Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-08-24

| or attempting TO cast away the Gull
tural heritages of our fathers has,
already, so thoroughly gripped the or
binary mind that the young and old,
alike, will gaze with disrespect,
mockery, and even contempt upon
the thoughts and ways of the past,
and will consider as highly obsolete
anything (be it literature or material
elements) carrying a copyright be-
yond a decade. If it isn't new fash
ioned," it apparently can't be toler-
ated in our day and age.
So we are living in an age log
ically PARALLEL to little bird just
venturing out from its brood-neither
able to fly or walk with confidence.
1t seeks to cast aside all institutions,
thoughts, and ways which have been
crystallized and established by the
brain and Drawn of a conservative
past, leaving nothing stable upon
which to rest and build: ever cropping
into a phantomless future, and allow
ing nothing to become fixed-a relent-
less paradoxy.
Let us next turn into the free air
of society in order to observe some Of
the other forces actively engaged in
undermining intellectual stability.
Selfishness In the Front.
Sad to say. buy leadership has now
become more like a mathematical
machine, figured in dollars and cents,
than social servants seeking and
manipulating spiritual values. 1t is
very apparent that most institutions
and public offices have now fallen
into the manipulating hands of sell
fish enterprisers, whose primary OBJ
jective is not the highest good of
their fellow citizens, but, rather, sell
fish gain. Consequently, the great
majority of those seeking some pub
lie office do so, not with the object
of devoting their gifts and energies
for the uplifting of man. but as
medium for Initiating their material
Golfers
The result. is, therefore, our So
called rotten politics, cut-throat SLAM
der and plotting of personalities. A
little misdemeanor committed during
infancy will most surely be brought
forth by one or the other as a gross
and objectionable sin.
Through the platform, newspapers,
and magazines, the public digests it
all. One says this, the other that,
each one contradictingS the other, yet
each side apparently able to paint a
plausible and rosy picture. And so
the people, stirred into dizziness and
mental chaos. just don't know what
to think. They tumble about in their
chaotic minds, each one trying to
pick out of this jg-saw puzzle some
thing definite and which, according
to his own mind, appears most rea-
sonable. The natural consequence of
all of it is this deplorable uproar of
ideas-one thinks this way and the
other that way, but neither knowing
just what to think. Thus, most folks
only think they think.
The public is, naturally, stirred
. into doubt, inconfidence, and indif-
ference toward all, be it saint or
demon, truth or falsehood. EYES,"
they will say, 1--WE hear so many
things nowadays that we hardly know
what to believe" And, surely, this is
as reasonable as the other. What
sort of an education is this? What
sort of knowledge, what sort of tools
with which to meet the problems of
|, life?
, Erroneous Conclusions.
Eyo,,1fy Of oopditio
and facts, resulting in erroneous con-
l., illusions and conceptions are further
consequences of this debauchery.
> And, how possibly, can a mis-in-
formed and chaotically minded people
decide correctly for themselves? 1t
is impossible-no more possible than
chopping wood with broken axe, or
, making hay in cyclone. 1t just
can't be done.
/, 1t is largely leadership, often bribed
!. by selfish enterprisers, and acting as
wolves in Sleeps clothing, that has,
and is constantly pulling the wool
, over the public's eye. For these lead
: ers it is, of course, fortunate, as 1t
, permits them easy access to their
eagerly sought booty without the
, knowledge of the people; but for hui
. mainly it means ultimate destruction
n Life is not a dream, as many think
h and as science desires people to be.
v lieve. Life is reality and must be
4 faced with earnestness and definite
Q ness. And, as surely as the mishand.
= ling of the forces of nature will result
: in destruction and dismay, so will
v likewise, the misconception and mis-.
g Interpretation of social conditions
O cause degeneracy and ultimate ruin
!. both to the individual man and tt
d civilization.
1t is my desire to use this essay as
8 a foundation upon which to construct
n a series of articles on the present
q Honor proh1om believing aS I firmly