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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22
FARM BUREAU APPROPRIATION

Why do the county commissioners
hesitate to grant an appropriation for
extension work in Pine county,?
If the appropriation is not granted
the county will lose the, aid which it
receives from the U. S. Department
of Agriculture and from the State De-
partment of Agriculture, as the Farm
Bureau will be unable to function
without an appropriation from the
county.
Is it for the sake of economy? If
so, would say it is the wrong kind
of economy, as extension work under
able leadership, as we now have, will
make the farmer better able to pay
his taxes, interest, store bills, etc.,
etc.
And are we to lose the benefits of
much work that has already been
started?
The distribution of explosives
been worth appropriations from the
county for several years.
How much good advertising hasn't
Pine county received on account of
extension work carried on in the
county? Who would have thought of
coming to Pine county to buy mich
COWS before the Farm Bureau started?
About the only reputation we then
had was for our pine stumps and
stones. Now our creameries and test
ing associations are Known over the
state and buyers for our cattle even
come from other states.
Much work has been done and there
is much yet to be done with insects
and .plant diseases.
Very few spray rings would have
to be formed to alone be worth more
than the appropriation asked for from
the county, but they will not be
formed without someone to push it.
Much good work has been done with
boys and girls club work. This not
only makes them more interested in
the different lines of work, but it also
trains them for leadership, which will
be of value to the community in the
future.
The agricultural states have been
clamoring for farm relief for sew
eral years and we were pretty sore be-
cause President Coolidge vetoed the
McNary-Haugen bill, because the in
dustrial East didn't want it, but if the
county commissioners don't grant the
appropriation for extension work in
Pine county, it looks to me like they
think about the same way as Pres
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22
STEFAN FOR ECONOMY in
COUNTY GOVERNMENT

Frank w. Stepan again proved that
he stands for economy and cutting
down of county expenditures by his
stand on two very important ques-
tions at the last meeting of the county
commissioners and as a result gains
himself the support and friendship
of the people who are against con-
tinually increasing expenditures. He
refused to support a molten fer an
increased appropriation for the coun-
ty agent.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22
OPINIONS OF OTHERS
FAVORS PART OF GAS TAX ON
COUNTY ROADS

A straw vote on the proposed gas
oline special tax was submitted to
the voters in Sturgeon Lake township
on March 13. 1t read as follows:
"In favor of at least three-cent
gasoline tax, with a provision that
one-third of the amount of the tax
so raised, be used for graveling and
maintenance, including snow removal
of all county rural mail routes, and
| county state aid roads,"
The above straw ballot was sub
mitted for the purpose of obtaining
the voters sentiment; ia votes were
cast, 80 in favor and "a against.
This is somewhat along the lines
proposed by the Hinckley Auto Club.
published in your paper of March 1st,
1928. The result is an indication
that if similar ballot along those
| lines was submitted to the voters of
-, the state it undoubtedly would carry.
The rural mail route, federally es-
tablished, is public service branch
of our government, giving to our rural
population away out in the wilder
ness, a daily postal service at their
own door step. These routes should
have both federal and state aid
through taxation on some commodity,
preferably gasoline. This one-third
of the tax, so raised. should be made
special road fund and spread out
over the entire state and proportioned
to the 81 counties, based on the area
of the respective counties, rather than
on its valuation. T his would give
all rural mail routes as well as all
state aid roads an equal and fair pro-
position of the tax so raised. 1t
would give our northern tiers of count
les a much needed assistance to at
least put the routes now established
in passable condition, and the pos
sible establishment of new routes, and
state aid roads.
1t would create an inducement to
home seekers to come in and settle
along these roads. There are thous-
ands of acres of good, rich productive
dairy lands in this Pine county alone.
All it needs are few good roads and
some advertising.
The township road and bridge funds
are too small to meet the public de-
mands for better roads. The stuck
in the mud holes and clay hills will
be with us a long while unless we
can divert some of this gasoline tax
to take care of rural mail routes and
state aid roads. The townships
would then be in a splendid shape to
take care of the balance of roads in
the townships.
1t would make it possible for town.
ships to levy a smaller local tax.
The result would be the gradual low
ering of our real property tax. We
are all waiting for that time to come.
Eminent tax authorities quote real
property tax as being undue, unjust,
unfair, too flexible and intolerable.
We all feel that way when we pay
our taxes. ri .s'.t
This is all suggestive and open for
discussion. Pass it along.
Yours truly,
ALBERT A. UPGREN,
Sturgeon Lake, March 10, 1928.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22
Not So Dumb.

