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Nogales international., 1928-05-25

Miss Lillian Pollak of Douglas
has arrived to spend the summer
with her aunt, Mrs. E. S. Edmon-
son of Curtis street.
Nogales international., 1928-05-25
LEGION DANCE

The American Legion is giving
a dance. Saturday, May 26, at
the Log Cabin. No kitty from s
till IL.
Nogales international., 1928-05-25

Mr.. and Mrs. William Fl. Was
nidge who have been in Nogales
many years are leaving Monday
for Los Angeles where they will
make their future home.
Nogales international., 1928-05-25
LEGION TO TAKE PART
MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAM

Ridge-Igo Post of the Ameri-
can Legion will turn out in a
body at 9 o'clock Memorial Day
morning May 80 to assist the
Army & Navy Union in putting
over their annual Memorial serv.
ices. DR.. A. L. Gustetter will be
grand marshal Of the day.
Nogales international., 1928-05-25

BITULlTHIC is a scientific paving. It is a
proven success and absolutely not an experiment
1T is the paving that endures the wear and tear of
traffic and stands up under the strain
Nogales international., 1928-05-25

!
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Loeb, who
are leaving the 28th of May for
California, will make Los An
geles their future home.
Antonio Villasenor, general
auditor Of the Banco de Sonora
at Hermosillo was here Tuesday
enroute to Ell Paso and Chihua-
hua.
w. j. Phillips, owner of, the
Owl Drug Store, has returned
from Los Angeles where he was
called by the death of his father,
T. H. Phillips, about "a years Of
age.
The new Sisk Apartments on
Terrace avenue directly back of
the Nogales Herald building are
nearing completion and will be
ready for occupancy about June
10.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. S. Edmonson
will spend Friday at Tucson
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard
Klein.
Harry Noon Renshaw, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry R. Renshaw,
and member of this years gradu-
ating class of the University of
Arizona, is recovering from an
illness at his home on Crawford
street.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27

have followed-storms which have
swept many nations off their feet and
many off the face of the earth. A
piece of work that is big enough to
guide the pepulace through the prob
lens that confronted a world as it was
then and which is big enough to
guide us of the present generation.
living as we are in the mad whirl
of a modern world. 1t is wonderful,
this masterpiece of mankind, that has
stood for afi the generations of the
American people with only very few
changes. The. men, who made the
Constitution, made 1t hard to change,
which was wise because easy changes
might have meant changes badly
thought out But they did not make
it impossible to change, which was
wiser still, becauses without the pos
sibility of change the nation would
have been shackled by the dead hand
of men who, however gifted, could
not have possibly foreseen and salts
fled all conditions of today. Thus the
people of the Twentieth century are
governed by the inspiration that
prompted the statesmen of the Eight
zenith century to draft the greatest
document of all time, the ''Constitu-
ton of the United States"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
THAT ANONYMOUS LETTER

Yes, we are harping on this letter
business again-or the letter contain
ing the news item without the name
signed. We certainly appreciate the
news that is sent in and invite all
all of it that happens, but if the one
who sends in items without signing
his or her name to it could only sit
at the euitor's uesk for one issue anu
handle the large amount of CORE
spondence that comes to hand and
must be acted upon, that one would
be more careful in the future.
The requirement that names must
be signed to all letters addressed to
US for publication is almost as impor-
tant as the signature to check-tne
editor must know who sends the ar
ticie, not that the name is to be pub
lished, which is not the case, but for
reference in case someone inquiries
into the origin of a particular item.
This, you will see, would help the
editor TO keep his columns clear OF
scandal and Objectionable haLter
that could and does come in the mails
to be published. We know, in most
cases the absence of the signature is
an oversight on the part of the writer
but this uoes not help us any-please
be more careful, correspondents and
everybody-SIGN YOUR NAME to
ALL CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS
ED TO US.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
INDIAN HAS FULL s.. .
CITIZENSHIP RIGHTS,
RULING DECLARES

