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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
GOES WEST

Grove Wills. publisher of the
Eveleth Clarion, was an intimate
friend of George Campbell, the
contractor whose life was so sud-
denly snuffed out in distress
ing accident at AskOv nearly two
weeks ago. Under the title Of
George Goes West" the Eveleth
editor wrote the following eulogy
of his good friend:
Taken in the prime of life and
health and leaving young wife and
two small children, the death OF
George Campbell surely is an in
stance that makes men think. We
cannot recall a character so bundled
up with vim, vitality, loyalty, love
of home and fellow man than George.
The publisher of this paper has
known few men so intimately and
from the very time we set foot in
Eveleth this friendship has grown.
1t has been a privilege to have been
associated with him, to hear his OPP
timistic talk, to know his attitude
upon life, and to watch him tear into
his work. He could yell louder and
talk faster than most, and we revelled
at him when he balled us out, for we
knew him and the warm heart that
beat within his breast. Labor was
second nature with him, and he died
with working clothes and boots on,
wrestling with big machines that rip
the earth and make highways. From
one part of the country to another,
from one job to the next-that was
George Campbell. When he took 4
little time off, he could sit with
group and expound more ideas and
happenings than one could count. He
could take a criticism and laugh it
off, and the next minute would be
boosting his critics stock to another
party. His wife and kiddies meant
the world to him and he was their
idol, and that alone was an inspiring
combination.
George built roads to Heaven that
we all can follow safely.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
TAXES THAT SHOULD BE CUT
(The Mortified News)

One hears great deal about taxes,
tax burdens, tax reductions, as if
taxes were the one and only griev-
ance besetting mankind and their
elimination would usher in the mil
lenium. There is a certain justifica-
ton for the complaint, of course, but
it has always seemed that real
analysis of the situation would show
that the taxes buy some of our most
valued possessions, and that we tax
ourselves for things of less value
many times what the government
taxes us.
That wise and sturdy American
philosopher and statesman, BENJAMIN
Franklin, who sounded a keynote of
thrift that has echoed down the years
to teach and help his countrymen.
put it this way: Friends, the taxes
are a heavy burden, and if those laid
on us by the government were the
only ones we had to pay, we might
more easily discharge them, but we
have many others and much more
grievous to some of us. We are taxed
twice as much by our idleness, three
times as much by our pride, and four
times as much by our folly, and from
those taxes the commissioners can
not ease or deliver us by allowing an
abatement"
How many of us have really re-
duced the taxes we administer our
selves?
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
SAVE THE SCHOOLS
(The Minnesota Union Advocate)

(The Minnesota Union Advocate)
If anyone doubts that a concerted
campaign is being waged against free
education in America a mere glance
at the recent report Of George F..
Zook, U. S. Commissioner Of Educa-
tion, should suffice to convince them
that consistent war is being made
on the one institution which is more
Enthusiastically American than all
others.
More than 1,659,0O children from
6 to Is years Of age are not in school;
521,70O children, IA or Is years Of
age, are without schooling, and an
additional 100000 children are barred
from an education because Of the
closing of schools since last spring.
Almost 1000 rural schools failed to
open this fall because Of depleted
funds, and one out of every four cities
in the United States have shortened
the school term, and 715 rural schools
will operate less than three months.
Many public schools have become tut
tion schools; 100000 teachers are UNI
employed, and there are at the pres
ent time over $4O,OOO,OOO in school
warrants unpaid.
Back Of the impaired school sys-
tenn in America are the tax dodgers,
the so-called tax relief associations
and the time-serving politicians,
gnawing like sewer rats on the very
1or ~ spk
eminent. And to the eternal shame
of thousands of adult citizens, who
have no children dependent upon the
public school system, or who place a
nigner value on dollars than on chill
dren, the vicious work of undermining
the high standards of education goes
on.
Time does not stop at the beck and
call of tax dodgers, so-called tax re-
lief associations and political carpet
baggers. Time goes on in the face
of depressions, social changes and
political mockeries. A paving pro-
ject may be deferred; a municipal
airport may remain cow pasture
until financial conditions warrant i'm
provements, but a child's life goes
on and nothing can postpone it's de-
velopment.
A free and unimpaired public
school system is the one and only
assurance America has that it's flu
ture leadership will be sane, con-
structive and in keeping with the
traditions of democracy. And when
the bulwarks of the future are threat
ened by grasping bankers, profess
sional taxation reformers and politi-
cal renegades,' it is high time that
the real lovers of America take &C
ton by calling to account the i'm
posters who insist that it is a wise
policy to starve the children of Amer
lea in order to balance budgets writ
ten by pennywise and pound foolish
executive frauds.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
CAN THEY EARN ITe

