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Evening star., 1928-10-07

| Of the Maine coast in lonely light
house lives a woman who must spend
! six months of each year isolated on her
island Wednesday and Friday morn
/ ings during the long Winter months
when she is cut off from the mainland
she sits by her radio with her note book
and pencil writing down the suggestions
and recipes given by Betty Croker in
her Radio Cooking School.
/ OF course, this weman'S limited food
! supply makes it impossible for her to
| try many of the dishes described in the
radio lessons. Nevertheless, 1t gives her
a sense of coZy companionShip to feel
that she is a member of this vast cook
ing school and to know that thousands
of other women all the way from Maine
to California are sitting in their homes
sharing these lessons with her.
She was one of the faithful "old
members" who was waiting for Betty
Crocker'S Good morning. when this
great Nationwide radio cooking school
opened for its fourth year Wednesday
morning. Women from almost every
walk in life were listening In with her
During the three years that Betty
Crocker has conducted this Nationwide
radio cooking school 1894 women
have been her pupils. OF these $3.50
have been awarded radio cooking school
diplomas. There are 443 women who
/ have attended these classes on the air
so faithfully and reported so completely
on all the lessons that they have earned
diplomas from all eight of the cooking
classes Betty Crocker has conducted.
There were three cooking shcOol classes
year for two years and two cooking
school classes during one year. Thus to
have earned eight diplomas a woman
must have listened in with perfect
| regularity for three years. The courses
| in Betty Crockers Radio Cooking School
| are all different. SO that earning one
/ diploma does not bar one from register
ing again and earning another diploma.
| This year the cooking school has again
| been divided into three classes or
| ccmest srs.
Students learn Br0adcasting.
Practical training in the technique
and engineering problems of radio
broadcasting will be offered to select
group of student engineers, according to
a plan announced by the National
Brcadcasting Co
/ Six men, recent graduates of recog-
nized colleges, already have been Sc
lected for this training. which will en-
able them to fill vacancies that occur
on the engineering staff. AS each stu
dent completes his training and is made
o member of the engineering staff a
new student will be chosen to replace
him.
The students will gain their practical
! experience by progressing from group
10 Group to study the specific phases of
Evening star., 1928-10-07
McNar11ee

! where it can render the classics per-
fectly, and partly to the simple fact that
the American public has been and Is
being educated musically by radio broad
casting. Ten years ago the person who
could identify, say, ten or dozen COM
| positions by leading composers, was ex-
Uremely rare. Now there are millions to
whom the classics are familiar. have
also noted among our communications
from non-mustcal perSons-I mean by
chat n-professional-more and more
keenly criCical judgment. I remember
a program of chamber music in which,
for some reason or other, the musicians
slurred a certain passage. was
aStonished at the comeback we got.
On the whole, / think the American
puplic has come along Splendidly with
the scientists and inventors in max
ing the best use of radio. But there
is one thing about the public radio
behavior that / want to say some
thing about. / don't want to be mis-
understood, because nobody has ap-
pointed me radio supervisor, but l
am sure that the great bulk of radio
users will agree with me, and further
more will agree that this ought to be
said by somebody. l refer to the
Summertime practice Of leaving win
6ows open and letting loud speakers
blast in full force all over a neigh
borhood where people are trying to
sleep. This was an unusually hot
Summer, and the Federal Radio Com
mission had complaints about mid
night radio believing from a number
of different cities. In New York COM
plants we're made to the Board OF
Health. and some kind of legal action
is being planned.
One night I lay awake and listened
to a radio blasting across the street.
It was playing beautiful classical
selection. but in this fog-horn bel
lowing all the values of the piece were
lost. 1 knew just what orchestra was
playing this and I knew the con-
ductor. l knew there was lot Of fine
musicianship going into it, and here
it was being distorted into nothing
but terrible noise. The artistry of the
piece was all lost, and everybody in
the neighborhood was being kept
awake. I was puzzled to know why
the user preferred this racket, rather
than turning the dial a mite and en-
joying a beautifully rendered compo-
sition
This doesn't do radio any good. The
success of radio has been due to the
intelligence of makers, broadcasters
and users. AS / have said, there has
been a fine response on the part of the
public to the effort to put out better
music and Specialties The art and
the industry will continue to go along
together, but I think users should
condemn such unintelligent nuisances
as I have described.
This will pass, Of course. When
people first got bicycles, they went
crazy and used to go on century
runs" The public, eventually, learns
to use anything it gets. and with this
more and more discriminating and
intelligent use of radio, / see great
things ahead. AS a musician. I am
tremendously enthusiastic about radio,
and, furthermore, believe that it's
cultural possibilities are endless. But
1t is all one big problem of producers,
broadcasters and public. They must
all move forward together Signing
of, want to leave this one sugges-
ton: Don't distort your radio recep-
tion.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
BOY AND WOMAN DEAD
AFTER SECRET LOVE
Affair Between High School Stu.
dent and Another's Wife
Ends in Tragedy.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PETERBORO, Ontario, october g.
The secret love of l9-year-old school
boy for the woman in whose home be
. bearded ended in tragedy yesterday
when the woman's husband found the
bodies of his wife and the youth. Both
had been shot in the head
The love of George Frederick Knox
formerly of Boston, Mass. for Mrs
Little Pacey, 35, was disclosed in
note addressed to the boys father,
which Thomas D. Pacey, the husband
found when he broke into his home
IN the note young Knox declared he
mad been In love with Mrs. Pacey al
most from the time he had met her and
could not leave her. TO- Tom
Near KncXs left hand was found
2 snall-caliber pistol, which the youth
hao borrowed from his father earlier
m the day, saying he intended to in
Gulge in target practice.
Young Knox was student at Peter
boro Collegiate Institute, end had been
q noarder in the Pacey household for
about year. The husband told po-
: lice he never had suspected tbs youth
!. OF oelng IN love with his wife.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
CHICAGO STATIONS
SHIFT ALIGNMENTS
Moose No Longer Share Time on
Air With Edgewater Beach
Hotel Programs.