Pierre, S. D.-That Sioux Indian
whose ancestors have been on the soil
of Dakota for centuries has all the
rights of the white man who has come
later, SO far as citizenship is con-
cerned, is the Ruling of Attorney
General Buell. Jones on test case
which has come up. ....
]. C. POwless, an Indian, living In
Washington, an unorganized county,
which is on the Pine Ridge reserva-
tion, made a demand upon the school
board of that county for transporta-
ton of his children to the nearest
school maintained by the county, and
was refused either transportation or
cost of the same on the ground that
SO long as he had not established him
self upon an allotment of land he was
not citizen of the state and not en-
titled to this right. The opinion based
upon federal statutes sustains the
claim of Powless and under the hold
ing he is entitled not only to allow his
children to attend the county school,
but also the right to demand that the
county furnish transportation.-Ch
ian Science Monitor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
CAUTION

Caution in driving through dense
smoke, is urged in a bulletin issued
by the Minnesota Highway depart
ment. At this time of the year the
section men on the state highways
are clearing away the weeds and
brush on the roadsides, partly for
neatness sake but mostly to keep
snow drifts from blocking the high
ways next winter.
Where there is plowed field or
other fire-safe land adjoining. the
burning is done when the wind is
away from the road, but where there
are fields or meadows which might
catch fire, the burning must be done
when the wind is towards the road.
1t is done in as short stretches as
possible, but the smoke nevertheless
creates a hazard which requires driv-
ers to go very slowly and carefully.
In addition to going slowly, every
driver should see that he is on the
right hand side of the road. Turning
on the lights is another precaution
which may help to prevent accidents.
Failure to drive carefully may lead to
a collision with an oncoming car, a
car going more slowly in the same
direction, or a car which has been
stopped on the road.
The same precautions, of course,
should be used when there is smoke
from weeds or straw being burned on
fields along the road.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
EDITORIAL COMMENT FROM OTHER NEWSPAPERS
MAY NOT CONFORM WITH
ASKOV AMERICANA

like recluse as he sat, night after
night, in straight backed chair and
dallied with the joys of trying to get
Havana, or Vancouver, on his four
tube set
To be sure, television isn't here yet.
But Maj. Gen. Harbord, president OF
the Radio Corporation of America
prophesies that this unbelievable de-
vice will be in common. general use
by 1882, at the latest And that is
only four years away.
If plain, ordinary radio is keeping
people at home against the insidious
lure of the movie theater, automobile
and night club, what won't television
do?
The last remaining night-paddeI
may we'll pull in his horns. If you can
sit in your own living room and see q
ball game halfway across the CONT
nent. prize fight In Europe, SEN
ate meeting in Washington, or a the
atrical production in New York
what earthly use will there be in ever
going out?
Science and invention, having done
their utmost to reduce home to 9
mere place to sleep and eat, seem to
be conspiring now to make confirmed
stay-ins of the widest of US.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
WHAT ABOUT ITs

Is the young postwar German Ar
my republican or monarchistic at
heart? is a question often asked by
Republicans. The new edition OF an
army instruction book, which is dis
cussed by Col. Hans e. LANCE, re-
tired, in an article published here,
shows that the soldier is being led
to respect and support the Republican
regime. "The state to which you
have sworn allegiance" one para
graph cited by Colonel LANCE reads,
lis the German Reich-a Republic"
1t may be that the monarchy is near
er to the heart of a soldier from ma
tural reasons and owing to traditions.
But the times are too serious for vain
comparisons. Only hard and sober
work, not a discussion of the regime,
will help Germany onward. The Ger
man Republic exists. 1t alone can
master the wide gulf between the par
ties. The soldier must place the
Fatherland above the outward form
of the state. From this standpoint
you swear allegiance to the Constitu-
ton. You must keep this oath like an
honest and upright man. Serve the
Republic, following the shining ex-
ample set by it's President, Germany
worthy soldier, Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg. Then you can rest as
sured that you are on the right path
In this instruction book the soldiers
are also urged to respect Friedrich
Ebert, the first President of the Re
public, a Social Democrat. Ger
many" it is said, loves it to the CO.
operation of Ebert and the free corps
that it was spared the awful fate OF
Russia. "-Christian Science Monitor
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
FARMER-LABOR

