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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
in THE RACE

The Enterprise Messenger of Mark
Vile, in it's issue of Aug.5, under the
title of "Hjalmar Petersen Making
Good Race" comments as follows on
the contest for representative to the
State Legislature from Pine county:
"As the date of fall election draws
near, it begins to look as though the
closest race in Pine county will be
between Petersen of Askov, and Their
rien of Pine City, for assemblyman.
Therrien is mighty popular around
Pine City, but Petersen has a wide
acquaintance as editor Of the Askov
American, and he has some good
ideas that will appeal to the voters.
For instance, he pledges himself to
keep the county informed on the work
of the Legislature by sending weekly
letters to all the papers in the county
if he is elected. Voters are beginning
to feel that they have right to know
what is going on and this proposition
will get Petersen some votes next
November"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
BARNES-CARLSON

The marriage of Miss Bernice Marie
Barnes. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. M:
Barnes and M. Axel w. Carlson, both
of Sturgeon Lake, was solemnized
Sunday afternoon, August 8th, at 3
o'clock at the home of the brides par
ents.
Ferns, gladiolas and sweet peas
formed the background for the cere-
mony, which was performed by the
Rev. A. G. Olson of the Swedish M.
E. church of Moose Lake. The bride
was gowned in pale pink georgette
dress over silk slip of the same
color. She wore a coronet of satin
and pearls and carried a bouquet of
pink roses and sweet peas. The
bridesmaid was Miss Lillian Upgren
of Sturgeon Lake. She wore a gown
of green flat crepe and carried a
bouquet of sweet peas and baby
breath. Clarence Carlson of ST. Paul
a brother of the groom, acted as best
man.
After the wedding ceremony, a de-
licious lunch was served. The out
OF town guests were Mr.. and Mrs. VIM.
Mitchell, Clarence Carlson and Mr.
and Mrs. George w. Petersen of st.
Paul; Mr.. and Mrs. S. Dorr, Amery,
Wis; Mr.. and Mrs. ]. A. Jetsinga,
Pease, Mimi; Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Con-
ger and sons Clifford and Newton,
Ogilvie; Mr.. and Mrs. s. Percy and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. B. E. Blank and
family and Mr.. and Mrs. F. Blank of
Pine City.
Many useful and valuable gifts were
presented the bride and groom by the
guests, including a good sized cash
purse, dishes, silverware, linen and
cut glass. -...
After short wedding trip, Mr.. and
Mrs. Carlson will be at home at Stur-
geon Lake, where the groom is engag-
ed in the garage business.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12

Be companions to your children.
Let nothing interfere. 1t is the best
investment you can make.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
NEW HIGHWAY JOBS
SPREAD OVER STATE
Growth in Gas and Auto Tax
Receipts Makes Many Grading
and Crawling Projects Possible.

That auto license fees and gasoline
taxes go promptly into better high
ways was indicated by the announce
ment today by C. M. Babcock, COM
missioner of highways, that bids will
be opened August 81 on nearly three
dozen construction projects.
The proposed work is scattered over
northern, central and southern Mime
sofa, and will involve the expenditure
of approximately $1,000,000. It in
clades 54.1 miles of new grading, 140.4
miles of crawling, nine new bridges,
41.6 miles Of shoulder grading on
roads now being paved, and one short
stretch of paving. The new grading
involves the excavation of 1,123,000
cubic yards of dirt and Ithe shoulder
grading 100000 yards. The gravel
surfacing aggregates 1880 cubic
yards.
The list includes the following pro-
jects on Highway No. 1:
ShOuldering.
Between Forest Lake and Wyoming,
AS miles, 1880 cubic yards.
Between Mission Creek and Pine
City, S,5 miles, 22,300 cubic yards.
From Willow River to north county
line, 10 miles, 1880 cubic yards.
Carlton to Otter Creek, 3.4 miles,
$500 cubic yards.
North and south of Barnum, 2.7
miles, 1000 cubic yards.
Automobile license receipts from
Jan. 1 to Aug. 1 were $9,547,207 and
the gasoline taxes for six months
$2,230,122. The automobile license
receipts will probably exceed $4,000
900 before the end of the year and
the gasoline tax is expected to reach
S5,O00,OO0. This will give the state
highway department about 100000
more than the estimated receipts and
this will all go into new construction,
as the amounts needed for main
tenance and for interest and sinking
fund for payment of county reim-
bursement bonds had been set aside
earlier in the year.
Continuing the policy adopted a
year ago, the department is also adj
vertising for bids on $4,000 barrels
of Portland cement. The state buys
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
PEAT EXPERIMENTAL
FIELDS NEAR MILACA
Visitors Day to be Held at Low
Lime Peat Experimental Fields
on Saturday, Aug. IA.

