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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-09-03

carloads being shipped to Pine City
during October, 1880, and put in stor-
age for the winter. Out of the 100
bushels of which Mr.. Challeen sold
part to others, only two bushels
were spoiled. that being done in the
handling when they were taken out
to be planted in the spring of the year.
Eighteen bushels were. used as seed to
each acre, the hills being nine inches
apart, machine planting. The plant
ing was done between May 18th and
21st and it is expected to do the dig
ging before many dayssThe yield will
surely not be less than 200 bushels to
the acre and may run $50 to 800
bushels, judging from the appearance
of the plants and the number of tu-
bers and their size in the hills where
inspection has been made.
Besides cultivating seven times, 600
pounds of commercial fertilizer was
used to make the field very productive.
This cost $13 per acre. The field was
sprayed seven times against blight
and bugs, the result being that very
few bugs were seen any time during
the growing season and there have
been no indications of blight. The
spraying was there before the bugs
and blight, saving time trouble and
expense, and maintaining fine healthy
bushes. Mr.. Challeen labored on the
assumption that a stitch in time will
save nine.
A Thorough Cleaning.
This 100 acre farm has been owned
by Mr.. Challeen who is Pine City
merchant, for the past Is years and
was rented out each year until the
last three years when it had become
so infected with quack grass and other
foul grass that it was practically nom
producing and had to be cleaned up.
Two years was spent on some fields
to clean it up with blowing, disking,
narrowing and the like, in order to
make thorough job of it, no crops
being raised for two years on most of
the land. 1t is now we'll cleaned and
very productive. Besides the certified
seed potatoes there are fields of oats
barley, alfalfa, and small patch Of
Reeds Canary grass.
Mr.. Challeen's 40 acres is one of
the largest potato patches in Pine
county and the only field of certified
Irish Cobblers in the county. While
many potato fields are looking rather
dried up on account of the excessive
heat in July this field is still very
green, fresh looking and growing due
to the very intensive cultivating and
care of the plants. 1t is worth a
persons time to look at this beautiful
field of potatoes. So much has been
said and written about the golden
grain fields, but when potato fields
look like this they are also places of
beauty and some day the poets will
write of the potato field. The seed
potatoes are sold largely in the South.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-09-03
WELL KNOWN EDITOR
TO SPEAK AT BAND
CONCERT IN ASKOV

The Askov Band will give the final
open air concert of the season in the
Askov park on Sunday afternoon, Sept.
18th, at which time there will also
be an address by H. G. Teigan of Min
neapolis. editor of the Farmer-Labor
Leader. The band will play for about
80 minutes and 45 minutes will be
devoted to the speaking, further an
nouncement of which will be made in
the next weeks. American.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-09-03
PARALYSIS in COUNTY

Several cases of infantile paralysis
have been reported in the Finlayson
community. Due to this threatened
epidemic, according to a letter re-
ceived from Supt. Frederic G. Bran
des the opening of the school there
has been postponed for one week until
Sept. IA.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-09-03

bereaved family and relatives in the
loss of one of their number.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
The Machine, Profits and Leisure

Depression or no depression man must lace the
prospect of more leisure time on his hands Better
machinery will facilitate more rapid production OF
goods Essential working time will be reduced. Even
conservative business men being converted to the
six-hour day and the fve-day week.
Will this leisure like the machinery which makes
it possible master man? Or will man make OF 1t
the greatest boon which yet has come to race thus
far mainly devoted to securing the bare necessities of
existence?
This question is discussed profoundly by keen
and learned social psychologist, Professor Floyd H.
Airport in a lead article in Harpers Magazine. Writ
ING on what he defines as chronological leisure" he
saws that such leisure exacts high degree of COM
mercal stimulation producing nervous tension, wor-
ries depressions and possibly poverty and despair
The recreations of a whole civilization may come
to resemble those of the tired business man."
% Increased chronological development and COM
liberalization tends to destroy the environment IN
which We might enjoy spare time Roads and
signboards mutiate the countryside, which also is
becoming depopulated through urban concentration.
Birds and wild animals destroyed driven into
cover by human intrusion.
90 Life has become depersonalized. Neighbors in
apartment houses do not know another The
seats about the in the grocery store have
disappeared Urban club life promotes little intimate
social and intellectual intercourse. We live where
we can obtain work. not where we would like to reside
or where we know people
90 Great patches of leisure will require types
of interest for which has not been prepared by
his past. He hitherto has developed his interests
mainly in connection with various aspects of making
a living The separation of life from work will leave
the organism listless and cold"
(4) 1t is hard to get interested in studying nature
for it is inaccessible to most city jewellers Franklin
could not have flown his kite on Sixth avenue; nor
could Newton have fathomed the universal principle
of gravtaton through watching elevators go up and
down"
(5) The radio and vctrola give us access to more
music but our attitude toward it is purely passive
and receptive.
90 There is little personal zest in short trips, for
We meet machines rather than persons on the road
Even extensive travels longer much curiosity
or excitement for our standardized machine culture
has made us much alike everywhere.
Cd Sex and ostentaton seem to be the basic out
let's Having put vacant time into life, the opponents
of chronological leisure imagine they can put life
back into the vacancy they have created"
Professor Airport has made invaluable contribu-
ton in warning us as to the dangers of walking into
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
Youths New Year

