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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
THE ASSET OF THOUGHT
minneapolis Starr

Civilization is steadily giving more
leisure to the individual. Machine
production on a large scale is afford
ing people more time to. themselves.
Whether mankind will progress to
greater maturity and enlightenment
or whether it will eventually become
mass of robots ruled by an intellect
ual minority rests not on the acQuisi-
ton of more leisure but the proper
employment of the leisure already OBJ
tanned.
An insurance statistician, speaking
before the meeting of the American
association for the advancement of
Science, calls attention to leisure sur
plus that people are now enjoying
and points out the need of it's better
use.
If people are going to fritter away
their extra time in the endless round
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
ALL RECORDS SMASHED

When one compares the advance
ment of aviation from twenty-five
years ago with that of the present day
it is difficult to realize the remarkable
achievement in this, seemingly i'm
possible field From the Wright
brothers historic biplane, where the
solo pilot sat in the open with barely
anything under him but space. to the
present day army F'Okker plane,
piloted in luxury inside of closed
cabin with three motors to furnish
power and three co-pilots and a me-
chanic for company and relief, is in
deed a long and remarkable step in
advancement. From few short min
utes aloft with the Wright plane to
$50 hours, 40 minutes and Is seconds
with the army flyers constantly in the
air, through day and night, and
through all the elements of the wealth
er, is the meteOr-like rise and eXpan-
sion of mans conquest of the air, that
previously was only thought of as
being the realm of winged creatures.
These sturdy and fearless flyers
nave gwen, In tnelf snort days Oh
flight, which exceeded all previous re-
cords of aircraft, many things of value
to the work. which will inevitably
mean SO much to the future industrial
and commercial life of our country.
They have added to the store of know
ledge already possessed that an air
plane can be fueled in the air. They
have taxed the stamina of plane mo-
tors and contributed TO the work of
improving same together with much
other Information, which will be val
liable to flying in the future. These
men of the army corps of flyers have
contributed their bit in a quiet and
bOastless way to the advancement of
that field, which they have proven
themselves to be no small part Of
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10

fugitives from the law with price
on their heads. Then is when it is
too late to turn back to the straight
and narrow path. Environment did
it all. Environment started them on
the way toward this. On the other
hand environment-the right kind
could have prevented this. A
cleaner and more healthful and educa-
tional atmosphere could have chang
ed the future of the most desperate
criminal. You will say. what about
Loeb and Leopold or some of the other
educated criminals?" OF course there
are exceptions to all rules, and we
will venture to say that the company
they kept and the environment they
were used to. played a large part in
placing them where they are now.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
WHO WILL GET HURT!

Harking back to farm relief, about
which you may have read, our Mid
west cOrn-growers have before Presi-
dent Coolidge's Tariff Commission a
proposition to give the duty on Argen-
tine corn a big boost. Argentine gets
into our midst about two million bush
els of corn. annually. 1t costs ~ cents
a bushel to transport it by water to
New York, II cents to San Francisco.
Our Midwest growers have to pay %
cents freightage to the Atlantic sea-
board and 3S cents to the Pacific.
The Argentinas frankly threaten
that, if the corn duty is raised, they
will resort to drastic reprisals'
against United States goods and we
sell them over $15O,OOO,OOO worth of
goods annually. There's something
mighty drastic" about the situation.
Either the farmer is going to get
hurt, or the manufacturer is. How
many guesses does the reader want
as to Observation-Disclosures Magazine
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
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EDITORIAL COMMENT OTHER NEWSPAPERS WHICH MAY
OR MAY NOT CONFORM WITH THE OPINIONS
ASIkOV AMERICANA

of home and theater entertainment
now made available by the mass pro-
ductiOn which gives them added leis-
ure, it is evident they won't devote
much of their leisure to thought.
There is, indeed. little hope for an in
dividual or a race that has to be
amused after the days work is done,
and who hate to be thrown on their
lur mental resources even for half
hour. Most people dislike thinking
because of the effort involved, and
when they do think it is often in pat
terms laid down by leaders i'm thought.
The culture courses" aren't so silly
after all. If more people would teach
their brains to have thoughts of their
own, the world might be a better. at
least a more reasonable, place to live
in.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
PINE COUNTY REAL
ESTATE TRANSFERS

