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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

trying to be Santa Claus to at least
nine hundred little kiddies in my
ragged Sunday school in Shanghai.
The happiest little brownies you ever
saw are my little "Chinks" as on
Christmas day I and my helpers tell
them the glad Christmas story and
distribute among them apples, oranges,
and peanuts; dolls and balls; toys and
candy. How the eyes of my little
people sparkle. How happily they
smile and how gratefully they say.
"Zia-zia-noong" (Thank, thank you,)
as they receive the gifts of American
friends. I wish all your boy and
girl readers could be with us and see
how happy my boys and girls are with
the simplest gifts. They would be
glad not only for the delight of my
little ones; but they would better ap-
preciate their own Christmas gifts.
They would also realize how much
boys and girls in China are like Amer
lean boys and girls with their likes
and dislikes, Their joys and SORROWS.
their tears and smiles and would feel
that they are indeed their own broth
ers and sisters.
Some say there is no Santa Claus.
think of him as that great big heart
of love that tries to make other peo-
pie happy"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
NO SANTA CLAUS IN
LAND OF THE CHINESE

Periodically comes letter from the
Rev. H. G. C. Hallock, American mis-
sionary to Shanghai, China. with in
teresting facts about the customs of
the people there. An excerpt from
one recently received from there tel
ling of the lack of Christmas spirit
is reproduced as follows:
Il wonder if you have any boys and
girls among your readers. If so can
they imagine place in all the world
without Christmas and it's joys? One
such place is down here on the dot
tom-side of the world" The slant
eyed "yaller" kiddies here do not have
Christmas trees. They do not hang
up baby's stockings the biggest you
can get" Santa Claus with his sleigh
and reindeer and bags of toys seldom
finds his way to China. 1t may be
because the roads are too narrow and
the reindeer fear getting their feet
wet in the rice-fields or because there
is so little snow and ice, or it may be
because Chinese houses have so few
chimneys, or perhaps Santa Claus is
afraid of falling off the 'bottom-side"
of the earth, or maybe even because
nobody has shown him the way here.
Chinese children do not wait up
at night to get a sly peep at him.
Nor do they run down stairs very
early on Christmas morning to see
what Santa has put on the Christmas
tree or with what wonderful things
he has filled their stockings. Just
think of it! A land with no Christ
mas! l say mo Christmas" but it
is not quite mo-" for once in while
some English or American store will
have Santa Claus or a Christmas
tree in the window for the sake of
English boys and girls. Then lots
of wee Chinese noses interestedly
press against the window-glass.
Then, too, 1 and my American
friends, friends of little children, are
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
NEW VARIETY OF OATS
MAKES GOOD YIELD

Bert Wahlberg living on the west
side of Grindstone lake reports har-
vesting 40 bushels of Anthony oats
from measured half-acre of ground.
Anthony oats is a new variety which
has just been introduced into his coun-
ty by the County Extension service.
The advantages of growing this variety
is that they are rust resistant, there
fore in year when the grains are
effected by rust this variety will out
yield other varities. Reports from
fifty of the farmers growing these oats
are to the effect that the yield was
just as good, and in several cases they
out-yielded the old varieties.
The demand for this seed is very
good, indicating that the farmers are
interested in better seed. Several
hundred bushels grown by the farmers
in this county will be available for
seed this spring. Farmers wanting
some for seed should send their re-
quests to County Agent w. F.. Ham
margren at once.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
GOOD PROGRESS MADE
ON STATE AID ROADS
Summary of County Reports Shows
S26 Miles Graveled, Much
Other Work, in Year.

A total of 826 miles Of state aid
roads have been gravel surfaced dur
ing 1880, according to a report COM
piled by the Minnesota Highway de-
partment from reports made to the
department by the highway engineers
of the eighty-seven counties of the
state. There have also been slight in
creases in the mileage of paved and
macadamized state aid roads, with
substantial decreases in the unsur-
faced and unimproved mileage. In
several counties some roads have
been transferred from the state aid
to the county aid system, but other
roads have been added. the net in
crease being 205 miles.
The report on the status of improve
ment of the state aid system, given
out by Commissioner c. M. Babcock,
together with the comparative figures
for last year, follows:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
15,959.54 16,164.85

