Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-08-06

to eat. breakfast was uellSAt, Will
the splendid fresh Danish butter, and
the bread and rolls were wonderful!
Dinner was good, and the best part
of it the way that they piled it onto
| the tables, and continually brought
seconds, thirds, fourths, and fifths, and
! the nice big mattresses insisted that
| they were our mothers for the time
! and had to fill us. Even so | was al
most ashamed of the way some of the
boys ate as if food was not to be had
in Germany. 1t was a chance for lots
of us restaurant eaters to fill up with
no difference in price whether 1t be
much or little. AT dinnertime it rain
ed, and in general the day was dark
and cold, and that is the impression
we'll keep of Denmark. Spring was
| Just about ten days or two weeks be-
| hind that in Berlin, for lilacs were
Just in full bloom June y. After dim
ner we had a little free time, and
some visited Tivoli, a sort of Danish
Coney Island. Not much doing in the
afternoon. At o'clock we had to
embark for the trip back.
The boat ride was a chapter for it
self. A steamer not built for this
weekend excursion business had to
carry about 1000 persons making this
round trip. There were only couple
of dozen sleeping places, and the most
slept or at least lay on deck chairs
through the night, and there were not
even enough of these for all, so many
had to sit on chairs or benches or
wander about during the night. Great
quarrels sometimes in getting chairs
in place. Some small-brained type of
Berliners did nothing the whole trip
but quarrel over places, make noise
about everything, have unpleasant eX-
periences with the Danes, and then
spend the trip back cussing every
thing and saying how much nicer
their Berlin was in every way. But
just the same a week later they'll
be Dragging to envious neighbors
about their wonderful trip abroad
The boatride up the river and past
summer resorts, and chalk cliffs, was
very nice, and was the first ocean trip
for many There were a few waves
at first and many took the opportunity
to get seasick. The night was spent
watching the water, talking, singing,
or dancing to bad music. After the
uneasy rest it was pleasure to be up
at 3 o'clock to watch the dawn. The
trip was quite special. During the
night we were entertained by the
booming of our fog horn, and got up
in the grey morning to find that we
were completely befogged and dare
not enter the river. About US were
whistling and booming of invisible
, ships, and it was all nicely spooky
| The train from the boat should have
, been back in Berlin Monday morning
at o'clock, so getting everybody back
, to business, but at we were still stuck
, in the ocean, and most passengers get
l ting nervous about the delay. Their
the fog partly broke and wisps o.
sunshine broke through, and through
: the lovely morning we slowly returned
7 up the river, and got into Berlin abou
l II o'clock.
President HOOver's Moratorium Plan
A Hoover Action" is by-word fol
any financial undertaking or help, ant
an American is almost hero in Ger
many. President Hoover's proposal t.
stop all war debts and PREPARATIONS fo
a year saved Germany from an i'm
mediate financial catastrophe. Hare
as it is to imagine it, the country wa
about a day or two from having t.
declare national bankruptcy, and prob
ably facing a new initiation. Interna
tional confidence in Germany had beer
sinking and the German gold reserves
were gradually leaving the country
Then the end of last week about JUNE
1920, suddenly in two days all tn,
Z. rest of the gold reserve was callet
out. The bankers met Saturday after
y noon, went over the facts, and say
the bitter situation that Germany wa
ruined. At this dramatic point o
lowest depression in walked tn,
American ambassador Sackett and an
nounced that Hoover was ready will
a plan to rescue Germany. Sunda,
came the announcement of the plal
for the one year moratorium. Hove
became the greatest man in Germany
and Sackett the second. Their pic
lures appeared on front pages o
papers. The markets which had beel
sinking and sinking Monday took
. great leap upwards-Id like to hav,
had tip before hand and bought
few thousand dollars worth of stocks
Germany seems brighter and bette
place, hope has returned, but thos,
who realize what we went through
or near are still trembling from tn,
avoided danger. Of course the radica
!. revolutionary parties Communist
and National Socialists-are deepl,
disappointed that an event that woult
have given them a chance at create
; power (but which party?) has beef
safely passed over But even man!
of them share the general deep i'm
preston of what America has done
for Germany. Of course America
? actions should not be considered pure