@. D.-Edw. L. Pulkrabek to Ernest
Chalupnik and Thos. J. Shima. Cons
$3.50. Und. 1-3 interest in Lots 7, 8, g.
10, Is, IS, II, Is, Block 16, Midway
Beroun.
S. w. D.-State Bank of Willow
River, Mimi, to E. B. Linsley. Cons
$3.50. Part of Lot II, in Block 1
also the South part of Lot ~, in Block
1, Willow River, MINI.
w. D.-Clemence Klein to John N
Compton. Cons. $1.OO. SEA of NEA
and NEA of SEA of Sec. 25-45-1S
Kerrick.
w. D.-Monroe M. Shuey to Clair
H. Shuey. Cons. $1,000. An und. 1-13
int. in the E1a of Sec $500, the
S12 of SEA of Sec. "a, the SWA OF
SWA of Sec. 35, all in Twp. 80, Range
20. Pine City
w. Own. A. Guptill to Alvin W.
GuptilI. Cons. $1.OO. NJ Of SEA
of Sec. 35-4O-21. Mission Creek
w. D.-Jas. B. Bradshaw and others
to William Schrader. Cons 100000
NW4 of NWA of Sec. 31-44-17
Park.
Q. D.-Henry Plaggerman and 9th
ers to Fannie Plaggerman. Cons
$1.OO. SWA of SWA of Sec. 8, and
NWA of NWA of Sec. 17-42-20
Sandstone.
w. D.-Effie E. Cole to BENZ. W.
Spilman. Cons. $10O NJ of SEA
and S1a of NEA of Sec. 3-41-2O
Barry.
w. D.-Benj w. Spilman and wife
to Peter Spilman. Cons. $1.OO. NJ
of SEA of Sec. 3-41-2O. Barry.
w. D.-Benj. w. Spilman and wife
to Peter Spilman. Cons. $1.OO. So
of NEA of Sec, 3-41-2O. Barry.
Q. OWN. j. Korbel and others to
Anna C. Korbel. Cons. $1.OO. Lot 8
in Block 1, Princes Add. Pine City.
Q. D.-Carrie E. Hodge and others
to Common School District No. 1874.
Cons. $1.OO. acres in NWA of SWA
of Sec. 1872. Royalton.
Guard. D.-Dollie M. Carlson to R.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
MOB ACTION

Recently a negro was caught by a
mob and burned alive in Mississippi.
His crime was dastardly, but so was
tiers better and the public's mind
easier, the barbaricN attitude and
method taken by the mob made the
situation all the more embarrassing.
Instead of making other criminals
tremble with fear and resolve to so
straight. it tends to fill them with
anger and thirst for revenge. There
never was anything gained by people
taking the law into their own hands
and in our minds, there never will be.
1t is perfectly all right for mob to
run down and detect criminal, but
Mob violence is frequent in the
southern states especially in cases
where colored criminals are involved.
The negro is very unpopular in most
of the southern communities and the
slightest provocation brings the mob
down on the colored vagabond with
vengeance, but it has not seemed to
lessen the number of crimes that are
committed by the colored element
When a mob of nearly $500 can
stand by and watch a human slowly
burn to death, without raising hand
to prevent the barbarism, it is time
that Investigations are made and the
spirit and method of mObbing be clip
ped once and for all time by the law.
The murder that the negro commit
ted was bad, but the deed that the
mob committed with such lawless-
ness will linger in some of the more
abiding citizens minds for some
time to come.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
STATE FARM BUREAU
ANNUAL MEETING AT
ST. PAUL JAN. All

Commanding greater interest than
ever has been shown in a similar con-
vention, the tenth annual meeting of
the Minnesota Farm Bureau FEEDER
alton will be held at ST. Paul, Mon
day, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs
day, January IA, Is, 16 and IT,
President A. ]. Olson, of Renville
and Secretary j. S. Jones, of ST. Paul
together with members of the annual
meeting committee, this week were
forced to enlarge accommodation ar
rangements due to the unprecedented
advance reservations booked at ST
Paul headquarters. 1t is indicated
that registrations at the annual meet
ing will be double those of a year
ago.
Election of president and two vice
presidents of the organization for
1929, and two directors for twO-year
terms, together with the blocking out
of the Farm Bureau platform for the
year will be among important matters
to come before the meeting. Com
mittees of farmers representing every
county in the state will formulate
policies to be submitted to the meet
ing for ratification
Once adopted by the delegates vot-
ing at the annual meeting, these pro-
jects will become live factors and
will have far-reaching effect on
the public affairs of the state.
Speakers of national reputation are
coming to st. Paul to address this
Farm Bureau meeting.
PROMINENT among these are NJ S.
Winder of Chicago, secretary-treasur-
er of the American Farm Bureau fed
Grafton; Carl Taylor of Raleigh, N. c.,
dean of the North Carolina college of
agriculture; Mrs. Edith Wager of Carl
ton, Mich, chairman of the home
and community committee of the
Michigan Farm Bureau federation;
and H. N. Tolles, of Chicago, presi-
dent of the Sheldon school of bust
ness administration
General headquarters for the meet
ing will be at the st. Francis Hotel
On Monday, home and community
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
CRIME
What is crime?

