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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27

wholesalers organization of it's kind
in Germany.
The United States trip was planned
to establish contacts with American
business interests and to secure an
intimate understanding of American
business practices as exemplif1ed in
chain stores, department store policies
and other systems of business pro-
cedure which have reached a high
stage of development in this country.
The men already have visited several
large cities in the United States, They
will sail FOR Germany April 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27

will be given which have been donated
by local merchants. Miss Alice Ed
wards of Mount Vernon Seminary is
working on plans for the scenery and
she will be assisted in construction by
art students from several schools.
John E. Obrien from Georgetown Uni
versity, an expert on lighting. has
promised some interesting effects.
Mrs. Eleanore Lawrence is in charge
of tickets and programs. Miss Helg-
frid Orvin, chancellor of the Norwe-
gian legation, is chairman of the cos
tune committee. One hundred and
twenty five people are working for the
success of the Washington Little
Theater
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
Sues for $4,000 Damages.

Willie Armstrong, a laborer, has
filed suit in the District Supreme
Court to recover $4,000 damages from
George ]. Hughes. William Hughes
and Harry p. Giddings for alleged
personal injuries. He says he was
employed by the two Hughes, de-
PENDANTS. in connection with the erec-
ton of the addition TO the Washington
Loan & Trust Co.'S building at Ninth
and r streets, and January 25 an
agent of Giddings, who had erected a
temporary elevator shaft. started the
elevator without notice causing him
to fall into the shaft and suffer serious
injury. Attorneys Alfred NJ. schwartz
and Morris Aein appear for the plain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
STUDY U. S. METHODS.
German Business Men on Tour
Halt Day in WASHINGTON.

A group of IS prominent German
business men who have been in
Washington for the past two days,
left the city yesterday for Atlantic
City, where they were to spend today.
Touring the United States for the
purpose of familiarizing themselves
with American business methods and
developments, the group spent Friday
afternoon at the Commerce Depart
ment, where they conferred with COM
modify and trade experts of the de-
partment. The group is the advance
delegation of a larger body which is
now in the United States representing
the Nurnberger Bund, the largest
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
ALUMNI SEEK PORTRAIT.
Virginia Men to Honor Prof. AL
bert Lefevre.

Alumni of the University of Vir.
ginia, especially those who were in
the classes of DIR. Albert Lefevre, who
is completing his twentv-second year
as Corcoran professor of philosophy.
have been invited to contribute to-
ward a fund which will be devoted
to obtaining a portrait of DR.. Lefevre.
which will be hung at the university
and will constitute a lasting memorial
to one who is known to thousands of
Virginia alumni simply as Little
Doc"
Contributions may be sent to DR..
Albert G.. A. BALI. University. Va.
who is treasurer of the committee in
charge of arrangements for procuring
the portrait. which will represent a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
LITTLE THEATER
WILL GIVE 3 PLAYS
Presentations Will Be Offered on
Tuesday, April 5, at
Pierce Hall.

The Washington Little Theater will
give three one-act plays Tuesday,
April s. at Pierce Hall, Sixteenth and
Harvard streets.
The play reading committee. COM
posed of Mrs. Carolyn Vance Bell, Miss
Agnes Golden and Miss Elsie Herman,
decided upon the three plays. The
first, THE Drums of Dude" is a high
type of melodrama used as a vehicle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
PHILIPPINES IS TOPIC.
Nicholas Roosevelt to Address
Washington Study.

Washington study course in ma
tional problems, of which John Hays
Hammond is the adviser, opens tomor-
row with an address at $50 o'clock at
Rauscher's by Nicholas Roosevelt of
New York on THE Philippines. a
Treasure and Problem"
The lectures of this course are being
held fortnightly. April IL, Secretary
of Agriculture Jardine will speak on
THE Farmer" April %, Capt. Walter
S. Anderson. U. s. N, head of the
department of ordnance and gunners
of the Naval Academy, will speak on
National Defense"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
Everything Has It's Uses.

From the Kansas City Star
Professor Occurring classl-Every'
give me an instance of a useless
article.
Bright Student-Well, what about a
glass eye at keyhole?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
Costs Something to Travel.