A perusal of a list of radio stars
salaries gave forth the fact that Ed
Wynn, Eddie Cantor, Paul Whiteman
and Will Rogers receive as a weekly
wage $4,000; Kate Smith, $4,000 and
Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll
(Amos and Andy $4,000 per week.
When Mae West comes on the air in
January her salary will set a new
high since it is rumored that she will
get $4,000 for each broadcast.
Now, the question is, can these peo-
pie earn anything like $4,000, $4,000
and $4,000 a week. Where do their
salaries come from? 1t is a certain
thing no one is going to take a loss
on their services. On the contrary
their salaries are possibly charged
to advertising or to some other part
of the overhead of the article they
are advertising and the consumer
pays, as he always does and which
of course he must. But because he
pays is no reason why he should pay
toward the upkeep Of such an over
head.
Let us see; at $4,000 per week the
yearly wage would be $156,000. Isn't
it beyond the bounds of reason for
one person to draw $156,000 per year?
It has been remarked that Babe Ruth,
famous big league home run king,
spends $4,000 per year as living ex-
penses and we are sure that he does
not cLinv, himcolf whpu If coxnoc IN
living. Now then, IL he can live on
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
LITTLE FOXES THAT SPOIL
THE VINES
(The Minneapolis JournaD

One of the tragedies of life in a
strenuous age is the number of people
who miss out, not because they do not
strive earnestly, not because they are
wanting in ability, but because OF
some unconsidered minor weakness
that trips them on the very threshold
of success. 1t may be *'too much ego
in their cosmos" 1t may be an in
nate conservatism which opposes too
rigid a conscience to the fluctuating
standards of transition age. 1t may
be too ready willingness to try any
thing once" and to cast aside the ex-
perience of the ages to experiment
with new standards and half baked
ideals.
A classical scholar. a generation or
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
WHY is IT9

Editor Askov American:
Why is it that those who are on the
Emergency Relief fund do not get
the same wages as others. All we get
is as low as 20 cents an hour for all
relief before Aug. 1 and 80 cents per
hour since. Now those who work for
contractors, which is relief work, get
IS cents per hour. Yet we work on
road or cut cordwood for school for 80
cents an hour. The President fixed
the wages at IS. Why should we not
get the same wages? Will some one
be kind enough to enlighten we Emer-
gency Relief workers.
JOSEPH CHATEIlLE.
Markville, Dec. 5, 1893.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
YES, IF YOU MAKE A HOG
OF YOURSELF
(Fergus Falls Tribune)

(FerguS Falls Tr1bune)
'As matter Of fact" says that
old reprobate and genial gentleman,
Carl Eastwood, in his LeSueur News
Herald, three and two-tenths per
cent beer will rock any man to sleep,
if he drinks enough of it." Which
recalls the court reporters record of
many years agone.
1t was case which turned on the
question of drunkenness. An old
German brewer was on the stand.
Impatiently, the presiding Judge
stopped the attorney who was using
bullying tactics, and asked the wit
ness: Jake, tell me, how much beer
can you drink without getting drunk"
The brewer looked puzzled, then
said: Vat you mean, Shudge,-
Kegs"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
WAR IS FUTILE

