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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31
STURGEON LAKE

Sewall Wallin made a business trip
to Minneapolis on Friday returning
Saturday evening. l. Smith substi-
tuted on mail route No. 1 in his
absence.
Roy and Joe Gilbert went to AL
bert Lea on Tuesday, returning on
Saturday. On his return, Mr.. Gilbert
brought back a gravel loading outfit
from Minneapolis which he will put
into use on a graveling job which he
has taken near Rock Creek. He in
tends to start operations on Monday
The baseball dance held in the
village hall Oh Saturday night was
we'll attended. The music furnished
by the Jurek orchestra was well re-
ceived and the crowd had a merry
time.
The Sturgeon Lake baseball team
won its second game of the pennant
season from Hinckley by a score of
6 to O, both wins being shutouts.
The Sturgeon Lake team will journey
to Sandstone next Sunday for the
third game of the season.
Frank H. Tomczak has purchased
three-ton dump truck which he will
use for gravel hauling, in company
with Roy Gilbert on the job in
Southern Pine county. They left Old
Monday to establish a location.
Charles F. Johnson has resumed
construction on the west end of
County Road No. 5, and he plans on
finishing up out there soon. After
that is completed he will move to
this end and fill in the approaches to
the bridge ever Moose river as the
bridge was widened and repaired last
winter.
Mrs. Paul Kolosky moved her
household effects out to the Paul
Swante farm where she and her
family will reside this summer. Paul
Kolosky is employed on a construc-
ton job in Wisconsin again this sum-
mer.
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inal states had none except the dis
tribution of the treasury surplus
which they promptly spent, and in
Connecticut about million dollars
from the sale of its western reserve.
Other states sold their lands whole
sale for thirty cents an acre or some
such matter and spent the money.
Others let each county dispose of its
lands and never saw the money.
Minnesota saved its fund and kept
it intact. And every time you get
your pay check, Miss Kitty, drop a
little curtsey to the memory of Hen
ry Sibley and Alexander Ramsey. For
part of your check comes from the
fund they saved for you.
When the school district trustees
figure what they can do and what they
have to do with, there is one item
they can count on.
There is four or five dollars per
pupil-last year $4.20- the income of
the state trust funds. There are
other grants given by the legislature
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are entitled to a broader thrift edu-
cation than they can secure through
the school bank alone.
1t is to be noted with much in
terest, therefore, that The American
Society for Thrift has now prepared
and issued a definite outline for the
study of thrift in the schools, which
can be followed in any of the grades
from one to eight. With this def
mite outline, the development of the
school thrift movement from now on
should be rapid. -
1t is to be remembered that the
children who, within the coming year,
will begin studying thrift on sound
lines, will within another decade or
so, be taking their places as men and
women in the world, with the full
responsibility of business and home
life resting upon them. 1t will be of
incalculable value to them that ere
such a day they will have learned
the full values of thrift.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31
A LITTLE TALK ON THRIFT
(By s, w. Strauss