"The progress made on the state
aid roads during the past year has
been very satisfactory" Mr.. Babcock
said in making the report "The
state aid roads do not get any of the
gas tax which is distributed to the
counties, but only the proceeds of the
general one mill tax, plus such funds
as the counties decide to spend on
these roads. Since the gas tax diver
sion went into effect, many of the
counties have devoted a large share
of their efforts to the county aid roads
but in spite of this the progress made
in improving the state aid roads this
year is as great as in the average
year.
although the department has no
supervision over county aid roads, we
hope to have figures later on the work
done on these roads, and when the
figures on all the classes of roads are
combined, 1 think it will show that
Minnesota has made substantial prog
ress on all parts of its road system in
the past year."
Total expenditures for construction
On the state aid roads for the year
ended Oct. 81 were $3,131,6S9, of
which the state contributed 1,2S3,O9S.
Total expenditures for maintenance
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
WASHINGTON LETTER
Continued from Page -

consumated. Norris is the leader of
the Insurgent group and if he is read
out of the party as ordained by
Messrs. Lucas and Wood his fellow
Insurgents in the Senate may select
to dicker with the Democrats. There
is bare possibility that the small
Insurgent group in the House may en-
gage in similar trade with the re-
suit that President Hoover will have
a Democratic Congress on his hands
beginning March 4.
The bundle of trouble laid down at
the White House by the Republican
feudists is not lessened by the latest
demands of Senator Borah of Idaho,
whose loyalty to his party Is ques-
toned. The Old Guard blames Borah
for selling the idea of an extra ses-
sion to the Chief Executive during
the 1928 campaign. The record shows
that the special session involving the
tariff and other bitter squabbles was
costly political error for Mr.. Hoover.
Borah wants another special session
as it is evident that his pet projects
will not be considered at this term.
Borah is regarded in Senate circles
as an opportunist posing as an in
dividualist. His program calls for
legislation on debentures, world court
protocols and anti-injunction legisla-
ton. He is opposed to the World
Court which Mr.. Hoover espouses
- H.
debenture plan, which is one of Mr.
Borah's favorite political children
Therefore, Mr.. Hoover's advisers are
pointing out in private that he has
nothing to gain by consenting to the
Idaho Senator's proposals. At the
best they say it would give Borah
the opportunity to parade himself and
his ideas and endanger Mr.. Hoover's
prospects for denomination in 1882.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
TAKING OUT CURVES
CUTS ROAD MILEAGE
Strengthening States Trunk High.
ways Resulting in Cutting Down
Mileage of the System.

Although the 1929 legislature add
ed a 75-mile route T. H. No. r.
from Blackjack to Baudette, to the
Minnesota trunk highway system, the
total mileage in the system is now
So miles less than it was two years
ago, according to the annual I'm
|ventory" of the status of improve
ment of the system, made public this
week by Commissioner c. NJ. Bah
cock. Omftting the route added in
1929, the state highway mileage has
been reduced 100 miles in two years,
through relocation, shortening and
STRENGTHENING.
The milage of each type of high
way now and two years ago is shown
to be as follows:
Earth and sand clay, snb-standard
grade, 473.4 miles November 1, 1925
and 20Q.1 miles November 1. 1880.
Gravel, sub-standard grade, 2,49s.-
SO miles November 1, 1928 and 2, 49,
SO miles November 1, 1880.
Earth. standard grade. 1855 miles
November 4, 1928 and 92.03 miles No.
wember 1, 1880.
Gravel, standard grade. 2,279.s3
miles November 1, 1928 and 1895.
miles November 1, 1890.
Bituminous treated gravel. 520.S7
miles November 1. 1928 and 1,15O
miles November I, 1880.
Pavement, 1,036.75 miles Novem-
Der 1, 1928 and 1,434.12 miles No
vember 1, 1890
The total mileage of paved and I'M
paved roads graded to standard cross
section 26 feet wide or wider was
3,S7S in 1928 and 4,405 in 1880, an
increase of 527 miles. The mileage
listed in the table as earth, standard
grade" is on routes graded this year
which will either be paved or grav-
eled as soon as weather permits in the
spring.
1.-The year Just closing has been
the tenth year since the trunk high
way plan went into effect" Mr.. Bah
cock said. "The roads taken into the
state system in the spring of 1921
had only $3.50 miles graded, scarcely
any of this to present day standards.
and only 1873 miles paved. I'VE had
to concentrate much of our effort on
grading, and practically all of the
mileage now listed as standard grade
has been built in these ten years
Paving during the ten year period has
been at an average rate of 1875 miles
year, although we built 2S6 miles
in 1880.
with a substantial part of the
grading completed, we shall be able
to devote a larger portion of our
funds to paving, and without any in
crease of funds we have made plans
for 247 miles to be built in 1892. But
even at this increased rate it will
take twenty-five years more to pave
the entire system, and ten years to
pave the routes where present day
traffic justifies immediate paving"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
APPRECIATION