Minnesota is not merely in the
doubtful column these days. but it
is considered by both the Republican
and Democratic camps as a pivotal
state. Minnesota is different from
the other states Of the Union pOliti-
cally speaking. 1t is the one state
that has a powerful third party. This
makes both Republican and Demo-
cratic managers a little bit cautious
in their manner of campaign here.
Of course the Republicans are per-
fectly logical in sticking to their
whole ticket. The Democrats, on the
other hand, can pursue a different
line of tactics in order to gain votes.
In the last gubernatorial election
in Minnesota the Farmer-Labor party
polled seven times as many votes as
were cast for the Democratic nominee
Incidentally the Democratic candi-
date for governor of 1926 is now an
active supporter of Herbert Hoover.
while Magnus johnson, who was the
Farmer-Labor candidate for governor
in that election, is openly espOusing
the cause of Al Smith.
ShfpStead and Lundeen Will Win.
The Republicans are plainly wor-
ried as to Minnesota They are sound
Continued on Page 81
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
IRRIGATING THE SAHARA
saltwater Post-Messenger)

The greatest irrigation project in
the world is the plan to inundate the
Sahara desert. The central part of
the area to be flooded is from 65 to
100 feet deep below the level of the
Mediterranean. A great inland sea
would be created which would cover
10000 square miles and connect with
the Gulf of Gables. The soil in this
section is rich, needing only the bless
ing of water to make it productive.
After the creation of the inland sea
the dry winds sweeping from the south
would pick up moisture and then,
heading into the series of mountain
ranges near the north coast, their
moisture would be precipitated and
would renew the supply of water in
the sea from mountain streams flow
ing down to it. There would be no
more burning siroccos from the south
and herds of cattle and sheep would
flourish all the year around. There
would be established on the coast
new lines of power for cleo
tricity. Trees would be planted on
the mountain slopes to prevent floods.
New ports would be established on
the coast and new lines of steamers
would be needed to take care of the
traffic with Europe. The desert
would become the granary of Europe.
A description of the millennium
seems scarcely less glowing, but in
view of what has actually been ac-
complished in our own western dry
lands it does not seem too much to
hope that man may finally conquer
the aridity of the Sahara. At any
rate the French government is seri-
ously considering the proposition.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
Minnesota People Are
Great Auto Travellers
Traffic on Trunk Highways Over
Billion and Half Vehicle
Miles in Year.

Minnesota trunk highways carry a
total traffic amounting to 6,95S,OOO
vehicle miles day during the sum-
mer This figure is arrived at by
taking the average number of vehicles
per day, as revealed by the recent
traffic census taken by the Minnesota
Highway department, and multiplying
this by the number of miles in the
system. Separating the traffic into
Minnesota owned cars and foreign
cars it is found that Minnesota car
owners drove 5,523.0O0 miles and Wis
itors drove 1,435,0O0 miles each day
on state highways during the week
the census was taken. There was no
peak load" such as Labor day or
Fourth of July during the week the
count was made. 1t is a safe guess
that the total would be three or four
times the above figures if count
were made on either of those days.
The Minnesota cars keep running
summer and winter since the high
ways are kept open all winter. The
year-rOund traffic Is estimated to be
at least rs per cent of the summer
traffic On this basis, Minnesota ma
chimes roll upon a total of billion
and half vehicle miles in year.
The drop in tourist traffic in win
ter is of course much greater than in
local traffic, but the year round it is
probably ten per cent of the local
traffic. This would make total Of
$50, 600, 900 vehicle miles as the total
burden of traffic on the state roads in
a year. No wonder the maintenance
runs into money. e.
Five thousand miles a year is usu-
ally considered fair annual mileage
for the average car This figure is
confirmed both by general experience
and by analysis of reports on gasoline
consumption. On this basis the $780,
900 cars owned in Minnesota travel
$3.50, 5000 miles year On all roads,
part of this, however, being out of the
state.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
MAN RUN OVER AND DRAGGED
TWO BLOCKS in FLORENCE

