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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12
FARM AGENT SAYS
GOLD DIGGERS PREY
ON GOPHER FARMERS

Feminine gold diggers are usually
thought of as belonging only to the
cities,-their prey, the tired business
man. But Minnesota farmers are pay
ing them a toll that makes the riches
of Midas seem unimportant, says Van
M. Storm, agricultural agent of Fari-
bault county, in feature article.
"a gay old gal is the boarder cow.'
She is the worthless, lazy queen of all
Cow kingdom. AS a vamp, she has
every female know to history skinned
country block when it comes to
vamping the dairyman into spending
his hard earned cash on her for food
and entertainment.
From Cleopatra on down the line
to the highly perfumed, plump ankled
blends of our present day Broadway
night life there never was a jane who
could make a guy dig down in his
jeans for cash like this old gal makes
the dairyman dig.
"As Gold Digger, she should have
the platinum crown for she wears
neither silks nor satins, she drinks
nothing but water and was never
known to smoke, yet she seems to
have the it that makes the dairy
man crazy about her. He tags her
around year after year, for no other
reason than to get the great thrill
of resting his head on the back end
of her stomach, twicedaily, milking
his life away and kidding himself that
she is footing the bill and that he is
having all the fun.
"She invented the racket She was
racketeering long before her own gen.
tie sex took to voting and smoking.
In working her racket she is quiet
and bloodless, she uses neither guns,
bombs nor dynamite. She has no fear
of the postal authorities and knows
that detectives are as harmless as
dairymen. Yet when it comes to rob-
bling and stealing, all the thugs in
Chicago are mere Sunday school in
fants when compared to this old gal,
the boarder COW. Her thieving runs
into millions of dollars every year.
She robs the dairyman, the dairyman's
wife and children. She robs the
butcher, the baker and the candle
stick maker. She cheats and beats
everybody in the country except the
income tax collector and she would
beat him but he has never had the
privilege of meeting her. She is the
only dame in the world that can rob
her best friend, the dairyman, year
after year and make him like it.
''This pilfering old lady has but one
enemy, and boy how she does hate
him. If she were anything more than
Beautiful but Dumb she would bel
low and bawl every time he came in
sight of the cow barn. Quite right,
she should be afraid of him for he
has sent many of her kind to the gal
lows. He is quiet and calm, works
early and late for meager wage.
His work is sure and deadly, yet he
has never been known to convict on
circumstantial evidence. He sets his
traps and gets the goods on her and
no lawyer in the world can beat him
at the bar of justice. He pleads his
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12
SNOW FENCES GO DOWN EARLY

Trunk highway snow fences are
being taken down in some parts of
Minnesota at the request of farmers
who want to work their fields. TAX
ing down snow fences the first week
in March may seem fool-hardy to per-
sons familiar with the heavy snow
storms which often hit this region
late in March or early April, but the
highway maintenance superintendent
wish to comply with the requests of
the farmers when possible, and they
feel that with the highway bitches
clear of snow, they can clear the roads
and keep them open even if a severe
storm should hit them, according to
highway bulletin. Ordinarily snow
fences are not taken down until late
in March.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12
Find Phosphate Trebles
Crop Yield in Missouri

How six bushels of wheat were
added to the acre yields each time
that 200 pounds of acid phosphate
were applied to the field is strikingly
illustrated in the report Of M. B. Dit
ty, county agent, to the Missouri
College Of Agriculture.
Previous to 1924, the six and one
half acre field Of s. w. vivion, La
fayette county (MO.) farmer near
MAYHEM, returned only six bushels of
wheat to the acre. That fall, he ap-
piled 200 pounds of 16 per cent acid
phosphate per acre when the wheat
was sown. In 1925 he harvested II
bushels from this "six-bushel" field.
A second planting of wheat, on the
same field, in the fall with an addi-
tional 200 pounds of 16 per cent acid
phosphate, increased the yield to 10
bushels. A mixture of alsike, red and
sweet clover, sown on the 1925 wheat,
returned Is tons of cured hay this
season from the six and one-half
acres.
At present car lot prices, the 400
pounds Of 16 per cent acid phosphate
cost $500 for each acre, but returned
six more bushels of wheat the first
year and IL more bushels the second
year, total of IS bushels to the acre.
If the wheat is valued at 81 a bushel,
the returns for this labor approx
mate $12 more to the acre. AS the
clover crop was also doubled, the net
returns for labor are even greater.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12
The BEST Gray Hair
Remedy is Home Made