The Division of Soils, University of
Minnesota, has arranged for a visit
ors' day at the low-lime peat expert
mental fields on Highway No. Is, 10
miles north of Milaca, Saturday, Aug.
IA, the program to begin at 2 p. m.
A circular sent out by the Univer-
sity explains the matter as follows:
If you are interested in the farming
of peat land, or own any, come and
see the excellent growth of suitable
crops where the land is properly
treated and how disappointing the
yields are when the treatment is not
what is needed. Peat soils differ
greatly among themselves and the
treatment found necessary on your
neighbours may be either unnecessary
or useless on yours. Come and learn
how to find what treatment your peat
needs to make it productive.
The University operates several
peat experimental fields, two of
which are near Milaca. The one call
ed the "Low-lime Peat Experimental
Field" is 10 miles north of Milaca
and right beside No. Is Highway. On
this all crops fail unless lime or mari
is applied and potash and phosphate
also are needed The other called the
"Milaca Peat Experimental Field"
just north of Highway No. IS, is one
mile east of the Milaca depot, just
north of the railway.
Bring samples of your peat soil and
mari to be tested. A chemical lab
oratory will be set up on the Low
Lime Experimental Field where Uni
versity chemists will test samples of
peat soil and any materials that you
may suspect to be limestone or mari.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
MUST NEVER BE EXCLUSIVE

Grove Patterson in his column,
*'The Way of the World" generally
hits the nail right on the head, and
in the following few lines gives good
logic:
Some churches are so interested
in fine music, fine furniture, expensive
buildings, solemn ritual and beau
tiful ceremonies that they have lost
touch with life as it is. This is no
plea for putting motion pictures and
free shows in churches. But church
ought not to be so high-faluting that
ordinary folks, like the most Of us
always will be, do not feel at home
there. Leaving a New York church
for one in smaller town, DR.. Tertius
Van Dyke said in his parting sermon:
"a church must never become an
exclusive little club, shut off from
the bitter needs of troubled and
lost world. That would be putting
the church above the purpose for
which it exists"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
PROCEEDINGS OF
SCHOOL BOARD
Dist. No. II.

a School board meeting, Aug. Z, 1926.
All members present except Clausen.
Election of officers resulted as fol-
lows: Carl Miller, chairman; r.
Petersen, treasurer, and Jeppe Soren-
sen, clerk.
Mrs. Paul Marc appeared before
the meeting asking for arrangement
for transportation of children. Moved
and carried to send a committee of
two together with Supt. Nielsen to
arrange for same.
The following transportation bids
were accepted:
Route No. 1, Mis- ]. Kyhl; No. 2,
VIM. Olesen; No. 3, Axel Brus; No. 4,
Albert Rasmussen; No. 5, Mikael
Petersen; No. g. Svend Christensen:
No. Z, D. J. Adolphsen; No. 8, Peter
Molby.
The following pupils were excused
from school until November L: Peter
Serritslev, Anna Degn.
The following bills were allowed:
Askov Telephone Co., service. $2.65
First State Bank, interest. .15O. 90
Mrs. Johansen, laundry ...... 500
American Pub. Co., minutes, bal
lots, etc. .................. 1921
On motion meeting adjourned.
Jeppe Sorensen, clerk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
EARLY COPY APPRECIATED

