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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24
church at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.

The funeral services for Mrs Charles c. McTernan of 106 Colum- bia boulevard are to be held this afternoon at o'clock at the Alder son funeral home. 70 Central ave- nue, Rev Arthur McKenny officiat- ing. The body will be placed in the receiving vault in Riverside ceme- tery.
 The funeral of Amedee Bernatchez of 5S East Clay street is to be held Monday morning at S:30 o'clock from the 3elleville funeral home. 68 East Clay street to St Anne's church at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
 Funeral services for Carlon B Coe are to be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home of his brother, John A. Coe. 493 Willow street, Rev Dr w. w. Winans of Brooklyn. N. Y.. officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs. Anna Con- way Is to be held Monday morning at 8:15 o'clock from her home, 3S WeltoH s'Iec' to 'he ilh""S u'"sS Conception church at 9 o'clock Burial will be in Calvary cemetery
 The funeral of Charles A. Moshiei will take place this afternoon from his home in Prospect with services at the home for the family at 2:1E o'clock and at St Johns church al o'clock. Rev Arthur McKenny offi' ciating. Burial will be in Pine Grove cemetery. The pallbearers will in clude Frederick Seidel. and Harley Pitt representing Harmony lodge Warren Hitchcock representing Mac River grange, J. P. Banks repre- senting the Grange chapter Excelsior Commonie, S. M.Condit and II. c Allen representinf the lodge of odd Fellows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24
BY VIM E. MCKINNEY Amateur Bridge League

finesse should never be resorted to unless there is no other possible play. Any tinesse the declarer would attempt to make in the following hand would fail but by correct puay, six hearts is still made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24
The Bidding

South. the dealer. holding the required two and one-half high card tricks, opens the bidding with one club. West pass, North bid two herats which is a forcing bid show ing at least five hearts and two and one-half high tricks. South went to three clubs showing at least q five card club suit. North then took the declaration to six hearts which closed the contracting.
 The Play
 The play that gives the declarer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington, Jan 24.-(UP)-The treasury net balance on January 22 was $16s.S90,400.59.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24

CLARk-in this city Jan 23, 1881 Mrs Artison s. Clark of South St, Middle bury. Funeral arrangements later Burial in North cemetery, Middle bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24
neglect a COLD

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24

this city Jan 33, 1881 Mrs Annie NJ. Volles of 27 Easton Ave. Funeral arrangements later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24

this city Jan 23, 1881 Maria Helen Sullivan of 1872 East
 Main St. Funeral arrangements later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24
FUNERALS

The funeral of Nocola Lombardi will be held Monday morning at 8:15 o'clock from his home. II Bronson street to Our Lady of Lourdes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-24

street to Our Lady of Lourdes
 MASS NOTICE fourth anniversary mass of requiem will be celebrate Monday morning. Jan i26th, at 7:30 o'clock at SS Peter and Paul church, for the repose of the soul of the late Mrs Leo Bovalley.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
ADVENTURE

With the proposed trip of the Maui
titus submarine being used to sail
under the ice in a visit to the North
Pole by Sir Hubert wilkins comes the
desire for a definition of adventure.
There are many different forms of
adventure. One kind has led to the
discovery of continents and the origin
of nations and others have led to the
finding of hidden treasures and relics
of historic value. But still others
have ended in death.
When Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd and his crew of intrepid men
made their trip to the South Pole
it was a form of adventure, though
frought with hardships which might
have caused death, which could bring
much good to science and education.
The trip was made in a tried way
and was not made in a glazing spirit
of contest to Guido what had been
done before.
The present trip of the Nautilus
while it may be of some value to
science to know just how a sub
marine can swim under the ice to
the pole is most hazardous.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
CAN'T SEE ANY GOOD

Park Region Echo: 1t is not strange
that some of the old-line Republicans
can see no good in the Olson adj
ministration, but one of them took
an unusually biased attitude last
week in commenting on the new rural
credit departments decision to sell
foreclosed state land on such easy
terms as to give better homestead
opportunities than farmers have had
for so years. Now this seems to us
something to rejoice about. 1t is CIV
ing ambitious young farmers an OPP
portunity and putting tax-free land
back on the tax rolls, so it is a good
break" for everybody. But our old
line friend mourns that this will be
hard on the taxpayer who must even
tually foot the loss to the state, of
selling this land at bargain prices.
Well, that is too bad, but who put
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