(By .. w. StrauS)
More and more interest throughout
the country is being shown in the
introduction of thrift teachings in the
schools. In hundreds of cities and
towns throughout the country, educa-
tional authorities are this spring
definitely considering the problem,
and it is safe statement to make
that literally thousands of school
pupils within another year will be
studying thrift along sound scientific
lines.
This work is supplementary to the
development of the school savings
bank, and this is one of the important
reasons why children should be given
instructions in real thrift. The school
bank is an excellent medium through
which the child may be taught the
value of saving money, but saving
money is by no means all there is to
thrift.
A prominent school authority re-
Gently brought out the point that the
school savings bank gives the child
an increased appreciation of it's own
possessions but does not do anything
to foster an appreciation of the pos
sessions of others. The school bank
also does not develop an appreciation
of the value of eliminating various
forms of waste. 1t has been demon
strated, too, that children of the ear
lier grades, where the school savings
bank has been introduced, are enthu-
siastic savers but that when they get
into the higher grades where the
temptations to spend are greater, they
give up their savings habits.
Additional proof might be brought
forth to show that, while the school
savings bank is absolutely. above
criticism and is an indispensable fea-
ture of the modern school, it does not
go far enough.
The children of our schools today
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the land department was established,
with the auditor exofficio, and that is
how the auditor came to be custodian
of state lands. From that time on,
the history of the state trust funds
is largely the record of the labors and
grit and staunchness of McIlrath and
Whitcomb and Braden and Dunn and
the rest who are too little remem-
bered. -.--
So the school fund was saved when
other states were wasting theirs for
thirty cents an acre or less, saved
and kept intact when Minnesota was
desperately hard up.
Phe treasury was empty in 1861
and $6S,000 in orders outstanding. A
perfectly good draft for 500 couldn't
be cashed for more than SIS. The
state had to pay per cent for money
borrowed to pay interest on what it
owed. 1t was not till 1865 that the
auditor could report, "for the first
time the treasury has sufficient funds
to meet all legal obligations on pres
entation."
1t was in those desperate times that
the school fund was set up and kept
intact. Already in 1865 the school
fund had accumulated $S41, 900 which
Auditor McIlrath describes as 'the
munificence of this legacy to our COM
mon schools" The income would
come eventually to 81 apiece, he said,
and so leach scholar in the state will
be heir to sufficient funds to gain a
complete common school education"
Not quite; the fund exceeds the esti-
mate, but the idea as to what con-
stitutes a complete education has
changed In sixty years.
But how we got it and how we kept
it-there is story for you of which
every citizen may be proud and in
which every child may be happy.
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GRASSTON

You can now hear the hum of F.
H. Siger's tractor from early morn
ing until late at night. Frank in
tends planting 100 acres of potatoes.
A number of friends and neighbors
gathered at the Otto Pangerl home
Saturday evening. The evening was
spent in social way with few good
dances included.
The Ladies Aid society of the
Swedish Baptist church will have
devotional service at the church Fri
day afternoon. Lunch will be served
, Mr.. and Mrs. Christ Hansen and
family were Sunday guests at the
F. H. johnson home.
The farewell party given at the
Baptist church in honor of the teach
ers who are leaving was we'll at
tended. Quite a few numbers were
put on, including songs, music and
speaking. and Mrs. Paulsen spoke a
few words in behalf of Grasston and
wished them Godspeed in their. new
locations. .a
Miss Agnes Swanson who is clerk
ing in the Hoffman store at Henriette
spent Sunday with home folks.
Miss Pearl Hansen came out from
school Monday and spent the night
with Dorothy Graysen.
The Baccalaureate services held at
the Baptist church in honor of the
high school graduates was greeted
with full house. The services
were opened with song and then
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the whole. approximately 1900, 900
acres. In the words of Ramsey:
"An imperium in imperio equal
in its aggregate extent to Holland
or Belgium, while it exceeds the
combined area of Massachusetts
and Connecticut"
In addition to the school lands, the
state was entitled under the Morrill,
act to 10000 acres for an agricultural
college. So Minnesota got that, but
it was found necessary to select a
good many pieces of double minimum
lands" which counted two acres for
one, so the net grant was $4,000 acres.
When the enabling act was passed
in 1857, there was grant of u Sec
lions or $4,000 acres, for the univer-
sity, to be selected by the governor,
and when the act of admission was
passed in 1858, similar grant was
made to be selected by the land Of
flee. AS soon as the land office had
filled the grant, the infant state filed
the claim for the other allotment. So
the university land grant came to
$4,000 acres.
Long before, congress had given to
Missouri and other states the swamp
and overflowed lands in their bound
aries. 1t was then held that con-
gress had no power to spend money
for improvements and the only way
to reclaim the drowned lands was to
let the states have them and see
what they could do with them. That
law was made to apply to Minnesota
and it brought the state ALL, 900
acres. 1t should have been more than
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roads 100000. The state obtained
in its various grants roughly $780,
600 acres of which more than 5,OOO,-
600 acres have Injured to the trust
funds. And from that remainder Min
nesota has accumulated $6O,OOO,OOO
and has enough left over to multiply
the present funds by three at least.
lii spite of misadventures and dep
relations and the careless ways of
the pioneers, Minnesota has kept and
maintained its assets with a discre-
ton and wisdom of which the people
are justly proud.
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of that was $500 acres given to a
promotion company and 22,5O0 acres
which were turned over to the uni
versity for geological survey fund.
Besides these grants to the state,
congress gave the Northern Pacific
100000 acres in Minnesota and
granted to the state in trust for rail-
roads 100000 acres. To this con-
gressional grant the state afterwards
added 100000 acres from it's swamp
lands.
Altogether, of the total area of ST.
100000 acres, congress gave the rail-
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31
H-UNCLE SANS GIFT

