davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
TWO EDGED JUSTICE

When law breaker has been appre-
hended and the law has been per-
mitted to take its course, which i'm
plies that the criminal has been in
some way punished for his crime, we
feel that justice has been done. In
fact, to most of US, justice means
the melting out of punishment. In
this we overlook some of it's equally
significant phases.
One of the defects of criminal law
has been it's lack of remedial in
fluence.
In the decree of a California court,
justice was given a practical turn
probation for period of three years
on the condition that for that period
he support two children made father
less by an automobile accident deter
mined on trial as manslaughter.
AS far as the defendant was con-
cerned, the serving of a prison SEN
tence would have been a greater hui
initiation, but that would have omit
ted the ameliorative qualities of the
other decision.
A defendant found guilty of GRIM
inal negligence is made to face his
responsibility to the government for
violation of its laws, but more often
than not the innocent sufferers
through his acts are without relief
The only exception is when, through
civil action, they secure reparation.
1t would seem to be an improve
ment when the law can be made not
only to punish the violator but also
to relieve the conditions brought about
by the violation. AS things now are,
however, we had best be satisfied
with the law when it finds it within
its power to do so much as to appre-
bend and punish the crimihal.-Min-
neota Mascot.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
ANOTHER REAL LIFE ROMANCE
minneapolis Journal

The present continues to be the
age of romance in real life. however,
much cur younger fictionists strive
to make it an age of realism in
literature. The Lindbergh story. the
Mobile rescue, the vanishing of
sAmundson, the Tunney betrothal, the
hunt for Colonel Fawcett in the
Heath of the financier, Lowenstein-
all of them involving experiences
that would tax the inventive powers
of Haggard, a Wilkie Collins, or
a Jules Verne-are among the bet
ter known stories fate has written
recently on the pages of every day
existence.
But in nearly every issue of nearly
every newspaper there comes to light
ONE actual happening that also
would furnish, with scarcely any
dressing up, the complete plot of a
novel or a cinema scenario.
Z Take, for instance, a brief Asso-
ciated Press dispatch that came out
of Los Angeles the other day. Fifteen
years ago, Edward A. Manchester,
!. then a migratory laborer, was travel
( ing out of the harvest fields of the
4 Middle West aboard a freight train,
/ carrying with him the money he had
learned. A highwayman tried to rob
him. One, Dick O'Neill, Lanchester's
quondam travelling companion, put UP
such a valiant fight that the bandit
was routed.
Manchester never saw O'Neill, nor
heard from him, after that journey.
But the money saved by ONeilfs
courage gave Manchester his chance
to get into activities more profitable
than harvest labor, and when he died
in California recently, he left his
estate, valued at more than twenty
thousand dollars, to the fellow har-
vest hand who had succored him in
a swaying boXcar on an unforgettable
midnight.
The task of the executors is to find
Dick ONeill. And when, and if, they
do find him, how are they to know
it is the right Dick O'Neill? So far,
only half the action in the story
has urfolded.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
BASEBALL is
NEAR FINALS
Continued from Page y

Mcclellan yielded three runs for the
Lakers. To make the game thrilling
the visitors came back in the ninth
and tied the score at Z and Z, but the
Lakers came back in their half of the
inning and started a rally that won
the game. Mac Anderson singled, Lee
Anderson walked, Bob Olson singled
to fill the bases and then Phil lined
a sacrifice hit to Harapat which
scored the winning run. Mac Ander-
son and Spike Therrien took the hit
ting honors. Mac got two doubles and
a single in four times up and Therrien
garnered a threebagger and three
singles in five times at bat Bob Oh
son, the Is year old recruit on the
team, got two hits in times at bat,
and he also performed wonderfully
in the field.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
LESSENING THE HOUSEWIVES
LABORS