For years the big public utility in
terests, their hirelings in legislative
halls, the kept press, the me-too press
and others on the band wagon have
been denouncing public ownership as
socialism" and have sought to capt.
talize on the prejudices which have
been aroused in the public mind
against socialism.
The Roman Catholic church has al
ways been foe of socialism and util-
ity interests have therefore felt that
this great church would be bulwark
in staying the advancement of public
ownership.
The recent encylical issued by Pope
Plus has been a great shock to these
interests, however. In his great paper
on labor Pope Plus said:
1T is rightly contended that certain
forms of property must be reserved to
the state, since they carry with them
a spirit of domination too great to
be left to private individuals"
Father John A. Ryan, professor of
moral theology at the Catholic Uni
versity of America and a great liberal,
commenting on the Pope's statement,
said:
Surely this sentence contains suf-
ficient authorization of public owner
ship of public utilities and state COM
petition with monopolistic industries
which are too strong to be kept within
L. d1 11r II
regulation"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
A DISPLAY OF TIMIDITY

When, A. j. MCGUIRE, general man.
ager of the Land O'Lakes Creameries,
Inc, spoke at a picnic in Pine county
ON the shores of Pine lake-last
Sunday, he dwelt briefly on proceed
ings at large cooperative institute
which was held in Manhattan, Kas.
recently, as reported in the news col
umns of this issue. Mr.. MCGUIRE was
present at this cooperative institute
where economic conditions were dis
cussed pro and con for two days, and
where various kinds of remedies were
advanced as being cure-alls or relief
measures. 1t was not until one man
arose and said that they were spar
ring around and not getting at the
root of the evil, that the meeting be-
came interesting. He said that in
order to have better times and to
right economic conditions steps must
be taken to prevent wealth from flow
ing into the few hands.
Mr.. Mcguire reported that the faces
of many beamed, it could not be en-
tirely covered up that they were in
accord with the statements of the one
who had spoken so frankly, but they
refrafned from applauding, much as
they desired to do it. They shook
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18

man La Guardia, a former war aviator,
also came in for much comment. He
wants a constitutional amendment to
allow the wartime government to de-
clare a moratorium Matchmaking all
industry, rationing the entire civil
population, and conscripting the hum
blest to the wealthiest, ships, rail
roads. and in fact everything would be
taken over without compensation and
returned later to the owners without
property damage payments.
The safest place in the next war
will probably be in the front line
trenches. The casualties among the
civil population will be enormous and
there will be casualties in industry
finance and commerce, the same as
among combatants. Under any sys-
tenn there will be inequalities.
The proposals are worthy of con-
centrated thought and study by the
worlds best minds.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
hands with him afterwards and
thanked him for the remarks.

hands with him afterwards and
thanked him for the remarks.
One might be led to ask: What kind
of co-operators were those at this
Kansas meeting? Are they afraid to
stand up for their convictions? Are
they wishy-washy, are they holding
meetings to draw salaries, and would
they rather have meetings without
descriptions instead of getting to the
root of the evil, adopting program
that means something and then work
ing with that in view? Are they out
to cooperate for the wealthy more
so than with their fellow citizens of
equal means who need cooperation?
When a group of men are gathered
to discuss economics it seems nothing
short of cowardice to be afraid to
applaud and give public approval to a
program that they think is right.
Why sneak around afterwards when
not so noticeable and congratulate the
man who spoke out frankly? Can we
ever expect to accomplish anything
with leadership of that type-men
with jelly-fish backbones? Human
rights come above property rights,
and if a man is afraid to applaud his
own convictions he does not belong
at a meeting of leaders to work out a
cooperative economic program.
We have not checked up at all on
who were present at this Kansas
meeting, and do not care. We are
simply taking Mr.. McGuires word for
the manner in which the meeting ac-
cepted the words in regard to the
Capitalization of wealth causing dis
tress. That alone was enough to
arouse ones ire.
There are always so many excuses,
reasons, ifs, ands, this, that, and the
other, by folks who hate to hear the
truth or who may be benefiting indi-
vidually by the present system-there
is the old attempt continually to keep
the farmers and workers divided, but
there will be a change along those
lines and as one speaker has said,
fifty years from now person will be
ashamed to admit that his grand
father back in 1881 was millionaire
while the masses were hungry. 1t
will be like saying his grandfather
was horse thief"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18