The new student at the agricultural
school was a chap of rather more
mature years than was usual in
beginners, so he was being subjected
to somewhat rigorous oral examina-
ton in order that the faculty might
get line as to his most effective
classification.
What do you know about nitrates?"
he was asked.
Nov you are asking me some
thing" he answered proudly. 81 used
to work for the Western Union and 1
know that they are less than day
rates on everything but ten-word
messages"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22
TALKS PLAINLY

Senator w. T.. bOrdn OI .ludHo, iedu-
ing Republican, denounced the cor
ruption that is being revealed in his
party in a speech before the Idaho
Society at Washington, in no uncer-
tain terms. He did not try to dodge
the facts, but called on the members
of the Republican party to get busy
and make house-cleaning. In open
ing his speech he said: Il presume
every Republican of late has suffered
a deep sense of humiliation" refer
ring to the revelations made before
the senate oil investigating commit
tee of huge sums having been paid
into the Republican campaign fund
by Sinclair and other oil magnates
who had secured important oil con-
cessions and leases from the admin
istration which it is charged was
nothing more nor less than a species
of bribery and graft.
1.-The awful conditions which have
been revealed to the voters of the
party are as indefensible as they are
intolerable,' he asserted. 1.-THE mo-
dern system of avoiding issues which
would interest the people, then de-
pending upon organization and money
to work up an artificial interest, to-
gether with manipulated and man
aged conventions, have born fruit.
For this condition of affairs the vot-
ers of the party are in no sense re-
sponsible.
THE system of running the cam
paign-permitting men who have
business with the government at
Washington to buy their way to favor
by vast contributions-is responsible.
1t is time to try another system.
Give the people issues and you
will not need to sell your souls for
a campaign fund. Give the voters
policies squarely presented, ami you
will not have to mortgage the future
action of the party to concession
hunters There is some evidence that
the voters are going to insist upon
just these things. There is a feeling
that the delegates ought to nominate
the next candidate of the Republican
party. There is a feeling that the
voters ought to know what a candi-
date stands for when they vote for
him. 1t is the one great hope for
clean politics and clean government"
1t is due to the coWardice of poll
teal parties in facing issues square
ly. Borah said, that as high as 81
per cent of the voters stayed away
from the polls in recent president
contests.
What is the remedy for that"
he asked. "The first and primary
remedy is for candidates and poll
teal parties to speak candidly and
plainly to the people upon subjects
in which the people are interested.
1.-The most demoralizing and cor
rupting fundamentally in American
politics is that of great political
parties deliberately maneuvering and
side-stepping with reference to ques-
tions of great public interest. The
people are not Indifferent to these
questions. Ihey are Daffled ana QlS-
couraged because they cannot get
them squarely presented.
"A political party which is unwil-
ling to declare itself upon questions
of general and public interest no
longer is an instrument of public
good, performing great service, but
is a scheming piece of organized
chicanery for the utilization of mil
lions of honest voters to the gather
ing in of patronage and despoiling of
the public heritage"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22
AMERICA RENDERED A SERVICE