To half pint Of water add
one ounce bayrum, asmal
box Of Barbo Compound
and one-fourth ounce Of
glycerine. +. Any druggist
can put this up or you can
mix 1t at home at very
little cost. i. Apply to the
hair twice q week until
the desired shade Is OBJ
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12
MCPHERSON

Mrs. Val Barber was a caller We'd
nesday of last week at Mrs. Edward
Beaudry's.
Miss K Goggin went to Duluth Last
Thursday, returning home Saturday
morning.
Mrs. L. Casadont went to Kerrick
between trains last Thursday.
Miss Katherine Peterson spent last
Thursday evening with Miss Staxrud.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. M. LeMay were
Thursday evening callers at Mr.. and
Mrs. John Douglas.
Kenneth Elmer came here from Su-
perior Saturday morning for week
end visit with friends.
Mrs. McGrath and daughter of Ker-
rick, spent Sunday with Miss Goggin
and Miss StaXrud.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. e. White and chill
dren of Hinckley, spent Sunday with
Mr.. and Mrs. Edw. Beaudry.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12

own case assisted by two witnesses,
the Babcock Tester and the Milk
Scales.
mo wonder the old gal is afraid of
the COW tester and no wonder she
flirts with her dear friend, the dairy
man, for he is the only guy in the
world that cares for her.
"a funny man is this guy, the dairy
man. If his wife would throw a half
loaf of bread, couple of cookies and
a piece of pie out to the chickens
every day he would scold and crab
himself hoarse as a bull frog, and all
the neighbors for miles around would
know about his extravagant wife and
yet the good wife would not be vast
ing half the money he is on his gold
digging vamps, the boarder COWS.
GAS a rule women do not like to
have their husbands fooling around
with gold diggers and vamps even
though they are dumb and appear to
be innocent about tit might lead
to something worse more boarder
cows-so why should not the dairy
mans wife, the one who is supposed
to wtach the pocket book, meet Mr..
Cow Tester and put him to testing
the family herd. If given chance
he would soon weed out the boarder
cows and put the herd to making real
money.
eff all the dairy cows in dairyland
were tested by standard cow
tester there would be enough boarder
cows sent to the butcher so that every
dairyman's wife could put electric
lights, running water, bath tub and
an ice box in the home. And friend
husband, the easy going old rascal,
would have less work, make more
money and get more real joy out of
living than he ever did while milking
his life away, creating a surplus and
getting rid of his feed and hay"
One cent per word for Want AID.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12

tomoble endurance record.
and than 1885 hours the American nonstop endur
ance record which, Heretofore officially recognized,
made by much heavier under almost ideal cond-
lions the Indianapolis speedway last year. In the
Of the endurance the known he City of Des
Moines covered practically the entire state of Iowa
Engineers who examined the Ford at the conclusion of
the asserted that neither engine chassis showed
evidence of the gruelng strains to which they sub
jected during the 116 days Of continuous driving Both
apparently according to the engineers would have been
good for another $4,000 miles or more.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12
Agricultural Squibs

Clean the grain before you use it
for seed.
The cardinal principle in the dairy
mans creed Is cleanliness.
The farm workshop should be the
popular place to work these days.
Winter egg production is often cut
short by a limited supply Of water.
To insure good flow of milk, q
cow should be in good condition at
freshening.
Tremendous losses are incurred by
planting poor seed. Test before seed
ing is the best rule to follow.
Winter onions come up just after
the snow disappears and perhaps are
the first vegetable that will come from
the garden.
Milk which Is not Immediately re-
moved from the barn Is very apt to
absorb the characteristic odors, no
matter how sanitary the barn may be.
Potatoes which are stored In bins
should be watched for rot. 1t pays to
examine the stored tubers from time
to time and remove all rotten pota-
toes.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12
The Right of Pursuit.

