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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-14
What Is A Radical

The Pittsburgh Press, inquiring
what is a radical?" editorially
says:
ut is becoming increasingly i'm
portant that the public be given an
intelligent definition of the term
radical as applied to those who dis
cuss or write about human relations
Emerson said radical is young
conservative and a conservative is an
ole radical. That isn't hard to under
stand, because all of us know the
different attitudes of youth and age.
toward life and its problems. Youth
starts in with optimism and ideals.
and with some illusions. of course
Age, with all of life's experience back
of it, becomes conservative from var
ious reasons, and among other things
has lost its, illusions as well as ideal
ism and pep.
But nowadays the term radical is
often used as an epithet. If one takes
an interest in the poor, if he doesn't
worship things as they are if he de-
hands better social conditions as a
legitimate part of progress, if he
wants a more equitable distribution
of the product of ndustry-really, il
he wants any change that he may
think is for the better-he is at once
tagged a radical.
Nov and then when somebody in
sists that the liberties guaranteed by
the constitution be actually protected
for all citizens, there are those who.
call him radical.
"As the word is often used it would
be fair to say that with many of us.
a radical is anybody who does't be
lieve as we believe, and who doesn't
conduct himself as we would like to
have him conduct himself. AS It
isn't safe for our own comfort to-
throw a brick or cobblestone at him,
We hurl an epithet. we call him
names. Not many years ago the pet
term of reproach was Socialist, but
as the Socialist grew conservative
and didn't blow up buildings or kill
those who didn't divide up with them
the term lost its scoriating effect and
we turned to 'bolshevik'. Now they
are wearing out that word, because
they can't give it any particular or
ineligible meaning" The Mile
Laos County Times.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-14

intent to rob are committed in the
single city of Cleveland each year
than in the whole of England, Scot
land and Wales. A recent investiga-
tion showed that during the year the
number of automobiles stolen in Liver
pool, one and half times the size of
Cleveland, was 10; in London, ten
times the size of Cleveland, 200; in
Cleveland, 1927.
The present cost of crime, in dol
lars and cents in this country, has
been consevatively estimated at two
and half million dollars a day.
In one year the property lost in the
city of Chicago alone by theft is more
than $12,OOO,OO0.
The United States Census Bureau
reports that, in the returns from 81
states, there has been a steady in
crease in the number of prisoners in
state prisons and reformatories. The
number of prisoners in confinement
per 100000 of the general popula-
ton increased from 66.6 on January /,
1923 to S4.1 on January 1, 1927"
You may have seen statistics such
as these before; and how did you dis
pose of them in your mind? Perhaps
like the majority you have blamed
the law and turned to lawmakers and
lawyers to work out the much needed
reform.
There exists a popular tendency to
dismiss all social responsibility in
this manner and invoke the law as
though it were some almighty power.
pass a law" falls easily from the
lips but it does not mean much; not
even when the law is passed.
There are shortcomings that lie
deeper than the hand of the law can
reach; shortcomings in individual
lives and homes; shortcomings in so
ciety and its organizations that are,
perhaps, more at fault in this matter
than the body of law.
Certainty of punishment is a more
important deterrent of crime than is
severity of punishment. There has
sprung up an opinion that our body
of criminal law and our judicial sys-
tenn is antiquated and weak; that all
that is NEEDED is for some courageous
individual to storm these halls of con-
servatism, enact speedy reform and
that all our social problems will van
ish in the twinkling of an eye.
There may be some cause for COM
plant in the slow action of our courts;
they might be censured for too much
attention to technicality; but we feel
confident that no radical reform in
the system now built up will bring
any outstanding improvement. The
problem and its solution lies, perhaps,
a great deal deeper than the courts.
You can not make a saint or a sim
ner by merely passing law, nor can
you cut down crime by bolstering up
the courts with reform legislation.
We are so busy hunting for defects
in our legal and judicial codes that
we forget that in order to convict a
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-14
WHO is MR.. COOLIDGEg