A little discussion that was not
slated on the program came up at the
Pine County Republican convention
i'm Hinckley Saturday-it was on the
matter of immigration-and furnished
q little divergence of thought from
the regular routine business of the
convention. One man suggested that
the matter of immigration should
come up at the state and national
conventions and he also argued for
letting down the bars and inviting
more immigrants from northern Eu-
his argument-stating also that we
have room for many more such peo-
pie as those who have already come
to our shores from-northern Europe.
AS for discussing the matter at the
state and national cOnventions--the
chances for that are about as remote
as picking blueberries in Minnesota
in the winter time. When the Con-
gresS spends weeks on that question
and there are many angles to be
considerable is not probable that a
national convention will take up the
question, especially if there are
chances for casting as many ballots
for a presidential nominee as was
the case in 1924 at the Democratic
convention when Messrs. McAdoo and
down the bars more for northern Eu-
ropeans and shutting off for the
SouthernerS, any student of world af-
fairs knows what that would cause.
We can have war soon enough with
out doing that. People from northern
Europe are more like Americans,
liberty loving. and understand our
form of government better and soon
fit into the environments here, but if
we start to make a difference trouble
will be brewing. Another man stated
that we should not have more immi-
grafton because foreigners are law
breakers. That, of course, caused a
few smiles which would naturally be
the case at any meeting in Pine coun-
ty or the state of Minnesota where
of foreign birth. Even amongst
the original Americans-th Indians
could be found lawbreakers-as is
also the case amongst the mountain
GERS of kentucky-where by the way
there is a bigger percentage of Amer
lean born than in Minnesota and
where there is also much more il
literacy.
There is, however, one phase of the
immigration question that does not
seem to have been brought out much,
and that is that had immigration to
this country not been restricted right
after the World War it would have
played havoc with more than one
country. Italy, Greece, Austria-Hun-
gary, France, and many other coun-
tries that were in a bad shape follow
ing the war and are not yet on their
feet, would certainly have been in
worse shape had the young manhood
left, and there was undoubtedly the
feeling amongst millions that they
would liked to have packed up and
left the devastation and journeyed to
land of plenty. Had they come
here by the millions this would not
have been so much of a land of plen-
ty, America simply could not have
absorbed the mobs as fast as they
would have come had they been per-
mitted to do so. There is enough un-
employment here as it is. America
rendered service to many of those
countries that needed their young
manhood to build up again.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22
Just Thought He Was.

A famous actor sometimes shows
interest in the lesser lights about him.
One day he was conversing with one
of his stage hands. And what, my
man, is your vocation?" queried the
condescending matinee idol.
I'm a Baptist was the reply.
"No, no, good fellow, that is your
belief. 1 want to know your vocation.
For example, l am an actor"
Said the scene shifter: Nav, that's
your belief"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22

tricts think they are getting the hog
end of it. When it comes down to
brass tacks the large cities are glad
to get the paving so long as the
routes lead to those cities and bring
trade there Those pavements do not
look quite so interesting to the viii
lagos and rural districts out over the
state-anyway not to the permanent
taxpayers who believe more in pay
ing as we go.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22
LIKES THE PAPER

In a letter to the American, p. ].
Keohen, editor of the Montgomery
Messenger, who is convalescing at the
Pokegama Sanatorium, near Pine
City, writes as follows: you are put
ting out an excellent sheet--one that
ranks well up among Minnesota
leading weeklies"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22

Itasca County Independent: There's
new way of feeding the fishes while
crossing the ocean-start out in an
airplane and drop in about the mid
die of the flight. The fishes will
have several good meals"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22

Road funds have a good chance to
swell, judging by the following COM
ment of the Itasca County Independ-
ent: This ought to be a good year
for the gas tax if the gas emitted by
the politicians could be taxed"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22

Editor Cravens of Milaca, put some
more wit into his pen last week when
he wrote that the row in the Re-
publican party of Minnesota is caused
by the question of which lumber COM
pany is to furnish the planks for the
party platform"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22

"That dress is much too short for
you," said a father to his daughter.
81 know it," she replied, "but you. see,
it's one of mothers and she refused
to let me lenghten it."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22

Over 1000 copies of the American
are printed each week. Therefore
the Want Ads are read by several
thousand buyers and sellers. They
are convenient medium of exchange.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22
Delegates and Alternates.

