Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-09-15
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WdSnlHSIOL, september It'll lo'
already apparent that the 1882 Pres
idential contest will be wholly unlike
anything the present generation of
political leaders can recall Up to the
present time a great many statements
have been issued by both parties, but
been slow-moving. Now, the machin-
cry of both party organizations must
speed up, but lack of campaign con-
tributions is the real drawback.
The strategy of the Republicans
seems to be to let the Roosevelt cam
paign develop it's attack and then
enter a rebuttal in mid October, with
an offensive toward the end of the
campaign. The Roosevelt manage
ment is hammering away every day
through such organizations as it can
command and through the use of the
candidates trips. Governor Roosevelt
is relying on the idea that personal
appearances count for great deal in
national campaigns while the present
occupant of the White House is fol-
lowing just the opposite theory, name
ly, that too many speeches are un-
necessary.
Whims and changing fancies of the
electorate, more than any other fac
tor, are the reason for new faces in
Congress. 1t may hearten modern
politicians to read of the recent ar
Genealogical discoveries near Athens
when relics of the classical periods
around 600 B. G. were unearthed.
Among the finds were bits of pottery
upon which were written the names
of candidates voted upon for ostra-
cism according to the custom of the
day. No less celebrated victims of
popular disfavor than Aristides and
Themistocles were named on some of
the ballots. Present-day recipients of
political favor who fall from grace
next November may take comfort
from the record of the centuries.
All eyes are focused on business
barOmeters and consequently the fail
ure of the Post Office department to
make public the postal receipts for
July and August has aroused COM
of postal receipts is regarded as a
business guide. The new rates of
postage went into effect July and,
therefore, it is believed statistics for
two months under the increased
schedules would form a valuable COM
parison with postal revenues under
the previous rates. The publication
of this information is discretionary
with the Postmaster General and the
statistics may be withheld indef-
nitely.
Ii current reports are accurate,
President Hoover will lose his closest
personal friend in the cabinet in the
near future. DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur
will probably resign from his cabinet
post as Secretary of the Interior and
return to his campus billet as presi-
dent of Stanford University before
January 1. 1t is understood that those
close to the universitys affairs have
decided that their institution can no
longer be managed by remote con-
troll from Washington. When DR..
Wilbur was called to Washington he
took extended leave but did not re-
sign. If Hoover is reelected, Wilbur
will have to choose between a four
year lease on politics and a life posi-
ton as president of one of the coun-
try's largest educational institutions.
Each department and bureau of the
government seems to get in the lime
light at some time during the year.
For while the Tariff Commission
apparently received all the attention,
then the office of the Comptroller
General had to rule on the various
phases of the new economy measure.
The scene has now shifted to the Bu-
| reau of the Budget where the expen-
ses for running the government in
1888 are being discussed behind
| closed doors. During September and
October all departments and bureaus