Our Minnesota trust funds, $780,
10000 in the vaults and $500, 900
in sight, came, with one exception
which need not be explained now,
from grants made by the United
States to the state of Minnesota.
AS new states were admitted, be-
ginning with Ohio in 1903, the gov
eminent had given grants of land for
institutions of learning, academies.
colleges and free schools By the
time Minnesota was asking to be
made a territory in 1S4S, a grant of
section SO in each township was set
tied practice. But Minnesota got two
sections, 16 and SO.
1t seems Oregon was coming in at
the same time and it was so far away
that congress doubled the grant
Enough for Sibley, who was present
as delegate from the territory not
yet organized; Minnesota should also
have two.
Congress hesitated, but a member
from Michigan, whose name has been
lost, came to the rescue. He told con-
gress, as recorded by Auditor Braden
in 1890:
'The country to be organized
into a territory was a wild, in
hospitable, hypoborean region,
only suitable for hunters and
trappers and the government
should foster, encourage and aid
in every way"
So Minnesota drew two sections in
each town, reserved in the organic
act for the territory and confirmed in
the grant to the state with indemnity
for missing parcels-one-eighteenth OF
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100000 by the survey records, but
a lot of it got away for one cause or
another.
Incidentally the enabling act gave
the new state ten sections, either for
site or a fund for capitol build
ing. The governor selected ten sec
lions in KandiyOhi near Willmar.
Finally, according to the precedent,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31

the act gave Minnesota all the salt
springs in the state, but not more than
twelve, with six sections at each
spring. The indomitable pioneers
went out and discovered all twelve.
But the land could not be claimed till
it was surveyed and meanwhile fire
in the Otter Tail land office destroyed
the notes and nobody could ever find
the springs again. So all we got out
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(TOO Late for Last Week.

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Anderson of
Superior, Wis, were week end guests
at the Jordon Nelson home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Swanson and
son John, and cousin Simon Swanson
of Cloquet, spent Sunday at j. w.
Anderson's.
Joseph, Charles, Betty and Robert
Byers started school Tuesday. May
18th.
Mr. Brandt and Ralph went to
Askov Sunday to visit Clarence who
is working there.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31

Look at that now" said the proud
young father, holding up his new
born son for admiration, isn't he a
beauty? Everybody says he's just the
picture of mel"
ooh, 1 wouldn't worry much about
that" said the friend, so long as
he's healthy"
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Pleasant Hill NeighbOrhood

Felix and Paul Kvasnicka drove to
Duluth Monday and brought their
mother home who has been DIT the
st. Mary's hospital. She lad her ap-
pendix removed
Mr.. and Mrs. D. ]. Curry were
guests for supper at the Berglund
home Wednesday.
Our school district (dist. 97) has
lost a good clerk in the resignation
of Emil Olson. l. ]. Flaten is filling
the vacancy for the rest of the school
year.
Joe Kvasnicka purchased a 1928
Chevrolet coach of Marihart & Sons
of Bruno and it was delivered Sat-
urday.
Walter Parker is employed with
Frank Mach as farm hand for the
summer.
Miss Chase of Bruno spent the week
end at the Berglund home.
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on condition-for teaching the girls
to sew and teaching the boys to plant,
for training teachers. for running a
school bus, for being good schools
and for doing various things that the
legislature thinks best, but the trust
fund belongs to the children.
In a district with 80 pupils, that is,
say, $125 a year. In the county seat.
with 900 children, it runs to $4,000.
And every penny of it is due to the
foresight and courage of Ramsey and
Sibley and their successors and of the
auditors who have had charge of the
state lands, through all the years
down to Governor Christianson and
Auditor Chase. They fought for the
trust funds, they defended them from
depreciation and waste, they nourished
and guarded them. By vigilance,
courage and fidelity, and often enough
with pretty stiff fight, the children's
heritage has been preserved.
Minnesota became a state in 1857
and the Land grant for the school fund
came with it. The very first session
of the legislature, an act was passed
to dispose of the school lands. Sib-
ley vetoed it. Remember that, Miss
Kitty, when you get your check. If
Sibley had signed that bill, that four
or five dollars per pupil of the funds
that run your school wouldn't be there
today.
Ramsey followed in the governors
chair. And Ramsey in 1860 sent the
legislature a message which stands
out as one of the great state papers
in the history of Minnesota Read it,
sometime, Miss Kitty. The policy
Ramsey laid down is the foundation
of the Minnesota trust funds-$6O,-
100000 in the vault and 100000, 900
in sight.
AS result of the Ramsey message
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Hands Off.

