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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

been no formal bloc of that sort evil
dent in the Congress which is now
concluding-di suffer setback this
week, the final results of which may
not become evident for some little
while. And the story is told in mas
terIy style by one of Washington's
most brilliant newspaper correspon-
dents, Robert S. Allen. who described
it in the following language:
1T is a fundamental principle of
military strategy that when con-
fronted with superior numbers the
enemy should first be divided, and the
weakened elements attacked separ-
ately. This rule is also an old lobby
ist trick, and today one of the most
powerful Hobbies seen in Washington
| is secretly engaged i'm such a maneu-
ver Its purpose is to Illustrate the
enactment of drastic farm relief
bill.
For years farm leaders have
sought to ally Southern cotton grow
ers and Western grain producers be-
hind common legislative program.
Last year this unity was temporarily
realized i'm the widespread hostility
of agriculture toward the Hoover adj
| ministratiOn So when Congress
reconvened last December farm lead
ers moved promptly to translate this
at-last realized alliance into legisla-
tive results. With the assistance of
Roosevelt spokesman they succeeded
in putting through the House of Rep
resentatives an agricultural price-fix-
ing measure known as the domestic
allotment plan
1T was a great victory for the cot
ton grower and the grain producer.
But the fight had only just begun
as subsequent events disclosed. The
great private grain trade, the millers,
the millionaire textile manufacturers
known collectively as the process
sors'-began the fight. Against the
united agricultural front they too de-
cided to pool resources. They set up
a huge, aggressive lobby in the shad-
ow of the Capitol :. The first move
was an announcement by the textile
manufacturers that they no longer
opposed the Smith cotton relief bill.
When first introduced, the textile
group violently assailed the proposed
as Bolshevism. After the lobby got
into action they withdrew their oppo-
sition. The reason?
| Passage of the cotton bill in the
Senate would drive wedge not only
! between the South and West, but be-
tween the two branches of Congress.
The Southern grower having gotten
relief for themselves, would be in
different to further farm legislation.
On the other hand, with the House
| favoring the domestic allotment bill
and the Senate the cotton measure,
the two chambers would become en-
broiled to such an extent that no leg
islation would be enacted.
This is exactly what has come to
pass"
And that. friends, tells the story
perfectly. There will be more next
week.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

The local unit of the Socialist party
will hold its regular monthly meeting
Friday evening, March 10, at S O'Clock
p. M, i'm the school house. A general
discussion of Gov. Olson's speech
which he was to have delivered at the
Conference of Governors in Washing
ton, d. c., will be taken up, and it is
proposed that a resolution sanctioning
some or all of the Governors demands
be adopted and sent to our senator's
and representatives. r. Buck.
President.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

POULTRY FARM offers
quality baby chicks from their
large egg bred Ghostley's strain
trapnested White LeghOrns. All
breeders state blood tested; trapnest
under state supervision; grade A
chicks, 10c each, $95 per 1000; stan
dard chicks, SC each, SIS per 1000.
Visitors welcome Farm located ,
miles south of Pine City on No. 1.
-RObinsOn's Poultry Farm, Pine
City. 59w24-3t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09
THE NATIONAL
GOVERNMENT
BY CONG. JOHN PAUL KvALE