Readers of the American will
readily note that the paper con-
tains much more reading matter
and more advertising than it did
few months ago. Printing 10
or IL pages weekly and 1000
copies requires many hours for
press work. We are almost
swamped with work on Wednes-
days and must ask to get some
of the copy in earlier. The Limo
graph machine-on which we
have four operators-is used an
average of about Is hours a day
and operates all night each We'd
nesday. The editor has been
working till IL, yes even 1, 2 and
3 o'clock Thursday mornings for
several months, preparing copy,
and commences again between
7 and 8 a. m. and the pace is too
much.
Advertising copy should not
reach us later than Tuesday af-
ternoon of each week and it is
much appreciated on Mondays
and even Saturdays. The dead
line on Want Ads is Wednesday
noon. The last few hours before
the final form is run must be re-
served for late news and prepar-
alton of the forms.
With the bulk of copy that is
handled each week typewriter
copy, double spaced, is also much
appreciated.
Yours for service and the best
kind of newspaper we can give
our readers,
The Publishers.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
WISDOM NEEDED In THE BRING.
ING UP OF CHILDREN

! Our good friend, Angelo Patri, gives
us the following: Teach a child to
do bit of work in a thorough and
workmanlike manner. A touch Of
STYLE, a bit of form, lifts ones job
into the realm of work and at once
separates it from labor or drudgery
in the mind of the worker. A child
will enjoy working in the spirit Of
art.
There is art in the farm chores
if you put it there, for art is no less
than the high spirit Ct man. Suppose
the youngsters are going to do g
bit of wedding. That is most in.
structing, educating, uplifting job il
one sees it in the right way. You
dress the children for work. Put q
touch of beauty in the overalls."
He then suggests bright red hand.
kerchief sticking jauntily out of the
pocket, a band of red and chicken
feather in the hat, adding: "You can
not imagine what difference that
made in the attitude toward the work
1t helps if each child has his own
set of tools. 1t improves the quality
of work too. But remember the style!
Mark off the bed to be weeded in
three feet squares This is very
important. 1t gives definite stop.
ping place. A chance for a rest
period of few minutes, so necessary
to the young, and relieves the mind
of the strain of the thought of the
whole mass of wedding to be done
which is depressing. Set limit. II
keeps the spirits up.
Mr.. Patri quotes a friend: II al
ways judge a persons Christianity by
the condition in which he leaves the
bathroom. l am sure the Lord will
reward those who remember to put
towels where they belong and to wipe
up the water they shed and cleanse
the bath-tub." When you think of it
who should do that particular piece
of work for you? Teach your children
to do their own follow up work
while they are young. These tasks
properly done are vital aids in char
acter building. Don't neglect Them
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
ENDEAVOR TO SERVE

Editor Colby of Sandstone, was
among the many visitors in Askov
Friday to attend the dedication of
the new American building. In his
Pine County Courier of last week Mr..
Colby published the following little
friendly comment:
"The large new printing plant of
the Askov American will be dedicated
with appropriate exercises on Friday
afternoon and evening of this week
and the whole county is invited to at
tend. The American has worked up
a large business and does consider
able printing for Twin City houses
besides printing Danish church pa
pers and other work sent by Danes
over a large radius. Askov now has
a printing plant that any small vii
lage can well feel proud of. There
are not many small town papers that
could build up such a business on
outside trade" mi
Yes, it is largely job printing that
has established this business and
made the new building possible, and
yet the newspaper-the Americans
developing right along and is good
share of the business. In this connec-
tion it might be well to say word.
Alongside of publishing general news
from between 20 and 25 different
communities of the county the Amer
lean is also publishing the most i'm
portant events of such places as Sand
stone, Hinckley, and Pine City. Those
villages have newspapers of their
own that publish all the news OF
their vicinity and it is not the pur-
pose of the American to go into those
communities and butt in. We just
simply desire to serve our readers.
About 1000 copies of the American
are now printed weekly and estimat-
ing four readers to each paper makes
5000 readers. Whatever part of the
county those 5000 readers are located
in they desire to know the most i'm
portant events at the county seat as
well as other large communities and
it is that service the American is
endeavoring to give them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
PINE COUNTY REAL
ESTATE TRANSFERS

w. D.-Olive Tozer Waldref to Jake
WINNER. SEA of SEA, Sec. 26,
Keene township. Consideration $1.O0.
Special Warranty Deed-Farmers &
Merchants State Bank, Pine City, to
E. T. Swanson. WIZ of NWA and
SWA of NE14, Sec. s, Chengwatana
township. Cons. $1.00.
w. Dole Hoff and Bertha Hoff,
to Anderson Land Co. ny of NE14,
Sec. Is, Sandstone township. Cons
$1.00.
w. D.-John Kelroy and wife to H.
A. Card. So of NWA, Sec. 33,
Sandstone township. Cons. $10O.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
YOUNG PEOPLES, MEETING AT
HINCKLEY