To those looking for a bit of cheer in these days
of depressions, debts, and wars-and who isn't look
ing for brightener-we submit the remarks of Pres
ident Lowell Of Harvard on modern youth
Most of us live in the hopes of our children, any
way. Progress comes that way. One generation is
content to fail if it has equipped the next generation
to do better. Always in the zgzag of civilization, the
elders look to youth
But, since civilization began, always timorous age
and disiusioned experience have been frightened by
headstrong hayward youth. Our generation is no ex-
ception.
At the moment many Of us are in debauch Of
despair over the alleged sins and weaknesses Of the
young. Many teachers who have forgotten the real
tiles of their own youth share that despair
DR.. Lowell is not of that tribe. Speaking out Of
long experience and wide knowledge, he says:
Our college students as a whole appear more ma
ture than generation ago, not only in scholarship
but also in their outside interests and in the
of proportonate values which is the flower of matur
ity And this in spite of-perhaps to extent be-
of-the fact that they enter year younger than
they did in the early COS.
Maturity is by no means entirely a matter of
years. 1t depends much on environment and,
above all, on responsibility"
Youth today is more mature more responsible than
in the 9Os, President Lowell has found. And, we
would add, youth today is more honest.
Youth through of the shams and says
So That frankness is not folly 1t is the hope of the
world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
Holiday Prohibition

How the noble experiment is working during these
festive days may be Judged by current headlines,
few Of which are herewith recorded:
Three dead in Boston's wettest Christmas"
Representative Horr asks funds for loss in fire
started by drys"
Mayor of Tarrytown abandons dry law enforce
ment; calls law hypocritcal failure"
DRY officials seek 70 halt sale of grape concen-
trate"
state joins drive on New York night clubs"
Crusaders state that A per cent of federal law
officers deal solely with prohibition"
END of poison in gin sighted by La Guarda"
More die by cars in year and half than during
war"
Inside story of Legs Diamond Staying told"
James Gordon Battle urges physicians to combat
dry law as insult to profession and foe to public
health"
Senator Blaine introduces bill to outlaw wire
tapping evidence"
Prohibition is almost entirely a drive against
dishwashers and bus boys, says Broun"
Poisoned liquor takes many lives; 100 seriously
ILL"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29

resulted in the development of skill
full interference and of wedge for
nations following the kickoff which
are perhaps even more hazardous
than was mass play, because they
involve a group of men in rapid
motion.
Finally, the tremendous financial
income from successful football in
duces the win at any cost" policy.
Men are kept in the game long after
they should have been removed be-
cause of fatigue or injury.
Coaches with limited amount of
material nevertheless engage in
schedules far beyond the capacity
of the few men they have avail
able.
The purpose of athletics in gen.
eral is to develop the body harmoni-
ously through systematic exercise;
to correct physical defects; to pro-
vide situations which will arouse
and increase the qualities of cour-
age, fair-play, self-sacrif1ce and
loyalty, and finally to train men in
leadership, discipline and judgment.
If the coaches and the athletic
directors who are responsible for
promoting this program lack the
very qualities that they are pre-
Sumed to teach, the future of foot
ball must be insecure,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
Free as the Ain?

Free as the ara fine old phrase.
To-day" says the federal radio commission, sap
proximately $50 persons, firms, companies have
licenses which give them the right to the air to
its maximum capacity for radio broadcasting pur-
poses. There are 123,OOOOOO people in the United
States wholly dependent upon these few persons for
their radio entertainment"
Free air?
The commission adds:
Their (the peoples) rights in this new art can
not be denied. And if their share of this form of
entertainment can be received only at the expense Of
advertising statements then they justified in
demanding change in the system"
But what if these monarchs of the air do not
change their ways?
The radio commission answers:
"The problem should not be taken out of their
(the broadcastersO hands until they have had full
opportunity to make the necessary corrections.
"If they decline the opportunity or Selling it, fall
matter should treated with proper legislation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-I noticed in a
newspaper a few days ago where
Governor Leslie, in an address,
criticised the people severely for
drawing their deposits from the
banks. Evidently he never has read
the Constitution of our government.
If Governor Leslie will take the
pains to look up the Constitution, as
it was drafted in the founding of
this government, he will find that it
gives each and every individual the
right to act according to the dictates
of his or her conscience, so long as
the laws of our land are not vio-
lated.
Therefore, these depositors of the
various banks of our country are
doing what is morally and financially
right to themselves and their fam
lilies in protecting their earnings.
I do not quite understand why
Leslie would object to the people OF
our country drawing their money
from banks and placing it in safe
places of keeping, so they might
have access to it in paying taxes, as
this is what big per cent of it is
used for.
Now just get with us and let uS
make a banking law that will guar
antee the depositors. against a loss
and I believe the so-called runs or
the banks of this country will be a
thing of the past.
III. COPLEN.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
A Wise Governor