From the New York World.
The British cruiser Renown, carry.
ing the Duke and Duchess of York to
Australia. paid a toll of $1S,500 to pass
through the Panama Canal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27

testimony of the affection and esteem
with which the Little Doc" is re-
garded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27

Mexico has new ~"health stamp"
tax
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10
TRADE PUBLICATION
BOOSTS ASKOV NURSERY


New wholesale and retail catalogs
have just been issued by the Ferndale
Nursery and printed at the office of
the American Publishing Co. OF the
retail catalogs 1000 copies were
printed and it is 48 pages, showing
that the local nursery business has
developed to considerable proportions.
"The Florists Review of Chicago.
nationally known florist publication.
contained the following comment last
week:
Ferndale Nursery, Askov, Minn.-
Wholesale Trade List, for Nursery
men and Dealers. a closely printed
12-page catalogue. Though the list
includes general line of ornamental
nursery stock, in many varieties and
in a good range of sizes, the special
offers seem to have reference prin-
cipally to perennials, hardy ferns and
small evergreens for lining out in the
nursery rows. These small evergreens
are offered in hundreds and thou
sands and also in special collections
or assortments. A later mail brought
to the Review this company's general
catalogue, an illustrated, well printed
attractive book of forty-eight pages,
in a tasteful, green-printed cover.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10
WANT GOOD LAW REMOVED

Mile Laos County Times: The big
centralizer creamery companies have
started their fight to have the milk
and cream law declared invalid, which
now prevents them from paying a
higher price in one locality than in
another on the same day. This law
has prevented them from working on
the easy marks among the farmers
in communities where farmers Co
operative creameries are located.
Their old game for breaking up CO.
operative creameries was to pay more
for cream in localities where such
'creameries were located, and put the
price down in localities where there
was no farmers creameries, thus
compelling the farmers to finance the
fight against cooperation. There
seems to be a percentage of farmers
who fall for the bait held out by
the centralizers, but they soon find
out how they have cut their nose off
to spite their face when the farmers
creamery is forced out of business.
Then they will be paid lower prices
in order to afford the centralizers
means to fight some other attempt
of the farmers to cooperate.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10
LIFE OF AN AUTOMOBILE

''How long should your automobile
ast?" was the subject for discussion
in Minnesota weekly recently. The
newspaper goes on as follows:
Some of the old timers will say that
when they bought an old fashioned
"carryall', or democrat wagon" and
hitched it up behind patient old Dob
bin, they expected it to last life
time. And the plodding old nag, if
treated like star boarder, might
still be going rather strong after 25
years. Why doesn't an automobile
last that long?
Prof Griffin of the University of
Streets" the results of a recent sur
vey of the life of automobiles. He finds
that the average car lasts 7.04 years.
Seventy-five per cent of them will still
be running after Ats years, SO per
cent will be running after 694 years,
and Is per cent after 9.2 years.
AS many owners change their cars
almost as often as their hats, some
persons may be surprised that one
fourth of them are still piking mer-
rily along after celebrating their
ninth birthday.
There comes a time in the career
of the old bus, when it still has
a good many miles left in it, but it
needs so much doctoring that the
average owner may feel these repairs
would not pay. Yet the fellow with
a knack for home nursing of such
venerable specimens will be able to
so rejuvenate it's rheumatic members,
that it will go its way rejoicing for
many a day to come. 1t is pleasant
sight to see some of these cheerful
veterans of the road come rolling
down the street, wheeling and blow
ing a bit perhaps, but knocking out
many miles still, and sometimes
astonishing the natives by their
bursts of speed.
In this joy riding time, such a car
cannot be expected to reach the Sc
rene old age of your grandfather's
family carriage. If the road in those
days was rough, old Dobbin slowed
down, and the ancient chariot suf-
fered little harm. But in our jazzy
days we whip up our modern beast
of burden with more gas, and if his
joints are feeble, they shake still
looser as he hits the high spots.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10

Walter Olson, of the u. S. Navy,
came home Thursday for a ten day
leave. Walter has been stationed at
the Great Lakes Naval training sta
ton.
The three weeks old infant daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. M. 8. Protosavage,
died Friday of last week. The tuner
al was held Saturday.
John Cunningham came up from
Minneapolis for a couple of days.
John is serving on the Federal Petit
jury at Minneapolis. He returned
Sunday.
The village election passed over
quietly with an apparent lack of in
terest. A caucus ticket put up by
couple of men was elected. The
ticket was as follows: Jos. Coke,
constable; John F. Kolosky, treasurer;
JOS. Selenski, trustee, and Ed Olson,
president.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10
A MELTING POT

Gunnar Bjornson, the well known
pen pusher of Minneota, who is now
a member of the State Tax Commits
sion, while ordinarily in serious
mood-being a man with broad Wis
ion-does also at times revert to lit
tie humor. Speaking at Grand Forks,
N. D., one time he said: Talk about
your melting pot: Here you have the
Irish president of the fair introduce
a Danish chairman who introduces
an Icelander who, in turn, speaks to
a Norwegian and Swedish crowd in
the English language"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10
Opinions of Others
STARCH REPLIES
Editor Askov American:

Editor Askov American:
Kindly permit us little more
space in your valuable paper Mr..
Lindh's article of March calls for
an answer. and so we must reply.
Regards the money matters that he
speaks about l will say that he knows
and others know that not all this
money was paid in at one time, some
was indeed slow in coming in.
Neither was this bill of 100000 the
only bill we paid, nor was it the lar
gest. All bills were taken care of
when they were allowed and when
the money was available for that pur-
pose. The lumber company was in
no hurry about the money, neither
was there any interest charged on
any bills by any one. So where was
this wrong or evil done that Lindh
charges?
Mr.. Lindh's article looks like an
insinuation that I had misappropri-
ated or in some way misused the
creamery funds, or maybe something
even worse than that. He asks,
where is the money gomez" He
makes it look as though the $4,000
was all that was paid out of the
$5,5OO.O0 received. If Mr.. Lindh in
sinuates any crooked work done of
any kind, he will have something
to prove or else retract. At the close
of my term of office MIR. Lindh with
the other directors examined my
books. Mr.. Lindh looked hard for
something wrong then. He, with the
other directors at that time, signed
up a statement certifying that they
had examined the books and found
them correct. This certificate was
filed with the bonding company. l
ask, what is the matter with anyone
with sense to first certify that the
books were correct and then later
come out and make charges contrary?
What about his better judgement?
My books show all money received
and all money paid out, and what it
was paid out for. All money was paid
by check and all checks other than
cream checks were countersigned by
the president, something that Lindh
has done away with now, so the
president, Mr.. J. H. Hill, knew of all
checks issued and besides, the bank
always knew what was going on.
Also Mr.. Lingren went over my
books at my request to see that they
were all right, so you may ask him.
He will tell you the truth. I don't
care who examines my books, pro-
vided he is a qualified auditor and
knows the business and is not pre-
JUDGED, and provided the books are
as they were when we gave them up.
The best way to settle this question
properly will be by a competent and
licensed state creamery accountant.
Mr.. Lindh accuses me of looking
for trouble He is the one that start
ed it and if it becomes necessary we
will have it cleaned up right.
1 am authorized also to say that
not all the members of the school
board admit that they were whipped
or that they consider Lindh's judge
ment better than theirs.
H. Starch.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10
STURGEON LAKE

Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Kolosky are
the parents of baby boy, born
Thursday.
Irving Smith, Earl Olson, and
Roger Barnes motored to Duluth,
Tuesday, on business trip.
Erick Erickson was a business Wis
itor at Duluth Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Nelson and Miss
Delley of Superior, motored down and
spent Sunday at the Delley home.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10

Il have a bad cold in my head"
remarked a high school student to the
teacher. ooh, well, don't worry about
it." the teacher replied, "even that is
something"
rs your son learning anything at
college?' asked a neighbor of To-
cal citizen. ''Yes," he replied, "he
can now express his ignorance in the
very highest of scientific terms"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10

"The job of getting a camel through
the eye of a needle may have been
difficult but it is nothing compared to
the job of getting a convicted boot
logger out of the Minnesota state
senate" says the Mile Laos County
Times.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10
THAT CIGARETTE TAX

Deer River News: A bill has been
introduced in the state legislature
imposing tax on cigarettes for the
relief of tax delinquencies in north
ern Minnesota. That's new kind of
a forest fire.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10

others who believe as we do, and ask
them to come to the capitol and help
us pass such a law as will protect
depositors at the same time as will
be fair to the bankers. All selfish
and political consideration will, we
believe, be laid aside by the legisla-
tors in dealing with this important
question:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-03-10

senators
liver J. Lee, GlenwOOd.
Victor E. Lawson, Willmar.
C. j. Pulitzer, Litchtield.
L. P. Lund, Luverne.
A. M. Landry, Swift.
Henry Arens, Jordan.
F. Romberg, Sleepy Eye.
Moses L. Frost, Jackson.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-17
DOES NOT PLAY UP SCANDAL

Writing about the manner in which
big murder cases are played up in
the daily press in an effort to pander
to the public's desire for sensational
news-news in which sex and murder
are the chief elements concerned
citing especially the Hall-Mills and
Gray-Snyder cases, the Grand Rapids
Herald-Review ends it's editorial with
the following:
"The metropolitan newspaper simp-
ly provides a substitute in print for
the things which we whisper about
in the country. In smaller communi-
ties the press is not needed to relay
the facts of misguided conduct, the
acts of courts, impending or recorded
scandal. The conversation over the
backyard fence, the rural telephone
line and in the sewing circle are eff
ticient substitutes for the most SEN
sational press. And we do not criti-
cize these things, either. They re-
lieve the country editor of great re-
sponsibility."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-17
MAIL AND TRAIN SERVICE

