Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-05-26


And then not long afterwards the
President of the United States APP
peared in the Capitol building in
Washington speaking into micro
phone about George Washington
speaking in his slow, quiet and even
voice.
But that voice was heard in every
part of the United States; it was pick
ed up in Australia; listeners in Eng
land, France, Germany and the Scan
dinavian countries sat fascinated at
their radio sets hearing the voice of
the man who spoke thousands of miles
away at that very same moment-the
man who was addressing unseen mil
lions in many lands.
1t was one of the greatest triumphs
of modern radio telephony for through
an intricate and skillfully arranged
adjustment of wires and wavelengths
human voice was carried into more
homes than on any other former oc-
casion.
Wasn't there among us some who
then said again:
But still-the world does novel"
Came then, much more recently, the
hideous Snyder-Gray trial on Long
Island with it's terrifying insight into
perverted human nature-almost
enough to force one to agree with the
habitual pessimists that there is no
such thing as progress: Human in
stincts are just as cruel as they have
always been.
And now the other day the report
of fiend who in his insane and cum
ming way dynamited school in Mich
igan and caused the death of large
number of innocent children and some
adults. Has even fiction ever con-
cocted a tale as gruesome, as fam
tastic as this? Does history contain
any record of such malicious bar
barism.
Surely no, our forefathers never
could think of such cold-blooded mass
murder.
This is the first natural reaction
of normal person. A closer con-
sideration does show that the past
knew such cruelty.
Let that be granted. Still it is not
an argument against the assertion
that the world moves backward; the
fact that we have not been able to
get away entirely from such horrible
possibilities shows how closely allied
mankind is with its progenitors.
There is no progress!
Then comes a flash from Paris:
Charles Lindbergh who yesterday
morning left New York in his mono
plane today arrived in the French
capital!
Skill, brain, endurance, the will to
vanquish all hostile and powerful ma
tura1 elements overcame all hindran-
ces. Man had won; had done what
no man had ever done before; had
accomplished what has never before
been accomplished anywhere.
So we can say, conceding the re-
grettable fact that the world is not
as perfect as it ought to be, that
still it does move. And move ahead!
Young Lindbergh is a Minnesotan
of Swedish heritage. Aside from the
more general aspect of his native
Americanism-does it not add extra
lustre to his achievement that he is
a product of this state, and a descend
ant of that race which in a thousand
ways has meant so much to the
Gopher state?
Thoughtful and retrospective, yet
almost superhumanly courageous as
Lindbergh sat there in his tiny plane
winging it's way across the ocean,
through mists and murkiness-sat
there in his lonely pilots seat, de-
termined to conquer-is not he a per-
soniication of the best traits of his
state and his race, and is not his
achievement a most convincing and
compelling proof that
Still the world does move!