intolerant.
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-07-08
WHEN I WAS
TWENTY-ONE
At Twenty-one Chick Evans, Fa-
nous Golf Champion, Wanted to
Be a Bond Salesman.

BY JOSEPH KAYE

HT WAS twenty-one on the 18th of
July, 1911, and my birthday oc-
CURED on the ocean. ! was returning
from my first trip abroad, where I
won the French-American golf cham
pionship on July 4. had expected
to return to Northwestern uniyer-
sity in the fall, as l had two more
years to go. All of my business
friends advised against it, but my
family wanted me to go back to
school. My mother, particularly, was
bitterly disappointed.
Il accepted the advice Of my bust
ness friends, and after the two big
championships | went to work for a
local (Chicago) investment bond
house. The father of my most inti-
mate friend had an interest in it.
had a good offer to go to Boston, but
did not want to leave Chicago, the
city l love. think was the first
of the well-known golfers to enter the
bond business. l remained with the
same house, although its name
changed somewhat, for u years, dur
ing which time l had become a mem
Der of the firm and its secretary.
Later l entered the employ of A. G..
Allyn and company, another Chicago
bond firm.
1T might be interesting to state
that from the time / won the Western
Amateur championship in 1909 had
been writing occasional articles on
golf In the fall of 1912 | was regu-
larly employed on Chicago newspa-
per- This work continued until 1920,
so that it may be said that my aTnbi-
lions when / was twenty-one were
that my golf game would improve and
that would be successful both as a
bond salesman and a writer.
Il feel that my ambitions have been
reasonably satisfied OF course. had
at times higher ambitions, but on the
whole, when / look around, / feel
that / have realized more, perhaps,
than most young men, lost in the
dream of their early ambitions, have.
It wasn't exactly what my family had
hoped. My mother wanted me to fin
ish at the university and take a spe-
cial course in diplomatic or consular
service-Chick Evans
ANY one who plays golf knows the
fame of Mr.. Evans; and most any
one who does not play has heard and
admired him just the same. So that
there is no doubt at all that he has
realized his early ambitions, taking
into consideration that every young
mans ambition, first and foremost,
Is to become famous
20 by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.I
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ON
14asp
THE LAST OF THE RACE

THE time was 1913, and the place
4 was the Geological Gardens.
Feeding time was near, and hun
CRY sounds filed the air-the bawling
Of pippylions, the shriIl piping of semi
colons, the rectangular shouts of Mex
lean CATERS
The visitors stopped suddenly. In a
carefully guarded enclosure two aged
and strengthening animals plodded
silently to and fro, swishing long
weird-looking tails.
"Well, of all things What on earth
can they be?" exclaimed one
"They look absolutely impossible"
cried two.
Lets ask a keeper" said three.
why" said the keeper, "them's
very rare and valu'ble animals, them
is. Thems the only living specimens
of malt-fed bosses. They're thirty year
old and they we're captured in 1920 In
the streets of Milwaukee. Malt-fed
bosses, that's what them is!
Marveling greatly, the visitors
passed on to the cage of the shimmy-
ing gimmicks.
20 by George Matthew Adams.l
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s1an5dAIa,InM y "a
OEOTy Martha Martin

Members of our family are in all
parts. Insects admire our great
beauty and our size and they come to
visit us.
ooh, yes, we have visitors. Some
times we're very busy with callers. In
fact, we're almost as busy with call
ers as the lady who sits on yonder
back porch"
Mother Sunflower waved toward the
direction of back porch upon which
sat beautiful lacy dressed In white.
She was very dainty and very grace
full and very lovely to look at.
EYES," said Mother Sunflower. 1--WE
have almost as many callers as has
that lady. And you know how her
porch is filed, day after day with
callers. OF course her callers are
people and not insects!'
"We know that" said the Sun
flower callers.
although l love very bright
golden color above all colors," Mother
Sunfower continued, still do love
to see the lady wear white.
white is so becoming to her and
she always looks so summary. That
is word which I've heard, and so |
suppose l may use it. 1t means that
when people look summary they look
like the summer time, lovely and at
their best.
well, she has callers all the time.
Very early in the morning / see her
sitting with book before her, but it
is no time at all before the callers
begin to come
"She is so popular. And yet she
has only one head
THAT shows how wonderful she must
be. We are loved because there are
so many little flowers or so many little
heads which make up each of our sim
gle heads. And our many little heads
have flower sweetness in them.
'But she is just as popular with
one beadl It is remarkable and yet
it is perfectly true. People love to
talk to her and hear what she has to
say, for what she has to say is very
wise and very witty. And she is
kindly with all her wisdom, never say
ing things to hurt.
81 know. that, for can tell by the
happy expressions on the faces of the
callers when they leave. And she
gives her callers sweets to eat, too,
very often-just as we do with our
callers.
But / must tell you of some of our
rich and society cousins. They are
the Chrysanthemums, Dahlias, Asters,
and many others.
"Oh. never forget; little Sunfower
children, that we belong to great,
enormous flower family, and what
could be a greater honor for flowers?
Nothing could be greater honor.
That is the answer to that question
(Copyright.D
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is lined with foulard printed In bright
blue and black on q white ground.
The same foulard is used for the dress,
which has a border of blue, black and
white stripes round the hem.
Another characteristic of the mid
season is the further development of
the uneven hemline. This Is seen in
points and petal edges on the more
elaborate afternoon dresses, and some
times in turrets on simpler gowns, as
in one smart pale yellow model by
LouisebouIanger that is cut out to
make the box plaits in front appear
a little longer than the rest of the
skirt. The same cut Is used in the
plain black, thus giving wider serrated
edges all along.
Midseason Evening Gowns.
In evening gowns the midseason
showing of the haute couture evil
dences continuation of the two
schools that have opposed each other
all spring at the smart Paris func-
tions. On the one side there is the
plain chiffon gown developed In vari-
Gus effective colors. The significant
point of this type du soir is that 1t
is entirely devoid of trimming except
The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1926-07-08

But each one of our heads is made up
of many little flowers clustered to-
gether to make one big flower or
head
you will notice that if you look
at yourselves carefully and with an
eye to family history and family
ways"
Mr.. Wind came along then and blew
just so the Sunfower children could
take little looks at their own heads
and each saw that what Mother Sun
flower had said was quite, quite true.
Were one of the largest families
in the world, among the flowers
Mother Sunf1ower continued.
'In fact think we are members Of
the largest group of flowers without
any exception and that is splendid
honor to belong to such a big fam
lily.