March 3. 1933-Indications today
and yesterday point strongly to an
almost immediate call for the new
Congress to come together and devise
legislative expedients to meet the
banking and credit crisis, as we'll as
to inaugurate the legislative remedies
which the new administration wishes
to offer i'm order to correct present
conditions. Developments in the last
few days have forced the hands of
their leaders.
That knowledge of critical financial
and economic conditions, coupled with
the official mourning for Senator
Walsh's demise, contributes to a most
dramatic inaugural. The flags and
bunting, bands and parades, surging
crowds and festive splendor, all are
here In fact it will be the most
heavily attended Inauguration in re-
cent times, if not i'm history. But the
gaiety is forced, both in official cir
cles and among the participants from
the outside.
The unprecedentedly large number
of retiring members are making their
farewells and preparations for de-
parture, the newly-elected members
are here in numbers, anxious to give
expression to their views and parti-
cipate in the legislative operations.
Five of Minnesota'S new Representa-
tives-at-large have arrived; only
Arens and Christensen are as yet
absent. Most of those here have al
ready sets up temporary offices and
are trying to get into their stride
without any delay whatever.
Most of the incoming Democrats, of
course. came on chiefly to participate
in their party caucus, at which their
Speaker candidate and other officials
were selected. Newspapers have car
ried news of the choice of Congress-
man Rainey, present floor leader and
old-time liberal and progressive from
Illinois. About his first act was to in
sure the effective control of House
and of party procedure by representa-
tive party leaders instead of moving
toward autocratic control by himself
and those to whom he might deign to
delegate power. A steering commit
tee of party advisors will be set up,
and plans are already going forward
for formulation of a consistent and
comprehensive program of rehabili-
tating legislation.
Rainey's nomination naturally in
sures election, with the prepOnderant
Democratic majority in the new Com
gress. That is hailed by the groups
interested in legislation looking to-
ward agricultural rehabilitation,
monetary reform, tariff revision and
utility regulation as definite ground
for optimism and hope, on the basis
of the record he has built up con-
sistently during his thirty years
service in the House. His advocacy
of the sales tax in the last session
has to some degree dampened the ar
dor of some of his supporters, but
that is not looked for to be an issue
in the approaching session, and he is
understood to have been rather re-
luctant and half-hearted advocate of
the measure even at the time.
The agricultural bloc-and that
designation is used without any APP
parent justification, for there has
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09
DIR. JAMES SLAVEN, the dentist, will
be in Willow River Tuesday, March
IA. 25w26-1t

sale at Marks Trading
Post, Willow River, has been post
poned from Saturday, March II, to
Saturday, March Is on account OF
weather conditions in the Vest
E. z. Mark. 31w26-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

WANTED-A good sound work horse,
weighing about 400 pounds; also
Anthony or Swedish select oats and
alsike clOver.-Si gurd Stovring,
ASkOy. 25w26-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09
ELECTION NOTICE

The annual election of Partridge
township will take place in the town
hall i'm Askov Tuesday, March IA.
The polls will be open from a. m.
until p. m. Besides the election or
officers a levy of taxes Will
be made i'm the afternoon beginning
at 1 o'clock.
c. FLINT, Clerk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09
NOTICE

The annual meeting of Finlayson
township will be held at l o'clock.
March IA, 1893. Also the election of
township officers. Polls open from
8 a. m. to p. m. March IA, 1888.
JOHN f. NORKOLl,
f4Ow1t Town Clerk.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

HAUL LIVESTOCK every week and
pay all expenses on cattle and hogs.
List with AXel Brus or Ford garage.
Hauling 10c per cwt. less if brought
32W25-tf
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

WANTED small loan on first mort
gage on a we'll improved so acre
farm, 1 y miles from town. Inquire
at Askov American office. 25w25-2t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

OPENING DANCE-At the Riverview
Pavilion Saturday, March II. Music
by Senob and his five piece band.
Admission 25c, ladies free.
25W26-1t:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

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, 1933-03-09

SINGLE COMB White Leghorn hatch
ing eggs, for March. April, May.
Hollywood and Tancred strain, sc Il
dozen over market price.-Jack
Johnson, Route 1, Sturgeon Lake.
25W25-3t*
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

FOR SALE-One tanning mill for
cleaning grain and clover seed; one
Aspenwall potato planer, fertilizer
attachment; one lever spring tooth
harrow; one four-shovel walking
cultivator; good rough lumber
Tom Rodenberger, Bruno. 33w26-1t*
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

How do you tell your sweetheart
from her twin sister," asked one fell
low of another here. Il don't try
was the reply.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