There will be a Young Peoples
conference in the Presbyterian church
at Hinckley, August 20, beginning at
10 a. M, for one day only. A good
program is being planned and a ban
quet supper will be served to dele
gates in the evening. All young peo-
pie between the ages of Is and "a are
urged to attend and every community
should be represented. Come, and
tell Others.-COmmittee
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12
HASTY TO CONDEMN

1t is popularity of human nature
that while an organization may per-
form forty things that are of benefit
to it's membership few of them will
take the trouble to say so. But if it
does only one thing that they don't
like many will pounce upon it and
use it as an illustration to prove that
the whole works is wrong. -
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12

Give your boy or girl a type
writer-they are in stock at the
American office. ...-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1926-08-12

the cement for all paving, instead of
having it furnished by the con-
tractors.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-31
More Singing in PGssaic

Tho intelligent worker redence the stories by
The Passa mill their kept police and judiciary that
their opposition the strikers purely and simply the basis
that Communists in the strike leading
tons Of direction and that not bona fde American Fedora
of Labor strike such notion absolutely and completely
lqudated the refusal Of the mill and their legal tools
give any consideration than strikers
textile union of the American Federation of Labor has practically
taken the control and direction of the strike.
only do the mill barOn refuse deal with the A. f. Of
attempt settlement Of the wakou
sacks conducted yerabe Of
the inception of the strike not wit less brutal incon
tiderate today
The continued smuggling pcke the regular
lie beangs who the strike
respectable organizations in New York proof enough opposi
ton the strike did not originate primarily because Communists
engaged it, but because fifteen thousand
If the spirit Of solidarity and mtancy 20 strike the
elementary necessary hafdecent living
Only continued solidarity will win the modcum
standing and consideration that has been by
where in the past by similar bitter aud hard fought battles
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-31
Krishnamurti, Hindu
Messiah" Denies He
Performed Miracles-Yet

NEW YORK, Aug. 20. Jiddu
Krishnamurti, the new messiah"
arrived today on the Majestic with
Mrs. Annie Besant, theosophist lead
err, for his widely heralded appearance
before the international congress of
theosophists in Chicago.
The thirty-year-Old Hindoo, hailed
by 100000 followers as "the vehicle
thru which the world teacher, head
of all faiths and inspirer OF all religi-
GUS progress. speaks as he spoke thru
the body of the disciple Jesus 1000
years ago." was extremely averse 70
doing any speaking whatsoever to
day. He was aloof, and regarded It
as an imposition that he should be
questioned by reporters.
However, he went so far as to deny
that he had ever performed miracles,
81 haven't performed any yet" he
said, "but may be called on to do so
at any time" This was in slight OPP
position to a statement by Mrs. Be
SAINT that "at times he does speak
with the voice of the great teacher"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-31

soundness of our chervonetz. All Of
us remember how sick we got of
those paper roubles. 1t is necessary
to have enough sound money in cir
culation than to import more foreign
wares.
Some people think that 1t is use
less to speak to peasants about state
industry. But industry is very i'm
portant to the peasant First, be-
cause it's growth lowers his own
taxes; last year the farm tax went
down from 322 millions to 235 mil
lions while the tax on industry went
up from S04 millions to 1871 millions.
And second, because improvement in
state industry means improvement Of
peasant technique thru better and
cheaper ploughs, implements, wares
of all kinds.
co-operation-the Peasants Road to
Socialism.
while the worker is building So
cialism in the state industry, the peas
ant is no less building 1t in the viii
age thru cooperation, which, under a
Soviet state, is also the road TO social
ISM. Under czarist Russia, co-opera-
ton dealt with capitalist trusts and
thus expanded capitalism, but under
our union, II deals with state factories
and thus expands state industry,
while II also serves as the channel
whereby state goods can reach the
people without middleman's profteer-
ing.
I'm October, 1924, there were two
million members OF co-operatives in
the u S. S. r. outside the Ukraine.
In June, 1925, only eight months later,
the number had doubled to four mil
Hon. This was the result OF the
party policy Of strengthening coop
Grafton. We still must bring the
quality OF co-operatives up TO the
quantity. There is still graft, waste,
even profiteering practices which are
unworthy the name OF cooperation.
With these we must fight. knowing
that in building cooperation In the
village and making II efficient, we
build the road TO socialism.
Cooperation Is Of three kinds: in
trade, in production. and In credit.
Each Of these. as It develops. leads
also to the other. The commune rs
the complete form Of cooperation and
al co-operatives should keep II IN
mind, trying 70 draw their members
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-31
BY THURBER LEWIS.
Concluding Article)