An excellent intention to lesson the
labors of housewives no doubt impels
a certain national institute in Eng
land if, as reported, it has unleashed
its savants for an extensive and inten-
sive study of the means, methods and
environment of housewifery. The
poet Tusser, writing the preface for
his Book of Housewifery' in the six
teenth century, was of the opinion that
housewives affairs have never an
end; The opinion comes down in
to the twentieth, and is evidently the
force behind the forthcoming study
by the institution in question, which
proposes, by cooperation with archi-
tects, builders, householders and
housewives, to do something about it.
What with various happy inventions
for setting the giant electricity to
work as a cook, housemaid, laundress
or general" the housewives seem to
have done something about it them
selves; but they have omitted the
mood of study in which the savants
will attack Mr.. Tusser's position
lCSC Will uCISi IlIlc dCCuI dIcly, lOI
example, the amount of energy wasted
by carrying heavy loads up and down
unnecessary stairs" establish the min
imum number Of steps required to
accomplish the maximum amount of
housekeeping, find out the proper re-
latiOn between the height of the chair
on which and the table at which a
properly seated person is sitting, and
otherwise more nicely adapt the home
to the mental and physical require
ments of the family.
To the layman this looks like an al
most desperate effort of the savants
to determine the most convenient
kind of a house and domestic equip
ment, and then to standardize the
home. Even so, it will be another
problem to standardize the housewife
Meantime, those who have invented
the "mechanical servant" are un-
doubtedly doing their best to widen
the scope of it's activities. Perhaps
it will eventually become a question
in domestic economy whether to build
new house for the housewife, or
keep the old one and get her a mech
anical servant that won't object to
the Inconvenience.
Christian Science Monitor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
"UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION"

When the Shipping Board an
nounced its plan to turn over to the
Shipping Trust the most valuable
remaining part of the government
fleet, the bids were to be opened
October 1. The other day, brief
notice said the date had been post
poned to November Is.
October 1 comes before the election,
and November Is after the election;
Evidently, the administration il
putting through something that it
doesn't care to lay before the voters:
President Coolidge has. been INSIST
ing for years that the government
should sacrifice its ships, on practiI
cally any terms that private interests
were willing to grant.
Without doubt, the plans and speci-
fications meet his wishes-but the
people might not understand why
ships which are paying their way
should be sold for a fraction of what
it would cost to replace them. There
fore, wait till after the election!
The most unfortunate and exasper-
ating part of the whole business is
that the Democrats, if they had the
desire and the nerve, could smoke out
the whole business, and make it i'm
possible to put over such a deal.
But there is not the remotest indi-
cation that they will do such thing.
The Shipping Trust has friends in both
parties, and all it's pull will be used
to keep the Democrats from making
this "bargain sale" of ships an issue
in this ampaign.=I4abOr
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
ITASCA AND THE NEW COM
MISSIONER

g. w. Mccullough, the newly. ap-
pointed game and fish commissioner,
may be called neighbor to the
sportsmen of Itasca county. He
fishes, hunts and owns property. in
Itasca county. His selection is par
ticularly pleasing to the people of
Itasca. .
We hardly know whether to con-
graduate or cOmmiserate Mr.. McCul-
Tough But we shall congratulate
him on the wonderful opportunity for
service which his position offers and
sympathize with him for the hard
ships and perpleXities which will be
his.
The office of game and fish commits
sioner is important. It's duties touch
nearly every citizen of the state. The
man who does the work must be many
sided. He must supervise the science
Of game and fish propagation. He
must have executive talent to oversee
the activities of a hundred wardens.
He must have financial ability to
eXpend the money entrusted to him
in such an efficient way that much
more may be confidently given for the
purposes of game and fish i.opaga-
ton and protection.
More than this even, he must be
man of courage to tell the public
what is necessary! Many of US, under
Plea of saving wild life for the boys
of the future, simply want things
fixed up so that we will have all that
we wish now. The greatest problem
in game and fish propagation is the
control of the human element, the
man with the gun and the fishing
rod. If we are to have anything in
the future, we must restrain the
present. Some lakes must be closed
entirely to fishing. Bag limits must
be cut down. The trouble with the
game and fish sul,)ly is not vermin,
wolves, or water levels. The cause of
game depletion is the white man, of
city and country, with deadly lures
and automatic guns.
And the sportsmen of the state,
whether they belong to league or as
ISOLATION or just hunt and fish, must
be told this truth.
We shall proceed no longer with ad-
vice. One of the hard features of Mr..
McCullough's office is the amount of
free advice poured into the commits
sioner's ears. Everyone feels himself
an authority upon some form of wild
life. To all these persons the COM
missioner must give an attentive ear.
Moreover, every action which the de-
rartment takes will have it's support
ers and it's critics. To satisfy all of
the public will be impossible and a
game and fish commissioner who
satisfies every voter will probably
not be doing very much for wild life.
Since game and fish are so impor-
tant to Itasca county, this section is
very much interested in the new APP
pointment. The people of this Sec
ton are interested in seeing that ].
P. Murphy, local game warden, is
retained and if anything, his duties
enlarged. Mr.. Murphy commands re-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION

The expedition which Commander
Byrd is organizing for, the antarctic
is not like Mobiles recent ill starred
arctic trip, one of sentiment or OF
pure adventure, but for scientific ex-
ploration and investigation.
1t will be recalled by those who
have not become tired out with re-
ports of the details of Mobiles misad-
ventures that his mission was to To-
cate the north pole exactly, and to
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
Took Saggau's place in the 9Th inning.

Summary: Two base hits. B. Therrien.
N. Swanson. M. Anderson 2; three base
hit, S. Therrien; sacrifices. w. Cunning
ham. Lee Anderson, =. Anderson; stolen
bases. Beccue. Swanson. Lee Anderson.
Beiderman; double plays. John to Car
stem: upgren to Beccue; hit by pitcher,
Mcclellan by Lee Anderson; bases on
balls. off Therrien 5. off Mac Anderson
L. off Lee Anderson 1; struck out. by
Therrien 2, by Mac Anderson 2. by Lee
Anderson B; hits off Mac Anderson, in
5 innings. off Lee Anderson, in in
nings; left on bases. Beroun 10. Stur-
geon Lake 9; umpires. Clemens and Gle
cinSki.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
Splittingly Funny.

'Say. looky hya, Rastus, you know
what yo're doin'? You is going away
fo' week and they amt a stick of
wood cut for de house."
well. what youall whinin' about.
woman? l amt takin' de axe!"-
Meaco.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
GRONINGEN-BASS LAKE

Summary: Two base hit. c. Hyldahl;
stolen bases, G. Thompson, A. Simonsen
4. ]. Hyldahl 2, c. Hyldahl. V. Jensen.
w. johnson; bases on balls. Larson 2.
Hyldahl 0; hit by pitched ball. f. Nelson:
struck out. by Larson 8, by Hyldahl 6:
umpireS. Ryan and Johnson.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23
A BIT OF HUMOR

An Englishman and an Irishman,
riding together, passed a gallows.
where would you be-" said the
Englishman, eff the gallows had its
due?"
"Ridin' alone, l guess" said the
Irishman.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23

Friend Visiting HOSPITAL patient)-
do you know, old man, that's a
swell-looking nurse you've got?"
Patient-"I hadn't noticed"
Good Lord had no idea you
were so sick!"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23

The old fashioned orator with the
long, flowing hair will be at a big
disadvantage this year. The radio
audience cannot see him rumple his
hair with his fingers as he gets to
the dramatic climax of his address.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23

Subscribe for the Askov American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-08-23

Save chasing and use American
Want Ads.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
FARMERS NOW SEE
HOOVER AS FRIEND
knorO He Can Be Trusted to
SolUe Problems.

Herbert Hoover's extended confer
ence with farm journal editors and
farm leaders at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
has resulted in better understanding
OF the Presidential nominee.
There, had been much pre-conven-
ton propaganda misrepresenting
Hoover as the enemy Of the farmer,
and as interested exclusively in the
problems Of the Industrial East. AS
his real record becomes known the
prejudice thus created is bound to
subslde. The situation has been ma
terially helped by his acceptance
speech and his Iowa visit.
The farm question resolves itself to
the comparative attitude of the party
leaders. The two platforms are not
far apart, except that the Democratic
declaration recognizes the principle of
the equalization fee. Governor Smith,
however, has repudiated the fee itself,
and with that bugaboo out Of the
way there is not much difference in
the platforms.
The question remains: Which lead
ership is more likely to help solve the
farm problems-the leadership of
Hoover, the western man, with his
farm background and economic train
ing, or that of Smith, the New Yorker,
whose interests hitherto have been ex-
clusively eastern and political? Kan
sas City Times.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
Metal Mining Staging
Comeback in Colorado

