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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
FARM RELIEF, ETC.
Editor AskOv American:

Editor Askov American:
/ have noticed with great interest
what j. A. Wye said in the Askov
American of October Goth. 1t is worth
reading twice and to be preserved.
Mr.. WYE says in fact why pay teach
ers or public employees a pension?
Such makes them an aristocratic
class, 'Bureaucrats,' while the gen.
eral taxpayer (the farmers) have no
security of fixed income or pensions"
Mr.. Wye says further, if pensions are
to be granted. why not begin with the
farmer? l am very much pleased to
see am not the only radical on that
subject. My idea in regard to pen
sions has for many years been that in
place of pensions to public servants
by retirement where high salaried
servants get high pension. and so on
in proportion, that every man and
woman (not criminals perhaps)
whether wealthy or poor, at the age
of As or so, should be entitled to a
life-rent, gradually increasing every
five years. At least 900 of this
to be paid from the federal govern
ment.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
BLAMING THE OTHER FELLOW
(Eveleth Clarion)

(EVeIetn ClarlOn)
Those of other states who drive
over Minnesota highways and roads
are struck with the large signs, es-
pecially on silos, advocating people
to drink certain kinds of beer. 1t
does seem rather queer that agricul-
turists should allow their land and
property to be literally spotted with
big beer signs, when it is a known
fact that the consumption of milk,
their own product, has fallen off to
a great extent since 80 came back.
A dairy farmer in northern Illinois,
happening into the barber shop, force
fully expressed his opinion of a state
of society which gives the food pro-
Queer so little for his efforts. The
barber heard him through then said:
You won't get any sympathy from
me. 1 drove by your farm the other
night and saw big beer sign on
your silo. For two or three dollars
you are permitting your silo to be
used to advertise a competitive pro-
duct that has already reduced milk
consumption 20 per cent in this town.
Why don't you advertise your own
products?"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

In this case producers were saved
great deal Of money by the tactics
of John B. and his co-helpers.
This is the story John Brandt told
us at the annual Land O'Lakes meet
ing in 1881. Since that time we have
never heard that the Land OLakes
pulled off similar stunt; not even
when we were receiving 16 cents per
pound for butterfat.
The agitators for cooperative mar
keting can tell us the Ifs" and per
haps" of what the price of butter
would be without that system as long
as there is an atom Left to split. But
the cold facts tell us today that that
system could not prevent our prices
from dropping down below the zero
mark of the cost of production. We
the dairymen who own the farms, the
COWS, and the creameries, have been
taught the profits we would derive
we build creameries for the benefit
of operators and managers. We had
to furnish the material and after this
managers were paid good salaries and
receiving our cooperation. We re-
ceived very little cooperation from
them in our strike. If we were paid
like these managers are today, and
they received what we are receiving,
the strike would be on the reverse
Do you think for moment that those
farmers who participated in our
strike had looked up constitutional
rights and called on sheriffs to club
these hoodlums back to work?
Asking our Governor to give his
opinion about law and order (?)
Reminding him of the contract he
had to sign before he could take office
and to forget his sympathies for hu-
man rights. l hope for the welfare
of all the people of the world that in
times like these, human rights will
take the place of conventional rights.
After so many years of feudalism,
to be delivered into the powers of
capitalism, and shyster lawyers is not
much of a progress.
JOHN NIEBOER.
Hinckley, Mimi, Route l.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
SOMETHING TO DO
(CarltOn Vidette)

Why can't the government or state
provide camps for the hundreds of
tramps travelling the highways, roam
ing from one town to another alleged
ly in search of work? The state could
put them to work on state projects
and while it would cost something
at the time, it could be made self
sustaining in the end. 1t is public
crime to fail to afford relief to those
wanderers who really want to work.
Even it they got very small pay dur
ing this slumpy time, it would give
them something to do and a new
hope in life. Many of them are so
undernourished that they could not
do a hard days work for several
weeks, before they are fed up. But
wouldn't it be economy to feed and
clothe them with a regular plan
rather than let them harass business
houses and housewives by their con-
slant begging and rambling around?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
STRIKE WAS NOT IN VAIN
Editor Askov American:

Editor Askov American:
Now why should the farmer be so
ridiculed and criticized for his posi-
ton in demanding cost of production
and other necessary demands? Would
q hardware dealer sell you a pitch
fork for 81 that cost him $1.15? No,
he would not. If l had laid down a
dollar bill and attempted to walk out
of the store with that fork, that man
would have fought. And so will we,
if society refuses to recognize our
demands and if our living and our
homes are to be wrested from us, we
will fight in every sense that word
implies. We are ready to go the
limit with at least one law back of
us and that's the law of self-preser-
walton.
President Roosevelt has accom-
plished great deal so far. He has
done a great deal to help every in
dustry but the real one, the basic in
dustry of the nation-the farm. You
may as we'll look for trees to grow
and thrive with roots severed as to
look for prosperity to return under
these circumstances.
The reports of the enormous over
production of farm products are rath-
err amusing in view of the ever in
creasing imports from foreign coun-
tries, particularly importation of Ar
gentina canned corn beef which in
creased $50 last year. Does that
prove that we have over-prcduction
or that we have under-consumption
in this country? No, neither one. We
It's passage would be too great a
strain on the nations finances, an
interest rate of one and one-half per
cent and one and One-half per cent
on the principal is unthinkable.
Yet foreign debts are being cancelled
and huge loans made to corporations
and industries at less than one half
of one per cent and large percent
age of these corporations and indus
tries are directly dependent on farm
products for their very existence.
If the recent farm strike served no
other purpose, it had the effect of
apprising officialdom in Washington
and in the mid-western states of the
serious plight of the farmer. The
farmers demonstration also served to
show the farmer that he must or
ganize and present a greater solidar-
ity to achieve his ends. The fact was
brought home to the farmer that
there are too many farm organiza
tions and too many farm leaders who
are not working in unison. The big
gest obstacle to overcome in this d.
rection is the fact that there are
creditor farmers and debtor farmers.
The creditor farmer who has no mort
gage on his farm and is able to pay
his taxes and take care of his family
all too often maintains narrow sell
fshness in which he doesn't show the
proper sympathy for the farmer who
is in debt and on the point Of losing
his farm. 1t is the history of every
movement seeking to advance the
general good that those who are COM
Portable and in good circumstances
are willing to let others make the
sacrifices and the fight. They are,
however, quite willing to accept the
benefits that come through the sac
rifices of others.
No, the recent farmers strike made
for justice and right, was not in vain.
ERWIN L. NELSON.
Pine City, MINI.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
ADVERSELY AND INSTRUCTOR
(The Minneapolis Labor Review

(The Minneapolis Labor Review
There is nothing that so schools the
workers as to the real enmity of this
go on strike. Then they see courts,
police, and government, things they
considered impartial, marshalled
against them on the side of the Bosses
Because workers in greater num-
bers are struggling even though under
unfavorable circumstances should be
a matter of thanks for all who hope
for industrial Justice. No longer is
the American worker bowling with
docility to the whims of financial and
industrial rulers.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
LYNCHING ALWAYS WRONG

Lynching is always wrong no mat
ter how much its victims may de-
serve their fate, Governor Floyd B.
Olson said in commenting on the
California lynching of two confessed
kidnaper-slayers Sunday night.
1T is a sad commentary that the
very people who are loud in their
denunciation of violations of law are
now cheering lawlessness in the form
of lynching in California. If the in
cident had occurred in Minnesota,
would feel that the state had been
disgraced," said the governor.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

him into the first article and that is
all l talked about, and as far as
you are concerned stated clearly that
l do not know you or your father.
That does not give you any loop hole
for you to get out or in, so l would
suggest that in your youth to not let
some dictator who is known use your
mind and still be a gentleman him.
self with the public. can back my
words in public or otherwise.
JOSEPH JAGLOWSKI.
Rutledge, Mimi.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

er in this country and better times
for the domestic producer. OF course,
the International bankers and for
eign financiers do not approve Of this
course of action when it is practiced
by the United States. although other
nations have done the same thing to
their own currencies in terms Of the
American gold dollar in the past.
Every patriotic American In this
country wants and will fight for an
honest dollar" We do not believe
that the Roosevelt administration
would permit operations that would
result I'm uncontrolled initiation. The
howlings Of the alarmists to sober,
thinking citizens, are i'll timed and
based on selfishness. greed, and per-
sonal and partisan consideration
rather than on common sense and
GOOD &c nomics. True, there is much
in the Roosevelt program that is ex-
detrimental, but all action in new
situations must be experimental
when there is no precedent to follow.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