Before the year 1880 draws to a
close we wish to express our sincere
thanks to all who have contributed
toward, and to the men who have been
in charge of the erection of the
memorial for DR.. P. N. Fenger. We
appreciate the thought that has
prompted this undertaking; it is as
it were a greeting from the homes,
where the Doctor was called in sad
as we'll as in pleasant hours.
Mrs. P. N. Fenger and children.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

FOR SALE+Purebred Holstein bulls
from one month to one year old.
($25) twenty-five dollars and up, or
will trade for barley or oats. Tele-
phone 25F11.-E- S. Birkeland, Pine
CITY. 34w16-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
WANTED

WANTED-An experienced maid be-
tween 25 and 35 years of age; one
who can manage and prepare meals
for private family of five, no small
children, salary $500 per week.
Inquire at this office. 34w15-2t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

FOR SALE+A red boar, a very fine
animal, and two mich cows and two
heifers. Brejdablik Farm, IL miles
west of Sturgeon Lake.-Andrew
Bakke. 26w16-1ts
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to express our sincere
thanks to friends and neighbors fol
the beautiful flowers, and to the Rev
John Gjertson for his words of sym
pathy, to those who sang, and fol
every kindness during the sickness
and death of our dear husband, father
and grandfather.
Mrs. ]. H. Frisendahl.
Mr.. Daniel Frisendahl.
Mrs. John Erickson.
Mr.. Axel Frisendahl.
Mrs. Carl Erickson.
Mrs. Elof Frisendahl.
and the grandchildren.
Should Know.
Il can't make heads or tails OF
this timetable"
Let's go up and ask the engineer
what his plans are"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

WE ARE BUYING poultry, guaran-
teed price for one week-Heavy
hens, Az and over. Ice; light hens,
1Oc; springs, 16c.-Art Halvorson,
Sandstone. 25W16-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

were $2,S09,5S7, of which the state
contributed $561,5O1. Total expendi-
lures in 1929 were $3,595,623 for con-
struction and s2,9s7,43s for MAIN
tenance.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
CARD OF THANKS

We hereby wish to thank everyone
who in any way helped to make the
community Christmas tree program
a Success.-Committee
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
MISCELLANEOUS

DIR. JAMES SLAVEN, the dentist, will
be in Willow River on Tuesday, Jan.
9th. 25w16-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

FOR SALE-Westingho electric
range, coed as new, $50.-Conrad
Christensen, Askov village.
25w16-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

THE ASKOv LIVE STOCK Shipping
Assn will ship as soon as enough is
listed for car. List with Askov Co
Operative Assn or Christ Larsen,
shipper, telephone No. 9-F110. 29wtf
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

persons knowing them
selves indebted to the late DR.. B. S.
Boiling of Sandstone, will please
call and settle their accounts with
Mrs. B. S. Boiling in that village.
30w16-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR THE WEEK

This column is for free use by
churches. schools. societies. lodges
etc.. for the purpose of announcing
meetings where no admission is to
be charged. such meetings as are
held for social or educational pur-
poses and not for pecuniary gain.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

Nytaarsdags Gudstjeneste Kl. 1920
a. m.
Gudstjeneste og Altergang Sondag
den 4. Januar XII. 1920 a. m.
A. E. Frost.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01
FOR SALE

FOR SALEtTwo high grade Holstein
heifers due to freshen in two weeks.
Price $65.OO each.-Christ Morgen-
sen. 1 mile west of Askov. 25w16-1t*
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

The American is but $1.50 a year.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