would not be town. Time was, in
the days of mud roads and plow-
horse travel that we were more or
less bound to the small village near
by. Now we can take it or leave it.
If we choose, we can truck our grain
and stock to a city, and we can go
to the city for our clothes, food and
entertainment. We hold the power of
life and death over the little local
town. If we neglect it, it must sure
ly starve to death, for it has no
means of self-support. A few small
towns have so died, but that most
of them remain show we still want
them. We may pretend to think
lightly of that town but still we want
a location for our churches, lodges
and high schools. We still want
place close at hand where we can find
a doctor, druggist, veterinarian,
ball of Irvine or a plowshare. The
sort of merchants we find in. our town
are the sort we support with our
patronage. If we make policy of
dealing only with the man who car
ries goodly assortment of depend
able articles he will stay in business
and prosper, and as he prospers he
will naturally offer better assort-
ments and better service. So with the
kind of lawyers, of doctors and dem
fists. In a city farmers may not
have much influence on the character
of business and professional men, but
in the little town patronage is the
confronting influence. The little
town is more than a convenience for
buying everyday supplies. 1t is
more than a first aid station in case
of broken leg or a broken binder.
1t is the community center where So
cial life of the farm people finds it's
most natural and most potent express
sion. The casual contacts of people
mingling with one another as they
go about their errands are what bind
community with character all its
own. Quite apart from any formal
organization, the community spirit
that centers in the farmers town is
the fundamental unit in agricultural
life of our country. Our little town
represents us as do our red barns
and tall silos. 1t is our responsible
ity and our opportunity. We can Sc
lect its business and professional
people almost as we Gull our flocks
and herds, retaining those we want
and eliminating those who do not
measure up to our standards. We
can influence its citizenship by choos-
ing the doorways we enter and the
counters over which we buy our
goods. The little town is ours and
it will be what we make it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
WHERE THE MONEY GOES

The U. S. Postal Department has
signed a contract for the next ten
years with the shipping interests
which involves an expenditure of $50
millions of dollars. The largest share
of this is subsidy or gift to the
privileged interests. 1t is estimated
that in the next fiscal year the ship
ping interests are subsidized to the ex-
tent of $4,000, 000-one of the reasons
for the annual post-office deficits. On
this subject Labor writes editorially
as follows:
Speaking over the radio the other
night, Postmaster General Walter F..
Brown said that the sums paid by the
Post Office to ships of American reg
istry for carrying mails are really
subsidies-and praised the subsidies.
These payments will reach $4,000, 900
in the fiscal year ending next June,
and $19,000,000 in the next fiscal year.
The total payments for the ten-year
period for which contracts have been
made will total about $2SO.OOO,OOO.
practically all these sums go to
shipping lines run on the open shop
plan, with the lowest wages possible
and the poorest as we'll as the cheap
est possible crews. One big steam
ship line carries so little mail that
the subsidy amounts to two dollars a
pound.
Senator Mcclellan of Tennessee,
has shown that the Export Shipping
Company bought it's vessels from the
Shipping Board so cheap and gets
such huge payments from the Post
Office that two years mail subsidy
pays the total cost of the ships!
Apparently, Postmaster General
Brown approves. for he praised the
postal subsidy at sea with no reserva-
tions whatever. But on land, Mr..
Brown is stickler for economy
Postal service has been cut down
till complaints are coming in from
every quarter. Vacancies caused by
death or retirement are not filled
if it is possible to saddle the ex-
ira tasks on the remaining workers.
Substitutes are used instead of reg
ular workers; promotions have almost
ceased, and no employe will be pro-
NOTED beyond the $2,10O a year grade
of pay if Mr.. Brown can help it.
Throw money with both hands to
labor-crushing ship companies at sea-;
and when dealing direct with union
workers on land, pinch the pennies
until the bronze Lincoln groans in
agony. No one is likely to accuse
Postmaster General Brown of consist
encyS"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
OMIT PROFITS IN WAR

There is an increasing conviction
among hosts of intelligent people that
war with all its misery and suffering
brings forth group of citizens who
are able to profit by same and become
extremely wealthy. This was well
proved during the World War. Many
minds are working on some system to
do away with the profits in conflicts
between nations, feeling that this
would be very strong deterrent to
war.
The War Policies Commission re-
Gently concluded its public hearings
which developed various opinions on
how to take the profit out of war.
Probably the opinions of Bernard
Baruch, wealthy financier and friend
of the late President Wilson, came in
for the greatest discussion. He advo-
Gated the freezing" of prices by pres
idential proclamation at the outbreak
of war. The proposals of Congress
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
FROM OUR EXCHANGES
Editorial Comment From Other News.
papers, Which May or May Not
Conform With the Opinions
of the Ask0v American.)