What is crime?
Crime is an aggravated offense
against the morality of the public
welfare. 1t is violation of the code
of laws laid down for the peoples gov
eminent
Environment is one of the main
causes of crime or it can be the
greatest preventative. Crime is bred
in the slums of the larger cities oil
our country and other countries
Slums where education and the neces-
stiles of life are lacking. Places
where the arm of the law is continu-
ally reaching out toward, but seldom
penetrating That is the atmosphere
that teaches the child the improper
way of living or rather does not teach
him the way of rightful living. Some
: times we see an educated and refined
criminal but more often the illiterate
is found to be the guilty one.
Crime can be started easily. The
boy or girl will maybe be forced by
circumstances to take trifling ar
ticles Their conscience will not both.
er them because they have been
forced to do 1.-THE other fellow is to
blame. They are continually victims
of circumstances in their environment
1t becomes habit. Finally they be-
come Independent. Some may travel
straight but many continue to steal
1t is part of their lives. Theil
stealing gets them in tight places;
they are forced to fight and possibly
to kill. Then is when they become
desperate. Then is when they become
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
DULUTH SHOULD HAVE 1T

Recently the question has been
raised, following the appointment of
Madison, Wis. as the temporary head
quarters for the director in charge
of National Forest District No. 9, as
tc the possibility of Duluth getting the
permanent office. Duluth is the proper
place for the headquarters of such
an officer, both from the standpoint
of proximity and accessibility. 1t
would seem foolish to us here to have
the headquarters of this officer down
in the southern end of Wisconsin when
such desirable place as Duluth is
available and is anxious to have him.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
FINLAYSON WILL
ORGANIZE IZAAK
WALTON LEAGUE

According to V. E. Shafer of Fin
layson, the spOrtsmen and others in
the Finlayson community will en-
deavor to organize an Izaak Walton
league. Mr.. Shafer invites all lovers
of the great outdoors, wild animal
life and fish to interest themselves in
the organization of a body of this
kind and to become members. Fur
Their Information in regard to this
idea may be had by getting in touch
with Mr. Shafer
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
NEW SERIAL STORY

In the near future there will appear
in the columns of the American a
new serial story entitled, The Set
thing of the Sage" 1t is a true West
ern story dealing with cattle, rustlers,
etc. 1t is a story full of adventure
out where a mans man and bowed
legs are popular, with western real
ness evident in every line.
The American management secures
these stories for it's readers at no
little expense, with the hope of max
ing the reading contents more inter
esting for both young and old. We
hope you Will enjoy them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10