A court has held that a married
man has a legal right to open his
wife's letters! Yeah! But he needs
something more than court decree
if she happens to catch up with him.
Journal.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12

IOWA state officials and civic leaders witnessed the
establishment of new worlds non-motor, non-wheel
L stop automobile endurance record recently, when
Ralph and ROLAND Davis brothers, brought their Model
Ford to halt at the east entrance of the state capitol
Des Moines after 75 hours and 4s minutes continuous
driving.
When Governor Hammi, standing with Walter Terrell
executive secretary Of the Iowa Chapter American
Automobile Association the signal STOP Ford
had travelled total Of miles all roads
in all sorts of weather and had exceeded by $3.50 miles
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12

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per word, minimum 25c each week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-03-12

Save time, effort, and money by
using the American Want Ads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
A Century of Service.

Its work is not of character that
lends itself to spectacular portrayal,
yet there are few subordinate branches
of the Federal Government whose ac-
tivities rival in Importance the opera
tons of the Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey. Director r. S. Patton has Just
submitted to the Department of Com
merce, under which the survey func-
tions, its one hundredth annual report,
giving q backward glance descriptive
Of the growing duties OF this scientific
public service bureau. 1t is q history
Of a century which has seen unceaSing
examination and studies VI tile earth
and Of the waters.
In that distant period during the
administration of Andrew Jackson,
when the Coast and Geodetic Survey
was launched ON its mission, surveying
was limited almost entirely to the de-
lineation Of property boundaries. With
land plentiful, property owners could
not afford accurate surveys, even had
methods of making them been available
The program proposed by the original
head q the service, Ferdinand Hassler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
India's Constitution.

From the New York Sun.
Fragmentary reports Of the proposed
constitution for India represent its pre-
lmlnary draft as embodying the gen.
eral principles which are the founda-
ton OF the fundamental law of the
United States. A government of care
fully defined powers with three depart
mentS and a bicameral legislature is
projected. The highest court would be
subject to the call of the executive for
advice; Massachusetts, lays a similar
obligation on the Supreme Court of the
Commonwealth.
Objection frequently is made to a
written constitution on the ground that
1t renders inelastic the government;
which operates under it, The British
Constitution is unWritten; Bryce de-
nned 1t as "a mass of precedents car
RED in mems minds or recorded in writ
ing, and Pollard, in his Evolution of
Parliament" 1925, says that written
constitutions are, in the main, express
Slons of diStruSt which people feels
OF It's government or a government feels
OF its people" Yet it is obvious that
IN setting up government of India
satisfactory to the Indians represented
by Gandhi, codification of the mass
OF presidents" Is practically unavoid-
able, just as it was unavoidable when
the 13 sovereignties which emerged
from the American Revolution decided
10 create a new government vitalized
Dy powers they mtrusted to 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
Raskob's QEestionnaire.

Chairman John j. Raskob of the
Democratic National Committee is con-
pinced that what his party needs is a
@'wet" cure, if not water cure" His
Proposal to put a "home rule" plank
IN the Democratic national platform is
TO be taken up again at a meeting of
Bhe committee he has called for Janu-
3ary 9. Mr.. Raskob brought up this
Mpuestion at a meeting of the National
SCommittee here last March, and the
brow it raised was heard around the
Country, with the drys assailing the
proposal in the strongest language and
Former Gov. Al Smith urging the COM
enittee members to give Mr.. Raskob
Rhance to state his case. At that time
gHdr. Raskob was convinced that it would
not be wise to bring the matter to a
vote in the committee. But it looks
mow as though the chairman had his
jdander up and would seek to force a
decision in the committee when it meets
the first of the year.
The effect of such a proceeding is
Aoroblematical. 1t may merely be a
curtain-raiser for party strife
that will carry through the whole ma
tional campaign of 1882, or it may serve
20 clear the atmosphere. The drys
Insist that If Mr.. Raskob persists he is
bikely to ruin all chances the Democrats
Nave for victory at the polls next year.
sEyen some Of the wet leaders in the
Democratic party have grave doubts as
ITO the advisability of making prohibition
n party issue at this juncture, particu-
garly when it appears that the Demo-
lgrats have an excellent opportunity to
win without raising this issue.
But whether the prohibition question
As debated and voted upon at the coming
National Committee meeting or not, it
Swill in all probability be thrown into the
democratic National Convention next
June. when the party proceeds to
draft its platform. To avoid discussion
SSptG be issue at the National nnmittee
~ GJ4NM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
Official Vandalism