CHICAGO CP). - Divorces and new,
unions have disturbed the tranquility Of
the radio broadcaSting in Chicago.
VIVID, the Loyal Order of Moose
station, no longer shares time end pro-
grams with WEBH,. the Edgewater
Beach Hotel. The former now Is shar-
ing time with VIGIL, owned and
operated by the Illinois Federation Of
Labor.
, Although WEBB has consolidated
with KYW. owned by the Westinghouse
Electric Co., 1t is believed the hotel will
dismantle the station. WEBB and
VIVID formerly drew their programs
from the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
The paper now operates KYW. The
broadcasting of the hotels music, the
chief reason for maintaining the sta
ton, now is on the Herald and Ex-
aminer programs broadcast over KYW.
An attempt has been made by a
State street hotel manager to interest
retailers of the loop district in a pro-
gram to be broadcast by VIVID and
VIGIL. to be known as the Voice OF
State Street"
The four-year ownership and opera :
ton of WIS by Sears-Roebuck Co
terminated on October l, when the sta
ton became the property Of the Prairie
Farmer agricultural magazine. The
old staff was reained and the policy
Of giving farm programs precedence will
be maintained.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
SHORT WAVE FIGHT
|. GROWS IMPORTANT
Radio Commission to Get
Opinions of Engineers Be-
fore Setting Policy.
By. the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
With the political campaigns and the
new ALLEGATION Of stations holding the
radio spotlight, the fight of commercial
enterprises for the valuable short waves
has attracted relatively slight public
interest.
Radio men and Government observers
however, declare that the scramble for
these assignments and the threatened
battle between the land wire companies
and the radio concerns for the COM
munication business in the United States
is of major public commercial import.
Will Question Engineers.
Having heard arguments of rival
applicants for point-to-point radio serv-
ice in the United States, the Radio
Commission plans to get the recon-
mendationS of engineers preparatory to
formulating a policy in the assignment
OF these channels. With the supply of
wave lengths insufficient to meet all of
the requests. the commission says pri-
ority of claims must be determined on
the basis of greatest public service.
Because of the shortage of wave
lengths, the commission heretofore has
been reluctant to assign radio channels
for communication purposes where wire
ASSAAAOASo oAC OO1Ll6 tlIIlE ago
the Radio Manufacturers Association
recommended to the commission that
radio be used only for those services
where wire communication is impracti-
cable or impossible.
Three Seek Permits.
Three rival companies now seek per-
mission to establish networks of radio
telegraph stations handling public mes
sages in competition with the wire
systems of the country. Representa-
tiveS Of the Radio Corporation of
America, one of the applicants main
tain that the service they propose would
be clearly in the interest of the public.
They claim that the Radio Corpora
tons competition in the transoceanic
field resulted in the first reduction in
cable rates in 38 years.
The other applicants are the
Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. and the
Universal Wireless Communications
Co, new corporation formed at Buff
falo. The Mackay concern contends
that 1t is better equipped to serve the
public because of its connection with
an established land wire system, the
Postal Telegraph Co. The Universal
Wireless Co. bases its plea for priority
on the fact that it was first to propose
the establishment of a national radio
network to compete with the wire lines.
Evening star., 1928-10-07

