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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-28
BROOK PARK

M. u. ScOU0lu NlSIICu Will
in Minneapolis from Wednesday until
Sunday last week.
Miss Elsie Hartman and Miss Mar
garet Lufi motored to Mora to nave
dental work done, one day last week.
A number of the young girls under
the direction of Miss Alice Zeigler,
organized a Girl Scout club Wednes-
day of last week. They will meet
every Wednesday throughout the sum-
mer.
Robert and Ray Mcclellan attended
the Southern Pine County Cow Test
ing meeting at Pine City last Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy E. Saffell and
three children of Minneapolis, arrived
Tuesday evening for few days WISH
at the A. L. Scofield home.
Mrs. Remer Rypkema and children
visited her parents, at Sandstone, sew
eral days last week.
Earl Stream attended the cow test
ing meeting at Pine City last Thurs
day.
A. L. Scofield motored to Mime
apolis last Thursday.
The Junior League held an ice cream
social Friday evening at the ToWle
building. The social was to have
been held on the church lawn, bu'
owing to the rainy weather, was TAX
en- inside. The Junior League mem
bers took in about $12 for their work
This money is to help pay the ex
penses of some of the young people
to go to the Sunday school institute
at Hanging Horn Lake soon.
Asa Woodbeck visited in Pine Cit!
last Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. A. L. Scofield called in Mor'
Tuesday evening.
A family reunion of the Ze1gle
family was held here Sunday. Anon
those present from out of town were
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Zeigler of st. Pau
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Zeigler of Mil
neapolis, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Zeigler G
Minneapolis, and Mr.. and Mrs. Waite
Zeigler, who are leaving for Florld
soon.
Virginia and Retta Kelsey who hav
been visiting their grandmother
Virginia the past week, returne
home Sunday, their parents, Mr.. an
Mrs. Paul Kelsey meeting them
Carlton.
The ladies of the third division
; the Ladies' Aid society will hold
food sale at the Scotield & Son stor
Friday morning, June 29th.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. ]. Wright and fan
lily visited at New Richmond, Wi:
the latter part of the week.
Oscar Chase of Henriette, motors
: up Saturday and traded his Dods
!. sedan to Hank Berndt, for ne
Chevrolet sedan. MIR. Chase and M
!. Berndt motored to Hinckley after II
n new car Saturday.
Miss Alice Zeigler went to MINI
apolis Sunday, and will take trea
ments for her goitre.
VIM. Orr, who has been visiting
Fairmont for some time, return'
home Friday.
Melvin Anderson is having ne
house built on his farm.
A. Petra and his son called
Quamba Tuesday.
Miss Hope Shaske spent last we
visiting at the Harold Kelsey hon
at Virginia.
Arthur Scofield visited in MINI
apolis Sunday.
Mr. Dirty of Maple Plain, is visitil
his daughter, Mrs. E. ]. Wright, tn
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Clark and fan
lily visited in Mora Friday.
Miss Mary Powers of Quamba, ca
ed in town Saturday afternoon.
N. F. Alderman and son, A. G.
derman, motored to Hinckley Satu
day.
Elmer Anderson motored to MINI
apolis Saturday.
Mrs. Leonard Miller and childr
of Minneapolis visited at the hor
of Mrs. Miller's parents, Mr.. and MI
IN p
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-28
SAND CREEK

The Sand Creek and Danforth
young people held their meeting at
the Bear Creek school house Monday
night.
Aug. Hessler spent Sunday after
noon at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Jorgensen.
Mrs r. ]. Shute and son, Clair, and
her sister, Mrs. Lillian Anderson,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-28

Mrs. Warren Shute and son, Harry
and daughter, Frances, and Mrs. Chr
Selhave, all of Duxbury, visited
with Mrs. Aug Hessler Wednesday
afternoon of last week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-28

Brook Park Community NJ. E. Church
Notes.
Elsie Hartman, Pastor
Saturday, June 30th-2 p. mum
ior League and catechism classes for
the boys at the Towle building. $3.50
p. m.-Junior League and Bible study
for girls at the church.
Sunday, 10 a. m.-Church school,
II a. m.-Divine worship, p. NJ
Young peoples meeting and preach
ing service.
Tuesday, 8 p. m.-Prayer meeting
Wednesday, p. m.-ChOir practice
There will be no Ladies' Aid meet.
ing this week. Daily vacation Bible
school will continue throughout next
week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1928-06-28

Fewer widows are remarrying than
at any other time for the past half
century.
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Pokegama M. E. Church Notes.