The announcement that the Great
Northern railroad will take off their
two night trains between the Twin
Cities and Duluth will likely not be
received with favor in the commun-
tiles between the two terminals. That
railroad passenger traffic has been
cut into greatly in the last years on
account of the increasing automobile
and buss traffic is clearly visible and
it is likely necessary for the rail-
roads to cut out some of their trains
as they cannot afford to run trains
that do not give revenue. On the
Northern Pacific line it likely does
not make so much difference because
the flyers are eliminated as they have
highway No. 1 right alongside of the
railroad with all it's buses and auto
mobiles, and they keep their night
trains-those that stop at all stations
and carry mail. By having no night
mail service to towns along the Great
Northern it will practically make all
mails day late. Rural mail car
riers will deliver the mail that came
in the day before on the day trains,
and business mail to the Twin Cities
and Duluth which has been going out
on the night trains will hereafter be
laid over till the next day and hence
arrive day late. A business trip
to the Twin Cities or Duluth by train
will cut into two days where it has
been done in one day heretofore. If
the afternoon flyers are not made to
stop at the intermediate villages it
will make for little train service,
but it seems that the curtailed mail
service will be the greatest hind
rance.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-17
FOR HEALTHY CHILDREN

Arthur Brisbane writes that "the
world accepts changes as they come.
Not long ago crusaders in New York
tried to prevent bicycle riding by
women, called unmodest, Turing ladies
too far from the house. Now they go
1000 miles in motors, or try to fly
over the ocean. Next, alderman de-
cides that women must be forbidden
to smoke in public restaurants. Now
the big Pennsylvania railroad puts
ladies smoking cars on its first-class
trains from New York to Washington. !"
Mr. Brisbane then adds this good
common sense argument for the rear
ing of healthy children:
Nevertheless women should not
smoke until they are through with
childbearing. Each child should have
a chance and gets it, no matter what
his father may do, when his mother
doesn't smoke or drink strong liquor
before he is born"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-17
A SALESMAN'S FALLACY
Duluth Herald)

customer in a store had asked
for certain advertised goods, and the
salesman was trying to sell him a
substitute.
''Of course" said the salesman, eff
you want to pay the heavy advertising
bills of Blank & Co., all right; but
here is an article that is just as good
but is cheaper because its manufac-
turers do not spend money on adver-
tising."
No doubt the salesman believed
what he said, and apparently the Gus
toner did, because he chose the sub
stitute for what he had come in to
buy.
But the salesman was very much
mistaken, and his argument was COM
pletely a fallacy.
Blank & Co., it is true, spend for
tune every year in advertising. But
because they do, their sales are
enormous. That makes quantity pro-
duction, and because they produce in
vast quantities they produce the
single article much more cheaply than
the company can that produces only
relatively small output.
The magic of successful large-scale
advertising is that nobody pays the
cost of it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-17
LIKES THE APPEARANCE

Under date of Nov. ~, 1927, w. P.
Kirkwood, editor of publications, De-
partment of Agriculture, at the Uni
versity Farm, st. Paul, man of many
years experience in newspaper work,
wrote the American as follows:
LET me congratulate you on the
appearance of the American as a
seven-column paper. The paper has
always been a credit to you and to
the community, but in its new size,
with its greater variety of news heads,
it should win still greater favor
among its readers.
''The improvements you are making
should further commend the paper to
the people of your part of the state
They ought to recognize the high
quality of the service you are giving
them. The paper is a splendid ad-
vertisement for Askov.
Every sincerely yours,
w. P. HARDWOOD"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-17
PICTURES AHEAD OF BOOKS

The French senate formally ap-
proves and demands moving pictures
in all the schools of France, from
kindergarten to higher Institutes of
research.
Arthur Brisbane, rather severe in
his criticism of American schools,
writes:
French schools, far ahead of our
backward public school system, al
ready have 1000 projecting machines
and several million feet of educational
film. The French minister of public
instruction says moving pictures must
be used to the limit to educate chill
dren in schools and also in world
wide propaganda. One good pic
ture would teach children in fifteen
minutes more about Lincoln or Wash
ington than books could teach in fif-
teen weeks. Mr. Eastman in Ro-
chester, and William Fox in New
York, are making educational pic
lures. The cities and the nation
should finance them"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-11-17

The producer doesn't pay it be-
cause his advertising brings a vast
trade which, by making quantity pro-
duction possible, cheapens his cost of
manufacture much more than his adj
vertising bills amount to, however
large they may be.
The buyer doesn't pay it because
lower cost of manufacture and lower
selling cost-selling through adver-
Using is the cheapest form of sales
nYanship ever devised-enable the pro-
Queer to sell the goods at a lower
price than smaller producers can af-
ford to make.
The familiar argument that unad-
vertised goods are cheaper is fallacy
pure and simple, for advertising
cheapens the cost of production and
the cost of selling and, quality for
quality, the advertised article will
undersell the unadvertised article
every time.
Which is pretty good thought for
the buyer to keep in mind.