Observing the legend that the bram-
bles from blackberry bushes formed the
Crown of Thorns, natives in some parts
Of France refused to eat the berries this
year.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
Alaska Has Firehoat.

KETCHIKAN, Alaska CP).-This city
has purchased Alaska's first f1reboat.
A tug has been acquired by the fire de-
partment for additional protection to
cannery property and fishing craft.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
SEPARATION REVEALS
SECRET MARRIAGE
Mrs. Charlotte Cheatham Mayo Re
ported Wed to Edward
Meyers 10 Months Ago.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 6.-The New
York Daily News said today that the
secret marriage of the former Mrs.
Charlotte Cheatham Mayo in March.
1927, to Edward Meyers, New York
real estate broker. was disclosed yester-
day with the announcement that the
couple had separated.
Mrs. Meyers, whose matrimonial ca
reer began with an elopement with Jo-
seph Archullta, a Spaniard. when she
was IA, was married to Roy Alfred Mayo.
millionaire broker of New York In 1916.
At Boulder, Colo, Mayo obtained di-
vorce in 1922 after his wife was alleged
to have gone through marriage cere-
mony with Ralph Graham Kreischmar,
who had the marriage annulled
Evening star., 1928-10-07
HAWAIIANS AT PRIMARY.
Republican Incumbent and Demo.
crat Unopposed for Congress.

crat Unopposed for Congress.
HONOLULU, october s Cp).--Voters
On in primary election today to noml-
nate candidates for a Representative to
Congress Victor K. Houston, Repun-
lican incumbent, and Bertram G.. Riv-
enburgh. Democrat. were unopposed for
the respective nominations.
The Office of sheriff of the city and
county Of Honolulu was sought by IL
Republicans and Democrats.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
SUSPECT CLEARED.

CHICAGO, October R).--Lucille
Marshall, arrested as suspect in Los
Angeles in the Staying here five years
ago of Richard C. Tesmer. wealthy ga
rage owner. is not wanted in Chicago,
the police told Los Angeles authorities
today. The girl was held on minor
charge when the police In the coast
city noticed that the description Of the
girl who shot and killed Tesmer fitted
Evening star., 1928-10-07
Eels' Secrets TO Be Probed.

In an effort to solve the mysteries Of
the eel. Prof. Johannes Schmidt of the
University of Copenhagen has embarked
on a two-year cruise. Having studied
the habits of the elongated swimmers
of the Atlantic, he will now observe
those in the Pacific. How young eels,
born far from the parents homes, find
their way to these homes is to be stud
led Prof Schmidt hopes also to be the
first person ever to see an cells egg.
Evening star., 1928-10-07
AIMEE TOURS NIGHT
HAUNTS IN LONDON
Evangelist Is Quoted as Saying
City Is Not as Wild
as Paris.
ociated Press.