Sunday, July 1st-2 p. m.-Church
school, 3 p. m.-Divine worship.
Thursday, July 5th-2 p. m.-Junior
Catechism class, s p. m.-Senior Cate
chism class.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-08
minneapolis JournaD


An offica! map Of State road conditions. IS
sued by the Highway Department several days
after the mid April storms had ceased, was
designed solely for the guidance of travellers.
so they might avoid routes that were in bad
shape.
Nevertheless, this chart furnishes the
strongest kind of an argument for reasonable
bond issue to hasten the paving of important
roads carrying heavy traffic, and the strong
est kind of an argument against the diversion
of gasoline tax money out Of the Trunk High
way Fund, as proposed in the unfair and un-
wise Amendment Number One, to be voted on
next fall.
Take Trunk Highway Number Three the
road to Winona and La Crosse. From Sank
Center down through the Twin Cities and clear
down to La Crosse; this great travel route is
paved, except for three short stretches. But
oh, what stretches! On April 81 the gravel
between Hastings and the point west of Red
Wing where the pavement recommences was
described as "fair to poor" and the short un-
paved gap just south Of Winona was marked
good to fair.
Now driving over good to fair" gravel
road is no great hardship, even in a spring
thaw And fair to poor" stretch can be put
up with. even though it be for twenty miles,
provided the going called poor" is occasionally
relieved by brief bits Of going called fair"
But the fifteen miles of gravel from Lake
City to Wabasha, half way between the Twin
Cities and La Crosse, was marked poor to i'm
passable' on the map Of April 81
Here is road paved nearly all its length,
from Sank Center right down to the southeast
ern corner Of Minnesota. Two hundred miles
of concrete rendered useless for through cross
State travel, by just few miles Of begged
down gravel.
And there have been others. Important
Number Ten, paved from Pennock to Litchfield,
and from Wayzata to Minneapolis, but with
many impossible spots in the gravel between
Litchfield and Wayzata, was another example
on the map of April q. Nor has the present
spring been an exceptional one. A year ago
Number One, at the time paved all the way to
Duluth save for two short gaps Of gravel was
closed to traffic for days and days, when those
brief stretches begged down.
A road is no better than its weakest link.
Weak links are the inevitable price of piecemeal
paving and piecemeal paving is the inevitable
result Of "pay-as-you highways, as opposed
to bond-but highways.
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Another Billion Paid

On June 80 when the treasury department
writes another billion off the national debt
the United S tates will add another chap
ter to the most amazing story in the history
of public finance. In nine years the nation
has reduced it's war debt from $4,000, 000,O 600
to ST $500, 100000. It is a remarkable record
and one that is credit to even this fabulously
wealthy and prosperous nation.
This money was borrowed by the govern
naent from it's own people and large part of
II was loaned to Americas allies in the World
war, but most of the $500, 100000 repaid in
the nine years ending June 80 was from
American taxpayers, not from European debt
orr.
Vast treasury SURPRISES year after year have
made possible this rapid retirement Of the pub
RI debt and If continued will wipe out the
Eobt long before the time predicted by the
treasury department. But the day Of large
rurpluses in the national treasury seems to be
re "a end. The zeal Of surplus-spenders and
- roductionists ID making large excuses Of
onue very unlikely in the future.
n Evon though there are no surplus funds in
~ treasury to apply to the debt, it viii be
Dod out 81 1947 by sinking funds and for
80 paymentss So ct the most the taxpayers
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Muted Big Bill"
{ New York Timesl