The race is progressing in intelli-
gence, says Minnesota weekly news
paper. and cites as evidence the fact
that years ago when the famine visi-
ted Egypt and the depression came
the people we're put to building pyra-
mids. The pyramids were worthless
except as tombs for the royalty. Now
preston comes, builds roads and pub
lie buildings that have value after
the depression Is passed.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
THE SPIRIT is WILLING
Duluth Publicity

(Duluth PuDl1clty)
Miss Frances Perkins, secretary of
labor, told 600 members and guests
of the Union League club, Chicago,
last week, that citizens ought to eat
above the subsistence line. BY so do
ing, she said, the country would cure
underconsumption of food products
and ruin the illusion that there is an
overproduction of them.
But it's the citizens who would be
only too glad and willing to follow
the splendid advice of Miss Perkins
who are unable to do so.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

l hope that In the next year, partly
because of economic reasons and
partly because it is fair deal, we
will see that our legislatures vote
on the child labor amendment and
remember the cry Of the children
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

(Short timely letters on topics
of public interest are welcome
whether or not the writer's opin-
ions conform with those Of the
American. All letters must be
signed with the writer's name for
our information. Signed articles al
ways are more effective. but If the
writer does not wish to have his
name uSed it will be withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
TAKING OUT SELFISHNESS
(Rush City Post)

The most disappointed individual
as we'll as the most disillusioned in
dividual on the first day of school is
the only child who has been permitted
for the first time that others have
rights that it is going to be made to
respect and the realization is some
times quite jolt. This is one of the
most valuable things the school
teaches.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
FROM EXCHANGES
Editorial Comment From Other News
papers. Which May or May Not
Conform with the Opinions
of tile AskOv American.)

Prison Mirror: A good reputation
can be made by playing the game
fairly; by giving the worth of dol
lar for a dollar; by a cheerful co-op-
Grafton under very trying conditions:
by carrying on in the face of diff
ficulties; by doing ones best and sit
ting tight; and by being resolute
enough to own up to your mistakes.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

To seek to undermine public con-
fidence in the national currency and
the national credit by statements
such as those from Prof. Sprague, Sen.
Reed. Sen. Dickinson, financial writ
ers for reactionary dailies, and others
at time like the present is to strike
foul blows at the vitals of the whole
recovery program. The fiduciary pol
icies of the Roosevelt administration
cannot be as unwise as those Of the
Old Guard government that went out
of office with all the banks in the
nation closed and the country in the
depths of the worst depression in all
history
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

Editor ASkOV American:
Now, Miss Lydia Gross, since l saw
in your last statement l am well salts
fed and also others are well satisfied
that my last statement shows that l
struck the nail on the head. l am
still firm on my last statement. You
say that leaves Mr.. Jurash out. How
so? In the first place you were the
one Tor your dictator) that brought
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

Tell us one thing that has tended
to the advancement and betterment
of humanity that was not brought
about by rebels. Can you?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

Many men seek fortune in order t.
be independent; they should rather
seek character. the only true source
of independence.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30
Big Business Attack

The creditor class-big bust
ness in PARTICULARS all worked
up over the Roosevelt plan of
deflation through raising the
price of gold. They still cling
to the short-sighted policy Of
wanting every penny they can lay
their hands on. Greed spurs them
on to action in the way of propa-
gandizing against the Roosevelt
plan. The debtor must be helped.
there is no ifs or ands about that,
and Judging by the way big bust
ness is wrought up against the
Presidents plan, that plan is
likely one that will help the
debtor class.
A fearless and timely editorial
under the head of big Business
Attack on the Roosevelt Finan-
cial Program" appeared in the
Capitol Times of Madison, Wis,
few days ago. 1t is reprinted
herewith:
As the Roosevelt administrator
proceeds with its initiation program
in what seems to be a sincere effor
to relieve the debtor class and thu
Debated farmer and worker, the ma
ton is being told by the spokesmel
for the big financial interests and b.
political opportunist
that terrible dangers lie ahead.
bare faced attempt is being made t
throw a scare into the America
people that strikes hard at the sound
ness of our currency and the credi
of our government.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-11-30