4 i
N. October g. Mrs. Aimee
Jefferson, Los Angeles evan
soured the night faunts of Lon
!, last night and newspapers today
quoted her as saying: London is not
so wild as Paris or as many other big
cities have been in"
Mrs. Mcpherson visited night clubs,
public houses, coffee stalls and saw the
Piccadilly, Soho and LimehouSe dis
tricts. She also tried the doors of sew
eral ancient churches tucked away in
the theater district. She told her
guides, who were English newspape:
men, that the churches ought to keep
open at night instead of being filled only
with shadows.
After viewing a public house where
women lined the bar with men, Mrs.
Mcpherson commented that there was
nothing like that in America, even be-
fore prohibition.
AS a result of columns of news and
comment, Mrs. Mcpherson is the most
advertised personality in London at
the moment. All boxes at Albert Hall
have been sold at West End theater
prices for her first sermon tomorrow
The rest of the great hall will be opened
to the public several hours before the
service.
Evening star., 1928-10-07

Rev. L. s. Hoover. "guest preacher" at
the Free Methodist Church in Rock
vile, Nd. and the efficient 3-tube re-
ceiver made by him. He claims 1t to be
the worlds smallest 3-tube set. 1t is
SO inches wide and 7ts inches long.
The evangelist has carried IL with him
in a 20,O00-miIe journey.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-19
Twin CITY Market Week

Saint Paul-The thirteenth semi.
annual Twin City Market week will
be observed jointly in Minneapolis and
Saint Paul August to II, simultane-
ously with the fifth semi-annual con-
vention of the National Merchants AS.
ISOLATION. An event will be the third
semi-annual Style show of the Twin
Cities Apparel industries in which
fifty charming models will display
1000 costumes revealing what milady
will wear during the fall and winter
OF 192S-29. Reduced rail rates of one
and one-half fare on the certificate
plan will apply from nine states, Min
nesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Nebraska,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon
tana, and Wyoming; also the Upper
peninsula Of Michigan and points in
Manitoba including Winnipeg. Mar.
ket week headquarters will be estab-
ished. In Saint Paul: Mannheimer
building, Sixth and Robert street and
in Minneapolis, Cream of Wheat build
ing, First avenue North and Fifth
street. Railroad ticket certificates
will be validated at these headquar-
tiers, enabling the visitor to return
home for half fare.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-19
ROADS TO TAKE
OVER EXPRESS
86 Lines Name Agents to Nego-
tiate-Contract Expires
February %

New York-The American railroads
have announced definite plans for tax.
ing over the country's express bust
ness. Presidents of four of the larger
railroads are appointed agents, with
broad powers to acquire either the
assets and property of the American
Railway Express Co., or its stock, and
to organize a new corporation, Rail-
way Express Agency, Inc.
Representatives of Sc railroads do
ing most of the nations business have
agreed that they will not renew the
existing contract with the American
Railway Express Co. when it expires
February %, and all are expected to
cooperate in the plan for taking over
this business, as proposed by the uni
form express contract committee Of
the American Association Of Railway
Executives.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-19
MAKE A GOOD SHOCK
Good Shocking Protects Oats from
The Weather.

THE main objects in shocking oats
are to permit proper curing, and at
the same time to protect the grain
from weathering as much as possible.
II the oats are green or weedy, and
weather conditions are favorable, the
bundles may be allowed to cure for a
few hours or even a day in the car
rier row before shocking. Two kinds
of shocks may be built, round, or
long shocks. If the grain is fully
ripe and free from weeds the round
shock usually is the most satisfactory.
1t stands up better in windy weather
and protects the oats from weathering
better than the long shock If, how.
ever, the oats are green and the bun.
dies contain weeds, and especially if
the weather is rainy and unfavorable
for harvesting, the long shock is pref
cradle. 1t permits air to pass
through the shock more freely. In
most districts the long shock is left
uncapped Cap bundles when used
should be broken and placed in such
manner so that they will not blow
off. Oats should never be shocked
when damp with dew or rain, as the
grain may mold. Skill and care in
shocking will pay big dividends where
the crop may be subjected to frequent
storms and rains while curing in the
field.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-19

Sixty millions so far accumulated
came of itself, so to speak. There is
no more coming that way, or only a
little more. There may be a million
acres of agricultural land in the re-
naming state holdings which will
gradually find a market. There are
some odd lots of pine and larger
quantities of pulpwood.
But the rest of the $2O0.O0O,O 600
which will eventually find its way in
to the state trust fund, if it is hand
led to best advantage, will come by
the sort of management and the kind
of planning and the development OF
policy that was needless, or neglected,
in the earlier years when the state
was picking up what lay on the sur
face.
In the last twenty years, the audi
tors who have been custodians of the
state lands have been thinking about
that. Recent reports by Iverson and
Preus and Chase are full of sugges-
tions for the future constructive poll
cy of the state trust.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-19