IN the six articles we have devoted
L to the question of civilian military
training in the United States our op-
position to this method Of extending
militarism has not been based on a
pacifist attitude. We have opposed
civilian military training on the fol
lowing grounds:
I 1t is part and parcel of the
military machine being erected in
the United States as the instrument
of growing American Imperialism.
. The program of military train
A' ing of which the Citizens Military
Training Camps and the Reserve Of
fcers' Training Corps are vehicles is
ambitious. The War Department
makes no secret of its intention to ex-
tend military training to include the
greatest possible number of American
youth. The logical outcome of a con-
tinuation of this policy will be to turn
very school and workshop into a veri-
able barracks.
, Aside from its strictly martial
- purpose, military training is en-
rely to the advantage of the en-
)loying class and calculated to CON
tribute to the weakness and disor-
ganization of the workers as a class.
1t fosters and develops a spirit of dis
3ipline of a kind valued greatly by
mine superintendent and factory fore
men. Discipline and obedience exact
ed for the benefit of the master class
is not only not help to but distinct
disadvantage for the workers.
A The creation of a gigantic mill
Il tary reserve such as military
training will in time result in catas-
trophe for the labor movement. Re
serves may be called upon not only
to shoot down strikers in time of in
dustrial conflict, but are liable to
mobilization for industrial duty for
the purpose of gripping the economic
resistance of the workers.
Are Made Attractive.
ONE of the worst features of mill
~ taIy training in both the schools
and summer camps is the fact that
it is made attractive. To a certain
extent there are physical benefits to
be gained by the recruits and how
ever much routine and propaganda is
connected with the business, the fresh
air of a country place, the regular
hours and the physical exertion make
Tor health and are no doubt a decided
relief especially to young workers
cramped up in stuffy, smelly shops
the year round.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-31
The Case Against military Training Summed Up
and Military
Mem the
ingClas OpposesN TRAINING

'bership in it's executive council and
upon its executive committee eminent
publicists, jurists and educators to-
gether with the heads of great bust
ness corporations and an equal rep
.resentation from the presidents of the
largest associations, brotherhoods and
unions of wage earners."
President Green's Visit.
.THEN, only few days ago, Presi-
i dent Green, Gomperse successor, ac-
cepts an invitation extended by the
secretary of war to become the guests
Of General SummeralT at the Platts.
burg Military Training Camp. He and
members of the executive council Of
the A. F. of L. stayed five days and
issued statements completely endors-
ing the military training camps.
What does this mean? 1t can mean
only one thing. That the officialdom of
the organized labor movement in this
country, consciously or unconsciously
as the case may be, are in league with
the worst militarists and jingoes in
building vast military system. The
result of this process, if it is allowed
to continue, will be the making of the
organized labor movement into will
ing auxiliary of Wall Street.
Working Class Opposes War.
DUT in the ranks of the working
- class one does not find this over
whelming enthusiasm for military
training and preparation for war. And
it is precisely here, in the ranks of
the workers, that the greatest opposi-
ton to militarism is to be found. And
why not? Their strikes are broken
by soldiers. 1t is they that must feed
the cannon when the masters declare
war. It is they that are called upon
to supply the recruits for armies that
go to Nicaragua, Haiti or China to
protect American lives and property"
which, translated, means American
investments. The only genuine and
effective opposition to war and militar-
ism must come from the working
class.
Oppose Military Training.
MILITARY training camps and mill
A'A tary drill in schools and colleges
are part of a well-layed scheme to
militarize the youth of the country.
One does not have to be very class
conscious to realize that the best in
terests of the working class are
served by opposing them. The work
ing youth of the country must be
taught to see thru the receptions of
the War Department, the paternal en-
enlargement Of their employers and
the perfidious actions of capitalisms
lieutenants in the ranks Of the work
ers. r~fs~ csh' i;ttg