There was no surprise in the action
President Coolidge took on the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill. He had practically
told the country that he would not sign
a bill for farm relief that contained
the provision for an Republication
fee."
But in the arguments which Mr..
Coolidge has advanced in his veto
message he has revealed himself to
be inconsistent.
He holds that the -Haugen
bill is "repugnant to the spirit of
our institutions" Yet he upholds the
principle of high tariff for other in
dustries overlooking the fact that in
principle a high tariff and the farm
relief plan he vetoed are very much
the same.
The McNary-Haugen bill hopes to
control the market at home by dump
ing the surplus farm products on the
foreign market. The protective tariff
aims to keep the domestic market up
by preventing other countries from
dumping cheap goods here.
Mr.. Coolidge here reveals himself
to be a protectionist for the manu-
facturer and a free trader for the
farmer.
Another striking inconsistency is
one that is not to be found in the mes
sage itself. On the same day that
Mr.. Coolidge chose to veto the Nc
Nary-Haugen bill because it was ere
pugnant" he signed the Jones-White
bill for a ship subsidy. This creates
loan fund of $25O,O00,000 for the
building of ships and loans money on
rather shaky security.
This, however, is consistent with
the policy expressed in the veto of
the farm relief bill and in the sup
port of high protective tariff.
In declaring certain of the the pro-
visions of the bill to be unconstitu-
tional and obtaining an opinion to that
effect from his attorney general, Mr..
Coolidge is taking upon himself a
worry that should not be his.
The Supreme Court of the United
States is created for one purpose only
and that is to decide matters of con-
stitutionality. They, because of their
training, are better equipped to do
than are the legislators or the Pres
ident. And the arguments for its un-
constitutionality are rather flimsy.
Why did he not leave that matter to
those who are expected to rule on
such things?
Is President justified, even on the
strength of an opinion of an attorney
general to veto a measure because he
thinks it is contrary to the funda-
mental law? 1t has never been
tried, it has never seen the courts of
Justice; what is the precedent on
which such an opinion might be
based?
Is a President justified, who obvi-
ously knows little or nothing about
the problems of the American farmer,
to stand in the way of a measure en-
dorsed by every farmers organization
in the country and passed by gen.
erous vote in the two representative
houses of our government?
Is Mr.. Coolidge's judgment superior
to that of all the agricultural leaders
in this country and the represent
atives of the people who voted for the
measure in both houses of our Ma
tional legislature?
Just who is Mr.. Coolidge?
If Mr.. Coolidge knows so much
about what the farmer should have in
the way of legislation, why does he
not offer some other plan that will
work.
Either the governmental protection
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-14

individuals have come to public at
tention through publicity.
There is, of course, lots and lots of
Objectionable publicity-such as that
given to divorce scandals, cheap MUIR
ders, and all such. But who's to
blame? Why, the very organs, in
most instances, which rave and rant
the loudest about publicity hounds"
Once the ban is placed against all
such, therell be very little "evil'
in publicity.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-14
OBSTACLES TO CHINA'S UNITY