wise Governor is bending down, one by one, the
iron bars of prejudice and hysterla which have held
men imprisoned since Centrala's Armistce day riot
Governor Hartley of Washington just has granted
parole to one of the five prisoners still held as re-
suit of that days tragic occurrences. At the same
time he has extended indefinitely the leave of an
other of these men, released last spring to care for
a critically i'll wife
When the remaining four have been released, gov
eminent will have done all in its power to wipe out
the memory of it's unworthy behavior in the hrst
flush of anger that Armistice day.
With the picture vivid before us of all the other
ills and wrongs that have swept over the world since
then it sometimes is hard to remember that untln-
ished task in Washington. Bat while men remain
in Jail unjustly, citizen is safe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
HEALTH
Footballs Toll Perils Fall Sport

now playing football. Certainly
forty fatalities is not a great num-
Der considering the tremendous
number of young men engaged in
football and the dangers inherent
in the game.
On the other hand, there are no
other games in which an equal
number of young men engage, for
example, baseball, track athletics,
or even basketball, in which the
number of fatalities even will ap-
proximate forty to fifty each year.
Certainly those who are inter
eSted must stop to take stock and
to find out whether the returns
from the game to the young men
in the way of pleasure, character
building, of increased musculature
and of opportunity for the future
warrant the hazards that now
exist.
From time to time the laws of
football have been modified to
eliminate dangers. The old mass
play was eliminated through the
change in the rules which de-
mandS 10 yards in four downs, and
which permits the forward pass.
However, new hazards are created
by skillful thinkers just as soon as
old hazards are eliminated.
Elimination Of the mass play has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
Just Every Day Sense
XXTOMEN are urged to Parade to Prosperit.
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

VxTOMEN are urged to Parade to Prosperity"
w The contention is that we the purchasing
agents of 100000 families and by maintaining our
standards of living and ceasing to be afraid, can
lead the country back to plenty.
Now only the woman at home, the purchasing
agent herself knows how fatuous is this idea
Because if the housewife is afraid she has been
taught fear by the man who brings home the pay
envelope.
81 know I have aged ten years in the last twelve
months" said young matron the other day. Jim
comes home every night and spends the whole eve
ming talking about how bad things He is in such
a nervous state about the business
And when he leaves in the morning let myself
worry until I sick and know that I am not in a
fit state to take proper of the children"
HERE is true pen picture of life as it is endured
i these days by millions of these so-called pow
erful purchasing agents Of course they afraid!
Why shouldn't they be? With nightmare dreams OF
disaster haunting them, they would be less than hui
if they carelessly dsregarded economic fact.
Yet, they not SO overwhelmed by moral
cowardice as are the great money lords, the able
bankers the financial leaders Of Wall Street AFFECT
whining goes on there.
During the days of prosperity they unap-
proachable and awed by their majesty. Today they
before fall in the ticker in such fashion that
the average middle-class housewife shows up beside
them a yeritable heorine of vaior
We must keep going. We must strive to be as
courageous in days of trouble were naughty
in ours days of glory. And women can help. They
must help
Only remember this: The meager boarding the
housewife do is of little consequence It is the
gold and bonds stuffed into safety deposit boxes by
captains OF industry and national leaders that creates
the difficulty
The American woman is great force. But if she
swallow Parade to Prosperity" now, all by her
lonesome. she deserves to run the untry in the fu-
ture. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
Radius of Space

TINE Einstein equations laid the
Il foundations for new theories
as to the structure of the universe.
But in themselves, they did not
solve the problem.
Einstein's equations led to the
view that space is finite. Space,
according to relatively, is curved
and therefore, while it is unbound
ed, it is nevertheless finite.
This led to the problem of the
amount of curvature which space
possessed. Solution of this prob
lem would lead to calculation Of
the radium of the universe and
from that the size of the universe.
Einstein himself made a calcula-
ton, arriving at what became
known as the "Einstein universe"
He gave space a radium of "a
000,000,000 lght-years, a distance
about six hundred times the dis
lance from the earth to the far
thest spiral nebulae visible in the
100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson.
Another theory was worked out
by Professor Willem De Sitter, the
famous Dutch astronomer. The
'De Sitter universe" is an expand
ing universe and with notifications
proposed by Lemaitre is probably
the strongest theory in the field.
The radius of the universe is not
yet settled problem, but as Jeans
says, we may think of the radius
of space as being at least some
hundreds of millions of hght-years
anC the journey Of light around the
whole Of the universe as taking
billions Of light-years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29

