Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-06-27
AMERICAN IS
PRIZE WINNER
Listed With Ten Newspa-
perS Over the State of
Minnesota for Writing
Best Editorial Headed
Onward Minnesota"

The Ten Thousand LakeS-Greater
Minnesota Association recently asked
Minnesota editors to publish editorials
on the subject onward Minnesota.
Secretary H. c.. Hotaling personally
offered prizes of SIS each to the editors
writing what was considered the ten
best editorials. Each one of the ten
winning editorials is a glorious tr1b-
ute to our state and we wish they
might be placed in the hands of every
editor to inspire more good words for
Minnesota and her hundreds of beau
tiful communities" writes Mr.. Hotal-
ing. They are too lengthy to be re-
produced in full, so we have taken
excerpts representing what we believe
is the most important part of each
one"
The Askov American was amongst
the state prize winners and its editor
ial headed Onward Minnesota was
published in the issue of April 25th.
Commenting on the various prize win
ming editorials and taking excerpts
from each Mr.. Hotaling puts it in
these words:
The Thief River Falls Times after
enumerating the advantages which
Minnesota offers in agriculture, rec
reation, mining, industry, water pow
er and education sums it up thus:
And there are other things too, more
or less mportant-forests, roads, eli
mate, who can name them all? Mime
sofa means mining, industry, north
star, navigation, electricity, schools,
opportunity, ten thousand lakes, agri-
culture. No other state can boast so
great a diversity of assets. No state
is more self sufficient. And no state
has so promising a future. Onward
Minnesota"
The Butterfield Advocate whose ed
itor came to Minnesota first as tour
list and liked the state so well that he
decided to live here says in part:
Vast eXpanses of wilderness travers-
ed by enchanting streams, millions OF
acres of rich prairie land, thousands
of splendid improved farms, and hun
dreds of thriving cities and villages
manufacturer and the capatilist gold
en- opportunities to establish them
selves along profitable lines in pleas
ure resort district without peer"
The Jordan Independent hopes that
the American standard of living will
always be maintained and that We
may always have our semi tropical
fruits, radios and automobiles. But
it says: IF the sad spectre of want
should ever stalk across the American
continent it would be Minnesota to the
rescue. Minnesota is the state that
produces the necessary staples, the
bread, the butter, the cereals, the eggs
and the poultry, the cream, the bacon,
beef and fats are all produced in our
versatile state. What the world must
have as a matter of essentials of ex-
istence, Minnesota produces. We of
Minnesota who are here are indeed
lucky. Fortunate are those not of US
yet, who seeing the states unrivalled
situation decide to join u.s.
The Swift County News of Benson,
says: The agricultural advantages
of this state have long been recognize
ed; every year great influx of pro-
gressive members of the rural class
decide to make their homes in this
promised land"
The Austin Herald shows Mime
sofa as a state of industrial and agri-
cultural activity, and yet with pleas
ant Fairgrounds within easy reach of
all her citizens. Concerning this phase
of Minnesota as place in which to
live it says, with paved roads push
ing out and curtailing distances, they
may become a short path between the
scene of bustling activity and that of
restfulness and recreation"
The Journal Chronicle of Owatonna,