% TO so HEAD horses. always on
hand, guaranteed to be as represent
ed. Also 20 or 25 sets harness for
sale. AXel Brus, AskOv, will haul
horses to anyone who purchases
them.-Sam Montgomery, TO n.
Prior Ave-, ST. Paul. 4Ow22-6t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09
MISCELLANEOUS

FOR SALE-1930 Model A Ford truck,
dual wheels, excellent shape. A
real bargain for cash.-AskOv Mo-
tor Co 25w26-1t
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WANTED

WANTED hear from party will
ling to make small real estate loan.
Inquire at Askov American office.
25w22-tf
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

FOR SALE-Cedar posts 3" to 81;
round posts, Sc; split. &c; delivered
free in load lots in Pine county
until March 20.-Irving w. Ecklund,
Hinckley, % John Stewart.
3Ow26-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

FIRST CLASS PAINTING. paperhang-
ing and decorating done by Louis
Larson. Bruno. Have it done before
rush Very reasonable rates, by
hour or trade 25w26-1t*
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

FIRST CLASS Carmen seed potatoes.
25 cts. per bushel; also good cab
bage. IS cents per 100 lbs.-John
Guessing, one mile from Willow
River. 25W26-lt~
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

RENT OR SELL-160 acre farm,
known as Overlook farm, AZ miles
east of Willow River. Write ThOs.
Klovstad, Hutchinson, Mimi, or Mrs.
Emma ZaleSky, Willow River.
27w26-1t
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

Gudstjeneste Sendag den IL. Marts
Kl. 1890 a. ma. e. Frost.
English Lutheran services Sunday,
March ~, at p. ma. E. Frost.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09
FOR SALE

FOR SALE-Wild hay, $500 per ton.
Inquire Edmund Trester, One-half
mile north of Harris. 25w26-1t*
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

FOR SALE--Four tons of good tame
hay.-Erick Johnson, Route l, Box
no Sandstone. 25w26-1ts
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09
WANT ADS

RATE cent per word per Insertion.
Minimum IS cents per Insertion.
Cory for want ads must reach the
American office not later than WedneS-
day noon to insure insertion in that
weeks issue
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

American ads save you money.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

FOR SALE OR TRADE-15OO pound
bay mare, good worker. Will sell
set new tires 4.75x19 cheap; also
chain hoist nearly new.-Albert
Breiland, Bruno. 25w26-lt3
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-03-09

FOR SALE-27 turkeys, Mammoth
Bronze, "a hens, toms. Very rea-
sOnably priced for cash.-Frank
Had. Njckerson 25w26-1t
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-19
CRUSH THE KIDNAPERS

MO society in which kidnapping for ransom
becomes as common a racket as it has
become in the United States recently is Of
fering its citizens anything very substantial
in the way Of security.
No crime emphasizes the helplessness of a
community as does kidnapping. There always
will be human passions that will result in
murder, there always will be desperate men
who commit robbery, there always will be
weak men who commit forgery and defalca-
ton, there always will be gamblers and pam
ders and confidence men.
The most society can hope to do is keep
such crimes at a minimum.
But kidnapping is different. Tt can not be
an organized racket unless the society in
which it thrives HAS demonstrated its utter
inability to protect the lives and persons of
its citizens. It's appearance is the gravest
symptom that the machinery of law enforce
ment can display.
Today we just have about reached point
at which we must discuss some extremely
revolutionary revision of our whole system of
law enforcement.
Police methods could not be more disor-
ganized than they are now. From New York
down to the smallest hamlet, each police
force is entirely independent. There are forty
eight states, each with a separate juri sdction
The powers of the federal government to
coordinate and direct the war on crime are
very limited. The cards are stacked in favor
of the racketeer. He could not ask for bet
ter set-up.
The editor of the Daily Post-Tribune of La
Sale, Ill, recently suggested to President
Roosevelt that changes be made in the law
so that federal agents could take hand in
all kidnapping cases, and not just in those
where the victim is transported over a state
line.
This is an excellent proposal, but it may be
that We need to go even farther than that.
1t may be that we need to follow Attorney
General Homer Cummings in his scheme for a
nationwide federal police force. 1t may be
that we need to surrender our old fondness
for local independence and make every cop iii
the land part of great centralized organi-
cation, just as we already have put our ma
tional guard under federal authority.
1t is perfectly obvious that we must do
something. The kidnapers could, not oper-
ate as they have been operating if the exist
ing machinery had not proved its utter in
adequacy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-19
THE PATRONAGE EVIL