1t has been amply demonstrated
that war is futile, since it cannot
settle any dispute satisfactorily, and
stupid and impractical since it kills
or cripples the best among the youth
Of the warning nations and destroys
the markets needed for world pros
perity-besides saddling nations with
enormous debts as a legacy to chill
dren and grandchildren, and even to
the third and fourth generation
Lydia G. Wentworth.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Olivia Times: Who is the greatest
woman in all history? One hundred
and fifteen school teachers recently
answered the question and with en-
thusiasm and unanimity the judges
awarded the prize to the one who
made this reply: "The wife of a
farmer of moderate means, who does
her own cooking, washing, ironing,
sewing, brings up family of boys
and girls to be useful members of
society and has time for intellectual
improvement"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
THIS CRAZY WORLD
(The Minnesota Union Advocate

(Ine Minnesota Union AdvOcate)
There are enough technicians,
chemists, engineers and willing work
ers in this crazy old world to produce
from the earth's raw materials all
the food, clothing, medicine and
building material a normal civiliza-
tion would require in an eternity of
time. Yet the breadlines are full of
technicians, chemists, engineers and
willing workers.
There are enough musicians, artists,
sculptors and creators of material
beauty in this crazy old world to
make this universe throb with music
and glow with material beauty. But
the breadlines hold musicians, artists,
sculptors and artisans.
There are enough men of brains
to write decent laws, direct law en-
forcement and apply intelligence to a
new social order which would con-
vert the world into the dreams
Of ancient philosophers. But there
is no place for brains and normal
intelligence in a crazy world domi-
mated by intellectual midgets born
to wealth and social position.
Only misguided, perverted and
poisoned intelligence would condone
social system under which people
starve because there is too much
food. Only cracked, distorted and
polluted intelligence would make ex-
cuses for people freezing to death
because there is too much coal, oil
and gas in the pockets Of mother
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

earth. Nothing but misdirected in
telligence would ever seek to uphold
system which DEGREES that millions
must live in material want and spiri-
tual poverty simply because there is so
much money in the world that $3.50
must remain penniless SO that the
remaining 2% may live like pagan
kings.
Think it over!
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
Il Mothers LOUe

Some day when others braid your thick brown hair.
And drape your form in silk and lace
When others call you dear" and fair"
And hold your hands and kiss your face
You'll not forget that far above
All others is mothers love.
Some day, mOng strangers in far distant lands,
In your new home beyond the seas,
When at your lips baby hands,
And children playing at your knees,
Oh then at your side they grow,
How have loved, you then will know.
When you must feel loves heavy loss
You will remember other years,
When l. too, bent beneath the cross,
Mix my memory with your tears,
In such dark hours, be not afraid,
Within their shadows l have prayed.
Some day. your daughters voice, smile.
Or eyes, my face will suddenly recall;
Then you will pause in sweet surprise,
And your soul unto mine will call,
In that dear forgotten prayer
Which at evening used to share
Some day, flower, song, word
May link between strong and sweet
Ah then dear child remember me-
And let your heart to mother" beat,
My love is with you everywhere
You cannot get beyond my prayer.
Some day, at longest, it cannot be long,
l shall with glad Impotence wait,
Amid the glory and the song
For you before the golden gate,
After earths parting and earth's pain,
Never to part and never again.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
OPINIONS OF OTHERS