United States in its gold holdings.
But even the prospect of mild infla-
ton has the Wall street crowd and
the Old Guard Republicans in an up
roar. The creditor class do not want
to surrender a dollar of the unjust
gains which accrued to them when
the big deflation came after the mar
ket crash of 1929. They want debts
contracted in the hectic period of
pre-depression initiation paid back in
the coin of the depression. Deflation
was fine FOR THEM.
How quick these gentlemen were to
capitalize the resignation of Prof.
Sprague and Dean G. Acheson, who
opposed the federal gold policy, from
the treasury department! Prof.
Sprague's denunciation of the infla-
ton plan was played up in the big
metropolitan journals that always
bend the knee to Wall and La Sale
streets, even though Prof. Sprague's
statements were lacking in logic and
fact. The scheme seems to be to
brighten the American people about
their own money by intimating that
the present Roosevelt program, if not
stopped, will smash the national cred
it and depreciate the value of the
dollar in our own country to an ex-
tent paralleling the post-World war
-currencies of Europe. Preposterous
as such warnings are, reactionaries
who talk about Sound money" when
they really want dishonest dollar
are quick to give them credence and
take up the cry against any initiation.
1T should be remembered that the
last session Of Congress gave to Pres
ident Roosevelt the legal authority
to reduce the gold content of the dol
lar by as much as SO per cent. This
has not been done. Legally the re-
lation of the dollar to gold remains
the same, although in the foreign
markets the government has been
paying increasingly higher prices for
gold so as to reduce the value of
the dollar to about 60 cents. A fur
Their decline of 20 per cent could still
be permitted and the president would
still be within his powers as granted
by the last Congress.
While the American dollar has fall
len abroad in terms Of foreign cur
rencies, there has been no similar
decline in this country. Abroad, the
products of American industry and
agriculture command much higher
price I'm terms Of dollars than before
the federal gold operations began.
This income, returned to the United
States, means more purchasing pow
The Washington times., 1933-12-13

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The Washington times., 1933-12-13

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The Bismarck tribune., 1933-06-21
Love Conquers.

The music went on and the
dancing. Mary Louis knees were
weak :. were shaking under her.
M argaret had seen that kiss,
Mathews, too, and perhaps the
others. That didn't matter, how
ever. And Lorry had said no word.
What did matter was the intoler-
able pressure at her heart, the
sense of faintness, the sudden
piercing knowledge.
She loved him she loved him
>. terribly. And she was living
q lie >. a false Delight.
Somehow or other that even
ing, which had commenced so
happily and which suddenly
changed to an interminable night
mare, ended. When the good-bys
had been said and the voices Of
departing guests faded and the
purr of motors grew fainter,
Mary Lou finally reached her
room. She undressed, endured
Mrs. Lorrimer's friendly "May I
look in, just to see that you're not
too tired to cover yourself up?'
and, after the older woman had
gone, she lay awake, wretched, too
miserable for tears, staring at the
dim shapes of the furniture, won
dering what she could do, what
she must do.
As she lay there it grew clearer
in her tormented mind that there
was only one thing possible to do.
She rose, slipped into her
negligee, ran barefoot across the
thick rug and switched On tn
The Bismarck tribune., 1933-06-21
he considers this distressing indica-
ton Of something or other.
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BAMES CAN READ TIT

he considers this a distressing indica-
ton of something or other.
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BAMES CAN READ IT!
Another erudite remite is Mr.. VIII
berforce Eames, LID, Litt.D, the In
stitution's chief photographer. Eames
had hard time reaching the top, for
he has been printers devil, q book
shop clerk, q salesman Of religious
tracts and postman. When he was
10 years old he got hold Of copy Of
Herodotus, and the public schools
gave him up as hopeless when he was
Is because he was always playing
hockey to 60 to the library and read
the classics.
He kept on reading, and when he
worked for the post office he became
their expert in deciphering illegible
addresses. Now, just for fun, he keeps
his hand In by deciphering cuneiform
tablets. He also can read 20 languag-
es and speak most Of them. He has
never been to Africa, but he can talk
Kaffir. Another hobby Of Eames is
studying about the social life Of the
Babylonians. His greatest work he
believes, is compilation of the names
Of all the books about America. This
has taken him 28 years SO far.
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KNOWLEDGE BY THE MILE
It was only in 1911 that the library
was opened to the public, but officials
are already worried about space, and
about funds too. Approximately two
miles Of books are added each year
to shelves whose supposed capacity
Is already exceeded. Depression years
brought big increase in readers, un-
til now about 81 ,000. 900 books are con-
suited year.