Mayor Thompson has learned resignation,
even if he won't resign; and his machine
philosophers are pragmatsts. Well licked,
they know it and are ready to let the successful
opposition run things. In the rapid shifts Of
Chicago Republican politics, the friend of to-
day is the foe of tomorrow. So the pragma-
lists take their medicine and wait their time.
For the sake of harmony the masters Of the
Cook County Republican Convention, having
shown their power by electing its officers, were
magnanimous to Governor Lowden, Senator
Deneen and Secretary of State Emmerson, the
abaser of Governor Len Small.
Cruel only to be kind they had to tell
Thompson to take a back seat" Reversing
the fable, the OK unswelled himself into the
Frog; land don't let us hear a croak from you
till we give the word" The trainers of this
gifted amphibian of the prairies, lakes and
waterways must have told him. So the below
heard round the world is followed by lovely
hush, and George V no longer has to take
veronal O. nights. Ten days ago Bill" was
"hurling defiance" at all his opponents and
glazing at the "Cossack thugs" Then he was
everywhere. Monday he stayed away from the
convention. The posters are torn. The
slogans have shut up America is presuma-
bly, last and her champions ambition has
shrunk to this: He is one of Committee Of
Three to offer platform at the Judicial Con-
VeIlIlOH III way. Ou tragic figures 1allen from
high estate crowd the memory.
The teeth of Marius chatter in the marsh.
Bclisarius rattles his begging-dish. They are
not so pteous as big Bill" They had q de-
cline and diminuendo. The Big Noise was
almost instantaneously reduced into the Big
Silence. The drafter of Coolidge, the "recep-
tive" candidate for President, dwindles into
one-thrd of trifling committee. The student
of fortune and it's mutations thinks of the an
cient yarn of the officeseeker who went to
the White House to ask to be made Minister
Plenipotentiary and left contented, pair of
Old Hickorys old breaches over his arm.
Still, we don't have to o'ergall our eyes with
recourse of tears. Sweet William hasn't lost
his voice. Alas! He will revive. resurge, re-
below. He will doff this strange garment of
meekness. For the present, by advice of his
council, Brer Bill, he lay low.
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to be worth $44o,oo0,ooo. The
Southern Pacific, of course, had OBJ
tanned the lands from the govern
ment Of the people Of the United
States. Both the Southern Pacific
and the Santa Fe were also en-
riched by timber lands.
The last great grab at the public
lands within our borders came
through the reclassification joker
in the forest .servation bill. Some
Of those millions and millions of
acres were bad land and the rail-
roads decided they must have good
land in exchange. Redistribution
was supposedly designed to COM
pensate settlers for land taken for
the forest preserves.
The railroad lobbyists slipped in
the four words "or any other claim
ant" when the bill went to confer
ence after being passed by both
houses. Then the railroads snapped
millions Of acres Of barren desert
lands, denuded forest areas and
snowy mountain peaks for millions
Of the best lands still held by the
government. This fraud was de-
nounced in Congress, but the law
was not repealed until the swap
ping was all over.
Less than 20 years ago, H. H
Schwartz, chief Of the Department
of Interior Field Service, reported
81, 900 cases of land fraud and said
that about $11O,OOO,0OO worth of
public lands had been fraudulently
! acquired in the two years from
1906 to 1908.
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WASHINGTON ~
LETTER &M

road had not fulfilled its obligations
to the government, that President
Grant had been dragged in as an in
corporator without ever buying any
stock, that only II Of the original
1876 incorporators ever did sub
scribe for stock and those without
putting up real money and that no
more than 5000, 900 was ever raised
for development to meet the acts
provision for At least $4,000, 900.
In less than IL years, he said, the
promoters had pocketed $4,000, 900
Of the stock, whereas they were
supposed to capitalize for 500, 00O,-
900 and sell all stock in bona fide
way. II Congress had known that
the promoters would pocket the
So, 600, 900, he said, it would never
have awarded the huge land grant.
As to the looseness Of former pub
lie land administration, it developed
that the Interior Department adj
mitted the question Of error in the
taking several million acres in the
northwest by the railroad due to
displacement Of survey lines.
The committee finally submitted
. record Of its hearings to the at
torney general, who upheld IS Of 20
contentious of the Forest Service.
It has since asked for an opinion
as to proper legislation to remedy
the situation. Whether this will
cover only the 100000 national
forest acres demanded by the North
ern Pacific or 100000 more acres
held by the road and demanded back
by MCGOWAN has not been decided.
Grants as large as the total area
of three or four eastern states were
given to railroads in the lush post
Civil War days. The Northern
Pacific was granted $4,000, 900
acres, Southern Pacific 18,000,0OO,
Union Pacific 100000, Kansas
Pacific 100000 and Central
Pacific 5000, 900 and together they
were given more than $125, O00, 900.
In 1906, the Great Northern, an
other favored grantee, was able to
give its stockholders $127, 000, 900
worth Of ore certificates.
But in 1921 the Southern Pacific
gave its stockholders, in the form
| Of an independent corporation and
for only $43, $50 900, assets includ-
| ing California oil lands which .
government commission estimated
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IN NEW YORK