(Short timely letters ON topics
Of public interest are welcome.
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 IL the
writer does not wish to have his
name Used. it will be withheld.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Ignorance is bliss" quoted one Of
the high school boys to a girl In the
library. well, then you'd better get
your Life insured" she suggested.
"Why?" he asked. Because you ara
liable to die Of JOY" she replied.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Eveleth Clarion: While many rea-
sons are given for the sudden end of
William D. Stewart, state game and
fish commissioner, in our opinion this
sincere gentleman was the victim of
so many political side-swipes that he
could not bear up under them.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Fergus Falls Tribune: E. G.
Quamme has been noted for years as
a speaker of power. but he now holds
the championship belt in having been
able to talk himself out of a $4,000
a year job in a five minute address.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Looking for a substitute that will
pay as we'll as work has been the
runination of many. 1t will never
win any more than slow horse wins
a race. Work wins lasting victories,
makes real men. builds homes, erects
factories, and makes peaceful COM
munities.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Doctor: You should go out into the
country, where you can see green
things and smell flowers.
Patient: Well, 1 don't see how I
can, sir. I'm a florist and this is just
my busy season.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Darling, I've lost all my money.
I haven't cent in the world" said a
st. Cloud fellow to his girl. THAT
won't make any difference DEAR" she
replied sweetly, I'll love you just as
much-even if l never see you again."
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
A BIT OF HUMOR

StingO: | fell off a 20-fOot ladder
yesterday.
Bingo: How did it happen that you
were not killed?
Stingo: l only fell off the second
step.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

What are you moving the church
for?" asked a stranger in a town in
a neighboring county. "Wa'al, the
village council voted agin sellin'
beer within three hundred feet of a
church, and we're law abiding citi-
zens," replied one of the natives.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
A Mighty De|iveranCe

mdHy IeducTS OI the ASkOV
American, no doubt, are ac-
quainted with or have read some
articles or heard some sermons
by Rev. Charles L. Grant, who
during the last session of the
Minnesota Legislature was house
chaplain. The following is an ex-
tract from a sermon preached in
Faith Lutheran church at Charles
and Mackubin Streets in st. Paul
Sunday morning and Is passed on
to American readers:
A Mighty Deliverance.
The impotent "Deliverers" are now
raising mighty howl. They had our
country down almost as low as it
could get without being wiped out
They had the banks closed tight
when the President was inaugurated.
No checks were honored and people
were blue enough.
Now the ones who didn't do thing
to avert the situation and to whom
people looked in vain for an explana-
ton, are shouting their heads off to
save us from the present effort to
put men to work. The students Of
economics who fostered the profiteer-
ing, speculation and exploitation of
the individualistic system, have now
become the Jeremiahs and their
Lamentations can be heard only be-
cause the wailing of the masses is
subsiding on account of a Mighty De-
liverance.
Men are marching to work. Thank
the Lord. Self-respect is reborn.
Hearts are happy, fear is on the run.
A new song has been put into the
mouths of the people, a song with a
Social Justice motif. People are be-
ginning to walk about again with an
assured confidence. What has brought
about this faith, what has given
thousands of men a bracing sense of
security and banished the old horror?
1t is the opportunity to earn a liveli-
hood that the new order brings. 1t is
the mistaken belief that the Presi-
dent of our country will be the mod
ern emancipation for the economic
slavery of the past four years.
The critics have nothing to offer
but the old order which means street.
walking, hungry little ones, exploita-
tion of children, heart-aches. disap-
pointment, eviction, foreclosure, dis
ease, untimely death. All that from
the "Saviours" who see calamity in
change and who cling tenaciously
to the irrational policies that enrich
the few and pauperize the many.
This advent season puts new song
into our mouths, not necessarily a
song unheard of before, but one fresh
from the singers heart, and rightly
do we pray that Eve may be saved by
a Mighty Deliverance." In singing
the new song, let us not flat the
tones. There is tendency to fall
below the highest and noblest STAN
dards. Let's compare often the pitch
with the tuning-fork, the Bible, which
gives the true pitch and can keep US
in tune with the Infinite. Then our
feeling of deliverance and security
will have the proper background,
faith not in oneself or in any man
but in God.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Intelligence is very much the knack
of knowing where to find out what
one does not know.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
FROM EXCHANGES

editorial Comment FROM Other News
papers. Which May or May Not
Conform with the Opinions
of the AskOv American.)
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

eff you had eight pennies and lost
three, how many would you have
left?"
Little Cohen thought for moment.
But for Wy" was his puzzled reply,
should | lose three pennies?"
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Passenger: Is there any hope of be-
ing saved?
Captain: None whatever.
Passenger: How far is the nearest
land?
Captain: Two miles.
Passenger: In what direction?
Captain: Straight down.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Smith-Let's see, what's the SYM
boil for November?
Smart-The ak, I guess. First the
politician gets it and then the turkey.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Modern intelligence and the spirit
o. enterprise constitute the main
forces that create town progress.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07
Drastic Cure.