which 1 may have partaken of three
or four minute steaks if the night
before happened to be trying.
And now the place stands stripped
and bleak and empty. Strict ac-
counting demands that 7 add my
own plight to that of the dish
washer. This constitutes a twin
triumph for the forces of law and
order. No longer can ride down
the elevator from the penthouse
and find an oasis within fifteen
PAGES of the front door.
1t has been a terrible lesson to
me. The arm of the law is long
and the mills Of Volstead grind ex-
ceeding fine.
Yes, indeed, am not likely ever
more to laugh at prohibition and
take it lightly. The power of the
eighteenth amendment has been
brought home to me. From now
on must walk twenty PAGES. And
climb one flight of stairs.
Besides, I do not like the minute
steaks in this other place as well
as those which once were served in
the haven which vas raided.
Copyright. 1881. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
It's EuroDe'S Move

CENATOR MOSES seems to be
~ the last remaining optimist, es-
pecially on the Republican side of
human destiny. He says, and with
out smiling, that he finds the bank
ers cheerful. Maybe, he interviewed
them before the Mellon tax plan
came out, or at least, before House
Leader Rainey intimated what the
Democrats might do to it.
Meanwhile, President Hoover is
reported as Studying" the question
of whether to have our government
participate in the forthcoming debt
conference. Since congress is on
record as opposed to cancellation, or
revision, and since that is the one
subject the conference wants to dis
cuss with us, what is there to study.
Obviously, the next move is Eu-
ropes Why not let her make it,
without advice or interference?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
Safety First

NOTHING of a particularly
L y drastic character is going to be
done at this session of congress. A
presidential election is too near at
hand. The big idea on all sides
is to play safe, even if it doesn't ac-
complish SO much. That is why you
find some Of the vets getting gun
shy of prohibition, especially Dem
ocratic vets.
1t might be all right for the Dem
ocrats to nominate wet, or even
ballyhoo the wet cause in such
states as Massachusetts,, New York,
New Jersey and Illinois, but every
one knows what the south did three
years ago and no Democrat wants
to see it repeat.
The chances are that it wouldn't
repeat under any circumstances.
but just try to make politician be-
lieve that lightning can't strike
twice in the same place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
NJ. E. Tracy

Nothing of a Particularly
Drastic Character Is Going
to Be Done at This Session
of Congress. A Presiden-
tial- Election Is Too Near.
NEW YORK, Dec. %. - Those
' who prefer unhappy endings
ought to be well pleased with this
year. 1t represents complete tri-
umph for the I-told-you-sos.
Even Gandhi has soured on his
Pacific doctrines to such an extent
that he is ready ito fight, if it costs
million lives"
The moratorium having failed to
clear up the reparationS problem
and congress having gone on record
as opposed to cancellation, or even
revision Of war debts, Europe no
longer loves us.
For a moment it looked as though
that might prove a blessing in dis
guise by bringing France and Eng
land together, but Premier Laval
wants no tete-tete with Premier
Macdonald.
All our heroic efforts to save
Manchuria seem to have gone for
nought. Twenty thousands Jap
anese soldiers are toddling right
along toward Chinchow just as if
nothing had been said on the sub
ject and just as if 100000 China
men were not wringing their hands
and yelling to the outside world for
help.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.
4 VALUABLE records indicate
L n that from forty to fifty young
men died during the current, season
from the results of accidents during
football games.
These accidents took unusual
forms, largely depending on the
manner in which they occurred.
In considerable number of in
stances there were injuries to the
head and brain, in other cases
bones of the spine were fractured,
and one prominent athlete had a
bruise affecting the region of the
kidneys, which resulted in hemor-
rhage from the kidneys and a gen.
orally serious condition.
The captain of one of the great
teams is reported to be suffering
with pleuriSy and empyema, which
means collection of fluid and of
infectious material around the
lungs, frequently associated with
tuberculosis, and in his case certain
to result in at least six months of
life in a Sanatorium before he even
can begin to live normally again.
1t is difficult to estimate the
number of young men and boys
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-29
imperial VioIators

A ND if the emperor of a rum
"A ring is captuAAd in a dragnet
it may be true that he and his as
sociates will be frightened into
good behavior for at least a fort
night.
But during the last metropolitan
campaign I did not read of any
such result. Instead the news
papers carried the information that
in one major battle the prohibition
forces went away in triumph bear
ing with them as tokens of the
chase six walters and a dishwasher.
The walters, although pawns in
the game, perhaps stand guilty of
the charge of having transported
here and there the stuff which
steals away the mind. But what
about the dishwaSher? How does
he figure in the picture?
In his kitchen station he may well
have been entirely ignorant of the