Mr.. Live: Would you believe that
this watch came from Paris?
Mr.. Wire: No. | wouldn't
Mr.. Live: Well, it didM't.-Brown
jug. = ...
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31

Lady" said the tramp, wouldn't
something to eat?'
EYES," said the lady, eff I could
find one."-V. M. l. SHIPPER
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(Fr0m Another Correspondent
Mrs. Caroline Zion left FOR Gordon.
Wis.,, last week to visit her daughter,
Mrs. Peter Kick for a few weeks.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-05-31


How II Wa Started-How Developed
Written for the Editorial Association
BY JOHN STONE PARDEE
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
PLAN NATIONAL
ANTI-WAR MEETS
Pershing and Others to
Speak
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
Trades Council Hall, 211 N. Park St.
Toledo, Ohio, Sunday, Dec. 16,
Labor Building, 129 Michigan St.
Columbus, Ohio, Monday, Dec. IT.
Canton, Ohio, Tuesday, Dec. 1s,
geographical Union Hall, 21O Mar
It st. No.
Akron, Ohio, Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Cleveland, Thursday, Dec. 20, As
~1c.ation Hall, 2105 E. c1st st.
Youngstown, Friday, Dec. 81,
Ukrainian Hall, 525 1-2 W. Rayen
Ave.
Bellaire, Saturday, Dec. %.
Pittsburgh, Fa., Dec. 20, Interna-
ti5nal Socialist IyceUm, eC5 James
ST., N. S.
Philadelphia, Pa, Dec. &c.
Wilmington, Del, Dec. q; Balti-
more, Dec. %.
Washington, Dec. 20, and New
Y-rk, Jan, 4.
In New York, Scott Nearing and
Pershing will speak :ather, Rob-
ert W. Dunn will be chairman of
ne meeting.
Meetings are also being prepared
IL other parts of the country.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
Wall st. Bankers Form
New 100000, Trust
to Acquire Industrials

A group of large Wall Street
banking houses have organized a
new $100,000,000 trust" through
which will enable them r.ore easily
to take over control of industrial
and other corporations. The mem
bers of this trust already control
many of the most i'm. ortant public
utilities and industrial companies in
ibis country, as we'll as of similar
corporations throughout Latin Amer
lea.
Some of those in the combine are
the Duke power and tobacco inter
ests, Stone & Webster & Boldget
pu5..c utility holders and financiers.
Lehman Brothers, Kidder, Peabody
& Co., Brown Brothers, the Mellon
owned Aluminium Company, the Can
adam Life Insurance Co., etc.
The new trust will be known as
Standard Industries, Inc, and will
acquire various operations and OPP
crate them in order to increase their
profits, Improve" their finances,
production, merchandising and ad-
vertising. The phenomenon known
as watered stock will undoubtedly
be quite in evidence, with large
dividends and worsened working
conditions for the wage slaves in
volved.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
DELEGATES OF
LABOR BODIES
WILL GATHER
To Form Strong, United
Front Movement