Recent news from China serves to
indicate how far the Nationalist are
removed from their goal of a united
government. It has been assumed
that this ideal waited upon the ousting
of General Chang Tso-lin, Manchurian
war lord, from Peking. That un-
questionably is one of the prerequi-
sites to national unity. So long as
Picking remains in the hands of an
authority that, to the Chinese at least,
appears to be hostile to the ideals of
the Nationalist Party, the task of
achieving unity, which was the first
plank in the platform of DR.. Sun Vat
sen, will be incomplete.
But even with Chang Tso-lin bot
of Manchuria, the Nationalist under
taking will only be well begun. The
march from Canton, begun eighteen
months ago. has not brought harmony
in the various provinces traversed.
Rather, the old tendency toward fac
tional government still persists to
threaten disruption.
Most important and menacing of
these factions, doubtless, is that which
still apepars to thrive at Hankow.
During the months, last year, when
the Communists sat in the seats of
nationalist authority, Hankow was
the capitol of the new regime. The
seeds sowed then by Soviet satellites
have taken root. Human province,
additionally turbulent, was more than
ever stirred to unrest by Russian pro-
paganda. And when Gen. Chang Kali
shek declared war on the Hankow
Communists he incurred the bitter
hostility of these elements.
Of late the military authority in
Hankow has been in the hands of
Gen. Chen Chen, whose inclinations
have been toward Moscow and whose
troops, last year, were responsible for
the Marking outrages. Reports that
he has been imprisoned merely serve
to indicate to what proportions the
factional unrest in this territory has
proceeded. The Nationalist, at Pc
king will hardly speak for a united
China until Hankow has been more
effectively subdued.
Reports of disaffection, likewise,
have been coming from Canton. This
city, long the capitol of DR.. Sun, has
held itself to the source of Chinese
nationalism and the arbiter of ma
tionalist orthodoxy. Belief that the
leadership of Chang Kai-shek meant
a departure from that orthodoxy has
led to a movement to declare the in
dependence of Canton from the Nam
king regime. This movement has not
as yet materialized. But it will none
the less be necessary for the Ma
tionalists, when they reach Picking, to
turn their attention to this southern
city in order that the forces which
are there may be placated.
. Furthermore, in west China, beyond
the gorges of the Yangtze River, there
is vast empire containing more
than 100000 people that has been
for years in state of semi-independ-
ence. Nationalist sentiment is strong
there among the student and mer-
chant classes. But the Nationalist
movement, as represented in the Kuo-
mintang, has never established its
authority. This may be accomplished
without difficulty, but the necessity
for it's accomplishment is nevertheless
indisputable.
The Nationalist, even if victorious
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-14
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

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of public interest are welcome.
whether or not the writer's opin-
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-14

at Peking, have, therefore, a stipend
Gus task still ahead of them. China's
well-wishers will hope for its speedy
success. Until that success is ap-
parent, the country's unity and the
progress that waits upon it must re-
main, as now, a worthy but an un-
realized ideal-Christian Science
Monitor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-14

Speaker lat dinner of club): Cen
tlemen, did you ever stop to think?
ask you again, did you ever stop
to think?
Stewed (tired and sleepy: Did you
ever think to stop?-Ga. Tech. yell
low Jacket.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-14
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
EDITORIAL COMMENT OTHER NEWSPAPERS WHICH MAY
OR NOT CONFORM OPINIONS
AMERICAN)

cred to parity with agriculture or
there should be a similar extension
of privileges to agriculture.-The
Minneota Mascot.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
WILL SEND THOUSAND MORE
 LEATHERNECKS NICARAGUA

Washington. Mar. IT. (P-As a sequel to Nicaragua's s failure to en- act law providing for American supervision of her forthcoming presidential election. plans are un- der way for dispatching one thous- and additional Marines to Nicar- agua to help enforce the Stimson Peace Agreement action.
 The Navy Department has an- nounced that it will send an addi- tional two battalions as soon as sailing space is available. Presi- dent Coolidge is represented as be- 1ieving that the United States can still be of assistance to Nicaragua. The Marines will embark as soon as sailing space is obtained and they will augment the 2.70o Marines alt ready in Nicaragua.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
AIRSHIP AND NAVAL
 CONSTRUCTION APPROVED

Washington, Mar. IT. tP)-The House approved the S274 ,0OO, 900 new airship construction pr with vote of 2S7 to 57. The bill was then sent to the Senate.
 The Butler Bill providing for the construction of fifteen cruisers of 1000 tons, one airplane carrier of 13,S00 tons and some submarines was. approved. It was stipulated that eight of the ships should be built in Navy Yards.
 The measure urges the President to request another international limitation naval armament confer ence, giving him authority to sus- pend the whole or any part Of the construction in the event of linn ftation agreement.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
MONDAY
PLANE CRASHES ONE MAN
 FOUND ALIVE BROKEN LEG