Want ads buy and sell.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

Menigheden afholder sit Aarsmede
1 Kirkens Undersal Mandag den ste
Jan. Kl. 1870 Eftermiddag ALLIE er
velkomne.-N. B. Miller, Formand.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-01-01

d. S. S. Mode D. B. S. Hall Onsdag
den Z. Jan.-Sek.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31
STUDENT PLAYING PRANK
DIES IN 60-F00T FALL
FROM BUILDING ROOF
Continued From First Page)

Continued From First Page.)
pavement and then thud as Bernheim
landed. He had been alone on the roof
at the time, the other students said.
Bernheim was rushed to Emergency
Hospital by the Prince Georges County
Rescue Squad. His roommate, Richard
knight of Edgewood, Md, accompanied
him to the hospital.
Bernheim was enrolled in the engi-
neering department of the university.
His father operates canteen at Edge
wood Arsenal, 1t was said. An effort
to communicate with his parents by
telephone was not successful.
Bernheim was q member Of the fresh
man tennis team at the university this
year and regarded as coming star in
this sport. He also was a candidate for
the lacrosse team.
Witnessed Plunge.
Bernheim's fall was witnessed by Irv-
ing Ebaugh, student, who was In a
parked car outside the dormitory. Ed
mund Yocum. another student, heard
him fall just outside his window on the
FIRST floor and was the first to reach
him. Yocum said Bernheim landed on
his head
Arnold Smoot, also a student at the
university administered first aid until
the arrival Of Or. A. o. Etienne Of
Berwyn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31

speakers platform to receive an ova-
ton to which she responded with q
wave of her hand.
The crowd itself was a striking sight
with many of the men in their shirt
sleeves and hundreds of women carry
ing sunshades rejecting all the colors
in the rainbow. On the inspection trip
hundreds of picnickers crowded to the
roadside to cheer the party as it passed.
Memories CT the Civil War were re-
vived at the speakers stand when a
group of veterans of that struggle
gathered around to shake the hand Of
the President. Of the 20, one was a
Confederate soldier.
Mrs John T. Myers. who shook hands
with Lincoln at Gettysburg, WAS on
the platform today.
Mfr. Hoover was presented by Isaac
r. Pennypacker. chairman of the VAL
ley Forge Park Commission. The Right
Rev. Francis NJ. Tsitt, Bishop Of the
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Penn
sylvania. offered the invocation and
Dr. Frank Aydelotte, president Of
Swarthmore College, the benediction.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31

is assigned to interurban electric rail-
ways and ai:rlanes. DR.. Parmelee did
not, in this calculation. take into con-
sideration titercoastal trafic or foreign
trafic into or from the Great Lakes.
DR.. Parmelee gives very different
picture Of the passenger carrying traf-
fic, pointing out If the railroads had
continued to increase their passenger
miles at the pre-World War rate. the
total passenger traffic in 1929 should
have been approximately $4,000 ,0oo.-
900 passenger miles, instead OF less
than $4,000, 900 900 passenger miles ac-
tually accumulated on the railways
leaving 10000, o00, 900 passenger miles
as a reasonably calculable loss to other
agencies, chiefly the individually owned
and operated motor cars.
As a matter of fact, passenger traffic
on the railroads in 1929 was in smaller
amount than in any year since 1909
Yet in 1929 the railroads carried q
greater amount of freight than ever be-
fore in their history.
Growth by Decades. Shown.
The growth in railway freight traf-
fic, considered in decades from 1890 to
1890, was approximately $50 per cent
from 1890 to 1900; from 1900 to 1910,
SOL per cent; from 1910 to 1920, 62.2
per cent, and from 1920 to 1929, only
S.8 per cent.
Passenger trafiic showed an increase
of 1854 per cent from 1890 to 1900. 1.6
per cent in 1900 to 1910, 456 per cent
from 1910 to 1920 and a decrease Of
342 per cent from 1920 to 1929.
A glance at the huge growth in mo-
tor vehicle registration, at the amount
of transcontinental tonnage handled
through the Panama Canal and at the
traffic handled over the inland water
ways, excluding the Great Lakes, indi-
Gates clearly why the growth in rail-
way traffic has fallen off.
In 1920 the number of passenger cars,
including motor buses, in this country
! was 8,225,859, the motor trucks 1906
082 and the total motor vehicles 9,231, =
GAL. The registration of these vehicles
in 1929 was as follows: Passenger cars,
including motor buses, 23,12l, $50; mo-
tor trucks, 1878, 1854; total, 26 sol ,443.
The transcontinental tonnage handled
through the Panama Canal in 1921 was
1,372,38S tons and in 1929 it was TO-
1903 tons, an increase Of 63.3 per
cent. The trafic handled over the in
! land waterways, excluding the Great
Lakes, in 1920 was 83,150,l82 tons and
in 1928 this trafic had increased to
100. 127,905, or an increase of 93.5 per
cent.
This IS a picture in brief outline Of
the development of the competing agen-
cies of transportation with which the
railroads today are contending. The
return Of good times, with business
booming and employment ample. nat
urally would somewhat relieve the sit
uation which the railroads face with
their constantly decreasing revenue.
But the roads are looking ahead in their
demands for legislation, which. they
say should put them on all fours with
their competitors; irhsuch things as reg
ulation and taxation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31
TWO MEN ARE INJURED
BY PASSING AUTOMOBILE
Driver of Car Takes Pair to Hos
pital After Accident on
Wisconsin Avenue.