DREsIDENT ROOsEvELTs action in put
ting all postmasters under civil service
seems to be a long step in the right direction.
And it leads to the hope that our major
political parties eventually will have sense
enough to drop the patronage game entirely
That the federal service suffers because
parties try to reward their hacks with public
Office is notorious. 1t also is beginning to be
clear that passing out these jobs usually
creates more enemies than friends.
The number of jobs is strictly limited; the
job hunters are like the sands of the sea, un-
countable. For one who is chosen there are
dozen to be rejected, and those who are re-
jected are very apt to get sore about it.
Deciding to fill government positions on
merit basis might turn out to be good politics,
as well as good government
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-19

births. Only 1851 61s babies arrived COM
pared with 2,l12,76O in 1881. Births per 1000
people have been going down steadily since
1915, when the figure was ISL. Last year it
was 173.
Fewer marriages bring fewer divorces.
Marriages fell 73a per cent. Only ten states
recorded wedding increases last year, and
these all adtoined states with strict marriage
laws Iowa, where marriages used to flourish
as the tall corn stalk, saw the wedding bust
ness drop by 435 per cent-the national rec
ord low for the year.
Since we want no Mussolini or Hitler to
tongue-lash blushing brides and bashful
benedicts to the altar, there is little to be
done about the marriage slump.
Nothing, in fact, but wait for better
times, now on the horizon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-19
o defend them from the strong arm" of the

to defend them from the strong arm" Of the
law.
The kidnapngs which we have been reading
about well may be only the first rumblings OF
the oncoming tornado of organized crime.
Legal beer only has begun to make inroads
into the bootlegger's domain. He still has his
monopoly on hard liquor.
When repeal comes, the real SHIFT will be-
gin into new avenues of profitable activity 1t
may go so far that we shall have to declare
martial law in certain localities. There is
little hope of curbing organized crime through
the usual channels of criminal jurisprudence,
since the latter are all too often allied with
gangsters.
Whatever methods OF repression may prove
necessary they never will be wholly successful
unless supplemented by deeper reforms which
discredit the something for nothing business
"ethics" secure the punishment of malefactors
OF great wealth. emphasize the fact that the
man who earns his living is neither boob
nor a sucker, and provide job for every per-
son eager to follow an honest calling.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-19
NJ. ETracySayS:

COMMENTS on President RooSevelts order
" placing some IS, 900 poStmasters under civil
service show how deeply partisan politics is i'm
bedded in attitude toward government. The
shock to Democratic job seekers and the Ella
ton of Republican holdovers claim most of the
attention.
Patronage, rather than efficiency or eecono-
N.Y. appears to be our chief concern. A century
of party building has caused us to think of the
government as means o Improving political
organizations. That more than anything else
accounts for the trouble we are in with regard
TO crime, finance and social conditions.
Without the spoils SYSTEM politics could not
have so completely commercialized. BoSsism
racketeering and the kind of lawlessness that
thrives on lax law enforcement owe theier rise
largel yto the appetite and resources created by
patronag.
The habit of giving out jobs whenever party
comes into power has developed an unwholesome
attitude toward government.
We have come to look on government as a
feed bag, rather than an institution, as a source
o freward for those who win. Conversely, we
have come to think of it less and less as an
agency for public service
VOU can trace most of the extravaganza
Il and mismanagement from which we suffer
to this pernicious viewpoint Our political lead
ers have been schooled not only to seek Jobs,
btu to make Jobs.
zations has been shifted gradually from volun-
tary contributions to the public treasury.
All branches of government have been sf-
fected by the periodic shift in personnel while
civic consciousness has given place to partisan
scramble for pums.
Instead of being directed toward improved
service, our political energy has spent itself on
ways and means to recOmpenSe party workers.
Faithful and efficient officers have been
ousted ruthlesSly to make room for inexperienced
henchmen and when this failed to make suffi-
cient room, party leaders have not hesitated to
create new jobs
The hunger for pay developed by such a
method is associated Intimately with the incom-
petence, graft, and crookedneSs with whieh we
are afflicted
TT requires no eXpertneSS in sociology to trace
Il the rise of gang rule and racketeering to the
political philosophy which puts premium on
spoil, or to realize that high taxes and debt
bark back to the same cause.
Why should oficeholders strive to be care
full and efficient when it counts for nothing?
On the other hand, why shouldn't they work
for the interest of the party machine when it
counts for everything?
President Roosevelt has done something big
ger than save $4,000 postmasters. He has struck
at method which slowly is undermining our
system of government and which definitely is
responsible for the fact that the United States
of America has become the most lawleSs civ
ilized nation.
Our inability to enforce laws, 10 balance
budgets, to engender a spirit of economy in
public service, harks back to the simple truth
that We have ignored merit in Office and that
we have dangled jobs in front of politicians as
| rewards for political campaigning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-19
A RIDICULOUS "RED" SCARE

4 STUDENT at the University of Wisconsin
n told legislative investigating committee
the other day that he had been hired by the
secret service to supply federal investigators
with information about the activities of Com
munists at the university and one is forced
to wonder just what humorless subofficial it
was who decided that such course was neces-
sary.
No one with any common sense thinks
that anything important in the way of red
activities is taking place at any state uni
versity. 1t was another Wisconsin student
who explained how the stories about Com
munism at the university got to Uncle Sans
ears.
On May day, this lad explained, one under
graduate hung red flag out Of his window
This undergraduate was a thorough going
young capitalist, the son of the president of
big Illinois manufacturing concern, and he
hung out his red bunting as a prank, pure and
simple
But some one took the flag seriously, some
federal official got worried-and the sleuths
got busy
And the whole business looks more than q
little ridiculous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-19
OVERPAID EXECUTIVES

ONE of the lessons of the depression seems
~ to have been that some of our brightest
executives were overpaid grossly.
A case in point is furnished by the story
OF an Ohio bank, the Guardian Trust Com
pany of Cleveland, which took TO its bed at
the time of the recent bank holiday, plucked
fltfully at the covers and then quietly
breathed its last.
The Ohio senate now is investigating this
bank, and it has found that it's president was
drawing a salary of around 100000 year,
which is more than the President of the
United States gets.
In one year salaries to the banks leading
executives totaled a sum greater than the
dividends paid to stockholders
To earn salary Of 100000 year, a man
has to be very, very good. When he repays
his employers by permitting his firm to drift
straight into insolvency, one hardly needs to
be unduly critical to suspect that he was be-
ing overpaid greatly.
One wonders just how many firms that
went bankrupt in the last few years were sup
porting big shot executives in style to which
they had no right to become accustomed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-19
So They Say

The government should content
itself in the field of industry with
acting as a check to private indus
try's exploitation and greed.-Dr.
Robert A. Millikan, scientist.
The only way to write really
popular song is to put ones self
first in the state Of mind of a less
than average person, with less than
average vocabulary, range OF
thought and sense for grammar
DR.. Sigmund Spaeth, music critic.
Experience needs to be cured like
wine before it is fit for use.-Owen
D. Young, induStrialiSt.
tt (the Roosevelt recovery pro-
gram is the most noble conception
ever dreamed by a seasoned practical
idealist.-Samuel Untermeyer, at
torney.
The teacher of the new social Or
der must be educated in the crea-
tive, expressive activities of society.
With q thirty-hour working week
and more time for leisure, nothing
is more fundamental than music,
art, literature, dramatics, etc.-H. l..
Donovan, president Eastern Ken
lucky Teachers college.