Following are those chosen as del
egates to the district convention:
Ben Boo, Pine City; A. S. Larson.
Sandstone; Axel Carlson, Sturgeon
Lake; A. R. Woodbeck, Brook Park;
E. ]. Steinbring, Markville; F. L.
Olson, Denham; John Ebert, HinckIey;
and H. C. Hansen, Askov.
Alternates to district convention:
Rev. j. G. Reinhart, Pine City; Lena
Edstrom, Sandstone; P. A. Nelson.
Brook Park; A. A. Upgren, Sturgeon
Lake; Leon Coleman, Markville; Chas.
Upgren, Denham; C. G. Mann, Hinck-
ley; and A. Gravesen, Askov
Delegates to state convention: w. S.
McEachern, Pine City; Albert john
son, Sandstone; E. B. Linsley, Willow
River; Fred Degerstrom, Askov;
Charles Olson, Sturgeon Lake; w. H.
Noble, .Hinckley; W. A. Abrahamson.
Cloverdale; and L. F. Appleby, Pine
City.
Alternates to state conventions: DR..
James Slaven, Pine City; DR.. H. p.
Dredge, Sandstone; N. C. Petersen.
Askov; H. B. Rockne, Willow River;
w. H. Lamson, Hinckley; A. w. Carl
son, Sturgeon Lake; Karl r. Won
Schenk, Bruno; and J. L. Wells, Pine
City.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-03-22

eve urge consideration as a favor
lite son, of Frank O. LOwden of Illinois.
as the standard bearer of our party
in the coming campaign, trusting that
the delegation will use it's best judg-
ment in this important matter.
"We endorse the candidacy of Miss
Grace Dunn of Princeton, as rural del
egate, and of Harry G. Foote as city
delegate, from the Tenth district to
the National Republican convention.
We recommend Elias Nordgren of
Chisago county, as delegate at large
to the national convention"
H. P. Dredge.
E. B. Linsley.
Judge S. L. Austin.
T. B. Clark.
John w. Ebert.
The Alaska fisherman., 1928-08-15
THE BLACK WHITE PLACE
 by Ahn-Kutty

It was back in the wet days ard the time of sailing vessels. The place, Frisco.
 Around a certain gin-mill lounG ed the usual gang of shanghaiers. Crimps, pimps, macques, confidence men, underworld scalawags and s9 , loon buns. The ginmill was one of the blackest dumps along the Frisco water front, albeit known IS Whites place.
 The general aim of the saloon WIS to head in the unsuspecting, the trancient, the country visitor ani
The Alaska fisherman., 1928-08-15

ttere has been a curtailment of only 10 percent.
 Mr. O'Malley is not truthful in his statement. The pack according to hls own statement is that it will be five and a quarter million cases which is more than a normal pack. In spots the canners have failed to get their packs so that some sections are abnormal in production) Pro- dnction has not been cut 30 percent. As stated by The Alaskan and Alaska Fisherman last year, the re- gulations set forth by O'Malley mere- ly curtail the necessity of the ca)l- ncrs putting out dummy traps. This season has born out the truth of tho statement, O'Malley admits that it was only 10 percent effective. In other words he was only one third correct when he stated that thero would be a 30 per cent reduction! this year.
The Alaska fisherman., 1928-08-15

flood him with vile liquor, then when supplied and properly skinned drag him into small boat, tran ID .rt him to a waiting windjammer ana toss him down the glory hole untiI he sobered. And when the poor de- vii would wake he'd find himself t seq an impressed sailor and in debC. Some there were who didn't succumb quickly enough to the dope of ;no h4r-room and those were knock out either by rough house treatment or by drugs; sometimes both
 It was tii,. lsIness-in tn. .'s- timation of those who ran it. The destruction of souls for dollars had Q lofty appeal to the wharf rat owners, tin horn managers and the horde of cOckroach lieutenants The shanghai roost was in commission twenty four hours day.
 Naturally enough, even in the worst of the dump days, a business svch as this was considered jIot about the limit in degeneration, ;t''t: it had to have certain amount of protection to carry on. Therefore,, t=e Whites, of the black abyss, woe schooled in dirty politics, in bribe swing and in underworld TOD fixing.
 One of the good things of the Vol- stead act was to put such cess-pOc!s out of business. The black hole of the Whites was forced to close when California outwardly ditched the bar- tenders jacket and called itself dry.
 But so long in politics, in order tC keep what they called business forging ahead, the Whites were, Ol course, well up in the art of having big CD officials help them. One of
Evening star., 1928-05-18
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