Drastic Cure.
First colored lady-Yo' husbands
in de hospital? All thought he was
JUS only off on a jag.
Second similar, with pride He
was, but ah interrupted him.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

Dad (after long search for the
hammer): Tommy, do you know what
l have done with the hammer?
Tommy: Yes, Dad.
Dad: What then?
Tommy: You've lost it.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

"Why don't you get married." asked
friend of young fellow, noting that
he is keeping company with one of the
girl clerks in store. I'm afraid
it's too risky in this day and age
was the reply. Risky? How" he
was asked. We'll, suppose the girl
failed to hold her job was the reply.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-12-07

The following clipping was
taken from the Chicago Tribune
by a reader of the Askov Amer
lean who requested its publica-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-04-19
WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

higher and more menacing. Thee who
are fomenting 1t were among tt most
ardent original Roosevelt M In
1882 and before.
Millions Of Americans this week are
getting for the first time the low-down
on the men behind the new deal throne
from their own lips through the medium
CT a Pathe news reel now showing in
nearly thousand movie theaters. Gus
Gennerich, Mr.. Roosevelts brawny
Dodyguard. talkiss My Job Is to keep
away from the President the people
who shouldn't get near him. When I
get orders to keep them away. they
stay away, and I don't mean maybe!
Prof. Moley, chief Of the brain trust
says: My job Is to seek out the best
advisers for the President and then,
after taking their advice, get it into
the best possible form for presentation
to the President" Prof. Tugwell con-
fines himself to a brief statement that
he Is Assistant Secretary of the impor-
tant Department of Agriculture. Prof.
Berle calculates: Il am a lawyer. A
lawyer Is All intellectual jobber and
contractor. My job Is to assemble fig-
ures and statistics for the President"
Col. Louis McHenry Howe, having been
asked by the camera man If he has
much time for recreation, replies: 1--WE
made an analysis Of this secretaryship
job and find that can have q good
game Of golf every other year."
Just before he boarded his steamer
for home at Seattle recently. Yosuke
Matsuoka. the Japanese statesman who
was in Washington early this month,
tarried in Portland, Greg, to pay a
tribute to the memory of isabelle Dun
bar Beveri6ge. his benefactress when
he first reached America as a lad of
13. A native Of Scotland, Mrs. Bever-
iGge, whom the young japanese came
to look upon as his second mother,
evinced a friendly interest In him and
took him into her home at Portland.
Before leaving America the Nipponess
diplomat decided to visit the city and
place a wreath on Mrs. Beveridge's
grave. On the occasion OF an earlier
visit to the United States he unveiled
a granite tombstone which he had
erected in her honor.
Mccall & Gold" will shortly be the
name of Washington's newest firm Of
lawyers, both women. They are Miss
Nj. Pearl Mccall, who expects to be re-
lieved of service as an assistant United
States attorney for the District of Co
lumbia, and Mrs. Martha r. Gold. for
Is years private secretary to former
Senator George H. Moses OF New
Hampshire. Miss Mccall began her
public career as an attache of Sena-
tor Borah's ONCE, and, like Mrs. Gold,
later became associated with Senator
Moses Mrs. Gold, who Is Hoos1er.
is admitted to the bar in the District
of Columbia and to practice before the
United States Supreme Court. Few
American women can claim her wide
acquaintance with national leaders.
(Copyright, 1881