A 60-year-old man and an lS.year-
old youth were injured last night when
an automobile struck them as they
were standing near the curb in the 500
block Of Wisconsin avenue.
The man, Benjamin S. Moore, STA
Wisconsin avenue, was telling the boy,
George L. Baker, who had hitch liked
to Washington from his home in Win
chester Va, how to reach the down.
town section.
The driver of the car, Everett c.
Cooper, 1e. of 1920 Newton street, took
the pair to Georgetown University Hos
pital. There Moore was found to be
suffering from a broken left arm and
possible internal injuries and Baker
from an injury to his left leg.
Cooper. who was accompanied by
Miss Evelyn White, 1900 Irving street
northeast. told police that he was un-
able to see Moore and Baker because
the street was dimly lighted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31
BOWLES CASE PLEA
TO HALT SUIT LOST
Mrs. May Takes Stand to
Charge Banker Made Scene
at Her Home.
ny, st,N corresnondent of The Star.

ny stan Correspondent Of The Star
FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE, Va, May
SO.--Cotnsel for Mrs. Mae B. May OF
Falls Church won their first point in
the trial Of the $4,000 damage suit
which she has brought against B. Agee
Bowles, vice president of the Potomac
Savings Bank, Georgetown, when Judge
Walter T. Mccarthy in Circuit Court
this afternoon overruled defense mo-
ton to quash the case.
The defense motion was entered after
conclusion of testimony of witnesses for
Mrs. May, who charged in her suit that
BowleS caused her to become partly
paralyzed as a result of statements he
made to her in her home in February,
1880, alleging circulating stories about
him and a woman. The plea was made
on lack of evidence and was overruled
after a conference between the judge
and attorneys in the formers chambers.
All exception was noted.
Court was adjourned until Wednes-
day shortly thereafter when 1t was de-
cided the defense could not conclude
presentation of its case during the day.
Before the recess was ordered Bowles'
attorneys presented IL character wit
nesses, who testified to the banker S
good reputation. They included Allan
Davis. principal of Business High
School, Frank x. Green, marshal Of the
United States Supreme Court: Rev.
Charles T. Warner. rector of st. Alban S
Church; D. B. Elgin, a Mclean, Va,
farmer and director of the Potomac
Savings Bank, and other Virginia resi-
dents who have known Bowles over a
period of years.
During. the morning session cross-ex-
animation Of Mrs May was concluded
She reiterated testimony of her hus-
band, who was on the stand yesterday
that Bowles entered her home and lin
o loud and threatening manner" up
braided her for allegedly spreading
''criminally libelous" statements about
him. She also told the jury she feared
Bowles. who threatened to put her in
Jail" she said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31
The Mountains Appeal.

In Summer thousands of tourists find
their way to the famous monastery of
ST. Bruno at Chartreuse, which, until
a quarter of a century ago, made the
just as famous cordial In Winter,
close to the monastery the tourists flock
to Side -Chartreuse, and its wild
and beautiful skilands. The village Is
in a hollow bounded by the Pic-du-
Grandson, the slopes of the Cucheron
Pass and the Peaks of Channechaude,
nearly 1000 feet high. This makes it
sheltered Winter resort, while the
hills provide most unusual ski fields.
The landscape, at all times of the year,
is one Of the most beautiful in France.
but in Winter the sleigh parties and
skiers find a country of indescribable
beauty.