Mile Laos County Times: The idea
that immigration is injurious to the
United States depends entirely on the
character of the immigrants. This
country was never as prosperous be-
fore or since as it was in the days
when trainloads of immigrants were
landing in this country daily from
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany,
and other northern European nations.
These immigrants brought in millions
of dollars of wealth with them and
invested it in this country in making
homes for themselves, and making a
huge market for the products of this
country.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18

getting to slow UP, or neglecting to
look both ways at a busy intersection;
by being in just a little more of a
hurry to get somewhere than the oc-
casion really demands; by becoming
irritated or impatient at the actions
of another driver.
Those are the kind of things which
drivers are doing all the time. In
most cases, nothing happens. But
sooner or later the right combination
of circumstances arises, so that just
a few seconds inattentiOn, or just a
little too much speed in the wrong
place, puts you into the path OF an
other machine.
1.-THE careful driver controls him
self as we'll as his car. He refuses
to allow scenery, conversation, a
wrecked car by the roadside or the
person in the back seat to distract
his attention from the road. He gov
erns his speed according to traffic.
weather and highway conditions, curb
ing his Impotence to get there, or his
irritation at the poor driving of the
man ahead"
1t is a difficult job for person to
be able to drive his own car and at
the same time foretell what the other
fellow is going to do, but when each
driver becomes proficient in the art
of carefulness the puzzle as to what
the other fellow is going to do will
cease to be a menace.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
AND NOW, sTAX.CONSCIOUS"

Sometimes when folks haven't any
thing else to do they busy themselves
with getting up what they think are
new phrases. Editor Bjornson of the
Minnesota Mascot took a crack at one
of those in his columns when he
wrote the following:
1--WE never would have believed that
farmers had to be made 'tax-con-
scious' until a speaker said so the
other day. All the while, we'd sort
of thought that was one big thing
that allied them
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
GOOD LEADERS

The recent governors conference al
French Lick Springs. Indiana, brought
together men of various shades of po-
litical opinion and political parties
from the various states of the Union.
Among them was Governor Frank
lin D. Roosevelt of New York, Demo
crat, chief executive of the state with
the largest population. He is pro-
gressive-minded liberal, champion
of public ownership of at least a por-
tion of the hydro electric industry in
his state, and the potential power in
the st. Lawrence waterway.
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania,
an old friend and supporter of Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt in his con-
servation program, a foe of corruption
vice and the special privilege groups
in his state, is a progressive Repub-
lican who has the Power Trust on the
anxious seat in the East.
Floyd B. Olson, our own Farmer
Labor governor, known personally to
many of our readers, also congregated
with the state chief executives. He
has become known for his work and
efforts in behalf of the farmers and
workers of Minnesota and is an adj
vocate of state ownership of some OF
our hydro electric resources.
These are leaders in three of our
political parties, yet men who on
many of the leading issues think and
work alike. All three are humani-
tarians who place human rights above
property rights and have broad So
cial outlook.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-06-18
THE MINNESOTA PATROL

What people in other states think
of the Minnesota Highway Patrol is
shown by : the following editorial
which appeared recently in the Fargo
Forum:
When one looks over the statistics
OF activities of the Minnesota High
way Patrol for the month of April
and finds that it made forty-seven ar
rests for drunken driving, there should
come a little better appreciation of
what this patrol means in keeping
the highways safe for travel. Be-
sides this it made twenty arrests for
careless driving, and did quite re-
markable work in checking up on
license violations and of cars not
maintaining proper equipment. In
short, the record of the patrol of only
thirty-five men has been such that
Minnesota has been thoroughly sold
on its accomplishments and last week
added thirty-five additional men
"The augmented force should add
materially to the public benefits. 1t
doubles the opportunities for render
hhS SSi'iSS. hO new LiCIl, WhllC
new men, are not green men. They
have been in training since early in
March. They are carefully selected,
being chosen from some 1,4OO appli-
cants. They have been put in physi-
cal condition and given courses in OBJ
servation, traffic rules, first aid, auto
mechanics, headlight testing, geo.
graphy of Minnesota, target practice,
motorcycle operation, etc. Best of
all is the perspective with which they
work. The aim is not just to arrest
somebody but is to keep traffic NOV
ing safely. Chief Earle Brown puts
it this way: When a driver is
stopped by an officer, he should feel
that the officer is calling attention
to an error which, if repeated, sooner
or later will lead to accident. We do
not want to make arrests unless we
are compelled to-
can alert patrol, with that attitude
as cardinal aim, is valuable asset
to state in this day of heavy motor
traffic"