w. Barstow. Cons. $522.66 VIZ OF
NW4 of Sec. 17-4217, and an und.
2-3 of NWA of SWA of Sec. 17-42-
II. Wilma Twp.
w. D.-DOllie M. Carlson and hus-
band to r. w. BarstOw. Cons. $1.0O.
VIZ of NWA and an und 1-3 int.
in NWA of SWA of Sec 17-42-17.
Wilma.
w. D.-James L. Brown to Tom
Brown. Cons. $1OO. SWA of NWA
of Sec. 29-41-19. Arlone
w. D.-Chas. E. Walker and wife
to Security State Bank, Sandstone.
Cons. $1.OO. M of NWH of Sec.
$500. Finlayson.
w. D.-John Arend and wife to
Mary c.. Fischer Cons $1OO. Part
of Lot in Sec SO 39-22. Pokeg-
anna.
w. De. r. Bulls and wife to
Lucie Bulls. Cons. $1.0O. Ell of
NEA of SW4 of SWA and part of
SWA of SWA of Sec. $500, being
West and South of first described tract.
Sandstone.
w. D.-A. o. Johnson and wife to
Hans C. Jepsen. Cons. $1,000. Lots
IA, Is, 16, II, in Block 10, Sandstone.
w. D.-Endre Engen to Helmer En-
gen and wife. Cons. S1.0O. NE4 of
NE14 of Sec. 15-45-21 Birch Creek
w. D.-Emil Sohlo and wife to Hans
C. Jepsen and r. w. Barstow Cons.
S1.00 Lot in Block 2, Sandstone
Add. No. 1.
w. Deco. w. Thieling and wife
to United Power and Land Co. Cons.
S1.O0. Part of NEA of SEA of Sec.
23-41-17, and part of SEA of SEA
of Sec. 23-41-17. Ogema.
w. D.-Lucie l. Bulls to Gerben
POstma. Cons. $4,000. NEA of
SWA of SEA of Sec. 9-42-2O. Sand
stone.
w. D.-A. B. Reese and wife to Fred
L. Smith and wife. Cons. S1.00. SEA
of SWA of Sec. 20-3S-2O, less 1
acre Rock Creek.
w. D.-Fred L. Smith and wife to
Mike George and wife. Cons. $1.00.
SEA of SWA of Sec. 2O-3s-2O, less
1 acre. Rock Creek.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
(FrOm Another Correspondent

Mrs. F.. H. Thayer called at the
Otto Miller home Sunday.
Rush Gardner hauled pulpwood to
Danbury last week for August Dolden.
T. ]. Ryan sawed wood for Peter
Stulen last Thursday.
Selma Miller returned to Hinckley
Sunday, after spending her vacation
at her home here.
Wanda Grove who has spent several
weeks with relatives in Iowa, is ex-
pected home soon.
Derrill Waggoner's mother came up
from Minneapolis Friday, to spend a
few days with her son.
Peter Stulen killed a wolf Saturday
Julia and Corrinne Linehan visited
at the ]. d. BeaufeauX home Sunday
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10
Livestock Breeders
To Meet January i

Members of the Minnesota Live
stock Breeders association from
every county in the state will gather
at University Farm, st. Paul, Friday,
January Is, for the annual meeting of
that organization, according to an an
nouncement made this week by ]. S.
Jones Of st. Paul, secretary of the
association.
One of the interesting features of
the days program will be the pres
entation of medals to winners of state
livestock contests
W. S. Moscrip of Lake Elmo, nation
ally known breeder and judge Of dali
ny cattle, is president of the Mime
sofa Livestock Breeders association
and one of its strongest supporters.
Mr. Moscrip will preside at the meet
ing at University Farm
Want Ads Only 1c Der word
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1929-01-10

leadership training school, and State
Farm Mutual auto insurance agents
training school will be held at the
st. Francis These will come as pre-
Iiminaries to the annual meeting prop
er which will open at University
Farm, Tuesday morning.
On Wednesday and Thursday the
sessions of the meeting will be held
downtown, at the ST. Francis.
Election of officers will take place
Thursday.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-22
Founded on Isolation

THIS republic was founded on
a the idea of breaking contracts
with the old world, on repugnance
to the colonial system, on the the
ory that the best way for nations
to live in peace was to let each other
severely alone.
A wonderful theory, but inpos-
sible and impractical, because it ig-
nored the effect of trade and took
little account of what inventiveness
was about to achieve through i'm
proved means of travel, commerce
and communication.
Other countries sought to grow by
physical expansion, by acquiring
new territory, by extending their
political sway over lands and seas.
The United States pursued an op-
posite course. 1t grew, to be sure,
but in a compact way Having been
born as group Of revolving colo
nies, it conceived colonial rights as
more important than colonial pos
sessions.
Other countries were compelled
to think in terms of world relation
ship because of their far-t1ung de-
Tendencies.
This country took the position
that such an attitude was not only
unnecessary, but wrong.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-22