New York, May 8.-Some Of our
most important citizens, it seems,
once carried water for the ele-
plants.
And they've never quite recov-
cred. The spirit of the "small boy
lives on, and the lure and love Of
the circus never have been lost.
Thus, l learn, there is q very small
and very select organization in this
realm known as the Circus Fans
Association Of America. l came up
on this when stumbled over a
gathering of Up. T. Barnum Chap
ter No. l."
CHANGING down the list Of celeb
rites who belong l came upon the
name Of Governor Harry Byrd OF
Virginia; Governor AL Smith Of New
York; Senator Watson of Indiana;
F. TRULY Dawson, assistant secre-
tary Of war; Karl Knecht, the Indi-
ana newspaper editor; Mayor
Schwab Of Buffalo: E. F. Albee, the
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-08

Dear Nom:
To 60 on with my story about
the meeting of Norman and me with
Pede-
Norman said some good, old
fashioned words when Pede insist
ed on my going with him, and
then Pede stepped back and looked
straight at Norman with fire in
his eye.
"The Senior forgets the lady," he
said in voice that sounded like the
rustic of silk.
you'd better do the same," Nor
man told him. "She doesn't seem
to want to keep that date" Then
he turned to me and asked me if I
knew this masher. ! had to say I
did. Of course, but I was not going
to have Norman think I had DELHI
erately walked him into the man. So
! told Pede I was very sorry but he'd
have to excuse me because / didn't
know>I had heavy date with him.
Then Norman took q step for
ward, with me on his arm, but
Pede got in the way again. He put
out a hand and stopped me.
That was too much for Norman.
He swung on Pede's jaw and spun
him half way around. guess Nor
man didn't stop to think how per:
fectly insane it was. But he knew
in an instant all right. Pede whirled
back and smashed him in the eye.
BY that time a crowd had gath
cred on the scene and more were
coming. ! was fighting mad. too.
Because it certainly wasn't my
fault If those two dumb-bells wanted
to indulge in q cheap street scene.
So ] ducked.
When Norman followed me back
into the apartment after finishing
it up With Pede-three men pulled
'em apart-I gave him a good sound
talking to. And put some chopped
steak on his We. I didn't have any
other kind. II would have been al
right but I'd already sailed and pep
pered 1t.
Norman didn't stay very long
after that but this morning he was
feeling better. Well, ] do hope his
aunt won't hear about It.
Dearest love,
MARYE.
NEXT: Nom upbraids Marye.
Copyright. 1928. NEA Service, Incl
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Political lamentations and jeremaids are the
order of the day in this great state of North
Dakota. BY way of contrast stranger comes
: into our midst and gives different impress
sion Of conditions than that which the politi-
clans of certain clique seek to convey.
:. The statements of Mr. DeWild are true, as
everyone knows who has Travelled recently
throughout the far East and along the Pacific
:. coast. Yet a few leather-lunged job hunters
are going up and down the state seeking to
scare the voters into camp with the kind of
= an argument that will mean decided setback
to present economic conditions in North
Dakota.
ably with other agricultural states, all things
considered. Regardless of the cost of the so
SCALED state industrial program the increase Of
taxation can easily be explained Amy thought
full student Of government knows that the
-@chief tax load is Occasioned by county, city,
school district and other strictly local levies.
All the hullabaloo about state taxes is so much
dust in the eyes Of the voters
But the most vicious propaganda is that
being put out by the Independents to injure
: the reputation of the state by picturing it as
1.-The home of bolshevsm; by soliciting funds to
thwart the honest efforts of the farmers of the
state to secure better marketing conditions
1by opposing the wishes Of great majority of
the population upon whose business the cities
1made and will be made in this struggle toward
IL solution Of the agrarian problems, but the
same mistakes are being made over q wide
! area of the agricultural domain of this nation.
: North Dakota is not unique in that.
Why continually hold up North Dakota as a
horrible example? Why erect wailing walls
lin our midst? Why paint dark picture Of
conditions here when the one given by Mr.. De-
1,Wild is nearer the truth?
4 If the voters are keen to the situation they
will register next month their hearty disap-
1proval of the kind of campaign which the In
dependents are launching. 1t lacks truth and
sincerity; it blackens the fair name of great
state; it belittles it's people; it flouts the
wishes of great body of its citizenry.
There should be only one answer to those
who would scuttle ship to gain political
! Job; to those who would destroy simply what
\ they cannot rule.
North Dakota has had four years of clean
business administration and the insinuations,
charges and counter-charges which constitute
the curtain raiser Of this state campaign are
prejudicial to a condition which Mr.. DeWild
90 warmly praised in his recent address to the
merchants of Bismarck.
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By RODNEY BUTCHER
NEA Service Writer