Denver, Colo.-The metal mining in
dustry in Colorado slowly is staging
a comeback.
From 1859 to the beginning of the
Twentieth century, the state literally
lived gold, silver and lead. Gregory
started the "goldmadness" that caused
Central City and Black Hawk to
spring into being. He watched them
grow to be leading, hell-roarin' mining
camps.
Then came the slump. Today, how
ever, mining camps are Hooking up
Nevadaville, famous "ghost town, "
is coming to life again. Two mines
are reported working in that commu.
nifty after years Of idleness.
Considerable activity is reported in
Cripple Greek. one of the most ia.
nous of the old-time camps. From
the time Bob Womack, cowboy
found free gold in the Cripple creek
area in 1881, millions of dollars in
gold were taken from the hills.
Leaderville, boom town of the
Rockies, is engaged actively in new
attempt to regain it's former position
in the mining world. Aspen, center
of the silver district, is active, ex
perts say. A m
Prosperity is returning to Idaho
Springs with its famed Argo tunnel
which pierces the heart Of the rich
gold-bearing district for more than
seven miles.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
DIG THREE MONTHS
FOR POT OF GOLD
Aged Woman's Dream of
Riches Starts Race.

Honolulu.-An aged woman's dream
| of buried treasure kept four men busy
three months digging a lot 20 feet
broad and 80 feet deep in a back yard
in one of Honolulu's residential dis
| tricts.
AS they dug ancient Hawaiian
charms were brought into use to pro-
tect them from evil spirits.
Mrs. Pele Keakuaailuau, ninety
nine years old, was the dreamer. In
her vision, 1t was explained, she saw
the Hawaiian goddess of fire and the
volcano, Pele, pointing out spot in
the yard where there was buried $685.
600 in the five-cornered gold pieces Of
the old Hawaiian monarchy. The
money was supposed to be contained
in the bow Of a canoe.
The excavation work went on for
weeks before 1t came to official atten-
ton, when two motto. cycle officers
scouting the region for stolen automo-
biles noted the unusual activity.
At the end Of three months no treas
ure had been found, but the excavat-
ing continued. The searchers had,
however uncovered a peculiar stone,
differing in composition from the
others in the shaft, and this has been
greeted by Hawaiians as a sacred
stone"
A side light of the treasure hunt
was the arrest Of Kaalawai and John
Muemue Niau, one of the diggers, on
charges of "kahunaism" or witchcraft.
The charges were dismissed when it
was found that Kaalawai had prayed
only to luck goddess-Pele and two
others-that the treasure sought
might be found. The court held that
invocation of good omens from spirits
was not criminal.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
SAME PRESCRIPTION
HE WROTE IN 1892

When DR.. Caldwell started to practice
medicine, back in 1875, the needs for q
laxative were not as great as today.
People lived normal lives, ate plain,
wholesome food, and got plenty of fresh
air. But even that early there were
drastic physics and purges for the relief
of constipation which DR.. Caldwell did
not believe were good for human beings.
The prescription for constipation that
he used early in his practice, and which
he put in drug stores in 1892 under the
name of DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin,
is a liquid vegetable remedy, intended
for women, children and elderly people,
and they need just such a mild. safe
bowel stimulant.
This prescription has proven its worth
and is now the largest selling liquid
laxative. It has won the confidence of
people who needed it to get relief from
headaches, biliousness, fatulence, indi.
gestion, loss of appetite and sleep, bad
breath, dyspepsia, colds, fevers. At your
druggist, or write "Syrup Pepsin,"
Dept. BIB, Monticello. Illinois, for free
trial bottle.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
Smiths Strength in
New York Ouerrated

Admittedly the administration Of
New York affairs by Governor Smith
brought to him considerable Repub-
lican vote in the upstate regions. This
year the probabilities are that as
candidate for President he cannot hold
the Republican votes which were CIV
en- him as a candidate for governor.
The national" shortcomings Of AL
fred e. Smith are recognized. He has
recognized them himself.
New York city, probably-ce certainly,
If you wish-will give the governor
majority as great as it gave him in
any one of his governship campaigns.
The country counties of the state,
probably-yes, and virtually certain
will give him nothing like the sup
port which he received in other cleo
lions. The Democrats are altogether
too cock-sure of the result in New
York state.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
Smiths Speech Weak