Tomorrow delegates from labor
organizations thruout the New York
district will gather at a conference
at 2 o'clock in Irving Plaza, 10Th
St. and Irving Pl., and launch an
intensive campaign for the defense
and support of the 662 textile strik-
ers who are going on trial in New
Bedford,
This conference, called by the New
York district Of the international
Labor Defense, is expected to form
a strong united front movement that
will rally the workers of this city
in the fight to free the victims of
mill baIons' justice. Trade unions,
workers clubs and fraternal organi-
cations will be represented ct the
conference, each organization send
ing two delegates.
The 662 militants are being
threatened with Jail terms in the
largest mass trial in the history of
the American labor movement, The
trial is part Of the general drive of
the New England mill owners in an
effort to crush the National Tex
tile Workers Union and to outlaw
militant unionism.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
UNION prep ARES
WAGE CUT FIGHT
Beacon Mill Workers
in Rally Ranks
Continued from pooe One

Continued from Page One
told them not to strike. He said
that everything would be all right
after the strike was over, and that
they should stay at work while they
had the chance. As soon as the
strike ended, ard the S per cent
wage cut was put into effect by all
the New Bedford mills, Batty an
nounced and it was printed in the
New Bedford papers, that as long as
the other mills were cutting per
0ent, the Beacon and Page mills
hould also cut 5 per cent "to be
he same as the other mills"
In the card room, workers work
ing on three cards, got Is per cent
cut; those on four cards, five per
cent cut. Vicious speed-up was also
introduced. The work of spinners
was doubled; spinners who were
working on two machines, now work
on four. In the mapping and card
rooms, a worker has four machines
instead of three.
But this does not bring in enough
profits to suit the Beacon bosses.
Spinners have been told they can ex-
pect Is to 20 per cent wage cut on
Jan. 1. Weavers will be cut Is per
cent; dye house workers, s per cent,
and workers in the mapping room
are due to get 20 per cent wage
cut the first of the year.
The Acushnet mills, Front St., has
just given a per cent cut to the
workers in the card room, many of
whom have worked there Is and II
years. The bosses of the Page Mill,
1899 Brock Avenue, when they found
many workers were members of the
National Textile Workers Union, re-
tracted announcements, today, of
ipeed-up they had threatened.
The Pemaquid Mill, Coggeshall
st., which introduced 33h cut in
wages and 331s per cent in speed
up last week, gave this steal back to
the workers, due to the activity of
the National Union.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
MARTY, SEAMEN
LEADER, is GIVEN
4 YEARS IN JAIL
French Communists in
Fierce Campaign
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Continued from Page One
for month, hoping to be able to
fabricate enough evidence during
that time to railroad the Commu-
mist leader to Jail.
When the trial opened again two
days ago, Preston, the British edi-
tor, appeared and testified that at
an interview between his reporter
and Foch, the latter had made the
declarations attributed to him in
Martyrs letter and that, further, he
had pointed out on maps in the
presence of two army officers where
the Soviet Union could be attacked
by the combined forces of the
British and the French. The judges
we're so flabbergasted that they ad-
NJourned the court.
The sentence passed against
Marty by the military tribunal de-
spite the evident lying of Foch and
the general staff can only be in
terpreted as an attempt to prohibit
the anti-militarist and anti-inl-
perialist campaign of the GCommu-
mist Party of France. The sentence
can further be taken as an unmis-
taxable evidence that the French
government will combat any at
tempt to defend the Soviet Union
against the combined attack of the
imperialists and that such prepara-
lions are actually taking place.
The Communist Party here is TAX
ing every opportunity to bring the
case before the attention of the
workers, not only in France but all
over the world, and expose the war
preparations against the Soviet
GJnion.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-15
KELLOGG TWIRLS
PAN meet ROUND
Free Hand in Bolivia
Paraguay Crisis
Continued ftom Pace One

Continued from Page One
from voting, not daring to register
his protest against Kellogg super
vision. The Bolivian delegate, as a
fake maneuver of independence
from Kellogg's will, refrained from
attending the committee meeting
where the proposal was voted upon,
leaving the situation entirely to the
United States.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, Dec. IA
W.P).-It was officially announced
today that patrols of Bolivian
troops had been seen some distance
from the river Negro, along the
frontier.
On the invitation of President
DR.. Jose P. Guggiari, the leaders
of the various political parties met
at the Government House to dis
cuss the entire situation in the
boundary crisis with Bolivia.
The newspaper Ell Liberal pub
lished a bulletin this afternoon an
nouncing that the Chilean foreign
ministry denied report that the
Bolivian minister at Santiago, Chile,
had been assured of Chile's neutral
ity in case of war.