Washington, May s.-An echo Of
the loose and liberal days Of the
last century. when congressman
were more susceptible to slush
funds and Hobbies and huge public
land grants were tossed here and
there with lavish hand, ID heard in
the Northern Pacific railroad land
case now before Congress.
After receiving and waxing fat on
grant of more than 10000, 900
acres in 1864, the Northern Pacific
in more recent years cast eyes up-
on some 5000, 900 acres Of our ma
tional forests and laid claim to
them.
The Forest Service became very
sore. D. F. MCGOWAN, it, chief
counsel, led the fight to protect the
forests. He charged that the claim
was an outrage, that the railroad
had already received $27O,0O0, zoo
worth of public lands for building
railroad that cost only SO, 000. 900,
that the road had obtained LOOT, 900
acres never intended for it and
100000 acres Of questionable title
and that it was still holding onto
100000 acres Of the original grant
although required by law to sell it
years ago at $3.50 an acre.
A joint congressional committee
investigated the scandal.
Testimony centered on the deal by
which, some 80 years previously, the
road had been able to exchange a
great acreage Of practically worth
less territory for choice agricul-
tural and timber lands belonging to
the government. This was done un-
der a peculiar reclassification law
passed by Congress.
Two of the federal land commits
sioners who reclassified the rail
roads Idaho lands in 1857 were
given valuable timber rights. One
Of these commissioners, still living,
testified before the committee that
he had been given timber rights to
$4,000 acres and that the railroad
had promised to buy cross ties made
from this timber. The ex-commis-
sioner admitted that the deal was
made while the reclassification was
in progress, but said that il any
land steal was involved it had been
dictated from Washington.
MCGOWAN charged that the rail
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vaudeville magnate, and Joe Cook
the Broadway comedian.
Inquiring what it was all about
was handed slip Of paper that
read: "The organization is made up
Of non-circus folk banded together
for the purpose of rendering assist
ance to circuses in overcoming
evils of legislation directed against
them and for the betterment Of the
circus people,"
Seemingly there's nothing fingers
longer in the blood than the mem
DRY Of those barefoot days when we
all trudged out at dawn to see
1.-THE big show" come in.
At least two Broadway plays and
a popular gang history tell US OF
the evils of the Bowery, when the
Bowery was the Bowery.
Just how far away those slough
days" are can be gathered from ar
incident related to me the other day
be a newspaper woman. She had
started for q little Italian theate1
in what once had been considered a
death zone." Having difficulty
locating the place, she hailed a
passing truck and asked the driver
to direct her.
"Sure," know where It is
"Hop on an I'll take you there
Recalling that, after all, she was
on the Bowery, the girl hesitated
moment and then hoped on. She
was driven to the theater and when
she tried to tip the driver for as
sisting her he blushed angrily, in.
formed her that he was "just doing
. lady q soivice," and drove on.
It is crude chivalry, then. and not
danger that one meets on the Bow
cry in these vapid days!
Speaking of chivalry, visitors Oft
en- comment on the lack OF it in the
New York subways. Invariably one
will see most of the seats occupied
by men while women are the strap
hangers. Invariably one will see the
men crush through and rush to their
seats, leaving indignant women in
their wake.
These same men will, for some
reason, get up and give their seats
to . lady in the street cars or the
elevateds. But there 10 an unwrit'
ten law that governs the subway
rush. Here humanity gets its mosl
primal expressions. The law o.
"doe eat dog maintains in the face
Of any civilized gestures elsewhere
The law Of survival of the fittest, OF
latest, is practicsd hundred times
a day. If the women passengers
ever gave it heed, they no longer dc
30. While strangers make editorial
commentaries, the New York
women take it as q matter of course
and are singularly complacent about
it.