Los Angeles, Mar. IT, R)-Bert D. D. Haugh, passenger in a Southern California Edison Com pany airplane which crashed on a mountain ridge thirty miles from here Tuesday, was found alive be- side the wrecked plane, with bro- ken leg. His pilot, c. w. English. was dead. The two men were sent out by the company Tuesday morning to survey the damage done by the St. Francis dam break and they were never heard from until this afternoon when the air. plane wreck was sighted from the air by a searching plane.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
NANCY'S MOTHER WIRES
 HER CONGRATULATIONS

Seattle. March 18th, (P)-A mes- sage of congratulations to her daughter was cabled by Mrs. Jen- nie Miller of Seattle and former Alaska resident. soon as she was informed that the marriage had taken place. She. said it was a true love match. Nancy was born at Seattle on September g, 1907, but spent much of her time in Alaska with her mother until three years old. John Miller, father of Nancy, went North to Alaska in 1898 and discovered gold claims on Miller Gulch and Slate Creek districts where he staked thirteen claims. He took out more than million dollars in gold before he died here in 1917. Mrs. Miller says that Nancy was regular
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
WILKINS HOPED OFF
 FOR HARROW TODAY

Fairbanks. March 19, (P)- Cap tain George Wilkins and Pilot Fen Eilson. hopped of for Poin' Bar TOW t. eleven twenty this ,ncrn- ing. A formal presentation of a flag by the local American Legion before small gathering was the only ceremony. The plane picked up it's load without difficulty, pointing it's course North within five minutes after taking of The plane was brought out of the ham gar at ten o'clock, and was fueled
 for it's long jump across the Endi- colt range. The weather was clear the sky was perfect with the temperature reasonably cold.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
NANCY FINALLY HAS THE
 MARRIAGE CEREMONY
 PERFORMED-BI FETE

Barwalad, India. March 17-1S. R- Nancy Ann Miller. formerly of Alaska and Seattle, and Tukoji Rao former Maharajah Indore. were married with prolonged but richly picturesque ceremonial oS the Hinduism rites which were solemn in it's performance but rather tiring in it's detail which contra sted strongly with the sim Ele mc.riage ceremony of Western lands. The elaborate wedding rift ual was supplemented by several preliminary ceremonials, which was necessary in order to bring Miss Nancy into the same caste as a bridegroom and otherwise conform to the Hindu practice.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS
 FOR ALASKA LAND OFFICES

Washington, Mar. IS, R)-Sen- ator Willis Bill providing for the designation of clerks Or employees of the Interior Department to serve as Registers and Receivers in Al aska Land Offices. was today re- ported favorably by the Senate In- sular Committee The bill provides that such employees salaries shall not exceed three thousand dollars per year.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
NOTICE 10 CREDITORS

In the Probate Court for the Cape Nome Precinct, Second Division, Territory of Alaska, Before the Hon. c. ". Thornton, U. s. Com missioner and Ex-Ohicio Probate
 Judge.
 In the Matter of the Estate of: ALICK HOLMSEN, deceased.
 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by the undersigned that he h&s been duly appointed Administrator of the Estate of ALICK HOLMSEN, deceased. and all persons ,haying claims against the said estate must exhibit the same. with the neces- sary vouchers, within six months after the first publication of this notice, to the said Administrator. at his place of business. the Nevada Pool Room. situated on Front Street, Nome, Alaska. the same be- ing the place for the transaction of the business of the said estate in the above Precinct and Territory.
 Dated at Nome, February IT, 1928
 g. H. BVRGH,s
 Adnikistrator. Publish Feb. 25. March 3. 10. IT.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
SENATOR FERRIS. MICHIGAN
 IS A VERY SICK MAN