Governor Smith as whole was
framed primarily to put the Repub-
licans and their nominee on the de-
fensive. However, the contest appar-
emily is found to center on the pro-
hibition issue.
Foreign affairs are dealt with in a
singularly crude fashion. There is no
mention of the League Of Nations or
Of the International Court of Justice.
The Coolidge policies toward Latin
America are assailed in harsh and
sweeping terms, though they are a
continuation of the Wilson policies.
The remarkable Improvement in the
relations between the United States
and Mexico receives no mention.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
Smiths Plan Unsound

Governor Smiths proposition for
amendment to the Eighteenth amend
ment is pure local option. He asserts
that such method would re-establish
respect for law. 1t would do any.
thing but that. A more potent instru-
ment for multiplying lawbreakers
could not be devised. Smuggling
would be extended to the borders of
every wet state. II would be an in.
Justice to Governor Smith to assume
that lie is not fully aware that his
plans are hopeless.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
: Women for Hoover

Endorsement from the National
Woman's party of Mr.. Hoover's posi-
ton on equality of opportunity was
given by Mrs. Clarence M. Smith,
chairman Of the party's national coun-
Gil. eve are absolutely in accord
with the statement made by Mr..
Hoover" she said.
Quoting several Of Mr.. Hoover 8
references to equal opportunity, Mrs.
Smith added:
"I'his is exactly and simply what
we of the Woman's party are de-
handing for women"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
Toll of Floods for
Year Is Enormous

Washington.-The Red Cross
reported that 100000 persons
have been affected by floods in
the Mississippi valley this year
and that one-half as many coun.
ties have been inundated as dur.
ing the spectacular disaster
year ago.
The relief organization said
the only reason why public at
tention has not been directed to-
ward conditions this year is be.
cause they lack the dramatic
features of the 1927 rise.
Twenty-eight relief workers
have been stationed in Arkan.
sas, Missouri and Louisiana.
where tributaries have been
flooded since May. MIR. Bondy
reported that there had been no
loss of life because the water
rose slowly, enabling all to
reach safety. Another staff of
relief workers is on duty at
points in Illinois. Indiana, Ken.
lucky, West Virginia. where the
Big Sandy. Licking and other
rivers have been in flood.
"rhe economic losses of these
families who have been driven
from their homes by the rising
waters this year have. been ire
mendous." it was reported.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21

Western Republican headquarters
announced recently Bert Martin, ma
tional secretary-treasurer of the Farm
er-Labor party. had resigned his. po-
sition and espeused the cause of Her
bert Hoover for President.
j. Edwin Spurrsof Ell Reno, Okla,
member of the national executive COM
mittee of the Farmer-Labor party,
also had quit, Republican headquar-
tiers said, as had We'll Macarthur, sec
retary-treasurer of the Colorado Farm
er-Labor party, both of whom expect
to support the Republican nominee.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
Overloaded With Pipes

Protests by players Of Goulburn,
Australia, against the type Of trophies
awarded to tournament winners by
the tennis association has caused the,
officials to decide to give successful
contestants open orders hereafter.
One player stated that in recent years
he had won IA pipes despite the fact
that he never smokes.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
Old Cliff Dwelling
Is Used as a Garage

Phoenix, Ariz.-The ancient and
modern are in strange combination at
the home of Joseph Johnson, Verde
valley rancher, who has utilized a pre-
historic cliff dwelling as garage for
his automobile. His cabin is high up
on the talus of Red Rock Rim, in
which are the remains of scores of
rock-built habitations of people of
whom no more is known than is car.
ried by few vague legends of the
Indians of today.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-09-21
Preaching and Practice

II to do were as easy as to know
wnat were good to do, chapels had
been churches. and poor mems cot,
tages princes palaces. It is a good,
divine that follows his own instruc-
tons: can easier teach twenty what
were good to be done than be one Of
the twenty to follow mine own teach-
ing.-Shakespeare.