DR.. o. NJ. Sanderson, of Minneota
the Lyon county coroner, has been
investigating one of the most pecul-
lar automobile accidents on record
When Melvin Berg, of Florence,
stopped his car he was hailed by two
men who said he was dragging some
thing under his automobile, he got
out and found the body of a man, his
trousers caught on the crank drag
gins beneath the machine.
The man was identified as ESten
Myron, a Florence drayman, and he
died almost Immediately after being
taken from beneath the car DR..
Golden was called and found that the
mans neck had been broken. Mr..
Myron was 81 years old.
How Myron came to be caught the
driver is at a loss to explain. When
Berg started down the street he said
there was no one in front of it and
he said he did not notice that he
had hit anyone, nor that anyone had
been in the way as he drove the two
blocks from where he was parked to
the place where he was hailed. This
happened at 1890 in the evening.
Other than this the driver knew
nothing about it and people who were
on the street at the time and saw
Berg drive away did not see him run
anyone down.-Minneota Mascot.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
REPUBLICAN

That the solution of the farmers
problem in Minnesota and the North
west is to be found in the program OF
Herbert Hoover is the belief of ]. F..
Cox, dean of agriculture at Michigan
State College and personal representa-
tive of Governor Groesbeck of Mich
igan at Dies Moines conference with
Hoover, and alternative member OF
the Committee of Twenty-Five"
"Mr. Hoover's program as announc-
ed in his speech accepting the nom
fnation and further amplified and en-
phasized at his great West Branch
address involves all the basic prin-
ciples agreed upon at the Des Moines
Conference of January, 1926, and goes
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
DEMOCRATIC
FARMER,S BEST FRIEND

Declaring that the farm problem is
the chief issue of the present cam
paign, DR.. TAFT Butler, editor of ''The
Tenn. declares that the Democratic
platform and the position of Governor
Smith make them the standard bear
ers of agriculture in this fight.
In an editorial in "The Progressive
Farmer" Mr.. Butler says that Her.
bert Hoover lis the enemy of agri-
culture and the privileges of pro- agri-
culture whenever a question arises
between the rights of agriculture and
the privileges of protected industry
and commerce"
DR.. Butler points out that with Gov
ernor Smith in the White House the
genuine farmers and their leaders
would determine the farm policy of
the government. He adds, who are
best qualified to formulate a national
policy for the future development of
our agriculture? Should this policy
be dictated as attempted during the
present national administration, by a
mining engineer, and Secretary of
Commerce; by brewer, a manufac-
turer, capitalist and a Secretary of
the Treasury; and by a Vermont
lawyer, a politician and a president,
or by the farmers, farm economists
| and farm leaders? Is this not an i'm
pOrtant question? Who are most cap
able to formulate our national policy
for agriculture? 1t has often hap
pened to the writer to wonder if the
monumental egotism and brazen eff
frontry of this trio of politicians pre-
Stunning to dictate the agricultural
policy of this country has ever oc-
Cured to them"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
THE RETURN OF THE HOME
(Remidii Sentinen

1t wasn't so very long ago that re-
formers and whittier are we drift
ing?" writer's were hewailing the mod
ern inventions that took people out
Of the home in the evening and there
by broke UP the good old-fashioned
family life. n...-
There was the movie, Turing the
honest family man and his wife off
to the theater after supper. There
was the automobile, dragging them
away every night that the movie
didn't. 1t was being made altogether
too easy and attractive to stay away
from the fireside. This we were as
sured, was very bad business.
But now modern science is doing an
about-face and is providing new in
ventions that will lure us back home
again.
First there came the radio Many
a man who hadn't spent more than
two evenings week in his own home
for years promptly became something
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
START IN LIFE