Penetrating the bewildering maze of
official buck passing" to pin down re-
sponsibility for the wanton destruction
of the fine old elms on East Capitol
street, one is able at least to learn from
the chief engineer of the Capitol power
plant the reason for making the exca-
walton for the steam tunnel on the
sidewalk instead of through the lawn
of the Library of Congress. The ex-
PLANTATION Is that If the tunnel were cut
through the lawn the heat from the
steam pipes would kill the grass
There would be a broad stretch Of
brown through the verdant green of
the lawn! So, to avoid that, the tun-
mel was cut along the sidewalk and the
roots of f1fty-year-old trees that might
have lived for century were shorn
of. In other words, If it comes down
to a question whether to kill the grass
or kill the trees-kill the trees to save
the grass
OF course, it ought to be possible to
cover steam pipes with asbestos, so that
heat would not damage anything. 1t is
absurd to believe that the steam pipes
are not going to be so inclosed that
they will not radiate damaging heat
along their course. And if the heat
from the pipes is enough to destroy
grass, what will it do to the trees, pro-
vided they survive the butchery al
ready accomplished?
AS a matter of fact, the botched job
on East Capitol street cannot be JUS
tilted by any explanations and the ex-
cuse cited above. the tender regard for
the blades of grass, is merely absurd
1t is apparent that the short-sighted
action Of the authorities becomes just
another case Of divided responsibility
and failure to give the necessary study
to the problem. It is a fact that If the
authorities had desired, they could
have devised ways and means of con-
structing the tunnel and laying the
pipes without irreparable injury to the
trees or to other shrubbery. To be-
lieve otherwise is to indict the profess
sional competence of the engineers. But
the fact remains that no such methods
were devised, and as far as anybody
can learn. no great energy was expend-
ed in trying to devise them.
The result becomes a real reason for
alarm. Are the officials in charge Of
the various plans of identifying the city
SO careless of the trees that they are
willing to endanger one Of the citys
principal assets? Or is 1t case of
where no one person possesses the fore
sight or the authority to prevent such
an act of vandalism as that committed
on East Capitol street?
1t is plain that with so many COM
mittees and commissions dabbling in
the great Washington program, author
ity should be vested in some person or
agency to prevent the destruction of
trees and shrubbery, and to exercise
supervision over the planting Of trees
and shrubbery-a supervision analogous
to the power of approval of architectural
appearance possessed by the Commits
sion of Fine Arts. The repetition
of such fragrant and thoughtless acts as
already have taken place on East Cap
itol street should be impossible, in the
future.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24

and adopted, was for a survey of the
entire coast; to be executed piecemesl,
it is true, but with accuracy, continuity
and fidelity, the whole fixed by a
precise framework of geodetic control
every adjacent part correctly fitting.
Since the World War revolutionary
changes and advances have been re-
corded in the fields the survey traverses.
Based on the utilization of the velocity
Of sound in sea water, surveying YES
sci while travelling at full speed is now
able to compile a continuous profile Of
the bottom. Visibility of land or
weather conditions are non-essentials
The rate Of progress is multiplied and
permits the definite completion of prof.
ects formerly expected to extend into
the indefinite future.
In the realms of tide studies, geodetic
control survey and mapping of new
airways Director Payon's report also
records progress. of Importance. The
Coast and Geodetic Survey maintains
tide stations. Their continuous opera
ton furnishes the basic data for the
intelligent execution of engineering
works along the coasts AS tides are
caused by the attractive force OF the
moon and the sun, the layman. and in
deed many engineers, thinks of the tide
as a universal, unvarying world phe-
nomenon. Science now makes it pos
sible to predict with certainty the future
daily occurrence of the ocean tide. Re-
gional differences are the result of
terrestrial rather than astronomical fac
tors. In view Of the rapid economic
development Americas shores are I'M
dergoing, there is need for a proper
advance realization of the probable effect
OF contemplated projects. This effect
today is definitely ascertainable.
There Is at present in operation an
expanded geodetic control survey pro-
gram, to be completed in some fifteen
years. Inasmueh as all engineering
operations Of any magnitude require ac-
curate positions, directions, distances and
elevations, this Federal program of geo.
detic contro. will furnish the framework
for the engineer to place his surveys in
their true geographic positions.
The Coast and Geodetic Survey is en-
gagged in making series of ninety-two
sectional airway maps eventually to
cover the entire United States. Thus a
Government bureau originally charged
with exploration only of the land and
the adjacent sea has now, like the rest
OF the world, taken to the air
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24