of blame Four times the league council has side
tracked the issue to whether majority unani-
nous council vote is required in asking the court
for so-caed advisory opinions
That issue should be disposed of for the sake of
the league and of the court, in any event. But such
decision is absolutely essential to American adher-
ence That, indeed is the beginning and the end of
the only point in dispute between the United States
and the European governments.
The senate reservation would prevent the court
from giving without consent of the United States ad
visory opinions upon questions in which the United
States has or claims to have an interest.
Since the United States can claim an interest in
any question under the sum- that reservation would
give us an absolute veto power over the court The
European governments have taken the legitimate po-
ston that they willing to grant the United States
equal but not greater power than that of league coun
Gil members
But until they permit decision on whether council
requests for advisory opinions must be unanimous thus
giving individual members veto power, there appears
no way to break the American deadlock Certainly
there is no sign that the senate will agree to Aer-
can adherence without such veto power.
All this is deplorable because that veto power
by the United States and others would restrict seri
ously the courts usefulness Nevertheless probably
most Americans feel that It is better to have the
United States in such restricted court, than in no
court at all
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-22
N. E..
IRACY
SAYS:
I'VE Suddenly Haze Been
Brought Face to Face
With the Fact That We
Can Not LiUe Alone

DENVER university is under
IL taking to promote the study
of foreign relations, not only
through special courses for students,
but through lectures and other ac-
tivities designed to interest the
community.
The work was made possible
through an endowment of 81 100000
given by James H. Causey for "the
advancement of the social sciences" "
At first glance, Denver may not
seem the most logical place or social
science the most logical reason for
intensive study of foreign relations.
AT second glance, however, one per-
ceives not only the propriety, but
the significance of both.
It is the interior of this country
that needs to be walked up to the
Importance of our contacts with the
outside world, while the social order,
not only here, but abroad, reaches
its climax in those contacts.
A country's foreign policy reflects
it's political system, while its polit-
ical system is a follow-up Of its
social order.
The American social order has
been, and still is, fundamentally
different from that of most other
great nations. That is one reason
why it has been so hard for us to
approach foreign relations with
sympathetic understanding or to
recognize their intimate value.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-22
Statistics GiUe Hopes for Longer Life

have come down for all age groups
up to as. Between As and 65 years
of age no important change has
occurred, and the deaths from dia-
betes after 65 years have shown a
distinct and significant rise.
It must be understood that in
sulin does not cure diabetes in the
true sense of the word cure" 1t
takes the place of a missing secre-
ton from an organ called the PAN
creas, which provides a substance
that aids the human body in sugar
digestion.
The speed and stress of modern
life are definitely associated with
the increased incidence Of diabetes.
1t is known that great mental
stress of great physical exercise can
cause sugar to appear in the urine,
hence the battle against diabetes
would seem to be associated with
the warfare against the speed and
strain Of modern life, as we'll as
with the purely physical attempt to
provide assistance for incapable hui
man organs.
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-22
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

attention being given to industrial
hygiene and industrial health.
During 1928, the oath rate from
typhoid fever, scarlet fever, diph-
iberia, tuberculosis, diarrheal COM
plants and conditions associated
with childbirth were lawer than be-
fore. On the other hand, the rates
for heart disease rose, as did also
those for cancer.
These rates are associated per-
haps with increased longevity and
with the fact that people are now
dying of diseases of advanced age
rather than the infectious diseases
which carried men off early in the
past.
OF greatest Importance perhaps
was the increase in death rate from
diabetes. Since 1911, the death rate
from that disease has increased 81
per cent, Notwithstanding the fact
that insulin has prolonged the lives
of thousands of diabetes.
Since the introduction of inSulin,
the death rates from this disease
The Indianapolis times., 1929-02-22

relative nmportance of this earth to the rest of the
universe and the conviction grew that the rest of
the universe must be much older than our little earth
Astronomy showed concusively that little earth
just of the family of planets revolving around
the sum- and it became apparent that the problem
Of the earths origin the problem of the origin of
the solar system.
The first theory to try to account scientifically for
the origin of the earth was advanced by the great
German philosopher, Emmanuel Kant, in 1854.
Kant imagined that the solar system had its origin
in great duse nebula. The telescope reveals great
clouds of gaseous matter scattered among the stars
They called the diffuse nebulae
Kant thought that the sun had its attendant plan
cts originated in such nebula He imagined that at
first the nebula great cold of gases, but
that in time it began to contract through the mutual
attraction of the particles of the nebula upon each
other He also assumed that in some way the nebula
gained rotary motion,
He assumed that tfeie weze spots in the nebula
which were denser than the nebula whole These,
he believed, acted centers of condensation nuclei
about which the material of the nebula began to
gather.
In this way. he believed the central portion OF the
nsbula contracted into the sum- while portions con-
Tactipg around other nuclei became the planets and
their attendant moons