the average price per thousand up to
his time was S1.S1; he got an aver
age of 1882 the first year and as
high as $3.50 the last year.
Iverson, following him, saw one
sale made at $15.75 per thousand and
noted with satisfaction that the state
got better prices than the sales by
the United States on Chippewa lands.
Now there is a little left of the orig
inal stand of pine and other timber.
The state in like manner has given
leases for the likeliest mineral de-
posits. There are no more rich de-
posits to be found on the surface. De-
velopment of mineral resources here
after means underground mining, or
heavy stripping, or processing the ore
to separate waste matter.
The cream has been skinned and
perhaps if we had to do it again the
matters would be handled much the
same way. Certainly the older gen.
GRAFTON used the best judgment it had
The present generation may be no
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-19
IX-The Best They Knew.

Sixty millions so far accumulated
in the trust funds came of itself, you
might say. 1t took fighting to gain
the lands and keep them from depre-
dation; it took care and foresight to
realize fair prices and hold the funds
intact; it took vigilance and pru-
dence. And notwithstanding some
leakage and some losses, the job was
we'll handled. o..
But it was mainly a matter of cash
ing in on what was in sight and hold
ing on to what was on top.
~ For the next sixty years or so, it
is very different job. Instead OF
merely cashing in, the state has to
make it's values hereafter before it
can realize on them.
The state sold it's agricultural lands
for SIS to $40 an acre and got in each
case full market value for them.
Those agricultural lands in southern
Minnesota and in the middle counties
and the valley were cleaned up some
fifty, some forty, some twenty years
ago.
The state sold it's standing pine and
got good prices for the stumpage,
though the lumbermen sometimes
made up in the slackness of the scale
for the generosity of the bid per thou
sand. Dunn, summing up at the end
OF his term, was proud to say that all
lumbermen agreed that the state got
higher prices than private owners;
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-19
w. C. T. u. COLUMN
COntentment Re.DiScOvered.

A price we pay for the privilege of
being Humankind sometimes it
seems almost a penalty-is the ability
to look inward and analyze our own
minds.
There has lately arisen habit of
pretentious subjective reasoning. The
psychological novel is a symptom.
We ponder long and sometimes pain
fully because of our mental struggles.
We think we are terribly misunder-
stood. We speculate about the des-
tiny of the mind; we spin ourselves
into veritable cocoon of inward
binding thoughts; we become more
and more self-centered; we do not
dwell enough on objective things.
There is a tendency in society to-
ward an individualistic anarchism
when this interpretive habit takes a
firm hold. People under the spell do
not consider the welfare of others;
they are more likely to indulge in
selfish appetites. They become over
booked, and over-stimulated by the
Unlocking and subjective problems,
and are then overwhelmed with a
foolish conviction as to the general
futility of life.
The fresh breeze that clears away
the mental fog-the breath of clean
air that brings US out of over-much
introspectiOn-is the touch of the
out-of-doors. William Cullen Bryant,
when only a youth, spoke matured
wisdom when he said, go forth under
the open sky and list to Natures
teachings"
1t is the never-failing cure for
brainsickliness. In the touch of the
soil and in the view of the open sky,
blue mountains, columbine brilliant
under tall tree; in the pell-mell
scampering of dog, the discovery of
a new road or sun-sweetened creek
bank, in the budding of dew-cov-
cred rose, is found peace.-Better
Homes and Garden.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-07-19
Norris Rejects F. l. Nomination

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Norris of Ne
braska declined to accept the nomina-
ton for president given him by the
Farmer-Labor party at its Chicago
convention. He rejected it in long
statement, in which he criticized the
presidential election machinery and
continued his attack on "the power
trust" The senator declared his re-
fusal was not to indicate that he was
out of sympathy with those who are
opposed to the presidential nominees
of the major political parties. Instead,
he said, the Anticipated and illogical
system Of electing a president made 1t
practically impossible for the people
to elect anyone who has not been
nominated by one Of the dominant 20.
litical parties" Much of the state
ment concerned what he called the
power trust, and the senator also ar.
raigned both the Republican and Dem.
ocratic parties for remaining "as silent
as the grave upon the subject"