meeting might only be poStponing the
conflict between the wet and dry groups
In the Democratic party.
The vets have taken advantage OF
the business depression in the country
to ride into ONCE in a number of con-
gressional elections electing wet Demo-
Gratis. The Democratic party seems
to be the vehicle to which the vets are
looking for success in their movement
to repeal or modify the eighteenth
amendment. This is distressing the
dry. Democrats of the South and the
West. They will resist the effort Of the
vets to make their party platform wet.
On the other hand, vets are busy in the
Republican ranks, striving to make the
G. o. p. drink also at the trough. But
unless all signs fail this effort will prove
fruitless and the Republican party will
60 into the campaign as the champion,
nationally, if not in individual States,
of the dry cause.
What will be the course of Chairman
Raskob If his committee turns him
down on his wet plank proposal on jan
uary 9? Will he resign in disgust, or
will he continue his grip on the party
organization, hoping that by the time
the national convention is held the vets
will be sufficiently in strength to dom
mate there? 1t is expected that when
the committee meets Mr.. Raskob will
IN 70
naire on the liquor problem sent to
about 10000 contributors to the 1928
Democratic campaign fund, and that
the preponderance of the answers will
be in favor of modification or repeal
of the dry laws, since most of the con-
tributions were made by Democrats in
wet States.
Mr.. Raskob'S determination to force
the fighting on the wet issue at the
coming committee meeting is inter
preted in some quarters as an effort to
block the nomination of Gov. Franklin
D. Roosevelt of New York for President
next year There never has been the
slightest doubt however, that Chairman
Raskob has been devoted to repeal of
the eighteenth amendment from the
time he was first appointed to handle
the Smith campaign in 1928. Whatever
he may think about Gov Roosevelt as
a presidential possibility, there is every
reason to believe that Mr.. Raskob is
actusted by a firm conviction that ma
tional prohibition is an evil.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
Exulting Becomes O'Nein.

From the Atlanta Journal.
Eugene ONeill has evidently, in the
language of one critic, done it again.
He has again demonstrated his genius
for morbid and interpretive character
analysis. He has stripped the skin and
flesh from several human souls and
forced them to march exposed before
the riveted eyes of his audience. He
mas once more shown his scorn for
normally in playcraft, producing out of
his electric mind a play of IA acts, with
dinner 1ntermisSion, which has become
the hallmark of the latter O'Neill man
ner.
All the critics were appropriately
moved by Mourning Becomes Electra"
as presented in New York by the The
alter Guild. In so far as playgoers are
concerned, they are interested chiefly
In the fact that new O'Neill drama is
born, and that the stage is enjoying one
OF Its very rare events" The story is
a "rewrite" of an ancient Greek trag-
edy, and none is better fitted to elabo-
rate and deepen the spell of the stark
Greek drama than O'Neill
We gather that the show was rather
depressing. That is inevitable People
who go to the theater to see O'Neill do
not expect to come away with larking
spirits. We hear that the audience sat
stunned for several moments after the
final curtain fell, and then gave a 10
minute ovation to the playwright.
Burns Mantle probably epitomized the
play when he wrote that Eugene
O'NeilPs greatest tragedy is artistically
important and physically wearing It
is regrettable circumstance that near
ly all artistically important things are
taxing. This IS enc great advantage of.
say, the Marx brothers, who have never
been called artistically important hut
spirit.