Washington. Mar. IT, @- Senator Ferris of Michigan is said by the members of his family to be "a very sick man with only fight ing chance of recovery. Senator Ferris Is seventy-nine years old and has been confined to his room for more than week with a se- were cold which developed into Pneumonia He had a very bad night Inst night and number of physicians were constantly in at tendance upon him. He was ex- tremely active on the floor of the Senate for many months before he was taken sick.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
ZELLERBACHS' PULP SURVEY
 TO TAKE YEAR

Seattle, P-By the end of the present year the Zellerbach Pulp & Paper Go. interests hope to have completed an exhaustive investi- gation of the resources in timber, water power and the like in the Tongass national forest in Alaska factory to map out definite pro- gram for entry into pulp and paper production there under a project that will attain a plant investment
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
NEW PASSENGER BOAT
 FOR YUKON RIVER

Seattle. March 19, R-A sev- entytwo foot passenger, and mail boat, with a seventeen foot beam, is being built at Blanchard. Wash ington. for the Alaska Conner cial Companw. She will be equip ped with two seyenty-five horse power Upset motors. pleted, will operate on the Lower Yukon River.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
PANAMA KENNEL CLUB
 4 HOLDS ANNUAL RACE

Panama. March 19, R)-Am- prose Abraham drove four dogs to victory Saturday in the Panama Kennel Clubs annual race, against eleven entries. His time for the ten miles was forty seven minutes and forty five seconds. John Fol ger won second place with three dogs and Dan Joseph came third with seven dogs.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24

of $2O,000.00o within . few years.
 This statement was made hsfe yesterday by J. D. Zellerbach of San Francisco. vice-president of the Zellerbach corporation.
 investigation of the problem of development of the pulp resources of lands in Alaska which we will be permitted to cut under govern ment contract is tremendous task" Zellerbach said.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
REPLACEMENT TIES BE
 SHIPPED GOVT. RAILROAD

Seattle, Mar. IF. R)-Arrange- ments have been completed for the shipment of ffty-thousand ties to Seward for replacements on the AL aska Railroad. The ties measure about a million one hundred thous- and feet. The freighter Derblay will probably load the first consign- ment, and two other ships will car ry the, remainder.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
OLD ALASKA DOCTOR TO MARRY

Seattle. Mar. IT, (P)-Walter Caughey Fox, a retired physician, once of the medical department for the Government in Alaska. is to marry Mrs. Dora J. Wilson, a wealthy widow, Wednesday. On the license he gave his residence as England, due to not having for saken his native citizenship.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
MORE BUILDINGS FOR
 PIONEERS HOME AT SITKA

Washington. Mar. r., P-A grant of certain abandoned public buildings and grounds at Sitka to the Territory of Alaska is proposed in bill by Delegate Dan A Suth- erland. The buildings are to be used as home for aged, sick and infirm Pioneers, in conjunction with the Pioneers Home there.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
SUBMARINE S.4 RAISED
 FROM OCEAN RED

Boston, March 19, (R-The sub marine S-4 was raised from the ocean bottom off of Cape Cod, where she has lain since she was sunk by the Coast Guard Destroy CT, Paulding on December 17th: and lowed here and placed in, dry dock. Medical officers will exa- mine the eight bodies remaining in the submarine.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON GLEE CLUB 10
 TOUR IN ALASKA

Seattle, March 19, (P)-The Un- iversity of Washington Glee Club sailed today at nine o'clock A. M. aboard the Princess Charlotte for several weeks tour in Alaska. They will play at Ketchikan, Wednes- day, Thursday and Friday; at Jun eau. Monday and Tuesday and the following week at Petersburgh on Thursday. March 18th.
The Nome nugget., 1928-03-24
MOBILES NORTH POLE DIRIGIRLE GIVEN TEST
 FLIGHT MONDAY

MILAN. Italy, March 20. (R- The newly constructed dirigtble Italia" in which General Mobile intends to fly to the North Pole, successfully completed a twenty two hour test flight. The dirigible carried a full load and compliment of twenty one men. General Mobile said he was perfectly satisfied with the results.