Alas, after twenty-five years under
the parental roof, Struggled in the
protecting arms of a mother and tu-
tored in the best schools of our coun-
try, a wealthy lad has started out to
make his way in life. After all these
years of protective care over him and
nothing, we presume, short of luxury
is apt to make it pretty hard fight
for the boy-but there's one consO-
latiOn, he can always return home il
he gets up against it, but we hope and
We are almost sure he is different
from some of the more well-tO-dC
boys who go out into the world to
hew a living and name for them
selves. We hope he has had the train
ing and the backbone to make a big
success.
On the other hand, the poor boy, af-
ter fourteen years and in some cases
hardly that, makes a start in life
without the added convenience of be-
ing tutored to high education. He
is the one that has no alternative
but to work-he cannot fall back on
financial aid from home, for if he has
a home, the finances are too badly
needed in that home to divide such
aid. He has to keep on saving wood
even if he is in embarrassing straits
This is the boy that grows to be a
man, hardened to the hardships OF
life, a man who can appreciate and
enjoy a hard earned living-one that
has been hewed from the cold stone
of the wall of life by his own hand
This is the man who has proven his
worth in the face of all obstacles
Isn't it a glorious feeling?
1t is unfair to the children of the
rich, in that they are hampered in
their efforts to battle life with the
thought, Jaw, dad will help me.
They are the ones to be pitied, they
are the ones that are apt to grow up
feeble in the swirl of the competition
in this mad business world. Let US,
both rich and poor, endeavor to train
our children to be Independent of the
help that we can give them. In seek
ing to make their lives as comfort
able as possible, do not overlook the
fact that they will have to live, pos
sibly after we are gone.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
PARTIES HAVE THEIR SAY

farther than the resolutions of this
conference Tor of the Committee of
Twenty-two) and the McNary- Haugen
bill. in placing before the nation q
practical and workable plan for crop
surplus control and agricultural stab
iization of direct benefit to one-third
of the population and indirect benefit
to the remaining two-thirds," declar-
ed Mr. Cox.
Mr.. Hoover now proposes:
"Q) A federal farm board to work
with farm co-operatives
"(2) He proposes such governmental
assistance to enable the agricultural
industry to reach the status of mod
ern business operations by which the
farmer may attain his independence
and maintain his individuality, even
suggesting the use of several hundred
million dollars.
"(3) He proposes the completion of
the st. Lawrence route and the Mis-
sissippi waterway for cheap and eff
fective transportation.
(4) He proposes the greatest pos
oiOAS uIiilLdtloH VI Tie
tariff for agriculture.
These gigantic farm marketing or
CARNATIONS proposed by Mr.. Hoover
would be in position to effectively
deal with crop surpluses and other
marketing problems through the mil
lions back of them-organizatio con-
trolled by their own members organ
| lied to fight their own economic bat
ties and to determine their own desti-
MES through improved manufactur-
ing, sales, distribution, and collateral
work.
''The cost of operation involved In
handling the respective commodities
will take the place of the equalization
fee when such is necessary
This, l submit" concluded Dean
Cox, 'is program that goes farther
than any previously considered, even
by those of us who initiated and car
ried on the definite proposals of farm
relief at and following the Des Moines
Conference"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
INSPIRATION AND. CONSTITUTION

One hundred and forty-one years
ago last Monday, a document was
ratified by the people of the United
States, that was nothing short OF be-
ing masterpieces work of art, as
flexible as rubber, yet as solid in body
as the Rock of Gibraltar. Yes the
Constitution of the United States was
ratified one hundred and forty-one
years ago and the men that drafted it
were inspired with the holy teachings
of all that was good. We say inspired,
because nothing short OF inpiration
could have guided the pen of those
able statesmen who carved out a plat
form upon which the people of our
United States have stood and braved
the storms of the many years which
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27
BAKER FOR SMITH

Ray Stannard Baker, the biog-
rapher of Woodrow Wilson, is a nom
partisan in politics. He kept the pic
lures of Hoover and Smith side by
side on the wall of his study until
both acceptance speeches had been de-
livered. After he heard the Gov
ernor's acceptance on the radio he
tore down Hoover's picture and came
out for Smith. He is not interested
in the liquor question and was waiting
to compare the two documents from
the standpoint of liberal vision. The
Governors address he called candid
progressive, humane" marked by
vigorous idealism. strong humanity
sincerity"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27

Excavators at Rome are planning
to unearth the Circus Maximus. II
they do. probably they will find some
Roman circus peanuts in a good state
of preservation.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27

People in the good old days didn't
have nearly so much to worry about
as we do. For instance, they didn't
have to wonder who would win the
world series every fall.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-09-27

A talkative friend can do more
harm sometimes than a silent enemy.